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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]]e.g. The Mercs Trilogy[[/note]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are rather dubious]][[note]]e.g. "Grey vs. Gray"[[/note]], and some are definitely ''[[PlayedForLaughs not]]''[[note]]e.g. "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[[/note]], [[BroadStrokes some of them are rather dubious]][[note]]i.e. Grey vs. Gray[[/note]], and some are definitely ''[[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[[/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]] .

* MirroringFactions: "The Triplets" and "The 'Mission'" follow a trio of Project Freelancer agents who are given [[ReassignedToAntarctica a dead-end transfer to a frozen wasteland]]. There, they meet a trio of soldiers who are from opposing faction Charon Industries and wear red-trimmed armor in contrast to their own blue armor. As the two groups discover, they have all been abandoned there by their respective organizations for being the worst soldiers around. Further highlighting their similarities, each trio consists of two men and one woman, with the woman serving as the leader.

* MirroringFactions: "The Triplets" and "The 'Mission'" follow a trio of Project Freelancer agents who are given [[ReassignedToAntarctica a dead-end transfer to a frozen wasteland]]. There, they meet a trio of soldiers who are from opposing faction Charon Industries and wear red-trimmed armor in contrast to their own blue armor. As the two groups discover, they have all been abandoned there by their respective organizations for being the worst soldiers around. Further highlighting their similarities, each trio consists of two men and one woman, with the woman being the closest they have to a leader.

* StartMyOwn: Incensed over not getting a part in the movie because of it lacking female roles, Sister declares that she'll make her own movie with an all-female cast.
-->'''Sister:''' Fine! Enjoy being sexist! I'm gonna go make my own movie! And it'll only have girls! Then you'll see who's sexist!

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

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

* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" shows that given ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' was the only movie in available Blood Gulch and Tucker really loves it, everyone had to endure weekly viewings of it 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.
* StartMyOwn: Incensed over not getting a part in the movie because of it ladking female roles, Sister declares that she'll make her own movie with an all-female cast.

* WhamLine: Captain 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:

* BadBadActing: When the Blood Gulch Crew tries to remake ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', their acting ranges from "not very good but at least trying" (Church) to "couldn't care less" (Grif).

* 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 weekly viewings of it 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.
* StartMyOwn: Incensed over not getting a part in the movie because of its lack of female roles, Sister declares that she'll make her own movie with an all-female cast.

* AnAesop: A surprisingly nuanced one is delivered at the end of “Caboose’s Guide to Making Friends”:
--> '''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.]]

* MirroringFactions: "The Triplets" and "The 'Mission'" follow a trio of Project Freelancer agents who are given [[ReassignedToAntarctica a dead-end transfer to a frozen wasteland]]. There, they meet a trio of soldiers who are from opposing faction Charon Industries and wear red-trimmed armor in contrast to their own blue armor. As the two groups discover, they have all been abandoned there by their respective organizations for being the worst soldiers around. Further highlighting their similarities, each trio consists of two men and one woman, with the woman being the closest they have to a leader.

* TheDissTrack: Sarge and Church go back and forth insulting each other [[spoiler;until the Mercenaries show up to lay down their own diss track.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: In "The Brick Gulch Chronicles", Simmons and Grif spend the episode looking for a birthday present for Sarge. After many mishaps, Simmons eventually gives him a firework, which fails to ignite. After celebrating that they're glad to be alive, [[DiabolusExMachina Caboose brings them a birthday candle that blows them all to bits]].

-->'''Idaho:'' Ohio...\\

* 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 and sharing a HeldGaze when [[spoiler: Ohio ''shoots'' Sherry in the foot]].

[[folder:General/Recurring Tropes]]

* 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.
** Agent Iowa is named for Creator/ShannonMcCormick's home state, and he's paired with Idaho and Ohio drawing from experience of Iowa being confused for those other two states. Iowa also speaks well of Washington, Shannon's main role in the show.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
** For his birthday, Sarge wants either Simmons and Grif's respect, a gift card, a brand new shotgun, or a gift card for a brand new shotgun that shoots respect.
** There are five things Iowa doesn't want to roll saving throws against in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': "poison, a fireball, a poison fireball, a [[Anime/DragonballZ Super Saiyan]], and an avalanche".
* BreatherEpisode:
** 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 retroactively. Between the high-stakes war & Epsilon’s tragic HeroicSacrifice from during ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and [[spoiler: the gruesome deaths & intense character drama]] in Season 15, this season is considerably more laid-back.
* TheBusCameBack:
** Vic is reintroduced after a prolonged absence since Season 5.
** 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.
* {{Crossover}}: Episode 13 is one 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.]] Episode 23 is also a live-action one with ''WebVideo/{{Immersion}}''.

