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Red vs. Blue is a comedy science fiction web series created by Burnie Burns using the Halo video game engine. It follows two teams of soldiers in a simulated war in Blood Gulch, and later expands to other settings and characters.
A gruff sergeant. An unlucky ghost. A psychotic mercenary. A sarcastic slacker. An unrepentant kiss-up. Two morons. A tank with impeccable manners. And a rob...
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The writing process for the series has changed over time. Early in season 1, Burns wrote the episode scripts from week to week, with minimal planning in advance; major plot events were conceived shortly before they were filmed. For the second season, Matt Hullum became a main writer. A rough plot outline is now written before a season begins, altho...
The Blood Gulch Chronicles is the first main saga in the Red vs. Blue series, spanning 5 seasons, 100 episodes, and a 5-part mini-series - Out of Mind.
The Recollection is the second saga in the main series. It includes Reconstruction, Recreation, and Revelation—seasons six, seven, and eight respectively. It also includes two mini-series: Recovery One and Relocated.
The Project Freelancer Saga is the third main saga of the series, spanning two seasons and two mini-series, MIA and Where There's a Will, There's a Wall. Unlike the previous two sagas, however, the Project Freelancer saga focuses on prequel events taking place before The Blood Gulch Chronicles, as well as present-day events taking place after The Recollection.
Season 14 is an anthology series based within the universe of Red vs. Blue, featuring various canonical and non-canonical episodes surrounding numerous characters and locations.
The Shisno Trilogy is the fifth main saga of the series, taking place ten months after The Chorus Trilogy. The story focuses on the Reds and Blues getting themselves involved in an intergalactic conflict after being brought out of retirement by a reporter.
Zero is the standalone eighteenth and final season of the series that follows the story of Shatter Squad, a special operations unit who's mission is to stop the mysterious syndicate known as Viper from obtaining Ultimate Power. Family Shatters is the sequel to this season. Originally a non-canonical spinoff surrounding the characters introduced in Zero, this series was retroactively deemed the nineteenth season of Red vs. Blue after the events of Restoration confirmed the events of seasons fo...
Restoration is a feature-length film and finale to the series, taking place sometime after the events of Season 13 while ignoring the events of The Shisno Trilogy and Zero. The story follows the remaining Reds and Blues on their final mission to take down the universe's greatest villainone last time.
Public Service Announcements, or PSAs, are short, non-canonical videos featuring the Reds and Blues delivering their opinions and suggestions for various topics.
Special Episodes are short videos featuring the Reds and Blues, usually celebrating holidays or promoting events for other companies and properties such as Halo. Like PSAs, these are also non-canonical to the main series.
Team Slipspace: An Epic Grifball Saga is the first spinoff series of Red vs. Blue, centering on the athletes that make up the titular Grifball sports team.
Impact on Machinima
Red vs. Blue is widely credited with attracting public attention to Machinima. Although examples had existed since the 1990s, Clive Thompson credits Red vs. Blue as "the first to break out of the underground". Tavares, Gil, and Roque call it Machinima's "first big success". Thompson notes that "Microsoft has been so strangely solicitous that when it was developing the sequel to Halo last year, the designers actually inserted a special command — a joystick button that makes a soldier lower his...
Impact on Video Games
Due to the series' large and growing popularity, many within the video game industry have made reference to the web-series numerous times. For example, the Halo franchise has referenced the series' characters and recurring jokes in many of its games, as well as hiring Rooster Teeth Productions to promote their products through the web-series. Critics have even stated Red vs. Blueto have amazing character development which other media should take an example of.
Red vs. Bluewas originally intended to last only six episodes, but its popularity led to the production of over three-hundred, with separate seasons.Currently, only ten characters have appeared in 100 or more episodes in the series, which are: Caboose, Simmons, Grif, Sarge, Tucker, Donut, Church, Epsilon, Lopez, Washington and Carolina. Tex has...Throughout the series, each of the original cast, with the exceptions of Washington, Tex, and Sister, has sung in either an official episode, a special episode, a PSA, and/or an official season sou...Sarge, Caboose, and Grif are currently the only characters in the series that have made an appearance in every season of the Legacy series (Note: Grif makes a vocal appearance in Season 9 instead o...Red vs. BlueOfficial SiteMar 6, 2015 · The first episode of Red vs. Blue introduces the main characters, and poses the all-important question, why are we here? To watch more episodes of Red vs. Bl...
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Red vs. Blue is the longest running episodic web series and second longest running web series of all time. Red vs. Blue emerged from Burnie Burns' voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' FPS video game Halo: Combat Evolved. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game ...
Red vs. Blue: With Joel Heyman, Burnie Burns, Gustavo Sorola, Matt Hullum. After the Halo event of 2552, there is a brief but violent period of civil war among the humans. Two armies on opposite sides of a canyon, the Reds and Blues, fight on the most worthless piece of real estate in the galaxy.
