History WebAnimation / RedVsBlueSeason14

* ActorAllusion: [=FH57=] is short for "Funhaus 57", as for the group who stars in that. Their rival (deceased) Blue Team's name, [=AH13=], certainly is one for Creator/AchievementHunter.

* MomentKiller: In Episode 22, Ohio and Idaho are having a FriendshipMoment, complete with uplifting background music, when Iowa calls out to the Charon soldiers, blowing their cover. Later, Ohio and Sherry are starting to bond when [[spoiler: Ohio ''shoots'' Sherry in the foot]].

** And Episodes 21 & 22 Are this for Project Freelancer, taking place during the early years of the project and (possibly) [[spoiler:explaining the origin of the Red vs. Blue simulation conflict]].

* TheDitz: Practically parodied in the ''Death Battle'' crossover concerning Boomstick, with him being the ''only'' one not to realize that [[spoiler:Sarge’s long-lost son]]. And yes, even '''Caboose''' realized it.

--> '''Caboose:''': [[spoiler:But you know, I think the very best thing about friends - the thing that most people forget about at least - is that no matter how many friends you ''do'' lose... you can always make more.]]

* BirthdayEpisode: Episode 5, ''The Brick Gulch Chronicles'' starts off with Grif and Simmons forgetting about Sarge's birthday and going out to search for a present. [[spoiler:Sarge eventually does get a present: a miniature explosive which Tucker subsequently throws at Malcolm with no effect. At the end of the episode, Caboose gives Sarge a cake... with [[OhCrap another mini explosive]] as the candle.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Sarge asks "What was that!?" after hearing something crash in the season opener at the end of "Room Zero," Caboose says "I think it was a logo."

** The season as a whole turned out to be this retroactively. Between the high-stakes war of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and [[spoiler: the gruesome deaths]] in Season 15, this season is considerably more laid-back.

* ChekhovsSkill: Ohio mentions that she's "a pretty good shot." [[spoiler: She later shoots Sherry in the foot.]]

* DeathAsComedy: The prequel episodes are filled with it: first, Grif and Simmons witness the death of their CO Hammer; then, Sarge wins a promotion because all the other candidates die, mostly by their own hands. The [=FH57=] Reds also all accidentally blow themselves up at the end of "Invaders From Another Mother", and "Grey vs. Gray" has [[spoiler:all of the Reds and Blues kill each other in the end]].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Episode 14, "Grey vs. Gray," is entirely in grayscale, to give the murder mystery plot a FilmNoir feel. [[spoiler:It's also because the characters are all colorblind.]]

* FauxToGuide: "Caboose's Guide to Making Friends", which is both Caboose discussing the subject and an inside look at his mental state.

--> Very serious question, dude: if you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler? Right now you're thinking 'well duh, absolutely! That guy was kind of a dick, dude'. But what if you met him when he was just a kid? When all he wanted to do was go to art school and paint pictures of dogs? You think you could still do it? Murder him in cold blood? Next to the oil paintings and the schnauzers?
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Club", before we are actually told who the protagonists are, we have [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience the colors of their ties]]: orange and green. Additionally, the laser light show behind the protagonists in Amnesia forms two parallel orange lines and a green "X" - perfectly matching the helmets of the Mercs from during ''The Chorus Trilogy''.

** As implied under StartOfDarkness, had Felix and Locus not gotten the Lozano job, they ''may'' not have become the sociopaths they became. More specifically, had Lozano's dad [[spoiler:actually given a crap about his son]]...

** As "Why They're Here" shows, [[spoiler:Florida tripping over a power cable]] wound up being a big linchpin in the timeline of the show. After all, without it, [[spoiler:[=VIC=] wouldn't have gotten his erratic personality and the roster of future recruits wouldn't have been changed to include Caboose, Donut, and Sister]].

* GoKartingWithBowser: "Mr. Red vs Mr. Blue", which shows that between "Blood Gulch Chronicles" and "The Reconstruction", the Teams would have a movie night, as they were still enemies but also not really giving a damn.

