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This article is about the movies. For divisions in U.S. politics, see Red state vs. blue state divide
Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, also known as RvB, is a series of short movies (about four minutes each) created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series is available at http://www.redvsblue.com/home.php. The series is a satire of multiplayer first-person shooter video games and the various missions the players participate in; such as capture the flag.
It is machinima, created using the Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved and, since Episode 43, the game Halo2 as well. Since the scenes were "filmed" from the point-of-view of a character used as a "cameraman," an aiming reticle is visible in most scenes. The videos are mostly "filmed" on the map Blood Gulch, hence the name.
So far, the Blood Gulch Chronicles is in its third nineteen-episode season. A few self-referential "public service announcement" episodes have also been produced for the site and video game magazine "Electronic Gaming Monthly". Their main Halo-Machinima rival is the Canadian group Fire Team Charlie.
Characters
Red Army
Dexter Grif (orange armor) is often picked on by Sarge and Simmons. Sarge often blames him for when things go wrong, and he and Simmons are almost always bickering or chatting. Grif is a brash loud mouth with a flair for the melodramatic, and tends to speak before he thinks. He's quick to make silly theories or insults, even towards people who clearly could easily kill him. He's also a bit of a coward, panicking and fleeing as soon as things start to get dangerous. He's no fool, however, and is often the first one to point out the flaws or stupidities in Sarge's latest plans (largely because Simmons never criticizes Sarge no matter what).
Dick Simmons (maroon armor) is a sycophant who agrees with Sarge on almost every occasion. Grif frequently calls him "Kissass". Simmons is probably the sanest and most level-headed character in the Gulch, although that really isn't saying much. He never really says anything silly or dumb (except when he's kissing up to Sarge's flawed schemes), frequently has the most common sense, and often manages to come up with battle plans that actually work (however, since he's as lazy as most of the other Blood Gulch soldiers, he seldom does this except when absolutely necessary). After losing Lopez, Sarge turns Simmons into a Cyborg so he can repair stuff.
Sarge (red armor), the leader of the Blood Gulch Red team, is a grizzled veteran with a Southern accent. A serious, military-minded leader, he's probably the most disciplined character, never slacking off or wasting time like the other soldiers. Unfortunately, his battle plans tend to be seriously flawed (he once built a bomb that he wouldn't be able to defuse once activated, in case he got brainwashed into helping the other side). He's got above average amounts of anger and violence, and is probably the only Blood Gulch soldier on either team that's actually interested in pursuing the war. He hates Grif as much as he likes Simmons. He's also got good technical skills, being able to assemble robots from scratch and cybernetically augment his men. Often given to using ridiculous exclamations, such as "Great Caesar's Toast!"
Franklin Delano Donut (first red armor, then "light red" (aka pink)) is a rookie who can't quite figure out what's going on. He's over-energetic, over-eager, and very chatty, which makes the rest of Red Team find him very annoying. He's not thickheaded or insane like Caboose, but he's still pretty naive and clueless. He's quite sensitive about his armor, which he insists is light red, even though it's clearly pink to everyone else. Also, the "light red" armor seems to be taking its toll on Donut, as he begins becoming more effeminate as time progresses. He also appears to be becoming increasingly childish, pretending to be a Secret Agent in the middle of a mission, and sticking his hand in machinery even after repeatedly being told not to.
Lopez (first brown armor, then painted cobalt blue) is a robot built by Sarge. Static electricity damaged his voice chip so that he can speak only Spanish. Like Sarge, he seems to dislike Grif (probably because Sarge programmed him to), and often tries to attack Grif (under Sarge's orders). After he was possessed by Church, his body was painted blue to match Church's old body armor. After being temporarily freed from Church's control, Lopez defects to the Blue team after the Reds tries to kill him (mistakenly believing he's a blue soldier), where he repairs and falls in love with Sheila the tank. Later, his old colour was restored. In Season 3, Lopez is captured and reprogrammed by O'Malley, who tries to use him to conquer the universe. Unfortunately, due to a bizarre series of amazing coincidences, Lopez is eventually reduced to nothing more than a disembodied head (although he can still apparently hold conversations and fire a machine gun).
Blue Army
Private Tucker (teal armor) is the most "average" member of Blue, not as hardened as Church but not as clueless as Caboose. He's very much an everyman. He's also a sarcastic smart-aleck who dislikes combat and doing work (even more than Grif & Simmons do), to the point that he always complains and tries to stall whenever someone orders him into battle. He's also a wee bit obsessed with women, and very frustrated that the only "females" in the canyon are a tank, a special ops soldier who'd just as soon kill him as look at him, and a man wearing pink armor. Although he often jumps to conclusions without careful thinking (he thinks he's teleported into the past for no good reason the first time he uses the teleporter), he's reasonably smart and comes up with a couple decent plans. He hasn't yet been allowed to use the sniper rifle, a fact which vexes him greatly. Vic, O'Malley, and Wyoming all want him dead, because he accidentally discovered Vic's secret in Episode 38.
