User blog:Otherside86/Is Caboose really stupid, or just plain insane...or both?

Everyone knows Michael J. Caboose is the dumbest character in the series. But is his stupidity really natural, or is it a result of his time in Blood Gulch.

Not much is known about Caboose's life before joining Blue Team. But what we do get in Holiday Plans, Part Three: Chestnuts Roasting... is that he had trouble talking to girls when he was young and that he was never very close to his dad before his death. He was a close psychological to Loco and was accidentally added to Blood Gulch's roster when Captain Flowers tripped on Vic's cable in Why They're Here.

Caboose was first introduced in the Blood Gulch Chronicles anxious recruit who had little military experience and still had some common sense. He didn't have a full-grasp of what's going on; which is how he lost the flag and decided to use the tank. After accidentally killing Church for the first time, he was filled with guilt that he wish to make it up to him and become best friends, which he became obsessed with from his repeated failures. He feels more terrible when Shelia got blown up in After Church after getting equated with her, which slowly becomes a romantic interest. In Season 11, with Church gone and Washington always busy, Caboose was forced to attached himself to Freckles.

Caboose also possessed the AI Omega for three months. As it is known; Omega is the fragment of the Alpha's rage. I have heard somewhere that when a person is stressed and angry, their brain downshifts to a lower I.Q. So Omega has been slowly depleting what little intelligence Caboose had while inside his head. Inside Caboose's mind, his own subconscious-self seems to be the one acting sane compared to all the other mental images. This indicates that Caboose has no control over his own actions or how he envisions everyone else. It was only after Omega shoot the mental version of Church that Caboose has complete forgot about the real Church. The death of "Mind Church" has wiped all memory of him from Caboose, which "Real Church" never bother to figure it out. The same must have happened again when Church accidentally killed Yellow Church inside Caboose's head.

So from a unfulfilling childhood, repeated trauma, and damage to his psyche has made Caboose the childish, unfocused, disaster-prone dimwit we all know today.