Line #88 Trivia/RedVsBlue


1	!! Warning: Administrivia/SpoilersOff applies to these pages before ''Singularity''. Proceed at your own risk.
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3	!!Trivia Tropes:
4	* ActingForTwo: Several times, given that many people play multiple parts.
5	** Burnie Burns plays Church, Lopez, Vic, and other voices when needed; he also does sound effects with his own voice, such as grenades hissing and ominous wind.
6	** Matt Hullum plays Doc, Sarge, O'Malley, and Wyoming.
7	** Nathan Zellner plays The Alien/Crunchbite and Andy.
8	** Jason Saldaña plays Tucker and Junior.
9	** Combined to a degree with TalkingToThemSelf when O'Malley possesses a character; whether O'Malley has what could be considered a separate voice from the possessed regular character varies by character/actor.
10	** The first half of episode 43 is a climactic confrontation that gathers most characters from the series thus far. Of the ten characters who speak in this scene (including O'Malley), Burns (Lopez, Church, Red Zealot) and Hullum (O'Malley, Doc, Sarge, Wyoming) play all but three (those being Simmons, Grif, and Tucker).
11	** Gray Haddock plays both the cowardly British General Doyle and the menacing, deep-voiced mercenary Locus, who do talk to each other in Episode 16 of Season 12. However, it's confirmed that Haddock has to do their voices separately.
12	** Creator/ShannonMcCormick, the voice of Washington, has also voiced Lopez Dos.0 and Agent Iowa, who both have had brief interactions with Wash.
13	** In Season 15, Gus Sorola voices both Simmons and Gene, his counterpart from the Blues and Reds.
14	* ActorSharedBackground:
15	** According to Creator/ShannonMcCormick in [[https://youtu.be/JdTSoUV4BfU?t=1355 an interview]], Darryl is African-American, like his voice actor, Aaron Alexander.
16	** According to Torrian Crawford [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1269366761255731200 on Twitter]] (1:19), Raymond and One are black. Their voice actors (Noel Wiggins and Fiona Nova) are also black.
17	** ''Family Shatters'' implies that One's first language is French. Her voice actress, Fiona Nova, is a native French speaker.
18	* ApprovalOfGod: Bungie and 343 Industries have expressed their approval of the franchise, to the point of allowing them usage of their assets. ''Halo'' in turn started adding nods to ''[=RvB=]'' (along with [[https://www.halopedia.org/Red%20vs.%20Blue#Homage_from_the_Halo_series all those here]], the Tribute Room in ''Halo Reach'' has ''[=RvB=]'' among other ''Halo'' fan projects), and even brought in Rooster Teeth for both the [[http://youtu.be/waL8K2SGR1M 'Password Forgetting Marine']] EasterEgg in ''Halo 3'' (where they are not officially their characters, but are pretty clear who they are) and the radio clips featured in the Spartan Ops mode of ''Halo 4''.
19	* AscendedFanNickname: Phase was dubbed "knife wife" by fans. This was referenced in the merch, with [[https://store.roosterteeth.com/collections/red-vs-blue/products/red-vs-blue-zero-knife-wife-t-shirt a t-shirt]] sporting the phrase, and in ''Family Shatters'', with Zero using the nickname in "Walk & Talk".
20	* {{Blooper}}:
21	** This line in the penultimate episode of ''Revelation''. (It's not clear if either Creator/ShannonMcCormick flubbed the line or there was a typo in the script.)
22	--->'''Washington''': I'd say that was the '''[[RougeAnglesOfSatin calvary]]'''...(Sic)
23	** Similarly, Donut says "the Reds and Blue" - not "the Reds and Blues" - in "Breaching the Torus" while talking to Wash at one point. Again, it's unknown if Dan Godwin had flubbed the line or if the episode's script had a typo.
24	*** It's possibly because the Blue Team was a one man army for most of Recreation.
25	* BTeamSequel: ''Red vs. Blue: Zero'' was done primarily by Rooster Teeth employees more associated with Website/ScrewAttack[=/=]''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' than those associated with Rooster Teeth's own animation division, in particular led by former animator Torrian Crawford.
26	* CashCowFranchise: On a lesser level than ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', given half the assets from the show are technically property of Microsoft's. Still, Rooster Teeth's founders quit their old jobs and managed to live with the cash from T-shirts, posters and [=DVDs=] (not to mention [=PayPal=] and the Sponsor program, now known as RT First), and still bring out merch such as a Caboose Plushie.
27	* CastingGag:
28	** Lopez had the voice of the Blue leader Church. So Lopez Dos.O had the voice of the new Blue leader, Wash. And the Latin-speaking Lopez in ''Family Shatters'' had the voice of the episode's writer to keep the meta casting.
29	** Huggins is a being of light. Her parents were voiced by lighting artists.
30	* CelebrityVoiceActor: A surprisingly high amount, including Ed Robertson from the Music/BarenakedLadies as Captain Butch Flowers (somewhat fitting given that the Barenaked Ladies' entertainment style is rather similar to Rooster Teeth's), Creator/ElijahWood as Sigma, Creator/AmberBenson as Female Grif, Creator/SungWonCho as King Atlus Arcadium Rex, and Creator/RiccoFajardo as Genkins. According to WordOfGod, it apparently pays to have friends who are friends with celebrities.
31	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Theta, while an AI, has the personality of a child. He is voiced by J.D. Burns, the young son of series creator Burnie Burns.
32	* ChronicallyKilledActor: Following the debut of the "Lopez's Technical Guide to Empathy" PSA at RTX Sydney, Burnie Burns noted that Lopez was "my only character they did not kill yet" (the others are Church, Epsilon, Vic, and possibly Lorenzo; not to mention the Red Zealot and him briefly voicing both Tex and Omega). During RTX 2019, he downright introduced himself in the [=RvB=] panel as "My name is Burnie Burns, and my character [Church] is dead."
