History Fridge / RedVsBlue

* According to ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' [[AllThereInTheManual lore]], the ability to wield an energy sword is considered so impressive in Sangheili society that anyone who can master one can mate with any female they desire. [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker can't pick up women to save his life,]] [[MrSeahorse but he does get chosen to be impregnated with an Sangheili parasite, specifically because he had his sword!]]

** As a Monitor, Epsilon had powerful abilities like telekinesis and laser beams. Since this body was likely built for pretend gods, having such powers built in would be necessary to make them seem almighty.

* Season 10 reveals that having two AI units in Carolina's head nearly put her in a coma, and all it took for Washington to go mad was Epsilon's destruction in his head. Rewatching Season 1, when Church and Tex enter Caboose's brain to get Omega out of his head, suddenly his rapid mental decline makes perfect sense: Caboose had three [=AIs=] in his head at once, two of which destroyed the third. Caboose's brain was severely damaged from the stress, meaning that [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom when Church and Tex were trying to save Caboose, they ended up damaging him more than Omega ever did]].

* "Necessity is the [[CoolStarship Mother of Invention.]]" And the Mother of Invention houses Project Freelancer and all the Director's work. So what the Director is trying to convey is that he did what he had to do, for the greater good! He's a NecessaryEvil! The Director did say that he did all of his work [[StealthPun out of necessity]]. This adds a bit of symbolism to the ship crashing in Season 10: the Director's justification is falling apart.

* Wash seems to have trouble killing people he knows are good. When he attacked Valhalla he took Simmons prisoner because he knew that Simmons was a good guy. He didn't want to kill Tex because while she isn't a very nice, he knows she is ultimately a good person. He only felt guilt over shooting Donut and Lopez in season 12 because he only really got to know them in season 11. This also leads to a small amount of Fridge Horror. Wash is perfectly fine with killing innocent people as long as he doesn't personally know them.
* Church is a AI program, and as of "Long Time No See" he is finally up to super computer speeds, this makes sense when you realize he's been helping Carolina recover Freelancer tech, Freelancer tech made to operate on his OS and the fragments that came from, if there are enhancements to make people faster, invisible, stronger, stop time, and the like, there is no doubt enhancements that improve processing power, that also allows Epsilon-Church to slowly get back to where he was as a AI program.
* More Fridge Humor, but throughout the entirety of ''The Chorus Trilogy'', we see how each of the Reds and Blues contributed to the ship crash. The ''only'' one who didn't contribute at all? '''[[TeamKiller Caboose.]]'''
* Quite a bit from TheReveal in Episode 19 of Season 12.

** Why was Malcom Hargrove so insistent on taking down The Director, but then lost all interest in it after Season 8? He isn't interested in the Director at all. He just wants to get the technology he has for his own company, and taking down Project Freelancer brings the armor enhancements into the realm of the military... which make it essentially his through his collaboration with Charon Industries and the UNSC both.

* After being made to run laps, Andersmith is the only lieutenant not out of breath. The captain he trained under and idolizes is ''Caboose,'' who is physically much stronger than the other members of the Blood Gulch crew. Trying to keep up with the guy seems to have had positive results, especially since he was just as tired as everyone else (except Caboose) back during their training in Season 12.

* If Grif's story about the ice skating incident is to be believed, technically speaking, Sister survived the same thing that killed ''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]'' So of ''course'' she survived Lopez's attack!

* Tucker gets the Meta's armor. His regular armor originally belonged to Captain Flowers (AKA Agent Florida). Is It really that surprising that Tucker became the most competent member of the Blood Gluch Crew behind Wash and Carolina when he has been using Project Freelancer gear all along?
* In "The End" the Reds and Blues are taking the alien gear and elite weaponry from the Chairman's museum. Simmons, seemingly against all logic, grabs a simple pistol. According to the DVD commentary, though, it wasn't just any gun: it was the notoriously O.P. ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' pistol!
** The pistol also has went around in an amusing away: Simmons gives it to Donut. If the pistol is the one the Director used to shoot himself, said gun was previously Wash's... meaning Donut is ready to lay waste with the same weapon that nearly killed him in the ''Recreation'' finale.

** One of the reasons why Dylan is tracking down the Reds and Blues is because she doesn't think their story is over and she wants to see how it ends. As she's explaining this, "Half-Life" starts to play. Considering the song's main lyric is "And I wonder where you are", this was most likely intentional.

* More a case of Fridge Humor, but Sarge is ''[[InLoveWithYourCarnage instantly]]'' [[EvilIsSexy entranced]] by [[WarGod Kalirama the Undying]] when she attacks the Reds and Blues in ''The Shisno Paradox''. This means that when he was asking Epsilon-Church in the premiere of Season 10 if he had a "fetish for [[{{Tsundere}} women with quick tempers]] or something," Sarge wasn't being snarky, he was genuinely curious to see if TheLeader of Blue Team was an AmazonChaser like he is.

%%* Speaking of Sarge, his Labyrinth illusion is also a great example of his own CharacterDevelopment from Seasons 11-17. His own hatred of the mundane and driving desire for glorious battle has basically been the driving force behind his character since ''the Chorus Trilogy;; started. From getting a slo-mo Warthog jump, to becoming “hopelessly depressed after not dying heroically on Chorus,” to declaring war on gravity, to betraying the Reds and Blues to fight a war he can’t possibly win, to even gathering the “greatest soldiers of history” to kill Temple, Sarge has wanted action, war, and glorious bloodshed. ...Or so he thinks. When the Labyrinth drops him on the beaches of Normandy in a very real war zone, with none of the other Reds and Blues to keep up with his wacky hijinks, Sarge finally sees how horrifying war really is. ''He'' led the squad up the hill, and ''he'' watched them die. In the past, with events like Broken Ridge, it doesn't seem like Sarge actually saw how they all died and he was able to maintain more of a distance from his soldiers due to his own kooky nature, so he just blamed their incompetence. But now, Sarge sees the direct consequences of both his bad leadership and the horrors of war, with ''him'' as the subordinate under a BloodKnight [=C.O.=] and realizing that his WarIsGlorious attitude is childish.

* The Red & Blue Zealots. Especially in light of the news that all of the Red vs Blue battles are simulations and that at least some of the soldiers are put into 'lock down' when they suffer supposedly mortal wounds and can be 'reset' by F.I.L.S.S. as was the case with Donut in Season 8, and as we realize now, Sarge in Season 1... what does that make the perpetually self-slaughtering and respawing festival of madness that is the Zealots? What even ''is'' the purpose of that simulation?! Those questions are bad enough... but then add on to that the fact that Freelancers were supposed to get in there to train up.

* In the Blood Gulch Chronicles, when Tex and Church go into Caboose's mind to look for O'Malley/Omega, Church says this to Caboose's Mental Image of Church: "First of all, you? You're not Caboose's best friend, okay? You don't ''have'' a best friend. You know why? You don't need one! You're Church! Knowing other people just waters down the experience!" Why is this FridgeHorror? Well, there's actually two possible reasons. The Alpha was put through countless stressful, horrible scenarios to break its mind that revolved around its loved ones dying. It is more than likely that the Alpha lost its ability to easily trust after Theta was fragmented, and Alpha believes that if it doesn't care about other people, than it'll be harder for other people to hurt it again. There's also the less awful idea that since the Director was arrogant and cold towards others, Church/the Alpha inherited that trait.

** Even worse, considering later events show that Tex was a RogueAgent, it seems that Wyoming and Gamma '''were''' actually still working for Freelancer Command during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. That means that Freelancer Command had decided that having the entire galaxy be ravaged by the Sangheili under the leadership of the ''AnthropomorphicPersonification of UnstoppableRage'' was the '''best''' option they could cook up to win the Great War for the [=UNSC=].

* In Recovery One, Wash finds North's body and learns that Theta has been stolen by Agent Maine and Sigma. Then, at the end of Reconstruction, Wash triggers the emp with the express purpose of wiping out the A.I. fragments collected by the Meta, knowing that this would kill them. Yes folks, you read that right: ''Wash killed Theta.''

* How exactly did the Director know that torturing an AI was the most effective way of getting a viable AI fragment AND that it would need to be paired with someone of a certain psychological profile? Did the UNSC have a classified handbook on torturing AIs for the best results either thru an intentional experiment or even by accidental observation? Or did the Director have to pioneer the field himself? And if the Director did do it himself, he did have AIs and VIs such as FILSS and Vic around. How many AIs did he subject to experimentation before he got it right? Did Project Freelancer see an entire batch of soldiers get wiped out because of a flawed implantation? Or could even soldiers such as Agent Georgia who died in funny ways be part of a proto-batch that was still under observation before the Alpha fragments were getting installed?

* Consider how much of a JerkassWoobie and BrokenAngel (by AI standards) Church was during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. What makes it even ''more'' horrifying is that before Tex, North, and York's break-in on the ''Mother of Invention'', Project Freelancer wanted to break the Alpha down ''even more'', with new fragments based on the Alpha's '''love''' and greed being planned for testing with other agents. One shudders to think how Church would've acted in Blood Gulch if he had gotten ''those'' emotions taken from him to...

* When Omega briefly jumps into Church, he just says "Huh, I don't feel that different". This has a double meaning: He's just getting back a fragment of himself, and he's ''always'' angry do to subconsciously remembering his own torture.

** Alternatively, Church actually ''does'' have pretty decent aim, but as an [=A.I.=] originally meant in part to help {{Super Soldier}}s in battle, he's designed to automatically calculate all shots from the perspective of hovering over the shooter’s shoulder as a hologram and doesn’t compensate for it being his own viewpoint when in a robotic body.* You can come up with a couple decent reasons for Church's inability to aim:

* Washington once mentioned that Omega would always jump back to Tex when moved to other suits of armor. This might at first seem like it's because Tex can be AxCrazy at times, but after TheReveal the real reason is brilliant - Tex is the women Church loves, and Omega is a fragment of Church's mind. So of course he's always going to try and find the woman he loves; that's what the real Church was always trying to do too! This also means that Tex was constantly being pursued not by an AI copy of her lover, but by one of the ugliest aspects of his personality... not only is this even more FridgeHorror, it also makes sense why Tex would keep rejecting the other versions of Church now. She had her head full of his ugly side and couldn't escape it, and now she's traumatized to the point where she can only barely return the other versions of Church's affection any more.

* Note that in the Tucker vs. Tex fight, Tex completely owns Tucker, while Tucker manages to land a few solid hits on the Meta even though the Meta could fight Tex on equal footing. That's because Tex is a LightningBruiser, while the Meta is TheJuggernaut. Tex can dodge most attacks Tucker can throw, but the Meta just tanks them.
* At first, Tex's sudden ultra competence seems out of nowhere. She takes out Maine, York and Wyoming with relative ease. But then... again, despite how awesome and badass she is, in the end, she's a deconstruction of the MarySue. She's everything [[BigBad The Director]] wanted her to be, as she's the memory of someone he once loved. But her death is an integral part of that memory. As Epsilon explains, the memory of her death dooms her to the point of creating a cycle of failure at critical moments, turning the tide against herself at the last second. On top of that, her abilities don't endear her to [[TheRival Carolina]] or [[ProperlyParanoid Wash]], and the Blues and Reds like to think of her as the "scary chick." Only [[TheHero Church]] risks life and limb for her, and even Epsilon-Tucker points out that's just unhealthy. Mary Sues are supposed to be loved by everyone. Instead, Tex fosters fear, resentment or paranoia, and at the height of her power she inevitably fails. As cool as she can be, [[JerkassWoobie she's just as broken as Church is]].

** Church not being able to trust anyone and being a bitter cynic who views the universe as a CrapsackWorld is because pf his "inner child"/innocence and trust (Theta) being missing.
** Most of Church's plans blowing up in his face and turning out disastrously is because of him lacking logic (Delta) to think out his plans and recognize their flaws.
** Church's habit of getting stuck in subconscious loops and just sitting around his base(s) doing nothing is because he lacks both creativity and ambition (a.k.a. Sigma).

** The only real exceptions seem to be Omega (Church's rage), as Church was a pretty perpetually angry person during Blood Gulch, and Beta (Church's failure), since he's a CosmicPlaything.

* At first, its rather odd that Caboose got over Church so quickly and basically replaced him with [[ReplacementGoldfish Wash]]. However, Wash's lean-mean-killing-machine qualities might be what attracted Caboose to Church in the first place. Church is mean and snarky. Wash is even ''more'' mean and snarky, so of course Caboose likes him better.

** Additionally in the Blood Gulch Chronicles you have Lavernius Tucker, Dexter Grif, Dick Simmons, Michael J. Caboose, and Franklin Delano Donut. All characters with ''names''. As far as the Freelancers are concerned, if one of them dies they could be replaced by someone with the same callsign.

* Why are Gamma and Sigma working together: because creativity and deceit are good qualities for a villain to have.

* What was up with Church's uncharacteristic but genuine anger towards the Blood Gulch guys in Episode 18? Why did he turn on them like that? What brought on this sudden obsession with getting back at the Director, when he didn't seem so caught up on it before? He's been living in Carolina's head and he's picking up on her emotions! Before now, we've never seen Epsilon directly bond with a ''person'', only storage units. Also, keep in mind Epsilon!Church just recovered all his memories. '''All''' of them. That includes of every instance he was tortured by the Director, told his friends were killed, reliving horrors over and over again. Now he's experiencing them again. Suddenly, his rage at the team seems understandable. He's unloading all of his pent up rage, and the Reds and Blues just happen to be the unlucky target.

* When Epsilon confronts the Director and cycles through the other fragments, their order of appearance matches what he's saying. "You were brilliant" -- Delta; "we trusted you" -- Theta; "you lied to us" -- Gamma; etc. Omega. "-and tortured us and used us." Sigma. "Manipulated us for his own purposes. And only for what? For this? This shadow?" Specifically it's what was most important to each fragment. Delta was logic, Theta was trust, Gamma was deceit, etc. Each one calls him out for what part of his actions hurt that fragment the most. Omega was Rage and he did torture Alpha, along with Gamma and Sigma, and used other people's bodies. And Sigma manipulated a whole lot of everybody for his own purposes, to bring back a shadow of what he once was.

* The state on Chorus: both sides are being manipulated into fighting by an independent set of much more competent soldiers. Sound familiar? Seems like the Blood Gulch crew have crashed a lot closer to home than they first thought.

* More Fridge Humor, but throughout the entirety of ''The Chorus Trilogy'', we see how each of the Reds and Blues contributed to the ship crash. The ''only'' one who didn't contribute at all? ''[[TeamKiller Caboose.]]''

* Doyle's feelings of worthlessness fits even more when you realize that all his decisions we see have been mistakes. He let Locus fool play him for a fool, even when he disobeyed orders and led men to their deaths. He also showed while he has some grasp of military strategy, [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil he has difficulty grasping the mindset of]] [[TheSociopath Felix]]. If he failed to grasp that a heartless monster would happily send his men to his deaths, then what good would he think he could do?
* Where is Lopez during the attack on the Communications Tower? Caboose is in the gunner's seat, ''Lopez'' is the one driving the Wraith tank; which also explains the lack of team-killing.
* During the final fight with Felix, Caboose is almost killed by Felix stealing his gun and is only stopped by the fact that Freckles was in Cabooses gun acting as failsafe. But why was Freckles in Cabooses gun in the first place? Because Locus destroyed its Mantis body and gave its personality back to the Blood Gulch Crew. Not only did Locus choose not to kill Caboose when he snuck up on him and Tucker, but in effect he saved his life.

* The reason why the FOTUS Soldier had an alien weapon? He's from Chorus. He probably fought in the battle from the end of Season 13, where everyone was armed with alien technology.
* How come Carolina, the main protagonist of the Freelancer Saga, never got an ImageSong? Season 15 reveals that [[DreadfulMusician she's a terrible singer.]] They didn't want the audience to have to listen to something so awful.

** Carolina was wearing a prototype pf her current armor. Season 13 showed that her current suit can take some pretty hard collisions through concrete or off a cliff, whereas similar situations in seasons 9 or 10 would take her out, if not kill her. The new suit can explain her withstanding Tex's attacks.
** Also, given the timeline of events Tex undoubtedly had Omega in her. No wonder she was so ruthless and callous about a single sim trooper's life especially one so stupid to get in her way. Similarly, this was a point in her life where Carolina was nearly at the height of her competitive streak - From her perspective, [[WhatMeasureIsAMook why should she care about some poor sim trooper who got in the way]] when her beating Tex is all that matters?

** The group working together to hunt down and kill what remains of Project Freelancer out of revenge mirrors the BGC's search for the Director in Season 10.
** Their planned war against the UNSC roughly correlates to The Chorus Trilogy. After dealing with Freelancer, they're going up against a separate threat in an all-out war with the fate of an entire planet hanging in the balance.
** And this in itself creates another bit of brilliance: Despite the Blues and Reds coming first, the Reds and Blues are further ahead on their journey than them. Perhaps it's a sign that the Reds and Blues are the better of the two groups after all.
* The Blues and Red's Grunts, with the possible exception of the Battle Creek Zealots, are all ridiculously obnoxious and immoral. But given that Temple has a definite WithUsOrAgainstUs mentality, this makes absolute sense; no decent or sane person would align themselves with the Blues and Reds once they found out what lines they were willing to cross, or live long enough to warn anyone. This would also explain the lack of familiar faces besides the Zealots (for example, the Reds from Rat's Nest) among the Blues and Reds' ranks.

** Their choice of weapons: the Director was a complete NonActionGuy that would struggle to hit anything aside from a wall or [[DrivenToSuicide himself]]. Felix was a great marksman and martial artist but not a heavy weapons specialist. Both Carolina and Locus left behind weapons that couldn't be effectively used against them.
* The fact that Sarge and Simmons failed to recruit Achilles but succeeded in getting Alexander the Great. According to some ancient sources, Alexander believed that he was descended from Achilles and intentionally modeled himself after his ancestor, even calling himself "New Achilles". After Achilles didn't work out, Sarge and Simmons probably thought "What's the next best thing?"

** As a Monitor, Epsilon had powerful abilities like telekinesis and laser beams. Since this body was built for pretend gods, having such powers built in was necessary to make them seem almighty.

* Similarly, TheReveal that Genkins is the past version of Chrovos makes a ''lot'' of things involving the Cosmic Powers to fall into place.
** For instance, there's the Cosmic Powers resembling humans in futuristic PoweredArmor. While it seems like this can be {{Hand Wave}}d away as just being the result of the series being primarily filmed in machinima, it makes more sense after it's revealed that Genkins in Chrovos, since Genkins!Chrovos likely subconsciously designed the Cosmic Powers to look similar to the Reds and Blues (humans in futuristic PoweredArmor) since he was stewing in hate for them for so long.
** The Cosmic Powers also admit in Season 16 that they have no idea what Chrovos' ultimate plan was, and they were just a small part of it all. PlotHole? Well... no, not really, as "Theogeny" reveals the Cosmic Powers were intended to help Genkins!Chrovos prevent the Reds and Blues from having ever been born, and they overthrew him before they could ever learn what Chrovos' plan actually was.
** Why is Chrovos so (vaguely) maternal towards Donut and show a fondness towards the sim trooper? Because she vaguely remembers him from when she first met him as Genkins, and so likely feels a sense of nostalgia around Donut whenever she talks to him. Also, it makes sense why she specifically dragged Donut back through time to use him as her puppet - She vaguely remembers Chrovos having done so to Donut from when she was still Genkins.

* The Red & Blue Zealots. Especially in light of the news that all of the Red vs Blue battles are simulations and that at least some of the soldiers are put into 'lock down' when they suffer supposedly mortal wounds and can be 'reset' by F.I.L.S.S. as was the case with Donut in S8, and we realize now, Sarge in S1... what does that make the perpetually self-slaughtering and respawing festival of madness that is the Zealots? What even ''is'' the purpose of that simulation?! Those questions are bad enough... but then add on to that the fact that Freelancers were supposed to get in there to train up.
* Given what we know about the [[GrandTheftMe nature of AI possession (at least in the case of O'Malley)]], one has to wonder how much of the Meta's actions were Maine, and how much were all the [=AIs=] inside his head.
** A personal theory of mine, is that originally the other AIs were the ones controlling the Meta. However, Maine had had so many AIs, for so long, that his mind had become completely dependent on them. When they were removed, It almost caused a complete mental breakdown. In order to save itself from permanent crippling insanity, Maine's mind adopted qualities from the various AIs. Sigma's creativity and obsession with power, Delta's logic (The previous two explaining why he's much more of a GeniusBruiser in Season 8 than he is in Season 9). Gamma's treachery and Omega's viciousness. This was truly the moment that Maine died, and The Meta was born.
** There probably wasn't much of the original Maine left by the time the EMP was triggered. As Washington suggested in a previous episode there were so many AI in his head that they were probably overwriting his personality into clones of themselves in one way or another, most likely predominantly Sigma's personality saving only the parts of Maine that were useful. This would explain his personality post-EMP still being as vicious, cunning, and brutally tenacious (probably the only piece of Maine left) as ever. I'd posit that he agreed to work with Washington as a recovery unit because the pieces of Sigma's personality left behind saw it as the quickest way to regain and AI and restore his full power.
** Going even more into that, look at all the questions Wash asks Doc. He asks if Meta is all right. He asks his thoughts on Meta in general. He also comments on Doc psychoanalyzing him and says he should know calming techniques, so he believes Doc would know psychology. Then when Meta has Wash cornered before the plane comes down in the end, he sounds like he was hopeful Meta wouldn't turn on him. The reason why Wash kept Doc around was to have Doc study Meta, figure out how damaged he really is, and considering the implied previous friendship, Wash was probably HOPING to find a way to help fix Maine's broken mind.
* Caboose's stupidity is generally played for laughs, but it turns into both this and Fridge Sadness when you look back at season 1. In his initial appearance, Caboose was not nearly as dumb as he is currently. He expressed the capabilities to be lwed (calling Church's girlfriend a cow/ expressing sexual desires for Sheila, though that last one may actually be Omega expressing sexual desires) and getting angry at Sheila for killing Church. He genuinely regretted his first Team Kill, and strongly desired to make amends. Now, he apparently has completely forgotten how reproduction works (his confusion when Junior came around) and generally doesn't care/acknowlage when he commits friendly fire (Shooting Private Jones in the back and nearly killing South when told she was on their side). A big difference. Like I said, he was somewhat normal upon his introduction. However, he was shortly infected by Omega. And then he was subsequently entered by Tex and Church while Omega was still rooting around in his head. Now, Carolina nearly killed herself by having two AI's, relatively minor and weak ones at that, in her at once. Omega and Tex were some of the smartest A.I. splinters, and Church was the Alpha. It would be pretty much impossible for him to survive this experience without some mental damage. This, and multiple other examples such as being locked in his armor with no access to outside air for two days, several forced A.I. Ejections (like the one that nearly drove Wash over the edge), the battle between three A.I.'s in his head, and allegedly consuming gasoline, all suggest Caboose has permanent brain damage. Essentially, his time in Blood Gulch drove him from a somewhat dumb, but semi-normal person into a man utterly divorced from reality and entirely dependent on Church or the closest thing that he thinks resembles Church. * Caboose is obsessed with Church being his best friend and would do anything for him including filling Epsilons's memories with stories about Church. Caboose keeps trying to bring back Church. Church is a representation of the Director whose obsession kept trying to bring back Allison. It seems being unable to let go is a running theme in the series.
* Caboose is obsessed with Church being his best friend and would do anything for him including filling Epsilons's memories with stories about Church. Caboose keeps trying to bring back Church. Church is a representation of the Director whose obsession kept trying to bring back Allison. It seems being unable to let go is a running theme in the series.
* Wash inherited almost every memory Epsilon had. Think about that. Not only does he remember the entire experience of Alpha being tortured to insanity, he remembers everything from The Director's life at the point of Alpha's creation. He has the memories of three different beings crammed in his head. One of them went insane and had to remove those memories, the other led a life of obsession over his lost love. Does no one wonder how Wash can even function, anymore?

