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This page is for the YMMV tropes of Ruby vs. Bluish.

Arc-Specific

  • Red vs. Blueish: The Claret Gulch Chronicles: Seasons one-v plus "Out of Mind"
  • Red vs. Bluish: The Recollection: Seasons 6-8 plus "Recovery One" and "Relocated"
  • Crimson vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga: Seasons ix-ten
  • Carmine vs. Blueish: The Chorus Trilogy: Seasons 11-13
  • Reddish vs. Blueish: Season 14: Season 14
  • Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy: Flavour xv-17
  • Ruby-red vs. Blue: Zero
  • Adequate Targets: Don't wait the armed services to come across well in this web series, peculiarly given that Armed Farces is one of the master sources of comedy.
  • Adorkable:
    • He's very proficient at hiding information technology most of the time, simply Church tin can be a massive dork. Easily the most noteworthy instance of this is Epsilon-Church's Squeeing in the "MIA" miniseries when he gets an annoyed Tucker to say that Information technology'due south Quiet… Besides Quiet.
    • Carolina occasionally gets a chance to display an endearingly dorky side.
      • When she tries to loosen up in Season 13's "Forth Came A Spider," and fails miserably.

        Church building: (after Tucker'south filled up their Warthogs with gasoline) Oh, that was fast. You filled upwards our car too?
        Tucker: Yeah, I gave it to both of them. Bow-chicka bow-
        Carolina: (at the aforementioned time as Tucker) Bow-chika-bow... what? That's the joke, correct?
        Tucker: Did she just say my matter?!
        Caboose: Um, no Tucker. It'southward "Hey chicka bum bum." Bad-mannered.
        Carolina: (to Church building) You said to loosen up!
        Church: Just a little...too loose. Just... tighten it back up a little there.
        Tucker: (off-screen) I feel violated!

      • Comes dorsum in "Previously On" during Season 15. In a catamenia of time that included Caboose getting trapped in the Upside-Downwards, an ground forces of evil robots attacking dinosaurs, the rest of the Reds and Blues constructing a h2o park (and Donut then burning it downwardly), and Sarge'due south "War on Gravity" among other shenanigans, Carolina thought that Wash growing a beard and Grif disarming Simmons that Game of Thrones really happened were the about noteworthy things to happen since they arrived. Additionally, she joined a band with Tucker, Grif, and Caboose, and did it just to lookout man them squirm at her atrocious singing voice. She also wanted Grif to teach her how to get "the best at being lazy."
    • The way Felix makes a joke nigh armor to Wash. Before Launder fifty-fifty reacts to said joke, Felix just apologizes and sheepishly says he was merely trying to lighten the mood. The style he shows off his lite shield likewise fits neatly under this, along with him sticking his natural language out at Tucker while wearing his helmet and then awkwardly telling Tucker to shut up when the latter points this out to him. This drops quickly one time he turns out to be Evil All Forth, however, suggesting it to be function of his facade. Information technology was likely an Invoked Trope, to make himself appear less threatening. Later scenes imply that those previous moments were ultimately just extensions of his actual Psychopathic Manchild personality.
    • Jax is an excitable movie nerd, and really wants to use cinematographic shots to tell the story. Not to mention, he gets depressed easily. Even Dylan feels she should be nicer to him after pain his feelings when she yelled at him.
  • Alternating Character Interpretation:
    • Church gets this on several levels.
      • How does he really experience about his teammates? Despite his repeated declarations of hatred towards all of the Blood Gulch Crew, he does seem to care almost Donut and the other Dejection at to the lowest degree a piffling fleck. Notably, when Caboose gets shot twice in Flavour five, he lets out two anguished Large Nos, and he seemed to despise him the almost.
      • Did Alpha-Church building really die not believing himself to be an A.I.? Possibly, or it's possible that he knew information technology to be true, but was simply in denial. Or peradventure he fully realized this, and his concluding words were simply an endeavor to calm himself downward before pulling off a Heroic Cede, or fifty-fifty just a grim joke?
      • While this is something of an existential question, how much does Epsilon take to do with Church's previous incarnation as the Alpha? Is he a legitimate reincarnation, or is he just someone who started to strongly resemble Church afterward letting some of his memories sink in?
    • Surprisingly enough, Donut gets some of this. How many of his Double Entendres are Innocent Innuendo, and how many are him Trolling his teammates? Additionally, a lot of his seemingly ditzy comments can come up across as him playing pranks on his friends, such equally him cheerfully volunteering Simmons to become Red Team's Cyborg in Flavor two.
    • Is Caboose the way he is because he was born with some sort of Ambiguous Disorder, or because he's received brain harm after arriving in Claret Gulch annotation Some examples include his life support turning off when he was critically injured which prevented oxygen from reaching his brain and when continuously kept drinking gasoline all the way upward till The Chorus Trilogy because the other blues tricked him into thinking information technology was lemonade? Or did he start off with a disorder and the brain impairment happened to increase his stupidity.
