List of characters in Red vs. Blue

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

Contents 1 Red Team 1.1 Red Team main characters 1.2 Warthog 2 Blue Team 2.1 Blue Team main characters 2.2 Sheila 2.3 Andy 2.4 Sister 3 Recurring unaffiliated characters 3.1 Lopez 3.2 O'Malley 3.3 Doc 3.4 Wyoming 3.5 Alien 3.6 Vic 3.7 Gary 3.8 The Red Zealot 3.9 Grunts 3.10 York 3.11 Vic Jr. 3.12 Lopez's robot army 3.13 Jimmy 3.14 Junior 4 One-time characters 4.1 Captain Flowers 4.2 Phil 4.3 Max Gain 4.4 Mickey 5 The Great Destroyer 6 Notes and references 7 External links

[edit] Red Team

[edit] Red Team main characters

• Sarge
• Private First Class Dick Simmons
• Private Dexter Grif
• Private Franklin Delano Donut

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.

[edit] Warthog

• Full name: M12-LRV Warthog
• Voice actor: Burnie Burns
• Color: Gun metal green^[1]

The Warthog (the vehicle's actual name in the Halo video game series) is a battle jeep delivered to the Reds in episode 2. 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 is the name listed on the character biography, available as an Easter egg for the season 3 DVD.

The Warthog 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, the vehicle 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 the Warthog 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 finds another different jeep after blasting forward in time from the explosion on Sidewinder.

[edit] Blue Team

[edit] Blue Team main characters

• Private Leonard L. Church
• Private First Class Lavernius Tucker^[3]
• Private Michael J. Caboose
• Freelancer Tex (Allison)

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]

[edit] 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, much to Caboose's dislike. 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 recognize 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). As of Season 5, Church notes that Sheila has been acting aggressive lately and saying "random threatening things". Soon after this, when Tex arrives, Church inquires if O'Malley, the evil AI who had just recently jumped out of Doc, could be possessing Sheila. After Sheila had been shut down in order to find out what was wrong with her, Caboose demanded that she be turned back on,as she was about to tell him whom O'Malley was possessing. Tex explained that the tank was far too damaged to be reactivated, so they decided to transfer Sheila's AI into the Pelican that Sister had arrived in.

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]".^[4].

[edit] Andy

• Full name: Andrew D. Kaboom^[5]
• Voice actor: Nathan Zellner
• Appearances: Episodes 54–57, 59–61, 63–73, 75–77, 92

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. In episode 76, the Reds steal Andy to translate a recording for them, and their methods leave Caboose with the impression that Andy is dead. In the next episode, Andy explains to Church that the Alien had impregnated Tucker. Late in Season Five, it is revealed Andy is also in the underground cave, working with the mysterious inhabitants as a translator.

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.

In the season 4 DVD commentary, the series creators stated that they originally wanted to explain Andy's rudeness by making him bitter about being rejected by Sheila, but this has never been incorporated into the series.

[edit] Sister

• Last name: Grif
• Voice actor: Rebecca Fraiser
• Armor color: Yellow
• Appearances: Episodes 81-91

In episode 81, it is revealed that a tapping noise inside the large ship that dropped into the gulch has been coming from Sister. She tells the Reds that Command has sent her as a new recruit since one team member will be promoted to replace their deceased commanding officer. It is revealed in episode 84 that she was actually sent to join the Blue Team, and cannot distinguish the two teams due to her color blindness. In episode 85, Grif releases her to the Blue Team, and in the next episode the Blues give her an orientation but are interrupted by Tex firing on them. When Tex calms down, she expresses indignation at the fact that the Blue Team has acquired a new girl after she'd only been gone for a few weeks. In episode 88 and episode 89, Tex and Sister have a private conversation while Church and Tucker discuss the consequences of two girls on the team. A little bit later, Doc says that he needs to give her a phsyical due to her being a new soldier; Tucker is left bewildered at the fact that Doc convinced her to remove her clothes.

[edit] Recurring unaffiliated characters

[edit] Lopez

• Full name: Lopez "the Heavy" / Droid #01011331123^[1]
• Armor color: Brown, cobalt (episodes 20–37)
• 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 affiliated 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, allowing Church to speak 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, 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. However, because no one understands what he says in Spanish, his requests are in vain. 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.

