History Characters / RedVsBlueLeonardLChurch

In Season 10, Church, begrudgingly goes along with Carolina to find the Director, but they both unexpectedly warm up to each other, (much to the chagrin of the others). Church eventually remembers the full story of what he went through as Alpha and how he was created as Epsilon, but after having an outburst when the other Reds and Blues refuse to help, (at first) and what he saw the Director become from similar obsessions with the past, both he and Carolina finally decide that it wasn't worth it. After the Blood Gulch Crew crash on Chorus, Church and Carolina leave to investigate without saying a word.

Church and Carolina would later return in the second act of ''The Chorus Trilogy'' to save the Blood Gulch Crew from the Space Pirates, tell them what was really going on, and work together to save Chorus... as well as bickering with Tucker, who is initially pretty upset about what he did. In the final part of ''The Chorus Trilogy'', Church eventually begins to wear down due to being both overtaxed by Carolina and him ultimately realizing just how old of an [=A.I.=] fragment he actually is. Inspired by Doyle's sacrifice, he erases his memories to give the others a fighting chance in their LastStand against Charon Industries.

* FatalFlaw: Throughout both of his iterations (his Alpha iteration moreso than Epsilon, though Epsilon is far more boastful), Church is quite clearly [[ItsAllAboutMe full of himself]].

* AmbiguousSituation: It’s never clearly stated what exactly the relationship between Alpha-Church and Epsilon-Church is, and whether Epsilon is a reincarnation or revival of the original or his own, separate individual. Epsilon identifies as Church and acts almost exactly like and has all of the memories of the Alpha, but he occasionally refers to the Alpha as a separate person, and has several differences in personality from the Alpha. However, he also makes references to Alpha-Church's time back in Blood Gulch as if ''he'' experienced it, muddying the waters further.

** Epsilon showed a similar annoyance to everyone, but managed to better keep his anger under control for the most part. In Season 10, though, after he bonded with Carolina in "Out of Mind", he began to become just as dismissive of the others as she was, constantly siding with her against the others and brushing off their concerns as nothing important. It comes to a head in "Change of Plans" when he and Carolina make a plan to kill the Director, which involves turning the Reds, Tucker, and Caboose into glorified CannonFodder. When everyone else naturally refuses to go along with this plan, Epsilon tells them to "stop whining and do something useful for once", getting upset that they aren't willing to die for his personal vendetta. When the others all decide to walkout on him and Carolina for their mistreatment of them, he goes on a rant about how they all owe him this for everything they put him through over the years, blaming them all for his personal problems. Though he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDOne immediately regrets saying this]] and tries to apologize to them, it's to no effect. After this, Epsilon still snarked at the Blood Gulch Crew occasionally, but never purposely endangered their lives with a suicidal plan.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Justified as for over a hundred episodes and change, it kind of ''was''. Still, Church often tends to prioritize his own wants and needs over others, even when he's legitimately trying to help or do good, treats everything in terms of how it relates to him, and has a hard time making sure his meaningful relationships don't fall into AllTakeAndNoGive.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Justified as for over a hundred episodes and change, it kind of ''was''. Still, Church often tends to prioritize his own wants and needs over others, even when he's legitimately trying to help or do good, and treats everything in terms of how it relates to him.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: In Season 12, after he reunites with the Reds and Blues, he comes into conflict with Tucker due to viewing him as the same immature jackass he was back at Blood Gulch, unaware that Tucker is currently serving as a commander for the rebels and is struggling with insecurities and trauma from getting some of his men killed during a mission.

[[caption-width-right:192:''"You should hate someone because they're an asshole, or a pervert, or snob, or they're lazy, or arrogant or an idiot or know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to. You have to learn to despise people on a personal level. Not because they're Red, or because they're Blue, but because you know them, and you see them every single day, and you can't stand them because they're a complete and total fucking douchebag."'']]

->''"I'm tired. I'm just... really tired."''

* {{Adorkable}}: [[invoked]] He's very good at hiding it most of the time, but Church can be a ''massive'' dork. Easily the most noteworthy example of this is [=Epsilon-Church's=] {{Squee}}ing in the [="MIA"=] miniseries when he gets an annoyed Tucker to say that ItsQuietTooQuiet.

