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[[Characters/RedVsBlueRedTeam Red Team]] ([[Characters/RedVsBlueDexterGrif Dexter Grif]]) | [[Characters/RedVsBlueBlueTeam Blue Team]] ([[Characters/RedVsBlueLeonardLChurch Leonard L. Church]], [[Characters/RedVsBlueLaverniusTucker Lavernius Tucker]], [[Characters/RedVsBlueMichaelJCaboose Michael J. Caboose]], [[Characters/RedVsBlueAgentWashington Agent Washington]])\\

[[Characters/RedVsBlueProjectFreelancer Project Freelancer]] ([[Characters/RedVsBlueSimulationTroopers Simulation Troopers]] | [[Characters/RedVsBlueArtificialIntelligences Artificial Intelligences]]) | [[Characters/RedVsBlueCharonIndustries Charon Industries]] ([[Characters/RedVsBlueFelix Felix]], [[Characters/RedVsBlueLocus Locus]]) | [[Characters/RedVsBlueChorus Chorus]] | [[Characters/RedVsBlueCosmicPowers Cosmic Powers]] | '''Alliance of Defense''' | [[Characters/RedVsBlueOthers Others]]-]]]]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His codename is spelled both "Axel" and "Axle". He signs Carolina's cast as "Axle", and his personnel file lists him as "AGENT AXEL a.k.a. AGENT AXLE".

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: While not as gifted as One or East, he's an exceptionally skilled fighter in his own right, and the only one who's held his own against [[TheJuggernaut Diesel]] in a straight fight.

* NoSenseOfHumor: She has trouble recognizing and understanding jokes, but laughs at them anyway.

!Viper
A criminal syndicate led by Zero.

[[folder:In general]]
* CurbStompBattle: So far, all their appearances have them steamrolling over any and all opposition they face. Even veteran fighters and former Freelancers like Carolina and Wash were unable to defeat them, much less the soldiers stationed at the base housing the artifact. The only time they ever face any real trouble is up against the Alien Guardian, which actually gives Zero and Phase a serious fight. [[spoiler:It takes until the final episode for Carolina and Shatter Squad to score a definitive win against them, and even then, Diesel is the only one who gets taken out in a one-on-one fight. West gets Phase [[HeelFaceTurn to switch sides]] by reaffirming his parental love for her, and Zero's defeat in part comes as a result of Phase assisting Shatter Squad]].
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Barring Diesel, Zero and Phase share some sort of relationship with the older members of Shatter Squad: Zero was once close friends with Axel before something happened to make Zero betray their group ([[spoiler:namely Axel shooting at Zero and making him fall off a cliff after Zero snapped out as the government attempted to dispose of him]]), and Phase has some sort of history with West. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Phase is West's ''actual'' daughter, that East is just a clone split off from her. Zero rescued her from Starlight Labs after he faked his death, and she created East to pass off as West's daughter in her place. While initially loyal to Zero so long as she could get revenge on West, after initiating a SplitPersonalityMerge with East, she's begun to question Zero and her own decisions.]]
* TerribleTrio: A rare serious case, Zero being the leader, with Phase and Diesel as the sidekicks.
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[[folder:Zero]]
!Agent Zero
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->''"I'll exact my revenge... while also burning this world to the ''ground''."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Christian Young

A former Alliance member who is in search of the Ultimate Power.
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* AllForNothing: He considers [[spoiler:his time being trained to lead the second Shatter Squad to have been wasted after the war ended]], and his obsession with the Ultimate Power is him lashing out about this.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's never made clear what the entity behind the Ultimate Power does to Zero after deeming him unworthy. Zero just disappears in a manner that seems rather painful to him.]]
* AndThenWhat: He denies it vehemently, but it's revealed in ''SIDEWAYS'' that he has no idea what the so-called "Ultimate Power" even is or what he'll even do with it.
