Characters / Red vs. Blue - Charon Industries

aka: Red Vs Blue Felix

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Tropes pertaining to Charon Industries, the company that the Freelancers battled in the past, in Red vs. Blue. All spoilers for the first fifteen seasons will be unmarked below.

In General

You'd be surprised as to what can come of a merger between politics and corporations.
—Malcolm Hargrove

Charon Industries is a corrupt corporation with a hand in the weapons, advanced technology, and cryogenics markets. They have a heavy involvement in the plot of The Chorus Trilogy, where their CEO Malcolm Hargrove, the Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Sub-Committee, under the alias of "Control" leads a group of Space Pirates to manipulate the two factions on the planet into continuing a bloody Civil War. Their private security force, the Insurrection/Resistance, were also the main antagonists of The Project Freelancer Saga, and their mercenaries, the Space Pirates, serve alongside the Chairman as the main antagonists of The Chorus Trilogy.

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Associated Tropes:

• Corporate Conspiracy: Charon is engaged in one of these, manipulating the populace of Chorus into a Civil War so as to wipe them out and claim the planet as their own.
• Eviler than Thou: Than Project Freelancer, which for all of their horrific acts, still had the noble goals of resurrecting Allison Church and providing Super Soldiers to safeguard humanity's survival in the Great War against the Covenant. Charon Industries, in contrast, intentionally aimed to kill off an entire planet of innocent people in the name of War for Fun and Profit.
• Evil, Inc.: Although Hidden in Plain Sight, Charon Industries are a hugely corrupt conglomerate, and their CEO happens to be the arc's main antagonist.
• Evil Versus Evil: Against Project Freelancer.
• Last Stand: At the end of Season 13, the troops of Charon stand off against the Blood Gulch Crew aboard the Staff of Charon with all of their remaining soldiers, at the end of which Hargrove was arrested.
• Make Way for the New Villains: The Chairman dismantled Project Freelancer and arrested its personnel, then took the project's technology for reverse engineering.
• N.G.O. Superpower: They have enough resources to maintain a small army, including a powerful battleship, and are able to wage war on an entire planet. However, this trope is ultimately subverted in the grand scheme of things, as Charon had to rely on False Flag Operations to get the people of Chorus to murder each other, and once the warring factions unite they prove strong enough to overwhelm Charon's forces despite both having been already nearly destroyed at that point. Once the UNSC gets informed of the situation, it's an automatic loss for Hargrove.
• Undying Loyalty: Their troops are remarkably loyal to both Hargrove and the company as a whole.
• Walking Spoiler: The company doesn't even get a mention before Season 12 (minus a subtle visual shot of the company name on an Insurrectionist's coffee mug in Season 9), and yet are relevant to all prior events.

Malcolm Hargrove

Chairman of the Oversight Sub-Committee / Charon Industries CEO Malcolm Hargrove / "Control"

"Everything I've built... Everything I've worked towards, rests upon a strong foundation. An intricate web of partners, politicians and clients each supporting one another and right now... your thread is straining to support the rest. I think I know what the problem is. I think, it's your motivation. Clearly your monetary compensation isn't enough. So I'd like to try something different."

Voiced By: Jack Lee, Arryn Zech ("Control")

Malcolm Hargrove is the Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Sub-Committee, the CEO of Charon Industries, and the main antagonist of the Chorus Trilogy. He also goes under the alias "Control" during Seasons 11 and 12 when he serves as the leader of the Space Pirates that are trying to wipe out Chorus.

Initially, Chairman Malcom Hargrove served as the counterpart to the Director during Reconstruction, where they alternated reading memos directed at each other during the start of each episode. The Chairman leads a committee to review what has occurred with the Freelancer Project, mostly to find out how it can have multiple AI's when they were only given one. Although he starts off calm and friendly in his dealings with the Director, he soon becomes hostile when he realizes that the Director is stalling for time and avoiding answering his questions. In the end, he informs the Director that he is under arrest and that the moral codes for dealing with AIs are being re-written due to the Director's actions. In Recreation, he returned to make a deal with Agent Washington to ensure the latter's freedom in exchange for finally getting the evidence necessary to put the Director away.

It isn't until the Season 12 finale that we discover he is the CEO of the giant umbrella company Charon Industries. Not only did his company serve as the shadowy backers of the Insurrectionists that Project Freelancer fought in the past but the mysterious "Control", the one who masterminded the increased violence and tension within the Chorus Civil War, is in fact an identity assumed by the Chairman, with Locus, Felix, and the rest of the Space Pirates directly reporting to him. Hargrove took on interest with the isolated planet due to its advanced alien artefacts and intended to use the Civil War to wipe out Chorus' inhabitants in order to obtain the alien technology and mass produce/sell it for profit. However, the Blood Gulch gang jeopardise his plan on Chorus, showing everyone proof that Locus and Felix were working together and bringing the war to a close, now leaving him the target of the wrath not only of the Reds and Blues, but also the entire planet of Chorus. He has Felix and Locus mount a counteroffensive, but they are defeated, and he ends up arrested after his crimes are exposed to the galaxy.

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Associated Tropes:

• Affably Evil: While he may or may not be faking it, he still speaks in a polite tone of voice that only goes away if he's pissed off enough. Even when the BGC and the people of Chorus discover that he's Control, he doesn't lose his cool and calmly tells them that they can't leave Chorus.
• Anti-Hero: A subverted example of an Anti- Hero Antagonist; His actions in earlier seasons, while seemingly benign, are still attempts to increase his own standing and power. In the end, though, he's not a hero at all.
• Bad Boss: Egregiously so. His dialogue explicitly reveals that he sacrifices dozens, if not hundreds, of his employees to supply his... less savory employees: he is sending some of his own ships (and ships and men under the jurisdiction of the UNSC) into Chorus's region of space to have them shipwrecked by tractor beams or infiltrated and stolen by his other men. He also makes it clear to Locus and Felix that if they don't speed things up, he'll have them killed.
• Bald of Evil: Or Balding of Evil as he has a thin layer of hair on the back of his head, but other than that, he's a bald and bad man. Coincidentally, his baldness was revealed at the same time as his villainy.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of The Chorus Trilogy. He has been coordinating the Chorus Civil War from the start with Felix and Locus' infiltration of the two sides, and plans to exterminate the whole planet for profit. He is also the reason the Reds and Blues crashed on Chorus in the first place and why they haven't found rescue in Season 11, and indirectly causes the conflict with Wash and the Meta throughout Recreation and Revelation.
• Big Good: He appears to be this throughout Season 6 - though abrasive, his goal is to take down the Director for committing war crimes - but ultimately subverted with the reveal of him being the corrupt CEO of Charon Industries and one of the show's Greater Scope Villains.
• Cast as a Mask: Arryn Zech voices his transmissions as "Control" with a voice filter until Church reveals the truth, in which the filter is dropped and Jack Lee takes over voicing the Chairman.
• The Chessmaster: He realizes that nuking Chorus from orbit would attract attention, but the inhabitants all killing each other would not be as suspicious.
• Classic Villain: Ambition and Greed.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: As the CEO of Charon Industries, he has hired the space pirates to wipe out Chorus.
• Corrupt Politician: Even being the Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Sub-Committee doesn't stop Hargrove from committing his evil acts.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Malcom Hargrove is only known as "the Chairman" in most cases. Sponsor-only information gave his real name initially, but his name was eventually revealed in Episode 7 of Season 10. He's more directly called by name in the season finale of Season 12.
• Evil All Along: Revealed in Season 12 to be a major antagonist, despite appearing to be the Big Good of the series.
• Evil Brit: At first he's relatively reasonable for the most part, but he has his moments of being less than civil. However after the reveal, he's antagonistic and downright evil.
• Eviler than Thou: As revealed in the finale of Season 12, he's worse than the Director ever was. While the Director operated Project Freelancer in order to bring back his beloved Allison, causing a lot of property damage in the process, Hargrove is willing to annihilate the population of an entire planet (Chorus) for its alien artifacts.
• Evil Is Petty: After the Reds and Blues uncovered the truth behind the Chorus-Charon War to the entire Milky Way Galaxy, he decided to try and wipe out the surviving Chorusans with an army of MANTISes before he's arrested.
• Evil Old Folks: He's old, but doesn't let his age hold him back from his evil activities, especially when it comes to chastising Locus and Felix.
• The Faceless: At first, he was only seen from the back of his head (showing him as having fair skin and graying, short-cut, black hair). He's later revealed fully in Season 12, however.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Started off as the lowly assistant to the chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee, essentially the PA of the actual chairman. He later became Chairman himself, and at some point during or shortly after his tenure in that role, he became the CEO of Charon and used that position to steal the technology he was supposed to be overseeing. He would also instigate a campaign of genocide against the people of Chorus simply so he could loot the planet of its plentiful alien artifacts after the smoke cleared.
• Good is Not Nice: Subverted, though he portrays himself as a stern but benevolent man. In order to retrieve the Epsilon unit, he was more than willing to send the Meta and Wash to Valhalla, when Wash made it clear he wouldn't be asking for the Reds and Blues to return it. Of course, he's ultimately not nearly as good as he'd like to paint himself as.
• The Government: He is the face of and highest ranking member of the UNSC in the series, as both a member of the government and the commanding officer in charge of a maximum security prison. His status as a Corrupt Politician is also quite fitting with the Halo series depiction of UNSC leaders as prone to corruption and self-aggrandizement.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For the whole series up until The Chorus Trilogy. He initially approved Project Freelancer getting their equipment, funded the "Insurrection", led the investigation behind the Director with the purpose of getting his equipment back in Reconstruction, was the employer of "C.T." in Recreation, and sent the Big Bad Duumvirate of Washington and the Meta to Valhalla to retrieve the Epsilon A.I. in Revelation. Otherwise, he has little connection to the plot until Season 11.
• Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: To be precise, he is associated with the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee. However, this is subverted in that when he does figure out the Director's experiments, he doesn't just have him hauled there, but rather attempts to flat out have him arrested by a group of UNSC troops.
• Hidden Villain: For his two seasons as "Control", he was only heard through transmissions, and his true identity as the Chairman was unknown until the Season 12 finale.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Had a dreadfully mundane early life, and his desire for a more eventful life is what led him to his current position.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Once Season 12 reveals his face, it's clearly modeled after Jack Lee.
• It's Personal: Develops a high hatred for the Reds and Blues due to them constantly screwing with his plans, to the point where he wastes valuable time he could've spent going into hiding after Epsilon broadcast his message to the entire galaxy instead going personally to Chorus and trying to kill off the survivors.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While Hargrove's actions in pursuing the Director are at times unethical and he sanctions Wash killing the Reds and Blues, he's still trying to take down a government conspiracy that has resulted in countless unnecessary deaths. Season 12 reveals he was only doing it to claim Project Freelancer's resources, and he becomes leagues worse than the Director when it's revealed he's a war profiteer orchestrating the genocide of Chorus's population.
• Knight of Cerebus: Upon The Reveal that he's Locus and Felix's employer and responsible for the genocidal Chorus Civil War, every scene with him has a dark and serious tone, notwithstanding the insults thrown at him by the Reds and Blues. Even before then, he was never Played for Laughs.
• Last Villain Stand: Once his crimes are exposed to the entire galaxy by Epsilon-Church, he takes the Staff of Charon straight to Chorus to take both the people of Chorus and the Blood Gulch Crew down with him. Despite having the Reds and Blues trapped in his personal trophy room by his men, an offhand remark from Tucker in Season 15 notes that the Blood Gulch Crew actually succeeded in capturing him.
• The Man Behind the Man: To Locus, Sharkface and Felix throughout The Chorus Trilogy.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Word of God (his VA) is that his voice was based on Patrick Stewart.
• Non-Action Big Bad: He never really prefers to personally lead the charge, and relies on his soldiers to do the work. During The Chorus Trilogy, Locus, Felix and Sharkface are the ones driving the plot, while Control gives them orders from afar.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He spends The Recollection Trilogy trying to arrest the Director and put a stop to Project Freelancer, but as the Director points out Hargrove is only doing it to make a name for himself and to claim the project's resources. He also orders the deaths of even the innocent Reds and Blues, who were never culpable in the Director's actions and more victims than anything else, so he can cover his unethical actions in taking down the project up.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Both this and The Chessmaster at the same time. While he has the plan to manipulate Chorus via an already progressing Civil War mostly figured out, he takes advantage of the Reds and Blues to help escalate it, and is still The Chessmaster even then.
• The Pawns Go First: Does not actually take part in the fighting on Chorus, preferring to let Locus, Felix and Sharkface take matters into their own hands. That is, of course, until they fail. Then he intervenes.
• Playing Both Sides: He influenced the Chorus Civil War thanks to Locus and Felix.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Even when threatening Locus and Felix, he offers a carrot and stick solution. If they succeed they will obtain the new and improved Meta suit, if they fail it's new user will hunt them down and kill them.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. His initial letters to the Director are actually relatively restrained and calm, and he seems quite content to get the process done ASAP while doing his best to not interfere with the Director's work, while being given relatively little to go on. When he finds out that the Director has broken the law, this attitude is dropped. Then it turns out that was all an act for his own publicity, as he's not so reasonable when it comes to genocide, especially when he's behind it.
• Red Herring: The Stinger of season 11 supposedly reveals that Carolina is Control. Her recap episode in season 12 revealed that she just hijacked the Chairman's communications.
• Sinister Schnoz: Has a rather big nose as seen in the pic.
• The Sociopath: As expected of an Omnicidal Maniac, being willing to wipe out an entire planet full of people to acquire its many alien artifacts.
• Straw Hypocrite: Despite all his bluster to the Director about the misappropriation of UNSC technology, not to mention how much red tape the Director was bypassing, Hargrove is proven to blatantly disregard these exact same directives and beyond, from willing to slaughter an entire planet to retrieve Freelancer hardware, to reverse engineering said hardware to make a new and improved Meta.
• Taking You with Me: His intention behind attacking Chorus in force after being exposed to the galaxy. If he's going down, he wants to kill off all of Chorus first.
• Tranquil Fury: The letters between the Chairman and the Director in Reconstruction gradually build in intensity until the Chairman's final letter, which is delivered very calmly, but sternly, telling the Director that officers have been dispatched to arrest him.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • When the Temple of Arms that Tucker activates ruins all of the Forerunner tech he had previously installed into his new weapons, he is absolutely furious to the point where he threatens his mercenaries that if they don't get the job done, he will have them killed.
  • Then when his activities are publicly revealed, he promptly sets a course to Chorus to deal with the Reds and Blues personally, despite the fact that it'd probably be more prudent to seek refuge from the law.
  Malcolm Hargrove: You just couldn't do it, could you? You couldn't lay down and die! Well if I'm going down, I'm taking you all with me!
• Villain with Good Publicity: Still thought of by many to be the good Chairman of the UNSC Oversight Subcommittee and CEO of Charon Industries. However, those on Chorus know the truth about him as a villain. This is completely revoked at the end of Season 13, when he crimes are broadcast to the whole galaxy.
• The Voice: As "Control" in Seasons 11 and 12.
• Voice of the Legion: He creates this effect in his transmissions as Control.
• Walking Spoiler: Everything about his character post-Revelation spoils major plot twists of Season 12. Even his alias "Control" being a third party in the Chorus Civil War is one before they are revealed to be the same.
• War for Fun and Profit: Controlling a civil war on Chorus in order to kill everyone so he and Charon can claim the valuable artifacts on the planet. A Freeze-Frame Bonus in Season 13 also implies that he's been trying to drive the UNSC back into war with the various Covenant splinter factions since that means that he'd get to sell his highly advanced weapons to the highest bidder.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Though he didn't mean for the Reds and Blues to crash land on Chorus (the pirates just wanted the weapons), he manages to alter his plans to not only include the Reds and Blues in the fighting, but to also use them as martyrs to motivate the citizens of Chorus into a final confrontation.
• You Have Failed Me: He threatens to do this to Locus and Felix if they don't finish their mission.

The Insurrection

In General

The Insurrection is a military force made up of soldiers who have broken off from the UNSC, who spend Seasons 9 and 10 in battle with the Freelancers. In reality, they are a highly illegal private security force for Charon Industries and who were under the command of the Chairman. ^note They are possibly a nod to Halo canon, in which prior to the war with the Covenant, Earth (and human-controlled space) was undergoing a civil war between the UNSC and a coalition of rebel groups, for the control of human colonies. Incidentally, it was during this civil war the SPARTAN-II program was initiated, as a countermeasure against the rebellion.

