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The more you hook up, the better it gets! Absurdly Sharp Blade : His sword seems to have the power to cut through any object regardless of size. It's perhaps best shown when he slices a truck sized crate clean in half during "This One Goes To Eleven. Action Dad : After his Mister Seahorse incident. Aesop Amnesia : Season 16 has him backslide into his old womanizing and egotistical ways after Sister shows up, which can partially be chalked up to an overuse of time travel ring him crazy.
He eventually has a Jerkass Realization about his behavior. After Season 17 has him realize his ego was majorly affecting his leadership and judgement calls, Season 18 has him bragging about saving the universe to the officers he is training and giving himself all of the credit. Acquired Situational Narcissism : Deconstructed. He admits him taking a level in jerkass in Season 16 was partially caused by him taking the wrong lessons from Chorus and trying to act like what he thinks a leader should be, rather than actually applying the tactics he learned.
The Aloner : According to Singularity , Tucker's Labyrinth illusion is being left completely alone with the knowledge that his friends are in trouble and there's no way he can help them.
All Love Is Unrequited : After Kaikaina and Tucker blow up at each other during The Shisno Paradox and he eventually realizes how he's been acting like a raging Jerkass towards her, she quietly tells him in "Lights Out" that she doesn't share his feelings towards her anymore and they would be Better as Friends.
While he's visibly crestfallen by this, he seems to ultimately accept it. Ambadassador : By the time of Recreation , he and Junior are this for Sangheili-human negotiations. Anti-Hero : Like Church, he has shades of the classical variety with his numerous insecurities. Also like Church, he can be a huge Jerkass. Tucker finally reappears in Well Hello , where he provides cover against the false excavation team to help Caboose, Sarge, and Grif.
Tucker rejoins the Reds and Blues. He closes the temple door and explains the situation to Sarge, Grif, and Caboose. Tucker explains that both him and Junior, who also somehow survived the explosion, go around acting as ambassadors between humans and aliens whenever they find ancient technology. They came to the desert because of the energy source, but " C.
He then tells the Reds and Caboose that they must destroy the weapon before C. Tucker fights C. The Aliens then turn on the humans, believing Epsilon to be a god, and follow C.
The group find C. Tucker flies over a hill in his Chopper and slashes C. When C. Tucker asks who C. Just then, Epsilon flies up and kills C. Afterwards, Epsilon begins having memory flashes and journeys to a facility with Caboose for answers, prompting the Reds and Tucker to follow.
Caboose then has F. Epsilon soon leaves with Tex to a secret facility, while Tucker and Caboose stay behind. Later, when Caboose asks Sarge to help him rescue Epsilon and Tex after Epsilon's recovery beacon activates, Sarge makes a speech regarding each soldier's admirable qualities and admits that Tucker is a good soldier. This prompts everyone to go rescue Epsilon and Tex. The group arrive at the facility on board a damaged pelican.
After it crash lands, the teams regroup. Wash orders Tucker and Caboose to search inside the base for tools while the Reds are ordered to find anything that has power. Tucker manages to briefly fight the Meta off, but is knocked down. Fortunately, the Reds eventually kill the Meta by dragging him down a cliff with a Warthog. Tucker with Agent Washington and Caboose after killing the Meta. Meanwhile, with Tex trapped inside the storage unit, Epsilon follows her inside before it shuts down.
When Wash asks why they are helping him, Caboose says that Wash helped them before and that they're just repaying past favors while Tucker says it's because they're one man short on their team. Nonetheless, Wash thanks them for their help. After the group successfully rescue Epsilon they leave the archives and make a pit stop at Zanzibar , where Epsilon is placed inside Tucker's A. The two then spy on Wash's conversation with Carolina inside the facility, until Tucker blows their cover.
Carolina threatens them to leave as a result. Afterwards, the group arrive back at the desert to find C. Carolina threatens Tucker and Caboose. In order to find out her true motives, the group installs Epsilon into Carolina's Mongoose. Carolina soon calls Tucker over to discuss the location of an artifact , which Tucker recognizes as Epsilon's former monitor. After Tucker explains that the monitor is at the Freelancer Offsite Storage Facility , Carolina decides to depart to an island, unknowingly taking Epsilon with her.
