| 1 | [[quoteright:329:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blood_gulch_chronicles.png]] |
| 2 | ->''Roses are red, and violets are blue / One day we'll cruise down Blood Gulch Avenue...'' |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The first five seasons of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', with the official collection's name coming from the fact that they take place in the Blood Gulch level of the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series. The collection contains 100 episodes, as well as one MiniSeries, "Out of Mind" which follows Tex as she hunts for Wyoming in between Season 4 and 5. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | '''Warning: Each folder will contain unmarked spoilers for the previous seasons.''' |
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| 8 | !This series provides examples of: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 11 | |
| 12 | [[folder:More Than One Season]] |
| 13 | * AffirmativeActionGirl: First Tex, then Sister in Season 5. [[SpaceshipGirl Sheila]] becomes one of these gradually. |
| 14 | * AllJustADream: |
| 15 | ** Episode 28.5, "The Last Episode Ever". |
| 16 | ** And one of the alternate endings to Episode 100 shows Church waking up after the tank shot all the way back in season one, along with Tucker and one of the other Blue soldiers, who wears green armor. Naturally, this is no longer in the running for canon. |
| 17 | ** Another alternate ending has it as All Just a Game- specifically, the "weirdest" ''Halo 2'' deathmatch. The players banter about the events of the 'game' before agreeing to a new one with "same teams, new map". |
| 18 | * ArtShift: Several scenes set in the distant past were done in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'', a trilogy of FPS games made by Bungie back in the '90s. And, of course, the series gets art upgrades with each new installment of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. |
| 19 | * AscendedFanboy: |
| 20 | ** Luke [=McKay=] originally began drawing his own fanart of the series and posting it on the main site. Later, he was hired by Rooster Teeth to do the comic strip on the site, after merely suggesting the notion. |
| 21 | ** And Rooster Teeth themselves to a much greater degree, given the series is ultimately a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools well-done]] Halo AU fanfic. |
| 22 | * AttendingYourOwnFuneral[==]LastDisrespects: |
| 23 | ** In Episode 83, Grif arranges for Sarge's funeral and delivers more of a roast while Simmons tries to take over as Red leader. Sarge himself bemoans how he was cut down in the prime of his life, before being asked to get in the casket. |
| 24 | ** Church arranges for both his and Tex's funeral. Caboose delivers the eulogy. Church is less than impressed, and Tucker leaves due to it being "lame". |
| 25 | * BackFromTheDead: |
| 26 | ** [[invoked]] The Battle Creek Reds and Blues, who are two large, deeply idiotic, [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything constantly respawning armies]] [[InternetJerk of jerks]]. |
| 27 | ** Wyoming, in a sense, via TimeTravel SaveScumming. |
| 28 | * BigBad: The Omega [=A.I.=]/O'Malley, who wants to TakeOverTheWorld. He's also a parody of this general archetype since he spends most of the series being ridiculously ineffectual as he's primarily stuck in the mind of the completely useless and pacifistic Doc. |
| 29 | * BigNo: |
| 30 | ** In Episode 9, Caboose expresses his anguish over [[spoiler:Sheila]] getting bombed in this manner, directly following a SayMyName moment. |
| 31 | ** In Episode 58, Grif provides one upon realising that the cave system leads directly to [[spoiler:Blood Gulch]]. |
| 32 | ** In Episode 98, Church also performs a BigNo [[spoiler:both of the times Caboose is killed in the time loop]]. |
| 33 | * BleakBorderBase: Blood Gulch seems to fit this to a T, with both bases staffed by incompetent "soldiers", constantly besieged by danger, underequipped (at least with ''basic'' equipment) and far away from most of civilization. |
| 34 | * BodySurf: |
| 35 | ** The A.I. [[spoiler:fragment]] O'Malley moves around through open radio channels. |
| 36 | ** As ghosts [[spoiler:or rather, AI,]] Church and Tex can do this without the use of radio channels. |
| 37 | * {{Book Ends}}: The series began and ended with two characters observing two other characters discuss their place in the world. Which turns out to be NotActuallyTheUltimateQuestion, as they're actually talking about something mundane (Simmons is wondering why they're stationed in Blood Gulch, and Caboose is wondering why they're standing outside in the sun) |
| 38 | -->'''Simmons/Caboose''': Hey. |
| 39 | -->'''Grif/Church''': Yeah? |
| 40 | -->'''Simmons/Caboose''': [[ArcWords Do you ever wonder why we're here?]] |
| 41 | ** Simmons also gets the first and last word of the series. |
| 42 | * BrickJoke: |
| 43 | ** In the first episode, Simmons asks Grif, "you ever wonder why we're here?" He replies with a lengthy speech about cosmic coincidence and the meaning of the universe. Simmons laughingly tells him that he meant why they were ''here'', as in Blood Gulch, and Grif seems embarrassed. In the Season 1 finale, Simmons asks him it again, and Grif cuts him off with, "No. I never, ever, wonder why we're here. SemperFi, bitch." [[spoiler:This comes up again in the Season 5 finale, where the final scene is an homage to the first episode, with the roles reversed.]] |
| 44 | ** In the first episode, Simmons brings forth the point that if they were to stop fighting and let the blues win, the only consequence would be that the Blues would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon in the middle of nowhere - "whoop-dee-fucking-do". [[spoiler:In Episode 95, the Blues finally take Red Base while the Reds are in the caves. Church, unfulfilled with their success, adds "I guess now we have two bases in the middle of a box canyon", to which Tucker replies, "whoop-dee-fucking-do".]] |
| 45 | ** Late into Season 1, Grif revives Sarge (who was shot in the head) via CPR. Sarge complains that his treatment was inconsistent with the wound, asking, "What would you do if they stabbed me in the toe? Rub my neck with aloe vera?" [[spoiler:In Season 2, when Church shoots Caboose to get Doc to take care of him, he shoots him in the toe. Doc, a believer in "alternative medical treatments", just rubs his neck with aloe vera.]] |
| 46 | ** In Season 3, Church, through a StableTimeLoop, ends up with an amount of copies of himself left on Sidewinder. One of them is coloured yellow, and when asked about it, he promises to tell the others the story ("Oh man, it seemed like ''such'' a good idea at the time..."). [[spoiler:In the Season 5 finale, it's revealed that Yellow Church is Caboose's mental image of Sister, apparently Church's twin brother from the moon, who is caught in Church's explosion and ejected from Caboose's mind and got sent back in time by a dead Wyoming's temporal distortion unit.]] |
| 47 | * ButtMonkey: Nearly the entire cast to some degree or another. ''Especially'' Grif. |
| 48 | -->'''Church:''' Omega is on the loose and I think he may have infected one of your guys!\ |
| 49 | '''Sarge:''' Infected? Initiate Emergency Plan Delta men!\ |
| 50 | ''(Sarge shoots Grif)''\ |
| 51 | '''Grif:''' OW! What the fuck?! ''(collapses)''\ |
| 52 | '''Church:''' I didn't say who! I think it's actually Simmons!\ |
| 53 | '''Donut:''' That's okay, that's how '''all''' our emergency plans start! ''(Sarge is kicking Grif)'' |
| 54 | * CallBack: It's probably easier to list jokes in the series that do not get a CallBack, BrickJoke-level reference, or become {{Running Gag}}s. |
| 55 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Mostly due to Halo's game engine, each character is visually identified with a color. This changes somewhat once the series upgrades to ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', as the bonus armors and increased customization options allow for more variety. |
| 56 | * CommanderContrarian: Grif to Sarge, due to Sarge always having Grif suffer in his plans. |
| 57 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: [[invoked]] One Wyoming: major threat. An army of Wyomings time-duplicates: CannonFodder for the Reds, even giving ''Simmons'' of all people a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Granted, the GroundhogDayLoop explains how Tucker could handle them, but not the Reds. Or '''Church''', who can be seen sniping a few while the Reds are observing from Blue Base. Notably, when there is only one Wyoming left, the negative effects of the trope apparently haven't worn off, as he is easily interrogated [[spoiler:and [[KilledOffForReal executed]].]] That said, the battle is [[PlotTailoredToTheParty coordinated between the Reds and Blues]], and Wyoming is more of a ProfessionalKiller than a straight up combatant. |
| 58 | ** Possibly justified as it's basically stated that the main reason Wyoming is so boss is because he spams time rewinds. Obviously in the last battle he had already made at least a dozen or two attempts, and one can assume that's normal for him. It can also be assumed that the reason they went down so easily in the final battle is that they didn't get the chance to rewind that time. |
| 59 | * CosmeticallyDifferentSides: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. |
| 60 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Caboose, when the BerserkButton is pressed, goes on a killing spree, decimating the Battle Creek Grunts. He also has super human strength, being the only one initially able to pick up Andy. Church and Tucker theorize that this is "God's way of compensating." |
| 61 | ** "Kittens covered in spikes! That makes me angry!" |
| 62 | *** "My name is Michael J. Caboose and ''I hate babies!''" |
| 63 | ----> '''Sarge:''' Great Paul's Bunyan, he's like an ox! |
| 64 | ----> '''Caboose:''' But I have no horns! Or lumberjack friends... |
| 65 | * CurbStompBattle: Usually any fight that Tex is involved in, including killing Church's teammates in a flashback in Episode 10, and killing the Battle Creek Zealots in Season 4. Caboose also effortlessly devastates the Zealots once his BerserkButton is pressed. And then there's the Reds vs. the Wyomings in Episode 99. |
| 66 | * DeathIsCheap: By way of a NearDeathExperience in one case, and ghosts in two others. [[spoiler:Later [[DoingInTheWizard subverted]] in ''The Recollection''.]] |
| 67 | * DeconstructiveParody: Just about every first person shooter and science fiction video game trope is picked apart, generally for comedic purposes. |
| 68 | ** Most notably, the series constantly parodies the ExcusePlot, with the series' ArcWords literally being "You ever wonder why we're here?". The first episode has Simmons pointing out to [[LazyBum Grif]] that the ForeverWar between the Red and Blue Teams is completely pointless, since if one side were to win (or the other side were to pull out), the "victor" would just have ''two'' bases in the middle of a box canyon. |
| 69 | ** The series also points out that the entire conflict being a HopelessWar means that only the mindlessly loyal or very foolish would continue the fight. Therefore, ''everyone'' in the canyon (with the possible exceptions of [[OnlySaneMan Church and Tex]], [[NotSoAboveItAll and even they still have their moments of insanity/stupidity]]) is some variant of [[TooDumbToLive idiotic]] or [[CloudCuckoolander insane]]. |
