History NightmareFuel / RedVsBlue

* In order to hype up Season 12, Rooster Teeth released character journals. Tucker's is a bit sad, but humorous, and Simmons's and Caboose's are hilarious. The fourth one has no name on it and is entirety written. It's creepy as shit, and was revealed at the end to be Locus's. Notably, Locus has something of an obsession over Wash, intrigued by the man who was once David and the desire to kill Locus can see in his eyes. It's a wonder how deep this fixation will run.

* Season 13 episode one really rams home just how scary a villain who never lies is. Miles and Burnie have written Felix from the ground up as someone who will never tell an outright lie. Things like "you won't find anyone on this ship" or, more chilling, "I'm not gonna kill you." It makes you question everything he says for JediTruth. The guy that said "This guy don't sit right with me..." should've kept that mindset...

** Temple also reveals that the longest any of his victims lasted while locked in their armor was eight days and eleven hours. Let that sink in; [[AndIMustScream one of the Freelancers spent over a week trapped in a state in which he/she couldn't move, go to the bathroom, call for help, eat or drink anything, [[DeadGuyOnDisplay all the while surrounded by the bodies of their murdered comrades]] [[CreepySouvenir who all died just as horribly]] before they themselves finally expired.]]

* Season 13 episode one really rams home just how scary a villain who never lies is. Miles and Burnie have written Felix from the ground up as someone who will never tell an outright lie. Things like "you won't find anyone on this ship" or, more chilling, "I'm not gonna kill you." It makes you question everything he says for JediTruth. The guy that said "This guy don't sit right with me..." should've keep that mindset...

* '''Tartarus Security Guard:''' Huh...? (brutally [[NeckSnap neck-snapped ) ]]
([[InvisibilityCloak decloaked space pirates appear, along with [[TheDragon Locus]])
--> '''Locus:''' [[BondOneLiner No [[LeaveNoSurvivors survivors]]]]

** Suddenly, Carolina [[KickTheDog grabs Biff and uses him as a human shield, with Temple ''desperately'' trying to stop the fighting by tackling Carolina, who throws Temple off of her, grabbing his pistol, and shoots Tex in the back while she's escaping with the blue flag. In response, Tex throws the flag at Carolina, who narrowly deflects it with her arm... causing it to ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pin Biff to the wall through the midsection]]''. When Temple '''screams''' for a medic, Carolina just ''shoves'' Temple aside, making it clear that she doesn't even ''care'' about the Blues and Reds, before Tex knocks out Carolina to recover the flag. As Tex carelessly pulls the flag from Biff's torso, blood splatters onto Temple's armor in a manner hauntingly similar from the prologue, before Carolina and Tex depart, leaving Temple with a dying Biff, who bleeds out. Suddenly, it all makes sense as to why Temple is seeking bloody vengeance against the Freelancers/UNSC '''so badly'''. This casts a ''completely'' different context on his actions, and it's not hard to feel sorry for the man, let alone ponder [[FridgeHorror what manner of torment this has caused him]]]].

*** Just, the utter callousness the simulation troopers are treated with. These are human beings who signed on to fight in the military, do something good. So what if they were incompetent or bad in a fight? [[FateWorseThanDeath They do not deserve to be traded away like slaves, [[WhatMeasureIsAMook as if they were nothing]], to an organization that treats them like CannonFodder at worst, [[UnwittingTestSubject Guinea Pigs at best]].]] The reveal in episode 14 that '''every single sim trooper''' has joined Temple's cause confirms that the hatred due to being treated in such a manner is shared by all sim-troopers, and that they are willing to attack the UNSC to have revenge... and it's actually working.
---> '''Temple:''' '''[[TheDogBitesBack The time has come to kill the masters.''' [[ItsPersonal The Freelancers to start,]] '''[[FromNobodyToNightmare but that's not where this story ends.]]''']]

*** They have already led multiple successful covert raids against UNSC military facilities, and have likely armed themselves with stolen equipment, possibly even armor enhancements. They can even lock [[SuperSoldier Freelancers in their armor and kill them by [[CruelandUnusualdeath starvation/dehydration]].]]

** This episode gives us Temple's BreakingSpeech about Church's death, complete with [[KickTheDog giving Caboose brutally honest treatment around it, and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling the other three out]] about [[JerkassHasAPoint treating their teammate like a baby]] about these subjects]].

** The aftermath of the fight: Charon's space pirates have been all but wiped out, their command ship destroyed, and the Purge Temple demolished when said ship was rammed into it by a tractor beam... ''[[OhCrap but Felix and Locus are still alive,'' and neither of them has anything left to lose now. Remember when Malcom Hargrove threatened to send another operative wearing the fully-equipped Meta Armor to [[ImpliedDeathThreat finish the job]] if [[YouHaveFailedMe Locus and Felix failed?]] It just may have become open season on ''everyone'' on Chorus...]]

** The above Fridge Horror seems even more likely after Hargrove himself arrives in his dreadnaught to take revenge after Epsilon exposes him.

** The almost casual way that Locus executes Gabriel Lorzano when things went bad.

([[InvisibilityCloak decloaked space pirates appear, along with [[TheDragon Locus]])]]

* There is a temple on the planet that will kill everyone on the planet with the turn of a key, '''precisely''' how the fearsome [[ItsTheonlywaytobesure Halo Arrays]] do, except in this instance it's limited to the planet itself. And now Sharkface and Felix are heading towards it]].

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[[caption-width-right:263:AmbitionIsEvil in AI form.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"When a true soldier is told to kill, he kills. He does not question why; he does not mourn the fallen; he fulfills his role and moves on to the next."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''''[[WhamLine Recognise]] [[WaxMuseumMorgue anyone?]]''''']]

* In Episode 9 Wash is having nightmares of previous seasons, which gets disconcerting when he's watching himself talk to the Counselor and later shoots Lopez and Donut, especially since he runs to try and stop the latter. Then when he's freaking out at Simmons's accusations, he turns around and shoots at Locus... only to see '''[[spoiler: himself''']] fall to the ground dead. Very unsettling...
* We also learn some more about the Federation army: [[spoiler:not only has the war started with the New Republic attacking '''them''', but there's been so much death that even civilians have been drafted, with the current general having been promoted from the Brigadier's secretary.]]

