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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).
Besides being [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] and [[The Neidermeyer]], Sarge is best described as "essentially every '50s stereotype character melted down into one." He exhibits characteristics of a [[Mad Scientist]] with regards to his tinkering with robotics and cybernetics, a used car salesman's flair for presentation and hype, and a "grumpy old dad" in his dealings with Simmons and Donut. Sarge is fond of overly-complicated plans, especially if they could result in Grif's death - his plan to attack the windmill power plant involved jamming the device with Grif's corpse, while his attempt to get Donut out from under a spaceship was to subject Grif to bites from irradiated insects in an attempt to give him superpowers. Personal quirks aside, Sarge is probably Red Team's most effective fighter - he was able to subdue Tex, cut down the Zealots of Battle Creek with relative ease, get the drop on Agent Washington, and is brutally effective in close combat.
Played by Matt Hullum
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{{quote|''"You're both an excellent leader and an attractive man, sir!"''}}
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]]".
Simmons forms a comic duo with Grif, though has expressed a disturbing eagerness to sacrifice his friend (even literally) in an effort to gain favor with Sarge. After Lopez defected and Grif needed an organ donor, Simmons was upgraded to a cyborg by Sarge and will occasionally answer to "Simmons 2.0."
Simmons isn't much use in combat, as his main skills are computer programming, memorization of tedious Red Team procedures and regulations, and kissing Sarge's ass. During ''Reconstruction'', he attempts to stall for time during he and Grif's execution by forcing his teammates to look up an obscure subsection, while {{spoiler|at Command he hacks into the Blue Army records and deletes them at Sarge's order, resulting in a "victory" for the Reds.}} However he does have a tendency to be the gunner any time Grif drives the Warthog. He wears dark red/maroon armor.
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=== Associated Tropes: ===
* [[Character Development]]: As of Season 4, he's no longer ''instantly'' sucks up to Sarge. He'll still usually go along with it, but he'll grumble if the plan is particularly insane, even when it doesn't directly threaten his life.
** Then comes ''Recreation'', where he's more openly critical of Sarge's leadership.
* [[Foil]]: To Grif.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: His arguments with Grif, according to Tucker.
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{{quote|''"Who wants to hold my ankles while I stretch out my hammies?"''}}
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.
This, combined with a flair for calligraphy, appreciation of interior decorating, and the "Officer Hot Pants" surprise at Sarge's birthday party helps solidify Donut's status as [[Stereotype Gay]] by Season Three. Although he has a surprisingly good arm when it comes to throwing grenades, as proven when he killed Tex with a precision throw from across the canyon, in most combat situations he is expected (and ordered) to run around and [[Screams Like a Little Girl|scream like a girl]], a role he takes to with gusto.
{{spoiler|He returns after ''Reconstruction'' during an experiment by Sarge to test the capabilities of a new plasma weapon. He's mistaken at first for a holographic Grif clone, but the others soon realize its him and he passes out, exclaiming that he needs water. At the end of ''Recreation'', he was shot by Washington. In the opening to ''Revelation''; Doc confirms that Donut was dead. However in the sponsors-only ending of Chapter 13 shutting down the armor lock on all armors ends up bringing him back to life, which has been confirmed to be canon via [[Word of God]].}}
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* [[Adult Child]]: Less so when he made his debut in actual red armor.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A subject of debate amongst fans, and in-universe.
* [[Camp Straight]]: One of the alternate endings to ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' mentions he married a stripper and had a litter of kids.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite his rather... unusual behavior, he managed to grenade Tex from halfway across the canyon.
** The fact that he was {{spoiler|working with Tucker as an infiltration specialist implies he received some special training to perform his new job.}}
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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.
As a result, Lopez spends the series hopping from team to team. Church possesses him in search of a body, then Lopez is mistaken for a Blue and attacked by his former owners, causing him to formally surrender to the Blues. Via a time loop, Church accidentally suggests that Lopez and Sheila form their own robot army, and Lopez defects away from humans altogether, but he is quickly captured and reprogrammed by O'Malley while the AI is possessing Doc. His head is blown off during the transition between ''[[Halo]] 1'' and ''2'', and he becomes the [[Deadpan Snarker|bitingly sarcastic]] sidekick to O'Malley until he is finally recovered by the Red Team at the end of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. As of ''Reconstruction'' he's been rebuilt and is back at Red Base, and has deleted the memories of his departed teammates.
{{spoiler|1=He has recently rejoined the Red Team because he was bored (and because Sarge knew the commands codes that would make him do it anyway), and assisted Sarge in developing an EMP-powered Gauss Gun and installing it on the Warthog. To this end, and for any future research, he created an underground holographic test facility, which Sarge uses mostly to kill Grif avatars over and over again.}}
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: {{spoiler|Well he ''is'' a fragment of a super intelligent AI}}.
