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This is a list of characters in the machinima series Red vs. Blue. Template:Spoiler

Red Team

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The Red Team, from left to right: Sarge, the Warthog, Grif (Warthog driver's seat), Simmons (Warthog gunner) and Donut

Red Team main characters

Sarge is the staff sergeant[1] and leader of the Blood Gulch Red Team. A military man with a Southern American accent, he is the only Blood Gulch soldier on either team consistently serious about the Red versus Blue civil war. His psychopathic battle plans often entail unnecessary casualties in his own men. In particular, a common planned outcome is the death of Grif, who is habitually lazy, irresponsible, and uninsightful. These characteristics earn him the disrespect and ridicule of both Sarge and Simmons, Sarge's sycophantic, insecure right-hand man. Despite this, Simmons and Grif are often seen together, either chatting or bickering. Donut, the eager rookie who joins the team in episode 3, tends to annoy his teammates with his naïveté, garrulousness, and cheerfulness and becomes more effeminate and childish as the series progresses.

Chupathingy

  • Full name: Chupathingy (M12-LRV, the "Puma")
  • Voice actor: Burnie Burns
  • Color: 'Gun metal' green[1]

The Chupathingy is a battle jeep delivered to the Reds in episode 2. Sarge names it the Warthog (the vehicle's actual name in Halo) in his introduction, but, failing to see much resemblance to a warthog, Grif suggests the name "Puma". Believing that Grif is suggesting the name of a fictional creature, Sarge and Simmons suggest several other mythical creatures — such as the unicorn, leprechaun, and "Chupathingy" (after the Chupacabra) — as names. Chupathingy remains the name listed on the character biography (available as an Easter egg) for the season 3 DVD.

Although Chupathingy is not itself sentient, it has a homing beacon and remote control system linked to Lopez. This system is accidentally activated in Season 2 when Church, then possessing Lopez, and Tucker attempt to activate Lopez' repair sequence. Burns suggests that, as with Sheila, Chupathingy was originally going to be a full-blown character and maintain a personality throughout the series, in a parody of Speed Buggy. This idea was, however, abandoned shortly after the remote control gag.[2]

In episode 29, Grif notes that Chupathingy seems to be "really bad luck". During its two seasons of appearance, it spends most of its time out of commission. The teams leave it behind when they leave Blood Gulch at the end of season 2, but find what is assumed to be a different jeep after blasting forward in time from the explosion on Sidewinder. When the Red Team find themselves again in Blood Gulch at the end of season 3, and throughout the duration of season 4, there is no sign of the original jeep in the canyon.

Blue Team

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The Blue Team, from left to right: Tucker, Sheila (the tank), Caboose (Sheila's cockpit), Church, Tex

Blue Team main characters

On the other side of the canyon, Church is the cynical de facto leader of the Blue Team. Often shouldering the responsibility of actually solving the various crises that the Blood Gulch teams encounter, he often ends up taking their brunt, leaving him increasingly disillusioned and antisocial. His serious, reasoned approach conflicts with the personalities of Tucker and Caboose. The former is snide, averse to work and battle, and obsessed with women; the latter, although physically strong, is unable to grasp simple concepts and exhibits varying degrees of stupidity and insanity throughout the series. Rounding out the Blue Team is Tex, Church's former girlfriend who is hired by Blue Command to join the team as a mercenary in episode 10. Able to eliminate entire teams of soldiers by herself, she is described as "the most lethal soldier in Blood Gulch".[1]

Sheila

  • Full name: Sheila, originally Phyllis (M808B Main Battle Tank)
  • Voice actor: Yomary Cruz

Sheila, originally named Phyllis, is the AI of the Blue team's M808B Main Battle Tank. She is friendly and cheerful, but, being a tank, she has a habit of blowing people up, including her own teammate Church. Sheila is bombed out of action by Sarge's dropship early in the first season, but is repaired by Tex several episodes later. Donut later disables her again by pitching a grenade into her cockpit at the end of season 1.

