Blood Gulch Crew
Red Team | Blue Team (Leonard L. Church)
Supporting Cast
Project Freelancer (Simulation Troopers | Artificial Intelligences) | Charon Industries | Chorus | Cosmic Powers | Alliance of Defense | Others
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Allison Church
Allison Church
"Leonard, come on, stop it. You're going to make me late."
- Portrayed By: Lindsay Hicks
The wife of the Director who served in the UNSC Defense Force, her death due to her own failure left a heavy imprint on his mind. In fact, the imprint is so strong that every "Church" Artificial Intelligence created (including Alpha and eventually Epsilon) creates its own "Beta" fragment, better known as Agent Texas, or "Tex". In Episode 10 of Season 9, it is stated that the designation of Agent Texas was being reserved, indicating that the state of Texas may be seen as important to the Director and Allison. She is also Carolina's mother, with the Director being the father.
After being first implied to exist in the season finale of Reconstruction, she finally appeared physically in Episode 17 of Season 10 as the only person in the series thus far to be canonically portrayed in live action.
Associated Tropes:
- Action Girl: Though implied from her first mention, Season 10 confirms that she was a soldier.
- Action Girlfriend: Of a sort for the Director as his wife, given that while he was never in the UNSC Defense Force himself.The Director: You see, I never had the chance to serve in battle, nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War.
- Action Mom: She is revealed to be Carolina's mother.
- Brain Uploading: Of a sort. A copy of her is made as a "Beta" fragment every time an Artificial Intelligence of the Director is made. However, since it's a version of her based on his memories, it's not a true upload.
- First-Name Basis: With the Director. Justified, in that they were very close, and it is not known if "Leonard" was the Director of Project Freelancer at that time.
- Failure Heroine: How the Director views her In-Universe, remembering her for his love for her and for the fact that she died due to her own failure. Whether or not this is true is unknown.
- The Ghost: Until Episode 17 of Season 10.
- The Lost Lenore: For the Director.
- Missing Mom: Carolina says that because of her job, she was never around that much.
- My Greatest Failure: Notably, her "failure" is what the Director remembers her for the most, hence why an inversion of Near-Villain Victory is Texas' defining trait.The Director: My mind has always plagued me with the question, if the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? The memory of her, has haunted me my entire life, and moreso in these last few years than I could ever have imagined.
- Never Say Goodbye: Carolina pointed out that she refused to say goodbye because not saying it meant that she just wasn't here right now.
- No Accounting for Taste: Carolina says she had horrible taste in men, hence the Director's relationship.
- Non-Standard Character Design: For a certain degree of "design". Allison is the only character who is shown in full live action.
- Plot-Triggering Death: For the Director, since her death led to his crimes and by extension nearly all of the events of the series.
- Posthumous Character: She is dead by the time the series chronologically begins, and even throughout the Project Freelancer flashback storyline, she is already dead.
- Rescue Romance: The Ultimate Fan Guide reveals that she and Leonard met when she saved him from being assaulted in basic training.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only ever appears in the Director's last video recording of her, but her death is the catalyst for everything he did with Project Freelancer, which caused every major conflict in the series' first ten seasons.
- Space Marine: Judging from her uniform and cap, she seems to have been from the UNSC Marine Corps.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Under her hat.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her death is what drove the Director to create Project Freelancer in the first place. Implicitly, her philosophy about never saying goodbye was a big part of the Director's fixation on her. Allison wanted to never be truly gone and so the Director never accepted that she was, instead trying to bring her back again and again. With the Freelancer Saga's emphasis on finding closure and letting go, this way of thinking is shown to have caused a lot of problems down the line.
- Walking Spoiler: Her identity spoils a major revelation about Tex and the relationship between Church and Tex, the fact that the Alpha AI is based off the Director, and that Carolina is her daughter.
- Wham Line: "But don't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes." It reveals just how her death affected the Director.
Tartarus Crew
Captain Mayers, Stassney, Blanton, Killgore, and the Rest of the Crew
Top: Captain Mayers. Bottom: Stassney.
The crew of the Tartarus, a UNSC prison ship that is kind of unnoticed by the UNSC. Mayers is the captain of the ship.
Associated Tropes:
- Color-Coded Characters: Some of the soldiers are distinguished by the stripes (and Marathon logos) on the arms of their uniforms. Stassney is yellow, Killgore is red, Blanton is green, and an unnamed soldier is blue.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end. Felix takes a bunch of the soldiers out on his own pretty easily.
- Fantastic Racism: Stassney hates aliens and thinks that despite the fact they are at peace with humans, they will start up war once again.
- Only Sane Man: Captain Mayers is not as jokey as the other crew members. Notably, when Felix states that he's going to kill them, the others stand in confusion while Mayers goes for his gun.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: All of them are killed when Locus and Felix hijack the ship in their first episode.
Aliens
In General
- Adaptational Dumbass: With the exception of Santa (who's an AI and doesn't count), the Aliens here are extremely stupid in comparison to their counterparts in the canon of Halo.
- Ambiguous Situation: We know the Human/Covenant War happened in some capacity in this timeline (it's integral to the plot of Season 5, for starters), and that it ended with some sort of peace (as it did in Halo). However, we don't know if the actual Covenant exist in this continuity, as all we've seen or been told is that the UNSC is/was at war with the aliens, and due to the limitations of Machinima, we haven't seen or heard of any other species of Covenant (outside of Church hallucinating a fight between the BGC and a force of Jackals and Grunts while stuck in the Epsilon Storage Unit).
- Greater-Scope Villain: Their war with the UNSC is responsible for A) The creation of Project Freelancer, B) The creation of the Simulation Troopers, C) the death of Allison, D) Church being forced to detonate a bomb that wipes out most of the show's tertiary characters, upon many other events. Despite this, nobody outside of Tex and Wyoming seem to care a great deal about it.
- No Name Given: They're just called "Aliens", as most of the characters we can understand don't speak their language. It's unclear if they're called the Sanghelli in this continuity, or if the Covenant even exists.
The Alien
The Alien
"Blarg? Honk!"
- Voiced By: Nathan Zellner
Also known as "Crunchbite", "Crouchasaurus", "Fluffy, the Alien Who Only Loves", and "Honk-Honk" (which may be his real name, but probably not). An alien who gets off on the wrong foot with Blue Team by scaring Church right out of his robot body, and then pounding Tucker into the ground after the latter recovers an alien-built sword, binding it to him. The Alien then proceeds to browbeat the Blues into helping him on his quest to save his people, which apparently involved using the sword to unlock a spaceship. The next step is unknown, as Wyoming proceeded to blow the Alien out of the sky. Besides complaining about the Alien's odor or inability to speak English, Tucker commented that the creature was always standing over him when he woke up, which leads us to Junior, below.