Leonard L. Church (light blue armor), Blue team's de facto leader, is bitter and sarcastic. Killed early in the series, he returns as a ghost to help his teammates. He often takes control of other Characters armor. For most of series 2, he possesses Lopez. After being expelled from Lopez, Church convinces Sarge to build him another robot body by using Donut as a hostage. As leaders go, Church is somewhat more competent that Sarge. His plans are usually pretty solid (and, unlike Sarge's plans, don't involve pointlessly sacrificing his own men), but unfortunately Fate (and the incredible incompetance of Caboose) often conspires to bring him failure and death. Church is also pretty anti-social, he has a strong dislike of both Tucker and Caboose, and once stated the only person he really needs is himself. He does have something of a love-hate relationship going with Tex, though.
Michael J. Caboose (blue armor), Blue team's rookie, is well-meaning, but also clueless and a wee bit insane. He occasionally asks questions about things the others take for granted (like why a flag is so important). He's also pretty slow on the uptake, and often fails to understand even basic concepts. Caboose desperately wants to obtain the friendship and approval of Church (probably to make up for killing him), but his attempts to help often only make things worse, and he has accidentally teamkilled Church on three occasions (making Church despise him greatly). Caboose is also in love with Sheila the tank, and gets insanely jeolous when she elopes with Lopez. Being briefly possessed by O'Malley apparently has damaged his brain even further, as his grasp on reality has become more than a little bit tenuous, causing him to utter some of the show's most bizarre and humorous lines. He is also physically the strongest soldier in both the Red and Blue teams, but Church and Tucker explain that it is just "God's way of compensating."
Tex (black armor) is a freelancer (working for either Blue or Red, depending on who pays the most money) and Church's former girlfriend. A Special Ops soldier, she was part of an elite unit with each member named after one of the States (while she told Donut and Tucker her code name was "Nevada", there is speculation over whether she was being sarcastic and her true code name is Tex or Texas). Her real name is Allison (revealed in a conversation with Wyoming). Each member was controlled by an A.I. to make them mean and aggressive. Tex's A.I. was O'Malley, who jumped from her body to Caboose after she got killed. Tex was killed by Donut (in retaliation for her blowing up his head), and ends up as a ghost like Church. Sarge eventually builds her a robot body to possess. Tex's Special Ops training makes her the most competent and lethal member of the Blood Gulch cast (with the possible exception of Sheila the tank), and she once slaughtered Church's entire squad in Sidewinder. Even though Church states that she's always been moody and violent even without the A.I., and she does often insult Church, she's actually pretty tolerant of the rest of the Blood Gulch cast and their various eccentricities. However, as a freelancer, she's willing to kill at the drop of a hat if the price is right. She is voiced by Kathleen Zuelch of the Red vs Blue staff.
Sheila is the artificial intelligence inside the Blue army's tank. She seems friendly enough, but being a tank she's got a habit of blowing people up (including her own teammate Church, thanks to the poor piloting skills of Caboose and the indiscriminate, shoot-anything-that-moves nature of her targeting system). Sheila gets bombed to death by Sarge's dropship early on, but is repaired by Tex a few episodes later. Although she seems to like Caboose at least a little (the only person in the canyon who does), she falls in love with the robot Lopez, and the two of them elope. At one point, she, along with Lopez, attempts to lead a robot revolution against the humans (in response to the perceived abuse suffered by the canyons robots, being constantly blown up or possessed by ghosts), but after Lopez is kidnapped by O'Malley, she puts her differences aside to help retrieve him.
Unaffiliated
Vic (Pillar of Autumn Comm Officer): is the contact for both armies at Red Command and Blue Command, which are actually the same Command, though the respective armies do not know this (except for Tucker, who no one believes). Vic behaves like an annoying, ineffective tech support guy, constantly calling his men "dude" and often offering obtuse and unhelpful advice coupled with biting insults. 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 arranges for an assassin to hunt down Tucker in order to preserve Vic's secret. He is impotent.
