Dexter Grif

Dexter Grif, also known as Dex, Minor Junior Private and Negative First Class, is one of the main characters of the Red vs. Blue series.
== Charactah Account ==
Lazy, out-of-shape, and Sarge's personal butt-monkey. Just about every one of Sarge's plans involves Grif being killed in some way, and most of Red Team's official emergency protocols begin by shooting Grif.
Grif is suggested to be fairly intelligent, at least in the eyes of Church, but he's too much of a slacker to contribute much. A conscript, Grif sleeps through official meetings and tries to quit the army whenever he can.
Grif is Red Team's designated deadpan snarker and only sane man, though his apathy towards pretty much everything somewhat cancels that out. He spends much of his time bickering with his "friend" Simmons, when he isn't stealing the latter's identity and running up huge bills at pawn shops and peep shows.
== Appearance ==
=== Web-Animation ===
* Red vs. Blue
* Red vs. Blue Season 2
* Red vs. Blue Season 3
* Red vs. Blue Season 4
* Red vs. Blue Season 5
* Red vs. Blue Season 6
* Red vs. Blue Season 7
* Red vs. Blue Season 8
* Red vs. Blue Season 9
* Red vs. Blue Season 10
* Red vs. Blue Season 11
* Red vs. Blue Season 12
* Red vs. Blue Season 13
* Red vs. Blue Season 14
* Red vs. Blue Season 15
* Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox
* Red vs. Blue: Singularity
== Trivia ==
* It seems Grif is a smoker as shown in What's Mine is Yours; however, he's never shown smoking again afterward.
** It is also hinted that he may also be a drug user, in Previously On, he had discovered mushrooms that mimic the effects of methamphetamines on an extreme scale, not only did he spike Simmons food with it, but brought it with him to consume later when rescuing them. Additionally, Season 5 showed that he took several drugged shots from a Needler to get knocked out while only one was required for Simmons.
* Grif is often regarded as heavily overweight by the other characters in the series. Although this is impossible to portray in any standard Halo video game engine, he is depicted as visibly overweight even while in armor in Red vs Blue: Animated.
* Grif and his sister are from Honolulu, Hawaii. Evidence of this can be found on the Season 5 DVD and the Recreation commentary.
* A number of facts about Grif's upbringing have been revealed over the course of the series.
** In Season 13, the O'Malley personality in Doc reveals that Grif's parents seemed to favor his sister more than him. O'Malley goes on to imply Grif did not have a stable father figure growing up.
** In Season 5, Sister revealed that their mother worked in a circus, both as the fat lady and the bearded lady. Later in Season 13, the O'Malley personality in Doc reveals that their mother also "turned tricks behind the elephant cage", which Grif was apparently aware of. O'Malley also implies Grif's eating habits are a result of him turning to food for comfort from his family life. When confronted by his friends, Grif could only sadly comment "It was a really nice circus."
* Grif is one of three families to have had a sibling physically appear on the show, the other families being North and South & Huggins and Muggins.
* Grif seems to have chiroptophobia (fear of bats) as seen when he refused to enter in the hole Sarge fell in because of them.
* In the community-created gametype Grifball, the ball-carrier turns orange when the bomb is picked up and the player becomes "Grif".
* Grif made a brief cameo appearance at the end of the Grifball mini-series "Double Agent".
* Grif states in the Columbus Day PSA that he went to Harvard University. He appeared to respect his school to some degree, openly mocking Columbia University. However, with this coming from a PSA, this is non-canon.
** In Objects in Space he states he went to Ithaca College. It is later supported when he says that Sammie Raphaelos is by the college he went to in Sis and Tuc's Sexellent Adventure.
* When asked to answer if there was anything that most people would not know about Grif on the Cockbite Radio Podcast, Geoff replied that he likes long walks on the beach, was the only one of the Reds and Blues to be drafted, and is secretly in love with Simmons, and that one day the two of them will have a baby, when science makes that possible.
* Grif is the first main character to appear in the Halo: Reach engine, during the Deja View PSA shown on Bungie Day 2010.
* Grif, along with Caboose and Sarge, is one of the only characters in the series to make an appearance in nearly every season of Red vs. Blue - though, he only makes a vocal appearance in Season 9 rather than a physical one. He, along with the other two characters, is only absent in Red vs. Blue: Zero.
* Grif, along with Simmons, is one of the only characters in the series to appear in all types of animation forms used in Red vs. Blue (machinima, 2D animation, alternative CG animation, and stop motion). They also currently have the longest series lifespan than any other character, with both being first introduced in the Red vs. Blue Trailer.
* Grif was once the lowest ranking soldier of the Reds and Blues, being a Minor Junior Private Negative First Class. However, his promotion to Captain in Season 12 now makes him among the highest-ranking soldiers encountered in the series (along with fellow captains Flowers, Simmons, Caboose, and Tucker), only behind Colonel Sarge, President Kimball, and General Doyle.
** Grif's rank of Minor Junior Private Negative First Class could be considered similar to Doc's rank, as both aren't real in the military, both are "first-class", and both obtained them from Freelancer Command (Grif got his from Washington specifically).
** Grif also has been promoted and demoted the most times out of all the characters in the series with a total of three times (Promoted from Private to Sergeant prior to Reconstruction, then demoted to Minor Junior Private Negative First Class in Reconstruction, and finally being promoted to Captain in Season 12). Sarge has since tied with him.
* Grif has been shown to grow attached to various alien-tech weapons, such as the Meta's Brute Shot, the Teleportation Grenades, and the Suppressor.
* Grif shows several similarities to Garfield the cat from the popular comic strip, as both are overweight, orange, highly lazy, and only seem to like eating and sleeping.
* According to the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide Grif survived an alien attack on his unit due to sleeping at his post causing the aliens to believe that he was dead and walk right past him. This ultimately had him transferred to Project Freelancer.
* It is heavily implied in Previously On that Grif and Simmons had sex with each other when the Temple of Procreation was activated.
** Whether this confirms Grif and Simmons to be LGBT+ characters is unclear as it's possible that the tower overrides someones sexuality while activated and there are no implications prior or afterward of either having an interest in men.
* In Objects in Space, Grif confirms he's agnostic.
* During his time in isolation, Grif learned how to speak Spanish, now making him one of the only two characters who can properly understand Lopez, with the other being Locus.
* Grif seems to be analogous to the sin of Sloth from the Seven Deadly Sins of Man. While he is typically depicted as lazy, given time, effort, and motivation, Grif has shown immense potential. One instance is how he completely mastered a foreign language in only a few weeks.
* Grif is one of the only characters on Red Team to not become an antagonist at some point. The only other member being Simmons.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Dexter Grif at Red vs. Blue Wiki
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