* HeroicSacrifice: Emphasis on trying to make Hammer's sound heroic.

** When [=FH57's=] away team [[spoiler:encounters Caboose]] in "Invaders From Another Mother," they're very confused by why their surroundings look so low-res and block since they're filmed in ''Halo 3'' but have traveled to Blood Gulch from when the series was being filmed in ''Halo 3''.

* OriginsEpisode: It's heavily implied that the Triplets two-parter [[spoiler:concerns the origin of the simulation war]].

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The "Triplets" of Project Freelancer, Agents Ohio, Iowa, and Idaho, are basically dumped on a frozen wasteland of a planet for being the lowest ranked Agents. [[spoiler:There, they meet a similarly abandoned trio of soldiers from Charon Industries.]]

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" shows that given ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' was the only movie in Blood Gulch and Tucker really loves it, everyone had to endure daily viewings of that between Seasons 5 and 6. It had gotten to the point that when Caboose destroys the tape and Tucker gets depressed, the rest of the guys can easily recreate the movie based solely on memory.

** Flowers' speech to the cobalt soldier he's brought into Sidewinder ends with a name that entirely changes what the audience has come to expect from [[NiceGuy Captain Butch Flowers]], painting the scene in a whole new light:

'''Ruben''': [[spoiler:You're a fucking idiot.]]

--->'''Caboose''': BUT. (suddenly somber) Sometimes... ([[spoiler:crayon!Church begins to fragment]]) [[spoiler:you will lose a friend]]. Sometimes... [[spoiler:even your best friend]]. ([[spoiler:crayon!Church explodes]])

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: When Simmons suggests doing a SliceOfLife documentary of Blood Gulch, the others shoot down the idea on the grounds that only a [[TakeThatAudience "brain dead lunatic"]] would want to watch it.

->''As long as there's stories, there needs to be storytellers. And that is where you come in.''

* AlternateUniverse: Discussed by Vic in the opening monologue to episode 5, which itself takes place in an alternate universe where the BGC are Mega Bloks figurines in a ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''-esque scenario.

* AnimationBump: The Mercs Trilogy (episodes 9-11) features detailed expressions and movements, tightly-choreographed fights synced to music, and a more fluid look on par with season 10 despite its vastly different art style. In particular, Siris' mechanical leg is accounted for in each of his motions down to precise detail.

** Episode 1 is animated in 2D, adapting footage from an old non-canon short, "Red vs. Blue: Animated", and inserting it into the canon as one of the iterations that Church ran through in the Epsilon unit.

** As is expected, the scenes specific to the Epsilon memory unit use ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' machinimation in episode 17.

* BadBadActing: When the BGC tries to remake ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', their acting ranges from "not good but trying" (Church) to "couldn't care less" (Grif).
* BilingualBonus: In ''The Number 1 Movie in the Galaxy'', Caboose is shown with a logo labeled "Non Mea Culpa", translating to [[CatchPhrase "Not my fault."]]
* BirthdayEpisode: Episode 5, ''The Brick Gulch Chronicles'' starts off with Grif and Simmons forgetting about Sarge's birthday and going out to search for a present. [[spoiler:Sarge eventually does get a present: a miniature explosive which he subsequently throws at Malcolm with no effect. At the end of the episode, Caboose gives Sarge a cake... with [[OhCrap another mini explosive]] as the candle.]]

** For his birthday, Sarge wants either Simmons and Grif's respect, a gift card, a shotgun, or a gift card for a shotgun that shoots respect.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Sarge asks "what was that!?" after hearing something crash, Caboose says "I think it was a logo."

** After the DarkerAndEdgier ''Mercs'' trilogy, there’s the more lighthearted and humorous ''Fight the Good Fight'', a propaganda parody with the Reds and Blues goofing around in Blood Gulch.
** The season as a whole turned out to be this. Between the high-stakes war of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and [[spoiler: the gruesome deaths]] in Season 15, this season is overall more laid-back.