* UngratefulBastard: He becomes this in Season 10. After the Reds and Blues rescue him twice, risking their lives in the process, he remains completely ungrateful about it, [[JustifiedTrope mainly since the second rescue came just after he]] [[MercyKill Mercy Killed]] [[JustifiedTrope Tex and made peace with his life and accepted death.]] This gets worse over the course of the season, and by the end he demands they serve as cannon fodder for Carolina's plan for the sake of his revenge, and when they understandably refuse he starts blaming them for all of his problems and insisting they owe him. [[HeelRealization He immediately realizes how toxic his attitude towards them is]], but by this point they just wind up abandoning him, hurt and fed up with his attitude.

* AmbiguousSituation: It’s never clearly stated what exactly the relationship between Alpha-Church and Epsilon-Church is, and whether Epsilon is a reincarnation or revival of the original or his own, separate individual. Epsilon identifies as Church and acts almost exactly like the Alpha, but occasionally acts as though they were separate beings, and Epsilon-Church has a few differences in personality, like being far less temperamental. However, Epsilon's personality is almost identical to pre-torture Alpha's and he even has memories of Blood Gulch, which just muddles the issue further.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or, "non-ghost," but either way this is called into question by the end of ''Reconstruction''. ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' seem to infer that Epsilon-Church regards himself equally as human as his teammates, which they (even the Reds) seem to reciprocate.

* BerserkButton: Being called a thing in Season 7, seeing Washington in Season 8 (since it made Epsilon recall trying to kill itself), and the Director in Season 10.

* OddFriendship: Both of his incarnations get along surprisingly well with Delta, even Alpha-Church, who hated AIs.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Heavily downplayed and subverted. Church was a dick even pre-fragmentation, but his misanthropy, selfishness, self-loathing, anger issues, and most of his other flaws only appeared after his torture.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "God-''DAMMIT'', Caboose!", whenever Caboose annoys him enough. This vanishes in later seasons as CharacterDevelopment sets in.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "God-''DAMMIT'', Caboose!"

* AmbiguousSituation: It’s never clearly stated what exactly the relationship between Alpha-Church and Epsilon-Church is, and whether Epsilon is a reincarnation or revival of the original or his own, separate individual. Epsilon identifies as Church and acts almost exactly like the Alpha, but occasionally acts as though they were separate beings, and Epsilon-Church has a few differences in personality, like being far less temperamental. However, Epsilon's personality is almost identical to pre-torture Alpha's, which just muddles the issue further.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Justified as for over a hundred episodes and change, it kind of ''was''. Still, Church often tends to prioritize his own wants and needs over others, even when he's legitimately trying to help or do good.

* MechanicalAbomination: Originally had shades of this before he gained a better sense over himself by Season 10, what with him being a highly dangerous and [=near-inscrutable=] MindHive that was (temporarily) worshiped as a god and even had to resort to AFormYouAreComfortableWith in order to communicate with others. Hell, the "Epsilon Incident" (where Epsilon tried to kill itself when it was implanted in Wash's mind) is treated more like Wash [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane from seeing]] an EldritchAbomination than anything else.

* FatalFlaw: Throughout both of his iterations (his Alpha iteration moreso than Epsilon), Church is quite clearly [[ItsAllAboutMe full of himself]].

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: A common thread throughout ''both'' of his incarnations is his utterly laughable aim.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Justified as for over a hundred episodes and change, it kind of ''was''.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite acting like a total jerk, it's shown that he does care for Tex (along with both Tucker and even Caboose at times), and he ultimately dies sacrificing himself for the greater good.

* AmbiguousSituation: It’s never clearly stated what exactly the relationship between Alpha-Church and Epsilon-Church is, and whether Epsilon is a reincarnation or revival of the original or his own, separate individual. Epsilon identifies as Church and acts almost exactly like the Alpha, but occasionally acts as though they were separate beings, and the two have subtle differences in personality.

** It's left ambiguous if he accepted his nature as an AI before his death or not. He continues to refer to himself as a ghost, but his line delivery makes it possible he could be attempting to reassure Washington before the EMP blast went off.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[invoked]] There's ample evidence for the StableTimeLoop he's trapped in for the middle of Season 3 to be just a torture scenario [[ConsummateLiar Gamma]] concocted to keep him busy while Wyoming helped set up their stratagem to end the Great War, but there's also a subtle implication that it was RealAfterAll due to the existence of [[VoodooShark Yellow Church]] and Captain Butch Flowers' death being an aspirin overdose. Rooster Teeth has [[ShrugOfGod refused to say which is which]], and so it serves as a RiddleForTheAges.