[edit] O'Malley

• Full name: O'Malley (Omega/Om-Ali/Doctor O'Malley^[1])
• Armor color: Black (when inhabiting Tex's armor), 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 (Om'Ali). 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 and struggling with the word fruition).

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 out of Doc and into a currently unknown character, although as of Season 5 the Blue Team is beginning to suspect he has gone into Sheila the Tank.

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]

[edit] Doc

• Full name: Medical Super Private First Class Frank "Doc" DuFresne^[6]
• 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.

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 and subsequently the newborn alien. In addition, Church uses Doc as someone expendable to determine the cause of Sheila's erratic behaviour, on the grounds that he will either fix Sheila, break her so that Church himself can freely examine her, or get blown up trying; all of which are beneficial to Church.

The original plan for Doc's character, as noted by the Rooster Teeth crew, was simply to provide a vessel for O'Malley to jump into, and also to display his pacifism. Matt Hullum notes going through several different accents for the character, such as Cockney, French and Australian, before settling on his own voice to use, as he was unsure in which direction to take the character.^[2]

[edit] Wyoming

• First name: Reginald
• Armor color: White
• Voice actor: Matt Hullum
• Appearances: Episodes 38.2 (season 3 DVD deleted scene), 40–43, 52, 71, episode 93, 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"^[5] — 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.^[7]

Wyoming has a habit of giving an insincere "sorry" to his victims just prior to killing them,^[8] but, in one instance, retracts this apology when Tex complains to him that he has destroyed what she considers her alien ship.^[9] 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-traveling 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 associate 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, and York mentions he had a penchant for knock-knock jokes. 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, confronts them. Wyoming kills York but finds himself at the mercy of Tex, who threatens to "pummel [Wyoming] senseless" 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. According to Tex, Wyoming teleported away before she could interrogate him. After learning the name of Wyoming's AI, Gamma, Church deduces that the computer Gary is in actuality Gamma, and therefore is the one responsible for teleporting Wyoming to his location.

At some point after he was transported to the future, he hired at least four red and blue bodyguards, two of them having accents. Little is known about these guards, or when, how, or even why Wyoming hired them. One of the few things certain is that the four that appeared are all dead, three of them Tex's hands, the last one by York. These guards only appeared in Out of Mind.

The auditions for Wyoming are described by the cast as "terrible"; with the exception of Gus Sorola, every cast member auditioned for the role doing various accents - for example, Joel Heyman performed a Cockney accent, Burnie Burns an Australian accent - and eventually Matt Hullum's British accent was chosen because everything else was so bad.^[10]

[edit] Alien

• Armor color: Dark blue (Covenant Elite)^[11]
• Voice actor: Nathan Zellner
• Appearances: Episodes 57–59, 61–71

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. Caboose has called the Alien "Crunch-bite" and "Fluffy", and Tex 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, the character is listed as "Alien" on the credits of the season 4 DVD. 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 almost immediately 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.

[edit] Vic

• Full name: Vickory^[1]
• Voice actor: Randall Glass (episode 10), Burnie Burns thereafter
• Appearances:Episodes 10, 20, 34, 38, 41, 51

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, with the result that Vic also becomes the Red Team's contact at Red Command. 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 called Wyoming 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. Burnie Burns notes that Vic was portrayed as over-the-top annoying from Episode 20 so the character would be memorable to viewers.^[2]

[edit] Gary

• Full name: Gary^[12], Gamma
• Voice actor: Mac OS X voice synthesizer, system voice "Fred"
• Appearances: Episodes 49, 50, 52, 54, 57, 58, 62, 93

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. Claiming to have been 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 humorous 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 was seen of him until Season 5.

After learning the name of Wyoming's AI (Gamma), Church concludes Gary to be one and the same with it. Church phones Gary, and after an awkward conversation about the ability that computers have to lie, Gary hangs up, and has a short conversation with Wyoming himself, who instructs Gary to "hop in".

