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The collection of seasons 6 to 8 of ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'', in which the series takes more of a serious turn and focuses more on the Freelancers and The Director. The collection contains 58 episodes, as well as one miniseries, "Relocated".
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== This series provides examples of: ==
 
== Reconstruction (Season 6) ==
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* [[Big Bad]]: The Meta
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Well, it does seem like the bad guys get punished, and our plucky heroes mostly get away. However, {{spoiler|1=all the AIs are killed, including Church. We later learn that thanks to Caboose, Wash's plan to bring down Project Freelancer was unsuccessful, and Wash himself is imprisoned instead!}}
* [[Bond One -Liner]]: "What are you going to do, [[Killed Mid -Sentence|shoo-]]" "Yes. Good suggestion."
* [[Broken Masquerade]]: Wash reveals that {{spoiler|the whole Red vs Blue war is just a testing ground for military projects such as Freelancer, and that Command was responsible for most of the things that happened in ''Blood Gulch Chronicles''. However, it doesn't sink in for the cast (especially Sarge) until halfway through ''Revelations''.}}
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Lopez makes it clear (to the audience) that the devotion he showed to Sarge from Season 2 has all but vanished.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Whereas the Blood Gulch seasons were light on drama and action but heavy on comedy, the Recollection Trilogy (especially "Reconstruction") is the opposite.
* [[Deconstruction]] of the parodic nature of "Blood Gulch Chronicles". All the wacky hijinks they had in the previous series, they get punished for and are now dealing with a more realistic military. There is an actual reason for all those robots and AI programs that kept popping up all over the place. Even the pointlessness of fighting a base in the middle of a box canyon is addressed. The parodic personalities of the Blood Gulch team meeting the more serious military personalities only made it even funnier.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [[Arc Words|Memory]] [[Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories|is key.]]
* [[Doing in The Wizard]]
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Washington''': Church, there's no such thing as ghosts. You're one of them. You're an A.I. You, are the Alpha.}}}}
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'''Grif''': Your face is immature. }}
* [[The Juggernaut]]: The Meta.
* [[Killed Mid -Sentence]]: {{spoiler|Agent South Dakota.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''South'''}}: Oh, come on Wash, what're ya gonna do? Sh- *headshot*<br />
'''Wash''': Yes. }}
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* [[Mega Manning]]: The Meta steals his slain foes' equipment and AI and integrates them into his own armor.
* [[Miniseries]]: "Recovery One" (four episodes).
* [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate]]: The Director.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Agent Washington, whenever he's not busy [[Secret Keeper|being secretive]] or [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing things up]].
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Wash whenever he has to interact with the characters from the previous seasons. His presence is the primary cause of [[Cerebus Syndrome]]. The Meta is the cause of the rest.
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{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Church''': You're a fucking idiot.}}<br />
{{spoiler|'''Washington''': That's not the reaction I expected.}} }}
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Boo, motherfucker!"
* [[Transferable Memory]]: Epsilon was created as a receptacle for the Alpha's memories, which include those of {{spoiler|the Director of Project Freelancer}}.
** He also appears to be able to assimilate memories from those around him.
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* [[Voice of the Legion]] The Meta's [[A Is]] all talk at once sometimes, and in the trailer for ''Reconstruction'' The Meta carves on the wall ''We Are The Meta''.
* [[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.}}
* [[Wham Episode]]: Chapter 16, then again in the closing moments of Chapter 19.
** All with one simple closing {{spoiler|"Sincerely Yours, The Former Director of Project Freelancer, Doctor Leonard Church."}}
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{{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.
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Averted due some surprisingly progressive legislation concerning Artificial Intelligences - it is implied in the Director and Chairman's memos that AIs are citizens, and have strict moral guidelines in place for dealing with them, {{spoiler|more of which are added in "honor" of the Director after his actions concerning the Alpha are brought to light}}.
** Also averted in how the other characters react to [[A Is]] (and discovering that {{spoiler|Tex and Church are also [[A Is]]}}). For the most part, the Reds and Blues treat [[A Is]] just like any other person. In contrast, Freelancers treat them more like tools, because that's all they were for Freelancers, although this seems to change if they've been together for a long time (York/Delta, Wyoming/Gamma, even Tex/Omega, although that doesn't mean they like each other)
* [[Where They Were]]: Everyone in Blood Gulch was reassigned to new locations, except for Sister, Sarge and Lopez (though Sarge's continued presence is due to him deliberately ignored his relocation orders, believing Blood Gulch "Not yet won"). The locations of Donut, Tucker, and Doc are left ambiguous until the next season.