Medical Officer Dufresne, or Doc (Purple armor), is sent to Blood Gulch to treat injuries on both armies. He's actually a pretty unskilled medic, for example treating Caboose's bullet wound to the toe by rubbing his neck with aloe vera. He is also a pacifist of the most extreme kind. He tries to avoid doing or saying anything that would seem aggressive or competitive. Because of his extreme pacificism in the middle of a war, he quickly earns the ire of both the Blue and Red teams and is eventually exiled into a cavern on the far side of tha canyon. There, Doc ends up getting possessed by O'Malley, and has various split-personality Gollum-Smeagol conversations with him.
O'Malley is an AI (like Cortana in the original Halo game) put into Tex's armor during training in order to make her more aggressive and dangerous. When Tex is killed, O'Malley leaps into the body of Caboose; after being forced from there, he possesses the medical officer Dufresne. His real name may be Omega. Wyoming called him this at one point, and it would seem the AI had picked the name O'Malley as it sounded similar. His personality is extremely evil and aggressive. Your basic over-the-top, megalomaniacal screwball, Vic refers to him as "Dr. Baron von Evil Satan", and he pretty much wants to take over the universe and "crush every living soul into dust". He is also prone to very long, silly, and utterly unnecessary monologues, usually accompanied by extreme close-ups of his face.
Wyoming (white armor) is a ruthless mercenary with a British accent who has been hired by O'Malley to kill Tucker. Like Tex, he was 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 that still exist at the time (poor, poor Florida). During his search for Tucker, he single-handedly wipes out the entire Red team based on Sidewinder(the Blues were already killed by Tex earlier in the series). He is also responsible of shooting the bazooka out of Tucker's hands, keeping Tucker from destroying Church before the bomb inside him exploded.
The Red Zealot (red armor) is one of the immortal, respawning Red team members from the Battle Creek map (seen in Season 3). A hyperactive, melodramatic fellow with a high-pitched voice, his fast-paced speech consists entirely of Biblical-type quotes and religious dogma, and in battle he often goes off about crusades and promised lands. He's apparently hooked up with O'Malley, having been convinced the rogue A.I. is in fact the Guardian of the Promised Land. His teammates (O'Malley, Doc, and Lopez) find him extremely annoying, but keep him around because he performs menial tasks without complaint and even with a degree of enjoyance. Recently, the Red Zealot was felled by Tucker and his Plasma Sword, though it is unknown whether he will respawn again or if this will be his final exit.
Story
Red vs Blue tells the story of two opposing forces, the Red Army and the Blue Army, occupying small bases in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. While both armies have standing orders to defeat the other team and capture their flag, the soldiers in the army are not very motivated to actually fight each other, and often wonder what they're doing there in the first place.
Red's base is named "Blood Gulch Outpost Number 1." Blue's base is named "Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha." Each team built its base because the other team was building a base.
In Season 2, both Red and Blue teams are plagued by a homicidal A.I. named O'Malley, who moves from body to body. In Season 3, O'Malley sets out to conquer the universe, and the Red and Blue teams call a truce and go after him, propeling them into different worlds outside Blood Gulch, and even into the future.
Season 1
Episode 0 - Introduction: Early Trailer released on drunkgamers.com, it only had a partial list of Season One characters (Donut and Caboose are left out) and featured extensive combat and violence.
Episode 1 - Why Are We Here?: Simmons and Grif wonder the meaning of life, and why they are in Blood Gulch. On the Blue side, Tucker and Church are doing exactly the same thing.
Episode 2 - Red Gets A Delivery: Sarge reveals the next shipments contents, a new recruit and a jeep. Sarge decides to call it a Warthog, though Grif wants to call it a Puma. Sarge, who doesn't know that Pumas are real animals, makes fun of Grif by offering to call the jeep names like "Unicorn", "Phoenix", and "El Chuca Cabra".
Episode 3 - The Rookies: The Blue team gets 2 new additions (Caboose and Sheila The Tank). The New Red Recruit, Donut, arrives. Grif and Simmons decide to get rid of him by sending him to "The Store" for elbow grease and headlight fluid. Unsurprisingly, Donut discovers the Blue base and, ignorant of the fact that the Reds and Blues are at war, mistakes it for "The Store".
Episode 4 - Head Noob In Charge: Church is talking to Tucker about his girlfriend. Caboose annoys them, so they tell him to stand by the flag and wait for the "General" to come by to "inspect" the flag. Donut, who has entered the base in his search for elbow grease and headlight fluid, is mistaken by Caboose for the General and takes the flag.
Episode 5 - The Package Is In The Open: The Blue team watches Donut escape, thinking he's Sarge, and begin to pursue him. Church orders Tucker to cut Donut off by using the teleporter, but when Tucker goes in and doesn't come out, Church decides to chase Donut on foot. Meanwhile, Grif and Simmon see Donut with the flag and rush to help.