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Associated Tropes:

• Airborne Mook: The jetpack trio.
• All There in the Manual: Any of their names come from the credits, tweets, or commentary. None of them are named in the series proper.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's never really known if they were aware of the less than savory truth of their situation, as C.T. seems certain that they were on the UNSC's side and the Leader scoffs at the implication they were the actual Insurrection, painting both as unwitting pawns. Same goes for the rest of their members, who express irritation at the Leader for taking C.T. back into the group after what she did to them while undercover.
• Armor Is Useless: Averted, the armor of their Elite Mooks seems to be significantly tougher than their counterparts.
• Badass Crew: It's hard to deny that they aren't very impressive soldiers especially considering they are solely a Badass Normal crew versus the Super Soldiers crew of Freelancers.
• Badass Normal: The ODST squad are never hinted to be Super Soldiers like the Freelancers, and yet manage to give them trouble for some time despite the disadvantage.
• Cool Starship: The Staff of Charon early in Season 10. It's a clue to their true employer: Charon Industries.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Their Elite Mooks get this as they while ultimately lose their clashes with Project Freelancer's top agents, most are able to give a decent fight/hinder them significantly for a brief period of time.
• Early-Bird Cameo: One of the Smiley twins is seen spray painting his mini-gun during Episode 7 of Season 10. Also, the Leader shows up in the lineup of Elite Mooks, but isn't identified until Season 10.
• Elite Mooks: Several are shown, and they all manage to give the Freelancers a tough fight. Individuals are listed below. Given the revelation that they're actually UNSC soldiers working for Charon Industries, they may be actual Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
• Evil Versus Evil: Revealed to be the true dynamic of their conflict with Project Freelancer in Season 12.
• The Faceless: Only the Leader and Girlie ever show their faces.
• Filler Villain: Subverted. At first glance, the Insurrection merely exist to throw down with the Freelancers in some awesome fight scenes. However, they're shown to be much more plot relevant than it seems. Especially in Season 12.
• Foreshadowing: The coffee man from "The Twins" carried two mugs that said Charon Industries on them, and their ship is called the "Staff of Charon", foreshadowing the reveal of the "Insurrection" being contracted to Charon Industries as a Private Security Force.
• Heavily Armored Mook: One way to differentiate a usual mook Insurrectionist from his Elite Mook counterpart. The latter (with the exception of the Sleeveless Soldier) are heavily armoured and tend to be Made of Iron.
• Hero Antagonist: According to CT, they're the ones working inside the law while the Project is not.
• Killed Off for Real: As of the end of season 13, all known insurrectionists are dead.
• La Résistance: The Freelancers tend to call them this, to their amusement.
  Insurrectionist Leader: Ha, ha, is that who he told you we are?
  C.T.: They aren't the enemy Carolina. We're the ones working outside the rules, not them. You don't know what the Director has done. He's broken major laws. When this war ends, we're all going to have to pay for his crimes!
  • Season 12 reveals that while they were a splinter UNSC group, they weren't exactly a resistance. Rather, they were under Charon Industries and Chairman Malcolm Hargrove, and were actually even worse than the Freelancers. Ironically, it's implied that they still thought they were part of the UNSC military apparatus and viewed the Freelancers as the "rebels."
• Made of Iron: As mentioned above, just about all of them are pretty durable, being able to take ridiculous punishment and come out fine the next time we see them.
• Mauve Shirt: Most of them are given just enough screen time to establish a personality before being killed off.
• Mook Chivalry: The lesser grunts suffer from this, the Elite Mooks avert this in their first scene, as two attack from the front, and one from behind, they all attempt to attack at the same time, and continue this trend throughout their screentime.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: None of them have their names revealed, and are simply credited by descriptive names, with the exception of "Sharkface". The only one who zigzags this is C.T., as the Leader does call her "Connie" regularly, but that could just as easily be a shortened version of her Freelancer Codename, as Washington had already called her such too.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Demo Man, Girlie, the Sniper, the Leader, the Sleeveless Soldier and the Flame Soldier/Sharkface could all count, especially with more characterization in Season 10 (with the exception of the flame soldier who did not appear in Season 10 but would later appear in Season 13).
• Strong and Skilled: An interesting variation as the Elite Mooks of the Insurrection are both tougher than their freelancer counterparts, and can keep up with the likes of Carolina and Maine, they for the most part aren't quite as skilled as the Freelancers themselves.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Played straight in Season 10 with them being seen as the Hero Antagonist group contrasting the Villain Protagonist Project Freelancer. However, it's a Subverted Trope in Season 12 when it is revealed that not only are they very much vilified, but they aren't even a revolution.
• Too Dumb to Live: Multiple times throughout Season 9 and 10.
• True Companions: Much like the Freelancers, tragically enough.

Leader

Insurrectionist Leader/C.T. (Season 7)

^{Click here to see him without his helmet}

"You can call me C.T."

Voiced By: Michael Joplin

Leader of the Insurrection group that the Freelancers regularly combat, who has a thing going with Connecticut. After Connecticut was killed by Tex, he donned her helmet.

He retroactively shows up in Recreation, in charge of a dig site in the desert. As it turns out, his alien sidekick "Smith," and his men took over the operation, killing the other men (and aliens) working there. They are evidently after a pyramid-shaped superweapon, which Tucker theorizes they intend to sell to the highest bidder. He is very unwilling to tell Sarge, Grif, and Caboose anything about what he's doing in the desert, leading them to get suspicious, and rightfully so. After finally entering the dig site, C.T. ordered Jones (one of his men) to disable Epsilon-Church, who happens to be inside one of those Forerunner monitors. That enraged the Elites and led to them killing off his own forces. He meets his end during the battle when he insults Epsilon-Church, causing Church to laser him to death.

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Associated Tropes:

• Ambiguous Situation: His entire mission at Sandtrap. Aside from finding the Forerunner monitor, it's never actually explained why he was looking for it or what his goal was. Season 10 would establish that said monitor was something he'd been looking for since the days of Project Freelancer, and continued to look for after C.T. died, but when Carolina tries getting information from the equipment he left behind, she comes up empty, the monitor itself abandoned at one of Project Freelancer's many offsite facilities. Season 12 would reveal that his group were contracted with Charon Industries, and that Malcolm Hargrove was interested in various alien artifacts, with Season 13 showing him to have claimed both the Brute Shot and the damaged monitor and kept them in his trophy room, implying the leader was just tasked with collecting artifacts for Hargrove.
• Arch-Enemy: Considers Tucker one in Recreation, since his entire operation in the dig site is being singlehandedly held back by this one particularly irritating Blue simulation trooper. C.T. himself gets noticeably panicked (and angry) once it turned out that Tucker was released from the dig sites' structure, and repeatedly said that he really wanted to kill him when they meet both times on-screen.
• Arc Villain: Of both Recreation and The Project Freelancer Saga.
• Badass Normal: Even though he's clearly no match for the top level Freelancers, he does manage to keep up against them, even landing a single good hit on Tex and would've likely killed her outright if she wasn't housed in a robot body.
• Battle Couple: With Connecticut. The two of them had been in a relationship before C.T. infiltrated Project Freelancer, and they prove to be quite a team once C.T.'s true allegiance is exposed, being able to keep pace with Carolina and Texas for a good chunk of their fight. C.T., however, is fatally wounded by Tex, and dies in the leader's arms.
• Benevolent Boss: To the point of Undying Loyalty to his men, in distinct contrast to the Director. In a bit of a deconstruction, it's because The Leader is so willing to stand by his men and refuses to abandon a losing battle that Tex and Carolina catch up with them and ultimately kill C.T.
• Big Bad: Subverted. As leader of the Insurrectionists, he's made out to be the main antagonist of the Project Freelancer flashbacks. He's actually the Token Good Teammate of his organization, and completely leaves the story after CT dies. Project Freelancer are instead a group of villain protagonists, and it's a Big Bad Ensemble between Sigma and the Director.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With the Meta for Recreation, since the Meta was mostly trying to find and kill Donut, Simmons and Lopez at Valhalla, while C.T. himself was mostly digging up a Forerunner Monitor and had murdered the archaeologists working there while also trying to get into the desert temple and kill off Tucker.
• Chekhov's Gunman: When the Elite Mooks are first seen, he's among them. However, it isn't until Season 10 that he is revealed to be their leader.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Impersonates the real Agent Connecticut after she died in his arms.
• Faux Affably Evil: He comes off as a Reasonable Authority Figure when he finds the Reds and Caboose trapped on a mine field, but this is quickly dropped when Tucker opens the temple and his true colors come out rather quickly.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • He's completely killed by the very same relic that he previously murdered several innocent people for.
  • Downplayed as it doesn't hurt him, but it's his insistence that he and C.T. try to get the rest of his men that eventually gets them caught, and his axes are used to see through C.T.'s holograms and kill her.
• Jerkass: He's shown to become this in Season 7 when he drops the facade of being nice. He's instead smug and uncaring, especially towards Tucker.
• Kick the Dog: When he was being chased by a pissed off Smith and another Elite in a Prowler, he rammed his Warthog into their vehicle, running over their bodies for good measure. Before that, he took over the operation in the desert temple by killing off every other Elite and Marine that was sent there beforehand and threw their corpses into a pile to keep them hidden.
• Made of Iron: After being chased down, his Warthog gets sliced by an energy sword, destroying it seconds later and propelling his body chest-first onto the ground, before he gets up and runs away almost immediately thereafter, completely unscathed. In Season 10 Episode 10, he takes a beating from Tex and still manages to go the distance against her, something which only Maine had previously been able to do.
• The Men First: He refuses to leave the Shipyard without his men despite C.T.'s protests.
• Noble Top Enforcer: Definitely the Token Good Teammate of Charon Industries and leader of its security force.
• No Name Given: He's only ever referred to as either The Leader or C.T. in Season 7.
• Only Sane Man: Gives off vibes of this during the first meeting with Sarge, Grif and Caboose.
• Rebel Leader: What the agents of Project Freelancer assume him to be, as an especially cynical, even villainous version. However, he and his group assume it to be a subversion.
• Secret-Keeper: Of his own plans, identity and motives, to the bitter end. C.T.'s memory is probably a major part of the reason.
• Token Good Teammate: Even though he's working for a organization worse than Project Freelancer, he actually seems like a decent guy as he refuses to abandon his teammates. He even actually seems to believe that he's doing the right thing, making him a good man working for an evil corporation.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Season 10 shows him to be much more kind, loyal and pleasant than he is in Season 7, which is more than likely because of the hardships of losing his True Companions and girlfriend.
• Torso with a View: His fate. After cornering Tucker, he's surprised by the sudden apperance of Epsilon Church in the artifact he was meant to recover. After calling Church a "thing", Church, angered by this claim, blasts a hole in his chest, killing him instantly.
• Tragic Keepsake: C.T's armor, making him the C.T. we see manning the desert excavation.
• Undying Loyalty: He refuses to abandon his teammates, even though C.T. reminds him they're most likely dead if the Freelancers have gotten that far. He only flees with C.T. after Tex mortally wounds her with a throwing axe. This behavior seems to persist into Season 7, where he refuses to tell Tucker why he was in Sandtrap due to his loyalty to Connecticut over someone who was essentially a particularly low grade agent of Project Freelancer.
• Villainous Breakdown: Completely panics when the operation in the Sandtrap desert temple doesn't go as planned.
• Walking Spoiler: In that he's the C.T. encountered during Recreation.

Demo Man

Demo Man

"Get into position! Completely surround them! No-one gets behind me!"

Voiced By: Brandon Farmahini

Assumed to be the leader of this group of the Insurrection in Season 9, this unlucky soldier ends up being involved in every Freelancer operation shown against the Resistance. Although he tries to be smart, he doesn't quite make it all the way there. He is distinguished by his dual bandoliers (and later on, his robotic arm) and attitude.

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Associated Tropes:

• An Arm and a Leg: Type 2, losing his arm in battle to against Freelancers due to an explosion twice, the second time being from his subverted Disney Villain Death.
• Artificial Limbs: He receives a mechanical replacement for his left arm in Season 10, presumably due to damage sustained in Season 9.
• Badass Transplant: In Season 10, he seems much more competent, mostly due to the mechanical arm being able to grab Brute Shot grenades out of the air. It also seems to give him Super-Strength.
• Butt-Monkey: Every single time he shows up, he gets hurt badly by the Freelancers. He's understandably pissed off by this situation.
• Catch and Return: Fully capable of doing this with a Brute Shot grenade using his artificial arm in Season 10.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Though a major antagonist in Season 9, he's not the leader of the Insurrection.
• Disney Villain Death: He seems to have suffered from this in Season 10, courtesy of a Brute Shot barrage. However, subverted, as a deleted scene for Season 10 shows that he survived, at the cost of his other biological arm. Double subverted as Season 13 treats the scene as non-canon, Sharkface confirming that he's the only member of the Insurrection's Elite Mooks still alive.
• Elite Mook/Mook Lieutenant: To the point where he was initially assumed to be the leader of the Insurrection.
• Empowered Badass Normal: While he's upset about having lost his arm, it does give him an edge by being strong enough to smash through concrete and being able No-Sell Maine's Brute Shot.
• Genre Savvy: He tries to be this in his two appearance in Season 9, explicitly telling his troops to surround the freelancers and make sure no one gets the drop on them. Unfortunately for him, they're Too Dumb to Live and do just that.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Though, having to deal with the incompetence of his troops so much around Freelancers and his repeated injuries from said Freelancers, one can probably understand his irritation.
• Iron Butt Monkey: He survives a lot of punishment.
• Made of Iron: He's both this and extremely lucky. See No One Should Survive That! for why.
• Narrating the Obvious: "Ah! My robot arm!" Said when said arm is torn off by Maine.
• No Indoor Voice: Like Hair-Trigger Temper, justified. The first time, he didn't have a microphone to call down to North and South. The other times, he's too pissed off to be quieter.
• No One Should Survive That!: He has survived being at the center of a massive explosive twice now, with his only visible injury being a missing arm.
• Revenge: After the encounter in Season 10, he swears revenge on the Freelancers for his latest misfortune, having lost his other biological arm.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Probably because every time he's seen, he's being attacked by Freelancers. He seems especially prone to swearing in Episode 15 of Season 9.
• Sole Survivor: Has a bad habit of being the only survivor in very large explosions.
• Too Dumb to Live: He thinks he's Surrounded by Idiots, but in reality, he's not that much brighter than the rest of them.
• Unexplained Recovery: The highest amount of this of the Elite Mooks. He took a Kill Sat to the face and came out with just a mechanical arm.

Sleeveless Soldier

Sleeveless Insurrection Soldier

Sigma: Agent Maine, isn't that the soldier from the freeway? The one who shot you in the throat? ...I thought so. Sic 'Em.

Seemingly the physically strongest of the Insurrection soldiers in terms of brute strength, this soldier fought against the group on the freeway in the mission for the sarcophagus, where he shot Maine in the throat, inadvertently causing the entirety The Recollection. He re-appears at the Longshore Shipyards in Season 10.

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Associated Tropes:

• Airborne Mook: When he takes to the sky in Episodes 16 and 17 of Season 9 on a Jet Pack.
• Badass Normal: We are talking about a guy who managed to withstand, block, and dodge several blows from Carolina and win a fight against Maine. If those are not some of the most incredible feats from the series...
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Although he seems perfectly capable of using guns when he has them, this soldier seems to prefer simply pummeling people with his bare hands first.
• The Brute: Rather than any weapon, he seems to focus on pure strength. Downplayed in that unlike Maine, he seems to succeed more through strategy and ruthlessness than by his actual strength. His beating of Maine is a good example considering he actually hits Maine twice to piss him off, then waits for him to try to strike back, which leaves his guard fully open.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Downplayed. Despite not seeming to have any actual enhancements, this soldier manages to physically match Maine in their first encounter. However, this was before Maine received an AI and strength enhancement, and once he has them things go in quite the other direction.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers one thoroughly in Maine thanks to his Mighty Glacier Status, is on the receiving end when Maine becomes a Lightning Bruiser.
• Elite Mook: Like the rest of the troops in red ODST armor.
• Evil Counterpart: Or Good Counterpart, depending on how you look at it, to Maine.
• The Faceless: Like most of the Insurrection, he never removes his helmet. The only time it comes off, his head goes with it.
• Giant Mook: Rivals the Flame Soldier in sheer size.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's about as fast as he is strong, which allows him to endure Carolina's hits and outmatch Maine's strength respectively.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: He's the only character in the series to show musculature, and he's able to match Maine pre-enhancement.
• Never Found the Body: In Season 9, he is last seen being thrown off the freeway after a fight with Carolina. He shows up again in Season 10.
• Off with His Head!: His final fate in Episode 9 of Season 10 at the hands of Maine. After Maine gives him a Punch Catch and forced to his knees, Maine punches him in the head, knocking his helmet off. He doesn't get back up, and we never see his head after the incident. It's been confirmed by Word of God (through DVD commentary) that the punch did indeed kill and decapitate him.
• The Quiet One: He barely makes a sound in all of his appearances outside of grunts.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: He's known for his muscle mass and his sleevelessness.
• Unexplained Recovery: Not as bad as the Demo Man, but still unexplained.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He's the one who shot Maine in the throat, inadvertently providing Carolina's excuse to give Sigma away, and we all know what Sigma did as a result.
• The Worf Effect: The second time Maine fights him, the battle is decidedly very one-sided, most likely because this time Maine has received Sigma and a strength boost, and just goes for the kill.

Sniper

Insurrectionist Sniper

Voiced By: Nathan Zellner

"Okay, what have you got for me?"

The jetpack-wearing sniper of the Insurrection, this soldier first appears during the freeway battle in Season 9. He was the only member of the group who was not assumed dead at the end of Season 9. He reappears at the Longshore Shipyards in Season 10.

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Associated Tropes:

• Airborne Mook: In Season 9, thanks to his Jet Pack.
• Cold Sniper: Calm and in control of the situation, he shows no remorse for his actions and treats shooting people from afar with as much emotion as someone checking the weather. His cool only slips moments before his death as he panics realizing a far less savvy sniper in his squad is about to fire at the bubble shield they're trapped in.
• Elite Mook: He leads a group of sniper mooks.
• The Faceless: Never removes his helmet, right up to his death.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • He nearly shoots Carolina in the spine, and would have if it wasn't for Maine Taking the Bullet for her, something that would have drastically changed the outcome of Season 9 and 10 onwards if he didn't.
  • He also nearly shoots Wyoming, albeit unknowningly. If his aim was a bit lower when aiming for the seagull that landed on the agent's head, the BGC would have had significantly less conflict.
• Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: In Season 10, his fellow sniper makes the mistake of firing his SMG inside of North's bubble shield. The results are Bloody Hilarious, but also a Gory Discretion Shot to a degree.
• Kick the Dog: Shoots a seagull for no reason than to show off.
• Laser Sight: On his sniper rifle.
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction to the aforementioned Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball just before his death.
• One-Hit KO: In Episode 17 of Season 9, he is punched in the face while on a jetpack moving at high speed down a freeway by Maine, causing him to get off balance and fall behind. He survives, though, appearing again in Season 10 no worse for wear.
• Smarter Than You Look: He doesn't seem brighter than any other Insurrectionist who veer into Too Dumb to Live, but he knows immediately to stand down when North's bubbleshield appears around them. He might have lasted longer too, if one of his mooks weren't Too Dumb to Live.

Girlie

Girlie

"Pleasure's all mine, bitch."

^{Click here to see her without her helmet}

"I can't believe he trusts that bitch after what she did to us."

Voiced By: Hannah Hart

The only known female member of the Insurrection except Connecticut, this soldier is notable for her gender, the fact that she has her face shown, and that she is given a name, one of the few members of the Insurrection to do so. She appears both during the freeway battle and at the Longshore Shipyards.

