History WebAnimation / RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy

The fifteenth through seventeenth seasons of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', filmed inside ''Videogame/Halo5Guardians''.

* CastingGag: Cronut is voiced by Miles Luna, who has previously filled in for Dan Godwin as Donut on multiple occasions.

** The revelation as to ''why'' the Blues and Reds are a group of InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals ends up having a few of them, namely via the presence of Cronut and Loco and certain details isolated from the time in the Gulch. The backstory for the Desert Gulch Team all but says that the Blood Gulch Crew was actively picked based on the data of the Desert Gulch's conflict for the sake of hiding the Alpha, which would fit with all the candidates for Red Team Sergeant acting like Sarge and why Agent Florida picked each soldier in particular. The problem however comes from Donut and Caboose's presence in Blood Gulch, as ''neither were originally meant to be there''. The two of them got sent there by accident after Florida knocked a cable out of the wall and made Vic short circuit, replacing the list of Freelancers meant to replace Florida should anything happen to him with the names of random rookies. Eventually, Miles Luna would supply the following HandWave in a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/6ob60k/we_are_red_vs_blue_season_15_joe_nicolosi_kyle/dkg3q1i/ Reddit AMA]]: Florida didn't want to fully follow the Desert Gulch mold, only picking enough to have three soldiers on each side; but then he died, leading Vic to bring in two accidental call-ups that turned out to be [[SpannerInTheWorks just what Blood Gulch needed to leave the planned stalemate]].

''Singularity'', written by Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight (with Miles Luna doing one episode and co-writing another, and Joe Nicolosi only having helped with the story due to other commitments), finishes the arc that in a way was started all the way back on Season 15. It's also the first season since ''Recreation'' not be directed by the current showrunner, with machinimators Josh Ornelas and Austin Clark [=co-directing=] the season.

** The [[FantasticDrug Meth]]-[[UpToEleven Meth]] shrooms introduced in Episode 5 are later used in Episode 19 [[spoiler:by Grif to gain SuperSpeed powers and take out tons of the Blues and Reds' Grunts]].

* LethalJokeCharacter: While the Reds and Blues are ''already'' this, [[spoiler: [[EvilCounterpart the Blues and Reds]] turn this UpToEleven]]. Despite them being just as dysfunctional and goofy as the Blood Gulch Crew, they're also a [[spoiler: band of ruthless [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchic]] [[WesternTerrorists terrorists]] who are planning on using a DoomsdayDevice to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the vast majority of human civilization in the Milky Way]].]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[invoked]] The first two songs playing during [[spoiler:Tex and Carolina's fight in Desert Gulch]], an epic orchestral piece and a metal track, fit just fine, but it turns into this when Surge decides to play [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong music by]] Music/BruceSpringsteen. Then Loco shuffles the playlist and an ''[[UpToEleven audiobook of]] Literature/HarryPotter'' plays.

** One of the moments Genkins takes over as is Santa telling Locus what Felix is afraid of. The new answer is "Knives", even if Felix is a KnifeNut. Locus is understandably confused, and it's enough to derail his CharacterDevelopment.

* {{Corpsing}}: Right after the last verse of "[=VelociROCKtor=]", Jen Brown is clearly laughing herself silly (and considering Carolina is loosing up, it's actually not out of character).

* ASimplePlan: [[spoiler:All Biff needed to get back home to Georgina was to be medically discharged. The plan was simple: Temple shoots off his pinkie finger with witnesses present. Biff saw an opportunity to enact the plan when Carolina and Tex showed up in their canyon, but then he was dragged into their fight and quickly killed.]]

** The strange cop found outside the destroyed pizzeria is voiced by [[Characters/AchievementHunter Jeremy Dooley]] doing his best Creator/PatrickWarburton impersonation.

* AssholeVictim: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with the Blues and Reds' Grunts, with Episode 19 showing them all to be [[EvilIsPetty absurdly petty]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain casually bigoted assholes]] who more than deserved to be [[spoiler: sent off as simulation troopers and later be killed off by the Reds and Blues.]]

