Lavernius Tucker

Lavernius Tucker is one of the main characters of the Red vs Blue web animation.

Tucker is portrayed as the self-proclaimed ladies man of the Blue Team, although this trait is increasingly diminished with each subsequent season.

Personality
Smart-aleck, sarcastic, rude, prone to juvenile humor, and obsessed with women, Tucker has many characteristics of an unruly teenager. Like Grif, he had an extreme aversion to combat and work. He might be lying about his relationships as his claims are not backed up by any evidence of him ever having a relationship, a fact often brought up by Epsilon. If true, it shows that Tucker is actually just trying to impress his friends. Although he sometimes lacks prudence and common sense, Tucker has become somewhat smarter and mature as the series has progressed, questioning things that didn't make sense to him. In Season 3, when the group tried to tell him that the present is destroyed and they're in the future because Church was facing forwards when the bomb went off, Tucker pointed out that they're always in the present and that one can only face forwards. In Season 5, Tucker discovered Wyoming's Time Distortion loop and quickly made an elaborate plan to stop him.

Tucker has since become far more mature and trustful, always coming to join the battle to help his allies. In addition, Tucker has also showed levels of empathy towards others. For example, in Season 10, Tucker is the first to forgive Carolina and Epsilon after their quarrel, despite being the first to walk out on them due to their hurtful words. In Season 11, Tucker showed sadness after Epsilon's departure and felt genuinely concerned when Wash was captured by the Federal Army of Chorus. During Season 12, Tucker felt responsible for being the cause of Cunningham's and Rogers' deaths, despite only knowing the two for a short amount of time.

As of Season 12, Tucker has become a somewhat capable leader, caring for the lives of his men and doing anything it takes to see his missions through. However, he is quite open of his dislike for being in command, still preferring to pass off such responsibilities to more capable hands, although this is less out of selfishness and more towards concern his decisions will doom others. His perverted nature has become somewhat dulled down, due a combination of his friends interrupting his iconic catchphrase, and what used to be a habit having become a coping mechanism in times of stress.

Tucker also values the trust he has with the Reds and Blues and is willing to risk his life in an instant to protect those he sees as family, especially his actual family as shown when he was ready to fight Tex to protect Junior. He is also shown to hold grudges against those who hurt his trust as seen with Felix and Epsilon. By the time of the Chorus Trilogy he is more serious and less of a wisecrack, most likely due to being hardened by his many battles with foes like the Omega, Wyoming, C.T, Meta, and his rival Felix. Another source he may have used to become more mature is Kimball and Washington, giving him wisdom whenever he is or was in need of it, though he will still say his catchphrase every now and again much to the (slight) annoyance to his friends.

After Felix's betrayal, Tucker is shown to have issues trusting people other than his friends. Temple uses this to his advantage to get him to turn on Dylan by pointing out she never mentioned Spencer to him and getting Tucker to briefly turn on her. Even after apparently trusting the Blues and Reds, Tucker only needed a little talk from Dylan to realize they were up to something and didn't trust them anymore. This has also led him to become angered by his friends betraying him and less willing to forgive them, such as Grif leaving the team, Sarge and Doc joining the Blues and Reds, and Simmon's perceived betrayal.

Abilities
Aside from Tex, Tucker seemed to be the only original member of the Blue team that possessed any combat skill. Tucker's abilities grew over time thanks to Wash's training and gaining new technology over the course of the series.

Recovery
Tucker has been shown to survive brutal punishment, such as when he was struck by a rocket and quickly made a full recovery all by himself. After the Alien attacks him in Episode 63, he also makes a quick recovery. In This One Goes to Eleven, Tucker seemed to be the most capable in fighting Tex, as her attacks were not that much of a problem for him and he actually joked most of the time while she was hitting him, though he was left semi-conscious on the floor repeatedly before making a speedy recovery. During Season 12, Tucker recovers from multiple injuries and mishaps while training with the New Republic in Training Daze and even continues to keep training, displaying his perseverance.