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Associated Tropes:

• Dark Action Girl: The only girl shown on the Insurrectionist side until C.T. defects.
• Disney Villain Death: The last we see of her is her getting dropped into the ocean along with the Demo Man and his robot arm. It is unknown whether or not she survived, though given she landed spine first onto hard metal it's likely that she either died on impact or broke her spine, was paralyzed and drowned. It's later revealed that she is in fact dead in Season 13.
• Dual Wielding: Wields two combat knives in her one-on-one fight with Carolina in Season 10. She also wields two pistols during the freeway fight in Season 9 before tossing one to the Sleeveless Soldier to aid in his fight against Maine.
• The Faceless: Subverted, along with the leader Sharkface and Rhee, she's shown with her helmet off twice.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Carolina impales her in the chest with the bayonet of Maine's Brute Shot in Season 9. It doesn't kill her, however.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: She has exactly three lines. Two include the word "bitch", and the last includes "fuck".
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Subverted. Her hair is longer than any of the other women in the prequel segments, but she's just as action oriented and vulgar as any of them.
• Major Injury Underreaction: When Carolina stabs her with the brute shot, Girlie seems to gasp in surprise, but then seems mainly frustrated before she throws the gun to her partner.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently CT did something to the Insurrectionists to make Girlie have a negative view of her, but this is dropped just as quickly as it's brought up.
• Sickening "Crunch!": One can be heard as she lands spine first onto hard metal.
• The Smurfette Principle: Initially presented as the only female member of the Insurrection. CT's defection and the reveal that Chain Girl is, well, a girl change this.
• Unexplained Recovery: Not as bad as the Demo Man, but still unexplained.

Rhee Sebeil

Rhee Sebeil

A civilian scientist, he is a high ranking official in the Insurrection, and has the briefcase that holds the code to opening the Sarcophagus.

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Associated Tropes:

• Bald of Evil/Evil Genius: For a certain degree of "evil". See Hero Antagonist on the whole group.
• Cool Shades: Not quite Sinister Shades, since we don't see enough of him or know enough about him to tell anything nefarious about him other than his allegiance.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Maine's assassination of him.
• Nominal Importance: He exists just to be killed.
• Non-Action Guy: The closest thing he does to "action" is try to shield himself when Maine kills him.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike most of the Insurrection, he is one of the few characters who is rendered without any armor at all.
• Oh, Crap!: The look on his face just before the Gory Discretion Shot at the end of Episode 14 of Season 9.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Considering that everyone else wears either armor or a uniform, this guy has the distinction of being the only character in the series who is well dressed.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Maine takes him out this way, jumping off a bridge, landing straight on the hood of his car, and, as it manages to swerve only twice in the driver's surprise, kills the official.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is introduced as nothing more than a target to be taken care of, and doesn't get any lines before his death.

Chain Guy and Chain Girl

Chain Guy and Chain Girl

Insurrectionist Leader: Mow 'em down!

Voiced By: Michael Jones and Lindsey Jones (née Tuggey)

Two soldiers who guard the entrance to the computer room in which the Leader is staying in Season 10, these two seem to communicate through giggles and weeps, and used their Gatling guns to keep the Freelancers at bay for some time. One has a frowning face on their faceplate, the other a smiling one.

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Associated Tropes:

• Alien Blood: Though presumably not alien, their death-by-crushing results in a huge splatter of yellow. It's unknown if it's paint or blood.
• All There in the Manual: Their names (and the fact one of them is apparently a girl) come from a tweet by Chain Guy's voice actor.
• Ax-Crazy: Seemingly, by the sounds of their communication with one another.
• Battle Couple: One possible interpretation of their relationship.
• Berserker Tears: The Frowny Face soldier.
• Bottomless Magazines: More noticeable than others, due to almost never stopping firing.
• Death from Above/Forklift Fu: Killed when Florida caused the crane holding a box to throw them off of the side of the platform, then drop the box, killing them both.
• Disney Villain Death: Sort of. It's unknown if the fall or the box killed them.
• Elite Mooks: They seem to give off this vibe, seeing how they were trusted to protect The Leader and CT to hold the line for as long as possible. Which they do, being a massive roadblock for four (well, five until Carolina rushes in ahead) agents until Florida recovers and uses their surroundings to be rid of them.
• Gatling Good: And seemingly limitless ammunition.
• Giggling Villain: The Smiley Face soldier.
• Monster Clown: Invoked, with their Leitmotif being creepy carnival music, their ""Have a Nice Day" Smile/Frown" reminiscent of face-paint, and the slogans on their chain-guns having clown-like phrases ("Turn That Frown Upside Down!"/"Have A Nice Day (Or Else)!")
• Symbolic Blood: Assuming the yellow splatter is paint.
• Trigger-Happy: The Smiley Face soldier. Emphasis on the "happy".
• The Unintelligible: They do "talk", but in sounds, not words.

Space Pirates

In General

You call it genocide... I call it one hell of a paycheck.
— Zachary Miller

A group of mercenaries who were first referred to at the end of Season 10. They don't show up in person until Season 12, where they are revealed to be the "third party" in the Chorus Civil War, are directly controlled by Locus and Felix, helping them annihilate the population of Chorus and prolong the war, and are employed by Charon Industries.

Associated Tropes:

• Armor Is Useless: As per standard in this series, their armor fails to offer any real protection.
• Army of Thieves and Whores: To bolster their numbers, they recruit the inmates of a prison transport ship. Well, the ones that survived the Purge, that is.
• Brought Down to Normal: Due to Tucker activating one of the towers earlier in Season 13, all of the Forerunner weaponry collected by both the Chorus factions and the Space Pirates ends up getting short circuited. Since the Space Pirates had acclimated most of their weaponry with said Forerunner technology, it made their best weapons useless and forced them to switch back to UNSC weapons instead. This comes back to bite them hard when the Chorus factions collect all of the still functioning Forerunner weapons and use them against the Space Pirates. They Lose. Hard.
• Chekhov's Gunman: They were offhandedly referred to at the end of Season 10, with Carolina and Epsilon preparing to go after them. Turns out, they are the main antagonistic group in the Chorus Civil War.
• Co-Dragons: The highest ranking and most authoritative members of the Space Pirates, Felix and Locus are the main threats to the Blood Gulch Crew throughout The Chorus Trilogy, while the main antagonist, Malcom Hargrove, coordinates their attacks from afar.
• Death by Irony: By Episode 18 of Season 13, a lot of the Space Pirates own tactics end up being used against them to devastating effect.
  • They originally used Forerunner technology to Curb Stomp most of their foes. However, Tucker activating the Temple of Arms fried their weapons and forced them to switch back to standard UNSC weaponry. Once the Chorus factions managed to access the alien arsenal at Charon's old excavation site, they were able to Curb Stomp them right back.
  • During Season 12, Zachary Miller mentions Quality over Quantity, saying that while they may have been only a few dozen members at that time its more then enough to get the job done. Once a huge chunk of their own army is killed in the destruction of Chorus' capital by General Donald Doyle, they become too spread thin to properly protect their various installations, which ties directly into the third problem they face...
  • The Space Pirates used tractor beams to track unsuspecting ships onto Chorus in order to murder their inhabitants and sell their weaponry for their own purposes. In Episode 18, after they abandon Crash Site Alpha to protect the Communications Temple, five members of the united Chorusan forces were able to sneak in and use the tractor beam to crash the Tartarus into the Purge Tower, effectively killing two birds with one stone.
• Elite Mooks: They wield Forerunner weapons and are much more dangerous than the Federal Army or New Republic soldiers. Three of them even pose a threat to Carolina.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The mooks are stated to tune out Felix's rather petty insults and behavoir due to it being overbearing and not having much they can do about it.
• Freudian Trio: A twisted, evil parody is formed out of Locus, Felix, and Sharkface, albeit with some mixing and matching:
  • Sharkface, for whom revenge is his primary motivation, has a rougher, more reckless fighting style, bringing flamethrowers to a fist fight, and relying on his status as Dented Iron to No-Sell hits. He's Id in combat. However, his interactions with the other two are more cold and logical, making him a bit of a Superego there.
  • Felix is the most skilled in the area of social conventions, the best at concealing his treacherousness, and is a clear-cut case of The Sociopath. His M.O is as the Superego. On the other hand, his interactions with the other two members are marked by impulsive and emotional behaviors, so there he's the Id.
  • Locus wants so very badly to just be the Superego, but Washington has successfully triggered two separate cases of Villainous Breakdown, showing a struggle between his usual status as a Consummate Professional and a Shell-Shocked Veteran. He's the Ego, and actually retains that label in his interactions with the other two, at one point breaking up an argument between the two.
• Informed Attribute: Zachary describes the pirates as Quality over Quantity, directly parralleling them to Freelancers, and while they seem more capable than Chorus' two opposing factions individually, which is no real feat, there's no evidence to back up their claim. In fact, it's shown that their advantage is largely due to their ambushes and superior weaponry than anything else.
• Laughably Evil: When they actually talk to each other, they're just as prone to idiocy and bickering as everyone else in the series.
• Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves: An unusual example, but the helmets of female pirates are ovoid while male pirates wear more rectangular ones.
• Non-Indicative Name: The only name they're given as a group is Space Pirates, which seems to fit considering their habit of attempting to get their hands on Freelancer and Alien technology for their own means. Turns out they're a mercenary group attempting to ensure the complete genocide of Chorus' people.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Their two main advantages are their alien weaponry and their stealth. Once that's gone, their skill is about a bit worse than their opponents.
• Omnicidal Maniac: They've all been hired to help wipe out an entire planet for a quick buck.
• Only in It for the Money: None of them care about Control's reasons for wanting the planet wiped of its populace, only the paycheck they're getting for doing the job.
• Outside-Context Problem: In Season 12. The only protagonists to be aware of their existence were Carolina and Epsilon, both of whom were MIA, until their attack on the Fed outpost in "Cloak And Dagger."
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Zachary is killed by another pirate once he starts spilling his guts.
• The Sneaky Guy: Their whole job is this up until the end of Season 12, manipulating things from the shadows via instigating firefights and assassinations to perpetuate the war on Chorus. In Season 13 they keep some elements of this, but as the need for subtltly is mostly gone, they forego their previous tactics in favor of fighting openly.
• Space Pirates: What they are most commonly referred to. However, they actually aren't, as they're a group of mercenaries employed by Hargrove and led by Locus and Felix to create conflict on Chorus and rule the planet from the shadows.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: None of the pirates seem to like each other, much less Felix. Felix, Locus and Sharkface all have their mutual disagreements as well due to their wildly varying princibles.
• Walking Spoilers: The mere fact that there is a third party in the civil war is the twist that turns the Chorus story arc on its head during Season 12. They are also this due to being under the control of Charon Industries.
• You Have Failed Me: If they fail to prevent their gear from being stolen, they're...taken care of.

Felix

Felix / Isaac Gates

"Survival isn't a right, it's a privilege. It's earned."

^{Felix without his helmet}

"At the end of the day, if I'm stronger than you and if I'm faster than you, then I can kill you! And that's better than anything money can buy."

Voiced By: Miles Luna

A gray and orange mercenary introduced in Season 11 and one of the three leaders of the Space Pirates, employed by the Chairman to manipulate the New Republic. He serves as one the primary antagonists of The Chorus Trilogy, and the most proactive one in Season 12.

Felix and Locus were allies during the great war, but they never liked one another. Felix couldn't return to civilian life after that, and the Chairman hired him and Locus to push the Civil War. He acts opposed to Locus and the Federation, he does what he can to keep the Reds and Blues alive and explain the New Republic's situation to them and says that the New Republic is hoping that these "legendary heroes" can tip the balance of the war into the Republic's favor. No one suspects that he's lying about his true allegiance, of course.

He is The Sociopath, downright evil, and one of the biggest (if not the biggest) dicks in the series. He is also a skilled manipulator and one of the reasons why this Civil War has not ended. His motivation for both evil and amusement, and is happy to kill everyone on Chorus, in whatever way possible. In comparison to Locus, his partner, he is the more evil of the pair, preferring to twist the knife rather than kill and get on with it, but is also the less dangerous one for giving his opponents the opportunity to exploit his gloating. At the end of Season 13, he is betrayed by Locus and thrown out of the side of the Communications Temple by a grenade blast. His death is confirmed by Locus being able to use the Great Key afterwards.