* The attack on the Fed base in episode 10. [[spoiler: Simmons is the only one to notice that the alarms they'd set off earlier have stopped. Then they emerge to an apparently deserted area, and the first Fed they see is disintegrated by a Forerunner weapon. Suddenly there's Fed soldiers being hit by Forerunner ammunition all over the place, and its done in such a manner that you can't help but wonder if the Prometheans have been introduced... nope, turns out it's just Locus's forces using active camo. Still damn freaky.]]
* There's just something unsettling in [[spoiler: Felix]]'s voice when he reveals his scheme to the guys. Perhaps it's him lacking a change in tone, or the way he seems to want each word to hurt them a little more than the last, or perhaps it's just that even though he doesn't sound very different, there's an edge of madness and loathing in his voice when he tells the [[spoiler: Reds and Blues he's been playing them this whole time]] that makes your skin crawl.
* [[spoiler:Felix and Locus are perfectly fine murdering an entire planet's worth of people. It's bad enough that whoever hired them wants the people dead, but these two are fine with committing genocide just for a paycheck.]]
** Word choice, tone and [[spoiler: Felix]]'s first choice adds something chilling to this. [[spoiler: Felix wanted to destroy this planet from space to kill off the people. The tone used to say this is almost as casual as Felix when talking to the Red and Blue teams before. When he brings up that conspicuous nuking would draw more attention than the settlers killing each other, he says it would be 'just a tragedy'. Just that casual tone and the 'just' to the tragedy of two sides on a planet killing each other brings to light how frightening [[TheSociopath Felix]] is when his sociopathy isn't played for laughs.]]
* The sheer ''fury'' in Locus' voice when [[spoiler: he gets fed up with Felix's gloating]] in episode 10. Talk about dark, malevolent ''venom:''
--> Locus: '''[[BigShutUp Enough!!]]''' (to [[spoiler:Felix]]) How many times '''must''' I tell you?! If you want to make the victim '''suffer''', you do it '''quickly''' and '''efficiently'''! (to the Reds and Blues) There will be no rescue for you. You will die here today, along with the rest. [[NeverFoundTheBody No one will find your bodies,]] [[PlayingBothSides no one will know the truth]], and '''[[TemptingFate no one]]''' [[NothingCanStopUsNow is going to stop us from]] '''[[spoiler: [[OmnicidalManiac killing every last person on this planet!]] ]]'''

* When Locus and [[spoiler:Felix]] are contacting [[spoiler: Control]], the scene begins with [[spoiler:Felix]] throwing a combat knife into the visor-plate of a dead guy's helmet, and it goes in to the ''hilt''. And at the end of the call, [[spoiler:Felix]] grabs it and ''yanks it back out!'' The corpse's head jerks forward as he does it, which only makes it worse.
** [[spoiler: Control's]] mechanically altered voice is creepy in itself.
** Not to mention the contents of the call itself. [[spoiler: The Reds and Blues are being reported as dead so that their respective sides can make that one final push to kill each other off, [[XanatosGambit just as planned]].]]
--->[[spoiler: Control]]: '''Marvelous. Then you are to transport back to your respective armies, and report the deaths of the Reds and Blues. They will become the martyrs needed to push these people towards one, final confrontation. Do I make myself clear?'''\\
([[spoiler:Felix]] pulls his knife out of the aforementioned corpse's visor.)\\
[[spoiler:Felix]]: Crystal.
* We find out how psychotic Dr. Grey is. [[spoiler:''She is worse than Carolina!'']] And yet, the whole time, her cheerful attitude remains. How do we learn this? [[spoiler:She tortures a Space Pirate, presumably with a BUNCH of surgical tools. ''[[DissonantSerenity While cheerfully singing]] [[Theatre/{{Carmen}} Habanera]]''. And she took him apart. Literally. That woman is the very definition of MadDoctor.]] Granted, [[spoiler:Grey's unsettling joy is somewhat justified as she personally chose to torture the Pirate as revenge for his involvement in the deaths of her friends at the Federal outpost the Space Pirates attacked in Episode 10,]] but still...

** Option C ("'''Goddamn Nightmare'''"): Teleport to the radio jammer, where [[spoiler: Felix]] and Locus currently are, and attempt to fight their way inside to expose the truth to both the Republic and Army.

* Tucker's duel with [[spoiler:Felix]] is pretty tense when you first watch it. [[spoiler:Felix]] doesn't even see him as a threat, cracking jokes and nonchalantly monologuing. Sure, it's all part of Tucker's plan, but consider the moment where [[spoiler:Felix]] tries to kill the other reds and blues, and when Tucker tries to stop him, he spins around and STABS HIM IN THE STOMACH!
-->[[spoiler:Felix]]:That's the last time you try to outsmart me, Captain Tucker.
* [[spoiler:Felix]]'s rant about how the efforts of the soldiers on Chorus means nothing and savors the fact that he can kill them.
-->[[spoiler:Felix]]:But you know what? It all means '''NOTHING!!!''' If I'm stronger than you, and if I'm faster than you, then I can '''KILL''' you, and that's better than '''ANYTHING''' money can buy...
* Episode 19, the Season 12 finale, reveals the contents of the package Locus sent Control at the end of Season 11: [[spoiler:the Meta's helmet... which presumably contains any remains of the AIs that were lost at the end of Season 6. What exactly the Chairman wants with it is unknown, but there is no way it can be good.]] With the added bit for the fan's nightmares by having [[spoiler:The Meta's musical motif, ''When Danger Is Your Middle Name'', playing in the background during the reveal.]]
** Fridge Horror kicks in given how [[spoiler:sad and tired FILSS sounds. And keep in mind that the only other times AIs have sounded/been tired... well, it was Alpha and Tex in the aftermath of full-on torture. So what has the Chairman done to her? Perhaps the same things he once pulled the Director up on doing. ]]

* Season 13 episode one really rams home just how scary a villain who never lies is. Miles and Burnie have written [[spoiler:Felix]] from the ground up as someone who will never tell an outright lie. Things like "you won't find anyone on this ship" or, more chilling, "I'm not gonna kill you." It makes you question everything he says for JediTruth. [[spoiler: The guy that said "This guy don't sit right with me..." should've keep that mindset...]]
* '''Tartarus Security Guard:''' Huh...? [[spoiler: (brutally [[NeckSnap neck-snapped]] ) ]]
[[spoiler: ([[InvisibilityCloak decloaked space pirates]] appear, along with [[TheDragon Locus]])]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Locus:''' [[BondOneLiner No]] [[LeaveNoSurvivors survivors]]]]
* The concept of the Purge system. So how do [[spoiler:Locus]] and [[spoiler:Felix]] split the prisoners who will join them from those who won't? [[spoiler:Felix]] tells them that if they fight against [[spoiler:the people of Chorus]], they will go free and be rich. Then he tells the prisoners who will join him to put their hands on the prison bars while those who won't will be let off the ship. [[spoiler:Felix then opens the air locks in the cells, [[ThrownOuttheairlock sucking all of those not grasping the bars out into space, along with some who tried, but weren't able to hang on.]]]] Well, that's a very horrifying, yet enthralling way to recruit prisoners.