Sheila shows some indications of liking Caboose. However, in the middle of season 2, she falls in love with Lopez. Before long, the two attempt to lead a robot revolution against the humans in response to perceived abuse that they have received: being constantly blown up or possessed by ghosts. This idea stemmed from Church's attempt to deter them from doing so, in his endeavours to change the past. After O'Malley kidnaps Lopez, however, she puts aside her differences in order to help the soldiers retrieve him.

Because Sheila cannot fit through the teleporter (because her AI was hardwired into the tank by her manufacturers), she remains behind on Blood Gulch while the Reds and Blues leave to pursue O'Malley. After a brief encounter with a time-traveling Church, who whispers a plan to her, Sheila powers down and presumably remains alone as the sole inhabitant of Blood Gulch for the better part of a millennium. It is thought that she may be the source of the distress signal that the Reds hear in season 3, as Church's plan included the words "a thousand years". A deleted scene on the Season Four DVD confirms that she is ordered to send out the distress signal and disguises her voice. In addition, all of the Reds except Sarge see her drive past the Red Base in Blood Gulch upon their return. When Sarge demotes Simmons for his talk of "imaginary" tanks, she helps Simmons attempt his revenge on the Reds, despite being unable to recognise the team as her enemies due to faltering memory units. She also expresses dissatisfaction when Church later collects all the vehicles available to the Blue Base in Blood Gulch; Church perceives her reaction as jealousy (this scene was relocated to the Deleted Scenes section of the Season 4 DVD for continuity reasons).

Caboose tells the other Blues in episode 54 that Andy has known Sheila from previous encounters, but gives no specific explanation. Caboose brings Andy back to the gulch in season 4, but no interaction between Sheila and Andy has yet occurred to support or refute Caboose's claim. Rooster Teeth stated that Andy was originally to be Sheila's ex-boyfriend; however, the idea was pushed to Season 5, along with, according to Hullum, "a really interesting character trait related to that [Andy's relationship with Sheila]".[3]

Andy

  • Full name: Andrew D. Kaboom[4]
  • Voice actor: Nathan Zellner
  • Apperances: Episodes 5457, 5961, 6373, 7577

Built by Tex, Andy is the short-tempered, rude, and vulgar bomb that Caboose carries into the fortress. Andy also expresses a desire to destroy things by detonating himself, much to the worry of the Blue Team, who attempts to calm him down. However, Andy later wishes to avoid detonation when Tex threatens to detonate him if he will not translate for them. However, this desire resurfaces later when Andy attempts to convince Church to let him guard, and destroy in the process, the Blue Base. Caboose reveals that Andy had told him about the Reds' secret meeting, but the rest of the Blues refuse to believe Caboose at first, as Andy remains silent when they approach. However, he has an outburst when Gary insults him and reveals that the two "are not on speaking terms". Because Tex built Andy from the remains of an old protocol droid found on the perimeter of the base, he is able to understand the Alien's language, and, as such, joins the sacred quest group to act as a translator. After the failure of the quest, Caboose brings him back to the gulch.

Andy is apparently self-conscious about his weight. In episode 76, after O'Malley repeatedly calls him "bowling ball", Andy asks Caboose if he does indeed resemble one, claiming that he has been working out. When Sarge steals Andy, and then remarks that Andy is much lighter than the last time he tried to pick him up, Andy is relieved that someone has noticed.

Recurring unaffiliated characters

Lopez

  • Full name: Lopez "The Heavy"
  • Armor color: Brown, cobalt (episodes 2037)
  • Voice actor: Burnie Burns (in intentionally poorly accented Spanish)

A robot built by Sarge, Lopez speaks in a stereotypically monotonic robotic voice. He was originally affilated with the Red team and because Sarge neglected to ground himself when installing Lopez's voice card, it was damaged by static electricity; consequently, Lopez can only speak intentionally incorrect Spanish, although he can still understand English perfectly. English subtitles are provided for most of the Spanish dialogue. After his voice card is installed, Lopez begins to call himself "Lopez la Pesado" [sic] ("Lopez the Heavy") in episode 17 and demonstrates a stoic, tough personality. He also tends to exhibit characteristics that are stereotypically Latin American, such as a strong socialist ideology. As he had been programmed by Sarge, Lopez also dislikes Grif; in a brief first-person camera view, a list of Lopez's objectives are displayed, one of them being "Hate the orange one".