Associated Tropes:
- Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Gives Tucker a parasitic embryo, which becomes Junior.
- Gag Penis: Tex is impressed, and Andy even seems to have told Caboose that it's a third arm.Tex: I was just admiring his, his Alien, muscle structure.
Tucker: Yeah one particular part of his muscle structure.
Tex: Well, that's just a matter of penis. I mean opinion. - In-Series Nickname: Caboose calls him "Crunchbite".
- Killed Off for Real: By Wyoming once he stopped being useful.
- No Name Given: The others give him several nicknames, but none of them stuck.
- Pokémon Speak: If his name is Honk Honk.
- The Quest: Takes Tex, Tucker, Caboose, and Andy on a quest to fulfill "the Great Prophecy", with many other "the Great" things, likely in parody of The Great Journey.
- Token Nonhuman: For a while.
- The Unintelligible: Why Tucker elects to teach him English... unsuccessfully.
- Unwitting Pawn: Of Wyoming.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wyoming kills him for this reason.
Junior
Junior
"Bow-chicka honk-honk!"
- Voiced By: Jason Saldaña
It turns out the Alien's species reproduces via parasitic embryos, and Tucker's mysterious illness near the end of the series is a case of Mister Seahorse. Junior seems to have inherited his "mother's" catchphrase, and serves to awaken some glimmers of a (dysfunctional) paternal instinct in Tucker, as well as a strong desire in Church to euthanize the "abomination." Junior turns out to be the destined savior of the Alien's race, a fact that O'Malley and Wyoming became very interested in - they planned to infect Junior with Omega, then use him to control the alien race, winning the war for humanity, and then probably taking over humanity for themselves. When Tex and Omega tried to airlift him out of the canyon, Andy the Bomb blew up the craft.
Tucker confirms that he is alive, and that two were working together as relations ambassadors in Recreation, and later that he went to grade school in Season 13. He makes a cameo appearance at the end of the season watching Epsilon's galaxy-wide SOS message. Ten months later, in season 15, Tucker mentions that Junior's well-off with a basketball scholarship.
Associated Tropes
- Borrowed Catchphrase/Mangled Catchphrase: "Bow-chicka honk-honk!"
- Child by Rape: Conceived without Tucker's consent or awareness by "Crunchbite".
- Child of Two Worlds: Junior is the product of Tucker (human) and "Crunchbite" (alien). Later on in Recreation, Tucker mentions that he and Junior have been working as negotiators of a sort.Tucker: We’re like the ambassadors here or something. Humans and aliens seem more comfortable with us, since we’re kind of… you know, in between.
- A Day in the Limelight: The ambiguously canon 360 episode "The Talk" is told entirely from his perspective as Tucker, Church, and Sarge attempt to give him, well, The Talk.
- Give Him a Normal Life: While Tucker was out taking down rogue UNSC projects, saving the planet Chorus from pirates and time-traveling, Junior was living a comparatively normal life of grade school, diplomatic missions, and after school basketball.
- In the Blood: Making the sleazy porno music at an innuendo wasn't taught by Tucker. It's genetic.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Junior is the oldest brother of several Tuckers fathered by Lavernius after the events of the Chorus Trilogy. Exactly how many younger siblings he has is never made clear, but it's enough to leave the galaxy-wide known Tucker worried about his finances after child support.
- Put on a Bus: Hasn't been seen since the explosion of the Pelican in Episode 100 of The Blood Gulch Chronicles. However, Tucker says in Season 7 that he and Junior are human-alien relations ambassadors, so he's alive. Tucker makes a passing reference to him in Season 13 that suggests Junior is currently in the alien equivalent of grade school. He even carries a picture of Junior with his fifth-grade basketball team constantly on his person. He reappears in Episode 19 on-board an alien ship, watching Epsilon's message.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Though to less of an extent than Sister.
- Someone to Remember Him By: In a really weird sense for the first alien.
Santa
Santa
"It is an honor to meet you, noble warriors."
- Voiced By: Adam Ellis
An alien AI left behind to share the secrets of his people with one who is worthy. He is awakened by Caboose in Season 13's "Test Your Might". Caboose names him Santa.
Associated Tropes:
- All-Powerful Bystander: Despite having direct access to all of Chorus' alien technology, he refuses to get involved in human affairs, except when complying with a wielder of the Great Key within one of his creators' temples.
- This is subverted by Season 15, as he's become something of an assistant and "close friend" to Kimball.
- Artificial Intelligence: Created by an alien race.
- The Comically Serious: Takes his new name in stride. Or he doesn't know what it means. Either way, really.
- Not to mention when he realizes that his "true warrior," being Caboose, might not be the best choice to impart complex wisdom to:
Santa: My apologies, but is there anyone else I could speak to? Perhaps someone with a broader vocabulary? - Living Lie Detector: He can detect whether a person's words match their true intentions. This comes in handy for Kimball when talking to Dylan Andrews.
- Meaningful Name: Caboose is the one who names him, and does so after Santa explains his purpose is to pass on his creators' gifts to those who are worthy. Of course this being Caboose, he apparently forgot that this isn't the real Santa.
- Nice Guy: Even if he stays neutral in human affairs, he is still incredibly polite and courteous. Even more so in season 15, when he drops the "stay out of human affairs" part.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: So far, Caboose's nickname for him seems to have stuck.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Downplayed, as he isn't necessarily evil...but he is the guardian of powerful secrets, and those who try to pass his tests without being worthy are in for some serious
Nightmare Fuel in the following visions. - Threshold Guardian: He's the caretaker of an ancient alien race's incredible secrets, but will only grant that knowledge to a "true warrior." To find that warrior, he puts those who enter his portal through a vision that tests their mental and physical capability. Caboose is the one who passes.
Smith
Smith
- Voiced by: Jack Pattilo
A Forerunner-worshipping alien working alongside "CT" at the dig site, serving as his second-in-command. After seeing Epsilon-Church in the body of a Monitor, he turns against him and starts worshipping Church as a god.
- Character Death: He and the other aliens at the temple are slaughtered by Wash and the Meta.
- Killed Offscreen: Washington and the Meta slaughter him and the rest of the aliens at the temple after Smith insults him and refuses to give any information.
- Too Dumb to Live: What made you think insulting Washington and the Meta to their face when they demanded information and are just barely talked out of killing you by Doc was a good idea, Smith?
- Wild Card: Smith only really holds loyalty to Church, and that's only because Church is in the body of a Monitor. Otherwise, he varies in allegiance, generally siding with whoever can get him to Forerunner artifacts. When CT attacks Church, he immediately turns on him, and when Church leaves for Valhalla, Smith immediately starts attacking Caboose and later Tucker.
The Guardian
The Guardian
"Step forth, mortal. The power for which you sought will summon the harbinger of destruction and rot."
