Kill Team Kill

**Kill Team Kill (😎😎🎧)** is the fifth episode of Season 3, and the overall thirty-first episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS.

3 Symbols:

1. A skull wearing aviator sunglasses. Meant to represent Pvt. Macy (see below)
2. A skull wearing shield sunglasses. Its jaw is wider than the others and represents Pvt. Coutts
3. A skull wearing headphones. Represents Pvt. Erwin

## Synopsis

US Special Forces are trained to neutralize any threat -- even a cybernetic killing machine created by the CIA. Their secret weapon? A sense of humor.

## Plot

US Special Forces operatives Sergeant Nielsen and Privates Folen, Coutts, Macy, and Erwin make their way across a mountain range to reconvene with the rest of their platoon, only to find them gruesomely torn apart in a forest. A cybernetic bear leaps out of the woods to attack them, impervious to bullets and blades, and kills Coutts and Erwin. It is only repelled by the timely arrival of a soldier who introduces himself as Sergeant Morris. He had been stationed at a secret subterranean base, and the bear (codenamed "Project Barghest") used to go on patrols with the soldiers before it turned against them. The Barghest - which the team constantly refer to as a "honey badger" - is a genetically engineering grizzly bear, with anti-personnel titanium talons, diamond carbine canines, and is wrapped in ballistic resistance gel.

Morris takes the remaining three soldiers to his base only to find its occupants have been killed by Barghest. Eager to put the bear down, the men restock in the armory (where they are introduced to MAARS-Bot, which Macy befriends), and hole up before calling Barghest toward their location. It bursts through the wall behind them, killing Morris. The soldiers manage to strip its projective skin away and it apparently powers down, only to maim Folen when he approaches it to gloat. After separating its upper body from its lower half, Nielsen finally defeats Barghest by hammering at its skull with a rocket launcher.

As he bleeds out, Folen asks Nielsen to tell his wife that he had an affair with her sister. Shortly after Folen dies, the motionless bear's eye detonates in an enormous blast, destroying the subterranean base and killing Nielsen and Macy.

## Cast

* Seth Green at the Internet Movie Database voices Private Folen
* Joel McHale at the Internet Movie Database voices Sergeant Morris
* Gabriel Luna at the Internet Movie Database voices Sergeant Nielsen
* Steve Blum at the Internet Movie Database voices Private Coutts & Private Macy
* Andrew Kishino at the Internet Movie Database voices Private Erwin

## Trivia

* Erwin looks at the remains of Team Two and rules out "Muj" being responsible for the carnage. "Muj" is a slang term commonly used by the US Army to refer to Middle Eastern and / or Islamic guerilla fighters.
* Upon seeing Barghest for the first time, Folen labels it a honey badger, saying that "honey badgers don't give a shit". This is a reference to a 2011 parody of nature documentaries that developed into an Internet meme. The narrator says this line almost verbatim when describing honey badgers' fearless behavior.
* It is possible that MAARS-BOT stands for Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System, a robot developed in the early 2000s for armed warfare.