History Trivia / RedVsBlue

** A more downplayed case is Tucker getting the Designated Marksman Rifle as his WeaponOfChoice during Season 11, as Miles Luna originally wanted all of Blue Team to use the [=DMR=] during that season. However, he later decided to have Caboose and Wash retain their signature weapons. As this left Tucker having the only [=DMR=] on Blue Team, Luna found it to be distracting and regretted the initial choice.

** The commentary track on the ''Revelation'' DVD suggests that Grif [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt was originally going to take up the Meta's Brute Shot]] as his WeaponOfChoice (as he's noticeably the only member of the main cast not to have one). They decided not to go with this idea, however... Well, at least until he decides to help save Carolina and Epsilon in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10. But then the weapon unfortunately became unavailable in the ''Halo 4'' engine, meaning it could not be used for Seasons 11 & 12, and was {{Hand Wave}}d that it was confiscated by the UNSC between Seasons 10 & 11.

* WorkingTitle: The first title for spin-off ''Q vs. A'' was Grimmons, but as the producer put it "we don't want to take [[PortmanteauCoupleName that]] from the fans".

* WrittenByCastMember: Of the main writers, everyone but Eddy Rivas, Monty Oum and Joshua Kazemi voices a character. Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum have a lot of roles, Miles Luna started with no role in Season 10 but became Felix afterwards, and Joe Nicolosi was Jax Jonez. Season 14 has promoted examples with Shannon [=McCormick=] (Washington, wrote two episodes where he appears as both him and Iowa) and Barbara Dunkelman (Katie Jensen, also voices female Donut in "Head Cannon"), plus several guests -- James Willems as Drag in the two episodes written and voiced by members of Funhaus, the Game Grumps in ''Gray vs. Grey'' (where Miles also co-wrote and appeared), and the creators of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' in the Meta vs. Carolina episode. Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight plays the Orange Knight (who is later revealed to be Lancelot). In Season 17, where Weight was the lead writer, he voices [[spoiler:the Labyrinth's simulacrum of the [[SadisticTeacher sadistic P.E. instructor]] Coach Prestwood]]. In Season 18, Noel Wiggins voices Raymond. ''Family Shatters'' had episodes written by Hannah [=McCarthy=] (Phase) and Jenn Tidwell (East).

** Another downplayed case, but Burnie Burns said at [=RTX=] 2019 that he greatly regretted jumping into ''Halo 2'' so quickly during Season 3. Burns also clarified that in the series going forward, [=RT=] sees it as important to at least wait until the current season is over before switching over to the next ''Halo'' game. Burnie has also said that the process of transition from ''Combat Evolved'' to ''Halo 2'' was so stressful he got no sleep for nearly three days and fell asleep ''mid conversation'' with someone, making them think he'd had a seizure.

** There's also an amusingly pervasive example within Season 15 itself - [[ReferenceOverdosed the large number of]] {{Shout Out}}s and pop culture humor were originally far more subtle in Nicolosi's original scripts and less blatant. However, whenever Nicolosi would give the scripts off to Miles Luna to proofread, Luna [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure would fail to get almost every reference]] and be left ''very'' confused at whatever was going on. This led to Nicolosi rewriting each script so as to make the references more explicit and not leave Luna in the dark.
** While Miles Luna was writing "The Not So Good Ol' Days" for ''Singularity'', which had Wash going back in time to try and learn more about Carolina, Jason Weight asked [[StatingTheSimpleSolution "Why doesn't he just ask her in the future where they are friends?"]]. That lead Luna to furiously yell "Goddammit!" at the simple solution he missed. The exchange became a joke in the actual episode.

* InspirationForTheWork: Many of the series' classic jokes (like whether the [[CoolCar Warthog]] looks more like a [[PantheraAwesome puma]] or not) came from conversations that series creator Burnie Burns had with his friends while screwing around on the Blood Gulch map in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''. In fact, Burns was inspired to actually start filming their skits as part of a web series while recording gameplay and letter boxing without the HUD, realizing that doing so made it "kind of look like a movie."

** Relatedly, Joel Heyman (the voice of Caboose) was let go from Rooster Teeth in late 2019 (only confirmed in mid-2020) after tensions in the workplace culminated in him not showing up to work, combined with his more volatile activity online causing controversy for the company on a regular basis. Heyman has since moved to LA and expressed no desire to work with RT again.

