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This is a list of characters in the [[machinima]] series [[Red vs Blue]].
This article could perhaps do with a more thorough mechanism, explaining the action of the AlCl3? Sorry I can't do this myself, but my TeX skills are sorely lacking -- Tom
 
One of the reactions shown is the addition of a methyl group to a benzene. The mechanism for this addition involves the loss of the halogen from the alkyl halide and the formation of a carbocation. The methyl carbocation is far too unstable to allow for the addition of a methyl substituent to benzene through the Friedel-Crafts reaction. Furthermore, the reaction would not occur with even a primary alkyl halide (such as the addition of an ethyl group, as shown later in the article) as primary carbocations are also much too unstable to allow for addition. --Ian
==Red Team==
[[Image:RvB Reds.JPG|thumb|330px|The Red Team, from left to right: Sarge, the Warthog, Grif, Simmons, Donut]]
===Grif===
*'''Full name: Private Dexter Grif'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=#FF9900>Orange</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Geoff Ramsey|Geoff 'Gfunk' Ramsey]]'''
Grif is the wisecracking loudmouth of the Red team. He is self-centered, acerbic, lazy, and somewhat cowardly. He is despised by his teammates Sarge and Simmons, and as such has the lowest "rank" in the Red team, both socially and militarily. He and Simmons are usually seen bickering or chatting with one another about the various situations the Red team finds itself in. Although Grif's laziness often causes problems for the Reds, Sarge ''always'' blames him when things go wrong, regardless of his actual guilt in the matter.
 
Personality-wise, Grif is fairly brash, has a flair for melodrama, and tends to speak before he thinks. He is quick to make silly theories or insults, even towards people who clearly could (''without hesitation'') kill him. He is also a coward, panicking and fleeing as soon as things start to get dangerous. He is not a total fool, however, and is often the first one to point out the flaws or stupidities in Sarge's latest plans (''largely because Simmons never criticizes Sarge, no matter what, and many of these plans involve Grif's demise''). Perceived by Sarge and Simmons to be less than intelligent, the likelihood is that Grif simply has a bad habit of not thinking before he acts or talks. Despite his constant flippant disregard for Sarge's authority, Grif seems to care at least a little about Sarge, and was quite upset when Sarge was almost killed by Caboose.
 
== Stability of carbocations ==
Physically, a lifetime of smoking and eating processed snacks has left Grif badly out of shape for a soldier in the military, and he is barely able to run 300 feet without running out of breath. After accidentally being run over by Sheila the tank, driven by Tucker, most of Grif's body parts were replaced with donor organs leftover from Simmons's cyborg operation, but this has not made him change his bad health habits.
No, methyl groups and primary alkyl halides CAN react in Friedel-Crafts alkylation. In the case of secondary and tertiary halides, the carboation is formed by the removal of the halogen ion by the Lewis Acid. However, because methyl and primary carbocations are NOT stable as you stated, the halide instead forms a Lewis acid-base complex with the acid, and this acts as the electrophile in this case:
CH3CH2-Cl + AlCl3 -> CH3CH2-Cl(+)-Al(-)-Cl3. I'll add this later to the main article, with some fancy drawings.
[[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]] 18:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 
==Wrong molecule used for reference==
From the Bonus Material on the Season 3 DVD, it is learned that Grif's presence in the Red Army is actually not by choice. It was decided that the Blue Army had one more recruit than the Red Army, and so the first universal draft was held. The unlucky draftee was none other than Dexter Grif. As evidenced by his hesitantly optimistic response in the second episode to Sarge's request to know if anyone knows "why I have called you here today," Grif would love to call the whole thing good and go home. As also evidenced by his response to Sarge's less than friendly answer, he is not unfamiliar with people trying to put him down when he is hopeful, either.
The article references making 2,4,6-triethylbenzene. However, not only is this wrongly named, it does not form as such. The foot-note lists an abstract for 1,3,5-Tris(aminomethyl)-2,4,6-triethylbenzene, but this is a different molecule, and the abstract doesn't even mention friedel-crafts. I'll fix this later, and add a new section on the limitations of friedel crafts reactions (specifically, polyalkylation, reactivity, and the para/ortho substitution.)
[[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]] 18:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 
Hi [[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]], I agree that 2,4,6-triethylbenzene should be 1,3,5-triethylbenzene. This compound is the first reaction step in the eventual synthesis of 1,3,5-Tris(aminomethyl)-2,4,6-triethylbenzene (consult the complete article if you want to check this information). Also even though the article does not specify a friedel-craft, it can be deduced from the reaction conditions that it is one. [[User:V8rik|V8rik]] 19:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
===Simmons===
*'''Full name: Private Dick Simmons'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=maroon>Maroon</font>, Crimson (after episode 43), *Mostly* Blue (episode 64-70)'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Gustavo Sorola|Gustavo 'Gus' Sorola]]'''
Simmons is the level-headed [[double act|straight man]] of the Red team. Reasonably smart and rational, his personality is probably the least skewed out of all the show's characters. Simmons's one quirk is the fact that he is a compulsive [[sycophant]] who constantly agrees with and toadies up to Sarge, in spite of Sarge's psychopathic and frequently delusional leadership style. As a result, Grif frequently calls him "'''Kissass'''". He and Grif have something of a love-hate relationship, and the two of them spend most of their time bickering and chatting with each other, with Simmons reacting to the various outrageous statements Grif often makes.
 
