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The cast of ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'', divided by affiliation, as is appropriate. Warning, there be spoilers below:
 
== Red Team ==
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* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: His arguments with Grif, according to Tucker.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Take a wild guess.
* [[Ow, My Body Part]]: One of his running character gags is that he does this whenever he's injured.
* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Arguably the most rational member of Red Team, next to Lopez, he also possesses astute knowledge of computer technology and physics. But to a fault, it's made him more than a little arrogant, which does tend to blind his rationality.
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{{quote| ''"Finally, an order I ''want'' to follow: run away and live."''}}
 
Lazy, out-of-shape, and Sarge's personal [[Butt Monkey]]. Just about every one of Sarge's plans involves Grif being killed in some way, and most of Red Team's official emergency protocols begin by shooting Grif. Grif is suggested to be fairly intelligent, at least in the eyes of Church, but he's [[Brilliant but Lazy|too much of a slacker]] to contribute much. A conscript, Grif sleeps through official meetings and tries to quit the army whenever he can. He's Red Team's designated [[Deadpan Snarker|snarker]] and their [[Only Sane Man|only sane man]], though his apathy towards the <s> war</s> everything somewhat cancels that out. He spends much of his time bickering with his "friend" Simmons, when he isn't stealing the latter's identity and running up huge bills at pawn shops and peep shows.
 
In ''Reconstruction'' Grif was briefly promoted to Sergeant of the Rat's Nest outpost once Sarge went AWOL, but was quickly subject to a mutiny and near-execution after he sold Red Team's ammunition to the area's Blues. Sarge agreed to work with Agent Washington (see below) in exchange for Grif's particularly humiliating demotion. (This humiliating demotion might not be official however, considering Agent Washington later still referred to Grif as "Sergeant Grif".) His orange armor was commonly mistaken for yellow, at least while the series was still being shot in Halo 1 (later games have a much more orange-y "Orange").
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** [[Image Song|Donut: The Musical]] is nothing but this.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "It's not pink, it's ''lightish-red''!"
* [[In Touch Withwith His Feminine Side]]
* {{spoiler|[[Macho Camp]]: His Season 9 incarnation [[Composite Character|combines]] his usual [[Innocent Innuendo]] with Sarge's gung-ho attitude.}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: He survives Tex sticking a Plasma Grenade to his head, but has to be airlifted out of the canyon, returning with the aforementioned lightish-red armor.
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* {{spoiler|[[OOC Is Serious Business]]: For Church, it's a sign there's something wrong with his constructed reality in the Epsilon Unit.}}
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: On orders from Sarge, he proceeds to run around screaming like a woman.
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of two characters (the other being Caboose) named after one of the randomly generated names assigned to temporary multiplayer profiles in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.
* [[Stereotype Gay]]: Though at times it comes off as [[Innocent Innuendo]] taken to [[Up to Eleven|extremes.]] Still doesn't explain Officer Hotpants, though.
* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level In Badass]]: In Church's artificial reality, Donut somehow becomes the Red Team leader, and leads a rocket assault against the Blues.}}
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{{quote| ''(subtitled Spanish) "I am going to erase every memory of you the second you are gone. Just like I did for [FILE DELETED] and [FILE DELETED]."''}}
 
Sarge's pet project and team mechanic, a robot who only speaks [[Fun Withwith 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.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: Viewed Sarge as this early on, both figuratively and (since Sarge built him) literally. This faded once he realized what an idiot Sarge is.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Views himself as this. It's not too far from the truth.
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: His view of his situation vis-a-vis the entire cast, and the Red Team in particular.
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Since no one on the Rooster Teeth team actually speaks Spanish, Lopez's dialogue is mainly generated mechanically via the online computer translator Babelfish. This leads to some... interesting... [[Bilingual Bonus|results for anyone who does speak the language.]] It's always [[Rule of Funny|played for laughs]].
** ''"OK, hombre! [[You Fail Linguistics Forever|Au revoir."]]''
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{{quote| ''"There's a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday."''}}
 
The closest the series has to a proper protagonist, Blue Team's de facto leader (though if Sister's story about promotion is applied to the Blues it should have been delivered to, it's possible Church is now on record as Captain, making him the actual leader), [[Only Sane Man]], [[Deadpan Snarker]], and world champion [[Jerkass]], although he has a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|a nicer side]]. Church is a neurotic and almost perpetually angry individual who barely gets along with his teammates. He's killed in a friendly fire incident very early in the series, but quickly returns as a ghost, and later possesses a robotic body. Despite wielding the sniper and acting as the team's designated marksman, he is an awful shot, often emptying an entire clip without hitting anything. He wears light blue/cobalt armor, though in "ghost" form his armor is white (and transparent).
 
