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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:She makes a comeback in ''Restoration'' thanks to Caboose in order to help free Tucker from [=Epsilon!Sigma=]. Doubles as a case of CameBackStrong as unlike the original Beta and her previous Episolon counterpart from ''Revelation'', this version of Tex isn't based off the memory of Allison Church and doomed to fail, instead being based off the memory of the original Beta who helped Blue Team back in the Blood Gulch Chronicles, meaning she won't choke at the end goal. Her comeback is short-lived, however, as Texas tells Caboose to destroy the Memory Unit containing her and Church to ensure no one can misuse the Freelancer AI anymore. Caboose follows her plan, permanently killing her and Church.]]
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* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: She's "revived" by Caboose in ''Restoration'', though unlike the original Beta and her Epsilon counterpart from ''Revelation'', Texas's newest incarnation is based on Caboose, Grif, and Simmons' memory of her from when she helped them in the Blood Gulch Chronicles; since she's not programmed to fail, Texas and Carolina succeed in kicking the shit out of the Meta and free Tucker from [=Epsilon!Sigma=].]]
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** [[spoiler:She makes a comeback in ''Restoration'' thanks to Caboose in order to help free Tucker from [=Epsilon!Sigma=]. Doubles as a case of CameBackStrong as unlike the originla Beta and her previous Episolon counterpart from ''Revelation'', this version of Tex isn't based off the memory of Allison Church and doomed to fail, instead being based off the memory of the original Beta who helped Blue Team back in the Blood Gulch Chronicles.]]
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Epsilon Sigma transforms him into the new Meta. Tucker is [[AndIMustScream aware and tries to fight against Sigma]], but is tortured into compliance.]]
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* FallenHero: [[spoiler:He's transformed into a new version of the Meta in ''Restoration''.]]
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* AndIMustScream: In ''Restoration'', [[spoiler:Tucker is unwillingly made into the new Meta by [=Epsilon!Sigma=]. Unlike Maine, who had been thoroughly broken into becoming Sigma's willing puppet and extension of himself, Tucker is aware of what's happening and tries to resist, albeit to little avail. Worse, anytime Tucker resists, [=Epsilon!Sigma=] tortures him.]]
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[[folder:Caboose]]
!Captain Michael J. Caboose
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Time''line''? [[InsaneTrollLogic Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.]]"'']]
->''"[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Last time I was shot, I got a purple heart. Yeah, I hope this time I get a purple lung. You see, eventually I hope to build an entire purple person. And we will be best friends.]]"''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JoelHeyman (Seasons 1-17), Michael Malconian (''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'')
Caboose, who accidentally enlisted in the Blue Army after [[AllThereInTheManual mistaking a recruitment center for a college]], is introduced as TheFool, but [[{{Flanderization}} quickly devolves into]] a complete idiot. As his name suggests, he is the last to arrive at any train of thought's destination. Occasional [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journeys into his mind]] have revealed that Caboose's view of the world is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} at drastic odds with reality]] - he has mental constructs representing the rest of the cast running around inside of his head, ranging from a Church who vehemently insists that Caboose is his best friend, to a Sarge that talks like a pirate. Caboose is a bigger danger to his teammates than to his enemies, to the extent that the surest way to get him to shoot someone is to tell him they're on his team, and Command has a keyboard shortcut to report his teamkills (Ctrl+F+U). He is also the only consistent member of the Blue Team over the series, thanks to Tucker's absence from Season 6 and the first half of Season 7 and Church's absence from the first half of Season 7, all of Season 9 (to the real-world Blues at least), and Season 11.
Caboose primarily serves as a comic relief character and gets some of the series' best lines, but he has occasional impact on the plot. After Tex's death he's briefly possessed by O'Malley (and the resulting mental trauma may explain his lowered [=IQ=] afterwards), and when the Red and Blue Teams have to work together to track down the rogue [=AI=], he helps Sarge combat the Zealots of Battle Creek thanks in part to his superhuman strength ("God's way of compensating"). Caboose gets along (marginally) quite well with machines, hence his "relationship" with Sheila and his friendship of sorts with Andy the bomb. And once in a great while, [[DumbassHasAPoint he has a useful idea]], such as the plan that gets Washington and both teams into Command near the finale of ''Reconstruction.'' He wears dark blue armor, and in episodes created using ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' is easily distinguishable due to his Mark V helmet, as the rest of the cast have upgraded to Mark [=VIs=].
In ''Recreation'', he is the only member of the Blue Team due to Church/The Alpha's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the last season and also due to Tucker's absence. Throughout the season, he uses various bits and pieces to try and rebuild Church, leading to Epsilon's memories being based on Caboose's view of the Red and Blue teams... though exposure to slightly more in-touch individuals seems to have alleviated this.
He is one of the few real-world characters (the others being Sarge and Carolina) to appear in the present-day storyline of Season 9. He shows up at the end, leading a rescue mission to retrieve Epsilon from the broken memory unit.
In Season 11, he hits a HeroicBSOD due to Church's sudden departure, but this is alleviated when he gets a new friend - Freckles, the giant battle robot. Due to a misunderstanding, he's temporarily made the leader and Commanding Officer of the Blue Team, demoting Washington in the process.
In Season 12, he has joined the New Republic along with Tucker, Simmons and Grif, and is the captain of his own squad, the Blue Team. In the following season, it is thanks to him passing the test to be a "true warrior" that everyone makes contact with an Alien [=A.I.=] that Caboose names "Santa".
In Season 15, he has once again become depressed over Church's absence from the group and is overjoyed when the group receives a message that is apparently from Church. He is shown to not understand basic concepts like death, and is eventually forced to accept that Church is gone & he needs to move on with his life.
In ''The Shisno Paradox'', he gets sent back in time with Lopez, and through several off-screen adventures he ends up accidentally starting several real-life historical events, as well as a few events in-universe. When the Reds and Blues later meet the Cosmic Powers, Caboose is the only one to ''not'' ask for his own LaserBlade, instead wanting to have Genkins' golf club, which Atlus lets him keep.
In ''Singularity'', Caboose is trapped reliving his past constantly along with most of the other Reds and Blues. After he is saved by Donut and Agent Washington, he displays [[GeniusDitz a surprising amount of intelligence with time travel]], immediately understanding the situation and making a plan to fix the timeline with help from Huggins. The golf club he obtained the previous season also plays a [[ChekhovsGun major role in the climax of the season]].
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[[folder:Sister]]
!Private Kaikaina "Sister" Grif
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->''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the skills you need. Unless you want to see my ping-pong ball trick!"''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Rebecca Frasier
Grif's younger sister, who joined the army in order to reunite with him, since she was lonely and scared after he left. Being colorblind and more than a little stupid, (the Ultimate Fan Guide actually states that she's dumber than ''Caboose'') she joined Blue Team by mistake. She tags along with the Reds upon arriving (and landing on Donut), in the process convincing them that Sarge is dead and Simmons should be promoted, until her true affiliation is revealed and Grif hands her off to the Blues before Sarge gets the chance to shoot her. Roughly as lazy and useless as her brother, Sister's main purpose seems to be to embarrass Grif, whether through [[BreadEggsMilkSquick off-hand references to her promiscuous personal life]], revealing the family's freak-show roots, or unintentionally televising her routine physical.
As of ''Reconstruction'', she is the only Blue remaining at Blood Gulch, where she uses the base to host raves for five bucks a head (in one memorable night, making ten dollars). She wears yellow armor. In ''Relocated'', Lopez claims to have killed her via choking, however Grif doesn't believe this, claiming she's MadeOfIron and has SuperNotDrowningSkills. She disappears from the plot entirely after this. She finally makes a brief re-appearance in Episode 19 of Season 13, ''still'' living alone in Blood Gulch Alpha. Season 15 had her both visited in Blood Gulch in Episode 2, and reuniting with her brother on Earth in the season finale, leading to her return to the main cast in the following season (where the PartyScattering ends up partnering her with Tucker).
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[[folder:Caboose]]
!Captain Michael J. Caboose
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Time''line''? [[InsaneTrollLogic Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.]]"'']]
->''"[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Last time I was shot, I got a purple heart. Yeah, I hope this time I get a purple lung. You see, eventually I hope to build an entire purple person. And we will be best friends.]]"''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JoelHeyman (Seasons 1-17), Michael Malconian (''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'')
Caboose, who accidentally enlisted in the Blue Army after [[AllThereInTheManual mistaking a recruitment center for a college]], is introduced as TheFool, but [[{{Flanderization}} quickly devolves into]] a complete idiot. As his name suggests, he is the last to arrive at any train of thought's destination. Occasional [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journeys into his mind]] have revealed that Caboose's view of the world is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} at drastic odds with reality]] - he has mental constructs representing the rest of the cast running around inside of his head, ranging from a Church who vehemently insists that Caboose is his best friend, to a Sarge that talks like a pirate. Caboose is a bigger danger to his teammates than to his enemies, to the extent that the surest way to get him to shoot someone is to tell him they're on his team, and Command has a keyboard shortcut to report his teamkills (Ctrl+F+U). He is also the only consistent member of the Blue Team over the series, thanks to Tucker's absence from Season 6 and the first half of Season 7 and Church's absence from the first half of Season 7, all of Season 9 (to the real-world Blues at least), and Season 11.
Caboose primarily serves as a comic relief character and gets some of the series' best lines, but he has occasional impact on the plot. After Tex's death he's briefly possessed by O'Malley (and the resulting mental trauma may explain his lowered [=IQ=] afterwards), and when the Red and Blue Teams have to work together to track down the rogue [=AI=], he helps Sarge combat the Zealots of Battle Creek thanks in part to his superhuman strength ("God's way of compensating"). Caboose gets along (marginally) quite well with machines, hence his "relationship" with Sheila and his friendship of sorts with Andy the bomb. And once in a great while, [[DumbassHasAPoint he has a useful idea]], such as the plan that gets Washington and both teams into Command near the finale of ''Reconstruction.'' He wears dark blue armor, and in episodes created using ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' is easily distinguishable due to his Mark V helmet, as the rest of the cast have upgraded to Mark [=VIs=].
In ''Recreation'', he is the only member of the Blue Team due to Church/The Alpha's HeroicSacrifice at the end of the last season and also due to Tucker's absence. Throughout the season, he uses various bits and pieces to try and rebuild Church, leading to Epsilon's memories being based on Caboose's view of the Red and Blue teams... though exposure to slightly more in-touch individuals seems to have alleviated this.
He is one of the few real-world characters (the others being Sarge and Carolina) to appear in the present-day storyline of Season 9. He shows up at the end, leading a rescue mission to retrieve Epsilon from the broken memory unit.
In Season 11, he hits a HeroicBSOD due to Church's sudden departure, but this is alleviated when he gets a new friend - Freckles, the giant battle robot. Due to a misunderstanding, he's temporarily made the leader and Commanding Officer of the Blue Team, demoting Washington in the process.
In Season 12, he has joined the New Republic along with Tucker, Simmons and Grif, and is the captain of his own squad, the Blue Team. In the following season, it is thanks to him passing the test to be a "true warrior" that everyone makes contact with an Alien [=A.I.=] that Caboose names "Santa".
In Season 15, he has once again become depressed over Church's absence from the group and is overjoyed when the group receives a message that is apparently from Church. He is shown to not understand basic concepts like death, and is eventually forced to accept that Church is gone & he needs to move on with his life.
In ''The Shisno Paradox'', he gets sent back in time with Lopez, and through several off-screen adventures he ends up accidentally starting several real-life historical events, as well as a few events in-universe. When the Reds and Blues later meet the Cosmic Powers, Caboose is the only one to ''not'' ask for his own LaserBlade, instead wanting to have Genkins' golf club, which Atlus lets him keep.
In ''Singularity'', Caboose is trapped reliving his past constantly along with most of the other Reds and Blues. After he is saved by Donut and Agent Washington, he displays [[GeniusDitz a surprising amount of intelligence with time travel]], immediately understanding the situation and making a plan to fix the timeline with help from Huggins. The golf club he obtained the previous season also plays a [[ChekhovsGun major role in the climax of the season]].
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->[[Characters/RedVsBlueMichaelJCaboose See his page for more info]]
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[[folder:Sister]]
!Private Kaikaina "Sister" Grif
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ssiter_s15e2.png]]
->''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the skills you need. Unless you want to see my ping-pong ball trick!"''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Rebecca Frasier
Grif's younger sister, who joined the army in order to reunite with him, since she was lonely and scared after he left. Being colorblind and more than a little stupid, (the Ultimate Fan Guide actually states that she's dumber than ''Caboose'') she joined Blue Team by mistake. She tags along with the Reds upon arriving (and landing on Donut), in the process convincing them that Sarge is dead and Simmons should be promoted, until her true affiliation is revealed and Grif hands her off to the Blues before Sarge gets the chance to shoot her. Roughly as lazy and useless as her brother, Sister's main purpose seems to be to embarrass Grif, whether through [[BreadEggsMilkSquick off-hand references to her promiscuous personal life]], revealing the family's freak-show roots, or unintentionally televising her routine physical.
As of ''Reconstruction'', she is the only Blue remaining at Blood Gulch, where she uses the base to host raves for five bucks a head (in one memorable night, making ten dollars). She wears yellow armor. In ''Relocated'', Lopez claims to have killed her via choking, however Grif doesn't believe this, claiming she's MadeOfIron and has SuperNotDrowningSkills. She disappears from the plot entirely after this. She finally makes a brief re-appearance in Episode 19 of Season 13, ''still'' living alone in Blood Gulch Alpha. Season 15 had her both visited in Blood Gulch in Episode 2, and reuniting with her brother on Earth in the season finale, leading to her return to the main cast in the following season (where the PartyScattering ends up partnering her with Tucker).
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* AllThereInTheScript: For the first thirteen seasons, there is no mention of her first name, which only appeared outside the show, like on DVD character profiles. It's finally shown on a computer screen in Season 14, among a roster of other names, and spoken aloud in Season 15.
* BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler:She and Tucker ultimately seem to decide this by the end of ''The Shisno Paradox'', though it's a bit more reluctant on Tucker's part since he still has feelings for her]].
* BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' that she is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment to her attractiveness.
* BrainlessBeauty: Doc comments on [[AmazonianBeauty her fitness]] and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexibility]] during her physical, and Grif attests to her stupidity by telling how she repeatedly got kicked off her high school cheerleading squad for cheering for the wrong team. However, her dumbness is hardly a part of her character by the time she returns for ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'', to the point of it being a trademark of hers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Tucker]] gets confused sometimes.
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really? It's a lot of work.\\
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?\\
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: While she's still a promiscuous airhead come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's also matured into someone who's emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Furthermore, she became a competent businesswoman in the years since Season 5.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} instead being emphasized.
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it was possible. And trust me, I've tried.\\
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started out as TheDitz in Seasons 5 and 6, but after TheBusCameBack, she's shown to be remarkably emotionally intelligent and a good business woman.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering her work fling is married (to the head of [=HR=], to make things worse) is too messy for her.
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According to Season 15, she's a surprisingly good event coordinator. ''The Shisno Paradox'' also reveals that she's remarkably aware emotionally speaking, and has busloads of insecurities.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence, with ''Jack the Ripper'' being one of the people she wanted to sleep with when she and Tucker got a time machine. [[spoiler:She also gets turned on by Locus kneecapping several of the Blues and Reds' Grunts during ''Singularity'']].
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" instead of her real name, but Tucker eventually takes to calling her "K", and other characters also use "Kai".
* IronicName: Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister" - or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "younger sibling of the same sex". She might be Grif's younger sister, but they're rather obviously not of the same sex.
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reports to have murdered her in ''Relocated'', at which point she disappears from the series. Subverted in Season 13, where she makes a brief appearance in Episode 19.
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] during "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" in Season 14 when she's objecting to her not being allowed to participate in their remake of ''Film/ReservoirDogs.''
* LovableSexManiac: Even more so than Tucker is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was underwater for three hours, but when they finally brought her up, she was [[SuperNotDrowningSkills not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant'', meaning that technically, she survived the same thing that finally killed '''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]''' The credibility of Grif's assertion is made much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects. Guess ItRunsInTheFamily. Lopez's attempt to strangle her to death also failed to kill her.
* TheMerch: InUniverse, she now makes a living running conventions and selling merchandise.
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill her in ''Relocated'' and only succeeded in knocking her out. [[ExtremeOmnisexual Sister, of course,]] [[RunningGag thought it was hot.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. In Season 16, Tucker also calls her "K", and most other members of the Blood Gulch Crew seem to now call her "Kai".
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after ''Reconstruction'', and is supposedly dead, though Grif seems to doubt this. She makes a brief appearance in Season 13, and then two slightly longer ones in Season 15. And then TheBusCameBack in ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters and Sister shows interest in the idea, even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked into the Everwhen in "Paradox."]]
* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity'', and gains a lot more character depth as a result.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual human being and not an [=A.I.=]
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's in the right place, but Sister clearly has no idea what the fuck she's talking about.
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, once when we were kids, we went ice skating, and she fell through the ice. She was under there for ''three hours'', and when they pulled her out, not only was she still alive, she was ''pregnant''. If you can explain '''that''' to me, I'll believe you when you tell me she's dead.
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]] Downplayed, but due to her name being "Kaikaina" (which is an actual Hawaiian name) and [[WordOfGod Geoff Ramsey]] claiming Honolulu was the Grif siblings' hometown, {{Fanon}} has interpreted this to mean that both her and her brother are native Hawaiians. By consequence, most fan art depicting the Grifs has them as Hawaiian.
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards her during ''The Shisno Paradox'', [[spoiler:she tries to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] him for revenge before Donut "wakes" him up in ''Singularity'']].
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue of being both a Pacific Islander and a pansexual woman.
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:While it's still more the direct result of Tucker and Carolina, she's the one to initially plant the idea in the former's head for traveling back in time and saving Wash, which would go on to cause a RealityBreakingParadox]].
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majority of the cast, Rebecca Fraiser's voice acting as her in the later seasons is actually ''deeper'' and not as breathy as her performance in Season 5 was.
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedly killed by ''Relocated''. She eventually shows up seven seasons later in Season 13, and Season 15 gives some insight into what she's been doing in all that time.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Surprisingly enough, she became this during her time off-screen. Her raves turned such a profit that she eventually hosted a week-long music festival, which also sold incredibly well. Now she runs several cons for different demographics and even has a merch line.
* BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler:She and Tucker ultimately seem to decide this by the end of ''The Shisno Paradox'', though it's a bit more reluctant on Tucker's part since he still has feelings for her]].
* BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' that she is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment to her attractiveness.
* BrainlessBeauty: Doc comments on [[AmazonianBeauty her fitness]] and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexibility]] during her physical, and Grif attests to her stupidity by telling how she repeatedly got kicked off her high school cheerleading squad for cheering for the wrong team. However, her dumbness is hardly a part of her character by the time she returns for ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'', to the point of it being a trademark of hers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Tucker]] gets confused sometimes.
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really? It's a lot of work.\\
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?\\
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: While she's still a promiscuous airhead come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's also matured into someone who's emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Furthermore, she became a competent businesswoman in the years since Season 5.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} instead being emphasized.
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it was possible. And trust me, I've tried.\\
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started out as TheDitz in Seasons 5 and 6, but after TheBusCameBack, she's shown to be remarkably emotionally intelligent and a good business woman.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering her work fling is married (to the head of [=HR=], to make things worse) is too messy for her.
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According to Season 15, she's a surprisingly good event coordinator. ''The Shisno Paradox'' also reveals that she's remarkably aware emotionally speaking, and has busloads of insecurities.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence, with ''Jack the Ripper'' being one of the people she wanted to sleep with when she and Tucker got a time machine. [[spoiler:She also gets turned on by Locus kneecapping several of the Blues and Reds' Grunts during ''Singularity'']].
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" instead of her real name, but Tucker eventually takes to calling her "K", and other characters also use "Kai".
* IronicName: Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister" - or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "younger sibling of the same sex". She might be Grif's younger sister, but they're rather obviously not of the same sex.
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reports to have murdered her in ''Relocated'', at which point she disappears from the series. Subverted in Season 13, where she makes a brief appearance in Episode 19.
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] during "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" in Season 14 when she's objecting to her not being allowed to participate in their remake of ''Film/ReservoirDogs.''
* LovableSexManiac: Even more so than Tucker is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was underwater for three hours, but when they finally brought her up, she was [[SuperNotDrowningSkills not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant'', meaning that technically, she survived the same thing that finally killed '''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]''' The credibility of Grif's assertion is made much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects. Guess ItRunsInTheFamily. Lopez's attempt to strangle her to death also failed to kill her.
* TheMerch: InUniverse, she now makes a living running conventions and selling merchandise.
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill her in ''Relocated'' and only succeeded in knocking her out. [[ExtremeOmnisexual Sister, of course,]] [[RunningGag thought it was hot.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. In Season 16, Tucker also calls her "K", and most other members of the Blood Gulch Crew seem to now call her "Kai".
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after ''Reconstruction'', and is supposedly dead, though Grif seems to doubt this. She makes a brief appearance in Season 13, and then two slightly longer ones in Season 15. And then TheBusCameBack in ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters and Sister shows interest in the idea, even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked into the Everwhen in "Paradox."]]
* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity'', and gains a lot more character depth as a result.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual human being and not an [=A.I.=]
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's in the right place, but Sister clearly has no idea what the fuck she's talking about.
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, once when we were kids, we went ice skating, and she fell through the ice. She was under there for ''three hours'', and when they pulled her out, not only was she still alive, she was ''pregnant''. If you can explain '''that''' to me, I'll believe you when you tell me she's dead.
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]] Downplayed, but due to her name being "Kaikaina" (which is an actual Hawaiian name) and [[WordOfGod Geoff Ramsey]] claiming Honolulu was the Grif siblings' hometown, {{Fanon}} has interpreted this to mean that both her and her brother are native Hawaiians. By consequence, most fan art depicting the Grifs has them as Hawaiian.
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards her during ''The Shisno Paradox'', [[spoiler:she tries to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] him for revenge before Donut "wakes" him up in ''Singularity'']].
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue of being both a Pacific Islander and a pansexual woman.
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:While it's still more the direct result of Tucker and Carolina, she's the one to initially plant the idea in the former's head for traveling back in time and saving Wash, which would go on to cause a RealityBreakingParadox]].
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majority of the cast, Rebecca Fraiser's voice acting as her in the later seasons is actually ''deeper'' and not as breathy as her performance in Season 5 was.
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedly killed by ''Relocated''. She eventually shows up seven seasons later in Season 13, and Season 15 gives some insight into what she's been doing in all that time.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Surprisingly enough, she became this during her time off-screen. Her raves turned such a profit that she eventually hosted a week-long music festival, which also sold incredibly well. Now she runs several cons for different demographics and even has a merch line.
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* AllThereInTheScript: For AbsurdlySharpBlade: His sword seems to have the first thirteen seasons, there is no mention power to cut through any object regardless of her first name, which only appeared outside the show, like on DVD character profiles. size. It's finally perhaps best shown on when he slices a computer screen truck sized crate clean in half during "This One Goes To Eleven."
* AccidentalMurder: During ''The Shisno Paradox'' when he and Sister travel back in time to the events of "Why Were We Here?", Tucker accidentally assassinates Captain Butch Flowers/Agent Florida with a SniperRifle when he's trying to see how events are playing out.
* ActionDad: After his MisterSeahorse incident.
* AesopAmnesia:
** Season 16 has him backslide into his old womanizing and egotistical ways after Sister shows up, which can partially be chalked up to [[JustifiedTrope an overuse of time travel ring him crazy.]] He eventually has a JerkassRealization about his behavior.
** After Season 17 has him realize his ego was majorly affecting his leadership and judgement calls, Season 18 has him bragging about saving the universe to the officers he is training and giving himself all of the credit. [[spoiler: Though with Season 19 retconning this into a simulation by Epsilon during the end of Season 13, it doesn't really apply anymore.]]
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Deconstructed. He admits him [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]] in Season14, among 16 was partially caused by him taking the wrong lessons from Chorus and trying to act like what he thinks a roster of leader should be, rather than actually applying the tactics he learned.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:After Kaikaina and Tucker blow up at each othernames, during ''The Shisno Paradox'' and spoken aloud he eventually realizes how he's been acting like a raging {{Jerkass}} towards her, she quietly tells him in Season 15.
"Lights Out" that she doesn't share his feelings towards her anymore and they would be BetterAsFriends. While he's visibly crestfallen by this, he seems to ultimately accept it]].
* TheAloner: According to ''Singularity'', Tucker's Labyrinth illusion is [[spoiler:being left completely alone with the knowledge that his friends are in trouble and there's no way he can help them]].
* {{Ambadassador}}: By the time of ''Recreation'', he and Junior are this for Sangheili-human negotiations.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: There's numerous hints that Tucker is black, but nothing's ever confirmed since the Reds and Blues are always in armor and he's voiced by a Latino actor. Notably, his response to Church asking this outright is simply to ask if it matters, and he accuses Sarge of being racist when Sarge says Tex "knocked the black right off him". The fandom generally interprets him as being black, with the majority of fanfiction and fanart depicting him as such.
* AntiHero: Like Church, he has shades of the [[ClassicalAntiHero classical variety]] with his numerous insecurities. Also like Church, he can be a huge {{Jerkass}}.
* ArchEnemy: To both "[=C.T.=]" (a.k.a. the Insurrection Leader) during ''Recreation'' and Felix during ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the later, [[CerebusSyndrome more serious]] seasons, particularly ''The Chorus Trilogy'', Tucker represents the viewers who liked the more lighthearted seasons better, and many times mentions he wishes he could just go back to the simpler days at Blood Gulch.
* BadassBystander: He is more or less the "normal" guy on the Blue Team in Blood Gulch. He has also killed two Freelancers[[note]]Wyoming and Florida/Captain Butch Flowers, though the latter was admittedly on accident[[/note]] and helped kill a third[[note]]The Meta/Maine[[/note]].
* BadassNormal: Compared to the nigh-superhuman Freelancers, Tucker's relatively weak despite the training he received after ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. But he's still leagues above the other Blood Gulch veterans (well, at least when excluding ''maybe'' Sarge - who used to be an [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous ODST]] - and a [[BewareTheSillyOnes sufficiently angered Caboose]]) and even standard UNSC Marines. After all, this was the guy who managed to take out a combined team of Elites and human mercenaries led by a fake Freelancer (albeit one that held his own against Tex) ''by himself.'' It should be noted that Tucker has taken on at least 4 Freelancers[[note]]Wyoming, Tex, the Meta/Maine, and Florida (albeit by accident)[[/note]] in the course of the series, and killed one of them ''twice'' with both a SniperRifle and a CoolSword.
* BeneathTheMask: After spending the series as a laid-back, egotistical CasanovaWannabe, ''The Chorus Trilogy'' has his mask peeled away by the stress of the situation he's in to reveal he's actually massively insecure and far more similar to Church then he'd like to admit.
* BerserkButton:
** Generally speaking, he gets ''really'' pissed off when people don't recognize his armor color as aqua.
** On a more serious note, don't violate his trust. You ''will'' pay for it, as Felix and Temple learn the hard way.
* BetterAsFriends:[[spoiler:She [[spoiler:He and Tucker Kaikaina ultimately seem to decide this by the end of ''The Shisno Paradox'', though it's a bit more reluctant on Tucker's part end since he still has feelings for her]].
*BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals BigBrotherInstinct: Develops this for Caboose as the series goes on. For instance, he admonishes Sarge (who is suffering from sleep deprivation-induced SanitySlippage at the time) for scaring Caboose in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' "Nightmare on Planet Evil" during Season 15, and ''instantly'' runs to his aid in the same episode when he later hears Caboose yell out in apparent pain. Furthermore, in "Grif Does a Rescue", he threatens to kill Temple for mercilessly breaking it to Caboose that she Church is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment dead for good, and later promises to her attractiveness.make the Blues & Reds pay for their transgressions.
*BrainlessBeauty: Doc comments on [[AmazonianBeauty her fitness]] and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexibility]] during her physical, and Grif attests to her stupidity by telling how she repeatedly got kicked off her high school cheerleading squad BigNo: PlayedForLaughs in Season 15, with him even giving a SkywardScream when Spencer Porkensenson serves him a court order for cheering for child support payments concerning the wrong team. However, her dumbness is hardly multiple children he sired on Chorus.
* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Tucker's massive ego hides apart of her character by the massively insecure man with a heroic streak.
* BowChickaWowWow: This if famously his {{Catchphrase}}, which he uses whenever someone makes an InnocentInnuendo or DoubleEntendre.
* BrilliantButLazy: Possibly even more so than Grif. Though normally a lazy, immature womanizer who spends more timeshe returns for ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'',mouthing off to the point his commanding officers than actually applying himself, Tucker has shown that when he ''does'' apply himself, he is capable of it being a trademark of hers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Tucker]] gets confused sometimes.
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really?some absolutely ''brilliant'' tactical decisions. It's best shown with his plans to first break into the Federal Army's Arctic outpost and then to reveal the truth behind the Chorus Civil War in Season 12.
-->'''Washington:''' You're a capable soldier, Tucker. At least, compared to your usual acquaintances. You just need to... try.
* ButtMonkey: Tucker is subject to a lot ofwork.\\
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known ashumiliation over the girl who's had seven abortions?\\
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
course of the series, though it alternates between being hilarious (getting punched out by Tex, any time he is subject to AmusingInjuries, being thrown several feet in the air after failing Santa's test) and dramatic (his HumiliationConga in Season 15, getting stabbed by Felix and nearly bleeding out, nearly losing his son thanks to Sarge's bomb).
* TheBusCameBack: In ''Recreation'', he returns with a major role after making a voice-only cameo in ''Reconstruction''.
* CallingYourAttacks: When using his sword in ''Revelation'', he calls out his "swishes" and his "stabs". It doesn't work with Tex, but ''does'' work when he stabs the Meta.
* CasanovaWannabe: His onscreen success rate with women is very low, though not for lack of effort. After activating the Chorus Temple of Procreation following the end of the war on Chorus he finally gets some action, but it bites him in the ass when the many new mothers of Chorus file a lawsuit for child support payments.
* CatchPhrase: Says [[BowChickaWowWow "Bow chicka bow wow"]] at least OnceASeason since Season 4.
* CharacterDevelopment:While she's still a promiscuous airhead come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's also matured into someone who's emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Furthermore, she became a competent businesswoman in the years since Season 5.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} insteadGoes from being emphasized.
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it was possible. And trust me, I've tried.\\
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started out as TheDitz in Seasons 5 and 6, but after TheBusCameBack, she's shown to be remarkably emotionally intelligent and a good business woman.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering her work fling is married (to the head of [=HR=], to make things worse) is too messy for her.
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's alsoa CasanovaWannabe to a hero and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to leader throughout the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According toseries. Season 15, she's 12 actually has him as the protagonist, focusing on his personal growth and him stepping up to a surprisingly good event coordinator. leadership position. ''The Shisno Paradox'' also reveals has him realizing how uncomfortable his CasanovaWannabe traits can be, with him taking a resultant level in kindness in ''Singularity''.
* CharacterFocus: He is the main protagonist of Season 12 of ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
* ChivalrousPervert: Makes countless inappropriate comments, but treats the female members of the series' cast with respect and seems to do it all in good fun.
* TheChosenOne: He is chosen for the quest with the "Great Weapon" by the Alien. Subverted for the most part, in thatshe's remarkably aware emotionally speaking, and has busloads of insecurities.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence,the real quest was a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong. Played straight in Season 7, with ''Jack the Ripper'' him being an ambassador between aliens and humans.
* ClassicalAntiHero: He's an insecure, perverted, arrogant {{Jerkass}}, but his heart's in the right place and he's firmly on the side of good.
* CoolBike: The Sangheili gifted him with one back when he was an ambassador. He had to get rid of it when it ran out of gas while he was being chased by those same aliens.
* CoolKey: Or rather, not all that cool at all for being a key for a [[CoolPlane Covenant Banshee]]. But it ''is'' cool for being a key to [[ChekhovsBoomerang a variety of other alien tech on Chorus.]]
-->'''Tucker:''' The sword is a key? Just when I thought this quest couldn't get any lamer.
* CoolSword: The [[LaserBlade "Great]] [[CoolKey Weapon"]], which only he can use, is an Energy Sword that functions as a key in several different holographic terminals, and renders him immune to Wyoming's TimeMaster skills. By ''Recreation'', it's become his favourite weapon.
* DeadpanSnarker: This gets accentuated as his [[CharacterDevelopment personality develops]].
* DefiantToTheEnd:
** A non-lethal one. [[CurbStompBattle Despite getting his ass handed to him just as badly as the Reds by Tex]], he still retains his dignity and badass levels by practically snarking his way through and refusing to give up through almost the entire beatdown.
** Again in Season 12 when he goes up against Felix, he still manages to get his verbal licks in after being stabbed a couple of times and no longer able to stand. Of course the fact that he just got Felix to spill his deception, his partnership with Locus and the fact that the entire Chorus Civil War was being stage-managed on camera was a pretty good reason to remain defiant. Only when Locus and Felix turn their backs on him, Tucker finally lets his guard down.
* DemotedToExtra: After serving as one of and thepeople she wanted closest thing to the main protagonist, Season 18 has Tucker serve as a side character who has a minor role in the plot.
* {{Deuteragonist}}:
** He's actually the tritagonist during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', with Church being the sort-of protagonist and Tex as the actual deuteragonist. In each of the following seasons, either Church or Tucker gets left OutOfFocus, but Tucker remains the second most important character in the series overall.
** He also serves as one during Season 11, with a large portion of the season's plot dedicated to him (and by, extension, Caboose) coming to terms with Church leaving them behind. Tucker again serves as the tritagonist of Season 13, with a large part of the season's storyline revolving around his rivalry with [[EvilCounterpart Felix]] and his struggle to make sure the peoples of Chorus are united against the Space Pirates.
* DisappearedDad: To Junior from ''Recreation'' onward, though they seem to have a good relationship, all things considered. Also to his numerous children on Chorus.
* DoubleEntendre: He's made of these. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre He always follows them up]] with [[CatchPhrase "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!"]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall Even to introduce]] Episode 69 of ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]''.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Downplayed. In Season 18, he has been brought back into the military to train soldiers, and while he does rib on his troops a bit, he's mainly trying to hype himself up to get them to listen to him.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The main reason for him and Church butting heads in Season 12 outside of Tucker's anger at Church for abandoning the Reds and Blues from both of them having this with each other, moreso from Church's end. Church treats Tucker like he's the same idiot he was back in Blood Gulch and thinks his attempts at leadership are another display of Tucker's ego, while Tucker treats Church as the same NonActionGuy he was and becomes overprotective of him, which fuels Church's resentment of him.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: At the end of Season 13, he gets to wield the Meta's armor.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Actually violating a person's consent seems to be utterly off-limits for him. Sure, he might flirt relentlessly and generally act super sleazy, but actually trying to have sex with someone against their will is a line Tucker will ''never'' cross.
** [[invoked]] He also finds the {{Double Entendre}}s made by [[{{Jerkass}} Buckey]] - his EvilCounterpart among [[PsychoPrototype the Blues and Reds]] - [[DudeNotFunny to be creepy and unsettling.]]
** [[invoked]] PlayedForLaughs in ''The Shisno Paradox'', where he gets ''majorly'' {{Squick}}ed out upon learning that [[OurGodsAreDifferent the Cosmic Powers]] practice BrotherSisterIncest.
** Again PlayedForLaughs and combined with HypocriticalHumor in ''Singularity'', with him telling Donut (who is using MentalTimeTravel to contact him during the events of Season 15) that he's not going to listen to whatever he has to say since he's sick of constantly hearing Donut's {{Double Entendre}}s and "values his time".
* EveryoneKnewAlready: Hilariously inverted - If the events of ''Recreation'' are anything to go by, he was the '''only''' member of the Red and Blues to figure out Church was an [=A.I.=] before ''Reconstruction''.
-->'''Tucker:''' (to Sarge, Grif, and Caboose) Yeah, wait, you guys ''didn't?'' Gah, pay fuckin' attention, what the fuck are you guys paying attention to?!
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The Alien somehow impregnated him with Junior by hovering over him every night.
* {{Fanboy}}: For Creator/QuentinTarantino, with ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' specifically being his favorite film ever.
* FatalFlaw: {{Lust}}, {{Wrath}}, and {{Pride}}.
* {{Flanderization}}: Tucker goes from being a flirtatious ladies' man of questionable success to a CasanovaWannabe who attempts to sleep withwhen she any woman that'll listen to him for more than ten seconds.
* {{Foil}}: To Donut. Both favor weapons that need a strong arm (Donut's grenades and Tucker's [[LaserBlade Great Weapon]]), have a knack for alien technology and {{Double Entendre}}s, and constantly quibble about their respective armor colors. However, Donut consistently claims his armor is [[InsistentTerminology lightish-red]] while Tuckergot doesn't even know what color armor he is and Donut makes homoerotic {{Innocent Innuendo}}s while Tucker ''intentionally'' makes {{Double Entendre}}s as part of his CasanovaWannabe schtick.
* FreudianExcuse: [[invoked]] While it's never directly said, both later seasons have and WordOfGod have stated that Tucker intentionally sets up atime machine. [[spoiler:She also facade of being a LovableSexManiac to compensate for having ''massive'' insecurities and abandonment issues.
* FriendlySniper: Though he's not really aware of it, Tucker is actually a very good shot, as evidenced when he ''finally'' [[ThrowTheDogABone getsturned on by Locus kneecapping several to briefly use the Sniper Rifle in Season 5]]. Also subtly enforced post-Season 10, as he's taken up a Designated Marksman Rifle as his weapon.
* GenreSavvy: Comes with him being a PopCulturedBadass. For instance, he's the first to suggest that Grif was still alive after having gone over a cliff at the end of ''Revelation'', and tried to use ideas he had seen in ''Star Wars'' to infiltrate a Federal Army base in Season 12. That being said, when his ego gets in the way, he can be quite GenreBlind (such as him not noticing how incredibly suspicious Temple and the rest of the Blues andReds' Grunts during ''Singularity'']].
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" insteadReds are for most of her real name, but Tucker Season 15).
* GoodParents: Surprisingly, he turns out to be one for Junior, who he loves and dotes on, and goes full PapaWolf when he is kidnapped.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Essentially gets trapped in a small one of these in "Same Old, Same Old" when he learns that he's the only one who can retain his memory in Wyoming's loops. He eventuallytakes to calling her "K", breaks it by playing dumb and other characters also use "Kai".
then stabbing a distracted Wyoming.
*IronicName: Kaikaina is GuileHero: Shows signs of this in ''Recreation'', and has undeniably become one by Season 12.
* HeroicBSOD: Has one after Wash gets shot in theHawaiian word neck, blaming himself for "Little Sister" - or, more accurately, it, as well as for letting Temple manipulate everyone and his sword being stolen.
* HeroicSacrifice: Downplayed. Getting stabbed by Felix near theHawaiian word for "younger sibling end of Season 12 likely wasn't part of the same sex". She might be Grif's younger sister, plan, but they're rather obviously not of it still worked.
* TheHero: After Season 10, Tucker takes over Church's role as thesame sex.
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reportsclosest thing ''Red vs Blue'' has to have murdered her in ''Relocated'', at which point she disappears from a definitive main protagonist after the series. Subverted in latter was PutOnABus for Season 11 and the first half of Season 12 and then KilledOffForReal at the end of Season 13, where she makes usually being the one to lead the Reds and Blues into action and get the most CharacterDevelopment each season.
* HiddenDepths:
** It can be abrief appearance bit surprising to see at first how affectionate and caring Tucker is for his son when he's a real {{Jerkass}} the rest of the time (at least in Episode 19.
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] duringthe first few seasons before he TookALevelInKindness).
** "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" reveals that he's a ''massive'' fan of Creator/QuentinTarantino.
** His Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' shows that [[spoiler:he's heavily reliant on having his friends and family around - and not just in terms of needing people to support his ego, but more in that he needs them to help support his own mental issues. It gets to the point where he suffers a panic attack and passes out after only a few hours of being alone]].
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted, as while he claims to not believe in any religion or god in ''The Shisno Paradox'', he doesn't really display any personality traits seen in stereotypical atheists.
* HotBlooded: Suffers from concealed anger issues, with him slowly growing a shorter temper over the course of the series due to him getting shoved into the status of the OnlySaneMan.
* HumiliationConga: [[invoked]] Season 15 is ''not'' kind to him. Not only does he learn that his activation of the Temple of Procreation on Chorus led to numerous children he has to pay child support for, but [[MagnificentBastard Temple]] plays him like a fiddle and gets him & his friends thrown in the brig. ''Then'', he learns that the entire reason that he and the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew went out on their mission in the first place - to supposedly rescue Church - [[YankTheDogsChain was just a massive ruse on part of the Blues and Reds]]. Finally, his LeeroyJenkins moment in Episode 17 (caused by his [[UnstoppableRage hatred for Temple]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge desire for vengeance]]) nearly gets Wash killed and sends him into critical condition. Tucker even bitterly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, angrily pointing out that ''just'' when he thought he was getting "good at this [[TheHero hero stuff]], I crashed and [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''burned!''"
* {{Hypocrite}}: Tucker spends most of Season 12 angry at Church for abandoning the Reds and Blues, even if he had good intentions and was doing something legitimately important (investigating and stopping the Space Pirates), only to do the same thing for almost the exact same reasons to the residents of Chorus. He's eventually called out on it, which ultimately gets him to bury the hatchet with Church.
* HypocriticalHumor: In Season 17, he proclaims he is sick of Donut's innuendos and refuses to listen to them, saying that he "values his time". This is coming from ''[[CasanovaWannabe Tucker]]'', king of {{Double Entendre}}s.
* [[IBangedYourMom I Banged Your Sister]]: He's taunted Grif with this at times. Of course, when Kai returns to the main cast in Season14 when she's objecting 16, she disagrees ("We had a sex!" "No, we ''[[CoitusInterruptus almost]]'' had a sex!"), and turns out she was right. [[StableTimeLoop Through Tucker's own undoing!]]
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: He called dibs on Butch Flowers' "greenish-blue" armor after his death, replacing his standard issue blue armor (the kind Caboose later has).
* ImageSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9TLuDDUuUM Bow Chicka Wow Wow Wow]]".
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When he ''finally'' gets his hands on a sniper rifle, he gets headshots every time.
* InformedAttractiveness: Captain Butch Flowers describes him as having "striking meterosexual good looks." Being that the series is primarily filmed in machinima and that Tucker is TheFaceless regardless, his ''actual'' physical attractiveness is obviously left up in the air.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:When the timeline is about toher not collapse due to a paradox, Tucker tries to give one to Sister, who he had a large amount of ShipTease with during the season. Sister interrupts him by saying she already knows before the timeline resets.]]
* {{Irony}}:
** During Season 2, he tells Church that Grif and Simmons argue like an old married couple, saying how obvious it is that they're "really in love." In Season 11, Sarge and Grif attack Blue Base while Tucker is having an argument with Wash (who's taken Church's place on Blue Team). Grif asks if they're "interrupting some lovers' quarrel or something." The attack itself is also ironic in that it occurs directly after Tucker verbally attacks Wash for his intense training regimen, saying that nothing's going to attack them. Since this is ''[[DeadpanSnarker Tucker]]'' that we're talking about, you know that it's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] hilariously.
** Despite the fact that [[{{Yandere}} Caboose]] initially dislikes him for beingallowed Church's ''actual'' best friend, Tucker actually becomes more like Church (as the Reds and Blues' resident OnlySaneMan, DeadpanSnarker, JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and [[TheLeader even group leader when Carolina & Wash aren't around]]) than even ''[[ReplacementGoldfish Wash]]'' has as the series goes on, to participate the point that he and Caboose eventually develop a closer relationship.
** In the ''Halo'' franchise (which ''Red vs. Blue'' takes place in from a BroadStrokes perspective), the ability to wield an energy sword is considered so impressive in Sangheili/Elite society that anyone who can master one can mate with any female they desire. [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker can't pick up a woman to save his life.]] [[MisterSeahorse But he does get impregnated with an Elite parasite!]]
* JerkassRealization: During ''Singularity'', he realizes [[spoiler:after he starts listening to Donut's orders as they're fixing the timeline that he's taken the wrong lessons from Chorus, and shouldn't be an arrogant and assertive {{Jerkass}} as one of {{The Leader}}s of the Reds and Blues. Instead, he should just [[BeYourself Be Himself]] and not be someone that he isn't]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tucker is a sleazy, immature womanizer, and even cutting ''that'' aspect of his personality doesn't make him a NiceGuy. However, he has shown himself to be a brave and loyal soldier as the series goes onward, along with being a considerate and empathetic friend several times over. Furthermore, he significantly matures over the series' course, even becoming the ''de facto'' leader of the Reds and Blues when Wash and Carolina aren't around.
