Crowning Moments of Awesome from the Web Series Red vs. BlueSeason 1:
"HEY BITCH? REMEMBER ME? I SAVED SOMETHING FOR YA!"
"HELL YES! THREE POINTS, YOU DIRTY WHORE!"
Season 2:
Church and Tex forcing O'Malley out of Caboose's mind.
Season 3:
"MY NAME IS MICHAEL J. CABOOSE AND I HATE BABIES!!"
"Your toast has been burnt and no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!"
Tucker quickly becoming proficient with his new-found sword by killing the Red Zealot.
Season 4:
Wyoming killing the Alien with a missile launcher.
Season 5:
In Red vs. Blue, season 5, episode 99, Tucker manages to get one of his very own. In spite of spending the entire series being almost entirely incompetent, he managed to put a halt to Wyoming's nefarious scheme with spectacular ability. He tricked Wyoming by pretending to be affected by one of his time skips, then stabs him, and uses the time-travel ability to dodge bullets and kill clones. He also managed to grab a hold of sniper rifle that he had been deprived of since the beginning, and get headshots with every single shot.
In episode 98 when the Blue Team is under attack by the army of Wyoming clones, the Red Team comes out of nowhere riding on the Warthog and pure ownage happens when the Reds provide pure smackdown on the Wyoming clones. All the time, Ranchero music is blaring on the "Chupathingy's" radio.
Don't you mean the "Walrus's" radio?
I told you to stop making up animals.
Church and Tex versus Omega again.
Reconstruction:
One cannot forget Washington's epic killing of a Hornet in Valhalla. It involves a man cannon and explosive barrels.
Wash: Just take that ship down!
Grif: If it's so easy, why don't you do it?
Wash: Fine.
*does so*
Wash: Ok. Now can we go?
The Meta arriving and killing all the Freelancer combat personnel who attack him.
Even better, he is shown fighting a Gauss Warthog, and if the scene plays right he melees it once and kills both the agents inside. Badass.
Church pulls one off in Chapter 19. The episode attempts to trick you into believing Church is fleeing from the final fight, only worried about himself and his safety. Then, when Washington is cornered by the Meta within the base, Church suddenly appears in all his glorious miniaturized A.I. hologram form. Just before he goes to buy Washington more time, Wash tries to warn him that when the EMP goes off, it'll kill him too. Church, however, interrupts him in the most badass of fashions.
Church: "When it goes off, I'll be fine. It only affects computers, remember? And I am a motherfucking ghost."
How about Wash's entire plan, to begin with? He's frequently shown to be a badass normal going against a super powered, bat crap crazy, former friend who could tear through an entire military HQ by himself. Despite his gross disadvantage, Wash manages to use amazing guile tactics to wipe out the Meta and Project Freelancer HQ at the same time.
Recreation:
Grif finally calling out Sarge on his Neidermeyer tendencies while on a ledge out of the range of Sarge's shotgun.
Grif: Sarge, since we may not make it outta this, maybe there's a few things I should tell you. You know, since you can't reach me. ... Like the reason why I never listen to you. Or never follow your orders. And why I don't think anything you say is ever important. ... But I want you to understand, Sarge. It's not because I'm lazy. It's because I don't like you. Or respect you. In any way. I have no positive feelings towards you. ... Now I imagine it can be pretty hard to be an ineffective leader with no respect. * Sarge fires his shotgun and misses.* Grif: ...Who doesn't understand that his primary weapon has an effective range much shorter than most weapons. But I think since we're gonna die anyway, you deserve to know that.
Tucker's triumphant return has him taking on the entire evil dig team to rescue Caboose, Sarge and Grif and kicking their asses.
"YOU WILL FEAR MY LASER FACE!"
Washington's speech during the end of the final episode.
Chairman: "When you find these Blue soldiers that you’re talking about, what makes you think that they are just going to give you the Epsilon unit when you ask them for it?"
Agent Washington: “Ha ha... for as long as I can remember, I’ve been lied to, taken advantage of, shot in the back, and left for dead... and now, I have a way out of all of this. What in the hell makes you think that I’m going to ask for it?”
Revelation:
Episode 2: Sarge pulling an Awesomeness by Analysis moment by deducing that Washington and the Meta have killed Lopez and Donut and taken Simmons and Doc prisoner using Simmons' forced transmission.
Episode 3: Sarge and Grif taking out Washington. The entire sequence.
Episode 10: This One Goes to Eleven. Short version is that after an extended absence from the series Tex returns and proceeds to kick copious quantities of ass. And does so in style, courtesy of Monty Oum.
The entire episode can pretty much be summed up in one line: "Agent Tex is a bit of a Bad Ass."
Tucker gets one when Tex throws a massive shipping crate at him, Sarge, Simmons and Grif.
Grif: We gotta get outta here! Simmons: We'll be crushed! Tucker: (igniting his energy sword) Don't worry, guys! I got this! (Just when the crate is at the right angle...) Tucker: (swings) SWISH!
The Reds thought they'd be crushed; the most damage it did was spilling out its cargo, covering Sarge in med-kits.