** Captain Butch Flowers is given a large role in the prequel episodes, his only prior appearance since the Blood Gulch Chronicles being his cameos as Agent Florida in Seasons 9 and 10.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In episode 24, each member of Creator/RoosterTeeth is wearing clothes that correspond to their characters. Matt (Sarge) is wearing red, Gus (Simmons) is wearing maroon, Burnie (Lopez) is wearing brown, Joel (Caboose) is wearing blue and Geoff (Grif) is wearing orange.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' as the July battle is Agent Carolina vs. The Meta. [[spoiler:Among other things, it heavily implies that Sarge is Boomstick's dad.]]
* CueTheSun: At the end of episode 11 after [[spoiler:Felix, Locus and Siris]] have taken out all the bad guys the sun rises. Lampshaded by [[spoiler:Felix]].

* DeathAsComedy: The prequel episodes are filled with it: first, Grif and Simmons cause the death of their CO; then, Sarge wins a promotion because all the other candidates die, mostly by their own hands.

* EvilKnockoff: Agent Washington claims that it isn't the real Tucker in the third Sarge movie, [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Sarge v Tucker The Origin of Sin]], but an evil clone.
* ExpandedUniverse: The season is a chance to invite many writers and animators that have been influenced by the series to contribute to the setting at any point in the timeline barring the end of season 13, [[ArtShift in any number of animation styles]].

* FauxlosophicNarration: Occurs at times with VIC's intros.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Club", before we are actually told who the protagonists are, we have [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience the colors of their ties]]: orange and green.

** Since the newly-introduced Hammer is a soldier accompanying Grif and Simmons on a mission in a prequel flashback, the fact that he's going to kick the bucket is obvious and played for laughs.

** As "Why We're Here" shows, [[spoiler:Florida tripping over a power cable]] wound up being a big linchpin in the timeline of the show. After all, without it, [[spoiler:[=VIC=] wouldn't have gotten his erratic personality and the roster of future recruits wouldn't have been changed to include Caboose, Donut, and Sister]].
** "The 'Mission'" shows that [[spoiler:what led to the Project's simulation war was two groups of soldiers being ReassignedToAntarctica, and two people getting shot[[note]]one by accident, because of someone seeing an "ice spider", and one intentional, because that would give both groups a purpose[[/note]]]].
* GenderFlip: The twist of episode 17, where Church somehow misremembers the Reds as female.

** Hero might be stretching it, but episodes 6, 7, and 14 reinforce the notion that there's Reds and Blues all over the galaxy, [[TooDumbToLive and they're all idiots]].
** Also stretching, Episodes 21-22 focuses on the Freelancer Project, namely three incompetent recruits.

--> Gentlemen and gentlemen, please welcome the man of the hour: Franklin. Delano. D-D-Donut!

* LukeYouAreMyFather: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Sarge and [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Boomstick]]]] have a matching backstory about a father who joined the army rather than stick around to raise his son. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Sarge]], Wiz, Grif, Simmons, and Caboose]] realize it, [[spoiler:Boomstick]] does not.
* MomentKiller: In episode 22. Ohio and Idaho are having a friendship moment, complete with uplifting background music, when Iowa calls out to the Charon soldiers, blowing their cover. Later, Ohio and Sherry are starting to bond when [[spoiler: Ohio ''shoots'' Sherry in the foot]].
* MusclesAreMeaningless: On one side, it's Tucker, wearing his Halo armor as usual. On the other side, it's Barbara, wearing a short dress. Barb flattens Tucker with one punch.
* MythologyGag: Wiz's intro to the Meta's breakdown starts with the Season 9 tagline ("Before there was Red vs. Blue, there was Project Freelancer.")

** In Episode 15, Caboose actually ''finds'' Vic's narration room. Vic is so impressed, he lets him do the episode.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Fem!Sarge lacks her male counterpart's southern drawl.