* {{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''.
** The mere fact that Felix’s initial call to Ruben Lozano goes to ''voicemail'' serves as a subtle indicator of [[spoiler:how little Lozano actually cares for his son]].
** When Boomstick [[DeadlyEuphemism “tests science”]] on Grif in the ''Death Battle'' crossover, he cheerfully remarks that it “just feels right!” Combine that with him wearing red armor while being machinimated in ''Halo 3'', being introduced carrying a shotgun, and having a thick Southern accent, and [[spoiler:him being Sarge’s long-lost son starts to make a ''lot'' more sense]].
* ForegoneConclusion:
** 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 PlayedForLaughs.
** Same goes for the other Red soldiers competing against Sarge for the position of... Sergeant.
** We see the [=FH57=] unit plan to unite with the Red team against the Blues. Since the live footage is from Season 1 and we've never seen them before, we know they don't get there.
** In Episodes 9 to 11, we know Felix and Locus survive since it's a prequel, and chronologically they turn up later on. Although, this is subverted in regards to Siris.
* ForWantOfANail:
** As implied under StartOfDarkness, had Felix and Locus not gotten the Lozano job, they ''may'' not have become the monsters they became during ''The Chorus Trilogy''. More specifically, had Lozano's dad [[spoiler:actually given a crap about his son]]...
** The fate of [=FH57=] can be pinpointed to two words: [[spoiler:"[[{{Mondegreen}} shelf-construction]]"]].
** Had Grif and Simmons decided to go into the Blue base along with Hammer, they would've been blown up as well.
** 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]].
** "The 'Mission'" shows that [[spoiler:what likely 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]]]].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Upon assembling everyone at Blood Gulch, Agent Florida muses that the conflict could last for fourteen seasons. When Vic asks what he means, he laughs it off and explains that he meant ''actual'' seasons.
** 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: Combat Evolved''.

