History WebAnimation / RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Tucker again mistakenly believes Donut is a girl instead of a guy in pink armor. He then comments on how awkward that makes what he did twenty minutes ago during "alone time".
* ADayInTheLimelight: The Dakotas get a focus plot early in the season, and C.T. gets a character establishing scene about midway through, but the Prequel half of the season is definitively more about [[TheAce Carolina]], [[TheLancer York]], [[OnlySaneMan Washington]], Tex, and, to a lesser extent, [[TheBrute Maine]].
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: Church's reality is not as idyllic as it seems.

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* WhamLine:
-->'''Church:''' No. I'm not going to say "I love you." I'm going to say [[spoiler:"I forget you." [[MercyKill I'm letting you go.]]]]
* Also from the same episode.
-->'''[[spoiler:Carolina]]:''' You're going to help me do what I should've done years ago. You're going to help me kill the Director.

* PhraseCatcher: Any mention of Agent Maine fighting someone is typically met with "Man, I ''almost'' feel bad for them."* PlotTumor: The Freelancer program, originally introduced as just independent agents back in season one, has evolved into this. Overlaps with CharacterizationMarchesOn and RetCon.

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: In Episode 22, [[spoiler:the Director says this he orders F.I.L.S.S. to delete all Project Freelancer files, including herself. F.I.L.S.S. responds in kind]].

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Wash, especially compared to [[TheStoic previous]] [[ConsummateProfessional seasons]]. He comes off as much more [[TeamDad sociable,]] [[WideEyedIdealist innocent]] and awkward compared to the [[AntiHero grim,]] [[JerkWithaHeartofGold gruff]] and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge vengeful]] Washington we know and love.
** And York, who is friendly and nice to his fellow Agents, but is a bit of a ButtMonkey and his snarky comments tend to invoke headshaking rather than chuckles from the other Freelancers.

** Retroactively for Washington. We see how Wash started off as an [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic]] [[NiceGuy nice]], if [[{{Adorkable}} stiff and awkward]], guy, and how the Epsilon Incident affected his personality so drastically. However, in a more straight sense, due to spending time on Blue Team, his nicer attitude is coming back, albeit without the {{Adorkable}} status.

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Theta becomes this due to how [[ShrinkingViolet nervous]] and [[ChildSoldier childlike]] he is.
** Wash, ''definitely''.[[note]]Specifically, during his days with Project Freelancer.[[/note]] The guy has pink and white towels, a ''rubber ducky'', and pictures of cute animals in his locker.

* PluckyComicRelief: [[NewMeat Wash]][[NiceGuy ing]][[{{Adorkable}} ton]] is portrayed as this in the flashbacks before [[BreakTheCutie Episode 17]].

-->'''Epsilon-Church:''' Why are you wearing blue armor? Why are you wearing ''my'' armor? [...] You took my ''name'', too?

-->'''Tucker:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Good to see you're keeping up tradition.]]* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In Episode 15, after Carolina and York jump off a skyscraper, they are stopped mere feet from the pavement of a highway by [[spoiler:Maine in a Warthog driving by]]. The save acts as though they sustained no injuries whatsoever as a result.

* TooSoon: InUniverse Example; After Sarge quips that ever since Donut was shot, he probably has a few more holes in him, he invokes this trope by name. Epsilon-Church calls him out on it.
-->'''Epsilon-Church''': What's the appropriate amount of time to go by for ''that'' joke to be ok?

* ThrowAwayGuns: In Episode 19, this is Tex's behavior, using one of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her enemies' shotguns]] and throwing it at someone else when it runs out of ammunition.

* SayingTooMuch: Theta, in his first appearance. [[spoiler:"I have a sister."]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: Wash apparently became this for Church, after the latter went into the Memory Unit. To the point where Caboose even ''calls Wash by Church's name'', though only to make it easier for Caboose (the armor color confuses him), as Church discovers much to his fury after being rescued from the Memory Unit. This is cemented in the last scenes of the season, with Wash yelling at Tucker and Caboose to get back to work, just like Church used to do.