Hmm, I just looked over the article, but my problem with this section is that this is an exception to the normal rules about activating groups and ortho/para directors vs. deactivating groups and meta directors. This is a special case, and when most Friedel-Crafts reactions take place, the alkylated product further activates the ring, and promotes additional substitution in the ortho and para positions. The reaction in the reference has nothing to do with this activation, instead, relying on overall steric hinderance. It is possible, but in the grand scheme of the Friedel-Crafts reaction, the majority of product which undergoes polyalkylation does so in the ortho and para positions. Thermodynamics and stability are important concepts when considering the reaction, but in this case, the Hammond Postulate is applied, and the stability of the intermediates determines the product results. Sorry for the lengthy note, but this could be a confusing article for someone unfamilar with the topic, and this discussion may just overcomplicate the subject.
Simmons never really says anything silly or foolish (''except when he is kissing up to Sarge's flawed schemes''), he frequently has the most common sense, and he often manages to come up with battle plans that actually work. He is a brave enough warrior when necessary, but is not a fanatic like Sarge (''except when it comes to operating mini-guns'') and has expressed an unwillingness to die for foolish reasons. Since Grif is generally the one whose death is called for in Sarge's ridiculous plans, Simmons has less to worry about than he thinks.
[[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]] 04:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC) (also, I plan to update the main page with info on substituents, a detailed look at the mechanism and carbocations, other functional groups that can be used to form the carbocation (alkenes and alcohols), intramolecular Friedel-Crafts rxns, limitations with substituants, and polyalkylation. It's a lot of work, and right now, I have more pressing O-Chem labs to finish.)
 
Hi [[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]], The best way to go forward I guess is to add content on general FC reactions. I am looking forward to read your contribution. My contribution does not involve an exception though, it is about reversible FC and associated with it thermodynamic reaction control. Also, Wiki readers are intelligent readers, we just have to make sure that basic topics are well separated from advanced topics in order not to get the reader confused. [[User:V8rik|V8rik]] 23:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
After the Reds lose Lopez, Sarge turns Simmons into a [[cyborg]] so they will have someone with the capability to better repair things, and for a while, Sarge called him "Simmons 2.0", though in recent episodes of Season 4, Sarge has reverted to calling him just Simmons again. As a result of the operation, Simmons now has the ability to repair or rewire machinary, such as teleporters. Simmons' leftover body parts were used to save Grif's life when he was run over by Sheila, driven by Tucker.
 
Prehapts a seperate section on themodynamics and stability of products? This could be seperate from the general kinetics of Friedel-crafts reactions. [[User:Jhum101|Jhum101]] 02:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
At one point in the series, Grif comes to believe that Simmons is "''of a [[Latino]] persuasion''", presumably because he thought Simmons was a [[Hispanic]] name. Simmons is, in fact, [[Netherlands|Dutch]]-[[Ireland|Irish]] and the whole issue is a play on the fact that Simmons's voice actor (Gustavo Sorola) is himself Hispanic. This running gag still continued as recently as '''episode 63''' when Donut, pretending to be an automatic telephone response system, says to Simmons "For unconfirmed Dutch-Irish, press one...".
 
* sounds like a plan, happy editing! [[User:V8rik|V8rik]] 23:35, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately for Simmons, in Season 4 he runs afoul of Sarge's fickle nature, and is demoted, then self-exiled from the Red Team when Sarge starts to believe he has gone insane due to his insistence that Sheila the tank is still in the Gulch. Having lost his purpose in life, Simmons suffers a bit of a breakdown and ends up painting his armor (''mostly'') blue and waging a one-man war against his former teammates with the assistance of Sheila the tank. Whether he can be '''officially''' called a blue is yet to be seen as his real intention of attacking the Red Base was to cause the Reds, esp. Sarge to become jealous and possibily regret letting him go into exile.
 
==Stability of electrophile in FC acylation==
===Sarge===
The reason for lack of rearrangement of the carbocation electrophile in FC Acylation is "there are no carbocation rearrangements as an aromatic carbocation is very stable compared to alkyl carbocations." This is just wrong - the carbocation '''isn't''' aromatic. The reason is the resonance stabilisation where the empty shell of the Carbon interacts with the lone pairs of electrons on the oxygen in the acyl group. This should be changed, no?
*'''Full name: unknown'''
--[[User:DapBot|DapBot]] 00:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
*'''Armor color: <font color=red>Red</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Matt Hullum]]'''
Sarge is the military-minded sergeant and leader of the Blood Gulch Red team. His full name has never been mentioned. A grizzled veteran with a Southern accent, Sarge is more disciplined than the other soldiers, but is also somewhat [[antisocial personality disorder|psychopathic]], rather bloodthirsty, and is probably the only Blood Gulch soldier on either team that's actually serious about pursuing the war. His favorite and most commonly used weapon is the shotgun
 