** And to be fair, he's not really a moron. Just incompetent and neurotic.
* [[The Determinator]]: As inept as he can be, you have to give Church credit for trying sometimes.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: {{spoiler|While Alpha is rude to Tex, Epsilon is very nice to her, even when she betrays him multiple times.}}
** {{spoiler|Alpha}} [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|did have his moments with her, though.]]
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* [[Jerkass]]: {{spoiler|In ''Revelation'', he turns out to have been a [[Jerkass Woobie]] all along.}}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: ''Very'' cynical. Nevertheless, push comes to shove, he'll try to do the right thing.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Alpha-Church is gone. Given that Epsilon contains memories of all the AI Fragments within him, however, a case could be made for Church's "resurrection", and creator and voice actor Burnie Burns has said that Epsilon becomes more like Alpha the more he spends time with the Blood Gulch Crew, though he still technically is not the same being.}}
** {{spoiler|Epsilon and Alpha-Church very briefly met shortly before Alpha-Church's death, and fan theories often suggest that Epsilon was able to "update" his memories of the Alpha to that point}}.
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* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Alpha-}}Church has this with Tex. {{spoiler|Epsilon is much more polite to her but ultimately decides to move on}}.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: While he's definitely the main protagonist, whenever the situation calls for it, expect Church to be the one to unite both teams against the [[Big Bad]]. However, don't expect him to do much ''to'' the [[Big Bad]], [[Cosmic Plaything|since...]]
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Epsilon-Church clearly distinguishes between himself and "Alpha", but seems to fully identify himself as "Church".}}
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Tucker.
** {{spoiler|Epsilon-Church is considerably friendlier with Tucker AND Caboose. Shocking, isn't it?}}
* {{spoiler|[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Or, "non-ghost," but either way this is called into question by the end of ''Reconstruction''. ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' seem to infer that Epsilon-Church regards himself as equally human as his teammates.}}
== '''Private First Class Lavernius Tucker''' ==
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Tucker's role in the plot is increased after he accidentally learns the secret about Red and Blue Command, prompting the hiring of Wyoming to assassinate Tucker before he can spread the news. After the "time travel" incident, Tucker stumbles upon an alien sword that can then only be wielded by him, supposedly proving he is "the chosen one" destined to save an alien race. This results in a failed quest, a dead alien, and Tucker's "[[Mister Seahorse|impregnation]]" which culminates in Junior (see below). Though Tucker had a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he somehow figured out Wyoming's temporal loop ability, he left the Blue Team sometime between the main series and ''Reconstruction'', {{spoiler|though an intercepted radio transmission at Command revealed that he's evidently out recovering ''something'' buried under some sand.}}
He makes his triumphant return in ''Recreation'', cementing his role as the series' default [[The Lancer|Lancer]] (and Season 7's temporary [[The Hero|Hero]]) by [[Took a Level In Badass|taking out a group of heavily armed Marines, Elites and a Freelancer by himself.]]
Played by Jason Saldaña
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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: According to him, he really isn't anymore, courtesy of Sister, but this is [[Unreliable Narrator|Tucker we're talking about.]]
** But then again, it's ''[[Really Gets Around|Sister]]'' '''[[Lovable Sex Maniac|he's]]''' talking about.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Compared to the nigh-superhuman Freelancers, Tucker's relatively weak, despite the training he received after ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. But he's still leagues above the Blood Gulch veterans and even UNSC Marines. After all, this was a guy who managed to take out a combined team of Elites and human mercs, led by a {{spoiler|Freelancer}}, by himself.
** It should be noted that Tucker has taken on {{spoiler|at least 4 freelancers in the course of the series.}}
*** At the end of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', {{spoiler|he's the only one able to see through Wyoming's time loops. And takes out a large amount of Wyoming's with a sniper.}}
*** In ''Recreation'', he's able to {{spoiler|single-handedly fend off CT's group from reaching the temple, and then manages to hold his own until Epsilon Church saves him.}}
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* [[Running Gag]]: Tucker can't go through a teleporter without getting covered in black stuff.
** Even if no one else going through the same teleporter does. Though, whether or not other characters are affected seems to be dependent on its usefulness to the plot.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: The source of why he's badass. Figures out how to counter Wyoming's time-looping ability, prevents C.T. from breaking into the Sandtrap temple, wipes out half of C.T.'s army single-handed and destroys C.T.'s jeep during a chase scene.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Tucker claims to be a pacifist during his quest, even outright stating he didn't want to kill a monster. {{spoiler|This doesn't, however, stop him from killing Wyoming and attacking Tex and Meta with potentially lethal strikes.}}
* [[Token Minority]]: After revealing his first name to be Lavernius, he's asked by Church if he's black. [[Fanon]] picked up on this, with a lot of fan art making Tucker a black guy when out of his armor.
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=== Associated Tropes: ===
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Far from being just plain stupid, Caboose is almost completely divorced from reality and utters many bizarre yet occasionally insightful non-sequiturs.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite his many mental quirks, Caboose has been shown to possess superhuman strength and, [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry|when sufficiently angry]], was able to single-handedly wipe out both the Red and Blue Battle Creek Zealots.
** He's also easily the best shot on the Blue Team. It just happens that he's usually shooting ''at'' the Blue Team.
* [[The Ditz]]: Easily the dumbest member of the cast. And the fans love him for that.
