Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Difference between revisions

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The first five seasons of ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'', with the official collection's name coming from the fact that they take place in the Blood Gulch level of the ''[[Halo]]'' series. The collection contains 100 episodes, as well as two miniseries, "Out of Mind" and "Recovery One".

== The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Seasons 1-5) ==

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Episode 28.5, "The Last Episode Ever".

* [[And Show It to You]]: Except the way Tex is said to have done this doesn't seem physically possible (which were essentially the victim's last words.)

{{quote| '''Church''': Well what about after? You think Omega's just gonna stop after he {{spoiler|gets a whole species for an army? He's gonna take over everything Tex, and you're not gonna be able to stop him!}}}}

{{quote| '''Sister:''' Wow, he's a badass. He's kinda hot.<br />

'''Tucker:''' Tex isn't a guy, she's a girl.<br />

{{quote| '''Sister:''' Is someone spying on us? Yes! Hot.}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "You ever wonder why we're here?"

{{quote| '''Caboose''': I have an idea.<br />

''[[Beat|(silence)]]''<br />

'''Caboose''': ''(louder)'' I have an idea!<br />

'''Tucker''': Yeah, we heard you the first time, Caboose. We were just ignoring you. }}

{{quote| '''O'Malley:''' I need that computer to compile my evil formulas, and to rebuild the weather machine. Also to download music! [[Evil Laugh|Wuhuhahahaha!]]" }}

* [[Art Shift]]: Several scenes set in the distant past were done in the style of ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]'', a trilogy of FPS games made by Bungie back in the '90s. And, of course, the series gets art upgrades with each new installment of ''[[Halo]]''.

** Church arranges for both his and Tex's funeral. Caboose delivers the eulogy. Church is less than impressed.

* [[Baa Bomb]]: The Blue Team tries calming down a bomb named Andy with imagination therapy. One of the images presented was a flock of sheep. "[[Worms (Video Game)|The kind that don't blow up]]."

* [[Badass]]: Tex, especially when she finally takes it [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Donut's play.

* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Sister.

* [[Bread Eggs Breaded Eggs]]: Caboose's dialogue after Tex is captured in season one. "Yep, he's definitely captured... or dead... captured or dead. ([[GASP|gasps]]) '''Or captured ''and'' dead!'''"

** "Yeah, I didn't think it was possible [to overdose on aspirin], and trust me, I've tried!"

** "...but then I thought, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?"

** The entire cast has "Son of a Bitch!"

** Sarge has created several, his favorite being "You just got Sarged!"

** The incident with Omega occupying his mind is also partially responsible for Caboose's crippling stupidity any time after season two.

{{quote| '''Caboose''': I know where you can find O'Malley. He lived inside my head for a while, maybe he left an address so I could send his mail. We were like roommates.<br />

'''Sarge''': Sounds like he took some of the furniture when he left. And the carpet. And the drapes. And I wouldn't expect to get that deposit back, if you know what I mean. }}

** The fifth season's DVD acknowledges and has fun with this. One of the features is a "Previously On Red Vs. Blue", which contains ''every single swear'' in the series up to the Pelican crashing... and lasts over a minute and a half. If one was made of all eight seasons and the mini-series, it would probably be a good three or four minutes long.

* [[Code Name]]: The Freelancers are named after different American states. [[Noodle Incident|Except for poor, poor, Florida... *sighs* ]]

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Grif to Sarge, due to Sarge always having Grif suffer in his plans.

* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]: Lopez the robot has his body blown up and spends season 4 onwards as a disembodied head. Later in season 4 Sarge wants to retrieve a secret message that was hidden in his databanks, and Grif asks if the data would actually be in his head and Sarge cites the logic behind this.

** "Kittens covered in spikes! That makes me angry!"

*** "My name is Michael J. Caboose and ''I hate babies!''"

* [[Defictionalization]]: In Season 4, while he, Simmons, and Donut are treating Grif like "one of those ducks at the shooting gallery," Sarge declares that "this is the best game since Grifball!" Then came ''[[Halo 3]]'', and the Forge map builder, [http://www.halopedian.com/Grifball and the rest is history.]