==Errors in alkylation mechanism==
Unfortunately, his battle plans tend to be delusionally grandiose, as well as seriously flawed, and he favors overly complex plans that involve heavy casualties in his own forces, especially Grif (''sometimes when there isn't even a problem to solve''). He is also rather paranoid, and often comes up with bizarre and highly improbable theories to explain simple events. Despite his flaws as a leader, Sarge seems to be a rather skilled fighter, having managed to get the drop on Tex as well as (with the assistance of Caboose) fight off the attacking hordes of players on Battle Creek.
According to the mechanism, you start and end with the same compound (benzene) and lose the R group somewhere along the way. Also, as mentioned previously the mechanism does not directly involve an alkyl carbocation as an intermediate. It would be good if someone could edit the mechanism to rectify these things.--Joe
 
==Does anyone have a acylation mechanism?==
Sarge hates Grif as much as he likes Simmons, and often praises Simmons and criticizes Grif when the two of them perform the exact same action. He also has good technical skills, being able to assemble robots from scratch and perform surgery on his men, but has a difficult time repairing the Warthog.
anyone?
 
== Reaction conditions ==
===Donut===
*'''Full name: Private Franklin Delano Donut'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=red>Red</font>, <font color=pink>Pink</font> (after episode 16)'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Dan Godwin]]'''
Donut is the Red team's over-eager, over-energetic rookie, who cannot quite figure out what's going on. He is very chatty and outrageously cheerful, which makes the rest of Red team find him extremely annoying. He often demonstrates extreme naïveté and very little common sense. His name is a reference to former United States President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt]].
 
The article mentioned in 'Reaction conditions are similar to the Friedel-Crafts alkylation mentioned above' in the Friedel-Crafts acylation section.
After he was injured when Tex attacked the Red base, he was shipped out for medical treatment. Red Command was so pleased that he had captured the Blues' flag that they gave him his own color armor. He was quite sensitive about his armor, which he insisted was "''lightish red''", even though it is clearly pink to everyone else.
 
Many different sources give different conditions for this reaction, and I'm interested to know why, and what are the true conditions.
As the series progresses, the "''light red''" armor and the trauma he received from Tex, seem to have taken its toll on Donut's mind, as his speech and personality began taking on increasingly effeminate connotations. He also became increasingly childish, pretending to be a [[espionage|Secret Agent]] in the middle of a reconnaissance operation, and sticking his hand in machinery even after repeatedly being told not to.
 
[[User:Crazyjoe 7|Crazyjoe 7]] 12:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Despite all these flaws, Donut seems to be the only one amongst both teams to have an odd, almost all-encompassing insight into the events of series. For example, he is the only one to suggest to his team that Church is a ghost (''and hence why Sarge went mad, and Lopez ran away''). He has also demonstrated briefly the ability to speak Spanish, even though previously in the series he like the rest of his team could never understand Lopez. Finally, he is the only one who '''agreed''' with Simmons that Sheila the tank existed. Unfortunately, like [[Cassandra]], his insights are ignored by his team.
 
Since Simmons' exile from the Red Team, Donut has replaced him as Sarge's right hand man, a move Sarge has quickly come to regret.
 
===Lopez===
*'''Full name: Lopez 'The Heavy''''
*'''Armor color: <font color=#A05000>Brown</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Michael Burns|Mike 'Burnie' Burns]] (''in purposefully poorly accented Spanish'')'''
Lopez is a robot built by Sarge. He speaks with a stereotypical monotone robot voice, and can only speak in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Sarge neglected to ground himself when installing Lopez's voice card, and it was damaged by [[Electrostatics|static electricity]]; Lopez can still understand English perfectly. Subtitles are provided, though the translation is often imperfect due to the fact that none of the writers or cast members actually know Spanish, and get their translations from free online translators.
 
Like Sarge, he dislikes Grif (''because Sarge programmed him to''). After he gets his voice card, Lopez begins to call himself "Lopez the Heavy" (''Lopez la Pesado'') and demonstrates a stoic and tough personality. He also tends to exhibit character traits that are stereotypically [[Latin America]]n, such as a strong [[socialism|socialist]] ideology.
 
Lopez was eventually possessed by Church, who had the body painted cobalt to match his old body armor. After being temporarily freed from Church's control, Lopez defected to the Blue team when the Reds tried to kill him (''mistakenly believing he was a blue soldier''), where he repaired and fell in love with Sheila, the [[artificial intelligence|AI]] inside the Blue team's Scorpion tank. He eventually develops a resistance to being possessed and shortly afterwards has his old armor color restored.
 
At the end of season 2, Lopez was captured by O'Malley, who reprogrammed him to become another tool in his plan to conquer the universe. Sarge had installed most of a weather control system capable of wiping out both armies in Lopez, which O'Malley completed and tried to use against the Reds and Blues. There is also top-secret strategic information from Red Command embedded in Lopez's head, so the Reds were forced to cooperate with the Blues to try and recover him.
 
