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• Full Name: Michael J. Caboose
• Voice Actor: Joel Heyman
• Armor Color: Blue
• Seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Reconstruction, Relocated, Recreation, and Revelation
• Status: Alive

Private Michael J. Caboose is voiced by Joel Heyman. Caboose first appears in episode 3 of season 1 as a new recruit for the Blood Gulch Blue Team, a group of soldiers engaged in a futuristic civil war against the Red Team.

Caboose is portrayed as one of the most eccentric characters in the series. Consistently shown to be mentally abnormal, his behavior varies from merely somewhat dim-witted in Season 1 to almost completely divorced from reality in Season 3 and onwards. This is most likely due to the strong possibility of Omega (then “O’Mally”) possessing him in Season 1 and probably turning his mental faculties into something that probably resembles a car wreck. His unusual behavior frequently earns him the scorn and disrespect of the series’ other characters. In more than one instance, his low intelligence causes him to inadvertently injure team members and allies. In the original series, he killed Alpha-Church with the Blue Team’s tank, Sheila. In Reconstruction, while the cast is being assembled, Washington finds him in a military stockade, apparently for accidentally killing several squad-mates. One recurring gag is for team members to plead with him not to help them out of fear he will inadvertently harm them. This is not just an idle concern, either: in several instances, characters get him to shoot targets by telling him that “they are friends and we are trying to help them”. Despite his shortcomings, he is arguably the most genuinely loyal character and frequently displays above-average strength.

Oddly enough, whenever Church possesses Caboose (allowing viewers to see inside the workings of Caboose’s mind), Caboose’s mental representation of himself seems completely sane and reasonable, like a calmer version of how he acted in his first few episodes before he was taken over by O’Mally.

According the backstory released by RoosterTeeth, Caboose is the youngest in a large family. He apparently joined the Blue Army by mistake; he thought he was signing up for a study abroad program in France.

In the first few series Caboose falls in love with Sheila the tank, but loses her when Lopez comes into the picture. Caboose is the one who brings Epsilon-Church to Vallhala and the desert area with Tucker in the hopes of getting a new best friend.

In part due to positive early fan reaction, Burnie Burns, the main writer for the series, focused the storyline on Caboose and Donut (Dan Godwin), the Red Team’s rookie.