Near the end of season 1, Church possesses Lopez and later has the other Blues paint his body cobalt to match the color of his old armor. Initially, Church can only speak in Spanish while possessing Lopez. However, before the events of episode 20, the beginning of season 2, the Blues manage to partially disable Lopez' Spanish language setting, such that Church can communicate in English. After being temporarily freed from Church's control, Lopez defects to the Blue Team when the Reds, mistaking him for a Blue soldier, attempt to kill him. As a Blue, he repairs and falls in love with Sheila. He eventually develops a resistance to possession and shortly afterwards has his old armor color restored.

At the end of season 2, O'Malley captures Lopez and reprograms him to become another tool in his plan to conquer the universe. O'Malley completes a weather control system, inside Lopez; left unfinished by Sarge (missing only D batteries), this system is capable of eliminating both teams. Red Command also had embedded top-secret strategic information inside Lopez's head. As such, the Reds are forced to cooperate with the Blues to chase O'Malley and attempt to recover Lopez.

In the explosion that propelled both teams into the future, Lopez is reduced to a disembodied head. Somehow, he is still able to fire a machine-gun turret and even build an army of robot soldiers; as Simmons explains, "He's very determined." Absent for most of season 4, Lopez had been in hiding with Doc and O'Malley in a secret lair. He is without a body, and his frustration with the two has increased. In episode 75, the Reds find Lopez and the instructions that Red Command had embedded in his head. However, the instructions are in Spanish, and none of the Reds can understand them.

Having served under Red, Blue, and O'Malley, Lopez is increasingly tired of the conflict and makes numerous requests to simply die, asking Caboose to bury him. He pointed out to the Reds in episode 76 that the instructions were disappointing, a prediction that was confirmed in episode 77, when, after hearing the useless instructions translated by Andy, Sarge sinks into a brief depression.

Doc

  • Full name: Medical Officer Frank "Doc" DuFresne[5]
  • Armor color: Purple
  • Voice actor: Matt Hullum

Doc is a medic sent to Blood Gulch to treat injuries on both armies, despite the lack of medical skill that he often displays. As he is not a qualified doctor, he doesn't take to his new nickname of Doc, forced upon him by Church because of his refusal to pronounce his surname. He is also a pacifist of the most extreme kind, and tries to avoid doing or even saying anything that would seem remotely aggressive or competitive. His extreme pacifism in the middle of a war quickly earns him the ire of both teams, and he is eventually exiled to a cavern equidistant from both bases. As revealed in the bonus material on the season 3 DVD, this pacifism had also caused him to be released from the Red Army before the events of The Blood Gulch Chronicles, thereby necessitating the draft that has forced Grif into military service. The profile also states he is the only person in history to enlist in an army as a 'conscientious objector'.[1]

When Tex and Church force O'Malley out of Caboose, O'Malley finds a new host in Doc. Split-personality Gollum/Sméagol conversations and arguments between O'Malley and Doc frequently occur. However, the difference between Doc and O'Malley is even greater than it is for the former pair. Doc apologizes on occasion for O'Malley's trash talk and conduct; O'Malley, on the other hand, frequently tells him to shut up. As the series progresses, both personalities apparently grow accustomed to each other.

Like O'Malley, Doc also seems to understand Spanish, and often talks with Lopez. They get often get along and agree on things, much to O'Malley's annoyance. Both claim to have G-Mail accounts, and Doc himself stated that he had a blog.

Although Doc has failed medical school and his lack of medical knowledge is apparent — he rubs Caboose's neck with aloe vera to treat a bullet wound in the foot, agrees with Grif's using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to treat the bullet wound to Sarge's head, and has no idea what his medical tool does except glow green when something is wrong — Church seems to depend on him to treat injury and illness. In episode 38, Church wants to pursue Doc — who, under O'Malley's possession, had fled to Sidewinder — to have him help Tucker, who had been hit by a rocket. Later, when Tucker becomes ill in episode 73, Church calls Doc for help. In episode 77, O'Malley leaves Doc to posses another person after the Reds, unaware of his presence, contact their Command via radio. Free of O'Malley, Doc continues to aid the pregnant Tucker.