Due to a bizarre series of events, Lopez is eventually reduced to nothing more than a disembodied head. Somehow, he is still able to move about, fire a machine-gun turret, and even build an army of robot soldiers (''Simmons'':"He's very determined"). Lopez has been absent since the end of Season 3, and his whereabouts in Season 4 have yet to be explained.
 
===Chupathingy===
*'''Full name: Chupathingy (M12-LRV, the "Warthog/Puma")'''
The M12-LRV is a battle jeep that was delivered to the Red Army in episode 2. Sarge named it the [[List of vehicles in the Halo universe#Warthog|Warthog]] (the vehicle's actual name in ''Halo'') in his introduction, but Grif suggested the name "[[Puma]]" since he thought it did not look much like a [[warthog]]. Sarge and Simmons, believing that Grif made the name up, suggested several 'other' mythical names, such as [[Unicorn]], [[Leprechaun]], and Chupathingy (after the [[Chupacabra]]). Chupathingy remains the name listed on the character bio screen for the season 3 DVD (Available as an [[Easter egg (virtual)|easter-egg]] by pressing 'up' on the remote while highlighting Sarge).
 
Although the Warthog is not itself sentient, it has a homing beacon and remote control system that is linked up with Lopez. This system was activated during the second season when Church and Tucker were trying to activate Lopez' repair sequence while Church was possessing him. Burnie Burns suggests in the season 2 DVD commentary that Chupathingy was originally going to be a full-blown character and maintain a personality throughout the series, similar to [[Red vs Blue#Sheila .28M808B Main Battle Tank.29|Sheila]]. The idea was, however, abandoned shortly after the remote control gag.
 
The Warthog seems to bring bad luck to whomever is driving it or is close to it. During its two seasons of appearance, it spends most of its time being repaired after being shot or blown up. The teams leave it behind when they leave Blood Gulch, but acquire what is assumed to be a different jeep when they are sent forward in time by the explosion.
 
==Blue Team==
[[Image:RvB Blues.JPG|thumb|330px|The Blue Team, from left to right: Tucker, Sheila, Caboose, Church, Tex]]
===Church===
*'''Full name: Private Leonard L. Church'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=#ABCDEF>Cobalt</font>, White (as a Ghost)'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Michael Burns|Mike 'Burnie' Burns]]'''
Church is the Blue team's bitter, sarcastic, battle-hardened ''de facto'' leader. On the Blue team, he serves as both [[double act|straight man]] and [[fall guy]]. The most proactive of the show's characters, he is usually the most focused about actually confronting and solving the various crises the Gulch teams encounter; yet most of the disasters end up falling directly on him (''or, occasionally, '''because''' of him''), leaving him increasingly disillusioned and anti-social. He dislikes both Tucker and Caboose for their exasperating eccentricities, and once claimed that "knowing other people" just waters down the experience of being Church.
 
Killed early in the first season, he returns as a ghost to help his teammates. Being a ghost, he has the ability to possess and take control of other characters' bodies. For most of season 2, he possesses Lopez. After losing his control over Lopez, Church convinces Sarge to build him and Tex new, permanent robot bodies.
 
Other than his harsh, cynical outlook on life, Church is actually, like Simmons, reasonably intelligent and emotionally stable. As leaders go, he is quite a bit more competent than Sarge. His plans are usually pretty solid (''and don't involve pointlessly sacrificing his own men''), but fate (''and Caboose's incompetence'') often conspire to bring him failure and suffering.
 
Prior to the Blood Gulch era, Church had a romantic relationship with Tex. Though he still has feelings for her, he will deny this to anyone who asks and has a love-hate relationship going with her.
 
During the third season, Church is sent back in time, and takes advantage of this by trying to prevent everything that goes wrong in Blood Gulch, including his and Tex's deaths. Unfortunately for Church, in a classic [[predestination paradox]] scenario, it becomes evident that ''he'' is the cause of almost everything that ever went wrong. As a result of this discovery, Church's harsh attitude towards his teammates (''particularly Caboose'') has apparently mellowed slightly, if for a short while.
 
===Tucker===
*'''Full name: Private Lavernius Tucker'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=teal>Teal/Aqua</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Jason Saldaña]]'''
Tucker is the Blue team's smart-aleck, sarcastic, foul-mouthed man-child. Rude, unfocused, and prone to juvenile humor, his behavior is akin to an unruly teenager. Like Grif, he has an extreme aversion to combat and doing work - so much so that he always complains and tries very hard to stall whenever someone orders him into battle. Tucker is also a virgin and is incredibly obsessed with women. Although he often lacks prudence and common sense which leads him to jump to conclusions without careful thinking, Tucker has gotten somewhat smarter as the series has progressed, and has conceived a few decent plans and had a couple heroic moments.
 
Tucker has also been the focus of a few running gags throughout the series. Due to the scarcity of the sniper rifle (''along with the faster reflexes of the other soldiers''), Tucker has not yet been able to use one, a fact that infuriates him. Another running gag has been about his armor color. Whenever Tucker goes through a teleporter, unlike the others, he always comes out of it with armor covered in "black stuff", which appears to be soot. Apparently the experience is painful, indicating that there was a source of heat that caused this layer on his armor.
 