[[folder:The Shisno Paradox]]

[[folder:Singularity]]

The 15th season of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', which picks up 10 months after Season 13 left off. The Reds and Blues have become notorious criminals, and one reporter, Dylan Andrews, is dead-set on finding out what caused this change in their behavior.

** The revelation as to ''why'' the Blues and Reds are a group of InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals ends up having a few of them, namely via the presence of Cronut and Loco and certain details isolated from the time in the Gulch. The backstory for the Desert Gulch Team all but says that the Blood Gulch Crew was actively picked based on the data of the Desert Gulch's conflict for the sake of hiding the Alpha, which would fit with all the candidates for Red Team Sergeant acting like Sarge and why Agent Florida picked each soldier in particular. The problem however comes from Donut and Caboose's presence in Blood Gulch, as ''neither were originally meant to be there''. The two of them got sent there by accident after Florida knocked a cable out of the wall and made Vic short circuit, replacing the list of Freelancers meant to replace Florida should anything happen to him with the names of random rookies. Eventually, Miles Luna would supply the following HandWave in a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/6ob60k/we_are_red_vs_blue_season_15_joe_nicolosi_kyle/dkg3q1i/ Reddit AMA]]: Florida didn't want to fully follow the Desert Gulch mold, only picking enough to have three soldiers on each side; but then he died, leading Vic to bring in two accidental call-ups that turned out to be [[SpannerInTheWorks just what Blood Gulch needed to leave the planned stalemate]]).

(cut to [[spoiler:Locus finding a ''still alive'' Wash and Carolina]])

** On the bitter side,
[[spoiler:Wash has to permanently suffer through his brain damage again so as to resolve the TemporalParadox (though it's implied that he'll likely be more functional than he was before due to him having better treatment this time around and Carolina not ignoring the issue), and Donut decides [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to walk away from the Reds and Blues for a while]] due to all the trauma he’s been through over the course of this arc and him DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife]].

** As Wash is working out what Chrovos' plan is in "Schrödingin'", he proceeds to ask Donut a hypothetical: if he were to shoot Donut ([[RunningGag "...again..."]]), where would he want to be shot? As Wash points out, Donut wants to be shot non-fatally.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Class [=X-2=] Stellar - If it isn't properly deactivated in time, the Blues and Reds' time machine-laser drill eventually produces a black hole that will destroy the Earth followed by the entire ''Solar System'']].

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Sarge says that the island marked in Temple's maps is "close to the Arctic". Given its in the Indian Ocean ([[spoiler:across the globe from the UNSC headquarters in the mainland United States]], it's actually closer to the ''Ant''arctic.

* BombThrowingAnarchist: [[spoiler:The Blues and Reds want to completely destroy the [=UNSC=] - the governing body over most of humanity - out of vengeance for being sold like slaves to Project Freelancer]].

-->'''Dylan''': Ask them who they are.\\
'''Sarge''': No! Find out if it's an ambush!\\
'''Caboose''': Are you a bush?

** The season starts with what happened to the Reds and Blues between seasons being an AmbiguousSituation, following a viewpoint character mostly unaffiliated with the Reds and Blues, that needs to track them down to figure out what's happened, and said viewpoint character starts by going back to where it all began, in Blood Gulch, just like how ''Reconstruction'' started off. Ties into MythologyGag when Dylan mentions that this is what Wash did.

** Just like at the end of Season 2, the Reds and Blues got into a huge argument on whether or not it was ironic to be eaten by dinosaurs. This gets referenced again later in the season, as Sarge and Tucker get too wrapped up in their own banter to [[spoiler: start searching for the time machine]]. Dylan even asks [[LampshadeHanging if this happens a lot]], and Carolina responds by claiming the record is two hours.

** [[spoiler: Temple uses the armor lock technology on the Reds and Blues during the final battle. It fails to work on Dylan, Jax, and Caboose ([[NonActionGuy the former two]] aren't wearing Freelancer armor, and Caboose's [[FlawedPrototype obsolete Mark V armor]] means it doesn't work on him). The latter was previously a plot point in ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Revelation]]''.]]
** [[spoiler: When Loco dies]], he goes "Hurk! Bleh." like people who died in the original seasons did.