* BTeamSequel: ''Red vs. Blue: Zero'' is being done primarily by the Rooster Teeth employees more associated with Website/ScrewAttack[=/=]''WebAnimation/{{Death Battle}}'' than those associated with Rooster Teeth's own animation division. Not even the composers remained!

* WordOfGod: Shannon [=McCormick=] says [[https://youtu.be/JdTSoUV4BfU?t=1355 in an interview]] that Darryl is African-American.

* WordOfGay: While "The 'Mission'" explicitly reveals Ohio to be a lesbian, it's more ambiguous about Sherry. Creator/ShannonMcCormick, the episode's writer, later confirmed it in an [=AfterBuzz=] TV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTSoUV4BfU interview.]] In the same interview, he says that Darryl is African-American.

* WordOfGay: While "The 'Mission'" explicitly reveals Ohio to be a lesbian, it's more ambiguous about Sherry. Creator/ShannonMcCormick, the episode's writer, later confirmed it in an [=AfterBuzz=] TV interview.

* WrittenByCastMember: Of the main writers, everyone but Eddy Rivas, Monty Oum and Joshua Kazemi: Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum have a lot of roles, Miles Luna started with no role in Season 10 but became Felix afterwards, and Joe Nicolosi was Jax Jonez. Season 14 has promoted examples with Shannon [=McCormick=] (Washington, wrote two episodes where he appears as both him and Iowa) and Barbara Dunkelman (Katie Jensen, also voices female Donut in "Head Cannon"), plus several guests - James Willems as Drag in the two episodes written and voiced by members of Funhaus, the Game Grumps in ''Gray vs. Grey'' (where Miles also co-wrote and appeared), and the creators of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' in the Meta vs. Carolina episode. Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight plays the Orange Knight (who is later revealed to be Lancelot). In Season 17, where Weight was the lead writer, he voices [[spoiler:the Labyrinth's simulacrum of the [[SadisticTeacher sadistic P.E. instructor]] Coach Prestwood]]. In Season 18, Noel Wiggins voices Raymond. ''Family Shatters'' had episodes written by Hannah [=McCarthy=] (Phase) and Jenn Tidwell (East).
* YouSoundFamiliar: In ''Singularity'', Chrovos takes a female form. Their voice comes from [[https://twitter.com/MsLeeEddy/status/1103844895696015360 479er herself, Lee Eddy]]. And to make matters worse, the MentalTimeTravel of the season brings back 479er from when [[spoiler:she was Recovery Command]].

*** Part of Locus' characterization was his considering himself to be nothing more than a killing machine, even taking the name of his armor as a result, and having a DarthVaderClone aesthetic, punctated with the "X" on his helmet reflecting the scar on his face. ''VideoGame/Halo5'' redesigned the Locus helmet, removing the iconic "X" and making it lighter in coloration. InUniverse this [[RuleOfSymbolism helps show]] Locus's HeelFaceTurn and CharacterDevelopment.

** [[invoked]] Joe Nicolosi has gone on record stating that in retrospect, he despised having Vic's HeroicSacrifice in Season 15's finale be so similar to Church/Epsilon's in Season 13 (with him agreeing with many fans claiming it was TooSoon), and only kept it in for the sake of continuity in the episode. Nicolosi has also said that while he doesn't ''hate'' the character arc he wrote for Sarge in Season 15, he wishes that he could have fine-tuned it more in the script before it was put into the actual season.

** [[invoked]] Joe Nicolosi has gone on record stating that in retrospect, he hated having Vic's HeroicSacrifice in Season 15's finale be so similar to Church/Epsilon's in Season 13 (with him agreeing with many fans claiming it was too soon), and only kept it in for the sake of continuity in the episode. Nicolosi has also said that while he doesn't ''hate'' the character arc he wrote for Sarge in Season 15, he wishes that he could have fine-tuned it more in the script before it was put into the actual season.