| 70 | ** Relatedly, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' also plays with both (platonic) LoveAcrossBattlelines and MissionControl. Instead of having a clear and concise yet distant commander that efficiently helps them take on their enemy, the Reds and Blues both answer to [[TheDitz Vic]], who is PlayingBothSides and [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds gives them all terrible advice]] so as to draw out their pointless conflict as long as possible. And as the series goes on, the Reds and Blues actually start to form [[FriendlyEnemy a decent camaraderie with each other]][[note]](to the point where Sarge and Church seem to be the only ones actually interested in ''winning'' over the other Team, as the other Reds and Blues treat their "war" more like a particularly aggressive sports match than anything else)[[/note]]... but their "friendship"/mutual respect only reaches to [[WithFriendsLikeThese the same level as how well the]] ''[[TeethClenchedTeamwork individual]]'' [[WeAreStrugglingTogether teams work together]]. |
| 71 | ** On a less comedic note, the series also mocks countless video game tropes. The fact that the series' "war" is one massive "Capture the Flag" game is [[SillyReasonForWar repeatedly pointed out to make no sense]] (with the Reds even realizing in Season 2 that it would be more trouble than it's worth to take Blue Team's flag, and so they ask for it to "stay ''exactly'' where it is!"). Additionally, only one of the main characters (and he's a ''villain'') - [[spoiler: Agent Wyoming]] - is able to [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist respawn upon death]], which everyone else views as ''[[OutsideContextProblem terrifying.]]'' |
| 72 | * DeusExitMachina: Circumstances continually keep Sheila and the Warthog from being fully operational or otherwise able to affect the conflict. Both vehicles get totaled early in Season 1; Sheila is fixed and re-totaled; the next season has a huge amount of time dedicated to the vehicles being repaired, only for Sheila to begin exhibiting more independent action. Sheila is then unable to accompany the teams on their teleports out of Blood Gulch, and has to have her personality moved out of the tank in Season 5. The Warthog stops getting this treatment after Season 2, once the conflicts scale up to the point where it can't tip the balance. |
| 73 | * DragonInChief: Agent Wyoming is technically only TheDragon to O'Malley since he's not an [=A.I.=] and is only JustFollowingOrders from O'Malley and Vic, but he and Gamma are the primary ones to drive the villainous plot forward and [[spoiler:are heavily implied by later seasons to have been actually manipulating Omega so as to be used in Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War]]. |
| 74 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The early characters lacked most of their later {{Character Tic}}s, for example Caboose wasn't nearly as dumb as he is now and was even a bit of a DeadpanSnarker. Donut was basically a red Caboose at the start before he ended up in "[[InsistentTerminology lightish-red]]" armour and started developing his fey personality. Sarge wasn't nearly as nuts, Grif wasn't nearly as much of a disgusting pig, Tucker was kind of girl-obsessed but not to the extent he is now, etc. Also the Church/Texas dynamic hadn't been fully established yet and there's a lot of the early stuff that seems at odds with subsequent revelations as to both characters' true natures. |
| 75 | ** This is possibly explained later on in the series [[spoiler:when Vic meets Dylan Andrews, offering her the files and recordings he had on the Reds and Blues during their stay in Blood Gulch. It's implied that he is the curator and editor of the original five seasons worth of footage, having created a hundred five minute episodes to get her up to speed presumably from a fractured, dying database that seems to be slowly turning him insane, which could explain any oddities in their early appearances.]] |
| 76 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: |
| 77 | ** [[invoked]] Sister, whose real name is Kaikaina. Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister", or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "[[FridgeLogic younger sibling of the same sex]]". |
| 78 | ** Also Sarge, though in later seasons we find out [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep that actually]] ''[[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep is]]'' [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep his real name]]. |
| 79 | ** Also, Medical Officer Frank [=DuFresne=], who is immediately nicknamed "Doc" by Church because he can't be bothered remembering his name. |
| 80 | * EvilLaugh: O'Malley's signature cackle while possessing Doc is an intentionally over-the-top parody of the OmnicidalManiac character type. |
| 81 | * TheFaceless: Everyone, by necessity, as the Halo games give everyone helmets; The exceptions are the alien, "Junior", and Vic. Semi-[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Season 3 when Church asks Tucker if he's black, after learning his first name (Lavernius). |
| 82 | %%* FirstLawOfTragicomedies |
| 83 | * {{Flanderization}}: Almost everyone, though Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad as this led to Caboose and Donut becoming even more popular, and funny moments becoming much more common. It also works in the sense that the characters originally started out as broad archetypes, and their Flanderization made them into more unique & interesting characters. |
| 84 | ** Caboose goes from being just a bit slow at the start of the series to having borderline insanity, unable to follow a simple train of thought. Also, in a weird way, anyone possessed by Omega has in-universe Flanderization. |
| 85 | *** Justified, however, as there is a notable shift in his intelligence after Church, Tex, and O'Malley had an explosive firefight in Caboose's mind. However, later episodes would {{Retcon}} Caboose so that he was ''always'' this insane. |
| 86 | ** Tucker goes from being flirtatious to a sex maniac. |
| 87 | ** Sarge's mild bullying of Grif goes to outright attempts at murdering him. |
| 88 | ** Grif's initial laziness and apathy gets cranked up to a phobia of work. |
| 89 | ** Donut goes from being somewhat effeminate to being ambiguously CampGay. |
| 90 | *** Again, justified. He started as just a normal, if effeminate man. When he got [[InsistentTerminology lightish-red armor]], he definitely went down the slippery slope. |
| 91 | ** Simmons goes from a teacher's pet to a groveling sycophant. |
| 92 | ** Doc begins a neutral pacifist without extensive medical training (but nevertheless treats Caboose during an active shootout), and ends a man panicked by any sign of conflict, completely incompetent in his supposed area of expertise. |
| 93 | * FlipPersonality: When O'Malley possesses Doc, their body frequently switches personality on a sentence by sentence basis; this is shown by voice and mannerism changes and camera angle changes. The two characters actually hold conversations with each other, or will cut in on what the other is saying to make some kind of wise-crack or amendment. For the most part O'Malley is in control of what they do, however. |
| 94 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 95 | ** The Blue Base in Blood Gulch is referred to as "Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha." Later on, [[spoiler:in ''Reconstruction'', we find out that Church, the leader of Blue Team, is actually an AI designated "Alpha."]] |
| 96 | ** When radioing Church in the Season 1 finale, Caboose refers to himself as "O'Malley". |
| 97 | ** In the intro, the line "Living like this, we were already dead" plays when introducing both Church and Tex. [[spoiler:Because this accurately describes the two, being AI designed after Leonard Church and his deceased wife, Allison.]] |
| 98 | * ForInconveniencePressOne: ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAamKnJagI "To mark this message as 'urgent', please press eleven."]]) |
| 99 | ** "THERE '''IS''' NO ELEVEN, YOU '''''FUCKING WHORE!!!!'''''" |
| 100 | ** "For unconfirmed Dutch-Irish, press or say 1 too, as in also." |
| 101 | * FriendshipMoment: |
| 102 | ** Grif saving Sarge's life from a [[BoomHeadshot headshot wound]] in Season 1... by using CPR. |
| 103 | ** [[spoiler:Church yelling out in genuine anguish ''twice'' when he's ForcedToWatch Caboose get killed off in two {{Alternate Timeline}}s]]. |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler:There's also a villainous example in "Same Old, Same Old" - When Wyoming is stabbed by Tucker, Gamma cries out "Reggie!"]] |
| 105 | * FunWithForeignLanguages: Lopez's Spanish is intentionally bad, partly because it was obtained using an online translator full of mistakes. For instance, when in the Season 1 closer Lopez's contribution to the "Son of a bitch!" RunningGag is actually "Mother of God!". |
| 106 | * FusionDance: The Freelancers and their [=AIs=]. O'Malley's name is even a portmanteau of his designation (Omega) and Tex's real name (Allison) to form Om-Alli. This is also unintentionally played straight with Gary--Wyoming's name is Reggie, and his AI is Gamma, but Gary was originally just named after Burnie Burns' late cat. |
| 107 | * GambitRoulette: By the end of the series, it appears that [[spoiler:everything O'Malley, Wyoming, Gamma/Gary and Vic did was for the purpose of acquiring an Alien child and the sword that would elevate him to the status of leader of his race, so that O'Malley could possess the Alien and use his race as a weapon to win the war. The degree of planning and precision this would require, and using Wyoming and Gamma's time-bending powers to supposedly send them into the past/future in order to further manipulate them, is implausibly ridiculous, thus keeping with the tone of the series. Later seasons would however imply that Freelancer Command was serving as their GreaterScopeVillain, giving more credence to the plan's potential success.]] |
| 108 | * GrandTheftMe: Multiple occasions varying from possession by ghosts to [[BodySurf O'Malley jumping from body to body]]. |
| 109 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Project Freelancer Command, the people who order the Freelancers around from behind the scenes and for whom Omega/O'Malley, Wyoming, and Gamma/Gary are manipulating the main cast for so as to end the Human-Covenant War. Furthermore, almost the entire story arc is an elaborate training simulation for Freelancers like Wyoming to run through to help gain battle experience.]] |
| 110 | * HardTruthAesop: After a hundred episodes, Church takes a moment to reflect on how he's learned that it's wrong to hate people based on arbitrary political or military delineations. Instead you should strive to "despise people on a personal level." While not necessarily a ''great'' moral, it still rings true to an extent in that one should not mindlessly hate just because they were told to. |
| 111 | -->'''Church''': You should hate someone because they're an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], or a [[CasanovaWannabe pervert]], or [[TheDandy snob]], or they're [[LazyBum lazy]], or [[DrillSergeantNasty arrogant]] or an [[TheDitz idiot]] or [[InsufferableGenius know-it-all]]. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to. You have to learn to [[ItsPersonal despise people on a personal level]]. Not because they're Red, or because they're Blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking ''douchebag.'' |
| 112 | * HilariousOuttakes: Each season [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cm2CPYwJOk has a collection of them]]. |