* TheLancer: To Church, TheHero. Starting from his takedown of Wyoming, Tucker gradually develops into this by default.
* TheLeader: Of the rescue team in Season 12. He also leads the Blood Gulch Crew when Wash and Carolina aren't around in Season 15.
* LeeroyJenkins: Acts as one in "Quicksave." When Locus suggests a stealthy approach to eliminate the Blues and Reds' grunts guarding the hanger, Tucker prefers to take a straightforward approach, ruining theirremake element of ''Film/ReservoirDogs.surprise and resulting in them being pinned down. Furthermore, due to provoking a firefight, when a [[CloudCuckoolander loopy, dehydrated]] Washington walks straight into the fight, he gets shot in the neck.
* LovableSexManiac: [[CharacterDevelopment Evolves into this]] over the course of the series. For all of his rude comments, he treats the female members of the cast with respect and seems to make his {{Double Entendre}}s only in good fun. What certainly helps is that he [[LaserGuidedKarma takes a beating]] whenever any of his comments comes across as legitimately offensive and not just absurd-sounding. Notably, [[spoiler:when he actually insults Kaikaina and she rightfully blows up at him over it during ''The Shisno Paradox'', he feels immensely guilty over it and (reluctantly) decides that they would be BetterAsFriends by the end of the season]].
* MasterSwordsman: Has shades of this in Season 7, but he definitely grows into this by the time of Season 10. Though he still isn't quite as good against faster opponents.
-->'''Doc:''' And Tucker, you learned [[ThatCameOutWrong to use your sword like a pro!]]\\
'''Tucker:''' ''(confused)'' Bow chicka bow wow?
* MeaningfulName:
** The Old English origins for "Tucker" mean "to torment," which can serve as an allusion to his relentlessly teasing personality as part of his CasanovaWannabe attitude.
** "Lavernius" is also descended from Laverna, a Roman goddess of thieves. Tucker accidentally stole an Elite LaserBlade from Crunchbite in Season 3.
* MirrorCharacter: Tucker becomes increasingly similar to Church as the series goes on, revealing himself to be using his ego to mask his self-loathing and to have issues with anger and grudge-holding.
* MissingMom: He reveals in ''The Shisno Paradox'' that his mother is dead.
* MisterSeahorse: Courtesy of Crunchbite's parasitic embryo.
* MyGreatestFailure: Getting most of his team killed in Season 12. This really gnaws at him for the rest of the season, and spurs a significant amount of CharacterDevelopment.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling:
** Implied to be how his DoubleEntendre detection works, at least in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
--->'''Tucker:''' (after running over to Church and Tex from a long distance away) I just wanted to say, I got a [[DoubleEntendre hardline]] Tex can use. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Bow chicka bow wow!]]\\
'''Tex:''' [[LampshadeHanging ...How did you even hear that?]]\\
'''Tucker:''' I'm like Franchise/{{Superman}}, I know when I'm needed!
** Taken up to eleven in one instance, where [[RuleOfFunny he ends up]] BreakingTheFourthWall to give his CatchPhrase for the introduction for Episode 69.
* NeverMyFault: He activated the Tower of Procreation on Chorus after he and the others captured Hargrove so the planet could party. He is eventually tracked down by Spencer, a process server, who delivers him a class action lawsuit for all the mothers he got pregnant during this, demanding child support. He spends a lot of time blaming Dylan for this because she ran into Spencer earlier and knew he was searching for him but didn't warn him, as if it is her fault he is being sued. He also keeps referring to Spencer as a "bounty hunter" even though he knows he was only a process server and was just delivering him the lawsuit papers.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Both Tucker and Carolina convince the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew to help them go back in time and save Wash from his neck injury, which results in them all causing a RealityBreakingParadox.
* NostalgiaFilter: In Season 11 and Season 12, Tucker longs for the goofier, more lighthearted days at Blood Gulch and views Church as the same person he was originally, unaware that he has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken a Level in Badass.]] He gets over this later.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: From Church. Tucker initially seems to be a more laid back and goofy foil to Church, but later seasons, particularly ''The Chorus Trilogy'', shows that Tucker has a short temper, large ego, and endless insecurities and an inferiority complex, much like Church. Seasons 11 and 16 {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.
-->'''Season 11:''' ''I hate everyone else's lives, wish they didn't have 'em. Oh my God, am I turning into Church?''\\
'''Season 16:''' ''I'm basically the new Church, but way less whiny.''
*LovableSexManiac: Even more so than OddFriendship: Out of all of the Reds and Blues, Tucker is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses gets along probably the best with ''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Lopez]],'' of all people. Notably, he's the first to hide his insecurities express concern for Lopez [[spoiler:after the Reds and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can Blues all meet back up on Chorus in the finale of ''Singularity'']].
* OnlySaneMan:
** Tucker generally takes this role when eitheraccept her Church or get Wash/Carolina isn't around. Case in point - he's the hell ''only'' person pointing out of her way.
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell throughthe ice while they were ice skating. She was underwater for three hours, but when they finally brought her up, she was [[SuperNotDrowningSkills not flaws with Sarge's absurd "we're in the future" idea in Season 3.
** When he, Simmons, Grif, and Caboose take refuge in the New Republic base in Season 12, Tucker is the onlyunharmed]] but also ''pregnant'', meaning that technically, she survived person competent enough to lead the same thing that finally killed '''[[TheJuggernaut group into saving Washington, Sarge, Lopez, and Donut from the Meta.]]''' The credibility of Federal Army. This is because he doesn't have Simmons' insecurities, Grif's assertion is made much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects. Guess ItRunsInTheFamily. Lopez's attempt to strangle her to death also failed to kill her.
laziness, or Caboose's insanity.
*TheMerch: InUniverse, she now makes a living running conventions and selling merchandise.
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she'sOnlyTheChosenMayWield: He's the only member of both Blue Team and person in the Blood Gulch Crew series (aside from in Caboose's head, since he doesn't understand it) who can use his sword, as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside it short circuits in anyone else's hands.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue," he forces the rest of the"Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] Reds and Blues to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted watch his favorite film - ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' - [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes with him)[[/note]].
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill herhim several hundred times]]] in ''Relocated'' and only succeeded in knocking her out. [[ExtremeOmnisexual Sister, of course,]] [[RunningGag thought it was hot.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. Inthe period between Season 16, Tucker also calls her "K", 5 and most other members of the Blood Gulch Crew seem to now call her "Kai".
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after''Reconstruction'', with it being all but stated that it was [[StepfordSmiler Tucker's attempt to make himself feel better while grieving over Junior's apparent "death."]] So, when Caboose accidentally ruins the movie due to Church and Grif's machinations, it really says something about how utterly ''devastated'' Tucker is supposedly dead, though Grif seems by this [[HeroicBSOD when he falls into a depression]] instead of [[RageBreakingPoint blowing up at Church]].
** In "Greenish-Blue With Envy," Tucker is so pissed at being dragged around everywhere by Carolina that when he says something that could be construed as innuendo, Church is baffled that he doesn't follow up with his CatchPhrase.
--->'''Tucker''': Church, just because you want todoubt this. She makes a brief appearance in get close to someone doesn't mean you have to end up inside them!\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Church''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh, come on, aren't you going to say it?]]\\
'''Tucker''': ''No'', because I'm pissed off!
** In the finale of Season13, 11, when the leader of [[LaResistance the New Republic]] is shown to be a woman, Tucker makes no attempt to hit on her (at first). When [[LovableSexManiac Tucker]] passes up a chance to hit on a lady, you ''know'' that things are [=screwed-up=].
** Similarly, he becomes very distraught after both learning of [[spoiler:Wash's cerebral hypoxia andthen two slightly longer ones in Season 15. And then TheBusCameBack getting a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Kaikaina]] in ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fightersParadox'', and Sister doesn't lampshade his own DoubleEntendre when discussing this with Sister.
* PapaWolf: He showsinterest in the idea, traits of this after Junior is kidnapped. And even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked going into the Everwhen later seasons, Tucker proves to be pretty defensive of his son.
* PetTheDog: Tucker's actually very affectionate toward his son. He's also often one of the first members of the Blood Gulch Crew to be concerned about some of the side-effects of their actions (post-{{Character Development}}, at least). Furthermore, he noticeably [[TookALevelInKindness Takes A Level In Kindness]] in"Paradox.''Singularity'' and even admits to Donut during the same season that [[SincerityMode "I could relearn some things from you."]]
*ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He has a very immature and Tucker. However, Tucker's derogatory view of women, and has also made several homophobic comments over the course of the series. Part of his CharacterDevelopment into being more of a LovableSexManiac is this element of his personality getting increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends downplayed, with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in''The Shisno Paradox'' having Kaikaina even bluntly tell him how uncomfortable and misogynistic his comments can come across.
* PopCulturedBadass: ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' is his favorite film, and he forced the rest of the Reds and Blues to [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes watch it several hundred times]] as it was the only movie in Blood Gulch. Additionally, he tries to use ideas from ''Franchise/StarWars'' in order to have his soldiers infiltrate an enemy compound during the Chorus Civil War (though it unfortunately ended disastrously).
* {{Pride}}: One of his fatal flaws. Tucker has a pretty big ego, which often results in him being met with some sort of humiliation, and when he begins serving as the leader, he often makes mistakes due to overestimating his abilities and reacts badly when his pride is bruised. Growing out of this is one of the biggest parts of his CharacterDevelopment.
* PutOnABus: Only his voice is heard during ''Reconstruction'', and he doesn't physically appear until halfway through ''Recreation''.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: An amusing variant. Since he never got to use the SniperRifle for almost all of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', he developed excellent eyesight by Season 5 so as to compensate.
* RippleProofMemory: Due to having his CoolSword, Tucker is immune to the memory-erasure effects of traveling back in time during Season 5. This makes him the perfect SpannerInTheWorks for Wyoming's plot in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
* RunningGag:
** Tucker can't go through a teleporter without getting covered in black stuff. Even if no one else going through the same teleporter does. Though whether or not other characters are affected seems to be dependent on its usefulness to the plot.
** He also never gets to use the SniperRifle throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' outside of '''two''' scenes late into Season 5.
* ShipTease: Gets a ''lot'' of BelligerentSexualTension with Kaikaina over the course of ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[invoked]] For [[HoYay Grif/Simmons]] during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** The source of why he's badass. Figures out how to counter Wyoming's time-looping ability, prevents C.T. from breaking into the desert temple, wipes out half of C.T.'s army ''single-handed'' and destroys C.T.'s jeep during a chase scene.
** On Chorus, the bad guys try to keep the sim troopers separated between the Rebels and the Feds so that the truth of the civil war is further concealed. Fortunately, Tucker screws that up by disobeying an order from Felix and stealing intel from a Federal Army base; intel that leads his group straight to their friends. The evil plan has to go through drastic changes to make up for that one.
* StepfordSmiler: As alluded to in both ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and ''Singularity'', Tucker has countless insecurities andgains a lot more character depth as a result.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual humansuffers from severe self-loathing issues, with his CasanovaWannabe traits being a cover he intentionally exaggerates so as to build himself up.
** "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" has a good example of this in action, with him forcing the Reds andnot an [=A.Blues to watch ''Reservoir Dogs'' with him several hundred times since he doesn't want to think about his son likely being dead.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Deconstructed in Season 12. With Church and Wash M.I.=]
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's inA., Tucker is forced to step up into their role as leader, and deeply resents having to serve as their substitute and longs for the right place, but Sister clearly has no idea what days back at the fuck she's talking about.
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, oncecanyon where he didn't have to do much. It gets worse when we were kids, we went ice skating, Church returns, as by this point Tucker can't back down from being the leader and she fell through the ice. She was under there Church is trying to get back into his old role.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted. While Tucker ''claims'' to be a pacifist during his quest in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', even outright stating he didn't want to kill a monster, he's really just making excuses for''three hours'', and himself. He gives this up altogether when he realises that [[TheOnlyOne he is the only person]] who [[SpannerInTheWorks can stop]] [[SuperSoldier Wyoming's]] [[TimeMaster time loops]] due to his sword giving him a reliable way to kill Wyoming. This is outright inverted in Season 11 when the Feds attack, and he points out that they'll be killed if they pulled her out, not only don't kill. This comes back with a vengeance after the true nature of the war was she still alive, she was ''pregnant''. If you can explain '''that''' to me, I'll believe you when you tell me she's dead.
revealed, and it hits him pretty hard.
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]]Downplayed, but due to her It's kind of ambiguous. After revealing his first name being "Kaikaina" (which to be Lavernius, he's asked by Church if he's black. Tucker response is to ask if it matters (and only expresses annoyance that Church never picked up on his first name prior to this point). In "This One Goes To Eleven," he even says "That's racist!" in an actual Hawaiian name) and [[WordOfGod Geoff Ramsey]] claiming Honolulu was annoyed tone to Sarge saying Tex "knocked the Grif siblings' hometown, black right off [him]". {{Fanon}} has interpreted this to mean that both her and her brother are native Hawaiians. By consequence, most picked up on this, with a lot of fan art depicting making Tucker a black guy when out of his armor.
* TookALevelInBadass: Probably one of theGrifs has them most stark examples out of the original Blood Gulch Crew. Justified by the fact that he spent most of the time between Season 5 and ''Reconstruction'' training with his sword on Sangheilios ''and'' that his training as Hawaiian.
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards heran UNSC-Sangheili ambassador apparently helped him become less of the immature moron that he was during ''The Shisno Paradox'', [[spoiler:she tries to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] him for revenge before Donut "wakes" him up in ''Singularity'']].
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue ofBlood Gulch Chronicles''.
** He goes from beingboth about as useful as [[NonActionGuy Grif]] in a Pacific Islander fight to becoming the most badass member of the Blood Gulch Crew (at least until the reintroduction of Tex). As said above, he remains the most badass non-Freelancer aside from maybe Sarge.
** ''He stabs the Meta with his sword in close combat.'' The Meta is powerful enough to fight Tex one on one (well, two on one) ''without'' any [=AI=] support, and yet Tucker still manages to land apansexual woman.
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Whilesolid hit on him. Even more so as it's still more revealed the direct result of Tucker and Carolina, she's Meta did not die from the one to initially plant impact of being thrown off a cliff by the idea in Reds, but drowned when water at the former's head for traveling back in time and saving Wash, which would go on to cause a RealityBreakingParadox]].
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majoritybottom of the cast, Rebecca Fraiser's voice acting as her in cliff entered his suit through the later seasons is actually ''deeper'' and not as breathy as her performance in Season 5 was.
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedlyholes Tucker's sword made. In effect, Tucker's one hit was what ultimately killed by ''Relocated''. She eventually shows up seven seasons later in Season 13, and Season 15 gives some insight into what she's been doing in all that time.the Meta.
*YoungEntrepreneur: Surprisingly enough, she became this TookALevelInJerkass: He's noticeably angrier and more of a general prick during her time off-screen. Her raves turned such ''The Shisno Paradox''. Justified InUniverse due to him being driven crazy by an overuse of TimeTravel.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Over the course of the series as aprofit whole, Tucker noticeably matures and become a much nicer person than he was during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
** After being rather rude and obnoxious in ''The Shisno Paradox'', he becomes significantly nicer in ''Singularity'' after having a JerkassRealization, even gaining a newfound respect for [[TheHero Donut]] along with striving to [[BeYourself Be Himself]] rather than what he ''thinks'' a hero should be.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: A variant; Tucker's too frightened of [[AxCrazy Dr. Grey]] to even ''consider'' hitting on her.
-->'''Tucker:''' (terrified, to Caboose) Don't ''ever'' stick your dick in crazy.
* UnstoppableRage: He goes into this in Season 15 after Temple exploits Church's memory to manipulate them, sends Caboose into a HeroicBSOD when he reveals this, and Temple's men shoot Wash in the throat. It gets to the point where he ''destroys a tank'' just by punching it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Church, Caboose (at least initially before Tucker develops a BigBrotherInstinct towards him), Carolina, and the Reds (particularly Grif and Sarge).
* VocalEvolution: Jason Saldaña's voice as Tucker gets progressively higher-pitched and faster (albeit not to a cartoonish level) as the series goes on.
* TheWorfEffect: After kicking the asses of C.T.'s crew, [[CurbStompBattle he meets Tex to have his ass utterly spanked]]. Though he still did better than the rest, and it doesn't really diminish his badass rating at all. And his plan with Simmons to ambush Tex would've worked if Caboose hadn't acted as a SpannerInTheWorks.
* {{Wrath}}: From Season 11 onwards, Tucker gains anger issues stemming from Church abandoning the Reds and Blues, and Felix's betrayal exacerbates it, giving a tendency to be insanely pissed at those who violate his trust, to the point thatshe eventually hosted a week-long music festival, which also sold incredibly well. Now she runs several cons for different demographics and it blinds his common sense.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: He's pretty upset over getting most of his squad killed to secure some intel near the beginning of Season 12, but is evenhas a merch line.more upset when Felix starts heaping praise on him for it.
* AccidentalMurder: During ''The Shisno Paradox'' when he and Sister travel back in time to the events of "Why Were We Here?", Tucker accidentally assassinates Captain Butch Flowers/Agent Florida with a SniperRifle when he's trying to see how events are playing out.
* ActionDad: After his MisterSeahorse incident.
* AesopAmnesia:
** Season 16 has him backslide into his old womanizing and egotistical ways after Sister shows up, which can partially be chalked up to [[JustifiedTrope an overuse of time travel ring him crazy.]] He eventually has a JerkassRealization about his behavior.
** After Season 17 has him realize his ego was majorly affecting his leadership and judgement calls, Season 18 has him bragging about saving the universe to the officers he is training and giving himself all of the credit. [[spoiler: Though with Season 19 retconning this into a simulation by Epsilon during the end of Season 13, it doesn't really apply anymore.]]
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Deconstructed. He admits him [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]] in Season
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:After Kaikaina and Tucker blow up at each other
* TheAloner: According to ''Singularity'', Tucker's Labyrinth illusion is [[spoiler:being left completely alone with the knowledge that his friends are in trouble and there's no way he can help them]].
* {{Ambadassador}}: By the time of ''Recreation'', he and Junior are this for Sangheili-human negotiations.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: There's numerous hints that Tucker is black, but nothing's ever confirmed since the Reds and Blues are always in armor and he's voiced by a Latino actor. Notably, his response to Church asking this outright is simply to ask if it matters, and he accuses Sarge of being racist when Sarge says Tex "knocked the black right off him". The fandom generally interprets him as being black, with the majority of fanfiction and fanart depicting him as such.
* AntiHero: Like Church, he has shades of the [[ClassicalAntiHero classical variety]] with his numerous insecurities. Also like Church, he can be a huge {{Jerkass}}.
* ArchEnemy: To both "[=C.T.=]" (a.k.a. the Insurrection Leader) during ''Recreation'' and Felix during ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
* AudienceSurrogate: In the later, [[CerebusSyndrome more serious]] seasons, particularly ''The Chorus Trilogy'', Tucker represents the viewers who liked the more lighthearted seasons better, and many times mentions he wishes he could just go back to the simpler days at Blood Gulch.
* BadassBystander: He is more or less the "normal" guy on the Blue Team in Blood Gulch. He has also killed two Freelancers[[note]]Wyoming and Florida/Captain Butch Flowers, though the latter was admittedly on accident[[/note]] and helped kill a third[[note]]The Meta/Maine[[/note]].
* BadassNormal: Compared to the nigh-superhuman Freelancers, Tucker's relatively weak despite the training he received after ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. But he's still leagues above the other Blood Gulch veterans (well, at least when excluding ''maybe'' Sarge - who used to be an [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous ODST]] - and a [[BewareTheSillyOnes sufficiently angered Caboose]]) and even standard UNSC Marines. After all, this was the guy who managed to take out a combined team of Elites and human mercenaries led by a fake Freelancer (albeit one that held his own against Tex) ''by himself.'' It should be noted that Tucker has taken on at least 4 Freelancers[[note]]Wyoming, Tex, the Meta/Maine, and Florida (albeit by accident)[[/note]] in the course of the series, and killed one of them ''twice'' with both a SniperRifle and a CoolSword.
* BeneathTheMask: After spending the series as a laid-back, egotistical CasanovaWannabe, ''The Chorus Trilogy'' has his mask peeled away by the stress of the situation he's in to reveal he's actually massively insecure and far more similar to Church then he'd like to admit.
* BerserkButton:
** Generally speaking, he gets ''really'' pissed off when people don't recognize his armor color as aqua.
** On a more serious note, don't violate his trust. You ''will'' pay for it, as Felix and Temple learn the hard way.
* BetterAsFriends:
*
*
* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Tucker's massive ego hides a
* BowChickaWowWow: This if famously his {{Catchphrase}}, which he uses whenever someone makes an InnocentInnuendo or DoubleEntendre.
* BrilliantButLazy: Possibly even more so than Grif. Though normally a lazy, immature womanizer who spends more time
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'',
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really?
-->'''Washington:''' You're a capable soldier, Tucker. At least, compared to your usual acquaintances. You just need to... try.
* ButtMonkey: Tucker is subject to a lot of
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
* TheBusCameBack: In ''Recreation'', he returns with a major role after making a voice-only cameo in ''Reconstruction''.
* CallingYourAttacks: When using his sword in ''Revelation'', he calls out his "swishes" and his "stabs". It doesn't work with Tex, but ''does'' work when he stabs the Meta.
* CasanovaWannabe: His onscreen success rate with women is very low, though not for lack of effort. After activating the Chorus Temple of Procreation following the end of the war on Chorus he finally gets some action, but it bites him in the ass when the many new mothers of Chorus file a lawsuit for child support payments.
* CatchPhrase: Says [[BowChickaWowWow "Bow chicka bow wow"]] at least OnceASeason since Season 4.
* CharacterDevelopment:
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} instead
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it was possible. And trust me, I've tried.\\
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started out as TheDitz in Seasons 5 and 6, but after TheBusCameBack, she's shown to be remarkably emotionally intelligent and a good business woman.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering her work fling is married (to the head of [=HR=], to make things worse) is too messy for her.
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According to
* CharacterFocus: He is the main protagonist of Season 12 of ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
* ChivalrousPervert: Makes countless inappropriate comments, but treats the female members of the series' cast with respect and seems to do it all in good fun.
* TheChosenOne: He is chosen for the quest with the "Great Weapon" by the Alien. Subverted for the most part, in that
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence,
* ClassicalAntiHero: He's an insecure, perverted, arrogant {{Jerkass}}, but his heart's in the right place and he's firmly on the side of good.
* CoolBike: The Sangheili gifted him with one back when he was an ambassador. He had to get rid of it when it ran out of gas while he was being chased by those same aliens.
* CoolKey: Or rather, not all that cool at all for being a key for a [[CoolPlane Covenant Banshee]]. But it ''is'' cool for being a key to [[ChekhovsBoomerang a variety of other alien tech on Chorus.]]
-->'''Tucker:''' The sword is a key? Just when I thought this quest couldn't get any lamer.
* CoolSword: The [[LaserBlade "Great]] [[CoolKey Weapon"]], which only he can use, is an Energy Sword that functions as a key in several different holographic terminals, and renders him immune to Wyoming's TimeMaster skills. By ''Recreation'', it's become his favourite weapon.
* DeadpanSnarker: This gets accentuated as his [[CharacterDevelopment personality develops]].
* DefiantToTheEnd:
** A non-lethal one. [[CurbStompBattle Despite getting his ass handed to him just as badly as the Reds by Tex]], he still retains his dignity and badass levels by practically snarking his way through and refusing to give up through almost the entire beatdown.
** Again in Season 12 when he goes up against Felix, he still manages to get his verbal licks in after being stabbed a couple of times and no longer able to stand. Of course the fact that he just got Felix to spill his deception, his partnership with Locus and the fact that the entire Chorus Civil War was being stage-managed on camera was a pretty good reason to remain defiant. Only when Locus and Felix turn their backs on him, Tucker finally lets his guard down.
* DemotedToExtra: After serving as one of and the
* {{Deuteragonist}}:
** He's actually the tritagonist during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', with Church being the sort-of protagonist and Tex as the actual deuteragonist. In each of the following seasons, either Church or Tucker gets left OutOfFocus, but Tucker remains the second most important character in the series overall.
** He also serves as one during Season 11, with a large portion of the season's plot dedicated to him (and by, extension, Caboose) coming to terms with Church leaving them behind. Tucker again serves as the tritagonist of Season 13, with a large part of the season's storyline revolving around his rivalry with [[EvilCounterpart Felix]] and his struggle to make sure the peoples of Chorus are united against the Space Pirates.
* DisappearedDad: To Junior from ''Recreation'' onward, though they seem to have a good relationship, all things considered. Also to his numerous children on Chorus.
* DoubleEntendre: He's made of these. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre He always follows them up]] with [[CatchPhrase "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!"]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall Even to introduce]] Episode 69 of ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]''.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Downplayed. In Season 18, he has been brought back into the military to train soldiers, and while he does rib on his troops a bit, he's mainly trying to hype himself up to get them to listen to him.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The main reason for him and Church butting heads in Season 12 outside of Tucker's anger at Church for abandoning the Reds and Blues from both of them having this with each other, moreso from Church's end. Church treats Tucker like he's the same idiot he was back in Blood Gulch and thinks his attempts at leadership are another display of Tucker's ego, while Tucker treats Church as the same NonActionGuy he was and becomes overprotective of him, which fuels Church's resentment of him.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: At the end of Season 13, he gets to wield the Meta's armor.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Actually violating a person's consent seems to be utterly off-limits for him. Sure, he might flirt relentlessly and generally act super sleazy, but actually trying to have sex with someone against their will is a line Tucker will ''never'' cross.
** [[invoked]] He also finds the {{Double Entendre}}s made by [[{{Jerkass}} Buckey]] - his EvilCounterpart among [[PsychoPrototype the Blues and Reds]] - [[DudeNotFunny to be creepy and unsettling.]]
** [[invoked]] PlayedForLaughs in ''The Shisno Paradox'', where he gets ''majorly'' {{Squick}}ed out upon learning that [[OurGodsAreDifferent the Cosmic Powers]] practice BrotherSisterIncest.
** Again PlayedForLaughs and combined with HypocriticalHumor in ''Singularity'', with him telling Donut (who is using MentalTimeTravel to contact him during the events of Season 15) that he's not going to listen to whatever he has to say since he's sick of constantly hearing Donut's {{Double Entendre}}s and "values his time".
* EveryoneKnewAlready: Hilariously inverted - If the events of ''Recreation'' are anything to go by, he was the '''only''' member of the Red and Blues to figure out Church was an [=A.I.=] before ''Reconstruction''.
-->'''Tucker:''' (to Sarge, Grif, and Caboose) Yeah, wait, you guys ''didn't?'' Gah, pay fuckin' attention, what the fuck are you guys paying attention to?!
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The Alien somehow impregnated him with Junior by hovering over him every night.
* {{Fanboy}}: For Creator/QuentinTarantino, with ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' specifically being his favorite film ever.
* FatalFlaw: {{Lust}}, {{Wrath}}, and {{Pride}}.
* {{Flanderization}}: Tucker goes from being a flirtatious ladies' man of questionable success to a CasanovaWannabe who attempts to sleep with
* {{Foil}}: To Donut. Both favor weapons that need a strong arm (Donut's grenades and Tucker's [[LaserBlade Great Weapon]]), have a knack for alien technology and {{Double Entendre}}s, and constantly quibble about their respective armor colors. However, Donut consistently claims his armor is [[InsistentTerminology lightish-red]] while Tucker
* FreudianExcuse: [[invoked]] While it's never directly said, both later seasons have and WordOfGod have stated that Tucker intentionally sets up a
* FriendlySniper: Though he's not really aware of it, Tucker is actually a very good shot, as evidenced when he ''finally'' [[ThrowTheDogABone gets
* GenreSavvy: Comes with him being a PopCulturedBadass. For instance, he's the first to suggest that Grif was still alive after having gone over a cliff at the end of ''Revelation'', and tried to use ideas he had seen in ''Star Wars'' to infiltrate a Federal Army base in Season 12. That being said, when his ego gets in the way, he can be quite GenreBlind (such as him not noticing how incredibly suspicious Temple and the rest of the Blues and
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" instead
* GoodParents: Surprisingly, he turns out to be one for Junior, who he loves and dotes on, and goes full PapaWolf when he is kidnapped.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Essentially gets trapped in a small one of these in "Same Old, Same Old" when he learns that he's the only one who can retain his memory in Wyoming's loops. He eventually
*
* HeroicBSOD: Has one after Wash gets shot in the
* HeroicSacrifice: Downplayed. Getting stabbed by Felix near the
* TheHero: After Season 10, Tucker takes over Church's role as the
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reports
* HiddenDepths:
** It can be a
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] during
** "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" reveals that he's a ''massive'' fan of Creator/QuentinTarantino.
** His Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' shows that [[spoiler:he's heavily reliant on having his friends and family around - and not just in terms of needing people to support his ego, but more in that he needs them to help support his own mental issues. It gets to the point where he suffers a panic attack and passes out after only a few hours of being alone]].
* HollywoodAtheist: Averted, as while he claims to not believe in any religion or god in ''The Shisno Paradox'', he doesn't really display any personality traits seen in stereotypical atheists.
* HotBlooded: Suffers from concealed anger issues, with him slowly growing a shorter temper over the course of the series due to him getting shoved into the status of the OnlySaneMan.
* HumiliationConga: [[invoked]] Season 15 is ''not'' kind to him. Not only does he learn that his activation of the Temple of Procreation on Chorus led to numerous children he has to pay child support for, but [[MagnificentBastard Temple]] plays him like a fiddle and gets him & his friends thrown in the brig. ''Then'', he learns that the entire reason that he and the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew went out on their mission in the first place - to supposedly rescue Church - [[YankTheDogsChain was just a massive ruse on part of the Blues and Reds]]. Finally, his LeeroyJenkins moment in Episode 17 (caused by his [[UnstoppableRage hatred for Temple]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge desire for vengeance]]) nearly gets Wash killed and sends him into critical condition. Tucker even bitterly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, angrily pointing out that ''just'' when he thought he was getting "good at this [[TheHero hero stuff]], I crashed and [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''burned!''"
* {{Hypocrite}}: Tucker spends most of Season 12 angry at Church for abandoning the Reds and Blues, even if he had good intentions and was doing something legitimately important (investigating and stopping the Space Pirates), only to do the same thing for almost the exact same reasons to the residents of Chorus. He's eventually called out on it, which ultimately gets him to bury the hatchet with Church.
* HypocriticalHumor: In Season 17, he proclaims he is sick of Donut's innuendos and refuses to listen to them, saying that he "values his time". This is coming from ''[[CasanovaWannabe Tucker]]'', king of {{Double Entendre}}s.
* [[IBangedYourMom I Banged Your Sister]]: He's taunted Grif with this at times. Of course, when Kai returns to the main cast in Season
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: He called dibs on Butch Flowers' "greenish-blue" armor after his death, replacing his standard issue blue armor (the kind Caboose later has).
* ImageSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9TLuDDUuUM Bow Chicka Wow Wow Wow]]".
* ImprobableAimingSkills: When he ''finally'' gets his hands on a sniper rifle, he gets headshots every time.
* InformedAttractiveness: Captain Butch Flowers describes him as having "striking meterosexual good looks." Being that the series is primarily filmed in machinima and that Tucker is TheFaceless regardless, his ''actual'' physical attractiveness is obviously left up in the air.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:When the timeline is about to
* {{Irony}}:
** During Season 2, he tells Church that Grif and Simmons argue like an old married couple, saying how obvious it is that they're "really in love." In Season 11, Sarge and Grif attack Blue Base while Tucker is having an argument with Wash (who's taken Church's place on Blue Team). Grif asks if they're "interrupting some lovers' quarrel or something." The attack itself is also ironic in that it occurs directly after Tucker verbally attacks Wash for his intense training regimen, saying that nothing's going to attack them. Since this is ''[[DeadpanSnarker Tucker]]'' that we're talking about, you know that it's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] hilariously.
** Despite the fact that [[{{Yandere}} Caboose]] initially dislikes him for being
** In the ''Halo'' franchise (which ''Red vs. Blue'' takes place in from a BroadStrokes perspective), the ability to wield an energy sword is considered so impressive in Sangheili/Elite society that anyone who can master one can mate with any female they desire. [[CasanovaWannabe Tucker can't pick up a woman to save his life.]] [[MisterSeahorse But he does get impregnated with an Elite parasite!]]
* JerkassRealization: During ''Singularity'', he realizes [[spoiler:after he starts listening to Donut's orders as they're fixing the timeline that he's taken the wrong lessons from Chorus, and shouldn't be an arrogant and assertive {{Jerkass}} as one of {{The Leader}}s of the Reds and Blues. Instead, he should just [[BeYourself Be Himself]] and not be someone that he isn't]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tucker is a sleazy, immature womanizer, and even cutting ''that'' aspect of his personality doesn't make him a NiceGuy. However, he has shown himself to be a brave and loyal soldier as the series goes onward, along with being a considerate and empathetic friend several times over. Furthermore, he significantly matures over the series' course, even becoming the ''de facto'' leader of the Reds and Blues when Wash and Carolina aren't around.
* TheLancer: To Church, TheHero. Starting from his takedown of Wyoming, Tucker gradually develops into this by default.
* TheLeader: Of the rescue team in Season 12. He also leads the Blood Gulch Crew when Wash and Carolina aren't around in Season 15.
* LeeroyJenkins: Acts as one in "Quicksave." When Locus suggests a stealthy approach to eliminate the Blues and Reds' grunts guarding the hanger, Tucker prefers to take a straightforward approach, ruining their
* LovableSexManiac: [[CharacterDevelopment Evolves into this]] over the course of the series. For all of his rude comments, he treats the female members of the cast with respect and seems to make his {{Double Entendre}}s only in good fun. What certainly helps is that he [[LaserGuidedKarma takes a beating]] whenever any of his comments comes across as legitimately offensive and not just absurd-sounding. Notably, [[spoiler:when he actually insults Kaikaina and she rightfully blows up at him over it during ''The Shisno Paradox'', he feels immensely guilty over it and (reluctantly) decides that they would be BetterAsFriends by the end of the season]].
* MasterSwordsman: Has shades of this in Season 7, but he definitely grows into this by the time of Season 10. Though he still isn't quite as good against faster opponents.
-->'''Doc:''' And Tucker, you learned [[ThatCameOutWrong to use your sword like a pro!]]\\
'''Tucker:''' ''(confused)'' Bow chicka bow wow?
* MeaningfulName:
** The Old English origins for "Tucker" mean "to torment," which can serve as an allusion to his relentlessly teasing personality as part of his CasanovaWannabe attitude.
** "Lavernius" is also descended from Laverna, a Roman goddess of thieves. Tucker accidentally stole an Elite LaserBlade from Crunchbite in Season 3.
* MirrorCharacter: Tucker becomes increasingly similar to Church as the series goes on, revealing himself to be using his ego to mask his self-loathing and to have issues with anger and grudge-holding.
* MissingMom: He reveals in ''The Shisno Paradox'' that his mother is dead.
* MisterSeahorse: Courtesy of Crunchbite's parasitic embryo.
* MyGreatestFailure: Getting most of his team killed in Season 12. This really gnaws at him for the rest of the season, and spurs a significant amount of CharacterDevelopment.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling:
** Implied to be how his DoubleEntendre detection works, at least in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
--->'''Tucker:''' (after running over to Church and Tex from a long distance away) I just wanted to say, I got a [[DoubleEntendre hardline]] Tex can use. [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Bow chicka bow wow!]]\\
'''Tex:''' [[LampshadeHanging ...How did you even hear that?]]\\
'''Tucker:''' I'm like Franchise/{{Superman}}, I know when I'm needed!
** Taken up to eleven in one instance, where [[RuleOfFunny he ends up]] BreakingTheFourthWall to give his CatchPhrase for the introduction for Episode 69.
* NeverMyFault: He activated the Tower of Procreation on Chorus after he and the others captured Hargrove so the planet could party. He is eventually tracked down by Spencer, a process server, who delivers him a class action lawsuit for all the mothers he got pregnant during this, demanding child support. He spends a lot of time blaming Dylan for this because she ran into Spencer earlier and knew he was searching for him but didn't warn him, as if it is her fault he is being sued. He also keeps referring to Spencer as a "bounty hunter" even though he knows he was only a process server and was just delivering him the lawsuit papers.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Both Tucker and Carolina convince the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew to help them go back in time and save Wash from his neck injury, which results in them all causing a RealityBreakingParadox.
* NostalgiaFilter: In Season 11 and Season 12, Tucker longs for the goofier, more lighthearted days at Blood Gulch and views Church as the same person he was originally, unaware that he has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken a Level in Badass.]] He gets over this later.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: From Church. Tucker initially seems to be a more laid back and goofy foil to Church, but later seasons, particularly ''The Chorus Trilogy'', shows that Tucker has a short temper, large ego, and endless insecurities and an inferiority complex, much like Church. Seasons 11 and 16 {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.
-->'''Season 11:''' ''I hate everyone else's lives, wish they didn't have 'em. Oh my God, am I turning into Church?''\\
'''Season 16:''' ''I'm basically the new Church, but way less whiny.''
*
* OnlySaneMan:
** Tucker generally takes this role when either
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through
** When he, Simmons, Grif, and Caboose take refuge in the New Republic base in Season 12, Tucker is the only
*
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue," he forces the rest of the
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill her
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. In
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after
** In "Greenish-Blue With Envy," Tucker is so pissed at being dragged around everywhere by Carolina that when he says something that could be construed as innuendo, Church is baffled that he doesn't follow up with his CatchPhrase.
--->'''Tucker''': Church, just because you want to
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Church''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh, come on, aren't you going to say it?]]\\
'''Tucker''': ''No'', because I'm pissed off!
** In the finale of Season
** Similarly, he becomes very distraught after both learning of [[spoiler:Wash's cerebral hypoxia and
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters
* PapaWolf: He shows
* PetTheDog: Tucker's actually very affectionate toward his son. He's also often one of the first members of the Blood Gulch Crew to be concerned about some of the side-effects of their actions (post-{{Character Development}}, at least). Furthermore, he noticeably [[TookALevelInKindness Takes A Level In Kindness]] in
*
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in
* PopCulturedBadass: ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' is his favorite film, and he forced the rest of the Reds and Blues to [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes watch it several hundred times]] as it was the only movie in Blood Gulch. Additionally, he tries to use ideas from ''Franchise/StarWars'' in order to have his soldiers infiltrate an enemy compound during the Chorus Civil War (though it unfortunately ended disastrously).
* {{Pride}}: One of his fatal flaws. Tucker has a pretty big ego, which often results in him being met with some sort of humiliation, and when he begins serving as the leader, he often makes mistakes due to overestimating his abilities and reacts badly when his pride is bruised. Growing out of this is one of the biggest parts of his CharacterDevelopment.
* PutOnABus: Only his voice is heard during ''Reconstruction'', and he doesn't physically appear until halfway through ''Recreation''.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: An amusing variant. Since he never got to use the SniperRifle for almost all of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', he developed excellent eyesight by Season 5 so as to compensate.
* RippleProofMemory: Due to having his CoolSword, Tucker is immune to the memory-erasure effects of traveling back in time during Season 5. This makes him the perfect SpannerInTheWorks for Wyoming's plot in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
* RunningGag:
** Tucker can't go through a teleporter without getting covered in black stuff. Even if no one else going through the same teleporter does. Though whether or not other characters are affected seems to be dependent on its usefulness to the plot.
** He also never gets to use the SniperRifle throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' outside of '''two''' scenes late into Season 5.
* ShipTease: Gets a ''lot'' of BelligerentSexualTension with Kaikaina over the course of ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[invoked]] For [[HoYay Grif/Simmons]] during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** The source of why he's badass. Figures out how to counter Wyoming's time-looping ability, prevents C.T. from breaking into the desert temple, wipes out half of C.T.'s army ''single-handed'' and destroys C.T.'s jeep during a chase scene.
** On Chorus, the bad guys try to keep the sim troopers separated between the Rebels and the Feds so that the truth of the civil war is further concealed. Fortunately, Tucker screws that up by disobeying an order from Felix and stealing intel from a Federal Army base; intel that leads his group straight to their friends. The evil plan has to go through drastic changes to make up for that one.
* StepfordSmiler: As alluded to in both ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and ''Singularity'', Tucker has countless insecurities and
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual human
** "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" has a good example of this in action, with him forcing the Reds and
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Deconstructed in Season 12. With Church and Wash M.I.
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's in
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, once
* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted. While Tucker ''claims'' to be a pacifist during his quest in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', even outright stating he didn't want to kill a monster, he's really just making excuses for
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Probably one of the
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards her
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue of
** He goes from being
** ''He stabs the Meta with his sword in close combat.'' The Meta is powerful enough to fight Tex one on one (well, two on one) ''without'' any [=AI=] support, and yet Tucker still manages to land a
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:While
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majority
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedly
*
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Over the course of the series as a
** After being rather rude and obnoxious in ''The Shisno Paradox'', he becomes significantly nicer in ''Singularity'' after having a JerkassRealization, even gaining a newfound respect for [[TheHero Donut]] along with striving to [[BeYourself Be Himself]] rather than what he ''thinks'' a hero should be.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: A variant; Tucker's too frightened of [[AxCrazy Dr. Grey]] to even ''consider'' hitting on her.
-->'''Tucker:''' (terrified, to Caboose) Don't ''ever'' stick your dick in crazy.
* UnstoppableRage: He goes into this in Season 15 after Temple exploits Church's memory to manipulate them, sends Caboose into a HeroicBSOD when he reveals this, and Temple's men shoot Wash in the throat. It gets to the point where he ''destroys a tank'' just by punching it.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Church, Caboose (at least initially before Tucker develops a BigBrotherInstinct towards him), Carolina, and the Reds (particularly Grif and Sarge).
* VocalEvolution: Jason Saldaña's voice as Tucker gets progressively higher-pitched and faster (albeit not to a cartoonish level) as the series goes on.
* TheWorfEffect: After kicking the asses of C.T.'s crew, [[CurbStompBattle he meets Tex to have his ass utterly spanked]]. Though he still did better than the rest, and it doesn't really diminish his badass rating at all. And his plan with Simmons to ambush Tex would've worked if Caboose hadn't acted as a SpannerInTheWorks.
* {{Wrath}}: From Season 11 onwards, Tucker gains anger issues stemming from Church abandoning the Reds and Blues, and Felix's betrayal exacerbates it, giving a tendency to be insanely pissed at those who violate his trust, to the point that
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: He's pretty upset over getting most of his squad killed to secure some intel near the beginning of Season 12, but is even
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!Equipment and Mercenaries
[[folder:Tex]]
!Agent Texas (Allison / Beta)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I wouldn't say I'm mean. I just get paid to do mean things."'']]
-> ''"[[{{Understatement}} Agent Tex is a bit of a badass.]]"''
-->-- '''FILSS'''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KathleenZuelch, Burnie Burns (voice filter), Creator/RahulKohli ("Get Bent")
-->'''[=AI=] Attribute:''' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure]]
A black-armored [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and former agent of Project Freelancer, the biggest badass in all of Blood Gulch, an infiltration expert thanks to a cloaking device, and a better fighter than both teams combined. [[SamusIsAGirl Her real name is Allison]], and her Freelancer handle is Agent Texas. Tex is contracted to support the Blues after Church's death and proceeds to terrify Tucker and Caboose while leading a [[OneManArmy one-(wo)man]] assault on Red Base to recover the Blue flag. Unfortunately, a prodigious grenade toss by Donut eventually kills her, but she returns as a ghost some time later, inhabiting a robot body in a manner similar to Church. This experience mellows Tex out somewhat, as it frees her from the influence of her [=AI=] partner O'Malley (see below) - though by no means is she someone you should make angry. Tex hangs out with the Blues when she isn't off on her own, usually attempting to foil O'Malley or Wyoming's plans, but as the series progresses she gets more and more entangled in the plots surrounding the dupes at Blood Gulch.
''Revelation'' reveals that, as many suspected, she is also an AI-based on the memories of Director Leonard Church. Created from his memories of Allison, his wife who had died, she apparently came into existence as Beta around the same time Alpha was created. Presumably as a result of the Director's feelings for the original Allison, she was not subjected to the same tortures as Alpha. Church eventually realizes that, like her original self, she's always doomed to failure.
In the Season 5 finale, she voluntarily reunites with O'Malley in an attempt to manipulate Junior and the alien race into helping humanity win the war, and is seemingly killed when Sarge sets off a bomb in the spaceship she hijacked. Although Tex gets kidnapped in AI form by the Meta and then destroyed in an EMP blast in Season 6, she's resurrected through the memory of the recently re-activated Epsilon during Season 8. This version of her is trapped inside the Epsilon Unit by the Meta after attempting to lure out and ambush both it and Washington. Church spends Season 9 trying to come back into contact with her, until inevitably deciding that it isn't worth dooming her to repeat her failures over and over again, and letting her go by "forgetting" her, removing her from existence.