* OhCrap:
** PlayedForDrama with Felix's ClusterFBomb of a rant in "Call" when he realizes that [[spoiler:Lozano has no intention of getting his son back]].
** PlayedForLaughs in "Get Bent" with Church's slowly dawning horror as he realizes that he somehow misremembered all of Red Team as women while inside the Epsilon Unit.
* OriginsEpisode:
** The Blood Gulch Prequel Trilogy episodes - “From Stumbled Beginnings”, “Fifty Shades of Red”, and “Why They’re Here” - all show how Agent Florida hand-selected the Blood Gulch Red and Blue Teams as part of Project Freelancer hiding the Alpha away.
** The Merc Trilogy episodes - "Club", "Call", and "Consequences" - show what Locus and Felix were up to prior to Chorus as well as their ProtagonistJourneyToVillain.
** It's heavily implied that the Freelancer Prequel Duology episodes - “The Triplets” and “The ‘Mission’” - [[spoiler:concern the origin of the Red vs. Blue simulation war]].
* {{Prequel}}:
** Episodes 2-4, which elaborate on the circumstances leading up to Season 1 as Flowers recruits the most incompetent and ineffectual soldiers possible.
** Episodes 9-11 are this for Locus and Felix prior to their involvement in the Chorus Civil War.
** 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]].
* ShaggyDogStory: Done three times.
** In "The Brick Gulch Chronicles", Simmons and Grif spend the episode looking for a birthday present for Sarge. After many mishaps, Simmons eventually gives him a firework, which fails to ignite. After celebrating that they're glad to be alive, [[DiabolusExMachina Caboose brings them a birthday candle that blows them all to bits]].
** In "Invaders from Another Mother", the [=FH57=] crew convince Peake to stop his insurrection with his cult of aliens with a heartfelt speech by their leader, and reassure Santos that although he won't have the wine bar he wanted, they'll make him a shelf instead, they all are overjoyed with their new-found unity as a team and the freedom to travel in space. Then their resident AI, Cherry mishears [[spoiler:"shelf-construction" as "self-destruction", presumably again, blowing them all to bits]].
** In "Grey vs. Gray" [[spoiler:it turns out that the first soldier to die wasn't killed by any of them - he had a sudden heart attack when the lights went out and they killed each other for nothing.]]
* SpecialGuest:
** "Grey vs. Gray" stars (and was partially written by) the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps''. Arin Hanson, Suzy Hanson, Ross O'Donovan, and Barry Kramer provide the voices for Cobb, Reg, Deuce, and Squatch, while Barry and Brain Wecht helped write.
** Ditto Episodes 6 and 7, written and starring "Rooster Teeth West" Funhaus [[spoiler:aside from Caboose's appearance.]]
* WhamLine:
** Captain 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:
--->'''Flowers''': The world will never forget [[spoiler:Private Jimmy]].
** If you hadn't put two and two together beforehand in "Club", we have this bit of dialogue right before Lozano is knocked out by the men in the orange and green ties:
--->'''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]]!
** And then, in the ''next'' episode, ''this'' is when the attempt to hold Lozano for ransom begins falling apart:
--->'''Felix''': (on the phone with Ruben, Lozano's father) So, Mr. Lozano. I suggest you think very carefully about the-\\
'''Ruben''': [[spoiler:You're a ''fucking idiot.'']]
** In-Universe in "Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome", we have this little moment:
--->'''[[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Wiz]]:''' ''(narrating)'' There's a lot going on here. Turns out, the Director was Carolina's father all along and Tex was actually the AI fragment memory of his deceased wife, meaning Carolina's greatest rival for her father's approval was actually her own mother.\\
''(cut back to the others)''\\
'''Grif and Simmons''': ''(in-unison)'' [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Wait,]] ''[[BigWhat WHAT?!]]''
** And then, we have the ''end'' of the episode, where Sarge enters the picture:
--->'''Sarge''': Y'know, you remind me of someone-- almost like the son that I... never wanted...\\
'''[[spoiler:Boomstick]]''': Well, that's funny. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I was about to say]] [[spoiler:[[LukeYouAreMyFather you're like the Pappy I never had.]] [[DisappearedDad When I was a kid, he ran out on us to join the Army and never came back.]]]]\\
'''Sarge''': [[OhCrap Huh. Well... how about that?]] [[INeedToGoIronMyDog Time to move along, I guess. (backs out of the room) Nothing to see here. Do-do-do Do-di-do Do-do.]]
** "Caboose's Guide to Making Friends" has an interesting variant, particularly because [[spoiler:it wasn't even ''implied'' beforehand that Caboose would reference the ending of the previous season]]:
--->'''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]])
** PlayedForLaughs, but here's the immediate sign that Epsilon fucked up remembering shit in "Get Bent":
--->'''Tucker''': Church, it's like I always said. Women are like Anime/{{Voltron}}: The more you can hook up, the better it gets!\\
'''Epsilon''': [[TemptingFate And what chicks are we going to pick up exactly?]]\\
'''Tucker''': [[LockedOutOfTheLoop What are you, the rookie?]] [[Rule63 We've got a whole base full of them right here in the canyon!]]

!This series provides examples of:

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Caboose somehow shows up in Vic's narration room, he's so impressed he lets him tell the episode's story instead.
* AdamWesting: As per usual, the members of Rooster Teeth seen in live-action during "Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth" are playing [[TheDitz ditzy]] {{Jerkass}} versions of their real-world selves, with the only exception being Joel Heyman (who is instead portrayed as just being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}).
* AdaptationalContextChange: InUniverse example; Sarge's PreMortemOneLiner "I hope you brought your wallet, because the rent in Hell gets paid in advance!" is changed into the closing line of a RousingSpeech.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Cherry has some...defects. She follows anyone's orders without question and more often than not mishears most of what the crew tells her. Santos never did get around to fixing that voice-modulator...
* AlternateUniverse: Discussed by Vic in the opening monologue to episode 5, which itself takes place in an alternate universe where the Blood Gulch Crew are Mega Bloks figurines in a ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''-esque scenario.
--> '''Vic''': Yo! You ever hear of that multiverse theory? ''Way crazy,'' amigo. A bunch of eggheads think there's an ''unlimited'' number of parallel universes. Like, maybe there's a universe where no one's even heard of Red vs. Blue. It could be, like, Green vs. Beige. Or, there could be a universe where we're all fish! I don't know why I said fish as an example, maybe there's a universe out there where I made a better analogy; let's all swim to that one. Dude, there could be a universe where we don't even ''exist.'' Or, maybe we're just a part of someone's dream. Maybe we're in that universe right now! Maybe this is all just part of some kid's imagination. ''That'' would be weird.
* AllJustADream: The animated beginning of the first episode turns out to be another iteration Epsilon is going through while stuck in the Memory Unit between The Revelation and Season 9.
* AmazonBrigade: The Reds, no less, in one of Epsilon's memory runs. They're still lazy nutjobs, but this time they have an eye for interior decoration and actually succeed in defeating the Blues...until [[OneManArmy Tex]] shows up, of course.
* AnAesop: A surprisingly nuanced one is delivered at the end of “Caboose’s Guide to Making Friends”:
--> '''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.]]
* AnachronicOrder: Parodied by Vic:
-->So, what better place to start than the beginning? Well, you could get all artsy and [[InMediasRes start somewhere in the middle]]. All the cool directors do that. Get you all excited. You're like, "Whoa dude! What's goin' on, man? Why's that guy shooting that other guy?" [[HowWeGotHere Then they all do that rewind thing.]] Tell the tale, lay the breadcrumbs, roll the credits. Classic! But how about we start... [[{{Prequel}} before the beginning?]]
* 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.