* CastingGag: Cronut is voiced by Miles Luna, who has previously filled in for Dan Godwin as Donut on occasion.

* ChekhovsGun:
** The Tower of Procreation was one of several alien towers mentioned on Chorus during Season 13. Tucker says after they captured Hargrove, he activated the temple so everyone on Chorus could party. [[spoiler:It is then revealed that the FOTUS Soldier has been searching for Tucker to ''serve'' him a class-action lawsuit for all the women he got pregnant while the Temple was activated and then abandoned]].

** The flashback episodes are dated to taking place ''after'' the [[spoiler: Sarcophagus heist in Season 9. Carolina's increasing competitiveness and Tex being partnered with [[TheSociopath Omega]] during this time would also help explain why [[WhatMeasureIsAMook both are so uncaring]] of Biff's death.]]

** While [[spoiler:Grif]] claims he only learned to speak Spanish so [[spoiler:he could do Lopez's lines while stuck alone on Iris]], it can also be seen as an allusion to how [[spoiler:Kaikaina, Grif's sister, knew how to speak Spanish during Season 5 and could even talk to Lopez (albeit [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels not that well]])]].

** [[spoiler: During "Epilogues," Loco's time machine seems to have linked the present and Caboose to [=Alpha-Church=] from between the Season 1 episodes "The Rookies" and "Head Noob In Charge" based on Church claiming Caboose should be in the base guarding the flag.]]

** Episode 11 shows that Temple has been searching "Shakesphere monologue", "evil lairs for dummies", and" How to villain".
** In Episode 16, when Temple is dealing with all of the popup adds, [[spoiler: if you look closely, Vic's face is on a lot of them, hinting that those aren't any ordinary "popups".]]

*** [[invoked]] Similarly, [[WordOfGod Joe Nicolosi has stated that]] [[spoiler:Jax [[InnocentlyInsensitive calling]] [[SerialKiller Temple's]] FreudianExcuse "very cliche" was meant to come across as him mocking his own indulging of some very well-worn tropes when crafting Temple's backstory]].

** The revelation as to ''why'' the Blues and Reds are a group of InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals ends up having a few of them, namely via the presence of Cronut and Loco and certain details isolated from the time in the Gulch. The backstory for the Desert Gulch Team all but says that the Blood Gulch Crew was actively picked based on the data of the Desert Gulch's conflict for the sake of hiding the Alpha, which would fit with all the candidates for Red Team Sergeant acting like Sarge and why Agent Florida picked each soldier in particular. The problem however comes from Donut and Caboose's presence in Blood Gulch, as ''neither were originally meant to be there''. The two of them got sent there by accident after Florida knocked a cable out of the wall and made Vic short circuit, replacing the list of Freelancers meant to replace Florida should anything happen to him with the names of random rookies. (this is [[https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/6ob60k/we_are_red_vs_blue_season_15_joe_nicolosi_kyle/dkg3q1i/ exactly Miles Luna's attempt to hand wave]]: Florida didn't want to fully follow the Desert Gulch mold, only picking enough to have three soldiers on each side; but then he died, leading Vic to bring in two accidental call-ups that turned out to be [[SpannerInTheWorks just what Blood Gulch needed to leave the planned stalemate]])

--->'''Sarge''': (''referring to Grif'') Trust me, you're better off without any [[WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange annoying orange]] in your life.
** The evil Blue Sim Trooper in "Red vs. Red" that says [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump "Global warming is fake news, you cucks!"]] gets [[HumiliationConga shot by Tucker, run over by Sarge in his Warthog, and finally kicked by Grif.]]
** Related to the above, another one of the Blues and Reds' Grunts mentions being a fan of {{Music/Nickelback}} while listing off various reasons why he and his colleagues are [[EvilIsPetty cartoonishly evil]].

--->[[spoiler: '''Grif''': (after the other Reds and Blues snark about him saying that he was "thinking") No, actually I was thinking that... [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I quit.]]]]

