Editing Red vs. Blue

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*Burnie Burns (Season 1-6, 8-10, Restoration)

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

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

*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)

*April 2, 2017-May 25, 2019 (The Shisno Trilogy)

*May 7, 2024 (Restoration)

*The Blood Gulch Chronicles: 105

*The Shisno Trilogy: 48

{{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:

{{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}}

{{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.  

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

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

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Season 12}}

 

{{Main|wiki=rvb|Red vs. Blue: Season 13}}

 

===Season 14: Anthology===

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

 

This anthology features a collection of short stories focused on various characters, factions, and events in the Red vs. Blue universe rather than an episodic storyline. This is also the first season to be written by a combination of both in-house writers and writers residing outside of Rooster Teeth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

{{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}}

 

''Where There's a Will, There's a Wall'', shortened "Red vs. Blue: Wall", is a 3-episodes miniseries relating to the Reds attempting to find out what is behind the wall in Hemorrhage, while the Blues receive a Falcon transport as a shipment and what they plan to do with it.

{{Main|wiki=rvb|The Best of Red vs. Blue Awards}}

 

====RvB 360====

''Red vs. Blue 360'' is a series of short videos that utilizes YouTube's 360º feature. It features the Reds and Blues's shenanigans on Blood Gulch.

 

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

''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'' 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===

*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".

*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]].

**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!!".

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 7 Chapter 3, when Crimson is fighting against [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]], Simmons will contact Command, saying there's a firefight in the engine room, and he needs Maintenance. [[Jared Miller|Miller]] answers him that the Spartans will be there soon, to which Simmons responds sarcastically: "Oh great! More people with guns. I'm sure THAT will fix the engine."

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 9 Chapter 5, when Crimson activates one of [[Hawk Squad]]'s [[IFF]] tags, Church will be heard discuss with a Sangheili, telling him that he does not understand what he says. The Elite, enraged, kills Church with an Energy Sword. This easter egg is a reference to the first chapters of Red vs Blue Season 4, where the Blue Team meets an alien and they have trouble understanding what the alien is saying.

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 10 Chapter 3, when Crimson must aboard a [[Lich]] with jetpacks, Freelancer Agent Georgia will say "Cool, jetpacks! That'll help us get on that ship or my name isn't Agent Georgia". This Easter is a reference to a running gag in Season 10, in which Agent Georgia was involved in a terrible incident, due to not following "course correction" while using a jetpack and his body was never found. At the same time, that reference is heavily reminiscent of [[James-005]]'s fate.

*One of ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[Achievements (Halo: The Master Chief Collection)|achievements]], specifically for ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]'' is called "[[Six Pedals, Four Directions]]", making reference to a recurrent gag in the show.

*''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'').

*During Season 12, Locus thinks that soldiers and humans are two different things, making a reference to John-117' statement in ''Halo 4''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ''[[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]]''.

*In Season 15 Episode 11, Tucker is shown playing the level "[[A New Enemy]]" from ''[[Halo Wars 2]]''.

*''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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