* Back in Season 6, Theta was the one that said the very creepy "We missed you" when Meta was taking Delta. Consider the fact York probably had Delta talk to Theta at others times causing Theta to probably get comfortable with Delta, and the fact some of the more cruel AIs were in Meta as well (Eg. Omega) then you can't help but think Theta had been scared and missed his friend.

* Cute as Theta is, you've gotta remember how he came into this world. If he's supposed to be the trusting, child-like part of Alpha, what horrific torture scenario did they use to force Alpha to fragment Theta off? Try to imagine them giving you a scenario that would bring a childlike quality to the forefront of your mind (maybe childlike inquisitiveness, maybe it's something that you loved as a kid, etc.) Now they go and attack it in the most brutal and traumatic method possible until the only thing you want to do is be dispossessed of it. Sweet dreams.
* Another Theta one: he's just so ''cute'' and happy about helping North out, it suddenly becomes disturbing when you realize what they're using him for: destroying people. In Episode 8, the "Hail Mary" traps the bad guys in a bloody death, which is pretty disturbing when you realize the little guy was way too cheerful to help accomplish that.
* When the A.I. fragments split from Alpha, they each embody a personality aspect (like logic, empathy, or creativity) and a personality trait (such as dry snarky humor, trust, or manipulative ambition). Now consider that of all the fragments, Sigma and Gamma are the only one who don't wear armor. In fact, if you look closely, they wear the same uniform as the Director. Now consider where all these aspects and traits ''originally'' come from. Alpha became more of his own person once he gained a level of experience (We even briefly hear him before his torture and he sounds cheery and almost goofy). But two of his traits are still shaped and defined by his origin from the Director. Ambition and Deceit. How messed up WAS this guy?
* The horrific ColdBloodedTorture the Director subjected his own VirtualGhost to becomes even more chilling when one realizes that it primarily worked by having Gamma, Omega, and Sigma capitalize on the Alpha's ItsAllMyFault tendencies. So, when Tucker dismissively says that Church was a good leader in Season 11 because he "took the blame when shit went wrong"? That's because the Alpha was ''conditioned'' to treat that as fact.
* So we meet "CT" in ''Recreation'' and he seems like your typical stupid, comically evil, puppy-kicking villain who got the laserface-tastic death he deserved. But then we find out in Season 10 that he had deep feelings for the real CT/Connie, that they planned to run away together after exposing Project Freelancer, that the love of his life died and her dying words whispered to him was to get that chip into the right hands so they could accomplish their objective, and that he took on her identity as a way to remember her and carry on her dreams. And he died... without accomplishing any of that... killed by a bunch of incompetent idiots. More like a Fridge TearJerker, really.

* In the Blood Gulch Chronicles, when Tex and Church go into Caboose's mind to look for O'Malley/Omega, Church says this to Caboose's Mental Image of Church: "First of all, you? You're not Caboose's best friend, okay? You don't ''have'' a best friend. You know why? You don't need one! You're Church! Knowing other people just waters down the experience!" Why is this FridgeHorror? Well, there's actually two possible reasons. The Alpha was put through countless stressful, horrible scenarios to break its mind that revolved around its loved ones dying. It is more than likely that the Alpha lost its ability to easily trust after Theta was fragmented, and Alpha believes that if it doesn't care about other people, than it'll be harder for other people to hurt it again. There's also the less awful idea that since the Director was arrogant and cold towards others, Church/the Alpha inherited that trait.
* It's revealed eventually that Church is not a ghost like he thinks, but is instead the Alpha. Now, the Alpha is a "smart" AI, one that is subject to side effects from the ''Halo'' Universe. All AI's eventually turn to rampancy.
* Episode 13 of season 10 reveals that Wash and South were originally going to be paired with Iota and Eta. Carolina insisted on taking them both so she could compete with Tex, meaning Wash got bumped down the list and paired with Epsilon. ''Plus'', it was Sigma and Gamma that gave her the idea by telling her about Omega. Not to mention, she gave up Sigma to Maine so he could communicate, dooming him to become Sigma's puppet. And robbed South of having an AI at all, thus fueling her envy, causing her to leave her brother for dead. If Carolina hadn't done what she did everyone might be alive today. A lot of her current characterization could be explained by the fact that she hasn't come to terms with that yet.
* Here's one: Going from Episode 13 of Season 10 it looks like Gamma was in on Sigma's plan to merge the AI back into a smart AI. He also knew about Omega and Wyoming's plan back in the Blood Gulch Chronicles to possess Junior to control the aliens by corrupting their religion from the inside. Now imagine if these plans overlapped at some point... And then think about how Season 7 showed that AI can inhabit Forerunner technology... which the aliens worship. It's possible that Omega knew what Sigma was doing thanks to Gamma. Suddenly, Omega's declarations of conquering the universe don't seem ''nearly'' as comical/baseless now as they did before.
* It was a bit weird that the first person at Carolina's bedside in episode 14 wasn't York or Wash, but Wyoming; aside from his cold demeanor, his interactions with her had been much less friendly than those two had been; notably, she ordered him to charge at two minigunners, which he ignored, and in the previous episode, she whipped her helmet off at him in a fit of rage. But last episode, it wasn't just Maine's AI that had been giving her suggestions... and with Maine and Wyoming in the infirmary (granted that Maine was seeing a doctor about his headaches), that means that Sigma and Gamma were also there...
* The scenarios that the Alpha was put through were designed to break its mind, right? And after each fragmentation, the Director and the Counselor harvested the fragments. This has a whole new layer of horror to it because after each fragmentation, the progressing scenarios probably became even ''worse'' for the Alpha. Not just because the Director made them worse; the Alpha lost pieces of its mind, and as such, its ability to solve problems and figure out solutions became less.
* Of course Church hates everyone so much. Because a part of him remembers how much it hurt to care about everyone instead and have them hurt and taken away due to his own mistakes. It's much safer to hate them all instead. What's even worse is that the scenarios specifically target his care for a certain agent so whatever fragment that emerged would care about that agent and bond with him or her.
** So Alpha was tortured with the prospect of all his comrades dying. Remember in The Blood Gulch Chronicles the way Church ''screamed'' when he thought Wyoming killed Caboose? [[HarsherInHindsight Yeah.]]
* So we finally find out what's in the Sarcophagus, and what it's used for. Remember the first time we see Alpha in Season 9? He was running calculations for the mission to retrieve the Sarcophagus, the very instrument that would help in fragmenting him later on. Blissfully ignorant.
* Episode 14 shows how the AI's are implanted into the armor: the unit is grafted into the base of their skull. If the Meta was stealing the Freelancer's armor enhancements and AI units, then, unless Sigma could transfer the AI into Maine's head, he would have been ''ripping the unit out of his victim's neck.'' Brutal.
* O'Malley was in on the torture of Alpha. Then you look back at Tucker's pregnancy in Season 4. "Oh you'll do it or else your little friend Tucker will die and you'll spend years wondering if you could have saved him." Doesn't seem like such and comedic threat given Alpha's fear of losing people, does it?
* Imagine South's feelings up to Episode 19. She gets "cheated" out of an AI. Her friends and teammates go rogue one by one, and she sees them as traitors. Wash goes insane, stopping her from ''ever'' getting that coveted AI. Tex shows up, brutally attacks all the people she's worked with, ''blows up'' her home, and just when South's about to stop Tex, her own ''brother'' shows up and turns against her. Yes, she's a brat. But ''damn,'' her own team-killing tendencies were probably born during this incident, when she found herself betrayed by Tex, York, and even her own brother.
* So the Director "kept trying" to recreate Alison, enough times to build a small army of "her". So, was he working from copies of Beta, or did he keep recreating Alpha until he could get what he wanted? In ''Halo'' you make an AI by MURDERING A FLASH CLONE OF YOURSELF. So how many times did he commit sorta suicide. And if it's the latter, ''what did he do with the leftovers?'' If the brain is the only part needed to make an AI and no mention of how he ever got food is given ... For that matter what has he been doing to the Tex copies after he made them? And what did he do to get Omega? ''Again?!'' Good God, what is ''wrong'' with this guy?

* End of Episode 21 of Season 10, Church splits apart to talk with the [=AIs=] running the Tex copies. The conversation we see is almost an exact replica of the scene where Tex attempted to free the Alpha, complete with Tex not even knowing her own name. So, it seems the director is so far gone that however he got a copy Tex, he subjected it to the same sort of fragmentation process (mental torture) that he did to the Alpha. So he did that, to the [[VirtualGhost AI ghost]] of the woman he loved, in order to get her "right", to use Epsilon's terminology. What. The. Fuck?

* Now, remember when the Director walked in on Carolina and Tex about to fight? Think of what was going through his mind now that we know that Carolina is his daughter. He was about to watch the two most beloved women in his life battle to the (possible) death. And THEN remember that he left her screaming on the floor when the AIs were in her mind. And THEN remember that Tex/Beta/Allison SAW HER DAUGHTER ATTACKED, THE AI CHIPS RIPPED FROM HER NECK, AND THROWN OFF A CLIFF TO HER DEATH. And she had to run away and leave Carolina to her fate. Another massive failure to Tex.
* There is another aspect to Carolina's identity as the Director and Allison's daughter. Think about the events she has gone through. Every mission she went on either failed or almost did thanks to her actions. They nearly lost the briefcase because she lost her cool and made it personal. She tries to recapture CT alive, but ends with her death and armor lost. She wanted to be the top Freelancer, but couldn't compete with Texas. The guy she has feelings for? Turns against her and dies before they reconcile. That's right, Carolina ALSO continuously fails at the last second when something was on the line just like Texas. This also puts the Director's actions in a new light: he was seeing both his attempts to keep his love alive continue to suffer the same FatalFlaw over and over again.

* Not really serious, and more Fridge Squick than anything else, but the whole Church in Carolina's bike part, the jokes about it tend to be sexual, but it gets kind of Squicky when you learn in episode 22 of season 10 that Church is a copy of Carolina's father. Not wonder it felt awkward for the guy.
* Re-watching Season 10, something occurred to me: the Director's actions cost a lot of people their lives, and the lives of people they loved just as much as he did Allison. And considering the second CT, Carolina and York, Alpha, and so many more, in his attempts to fix his pain, he only ensured that others suffered the same loss and sadness he did. The only ones to escape the cycle were the ones willing to do what he wouldn't and let the past go.
* AI fragments are created by torturing Alpha with the knowledge that someone he cares about dies, right? And each AI has their own designated Agent, because Alpha fragmented the memory of that Agent after living through the scenario of them dying. Sigma was originally paired with Carolina. Now we know who Carolina's parent's are. ''Sigma was created when Alpha was forced to watch his own daughter die!'' Sigma was also ambition, meaning that after watching his own daughter die, Alpha lost his ambition, he lost his will to continue to move forward in life and try to achieve anything.
* [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma7q18XupD1r3x7i2o1_500.jpg This screencap]] points out that Wash was probably Project Freelancer's Caboose. Caboose is, in one word, happy. Washington... is not. In Recovery 1, Wash sees the bodies of his old comrades and pretty much walks away, without a single fuck given. If Washington is the Freelancer equivalent of Caboose, could Caboose become just as cold, heartless, and cruel? Caboose, the guy who fell in love with a tank, got a pet mini-mecha, and made best friends with the remnants of the most traumatized characters in the series?
* Since his introduction, [[HumongousMecha Freckles]] has repeatedly tried to kill members of Red Team, threatened Tucker and Wash with death ''several'' times, shot at Simmons during a misunderstanding ([[ItMakesSenseInContext involving a ball]]), and has attacked Sarge after the latter pointed the Warthog's turret at him. But those aren't the scary parts. What's scary is that Freckles has [[SarcasmBlind little to no understanding of sarcasm]] (as demonstrated when he demotes Washington and places Caboose in charge after a sarcastic remark from the former), and the closest thing that he has to a [[MoralityChain Morality Chain]] is [[TheDitz Caboose]]. We've already seen that Freckles has ''[[TokenEvilTeammate absolutely no problem whatsoever]]'' with killing members of his own team ([[KidWithTheLeash bar Caboose]]); so this begs the question: Given the Neo Blood Gulch Crew's love of sarcasm, exactly how long is it until an offhand remark sends Freckles on a killing spree?
* Prior to Blood Gulch Chronicles, it appears that Church had a human body (partly evidenced by some of the stuff Epsilon said at the beginning of Season 8), which leaves one wondering where the body came from. Was Alpha overwritten over another person? Season 14 reveals that yes, yes he was.
* York assisted Tex with the break-in partly by damaging the ship, which made it crash. When Carolina was thrown clear of the ship, it let Maine get to her. This means York was indirectly responsible for Carolina getting the AI ripped out of her head, thrown off a cliff, and presumed dead. Given the logs Epsilon plays for Carolina in Season 10 present day, he either didn't know this had happened or was in complete denial that she was probably dead--and the logs imply the latter, that he was desperately searching for news of her in hopes he'd find out she survived. Which he never did.
* There is a good chance that Wyoming is still alive. Consider the following:
** One of the clones could of very easily gotten away during the battle.
** The gang has proven on multiple occasions that they can't tell the difference between someone in lock down mode and someone who is dead. There is a good chance that one of the clones is still alive.
** Even if the gang managed to kill all of the clones, Wyoming could have very easily made some more clones before he went to the canyon.
* The Director blew up a freaking sky scraper. One that was 110 stories tall. The casualties from it should be in the hundreds, if not thousands. To make matters worse, Tex and Carolina were on top of the skyscraper, and barely escaped death.
* C.T. left Project Freelancer due to their moral corruption and questionable practices, in favor of the Insurrection. How do you think she would have taken it if she found out that the Insurrection ultimately worked for [[OmnicidalManiac someone willing to kill an entire planet?]]
* As revealed in Season 13, UNSC prisoner transport ships come with hatches in every cell which can be activated with almost casual ease, spacing the prisoners. Though the horror is ''slightly'' lessened (arguably, at least) by WordOfGod saying that the Tartarus was an incredibly old ship that was obsolete and going to be decommissioned soon, so it's unknown if ''every'' prison ship the UNSC has in [=RvB=] has a feature like that.

* Perhaps less "horror" than Fridge Tragedy, but when one considers the fact that Alpha is an AI based on the director, and several moments in the series go out of their way specifically to point out how similar the two characters are, it is reasonable to assume that before Allison was killed, The Director may have once been a similarly wise-cracking, sarcastic DeadpanSnarker like Church. The video we eventually find him watching on endless repeat was (from what we can see) even a fairly lighthearted video, seemingly even showing Allison laughing at something silly the Director was doing offscreen.

* More of fridge sadness than horror, But when Tex asked who she was, Church responded with the only answer, His Girlfriend. To clarify, there are two main things Tex is known for: Being a complete and utter Badass, and being Churchs' "girlfriend". However the former part is completely because of the later. The only thing we know about Allison is that she dies in war, nothing else. The Director created Tex to be his loved one that could never lose. Tex wants to be her own person, to have a purpose other than protecting/ being with Church. But she can't, because that is literally all she is. His Girlfriend.
* Imagine what would’ve happened if things had gone a bit differently and [=FH57’s=] plan was successful. If they got a hold of the tank, Tucker and Caboose would be dead, the Reds at Blood Gulch would’ve been dragged along by [=FH57=] in their ship and may have never found out that the Red vs. Blue war is a lie, and Church might’ve never known that he was an AI. Not to mention the good things that happened because the Blood Gulch Crew was in the right place at the right time, like the eventual downfall of Project Freelancer and the permanent ceasefire of the Chorus civil war.
* How exactly did the Director know that torturing an AI was the most effective way of getting a viable AI fragment AND that it would need to be paired with someone of a certain psychological profile? Did the UNSC have a classified handbook on torturing AI's for the best results either thru an intentional experiment or even by accidental observation? Or did the Director have to pioneer the field himself? And if the Director did do it himself, he did have AIs and VIs such as FILSS and Vic around. How many AIs did he subject to experimentation before he got it right? Did Project Freelancer see an entire batch of soldiers get wiped out because of a flawed implantation? Or could even soldiers such as Agent Georgia who died in funny ways be part of a proto-batch that was still under observation before the Alpha fragments were getting installed?
* So WordOfGod confirms that the contents of the Sarcophagus was an Engineer. These things are an ActualPacifist. Does anybody want to imagine how the poor thing was forced into in the first place? And that it's especially cruel of Hargrove and the Director to keep it locked in there, since they seem to know, or at least the Director does, that it's not a hostile creature and just wants to maintain machines.
* We see in the Season 14 finale that a combination of characters from the show using a teleportation device, someone pulling the machinima death switch, and Rocket Rooster energy drink being dumped on the Xbox can bring the characters to the "real world." What if these circumstances were to happen again, except instead of the Reds and Blues, it was someone like the Meta or Felix that came out? Everyone in the studio would be killed.
* The Temple of Procreation ''sounds'' funny at first, with gags like [[LovableSexManiac Tucker]] saying he "didn't feel any different", and Grif and Simmons' denial that anything ''happened'' in that [[TransparentCloset closet]]. It becomes a lot more disturbing when one remembers Santa's description of its effects in Season 13 "It will send the inhabitants of Chorus into a ravenous sexual frenzy". This has all kinds of horrifying implications on its own, when one considers that most people don't want to have sex with ''everyone'' they meet. Also, as shown by Tucker's class-action lawsuit, there are a ''lot'' of single mothers on Chorus; how many of their children will grow up without their fathers? Simmons says that Tucker alone had enough kids to fill ''an entire elementary school'' (though he admittedly might've been exaggerating).

* Around mid season 5, Simmons takes a tranquilizer round to the head, and gets knocked out almost immediately. Then, Grif gets hit by one and is fine, and it's only after about a dozen more that he finally starts feeling the effects. This could just be seen as a way to make the moment funny, until one remembers various comments about Grif throughout the show. Most insults directed at him tend to involve his weight and him being fat. Which could explain why it took so many. Typically, it takes more painkillers or sedatives to knock out and keep a person under if they're bigger. Grif, who is Canonically fatter than Simmons, would naturally need to be darted more times than him to be put under.

* Similar to this, Church seems to be the OnlySaneMan of the series, until said reveal, when it turns out that he actually lost everything else about his personality in order to keep his ''sanity''. Yes, his character, backstory and all, is literally OnlySaneMan plus a bit of natural jerkass that comes with spending as much time as he did in Blood Gulch.
* In Season 2, Lopez and Sheila leave a note at Blue base to meet in the centre of the canyon at 0600 hours - the same time and place they were meeting the Reds. The note is written in binary. Church can read it. He is actually an AI program himself, and thus able to understand binary script.
* Fridge Brillance in Sarge's speech is when he tells Grif that he could have left any time he wanted and nobody would have stopped him. Despite Grif's constant complaints if he asks Sarge for permission to be lazy or cowardly and Sarge denies him he actually follows Sarge's orders. Despite Grif's claims of having no respect for Sarge, Sarge's attempts to kill him, and his occasional half assed attempts to quit like talking about Simmon's feelings when Sarge said he'd courtmartial anyone who talked about Simmon's feelings. Grif ultimately chooses to stay.
* Caboose' dislike of Tucker seems funny and random until you realize that Tucker throughout the Blood Gulch Chronicles was essentially Church's best friend. Hence Caboose is Jealous of Tucker.
* On the subject of Caboose that's also fridge horror. Caboose is obsessed with Church being his best friend and would do anything for him including filling Epsilons's memories with stories about Church. Caboose keeps trying to bring back Church. Church is a representation of the Director whose obsession kept trying to bring back Alison. It seems being unable to let go is a running theme in the series.

* Why were Wyoming's clones beaten so soundly when he himself appeared a credible threat? Because Wyoming prefers dirty-handed tactics and is more of an assassin than a real fighter. Examples include sneaking up behind Phil before killing him off, sniping people from a distance and looping time until he wins.
* Fridge Awesome here: Doc's actions in the last episode of Revelation. Think about it: despite everything that Wash and the Meta have put him through, Doc decides to save Washington. Wash responds to this by insulting him. A few minutes later, Doc sides with Church, and Washington doesn't even factor in that he'll have to go through the guy who saved his life to get at Epsilon. A few minutes after that, Wash is dying, and Doc is - again - the only one who can help. He's been a lousy medic for long enough that he knows he can get away with letting him die. He has no reason to help him and every reason to "accidentally" let his scalpel slip (Doc isn't really clued-in here, so he might even think that Wash will start fighting again if he gets back up). But does he? Does he even consider it? No, he pulls together all his experience, gives it everything he's got, and saves him so that he goddamn STAYS saved. And then he walks away without getting anything for it.
** In season five at the end. Doc had O'malley, a crazed villain, in his head that could make him go on a killing spree at any time. Church has just insulted his diagnosis of Tucker's pregnancy and told him to leave and O'Malley claims that Church only asked for a Diagnosis not treatment or a correct Diagnosis. Doc takes over and tells Church and O'Malley that his diagnosis is correct and that he WILL be taking care of Tucker causing both O'Malley and Church to express surprise in unison. Then in the next season Church wants to kill Junior and Doc refuses to let Church into the base. Even more fridge is added when you consider that Omega may have been helping doc keep the kid alive to further his enslave the "elites use them to take over the galaxy" plan
** The most likely reason for Doc never letting people die is because, as he has stated before, he is a pacifist. He also states at the end of Season 8 that he took an oath, and that is why he cannot kill anyone even if they are asking him to. This is reversed somewhat in Season 13 when he becomes much more violent (granted he is influenced by his O'malley split personality).
* [[LaughablyEvil Omega's manifestation through Doc and the rest of the Blood Gulch crew]] is a huge contrast to the [[AxCrazy threat and danger]] he was back in the Freelancer Saga. But that's probably because, unlike the Freelancers, the Blood Gulch Crew had yet to deal with any real threats or moral conundrums, and were generally just plain incompetent. Therefore, their closest understanding of evil is likely [[CardCarryingVillain the fiction they see in media]] or [[TheCorrupter just exaggerating their worst attributes]], rather than the manipulative sociopaths and bastards the crew encountered after the Blood Gulch chronicles.