For information about the woman she was based on, see [[Characters/RedVsBlueOthers Allison's entry]].
[[folder:Tex]]
!Agent Texas (Allison / Beta)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I wouldn't say I'm mean. I just get paid to do mean things."'']]
-> ''"[[{{Understatement}} Agent Tex is a bit of a badass.]]"''
-->-- '''FILSS'''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KathleenZuelch, Burnie Burns (voice filter), Creator/RahulKohli ("Get Bent")
-->'''[=AI=] Attribute:''' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure]]
A black-armored [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and former agent of Project Freelancer, the biggest badass in all of Blood Gulch, an infiltration expert thanks to a cloaking device, and a better fighter than both teams combined. [[SamusIsAGirl Her real name is Allison]], and her Freelancer handle is Agent Texas. Tex is contracted to support the Blues after Church's death and proceeds to terrify Tucker and Caboose while leading a [[OneManArmy one-(wo)man]] assault on Red Base to recover the Blue flag. Unfortunately, a prodigious grenade toss by Donut eventually kills her, but she returns as a ghost some time later, inhabiting a robot body in a manner similar to Church. This experience mellows Tex out somewhat, as it frees her from the influence of her [=AI=] partner O'Malley (see below) - though by no means is she someone you should make angry. Tex hangs out with the Blues when she isn't off on her own, usually attempting to foil O'Malley or Wyoming's plans, but as the series progresses she gets more and more entangled in the plots surrounding the dupes at Blood Gulch.
''Revelation'' reveals that, as many suspected, she is also an AI-based on the memories of Director Leonard Church. Created from his memories of Allison, his wife who had died, she apparently came into existence as Beta around the same time Alpha was created. Presumably as a result of the Director's feelings for the original Allison, she was not subjected to the same tortures as Alpha. Church eventually realizes that, like her original self, she's always doomed to failure.
In the Season 5 finale, she voluntarily reunites with O'Malley in an attempt to manipulate Junior and the alien race into helping humanity win the war, and is seemingly killed when Sarge sets off a bomb in the spaceship she hijacked. Although Tex gets kidnapped in AI form by the Meta and then destroyed in an EMP blast in Season 6, she's resurrected through the memory of the recently re-activated Epsilon during Season 8. This version of her is trapped inside the Epsilon Unit by the Meta after attempting to lure out and ambush both it and Washington. Church spends Season 9 trying to come back into contact with her, until inevitably deciding that it isn't worth dooming her to repeat her failures over and over again, and letting her go by "forgetting" her, removing her from existence.
For information about the woman she was based on, see [[Characters/RedVsBlueOthers Allison's entry]].
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[[folder:Tex]]
!Agent Texas (Allison / Beta)
!Captain Michael J. Caboose
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I wouldn't say I'm mean.
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Time''line''? [[InsaneTrollLogic Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.]]"'']]
->''"[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Last time I
-> ''"[[{{Understatement}} Agent Tex is a bit of a badass.
-->'''[=AI=] Attribute:''' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure]]
A black-armored [[HiredGuns mercenary]]
Caboose, who accidentally enlisted in the Blue Army after [[AllThereInTheManual mistaking a recruitment center for a college]], is introduced as TheFool, but [[{{Flanderization}} quickly devolves into]] a complete idiot. As his name suggests, he is the last to arrive at any train of thought's destination. Occasional [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journeys into his mind]] have revealed that Caboose's view of the world is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} at drastic odds with reality]] - he has mental constructs representing the rest of the cast running around inside of his head, ranging from a Church who vehemently insists that Caboose is his best friend, to a Sarge that talks like a pirate. Caboose is a bigger danger to his teammates than to his enemies, to the extent that the surest way to get him to shoot someone is to tell him they're on his team, and
Caboose primarily serves as a comic relief character and gets some of the series' best lines, but he has occasional impact on the plot. After Tex's death he's briefly possessed by O'Malley
In ''Recreation'', he is the only member of the Blue Team due to Church/The Alpha's HeroicSacrifice at
''Revelation'' reveals that, as many suspected, she is
He is one of the
In the
In Season
In Season
In Season 15, he has once again become depressed over
For information about
In ''The Shisno Paradox'', he gets sent back in time with Lopez, and through several off-screen adventures he ends up accidentally starting several real-life historical events, as well as a few events in-universe. When the Reds and Blues later meet the Cosmic Powers, Caboose is the only one to ''not'' ask for his own LaserBlade, instead wanting to have Genkins' golf club, which Atlus lets him keep.
In ''Singularity'', Caboose is trapped reliving his past constantly along with most of the other Reds and Blues. After he is saved by Donut and Agent Washington, he displays [[GeniusDitz a surprising amount of intelligence with time travel]], immediately understanding the situation and making a plan to fix the timeline with help from Huggins. The golf club he obtained the previous season also plays a [[ChekhovsGun major role in the climax of the season]].
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!!Associated Tropes:
* TheAce: She's the closest thing the setting has: She's pretty smart and knowledgeable enough to make a bomb from scratch, set up pretty tactical plans and decimate even fellow super soldiers with relative ease. If not for her curse to fail whenever she gets close to winning with something on the line, she'd probably have no competition.
* ActionGirl: Quite easily the toughest person in the main cast.
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoring this in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale during her FaceHeelTurn. He points out that while Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War with [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Junior]] ''may'' work, it'll also result in giving the ''{{Anthropomorphic Personification}} of [[UnstoppableRage rage]]'' an entire species of {{Proud Warrior Race Guys}} (the Elites) as an army for ravaging the galaxy with. She [[ShutUpKirk dismisses this by saying]], [[BystanderSyndrome "We'll just have to find out."]]
* AntiHero: While she has sympathetic motivations and is never an outright villain, she's cruel, brutal, and oftentimes ruthless in the pursuit of her goals.
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke off of the Alpha in its creation, but she's the "Beta" [=A.I.=]. In Season 10, it's shown that she's known this ''long'' before meeting up with Alpha-Church.
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits off his memories of her. She is not happy about this.
** After Epsilon-Tex dies, a copy of her is found at the Director's lair at the end of Season 10. Unfortunately, [[CameBackWrong this Tex has been Mind Raped beyond repair by the Director.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After being taken by the Meta, Sigma [[NothingIsScarier does... whatever it is he does to the other AI]] to get her to go along with his mad schemes.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she's not '''nearly''' as superhumanly awesome as she was during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. While part of this is obviously just a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, it's justified InUniverse due to her both [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption being cursed to always fail at the last moment whenever she puts her mind to something]] and the new robotic body she takes control over for the majority of the first five seasons [[FlawedPrototype being significantly weaker than]] the one she had during her time in Project Freelancer.
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10 talk in a broken variation of her voice (to the point where they sound more like ''Omega'' than Tex herself), and [[ConservationOfNinjutsu don't seem to have quite the same level of badassery as the original]]. Aside from that, there is the fact that the controlling version of Tex is in [[MindRape less than]] [[ColdBloodedTorture stable]] condition.
** We never get to meet the real Allison, as the one we do see is actually the result of the Director's attempts to bring her back. The Tex we know is in fact the [=A.I.=] known as "Beta", and essentially a memory of the original Allison. This memory is derived from those of the Director, so while she's close, she's never quite close enough to be a true replacement for Allison and is really little more than a shadow of her. What makes the situation even worse is that the Director's overriding memory of Allison was that she died in the Great War - she failed. This colored ''all'' of his other memories of her to the point where Beta's fragment attribute is that she's the Alpha's failure made manifest: No matter how hard she fights or how badass she might be, she will always ultimately fail whenever something heavily important is on the line because that's what the Director and the Alpha unconsciously designed her to do.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would reveal that she went to Blood Gulch to watch over the Alpha [=A.I.=] since she felt that it was all she could do to atone for failing to save him the first time around. This ''really'' doesn't fit in with her being a WildCard that eventually betrays Church to help Project Freelancer ([=a.k.a.=] the organization that she ''abandoned''), but it can be {{Hand Wave}}d under Tex taking TheNeedsOfTheMany into account.
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is shown to be very greedy, to the point where it's her FatalFlaw. This aspect of her personality isn't seen at all both during the flashback sequences in Seasons 9 & 10 along with her time in the present day as [=Epsilon-Tex=].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots Church and leaves him as bait for Wash and the Meta in ''Revelation'', albeit so as to be able to finish their fight once and for all so she can finally kill the Director.
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Towards the end of Season 10 there's about two or three dozen clones of her guarding the director. Where the original Tex could effortlessly curbstomp all of the Blood Gulch Crew at once without breaking a sweat, the clones don't seem to have ''quite'' the same level of badass as the original as the Crew manages to put up a pretty good fight against them. Although it's likely these bodies were mass produced, and not customized for battle like her first and third bodies. It also fits into her being cursed [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption to always fail at whatever she does at the last minute]].
* TheCorruptible: Omega does this to every one he infects (sans Church) in some way, but his nature has the strongest hold on Tex's persona.
* CovertPervert: Not really ever discussed about, but Tex can be pretty perverted, like at the way she repeatedly stared at the Alien's crotch.
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
* CosmicPlaything: Not quite as much as Church, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Tex's nature]] makes her life absolutely miserable. Many of her failures aren't even her fault in any way, just spectacular examples of bad luck. It gets to the point where she angrily asks Epsilon ''why'' he even brought her back if all she's going to do is fail for no reason and at whatever she sets out to do.
* CrazyPrepared: Most evident in Episode 19 of ''Revelation'', where she has the battlefield rigged with tons of mines, explosives, and hidden weapons, just to give herself an even greater edge over Washington and the Meta.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight with the Reds and Blues in ''Revelation'' is just her kicking the crap out of them for two episodes. A good chunk of her fights in Seasons 9 and 10 are also this, most notably her training match with Wyoming, York, and Maine.
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day she is still a good person, Tex is '''immensely''' ruthless, to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would casually murder those who piss her off.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black armor, and while ruthless, is (mostly) on the side of good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She dies in the crash of the Pelican at the end of Season 5, but still remains as the [=A.I.=] Beta. Beta is picked up by the Meta and destroyed by the "emp" at the end of ''Recreation''. A different version of Tex based on Epsilon's memories returned in ''Revelation'', and was encased in the Epsilon memory unit, but Epsilon eventually let himself "forget" the new Tex, removing her from existence and letting the character die for good.
* DeathSeeker: By the time of her Epsilon iteration, Tex is so tired and annoyed of being constantly brought back to life against her will and just "wants to rest."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Following learning [[TomatoInTheMirror the information]] in [[DeadManWriting Connie's data files]], she promptly left Project Freelancer completely, only returning subversively with York and North Dakota (albeit inadvertently).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularly in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Recreation'', and she serves as the tritagonist throughout the Project Freelancer Saga.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadow in Season 10, Episode 10, she doesn't take it very well:
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did you just call me?!\\
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceeds to mortally wound C.T.]''
* DoAndroidsDream: After her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome now-famous ass-kicking]] of the Blood Gulch Crew in "This One Goes To Eleven" (which was essentially her venting some repressed rage), this was her primary motivation: To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in the real world.
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is met with little flair. PlayedStraight when it's revealed she's still alive, though has no role to speak of before her death by the emp.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but she doesn't bleed (she instead ''sparks'' like a malfunctioning piece of electronics), because she was inhabiting a robot body. Theta, an [=A.I.=], mentions that he has a sister, alluding to both the fact that Tex is an [=A.I.=] herself and that Carolina is the Director's daughter.
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still present with Wyoming. Despite the two being on opposite sides, the two seem to have a healthy amount of respect, with Tex opting to talk to Wyoming rather than shooting him when given the chance. She even later refers to him (along with Maine) as "dummies" with no malicious intent despite them nearly having killed her the first day they met.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender in one of Epsilon-Church's iterations as seen in "Get Bent".
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in a Season 15 flashback.
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hitting him in the head. And later after she's been disarmed by York, she unloads ''an entire clip'' of armor hardening paint into his groin.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the Alpha be reduced to a broken EmptyShell who doesn't even recognize her. The entire reason that she puts up with Church's {{Jerkass}} behavior during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is because she feels like it's the least she can do out of penance for failing to save the man she loved.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.
* TheAce: She's the closest thing the setting has: She's pretty smart and knowledgeable enough to make a bomb from scratch, set up pretty tactical plans and decimate even fellow super soldiers with relative ease. If not for her curse to fail whenever she gets close to winning with something on the line, she'd probably have no competition.
* ActionGirl: Quite easily the toughest person in the main cast.
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoring this in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale during her FaceHeelTurn. He points out that while Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War with [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Junior]] ''may'' work, it'll also result in giving the ''{{Anthropomorphic Personification}} of [[UnstoppableRage rage]]'' an entire species of {{Proud Warrior Race Guys}} (the Elites) as an army for ravaging the galaxy with. She [[ShutUpKirk dismisses this by saying]], [[BystanderSyndrome "We'll just have to find out."]]
* AntiHero: While she has sympathetic motivations and is never an outright villain, she's cruel, brutal, and oftentimes ruthless in the pursuit of her goals.
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke off of the Alpha in its creation, but she's the "Beta" [=A.I.=]. In Season 10, it's shown that she's known this ''long'' before meeting up with Alpha-Church.
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits off his memories of her. She is not happy about this.
** After Epsilon-Tex dies, a copy of her is found at the Director's lair at the end of Season 10. Unfortunately, [[CameBackWrong this Tex has been Mind Raped beyond repair by the Director.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After being taken by the Meta, Sigma [[NothingIsScarier does... whatever it is he does to the other AI]] to get her to go along with his mad schemes.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she's not '''nearly''' as superhumanly awesome as she was during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. While part of this is obviously just a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, it's justified InUniverse due to her both [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption being cursed to always fail at the last moment whenever she puts her mind to something]] and the new robotic body she takes control over for the majority of the first five seasons [[FlawedPrototype being significantly weaker than]] the one she had during her time in Project Freelancer.
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10 talk in a broken variation of her voice (to the point where they sound more like ''Omega'' than Tex herself), and [[ConservationOfNinjutsu don't seem to have quite the same level of badassery as the original]]. Aside from that, there is the fact that the controlling version of Tex is in [[MindRape less than]] [[ColdBloodedTorture stable]] condition.
** We never get to meet the real Allison, as the one we do see is actually the result of the Director's attempts to bring her back. The Tex we know is in fact the [=A.I.=] known as "Beta", and essentially a memory of the original Allison. This memory is derived from those of the Director, so while she's close, she's never quite close enough to be a true replacement for Allison and is really little more than a shadow of her. What makes the situation even worse is that the Director's overriding memory of Allison was that she died in the Great War - she failed. This colored ''all'' of his other memories of her to the point where Beta's fragment attribute is that she's the Alpha's failure made manifest: No matter how hard she fights or how badass she might be, she will always ultimately fail whenever something heavily important is on the line because that's what the Director and the Alpha unconsciously designed her to do.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would reveal that she went to Blood Gulch to watch over the Alpha [=A.I.=] since she felt that it was all she could do to atone for failing to save him the first time around. This ''really'' doesn't fit in with her being a WildCard that eventually betrays Church to help Project Freelancer ([=a.k.a.=] the organization that she ''abandoned''), but it can be {{Hand Wave}}d under Tex taking TheNeedsOfTheMany into account.
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is shown to be very greedy, to the point where it's her FatalFlaw. This aspect of her personality isn't seen at all both during the flashback sequences in Seasons 9 & 10 along with her time in the present day as [=Epsilon-Tex=].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots Church and leaves him as bait for Wash and the Meta in ''Revelation'', albeit so as to be able to finish their fight once and for all so she can finally kill the Director.
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Towards the end of Season 10 there's about two or three dozen clones of her guarding the director. Where the original Tex could effortlessly curbstomp all of the Blood Gulch Crew at once without breaking a sweat, the clones don't seem to have ''quite'' the same level of badass as the original as the Crew manages to put up a pretty good fight against them. Although it's likely these bodies were mass produced, and not customized for battle like her first and third bodies. It also fits into her being cursed [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption to always fail at whatever she does at the last minute]].
* TheCorruptible: Omega does this to every one he infects (sans Church) in some way, but his nature has the strongest hold on Tex's persona.
* CovertPervert: Not really ever discussed about, but Tex can be pretty perverted, like at the way she repeatedly stared at the Alien's crotch.
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
* CosmicPlaything: Not quite as much as Church, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Tex's nature]] makes her life absolutely miserable. Many of her failures aren't even her fault in any way, just spectacular examples of bad luck. It gets to the point where she angrily asks Epsilon ''why'' he even brought her back if all she's going to do is fail for no reason and at whatever she sets out to do.
* CrazyPrepared: Most evident in Episode 19 of ''Revelation'', where she has the battlefield rigged with tons of mines, explosives, and hidden weapons, just to give herself an even greater edge over Washington and the Meta.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight with the Reds and Blues in ''Revelation'' is just her kicking the crap out of them for two episodes. A good chunk of her fights in Seasons 9 and 10 are also this, most notably her training match with Wyoming, York, and Maine.
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day she is still a good person, Tex is '''immensely''' ruthless, to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would casually murder those who piss her off.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black armor, and while ruthless, is (mostly) on the side of good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She dies in the crash of the Pelican at the end of Season 5, but still remains as the [=A.I.=] Beta. Beta is picked up by the Meta and destroyed by the "emp" at the end of ''Recreation''. A different version of Tex based on Epsilon's memories returned in ''Revelation'', and was encased in the Epsilon memory unit, but Epsilon eventually let himself "forget" the new Tex, removing her from existence and letting the character die for good.
* DeathSeeker: By the time of her Epsilon iteration, Tex is so tired and annoyed of being constantly brought back to life against her will and just "wants to rest."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Following learning [[TomatoInTheMirror the information]] in [[DeadManWriting Connie's data files]], she promptly left Project Freelancer completely, only returning subversively with York and North Dakota (albeit inadvertently).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularly in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Recreation'', and she serves as the tritagonist throughout the Project Freelancer Saga.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadow in Season 10, Episode 10, she doesn't take it very well:
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did you just call me?!\\
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceeds to mortally wound C.T.]''
* DoAndroidsDream: After her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome now-famous ass-kicking]] of the Blood Gulch Crew in "This One Goes To Eleven" (which was essentially her venting some repressed rage), this was her primary motivation: To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in the real world.
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is met with little flair. PlayedStraight when it's revealed she's still alive, though has no role to speak of before her death by the emp.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but she doesn't bleed (she instead ''sparks'' like a malfunctioning piece of electronics), because she was inhabiting a robot body. Theta, an [=A.I.=], mentions that he has a sister, alluding to both the fact that Tex is an [=A.I.=] herself and that Carolina is the Director's daughter.
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still present with Wyoming. Despite the two being on opposite sides, the two seem to have a healthy amount of respect, with Tex opting to talk to Wyoming rather than shooting him when given the chance. She even later refers to him (along with Maine) as "dummies" with no malicious intent despite them nearly having killed her the first day they met.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender in one of Epsilon-Church's iterations as seen in "Get Bent".
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in a Season 15 flashback.
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hitting him in the head. And later after she's been disarmed by York, she unloads ''an entire clip'' of armor hardening paint into his groin.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the Alpha be reduced to a broken EmptyShell who doesn't even recognize her. The entire reason that she puts up with Church's {{Jerkass}} behavior during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is because she feels like it's the least she can do out of penance for failing to save the man she loved.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.
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*TheAce: She's AccidentalHero: He shoots South Dakota in the closest thing the setting has: She's pretty smart and knowledgeable enough back after Church informs him that she needs their help, which Caboose interprets [[UnfriendlyFire in his]] [[TeamKiller usual way.]]
* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Due tomake a bomb from scratch, set up pretty tactical plans and decimate even fellow super soldiers with relative ease. If not Caboose's track-record for her curse managing to fail [[TeamKiller accidentally kill his own teammates]], Freelance Command had managed to create a Keyboard Shortcut to better report them on their computers whenever she gets close Caboose manages to winning kill another simulation trooper in the same fashion.
-->'''Caboose''': CTRL-F-U.
* AlasPoorYorick: We don't actually get to see this happen, but after Epsilon's HeroicSacrifice in Season 13, Caboose would [[spoiler:apparently do this withsomething [[TragicKeepsake Alpha-Church's helmet]] to help him work through his grief over Church's death(s)]].
* AllLovingHero: Caboose doesn't have a mean bone in his body and tries to be friends with just about everyone he meets, even people who are actively trying to kill him. This is best shown in the final fight against Felix; as everyone else takes turns shooting at or beating up Felix in some way, Caboose just greets him with a happy "Hey Felix!" as though Felix hasn't been trying to kill everyone on theline, she'd planet for the past two seasons.
* AnimalMotifs: A fairly subtle one, but Caboose often behaves like a big, dumb dog. He's friendly, slow to pick up on things, and has somewhat unrefined manners. Additionally, he treats [[MiniMecha Freckles]] like he's a puppy when he starts taking care of him in Season 11. During Season 12, he worries about being taken to "the vet," and is mentioned to often have to go on long walks through Chrous' few remaining parks during Season 13 so as to help exercise. Season 15 even reveals that he's colorblind much like dogs are.
* TheAntichrist: PlayedForLaughs. The BadassBoast that presages his CurbStompBattle causes the Red Zealot to deem him in sheer terror, "The Beast! The [=Anti-Flag=], come to live among us and rule us for seven years!" [[ChekhovsGag This comes in handy in Season 15, Episode 18, when his reputation returns to haunt them.]]
--> '''Red Zealot:''' [[OhCrap Gods be damned,]] [[HesBack it's the Beast!]]
* TheAntiNihilist: In a sense. Caboose is probably too much of a WideEyedIdealist to play this trope completely straight, but despite having been gone through Hell and back multiple times over the course of the series, Caboose still always chooses to be positive, caring, and forgiving towards other people.
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Arguably; once the series allows for armor customization, Caboose is distinguished from the other Blood Gulchers by wearing the Mark V (''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'') helmet, while everyone else is wearing Mark VI (''VideoGame/Halo2'' and ''VideoGame/Halo3''); with Church angrily asking why he refused to upgrade. [[ChekhovsGun The fact he's wearing outdated armor becomes a plot point later on]].
* BadassAdorable: An odd example since we never see his face, but he has a very friendly personality that hides his fighting prowess.
* BadassBoast: [[LargeHam Speaks this way]] when he taps into his "mean" side. At least, ''attempts'' to.
--> '''Caboose:''' I will eat your unhappiness!\\
'''Caboose:''' [[FelonyMisdemeanor Your toast has been burned! And no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!]]\\
'''Caboose:''' '''MY NAME IS MICHAEL J. CABOOSE. AND I...HATE...TAXES!'''
* BerserkButton: As Genkins learns the hard way, desecrating Church's memory in any way will earn you a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
--> '''Caboose:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Put.]] [[TranquilFury His body.]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Down.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** He maybe one of the more naive & nicer characters and while he does haveno competition.
* ActionGirl: Quite easilya habit of being a team-killing LethalKlutz. But when you get him genuinely angry (even without the toughest person need of his O'Malley side) you better watch out because you're in for a world of hurt.
---> ''While beating up the Battle Creek Reds and Blues after [[spoiler:Wash was shot in themain cast.
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoringthroat]]'' [[PunctuatedPounding YOU! (WHACK) HURT! (WHACK) MY! (WHACK) FRIEND!]]
** On a similar note, [[spoiler:Genkins also learns this the hard way when he refuses to stop possessing Church's body. Caboose enters a state of TranquilFury and then tackles him followed by putting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Genkins]] in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Caboose somehow found a door in the''Blood men's restroom that led him to Vic's intro in Season 14. Vic is so impressed he gives control of an episode to Caboose.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. While he was initially jealous of Tucker's friendship with Church, Caboose and Tucker's relationship significantly improves over the course of the series. Notably, when Tucker is suffering through a HeroicBSOD in Season 15 after Wash is shot through the neck, Caboose immediately goes to comfort him before Dylan Andrews tell him that Tucker needs some time alone.
* TheBigGuy: Served in this role for Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''finale during her FaceHeelTurn. He points out by virtue of having SuperStrength.
* BigStupidDooDooHead: In ''Revelation'', when everyone is trying to insult Church to get him angry enough to use his "[[BuffySpeak laser face]]" again in the season premiere, Caboose's attempt at insulting Church boils down to him saying Church can't wear pants now thatwhile Project Freelancer's plan to end he's possessing the Great War spherical body of a Forerunner Monitor. Hilariously enough, this is the only insult that ''works,'' since Church gets depressed when he realizes Caboose is actually right.
* BorrowedCatchphrase.
** In Season 10, he and Tucker - not on purpose - borrow Wash's "Worst thing ever. Of all time." catchphrase multiple times.
** Caboose will also occasionally mangle Tucker's "Bow Chicka Wow Wow", much to the latter's frustration.
--->'''Caboose''': Hey chicka bum bum.
* BookDumb: While Caboose is genuinely dumb, he's this concerning machinery. Caboose is a borderline expert at handling and repairing them, even with[[ChildOfTwoWorlds Junior]] ''may'' work, it'll also advanced [=A.I.s=] like Epsilon, but he believes that electricity is "invisible magic" and randomly producing fires whenever he tries to repair something.
* BreakTheCutie: In Season 15, he does ''not'' take the realization that Church has been DeadAllAlong, and there's no coming back for him this time, very well.
* BreakoutCharacter: Thanks to his hilarious {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, friendly personality, and surprising {{Hidden Depths}}, Caboose is by far the most popular character out of the whole cast, and is the most likely character to be featured in [=PSAs=] and other special episodes.
* BrokenPedestal: In Episode 18 of Season 10, an enraged Epsilon-Church gives the whole of the Blood Gulch Crew a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Caboose walks away without a word. However, he seems to have gotten better by Episode 20 of the same season, so it's hard to tell how much of a BrokenPedestal it really is.
* BrutalHonesty: After Tucker and Church spend most of Season 12 at each other's throats, Caboose takes it upon himself to force Tucker to try and bury the hatchet by bluntly telling him that his worthless antagonizing of Church over a mistake is only going to keep their fight going, and he just needs to "shut up and get over it!" Tucker actually takes it to heart, and goes to apologize.
* CaptainOblivious: Is almost always oblivious to what's going on around him as a resultin giving of his bizarre mental state. His thoughts on Doc trying to take over the ''{{Anthropomorphic Personification}} of [[UnstoppableRage rage]]'' world while losing his mind from his O'Malley SplitPersonality?
-->'''Caboose:''' Yeah, it's like anentire species of {{Proud Warrior Race Guys}} (the Elites) as an army for ravaging the galaxy with. She [[ShutUpKirk dismisses this by saying]], [[BystanderSyndrome "We'll just have to find out.inside joke.
* CatchPhrase:
** He doesn't use it that often, but...
--->'''Caboose:''' Neat.
** Whenever he does something wrong, he will usually follow it up with [[NeverMyFault "Tucker did it."]]
** Whenever he brings up a teamkilling incident, he will always end his sentence with "...which is nobody's fault!"
*AntiHero: While she CharacterDevelopment:
** Downplayed, but from Season 7 onwards Caboose hassympathetic motivations and is never an outright villain, she's cruel, brutal, and oftentimes ruthless in the pursuit of her goals.
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke offslowly started to regain some of the Alpha in its creation, but she's the "Beta" [=A.I.=]. In Season 10, it's shown that she's known this ''long'' intelligence, GeniusDitz elements, and even DeadpanSnarker tendencies he had before meeting up with Alpha-Church.
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits offhis memories of her. She is not happy about this.{{Flanderization}}.
**After Epsilon-Tex dies, a copy of her is found at the Director's lair at the end of In Season 10. Unfortunately, [[CameBackWrong this Tex has 15, while he's depressed that he NeverGotToSayGoodbye to Church when Temple makes it clear that Church is permanently dead, he refuses to pull a time-displaced Season 1-era Alpha-Church to the present in the finale. Also, he comes to terms with his grief and says his goodbyes to Church while making it clear that he will be able to move on with his life [[ThePowerOfFriendship because of his other friends]]. Additionally, he seems to have finally given up on his childish grudge towards Tucker, instead now having formed an OddFriendship with his comrade after Church's death.
** ''Singularity'' further highlights Caboose regaining more intelligence, [[spoiler:working together with Huggins to come up with a plan to simplify the Reds and Blues' efforts to fix Genkins' paradoxes. Additionally, he admits his issues regarding processing grief when confronting Genkins!Church on defiling his best friend's memory, and muses how he's beenMind Raped beyond repair by "working on my assertiveness" later on in the Director.season to Tucker.]]
*BrainwashedAndCrazy: After CharacterFocus: He's the main protagonist in ''Recreation'', with the season focusing on his efforts to revive Church through Epsilon. He also shares the role of tritagonist with Simmons and Tucker respectively in Season 11 and 15.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's easy to forget that the Caboose in the early episodes was just a mildly dimwitted DeadpanSnarker as opposed to beingtaken an idiot almost completely divorced from reality.
* ClassicalAntiHero: He'd probably be the most heroic character in the entire series, let alone Blue Team, if he wasn't both dumb as a stump and a danger to both enemies ''and'' allies.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Far from being just plain stupid, Caboose is almost completely divorced from reality and utters many bizarre yet occasionally insightful non-sequiturs. His Season 9 incarnation from within the Epsilon Unit takes this up to eleven when Epsilon makes up a story about Andersmith, a soldier who supposedly died and got buried and removed from records by theMeta, Sigma [[NothingIsScarier does... whatever Blue team, all to justify Tex's arrival at the base. This is all somewhat within reason, and Caboose and Tucker play along (poorly, in Tucker's case), but then Caboose continues to mourn Andersmith even after Tex leaves the conversation. Tucker even notes at one point that he's getting worried about Caboose's mental state. It doesn't help that he's apparently been regularly drinking gasoline since his first week at Blood Gulch.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A recurring trend with him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: His hatred towards Tucker is implied to stem from his jealousy of his status as Church's favorite teammate.
* CreepyGood: In ''Relocated'', his secrecy about his attempts to revive Church through the Epsilon unit makes him surprisingly unsettling (albeit in a PlayedForLaughs manner), but his goals are still completely benevolent.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his many mental quirks, Caboose has been shown to possess ''immense'' superhuman strength and, [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry when sufficiently angry]], is able to single-handedly wipe out both the Red and Blue Battle Creek Zealots. He's also easily the best shot on the Blue Team (although Tucker is starting to give him a run for his money). It just happens that he's usually shooting ''[[TeamKiller at]]'' the Blue Team.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Several of Caboose's seemingly bizarre non-sequiturs turn out to be actually correct in hindsight. Examples include:
** His belief that Tex is a robot in Season 1, him implying that the Red and Blue Teams aren't real soldiers, and his statement that "Time isn't made out of lines, it ishe does to made out of circles. That is why clocks are round", which nicely sums up the other AI]] to get her to go along "YouAlreadyChangedThePast" and "YouCantFightFate" themes of the time travel episodes in Season 3 (along with his mad schemes.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy duringthe larger theme of circular memory loops in both ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she's not '''nearly''' as superhumanly awesome as she was during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. While part of this is obviously just a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, it's justified InUniverse due to her both [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption being cursed to always fail at the last moment whenever she puts her mind to something]] Recollection'' and the new robotic body she takes control over for the majority of the first five seasons [[FlawedPrototype being significantly weaker than]] the one she had during her time in Project Freelancer.
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 ofSeason 10 talk 9).
** His "time is made of circles" comment is also proven to be correct yet '''again''' ina broken variation of her voice (to the point where they sound more like ''Omega'' than Tex herself), and [[ConservationOfNinjutsu don't seem to have quite the same level of badassery as the original]]. Aside from that, there is the fact ''Singularity'' when [[spoiler:Huggins reveals that black holes in the controlling version of Tex is in [[MindRape less than]] [[ColdBloodedTorture stable]] condition.
** We never get[=RvB=] verse loop time backwards to meet the real Allison, as the one we do see Big Bang]]. Additionally, Caboose's comment that Church is actually the result of the Director's attempts a "gay robot" would be proven to bring her back. The Tex we know is in fact the be correct FromACertainPointOfView ''twice'' over - [=Alpha-Church=] was an [=A.I.=] known as "Beta", who would later inhabit two different robot bodies, and essentially [=Epsilon-Church=] was perfectly fine being with a memory male version of the original Allison. This memory is derived from those of the Director, so Tex while she's close, she's never quite close enough to be a true replacement for Allison and is really little more than a shadow of her. What makes the situation even worse is that the Director's overriding memory of Allison was that she died in the Great War - she failed. This colored ''all'' of his other memories of her to the point where Beta's fragment attribute is that she's the Alpha's failure made manifest: No matter how hard she fights or how badass she might be, she will always ultimately fail whenever something heavily important is on the line because that's what the Director Memory Unit.
** Caboose also shows a remarkably consistent andthe Alpha unconsciously designed her to do.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''Theaccurate understanding of Project Freelancer, the Freelancer Saga'' would reveal that she went to Blood Gulch to watch over the Alpha [=A.A.I.=] since she felt that it was all she could do to atone for failing to save him s, and the first time around. This ''really'' doesn't fit in with her being a WildCard that eventually betrays Church to help Project Freelancer ([=a.k.a.=] the organization that she ''abandoned''), but it can be {{Hand Wave}}d under Tex taking TheNeedsOfTheMany into account.
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen duringDirector throughout both ''The Recollection'' and Season 10. And then he actually comes up with a good plan when breaking into the Fed base in Season 12, leading to Tucker honestly congratulating him. His strategy of tying his enemies' shoelaces together in Season 15 is also surprisingly effective when the Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is shown to be very greedy, to Crew are assaulting the point where it's her FatalFlaw. This aspect of her personality isn't seen at all both during the flashback sequences in Seasons 9 & 10 along with her time in the present day as [=Epsilon-Tex=].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots ChurchBlues and leaves him as bait for Wash and the Meta in ''Revelation'', albeit so as to be able to finish their fight once and for all so she can finally kill the Director.
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.Reds' volcano base on Earth.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Towards ** While it's almost certainly a coincidence, his pick of Genkins' [[GolfClubbing golf club]] instead of a LaserBlade during ''The Shisno Paradox'' would later prove to have actually been the end right choice after all since ''Singularity'' would reveal that [[spoiler:Genkins' golf club is the only weapon that can harm Chrovos and Genkins]].
* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: Has his moments in the later seasons as part of him regaining a little bit of his sarcastic side from the earliest episodes of the show. For instance, when he, Carolina, Epsilon, Dr. Grey, and Tucker are investigating the Jungle Temple in Season10 there's about two or three dozen clones 13 (which requires a "true warrior of her guarding great strength and mental clarity"), Tucker defensively states that he's strong and intelligent enough to get through the director. Where trials - and Caboose muses aloud that Tucker only [[DamnedByFaintPraise "has his moments."]]
* CutenessProximity: [[invoked]] WordOfGod claims that one of theoriginal Tex could effortlessly curbstomp all reasons why he acts so dumb around the other Reds and Blues is that he sometimes sees/treats the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew at once without breaking a sweat, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter like they're cats]], and so often he finds it hard to take them seriously.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness He actually had elements of this]] before his Flanderization. As his personality [[CharacterDevelopment started to slowly move back toward]] what it was pre-{{Flanderization}}, he regained some of this, albeit heavily downplayed.
* {{Determinator}}: He's Church's best friend (whether [[OnlySaneMan Church]] likes it or not), and nothing will stop him from rescuing Church if he's in trouble.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:He beats theclones ''shit'' out of Genkins when the TricksterGod possesses his dead best friend and refuses to leave his body]].
* DisappearedDad: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. When he thinks Washington is about to report the death of one of his family members during their first meeting in ''Reconstruction'', he asks if his dad died "again", hinting that his father has already died before.
* TheDitz: Easily the dumbest member of the cast. To say that this is one of the reasons he's quite popular with the audience would be an understatement.
* TheDreaded: His mere presence sends the Battle Creek Zealots working for the Blues and Reds into a panic, and him killing five of them out of anger [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere causes the rest of them to retreat immediately]].
* DrivingStick: Can do this, but can't drive automatic shift.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Occasionally has surprisingly good ideas. For instance, he actually develops a pretty clever idea for fixing the non-functional Sheila (namely, have Church leave Lopez's body for a while so that Lopez can do it), and it only fails because Caboose & Tucker FailedASpotCheck. He also accurately predicted that he, Tucker, the Alien, and Andy would have to travel through a swamp while on their "Great Journey" since there would logically be "wet plains" in-between the Great Burning Plains and Great Freezing Plains. Furthermore, as alluded to above, Caboose was also the one to come up with a way to break into the Federal Army of Chorus' Arctic base (melt their way in under the frozen walls). And as noted below, he's the one who comes up with the plan to get everyone inside of Freelancer Command during ''Reconstruction'':
-->'''Washington:''' But you don'tseem to have ''quite'' the same level of badass as the original as the Crew manages to put up a pretty good fight against them. Although it's likely these bodies were mass produced, and not customized for battle look like her first and third bodies. It also fits into her being cursed [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption to always fail at whatever she does at the last minute]].
Freelancers. Or Recovery Agents!\\
'''Caboose:''' [[EurekaMoment ...They can't see inside of a tank!]]
*TheCorruptible: Omega does this to every one he infects (sans Church) in some way, but his nature has DumbMuscle: He's physically the strongest hold of the Reds and Blues, being the only one who was able to pick up Andy the Bomb at first, flip a warthog effortlessly, beat up several Tex Drones with his barehands and was able to survive 10x Earth/Chorus' gravity without even noticing it. He's also about as bright as the space between galaxies.
* DumbAndDrummer: As revealed in Season 15's ''Previously On...'' he took part in a band that was comprised of Carolina (Vocals), Grif (Bass), Tucker (Guitar) and lastly with Caboose as the band's drummer. They made a song named [=VelociROCKtor=] and shows that he is a pretty damn good drummer. Check out his drum solo.
* EasilyForgiven: His stupidity constantly destroys the crew's plans, nearly gets them killed, or (for Church and Sarge) ''actually'' gets them killed. And yet he consistently gets off scot-free, and is constantly coddled by the others. Instead of viewing him as an unwitting menace to themselves and their objectives, the team still allows him to be involved in things, and treats him more like a confused child. To Caboose's credit, he does make it up at times by being quite helpful when the situation calls for it.
* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: He is a KindheartedSimpleton who's friendly to whoever he meets, even his enemies. The sole exception is the time-traveling ancient AI Genkins, who manages to drive Caboose into an UnstoppableRage after he sees him possessing his [[spoiler:late]] best friend Church, resulting in him [[BewareTheNiceOnes mercilessly beating Genkins until he leaves Church's body.]]
* EveryonesBabySister: The "Brother" version of this for the Blood Gulch Crew. Even more so than [[NiceGuy Donut]], when someone does something mean to Caboose everyone seems to take offense, or at least seems more likely to apologize or speak nicer to him about how things go, even when they are insulting everyone else. This includes [[FriendlyEnemy even the pre-Recollection Reds]], and very quickly includes Washington in his StraightMan phase and Carolina post-{{Character Development}}.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Caboose can be surprisingly good at judging someone's character in occasion. He immediately picks up that Washington, in spite of his meanness, is a good man trying to bring Project Freelancer to justice (though granted this means he believes him to be a superhero), he quickly cottons onTex's persona.
* CovertPervert: Notthat Epsilon essentially feeds on memories and starts telling it stories about Church in the hopes of reviving his friend, and by ''The Recollection'' he's realized that the Reds don't really ever discussed about, pose a threat to him.
* {{Expy}}: Unintentionally so, butTex can be pretty perverted, like after his {{Flanderization}} kicked in, he basically became [[Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy Brick Tamland]] if he was a SpaceMarine.
* FailedASpotCheck: Often suffers from this due to him being TheDitz. Heck, his entire ''military career'' is the result of one, as he first joined the [=UNSC=] military when he mistook an army recruiting center for college.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** He killed Church twice, once while in a malfunctioning tank, the other while Church was possessing the enemy commander (and a third time with the tank again in two non-canon endings to ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''). And yet in later seasons, being called his ally is the fastest way to get him to shoot you. By the time of ''Reconstruction'', Project Freelancer Command has even developed a keyboard shortcut for reporting his teamkills: Ctrl+F+U.
** He wasn't nearly as stupid or naïve at theway she repeatedly stared at start of the Alien's crotch.show as he is now. He got Tucker's joke about how Freelancers are like YourMom asking when the rent's due, responded with a ''resoundingly'' sarcastic HaHaHaNo when Tucker mocked him about his teamkilling, and realized he was in real danger when Sarge strafed Sheila. The current Caboose would be completely oblivious to all three of those events.
->'''Tex''': "That's just * FluffyTamer: In Season 4, Caboose somehow gets the Alien to stop attacking everyone. In Season 11, Caboose manages to rebuild and befriend a matter MANTIS-class assault robot, whom he names Freckles. And in Season 15, we learn that after Chorus, he somehow managed to tame the dinosaurs native to Iris (the moon the Reds and Blues were staying on), to which Grif notes, "Because of a penis- O-opinion.''course'' he did."
*CosmicPlaything: Not quite as much as Church, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Tex's nature]] {{Foil}}:
** To Donut. Both are easily the [[NiceGuy friendliest]], [[TheDitz dumbest]], and [[PluckyComicRelief silliest]] members of their respective teams along with being MadeOfIron to an absurd degree. Caboose and Donut also both use (relatively) archaic weapons for the setting (Caboose has a standard assault rifle and Donut uses (plasma) grenades), and wear colored armor that makesher life absolutely miserable. Many them stick easily out from the rest of her failures aren't their teams (Donut wears bright pink armor, and Caboose has both dark blue armor and a [=MJOLNIR=] Mark [=V=] helmet). The parallels between the two are certainly helped in that both are [[OddFriendship surprisingly good friends with each other]] even her fault going into the later seasons, and they both also have goofy-sounding last names that fit their [[{{TheDitz}} remarkably silly]] personalities. However, they differ in any way, just spectacular examples that Donut is more emphasized to be [[NaiveNewcomer absurdly naive]] rather than [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} almost completely divorced from reality]] like Caboose is. Furthermore, Donut is highly AmbiguouslyGay, with almost all of bad luck. It gets his dialogue consisting of {{Double Entendre}}s, while Caboose is more like a little kid, to the point where she angrily asks Epsilon ''why'' he didn't even brought her back if know where babies come from in Season 5. And finally, Caboose is a FourthWallObserver and is aware on some level that he's a fictional character, whereas Donut isn't.
** Oddly enough, he's this to ''Felix'' of allshe's going people. Both of them are [[ManChild childish men]] who [[NeverMyFault are unable to do is fail take responsibility for no reason their mistakes]], are highly possessive and at whatever she sets clingy towards someone close to them (Church for Caboose, Locus for Felix) and are highly skilled in combat. However, Felix is a cunning and self-serving PsychopathicManchild who manipulates Locus for his own ends and [[ItsAllAboutMe boasts repeatedly about his skills]], while Caboose is a kindhearted, dimwitted man who is [[UndyingLoyalty deeply loyal]] to Church and his friends and only uses his combat prowess in desperate situations and never really calls attention to it.
** To Temple. They're both {{Psychopathic Manchild}}ren coping with the death of their best friends, who they refuse to move on from. However, Caboose is naively convinced that Church is still alive and doesn't comprehend that he's dead until it's literally spelled out todo.
* CrazyPrepared: Most evidenthim, while Temple is well aware that Biff is dead and insanely bitter and vengeful about it. Furthermore, while Caboose is generally kind and has willingly put his own life on the line to help others, Temple is a {{sadist}} who loves watching other people in Episode 19 pain. And whereas Caboose eventually moves on and says goodbye to Church, Temple continues to obsess over said death until it drives him insane and turns him into a psychotic and cruel shell of his former self.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During Church's time loops in Season 3, one of the copies mentions offhand that when they tried to explain the situation to everyone, Caboose was the only one to understand everything immediately. [[spoiler:Fast forward to Season 17 and he is arguably the most knowledgeable person in the cast regarding time travel, picking up the concept so fast that Donut doesn't even have time to explain it before he and Huggins are already fixing paradoxes]].
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: His "being mean" from Season 3 would been a rather useful skill to repeat, but it takes until Season 10 for someone to try and get him angry, and he says that he "forgot how to do that." With a little help from Epsilon, he remembers. This also reappears in Season 15 after Wash is shot, right down to the same ones targeted by his first outburst of anger.
* FourthWallObserver: Part of Caboose's kookiness is all but stated to be due to the fact that he's aware of being a fictional character.
* FreakOut: Wash being shot in the throat and [[spoiler:Genkins possessing Church]] sends him into an UnstoppableRage and results in him beating whoever incurred his wrath.