    • Are Felix and Locus simply regular UNSC recruits who were skilful plenty to become "space-marine" armor like Carolina and Wash or are they actual Spartan Ii'due south? This would hateful that they were abducted every bit children from families they'll never know, and horribly brainwashed and experimented on to be the perfect super soldiers. The just evidence confronting this is that Felix has a regular-sounding name, merely Spartans were infamous in canon for their sociopathic and anti-social tendencies, which describe the duo fairly well. It would also explain their demonstrated inability to accommodate to civilian life, Felix's conviction in being able to beat all the Reds and Blues and Agent Carolina, and color his comments about beingness "stronger and faster than you" in a whole new low-cal. While this would not justify their crimes, it would make them effective dark foils to Master Chief, showing what he could take get if he never learned responsibility or compassion on the battlefield.
  • Americans Hate Tingle: The series has had a noticeably difficult time breaking into Asian markets. Japanese audiences in particular accept been slow to accept Grif, as his laziness and irreverence for authorization is very much out of sync with modernistic widespread Japanese culture.
  • Applicability: The PSA "Snowed In" was written several months before being released and handles the topic of dealing with a blizzard and the resulting need for supplies and cabin fever. Many however note that a lot of the communication given could easily be practical to the COVID-19 pandemic plaguing the earth at the time of the PSA's release.
  • Annal Panic: Every episode - plus the miniseries and many of the PSAs - is available on Rooster Teeth's website and the series' own YouTube aqueduct! Of course it's over 300 episodes, resulting in at least 1 whole twenty-four hours of footage, so binging all at in one case is not recommended.
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Vic's quirky and bizarre nature makes viewers detect him either utterly hilarious or unbearably abrasive.
    • Agent Carolina. One sides sympathizes with her, pointing how she was the victim of the Director's manipulations likewise equally betrayal past her teammates. They as well appreciate her relationship with York and were saddened that they were never able to get together. The other side hates her for being a Jerkass in the nowadays day to the Reds and Blues and blames her for everything that went wrong with Project Freelancer, even though all of it wasn't her error. The afterward seasons accept made her much more well-loved, nevertheless, as she Took a Level in Kindness, seeing the Blood Gulch Coiffure as her new family unit, and outright fears them dying (and even saw them die in Santa's vision). And in Flavor 15, she seems to have become simply as crazy as the rest of the crew.
    • Jax Jonez in Flavour 15, with fans existence carve up over him beingness either an Adorkably kooky and hilarious film geek, or an annoying Tagalong Child who often unnecessarily took the air out of dramatic scenes with obscure movie references. That existence said, he was significantly improve-liked in The Shisno Paradox when he became a Prima Donna Manager with a Hair-Trigger Temper and a streak of Comedic Sociopathy a mile wide, to the point where he's seen as one of the meliorate parts of Season 16.
  • Better Than Catechism: Many fans consider the increasingly night and intricate plots to be better than those of Halo.
  • Cleaved Base:
    • The Season 13 PSA nigh trigger warnings resulted in a pretty instant, pretty messy split betwixt iii camps: Those who felt the episode was hilarious for lampooning the Political Correctness Gone Mad tendencies of some trigger alarm users (Too as pointing out how these people go far hard to accept real triggers seriously thanks to their overusage of them for mundane things), those who don't discover the jokes funny due to the reason backside trigger warnings in the commencement identify note to give a heads up to PTSD-sufferers nigh content that might induce an episode, and those who didn't care either mode for the episode, but institute it in poor sense of taste to release something so controversial despite knowing and lampshading the backfire it would cause, given RT'southward own very anti-politics-on-site nature. Then at that place'southward the smaller camp who establish the intense reactions from both sides ridiculously over sensitive or hypocritical, regardless of if they themselves liked or disliked the video and regardless of their own opinion on trigger warnings.
    • When the series should have ended, and if information technology should've concluded at all. Some say it should've ended at Flavor 5, since it gives a sincerely sad ending to a hilarious series well-nigh how pointless everything was. Others say Season ten, with the lore and formula having been deconstructed and reconstructed, backstory having been explained, and characters having been pushed to their limits. Still others say Season thirteen, with The Chorus Trilogy giving fresh air to the franchise, proving it tin work in an overall new setting, and ending with the decease of what is essentially the show's main graphic symbol. Season 14 was controversial in and of itself, merely some say Vic'south cheerio speech would've been an acceptable ending. And of course, others are happy that the series is withal ongoing.
      • The biggest split thus far has been between those who like the series for the military-themed dialogue-focused comedy of the Blood Gulch Chronicles (particularly Seasons four and five) versus those who adopt the action-thriller direction and deeper plot that Season 6 and across take adopted.
    • For Seasons 15-17, was Joe Nicolosi doing a practiced job as showrunner, or did he derail the characters and were the meta one-act and unusual plot choices he'd added in harmful? And related to the in a higher place, the dissers of Nicolosi'south seasons are ofttimes those who preferred the plot-heavier seasons when the show was leaning back towards the comedy during that point in time.
    • Whether or not Donut should've stayed dead after Wash "killed" him in Season vii. While in that location's a full general consensus that Donut is all the same hilarious and it's overall nice to have him as function of the Blood Gulch Coiffure, some have complained that the irritating trend of fans almost never taking characters' deaths at face value in this series wouldn't have become equally almost apparent if Donut had but stayed dead the first time around. Naturally, others disagree on this.
    • Related to the above is the short story "Washed Hands" from Red Vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide, which details how Wash was recruited into Project Freelancer by the Advisor. On the i hand, many fans liked the story and institute it to exist an interesting bit of Worldbuilding by showing some more than backstory to the development of Project Freelancer. On the other hand, lots of other fans disliked the story, complaining that it was a pointless Retcon of Launder'southward previously Adorkable personality during the flashback sections of The Project Freelancer Saga since it revealed that he was a coldly methodical revenge-planner since childhood. And of class, in that location's lots of other fans in-between.