* [[The Ditz]]: Caboose.

** According to later seasons, {{spoiler|no it's not.}}

* [[Downer Ending]]: Sort of... see [[Multiple Endings]].

'''Sarge:''' Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?! }}

* [[The European Carry All]]: Donut's pink... er, "lightish red" armor.

** Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister", or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "[[Unfortunate Implications|younger sibling of the same sex]]".

** Also, Medical Officer Frank DuFresne, who is immediately nicknamed "Doc" by Church because he can't be bothered remembering his name.

* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Subverted. Sister knows it and tries using it early on, but the others don't understand her, citing it as outdated.

{{quote| "I will devour their hearts and crap out their souls! They will all taste oblivion!... Which tastes just like Red Bull... Which is disgusting!"}}

* [[Fan Fiction]]: Apparently, Donut has written some of ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''. It involves a bartender and a sailor.

** Blue Team:

*** [[The Hero]]: Church

*** [[The Big Guy]]: Lopez

*** [[The Chick]]: Donut

*** Red Team: Sarge - classic Choleric, Grif and Lopez - classic Phlegmatic, Simmons - Melancholic, and Donut - Sanguine

*** Blue Team: Church and Tex - Choleric, Tucker - Sanguine, Doc - Melancholic, and Caboose - neutral Phlegmatic, despite being a complete [[The Ditz|ditz]].

* [[I Am Not Shazam]]: A bit of an inversion: When Tex explains that every member of Project Freelancer was codenamed for a state, Tucker responds by asking the soldier nicknamed Tex what her codename was. She responds, "[[Sarcasm Mode|Nevada]]." Plenty of fans believed her, though in their defense the series seemed goofy enough for that to happen, and she delivers the line completely straight.

* [[I Can't Do This By Myself]]: Tex has to rope in the Reds and Blues to carry a bomb for her because she doesn't have the upper body strength.

** Also, Tucker himself and his "striking metrosexual good looks," as noted by Captain Flowers.

{{quote| ''(gunshot whizzes right past his ear)''<br />

'''O'Malley:''' ...Now, suddenly it's too loud. I preferred it when it was quiet. }}

{{quote| '''Church:''' "Why is it that something dramatic seems to happen ''exactly'' every five minutes? I mean, I can't possibly be the only one out here noticing this trend."}}

** The series became increasingly self-referential and fourth-wall breaking as ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' reached its end.

** Everybody except Sarge, Sister, Doc, and all Freelancer agents.

* [[Losing Your Head]]: Lopez

* [[Love Triangle]]: Sheila to Lopez and Caboose. [[Triang Relations|Type 4]]

** For Caboose, this is also a case of [[Robo Ship]].

* [[Made of Iron]]: Anyone can survive a devastating attack generally unharmed [[Rule of Funny|provided it would be funny for them to do so.]] Any pain or injury will be played for laughs and forgotten as soon as the joke is over. Conversely, this invincibility can be revoked at any point, [[Rule of Drama|if the character's death is important for plot reasons.]]

** Grif may be the patron saint of this, given his state as the physical [[Butt Monkey]] and Sarge's constant attempts to put him in harms way. At one point he takes a shotgun round point blank to the chest, and shortly after takes a [[Five Rounds Rapid]] to the face, twice. He is fine.

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Caused by [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|Alien Impregnation]].

* [[Multiple Endings]]: In addition to the canonical ending where [[Status Quo Is God|Status Quo Is Mostly God]] there are ''six'' alternate endings to Episode 100, "Why Were We Here?"