* Tucker [[spoiler:turning on the alien temple]], while awesome, [[spoiler:is rather creepy in its mysteriousness and the fact that a mysterious alien voice begins talking to Tucker and the others before turning the temple off.]]
* The Chairman, tired of [[spoiler: Felix]] and [[spoiler: Locus]] failing to deliver on what their contracts promised, believes the mercenaries simply need the right motivation to get the job done. So what does he offer? [[spoiler: The Meta's armour, complete with all the enhancements he stole from all the other Freelancers]]. To the winner go the spoils in the form of "field testing". But if they fail to succeed before it is complete? Then another goes in their place and does the job anyway, and '''then''' [[FromBadToWorse take care of any ''loose ends'']]. What makes it even worse is the Chairman is working his way into acquiring a new AI, one more powerful than Epsilon. All this complete with [[spoiler: ''When Your Middle Name Is Danger'']] playing in the background.
** A passing remark from the Chairman mentions how [[spoiler:"tests have shown that running multiple enhancements proves to be far more taxing on the mind than we anticipated.". Charon has used people to test the Meta's armor. Who were those people, and what happened to them afterwards?]]
** If the Chairman succeeded in rectifying the main core issue of obtaining an advanced AI [[spoiler: (Like Santa, as Felix implied he was thinking of doing for the Chairman)]] then, in time, [[spoiler: he could've mass-produced these and have an '''army''' of terrifying [[TheDreaded Meta]]s at his command.]] Think on that for a minute or two...
* There is an undeniable creepiness factor with [[spoiler:the gateway and the visions seen by the people who go through it. We see a glimpse of Locus's past and a non-combat involved confrontation between Carolina and her dead Freelancer teammates. And the alien A.I. still sounds creepy.]]

* Three words: [[spoiler: Epsilon is failing.]]

* As of Episode 12: [[spoiler: the bad guys have the key that could let them destroy all life on Chorus. However, said key doesn't work for them... yet. As Sharkface points out, all they need to do is kill General Doyle...]]
* By the end of episode 13, Locus [[spoiler: is asking questions about the Meta. With a remix of "When Your Name is Danger" playing, you have to wonder if Locus plans on becoming the ''next'' Meta...]]
* Also in Episode 13, [[spoiler:Church compares Carolina to the Meta on her need for power. It's strongly implied that the only thing that has prevented her from becoming the next incarnation of the Meta is that the Reds and Blues are acting as her [[MoralityChain morality chain]]. If one remembers what she was like at the start on Season 10, its sobering to realize that without Wash, Epsilon, Tucker, or anyone else, she could have easily been consumed by her rage and need for revenge and become the second Meta in the process.]]

* The end of Episode 16. The nuclear reactor detonates, [[spoiler: destroying Armonia and killing Doyle along with the Space Pirates]]. The epic music builds up as Carolina [[spoiler: activates her bubble shield to protect the Pelican...]] [[MoodWhiplash then everything cuts to black as the music is suddenly replaced with static]]. [[CliffHanger End of episode]].
** While [[spoiler: Doyle's HeroicSacrifice wiped out most of Charon's forces, finally giving the people of Chorus a chance at winning,]] it also means that Charon now has [[spoiler: access to the Great Key, and can now activate the Purge...]]

** [[spoiler:...and what's worse, Felix has no compunctions about killing off the rest of the space pirates guarding the communication tower if it means wiping out Chorus' population. Even ''Locus'' is appalled at the idea of killing their own comrades just to finish the job.]] Basically, [[spoiler: Felix]] is all set to cross the MoralEventHorizon farther than he already has.

** The fight between Locus & [[spoiler: Felix]] vs Washington & Carolina is easily one of the most intense (and awesome) of the series, and while it has its funny moments, much of the violence is played brutally straight. It's one of the few fights in ''Red vs Blue'' where blood is visibly shed, when [[spoiler: Washington circumvents Locus' cloaking by splattering him with his own blood]]. Not to mention that when [[spoiler: Locus tackles Washington and tries to stab him in the face, the blade comes dangerously close to piercing his visor just like back when the Meta did the same to Tex.]]
** The aftermath of the fight: [[spoiler: Charon's space pirates have been all but wiped out, their command ship destroyed, and the Purge Temple demolished when said ship was rammed into it by a tractor beam... ''[[OhCrap but Felix and Locus are still alive,]]'' and neither of them has anything left to lose now. Remember when Malcom Hargrove threatened to send another operative wearing the fully-equipped Meta Armor to [[ImpliedDeathThreat finish the job]] if [[YouHaveFailedMe Locus and Felix failed?]] It just may have become open season on ''everyone'' on Chorus...]]

** [[spoiler: The above Fridge Horror seems even more likely after Hargrove himself arrives in his dreadnaught to take revenge after Epsilon exposes him.]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Hargrove]]''': ''[[spoiler: You have made... a '''terrible''' mistake.]]''
** Santa's explanation of the dynamic between Locus and [[spoiler: Felix]] is chilling. [[spoiler:Felix ''knew'' that Locus was broken by war... and exploited this by convincing Locus that he didn't ''need'' help with his condition--that he was a soldier, not a monster. In other words, Felix took advantage of Locus's broken psyche for his own purposes, as it's implied that ''he's'' the one who helped mold Locus into who he was in Season 11, before Wash came along and challenged that outlook. And why? Because ''Locus was the better soldier'', and that bruised Felix's ego so much that he ruined Locus's chance at a normal life just so he could use his partner as a weapon to continue his atrocities unchallenged.]] [[spoiler: Felix]] is the '''real''' monster.
** On the subject of [[spoiler: Felix]]: by the time he comes gunning for the Reds and Blues, he's been pushed over the edge by [[spoiler: the way they've been steadily thwarting his genocidal plans. Having all of his schemes undone by a RagtagBunchOfMisfits who're supposedly "inferior" to him--a group he never believed was any threat in the first place--has proven the final straw, and all he wants now is to ''kill them all.'']] His [[FauxAffablyEvil mockingly friendly facade]] is gone, [[VillainousBreakdown leaving nothing but a raw, venomous rage.]]
---> '''[[spoiler: Felix]]:''' You think you're so ''smart'', Tucker?! You think you're all ''better'' than me?! Well, you're '''not!''' You're all a bunch of ''pathetic, stupid'' '''''losers!!'''''
** Consider [[spoiler: WhatCouldHaveBeen. Locus still managed to infiltrate the fight without being noticed-- if he ''hadn't'' had his HeelRealization and turned against Felix, he could have shot the Blood Gulch Crew before they even realized he was there. The main reason Felix lost was because he ended up all on his own-- had Locus remained on his side, the two of them might easily have ''won.'']]