* In season 9, episode 10, Wash has a moment when he assumes Tex is a guy. When South calls him out on it, he then accidentally calls Tex an "it." It may be him being a dork at the moment, but knowing what Tex actually is...
* After the big reveal in ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Reconstruction]]'' where Church is revealed to actually be a super-advanced A.I. program, recall a conversation between Church and Caboose in the first season where Caboose's [[InsaneTrollLogic unique train of thought]] comes to the conclusion that Church is "a gay robot", which could either be taken as subtle foreshadowing or dumb coincidence. Plus, as of Season 14, it's revealed that Church would have liked Tex regardless if she was male or female after he accidentally flipped everyone's genders in his focus episode, so Caboose was once again a lot closer to the mark than he realized.
* At first, it seems the Ice map Avalanche had no real significance in being the location for the conclusion of ''Revelation''. That map's ''Halo 1'' equivalent, Sidewinder, was the place where Tex made her first appearance in a CurbStompBattle, and Avalanche has Tex getting brutally killed by the Meta - in other words, it's meant to show that Tex's story has come full circle.
* At the end of ''Reconstruction'', The Director of Project Freelancer, Dr. Leonard Church, states "My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? The memory of her has haunted me my entire life, moreso in these last few years than I could ever have imagined. But given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself. Had I only the chance." But why would "the events of the past few weeks," the struggle between Wash, the Meta, and Command, have convinced the Director? It didn't. It was ''Church'' and ''his'' sacrifice that convinced Dr. Church that he would have done the same - just like the AI that was based off of him.
* At first, Tex's sudden ultra competence seems out of nowhere. She takes out Maine, York and Wyoming with relative ease. But then... again, despite how awesome and badass she is, in the end, she's a deconstruction of the MarySue. She's everything [[BigBad The Director]] wanted her to be, as she's the memory of someone he once loved. But her death is an integral part of that memory. As Epsilon explains, the memory of her death dooms her to a cycle of failure at critical moments, turning the tide against herself at the last second. On top of that, her abilities don't endear her to [[TheRival Carolina]] or [[ProperlyParanoid Wash]], and the Blues and Reds like to think of her as the "scary chick." Only [[TheHero Church]] risks life and limb for her, and even Tucker points out that's just unhealthy. Mary Sues are supposed to be loved by everyone. Instead, Tex fosters fear, resentment or paranoia, and at the height of her power she inevitably fails. As cool as she can be, she's just as broken as Church.
* Conversely, we have the Alpha's complete incompetence. If he was an AI, he would be a pro at tactics or at least be able to calculate the trajectory needed to hit a stationary target. It makes sense though when we consider how the Alpha was tortured and split. For example, he lost his ability to lie when he lost Gamma (deceit).
* Some of the Freelancer colors mean different things for different characters:
** Tex has black armor - the absense of color, so she is on nobody's side but her own.
** Wyoming has white armor - at the time he was introduced in the series, he was the only other freelancer besides Tex. So he got the opposite of her color.
** Doc (who isn't a freelancer agent, but w/e) has purple armor - a medic assigned to work for both red and blue. Red and Blue make purple.
** South has purple armor - chronic backstabber who plays whatever side is needed. While neither the Reds or the Blues had contact with her, the easiest way to show neutrality is to be like Doc and have purple.
** North has purple armor - he kinda has a nurturing personality that Doc has; plus he's South's brother.
** Carolina has teal armor - Carolina is Church's daughter, and the person sent to look over Church (Captain Flowers) had that same color. Also to tie her to Captain Flowers, she is doing the exact opposite of what he did; Captain Flowers was assigned as part of a cover up, and Carolina is out to unravel it all.
** York has yellow/orange/brown armor - good with technology, so he gets the same color as Lopez (possible reference to copper wiring, though that's a bit of a stretch).
** Washington has gray armor - similar role as Tex, in that he is a mercenary who doesn't have a moral compass - good or bad, black or white - and is just doing his job and playing his side. Washington changes his armour to blue (with yellow stripes to let viewers know who he is) at the end of Season 8, and then reverts back to gray (most likely a call-back) in Season 11. The blue represents his joining of Blue Team and essentially taking Church's place, while the gray possibly references the earlier mentioned rogue freelancer. Its possible that gray is because he technically takes command of both teams.
* In Episode 2 of the BGC, Sarge says, sarcastically, that they won and that Grif is the big hero. Take that as Grif being the reason that Red Team won at Blood Gulch. Later, in the mini-series Relocated, Lopez informs Sarge that Red Team actually DID win at Blood Gulch because Lopez "killed" Grif's sister. So technically, a Grif was the cause of Red Team's victory at Blood Gulch!
* Especially after all the retcons, the series is now, arguably, a Love Story (albeit a reeeeeeeeally screwed up one). Seeing as how the existence of the Freelancers, Red and Blue bases, and a large chunk of the plot are pretty much due to the Director's love for Allison, and Church's feelings for Tex drive a large chunk of the ''rest'' of the plot, almost from Day One. Caboose's feelings for Church (whether you want to classify them as platonic or not) also end up being a strong motivator of the plot at certain points, too. Director/Allison is later continued in Church/Tex as they're both memories of Director/Allison with fake data used to fill the gaps. Depending on how you look at it though, its more of an arms-race story between Charon vs Project Freelancer.

* You know how Junior is supposedly the Christ figure of the aliens? Wouldn't that make Tucker, his [[MisterSeahorse mother]], the Virgin Mary (emphasis on "virgin")?
* This was most likely a coincidence, but in Literature/TheBible, Revelation 20:1-3 reads, "And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time." Fitting how, in ''Revelation'' episode 20, the Meta is killed by being chained to a Warthog and flung into an icy abyss. You should also consider that Tucker's sword IS a key..
* You know how Tex's main attribute is failure? Well, after both times the Meta absorbed Tex, he failed in both of his goals (he got all his AI emp'd, and then got killed by simulation troopers). So, it's safe to say that absorbing Tex caused the Meta to inherit Tex's attribute of failure as if it were his own.
* Gamma never really sent Church back in time. He just did what Tex said he did to the Alpha back before the Blood Gulch Chronicles. He created a scenario that made Church suffer by making him believe every bad thing that had happened in Blood Gulch was his fault.
* At first, it bothered me that Caboose got over Church so quickly and basically replaced him with [[ReplacementGoldfish Wash]]. Then, it occurred to me that Wash's lean-mean-killing-machine qualities might be what attracted Caboose to Church in the first place. Church is mean and snarky. Wash is even ''more'' mean and snarky, so of course Caboose likes him better.
* A meta example: The season 10 premiere was the highest rated ever. What's the very first line of dialogue? "And now, the moment you've all been waiting for ... "
* Washington once mentioned that Omega would always jump back to Tex when moved to other suits of armor. This might at first seem like it's because Tex can be AxCrazy at times, but after TheReveal the real reason is brilliant - Tex is the women Church loves, and Omega is a fragment of Church's mind. So of course he's always going to try and find the woman he loves; that's what the real Church was always trying to do too! This also means that Tex was constantly being pursued not by an AI copy of her lover, but by one of the ugliest aspects of his personality... not only is this even more FridgeHorror, it also makes sense why Tex would keep rejecting the other versions of Church now. She had her head full of his ugly side and couldn't escape it, and now she's traumatised to the point where she really can't return the other versions of Church's affection any more.
* Sigma is Maine, AKA the Meta's AI, right? And the Meta tried to gather all of the AI, very possibly under Sigma's influence. Well, in mathematics, Sigma (Σ) is used to represent the sum. Which is a parallel to what Sigma/Maine tried to do! Gather them all up and add them all together! Also, Sigma expressed interest in the fourth stage of rampancy: Metastability aka full sentience. The third stage of rampancy is jealousy, which an AI has a desire to grow in knowledge and ability. Despite being a fragment, Sigma is in the third stage.
* South feels like North's protective instincts and attention have shifted from her to Theta, and she feels thrust aside and ignored. It's classic middle-child syndrome. Alternately, it was frustration amplified by a hyper-competitive environment: She was forced to take missions that contradicted her strengths but played to her brother's, and may have chafed under North's BigBrotherInstinct even before Theta; South seems to disregard North's advice, not unusual for a younger sibling feeling overshadowed. Adding to that: The Project precluded South from ever getting an A.I., the only way to compete against those with that advantage. South was suffering from a bad case of Director-mandated [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]], and it took its toll, especially since she didn't know that it was out of her hands. Oh, and her problem with Theta may be why she was so quick to ditch Delta into the Meta's hands in Season 6. She always wanted an AI, but she had disdain for them because it stole her brother's affections.
* Carolina is shown in seasons nine and ten to be ''very'' impatient and irritable. Well, of course; episode 6 of season 10 reveals that she originally had Sigma as her AI. Now, which AI was the evil, corrupting one again? Alternately, Sigma seems to be Alpha's ambition, and Carolina's impatience and irritability could be the result of Sigma's drive rubbing off on her.
* The Reds and the Blues seem to have a positive effect on Wash, but why would that be? It makes sense when you think about his personal history. He was part of Project: Freelancer, and the team seemed to be a very tight-knit and friendly unit, with genuinely decent people like York. However, this team eventually turned on one another, leading to a sister to kill her brother and what were true companions to become the deadliest of enemies. But then he meets the Reds and Blues- two teams that were designed to be mortal enemies, who he had no problem betraying without a moments hesitation and who have no reason to trust them. But they are also a team that is willing to forgive Wash for his actions simply for the fact that he helped them, and that they are willing to fight for each other and put their lives on the line at a moments notice for no other reasons than the odd bonds that they have, he actually finds a team that Project: Freelancer was MEANT to be but failed to be due to infighting.
* The Freelancer Project was meant to be about competition, but there is one image available in nearly every room aboard the ship: The ranking table. The Freelancer Project was entirely about competition, and the competition is always in the back of their minds and when they go out on missions, they try to suppress it with their focus on the mission, but when anything goes wrong, you can start seeing the cracks form (see South and North responding with a degree of hostility to Carolina saving them, South's rage at dropping a rank, CT's disappointment possibly feeding her FaceHeelTurn, Maine and Wyoming using live ammo against Tex after losing to her repeatedly during a training exercise, Carolina pushing to get the briefcase before Tex, the list goes on and on). The BG guys are supposed to be two teams fighting against one another, but the battle they wage is entirely pointless (as was completely lampshaded by Grif in the very first episode) that is taken seriously by exactly one person. Because the competition is team in nature, it highlights the team elements rather than individualism and because they don't really have much to do, they build a pretty significant camaraderie - within the team and with the only other people in the neighborhood. When they actually have something to fight for, this parlays into TrueCompanions and their neurological hangups take a backseat to their individual best traits. Guess what situation Wash is in.
** Additionally in the BGC you have Lavernius Tucker, Dexter Grif, Dick Simmons, Michael J. Caboose, and Franklin Delano Donut. All characters with names. As far as the freelancers are concerned if one of them dies they could be replaced by someone with the same callsign.
** This is actually a great allegory for how videogames don't give a good representation of war. Project Freelancer has a lot of positive things going for it that are similar to a videogame (powerups/tools that give the Freelancers incredible advantages compared to their enemies, drop pods that can resupply the troops in the event they need it (like when Tex calls in for support from the Mother of Invention, and they send in a motorcycle, like how first person shooters give killstreaks to the best players, Tex did the most, so she is rewarded with additional upport)). But the thing is, it also highlights how a videogame-like system wouldn't work in the real world. The scoreboard, awarded rather arbitrarily, only serves to tear the entire team apart, as there is no real reason for the Freelancers to work together, and it encourages them to go rogue and complete missions on their own to hoard points instead of working towards a common goal. The codenames, while cool, desensitize the Freelancers to each other, making them barely recognize their comrades as fellow human beings (which leads to things like CT's assassination and Carolina pushing Maine off of a several hundred story building). The Freelancers not questioning where their powerups came from, and why they have them when everyone else they encounter doesn't, could be part of the reason why they don't realize sooner that a sentient being was being tortured to provide them with equipment. Oh, and in the story, the Freelancers respond to anything with the most destructive solution (like when York was trying to open a door, but because he wasn't fast enough, the Mother of Invention blew his area up, when the Freelancers wanted to get rid of the evidence of them stealing data they blew up an oil rig, or when the MOI wanted to deal with a building swarming with people and rare/valuable artifacts, it orbitally bombarded it). Individually, they're exceptional warriors, but they're not soldiers. Just like how players would make terrible soldiers without a mindset change.
* Sigma's goal was to reach metastability, the point at which an AI can be considered human. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that pretty much what already happened to Alpha? And Epsilon seems to be moving in that direction as well ...
* In episode 6, the Freelancers and almost all of the [=AIs=] are listening as the lessons are being taught. The only exception is Theta, who doesn't seem to be paying attention and is instead [[FunnyBackgroundEvent balancing on a holographic skateboard]]. Makes sense when you think about it; Theta is a lot like a child, and it's a well-known fact that children have trouble paying attention in class.
* Tex always fails at everything important she tries. In other words, she's always ''last''. Her AI partner was Omega. Omega is the ''last'' letter of the Greek alphabet.
* In season 10 episode 6 Sigma praises Carolina and then wraps around and praises Tex. Anyone with a brain cell would see that was a stupid thing to do, but Sigma is still a fragment of Church so it's only natural for him to like Tex.
* York may well have the same problem York does. It's not that he's not a good locksmith; he is. He's just not a good FAST locksmith, which is why he keeps failing in the field where speed and performing under pressure are paramount. (Just like Simmons, who actually ''is'' smart, just not fast enough to test well under pressure.) And this might also explain why he kept having trouble talking to Carolina. He actually wants to impress her, get her to like him, and that stress always caused him to screw up his lines.
* Caboose randomly quoting Washington in episode 8 (adding "Of all time" to Tucker calling Church the "worst wingman ever") doesn't seem as random when you consider that Wash replaced Church, who Caboose looks up to, so he started looking up to Wash, and would inevitably start quoting him.
* At first, we're led to believe that the CT Tucker meets in the desert is Connie, using a voice modifier. But that raises a Headscratcher: how could Tucker, the infamous Dr. Love, the President of Boning, ''the'' CasanovaWannabe of the series, not see that CT was a girl? Now that Episode 10 reveals Connie actually died and Pillman took her armor, it all makes sense.
* While it might not only be this, the fact that Tex has no trouble killing CT while Carolina has large objections is a bit of FridgeBrilliance. Carolina is the effective leader of the Freelancers and gets to know everyone on her team. Tex is the lone wolf who doesn't socialize with the other Freelancers (for obvious reasons). So when CT goes rogue, Tex has no problem seeing just another enemy while Carolina still sees her friend. Also, two episodes earlier, the Director and the Counselor can be heard discussing a new AI fragment being formed. Later on, Texas is seen using her cloak armor enhancement, of which can only be operated by an AI. Furthermore, Tex's response to Carolina reminding her of the mission objective has a rather anger-filled tone to it. That's right - the reason for the brutality Tex displayed when fighting CT was primarily because she was recently given Omega.
* So S10 E11 reveals more hints as to the mental state of the AI's. Delta's revealed to be running numbers regularly as a way to relax - perhaps it is a way to take his mind off ... other things that he finds relaxing. And then there's Theta who has troubles sleeping, is jittery and regularly fearful that something was going to attack him at any time and would be extremely horrified if North took him out for the night. This hints to some trust issues.... which helps explain why Theta was so shy when we first met him.
* An earlier entry points out that Sigma is already in the third stage of rampancy (jealousy). This is likely because he fragmented from an AI that was already rampant, so he started out that much further along the road to crazytown. In fact, you can trace Alpha's deterioration through the fragments as they appear: Each new fragment is in worse mental/emotional shape than the last. And which AI made it to the metastability stage? Epsilon....which we know was the last AI created.
* Season 10 gives a lot of shipteases for York and Carolina... this explains why Carolina hates Tex so much; she blames her for York losing his eye (in addition to her competitive streak shown last season). Also, York died ''helping'' Tex.

* Gamma and Sigma working together: because creativity and deceit are good qualities for a villain to have.
* Ever since the Freelancers were retconned from simple mercenaries in the Red vs. Blue war into a Spartan-esque team, the name seems kinda strange. But then you realize that they're not exactly a team. They competed with one another thanks to the Director's leaderboard system, as well as the whole AI schtick, which eventually fragmented the trust between them and caused them to tear each other apart.
* In season 10 episode 15 every Freelancer except Tex reacted upon hearing Tex's real name. This reaction occurred in the AI fragments. The trauma the Director felt when the real Allison died was carried over to them. However, since Omega knew that "Allison" was safe, since he was implanted into her, he didn't freak out. Perhaps Sigma incorporated Tex into the Meta to make all the fragments stable, so they wouldn't have to worry about Allison anymore.
* When I first saw Omega in Reconstruction and in episode 15 of Season 10, he acted like a murder or something of the sort, yet in the Blood Gulch Chronicles, he acted like a doofus and it puzzled me at first before I realized this: the reason he wasn't brutally murdering anybody was because of the Reds and Blues personalities affecting the way he acted! Since they are so dimwitted, it was harder for them to be controlled by Omega than it would be if they were regular soldiers.
* When Omega briefly jumps into Church, he just says "Huh, I don't feel that different". This has a double meaning: He's just getting back a fragment of himself, and he's ALWAYS ANGRY.
* With the apparent revelation that the Sarcophagus contains an Engineer, it suddenly makes sense for it to be in a room filled with Covenant trophies.
* Alpha's avatar in [=S10E16=] is animated with the Reach engine... the same as the season 9 segments inside the Epsilon unit, where Epsilon created a world from scratch based on his memories.
* So, in regards to the revelation from episode 16, many were surprised. One can, however, be spoiled of it in episode 15. '''Of Season 9'''. Yes, one could discover the contents of the Sarcophagus from before Season 10 began. This can be done by looking on the box. [[http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111011020030/rvb/images/2/29/The_Sarcophagus.png#.UGo_X1GJPAk this is a clear image of the front of the box.]] Now, some might find the marks on it to be...familiar. [[http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091009211439/halo/images/c/c9/DotSymbol.jpg#.UGo-tFGJPAk Does this look familiar?]] for those who don't know what this is, it is the mark left by the Huragok, otherwise known to humans as Engineers. Yes, the [=RvB=] team just hid one of the greatest secrets of the series right under everyone's noses, and even used previously known ''Halo'' lore to back it up!

* What was up with Church's uncharacteristic but genuine anger towards the Blood Gulch guys in Episode 18? Why did he turn on them like that? What brought on this sudden obsession with getting back at the Director, when he didn't seem so caught up on it before? He's been living in Carolina's head and he's picking up on her emotions! Before now, we've never seen Epsilon directly bond with a ''person'', only storage units. Also, keep in mind Epsilon!Church just recovered all his memories. ALL of them. That includes of every instance he was tortured by the director, told his friends were killed, reliving horrors over and over again. Now he's experiencing them again. Suddenly, his rage at the team seems understandable. He's unloading all of his pent up rage, and the Reds and Blues just happen to be the unlucky target. ''Also'', Church hasn't been there for 90% of the gang's bonding time. He missed Sarge's speech at the end of Revelations, he was knocked out of the fight against the Meta and he was sequestered while they fought hell and high water to free him from the Epsilon unit. They're at home in Valhalla, but he's still stuck in Blood Gulch. And boy does it show.
* What was so special about Donut and Tucker for them to get real jobs after getting shipped out of Blood Gulch? They're the only sim troopers there who were able to kill a freelancer. Tucker with Wyoming, Donut with Tex.

* Well, now we know why they went from their CoolStarship to their planet-side bases. Project Freelancer's motto should be "Everything we touch gets broken".
* Of course Delta was able to use logic to know exactly what Church would say. You should be able to know your own logical paths, after all.
* In Episode 20, during Doc's speech that the Gulch Guys, after all they've been through, still got what their hearts desired: Sarge got to lead a military mission, Wash got a new team, etc. Caboose lowers his head and says "not everyone." At first, it seems like he's talking about Church, but then you realize that all Caboose ever desired was to be Church's best friend. He was talking about himself too!
* After Sarge knocks Tex out, upon getting up she sparks and sort of glitches. The explanation we're meant to take is that it's her voice filter breaking. But really it's probably just her robot body reacting to being injured. She sparks in a similar way in one of the season 10 episodes. Also, when Church gives the explanation that he is a ghost now, she immediately takes it at face value, even though it seems farfetched. In reality, Tex probably knows they are both AI at this point, but the last time she saw the Alpha he was in that unit where he's just sort of lost and confused and tired. So when she sees him again, she's probably willing to accept whatever it is he's telling her, and play out that fiction, if it means Alpha is going to be more stable and functional.
* It's a little thing, but 'cockbite', the most common insult used in the series. How, exactly, would a chicken (cock) bite? With Rooster Teeth, of course!
* In episode 21, Wash comments that "there's only one Tex". And when Church dives into every Tex, only one conversation is shown. Church was having the same conversation with all of them.
* During the battle in episode 21, Grif, for some reason, never used his Grifshot (Brute Shot) as a melee weapon, when it works as such just as well as it does for a gun. It can't be said that he never had the chance, as he was often close enough to one of the Texas to bonk heads, even when he ''wasn't'' about to suffer a GroinAttack. Grif's, well, lazy. Holding a trigger is easier than swinging a giant blade.
* Carolina's competition with Tex suddenly makes a lot more sense as being a daughter seeking her father's approval - she's always been in the shadow of her mother and has strived to always gain the approval of a father who barely sees her because he's so focused on her long-lost mother (highlighted by how formally they speak with one another, even in private) but she probably found some solace in being ranked #1 on her father's leaderboard. Now she finds out that there's another woman who her father holds in higher esteem and, worse, held her in that esteem long before Carolina even knew about her (doing the Director's dirty work like blowing up the Oil Platform). It was never about the ranking, it was about daddy.