When she returns, she tells the group that they are heading to Outpost B. Upon arriving at Valhalla , Tucker angrily confronts Epsilon about his unusual relationship with Carolina. Epsilon tells him that she is more complicated than they thought and he needs to stay close to her in order to find out information.
When Carolina decides to leave Tucker and Caboose speak with Epsilon again, infuriated at the fact that he has gathered no information. Epsilon tells them to back off and finally decides to have a word with Carolina alone.
After talking to her, Carolina and Epsilon gather everyone in the Reds' holographic chamber , where the final plan to kill the Director is discussed. However, the group refuses to help them on their mission, due to their attitudes towards them. When Carolina threatens Tucker after he refuses to follow her orders, Wash stops her by holding her at gunpoint. With the team divided, Epsilon becomes furious and blames the crew for causing all of his problems in the past. Disgusted and hurt, Tucker, followed by the others, walks out on Carolina and Epsilon.
Tucker, Washington, and Sarge at Red Base. As the Reds and Blues continue their shenanigans, Doc reminds them on how much they have changed since they first met. Following Doc's speech, the Reds and Blues decide to go help Epsilon and Carolina, Tucker being the first to take action, but Wash reminds them that the mission will be dangerous. Sarge, however, tells Washington that despite their troubles with Freelancers, the Reds and Blues have always managed to overcome them because of their trust in each other.
Wash, as a result, agrees to help. The group finds them being attacked by an army of robotic Tex drones and quickly come to the rescue. The group soon then go into battle against the army, but become overwhelmed. Epsilon successfully manages to shut down the drones and then tells the group that he and Carolina must complete the next task alone.
After Carolina and Epsilon confront the Director , they decide to relocate the Reds and Blues to a place where they can call home.
However, on their way back, the Reds and Blues crash land a pardoned ship in an unknown location and settle at their new makeshift bases as a result. After he regains it, Wash scolds Tucker for his insubordinance and makes him perform rigorous exercises as a result. Afterwards, Tucker assists Wash in repairing the comm tower and questions why they haven't been found yet, explaining that the ship's GPS would have informed command about their crash.
After their repairs, Wash and Tucker attempt to activate the radio, but fail. When the Reds arrive to help, Lopez 2. Afterwards, Caboose arrives and introduces his "pet" Freckles , frightening the group. When Wash questions Tucker on this, the latter, fed up with being blamed all the time, argues with Wash, resulting in Caboose mistakenly taking the leadership position of Blue Team. Suddenly, the Reds attack in an attempt to rescue Simmons , but Freckles destroys their Warthog. As things heat up, Donut finally arrives with Doc and Lopez and informs everyone that they were dropped off.
Realizing that Donut allowed the pilot to leave, the group attacks him. With Caboose now the mistaken leader, Tucker is ordered to repair the comm tower but fails to do so. When Wash approaches Tucker hitting the radio he tries to give him advice. Tucker, however, angrily expresses his frustration with Wash and his methods, wishing that he could simply talk with Church again.
Wash then confesses that he was one of the worst Freelancers in his squad and explains that he never led a team before until now. He then encourages Tucker to apply effort into things. After Wash apologizes to Caboose and re-obtains his position as Captain, the Blues are attacked by white armored soldiers. Tucker manages to kill one soldier before the rest are eliminated.
As the Reds and Blues regroup, Felix and Locus appear before them, where Locus tells the group to come with him, but they refuse and attack Locus.
When the latter escapes, the group interrogate Felix, who tells them that they are considered to be the greatest soldiers in the galaxy and adds that they have crash landed on the planet Chorus , whose society is currently undergoing a civil war. Felix asks for the group's help but they decline, only wanting to leave the planet. Nonetheless, the Reds and Blues help Felix prepare for an attack. Tucker helps fight off the Federal invasion force. After the fortifications are complete, Locus and the Federal Army attack, forcing the teams to engage them.
During the battle, Wash and Simmons become unable to restore power to Freckles, so Tucker charges towards Red base and successfully deactivates the base computer, restoring the power.