'''Carolina]]''': Church? What is this?\\

** Highlighting just how similar to the Omega-infused Tex it is that Carolina]] [[NotSoDifferent has become]].

* HeinzHybrid: PlayedForLaughs in Episode 9, with Sarge calling Carolina "a half woman, half shark, except the shark half has been given [[SuperSoldier cybernetic powers]], and the woman half is also one quarter [[PantheraAwesome jaguar]]".

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Suggested by Delta to an Insurrectionist grunt. The Freelancers and Insurrectionists can't be called good and evil, just two groups working for different goals.

* BookEnds: The Meta's rampage starts in the same place it ended [[SlippySlideyIceWorld (Sidewinder)]], and ends in the same way it started (with a main Freelancer being [[DisneyVillainDeath thrown off of a cliff]]).

* AlasPoorVillain:
** [[spoiler:Connecticut in Episode 10. Doubly so because [[HeroAntagonist she wasn't even the villain]].]]
** The Director is the absolute last person you'd expect to feel sympathy for ... until he calls out in panic for Allison. Unfortunately, he's back to his {{Jerkass}} self within seconds. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when he acknowledges Carolina as his greatest creation, reconciles with her after becoming a nervous wreck and then is implied to commit suicide. At the time he's a far cry from the strutting super-scientist villain, instead looking devastated and more like the pathetic and insane old man mired in grief that he really is.]]

* PlotTumor: The Freelancer program, originally introduced as just independent agents back in season one, has evolved into this. Overlaps with CharacterizationMarchesOn and RetCon.
* PhraseCatcher: Any mention of Agent Maine fighting someone is typically met with "Man, I ''almost'' feel bad for them."

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In Episode 15, after Carolina and York jump off a skyscraper, they are stopped mere feet from the pavement of a highway by [[spoiler:Maine in a Warthog driving by]]. The save acts as though they sustained no injuries whatsoever as a result.

-->'''Tucker:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Good to see you're keeping up tradition.]]

* CallBack:
** The batteries [[spoiler:that Simmons uses to electrocute Lopez with]] are branded "Puma Batteries."
** In Episode 14, Caboose mentions that Grif is yellow, not orange.
** In Episode 19, Epsilon-Church's speech to Tex at the end is a condensed version of his revelation as he went into the Epsilon unit.
--->'''Epsilon-Church:''' It took a couple versions of me, but I think... I think sometimes you've just gotta let go. And if you do, the things you let go sometimes come back on their own. They did today.

''(About 30 seconds later, the events of which can't be described without spoiling the moment:)''

'''FILSS:''' Firing main cannon.\\
'''Red Demo Man:''' Oh, son of a...

* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: It was known by this point that the Director was the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, and the seasons themselves make the Project as a whole out as a VillainProtagonist, with the Freelancers ObliviouslyEvil while fighting the actual heroes, the Insurrectionists. Season 12 reveals the connection between the Space Pirates, Insurrectionists, and Charon Industries, all of which are working for the...[[EvilerThanThou Greatest]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish Scope]] [[EvilAllAlong Villain]], Chairman Malcolm Hargrove.]]

** [[spoiler:Epsilon-Church's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in Episode 18. After they told their piece and said, rightfully, that killing the Director has nothing to do with them, he, rightfully, screams at all of the assembled Reds and Blues (directing mostly at those from Blood Gulch), blaming them for most his problems and saying that, when it came down to it, all they amounted to problems for him. This KickTheDog was so blatant every single one of [[TrueCompanions them]], even Caboose, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walked out on him]] temporarily.]]

* TakeThat: During the "[=MIA=]" miniseries, Sarge is forwarded by Vic to Doc in order to get help looking for Grif (who has gone missing). Sarge hesitantly asks Doc if [ActualPacifist "you're still one of those lame paci-whatevers."]] Doc's response?