* No wonder Carolina is NotSoDifferent from Tex! Turns out the original Allison is Carolina's Mommy!. And now we see her animosity towards Tex in a different light too: She probably resents Tex being a "shadow" of her real mother and considers Tex offensive to Allison's memory, and hates that Daddy loves his "pet" so much.
* The reveal in the Season 10 finale of Capt. Flowers being Agent Florida proves that someone at Project Freelancer has a sense of humor. After all, Florida's name is derived from from the word "Flora", in other words: ''Flowers.''
* In ''Recreation'', Epsilon said his favorite color was green. Green - the color of the Director's eyes. Or more importantly, the colour of the Director's ''daughter's'' eyes.

* The whole Allison-Beth discrepancy from the song "A Girl named Tex" was actually brilliantly solved in Season 10. Connie's data reveals that Tex's AI name is "Beta". According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the Greek letter "Beta" was derived from the Phoenician letter "Beth". So, in a way, Tex really is named Beth.
* "For as long as I can remember, I've been lied to, taken advantage of..." After seeing the nature of the Alpha's ColdBloodedTorture, I realized that Wash wasn't just talking about himself - he was also talking about Alpha, and the memories he received from him through Epsilon.
* Rampancy in the ''Halo'' universe is caused by a smart AI learning too much and becoming overwhelmed by its own thought processes, with metastability as the theoretical state in which an AI prevents this by learning to overcome the problem of over-learning (literally stable on a meta level). So it actually makes perfect sense that Epsilon!Church has become metastable. He's learned to let go of old thoughts. In fact we can pinpoint the ''second'' he achieved metastability. "I forget you."
* In S10 E5 Theta says that he has a sister. At first we thought it was Tex. We were wrong. It wasn't Tex. It was actually Carolina.

* O'''mega''' is the '''mega'''lomania of the Director. The director is a man who's power and influence let him do terrible things so that he could gather enough control over the world to prevent those he loves from dying. When Wash mentions that Omega is his rage, we aren't talking the rage of an ordinary man, we're talking the rage of a man whose grief was so strong, he created an unethical super soldier program so that he could prove to himself he could be as much of a hero as his wife. However, while the Director is surely a MagnificentBastard, skilled at manipulation and tactics, Omega isn't. He's that man's superiority, rage, and overbearing sense of control without his love, his trust, his creativity, his logic or his guile. Whenever we see Omega, he's highly dysfunctional and incapable of being a true threat- while the director's megalomania was truly huge, it wasn't capable of surviving in a vacuum.
* Wash wasn't exactly the best pair for Epsilon, but Wash wasn't originally ''supposed'' to have Epsilon. He was originally slated to pick either Eta or Iota, until Carolina butted in and demanded both so she could compete with Tex, which explains why Washington and Epsilon never bonded like North and Theta, or York and Delta, and continue to have a largely frigid relationship. But Carolina herself was meant to have ''Sigma'' (a whole different What Might Have Been). She gave it up so that Maine could have a means of communication after he was shot in the throat. So, if that had never occurred, presumably Sigma would have gone to Carolina, Eta or Iota to Wash, and the other of the pair to South - she several times hints or downright states that she was right behind Wash in the queue for AI. So who would have gotten Epsilon? Well, only two named agents are left by then, and Florida had a seemingly minor role, so presumably, Maine. Yes, the ''Meta'', who spent years pursuing the idea of metastability, may have originally been slated for the one AI fragment that ended up metastable. This goes even further. What was Maine's signature trait among the Freelancers? He was the MightyGlacier. Endure the pain, push through, and keep fighting. If it's true the A.I. gain traits from their users the same way the users gain from the A.I., Maine might have been able to keep Epsilon from collapsing into himself under the weight of all his pain. Or, it could have made things even worse for Maine. All those horrible memories of torture, all your loved ones dying, of never being able to save those you care about the most ... AndIMustScream, indeed.
* Texas' hyper competence. Besides it being Monty's style and the power seep that the series experienced, once we learn a bit more about her origins it starts to make sense. Texas was the mental creation of a man who deeply loved the person she was based on and also a man who commanded an elite team of soldiers. Texas was deliberately created by him as both the shadow of the person he loved ''and'' the perfect soldier.
* A really minor one. At first, I never gave much thought to the Vs. in Red Vs. Blue being in white, figuring it was just to help the contrast. Then I noticed that the Freelancer program seems to use a whitish theme, so it made sense to represent all three factions. But after Revelations, when it's revealed that Project Freelancer is the one causing the "war" between teams, them being designated as the Vs. makes perfect sense!
* In Texas theme song from the soundtrack "On your knees" Practically every state/agent is mentioned being thrashed by Texas...Except Florida. Why is this brilliant? Because Florida both the state and the agent were erased from the records later.
* In the episode Reconciliation, Doc and Donut are discussing how downloading a single picture of Freckles and Caboose is taking up most of the base's energy, a plot point later on and Doc notices a notification that says a post gets ten thousand likes, Basebook would fund for a rescue team. The Fridge Brilliance comes in when the joke ends (how a canyon of less than ten guys can get ten thousand likes) and you realize that there have been more people watching them. An entire planet of people with a civil war going on. The rebels, who the Reds and Blues side with later on, are willing to help them off the planet if they can help them win their war, essentially earning the likes. This is especially important when you remember the fact that the Reds and Blues are utterly incompetent soldiers. Like the picture of Caboose doing something stupid, the incompetent Reds and Blues have to earn the respect and appreciation of the Rebels in order to get their ticket off the planet.
* There have been some complaints about Felix being able to handle the blood gulch crew even though he's a merc, THEN episode 6 came along and reveals he along with Locus were soldier in the covenant war and were part of one of the more gruesome battle in the war history.

** Felix, is ruthless and willing to hurt anyone, regardless of who they are, who gets in the way of his goal and doesn't seem to buy into friendship because he believes EveryManHasHisPrice. Much like Wash was in Season 7-8.

** If you think about it, the partnership between Locus and Felix is lot like the partnership between The Meta and Washington (Locus is to The Meta as Felix is to Washington).
* Church is a AI program, and as of the latest episode he is finally up to super computer speeds, this makes sense when you realize he's been helping Carolina recover Freelancer tech, Freelancer tech made to operate on his OS and the fragments that came from, if there are enhancements to make people faster, invisible, stronger, stop time, and the like, there is no doubt enhancements that improve processing power, that also allows Epsilon/Church to slowly get back to where he was as a AI program.

** Go back to Reconstruction and listen to every back and forth between the two. Late in the season, it's implied that Hargrove had his suspicions or already knew that the Director attacked his company. In the final message to the Director, you can hear the sinister satisfaction in his voice as he says every word, but this one stands out the most.

* Church is bad at shooting because he never received any training. Church was sent to Blood Gulch immediately after the crash of the Mother of Intervention. Being good with a gun receives training and experience, neither of which Church has. This also explains why he doesn't act like a soldier. He's just a random guy sent into battle.
* The paint guns put armor into lock down mode.
* Wash seems to have trouble killing people he knows are good. When he attacked Valhalla he took Simmons prisoner because he knew that Simmons was a good guy. He didn't want to kill Tex because while she isn't a very nice, he knows she is ultimately a good person. He only felt guilt over shooting Donut and Lopez in season 12 because he only really got to know them in season 11. This also leads to a small amount of Fridge Horror. Wash is perfectly fine with killing innocent people as long as he doesn't know them.
* During the final fight against The Tex Bots at the end of Season 10 Church mentions that he remembers how to get angry. He means that he remembers how to turn into Omega, who makes people angry and violent.
* Why can the gang breathe underwater? Their helmets work in space. The helmets are probably connected to oxygen tanks and designed to work in an air free environment.
* Wash does have powers. During the attack on the insurrectionist base he uses an EMP attack to destroy some warthogs. Why doesn’t he use them more? Wash is constantly around high tech machinery and AIs that would be destroyed if he used his powers. Also, it was probably taken by the Meta after South betrayed him.
* Of all of the characters to wield a weapon based around sticking something into someone, Tucker is the most obvious choice.
* At one point in Season 9, Tucker calls Church out about his stalkerish obsession with Tex. Except that isn't Tucker, but a projection into the virtual world by Epsilon. In effect, Epsi-Church was calling himself out for his obsession with Tex. This may have been part of the self realization that lead to 'I forget you.'
* Tex constantly hits Grif in the nuts. Right in the [[IncrediblyLamePun Grifballs]].
* The reason Sigma was originally given to Carolina was because he represented creativity and ambition. They wanted Carolina to become even MORE competitive!

* And the use of the Purge on the ''Tartarus'' not only got rid of those who weren't gonna work with them, but also a couple of volunteers who weren't strong enough to hang on. Brutally efficient way of getting the strongest candidates. Or the smartest.
* After being made to run laps, Smith is the only lieutenant not out of breath. The captain he trained under and idolizes is ''Caboose,'' who is physically much stronger than the other members of the Blood Gulch crew. Trying to keep up with the guy seems to have had positive results, especially since he was just as tired as everyone else (except Caboose) back during their training in season 12.
* A bit of brilliance with casting, but Lopez is voiced by Burnie Burns, who also voices Church, the Blue Team leader at the time of Lopez's introduction. When Lopez 2.0 was introduced, he was voiced by Shannon [=McCormick=], who also voices Wash, the Blue Team leader at the time of Lopez 2.0's introduction.
* You can come up with a couple decent reasons for Church's inability to aim:
** For a physical reason, Church (despite taking the form of a power-armored warrior with a sniper rifle) is not an AI designed for warfare, but to assist the Director's scientific endeavors. A program that isn't designed to fire military hardware in a firefight would then have no reason to have any kind of targeting algorithm.
** For a metaphorical reason, Church involuntarily carries many of the demons of his forebear. Taking the form of a SPARTAN with a sniper rifle to at least appear like the hero The Director couldn't be. However, much like Tex being based on and inevitably succumbing to a failure, so was Church. Church couldn't shoot to save his life because the Director couldn't shoot to save Allison's.
* More Fridge Humor, but throughout the entire Chorus trilogy, we see how each of the Reds and Blues contributed to the ship crash. The ''only'' one who didn't contribute at ALL? ''Caboose.''
* If Grif's story about the ice skating incident is to be believed, technically speaking, Sister survived the same thing that killed ''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]'' Of course she survived Lopez's attack!

* In Caboose's ImageSong "Your best friend" he says that he and Church will be together "until the part where it's over." Church passed in the ''ending'' of season 13, which is where the Chorus arc ends.
* Tucker gets the Meta's armor. His regular armor originally belonged to Captain Flowers (AKA Agent Florida). Is It really suprising Tucker became the most competent member of the Blood Gluch Crew behind Wash and Carolina when he has been using Project Freelancer gear all along?
* Why would Dr. Church pair the Beta AKA Tex (An AI) up with Omega (another AI)? Maybe he was just curious to see what would happen if AIs were paired up together rather than an AI with a human, bit I think there's more to it than that... The Beta is the embodiment of the Alpha's failure. The Alpha, derived from Dr. Church, has come to associate the memory of his lover, Alison, with failure due to her going MIA in the Great War, presumably dying in combat. If she died in combat then maybe the Director concluded that she died because she wasn't strong enough or aggressive enough. Omega's the embodiment of the Alpha's rage and aggression. Maybe the Director thought that if he paired the memory of Alison up with something that would increase her aggression she would be strong enough to succeed where her flesh-and-blood counterpart had failed. Him pairing Omega up with Beta was just his twisted, misguided way of trying to protect her by making her strong enough to not fail again.
* According to ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' [[AllThereInTheManual lore]], the ability to wield an energy sword is considered so impressive in elite society that anyone who can master one can mate with any female they desire. [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker can't pick up women to save his life,]] [[MrSeahorse but he does get chosen to be impregnated with an elite parasite, specifically because he had his sword!]]
* In ''The End'' the Reds and Blues are taking the alien gear and elite weaponry from the Chairman's museum. Simmons, seemingly against all logic, grabs a simple pistol. According to the DVD commentary, though, it wasn't just any gun: it was the notoriously O.P. VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved pistol!

* Why does one of the Freelancer simulation scenarios involve being sent thousands of years into the future? Because of the Temporal Distortion enhancement. When you're messing with something as variable as time travel, it's best to take some precautionary measures. Especially when you've got people like [[FauxAffablyEvil Wyoming]] and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the Meta]] using it.

* Some people in the fandom have complained in how different Tex is in seasons 8-10 as compared to 1-5, claiming that she's lost all her flaws such as greediness and that she's now a Mary Sue and less of a real character. But that might be the point. The difference between BG Tex (S 1-5 and PF Tex (S 8-10) is that PF Tex was newly created and didn't have any time to develop. Even when she was actually in Freelancer she probably wasn't more than a month old, and her only interactions would have been with the Director and Counselor. The former saw her without any flaws, and the laters job was to just make sure she would do her job correctly. When Epsilon brought her back, he was obsessed with her, but he worshiped her as much as the Alpha, so again no flaws. With BG Tex she was on the run alone for a year or more, time in which she had character development, being on the run and lacking supplies could have lead to her being greedy. It's basically the way other authors create characters, they start off with a basic idea (Failure) and add traits and flaws until they are fully realized. Except we got to see the full character first (BG Tex and then the rough draft of said character (PF Tex).
* Locus is so far the only character to understand Lopez properly. Turns out that Locus' real name is Sam Ortez, suggesting a bloodline that traces back to Spanish/Mexican roots. That name was dropped quite casually during season 14 so it took a while for that particular nugget to sink in but we finally get an explanation as to why Locus is bilingual.
* When you first meet Felix and Locus, they're wearing orange and green respectively, colors that derive from red and blue. But to make orange and green, you need to mix in the same color for both: Yellow. Why is this important? Because even though they're on opposite sides (Red/Federal Army vs. Blue/New Republic) they still work for a third party (Yellow/Charon Industries!) In fact, the Charon Industries logo is yellow!

* In Season 8 Caboose and Epsilon are able to get into an old Freelancer facility with no trouble because the computer recognizes Church's voice, and the AI in the facility, FILSS follows every one of their commands without question. This seems like really low level security for a top secret military facility, as they're allowed to do tons of things that are extremely dangerous (breaking out Tex's new body, destroying multiple pieces of equipment and firing extremely dangerous weapons willy nilly). It isn't until the next season that we realize that is pretty much exactly what went on at project Freelancer. Agents would use weapons in unauthorized ways and try to kill teammates (Wyoming and Maine nearly kill York in a training exercise because they were using live rounds when it's against regulations and is insanely dangerous) and were even encouraged to do so, the Director (and the other soldiers) would authorize questionable orders to FILSS verbally with no passwords or security (The Director overrides FILSS's safety protocols regarding sending an ordinance pod to Texas by saying "Just fire it, FILSS", so apparently his voice alone is an override), and FILSS doesn't automatically do what she can to stop their fight ("Are you sure you don't want to activate standard safety protocols?") because she has been reprogrammed to question her superiors as little as possible (she allows a lot of things to happen that honestly shouldn't be allowed on a ship, like live fire demonstrations of untested military equipment (North's first test with Theta and the bubble shield that had previously worked once, and had a .01% chance of success), orbital bombardment of an inhabited city, and has fired on herself (York got the Mother of Invention to shoot itself which caused it to crash). Honestly, it's a wonder she even suggested immobilizing the Reds, Blues, and Texas, she probably figured it was some kind of sick game.
* During the Final fight with Felix, Caboose is almost killed by Felix stealing his gun and is only stopped by the fact that Freckles was in Cabooses gun acting as failsafe. But why was Freckles in Cabooses gun in the first place? Because Locus destroyed its Mantis body and gave its personality back the Blood Gulch Crew. Not only did Locus choose not to kill Caboose when he snuck up on him and Tucker, but in effect saved his life.
* In Season 8, when Church is describing the Meta to the Reds, he says "this thing's like eight of [Tex]". When you think about Tex's true nature[[note]]an AI fragment[[/note]] and what the Meta is/is doing[[note]]Sigma collecting AI fragments at an attempt at Metastability[[/note]], well, Church isn't ''wrong''...
* Some people are scratching their heads over how come Caboose turned from a dumb, but average guy to a complete idiot barely able to put 2 and 2 together without something exploding or someone dying. Well, to be fair, he accidentally killed a teammate, lost one of the only people who were actually NICE to him, was forced to live for a few days with a guy who wants to bone anything even remotely feminine, was used as target practice, had an [[AIIsACrapshoot insane killer AI]] [[MindRape take over his brain]], [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had some of his memories forcibly removed]], suffered numerous physical abuse and went through a sabotaged teleporter.
* Where is Lopez during the attack on the Communications Tower? Caboose is in the gunner's seat, LOPEZ is the one driving the Wraith tank; which also explains the lack of team-killing.
* Doyle's feelings of worthlessness fits even more when you realize that all his decisions we see have been mistakes. He let Locus fool play him for fool, even when he disobeyed orders and led men to their deaths. He also showed while he has some grasp of military strategy, [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil he has difficulty grasping the mindset of]] [[TheSociopath Felix]]. If he failed to grasp that a heartless monster would happily send his men to his deaths, then what good would he think he could do?
* When Dylan is recording footage in Blood Gulch, she says they might've known the truth of the situation if the walls could talk. She ends up getting all the info she needs from Vic, a talking computer built into the wall.

** Several songs from ''The Chorus Trilogy'' play throughout the ending of the previous episode and this one, but "Contact" is strangely missing. Of course it is; Chorus has been rediscovered, so a song about being stranded and desperately calling for help doesn't apply anymore.

* There's another reason why the Director and Counselor chose Agent Florida to watch over the Alpha besides the fact that he's trustworthy: They needed to make him an {{Unperson}}, not just to everyone outside the program, but to the other Freelancers as well. And there couldn't be a better choice than the guy who ''never said anything to any of them.'' Because of his complete silence whenever he's around other Freelancers, they don't know anything about him. They might not even know his name. Because the Freelancers have made no emotional connection with him, it's all too easy for him to go unnoticed. Why do you think Tex genuinely believed there were only 49 Freelancers, despite the Ultimate Fan Guide confirming there were 50? She wasn't even aware of Agent Florida's existence. None of them were. The only one who might've known him was Carolina, as the leader of the top group, and everyone thought she was dead anyway.
* Two from episode 7- one, that it aired on Mother's Day, given that Chorus has a lot more mothers now. The other is that, since the Temple of Procreation was intended to repopulate planets, and Chorus has lost a substantial portion of its population due to the CivilWar, it's actually being used for its intended purpose. (Also falls under FridgeHorror)
* CT's plot seemed to be LeftHanging for years- who he was working for, and what their motivation was. In retrospect, it can be fairly easily inferred that he was still working for Charon Industries, and that the whole operation was an attack on Project Freelancer in the final stages of the project's implosion.

* Why did the Alien beat up Tucker as soon as he noticed that Tucker had the sword? He most likely came for the sword in the first place, but because Tucker had it, it wouldn't work for anyone else. Much later in the series, we learn that a sword is bonded to its owner until their death. He was trying to kill Tucker and take the sword!
* Fridge Humor: Sister was sent to Blood Gulch to replace Captain Flowers, which led the Red Team to assume that she's supposed to be a Blue. But as we learn in Season 14, Donut was sent there for the same reason. Sister may have actually been a Red all along, making her switch to Blue Team pointless.

** Carolina was wearing a prototype her current armor. Season 13 showed that her current suit can take some pretty hard collisions through concrete or off a cliff, whereas similar situations in seasons 9 or 10 would take her out, if not kill her. The new suit can explain her withstanding Tex's attacks.
** Also, given the timeline of events Tex undoubtedly had Omega in her. No wonder she was so ruthless and callous about a single sim trooper's life especially one so stupid to get in her way.

* It's made clear that Temple ''really'' doesn't care for Loco, though there is a reason for it besides Temple just being a JerkAss; it was Loco's makeshift flag that killed Biff.
* Season 1 Church forgetting what Season 15 Caboose said about him dying makes sense, considering his first "death" was getting blown up by Sheila. After he came back as a "ghost", he probably thought he was in the clear and didn't think anything else of it.
* Alternatively to the above, and despite what Church says in TheStinger, maybe he never truly forgot the message from future Caboose. In ''Reconstruction'', he initially refuses to go with Washington to stop the Meta. This could be because he knew what was going to happen all along and wanted to stop it, but ultimately resigned himself to his fate.

* Why did Captain Flowers pick Tucker for the Blue Team? Yes, he was supposed to find people who were similar to the Blues and Reds, but since he didn’t look for anyone like Loco or Cronut, he was clearly allowed to deviate from that team composition to some extent. The other guy seemed to be more useless, being so obsessed with being a good listener he actually forgets to listen to anything. Considering Flowers was actively seeking out useless people, the guy seems more useless then the sex-crazed but otherwise lucid Tucker. Of course, since this was the guy Flowers was going to be interacting with almost constantly, it would make sense that he wouldnt go with his absolute bottom choice. Not to mention Tucker was intended to be his second in command, so the other guy would have been too much of a legitimate liability.
* Why did Carolina get two AI's? In the show it's because she asked for it, in real life it's because there are ''[[UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina two]] [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Carolina's]]''.

** The aliens were presumably one of the races they came to, since they inherited the word "Shisno", use many of the same weapons as the Cosmic Powers, and revered Epsilon in a Monitor body like a god. But why do they recognize the Monitor as a deity? Did the Cosmic Powers come to them as their real selves? Why didn't they disguise themselves as giant aliens? Considering the aliens are obsessed with all things technology, even manmade smartphones, they probably didn't need to change for the aliens to see them as gods.

* The Red & Blue Zealots. Especially in light of the news that all of the Red vs Blue battles are simulations and that at least some of the soldiers are put into 'lock down' when they suffer supposedly mortal wounds and can be 'reset' by F.I.L.S.S. as was the case with Donut in S8, and we realize now, Sarge in S1... what does that make the perpetually self-slaughtering and respawing festival of madness that is the Zealots? What even is the purpose of that simulation? Those questions are bad enough... but then add on to that the fact that Freelancers were supposed to get in there to train up.

** A personal theory of mine, is that originally the other AIs were the ones controlling the Meta. However, Maine had had so many AIs, for so long, that his mind had become completely dependent on them. When they were removed, It almost caused a complete mental breakdown. In order to save itself from permanent crippling insanity, Maine's mind adopted qualities from the various AIs. Sigma's creativity and obsession with power, Delta's logic (The previous two explaining why he's much more of a GeniusBruiser in season 8 than he is in season 9.) Gamma's treachery and Omega's viciousness. This was truly the moment that Maine died, and The Meta was born.