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Associated Tropes

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: As Tucker rolls a live grenade at his feet, Felix frantically tells him "WAIT" before it explodes and sends him falling to his death.
• Antagonist Abilities: His Hardlight Shield is practically invincible, even allowing him and Locus to survive the explosion created by the Tartarus' crash into the Purge temple, and thus makes the heroes' lives difficult whenever they have to fight him. It allows Felix to just calmly stride towards an enemy shooting at him, while his opponents have to resort to outside-the-box tactics (like sticky grenades or just attacking from all directions) if they want a chance to beat him. Luckily, Simmons uses it against him in their final battle by sticking a grenade to it, forcing him to keep it up even as Tucker rolls another grenade at his feet.
• Anti-Hero: Season 14 revealed that he and Locus used to be this. Along their partner Siris, they actually captured criminals and turned them in for a reward.
• Arch-Enemy: To Tucker, due to revelations in Episode 10 of Season 12. All his interactions with Tucker initially seem to be an attempt to make him into a better soldier and leader, and to accept the grim realities of war. After revealing his true colors, Felix takes a cruel pleasure in torturing Tucker for his actions and his failures, making things quite personal between the two. He even goes out of his way in his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to mock Tucker for what he did as a member of the New Republic. They also have appropriately opposite weapons, with Tucker wielding a Laser Blade while Felix has a Hard Light Deflector Shield. Unfortunately for Felix, Create Your Own Hero comes into effect, and Tucker starts getting the better of him time and time again, something Felix's ego can't handle. He even gets an energy sword of his own (though while Tucker gained his by accident, Felix gained his from a by proxy murder), and when his Villainous Breakdown begins during his futile last attack on the Blood Gulch Crew, it's Tucker he screams at to come out and face him. In the end, Tucker is the one who kills him by tossing him a grenade (just like how Felix had Tucker toss him a grenade right before revealing himself to be Evil All Along).
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Possesses an enormous and rather brittle ego. This makes him very easy to provoke. Fortunately, he's also more susceptible to being fooled.
• Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: A dark example. After Tucker disobeys orders and inadvertently gets Rogers killed during the mission at the beginning of Season 12, Felix initially seems to berate him before congratulating him on the successful mission and talking about how badass he was, unable to comprehend why Tucker is upset over getting most of his squad killed.
• Ask a Stupid Question...:
  Felix: Sharkface, Locus, whatever happened to normal fucking names? I mean, am I crazy?
  Aiden Price: Well...
  Felix: DON'T! ...psychoanalyse me.
• Ax-Crazy: Felix is a violent, sadistic sociopath who will twist the knife into his enemies for sick kicks. This comes to head in the Season 13 finale, during his Villainous Breakdown he completely loses it and only cares about killing the Reds and Blues.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: During his and Locus' backstory segments in Season 14, he has an orange tie, handkerchief and sunglasses (the effect is slightly ruined by his preference for having the sleeves rolled up, though).
• Bad Boss: Felix is not a pleasant employer to say the least. Not only does he constantly berate his own men (to the point that most of the Space Pirates have learned to just tune him out when he's talking) once he actually has the Key needed to initiate the purge he see's no problem using it to kill everybody on Chorus not immediately protected from the blast (which would include almost all of his own men).
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In Episode 19 of Season 13, he tells Locus to just forget about orders and the mission for once in his life. He does.
• Big Bad Friend: Hidden in plain sight as an ally to Kimball and the Reds and Blues, he's actually a villain, although far from the main one.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Legitimately deadly and a tough opponent to either out-fight or out-wit, but he's less threatening than his partner Locus due to the latter's refusal to play ball with his enemies and they're both ultimately subordinates to Hargrove. His final fight with the Blood Gulch Crew has him get utterly humiliated before being killed off.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Wash from being shot by Locus twice. Ultimately revealed to be an Invoked Trope when it turns out it was all a set up with Locus.
• Big Good: Subverted - While Kimball may be the leader of the New Republic, she makes it clear the only reason they're still around is Felix, but he's actually working for Control, and a primary antagonist.
• Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: His insults devolve into this during his Villainous Breakdown.
  Felix: You're all a bunch of pathetic... stupid losers!
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Starts off quite affable, but once the Reds and Blues agree to help he gets gradually more jerkass-y until he's revealed as a straight-up villain.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: He has a tendency to monologue and gloat which leads to the whole scheme being busted wide open due to Tucker's helmet cam. He even acknowledges it in Season 13, when he tells Locus he knows he let the survivors trigger the alarm, and that he had more fun because of it.
• Book Ends: He reveals his betrayal by asking Tucker to toss him a grenade while holding up his Deflector Shield to seemingly protect the Blood Gulch Crew from Locus and his men, then smugly complimenting him on his throw and tossing it aside. He dies when Tucker throws a grenade at him, smugly telling him to catch it, while he holds up his Deflector Shield to defend himself from a Sticky Bomb fired at him by the Blood Gulch Crew.
• Bounty Hunter: Season 14 reveals he and Locus used to be this, essentially. They tracked down criminals and brought them in for a reward.
• Broken Bird: Subverted, as while he shows signs of this and it's seemingly confirmed in Episode 3 of Season 12, he's not only anything but broken, he's more upbeat than his partner.
• Broken Pedestal: For Tucker and Kimball. Tucker looked up to him and treated him as a mentor, and Kimball though of him as a trusted friend; when they learned his true allegiance, well, calling them pissed would be an understatement.
• Bullying a Dragon: Felix has a bad habit of antagonizing and underestimating very dangerous people. This eventually gets him killed by Locus and the Blood Gulch Crew.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Unlike Locus, who views himself as simply doing a job, Felix is fully aware aiding in Chorus' genocide is wrong and revels in it.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Felix is not really on anybody's side but his own. He'll ally with others but for only as long as it serves his purpose to do so. As soon as he sees no more use for them he'll gladly cast them off and even kill them or at least allow them to die.
  Felix: Locus, when have we ever looked out for anyone other than ourselves?
  Locus: ...They trust us.
  Felix: And what, that gives them some sort of immunity? Survival isn't a right, it's a privilege. It's earned. That's the one thing we've always agreed on. If they deserve to live then they'd be strong enough to stop us and smart enough never to trust anyone.
• Classic Villain: Pride and Wrath. Felix is supremely arrogant and self-centered, and he often tries to prolong the suffering of anyone who he despises; it's these qualities that lead to his death when he arrogantly goes after the Reds and Blues alone after it's clear he's lost to get petty revenge out of his sheer hatred for them, leading to his death at their hands.
• Co-Dragons: Felix and Locus are the leaders of the Space Pirates, employed by Hargrove to keep the Chorus civil war going and ensure the genocide of the inhabitants. Of the two, Felix is worse, manipulating Locus so that he remains a consumate murderer.
• Color-Coded Characters: He's heavily associated with the color orange, providing a clear contrast to Locus's green.
• Combat Pragmatist: Felix generally prefers a pragmatic combat option, sacrificing a soldier if it means a mission's success. When he himself is in a fight he's not above fighting dirty, and will resort to cheap shots, booby traps and other underhanded tactics to get an edge over an otherwise superior opponent. Subverted when he and Locus have the Blood Gulch Crew at gunpoint and Felix just starts ranting, much to Locus' frustration.
• Consummate Liar: Felix is a first class Manipulative Bastard, and is thus one of these. Notably, he rarely ever lies, he is being Metaphorically True and uses Exact Words to get people to trust him or be manipulated into taking action.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Kicks the collective ass of Tucker, Simmons, Caboose, Grif, and their Lieutenants early on in Season 12. Felix then later wipes the floor with Tucker on his own in "Fed vs. New," with Tucker only surviving due to both Felix's Motive Rant and Locus forcing both himself & Felix to retreat after the truth of the Chorus Civil War is broadcast to the entire planet.
  • In turn, he gets his own ass thoroughly kicked when the Blood Gulch Crew Zerg Rush him in "The End Is Near."
• Dark and Troubled Past: He and Locus survived one of the worst battles of the Great War, that led to the rest of their squad being killed. He also alludes to having suffered a betrayal in the past in "Training Daze", though his reveal of being Evil All Along makes it likely he was the traitor in that situation.
• Dead Guy Puppet: Inflicts this on Captain Meyers of the Tartarus for shits and giggles.
  Felix: [imitating the late Meyers] At ease, gentlemen.
• Death by Irony: He gets killed by the Reds and Blues, people he believed himself to be superior and only a threat when they had Freelancers at their side, when Wash and Carolina were elsewhere. They also manage to kill him using actual tactics and strategy, while Felix just charges in blindly with no plan whatsoever, something he earlier criticized Tucker for. For an extra bit of irony, it echoes his betrayal of the Reds and Blues, and the Reds and Blues were all in the same position he, Locus, and the rest of their squad were in in the flashback in "Locus of Control" where Felix talked his CO into executing a surrendering enemy.
• Deflector Shield: Has a Hard Light one built into his armor as his weapon.
• Despair Event Horizon: After Locus abandons him at the end of Season 13, Felix loses his already fragile grasp of sanity and, in a Creepy Monotone, proclaims he will kill Locus. Following this, he loses his signature sarcasm and quirks, instead focusing solely on killing the Reds and Blues.
• Didn't Think This Through: He has a subtle case that becomes increasingly prevalent throughout Season 13. Felix rarely thinks his actions through and is highly impulsive, allowing his desires to govern him and rarely thinking in the long-term, blinding him to the negative affects his actions will have. This ultimately results in his downfall when he goes after the Reds and Blues with no real plan, just wanting to kill them.
• Dirty Coward: Felix is pretty smug when he has the upper hand, but it's because of his ego and him being used to Locus always bailing him out when things go sideways. When the Red and Blues hand him an embarrassing beatdown, Felix visibly panics and outright begs Locus to save him when his former partner abandons him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His near pathological hatred of the Reds and Blues is caused by him finding them annoying.
• Disney Villain Death: Continuing the Charon and RvB tradition of bad guys falling to their deaths. However, his death is confirmed shortly after by the sword being bonded to Locus.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Well, he wasn't as evil back then, but during his days bounty-hunting with Locus and Siris, he was still the most inclined to violence and Kick the Dog of the three. Even so, he was just as horrified as the other two when Ruben Lozano made it clear he was perfectly willing to let his son Gabriel die and calls him a "parasite". Though his horror may have had less to do with the immorality of Lozano's actions, and more to do with the fact that he had just lost his only form of leverage against a very pissed of and powerful Mob boss. Additionally, both he and Siris were completely stunned when Locus opted to simply murder Gabriel after it became clear that Gabriel had outlived his usefulness to the three.
• Every Man Has His Price: Says this regarding the Reds and Blues, and how they aren't so different for only working with the New Republic to help their friends.
• Evil All Along: It's revealed midway through Season 12 that he's directly working for the main antagonist of the story arc.
• Evil Counterpart: He is this to both Tucker and Locus.
  • Like Tucker, both have a Great Key and in Season 14's Merc Trilogy (set before the events of The Chorus Trilogy), he is shown to be a bit of a womanizer.
  • Like Locus, they are both mercenaries and are initially depicted as each other's moral opposite - Felix is first presented as Locus's Good Counterpart with Locus being presented as Felix's Evil Counterpart, and as the story progresses their counterpart roles are shown to be reversed.
• Evil Gloating: He kicks it into high gear after he shows his true colors, taunting the Blood Gulch Crew about how they've helped with Control's plan. True to this trope, this buys enough time for Carolina to save the Reds and Blues. He was doing it as a form of therapy after dealing with the Reds and Blues on his side. He does it again in Episode 18, only for it to bite him in the ass when Tucker and Church are revealed to have been recording what he has said, and it is broadcast to Armonia (where the Rebels and the Feds are fighting).
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Downplayed. Felix can comprehend the mindset of others well enough to fake being a Lovable Rogue and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but he's also unable to understand why Tucker would feel guilty about getting Rogers and Cunningham killed and doesn't understand Locus' doubts over what they are doing or the reasons for Sharkface's grudge against the Freelancers.
• Evil Is Petty: Felix takes a ton of pleasure in taunting and annoying his enemies and allies alike and generally behaving like an asshole For the Lulz. He also continuously tries to murder the BGC because they annoy him, and then tries to activate The Purge simply because he wants the inhabitants of Chorus to know how screwed they are before they die simply because he wants to get them back for all the trouble they caused him.
• Exact Words:
  • With the exception of telling the Reds and Blues that they were some of the galaxy's greatest soldiers, he never actually lied to them.
  • In the opening episode of Season 13, when he boards the prison ship, he assures his new "friends" that they won't find anyone else on the defunct Pelican he rode in on. Turns out everyone else on that Pelican had active camo, so of course they wouldn't find them.
  • In the same episode, he and Locus are trying to recruit the inmates of a prison ship to bolster their side's numbers. As part of his speech, Felix offers to let any prisoner who doesn't want to join them "off the ship". Once the inmates make their decisions, Felix immediately blasts everyone who didn't join him out into space. Hey, they're off the ship, aren't they?
• False Friend:
  • He fakes his friendship to the Reds and Blues to gain their trust before betraying them.
  • He's also this to Locus in a manner of speaking. While he makes no secret of the fact that he doesn't like Locus and that they are not friends, the pair of them form a pretty effective team. However, he's also manipulating Locus through the entire campaign, being abusive and condescending, and using Locus' PTSD to keep him under his thumb, because deep down he's scared shitless of his partner. When Locus finally realizes this and turns on Felix, the first thing Felix does is try to kill him.
  • This is his main way of infiltration and accomplishing stealth missions. He works his way into someone's forces and uses his charms and social skills to gain their trust, like he did with the New Republic and crew of the Tartarus. He pretends to be supportive and makes people think of him as a friend until he has everything he needs and stabs them in the back without hesitation.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His massive ego. Felix ultimately causes more problems for himself than he can deal with by being as boastful and arrogant as he possibly can to people he should really just shoot dead when he has a chance. Also if he feels even the slightest bit upstaged in any way he will quickly abandon rational thought just to soothe his injured pride. This trait eventually gets him killed. He went after the Reds and Blues because he couldn't stand that they nearly killed him when destroying the Purge Tower and was horribly outmatched. It also causes Locus to turn against him in the end because Locus realizes that Felix knew he couldn't cope with the trauma of war and went out of his way to keep Locus under his control by not letting him do so. The reason for that? Locus was the better soldier.
  • Short-sightedness. Felix has a bad habit of making eratic decisions when he is angered without thinking of the consequences. As the Reds and Blues' continued survival and one-upping of him pisses him off more and more, Felix continues to make even more impulsive decisions with increasingly worse consequences, culminating in him getting himself killed when he chooses to go after the Reds and Blues alone while injured out of sheer spite.
  • His incessant need to gloat. The reason Locus is easily the more dangerous of the two of them is that Felix takes every chance he can to start monologuing and bragging to anyone who will listen, which bites him in the ass every single time. He's such a sadistic prick that he never learns to just shut up; his need for a long and complicated villain speech when he first announces his betrayal gives Carolina the chance to save the Reds and Blues, and Tucker and Church are later able to record one of his rants and broadcast it across the planet, uniting the two armies of Chorus against Hargrove and making the "easy" job exponentially harder. Part of what makes his eventual death so satisfying is that instead of gloating like he always does, he's reduced to animalistic grunts and threats that he can't back up anymore.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's a pretty casual, jokey kind of guy, even when he's being openly and unapologetically evil. This just serves to show how unpleasant he is. He even says that he and Kimball were "friends" while telling Locus to kill her quickly.
• Foil:
  • Primarily towards Tucker. Both of them initially are only fighting in the war for personal gain, Felix wants to be paid and Tucker just wants to find his friends. They are both cynical and sarcastic and the two of them are arguably the most skilled members of the New Republic. However, towards the end of Season 12, Felix is still fighting for his own gain, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants on Chorus and enjoying the violence and suffering he causes. Tucker however, grows to care a great deal about the people on Chorus, to the point where he selflessly risked his own life to save them. Tucker is also shown to dislike violence and war, only getting his hands dirty when he has to, and prefers to knock out or capture his opponents, whereas Felix takes a sadistic pleasure in killing his enemies. Tucker also values his friends and teammates in the Blood Gulch Crew, whereas Felix merely manipulated them for his own interests and only tried to keep Locus alive since he's aware of Locus being stronger than him. It even fits into their primary weapons - Tucker has a Laser Blade, while Felix has a Hard Light Deflector Shield.
  • A bit towards Washington. Wash starts out as an ally in the first part of a trilogy to the Reds and Blues only to become their enemy in the second part. In contrast, Felix pretends to be their ally in the first part only to show his true nature in the second part of the trilogy, but unlike Wash, Felix is never redeemed; the redemption part instead goes to Locus, who is Wash's other Foil.
  • Towards Locus. They're introduced as two mercenaries on different sides of the Chorus Civil War and were former comrades, the former a friendly and talkative Jerk with a Heart of Gold, the latter a ruthless and cold Consummate Professional. ...Or so it seems on the surface. In reality, Felix is a sadistic Manipulative Bastard who puts on a phony friendly appearance to use people to his own ends, while Locus is actually a very conflicted man that puts on the mask of being an emotionless killer to avoid having to face his guilt over the many atrocities he took part in both during and after the Human-Covenant War. Also, while Locus prefers to be quick and efficient with his kills, Felix enjoys toying with his victims because it amuses him. Felix is eventually outed as irredeemably evil and dies, while Locus successfully pulls a Heel–Face Turn and instead becomes The Atoner.
  • Oddly enough, he’s this to Caboose. They both have an inability to take responsibility for their failures, are highly competent in battle, and are incredibly clingy and possessive of someone close to them (Church for Caboose, Locus for Felix). However, Felix is a self-serving sociopath who manipulates Locus and only views him as a means to an end and is incredibly boastful about his combat skills, while Caboose legitimately views Church as a friend and is deeply loyal to him and only uses his strength in desperate situations and never really draws attention to it.
  • To General Doyle. Both are leaders of their armies with a fellow leader who has little trust in their abilities (Locus for Felix, Kimball for Doyle), and both end up in control of a key to the Temples; however, Doyle acknowledges his faults as a leader, tries to correct them, and always looks out for his men, while Felix is an arrogant prick willing to kill his own men to get what he wants. This key difference is crucial to their final fates; Doyle heroically sacrifices himself to destroy Armonia's reactor with full confidence that his allies will be able to win without him and kills so many Space Pirates that the tide of the war is permanently turned, while Felix is cornered by the soldiers he dismissed as "losers", betrayed by his ally, and dies alone, humiliated and begging for his life.
• For the Evulz: He pretty much has no motivation besides getting paid, but even that doesn't ultimately matter to him. He outright states that the feeling of power over his victims means more to him than any amount of money.
• Freudian Excuse: While Felix was never a great guy, it's implied that the trauma he suffered during the Great War was what drove him to become as monstrous as he is. He was admittedly always ruthless and self-centered, but the flashback in "Locus of Control" reveals he was simply a pragmatic survivalist who didn't take any enjoyment in what he did. It wasn't until after the war ended that he began devolving into a darwinistic Psycho for Hire.
• Friendly Rival: It's implied he used to be this with Locus back during the war, though it's also possible that it could be some more of Felix’s lies.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Among the Space Pirates. While they aren't particularly friendly with each other, most of them have some sense of camaraderie and can work together. However, Felix is an absolute asshole that none of them like; the only one who can be around him for extended periods of time is Locus, and the other Space Pirates just tend to tune him out.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Felix was once just another nondescript soldier doing his duty during the war, but by the end of the Chorus Trilogy he’s become a genocidal maniac who nearly wiped out the population of an entire planet out of spite.
• Good is Not Nice: In Season 12, he shows signs of this, doing things like blowing up Rogers during a mission and showing sociopathic traits, but he later reveals himself to be a sociopath and one of the main villains. However, Season 14 reveals that he used to be this; he was by no means a nice guy, but he hunted down criminals and brought them to justice.
• Hard Light: Really likes to a Deflector Shield made of this that's built into his armor.
• Hated by All: After his true allegiance is revealed, absolutely nobody likes him. The BGC and the inhabitants of Chorus despise him for being a traitor, and his own partner Locus, his colleagues Sharkface and the Counselor, and even his own men hate him for being an asshole.
• The Heavy: He and Locus are this to Hargrove. In the end, Felix is the true one because he manipulated Locus into going along with the genocide in the first place and he pushes to kill the Blood Gulch Crew long after Locus has stopped caring about them
• Hidden Depths: When he didn't pass the true warrior test, he mentioned he saw "shit straight from his nightmares". Said "shit straight from his nightmares" just so happens to be Locus realizing he doesn't need Felix while Felix needs him.
• Hired Guns: A mercenary working for the rebels on the planet the Blood Gulch Crew crashed on. Subverted, as he's working for Control and has intentionally infiltrated the New Republic. He finds out the hard way that describing himself as a "freelancer" is a quick way to get him on the Blood Gulch Crew's bad side.
  Felix: I'm a freelancer.
  [Hears seven guns being cocked.]
  Felix: [in a panicky tone of voice] No, I-I mean I'm a mercenary! You know, a gun for hire!
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Helped to recruit the Reds and the Blues into the opposing armies by telling them that they would help inspire the teams and help win the war, intending them to spur on the conflict between the two parties even further and hasten along their own destruction. Instead, the Reds and the Blues end up inspiring both sides to not just end the conflict, but work together, and even provide a united front against Felix and Locus' own forces, ultimately winning the war and bringing peace to Chorus. Furthermore, the Reds and Blues (with assistance from Locus, who pulls a Betrayal by Inaction on Felix as part of his own Heel–Face Turn) are the ones to directly kill him, with Simmons incapacitating his Deflector Shield with a sticky grenade long enough for Tucker to throw a grenade at his feet that hurls him to his death.
  • He manipulates Locus by exploiting his psychological need to follow orders but is sometimes stymied by Locus prioritizing adherance to their orders rather than what Felix wants them to do.
• Humiliation Conga: The Reds and Blues absolutely rip him to shreds, and they do it delightfully slowly. As Felix loses it and calls the Reds and Blues a bunch of "stinking pathetic losers", Donut shoots his sticky detonator out of his hand, Sarge shoots him in the shoulder with a Needler, O'Malley clotheslines him with a rocket launcher and makes Felix scream before shooting him point blank, his attempt to shoot Caboose with Freckles just has confetti fire before Freckles whacks him in the face, the partner he desperately needs abandons him at a crucial moment, and then finally, he gets a sticky grenade stuck to his shield while Tucker gleefully rolls a live grenade at his feet - and all of this without either of the Freelancers he attributed their success to aiding them. All he can do is scream at them to "WAIT" before he's sent screaming to his death.
  Epsilon: Yeah, we might be losers Felix... but we still kicked your ass.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  Felix: Sharkface, Locus, whatever happened to normal fucking names? I mean, am I crazy?
  The Counselor: Well...
  Felix: DON'T... psychoanalyze me.
• Hypocrite: As if Felix wasn't enough of an asshole already, he tends to call people out on traits that he himself shows. Just to give a few examples:
  • Calls Locus crazy, but it's actually him that seems to have gone off the deep end. Also, after Carolina takes advantage of Felix's unnecessary monologuing to save the Reds and Blues, Felix instead blames Locus for allowing Carolina to infiltrate his team. When Locus flips it back by pointing out that his gloating gave her plenty of time to launch her attack, he just deflects by saying they shouldn't be pointing fingers.
  • He mocks Locus, Wash and Sharkface for using pseudonyms instead of their real names, but he never uses his own real name on Chorus. Though, his main gripe was them not using a normal-sounding name, like Felix.
  • During their battle in "Fed vs. New", Felix makes fun of Tucker for using a sword. Come Season 13, Felix gets his hands on the Great Key for Chorus, incorporating a sword into his fighting style with nary a complaint.
  • Additionally, for all of the times that he accuses the people he fights of being cowards or not attacking him, one of his weapons is a Hard Light Deflector Shield (aka something meant to be used defensively).
  • Felix claims to be The Social Darwinist who repeatedly tries to kill off anyone weaker than him under the Insane Troll Logic of "If they didn't want to die, they should be strong enough to stop me and smart enough not to trust me in the first place." However, as Santa later reveals to Locus in "The End is Near", Felix has been psychologically manipulating Locus to stay with him since he's actually aware of Locus being the stronger of the two and that Felix needs Locus to survive. In reality, by Felix's own philosophy of Might Makes Right, he deserves to be abandoned and murdered. Which happens.
  • Felix justifies all of his actions by claiming that his victims deserved their fates because he's better than them, but when the sides are reversed and he's about to die, he's fully ready to beg for his life, with his last word being a frantic "WAIT".
• I'll Kill You!: You'd think he'd end up saying this to his rival Locus, but in actuality he says his own version of this when it's revealed that Tucker has broadcast his entire Motive Rant to the capital, where all the Republic and Federation troops are currently stationed. Should've kept the mouth shut, really.
• Insane Troll Logic: His social darwinism-based philosophy runs on this. If he kills you, it's your own fault, because it means that you weren't smart enough not to trust him or strong enough to fight him. It's clearly a thinly veiled excuse for his own sadism, and he also uses it to manipulate Locus as well.