Episode 6 - 1.21 Gigawatts: Church catches Donut, thinking at first that he is Sarge due to the red armor, but then realizes his mistake. Tucker finally arrives through the teleporter, though his armor is charred black. Church and Tucker are then ambushed by Grif and Simmons, who are using the Warthog.
Episode 7 - Check Out The Treads On That Chick: To save his comrades, Caboose decides to use the tank. He then meets Sheila, the AI in control of the tank.
Episode 8 - Don't Ph34r The Reaper: Grif and Simmons flee from the tank, which starts shooting everything in sight. First the tank blows away the Warthog, then locks onto Church, fires, and kills him. (Tucker: "You shot Church, you teamkilling f***tard!")
Episode 9 - After Church: The Reds make it back to their base, and Donut has even managed to steal the Blue flag. However the Warthog gets blown into the Red base, and the tank (which is still locked on to it) starts blasting the base, forcing everyone to dive for cover. Sarge, in a Pelican dropship, bombs Sheila, which "dies" singing "Daisy, Daisy".
Episode 10 - Shadow Of His Former Self: Caboose cleans the black stuff off Tucker's armor. Tucker call Blue Command for reinforcements, and is informed that they will be sent a "freelancer" (mercenary) named Tex. Church's ghost appears to warn the Blue team about Tex, who once slaughtered his entire squad at Sidewinder. However, Caboose keeps interrupting him with inappropriate questions. Church fades away, and Tex shows up wearing black "Special Ops" armor.
Episode 11 - Knock Knock. Who's there? Pain.: The Red team's robot Lopez fixes the Warthog. Blaming Grif for Red's problems, Sarge orders Lopez to open fire on Grif (but gives him a 5 second head start). Meanwhile, Tex is using Caboose for target practice, while ignoring Tucker's attempts at making friendly conversation. Tex infiltrates the Red base and sticks a plasma grenade to Donut's head. Not knowing what the plasma grenade is, the Red team chat about for a while until it finally detonates, blowing up Donut's head. Tex takes the opportunity to rush in and start pummeling the rest of the Red team.
Episode 12 - Down, But Not Out: Tex retrieves the Blue flag, but is captured by the Reds. Church's ghost appears again at the Blue base, and reveals that Tex is a woman and his former girlfriend. Donut is badly injured from having his head exploded, and the Red team want to airlift him to safety. Tex's voice modulator malfunctions, and the Red team realize he's a she ("What's wrong with you guys? Haven't you every seen a girl before? How long have you been out here?!").
Episode 13 - Human Peer Bonding: Church explains that Tex's meanness and toughness is due to an artificial intelligence in her armor (she's also been tough and mean, but the A.I. just makes her meaner and tougher with cybernetic enhancements). The Blue team comes up with a plan to rescue Tex.
Episode 14 - Roomier Than It Looks: Tucker and Caboose go through the teleporter to turn their armor black and trick the Red team into thinking there are more Special Ops soldiers around to help Church. As usual, Caboose acts stupidly (like standing in plain sight in the line of fire), but the Red team mistakes this for tactical brilliance. In to defend against the attack, Sarge orders Grif to come to the top, and leaves Simmons to guard Tex. Church takes possession of Sarge's body, and uses it to knock Simmons out and break Tex out of the Red Base. However, Caboose, wishing to impress Church and make up for killing him, snipes Church (still in Sarge's body) in the head, thinking he's on the Red Team.
Episode 15 - How The Other Half Lives: Sarge and Church, the Red and Blue leaders, meet in the spirit plane and talk. Sheila the tank is also there. Church is apparently still angry at Sheila for killing him. He also tells Sarge that he's an angel, and offers to lead him to heaven for $10. Church and Sarge swap complaints about their soldiers, until the Reds revive Sarge using CPR for a bullet wound in the head.
Episode 16 - A Slightly Crueler Cruller: Donut returns from Red Command with new pink armor (though he insists it is "light red"). Sarge and the other Red team members poke fun at Donut by addressing him with feminine titles like "Madam", "Madamoiselle", and "Princess Peach". Sarge reveals that Lopez is actuall a robot, and installs a voice card into Lopez, because he never put when in when he built Lopez, but static electricity damages it so that Lopez can only speak Spanish, and everyone gets into an argument over the fact they can't understand him. Meanwhile, Tucker and Caboose, hiding at the foot of Red base and trying to clean the black teleoporter stuff of their armor, get into an argument over Caboose's killing of Church ("I'm sorry, it's kind of hard to hear you over the sound of your constant team killing!")
