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== '''Sarge''' ==

 

 

The staff sergeant leading Red Team, and the only one in the canyon who's actually enthusiastic about the Red/Blue conflict, due to his intense and unexplained hatred of all things Blue. His real name remains a mystery, and it is implied he answers as "Sarge" even on Red Army official documents (there was one instance where we might have heard his name but Donut cut him off). Sarge is incredibly loyal to the Red Army, and goes out of his way to excuse the nonsensical answers and directives Command sends his way. He is also fiercely supportive of the chain of command, especially if this allows him to punish Grif. Sarge wields a shotgun, which he uses as a cudgel more often than actually shooting it, and speaks with a Southern US (vaguely Texan) accent. He's the only Red Team member to actually wear red armor (except for Donut, but see below).

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Sarge claims that he's never hit a girl in his life (he did once knock Tex out, but he thought she was a man at the time). This attitude caused a brief stalemate at Blood Gulch when Sister was the only Blue left.

** Comes up again in the {{spoiler|fight against Tex}} in season 8.

'''Simmons:''' Yeah, I noticed. Try harder! }}

 

== '''Private First Class Richard "Dick" Simmons''' ==

 

 

Sarge's [[The Lancer|right-hand man]] and [[Professional Butt-Kisser|suck-up extraordinaire,]] though an incident involving Sarge being incorrectly declared dead showed how quickly this loyalty evaporates once an opportunity for promotion arises. Simmons attempts to be the voice of reason with regard to Sarge's (frequently insane) plans, with little success. For one, Sarge is too out there, for two, Simmons is too sycophantic to truly qualify as "[[Only Sane Man|sane]]".

== '''Minor Junior Private Dexter Grif Negative First Class''' ==

 

 

Lazy, out-of-shape, and Sarge's personal [[Butt Monkey]]. Just about every one of Sarge's plans involves Grif being killed in some way, and most of Red Team's official emergency protocols begin by shooting Grif. Grif is suggested to be fairly intelligent, at least in the eyes of Church, but he's [[Brilliant but Lazy|too much of a slacker]] to contribute much. A conscript, Grif sleeps through official meetings and tries to quit the army whenever he can. He's Red Team's designated [[Deadpan Snarker|snarker]] and their [[Only Sane Man]], though his apathy towards the <s> war</s> everything somewhat cancels that out. He spends much of his time bickering with his "friend" Simmons, when he isn't stealing the latter's identity and running up huge bills at pawn shops and peep shows.

* [[Badass Driver]]: While he has shown considerable motor skills in seasons one to five and is the Red Team's designated driver, by ''Revelation'', he has completely owned and adopted this trope. He just has trouble ''stopping'' driving sometimes.

** [[Captain Crash]]: Specifically, he's a little fuzzy on the whole concept of "landing":

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Church claims he is this... though [[Unreliable Narrator|Church may have been mistaken, exaggerating,]] or only comparing Grif to the other Reds.

* [[The Chew Toy]]

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: A sign of Grif's terrible health (he does it inside his helmet). He even smokes after {{spoiler|having most of his organs being replaced by Simmons' after being crushed by Sheila}}. In fact, he might have started smoking ''more'' just to piss off Simmons.

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: With Simmons, naturally.

** [[Word of God]] is apparently that they have seen it.

* [[The McCoy]]: Definitely a parody. Again, although the more emotional of the trio, Grif is way too lazy to act on his conscience or change the status quo.

* [[Sanity Ball]]: The role of [[Only Sane Man]] on Red Team is either Grif, Simmons or Lopez, depending on the circumstances.

* [[Universal Drivers Licence]]: In ''Revelation'', {{spoiler|Grif flies a Pelican and a Hornet with no training whatsoever. He ''crashes'' the Pelican, but it's still quite an accomplishment.}}

'''Caboose''' "I still haven't gotten my peanuts." }}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Simmons.

== '''Private Franklin Delano Donut''' ==

 

 

Red Team's rookie member with some major issues, acting as the team's [[The Ditz|Ditz]]. He kicks off the series' Red/Blue conflict after Simmons and Grif send him to "the store" to get some "headlight fluid." Donut accidentally wanders into Blue Base and ends up capturing their flag, prompting the Blues to call in a Freelancer and start the main plot. Originally wearing standard red armor, Donut took one of Tex's grenades to the face and had to be sent away for medical help, returning with his own <s>pink</s> [[The European Carry All|lightish-red]] armor out of recognition for his flag capture.