• Irony: After insinuating that the Blood Gulch Crew were worthless in combat if not for the Freelancers in their party, he gets his ass whooped by the Reds and Blues without Wash and Carolina to back them up.
• It's All About Me: Everything he does, he does for himself. But arguably the most damning example is his treatment of Locus. Deep down, Felix is scared of his partner, because no matter how much he may say they need each other, Locus can survive on his own, but Felix can't. So he does everything in his power to keep Locus from getting the help he needs, and staying by his side to protect him when he gets in over his head.
• It's Personal:
  • His rivalry with Locus, as it's rooted in how they were former teammates who hated each other, but couldn't do anything about it because they were on the same side during the Great War. Kimball speculates that the sentiment might be mutual. Turns out that it's all a ruse - they still hate each other, but they manage to be professional about it.
  • Later, when he reveals his true colors to the Reds and Blues, he takes the time to deliver a rather vindictive "The Reason You Suck" Speech, implying that he considers having had to put up with them pretty damn personal, too.
  • After Tucker gets the better of him at the end of Season 12, he really seems to want some payback for being made to look foolish and having his cover blown. Felix even refers to the rest of the Blood Gulch Crew as Tucker's "less important but equally annoying friends" at one point, and generally holds a special level of hatred for Tucker in Season 13.
• It Amused Me: Several of his actions are fueled by his sadism and nothing else, like using Captain Mayer as a Dead Guy Puppet and pretty much every time he engages in Evil Gloating.
• I Resemble That Remark!: His complaint about Sharkface and Locus's codenames ends with him asking if he’s crazy.
  Counselor: Well...
  Felix: DON'T... psychoanalyze me.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Between willingly attempting to commit genocide and twisting the knife on the Reds and Blues on how much they helped, he could very well be the biggest asshole in the series, and that's saying a lot. He's so bad that even his own men just tend to tune him out, as mentioned in Episode 10 of Season 13. However, he seems genuinely concerned when the guys leave and goes to retrieve them against Kimball's orders, until it turns out that he actually left so he could kill them all. Turns out he's far worse than we expected, and he and Locus are manipulating the entire conflict. While he's gloating to them, he mentions Jerk with a Heart of Gold more or less by name, and makes fun of them for believing he was one.
• Just Between You and Me: Felix rants to Tucker that he and Locus just had to put forth a few sob stories to the heads of each army to pit them against each other. Tucker then mocks him and calls on Church to do so. Felix, confused, asks what Church is, to which Tucker smugly responds with, "Oh, this is Church. He's the A.I. that helps me run my equipment."
• Kick the Dog: As The Sociopath, he takes great delight in doing this. Examples include rubbing the Blood Gulch Crew's collective face in how they've been successfully manipulated in helping wipe out the innocent Chorusans, gleefully murdering the Tartarus crew before blasting everybody who won't/can't fight for them out the airlock, threatening Price by implying he might let Sharkface in on his previous career if he gets out of line, and constantly grinding Locus under his boot by exploiting his PTSD to his own advantage. He also takes a disturbing amount of pleasure in repeatedly hitting and stabbing Tucker when they face off at the end of Season 12.
• Killed Off for Real: Blasted to his death at the Communications Temple, and given that Locus can now use his sword, he's confirmed dead this time.
• Knight of Cerebus: When Felix gets involved in the show, things go downhill slightly, even though he's not a bad guy and Locus is worse. When Felix is revealed as a villain, though, things stop being funny completely until Felix's Laughably Evil qualities are emphasized.
• Lack of Empathy: Felix has no empathy for anyone or anything other than himself, and is pretty flippant about human life, even talking about nuking Chorus from orbit in the same tone one would talk about running an errand.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He gets killed off by the Blood Gulch Crew with the assistance of Locus - aka, he's murdered by the very same people he repeatedly called a bunch of weak, pathetic losers who didn't stand a chance against him (and keep in mind the Reds and Blues wouldn't even be his problem in the first place if Felix had actually let them get slain by Locus' firing squad in "Cloak and Dagger" instead of going on a Motive Rant), all while they're being assisted by his former partner that he had been subjecting to a psychologically abusive relationship.
• Last Villain Stand: When Locus abandons him in Episode 19 of Season 13, he decides that he's going to try to kill him, too, by using his SAW on as many people as possible. Given he's surrounded by more than seven experienced soldiers even before Locus changed sides, this goes about as well as could be expected.
• Laughably Evil: Stands out in particular among the other Space Pirates. He is known for making sarcastic and witty comments at every possible moment, and will not hesitate to make fun of other people. In fact, some of the funniest scenes in The Chorus Trilogy are of Felix constantly pushing the blame of events away from himself while acting more like an immature, obnoxious prick than the heartless killer he really is.
• Lean and Mean: Not apparent in the machinima style, but in Season 14 he's shown to be very skinny when out of armor, especially compared to Locus.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Part of the reason for his defeat at the hands of the Reds and Blues is him blindly charging into the multiple traps they've set up for him in the Communications Temple.
• Leitmotif: "Soul Clef XI" is one for both him and Locus.
• Logical Latecomer: Deconstructed and subverted. He serves as the Straight Man to the Blood Gulch Crew, being bewildered by their quirks, but after he drops the mask, he reveals that he flat-out hated them for their many, many annoying flaws, and shows himself to be far more unhinged and vile than any of them could ever be.
• Lovable Rogue: Subverted. He initially seems to be this, but after he is revealed to be Evil All Along, he proves to be a ruthless sociopath who deliberately put on this persona to get people to trust him. Any aspects that weren't part of the facade are just aspects of his sociopathy.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Though ironically, he initially only used it to protect Wash, not himself. He winds up using it to shield other people quite often. Turns out that was intentional as a way of getting Wash's trust.
• Manipulative Bastard: To pretty much everyone. First Kimball and the New Republic, then the Reds and Blues, and that's not even getting into how much effort he puts into keeping Locus under his control.
• Meaningful Name: "Felix" is a given name descended from Latin that means "happy" or "lucky." It's quite the appropriate codename for a Psychopathic Manchild like him.
• Morton's Fork: The Reds and Blues force him into one during their final confrontation by shooting a sticky grenade at his Hard Light shield then tossing another grenade at his feet. If he drops the heavy shield to get away, the sticky grenade goes off in his face. If he doesn't drop the shield he'll be blown up by the grenade beside him. He's still trying to think of a way out when the latter scenario kills him.
• Mr. Exposition: As of Episode 16 in Season 11. Then once again in Episode 10 of Season 12. Only this time, it doubles as a Motive Rant.
• Mysterious Past: His activities between the Merc Trilogy and the Chorus Trilogy are unclear, but something definitely happened at that point, since Siris is no longer present and Felix has lost any scruples he had and has become far more manipulative and sociopathic. Some of his comments in Season 12 alludes to something involving a betrayal happening at some point, but nothing concrete is ever provided.
• Narcissist: Felix has a ridiculously high opinion of himself and his skills, only cares about his own needs, never takes responsibility for any of his failures, and should anyone bruise his pride even a little, he will drop everything to kill them.
• Never My Fault: After Carolina saves the Blood Gulch Crew from execution, Felix is quick to reproach Locus for being sloppy enough to allow her to infiltrate his team. Never mind the fact that Felix gave Carolina ample time to prepare herself for the rescue by delving into a Motive Rant on why he hated the Reds and Blues, whereas Locus simply wanted to shoot them and be done with it. When Locus points out the hypocrisy of this in a threatening tone, Felix notes that they shouldn't be throwing blame around.
  • This unwillingness to take blame continues into the end of Season 12, where, upon speaking to CEO Hargrove, he says they lost because the Reds and Blues got lucky, but Locus admits it was because they (read: Felix) were sloppy and underestimated them.
  • Season 14 reveals that this was not a new trait, as he clearly showed it back during the Lozano job.
    Siris: Why weren't you on comms?
    Felix: (the one who threw his headset in the toilet) That is... entirely his fault. (points at Locus, who glares in response)
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Seeing as the New Republic has no recognizable currency, they pay him in alien weaponry that was initially found on Chorus. He then intends to sell the tech off for cash, then use it to buy a TV the size of a billboard. Later revelations seem to make him out to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold that's more emotionally invested than once thought. However, even further plot events reveal that he is indeed only in it for money, just not from the New Republic.
• Not Quite Dead: After the Tartarus lands on him and Locus in Episode 18. He dies for real in the following episode.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • He actually compares Washington to Locus in this manner.
  • Come Season 12, Episode 3, it's revealed he's also just as self-centered and snarky (See Took a Level in Jerkass and Sociopathic Hero below) as Tucker can be, though Tucker at least has the decency to feel bad for this and actively strives to be a better person.
  • Come Season 12, Episode 10, he's revealed to be just as bad as Locus - or perhaps even worse, considering that in Episode 19 of the same season, Locus implicitly acknowledges hidden feelings of guilt for his actions that he tries to hide under his Just Following Orders facade, a trait Felix does not share. In Season 13, it's shown in a flashback from "Locus of Control" that Felix used to be much more like Locus during their time in the Great War, being a Consummate Professional and following orders.
• Odd Name Out: His code name "Felix" is a real name in contrast to other code names like Locus, Siris and Sharkface. However it's not his real name, which is revealed to be Isaac Gates in Season 14
• Off Hand Back Hand:
  • Does this with his Hard Light shield to Tucker as the latter lunges at him with his energy sword.
  • Again in "Club" when he shoots a goon from around a table he and Locus use for cover.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Upon seeing Locus pursuing him in Season 11. Though actually it's because Locus told him by radio that they are to leave the Reds and Blues alive.
  • Played for Laughs in Season 11's "FAQ", where he calls himself a "freelancer" and then has to hurriedly correct himself to being only a mercenary when every member of the Blood Gulch Crew (except for Caboose, who was blind at the time) instantly cocks their guns at him.
  • He gets another one in Season 13, Episode 16 along with Locus when they find out that Armonia's nuclear reactor was about to explode.
    Pirate: There's a bomb on the reactor!
    Felix: What?!
    Locus: Get us out of here!!
  • Has a major one upon realizing the Blood Gulch Crew and their friends are dropping a goddamn spaceship on him and Locus in "Great Destroyers".
  • He gets a large number in quick succession during his final confrontation with the Blood Gulch Crew before getting killed off, as part of his well-earned Humiliation Conga leading up to his Undignified Death.
    • He just has enough time to panic and raise his arms when he gets blasted by Doc/O'Malley with a rocket launcher.
    • He has another moment when his attempt to shoot Caboose with his own rifle backfires spectacularly.
    • He starts to really panic when he realizes he's finally lost control of Locus.
    • His final one is when he's pinned down with a sticky grenade attached to his Hard Light shield and Tucker casually tosses a grenade at his feet.
• Only Known By His Nickname: According to the Ultimate Fan Guide, "Felix" is an alias. A hint towards this comes in this tidbit of dialogue. Season 14's credits reveal his full name to be Isaac Gates.
  Felix: "Sharkface", "Locus". Whatever happened to normal fucking names.
• Only Sane Man: When Wash isn't around to play the part, he becomes the most competent individual of the Blood Gulch Crew members in the New Republic. However, much like Church, Epsilon, Wash, and Captain Butch Flowers before him, he is one of the few examples of someone with mental problems in the show^note specifically, Antisocial Personality Disorder and so is a subverted example.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: What is his gut reaction when his Evil Gloating has managed to let the Blood Gulch Crew (especially Tucker) completely upset his plans and stopped the Civil War? To try to kill all of the Blood Gulch Crew then and there, starting with Tucker. No gloating, just do it. Fortunately for them, Locus stops him by insisting they stick to protocol and leave.
• Pass the Popcorn: His reaction to watching Grif, Simmons, Tucker, and Caboose waste an entire morning trying to decide who gets to be leader of the team to rescue Wash, Sarge, Donut, and Lopez.
  Felix: Did you boys want to do some actual training, or did you just waste the entire morning dicking around? Because by all means, I could watch this train wreck all day. Really, it's like the Hindenburg footage. You ever see that? Absolutely breathtaking, until you realize everyone's screwed.
• Pet the Dog: In the darkest way possible. After Locus and the recruited prisoners from the Tartarus spring the trap for the armies of Chorus at Crash Site Alpha, he asks Locus to make sure Kimball dies quickly since "We were friends once, after all."
• The Power of Hate: His hatred of Locus drives him to win and is what keeps him from leaving Chorus no matter how much alien tech he acquires. Except it's all a lie. Although his hatred of the Blood Gulch Crew seems to be motivating him now.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In Season 13, this is mixed in with Dirty Coward. Felix constantly seems to show concern for Locus throughout the season (after Hargrove's threat and going through the gateway) but if looked at closely, he doesn't actually acknowledge Locus's emotions themselves. It turns out that he just wants Locus to protect him because he knows that Locus can survive on his own while Felix cannot. In the end, Felix does not actually care about Locus himself, who leaves him to die when the truth comes out.
• Psycho Knife Nut: It's clear after The Reveal that knives let him get up and personal with his victim. He's pretty awesome at throwing them as well.
  Felix: [poses after throw killing a Fed Mook] [softly to himself] I am fucking awesome...!
• Psychopathic Manchild:
  • In Season 13, he throws a temper tantrum upon realizing that the Great Key is useless as long as Doyle is alive.
  • He throws a much more epic one during Season 13 Episode 19, furiously screaming at the Blood Gulch Crew about how he is infinitely superior to them in a desperate attempt to heal his wounded pride.
  • Once again, Season 14 shows him throwing a tantrum as he starts to lose control of the hostage situation with the Lozanos. His temper and lack of impulse control are clearly a long-standing liability, possibly the result of trauma from the war, and likely the reason he thinks he needs to keep Locus on-side.
• Raised Hand of Survival: At the end of Episode 18 of Season 13.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives one to the Reds and Blues after his true motivations and allegiance are revealed, venting all of the anger he's gotten pent up from having to deal with their antics. Specifically, he calls them a bunch of idiots, man children, and losers, singling out Tucker in particular. Ironic, given that much of these flaws are things that apply to Felix himself.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The gloating, sociopathic, and Hot-Blooded Red Oni to Locus' cold Blue Oni.
• The Reveal:
  • Not only is he Evil All Along, but he is also part of a plan to kill off all human life on Chorus.
  • His name is revealed to be Isaac Gates in Season 14.
• Revenge Before Reason: With the loss of the majority of the Space Pirate's army, Crash Site Alpha as well as the Tartarus, the war on Chorus had become something of a Foregone Conclusion. Given that Carolina and Washington had presumed him dead when the Tartarus was destroyed, Felix would have been smart to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here with the injured and exhausted Locus. However, instead of fleeing, an absolutely enraged Felix travels all the way to the Comms Tower to try and kill the Blood Gulch Crew, despite there being nothing to actually gain for him at that point. Predictably, this action causes him to suffer a humiliating defeat to the Reds and Blues that culminates in an Undignified Death.
• The Rival:
  • To Locus. Turns out they had been Friendly Rivals during the Great War, not liking each other but performing well. When Locus went to work for the Federation, Felix saw it as a personal challenge to see who was really better. Turns out they're working together, though they still do hate each other.
  • Additionally, after Tucker bests him in "Fed vs. New," Felix utterly despises the former sim trooper throughout Season 13, seeing him as the only real threat among the Reds and Blues and even going out of his own way to antagonize him.
• Sadist: Felix loves making other people suffer, and often draws out battles to gloat to his opponents or murders people who pose no threat to him just because he feels like it.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Implied to have happened to him in the past. The flashback in Season 13 and Season 14 show that he always exhibited signs of sociopathy, but he still had some scruples and was far more logical than he is during the Chorus Trilogy.
  • Felix becomes gradually more impulsive and reckless throughout Season 13, and loses his sanity entirely after he survives the Tartarus crashing on his position and Locus abandons him.
• Sarcasm Failure: The key point in his Villainous Breakdowns is that he completely loses his cool, sarcastic demeanor, and simply says I'll Kill You!.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Why he didn't return to civilian life after the Great War. Though honestly, he wasn't much better during it either.
• Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Implied. The flashback in "Locus of Control" and Season 14 show that, while he was always a ruthless, manipulative, amoral Jerkass, he was initially motivated by trying to survive in the Great War and then by material gain and a somewhat legitimate desire to do good. It's heavily implied that the constant moral compromises he made resulted in him becoming worse and worse until he became the monstrous sadist he is in The Chorus Trilogy.
• Small Name, Big Ego: A very Downplayed Trope. Felix has a high opinion of himself but both has the skills to support it and generally only plays himself up in passive ways. His rants about superiority and being The Social Darwinist however show that he ultimately isn't as strong or as smart as he thinks he is, as most of his success comes from Locus' support.
• Smug Snake: A high-functioning example who repeatedly backs up his boasts, succeeds despite the risks, and is a brilliant manipulator. On the one hand, he is extremely smug all the time, with the sole exception of when he is losing, even if it's a completely unnecessary risk to be in whatever situation he is in. What's more, he never actually learns from his mistakes, just blaming them on everybody else.
  Felix: [after taking out a prison ship's crew by himself, talking to Locus] Before you say anything, yes, I know they triggered the alarm, and yes, I did have more fun because of it, thank you for asking.
• Smug Super: While he doesn't actually have superpowers, he fits the archetype to a tee. He's highly skilled and competent and has a gigantic ego as a result, often taunting his opponents because of superior he is to them in terms of skill and intelligence.
• The Social Darwinist: He believes that he has the right to kill anyone who isn't as strong as he is. This is re-affirmed in Season 13 Episode 17. Ironically, it turns out the reason he kept Locus around is because he knew Locus was stronger than him, and so Felix needed him to make sure he could survive his new line of work as a mercenary.
  Felix: Survival isn't a right, it's a privilege. It's earned.
• The Sociopath: He makes it very clear that he doesn't care about his allies' lives, and acknowledges that others usually do. After The Reveal, it also turns out Felix is completely okay with slaughtering an entire colony's population for a paycheck. He's also a checklist of sociopathic traits. He takes the time to toy with his prey before finishing them, even explaining what was really going on. He's very good at feigning emotions and motives. Everything he does is in line with what will benefit him, even allying with someone he hates (Locus). He appears to lack regard for human suffering, flippantly saying he'd nuke the planet from orbit as if it was deciding to buy a pizza, and says how if the inhabitants killed each other, "Well, that's just a tragedy!" as if it's a joke. In addition, he blatantly admits and displays that he does not care for the lives of others.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Downplayed. During the war, Felix was trigger-happy and executed at least one surrendering alien, but he never sunk to the lows he did during the Chorus campaign, and these qualities were borne out of being coldly logical rather than the sadism that came to dominate him in The Chorus Trilogy.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The cheery and laid-back Laughably Evil Wise Guy to Locus's cold, professional Straight Man.
• Stronger Than They Look: Felix out of armor looks rather scrawny and unimpressive, especially next to Mason and Locus, however, he's plenty strong if he can keep up with Locus, Carolina and Washington.
• Stupid Evil: Felix will never miss an opportunity to engage in pointless sadism, even when it poses no benefit to him. This only gets worse over the course of The Chorus Trilogy as he loses what little sanity he had.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Subverted. He initially seems to be this to York, both of them being bitingly sarcastic but friendly badasses, but after he reveals he was Evil All Along, his actual personality turns out to be very different.
• Swapped Roles: When first introduced, he is presented as an anti-heroic mercenary with a Hidden Heart of Gold who is enemies with his former partner Locus, a cruel and irredeemable killer. After The Reveal, Felix is shown to be a cruel, sadistic killer who revels in death and violence while Locus is actually conflicted about his actions and eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn and becomes The Atoner, becoming for real the persona that Felix had put on.
• Taking the Bullet: Exploited. He does this with Wash to ingratiate himself with the Blood Gulch Crew, and as he notes during his Motive Rant, it worked like a charm when something like that would have had to be planned in advance to be pulled off.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He and Locus have always despised each other during the war, which led to a bitter rivalry afterwards. Though actually, it led to a bitter partnership, as even though they hate each other, they work quite well together and continue to do so until just before his end.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Given his personality as a Psychopathic Manchild, it makes sense.
  Felix: I! AM EXTREMELY! FRUSTRATED!
• Thrown Out the Airlock: Does this to the prisoners aboard the Tartarus to separate those who can't/won't fight from those who can. It was just one in an entire string of Kick the Dog moments he has in the opening to Season 13.
• Tom the Dark Lord: His codename is "Felix," which is a unassuming name for a villain. Suffice to say, it doesn't even begin to describe the absolute monster that he is. His real name, Isaac Gates, isn't much better.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • In Season 11, he was nice, friendly, serious, and seemed to genuinely care about the fate of the New Republic. In Season 12, particularly Episode 3, it's revealed that he's much more brash, self-centered, and snarky than he previously let on. Episode 10 reveals this to be an inversion, as this is more in-line with his real personality.
  • Season 14 reveals that he had taken one for real. Felix was always violent and a dick, but he initially had standards and only went after criminals.
• Toxic Friend Influence: "Friend" is stretching it a bit, but Felix is this to Locus, using his PTSD to manipulate him, preventing him from getting help for his trauma and encouraging his 'just following orders' mindset, because he needs him to survive. It's no coincidence that Locus realizing this is what truly triggers his Heel–Face Turn.
• Undignified Death: In stark contrast to Doyle only a few episodes previously. He's utterly humiliated in combat by the people he's been calling losers all season and dies panicking and afraid.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed even more so than with Locus, but Season 13's "Locus of Control" shows Felix to not have been The Sociopath while acting as a UNSC trooper in the Great War, instead coming across more as just another coldly logical soldier trying to survive against the Covenant's onslaught. Additionally, the Merc Trilogy in Season 14 shows that while he was still jerkish back then, he wasn't as self-centered and ultimately psychotic as he would be during The Chorus Trilogy, with the Lozano job helping kick-start both his and Locus' Protagonist Journey to Villain.
• Villain Ball: Stops Locus' firing squad from killing the Reds and Blues so he can monologue, chew them out and explain their plan — giving Carolina time to save the day. He does this again when he rants over how much he has enjoyed gradually destroying Chorus instead of just killing Tucker when he had the chance, allowing his entire monologue to be caught on tape by Epsilon and subsequently broadcast to both the New Republic and the Federal Army of Chorus. Locus calls him out on this behavior both times, with it being repeatedly justified by Felix's Evil Is Petty tendencies.
• Villain Respect: Felix expresses legitimate respect for the Counselor’s lacking fear at having a gun pointed at his head and managing to talk his way into joining the Space Pirates, which is the only time he actually shows respect to anyone, much less one of his own colleagues.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • After Tucker tricks him into exposing his true colors to the New Republic and Federal Army of Chorus, his confident persona collapses, leaving only white-hot anger.
    Felix: You... You're DEAD!
  • He breaks down in spades as he's facing down the Blood Gulch Crew in the Control Room of the Communications Temple, completely flipping out when he realizes the so-called idiots he has been mocking throughout the two seasons have him beat dead to rights.
  • His last one occurs when he realizes that there's no escape from the grenade that Tucker threw at him without dropping his shield and triggering the sticky grenade that Simmons stuck on it. He dies in the throes of this one.
• Villainous Friendship: Not really the case - Felix is likely too much of a Sociopath to form a genuine friendship with anybody - but he tries to invoke this with Locus, whom he highly depends on. It ultimately fails, as Locus gets fed up with his role in Hargrove's plot and his partner's Stupid Evil tendencies.
• Villains Never Lie: Felix plays with this, using Exact Words and Metaphorically True. The only known exception was the "some of the galaxy's greatest soldiers" comment to the Reds and Blues.
• Villain Song: "His Name Is Felix" from the Season 13 bloopers.
• Walking Spoiler: He's revealed to be a major villain halfway through Season 12, despite acting like a hero beforehand. His character after this twist is nearly completely different.
• Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Locus, Wash, and Carolina, Felix is a good straight-up fighter, but clearly doesn't match them. He makes up for this by fighting dirty, and is at least quick enough to hit Carolina, later stabbing her in the thigh to even the odds, but in the end, once the Reds and Blues gang up on him and Locus abandons him, he's killed extremely easily.
• We Have Reserves: He really doesn't care about his soldiers getting killed off, simply shrugging it off as "Fewer people, bigger cuts". When he's pretending to be an ally he attempts to convince Tucker to adopt the same attitude towards his own men after two of them die on a mission.
  • Ironically, he makes the "Fewer people, bigger cuts" remark at a point in the story when they don't have reserves. He says this just after the destruction of Armonia had devastated their forces and killed most of their best soldiers, leaving just a relatively small force of recruited prisoners at their disposal. This force is too thinly spread to hold the tractor beam, resulting in even more heavy losses when Wash and Carolina crash the Tartarus into the Purge Temple.
• We Used to Be Friends: Never friends, but at least on the same side as Locus. Although Season 13 shows that they have some form of camaraderie, and they even joke around with each other a bit, but it's ultimately more of Pragmatic Villainy than actually caring.
  • Before his true alligence was revealed, he seemed to be friends with Kimball, and coldly tells Locus to kill her quickly because of their previous relationship.