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== Recreation (Season 7) ==
 
* [[Atomic F -Bomb]]: Simmons gives one {{spoiler|while being chased by the Meta.}}
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Technically speaking, {{spoiler|Church/Alpha. He was [[Word of God|confirmed killed]] at the end of the last season, but using a Forerunner Monitor, Caboose was able to bring him back, by having Epsilon assume his memories and personality}}.
* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|Tucker, all of a sudden.}}
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* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: C.T. and the Meta.
** {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]: Washington turns out to have been partnered with the Meta, and is the brains of their operation. The Chairman is the one who set Wash loose, but his interest in the situation is far less... personal than Wash's.}}
* [[Big "What?"]]: Simmon's reaction in episode 15 when he hears Donut's explanation for why he didn't help when the Meta attacked him.
* [[Big No]]: Simmons gives one {{spoiler|when Donut is killed}}.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Sort of: A sponsor's-only ending for an Episode in ''Reconstruction'' shows that Doc was called to Last Resort by the Reds, but they were all gone by the time he arrived. A deleted scene in this season's DVD shows that, after a whole season, ''he's still there.''
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lopez is becoming snarkier with every episode.
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: {{spoiler|Tucker attempts to do one to a pair of C.T.'s goons with a Chopper, but [[Subverted Trope|ends up missing]].}}
* [[Easy Amnesia]]/[[WhosWho's On First?]] When Church accidentally turned off his short term memory.
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]: Washington}}.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: Epsilon appears to Caboose as Delta because it knows Caboose trusted Delta. Although Caboose is a little unclear on the concept, so the benefit was largely wasted on him.
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* [[Miniseries]]: "Relocated" (four episodes).
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: The advertisement for the DVD announces the return of "All your favorite characters (and Simmons)."
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Turns out {{spoiler|The "Chairman" was about to arrest the Director, but Wash's plan destroyed all of the evidence. Wash was promptly arrested. That being said, part of the original plan hinged on the Reds and Caboose turning Epsilon over, as Epsilon was ''the'' major piece of evidence. The fact that Caboose seemed to have kept it secret to try and bring back Church might explain why Wash is so pissed off at the Blood Gulch crew.}}
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Tex was shown in "Recreation"'s trailer, but never appeared in the series itself.
** As was {{spoiler|the original Church.}}
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* [[Vertigo Effect]]: The second episode of ''Relocation'' has this when Caboose sneaks up on Simmons.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Simmons seems to have adopted the Rocket Launcher as his.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Partially averted. It's revealed that Junior somehow survived the ship crash and the events at Valhalla, and was made an ambassador with Tucker, but we never see him again.
* [[Your Mom]]: After they lose Caboose (again):
{{quote| '''Grif:''' So embarrasing for you...<br />
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The last in the Recollection Trilogy, centering around the memories and AIs. The first showing also revealed that [[Monty Oum]], the creator of [[Haloid]] and [[Dead Fantasy]], is now part of the [[Rooster Teeth]] staff.
 
* [[And the Adventure Continues]]: After all the shenanigans, damage, lies, victories and defeats of the last 8 seasons, they decided {{spoiler|to return to their Training program because they liked it and to hell if its not real for command, ''its real for them''}}. The fact that technically they had shown to be the biggest badasses in the entire series {{spoiler|far beyond mere trainees}}, literally surviving and defeating one [[One -Man Army]] after another while thousands of others didn't, make it all the more [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|intense]].
* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|Washington}} shows qualities of this and [[Evilly Affable]] at various points, showcasing what happens when [[The Comically Serious]] loses patience and goes to [[The Dark Side]].
* [[A God Am I]]: Church takes a little too well to the aliens worshiping him.
{{quote| '''Tucker:''' You just read the instructions off our printer.<br />
'''Church:''' Yeah, they eat that technology stuff up. You gotta know your audience, man. }}
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: {{spoiler|Despite only being 'trainees' used as practice for Freelancers, the Blood Gulch Red and Blue teams managed to take down: [[Super Soldier|Omega]], [[One -Man Army|Tex]], [[The Juggernaut|the Meta]] and dozens of badasses without suffering casualities. At the very least, [[Mad Scientist|Sarge]] and [[Badass Normal|Tucker]] are ''far'' more skilled than their status as simulation-fodder suggests.}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Arguably a subversion. {{spoiler|Church and Tex's imprisonment in the AI capture unit would seem like this, but the narration at the end suggests that the two will finally find happiness with each other. Keep in mind that finding happiness with Tex is something Church has been trying to do for the ''entire series.''}}
* [[Animation Bump]]: Thanks to [[Monty Oum]], fully animated CGI sequences are inserted into the standard ''[[Halo]]'' game-engine [[Machinima]].