== '''Lopez la Pesado ("the Heavy")''' ==

 

 

Sarge's pet project and team mechanic, a robot who only speaks [[Fun with Foreign Languages|bad Spanish]] (and occasionally takes advantage of the fact he's the only one fluent in the language). Lopez seems to view his teammates with cold resentment, either due to their reliance on him for mechanical help, constant damage to the team Warthog that Lopez ends up repairing, for programming him to speak Spanish instead of English, or all of the above.

== '''Private Leonard L. Church''' ==

 

 

The closest the series has to a proper protagonist, Blue Team's de facto leader (though if Sister's story about promotion is applied to the Blues it should have been delivered to, it's possible Church is now on record as Captain, making him the actual leader), [[Only Sane Man]], [[Deadpan Snarker]], and world champion [[Jerkass]], although he has a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|a nicer side]]. Church is a neurotic and almost perpetually angry individual who barely gets along with his teammates. He's killed in a friendly fire incident very early in the series, but quickly returns as a ghost, and later possesses a robotic body. Despite wielding the sniper and acting as the team's designated marksman, he is an awful shot, often emptying an entire clip without hitting anything. He wears light blue/cobalt armor, though in "ghost" form his armor is white (and transparent).

== '''Private First Class Lavernius Tucker''' ==

 

 

Second-in-command (it was either him or Caboose) and often clueless [[Bumbling Sidekick]] to Church, Tucker is the longest-serving of the surviving Blues at Blood Gulch. As disinclined towards work or combat as Grif (he's actually the highest-ranking Blue as a Private First Class, but is happy to let Church take the reins), he repeatedly claims to be a "lover, not a fighter," and utters his [[Catch Phrase]] at the first sign of a [[Double Entendre]]. He's somewhat juvenile in personality, offering lame pick-up lines to any females he isn't terrified of. He called dibs on Capt. Flowers' blue-green armor when the former died of an aspirin overdose. Tucker may or may not be black, and is quick to point out this shouldn't matter. Despite his reluctance to fight, Tucker's a great shot due to his keen eyesight (which developed because Church always hogs the sniper rifle).

== '''Private Michael J. Caboose''' ==

 

 

Caboose, who accidentally enlisted in the Blue Army after [[All There in the Manual|mistaking a recruitment center for a college]], was introduced as [[The Fool]], but [[Flanderization|devolves into]] a complete idiot. As his name suggests, he is the last to arrive at any train of thought's destination. Occasional [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|journeys into his mind]] have revealed that Caboose's view of the world is [[Cloudcuckoolander|at drastic odds with reality]] - he has mental constructs representing the rest of the cast running around inside of his head, ranging from a Church who vehemently insists that Caboose is his best friend, to a Sarge that talks like a pirate. Caboose is a bigger danger to his teammates than to his enemies, to the extent that the surest way to get him to shoot someone is to tell him they're on his team, and Command has a keyboard shortcut to report his teamkills (Ctrl+F+U).

== '''M808V Main Battle Tank "Sheila"''' ==

 

 

Blue Team's support vehicle, a battle tank with an artificial intelligence that answers to Sheila (her original name was Phyllis, but time travel is involved). The Blues expressed bewilderment that Command decided to supply them with a tank no one knew how to operate, but Caboose nonetheless attempted to rescue Church using Sheila, killing him in the process and apparently falling in love with the "nice tank lady." If Sheila paid much attention to Caboose, this would form a [[Love Triangle]], given her attraction to Lopez. After Caboose's attempt, the Blues seem to decide that Sheila works best driving herself. Throughout the series, Sheila is a major asset for Blue Team...when she isn't feeling moody and oppositional or running off with Lopez to form an all-robot faction.

== '''Andy''' ==

 

 

Andy is a bomb (the same bomb used in Halo multiplayer) that was built by Tex from parts from a protocol unit and "some other personal items" (according to him) to blow up and kill O'Malley. Due to O'Malley's base locking down after his placement inside, he was about to blow up most of the Blood Gulch crew, but Church asked Gary/Gamma to deactivate it, saving their lives. It was then revealed that the bomb could talk and was named Andy. Andy has a short fuse (literally and figuratively), likes to insult people, and finds humor in the misfortunes of others. He also likes to blow stuff up, when Tex threatens to detonate him, he reacts with fear (though it may be because he wouldn't do much damage if detonated at that particular time.)