An alien construct guarding a temple.Voiced by: Devin Finn
- Dual Wielding: Wields two giant swords.
- Flaming Sword: Its swords are on fire.
- MacGuffin Guardian: Guards a temple and the Key within.
The Black Lotus
The Black Lotus
"Are you fit for such power? […] I am known as the Black Lotus, keeper of the armor, and you are simply a mortal. Countless journey for such strength. All have fallen."
An alien construct that guards the Ultimate Power.Voiced by: Devin Finn
- MacGuffin Guardian: Calls itself the Keeper of the Armor. Anyone wishing to use the Armor must be judged worthy by it.
- Third Eye: Has a yellow light on its forehead like a third eye, fitting for one who is tasked with judging others.
Interstellar Daily
Dylan Andrews
Dylan Andrews
"People are quick to jump to conclusions. They see something or hear something and fit it into a preconceived emotional box. [...] It's up to people like me to find the very truth and expose the real facts."
- Voiced By: Anna Margaret Hollyman
A reporter for the Interstellar Daily determined to track down the Reds and Blues in Season 15.
- Anti-Hero: She's insanely selfish and insensitive to the people around her. Not feeling any sympathy for Frank when she started getting him into trouble with the law. However, she's not mean when she doesn't have to be, and does just want to figure out the truth.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: When Carlos flips out on her in the finale, she says "Yo dude, take a chill pill" in reference to Vic.
- Bound and Gagged: She got tied up by Blues and Reds, when she found out about their motives.
- Cool Starship: Has a sleek-looking spaceship provided by the Interstellar Daily, though it lacks any sort of defense systems.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards her boss.
- Determinator: She will get her story, laws be damned.
- Deuteragonist: Of Season 15, with the Reds and Blues still serving as the collective protagonists. While the main crux of the story is the battle between the Reds and Blues and the Blues and Reds, it's also about Dylan trying to get her story.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Her name is first seen in season 12; she's the author of the "Colorful Space Marines Stop Corruption" article that Epsilon showed to Chairman Hargrove.
- Everyone Has Standards: She's not the nicest gal around, but she doesn't believe in being mean when it's unnecessary to be so. Like when she made Jax feel bad when he was being a slight annoyance. She almost immediately apologized.
- Fun with Acronyms: Her standard method of getting past military guards is to rattle off a bunch of impressive-sounding letters.
- Gender-Blender Name: Dylan is typically a male name.
- Guest-Star Party Member: While she is the main focus of Season 15, its still as a Supporting Protagonist, and only lasts for the season. She gets only two appearances in the Shisno Paradox, one while everyone is getting ready to leave, and one where she contacts Carolina about the Reds and Blues showing up in history. Shortly after she says Screw This, I'm Outta Here due to the absurdity of it all.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Among the sim troopers, after Temple gets them to distrust her. They come back around, though.
- Intrepid Reporter: You can't do much better than a journalist trying to track down a group of the galaxy's most celebrated and feared war heroes, especially after they've done a Face–Heel Turn in the eyes of the public.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be abrasive to those who annoy her, and she snaps at Jax in the second episode, very seriously telling him to "shut the fuck up". She immediately feels bad and apologizes, however.
- Kick the Dog: Shoots Jax so she could have a chance to speak with Grey and Kimball. In the very same episode we learn she left her husband without a word, then had the gall to only call him when she needed a favor.
- Married to the Job: To the point where her actual marriage suffers.
- Mercy Kill: She makes a deal with Vic: He helps her out three times, and once she uses up her "three wishes", she's supposed to delete him. She upholds her part of the bargain by having him stop Loco’s machine, which requires him to sacrifice himself.
- Meta Girl: She frequently says things that fans of the show might be thinking, whether it’s about the Reds and Blues or the strangeness of the current situation.
- Only Sane Woman: Once she finally finds the Reds and Blues.
- Pet the Dog: Apologizes for telling Jax to "shut the fuck up" and genuinely felt bad for hurting his feelings.
- Refuge in Audacity: Her first instinct after barely surviving a firefight with the Reds and Blues is to walk over and interview them.
- Sherlock Scan: Upon noticing that some of the Reds and Blues are using the wrong weapons and have different voices, she immediately realizes they're imposters.
- Sixth Ranger: She and Jax become this to the Blood Gulch Crew, as they need her to trace Church's message.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Inverted. She starts to distance herself from the Reds and Blues after they all turn on her. She joins back up with them once they realize they were wrong about her, however.
- Stealth Pun: She wears an Intruder helmet, and she tends to get her information by breaking into places she really shouldn't be.
- The Stoic: Dylan is definitely a very experienced and level-headed individual. It's probably why she's such a good reporter.
- Straight Man: To Jax.
- Supporting Protagonist: While she is the main character of Season 15, the story is still focused on the Blood Gulch Crew, with her and Jax acting in a supporting role while they take on the Blues and Reds.
- Take a Third Option: Unplug Vic and end his misery, or avoid the moral dilemma and leave him, thus making him deteriorate further? How about taking him in as an AI assistant?
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Tries giving this speech to Grif. It fails, horribly.
"Jax Jonez"
"Jax Jonez"
- Voiced By: Joe Nicolosi
The new cameraman assigned to Dylan after her old one quit. It's not known what his real name is because of his decision to adopt a stage name. He's excitable and has lots of ideas to help Dylan film her story, most of them, not so good.
- Author Avatar: He's based on Joe Nicolosi (Season 15 writer/director) when he was still in film school. Jax also mentions that he's done wedding photography, which was Joe's first job.
- Bad Boss: He verbally and physically abuses his crew, often making them take part in extremely dangerous stunts and forcing them to wear heavy armor. Kohan, his producer, sings his praises only because Jax flat-out threatens to kill him with a loaded pistol.
- Characterization Marches On: In The Shisno Paradox, he goes from an excitable, well-meaning and annoying idiot to a Prima Donna Director who has frequent mood swings and a truly vile temper who frequently threatens to murder his employees.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Tries to convince Dylan to do outrageous shots or change stories completely to his ridiculous movie ideas.
- The Ditz: He makes up for Dylan's lack of morality in his kindness. While Dylan makes up for his lack of brain power.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the trauma he went through with the Reds and Blues and Dylan, and suffering multiple bullet wounds, he eventually turns the whole experience into a script for a movie and pitches it to a Hollywood Executive who is very interested in it. He also offers the executive another one of his previously explained movie ideas, Moon Doom.
- Foil: To Frank. Whereas Frank quit because he was sick of getting shot at, Jax still wants to be Dylan's partner even after she shoots him herself to get closer to Chorus's head figures.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He quickly gets on Dylan's nerves with his over-enthusiasm, constant talk of movie ideas and lack of skill at his job. Even the Reds and Blues quickly grow frustrated with him for his movie references and sneaking up on them to film them.