** Felix's ClusterFBomb of a rant in "Call" when he realizes that [[spoiler:Lozano has no intention of getting his son back]].
** Inside the Epsilon Unit, Church's dawning horror that he misremembered the Red Team as girls, somehow.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "Mr Red Vs Mr Blue" is, for the most part, completely comedic and [[LighterAndSofter lighthearted]], harkening [[RevisitingTheRoots back to the first few seasons.]] Then Simmons makes a crack about Tex's death and Church threatens to, in no uncertain terms, ''murder him'' if he makes another. While Church has always been an asshole, he's never made a threat like that in the series proper, and it serves as a stark reminder that he's grieving the recent death of Tex.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Epsilon didn't need the alert by then, but unlike her male counterpart, female!Donut hates interior decorating. Church decides he should've expected this, given how enthusiastic female!Sarge and female!Simmons were about it.
* PerspectiveFlip: We see the sequence when Omega jumps into most of the Red and Blues' minds from his point of view in episode 16.

** Episodes 9-11 are those for Felix and Locus.
* RealWorldEpisode: Episode 24, "Red Vs Blue vs Rooster Teeth" has the Reds and Caboose wind up in Rooster Teeth HQ due to a combination of a teleporter accident, energy drink being spilled on the Xbox, and Burnie pulling the Machinima death switch.

* RewatchBonus: In Grey vs. Gray, you can see that [[spoiler: Regina has swapped guns with Hutch after the blackout.]]
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" shows that given ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' was the only movie in Blood Gulch and Tucker really loves it, everyone had to endure daily viewings of that between seasons 5 and 6. To the point that when Caboose destroys the tape and Tucker gets depressed, the guys can easily recreate the movie.
* SelfDeprecation: "It's a theory about a universe where Red Vs. Blue is just a cartoon! Made by [[Creator/RoosterTeeth a bunch of losers in Texas]]! Heh, I mean, talk about far-fetched!"

* StartOfDarkness: While they weren't the nicest people to begin with, Locus and Felix have a glimpse of their origins shown in episodes 9, 10, and 11. After the war, they were professional bounty hunters and called themselves "the good guys" with a loosely-defined but still noticeable code of morals they would not cross. But one bad job set them on the path of becoming the sociopath and conflicted killer seen in the Chorus trilogy. Vic's narration at the start of episode 9 makes this clear.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Episode 3 has Flowers conducting one for the position of the other Blue rookie. In a twist, he's looking ''for'' the most terrible interviewee, as the more expendable, the better. [[ForegoneConclusion Tucker gets the job]].

* WaxingLyrical: Ohio's self-assuring speech eventually goes "[[Film/TheKarateKid You're the best, around, nothing's gonna ever keep you down]]".

--->'''Lozano''': Fuck you! Who the hell do you think you are?\\
'''Felix''': Well, that's Locus, I'm Felix, and... [[DramaticIrony we're the good guys]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "Mr Red Vs Mr Blue" is, for the most part, completely comedic and [[LighterAndSofter lighthearted]], harkening [[ReturningToTheRoots back to the first few seasons.]] Then Simmons makes a crack about Tex's death and Church threatens to, in no uncertain terms, ''murder him'' if he makes another. While Church has always been an asshole, he's never made a threat like that in the series proper, and it serves as a stark reminder that he's grieving the recent death of Tex.

* YouNeverAsked: Apparently, the Female Reds from "Get Bent" were able to make a major expansion of the Red Base simply by putting in a requisition for materials with Command.

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories. [[ExpandedUniverse Some of them are definitively canon to the overall universe] [[note]]: i.e. The Mercs Trilogy[[/note]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are a little dubious]][[note: i.e. Death Battle[[/note]], and some are decidedly ''[[PlayedForLaughs not]]''[[note]]: i.e. The Brick Gulch Chronicles[[/note]] .

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories. [[ExpandedUniverse Some of them are definitively canon to the overall universe] [[note: i.e. The Mercs Trilogy]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are a little dubious]][[note: i.e. Death Battle]], and some are decidedly ''[[PlayedForLaughs not]]''[[note: i.e. The Brick Gulch Chronicles]] .