** [[spoiler:Hargrove has had enough of everyone's shit and pulls a LastVillainStand. Unlike Felix, who was so broken that he became ineffective, the Chairman is not fucking around. He drops a huge amount of Mantises on the planet that proceed to go on a rampage of slaughter that nearly manages to wipe out the entire Chorus army. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness The Mantises even go]] [[YouHaveFailedMe after the Space Pirates]]. Hargrove nearly undoes all of the hard work that the Bloodgulch Crew put into making sure that these people survived.]]
** [[spoiler:The soldiers that the Chairman sends after the Bloodgulch crew when the they infiltrate the Staff of Charon to stop the Mantis attack. The ConservationOfNinjitsu does not apply, and they end up cornering the Reds and Blues in the trophy room in only a few minutes. They are so strong that even Tucker using the Meta's armor is not enough to hold them off, necessitating Epsilon's sacrifice.]]

* In Episode 4, we finally find out who Private Jimmy ''really'' is and how he died. [[spoiler:He's the Alpha's [[LossOfIdentity original body]], the memories of Tex beating Jimmy with his own skull a blurring of the memories of the attack on the Mother of Invention and Jimmy's own memories of having the Alpha forcibly implanted. The implantation scene is brief, but right after being told an uplifting speech on how valuable he is, Jimmy suddenly finds himself being held down by Freelancer goons while a loud drill is applied to his skull. And he's still conscious when this happens. Poor Jimmy's screams are what really add the horror to the scene. Cole Gallian [[note]]Jimmy's VA[[/note]] went at it 100 percent]].
** [[spoiler: Flowers loading and aiming his gun at an unsuspecting Church as he recalls his memory. He was actually willing to mortally wound Church/Jimmy to ensure the Alpha never remembered his time as an A.I.]]
* Donut's death in The Brick Gulch Chronicles can come off as disturbing, even if he shows up alive and well a few minutes later (how quickly he dissolves into nothing the moment he enters the hydrochloric acid).
* Ruben Lozano is a terrifying man. His own son is kidnapped and held for ransom, and what is his response? [[spoiler: To tell the kidnappers that he doesn't care about his son at all, but he still won't let them get away scot-free. He knows their codenames, their faces, and where they're hiding, and he's coming to kill them personally. Even ''[[TheSociopath Felix]]]]'' has a disturbed expression on his face several times just listening to him.
** The almost casual way that [[spoiler:Locus executes Gabriel Lorzano when things went bad.]]
** [[spoiler: Felix]]'s attempt at blackmailing Ruben certainly counts too, even if it didn't work. Even in his earlier days, we can see clear traces of the full-blown sociopath he becomes by the time the Chorus Trilogy rolls around.

** A sentry spacecraft is shot down by a pelican piloted by the BGC; upon landing to pick up the Red and Blues, the pilot is revealed to be [[spoiler:''Church'', apparently in his Alpha form]].
** Just as [[spoiler:Church]] exits the pelican to pick up the Reds and Blues, a survivor from the bombing spots them and can only whisper in shock that they've just killed everyone at the depot, before attempting to kill [[spoiler:Church]] in a despair-driven rage, only to be promptly gunned down by Sarge.
** What makes the aforementioned scene truly unnerving is the way that the survivor's blood messily splatters onto [[spoiler:Church]]'s armor, with [[spoiler:Church]] (not fazed in the ''slightest'') calmly removing his helmet and placing it on the ground (as what one can assume to be a calling card) before departing with the BGC.

** Turns out, as of later episodes, [[spoiler: it isn't them at all, but a bunch of imposters. Which begs the question: who are ''these'' people, and why are they impersonating the Blood Gulch Crew for their criminal activities...?]]
* Initially played for laughs, but in Episode 2, [[spoiler:V.I.C. consistently begging Dylan Andrews to [[MercyKill "pull the plug"]]]] comes off as disturbing. [[spoiler: It's not explicitly stated whether Vic was serious or not, or whether Dylan really did it, but 3 out of 4 of the possibilities are horrifying. Besides the above-mentioned one, what if she pulled the plug when he really was just kidding after all? Or, if he wasn't kidding and she decided not to, Vic probably would've completely snapped. No wonder Dylan decided to keep it a secret.]]
* Of all people, [[spoiler: ''Grif'' manages to be frightening for a bit, when he angrily rebukes Dylan's attempt at a telling him YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre]]

** Sarge stops in front of a mirror, when he walks off, his reflection remains there ''and looks'' ''[[AsideGlance right at the camera]]''. [[spoiler: Granted, it's just Surge rather than anything supernatural, but that's arguably not much better.]]
* While they act friendly, [[spoiler: The Blues and the Reds are a bit...eerie in their behavior. Temple, in particular, is acting suspiciously during many scenes, especially in the way he makes "We're having ''fish'' for dinner" sound ''ominous''. The way he talks and acts might remind some of [[FauxAffablyEvil Captain]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes Flowers]] more than Church.]]
** This same episode also reveals that [[spoiler:the UNSC itself is trying to kill ''everyone'' involved in Project Freelancer, from the agents to the lowest staff members, with the motivation a mystery.]]