Special mention has to go to Tex outrunning a heat-seeking rocket, exploiting a couple of portals, and blowing everyone else to high heaven, literally diving into another portal at the last second to dodge the blast.
According to The Best of Red vs Blue, fans considered this the best moment of the series ever. Of all time.
Episode 19. The fight everyone had been waiting for for three seasons: Tex. Versus. The. Meta. Washington's inclusion in the fight was pretty good too, but the main show was the former two.
The Red's and Blue's Big Damn Gunship moment, whereupon they crash a Pelican into the middle of the battlefield and taking out the Meta, if only temporarily.
Sarge: "Hey Meta... settle a bet, would ya? Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?"
And he's got enough sense to rip off the Capture Unit before the Meta plunges off the cliff.
Don't forget the initial scuffle between Wash and Meta. Wash takes Tex's knife and uses it with a far greater proficiency, slashing Meta's neck twice and throwing it at him when he's cloaked.Then, he draws his battle rifle faster than Meta can raise his bruteshot. Unfortunately, explosives beat bullets in a firefight.
Season 9:
The first CGI fight sequence in the season featuring North Dakota and South Dakota.
The coffee guy is the most awesome grunt in the episode. It takes guts to go for an alarm after a Freelancer tells you not to.
North blocking a whole lot of missiles from killing everyone on the plane while being shot full of bullets.
Made more awesome retroactively when it's mentioned that using his shield attachment without an AI like that could have easily killed him even without the chestful of bullets. And yet he's walking around absolutely fine just an episode after. In Season 10, this is made even more awesome, because, according to Delta, North had a 0.1% chance of activating the bubble shield without killing himself via asphyxiation like Utah, and did it anyway, for over three seconds without any undue incident.
Only a mere second of screentime, and the "new agent" (Tex) already has one. The conversation between Washington and the Soldier who bumps into him sums up the excitement.
Washington: Soldier, where is everybody going?
Soldier: New agent! Squaring off against Maine, Wyoming, and York on the training room floor. We're going to watch! Hey guys wait up!
North Dakota: Three on one?
Washington: I gotta see this!
North Dakota: Yeah, right behind you.
Maine, Wyoming, and York vs Texas. To say it was a Curb-Stomp Battle is putting it nicely. Tex beat all 3 of them in stick combat, hand-to-hand, and the shooting round, even when two of them used real bullets against her.
In the hand-to-hand portion of the episode, she ducked a punch that came at her from behind. That's right, she wasn't even looking at it. And it nails Wyoming in the face.
Tucker finally lampshading the creepiness and tragedy that is Epsilon/Tex.
All of Episode 15, with the highlight being getting the sarcophagus into the escape Pelican in free fall.
The entire fight against "Shark Face", an extremely heavily-armored ODST with a flamethrower. Takes on two of the top Freelancers on his own and doesn't do half bad.
Special praise goes to Four-Seven-Niner, for having the sheer gall to even ATTEMPT what she did in that Pelican. To say nothing about actually succeeding.
A small squad of soldiers tries to arrest Agent Maine...and almost immediately realize just how screwed they are.
Wash: "I almost feel sorry for the guys down there."
Wash shoots down a Hornet with his battle rifle in free fall. There's a reason his specialty icon is a battle rifle.
Pretty much all of Episode 17 also, with the absolutely insane driving battle over the package.
Carolina picking up Maine's brute shot and pwning the female Insurrectionist with it, while on top of a speeding truck.
Maine taking a sniper shot for Carolina and then getting up to fight an elite mook, he gets his ass handed to him, but it was still badass how much punishment he could take and still keep fighting.
Carolina chasing down a guy with a jet pack. On foot, no less.
Andy out-insulting Tucker in Episode 18, to the point where the latter admits Andy's last insult was "a pretty good burn".
The end of episode 19, where Tex and Church send Tucker and Caboose to attack the Reds in one final adventure and then sitting back and watching the fireworks as the Epsilon capture unit collapses.
The entire sequence of Theta and North demonstrating their expertise with the bubble shield against a circle of turrets. This includes concentrating the shield in only the areas of fire and moving them with the moving turrets and flashing the shield to allow for sniper bullets to go through. Bonus points for being what one could assume would be Theta's first combat assignment.
Episode 6:
Caboose's stupidity gets one, when Carolina quick-draws on Caboose and sets off several explosives behind him, telling him to "try and put that into words" as a threat to the Blues. Caboose's response? "Kurpewwwww explosion"
Episode 8:
North and Theta trapping the Insurrectionist snipers inside the Beehive Barrier.
Maine's return, all helped by a few simple lines courtesy of Sigma:
Sigma: "Agent Maine, isn't that the soldier from the freeway? The one that shot you in the throat?" [Maine hisses] "I thought so.Sic 'Em."
Episode 9:
As Fridge Horror as it is, Maine taking out all three of the insurrectionists was definitely awesome, as was Carolina's prior fight with them, showing a very cool close combat fight between her and the female member.