- Genre Savvy:
- He's an expert at all kinds of films, actors and directors and thus wants to make his own films eventually. He compares a lot of stuff he sees in real life to something in a movie, either positively with ideas and constructive feedback or negatively by calling something anti-climactic or a weak premise. This leads to him having a Genre Blindness moment, where after Temple gets done explaining his backstory to him and Dylan and how Biff died, Jax thinks it was all just a made up story and offers Temple criticism, until Temple knee caps him.
- Dylan calls him the leading expert on time travel, and for good reason. When Carolina and Wash meet up with him, he breaks down the various ways time travel can work in fiction to figure how it works in their reality, even pointing out an instance of Sarge and Simmons creating a closed loop.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's gained a fair amount of anger issues after becoming a big-shot director, constantly deriding and yelling at his crew. He seems to have inherited this from his uncle.
- Hidden Depths: Jax is actually quite knowledgable about time travel, giving coherent explanations about how it's used in movies*, and giving a logical explanation as to what kind of paradoxes it can create.
- Innocently Insensitive: Thinks Temple's story about how Biff died is just fiction and tries to offer constructive feedback, saying that it's too cliche. This makes Temple angry enough to knee cap him.
- The Intern: Still in school with 47 more credits needed to graduate when he's placed with Dylan.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The studio eventually cuts the funding for his movie after seeing how badly Jax has been handling things, and when he tries to go to the Reds and Blues for their time machine, he gets a Gravity Hammer thrown at him.
- Mood-Swinger: His newfound temper means he can go from cheery to screaming in mere moments. Usually his friendlier tone is directed towards his friends while his angrier ones are towards his crew.George: You have guests, sir.Jax: IF THEY'RE FROM THE STUDIO, YOU CAN TELL HIM TO WAIT IN THE FUCKING TRASH COMP-oh hey, it's Carolina and Washington. How the hell are you guys?
- My Nayme Is: Decides that to add an x and z into his name to make it cooler.
- Nepotism: Apparently this is how he got the job despite his obvious incompetence.
- Nice Guy: He is more cheerful and moral than his boss. This changes in The Shisno Paradox, where he becomes a Prima Donna Director who yells at his crew and subjects them to perilous movie stunts that could kill them.
- Only Known By His Nickname: We never find out his real name and his uncle, who would know, only refers to him as "my nephew".
- Prima Donna Director: Once he gets to direct the adaptation of the Reds and Blues story, he's as controlling as possible, attempting insane filming methods and abusing his crew, particularly his producer Kohan Wooter, who he winds up shooting in the leg at one point.Jax Jonez: You know how I feel about that word! Nothing is impossible.
Kohan Wooter: Okay, it's not impossible, but launching a camera on a rocket towards human actors is highly dangerous and probably won't even work.
Jax: (cheerfully) I'm not an idiot! I know it probably won't work, but that just means we have to do a lot of takes! It may take weeks!
Kohan: We can't- we can't! Dear sweet Jesus, my chest! (Collapses to the floor, babbling)
Jax: We'll cram it in right before we reshoot the first act! There's a defibrillator in the hallway, Kohan, or do you need me to do that for you as well?! - Saying Too Much: When he cheerfully blurts out that he made a movie out of their footage of Spencer serving Tucker, right when Tucker is growing suspicious of their motives.
- Shipper on Deck: Is eager to see Grif and Simmons kiss after their reunion. His movie also includes two sex scenes for both them and Carolina/Washington.
- Skewed Priorities: He's more interested in film aesthetics than journalism, which frequently gets on peoples' nerves.
- Tagalong Kid: Still in college, has no experience in military journalism, frequently gets on Dylan's nerves, and never seems to be recording when he should be.
- Too Dumb to Live: After hearing Temple's story about Biff's death and why he became evil, Jax decides to offer criticism to the Axe-Crazy Serial Killer by telling him that he needs work on the backstory and that the girl back home trope is a tired cliché. It's really no surprise that Temple decided to knee cap him.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Jax is initially a dumb but well-meaning kid. Becoming a famous director gives him a large temper and he both verbally and physically abuses the film crew working for him.
- Unreliable Narrator: One post-credits scene implies that Season 15 is told from his perspective, and anything in the story that doesn't add up, like the inexplicable references, is the result of him telling it.
Carlos Trabka
Carlos Trabka
- Voiced By: Bill Wise
The grouchy head honcho of the Interstellar Daily. He hesitantly gives Dylan permission to investigate the Reds and Blues.
- Bad Boss: He's a huge Jerkass to Dylan. Judging by her reaction to his "give her a rope long enough to hang herself with" line, he's said that to her before. Though, in his defense, it is more of a case of Jerkass Has a Point.
- Da Editor: He's Dylan's editor, and is quite put out by her Intrepid Reporting.
- Dissonant Serenity: When Dylan calls him back for the first time in over a month, and after stealing his nephew and his ship, he's oddly calm and happy to talk to her. This is because he was prescribed with horse tranquilizers. It doesn't last long, though.
- Heroic RRoD: His nephew disappearing with Dylan triggered a massive breakdown on his part that required horse tranquilizers to keep in check. Learning that he suffered multiple bullet wounds is what begins to break him out of the Dissonant Serenity the drugs caused.Carlos: Bullet - d-did you just say his wounds? Wounds as in, p-p-plural?
- Jerkass Has a Point: He calls out Dylan for putting his job and the company at risk.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's not very nice to Andrews. He also loves his nephew enough to help him out with his internship, losing him triggered a massive breakdown, and Dylan telling him he suffered multiple bullet wounds was what began to crack through his tranquilizer-induced Dissonant Serenity. We also learn his criticism of Dylan is very justified.
James Adler
James Adler
Voiced By: Michael Jastroch
Dylan's husband and an analyst for the Interstellar Daily.
Associated Tropes:
- Happily Married: Subverted. James wants to save their marriage, but Dylan is more interested in her work.
- Nice Guy: To stick with Dylan after she went on a life threatening mission without saying a word to him, only calling him up to demand a favor and then doing that favor, you have to be this.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He's not at all happy that Dylan left without saying a word and the next time she calls him, she just wants a favor.
Frank
Frank
Voiced By: Aaron Spivey-Sorrells
A cameraman who used to work with Dylan before quitting due to her ambition constantly getting him into trouble.
- Butt-Monkey: The only time we see him, he's either panicking, being blown off by Dylan or arrested.
- Deadpan Snarker:Dylan: He's a French Analysis Repair Transfer. No English, but he's the best LCARSDDR in the entire AOL. Ain't that right DuCroix?Frank: Oui.
- The Generic Guy: He does nothing note worthy in his debut appearance, and the next time we hear about him, he's already quit.
- Nice Guy: The most we see him do is try to stop Dylan from getting herself and him arrested. When she does, he quits.
