Lopez the Heavy

From Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles

Lopez
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Name:	Lopez
Full Name:	Lopez
Affiliations:	Red Team, Blue Team (Former), Robot Army (Former), O'Malley (Former)
First Appearance:	Episode 2
Armor Color(s):	Brown
Voice Actor:	Burnie Burns

"Wait a second, Lopez is a robot?"

—Grif

"Of course he is. You don't notice that he never talks?"

—Simmons

"I just thought that he was a really quiet guy."

—Grif

"And the fact that he sleeps standing up and drinks motor oil didn't get your attention?"

—Sarge

"Well I did think that the motor oil thing was a bit odd, I just thought he was just trying to impress me."

—Grif

"I am Lopez the Heavy"

—Lopez

Lopez la Pesado, better known simply as "Lopez", is a robot built by Sarge that has a damaged voice card that makes it so that he can only speak Spanish and only Andy and Tucker(with aid of a dictionary, although in Episode 33 he seems to understand him perfectly)can understand him. Sarge, and Simmons can't understand anything that Lopez says, mostly assuming he said something else, which is always wrong, and always make Lopez frustrated.

[edit] Role in the plot

[edit] Creation

Lopez was created by Sarge on Blood Gulch using the robot kit that was sent to him by Command. Church from the time loop came by when Sarge was creating Lopez and he dirtied Lopez's stick which eventually lead to in an incident in which both of Lopez's foot motors malfunctioned when Church was possessing Lopez's robotic body. However, he somehow has a mother, as one of his prime directives is to call her more often (his other primary objectives are to hate Grif and fix everything).

Lopez was created by Sarge.

Church kicking dirt on Lopez's switch

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[edit] Early Life

Lopez made his first appearance in Episode 2 in which he drove the Warthog to the Red Team. It is later revealed that Lopez can be used as a means of controlling the Warthog remotely by using Sarge's "secret" codewords. Lopez can also fix the Warthog if it is damaged Then, in Episode 16, a voice card was sent from Command for the mute Lopez to use, but Sarge failed to ground himself when deploying the card, so static damaged the card, meaning that Lopez could only speak Spanish. Lopez then said a lot of things in which nobody on the Red Team could effectively understand. Then, Lopez was possessed by Church and kidnapped, thus acting as Church's new body.

While he was on Blue Team, the Reds demanded that he would be returned only to do so many episodes later. Later, the Blue Team nearly killed Sarge by using Lopez's remote control of the Warthog; then Church decided to get out of Lopez so that Lopez could fix Sheila, but when he did so, Lopez ran away and refused to join the Blues until the Reds attacked him on the Warthog. He felt betrayed so he went back to fix Sheila.

[edit] Life With O'Malley

After Lopez was kidnapped by O'Malley, the weather machine in his body was activated, a bolt of lightning from Lopez's weather machine activates Church's bomb. Said bomb went off in Church's body, and, as a result Lopez lost his torso and his lower body and he was left with just a head. He was saved by O'Malley, who took him to his "evil lair." There, he would operate a machine gun to defend the evil lair. When Sarge questions how Lopez was capable of this Simmons said "he is very determined". Shortly afterwards Tex shoots his head off of the turret. Later, he built a robot army for O'Malley, but the army went so slow in speed that O'Malley criticized Lopez. In return, Lopez made O'Malley say ridiculous things in Spanish.

O'Malley saves Lopez.

Tex shoots Lopez off of his machine gun position.

Lopez created a robotic army.

Lopez is alone with Andy.

[edit] Return To Red Army

In Chapter 2 of Reconstruction, he reappears, now with his entire body present; it is implied that Sarge repaired him. Later on, he attempts to tell Sarge that the "mission" the Meta sent him was faked, but Sarge doesn't understand. When Sarge announces his intention to leave and find Grif and Simmons, Lopez replies by telling to leave immediately so he can erase all his memories of Sarge, implying that he had done the same with Grif and Simmons. Sarge is unable to understand this, so he assumes that Lopez is just saying goodbye to him. Ironically, at the end of the Sponsor Extended version of Reconstruction Chapter 9, Lopez discovers being in the canyon by himself was not as good as he expected. While alone in the canyon, he manages to kill Sister, winning Blood Gulch for the Reds.

In Relocated Chapter 3, after the Reds get their power back on, Sarge contacts Lopez. Lopez tells him that he won the canyon for him before starting the journey to Valhalla. (Lopez recognizes its Sarge which would be impossible if he erased all memory of him like he said in Chapter 2 of Reconstruction) and he arrives at Valhalla in an extremely short amount of time. At this same pace, he builds the Reds' new holographic simulation room, or HoloRoom. Later on, Lopez is sent to try to and fix the Warthog for Sarge and he found that the Warthog is beyond repair. Lopez's personality has changed since his life with O'Malley. No longer is he the happy take orders robot he was, but instead his personality has become more of a depressed teenager. At the end of episode 19 in recreation, when Lopez asks what is going on, he is shot in the head by Washington. Earlier on when they left the base, Lopez said he made backups of his memory, so he is sure to return; just as soon as Sarge gets him a new body.

[edit] Relationships With Other Characters

[edit] Sheila

In Episode 29, Señor Lopez met Sheila and it was love at first sight. Tex possessed Lopez's body so Lopez's relationship was delayed. Then, in Episode 33, Lopez was able to continue his relationship when he sang a love song to Sheila. Lopez felt distaste for the Red Team because they tried to kill him and he disliked the Blues because they possessed him multiple times so Lopez ran off with Sheila to form a Robot Army. Lopez sent a note demanding for the surrender of the Blue Team; however, the Red Team also showed up unexpectedly, and Lopez was planning on conquering the Reds on another day. Eventually, two of the robots were sent out, and Lopez was outraged by this because he felt they were turning on their own kind against him so he decided to start a battle. Shortly after, he was kidnapped and taken away by O'Malley.

Love at first sight.

Church proposes they make a robot army.

[edit] Creations

Following his creation, Lopez has created many objects for the Red Team, such as the Gauss Warthog, Holo-room and two Mongooses. He has also learned to make two of every vehicle, as one will no doubt be broken almost immediately. With the case of the Mongooses, this proves to be true as Simmons destroys one after mere seconds.

Red Team
Sarge · Dick Simmons · Dexter Grif · Franklin Delano Donut · Lopez the Heavy · Chupathingy · The Motorcycle