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|director =Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, and Miles Luna

*Burnie Burns

*Yomary Cruz

*Joel Heyman

*Dan Godwin

*Matt Hullum

*Geoff Ramsey

*Jason Saldaña

*Gustavo Sorola

*Kathleen Zuelch

*Shannon McCormick

*Jen Brown

*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)

*June 14, 2013 – November 11, 2013 (Season 11)

*April 28, 2014 – September 29, 2014 (Season 12)

*The Blood Gulch Chronicles: 100

*Season 11: 19

*Season 12: 19

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'''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, ''Halo 2'' and ''Halo 3''.

The show's cast divides into several factions: the Red Army, the Blue Army, the Project Freelancer, the [[UNSC]], the New Republic, the Federal Army of Chorus, Charon Industries, and unaffiliated parties that interact with the core cast. 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.

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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. The Red recruit, Donut, is sent on a fool's errand by his fellow soldiers, 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 offenses.

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Several months after the first season, a medical officer 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.

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A ship from Earth has crash-landed in the middle of the canyon, bringing a new soldier. 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.

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Season 9 begins with Epsilon in the storage unit, experiencing similar events in the 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.  

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Season 13 will be a direct follow-up to Season 12 and the last season of the Chorus Trilogy, in which the Blood Gulch Crew, the New Republic and the Federal Army of Chorus join forces to go to war against Chairman Malcom Hargrove and his space pirates.

There are currently two known Maxi series, both only available in [[Halo Waypoint]].

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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.  

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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.

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The Best of Red vs. Blue Awards, also known as "The Best Red vs. Blue. Ever. Of All Time", is a special video of Red vs. Blue that presents the series' most memorable moments (from Season 1 to Season 9) - as voted by the fans - and is presented in an award show type style. The special also features numerous Red vs. Blue and Grifball miniseries characters.

Aside from a few scenes created using ''Marathon: Infinity'', ''Marathon 2'', and ''[[Halo 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 name="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 has 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. The series has inspired other machinima productions, including ''[[The Codex]]'', ''[[Fire Team Charlie (machinima)|Fire Team Charlie]]'', and ''[[This Spartan Life]]''.

===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 as "aliens", in ''Red vs. Blue'' only saying "Blarg" and "Honk".

**The AI [[Black Box]] calls to [[Evan Phillips]] as "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, whoever killed him gets the medal "Yoink!"

*One of ''[[Halo 4]]'''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 the [[Majestic Squad]].

**If the player shoots a hidden box in Episode 4 Chapter 2, Vic can be heard flirting to 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 heared 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 faction]], 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 heared 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 a heavily reminiscent of [[James-005]]'s fate.

*One of ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[List of Achievements for 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 [[List of "seven" references in the Halo series|love with 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", and the Meta capturing seven artificial intelligence fragments in total.

*In Revelation Chapter 20, an 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]]'' .

*''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 another seven seasons.

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

File:250px-RvB_Relocated_300px.jpg|Red vs. Blue: Relocated.

File:Red vs Blue Recollections.jpg|Recollections DVD boxset.

File:251px-Animated_title_card.jpg|Red vs. Blue: Animated.

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

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

File:Red vs Blue Season 13 teaser.png|Red vs. Blue Season 13's Teaser picture

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

*[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue '''Wikiquote''': ''Red vs. Blue'']

 

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