After being stabbed by Felix in Fed vs. New, Tucker pushes through his pain and manages to keep recording Felix's plan without the latter's knowledge, an act that nearly cost him his life, which also resulted in the Chorus armies learning of the Space Pirates' plan's.

Combat
Although Tucker was initially reluctant to do battle and was willing to always stall his involvement in fighting before Recreation, Tucker was shown to be something of a capable fighter, able to quickly kill a Zealot with his sword and well-trained Wyoming clones with both his sword and his sniper rifle. In Recreation it is shown that Tucker has become a remarkable fighter, able to take on a large group of heavily armed soldiers and aliens all by himself.

It is clear from C.T's attitude towards him that Tucker has proven to be a formidable opponent. He was even able to blow up C.T.'s jeep with a single strike from his sword. In n+1, he took on the Meta and managed to stab him with his sword straight in the chest, though this didn't seem to affect him. It also appeared that his main basis in attacking with the sword were the words "swish, swish, stab". In True Colors, he manages to eliminate several Tex drones with his sword, but does not make any witty comments while fighting.

In Season 11, Washington has Tucker undergo several rigorous training exercise scenarios, which further improve his fighting capabilities, as he is seen eliminating and outmaneuvering several Federal Army of Chorus soldiers throughout the season. In Season 12, Tucker is shown to be given a squad and, unlike Caboose, Simmons, and Grif, participates in an actual infiltration of a Federal Army outpost, where he exhibits a good sense of stealth. He also has great strength as shown in Red vs Red where he destroys a tank just by punching it.

As noted by Temple, Tucker's prowess can arguably be considered on par with the Freelancers since he was trained by Wash and the Aliens. One example can be seen in Nightmare on Planet Evil where Tucker effortlessly knocked Jax out during the latter's very quiet sneak attack. He shows great skill in using his weapon even against airborne enemies, such as in A Fistful of Colours, where he single-handedly jumped on a moving ship and killed the pilot with his weapon, and landed perfectly. In Desolation, Grif noted that without the Freelancers on their side, Tucker was their best soldier. Tucker later proves to be a major key in defeating the Blues and Reds by defeating Cronut, Lorenzo, Buckey, and Temple.

Intelligence
While normally not known for his smarts, Tucker has demonstrated great tactical ingenuity on multiple occasions, such as outsmarting Wyoming's time-loop and coming up with an elaborate plan to defeat Locus and Felix in Fed vs. New. The latter is especially impressive when you consider the tactical intelligence of not only Locus and Felix themselves, but Control as well, who was orchestrating the operation. He was also the first member of the Reds and Blues to suspect the Blues and Reds of being villains.

Strategic Planning
Tucker has grown to become quite the strategist as he has been shown executing successful battle plans and strategies throughout the series. In Season 5, Tucker uses his Sword to outsmart Wyoming, kill several of his clones, save his teammates, and devise a plan with Sheila to stop Gamma. In his return in Recreation, Tucker manages to best C.T.'s men singlehandedly and get his friends to safety in the process.

Unfortunately, while he usually succeeds, some of Tucker's plans end badly with someone getting hurt or killed. In Hit and Run, Tucker deviated from Felix's plan to detonate F.A.C. Outpost 22 and decided to get the information on where Washington, Sarge, Donut, Freckles, and Lopez were being kept after hearing two Fed soldiers talk about them. Getting the full information ended up getting two of his squadmates killed. However, Tucker redeems himself by devising a plan to save the Feds and Rebels from killing each other in Fed vs. New.

In True Colors, Tucker decided the group needed to figure out if the Blues and Reds were actually bad guys and his plan involved asking them directly, which ended up with most of the team getting captured after learning the truth, though partly out of not knowing about the Grunts and Sarge and Doc betraying them.