| 113 | --> '''Simmons:''' The Blues are probably gearing up for an enormous attack right now! At any moment, they're gonna come over that hill, charging, guns blazing, yelling...''(Gus loses composure)''...fuck!"\ |
| 114 | ''(The Blues come running over the hill.)''\ |
| 115 | '''Church:''' FUCK! |
| 116 | * HiredGuns: Freelancer Agents - as seen with Tex and Wyoming - largely function as this for the Red and Blue armies. |
| 117 | ** BountyHunter: Wyoming seems to be this, with Tex implying that he's a RogueAgent. [[spoiler:Later seasons would heavily imply that he's actually still working for Freelancer Command during the events of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', though, as ''Tex'' was actually the RogueAgent all along]]. |
| 118 | * HopelessWar: PlayedForLaughs due to the fact that the teams are in a never ending game of Capture the Flag. The creators have stated that one side exists simply because the other side exists. |
| 119 | * HumansByAnyOtherName: Apparently "Shisno", the word for humans in one alien language, literally translates to "the feces of the feces of the foulest smelling creature in the universe". Or something worse. It's also used, understandably, as an insult. |
| 120 | ** The character translating it peters out when Church tells him that a skunk's feces doesn't crap. He probably had farther to go. |
| 121 | * IncomingHam: |
| 122 | ** Sarge: "Ladies, front and center on the double!" |
| 123 | ** Vic: "Yes, dude, hello, can you read me? Hello? Check one, check two. Yo, I hear you. Calm down, dude, what's going on? Hello, yo, can you hear me, hello? " |
| 124 | ** O'Malley gets a few, such as his Wham Line that closes season 1 ("My name is O'Malley"), his EvilLaugh when shown in Caboose's head, and the first time he manifests possessing Doc: " If I ever meet him, I'm taking his eyes as souvenirs!" |
| 125 | ** Wyoming: "Hello, mate!" in [[EvilBrit the thickest British accent possible.]] |
| 126 | * InformedAttractiveness: |
| 127 | ** Tex and Sister. Being that all the characters use the same Master Chief player model (which is male of course) the only way the audience knows that they're attractive is through comments from the male characters (specifically Tucker). Though there was an episode where Sister took her armor off for a physical and the surveillance cameras in Blue Base caught it all much to the delight of Simmons and Sarge ([[TheUnreveal though we the audience don't get to see]]). |
| 128 | ** Also, Tucker and his "striking metrosexual good looks," as noted by Captain Flowers. |
| 129 | * IntroductoryOpeningCredits: The first five seasons, at least on their film-like presentation on DVD and Netflix, have an extended introduction to start each series off, complete with name-presenting freezecams and camera sweeps. Both Seasons 1 and 5 on both [=YouTube=] and Rooster Teeth.com also feature them, though they're not seen with Seasons 2-4. |
| 130 | * IronicEchoCut: Both played straight and played for laughs many times. For instance, when Grif and Simmons grumble that the "Morris Code" tapping sound from the crashed Pelican in Season 5 is more annoying than anything the Blues have to put up with, there's a GilliganCut to Church swearing at the top of his lungs as he's struggling to deal with [[ForInconveniencePressOne Vic's voicemail box from Hell]]. |
| 131 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: Used when Church was insisting on using "Doc", and [=DuFresne=] insisting that it wouldn't catch on. Cue a cut to his character intro for the opening labeling him as "Doc". |
| 132 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 133 | ** The Red Zealot in Season 3. |
| 134 | ** [[spoiler:The Alien/Crunchbite]] in Season 4. |
| 135 | ** [[spoiler:York]] in ''Out Of Mind''. |
| 136 | ** [[spoiler:Captain Flowers, Wyoming, and Andy the Bomb (along with seemingly Tex, Junior, and Sheila)]] in Season 5. |
| 137 | * LampshadeHanging: Church does this after one of the (usually 5-10 minutes long) episodes ends on a cliffhanger: |
| 138 | -->'''Church:''' "Why is it that something dramatic seems to happen ''exactly'' every five minutes? I mean, I can't possibly be the only one out here noticing this trend." |
| 139 | ** The series became increasingly self-referential and fourth-wall breaking as ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' reached its end. |
| 140 | --> ''(Red Team is looking at a security camera terminal that is looking at Blue Team's base)'' |
| 141 | -->'''Sarge:''' Simmons, what're they saying? |
| 142 | -->'''Simmons:''' I have no idea. I can't find the volume on this monitor. And without any sound it just looks like a bunch of helmets bobbing up and down. |
| 143 | -->'''Sarge:''' Is that how they talk? [[TakeThatUs They look ridiculous!]] |
| 144 | * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Played with when music begins to drown Church out and he angrily demands to know where it's coming from -- cue the Warthog coming over the hill blasting mariachi music on the stereo that Lopez left on. This turns into a RunningGag whenever the Warthog shows up, until the radio is broken in the season after ''Chronicles''. |
| 145 | * LosingYourHead: Lopez in Season 4 & 5. |
| 146 | %%* LoveTriangle: [[invoked]] A case with Sheila towards both Lopez and Caboose. And for Caboose, this is also a case of RoboShip. |
| 147 | * MadeOfIron: Anyone can survive a devastating attack generally unharmed [[RuleOfFunny provided it would be funny for them to do so.]] Any pain or injury will be played for laughs and forgotten as soon as the joke is over. Conversely, this invincibility can be revoked at any point, [[RuleOfDrama if the character's death is important for plot reasons.]] |
| 148 | ** Grif may be the patron saint of this, given his state as the physical ButtMonkey and Sarge's constant attempts to put him in harms way. At one point he takes a shotgun round point blank to the chest, and shortly after takes a FiveRoundsRapid to the face, twice. He is perfectly fine throughout the rest of the episode. |
| 149 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Freelancer Command to the group, by way of Vic.]] |
| 150 | * MentalWorld: Caboose's mind. |
| 151 | * MissionControl: Vic, who turns out to be the MissionControl for ''both'' teams. |
| 152 | ** MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Vic is also quite clearly crazy and incompetent, and is even implied to [[spoiler:not actually be human in Seasons 4 & 5]]. |
| 153 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: How Sarge refers to his soldiers. And Grif. There's also the occasional, "Men! [[AmbiguouslyGay Donut]]!" |
| 154 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 155 | ** In Episode 41, there are only 49 Freelancer agents because there are only 49 states in the US. Poor Florida. |
| 156 | ** In "Out Of Mind Part 2", The incident where York's eye was damaged is not elaborated on, though it is in Season 9. |
| 157 | * NotInTheFace: |
| 158 | ** Grif in Episodes 13 and 50. |
| 159 | ** Tucker in Episode 63. |
| 160 | * OneLinerEcho: |
| 161 | ** In ''Chronicles'', we have "Team-killing fucktard" and "Parabola of Mystery." |
| 162 | ** In ''Out Of Mind'', we have "That's part of what makes us human." |
| 163 | * OnceAnEpisode: Or once a season to be more specific. Once Tucker's "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow" catchphrase is introduced, he says it once and once only in each season (except for multiple times in one episode of season four). |
| 164 | * OnlySaneMan: Church, who is usually the only person to both understand when a crisis is happening and be motivated enough to do something about it. Most of the other characters are either one but not the other, or neither. Tex might qualify in some episodes, but she also has a habit of going AxeCrazy and often pursues her own agenda to the detriment of others. |
| 165 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: Church and Tex as of the end of Season 1 onward. [[spoiler:Then it turns out they aren't ghosts at all. Washington is incredulous at everyone's belief that they are - reacting in much the same way a person would in RealLife.]] |
| 166 | * TheRemake: For the tenth anniversary Blu-Ray box set, the entirety of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' were re-done in the PC ports of ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo 2''. Along with the cleaner visuals, the most noticeable changes are full screen (the originals had to [[EyedScreen add black bars]] to crop the HUD and player's gun) and the lack of a targeting reticle, given the Xbox originals lacked the "Theater Mode". The remasters eventually found their way to Netflix, the official ''Red vs. Blue'' Website/YouTube channel, and Rooster Teeth's website during their 2018 revamp (the originals are still found in the RT Youtube channel). |
| 167 | * RuleOfFunny: Whether or not people can understand Lopez tends to be based on how funny it is (most notably O'Malley, who is generally able to understand Lopez perfectly, and yet can still be tricked into insulting himself in Spanish). |
| 168 | * RuleOfSymbolism: Being that the series is a {{Machinima}}, there's EndlessDaytime whenever the story's events are taking place in Blood Gulch ([[LampshadeHanging much to the confusion]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall of multiple characters]]). The ''only'' time we see it get darker in Blood Gulch as if the sun's about to set? When ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' [[EndOfSeriesAwareness is about to end]] [[spoiler:on a SuddenDownerEnding]]. |
| 169 | * RuleOfThree: The running "Son of a bitch" gag is usually done three times in a row. |
| 170 | * RunningGag: |
| 171 | ** Among others: |
| 172 | -->'''Donut''': It's not pink, it's ''[[InsistentTerminology lightish red]]!'' |
| 173 | ** Tucker never gets the sniper rifle. The first time he did, he accidentally ''shoots Tex in the ass''. Then he TookALevelInBadass with it. |
| 174 | *** After this, Tucker's obsession with using the sniper rifle died down significantly. The fact that he found his own badass weapon (the LaserBlade) also had something to do with it. |
| 175 | ** Church's [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy horrible aim]], especially with the SniperRifle. He usually only hits people by accident, or when the RuleOfFunny makes it possible. |
| 176 | --->'''Church''': I swear to God, I think somebody fucks with the sights on this thing when I'm not looking! |
| 177 | ** People who die say "HURK!...blehh." People react to hearing explosions by yelling "SON OF A BITCH!" |
| 178 | *** In the "Fight! Fight!" ending, everyone says "SON OF A BITCH!" upon death. |
| 179 | ** People being possessed say "HEEGAKURGURK". |
| 180 | ** Tucker gets covered in "black stuff" whenever he goes through a teleporter. |
| 181 | ** "Shotgun!" (shouted by either Grif or Simmons every time a new vehicle shows up). Followed by "Fuck!" from whomever didn't win. |
| 182 | * ShoutOut: [[ReferenceOverdosed So many]] that it's probably not feasible to list all of them. [[ShoutOut/RedVsBlue There was an attempt, though]]. |
| 183 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Grif serves as this for Sarge. The Red Team and Blue Team also serves as this to each other most of the time since Sarge and (arguably) Church are the only ones who seem to actually want to ''win'' against the other side. |