* TheReveal in episode 10 is '''''horrific'''''. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Temple]] is the one behind the disappearances/murders of the Freelancers, and has been doing so in the most nightmarish manner possible; freezing them in their respective armors and then abandoning them in an empty room to either starve or die of thirst, and then just leaving their corpses in said armors to rot afterward. He armor-locks Wash and Carolina and leaves them to suffer the same fate before announcing his intention to kill the Blood Gulch Crew.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Temple:''' Ah, the armor-lock technology was salvaged from Project Freelancer. Fate is not without irony, and the past, is '''not without its just dessert.''']]
** [[spoiler: Most of the dead Freelancers appear to have caught on to Temple's motive and tried to turn their weapons on him before being locked. One, in particular, seemed quite close to landing a knife blow on him. Others, like Illinois (still holding his bottle of booze), appear to have been caught completely off-guard.]]
** [[spoiler: If you know the exact effects and stages of starvation, this makes it much worse. Illinois had to have had it the worst out of all of them, given that he literally had a bottle of booze ''in his grasp,'' but was unable to ever actually drink it.]]
** [[spoiler: Temple also reveals that the longest any of his victims lasted while locked in their armor was eight days and eleven hours. Let that sink in; [[AndIMustScream one of the Freelancers spent over a week trapped in a state in which he/she couldn't move, go to the bathroom, call for help, eat or drink anything,]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay all the while surrounded by the bodies of their murdered comrades]] [[CreepySouvenir who all died just as horribly]] before they themselves finally expired.]]
** [[spoiler: The sheer delight oozing from Temple's mouth as he confesses that he killed the Freelancers gives the idea that he might have lost some sanity after brushing paths with Project Freelancer.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Temple:''' I killed them. I. '''MURDERED'''. Them. I set my vengeance free upon them and it felt '''so-hoho good!''' But not as half as good as '''this''' feels.]]
** [[spoiler: The implications for Wash and Carolina are horrifying as well. The audience may not have known them, but they sure did, enough to recognize the armor and call them by name. These were all teammates, if not friends, and to find a whole room of your dead friends is horrifying.]]
** [[spoiler: Temple specifically mentioned that the reason he killed the other Freelancers was because of what they did to him, especially Carolina. He also mentioned that she might recognize his voice, which means he might be someone we have seen in the previous seasons, which raises the question: ''Who exactly is Temple''?]]
* These revelations get '''''even worse''''' (not to mention tragic) after episodes 12 and 13 (aka ''Blue vs. Red: Parts 1 and 2''). As revealed to Dylan by Temple in the first part, [[spoiler:it turns out there was a counterpart to Grif in the Blues and Reds called Biff. He and Temple were lifelong friends who'd been forced onto opposing sides by Project Freelancer. Eventually, Biff wanted to get home to his lover, so he and Temple planned for the latter to shoot off a finger off the former's hand, thereby earning Biff a medical discharge and a ride home]]. As Temple put it, "No plan survives first contact with the enemy".
** In the second part, we then follow [[spoiler:Carolina prior to her development during Season 10, with her being super competitive. It is even more extreme than her behavior shown during the Freelancer Trilogy. To elaborate, after the heist from Season 9, Carolina was assigned to lead the Blues from Armada 8 in a game of Capture the Flag against Tex, who was leading the Reds. It's clear that Carolina had no regard for the safety of her men, not even bothering to learn their names. After making short work of the Reds, Carolina engages in an intense hand-to-hand fight with Tex, which eventually leads to the two fighting over the Blue Flag in Blue Base. Biff and Temple follow in an attempt to have the Freelancers witness Biff getting shot, so as to ensure a legitimate medical discharge. Temple finds himself unable to, prompting Biff to reveal that Georgina is pregnant]].
** Suddenly, [[spoiler:Carolina [[KickTheDog grabs Biff and uses him as a human shield]], with Temple ''desperately'' trying to stop the fighting by tackling Carolina, who throws Temple off of her, grabbing his pistol, and shoots Tex in the back while she's escaping with the blue flag. In response, Tex throws the flag at Carolina, who narrowly deflects it with her arm... causing it to ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pin Biff to the wall through the midsection]]''. When Temple '''screams''' for a medic, Carolina just ''shoves'' Temple aside, making it clear that she doesn't even ''care'' about the Blues and Reds, before Tex knocks out Carolina to recover the flag. As Tex carelessly pulls the flag from Biff's torso, blood splatters onto Temple's armor in a manner hauntingly similar from the prologue, before Carolina and Tex depart, leaving Temple with a dying Biff, who bleeds out. Suddenly, it all makes sense as to why Temple is seeking bloody vengeance against the Freelancers/UNSC '''so badly'''. This casts a ''completely'' different context on his actions, and it's not hard to feel sorry for the man, let alone ponder [[FridgeHorror what manner of torment this has caused him]]]].
*** The implications of this are even worse: if [[spoiler:she hadn't deflected the pole, Carolina would've died from Tex's attack during this ''training exercise.'' Given that earlier seasons showed that she isn't normally so violent, Tex likely had ''Omega'' at this point. The Director sent an Omega-equipped Tex against his own daughter.]]
*** [[spoiler: Just, the utter callousness the simulation troopers are treated with. These are human beings who signed on to fight in the military, do something good. So what if they were incompetent or bad in a fight? [[FateWorseThanDeath They do not deserve]] to be traded away like slaves, [[WhatMeasureIsAMook as if they were nothing]], to an organization that treats them like CannonFodder at worst, [[UnwittingTestSubject Guinea Pigs at best]].]] [[spoiler: The reveal in episode 14 that '''every single sim trooper''' has joined Temple's cause confirms that the hatred due to being treated in such a manner is shared by all sim-troopers, and that they are willing to attack the UNSC to have revenge... and it's actually working.]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Temple:''' '''[[TheDogBitesBack The time has come to kill the masters.]]''' [[ItsPersonal The Freelancers to start,]] '''[[FromNobodyToNightmare but that's not where this story ends.]]''']]
** When [[TheDitz Jax]], [[TooDumbtoLive thinking his backstory was just a fake story]], criticizes [[spoiler:[[BigBad Temple's]]]] use of the "girl back home" trope, the enraged SerialKiller caps the poor guy.

** [[spoiler:The Blues and Reds have way, way more men than initially thought. '''Every single surviving sim trooper is under Temple's command.''' Even the flag zealots have joined them.]]
*** [[spoiler:Temple's sheer hatred and desire for vengeance against the Freelancers and the UNSC is no longer just the motivations of an insane killer. Most, if not all, of the surviving sim troopers share the same burning hatred and vengeance as he does...]]
*** [[spoiler:And now there is possibly an entire army of bloodthirsty terrorists at his command.]]

*** [[spoiler:They have already led multiple successful covert raids against UNSC military facilities, and have likely armed themselves with stolen equipment, possibly even armor enhancements. They can even lock [[SuperSoldier Freelancers]] in their armor and kill them by [[CruelandUnusualdeath starvation/dehydration]].]]
*** [[spoiler:They are '''very well-armed''' for simulation troopers. Surge has a powerful Railgun, plus Buckey and Temple both have sniper rifles and know how to use them (even Temple did manage to hit an aircraft's pilot section, though it took several attempts). They are also very efficient fighters, knowing the right weapons to use at the right time, and also proficient with their own weapons of choice. Loco is capable of building powerful equipment and explosives and sneaking past guards to plant said bombs. Hell, even the flag zealots are implied to be competent fighters.]]
*** What makes them truly devastating is the same thing that made the BGC succeed in many occasions: Their status as sim troopers means that most opponents will underestimate them, and because of this, they can strike down enemies that would be way above their league. Case in point: [[spoiler:a dozen Freelancer Agents, ten of which have already bitten the dust, and even the BGC themselves.]]
** Temple's final objective has been revealed: [[spoiler:The collapse of the UNSC itself in return for throwing away the lives of the simulation troopers. And with all the equipment and men he is shown to have, the upcoming fight is not going to be pretty for the UNSC...]]
** Temple wishes for the Reds and Blues to join him. What if this means that he also wishes for Chorus to join their war against the [[spoiler:UNSC]] as well?
*** [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn Doc and Sarge accept his offer.]]]]
* Episode 15:
** It's '''''severely''''' minor, in light of ''everything'' else, but seeing [[spoiler:Grif having more or less gone insane from loneliness, resorting to recreating the BGC with ''volleyballs'']].
*** In a rather fucked up moment, [[spoiler:Volleyball!Tucker and Caboose effectively blame Grif for ''letting Volleyball!Church die'' (since he promised to get the air pump earlier and forgot)]].
** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Locus is back.]]]] [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Only to give Grif Lopez's head, and then to help him save the others from the Blues and Reds.]]]]