O'Malley

  • Full name: O'Malley (Om-Ali/Omega/Doctor O'Malley[1])
  • Armor color: Gray (Caboose's mental projection), blue (while possessing Caboose), purple (while possessing Doc)
  • Voice actor: Joel Heyman (while possessing Caboose), Matt Hullum (while possessing Doc)

The common enemy of both the Red and Blue Teams, O'Malley is an AI, similar to Cortana in the original Halo, that was put into Tex's armor during training in order to make her more aggressive and dangerous. According to Wyoming, O'Malley's real name is Omega. The name O'Malley originates from a portmanteau of Omega and Allison, Tex's real name. O'Malley is evil and aggressive, a parody of over-the-top megalomaniacal supervillains. O'Malley wants to annihilate both teams, either to destroy or take over the universe, and to "crush every living soul into dust" (except Vic). He expresses these desires in long monologues accompanied by extended fits of evil laughter and extreme close-up shots of his visor. He is also able to understand Lopez's Spanish, but needs help to issue commands to Lopez's robot army, and occasionally mispronounces words (pronouncing nuclear as nucular)

Towards the end of season 1, just before Tex attacks the Reds for the second time, O'Malley assesses that Tex has little chance of survival and leaps via radio into Caboose. Under O'Malley's possession, Caboose periodically makes threatening statements in "a scary voice", but O'Malley is never able to take full control. After being forced out of Caboose by Church and Tex, O'Malley possesses Doc, of whom he is able to take almost total control and use to further his own agenda. He seems to work for Vic to some degree, hiring Wyoming to take out Tucker, claiming Vic will give them a bonus for killing him, but it is unknown if this deal was permanent or temporary.

O'Malley's confrontation with the Alien near the end of season 3 leaves his fate ambiguous, but it is revealed in episode 73 that Lopez, Doc, and he are still alive and have been hiding in a secret lair. In the following episode, O'Malley, Doc, and Lopez return to Blood Gulch, at the request of Church, to diagnose Tucker's illness. In return, O'Malley demands something to be named later. He never does name his price, however, as at the end of Season Four, he takes his chances and jumps via radio into someone involved with the Reds, who were using the radio at the time.

One of the few characters to be voiced by more than one actor, several of the production crew, including Burnie Burns, have claimed they prefer the O'Malley presented by Matt Hullum (while the AI controls Doc) rather than the O'Malley in Caboose (voiced by Joel Heyman). Hullum brings about more depth to the role, and the O'Malley presented by him has been regarded as a combination of Stewie Griffin, Dr. Evil, Gollum and many other villains.[2]

Alien

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The Alien.

Appearing for the first time at the end of season 3, the Alien scares Church's spirit out of his host body after having already wiped out Lopez's robot army and defeated O'Malley single-handedly. This prompts the Blues to attempt to hunt him down, but they suffer a series of humiliating defeats. Even Tex is cut down seconds after attempting to attack the Alien, and, like Church, is forced to flee her host body. Eventually, however, Caboose manages to befriend the Alien, who had found him unpalatable after biting him once. Conversely, the Alien has a strong odor to the Blues, who describe the smell with a series of unpleasant analogies.

The Alien has a habit of staying crouched, and its language appears to consist entirely of blarg and honk. It seems to understand English to some degree, as Andy is only heard to speak in its language once and it responds to other characters when they speak English, but it is unable to communicate in English. When asked for a name, the Alien replies, "Honk Honk", though it is never established whether that is indeed his name[7]. Gary later confirms that the Alien is a member of the species that built him. The Alien reveals in episodes 63 and 64 that he was on a quest to retrieve The Great Weapon that Tucker had discovered when he fell into the hole under the windmill. When the Alien first spots Tucker with the sword, he begins to attack and beat Tucker to a pulp relentlessly, apparently upset that Tucker had discovered the sword first; the sword only works for its original finder. The Alien consequently forces Tucker to join him on his quest, threatening to kill everyone otherwise.

