Board Thread:New on Red vs. Blue Wiki/@comment-184.167.237.65-20131219071043/@comment-35958442-20180627100135

I have my own crackpot theory. Why? Because it is 3 AM, and I'm bored. Now, I've only seen up to halfway through season five (I'm fairly new to the series), so keep the spoilers toned down, if possible.

Anyways, here it is. (WARNING: IDIOCY AHEAD) They resurrect themselves out of sheer willpower. Their souls/ghosts hear the call to battle, and force their corpses into animation. It could be plausible. As we've seen throughout the series, even early on, that ghosts exist, and are able to possess bodies. We don't ever see the main ghosts (Church and Tex) possess corpses, but maybe this is where their insane devotion and low intellect come in handy. Stay with me here. The way that it helps is that they are far too stupid to realize "Wait, I'm jumping back into my own corpse! *PTSD from hell hits*". And their devotion is part of what allows them to ignore death, and serve their great leader/god, the Flag.

I ALSO have a theory about why they worship the flag. It would seem that they have had no access to the outside until very recently, so they have built a religion based around the flag, one of the few consistencies in their life. They went insane, and so this is something that would make sense to these loonies. This would mean (Nightmare fuel incoming) that these soldiers were once just like the Blood Gulch squadrons, who have had a fate similar to the one our main cast would have suffered, if it weren't for these strange new events.