Episode 17 - Points of Origin: Tex and Church get into an argument. Tex threatens to kill Church, but Church (who's already dead) tells Tex the joke's on her. Tucker and Caboose convince Tex to help them, since they rescued her as a favor even though they didn't have to. Meanwhile, the Red team are still trying to understand what Lopez is saying. Tex's first action as Blue Team's friend is to fix the Blue team's tank. Church goes to higher ground to spy on the Red team, and finds his dead body. He complains to his team-mates that they haven't given him a proper burial, to which Tucker replies "Buried? With what? All we have are pistols and rifles! What do you want me to do, shoot you a grave?". Church then wants his body sent home so his loved ones can pay their respects. Tucker considers Tex one of Church's loved ones and asks her to pay her respects. Tex only responds with silence.
Episode 18 - SPF 0: Church is worried that Tex will kill the Red army then leave before he can remove the AI from her armor, so he decides to warn the Red team that she's coming. Caboose accidentally reveals the plan to Tex.
Episode 19 - Last One Out, Hit the Lights: Church possesses Lopez's body to warn the Red team, but can only speak Spanish, and the Reds can't understand him. Caboose identifies himself as "O'Malley" when he radios Church to let him know that Tex is on her way. Tex then attacks the base. Sarge and Simmons attempt to repel her using the Warthog, but fail. Ironically, it is Donut who manages to kill Tex by using a plasma grenade. Shocked at her death, Church runs to her aid, taking Lopez's body with him. Sarge mistakes this as a suicide charge to "attack the enemy head on, in hand to hand combat", and lets him go, since interfering would only "ruin the moment". When Church reaches Tex, she thanks Church for getting rid of the AI in her head, and dies.
Season 2
Episode 20 - Everything Old is New Again: Medical Officer Dufresne (aka Doc) arrives in Blood Gulch and reports to the Blue team to treat Church's and Tex's injuries, and is surprised to find them both dead already. Church then explains to Doc that he is actually a ghost posessing Lopez's robot body. Tucker mentions that they repainted his armor light blue and reprogrammed him to speak English. With nobody injured, Doc prepares to go visit the Red team next - he is on loan to both armies, due to resources being low - until the Blues are ambushed by the Reds.
Episode 21- Motion to Adjourn: The Blues decide to call Dufresne "Doc." During the Red Team's attack, Doc and the Blue Team get in a slight argument over who will help Caboose, who is pinned down by enemy fire. Church finally ends the conversation by shooting Caboose in the foot and convincing Doc to help him. Meanwhile, the Reds run out of ammunition and try to bluff the Blues into surrendering.
Episode 22 - Red vs Bleu: The two teams negotiate terms. It is evident both sides don't know how to surrender or negotiate very well. The terms vary from obtaining the flag, to asking for cake. Eventually, both teams come to an agreement, and in return for Grif admitting that he sucks, the Blue team agrees to give them Doc as a hostage.
Episode 23 - The Joy of Toggling: Tucker tries to figure out how to activate the repair sequence on Church's body (the robot Lopez, still being possessed) so he can fix Sheila. He finds a small switch on Church/Lopez's crotch and flips it, which activates the homing beacon on the Red team's Warthog, and an annoying beeping sound in Church's head as well.
Episode 24 - Sweet Ride: Sarge reveals that he had put in a remote control in the Warthog to allow Lopez(now possessed by Church) to drive it remotely. Meanwhile, Church, who cannot stand the beeping sound, orders Tucker to deactivate it. During their efforts, Church inadvertently orders the Warthog to kill Sarge by pinning him to a wall and using its machine gun.
Episode 25 - Last Words: Tucker disconnects Church/Lopez's switch, disabling Church's legs. The Warthog deactivates, sparing Sarge. The Reds finally get fed up with Doc and his pacifistic nature, so they advance on the Blue base to give Doc back, see Tucker doing something to Church's crotch, and assume the wrong thing.
Episode 26 - Nobody Likes You: The Red team tries to return Doc to the Blue team, but they won't take him back, fearing that he may be a spy for the Red Team, so the Reds abandon him. The Blues are suspicious of Doc standing around alone. Caboose continues to occasionally speak death threats in an odd voice.
Episode 27 - Nine Tenths of the Law: Church leaves Lopez's body so that Lopez can fix his body and the tank, but Lopez runs away instead. The Blues chase after him. Meanwhile, the Reds see Lopez running towards their base, and mistake him for a Blue. Thinking that he is about to attack their base, the Reds prepare a counterattack.
Episode 28 - In Stereo Where Available: Tucker and Caboose catch up with Lopez, who starts to ramble about a new day coming for his people. The Red team (having mistaken him for an enemy since he was painted Blue while possessed by Church) tries to run him over with the Warthog, but Lopez destroys it using the remote control and, feeling betrayed, defects to the Blue team.