  • Complete Monster: Sigma, Malcolm Hargrove, Felix, Genkins, and Nothing (meet Aught binder above)
  • Contested Sequel: Following Season 13, the side by side iii seasons have unfortunately adult this reputation, though for varying reasons: Flavour 14 dropped continuing the plot in lieu of exploring other stories through an anthology, Season 15 was criticized for wasted potential and such, and Flavor sixteen got a controversial reception for going on a far Denser and Wackier route than any of the prior seasons. Season 17 seems to have avoided this for the most part due to a mix of meliorate pacing in its narrative and Grapheme Rerailment (amidst other factors). But then Season 18 once again split the fans, some liking the non-stop barrage of flashy fights and chases, and others criticizing the writing, with rushed plotting and characterization while lacking on the comedy that always drove the serial.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Lots of the sense of humour in this series darts beyond the line so many times that one tin't keep track, what with moments like Private Jimmy'southward expiry at the easily of Tex, Freelancer Command having "Ctrl+F+U" as a keyboard shortcut for Caboose'south teamkills, the numerous injuries poor Maine suffers through during the highway fight, the Reds and Blues completely forgetting that Doc had been sucked away into the Hereafter Cubes for several months, the interviews conducted for finding the "right" Red Team Sargent and Tucker-analogues, Sarge's rant almost the "Whites", Grif immediately trying to kill himself when he learns that pizza's been erased from history (The Shisno Paradox), and Wash shooting Donut existence repeated advertizing nauseam to point of becoming a hysterical Running Gag (Singularity) all beingness the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
  • Cry for the Devil:
    • For all the Director's horrific war crimes, ruthless manipulation, large-scale Mind Rape, and sheer callousness towards anybody, his love for Allison is his one genuinely sympathetic quality that reminds the audience that he was in one case an actually decent human beingness. In the Season 10 finale, his breakdown into a hopeless and broken shell of a man is one of the saddest moments out of the entire series.
    • Despite his years of killing and ruthless pragmatism, Locus is a troubled soldier still suffering from PTSD later on the Human-Covenant War, having been essentially bullied into becoming a soulless killing machine by his own commander and Felix.
  • Ensemble Dark Equus caballus: Quite a few, equally to be expected of a series that's been running since 2003.
    • Caboose was originally written to just serve as a catalyst for annoying Church. One time he was devolved into condign a Cloudcuckoolander Ditz, he became hands the most pop character out of the unabridged series, peculiarly due to him beingness both a Fountain of Memes and having some of the funniest dialogue in the prove.
    • Lopez, amid the original Blood Gulch Coiffure, who serves both as the Beleaguered Assistant and Only Sane Man of the Red Squad. The Ensemble Cast is such that all of them could be considered main characters...save everyone'south favorite Castilian-speaking robotic marine/mechanic. The sheer oddness of him as a concept, combined with his extremely sarcastic and hilariously fatalist mindset, provide some of the all-time jokes out of all the seasons.
    • Captain Butch Flowers was originally just a i shot character who dies later on getting an aspirin shot, earlier actualization over again as a minor (listen controlled) villain, and then again in a flashback sequence, where it'south revealed he was a Freelancer specifically sent to guard Alpha and keep him a hush-hush. Fans liked him even more afterward Season 14 showed him to be a hilariously nighttime sociopath who remains unfailingly polite and cheerful even when orchestrating the events of The Blood Gulch Chronicles and having his subordinates callously murdered when they're of no more use to him.
    • Agent York and his A.I partner Delta, first introduced in the "Out of Heed" miniseries. York's grumpy if affable charm and Delta's general intelligence and Not So Above It All moments made them really stand out in a serial that at the time was starved for competent characters. Despite the fact that both were killed off by the end of a miniseries that only lasted fifteen minutes, the writers seemed to agree, as Delta was brought back every risk they got and given a significant amount of speaking lines in near seasons after, and York received a prominent office with enough of screentime in the prequels.
    • Kaikaina Grif/"Sis" and Junior, Grif's younger sister and Tucker's son respectively. They were introduced in the late first of Flavour 5 and didn't get much screentime or a lot to do by the writers, despite their potential to shake up the group dynamic. They were promptly Put on a Double-decker for the longest time, furthering the sentiment every bit both were presumed dead for years. However, they were both confirmed to be alive in the finale of Season 13, which helped spark promise for them returning subsequently. Rooster Teeth even acknowledged how fans liked them in a deleted scene for Season 9. Fans beloved them both, but for rather (obviously) different reasons: Sister's beloved for not but existence surprisingly friendly deep-downwards, but for being Grif'southward Morality Pet, endearingly ditzy, and having dialogue that constantly Crosses the Line Twice. Meanwhile, Junior's well liked for being surprisingly cute, helping evidence Tucker'due south softer side, and for introducing numerous storylines related to the Covenant (who don't really appear that much in Cerise vs. Blueish). Somewhen, Sister did render for two episodes in Season 15, and was promoted back to a primary graphic symbol on Seasons sixteen & 17.