* BadBoss: He's calm when he's in control, but he's quick to threaten and throw his weight around the moment his decisions are questioned, shown most prominently when Phase begins questioning his mission for the Ultimate Power.
* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:He puts up a front of being an unflappable mastermind, but it's ultimately shown that Zero is a highly insecure, entitled, and pathetic manchild who desperately wants to feel any kind of validation.]]
* BigBad: The eponymous antagonist of ''Red vs. Blue: Zero''.
* BigBadWannabe: In the end, he turns out to be this. While he poses a legitimate threat and is powerful and skilled enough to wipe the floor with any opposition, even highly trained military operatives like Shatter Squad and Freelancers, [[spoiler:he has no idea what the Ultimate Power does and is really just trying to get it in a deranged and nonsensical attempt to prove himself, not even having a real plan of what he's going to do with it]]. [[spoiler:Once he finally gets it, he doesn't have much control over it thanks to the Black Lotus being the one who actually controls the Ultimate Power, resulting in him being beaten by Shatter Squad and being whisked off by the Black Lotus to an ambiguous, but obviously unpleasant fate when it has enough of him.]]
* ColdHam: For the most part he puts up a calm and composed façade, but he has a fondness for cheesy lines as it were.
-->'''Zero:''' I'll exact my revenge, while also burning this world to the ''ground.''
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Intentionally or not, Zero seems to one towards the Meta from Seasons 6 to Season 10, as they are both power-hungry individuals yet are also different in many, ''many'' ways;
** [[spoiler: The Meta was created when Sigma corrupted Maine during his Freelancer days, turning him against his allies; Zero left the Alliance of Defence of his own free will when the Great War ended.]]
** The Meta is a LightningBruiser, using his strength in combat; Zero is a speedy martial artist, who uses his skill.
** The Meta uses a combination weapon in the form of the Brute Shot, which is a much more “physical” weapon; Zero’s main weapon is the Great Key, a sword made of energy.
** The Meta’s armour is white and drab in colour; whilst Zero’s is RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, not to mention glows at times.
** [[spoiler: The Meta’s “ally”, Sigma, was created using a fractured AI based on a human man’s mind, and was the one directing him as an empty shell from the beginning of his StartOfDarkness; the Black Lotus Zero, obtained at the very end, is an alien technological entity which truly controls the Ultimate Power which Zero struggles to.]]
** [[spoiler: The Meta’s original goal was not to become power, but to reform with the AI Fragments to achieve Metastability, and would later continue to for the sake of just power in a single-minded manner due to his psychological overriding; Zero seeks power for power’s sake as well, but he only does it as a means of revenge and because he feels entitled to.]]
** [[spoiler: The Meta is SmarterThanYouLook and is capable of playing the long game to get his hands on what he needs and uses his strengths and weaknesses with a surprising amount of cunning; Zero appears, and fairly is, a skilled tactician and leader but he begins to suffer a VillainousBreakdown even after getting his Ultimate Power and it hampers his performance.]]
** [[spoiler: The Meta turned on Washington after getting what he needed; Zero was betrayed by his teammate Phase.]]
** The Meta once used a voice modulator to make the Reds and Blues fight to improve his odds; Zero directly invited Shatter Squad to have one last go at beating him so he could crush them completely.
** The Meta is a silent antagonist; Zero makes a lot of elegant statements.
* EntitledBastard: Zero has a massive sense of entitlement. His entire motive for everything he does is that he's [[spoiler:angry he didn't get to lead the original Shatter Squad]] and he feels he deserves the Ultimate Power simply because he's the strongest.
* EtTuBrute: During the flashback in "Duo", he bitterly states that he once trusted Axel, although the circumstances of their falling-out are unexplained.
* EvilCounterpart: Acts as a counterpart to both One and Axel.
** To Agent One. Aside from one being colored blue and the other red, Agent One is cocky and has trouble working with the rest of her teammates. In contrast, Zero acts far more professionally and works very well with his own team.