Locus

Locus / Samuel Ortez

"I'm not a monster. I'm a soldier, like you."

^{Locus without his helmet}

"When a true soldier is told to kill, he kills. He does not question why, he does not mourn the fallen; he fulfills his role and moves on to the next."

Voiced By: Gray Haddock

A sinister gray and green mercenary introduced in Season 11 and one of the three leaders of the Space Pirates, in the service of the Chairman to manipulate the Federation. He serves as one the primary antagonists of The Chorus Trilogy, and the most proactive one in Season 11.

Locus first appears to be the most dangerous and zealous member of the Federation who no doubt harbors grim intentions for the "legendary heroes" and the rest of Chorus. He spies on the Reds and Blues throughout the season, and does his best to sabotage any possibility of their rescue, including murdering the pilot who brings Donut, Doc, and Lopez to the crash. While Locus was always treated as antagonistic, the reveal is that he's not working for the Federation at all, but rather manipulating them for the Chairman's purposes, makes him more sinister.

He fashions himself out as an emotionless killer who would kill and get on with it so that the job would be done. However, he has a very creepy fascination with Agent Washington that breaks his emotionless killer personality. In comparison with Felix, he is very serious about his job, and a firm believer of Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?, never doing any Evil Gloating. This makes him the more dangerous of the pair, yet at the same time, the less evil one. Throughout Season 13, Wash and Santa inspire him to make a Heel–Face Turn at the last moment, turning on Felix and letting him be killed before escaping from the Reds and Blues with Chorus's Great Key.

Season 14 reveals his real name to be Samuel Ortez.

