Agent Maine

**Agent Maine**, also known as **Gigantor**, **Meta**, **The Prodigal Son** and **The Scariest Fucking Mute in the Galaxy**, is a character from the *Red vs. Blue* series.

## **Charactah Account**

The former Freelancer Agent Maine, who was the brute in his team, his armor enhancement was a strength boost. After losing his ability to talk due to throat injuries, Carolina gave Maine Sigma, whose quest to achieve metastability led him to influence Maine. Maine eventually lost his mind and started tracking down and murdering other agents, then stripping them of their combat A.I.s and special equipment, growing in power with each victory, becoming the Meta.

Later on, Meta refers to itself as a collective entity due to the number of consciousnesses running around inside its head, and seems to be set on recovering all of the Freelancer A.I.s in order to reconstruct the Alpha from which they were derived. A formidable opponent - Church compares the Meta to the one woman army Tex, but says "this thing's like... eight of her." Its white armor is a hodgepodge of parts from a number of designs, and the Meta's voice varies from a creepy child hissing whisper to a susurrus of voices talking at once to animalistic snarls, though the former two are likely the voices of the A.I.s in its head. The AI in its head were destroyed by the EMP, thus destroying the Meta.

But the empty shell that was Maine survived, and appears well into recreation, finding Donut at the Blue base, who mistakes him for a new blue soldier. Simmons is unpleasantly surprised. It turns out he's working with Washington to track down the Epsilon A.I. After being Washington's comedic partner for most of Revelation, Maine eventually betrays him and stabs Tex's robot body in the face with the Capture Unit, trapping her inside it. Washington tries to fight him and is nearly killed. Luckily, the Blood Gulch crew team up to take him down, hooking him to a wrecked warthog's tow cable and sending him off the side of a cliff, into the ocean. Because of the damage his suit sustained during the battle, Maine drowns.

## **Appearance**

### **Web-Animation**

* Death Battle Season 3
* 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 14
* Red vs. Blue Season 17
* Red vs. Blue: Recovery One

