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*Matt Hullum (Season 2-4, 6, 8-10, Restoration)

*Gavin Free (Relocated, Season 7)

*Miles Luna (The Chorus Trilogy - Seasons 11-13)

*Joshua Ornelas (Season 14, Singularity)

*Burnie Burns (2003-2020, 2024)

*Yomary Cruz (2003-2024)

*Joel Heyman (2003-2020)

*Dan Godwin (2003-2020)

*Matt Hullum (2003-2024)

*Geoff Ramsey (2003-2024)

*Jason Saldaña (2003-2024)

*Gustavo Sorola (2003-2024)

*Kathleen Zuelch (2003-2024)

*Shannon McCormick (2003-2024)

*Jen Brown (2003-2024)

*Miles Luna (2013-2024)

*Gray G. Haddock (2013-2019)

*Ricco Fajardo (2018-2019)

*Lee Eddy (2008-2019)

*Noël Wiggins (2020-2021)

*Fiona Nova (2020-2024)

*Christian Young (2020-2021)

*Jenn K. Tidwell (2020-2021)

*Hannah McCarthy (2020-2021)

*April 1, 2003–June 28, 2007 (The Blood Gulch Chronicles)

*June 16, 2006–September 13, 2010 (Recollections)

*June 14, 2011–November 5, 2012 (Project Freelancer)

*May 7, 2024 (Restoration)

*The Blood Gulch Chronicles: 105

*Project Freelancer: 51

{{Article quote|In the distant future, ten soldiers battle for control of the least desirable piece of real estate in the known universe- a box canyon in the middle of nowhere.}}

 

'''Red vs. Blue''', often abbreviated as '''RvB''', is a [[machinima]] series created by [[Rooster Teeth|Rooster Teeth Productions]]. The story centers around the adventures of two teams composed of simulation soldiers. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and its sequels and prequel, ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', ''Halo: Reach'', ''Halo 4'', ''Halo 5: Guardians'', and ''Halo Infinite''.

The show's cast divides into several factions, but the story focus itself on a group named "the Reds and Blues", who originally were assigned to Blood Gulch to fight each other. Despite the enmity the Red and Blue Team members are supposed to harbor for one another, this usually does not apply personally to the enemy soldiers, who often engage in one-on-one conversation. The groups that appeared in the story are/were:

==Plot summary==

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Season 1)}}

 

The Blood Gulch Chronicles begins with the introduction of two rookies on the Red and Blue teams, also getting a jeep and a tank respectively. While the Red Team leader, Sarge, was at Red Command, the Red recruit, Donut, is sent on a fool's errand by his fellow soldiers(Simmons and Grif), only to accidentally steal the enemy flag when he believed it to be the store (and the Blue rookie Caboose believing Donut to be the General foretold in the fool's errand of his own). The weeks of reconnaissance and intelligence gathering breaks down into chaos and poorly constructed offensives.

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Season 2)}}

 

Several months after the first season, a medical officer, named Frank Dufresne, arrives to check on the wounded soldier '''Blue''' team reported. He had come months afterward, so by the time he got there, the wounded soldier (Tex) had already died. Almost immediately after his arrival the Red team attacks. Red team salvages their failed attack by getting Doc as an exchange for Blue team's surrender (although he was ordered to go to Red team anyway). Doc's added involvement in the canyon, combined with a rampant AI infecting Caboose will force the two opposing teams to do the unthinkable.

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Season 3)}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Season 4)}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Season 5)}}

 

A ship from Earth has crash-landed in the middle of the canyon on top of Donut, bringing a new soldier, Grif's sister. Red team experiences a major crisis in their chain of command and Blue team welcomes a new addition to the family. Church tries to stop O'Malley once and for all.

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Recovery One}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Relocated}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Recreation}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Revelation}}

{{Quote|Before there was Red vs. Blue, there was Project Freelancer.|Season 9 tagline}}

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Season 9}}

Season 9 begins with Epsilon in the storage unit, experiencing similar events in The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Along with this, a new Freelancer back story was also shown, detailing the history of Project Freelancer, namely the events when Tex joins the group. As Epsilon search for Epsilon-Tex in the damaged memory unit, he realizes what the Director and the Alpha couldn't. The two plots are told simultaneously.  