* [[Anti -Villain]]: {{spoiler|Wash}} has a degree of this, especially after you realize that the reason {{spoiler|Wash}} is after the BG crew is because he was sent to prison because they didn't hand over Epsilon like he told them to.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In the first episode of "Revelation", the others try insulting Church to make him angry enough do the 'laserface' again. The insults are that 'he's ugly and nobody likes him,' 'he's annoying and his team sucks' and 'he's round and can't wear pants.' While none of them make him angry, the last one is the only one that manages to depress him.
* [[Art Evolution]]: With [[Monty Oum]] of ''[[Dead Fantasy]]'' fame helping out in the latest season, the production values have taken a noticeable upswing.
* [[Art Shift]]: The creator of ''[[Haloid]]'' and ''[[Dead Fantasy]]'' is now working with [[Rooster Teeth]], leading to sequences where, though high quality, the shift is noticeable.
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* [[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]]. }}
* [[Defiant to The End]]: Tucker in episode 10 continues to fight and keep up his [[Deadpan Snarker]] routine even while getting his ass kicked, and by doing so manages to retain his [[Took a Level In Badass|Level In Badass]] even when it becomes clear he's out of his league.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Even the entire armed forces of the UNSC couldn't take out the Meta. Compared to the Reds and Blues, he might as well be a [[Physical God]]. {{spoiler|And they take him down (possibly for good this time) in the span of a few minutes.}} and it's ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome.]]''
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Grif}}.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|After 3 seasons, this is how the Meta is finally dispatched.}} He was {{spoiler|a [[Badass Normal]] without any functioning equipment units when he fell}} and the response unit certainly sounds sure that he's dead. However, it's unknown whether the UNSC forces [[Never Found the Body|found a body]].
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* [[Epic Fail]]: Technically what it becomes of Blood Gulch teams. {{spoiler|They were teams of the lowest of the lowest in the army, formed to train the freelancers in "real" heavy combat. Instead they ended up killing 2/3 of the entire group, including the 4 strongest ones and literary bringing the entire project crashing to the ground}}. Say what you will about the idiots, when they go down, they go down spectacularly.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|After spending the entire season as the main villain, even Washington is shocked at the extent The Meta will go in its pursuit of power.}}
* [[Everybody Was Kung -Fu Fighting]]: Hey, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|it's]] just what happens when you get Monty Oum involved.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: In Revelations 17, Sarge reveals that this trope has been {{spoiler|inverted all along: His name is "Sarge". He is Staff Sergeant Sarge. Or S-Dog.}}
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|After spending most of the season in the role of [[Deadpan Snarker]] comic relief, The Meta is back to full-on ultimate evil in Episode 19 just in case you forgot he was the [[Big Bad]] of the trilogy.}}
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Tex reveals that Omega and Gamma broke down Alpha-Church by repeatedly putting him through situations in which he was unable to do anything except constantly fail to protect the people he cared about.
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* [[Fake Trap]]: {{spoiler|Washington}} notices that {{spoiler|Epsilon-Church}} is lying injured in the middle of a perfect ambush position. He knows this must be a trap set by a freelancer, but it turns out the trap was set for the exact place they had stopped when they realized this.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Washington accomplished this by the end to avoid arrest. He's now part of Blue Team.}}
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: {{spoiler|Tex gets ''impaled through the face'' by the spike on the capture unit. While there was no blood (since that was a robotic body,) [[Fridge Horror|one shudders to think what it would look like if Meta did that to a human]]}}
** Nearly taken even further when it was revealed that {{spoiler|Wash was going to be crushed and cut in half with a warthog by The Meta.}} Makes me shudder thinking about it.
* [[Five -Man Band]]: The {{spoiler|Remaining Reds and Blues at the end of chapter 18.}}
** [[The Hero]]: {{spoiler|Sarge}}
** [[The Lancer]]: {{spoiler|Tucker}}
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** 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.]]
* [[For Science!]]: {{spoiler|It's revealed that this was Project Freelancer's reason behind the Red and Blue armies; they took the lowest-scoring soldiers they could find and use them to collect combat data, and practice the skills of the Freelancers.}}
* [[Friendship Moment]]: After all the abuse Sarge has given him, Grif still instinctively pushes Sarge out the way of the wrecked Warthog as it comes flying at them.