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories. [[ExpandedUniverse Some of them are definitively canon to the overall universe]](i.e. The Mercs Trilogy), [[BroadStrokes some of them are a little dubious]](i.e. Death Battle), [[PlayedForLaughs and some]] are decidedly ''not''(i.e the Season Finale).

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories. [[ExpandedUniverse Some of them are definitively canon to the overall universe]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are a little dubious]], [[PlayedForLaughs and some]] are decidedly ''not''.

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories. [[ExpandedUniverse Some of them are definitively canon to the overall universe]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are a little dubious]], [[GagEpisode and some]] are decidedly ''not''.

The 14th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Unlike others, this is not part of a story arc, but rather is an {{Anthology}} consisting of single or multi-episode stories.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The "Triplets" of Project Freelancer, Agents Ohio, Iowa, and Idaho, are basically dumped on a frozen wasteland of a planet for being the lowest ranked Agents. There, they meet a similarly abandoned trio of soldiers from Charon Industries.

* ShakingTheRump: In episode 6, Sue shakes his butt to show off his new armor.
* ShoutOut:
** A rather transparent one. Episode three is called [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Fifty Shades of Red"]].
** Again with episode 6, entitled [[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack "Orange is the New Red"]].
** In the Sarge trailer, Sarge's "Rent in Hell" one-liner is re-purposed into a RousingSpeech that is clearly inspired by the "Tonight we dine in Hell!" speech in ''300''.
** The title of Episode 13 is a joke on ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
** In episode 22, Sherry's introductions ("My name's Sherry, this is my partner Darryl, this is my other partner Terrill") reference a line from ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother, Darryl. This is my other brother, Darryl."

* AlternateUniverse: Discussed by Vic in the opening monologue to episode 5, which itself takes place in an alternate universe where the BGC are Mega Bloks figurines in a [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Story-esque]] scenario.

** The title of Episode 13 is a joke on ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfAwesome''.

** Episode 13 is a ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' episode in 3D CGI as Grif and Simmons ponder the age-old question of "who would win? Carolina or The Meta?" [[spoiler:Carolina.]]

* RealWorldEpisode: Episode 24, "Red Vs Blue vs Rooster Teeth" has the Reds and Caboose wind up in Rooster Teeth HQ due to a combination of a teleported accident, energy drink being spilled on the Xbox, and Burnie pulling the Machinima death switch.

** Episodes 2-4 return to the original VideoGame/{{Halo}} engine to mimic the style of the first two and a half seasons, which the episodes are framed as a direct prequel to.
** Episode 5, (The Brick Gulch Chronicles) is made with Mega-Bloks stop-motion, based in a world where the Blood Gulchers are just toys in a child's bedroom, tormented by his little brother Malcolm Hargrove.
** Episodes 6 and 7 revolve around another Red Team in VideoGame/{{Halo 3}} {{Machinima}} and [[spoiler: briefly in the Halo CE engine.]]
** Episode 8 is set in live-action, as a Sarge 3 trailer and [[spoiler: returns to Halo 4 machinima at the end.]]

** Episode 12 is machinimated in Halo 2, playing as a Project Freelancer propaganda vid to recruit soldiers for the Red/Blue "War", set between Season 5 and Reconstruction.

** Episode 14 is done using Videogame/{{Halo 3}}, edited to be in black and white to portray a Noir setting.

** Episode 16 uses Halo 2 again, expanding on a scene in Episode 100 that was already funny to begin with.
** As is expected, the scenes specific to the Epsilon memory unit use VideoGame/HaloReach Machinimation in episode 17.
** Episode 18 is a MusicalEpisode done in VideoGame/{{Halo 2}} {{Machinima}} and [[spoiler: returns to Videogame/{{Halo 4}} Machinima at the end.]]
** Episodes 21 and 22 are filmed in Halo 3.