** This episode gives us [[spoiler:Temple's BreakingSpeech about Church's death, complete with [[KickTheDog giving Caboose brutally honest treatment around it]], and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling the other three out]] about [[JerkassHasAPoint treating their teammate like a baby]] about these subjects]].
** [[spoiler:Carolina and Washington's situation is brought up again, and they both sound worn out and doing their best to remain conscious. Washington in particular sounds extremely exhausted, and he almost falls asleep in his armor. At some point he began to hallucinate, initially believing that Locus was another hallucination.]]
* Episode 17 ends on one '''''[[WhamShot ugly fucker]]''''' of a {{Cliffhanger}}. [[spoiler: The BGC, with Locus and the journalists, are metres away from Locus's ship, pinned down by some sim troopers left to guard the place by Temple. Suddenly, Wash walks forward, ''clearly'' hallucinating, without firing at the troops. When the others shout at him to take cover, he turns to face them ... then gets shot in the neck. The episode promptly blacks out after that.]]
* Episode 18 reveals the FridgeHorror-fueled end-game for [[spoiler:the Blues and Reds. Dylan finds out that Loco's machine is a mining drill powerful enough to drill through '''''the center of the Earth''''', and that Temple plans to use it to take out the UNSC headquarters from an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.]] Oh, and on a sidenote? The [[spoiler:power required for the drill to work is equivalent to a whole star]]... meaning that [[spoiler:the entire planet Earth is now at risk.]] Meditate on that and start panicking.
* Episode 19 adds a twist to the previous episode's entry that makes it go '''''beyond the pale'''''. As Dylan finds out, [[spoiler:the Blues and Reds drill also functions as a time machine. But with so much energy being used in the present to drill through the Earth, there's going to be an equivalent amount of residual energy bleeding in from the past because of this... resulting in the creation of a ''honest-to-God '''black hole''' within the Earth'', in addition to all the seismic and tidal repercussions]]. No wonder Dylan's scientist contact plans to pass out drunk with his lab-mates - they [[spoiler:won't be aware of the Apocalypse when it kills them]].
** And the ending shot rivals episode 17's in terms of sheer shock value. [[spoiler:After taking the ground surrounding Temple's fortress]], Dylan informs the rest of the BGC about the above revelations. [[spoiler:As they prepare to storm said fortress, the drill activates. Thank God that VIC was able to shut down the machine in time.]]

-->'''Doc:''' Ha ha ha… Oh Grif… ha ha ha... (Doc's laugh slowly transforms into the '''very well-known''' laugh of O'Malley himself...!)

-->'''Grif:''' '''O’Malley?!'''

*** We find out in the next episode that she's not remorseful over leaving... rather, she accidentally [[spoiler: ''burned her and Grif's childhood house down.'']]

--> Locus: '''[[BigShutUp Enough!!]]''' (to [[spoiler:Felix]]) How many times '''must''' I tell you?! If you want to make the victim '''suffer''', you do it '''quickly''' and '''efficiently'''! (to the Reds and Blues) There will be no rescue for you. [[KillEmAll You will die here today, along with the rest.]] [[NeverFoundTheBody No one will find your bodies,]] [[PlayingBothSides no one will know the truth]], and '''[[TemptingFate no one]]''' [[NothingCanStopUsNow is going to stop us from]] '''[[spoiler: [[OmnicidalManiac killing every last person on this planet!]] ]]'''

* There is a temple on the planet that [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll will kill everyone]] on the planet with the turn of a key, '''precisely''' how the fearsome [[ItsTheonlywaytobesure Halo Arrays]] do, except in this instance it's limited to the planet itself. And now Sharkface and Felix are heading towards it]].

** The location of the Purge Temple: A DarkWorld-esque environment of [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver dark volcanic stone that's studded with jagged blood-red crystals]], with a perpetual storm raging in a [[RedFilterOfDoom crimson sky]], which is '''very''' eerily similar to [[DeathWorld Malachor V]] (Hell, it even has one of the '''exact''' lightning sounds from it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iT2VpZU_E no bullshit]]) from [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]], minus the poisonous gas. The temple itself floats above a vast chasm, separated from the rest of the area by a light bridge. Considering that this place has the power to [[KillEmAll wipe out all life on Chorus]], it's a rather symbolic backdrop.

* A subtle but intense moment in episode 21. Church contacts the new Tex AI and the scene mirrors the one in episode 19. It's an incredible TearJerker, but then you realize that the Director has been subjecting ''Allison'', the woman he loved more than anyone else in the world, to the same tortures he subjected Alpha to.]] ''What in hell is WRONG with that man?!''

** When Tex kneels down, you can hear Omega urging her to kill Carolina ("end it ... you know you want to"). And Tex ''actually starts to reach out'' before pulling back. Where's [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles the funny, hammy O'Malley]] when you need him?

* The Chairman, tired of [[spoiler: Felix]] and [[spoiler: Locus]] failing to deliver on what their contracts promised, believes the mercenaries simply need the right motivation to get the job done. So what does he offer? [[spoiler: The Meta's armour, complete with all the enhancements he stole from all the other Freelancers]]. To the winner go the spoils in the form of "field testing". But if they fail to succeed before it is complete? Then another goes in their place and does the job anyway, and '''then''' [[FromBadToWorse take care of any ''loose ends'']]. [[UpToEleven What makes it even worse]] is the Chairman is working his way into acquiring a new AI, one more powerful than Epsilon. All this complete with [[spoiler: ''When Your Middle Name Is Danger'']] playing in the background.

** Very much doubling as an in-universe example, the episode ends with Jax deciding to conduct an experiment with the others concerning Sarge using the time gun to go back in time to before their meeting, and hiding in a storage closet that's in the room; the deciding factor of the experiment, keep in mind, is Sarge deciding whether or not to do it ''after'' the meeting. While Simmons chooses to summarize the experiment as being like UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat (as the only way they can tell if Sarge actually did so or not is to open the closet now).

* The attack on the Fed base in episode 10. [[spoiler: Simmons is the only one to notice that the alarms they'd set off have stopped. Then they emerge to an apparently deserted area, and the first Fed they see is disintigrated by a Forerunner weapon. Suddenly there's Fed soldiers being hit by Forerunner ammunition all over the place, and its done in such a manner that you can't help but wonder if the Prometheans have been introduced...nope, turns out it's just Locus's forces using active camo. Still damn freaky.]]