33	* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Virtually all the showrunners fall into this.
34	** Burnie Burns: In the first six seasons, wrote, produced, directed, edited, "animated", did some effects, sound editing, and voiced three main characters (Church, Lopez and Vic). As time went on, Rooster Teeth got bigger and he could share the workload more.
35	** Creator/MilesLuna: In all of ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'', directed, wrote, edited, and voiced Felix (along with unofficially voicing Donut during his first scene in Season 11). In two of the seasons, he's also credited for machinimating, motion capture, compositing, effects, producing, and casting. He's since done additional writing for most of the post-Chorus seasons up to ''Zero.''
36	** Joe Nicolosi: Season 15 had him writing, directing, editing, compositing, writing/performing the song "[=VelociROCKtor=]", and voicing Jax. ''The Shisno Paradox'' had all but the music part repeating.
37	** Averted with ''Singularity'', where the work load is more split as Joe Nicolosi moved onto another project (he only contributed with the story) and Miles Luna was only credited as writing a few episodes, with the rest of the season being written by Jason Weight and both Austin Clark and Joshua Ornelas co-directing.
38	** ''Zero'' brings it back, as Torrian Crawford was responsible for the story, co-writing the scripts, directing, animation, editing, and motion capture. ([[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1339679237024919552 lampshaded in this announcement]]) He also had a small voice role in the first episode.
39	* CreatorBreakdown: ''Red vs. Blue'' can take a '''lot''' out of its showrunners on the production side of things, and unfortunately gave birth to the company's [[ChristmasRushed crunch culture]] that has permeated it for nearly two decades.
40	** Burnie Burns admitted that the rapid transition to ''Halo 2'' during Season 3 took its toll on him psychologically and led to him getting very little sleep over the three-day period he spent writing those episodes. At one point, mid sentence, he fell asleep from exhaustion and someone thought he'd either died or had a seizure. He now regards the jump to ''2'' [[CreatorBacklash as a misfire]] and that it would have been best to wait for the season to end before moving to the new game (nowadays, most seasons specifically wait until a season finale or hiatus to mark a game change).
41	** Writing for ''The Chorus Trilogy'' alongside his other commitments ate into Miles Luna's life. During an [=AfterBuzz=] TV interview for Season 12, Luna freely admitted that at one point, he was so exhausted while making it that he wanted to drive his car into oncoming traffic so he'd be forced to take bedrest days.
42	* CreatorBacklash:
43	** [[invoked]] Joe Nicolosi has gone on record stating that in retrospect, he despised having Vic's HeroicSacrifice in Season 15's finale be so similar to Church/Epsilon's in Season 13 (with him agreeing with many fans claiming it was redundant), and only kept it in for the sake of continuity in the episode. Nicolosi has also said that while he doesn't ''hate'' the character arc he wrote for Sarge in Season 15, he wishes that he could have fine-tuned it more in the script before it was put into the actual season.
44	** A more downplayed case is Tucker getting the Designated Marksman Rifle as his weapon during Season 11, as Miles Luna originally wanted all of Blue Team to use the DMR during that season. However, he later decided to have Caboose and Wash retain their signature weapons. As this left Tucker having the only DMR on Blue Team, Luna found it to be distracting and regretted the initial choice.
45	** One of Miles Luna's greatest regrets when writing Season 12 was [[WorfHadTheFlu the leg injury given to Carolina by Felix]] in "Cloak and Dagger." He even promised in an interview leading up to Season 13 that he was going to make sure to have the writing for her character be improved for that season.
46	** Another downplayed example, but Burnie Burns said at RTX 2019 that he greatly regretted jumping into ''Halo 2'' so quickly during Season 3. Burns also clarified that in the series going forward, RT sees it as important to at least wait until the current season is over before switching over to the next ''Halo'' game. Burnie has also said that the process of transition from ''Combat Evolved'' to ''Halo 2'' was so stressful he got no sleep for nearly three days and fell asleep ''mid conversation'' with someone, making them think he'd had a seizure or died.
47	* CreatorsFavorite:
48	** Creator/MilesLuna's favorite characters to write are Wash and Tucker, Joe Nicolosi's favorite character to write is Grif, and Jason Weight's favorite characters to write are Kaikaina/Sister and Donut.
49	** On a meta level, Rooster Teeth has claimed that ''VideoGame/Halo3'' was their favorite game to work in for machinima.
50	** Torrian Crawford's favorite character is Carolina.
51	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
52	** "[[Recap/RedVsBlueS8E10ThisOneGoesToEleven This One Goes To Eleven]]" is Creator/MilesLuna's favorite episode.
53	** Burnie Burns has said that [[Recap/RedVsBlueS6E19Chapter19 Chapter 19]] of ''Reconstruction'' is both his favorite episode and what he feels is the best episode that he's ever written for ''[=RvB=]''.
54	** Sarge's reaction to the Red vs. Blue war being a lie the whole time in ''Revelation'' is Joe Nicolosi's favorite moment out of the series.
55	** As part of a promotion for ''Singularity'', Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, Matt Hullum, and Burnie Burns [[https://twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1102976062546276352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1102976062546276352&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FRedvsBlue%2Fcomments%2Faxohpu%2Fgeoff_gus_matt_and_burnie_reflect_on_their%2F were all interviewed on what their favorite moments in the series were so far]].
56	*** Sorola's favorite moment is all of the MultipleEndings released for "Why Were We Here?".
57	*** Ramsey's favorite moment was the "I Spy" game played between Grif and Simmons in Season 1.
58	*** Hullum's favorite moment was Sheila being moved to the top of Red Base at the end of the Season 2 finale.
