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*** And the two of them (the 2nd and final ones) were so hard, they cracked stone.
-->'''Grif''': Why won't you ''just kill me''?

*** And the final one was so hard, it cracked stone.

* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler: Despite only being 'trainees' used as practice for Freelancers, the Blood Gulch Red and Blue teams managed to take down: [[SuperSoldier Omega]], [[OneManArmy Tex]], [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] and dozens of badasses without suffering casualities. At the very least, [[MadScientist Sarge]] and [[BadassNormal Tucker]] are ''far'' more skilled than their status as simulation-fodder suggests.]]

* ChangingOfTheGuard: "Recovery One" introduced Washington as a completely new protagonist. He is joined by the majority of the original cast eventually, however.

* ContinuitySnarl: Most of the series thus far still makes sense within the context of Church being [[spoiler:an AI]].

* {{Deconstruction}} of the parodic nature of "Blood Gulch Chronicles". All the wacky hijinks they had in the previous series, they get punished for and are now dealing with a more realistic military. There is an actual reason for all those robots and AI programs that kept popping up all over the place. Even the pointlessness of fighting a base in the middle of a box canyon is addressed. The parodic personalities of the Blood Gulch team meeting the more serious military personalities only made it even funnier.
* DoingInTheWizard

* EvilOverlord: Washington claims the Director is one of these, and that the teams' ultimate goal is to defeat him.
* {{Flanderization}}: Flag Zealots aside, Caboose only killed his teammates twice, once with a malfunctioning tank, once while the teammate was possessing an enemy Red. Now telling him to help his allies is a surefire way to get them shot.
* FreezeFrameBonus: In the ''Reconstruction'' finale, the Meta's 7 captured A.I.s can be seen, including one that has since been identified as Tex. [[spoiler: When Church sacrifices himself to defeat Meta, Tex is the only A.I. to visible react (she turns towards him when he charges at Meta)]].
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Church is questioning Delta about Wash's sanity, Wash is in the background shooting [[spoiler: South's]] body, dropping a grenade on it, roasting it with a flamethrower, and finally rolling a bunch of Fusion Coils up to it and detonating them.
* GainaxEnding

* OnlySaneMan: Wash whenever he has to interact with the characters from the previous seasons. His presence is the primary cause of CerebusSyndrome. The Meta is the cause of the rest.

* {{Reconstruction}}: All the video game tropes picked apart in the Blood Gulch Chronicles are being put back together. And, ya know, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it's the name of the season.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: After Sarge snaps out of his HeroicBSOD. He softly leaves his hatred against the Blues behind him, gives a rather epic RousingSpeech that even drives Grif to help him, and sets out with the rest to make everyone from the Project Freelancer pay for what they did to them.
** [[spoiler: Washington, after a lifetime of betrayal, finally betrays someone himself. When they welcome him back with open arms, he is audibly shocked and contemplating what this means to him.]]

** Caboose's outdated armor. [[spoiler: It isn't equipped with safety protocols like Armor Lockdown.]]

* ChekhovsSkill a [[StealthPun Meta Example]] when the Meta gets his AI abilities back (invisibility, shield dome etc.) [[spoiler:and turns on Washington]] to fight the Reds and Blues. These abilities are very similar to the armor abilities in HaloReach (the next game after ''{{Halo 3}}'') also Washington uses a knife, which is also something new to ''{{Halo}}'' gameplay in Reach.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: After 3 seasons, this is how the Meta is finally dispatched.]] He was [[spoiler: a BadassNormal without any functioning equipment units when he fell]] and the response unit certainly sounds sure that he's dead. However, it's unknown whether the UNSC forces [[NeverFoundTheBody found a body]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Despite everyone's efforts, Epsilon-Church is trapped within the AI storage device, and summons up an image of Blood Gulch from just before the first episode of the series to live in while he searches for Tex.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: Shortly after making fun of one of Doc's suggestions for tracking the protagonists to the point of making him walk away in frustration, Wash quietly tries it out. Doc calls him out on it later.
* DynamicEntry: Project Freelancer's secret weapon ''punches a sealed metal door off its hinges''. Bad. Ass.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In Revelations 17, Sarge reveals that this trope has been [[spoiler: inverted all along: His name is "Sarge". He is Staff Sergeant Sarge. Or S-Dog.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: After spending most of the season in the role of DeadpanSnarker comic relief, The Meta is back to full-on ultimate evil in Episode 19 just in case you forgot he was the BigBad of the trilogy.]]