Another past complication for Tucker was that Vic, O'Malley, and Wyoming all wanted Tucker dead because he accidentally discovered that Red and Blue were (''apparently'') both controlled by the same command. Unfortunately for Tucker, everyone else either does not believe him or just doesn't care. Church attempts to correct Tucker's "discovery" by informing everyone that it was he who told Vic that Red and Blue were the same. Still, Tucker doesn't believe him.
 
Tucker was recently able to acquire a sword during the attack on O'Malley's base. In a rare moment of decisive action, he used the weapon to lethal effect against the Red Zealot. Realizing its extreme effectiveness, he actually turned down an offer by Tex to trade it for her sniper rifle. Tex later "''persuaded''" him to relinquish possession of the sword, but gave it back after discovering she had no idea how to turn it on. During this time it is also hinted that Tucker may be [[African American]], including a comment by Caboose that Tucker is "the other black one," the first being Tex and her armor. This parallels similar racial musings on the Red Team, where Grif insisted that Simmons is "''of a Latino persuasion''", despite Simmons's clear Dutch-Irish heritage.
 
As of '''Episode 64''', the alien whom the Blues encountered informs them that Tucker might be the hero that was foretold in his culture's prophecies. It turns out that the sword Tucker found is similar to the legend of [[Excalibur]] and [[King Arthur]]. The fact that he is the only one who can activate the sword (as it locks to the first person to activate it) dictates for the blue alien that he is the hero that must partake of this sacred quest, though the sword was the reason why the alien arrived, to claim it for himself. Whether Tucker is also the '''GREAT DESTROYER''' is still to be determined as the '''GREAT PROPHECY''' indicated that it would be a ''blue'' being that would fulfill the destruction that is foretold. hey azn, bow chica bow wow
 
===Caboose===
*'''Full name: Private Michael J. Caboose'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=blue>Blue</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Joel Heyman]]'''
Caboose is the Blue team's rookie, as well as the most bizarre and deranged character in the series. Despite being well-meaning and probably the least spiteful person in the Gulch, he is clueless, childlike, and somewhat insane. He occasionally asks questions about things the others take for granted (''like why a flag is so important''). He is also pretty slow on the uptake, and often fails to understand even basic concepts (''such as the meaning of "A.I."'').
 
Caboose desperately wants to obtain the friendship and approval of Church, but his incompetent attempts to help often only make things worse, and he has accidentally called Church's girlfriend a slut, [[Team killer|teamkilled]] Church on two occasions, paralyzed him from the waist down, and activated a bomb that blew up Church along with the rest of reality. As a result, Church despises him greatly. Caboose was also infatuated with Sheila the tank, and got insanely jealous when she expressed interest in Lopez.
 
Despite his eccentricities, Caboose's mind might actually be stronger than it appears, as he was able to successfully contain the evil A.I. O'Malley for several episodes, whereas Doc was completely taken over almost immediately. However, being briefly inhabited by O'Malley has apparently damaged Caboose's mind even further and altered his personality. He used to have at least a hint of cleverness and sarcasm, but ever since then, Caboose's grasp on reality has become more than a little unhinged.
 
He is physically the strongest soldier in both the Red and Blue teams; Church and Tucker think that it is "''God's way of compensating.''" He was assumed to be the prophesied ''GREAT DESTROYER'', but it turns out the ''GREAT DESTROYER'' may in fact be someone (or rather, ''something'') else.
 
===Tex===
*'''Full name: Tex [Real Name: Allison] {Code Name: Nevada}'''
*'''Armor color: Black'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Kathleen Zuelch]], Mike 'Burnie' Burns (episode 11 and part of episode 12)'''
The deadliest and most professional soldier in the Gulch, Tex is a freelance [[mercenary]] and Church's former girlfriend. Although she lacks the more eccentric personality traits seen in the other Blood Gulch characters, her pronounced sadistic streak and propensity for massive, disproportionate violence makes her anything but normal. Tex's special ops training makes her the most competently lethal member of the Blood Gulch cast (''with the possible exception of Sheila the tank'').
 
Despite her freelancer status, Tex sticks with the Blues to repay a favor, agreeing to help them out until they beat the Reds. Later, when the Blues and Reds start cooperating, Tex diverted her energies towards eliminating the scourge of O'Malley once and for all.
 
Tex was part of an elite unit in which each member was named after one of the 49 remaining states of the [[United States|USA]]. Her code name is "[[Nevada]]", but she is nicknamed "Tex" as she comes from [[Texas]]. Her real name is Allison. Each member of the unit was paired with an experimental AI to make him or her stronger and more aggressive. Tex's AI was Omega, who jumped from her body to Caboose (''and adopted the name O'Malley'') when it assessed she had little chance of surviving her second attack on the Red base. After she was killed, she came back as a ghost like Church. However, she does not manifest herself until the middle of the second season. Church eventually gets Sarge to build two robot bodies; one for Tex, and one for Church.
 