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Associated Tropes

• Affably Evil: He's rather civil to Doc and Donut's pilot, then shoots him in the back when he's going for the phone and calmly reassures him that his ship will be destroyed. Later on, when interacting with the prisoners, he's curt with them but never really disrespectful. Even when he's threatening people with death, he's not rude about it. He's just doing what has to be done. Ironically he's ultimately more civil than Felix.
• Aloof Ally: To the Reds and Blues in Season 15. He saves them from the Blues and Reds, but only because he was already after the Blues and Reds for his own reasons. Once he ensures that the Reds and Blues go after them, he takes Washington to a hospital and goes back to his own matters. He also doesn't exactly seem thrilled to be working with a bunch of imbeciles.
• Antagonist Abilities: invoked His Active Camouflage Enhancement to his armor can make him impossible to see and even lets him seemingly disappear into thin air, all of which makes him a terrifying opponent on the battlefield. The aforementioned enhancement also lets him serve as a Cold Sniper with virtually no impunity due to it being incredibly hard to track his fire back to a source. Additionally, his ability to act as a Stealth Expert due to this enhancement gives a lot of Paranoia Fuel to the Reds and Blues, and they're forced to come up with some outside-the-box tactics to get past him. For instance, Wash has to trick him into revealing his own position at Crash Site Alpha through psychological manipulation, and later cuts his own hand and hurls the spray of blood around him to find Locus' position during their fight in "Great Destroyers".
• Anti-Hero: Season 14 revealed that he and Felix used to be this. Along their partner Siris, they captured criminals and turned them in for a reward. He later becomes this in the present as of Season 15.
• Arch-Enemy: To Washington during The Chorus Trilogy. Locus sees the two as very similar right off the bat, and tries to justify his Dark and Troubled Past by proving it to Wash while trying to make their animosity personal. Unfortunately, Wash defies this by proving how different they truly are, leaving Locus to stew in his guilt, until he decides to become The Atoner.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: As shown by Season 14, Episode 9, he has a scar on his face in the same shape as the X that marks his Locus helmet.
• The Atoner: What he becomes after his Heel–Face Turn as of Season 13, Episode 19.
  Tucker: Just because you saved us doesn't mean you can leave, asshole! You killed innocent people!
  Locus: I know. I'm going to make things right. But not from inside a cell.
• Ax-Crazy: According to Felix, which is why he goes by the name of his armor instead of his actual name. Wash is kind of freaked out by this. Locus himself denies this, taking offense to Lopez calling him insane/crazy. Actually, it's Felix who has the mental disorder. However, Locus' behavior still seems to indicate that Locus may not be sane anyways.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: During his and Felix's backstory segment in Season 14, he has a green tie, handkerchief and sunglasses as they clear out a club full of armed goons.
• The Bad Guy Wins: For Season 11, anyway. To date, he's the only bad guy to end a season in a better position than when they started (Maine and Wash lacked the info needed to proceed). He has three POW's in his custody and drives both teams from the canyon.
• Bait the Dog: While he did destroy Freckles, he does download his program on a flash drive... which turns out to be also a Tracking Device for the Space Pirates to find the crew.
• Baritone of Strength: Locus's deep voice adds to his menace, especially since when he uses it while holding his own with enhanced Freelancers like Carolina and Wash.
  Grif: [after receiving Locus' commands to snap out of his nuttiness] Aaah! Fuck, your voice is still so scary!
• Berserk Button: Felix's Evil Gloating and Villain Ball moments? They piss him off big time.
  • Calling him insane/crazy. Lopez finds this out the hard way.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Played with. He clearly doesn't like gloating, claiming that if you want opponents to suffer, you have to do it quickly. However, he still let Felix monologue on and on and didn't shoot the Reds, so he's clearly not as immune to this as he'd like to be.
• Bounty Hunter: He and Felix started out as this, essentially, since they tracked down criminals and turned them in for the reward money.
• Broken Bird: Implied after his past history is revealed.
• Character Development: Locus has made good on his promise to stop killing and make things right. He's become a Technical Pacifist who will only shoot to incapacitate, and he's been tracking down the Blues and Reds because they inadvertently killed a colony of refugees, with the implication that he was already helping that colony beforehand.
• Co-Dragons: Locus and Felix are the leaders of the Space Pirates, employed by Hargrove to oversee the Chorus war and the genocide of the planet's inhabitants.
• Cold Sniper: Uses a Sniper Rifle to observe the teams without being detected, and he's also possibly the best shot of any character in the show. He can nail you with a lethal shot if he wants you dead, or a non-lethal shot if he wants you alive with equal ease. You really need to be creative to get him to waste a shot.
• Color-Coded Characters: He's heavily associated with the color green, contrasting from Felix's orange.
• The Comically Serious: Season 15 has him helping the Reds and Blues, and the clash between his stoic demeanor and the others' wackiness (especially a Grif gone loony from isolation) is nothing short of hilarious. One of stand out moments is his helmet being felt up by Grif to make sure he's real and his reaction to getting a hug from Caboose after freeing him.
  Locus: [stuck in a one-sided hug to his waist with his arms stretched out into the air] I hate this...
• Consummate Professional: He views himself as this, following order even though he is most dangerous member of the Federal Army of Chorus. In Episode 18 of Season 12, Washington sees right through this, and identifies him as trying to justify his mass murdering tendencies with this philosophy, and failing.
  Washington: You keep trying to play yourself off as some sort of weapon. That you don't care about anyone or anything. But the fact that you're trying so hard to understand me breaks your entire act! No matter how hard you may want to be, you're not a machine, you're a murderer. But you hide behind the idea in your head, because you're too afraid to take responsibility for what you've done.
• Cool Starship: In Season 15, he has an alien spaceship called A'rynasea. According to Joe Nicolosi, he obtained it through a quest after getting the sword.
• Cool Sword: Acquires the Chorus Great Key after Felix is offed.
• Dark Is Evil: His armour is very dark and he's one of the bad guys.
• Dark Is Not Evil: After he made a Heel–Face Turn, his armor is still dark. However, he incorporates a bit of white into his armor in Season 15. He's even been described by the writers as a "dark paladin."
• Deadpan Snarker: As The Chorus Trilogy progressed, a cold snark came out from under his stoicism, largely aimed at Felix. He also displays this trait in Season 15, likely as a result of working with the Reds and Blues.
  I, for one, believed every word and found that very moving. Now can we go, please?!
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: For the supposed Consummate Professional Sociopathic Soldier that only seeks to serve their master. Locus goes out of his way to present himself as an unfeeling and emotionally detached professional soldier-for-hire - doing whatever his mission requires, no matter how terrible or morally questionable, with the justification that he is Just Following Orders. In truth, he is just as human as anyone else, and was deeply traumatized by what happened to him during the Human-Covenant War. Assuming this role of an unquestioning soldier is just a way for Locus to cope with his trauma. Unfortunately, this leaves him easy prey for Felix's manipulation and control. This facade gradually falls apart as he fights against Wash during The Chorus Trilogy, with the latter repeatedly calling him out on his hypocrisy. This forces Locus to question what he is doing, eventually culminating in a Heel–Face Turn.
• Demoted to Extra: After being one of the main antagonists in The Chorus Trilogy, he has a mere supporting role (albeit an important one) in Season 15.
• The Dragon: While both he and Felix are Co-Dragons to the Chairman, Locus is the one who usually directly reports to him and receives orders. Apparently, Felix's lack of communication with Hargrove is so common that the latter snarkily points it out when Felix is actually present and contributing when Locus reports to Hargrove in Season 13.
• Dragon-in-Chief: He commands the Federal Army more directly than Doyle does, and will take whatever actions he considers necessary to complete his mission, even if it's in conflict with the desires of his superiors.Turns out that he and Felix are actually this to a third party with Locus not actually working for the Federation of Chorus.
• The Dreaded: The rebels send as many men as they can to try and reinforce the Reds and Blues, when they hear that he's around. Heck even his own allies fear him. As it turns out, Felix is scared of him as well.
• Easily Forgiven: Zig-Zagged. The Blood Gulch Crew makes it very clear to him that even though he helped them, he still killed lots of innocent people, and that they will find him. However, when they do meet again, they grudgingly accept his help since they have no other options.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He has two even before his Character Development. The first is that he disapproves of making people suffer and that if you're going to kill someone you make it quick and clean. The second is that while he's willing to betray the people he's pretending to work with like the Feds he balks at killing his actual partners in the Space Pirates. Notably, Locus compromises on both of these principles when they are shown due to Felix talking him into it, highlighting how Felix is The Corrupter towards Locus.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Cited in the director's commentary for Season 11, Locus seems to be curious regarding people's motivations and what prompts them to act selflessly towards others. He questioned the pilot that dropped off Donut and Lopez in Season 11 as to what he was going to do before killing him, just for the express purpose of learning his answer. He also questions Washington and the Reds in Season 12 as to why they assign meaning to robots like Lopez and Freckles.
• Evil Costume Switch: Kitted out in brown and green while he was a UNSC soldier, switching to darker colours when he was hired by the Federal Army.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Deliberately compared to Washington and the other Freelancers, as he forsook his own name, taking on only his call sign as the name of his armor. Having the similarities called out by Felix unsettles Wash greatly.
  • He's presented as this to Felix, being the Federation's counterpart to him. But of course the truth is that they're both evil.
    • This trope gets inverted after his Heel–Face Turn, with him becoming Felix's Good Counterpart and Felix being Locus's Evil Counterpart in turn.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep, rumbling voice, and he definitely doesn't have any good intentions for Chorus or the Reds and Blues. Until Season 13, Episode 19, that is.
• Foil:
  • To his own partner, Felix, both personality wise and thematically. Personality wise, he's Stoic, professional, and has hints of being a Noble Demon contrasting Felix's Hot Bloodedness, Manipulative Bastard tendencies, and utter amorality. Thematically, Felix is introduced as an affable ally only to be revealed as a cruel and selfish villain. Locus on the other hand is introduced as a cruel and terrifying villain only for his more heroic traits to be slowly revealed over the course of the series culminating in his Heel Realization and Heel–Face Turn.
  • He's also one to Agent Washington, as they're both talented professional soldiers who had to do some really horrible things in the line of duty. However, the difference is that Wash is actually trying to be a better person, while Locus has actively chosen to become a cold-hearted killer. Locus's confusion as to why Wash didn't become just like him is also what helps eventually set him on the road to redemption.
  • To Wyoming, the other Cold Sniper antagonist in the series. Wyoming is Laughably Evil, while Locus is a Knight of Cerebus. Both are soldiers trying to fulfill their orders and play The Dragon to the Big Bad of the season(s). However, Locus is cold, calculating, and to the point while Wyoming is hammy, prideful, and likes to draw things out. Locus constantly makes use of his armor ability, while Wyoming only uses his at the very end. However, Locus is manipulated by his partner, and ultimately strives to redeem himself for what he had done. While Wyoming is a manipulator, attempting to put all the pieces into motion before his (final) death.
  • To the Meta. They're both soldiers who eventually left the UNSC after their will was broken and were manipulated into working with a sociopath. However, the Meta was left Brainwashed and Crazy and sought only to attain Sigma's goals, while Locus definitely has his own interests outside of Felix, even if he's still completely under his thumb. And while the Meta ultimately dies at the hands of the Reds and Blues, still nothing but a slave to Sigma's whims, Locus achieves redemption after having a Heel Realization and survives.
• Follow the Leader: In-Universe. After Felix gave them a significant amount of trouble, the Federal Army decided to counter the New Republic's hiring of a mercenary by hiring one from Felix's old squad who would presumably be just as dangerous if not more so. They presumed correctly.
• Freudian Excuse: During the war, Locus started off as actually being rather compassionate and moral, but his superiors drilled into him that he was nothing more than a suit of armor and a gun. The horror of war completely broke him and left him a Shell-Shocked Veteran, and he was unable to integrate back into society in spite of his best efforts due to Felix using his PTSD to manipulate him into becoming a mercenary.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: It's revealed in Season 14 that, sans helmet, he has a diagonal cross scar on his face, just like the diagonal cross on his helmet...
• Good Costume Switch: After his Heel–Face Turn, he incorporates an additional color scheme into his armor (white), giving himself a friendlier appearance.
• The Heavy: Of Season 11. He's not in charge of the Federal Army of Chorus, but he's the face of it to the Reds and Blues, even though he isn't truly working for the Federal Army. He and Felix are actually both this to the Chairman, who wants everyone on Chorus dead. In the end however, Felix is the true Heavy.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Santa helps him realize that not only is Felix controlling him, but also fears him, he rightfully chooses to leave him for dead and instead helps the Blood Gulch Crew by activating the Communication Temple for them. He then disappears, vowing to make things right
• Heel Realization: Begins down this route in Episode 7 of Season 13, after seeing his fear in the trials for becoming a true warrior that he had become a monster rather than a soldier, and that Felix has become even worse than him. Cemented in Episode 19 of the same season, when Santa flat out spells out that he is what Felix is afraid of, letting him find out that he was keeping him following orders to make sure he never got out of his dependence on Felix and his Shell-Shocked Veteran status. Spelled out in his Shut Up, Hannibal! to Felix.
  Locus: I'm not a soldier. I'm a monster. Like you.
• He Knows Too Much: He does this to Donut and Doc's pilot.
• Hero Killer: Everyone we see who isn't deliberately on his side is absolutely terrified of him, to the point where when Felix asks for "a shitload of guns" to fight him, he is given the affirmative on this request from New Republic command without any questions. This is made nearly literal when he ends up sniping Sarge and Washington to unconsciousness, and captures them, Donut, and Lopez.
• Hero of Another Story: invoked It's hinted in Season 15 that he's been up to a lot since obtaining the Great Key of Chorus, between his alien spaceship and his apparent connection to a wiped out colony of refugees. Joe Nicolosi later elaborated on this in an interview, saying that getting the sword triggered a quest (much like when Tucker got his back in Season 3), and he's gotten much further on the quest than Tucker ever did.
• Hired Guns: Much like Felix, only in the service of the Federal Army. In reality, he and Felix have been hired to make sure Chorus's population are wiped out via fueling their civil war.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: When he gathers a team of four men to help him hunt down the Reds, he says they are "going hunting".
• Icy Gray Eyes: The only character in the Season 14 backstory segment to not get simple black pupils, instead getting gray eyes. Combines elements of aloof and unapproachable with a dangerous and expert marksman.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • Repeatedly refers to himself as a "soldier." This becomes troubling when it's strongly implied he takes the term to mean "a suit of armor with a gun." Now we know why he calls himself Locus...
    Locus: [to Washington] No, I'm not a monster, I'm a soldier. Like you.
  • Inverted when he finally gets out from under Felix' boot.
    No, I'm not a soldier, I'm a monster. Like you.
  • The Season 14 prequel episodes showed that he insisted that Felix and Siris refer to each other by codenames only, mostly whenever they started an argument.
• Invisibility Cloak: Possesses a Cloaking Unit that appears similar to Tex's.
• Ironic Echo: Gives one to Felix, after having a Heel Realization then prompt Heel–Face Turn, thanks to both Santa's Armor Piercing Questions and realizing that Felix has manipulated him.
  Locus: I'm not doing this for a reward. I'm not doing this because someone told me to. I'm doing this for me.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: He doesn't bat an eye when Lopez insults multiple times, but snaps when he word-for-word calls him insane.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Post Heel–Face Turn, he's atoning for his sins and has become genuinely heroic, but that doesn't mean he's any less cold, serious, and caustic.
• Just Following Orders: Seems to have internalized this philosophy as his entire morality. While he doesn't use it as an excuse per se, he does state that is the entire purpose of a soldier, which he insists he is.
• Just Testing You: When Tucker, Freckles and Wash kill Locus's men with ease in Season 11, he says that he only threw his men at him to see if they were "the real deal".
• Karma Houdini: invoked While Locus eventually does change his ways and works towards helping innocent people as much as he can, the mercenary never really suffers any repercussions for his role in the death of many people beyond being humiliated once or twice, with him even getting to keep the Laser Blade that Felix essentially stole from the Chorusans for himself. That being said, Word of God seems to imply that he is truly atoning for his crimes offscreen and that will serve as his appropriate punishment.
• Knight of Cerebus: He's almost never Played for Laughs, and his presence causes the comedic season to become a hell of a lot darker. The attack his men launch on the Blues is shown in a serious light, and he's dangerous enough for Felix to freak out when he sees him. Furthermore, the battle in the canyon in Episode 18 is played completely seriously. Even after his Heel–Face Turn, his very presence makes things more serious, though he serves as The Comically Serious to the Reds and Blues.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • Though he could have easily killed the Blood Gulch Crew during episode 18 of Season 11, as well as episode 18 of season 12, he seems to have decided that it wasn't worth it for one reason or another. In the latter example, the Blood Gulch Crew had already exposed him and Felix to the population of Chorus, so there was little point in continuing the fight when the scheme was already ruined.
  • In Season 13, when the Tartarus is destroyed, he realizes that they've lost and would rather go lick his wounds, but Felix insists they finish things.
• Language Barrier: Averted. Since he's bilingual, he can actually understand Lopez's insults. Turns out to be a Chekhov's Skill in Season 15, as when the other Reds and Blues send Lopez into space to find help. If he'd run into anyone else, they most likely wouldn't understand him, but luckily, Locus finds him and answers the cry for help.
• Laughably Evil: In a sense. While he's actually a legitimately terrifying Knight of Cerebus, he provides the role of an amusing Straight Man to Felix's Psychopathic Manchild antics and is often shoved into the role of The Comically Serious/Only Sane Man.
• Leitmotif: "Soul Clef XI" is one for both him and Felix. He adopts a slightly more upbeat version of the theme in Season 15.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Just like Felix, he is a ruthless mercenary with the blood of thousands on his hands. Unlike Felix, he does not engage in worthless cruelty and has at least some semblance of a conscience. He becomes a full-blown Good Counterpart by the end of Season 13.
• Meaningful Name: Locus takes his name from his armour. Felix explains that after going nuts he no longer recognizes his real name.
  • Although on an ironic level, ''locus'' is the Latin word for place or location. Locus is a Stealth Expert, and is known for using his Active Camouflage to vanish on the spot, making his actual location unknown.
  • On yet another level, the reason Locus goes by the name of his armour type is because his CO told him back in the war that a soldier is nothing more than a suit of armor with a gun and no will of their own. This is the archetype Locus aspires to live by until he finally realises that Felix is using that to manipulate him into being his puppet.
• More Dakka: The first character in Red vs. Blue to wield a SAW.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The fact that it is a SAW helps, but the simple act of reloading after killing three New Republic troopers in the space of five seconds is utterly chilling due to how casual it appears.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: In contrast to Felix, he opts to skip any pretense and just shoot whoever is in his way as soon as possible. Notably, this makes him perhaps the first antagonist in Red vs. Blue to never underestimate the potential threat of the Blood Gulch Crew.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite his criticisms of Felix's tendency to waste time and monologue, he's shown to be obsessed with Washington, trying to lecture him throughout their fight rather than just kill Wash then and there. Then Felix trips him up with some clever word play.
  • Then there's this little exchange from "Locus Of Control":
    Felix: Oh, bullshit! I know what this is about! Why do you know I'm not the true warrior.
    Locus: Because you're you.
    Felix: Yeah, and being me is awesome! [Locus gives him a flat stare] Alright, look, why don't we both go in and let the giant alien thing decide?
    Locus: Fine.
    Felix: Good. Just don't cry to me when you lose.
    Locus: I won't. (Beat) Lose. I-I won't lose.
    Felix: [chuckling] Too late, fucked it up!
• "Not So Different" Remark: How he sees himself and Agent Washington, that is the way Locus envisioned how Washington was during his time as an actual Freelancer agent. Washington doesn't agree.
• Not So Similar: Locus compared himself to the Meta/Agent Maine and believed that they both sought perfection by being the perfect weapon. The Counselor corrects Locus by telling him that while he seeks perfection by being a soldier and following orders, the Meta (or rather, the Meta under Sigma's influence) sought perfection by wanting to be human.
• Not So Stoic: He can emote, but it's scary. For example, when Carolina reveals her infiltration, Locus is pissed.
  Locus: KILL THEM!
  • Later, in Season 13, Episode 7, his experiences in the alien temple's testing realm leave him noticeably shaken.
  • In Season 13, Episode 16, upon discovering that Doyle is about to blow up Armonia's reactor, he loses his usual grim-yet-composed monotone when shouting orders at the crew of the Tartarus.
    Locus: Get us out of here!!
• Oh, Crap!: Shares this reaction with Felix when they find out that Doyle's rigged Armonia's nuclear reactor to explode.
  Pirate: There's a bomb on the reactor!
  Felix: WHAT?!
  Locus: Get us out of here!!
• One-Man Army: In the Battle of the Canyon, he manages to mow down a ton of Republic soldiers, wound and capture Sarge, Donut and Wash, and badly damages Freckles.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted, as there is also another character in the same faction that shares his real name.
• Only Sane Man: Well, when your partner is Felix, it's hard to be anything else.
• Personality Powers: His active camouflage allows him to disappear from view and hide - Locus himself is accused of hiding from his own actions by Washington.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Come Season 12, we learn that part of his status as the Consummate Professional is that he doesn't Kick the Dog any more than he has to—not out of morality, but because it's inefficient to do so. It's why he disengages from the fight at the end of Episode 18.
  • In Season 14, while Felix justifies holding a mob boss's son for ransom as a Pay Evil unto Evil scheme that will come with a hefty paycheck, Locus rationalizes how the plan will result is a positive outcome for the city by limiting the mob boss's resources.
• Psychological Projection: Throughout The Chorus Trilogy, he repeatedly incorrectly assumes whoever he gains an interest in is like him: wanting to be the perfect weapon. To list it off:
  • He immediately assumes Washington (and the Freelancers, but Wash especially) to be similar to himself because the two are skilled soldiers who forsook their original names. Wash, however, is ridden by guilt of his past experiences but strives to redeem himself; whereas Locus ignores his guilt behind the idea that right and wrong don't matter.
  • While discussing it with Aiden Price, Locus reveals a fascination of the Meta (and by extension, Sigma and Maine), who sought perfection. Locus assumed this meant the Meta wanted to become the perfect weapon, but Price corrects him that Sigma sought to become human, not a tool.
  • When the subject changed to Maine, Locus showed disdain for Maine's belief that his orders would help the greater good. However, Price also revealed that Maine felt that if he just followed orders blindly, he would have simply been a slave.
• The Quiet One: He's rather terse, especially compared to his partner. This comes in handy during Season 14, as Locus not saying anything during the call with Ruben hides the fact the there are three bounty hunters from him, with Ruben assuming Siris is Locus.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The no-nonsense, cold Blue Oni to Felix's Red Oni.
• The Rival: To Felix (as they used to be on the same team during The Great War) and possibly Washington. Episode 10 of season 12 reveals that he was working with Felix the whole time. Locus is still obsessed with Washington, though.
• Scary Black Man: As seen in Season 14, he has a fairly dark complexion, though he's actually Hispanic rather than ethnically black/African.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Expresses both this and Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! when he calls out Felix for wanting him to kill the simulation troopers. He's not doing this for the reward (which was pretty much null and void by then), and he wasn't doing it because someone told him to: he was refusing to help Felix for Locus only.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: By his own admission, Locus belongs in a cell for all the people he's killed. However, he would instead make amends for his misdeeds personally.
• Shadow Archetype: Tying into his role as an Evil Counterpart to Washington. And they both seem to know it, and eventually loathe it. In particular, Locus's initial introduction and explanation of his actions triggers a trip down memory lane for Washington to the time when he was part of the Big Bad Duumvirate with the Meta and shot Donut while...Just Following Orders. Their similar color patterns, serious contrast to their main companions, history of working for the same boss, and similar role as The Stoic members of their teams drive Locus to have an obsession with Washington, almost like he's seeking acknowledgement by a Worthy Opponent on how they're similar. But they are. Washington found out that he was doing some very wrong things, and seeks to make up for them. Locus presumably discovered something similar... and he got worse. At least until Episode 19 of Season 13 where it seems Locus is also beginning down the path to becoming The Atoner just like Wash did.
  Washington: I know I used to be a real piece of shit. But at least I'm trying to do something about it!
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: So very much. Particularly in regards to the "the war never ended for him" part. Locus insists that he's still a soldier, and is very quick to insist that he's Just Following Orders, and displays a very fractured mind and PTSD; it's apparent that him choosing to abandon his identity beyond his suit and weapons is some kind of coping mechanism for what he experienced. Felix has taken advantage of this and nudged him away from getting real help, so that he can keep using him as his partner, resulting in the killing machine we have now. He realizes this in Episode 19 of Season 13, and abandons Felix, going off to really help people instead.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Knocks a pilot off his feet with one before he can make the call about the Reds and Blues' crashed ship. His seems to be considerably more accurate than Sarge's. He also uses a silenced shotgun during the club raid in his arc in Season 14.
• Skull for a Head: His helmet in Halo 4 gives this impression.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Intentionally makes himself out to be the "mission comes first" version, but is implied to be just using this as a coping mechanism for his shattered psyche. It's also an Enforced Trope as shown by the nightmare flashback he has in Season 13, as described under Used to Be a Sweet Kid.
• Stalker without a Crush:
  • Intercepting Wash's signal leads him to the teams' makeshift bases, where he watches them for a few episodes.
  • Continues his fixation on Washington after Wash gets captured as seen by Journal Entry 004 on the Rooster Teeth website. Just before getting ready to shoot the Blood Gulch Crew in "Cloak and Dagger," he tells Washington that he was a fascinating soldier.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Very good at this, as shown when he leaves combat in Episode 15.
• The Stoic: Rarely emotes. But when he does, like in Episode 10 of Season 12, it is outright terrifying.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The stoic, professional Straight Man to Felix's cheery, laid-back Wise Guy.
• Strong and Skilled: Unlike Felix, Locus both has the power and the capability to keep up with Super Soldiers like Wash and Carolina.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: The real motivation behind his belief in Just Following Orders. In his mind, he has to keep obeying because admitting he has a choice now would mean admitting he had a choice in all his previous actions.
• Technical Pacifist: Makes a vow to never kill another person, but is still willing to shoot someone as long as they can be shot in a part of the body that they can live without.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Worked very well with Felix during the war, even though they despised each other. Turns out to still be the case.
• That Man Is Dead: Forsook his own name in favor of a codename, much like Washington.
• They Call Him "Sword": Locus is just a nickname, but besides maybe Felix nobody knows what his original name was. Though it later turns out that it's Samuel Ortez.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Locus says he's sworn to never take another life after Chorus (though kneecappings are still an option if need be).
• Tragic Villain: He's a ruthless mercenary, but Locus is a Shell-Shocked Veteran who was left emotionally destroyed by his service, to the point he has no sense of identity outside of his armor. Felix exploited his PTSD and poor mental health to make him his partner, and Locus only goes along with it because he can no longer see himself as anything but a weapon.
• Tranquil Fury: When Lopez accuses him of being insane, Locus gets a little pissed off and refutes the claim angrily without so much as raising his voice, causing the accuser to panic and beg for his life.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Felix. As Santa notes, despite Felix's claims, only Felix needs Locus in order to survive. The reverse it not true at all. Felix manipulated and perpetuated Locus' PTSD in order to keep himself alive. When Locus figures this out, he is not happy.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Extremely downplayed version. It's shown through the flashback in Season 13 that he used to be a far more conscientious soldier, being the reasonable and moral counterpart to the trigger-happy, sociopathic Felix when they both served in the UNSC. Locus is horrified at how he's changed.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • It's subtle, but he does go through one near the end of Season 12. When he first starts fighting Washington, he's cloaked and taking potshots at Wash. But as Wash continues to take apart his Consummate Professional image, he becomes more and more infuriated, to the point that he abandons all choice and just tackles Wash.
  • After his and Felix's scheme is revealed at the end of Season 12, he noticeably stutters when he tells his men to follow protocol. Whether it's due to rage or just being stunned that his plans have failed is unclear.
  • In Episode 19 of Season 13, he has a very impressive one, though not nearly as much as Felix. After failing his mission and told to go after the Reds and Blues by Felix anyway, without being ordered to by a higher power, Locus can't even bring himself to stand up, much less fight, having no idea what to live for. This, with some help, prompts him to change sides, since he realizes he's been doing this for the wrong reasons.
  Santa: [appearing] Why have you come here, meddler?
  Locus: To kill the simulation troopers.
  Santa: Will this secure your victory over their forces?
  Locus: No...
  Santa: Then what purpose will it serve?
  Locus: I don't know...
  Santa: Then why are you trying?
  Locus: I don't know...
  Santa: What do you know?
  Locus: I don't know!
• Villain Protagonist: Technically this in Season 13 as while Epsilon gets most of the focus, Locus himself also has a large amount of focus in the plot and Character Development.
• We Used to Be Friends: Or at least allies with Felix. Although Season 13 shows that they have some form of camaraderie however, and they even joke around like it to a degree, but it's more of Pragmatic Villainy than actually caring.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After taking Washington to the hospital in Season 15, he tries to contact the Reds and Blues in Season 16, only for Grif to make an effort to ignore it, leaving his whereabouts and actions unknown.
• What Have I Become?: When he goes into the gateway, he sees himself becoming what he is now, and is horrified. This eventually causes him to pull a Heel–Face Turn at the last minute.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: A firm believer in the principle that if you have to kill someone, it's counterproductive to engage in Bond Villain Stupidity.
• You're Insane!: He makes it very clear that he isn't, and accusing him of being crazy results in Tranquil Fury.

