Red vs. Blue/YMMV

This page is for the YMMV tropes of Red vs. Blue.

Red vs. Blue the Blood Gulch Chronicles: Seasons 1-5 plus "Out of Mind" and "Recovery One"
Red vs. Blue the Recollection: Seasons 6-8 plus "Relocated"

Season 9

And the Fandom Rejoiced: If you didn't Squee while watching the trailer, you're a liar.
Arc Fatigue: Invoked. Church is trying to re-enact the events of Season 1 to draw Tex out, and it mostly consists of standing around and waiting for stuff to happen.
Broken Base: Some fans enjoy the Freelancer segments and Monty Oum's animation, while others prefer the more lighthearted moments set in Blood Gulch.
Crowning Music of Awesome: It's Jeff Williams again, and even the trailer music kicks ass.
- Round 1/Bullfight from episode 10 during Maine, York, and Wyoming's fight against Tex.
- Falling Towards The Sky in Episode 15. Played when the freelancers are trying to load the sarcophagus into a Pelican while freefalling. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny when it turns out that Maine's warthog is apparently playing the music as well.
- Not to mention "Extraction", "Pelican Escape", Hell, let's just say the entirety of season 9's soundtrack is MADE of this trope
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Fridge Brilliance: Because Freelancers are human soldiers and not SPARTANs, they're drawn the same size as normal human characters, despite using SPARTAN player models. This is apparent in the scenes where Wash is interacting with the base medics and The Director.
Genius Bonus: See the Harsher in Hindsight entry about Tex and York.
God Mode Sue: Tex's introductory video, where she effortlessly takes down a squad of soldiers again, soldiers who were supposed to be talented fighters, was met with complaints.
Harsher in Hindsight: All of Wash's interactions with the Meta have to be seen in a different light now since the Season 9 trailer revealed that both he and Maine used to be friends.
- Not to mention Wash's admiration for the Director in Season 9, considering how badly he gets screwed over later.
- Also this quote from Out Of Mind:

York: Well, you were kind of responsible for that eye...

- - York tried to jump out of the way of a live grenade tossed by his teammate during a sparring match and she glues him in place as it goes off. (He tried to switch teams after he realized his teammates Wyoming and Maine were using live rounds instead of the glue-paintballs issued for the exercise)
  - she was actually coating him in a layer of protection, as Wash says in the next episode that the glue paint hardens the armor. This is a Genius Bonus for people who have read the old Halo novels, as the SPARTANS use a similar trick at one point. She tried to warn him to get away at first, but he was too beaten up to move, so she did what she could.
    - Which would explain her response in Out of Mind:

Tex: It's because of me that you still have one good eye.

Ho Yay: Church "hitting on" Caboose in Episode 7.
I Knew It!: People were so sure that C.T's initials stood for Connecticut, that it's been treated as practically canon as far back as season seven. However it is only now in this season that Connecticut's full name is used on screen.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks: Half the season is a retread of the first season, with several jokes and plot points from the first season, and none of the Character Development the cast has gone through. Might be an Invoked Trope, since Church's experiences in the memory unit lead him to realize that he needs to let go of the past.
Jerkass Woobie: Church's memory of Simmons is slowly turning into this, having more emotional hang ups and inferiority complex issues than the real Simmons.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Like with Revelations, a good deal of fans don't like the fast-paced, dramatic CGI parts and prefer the in-engine moments that are more like the old days. May be leading to a Broken Base, as there are people who like the story of the freelancers better, and feel like the time spent in the Epsilon Unit is retreading on old ground and taking up space that could be used for more character development.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The portion with the Blood Gulch characters ends rather abruptly.
- Not to mention the initial parts of the Reds all having the wrong personality is quickly forgotten, or at least resolved quickly.
- They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste: This season spends a lot of time throwing Mary Sue tropes at Tex and making them stick, which could make it satisfying when Church forgets her from existence.
Visual Effects of Awesome: Since they've split the "CGI prequel" and "Machinima sequel" parts of the series, rather than need to make the CGI look like the game, Monty can just make it look as good as he is capable of doing. The point being, he is extremely capable.
Wham! Episode: Tex may not be alive any more... but Carolina is!
- Not to mention that in that same episode it's revealed that what everyone in the Epsilon capture unit thought was the end of the world is actually the real Reds and Blues breaking into it to rescue Epsilon/Church.

Season 10

And the Fandom Rejoiced: The teaser for season 10, as well as the news of who would be voicing Sigma, The Meta's AI... Elijah Wood.
Ensemble Darkhorse: Net Surfing guy is already pretty popular. Some parts of the fandom have started shipping him with coffee guy from the last season.
- Burnie has stated that he started the season with York and Delta due to both being fan favorites, particularly Delta.
Ho Yay: "...I think I just got dumped by Caboose." "It's not me, it's you." And the implication that Caboose has transferred his odd obsession to Wash.

Other

Crowning Music of Awesome: The "Forge World" song Sarge sings in the final part of the Reach mini-series (Enjoy it here).
Ensemble Darkhorse:
- Caboose was originally written in just to balance out the teams after the Reds got Donut, and then as a catalyst to annoy Church. But as Caboose grew more and more stupid (and more and more lovable), he soon became probably the most popular character.
- Grif's Deadpan Snarker attitude led to an increase in his popularity among fans.
Iron Woobie: Tex consistently fails at whatever she's trying to do, not that it stops her from trying or being a Badass while doing so.
Sequelitis: Lightly referenced in the gaming PSA.

Simmons: Join us next time for part 2 of our series: sequels.
Grif: Parts 3 and 4 are about that, too.

- Despite this being jokingly referenced, Season 9 is way more popular than the previous seasons ever were.
Story-Breaker Power: Arguably the reason the cast never gets to use the Spartan Laser in seasons 6-8, despite it being on a number of multi-player maps in Halo 3, such as Valhalla, Standoff, Avalanche, etc.
- Not to mention the armor shields for that matter. These guys wear the Mk 6 Spartan armor, yet only Caboose has been seen using the standard shields. Everyone else can easily be shot down unless they're specifically said to have the dome shield, overshields, or both. Or the Meta, who's insanely durable with or without them.
The Woobie: Due to his childlike personality, Caboose gets a lot of sympathy for suffering that the show generally inflicts on its characters.

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