The ODST Insurrectionist catching an explosive and firing it back at the target with a swing of his mechanical arm was also incredible. Apparently the Insurrection builds tough (though not quite as tough as a Freelancer head on).
The pill-insignia member impales the hiding Mysterious Blue Guy with a thrown axe from across the room.
Tex and Carolina separately running the minigun gauntlet - Carolina doing it while visible too - in their personal competition for top of the leader board.
Episode 10:
Yes! Mysterious Blue Guy is back up and fighting! Followed by the hilarious splatter-kill of the hyena gunners.
Tex and Carolina vs CT and the Insurrectionist leader with some awesome Jeff Williams music playing during it.
CT, specifically, who has the guts to attack Tex head-on and actually plant a knife in her back, even if it didn't slow her down.
Two highlights from that fight stand out: both are well-executed team attacks. The first:CT distracts Tex with a hologram, disarms her, stabs her in the back, and pushes her in the path of the Leader's axe - a one-two punch that would have easily killed Tex were she human. The second:Carolina hits the Leader with some close combat, which pushes him right into the path of a power punch courtesy of Tex.
More than that, you have Pillman and C.T Taking on the two best freelancers, and actually managing to hold their own. It's also a retroactive Awesome Moment for Tucker. Think about it, Pillman was shown to be equal to the best of the freelancers, and yet he considered Tucker to be his Arch-Nemesis. When the freelancers attack the Insurrectionists, Pillman manages to stay calm and collected. But the mere idea of Tucker being in the area has the guy undergoing such a massive Oh Crap moment that it borders on a Villainous Breakdown. That's right, Tucker was a bigger threat to the leader of the Insurrection than the entireity of Project Freelancer.
In Episode 12, we have Church calling Carolina out on her Jerkass Façade.
Carolina: I can't trust anyone.
Church: Awww, why not? Because having friends would ruin the whole 'psychotic loner bitch' thing you have going? Because that would be arealshame.
There's also Church's line at the end of the episode. It's just the way he says it, as well as the fact that it perfectly concludes an otherwise heartwarming and tear-jerking episode.
Church: That's right, assholes! You're going home! And you're taking us with you.
In-Universe: In Episode 15, Church is impressed with the creative ways the Reds find to screw him over.
Epsilon-Church: Man, those guys are really starting to find creative ways to ruin my life. ...mother fuckers.
Episode 17 of Season 10 gives a pretty great Wham Line.
Epsilon: I know where to find the Director. Carolina: What? How? Epsilon: I just remembered... *blinks out and reappears full-sized in Alpha's white armor* ...everything.
In addition to that, Connie posthumously managing to get Tex the key information necessary to instigate the rebellion of the agents. Even in death, she somehow manages to get back at the Director (and due to the above Awesome Moment, manages it completely).
In the prequel portion, he's just been unconscious for a few days from the Epsilon breakdown. He claims to have no memory of what happened. Anyone who knows Wash, knows that's a lie. He just crossed into his guile heroics without anyone realizing it.
Heartbreaking as it may have been, Church going big when he chews out the Blood Gulch Crew was pretty impressive.
The Reds and Blues finally deciding they don't care about continuing their fight against Project Freelancer, and just want to go home, promptly doing so.
And who's the first to call Carolina and Church out on their bullying and generally shitty treatment of the Reds and Blues? Grif, of all people.
Episode 19 is, in reverse order: one minute of nightmare fuel, two minutes of tear jerker, and eight minutes of awesome. Special mention goes to:
York vs. Wyoming, complete with knock-knock jokes and ending with a thrown gym locker to the face for poor Wyoming. Also a Funny Moment.
Tex using several Spike Grenades and a shotgun to take out a room full of the Director's footsoldiers in epic fashion.
York taking down the Mother of Invention with its own guns.
The crash of the Mother of Invention on Sidewinder/Avalanche was one for the animators.
The "We are the Meta" scene, while mostly Nightmare Fuel, was also awesome in a chilling way.
In Episode 20, the Rousing Speeches from Doc and Sarge, which sum up how Seasons 6-10 have allowed the Reds and Blues to grow (along with Washington). The result? The gang decides that, in spite of everything Church and Carolina said, they're going to go help them anyway, since, regardless of anything else, Church is still their friend, and, like it or not, they're having fun with the adventures for the most part.
Stealing the hornets was another for the Blood Gulch crew, faced with an equal number of trained soldiers (remembering that the Reds and Blues are supposed to be cannon fodder) each wielding a massive gunship, just one of which gave them all enormous trouble in Reconstruction. Their victory is such a Foregone Conclusion that it happens off screen. The two teams look at each other... and we cut to them flying away in the stolen Hornets. Really goes to show that the team has Taken A Level In Badass. Rule of FunnyIdiot Ball on the part of the soldiers aside, it shows just how competent they've become.
Church stopping all the Tex copies at once. While Wash compared it to how Alpha-Church stopped the Meta in season 6, it's clear that Epsilon-Church has far surpassed his previous incarnation. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
Episode 22.
One line. From Epsilon-Church to The Director, which isn't actually wrong.