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: Occasionally has a good idea.
** [[Genius Ditz]]: These moments have become more frequent in Season 9 as Caboose is reverted to his personality pre-Flanderization.
** It should be pointed out that he was more productive than any member of either team when he was working by himself in Valhalla. Sure, there was a fire, but he was still getting stuff done.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]
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{{quote|''"Firing main cannon."''}}
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.
{{spoiler|In ''Revelation'' it is revealed that Sheila's original name, pronounced Phyllis but spelt as F.I.L.S.S, stands for Freelancer Integrated Logistics and Security System. F.I.L.S.S is currently running a secret facility owned by the Director, but it is unknown if she is the same AI or if Sheila is some kind of duplicate. F.I.L.S.S., at least, has no memory of the Blood Gulch crew.}}
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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.)
Originally Andy was very heavy and only Caboose could carry him. However in later episodes when O'Malley refers to him as a bowling ball Andy asks Caboose if he is fat, and then states that he has been working out. Sarge confirms this since he (and several others) can carry Andy with ease.
Andy gains a new role when it is revealed that he is the only one who can understand the alien language. Later, Sarge kidnaps Andy and has him translate the orders from Vic stored in Lopez (which could only be played back in Spanish). Andy was last seen with Tex on board the Pelican as she left at the end of the series, in which he exploded, but instead of leaving debris it just produced a white flash.
{{spoiler|In an extended, sponsor-only episode of ''Reconstruction'' he is heard in the background during the Pelican recording expressing his disappointment with how small his explosion was. This indicates that he can explode multiple times without killing himself.}}
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{{quote|''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the skills you need. Unless you want to see my ping-pong ball trick."''}}
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.
{{spoiler|Lopez claims to have killed her. However, Grif doesn't believe this, claiming she's [[Made of Iron]]. The credibility of Grif's assertion is much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects.}}
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* [[Made of Iron]]: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was under water for three hours, and when they finally brought her up, she was [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant''.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Due to her [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] tendencies, about 90% of the thing she says are responded to with the line "Yeah, wait...What?"
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Hasn't appeared in quite some time, and is supposedly dead.
** [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Seemingly. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvttX1OxKsg She isn't happy about this.]
* [[Really Gets Around]]: And we mean ''really''.
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Played by [[Barenaked Ladies|Ed Robertson]]
== Freelancers ==
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* [[Action Girl]]
** [[Dark Action Girl]]: Although at the end of the day she is a good person Tex is '''incredibly''' ruthless, to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would ''literally'' kill those who piss her off.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: And [[The Rival|Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Arrogant Kung Fu Chick]]: {{spoiler|Her new self in ''Revelation'', and further seasons, sports shades of this.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Do Androids Dream?|Do Artificial Intelligences Dream]]: After her now famous asskicking of the Blood Gulch crew, this is her primary motivation. To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in this world.}}
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''. Cross [[HSQ]] and [[Tear Jerker]].
* [[Hot Amazon]]: [[Fanon]] depicts her as such in fanart.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Both the original Tex, and Epsilon-Tex (the one that beat down the Reds). The first died along with Alpha when the EMP surged. Epsilon allows himself to 'forget' the second Tex, erasing her from existence.}}
** {{spoiler|Though there ''is'' some ambiguity on the death of the original Tex, given that shortly after forgetting the second Tex, Epsilon asks Caboose about "The real Tex"}}.
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* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[One-Man Army|One Woman Army]]
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Somewhat. Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In one of the non-canon Halo 2 promotion vids, she inclines to stay behind with Caboose (because he's too afraid of waiting for the guys by himself). In-canon, though, she refers to Tucker as a friend and works to prevent his assassination at Wyoming's hands. Plus, makes it clear to Sister that the Blues are "her" idiots. Guess there really is a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|heart of gold somewhere deep inside]].
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: "Okay, so who's first?" Cue a total [[Curb Stomp Battle]] for the next episode.
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* [[Samus Is a Girl]]
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Her relationship with Church.
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: One of her specialties.
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|She's an AI, like Church, who Alpha inadventantly made based off of memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does.}}
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* [[Badass Normal]]: He's not on the level of Tex or [[The Juggernaut|the Meta,]] but he can still almost hold his own against them in close combat.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]] - With the Meta in ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation''.}}
* [[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.}}
{{quote|'''Washington''': {{spoiler|The Director?}} He's given us everything. He's ''helping'' us.}}
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* [[Deuteragonist]]: The ''Recollection'' trilogy revolves around Church ({{spoiler|Alpha, and later Epsilon}}), but Washington's story is of almost-equal importance, particularly in ''Reconstruction''.
** Season 9 continued this to a degree, though it did focus on the known Freelancers in general (aside from [[Demoted to Extra|Wyoming]]).
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: At the end of ''Recreation''.
** {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: At the end of ''Revelation''.
* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: See [[Break the Cutie]], above.
* [[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.
{{quote|'''Wash:'''(Talking to Meta) I agree, we should just kill most of them, the last alive will talk.
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'''Wash:''' Why not?