* BadBadActing: When the Blood Gulch Crew tries to remake ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', their acting ranges from "not very good but at least 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 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.]]
* BlandNameProduct: In episode 24, "Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth", Grif pulls a package of "Oeeo" cookies out of the Rooster Teeth fridge, and then he closes the fridge, causing Geoff to drop his "Hack Daniel" whiskey in shock when he sees Grif.

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

* ChekhovsSkill: Agent Ohio mentions that she's "a pretty good shot." [[spoiler: She later shoots Sherry in the foot.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In Episode 24, each member of Creator/RoosterTeeth is wearing clothes that correspond to their characters. Matt Hullum (Sarge) is wearing red, Gus Sorola (Simmons) is wearing maroon, Burnie Burns (Lopez) is wearing brown, Joel Heyman (Caboose) is wearing blue and Geoff Ramsey (Grif) is wearing orange.

* 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]].
--> '''[[spoiler:Felix]]''': Pfft. Nature's so fucking cliche.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Episode 14, "Grey vs. Gray," is entirely in grayscale, to give the murder mystery plot a FilmNoir feel. [[spoiler:It's also because all of the characters are colorblind.]]
* TheDitz: Practically parodied in the ''Death Battle'' crossover concerning Boomstick, with him being the ''only'' one not to realize that [[spoiler:he is Sarge’s long-lost son]]. And yes, even '''Caboose''' realized it.
* EpicFail: In "Get Bent", Epsilon-Church somehow managed to misremember the genders of all the Reds [[spoiler:as well as Tex and, in the ending, ''his own gender'']] while in the Epsilon unit.
* 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.

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

* GenderFlip: The twist of Episode 17, where Church somehow misremembers the Reds as female.
* GoKartingWithBowser: "Mr. Red vs Mr. Blue", which shows that between ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Reconstruction'', the Blood Gulch Red and Blue Teams would have a weekly movie night, as (to paraphrase Vic) it was “a time when the Reds and Blues were technically still at war, but were simultaneously no longer really giving a damn.”

* HeroicSacrifice: Emphasis on Grif and Simmons trying to make Hammer's sound heroic.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Grif certainly feels that way about where he and Simmons met, asking if the place where they'll be reassigned "at least has a better name than Danger Canyon".
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:Ruben Lozano doesn't care about his son Gabriel at all. He says point blank that he's the worst thing he has ever brought into the world and would consider Felix and Locus killing him a favor. What's worse is he says this while his son can hear every word he says and just moments ago was begging his father to pay the ransom money Felix was demanding from him.]]
* IncomingHam: "Head Cannon" has one when Omega invades the head of...
--> Gentlemen and gentlemen, please welcome the man of the hour: Franklin. Delano. D-D-''Donut!''
* InDefenceOfStorytelling: Vic wraps up the season with a speech about the need for stories and encouraging viewers to create their own.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In "From Stumbled Beginnings", Red Team trainees Grif, Simmons, and Hammer are sent to investigate a base that was recently taken by a Blue Team. In an attempt to weasel out of infiltrating the base (Which Hammer wants to do), Grif wonders why three recruits were sent on such a dangerous mission. [[spoiler: When Hammer goes LeeroyJenkins and checks out the base alone, he finds that several bombs were placed- and the countdown's already going.]]

* 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, but [[spoiler:Boomstick]] does not.
* 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 and sharing a HeldGaze when [[spoiler: Ohio ''shoots'' Sherry in the foot]].
* MusclesAreMeaningless: On one side, it's Tucker, wearing his ''Halo'' armor as per usual. On the other side, it's Barbara Dunkelman, wearing a short dress. Barb flattens Tucker with a single punch.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Female!Sarge lacks her male counterpart's southern drawl.