- Only Sane Man: Was smart enough to quit when Dylan's ambition started getting him into trouble with the law.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He wisely quit when Dylan started to get him into trouble.
- Take This Job and Shove It: When it becomes clear that Dylan will keep getting him into trouble with the law. He quits.
The Lozanos
Gabriel Lozano
Gabriel Lozano
Voiced by: David Jennison
The son of crime boss Ruben Lozano, and Locus and Felix's target in the prequel episodes.
Associated Tropes:
- Alas, Poor Villain: While he was a total dick, its hard not to feel bad when his father abandons him.
- Asshole Victim: That said, his record did include rape, murder, money-laundering, drug-trafficking...
- Batter Up!: Inverted—he may have a baseball bat, but he's the one who ends up on the wrong side of it.
- Boom, Headshot!: How he goes out, courtesy of Locus.
- Dirty Coward: When Locus and Felix bust in, they find him cowering behind his desk. And when placed on the phone for the ransom call, he begs his father to pay them off.
- He Knows Too Much: Why Locus kills him, as Felix and Siris used their real names.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: It's implied that he did a rather poor job of managing the nightclub he owns. More tellingly, when Locus and Felix come to "collect" him, he tries to ward off the two gun-toting bounty hunters...with a bat.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Seems to think this way, but gets a rude awakening when he learns that his father doesn't care about whether he lives or dies, and would consider the latter a favor.Felix: Christ, you are a stereotype!
Ruben Lozano
Ruben Lozano
"I have a reputation to uphold. If word got out that two bounty hunters killed my men, shot up my property, and kidnapped my son all without consequences, that would most certainly be a sign of weakness... which is why I am personally going to bash your skulls open and feed you to my dogs."
Voiced by: Derek Mears
A crime boss introduced in the Locus and Felix prequel episodes.
Associated Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Refers to Gabriel as "the worst thing [he] ever brought into this world", and doesn't give a damn if he's killed.
- Arc Villain: In the "Merc" prequel episodes.
- Beard of Evil: When we finally see him in person, his elegantly-trimmed beard is one of his key features.
- The Don: He's a crime boss.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He's got a deep voice and is a ruthless crime boss who cares more about his own reputation than his son.
- Knight of Cerebus: The prequel episodes gets much darker after his introduction with him revealing he doesn't care about his son, and saying he will kill Felix and Locus regardless since he can't let the insult of them destroying his property and kidnapping his son go unanswered. To make sure they don't run he warns them that if they do, he will kill everyone they care about.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: He wears a natty suit and owns a rather classy nightclub.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His declaration that he cares nothing for his son's life leads Gabriel to reveal the various ways he knows so much about the bounty hunters. This stops the panicked speculation from the mercs and leads to them regrouping much faster.
- "Not So Different" Remark: As he is dying, Siris says he shouldn't have brought their families into the conflict. Ruben retorts that the bounty hunters did so first, leaving Siris visibly shaken.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: So far, he's rarely raised his voice, even when describing his plans for retribution to Locus, Felix, and Siris. Or, for that matter, condemning his son to death.
- You Have Failed Me: His reasons for letting Gabriel die.
Viper
A criminal syndicate led by Zero; the antagonists of Zero. In general
- Curb-Stomp Battle: So far, all their appearances have them steamrolling over any and all opposition they face. Even veteran fighters and former Freelancers like Carolina and Wash were unable to defeat them, much less the soldiers stationed at the base housing the artifact. The only time they ever face any real trouble is up against the Alien Guardian, which actually gives Zero and Phase a serious fight. It takes until the final episode for Carolina and Shatter Squad to score a definitive win against them, and even then, Diesel is the only one who gets taken out in a one-on-one fight. West gets Phase to switch sides by reaffirming his parental love for her, and Zero's defeat in part comes as a result of Phase assisting Shatter Squad.
- One Degree of Separation: Barring Diesel, Zero and Phase share some sort of relationship with the older members of Shatter Squad: Zero was once close friends with Axel before something happened to make Zero betray their group (namely Axel shooting at Zero and making him fall off a cliff after Zero snapped out as the government attempted to dispose of him), and Phase has some sort of history with West. It's revealed that Phase is West's actual daughter, that East is just a clone split off from her. Zero rescued her from Starlight Labs after he faked his death, and she created East to pass off as West's daughter in her place. While initially loyal to Zero so long as she could get revenge on West, after initiating a Split-Personality Merge with East, she's begun to question Zero and her own decisions.
- Terrible Trio: A rare serious case, Zero being the leader, with Phase and Diesel as the sidekicks.
Zero
Agent Zero
"I'll exact my revenge... while also burning this world to the ground."
Voiced By: Christian Young
A former GLASS operative who is in search of the Ultimate Power.
- All for Nothing: He considers his time being trained to lead the second Shatter Squad to have been wasted after the war ended, and his obsession with the Ultimate Power is him lashing out about this.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never made clear what the entity behind the Ultimate Power does to Zero after deeming him unworthy. Zero just disappears in a manner that seems rather painful to him.
- And Then What?: He denies it vehemently, but it's revealed in SIDEWAYS that he has no idea what the so-called "Ultimate Power" even is or what he'll even do with it.
- Bad Boss: He's calm when he's in control, but he's quick to threaten and throw his weight around the moment his decisions are questioned, shown most prominently when Phase begins questioning his mission for the Ultimate Power.
- Beneath the Mask: He puts up a front of being an unflappable mastermind, but it's ultimately shown that Zero is a highly insecure, entitled, and pathetic manchild who desperately wants to feel any kind of validation.
- Big Bad: The eponymous antagonist of Red vs. Blue: Zero.
- Big Bad Wannabe: In the end, he turns out to be this. While he poses a legitimate threat and is powerful and skilled enough to wipe the floor with any opposition, even highly trained military operatives like Shatter Squad and Freelancers, he has no idea what the Ultimate Power does and is really just trying to get it in a deranged and nonsensical attempt to prove himself, not even having a real plan of what he's going to do with it. Once he finally gets it, he doesn't have much control over it thanks to the Black Lotus being the one who actually controls the Ultimate Power, resulting in him being beaten by Shatter Squad and being whisked off by the Black Lotus to an ambiguous, but obviously unpleasant fate when it has enough of him.
- Cold Ham: For the most part he puts up a calm and composed façade, but he has a fondness for cheesy lines as it were.Zero: I'll exact my revenge, while also burning this world to the ground.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Intentionally or not, Zero seems to one towards the Meta from Seasons 6 to Season 10, as they are both power-hungry individuals yet are also different in many, many ways;
- The Meta was created when Sigma corrupted Maine during his Freelancer days, turning him against his allies; Zero left the Alliance of Defence of his own free will when the Great War ended.
- The Meta is The Juggernaut, using his strength in combat; Zero is a speedy martial artist, who uses his skill.
