History YMMV / RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles

* UglyCute: Junior.

* EpilepticTrees: And some are [[IKnewIt coming true.]]

* AcceptableTargets: Don't expect the military to come across well in this web series, especially given that ArmedFarces is one of the main sources of comedy.

** When the bomb inside Church is about to be activated, Tucker attempts to kill him [[TheNeedsOfTheMany in hopes of destroying the bomb]]. [[ItsAllAboutMe Church objects to that]], [[LackOfEmpathy not caring about the people around him in the slightest]]. [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment This attitude comes to a change later]], as performing a HeroicSacrifice with an uncertain hope of success is exactly how Church meets his end ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection twice]] [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy over]]'']].
** Tex not showing any hesitation to kill Grif when asked to, once [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy Season 15]] reveals that [[spoiler:it wouldn't be the first time she horrifically killed a simulation trooper in orange armor with no remorse (though her using [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] at the time then admittedly complicates the situation)]].

** ''Out of Mind'': Part 2's flashback segment comes off as this retroactively, seeing how it shows Texas and Alpha-Church talking casually while it's shown the Blues and the Project were capable of actively interacting with one another. It's later shown that this whole flashback was ''very'' incorrect in many ways, and and it's never remotely explained why Texas' memory would be so wrong.

** When the bomb inside Church is about to be activated, Tucker attempts to kill him [[TheNeedsOfTheMany in hopes of destroying the bomb]]. [[ItsAllAboutMe Church objects to that]], [[LackOfEmpathy not caring about the people around him in the slightest]]. [[spoiler:[[CharacterDevelopment This attitude comes to a change later]], as performing a HeroicSacrifice with an uncertain hope of success is exactly how Church meets his end ''twice over'']].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GrowingTheBeard: It was during Season 3 that the series slowly began to head towards a plot-driven structure with some moments of genuine CharacterDevelopment. This was dialed down a bit in the fourth season, but soon returned in the middle and would stay that way for the rest of the arc's run.
* HarsherInHindsight:

** In season 1, Grif saves Sarge from a bullet wound to the head with CPR, and Sarge ([[ItMakesSenseInContext unfairly]]) chews him out for such a stupid choice of medical attention. Years later, when mass shootings became a major hot button issue in 2018, Rick Santorum got into hot water for suggesting students learn CPR.

** Out of Mind Part 2's flashback segment comes off as this, seeing how it shows Texas and Alpha-Church talking casually while it's shown the Blues and the Project were capable of actively interacting with one another. It's later shown that this whole flashback was very incorrect in many ways, and and it's never remotely explained why Texas' memory would be so wrong.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: In the beginning, the show was always about laughs and invoking the RuleOfFunny. Antics like a robot head that could built other robots, time travel, ghosts and being transported into what was all but stated to be an actual game of ''Halo'' were commonplace and accepted due to the quality of the jokes. And even when the series moved into more serious fare, the show was good about retconning or sidelining those as needed while doling it out just right to ease the tension. It only truly became a problem in Season 16, which went whole hog on being funny by suddenly introducing gods, real time travel and a cyclops done in live-action. Such a sudden veer back into territory even more outrageous than the first seasons had done wound up coming across as too jarring and unexpected.

** Most of the second half of Season 4 and all of Season 5 portrays Church as on the verge of reaching his RageBreakingPoint as he struggles to keep Blue Team at least ''partly'' functional despite the world seeming to fall apart around them. This is largely [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] BlackComedy at the time, but ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would later reveal that [[spoiler:the Alpha [=A.I.=] was successfully tortured past the brink of insanity multiple times by having him be ForcedToWatch as the people he cared about most died horribly and he was told that it was [[ItsAllMyFault all his fault]]. So in essence, Church is pretty much going through his worst possible nightmare all over again throughout the last portion of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' - and he ''doesn't even realize it''.]]

** During Season 3 and when Church is traveling through time, he meets up with his past self from Season 1 when he's going through his first death, with [=Future!Church=] awkwardly telling his past self that "You should rest now." This is ''really'' hard to watch now after [[spoiler:Epsilon-Church {{Mercy Kill}}s Tex in Season 9 after she makes it clear that she's tired of being brought BackFromTheDead and just... well, [[DeathSeeker "wants to rest."]]]]