* FriendlyEnemy: Up until ''Revelation'', whereshe has the battlefield rigged with tons of mines, explosives, and hidden weapons, just to give herself an even greater edge over Washington and the Meta.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight withthe Reds and Blues in ''Revelation'' is just her kicking the crap out of become permanently allied, Caboose usually treats them for two episodes. A good chunk of her fights in Seasons 9 as friends and 10 are also this, most notably her training match with Wyoming, York, and Maine.
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day sheis still a good person, Tex is '''immensely''' ruthless, nothing but kind to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would casually murder those who piss her off.
Reds.
*DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black armor, and FunnyBackgroundEvent: Sometimes while ruthless, is (mostly) on the side other members of good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She diesboth teams are in the crash middle of the Pelican at the end of Season 5, but still remains as the [=A.I.=] Beta. Beta is picked up by the Meta and destroyed by the "emp" at the end of ''Recreation''. A different version of Tex based on Epsilon's memories returned in ''Revelation'', and was encased something important or just talking about something, he can be seen in the Epsilon memory unit, but Epsilon eventually let himself "forget" the new Tex, removing her from existence and letting the character die for good.
* DeathSeeker: By the timebackground looking at something else instead of her Epsilon iteration, Tex is so tired and annoyed of being constantly brought back paying attention to life against her will and just "wants to rest."
what's going on.
*DefectorFromDecadence: Following learning [[TomatoInTheMirror the information]] GeniusDitz:
** While in[[DeadManWriting Connie's data files]], she promptly left Project Freelancer completely, only returning subversively with York and North Dakota (albeit inadvertently).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularlyValhalla in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Recreation'', he's more productive than any member of either team[[note]]Although to be fair, he was the ''only'' remaining member of the Blue Team at that point.[[/note]]. Sure, there's a fire, but he's still getting stuff done. Especially considering he manages to revive Church, ''by himself,'' by reprogramming the Epsilon Unit and she serves as the tritagonist throughout the Project Freelancer Saga.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadowfeeding it memories during this time. These moments have become more frequent in Season 10, Episode 10, she doesn't take it 9 and beyond as Caboose is [[CharacterDevelopment reverted to his personality]] pre-Flanderization.
** Caboose has also been shown to be verywell:
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did youknowledgeable concerning time travel. In a throwaway line by Church in Season 3, he claimed that Caboose was the only one who seemed to understand his time travel experience right away. This is eventually shown in even more detail in ''Singularity''. [[spoiler:After being rescued by Donut and Washington from the Everwhen, he ''instantly'' understands everything that is going on and even offers to explain for everyone but instead allows Donut and Washington to explain for everyone else's sake. He also knows how to time travel without Donut or Washington explaining how to do it or that he even ''could'', and immediately begins fixing the timeline himself before the others catch up to him. When they do finally catch up, he and Huggins have already figured out how to find the various paradoxes they need to fix and he explains why they need to fix them in a simple way for everyone to understand, which even impresses Donut]].
--->'''Washington:''' (stunned) Is... is Caboose a ''genius?''\\
'''Sarge:''' (irritated) If he is, I justcall me?!\\
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceedsprefer not to mortally wound C.T.]''
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*DoAndroidsDream: After her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome now-famous ass-kicking]] GenreSavvy: Concerning time travel, Caboose is a total expert and figures it out instantly, [[spoiler:even realizing how to fix the various paradoxes.]]
* TheHeart: His overall role in the Reds and Blues is more or less this, with him being both EveryonesBabySister and the most emotionally aware member out of the entire Blood Gulch Crew.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Falls into one during Season 11 due to him missing Epsilon after he and Carolina left the Blood GulchCrew in "This One Goes To Eleven" (which was essentially her venting some repressed rage), this was her primary motivation: To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in the real world.
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is metCrew, with little flair. PlayedStraight when it's revealed she's still alive, though has no role to speak of before her death by the emp.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but shehim focusing on Freckles so he doesn't bleed (she instead ''sparks'' like a malfunctioning piece of electronics), because she was inhabiting a robot body. Theta, an [=A.I.=], mentions that he has a sister, alluding have to both the fact that Tex is an [=A.I.=] herself and that Carolina is the Director's daughter.
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was impliedcome to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still presentterms with Wyoming. Despite the two being on opposite sides, the two seem to have his grief.
** Has ahealthy amount of respect, with Tex opting to talk to Wyoming rather than shooting him when given the chance. She even later refers to him (along with Maine) as "dummies" with no malicious intent despite them nearly having killed her the first day they met.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender inbrief one of Epsilon-Church's iterations as seen in "Get Bent".
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in aSeason 15 flashback.
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hittingwhen Temple makes him in the head. And later after she's realize that Church has been disarmed by York, she unloads ''an entire clip'' of armor hardening paint into his groin.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the AlphaKilledOffForReal and won't be reduced to a broken EmptyShell who doesn't even recognize her. The entire reason that she puts up with Church's {{Jerkass}} behavior during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is because she feels coming BackFromTheDead like it's the least she can do out of penance for failing to save the man she loved.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.he previously did.
*
* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Due to
-->'''Caboose''': CTRL-F-U.
* AlasPoorYorick: We don't actually get to see this happen, but after Epsilon's HeroicSacrifice in Season 13, Caboose would [[spoiler:apparently do this with
* AllLovingHero: Caboose doesn't have a mean bone in his body and tries to be friends with just about everyone he meets, even people who are actively trying to kill him. This is best shown in the final fight against Felix; as everyone else takes turns shooting at or beating up Felix in some way, Caboose just greets him with a happy "Hey Felix!" as though Felix hasn't been trying to kill everyone on the
* AnimalMotifs: A fairly subtle one, but Caboose often behaves like a big, dumb dog. He's friendly, slow to pick up on things, and has somewhat unrefined manners. Additionally, he treats [[MiniMecha Freckles]] like he's a puppy when he starts taking care of him in Season 11. During Season 12, he worries about being taken to "the vet," and is mentioned to often have to go on long walks through Chrous' few remaining parks during Season 13 so as to help exercise. Season 15 even reveals that he's colorblind much like dogs are.
* TheAntichrist: PlayedForLaughs. The BadassBoast that presages his CurbStompBattle causes the Red Zealot to deem him in sheer terror, "The Beast! The [=Anti-Flag=], come to live among us and rule us for seven years!" [[ChekhovsGag This comes in handy in Season 15, Episode 18, when his reputation returns to haunt them.]]
--> '''Red Zealot:''' [[OhCrap Gods be damned,]] [[HesBack it's the Beast!]]
* TheAntiNihilist: In a sense. Caboose is probably too much of a WideEyedIdealist to play this trope completely straight, but despite having been gone through Hell and back multiple times over the course of the series, Caboose still always chooses to be positive, caring, and forgiving towards other people.
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Arguably; once the series allows for armor customization, Caboose is distinguished from the other Blood Gulchers by wearing the Mark V (''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'') helmet, while everyone else is wearing Mark VI (''VideoGame/Halo2'' and ''VideoGame/Halo3''); with Church angrily asking why he refused to upgrade. [[ChekhovsGun The fact he's wearing outdated armor becomes a plot point later on]].
* BadassAdorable: An odd example since we never see his face, but he has a very friendly personality that hides his fighting prowess.
* BadassBoast: [[LargeHam Speaks this way]] when he taps into his "mean" side. At least, ''attempts'' to.
--> '''Caboose:''' I will eat your unhappiness!\\
'''Caboose:''' [[FelonyMisdemeanor Your toast has been burned! And no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!]]\\
'''Caboose:''' '''MY NAME IS MICHAEL J. CABOOSE. AND I...HATE...TAXES!'''
* BerserkButton: As Genkins learns the hard way, desecrating Church's memory in any way will earn you a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
--> '''Caboose:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Put.]] [[TranquilFury His body.]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Down.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** He maybe one of the more naive & nicer characters and while he does have
* ActionGirl: Quite easily
---> ''While beating up the Battle Creek Reds and Blues after [[spoiler:Wash was shot in the
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoring
** On a similar note, [[spoiler:Genkins also learns this the hard way when he refuses to stop possessing Church's body. Caboose enters a state of TranquilFury and then tackles him followed by putting [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Genkins]] in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Caboose somehow found a door in the
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. While he was initially jealous of Tucker's friendship with Church, Caboose and Tucker's relationship significantly improves over the course of the series. Notably, when Tucker is suffering through a HeroicBSOD in Season 15 after Wash is shot through the neck, Caboose immediately goes to comfort him before Dylan Andrews tell him that Tucker needs some time alone.
* TheBigGuy: Served in this role for Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''
* BigStupidDooDooHead: In ''Revelation'', when everyone is trying to insult Church to get him angry enough to use his "[[BuffySpeak laser face]]" again in the season premiere, Caboose's attempt at insulting Church boils down to him saying Church can't wear pants now that
* BorrowedCatchphrase.
** In Season 10, he and Tucker - not on purpose - borrow Wash's "Worst thing ever. Of all time." catchphrase multiple times.
** Caboose will also occasionally mangle Tucker's "Bow Chicka Wow Wow", much to the latter's frustration.
--->'''Caboose''': Hey chicka bum bum.
* BookDumb: While Caboose is genuinely dumb, he's this concerning machinery. Caboose is a borderline expert at handling and repairing them, even with
* BreakTheCutie: In Season 15, he does ''not'' take the realization that Church has been DeadAllAlong, and there's no coming back for him this time, very well.
* BreakoutCharacter: Thanks to his hilarious {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, friendly personality, and surprising {{Hidden Depths}}, Caboose is by far the most popular character out of the whole cast, and is the most likely character to be featured in [=PSAs=] and other special episodes.
* BrokenPedestal: In Episode 18 of Season 10, an enraged Epsilon-Church gives the whole of the Blood Gulch Crew a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Caboose walks away without a word. However, he seems to have gotten better by Episode 20 of the same season, so it's hard to tell how much of a BrokenPedestal it really is.
* BrutalHonesty: After Tucker and Church spend most of Season 12 at each other's throats, Caboose takes it upon himself to force Tucker to try and bury the hatchet by bluntly telling him that his worthless antagonizing of Church over a mistake is only going to keep their fight going, and he just needs to "shut up and get over it!" Tucker actually takes it to heart, and goes to apologize.
* CaptainOblivious: Is almost always oblivious to what's going on around him as a result
-->'''Caboose:''' Yeah, it's like an
* CatchPhrase:
** He doesn't use it that often, but...
--->'''Caboose:''' Neat.
** Whenever he does something wrong, he will usually follow it up with [[NeverMyFault "Tucker did it."]]
** Whenever he brings up a teamkilling incident, he will always end his sentence with "...which is nobody's fault!"
*
** Downplayed, but from Season 7 onwards Caboose has
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke off
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits off
**
** ''Singularity'' further highlights Caboose regaining more intelligence, [[spoiler:working together with Huggins to come up with a plan to simplify the Reds and Blues' efforts to fix Genkins' paradoxes. Additionally, he admits his issues regarding processing grief when confronting Genkins!Church on defiling his best friend's memory, and muses how he's been
*
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's easy to forget that the Caboose in the early episodes was just a mildly dimwitted DeadpanSnarker as opposed to being
* ClassicalAntiHero: He'd probably be the most heroic character in the entire series, let alone Blue Team, if he wasn't both dumb as a stump and a danger to both enemies ''and'' allies.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Far from being just plain stupid, Caboose is almost completely divorced from reality and utters many bizarre yet occasionally insightful non-sequiturs. His Season 9 incarnation from within the Epsilon Unit takes this up to eleven when Epsilon makes up a story about Andersmith, a soldier who supposedly died and got buried and removed from records by the
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A recurring trend with him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: His hatred towards Tucker is implied to stem from his jealousy of his status as Church's favorite teammate.
* CreepyGood: In ''Relocated'', his secrecy about his attempts to revive Church through the Epsilon unit makes him surprisingly unsettling (albeit in a PlayedForLaughs manner), but his goals are still completely benevolent.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his many mental quirks, Caboose has been shown to possess ''immense'' superhuman strength and, [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry when sufficiently angry]], is able to single-handedly wipe out both the Red and Blue Battle Creek Zealots. He's also easily the best shot on the Blue Team (although Tucker is starting to give him a run for his money). It just happens that he's usually shooting ''[[TeamKiller at]]'' the Blue Team.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Several of Caboose's seemingly bizarre non-sequiturs turn out to be actually correct in hindsight. Examples include:
** His belief that Tex is a robot in Season 1, him implying that the Red and Blue Teams aren't real soldiers, and his statement that "Time isn't made out of lines, it is
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy during
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 of
** His "time is made of circles" comment is also proven to be correct yet '''again''' in
** We never get
** Caboose also shows a remarkably consistent and
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''The
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen during
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots Church
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.
* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: Has his moments in the later seasons as part of him regaining a little bit of his sarcastic side from the earliest episodes of the show. For instance, when he, Carolina, Epsilon, Dr. Grey, and Tucker are investigating the Jungle Temple in Season
* CutenessProximity: [[invoked]] WordOfGod claims that one of the
* DeadpanSnarker: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness He actually had elements of this]] before his Flanderization. As his personality [[CharacterDevelopment started to slowly move back toward]] what it was pre-{{Flanderization}}, he regained some of this, albeit heavily downplayed.
* {{Determinator}}: He's Church's best friend (whether [[OnlySaneMan Church]] likes it or not), and nothing will stop him from rescuing Church if he's in trouble.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:He beats the
* DisappearedDad: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. When he thinks Washington is about to report the death of one of his family members during their first meeting in ''Reconstruction'', he asks if his dad died "again", hinting that his father has already died before.
* TheDitz: Easily the dumbest member of the cast. To say that this is one of the reasons he's quite popular with the audience would be an understatement.
* TheDreaded: His mere presence sends the Battle Creek Zealots working for the Blues and Reds into a panic, and him killing five of them out of anger [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere causes the rest of them to retreat immediately]].
* DrivingStick: Can do this, but can't drive automatic shift.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Occasionally has surprisingly good ideas. For instance, he actually develops a pretty clever idea for fixing the non-functional Sheila (namely, have Church leave Lopez's body for a while so that Lopez can do it), and it only fails because Caboose & Tucker FailedASpotCheck. He also accurately predicted that he, Tucker, the Alien, and Andy would have to travel through a swamp while on their "Great Journey" since there would logically be "wet plains" in-between the Great Burning Plains and Great Freezing Plains. Furthermore, as alluded to above, Caboose was also the one to come up with a way to break into the Federal Army of Chorus' Arctic base (melt their way in under the frozen walls). And as noted below, he's the one who comes up with the plan to get everyone inside of Freelancer Command during ''Reconstruction'':
-->'''Washington:''' But you don't
'''Caboose:''' [[EurekaMoment ...They can't see inside of a tank!]]
*
* DumbAndDrummer: As revealed in Season 15's ''Previously On...'' he took part in a band that was comprised of Carolina (Vocals), Grif (Bass), Tucker (Guitar) and lastly with Caboose as the band's drummer. They made a song named [=VelociROCKtor=] and shows that he is a pretty damn good drummer. Check out his drum solo.
* EasilyForgiven: His stupidity constantly destroys the crew's plans, nearly gets them killed, or (for Church and Sarge) ''actually'' gets them killed. And yet he consistently gets off scot-free, and is constantly coddled by the others. Instead of viewing him as an unwitting menace to themselves and their objectives, the team still allows him to be involved in things, and treats him more like a confused child. To Caboose's credit, he does make it up at times by being quite helpful when the situation calls for it.
* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: He is a KindheartedSimpleton who's friendly to whoever he meets, even his enemies. The sole exception is the time-traveling ancient AI Genkins, who manages to drive Caboose into an UnstoppableRage after he sees him possessing his [[spoiler:late]] best friend Church, resulting in him [[BewareTheNiceOnes mercilessly beating Genkins until he leaves Church's body.]]
* EveryonesBabySister: The "Brother" version of this for the Blood Gulch Crew. Even more so than [[NiceGuy Donut]], when someone does something mean to Caboose everyone seems to take offense, or at least seems more likely to apologize or speak nicer to him about how things go, even when they are insulting everyone else. This includes [[FriendlyEnemy even the pre-Recollection Reds]], and very quickly includes Washington in his StraightMan phase and Carolina post-{{Character Development}}.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Caboose can be surprisingly good at judging someone's character in occasion. He immediately picks up that Washington, in spite of his meanness, is a good man trying to bring Project Freelancer to justice (though granted this means he believes him to be a superhero), he quickly cottons on
* CovertPervert: Not
* {{Expy}}: Unintentionally so, but
* FailedASpotCheck: Often suffers from this due to him being TheDitz. Heck, his entire ''military career'' is the result of one, as he first joined the [=UNSC=] military when he mistook an army recruiting center for college.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** He killed Church twice, once while in a malfunctioning tank, the other while Church was possessing the enemy commander (and a third time with the tank again in two non-canon endings to ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''). And yet in later seasons, being called his ally is the fastest way to get him to shoot you. By the time of ''Reconstruction'', Project Freelancer Command has even developed a keyboard shortcut for reporting his teamkills: Ctrl+F+U.
** He wasn't nearly as stupid or naïve at the
*
** To Donut. Both are easily the [[NiceGuy friendliest]], [[TheDitz dumbest]], and [[PluckyComicRelief silliest]] members of their respective teams along with being MadeOfIron to an absurd degree. Caboose and Donut also both use (relatively) archaic weapons for the setting (Caboose has a standard assault rifle and Donut uses (plasma) grenades), and wear colored armor that makes
** Oddly enough, he's this to ''Felix'' of all
** To Temple. They're both {{Psychopathic Manchild}}ren coping with the death of their best friends, who they refuse to move on from. However, Caboose is naively convinced that Church is still alive and doesn't comprehend that he's dead until it's literally spelled out to
* CrazyPrepared: Most evident
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During Church's time loops in Season 3, one of the copies mentions offhand that when they tried to explain the situation to everyone, Caboose was the only one to understand everything immediately. [[spoiler:Fast forward to Season 17 and he is arguably the most knowledgeable person in the cast regarding time travel, picking up the concept so fast that Donut doesn't even have time to explain it before he and Huggins are already fixing paradoxes]].
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: His "being mean" from Season 3 would been a rather useful skill to repeat, but it takes until Season 10 for someone to try and get him angry, and he says that he "forgot how to do that." With a little help from Epsilon, he remembers. This also reappears in Season 15 after Wash is shot, right down to the same ones targeted by his first outburst of anger.
* FourthWallObserver: Part of Caboose's kookiness is all but stated to be due to the fact that he's aware of being a fictional character.
* FreakOut: Wash being shot in the throat and [[spoiler:Genkins possessing Church]] sends him into an UnstoppableRage and results in him beating whoever incurred his wrath.
* FriendlyEnemy: Up until ''Revelation'', where
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight with
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day she
*
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She dies
* DeathSeeker: By the time
*
** While in
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularly
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadow
** Caboose has also been shown to be very
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did you
--->'''Washington:''' (stunned) Is... is Caboose a ''genius?''\\
'''Sarge:''' (irritated) If he is, I just
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceeds
*
* TheHeart: His overall role in the Reds and Blues is more or less this, with him being both EveryonesBabySister and the most emotionally aware member out of the entire Blood Gulch Crew.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Falls into one during Season 11 due to him missing Epsilon after he and Carolina left the Blood Gulch
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is met
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but she
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still present
** Has a
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender in
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in a
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hitting
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the Alpha
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.
Changed line(s) 248,310 (click to see context) from:
** As the series goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that she has intense self-loathing issues and is ''literally'' suicidal since she's tired of always failing at whatever she puts her mind to and just "wants to rest."
** On a more amusing note, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' heavily implies that she's a YaoiFangirl.
** Despite her casual attitude most of the time, she actually follows MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality, though she draws the line at that mentality hurting those she cares about.
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconned into being a shortening of her codename "Texas".
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposed to be the afterlife. After Church complains about being dead, leaving him unable to do anything to assist the Blue Team, Tex tells him "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you."
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: When fighting Project Freelancer personnel during the break-in, she uses Spike Grenades as mace-esque melee weapons.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]] During her days with the other Freelancers, Tex is selfish, greedy, ruthless, ''very'' violent and doesn't care about her teammates (or ex-teammates): she only focuses on her objective. This attitude led to some very harsh moves, such as mortally wounding C.T., then blaming the failure to take her armor back on Carolina. However, Episode 16 of Season 10 implies that her {{Jerkass}} attitude is more due to [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] than to her herself. She's actually pretty nice once she shuts him down for a while after he nearly makes her kill the incapacitated Carolina in a sparring match. And just like both the Alpha and Epsilon, ''The Recollection'' and ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would show her to have been a JerkassWoobie all along.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the rest of the Blue Team, but in time she grows fond of them. She even referred them as "her idiots" to Sister during their talk in Blood Gulch. Her HiddenHeartOfGold shows in Season 10, Episodes 15 and 16 for the flashbacks. She actually shows concern for Carolina during the latter's breakdown, even resisting Omega's urges and "sedating" Carolina by knocking her out. Later, when she and North have a conversation concerning York and Carolina, Tex seems friendlier than usual.
* KickTheDog: Shooting Church in the leg near the end of Season 8 so that she could lure Washington and the Meta into a trap. [[LaserGuidedKarma She pays for it.]]
* KilledOffForReal: After being revived through various incarnations, Tex finally dies for good at the end of Season 10 when Church gives the final copy of her AI a MercyKill.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarely shows any fear or hesitation in the face of battle - and rightfully so given how much of a badass she is - but after witnessing the Meta seemingly murder Carolina and absorb two additional AIs, she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away as fast as she can.]]
* KnuckleCracking: In non-{{machinima}} sequences, Tex often starts a fight with cracking her knuckles and popping her neck.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[LampshadeHanging As Doc pointed out]], she paid for it dearly after shooting Church in the leg during ''Revelation''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Two - "A Girl Named Tex" and "Agent Tex."
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beaten to a bloody pulp before you get halfway across the room.
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with most of the memories they have of being together) is either directly drawn from or a reflection of the relationship between Director Leonard Church and his wife Allison. As Tex points out, this applies with Church as well, since he continuously pursues and obsesses her while refusing to take her wants into account.
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end of Season 9, since it finally allows her rest, saving her from any further pain.
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want to get the [=A.I.=] out of her head.
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horror when the Meta forcibly steals Carolina's [=A.I.s=] and then tosses her off a cliff to her supposed doom.
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** The Tex Drones use Omega's again in Episode 20 of Season 10, as a sign of them being corrupted by the Director's torture.
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say a single word during the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between the Red and Blue Teams, probably due to the departure of her voice actress.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for a one-sided rivalry over the course of ''The Project Freelancer Saga''; Tex is pretty ambivalent to her and is behaves like a {{Jerkass}} towards her, but that's how she treats most other Freelancers until she pulls Omega from her head. Meanwhile, [[CompetitionFreak Carolina]]'s [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] result in her taking Tex's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superiority to her]] very personally and results in her trying to outdo her at the cost of her own mental health.
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Church. Deconstructed in Season 9, which is all about pointing out how unhealthy their relationship is, and shows that Tex deeply resents this.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she's the only female member of the Blood Gulch crew. She loses this status once Sister arrives in "Sibling Arrivalries".
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first example in the series, though she'd be somewhat succeeded by Washington, Carolina and then Locus and Felix. She's insanely strong and pretty damn skilled, beating her would be damn near impossible if it wasn't for WorfHadTheFlu being inflicted at all times.
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback scenes during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most for the majority of the series, Epsilon-Texas is only a few months old, with a maximum of about one year or so at the time when she is [[CessationOfExistence forgotten.]]
** On a more amusing note, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' heavily implies that she's a YaoiFangirl.
** Despite her casual attitude most of the time, she actually follows MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality, though she draws the line at that mentality hurting those she cares about.
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconned into being a shortening of her codename "Texas".
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposed to be the afterlife. After Church complains about being dead, leaving him unable to do anything to assist the Blue Team, Tex tells him "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you."
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: When fighting Project Freelancer personnel during the break-in, she uses Spike Grenades as mace-esque melee weapons.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]] During her days with the other Freelancers, Tex is selfish, greedy, ruthless, ''very'' violent and doesn't care about her teammates (or ex-teammates): she only focuses on her objective. This attitude led to some very harsh moves, such as mortally wounding C.T., then blaming the failure to take her armor back on Carolina. However, Episode 16 of Season 10 implies that her {{Jerkass}} attitude is more due to [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] than to her herself. She's actually pretty nice once she shuts him down for a while after he nearly makes her kill the incapacitated Carolina in a sparring match. And just like both the Alpha and Epsilon, ''The Recollection'' and ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would show her to have been a JerkassWoobie all along.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the rest of the Blue Team, but in time she grows fond of them. She even referred them as "her idiots" to Sister during their talk in Blood Gulch. Her HiddenHeartOfGold shows in Season 10, Episodes 15 and 16 for the flashbacks. She actually shows concern for Carolina during the latter's breakdown, even resisting Omega's urges and "sedating" Carolina by knocking her out. Later, when she and North have a conversation concerning York and Carolina, Tex seems friendlier than usual.
* KickTheDog: Shooting Church in the leg near the end of Season 8 so that she could lure Washington and the Meta into a trap. [[LaserGuidedKarma She pays for it.]]
* KilledOffForReal: After being revived through various incarnations, Tex finally dies for good at the end of Season 10 when Church gives the final copy of her AI a MercyKill.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarely shows any fear or hesitation in the face of battle - and rightfully so given how much of a badass she is - but after witnessing the Meta seemingly murder Carolina and absorb two additional AIs, she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away as fast as she can.]]
* KnuckleCracking: In non-{{machinima}} sequences, Tex often starts a fight with cracking her knuckles and popping her neck.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[LampshadeHanging As Doc pointed out]], she paid for it dearly after shooting Church in the leg during ''Revelation''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Two - "A Girl Named Tex" and "Agent Tex."
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beaten to a bloody pulp before you get halfway across the room.
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with most of the memories they have of being together) is either directly drawn from or a reflection of the relationship between Director Leonard Church and his wife Allison. As Tex points out, this applies with Church as well, since he continuously pursues and obsesses her while refusing to take her wants into account.
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end of Season 9, since it finally allows her rest, saving her from any further pain.
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want to get the [=A.I.=] out of her head.
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horror when the Meta forcibly steals Carolina's [=A.I.s=] and then tosses her off a cliff to her supposed doom.
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** The Tex Drones use Omega's again in Episode 20 of Season 10, as a sign of them being corrupted by the Director's torture.
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say a single word during the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between the Red and Blue Teams, probably due to the departure of her voice actress.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for a one-sided rivalry over the course of ''The Project Freelancer Saga''; Tex is pretty ambivalent to her and is behaves like a {{Jerkass}} towards her, but that's how she treats most other Freelancers until she pulls Omega from her head. Meanwhile, [[CompetitionFreak Carolina]]'s [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] result in her taking Tex's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superiority to her]] very personally and results in her trying to outdo her at the cost of her own mental health.
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Church. Deconstructed in Season 9, which is all about pointing out how unhealthy their relationship is, and shows that Tex deeply resents this.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she's the only female member of the Blood Gulch crew. She loses this status once Sister arrives in "Sibling Arrivalries".
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first example in the series, though she'd be somewhat succeeded by Washington, Carolina and then Locus and Felix. She's insanely strong and pretty damn skilled, beating her would be damn near impossible if it wasn't for WorfHadTheFlu being inflicted at all times.
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback scenes during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most for the majority of the series, Epsilon-Texas is only a few months old, with a maximum of about one year or so at the time when she is [[CessationOfExistence forgotten.]]
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** Caboose not only has his occasional [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight moments of brilliance]], but is surprisingly good with machinery & [=A.I.=]. He even has his occasional DeadpanSnarker moments.
** In Season 12, after being overjoyed at Freckles being reduced to his CPU, he shows surprising pragmatism when he points out that, on top of Freckles [[CutenessProximity "being really tiny now"]], he will no longer be able to pose a threat to the other Reds and Blues.
** According to "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue," he is a dedicated method actor.
** He, Grif, Tucker and Carolina all started a band during the group's vacation in-between ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and Season 15. And as shown in the end credits for the season, Caboose is pretty great at playing the drums.
** According to the "Cultural Appreciation" [=PSA=], he apparently attended Harvard. ''As a back-up school.''
** And on a more general level, Caboose is remarkably emotionally aware, and is probably the most emotionally well-balanced and insightful member of the Blood Gulch Crew. For instance, he gives Tucker his own equivalent of a RousingSpeech in Season 12 when the latter is still feeling resentful towards Epsilon, being equal parts forgiving and firm on the situation and saying ''everything'' necessary so as to help Tucker bury the hatchet with Church. Relatedly, in "Nightmare on Planet Evil" during Season 15, Caboose goes to ''Simmons'' instead of Tucker[[note]]who Caboose is more familiar with[[/note]], Donut[[note]]who Caboose is friends with[[/note]], and Sarge[[note]]who is both the only member of the Reds and Blues to actually treat Caboose like a soldier and essentially a surrogate father figure towards Caboose[[/note]] while they're all on the "scary planet." Caboose then tries to help Simmons feel better (as Simmons is still upset over Grif having left the Blood Gulch Crew in the previous episode), with Caboose even tapping into his own grief over Church's previous deaths to try and relate to Simmons' pain.
* IdiotSavant: He can fix an [=A.I.=] and a [=MANTIS=], but just isn't very smart. Although he has an impressive amount of knowledge when it comes to time travel.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsi-cOOVyM "Your Best Friend"]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Caboose's thought process runs on this; whether it be blaming something else for his own failures or wildly reinterpreting what is actually happening, actual Logic almost never enters the equation. That said, sometimes his conclusions are eventually proven right, though other times they're just nonsense.
* InsistentTerminology: Whenever his teamkilling is brought up, expect Caboose to say that they were nobody's fault.
* IrrationalHatred: In the early seasons, he has an inexplicable hatred towards Tucker, though it's implied to stem from [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy of Tucker's status as Church's favorite teammate]].
* {{Irony}}:
** Season 2 has one of the ''very'' few times that [[DumbassHasAPoint Caboose offers up a legitimately good idea]] that his teammates follow through on (namely, having Church temporarily leave Lopez's body so Lopez can fix his broken leg motors and Sheila). Why doesn't it work? Because Lopez is able to escape when Caboose and Tucker are distracted by the latter complimenting the former on how unexpectedly brilliant their plan was.
** Church offhandedly reveals in Season 3 that when he tried to explain the time travel situation to the Blood Gulch Crew, Caboose was the only one who understood the situation immediately. In a later episode, he's also the only person to suspect there are holes in Church's story (Church claimed that he didn't change anything during his travels, [[ExactWords which is only technically true]]), though that time it's PlayedForLaughs.
** Caboose - the TeamKiller of the Blue Team - is the '''only''' member of the Reds and Blues to have not helped cause the ''Hand of Merope'' to crashland on Chorus.
** Despite being the only human member of the Reds and Blues to have incredible SuperStrength, ''The Ultimate Fan Guide'' claims that Caboose is actually a ''{{Lightworlder}}'' since he grew up on Earth's Moon.
* IRejectYourReality:
** Caboose firmly believes he and Church are best friends, and anything that could contradict this is either ignored or wildly reinterpreted. [[SubvertedTrope As time goes on, however,]] it becomes clear Church does legitimately consider Caboose a friend, and Caboose's grasp on reality is always baffling in general, though he does get better at understanding the situation around him in ''The Recollection''.
** A more tragic case happens in Season 15, where he refuses to acknowledge that Church is gone for good and continues to believe he'll come back.
* JerkassToOne: Caboose is a NiceGuy to everyone, even his enemies... except for Tucker, who he loathes with a passion and frequently insults. This gets mostly dropped as he gains CharacterDevelopment and he even gains an inverted form of BigBrotherInstinct for Tucker.
* TheJuggernaut: On the rare occasions he gets angry, he's utterly unstoppable on the battlefield and will wipe the floor with any opponent, as the Battle Creek Grunts and Genkins learn the hard way.
* KidWithTheLeash: Becomes this in Season 11 when he manages to find a [[HumongousMecha MANTIS]] and convinces it to be his friend.
* KindheartedSimpleton: While he's dimwitted and generally oblivious to the goings-on around him, his enthusiastic friendliness and lack of malice generally leads to the Blood Gulch crew treating him more like an annoying but otherwise inoffensive child, often with a wry fondness that they won't admit to.
* LargeHam: Especially since it's pretty easy for him to start [[NoIndoorVoice randomly shouting & yelling]].
* LethalKlutz: He has a history of team-killing people he tries to help. So much so that, not only does the Blue Team tell Caboose to help someone they want shot, Freelancer Command has their own keyboard shortcut for his [=TKs=] ([=Ctrl+F+U=]). He apparently caused so much mayhem on Rat's Nest that the Blue Team over there didn't just keep him in the brig, they kept him ''tied up'' in the brig just to be absolutely sure.
-->'''Caboose:''' Fire in the hole. ''(promptly tosses a flashbang at the crate right in front of him)''
* {{Lightworlder}}: ''The Ultimate Fan Guide'' reveals he grew up on Earth's Moon, making him one of these. Ironically, he is physically the strongest of the Reds and Blues outside of the Freelancers.
* LightningBruiser: Most of the time he's almost as much of a NonActionGuy as Donut is. On the extremely rare occasions in which he becomes mad, however, he turns into TheJuggernaut. As the fight against the Tex Drones shows, when he wants to run, he can sprint about as fast as a Freelancer with a speed unit, and when combined with his raw strength, he essentially becomes a bulldozer.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Caboose doesn't have a mean bone in his body, and is also completely divorced from reality.
* MadeOfIron: Caboose seriously rivals Donut in terms of being NighInvulnerable by the standards of this series.
** He gets blown up by a landmine and flung 50 feet in the air in ''Recreation'', and then gets up like nothing happened when he lands.
** After he falls off a cliff in Season 15, he shows up again minutes later with no signs of injury. He states that he landed on the part of him most used to trauma... his head.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual character profiles on the Season 3 DVD]], Caboose comes from a family of 17 siblings. Dialogue in ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Reconstruction]]'' would suggest they're all girls.
* MeaningfulName:
** His mind always comes in dead last. If the characters are discussing something, Caboose will ''always'' be the last person to understand what's going on, and can usually be relied on to bring up whatever started the conversation by the time the other guys have finished talking about it.
** On a more subtle note, Caboose's first name is "Michael," as in the ArchangelMichael, the most powerful member of the Heavenly Host in Literature/TheBible. While Caboose doesn't show it much, he's (physically) the strongest member of the Reds and Blues by a wide margin.
* MediumAwareness:
** According to his voice actor, Joel Heyman, he's the only person in the seriesgoes on, who's aware he is in a video game. With this in mind, some of his actions at least make ''some'' more sense.
** And as itbecomes increasingly clear that she has intense self-loathing issues and is ''literally'' suicidal turns out, he's also aware he's in a show, since she's tired of always failing at whatever she puts her mind to and just "wants to rest.in Season 15, he says the time he shot Church with the tank "was an exciting episode."
** On * MetaGuy: An amusingly downplayed case. While he's aware of being in both a video game and a web series, Caboose is too stupid/crazy to really take advantage of/understand this and more amusing note, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' heavily implies or less just keeps it to himself aside from making some particularly odd comments every once in a while.
* TheMillstone: In the early seasons, Caboose poses as much of a threat to his teammates as the enemy does thanks to his constant teamkilling during his attempts to help. It gets to the point thatshe's the Rats Nest Blues lock him up so that he'll stop shooting his fellow Blues. He gets better about this as time goes on.
* MoodSwinger: Downplayed. Caboose isn't usually prone to mood swings and simply alternates between speaking at aYaoiFangirl.
** Despite her casual attitudenormal volume or yelling at the top of his lungs most of the time, she actually follows MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality, though she draws the line at that mentality hurting those she cares about.
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconnedbut he can and will on occasion shift into being a shortening of her codename "Texas".
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposedhysterics before going back to be the afterlife. After Church complains about being dead, leaving him unable to do anything to assist the Blue Team, Tex tells him "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you."
his usual cheerful self.
--> "I AM AN EMOTIONAL TIME BOMB!"
*ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: When fighting Project Freelancer personnel during the break-in, she uses Spike Grenades as mace-esque melee weapons.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]]MookHorrorShow:
** Duringher days the first encounter with the other Freelancers, Tex is selfish, greedy, ruthless, ''very'' violent and doesn't care about her teammates (or ex-teammates): she only focuses on her objective. This attitude led Zealots, he figures out how to some very harsh moves, such as mortally wounding C.T., then blaming the failure to take her armor back on Carolina. However, Episode 16 of Season 10 implies that her {{Jerkass}} attitude is more be mean due to [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] than to her herself. She's actually pretty nice once she shuts him down for a while after he nearly makes her kill the incapacitated Carolina in a sparring match. And just remembering what it was like to be possessed by [=O'Malley=]. He [[DeathFromAbove leaps screaming off a cliff]], nonsensically declares that he "hates babies", and tears through both the Alpha and Epsilon, ''The Recollection'' and ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would show her to have been a JerkassWoobie all along.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the restsets of the Blue Team, but in time she grows fond of them. She fanatics. One poor guy even referred them as "her idiots" to Sister during their talk in Blood Gulch. Her HiddenHeartOfGold shows in Season 10, Episodes 15 and 16 for thinks he's [[TheAntichrist the flashbacks. She actually shows concern for Carolina during the latter's breakdown, even resisting Omega's urges and "sedating" Carolina by knocking her out. Later, when she and North have a conversation concerning York and Carolina, Tex seems friendlier than usual.
* KickTheDog: Shooting Churchbeast, come to usher in the leg near the end End of Season 8 so that she could lure Washington and the Meta into a trap. [[LaserGuidedKarma She pays for it.Days.]]
** He ends up encountering the same group in Season 15... and after they shoot Wash, he is more than happy to give them a repeat performance.
*KilledOffForReal: After being revived MrFixit: Caboose seems to have a knack for getting along with machines (given his relationships with Sheila, Andy, Delta, and even to a degree Church and Tex), and has the technical skills to transfer Epsilon into a Monitor body, extract Tex from Epsilon and implant her into a robot body, and extract Epsilon from the failing memory device. In Season 11, he manages to repair and befriend a [=MANTIS=] combat mech, and managed to fix Lopez up after the latter temporarily lost his head in ''The Shisno Paradox''. Noticeably, his skills only seem to apply to stuff that features an A.I., as whenever he tries to work on ''regular'' machinery they tend to catch fire.
* MrViceGuy: Caboose is undoubtedly the nicest guy in the Blood Gulch Crew (next to [[TheCutie Donut]], of course). However, unlike Donut, Caboose's flaws are far more apparent, what with his constant team killing, his dislike of Tucker (though that gets downplayed as the series goes on), and [[NeverMyFault his inability to take responsibility for his more destructive actions]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He's entertained the idea of having Tucker killed or discredited so that Church will have no choice but to make him his favorite teammate.
* NeverMyFault: His usual response when he makes a mistake (which, as we've established, is often) is to try and avoid blame. One of his many [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] is even "Tucker did it!"
-->'''Washington:''' That was the worst throw... ''Ever.'' [[CatchPhrase Of all time.]]\\
'''Caboose:''' Not my fault, someone put a wall in my way.
* NiceGuy: Not quite to the same extent of [[TheCutie Donut]], but Caboose is still the nicest guy on Blue Team and the second-nicest person out of all of the Blood Gulch Crew. For all of his ditziness and status as a LethalKlutz, Caboose possess a shining heart of gold and truly cares about both his friends and people in general without holding any grudges, having willingly walked throughvarious incarnations, fire (both literally and metaphorically) for what he thinks is right.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Beats the absolute '''shit''' out of Genkins for using Church as a disguise during ''Singularity'']]. Even before that in a previous season (Season 15), Caboose goes into a fit of rage after [[spoiler:Washington gets shot in the throat, teaming up with Sarge in beating up and killing the remaining Blue and Red Zealots. (Who also remember them from their previous encounter.)]]
* NoSocialSkills: Caboose tends to be ObliviousToHatred and several social norms, particularly in the early seasons, where he inadvertently insults several characters, and ''Recreation'', where he winds up convincing Sarge and Simmons he's plotting something with his secrecy and general creepiness about his plan to make a new best friend, though they prove to be to inept to actually do anything about it.
* NoodleIncident: If the "Hard Truths" [=PSA=] is to be believed, Caboose doesn't have a belly button. The reasons behind this are never explained, though Sarge apparently knows.
* NoSell: Caboose has a tendency to completely ignore things that would leave others either incapacitated or dead.
** In Season 5, Texfinally dies shoots him in the back of the head, and aside from a brief "[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Ow]]", he's completely unaffected.
** In Season 7, he steps on a landmine and goes so high in the air that it takes at least a minute and a half to come back down. All he has to say is "that was a big explosion".
** He spends the entire fight against the Tex Drones in Season 10 plowing straight through them while the others have to spend the entire fight keeping their distance.
** Santa's test forgood at a "true warrior" in Season 13, which even Felix and Locus were affected by, does absolutely nothing to him.
** Similarly, while [[spoiler:the Labyrinth shows everyone their worst fears and tends to leave them as emotional messes in ''Singularity'', Caboose just gets hungry]].
* ObliviousToHatred: He's completely oblivious to any resentment Church has towards him, and he's even more oblivious of how much Captain Miller and the other Rat's Nest Blues ''despise'' him.
* OddFriendship:
** Caboose became [=BFFs=] with Donut after the latter was temporarily captured by the Blues in the tail end of Season10 when 2.
** Wash is a grumpy and [[KnightInSourArmor bitter]] GuileHero. Caboose is friendly, optimistic, and [[TheDitz dumb as a box of rocks]]. They get along famously.
** While it's primarily limited to the [=PSAs=], Sarge and Caboose actually get along quite well.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Seems to be a thing for him; he completes Wash's insane obstacle course from Season 11 in two seconds, Grif and Simmons somehow pass him twice in Season 12 while crawling through a corridor, he goes from the ground below Temple to standing on the cliff with him in the span of a single camera movement in Season 15, and he somehow pops up from the screen border [[spoiler:when talking to Huggins in ''Singularity'']].
* OhCrap: When Sheila is about to shoot Churchgives in Season 1, Caboose starts to panic and tries to stop her from firing.
* OneManArmy: He doesn't show it that often, but ''damn'', Caboose can be legitimately terrifying on thefinal copy battlefield when he really wants to.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Him turning away from Epsilon during "Change ofher AI a MercyKill.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarelyPlans" shows any fear or hesitation that even ''he'' now has a BrokenPedestal for Church after being on the receiving end of Epsilon's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
** It really says something about how utterly '''furious''' Caboose is with [[spoiler:Genkins during ''Singularity'' for possessing Church when he actually starts to show some TranquilFury when talking to the demigod]].
* OutdatedOutfit: He still has Halo 1 (Mark V) armor. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], in that his armor is only outdated in-universe, and it looks mostly the same to viewers (ignoring the helmet).
* OutOfFocus: In the first half of Season 12, Caboose is relegated to a more minor role, simply playing comic relief and standing in theface background most of battle - and rightfully so given how much of a badass she is - but the time. This ends after witnessing the Meta seemingly murder Carolina Blood Gulch Crew are reunited, and absorb he plays a more significant role for the rest of ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
* PsychopathicManchild: He may be goofy, but he's far from harmless. However, this isn't played into him being evil, just as a really oblivious and often comical TeamKiller. He's more like a "Mutually Dangerous Manchild" than anything else. Interestingly, Season 15 actually deconstructs this: thanks to Caboose's low intelligence and the Blood Gulch Crew's subsequent coddling of him, he is literally too immature to understand basic concepts like how death works, and it takes ''[[BigBad Temple]],'' of all people, to tell him that when someone dies, they never come back.
* RebuiltPedestal: A couple of episodes after his BrokenPedestal moment with Epsilon-Church in Season 10, he comes rushing to his aid with everyone else, and goes back to practically worshipping the ground he walks on.
* RookieRedRanger: He's temporarily made the leader of Blue Team in Season 11 thanks to [[LiteralMinded Freckles]]. It isn't official, as Washington sarcastically says he should hand leadership over to Caboose during an argument with Tucker, and nobody is in the mood to argue with [[MiniMecha a MANTIS assault robot]] when it takes him seriously, and Caboose at first [[SarcasmBlind humbly accepts the "nomination"]], but then eventually realizes he shouldn't be placed in a position of command.
* SanitySlippage: After suffering from brain damage when Omega is ejected from his mind, Caboose goes from mildly dimwitted to almost completely divorced from reality and legitimately insane. However, later episodes have implied that he's ''always'' been this crazy.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud:
** In Season 10 Episode 12, while sneaking up behind Wash. It makes him something of a HighlyVisibleNinja.
-->'''Caboose:''' Sneaking. Sneaking. Sneaking. Sneaking.
** He also did this when he snuck into Red Base's [=holo-deck=] during ''Recreation''. Amusingly, [[LazyBum Grif]] was the only one to notice.
