When Red Vs. Blue was first being produced, the creators needed to come up with a way for characters that were identical in appearance to be distinguished from one another. Since the viewers can not see the characters faces, or any other characteristics, the producers decided to distinguish them by changing the color of the armor they wear. Each character is identified by their own unique color, which is usually a shade of their team’s color: red or blue. Within a short time, the viewers became accustomed to which color indicated which character, even if they hadn’t been identified by name.

There were very few instances in which the color of a character changed. Each of these times, the change was actually addressed in the series, acknowledging and often making fun of the viewers dependence on the color of the armor. When one of the main characters, Church, dies and returns as a ghost, one of his teammates commented that he couldn’t possibly be who he said he was by saying, “You’re not Church. Church is blue. You’re white.” Even though the charaters voice and manner remained the same, his teammate refused to believe him simply because his armor was a different color.




One of the rare occasions when a character adopts a different color: the time travelling Churchs including Yellow Church.




The character of Simmons is distinguished by maroon colored armor.





In the series, each character posesses a different color of armor that is used to identify them.