* Caboose's stupidity is generally played for laughs, but it turns into both this and Fridge Sadness when you look back at season 1. In his initial appearance, Caboose was not nearly as dumb as he is currently. He expressed the capabilities to be lwed (calling Church's girlfriend a cow/ expressing sexual desires for Sheila, though that last one may actually be Omega expressing sexual desires) and getting angry at Sheila for killing Church. He genuinely regretted his first Team Kill, and strongly desired to make amends. Now, he apparently has completely forgotten how reproduction works (his confusion when Junior came around) and generally doesn't care/acknowlage when he commits friendly fire (Shooting Private Jones in the back and nearly killing South when told she was on their side). A big difference. Like I said, he was somewhat normal upon his introduction. However, he was shortly infected by Omega. And then he was subsequently entered by Tex and Church while Omega was still rooting around in his head. Now, Carolina nearly killed herself by having two AI's, relatively minor and weak ones at that, in her at once. Omega and Tex were some of the smartest A.I. splinters, and Church was the Alpha. It would be pretty much impossible for him to survive this experience without some mental damage. This, and multiple other examples such as being locked in his armor with no access to outside air for two days, several forced A.I. Ejections (like the one that nearly drove Wash over the edge), the battle between three A.I.'s in his head, and allegedly consuming gasoline, all suggest Caboose has permanent brain damage. Essentially, his time in Blood Gulch drove him from a somewhat dumb, but semi-normal person into a man utterly devorced from reality and entirely dependent on Church or the closest thing that he thinks resembles Church.
* Wash inherited every memory Epsilon had. Think about that. Not only does he remember the entire experience of Alpha being tortured to insanity, he remembers everything from The Director's life at the point of Alpha's creation. He has the memories of three different beings crammed in his head. One of them went insane and had to remove those memories, the other led a life of obsession over his lost love. Does no one wonder how Wash can even function, anymore?
* Tex talks about how they tortured Alpha with scenario after scenario of his friends and loved ones being killed and everything going wrong, and he being unable to stop it, with Gamma and Omega helping think up scenarios. Now remember that in Season 3, Church spends a large chunk of time trying desperately to save the lives of Flowers, Tex, and himself, and keep other bad things from going wrong, and fails miserably, including even ''causing'' some of the bad things with his actions. And Gamma helps. Well, something that used to be hilarious just got a whole more disturbing.
* Back in season 6, Theta was the one that said the very creepy 'We missed you' when Meta was taking Delta. Consider the fact York probably had Delta talk to Theta at others times causing Theta to probably get comfortable with delta, and the fact some of the more cruel AI's were in Meta as well (Eg. Omega) then you can't help but think Theta had been scared and missed his friend.
* Seeing how close Wash, North, and York are in Season 10, it's suddenly quite disturbing to remember the first time we ever met Wash in Recovery 1. He finds York dead in one episode and then North dead in the next. Both times, he's cold as hell and brushes off their deaths like it meant nothing to him. Brrr....

* Another Theta one: he's just so ''cute'' and happy about helping North out, it suddenly becomes disturbing when you realize what they're using him for: destroying people. In episode 8, the "Hail Mary" traps the bad guys in a bloody death, which is pretty disturbing when you realize the little guy was way too cheerful to help accomplish that.

* So we meet "CT" in recreation and he seems like your typical stupid, comically evil, puppy-kicking villain who got the laser-tastic death he deserved. But then we find out in Season 10 that he had deep feelings for the real CT/Connie, that they planned to run away together after exposing Project Freelancer, that the love of his life died and her dying words whispered to him was to get that chip into the right hands so they could accomplish their objective, and that he took on her identity as a way to remember her and carry on her dreams. And he died... without accomplishing any of that... killed by a bunch of incompetent idiots. More like a Fridge TearJerker, really.

* In the Blood Gulch Chronicles, when Tex and Church go into Caboose's mind to look for O'Malley/Omega, Church says this to Caboose's Mental Image of Church: "First of all, you? You're not Caboose's best friend, okay? You don't ''have'' a best friend. You know why? You don't need one! You're Church! Knowing other people just waters down the experience!" Why is this FridgeHorror? Well, there's actually two possible reasons. The Alpha was put through countless stressful, horrible scenarios to break its mind. It is more than likely that the Alpha lost its ability to easily trust after Theta was fragmented. There's also the less awful idea that since the Director was arrogant and cold towards others, Church/the Alpha inherited that trait.

* Here's one: Going from episode 13 of season 10 it looks like Gamma was in on Sigma's plan to merge the AI back into a smart AI. He also knew about Omega and Wyoming's plan back in the Blood Gulch Chronicles to possess Junior to control the aliens by corrupting their religion from the inside. Now imagine if these plans overlapped at some point... And then think about how season 7 showed that AI can inhabit Forerunner technology... which the aliens worship. It's possible that Omega knew what Sigma was doing thanks to Gamma. Suddenly Omega's declarations of conquering the universe don't seem so comical anymore.
* It was a bit weird that the first person at Carolina's bedside in episode 14 wasn't York or Wash, but Wyoming; aside from his cold demeanor, his interactions with her had been much less friendly than those two had been; notably, she ordered him to charge at two minigunners, whice he ignored, and in the previous episode, she whipped her helmet off at him in a fit of rage. But last episode, it wasn't just Maine's AI that had been giving her suggestions... and with Maine and Wyoming in the infirmary (granted that Maine was seeing a doctor about his headaches), that means that Sigma and Gamma were also there...

* Of course Church hates everyone so much. Because a part of him remembers how much it hurt to care about everyone instead and have them hurt and taken away due to his own mistakes. Much safer to hate them all instead. What's even worse is that the scenarios specifically target his care for a certain agent so whatever fragment that emerged would care about that agent and bond with him or her.

* Episode 14 shows how the AI's are implanted into the armor: the unit is grafted into the base of their skull. If the Meta was stealing the Freelancer's armor enhancements and AI units, then, unless Sigma could transfer the AI into Maine's head, he would have been ripping the unit out of his victim's neck. Brutal.
* So Alpha was tortured with the prospect of all his comrades dying. Remember in BGC the way Church ''screamed'' when he thought Wyoming killed Caboose? [[HarsherInHindsight Yeah.]]
* O'malley was in on the torture of Alpha. Then you look back at Tucker's pregnancy. "Oh you'll do it or else your little friend Tucker will die and you'll spend years wondering if you could have saved him." Doesn't seem like such and comedic threat given Alpha's fear of losing people.

* The Director's actions revolve around his memories and unresolved issues with Allison, which had fragmented from Alpha and became Beta. Alpha is probably what the Director would be had he let go of those feelings. Church is capable of doing good/being a real hero, and of great kindnesses. What granted Church that ability, or, possibly, what took the ability away from the Director?

* End of Episode 21, Church splits apart to talk with the [=AIs=] running the Tex copies. The conversation we see is almost an exact replica of the scene where Tex attempted to free the Alpha, complete with Tex not even knowing her own name. So, it seems the director is so far gone that however he got a copy Tex, he subjected it to the same sort of fragmentation process (mental torture) that he did to the Alpha. So he did that, to the [[VirtualGhost AI ghost]] of the woman he loved, in order to get her "right", to use Epsilon's terminology. What. The. Fuck?
* Episode 22 reveals that the Director is Carolina's father, and that Alison was her mother. That's bad enough, until you realize that Carolina has effectively been competing with and fighting against the closest thing she had left to her mom this entire time, without either Carolina or Tex realizing it. In a really sad way, Project Freelancer has caused Carolina to wind up hating both her father, and through Tex, her mother.

* More of a Fridge Tearjerker, but... Caboose still doesn't have his best friend, Church.

* As revealed in Season 13, UNSC prisoner transport ships come with hatches in every cell which can be activated with almost casual ease, spacing the prisoners.

* Perhaps less "horror" than fridge tragedy, but when one considers the fact that Alpha is an AI based on the director, and several moments in the series go out of their way specifically to point out how similar the two characters are, it is reasonable to assume that before Allison was killed, The Director may have once been a similarly wise-cracking, sarcastic DeadpanSnarker like Church. The video we eventually find him watching on endless repeat was (from what we can see) a fairly lighthearted video, seemingly even showing Allison laughing at something silly the Director was doing offscreen.

* The Temple of Procreation ''sounds'' funny at first, with gags like [[LovableSexManiac Tucker]] saying he "didn't feel any different", and Grif and Simmons' denial that anything ''happened'' in that [[TransparentCloset closet]]. It becomes a lot more disturbing when one remembers Santa's description of its effects in Season 13 "It will send the inhabitants of Chorus into a ravenous sexual frenzy". This has all kinds of horrifying implications on its own, when one considers that most people don't want to have sex with ''everyone'' they meet. Also, as shown by Tucker's class-action lawsuit, there are a ''lot'' of single mothers on Chorus; how many of their children will grow up without their fathers? Simmons says that Tucker alone had enough kids to fill ''an entire elementary school''.
* Chrovos's past self being prevented from doing all the his actions would bring another paradox and a timeline without the Cosmic Powers, bringing an unknown consenqunce.
** Granted, this might veer somewhat more into FridgeLogic.

* York may well have the same problem Simmons does. It's not that he's not a good locksmith; he is. He's just not a good FAST locksmith, which is why he keeps failing in the field where speed and performing under pressure are paramount. (Just like Simmons, who actually ''is'' smart, just not fast enough to test well under pressure.) And this might also explain why he kept having trouble talking to Carolina. He actually wants to impress her, get her to like him, and that stress always caused him to screw up his lines.

* In Texas theme song from the soundtrack "On your knees" Practically every state/agent is mentioned being thrashed by Texas...Except Florida. Why is this brilliant? Because Florida both the state and the agent was erased from the ''Halo'' Universe officially.

* The Temple of Procreation ''sounds'' funny at first, with gags like [[LoveableSexManiac Tucker]] saying he "didn't feel any different", and Grif and Simmons' denial that anything ''happened'' in that [[TransparentCloset closet]]. It becomes a lot more disturbing when one remembers Santa's description of its effects in Season 13 "It will send the inhabitants of Chorus into a ravenous sexual frenzy". This has all kinds of horrifying implications on its own, when one considers that most people don't want to have sex with ''everyone'' they meet. Also, as shown by Tucker's class-action lawsuit, there are a ''lot'' of single mothers on Chorus; how many of their children will grow up without their fathers? Simmons says that Tucker alone had enough kids to fill ''an entire elementary school''.

* Wash wasn't exactly the best pair for Epsilon, but Wash wasn't originally ''supposed'' to have Epsilon. He was originally slated to pick either Eta or Iota, until Carolina butted in and demanded both so she could compete with Tex, which explains why Washington and Epsilon never bonded like North and Theta, or York and Delta, and continue to have a largely frigid relationship. But Carolina herself was meant to have ''Sigma'' (a whole different What Might Have Been). She gave it up so that Maine could have a means of communication after he was shot in the throat. So, if that had never occurred, presumably Sigma would have gone to Carolina, Eta or Iota to Wash, and the other of the pair to South - she several times hints or downright states that she was right behind Wash in the queue for AI. So who would have gotten Epsilon? Well, only two named agents are left by then, and Florida had a seemingly minor role, so presumably, Maine. Yes, the ''Meta'', who spent years pursuing the idea of metastability, may have originally been slated for the one AI fragment that ended up metastable. This goes even further. What was Maine's signature trait among the Freelancers? He was the MightyGlacier. Endure the pain, push through, and keep fighting. If it's true the A.I. gain traits from their users the same way the users gain from the A.I., Maine might have been able to keep Epsilon from collapsing into himself under the weight of all his pain. Or, it could have made things even worse for Maine. All those horrible memories of torture, all your loved ones dying, of never being able to save those you care about the most ... IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream, indeed.

* Church's "ghost form" seems like it originated from the idea that ghosts should be white. But in the light of TheReveal, you have to ask yourself: [[spoiler: What happens when you split white light?]]
* Similar to this, Church seems to be the OnlySaneMan of the series, until said reveal, when it turns out that [[spoiler: he actually lost everything else about his personality in order to keep his ''sanity''.]] Yes, his character, backstory and all, is literally OnlySaneMan plus a bit of natural jerkass that comes with spending as much time as he did in Blood Gulch.
* In Season 2, Lopez and Sheila leave a note at Blue base to meet in the centre of the canyon at 0600 hours - the same time and place they were meeting the Reds. The note is written in binary. Church can read it. [[spoiler: He is actually an AI program himself, and thus able to understand binary script.]]
* Sarge's speech is awesome, no doubt, but his opening lines "Do you ever wonder why we're here" has a double meaning. The question was originally answered assuming they were being asked why are they there, doing what they're doing, while the original question is about why they aren't in the shade. Sarge's question is asking about the former, but in the end, he's talking about bring to light the events that happened, as opposed to keeping people in the dark.
** Actually in the first episode it was Grif and Simmons questioning about god and the point of being in a box canyon. Caboose and Church do the shade "Why were we here." speech in the end of season 5.
** Another Fridge Brillance in Sarge's speech is when he tells Grif that he could have left any time he wanted and nobody would have stopped him. Despite Grif's constant complaints if he asks Sarge for permission to be lazy or cowardly and Sarge denies him he actually follows Sarge's orders. Despite Grif's claims of having no respect for Sarge, Sarge's attempts to kill him, and his occasional half assed attempts to quit like talking about Simmon's feelings when Sarge said he'd courtmartial anyone who talked about Simmon's feelings. Grif ultimately chooses to stay.

** On the subject of Caboose that's also fridge horror. Caboose is obsessed with Church being his best friend and would do anything for him including filling Epsilons's memories with stories about Church. Caboose keeps trying to bring back Church. Church is a representation of the Director whose obsession kept trying to bring back Alison. It seems being unable to let go is a running theme in the series.
* Grif's supposed status as BrilliantButLazy. He's so lazy that ''thinking itself'' is too much effort for him short of life-and-death.
** Grif has shown himself to be brilliant when he was Simmons defense attorney in a trial where Sarge was Judge and Prosecution. He had Simmons plead guilty with time served and a fine that would be split between Grif and Sarge so they all could avoid seeing Donut in hot pants again.

** Wyoming was doing somewhat OK. A few of him got sniped, but they were able to corner the blues. It wasn't until the red came and mowed them down with the chaingun on the warthog that they got beaten soundly, which is understandable, since very few can withstand that weapon.
* In season 9, we are lead to believe that the director sends in [[spoiler:Tex to help the Dakota twins after they botch their mission.]] However, it instead turns out to be [[spoiler: Agent Carolina with her "Chameleon" armor upgrade. The fact that it wasn't Tex makes perfect sense because, assuming this takes place before the creation or fragmentation of the Alpha, that means that the Tex we all know didn't even exist yet.]]
** Tex wasn't a fragment. She was "born" ''with'' Alpha, not from him.
** I thought up two things about this. Either this is the Directors lover, which explains why she is badass like Tex. The other theory is that this is the body that Tex ends up possessing. Either one could explain why the un-named Freelancer is so much like Tex.
*** Or, as it turns out, she's just really good at being a Freelancer. [[spoiler:Pity that we know (from what Delta says in season 6) that she's going to end up being given two AIs and go crazy.]]
** Tex was on the mission, she was responsible for blowing up the Oil Platform (Episode 15, said by Carolina). In fact, Carolina suggests that Tex has been operating for a while.
** Revealed in Season 10. [[spoiler: Carolina is (at least implied to be) the Director's and Allison's (the original Tex) daughter.]]
* If Tex and Church's relationship reportedly ended badly, and Tex even [[spoiler:brutally betrayed Church to learn the truth about her creation]], why does Church keep fighting for her, and why can't they seem to just get rid of each other and move on? [[spoiler: Because Tex is based on the woman the Director loved (and whom supposedly loved him back), and yet is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption destined to fail at everything she wants]], their entire relationship is one cruel cycle: they fall in love, but Tex will always be unable to commit fully at the last second. [[HarsherInHindsight Talk about brutal.]]]]
** You don't even need it to be about Tex failing. It could easily be that the Director completely believed that the real Alison loved him as much as he loved her but that she'd broken it off (possibly due to commitment issues - remember those comments in Season 1 about how she regularly cheated on Church? That's probably the real Alison he's referring to) but he never really gave up on her - and then she died and he truly believed she'd have one day returned to him if she'd just held on. It doesn't matter whether he was right or not, it's about what he interpreted that became the basis of Tex. It makes Tucker's comment in S9 about this being one of the creepiest stalker stories out there all the more poignant - and Church's response is EXACTLY what the Director's opinion would be on this: it's romantic that he built a shrine of her in the form of a.... shadow to use CT's word. He'd think it's incredibly romantic that his feelings for her were so strong that she just popped into existence.... and then he turns her into his best agent.... and then his artificial clones spend most of their respective lives obsessing over her and chasing her until Epsilon finally broke the cycle. Even if Alison did love the Director, I think her opinion would be nothing short of horror if she tried to conceptualize this entire reality.
* Fridge Awesome here (is that a thing?)(it is now why not?): Doc's actions in the last episode of Revelation. Think about it: despite everything that Wash and the Meta have put him through, Doc decides to save Washington. Wash responds to this by insulting him. A few minutes later, Doc sides with Church, and Washington doesn't even factor in that he'll have to go through the guy who saved his life to get at Epsilon. A few minutes after that, Wash is dying, and Doc is - again - the only one who can help. He's been a lousy medic for long enough that he knows he can get away with letting him die. He has no reason to help him and every reason to "accidentally" let his scalpel slip (Doc isn't really clued-in here, so he might even think that Wash will start fighting again if he gets back up). But does he? Does he even consider it? No, he pulls together all his experience, gives it everything he's got, and saves him so that he goddamn STAYS saved. And then he walks away without getting anything for it.
** In season five at the end. Doc had O'malley a crazed villain in his head that could make him go on a killing spree at any time. Church has just insulted his diagnosis of Tucker's pregnancy and told him to leave and O'Malley claims that Church only asked for a Diagnosis not treatment or a correct Diagnosis. Doc takes over and tells Church and O'Malley that his diagnosis is correct and that he WILL be taking care of Tucker causing both O'Malley and Church to express surprise in unison. Then in the next season Church wants to kill Junior and Doc refuses to let Church into the base. Even more fridge is added when you consider that Omega may have been helping doc keep the kid alive to further his enslave the "elites use them to take over the galaxy" plan

* If the theory about Vic being an AI or VI is true, that would explain why and how Lopez translated Vic's message to Spanish in Season 4. (And how Sarge was able to translate it back into English with Andy.) An ordinary voice recording wouldn't have been translated to another language, especially not with the correct inflections while preserving the original voice and tone. But if that recording was actually a computer-generated message, Lopez's Spanish setting could've recognized the program and changed it to his default language: Spanish! Lopez, Andy, and Vic could all have similar programming: one was made from a robot kit sent by command, one was built out of pieces of armor, and one is theoretically an AI or VI.

* After the big reveal in ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction]]'' where [[spoiler:Church is revealed to actually be a super-advanced A.I. program,]] this troper recalled a conversation between Church and Caboose in the first season where Caboose's [[InsaneTrollLogic unique train of thought]] comes to the conclusion that Church is "a gay robot", which could either be taken as subtle foreshadowing or dumb coincidence (whether or not Church is gay, however, is still left to be decided).
** Welp, as of Season 14, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Church would have liked Tex regardless if she was male or female after he accidentally flipped everyone's genders in his focus episode]], so Caboose was once again a lot closer to the mark than he realized.
** At first, it seems the Ice map Avalanche had no real significance in being the location for the conclusion of ''Revelation''. It was only recently that I realized that map's ''Halo 1'' equivalent, Sidewinder, was the place where Tex made her first appearance in a CurbStompBattle, [[spoiler:and Avalanche has Tex getting brutally killed by the Meta - in other words, it's meant to show that Tex's story has come full circle]].
** At the end of ''Reconstruction'', The Director of Project Freelancer, Dr. [[spoiler: Leonard Church]], states "My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? The memory of her has haunted me my entire life, moreso in these last few years than I could ever have imagined. But given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself. Had I only the chance." But why would "the events of the past few weeks," the struggle between Wash, the Meta, and Command, have convinced the Director? [[spoiler: It didn't. It was ''Church'' and ''his'' sacrifice that convinced Dr. Church that he would have done the same - just like the AI that was based off of him.]]
* At first, Tex's sudden ultra competence bugged the hell out of me. It was out of nowhere. She takes out Maine, York and Wyoming with relative ease. But then... again, an idea came to mind. Despite how awesome and badass she is, in the end, she's a deconstruction of the MarySue. She's everything [[BigBad The Director]] wanted her to be, as she's the memory of someone he once loved. But her death is an integral part of that memory. As Epsilon explains, the memory of her death dooms her to a cycle of failure at critical moments, turning the tide against herself at the last second. On top of that, her abilities don't endear her to [[TheRival Carolina]] or [[ProperlyParanoid Wash]], and the Blues and Reds like to think of her as the "scary chick." Only [[TheHero Church]] risks life and limb for her, and even Tucker points out that's just unhealthy. Mary Sues are supposed to be loved by everyone. Instead, Tex fosters fear, resentment or paranoia, and at the height of her power she inevitably fails. As cool as she can be, she's just as broken as Church. - Quadrophenia
* Conversely, we have the Alpha's complete incompetence. If he was an AI, he would be a pro at tactics or at least be able to calculate the trajectory needed to hit a stationary target. It makes sense though when we consider how the Alpha was tortured and split. For example, he lost his ability to lie when he lost Gamma (deceit).
* So far I have only started the seventh season so if i'm wrong correct me, but all the freelancers, who use the reds and blues for training purposes, have either purple (the mix of red and blue), white (the blending of all colors) or black (the absence of all color). I cant think of a meaning for grey that fits in my fridge moment. On a further note, the two purple characters i have seen, Doc and South, are people who either a) healing people regardless of side or b) are chronic backstabbers and the meta (white) is trying to get all the A.I.s which are colored in primary colors. Can any one think of anything else to add?
** York has shown up already, and he's yellow. Seasons 8-10 add a couple more. We've got a brown, a teal, another purple, and a mysterious blue Freelancer who shows up in the art but is unidentified.
** Some of these colors just mean different things for different characters, but here's mine:
*** Tex has black armor - the absense of color, so she is on nobody's side but her own.
*** Wyoming has white armor - at the time he was introduced in the series, he was the only other freelancer besides Tex. So he got the opposite of her color.
*** Doc (who isn't a freelancer agent, but w/e) has purple armor - a medic assigned to work for both red and blue. Red and Blue make purple.
*** South has purple armor - chronic backstabber who plays whatever side is needed. While neither the Reds or the Blues had contact with her, the easiest way to show neutrality is to be like Doc and have purple.
*** North has purple armor - he kinda has a nurturing personality that Doc has; plus he's South's brother.
*** Carolina has teal armor - Carolina is Church's daughter, and the person sent to look over Church (Captain Flowers) had that same color. Also to tie her to Captain Flowers, she is doing the exact opposite of what he did; Captain Flowers was assigned as part of a cover up, and Carolina is out to unravel it all.
*** York has yellow/orange/brown armor - good with technology, so he gets the same color as Lopez (possible reference to copper wiring, though that's a bit of a stretch).
*** Washington has gray armor - similar role as Tex, in that he is a mercenary who doesn't have a moral compass - good or bad, black or white - and is just doing his job and playing his side.
*** Washington changes his armour to blue (with yellow stripes to let viewers know who he is) at the end of Season 8, and then reverts back to gray (most likely a call-back) in Season 11. The blue represents his joining of Blue Team and essentially taking Church's place, while the gray possibly references the earlier mentioned rogue freelancer. Its possible that gray is because he technically takes command of both teams.
* I don't know if this was intended or not, but think about this. In Episode 2 of the BGC, Sarge says, sarcastically, that they won and that Grif is the big hero. Take that as Grif being the reason that Red Team won at Blood Gulch. Later, in the mini-series Relocated, Lopez informs Sarge that Red Team actually DID win at Blood Gulch because Lopez killed Grif's sister. So technically, a Grif was the cause of Red Team's victory at Blood Gulch! Foreshadowing!
** As it turns out, Lopez lied about this, presumably because he just wanted to rejoin the Reds (for whatever reason). Sister is still very much alive.
* Especially after all the retcons, the series is now, arguably, a Love Story (albeit a reeeeeeeeally screwed up one). Seeing as how the existence of the Freelancers, Red and Blue bases, and a large chunk of the plot are pretty much due to [[spoiler:the Director's love for Allison]], and Church's feelings for Tex drive a large chunk of the ''rest'' of the plot, almost from Day One. Caboose's feelings for Church (whether you want to classify them as platonic or not) also end up being a strong motivator of the plot at certain points, too.
** Director/Allison is later continued in Church/Tex as they're both memories of Director/Allison with fake data used to fill the gaps. Depending on how you look at it though, its more of an arms-race story between [[spoiler: Charon vs Project Freelancer]].
* No idea if this is intentional or not, but I love that TheReveal of Washington's first name comes as he is [[DavidVersusGoliath cornered and (seemingly) alone and squaring off for an (apparently) hopeless battle against the Meta and the Director.]]