| 184 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Tex is the only girl in the show for quite some time, though in a case of {{Flawless Token}}ization, she's definitely the best fighter on either team. Sister then shows up in Season 5, leading to TwoGirlsToATeam for the Blues [[spoiler:until Tex seems to "die" in "Why Were We Here?", leaving Sister the only woman left in the entire canyon]]. |
| 185 | * SnipeHunt: |
| 186 | ** Episode 3, for headlight fluid and elbow grease. HilarityEnsues. |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler:Tucker's big quest with the alien is all just a ruse to get [[MisterSeahorse him]] knocked up.]] |
| 188 | * SomethingBlues: "Blood Gulch Blues", the show's theme. |
| 189 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: |
| 190 | -->'''Donut''': Maybe, that blue guy who got killed by the tank, came back as a ghost, and now he's possessing Lopez's body. That could also explain why Sarge went nuts when we had the prisoner; the blue ghost probably possessed him too. And the jeep going nuts was probably just a weird set of coincidences, while the guy learned how to use Lopez's body. |
| 191 | -->'''Simmons''': ...I think I like the ray beam idea better. |
| 192 | -->'''Grif''': Yeah rookie, your idea sounds a little dumb. |
| 193 | ** Most famously, Episode 2's "You mean like a puma?" |
| 194 | ** "Monkeying about" in Episode 53. |
| 195 | ** "Morris Code" in the first few episodes of Season 5. |
| 196 | * TakeThat: |
| 197 | ** With regards to Red Bull, O'Malley says it is the taste of oblivion. [[AndThatsTerrible And disgusting]]. |
| 198 | ** In Episode 44, the characters discuss Hollywood post-apocalypse cliches. |
| 199 | --->'''Tucker''': Naw. Hollywood doesn't understand apocalypse. They think that just one thing from everyday life goes away and that changes everything. Like in ''[[Film/MadMax Road Warrior]]'' it was [[PostPeakOil gas]], and in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' it was land. |
| 200 | --->'''Simmons''': What went away in ''Film/TheMatrix''?\ |
| 201 | '''Tucker''': [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Sunlight]].\ |
| 202 | '''Grif''': I thought the missing element was plot.\ |
| 203 | '''Tucker''': I'm talking about [[{{Sequelitis}} the first]] Matrix. |
| 204 | ** In Episode 45, Doc cheerfully describes having a blog as "Like being a ''real'' journalist, but without all the hassle of liability and accuracy!" |
| 205 | ** Also regarding his sword: |
| 206 | --->'''Tucker''': The sword is a key? [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Just when I thought this quest couldn't get any lamer.]] |
| 207 | ** There's a surprise political joke in Season 4. |
| 208 | --->'''Church''': We don't know anything about [the sword], though. Maybe it runs on radiation and it's poisoning him.\ |
| 209 | '''Caboose''': Or maybe it runs on solar power!\ |
| 210 | '''Church''': Wait, no, why would solar power make him sick?\ |
| 211 | '''Caboose''': ...Is he a Republican? |
| 212 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Given the high amount of swearing, this one inevitably crops up quite a bit. |
| 213 | * TookALevelInDumbass: Caboose started out in the series much more normal; but the creators decided to just make him dumber and dumber over time. As a result, he's one of the most beloved characters in the series. There is an in-universe explanation that he became this way due to having O'Malley screw with his mind and witnessing Sheila blow up, but he was still somewhat stupid anyway. |
| 214 | * TwoActStructure: The second half of the ''Chronicles'' is far more plot-oriented (going so far as to induce a {{revision}} of some of the sillier gags from earlier in the series) and surprisingly ends on a relative downer. |
| 215 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Most of the time, if a character suffers a seemingly fatal injury, they'll turn out to be fine later, to the point that towards the end of the series they don't even bother explaining it anymore. |
| 216 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Most of the cast, though they're never ''completely'' unsympathetic. |
| 217 | * VoodooShark: The explanation for the Yellow Church in episode 52 given in episode 100 breaks internal consistency in a bunch of different ways. [[spoiler:It's implied in Season 10 that Church looping through time never actually happened, and in fact was actually a simulation presented by Gamma. That still doesn't explain how he managed to escape Caboose's head, and get a body, but that's probably just the RuleOfFunny in action and nothing more.]] |
| 218 | * WhamEpisode: Every season finale is a game-changer, and all but the last provide a CliffHanger. |
| 219 | ** Season 1: [[spoiler: Tex dies and Caboose grimly stating that his name is O'Malley]]. |
| 220 | ** Season 2: [[spoiler: O'Malley steals Lopez and runs away, Vic reveals that he's working for both the Red and Blue teams, Tucker gets shot by O'Malley, Tex recognizes Donut as the one who killed her, and the teams form a temporary truce to stop O'Malley. However, the episode ends on a cliffhanger with the entire cast scattered around the galaxy due to teleporter malfunctions.]] |
| 221 | ** Season 3: [[spoiler:The Reds find their way back to Blood Gulch, and O'Malley's army was defeated not by Tex, but an alien about to attack Church.]] |
| 222 | ** Season 4: [[spoiler: Tucker gives birth to an alien, O'Malley leaves Doc, and Donut gets crushed by a ship]]. |
| 223 | ** Season 5: [[spoiler:Tex betrays the others to help Omega, forcing Sarge to use Andy to blow her up, along with Junior.]] |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Season 1]] |
| 227 | * AndShowItToYou: A variant in Episode 10, where a man is killed with his own skull being used to beat him to death. Except the way [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement Tex is said to have done this (tearing out the skull of the victim)]] doesn't seem physically possible... |
| 228 | ** HowIsThatEvenPossible: ...which was Tucker ([[StrangeMindsThinkAlike and the victim, Jimmy]])'s reaction. |
| 229 | --> '''Tucker''': ''(confused)'' Wait, beating someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible. |
| 230 | --> '''Church''': ''(sadly)'' That's '''exactly''' what Jimmy kept screaming. |
| 231 | --> '''Jimmy''': ''[[LampshadeHanging This doesn't seem physically possible!]]'' |
| 232 | * AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Often through Caboose, to the point he's just plain ignored most of the time. For instance, during Episode 18: |
| 233 | -->'''Caboose''': I have an idea.\ |
| 234 | ''[[{{Beat}} (silence)]]''\ |
| 235 | '''Caboose''': ''(louder)'' I have an idea!\ |
| 236 | '''Tucker''': Yeah, we heard you the first time, Caboose. We were just ignoring you. |
| 237 | * ArtificialIntelligence: Tex has one inside his [[spoiler:(or should that be ''her'')]] armour. Season 2 reveals that [[spoiler:the A.I. is called O'Malley, and transferred itself to Caboose upon Tex's death.]] Lampshaded in Episode 13 in a piece of dialogue that provides the page quote: |
| 238 | -->'''Caboose''': "AI"... What's the "A" stand for?\ |
| 239 | '''Church''': "Artificial."\ |
| 240 | '''Caboose''': (''{{beat}}'') [[TheFool What's the "I"]]--\ |
| 241 | '''Church''': "Intelligence."\ |
| 242 | '''Caboose''': Ohhhhhhh... What was the A again?\ |
| 243 | '''Church''': ...Let's move on. |
| 244 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Donut asking for new armour. [[spoiler:He finally gets it in Episode 16, after getting blown up by Tex, only to find that it's ''pink''.]] |
| 245 | * BlatantLies: |
| 246 | ** Tucker lies to hide the fact that they let Tex help after Church explicitly told them not to. |
| 247 | ** Tucker tells Caboose that going through the teleported doesn’t hurt, then admits to Church that it actually hurts a ''lot''. {{Lampshaded}} by Caboose. |
| 248 | -->'''Caboose''': You lied to me. |
| 249 | * BoomHeadshot: Caboose shoots Sarge, who was possessed by Church, in an attempt to help Church. |
| 250 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Caboose's dialogue after Tex is captured. |
| 251 | -->"Yep, he's definitely captured... or dead... captured or dead. ({{gasp}}s) '''Or captured ''and'' dead!'''" |
| 252 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: A lot of the characters haven't really clicked yet and haven't really experienced the {{Flanderization}} that allowed them to settle into their familiar persons as and character dynamics. |
| 253 | ** Donut is a strait-laced and semi-competent, but naive and mildly dim rookie who takes his job and the Red-Blue war entirely seriously, [[NaiveNewcomer not grasping the pointlessness of the conflict between the Reds and Blues]], which completely contrasts with his later portrayal as a jovial, flamboyant [[TheDitz ditz]] [[FriendlyEnemy who tends to treat the Blues like close friends]]. He also doesn't get his iconic pink armor until the end of the season. |
| 254 | ** Lopez starts off as a silent enforcer to Sarge, and develops into TheComicallySerious [[UndyingLoyalty who regards the Reds with the highest respect and views their mission as being of the highest importance]], contrasting heavily with the bitingly sarcastic OnlySaneMan bitterly aware of the Reds' idiocy he became. |
| 255 | ** Caboose is just a mildly dim DeadpanSnarker who is almost fully aware of everything happening around him, as opposed to the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ManChild he's most famous for being. |
| 256 | ** Sarge is more of a straightforward DrillSergeantNasty whose only real quirk is his hatred of Grif, as opposed to the absolute lunatic he would become. |
| 257 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 258 | ** The season, the first few episodes especially, has significantly poorer audio quality than later seasons. |
| 259 | ** The first episode directly references ''Halo'', with Grif complaining about being stuck in the canyon after Master Chief brought down the Covenant on his own. The connection to the source material was quietly downplayed once the series started developing its own mythos (though the series' source material would be later re-visited come ''Reconstruction''). |
| 260 | ** When Vic appears in Episode 10, he's a more stoic character, voiced by Randall Glass of Warthog Jump. Vic's return in Season 2 had him as the quirky and unhelpful MissionControl voiced by Burnie Burns. |
| 261 | ** Sarge is a recurring character who's PutOnABus for most of the season. |
| 262 | * ElectronicSpeechImpediment: [[spoiler:Tex has this]] near the end of Episode 12, when [[spoiler:''her'' voice filter breaks]]. |
| 263 | ** Also [[spoiler:Lopez only being able to speak Spanish]]. |
| 264 | * EskimosArentReal: Episode Two. It's even the reason why they end up naming the vehicle the "Chupathingy". |
| 265 | -->'''Grif:''' No, like a puma. It's a big cat, like a lion.\ |
| 266 | '''Sarge:''' You're making that up. |
| 267 | ** Later in the same episode: |
| 268 | --->'''Sarge''': ''(pointing at the front of the Warthog)'' Look, see these two tow hooks? They look like tusks, and what kind of animal has tusks?\ |
| 269 | '''Grif:''' A walrus.\ |
| 270 | '''Sarge:''' Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?! |
| 271 | * FaintInShock: Simmons in Episode 12, upon seeing a teammate's head blow up. He fervently denies this, but a later flashback confirms it. |
| 272 | -->'''Simmons:''' Eek! I'm gonna faint! |
| 273 | * FunWithSubtitles: One of the trailers for the season uses this to hilarious effect. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKXrIuTpHHM Here it is.]] |