** To Axel. Both are parental figures towards an ActionGirl [[spoiler:separated from their biological parents]] and are red and grey.
* EvilIsHammy: Whenever being grandiose is necessary, Zero veers into over-the-top scenery.
-->'''Zero:''' I can feel it... The power to change... '''[[SuddenlyShouting EVERYTHING!!]]'''
* FairPlayVillain: By "Shattered", he's perfectly capable of [[spoiler:simply waltzing into the temple and taking the Ultimate Power unopposed]], but deliberately reveals his location to Shatter Squad to give them one last chance to stop him and prove once and for all he's better than they are.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Zero puts on the front of being a NobleDemon WellIntentionedExtremist, but at the end of the day he's just a selfish, entitled monster obsessed with gaining some sort of power.
* HeroicWannabe: [[spoiler:Zero's entire grievance against GLASS and the Alliance of Defense is that he didn't get to lead the original Shatter Squad and play hero.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler:He's got the abilities to be a SmugSuper, but in reality, his search for the Ultimate Power is implied to just be a way to prove to everyone else that he wasn't too weak to lead what would have been a second Shatter Squad. His VillainousBreakdown in the final episode more has to do with the entity behind the Ultimate Power repeatedly interrupting the fight to express its doubts over his worthiness than the hits he's actually taking from Shatter Squad]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:He's convinced the Alliance of Defense betrayed him because they didn't let him lead the original Shatter Squad, even though it was because the Great War ended.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:His entire rampage and quest for the Ultimate Power is him lashing out over not getting to be the leader of the original Shatter Squad. It doesn't matter to him that this was because the Great War ended, and all he really cares about is making himself seem big.]]
* TheLeader: He's the leader of Viper, as evident by both Phase and Diesel calling him "Commander".
* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:Zero originally yearned for revenge against the Alliance of Defense for shutting down GLASS and screwing him over with their "experiments and manipulations". After gaining the Ultimate Power, he instead wants to show off his strength by destroying everything.]]
* MyHeroZero: Although it is the product of a MeaningfulRename, [[spoiler:as once the government decided to get rid of Shatter Squad's top agent, Agent One, he had to choose the number before it. He even greets the new One by saying "Hello One... I am Zero.".]]
* NobleDemon: Subverted. He seems to have some sort of code and fair play, but ultimately it's just posturing.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He talks a big game about the corruption of the Alliance of Defense and their countless "experiments and manipulations", but at the end of the day [[spoiler:he's just doing it because he feels cheated he never got to be the leader of the original Shatter Squad and is basically throwing a gigantic tantrum over it.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Once he finally gets the Ultimate Power, he decides to use it to decimate the universe out of both spite and his desire to show off his strength.]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:He's unable to make full use of the Ultimate Power when he finally obtains it, mostly because a separate entity already controls it and finds his performances against Shatter Squad disappointing.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Downplayed. While he isn't outwardly childish, at his core Zero is an entitled brat, and his entire motivation essentially boils down to [[spoiler:him throwing a tantrum over not getting to lead the original Shatter Squad and prove how cool he is]], an undeniably childish motivation.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Not black specifically, but Zero's armor is colored dark gray and red.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:He's seeking revenge on the government for attempting to dispose of him after the Shatter Squad he was intended to lead was shut down]].
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:He completely loses it after getting the Ultimate Power, becoming increasingly louder and deciding to decimate the entire universe.]]
* SmugSuper: Subverted. He's highly skilled, being able to wipe the floor with Freelancers, Shatter Squad, and other military personnel, and he ''acts'' like he's unbearably smug about it, but it's ultimately shown to be a cover for his fragile ego.
