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Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, sometimes abbreviated as RvB, is a science fiction comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series is produced primarily by using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from computer and video games to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of Bungie Studios' first-person shooter (FPS) video games Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 on the Microsoft Xbox video game console. Chronicling the story of two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon, the series is an absurdist parody of FPS games, military life, and other science fiction films.

Begun in 2003 and currently in its fourth season, Red vs Blue has won four awards from the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. The series is generally praised for its originality, and has been credited with bringing new popularity to machinima, helping it to gain more mainstream exposure, and attracting more people to the art form. Graham Leggat, a former director of communications for Lincoln Center's film society, has called the series "truly as sophisticated as Samuel Beckett". With the first three seasons currently available on DVD, it is also one of the first commercially released and successful machinima products.

Plot summary

Red vs Blue tells the story of the Red Team and the Blue Team, two groups of soldiers belonging to two opposing armies, who occupy two small bases in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. Each team's base seems only to exist in response to the other team's base. While both teams generally dislike the other and have standing orders to defeat them and capture their flag, neither team's soldiers are particularly motivated to fight each other. Teammates have a wide array of eccentric personalities and often create more problems for each other than for their enemies.

Although the animation is done primarily with the Halo and Halo 2 games, Red vs Blue has little connection with the Halo fictional universe. The only reference in the main series is a brief, throw-away line in the first episode, in which Grif mentions that there are no aliens to fight because Master Chief has destroyed the Covenant armada. No other references to the Halo storyline have been made in the regular episodes, though Master Chief was again briefly mentioned as a showboating member of the Army in a video made for E3 2003. A separate reference to the Halo universe appears in the trailer, where it is told that, between the events of Halo and Halo 2, there was "a brief but violent period of civil war", in allusion to the events of the series proper. But the Blue Team's failure to recognize the alien that joined the cast in season 4 as a Covenant Elite suggests that the creators of the show either plan on presenting a parallel universe to that of Halo, or that they simply ignore the events of the games.

Rooster Teeth also periodically releases self-referential public service announcements (PSAs) and holiday-themed videos which are generally not connected to the main storyline. However, the members of both teams still act in-character.

Seasons

The seasons of Red vs Blue premiered on the following dates:

Season 1: April 1, 2003
Season 2: January 3, 2004
Season 3: October 12, 2004
Season 4: August 29, 2005 (in production)

Season 1

The delicate balance of indifference in Blood Gulch is disrupted by the introduction of new players to the "conflict". enters the fray on the and manages to capture the Blue flag on his first day, after being sent on a fool's errand by and . Meanwhile, a rookie named arrives alongside a battle tank named , and they manage to accidentally kill the self-appointed leader, . At the request of and Caboose, Blue Command hires a mercenary named to help. Church briefly returns as a ghost to warn his teammates about Tex, who soon arrives and attacks the Reds. After severely injuring Donut, Tex succeeds in returning the Blue flag, but is captured by . Church again appears to the Blues to explain that Tex is actually his former girlfriend, whose mind is partially under the control of a psychotic artificial intelligence (AI). Church organizes a rescue mission that succeeds after some difficulties. In an attempt to keep Tex stationed in Blood Gulch so that he can attempt to remove the AI from her head, Church possesses the Red Team's robot, , to warn them of Tex's pending attack. He fails and, much to his horror, she is killed in action by Donut in revenge for her previous attack. Church runs to her side, stealing Lopez's body in the process.

Season 2

Three months later, a medic named (soon nicknamed "Doc") — on loan to both armies, due to low resources — arrives in the canyon and checks on the Blue Team, just before the Reds attack. The Reds take Doc as a hostage, but soon tire of his personality and ditch him in the middle of the canyon. Church is still trying to get used to his new, stolen robot body, of which he eventually loses control. Tex returns as a ghost and informs the Blues that her AI, , had jumped to Caboose right before her death, thereby explaining his recent aggressive behavior. Jumping inside Caboose's mind, Church and Tex try to eliminate O'Malley, but the AI escapes and possesses Doc. Later, Donut is captured by the Blues during a reconnaissance mission and Sarge is forced to build two new robot bodies in exchange for his return. Meanwhile, Sheila and Lopez form their own robot army, and come to the exchange in order to conquer the Blues. This culminates in a Mexican standoff, during which Tucker discovers that both teams are apparently secretly controlled by the same Command, as both teams have the same contact, a man named . O'Malley suddenly appears, kidnaps Lopez, and escapes with him through a teleporter. The Red and Blue Teams call a truce and form two-man teams to pursue O'Malley. However, the teleporter malfunctions, and the teams become separated and scattered across various locations outside Blood Gulch.

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