== '''Private Kaikaina Grif, a.k.a. "Sister"''' ==

 

 

Grif's little sister, who joined the army in order to reunite with him, since she was lonely and scared after he left. Being colorblind and more than a little stupid, she joined Blue Team by mistake. She tagged along with the Reds upon arriving (and landing on Donut), in the process convincing them that Sarge was dead and Simmons should be promoted, until her true affiliation was revealed and Grif handed her off to the Blues before Sarge shot her. Roughly as lazy and useless as her brother, Sister's main purpose seems to be to embarrass Grif, whether through [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|off-hand references to her promiscuous personal life]], revealing the family's freak-show roots, or unintentionally televising her routine physical. As of ''Reconstruction'', she is the only Blue remaining at Blood Gulch, where she uses the base to host raves for five bucks a head (in one memorable night, making ten dollars). She wears yellow armor.

* [[Bi the Way]]: [[Samus Is a Girl|The revelation of Tex's gender]] after Sister calls "him" a badass "and kinda hot" does nothing to change her opinion, except that she corrects her use of pronouns.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: She's pretty much the queen of this trope.

'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[Phrase Catcher|Wait, what?]] }}

* [[The Chick]]: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better.

== '''Captain Butch Flowers''' ==

 

 

Blue Team's ''actual'' leader, who died before the series began, leaving Church in charge (and Tucker in his armor). Unlike everyone else in the canyon, he was [[In Touch with His Feminine Side|quite relaxed, soft-spoken, and even-tempered]]. The captain was very informal with his teammates, had a [[Casa Lane Parenting]] attitude towards his subordinates (maybe [[Camp Gay|a little too much,]] actually), and called the opposing army "those rascals." Time travel reveals that he'd been accidentally killed by Church in a [[Stable Time Loop]]. He was raised from the dead somehow by aliens in season five, only to be possessed by Omega, and then re-killed shortly after regaining his freedom.

== '''Agent Texas (Allison)''' ==

 

 

A black-armored [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] and former agent of Project Freelancer, the biggest [[Badass]] in all of Blood Gulch, an infiltration expert thanks to a cloaking device, and a better fighter than both teams combined. [[Samus Is a Girl|Her real name is Allison]], and her Freelancer handle is Agent Texas. Tex is contracted to support the Blues after Church's death and proceeds to terrify Tucker and Caboose while leading a [[One-Man Army|one-(wo)man]] assault on Red Base to recover the Blue flag. Unfortunately, a prodigious grenade toss by Donut eventually kills her, but she returns as a ghost some time later, inhabiting a robot body in a manner similar to Church. This experience mellows Tex out somewhat, as it frees her from the influence of her AI partner O'Malley (see below) - though by no means is she someone you should make angry. Tex hangs out with the Blues when she isn't off on her own, usually attempting to foil O'Malley or Wyoming's plans, but as the series progresses she gets more and more entangled in the plots surrounding the dupes at Blood Gulch. In the finale, she {{spoiler|voluntarily reunites with O'Malley in an attempt to manipulate Junior and the alien race into helping humanity win the war, and is killed when Sarge sets off a bomb in the spaceship she hijacked}}.

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Shares a moment with Church {{spoiler|as the dream world falls apart.}}

* [[Badass]]: EASILY the biggest badass in the series. Lampshaded in ''Revelation''.

** The Meta gives her a run for her money though. While Tex is more agile and has more finesse, the Meta is [[The Juggernaut]], and shrugs off most of her attacks. Tex's skill and speed and the Meta's strength and durability make them an even match.

** [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Think she was badass in ''Blood Gulch Chronicles''? Wait 'till you see what she does in ''Revelation''.

== '''Agent Washington (David)''' ==

 

 

A Freelancer and Recovery Agent, and the main character of ''Recovery One'' and the past segments during season nine. Washington's job is to find dead or dying Freelancers and recover their AIs and special equipment. He is trusted with this position due to his view of AIs--he ''had'' an AI partner, Epsilon, until the fragment went insane and committed suicide while in his head, and is therefore the person least likely to try and steal another one ([[Suspiciously Specific Denial|the experience had absolutely no impact on his sanity, by the way]]). Wash works with Agent South and Delta during ''Recovery One'' to hunt down the Meta, and though he is seemingly killed during that series, he survives (due to York's regeneration unit) to continue his mission during ''Reconstruction'', and enlists Church and Caboose to help. He has another, self-appointed goal: {{spoiler|Epsilon held the Alpha's memory, meaning that Wash knows everything the Director of Project Freelancer did to it and is trying to bring the Director down.}} Washington serves as a [[Straight Man]] or the [[Only Sane Man]] when exposed to the two teams' weirdness, but has a latent [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkiness]] that comes into play whenever he [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the implausible things they've done. His armor is gray with yellow markings on the shoulders.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: [[Foregone Conclusion|We know it's coming]], and it's going to be awful.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Season 9 shows that {{spoiler|Wash actually had a very high opinion of the Director before the Epsilon incident.}}

* [[Byronic Hero]]: Particularly in ''Recovery One''.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "This is the worst <x> ever! Of all time."

* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: The contrast between his Season 9 persona and Revelation persona really shows this. He starts out idealistic and friendly and ends cynical and jaded.

** Characterized by this exchange with Doc during Revelation.

'''Doc:''' Umm...well now that you put me on the spot, I don't really have an answer, just seems like a bad idea. }}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: When he shot {{spoiler|Lopez and Donut}} at the very end of ''Recreation''. Neither had posed anything near a threat to him, neither were responsible for imprisoning him, and he just shot them. While {{spoiler|Lopez is a robot}}, Washington probably didn't know that, and even if he did... for {{spoiler|Donut}}, there was no excuse.

* [[Only Sane Man]]

* [[Precision F-Strike]]:

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Season 10 reveals that not only did he start wearing Church's armor and take over as leader of the Blue team, but the characters started referring to him as Church.}}

* [[Revenge]]:

'''Washington''': More than you know. }}

* {{spoiler|[[Rogue Protagonist]]: To a degree in ''Revelation'', as he's one of the two main antagonists. Still, he [[Heel Face Turn|switches sides]] towards the end, so it may count as a subversion.}}

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: His younger self tends to come off as this during the flashbacks of Season 9. [[Break the Cutie|Poor guy]].

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: And [[Boom! Headshot!]] her too.

''[[Boom! Headshot!]]''<br />

'''Agent Washington''': [[Blunt Yes|Yes.]] }}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Takes some fairly hilarious abuse throughout his fight with Tex in Season 9, [[It Got Worse|until the end, that is.]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

** This trope particularly shows up in his partnership with Delta, almost to the point of being a Type 2 [[Vitriolic Best Buds]].

'''York''': Well, it sure would make these conversations easier. Thanks for coming down to my level, D. }}

* [[Good Looking Privates]]: He's the first full-on face we see (besides a few other minor characters), and he's not bad-looking.

** Apparently, he agrees.

** [http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=4014 Apparently RoosterTeeth also agrees]:

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He gets a nice scar across his face and it apparently made him lose vision partially in one of his eyes.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Has very bad vision in one eye, but is still surprisingly competent all around in Freelancer missions, enough to join them.

== '''Agent Wyoming (Reginald)''' ==

 

 

Another agent of Project Freelancer, [[Hired Guns|hired by O'Malley]] to kill Tucker after the latter discovers the secret of Red and Blue Command. Tucker survives his assassination attempt, and Wyoming and Tex end up chasing each other around during the main series, as well as the ''Out of Mind'' side series. He eventually eludes her and returns to Blood Gulch alongside O'Malley for the series' explosive finale. Known for uttering insincere apologies to his victims, and being perpetually cool-headed, Wyoming's special equipment is a temporal distorter that allows him to manipulate time, slowing it down, or looping it. As shown during the finale, the latter produces a backlog of "spare" Wyomings, making him a ''literal'' [[One-Man Army]]. Presumed dead during ''Reconstruction'', though the Meta was kind enough to loot his special equipment. Wyoming wears white armor, his real name is Reginald, and he talks with something approaching an imitation of a muddled British/Australian accent.

== '''The Meta / Agent Maine''' ==

 

 

The former Freelancer Agent Maine, who snapped and started tracking down and murdering other agents, then stripping them of their combat AIs and special equipment, [[Mega Manning|growing in power with each victory]]. The [[Big Bad]] of the ''Recovery One'' and ''Reconstruction'' series, the Meta refers to itself as a collective entity due to the number of consciousnesses running around inside its head, and seems to be set on recovering all of the Freelancer AIs in order to reconstruct the Alpha from which they were derived. A formidable opponent - Church compares the Meta to the [[One-Man Army|one woman army]] Tex, but says "this thing's like...eight of her." Its white armor (though it can change color due to a chameleon circuit) is a hodgepodge of parts from a number of designs, and the Meta's voice varies from a [[Creepy Child]] hissing whisper to a susurrus of voices talking at once to animalistic snarls, though the former two are likely the voices of the AIs in its head.

