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As for Jenkins, that takes a lot more explaining, but fills in a lot of holes. Jenkins has only had three appearances, all arguably non-canon. The first was in an alternate ending of Season 5, where Church dreamed up the events of the Blood Gulch Chronicles after being shot by Sheila. Jenkins is suddenly part of the blue team, and asks if he was in the dream, to which Church says he wasn’t. The second was an extra scene from Season 7 which is now only viewable on DVD. Sarge recounts (an exaggerated version of) the time he deleted the Blues. The end of the flashback shows Caboose inexplicably talking to Jenkins. The last "appearance" was his name being on the list of recruits to send if Flowers died in the Season 14 prequels, listed just after Sister. The last one is easy enough to explain if Genkins knows the Director. He can pull some strings to become a sim trooper under a fake name and get on the Blood Gulch roster. Chrovos was likely planning on using the Reds and Blues for their plan years before Season 16 kicked off, and they would want Genkins to gather intel. But what about the other two?

Finally, there's the alternate ending. The only way it really makes sense with the [=RvB=] universe is if the alternate endings are all Everwhen alternate timelines. There is proof of this, aside from Jenkins appearing in one of them. Another ending has Sarge snap, convinced that destroying Vic will somehow tear apart the fabric of reality. Since Genkins can try to influence humans outfitted with AI units, it's possible he just told Sarge part of the truth: By destroying Vic, he would create an alternate timeline which would bring the universe one step closer to breaking. But that doesn't explain the message congratulating Sarge for "beating the game" afterward. Although most of the timelines we see in Season 17 are the result of one change, there are splits in Chrovos's prison wall with two cracks, meaning Genkins has stayed in some of his alternate timelines to make more than one change. That's what he did in this ending. The first change was making Sarge destroy Vic. The second was taking over Vic to display that message just to screw with Sarge some more. Same with the ending where Jenkins appears. The first change was bumping his past self up on the list so he would be sent to Blood Gulch early on. The second was making Church dream the events of The Blood Gulch Chronicles (maybe even just jogging his memory from the main timeline). The other alternate endings are easier to explain: Convincing Sheila to kill the Reds and Blues, goading Sarge into taunting Church, and making Tex and Wyoming's plan succeed, leading to an alien invasion.

[[WMG: The post-Season 13 PSAs all exist In Universe.]]
The Blood Gulch Crew decided to take advantage of their newfound popularity to make a few extra bucks, so they pitched the PSA idea to the studio they sold their film rights to. Although they were supposed to be completely straight PSAs, the BGC's trademark brand of silliness got in the way, resulting in the PSAs as we know them, and the studio decided to roll with it, knowing that getting these idiots to follow a script to the letter is more trouble than it's worth.

* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Confirmed]], albeit with the assistance of Simmons, with the setup by Sarge, and Washington providing the idea.

"GRIF!!! BRAVE!!!! yeah right what the hell are you smoking you dork!, he's a lazy coward who only think's about himself." Is what I here you say, but consider this, during the final battle in Revelations Grif run's RIGHT at The Meta, even if he's screaming in terror he doesn't hesitate one bit and is even one of the first to start attacking the Meta but that's not the best part. The true CrowningMomentOfAwesome comes when Grif LEAPS ONTO THE META'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just to steal his Brute Shot away. Remember now that Grif is absolutely TERRIFIED of The Meta and would (correctly) consider such an action to be suicide, and yet he does it anyway, but this isn't just a demonstration of his HiddenDepths of courage it is also proof of his cunning. Heres proof: now if you watch the part of the fight between Meta entering melee combat and Grif stealing his Brute shot you realise that it Was the Meta's Brute shot that was giving him such an advantage at that point. He used it to take out Simmon's and Tucker and to stop both Sarge and Tucker's attacks, Grif realises this within seconds and, without hesitation places himself in incredible danger in an act that is almost self sacrificing(he doesn't actually die from it but there was a 92% chance tha he would have) just to deprive the enemy of his primary weapon and defense, and give his friend's a chance to win, for this very reason this Troper now bestows upon Grif the title of: MagnificentBastard

[[WMG: Caboose is not naturally strong, He is actually using Tex's Strength enhancement]]
When caboose first shows up, he isn't as supernaturally strong as he's later shown to be. Which is after Tex got 'killed'. Caboose's strength is pretty much the same as what we say Tex doing during her first appearance, so it seems liekly that Caboose stole her strength boosting armor enhancement for himself. This would also seem to explain why he can't use it easily without O'malley/Omega or Epsilon in his head.. the system needs an AI fragment to function effectively, so without it he has a hard time getting it to work at anything but basic levels.

[[WMG: Caboose [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees was]] [[CerebusRetcon abused and/or neglected as a child]]]]

[[WMG: Spencer Porkinsenson is a DevilInDisguise.]]

Season 15 set Spencer up as an AmbiguouslyHuman, AmbiguouslyEvil character, then had the twist of him being a process server. This season will twist the twist and reveal that Spencer actually isn’t human after all, but a demonic god working with the so-called "Devil King". The foreshadowing is there. His mannerisms and armor are similar to the death goddess, he wields an alien weapon, and his ridiculous name and his job could be a misguided attempt at pretending to be a normal human. Furthermore, when the death goddess first appears, she emerges from a storm cloud. What accompanied Spencer every time he entered a scene? A lightning storm.