Tucker is then held at gunpoint, but Lopez , now with his successor's body, rescues him and the two return to the battle.
Noticing that Wash has recovered, Tucker cries out to him, but the latter orders Freckles to " Shake! After the battle, Tucker awakens from a tremor to the head at the New Republic Headquarters and becomes horrified at the fact that his friends didn't make it back.
After rejoining Grif , Caboose , and Simmons at the mess hall, the four are informed of Wash , Sarge , and Donut 's capture. The New Republic leader, Vanessa Kimball , persuades them to stay and fight in order to rescue them and end the war in the process, but the group expresses their doubts.
Kimball then explains that her troops need a sign of hope and pleads for the four to try and lead them, reminding Tucker of what Wash taught him.
As a result, the four have the New Republic soldiers perform drills, taking on leadership positions for the first time. Tucker leads Green Squadron into battle. Several weeks later, Tucker, his "green" squad, and Felix infiltrate a Federal Army outpost, where Tucker manages to obtain secret information on the captured Reds and Blues. Cunningham , a rebel of Tucker's squad, finds him and warns him that they must leave. However, Cunningham is quickly killed by Locus and the New Republic squad is found out, forcing Tucker, Felix, and Palomo to abort the mission.
Back at the New Republic Headquarters , Felix informs Grif , Simmons , and Caboose about how Tucker recovered valuable Federal Army information, despite having gotten two men killed, and praises Tucker for taking the risk; although Tucker feels empathetic about it.
Kimball then informs the Reds and Blues of the location of their friends, based on the information Tucker received and states that if the four can assemble an elite team in five days, she'll allow them to rescue their friends. Unable to get help from Felix, Tucker and the others recruit Palomo, Jensen , Smith , and Bitters , who each unanimously chooses Tucker as their leader for the mission. As the group begins training, Simmons and Jensen install capture software onto everyone's helmets in order to record their sessions.
However, despite their rigorous efforts, the squad is laughed at by both the recruits and other Republic soldiers for their constant mess-ups.
Tucker talks with Kimball. Embarrassed, Tucker blames Felix for being so hard on them during the training sessions and the two argue. Kimball interrupts them and privately talks to Tucker, explaining more about Felix's history with the New Republic and rivalry with Locus.
Afterward, Tucker gathers Simmons, Caboose, and Grif and persuades them into leaving without the recruits, explaining that they should "wing" the rescue mission themselves. The four agree and depart before leaving an apology message to the rebels.
The four soon arrive at a deserted fueling station and discover four steel-armored soldiers speaking to Locus regarding their captured friends. After the soldiers vanish, the four eventually arrive and infiltrate F. Outpost 37 , where they unexpectedly run into their friends.
They tell each other the truth behind why the rebels and Feds are fighting each other and devise a plan to end the war between the two factions. Suddenly, the compound is attacked by Locus and a group of mercenaries , who force the Reds and Blues to stand down. As Locus prepares to kill them, Felix arrives and betrays the group, revealing that he and Locus used them as a means to cause further conflict in the Chorus Civil War, all due to their superior wanting the planet free of its inhabitants.
Fortunately, Carolina emerges from hiding, disguised as a mercenary, and uses a Teleportation Cube to escape with the group. Arriving at a secret Forest Base , Carolina, along with Epsilon , explains that their ship was purposely crashed on Chorus by the Space Pirates , who are mass-producing advanced versions of the ship's Freelancer equipment.
Tucker suggests they warn the Chorus armies about their discovery but Epsilon tells him that Control will be preventing them from doing so.
So, the Reds and Blues analyze Grif 's Suppressor and discover a connection between it and the Teleportation Grenades. In order to find out who supplied the grenades, Carolina and the Blues search the other half of the ship at Crash Site Alpha , while the Reds search the ship's manifest at Crash Site Bravo. As the pirates close in on them, Tucker removes the drive containing the data, abruptly ending the transfer and forcing the group to teleport away.