    • C.T., both the original and her successor had a comparatively small amount of scenes in the prequels, just when the extent of their tragic relationship was revealed that concluded with ane hell of a beautiful dear ballad, it surprised and saddened many that didn't think the show could be and so warm and emotional.
    • More or less every soldier with a name in both the New Republic and Federal Regular army of Chorus, and even some unnamed ones such as the medic daughter who occasionally spoke. In particular, the unabridged rookie squad, and of those, Katie Jensen received the near attention for her Adorkable qualities and hilariously incompetent driving. The other standout is Dr. Emily Grey, whose bubbly personality and utterly psychotic madness was dear past the fanbase, even among those that didn't like the rest of the Chorus bandage.
      • Speaking of The Chorus Trilogy, the same story arc too gave u.s.a. Freckles, Caboose'south new pet in the class of a military-grade MANTIS. Freckles became a near-instant fan favorite, combining an absurdly violent weapon with a hilariously deadpan delivery. Many fans considered him to be a plumbing fixtures replacement for the gap in the Blue Squad dynamic that Sheila left vacant.
    • Season 15 gave usa Biff, the Dejection and Reds' Grif analogue, largely due to existence a genuine Nice Guy (much like Agent York) with an adorable romance with a girl he met in high school and positive friendship with Temple. He too had a surprisingly badass moment where, despite having merely witnessed Carolina brutally accept down his teammates, refused to back down and kept fighting. It makes his Barbarous and Unusual Death all the more heartbreaking. Additionally, Loco likewise became easily the about pop of the Blues and Reds, in large part thanks to existence an Adorkable Cloudcuckoolander just similar his counterpart Caboose, being subject to a lot of Kick the Dog moments courtesy of Temple, and him turning out to exist the Token Good Teammate of the nowadays-day Blues and Reds that ultimately gives Caboose an opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend. And finally, there'south Frank, Dylan Andrews' original photographic camera man and who but appeared in the starting time episode of the season, but still proved to be popular with the fans due to his quick wit and Sour Supporter demeanor towards Dylan.
    • Huggins, who for beingness chipper and winning over the usually abrasive Grif, became very well-liked by viewers, even among those who weren't that favorable of Season xvi. What certainly helped was her eagerness in getting the flavour'south plot moving along with still showing a darker side at times. Suffice to say, many fans were overjoyed to see her come dorsum in Flavor 17 and her to prove fifty-fifty more of a short temper than she did before.
  • Epileptic Trees: Some of which have even come true.
  • Fanfic Fuel:
    • Project Freelancer has inspired numerous pieces of fanfiction based on it, the questionable experiments it performed off-screen, and its various agents that all existed before the serial occurred. What certainly helps is that only a handful out of the originally 50 agents were seen in The Project Freelancer Saga, and even then their observed missions were merely a few out of the endless assignments they went on in actual canon.
    • Actually, the series has numerous moments in its timeline that are ripe for further expansion by enterprising fanfiction authors. Merely a few examples are the casts' lives prior to being inducted into Project Freelancer, Tucker'due south training on Sangheilos betwixt Seasons 5 and 7 followed past his fourth dimension as an ambassador, life on Chorus both prior to the Ceremonious War and after the events of The Chorus Trilogy, the mercenary exploits of Locus, Felix, and Sirus, and the lives of the Cosmic Powers amidst many more.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • "The Claret Gulch Crew" for the Reds and Blues that originated from Claret Gulch'south teams forth with their associated Freelancers and A.I.southward (i.east., Tex, Wash, Epsilon, and Carolina).
    • The Mysterious Bluish Guy was the most widely accepted nickname for the bluish-armoured Freelancer of unknown identity in the prequel sections, who turns out to be Agent Florida, better known as Helm Flowers.
    • All the Insurrectionists/Resistance members accept a couple, considering that they have No Name Given status.
      • The Insurrectionist Flame Soldier is often called "Sharkface", due to his helmet. Gained official status in Season 13.
      • "Girlie" has many, including "Heartbreaker" and "Hot Lips", both due to her lipmark insignia.
      • "Pillman" is the most common for the Insurrectionist Leader, due to the insignia on his ODST armor.
    • Felix from Season 11 was named "Sunkist Mcscouty" or "Pumpkin Patrol" due to his Picket helmet and orangish striped armour. After his proper noun was revealed, "Felix McScouty" is the mostly agreed upon nickname.
    • Subsequently her mention in the preview synopsis for Flavour 15 but before her proper name was revealed, fans were taken to referring to Dylan Andrews every bit "Reporter Lady."
    • Spencer Porkensenson is known by some as "Unicorn" or "Rhino" due to his FOTUS helmet. After Episode 3 of Season 15 was released, "Goodbye" besides started to choice up steam. More formally, he tended to be called "FOTUS Soldier" on wikis before his real name was revealed.
    • Atlus'due south trickster son Genkins was first known as "Greenish Golfer Dude" after his opening scene.
    • Afterward Huggins' darker side was starting time shown in "It Merely Blinked At Me", several fans started to call her "Scary Tinkerbell."
    • Phase was nicknamed "Knife Wife" as soon as clips of her knife fighting skills appeared. There'south fifty-fifty a shirt with it!
  • Fanon: Co-ordinate to an inordinate number of fans...
