Lavernius Tucker

Lavernius Tucker, also known as The Stupid Annoying One and Dr. Cloitus, is one of the main characters from the Red vs. Blue series.
== Charactah Account ==
Second-in-command (it was either him or Caboose) and often clueless Bumbling Sidekick to Church, Tucker is the longest-serving of the surviving Blues at Blood Gulch. As disinclined towards work or combat as Grif (he's actually the highest-ranking Blue as a Private First Class, but is happy to let Church take the reins), he repeatedly claims to be a "lover, not a fighter," and utters his Catchphrase at the first sign of a double entendre. He's somewhat juvenile in personality, offering lame pick-up lines to any females he isn't terrified of. He called dibs on Capt. Flowers' blue-green armor when the former died of an aspirin overdose. Tucker may or may not be black, and is quick to point out this shouldn't matter. Despite his reluctance to fight, Tucker's a great shot due to his keen eyesight (which developed because Church always hogs the sniper rifle).
Smart-aleck, sarcastic, rude, prone to juvenile humor, and obsessed with women, Tucker has many characteristics of an unruly teenager. Like Grif, he had an extreme aversion to combat and work. He might be lying about his relationships as his claims are not backed up by any evidence of him ever having a relationship, a fact often brought up by Epsilon. If true, it shows that Tucker is actually just trying to impress his friends. Although he sometimes lacks prudence and common sense, Tucker has become somewhat smarter and mature as the series has progressed, questioning things that didn't make sense to him. In Season 3, when the group tried to tell him that the present is destroyed and they're in the future because Church was facing forwards when the bomb went off, Tucker pointed out that they're always in the present and that one can only face forwards. In Season 5, Tucker discovered Wyoming's Time Distortion loop and quickly made an elaborate plan to stop him.
Tucker has since become far more mature and trustful, always coming to join the battle to help his allies. In addition, Tucker has also showed levels of empathy towards others. For example, in Season 10, Tucker is the first to forgive Carolina and Epsilon after their quarrel, despite being the first to walk out on them due to their hurtful words. In Season 11, Tucker showed sadness after Epsilon's departure and felt genuinely concerned when Wash was captured by the Federal Army of Chorus. During Season 12, Tucker felt responsible for being the cause of Cunningham's and Rogers' deaths, despite only knowing the two for a short amount of time.
== 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 ==
* Tucker is from Detroit, Michigan.
* In Sis and Tuc's Sexellent Adventure, Tucker reveals his mother is deceased. It is unknown how and when she died.
* As stated in Season 14, Tucker admitted to committing statutory rape after sleeping with an underage girl. However, to his credit, he states the girl told him she was 18. The charges were later dropped.
* Tucker is an atheist.
* Tucker is the only member of the Reds and Blues that has kids.
** His eldest child is Junior, whom he had with the blue Alien whose species apparently breeds through infecting a host with a parasitic embryo regardless of gender or species. This would technically make him the “mother”.
** He has also fathered numerous children with female residents of Chorus after activating the Temple of Procreation, however, it is unknown how many (given the number of mothers is enough for a class act, it implies something in the double digits). In A Fistful of Colours, Simmons mentions insultingly having enough for an elementary school, but it is unclear if this was an exaggeration or factual. However, in Sis and Tuc's Sexellent Adventure, Tucker admitted he owed child support payments that would make up a portion of Chorus' GDP, giving weight to the insult.
*** As implied while describing what happened after the Temple of Procreation was activated, Tucker may be immune to aphrodisiacs.
* Tucker's biggest fears include Felix and Locus, as revealed by Santa, and losing his friends, as revealed in Omphalos.
* Sheila was sent to Blue Base after Tucker sent in 57 request letters for Blue Team to gain a female recruit, claiming it would boost “morale” and bring “diversity” to the team.
* Tucker's armor wasn't originally his. He stole Captain Flowers' armor after his first passing. Prior to this, Tucker wore regulation blue armor similar to Caboose.
* Up until Hello, My Name is Andrew, Church never knew Tucker's first name.
* As shown in Season 4 when teaching Crunchbite English, Tucker has horrible handwriting.
* Tucker has developed both superb eyesight and hearing as of Season 5. While at Blue Base, Tucker, without the use of the sniper rifle, was able to clearly identify the new yellow soldier at Red Base as female. Additionally, he was inside Blue Base when he overheard a discussion between Church and Tex, who were far away from the base at that time. (Tucker claimed to have developed his eyesight after not being able to use the sniper rifle for so long).
* Tucker had equal rank to Church, although he clearly has no problems with Church as the Blue leader. He'd later get ranked higher after becoming a Captain.
* According to the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide Tucker went to the Sangheili home planet with Junior and learned how to use his Energy Sword more proficiently.
* During his conversation with Carolina in Out of Body, Tucker did not seem to know the color of his armor, calling it “greenish-blue”, “aqua-marine”, and “turquoise”, despite the fact that he correctly called it “aqua” in Previous Commitments. This is a reference to the available armor colors in different Halo games constantly changing names.
** When the series moved onto the Halo 2 engine, Tucker's armor color was changed to “teal” as “aqua” was not a selectable color. In the series, the two colors are considered the same.
* In Counseling, the Meta’s death is revealed to be caused by drowning via four punctures in his suit, most likely made when Tucker stabbed him, making Tucker partially the cause of the Meta's death.
* Despite having held the sniper rifle at least twice, Dylan Andrews claims in The Mother of Destruction that Tucker has never once held a sniper rifle, which is how she identifies an impostor Tucker based on the fact he wields one.
* Tucker is shown primarily using the DMR while in the Halo 4 and Halo 5 engine as opposed to the Battle Rifle the other Blood Gulch soldiers favor.
* Tucker's promotion to Captain in Season 12 ranks him among some of the highest ranking soldiers encountered in the series, along with fellow captains Flowers, Grif, Simmons, and Caboose.
* Tucker has, at times, referenced and used movie cliches as a template for real life. For example, in Season 8, after Grif was dragged off the cliff in n+1, Tucker suggested that he might be hanging off a tree branch “or something”, according to “some movies”. In Season 12, his plan to infiltrate the Federal Army base by knocking out and stealing the armor of two Feds is a reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Felix then warns him that not everything in life works like a movie, but Tucker brushes off his concerns.
* Tucker has the most appearances in the Chorus Trilogy out of all characters (57 episodes).
* Like Carolina, Tucker seems to take a liking to alien technology.
* Tucker is the only character to appear in all eighteen seasons of Red vs. Blue, if one acknowledges the Epsilon recreation of him in Season 9. However, in Season 6 only his voice is heard.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lavernius Tucker at Red vs. Blue Wiki
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