* OminousLatinChanting: Near the end of the battle between [[spoiler:Tex, Wash, and the Meta]], this occurs. The chant is "Plagam extremam infilgere," which [[BilingualBonus roughly translates to "violent murder."]] [[spoiler:Considering what the Meta does to Tex in this scene, it's rather fitting]]
** I suspect they intended the translation to be "bloody murder" and thus a callback gag to the Sidewinder troop who ran around literally screaming "bloody murder".
*** That would make sense if there a humorous nature to what happens during the song, but considering [[TheHeroDies what happened]], that's unlikely.

--> '''Doc:''' No. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Maybe.]] If we use another person, sure. It sounds kinda interesting.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Tex, [[BoomHeadshot in the face]]]].
* InterestingSituationDuel: [[spoiler: Tex's]] beatdown on the Red's and Tucker in the Freelancer base filled with teleporters and her fight with [[spoiler: Wash and Meta]] on Avalanche utilizing timed explosives and collapsing ice.
* IronicEcho: Sarge gives one to one of the first one-liners of the series... before going into a fantastic RousingSpeech centered around that one line. [[spoiler: [[ArcWords "You ever wonder why we're here?"]]]]

-->'''Simmons:''' All of us.
-->'''Sarge:''' All of us. All of us will probably die. But that's not what's important. Let me ask you two a question... you ever wonder why we're here?
-->'''Grif:''' (''both look at each other'') Umm... it does seem to be one of life's great mysteries...
-->'''Sarge:''' No, I mean you! What are YOU doing here?! You always act like you want to quit. You could have left whenever you wanted, nobody would have stopped you! So why are ya here? And you, Simmons!

-->'''Sarge:''' You say you want to be in charge. They would've given you your own squad a dozen times over! You know it, and I know it. And you, Tucker. As much as I hate to say it, you're actually good at being a soldier!

-->'''Sarge:''' I know you like to make yer' rude comments and pretend like it doesn't matter! But an entire alien RACE chose to make you their hero! So why are YOU here? And Caboose... ummm... it's good to see you?

-->'''Sarge:''' Maybe you're all here because this is the only place you fit in. Maybe you're here because you don't have anywhere else to go. Maybe you're here because you want to be here. The reason doesn't matter! What matters is that you're here. For all we know, Tex and Church are dead. That means we're the only ones who know what's happened, and the only ones who can prevent them from covering it up! The way I figure it... these Freelancers guy want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the daggone galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em just what exactly what a big fight is all about! Time to clean a slate! I'm not orderin' ya too! I'm not even asking ya. You do... what ya GOTTA do, Private Grif.

--> '''Washington''': "We don't need him to believe... until the next time we encounter the Meta."

--> '''Washington''': "What the hell was that?!"
--> '''Sarge''': "Come on! Do you even need to ask?"

--> '''Wash:''' "How do you ever get anything done if all you ever do is argue with each other??"
--> '''Church:''' "We don't! That's part of our charm! Quit fucking it up!"

-->'''Washington''': "Now I know you guys are all wrapped up in your Red vs. Blue battles..."
-->'''Caboose''': " [[InsistentTerminology Blue versus Red.]] No one says Red versus Blue. It sounds stupid when you say it like that."

--> '''Wash:''' Stop lecturing me, or I will shoot you, and feed you to the Meta.

--> '''Sarge:''' "Attack!"
--> '''Simmons:''' "Get 'im!"
--> '''Grif:''' "We're gonna fucking die!"

* ContinuityNod: [[WordOfGod Bernie Burns has said]] that "memory" is a key theme of the Revelation season, and thus it is full of them to reinforce that:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[ArcWords Memory]] [[KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories is key.]]

** Hell, by the end the two teams are practically a rather vitriolic {{Nakama}}.

-->'''Caboose:''' What? I thought we were done with that part.

** [[spoiler: [[DoubleSubversion Although he may be wrong]], depending on [[YourMileageMayVary your interpretation]] of Episode 19. Are his actions because of this trope, or because he's a pacifist who's taken a Hippocratic oath?]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Tex]].

* IronicEcho: Sarge gives one to one of the first one-liners of the series... before going into a fantastic RousingSpeech centered around that one line. [[spoiler: "You ever wonder why we're here?"]]

** TheChick: [[spoiler: Grif]]
*** One could argue that [[spoiler: Grif]] is more of a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], while [[spoiler: Caboose]] is more of a [[TheChick Chick]]; [[spoiler: Caboose doesn't do any fighting, whereas Grif does, and Caboose is also much more sensitive and caring than Grif is.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: For the director, [[spoiler: the RedvsBlue teams were created to put Freelancers in realistic, potentially deadly simulations to perfect and weed out the participants while using the dregs of the army]]. Blood Gulch proved to be [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits highly incompetent and efficient at the same time]] in this regard [[BeyondTheImpossible beyond his wildest expectations]].