* This was most likely a coincidence, but in Literature/TheBible, Revelation 20:1-3 reads, [[spoiler:"And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time."]] Fitting how, in ''Revelation'' episode 20, [[spoiler:the Meta is killed by being chained to a Warthog and flung into an icy abyss. You should also consider that Tucker's sword IS a key.]].
** An alternative interpretation here would be that either Church or the Director is the dragon as both are sealed away [[spoiler: Epsilon Church in the memory unit, and the Director in a hidden research facility. Both are also set free by Carolina. Epsilon is set free and helps saves Chorus while Carolina gives her pistol to the director to help him commit suicide. ]]
* You know how Tex's [[spoiler:main attribute is failure?]] Well, after both times the Meta [[spoiler:absorbed Tex, he failed in both of his goals (he got all his AI emp'd, and then got killed by simulation troopers).]] So, it's safe to say that [[spoiler:absorbing Tex caused the Meta to inherit Tex's attribute of failure as if it were his own!]]

** Strangely, though, Wash seems less mean and snarky after spending time on blue team. It might just be because he's a more effective leader. Hell, he's probably been teaching Caboose and Tucker combat skills. Maybe even the Reds.

* Washington once mentioned that Omega would always jump back to Tex when moved to other suits of armor. This might at first seem like it's because Tex can be AxCrazy at times, but after TheReveal the real reason is brilliant - Tex is the women Church loves, and Omega is a fragment of Church's mind. So of course he's always going to try and find the woman he loves; that's what the real Church was always trying to do too!
** Coupled with a moment of FridgeHorror : WHY WERE THEY PUTTING OMEGA IN OTHER PEOPLE'S HEADS?!?
** And this also means that Tex was constantly being pursued not by an AI copy of her lover, but by one of the ugliest aspects of his personality... not only is this even more FridgeHorror, it also makes sense why Tex would keep rejecting the other versions of Church now. She had her head full of his ugly side and couldn't escape it, and now she's traumatised to the point where she really can't return the other versions of Church's affection any more.
* Sigma is Maine, AKA the Meta's AI, right? And the Meta tried to gather all of the AI, very possibly under Sigma's influence. Well, in mathematics, Sigma (Σ) is used to represent the sum. Which is a parallel to what Sigma/Maine tried to do! Gather them all up and add them all together!
** Sigma expressed interest in the fourth stage of rampancy: Metastability aka full sentience. The third stage of rampancy is jealousy, which an AI has a desire to grow in knowledge and ability. Despite being a fragment, Sigma is in the third stage.
* So South backstabs North because she was jealous he had an AI and she didn't. In episode 5 of Season 10, we see the Freelancer guys compare AI's like teenage boys comparing penis sizes in the locker room. In other words... South had PENIS ENVY!
** Or it might be something different. Think about it: Theta is the empathy, or 'child', of Alpha and he's paired with North. With all the looks South is giving to her brother with Theta around [[spoiler: and with the fact that she killed North and allowed the Meta to kidnap him]], South is actually jealous that North has a child and she doesn't! [[AdultFear Oh dear...]]
** Yet another interpretation: South feels like North's protective instincts and attention have shifted from her to Theta, and she feels thrust aside and ignored. It's classic middle-child syndrome.
** Alternately, it was frustration amplified by a hyper-competitive environment: She was forced to take missions that contradicted her strengths but played to her brother's, and may have chafed under North's BigBrotherInstinct even before Theta; South seems to disregard North's advice, not unusual for a younger sibling feeling overshadowed. Adding to that: The Project precluded South from ever getting an A.I., the only way to compete against those with that advantage. South was suffering from a bad case of Director-mandated [[CantCatchUp Can't Catch Up]], and it took its toll, especially since she didn't know that it was out of her hands.
** Also, she could feel abandoned by her brother. All of the "good" guys on the team are pretty close, Wash, York and North all have similar personalities (respecting and caring for their AI, all of them have an actual sense of humor, and none of them really care about their place on the leaderboard (FYI Wash, York, and North care about their spot on the board the least out of everyone, however South is the one who is bumped off of it after the Sarcophagus mission, and according to a later scene with North in the training room, she is at the bottom of the board period ), and get along well (probably related to the fact that they don't care about competing with the others). The other people on the team are a complete and utter mess...
*** Wyoming and Florida doesn't show up enough to interact with anyone
*** Maine is...Maine
*** Carolina doesn't have time for anyone, and is implied to spend all her waking hours training to beat everyone else on the leaderboard. Plus any hope of a relationship with South are destroyed when Carolina takes the AI intended for her.
*** CT seems to have the same problems South does (ie being ignored because of her place on the leaderboard) and South actually reaches out to CT prior to a mission ("Us girls gotta stick together") but then [[spoiler:CT betrays the whole team and is "axed"]].
*** And then there's Texas. In the locker room scene, Texas and South have a dominance standoff, where South basically has to roll over for Texas, and can't stand up to her, since Texas would kick her ass and she knows it. South is now not only literally below her in the leaderboard but she has to literally pick up her trash (it was South's fault for breaking it, but before Texas showed up, she could break whatever she wanted and her brother and even Carolina would let her do what she wants, so this was probably the first time she was ever forced to restrain herself since she got into Project Freelancer).
** So she literally has no friends at Project Freelancer outside of her brother. Her brother on the other hand has several (Wash, York) and once Theta came around she could have felt neglected now that her brother focused his nurturing side on Theta. Any hope of an AI companion she could confide in was squashed by Carolina taking the one that was slated for her, and Wash's experience practically ending the program. And once her brother sided with Texas over her, (while still having at least one friend, York, by his side) leaving her functionally alone, she might have snapped.
** Oh, and her problem with Theta may be why she was so quick to ditch Delta into the Meta's hands in Season 6. She always wanted an AI, but she had disdain for them because it stole her brother's affections.
* Carolina is shown in seasons nine and ten to be ''very'' impatient and irritable. Well, of course; episode 6 of season 10 reveals that [[spoiler: she originally had Sigma as her AI. Now, which AI was the evil, corrupting one again?]]
** Alternately, [[spoiler: Sigma seems to be Alpha's ambition, and Carolina's impatience and irritability could be the result of Sigma's drive rubbing off on her. ]]
* The Reds and the Blues seem to have a positive effect on Wash, but why would that be? It makes sense when you think about his personal history. He was part of Project: Freelancer, and the team seemed to be a very tight-nit and friendly unit, with genuinely decent people like York. However, this team eventually turned on one another, leading to a sister to kill her brother and what were true companions to become the deadliest of enemies. But then he meets the Reds and Blues- two teams that were designed to be mortal enemies, who he had no problem betraying without a moments hesitation and who have no reason to trust them. But they are also a team that is willing to forgive Wash for his actions simply for the fact that he helped them, and that they are willing to fight for each other and put their lives on the line at a moments notice for no other reasons than the odd bonds that they have, he actually finds a team that Project: Freelancer was MEANT to be but failed to be due to infighting.
** Might be more to that in the very nature of how their situations were designed. The Freelancer Project was meant to be about competition, but there is one image available in nearly every room aboard the ship: The ranking table. The Freelancer Project was entirely about competition, and the competition is always in the back of their minds and when they go out on missions, they try to suppress it with their focus on the mission, but when anything goes wrong, you can start seeing the cracks form (see South and North responding with a degree of hostility to Carolina saving them, South's rage at dropping a rank, CT's disappointment possibly feeding her FaceHeelTurn, Maine and Wyoming using live ammo against Tex after losing to her repeatedly during a training exercise, Carolina pushing to get the briefcase before Tex, the list goes on and on). The BG guys are supposed to be two teams fighting against one another, but the battle they wage is entirely pointless (as was completely lampshaded by Grif in the very first episode) that is taken seriously by exactly one person. Because the competition is team in nature, it highlights the team elements rather than individualism and because they don't really have much to do, they build a pretty significant camaraderie - within the team and with the only other people in the neighborhood. When they actually have something to fight for, this parlays into TrueCompanions and their neurological hangups take a backseat to their individual best traits. Guess what situation Wash is in.

* In episode 6 Sigma praises Carolina and then wraps around and praises Tex. Anyone with a brain cell would see that was a stupid thing to do, but Sigma is still a fragment of Church so it's only natural for him to like Tex.
* York may well have the same problem Simmons does. It's not that he's not a good locksmith; he is. He's just not a good FAST locksmith, which is why he keeps failing in the field where speed and performing under pressure are paramount. (Just like Simmons, who actually ''is'' smart, just not fast enough to test well under pressure.) And this might also explain why he kept having trouble talking to Carolina. He actually wanted to impress her, get her to like him, and that stress always caused him to screw up his lines.
* Caboose randomly quoting Washington in episode 8 (adding "Of all time" to Tucker calling Church the "worst wingman ever") doesn't seem as random when you consider that [[spoiler: Wash replaced Church, who Caboose looks up to, so he started looking up to Wash, and would inevitably start quoting him]].
* At first, we're led to believe that the CT Tucker meets in the desert is Connie, using a voice modifier. But that raises a Headscratcher: how could Tucker, the infamous Dr. Love, the President of Boning, ''the'' CasanovaWannabe of the series, not see that CT was a girl? Now that Episode 10 reveals [[spoiler: Connie actually died and Pillman took her armor]], it all makes sense!
* While it might not only be this, the fact that Tex has no trouble killing CT while Carolina has large objections is a bit of FridgeBrilliance. Carolina is the effective leader of the Freelancers and gets to know everyone on her team. Tex is the lone wolf who doesn't socialize with the other Freelancers (for obvious reasons). So when CT goes rogue, Tex has no problem seeing just another enemy while Carolina still sees her friend.
** Also, two episodes earlier, the Director and the Counselor can be heard discussing a new AI fragment being formed. Later on, Texas is seen using her cloak armor enhancement, of which can only be operated by an AI. Furthermore, Tex's response to Carolina reminding her of the mission objective has a rather anger-filled tone to it. That's right - the reason for the brutality Tex displayed when fighting CT was primarily because she was recently given Omega.

* Epsilon seems to lack Alpha and Omega's ability to jump into people's bodies and take them over at will; he can only hitch a ride in each armor's A.I. slot, seems to require some effort to switch slots, and requires Caboose's help to swap into anything more complicated like the Monitor or the Mongoose. This makes sense since, despite both of them taking the identity of Church, Epsilon isn't Alpha, but rather his own distinct entity.
** It's both more and less complicated than that: Alpha could body surf because he was a smart (complete) AI. Omega is unique among the fragments in that he can body surf, but he needs an open radio channel to do it. Epsilon, despite being metastable and functioning as Pvt. Leonard Church mk.2, is limited by his origins in what he can do.
** Also Wash mentions in Reconstruction that Omega "was the one who inherited that trait". It's simply an ability of Alpha's that just happened to be passed down to Omega. No other A.I. (besides Tex, who was also a smart AI and not a fragment) has that ability.

* Gamma and Sigma [[spoiler:working together: because creativity and deceit are good qualities for a villain to have]].

* In episode 15 [[spoiler:every Freelancer except Tex reacted upon hearing Tex's real name. This reaction occurred in the AI fragments. The trauma the Director felt when the real Allison died was carried over to them. However, since Omega knew that "Allison" was safe, since he was implanted into her, he didn't freak out.]]
** Perhaps Sigma [[spoiler:incorporated Tex into the Meta to make all the fragments stable, so they wouldn't have to worry about Allison anymore.]]

** Why do the Blood Gulch guys keep getting characterized as stupid? Lazy, neurotic and incompetent, yes, but aside from Caboose they're all of at least average intelligence.
** Plus, he mostly just acts like the original host if they were just really angry. Since he spent a good part of it possessing people who were either too idiotic to feel hate, carried no inherent malice to begin with, or just plain didn't care, of course he would act less threatening. When he was working with Tex, though...
** And the subtle early spoiler, when Omega briefly jumps into Church, he just says "Huh, I don't feel that different". This has a double meaning: [[spoiler: He's just getting back a fragment of himself, and he's ALWAYS ANGRY]].
* With the apparent revelation that the Sarcophagus contains [[spoiler:an Engineer]], it suddenly makes sense for it to be in a room filled with Covenant trophies.

* So, in regards to the revelation from episode 16, many were surprised. One can, however, be spoiled of it in episode 15. '''Of Season 9'''. Yes, one could discover the contents of the Sarcophagus from before Season 10 began. This can be done by looking on the box. [[http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111011020030/rvb/images/2/29/The_Sarcophagus.png#.UGo_X1GJPAk this is a clear image of the front of the box.]] Now, some might find the marks on it to be...familiar. [[http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091009211439/halo/images/c/c9/DotSymbol.jpg#.UGo-tFGJPAk Does this look familiar?]] for those who don't know what this is, it is [[spoiler:the mark left by the Huragok, otherwise known to humans as Engineers.]] Yes, the [=RvB=] team just hid one of the greatest secrets of the series right under everyone's noses, and even used previously known ''Halo'' lore to back it up!
* Note that in the Tucker vs. Tex fight, Tex completely owns Tucker, while Tucker manages to land a few solid hits on the Meta even though the Meta could fight Tex on equal footing. That's because Tex is a LightningBruiser, while the Meta is TheJuggernaut. Tex can dodge most attacks Tucker can throw, but the Meta just tanks them. [[spoiler:It could also be explain by, as stated further up on the list, the Meta may have inherited Tex's attribute of failure when he absorbed her.]]
* What was up with Church's uncharacteristic but genuine anger towards the Blood Gulch guys in Episode 18? Why did he turn on them like that? What brought on this sudden obsession with getting back at the Director, when he didn't seem so caught up on it before? He's been living in Carolina's head and he's picking up on her emotions! Before now, we've never seen Epsilon directly bond with a ''person'', only storage units.
** Also, keep in mind Epsilon!Church just recovered all his memories. ALL of them. That includes of every instance he was tortured by the director, told his friends were killed, reliving horrors over and over again. Now he's experiencing them again. Suddenly, his rage at the team seems understandable. He's unloading all of his pent up rage, and the Reds and Blues just happen to be the unlucky target.
** ''Also'', Church hasn't been there for 90% of the gang's bonding time. He missed Sarge's speech at the end of Revelations, he was knocked out of the fight against the Meta and he was sequestered while they fought hell and high water to free him from the Epsilon unit. They're at home in Valhalla, but he's still stuck in Blood Gulch. And boy does it show.

** Tucker was because of Junior. As for Donut ... who knows, maybe the diversity committee was in charge of decision-making that day.
* "Necessity is the [[CoolStarship Mother of Invention.]]" And the Mother of Invention houses Project Freelancer and all the Director's work. So what the Director is trying to convey is that he did what he had to do, for the greater good! He's a NecessaryEvil! The Director did say that he did all of his work [[StealthPun out of necessity]]. This adds a bit of symbolism to [[spoiler: the ship crashing in Season 10: the Director's justification is falling apart. ]]

* Of course Delta was able to use logic to know exactly what Church would say. [[spoiler:You should be able to know your own logical paths, after all.]]

* Re-watching all the season to get a friend into the show so this could be an old one. Just finished season one and something struck me about Tex's introduction. After Sarge knocks Tex out, upon getting up she sparks and sort of glitches. The explanation we're meant to take is that it's her voice filter breaking. But really it's probably just her robot body reacting to being injured. She sparks in a similar way in one of the season 10 episodes. Also, when Church gives the explanation that he is a ghost now, she immediately takes it at face value, even though it seems farfetched. In reality, Tex probably knows they are both AI at this point, and maybe I'm wrong, but the last time she saw the Alpha he was in that unit where he's just sort of lost and confused and tired. So when she sees him again, she's probably willing to accept whatever it is he's telling her, and play out that fiction, if it means Alpha is going to be more stable and functional.
* It's a little thing, but I realized there's a hidden meaning to 'cockbite', the most common insult used in the series. How, exactly, would a chicken (cock) bite? With Rooster Teeth, of course!
* In episode 21, [[spoiler:Wash comments that "there's only one Tex". And when Church dives into every Tex, only one conversation is shown. Church was having the same conversation with all of them.]]
* During the battle in episode 21, I noticed that Grif, for some reason, never used his Grifshot (Brute Shot) as a melee weapon, when it works as such just as well as it does for a gun. It can't be said that he never had the chance, as he was often close enough to one of the Texas to bonk heads, even when he ''wasn't'' about to suffer a GroinAttack. Then I realized: Grif's, well, lazy. Holding a trigger is easier than swinging a giant blade.
* So assuming everyone's interpreting Carolina's last line correctly, her competition with Tex suddenly makes a lot more sense as being a daughter seeking her father's approval - she's always been in the shadow of her mother and has strived to always gain the approval of a father who barely sees her because he's so focused on her long-lost mother (highlighted by how formally they speak with one another, even in private) but she probably found some solace in being ranked #1 on her father's leaderboard. Now she finds out that there's another woman who her father holds in higher esteem and, worse, held her in that esteem long before Carolina even knew about her (doing the Director's dirty work like blowing up the Oil Platform). It was never about the ranking, it was about daddy.

* '''That's''' why they never showed the Director's whole face! [[spoiler: They didn't want to reveal that he has the same color as Carolina's eyes until the very end!]]
* When Epsilon confronts the Director and cycles through the other fragments, their order of appearance matches what he's saying. "You were brilliant" -- Delta; "we trusted you" -- Theta; "you lied to us" -- Gamma; etc. Specifically it's what was most important to each fragment. Delta was logic, Theta was trust, Gamma was deceit, etc. Each one calls him out for what part of his actions hurt that fragment the most.
** Omega. "-and tortured us and used us." Sigma. "Manipulated us for his own purposes. And only for what? For this? This shadow?" Omega was Rage and he did torture Alpha, along with Gamma and Sigma, and used other people's bodies. And Sigma manipulated a whole lot of everybody for his own purposes, to bring back a shadow of what he once was.
* Church mentions at one point that Tex once told him she would have done anything to save Carolina. [[spoiler: Maternal instinct, anyone?]]
* No wonder Carolina is NotSoDifferent from Tex! [[spoiler: Turns out the original Allison is Carolina's Mommy!]]. And now we see her animosity towards Tex in a different light too: [[spoiler: She probably resents Tex being a "shadow" of her real mother and considers Tex offensive to Allison's memory, and hates that Daddy loves his "pet" so much.]]
* The reveal in the Season 10 finale of [[spoiler: Capt. Flowers being Agent Florida]] Proves that someone at Project Freelancer has a sense of humor. After all, [[spoiler: Florida's name is derived from from the word "Flora," in otherwords: ''Flowers.'']]
* In ''Recreation'', Epsilon said his favorite color was green. [[spoiler:Green - the color of the Director's eyes.]] Or more importantly, [[spoiler: the colour of the Director's ''daughter's'' eyes.]]

* What is a Sniper Rifle's basic purpose? [[spoiler: To blow an enemies brain apart or, shatter their mind into pieces]]. Therefore [[spoiler: Alpha and Epsilon Church's]] obssession with the Sniper Rifle is an allusion to the fact that he [[spoiler: had his "mind" shattered by the director, and that he is a fragment of that mind, in the cases of Alpha and Epsilon Church respectively.]] This fact goes all the way back to the first episode of the Blood Gulch Chronicles. Another idea is that you can observe people with the Sniper Rifle without getting too close to them. Considering what happened to Church before he was sent to Blood Gulch, and the Director's general attitude, using the rifle is symbolic of an inability to socialize well.
* The whole Allison-Beth discrepancy from the song "A Girl named Tex" was actually brilliantly solved in Season 10. [[spoiler: Connie's data reveals that Tex's AI name is "Beta". According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the Greek letter "Beta" was derived from the Phoenician letter "Beth". So, in a way, Tex really is named Beth.]]

* In S10 E5 Theta says that he has [[spoiler:a sister.]] At first we thought it was Tex. [[spoiler:We were wrong. It wasn't Tex. It was actually Carolina.]]