When the sacred quest team reaches the temple in the Great Freezing Plains, the Alien has Tucker use the sword to unlock the gates to an alien ship, whose existence had been previously undisclosed, even to Andy. The Alien takes off in the ship, but he is soon gunned down and killed by Wyoming, thus leaving the Alien's true intentions unclear.

In episode 69, Tucker complains that the Alien is always standing over him when he awakes. This is not discussed at length in that episode, as Tex assumes that the Alien is simply obsessing over the sword. However, Andy accidentally reveals at the end of season 4 that the Alien's race reproduces by implanting parasitic embryos in other beings. Soon after, Tucker gives birth to the "baby", who is heard off-camera speaking in higher-pitched honks and blargs.

Vic

Vic, a sardonic and frequently unhelpful communications officer, is the Blue Team's contact at Blue Command. A misunderstanding between him and a time-travelling Church retcons events and leaves Vic under the impression that Red and Blue are the same. The miscommunication is unrealized by Church, and this change is entirely unknown to him and the rest of the Reds and Blues, except for Tucker, who accidentally intercepts a communication between Sarge and Vic. However, no member of either team believes Tucker, as he is knocked unconscious when he makes the discovery, and Vic manages to contact Sarge and warn against listening to Tucker before the latter tells everyone. Vic is apparently working with O'Malley to some degree, although he seems to regard O'Malley as more of a necessary annoyance than a partner, and O'Malley hires an assassin to kill Tucker in order to preserve the secret that Red and Blue are the same.

Vic behaves like an annoying, ineffective technical support guy, constantly calling people "dude" and often offering obtuse and unhelpful advice and biting insults. He can be quite inappropriate, at one point forcing Doc into a lengthy conversation about Vic's sterility in episode 34.

Gary

Gary is a computer, similar to Durandal in Marathon, that Church meets after being propelled into the past. He claims the facility is the housing facility of the Great Weapon, which is later revealed to be the fortress that O'Malley occupies in the future. In the future, Gary is seen as the base computer of the fortress, although he does not talk until Church arrives there. He is fond of jokes, and sometimes uses knock-knock jokes to communicate instead of giving a straight answer. Built by the race of the Alien, Gary knows nothing about his creators, but only of The Great Destroyer and his race, the Shisno, a pejorative of humans described as the equivalent of the feces of the feces of the foulest-smelling animal on the planet.

Upon learning of The Great Prophecy, Church has Gary research and build a teleporter to transport him back to Blood Gulch in the recent past, in an attempt to prevent everything that has gone wrong. At near full processing power, Gary takes slightly over a millennium to finish this task, having spent some processing time telling jokes.

Despite his humourous disposition, Gary is polite and well-mannered, which makes his relationship with Andy very terse. At one point, the two bicker with each other, and Gary gets irritated at Andy's uncouth nature. But when the "Sacred Quest" team leave the fortress, and Church returns to Blood Gulch, Gary is left behind, and nothing more has been seen of him.

Wyoming

  • First name: Reginald
  • Armor color: White
  • Voice actor: Matt Hullum
  • Appearances: Episodes 38.2 (season 3 DVD deleted scene), 4043, 52, 71, Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind Parts One, Two, Four and Five

A ruthless mercenary with a British accent — his character profile on the DVDs states his place of birth as "somewhere British"[4]Wyoming is hired by O'Malley to kill Tucker. Like Tex, Wyoming had been trained in a secret project, in which all the participants were paired with an AI and code named after one of the 49 American states still in existence at the time.[8] When performing his duties as a mercenary, he sometimes gives a brief "sorry" to his victims,[9] but, in one instance, retracts this apology when Tex complains to him that he has destroyed what she considers her alien ship.[10] He also is never shown getting agitated, showing no signs of annoyance when he can't spot Tucker in the group - indeed, he seems impressed.