    • Wash and C.T. had a romantic relationship, despite them only interacting twice in the show (though in fairness, both times implied they were closer than well-nigh Freelancers, but he notwithstanding doesn't even react when she turns traitor... or when the Freelancers set on Charon Industries to capture/kill her). Alternately, Grif/Simmons. While Tucker does brand a remark about them beingness in beloved during The Blood Gulch Chronicles, their relationship in the show is overall closer to being Heterosexual Life-Partners.
      • There's too a large group of fans who believe that at least some of the Freelancers served in the Human-Covenant War, with some specifically stating that Wash fought at the Battle of Reach. While Projection Freelancer's origins are confirmed as existence related to the Swell War (specifically, Project Freelancer was created as a "magic-bullet" program during the midst of the state of war so equally to relieve humanity past both experimenting on homo-A.I. interactions and the various possible threats that soldiers would encounter on the galactic battlefield), no Freelancers have been recorded every bit actually getting involved in the Slap-up War during the series. Amusingly, Scarlet vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide actually states Launder did fight in the Keen War... only just before he e'er became a Freelancer.
    • Crunchbite was reincarnated as Junior. There's some evidence for this in the serial, but it's far from explicitly said.
    • Carolina's nickname (oftentimes given to her past York) is "Lina." She'southward never called annihilation only Carolina in the bear witness, though, even by York. Alternately, her existent name is Carol, and she's besides almost always shown using the gravity hammer, despite using it just twice in the series—pistols or melee are much more office of her fighting style, all the same fans take latched onto the grav hammer instead.
    • Sarge was previously an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. It is mentioned that Sarge jumped out of ships "during the war", so information technology'southward possible, only again, it'due south far from confirmed. However, this actually became a example of Ascended Fanon in Season 15, with Sarge outright mentioning having previously been an ODST.
    • Graphic symbol appearances have been pretty well cemented by Luke McKay's fan art, leading most people to believe Caboose is a blonde, Grif and Simmons have brown hair, Tex has carmine hair, Church has blackness pilus and stubble, etc. While Church building'due south appearance has sort of been confirmed (the Managing director indeed looks like an older, even grumpier Luke McKay Church), some of the others are definitely not correct (Tucker is implied to exist blackness forth with Grif & Sis both being implied to be Hawaiian, dissimilar Luke McKay's white depiction of all three, and both Launder and Tex are blondes... or at to the lowest degree the original Allison was a blonde).
      • Speaking of character appearances in fanart, most fans seem to similar depicting Simmons' robotic implants as beingness very blatant and Donut post-Chrovos resurrection often has ane eye replaced with crystal.
    • Later on the Freelancer Prequel Duology in Flavour 14 ("The Triplets" and "The 'Mission'"), most fans recall that Freelancer Agent Ohio's group and Charon Agent Sherry's grouping were the main inspiration for the Red & Blue Teams (or at to the lowest degree gave the Director the initial idea for them). Likewise, many fans think that the icy wasteland of a planet they're stranded on is Sidewinder (since information technology's the only other ice planet encountered in the series).
    • In Singularity, it's revealed that Carolina spent the years in-between the Meta throwing her off a cliff on Sidewinder and getting the Reds and Dejection to help her break out Epsilon every bit a common pes soldier in the UNSC under the false proper name of "McCallister." Well-nigh fans take taken this to hateful that McCallister was Allison Church's maiden proper name, though there'south no existent prove for/against that in the show itself.
  • Fountain of Memes: More than often then not, expect Caboose to be quoted by fans of Red vs. Bluish.
  • Friendly Fandoms: As ane could expect, it has ane with both the residual of Rooster Teeth'due south work and Halo itself.
  • Gateway Serial: Await virtually people to mention Crimson vs. Blue as the series that got them into Machinima, Rooster Teeth, or both.
  • Harsher in Retrospect:
    • Caboose's Image Song "Your All-time Friend" was once a creepy nevertheless heartwarming (and hilarious) unmarried about the happiness Caboose feels whenever he'south near Church. Come up Season 13'southward catastrophe, the song is nothing but heartbreaking since Caboose will probable never see Church again. And he was already The Woobie to begin with...
    • The fact that the Flavour 17 "Visit the Doctor!" PSA would air only as the 2020 coronavirus pandemic would cause the Us to declare a state of national emergency is a rather unfortunate fleck of timing.
    • Additionally, the Flavour 17 "Snowed In" PSA ends with Church building getting killed nevertheless again past Caboose. In the weeks following that PSA, Burnie Burns announced that he was leaving Rooster Teeth annotation albeit still on good terms with the possibility of standing to provide voice work for both Red vs Blue and RWBY still open, and him too promising to workshop his showtime new projection to Rooster Teeth for distribution rights and moving outside of the U.s.. Or, to phrase it some other style, the last PSA to characteristic Burns while he worked at Rooster Teeth was one where Church building died yet once more.
  • He'south Just Hiding!: With the show'south addiction of going from Death Is Cheap to Deader Than Dead in suitably serious moments, you tin see why there'south and then many examples.
    • Many fans don't buy the Meta's Disney Villain Expiry and believe he will brand a reappearance. As of Flavour thirteen, Maine is confirmed expressionless just his empty armor is in the possession of Malcolm Hargrove. Many episodes were spent hammering in the fact that yeah, he'due south indeed dead, and the Meta died the moment the EMP wiped out all the original AI fragments.
    • The Freelancers get this a lot. After spending two seasons characterizing them with their own flaws and friendships that made them very likable, they're yet doomed to die in ignoble, humiliating deaths and some fans really however hold out hope that some volition brand a reappearance, unlikely as information technology seems.