Trivia

 * Up until Episode 54, Church never knew Tucker's first name.
 * As shown in Season 4 when teaching Crunchbite English, Tucker has horrible handwriting.
 * Tucker has developed both superb eyesight and hearing in Season 5. While at Blue Base, Tucker, without the use of the sniper rifle, is able to clearly identify the new yellow soldier at Red Base as female. Additionally, he is inside Blue Base when he overhears the discussion between Church and Tex, who were far away from the base at that time. (Tucker claimed to have developed his eyesight after not being able to use the sniper rifle in so long).
 * Tucker is superior in rank to Church, although he clearly has no problems with Church as the Blue leader.
 * Tucker is an atheist.
 * Tucker's original armor wasn't originally his. He stole Captain Flowers' armor after he died when Church's negligent attempt to save his life actually killed him. Prior to this, Tucker wore regulation blue armor similar to Caboose.
 * During his conversation with Carolina in Out of Body, Tucker did not seem to know the color of his armor, (calling it "greenish-blue", "aqua-marine", and "turquoise") despite the fact that he once correctly called it "aqua" in Previous Commitments. This is a reference to the available armor colors in different Halo games constantly changing names.
 * When the series moved onto the Halo 2 engine, Tucker's armor color was changed to Teal as Aqua was not a selectable color. In the series, the 2 colors are considered the same.
 * Paul Demarco, from Halo 4's Spartan Ops, has shown some similarities with Tucker, the most notable traits being his womanizing attitude and skill with the Energy Sword.
 * Tucker is shown primarily using the DMR while in the Halo 4 engine as opposed to the Battle Rifle the other Blood Gulch Soldiers favor.
 * Tucker's promotion to Captain in Season 12 now ranks him among the highest ranking soldiers encountered in the series, along with fellow captains Flowers, Grif, Simmons, and Caboose.
 * Later in Season 12 Doyle became the highest ranking soldier as a General, along with Kimball as revealed in Season 13, followed by Sarge after his promotion to Colonel.
 * Tucker has, at times, referenced and used movie cliches as a template for real life. For example, in Season 8, after Grif was dragged off the cliff in n+1, Tucker suggested that he might be hanging off a tree branch 'or something', according to 'some movies'. In Season 12, his plan to infiltrate the Federal Army base by knocking out and stealing the armor of two Feds is a reference to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Felix then warns him that not everything in life works like a movie, but Tucker brushes off his concerns.
 * In Counseling, the Meta's death is revealed to be caused by drowning via four punctures in his suit, most likely made when Tucker stabbed him, making Tucker partially the cause of the Meta's death.
 * Tucker has the most appearances in the fourth saga of the series out of all characters (57 episodes).
 * According to the Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide Tucker went to the Sangheili home planet with Junior and learned how to use his Energy Sword more proficiently, and that he was transferred to Project Freelancer due to sexual harassment.
 * Like Carolina, Tucker seems to take a liking to alien technology. This is interesting since they both have the same color armor.
 * As stated in season 14, Tucker admitted to committing statutory rape after sleeping with an underage girl. However, to his credit, he states the girl told him she was 18. The charges were dropped.
 * Despite having held the sniper rifle at least twice, Dylan Andrews claims in The Mother of Destruction that Tucker has never once held a sniper rifle, which is how she identifies an impostor Tucker based on the fact he wields one.
 * Tucker's greatest fear is Felix and Locus as revealed by Santa.
 * Tucker claims to have been unaffected by the Temple of Procreation despite taking part of the event after activating it. Based on his perverseness, this is likely as the rest of the Reds and Blues was not surprised by this.
 * Tucker is the only member of the Reds and Blues that has kids.
 * His eldest child is Junior, whom he had with the blue Alien whose species apparently breeds through infecting a host with a parasitic embryo regardless of gender or species. This would technically make him the "Mother".
 * He has also fathered numerous children with female residents of Chorus after activating the Temple of Procreation, however, it is unknown how many (given the number of mothers is enough for a class act, it implies something in the double digits). In A Fistful of Colours, Simmons mentions insultingly having enough for an Elementary School, but it is unclear if this was an exaggeration or factual. However, in Sis and Tuc's Sexellent Adventure, Tucker admitted he owed child support payments that would make up a portion of Chorus' GDP, giving weight to the insult.
 * As implied while describing what happened after the Temple of Procreation was activated, Tucker may be immune to aphrodisiacs.
 * In Sis and Tuc's Sexellent Adventure, Tucker reveals his mother is deceased. It is unknown how and when she died.