- The Meta uses a combination weapon in the form of the Brute Shot, which is a much more "physical" weapon; Zero’s main weapon is the Great Key, a sword made of energy.
- The Meta's armor is white and drab in color; whilst Zero's is Red and Black and Evil All Over, not to mention glows at times.
- The Meta's "ally", Sigma, was created using a fractured AI based on a human man’s mind, and was the one directing him as an empty shell from the beginning of his Start of Darkness; the Black Lotus Zero, obtained at the very end, is an alien technological entity which truly controls the Ultimate Power which Zero struggles to.
- The Meta's original goal was not to become powerful, but to reform with the AI Fragments to achieve Metastability, and would later continue to for the sake of just power in a single-minded manner due to his psychological overriding; Zero seeks power for power’s sake as well, but he only does it as a means of revenge and because he feels entitled to.
- The Meta is Smarter Than He Looks and is capable of playing the long game to get his hands on what he needs and uses his strengths and weaknesses with a surprising amount of cunning; Zero appears, and fairly is, a skilled tactician and leader but he begins to suffer a Villainous Breakdown even after getting the Ultimate Power and it hampers his performance.
- The Meta turned on Washington after getting what he needed; Zero was betrayed by his teammate Phase.
- The Meta once used a voice modulator to make the Reds and Blues fight to improve his odds; Zero directly invited Shatter Squad to have one last go at beating him so he could crush them completely.
- The Meta is a silent antagonist; Zero makes a lot of elegant statements.
- Entitled Bastard: Zero has a massive sense of entitlement. His entire motive for everything he does is that he's angry he didn't get to lead the original Shatter Squad and he feels he deserves the Ultimate Power simply because he's the strongest.
- Et Tu, Brute?: During the flashback in "Duo", he bitterly states that he once trusted Axel, although the circumstances of their falling-out are unexplained.
- Evil Counterpart: Acts as a counterpart to both One and Axel.
- To Agent One. Aside from one being colored blue and the other red, Agent One is cocky and has trouble working with the rest of her teammates. In contrast, Zero acts far more professionally and works very well with his own team.
- To Axel. Both are parental figures towards an Action Girl separated from their biological parents and are red and grey.
- Evil Is Hammy: Whenever being grandiose is necessary, Zero veers into over-the-top scenery.Zero: I can feel it... The power to change... EVERYTHING!!
- Fair-Play Villain: By "Shattered", he's perfectly capable of simply waltzing into the temple and taking the Ultimate Power unopposed, but deliberately reveals his location to Shatter Squad to give them one last chance to stop him and prove once and for all he's better than they are.
- Faux Affably Evil: Zero puts on the front of being a Noble Demon Well-Intentioned Extremist, but at the end of the day he's just a selfish, entitled monster obsessed with gaining some sort of power.
- Heroic Wannabe: Zero's entire grievance against GLASS and the Alliance of Defense is that he didn't get to lead the original Shatter Squad and play hero.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's got the abilities to be a Smug Super, but in reality, his search for the Ultimate Power is implied to just be a way to prove to everyone else that he wasn't too weak to lead what would have been a second Shatter Squad. His Villainous Breakdown in the final episode more has to do with the entity behind the Ultimate Power repeatedly interrupting the fight to express its doubts over his worthiness than the hits he's actually taking from Shatter Squad.
- Insane Troll Logic: He's convinced the Alliance of Defense betrayed him because they didn't let him lead the original Shatter Squad, even though it was because the Great War ended.
- It's All About Me: His entire rampage and quest for the Ultimate Power is him lashing out over not getting to be the leader of the original Shatter Squad. It doesn't matter to him that this was because the Great War ended, and all he really cares about is making himself seem big.
- The Leader: He's the leader of Viper, as evident by both Phase and Diesel calling him "Commander".
- Motive Decay: Zero originally yearned for revenge against the Alliance of Defense for shutting down GLASS and screwing him over with their "experiments and manipulations". After gaining the Ultimate Power, he instead wants to show off his strength by destroying everything.
- My Hero, Zero: Although it is the product of a Meaningful Rename, as once the government decided to get rid of Shatter Squad's top agent, Agent One, he had to choose the number before it. He even greets the new One by saying "Hello One... I am Zero.".
- Noble Demon: Subverted. He seems to have some sort of code and fair play, but ultimately it's just posturing.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He talks a big game about the corruption of the Alliance of Defense and their countless "experiments and manipulations", but at the end of the day he's just doing it because he feels cheated he never got to be the leader of the original Shatter Squad and is basically throwing a gigantic tantrum over it.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Once he finally gets the Ultimate Power, he decides to use it to decimate the universe out of both spite and his desire to show off his strength.
- Power Incontinence: He's unable to make full use of the Ultimate Power when he finally obtains it, mostly because a separate entity already controls it and finds his performances against Shatter Squad disappointing.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Downplayed. While he isn't outwardly childish, at his core Zero is an entitled brat, and his entire motivation essentially boils down to him throwing a tantrum over not getting to lead the original Shatter Squad and prove how cool he is, an undeniably childish motivation.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Not black specifically, but Zero's armor is colored dark gray and red.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He's seeking revenge on the government for attempting to dispose of him after the Shatter Squad he was intended to lead was shut down.
- Sanity Slippage: He completely loses it after getting the Ultimate Power, becoming increasingly louder and deciding to decimate the entire universe.
- Smug Super: Subverted. He's highly skilled, being able to wipe the floor with Freelancers, Shatter Squad, and other military personnel, and he acts like he's unbearably smug about it, but it's ultimately shown to be a cover for his fragile ego.
- Teleport Spam: While he doesn't do it as frequently as Phase, his armor allows him to jump from one place to the next. His also has more freedom than Phase's, since she can seemingly only teleport to wherever her knife is.
- Uncertain Doom: He's last seen being whisked off by the entity behind the Ultimate Power to parts unknown while screaming.p, with the implication it's either A Fate Worse Than Death or just plain old death.
- Villainous Breakdown: During the final battle, he gets progressively louder and more reckless as the entity behind the Ultimate Power repeatedly doubts his worthiness.
- We Can Rule Together: When he had his falling out with Axel, he asked Axel to join him in his quest for revenge. Axel declined.
- We Used to Be Friends: Zero and Axel appear to know one another as shown in "Duo," though whether they were actually friends or just close acquaintances has yet to be seen.
Phase
Agent Phase
Click here to see her after "Sideways"
"Looking for me? I'm waiting."
Voiced By: Hannah McCarthy
- Affably Evil: She's surprisingly personable and casual for a terrorist, and even banters with Shatter Squad on occasion.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Has not forgiven her father West for sending her to scientists who cut her up and such.
- Assimilation Backfire: Joining back up with East only ends up causing her to literally grow back her conscience, leading her to become more uneasy with her actions and Zero's mission.