59	*** Burns didn't give a specific answer in the interview, but has previously stated that his two favorite moments in the series were both the Director's final speech at the end of ''Reconstruction'' and Epsilon's HeroicBSOD in Season 13's "Dish Best Served".
60	* TheDanza: Koen Wooten voices Kohan Wooter, which is also a producer.
61	* {{Defictionalization}}: In Episode 59 of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', while he, Simmons, and Donut are treating Grif like "one of those ducks at the shooting gallery," Sarge declares that "This is the best game since Grifball!" Then came ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', and the Forge map builder, [[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Grifball and the rest is history.]]
62	* DemandOverload:
63	** Once Season 8 premiered, both the Rooster Teeth website ''and'' [[Platform/BlipTV the entire video service]] crashed.
64	** In a variant, [[https://www.wired.com/2012/05/rooster-teeth-red-vs-blue/ the first episodes were bringing in so many views that eventually RT decided to distribute it through BitTorrent]] instead of paying thousands of dollars to host the files.
65	* DevelopmentGag:
66	** [[TheStinger The second stinger]] for Season 15 has the script for Jax's "Red vs. Blue" movie being 311 pages long. According to Joe Nicolosi, the actual script for Season 15 was 311 pages long.
67	** There's also an humorous pervasive example within Season 15 itself - [[ReferenceOverdosed the large number of]] {{Shout Out}}s and pop culture humor were originally far more subtle in Nicolosi's original scripts and less blatant. However, whenever Nicolosi would give the scripts off to Miles Luna to proofread, Luna [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure failed to get almost every reference]] and be left ''very'' confused at whatever was going on. This led to Nicolosi rewriting each script so as to make the references more explicit and not leave Luna in the dark.
68	** While Miles Luna was writing "The Not So Good Ol' Days" for ''Singularity'', which had Wash going back in time to try and learn more about Carolina, Jason Weight asked [[StatingTheSimpleSolution "Why doesn't he just ask her in the future where they are friends?"]]. That lead Luna to furiously yell "Goddammit!" at the simple solution he missed. The exchange became a joke (courtesy of Wash in Miles' place) in the actual episode.
69	** In another example from ''Singularity'', Simmons mocks Donut's term of [[TimeCrash "Everwhen"]] and claims it "sounds like a Music/PearlJam album." As noted below under WhatCouldHaveBeen, ''Singularity'' was originally going to be titled "Everwhen," and [[https://twitter.com/aJasonWeight/status/1107125850183557120 Jason Weight used the same logic as Simmons did for explaining why they decided to not go with that for the season's title]].
70	* DirectedByCastMember: For the main show runners, Burnie Burns has a ''lot'' of roles, Miles Luna was Felix, and Joe Nicolosi was Jax. But subverted in some episodes of Season 14 (most are directed by machinimators Kyle Taylor and Josh Ornelas, who usually don't dub) and ''Singularity'', as Ornelas and Austin Clark also aren't in the cast, and ''Zero'', given Torrian Crawford has at most a cameo.
71	* EditedForSyndication: Prior to the ''Chorus Trilogy'', dialogue during the end of episodes would often continue into the credits. After the show was remastered, many episodes had their ending dialogue cut off and, due to Blip and Machinima shutting down, currently the only way to hear them is to find the older uploads on the original Rooster Teeth [=YouTube=] channel.
72	* FandomNod:
73	** A popular fanon of Wash (especially on Tumblr) is "Cat Lady Wash" with fans giving him a cat (usually named Hartford, but this can vary). In Season 10 Episode 14 when we see inside his locker, inside are some towels, a skateboard featuring the Rooster Teeth emblem, a rubber ducky, and ''pictures of cats!'' Creator/ShannonMcCormick had known about the fanon, having discovered it on Tumblr, and specifically campaigned to get the cats included.
74	** On a similar note, the credits for Rooster Teeth Animation productions say "Wash's Cats: Ari and Skyler" under Security.
75	** ''The Shisno Paradox'' downright has Wash telling the story of a childhood cat. And in another ascended piece of fandom, the Carolina-Washington love scene in Jax's movie is codenamed after how that ship is known, [[PortmanteauCoupleName CarWash]]. Similarly, Jax's movie also has a love scene between Grif and Simmons called the "Grimmons" scene InUniverse (named after what their ship is called in the fanbase).
76	** [[invoked]] Tucker gets into an argument with Genkins during ''Singularity'', with him directly addressing several accusations given by the fanbase about [[CharacterDerailment his character being derailed]] over the last two seasons. Similarly, the widely criticized {{Retcon}} from ''The Shisno Paradox'' over the definition of "Shisno" was discussed by Chrovos and Genkins in the season premiere for ''Singularity''.
77	** ''Family Shatters'' references the attention received by a line of Phase's from ''Zero''.
78	--->'''Zero:''' Yes, yes, you hate fruit, I know. I saw all of those little gifs all over the social media.
79	* FlipFlopOfGod:
80	** Donut was killed by Washington (the ''Recreation'' DVD commentary confirms this), then he's revived in the sponsors-only ending of Chapter 13 of "Revelation". With some {{Retcon}} thrown in as well, since Donut was not really dead but in Recovery Mode all along. It's possible Creator/RoosterTeeth planned this, and were intentionally misleading in that commentary so as to preserve the secret.
81	** Both the show and Rooster Teeth themselves can't seem to decide whether or not Alpha-Church and Epsilon-Church are the same character due to Epsilon being created from the Alpha's memories and essentially being a back up in some respects. One example is in the second episode of Season 13, where Epsilon asks "In all the years we spent in the canyon, when the hell did [Tucker] learn to dance?" ...Even though by the time Epsilon met Tucker, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' were long over. The current stance is that Epsilon is not Church, who died in ''Reconstruction'', but whether or not it sticks has yet to be seen. Amusingly, this was even lampshaded by the Narrator in "The Complete Unabridged Story of Red vs Blue Abridged".