    • At the end of Flavor 13, Epsilon defragments himself in society to create new AI that can manage Tucker'southward suit, finer erasing him from existence. Since this isn't the offset, 2nd, or even third fourth dimension an incarnation of Leonard Church has died, many fans were hoping this would be another bluff. Unfortunately for said fans, he's confirmed to be Killed Off for Real in Season 15.
    • The same holds true for Texas/Allison, fifty-fifty if Epsilon made sure to delete her from his mind, ensuring she could never come back equally a function of him. The Director seemed to take another re-create lying effectually, only all of his works were explicitly destroyed by his own society. This is simply besides, since the memory of Allison is exhausted being constantly brought back.
    • Some fans yet believe Felix is alive against all odds and the bear witness'southward established laws of nature. The temples confirmed he was dead as Locus was able to wield the key that could only be used past a true warrior once the previous was expressionless. Considering Donut already died and came dorsum once or twice, anything'due south possible.
    • You lot can too add the Triplets. While information technology's never stated they're expressionless, the fact that they were left on a arid planet with a trio of enemies that has a express supply of food and alcohol, and Projection Freelancer never bothered to send rescue, some fans hope they made it out regardless. Being possible surviving Freelancers and having a canonical lesbian in their group doesn't hurt.
  • Hilarious in Retrospect: A PSA was released before Flavour 16 that was a very thinly veiled Take That, Audience! towards those lament about how the season was beingness uploaded to RoosterTeeth.com and not YouTube. Flavor sixteen was then released a year after on YouTube to aid promote Flavour 17 (which would also be posted to YouTube a twelvemonth after its initial release... though Season eighteen was still far from washed).
  • Ho Yay: Has its own page. It's even gotten to a bespeak where the creators lampshade it outside the show.
  • Iron Woobie: Tex consistently fails at whatever she'south trying to do, not that it stops her from trying or beingness a badass while doing so. The aforementioned tin also be said of Carolina and Wash, though they go on to actually learn from the past and resolve to put their mistakes behind them.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
    • Agent Washington, to the point where he'due south more often than not seen as the "fandom bicycle."
    • Tucker surprisingly got into this territory subsequently he got significant Character Development in The Chorus Trilogy.
    • Subsequently his face up was eventually revealed during the Merc Trilogy in Flavor xiv, Locus became incredibly popular to send with other characters, with the Ho Yay already being pretty blatant betwixt him and both Felix and Wash.
  • LGBT Fanbase: Has gotten an increasingly vocal and sizable one equally the series has gone on, helped along by both the copious amount of Ho Yay the series has to offer and the show improving its own LGBT representation over fourth dimension.
  • Magnificent Bounder:
    • Doctor Leonard Church served as the Director of Project Freelancer, who mourned the loss of his dearest married woman. Founding his armed services program to test out the use of equipment with AI implantation in soldiers, the Director opposite engineered Split Personality in the one AI he had, the Alpha, to create fragments. The Director emotionally manipulated his soldiers to examination out which AI matched which soldier and examined certain effects. The Director used turned ane of his AI into Agent Texas, who would carry out muddy work for him. The Director likewise used his agents to steal equipment to perform more experiments. Afterward the implosion of Freelancer and the apparent death of his girl, Agent Carolina, the Managing director regrouped Freelancer, successfully hiding away the Alpha to keep him rubber. When Washington rebelled and activated the EMP, the Director tried to utilise the Meta to stop him. Investigated past Chairman Hargrove, the Director argued that his actions were for the good of humanity, but submitted to possible arrest. In the finish later a coming together with his live daughter, the Director killed himself realizing that he could never bring dorsum his honey Allison.
    • Aiden Price was the Counselor of Project Freelancer. The Counselor emotionally manipulated the agents to serve the Director needs, and as such knew many things about them. After the implosion, the Advisor helped coordinate both the Blastoff'south hiding and Florida's disappearance. Serving equally caput of Recovery, the Counselor used his agents to track down the Meta at whatsoever cost, and ultimately brought the Reds and Blues in for help. After his imprisonment, the Counselor joined the Chorus genocide campaign with Charon mercenaries, manipulating a one-time Charon employee to act every bit an enforcer without giving away his former occupation. The Advisor was the but i who realized that the people of Chorus could win and doom the operation, just was unable to get his allies to flee earlier being killed.
    • Agent Wyoming, real name Reginald, and his AI partner Gamma, representing the Alpha's deceit, are the primary operators of Omega'southward plan. Hired by Omega to assassinate Tucker, Wyoming immune a bomb to go off that knocked the Reds and Blues unconscious. Gamma manipulated an conflicting race into a believing prophecy, leading 1 alien to impregnate Tucker before being killed past Wyoming. After Wyoming sent Omega dorsum to Blood Gulch to observe a new host, he confronted and killed Amanuensis York, and managed to escape Texas. Wyoming and Gamma reunited and headed to Blood Gulch to retrieve Tucker's alien son for Omega to possess and control the Covenant. Wyoming used his time distortion unit to cheat in battle, and when seemingly killed unleashed time copies to continue to fight. Wyoming's concluding push button before his death was to reveal the full extent of his plan to get Tex on his side.