''Reconstruction'' offered some [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|surprising character development]] that explained Church's ability to survive death and possess people: {{spoiler|1=he is actually the remains of the Alpha AI, and the Alpha was based on the mind of Freelancer's Director. Church vehemently insists he's a ghost, not an AI, but was nonetheless willing to work with Agent Washington to fight the Meta, culminating in his erasure by an EMP at the end of the season.}}
 
{{spoiler|In ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'', Church is "resurrected" in the form of Epsilon. At first a mere shell of his former self, he slowly begins to reassemble his personality, as he tries to reunite with Tex. In the process, he mellows out considerably before trapping himself inside a broken memory unit to try and save Tex. Inside, he begins to relive the Alpha's memories of Blood Gulch, reconciling with his past, and realizing that despite the low points, his life was pretty good.}}
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* [[Image Song]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmc661a9IRY I Am the Best]"
* [[Jerkass]]: {{spoiler|In ''Revelation'', he turns out to have been a [[Jerkass Woobie]] all along.}}
* [[Jerk Withwith 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.}}
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* [[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 Thethe 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?|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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* [[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 Thethe 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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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Church, and arguably, Caboose and the Reds (particularly Grif).
* [[The Worf Effect]]: After kicking the asses of C.T.'s crew, [[Curb Stomp Battle|he meets Tex to have his ass utterly spanked.]]
** Though he still did better than the rest. And his plan with Simmons to ambush Tex would've worked if Caboose hadn't acted as a [[Spanner in Thethe Works]].
 
== '''Private Michael J. Caboose''' ==
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{{quote| ''"The last time I was shot I got a purple heart. Yeah, I hope this time I get a purple lung. You see, eventually I hope to build an entire purple person. And we will be best friends."''}}
 
Caboose, who accidentally enlisted in the Blue Army after [[All There in the Manual|mistaking a recruitment center for a college]], was introduced as [[The Fool]], but [[Flanderization|devolves into]] a complete idiot. As his name suggests, he is the last to arrive at any train of thought's destination. Occasional [[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Mind|journeys into his mind]] have revealed that Caboose's view of the world is [[Cloudcuckoolander|at drastic odds with reality]] - he has mental constructs representing the rest of the cast running around inside of his head, ranging from a Church who vehemently insists that Caboose is his best friend, to a Sarge that talks like a pirate. Caboose is a bigger danger to his teammates than to his enemies, to the extent that the surest way to get him to shoot someone is to tell him they're on his team, and Command has a keyboard shortcut to report his teamkills (Ctrl+F+U).
 
Caboose primarily serves as a comic relief character and gets some of the series' best lines, but he has occasional impact on the plot. After Tex's death he was briefly possessed by O'Malley (and the resulting mental trauma may explain his lowered IQ afterwards), and when the Red and Blue Teams had to work together to track down the rogue AI, he helped Sarge combat the Zealots of Battle Creek thanks in part to his superhuman strength ("God's way of compensating"). Caboose gets along (marginally) better with machines than humans, hence his "relationship" with Sheila and his friendship of sorts with Andy the bomb. And once in a great while, [[Dumbass Has a Point|he has a useful idea]], such as the plan that got Washington and both teams into Command near the finale of ''Reconstruction.'' He wears dark blue armor, and in episodes created using ''[[Halo]] 3'' is easy distinguishable due to his Mark V helmet, as the rest of the cast have upgraded to Mark VIs. In ''Recreation'' {{spoiler|He used various bits and pieces to try and rebuild Church. Hence, Epsilon's memories are based on Caboose's view of the Red and Blue teams... Though exposure to slightly more in-touch individuals seems to have alleviated this.}}
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* [[Image Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsi-cOOVyM "Your Best Friend"]
* [[Lethal Klutz]]: He has a history of team-killing people he tries to help. So much so that, not only does the Blue Team tell Caboose to help someone they want shot, Command has their own keyboard shortcut for his [[T Ks]] (Control+F+U).
* [[Shout-Out]]: One of two characters (the other being Donut) named after one of the randomly generated names assigned to temporary multiplayer profiles in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Was originally written as merely somewhat foolish early in Season 1, but quickly became outright insane by Season 2 and 3. This has been attributed to Sheila's initial destruction, and later O'Malley's forced ejection from his mind.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: For all his teamkilling tendencies ([[Insistent Terminology|that were nobody's fault!]]), he's also ''twice'' gone to the ends of the Earth to resurrect/rescue Church.
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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 Onon 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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{{quote| ''"Men, your delightful tomfoolery puts a spring in my step, and a bounce in my britches. If I weren't your commanding officer I'd pick you both up, give you a giant [[Bear Hug]], and make you call me Daddy."''}}
 