82	--->'''Narrator:''' (regarding the death of [=Alpha-Church=]) But there was also a piece of him still alive. A part of that same computer program, called Epsilon. Later also called Church. [[SarcasmMode Because that's not confusing at all]]!
83	* HilariousOuttakes:
84	** There's an audio clip of "Gavino" reading The Director's letter from the Reconstruction Trailer, before Burnie interrupts, clarifying that he didn't want him to be "The Director for the season" he wanted him to "direct the season".
85	--->'''Gavin:''' "Oh... ''Oh''. I get it. My- So I should just-"\
86	'''Burnie:''' "Get the fuck out of the booth, okay?"
87	** Here's a list of different season's [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCx_OJK3bFEVsBZlCw6zM2xKU2mjAYmeh Outtakes]]. Remember to breathe!
88	** Season 17's bloopers can be found [[https://roosterteeth.com/watch/red-vs-blue-psa-2020-4-25 here]].
89	* InMemoriam:
90	** Season 11, Episode 2 was dedicated to David Dreger, a former contributor to Achievement Hunter who was found dead after an extended disappearance.
91	** Season 13 as a whole was dedicated to Monty Oum after his untimely passing.
92	** Season 17, Episode 4 was dedicated to Kaycee Kendrick, who worked as a modeler in Season 14 and had died shortly before the episode's release in a plane crash.
93	* InspirationForTheWork: Many of the series' classic jokes (like whether the [[CoolCar Warthog]] looks more like a [[PantheraAwesome puma]] or not) came from real-life conversations that series creator Burnie Burns had with his friends while screwing around on the Blood Gulch map in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''. In fact, Burns was inspired to actually start filming their skits as part of a web series while recording gameplay and letter boxing without the HUD, realizing that doing so made it "kind of look like a movie."
94	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Carolina is established as being HollywoodToneDeaf in Season 15. Her voice actor, Jen Brown, is an accomplished singer in real life (and has even noted that singing badly for the show was both really difficult and fun).
95	* MissingTrailerScene: Torrian released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTlvWvR840Y a sneak preview for]] ''Red Vs. Blue: Zero'' depicting a heist style scene featuring a woman wearing a blue Recon helmet fighting and killing a group of men lead by a man wearing a grey Locus helmet. The two characters were also featured in one of the few promotional images for some time. When ''Zero'' concluded however, this scene was conspicuously absent, and neither character actually appears. (even if the clip had 'Test' at the top, no one expected it to end up wholly unrelated, specially as the next public clip of ''Zero'' was in the season!)
96	* TheOtherDarrin:
97	** In their first appearance in Season 1, Vic and Private Jimmy have different voice actors (and in the former's case, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a whole different personality]]).
98	** One episode of Season 1 had Tucker's lines mostly recorded by Jason Saldaña's brother Nick, given a power outage prevented him from doing so.
99	** Miles Luna has filled in for both Tucker and Donut in [=PSAs=]. Luna would also voice the latter for character's debut in Season 11 (although the DVD version has Dan Godwin back), and voiced the former in the Season 12 Teaser Trailer.
100	** Charlie Campbell voices the Director in Season 15 instead of John Reed. Rooster Teeth tried to get in touch with Reed, but he was completely incommunicado.
101	** As Shane Newville was fired from Rooster Teeth in early 2016, Freckles is voiced by Miles Luna in Season 15. [[DownplayedTrope However, since Freckles now has a puppy-sized MANTIS for a body resulting in a high-pitched tone of voice, it's practically impossible to tell the difference.]]
102	** In the 2020 ''Death Battle'' episode between the Red and Blue Teams, due to Joel Heyman being let go from Rooster Teeth earlier that year ([[https://twitter.com/JoelHeyman/status/1329639956222861314 not that he wasn't invited]]), Caboose is voiced by PromotedFanboy Michael Malconian.
103	** ''Family Shatters'' had the Latin-speaking Lopez voiced by writer Eddy Rivas.
104	* TheOtherMarty: During RTX at Home 2020, fans were allowed to watch the first episode of ''Zero'' in which Diesel was voiced by Ryan Haywood. Due to the controversy around him and his subsequent departure, he was replaced by Daman Mills.
105	* ParodyAssistance: To Rooster Teeth's eternal relief, Creator/{{Bungie}} loved the early episodes and gave the company permission to use the ''Halo'' assets. An early copy of ''Halo 2'' was given for them to work on, and [=RT=] continues to get ''Halo'' games with everything unlocked from follow-up developer 343 Industries to help with their machinimation.
106	* PermanentPlaceholder: As told by composer Jeff Williams, he thought about "hiring some badass soprano opera singer" to do the OminousLatinChanting in the Season 9 score. He decided to test it by asking his 12-year-old daughter Casey to record the lyrics... "then, she just nailed it". Casey wound up doing the chorus of another track in that season, a third the following one, and is now the primary singer in Williams' score for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.
107	* PlayingAgainstType:
108	** Creator/ElijahWood as the evil, creepy Sigma. Mind you, this isn't [[Film/SinCity the first time]] he's taken up the role of a villain.
109	** [[TeamDad North Dakota]] is a fairly serious guy. His voice actor (John Erier) is a professional comedian.
110	** Creator/MilesLuna, who played [[NaiveNewcomer Jaune]] [[ButtMonkey Arc]] in ''RWBY'', plays the very much badass Felix. Moreso in Season 12, when he turns out to be one of the bad guys, and a rather AxCrazy and FauxAffablyEvil one at that who puts on the dorky routine to manipulate.
111	** Also from ''RWBY'', Lindsay Jones who played [[PerkyGoth Ruby Rose]], plays the very serious [[DaChief Vanessa]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Kimball]].