* TeleportSpam: While he doesn't do it as frequently as Phase, his armor allows him to jump from one place to the next. His also has more freedom than Phase's, since she can seemingly only teleport to wherever her knife is.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:He's last seen being whisked off by the entity behind the Ultimate Power to parts unknown while screaming.p, with the implication it's either AFateWorseThanDeath or just plain old death.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:During the final battle, he gets progressively louder and more reckless as the entity behind the Ultimate Power repeatedly doubts his worthiness]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: When he had his falling out with Axel, he asked Axel to join him in his quest for revenge. Axel declined.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Zero and Axel appear to know one another as shown in "Duo," though whether they were actually friends or just close acquaintances has yet to be seen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Phase]]
!Agent Phase
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->''"Looking for me? I'm waiting."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Hannah [=McCarthy=]
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* AffablyEvil: She's surprisingly personable and casual for a terrorist, and even banters with Shatter Squad on occasion.
* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Has not forgiven her father West for sending her to scientists who cut her up and such.]]
* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler:Joining back up with East only ends up causing her to literally grow back her conscience, leading her to become more uneasy with her actions and Zero's mission]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:She brutally reams West for turning her over to scientists who tortured and experimented on her.]]
* CoDragons: She and Diesel are this for Zero.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicts this on Washington when he refused to give them the information they wanted.
* DarkActionGirl: Is female, and is one of Season 18's antagonists.
* DeviousDaggers: A knife-wielding villain who uses teleportation to attack from unexpected angles.
* DoNotCallMePaul: She is enraged when [[spoiler:West]] calls her by her real name, [[spoiler:Danyell]]. [[spoiler:She comes around after her HeelFaceTurn.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Agent One. Both their parental figures are red and grey, [[spoiler:and they were separated from their biological families in a different way; One's family is said to be killed in action, while Phase's father gave her up to be experimented upon]].
* {{Foil}}:
** In terms of abilities and personality, Phase acts more casually and calmly, even when facing accomplished soldiers like Carolina while Agent East is otherwise hot-headed and brash. Phase can seemingly teleport towards her knife once thrown without consequence, while East possesses SuperSpeed that tires her out and leaves her vulnerable afterwards. "Duo" indicates that she went through similar experiments as East, but she has become hateful, vengeful, and villainous while East is just angry. Phase wears purple and black armor, in contrast to East's dark pink. [[spoiler:And then East turns out to be a LiteralSplitPersonality, that when merged back with Phase makes her purple parts pink.]]
** She is also this to Locus, both started out being presented as cold-blooded, but end up more complex as the story goes on. Unlike Locus, however, she questions her own actions [[spoiler:after becoming one again with East]], and does so a lot ''faster'', as while Locus began questioning his actions over the course of Season 13, two seasons after his introduction, and required suffering a TraumaCongaLine, Phase begins questioning her actions ''in the middle of her debut season'', and immediately starts questioning [[spoiler:after her SplitPersonalityMerge]].
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:She ends up being [[EasilyForgiven welcomed back into Shatter Squad]] without receiving any form of punishment for her actions throughout the season.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She joins Shatter Squad in the final episode after coming to terms with the fact that West actually cared about her]].
* LightningBruiser: While the teleporting plays a role, she moves impressively fast while beating others.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:East was a hololight clone created with a fragment of her personality. Notably, despite still being aligned against Shatter Squad post-merging, Phase does show some slight unease towards what she did to Tucker and more openly questions Zero's mission]].
* MeaningfulName: Even if without {{Intangibility}}, she can phase through people and barriers by teleporting.
* MyNaymeIs: [[spoiler:The subtitles on Rooster Teeth's website say her true name is "Danyell".]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: Purple is her preferred color (even her knives have such a trim), and she's definitely a flashy and lethal fighter.
* ShoutOut: Two to ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', an unintentional one in how her TeleportSpam of being able to travel wherever the knife is turned out to be very similar to the "Hiraishin" technique of Minato Namikaze (Torrian however only realized what he did after seeing her use it), and a deliberate in how the rivalry between One and East was meant to be akin to that of Naruto and Sasuke. [[spoiler:Fittingly, the revelation East is a clone of Phase who undergoes a SplitPersonalityMerge and displays a desire to kill West for seemingly abandoning her furthers the allusion, as Sasuke betrays the Leaf Village and willingly becomes an ally of Orochimaru so as to gain the power to kill his older brother Itachi after he caused the Uchiha Massacre.]]
* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler:She merges with her other half, East, in ''SIDEWAYS''. It's more literal than most examples due to East being a LiteralSplitPersonality]].
* TeleportSpam: She's somehow capable of doing this, closing the distance between her and anyone she feels is in need of being introduced to her knives. To do so though, she needs to ''throw'' her knife, and then teleports to the location it was thrown. She mainly throws it behind opponents so as to catch them off guard from behind, or into vehicles so as to quickly catch up with them.
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Gets very annoyed when her father calls her by her birth name.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: She has some sort of personal beef with West and wants to be the one that deals with him. Thus, when she learns that Zero severely injured him, she's naturally angry and attempts to stab him with her knife. [[spoiler:It's because she's actually half his daughter, with East revealed to be a kind of LiteralSplitPersonality of hers]].
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[[folder:Diesel]]
!Agent Diesel
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->''"Hahahahaha! This is '''fun'''!"''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DamanMills
Zero's muscle and physical fighter.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: An example where the weak point has to be created, but his seemingly impenetrable armor actually can't withstand sustained damage to a single location. [[spoiler:Carolina takes him out by attacking his abdomen with a mix of melee and gunfire until a fissure big enough forms for her to blow him up.]]
* BadBoss: During his final battle with Carolina, he bats aside the {{Mooks}} summoned to back him up with his sweeping attacks and charges and even tosses one of them at Carolina at one point.
* BloodKnight: He ''really'' enjoys fighting and takes his time dispatching his opponents. When dealing with the normal soldiers in "Viper", he only ever runs ''once'' as he effortleesly manhandles them.
* TheBrute: He's the muscle of Zero's gang and prefers to pummel his enemies into the dirt than shoot them.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed when Carolina shoves explosives inside a breach in his armor and detonates them.]]
* CoDragons: With Phase for Zero.
* DumbMuscle: Played with. He's not stupid, but definitely not a tactician like Zero or Phase, preferring to rush his enemies and overwhelm them with sheer brute force. Carolina even pokes fun at this in their final battle.
-->'''Carolina''': [[SarcasmMode It speaks!]] [[DeadpanSnarker I thought you only grunted.]]
* EvilIsBigger: He towers over his teammates and enemies alike, and as bad as it gets.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike his two teammates, Diesel receives no backstory, HiddenDepths, or sympathetic qualities. From the beginning to the end of the season, his only defining trait is being Zero's bloodthirsty muscle.
* {{Foil}}: To West on a surface level, both being the big, physical men of their respective groups.
* TheJuggernaut: Of the unstoppable force variety, fights with Diesel are usually measured in seconds with only the main characters being capable of lasting longer. His first fight consisted him shrugging off bullets and even a rocket to the face with no ill effects, and handing beatdowns like candy.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Carolina kills him by creating a fissure in his armor, then attaching explosives to said breach to blow him to kingdom come.]]
* MadeOfIron: Throughout Season 18, Diesel is completely unharmed by various injuries that would have killed anyone else, including getting blasted with a rocket launcher ''twice''. [[spoiler:He's only killed when he's blown to pieces by Carolina.]]
* MightyGlacier: Subverted. He is capable of running fairly quickly, he just prefers to play with his food and let his enemies realize how screwed they are as he walks toward them, shrugging off their attacks.
* UnskilledButStrong: Diesel hits like a monster truck and shrugs off bullets like flies on a train, but possesses no technique, as demonstrated in his fights with West and Carolina, who employ their superior military training and skill to outmaneuver him.
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A criminal syndicate made up of turncoat Alliance members.