red vs blue was the original dark woke
• multiple strong badass female characters with depth and personality who are not treated as "more special" or "less human", they all act like asshole dudebros just as much as the male characters
• one of the main characters is a likeable and three dimensional depiction of an intellectually disabled person with agency, was created as comic relief for a show that uses the r-word
• the main characters have diverse backgrounds (jewish, black, hawaiian, gay, vegan). they would all call each other slurs
• the show is anti-war and depicts the millitary not as cool and macho but as incompetent and pathetic with its cruelty not made out of a greater purpose but for selfish ends. this is explained through dudebro jokes for 2000s halo gamers