[edit] The Red Zealot

• Full name: Unknown
• Armor color: Red
• Voice actor: Burnie Burns, with pitch altered higher
• Appearances: Episodes 39, 40, 43, 46–48, 53.3 (season 3 DVD deleted scene)

The Red Zealot is one of the eternally respawning Red Team members from Battle Creek. 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. A deleted scene in the season 3 DVD shows the Red Zealot resurrecting and vowing revenge, but this is not considered canon. It is not confirmed if he ever did respawn.

[edit] Grunts

• Full names: Unknown
• Armor colors: Red, blue
• Voice actors: Various, with pitch altered higher
• Appearances: Episodes 39, 40, 43, 69–71

The Grunts^[10] 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, both teams are seen working together to guard the temple in the Great Freezing Plains. Despite the team-up, they still exchange trash talk with each other over armour colour. It is unknown why they were guarding the Freezing Plains, or why they decided to team up together at all.

[edit] York

• Full name: Unknown
• Armour colour: Tan with steel trim
• Appearance: Out of Mind Parts Two, Three, Four, Five

York is another member of the AI experimental program, along with Tex and Wyoming. 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; according to Tex, this is because his armor has a system that heals wounds, which may have sustained him over time. 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.

York's AI is named Delta ("D" for short). Unlike the other experimental program recruits, York still has his AI with him. This is because unlike the other AIs, D is not insanely homicidal. In fact, he's extremely logical and analytical, to the point of being largely unfamiliar with human emotions.

Somewhere in his history with Tex and Wyoming, his left 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 of Wyoming's minions. 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, with Delta perishing as York's armor shuts down, having chosen to stay with York to maintain his pain medication as opposed to going with Tex.

[edit] Vic Jr.

• Full name: Unknown
• Voice actor: Burnie Burns
• Appearance: Episodes 71, 77 (voice only), 80 (voice only), 93

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. 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. Toward the beginning of Season 5, Church attempted to contact Vic Jr. for reinforcements, but Vic was not at his post and his message box turned out to be full after a lengthy and somewhat nonsensical set of instructions.

[edit] Lopez's robot army

• Full names: Unknown
• Armor colors: Brown
• Appearances: Episodes 55–57

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, later revealed to be the Alien.

[edit] Jimmy

• Full name: Private James^[5]
• 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!"^[13] 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. In the season 4 DVD easter egg it is revealed that the skull that turns up randomly throughout the season is that of Jimmy.

[edit] Junior

• Full name: Unknown
• Armor color: Cyan and blue
• Voice actor: Jason Saldaña^{[citation needed]}
• Appearance: Episode 77-78 (voice only), 80–82, 84,86,91

Junior 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. He returns in Season Five, and because he has "lots of energy", causes havoc in the Blue Base. Doc feeds him with some of Caboose's blood by exposing some bare skin. It appears in episode 80, and is a mini version of the Alien, with cyan and blue armor. Its existence has quickly caught the ire of a frustrated and enraged Church who has threatened to kill it in multiple instances. In episode 84, Church introduces Tucker, the creature's "mother" to it, to Tucker's confusion. Tucker has briefly been shown acting protective of it, snapping at Church when the latter refers to it in his flippant manner. In episode 91, Tucker is heard to call him Junior.

[edit] One-time characters

[edit] Captain Flowers

• Full name: Captain Butch Flowers
• Armor color: Cyan/aqua
• Voice actor: Ed Robertson (of the Barenaked Ladies)
• Appearance: Episode 50

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 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. In season 5, it is revealed that one of the Blues is to be promoted to captain, and Grif's sister is sent to fill the discrepancy.

[edit] 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, Wyoming is interrupted by a call from O'Malley hiring him to assassinate Tucker. No longer having time to interrogate Phil, Wyoming simply decides to kill him.

[edit] Max Gain

• Full name: Lieutenant Max Gain
• Armor color: Tan
• Voice actor: Geoff Ramsey^[10]
• Appearances: Episode 38, 41.1 (season 3 DVD deleted scene)

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

However, in Season Five, it is revealed the Gary was not built by the Aliens, as he claimed, but that he is really Wyoming's old AI. How much more of the story Gary had invented himself has yet to be revealed.

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Red vs Blue official site
• The Unofficial Red vs Blue Resource Site