* Wash wasn't exactly the best pair for Epsilon, but Wash wasn't originally ''supposed'' to have Epsilon. [[spoiler: He was originally slated to pick either Eta or Iota, until Carolina butted in and demanded both so she could compete with Tex. But Carolina herself was meant to have ''Sigma'' (a whole different What Might Have Been). She gave it up so that Maine could have a means of communication after he was shot in the throat. So, if that had never occurred, presumably Sigma would have gone to Carolina, Eta or Iota to Wash, and the other of the pair to South - she several times hints or downright states that she was right behind Wash in the queue for AI. So who would have gotten Epsilon? Well, only two named agents are left by then, and Florida had a seemingly minor role, so presumably, Maine. Yes, the ''Meta'', who spent years pursuing the idea of metastability, may have originally been slated for the one AI fragment that ended up metastable.]]
** [[spoiler: This goes even further. What was Maine's signature trait among the Freelancers? He was the MightyGlacier. Endure the pain, push through, and keep fighting. If it's true the A.I. gain traits from their users the same way the users gain from the A.I., Maine might have been able to keep Epsilon from collapsing into himself under the weight of all his pain]]. Or, it could have made things even worse [[spoiler:for Maine]]. All those horrible memories of torture, all your loved ones dying, of never being able to save those you care about the most ... IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream, indeed.
* Watch the finale of Season 10. When Epsilon Church [[spoiler:flips out and rails at the Director for all he's done, he impersonates several AI fragments in turn. Pay close attention to which fragment says what, and you'll realise it's far from random:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Delta (Logic):''' He was ''brilliant''...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Theta (Trust):''' and we ''trusted'' him...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Gamma (Deceit):''' but he ''lied'' to us. He twisted...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Omega (Anger):''' and ''tortured'' us! And used us...]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sigma (Creativity):''' ''manipulated'' us for his own purposes! And for what? For this? This... shadow?]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Epsilon (Memory):''' He needs to pay...]]
* Texas' hyper competence. Besides it being Monty's style and the power seep that the series experienced, once we learn a bit more about her origins it starts to make sense. Texas was [[spoiler: the mental creation]] of a man who deeply loved [[spoiler: the person she was based on]] and also a man who commanded an elite team of soldiers. Texas [[spoiler: was deliberately created by him as both the shadow of the person he loved]] ''and'' the perfect soldier.
* A really minor one. At first, I never gave much thought to the Vs. in Red Vs. Blue being in white, figuring it was just to help the contrast. Then I noticed that the Freelancer program seems to use a whitish theme, so it made sense to represent all three factions. But after Revelations, when it's revealed that Project Freelancer [[spoiler: is the one causing the "war" between teams, them being designated as the Vs. makes perfect sense!]]

* In the episode Reconciliation, Doc and Donut are discussing how downloading a single picture of [[spoiler:Freckles and Caboose is taking up most of the base's energy, a plot point later on]] and Doc notices a notification that says a post gets ten thousand likes, Basebook would fund for a rescue team. The Fridge Brilliance comes in when the joke ends (how a canyon of less than ten guys can get ten thousand likes)and you realize that [[spoiler:there have been more people watching them. An entire planet of people with a civil war going on. The rebels, who the Reds and Blues side with later on, are willing to help them off the planet if they can help them win their war, essentially earning the likes. This is especially important when you remember the fact that the Reds and Blues are utterly incompetent soldiers. Like the picture of Caboose doing something stupid, the incompetent Reds and Blues have to earn the respect and appreciation of the Rebels in order to get their ticket off the planet.]]

* The New Republic makes themselves looked like the good guys and the Federal army looked like the bad guys. However the Federal Army make themselves looked good as well and make the New Republic looked bad. IT shows how grey the universe it set in (Remember the master chief may work for the UNSC but there not entirely the good guys.)
* The state on Chorus: [[spoiler: both sides are being manipulated into fighting by an independent set of much more competent soldiers.]] Sound familiar? Seems like the Blood Gulch crew have crashed a lot closer to home than they first thought.
* Locus and Félix are more than just evil counterparts of Wash, they're representations of what he was from two different points of his life.
** Locus is before. He his a solider who follows orders no matter what. He abandoned his name and does whatever it takes, no matter who he has to hurt, to complete his mission, much like Freelancer Wash, which is probably why Locus is so fascinated by him.
** Félix, if he is in fact a BrokenBird, is ruthless and willing to hurt anyone, regardless of who they are, who gets in the way of his goal and doesn't seem to buy into friendship because he believes EveryManHasHisPrice. Much like Wash was in Season 7-8.
** If not for the Reds and Blues taking Wash in and forgiving him despite all he'd done to them, Wash could still be like Félix if not worse. The Reds and the Blues have really made an impact in Wash's life.

* The Meta's goal was to collect all the scattered A.I. fragments, something that Carolina has apparently succeeded in as seen in Season 12, Episode 11. However, while The Meta went insane and left a trail of Carnage wherever he went, Carolina is calm, in control, and takes pains to avoid needless bloodshed. Why did she retain her sanity and ethics while The Meta went Berserk? Maybe it's because she has [[ThePowerOfFriendship such a positive relationship with her A.I.s...]] Or maybe it's because her actual A.I. is remembering the others and she doesn't know.
** Wasn't the reason The Meta went crazy was because Sigma drove him insane and took him over, while Epsilon has no intention to and all his fragments don't exist except in his mind?
** Carolina hasn't collected any AI fragments. The AI fragments Church speaks to are memories of the fragments that live on through him.
** The memories of the fragments are still interacting with Church on a meaningful level, and are contributing original advice and data. Whether they are the bona-fide original fragments or not is moot; they are functionally identical. The fact that Carolina is having nightmares about Sigma also indicates that his "memory" is potent enough to affect her directly.

** Why was the apparent leader of the Insurrection so interested in the weapons at Sandtrap? [[spoiler:He works for Charon Industries, a company that has vested interest in alien technology for resale.]]
** Why is the main ship of the Insurrection called "Staff of Charon"? [[spoiler:It's been commissioned and is in league with Charon Industries.]]
** Why are the outfits of [[spoiler:the Insurrection]]'s {{mooks}} so similar to those of [[spoiler:the SpacePirates]]? [[spoiler:It's because they're the same group to begin with.]]
** Why was [[spoiler:Malcom Hargrove]] so insistent on taking down [[spoiler:The Director]], but then lost all interest in it after Season 8? [[spoiler:He isn't interested in the Director at all. He just wants to get the technology he has for his own company, and taking down Project Freelancer brings the armor enhancements into the realm of the military... which make it essentially his through his collaboration with Charon Industries and the UNSC both.]]

* Church is bad at shooting because [[spoiler: he never received any training. Church was sent to Blood Gulch immediately after the crash of the Mother of Intervention. Being good with a gun receives training and experience, neither of which Church has. This also explains why he doesn't act like a soldier. He's just a random guy sent into battle.]]

* Wash seems to have trouble [[spoiler: killing people he knows are good. When he attacked Valhalla he took Simmons prisoner because he knew that Simmons was a good guy. He didn't want to kill Tex because while she isn't a very nice, he knows she is ultimately a good person. He only felt guilt over shooting Donut and Lopez in season 12 because he only really got to know them in season 11.]] This also leads to a small amount of Fridge Horror. [[spoiler: Wash is perfectly fine with killing innocent people as long as he doesn't know them.]]
* During the fight with [[spoiler: The Meta]] at the end of Season 8, [[spoiler: Wash]] tells Caboose to protect Epsilon. There are two things we can figure out from this.
** [[spoiler: Wash told Caboose to stay back so that he wouldn’t get hurt. Working off the previous entry about Wash not wanting to hurt people he knows are good, Wash new that Caboose was the nicest and most innocent member of the BGC. Wash didn’t want someone so innocent and childlike to go up against the Meta.]]
** While [[spoiler: Wash]] didn’t know this, Caboose is probably the best member of the group to go up against the Meta. Caboose has super strength and is absolutely deadly when angry. He could probably kill the Meta assuming he got mad enough.
* During the final fight against [[spoiler: The Tex Bots]] at the end of Season 10 Church mentions that he remembers how to get angry. He means that he remembers how to turn into [[spoiler: Omega,]] who makes people angry and violent.
* O'mally's personality seems to change depending on who he is possessing. This explains why he's so scary in Season's 6 & 10. He would logically be a lot more competent when possessing Tex or the soldiers at Valhalla because they aren't as quirky and incompetent as the gang.

* Tex's theme song refers to her as "Beth", but it was eventually retconned to be Alison instead. The Freelancer fragments are often referred to by nicknames, such as Gary, Dee, or O'malley. Beth is a twist on [[spoiler: Beta]].
* Tex constantly hits Grif in the nuts. [[spoiler:Right in the [[IncrediblyLamePun Grifballs]].]]

* In Caboose's ImageSong "Your best friend" he says that he and Church will be together "until the part where it's over." [[spoiler:Church passed in the ''ending'' of season 13, which is where the Chorus arc ends.]]
* Tucker gets [[spoiler:the Meta's armor]]. His regular armor originally belonged to Captain Flowers (AKA Agent Florida). Is It really suprising Tucker became the most competent member of the Blood Gluch Crew behind Wash and Carolina when he has been using Project Freelancer gear all along?

* [[spoiler: In ''The End'' the Reds and Blues are taking the alien gear and elite weaponry from the Chairman's museum. Simmons, seemingly against all logic, grabs a simple pistol. According to the DVD commentary, though, it wasn't just any gun: it was the notoriously O.P. VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved pistol!]]

** Except for the fact that they ''weren't'' sent thousands of years into the future. The Counselor is notably confused when Donut brings that up because all that happened was they were transported elsewhere (as the only people who actually ''say'' they traveled in time are, well, the Reds and Blues, who aren't exactly authorities on the topic) whilst Church was thrown into a simulation by Gary to drive him crazy again. The only time travel that actually happened in the entire series was Wyoming in series 5 (where the jumps back in time constitute maybe a few minutes) and the Meta in Reconstruction and Revelations (which involved time being slowed down/stopped).
*** I didn't say they really went to the future. I said it was part of the simulation. There wasn't any time travel going on, but it was supposed to seem like there was. When Simmons finds the documents proving that the Red and Blue soldiers and bases are just used to train the Freelancers, Sarge lists off a bunch of things that happened in the Blood Gulch Chronicles, including the supposed time travel incident, not wanting to believe it was just a simulation. Simmons simply responds with "That is...Scenario 3." So that means Project Freelancer really did create this scenario to train their agents for what would happen if they got sent into the future, even if they weren't literally in the future. Project Freelancer doesn't seem to be the type of organization that would do something like this for no reason. As for why the Counselor was confused, it could be because his job is mostly centered around counselling the Freelancers, so he wouldn't need to read up on the training scenarios.
*** Actually I don't think the simulation Church was in was meant to drive him insane. Think about it, how did it end. Church accepting he can't make anything better and rejoins his friends. Now, how did Epsilon achieve metastability? By accepting he can't rescue Tex and make things better, and moving on. Gary/Gamma was trying to help Alpha achieve metastability, likely to make up for helping torture him in the first place.
* In Season 10, when the Freelancers were sent to invade the Insurrection's base, Wyoming and Florida were paired together. After the reveal that Florida was Butch Flowers, this seemed like an odd decision on Project Freelancer's part. Judging by his interactions with Church and Tucker, Flowers seemed like a genuinely nice guy, while Wyoming was cold, ruthless, and sadistic. How are two people with such polar opposite personalities supposed to be able to work together? [[spoiler: Now that Season 14 has shown Florida's true colors, though, it turns out that he and Wyoming actually have a lot in common.]] Suddenly, the idea of these two working as a team makes a lot more sense.
* [[spoiler: Before Blood Gulch started, Flowers said he hoped it would last 14 seasons if they were lucky, (he measures time in seasons instead of years, like winter ans spring),]] while this is a fourth wall joke it actually happened. Grif mentions that they were stationed at blood gulch for three years and it took Doc three months to arrive. While the rest of the time line is a bit shady, it should have taken more than three months to finish everything, plus an unknown amount of time from when they were disbanded. (4 seasons X 3 years) + 2 seasons = 14 seasons! [[spoiler: Flowers just never got to see it happen.]]
* Some people in the fandom have complained in how different Tex is in seasons 8-10 as compared to 1-5, claiming that she's lost all her flaws such as greediness and that she's now a Mary Sue and less of a real character. But that might be the point. [[spoiler:The difference between BG Tex (S 1-5 and PF Tex (S 8-10) is that PF Tex was newly created and didn't have any time to develop. Even when she was actually in Freelancer she probably wasn't more than a month old, and her only interactions would have been with the Director and Counselor. The former saw her without any flaws, and the laters job was to just make sure she would do her job correctly. When Epsilon brought her back, he was obsessed with her, but he worshiped her as much as the Alpha, so again no flaws. With BG Tex she was on the run alone for a year or more, time in which she had character development, being on the run and lacking supplies could have lead to her being greedy. It's basically the way other authors create characters, they start off with a basic idea (Failure) and add traits and flaws until they are fully realized. Except we got to see the full character first (BG Tex and then the rough draft of said character(PF Tex).]]
* Locus is so far the only character to understand Lopez properly. Turns out that Locus' real name is [[spoiler: Sam Ortez, suggesting a bloodline that traces back to Spanish/Mexican roots]]. That name was dropped quite casually during season 14 so it took a while for that particular nugget to sink in but we finally get an explanation as to why Locus is bilingual.
* When you first meet [[spoiler: Felix and Locus]], they're wearing orange and green respectively, colors that derive from red and blue. But to make orange and green, you need to mix in the same color for both: Yellow. Why is this important? Because [[spoiler: even though they're on opposite sides (Red/Federal Army vs. Blue/New Republic) they still work for a third party (Yellow/Charon Industries!) In fact, the Charon Industries logo is yellow!]]

* In Season 8 Caboose and Epsilon are able to get into an old Freelancer facility with no trouble because the computer recognizes Church's voice, and the AI in the facility, FILSS follows every one of their commands without question. This seems like really low level security for a top secret military facility, as they're allowed to do tons of things that are extremely dangerous (breaking out Tex's new body, destroying multiple pieces of equipment and firing extremely dangerous weapons willy nilly). It isn't until the next season that we realize that is pretty much exactly what went on at project Freelancer. Agents would use weapons in unauthorized ways and try to kill teammates (Wyoming and Maine nearly kill York in a training exercise because they were using live rounds when it's against regulations and is insanely dangerous) and were even encouraged to do so, the Director (and the other soldiers) would authorize questionable orders to FILSS verbally with no passwords or security (The Director overrides FILSS's safety protocols regarding sending an ordinance pod to Texas by saying "Just fire it FILSS", so apparently his voice alone is an override), and FILSS doesn't automatically do what she can to stop their fight ("Are you sure you don't want to activate standard safety protocols?") because she has been reprogrammed to question her superiors as little as possible (she allows a lot of things to happen that honestly shouldn't be allowed on a ship, like live fire demonstrations of untested military equipment (North's first test with Theta and the bubble shield that had previously worked once, and had a .01% chance of success), orbital bombardment of an inhabited city, and has fired on herself (York got the Mother of Invention to shoot itself which caused it to crash)). Honestly, it's a wonder she even suggested immobilizing the Reds, Blues, and Texas, she probably figured it was some kind of sick game.

* Some people are scratching their heads over how come Caboose turned from a dumb, but average guy to a complete idiot barely able to put 2 and 2 together without something exploding or someone dying. Well, to be fair, he accidentally killed a teammate, lost one of the only people who were actually NICE to him, was forced to live for a few days with a guy who wants to bone anything even remotely feminine, was used as target practice, had an [[AIIsACrapshoot insane killer AI]] [[MindRape take over his brain]], [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had some of his memories forcibly removed]], suffered numerous physical abuse and went through a sabotaged teleporter. And that's just the stuff I can think off the top of my head in the early seasons!

* Cleverly-planned heists, penchant for excessive force...are we talking about the [[spoiler: Fake]] Blood Gulch Crew or the [[spoiler: Fake]] [[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterGrandTheftAutoSeries AH Crew]]?

* Two from episode 7- one, that it aired on Mother's Day, given that [[spoiler: Chorus has a lot more mothers now]]. The other is that, since the Temple of Procreation was intended to repopulate planets, and Chorus has lost a substantial portion of its population due to the CivilWar, it's actually being used for its intended purpose. (Also falls under FridgeHorror)

* The reason why the FOTUS Soldier had an alien weapon? [[spoiler:He's from Chorus. He probably fought in the battle from the end of Season 13, where everyone was armed with alien technology.]]

* [[spoiler: The Blues and Reds being used as a template for which soldiers should be sent to Blood Gulch]] gives a perfect explanation for why all of the Red sergeant candidates from Season 14 were exactly alike: [[spoiler: They specifically needed someone who's just like Surge.]]
** It also explains why Lopez speaks Spanish: [[spoiler: His speech unit isn't broken, Project Freelancer intentionally set him to Spanish because the robot mechanic speaking a different language from everyone else was a factor that led to the stalemate in Desert Gulch.]]
* [[spoiler: Biff getting impaled by a blunt wooden flagpole might be eyebrow-raising for some, but it makes more sense if you're familiar with Halo multiplayer. The flags in Capture the Flag are always a one-hit kill when using them to melee someone. While Tex didn't kill Carolina or Biff just by hitting them with the flag once, it's still almost as abnormally lethal.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, if you look closely, you see that the wooden pole impaled Biff at a small gap in the armor.]]
** That's actually not a gap, but a black piece of the metal plating. [[spoiler: Still, it might be justified by Tex's own inhuman strength- though that raises the question of how Carolina, a largely unaugmented human, is able to take so many hits from her.]]
*** [[spoiler:Carolina was wearing a prototype her current armor. Season 13 showed that her current suit can take some pretty hard collisions through concrete or off a cliff, whereas similar situations in seasons 9 or 10 would take her out, if not kill her. The new suit can explain her withstanding Tex's attacks.]]
*** Also, given the timeline of events Tex undoubtedly had Omega in her. No wonder she was so ruthless and callous about a single sim trooper's life especially one so stupid to get in her way.

* There are a few things about [[spoiler: Locus in Season 15 that subtlety allude to his CharacterDevelopment after pulling a HeelFaceTurn:]]
** [[spoiler: As Grif points out, he no longer has the "X" shape on his helmet. This actually has a lot of symbolic meaning. Season 14 shows that he has a similarly X-shaped scar on his face. This scar was a constant reminder of his past as a soldier in the Great War. During The Chorus Trilogy, he was obsessed with being a true soldier, and the X on his helmet reflected this. Removing the X represents willingness to put the past behind him and focus on doing what's right instead of being a soldier.]]
** [[spoiler: White accents have been added to his armor, but his color scheme is otherwise unchanged. This represents him changing for the better in some ways, while still being the same in other ways.]]
** [[spoiler: Some of his behavior in this season is directly opposite of that of his past self. Before, he believed the greater good doesn't matter. Now, he wants to do what's right. Before, he would be offended whenever someone calls him insane. Now, he'll willingly admit this about himself.]]

** [[spoiler: The first, most obvious one is that the flashbacks in Episodes 12 & 13 are their version of The Blood Gulch Chronicles. The two teams were supposedly at war with each other, stuck in their gulch and having all sorts of wacky antics, until two Freelancers brought it all to a catastrophic end.]]
** [[spoiler: After that, the teams stopped receiving orders, left their gulch, found the Freelancer Offsite Storage Facility, and discovered the truth about the Red and Blue armies. In other words, a dead ringer for The Recollection.]]
** [[spoiler: The group working together to hunt down and kill what remains of Project Freelancer out of revenge mirrors the BGC's search for the Director in Season 10.]]
** [[spoiler: Their planned war against the UNSC roughly correlates to The Chorus Trilogy. After dealing with Freelancer, they're going up against a separate threat in an all-out war with the fate of an entire planet hanging in the balance.]]
** And this in itself creates another bit of brilliance: [[spoiler: Despite the Blues and Reds coming first, the Reds and Blues are further ahead on their journey than them. Perhaps it's a sign that the Reds and Blues are the better of the two groups after all.]]

** Omega's attribute is rage, and he's also known for being an over-the-top and self-aware villain. [[spoiler: Temple is extremely angry (see the time he shot Jax for criticizing his backstory, or when he was angry at the Reds and Blues for making friends with Freelancers), and is also quite theatrical and aware of the fact that he's a villain.]]
** Sigma's attributes are creativity and ambition. [[spoiler: Temple has a unique way of killing his victims and a grand scheme to destroy the UNSC.]]
** Gamma's attribute is deceit. [[spoiler: Temple manipulates other sim troopers into fighting for him.]]
** Theta's attributes are trust and the inner child. [[spoiler: Temple trusts his colleagues to carry out his plans, and sometimes [[PsychopathicManchild behaves like a child.]]]]
** Epsilon's attributes are memory and insanity. [[spoiler: Temple obviously kept his memories, and he's clearly gone insane.]]
** Eta and Iota's attributes are fear and happiness respectively. [[spoiler: Temple shows genuine fear when he thinks Tucker is going to stab him, and happiness in killing his victims and when he thought Biff may still be alive.]]
** Even the Beta's attribute, failing to achieve its goal when it's just within reach, can be seen in Temple. [[spoiler: He had a plan with Biff to get him medically discharged, but chickened out at the last minute, which led to Biff's death. When he finally trapped a Freelancer who was actually responsible for Biff's death, Locus stepped in and freed her before she could die. The Reds and Blues managed to stop his supposedly unstoppable machine before it could do any harm, and he ended up in prison.]]
** The only thing he's missing is Delta's logic. [[spoiler: If he were thinking logically, he would've shot all the Freelancers he locked in place instead of leaving them to die of starvation. He also foolishly thought he could drill straight through the Earth and attack the UNSC from underneath.]]

* The Red & Blue Zealots. Especially in light of the news that [[spoiler: all of the Red vs Blue battles are simulations]] and that [[spoiler: at least some of the soldiers are put into 'lock down' when they suffer supposedly mortal wounds and can be 'reset' by F.I.L.S.S.]] as was the case with [[spoiler: Donut in S8]], and we realize now, [[spoiler: Sarge in S1]]... what does that make the perpetually self-slaughtering and respawing festival of madness that is the Zealots? What even is the purpose of that simulation? Those questions are bad enough... but then add on to that the fact that Freelancers were supposed to get in there to train up.