Even though Church states that she has always been moody and violent even without the AI, and she does often insult Church, she's actually pretty tolerant of the rest of the Blood Gulch cast and their various eccentricities (''although one episode suggests that she has a habit of punching them in the head while they sleep''). As a freelancer, she will jump at killing at the drop of a hat if the price is right. This was vividly seen when she abruptly decides to join Tucker and the Alien's quest once Church informed her that "''quests''" usually involve some sort of treasure at the end.
 
===Sheila===
*'''Full name: Sheila/Phyllis (M808B Main Battle Tank)'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Yomary Cruz]]'''
Originally named Phyllis, Sheila is the [[artificial intelligence|AI]] of the Blue team's [[List of vehicles in the Halo universe#Scorpion|M808B Main Battle Tank]]. She is actually very friendly and cheerful, but, being a tank, she has a habit of blowing people up (''including her own teammate Church''). Sheila is bombed out of action by Sarge's dropship early in the first season, but is repaired by Tex several episodes later.
 
She seems to like Caboose at least a little. However, in the middle of the second season, she ends up falling in love with the robot Lopez. Before long, she and Lopez attempt to lead a robot revolution against the humans in response to the perceived abuse suffered by the Gulch's mechanized personnel: being constantly blown up or possessed by ghosts. After Lopez is kidnapped by O'Malley, she puts her differences aside to help the soldiers retrieve him.
 
Because Sheila cannot fit through the teleporter (''due to being built by the lowest bidder, her A.I. is hardwired into her body''), she remains behind on Blood Gulch while the Red and Blue teams go through to pursue O'Malley. After a brief encounter with a time-traveling Church, Sheila goes to sleep and presumably remains alone as the sole inhabitant of Blood Gulch for the better part of a millennium.
 
It is thought that she may be the source of the distress signal that the Red army found near the end of the third season because Church gave Sheila special orders before he left, with the words "a thousand years" being clearly heard in his whispering. In addition, all of the Reds (''Except Sarge'') saw her drive past the Red Base in Blood Gulch upon their return. She is now working with Simmons, who Sarge exiled for his talk of "'''imaginary'''" tanks.
 
==Unaffiliated==
===Vic===
*'''Full name: Vic (Red/Blue/Freelance Comm Officer)'''
*'''Voice actor: Randall Glass (of [[Halo: Combat Evolved#Warthog Jump|Warthog Jump]] fame) in Season One, [[Michael Burns|Mike "Burnie" Burns]] in Season Two and Three'''.
 
Vic, a sardonic and frequently unhelpful Communications Officer, is the contact for both armies at Red Command and Blue Command, which are possibly the same Command, unbeknownst to either group of soldiers (''except for Tucker, whom no one believes''). Vic apparently didn't even know it until a misunderstanding between him and back-from-the-future Church [[retcon|retconned]] events.
 
Vic behaves like an annoying, ineffective tech support guy, constantly calling people "dude" and often offering obtuse and unhelpful advice coupled with biting insults. He can be quite inappropriate, at one point forcing Doc into a lengthy conversation about Vic's sterility.
 
Vic is apparently working with O'Malley to some degree (''although he seems to regard O'Malley as more of a necessary annoyance than a partner''), and O'Malley arranges for an assassin to hunt down Tucker in order to preserve Vic's secret. Vic has not been seen or heard from since the teams were thrown into the future (''except for a couple of Church's time travelling episodes'').
 
===Doc===
*'''Full name: Medical Officer Frank Dufresne (Doc)'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=#8C28A0>Purple</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Matt Hullum]]'''
Doc is a [[medic]] sent to Blood Gulch to treat injuries on both armies, despite the lack of medical skill he often displays. He is also a [[pacifism|pacifist]] of the most extreme kind, and tries to avoid doing or even ''saying'' anything that would seem even remotely aggressive or competitive.
 
Because of his extreme pacifism in the middle of a war, he quickly earns the ire of both the Blue and Red teams and is eventually exiled into a cavern equidistant from both bases. There, he ends up being possessed by O'Malley, and has various split-personality [[Gollum|Gollum/Sméagol]] conversations and arguments with him. However, the difference between Doc and O'Malley is even greater than it is for the former pair. Doc apologizes on occasion for O'Malley's trash-talk and conduct. O'Malley, on the other hand, frequently tells him to shut up.
 
Doc and O'Malley are the only characters who have voiced a desire to actually try to end the war. Doc wants to do this by bringing both sides together, while O'Malley's solution is to simply wipe out both sides (''along with everything else'').
 
Doc is seemingly killed by the Alien at the end of the third season. This makes Doc, along with Lopez, O'Malley, and Wyoming, another character that has mysteriously vanished from the series without a clear explanation.
 