** Debatable, but Doc {{spoiler|saving Washington in episode 19, despite almost every previous scene featuring the two having Doc snarking at Wash,}} could've been this.
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** It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it?
** A possibly unintentional example: at the end of ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'', Church asked Tex what would happen after she helped O'Malley in his plan, and her response was "I guess we'll find out." In Episode 17 of this season, {{spoiler|when Epsilon-Church asks Tex why she's betraying their location to Washington and the Meta}}, her response is "That's exactly what I plan to find out."
* [[ItsIt's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Don't panic, it's an in-universe example. Namely, how Caboose feels about the aliens taking to worshiping Epsilon Church.
{{quote| '''Caboose''': It's not fair! I worshiped Church way before it was cool to worship him.<br />
'''Grif''': Hey, I already told you, that's still ''not cool''. That will ''never be cool''. Ever. }}
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{{quote| I mean hell, if you have to live the rest of your life in a memory, you might as well make it a good one. }}
* [[Made of Iron]]: The Freelancers in general, but Meta makes the other two look like plasticine with his endurance. Seriously, watch the last two episodes and see just HOW much damage he takes within a 20 minute timeframe. Kinda makes one wonder {{spoiler|whether he actually died from that fall}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Sarge's]] real name is [[Heroic BSOD|revealed in Chapter 17]] to be: {{spoiler|Sarge}}
** ''Recollection'', the name of the trilogy, has multiple meanings. The whole Freelancer project was a result of The Director attempting to bring his memories to life. ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' center around Epsilon, the embodiment of Alpha's memories. And, at the very end, when Church leaves the world for the last time, he tells Caboose that he'll now be in charge of keeping his memory alive. This is in addition to the fact that it is [[Stealth Pun|a collection of seasons whose titles begin with "Re".]]
* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: After finally coping with the knowledge that the Red and Blue armies are just disposable target dummies for Project Freelancer, and learning that Church and Tex are in danger from Meta and Washington, Sarge gives a [[Rousing Speech]] that rallies the Reds and Blues together to take the initiative for once in their lives and show the Freelancers "just what a big fight is all about".
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* [[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.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: In Chapter 17, Tex delivers one to Epsilon-Church.
{{quote| '''Epsilon-Church:''' {{spoiler|Tex? I would have helped you.}}<br />
'''Tex:''' {{spoiler|You can't even help yourself. That's why you made me, Church. You made me to take on all the things you can't handle, just like you always have.}} }}
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* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When the aliens draw an image of Washington in the sand, with the word "[[Fantastic Racism|shis]][[Continuity Nod|no]]" next to it.
{{quote| '''Doc''': What does it say?<br />
'''Washington''': It says... peace talks have broken down. [[Kill 'Em All|Now we do it our way.]] }}
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Sarge has one in Chapter 20 {{spoiler|when he advances on the Meta, on his own, blasting away with his shotgun before hooking the Warthog's tow cable onto the Meta's armour.}}
* [[Up to Eleven]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the title of episode 10 [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|for]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|good]] [[Took a Level In Badass|reason.]]
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*** Episode 11 of Season 9 has a blink-and-you-miss-it moment where you here the Meta clearly say "Get off me" to a medic. Then in Episode 15 you can hear him respond to Carolina with "Too high" before he is kicked out of a window. His characteristic growl is present up to this point, so maybe it's some sort of preference or meant for intimidation.
* [[Versus Title]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Doc was not at all pleased that Simmons left him stuck in the wall, whilst at the same time, "volunteering" him to stay behind and "sacrifice" himself.
{{quote| '''Simmons''': We'll always remember you. Bye!<br />
'''Doc''': Start by remembering me now! Simmons! }}
** When Caboose accidentally ruins Tucker's plan to distract an enemy whilst Simmons prepares an ambush, Tucker calls out to Caboose, stooging off Simmons' position.
{{quote| '''Simmons''': You ratted me out, you son of a bitch!}}
* [[War for Fun And Profit]]: The roots of the Red vs. Blue conflict are revealed to be: {{spoiler|Project Freelancer took the lowest-rated soldiers they could find, populated the Red and Blue armies with them, and set them against each other to provide their Freelancer Agents with combat simulations and to otherwise [[For Science!|collect valuable combat data]].}}
* [[Why Are You Looking At Me Like That]]?: Grif gets this treatment at the end of episode 18, when he wonders who they're gonna get to drive the mysterious vehicle they'll be using to save Church, Tex and take on the Freelancers.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] during the team's fight in episode 10.
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