Dexter Grif

Captain Dexter Grif is a main character in Red vs. Blue and is voiced by Geoff Ramsey. He was born in Los Angeles for the rest of his life and tends to not listen to orders and frequently makes sarcastic comments at the expense of his own team. He also spends much time with his teammate Simmons, with whom he has a complex friendship with. He is a main character in most seasons, with the exception of Season 9, where he only has a voice cameo at the very end of the season.
==Overview==
Dexter is an lazy, out-of-shape, and Sarge's personal punching bag. 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. He's 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.
Grif's orange armor is commonly mistaken for yellow, at least while the series was still being shot in Halo 1 (later games have a much more orange-y "Orange"). He begins the series as the Reds' Sniper, opposite Church, but as the series goes on, he gradually finds himself driving and piloting vehicles, culminating at the end of Revelation, where he pilots a Pelican, untrained, with reasonably effective results.
In Reconstruction Grif is briefly promoted to Sergeant of the Rat's Nest outpost once Sarge goes AWOL, but is quickly subject to a mutiny and near-execution after he sells Red Team's ammunition to the area's Blues. Sarge agrees to work with Agent Washington in exchange for Grif's particularly humiliating demotion (this humiliating demotion might not be official however, considering Agent Washington later still refers to Grif as "Sergeant Grif").
In Season 10, he is shown to have kept the Meta's brute shot as his weapon, which he dubs "the Grifshot", and uses it in the fight against the Tex clones to rescue Epsilon and Carolina in Episodes 20 and 21.
In Season 12, Grif has joined the New Republic along with Simmons, Tucker and Caboose, and is the captain of his own squad, the Gold Team. He dislikes the name, wishing for it to be known that his armour is orange, not gold.
==Personality==
Grif is the wisecracking loud-mouth of the Reds, who is also apathetic and lazy. He is fairly brash and has a flair for the melodramatic. He is quick to make silly theories or insults, even toward people who could clearly kill him without hesitation. Grif is easily scared and would rather run away from a battle than deal with it. Although he admits to being lazy, when his sister arrives in Season 5, he said he would try to maintain his status as a good-for-nothing slacker, but nothing would stop him from beating her up and sending her back home. Grif later reveals to Sarge that he isn't lazy because he dislikes work, he is lazy because he enjoys how much it irritates Sarge.
Despite his setbacks, Grif expresses loyalty, as he has stayed with his team despite the misadventures they've had, and has also shown care for his teammates, willing to fight to save them as the series progressed. Along with this, Grif seems to actually be impacted and take in what people say about him, even though he claims he doesn't care. Such examples include his interactions with Simmons and when he begins to act like Sarge in Season 12. Although he may be lazy, he is unlikely to betray his comrades and truly seeks to be part of the team. Since Season 6, Grif has appeared to have (slightly) matured in regards to the way he treats others and has become much more soldier-oriented in mentality.
==Abilities==
Grif has been surviving explosions, falls, blunt-force trauma and bullets that should've killed him since Season 2 from both enemies and allies, yet he’s been shown to make quick recovery.
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