During Wyoming's search for Tucker, he single-handedly eliminates the entire Sidewinder Red Team (Tex had already killed the Sidewinder Blues before the events of the series proper, as depicted in a flashback in episode 10). In episode 43, he is also responsible for shooting a rocket launcher out of Tucker's hands, thereby preventing Tucker from killing Church before the bomb inside the latter explodes (although according to one of the time-travelling Churches, this act had little consequence, as the present was destroyed either way). In the middle of season 4, the quest team discovers that Wyoming has survived the explosion: He appears in the temple in the Great Freezing Plains, for a purpose yet to be revealed, and kills the Alien and destroys his ship. He then runs from the scene, pursued by a furious Tex.

In Out Of Mind he uses a Warthog to escape Tex, but she manages to place a homing device on it. However, Wyoming has a conversation with a thus-far unnamed boss (widely assumed, owing to later events, to be O'Malley), in which it is evident that both he and his benefactor are planning something for Tex. Later in the mini-series, York's AI mentions Wyoming underwent mental damage after his AI, Gamma, removed itself from his system. After O'Malley leaves his base behind to travel to Blood Gulch (as seen in Season Four), Wyoming remains behind to safeguard the base. Tex and York stage a botched infiltration, and Wyoming, with two underlings, confront them. Wyoming kills York but finds himself at the mercy of Tex, who threatens to "pummel [Wyoming] sensless" and extract information from his gear after he reveals he knows of O'Malley's jump into someone else. After the threat, Wyoming decides to tell her, but Tex decides to use her method anyway.

The Red Zealot

  • Full name: Unknown
  • Armor color: Red
  • Voice actor: Burnie Burns, with pitch altered higher
  • Appearances: Episodes 39, 40, 43, 4648, 53.3 (season 3 DVD deleted scene)

The Red Zealot is one of the eternally respawning Red Team members from Template:Rvbmap. A hyperactive, frantic, melodramatic fellow with a high-pitched voice, the Red Zealot has a more staunchly religious mindset than his comrades do, and his fast-paced speech consists almost entirely of Biblical-type quotes and religious dogma, often speaking about crusades and promised lands during battles. He later teams up with O'Malley after being separated from the other Grunts, having been convinced the rogue AI is in fact the guardian of the Holy Temple. O'Malley, Doc, and Lopez find him annoying, but tolerate him because he performs menial tasks without complaint and even with a degree of enjoyment. Ultimately, Tucker kills him when the Red and Blue alliance launches its attack on O'Malley's fortress. His last words are: "I see the flag...It's so flappy." A deleted scene in the season 3 DVD shows the Red Zealot resurrecting and vowing revenge, but this is not considered canon. There has been no evidence of a counterpart to him in the Battle Creek Blues.

Grunts

  • Full names: Unknown
  • Armor colors: Red, blue
  • Voice actors: Various, with pitch altered higher
  • Appearances: Episodes 39, 40, 43, 6971

The Grunts[11] are a group of eternally respawning Reds and Blues originally from Battle Creek. Except for The Red Zealot, they have no official individual names. Initially engaged in Halo's version of Capture the Flag, the group parodies the multiplayer games available in Halo and the stereotypical yet accurate behaviors of Halo gamers, using terms like "rocket whore", "camper", and "noob".

Having been teleported to Battle Creek at the end of season 2, Sarge and Caboose first encounter the Grunts near the beginning of season 3 and soon have to avoid being caught in the group's fire; eventually, they manage to escape with Simmons' help. Simmons later teleports the group to Sidewinder and convinces them to defeat O'Malley by claiming that the latter has their flag, but are thus caught in the time-shattering explosion. In the future, the group is seen working together to guard the temple in the Great Freezing Plains, although the Reds and Blues still exchange trash talk with each other.

Lopez's robot army

  • Full names: Unknown
  • Armor colors: Brown
  • Appearances: Episodes 5557

Lopez's robot army is a group built by Lopez's head and programmed to do O'Malley's bidding. Having the same armor color as Lopez, they first appear in episode 55 as O'Malley prepares to attack his now-captured fortress and reclaim an unnamed "device". However, as Lopez had taken O'Malley's demand for a "day of victory" literally, their maximum speeds are programmed to achieve victory "in exactly 24 hours", causing extremely slow advancement on the fortress. Once they finally reach the fortress they manage to cause a large degree of chaos, but ultimately, the army is destroyed by an unseen character, implied to be the Alien.