'''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.
* [[Knife Nut]]: {{spoiler|He showed a good deal of proficiency in wounding the Meta with a combat knife... and [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwing it]] hitting him while the Meta is Cloaked.}}
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]
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** Though chances are that he never intended to let The Meta use the {{spoiler|capture unit, only ordering it because it was knocked out of his own hands.}}
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Suffering from this too often is one of the sources of a lot of Wash's bitterness and anger.
* [[Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond]]: When he was first introduced, he seemed like a supreme badass compared to the zany Blood Gulch crew. Later seasons show that he's very much [[Weak but Skilled]], at least relative to most of the other Freelancers.
** Actually, he's far from normal. When one looks at his performance through Season 9 they seem to forget that he's in the top six of a project that has likely 47 other agents. On top of this, he is the only freelancer to be on the board all season and never drop down a rank.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Wash is an uptight, regulations guy who freaked out when North mentioned he used equipment without telling Command. Maine is a brutish dirty fighting soldier who tried to kill Tex during a sparring match because she was beating him.
* [[Only Sane Man]]
* [[Precision F-Strike]]:
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* [[Secret Keeper]]: For the majority of ''Reconstruction'', he was the only character that knew exactly what the Director did to the Alpha.
** He likely knows everything about the Director. It's widely believed that he inherited all of his memories.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: He takes up this role from Church to the Reds and Blues during ''Reconstruction'' and the very last two episodes of ''Revelation''.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: "I'm not crazy, okay? I'm totally, completely sane. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|blow up this dead body."]]
** Well, [[Justified Trope|it is standard procedure to destroy dead freelancers' bodies and their armor]]...
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'''Delta''': Excellent point, York. I was not looking at it from a flawed perspective. I will try to do so in the future.
'''York''': Well, it sure would make these conversations easier. Thanks for coming down to my level, D. }}
* [[Good
** Apparently, he agrees.
{{quote|'''York''': You didn't bring me along for my good looks, did you?}}
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Despite playing a fairly important role in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', his only main contributing factor to Season 9 is participating in the sparring session with {{spoiler|Tex}} and two lines of dialogue. [[Word of God]] says that this was due to his [[Laughably Evil|nature]] contrasting with the more serious Prequel segments.
* [[The Dragon]]: For O'Malley, but given that he ''is'' a Freelancer....
** [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Wyoming had been given a contract to kill anyone who knew that Command is [[Mission Control]] for ''both'' the Reds and Blues (i.e. Tucker). Explaining that he had purposely misled Omega to go search for Tex at Blood Gulch in the ''Out Of Mind'' miniseries, Wyoming hoped that Omega would do the work for him. Naturally, it didn't work out, so he figured that he had to get more hands-on to get the work done.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Sounds like one; a British/Australian accent was the best they could do for him in the auditioning.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Tends to say an insincere "sorry" whenever he shoots someone.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: By Tucker, which solidified the latter into a [[Badass Normal]].
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Along with Maine during the three-on-one fight with Tex.
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The only character to wear white armour {{spoiler|(aside from Church)}}, and suffice it to say, he's kind of a dick.
* [[Time Master]]: Can loop time frames infinitely if he loses; think of it as pressing the restart button for a video game console every time something goes wrong for you.
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: By [[Super Soldier|Freelancer]] standards. He's more an assassin than a straight-up combatant.
== '''The Meta / Agent Maine''' ==
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Due to having so many A.I. jammed into his head.
* [[Badass]]: Do NOT mess with the Meta. You will regret it. {{spoiler|As Washington finds out much later. See [[Evil Is Not a Toy]], below.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: Definitely for ''Reconstruction'', providing a much more threatening presence than O'Malley ever did in the first five seasons. Rather unusual for a [[Big Bad]], the Meta provides a nice variation in that he's a lot more hands-on than what you might expect.
** [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: With C.T. in ''Recreation''. In particular, the Meta repeatedly hunts down and tries to kill Donut, Simmons and Lopez in Valhalla, while C.T. tries to salvage a dig site for individual profit and comes into trouble with Tucker, Sarge, Caboose and Grif in a desert.
** [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Allies with Washington for the finale of ''Recreation'' and the majority of ''Revelation''.
* [[The Brute]]: It seems even during his time as a Freelancer, he was this. {{spoiler|Turns out the AI didn't really change him much at all.}}
** {{spoiler|While he was certainly amoral and borderline sociopathic to outsiders (including the new "recruit" Tex), he was loyal to the point of [[Taking the Bullet|self-sacrifice]] to those he viewed as comrades.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Corruptible]]: Maine isn't really the Meta, or at least wasn't the one in charge of what happened as the Meta until the end of Reconstruction. [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Sigma]] is.}}
* [[The Determinator]]: As shown in the Season 9 flashbacks, he's the only Freelancer able to take a punch from Tex or even land a good hit on her... he still gets curbstomped, though.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: His final fate.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: Wash orders the Meta around for most of ''Revelation'', using him a lot like a weapon. He seems to have forgotten how dangerous the Meta is. {{spoiler|This really bites him in the ass later on.}}
* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: Charges Tex during their sparring, ramming a cement pillar that Wyoming has been slammed into and sending it flying right at York.