| 274 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Caboose thinks that shooting Sarge, actually Church in his body, and freeing Tex will make Church become his best friend and forgive the whole team-killing thing. |
| 275 | * InsistentTerminology: Donut's [[spoiler:new armour isn't pink. It's ''light-ish red''.]] |
| 276 | * KnifeOutline: Tex's introduction, using bullets against a wall, and Caboose as the outline. |
| 277 | * LukeIAmYourFather: During his NearDeathExperience, Sarge regretted never telling this to Grif... [[spoiler:to mess with him one last time]]. |
| 278 | * MistakenForBadass: Tucker and Church think that Donut is the sergeant, and that he stole the blue flag in some kind of sneaky plan, when really Donut got lost and mistook blue base for a store. |
| 279 | * MistakenForGay: Happens to Tucker when he contacts command to send reinforcements. |
| 280 | --> '''Tucker''': I don't know what the technical military term is for it, but, uh, we're pretty fucked up down here. We need men! |
| 281 | --> '''Vic''': Dude, how long have you guys been down there? |
| 282 | * NearDeathExperience: Sarge has one after [[spoiler:being shot through the head by Caboose while possessed by Church]]. He has a conversation with the "angel" that is Church before being revived. |
| 283 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted]] as of Season 8. [[spoiler:Apparently he wasn't half-dead, but in Recovery Mode on his armour, making this MistakenForAfterlife.]] |
| 284 | * NoodleIncident: We never do get to find out what happened in the Vegas Quadrant. |
| 285 | * NotActuallyTheUltimateQuestion: could practically be the trope namer. |
| 286 | * OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: The DVD had a parody of the FBI warning. |
| 287 | * PossessingADeadBody: Discussed and parodied: |
| 288 | -->'''Caboose:''' I have an idea. ...I HAVE AN IDEA!\ |
| 289 | '''Tucker:''' Yeah, we heard you the first time, Caboose, we were just ignoring you.\ |
| 290 | '''Caboose:''' Since you possessed that Red guy, and took control of him, why don't you just possess your own body?\ |
| 291 | '''Church:''' Oh I see, so that way I would be living inside of my own dead body.\ |
| 292 | '''Caboose:''' Yes.\ |
| 293 | '''Church:''' Unable to move, just, laying there, rotting in the sun for all eternity.\ |
| 294 | '''Caboose:''' Yes.\ |
| 295 | '''Church:''' Okay, Caboose, I'll be sure to get right on that.\ |
| 296 | '''Caboose:''' ...I think you are a mean ghost. |
| 297 | * RoboticReveal: [[spoiler: Lopez]] is revealed to be this in Episode 16. Grif is humorously slow to catch on, despite obvious signs that would indicate it. |
| 298 | * SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: Tex, as revealed in Episode 12.]] |
| 299 | * SayMyName: In Episode 9, after [[spoiler:the Blues' Scorpion tank AI Sheila]] gets bombed, the first thing Caboose and Tucker do is shout its name. |
| 300 | -->'''Tucker''': [[{{Beat}} Wait...who's Sheila?]] |
| 301 | * SnipeHunt: Grif and Simmons send Donut out for some elbow grease and headlight fluid. |
| 302 | * StuffBlowingUp: The tank blows up the jeep, and then an airstrike blows up the tank. |
| 303 | * TonightSomeoneDies: The cliffhanger on Episode 9. |
| 304 | --> '''Sarge:''' [[BreakingTheFourthWall I sure hope it's Grif.]] |
| 305 | * UnwantedAssistance: Sarge to Simmons in Part 3 about saying what robots love. |
| 306 | * WhamLine: In Episode 19, the season finale, introducing the BigBad. |
| 307 | --> [[spoiler:'''[[NotHimself Caboose]]:''' [[ThatManIsDead I told you, my name isn't Caboose...]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis My name... is...]] [[AIIsACrapshoot O'Malley]].]] |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Season 2]] |
| 311 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In-universe with [[spoiler:Caboose's mental images of the cast]]: |
| 312 | --> [[spoiler:'''Mental-Tucker''']]: Man, I am so ''unbelievably'' stupid!\ |
| 313 | [[spoiler:'''Mental-Church''']]: My name is Church, buttwiping assmunch, [...] and I'm Caboose's best friend, so don't get any ideas about kissing up, you limp licking fuck sock!\ |
| 314 | [[spoiler:'''Mental-Donut''']]: ''(female voice)'' My favorite thing is pretty dresses!\ |
| 315 | [[spoiler:'''Mental-Sarge''']]: ''(pirate accent)'' Arr, I got termites in me leg! |
| 316 | * ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Lopez when he blows up the Warthog along with Sarge and Simmons]] in Episode 28: |
| 317 | --> '''Lopez''': I'm sorry, [[spoiler:father]]. |
| 318 | * AprilFoolsDay: The reason for Episode 28.5, the "Last Episode Ever". |
| 319 | * ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Simmons (or Simmons 2.0)]] becomes one in Episode 34, when his internal organs (and some of the external ones as well) are donated to [[spoiler:a fatally injured Grif]] and replaced with robot parts to [[spoiler:replace Lopez, who has been taken by the Blues.]] |
| 320 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Tex]] as of Episode 29. |
| 321 | * DisproportionateRetribution: This exchange from Episode 35. |
| 322 | --> '''Tucker''': I don't know. I kinda like it. I could get used to calling you Rookie.\ |
| 323 | '''Church''': Oh, yea? Could you get used to me beating you to death? |
| 324 | * DoubleAgent: Episode 38 reveals that [[spoiler:Vic is working for the Blues and the Reds.]] |
| 325 | * DudeNotIronic: In Episode 38, the majority of the cast has an (off-screen) two-hour discussion about whether or not the situation they found themselves in was ironic. The opening lines to the discussion produce several examples of things which which aren't ironic, including this gem from Caboose: |
| 326 | -->'''Caboose''': ''I'' think it would be ironic if we were all made of iron. |
| 327 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Caboose has these moments from time to time. |
| 328 | --> '''Tucker''': I'm confused, that actually seems like a good idea.\ |
| 329 | '''Church''': I know!\ |
| 330 | '''Tucker''': ...But Caboose said it!\ |
| 331 | '''Church''': ''I know!'' |
| 332 | * EvilTastesGood: Averted. |
| 333 | -->'''O'Malley/[[spoiler:Doc]]''': I will devour their hearts and crap out their souls! They will all taste oblivion!... [[TakeThat Which tastes just like Red Bull...]] [[AndThatsTerrible Which is disgusting!]] |
| 334 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Church is able to understand Sheila and Lopez's letter in "[=K.I.T. B.F.F.=]" ([[BilingualBonus which is written in binary]]). On the surface, it just seems like it's RuleOfFunny in action, [[RewatchBonus but it makes more sense]] after ''Reconstruction'' would reveal that [[spoiler:Church is the Alpha [=A.I.=], and so it would be pretty logical for him to be able to read binary]]. |
| 335 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Caboose (and later Doc) getting possessed by O'Malley.]] |
| 336 | * InformedJudaism: Somewhat. When we see the gravestones of Church and Tex in Episode 20, one of them has a Star of David. As {{Word Of God}} says that Church is Jewish, the "Star of David" gravestone was likely for him. |
| 337 | * [[spoiler:InvoluntaryGroupSplit]][=/=][[spoiler:PartyScattering]]: The CliffHanger of the season at the end of Episode 38. |
| 338 | * [[spoiler:JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind]]: Episode 31. Church and [[spoiler:Tex enter Caboose's mind to kill O'Malley.]] |
| 339 | * OddNameOut: The two robots [[spoiler:Sarge builds for the Blues]] in Episode 38: |
| 340 | --> '''Sarge''': Gentlemen, allow me to introduce... Francisco Montegue Zanzibar! ...And this one over here is Robot #2. |
| 341 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: Church attempts this with [[spoiler:O'Malley when he and Tex are in Caboose's mind]] in Episode 33, but fails utterly. |
| 342 | --> '''Church''': I've got half a mind to kill you, and the other half agrees! |
| 343 | ** This episode has many of them, almost back to back. |
| 344 | --> '''Church''': You're just one big headache, and I got a whole pistol full of aspirin! |
| 345 | --> '''Church''': You're about to split... personality! |
| 346 | --> '''Tex''': Payback's a bitch, and so am I. |
| 347 | * ReactiveContinuousScream: Episode 28 1/2, aka "The Last Episode Ever." |
| 348 | * SirSwearsALot: Due to e-mail requests and concerns about younger audiences, episodes of the second season had fewer expletives in general, and bleeps over those that made it in. This caused an even larger backlash from people demanding the swearing be put back in. Rooster Teeth, as explained in the second season DVD commentary, responded by introducing [[spoiler:Mental-Church, Caboose's mental image of Church]], who was [[DeliberatelyBadExample deliberately]] incredibly vulgar, and swore more than any other character. Third season episodes were offered in censored and uncensored versions before the idea of censorship was abandoned. |
| 349 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Used for TheReveal at the end of Episode 29: |
| 350 | --> [[spoiler:'''Tex''': Well, Buenos dias, cockbites! Guess who's back?]] |
| 351 | * SoundEffectBleep: Most swearing isn't censored, but in one instance, "Son of a..." is cut off by an EarthShatteringKaboom. |
| 352 | ** Most of the swearing is intact on the episodes shown on ''Halo Waypoint''; however a joke in Episode 20 which probably could be considered particularly offensive was bleeped out. |
| 353 | --> '''Doc''': I'm a pacifist.\ |
| 354 | '''Caboose''': You're [[spoiler:a thing that babies suck on?]]\ |
| 355 | '''Tucker''': No dude, [[spoiler:that's a pedophile.]]\ |
| 356 | '''Church''': Tucker, I think he means ''[[spoiler:a pacifier]]''. |
| 357 | * SplitPersonality: O'Malley appears to be one to Caboose. This is because [[spoiler:O'Malley is actually Tex's [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]] who transferred to Caboose's armour upon Tex's death at the end of Season 1.]] |
| 358 | * StrangelyArousing: Sheila's response to [[spoiler:Tex possessing Lopez]] in Episode 30: |
| 359 | --> '''Sheila''': I am confused. I thought your name was López. And I thought you were a man. This is all so strange. I feel like my circuits are crossed... And I like it. |
| 360 | * TitleDrop: In Episode 38, courtesy of Tucker, given seconds before [[spoiler:he was blown up by Doc/O'Malley]]: |
| 361 | --> '''Tucker''': I said, ''there's no Red vs Blue!'' |
| 362 | * WeCanRebuildHim: After Tucker runs Grif down with Sheila the Tank, Sarge takes this trope on its side; He fixes Grif by taking body parts from Simmons, and turning ''Simmons'' into a cyborg. |
| 363 | * WhamLine: One of the earliest reveals with major implications for the series as a whole: |
| 364 | --> '''[[spoiler:[[RunningBothSides Vic]]]]''': Oh, hey there Sarge, long time no see, sorry 'bout that I uh, anyway what can we do here for you at Red Command today? |
| 365 | [[/folder]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | [[folder:Season 3]] |
| 368 | * TheAntiChrist: In Episode 14, Caboose is assumed to be this by the Red Zealot. |
| 369 | -->'''Red Zealot:''' It's the beast! The anti-flag, come to live among us and rule us for seven years! The end is nigh! |
| 370 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Episode 45. |
| 371 | --> '''O'Malley:''' I need that computer to compile my evil formulas, and to rebuild the weather machine. Also [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil to download music!]] [[EvilLaugh Wuhuhahahaha!]]" |
| 372 | * AskAStupidQuestion: When Tex explains that each Freelancer has a U.S. state for a codename, Donut asks her what state she was. Her response? Nevada. |
