Sarge (Red vs. Blue)

Sarge, also known as Super Colonel Sarge and S-Dog, is one of the main characters from the Red vs. Blue series.
== Charactah Account ==
The staff sergeant leading Red Team, and the only one in the canyon who's actually enthusiastic about the Red/Blue conflict, due to his intense and unexplained hatred of all things Blue. His real name actually is Sarge. Sarge is incredibly loyal to the Red Army, and goes out of his way to excuse the nonsensical answers and directives Command sends his way. He is also fiercely supportive of the chain of command, especially if this allows him to punish Grif. Sarge wields a shotgun, which he uses as a cudgel more often than a projectile weapon, and speaks with a Southern US accent. He's the only Red Team member to actually wear red armor.
Sarge is one of the more eccentric characters in the series, as most of his actions and ideas involve violence, even when it's illogical. Although far from being as detached from reality as Caboose, Sarge's constant military rambling, illogical solutions, and irrational tendencies have suggested that he is one of the less sane characters in the series.
Being a military man, Sarge is very determined, mostly to unreasonable levels, as he still persists to fight the Blues despite knowing the truth of both sides. Sarge is also incredibly adamant as he refuses advice from others while believing that he is right. However, Sarge has the ability to be a loyal and compassionate leader, as he explains all the positive traits of others with a bold speech in Rally Capand Reckless and has come to rescue his troops and others from mortal danger as seen in Upon Further Reviewand True Colors.
== 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 ==
* Despite appearing at the end of Why Are We Here?, Sarge's appearance is discounted by Rooster Teeth as on his DVD bios it states his first appearance was in Red Gets a Delivery, the following episode.
* According to the PSA, Planning to Fail, Sarge wields a shotgun at most times in order to be prepared for a zombie attack, although it is also his preferred weapon, despite his lack of proficiency with it.
* According to the Season 2 DVD, Sarge's hometown is Moscow, Iowa.
* Sarge has appeared on more season DVD box arts than any other character to date (7 total).
* According to Tenth Percentile, Sarge's preferred nickname is S-Dog.
* While Sarge prefers the shotgun, he has used a Magnum many times, particularly during Seasons 1 and 2. This is largely due to the fact the idle pose used to depict head-bobbing with lowered weapons while wielding two-handed weapons in the Halo 1 engine results in an exaggerated bent-over pose. With the Lower Weapon function introduced in Halo 2, this is no longer an issue.
* As shown in Reconstruction: Chapter 4, when the Meta forges the transmission to Red Base, in the right hand corner it says Sarge is a Staff Sergeant.
* According to The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Sergeant Johnson was once Sarge's mentor (or so he claims). It should be noted that the PSA, in question, was a Gamestop advertisement and is non canon.
* Sarge has developed a fear of heights from jumping out of ships from orbit due to his previous experience as an ODST, which has been touched upon at random points and in the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide book.
* Sarge was the first of the main characters to appear as a Poser-animated character, during Holiday Plans, Part Three: Chestnuts Roasting....
* During Episode 15, Sarge meets Church in "the afterlife", even though Church is actually an A.I. At the time, the "Alpha Church idea" did not exist, and the scene was presented as the genuine afterlife. However, series creator and writer Burnie Burns confirmed in the Revelation Creator Commentary that the scene had been retconned behind the scenes into Sarge's armor having entered recovery mode (as seen in Snooze Button) after being shot.
* Sarge claims to have never hit a girl, despite bashing Tex in the head with his shotgun during Down, but not Out, although at the time, due to Tex's voice modifier, he didn't know she was a woman.
* Since the series first premiered, Sarge's name has never been revealed. In the Season 14 episode Fifty Shades of Red, Sarge states that his real name is just "Sarge," although the episode suggests he had actually changed his name for the sake of obtaining the rank of Sergeant. According to Jax and Sarge himself, his name is 13 syllables long, requires a Mandarin keyboard to spell and that the fifth letter is an emoji. Before then, any attempt to reveal his real name was either vocally pre-empted or visually obscured. Series creator Burnie Burns stated that he and Matt Hullum know his real name but never plan to reveal it.
* Sarge's gamertag is GrifKilla51, as seen in the PSA, You Know What We Mean.
* When Church first possesses Sarge in Season 1 and attempts to tell Tex that it's him, she replies by saying he is too short to be Church. This is most likely poking fun at the fact that all of the spartan models in the Halo Engine are exactly the same height. It should also be noted that because of this, Sarge appears significantly shorter than everyone else in Luke Mckay's Red vs. Blue drawings. It could also be a reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in which Princess Leia says to Luke Skywalker "Aren't you short to be a Stormtrooper?"
* Sarge, along with Caboose and Grif, is one of the only characters in the series to appear in every season.
* Sarge will often utter the words "Ruh-roh" when presented with overwhelming danger, a reference to Hanna-Barbara cartoon star Scooby-Doo. Sarge's voice actor, series producer Matt Hullum, had worked as a visual effects production manager on the 2002 Scooby-Doo film.
* At the end of Grifball Highlights, Sarge cries, "I'm so sad, I don't think I can go on. End it now, end it now," because the ball-carrier (A.K.A. Grif) scores without dying.
* Sarge appears in the animated RT Recap alongside characters from RWBY, RTAA, and Achievement Hunter, making Sarge the only character to appear outside of Red vs. Blue.
* With his "promotion" to Colonel, Sarge is the highest-ranking member of the Reds and Blues and, tied with Surge and Turf, the highest-ranked member of the Red Army and the second highest ranked character in the series, behind Donald Doyle and Vanessa Kimball, who are Generals.
** Sarge has had the most promotions and demotions of any character in the series, tied with Grif at three. He was a Lieutenant before he was sent to Blood Gulch, then demoted to a Staff Sergeant, and was later promoted to Colonel by Doyle.
* According to the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide Sarge was transferred to Project Freelancerbecause he used parts of the ship he was stationed on to make a robot body for the ship's onboard A.I. unit.
* According to the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide Sarge has his own three laws of robotics meant to keep a robot uprising from happening, but his own laws are what can cause a robot uprising.
* It is hinted in the special episode Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome that Boomstick is Sarge's son. Though, ultimately, the episode is non-canon.
* Sarge refuses to eat food of a losing military faction, with Italy being an exception due to Italy joining the allies mid-war.
* During the Red vs. Blue Panel at RTX Sydney 2017, Burnie Burns stated that Sarge was originally intended to be the mysterious blue soldier in Season 10 instead of Butch Flowers. This idea would have caused multiple complications to the story, however, as Sarge had always been presented as completely unaware of the truths involved in Project Freelancer.
* While Sarge's appearance beneath his armor is largely unknown, he mentions his "iconic eyebrows" in Belly of the Beast.
** During the director's commentary of Season 15, director Joe Nicolosi states that he doesn't believe Sarge is "entirely white" due to needing a mandarin keyboard to type out his real name, hinting that Sarge may be of Chinese descent.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sarge at Red vs. Blue Wiki
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