* FanNickname:
** "The Blood Gulch Crew" for the Reds and Blues that originated from Blood Gulch's teams along with their associated Freelancers and [=A.I.s=] (i.e., Tex, Wash, Epsilon, and Carolina).
** The Mysterious Blue Guy was the most widely accepted nickname for the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin blue-armoured Freelancer of unknown identity]] in the prequel sections, who turns out to be Agent Florida, better known as Captain Flowers.
** All the Insurrectionists/Resistance members have a couple, considering that they have NoNameGiven status.
*** The Insurrectionist Flame Soldier is often called "Sharkface", due to his helmet. Gained [[AscendedFanon official status]] in Season 13.
*** "Girlie" has many, including "Heartbreaker" and "Hot Lips", both due to her lipmark insignia.
*** "Pillman" is the most common for the Insurrectionist Leader, due to the insignia on his ODST armor.
** Felix from Season 11 was named "Sunkist Mcscouty" or "Pumpkin Patrol" due to his Scout helmet and orange striped armour. After his name was revealed, "Felix [=McScouty=]" is the generally agreed upon nickname.
** After her mention in the preview synopsis for Season 15 but before her name was revealed, fans were taken to referring to Dylan Andrews as [[ShapedLikeItself "Reporter Lady."]]
** Spencer Porkensenson is known by some as "Unicorn" or "Rhino" due to his FOTUS helmet. After Episode 3 of Season 15 was released, "Goodbye" also started to pick up steam. More formally, he tended to be called "FOTUS Soldier" on wikis before his real name was revealed.
** Atlus's trickster son Genkins was first known as "Green Golfer Dude" after his opening scene.
** After Huggins' [[BewareTheSillyOnes darker side]] was first shown in "It Just Blinked At Me", several fans started to call her "Scary Tinkerbell."
** Phase was nicknamed "Knife Wife" as soon as clips of her knife fighting skills appeared. [[https://store.roosterteeth.com/products/red-vs-blue-zero-knife-wife-t-shirt?variant=32510097621040 There's even a shirt with it!]]

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueDexterGrif Dexter Grif]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueLeonardLChurch Leonard L. Church]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueLaverniusTucker Lavernius Tucker]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueMichaelJCaboose Michael J. Caboose]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueAgentWashington Agent Washington]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueFelix Felix]]
** [[Characters/RedVsBlueLocus Locus]]

* QuoteSource:
** ItsQuietTooQuiet

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: During the DVD commentaries for the first five seasons, Burnie notes whenever a spare topical references appears, he tended to avoid them due to believing that those gave a high risk of dating the product. And indeed, there are a few writing moments even more mid-2000s than the ''Halo'' games being used, such as references to ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and Sister mentioning Website/MySpace - says something about the show's longevity that later seasons mentioned ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and Website/{{Facebook}}. Subverted, however, with "Can you hear me now? Can you hear me? Stupid 4G network.", which does not date the quote with the days 3G was the norm — and in fact, the joke still works, with 5G only beginning to take off in 2019, more than a decade after the episode the joke came from.

* WrittenByCastMember: Of the main writers, everyone but Eddy Rivas, Monty Oum and Joshua Kazemi: Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum have a lot of roles, Miles Luna started with no role in Season 10 but became Felix afterwards, and Joe Nicolosi was Jax Jonez. Season 14 has promoted examples with Shannon [=McCormick=] (Washington, wrote two episodes where he appears as both him and Iowa) and Barbara Dunkelman (Katie Jensen, also voices female Donut in "Head Cannon"), plus several guests - James Willems as Drag in the two episodes written and voiced by members of Funhaus, the Game Grumps in ''Gray vs. Grey'' (where Miles also co-wrote and appeared), and the creators of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' in the Meta vs. Carolina episode. Season 16's co-writer Jason Weight plays the Orange Knight (who is later revealed to be Lancelot). In Season 17, where Weight was the lead writer, he voices [[spoiler:the Labyrinth's simulacrum of the [[SadisticTeacher sadistic P.E. instructor]] Coach Prestwood]]. In Season 18, Noel Wiggins voices Raymond.

-->'''Washington''': I'd say that was the '''[[RougeAnglesOfSatin calvary]]'''...([[YouMakeMeSic Sic]])

** [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1421514851348885514 Season 18 was supposed to still use the original cast alongside new characters, downright opening with Caboose and featuring a fight scene for Tucker.]] ExecutiveMeddling told otherwise.

** The commentary track on the ''Revelation'' DVD suggests that Grif [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt was originally going to take up the Meta's Brute Shot]] as his WeaponOfChoice (as he's noticeably the only member of the main cast not to have one). Ultimately they decided not to go with this idea, however... Well, at least until he decides to help save Carolina and Epsilon in Episodes 20 and 21 of Season 10. As it is, the weapon unfortunately became unavailable in the ''Halo 4'' engine, meaning it could not be used for Seasons 11 & 12, and was {{Hand Wave}}d that it was confiscated by the UNSC between Seasons 10 & 11.