112	** Yet again with ''RWBY'', Arryn Zech is known for playing the stoic and reserved Blake. Here she voices [[MadDoctor Doctor]] [[GenkiGirl Emily]] [[AxCrazy Grey]], who's a bit... crazier with a double dose of psychotic.
113	* ProductionNickname: Creator/MontyOum, one of the Freelancer animators, simply referred to the "Mysterious Blue Guy" (AKA Captain Butch Flowers/Agent Florida) as "Blue". Likewise, the only known woman in the Insurrection is called "Girlie" by the cast and crew.
114	* PromotedFanboy: Many of the people who've worked on the show in more recent years started out as fans, including but not limited to:
115	** Ed Robertson, who voiced Captain Butch Flowers/Freelancer Agent Florida.
116	** Creator/GavinFree, who directed both the ''Relocated'' miniseries and ''Recreation''.
117	** Creator/MontyOum, who would help add in [=CGI=] animation to the series starting with the season finale of ''Recreation'' and would be brought on as a guest writer & additional voice actor in later seasons.
118	** Creator/ElijahWood, who would voice the A.I. fragment Sigma during Season 10.
119	** Arryn Zech, who would voice Dr. Emily Grey in Seasons 12, 13, and 15-17.
120	** Eddy Rivas, who co-wrote both Season 10 and ''The Ultimate Fan Guide''.
121	** Creator/MilesLuna, who also co-wrote Season 10, wrote and directed ''The Chorus Trilogy'', and contributed to several episodes of Season 14. Luna would also later both write an episode of ''Singularity'' and co-write another with Jason Weight for that same season.
122	** Jordan Cwierz, who wrote the Season 14 prequel episodes for ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
123	** Barbara Dunkelman, who wrote the Season 14 episode "Head Cannon."
124	** Joe Nicolosi, who wrote, directed, and animated the Season 14 episode "The Brick Gulch Chronicles," and wrote and directed the show itself for Seasons 15 and 16.
125	** Jason Weight, who co-wrote Season 16 and then wrote virtually all of Season 17.
126	** Torrian Crawford, who first animated the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' in Season 14 and was then elevated to showrunner on Season 18.
127	** Some later voice actors too, such as [[http://lordjazor.tumblr.com/post/160929534499/thanks-for-voicing-spencer-he-is-the-biggest Jason Marnocha (Spencer Porkinsenson)]], Creator/DallasReid ([[https://twitter.com/FortWorthReid/status/866325049233608705 Buckey]]), and Creator/SungWonCho [[https://twitter.com/prozdkp/status/996795038418993152 (King Atlus Arcadium Rex)]]. A sideways case is [[https://twitter.com/ActingMalconian/status/1328479639367389184 Michael Malconian]], who [[TheOtherDarrin voiced Caboose]] in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''.
128	** The rappers involved with Season 18's soundtrack [[https://twitter.com/TwillDistilled/status/1330671157587173376 might be a case]], if the ContinuityPorn [[https://genius.com/Omega-sparx-touch-the-sky-lyrics lyrics]] say anything.
129	* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
130	** Both Freckles and Tex appear in Season 15, but only in flashbacks and with [[TheOtherDarrin different voices]] due to their original VA's no longer working with Creator/RoosterTeeth, with InUniverse reasoning to justify the shift.
131	*** Freckles is instead voiced by Miles Luna using a high pitched voice, justified as Freckles being put in a very tiny body, with Freckles in turn left behind on Iris as the BGC go looking for the Blues & Reds.
132	*** Tex is instead voiced by Burnie Burns using a deep modulated voice similar to when she first debuted, justified as said appearance is set during the days of Project Freelancer during a training match against Carolina, the Director seeking to test new equipment as well as monitor Tex's behavior with Omega, with it all but said one of the equipment being tested was the voice modulator.
133	** Burnie Burns has stated that after so many years of shouting his lungs off as Church, he can't do that voice for too long without hurting his throat. Therefore, Genkins (voiced by Creator/RiccoFajardo) spent virtually all of their time in the Blood Gulch portions of ''Singularity'' possessing Church, the few times Church appearing as himself either keeping the yelling brief, or having him talk in a more subdued tone.
134	* RealitySubtext:
135	** According to Miles Luna, Wash opening up to Tucker about his self-doubt and struggles as the leader of Blue Team in the second half of Season 11 was heavily inspired by Luna's own insecurities after becoming the new showrunner for the series after ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
136	** Dylan Andrews from Season 15 is often written as if she were a fan of the show. She thinks there's still an interesting story to be found in the Reds and Blues, and she wants to see how it ends. She also expresses great interest in finding out what happened aboard the Staff of Charon towards the end of the Chorus war.
137	** Conversely, Carlos Trabka from the same aforementioned season is written like someone who dislikes the show. He would be more in favor if Dylan reported on a group of [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} "monster-fighting sexy teenagers"]].[[note]]Not everyone who likes [=RWBY=] dislikes Red vs. Blue, of course, but [=RWBY=] has become the far more popular of the two.[[/note]] He also finds the events that happened in Blood Gulch too crazy to take seriously.
138	* RealSongThemeTune:
139	** ''Zero'' has Omega Sparx's "The Mark" in the opening titles. (the soundtrack also includes an old track of his, "Gamebreakers")
140	** A more downplayed case, but a few Trocadero songs that actually preceded the show's beginning have been later used in the series itself (such as "Vale Deah", which plays during Season 1's credits).
141	* ReferencedBy: [[Referencedby/RedVsBlue Has its own page]].
142	* RefittedForSequel:
143	** Downplayed, but Miles Luna originally wanted Episode 8 of Season 13 to be titled "You Better Watch Out" as an allusion to it being the first appearance of the Santa [=A.I.=]. Instead, they decided to name it "Test Your Might" as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', and Episode ''9'' of the same season was entitled "You Better Watch Out."