{{Quote|The biggest season ever. Of all time.|Season 10 Tagline}}

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Season 10}}

 

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Season 11}}

 

Set sometime after Season 10, Season 11 follows Sarge, Grif, and Simmons of Red team and Caboose, Tucker, and Washington of Blue team as they are being transported home after being pardoned for helping bring down Project Freelancer. Unfortunately, the transport crash lands at an unknown location (most likely caused by the combined faults of everyone). Knowing that they'll be stranded for sometime, the Reds and Blues begin building their bases and wait to be rescued. This season takes the series back to its roots: only use the game engine without using CGI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Zero}}

{{Quote|When the universe’s greatest villain returns in a terrifying new form, old adversaries, the Reds and Blues of Blood Gulch, will have to set aside their differences to save the galaxy one last time.|Restoration synopsis}}

Announced on July 7, 2023, '''Restoration''' was announced as the nineteenth and final full season of RvB, bringing Burnie Burns back as the final season's writer and Matt Hullum as season's director. '''Restoration''' takes place right at the end of Season 13, re-canonizing The Shisno Trilogy and Zero as simulations run by Epsilon in his last living moments while he tries to make sure his friends will make out alive in the unforeseable future. When an old enemy returns, the Reds and Blues must join forces one last time. Originally planned to be released in an episodic schedule, '''Restoration''' was instead released as a full-length film as result of Rooster Teeth Productions being shut down by Warner Bros. Discovery.

There are two Maxi series, both only available on [[Halo Waypoint]] until April 2015, when Rooster Teeth registered a YouTube channel for ''Red vs. Blue''.

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: MIA}}

''MIA'' is a 6-episodes miniseries released to celebrate and promote the launch of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''. It was first mentioned in August [[2011]], during Halo Fest, where the cast had a table read of the series first three episodes' scripts, as well as some improvised comedic lines.<ref>[https://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Games/Detail/red-vs-blue-table-read/1577b57f-ef6a-4874-a613-5ffdafcdd84c '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Red vs. Blue Table Read'']</ref> The first episode was released on Halo Waypoint in November 2011.  

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Where There's a Will, There's a Wall}}

 

 

 

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue 360}}

''Red vs. Blue: Family Shatters'' is a non-canon spinoff of ''Red vs. Blue: Zero'', featuring both members of Shatter Squad and Viper syndicate in slice-of-life shorts.

====QvsA====

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: QvsA}}

''QvsA'' is a series of special episodes hosted by Grif and Simmons, where they try to answer questions about Red vs. Blue.

Aside from a few scenes created using ''Marathon: Infinity'', ''Marathon 2'', and ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved (PC port)|''Halo: Combat Evolved'' for PC]]'', ''Red vs. Blue'' is mostly filmed with interconnected Xbox consoles. As the series title suggests, the original chronicles are largely set in the multiplayer map ''Blood Gulch'' and the later series are set in ''Blood Gulch'' successors in ''Halo 2'', ''Halo 3'', and ''Halo: Reach''. Within a multiplayer game session, the people controlling the avatars "puppet" their characters, moving them around, firing weapons, and performing other actions as dictated by the script, and in synchronization with the episode's dialogue, which is recorded ahead of time.

The "camera" is simply another player, whose first-person perspective is recorded raw to a computer. As the recording occurs within the game, a few different bugs and post-production techniques have been exploited in order to achieve desired visual effects. In particular, Adobe Premiere Pro is used to edit the audio and video together, impose letterboxing to hide the camera player's head-up display, add the titles and fade-to-black screens, and create some visual effects that cannot be accomplished in-game.{{Ref/Reuse|S1DVDComment}}

By ''Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction'', Rooster Teeth has retconned the events in the past five seasons, integrating the plot into the ''Halo'' canon, turning ''Red vs. Blue'' from a comedy to ''Halo'' fan fiction. The key comedy remains in the series, while actions scenes were added into the series. In 2009, Rooster Teeth remastered the first five seasons, removing the traditional HUD camera and combined all episodes into one single video.<ref>[http://roosterteeth.com/store/product.php?id=194 '''Rooster Teeth''': ''RvB: The First Five Seasons Box Set - Remastered Edition'']</ref> As of ''Red vs. Blue: Revelation'', Rooster Teeth had hired web-based animator [[Wikipedia:Monty Oum|Monty Oum]] to implement completely animated scenes into the series. The newly animated scenes uses in-game assets from the ''Halo'' series and allows much more storytelling possibilities.

''Red vs. Blue'' is widely credited with attracting public attention to [[machinima]]. Although examples had existed since the 1990s, Clive Thompson, a journalist from ''New York Times'', credits ''Red vs. Blue'' as "the first to break out of the underground".<ref name="Thompson2">[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/07MACHINI.html?_r=1 '''The New York Times''': ''The Xbox Auteurs'']</ref> In ''Halo 2'',  Bungie inserted a special command — a joystick button that makes a soldier lower their weapon — designed solely to make it easier for Rooster Teeth to do dialogue.