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]: In Season 9. It shows when he tangos with Tex.
** He's the only one to technically get an upper hand on her during their sparring match, but only because {{spoiler|York tried to help her}}.
** And he's heavy enough to serve as a counterweight to the Sarcophagus.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: Predictably, after spending most of ''Revelation'' as a comedic sidekick to Wash, {{spoiler|the Meta betrays him and installs Tex into himself to get his own armor, restoring his powers.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: The Meta is the ''living personification'' of this trope, just about. Every. Single. Scene he is in will involve someone saying or thinking this, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rng4VLz1-iU his theme music doesn't hurt the Oh Crap mood either]
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*** "Agent Maine, isn't that the soldier from the freeway? {{spoiler|The one that shot you in the throat?}}"
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Any time someone finds out Maine will be doing battle with someone else, you'll hear "I almost feel sorry for them" as a response.
* [[Power Parasite]]: A more mundane variant. The AIs are designed with corresponding abilities, which they share with whomsoever their Freelancer hosts happen to be. The Meta killed those Freelancers, stole their AIs, jammed them into his head and uses those same abilities whenever he desires.
* [[The Quiet One]]: {{spoiler|Even during season 9, where he had the ability to talk until midway through episode 17, he only ever says six words in his decent amount of screen time.}}
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Season 9 begins it, although he was vicious to begin with.
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A member of Project Freelancer. She shows up in Season 9. According to the ranking board, she's the best Freelancer at the time the series starts.
{{spoiler|She is often placed in command of the other Freelancers on missions, or is used to bail out her less experienced compatriots. She only seems to treat Agent York as an equal and even speaks to him with some twinges of affection, as opposed to the coldly professional dynamic between her and the other members.}}
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* [[Bait and Switch]]: Her first appearance plays up her resemblance to Tex before [[The Reveal]]
* [[Chameleon Camouflage]]: Her armor ability, where she can instantly change her armor's color to anything she needs.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: She tosses a gravity hammer with one hand. Which hits an [[Elite Mook]]. From across a huge room. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|In the face.]]
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Shows noticeable shades of this to Wash. She keeps him focused during missions and acted out violently to protect him when an Insurrectionist warthog had pinned him down.
* [[Dance Battler]]
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* [[Doomed by Canon]]: She'll ultimately get two AI implanted and go pretty much insane. {{spoiler|She's recovered at the end of season 9. How much has yet to be seen, but if Church's [[Oh Crap|reaction]] means anything, not a whole lot.}}
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: She uses a Gravity Hammer to take out an [[Elite Mook]] in Season 9. She returns in Season 10 with one as part of her regular arsenal.
* [[Exact Words]]: {{spoiler|Delta said that she functioned for a short period of time after getting her AI. ''Not'' that she died.}}
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[The Gunslinger]]: In Season 9, the only weapon she is seen using is a pistol.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Uses nothing but her own environment and fists.
** Until episode fifteen where we see her [[Weapon of Choice]] is a standard pistol.
* [[Green Eyed Red Head]]
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: She's seen using a twin set of Plasma Rifles in Season 10 trailers.
* [[The Leader]]: Of the Freelancer [[Five-Man Band]].
* [[Leitmotif]]: ''[[Gratuitous Italian|Morte ai nostri nemici...]]''
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
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* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Smith, a Ranger-type Elite, serves as her main lieutenant, [[Heel Face Turn|until]] C.T. ordered Jones (one of his men) to disable Epsilon-Church, who happens to be inside [[Ave Machina|one of those Forerunner monitors]].}}
* [[Failure Hero]]: Has issues because her skills aren't up to snuff with the rest of the Freelancer Elite, and hates the ranking process.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: {{spoiler|See [[Late Arrival Spoiler]].}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|When confronting Tucker, who he has cornered, he answers Tucker asking him [[Just Between You and Me|who it was that sent him here in the first place]] with "Sorry. You'll never know." }}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: When she was being chased by {{spoiler|a pissed off Smith and another Elite}} in a Prowler, she rammed her Warthog into their vehicle, running over their bodies for good measure. Before that, {{spoiler|she took over the operation in the desert temple by killing off every other Elite and Marine that was sent there beforehand and threw their corpses into a pile to keep them hidden.}}
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* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Her and her brother both have [[Beehive Barrier|Beehive Barriers]] as their armor ability.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Cain to North's Abel.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Typical of Freelancers, she was really only in it for herself. She did get into trouble with the Meta, twice on-screen (Recovery One and ''Reconstruction''), and a third time off-screen with North (Recovery One again), but she betrayed both Washington and North in order to escape the Meta's onslaught.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: She's constantly having to have things explained to her, but she is one of the best Freelancers.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: South and her twin brother North, were part of an experiment to see how one agent who did not receive an AI would react to being partnered to another soldier who did have an A.I. On top of her relative distaste at being partnered together with her brother purely because they were twins, South grew jealous that North received an A.I. instead of her, and harbored some resentment towards Washington, as he indirectly caused her to miss out on the construct implantation part of the program.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: By Washington, via [[Boom! Headshot!]].