When Epsilon blames Tucker for his actions, Caboose is nearly killed by a pirate who teleported back with them, but is rescued by Carolina. Troubled by his actions, Tucker seeks advice from Wash on leadership, in which the latter explains that he must learn from his mistakes and trust his instincts. After Carolina and Wash interrogate the mercenary, the group are attacked by more space pirates, forcing Wash to teleport them away to the fueling station.
While there, Epsilon and Tucker engage in a heated argument, prompting Caboose to step in. Caboose tells Tucker to put aside his anger and resolve his issues with Epsilon, which Tucker does. After the two reconcile, Felix and Locus contact the crew and offer them a chance to leave Chorus.
There, Tucker confronts Felix , who monologues over the Pirates' actions and later stabs Tucker. Fortunately, Tucker, with Epsilon 's help, reveals to Felix that he has been recording the entire monologue via his helmet cam , leaving Felix speechless. After the Reds and Blues disable the radio jammer, Epsilon sends Felix's recorded words to the Feds and Rebels at Armonia , who finally learn the secret behind the Pirates' involvement in the war.
Because of this, Felix and Locus teleport away. After the Chorus armies form a truce, they pick up the Reds and Blues from the radio jammer station and thank them for their efforts, with Tucker being treated for his injury.
When she is captured by the Reds, he and Caboose go through the teleporters to turn their armor black so they could act as a diversion for the Reds while Church, as a ghost, goes to save Tex. When Tex goes to attack the Reds again, he and Caboose acts as Church's eyes while he goes to warn the Reds, and is the first person to witness Caboose refer to himself as ' O'Malley '.
Not long after, in Episode 38 , Tucker discovers that Red and Blue are controlled by the same Command when he accidentally overhears a conversation between the Red Team's Sarge and their contact Vic, who is also the Blue's contact. This revelation is dismissed by everyone else; Tucker was soon knocked unconscious, and before he could divulge the information, Vic contacted Sarge and told him that Tucker would make things up about the respective armies; believing Vic, Sarge told the other Reds the same thing.
Church, too, does not believe the claim, as he believes Vic to be the one who invented the story, though Tucker maintains the belief regardless of what the others say.
Nonetheless, Vic convinces O'Malley to kill Tucker so the information cannot spread; to that end, O'Malley hires the bounty hunter known as Wyoming. Tucker remains behind unconscious after being shot by a rocket launcher while the rest of the Reds and Blues go into the teleport and into O'Malley's trap.
He wakes up later, and goes through the teleporter that was fixed by Donut under the supervision of Simmons. When the Reds and Blues arrive at Sidewinder , Tucker inexplicably exits the teleporter covered in black stuff, which would save his life later when Wyoming doesn't recognize Tucker as his target. When Church's bomb is activated, Tucker picks up O'Malley's rocket launcher to destroy Church's robot body. However, Wyoming meddles by sniping the launcher out of Tucker's hands which never worked stated by one of the Church time-copies , the bomb detonates sending everyone but Church supposedly into the future.
During a raid on O'Malley's fortress , Tucker discovers a sword which he immediately puts to good use, dispatching The Red Zealot.
He takes a liking to the The Great Weapon and refuses to let anyone else touch it. Next thing they know O'Malley, with his extremely slow robot army , attacks the Blues and the Reds make a run for it. Tex asks Tucker if she could borrow his sword, with him saying "no" which led him soon unconscious by Tex.
Tucker wakes up later by Church and finds the army of robots slated. When Tex rejoins them, Tex says "I have been in the basement all this time trying to work this thing out".
In Episode 64 , after the Blues befriend an Alien , it informs the that only the first person who discovered Tucker's sword can activate it. Even though the Alien had originally come to claim the sword for itself to fulfill its sacred quest, Tucker is forced to unwillingly join the quest as the sword is now joined to him. It is later revealed, to his disbelief, that the sword is actually a key to a hidden spaceship hangar; the alien ship itself is destroyed seconds later by Wyoming.
In Episode 73 , after returning from the quest, Tucker falls ill for an unknown reason. Caboose thinks that Tucker might have contracted the disease from the Great Swamp , while Church hypothesizes that it might have come from the sword, and Andy , the Blue Team's sentient bomb, suggests poor personal hygiene.
