Red vs. Blue: The Recollection: Difference between revisions

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You have ''got'' to be kidding me" quickly becomes one for Wash.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The previous series was more or less a zany, absurd comedy throughout, all the way up until its surprising [[Bittersweet Ending]]. Reconstruction, though still very funny, has more of emphasis on a coherent plot and a dramatic storyline rather than just amusing antics. It also retcons much of the previous series (see below).

* [[Changing of the Guard]]: "Recovery One" introduced Washington as a completely new protagonist. He is joined by the majority of the original cast eventually, however.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Agent South Dakota.

* [[Reconstruction]]: All the video game tropes picked apart in the Blood Gulch Chronicles are being put back together. And, ya know, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|it's the name of the season.]]

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Judging by the Director's words, probably {{spoiler|Tex}}.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Grif at the end of the follow-up mini-series "Red vs. Blue: Relocated"

{{quote| '''Grif''': Oh boy. That sounds like something that's gonna keep us busy for a few months.}}

* [[Trying Not to Cry]]: When Sarge leave Lopez, he says with a choking voice that he promised himself he wouldn't cry.

* [[Unperson]]: The Reds try to "defeat" the Blues by deleting them from the Command database.

{{quote| '''Grif:''' Come on dude, tell us more about the reality bending computer. I'm ''hanging'' on your every word.<br />

'''Simmons:''' I don't wanna talk about it. }}

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Caboose is the only member of the main cast to carry an Assault Rifle rather than a Battle Rifle or other signature weapon. Then there's the Meta's Brute Shot.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Director. His experiments were supposed to help humanity win the War against the Aliens. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Even if everything he did ended in failure]]. And his torture of the Alpha was {{spoiler|essentially a torture of himself, at least in his view.}}

** All with one simple closing {{spoiler|"Sincerely Yours, The Former Director of Project Freelancer, Doctor Leonard Church."}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Washington:''' Church. There's no such things as ghosts. You're one of them. You're an A.I. You are the Alpha.}}}}

** Also, the closing line of the series, as seen under Wham Episode above.

* [[Friendly War]]: By this point the two teams spend more time being an extremely messed-up family that occasionally still shoot at each other for old times' sake, than actual enemies.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: {{spoiler|Despite how often Simmons is annoyed by Donut, he still tries to save the latter after he is shot by Washington.}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In "Recovery One", there was a dialogue where South asks for a moment with her dead brother, Washington coldly says she has one minute, South bitterly says she guesses she should be thankful, and Wash says he guesses she better get started. {{spoiler|In this series, almost the exact same words crop up regards Wash having five minutes to make a deal with the Chairman, with Wash echoing South's dialogue and a guard echoing Wash's.}}

* [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]] / [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: ''Way'' back in Season 4, a ''single'' Alien was so badass it could effortlessly decimate Omega and his robot army, and could even curbstomp Tex in seconds. Now, in ''Recreation'', we see them get slaughtered en masse by one [[Badass]]. Possibly a [[Justified Trope]] if the alien from "Blood Gulch Chronicles" was just a particular Bad Ass himself, or if the robots he was taking out just weren't that well made.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Tex was shown in "Recreation"'s trailer, but never appeared in the series itself.

** As was {{spoiler|the original Church.}}

* [[Oh Crap|OH FUCK!]]: Simmons' reaction upon seeing the Meta.

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Caboose tries to fix a robot's memory issues by hitting it with his gun. And it apparently ''worked''.

{{quote| '''Gavin:''' Oh... ''Oh''. I get it. My- So I should just-<br />

'''Burnie:''' Get the fuck out of the booth, okay? }}

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The Reds vs. The Meta.

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: {{spoiler|Donut is killed at the end, paving the way for the much more serious and dramatic ''Revelation''}}.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|Tucker}}, who single-handedly pwns his way through C.T.'s team of Aliens and Marines. We later learn that he's the only thing that's prevented C.T. from breaking into the temple.

* [[Trailer Spoof]]: The trailer's beginning is more or less identical to the trailer for ''Reconstruction''. It then changes when Caboose causes an explosion in Blue base.