144	** The idea of a journalist character interviewing the Blood Gulch Crew (the character that became Doc -- see WhatCouldHaveBeen) [[https://www.confreaksandgeeks.com/red-vs-blue-director-joe-nicolosi/ was recycled for Season 15's protagonist.]]
145	** Season 15 Episode 6 was originally going to be shot in a {{Mockumentary}} style, with Dylan and Jax interviewing the Reds and Blues individually. This idea was reworked into ''The Shisno Paradox'' as a documentary Jax was making as part of his film production.
146	* RealLifeRelative:
147	** In Season 10, Michael Jones and Lindsay Jones (nee Tuggey) are an OfficialCouple in reality, and were paired as the Chain Guy and Chain Girl.
148	** In Season 12, Burns' son was brought in to voice Theta.
149	** Doubled with CastingGag; In "Get Bent" (the Season 14 episode where Church, Tex, and all of Red Team are {{Gender Flip}}ped), the female Sarge is voiced by Anna Hullum (Matt Hullum's wife) and Lopez and Church both get the voice of Ashley Jenkins (Burnie Burns' wife).
150	** Burnie Burns' [=ex-wife=] Jordan Burns originally voiced the female Donut that appears in Caboose's mind (when the setting returns in "Head Cannon", she's replaced by Barbara Dunkelman). Related, Jordan's brother Mark Bellman voices Delta.
151	** Agent Idaho is Carolina's husband (though took two years of dating after the episode for Barret Tribe and Jen Brown to marry).
152	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor:
153	** In 2016, Kathleen Zuelch (the voice of Agent Texas) was fired for getting drunk on Twitter and insulting her castmates. Although this is a rather downplayed example since Zuelch's character hadn't had a significant role in the series for roughly four years prior to her being fired.
154	** Relatedly, Joel Heyman (the voice of Caboose) was let go from Rooster Teeth in late 2019 (only confirmed in mid-2020) after tensions in the workplace culminated in him not showing up to work, combined with his more volatile activity online causing controversy for the company on a regular basis. Heyman has since moved to LA and expressed no desire to work with RT again. He later clarified that Rooster Teeth had aparently intended on letting him stay on as an independant but Heyman himself walked from the role, ultimately rendering this a SubvertedTrope.
155	** Ryan Haywood (the voice of the Chorus Lieutenant Andersmith and Zero's henchman Diesel) was fired from Rooster Teeth in late 2020 after allegations of sexual misconduct were released. The role of Diesel was recast and redubbed, leading to a slight delay.
156	* RunningTheAsylum: Miles Luna was given control of the series for Seasons 11 to 14, though the original creators did help him get his bearings at first. When Joe Nicolosi ran the show and Luna helped him, however, this was in full effect. Nicolosi even said that he felt like he was writing fan fiction in an interview.
157	* ScheduleSlip: Due to the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic 2020 coronavirus pandemic]], Season 18 was postponed from the series' typical release date of March/April to mid-October of 2020. It was delayed again to November 9th in the aftermath of [[Creator/AchievementHunter Ryan Haywood]], who was set to voice a villain, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor leaving the company after getting caught up in an ugly scandal]].
158	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Due to the fact that most of the show's assets are (technically) owned by Microsoft, Miles Luna has said that any potential crossover between ''Red vs. Blue'' and Rooster Teeth's other works (i.e., ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'', ''WebAnimation/NomadOfNowhere'', and ''Series/Day5'') is currently impossible.
159	* SerendipityWritesThePlot:
160	** Due to being limited by the games, certain armor configurations, maps, and weaponry have to be changed between seasons.
161	*** The Meta's Brute Shot, christened the "Grif Shot" after Grif stole it, became unavailable after Season 10 due to not being available in ''VideoGame/Halo4''. As such, Simmons explains that the UNSC confiscated it in between Seasons 10 and 11, with Hargrove putting it in his trophy room. The only time Grif gets to use it again would be in the finale of Season 13, in which he was completely animated and as such able to be implemented.
162	*** The Meta's suit was introduced as a small plot point in Season 13, but kept in the style of the armor from ''VideoGame/Halo3'', requiring it be limited strictly to animation due to the season using ''VideoGame/Halo4''. So while Tucker dons it in order to fight off Hargrove's forces in the finale, Season 15 offhandedly mentions the suit was rendered useless, hence why Tucker is back in his standard armor.
163	*** When introduced in ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga The Freelancer Saga]]'', made using ''VideoGame/Halo3'' and animation, Carolina wore the Rogue helmet and Recon body armor. When the finale of Season 10 shifted to ''VideoGame/Halo4'', Carolina had to have her armor configuration changed due to the Rogue helmet being heavily redesigned between games, instead being given the Recon helmet and Stalker body armor. Any usage of her old configuration was limited to either animation or using ''VideoGame/Halo3'', with the InUniverse justification that she donned armor used by the Space Pirates to infiltrate their numbers. Likewise, when ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy Singularity]]'' touched on where she was at the time of [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]], it was set in ''VideoGame/Halo2'', which didn't allow armor customization outside of colors, so Carolina wore the standard armor in tan, the InUniverse justification being that she was in hiding and had stored her normal set of armor somewhere else.
164	*** While playable in the first three games, ''VideoGame/Halo4'' and ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' lack the ability to play as aliens like the Sangheili/Elites. This prevented aliens from having major roles in the narrative without certain workarounds as seen in Season 13, such as Santa using a ''VideoGame/Halo3'' model and Junior's [[TheCameo cameo]] being made in ''Halo 3''.
165	*** In ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'', made using ''VideoGame/Halo4'', the Federal Army of Chorus all wore Prefect helmets, and most wore Prefect body armor, in particular Dr. Grey. As the Prefect armor was not available in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'', Dr. Grey's was changed to the Cypher helmet and Legionnaire body armor.