*** The first draft of the script (which was written around the time of the 2016 [=US=] election) had everyone accidentally voting for an orange pile of vomit to be their president. The punchline would've been [[TakeThat "At least you didn't win the popular vote!"]] This was replaced by the Malarkey joke, because it was both funnier and less political.

*** The aforementioned interview also notes that Miles Luna had toyed with having a scene set directly after Season 13, but Weight felt that it was best to leave that area alone since it had ended on such a perfect note already and so convinced him to let the moment be left alone. Weight also toyed with having the Blood Gulch Crew actually see Epsilon’s final message and Tucker picking them up/explaining Epsilon's nature, but the scene was both too talky and not directly involved with the rest of the season's storyline, so Miles Luna instead went with [[spoiler:having Tucker re-live the Battle of Crash Site Bravo]].

** While relatively common after over 16 years of the voice actors knowing their characters (one running joke is "You think we actually write for Caboose?"), the reigning champion is reportedly Matt Hullum's work as Sarge. By all reports, sessions with him last far longer than anything scripted as he rambles on in every different direction, which is fully in Sarge's character.

** According to Miles Luna, the fact that the shot in "The End Is Near" where Felix is surrounded by both Locus and the Reds and Blues in the Communications Temple [[RuleOfSymbolism looks so close to]] the shot of Locus' "trial" in the Jungle Temple during "Locus Of Control" is "a happy accident," and they decided to keep it in after Luna realized what a nice parallel the two scenes made.

** Season 3, where the guys were incredibly overworked trying to get the first episode filmed in ''Halo 2'' [[ChristmasRushed the same day said game hit stores.]] Burnie Burns also had to rewrite several episodes over and over again, twice filling a CosmicDeadline (the characters going to the future - i.e. ''Halo 2'' - in Episode 43 and the season finale in Episode 57) and what he intended to be the series' MilestoneCelebration on Episode 50 ended up being so extensive that its events had to be spread over ''three'' chapters. In Burns' own words, "I got 4 hours of sleep in three days. After Episode 43 came out, I actually fell asleep in mid-sentence while talking to someone. They thought I died."

** According to Joe Nicolosi, Season 15 was ''incredibly'' difficult to produce due to both the natural stresses of the production crew switching over to a new showrunner and the machinimators having to quickly get used to working in ''Halo 5''. As an example, "Nightmare on Planet Evil" had to be re-filmed '''three''' different times due to so many scenes having the Reds and Blues' colors being completely off since the game's way of handling lighting was so radically different compared to what the machinimators were previously used to dealing with in ''Halo 4.''
** Austin Clark had never made any machinima with ''Halo 4'' prior to working on ''Singularity'', and so was incredibly stressed when re-choreographing [[spoiler:the fight scene at Crash Site Bravo in "Succession"]]. Apparently, it had gotten to where Clark claimed it took '''eight hours''' to just get three different shots at one point.
** As noted under ScheduleSlip, ''Zero'' took a whole year to make due to both the transition between production crews and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic at a certain point forcing everyone to work from home - and both [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedTorrii/status/1421514851348885514 showrunner Torrian Crawford]] and [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7ulNGzWYAAekgQ?format=png&name=900x900 animator Kristina Christofferson]] noted how stressful and unfavorable things were. It also suffered another production delay just as it would be released with Ryan Haywood's RoleEndingMisdemeanor, which required his role to be recast and redubbed. Furthermore, Rooster Teeth itself was hit with multiple high-profile [=PR=] messes during the seasons' production cycle, most notably Joel Heyman being fired for making offensive comments on Twitter and both Burnie Burns and Rebecca Frasier resigning from Rooster Teeth (albeit with both seeming to be on good terms with the company itself, and the door being kept open for them potentially reprising their roles later on).
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: During the DVD commentaries for the first five seasons, Burnie notes whenever the spare topical references appear, he avoided them for thinking those give a high risk of dating the product. And indeed, there are a few writing moments even more mid-2000s than the ''Halo'' games being used, such as references to ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and Sister mentioning Website/MySpace - says something about the show's longevity that later seasons mentioned ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and Website/{{Facebook}}. Subverted however with "Can you hear me now? Can you hear me? Stupid 4G network.", which does not date the quote with the days 3G was the norm — and in fact, the joke still works, with 5G only beginning to take off in 2019, more than a decade after the episode the joke came from.