[[WMG: Spencer Porkinsenson is in league with the mysterious godlike beings.]]
Season 15 set Spencer up as an AmbiguouslyHuman, AmbiguouslyEvil character, then had the twist of him being a process server. This season will twist the twist and reveal that Spencer actually isn’t human after all. The foreshadowing is there. His mannerisms are similar to Muggins, he has similar-looking armor to the four-armed figure in the trailer, he wields an alien weapon, and his ridiculous name and his job could be a misguided attempt at pretending to be a normal human.

[[WMG: Grif is the reason humans are equated to/renamed Shisnos by aliens]]
Hear me out. At one random point during the Blood Gulch Chronicles, "Gary" says "Luckily, I am not lazy like a shisno". And who is infamously lazy among the Blood Gulch Crew? Grif. Since the Shisno Paradox will (probably?) feature time travel, it's entirely possible that Grif is the first human encounter the aliens will have and it goes so poorly, the aliens promptly decide that the entirety of Grif's species will be referred to as shisnos from then on.

It's even possible that Grif's influence (humans = shisnos) is an indirect cause of the human-covenant wars! Sounds farfetched, but may I remind you that, canonically, two scary good human soldiers killed an entire squad of aliens, just for calling them shisnos (granted, neither Wash nor Meta were stable minds at the time, but still...). So yes, it's possible that "shisno" could have caused a horrifying war. The theory works, because Grif's theoretical actions are also a self-fulfilling paradox, ergo the SHISNO PARADOX. Grif would have had to be on Red Team to eventually go back in time, but the only reason he was on Red Team was because of the war, but the war only exists because he went back in time, but he only went back in time because of the events following/caused by the war, with the war itself only happening, because he went back in time, etc.

So, if this is all true, then Grif's actions in the past means Red Team's influence over the whole series becomes greater than Blue Team's! Since, you know, Grif is the one that ultimately caused the human-covenant wars, which in turn caused Dr. Leonard Church to lose his wife, which in turn caused Project Freelancer, which in turn caused the Simulation Troopers, which in turn caused the series we love called Red vs Blue. In other words, Team Red rules, Blue team drools! Suck on that blues!

[[WMG: The villain of Season 16 will be a MasterOfIllusion]]
He/she will be able to use some kind of technology (possibly a modified holographic projector) that creates hard-light images of something or someone that are indistinguishable from the real thing (except for the occasional glitch effect). They will have a vendetta against the Reds and Blues for an unknown reason (most likely because of something that happened on Chorus), and thus they will use their abilities to lure them to an uninhabited planet and attack them with illusionary versions of Felix, Locus (in his old colors), the Meta, and Temple (though given that he's in prison and not dead, he could be the real thing just to throw the audience for a loop). They will also create an illusionary version of Church who will appear to be the real deal, even giving a detailed explanation for his survival. The new villain's abilities and the he fact that the other villains (and Church) are all fakes will not be revealed until partway through the season when [[SpannerInTheWorks the real Locus shows up]].
** So basically, this new villain would be the [=RvB=] version of [[VideoGame/SonicForces Infinite?]]
*** I admit, that was an inspiration.
** Why Temple? He’s less of a fighter and more of a schemer, which this new villain probably wouldn’t have a need for. Wyoming or Surge would be better choices.
*** Really, with this kind of MindScrew, anyone could really show up (maybe even Spencer Porkensenson, whether it be for a quick gag or if the villain's specifically trying to fuck with Tucker). Temple was just one of my first thoughts because he left more of a personal mark on the Reds and Blues than Wyoming or Surge, and credibility is already being pushed with all the dead villains showing up (plus, that armor lock of his could always come in handy).

[[WMG: Season 16 will show the Reds and Blues going back to Blood Gulch before their next adventure.]]
They’ve been trying to go back to Blood Gulch since the end of Season 10. It’s about time they got what they wanted. It'll either be in the first episode, or a video leading up to the start of the season. They’ve already made a faithful recreation of Blood Gulch in Halo 5, practically begging to be used for a scene like this.

** This all takes places post human-covenant war perhaps even post Reclaimer Trilogy. Technolgy of the UNSC Spartan project has now become military standard issue and is acessiable in heavily downgraded form for civilians. The Freelancer project was an attempt to make Private Military Contractor equivelants of Spartan IV's. The Simulation troopers are rejects from the Spartan IV program, Sarge was mentally scarred from his ODST service during the human-covenant war and is now overly earger for conflict and has questionable leadership abilites, Griff was lazy and undisciplined, Simmons while capable as a regular soldier was discovered that he forged his eligibility as a candatiate for Spartan selection and had done major butkissing with upper brass, Donunt and Tucker were more than qualified for serivce as Spartan IV's but where both dishonorly discharged for 'disorderly conduct', Caboose is actually Noble 6 who surived Reach but is suffering from extreme brain damage to the point he is no longer an asset, Sister suffered complications with her augmentations causing her to become color blind and to suffer moderate brain damage.

* Given that there was a preview of the animated ''[=RvB=]'' series featuring Church, Grif, and Simmons at [[PennyArcade PAX]], his survival, should the upcoming series be a true sequel, seems assured.

** I admit, that was an inspiration.