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Another member of the Freelancer project and a close friend of Wash's. She is suspicious of the Director and despises his ranking system technique.

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: He and his sister both have [[Beehive Barrier|Beehive Barriers]] as their armor ability.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]:

* [[By-The-Book Cop|By the Book Soldier]]

** Not so much by episode 4, when he used the dome shield. We learn later in episode 9 that using equipment in the field is against the rules.

** He has a pretty good relationship with Wash too.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Doomed by Canon]]: South wounds him to leave as bait to escape the Meta.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: While he's a by-the-book, stoic, consummate professional during missions, he's pretty open and cheery off-duty.

== '''O'Malley/Omega''' ==

 

 

"Blood Gulch Chronicles'" [[Big Bad]], Omega was the AI partner assigned to Tex as part of the Freelancer program ("O'Malley" is a portmanteau of their names, Omega and Allison). While Tex was already, according to Church, "a rotten bitch," the addition of Omega turned her into "a rotten bitch with cybernetic enhancements." After the Freelancer program was shut down following Agent Washington's breakdown (see below), Omega possessed Tex and fled the facility before he could be removed. A bloodthirsty and malevolent AI, O'Malley was capable of [[Body Surf|possessing soldiers via their helmet radios]] like a virus. Once Tex was killed, O'Malley briefly possessed Caboose (and may have contributed towards his drop in intelligence), then seized the medic Frank DuFresne (see below) up until the finale. Though a real danger, O'Malley's dialogue frequently dips into cartoonish levels of villainy.

== '''Gary/Gamma''' ==

 

 

Encountered by the Red and Blue Teams in the form of an ancient computer built by the aliens as an expert on humans, who then proceeds to warn them about a vague prophecy. They eventually figure out that Gary is really Gamma, Wyoming's AI (the name "Gary" might appear to be a portmanteau of "Gamma" and "Reginald", but [[Word of God|Burnie Burns has revealed]] the name to be that of his late cat). Gamma was evidently the personification of the Alpha AI's deceit, and is described as having removed itself from Wyoming, with potentially harmful results. In the end, they reunite during their attempt to kidnap Junior. Gamma was another one of those AIs recovered by the Meta during ''Reconstruction''. It had a strange fondness for knock-knock jokes, and speaks in the voice of Stephen Hawking's computer.

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An AI formed from the Alpha's logic centers, and as a result has a [[The Spock|cool and calculating personality]], calmly informing his partner of attackers' locations and running the numbers to predict their behavior. He starts out as York's AI, but after the ''Out of Mind'' side arc, he ends up working with Agents South Dakota and Washington during the ''Recovery One'' series, and is introduced to the Blues during ''Reconstruction''. Of all the Freelancer AIs, Delta is the most fervent believer in the existence of the Alpha, and leaves clues that inspire Washington to try to unlock it. {{spoiler|Presumed destroyed after being captured by the Meta, who in turn was hit by the E.M.P.}} His holographic avatar is bright green.

== '''Sigma''' ==

 

 

Little was known about Sigma except that it was the Alpha's creativity until PAX East 2012, when two new things were revealed: That it was the first AI that Maine had, his original AI partner. Second is that it will be played by Elijah Wood (yes, [[Lord of the Rings|that]] Elijah Wood) in season 10.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Wham! Line]]: Combined with a [[Call Back]] to the trailer for Reconstruction, in the first trailer for the tenth season.

 

== Other ==

== '''Medical Super Private First Class Frank "Doc" DuFresne''' ==

 

 

In response to increased injuries and deaths at Blood Gulch, purple-armored medic DuFresne was sent to the backwater outpost to aid ''both'' teams. His pacifism, political correctness, and incompetence quickly made him [[Butt Monkey|unwelcome in either base]], leaving him to wander the gulch, forgotten... until Caboose's "exorcism" left the AI O'Malley without a host. The Omega was able to possess him completely, leaving Doc a passenger within his own skull, only able to talk or shout apologies for O'Malley's actions. O'Malley eventually comes to regret choosing Doc as a host, as the two end up having [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum/Smeagol]] style arguments over whether or not to kill people, if their nefarious secret lair needs an answering machine, etc. When Doc is called back to Blood Gulch to deal with Tucker's "illness," O'Malley jumps ship, freeing Doc once and for all.