===Homage from the ''Halo'' series===

*On [[Bungie.net]] and Halo Waypoint, the [[Flag Kill]] medal's description, which is triggered by scrolling over the flag symbol, is "It's right next to the headlight fluid". This is a reference to episodes 3 and 4 of ''Blood Gulch Chronicles'' where the new recruit, Donut, is sent on a fool's errand to fetch "headlight fluid" and "elbow grease". Instead, he mistakenly goes to Blue Base and takes their flag.

*In ''Halo 3'', the [[Password-lacking Marine]] involves a Marine and a voice behind a door arguing. Not only are the duo voiced by the Rooster Teeth crew, their arguments also make reference to ''Red vs. Blue'' lines.

**One of the ODSTs notes that their [[Sangheili]] prisoner [[Jul ‘Mdama]] sounds like he is saying "Blarg". This is a reference to the Sangheili, referred to as "aliens", in ''Red vs. Blue'' only saying "Blarg" and "Honk".

**The AI [[Black Box]] calls [[Evan Phillips]] "Phyllis", which was the original name of the Blue Team's [[M808B Main Battle Tank|tank's]] [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]], Sheila.

*When Red team tricks someone and steals something by surprise, they would say "Yoink!" This was made into the [[Yoink]] medal in ''Halo: Reach''. Whenever someone is performing an assassination and their target dies before the animation finished, that player gets the medal "Yoink!"

*One of ''[[Halo 4]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Achievements is called "[[I 3 Red vs Blue|I <3 Red vs Blue]]", which can be obtained by winning 5 War Games. Another Achievement, [[Roses vs Violets]], can be obtained by finding an Easter egg of the series during [[Spartan Ops]].

**When the player shoots to a hidden box in a lava stream in Episode 1 Chapter 5 and get the achievement Roses vs Violets, Michael J. Caboose of Blue Team will slip in the radio transmissions between [[Sarah Palmer]], [[Robert Dalton]] and [[Fireteam Castle]].

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 4 Chapter 2, Vic can be heard flirting with Palmer.

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 6 Chapter 4, when [[Fireteam Switchback]] contacts the [[UNSC Infinity]], instead of [[SPARTAN-IV|SPARTAN]] [[Cara Costabile]], Sarge (posing as a "Corporal Switchback") will be heard asking Infinity if their slipspace drive is running, followed by the usual punchline of "Better go catch it!". A few seconds later, Grif can be heard screaming "Baba-Booey!! Baba-Booey!!".

*''Red vs. Blue'' paid homage to Bungie's love for [[seven]]. Some examples include Sister stating that she was close to having seven abortions, the Red Zealot from Battle Creek claiming that Caboose is the one who will "rule [them] for seven years", the Meta capturing seven artificial intelligence fragments in total, and Epsilon-Tex assaulting Grif's groin seven times.

*In Revelation Chapter 20, a UNSC interrogator stated that "the budget only allows for one crashed Pelican per mission." This is a reference to the fact that every level (mission) in ''Halo 3'' has at least one crashed Pelican (with the exception of ''Crow's Nest'').

*All of the Freelancers were stripped of their real names and were given codenames based on the 50 US states, similar to the [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-IIs]]; with the only difference being that the SPARTANS kept their first names. As well, they each had a number system similar to the Spartans, though the only confirmed example is New York; F-12 (Foxtrot-12), with "F" for Freelancer instead of "S" for Spartan or Sierra.

*''Red vs. Blue'', was originally intended to last only six installments, but its popularity led to the production of 100 episodes of ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', and more seasons afterwards.

*The popular Double EXP Weekend game type "[[Grifball]]" is based on Sarge's line from episode 59 of ''Red vs. Blue''.

*Red vs. Blue met Fortnite streamer Ninja in a short during Fortnite's build up to the release of Master Chief as a skin in-game.

File:RvB Relocated banner.jpg|Red vs. Blue: Relocated.

File:RvB Recollections cover art.jpg|Recollections DVD boxset.

File:RvB Animated title card.jpg|Red vs. Blue: Animated.

File:RvB X 10 years blu ray cover.png|10 Years of Red vs. Blue DVD/Blu-ray cover.

File:RvB The Best RvB DVD ever Of all time Cover.jpg|"The Best Red vs. Blue DVD ever. Of all time." DVD/Blu-ray Cover

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==See also==

*[[rvb:Red vs. Blue Wiki|'''RvB Wiki''', the Red vs. Blue Wiki]]

*[[wikiquote:Red vs. Blue|'''Wikiquote''': ''Red vs. Blue'']]

 

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