===O'Malley===
*'''Full name: O'Malley (Omega)'''
*'''Armor Color: <font color=gray>Gray</font> (Mental Projection), <font color=blue>Blue</font> (Possessing Caboose), <font color=#8C28A0>Purple</font> (Possessing Doc)
*'''Voice actor: Possessing Caboose: [[Joel Heyman]] (Caboose's [[voice actor|VA]]), Possessing Doc: [[Matt Hullum]] (Doc's VA)'''
The common enemy of both Red and Blue teams, O'Malley is an [[artificial intelligence|AI]] (''like [[Cortana (Halo)|Cortana]] in the original Halo'') that was put into Tex's armor during training in order to make her more aggressive and dangerous. Just before Tex was attacked the Reds for the second time, O'Malley leapt via radio into the body of Caboose, where he caused Caboose to periodically make threatening statements in "a scary voice", but failed to actually take control of his body. After being forced from Caboose by Church and Tex, O'Malley possessed Doc, of whom he was able to take almost total control and embarked upon his own agenda.
 
His personality is extremely evil and aggressive. A stereotypically over-the-top [[Narcissistic personality disorder|megalomaniac]] and [[supervillain]] [[parody]], O'Malley pretty much wants to destroy both the Red and Blue Armies and either destroy or take over the universe and "''crush every living soul into dust.''"
 
O'Malley is prone to very long, silly, and utterly unnecessary monologues, usually accompanied by extreme close-ups of his face, followed by long, senseless evil laughing. He occasionally mispronounces words (such as pronouncing nuclear as [[nucular]]) and must be reminded of them by Lopez and Doc.
 
His real name is Omega, according to Wyoming. The name O'Malley came from the combination of Omega and Alison (Om-Ali). O'Malley's current status is unknown, but he was apparently killed by the Alien.
 
===Gary===
*'''Full name: Gary the computer'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Mac OS X]] [[speech synthesis|Voice Synthesizer]]'''
*'''Appearances: Season 3: Episodes 49, 50, 52, 54, 57 Season 4: Episode 62'''
Gary is a computer (similar to Durandal in ''[[Marathon (computer game)|Marathon]]'') that Church meets when he is propelled into the past. He is seen in the "future" as the base computer of O'Malley's fortress. Gary is the keeper of the ''GREAT WEAPON'', and tells from the ''GREAT PROPHECY'' that a Blue being, who will be the stupidest life form in the universe (which Church assumes is a reference to Caboose), will obtain the ''GREAT WEAPON'', become the ''GREAT DESTROYER'', and bring about the ''GREAT DOOM'' to billions of people.
 
Church convinces Gary to build a teleporter that will transport him to Blood Gulch, so he can hopefully prevent everything that has happened. At (near) full processing power, it took Gary slightly over 1,000 years to build one. Gary is quite fond of jokes, and sometimes uses [[knock-knock joke]]s to communicate, rather than giving a straight answer. The race that programmed Gary refers to the ''GREAT DESTROYER'' as a "Shisno" (''equivalent to the feces '''of''' the feces of the foulest smelling animal on their planet'') which is implied to be human.
 
===Andy===
*'''Full name: Andy the bomb'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Nathan Zellner]]'''
Built by Tex, Andy is the bomb that Caboose carried into the fortress. He has a short temper, and is extremely rude and vulgar. He and Gary rarely converse, as they are "not on speaking terms." Andy tells Caboose about the Red's secret meeting, but his cohorts do not believe him at first, as Andy is silent when they approach. However, he has an outburst when Gary says that Andy is a jerk. Caboose and Andy have several conversations, and seem to be the only pair of characters who do not insult each other. It also seems that only Andy can understand what is said by the alien, due to the fact that he was constructed using pieces of an old protocol droid found on the perimeter of the base.
 
Andy has joined the ''sacred quest'' group to act as a translator for the Alien.
 
===Alien===
*'''Full names: Alien (Honk-Honk, Crunch-Bite)'''
*'''Armor Color: <font color=#00008B>Dark Blue</font> ([[Covenant Elite]])'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Nathan Zellner]]'''
In the fouth season, Church's spirit form is literally scared out of his host body by the sudden appearance of an alien creature. This prompts the Blues to attempt to hunt it down, but this only results in a series of humiliating defeats for them. Even Tex is cut down seconds after attempting to attack the alien, and like Church, is forced to flee her host body. Strangely enough, Caboose manages to befriend the alien (and names him "Crunch-Bite") with his easy-going attitude and, more importantly, the fact that the alien takes a bite out of him and finds him unpalatable.
 
The alien has a habit of staying crouched, and its language appears to consist entirely of *blarg* and *honk*. It also smells extremely horrible to the Blues. When asked to give a name by the Blues, the alien replies "'''Honk-Honk'''". It is later confirmed by Gary that the alien is a member of the species that built him.
 
The alien finally reveals in '''episode 63 & 64''' that he was in fact on a quest to retrieve the ''GREAT WEAPON'' that Tucker had discovered when he fell into the hole under the windmill. When the alien saw Tucker with the sword, he began to attack and beat Tucker to a pulp, mostly out of jealously and frustration. Now that Tucker has the sword that he was supposed to retrieve, he and Tucker have to join forces and continue on a ''sacred quest''. If Tucker doesn't agree to this, the alien will destroy the base and kill everyone.
 