* SeriesMascot: While sometimes the series is represented by Sarge and Church together (as they're the primary leaders of Red Team and Blue Team), Caboose is the most memorable character, with his endless quotable idiocy and adorable naivete. He is also the one most probable to get special episodes/[=PSAs=] and dedicated merchandise (including a plushie!).
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:"Self-Fulfilling Odyssey" heavily implies that he suffers from this in some fashion due to Church's deaths, with him claiming that "When someone dies, my brain likes to hurt me with memories."]]
* ShipperOnDeck: As of "Change of Plans," he's apparently one for Washington and Carolina.
-->'''Carolina:''' We have big news.\\
'''Caboose:''' ''(gasp)'' You and Wash are taking your relationship to the next level! I knew it, the writing was all over the walls!
* ShoutOut: He's one of twoadditional AIs, she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs characters (the other being Donut) named after one of the randomly generated names assigned to temporary multiplayer profiles in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.
* SimpletonVoice: While he didn't start with it, Joel Heyman eventually evolved Caboose's voice into a high-pitched one that makes it clear that he's a moron.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Season 11, Episode 15 has Wash give Caboose a Mark V helmet - the same one he constantly wore in the ''Halo 3'' engine.
* StealthPun: [[invoked]] According to ''[[WordOfGod The Ultimate Fan Guide]],'' Caboose hails from Earth's Moon. In other words, he's a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} lunatic]].
* SuddenlyShouting: He's prone to SUDDENLY YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS!
* SuperGullible: Like you wouldn't believe. Sarge once got him to look away by literally saying that he heard a noise behind him.
* SuperMode: When he's able to work himself into a killing frenzy, he's ''[[MookHorrorShow terrifying]]''. He immediately forgets how to do this, by the way (which honestly might be for the best).
* SuperStrength: He doesn't have any known enhancements, and his strength's still not to the level of Tex, but he's often stated asfast as being ''very'' strong. The Blues have theorized that it's "God's way of compensating" for his low intelligence. He has actually proven to be stronger than ''her'' on a number of occasions; she can.has to ask him for help moving something ([[JustifiedTrope although that was because]] she was currently stuck in [[FlawedPrototype an inferior robot body compared to]] the older one she used during the ''Project Freelancer Saga''), he flips a Warthog with ease in the finale of ''Recreation'', fights the army of Texas Drones with little to no effort in Season 10, and in the TrainingMontage during Season 12, he comes in first when running and beats everyone else when doing [=push-ups=] by a wide margin. Additionally, when he enters an area where gravity was increased tenfold in Season 13, he doesn't even notice. In Season 16, when charging at one of the Battle Creek Reds, he sent them flying through the room with a [[GolfClubbing golf club]] and even made his body pinball around said room.
* TalkativeLoon: Becomes more prevalent in later seasons, where he's prone to rambling nonsense at length and spurting out non-sequiturs.
* TeamKiller: He often (accidentally) kills his own allies. Tucker once jokes that he couldn't hear what Caboose just said "over the sound of your constant team killing".
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After initially freaking out, he awkwardly mutters "Uh ''oh''..." when he realizes that Sheila is about to shoot Church and he can't do anything to stop her.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The few times Church spends inside of his mind shows Caboose's perception of the world is markedly different from reality. Among the more outlandish things he believes is that Sister is Church's twin brother from the moon, Sarge is a pirate, and that Agent Washington is a superhero named "Agent Washingtub" with "Freelancer powers". The dubiously canon 360 episode "The Flag" gives more insight to Caboose's view of the world: it's filled with delusions and can become almost completely divorced from reality at times, but he can still partially comprehend some of what's going on around him and focus on certain instructions.
* TookALevelInBadass: As the series goes on, Caboose becomes less and less of a liability to his teammates and becomes a more efficient combatant (though still quite goofy) when on the battlefield.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Was originally written as merely somewhat foolish early in Season 1, but quickly became outright insane by Seasons 2 and 3. This has been attributed to Sheila's initial destruction, and later O'Malley's forced ejection from his mind. Later episodes seem to have somewhat retconned him as having always being this dumb, but still implying he suffered from ''some'' form of brain damage being a part of Blue Team, such as when he was tricked into thinking gasoline was lemonade, and ''kept on drinking it for years.''
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed. Caboose was always pretty nice, but in later seasons his virulent hatred and jealousy of Tucker gradually disappeared.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In Season 13, he confronts an alien [=A.I.=] he names "Santa", who was designed to test people to see if they're a "true warrior". Being an abnormally strong FearlessFool, he easily passes both physical and mental challenges, and Santa spends a long period questioning Caboose. Upon seeing the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew, he immediately asks to talk with anybody else. [[spoiler:And during the events of ''Singularity'', the Labyrinth ''completely fails'' to [[DrivenToSuicide make him kill himself]], instead only making him feel hungry for pancakes]].
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:"Self-Fulfilling Odyssey" reveals that he took [=Alpha-Church's=] helmet as his own after he accidentally killed him in Season 1.]]
*KnuckleCracking: In non-{{machinima}} sequences, Tex often TranquilFury: ''Caboose'', [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness of all people]], showcases this [[spoiler:when talking to Genkins!Church in "Self-Fulfilling Odyssey". After [[DissonantSerenity politely asking]] Genkins to leave his dead best friend's body, he then growls with barely disguised rage ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Put. Him. Down."]]'' When Genkins yet again dismisses this, Caboose furiously tackles him and starts a fight with cracking her knuckles and popping her neck.
beating the ''shit'' out of him]].
*LaserGuidedKarma: UnreliableNarrator: In the 360 episode "The Flag", which takes place completely from his perspective.
-->'''Church:''' Best friend powers activate!\\
'''Caboose:''' [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Gasp!]] Did I hear you right or [[LampshadeHangingAs Doc pointed out]], she paid for it dearly after shooting Church in is my mind just playing tricks on me again?]]\\
'''Church:''' I don't know, Caboose! I guess we'll never know! ''(flies away into theleg during ''Revelation''.
sky ComicBook/IronMan-style, leaving behind a rainbow as a contrail)'' Whee!
*{{Leitmotif}}: Two - "A Girl Named Tex" and "Agent Tex."
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beatenUndyingLoyalty: For all his teamkilling tendencies ([[InsistentTerminology that were nobody's fault!]]), he's also ''twice'' gone to a bloody pulp before you get halfway across the room.
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with mostends of the memories they have of being together) is either directly drawn from or a reflection of Earth to resurrect/rescue Church.
* UnstoppableRage: Very rarely displayed, to therelationship between Director Leonard Church and his wife Allison. As Tex points out, this applies with Church as well, since he continuously pursues and obsesses her while refusing to take her wants into account.
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end ofpoint Season 9, since it finally allows her rest, saving her from any further pain.
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want10 reveals he had forgotten how to get the [=A.I.=] out of her head.
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horrorangry. But when he does, he's TheJuggernaut. The Battle Creek Grunts and the Meta forcibly steals Carolina's [=A.I.s=] and then tosses her off a cliff to her supposed doom.
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** TheTex Drones use Omega's again in Episode 20 of Season 10, as a sign of them being corrupted by both found this out the Director's torture.
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
hard way.
*TheQuietOne: Doesn't say a single word during the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between the Red and Blue Teams, probably due to the departure of her voice actress.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for aVitriolicBestBuds: A one-sided rivalry over the course of ''The Project Freelancer Saga''; Tex is pretty ambivalent to her and is behaves like a {{Jerkass}} towards her, but that's how she treats most other Freelancers until she pulls Omega from her head. Meanwhile, [[CompetitionFreak Carolina]]'s [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] result in her taking Tex's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superiority to her]] very personally and results in her trying to outdo her at the cost of her own mental health.
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: Withexample with Church. Deconstructed in Season 9, which There is all about pointing out how unhealthy their relationship is, absolutely no vitriol from Caboose's end, but Church at some points seems to flat-out despise him and shows that Tex deeply resents this.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she'srepeatedly snarks at and insults him even after he [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness.]] He also develops this dynamic with Tucker later on in the only female member series.
* VocalEvolution: One of theBlood Gulch crew. She loses this status once Sister arrives in "Sibling Arrivalries".
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first examplemost stark examples in the series, though she'd be somewhat succeeded by Washington, Carolina and then Locus and Felix. She's insanely strong and pretty damn skilled, beating her would be damn near impossible if it wasn't for WorfHadTheFlu being inflicted at all times.
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback sceneswith Joel Heyman having Caboose go from sounding fairly normal during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most forthe majority of Season 1 to having his now-signature SimpletonVoice by the series, Epsilon-Texas beginning of Season 3. His voice has also gotten deeper and slower/more lethargic in recent seasons.
* WalkingTechbane: Caboose isonly a few months old, actually very good at working with or repairing AIs, but anything else generally results in something being set on fire.
* WeaponBasedCharacterisation: [[CloudCuckoolander Caboose]] has amaximum habit of getting allies killed in friendly-fire and making friends with AI killing machines. He eventually ends up with an [[MoreDakka assault rifle]] controlled by his friend, killer AI "Freckles", who actively prevents friendly-fire from being possible. Thanks to the AI, Caboose can let rip to his heart's content without harming allies.
* WideEyedIdealist: He's always had shades of this, but it's best exemplified by his views on death. Church coming BackFromTheDead so many times has made him believe that dead people will always come back to life if someone cares aboutone year them. Temple brutally shatters this belief when he reveals that Church is still dead and isn't coming back.
* WithCatlikeTread: Caboose's idea of being stealthy is to either narrate aloud what he's doing, tell whoever he's spying on what he's doing, orso fire his gun wildly while screaming at the time when she is [[CessationOfExistence forgotten.]]top of his lungs.
* {{Yandere}}: He would literally kill to gain Church's love and attention.
** In Season 12, after being overjoyed at Freckles being reduced to his CPU, he shows surprising pragmatism when he points out that, on top of Freckles [[CutenessProximity "being really tiny now"]], he will no longer be able to pose a threat to the other Reds and Blues.
** According to "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue," he is a dedicated method actor.
** He, Grif, Tucker and Carolina all started a band during the group's vacation in-between ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and Season 15. And as shown in the end credits for the season, Caboose is pretty great at playing the drums.
** According to the "Cultural Appreciation" [=PSA=], he apparently attended Harvard. ''As a back-up school.''
** And on a more general level, Caboose is remarkably emotionally aware, and is probably the most emotionally well-balanced and insightful member of the Blood Gulch Crew. For instance, he gives Tucker his own equivalent of a RousingSpeech in Season 12 when the latter is still feeling resentful towards Epsilon, being equal parts forgiving and firm on the situation and saying ''everything'' necessary so as to help Tucker bury the hatchet with Church. Relatedly, in "Nightmare on Planet Evil" during Season 15, Caboose goes to ''Simmons'' instead of Tucker[[note]]who Caboose is more familiar with[[/note]], Donut[[note]]who Caboose is friends with[[/note]], and Sarge[[note]]who is both the only member of the Reds and Blues to actually treat Caboose like a soldier and essentially a surrogate father figure towards Caboose[[/note]] while they're all on the "scary planet." Caboose then tries to help Simmons feel better (as Simmons is still upset over Grif having left the Blood Gulch Crew in the previous episode), with Caboose even tapping into his own grief over Church's previous deaths to try and relate to Simmons' pain.
* IdiotSavant: He can fix an [=A.I.=] and a [=MANTIS=], but just isn't very smart. Although he has an impressive amount of knowledge when it comes to time travel.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsi-cOOVyM "Your Best Friend"]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Caboose's thought process runs on this; whether it be blaming something else for his own failures or wildly reinterpreting what is actually happening, actual Logic almost never enters the equation. That said, sometimes his conclusions are eventually proven right, though other times they're just nonsense.
* InsistentTerminology: Whenever his teamkilling is brought up, expect Caboose to say that they were nobody's fault.
* IrrationalHatred: In the early seasons, he has an inexplicable hatred towards Tucker, though it's implied to stem from [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy of Tucker's status as Church's favorite teammate]].
* {{Irony}}:
** Season 2 has one of the ''very'' few times that [[DumbassHasAPoint Caboose offers up a legitimately good idea]] that his teammates follow through on (namely, having Church temporarily leave Lopez's body so Lopez can fix his broken leg motors and Sheila). Why doesn't it work? Because Lopez is able to escape when Caboose and Tucker are distracted by the latter complimenting the former on how unexpectedly brilliant their plan was.
** Church offhandedly reveals in Season 3 that when he tried to explain the time travel situation to the Blood Gulch Crew, Caboose was the only one who understood the situation immediately. In a later episode, he's also the only person to suspect there are holes in Church's story (Church claimed that he didn't change anything during his travels, [[ExactWords which is only technically true]]), though that time it's PlayedForLaughs.
** Caboose - the TeamKiller of the Blue Team - is the '''only''' member of the Reds and Blues to have not helped cause the ''Hand of Merope'' to crashland on Chorus.
** Despite being the only human member of the Reds and Blues to have incredible SuperStrength, ''The Ultimate Fan Guide'' claims that Caboose is actually a ''{{Lightworlder}}'' since he grew up on Earth's Moon.
* IRejectYourReality:
** Caboose firmly believes he and Church are best friends, and anything that could contradict this is either ignored or wildly reinterpreted. [[SubvertedTrope As time goes on, however,]] it becomes clear Church does legitimately consider Caboose a friend, and Caboose's grasp on reality is always baffling in general, though he does get better at understanding the situation around him in ''The Recollection''.
** A more tragic case happens in Season 15, where he refuses to acknowledge that Church is gone for good and continues to believe he'll come back.
* JerkassToOne: Caboose is a NiceGuy to everyone, even his enemies... except for Tucker, who he loathes with a passion and frequently insults. This gets mostly dropped as he gains CharacterDevelopment and he even gains an inverted form of BigBrotherInstinct for Tucker.
* TheJuggernaut: On the rare occasions he gets angry, he's utterly unstoppable on the battlefield and will wipe the floor with any opponent, as the Battle Creek Grunts and Genkins learn the hard way.
* KidWithTheLeash: Becomes this in Season 11 when he manages to find a [[HumongousMecha MANTIS]] and convinces it to be his friend.
* KindheartedSimpleton: While he's dimwitted and generally oblivious to the goings-on around him, his enthusiastic friendliness and lack of malice generally leads to the Blood Gulch crew treating him more like an annoying but otherwise inoffensive child, often with a wry fondness that they won't admit to.
* LargeHam: Especially since it's pretty easy for him to start [[NoIndoorVoice randomly shouting & yelling]].
* LethalKlutz: He has a history of team-killing people he tries to help. So much so that, not only does the Blue Team tell Caboose to help someone they want shot, Freelancer Command has their own keyboard shortcut for his [=TKs=] ([=Ctrl+F+U=]). He apparently caused so much mayhem on Rat's Nest that the Blue Team over there didn't just keep him in the brig, they kept him ''tied up'' in the brig just to be absolutely sure.
-->'''Caboose:''' Fire in the hole. ''(promptly tosses a flashbang at the crate right in front of him)''
* {{Lightworlder}}: ''The Ultimate Fan Guide'' reveals he grew up on Earth's Moon, making him one of these. Ironically, he is physically the strongest of the Reds and Blues outside of the Freelancers.
* LightningBruiser: Most of the time he's almost as much of a NonActionGuy as Donut is. On the extremely rare occasions in which he becomes mad, however, he turns into TheJuggernaut. As the fight against the Tex Drones shows, when he wants to run, he can sprint about as fast as a Freelancer with a speed unit, and when combined with his raw strength, he essentially becomes a bulldozer.
* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Caboose doesn't have a mean bone in his body, and is also completely divorced from reality.
* MadeOfIron: Caboose seriously rivals Donut in terms of being NighInvulnerable by the standards of this series.
** He gets blown up by a landmine and flung 50 feet in the air in ''Recreation'', and then gets up like nothing happened when he lands.
** After he falls off a cliff in Season 15, he shows up again minutes later with no signs of injury. He states that he landed on the part of him most used to trauma... his head.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual character profiles on the Season 3 DVD]], Caboose comes from a family of 17 siblings. Dialogue in ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Reconstruction]]'' would suggest they're all girls.
* MeaningfulName:
** His mind always comes in dead last. If the characters are discussing something, Caboose will ''always'' be the last person to understand what's going on, and can usually be relied on to bring up whatever started the conversation by the time the other guys have finished talking about it.
** On a more subtle note, Caboose's first name is "Michael," as in the ArchangelMichael, the most powerful member of the Heavenly Host in Literature/TheBible. While Caboose doesn't show it much, he's (physically) the strongest member of the Reds and Blues by a wide margin.
* MediumAwareness:
** According to his voice actor, Joel Heyman, he's the only person in the series
** And as it
* TheMillstone: In the early seasons, Caboose poses as much of a threat to his teammates as the enemy does thanks to his constant teamkilling during his attempts to help. It gets to the point that
* MoodSwinger: Downplayed. Caboose isn't usually prone to mood swings and simply alternates between speaking at a
** Despite her casual attitude
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconned
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposed
--> "I AM AN EMOTIONAL TIME BOMB!"
*
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]]
** During
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the rest
* KickTheDog: Shooting Church
** He ends up encountering the same group in Season 15... and after they shoot Wash, he is more than happy to give them a repeat performance.
*
* MrViceGuy: Caboose is undoubtedly the nicest guy in the Blood Gulch Crew (next to [[TheCutie Donut]], of course). However, unlike Donut, Caboose's flaws are far more apparent, what with his constant team killing, his dislike of Tucker (though that gets downplayed as the series goes on), and [[NeverMyFault his inability to take responsibility for his more destructive actions]].
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He's entertained the idea of having Tucker killed or discredited so that Church will have no choice but to make him his favorite teammate.
* NeverMyFault: His usual response when he makes a mistake (which, as we've established, is often) is to try and avoid blame. One of his many [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]] is even "Tucker did it!"
-->'''Washington:''' That was the worst throw... ''Ever.'' [[CatchPhrase Of all time.]]\\
'''Caboose:''' Not my fault, someone put a wall in my way.
* NiceGuy: Not quite to the same extent of [[TheCutie Donut]], but Caboose is still the nicest guy on Blue Team and the second-nicest person out of all of the Blood Gulch Crew. For all of his ditziness and status as a LethalKlutz, Caboose possess a shining heart of gold and truly cares about both his friends and people in general without holding any grudges, having willingly walked through
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Beats the absolute '''shit''' out of Genkins for using Church as a disguise during ''Singularity'']]. Even before that in a previous season (Season 15), Caboose goes into a fit of rage after [[spoiler:Washington gets shot in the throat, teaming up with Sarge in beating up and killing the remaining Blue and Red Zealots. (Who also remember them from their previous encounter.)]]
* NoSocialSkills: Caboose tends to be ObliviousToHatred and several social norms, particularly in the early seasons, where he inadvertently insults several characters, and ''Recreation'', where he winds up convincing Sarge and Simmons he's plotting something with his secrecy and general creepiness about his plan to make a new best friend, though they prove to be to inept to actually do anything about it.
* NoodleIncident: If the "Hard Truths" [=PSA=] is to be believed, Caboose doesn't have a belly button. The reasons behind this are never explained, though Sarge apparently knows.
* NoSell: Caboose has a tendency to completely ignore things that would leave others either incapacitated or dead.
** In Season 5, Tex
** In Season 7, he steps on a landmine and goes so high in the air that it takes at least a minute and a half to come back down. All he has to say is "that was a big explosion".
** He spends the entire fight against the Tex Drones in Season 10 plowing straight through them while the others have to spend the entire fight keeping their distance.
** Santa's test for
** Similarly, while [[spoiler:the Labyrinth shows everyone their worst fears and tends to leave them as emotional messes in ''Singularity'', Caboose just gets hungry]].
* ObliviousToHatred: He's completely oblivious to any resentment Church has towards him, and he's even more oblivious of how much Captain Miller and the other Rat's Nest Blues ''despise'' him.
* OddFriendship:
** Caboose became [=BFFs=] with Donut after the latter was temporarily captured by the Blues in the tail end of Season
** Wash is a grumpy and [[KnightInSourArmor bitter]] GuileHero. Caboose is friendly, optimistic, and [[TheDitz dumb as a box of rocks]]. They get along famously.
** While it's primarily limited to the [=PSAs=], Sarge and Caboose actually get along quite well.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Seems to be a thing for him; he completes Wash's insane obstacle course from Season 11 in two seconds, Grif and Simmons somehow pass him twice in Season 12 while crawling through a corridor, he goes from the ground below Temple to standing on the cliff with him in the span of a single camera movement in Season 15, and he somehow pops up from the screen border [[spoiler:when talking to Huggins in ''Singularity'']].
* OhCrap: When Sheila is about to shoot Church
* OneManArmy: He doesn't show it that often, but ''damn'', Caboose can be legitimately terrifying on the
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Him turning away from Epsilon during "Change of
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarely
** It really says something about how utterly '''furious''' Caboose is with [[spoiler:Genkins during ''Singularity'' for possessing Church when he actually starts to show some TranquilFury when talking to the demigod]].
* OutdatedOutfit: He still has Halo 1 (Mark V) armor. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], in that his armor is only outdated in-universe, and it looks mostly the same to viewers (ignoring the helmet).
* OutOfFocus: In the first half of Season 12, Caboose is relegated to a more minor role, simply playing comic relief and standing in the
* PsychopathicManchild: He may be goofy, but he's far from harmless. However, this isn't played into him being evil, just as a really oblivious and often comical TeamKiller. He's more like a "Mutually Dangerous Manchild" than anything else. Interestingly, Season 15 actually deconstructs this: thanks to Caboose's low intelligence and the Blood Gulch Crew's subsequent coddling of him, he is literally too immature to understand basic concepts like how death works, and it takes ''[[BigBad Temple]],'' of all people, to tell him that when someone dies, they never come back.
* RebuiltPedestal: A couple of episodes after his BrokenPedestal moment with Epsilon-Church in Season 10, he comes rushing to his aid with everyone else, and goes back to practically worshipping the ground he walks on.
* RookieRedRanger: He's temporarily made the leader of Blue Team in Season 11 thanks to [[LiteralMinded Freckles]]. It isn't official, as Washington sarcastically says he should hand leadership over to Caboose during an argument with Tucker, and nobody is in the mood to argue with [[MiniMecha a MANTIS assault robot]] when it takes him seriously, and Caboose at first [[SarcasmBlind humbly accepts the "nomination"]], but then eventually realizes he shouldn't be placed in a position of command.
* SanitySlippage: After suffering from brain damage when Omega is ejected from his mind, Caboose goes from mildly dimwitted to almost completely divorced from reality and legitimately insane. However, later episodes have implied that he's ''always'' been this crazy.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud:
** In Season 10 Episode 12, while sneaking up behind Wash. It makes him something of a HighlyVisibleNinja.
-->'''Caboose:''' Sneaking. Sneaking. Sneaking. Sneaking.
** He also did this when he snuck into Red Base's [=holo-deck=] during ''Recreation''. Amusingly, [[LazyBum Grif]] was the only one to notice.
* SeriesMascot: While sometimes the series is represented by Sarge and Church together (as they're the primary leaders of Red Team and Blue Team), Caboose is the most memorable character, with his endless quotable idiocy and adorable naivete. He is also the one most probable to get special episodes/[=PSAs=] and dedicated merchandise (including a plushie!).
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler:"Self-Fulfilling Odyssey" heavily implies that he suffers from this in some fashion due to Church's deaths, with him claiming that "When someone dies, my brain likes to hurt me with memories."]]
* ShipperOnDeck: As of "Change of Plans," he's apparently one for Washington and Carolina.
-->'''Carolina:''' We have big news.\\
'''Caboose:''' ''(gasp)'' You and Wash are taking your relationship to the next level! I knew it, the writing was all over the walls!
* ShoutOut: He's one of two
* SimpletonVoice: While he didn't start with it, Joel Heyman eventually evolved Caboose's voice into a high-pitched one that makes it clear that he's a moron.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Season 11, Episode 15 has Wash give Caboose a Mark V helmet - the same one he constantly wore in the ''Halo 3'' engine.
* StealthPun: [[invoked]] According to ''[[WordOfGod The Ultimate Fan Guide]],'' Caboose hails from Earth's Moon. In other words, he's a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} lunatic]].
* SuddenlyShouting: He's prone to SUDDENLY YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS!
* SuperGullible: Like you wouldn't believe. Sarge once got him to look away by literally saying that he heard a noise behind him.
* SuperMode: When he's able to work himself into a killing frenzy, he's ''[[MookHorrorShow terrifying]]''. He immediately forgets how to do this, by the way (which honestly might be for the best).
* SuperStrength: He doesn't have any known enhancements, and his strength's still not to the level of Tex, but he's often stated as
* TalkativeLoon: Becomes more prevalent in later seasons, where he's prone to rambling nonsense at length and spurting out non-sequiturs.
* TeamKiller: He often (accidentally) kills his own allies. Tucker once jokes that he couldn't hear what Caboose just said "over the sound of your constant team killing".
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After initially freaking out, he awkwardly mutters "Uh ''oh''..." when he realizes that Sheila is about to shoot Church and he can't do anything to stop her.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The few times Church spends inside of his mind shows Caboose's perception of the world is markedly different from reality. Among the more outlandish things he believes is that Sister is Church's twin brother from the moon, Sarge is a pirate, and that Agent Washington is a superhero named "Agent Washingtub" with "Freelancer powers". The dubiously canon 360 episode "The Flag" gives more insight to Caboose's view of the world: it's filled with delusions and can become almost completely divorced from reality at times, but he can still partially comprehend some of what's going on around him and focus on certain instructions.
* TookALevelInBadass: As the series goes on, Caboose becomes less and less of a liability to his teammates and becomes a more efficient combatant (though still quite goofy) when on the battlefield.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Was originally written as merely somewhat foolish early in Season 1, but quickly became outright insane by Seasons 2 and 3. This has been attributed to Sheila's initial destruction, and later O'Malley's forced ejection from his mind. Later episodes seem to have somewhat retconned him as having always being this dumb, but still implying he suffered from ''some'' form of brain damage being a part of Blue Team, such as when he was tricked into thinking gasoline was lemonade, and ''kept on drinking it for years.''
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed. Caboose was always pretty nice, but in later seasons his virulent hatred and jealousy of Tucker gradually disappeared.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In Season 13, he confronts an alien [=A.I.=] he names "Santa", who was designed to test people to see if they're a "true warrior". Being an abnormally strong FearlessFool, he easily passes both physical and mental challenges, and Santa spends a long period questioning Caboose. Upon seeing the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew, he immediately asks to talk with anybody else. [[spoiler:And during the events of ''Singularity'', the Labyrinth ''completely fails'' to [[DrivenToSuicide make him kill himself]], instead only making him feel hungry for pancakes]].
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:"Self-Fulfilling Odyssey" reveals that he took [=Alpha-Church's=] helmet as his own after he accidentally killed him in Season 1.]]
*
*
-->'''Church:''' Best friend powers activate!\\
'''Caboose:''' [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Gasp!]] Did I hear you right or [[LampshadeHanging
'''Church:''' I don't know, Caboose! I guess we'll never know! ''(flies away into the
*
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beaten
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with most
* UnstoppableRage: Very rarely displayed, to the
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end of
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horror
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** The
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
*
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for a
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: With
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she's
* VocalEvolution: One of the
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first example
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback scenes
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most for
* WalkingTechbane: Caboose is
* WeaponBasedCharacterisation: [[CloudCuckoolander Caboose]] has a
* WideEyedIdealist: He's always had shades of this, but it's best exemplified by his views on death. Church coming BackFromTheDead so many times has made him believe that dead people will always come back to life if someone cares about
* WithCatlikeTread: Caboose's idea of being stealthy is to either narrate aloud what he's doing, tell whoever he's spying on what he's doing, or
* {{Yandere}}: He would literally kill to gain Church's love and attention.
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!Agent/Major Washington (David)
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->''"I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be'' damned ''before I let you cause any more."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShannonMcCormick
A Freelancer and Recovery Agent, the main character of ''Recovery One'' and arguably the main character of the Recollection Saga (barring ''Recreation''). Washington's job is to find dead or dying Freelancers and recover their [=AIs=] and special equipment. He is trusted with this position due to his view of [=AIs=]--he ''had'' an [=AI=] partner, Epsilon, until the fragment suffered a major psychotic break and attempted suicide while in his head, leaving him therefore the person least likely to try and steal another one. ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial The experience had absolutely no effect on his sanity, by the way]]). Wash works with Agent South and Delta during ''Recovery One'' to hunt down the Meta, and though he is seemingly killed during that series, he survives (due to York's regeneration unit) to continue his mission during ''Reconstruction'', and enlists Church and Caboose to help. He has another, self-appointed goal: Epsilon held the Alpha's memory, meaning that Wash knows everything the Director of Project Freelancer did to it and is trying to bring the Director down. Washington serves as a StraightMan or the OnlySaneMan when exposed to the two teams' weirdness, but has a latent [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]] that comes into play whenever he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the implausible things they've done. His armor is gray with yellow markings on the shoulders. After joining the Blue Team, he changes to Church's cobalt armor, modified to also have yellow shoulders.
After being held prisoner by the UNSC for inadvertently destroying the evidence of Project Freelancer's misdeeds, Washington is released, and has to work with the Meta to track down Epsilon. When he finally does, he manages to hold his own fighting Tex, and even tries to help Epsilon save her. At the end of the Recollection, he joins the Blue Team so that he won't get thrown back in jail. By Season 10 he's become a real part of [[TrueCompanions the Blood Gulch Crew]] and decides to prevent any more problems by siding with them over Carolina and winds up shipwrecked with them in Season 11.
He temporarily joins the Feds in Season 12 until discovering the setup laid by Felix and Locus. He later reunites with the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew, along with Carolina and Epsilon. They join forces with the New Republic and the Feds to take down Malcolm Hargrove.
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!Private Kaikaina "Sister" Grif
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->''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the
->''"I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be'' damned ''before I let
-->'''Voiced By:'''
A Freelancer
Grif's younger sister, who joined the army in order to reunite with him, since she was lonely and
As of ''Reconstruction'',
After being held prisoner by the UNSC for inadvertently destroying the evidence of Project Freelancer's misdeeds, Washington is released,
He temporarily joins the Feds
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![=M808V=] Main Battle Tank / "Sheila"
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->''"Firing main cannon."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Yomary Cruz
Blue Team's support vehicle, a Scorpion battle tank with an artificial intelligence that answers to "Sheila". The Blues express bewilderment that Command decided to supply them with a tank no one knows how to operate, but Caboose nonetheless attempts to rescue Church using Sheila, killing him in the process and apparently falling in love with the "nice tank lady." If Sheila paid much attention to Caboose, this would form a LoveTriangle, given her attraction to Lopez. After Caboose's attempt, the Blues seem to decide that Sheila works best driving herself. Throughout the series, Sheila is a major asset for Blue Team...when she isn't feeling moody, threatening, or running off with Lopez to form an all-robot faction.
What, if any, connection she has with the Freelancer program F.I.L.S.S. is unknown, though the two do share a voice and many mannerisms.
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[[folder:Sheila]]
![=M808V=] Main Battle Tank / "Sheila"
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->''"Firing main cannon."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Yomary Cruz
Blue Team's support vehicle, a Scorpion battle tank with an artificial intelligence that answers to "Sheila". The Blues express bewilderment that Command decided to supply them with a tank no one knows how to operate, but Caboose nonetheless attempts to rescue Church using Sheila, killing him in the process and apparently falling in love with the "nice tank lady." If Sheila paid much attention to Caboose, this would form a LoveTriangle, given her attraction to Lopez. After Caboose's attempt, the Blues seem to decide that Sheila works best driving herself. Throughout the series, Sheila is a major asset for Blue Team...when she isn't feeling moody, threatening, or running off with Lopez to form an all-robot faction.
What, if any, connection she has with the Freelancer program F.I.L.S.S. is unknown, though the two do share a voice and many mannerisms.
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* AccidentalMurder: Accidentally kills Church. Later subverted.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes to the Pelican crashsite, and mentions how its computer is an "old friend", suggesting she's still active.
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scene in Season 6 though, where Church and Caboose accessed her memories with Washington as she crashed, they never refer to her afterwards or make any attempt to recover her.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Lopez.
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut, and Tex as they're leaving for Sidewinder. She packed them lunches (somehow) and reminds them to "wash [their] exhaust pipes every day." The lunches include things like air filters and brake fluid, but it's the thought that counts.
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expect this to be repeated for quite some time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupies the crashed Pelican in Valhalla, as alluded in AlmostDeadGuy above, but nothing is heard of her after that. And according to Kaikaina in ''The Shisno Paradox'', Valhalla was later bought out by a building company and had condos built in it, leaving her fate completely up in the air.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes to the Pelican crashsite, and mentions how its computer is an "old friend", suggesting she's still active.
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scene in Season 6 though, where Church and Caboose accessed her memories with Washington as she crashed, they never refer to her afterwards or make any attempt to recover her.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Lopez.
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut, and Tex as they're leaving for Sidewinder. She packed them lunches (somehow) and reminds them to "wash [their] exhaust pipes every day." The lunches include things like air filters and brake fluid, but it's the thought that counts.
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expect this to be repeated for quite some time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupies the crashed Pelican in Valhalla, as alluded in AlmostDeadGuy above, but nothing is heard of her after that. And according to Kaikaina in ''The Shisno Paradox'', Valhalla was later bought out by a building company and had condos built in it, leaving her fate completely up in the air.
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* AccidentalMurder: Accidentally kills Church. Later subverted.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes toAllThereInTheScript: For the Pelican crashsite, and mentions how its first thirteen seasons, there is no mention of her first name, which only appeared outside the show, like on DVD character profiles. It's finally shown on a computer is an "old friend", suggesting she's still active.
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scenescreen in Season 6 though, where Church 14, among a roster of other names, and Caboose accessed her memories with Washington as she crashed, they never refer to her afterwards or make any attempt to recover her.
spoken aloud in Season 15.
*LoveAtFirstSight: With Lopez.
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut,BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler:She and Tex as they're leaving for Sidewinder. She packed them lunches (somehow) and reminds them Tucker ultimately seem to "wash [their] exhaust pipes every day." The lunches include things like air filters and brake fluid, but it's the thought that counts.
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expectdecide this to be repeated for quite some time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupiesby the crashed Pelican in Valhalla, as alluded in AlmostDeadGuy above, but nothing is heard end of her after that. And according to Kaikaina in ''The Shisno Paradox'', Valhalla though it's a bit more reluctant on Tucker's part since he still has feelings for her]].
* BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' that she is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment to her attractiveness.
* BrainlessBeauty: Doc comments on [[AmazonianBeauty her fitness]] and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexibility]] during her physical, and Grif attests to her stupidity by telling how she repeatedly got kicked off her high school cheerleading squad for cheering for the wrong team. However, her dumbness is hardly a part of her character by the time she returns for ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'', to the point of it being a trademark of hers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Tucker]] gets confused sometimes.
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really? It's a lot of work.\\
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?\\
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: While she's still a promiscuous airhead come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's also matured into someone who's emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Furthermore, she became a competent businesswoman in the years since Season 5.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} instead being emphasized.
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it waslater bought possible. And trust me, I've tried.\\
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started outby a building company as TheDitz in Seasons 5 and had condos built in it, leaving 6, but after TheBusCameBack, she's shown to be remarkably emotionally intelligent and a good business woman.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering herfate work fling is married (to the head of [=HR=], to make things worse) is too messy for her.
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According to Season 15, she's a surprisingly good event coordinator. ''The Shisno Paradox'' also reveals that she's remarkably aware emotionally speaking, and has busloads of insecurities.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence, with ''Jack the Ripper'' being one of the people she wanted to sleep with when she and Tucker got a time machine. [[spoiler:She also gets turned on by Locus kneecapping several of the Blues and Reds' Grunts during ''Singularity'']].
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" instead of her real name, but Tucker eventually takes to calling her "K", and other characters also use "Kai".
* IronicName: Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister" - or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "younger sibling of the same sex". She might be Grif's younger sister, but they're rather obviously not of the same sex.
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reports to have murdered her in ''Relocated'', at which point she disappears from the series. Subverted in Season 13, where she makes a brief appearance in Episode 19.
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] during "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" in Season 14 when she's objecting to her not being allowed to participate in their remake of ''Film/ReservoirDogs.''
* LovableSexManiac: Even more so than Tucker is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was underwater for three hours, but when they finally brought her up, she was [[SuperNotDrowningSkills not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant'', meaning that technically, she survived the same thing that finally killed '''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]''' The credibility of Grif's assertion is made much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects. Guess ItRunsInTheFamily. Lopez's attempt to strangle her to death also failed to kill her.
* TheMerch: InUniverse, she now makes a living running conventions and selling merchandise.
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill her in ''Relocated'' and only succeeded in knocking her out. [[ExtremeOmnisexual Sister, of course,]] [[RunningGag thought it was hot.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. In Season 16, Tucker also calls her "K", and most other members of the Blood Gulch Crew seem to now call her "Kai".
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after ''Reconstruction'', and is supposedly dead, though Grif seems to doubt this. She makes a brief appearance in Season 13, and then two slightly longer ones in Season 15. And then TheBusCameBack in ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in theair."Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters and Sister shows interest in the idea, even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked into the Everwhen in "Paradox."]]
* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity'', and gains a lot more character depth as a result.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual human being and not an [=A.I.=]
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's in the right place, but Sister clearly has no idea what the fuck she's talking about.
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, once when we were kids, we went ice skating, and she fell through the ice. She was under there for ''three hours'', and when they pulled her out, not only was she still alive, she was ''pregnant''. If you can explain '''that''' to me, I'll believe you when you tell me she's dead.
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]] Downplayed, but due to her name being "Kaikaina" (which is an actual Hawaiian name) and [[WordOfGod Geoff Ramsey]] claiming Honolulu was the Grif siblings' hometown, {{Fanon}} has interpreted this to mean that both her and her brother are native Hawaiians. By consequence, most fan art depicting the Grifs has them as Hawaiian.
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards her during ''The Shisno Paradox'', [[spoiler:she tries to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] him for revenge before Donut "wakes" him up in ''Singularity'']].
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue of being both a Pacific Islander and a pansexual woman.
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:While it's still more the direct result of Tucker and Carolina, she's the one to initially plant the idea in the former's head for traveling back in time and saving Wash, which would go on to cause a RealityBreakingParadox]].
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majority of the cast, Rebecca Fraiser's voice acting as her in the later seasons is actually ''deeper'' and not as breathy as her performance in Season 5 was.
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedly killed by ''Relocated''. She eventually shows up seven seasons later in Season 13, and Season 15 gives some insight into what she's been doing in all that time.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Surprisingly enough, she became this during her time off-screen. Her raves turned such a profit that she eventually hosted a week-long music festival, which also sold incredibly well. Now she runs several cons for different demographics and even has a merch line.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes to
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scene
*
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut,
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expect
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupies
* BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' that she is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment to her attractiveness.
* BrainlessBeauty: Doc comments on [[AmazonianBeauty her fitness]] and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexibility]] during her physical, and Grif attests to her stupidity by telling how she repeatedly got kicked off her high school cheerleading squad for cheering for the wrong team. However, her dumbness is hardly a part of her character by the time she returns for ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: ''All the time'', to the point of it being a trademark of hers. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Tucker]] gets confused sometimes.
-->'''Sister:''' I thought about having a kid once.\\
'''Tucker:''' Oh, really? It's a lot of work.\\
'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?\\
'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[PhraseCatcher Wait, what?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: While she's still a promiscuous airhead come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's also matured into someone who's emotionally intelligent and perceptive. Furthermore, she became a competent businesswoman in the years since Season 5.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and status as TheDitz are both barely a facet of her character come ''The Shisno Paradox'', with her business acumen, emotional intelligence, and {{Lust}} instead being emphasized.
* ColorBlindConfusion: The reason she ended up on the Blue Team in the first place.
* CopHater: She immediately turns hostile when she believes that Washington is a cop, apparently convinced he's trying to arrest her for something.
* CommutingOnABus: Has been in a state like this since the end of Season 5, with brief appearances in Seasons 6, 13, 14, and 15. Only after Season 16 is she made a consistent part of the main cast again.
* DeadpanSnarker: Come ''The Shisno Paradox'', she's forced to become the [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] for Tucker as he goes increasingly OffTheRails.
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied when explaining to the Reds that her team's leader (Captain Butch Flowers of Blue Team) died of an aspirin overdose. This gets a CerebusCallback come ''Singularity'', with it being implied that [[spoiler:she first tried to kill herself out of guilt when she accidentally burned down her family's home since that resulted in their mother being forced to live in a trailer park]].
-->'''Simmons''': You heard what Command said. Sarge is dead. He died of... what'd he die of?\\
'''Sister:''' Aspirin overdose.\\
'''Simmons:''' See, Sarge is dead of a- an Aspirin overdose? Really?\\
'''Sister:''' I know! I didn't think it was
'''Simmons:''' [[PhraseCatcher Yeah... wait, what?]]
* DumbassNoMore: She started out
* EveryoneHasStandards: She might be kinky and willing to date a lot, but discovering her
* FatalFlaw: Surprisingly, it ''isn't'' her {{Lust}} - Rather, it's her countless insecurities and habit of running away from her problems.
* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Subverted in terms of her relationship with Grif, as both have elements of the "Responsible Sibling" (Grif's BigBrotherInstinct towards her and Kaikaina becoming an event coordinator) and the "Foolish Sibling" (Grif is a LazyBum ''par excellence'' and Sister was originally written to be a "loud slut").
* GenerationXerox: Based on Doc's description and Grif's reaction, it is implied that Sister's mother is just as promiscuous as she is.
* GeniusDitz: Intelligence-wise, she's ([[InformedAttribute ostensibly, at least]]) about on par with Caboose, but it turns out she's really good at running conventions, of all things.
* HiddenDepths: According to Season 15, she's a surprisingly good event coordinator. ''The Shisno Paradox'' also reveals that she's remarkably aware emotionally speaking, and has busloads of insecurities.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kaikaina is attracted to displays of violence, with ''Jack the Ripper'' being one of the people she wanted to sleep with when she and Tucker got a time machine. [[spoiler:She also gets turned on by Locus kneecapping several of the Blues and Reds' Grunts during ''Singularity'']].
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call her "Sister" instead of her real name, but Tucker eventually takes to calling her "K", and other characters also use "Kai".
* IronicName: Kaikaina is the Hawaiian word for "Little Sister" - or, more accurately, the Hawaiian word for "younger sibling of the same sex". She might be Grif's younger sister, but they're rather obviously not of the same sex.
* KilledOffscreen: An ambiguous fate; Lopez reports to have murdered her in ''Relocated'', at which point she disappears from the series. Subverted in Season 13, where she makes a brief appearance in Episode 19.
* LargeHam: She ''really'' [[ChewingTheScenery Chews The Scenery]] during "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue" in Season 14 when she's objecting to her not being allowed to participate in their remake of ''Film/ReservoirDogs.''
* LovableSexManiac: Even more so than Tucker is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
* MadeOfIron: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was underwater for three hours, but when they finally brought her up, she was [[SuperNotDrowningSkills not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant'', meaning that technically, she survived the same thing that finally killed '''[[TheJuggernaut the Meta.]]''' The credibility of Grif's assertion is made much stronger considering he makes it right after he survives an eight hundred foot drop with seemingly no ill effects. Guess ItRunsInTheFamily. Lopez's attempt to strangle her to death also failed to kill her.
* TheMerch: InUniverse, she now makes a living running conventions and selling merchandise.
* MyGreatestFailure: Her Labyrinth illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
* NiceGirl: Once you get past the foolishness, kookiness, and promiscuity, Kaikaina is actually quite sweet and friendly to others and seems to only be interested in having a great time wherever she goes.
* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the "Fight! Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
* NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, Lopez failed to kill her in ''Relocated'' and only succeeded in knocking her out. [[ExtremeOmnisexual Sister, of course,]] [[RunningGag thought it was hot.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Which is odd, because she's only ''Grif's'' sister, yet everyone else calls her that also. In Season 16, Tucker also calls her "K", and most other members of the Blood Gulch Crew seem to now call her "Kai".
* PhraseCatcher: Due to her BreadEggsMilkSquick tendencies, about 90% of the things she says are responded to with the line "Yeah... wait, what?"
* PutOnABus: Disappears after ''Reconstruction'', and is supposedly dead, though Grif seems to doubt this. She makes a brief appearance in Season 13, and then two slightly longer ones in Season 15. And then TheBusCameBack in ''The Shisno Paradox''.
* ReallyGetsAround: Her major character trait. To keep it short, her DVD character bio has "Rated: X".
* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the
* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: Seemingly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJBbSxB9X4 She isn't happy about this.]] However, she eventually returns in ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity'', and gains a lot more character depth as a result.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better, as she's both an actual member of Blue Team and also an actual human being and not an [=A.I.=]
* StrawFeminist: Parodied. Her heart's in the right place, but Sister clearly has no idea what the fuck she's talking about.