** Most famously, ''Red vs. Blue'' was only supposed to last six episodes. However, Burns and Hullum kept getting so many new ideas that they wanted to try out that they kept pushing back the planned end-date before they decided to actually make [=RvB=] into a proper web series.

** Commentary reveals that Sister was originally not meant to be portrayed as the... ah, "girl of questionable morals, standards, and intelligence" that she is. The writers had originally intended to depict her as a sweet but naive girl-next-door type, but that was before they interviewed Rebecca Frasier. The writers then played a joke on Frasier during auditions--they kept adding more and more vulgar jokes into the scripts to see when she'd ask to stop reading. ''She didn't,'' and that's how they discovered she was willing to say pretty much anything in her lines, whereupon they picked her for the role and Sister was rewritten to be a "loud slut" instead.
** Doing the AnimatedAdaptation was an ambitious idea, but the crew just didn't have the money and time for it. They also didn't like the fact that someone else had to do the animation, so they couldn't do it in-house.

** As Shane Newville was fired from Rooster Teeth in early 2016, Freckles is voiced by Miles Luna in Season 15. [[DownplayedTrope However, since Freckles now has a puppy-sized MANTIS for a body resulting in a chipmunk-esque voice, it's practically impossible to tell the difference.]]

* TheOtherMarty: During RTX at Home 2020, fans were allowed to watch the first episode of ''Zero'' in which Diesel was voiced by Ryan Haywood. Due to the controversy around him and subsequent departure, he was replaced by Daman Mills.

** Conversely, Carlos Trabka from the same aforementioned season is written like someone who dislikes the show. He would prefer it if Dylan reported on a group of [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} "monster-fighting sexy teenagers"]].[[note]]Not everyone who likes [=RWBY=] dislikes Red vs. Blue, of course, but [=RWBY=] has become the far more popular of the two.[[/note]] He also finds the events that happened in Blood Gulch too crazy to take seriously.

*** One of the Orcs guarding the Towers of the Teeth muses "You ever wonder why we're here?" His buddy then contemplates aloud how it's "one of life's great mysteries."

*** Miranda tries to use some GallowsHumor to cheer up Liara (who has just been declared TheMedic of the crew of the ''Normandy'') by saying that medics only have the job of "making people feel more comfortable...while they die."

*** The Master Chief Collection version of ''Halo 2'' includes an achievement called "Six pedals, four directions", which is unlocked by having the Arbiter drive a Scorpion. This is a reference to a line of Caboose's from the Blood Gulch Chronicles, where he asked why the tank had six pedals if there's only four directions (and referenced later in season 9, where we see a Warthog with six pedals)

*** The Meta's Brute Shot, christened the "Grif Shot" after Grif stole it, became unavailable after Season 10 due to not being available in ''VideoGame/Halo4''. As such, Simmons explains that the UNSC confiscated it in between Seasons 10 and 11, with Hargrove putting it in his trophy room. The only time Grif gets to use it again would be in the finale of Season 13, in which he was entirely animated and as such able to be implemented.
*** The Meta's suit was introduced as a minor plot point in Season 13, but kept in the style of the armor from ''VideoGame/Halo3'', requiring it be limited strictly to animation due to the season using ''VideoGame/Halo4''. So while Tucker dons it in order to fight off Hargrove's forces in the finale, Season 15 offhandedly mentions the suit was rendered useless, hence why Tucker is back in his standard armor.

** According to Shannon [=McCormick=] concerning his two Freelancer episodes in Season 14, the Triplets were originally going to be abandoned on a planet made up of tropical islands. However, the multiplayer map needed for it wasn't able to be found in time for the episode's production, and so the script was rewritten to account for the Triplets being abandoned on an ice world (which was easier to machinimate anyway).
** During Tex's flashback cameo in Season 15, she is using the voice filter (and thus is once again voiced by Burnie Burns), owing to Creator/KathleenZuelch's break with Creator/RoosterTeeth.

** "This One Goes To Eleven" is Miles Luna's favorite episode, though his favorite moment of the whole show is the end of Season 5.

** "This One Goes To Eleven" is Miles Luna's favorite episode, though his favorite moment out of the whole show is Church's monologue at the end of Season 5.

** "Agent Cockroach" for Agent Washington, since Wash is both a CosmicPlaything and MadeOfIron to a near-absurd degree (even by the standards of this series).