Episode 28.5 - The Last Episode Ever: Grif and Donut cry over the graves of Sarge and Simmons. Sarge appears and explains that he was only napping and ate his way out of the earth with his spoon. Simmons's ghost tries to warn the Red Team but he gets shot and killed again. Donut reveals Ol' Man Caboose as the culprit. Tucker and Doc announce their engagement. French-speaking Lopez laments over this fact. Church wakes up and realizes it was just a dream...or was it?
Episode 29 - Radar Love: Lopez fixes the Blue team's tank, then the two of them fall in love with each other. The ghost of Tex suddenly possesses Lopez's body.
Episode 30 - I Dream of Meanie: While Caboose talks with the tank, Tex explains to the rest of the Blues that the AI which used to affect her now affects Caboose. She asks their help in killing it. Meanwhile, Sarge prepares to turn Simmons into a cyborg so that he can fix things.
Episode 31 - Room For Rent: Tex tells the Blue team her plan of having everyone turn off their helmet radios so that O'Malley, the AI, won't be able to jump to someone else's armor when they flush it out of Caboose's. The ghosts of Church and Tex jump into Caboose's mind to find O'Malley. They meet Caboose's mind version of himself, who agrees to help them find O'Malley. Tucker and Lopez take the tank to the Red base to tell them to turn off their radios.
Episode 32 - Me, Myself and You: Church and Tex explore Caboose's mind, and meet Caboose's twisted versions of the Red vs Blue characters. These Caboose versions are often humorous, as Grif wears yellow armor, Sarge has a pirate accent, Donut is actually a girl, Tucker is a complete idiot, and Church (or Leonard) is Caboose's best friend. Leonard also cannot speak a complete sentence without lacing it with all sorts of profanity. At the Red base, Grif and Donut freak out when they see Sheila, Tucker, and Lopez approach.
Episode 33 - An Audience of Dumb: The tank runs over Grif and the Warthog. Tucker radios the Red team to tell them to turn off their radios, but they refuse, so Lopez sings to them over the radio until they relent. Church and Tex find O'Malley and "kill" him, chasing him out of Caboose's mind; without any means of jumping to another armor, he signals "cockbites" in Morse code - until he finds Doc hiding in a cave, and jumps into his armor.
Episode 34 - Aftermath, Before Biology: Doc finds a "ghost," an alien hovercraft. Grif wakes up from surgery to find that Sarge has patched him up by putting Simmons's leftover organs from the cyborg operation into him.
Episode 35 - What's Mine is Yours: Caboose wakes up and doesn't remember Church, since O'Malley had killed Leonard, his mind image of Church. Sarge announces the need to get Lopez back so as to retrieve their secret plans. Simmons chides Grif for sticking with his old unhealthy habits in his rebuilt body.
Episode 36 - Nut. Doonut. (aka Blunderball, aka Dummies Are Forever): Caboose is jealous of the relationship between Lopez and the tank, who have decided to form their own robot army. Grif and Donut try spy on the Blue team. Grif, who cannot stand Donut's annoying blabber, tricks him into going into the caves. Donut then finds Doc talking to himself, Gollum-Smeagol style. He finds out about O'Malley's plans and tries to get back to Red base, only to get turned around and end up in Blue base.
Episode 37 - Dealer Incentive: Donut mistakenly ends up at the Blue base and is taken prisoner. Each team thinks the other is prepared to surrender. With the Blue team using Donut as a hostage, the Red team agrees to build two new robot bodies for Church and Tex to possess.
Episode 38 - K.I.T. B.F.F.: Sarge unveils the two new robots; one contains a microphone to spy on the Blues, and the other contains a bomb. The Reds and the Blues meet in the center of the battlefield to discuss terms of surrender. Lopez becomes angry at seeing new robots being brought into the conflict, and rushes forward to attack (much to the alarm of the rest of Blue team). Everyone ends up in a tense Mexican standoff, and Sarge tries to call an air strike. However, due to crossed communication channels, Tucker's helmet radio intercepts the message, and he realizes that person at Red Command is the same person as Blue Command. Screaming at the top of his lungs, he tries to tell everyone they've all been deceived ("It's all a lie! Red is Blue! Blue is Red! We're all the same! There's no Red vs. Blue!"), but he is suddenly gunned down before anyone can understand what he's yelling about. His killer is Doc, who is possessed by O'Malley. O'Malley starts flying around and firing rockets at everyone using the alien hovercraft(Ghost). Everyone starts shooting at everyone else, and in the chaos O'Malley takes Lopez as a hostage, announces his intention to conquer the universe, and disappears through the teleporter. The Red and Blue teams call a temporary truce to pursue O'Malley and retrieve Lopez. Donut, Tex, and the tank remain behind while everyone else follows through the teleporter. Unfortunately, O'Malley sabotaged the teleporter before he left, and everybody ends up in different worlds.