--->'''Washington''': (while in Temple's basement, looking at [[spoiler:the Freelancer armor]]) ''Ugh.'' I think you need to check your plumbing... That smell...
--->'''Carolina''': ([[OhCrap sudden realization]]) '''That's... not... sewage...''' (Carolina and Washington notice [[spoiler:Illinois' armor]]) [[spoiler:[[WaxMuseumMorgue I don't think... these are just suits of armor...]]]]

--->'''Grif''': [[spoiler:Lopez, todo el mundo está bien?!]]

--->'''Tucker''': You busted in here, made an ass of yourself, and got caught! What do ''you'' call that?!\\
'''[[spoiler:Grif]]''': [[spoiler:Uh, pretty fucking sweet diversion.]]\\

--->'''[[spoiler:Alpha-Church]]''': [[spoiler:Caboose? Rookie, what the hell are you doing up here? You're supposed to be guarding the flag!]]

** Upon realizing that time had been altered so that pizza no longer existed, Grif's reaction was to '''[[DrivenToSuicide pull a grenade pin]]'''.
--->'''Doc''': What are we gonna do?
--->'''Grif''': (despairing; pulls out a grenade) '''There's only one thing to do...''' (pulls pin; drops grenade)

* DownerEnding: Mixed with GainaxEnding - [[spoiler:Thanks to Genkins's manipulations and betrayal of the Cosmic Powers, as well as Donut's time travel corruption causing him to steal The Hammer, the Reds and Blues make a last attempt at time travel by [[MakeRightWhatOnceWentWrong saving Washington from being shot]]... which goes ''[[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]]'' causing a RealityBreakingParadox that resets the universe back to the first season of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', with Genkins possessing Church, and everyone else incapable of remembering. Additionally, Wash is confirmed to have suffered permanent brain damage due to the events of Season 15, and he angrily leaves the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew after he learns of Carolina hiding it from him and the rest of the group. Also, Huggins was tragically killed by Genkins for trying to stop the Reds and Blues from anymore time travel, the Cosmic Powers are seemingly helpless before Chrovos' might, and Donut's whereabouts are unknown]]. Thankfully, it becomes a BittersweetEnding come next season when it turns out that [[spoiler:Donut's HeelFaceTurn wasn't entirely in vain, as Chrovos was still partially sealed away and the universe can be fixed.]]

* IgnoredEpiphany: After causing the deaths of his subordinates in a battle from during the Great War, Sarge is sullen, and almost seems to realize his own mistakes. Then he switches to an angry tone and concludes that the people under his command are at fault. [[LampshadeHanging Despite Simmons pointing out that he was giving conflicting orders.]]

* LightIsNotGood: [[BigBad Chrovos]] is shown to appear to Donut in the form of a series of complex, rotating golden gears in a white, heavenly room. Unfortunately, Chrovos' ultimate plan is to [[spoiler:wipe out the universe with a paradox.]]

** On the bitter side, [[spoiler:Wash has to permanently suffer through his brain damage again so as to resolve the TemporalParadox (though it's implied that he'll likely be more functional than he was before due to him having better treatment this time around and Carolina not ignoring the issue), and Donut decides [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to walk away from the Reds and Blues for a while]] due to all the trauma he’s been through over the course of this arc and him DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife]].

** As Chrovos explains, while Donut ''did'' succeed in imprisoning Chrovos with The Hammer, the TimeCrash caused by the Reds and Blues the previous season has created a crack in the seal, which Genkins can now mess around with their timeline to create more alternate histories, cracking Chrovos' prison even more. Furthermore, Chrovos has no problem telling Donut because his attempts to fix things should cause more cracks. Whether that last part is correct remains to be seen.

%%** [[spoiler:Arguably {{Hand Wave}}d by the Reds and Blues' actions this season creating an entire new timeline that only seems to incorporate certain elements from the previous one]]

* TwoPartTrilogy: It's only a "trilogy" in the sense that Season 15 is heavily tied into the set up of the following two seasons. Season 15 on it's own is largely a standalone season, focusing more on the Simulation Troopers of Project Freelancer and what the Reds and Blues have been doing since Chorus. The only parts that really matter to the following seasons are [[spoiler:Donut feeling mistreated, Loco's time machine and Wash's neck injury giving him cerebral hypoxia.]] Outside of that, the rest of Season 15 is self-contained and disconnected.