    • Sigma was split from the Alpha'due south creativity and ambition. Sigma became very interest in becoming human, and controlled Agent Maine for his full ambitions. Sigma also manipulated Agent Carolina into getting 2 AI, just to see the results, and ultimately almost offed Carolina to get both of those AI. As the Meta, Sigma hunted downwards agents for their AI, but also recognized more pragmatic choices to leave them behind, such equally to become more equipment or recharge ability. Upon realizing that Wash and the Bluish Team were on his tail, the Meta remixed a transmission to fob the Cherry Team into distracting them while he stole Delta. The Meta secretly tagged forth to the Freelancer Control Centre, and tracked downwards and about killed Launder to take the Alpha.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "It's a legitimate strategy!" (Camping.) Caption A Bluish Zealot justifying performing a army camp kill on a Red Zealot during Season 3.
    • "That was the worst throw always. Of all time." Explanation Wash'due south reaction to Caboose throwing a fasten grenade directly into the wall they are hiding backside in Reconstruction.
    • "Wait. That's illegal." Caption Said by Church building in the "Real Life vs the Internet" special when Grif tries to download a CD for free (to which Grif states that it isn't illegal because he doesn't want information technology to be). It has since go a general reaction to anything illegal, nonsensical, unpopular, or incommunicable.
    • "We've been tricked, nosotros've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." Caption Sarge's frustrated reaction to the return of Epsilon and Carolina in Flavour 12 later the Reds and Blues have been rescued from the Space Pirates. It's since get a popular reaction to sum upwardly someone getting tricked into doing something (often something against their best interests).
    • "It'southward notwithstanding going?" is a popular reaction for when people who haven't watched Ruby vs Bluish in a while come back and are surprised to find out that the series hasn't stopped ambulation.
  • Mexicans Beloved Speedy Gonzales: Surprisingly plenty, despite (or perhaps, because of) Armed Farces being one of the serial' master sources of comedy (especially in the before seasons), Red vs. Blue is actually noticeably pop with American servicemen in the Centre East co-ordinate to an interview with Geoff Ramsey. What certainly helps is that Ramsey, who has served as a consultant and aid on writing RvB episodes outside of beingness just a voice histrion, previously served in the US Army and and then he knows how to mock with respect.
  • Moe:
    • Caboose, for his childish personality and utterly absurd level of stupidity. However, his perpetually upbeat nature and the fact that he still goes through a lot of suffering throughout the series makes him surprisingly endearing instead of beingness annoying.
    • Wash, whenever he can relax and accept fun, especially so in his younger days in Freelancer flashbacks.
    • Jensen's just and then darn cute, fifty-fifty if we tin can't see her under the armor. The lisp certainly helps.
    • This accounts for Theta'south popularity. In a series full of Black One-act, characters who are Too Dumb to Live, casual corruption, and general suffering, the fact that he's a cute AI with the personality and voice of a little kid is simply precious.
    • Huggins. Despite her having a darker side, many have institute her adorable and perky personality to be quite endearing, to the indicate where she even proved to exist quite popular among those who weren't a fan of Flavour 16 as a whole.
  • Ane True Threesome:
    • Of the shipping multifariousness, there'due south Tucker/Wash/Carolina, as Wash/Tucker and Wash/Carolina are the two most popular ships in the fandom associated with Wash, and Tucker & Carolina have actually become surprisingly good friends after the events of Season 13.
    • Of the platonic variety, there's Grif & Simmons & Church due to the surprising amount of esprit shown between all three characters, Grif and Church's common Deadpan Snarker tendencies, and Church building's Worthy Opponent view of Grif from during The Blood Gulch Chronicles.
    • Sarge & Grif & Simmons are often considered to be the "cadre" Ruby Team members, and Blueish Team is often summed up equally either consisting of Church building & Tucker & Caboose or Wash & Tucker & Caboose.
  • Periphery Demographic:
    • A lot of RWBY fans, particularly those within the YouTube reaction/reviewer customs, have discovered the bear witness on the off-flavor when they needed content to react to/review. Both might be Rooster Teeth productions, but they couldn't be any more different!
    • Way back in the outset, Rooster Teeth were surprised to acquire that the show had a sizable fanbase amidst women along with the traditionally masculine "video game nerd/geek kind of market" that was the target audience. While the creators have joked that "Each 1 of us is 30 pounds overweight and we're all balding, so we've got a lot to offer the ladies!", the general consensus seems to be that good one-act transcends all boundaries and having the sole female grapheme Tex also be the only truly capable one helped. Later on seasons helped farther by having continuously improved writing and representation regarding women, while as well happening every bit the existence of women in "geek culture" in general became less marginalized and dismissed.
  • Self-Fanservice: A natural consequence of the fact that virtually the entire cast is The Faceless.
    • Tucker is a rather amusing instance of this. In-Universe, Captain Flowers describes him as having "striking metrosexual looks," which has contributed to near of his fanart depicting him equally beingness Mr. Fanservice turned Up to Eleven (every bit nearly fans seem to find it funny that the but reason Tucker can't get laid is because of his Casanova Wannabe antics).
    • Grif, who is both overweight and a habitual smoker, is often drawn with a Big Fun body design. Likewise, the fact that Kaikaina is "chubby" In-Universe has led to virtually all fanart depicting her as a Big Beautiful Adult female.