| 373 | * BaaBomb: The Blue Team tries calming down a bomb named Andy with imagination therapy. One of the images presented was a flock of sheep. "[[VideoGame/{{Worms}} The kind that don't blow up]]." |
| 374 | * BackToBackBadasses: Sarge and Caboose do this when fighting the Battle Creek Reds and Blues. |
| 375 | * BadBadActing: Donut's play for explaining why the group is in the future. |
| 376 | * BaitAndSwitchTimeSkip: In episode 39, Grif is locked in a prison cell with Church. By episode 42, he acts like he's an institutionalized long-term convict despite having only been imprisoned for five hours,. |
| 377 | * BigNo: Grif lets one out when he learns that the distress signal Red Team was following has led them back to Blood Gulch. |
| 378 | * BoundAndGagged: Tex is tied to a tree with rope thicker than most people's arms when captured by O'Malley. |
| 379 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: In Episode 39, when Donut is talking to Tucker after Doc/O'Malley shot him, and explaining why they can't make him a robot body to ease his pain. |
| 380 | --> '''Donut''': We can't! We're out of parts because we [[DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready overused that joke]]! |
| 381 | * DeadlyDeferredConversation: Blue Team Captain Butch Flowers explains to Church and Tucker that he will tell them the secret of beating the Reds tomorrow... only to die of an aspirin overdose that night. Though as Season 10 reveals, [[spoiler:[[HarsherInHindSight what Flowers might have been trying to tell Church and Tucker was likely more important than they thought]]]]. |
| 382 | * FirstStepFixation: When the Red Team want to find out where Tex is broadcasting from, at first, they want to triangulate her position by using multiple radios tuned to her broadcast, and Sarge comes up with an elaborate plan to make a second simulated radio for this purpose... Then Tex directly tells them her coordinates. Simmons offers to help Sarge make a radio later anyway, but [[DefiedTrope Sarge tells Simmmons not to patronize him]]. |
| 383 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Exploited by Tex, who tells Tucker there are hot girls making out behind him [[LookBehindYou to get him to turn around]]. |
| 384 | * GoneToTheFuture: The entire cast, though Church takes a longer time than most. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''The Recollection'', when it's revealed that time travel is one of the training exercises, but not a real thing that happens.]] |
| 385 | * HumanLadder: Sarge and Caboose form one to see into a high-level window. |
| 386 | * HungerCausesLethargy: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in an episode; when [[AerithAndBob Grif and Church]] are locked together in a prison cell, Grif wishes that he had some bedsheets. When Church says that there's no point in making a BedsheetLadder in a subterranean cell, Grif says the sheets aren't for escape; if he's going to starve to death, he wants to [[PassedInTheirSleep die in his sleep]]. |
| 387 | * IAmNotShazam: A bit of an inversion InUniverse: When Tex explains that every member of Project Freelancer was codenamed for a state, Tucker responds by asking the soldier nicknamed Tex what her codename was. She responds, "[[SarcasmMode Nevada]]." Plenty of fans believed her, though in their defense the series seemed goofy enough for that to happen, and she delivers the line completely straight. |
| 388 | * ICantDoThisByMyself: Tex has to rope in the Reds and Blues to carry a bomb for her because she doesn't have the upper body strength in her current body. |
| 389 | * IfIDoNotReturn: This, from Episode 39: |
| 390 | --> '''Blue Soldier''': Tell my girlfriend that I love her!\ |
| 391 | '''Red Soldier''': She's my girlfriend now, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]! |
| 392 | * ImmediateSelfContradiction: |
| 393 | ** O'Malley does this during Season 3. |
| 394 | --->'''O'Malley:''' Prepare for an oblivion for which there is no preparation! ''[evil laughter]'' |
| 395 | ** In season 3 episode 9, Tucker tells the Red to hire Tex to get her to help: |
| 396 | --->'''Tucker:''' Hire her to help you get Lopez back. She'll do anything for money.\ |
| 397 | '''Tex:''' That's not true.\ |
| 398 | '''Tucker:''' It's not? I'll give you ten bucks to tear off Grif's arm.\ |
| 399 | '''Tex:''' Which one's Grif? |
| 400 | * InappropriatelyCloseComrades: A demonstration of ''exactly'' why such laws exist: |
| 401 | -->'''Capt. Butch Flowers:''' Men, your delightful tomfoolery puts a spring in my step and a bounce in my britches. If I weren't your Commanding Officer, I'd pick you both up, give you a big bear hug and make you call me "Daddy". |
| 402 | -->'''Church:''' Uhh... Thank God for the Chain of Command? |
| 403 | * LookBehindYou: Tex gets Tucker to turn around so she can take his sword by saying there are hot girls making out behind him. |
| 404 | * ObstructiveZealot: The Red Zealot, the most fanatical and devout of the Battle Creek Grunts to their flag-worshipping religion. He's just not very good at the "obstructive" part. |
| 405 | * ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Caboose reads his stage directions in Donut's play about how they ended up in the future. |
| 406 | -->'''Caboose:''' Enter Stage Left. Hello, I am stupid Private Tucker. I am going to set off a big bomb now, and totally mess things up for everyone. Because I am stupid. Turns around. Hello, present. I'm going to set off a bomb in you.\ |
| 407 | '''Grif:''' Don't do that, stupid Private Tucker. That might kill me.\ |
| 408 | '''Caboose:''' Thinks about this, for a moment.\ |
| 409 | '''Donut:''' Caboose, stop reading your stage directions.\ |
| 410 | '''Caboose:''' You told me I was supposed to read anything with my name in front of it.\ |
| 411 | '''Donut:''' Just the lines, not the blocking. You're ruining my big debut!\ |
| 412 | '''Caboose:''' I do not think we are meshing, artistically. I think you should talk to my agent. |
| 413 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Church in Episodes 50-52, failing every time to do anything but ''create'' the situations or fail to make any impact at all. [[spoiler:With the revelation that the time travel there was a torture scenario in later seasons, however, this is something of an aversion in practice.]] |
| 414 | ** YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Part of why it fails. |
| 415 | * TheSlowPath: In Season 3, Church becomes trapped in the past and must wait until he catches up to the present...which takes about a thousand years. Fortunately, he has a robot body, which still somehow grows a beard. [[spoiler:However, it could've been from Gary's deceit, since the whole time loop for Church with the bomb really didn't happen.]] |
| 416 | * StableTimeLoop: Episodes 50-52. [[spoiler:Subverted. In ''The Recollection'', it's revealed that the entire time loop was just a torture simulation by Gamma. The extra Churchs, however, were due to Gamma's use of the time dilation unit to keep him out of Wyoming's way.]] |
| 417 | * SuddenlyBilingual: Donut never showed signs of being able to speak Spanish prior to Episode 57, despite having been in the company of a Spanish robot. But when O'Malley is spewing a stream of self-insults in Spanish (under [[{{Troll}} Lopez's]] instructions) Donut understands what is being said. The next season expands on this by revealing that Donut took Spanish classes in high school. |
| 418 | * SwordOfPlotAdvancement: Tucker's sword which he finds in Season 3 ends up being a key in season 4, and sends both him, the alien, and Caboose on a journey to redeem the aliens' race. [[spoiler:The quest is really a ruse to get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong from the Alien for Tucker, but the sword does give him SpannerInTheWorks RippleProofMemory in Season 5.]] |
| 419 | * [[ThrowAwayCountry Throw Away State]]: Florida. Also a NoodleIncident and TakeOurWordForIt. |
| 420 | * WhamEpisode: Aside from the finale, "Make Your Time" has the bomb attached to Church blowing up, which ends up [[spoiler:sending everyone to the future. The only exception is Church himself, who is sent to the past]]. |
| 421 | * WhyAmITicking: At one point Church ends up in a body that Sarge had implanted a bomb into. Cue this line from Grif about him when it accidentally gets activated in Episode 41. |
| 422 | * WritersCannotDoMath: In Episode 44. According to Simmons, he has a real knack for [[GoodWithNumbers multiplying large numbers in his head.]] [[spoiler:He doesn't.]] |
| 423 | -->'''Grif''': What's... 32 times 56? |
| 424 | -->'''Simmons''': 31,452.[[note]]It's actually 1, 792.[[/note]] |
| 425 | -->'''Sarge''': Is that right? |
| 426 | -->'''Simmons''': Yes. |
| 427 | -->'''Sarge''': That's pretty impressive! |
| 428 | -->'''Simmons''': I know. It's a gift. |
| 429 | * YouCantFightFate: Church's lesson from his TimeTravel, as stated in Episode 52. |
| 430 | -->'''Church:''' No matter how bad they seem, [things] can't be any better, and they can't be any worse, because that's the way things fuckin' are, and you better get used to it Nancy. Quit yer bitching." |
| 431 | * YouWillBeSpared: When O'Malley and Vic ally to a degree. |
| 432 | -->'''O'Malley:''' Then the universe will be mine and I'll crush every living soul in to dust, hahaha! Except for you of course Vic. I'll make you Assistant Crusher.\ |
| 433 | '''Vic:''' Okay, dude, looking forward to that. |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:Season 4]] |
| 437 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Grif after Simmons temporarily leaves during his CassandraTruth where nobody believes that Blue Team has a tank. |
| 438 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Episode 65, Sarge is able to accept Simmons imagining tanks and attacking his own teammates, but draws the line at Simmons painting himself blue. |
| 439 | * CassandraTruth: Sheila, a ''tank'', rolls behind Sarge, being watched by Donut, Simmons, and Grif, but he refuses to believe it is there, and the other Reds except Simmons also decide not to say they know. This extends to the point where Sheila is ''firing at the base'' after Simmons had his temporary HazyFeelTurn. |
| 440 | * CranialProcessingUnit: Lopez the robot has his body blown up and spends the season as a disembodied head. Near the end of the season Sarge wants to retrieve a secret message that was hidden in his databanks, Grif asks if the data would actually be in his head, and Sarge cites the logic behind this. |
| 441 | * DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Crunchbite's impregnation of Tucker without the latter's consent or awareness is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 442 | * EverybodyKnewAlready: When Simmons is [[ItMakesSenseInContext pretending to be a Blue soldier]], Church immediately knows it's him, but pretends not to in order to torment him. Sheila also knows. |
| 443 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: From Episode 65: |
| 444 | -->'''Sarge''': I can obviously understand why you'd wanna attack your own base.\ |
| 445 | '''Simmons''': You can?\ |
| 446 | '''Sarge''': But '''''painting yourself blue?''''' Dear God man, don't you have any shame at all?! |
| 447 | * HazyFeelTurn: Simmons temporarily joins the Blues. Church goes along with it because he finds it amusing. |
| 448 | * HereWeGoAgain: Definitely the feeling the Reds get when they find their way to Blood Gulch again. |