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Exhibits some tendencies.
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* [[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.
* [[Cool Big Bro]]: Which makes what happens before Recovery One even sadder, as North and South in Season 9 so far seem to get along fairly well.
** He has a pretty good relationship with Wash too.
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== '''Pilot 479 / Freelancer Command''' ==
An [[Ace Pilot]] who works for Freelancer Command during Season 9. She's also Washington's communications operator during Recovery One and ''Reconstruction''.
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== '''Other Freelancers''' ==
There are 49 total Freelancers. Most of them apparently did not appear in Season 9, and have only received minor mentions. They are named after the 49 states of the US. The lack of a 50th Freelancer has a bit of an explanation behind it, listed <ref> Tucker very briefly said "Poor Florida" when Tex mentioned that Freelancers were named after the 49 states of the Union; however this was also prior to the Freelancers taking plot importance, and seemingly was a one-off joke. What is known is that there is only one Carolina (with two [[A Is]]), seemingly representing a unified North and South Carolina, but D.C. and Puerto Rico are also known to be Freelancers, meaning that is not the only explanation. The only currently known states that are not Freelancers are Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin, and at least two of them no longer are states in order to make the numbers equal 49.</ref> out of convenience.
* Agent Utah was apparently killed in training by using weapons [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|tech without proper controls.]]
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''Reconstruction'' revealed that Omega was actually a fragment of the Alpha, the AI given to Project Freelancer which was subsequently tortured into fragmenting. Omega inherited the Alpha's anger, which explains O'Malley's ability to inspire fury in those it possessed, as well as the Alpha's ability to travel via radio transmissions. Omega was recovered by the Meta (see below) and was destroyed at the end of the series.
Voiced by Burnie Burns (Default voice and while possessing {{spoiler|Tex}}), Joel Heyman (while possessing {{spoiler|Caboose}}), Matt Hullum (while possessing {{spoiler|Doc}})
Because Omega was introduced in the BG chronicles, long before the Freelancer aspect of the story was well fleshed out, he wasn't the last AI {{spoiler|split from Alpha}}. Epsilon was, {{spoiler|because his mental breakdown in Washington's head was what convinced the Director to stop splitting the Alpha.}} Despite {{spoiler|the Alpha}} being first, Omega wasn't last. Go figure.
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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Was effectively the main antagonist for the first five seasons, but O'Malley was portrayed more along the lines of a [[Large Ham]] parody of the [[Big Bad]] archetype.
** In the beginning of ''Reconstruction'', a shell-shocked Red soldier named Walter explained to Command over what went down after the Blues at Valhalla scavenged Tex's crashed pelican (see the ending to the Blood Gulch Chronicles). Walter's rather detailed description of an ominous 'infection' to the Blues and Reds, on top of how the Blues massacred one another, made Omega seem ''much'' more threatening as an antagonist than his previous incarnation ever did.
*** Gives a bit more malice to {{spoiler|Tex, too, as the massacre was likely caused by the two possessing others and using their bodies to fight one another}}.
* [[Body Surf]]: Omega can switch from host to host through inhabiting their minds if their built-in helmet radios are on.
* [[The Corrupter]]: Whenever Omega possesses someone, he changes their behaviors into something that's somewhat more in line with his own personality, along with essentially amplifying their own negative traits ten-fold. Inside Tex, he gave no indication of presence or even sentience, and merely made her more bitter. Inside [[The Ditz|Caboose]], he was more of a random psychopath. It isn't until he possesses Doc that he gets any aspirations towards [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicide]].
** From Walter's description at the first episode of ''Reconstruction'', Omega's sting at possessing the Blues stationed at Valhalla was more... [[Kill'Em All|brutal]], to put it mildly.
** He also seems to have a corrupting influence on Doc to some degree. Even after Omega is gone, Doc actually starts cursing, speaking more offensively, and is more lenient about violence. Though this might also be attributable to hanging out with the Reds and Blues.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Kind of, more like Evil AI Possession.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: In ''spades''!
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Omega, in Doc's body, is too ineffectual and hammy to be taken seriously. In the ''Reconstruction'' series, however, he crosses into more horrifying territory with the description of his encounter with another group of soldiers and {{spoiler|Tex's revelation that Omega ruthlessly tortured the Alpha.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Very, ''very'' much so.
* [[Not So Harmless]]/[[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: In the final two episodes of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', it's revealed that the UNSC/Freelancer Command's ultimate plan to win the war with the Aliens was to have Omega possess Junior (their Chosen One) and use him to take over their religion and subvert it from the inside. Let me reinterate this. Their plan to bring about peace was to hand over an entire alien army to the guy who was ''literally made of hatred''. Church even points out what an incredibly stupid plan this is.
* [[Take Over the World]]: A hilarious parody of this type of villain. Works especially well when he's in the body of a pacifist.
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{{quote|''"Knock-knock."''}}
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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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Knock-knock."
* [[Evil All Along]]: Same with Vic, more or less.