Vic Jr.

  • Full name: Unknown
  • Voice actor: Burnie Burns
  • Appearance: Episodes 71, 77

Vic Jr. originally appears at the end of episode 71, when Church accidentally contacts him via radio, and reveals himself to be a distant future descendant of the Vic from the present. Vic Jr. scoffs at Church's mention of Blue Command and notes that there is a lot of information to divulge. Neither this information nor the nature of the organization to which Vic Jr. actually belong has yet been revealed. In episode 77, he is implied also to be the contact for the future Red Command, as Sarge refers to his contact as "Vic", and his voice is heard briefly. It has also not yet been explained how Vic has been able to have descendants, as he had previously mentioned his infertility to Doc. This fact was acknowledged in episode 75, but not resolved.

Jimmy

  • Full name: Private Jimmy
  • Armor color: Blue
  • Voice actor: John Ferrell
  • Appearance: Episode 10, Out of Mind Part Two

Private Jimmy appears briefly in episode 10 as a friend of Church. In a parody of old war movies, Jimmy reminisces about how he will marry his girlfriend when he gets back from the war, only to be killed moments later by the enemy. Jimmy was killed when Tex ripped his skull clean out of his head and beat him to death with it. Jimmy's last words were "This doesn't seem physically possible!" [12] There is occasionally an allusion to this in later seasons. A short character profile for Private Jimmy — or parts of him — can be found as an easter egg on the season 4 DVD. In Part Two of the miniseries Out of Mind, Jimmy makes an appearance in flashback at the training facility Church, Tex and Wyoming were a part of.

York

  • Full name: Unknown
  • Armour colour: Gold with silver trim
  • Appearance: Out of Mind Parts Three, Four, Five

York is another member of the AI experimental program. Teamed with an analytical AI named Delta (also referred to as "D"), York is an infiltration specialist who seems to have become unemployed since the program closed down. He also seems to have survived the 800-year bomb blast into the future. His only appearances are outside the series proper; he is found by Tex during Part Three of the miniseries Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind, trying to break into a store. Unlike many other recruits, he still has his AI with him.

Somewhere in his history with Tex and Wyoming, his eye was "broken" in an attempt to defeat Tex while O'Malley was still implanted in her head. This event has left him bitter towards O'Malley, and he accepts Tex's proposal of infiltrating his base out of pride.

At the end of Out of Mind, he and Tex attempt a raid on O'Malley's base. The two are caught in a firefight against Wyoming and two other people. Tex tries to shoot Wyoming, but her gun malfunctions. As the two scramble for cover, York is shot twice in the upper chest by Wyoming; Delta reports that the blows were fatal. The AI stays with York and manages to fool Wyoming with a hologram of Tex, until York's death, perishing as the latter's armor shut down.

One-time characters

Captain Flowers

Captain Butch Flowers was the Blue Team's previous commanding officer at Blood Gulch. His character is introduced when Church travels forward in time to his own recent past. Flowers appears to be a very mellow person, with an informal style of leadership and personality and a soft tone of voice. He and Tucker had planned to pull out of Blood Gulch, but when Church arrived with the news that the Blue Base on Sidewinder had been wiped out, they were forced to abandon this effort. Before his death, Flowers had been planning to lead a Blue offensive to destroy the Red Team in Blood Gulch, and knew the key to the Blues' victory. However, before he can lead the attack or reveal his plans, and order a sniper rifle for Tucker, he dies from what Church and Tucker assume is a heart attack in his sleep. It turns out that a time-travelling Church's attempt to save Flowers' life is exactly what kills him in the first place; Flowers suffers a fatal allergic reaction to the aspirin in the medication that Church gives him. After Flowers' death, Tucker, who had been wearing the regulation blue armor, claims his captain's armor for himself.