** In the season 2 DVD commentary, Burnie notes during the "dongle flip" scene that they promised themselves never to do teabagging, only to use the crouch motion in that suggestive way. During the next season there ''is'' teabagging, and it's exactly to mock the sort of player who does that (something the DVD commentary makes sure to notice!).

** Church's attempted PreMortemOneLiner, after TheReveal at the end of ''Reconstruction'', considering [[spoiler:he's partnered with Tex to take down O'Malley.]]
-->'''Church:''' [[spoiler:I've got half a mind to kill you, and the other half agrees!]]
** Also, Church's exasperated cry of, "Holy crap, who is running this army?!" becomes utterly hilarious when we find out [[spoiler:the person running the Red and Blue Armies is actually Leonard Church!]]

** In Season 4, Tex sarcastically wonders aloud that if she kills Church while he's a ghost than if he would "come back as a ghost of a ghost." [[spoiler:That's essentially what happens in ''The Recollection'': Church is killed in the finale of ''Reconstruction'', and is revived in ''Recreation'' via Epsilon and Caboose's memories of him.]]

** [[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht The Bundeswehr]] is calling its newest AwesomePersonnelCarrier the "Puma".
** The first alternate ending for episode 100, where the Reds and Blues all fight each other and end up killing each other, with Caboose being the last charcter left alive (until a vehicle falls on him). Years later, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' has an episode that shows which team would have won if every character fought seriously like in the alternate ending, [[spoiler:and it also ends with Caboose as the last one alive, except this time he survives the whole thing]].

* RoboShip: Episode 28.5 has this.

* TheScrappy: Not many fans like Andy the Bomb, since he had no character traits or depth outside of being a massive (not to mention unfunny) {{Jerkass}}. It's telling that he hasn't made any appearances in recent seasons outside of recordings and has been mostly forgotten.

* StoicWoobie: Later seasons reveal that Tex had been one of these the whole time. [[spoiler:She knew '''exactly''' the kind of torture that Church had been through, and was simply trying to watch over and protect the broken remnants of someone she had loved, and had demolished an entire military base/spaceship trying to save]].
** Overlaps with JerkassWoobie to an extent when you realize the reason she acts like such a {{Jerkass}} to Church. [[spoiler:Every time she sees him, she's reminded of her failure and that the Alpha will never be what it once was]]. No wonder she can barely stand to be around him, especially after [[spoiler:the Alpha TookALevelInJerkass following the attempted breakout]]. Could also be a facade since [[spoiler:she likely acted so cold to him in order to keep him distant or from becoming too attached to her, since it could, and did, lead to him discovering what he really was]].

* SignatureScene: The [[ArcWords "You ever wonder why we're here?"]] {{Book End}}s from Episodes 1 & 100.

** Out of Mind Part 2's flashback segment comes off as this, seeing how it shows Texas and Alpha-Church talking casually while it's shown the Blues and the Project were capable of actively interacting with one another. As later revelations show, this is very much not the case.

* Out of Mind Part 2's flashback segment comes off as this, seeing how it shows Texas and Alpha-Church talking casually while it's shown the Blues and the Project were capable of actively interacting with one another. As later revalations show, this is very much not the case.

** Tex not showing any hesitation to kill Grif when asked to, once [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason15 Season 15]] reveals that [[spoiler:it wouldn't be the first time she horrifically killed a simulation trooper in orange armor with no remorse (though her using [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] at the time then admittedly complicates the situation)]].

* ValuesResonance: [[ItMakesSenseInContext In a weird sense]]. There's something rather remarkable about ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' giving such a dim view on militarization and war for an American web series that only started to air less than two years after TheWarOnTerror started.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: After a hundred episodes, Church takes a moment to reflect on how he's learned that it's wrong to hate people based on arbitrary political or military delineations. Instead you should strive to "despise people on a personal level." While not necessarily a ''great'' moral, it still rings true to an extent in that one should not mindlessly hate just because they were told to.
-->'''Church''': You should hate someone because they're an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], or a [[CasanovaWannabe pervert]], or [[TheDandy snob]], or they're [[LazyBum lazy]], or [[DrillSergeantNasty arrogant]] or an [[TheDitz idiot]] or [[InsufferableGenius know-it-all]]. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to. You have to learn to [[ItsPersonal despise people on a personal level]]. Not because they're Red, or because they're Blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking ''douchebag.''