===THE GREAT DESTROYER===
The '''Great Destroyer''' is a being that will steal the '''GREAT WEAPON''' and use it to bring the '''GREAT DOOM''' to the galaxy, according to the '''GREAT PROPHECY''' by the race that built Gary. The '''GREAT PROPHECY''' describes the '''GREAT DESTROYER''' as a "''blue being''" who will be "''the stupidest lifeform in the universe''". For a long time, it was assumed that the prophecy referred to Caboose, but was then assumed to be Tucker (''because he had obtained the sword''), then Tex. However, in the [[season finale|finale]] of the third season, ''The Storm'', it is suggested the ''GREAT DESTROYER'' is an entirely different character altogether. Something appears (''off-camera'') and single-handedly wipes out O'Malley's robot army, and apparently kills O'Malley himself, then is finally seen sneaking up on Church at the end of the episode. It turns out to be an alien, of the same race that built Gary. Gary, however, insists that the ''GREAT DESTROYER'' is a Shisno, which he describes as a human.
 
While some fans speculated that the '''GREAT DESTROYER''' has been seen during later parts of the third season, the Rooster Teeth team has commented that the "secret" glimpses of it have actually been other characters that they were not clear enough on.
 
It is also worth noting that the confusion over the race of the '''GREAT DESTROYER''' reflects Bungie's own dealings with The Reclaimer in Halo and Halo 2. The Master Chief and Miranda Keyes characters are recognized by the Halo caretakers as "Reclaimers" even though humanity has supposedly never made contact with Halo before, and Master Chief is even referenced as having been present during major events in Halo's history, even though these events may have taken place before modern homo sapiens evolved on Earth. When Gary says the race of '''GREAT DESTROYER''' is called shisno, which he assumes to be human, and later the facts do not seem to add up, it is most likely a way of paying homage to (''and poking fun at'') the Halo series itself.
 
==Guest characters==
===Wyoming===
*'''Full name: unknown'''
*'''Armor color: White'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Matt Hullum]]'''
*'''Appearances: Season 3: Episodes 40-43, 52'''
Wyoming is a ruthless [[mercenary]] with a (''rather fake'') British accent who was hired by O'Malley to kill Tucker. Like Tex, he was trained in a secret project, in which all the participants were paired with an AI and code-named after one of the 49 American states that still exist at the time.<small>†</small> During his search for Tucker, he single-handedly wipes out the entire Sidewinder-based Red team (the Blues there were already killed by Tex before the series started). He is also responsible for shooting the rocket launcher out of Tucker's hands at a critical moment, keeping Tucker from destroying Church before the bomb inside the latter exploded, which, when combined with the power of the weather machine in Lopez, threw most of the characters into the future and caused Church to be thrown into the past. The whereabouts of Wyoming are currently unknown.<br><small>† "Man, poor Florida." - Tucker</small>
 
===The Red Zealot===
*'''Full name: unknown'''
*'''Armor color: <font color=red>Red</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Michael Burns|Mike 'Burnie' Burns]], under the influence of [[helium]]'''
*'''Appearances: Season 3: Episodes 39, 40, 43, 46-48'''
The Red Zealot is one of the immortal, respawning Red team members from the Battle Creek map, seen in the third season. A hyperactive, frantic, melodramatic fellow with a high-pitched voice, his fast-paced speech consists almost entirely of Biblical-type quotes and religious [[dogma]], and in battle he often speaks about [[crusade]]s and [[promised land]]s. He has hooked up with O'Malley, having been convinced the rogue A.I. is in fact the Guardian of the Holy Temple. His teammates O'Malley, Doc, and Lopez find him extremely annoying, but keep him around because he performs menial tasks without complaint and even with a degree of enjoyment. Ultimately, he was killed by Tucker when the Red-Blue alliance launched their attack on O'Malley's citadel. However, given his ever-respawning nature, he may eventually reappear. A deleted scene in the season 3 DVD showed the Red Zealot resurrecting and vowing revenge, but this is probably not [[canon (fiction)|canon]].
 
===Butch Flowers===
*'''Full name: Captain Butch Flowers'''
*'''Armor Color: <font color=teal>Teal</font>'''
*'''Voice actor: [[Ed Robertson]] (of the [[Barenaked Ladies]])'''
*'''Appearances: Episode 50'''
Captain Butch Flowers was the Blue Army's previous commanding officer at Blood Gulch, who died well before the series started. His character is introduced when Church travels forward in time to his own past. Flowers appears to be a very mellow person, with a very odd, informal style of leadership and personality, and he speaks very softly. He tends to be very kind with the troops under his command. Before his death, Flowers was planning to lead a Blue offensive to destroy the Red Army in Blood Gulch, and knew the key to the Blue Army's victory. However, he died from an apparent heart attack in his sleep before he could lead the attack or reveal his plans - and before he could order a sniper rifle for Tucker. Future Church's attempt to save Flowers turns out to be exactly what killed him in the first place. Flowers lives on in a fashion, however, as his teal armor is taken by Tucker.
 
==External links==
* [http://www.redvsblue.com/ ''Red vs Blue'' official site]
* [http://rvb.roostertooths.com/ The Unofficial ''Red vs Blue'' Resource Site]
 
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