* [[Unfamiliar Ceiling]]: Subverted for laughs when Donut keeps passing out and coming to, and each time he's told strange stories about what has been happening while he was asleep, which makes him wonder and ask how long he's been out. Turns out he's only been out for a few minutes, and the stories sound strange because it's Caboose who's been telling him the news.

* [[Vertigo Effect]]: The second episode of ''Relocation'' has this when Caboose sneaks up on Simmons.

** Episode 20 seems to confirm it, As Wash finally hits his limit, and can't keep fighting. He did take an explosive round at point blank.

** Grif as well, when you get down to it. {{spoiler|A normal human would've died ''dozens'' of times in that fight with Tex. Grif has also been surviving explosions, falls, blunt-force trauma and bullets that should've killed him since Season Two... from both enemies ''and'' allies!}}

* [[Bat Deduction]]: Sarge's piecing-together of the situation at Valhalla [[Crowning Moment of Funny|quickly devolves into this]], after starting out as a basic [[Sherlock Scan]].

* [[Behind the Black]]: The Meta somehow fails to notice that {{spoiler|there's a tow hook and about fifty yards of cable attached to his chest}} until the camera pans down for [[The Reveal]].

** {{spoiler|"Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?"}}

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: in Episode 19, we see that {{spoiler|Tex has rigged the entire glacier with mines and hidden weapons to even the odds against The Meta and Washington.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Meta, which is really impressive as he doesn't technically talk.

* [[Death Cry Echo]]: {{spoiler|The Meta lets out one final echoing roar as it plunges to its doom. Like all the Meta's sounds, it's [[Nightmare Fuel]]. }}

*** One could argue that {{spoiler|Grif}} is more of a [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]], while {{spoiler|Caboose}} is more of [[The Heart]]; {{spoiler|Caboose doesn't do any fighting, whereas Grif does, and Caboose is also much more sensitive and caring than Grif is.}}

* [[Flat What]]: Simmons uses one of these when he reflexively grabs onto the jeep that Grif and Sarge are riding in while flying through the air at high speed to escape an explosion.

** With some [[Retcon]] thrown in as well, since {{spoiler|Donut was not really dead but in Recovery Mode all along}}. It's possible [[Rooster Teeth]] planned this, and were intentionally misleading in that commentary so as to preserve the secret.

* [[Foe Yay]]: [[Invoked Trope]]. The Meta ''really'' doesn't want to pull Doc out of the wall by his codpiece. [[Lampshade Hanging|It'd just be weird.]]

'''Wash:''' Do you really want to find out?<br />

'''Doc:''' No. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Maybe.]] If we use another person, sure. It sounds kinda interesting. }}

* [[Interesting Situation Duel]]: {{spoiler|Tex's}} beatdown on the Red's and Tucker in the Freelancer base filled with teleporters and her fight with {{spoiler|Wash and Meta}} on Avalanche utilizing timed explosives and collapsing ice.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Sarge gives one to one of the first one-liners of the series... before going into a fantastic [[Rousing Speech]] centered around that one line. {{spoiler|[[Arc Words|"You ever wonder why we're here?"]]}}

** I suspect they intended the translation to be "bloody murder" and thus a callback gag to the Sidewinder troop who ran around literally screaming "bloody murder".

*** That would make sense if there a humorous nature to what happens during the song, but considering [[The Hero Dies|what happened]], that's unlikely.

* [[Plot Tailored to The Party]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|Each of the Reds and Blues participating in the final battle all play a part in defeating the Meta. Grif jumps on its back and manages to steal its Brute Shot, which leaves it open to being stabbed through the chest with the energy sword by Tucker, which in turn slows the Meta down enough for Sarge to attach the Warthog's towing cable to its chest plating, dragging Meta to its doom when Grif and Simmons push the Warthog over the edge of the abyss.}}

* [[The Power of Friendship]] - On the DVD commentary, Burnie Burns says the only reason the teams can {{spoiler|take down the Meta}} is because they know each other so well and can communicate in ways that can get them around their obvious disadvantages.

** {{spoiler|GRIIIIIIF!}}

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Sarge goes from this to [[Bat Deduction]] when he contacts Simmons.

** In episode twelve, Doc's shout echoes one of [[Rookie of the Year|another surprised doctor]].

** The opening to chapter 19 seems very similar to one of the ''[[Halo 3]]'' trailers.