Doc performs a diagnosis. However, Doc's diagnosis proves correct, and Andy confirms that the Alien had the ability to impregnate a host with a parasitic embryo. Near the end of Episode 77 , Tucker gives birth to a creature that immediately speaks a language similar to the Alien's in a high-pitched tone. For the first few episodes of Season 5, Tucker is comatose, finally waking up in Episode From then on though he shows a little more compassion for it, naming it " Junior " and even defending it when Church insults it.
He then aids Tex and Church when they infiltrate the Red Base , and all three are cornered by Wyoming. The trio was able to survive and best Agent Wyoming due largely in part to Tucker.
Wyoming's armor enhancement and AI allowed him to freeze and temporally displace a segment of time in case anything occurred that would result in his defeat leaving only him and his AI's memories unaffected. Tucker was somehow unaffected by the displacement's memory lost and retained his memories with each jump. This allowed Tucker to predict and counter all of Wyoming's movements and save his fellow teammates.
This may be be in part due to Tucker's Sword and may be connected to the same reason why the sword only functioned for him. It is also worth noting that it seems Wyoming was unable to continue jumping after he was stabbed by Tucker with the sword.
But this could just be because the Rooster Teeth team did not want to continue showing each temporal jump or Wyoming choose different moments to jump too. When Tex betrays them she knocks Tucker unconscious and steals his sword and Junior. The voice on the other end seems to be Tucker, and tells Grif to deliver the message that they "Found what [they] were looking for" and that it was "under the sand". When Grif states he will "slip them the message", the voice makes a double entendre and delivers Tucker's catchphrase see Below.
Donut's mysterious appearance in Valhalla revives Tucker's mission. Donut tells Caboose that he was dispatched to the area where the teams "landed" after the bomb went off in Season 3, and found a distress signal from Tucker, saying to get help immediately. Tucker finally reappears in Recreation Chapter 12 , when he opens a temple that he had locked himself in and provides cover against the false excavation team to help Caboose, Sarge, and Grif.
He displays exceptional skill with his sword, that was somehow recovered after the ship exploded. He closes the door behind Sarge, Grif, and. Tucker's return in Recreation. Caboose and explains what is happening. Both him and Junior, who also somehow survived the explosion, go around acting as ambassadors between the humans and the aliens whenever they find ancient technology, such as 'giant rings' and 'cubes'.
Captain Lavernius Tucker is a main character in Red vs. He is portrayed as the self-proclaimed ladies man of the Blue Team, although this trait is increasingly diminished with each subsequent season. He is a main character in most seasons, although he only makes a cameo appearance in Reconstruction and is absent during Season 9. Because of his part in the Chorus Civil War, however, he can be considered the main protagonist of the Chorus Trilogy.
Prior to Recreation, Tucker's personality was shown to be immature, perverted, and sarcastic, and highlighted his obsession for women as well as making sexual jokes at any opportunity. Although he was the highest-ranking army official on his team, he allowed others to take command, such as Church.
Later in the series he found the Great Weapon, which led him to become impregnated by an Alien, giving him a son named Junior. After his return in Recreation, he is shown to be slightly more mature and skilled, due to the fact that an alien race chose him to be their hero. As the series progresses, Tucker's sense of responsibility and skill continue to grow, specifically after being forced into a leadership role due to being caught up in a civil war on the planet Chorus.
After enlisting into the military, Tucker is chosen as a candidate to be a part of the Blood Gulch Blue Team. He undergoes an interview conducted by Captain Butch Flowers and answers a series of questions. Based on his responses, Tucker is successfully chosen to be a member of the Blue Team, though Tucker was completely unaware of what the interview was for. One day, Tucker and Church find Flowers dead, in which Tucker decides to take Flowers' armor for himself.
Tucker is first seen with Church spying on the Reds, where the two discover the team's new Warthog. When a rookie named Caboosearrives at Blue base, Tucker and Church order him to wait for the "general", but this action results in Donut stealing the Blue Flag. Tucker and Church, as a result, go after him, with Tucker using the teleporter. When he exits through the other end, however, his armor becomes covered with black material.
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