** "[[Mind Screw|Insert Quarter]]": Sarge tries to call for support from Command, and when Vic proves uncooperative, Sarge destroys the computers controlling Blood Gulch, which then proclaim [[A Winner Is You|him the winner of "Red Vs Blue"]], the Japanese credits for which then roll. The episode then cuts to a ''Halo 2'' postgame screen with the kill/death stats of the eight major characters throughout the series (Caboose's kills are at -1 because a teamkill subtracts from your score, Tex's kill count is at ''Halo 2'''s maximum of 99, etc.), revealing the whole thing as "the weirdest [death]match [they]'ve ever played". After some Xbox Live-style banter (which really makes it unclear whether it's the characters talking or just the creators using their handles in a game), they decide to play another match with "same teams" but a "[[Sequel Hook|new map]]".

*** And, as a matter of fact, they do. As of ''Recreation'', the Blues and Reds have been resettled at Valhalla.

** "[[All Just a Dream|Ruby]] [[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|Slippers]]": Church back during Season 1, having only been knocked unconscious by Sheila's cannon fire. He describes his dream to Tucker, Caboose, and Jacobs, who he apparently forgot about, before Simmons and Grif show up. Church tries to speak to them about the events of his dream, but they just hose the Blues down with [[More Dakka|machine gun fire]], killing them all. The Reds (complete with Sarge's original, nasally voice) then prepare to move on to the next zone.

** "Tex Wins": When Church screams for Tex to come back, the ship turns around (with Andy presumably having been deactivated). The ship then fires a missile at the Blood Gulch soldiers, killing them all.

* [[Multitasked Conversation]]: In season 5, before Sarge and Donut find Grif and Simmons after they fall into the cave beneath Blood Gulch, Sarge communicates with Simmons via their helmet radios. Donut's radio is broken, so he is completely unaware Sarge isn't talking to him.

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: How Sarge refers to his soldiers. And Grif.

* [[The Not Secret]]: When Simmons is [[It Makes Sense in Context|pretending to be a Blue soldier]], Church immediately knows it's him, but pretends not to in order to torment him.

* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Sarge

* [[Once an Episode]]: Or once a season to be more specific. Once Tucker's "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow" catchphrase is introduced, he says it once and once only in each season (except for multiple times in one episode of season four).

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Church, who is usually the only person to both understand when a crisis is happening and be motivated enough to do something about it. Most of the other characters are either one but not the other, or neither. Tex might qualify in some episodes, but she has a habit of going [[Axe Crazy]], and often pursues her own agenda to the detriment of the others.

* [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope]]: The season one DVD had a parody of the FBI warning.

* [[Pink Is for Sissies]]: Donut's custom color.

** Son of a bitch!

** SON OF A BITCH!

{{quote| '''Simmons:''' Sarge, I'm not sure Grif knows what he's talking about.<br />

'''Sarge:''' Grif doesn't know what he's talking about, eh? Stop the fuckin' presses. }}

** "Or my personal favorite: You just got ''Sarged.'' "

** Church attempts this with O'Malley in Caboose's mind, but fails utterly.

'''Grif:''' Everybody knows our code words! }}

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Tex is the only girl in the show for quite some time, though in a case of [[Positive Discrimination]], she's definitely the best fighter on either team.

* [[Throwaway Country|Throw Away State]]: Florida. Also a [[Noodle Incident]] and [[Take Our Word for It]].

* [[Throw It In]]: Many lines, including one notable case where Donut in the script was supposed to just scream once, but the actor decided that instead he'd run around babbling incoherently while the other characters delivered their lines. Most of the time the cast agrees that what was improvised was better than the actual script.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: According to [[Word of God]], there was originally a concept in which the characters, in preparation for battle, would call out [[In the Name of The Moon|"Go Red/Blue for battle!"]] This would trigger a [[Transformation Sequence]] in which the character's armour would change to the standard red or blue, making the battles appear more like actual multiplayer games.

** The story was originally going to be about the Reds, with Church and Tucker always observing from the cliff and making comments, a la [[Statler and Waldorf]].

{{quote| '''Sarge''': I can obviously understand why you'd wanna attack your own base.<br />

'''Simmons''': You can?<br />