* 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.
** Relatedly, the aforementioned episode has Tucker forcing the rest of the Reds and Blues to watch his favorite film - ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' - with him several hundred times in the period between Season 5 and ''Reconstruction'', with it being all but stated that it was [[StepfordSmiler Tucker's attempt to make himself feel better while grieving over Junior's apparent "death."]] So, when Caboose accidentally ruins the movie due to Church and Grif's machinations, it really says something about how utterly ''devastated'' Tucker is by this [[HeroicBSOD when he falls into a brief depression]] instead of [[RageBreakingPoint blowing up at Church]].

* 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 both Female!Sarge and Female!Simmons were about it.
* PerspectiveFlip: We see the sequence when Omega jumps into most of the Red and Blues' minds in "Why Were We Here?" from his point of view in Episode 16.

* 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 Burns pulling the Machinima death switch.
* 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.]]
* {{Revision}}: One that's been a ''long'' time coming. In Season 1, Church reminisces about his supposed time in Sidewinder, where he witnessed Tex take out a legion of soldiers, including his friend Private Jimmy. This scene in particular (in addition to one from ''Out of Mind''), was contradicted by the later revelations about the Alpha's creation and posting at Blood Gulch in Seasons 6 and 10. This is finally explained in Episode 4, revealing that [[spoiler:Private Jimmy is Church's original host body, and was lobotomized during the implementation surgery on Sidewinder. Church filled the gaps in his memory with some influence from Flowers, replacing the Freelancer personnel Tex fought during the crash with the blue army and either Carolina or the Meta with Jimmy himself.]]
* 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 weekly viewings of it 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.
* 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!"

* ShakingTheRump: In Episode 6, Sue shakes his butt to show off his new armor.
* SickAndWrong: Epsilon-Church's reactions to [[GenderFlip finding out he misremembered the Reds as women]].
--> '''Epsilon:''' Oh... this is so wrong! This is so fucking wrong!\\
'''Epsilon:''' Ugh... I need [[BrainBleach mental bleach]]. Or just regular bleach. I don't want to live in this world...
* SpecialEffectFailure: In-universe, when the [=FH57=] Red team [[spoiler:arrive at Blood Gulch]], they note with some confusion that it all looks so low-res and blocky.

* 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.
-->'''Vic''': Point I'm trying to make is: not everyone starts off evil, dude. People change over time. Sometimes for better. And sometimes, well...
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Episode 3 has Flowers conducting one for the position of the other Blue rookie. In a twist, he's actually looking ''for'' the most terrible interviewee, as the more expendable, the better. [[ForegoneConclusion Tucker gets the job]].
* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: The ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' fight is between Carolina during the Chorus Trilogy and the Meta before ''Reconstruction'', meaning that their fight is also between the original AI fragments and Epsilon (who's helped by a LivingMemory of each fragment). Likewise, both Freelancers have a very similar arrangement of armor enhancements, so Carolina can hold her own against the Meta more easily than most other Freelancers can.
* VirtualAssistantBlunder: The AI Cherry mishears the crew's words as a RunningGag. [[spoiler: She ends up mishearing "shelf construction" as "self destruction" and blowing them all up.]]
* WaxingLyrical: Ohio's self-assuring speech eventually goes "[[Film/TheKarateKid You're the best, around, nothing's gonna ever keep you down!]]"

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: When Simmons suggests doing a SliceOfLife documentary of Blood Gulch, Church shoots down the idea on the grounds that only a [[TakeThatAudience "brain dead lunatic"]] would want to watch it.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Idaho and Ohio use each other's and Iowa's real names in one conversation, showing how serious the moment is. Ohio starts off angry at Idaho, but then he breaks out her real name and she is taken aback.

* LemonyNarrator: Vic's narration seems to have a hard time keeping his train of thought.
-->'''Vic''': Space. It's like... really , really, really big, dude. And it's got all sorts of stuff in it too! I'm talking about aliens, humans, canyons, spaceships, those little peppers wrapped in bacon stuffed with cheese... whoo! Hits the spot every time, dude.

* AdamWesting: As per usual, the members of Rooster Teeth seen in live-action during "Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth" are playing [[TheDitz ditzy]] {{Jerkass}} versions of their real-world selves, with the only exception being Joel Heyman (who is instead portrayed as just being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}).