Red vs. Blue/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type V]], though he [[Character Development|evolves]] into a Type III in ''Revelation''.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Completely delusion and insane. Also probably the most competent fighter in Blood Gulch aside from Tex.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Is only ever referred to as "Sarge"; if he has a real name, no one seems to know what it is.

** In ''Revelation'' 17, his real name is revealed: [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"|Sarge.]] Or S-Dog.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: A sign of Grif's terrible health (he does it inside his helmet). He even smokes after {{spoiler|having most of his organs being replaced by Simmons' after being crushed by Sheila}}. In fact, he might have started smoking ''more'' just to piss off Simmons.

* [[Non -Action Guy]]: ---> [[Action Survivor]] in ''Revelation''.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite his rather... unusual behavior, he managed to grenade Tex from halfway across the canyon.

* [[Anti -Hero]]: On the [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes]], he starts as a Type I and later develops into a Type III.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: {{spoiler|Well he ''is'' a fragment of a super intelligent AI}}.

** {{spoiler|Alpha}} [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|did have his moments with her, though.]]

* {{spoiler|[[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|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.}}

* [[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.

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.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: She's pretty much the queen of this trope.

* [[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?"

A black-armored [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] and former agent of Project Freelancer, the biggest [[Badass]] in all of Blood Gulch, an infiltration expert thanks to a cloaking device, and a better fighter than both teams combined. [[Samus Is a Girl|Her real name is Allison]], and her Freelancer handle is Agent Texas. Tex is contracted to support the Blues after Church's death and proceeds to terrify Tucker and Caboose while leading a [[One -Man Army|one-(wo)man]] assault on Red Base to recover the Blue flag. Unfortunately, a prodigious grenade toss by Donut eventually kills her, but she returns as a ghost some time later, inhabiting a robot body in a manner similar to Church. This experience mellows Tex out somewhat, as it frees her from the influence of her AI partner O'Malley (see below) - though by no means is she someone you should make angry. Tex hangs out with the Blues when she isn't off on her own, usually attempting to foil O'Malley or Wyoming's plans, but as the series progresses she gets more and more entangled in the plots surrounding the dupes at Blood Gulch. In the finale, she {{spoiler|voluntarily reunites with O'Malley in an attempt to manipulate Junior and the alien race into helping humanity win the war, and is killed when Sarge sets off a bomb in the spaceship she hijacked}}.

* [[Anti -Hero]]: Type IV.

* [[Autobots Rock Out]]/[[Theme Music Power -Up]]/[[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect badass background score.

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Shares a moment with Church {{spoiler|as the dream world falls apart.}}

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: In season one, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, in season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit.

* [[One -Man Army|One Woman Army]]

* [[Pre -Ass -Kicking One -Liner]]: "Okay, so who's first?" Cue a total [[Curb Stomp Battle]] for the next episode.

* [[Anti -Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type III when we first see him in Recovery, then in ''Reconstruction''.]]

** {{spoiler|[[Anti -Villain]] in ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'', but redeems himself in the end.}}

* [[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.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: His actions in ''Revelation'' lead to {{spoiler|the Meta regaining all his abilities by capturing Tex in the Capture Unit instead of Epsilon. This nearly turns out very badly for all involved.}}

* [[Precision F -Strike]]:

{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Agent South}}''': Oh come on, Wash. What are you gonna do, [[Killed Mid -Sentence|shoo--]]<br />

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He gets a nice scar across his face and it apparently made him lose vision partially in one of his eyes.

Another agent of Project Freelancer, [[Hired Guns|hired by O'Malley]] to kill Tucker after the latter discovers the secret of Red and Blue Command. Tucker survives his assassination attempt, and Wyoming and Tex end up chasing each other around during the main series, as well as the ''Out of Mind'' side series. He eventually eludes her and returns to Blood Gulch alongside O'Malley for the series' explosive finale. Known for uttering insincere apologies to his victims, and being perpetually cool-headed, Wyoming's special equipment is a temporal distorter that allows him to manipulate time, slowing it down, or looping it. As shown during the finale, the latter produces a backlog of "spare" Wyomings, making him a ''literal'' [[One -Man Army]]. Presumed dead during ''Reconstruction'', though the Meta was kind enough to loot his special equipment. Wyoming wears white armor, his real name is Reginald, and he talks with something approaching an imitation of a muddled British/Australian accent.

The former Freelancer Agent Maine, who snapped and started tracking down and murdering other agents, then stripping them of their combat AIs and special equipment, [[Mega Manning|growing in power with each victory]]. The [[Big Bad]] of the ''Recovery One'' and ''Reconstruction'' series, the Meta refers to itself as a collective entity due to the number of consciousnesses running around inside its head, and seems to be set on recovering all of the Freelancer AIs in order to reconstruct the Alpha from which they were derived. A formidable opponent - Church compares the Meta to the [[One -Man Army|one woman army]] Tex, but says "this thing's like...eight of her." Its white armor (though it can change color due to a chameleon circuit) is a hodgepodge of parts from a number of designs, and the Meta's voice varies from a [[Creepy Child]] hissing whisper to a susurrus of voices talking at once to animalistic snarls, though the former two are likely the voices of the AIs in its head.

* [[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.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Heights?]]

** [[Green -Eyed Monster]]: And she is ''not'' taking it well.

* [[The Leader]]: Of the Freelancer [[Five -Man Band]].

* [[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.

* [[Peek -a -Bangs]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to North's Blue.

* [[By the -The-Book Cop|By the Book Soldier]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to South's Red.

** 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.

* [[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.

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.

* [[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).