Season 3
Episode 39 - Best Laid Plans: Donut tries to talk an injured Tucker into getting up, while Tex and Sheila have a "girl talk." Sarge and Caboose find themselves in the middle of a never-ending war between respawning reds and blues on the "Battle Creek" map (this big shootout, one of the largest action sequences in the series, is a parody of team Multi-player with such typical dialog as "Rocket whore!" "Teams! Shut up, teams are fine!", "n00b!", and "GG! GG!"). Simmons is lost in a place with lots of teleporters (the "Chiron TL34" map). Grif and Church are captured by another Red team and trapped behind bars (the "Sidewinder" map).
Episode 40 - Visiting Old Friends: A British assassin (Wyoming) catches someone named Phil, then receives a phonecall telling him to go after Tucker. The scene fades to black just before a shot is heard, possibly the assassin killing Phil. Meanwhile, Sarge and Caboose steal the red and blue flags in a failed attempt to coerce the teams to help them get home; when that fails, Caboose gets in touch with his angry side and kills both teams ("I will eat your unhappiness!"); Simmons repairs a teleporter and retrieves them both.
Episode 41 - Let's Get Together: On a phone conversation with Vic, O'Malley reveals his plot to wipe out both the Red and Blue teams and rule the universe("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"). O'Malley also informs Vic that he's hired an assassin to kill Tucker (the only person who knows Blue Command and Red Command are the same), much to Vic's relief. Simmons explains the teleporters to Caboose and Sarge. Tex tells Tucker that another AI-altered freelancer, named Wyoming, has been hired to kill him. Meanwhile, Sarge uses the microphones he installed in the robots in Episode 38 to talk with Donut; the plan works, except that Caboose also presses the button for the bomb in the other robot. Church, still imprisoned with Grif, belches and begins to tick...
Episode 42 - You're the Bomb, Yo: Simmons reprograms a teleporter, and walks Donut through how to reprogram the teleporter on his end. Wyoming, the assassin, visits Church and Grif and lets them know that he has killed everyone on Sidewinder and the two of them will be imprisoned forever because no one else knows where to find them; then he leaves them. Meanwhile, everyone else emerges from the teleporter on Sidewinder. Church and Grif's cell bars lift, releasing them. Wyoming spots Tucker from afar and aims at him; Tex holds a gun to Wyoming's head to stop him, but then O'Malley - who has teamed up with Wyoming - holds a gun to hers.
Episode 43 - Make Your Time: O'Malley activates Lopez's "secret weapon," a weather control device. The Red and Blue teams join forces to confront O'Malley, but he just pulls out a rocket launcher and starts blasting everyone, forcing them all to dive for cover. But before he can kill anyone, Simmons opens a portal and calls in the reds and the blues from Battle Creek (Episodes 39 and 40) and tells them that O'Malley has the flag, and they attack him. Unable to disable the bomb in Church's body, Tucker aims a rocket launcher at him to kill him before the bomb goes off, but Wyoming snipes the launcher out of Tucker's hand, and the bomb explodes. The combination of the explosion and the weather control device causes a distortion of reality, sending Donut, Grif, Sarge, Tucker, and Caboose to a ruined future (using the Halo 2 engine). Donut, Grif, Sarge and Caboose put on a skit to explain what happened to Tucker, who had been unconscious for some time. They decide that they were blown into the future because they were standing in front of Church, and they conclude that he must have been blown into the past. Church is then seen as a Marathon character, all alone on a Marathon 2 map, wondering what just happened.
Episode 44 - We Must Rebuild: Grif, Simmons, and Tucker discuss Hollywood post-Apocalyptic cliches (Grif theorizes the world is messed up because all of them happened at once). The gang finds a jeep, and bicker over what to do with it. Tucker wants to find a way to rescue Church, but Sarge believes that Church was killed in the bomb explosion, but tells Tucker that at least Church killed all of their enemies when he blew up. Meanwhile, Lopez's severed head is seen complaining on the beach, where it is found by a cackling O'Malley.
Episode 45 - New Toys: Sarge and Donut try to fix the Warthog. Donut sticks his hand where he shouldn't, and gets mauled. Grif, Tucker, and Simmons discuss tricking out their ride to pick up babes (notwithstanding the fact everyone in the world, including the babes, have probably died). Tucker tries to convince the Red team that Red and Blue are the same, but no one believes him. O'Malley inspects some real estate, and gets into an argument with Doc about Blogging.