    • Simmons is a Hollywood Nerd who yet was able to keep upwards with Tucker'due south exercise regimen during Flavor 12. Additionally, his Hollywood Cyborg status has become increasingly downplayed as the series has gone on to the point where it'southward not even mentioned in Scarlet Vs. Bluish: The Ultimate Fan Guide. Nigh fanart has Simmons fatigued equally buff along with his mechanical implants existence very blatant (i.e., having part of his face and right arm being mechanical replacements).
  • Sequelitis:
    • Lightly referenced in the Gaming PSA.

      Simmons: Join us next time for part 2 of our serial: sequels.
      Grif: Parts 3 and 4 are about that, besides.

    • Despite this being jokingly referenced, Seasons nine and 10 became much more than pop than the previous seasons always were, and the Chorus Trilogy is love by many fans for taking the series in a fresh direction. However, so came a lot of divisive seasons, as noted above under Contested Sequel (just 17 escaped scorn, and even then it was followed by the most negatively received in 18).
  • Success Through Insanity:
    • Caboose. He's both dumb equally a stump and completely divorced from reality, but his insanity results in him doing things like shrugging off psychological torture from two separate aboriginal A.I.s, reviving Church, and figuring out how to time travel through his own backwards logic.
    • Sarge. His plans generally make no logical sense, all the same tend to bring surprisingly good results in one case he gets to execute them. Near notably, he caught Agent Washington at gunpoint by disguising himself as a cardboard imitation of himself, helped impale the Meta by tying a car to him and tossing information technology off of a frozen cliff, and made an adrenaline-fueled boring-movement auto crash happen in real life.
    • Freelancer Agent North Dakota, while more or less sane, is seen every bit following this trope In-Universe for his unconventional battle tactics such as using the upgrade that has 99.9% adventure of killing him on the spot and pulling off a Guns Akimbo with sniper rifles.

    Church building: North was a crazy son of a bitch.

  • Tough Deed to Follow:
    • Reconstruction was such a desperate spring in quality with its fairly serious, Darker and Edgier plot and the genuinely intimidating villain of the Meta, that it'southward regarded as the go-to instance of Cerebus Syndrome, and in the eyes of several fans simply couldn't be topped. To the signal about fans found Recreation a pace downwards in spite of the funny moments. But then Revelation delivered huge payoffs to the plot developments of the previous scenes, while besides introducing the awesome blithe scenes past Monty Oum.
    • And then Season 10 i-upped the symphonic metal soundtrack, large cast of characters of both genders, slick, cinematic CG fight scenes that looked more impressive fifty-fifty than viii and nine's, and wrapping up many ongoing storylines involving the Freelancers that looked like it could've ended the series then and there.
    • Present, The Chorus Trilogy is some other contender, with its back to basics arroyo that set out to have a new plot that had little to do with Freelancer agents, giving a fresh direction that blended drama and comedy seamlessly. Season 14 came to be the style it was because Rooster Teeth didn't know how to follow the arc's K Finale (specially the Bolivian Army Ending) in a satisfactory way.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: During the DVD commentaries for the first 5 seasons, Burnie notes whenever a spare topical references appears, he tended to avoid them due to believing that those gave a loftier take chances of dating the production. And indeed, at that place are a few writing moments even more mid-2000s than the Halo games being used, such as references to Lost and Sister mentioning MySpace - says something about the show's longevity that later seasons mentioned Game of Thrones and Facebook. However, one line, "Can yous hear me at present? Can y'all hear me? Stupid 4G network.", manages to age well and not limit itself to the days where 3G was the norm — and in fact, the joke still works, with 5G only beginning to take off in 2019, more than a decade after the episode the joke came from.
  • Unpopular Popular Graphic symbol:
    • Caboose. One of the most disrespected characters on the bear witness. The virtually popular grapheme among the fandom.
    • There's also Doc, the Butt-Monkey even when among a cast of Cosmic Playthings. While he'southward non exactly hated In-Universe, the Reds and Blues (forth with most other characters) just find him to be completely forgettable/useless. He's likewise been one of the series' most popular side characters since the very outset.
    • Another example is Agent Washington, introduced in Recovery One. Initially, the Reds and Blues dislike and mistrust him; non merely because he's a Freelancer, but also because of how clear he makes it to them that he'due south simply interested in what they tin can do for him, non in their well-being. Even among the other upper leaderboard Freelancers, where he's more well-liked, he still doesn't get much respect, every bit he'south got one of the lowest combat ratings of the group. However, he's a very popular character among the fans. That all beingness said, this gets increasingly downplayed every bit the Red and Dejection have him into their makeshift "family" and he becomes the Squad Dad.
    • The Chorus Trilogy gave u.s. Dr. Emily Gray, an Ax-Crazy Mad Scientist who the fans beloved for her cheeriness, quirkiness, and utterly psychotic nature. In-Universe, the Reds and Dejection alternate between finding her creepy/annoying or terrifying.
  • Win Dorsum the Crowd: Fans who disliked the focus on action and intricate plot that dominated the Recollection (Seasons six-8) and the Freelancer Saga (Seasons 9-10) were pleasantly surprised with the Chorus Trilogy (Seasons 11-13), for having more to practise with the Claret Gulch Coiffure, a larger accent on classic RvB one-act, pulling focus away from giant action setpieces, making the action more than grounded, and for bringing in a new, simpler plot that had little to exercise with the Freelancers.
  • The Woobie: Has its own page.

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