| 449 | * InanimateCompetitor: When Sarge holds a competition to choose his new second-in-command, two of the competitors who are eligible to win are a wrench and a "mysterious skull of unknown origin". Sarge also reserves fourth place for any late entries to the contest who would make better candidates than Grif (who is automatically placed last), such as a "turd or a turd farmer". |
| 450 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Pretty standard for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Caboose]]. |
| 451 | ** For example, this exchange: |
| 452 | --> '''Caboose''': Oh, oh, oh, I hope we meet a cleric along the way! None of us knows how to heal. |
| 453 | --> '''Honk-Honk the Alien''': Blarg? |
| 454 | --> '''Andy''' (translating): He says he’s a healer. |
| 455 | --> '''Caboose''': Oh, good. |
| 456 | --> '''Andy''': Heh heh, not really. They eat their wounded, heh heh heh. |
| 457 | --> '''Caboose''': Just like chiropractors. |
| 458 | ** Which is followed shortly by this: |
| 459 | --> '''Caboose''': Okay, so, um, [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker]] is a fighter, Crunchbite is the healer, and I am the powerful - and intelligent - wizard, Morphumax! |
| 460 | --> '''Andy''': What the hell does that make me? |
| 461 | --> '''Caboose''': You’re the good looking and stealthy archer. |
| 462 | --> '''Andy''': A bow and arrow? I don’t have any hands, you freakin' moron! |
| 463 | --> '''Caboose''': That is what makes you so stealthy. This is going to be the best party ever. |
| 464 | * ItsQuietTooQuiet: Said by O'Malley: |
| 465 | --> ''(gunshot whizzes right past his ear)'' |
| 466 | --> '''O'Malley:''' ...Now, suddenly it's too loud. I preferred it when it was quiet. |
| 467 | * MisterSeahorse: Tucker, via [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong alien impregnation]]. |
| 468 | * MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Aside from Lopez's typical Babelfish Spanish, we have Donut's high school Spanish in Episode 75. |
| 469 | --> "Lopez, do you know what time it is? I am going to the beach with my cousin who likes to play tennis. I ate a pencil. Adios! |
| 470 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In Episode 62, Simmons tries to convince Sheila that she was supposed to protect Blue Base against "space pirate cowboy monkey ninjas" who were trying to round up some cattle. |
| 471 | * ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: During Episode 74, Simmons regains entry to Red Base by guessing Grif's password, which is "password". Simmons suggests that Grif's new password be [[TooDumbToLive 2dumb2live.]] |
| 472 | -->'''Sarge:''' Gentlemen. They know the code word. There's nothin' we can do.\ |
| 473 | '''Grif:''' Everybody knows our code words! |
| 474 | * PreMortemOneLiner: In Episode 76. |
| 475 | -->'''Sarge:''' Or my personal favorite: You just got ''Sarged.'' |
| 476 | * TheQuest: Tucker goes on one with the "Great Weapon" (his LaserBlade) at the behest of the Alien, with various "Great" things in parody of [[Franchise/{{Halo}} "The Great Journey"]]. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the only actual quest was to get him pregnant.]] |
| 477 | * RightBehindMe: {{Inverted}} when Church is telling Tex why he’s surprised she’s not joining Tucker on his quest and he realizes she’s ''not'' standing behind him anymore. |
| 478 | --> '''Church''': You’re gone, aren’t you? |
| 479 | * StealthPun: Once Simmons discusses his shyness, there is an implication that he hasn't gone to the bathroom in ''three years.'' ToiletHumor, sure, but then you realize that it's the show telling us that Simmons is indeed full of shit. |
| 480 | * WorthIt: Episode 59. |
| 481 | -->'''Tex:''' Alright screw it. [[ThatCameOutWrong You guys get behind me, and stay tight.]]\ |
| 482 | '''Tucker:''' [[CatchPhrase Bow Chika Bow Wow]]!\ |
| 483 | '''Tex:''' ...Never mind, ''Tucker's'' in front.\ |
| 484 | '''Tucker:''' Meh, it was worth it. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[folder:Season 5]] |
| 488 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: While chasing O'Malley in Caboose's head in Episode 100, Church manages to achieve on ''Caboose's'' ignorance. |
| 489 | -->'''Church:''' Alright "Tucker", quick. I need you to jump out there and kill 'em with your sword. If they die in here, they get forced out of Caboose's head. |
| 490 | -->'''Caboose!Tucker:''' [[NonActionGuy No way, that sounds scary!]] You do it! I want to get back to my day [[ItMakesSenseInContext smelling butts]]. |
| 491 | -->'''Church:''' Dude, I can't! Your sword only works for- [[EurekaMoment Wait a minute.]] ''({{Beat}})'' There's no ''possible'' way he understands that. Fuck it, give me the sword! |
| 492 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: After all they went through - all the crazy things that happened, the people who died, everything - life was going to go on, the same way it had before. |
| 493 | * AndThenWhat: Church asks this in Episode 100: |
| 494 | -->'''Church:''' Well what about after? You think Omega's just gonna stop after he [[spoiler:gets a whole species for an army? He's gonna take over everything Tex, and you're not gonna be able to stop him!]] |
| 495 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:The aliens revive Butch Flowers only for him to be infected by Omega shortly after. He also gets killed again (though for good this time) in "Why Where We Here?".]] |
| 496 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tex betrays the others and tries to help Wyoming and Omega escape with the alien. Instead she, and about a third of the speaking parts in the show, are seemingly killed in a massive explosion.]] Omega's plot is thwarted (saving the Milky Way), but Church is left embittered and everything that's happened seems to have been for nothing. On the plus side, Grif ''finally'' gets shotgun! |
| 497 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Doc delivers this: |
| 498 | --> '''Doc''': Tucker's kid drank half a gallon in one go! Isn't that cool? I think he is gonna be a linebacker. Or a vampire. Or a vampire linebacker! |
| 499 | * BuriedAlive: Sarge allows this to happen to himself in Episode 83 when his dedication to Red Command orders causes him to think he's been killed in action. |
| 500 | * CallBack: When the Blues take control of Red Base (Because the Reds are underground), Church notes that the Blue Team now has...two bases in the middle of a box canyon, to which Tucker adds, "Whoop-dee-fucking-doo", which was basically Simmons' assessment of their "war" in Season 1. |
| 501 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: In episode 100, the Reds decide to destroy the Pelican, but aren't sure how. Simmons points out that Andy the bomb was with Lopez in the caves, only for Sarge to realize they can ask Lopez. |
| 502 | -->'''Sarge''': Simmons! Where can we get some explosives?\ |
| 503 | '''Simmons''': Well, if you recall, we recently saw Andy the bomb and Lopez in one of the caves, so--\ |
| 504 | '''Sarge''': Of course! Come on, men! Let's go ask Lopez if he knows where we can find some explosives!\ |
| 505 | '''Simmons''': (sigh) Excellent plan, sir. |
| 506 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:According to Agent Wyoming, Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War is a ridiculously convoluted case of XanatosSpeedChess ultimately culminating in them infecting Junior with Omega and giving him Tucker's sword, with him then fulfilling a supposed ancient prophecy within the Covenant and having them stop their war with the [=UNSC=]. However, even ignoring how absurdly complex this plan is and how easily it would fall apart when put into practice, Church points out that even if the plan actually works, all it would result in is giving the ''AnthropomorphicPersonification of UnstoppableRage'' a ProudWarriorRace to ravage the Milky Way with at their leisure]]. |
| 507 | * DownerEnding: Sort of... see MultipleEndings. |
| 508 | ** While the canonical ending is probably the "least" dark, it's still quite bleak - Despite all his efforts and suffering throughout the entire series, [[ShootTheShaggyDog Church fails to accomplish anything, including his ultimate goal of saving Tex]], and everything goes back to the way it was at the very beginning (more or less), with no improvement at ''all''. On the plus side, the Blood Gulch Crew managed to stop Omega and potentially saved the entire Milky Way, [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold not that anyone outside the canyon will ever know or care.]] |
| 509 | * EverybodyDiesEnding: The first alternate ending results in every single character dead. |
| 510 | * EveryoneKnowsMorse: Subverted in Episode 81. Sister knows it and tries using it early on, but the others don't understand her, with Church even citing it as outdated. |
| 511 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Though it's for sympathetic reasons, Tex turns against the Blues and tries to help O'Malley conquer the galaxy in "Why Were We Here?".]] |
| 512 | * FanFiction: Apparently, Donut has written some of ''Literature/HarryPotter''. It involves a bartender and a sailor. |
| 513 | * FlagDrop: Sarge gives a RousingSpeech to his comrades where a Red Team flag and musical accompaniment appear out of nowhere. Being [[BetterThanABareBulb RvB]], this is quickly lampshaded. |
| 514 | -->'''Donut:''' Where did that flag come from?\ |
| 515 | '''Grif:''' Flag? Who gives a fuck about the flag? How about the guy who's singing? |
| 516 | * FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: While conducting a physical exam on Sister, Doc comments positively on her flexibility, which gets the attention of ChivalrousPervert Tucker who's listening in on the exam. |
| 517 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 518 | ** The fact that Church wasn't affected by O'Malley possessing him is strange until you realize in hindsight that [[spoiler:it just was a case of an [=A.I.=] fragment returning to its origin.]] |
| 519 | ** Also, Grif's sister being alive even though the teams got "sent to the future." [[spoiler:They never time-traveled at all, it was just a scenario concocted by Project Freelancer.]] |
| 520 | ** Tucker explaining that Junior going "bow chicka bow wow" is genetic. While seemingly being a SharedFamilyQuirks joke, it ultimately hints at [[spoiler:the plan to have Junior fulfill the alien prophecy and become the aliens' overlord, as his genes inherited from Tucker allows him to be the only other person in existence to be able to use the sword.]] |
| 521 | * HanlonsRazor: When Tex is told that O'Malley is "inside Blue leader", she accuses Church of hosting the A.I. and mentions several of his more questionable decisions as evidence that he is sabotaging Blue Team's efforts. Church replies that making those choices doesn't make him evil, just a bad leader. |
| 522 | * HaveYouTriedRebooting: The Blues try this on Sheila due to her erratic behavior. They also tried it to Caboose's armor once, which probably didn't help his mental state. |
| 523 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Tucker impales Wyoming with his energy sword in Episode 98.]] |
| 524 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:How Wyoming is able to be permanently killed in "Same Old, Same Old" and "Repent, the End is Near" - After Tucker stabs the "present" Wyoming and Sheila locks Gary/Gamma behind a firewall on the Pelican, the other Wyomings aren't able to have their Temporal Distortion units work and so any deaths they suffer are permanent]]. |
| 525 | * LineOfSightName: Jenkins, the additional Blue from an alternate ending, comes from the Jenkins 2.0 font used for the series' logo and title cards of the period. |
| 526 | * MangledCatchPhrase: Caboose in Episode 99. |