Episode 45.9 - The greatest episode EVER: A joke produced solely by Gus Sorola while the rest of the production crew was out of town, this episode features paper cutouts as the characters, a very large container of Orange Juice, and reveals Simmons as the Hero he truly is. He can fly! Almost topping the hilarious Episode 28.5 - The Last Episode Ever it shows that the Rooster Teeth crew, who actually seem to put effort into making this series, can still screw around.
Episode 46 - We're being watched: O'Malley, having moved into the base on the Zanzibar map, repairs the turrets (with the help of Lopez's head) and meets the infamous "Red Zealot" from Battle Creek again (Episodes 39, 40, and 43). He convinces the Red Zealot that he is the Gatekeeper, the Red Zealot believing that he has reached the Promised Land where God Himself resides, and plots to manipulate the Red Zealot into being another pawn in his plot for Galactic domination. After letting the Red Zealot into the Fortress O'Malley catches a glimpse of another soldier spying upon him and Lopez (The spy is later revealed to be Tex). The scene then switches to Sarge, Grif, and Simmons discussing the results of Grif and Simmons failed reconnaissance and, while attempting to push the Warthog out of the ditch Grif drove it into, receive a transmission from Tex informing them of O'Malleys location and plans. There is no central reticule visible in this episode.
Episode 47 - It's a biological fact: The gang meets up with Tex on the beach at Zanzibar where she reveals her plan to destroy both O'Malley and the entire base by planting a bomb at a specific location within the facility. Tex has previously scouted the base and found the exact location for the bomb to be placed, but was unable to plant it herself because of the bomb's immense weight. It takes Caboose (who turns out to have incredible strength, which Tucker attributes as "God's way of compensating") to lift it. However, this contradicts an earlier episode (Episode 17) where it is Tex who has the immense strength which awes Caboose (of course Caboose, not being very bright, probably wouldn't know his own strength anyway). However, Tex was in her own body back then and now she is in a robot built by Sarge, which may explain her lack of strength (if you think Sarge can build something well, you really don't know Red vs Blue) Meanwhile Lopez, Doc and O'Malley complain to each other about the Red Zealot, whom they have tricked into doing manual labour for them. The Zealot mentions in passing conversation that there is a crowd of people gathering on the beach (the Reds and Blues), alerting O'Malley to their presence. When the Reds learn that Lopez is with O'Malley, they protest at destroying Lopez as he carries information valuable to the Red Team. Tex refuses to jeopardize the destruction of the greatest threat they know (O'Malley) in order to save one teammate. However, Tucker tells the Reds that they can simply hire Tex to help them retrieve Lopez (As a merc, Tex will do anything for money. When she disputes this, Tucker demonstrates by saying "I'll give you $10 to tear off Grif's arm" to which she replies "which one's Grif?") Tex makes them a deal: she'll retrieve Lopez's head before they detonate the bomb, and they'll owe her a favor in the future, though Grif and Simmons fear that she might make them do "gay stuff". Strangely, Donut does not seem to be too bothered by it. Again the central reticule in not visible.
Episode 48 - Heavy Metal: Sarge develops two plans for getting the bomb into the O'Malley controlled fortress, both of which will result in death for most (or all) of the Red and Blue armies. His first plan, which consists of the soldiers forming a single-file line and charging straight at the base while screaming at the top of their lungs, is quickly discarded once Sarge finishes revealing it. The second plan isn't even told in its entirety, the other soldiers quickly developing less suicidal ideas as soon as Sarge reveals his idea for "The Grif Cannon". Inside the fortress, the forces commanded by O'Malley, being the Red Zealot and the head of Lopez, prepare to repel the attack and man the turrets strategically placed to thwart just such an attack. Once the attack begins, everything goes wrong for the Reds and Blues as the turrets prevent anybody from entering the base. Tucker almost gets the sniper rifle, but was thwarted by Tex who quickly used it to disable the Lopez-controlled turret. Unfortunately, the other turret picks up the slack and pins her down beyond the outer wall. Simmons and Grif manage to enter the base and move on to to look for O'Malley. Tucker, who has fallen into a hole, finds the Plasma Sword, the first time it's seen in the series since the Trailer, and quickly eliminates the Red Zealot. Fascinated by the sword he even turns down an offer by Tex to exchange it for the sniper rifle. Meanwhile, Caboose is within the fortress and looking for the "X" Tex has painted. Seeing the "X", but mistaking it for a "+", he continues to stumble around the base until coming across the computer where a long-lost character (Church) makes his return to the series.
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