-->'''Sister:''' END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: As discussed by Grif in ''Relocated''.
-->'''Grif:''' Listen, once when we were kids, we went ice skating, and she fell through the ice. She was under there for ''three hours'', and when they pulled her out, not only was she still alive, she was ''pregnant''. If you can explain '''that''' to me, I'll believe you when you tell me she's dead.
* TokenMinority: [[invoked]] Downplayed, but due to her name being "Kaikaina" (which is an actual Hawaiian name) and [[WordOfGod Geoff Ramsey]] claiming Honolulu was the Grif siblings' hometown, {{Fanon}} has interpreted this to mean that both her and her brother are native Hawaiians. By consequence, most fan art depicting the Grifs has them as Hawaiian.
* {{Troll}}: Due to her still being annoyed by Tucker's more {{Jerkass}} behavior towards her during ''The Shisno Paradox'', [[spoiler:she tries to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] him for revenge before Donut "wakes" him up in ''Singularity'']].
* TwoferTokenMinority: If she and Grif are both native Hawaiians, then Kaikaina counts as this by virtue of being both a Pacific Islander and a pansexual woman.
* UndyingLoyalty: She never believed for a second that Grif, and by extension the other Reds and Blues, had turned evil despite the massive amount of evidence against them in Season 15.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:While it's still more the direct result of Tucker and Carolina, she's the one to initially plant the idea in the former's head for traveling back in time and saving Wash, which would go on to cause a RealityBreakingParadox]].
* VocalEvolution: In a contrast to the vast majority of the cast, Rebecca Fraiser's voice acting as her in the later seasons is actually ''deeper'' and not as breathy as her performance in Season 5 was.
* WeirdAside: She tends to make references to the countless insane and/or {{Squick}}y things she's done in otherwise normal conversation, to which someone will inevitably respond, [[PhraseCatcher "Wait, what?"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: One of the more notable examples of the series. Despite being a main character of Season 5, she only makes a single appearance in Season 6, and is supposedly killed by ''Relocated''. She eventually shows up seven seasons later in Season 13, and Season 15 gives some insight into what she's been doing in all that time.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Surprisingly enough, she became this during her time off-screen. Her raves turned such a profit that she eventually hosted a week-long music festival, which also sold incredibly well. Now she runs several cons for different demographics and even has a merch line.
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-->'''Voiced By:''' Shane Newville (Seasons 11-13), Creator/MilesLuna (Season 15)
Caboose's "pet" in Season 11, an automated MANTIS walker that he discovered in a crashed ship. Its AI is transferred to his assault rifle in Season 12 after being heavily damaged at the end of Season 11.
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Caboose's "pet" in Season 11, an automated MANTIS walker that he discovered in a crashed ship. Its AI is transferred to his assault rifle in Season 12 after being heavily damaged at the end of Season 11.
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-->'''[=AI=] Attribute:''' [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Failure]]
A black-armored [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and former agent of Project Freelancer, the biggest badass in all of Blood Gulch, an infiltration expert thanks to a cloaking device, and a better fighter than both teams combined. [[SamusIsAGirl Her real name is Allison]], and her Freelancer handle is Agent Texas. Tex is contracted to support the Blues after Church's death and proceeds to terrify Tucker and Caboose while leading a [[OneManArmy one-(wo)man]] assault on Red Base to recover the Blue flag. Unfortunately, a prodigious grenade toss by Donut eventually kills her, but she returns as a ghost some time later, inhabiting a robot body in a manner similar to Church. This experience mellows Tex out somewhat, as it frees her from the influence of her [=AI=] partner O'Malley (see below) - though by no means is she someone you should make angry. Tex hangs out with the Blues when she isn't off on her own, usually attempting to foil O'Malley or Wyoming's plans, but as the series progresses she gets more and more entangled in the plots surrounding the dupes at Blood Gulch.
''Revelation'' reveals that, as many suspected, she is also an AI-based on the memories of Director Leonard Church. Created from his memories of Allison, his wife who had died, she apparently came into existence as Beta around the same time Alpha was created. Presumably as a result of the Director's feelings for the original Allison, she was not subjected to the same tortures as Alpha. Church eventually realizes that, like her original self, she's always doomed to failure.
In the Season 5 finale, she voluntarily reunites with O'Malley in an attempt to manipulate Junior and the alien race into helping humanity win the war, and is seemingly killed when Sarge sets off a bomb in the spaceship she hijacked. Although Tex gets kidnapped in AI form by the Meta and then destroyed in an EMP blast in Season
For information about the woman she was based on, see [[Characters/RedVsBlueOthers Allison's entry]].
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* TheAce: She's the closest thing the setting has: She's pretty smart and knowledgeable enough to make a bomb from scratch, set up pretty tactical plans and decimate even fellow super soldiers with relative ease. If not for her curse to fail whenever she gets close to winning with something on the line, she'd probably have no competition.
* ActionGirl: Quite easily the toughest person in the main cast.
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoring this in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale during her FaceHeelTurn. He points out that while Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War with [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Junior]] ''may'' work, it'll also result in giving the ''{{Anthropomorphic Personification}} of [[UnstoppableRage rage]]'' an entire species of {{Proud Warrior Race Guys}} (the Elites) as an army for ravaging the galaxy with. She [[ShutUpKirk dismisses this by saying]], [[BystanderSyndrome "We'll just have to find out."]]
* AntiHero: While she has sympathetic motivations and is never an outright villain, she's cruel, brutal, and oftentimes ruthless in the pursuit of her goals.
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke off of the Alpha in its creation, but she's the "Beta" [=A.I.=]. In Season 10, it's shown that she's known this ''long'' before meeting up with Alpha-Church.
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits off his memories of her. She is not happy about this.
** After Epsilon-Tex dies, a copy of her is found at the Director's lair at the end of Season 10. Unfortunately, [[CameBackWrong this Tex has been Mind Raped beyond repair by the Director.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After being taken by the Meta, Sigma [[NothingIsScarier does... whatever it is he does to the other AI]] to get her to go along with his mad schemes.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she's not '''nearly''' as superhumanly awesome as she was during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. While part of this is obviously just a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, it's justified InUniverse due to her both [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption being cursed to always fail at the last moment whenever she puts her mind to something]] and the new robotic body she takes control over for the majority of the first five seasons [[FlawedPrototype being significantly weaker than]] the one she had during her time in Project Freelancer.
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10 talk in a broken variation of her voice (to the point where they sound more like ''Omega'' than Tex herself), and [[ConservationOfNinjutsu don't seem to have quite the same level of badassery as the original]]. Aside from that, there is the fact that the controlling version of Tex is in [[MindRape less than]] [[ColdBloodedTorture stable]] condition.
** We never get to meet the real Allison, as the one we do see is actually the result of the Director's attempts to bring her back. The Tex we know is in fact the [=A.I.=] known as "Beta", and essentially a memory of the original Allison. This memory is derived from those of the Director, so while she's close, she's never quite close enough to be a true replacement for Allison and is really little more than a shadow of her. What makes the situation even worse is that the Director's overriding memory of Allison was that she died in the Great War - she failed. This colored ''all'' of his other memories of her to the point where Beta's fragment attribute is that she's the Alpha's failure made manifest: No matter how hard she fights or how badass she might be, she will always ultimately fail whenever something heavily important is on the line because that's what the Director and the Alpha unconsciously designed her to do.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would reveal that she went to Blood Gulch to watch over the Alpha [=A.I.=] since she felt that it was all she could do to atone for failing to save him the first time around. This ''really'' doesn't fit in with her being a WildCard that eventually betrays Church to help Project Freelancer ([=a.k.a.=] the organization that she ''abandoned''), but it can be {{Hand Wave}}d under Tex taking TheNeedsOfTheMany into account.
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is shown to be very greedy, to the point where it's her FatalFlaw. This aspect of her personality isn't seen at all both during the flashback sequences in Seasons 9 & 10 along with her time in the present day as [=Epsilon-Tex=].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots Church and leaves him as bait for Wash and the Meta in ''Revelation'', albeit so as to be able to finish their fight once and for all so she can finally kill the Director.
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Towards the end of Season 10 there's about two or three dozen clones of her guarding the director. Where the original Tex could effortlessly curbstomp all of the Blood Gulch Crew at once without breaking a sweat, the clones don't seem to have ''quite'' the same level of badass as the original as the Crew manages to put up a pretty good fight against them. Although it's likely these bodies were mass produced, and not customized for battle like her first and third bodies. It also fits into her being cursed [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption to always fail at whatever she does at the last minute]].
* TheCorruptible: Omega does this to every one he infects (sans Church) in some way, but his nature has the strongest hold on Tex's persona.
* CovertPervert: Not really ever discussed about, but Tex can be pretty perverted, like at the way she repeatedly stared at the Alien's crotch.
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
* CosmicPlaything: Not quite as much as Church, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Tex's nature]] makes her life absolutely miserable. Many of her failures aren't even her fault in any way, just spectacular examples of bad luck. It gets to the point where she angrily asks Epsilon ''why'' he even brought her back if all she's going to do is fail for no reason and at whatever she sets out to do.
* CrazyPrepared: Most evident in Episode 19 of ''Revelation'', where she has the battlefield rigged with tons of mines, explosives, and hidden weapons, just to give herself an even greater edge over Washington and the Meta.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight with the Reds and Blues in ''Revelation'' is just her kicking the crap out of them for two episodes. A good chunk of her fights in Seasons 9 and 10 are also this, most notably her training match with Wyoming, York, and Maine.
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day she is still a good person, Tex is '''immensely''' ruthless, to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would casually murder those who piss her off.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black armor, and while ruthless, is (mostly) on the side of good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She dies in the crash of the Pelican at the end of Season 5, but still remains as the [=A.I.=] Beta. Beta is picked up by the Meta and destroyed by the "emp" at the end of ''Recreation''. A different version of Tex based on Epsilon's memories returned in ''Revelation'', and was encased in the Epsilon memory unit, but Epsilon eventually let himself "forget" the new Tex, removing her from existence and letting the character die for good.
* DeathSeeker: By the time of her Epsilon iteration, Tex is so tired and annoyed of being constantly brought back to life against her will and just "wants to rest."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Following learning [[TomatoInTheMirror the information]] in [[DeadManWriting Connie's data files]], she promptly left Project Freelancer completely, only returning subversively with York and North Dakota (albeit inadvertently).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularly in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Recreation'', and she serves as the tritagonist throughout the Project Freelancer Saga.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadow in Season 10, Episode 10, she doesn't take it very well:
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did you just call me?!\\
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceeds to mortally wound C.T.]''
* DoAndroidsDream: After her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome now-famous ass-kicking]] of the Blood Gulch Crew in "This One Goes To Eleven" (which was essentially her venting some repressed rage), this was her primary motivation: To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in the real world.
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is met with little flair. PlayedStraight when it's revealed she's still alive, though has no role to speak of before her death by the emp.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but she doesn't bleed (she instead ''sparks'' like a malfunctioning piece of electronics), because she was inhabiting a robot body. Theta, an [=A.I.=], mentions that he has a sister, alluding to both the fact that Tex is an [=A.I.=] herself and that Carolina is the Director's daughter.
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still present with Wyoming. Despite the two being on opposite sides, the two seem to have a healthy amount of respect, with Tex opting to talk to Wyoming rather than shooting him when given the chance. She even later refers to him (along with Maine) as "dummies" with no malicious intent despite them nearly having killed her the first day they met.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender in one of Epsilon-Church's iterations as seen in "Get Bent".
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in a Season 15 flashback.
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hitting him in the head. And later after she's been disarmed by York, she unloads ''an entire clip'' of armor hardening paint into his groin.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the Alpha be reduced to a broken EmptyShell who doesn't even recognize her. The entire reason that she puts up with Church's {{Jerkass}} behavior during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is because she feels like it's the least she can do out of penance for failing to save the man she loved.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.
* HiddenDepths:
** As the series goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that she has intense self-loathing issues and is ''literally'' suicidal since she's tired of always failing at whatever she puts her mind to and just "wants to rest."
** On a more amusing note, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' heavily implies that she's a YaoiFangirl.
** Despite her casual attitude most of the time, she actually follows MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality, though she draws the line at that mentality hurting those she cares about.
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconned into being a shortening of her codename "Texas".
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposed to be the afterlife. After Church complains about being dead, leaving him unable to do anything to assist the Blue Team, Tex tells him "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you."
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: When fighting Project Freelancer personnel during the break-in, she uses Spike Grenades as mace-esque melee weapons.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]] During her days with the other Freelancers, Tex is selfish, greedy, ruthless, ''very'' violent and doesn't care about her teammates (or ex-teammates): she only focuses on her objective. This attitude led to some very harsh moves, such as mortally wounding C.T., then blaming the failure to take her armor back on Carolina. However, Episode 16 of Season 10 implies that her {{Jerkass}} attitude is more due to [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] than to her herself. She's actually pretty nice once she shuts him down for a while after he nearly makes her kill the incapacitated Carolina in a sparring match. And just like both the Alpha and Epsilon, ''The Recollection'' and ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would show her to have been a JerkassWoobie all along.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the rest of the Blue Team, but in time she grows fond of them. She even referred them as "her idiots" to Sister during their talk in Blood Gulch. Her HiddenHeartOfGold shows in Season 10, Episodes 15 and 16 for the flashbacks. She actually shows concern for Carolina during the latter's breakdown, even resisting Omega's urges and "sedating" Carolina by knocking her out. Later, when she and North have a conversation concerning York and Carolina, Tex seems friendlier than usual.
* KickTheDog: Shooting Church in the leg near the end of Season 8 so that she could lure Washington and the Meta into a trap. [[LaserGuidedKarma She pays for it.]]
* KilledOffForReal: After being revived through various incarnations, Tex finally dies for good at the end of Season 10 when Church gives the final copy of her AI a MercyKill.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarely shows any fear or hesitation in the face of battle - and rightfully so given how much of a badass she is - but after witnessing the Meta seemingly murder Carolina and absorb two additional AIs, she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away as fast as she can.]]
* KnuckleCracking: In non-{{machinima}} sequences, Tex often starts a fight with cracking her knuckles and popping her neck.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[LampshadeHanging As Doc pointed out]], she paid for it dearly after shooting Church in the leg during ''Revelation''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Two - "A Girl Named Tex" and "Agent Tex."
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beaten to a bloody pulp before you get halfway across the room.
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with most of the memories they have of being together) is either directly drawn from or a reflection of the relationship between Director Leonard Church and his wife Allison. As Tex points out, this applies with Church as well, since he continuously pursues and obsesses her while refusing to take her wants into account.
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end of Season 9, since it finally allows her rest, saving her from any further pain.
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want to get the [=A.I.=] out of her head.
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horror when the Meta forcibly steals Carolina's [=A.I.s=] and then tosses her off a cliff to her supposed doom.
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** The Tex Drones use Omega's again in Episode 20 of Season 10, as a sign of them being corrupted by the Director's torture.
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say a single word during the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between the Red and Blue Teams, probably due to the departure of her voice actress.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for a one-sided rivalry over the course of ''The Project Freelancer Saga''; Tex is pretty ambivalent to her and is behaves like a {{Jerkass}} towards her, but that's how she treats most other Freelancers until she pulls Omega from her head. Meanwhile, [[CompetitionFreak Carolina]]'s [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] result in her taking Tex's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superiority to her]] very personally and results in her trying to outdo her at the cost of her own mental health.
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Church. Deconstructed in Season 9, which is all about pointing out how unhealthy their relationship is, and shows that Tex deeply resents this.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she's the only female member of the Blood Gulch crew. She loses this status once Sister arrives in "Sibling Arrivalries".
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first example in the series, though she'd be somewhat succeeded by Washington, Carolina and then Locus and Felix. She's insanely strong and pretty damn skilled, beating her would be damn near impossible if it wasn't for WorfHadTheFlu being inflicted at all times.
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback scenes during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most for the majority of the series, Epsilon-Texas is only a few months old, with a maximum of about one year or so at the time when she is [[CessationOfExistence forgotten.]]
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[[folder:Wash]]
!Agent/Major Washington (David)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That was the worst throw. Ever. Of all time."'']]
->''"I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be'' damned ''before I let you cause any more."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShannonMcCormick
A Freelancer and Recovery Agent, the main character of ''Recovery One'' and arguably the main character of the Recollection Saga (barring ''Recreation''). Washington's job is to find dead or dying Freelancers and recover their [=AIs=] and special equipment. He is trusted with this position due to his view of [=AIs=]--he ''had'' an [=AI=] partner, Epsilon, until the fragment suffered a major psychotic break and attempted suicide while in his head, leaving him therefore the person least likely to try and steal another one. ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial The experience had absolutely no effect on his sanity, by the way]]). Wash works with Agent South and Delta during ''Recovery One'' to hunt down the Meta, and though he is seemingly killed during that series, he survives (due to York's regeneration unit) to continue his mission during ''Reconstruction'', and enlists Church and Caboose to help. He has another, self-appointed goal: Epsilon held the Alpha's memory, meaning that Wash knows everything the Director of Project Freelancer did to it and is trying to bring the Director down. Washington serves as a StraightMan or the OnlySaneMan when exposed to the two teams' weirdness, but has a latent [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]] that comes into play whenever he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the implausible things they've done. His armor is gray with yellow markings on the shoulders. After joining the Blue Team, he changes to Church's cobalt armor, modified to also have yellow shoulders.
After being held prisoner by the UNSC for inadvertently destroying the evidence of Project Freelancer's misdeeds, Washington is released, and has to work with the Meta to track down Epsilon. When he finally does, he manages to hold his own fighting Tex, and even tries to help Epsilon save her. At the end of the Recollection, he joins the Blue Team so that he won't get thrown back in jail. By Season 10 he's become a real part of [[TrueCompanions the Blood Gulch Crew]] and decides to prevent any more problems by siding with them over Carolina and winds up shipwrecked with them in Season 11.
He temporarily joins the Feds in Season 12 until discovering the setup laid by Felix and Locus. He later reunites with the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew, along with Carolina and Epsilon. They join forces with the New Republic and the Feds to take down Malcolm Hargrove.
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!!Associated Tropes
* NinetiesAntiHero: {{Deconstructed|CharacterArchetype}} in ''The Recollection''. Washington is pretty much the archetypical '90s Anti-Hero; he's a brooding, cold, and absolutely ruthless {{Jerkass}} motivated entirely by revenge. As a result, his allies despise and fear him because his behavior makes him look like a dangerous sociopath who could and would kill them if they don't do what he wants, and he's eventually arrested because his take no prisoners approach makes it look a lot like he was [[HeKnowsTooMuch killing everyone who knew too much about Project Freelancer]]. It's also shown that his attitude is the direct result of a lot of trauma and deeply unhealthy, and it eventually drives him to a FaceHeelTurn when he thinks that killing the Reds and Blues could accomplish his goals because he's written off pretty much everyone as expendable.
* AceCustom: In all animated moments prior to the switch to ''Halo 4'', Washington's Battle Rifle fired in a 4-round burst. The sound effects line up with this for the most part, and it is particularly noticeable in the very first animated battle, in Season 8.
* AllegianceAffirmation: After all his efforts to bring the Director and Project Freelancer to justice, is arrested in Season 7 for detaining an EMP in Freelancer Command and spends most of the season in jail, seething over it and getting increasingly bitter. Then, at the end of the season, he arrives just as the Meta corners Simmons, Donut, and Lopez and [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn announces he'll take it from here, and then shoots Donut and Lopez dead.]]]]
* AnimalMotifs: A pretty subtle one, but Wash is often compared to cats. During the time of ''The Project Freelancer Saga'', his nature has him likened to a naive kitten, and he's even revealed to have [[KindheartedCatLover pictures of adorable kittens on the inside of his training room locker]]. After the Epsilon Incident, Wash's general character arc is loosely similar to [[CatsAreMean an abused cat lashing out at all that angers them]] before being taken in by a foster family (i.e., the Blood Gulch Crew). It's also likely not a coincidence that [[CatsAreSnarkers he's one of the most sarcastic characters]] out of the present-day cast. Heck, his habit of using combat knives is even like cat claws in a sense. Wash's ability to [[MadeOfIron survive against near-impossible odds]] is reminiscent of the myth of a cat having nine lives. ''The Shisno Paradox'' even reveals that Wash used to have a pet cat named "Loki" when he was a kid that was just as indestructible as he is.
* TheAtoner: How he seems to see himself after his HeelFaceTurn. As he tells Locus in the penultimate episode of Season 12, "I used to be a real piece of shit, but at least I'm doing something about it!"
* BadassAdorable: He's shown as this in the prologue segments, having his locker filled with kitten pictures and even rubber ducks.
* BadassDecay:
** InUniverse, [=Epsilon-Church=] claims in Season 10 that Wash has gone from being a Freelancer who could fight toe-to-toe with Tex to Carolina's whipping boy. It still counts as a DownplayedTrope as he is still a badass and has in fact turned the Blues into a much more effective fighting force. The BadassDecay is relative when compared to [[BrokenAce Carolina]]. It is completely revoked when he puts a gun to Carolina's head when she threatens Tucker and shoots her an IronicEcho before walking out on her.
** {{Discussed}} later on in Season 12. Locus believes that bonding with Reds and Blues has weakened Washington and that he is not a soldier he used to be as a Freelancer. Seeing how easily Wash was intimidated by Freckles (despite former having fought foes worse than the latter), there may be something to those accusations.
* BadassInDistress: As of the end of Season 11, and for the start of Season 12, he has been kidnapped along with Sarge, Donut, and Lopez by the Federal Army of Chorus. Subverted later, as although they were taken in by force at first, they remained there by choice with the promise of "rescuing" their friends to convince them, much like the others were with the New Republic. Then Felix and Locus show up and reveal they've been playing the Feds and Rebels against each other for years.
* BadassNormal: Practically a staple of his character is how effective he is without the use of an [=A.I.=] or any special armor enhancements.
* BeneathTheMask:
** When patching up the bitterness between him and Tucker during Season 11, Washington admits that he considered himself the worst fighter in his old squad and was never entrusted with leadership before ending up on Blue Team. It is the first time in the present that Wash has revealed any insecurity, and goes a long way to mending his relationship with Tucker. During his surgery after the fight with the Federal Army of Chorus he has some combination of flashback and hallucination of previous events in his life. When he sees himself shooting Donut, there is very real panic and guilt in his voice, suggesting he's still haunted by his previous actions.
** Supplementary material (in ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'') reveals that his personality always concealed darker character traits. As it turns out, a tendency to repress his anger and nurse grudges undetected until the opportune moment for revenge has been an attribute of his since ''childhood''. This casts the Epsilon Incident in a completely different light - receiving the Alpha's memories may have simply brought these traits all to the surface, finally giving him a target for these vengeful tendencies in the form of the Director.
* BestServedCold: Washington was driven insane by Epsilon's attempt at suicide two years before the events of the ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', gradually recovering his sanity and being cleared for duty after Season 1 but before Season 2 of ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]''. He rebelled against Project Freelancer in ''Reconstruction'', which takes place two years after the end of Season 5. For four years Washington had knowledge of the Director's misdeeds and continued to work for him, biding his time until he had the means to bring him down, which turned out to be his unintentional discovery of the Alpha AI and Epsilon's continued existence. As it turns out, this is a character trait that has been with Washington since childhood, as revealed when in fifth grade, he slammed a former bully from his third grade's face into a mirror, nearly costing the latter [[EyeScream his eye]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Meta in ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' as they hunt down Epsilon. The pair hold Simmons and Doc hostage at the beginning of the latter season, the ensuing battle between them and the Red Team plus Epsilon sets Epsilon out to find and revive Tex, and then Tex lures them to Sidewinder for a final battle. However, Wash is betrayed by the Meta towards the end and then makes a HeelFaceTurn.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Develops this in later seasons, particularly for Caboose.
* BigBrotherMentor: Becomes this for Tucker by Season 15.
* BoringButPractical: Wash's fighting style involves, for the most part, very basic hand to hand combat and mid range fighting with his battle rifle. A far cry from the crazy moves shown by every other named freelancer. Despite this, he's extremely dangerous with such basic techniques, capable of injuring Tex with a gunshot to the back, leading to her defeat by the Meta, taking down several Hornets at different times, and being roughly the second most effective fighter in Episode 21 of Season 10. Also BoringButPractical in the case of his overall performance in the prequels. He's one of the few seen on the board at all times, and the only time his position moves in Season 9 is when it goes up a space. Considering he's not a super talented hardcore badass (yet) like other Freelancers makes this seem strange. Except the reason he's always on the board is because he does his job. He's got no authority issues (yet), no impulses to turn on other team mates, and mostly doesn't even care about the board to begin with. He's there to complete the mission, and doesn't care what rank he gets.
* BrokenPedestal: Season 9 shows that Wash actually had a very high opinion of the Director before the Epsilon Incident. ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'' reveals that much of his admiration comes from the fact that Project Freelancer offered him the only chance to use his combat skills after a [=UNSC=] court martial for disobeying orders that would have gotten his platoon killed and injuring his sergeant in the process of his insubordination.
-->'''Washington''': The Director? He's given us everything. He's ''helping'' us.
* ButtMonkey: Even during his badass present day phase, he gets injured and blown up on an impressively regular basis. This only gets worse for him in the flashback seasons, where it's almost worse there since he's also a NoRespectGuy.
* ByronicHero: Particularly in ''Recovery One''. But thanks to the Reds and Blues, [[CharacterDevelopment he eventually gets better]].
* CarFu: A constant victim of this.
-->'''Wash''': [[LampshadeHanging Why do cars hate me?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: All those betrayals do take quite a toll on one's psyche. Having someone you betrayed forgive you and welcome you back with open arms does too, especially in a really kind-hearted way.
* CharacterFocus:
** He's the main protagonist of ''Recovery One'', ''Reconstruction'', and Season 11 of ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
** He's also one of the more prominent characters of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' in general, with the relationship he has with Locus constituting a significant subplot (in spite of Wash's absence for nearly half of Season 12).
* TheChewToy: A lot of very tragic things have happened and keep happening to Wash.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted. Almost everyone Wash deals with betrays him at some point... Well, all except for the Blood Gulch Crew.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Being stuck in armor lock for days on end with no food or water made him more than a little loopy in Season 15. [[HarsherInHindsight It has some pretty tragic results though]].
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: The previous Freelancer associated with the Blue Team was Agent Texas, a OneWomanArmy strong enough to fight mostly with her bare hands and apathetic to the Blood Gulch conflict beyond what she was paid to. Washington is a BadassNormal who eschews the typical Freelancer armor enhancements for [[BoringButPractical being really good with a Battle Rifle]] and considers his own problems with the Meta and Project Freelancer to be more important than the Blood Gulch conflict. Additionally, Wash refuses to have an AI in his helmet while Tex [[spoiler:''is'' an AI]]. Finally, Tex ultimately betrayed the Blues as well as the Reds at the end of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', while Wash, though briefly went through a FaceHeelTurn in ''Revelation'', ultimately join Blue Team permanently and acknowledges them and the Reds as [[TrueCompanions his friends]].
* CowardiceCallout: He calls Locus a coward while deconstructing the latter's Terminator act as something he hides behind because he's too afraid to take responsibility for his atrocities.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:By the time of ''Zero'', he has received implants created from state-of-the-art robotics to repair his brain damage and which even enables him to see events coming seconds before they happen]].
* CombatPragmatist: Has to in order to stand a chance without armor enhancements. For example, rather than try to overpower [=Epsilon-Tex=] (like an idiot) in ''Revelation'', he keeps her busy with a few quick punches, then steals the battle rifle right off her back as she knocks him back. He also gives himself a surface level cut in ''Great Destroyers'' to help him circumvent Locus' invisibility, and instead of attacking another spot on his armor opts to kick the knife he stuck the mercenary with to dig it deeper.
* TheComicallySerious: Even among the Freelancers, he's more or less the StraightMan.
* CrypticConversation: In the present, he's often having cryptic conversations with himself, largely because he tends to know more than everyone around him, and also because, well, [[SurroundedByIdiots look at the company he keeps]]. Lampshaded twice-over by Felix:
-->'''Felix:''' Man, you are ''cryptic''. Like all the time. Do you realize that?\\
'''Felix:''' The fuck is ''that'' supposed to mean?! Christ man, always with the cryptic one-liners!
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly in the present. In the prequels, he's much less deadpan.
* DecoyProtagonist: With Carolina and Chruch's departure from the Blood Gulch Crew at the end of Season 10, the start of Season 11 initially paints Washington as the new main protagonist and focus character, with the season even opening on his narration as he recaps his journey similar to how Epsilon did at the start of Season 9. However, by the end of the season Washington is one of the ones captured by Locus and Tucker takes over as the central character for the remainder of the Chorus Trilogy.
* DentedIron: After his gunshot wound in Season 15, Wash was left with cerebral hypoxia that makes it harder for him to remember recent events and also causes random fits of anger (along with possible motor skill issues, but it's never made clear if that's just bad luck or an actual result of his damage). As he himself points out, though, it's still manageable and with the help of his friends, he can learn to live with it.
* {{Determinator}}: It takes stunning amounts of danger or damage to get Wash out of a fight.
* {{Deuteragonist}}:
** ''The Recollection'' ultimately revolves around Church (both the Alpha, and later Epsilon, variants), but Washington's story is of almost-equal importance, particularly in ''Reconstruction'' (with him being the season's protagonist) and ''Revelation'' (with him being ''that'' season's [[VillainProtagonist Villain Tritagonist]]).
** He and Carolina are both the deuteragonists of Season 13 of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and the collective tritagonists of Season 12.
** He's also really important during the events of ''Singularity'' (with one of the season's subplots being [[spoiler:Wash coming to terms with his brain damage and him learning to forgive Carolina for her initially keeping it secret from him]]) and serves as its deuteragonist, though Donut is still ultimately that season's protagonist.
* DeviousDaggers: It's most apparent when fighting the Meta in ''Revelation'' and Felix in Season 13.
-->'''Wash''' (to Felix) What, you think you're the ''only'' one who's good with knives?
* DiscOneFinalBoss: After serving as one of the main antagonists during ''Revelation'', Wash pulls a HeelFaceTurn and joins the Reds and Blues after the Meta betrays him.
* DoNotCallMePaul: At least in the case of [[DiabolicalMastermind the Director]]. He seems perfectly comfortable with [[spoiler: Carolina]] calling him by his real name after Season 13.
-->'''Director:''' Yes, I realize it has been a while since we've spoke, David. May I call you David?\\
'''Washington:''' No, you cannot. You gave me my new name, the least you can do is use it.
* DrillSergeantNasty:
** Shows shades of this in Season 11, making Tucker do squats and laps around the canyon. He even increases the number of laps when Tucker tries to snark back at him.
** He's trying this again in Season 13, only this time on Grif, by punishing Grif's squad for his laziness (his hope being that the guilt will force Grif to comply). Obviously, he doesn't know Grif as well as he thought and he meets with rather mixed success. He also tries to chew Palomo out for less than stellar performance during target practice, again with mixed success.
* EasilyForgiven: For siding with the Meta, being a total dick to the Reds and Blues, taking Simmons and Doc hostage, insulting, humiliating, and depriving Sarge of his shotgun ''and shooting Lopez and Donut.'' Aside from Donut referring to him as "a jerk" for shooting him he's pretty much been taken in by the Reds and Blues no questions asked. However, if Washington's dream from "The Federal Army of Chorus" is anything to go by, he still hasn't forgiven himself for his past actions (''especially'' shooting Donut, even though Donut himself has and whenever it comes up it's typically PlayedForLaughs).
* ExhaustionInducedIdiocy: After being armor-locked by Temple, his fatigue has clearly affected his mindset worse than it has for Carolina. He's highly loopy, hallucinating, and says random things that he normally wouldn't in a clearer head. This also leads to him casually walking out into the middle of gunfire where he gets shot in the neck.
* FaceHeelTurn: At the end of ''Recreation'', after one betrayal too many. Thankfully, it only lasted for a season.
-->'''Wash''': 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 I'm going to ''ask for it?''
* FakingTheDead: The Reds and Blues help him do this in order to escape from the Chairman by disguising himself as Church at the end of ''Revelation'', who had left his body.
* FatalFlaw: {{Revenge}}. It takes Wash a long time for him to find out that his habit of holding grudges for a really, ''really'' long time is anything but a good idea.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He temporarily went insane when he had [[MechanicalAbomination Epsilon]] plugged into his brain and it tried to kill itself while ''still in his head.''
* GoodCostumeSwitch: After his HeelFaceTurn, he starts wearing Church's cobalt armor, with his yellow highlights painted on, until switching back to his grey and yellow armor towards the end of Season 11.
* GuileHero: Not above trying to talk his way out of things, or manipulate people. Fighting smarter allows him to fight on par with Felix and Locus, using tricks and psychological tactics to keep up with their superior weaponry. A great example of this is him using his own blood to give away Locus's camouflage.
* GunKata: Not a very stylized version, but has an intense close quarters battle with Felix using a pistol and various blocks and knee strikes to counter Felix's knives in "Fed vs. New".
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: From his younger days, where he comes off as almost innocent and idealistic. Season 10's present-day segments seem to indicate that this part of him is making a resurgence due to his CharacterDevelopment.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Makes a FaceHeelTurn at the end of ''Recreation'', but has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of ''Revelation''.
* HeelRealization: At the end of ''Revelation'', he starts feeling guilty about his actions after the Reds and Blues rescue him from the Meta and he talks with Epsilon-Church. It results in a HeelFaceTurn when the Reds and Blues let him take on Church's identity which prevents him from going to prison, despite having no real reason to, especially after he killed Donut and Lopez (who are later revealed to have survived), and got Tex and Church trapped inside the memory unit.
* TheHero: By Season 11, Wash follows the standard heroic archetype more than any other character in the main cast, by virtue of being the only one competent enough to get things done. Season 13 continues this when Wash tries to maintain peace between the Rebels and the Feds.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** When Locus and his team attacks Crash Site Bravo at the end of Season 11, Wash, Sarge, Donut, and Lopez get seriously injured and are unable to move. While the rest of the team and Felix make their way into a cave passage, they realize that they'll have to close the passage behind them. Unfortunately, this involves leaving the injured at Locus' mercy. Washington hears this and orders Freckles to "shake." Freckles then stomps the ground, creating enough force to close the gap. As mentioned, this leaves Wash totally at the mercy of Locus.
** Come ''Singularity'', he decides to [[spoiler:willingly subject himself to cerebral hypoxia so as to repair the TemporalParadox and save the universe]].
* HiddenDepths:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' reveals that he's a KindheartedCatLover.
** ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'' shows that Wash has '''always''' had issues with holding grudges and hidden personality traits than what was first apparent even when he seemed to just be a lovable ButtMonkey during the heyday of Project Freelancer, with the Epsilon Incident having brought those darker aspects of himself closer to the surface.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** When Church refuses to help him with taking down the Meta, he responds with a DareToBeBadass speech, arguing that it would be a selfish decision that would haunt Church afterwards. In the following season, Wash teams up ''with'' the Meta in order to retrieve Epsilon and get a clean slate on life. Which is, well... a selfish decision that would haunt him later on.
** More generally, Washington often complains about being constantly betrayed and taken advantage of, all while scheming against his employers and former teammates. This is, however, [[JustifiedTrope quite justified]], since even when he is siding against the heroes, as he had enough bad experiences not to care too much about honesty or loyalty himself.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: In "Quicksave", as a result of being held prisoner without food or water for several days, he deliriously wanders onto a battlefield and is shot in the throat. His brain is left without oxygen for several minutes, and the brain damage sustained as a result of the injury drives his character arc for ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Wash".
* IronButtMonkey: Despite his frequent injuries, he almost always manages to keep going with no apparent detriment. It takes an extended beatdown from the Meta to finally put him out of commission in ''Revelation''.
* IronicName: His given name is "David," which means "beloved" in Hebrew. He was the ButtMonkey among the other upper leaderboard Freelancers and treated like a naive idiot most of the time.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite often being considered the worst member of the Freelancer squad and getting respected by just about no-one, Washington is currently one of only two members of the entirety of Project Freelancer confirmed to still be alive.
** Another case of Irony is that, [[spoiler:he was shot in the throat just like Maine was. The two seemed to be friends back during the early days of Project Freelancer but became enemies after the latter became the Meta. Even more unlike the latter whom was no longer able to speak due to the shot, Wash ended up receiving brain damage. Interestingly enough, when Wash loses it and gets angry at Carolina for keeping the brain damage a secret, the Meta's theme plays furthering the irony of Wash's situation.]]
* JackOfAllTrades: In the prequels, there are many non-combat actions Wash takes care of while the rest of the freelancers are showing off their super skills. He's competent in a number of fields, including being a good enough lock pick for Carolina to choose him as York's replacement, searching through files and security systems (as well as doing some unintended sabotage), and is usually the agent meeting with InternalAffairs, meaning he's very good dealing with other branches of the operation.
* JadeColoredGlasses: The contrast between his flashback persona and ''Revelation'' persona really shows this. He starts out idealistic and friendly and ends up cynical and bitter. This is characterized by an exchange with Doc during Revelation.
-->'''Wash:''' ''(Talking to the Meta)'' I agree, we should just kill most of them, the last one left alive will talk.\\
'''Doc:''' Wash, you can't just kill everyone you meet!\\
'''Wash:''' Why not?\\
'''Doc:''' Umm... well, now that you put me on the spot, I don't really have an answer, just seems like a bad idea.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After his CharacterDevelopment. He still has his problems, and isn't the nicest guy around, but he has come to view the Red Team and Blue Team as TrueCompanions and values their safety. He also shows great concern for the people of Chorus during first the Chorus Civil War and then the war with Charon Industries, and [[spoiler:is perfectly fine with inflicting permanent brain damage upon himself if it's necessary to save the whole of space-time]].
* KarmaHoudini: PlayedForLaughs in regards to his shooting of Donut. Although he does try his best to make up for it and is genuinely sorry for it.
-->'''Donut''': ...and I got ''shot!''\\
'''Washington''': ''([[NotSoInnocentWhistle whistles nonchalantly]])''
* KickTheDog: Shooting Lopez and Donut at the very end of ''Recreation''.
* KindheartedCatLover: He's a NiceGuy who even had cat pictures in his locker. And his return in ''The Shisno Paradox'' has him telling about a childhood cat who was just as indestructible as Wash would turn out to be.
* KnightInSourArmor: Firmly on the side of good, but he is far more cynical and world-weary than his friends. It's only after the end of ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that he starts to become more idealistic again.
* KnightOfCerebus: While he's not a bad guy exactly, he still manages to fall into this. He only appears in a few scenes in ''Recreation'', including the final scene of the season, where he seemingly kills both Donut and Lopez. What follows in ''Revelation'' is much more action-based and plot oriented than the previous season. He can also be considered one for the main series as a whole, as the ''Recollection'' trilogy and ''Recovery One'' are noticeably much DarkerAndEdgier than the previous series'.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Wash spent ''years'' nursing a secret grudge against the Director and Freelancer, bidding his time for the right moment to bring them both down. By the end of Season 10, he's finally given a genuine opportunity to get revenge against the Director, instead of what he did in ''Reconstruction'' which was petty revenge in comparison, and decides to just let it go instead of putting his new friends in danger. Unlike Carolina and even Church, it seems he's learned to let go of the past.
* TheLancer: To Carolina in Season 10.
* TheLeader: By ''Revelation'' onward, he becomes the leader of the Blues and in Season 11, he unofficially becomes leaders of both the Reds and the Blues, if only because the others see him as a more competent leader than either [[TheNeidermeyer Sarge]] or [[PutOnABus the absent]] [[TheCynic Church]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Good Fight" in his introduction, which he shares with Church. Later seasons associate him with a slower, more somber version of "Big Prize."
* MadeOfIron: Only Grif has endured worse than him - the things he's survived include two separate spaceship crashes from orbit, an AI attempting to commit suicide in his head, several gunshot wounds, being hit by a speeding Warthog, ''multiple'' point-blank explosions, a shot in the head with a concussion rifle, being beaten unconscious by Locus... A few were close to fatal, such as being shot in the back by South Dakota (saved by York's healing unit), fighting the Meta after already surviving Tex's traps, and a shot in the neck when he was already wrecked by malnourishment. It really says something when only the ''last'' injury mentioned has left him with any permanent and irreversible damage.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "That was the worst ___. Ever. Of all time."
* MajorlyAwesome: "Viper" reveals that his military rank is Major.
* MasterOfNone: [[DownplayedTrope By Freelancer standards.]] He doesn't seem to have a specialty, and most of the other Freelancers are more combat-capable. He turns into a very competent GuileHero over time, however. His icon on the board is a battle rifle and he's shown to be unparalleled in terms of skill with the weapon, even destroying a Hornet with it [[ImprobableAimingSkills while in free-fall]].
* MeaningfulName: A variant - His nickname being "Wash" is quite appropriate after he was [=re-designated=] as "Recovery One" and basically became the most prominent member of Project Freelancer's CleanupCrew.
* MoodSwinger: Due to his brain damage from Season 15, he starts to exhibit random fits of anger or switches from a rather cheery disposition to his usual seriousness.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: An Inverted example happens with him and Lopez. When Lopez is repaired in Season 12, a brief POVCam from his perspective and FreezeFrameBonus shows that he identifies Donut, Sarge, and Wash as "Idiot", "Loud Idiot", and "Agent Washington" respectively, showing that Washington is one of the few people Lopez shows genuine respect for. Added irony to this is how Wash shot and almost killed Lopez back in Season 7.
* NiceGuy: Used to be this. Even with his [[HiddenDepths hidden dark side]], Wash was kind and considerate to all his other Freelancers. He devolved into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold after the project went up in flames. It's only after the Reds and Blues permanently end the Director's schemes that Wash begins to regain semblance of his old kindness.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His actions in ''Revelation'' lead to the Meta regaining all his abilities by capturing Tex in the Capture Unit instead of Epsilon. This nearly turned out ''very'' badly for all involved. If the Reds and Tucker hadn't been able to put a stop to it before he could get away, the Meta would have been completely free and had all of his power back.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice for the trio he formed with York and North, easily being the friendliest and dorkiest out of the three.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Having this too often is one of the sources to a lot of Wash's bitterness and anger.
* NobleDemon: During his FaceHeelTurn, he becomes this. He's relatively nice towards Doc, or at least as nice as someone with Wash's temperament can be, and he's motivated more by desperation than any actual malice.
* NomDeGuerre: Aside from "Agent Washington", he's also known as "Recovery One" during his time as a Recovery agent.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: When he's first introduced, he seems like an expert badass compared to the zany Blood Gulch Crew. Later seasons show that he's very much WeakButSkilled, at least relative to most of the other Freelancers, despite his complete regularity as number 6 on the leader board. He even admits to Tucker that he considered himself one of the worst agents in his squad, though his developments post-Epsilon would prove him far more capable than he gave himself credit. His "normality" is emphasized by this exchange from "Fall From Heaven":
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker York (talking to North):]]''' [...] and now I'm paired with the squad's second-worst fighter. But sure we can handle it.\\
[...]\\
'''Washington:''' ...You really think I'm the second worst fighter?\\
'''York:''' [[VitriolicBestBuds No, I was being nice.]] [[BrutalHonesty You're easily the worst.]]
* NoRespectGuy: Back in his days with the other Freelancers, Wash was this. Though he was pretty competent and always stayed up on the leaderboard, his BoringButPractical approach to his job and his EndearinglyDorky behavior led to pretty much everyone viewing him as the resident loser. After the Freelancers split up, they still don't respect him at all nor regard him as a threat, which comes back to bite South, Tex, and the Meta when Wash turns out to have [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Level In Badass]].
* NotAfraidToDie: Has this attitude in ''Reconstruction'' with hints of it throughout the whole series.
-->'''Washington:''' I'm sorry, did something about my actions indicate that I ''expect'' to survive?
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** In ''Reconstruction'', Wash tells Church that his successful sniper shot doesn't count because "it only counts if you call it". It's the first sign of Wash's personality prior to the Epsilon incident. He also comes up with Grif's new rank of "Minor Junior Private Negative First Class" surprisingly quickly.
** In "Change of Plans", when the Reds and Blues are bickering over which team has the highest kill count, Washington decides to play along.
--->'''Washington:''' ''(smugly)'' Technically, Project Freelancer makes the rules. And ''I'' say Blue Team gets to add ''my'' kill count to theirs!
** In Season 11, when the Reds and Blues all drag Donut and Doc off to beat them up for flubbing their rescue, Washington is right there with them tearing the "rescue team" apart. Additionally, he ''also'' helped cause the ''Hand of Merope'' to crash (he knocked a cable out of the wall on accident) just like the other Reds and Blues did. And on a similar note, [[FailedASpotCheck he doesn't remember]] [[ForgettableCharacter poor Doc]] [[PutOnABus getting sucked into the Future Cubes]] either until Season 13 (as Epsilon and Carolina's ignorance can at least be excused by them not having known Doc was at Crash Site Bravo in the first place).
