Leonard L. Church

Leonard L. Church, also known as Church, The Alpha and The Stupid Mean One, is the main protagonist from the Red vs. Blue series.
== Charactah Account ==
A neurotic and almost perpetually angry individual who barely gets along with his teammates, Church is the defacto leader of the Blue Team since their commanding officer, Captain Flowers, died of a heart attack.
Church is killed in a friendly fire incident very early in the series, but quickly returns as a ghost, and later possesses a robotic body. Despite wielding a sniper rifle and acting as the team's designated marksman, he is an awful shot, often emptying an entire clip without hitting anything.
Church's ability to survive death and possess people is because he is actually the remains of the Alpha AI based on the mind of Project Freelancer's Director. Church vehemently insists he's a ghost, not an AI, but is nonetheless willing to work with Agent Washington to fight the Meta, culminating in his erasure by an "emp" at the end of the season.
== 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: Out of Mind
* Red vs. Blue: Singularity
* Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox
== Trivia ==
* Unlike his counterpart Epsilon, Church himself has not been alternatively computer animated, although he is seen in an animated render on the "Churchisms" poster. However, the poster also shows the monitor, suggesting it could be Epsilon instead of Church.
** In "Killing Time", there is a computer animated Church, though in that case it's a memory being possessed by Genkins.
** However, Church has been shown in 2D animation in Red vs. Blue: Animated.
*** This appearance of Church was retconned in the Red vs. Blue: Season 13 episode Room Zero, as it is now Epsilon.
* Despite holding a sniper rifle all the time, Church seems to miss nearly every shot with it, unless he's lucky or by accident. Whenever Church actually manages to line up a shot, something always renders it irrelevant (either he shoots something unimportant or a temporal loop/distortion gets in the way).
* To date, it is unknown what the L. used to represent Church's middle name stands for.
* For some unknown reason Church is afraid of sickness. This is revealed in Season 4 when Tucker was "sick" and Church was too afraid to go into Blue Base and find out what was wrong with Tucker instead being content with sending in Andy instead, despite the fact that he was still an A.I. in a robot's body, or at least a ghost as far as he knew at the time.
* Despite living in a robot body, Caboose and Tucker claim Church is getting fatter in Season 5.
* One possible reason that Church and Tex broke up may be because of disloyalty. Church once mentioned to Tucker that Tex would often steal his money and sleep with other men. Also, in Vive la Resolution!, for resolution recommendations for Tex, one reads; "She meant nothing to me," and "How many times do we have to have this argument?" As these memories were ultimately fake due to Church being the Alpha, it is unknown if this history was in any way rooted in the people he and Tex were based on.
** There is a possibility that some of the memories of him and Tex he recounted belonged to Jimmy, who was also mentioned to have a girlfriend of his own before Alpha was implanted into him. While only speculation, it is possible that some of Jimmy's memories of him and his girlfriend, as well as the hypothetical bumps in their relationship were mixed with Church's, which could have lead to the breakdown in his relationship with Tex.
* Despite generally hating him, Church became genuinely sad, and angry when Caboose is killed in an attempt to save him and Tucker from Wyoming during Same Old, Same Old.
* It could be possible that Church is Jewish, due to the fact that one of the graves in Everything Old is New Again had a Star of David (a symbol commonly used on Jewish items, including tomb stones). Also in Red vs. Blue: The Musical, all of Church's graves are marked with Stars of David.
** In Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide, when the Director meets Allison for the first time, he states that his surname is Jewish. This heavily implies that he, and Church by extension, are likely Jewish. (It should be noted, however, that the Alpha idea had likely not been conceived at this point and the gravestones were likely included for comedic effect, as Tucker even notes that the team doesn't even have the tools to bury someone, much less construct them a gravestone.)
** In the RvB Holiday Special (non-canon), Sarge mentions that next year "Church is going to sing us something about a dreidel," a Jewish item.
* Alpha is one of four A.I.s, the others being Sigma, Omega, and Epsilon, that can influence his host to the point where he can fully control their actions, such as when he took control of Sarge.
* When Church was revealed to be an A.I., it was originally stated that the body he possessed before Caboose killed him wasn't biological, even though Tucker claims it stunk. Burnie Burns confirmed in the Jenga Jam interview that Church's first body was, in fact, robotic and Tucker's comment was just a joke. This was further established in the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide, stating that Red Team was also given a robot making kit to mask that Alpha was on blue team. However, in Why They're Here, this was retconned so that Church was unknowingly possessing Pvt. Jimmy, explaining why he stunk.
* Both Church and Simmons briefly appear in RED vs BLUE, a video by Corridor Digital, with Burnie Burns and Gustavo Sorola reprising their roles.
* Oddly, in Motion to Adjourn, despite hardly ever being able to hit ANYTHING, Church manages to shoot Caboose's pinkie toe.
* Burnie Burns said most of Church's personality is inspired by Gustavo Sorola, who is known to be bossy and yell at others.
* Church's name came from a sign in Buda, Texas that simply reads "CHURCH", which Burnie Burns drove by on the day he was deciding on character names.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Leonard L. Church at Red vs. Blue Wiki
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