* Caboose's stupidity is generally played for laughs, but it turns into both this and Fridge Sadness when you look back at season 1. In his initial appearance, Caboose was not nearly as dumb as he is currently. He expressed the capabilities to be lwed (calling Church's girlfriend a cow/ expressing sexual desires for Sheila, though that last one may actually be Omega expressing sexual desires) and getting angry at Sheila for killing Church. He genuinely regretted his first Team Kill, and strongly desired to make amends. Now, he apparently has completely forgotten how reproduction works (his confusion when Junior came around) and generally doesn't care/acknowlage when he commits friendly fire (Shooting Private Jones in the back and nearly killing South when told she was on their side). A big difference. Like I said, he was somewhat normal upon his introduction. However, he was shortly infected by Omega. And then he was subsequently entered by Tex and Church while Omega was still rooting around in his head. Now, Carolina nearly killed herself by having two AI's, relatively minor and weak ones at that, in her at once. Omega and Tex were some of the smartest [[spoiler:A.I. splinters, and Church was the Alpha.]] It would be pretty much impossible for him to survive this experience without some mental damage. This, and multiple other examples such as being locked in his armor with no access to outside air for two days, several forced A.I. Ejections (like the one that nearly drove Wash over the edge), the battle between three A.I.'s in his head, and allegedly consuming gasoline, all suggest Caboose has permanent brain damage. Essentially, his time in Blood Gulch drove him from a somewhat dumb, but semi-normal person into a man utterly devorced from reality and entirely dependent on Church or the closest thing that he thinks resembles Church.

* Tex talks about how they tortured Alpha with scenario after scenario of his friends and loved ones being killed and everything going wrong, and he being unable to stop it, with Gamma and Omega helping think up scenarios. Now remember that in Season 3, [[spoiler:Church spends a large chunk of time trying desperately to save the lives of Flowers, Tex, and himself, and keep other bad things from going wrong, and fails miserably, including even ''causing'' some of the bad things with his actions. And Gamma helps.]] Well, something that used to be hilarious just got a whole more disturbing.

* Cute as Theta is, you've gotta remember how he came into this world. If he's supposed to be the playful, child-like part of Alpha, what horrific torture scenario did they use to force Alpha to fragment Theta off? Probably something that has to do with children.
** Nah, I've got a scarier way for you. Try to imagine them giving you a scenario that would bring a childlike quality to the forefront of your mind (maybe childlike inquisitiveness, maybe it's something that you loved as a kid, etc.) Now they go and attack it in the most brutal and traumatic method possible until the only thing you want to do is be dispossessed of it. Sweet dreams.

** Theta probably knows what he's doing and why, but doesn't understand the deeper moral issues around it. It's ChildrenAreInnocent taken to extremes.
** And why ChildSoldiers are always morally bad. This is some TruthInTelevision - the reason you use child soldiers is because they haven't learnt that moral issues with killing.
** Theta is trust, so possibly he understands what he's doing (he's childlike, but I don't think he's exactly a child, since he was fragmented off an adult's mind), but he also knows that North believes he's doing the right thing and trusts him.
* When the A.I. fragments split from Alpha, they each embody a personality aspect (like logic, empathy, or creativity) and a personality trait (such as dry snarky humor, trust, or manipulative ambition). Now consider that of all the fragments, Sigma is the only one who doesn't wear armor (I'm not counting the ones too blurry to make out). In fact, if you look closely, he wears the same uniform as the Director. Now consider where all these aspects and traits ''originally'' come from.
** He even does the hands-behind-the-back thing... *shudder* That's probably a big part of why York and Wash find him so creepy, even if they don't recognize that it's from the Director.
** Annnnnnd now there's two of them. ''[[SarcasmMode Super.]]''
** Alpha became more of his own person once he gained a level of experience (We even briefly hear him before his torture and he sounds cheery and almost goofy). But two of his traits are still shaped and defined by his origin from the Director. Ambition and Deceit. How messed up WAS this guy?
* So we meet "CT" in recreation and he seems like your typical stupid, comically evil, puppy-kicking villain who got the laser-tastic death he deserved. But then we find out in Season 10 that [[spoiler: he had deep feelings for the real CT/Connie, that they planned to run away together after exposing Project Freelancer, that the love of his life died and her dying words whispered to him was to get that chip into the right hands so they could accomplish their objective, and that he took on her identity as a way to remember her and carry on her dreams.]] And he died... without accomplishing any of that... killed by a bunch of incompetent idiots. More like a Fridge TearJerker, really.
* In Recovery One, Wash finds North's body and learns that Theta has been stolen by Agent Maine and Sigma. Then, at the end of Reconstruction, Wash triggers the emp with the express purpose of wiping out the A.I. fragments collected by the Meta, knowing that this would kill them. Yes folks, you read that right: ''Wash murdered Theta.''
** Although, Wash probably knew that the AIs would survive in some form inside Epsilon, who really is more like a copy of every AI rather than its own individual. After all, he had it in his head.
** The way I look at it, it's more like a mercy killing. Consider for a moment what Theta was like: a child. Now imagine sticking a child in unavoidable contact with the likes of Sigma, Gamma and Omega, who are considered the three worst fragments of Alpha. Wash did Theta a favour in detonating the EMP.
* In the Blood Gulch Chronicles, when Tex and Church go into Caboose's mind to look for O'Malley/Omega, Church says this to Caboose's Mental Image of Church: "First of all, you? You're not Caboose's best friend, okay? You don't ''have'' a best friend. You know why? You don't need one! You're Church! Knowing other people just waters down the experience!" Why is this FridgeHorror? Well, there's actually two possible reasons. [[spoiler: The Alpha was put through countless stressful, horrible scenarios to break its mind. It is more than likely that the Alpha lost its ability to easily trust after Theta was fragmented. There's also the less awful idea that since the Director was arrogant and cold towards others, Church/the Alpha inherited that trait.]]

* All this time we've been blaming the Director for everything that went wrong with Project Freelancer. However, episode 13 of season 10 reveals that [[spoiler:Wash and South were originally going to be paired with Iota and Eta. Carolina insisted on taking them both so she could compete with Tex, meaning Wash got bumped down the list and paired with Epsilon. ''Plus'', it was Sigma and Gamma that gave her the idea by telling her about Omega]]. Things just got a ''lot'' more complicated.
** Not to mention, she gave up [[spoiler: Sigma to Maine so he could communicate, dooming him to become Sigma's puppet]]. And robbed [[spoiler: South of having an AI at all, thus fueling her envy, causing her to leave her brother for dead]]. If [[spoiler: Carolina]] hadn't done what she'd done [[spoiler: everyone might be alive today.]]
*** It is initially the Director's fault anyway. He's the one that set up the competitive nature of the matter and gave Texas special, secretive treatment that caused the rifts. If the Freelancer missions had encouraged teamwork and assignments according to skills and temperament versus ranking, then the results all around would have been better off. (The Counselor even lampshades this in episode 2, when he notes that North and South weren't the best people for the job, but the Director goes by the rankings/competition.)
*** I agree with the above. Honestly, Carolina might have been guilty of ambition and negligence as a leader, but it's hardly her fault that Project Freelancer went wrong. It was doomed from the beginning when the Director tortured an AI to harvest off fragments, and then implanted those unstable fragments into people's head without letting them know the potential dangers. It might've been indirectly because of her that Wash got Epsilon, but '''someone''' would've gotten Epsilon down the road. It's also been mentioned as early as the Blood Gulch Chronicles that many Freelancers got stuck with defective AI's and went crazy, Wyoming included.
*** This is where the distinction between "fault" and "responsibility" comes into play. Is it Carolina's fault? No. It's the Director's, 100%. But her actions contributed to the problem, so she shares some of the responsibility. A lot of her current characterization could be explained by the fact that she hasn't come to terms with that yet.
*** Of course, it's debatable whether all the things would've happened anyway. Sigma wanted to gain metastability, regardless of his implantation into Maine. It's possible he would've just taken over Carolina instead of Maine had she agreed to keep him.imagine just for a minute what would happen if instead of Maine the meta was Carolina. As for the AI, the Director was planning on holding out on ''someone'' (since part of the project was determining the jealousy level of someone without an AI). It backfired every single time (first Connecticut, who rebelled, then Carolina, who demanded one, and then finally South, who left her brother and Wash for dead). Besides, if Carolina hadn't taken both, then there would be no need for the Epsilon unit, and then the Director might've gotten away with the whole thing.
** This also explains why Washington and Epsilon never bonded like North and Theta, or York and Delta, and continue to have a largely frigid relationship. Washington got the leftover, rather than Eta, the AI supposed to be partnered to him.
* Here's one :[[spoiler:Going from episode 13 of season 10 it looks like Gamma was in on Sigma's plan to merge the AI back into a smart AI. He also knew about Omega and Wyoming's plan back in the Blood Gulch Chronicles to possess Junior to control the aliens by corrupting their religion from the inside. Now imagine if these plans overlapped at some point... ]]
** And then think about how season 7 showed that AI can inhabit Forerunner technology... which the aliens worship...
** Here's a little more: Omega and Gamma worked together in the past. [[spoiler:It's possible that Omega knew what Sigma was doing thanks to Gamma.]] Suddenly Omega's declarations of conquering the universe don't seem so comical anymore.

* Episode 14 shows how the AI's are implanted into the armor: [[spoiler:the unit is grafted into the base of their skull]]. If the Meta was stealing the Freelancer's armor enhancements and AI units, then, unless Sigma could transfer the AI into Maine's head, he would have been ripping the unit out of his victim's neck. Brutal.
* So Alpha was [[spoiler: tortured with the prospect of all his comrades dying.]] Remember in BGC the way Church ''screamed'' when he thought Wyoming killed Caboose? [[HarsherInHindsight Yeah.]]
** O'malley was in on the torture of Alpha. Then you look back at Tucker's pregnancy. "Oh you'll do it or else your little friend Tucker will die and you'll spend years wondering if you could have saved him." Doesn't seem like such and comedic threat given Alpha's fear of losing people.
* I don't know if this is a Fridge of Horror or Brilliance... but here goes. Imagine South's feelings up to Episode 19. She gets "cheated" out of an AI. Her friends and teammates go rogue one by one, and she sees them as traitors. Wash goes insane, stopping her from ''ever'' getting that coveted AI. Tex shows up, brutally attacks all the people she's worked with, ''blows up'' her home, and just when South's about to stop Tex, her own ''brother'' shows up and turns against her. Yes, she's a brat. But ''damn,'' her own team-killing tendencies were probably born during this incident, when she found herself betrayed by Tex, York, and even her own brother.
* So the Director "kept trying" to [[spoiler:recreate Alison, enough times to build a small army of "her" (I use the term loosely). So, was he working from copies of Beta, or did he keep recreating Alpha until he could get what he wanted? In ''Halo'' you make an AI by MURDERING A FLASH CLONE OF YOURSELF. So how many times did he commit sorta suicide. And if it's the latter, ''what did he do with the leftovers?'' If the brain is the only part needed to make an AI and no mention of how he ever got food is given ...]]
** For that matter [[spoiler:what has he been doing to the Tex copies after he made them?]]
** And what did he do to [[spoiler:get Omega? ''Again?!'']] Good God, what is ''wrong'' with this guy?
* Considering that Church is a copy of the director, does that mean that Church, pre-fragmentation, was capable of doing all the horrible things that the Director did?
** I doubt it. The Director's actions revolve around his memories and unresolved issues with Allison, which had fragmented from Alpha and became Beta. Alpha is probably what the Director would be had he let go of those feelings.
** Also consider the inverse. Church is capable of doing good/being a real hero, and of great kindnesses. What granted Church that ability, or, possibly, what took the ability away from the Director?
*** "I am disappointed by your decision to press charges, but I am not surprised. My only hope is that the courts will see the matters differently than you have. You see, I never had the chance to serve in battle, nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question, if the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? The memory of her, has haunted me my entire life, and moreso in these last few years than I could ever have imagined. But given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself. Had I only the chance."
* End of Episode 21, [[spoiler:Church splits apart to talk with the [=AIs=] running the Tex copies. The conversation we see is almost an exact replica of the scene where Tex attempted to free the Alpha, complete with Tex not even knowing her own name. So, it seems the director is so far gone that however he got a copy Tex, he subjected it to the same sort of fragmentation process (mental torture) that he did to the Alpha. So he did that, to the [[VirtualGhost AI ghost]] of the woman he loved, in order to get her "right", to use Epsilon's terminology. What. The. Fuck?]]
* [[spoiler: Episode 22 reveals that the Director is Carolina's father, and that Alison was her mother. That's bad enough, until you realize that Carolina has effectively been competing with and fighting against the closest thing she had left to her mom this entire time, without either Carolina or Tex realizing it. In a really sad way, Project Freelancer has caused Carolina to wind up hating both her father, and through Tex, her mother. ]] Just . . . . . DAMN.
** Now, remember when the Director walked in on Carolina and Tex about to fight? Think of what was going through his mind now that we know that [[spoiler:Carolina is his daughter. He was about to watch the two most beloved women in his life battle to the (possible) death.]]
** And THEN remember that he left her [[spoiler: screaming on the floor when the AIs were in her mind.]] '''''DAMN!'''''
** And THEN remember that [[spoiler: Tex/Beta/Allison SAW HER DAUGHTER ATTACKED, THE AI CHIPS RIPPED FROM HER NECK, AND THROWN OFF A CLIFF TO HER DEATH. And she had to run away and leave Carolina to her fate. Another massive failure to Tex, I'm sure.]]
** There is another aspect to Carolina's [[spoiler: identity as the Director and Allison's daughter]]. Think about the events she has gone through. Every mission she went on either failed or almost did thanks to her actions. They nearly lost the briefcase because she lost her cool and made it personal. She tries to recapture CT alive, but ends with her death and armor lost. She wanted to be the top Freelancer, but couldn't compete with Texas. The guy she has feelings for? Turns against her and dies before they reconcile. That's right, Carolina ALSO continuously fails at the last second when something was on the line [[spoiler: just like Texas]]. This also puts the Director's actions in a new light: he was seeing [[spoiler: both]] his attempts to keep his love alive continue to suffer the same FatalFlaw over and over again.

* Not really serious, and more Fridge Squick than anything else, but the whole Church in Carolina's bike part, the jokes about it tend to be sexual, but it gets kind of Squicky when you learn [[spoiler: in episode 22 of season 10 that Church is a copy of Carolina's father. Not wonder it felt awkward for the guy.]]
* Re-watching Season 10, something occurred to me: the Director's actions cost a lot of people their lives, and the lives of people they loved just as much as he did Allison. And considering [[spoiler: the second]] CT, Carolina and York, Alpha, and so many more, in his attempts to fix his pain, he only ensured that others suffered the same loss and sadness he did. The only ones to escape the cycle were the ones willing to do what he wouldn't and let the past go.
* AI fragments are created by torturing Alpha with the knowledge that someone he cares about dies, right? And each AI has their own designated Agent, because Alpha fragmented the memory of that Agent after living through the scenario of them dying. Sigma was originally paired with Carolina. Now we know who Carolina's parent's are, I realized: ''Sigma was created when Alpha was forced to watch his own daughter die!''
** Sigma was also ambition, meaning that after watching his own daughter die, Alpha lost his ambition, he lost his will to continue to move forward in life and try to achieve anything.
* All of the terrible things that have happened in the series are really twice as bad as they seem. Instead of just thinking about what would have happened if the project never existed think about what could have resulted if the Directer and co had used their intelligence and resources for good! If they wound up creating a metastable AI despite the total breakdown of the project, just imagine what they could have accomplished had they done things right. They could have completely revolutionised AI technology! They could have worked out metastability!
** ''Halo'' spoiler: [[spoiler: Perhaps they could have even saved Cortana.]]
*** I doubt Chief would have wanted that. Think about it, the 4 stages of Rapancy are 1.Melancholy, 2. Anger, 3. Jealousy and 4. Metastability. Alpha experienced melancholy through torture, but how did survive steps 2 and 3, which is what kills most AIs? Omega, Gamma and Sigma were cut out of him. Alpha was able to achieve metastability because his anger, his ability to deceive and his ambition to be more were removed while he transstransitioned through these stages.
*** ''Halo'' affects [=RvB=], but not the other way around (unfortunately).
*** Well, it's all a what-if anyway. The Director could've helped Cortana if he was a good guy, but he wasn't and he went crazy and killed himself, so he wouldn't help Cortana, even if 343 decided to pull a Canon Immigrant [[spoiler:Besides, there's tons of other canonical ways that Cortana can come back to life for ''Halo 5'', but that's a subject for WMG.]]
** Keep in mind that Project Freelancer almost certainly wasn't originally intended to be an AI research project at all; the Director's digital alter-ego being so tortured by memories of his dead love that it fragmented showed that it was possible to generate AIs that way. This led to the focus shift from developing nifty new technologies (like super speed and bubble shields) to the AIs themselves.

* Since his introduction, [[HumongousMecha Freckles]] has repeatedly tried to kill members of Red Team, threatened Tucker and Wash with death ''several'' times, shot at Simmons during a misunderstanding ([[ItMakesSenseInContext involving a ball]]), and has [[spoiler: attacked Sarge after the latter pointed the Warthog's turret at him]]. But those aren't the scary parts. What's scary is that Freckles has [[SarcasmBlind little to no understanding of sarcasm]] (as demonstrated when [[spoiler: he demotes Washington and places Caboose in charge after a sarcastic remark from the former]]), and the closest thing that he has to a [[MoralityChain Morality Chain]] is [[TheDitz Caboose]]. We've already seen that Freckles has ''[[TokenEvilTeammate absolutely no problem whatsoever]]'' with killing members of his own team ([[KidWithTheLeash bar Caboose]]); so this begs the question: Given the Neo Blood Gulch Crew's love of sarcasm, exactly how long is it until an offhand remark sends Freckles on a killing spree?
* Prior to Blood Gulch Chronicles, it appears that Church had a human body (partly evidenced by some of the stuff Epsilon said at the beginning of Season 8), which leaves one wondering where the body came from. Was Alpha overwritten over another person? Season 14 reveals that [[spoiler: yes, yes he was.]]
* York assisted Tex with the break-in partly by damaging the ship, which made it crash. When Carolina was thrown clear of the ship, it let Maine get to her. [[spoiler: This means York was indirectly responsible for Carolina getting the AI ripped out of her head, thrown off a cliff, and presumed dead. Given the logs Epsilon plays for Carolina in Season 10 present day, he either didn't know this had happened or was in complete denial that she was probably dead--and the logs imply the latter, that he was desperately searching for news of her in hopes he'd find out she survived. Which he never did.]]

* C.T. left Project Freelancer due to their moral corruption and questionable practices, in favor of the Insurrection. [[spoiler: How do you think she would have taken it if she found out that the Insurrection ultimately worked for [[OmnicidalManiac someone willing to kill an entire planet?]]]]

* The AI Fragments [[spoiler: are back. Yes, that's right, [[ConsummateLiar all]] [[AxeCrazy of]] [[ManipulativeBastard them.]] And in a "distilled" form, meaning that it's likely that all those traits have been turned UpToEleven. ThisIsGonnaSuck.]]
** [[spoiler:In the case of [[ConsummateLiar Gamma]], it may not be that bad. It ''is'' Church's memories, and if his interactions with Gamma in Season 12 are any indication, he remembered him better as 'Gary.' [[ManipulativeBastard Sigma]], though... He not only has the other AI within arm's reach at all times, but also ''the Meta's suit.'']]
** [[spoiler: It's been stated that Church dies this time around, he's not coming back. Meaning there will be no Epislon, thus no chance of ever becoming a full AI again.]]
* Flowers [[spoiler: was actually willing to kill or mortally wound Jimmy in case Church remembered being Alpha. Considering he'd obviously be briefed on the A.I. abilities such as possession, imagine if he'd accidentally killed Jimmy. He'd have to find a replacement body for Alpha ASAP, wouldn't he? Luckily for him, Private Tucker was there, but there aren't any specialists around to help Flowers implant the Alpha. And we've all seen how painful it was when Jimmy was implanted...]]

* Imagine what would’ve happened if things had gone a bit differently and [=FH57’s=] plan was successful. [[spoiler: If they got a hold of the tank, Tucker and Caboose would be dead, the Reds at Blood Gulch would’ve been dragged along by [=FH57=] in their ship and may have never found out that the Red vs. Blue war is a lie, and Church might’ve never known that he was an AI. Not to mention the good things that happened because the Blood Gulch Crew was in the right place at the right time, like the eventual downfall of Project Freelancer and the permanent ceasefire of the Chorus civil war.]]
* How exactly did the Director know that torturing an AI was the most effective way of getting a viable AI fragment AND that it would need to be paired with someone of a certain psychological profile?
** Did the UNSC have a classified handbook on torturing AI's for the best results either thru an intentional experiment or even by accidental observation? Or did the Director have to pioneer the field himself? And if the Director did do it himself, he did have AIs and VIs such as FILSS and Vic around. How many AIs did he subject to experimentation before he got it right?
*** Could FILSS's behavior (As mentioned above) also be because of what happened?
** Did Project Freelancer see an entire batch of soldiers get wiped out because of a flawed implantation? Or could even soldiers such as Agent Georgia who died in funny ways be part of a proto-batch that was still under observation before the Alpha fragments were getting installed?

* [[spoiler: Season 1 Church forgetting what Season 15 Caboose said about him dying makes sense, considering his first "death" was getting blown up by Sheila. After he came back as a "ghost", he probably thought he was in the clear and didn't think anything else of it.]]

* A couple concerning Flowers/ Florida:
** First, the long paise he gave while talking to Tucker could make sense after the Florida reveal. Considering how cold and ruthless he was revealed to be, he could have been signaling Wyoming to shoot him, and stalling for time.
*** Or maybe he was signaling him to shoot Tucker.
** Secondly, why he picked Tucker for the Blue Team. The other guy seemed to be more useless, being so obsessed with being a good listener he actually forgets to listen to anything. Considering Flowers was actively seeking out useless people, the guy seems more useless then the sex-crazed but otherwise lucid Tucker. Of course, since this was the guy Flowers was going to be interacting with almost constantly, it would make sense that he wouldnt go with his absolute bottom choice. Not to mention Tucker was intended to be his second in command, so the other guy would have been too much of a legitimate liability.

* Temple hesitates to [[spoiler: shoot Grif in Season 15, Episode 20]] and snaps at Andrews after she taunts him for being AfraidOfBlood. He can't really be afraid of ''killing.'' [[spoiler: All the dead Freelancers in his WaxMuseumMorgue attest to that]]. He can't bring himself to do it because [[spoiler: Grif wears armor that looks just like Temple's deceased best friend Biff]] and doing so would remind him of [[BloodSpatteredInnocents his traumatizing moment]].

* This was most likely a coincidence, but in Literature/TheBible, Revelation 20:1-3 reads, [[spoiler:"And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time."]] Fitting how, in ''Revelation'' episode 20, [[spoiler:the Meta is killed by being chained to a Warthog and flung into an icy abyss. You should also consider that Tucker's sword IS a key.]]