** During "Previously On" in Season 15, he jumps with joy with the other Reds and Blues when they build "the galaxy's greatest water park."
** During ''Singularity'', he uses MentalTimeTravel to go back to the height of Project Freelancer, and tries to learn where Carolina was hiding after she faked her death. As Agent Iowa would point out to him, [[DumbassHasAPoint he can just travel into the future when he and Carolina were friends so he could ask her then]]. After both hearing that ''and'' a lengthy StunnedSilence, he travels into the future and '''immediately''' gets an answer from [=Future!Carolina=]. Upon finding out that he CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot, Wash lets out a furious SkywardScream.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Locus seems to consider Washington to be a similar sort of man to himself ("I'm a soldier, like you"), due to his rather ruthless actions in earlier seasons. The big difference is that Washington managed to reclaim his humanity whereas Locus still sees himself as "a suit of armor and a gun".
** On a lighter note, he's also been compared to Caboose on occasion... much to his dismay. It's not an completely invalid comparison, though.
---> '''Caboose''': We have a lot in common, Agent Washington!\\
'''Washington''': No, we don't! ...And don't ''ever'' say that again.
** As lampshaded during ''Singularity'', he was a ''lot'' more like Donut than what was first apparent during the heyday of Project Freelancer. [[spoiler:It's perhaps best shown when he's nearing the DespairEventHorizon over not being able to get [=Past!Carolina=] to listen to him.]]
--->'''Wash:''' Is this how ''Donut'' feels all the time?
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Does this in "Reckless" after Donut complains about having gotten shot.
* OddFriendship:
** Wash is an uptight, regulations guy who freaked out when North mentioned he used equipment without telling Command. Maine is a brutish dirty fighting soldier who tried to kill Tex during a sparring match because she was beating him. Nevertheless, they seemed to have been good friends during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. Wash was even briefly depressed upon realizing in ''Revelation'' that Maine's psyche was completely corrupted by Sigma's manipulations, now viewing the prospect of fighting his former friend as a MercyKill, and is the only person shown to be capable of completely understanding Maine's grunts and growls without any assistance.
** The vitriolic and sarcastic South with the much more passive and naive (at the time) Washington. While not shown frequently, the two had a teasing friendship, with their moments of snark, and years after the two had last seen each other, the embittered Wash is willing to do what he can to help South. Even more odd considering she was The Bully to the triplets which Washington had noticably also been friends with. Unfortunately, much like with Maine, this friendship horribly decays once South betrays him and leaves him for dead, when they meet again, he makes sure to kill her.
** In the present, Wash is a grumpy and [[KnightInSourArmor bitter]] GuileHero. Caboose is friendly, optimistic, and [[TheDitz dumb as a box of rocks]]. They get along famously.
** During the events of ''Singularity,'' he forms one with ''[[TheDandy Donut]]'' of all people.
* OnlySaneMan: Particularly in ''Reconstruction'', where he plays the StraightMan to the antics of the Reds and Blues. He softens up in later seasons, first becoming more sarcastic, then becoming more friendly, though even after this he's still more level-headed than they are.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs when he acts creepily cheerful towards Sarge, Grif, and Simmons before the initial assault on Crash Site Alpha in Season 13, with them taking notice of his personality shift and then calling him out on it (with Grif thinking that Wash believes that they're going to die).
* PapaWolf: Becomes this to the Reds and Blues, going so far as to ''hold a gun'' to Carolina's head when she threatens Tucker in "Change of Plans."
--> '''Washington:''' I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be ''damned'' before I let you cause any more.
* PetTheDog:
** Despite being under orders to kill South Dakota, he instead allows her to mourn her brother, helps fake her death and tries to escape the Meta with her. Too bad she didn't repay the favor.
** During Season 11, he manages to swallow his pride and open up to Tucker about being the ButtMonkey of Project Freelancer, and also apologizes to Caboose for not being a better friend to him while he was upset about Church's absence.
* PluckyComicRelief: In the flashback segments.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: If there's manpower available to Wash to help him get the job done, he'll take it without a second thought. "I can't do this alone" is practically one of his catchphrases. Establishing friendships with the Blood Gulch Crew also goes a long way towards helping him redeem himself and improve his own mental health. And in ''Singularity'', he all but says to Carolina that [[spoiler:he's fine with having permanent brain damage since he knows that his friends will be able to help him with it.]]
* PrecisionFStrike:
** At the end of ''Reconstruction''.
---> '''Washington''': ''[[BrickJoke Emp]]''? You have ''got'' to be fucking joki-
** He's completely furious with Carolina when it's revealed that she withheld the knowledge of him having brain damage, practically shouting to the Blood Gulch Crew "And did any of you ''know?!'' Or am I the ''only'' one who didn't know that I had ''fucking'' '''brain damage?!?!'''"
* ProperlyParanoid: In Season 11, Wash is the only one of the Blood Gulch Crew to feel uneasy about being shipwrecked with no sign of immediate rescue. Even after they manage to make radio contact with Donut, he still warns the others that rescue may not immediately come. Also, he is the only one that shows distrust towards [[HiredGuns Felix]]. After TheReveal that Felix is actually working with [[TheDreaded Locus]] to kill everyone on Chorus for a third party, he was right all along.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Season 10 reveals that not only did he start wearing Church's armor and take over as leader of the Blue Team, but the characters started referring to him as Church.
-->'''Caboose''': I wouldn't really use the word "replace"... but there's no word for "take over for you and make everything better immediately". [[DistinctionWithoutADifference So we just say replace!]]
* {{Revenge}}:
** His primary motivation is to make the Director pay for his crimes. Eventually subverted as a motivation for him as of the final few episodes of Season 10. He knows that the Director is evil, and that it would be right if he paid for his crimes, but there's no benefit to following that path, and it will only lead to a longer line of his friends' corpses, if anything changed at all.
--->'''Counselor''': So you would say that you have overwhelming feelings of anger and a need for revenge?\\
'''Washington''': More than you know.
** There's also the incident with South shooting him in the back. He gets some payback for that, although he ends up freaking out his new allies.
* RogueProtagonist: In ''Revelation''. However, he [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides]] towards the end, so it may count as a subversion.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: PlayedForLaughs when Sarge brags about Red Team has a bigger kill count. Washington then proclaims that since Project Freelancer makes the rules, and he's a former Project Freelancer member, Blue Team gets to add his kill count to their own.
* SecretKeeper: For a huge portion of ''Reconstruction'', he's the only character that knew exactly what the Director did to the Alpha. It's still not clear just how much of the Director and Alpha's memories he has.
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[DownplayedTrope A minor case]], but his nightmare in "The Federal Army of Chorus" implies that he suffers from PTSD over his past actions.
* SociopathicHero: Even before the Epsilon Incident, he was a violent revenge planner. In fact, he has been one since ''childhood.'' He was just better at hiding it behind the mask of dorkiness than after the Epsilon Incident. He's been seeking revenge against the Director for years and killed South without hesitation when she betrayed him. However, he is still a good guy throughout the series, especially once the Reds and Blues take him in.
* SuperGullible: Pre-Epsilon Incident, Connecticut and South mention that he's this while playing "Five Things". They then prove it immediately afterwards by saying that he has something stuck in his teeth, which makes Wash wonder if he does. While he's wearing a helmet. According to the guide book, York and North once told him there was a sauna aboard the ''Mother Of Invention'' and he never suspected anything, even though they repeatedly kept giving him conflicting directions.
* SupportingLeader: During ''Reconstruction'' and the end of ''Revelation''.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "I'm not crazy, okay? I'm totally, completely sane. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go [[ItMakesSenseInContext blow up this dead body."]] Despite the fact that it [[JustifiedTrope was standard procedure to destroy dead Freelancers' bodies and armor]], he still was [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rather thorough]].
* TeamDad: Subverted in the Season 9 prequel segments. He tries it with Connecticut, but she doesn't buy it at all. Played straight in Season 10's present-day segments, with Wash balancing out the inanities of the Blood Gulch Crew with Carolina's AxCrazy tendencies. He continues this role in Season 11, where he works to keep the Blood Gulch Crew alive by carefully managing their limited supplies, as well as trying to train Tucker and Caboose to be proper soldiers. It continues in ''Singularity'' where, [[spoiler:after Donut gives the Blood Gulch Crew a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for their terrible treatment of him, he promptly makes them all go and apologize to him]].
* TemporarilyAVillain: What seems to him to just be the latest of many betrayals in ''Recreation'' leads him to try to hunt down the Reds and Blues, going so far as to team up with the Meta. At the end of ''Revelation'' he rejoins them, and stays on their side the rest of the series.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the years that follow the Epsilon Incident, he becomes exceptionally more dangerous, mainly from his increased capacity for ruthlessness and Chessmaster tendencies.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Starting in ''Recreation'', to the point of a FaceHeelTurn. He also had one of these in the past after the Epsilon Incident. Furthermore, he becomes a bitter DrillSergeantNasty during Season 11 due to the stress of trying to keep himself and the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew alive while they're stuck in Crash Site Bravo.
* TookALevelInKindness: He gets substantially better come Season 10; becoming something closer to the Wash he used to be. While he can be a bit strict towards his fellow Blues, he cares for them, to the point that he aimed a pistol at Carolina when she threatened Tucker.
* TraumaCongaLine: Before Season 9, few would guess that Agent Washington was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his Freelancer career he was hated by most every other Agent in the Project, was forced to harvest equipment/AI Fragments from their corpses after they died along with [[NotEnoughToBury destroying both their body and armor so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands]], and kept working for a Project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: His neck injury caused cerebral hypoxia, which made him forget most of the events of Season 15. Played with in that it causes other problems too, like forgetting more recent events and causing sudden bouts of anger.
* UnluckilyLucky: Wash may be one of the biggest {{Butt Monkey}}s of the entire series (being likely surpassed only by [[NiceGuy Doc]], [[LazyBum Grif]], and [[TheDandy Donut]] in that regard), but he's survived against countless odds to a miraculous degree.
* TheUnreveal: Wash's face alone of the Freelancers hasn't been seen, with strategic placement of other people blocking his face. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] eventually in Season 10 where he carries out a conversation with North and York, while eating, still in his helmet. It is known, however, that he has bright blond hair that he keeps relatively short and grew a beard during the 10-month break following Chorus.
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to his fellow Freelancers, Washington doesn't have much going for him in the way of combat, especially one-on-one combat. However, put a battle rifle in his hands and there's basically nothing anyone can do to stop him, and he's tied with Maine in the sheer amount of damage he can take before he finally stops fighting. Notably, while he's relatively low on the leaderboard, he's the only Freelancer in the series who only ever moves up the ranks, and he's one of only three members of the entire Project confirmed to still be alive.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Maine. When Maine was shot in the throat in Season 9, he showed a large amount of concern for him. But by ''Reconstruction'', while he is surprised that Maine is still the one in the armor, he is fully willing to kill him, and vice versa. He and Maine work together again in Season 8, but they eventually turn on each other. This also applies to South Dakota after she turns on him, unlike with Maine, he does put an end to her.
* WideEyedIdealist: His younger self tends to come off as this during the flashbacks of Season 9 and 10 pre-Epsilon.
* TheWorfEffect: At the beginning of ''Zero'' he is defeated in hand-to-hand combat by the Viper Syndicate and is subsequently tortured and hospitalized.
* WouldHitAGirl: And BoomHeadshot her too.
-->'''Agent South Dakota''': [[TemptingFate Oh, come on, Wash. What are you gonna do,]] [[KilledMidSentence shoo--]]\\
''(BoomHeadshot)''\\
'''Agent Washington''': [[BluntYes Yes.]]
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[[folder:Sheila]]
![=M808V=] Main Battle Tank / "Sheila"
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->''"Firing main cannon."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Yomary Cruz
Blue Team's support vehicle, a Scorpion battle tank with an artificial intelligence that answers to "Sheila". The Blues express bewilderment that Command decided to supply them with a tank no one knows how to operate, but Caboose nonetheless attempts to rescue Church using Sheila, killing him in the process and apparently falling in love with the "nice tank lady." If Sheila paid much attention to Caboose, this would form a LoveTriangle, given her attraction to Lopez. After Caboose's attempt, the Blues seem to decide that Sheila works best driving herself. Throughout the series, Sheila is a major asset for Blue Team...when she isn't feeling moody, threatening, or running off with Lopez to form an all-robot faction.
What, if any, connection she has with the Freelancer program F.I.L.S.S. is unknown, though the two do share a voice and many mannerisms.
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!!Associated Tropes:
* AccidentalMurder: Accidentally kills Church. Later subverted.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes to the Pelican crashsite, and mentions how its computer is an "old friend", suggesting she's still active.
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scene in Season 6 though, where Church and Caboose accessed her memories with Washington as she crashed, they never refer to her afterwards or make any attempt to recover her.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Lopez.
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut, and Tex as they're leaving for Sidewinder. She packed them lunches (somehow) and reminds them to "wash [their] exhaust pipes every day." The lunches include things like air filters and brake fluid, but it's the thought that counts.
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expect this to be repeated for quite some time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupies the crashed Pelican in Valhalla, as alluded in AlmostDeadGuy above, but nothing is heard of her after that. And according to Kaikaina in ''The Shisno Paradox'', Valhalla was later bought out by a building company and had condos built in it, leaving her fate completely up in the air.
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[[folder:Freckles]]
!MANTIS-Class Assault Droid / "Freckles"
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->''"Disregarding a direct order from a commanding officer is punishable by death."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Shane Newville (Seasons 11-13), Creator/MilesLuna (Season 15)
Caboose's "pet" in Season 11, an automated MANTIS walker that he discovered in a crashed ship. Its AI is transferred to his assault rifle in Season 12 after being heavily damaged at the end of Season 11.
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!!Associated Tropes:
* ActionGirl: Quite easily the toughest person in the main cast.
* AlphaBitch: Her ([[InformedAttribute off-screen]]) jealous, vindictive, and abusive treatment of Sister makes her sound like this. Of course, [[TheDitz Sister laughs it all off as "just girl stuff"]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: And [[TheRival Carolina]] isn't all too happy about that.
* AndThenWhat: Church calls her out on ignoring this in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale during her FaceHeelTurn. He points out that while Project Freelancer's plan to end the Great War with [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Junior]] ''may'' work, it'll also result in giving the ''{{Anthropomorphic Personification}} of [[UnstoppableRage rage]]'' an entire species of {{Proud Warrior Race Guys}} (the Elites) as an army for ravaging the galaxy with. She [[ShutUpKirk dismisses this by saying]], [[BystanderSyndrome "We'll just have to find out."]]
* AntiHero: While she has sympathetic motivations and is never an outright villain, she's cruel, brutal, and oftentimes ruthless in the pursuit of her goals.
* ArrogantKungFuGirl: Her second self in ''Revelation'', and all of her showings after that (including her original persona in flashbacks when wielding Omega), sports shades of this.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Not only is she a natural fragment that broke off of the Alpha in its creation, but she's the "Beta" [=A.I.=]. In Season 10, it's shown that she's known this ''long'' before meeting up with Alpha-Church.
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
* AutobotsRockOut: Anytime she's about to open a can of whoopass, expect a badass background theme.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Shares a touching moment with Church as the dream world falls apart in Season 9, and also gets some other pleasant moments with both the Alpha and Epsilon before each of her "deaths." "Why Were We Here?" also has [[YouWillBeSpared the Blood Gulch Crew being spared by Omega's wrath]] as one of the conditions for letting him possess her, and she earlier describes Blue Team as "''her'' idiots" to Sister in Season 5.
* BackFromTheDead:
** After her death in the EMP blast at the end of Season 6, she's resurrected by Epsilon-Church when he splits off his memories of her. She is not happy about this.
** After Epsilon-Tex dies, a copy of her is found at the Director's lair at the end of Season 10. Unfortunately, [[CameBackWrong this Tex has been Mind Raped beyond repair by the Director.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After being taken by the Meta, Sigma [[NothingIsScarier does... whatever it is he does to the other AI]] to get her to go along with his mad schemes.
* BroughtDownToBadass: While she's still a OneWomanArmy during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she's not '''nearly''' as superhumanly awesome as she was during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. While part of this is obviously just a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, it's justified InUniverse due to her both [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption being cursed to always fail at the last moment whenever she puts her mind to something]] and the new robotic body she takes control over for the majority of the first five seasons [[FlawedPrototype being significantly weaker than]] the one she had during her time in Project Freelancer.
* CameBackWrong:
** The Tex Drones in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10 talk in a broken variation of her voice (to the point where they sound more like ''Omega'' than Tex herself), and [[ConservationOfNinjutsu don't seem to have quite the same level of badassery as the original]]. Aside from that, there is the fact that the controlling version of Tex is in [[MindRape less than]] [[ColdBloodedTorture stable]] condition.
** We never get to meet the real Allison, as the one we do see is actually the result of the Director's attempts to bring her back. The Tex we know is in fact the [=A.I.=] known as "Beta", and essentially a memory of the original Allison. This memory is derived from those of the Director, so while she's close, she's never quite close enough to be a true replacement for Allison and is really little more than a shadow of her. What makes the situation even worse is that the Director's overriding memory of Allison was that she died in the Great War - she failed. This colored ''all'' of his other memories of her to the point where Beta's fragment attribute is that she's the Alpha's failure made manifest: No matter how hard she fights or how badass she might be, she will always ultimately fail whenever something heavily important is on the line because that's what the Director and the Alpha unconsciously designed her to do.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would reveal that she went to Blood Gulch to watch over the Alpha [=A.I.=] since she felt that it was all she could do to atone for failing to save him the first time around. This ''really'' doesn't fit in with her being a WildCard that eventually betrays Church to help Project Freelancer ([=a.k.a.=] the organization that she ''abandoned''), but it can be {{Hand Wave}}d under Tex taking TheNeedsOfTheMany into account.
** Additionally, the version of Tex seen during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is shown to be very greedy, to the point where it's her FatalFlaw. This aspect of her personality isn't seen at all both during the flashback sequences in Seasons 9 & 10 along with her time in the present day as [=Epsilon-Tex=].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Throughout ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', she repeatedly betrays the Blues, though it's PlayedForLaughs. At the end of Season 5, her last betrayal, [[WellIntentionedExtremist albeit done with good intentions]], is played dead straight for drama. She also shoots Church and leaves him as bait for Wash and the Meta in ''Revelation'', albeit so as to be able to finish their fight once and for all so she can finally kill the Director.
* CombatPragmatist: She doesn't fight fair, be it [[GroinAttack kicks to the groin]] or beating you to death with your own skull. Also see CrazyPrepared below.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Towards the end of Season 10 there's about two or three dozen clones of her guarding the director. Where the original Tex could effortlessly curbstomp all of the Blood Gulch Crew at once without breaking a sweat, the clones don't seem to have ''quite'' the same level of badass as the original as the Crew manages to put up a pretty good fight against them. Although it's likely these bodies were mass produced, and not customized for battle like her first and third bodies. It also fits into her being cursed [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption to always fail at whatever she does at the last minute]].
* TheCorruptible: Omega does this to every one he infects (sans Church) in some way, but his nature has the strongest hold on Tex's persona.
* CovertPervert: Not really ever discussed about, but Tex can be pretty perverted, like at the way she repeatedly stared at the Alien's crotch.
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
* CosmicPlaything: Not quite as much as Church, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Tex's nature]] makes her life absolutely miserable. Many of her failures aren't even her fault in any way, just spectacular examples of bad luck. It gets to the point where she angrily asks Epsilon ''why'' he even brought her back if all she's going to do is fail for no reason and at whatever she sets out to do.
* CrazyPrepared: Most evident in Episode 19 of ''Revelation'', where she has the battlefield rigged with tons of mines, explosives, and hidden weapons, just to give herself an even greater edge over Washington and the Meta.
* CurbStompBattle: Her fight with the Reds and Blues in ''Revelation'' is just her kicking the crap out of them for two episodes. A good chunk of her fights in Seasons 9 and 10 are also this, most notably her training match with Wyoming, York, and Maine.
* DarkActionGirl: Although at the end of the day she is still a good person, Tex is '''immensely''' ruthless, to the point where it is a legitimate fear that she would casually murder those who piss her off.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears black armor, and while ruthless, is (mostly) on the side of good.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her humour's rather dry, needless to say.
* DeathIsCheap: Tex dies multiple times throughout the series in some form. She is destroyed by Donut's grenade at the end of Season 1, but returns as a ghost the next season. She dies in the crash of the Pelican at the end of Season 5, but still remains as the [=A.I.=] Beta. Beta is picked up by the Meta and destroyed by the "emp" at the end of ''Recreation''. A different version of Tex based on Epsilon's memories returned in ''Revelation'', and was encased in the Epsilon memory unit, but Epsilon eventually let himself "forget" the new Tex, removing her from existence and letting the character die for good.
* DeathSeeker: By the time of her Epsilon iteration, Tex is so tired and annoyed of being constantly brought back to life against her will and just "wants to rest."
* DefectorFromDecadence: Following learning [[TomatoInTheMirror the information]] in [[DeadManWriting Connie's data files]], she promptly left Project Freelancer completely, only returning subversively with York and North Dakota (albeit inadvertently).
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She serves as this to Church for the series as a whole up until the end of Season 10, not counting Seasons 6 and 7. Her story and importance to the plot is second only to Church, particularly in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and ''Recreation'', and she serves as the tritagonist throughout the Project Freelancer Saga.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When C.T calls her a shadow in Season 10, Episode 10, she doesn't take it very well:
-->'''Tex''': ''What'' did you just call me?!\\
[...]\\
'''Tex''': [[TranquilFury Actually, we don't need you, we just need your armor.]] ''[proceeds to mortally wound C.T.]''
* DoAndroidsDream: After her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome now-famous ass-kicking]] of the Blood Gulch Crew in "This One Goes To Eleven" (which was essentially her venting some repressed rage), this was her primary motivation: To find out who she is, what she is, and what purpose she has in the real world.
* TheDragon: For the Director in Seasons 9 and 10, until her TomatoInTheMirror.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Lampshaded in the end of Season 5, as her seeming death is met with little flair. PlayedStraight when it's revealed she's still alive, though has no role to speak of before her death by the emp.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 10, Tex apparently manages to become reasonably close friends with both York and North Dakota in the space of just two episodes, despite having spent the past two seasons pretty much just being aloof and menacing towards everybody. Granted, York and North both seem to be pretty forgiving guys, and they were likely brought onto her side after she revealed to them what the Director had done to the Alpha.
* ExactWords: Both she and Church often refer to their romance by saying things like "We used to be together" or "We were inseparable" or "We used to be close." While it may all sound like typical romance talk, they're actually being completely literal: The Alpha and Beta [=A.I.s=] previously existed as non-metaphorical parts of one greater [=A.I.=] that the latter naturally broke themselves off from (with them previously having been akin to a binary personality matrix).
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: According to Epsilon, this is her ''defining character trait''.
* FakeMemories: Later events heavily imply that she was implanted with these prior to her becoming a Freelancer Agent, what with her [[TomatoInTheMirror being utterly shocked upon realizing that she's an A.I.]] in Season 10.
* FatalFlaw: A rare case of one being unintentionally built into the character - Namely, she will [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption always fail at the last second whenever she puts her mind to something]]. Additionally, as alluded to below, she's very [[{{Greed}} greedy]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While she was already all but stated to be an [=A.I.=] in ''Reconstruction'', it's not until ''Revelation'' that it's confirmed. However, there's some examples within ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that serve as this for Tex herself InUniverse - Why does she seem to have a CharlesAtlasSuperpower in basically everything she puts her mind to? Because, as an [=A.I.=], her reaction times and thought processes would be greater than those of a human being. We get some more in Seasons 9 and 10 - First, when Wyoming hits her in the arm in Episode 10, disabling it. Then when Connecticut and the Insurrectionist Leader both stab her in Episode 7, but she doesn't bleed (she instead ''sparks'' like a malfunctioning piece of electronics), because she was inhabiting a robot body. Theta, an [=A.I.=], mentions that he has a sister, alluding to both the fact that Tex is an [=A.I.=] herself and that Carolina is the Director's daughter.
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
* FreudianExcuse: Her more {{Jerkass}} tendencies are all but stated to be due to [[TheSociopath Omega]] serving as TheCorrupter for her.
* FriendlyEnemies: Downplayed, but still present with Wyoming. Despite the two being on opposite sides, the two seem to have a healthy amount of respect, with Tex opting to talk to Wyoming rather than shooting him when given the chance. She even later refers to him (along with Maine) as "dummies" with no malicious intent despite them nearly having killed her the first day they met.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: For both the Freelancers and the Blood Gulch Crew. [=C.T.=], York, and North Dakota were the closest people she had to actual friends among the Freelancers, and both she and Church are really obsessed with each other, albeit in a rather unhealthy manner.
* TheGadfly: She loves screwing with people, particularly the Blood Gulch Crew. When she isn't angry at them, which often results in a beating, she'll still find some way to toy with them and mess with their heads.
* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
* GenderFlip: The Epsilon version of her, along with the entirety of Red Team, are all misremembered as being the opposite gender in one of Epsilon-Church's iterations as seen in "Get Bent".
* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
* {{Greed}}: Let's face it, Tex is probably the most selfish and greedy character in ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. If you want to motivate her into doing something, all you need to do is suggest she'll get something out of it (or that she'll have a great opportunity to outright ''steal'' something by doing it) and she'll be there before you can even finish your sentence. This, however, is dropped in later seasons.
* GroinAttack: The legacy of Tex just ''hates'' people's crotches for some reason.
** Epsilon-Tex and the Tex Drones always aim squarely at Grif's crotch, the former unleashing ''seven'' on the poor guy.
** Allison did this to Church's bully at boot camp.
** The original Tex mangles Carolina's and Biff's crotches in a Season 15 flashback.
** During the training session with York, Maine and Wyoming, Alpha Tex does end up kneeing York in the crotch before hitting him in the head. And later after she's been disarmed by York, she unloads ''an entire clip'' of armor hardening paint into his groin.
* HeartbrokenBadass: After she sees the Alpha be reduced to a broken EmptyShell who doesn't even recognize her. The entire reason that she puts up with Church's {{Jerkass}} behavior during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is because she feels like it's the least she can do out of penance for failing to save the man she loved.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Tex has a tendency to switch sides, particularly in the early seasons when her status as a WildCard was more prominent.
* HiddenDepths:
** As the series goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that she has intense self-loathing issues and is ''literally'' suicidal since she's tired of always failing at whatever she puts her mind to and just "wants to rest."
** On a more amusing note, ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' heavily implies that she's a YaoiFangirl.
** Despite her casual attitude most of the time, she actually follows MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality, though she draws the line at that mentality hurting those she cares about.
* HometownNickname: The initial explanation for Tex's name is, "because she's from Texas." Later it's retconned into being a shortening of her codename "Texas".
* HypocriticalHumor: Tex claims that she doesn't see herself as an actual member of Blue Team during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' and doesn't care about how they see her, but angrily demands why she's being "replaced" after learning that ''[[ReallyGetsAround Sister]]'' [[TheSmurfettePrinciple has recently joined Blue Team]] in Season 5.
* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The trailer for ''Recreation'' features her and Church watching the Reds and Blues from what's likely supposed to be the afterlife. After Church complains about being dead, leaving him unable to do anything to assist the Blue Team, Tex tells him "They say you're never completely dead if someone still remembers you."
* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: When fighting Project Freelancer personnel during the break-in, she uses Spike Grenades as mace-esque melee weapons.
* InvisibilityCloak: Her initial armor ability.
* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[invoked]] During her days with the other Freelancers, Tex is selfish, greedy, ruthless, ''very'' violent and doesn't care about her teammates (or ex-teammates): she only focuses on her objective. This attitude led to some very harsh moves, such as mortally wounding C.T., then blaming the failure to take her armor back on Carolina. However, Episode 16 of Season 10 implies that her {{Jerkass}} attitude is more due to [[UnstoppableRage Omega]] than to her herself. She's actually pretty nice once she shuts him down for a while after he nearly makes her kill the incapacitated Carolina in a sparring match. And just like both the Alpha and Epsilon, ''The Recollection'' and ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' would show her to have been a JerkassWoobie all along.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tex is distant and standoff-ish to the rest of the Blue Team, but in time she grows fond of them. She even referred them as "her idiots" to Sister during their talk in Blood Gulch. Her HiddenHeartOfGold shows in Season 10, Episodes 15 and 16 for the flashbacks. She actually shows concern for Carolina during the latter's breakdown, even resisting Omega's urges and "sedating" Carolina by knocking her out. Later, when she and North have a conversation concerning York and Carolina, Tex seems friendlier than usual.
* KickTheDog: Shooting Church in the leg near the end of Season 8 so that she could lure Washington and the Meta into a trap. [[LaserGuidedKarma She pays for it.]]
* KilledOffForReal: After being revived through various incarnations, Tex finally dies for good at the end of Season 10 when Church gives the final copy of her AI a MercyKill.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Tex rarely shows any fear or hesitation in the face of battle - and rightfully so given how much of a badass she is - but after witnessing the Meta seemingly murder Carolina and absorb two additional AIs, she simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away as fast as she can.]]
* KnuckleCracking: In non-{{machinima}} sequences, Tex often starts a fight with cracking her knuckles and popping her neck.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[LampshadeHanging As Doc pointed out]], she paid for it dearly after shooting Church in the leg during ''Revelation''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Two - "A Girl Named Tex" and "Agent Tex."
* LightningBruiser: She's really fast and doesn't sacrifice durability or strength in being really fast. Try running, and you'll be beaten to a bloody pulp before you get halfway across the room.
* LovingAShadow: An literal InUniverse case. The love both she and Church share for each other (along with most of the memories they have of being together) is either directly drawn from or a reflection of the relationship between Director Leonard Church and his wife Allison. As Tex points out, this applies with Church as well, since he continuously pursues and obsesses her while refusing to take her wants into account.
* MadeOfIron: Even before "dying" and becoming a "ghost" possessing a robotic body, she's really tough. Makes sense considering she was really already an [=A.I.=] inhabiting a robotic body to begin with.
* TheMasochismTango: Her relationship with Church in a nutshell. SlapSlapKiss doesn't even ''begin'' to describe the complex interplay of emotions between the two. The saddest thing is that they actually have probably the closest thing to a genuinely healthy romantic relationship out of any two characters on this show.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The sheer level to which she is forced to always fail at the last possible moment whenever she's trying to do something important increasingly comes across as more the result of a supernatural curse than anything possibly due to her profoundly bad luck or screwy programming.
* MeaningfulName: She's the biggest badass out of all the Freelancers, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas and her codename is Texas]].
* MercyKill: Epsilon "forgetting" her at the end of Season 9, since it finally allows her rest, saving her from any further pain.
* MesACrowd: As of Season 10, Episode 20 and 21. All thanks to the Director and his continued attempts to "get her right," a bunch of spare robot soldier bodies, and a '''lot''' of time on his hands.
* MindRape: As of Episode 21 of Season 10, it seems that an unknown version of Texas underwent a process similar to that of the Alpha, forgetting even her own name, as she was used to power the robot army of Tex copies.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Surprisingly, she shares this notion with both Wyoming and Maine. Once she learns about the Project's plan to end the Human-Covenant War, she goes along with it after ensuring Omega doesn't target her friends.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Omega nearly driving her to '''kill''' Carolina while the latter is incapacitated on the training room floor is all but stated to be what made Tex want to get the [=A.I.=] out of her head.
* MyGreatestFailure: She's the personification of the Director's loss of Allison. In Season 10, we learn that she has her own regrets that fall into this trope - Namely, failing to save the Alpha, and failing to stop the Meta from (supposedly) killing Carolina.
* NearVillainVictory: Inverted or played straight in the case of her time as TheDragon to the Director constantly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempted rescue of the Alpha only gave the Meta the opportunity to claim Carolina as his first victim.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Practically a RunningGag with her during ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. For instance, she brags about being the sanest out of the Blood Gulch Crew at one point in Season 3 and having control over her anger... before Tucker points out that she compulsively punches the members of Blue Team in their sleep.
* OhCrap: She can only look on in horror when the Meta forcibly steals Carolina's [=A.I.s=] and then tosses her off a cliff to her supposed doom.
* OneWomanArmy: Generally, if she's with anybody else she'll do more fighting than they will. The only people able to stop her in one on one fights are the Meta and Carolina, and even the latter can't do so for very long.
* OnlySaneWoman: [[DownplayedTrope ...Somewhat.]] Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.
* PetTheDog: Several times, particularly towards the Blood Gulch Crew. They may be idiots, but they're ''her'' idiots. Also occasionally to [[TheRival Carolina]] in the flashbacks, almost heavily focusing around her two [=A.I.=] partners (Episodes 13, 15, and 16 of Season 10).
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In Season 1, Sarge knocked out Tex in a single hit, while in Season 8, Sarge can't even manage to land a hit. Epsilon explains this later as Tex always fails, but only just barely.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** "Okay, so who's first?" in Season 8, Episode 9. Cue a total CurbStompBattle for the next episode.
** The Tex Drones use Omega's again in Episode 20 of Season 10, as a sign of them being corrupted by the Director's torture.
--->'''Tex Drones:''' [[CallBack You have no idea what kind of trouble you are in.]] ''([[EvilLaugh sinister chuckle]])''
* TheQuietOne: Doesn't say a single word during the ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between the Red and Blue Teams, probably due to the departure of her voice actress.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The android body she had during ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' was so advanced and lifelike that even ''she'' didn't know she was an ArtificialIntelligence until late into Season 10.
* TheRival: To Carolina. However, it's shown to be more for a one-sided rivalry over the course of ''The Project Freelancer Saga''; Tex is pretty ambivalent to her and is behaves like a {{Jerkass}} towards her, but that's how she treats most other Freelancers until she pulls Omega from her head. Meanwhile, [[CompetitionFreak Carolina]]'s [[WellDoneSonGuy issues]] result in her taking Tex's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superiority to her]] very personally and results in her trying to outdo her at the cost of her own mental health.
* SamusIsAGirl: At first, she's mistaken for a guy because of her voice filter. And by Washington in Season 9.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Church. Deconstructed in Season 9, which is all about pointing out how unhealthy their relationship is, and shows that Tex deeply resents this.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Throughout Seasons 1-4, she's the only female member of the Blood Gulch crew. She loses this status once Sister arrives in "Sibling Arrivalries".
* StealthHiBye: One of her specialties. The InvisibilityCloak helps.
* StrongAndSkilled: The first example in the series, though she'd be somewhat succeeded by Washington, Carolina and then Locus and Felix. She's insanely strong and pretty damn skilled, beating her would be damn near impossible if it wasn't for WorfHadTheFlu being inflicted at all times.
* SuperStrength: Epsilon-Tex's armor ability. She also shows abnormally high strength in the flashback scenes during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''.
* TeamMom: To the Blues whenever she finds themselves stuck with them for a significant amount of time during the first five seasons. However, she's not very good at it, and tends to ditch them whenever she feels like it. This gets PlayedForLaughs [[SuddenDownerEnding until the Season 5 finale]].
* TomatoInTheMirror: She's an AI, like Church, who the Alpha inadvertently made based off of the memories of a dead loved one of the Director's. However, since his last memories of said loved one were her death, Tex is cursed to ultimately fail at everything she does. She initially realizes this in the flashback in Episode 17 of Season 10 by way of [[DeadManWriting Connecticut's data file, where she also sees that her designation is as "Beta".]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Due to the inclusion of Creator/MontyOum in the Creator/RoosterTeeth staff, her fights become [[AnimationBump considerably really awesome]] and her behavior that much more badass from ''Revelation'' onwards. However...
* TookALevelInJerkass: In ''Revelation'', where she beats the crap out of the Reds and Tucker for no real reason and blames it on them afterwards, and shoots Church in the leg to use him as bait for Wash and the Meta. Justified, since she was both going through an identity crisis and was pissed about being revived by Church without her consent.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She willingly picks up a fight with both [[BadassNormal Agent Washington]] and [[TheJuggernaut the Meta]] at the same time. Tex realizes that taking on two Freelancers at the same time is no easy task, so she prepares herself as best as she can. What she ''doesn't'' know is that both of her opponents have [[TookALevelInBadass become significantly stronger since the last time Tex saw them]] and they're able to defeat her regardless.
* VitriolicBestFriends: Both York and Tex throw snark at each other quite often when they're together, but it's shown that the two trust each other and get along pretty well, even years after the fall of the Project.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
* WildCard: For ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles''. It gets PlayedForLaughs until [[SuddenDownerEnding "Why Were We Here?"]].
* WorfHadTheFlu: Imposed accidentally and repeatedly. When nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of anyone with ease, but when doing some sort of mission or in some danger, she'll mess up at the last moment.
* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tex loves this trope. She's used a German Suplex on Tucker in "This One Goes to Eleven," a Backbreaker on Maine in "Reunion," and a Piledriver on the Insurrectionist Leader in Episode 10 of Season 10.
* YaoiFangirl: Implied. When the Reds bargain her help in exchange for a favor. Involving the all-male Red Team. To do "whatever she needs". Grif asks, "So, this could be ''anything''? ...Including gay stuff?" Tex's only response? "I have ''no'' idea."
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Aside from the original Agent Texas being only a few years old at the most for the majority of the series, Epsilon-Texas is only a few months old, with a maximum of about one year or so at the time when she is [[CessationOfExistence forgotten.]]
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!Agent/Major Washington (David)
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That was the worst throw. Ever. Of all time."'']]
->''"I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be'' damned ''before I let you cause any more."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ShannonMcCormick
A Freelancer and Recovery Agent, the main character of ''Recovery One'' and arguably the main character of the Recollection Saga (barring ''Recreation''). Washington's job is to find dead or dying Freelancers and recover their [=AIs=] and special equipment. He is trusted with this position due to his view of [=AIs=]--he ''had'' an [=AI=] partner, Epsilon, until the fragment suffered a major psychotic break and attempted suicide while in his head, leaving him therefore the person least likely to try and steal another one. ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial The experience had absolutely no effect on his sanity, by the way]]). Wash works with Agent South and Delta during ''Recovery One'' to hunt down the Meta, and though he is seemingly killed during that series, he survives (due to York's regeneration unit) to continue his mission during ''Reconstruction'', and enlists Church and Caboose to help. He has another, self-appointed goal: Epsilon held the Alpha's memory, meaning that Wash knows everything the Director of Project Freelancer did to it and is trying to bring the Director down. Washington serves as a StraightMan or the OnlySaneMan when exposed to the two teams' weirdness, but has a latent [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]] that comes into play whenever he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the implausible things they've done. His armor is gray with yellow markings on the shoulders. After joining the Blue Team, he changes to Church's cobalt armor, modified to also have yellow shoulders.
After being held prisoner by the UNSC for inadvertently destroying the evidence of Project Freelancer's misdeeds, Washington is released, and has to work with the Meta to track down Epsilon. When he finally does, he manages to hold his own fighting Tex, and even tries to help Epsilon save her. At the end of the Recollection, he joins the Blue Team so that he won't get thrown back in jail. By Season 10 he's become a real part of [[TrueCompanions the Blood Gulch Crew]] and decides to prevent any more problems by siding with them over Carolina and winds up shipwrecked with them in Season 11.
He temporarily joins the Feds in Season 12 until discovering the setup laid by Felix and Locus. He later reunites with the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew, along with Carolina and Epsilon. They join forces with the New Republic and the Feds to take down Malcolm Hargrove.
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!!Associated Tropes
* NinetiesAntiHero: {{Deconstructed|CharacterArchetype}} in ''The Recollection''. Washington is pretty much the archetypical '90s Anti-Hero; he's a brooding, cold, and absolutely ruthless {{Jerkass}} motivated entirely by revenge. As a result, his allies despise and fear him because his behavior makes him look like a dangerous sociopath who could and would kill them if they don't do what he wants, and he's eventually arrested because his take no prisoners approach makes it look a lot like he was [[HeKnowsTooMuch killing everyone who knew too much about Project Freelancer]]. It's also shown that his attitude is the direct result of a lot of trauma and deeply unhealthy, and it eventually drives him to a FaceHeelTurn when he thinks that killing the Reds and Blues could accomplish his goals because he's written off pretty much everyone as expendable.
* AceCustom: In all animated moments prior to the switch to ''Halo 4'', Washington's Battle Rifle fired in a 4-round burst. The sound effects line up with this for the most part, and it is particularly noticeable in the very first animated battle, in Season 8.
* AllegianceAffirmation: After all his efforts to bring the Director and Project Freelancer to justice, is arrested in Season 7 for detaining an EMP in Freelancer Command and spends most of the season in jail, seething over it and getting increasingly bitter. Then, at the end of the season, he arrives just as the Meta corners Simmons, Donut, and Lopez and [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn announces he'll take it from here, and then shoots Donut and Lopez dead.]]]]
* AnimalMotifs: A pretty subtle one, but Wash is often compared to cats. During the time of ''The Project Freelancer Saga'', his nature has him likened to a naive kitten, and he's even revealed to have [[KindheartedCatLover pictures of adorable kittens on the inside of his training room locker]]. After the Epsilon Incident, Wash's general character arc is loosely similar to [[CatsAreMean an abused cat lashing out at all that angers them]] before being taken in by a foster family (i.e., the Blood Gulch Crew). It's also likely not a coincidence that [[CatsAreSnarkers he's one of the most sarcastic characters]] out of the present-day cast. Heck, his habit of using combat knives is even like cat claws in a sense. Wash's ability to [[MadeOfIron survive against near-impossible odds]] is reminiscent of the myth of a cat having nine lives. ''The Shisno Paradox'' even reveals that Wash used to have a pet cat named "Loki" when he was a kid that was just as indestructible as he is.
* TheAtoner: How he seems to see himself after his HeelFaceTurn. As he tells Locus in the penultimate episode of Season 12, "I used to be a real piece of shit, but at least I'm doing something about it!"
* BadassAdorable: He's shown as this in the prologue segments, having his locker filled with kitten pictures and even rubber ducks.
* BadassDecay:
** InUniverse, [=Epsilon-Church=] claims in Season 10 that Wash has gone from being a Freelancer who could fight toe-to-toe with Tex to Carolina's whipping boy. It still counts as a DownplayedTrope as he is still a badass and has in fact turned the Blues into a much more effective fighting force. The BadassDecay is relative when compared to [[BrokenAce Carolina]]. It is completely revoked when he puts a gun to Carolina's head when she threatens Tucker and shoots her an IronicEcho before walking out on her.
** {{Discussed}} later on in Season 12. Locus believes that bonding with Reds and Blues has weakened Washington and that he is not a soldier he used to be as a Freelancer. Seeing how easily Wash was intimidated by Freckles (despite former having fought foes worse than the latter), there may be something to those accusations.
* BadassInDistress: As of the end of Season 11, and for the start of Season 12, he has been kidnapped along with Sarge, Donut, and Lopez by the Federal Army of Chorus. Subverted later, as although they were taken in by force at first, they remained there by choice with the promise of "rescuing" their friends to convince them, much like the others were with the New Republic. Then Felix and Locus show up and reveal they've been playing the Feds and Rebels against each other for years.
* BadassNormal: Practically a staple of his character is how effective he is without the use of an [=A.I.=] or any special armor enhancements.
* BeneathTheMask:
** When patching up the bitterness between him and Tucker during Season 11, Washington admits that he considered himself the worst fighter in his old squad and was never entrusted with leadership before ending up on Blue Team. It is the first time in the present that Wash has revealed any insecurity, and goes a long way to mending his relationship with Tucker. During his surgery after the fight with the Federal Army of Chorus he has some combination of flashback and hallucination of previous events in his life. When he sees himself shooting Donut, there is very real panic and guilt in his voice, suggesting he's still haunted by his previous actions.
** Supplementary material (in ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'') reveals that his personality always concealed darker character traits. As it turns out, a tendency to repress his anger and nurse grudges undetected until the opportune moment for revenge has been an attribute of his since ''childhood''. This casts the Epsilon Incident in a completely different light - receiving the Alpha's memories may have simply brought these traits all to the surface, finally giving him a target for these vengeful tendencies in the form of the Director.
* BestServedCold: Washington was driven insane by Epsilon's attempt at suicide two years before the events of the ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', gradually recovering his sanity and being cleared for duty after Season 1 but before Season 2 of ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]''. He rebelled against Project Freelancer in ''Reconstruction'', which takes place two years after the end of Season 5. For four years Washington had knowledge of the Director's misdeeds and continued to work for him, biding his time until he had the means to bring him down, which turned out to be his unintentional discovery of the Alpha AI and Epsilon's continued existence. As it turns out, this is a character trait that has been with Washington since childhood, as revealed when in fifth grade, he slammed a former bully from his third grade's face into a mirror, nearly costing the latter [[EyeScream his eye]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Meta in ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' as they hunt down Epsilon. The pair hold Simmons and Doc hostage at the beginning of the latter season, the ensuing battle between them and the Red Team plus Epsilon sets Epsilon out to find and revive Tex, and then Tex lures them to Sidewinder for a final battle. However, Wash is betrayed by the Meta towards the end and then makes a HeelFaceTurn.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Develops this in later seasons, particularly for Caboose.