| 527 | -->'''Caboose''': Hey chicka bum bum!\ |
| 528 | '''Tucker''': Caboose! What did I tell you about that?! |
| 529 | * MultipleEndings: In addition to the canonical ending, there are ''six'' alternate endings to Episode 100, "Why Were We Here?" (two were on concurrent downloads along with the official one, the others in the home video). All of them are [[BlackComedy Black Comedy]]-laden {{Downer Ending}}s of some shade excluding "Insert Quarter" (which is more of a GainaxEnding than anything else) and (depending on which character is your favorite) "Where Are They Now?". |
| 530 | ** "Fight! Fight!": A poorly timed comment from Sarge prompts a free-for-all that ends with everyone dead. |
| 531 | ** "[[MindScrew Insert Quarter]]": Sarge tries to call for support from Command, and when Vic proves uncooperative, Sarge destroys the computers controlling Blood Gulch, which then proclaim [[AWinnerIsYou him the winner of "Red Vs Blue"]], the Japanese credits for which then roll. The episode then cuts to a ''Halo 2'' postgame screen with the kill/death stats of the eight major characters throughout the series (Caboose's kills are at -1 because a teamkill subtracts from your score, Tex's kill count is at ''Halo 2'''s maximum of 99, etc.), revealing the whole thing as "the weirdest [death]match [they]'ve ever played". After some Xbox Live-style banter (which really makes it unclear whether it's the characters talking or just the creators using their handles in a game), they decide to play another match with "same teams" but a "[[SequelHook new map]]". |
| 532 | ** "[[AlienInvasion Invasion]]": Starts the same way as "Fight! Fight!" but before Sarge can finish mocking the Blues, [[KilledMidSentence he is blasted by a Banshee]]. Everyone is killed by the invading Sangheili, who then proceed to [[HereWeGoAgain take over both of the bases and act out the events of Episode 1]]. |
| 533 | ** "[[AllJustADream Ruby]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Slippers]]": It's revealed that the entire series was a dream being had by Church back during Season 1, having only been knocked unconscious by Sheila's cannon fire. He describes his dream to a genuinely concerned Tucker, a remarkably lucid and sane-sounding Caboose, and Jenkins, who he apparently forgot about, before Simmons and Grif show up. Church tries to speak to them about the events of his dream, but they just hose the Blues down with [[MoreDakka machine gun fire]], killing them all. The Reds (complete with Sarge's original, nasally voice) then prepare to move on to the next zone. |
| 534 | ** "[[TheBadGuyWins Tex Wins]]": When Church screams for Tex to come back, the ship turns around (with Andy presumably having been deactivated). The ship then fires a missile at the Blood Gulch soldiers, killing them all. |
| 535 | --> '''Sarge:''' [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner ... Aw, snap.]] |
| 536 | ** "[[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Where Are They Now?]]": The death scenes from "Fight! Fight!" play in sequence, but as each character is killed, a short caption comes up, revealing a strange future for each. |
| 537 | * MultitaskedConversation: In Episode 88, before Sarge and Donut find Grif and Simmons after they fall into the cave beneath Blood Gulch, Sarge communicates with Simmons via their helmet radios. Donut's radio is broken, so he is completely unaware Sarge isn't talking to him. |
| 538 | * NoodleImplements: According to Episode 100, "Emergency Plan Traitorous Simmons Number 11" involves a steamroller. |
| 539 | * ObviouslyNotFine: In "You Can't Park Here", Doc has Caboose feed Tucker's baby alien a lot of his blood, which causes Caboose to collapse from loss of blood. Come "Sibling Arrivalries", Church tries to get reinforcements to fight the Reds, with Doc telling him Caboose is now fine as the latter runs outside Blue Base, only for him to collapse yet again. |
| 540 | -->'''Caboose:''' I'm okay! I'm okay! (''collapses to the ground'') I'm not okay!] |
| 541 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: When [[spoiler:Wyoming's clone-army]] is about to kill the Blues, Grif gleefully points out that the Reds don't have to do a thing to win except watch. Sarge, of course, is not nearly so happy to let someone else defeat his enemy, and so leads the Reds in the Warthog to save the Blues. |
| 542 | * PapaWolf: A good indicator of Tucker's future CharacterDevelopment and him later [[TookALevelInKindness Taking A Level In Kindness]] is how quickly he starts to dote on and care for Junior (well, at least in his own way). [[spoiler:Most notably, he ''kills a Freelancer'' once he learns that they plan to kidnap his son and have him possessed by an insane [=A.I.=]]]. |
| 543 | * PrecisionFStrike: Sarge gives only one F-bomb out of the first five seasons, in Episode 92. |
| 544 | --> '''Simmons:''' Sarge, I'm not sure Grif knows what he's talking about. |
| 545 | --> '''Sarge:''' Grif doesn't know what he's talking about, eh? Stop the ''fuckin''' presses. |
| 546 | * TheReveal: Most of the season is spent trying to locate O'Malley after he jumps from Doc until he turns out in "The Wrong Crowd" to have infected [[spoiler:a resurrected Captain Butch Flowers]]. |
| 547 | * RiddleForTheAges: We never learn who assassinated [[spoiler:Captain Flowers]] in "Why Were We Here?". [[spoiler:However, we would eventually get an answer '''11''' seasons later in ''The Shisno Paradox'', with it being due to a [=time-traveling=] Tucker accidentally screwing up with his Sniper Rifle]]. |
| 548 | * ScrewTheWarWerePartying: In Episode 98, when the Reds are in control of Blue Base due mostly to the Blues having more important troubles. |
| 549 | -->'''Simmons:''' A Blue got killed by their own tank? Man, I just had the weirdest sense of déjà vu.\ |
| 550 | '''Grif:''' Hehey, speaking of getting tanked, we should see if the Blues have any beer around here.\ |
| 551 | '''Sarge:''' [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Hey-o!]] |
| 552 | * SeriesFauxnale: Episode 100 "Why Were We Here?", the GrandFinale of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles.'' |
| 553 | * ShotInTheAss: Tex in Episode 94, due to Tucker not knowing how to handle a SniperRifle. He blames it on Church. |
| 554 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Tucker and Sarge in the finale. To elaborate, Tucker's acquisition of the energy sword gave him the ability to remember events from alternate timelines created by Wyoming's temporal device and kill him. Sarge then leaves a bomb in the Pelican simply to kill the Blues, and in the process stops Omega's plan to conquer the universe.]] |
| 555 | * StandardizedSpaceViews: The episode [[Recap/RedVsBlueS5E18Loading "Loading..."]] ends with Tucker breaking the news his troop is gonna go to Earth, humanity's home. This rises morale and the screen cuts to a space view of the planet as he's saying it. |
| 556 | * SuddenDownerEnding: "Why Were We Here?". [[spoiler:Tex performs a FaceHeelTurn and reunites with O'Malley to help stop the Great War with Junior, but she, Sheila (who was downloaded aboard Sister's Pelican that she was using), and Junior are all blown up by Andy, killing off a large portion of the series' cast and making it so that [[ShaggyDogStory Church's desperate struggle to save his girlfriend throughout the whole series was utterly pointless]].]] |
| 557 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The aptly-named [[MultipleEndings "Where Are They Now?" ending]] to "Why Were We Here" reveals a strange potential future for each of the Reds and Blues. |
| 558 | ** Sarge: After his tour in Blood Gulch, he was awarded the Badge of Redness, but had it revoked when he would not reveal [[RiddleForTheAges his real name for the certificate]]. He commanded various Red Forces throughout the following years and was eventually killed on the battlefields of Gemini 8. On the plus side, he died exactly the way he wanted - [[SitcomArchNemesis after Grif.]] |
| 559 | ** Simmons: [[DeadPersonImpersonation He stole Sarge's identity after his death and attempted to resume his life.]] He was then discovered and court-martialed by the Red Army, and is now currently awaiting execution in a military prison. |
| 560 | ** Grif: [[ButtMonkey He was killed by Sarge]] shortly before the latter's death. |
| 561 | ** Church: He became [[{{Irony}} an Anger Management]] social worker in Quincy, IL. |
| 562 | ** Tucker: [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere He went AWOL shortly after the events of]] ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. He was last spotted on a stolen ship [[PapaWolf heading towards Sangheilios]], and his current whereabouts are unknown. |
| 563 | ** Sister: She got a job [[HiddenDepths working as an etiquette coach]] at the prestigious [[TakeThat "Paris Hilton]] [[BoardingSchool School for Girls"]]. |
| 564 | ** Donut: [[CampStraight He married an exotic dancer named Tiffany]], and [[BabiesEverAfter they have twelve children]]. |
| 565 | ** Caboose: Finally, [[MythologyGag he sold his life story to]] [[Creator/{{Bungie}} a software company based in Redmond, WA]], and they based [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved a popular video game]] off of it. |
| 566 | * WholePlotReference: Episode 98 ("Same Old, Same Old") is a loose one to ''[[{{VideoGame/Marathon}} Marathon Infinity]].'' To further clarify, both stories center around a character looping space-time to save the universe (in their eyes, at least) from hostile aliens. The difference of course is that the time-looping character in ''Red vs Blue'' (Wyoming) is the '''antagonist''' rather than the protagonist, as they were in ''Infinity.'' |
| 567 | * WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Episode 100 has a rare instance of winning by doing nothing out of ''pure abject laziness.'' During the events of the episode the [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue, homicidal AI]] Omega jumps from person to person due to its ability to BodySurf through radios, but can be forced out of someone either by the AI's choice or by [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim knocking out the host]]. For the Red Team hosts, they get punched in the head; first Simmons (repeatedly), then Donut, then Sarge. When O'Malley finally infects Grif, he is the only Red to not get beat up by Tex when he notes that he suddenly has an urge to conquer the universe, but that it's [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character for him]] because [[BrilliantButLazy that would take work]]. His response is to not do anything at all...whereupon he promptly falls asleep standing up. Omega either can't wake Grif up or is so disgusted by his laziness that he abandons Grif altogether to jump to another host. |
| 568 | * TheWoobie: Donut becomes an in-universe example when the other characters briefly believe him dead and spend some time lamenting their deep affection for him. Even Church admits to having liked him. ''Church doesn't like anyone!'' [[invoked]] |
| 569 | * YouDidntAsk: Lampshaded when Simmons discovers that Sister is actually meant to join up with the Blues. |
| 570 | --> '''Simmons:''' Oh my god, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you tell us you were a Blue? |
| 571 | --> '''Sister:''' Because-- |
| 572 | --> '''Simmons:''' [[LampshadeHanging And don't say, "Because nobody asked!"]] |
| 573 | --> '''Sister:''' But nobody ''did'' ask! |
| 574 | --> '''Simmons:''' ''Goddammit!'' |
| 575 | [[/folder]] |
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