* [[Evil Genius]]: For O'Malley, Wyoming and Vic, arguably.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: The second type, though his jokes are just corny instead of being twisted.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In "Out of Mind", York refers to the fact that "Reginald" always told stupid knock knock jokes in reference to the merger between A.I.s and their partners. Astute viewers will take this, the fact that York says "Speak of the Devil" after Wyoming is mentioned, and the fact that "O'Malley" is a portmanteau of Tex's real name (Allison) and Omega, in order to realize that the time bending, knock-knock joke spouting A.I. Gary is actually Wyoming's partner.
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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Calls himself one, and ''is'' one, even while possessed by Omega, but he does manage to shoot The Meta at point-blank range.
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Technically, it was Omega that controlled his body, but Doc still loudly apologizes for what Omega does in his body on a regular basis.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Nobody likes him, everybody insults him.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: More like A.I. Possession; Omega took over Doc's body for the majority of his screen time in the first five seasons.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: He was kidnapped by a jeep, held "prisoner" by the reds, taken over by an AI, and then captured by a couple of freelancers so far. Granted the only time he was physically held captive was while in the wall, arguably the jeep and while with red team.
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** He also was caught in an explosion that left ''[[Super Soldier|Washington]]'' visibly injured and shaken while he is totally fine with no injuries whatsoever.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Was this originally, until his character got [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into being as competent as the other characters.
* [[Split Personality]]: Doesn't have one, but he gets vibes of these when he argues with O'Malley.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: During his time as a prisoner of Wash and the Meta, he mentions he doesn't have it as an insult. Later events suggest otherwise.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Matt Hullum also voices Sarge.
* [[The Medic]]: Obviously. He isn't very good at it though.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: According to the season 2 commentary Doc was going to be a Reporter/Journalist when he was first conceived but because of where his character was going (eg. [[James Bondage|Kidnappings]]) it was hitting too close to home for the real wars happening at the time.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: He suddenly disappeared at the end of ep 20 Season 8, for no apparent reason. Probably to continue being a terrible doctor to space and beyond.
** [[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.
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{{quote|''"I would like to remind the sub-comittee members...That anything is possible. Some things are probable. This is what is. And my agency as it always has will continue to deal with what is...until it is no more."''}}
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.
Played by John Reed
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=== Associated Tropes: ===
* [[Bad Boss]]: Allowed his soldiers to use ''live ammunition'' in a ''training exercise'', and praised the guys that did so, regardless of the obvious risks involved. No wonder CT hates him so much.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: The trailer for season 9 clearly shows him to have a goatee. Luke McKay's drawings of {{spoiler|1=Church (the AI counterpart), the closest thing to a canon image of what he actually looks like, depict Church with facial hair, but it is more stubble than an actual beard. The trailer version of the Director is fairly close to what McKay's drawing looks like other than being older and having a goatee, so this might also be a borderline version of [[Evil Twin]].}}
** It could be an [[Actor Allusion]], seeing as John Reed has a goatee himself.
* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: Plenty of antagonists are working for him (e.g. Omega persuading Vic to hire a Freelancer to kill Tucker; the Meta receiving orders to kill Wash at the end of Reconstruction), and the ones that aren't were undergoing objectives that are fundamentally opposed to him (the Insurrection fights against his Freelancers; CT seems to work for the Insurrection; Washington stroke a deal with the Chairman, who wanted to investigate the Director; and the Meta went rogue following the EMP surge in Reconstruction). }}.
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Washington sees him as this.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: How he views his unethical experiments.
{{quote|'''Director''': I don't give a ''damn'' about your ''committee'' or its opinions on my ''work''. Have you forgotten, [[With Due Respect|Sir]], that we were at ''war''? [[Halo|A fight with an alien race]] for the very survival of our ''species''? I feel I must ''remind'' you that it is an ''undeniable'', and may I say a '''''fundamental''''' quality of man, that when faced with ''extinction'', ''every'' alternative is preferable.}}
* [[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]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Not at all phased at the prospect of karma finding him, and even when karma finally catches up (e.g. the investigation), nothing apparently comes out of it. {{spoiler|Carolina}}'s looking to change that.
* {{spoiler|[[Loophole Abuse]]: Quite rightfully notes that while his experiment would be a war crime in any other instance, he only tortured a clone of ''himself'', and there are no laws against that. This inspires them to actually make laws prohibiting that}}.
** {{spoiler|Under the assumption that they use the United States law as a base for it, they still could not put The Director away as the laws were made after the fact.}}
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* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: The one that headed Project Freelancer, and possibly the [[Big Bad]] for the entire series. {{spoiler|He was also giving orders to The Meta at the end of ''Reconstruction''.}}
* [[Mysterious Backer]]: C.T. even mistrusts him for it.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: "Sincerely yours, the former Director of Project Freelancer, Doctor {{spoiler|Leonard Church}}.