* Episode 18 reveals the FridgeHorror-fueled end-game for [[spoiler:the Blues and Reds. Dylan finds out that Loco's machine is a mining drill powerful enough to drill through '''''the center of the Earth''''', and that Temple plans to use it to take out the UNSC headquarters from an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.]] Oh, and on a sidenote? The [[spoiler:power required for the drill to work is equivalent to a whole star]]... meaning that [[spoiler:the entire planet Earth is now at risk.]] Meditate on that and [[YouCanPanicNow start panicking]].

* Right from the start, ''Reconstruction'' demonstrates it's [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] tone with an intensely creepy scene. A shellshocked soldier's recount of O'Malley's MindRape and slaughter of an entire outpost of simulation troopers. Needless to say, it's chilling to hear a previously comedic villain described in such a brutal and serious manner.
** Which actually brings up a good source of FridgeHorror. While it was PlayedForLaughs during ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'', O'Malley's infections would be ''terrifying'' if they happened in RealLife. Imagine it, you're hanging out with your friend Frank, chatting aimlessly, messing around. All of a sudden, Frank starts laughing like a maniac and screaming about how he's going to split open everyone's skulls and drink the blood that flows out. At first you're thinking ''"What kind of drugs are you on mate?"'' But then Frank grabs you by the throat and starts [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown smashing your head into the ground]]. Bob sees what's happening and rushes over to help you. The two of you somehow manage to subdue Frank and tie him up. At this point Frank relaxes and you breath a sigh of relief, thinking the crisis is over. '''''[[InescapableHorror Then Bob begins to laugh...]]'''''
** That's not even getting into what it must be like for the person being possessed. While it was PlayedForLaughs, it's been well established in Canon that O'malley's hosts are sometimes fully aware when he's possessing them. Which means you could be forced to watch while your own hands are used to brutally murder everyone you care about. Which means it must've downright horrible for Doc. Again, PlayedForLaughs, but Doc is a very gentle and caring person who's a pacifist. And he was forced to go after and attempt to kill the very people whom he was sent to help.

* The Meta is an incredibly menacing villain. A merciless psychopath with the intelligence and efficiency of an elite assassin, and the ruthlessness and brutality of a wild animal. If it wants you dead it will hunt you to the ends of the earth. It will slaughter thousands to get to you, and not even ''shoving an energy sword through its chest'' will kill it. And The Meta is ''smart''. It's not some raving monster charging towards you, it is a ruthless and intelligent predator that will hunt you until the day you die. Not to mention it never talks, just softly and eeriely growls, and that blank mask like helmet really drives home The Meta's inhumanity.

* The story of how the A.Is were created. The Alpha (AKA ''Church'') was tortured until it went insane and started developing split personalities.

* During the fight in Episode 10 of Season 9 Wyoming and Maine replace their paint rounds with live ammunition and try to kill Tex. Just the way they start walking and firing so casually is terrifying. Worst part is that the Director ''praised'' them for doing so. [[FridgeHorror Which means you can flat-out murder your own teammate]] [[KarmaHoudini and receive no punishment for it]].

* It's one thing for the Blood Gulch guys to take potshots at each other -- it's pretty much a sign of affection. But when Carolina does it ... brrrrr. (And at [[KickTheDog Caboose]], no less!) Her temper is really starting to get pushed, as well; she fires a warning shot right past Caboose when his stupidity keeps annoying her. Honestly, she seems to be [[HeWhoFightsMonsters even worse than her rival]] at that point.

* Those two Insurrectionist soldiers in episode nine. There's just something about eery about their happy/sad visors, emblems on their machine guns, the way they talk with giggles and weeps, and the creepy carnival music that kicks in when they appear. They die when Mysterious Blue Guy shoots a crane, causing them to fall over a railing and be killed by a giant crate. What's weird is when it lands, the blood splatters are yellow. Although it could easily be the paint cans they were using, the idea of it being AlienBlood is still a creepy thought. Even creepier? The people voicing them are Michael Jones and his wife Lindsay. They're both known for being nice people. Yet in this they're outright creepy.

** An absolutely horrific one revealed in the same episode but that literally spans the entire story line: It's all Carolina's fault. She gave up Sigma so that Maine could communicate thereby dooming him to become Sigma's puppet, and now she essentially robbed South of an AI and Wash of a sane AI. If she hadn't done this North (all the Freelancers, actually) would be alive, and Wash would never have suffered the Epsilon Incident. Of course, it's pretty much Sigma's fault for the most part, but her hubris led to, in the least, the fall of everyone except Maine. Granted, there's no way of knowing if Carolina wouldn't have done the same thing Maine did if she had kept Sigma. Also, given the nature of Epsilon, it would've undoubtedly done the same thing to whoever it got installed into as it did for Washington.

** Carolina, who's still utterly loyal to the Director, finds herself forced to fight York, the person she cares most about. Who, in her eyes, betrayed her and all that she stands for. She then loses miserably to her life's greatest rival. Just as she's recovering from that, the nightmare known as the Meta ''rips out the AI chips from her head'' and throws her off a cliff. ''Damn.'' Listen to the music playing in that scene with the Meta. It's a reprise of the music that played when he stabbed Tex.

* Carolina and Church finally track down the Director's hiding place ... and find about a hundred robots that look like Tex and ''sound like O'Malley''. Cue one of the biggest "Oh, ''[[OhCrap crap]]''"s of the entire series.
* A subtle but intense moment in episode 21 Church contacts the new Tex AI and the scene mirrors the one in episode 19. It's an incredible TearJerker, but then you realize that the Director has been subjecting ''Allison'', the woman he loved more than anyone else in the world, to the same tortures he subjected Alpha to.]] ''What in hell is WRONG with that man?!''

* Season 12, Episode 2 probably had a in-universe one for Tucker when Locus arrives. This guy just killed Tucker's squadmate and decimated half of Tucker's friends, including a former special agent and leader responsible for the destruction of Project Freelancer HQ, and is now stalking in Tucker's direction as bright red letters across Tucker's HUD spell out "'''EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION'''", meaning the only thing keeping Tucker from his notice is going to stop working ANY second. Fortunately a '''very''' conveniently-timed [[ConvenientlyTimedDistraction distraction]] in the form of one of the explosive sticky detonator bombs the team was planting earlier detonates, the direction of the explosion causes Locus to turn around just mere '''seconds''' before Tucker's Active Camo unit finally bugs out.

* Tucker [[spoiler:turning on the alien temple]], while awesome, [[spoiler:is rather creepy in it's mysteriousness and the fact that a mysterious alien voice begins talking to Tucker and the others before turning the temple off.]]