[[caption-width-right:310:Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.]]

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Occurs in the final episode between Tucker and the BigBad. [[spoiler:Tucker has Temple at his mercy and is ready to murder him for all of his misdeeds throughout the season. However Carolina tells him not to since, while they all might be killers, there is a big difference between only killing when it is necessary and killing for revenge, and that if Tucker kills Temple after he has already been defeated it will make them NotSoDifferent. Tucker ultimately decides to just knock Temple out and leave him for the authorities.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Once Wash decides to time travel back to his Freelancer days, he's reminded of when he was "at the bottom of the food chain" instead of being [[NormalFishInATinyPond a god among morons]], and no one respects Wash or wants to listen to him. He downright asks "Is this how ''Donut'' feels all the time?"

* RealityEnsues: Throughout the series, Wash has repeatedly proven to be MadeOfIron and recover from any sort of damage to his physical or mental state that would permanently put anyone else out of commission, and it seems like the same thing has happened with being shot in the throat last season. [[spoiler:Except it hasn't; being shot in the throat and cut off from oxygen for several minutes has given him permanent, irreparable brain damage and memory loss.]]

** "Theogeny," the last episode of the season, is very vague on if the events of Season 15 and ''The Shisno Paradox'' have been retroactively erased or not. Presumably, Season 18 will touch more on this.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:After giving him a taste of an insufferably dull and monotonous civilian life, the Labyrinth answers Sarge's desire to [[IJustWantToBeSpecial "storm a beach and kill a Nazi"]] (and, by extension, his desire to die gloriously on the battlefield as seen in Seasons 15-17) by shoving him straight into [[WarIsHell the horrors of the Normandy landings]].]]

** Once Sarge hears his Season 15 self hammily venting off "God dang effective range! Damn you projectile dysfunction!", he dejectedly asks "Is that how I sound?"

** [[AmbiguousSituation The genuineness is questionable]], but while masqurading as Epsilon, Genkins is mildly taken aback when [[spoiler:Washington snaps at Carolina when she assumes he's talking nonsense under stress]].

* ForWantOfANail: How Genkins creates alternate timelines within the Everwhen. For example, if "Church" were to stop Sheila from killing him by shooting a bullet directly into her cannon barrel, this would cause Tucker to [[TookALevelInBadass Take a Level in Badass sooner, and then eventually kill himself trying to jump a battleship with a tank.]] There's also a timeline where Caboose joined the Red Team, but how ''that'' happened is never elaborated upon.

** The revelation as to ''why'' the Blues and Reds are a group of InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals ends up having a few of them, namely via the presence of Cronut and Loco and certain details isolated from the time in the Gulch. The backstory for the Desert Gulch Team all but says that the Blood Gulch Crew was actively picked based on the data of the Desert Gulch's conflict for the sake of hiding the Alpha, which would fit with all the candidates for Red Team Sergeant acting like Sarge and why Agent Florida picked each soldier in particular. The problem however comes from Donut and Caboose's presence in Blood Gulch, as ''neither were originally meant to be there''. The two of them got sent there by accident after Florida knocked a cable out of the wall and made Vic short circuit, replacing the list of Freelancers meant to replace Florida should anything happen to him with the names of random rookies.

''Singularity'', written by Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight (with Miles Luna doing one episode and co-writing another, and Joe Nicolosi only having helped with the story due to other commitments), finishes the arc that in a way was started all the way back on Season 15. It's also the first season to not be directed by the current showrunner (who is now Weight), with the machinimators Josh Ornelas and Austin Clark [=co-directing=] the season.

* AssShove: Sarge apparently keeps rations stuffed in Lopez’s rectum. He insists on eating the rations instead of going out for food, but the others aren’t too keen on this idea.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Defied; Tucker shoots Hitler, but given all the other things he did were supposed to happen anyway, it seems like it was done in his bunker.