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Duplicity and secrets surround Vic - though supposedly sterile, after the "time jump" the two teams meet "Vic Jr.," a "descendant" of Vic's with a suspiciously [[Identical Grandson|identical personality and appearance]], as well as the same post. During the end of the series, Vic also attempts to get both teams underground so they'll be captured and O'Malley's scheme will succeed - and in one of the endings, expresses great anger that the Reds and Blues ruined "the plan." His fate during ''Reconstruction'' is unknown, though some fans have pointed out that one of the Meta's AIs appears as an unarmored human that bears a compelling resemblance to Vic...
It is implied - through Simmons interrupting Sarge's and Vic's conversation in the caves, and through the alternate ending of Episode 100 in which Sarge destroys the computer and damages Vic's heat sink - that the computer console in the cave system is Vic. It seems likely that Vic is some sort of VI - a Virtual Intelligence Computer, as it says at the bottom of the display - designed to watch over the training simulation and generate scenarios and give resources and intel when necessary.
Played by Randall Glass, who's best known to longtime ''Halo'' fans as "the Warthog Jump guy", in his first appearance, and by Burnie Burns thereafter.
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* [[Dark Chick]]: For O'Malley, Wyoming and Gary/Gamma.
* [[Evil Genius]]: Seems like he'd be this for O'Malley, given his profession, but it's actually not so much in reality.
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The reason why he kept trying to get Tucker assassinated once he found out that Vic is a VI and that he acts as [[Mission Control]] for both teams. Naturally, Vic always failed at it, while Tucker always got harmed in some form anyway.
* [[Identical Grandson]]: Allegedly has a "descendant", despite supposedly being sterile. Absolutely nothing is different between Vic Junior and Vic Senior, right down to the voice, appearance and post, so chances are that it was the same guy trying to maintain credibility to both teams by disguising himself as a relative. Dude seems as genuinely incompetent as any other Red or Blue simulation soldier out there.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Only not really. Although he's presumably a VI designed to oversee the training simulation on Blood Gulch, generate combat scenarios, and selectively give out resources, supplies and Intel for the crews, his selective competence and willful demeanor make him seem like he's just another rather ineffective cohort for O'Malley, and that he joined likely because he found it fun to work with a rogue AI.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: His apparent job seems solely to drag out the simulation training for as long as possible, hence at least part of the reason why he never helps when needed (the other being his rather willful persona). Being the tech assistant to both teams, Vic attempts to get the protagonists underground so they'll be captured, allowing O'Malley's scheme to succeed. Didn't work out as accurately as they planned.
* [[Mission Control]]: He serves as one for both the Red and Blue teams, which is kept secret from them both.
* [[Mysterious Backer]]: Even more so than the Director, since we still don't have solid facts about him - just presumptions based on conjecture.
== '''The Insurrection''' ==
The Insurection is a military force made up of soldiers who have broken off from the UNSC. They serve as the main antagonists for the Freelancers. They are possibly [[Mythology Gag|a nod to]] ''Halo'' canon, in which prior to the war with the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Covenant]], Earth (and human-controlled space) was undergoing a civil war between the UNSC and a coalition of rebel groups, for the control of human colonies. Incidentally, it was during this civil war the SPARTAN-II program was initiated, as a countermeasure against the rebellion.
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* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: Alongside the Director in season nine.
** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: They seem to have CT as an ally, so her excavation on the desert might've been on their orders.}}
* [[The Brute]]: The sleeveless guy fought '''Maine''' and won!
** Granted, Maine was currently nursing a sniper wound to the chest...
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: The female jetpack mook.
* [[Faceless Goons]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: For the [[Pyromaniac]], some fans have taken to calling him "Sharkface."
* [[Filler Villain]]: Subverted. At first glance, the Insurrection merely exist to throw down with the Freelancers in some [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting|awesome fight scenes.]] However, the missions involving these guys leads to the Freelancers getting ranked based on their performances against the Insurrection (i.e. Carolina, South and Connecticut were far from happy when they were outshined, outmatched and outranked by the other Freelancers), and it ends up generating more conflict as a result (South betraying North and Wash to escape the Meta; Carolina becoming [[The Rival]] to [[God Mode Sue|Tex]]; Maine permanently losing his voice thanks to a [[Giant Mook]]; and Connecticut apparently allying with the Insurrection).
* [[Mooks]]: They come in quite a variety!
** [[Airborne Mook]]: The jetpack trio.
** [[Elite Mooks]]: The jetpack trio and the [[Pyromaniac]].
** [[Giant Mook]]: The sleeveless guy.
** [[Heavily Armored Mook]]: One way to differentiate a usual mook Insurrectionist from his [[Elite Mook]] counterpart. The latter (with the exception of the sleeveless guy) are heavily armoured and tend to be [[Made of Iron]].
** [[Mook Chivalry]]: The lesser grunts suffer from this.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: A possible interpretation, given how much controversy the Freelancer project was mired in. These are people with legitimate beefs dealing with a government whose activities to put down the various rebellions has been questionable at times at best. One of the Freelancers at one point asked "we're the good guys, right?" after a particularly brutal mission.
** [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: Delta himself brings this up. Project Freelancer and the Insurrection aren't evil or good, they're just two groups trying to achieve different goals.
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