* BigBrotherMentor: Becomes this for Tucker by Season 15.
* BoringButPractical: Wash's fighting style involves, for the most part, very basic hand to hand combat and mid range fighting with his battle rifle. A far cry from the crazy moves shown by every other named freelancer. Despite this, he's extremely dangerous with such basic techniques, capable of injuring Tex with a gunshot to the back, leading to her defeat by the Meta, taking down several Hornets at different times, and being roughly the second most effective fighter in Episode 21 of Season 10. Also BoringButPractical in the case of his overall performance in the prequels. He's one of the few seen on the board at all times, and the only time his position moves in Season 9 is when it goes up a space. Considering he's not a super talented hardcore badass (yet) like other Freelancers makes this seem strange. Except the reason he's always on the board is because he does his job. He's got no authority issues (yet), no impulses to turn on other team mates, and mostly doesn't even care about the board to begin with. He's there to complete the mission, and doesn't care what rank he gets.
* BrokenPedestal: Season 9 shows that Wash actually had a very high opinion of the Director before the Epsilon Incident. ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'' reveals that much of his admiration comes from the fact that Project Freelancer offered him the only chance to use his combat skills after a [=UNSC=] court martial for disobeying orders that would have gotten his platoon killed and injuring his sergeant in the process of his insubordination.
-->'''Washington''': The Director? He's given us everything. He's ''helping'' us.
* ButtMonkey: Even during his badass present day phase, he gets injured and blown up on an impressively regular basis. This only gets worse for him in the flashback seasons, where it's almost worse there since he's also a NoRespectGuy.
* ByronicHero: Particularly in ''Recovery One''. But thanks to the Reds and Blues, [[CharacterDevelopment he eventually gets better]].
* CarFu: A constant victim of this.
-->'''Wash''': [[LampshadeHanging Why do cars hate me?]]
* CharacterDevelopment: All those betrayals do take quite a toll on one's psyche. Having someone you betrayed forgive you and welcome you back with open arms does too, especially in a really kind-hearted way.
* CharacterFocus:
** He's the main protagonist of ''Recovery One'', ''Reconstruction'', and Season 11 of ''The Chorus Trilogy''.
** He's also one of the more prominent characters of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' in general, with the relationship he has with Locus constituting a significant subplot (in spite of Wash's absence for nearly half of Season 12).
* TheChewToy: A lot of very tragic things have happened and keep happening to Wash.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Inverted. Almost everyone Wash deals with betrays him at some point... Well, all except for the Blood Gulch Crew.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Being stuck in armor lock for days on end with no food or water made him more than a little loopy in Season 15. [[HarsherInHindsight It has some pretty tragic results though]].
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: The previous Freelancer associated with the Blue Team was Agent Texas, a OneWomanArmy strong enough to fight mostly with her bare hands and apathetic to the Blood Gulch conflict beyond what she was paid to. Washington is a BadassNormal who eschews the typical Freelancer armor enhancements for [[BoringButPractical being really good with a Battle Rifle]] and considers his own problems with the Meta and Project Freelancer to be more important than the Blood Gulch conflict. Additionally, Wash refuses to have an AI in his helmet while Tex [[spoiler:''is'' an AI]]. Finally, Tex ultimately betrayed the Blues as well as the Reds at the end of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', while Wash, though briefly went through a FaceHeelTurn in ''Revelation'', ultimately join Blue Team permanently and acknowledges them and the Reds as [[TrueCompanions his friends]].
* CowardiceCallout: He calls Locus a coward while deconstructing the latter's Terminator act as something he hides behind because he's too afraid to take responsibility for his atrocities.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:By the time of ''Zero'', he has received implants created from state-of-the-art robotics to repair his brain damage and which even enables him to see events coming seconds before they happen]].
* CombatPragmatist: Has to in order to stand a chance without armor enhancements. For example, rather than try to overpower [=Epsilon-Tex=] (like an idiot) in ''Revelation'', he keeps her busy with a few quick punches, then steals the battle rifle right off her back as she knocks him back. He also gives himself a surface level cut in ''Great Destroyers'' to help him circumvent Locus' invisibility, and instead of attacking another spot on his armor opts to kick the knife he stuck the mercenary with to dig it deeper.
* TheComicallySerious: Even among the Freelancers, he's more or less the StraightMan.
* CrypticConversation: In the present, he's often having cryptic conversations with himself, largely because he tends to know more than everyone around him, and also because, well, [[SurroundedByIdiots look at the company he keeps]]. Lampshaded twice-over by Felix:
-->'''Felix:''' Man, you are ''cryptic''. Like all the time. Do you realize that?\\
'''Felix:''' The fuck is ''that'' supposed to mean?! Christ man, always with the cryptic one-liners!
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly in the present. In the prequels, he's much less deadpan.
* DecoyProtagonist: With Carolina and Chruch's departure from the Blood Gulch Crew at the end of Season 10, the start of Season 11 initially paints Washington as the new main protagonist and focus character, with the season even opening on his narration as he recaps his journey similar to how Epsilon did at the start of Season 9. However, by the end of the season Washington is one of the ones captured by Locus and Tucker takes over as the central character for the remainder of the Chorus Trilogy.
* DentedIron: After his gunshot wound in Season 15, Wash was left with cerebral hypoxia that makes it harder for him to remember recent events and also causes random fits of anger (along with possible motor skill issues, but it's never made clear if that's just bad luck or an actual result of his damage). As he himself points out, though, it's still manageable and with the help of his friends, he can learn to live with it.
* {{Determinator}}: It takes stunning amounts of danger or damage to get Wash out of a fight.
* {{Deuteragonist}}:
** ''The Recollection'' ultimately revolves around Church (both the Alpha, and later Epsilon, variants), but Washington's story is of almost-equal importance, particularly in ''Reconstruction'' (with him being the season's protagonist) and ''Revelation'' (with him being ''that'' season's [[VillainProtagonist Villain Tritagonist]]).
** He and Carolina are both the deuteragonists of Season 13 of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' and the collective tritagonists of Season 12.
** He's also really important during the events of ''Singularity'' (with one of the season's subplots being [[spoiler:Wash coming to terms with his brain damage and him learning to forgive Carolina for her initially keeping it secret from him]]) and serves as its deuteragonist, though Donut is still ultimately that season's protagonist.
* DeviousDaggers: It's most apparent when fighting the Meta in ''Revelation'' and Felix in Season 13.
-->'''Wash''' (to Felix) What, you think you're the ''only'' one who's good with knives?
* DiscOneFinalBoss: After serving as one of the main antagonists during ''Revelation'', Wash pulls a HeelFaceTurn and joins the Reds and Blues after the Meta betrays him.
* DoNotCallMePaul: At least in the case of [[DiabolicalMastermind the Director]]. He seems perfectly comfortable with [[spoiler: Carolina]] calling him by his real name after Season 13.
-->'''Director:''' Yes, I realize it has been a while since we've spoke, David. May I call you David?\\
'''Washington:''' No, you cannot. You gave me my new name, the least you can do is use it.
* DrillSergeantNasty:
** Shows shades of this in Season 11, making Tucker do squats and laps around the canyon. He even increases the number of laps when Tucker tries to snark back at him.
** He's trying this again in Season 13, only this time on Grif, by punishing Grif's squad for his laziness (his hope being that the guilt will force Grif to comply). Obviously, he doesn't know Grif as well as he thought and he meets with rather mixed success. He also tries to chew Palomo out for less than stellar performance during target practice, again with mixed success.
* EasilyForgiven: For siding with the Meta, being a total dick to the Reds and Blues, taking Simmons and Doc hostage, insulting, humiliating, and depriving Sarge of his shotgun ''and shooting Lopez and Donut.'' Aside from Donut referring to him as "a jerk" for shooting him he's pretty much been taken in by the Reds and Blues no questions asked. However, if Washington's dream from "The Federal Army of Chorus" is anything to go by, he still hasn't forgiven himself for his past actions (''especially'' shooting Donut, even though Donut himself has and whenever it comes up it's typically PlayedForLaughs).
* ExhaustionInducedIdiocy: After being armor-locked by Temple, his fatigue has clearly affected his mindset worse than it has for Carolina. He's highly loopy, hallucinating, and says random things that he normally wouldn't in a clearer head. This also leads to him casually walking out into the middle of gunfire where he gets shot in the neck.
* FaceHeelTurn: At the end of ''Recreation'', after one betrayal too many. Thankfully, it only lasted for a season.
-->'''Wash''': 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 I'm going to ''ask for it?''
* FakingTheDead: The Reds and Blues help him do this in order to escape from the Chairman by disguising himself as Church at the end of ''Revelation'', who had left his body.
* FatalFlaw: {{Revenge}}. It takes Wash a long time for him to find out that his habit of holding grudges for a really, ''really'' long time is anything but a good idea.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He temporarily went insane when he had [[MechanicalAbomination Epsilon]] plugged into his brain and it tried to kill itself while ''still in his head.''
* GoodCostumeSwitch: After his HeelFaceTurn, he starts wearing Church's cobalt armor, with his yellow highlights painted on, until switching back to his grey and yellow armor towards the end of Season 11.
* GuileHero: Not above trying to talk his way out of things, or manipulate people. Fighting smarter allows him to fight on par with Felix and Locus, using tricks and psychological tactics to keep up with their superior weaponry. A great example of this is him using his own blood to give away Locus's camouflage.
* GunKata: Not a very stylized version, but has an intense close quarters battle with Felix using a pistol and various blocks and knee strikes to counter Felix's knives in "Fed vs. New".
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: From his younger days, where he comes off as almost innocent and idealistic. Season 10's present-day segments seem to indicate that this part of him is making a resurgence due to his CharacterDevelopment.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Makes a FaceHeelTurn at the end of ''Recreation'', but has a HeelFaceTurn at the end of ''Revelation''.
* HeelRealization: At the end of ''Revelation'', he starts feeling guilty about his actions after the Reds and Blues rescue him from the Meta and he talks with Epsilon-Church. It results in a HeelFaceTurn when the Reds and Blues let him take on Church's identity which prevents him from going to prison, despite having no real reason to, especially after he killed Donut and Lopez (who are later revealed to have survived), and got Tex and Church trapped inside the memory unit.
* TheHero: By Season 11, Wash follows the standard heroic archetype more than any other character in the main cast, by virtue of being the only one competent enough to get things done. Season 13 continues this when Wash tries to maintain peace between the Rebels and the Feds.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** When Locus and his team attacks Crash Site Bravo at the end of Season 11, Wash, Sarge, Donut, and Lopez get seriously injured and are unable to move. While the rest of the team and Felix make their way into a cave passage, they realize that they'll have to close the passage behind them. Unfortunately, this involves leaving the injured at Locus' mercy. Washington hears this and orders Freckles to "shake." Freckles then stomps the ground, creating enough force to close the gap. As mentioned, this leaves Wash totally at the mercy of Locus.
** Come ''Singularity'', he decides to [[spoiler:willingly subject himself to cerebral hypoxia so as to repair the TemporalParadox and save the universe]].
* HiddenDepths:
** ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' reveals that he's a KindheartedCatLover.
** ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'' shows that Wash has '''always''' had issues with holding grudges and hidden personality traits than what was first apparent even when he seemed to just be a lovable ButtMonkey during the heyday of Project Freelancer, with the Epsilon Incident having brought those darker aspects of himself closer to the surface.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** When Church refuses to help him with taking down the Meta, he responds with a DareToBeBadass speech, arguing that it would be a selfish decision that would haunt Church afterwards. In the following season, Wash teams up ''with'' the Meta in order to retrieve Epsilon and get a clean slate on life. Which is, well... a selfish decision that would haunt him later on.
** More generally, Washington often complains about being constantly betrayed and taken advantage of, all while scheming against his employers and former teammates. This is, however, [[JustifiedTrope quite justified]], since even when he is siding against the heroes, as he had enough bad experiences not to care too much about honesty or loyalty himself.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: In "Quicksave", as a result of being held prisoner without food or water for several days, he deliriously wanders onto a battlefield and is shot in the throat. His brain is left without oxygen for several minutes, and the brain damage sustained as a result of the injury drives his character arc for ''The Shisno Paradox'' and ''Singularity''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Wash".
* IronButtMonkey: Despite his frequent injuries, he almost always manages to keep going with no apparent detriment. It takes an extended beatdown from the Meta to finally put him out of commission in ''Revelation''.
* IronicName: His given name is "David," which means "beloved" in Hebrew. He was the ButtMonkey among the other upper leaderboard Freelancers and treated like a naive idiot most of the time.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite often being considered the worst member of the Freelancer squad and getting respected by just about no-one, Washington is currently one of only two members of the entirety of Project Freelancer confirmed to still be alive.
** Another case of Irony is that, [[spoiler:he was shot in the throat just like Maine was. The two seemed to be friends back during the early days of Project Freelancer but became enemies after the latter became the Meta. Even more unlike the latter whom was no longer able to speak due to the shot, Wash ended up receiving brain damage. Interestingly enough, when Wash loses it and gets angry at Carolina for keeping the brain damage a secret, the Meta's theme plays furthering the irony of Wash's situation.]]
* JackOfAllTrades: In the prequels, there are many non-combat actions Wash takes care of while the rest of the freelancers are showing off their super skills. He's competent in a number of fields, including being a good enough lock pick for Carolina to choose him as York's replacement, searching through files and security systems (as well as doing some unintended sabotage), and is usually the agent meeting with InternalAffairs, meaning he's very good dealing with other branches of the operation.
* JadeColoredGlasses: The contrast between his flashback persona and ''Revelation'' persona really shows this. He starts out idealistic and friendly and ends up cynical and bitter. This is characterized by an exchange with Doc during Revelation.
-->'''Wash:''' ''(Talking to the Meta)'' I agree, we should just kill most of them, the last one left alive will talk.\\
'''Doc:''' Wash, you can't just kill everyone you meet!\\
'''Wash:''' Why not?\\
'''Doc:''' Umm... well, now that you put me on the spot, I don't really have an answer, just seems like a bad idea.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After his CharacterDevelopment. He still has his problems, and isn't the nicest guy around, but he has come to view the Red Team and Blue Team as TrueCompanions and values their safety. He also shows great concern for the people of Chorus during first the Chorus Civil War and then the war with Charon Industries, and [[spoiler:is perfectly fine with inflicting permanent brain damage upon himself if it's necessary to save the whole of space-time]].
* KarmaHoudini: PlayedForLaughs in regards to his shooting of Donut. Although he does try his best to make up for it and is genuinely sorry for it.
-->'''Donut''': ...and I got ''shot!''\\
'''Washington''': ''([[NotSoInnocentWhistle whistles nonchalantly]])''
* KickTheDog: Shooting Lopez and Donut at the very end of ''Recreation''.
* KindheartedCatLover: He's a NiceGuy who even had cat pictures in his locker. And his return in ''The Shisno Paradox'' has him telling about a childhood cat who was just as indestructible as Wash would turn out to be.
* KnightInSourArmor: Firmly on the side of good, but he is far more cynical and world-weary than his friends. It's only after the end of ''The Project Freelancer Saga'' that he starts to become more idealistic again.
* KnightOfCerebus: While he's not a bad guy exactly, he still manages to fall into this. He only appears in a few scenes in ''Recreation'', including the final scene of the season, where he seemingly kills both Donut and Lopez. What follows in ''Revelation'' is much more action-based and plot oriented than the previous season. He can also be considered one for the main series as a whole, as the ''Recollection'' trilogy and ''Recovery One'' are noticeably much DarkerAndEdgier than the previous series'.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Wash spent ''years'' nursing a secret grudge against the Director and Freelancer, bidding his time for the right moment to bring them both down. By the end of Season 10, he's finally given a genuine opportunity to get revenge against the Director, instead of what he did in ''Reconstruction'' which was petty revenge in comparison, and decides to just let it go instead of putting his new friends in danger. Unlike Carolina and even Church, it seems he's learned to let go of the past.
* TheLancer: To Carolina in Season 10.
* TheLeader: By ''Revelation'' onward, he becomes the leader of the Blues and in Season 11, he unofficially becomes leaders of both the Reds and the Blues, if only because the others see him as a more competent leader than either [[TheNeidermeyer Sarge]] or [[PutOnABus the absent]] [[TheCynic Church]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Good Fight" in his introduction, which he shares with Church. Later seasons associate him with a slower, more somber version of "Big Prize."
* MadeOfIron: Only Grif has endured worse than him - the things he's survived include two separate spaceship crashes from orbit, an AI attempting to commit suicide in his head, several gunshot wounds, being hit by a speeding Warthog, ''multiple'' point-blank explosions, a shot in the head with a concussion rifle, being beaten unconscious by Locus... A few were close to fatal, such as being shot in the back by South Dakota (saved by York's healing unit), fighting the Meta after already surviving Tex's traps, and a shot in the neck when he was already wrecked by malnourishment. It really says something when only the ''last'' injury mentioned has left him with any permanent and irreversible damage.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "That was the worst ___. Ever. Of all time."
* MajorlyAwesome: "Viper" reveals that his military rank is Major.
* MasterOfNone: [[DownplayedTrope By Freelancer standards.]] He doesn't seem to have a specialty, and most of the other Freelancers are more combat-capable. He turns into a very competent GuileHero over time, however. His icon on the board is a battle rifle and he's shown to be unparalleled in terms of skill with the weapon, even destroying a Hornet with it [[ImprobableAimingSkills while in free-fall]].
* MeaningfulName: A variant - His nickname being "Wash" is quite appropriate after he was [=re-designated=] as "Recovery One" and basically became the most prominent member of Project Freelancer's CleanupCrew.
* MoodSwinger: Due to his brain damage from Season 15, he starts to exhibit random fits of anger or switches from a rather cheery disposition to his usual seriousness.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: An Inverted example happens with him and Lopez. When Lopez is repaired in Season 12, a brief POVCam from his perspective and FreezeFrameBonus shows that he identifies Donut, Sarge, and Wash as "Idiot", "Loud Idiot", and "Agent Washington" respectively, showing that Washington is one of the few people Lopez shows genuine respect for. Added irony to this is how Wash shot and almost killed Lopez back in Season 7.
* NiceGuy: Used to be this. Even with his [[HiddenDepths hidden dark side]], Wash was kind and considerate to all his other Freelancers. He devolved into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold after the project went up in flames. It's only after the Reds and Blues permanently end the Director's schemes that Wash begins to regain semblance of his old kindness.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His actions in ''Revelation'' lead to the Meta regaining all his abilities by capturing Tex in the Capture Unit instead of Epsilon. This nearly turned out ''very'' badly for all involved. If the Reds and Tucker hadn't been able to put a stop to it before he could get away, the Meta would have been completely free and had all of his power back.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice for the trio he formed with York and North, easily being the friendliest and dorkiest out of the three.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Having this too often is one of the sources to a lot of Wash's bitterness and anger.
* NobleDemon: During his FaceHeelTurn, he becomes this. He's relatively nice towards Doc, or at least as nice as someone with Wash's temperament can be, and he's motivated more by desperation than any actual malice.
* NomDeGuerre: Aside from "Agent Washington", he's also known as "Recovery One" during his time as a Recovery agent.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: When he's first introduced, he seems like an expert badass compared to the zany Blood Gulch Crew. Later seasons show that he's very much WeakButSkilled, at least relative to most of the other Freelancers, despite his complete regularity as number 6 on the leader board. He even admits to Tucker that he considered himself one of the worst agents in his squad, though his developments post-Epsilon would prove him far more capable than he gave himself credit. His "normality" is emphasized by this exchange from "Fall From Heaven":
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker York (talking to North):]]''' [...] and now I'm paired with the squad's second-worst fighter. But sure we can handle it.\\
[...]\\
'''Washington:''' ...You really think I'm the second worst fighter?\\
'''York:''' [[VitriolicBestBuds No, I was being nice.]] [[BrutalHonesty You're easily the worst.]]
* NoRespectGuy: Back in his days with the other Freelancers, Wash was this. Though he was pretty competent and always stayed up on the leaderboard, his BoringButPractical approach to his job and his EndearinglyDorky behavior led to pretty much everyone viewing him as the resident loser. After the Freelancers split up, they still don't respect him at all nor regard him as a threat, which comes back to bite South, Tex, and the Meta when Wash turns out to have [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Level In Badass]].
* NotAfraidToDie: Has this attitude in ''Reconstruction'' with hints of it throughout the whole series.
-->'''Washington:''' I'm sorry, did something about my actions indicate that I ''expect'' to survive?
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** In ''Reconstruction'', Wash tells Church that his successful sniper shot doesn't count because "it only counts if you call it". It's the first sign of Wash's personality prior to the Epsilon incident. He also comes up with Grif's new rank of "Minor Junior Private Negative First Class" surprisingly quickly.
** In "Change of Plans", when the Reds and Blues are bickering over which team has the highest kill count, Washington decides to play along.
--->'''Washington:''' ''(smugly)'' Technically, Project Freelancer makes the rules. And ''I'' say Blue Team gets to add ''my'' kill count to theirs!
** In Season 11, when the Reds and Blues all drag Donut and Doc off to beat them up for flubbing their rescue, Washington is right there with them tearing the "rescue team" apart. Additionally, he ''also'' helped cause the ''Hand of Merope'' to crash (he knocked a cable out of the wall on accident) just like the other Reds and Blues did. And on a similar note, [[FailedASpotCheck he doesn't remember]] [[ForgettableCharacter poor Doc]] [[PutOnABus getting sucked into the Future Cubes]] either until Season 13 (as Epsilon and Carolina's ignorance can at least be excused by them not having known Doc was at Crash Site Bravo in the first place).
** During "Previously On" in Season 15, he jumps with joy with the other Reds and Blues when they build "the galaxy's greatest water park."
** During ''Singularity'', he uses MentalTimeTravel to go back to the height of Project Freelancer, and tries to learn where Carolina was hiding after she faked her death. As Agent Iowa would point out to him, [[DumbassHasAPoint he can just travel into the future when he and Carolina were friends so he could ask her then]]. After both hearing that ''and'' a lengthy StunnedSilence, he travels into the future and '''immediately''' gets an answer from [=Future!Carolina=]. Upon finding out that he CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot, Wash lets out a furious SkywardScream.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Locus seems to consider Washington to be a similar sort of man to himself ("I'm a soldier, like you"), due to his rather ruthless actions in earlier seasons. The big difference is that Washington managed to reclaim his humanity whereas Locus still sees himself as "a suit of armor and a gun".
** On a lighter note, he's also been compared to Caboose on occasion... much to his dismay. It's not an completely invalid comparison, though.
---> '''Caboose''': We have a lot in common, Agent Washington!\\
'''Washington''': No, we don't! ...And don't ''ever'' say that again.
** As lampshaded during ''Singularity'', he was a ''lot'' more like Donut than what was first apparent during the heyday of Project Freelancer. [[spoiler:It's perhaps best shown when he's nearing the DespairEventHorizon over not being able to get [=Past!Carolina=] to listen to him.]]
--->'''Wash:''' Is this how ''Donut'' feels all the time?
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Does this in "Reckless" after Donut complains about having gotten shot.
* OddFriendship:
** Wash is an uptight, regulations guy who freaked out when North mentioned he used equipment without telling Command. Maine is a brutish dirty fighting soldier who tried to kill Tex during a sparring match because she was beating him. Nevertheless, they seemed to have been good friends during ''The Project Freelancer Saga''. Wash was even briefly depressed upon realizing in ''Revelation'' that Maine's psyche was completely corrupted by Sigma's manipulations, now viewing the prospect of fighting his former friend as a MercyKill, and is the only person shown to be capable of completely understanding Maine's grunts and growls without any assistance.
** The vitriolic and sarcastic South with the much more passive and naive (at the time) Washington. While not shown frequently, the two had a teasing friendship, with their moments of snark, and years after the two had last seen each other, the embittered Wash is willing to do what he can to help South. Even more odd considering she was The Bully to the triplets which Washington had noticably also been friends with. Unfortunately, much like with Maine, this friendship horribly decays once South betrays him and leaves him for dead, when they meet again, he makes sure to kill her.
** In the present, Wash is a grumpy and [[KnightInSourArmor bitter]] GuileHero. Caboose is friendly, optimistic, and [[TheDitz dumb as a box of rocks]]. They get along famously.
** During the events of ''Singularity,'' he forms one with ''[[TheDandy Donut]]'' of all people.
* OnlySaneMan: Particularly in ''Reconstruction'', where he plays the StraightMan to the antics of the Reds and Blues. He softens up in later seasons, first becoming more sarcastic, then becoming more friendly, though even after this he's still more level-headed than they are.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs when he acts creepily cheerful towards Sarge, Grif, and Simmons before the initial assault on Crash Site Alpha in Season 13, with them taking notice of his personality shift and then calling him out on it (with Grif thinking that Wash believes that they're going to die).
* PapaWolf: Becomes this to the Reds and Blues, going so far as to ''hold a gun'' to Carolina's head when she threatens Tucker in "Change of Plans."
--> '''Washington:''' I've already been responsible for enough of their problems in the past, and I'll be ''damned'' before I let you cause any more.
* PetTheDog:
** Despite being under orders to kill South Dakota, he instead allows her to mourn her brother, helps fake her death and tries to escape the Meta with her. Too bad she didn't repay the favor.
** During Season 11, he manages to swallow his pride and open up to Tucker about being the ButtMonkey of Project Freelancer, and also apologizes to Caboose for not being a better friend to him while he was upset about Church's absence.
* PluckyComicRelief: In the flashback segments.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: If there's manpower available to Wash to help him get the job done, he'll take it without a second thought. "I can't do this alone" is practically one of his catchphrases. Establishing friendships with the Blood Gulch Crew also goes a long way towards helping him redeem himself and improve his own mental health. And in ''Singularity'', he all but says to Carolina that [[spoiler:he's fine with having permanent brain damage since he knows that his friends will be able to help him with it.]]
* PrecisionFStrike:
** At the end of ''Reconstruction''.
---> '''Washington''': ''[[BrickJoke Emp]]''? You have ''got'' to be fucking joki-
** He's completely furious with Carolina when it's revealed that she withheld the knowledge of him having brain damage, practically shouting to the Blood Gulch Crew "And did any of you ''know?!'' Or am I the ''only'' one who didn't know that I had ''fucking'' '''brain damage?!?!'''"
* ProperlyParanoid: In Season 11, Wash is the only one of the Blood Gulch Crew to feel uneasy about being shipwrecked with no sign of immediate rescue. Even after they manage to make radio contact with Donut, he still warns the others that rescue may not immediately come. Also, he is the only one that shows distrust towards [[HiredGuns Felix]]. After TheReveal that Felix is actually working with [[TheDreaded Locus]] to kill everyone on Chorus for a third party, he was right all along.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Season 10 reveals that not only did he start wearing Church's armor and take over as leader of the Blue Team, but the characters started referring to him as Church.
-->'''Caboose''': I wouldn't really use the word "replace"... but there's no word for "take over for you and make everything better immediately". [[DistinctionWithoutADifference So we just say replace!]]
* {{Revenge}}:
** His primary motivation is to make the Director pay for his crimes. Eventually subverted as a motivation for him as of the final few episodes of Season 10. He knows that the Director is evil, and that it would be right if he paid for his crimes, but there's no benefit to following that path, and it will only lead to a longer line of his friends' corpses, if anything changed at all.
--->'''Counselor''': So you would say that you have overwhelming feelings of anger and a need for revenge?\\
'''Washington''': More than you know.
** There's also the incident with South shooting him in the back. He gets some payback for that, although he ends up freaking out his new allies.
* RogueProtagonist: In ''Revelation''. However, he [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides]] towards the end, so it may count as a subversion.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: PlayedForLaughs when Sarge brags about Red Team has a bigger kill count. Washington then proclaims that since Project Freelancer makes the rules, and he's a former Project Freelancer member, Blue Team gets to add his kill count to their own.
* SecretKeeper: For a huge portion of ''Reconstruction'', he's the only character that knew exactly what the Director did to the Alpha. It's still not clear just how much of the Director and Alpha's memories he has.
* ShellShockedVeteran: [[DownplayedTrope A minor case]], but his nightmare in "The Federal Army of Chorus" implies that he suffers from PTSD over his past actions.
* SociopathicHero: Even before the Epsilon Incident, he was a violent revenge planner. In fact, he has been one since ''childhood.'' He was just better at hiding it behind the mask of dorkiness than after the Epsilon Incident. He's been seeking revenge against the Director for years and killed South without hesitation when she betrayed him. However, he is still a good guy throughout the series, especially once the Reds and Blues take him in.
* SuperGullible: Pre-Epsilon Incident, Connecticut and South mention that he's this while playing "Five Things". They then prove it immediately afterwards by saying that he has something stuck in his teeth, which makes Wash wonder if he does. While he's wearing a helmet. According to the guide book, York and North once told him there was a sauna aboard the ''Mother Of Invention'' and he never suspected anything, even though they repeatedly kept giving him conflicting directions.
* SupportingLeader: During ''Reconstruction'' and the end of ''Revelation''.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "I'm not crazy, okay? I'm totally, completely sane. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go [[ItMakesSenseInContext blow up this dead body."]] Despite the fact that it [[JustifiedTrope was standard procedure to destroy dead Freelancers' bodies and armor]], he still was [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rather thorough]].
* TeamDad: Subverted in the Season 9 prequel segments. He tries it with Connecticut, but she doesn't buy it at all. Played straight in Season 10's present-day segments, with Wash balancing out the inanities of the Blood Gulch Crew with Carolina's AxCrazy tendencies. He continues this role in Season 11, where he works to keep the Blood Gulch Crew alive by carefully managing their limited supplies, as well as trying to train Tucker and Caboose to be proper soldiers. It continues in ''Singularity'' where, [[spoiler:after Donut gives the Blood Gulch Crew a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for their terrible treatment of him, he promptly makes them all go and apologize to him]].
* TemporarilyAVillain: What seems to him to just be the latest of many betrayals in ''Recreation'' leads him to try to hunt down the Reds and Blues, going so far as to team up with the Meta. At the end of ''Revelation'' he rejoins them, and stays on their side the rest of the series.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the years that follow the Epsilon Incident, he becomes exceptionally more dangerous, mainly from his increased capacity for ruthlessness and Chessmaster tendencies.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Starting in ''Recreation'', to the point of a FaceHeelTurn. He also had one of these in the past after the Epsilon Incident. Furthermore, he becomes a bitter DrillSergeantNasty during Season 11 due to the stress of trying to keep himself and the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew alive while they're stuck in Crash Site Bravo.
* TookALevelInKindness: He gets substantially better come Season 10; becoming something closer to the Wash he used to be. While he can be a bit strict towards his fellow Blues, he cares for them, to the point that he aimed a pistol at Carolina when she threatened Tucker.
* TraumaCongaLine: Before Season 9, few would guess that Agent Washington was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his Freelancer career he was hated by most every other Agent in the Project, was forced to harvest equipment/AI Fragments from their corpses after they died along with [[NotEnoughToBury destroying both their body and armor so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands]], and kept working for a Project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: His neck injury caused cerebral hypoxia, which made him forget most of the events of Season 15. Played with in that it causes other problems too, like forgetting more recent events and causing sudden bouts of anger.
* UnluckilyLucky: Wash may be one of the biggest {{Butt Monkey}}s of the entire series (being likely surpassed only by [[NiceGuy Doc]], [[LazyBum Grif]], and [[TheDandy Donut]] in that regard), but he's survived against countless odds to a miraculous degree.
* TheUnreveal: Wash's face alone of the Freelancers hasn't been seen, with strategic placement of other people blocking his face. This is [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] eventually in Season 10 where he carries out a conversation with North and York, while eating, still in his helmet. It is known, however, that he has bright blond hair that he keeps relatively short and grew a beard during the 10-month break following Chorus.
* WeakButSkilled: Compared to his fellow Freelancers, Washington doesn't have much going for him in the way of combat, especially one-on-one combat. However, put a battle rifle in his hands and there's basically nothing anyone can do to stop him, and he's tied with Maine in the sheer amount of damage he can take before he finally stops fighting. Notably, while he's relatively low on the leaderboard, he's the only Freelancer in the series who only ever moves up the ranks, and he's one of only three members of the entire Project confirmed to still be alive.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Maine. When Maine was shot in the throat in Season 9, he showed a large amount of concern for him. But by ''Reconstruction'', while he is surprised that Maine is still the one in the armor, he is fully willing to kill him, and vice versa. He and Maine work together again in Season 8, but they eventually turn on each other. This also applies to South Dakota after she turns on him, unlike with Maine, he does put an end to her.
* WideEyedIdealist: His younger self tends to come off as this during the flashbacks of Season 9 and 10 pre-Epsilon.
* TheWorfEffect: At the beginning of ''Zero'' he is defeated in hand-to-hand combat by the Viper Syndicate and is subsequently tortured and hospitalized.
* WouldHitAGirl: And BoomHeadshot her too.
-->'''Agent South Dakota''': [[TemptingFate Oh, come on, Wash. What are you gonna do,]] [[KilledMidSentence shoo--]]\\
''(BoomHeadshot)''\\
'''Agent Washington''': [[BluntYes Yes.]]
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![=M808V=] Main Battle Tank / "Sheila"
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->''"Firing main cannon."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Yomary Cruz
Blue Team's support vehicle, a Scorpion battle tank with an artificial intelligence that answers to "Sheila". The Blues express bewilderment that Command decided to supply them with a tank no one knows how to operate, but Caboose nonetheless attempts to rescue Church using Sheila, killing him in the process and apparently falling in love with the "nice tank lady." If Sheila paid much attention to Caboose, this would form a LoveTriangle, given her attraction to Lopez. After Caboose's attempt, the Blues seem to decide that Sheila works best driving herself. Throughout the series, Sheila is a major asset for Blue Team...when she isn't feeling moody, threatening, or running off with Lopez to form an all-robot faction.
What, if any, connection she has with the Freelancer program F.I.L.S.S. is unknown, though the two do share a voice and many mannerisms.
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* AccidentalMurder: Accidentally kills Church. Later subverted.
* ActionGirl: Or close enough, really.
* AlmostDeadGuy: In Reconstruction. In Season 10, Church goes to the Pelican crashsite, and mentions how its computer is an "old friend", suggesting she's still active.
* ArtificialIntelligence: She is one.
* TheBigGuy: As a literal sentient tank, Sheila serves as this for the Blue Team, and here mere presence alone can cause the Reds (or occasionally the Blues) to stop what they're doing in worry of angering her.
* CatchPhrase: "Firing main cannon."
* CoolPlane: Partway through Season 5 her program gets transferred to a ship.
* CuteMachines: She has the voice of a girl that even Caboose falls in love with.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: While not ''dead'', the Reds and Blues had known Sheila was uploaded to the ship Tex took and crashed at Valhalla. Other than one brief scene in Season 6 though, where Church and Caboose accessed her memories with Washington as she crashed, they never refer to her afterwards or make any attempt to recover her.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Lopez.
* NiceGirl: Usually. For example, she offers Simmons a place to stay after he'd been evicted from Red Base.
* OfficialCouple: With Lopez for a while.
* SophisticatedAsHell: In response to Simmons' badly-crafted BS story:
--> "My logical data analysis center indicates that would be highly unlikely. And my bullshit meter agrees."
* TankGoodness: Until she's uploaded to the Pelican.
* TeamMom: To Tucker, Donut, and Tex as they're leaving for Sidewinder. She packed them lunches (somehow) and reminds them to "wash [their] exhaust pipes every day." The lunches include things like air filters and brake fluid, but it's the thought that counts.
* TriggerHappy: "Firing Main Cannon"... expect this to be repeated for quite some time.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Supposedly still occupies the crashed Pelican in Valhalla, as alluded in AlmostDeadGuy above, but nothing is heard of her after that. And according to Kaikaina in ''The Shisno Paradox'', Valhalla was later bought out by a building company and had condos built in it, leaving her fate completely up in the air.
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[[folder:Freckles]]
!MANTIS-Class Assault Droid / "Freckles"
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->''"Disregarding a direct order from a commanding officer is punishable by death."''
-->'''Voiced By:''' Shane Newville (Seasons 11-13), Creator/MilesLuna (Season 15)
Caboose's "pet" in Season 11, an automated MANTIS walker that he discovered in a crashed ship. Its AI is transferred to his assault rifle in Season 12 after being heavily damaged at the end of Season 11.
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!!Associated Tropes:
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* CovertPervert: Not really ever discussed about, but Tex can be pretty perverted, like at the way she repeatedly stared at the Alien's crotch.
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
->'''Tex''': "That's just a matter of a penis- O-opinion."
* {{Flanderization}}: Epsilon-Tex hitting Grif in the balls '''seven''' times was implied to be influenced by Episilon holding a grudge for Grif punting a few episodes prior, later seasons make this one of her go-to areas to hit, as it's noted Alison did it in the past. This however, is not minded, as it both adds comedy and makes her fighting style even that more unique when in action.
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* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall,
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* GlassCannon: She's very nearly StrongAndSkilled compared to the Freelancers' WeakButSkilled and the Red's and Blue's UnskilledButStrong, but while she is durable, it still pales to the latter group's general level of durability. Case in point, all most all of her defeats comes from her sustaining ''one'' injury or oversight that leads to her downfall,downfall, examples being Sarge and Wyoming both needing only a good hit she doesn't see coming to knock her out. Or Washington clipping her on the shoulder to injure her long enough for the Meta to finish her off.
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* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving and in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
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* TheWorfEffect: She's on the giving and end in Season 9. Her first appearance in the flashbacks has her beat the crap out of Maine, Wyoming, and York in a training match even after the former two start using live ammo.
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* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeach. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
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* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeach.TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
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* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a ReasonYouSuckSpeach. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
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* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a ReasonYouSuckSpeach.TheReasonYouSuckSpeach. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
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* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both LovableSexManiac{{s}}, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
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* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both LovableSexManiac{{s}}, {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, but while Tucker is just putting on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
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* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal GroinAttack{{s}} she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
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* IrrationalHatred: Implied. Though they don't interact much, she seems to have this for Grif in later seasons, considering the sheer amount of utterly brutal GroinAttack{{s}} {{Groin Attack}}s she inflicts on him. Though this is justified, as it is implied that Epsilon-Tex targeting Grif is due to Epsilon-Church being salty over being punted by Grif a few episodes earlier and possibly revenge for sexist comments Grif made in the past.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Kaikaiana reveals in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' that she is chubby which, considering her active sex life, clearly isn't a detriment to her attractiveness.
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* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both LovableSexManiac{{s}}, but while Tucker is just putting in a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
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* {{Foil}}: To Tucker. They're both LovableSexManiac{{s}}, but while Tucker is just putting in on a mask to compensate for his numerous insecurities, Sister is completely genuine about it. Tucker's also a CasanovaWannabe and a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynistic]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold dick]], while Sister has a better success rate and, outside of her promiscuity, is generally a friendly NiceGirl who just wants to have a great time wherever she goes. Whereas Tucker takes several seasons to step up to the plate and show off that he's [[BrilliantButLazy a genuinely good soldier when he tries]], Sister becomes a YoungEntrepreneur the season after she's introduced. [[CaptainObvious And of course]], Tucker's a man while she's a woman.
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* ShipSinking: When they reunite in ''The Shinzo Paradox'' there is clearly an attraction between Kai and Tucker. However, Tucker's increasingly dickish behaviour starts turning Kai off from him which reaches its head when Tucker says she's acting "frigid" to him leading her to give him a ReasonYouSuckSpeach. While Tucker [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone clearly regrets what he said]] and the two bury the hatchet by the end of the season Kai admits that Tucker's behaviour has caused her feelings for him to evaporate. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Singularity'' the two decide they are BetterAsFriends with Tucker accepting that his attitude means he destroyed his chances with her.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Andy was partially constructed out of Tex's more "personal" devices.
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[YourWorstNightmare Her Labyrinth illusion]] in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[YourWorstNightmare Her Labyrinth illusion]] illusion in ''Singularity'' is [[spoiler:being confronted with having accidentally burned down her and Grif's family home]].
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* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the [[KillEmAll "Fight! Fight!"]] [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
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* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: By the end of ''Singularity'', she's the only member of both Blue Team and the Blood Gulch Crew as a whole to have never killed anyone[[note]](well, at least outside of the [[KillEmAll "Fight! Fight!"]] Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to "Why Were We Here?", where she [[SiblingMurder killed Grif]] as revenge for murdering Tucker after she flirted with him)[[/note]].
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* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the [[KillEmAll "Fight! Fight!"]] [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters and Sister shows interest in the idea, even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked into the Everwhen in "Paradox."]]
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* ShipTease: With Tucker, although mostly in the [[KillEmAll "Fight! Fight!"]] Fight!" [[MultipleEndings Alternate Ending]] to Season 5. [[note]]Tucker proposes the idea of them spending their supposedly final moments together as lovers instead of fighters and Sister shows interest in the idea, even impatience. Then, when Tucker is "killed" by Grif, Sister responds angrily, saying she liked Tucker and that he was nice to her before "killing" her own brother.[[[/note]] It comes back during their interactions in ''The Shisno Paradox,'' with Tucker even giving her [[spoiler:a DyingDeclarationOfLove as they're sucked into the Everwhen in "Paradox."]]
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-->'''Sister:''' [[invoked]] [[CriticalResearchFailure END WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE!]] SUFFRAGE! WE'VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
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[[NumberTwo Second-in-command]] (it was either him or Caboose) and often clueless BumblingSidekick to Church, Tucker is the longest-serving of the surviving Blues at Blood Gulch and the main character of the Chorus Trilogy. As disinclined towards work or combat as Grif (he's actually the highest-ranking Blue as a Private First Class, but is happy to let Church take the reins), he repeatedly claims to be a "lover, not a fighter," and utters his CatchPhrase at the first sign of a DoubleEntendre. He's somewhat juvenile in personality, offering pick-up lines to any females he isn't terrified of. He called dibs on Capt. Flowers' blue-green armor when the former died of an aspirin overdose. Tucker may or may not be black, and is quick to point out this shouldn't matter. Despite his reluctance to fight, Tucker's a great shot due to his keen eyesight (which developed because Church always hogs the sniper rifle).
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[[NumberTwo Second-in-command]] (it was either him or Caboose) [[TheDitz Caboose]]) and often clueless BumblingSidekick to Church, Tucker is the longest-serving of the surviving Blues at Blood Gulch and the main character of the Chorus Trilogy. As disinclined towards work or combat as Grif (he's actually the highest-ranking Blue as a Private First Class, but is happy to let Church take the reins), he repeatedly claims to be a "lover, not a fighter," and utters his CatchPhrase at the first sign of a DoubleEntendre. He's somewhat juvenile in personality, offering pick-up lines to any females he isn't terrified of. He called dibs on Capt. Flowers' blue-green armor when the former died of an aspirin overdose. Tucker may or may not be black, and is quick to point out this shouldn't matter. Despite his reluctance to fight, Tucker's a great shot due to his keen eyesight (which developed because Church always hogs the sniper rifle).
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[[caption-width-right:346:''"I just want you guys to know, out for everyone I've ever met, I hate you all the least."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:346:''"I just want you guys to know, know that... out for of everyone I've ever met, I hate you all the least."'']]
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* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: Tex is capable of ripping out someone's skull and beating them to death with it. Her unfortunate victim even questions how she's able to do that.
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* GenderConcealingVoice: Tex wears a full body armor and full-face helmet. Her voice filter makes it easy for others to mistake her for a guy.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], than the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why she assists [[SixthRanger the Green Alien]], [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]] and [[EvilBrit Wyoming]] in the ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' finale. She believes that if she helps them infect [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Tucker's son Junior]] with O'Malley and he returns to Sangheilos with [[CoolSword "the Great Weapon"]], than then the long and bloody war between the UNSC and Covenant will finally end.
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[[WMG:[[center: [- ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' '''[[Characters/RedVsBlue Main Character Index]]'''\\
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Tropes pertaining to the Blue Team of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. '''All spoilers for the first fifteen seasons will be unmarked below.'''
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Tropes pertaining to the Blue Team of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''.''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. '''All spoilers for the first fifteen seasons will be unmarked below.'''
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-->'''Voiced By:''' Jason Saldaña, Miles Luna (Season 12 Trailer)
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-->'''Voiced By:''' Shane Newville (Seasons 11-13), Miles Luna Creator/MilesLuna (Season 15)
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* LovableSexManiac: [[UpToEleven Even more so than Tucker is]]. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
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* LovableSexManiac: [[UpToEleven Even more so than Tucker is]].is. Though unlike Tucker, whose sexually charged humor [[StepfordSmiler is essentially a front that he uses to hide his insecurities and build himself up]], Kaikaina knows who she is, ''owns'' who she is, and anyone else can either accept her or get the hell out of her way.