- Calling the Old Man Out: She brutally reams West for turning her over to scientists who tortured and experimented on her.
- Co-Dragons: She and Diesel are this for Zero.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Inflicts this on Washington when he refused to give them the information they wanted.
- Dark Action Girl: Is female, and is one of Season 18's antagonists.
- Devious Daggers: A knife-wielding villain who uses teleportation to attack from unexpected angles.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": She is enraged when West calls her by her real name, Danyell. She comes around after her Heel–Face Turn.
- Evil Counterpart: To Agent One. Both their parental figures are red and grey, and they were separated from their biological families in a different way; One's family is said to be killed in action, while Phase's father gave her up to be experimented upon.
- Foil:
- In terms of abilities and personality, Phase acts more casually and calmly, even when facing accomplished soldiers like Carolina while Agent East is otherwise hot-headed and brash. Phase can seemingly teleport towards her knife once thrown without consequence, while East possesses Super-Speed that tires her out and leaves her vulnerable afterwards. "Duo" indicates that she went through similar experiments as East, but she has become hateful, vengeful, and villainous while East is just angry. Phase wears purple and black armor, in contrast to East's dark pink. And then East turns out to be a Literal Split Personality, that when merged back with Phase makes her black parts pink and her purple parts gold.
- She is also this to Locus, both started out being presented as cold-blooded, but end up more complex as the story goes on. Unlike Locus, however, she questions her own actions after becoming one again with East, and does so a lot faster, as while Locus began questioning his actions over the course of Season 13, two seasons after his introduction, and required suffering a Trauma Conga Line, Phase begins questioning her actions in the middle of her debut season, and immediately starts questioning after her Split-Personality Merge.
- Karma Houdini: She ends up being welcomed back into Shatter Squad without receiving any form of punishment for her actions throughout the season.
- Heel–Face Turn: She joins Shatter Squad in the final episode after coming to terms with the fact that West actually cared about her.
- Lightning Bruiser: While the teleporting plays a role, she moves impressively fast while beating others.
- Literal Split Personality: East was a hololight clone created with a fragment of her personality. Notably, despite still being aligned against Shatter Squad post-merging, Phase does show some slight unease towards what she did to Tucker and more openly questions Zero's mission.
- Meaningful Name: Even if without Intangibility, she can phase through people and barriers by teleporting.
- My Nayme Is: The subtitles on Rooster Teeth's website say her true name is "Danyell".
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: She has some sort of personal beef with West and wants to be the one that deals with him. Thus, when she learns that Zero severely injured him, she's naturally angry and attempts to stab him with her knife. It's because she's actually half his daughter, with East revealed to be a kind of Literal Split Personality of hers.
- Purple Is Powerful: Purple is her preferred color (even her knives have such a trim), and she's definitely a flashy and lethal fighter.
- Shout-Out: Two to Naruto, an unintentional one in how her Teleport Spam of being able to travel wherever the knife is turned out to be very similar to the "Hiraishin" technique of Minato Namikaze (Torrian however only realized what he did after seeing her use it), and a deliberate in how the rivalry between One and East was meant to be akin to that of Naruto and Sasuke. Fittingly, the revelation East is a clone of Phase who undergoes a Split-Personality Merge and displays a desire to kill West for seemingly abandoning her furthers the allusion, as Sasuke betrays the Leaf Village and willingly becomes an ally of Orochimaru so as to gain the power to kill his older brother Itachi after he caused the Uchiha Massacre.
- Split-Personality Merge: She merges with her other half, East, in SIDEWAYS. It's more literal than most examples due to East being a Literal Split Personality.
- Teleport Spam: She's somehow capable of doing this, closing the distance between her and anyone she feels is in need of being introduced to her knives. To do so though, she needs to throw her knife, and then teleports to the location it was thrown. She mainly throws it behind opponents so as to catch them off guard from behind, or into vehicles so as to quickly catch up with them.
- That Man Is Dead: Gets very annoyed when her father calls her by her birth name.
- Travel to Projectile: Phase can teleport to the location of her knife. She makes frequent use of this in combat, throwing her knife to reposition herself and quickly cover large distances.
Diesel
Agent Diesel
"Hahahahaha! This is fun!"
Zero's muscle and physical fighter.Voiced By: Daman Mills
- Attack Its Weak Point: An example where the weak point has to be created, but his seemingly impenetrable armor actually can't withstand sustained damage to a single location. Carolina takes him out by attacking his abdomen with a mix of melee and gunfire until a fissure big enough forms for her to blow him up.
- Bad Boss: During his final battle with Carolina, he bats aside the Mooks summoned to back him up with his sweeping attacks and charges and even tosses one of them at Carolina at one point.
- Blood Knight: He really enjoys fighting and takes his time dispatching his opponents. When dealing with the normal soldiers in "Viper", he only ever runs once as he effortleesly manhandles them.
- The Brute: He's the muscle of Zero's gang and prefers to pummel his enemies into the dirt than shoot them.
- Character Death: He's killed when Carolina shoves explosives inside a breach in his armor and detonates them.
- Co-Dragons: With Phase for Zero.
- Dumb Muscle: Played with. He's not stupid, but definitely not a tactician like Zero or Phase, preferring to rush his enemies and overwhelm them with sheer brute force. Carolina even pokes fun at this in their final battle.Carolina: It speaks! I thought you only grunted.
- Evil Is Bigger: He towers over his teammates and enemies alike, and as bad as it gets.
- Flat Character: Unlike his two teammates, Diesel receives no backstory, Hidden Depths, or sympathetic qualities. From the beginning to the end of the season, his only defining trait is being Zero's bloodthirsty muscle.
- Foil: To West on a surface level, both being the big, physical men of their respective groups.
- The Juggernaut: Of the unstoppable force variety, fights with Diesel are usually measured in seconds with only the main characters being capable of lasting longer. His first fight consisted him shrugging off bullets and even a rocket to the face with no ill effects, and handing beatdowns like candy.
- Kill It with Fire: Carolina kills him by creating a fissure in his armor, then attaching explosives to said breach to blow him to kingdom come.
- Made of Iron: Throughout Season 18, Diesel is completely unharmed by various injuries that would have killed anyone else, including getting blasted with a rocket launcher twice. He's only killed when he's blown to pieces by Carolina.
- Mighty Glacier: Subverted. He is capable of running fairly quickly, he just prefers to play with his food and let his enemies realize how screwed they are as he walks toward them, shrugging off their attacks.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Diesel hits like a monster truck and shrugs off bullets like flies on a train, but possesses no technique, as demonstrated in his fights with West and Carolina, who employ their superior military training and skill to outmaneuver him.
Unaffiliated
Mason Wu / Siris
Siris/Mason Wu
"We are not crooks [...] The three of us set out to stop criminals. We do good, we get paid, everybody wins."