Blue Team's ''actual'' leader, who died before the series began, leaving Church in charge (and Tucker in his armor). Unlike everyone else in the canyon, he was [[In Touch Withwith His Feminine Side|quite relaxed, soft-spoken, and even-tempered]]. The captain was very informal with his teammates, had a [[Casa Lane Parenting]] attitude towards his subordinates (maybe [[Camp Gay|a little too much,]] actually), and called the opposing army "those rascals." Time travel reveals that he'd been accidentally killed by Church in a [[Stable Time Loop]]. He was raised from the dead somehow by aliens in season five, only to be possessed by Omega, and then re-killed shortly after regaining his freedom.
 
Played by [[Barenaked Ladies|Ed Robertson]]
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* [[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 Withwith 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.
* {{spoiler|[[Ridiculously Human Robot]]}}
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* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: One of her specialties.
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Tomato in Thethe 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.}}
* [[Worf Had the Flu]]: Tex is supremely badass, but because she was based on the memories of someone who died in action, she is forever doomed to fail where it counts. So when nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of them with ease, but when doing some sort of mission, she'll mess up at the last moment.
 
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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 Aa 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.
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** Well, [[Justified Trope|it is standard procedure to destroy dead freelancers' bodies and their armor]]...
* [[Team Dad]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|He tries it with Connecticut, but she doesn't buy it at all.}}
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: His younger self tends to come off as this during the flashbacks of Season 9. [[Break the Cutie|Poor guy]].
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: And [[Boom! Headshot!]] her too.
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Agent South}}''': Oh come on, Wash. What are you gonna do, [[Killed Mid-Sentence|shoo--]]<br />
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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 Withwith 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.
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* [[The Day the Music Lied]]: Chases down an [[Elite Mook]] with an important package and beats him down. It almost worked; then she hit a wall and Tex stole the package.
* [[Determinator]]: The sheer force she puts into trying to {{spoiler|beat Tex to the briefcase}} is astonishing and impressive. {{spoiler|This makes it all the more tragic when she fails at the very last second.}}
* [[Doomed Byby 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.}}
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
{{quote| '''North''': Well, so much for keeping quiet.}}
* [[Doomed Byby Canon]]: South wounds him to leave as bait to escape the Meta.
* [[Friendly Sniper]]: While he's a by-the-book, stoic, consummate professional during missions, he's pretty open and cheery off-duty.
* [[The Mario]]: Doesn't have a specialty; instead he and South both trade weapons frequently and often.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Possibly the best example in the series and that's ''saying'' something.
* [[Doomed Byby Canon|Grounded By Canon]]: Given that she's not flying by the time the series proper starts, something happens to her at some point. Also after the events of ''Reconstruction'' {{spoiler|she was probably arrested along with all of the other Freelancer personnel}}.
* [[No Name Given]]: So far she's only been identified in series by her callsigns "Four-seven-niner" and "Freelancer Command"
 
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== '''The Alpha''' ==
 
The original Artificial Intelligence acquired by Project Freelancer. Since they needed more, they subjected it to enough stress and mental torture to cause it to fracture, and harvested the fragments as partners for their special agents. What remained of the original was sequestered away at a backwater outpost, where it convinced itself that it was human based on the memory fragments remaining from the human intelligence it was based off of. In another major twist, ''Reconstruction'''s epilogue revealed not only was {{spoiler|[[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|Church]] the Alpha, but the Alpha itself was based off the mind of ''Doctor'' Leonard Church, the Director of Project Freelancer himself.}}
 
{{spoiler|The whole and complete Alpha himself shows up in Season 9. He's more or less exactly as flippant and cocky as Church, with the addition of being a genius. [[Doomed Byby Canon|Poor bastard]].}}
 
Anyone else find it interesting that {{spoiler|the two guys in Tex's life are ''Alpha'' and ''Omega''?}}
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* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: {{spoiler|When speaking to Caboose, Epsilon takes on Delta's form for this purpose. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Caboose being Caboose]], though, the effect is somewhat wasted.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: He coldly suggests to Washington [[Deadly Euphemism|"that we do not allow]] {{spoiler|1=[South<nowiki>]</nowiki>}} [[Deadly Euphemism|to hamper our progress"]]. But considering she had by this point {{spoiler|[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betrayed her own brother, Wash,]] ''[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|and]]'' [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Delta himself]]}}, it's hard to sympathize with the victim in question.
* [[The Spock]]
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: {{spoiler|When York is mortally injured, Delta stays to administer painkillers until York dies instead of going with Tex, even though at the time he and Tex thought it would mean Delta's own erasure as well.}}
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* [[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 Thethe 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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