Flame Soldier / Sharkface

"Sharkface"

"You're very efficient at administering pain, Carolina, but pain is something I've learned to live with."

^{Click here to see Sharkface without his helmet}

"See, those super-soldier freaks dropped a building on me. They left me for dead, and then they killed my friends. They took away the only family I ever had while I was in physical fucking therapy. There's plenty of need for hostility here, Counselor."

Voiced By: David Jennison

A vengeance-seeking red and black mercenary and one of the three leaders of the Space Pirates, in the service of the Chairman after he was rescued from the Tartarus. He serves as one the primary antagonists of The Chorus Trilogy, and the most proactive one in Season 13.

He first appeared as one of the Insurrectionist's Elite Mooks wielding a flamethrower in Season 9, fighting Wash and Carolina in Episode 15, and getting defeated when Carolina drops a Gravity Hammer on him. He survives the battle and ends up imprisoned by the UNSC in the prison ship, the Tartarus at the start of Season 13. He joins Locus and Felix to fight for Charon Industries so that he can get revenge against the Freelancers. He is eventually gunned down by Wash and Kimball after fighting Carolina in Armonia during Episode 16, sealing his fate for good as his body is caught in the explosion of Armonia's reactor.

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Associated Tropes:

• Alas, Poor Villain: Played With. While his ultimate death is unceremonious, he is portrayed as a man who is consumed by revenge above all else to avenge his fallen True Companions. Wash and Kimball don't bat an eye before mowing him down, her failure to get through to him drives Carolina's motivation to let Temple live in season 15.
• All There in the Manual: His real name was made up in a livestream (Terrence Ephemera Sharkface), and never said in the show. It's unknown if it's even canon as it was kind of a joke.
• Animal Motifs: His is a shark, ironically enough. His helmet visor is painted with a shark's mouth akin to old-school nose art, and a tattoo of a shark jaw on his chest.
  • He also has a large tattoo of a shark Wreathed in Flames on his back.
• Armor Is Useless: Averted; his armor was bulletproof and undoubtedly a major factor in him surviving past his initial debut. His new armor provided by Charon on the other hand plays this trope straight.
• Ascended Extra: Goes from a minor Elite Mook in Season 9 to a major antagonist in Season 13.
• Atrocious Alias: He actually calls himself "Sharkface", in which Felix makes fun of.
• Bilingual Bonus: One of his tattoos is an excerpt from The Art of War.
• Black Eyes of Evil: His left eye is pitch black. Whether it's naturally like this or the result of the damage of being hit with a Gravity Hammer to the face is unknown.
• Boom, Headshot!: Granted, it's not with a gun, but he still gets a Gravity Hammer to the face.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's not above using tricks to get the edge on his opponents.
• Cyborg/Dented Iron: In Season 13, Epsilon remarks that his body is "a pincushion," filled with mostly plates and staples, and after a bio-scan, sees "no weak points, only reinforcements."
• Deader than Dead: To make sure his death sticks, Doyle makes the nuclear reactor of Armonia explode, destroying the base and taking Sharkface's body with it.
• Defiant to the End: He's offered a chance to surrender peacefully at the end of his last fight, but he just goes on a rant about how he'll hunt them down and kill them all so long as he's alive. Naturally, it becomes blindly apparent why leaving him alive is a bad idea.
  Sharkface: Over? No. You can break me, burn me, bury me alive; but as long as I'm still breathing it will never be over. I will hunt you. I will burn you! As long as I'm alive, you're all as good as dead! (Wash and Kimball look to each other, then shoot him dead)
• Disability Superpower: After surviving having a skyscraper dropped on him, his body is now all plates and staples, but while it's relatively easy to knock him down, all the medical treatments have made it very difficult to knock him down to the point where he won't get up again. He's also pretty much immune to pain because he's in constant pain anyway so he'll just soak it up, and even dislocating his shoulder won't stop him. He'll just pop it back in and shrug it off.
  Sharkface: You're very efficient at administering pain, Carolina, but pain is something I've learned to live with.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: invoked After being one of the main threats of Season 13, he is quickly shot to death by Wash and Kimball in Episode 16. Word of God said this was intentional so as to represent how Sharkface's vengeful quest had corrupted him so bad to the point where his ultimate death was intentionally unceremonious.
• Dual Wielding: With a pair of wrist-mounted flamethrowers in Season 13.
• Elite Mook: Like all the red-armored ODST troopers. He's this again in Season 13, where he's given more equipment and is more dangerous than the generic mook and practically at Felix and Locus' threat level, but is shown to be taking orders from them, and is kept out of the loop of many things.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Or at least friends that are like family. Then they all die while he's recovering from having a building collapse around him.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As revenge obsessed and homicidal Sharkface may be, he's noticably offput with just how incredibly condescending Felix is on the field.
• Evil Gloating: As he stumbles towards Carolina in his final moments, injured and clearly defeated, he uses his last words not to beg for his life or forgiveness, but to threaten her and Wash, telling them that as long as he's alive, he'll continue to hunt them down. It's what ends up getting him killed.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Unsurprising given his size, but his voice in season 13 is very deep.
• Eye Scream: It's never directly stated why he has a literal black eye but it seems to be because he took a Gravity Hammer to the face during Season 9.
• The Faceless: In Season 9. Season 13 shows what he looks like beneath his helmet.
• Fatal Flaw: Vengeance. He's allowed himself to be so consumed by it that it blinds him by the end of his and Carolina's final fight and he is killed after his hate-filled rant.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: His initial weapon is a M7057 Flamethrower that he can utilize with enough proficiency to prematurely detonate grenades in mid-air. He installs two miniature flamethrowers into his suit as shown in his fight with Carolina.
• Giant Mook: He seems to be the largest of the Insurrection's and the Space Pirates Elite Mooks.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He's revealed to have several burn scars, with most of the left side of his face covered by a burn scar that looks vaguely like a shark's "smile".
• Hidden Depths: Much like the Insurrection Leader/"C.T.", we discover in Season 13 that Sharkface is more than just a Faceless Mook. The rest of that Quirky Miniboss Squad was the only family he ever had, and he didn't take it well when the Freelancers killed them all after they'd nearly done the same to him. Now he's dying to get even with any remaining members of Project Freelancer.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While complicit in Charon's plans, Sharkface isn't actually shown to kill anyone, unlike Locus or Felix are shown doing repeatedly. Similarly, he's given a sympathetic light and is shown to be another victim who simply wants to avenge his True Companions. Unfortunately, he ends up dying because of his Revenge Before Reason attitude.
• Mad Artist: With his tattoos, exotic hairstyle, use of war paint, and his armor and weapon designs, he definitely gives off this impression. It even comes through in his dialogue.
  Sharkface: You can't. Rush. Art. Counselor.
• Made of Iron:
  • In Season 9, he takes handgun and battle rifle fire like it's nothing, and it takes a Banshee launched by a grenade to the face just to stun him. He also survived a Gravity Hammer to the face.
  • In Season 13, this is one of the ways he, a mere Elite Mook, is able to pose a major threat to Carolina, one of the greatest fighters in the series. Even with her leg injury, she's clearly the superior hand-to-hand fighter, but Sharkface absolutely will not go down no matter how many hits he takes, due to having learned to become accustomed to pain after all his injuries.
• Major Injury Underreaction: He doesn't even react to a dislocated shoulder, he just calmly-and audibly-puts it back in its socket.
• Misplaced Retribution: In a sense. Washington and Carolina are only responsible for engaging in a fight that takes him out and possibly ruining his left side of his face and eye, but the building dropping on him and his True Companions dying are all a result of the Director, Maine, North, Texas and Florida. Seeing how they're all dead by the time he gets reintroduced, they may just be the closest thing to let his rage out on.
• Moral Myopia: He has a legitiment greivance with Freelancer depriving him of his found family, but is willing to side with people who are much worse to get a chance at revenge.
• Noodle Incident: How he ended up being arrested before the start of Season 13 is unexplained, as no other member of the Insurrection seems to be imprisoned or onboard beyond him, and unlike the Counselor presumably being arrested after the take down of the Project, there was no indication that he would be arrested in the seasons prior.
• Not Quite Dead: After his bout with Agents Washington and Carolina, he is assumed to be dead, but it turns out he is alive and has been imprisoned by the UNSC.
• Phrase Catcher: "What the fuck is with this guy?!"
• Pyromaniac: Wields a flamethrower and is covered in burns, including half his face being burned off.
• Revenge Before Reason: He was so focused on and blinded by his revenge that it consumed his judgement, resulting in him being shot down in the street.
• Revenge by Proxy: While they did fend him off, neither Carolina or Washington actually caused the building to be dropped on him or kill any of his friends. But they're the last connections to Freelancer that he knows of and that's good enough for him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His motivation for hunting down Washington and Carolina are for killing all of his friends, the only family he's ever known, as well as blowing up a building on him and leaving him for dead. Ironically, the worst that Wash and Carolina actually did to him was to fend him off in Season 9, and everything else was done by other people.
• Shadow Archetype:
  • To Carolina: both are intense and angry examples of Dented Iron (Carolina has an overworked AI unit with armor enhancements and a bad leg wound, Sharkface has numerous injuries repaired and reinforced like a Cyborg) and both are suffering from Survivor's Guilt from their respective groups.
  • To Washington: Both had been deeply affected by the actions of Project Freelancer and ended up being bitter afterwards, seeking revenge against those that wronged them. However, while Washington was able to let go of his hate, Sharkface is incapable of coming to the same conclusion and dies for it.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite seemingly no smarter than your average criminal by appearance alone, Sharkface is rather smart in using both his gear and his surroundings to his advantage, it catches both Carolina and Epsilon off guard their first encounter with him.
• Sole Survivor: Of the insurrection, thanks to Project Freelancer.
• Strong and Skilled: He's plenty durable by virtue of his armor, and then later by virtue of being practically immune to pain. He's also skilled enough to even odds between him and Carolina despite Carolina being more skilled than him by simply not going down and using his environment to his advantage.
• Suddenly Voiced: In season 9, he has no lines. In season 13, he suddenly has a lot to say.
• Tattooed Crook: As seen in the first episode of Season 13, he has several tattoos. He's also in prison.
• Threatening Shark: His Animal Motif. In addition to the shark-face Nose Art on his helmet visor (in Season 9) and assault rifle (in Season 13), he has a tattoo of a flaming shark, gill-like scars on the left side of his face, and a solid black eye.
• Too Dumb to Live: Regardless of how determined he was on his quest of revenge, swearing to hunt down the people who have you at gun point and are telling you to surrender is a pretty good way to get yourself killed.
• Took a Level in Badass: Though already a badass soldier, in Season 13 he has a rematch with Carolina, who now has Epsilon and several armor enhancements to help her, and wins, mostly likely due to the fact that Church is starting to wear down to the point of shutting down during the fight.
• Tragic Villain: At the end of the day, he is a man who lost his Family of Choice while he was recovering from his catastrophic injuries, and wants nothing more than to avenge them. Though the means of which he's willing to do it means that he'll side with people far worse than the agents that hurt him.
• Two-Faced: The left side of his face is burned in a manner that makes him look almost shark-like.
• Undignified Death: There's not much dignity to be found in being beaten and ranting in the street before being put down like a mad dog.
• Walking Spoiler: Being a major antagonist of Season 13, mentions of him spoils the reveal that he survived the events of Season 9.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: He's treated as a disposable Elite Mook by both Felix and Charon as a whole, but he is portrayed as a man who lost everything to Freelancer, and is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge. Realizing this is what drives Carolina to try and apologize for her past actions due to her and her comrades having the same mentality at the time.

Zachary Miller

Zachary Miller

Voiced By: Josh Flanagan

A Space Pirate captured by the Reds and Blues.

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• Cold-Blooded Torture: Dr. Grey inflicts this on him as revenge for having helped murder her colleagues.
  Carolina: Is he in the position to answer anymore questions?
  Dr. Grey Sure! (Quietly) Just let me put him back together again…
• Jerkass: He's a smug bastard who takes every opportunity to taunt the Reds and Blues, and casually admits he's happy to participate in genocide so long as it means he gets his paycheck.
• Mauve Shirt: He's given just enough time to develop a personality and establish his character before he's killed.
• Smug Snake: He's very smug and constantly taunts his captors, though this lessens slightly after Dr. Grey is done with him.
• You Have Failed Me: He's gunned down for giving information to Carolina and Washington when they interrogate him.

Others

Sherry, Darryl, and Terrill

L-R: Darryl, Sherry, Terrill

Sherry voiced by: Kat Ramzinski

Darryl voiced by: Aaron Alexander

Terrill voiced by: Bill Wise

Three ex-soldiers of Charon Industries who were abandoned at a base in the middle of a frozen wasteland.

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As a group

• Insistent Terminology: As Sherry keeps reminding her colleagues, they're ex-Charon Industries since they were abandoned to die.
• Mirroring Factions: As with the Triplets, they're one to the Blood Gulch Crew (Red Team in particular). If the Reds and Blues can be considered the best of the worst of what Freelancer had to offer, these three soldiers are the worst of the best that Charon has to offer. Amazingly, even the Blood Gulch Crew are implied to be more competent than they are.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: According to Sherry, the only reason why they weren't executed is because their incompetence would have been contagious to the person who'd have to dispose of their bodies afterward. As such, they were abandoned to die on an unknown frozen planet with nothing but a base full of booze to keep them company... well, at least until the Triplets were left there too.
• Shout-Out: Their introductions are a reference to Newhart, where one character introduces himself as Larry and his brothers as Darryl and Darryl.
• Single-Biome Planet: They were abandoned on a frozen ice world. Most fans seem to believe that they were abandoned on Sidewinder (though there's no real evidence for/against this in the series).
• Small Role, Big Impact: They only appeared in a single episode of Season 14, but they and the Triplets seem to have been the main inspiration for the Red Team vs. Blue Team simulation conflict that Project Freelancer concocted to help test their agents.
• Token Good Teammate: A collective case for Charon Industries. They're the only soldiers in their employ to have never done terrible things (at least from what we can see) and were only abandoned to die due to their incompetence.
• True Companions: Just like the Triplets.
• Uncertain Doom: There hasn't been any proof that they're dead in the present day, though they'd have to beat pretty unfavorable odds to survive (they're on an irrelevant and slightly hostile planet with presumably scarce resources and another group of soldiers wanting their blood to boot).

Sherry

• Deadpan Snarker: As reflecting her status as the Only Sane Man.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: As she tells Ohio, she really wants a chance to prove herself and have an actual purpose.
• Gaydar: Sherry has the ability to read people's body language to absurd specificity. When meeting the "Triplets", one of the things she picks up on is that Ohio is a lesbian. Mind, they're all in full body armor, and this is while they're far apart enough that they have to yell back and forth to communicate.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not as noticeable as Ohio's, but she does care about her soldiers/friends just as much as Ohio cares about Iowa and Idaho.
• Mirror Character: Sherry and Ohio, who are from opposing factions, are both de facto leaders of a trio of "worst soldiers" and realize that they're both looking for a purpose in life.
• Only Sane Man: Sherry is the only one of the three Charon soldiers to realize that their "assignment" is nothing more than a glorified death sentence.
• Sherlock Scan: She can tell a lot about a person from their body language.
  "Yeah, it's a fun party trick! Only thing I'm good at!"
• Straight Gay: As confirmed by the episode writer.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Sherry calls out Ohio for shooting her in the foot to give them all a purpose in life.

Darryl and Terrill

• Epic Fail: Terrill once accidentally detonated a base trying to heat up a cup of coffee.
  Terrill: Who puts the "fire all the missiles" button right next to the microwave?!
• Lazy Bum: Downplayed, but Darryl is more of this than Terrill, with him being the happier of the two concerning their base being only stocked with White Russians (the drink, not the type of person).
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Downplayed, but Terrill is easily the more eager out of the two to earn Sherry's (non-existent) respect and even tries to make her feel better after having accidentally insulted her.
• Shipper on Deck: Terrill cheerily suggests that Sherry and Ohio could date, and seems pretty keen on the idea as the episode goes on.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Heavily downplayed, but they share the Heterosexual Life-Partners dynamic seen with Grif and Simmons, with Terrill being more of a Professional Butt-Kisser towards Sherry like Simmons towards Sarge, and Darryl being a Lazy Bum akin to Grif.

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