166	*** Due to a large amount of the remaining multiplayer maps in ''VideoGame/Halo4'' that Rooster Teeth hadn't used yet for Chorus all involving Forerunners and the Covenant in some fashion, the plot of Season 13 had to be changed to incorporate Aliens into it.
167	*** Part of Locus' characterization was his considering himself to be nothing more than a killing machine, even taking the name of his armor as a result, punctuated with the "X" on his helmet reflecting the scar on his face. ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' redesigned the Locus helmet, removing the iconic "X" and making it lighter in coloration. InUniverse this [[RuleOfSymbolism helps show]] Locus's HeelFaceTurn and CharacterDevelopment.
168	** According to Shannon [=McCormick=] concerning his two Freelancer episodes in Season 14, the Triplets were originally going to be abandoned on a planet made up of tropical islands. However, the multiplayer map needed for it wasn't able to be found in time for the episode's production, and so the script was rewritten to account for the Triplets being abandoned on an ice world (which was easier to machinimate anyways).
169	** During Tex's flashback cameo in Season 15, she is using the voice filter (and thus is once again voiced by Burnie Burns), owing to Creator/KathleenZuelch's break-up with Creator/RoosterTeeth.
170	* ShrugOfGod:
171	** The Ultimate Fan Guide answers a lot of long-standing fan questions, but it says that Church's time travel shenanigans in Season 3 are subject to "conflicting reports", which seems to be the writers' way of saying that they don't know if it really happened or not either.
172	** When asked if the Forerunners, Precursors and Flood all exist in ''Red vs. Blue'' in an interview with [=AfterBuzz=] [=TV=] or only BroadStrokes versions of them exist (if at all), Miles Luna literally gave an ambivalent shrug in response.
173	** Similarly, Jason Weight, Burnie Burns, and Luna all haven't said anything definite one way or the other regarding if ''Singularity'' retroactively erased the events of Season 15 and ''The Shisno Paradox''.
174	* SwanSong: ''Restoration'' will be the final project made by Rooster Teeth after its parent company Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery shut down the studio in March 2024.
175	* TeasingCreator:
176	** PlayedForLaughs in [[https://twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/980112498094493697 this Season 16 preview]] where everything (including a slice of pizza!) is CensoredForComedy.
177	** Again played for laughs when showrunner Joe Nicolosi, Jason Weight (one of Season 16's main co-writers), and producer/creative consultant Miles Luna [[https://twitter.com/aJasonWeight/status/1054525913784827904 jokingly released a fake whiteboard from the writer's room]] after Season 16 got a decidedly controversial reception.
178	* ThrowItIn:
179	** ''Many'' lines and shots, including one notable case in Season 3 where Donut in the script was supposed to just scream once, but the actor decided that instead he'd run around babbling incoherently while the other characters delivered their lines. Most of the time the cast agrees that what was improvised was better than the actual script.
180	*** Another good example is in Season 14's "Head Cannon." During a sequence set inside of Sarge's mind, several members of Blue Team [[FunnyBackgroundEvent are seen getting shot/thrown away by explosions]] within a war zone. However, during the machinimation of the scene, the "Caboose" model [[EpicFail accidentally fell over while walking down a street]]. The scene was so funny that the animators got Joel Heyman to record an additional line for Caboose so as to not waste the opportunity.
181	** While relatively common after over 16 years of the voice actors knowing their characters, the reigning champion is reportedly Matt Hullum's work as Sarge. By all reports, sessions with him last far longer than anything scripted as he rambles on in every different direction, which is fully in Sarge's character.
182	--->'''Sarge:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Great Monopoly's Tophat, Wash!]]
183	** According to Miles Luna, the fact that the shot in "The End Is Near" where Felix is surrounded by both Locus and the Reds and Blues in the Communications Temple [[RuleOfSymbolism looks so close to]] the shot of Locus' "trial" in the Jungle Temple during "Locus Of Control" was actually unintentional, and they decided to keep it in after Luna realized what a nice parallel the two scenes made.
184	** When Meredith Hagan was recording "Contact Redux" (a DarkReprise she created based on "Contact" from Season 11) as the credits song for Season 13, she accidentally misplaced a lyric - Namely, "Contact" has the line ''"One of us won't be forgotten"'', while "Contact Redux" has the corresponding line of ''"One of us'' '''''will''''' ''be forgotten"''. After both her and Miles Luna realized how unintentionally powerful that lyrical change was (namely, the assertion of someone being forgotten can be seen as referencing Epsilon's HeroicSacrifice by erasing his own memories to help power the Meta suit in the Season 13 finale), though, they decided to keep it.
185	** Overlapping with WhatCouldHaveBeen; Joe Nicolosi was originally going to voice Lorenzo, and Burnie Burns provided him with reference audio to help him with the role. However, Nicolosi thought Burns' Italian was so hilariously terrible that he decided to [[PermanentPlaceholder just use the temp audio instead.]]
186	** According to Joshua Kazemi's [[https://roosterteeth.com/g/post/5116eadc-2d1a-4287-9d8a-95e8ef3dd126 post-release notes]] for the ''[=QvsA=]'' episode "Caboose vs Carolina, Who Would Win?", Carolina's laugh before she hits Caboose was unscripted.
187	--->There wasn't a scripted laugh for Carolina before she hits Caboose. I wrote in another heavy sigh, so seeing that change was a really fun surprise for me when I saw the cut. It's so good and so satisfying! I love that they made that change. It works so much better.
188	* TroubledProduction:
189	** Season 3, where the guys were really overworked trying to get the first episode filmed in ''Halo 2'' [[ChristmasRushed the same day said game hit stores.]] Burnie Burns also had to rewrite several episodes over and over again, twice filling a CosmicDeadline (the characters going to the future - i.e. ''Halo 2'' - in Episode 43 and the season finale in Episode 57) and what he intended to be the series' MilestoneCelebration on Episode 50 ended up being so extensive that its events had to be spread over ''three'' chapters. In Burns' own words, "I got 4 hours of sleep in three days. After Episode 43 came out, I actually fell asleep in mid-sentence while talking to someone. They thought I died."