- Voiced by: Christopher Sabat
Locus and Felix's partner in the past.
Associated Tropes:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Begs Ruben Lozano for mercy after the crime boss threatens to invoke Revenge by Proxy.
- Artificial Limbs: His left leg is a prosthesis from mid-thigh down, and it's strong enough to put a melon-sized dent in a car.
- Bounty Hunter: Along with Felix and Locus. He apparently got them the gig.
- Changed My Mind, Kid: He considers abandoning Felix and Locus when things get ugly since Ruben didn't know he was part of their team, but ultimately he sticks around.
- Ear Notch: On the same side as his prosthesis and eyebrow scar.
- Everyone Has Standards: He's against illegally taking Gabriel Lozano hostage and would rather have turned him over to the police.
- Happily Married: Implied towards an unseen woman named Megan. Felix even says that Siris can use his third of the bounty money to buy something nice for his wife.
- Heel Realization: A low grade one, but when he tells the dying Lozano that he shouldn't have brought family into it, Ruben replies that 'you did it first'. Siris takes a minute to think on that.
- Honor Before Reason: Refuses to run a red light even as they have the son of a crime boss tied up in their trunk.
- I Have a Family: His motivation for considering abandoning Felix and Locus. He changes his mind and doesn't go through with it.
- Kick Chick: A male example. He incorporates his powerful cybernetic leg into his fighting style, such as using it to break a gun.
- Lightning Bruiser: Strong enough to snap metal pipes in half and hard to catch when he gets moving.
- Morality Chain: A failed one. He got Locus and Felix into the bounty hunting game for the good they could do and serves as the group's moral compass, but ends up being talked into the ransom scheme. He's also nowhere to be seen in the Chorus arc, where Locus and Felix's morals have taken a nosedive.
- Purple Is Powerful: His clothes are dark purple, and his shades are tinted purple. Judging by his skills and strength, he is also the most physically powerful of the trio. (See Super-Strength below)
- Super-Strength: He's strong to begin with, and fast enough to evade bullets, but his prosthesis has enough force to kick a chunk of exhaust pipe through a man's chest.
- Token Good Teammate: He's much more reluctant to engage in illegal activities than his partners.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If he hadn't stayed behind to help Felix and Locus fight off Lozano's men, they would've most likely been killed. This would have left Chorus in a much better place than if Felix and Locus had manipulated them to keep their civil war going.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unclear what happened to him after the final confrontation with Lozano. Only thing clear is that he wasn't involved with Locus and Felix by time of the Chorus Trilogy, and as a result, the lack of their Morality Chain led to them working with Charon Industries and the Civil War on Chorus.
Spencer Porkensenson
Spencer Porkensenson
"Intention is no matter. Only consequence has true form."
- Voiced By: Jason Marnocha
An unknown soldier with a FOTUS Helmet. Actually just a legal process server, who informs Tucker that he owes several Chorusan mothers child support payments.
- Ambiguously Evil: His introductory scenes keep it vague as to what side he’s on, and what he plans on doing with Tucker once he finds him. He turns out to be a due process server serving Tucker a class action lawsuit.
- Ambiguously Human: His helmet resembles that of an Elite, and his obsession with Tucker implies he is at least connected to the aliens. Completely averted after its revealed that he's just a process server.
- Antiquated Linguistics: He speaks in an extremely formal and archaic style, especially after he's revealed as just being a process server. Why he speaks like this is entirely unknown, except for the obvious metafictional reason.
- Black Knight: Evokes the classical appearance and mannerisms of one. Averted on the mannerisms part when it's revealed that he's but a humble process server.
- Bounty Hunter: Characters consistently refer to him as a bounty hunter instead of by name. Whether he actually is a bounty hunter on top of being a process server is unclear.
- The Comically Serious: He looks and acts far more intimidating than he actually should be, and the contrast between his appearance, mannerisms, and his actual job is his primary source of comedy.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his red and black armor, his true nature is noble.
- Embarrassing Last Name: Averted. His strange, overly-long last name doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest.
- Evil Brit: He clearly has a British accent. The “evil” part is subverted, however, when it turns out he's just "serving" Tucker with child support complaints.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has a throaty voice that is serious and intimidating. Like with the other villain tropes that apply to him, this is subverted when he’s revealed to be a process server.
- Exact Words: "I serve Lavernius Tucker." And he proceeds to serve him a court order for a class action lawsuit for child support.
- Freaky Electronic Music: His apparent Leitmotif.
- Good All Along: His loyalties are unclear at first, but then he protects Dylan and Jax from the Blues and Reds, and is revealed to be a process server. If nothing else, he's a lawful servant of the court.
- Mundane Made Awesome: The most intimidating, badass process server in all of fiction.
- Mysterious Watcher: He debuts in this way in "The Chronicle", observing Dylan and Jax from the cliffs surrounding Blood Gulch.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His armor is designed like this, but it has no bearing on his actual morality.
- Red Herring: Everything about him is meant to make the viewer think he'll be the new 'armoured, mysterious badass villain who has an elaborate appearance' that has previously been done by Tex, Meta/Washington and Locus. He's just a process server that was sent after Tucker to inform him of the child support payments he needs to pay. He has no connection to the Blues and Reds, and once his job is done, he departs.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't contribute to the plot much by himself, but Dylan and Jax not mentioning that they saw him is what fuels Tucker's distrust of them, which allows Tucker to play into Temple's hands.
- Spikes of Villainy: The giant spike on his helmet serves as this. Minus the "villainy" aspect.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Subverted. After the Chorus Trilogy built up Locus and Felix by having them serve as a Mysterious Watcher over the reds and blues, with distinctive armor and weaponry, he seemed like he was going to be this. He was not.
- Unstoppable Mailman: Follows Tucker's trail across several planets, warzones, and an abandoned city, just to give him child support paperwork.
- Villainous Fashion Sense: His armor adheres to every villain design trope in the book. It helps hide the fact that he's a civil servant.
- Walking Spoiler: Downplayed Trope in that he's really a Red Herring, and The Reveal of his true nature is an intentional Anti-Climax.
Wiz and Boomstick
Wiz and Boomstick
The Red vs. Blue versions of the hosts of DEATH BATTLE!.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Wiz uses the tagline about analyzing the combatants weapons, armors and skill to determine who'd win a Death Battle, which confuses Simmons with how he said it.
- Like Father, Like Son: Hot-Blooded, Cloudcuckoolander-ness, Texan accent, loves causing Grif pain...
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Sarge is heavily implied to be Boomstick's father, who abandoned him to join the military, or rather joined the military to abandon him.
- Mundane Utility: Boomstick uses his shotgun to... write his name.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Boomstick wears red armor and is Hot-Blooded and irrational, while Wiz wears blue armor and is (somewhat) saner.