Well, since Blood Gulch Chronicles is very heavily centered on humor and black comedy, there is relatively little in the way of straight horror. It ''does'', however, have plenty of {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}s and FridgeHorror, especially after the later seasons were released.

** Suddenly, [[spoiler:Carolina [[KickTheDog grabs Biff and uses him as a human shield]], with Temple ''desperately'' trying to stop the fighting by tackling Carolina, who throws Temple off of her, grabbing his pistol, and shoots Tex in the back while she's escaping with the blue flag. In response, Tex throws the flag at Carolina, who narrowly deflects it with her arm... causing it to ''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pin Biff to the wall through the midsection]]''. When Temple '''screams''' for a medic, Carolina just ''shoves'' Temple aside, making it clear that she doesn't give a ''damn'' about the Blues and Reds, before Tex knocks out Carolina to recover the flag. As Tex carelessly pulls the flag from Biff's torso, blood splatters onto Temple's armor in a manner hauntingly similar from the prologue, before Carolina and Tex depart, leaving Temple with a dying Biff, who bleeds out. Suddenly, it all makes sense as to why Temple is seeking bloody vengeance against the Freelancers/UNSC '''so badly'''. This casts a ''completely'' different context on his actions, and it's not hard to feel sorry for the man, let alone ponder [[FridgeHorror what manner of torment this has caused him]]]].

-->[[spoiler: '''Temple:''' '''[[TheDogBitesBack The time has come to kill the masters.]]''' [[ItsPersonal The Freelancers to start,]] '''[[FromNobodyToNightmare but that's not where this story ends.]]''']]

*** [[spoiler:They have already led multiple successful covert raids against UNSC military facilities, and have likely armed themselves with stolen equipment, possibly even armor enhancements. They can even lock [[SuperSoldier Freelancers]] in their armor and kill them via [[CruelandUnusualdeath starvation/dehydration]].]]

** [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse Locus is back.]]]] [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope And he shows up to give Grif Lopez's head, and then to help him save the others from the Blues and Reds.]]]]

* WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DONUT! In the intro, we see the spark from the Time Machine hit Donut, and later, when Caboose goes to get him there are multiple donuts glitching out everywhere with Donut himself hovering and seemingly generating them. Then they all get absorbed by Donut who goes through horrific BodyHorror causing him to constantly shift in inhuman positions before finally disappearing.

** Very much doubling as an in-universe example, the episode ends with Jax deciding to conduct an experiment with the others concerning Sarge using the time gun to go back in time to before their meeting, and hiding in a storage closet that's in the room; the deciding factor of the experiment, keep in mind, is Sarge deciding whether or not to do it ''after'' the meeting. While Simmons chooses to summarize the experiment as being like UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat (as the only way they can tell if Sarge actually did so or not is to open the closet now), Carolina puts it in blunter terms.
--->'''Carolina''': (slightly horrified) So, this test is going to prove or disprove the ''[[SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate very existence of free will]]''.
--->'''Jax''': (glances back towards the closet; turns back to Carolina) [[BrutalHonesty ...yep!]]

* Episode 13 has Wash's angry outburst at the Reds and Blues and Carolina for not telling him that he had brain damage, even though the Reds and Blues had ''no idea he even had brain damage.'' It's probably his ugliest mood swing so far this season, and would normally only fall under Tearjerker if not for the infamous "When Your Middle Name Is Danger" track playing in the background. This does not bode well.

** The next episode shows more on the Labyrinth, and ooh boy. It reflects the negative emotions of those within, until self-destruction is the best choice. And every once in a while, it shows those trapped what they think they want in life, only to deconstruct [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor how they wouldn't be happy with that either]]. Wash sees everyone dying, Sarge can't live like a civilian ''or'' a soldier, Carolina sees her past-self telling her she's become worthless, Grif endures a coach even more psychotic than Sarge... and while Lopez becoming human and speaking English is funny, him being shunned now that everyone understands him and eventually driven to throw himself off a cliff is a terrible sight. The Labyrinth is a place that not only creates your worst nightmares, but also destroys your greatest dreams.

* As of Episode 12: [[spoiler: the bad guys have the key that could let them destroy all life on Chorus. However, said key doesn't work for them... yet. As Shark-Face points out, all they need to do is kill General Doyle...]]

* There is something incredibly unsettling about Flowers in Episode 3. He's still cheery, friendly and polite, even as he congratulates Lemons for finding the perfect candidate while Sarge is about to kill Lemons for his perceived blue allegiance and Lemons pleads over the radio for help.

* The concept of the Purge system. So how do [[spoiler:Locus]] and [[spoiler:Felix]] split the prisoners who will join them from those who won't? [[spoiler:Felix]] tells them that if they fight against [[spoiler:the people of Chorus]], they will go free and be rich. Then he tells the prisoners who will join him to put their hands on the prison bars while those who won't will be let off the ship. [[spoiler:Felix then opens the air locks in the cells, [[ThrownOuttheairlock sucking all of those not grasping the bars out into space, along with some who tried, but weren't able to hang on.]]]] Well, that's a very horrifying, yet incredible way to recruit prisoners.

** Fridge Horror kicks in given how [[spoiler:sad and tired FILSS sounds. And keep in mind that the only other times AIs have sounded/been tired... well, it was Alpha and Tex in the aftermath of full-on torture. So what has the Chairman done to her? [[NotSoDifferent Perhaps the same things he once pulled the Director up on doing.]] ]]

--> '''"[[SuddenlyShouting YOU DON'T KNOW THE FIRST]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness THING ABOUT ME, LADY]]!"'''

** Santa's explanation of the dynamic between Locus and [[spoiler: Felix]] is chilling. [[spoiler:Felix ''knew'' that Locus was broken by war... and exploited this by convincing Locus that he didn't ''need'' help with his condition--that he was a soldier, not a monster. In other words, Felix took advantage of Locus's broken psyche for his own purposes, as it's implied that ''he's'' the one who helped mold Locus into who he was in Season 11, before Wash came along and challenged that outlook. And why? Because ''Locus was the better soldier'', and that bruised Felix's ego so much that he ruined Locus's chance at a normal life just so he could use his partner as a weapon to continue his atrocities unchallenged.]] [[spoiler: Felix]] is the '''real''' fucking monster.

* Locus finally allows emotion to enter his voice when [[spoiler: he gets fed up with Felix's gloating]] in episode 10. Specifically, a dark, malevolent ''venom:''

** The scariest part of the Meta is that, of all the major villains in the show, it was never beaten without the BGC losing someone in the process. Wyoming, CT, the Director, and even Charon's elite mercs from seasons 9-13? Everyone got out okay. In Reconstruction, where the Meta debuted? They lost the original versions of Church, the Alpha-Fragments, and Tex. In Revelations, they ultimately lost Epsilon-Tex.