Sarge wielding his iconic shotgun
- "The shotgun seat is reserved as a position of respect. And for people who carry shotguns. See? Quid pro quo."
- —Sarge in Directions
The shotgun is a pump-action scattershot firearm used by various Red vs. Blue characters, although most notably it is the primary weapon of Red team's leader: Sarge. It is loaded with shells and fires out scattered buckshot that is damaging at close range. Thanks to so many different kind of shotguns appearing throughout each Halo game, the Shotgun's appearances tend to vary drastically.
Users[]
- Mickey: Mickey is seen using a shotgun to fight Tex at Sidewinder during a "flashback" scene in A Shadow of His Former Self.
- Sarge: The shotgun is Sarge's primary, favorite and iconic weapon of choice. He begins to carry it around mid-Season 1. He has however been seen to use an assault rifle from time to time while fighting Blues. He killed several Wyoming clones with it at the end of Season 5. In the Zombie PSA, Sarge says he carries a shotgun at all times in case of a zombie attack. Even when getting Alien weapons from the Temple of Arms he continues to carry around his shotgun and uses it in the final battle on the Staff of Charon.
- Simmons: Simmons used one in Season 1 to guard Tex after her capture, and after Sarge's apparent death in Season 5 so he could be the leader of the Reds.
- Church: In the flashback of Tex's assault on Sidewinder, Church had a shotgun and tried to shoot Tex multiple times.
- Epsilon-Tex: In This One Goes to Eleven, Tex takes Sarge's shotgun from him and attempts to shoot Grif in the face, only to find that there was no ammo left. She then swings the shotgun right into Grif's balls, causing Grif more pain and sending him flying into Simmons.
- North and South: In Season 9, Freelancers North & South Dakota share the same shotgun to eliminate Insurrectionists in the episode, The Twins.
York pumping his Shotgun.
- York: York uses a shotgun as his main primary firearm during the heyday of Project Freelancer. He uses it in the episodes The Sarcophagus and Follow the Leader to fight against several Insurrectionists. He also uses it Party Crasher as he aids Tex in the break-in.
- Washington: Wash briefly uses Sarge's shotgun (which he took from him when trying to take him hostage) in Upon Further Review to try and shoot Grif. Even doing a one-handed pump mid-air before it was taken back by Sarge.
- Demo Man: The Demo Man carries around a shotgun in Season 9 and 10, having a special one that has shell holders. He also seems to have bandoilers filled with shotgun shells wrapped across his torso. A notable usage of the shotgun was during the battle at the Longshore Shipyards in Fall From Heaven. With the help of his new robot arm, he manages to aim and fire it with one hand, without worrying about recoil.
- Carolina: Carolina uses a shotgun to great effect in True Colors to take out many of the Robotic Tex Drones guarding the Director in the Freelancer Offsite Storage Facility. During the fight to keep Locus and Felix busy when they made their way to the Purge Temple, Carolina steals Locus' shotgun and tries to use it against him. However it was destroyed thanks to it being grinded and cut in half by a floating platform. She uses a shotgun again in her first fight with Phase and Diesel in Viper.
- Tex: Tex steals a shotgun from one of Project Freelancer soldiers and uses it to great effect alongside Spike Grenades before discarding it during the Freelancer Break-In in Party Crasher.
- Locus: The shotgun appears to be one of Locus' common weapons to carry in his vast arsenal. In Worst Laid Plans, in order to prevent others from learning of the crash site, Locus killed the Dropship Pilot with a shotgun and pistol after the latter lowered his guard. He later uses it to kill Jason Cunningham in Season 12. In Season 13, he carries a shotgun alongside his sniper rifle when he and Felix make their way to the Purge Temple in Great Destroyers. In Season 14's Club, Locus makes use of a very different type of shotgun with a silencer when taking care of Gabriel Lozano's Goons.
- Marlowe: Marlowe is seen using it as his primary firearm in Grey vs. Gray.
- Surge: In Blue vs. Red, it was revealed that he had used a shotgun just like Sarge, but after Biff's death he switched to a Railgun.
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Trivia[]
- Shotgun is also a running gag in the series that relates to a character getting into a Warthog first. This usually involves Grif and Simmons, where one would say, "Shotgun!" and the other right after would say, "Shotgun, fuck!" after missing their opportunity. This gag also appears in Halo 3, being said by Marine Corps marines which substitute the word 'fuck' with 'damn' during the campaign level Tsavo Highway, while the IWHBYD skull is active.
- York's usage of a shotgun fits in with his role as the "lockpicker" for Project Freelancer, as shotguns are sometimes used to bypass locks or doors for breeching.
- Carolina choosing a shotgun as one of her weapons when going out to confront the Director could be in honor of York. Who always fielded said weapon, during the heyday of Project Freelancer.
- As shown in Revelation, "Shotgun" is used as Sarge's code-word for a contingency plan. Sarge first allows himself to be subdued by an enemy, then makes a statement about his shotgun, emphasizing the word to signal his squad to use the Warthog to take out the enemy. Grif has expressed distaste at this plan. saying "How about next time we use a code-word, we choose something you don't say every five seconds?"
- Another one of Sarge's contingency plans is "shotgun to the face" which Sarge claims is useful in a "variety of situations," from infiltration to insubordination.