Phil

  • Full name: Unknown
  • Armor color: Brown
  • Voice actor: Burnie Burns
  • Appearance: Episode 40

Phil briefly appears in episode 40. A single parent, he complains about having to "do everything" around the base. After sneaking up on Phil and knocking him out, Wyoming attempts to extract some information from him when he recovers. However, this process is interrupted by a call from O'Malley hiring Wyoming to assassinate Tucker. No longer having time to interrogate Phil, Wyoming simply decides to kill him.

Max Gain

Max Gain appears only briefly in a deleted scene featured on the season 3 DVD. According to the commentary, he was originally planned to have a much larger role in the series. However, in the midst of having to condense the amount of plot into different episodes and yet make the deadline for the Halo 2 launch, Rooster Teeth decided to omit most of his appearances. He first appears at the end of episode 38 as a Red Team soldier who captures Church and Grif, screaming "Freeze! Drop your weapon! I said freeze, dirtbag!"

Mickey

  • Full name: Private Mickey
  • Armor color: Blue
  • Voice actor: Lance McKee
  • Appearance: Episode 10

Private Mickey appears briefly in episode 10 as the first to be killed in Tex's slaughter of the Blue team on Sidewinder. Church recounts how Mickey died, literally screaming "Bloody murder!" as a cloaked Tex attacks him.

Alien Baby

  • Full name: Unknown
  • Armor color: Unknown
  • Voice actor: Jason Saldaña
  • Appearance: Episode 77

The Alien Baby appears briefly at the end of Episode 77, in-voice-only. It is the result of the Alien supposedly impregnating Tucker, who is the "mother", with a parasitic embryo. The exact details of the birth are unknown as they take place off screen.

The Great Destroyer

According to "The Great Prophecy" of the race that had built Gary, The Great Destroyer is a "blue being" who will steal "The Great Weapon" and use it to bring "The Great Doom" to billions of people. The prophecy also states that The Great Destroyer "will be known as the stupidest life form in the universe". Initially, Church assumes that this description refers to Caboose. However, it is Tucker who obtains the sword presumed to be the Great Weapon, apparently contradicting this hypothesis. Later, in the season 3 finale, something appears (off-camera) and single-handedly annihilates Lopez's robot army and then confronts O'Malley himself as Gary announces the arrival of The Great Destroyer. The Blues assume that Tex had done the damage, but she insists that she had been attempting to activate Tucker's sword, without any success. While Church questions Gary about this, the Alien sneaks up on him. Nevertheless, Gary insists that the Great Destroyer is a Shisno (Human), another conflicting point. As of the end of season 4, the entire story behind The Great Destroyer has not been fully revealed.

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f Rooster Teeth Productions (2005). Character profiles. In Red vs. Blue Season Three [DVD]. Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  2. ^ a b Rooster Teeth Productions (2004). Audio commentary. In Red vs. Blue Season Two [DVD]. Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  3. ^ Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). Audio commentary. In Red vs. Blue Season Four [DVD]. Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  4. ^ a b Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). Character profiles. In Red vs. Blue Season Four [DVD]. Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  5. ^ Red Vs Blue Cast. Red vs. Blue. Rooster Teeth Productions. Retrieved 2006-04-04.
  6. ^ Although the Alien is a Covenant Elite in the context of Halo, he is never acknowledged as an Elite in Red vs. Blue.
  7. ^ Caboose has called the Alien "Crunch-Bite" and "Fluffy", and Church speculates at one point that the Alien might be named "Honk-Honk". Andy initially suggests "Crouchasaurus", a name that, according to the season 3 DVD commentary, had been initially suggested by a fan unfamiliar with Halo. However, none of these names are ever confirmed, and the other characters usually refer to him as simply "the Alien".
  8. ^ The fate of the other state is never discussed at length within the series. Tucker only mentions, "Man, poor Florida."
  9. ^ Episode 43, episode 52, episode 71.
  10. ^ Episode 71.
  11. ^ a b Rooster Teeth Productions (2005). Audio commentary. In Red vs. Blue: Season Three [DVD]. Buda, Texas: Rooster Teeth Productions.
  12. ^ On the season 3 DVD commentary, Burnie Burns theorized that a skull seen on Sidewinder early in the season was the skull of Private Jimmy."