** [[Word of God]] says that he went back to Valhalla with the Reds and Blues.

* [[Worst Aid]]: He's very bad at medical advice, but somehow manages to keep both the Reds and the Blues alive.

 

== '''The Alien''' ==

 

 

Also known as "Crunchbite", "Crouchasaurus", "Fluffy, the Alien Who Only Loves", and "Honk-Honk" (which may be his real name, but probably not). An alien who gets off on the wrong foot with Blue Team by <s> beating</s> scaring Church right out of his robot body, and then pounding Tucker into the ground after the latter recovers an alien-built sword, binding it to him. The Alien then proceeds to browbeat the Blues into helping him on his quest to save his people, which apparently involved using the sword to unlock a spaceship. The next step is unknown, as Wyoming proceeded to blow the Alien out of the sky. Besides complaining about the Alien's odor or inability to speak English, Tucker commented that the creature was always standing over him when he woke up, which leads us to...

== '''"Junior"''' ==

 

 

It turns out the Alien's species reproduces via parasitic embryos, and Tucker's mysterious illness near the end of the series is a case of [[Mister Seahorse]]. Junior seems to have inherited his "mother's" catchphrase, and serves to awaken some glimmers of a (dysfunctional) paternal instinct in Tucker, as well as a strong desire in Church to euthanize the "abomination." Junior turns out to be the destined savior of the Alien's race, a fact that O'Malley and Wyoming became ''very'' interested in - they planned to infect Junior with Omega, then use him to control the alien race, winning the war for humanity, and then probably taking over humanity for themselves. When Tex and Omega tried to airlift him out of the canyon, Andy the Bomb blew up the craft. His fate after that is only hinted at during a [[Apocalyptic Log|black box recording]] playback of the ship's crash landing in ''Reconstruction'', Chapter 5.

== '''The Director''' ==

 

 

The ruthless and secretive Director of Project Freelancer, and one of the narrators of the ''Reconstruction'' series. In an effort to improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers during the war, the "[[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|good doctor]]" had the idea to implant Artificial Intelligences into the minds of special agents. As can be seen from the examples above, the results were unstable at best and the project collapsed. Once the Meta starts collecting AIs, a UNSC oversight sub-committee begins inquiries into the Director's actions and the results of Project Freelancer. The Director resents such intrusions, as he maintains that [[I Did What I Had to Do|he only did what had to be done]] for humanity to win the war (even though it was a complete failure). At the very end of ''Reconstruction'', in ''Red vs Blue'''s greatest [[Wham! Episode]], it is revealed that the Director's name is {{spoiler|1=Leonard Church, and he is the template for the Alpha AI.}} Voiced by John Reed.

* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Washington sees him as this.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: How he views his unethical experiments.

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Imagine a [[Deadpan Snarker]] without the humor. From time to time, he even acts like a slightly ''less'' abrasive [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].

== '''The Chairman of the Oversight Sub-Committee''' ==

 

 

Although he does not appear in the series itself, the Chairman serves as the counterpart to the Director during ''Reconstruction'', where they alternate reading memos directed at each other during the start of each episode. The Chairman leads a committee to review what has occurred with the Freelancer Project, mostly to find out how it can have multiple AI's when they were only given one. Although he starts off calm and friendly in his dealings with the Director, he soon becomes hostile when he realizes that the Director is stalling for time and avoiding answering his questions. {{spoiler|1=In the end he informs the Director that he is under arrest and that entire moral codes for dealing with AIs are being re-written due to the Director's actions.}} In ''Recreation'', {{spoiler|he returns, and has made a deal with Agent Washington to ensure the latter's freedom in exchange for finally getting the evidence necessary to put the Director away.}}

== '''Vickory/"Vic"''' ==

 

 

Serving as [[Mission Control]] for ''both'' Red and Blue teams (a secret he tries to have Tucker assassinated to protect), Vic is more like an unhelpful tech support guy than an actual asset. Vic's intelligence reports provide helpful information like the location of the enemy team's base (the other side of the canyon), the number of enemies (3 or 4), and the location of the team's ''own'' base. His directives usually run along the lines of "try to win extra hard," and he mostly provides just enough help to keep the hijinks in Blood Gulch continuing. When Doc contacts him for assistance, Vic goes off on a long tangent about his vasectomy, and has a habit of being unavailable just when his help would be most useful.