## **Trivia**

* Meta speaks only three times in the series, with the first being in the episode Lifting the Veil, where he yells "*Get off me!*" at a medic. He speaks two more times in The Sarcophagus and in Spiral respectively.
* The Meta is one of the few characters to have his own theme music: "(When) Your Middle Name is Danger" by Trocadero. The music played for the Meta is the same music that is played in the Reconstruction Trailer and has been played in every chapter of Reconstruction the Meta has appeared in with the exception of Chapter 11.
* The Meta first appears in *Recovery One*, but only his arm reloading a brute shot. (If a pause is timed just right, the Meta can be seen running across the screen).
* The Meta's armor changes more frequently than any other character in the series. In fact, the only armor permutation component to remain consistent throughout the series (barring the brief glimpse of him during Recovery One) is his EVA helmet.
	+ Going along with the Meta's armor, the detail color also seems to change. In Reconstruction Chapter 4 while the Meta is using the voice changer, it can be seen that the detail color is blue, but later on changes to red.
	+ As stated above, the Meta is the only character in Reconstruction that does not use Mark VI shoulders.
	+ Barring characters that use the default Mark VI armor, the Meta is the only character from the Reconstruction series that can be recreated in Halo 3 without playing online matches. All that is needed to unlock all pieces of his armor is to complete the campaign on Normal (EVA helmet), beat *The Ark* on Legendary (EOD shoulder) and to get the *Too Close to the Sun* achievement (Scout chest plate). The CQB shoulder is unlocked from the start.
	+ The Meta wears a Mark VI chest plate in Think You Know Someone.
	+ In *Revelation*, the Meta's armor consists completely of EVA armor except for his left shoulder, which is CQB.
	+ In *Red vs. Blue: Singularity*, he appears with the Mark VI chest in "Breaching the Torus", and the EVA chest in the other episodes. This includes "The Not-So-Good Ol' Days", which is meant to be set in the Freelancer days, but still has Maine with the brown shoulder pads from his Meta days instead of the white ones from the flashbacks.
* Out of all the characters in the series, the Meta has the most shown/confirmed kills at 30+ kills.
* Although the Meta did take North's Enhanced Motion Tracker in Recovery One, he's never shown using it.
* Church refers to the Meta as "*like eight of [Tex].*" However, in *Revelation*, the Reds and Tucker were unable to land a blow on Tex, but were able to hit the Meta repeatedly. Tex also proved to be an equal fighter to both him and Wash, though the Meta did not have nearly as many AI at this time as he did when Church made this statement. Although the Meta's combat ability may rely less on his reflexes, but rather his inhuman endurance and stamina which allowed him to outmatch and defeat Tex. This seems to be supported by the Counselor in Counseling, during which he states that *"Agent Maine survived numerous injuries during his time with the Freelancers. Most would have been lethal had they been inflicted upon any other man."* and *"had the Reds and Blues combated Agent Maine **prior** to the destruction of his A.I., it's possible events may have played out differently."*
	+ Ironically, Church's statement that the Meta is "*like eight of her[Tex],*" at the time was technically true since the Meta had captured **8** A.I. at the point, while Tex only had one (Omega).
* Meta is seen without his helmet in the episode What's the "I" Stand For? (appearing to be bald), though Sigma obscures most of his face during the time. This makes him the seventh character in *Red vs. Blue* to have his face revealed on screen.
	+ In the same episode, it is revealed that the name "Meta" derived from the term: Metastability, a level of rampancy in which an A.I. could be considered human. "Meta" can be translated as "turning point" (usually in life) and "constantly changing" in Latin. This relates to how Meta continued to change in identity, being that he could change armor color. It's later shown in Change of Plans that the Meta also has the symbol of metastability that Sigma made as a tattoo on the back of his head.
* The Director refers to the Meta as the 'Prodigal Son' in chapter 19 of *Reconstruction*. The Prodigal Son is a character in the bible who recklessly wastes his inheritance but returns home in repentance as he is joyfully received by his family. This is an interesting comparison, as the Meta "wastes his inheritance" by killing Freelancers and stealing their A.I's; it can also be said that he returns home as he returns to Freelancer Headquarters in the final chapters of Reconstruction.
	+ Also in line with Biblical references is the Meta's nature as a hive mind of AI and his writing "We are the Meta" in Valhalla. According the Gospel of Mark, Jesus of Nazareth encounters a possessed man who's demon identifies itself as *"My name is Legion: for we are many.*" (Mark 5:9) implying that it is a collection of multiple entities possessing one body.
* In Reconstruction: Chapter 19, it showed the Meta having 7 A.I. (Beta, Gamma, Delta, Sigma, Theta, Omega, and Eta) before obtaining Alpha. This is a major inconsistency, as he would have 8 A.I. at least, as he captures Iota also in Season 10. However, it has been shown that Eta and Iota can 'merge' into one form, which would explain him supposedly lacking an 8th A.I.
* Beginning from the episode Reunion, whenever the Meta is about to attack someone important, "*Plagam Extremam infligere*" ("*Inflict the final blow*" in Latin) can be heard chanting in the background. For example, it's heard when Meta attacks Epsilon-Tex, Rhee Sebiel, the Demo Man, and Carolina.
* The Meta's death is likely poetic justice as it's very similar to Carolina's "death," his first victim when he became the Meta, as the two were both thrown off a cliff at Sidewinder and his death was caused by the Reds, who he originally used for his own benefit when tricking them to stop Washington in *Reconstruction*.
* According to the Charon Industries T-Shirt in the Rooster Teeth Store, the Meta's re-purposed suit has been patented by the Chairman under the name "*M374: Hephaestus Combat Suit*". Fittingly, Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metals, fire and volcanoes; the former two referencing how the suit has been re-crafted to suit the Chairman's needs and how Sigma re-purposed Maine into a tool for his own needs, and the latter two referencing Sigma himself (as an entity resembling fire) and Charon, the ferryman who ferried people to Hades (hell), a place typically associated with fire in modern depictions.
	+ "M374" is also a reference to the original owner of the armor, the Meta; the "374" being common accepted number replacements for the letters "E", "T" and "A" respectively.
* It's shown in The Sarcophagus that Maine has a fear of heights. This is somewhat ironic considering he appears to be by far the tallest Freelancer shown in the past scenes of the Project Freelancer Saga. It's worthy to note he would eventually fall to his death and drown.
	+ Coincidentally, Sarge is also afraid of heights due to his time spent as an ODST, and Doc later develops a fear of heights in The End thanks to the Reds and Blues' reckless flying skills; both are characters also voiced by Matt Hullum.
* The Meta lost to Agent Carolina in the 64th episode of Screwattack's *Death Battle*.
	+ The Meta's enslavement to the A.I. fragments proved to be the main factor in his loss, as he was completely overwhelmed by the voices of the fragments; as well as his excessive use of his armor enhancements drained power; and Agent Carolina's armor enhancement and martial arts were able to counter that of The Meta's.
* The Counselor's description of Maine before Sigma as a fearless brute may be a reference to the Jiralhana from the Halo franchise, nicknamed Brutes. He shared similar qualities to the alien race and even used one of their weapons.