190	** Season 14, where after realizing that they couldn't think of a proper follow-up to the cliffhanger that the previous season left off on in time, the producers instead decided to change it into an anthology that informally served as a showrunner audition.
191	** According to Joe Nicolosi, Season 15 was ''really'' difficult to produce because of both the stresses of the production crew switching over to a new showrunner and the machinimators having to quickly get used to working in ''Halo 5''. As an example, "Nightmare on Planet Evil" had to be re-filmed '''three''' different times due to so many scenes having the Reds and Blues' colors being completely off since the game's way of handling lighting was so radically different compared to what the machinimators were previously used to dealing with in ''Halo 4.''
192	** Austin Clark had never made any machinima with ''Halo 4'' prior to working on ''Singularity'', and so was immensely stressed out when re-choreographing [[spoiler:the fight scene at Crash Site Bravo in "Succession"]]. Apparently, it had gotten to where Clark claimed it took '''eight hours''' to just get three different shots at one point.
193	** As noted under ScheduleSlip, ''Zero'' took a whole year to make due to both the transition between production crews and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic at a certain point forcing everyone to work from home - and both [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1421514851348885514 showrunner Torrian Crawford]] and [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7ulNGzWYAAekgQ?format=png&name=900x900 animator Kristina Christofferson]] noted how stressful and unfavorable things were. It also suffered another production delay just as it would be released with Ryan Haywood's RoleEndingMisdemeanor, which required his role to be recast and redubbed. Furthermore, Rooster Teeth itself was hit with multiple high-profile PR messes during the seasons' production cycle, most notably Joel Heyman being fired for making offensive comments on Twitter and both Burnie Burns and Rebecca Frasier resigning from Rooster Teeth (albeit with both seeming to be on good terms with the company itself, with the door being kept open for them to potentially reprise their roles later on).
194	* VoicesInOneRoom: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIoV7hKaQQ The first episode had this]] aside from Jason recording Tucker's lines over the phone (the original version had Sarge's line spoken by Burnie, and later re-recorded by Matt Hullum), and presumably the Austin-based crew remained as this through the season. The introduction of the Zealots in Season 3 also had everyone recording together (mind you that back then, the "booth" was a closet!). Seasons 15 and 16 had some cases with Carolina and Washington's scenes, though the actors had [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BstgozKFP8g/ to be with their backs to each other so their lines wouldn't be picked up by the other's microphone]], and one episode of Season 16 [[https://twitter.com/bexmix/status/993699840776462336 also had Tucker and Sister recording together]].
195	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/RedVsBlue Head to the page NOW!]]
196	* WordOfGay: While "The 'Mission'" explicitly reveals Ohio to be a lesbian, it's more ambiguous about Sherry. Creator/ShannonMcCormick, the episode's writer, later confirmed it in an [=AfterBuzz=] TV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTSoUV4BfU interview.]]
197	* WordOfGod:
198	** Creator/ShannonMcCormick says [[https://youtu.be/JdTSoUV4BfU?t=1355 in an interview]] that Darryl is African-American.
199	** According to Torrian Crawford [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1269366761255731200 on Twitter]] (1:19), Zero, Raymond, and One are black.
200	* WorkingTitle: The first title for spin-off ''[=QvsA=]'' was Grimmons, but as the producer put it "we don't want to take [[PortmanteauCoupleName that]] from the fans". The trailer announcement still made a FandomNod to that ("Is that what people call us?").
201	* WriteWhoYouKnow: V.I.C. is based on a former roommate of Burnie's, also called Vic, who spoke the same way, down to the overuse of "dude". Geoff Ramsey has also noted that his own contributions to the episodes/seasons' scripts are heavily based on his own experiences serving in the [=US=] Army.
202	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Season 1 was like this, with Burnie Burns writing the episodes the same week they would be released, and creating on the fly things such as Church's death and Tex being a woman. Season 2 started to change it, as Matt Hullum was added as a main writer, and he and Burns started to plan much more in advance.
203	* WrittenByCastMember: Of the main writers, everyone but Creator/MontyOum and Joshua Kazemi voices a character. Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum have a lot of roles, Creator/MilesLuna started with no role in Season 10 but became Felix afterwards, and Joe Nicolosi was Jax Jonez. Season 14 has promoted examples with Creator/ShannonMcCormick (Washington, wrote two episodes where he appears as both him and Iowa) and Barbara Dunkelman (Katie Jensen, also voices female Donut in "Head Cannon"), plus several guests -- James Willems as Drag in the two episodes written and voiced by members of Funhaus, the Game Grumps in ''Gray vs. Grey'' (where Miles also co-wrote and appeared), and the creators of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' in the Meta vs. Carolina episode. Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight plays the Orange Knight (who is later revealed to be Lancelot). In Season 17, where Weight was the lead writer, he voices [[spoiler:the Labyrinth's simulacrum of the [[SadisticTeacher sadistic P.E. instructor]] Coach Prestwood]]. In Season 18, Noel Wiggins voices Raymond. ''Family Shatters'' had episodes written by Hannah [=McCarthy=] (Phase) and Jenn Tidwell (East), and Eddy Rivas does the voice of Lopez.
204	* YouSoundFamiliar: In ''Singularity'', Chrovos takes a female form. Their voice comes from [[https://twitter.com/MsLeeEddy/status/1103844895696015360 479er herself, Lee Eddy]]. And to make matters worse, the MentalTimeTravel of the season brings back 479er from when [[spoiler:she was Recovery Command]].

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