History Characters / TeamFortress2Defense

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: "Oh, that smarts.", a relatively silent voiceline playing whenver Demo is taking damage. Any damage. This could be a reaction to a stray bullet, or to getting blown to bits.

* PowerfulButInaccurate: Demo's weapons deal tremendous splash damage, but he lacks hitscan weapons, requiring prediction, aim, and LeadTheTarget. Indeed, in competitive environments, the Scout is considered a Demo's worst enemy, as they can easily dodge his explosives while closing in and making him eat a face full of lead.

* {{Tsundere}}: One of the Demo's lines, "I didn't need your help, ya know...", hints at a touch of this.

* TrapMaster: He can lay down a set of stickybombs that he can then set off at the right moment.

With a massive 300HP and his primary weapon being a minigun, the Heavy is a Defense character who acts like a mobile meat shield for his team and a shock trooper, who can absorb the bulk of the enemy fire to provide cover for his teammates and dish out plenty of damage in return, especially at short-to-mid range. His secondary is a shotgun (which he can switch with lunch box items to replenish health), and his melee weapons are his own fists. Powerful and quite tanky, the Heavy thrives when confronting his foes head-on; on the other hand, he lumbers around slowly at 77% base speed and his minigun's windup time (and his being even ''slower'' while winding up, firing, or keeping his minigun wound up) means that he can be easily outmaneuvered and ambushed. Moreover, he is very vulnerable to the Sniper and Spy, who can kill him in one hit [[note]]they can kill ''anyone'' in one hit, but they mostly find the Heavy to be an especially easy target due to being so big and slow[[/note]].\\

* InstantDeathRadius: While not technically "instant," at point-blank range with his mini-gun, he does about '''500 damage a second''' (the most health one player can have in a normal, non-[=MvM=] game is the 450 health a fully-overhealed Heavy has), so even another Heavy will be torn to pieces extremely fast. Unless you're a Spy, don't get near a Heavy if he isn't distracted. However, steep damage drop-off means that at medium range and beyond, the minigun starts to lose effectiveness quickly.

On paper, the Engineer doesn't look like much with 125HP, 100% base speed, and a shotgun as his default weapon. But although the Engineer is ill-suited for direct combat, his strength is his ability to build and lift around an array of buildings to support his team. His turret will automatically fire at any enemy in range with impressive damage if upgraded accordingly, his dispenser will deal precious ammo to teammates and also heal them, and his often underestimated teleporters can bring respawning reinforcements quickly to the battlefield, keeping pressure on the enemy. Naturally, Demo with his indirect GrenadeSpam, and the Spy with his sapper, are his natural enemies. Otherwise, the Engineer uses a pistol, and a wrench. [[http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=engineer Meet the Engineer!]]\\

[[caption-width-right:146:''"[[GadgeteerGenius I told you not to touch that darn thing]]!"'']]

* ConspicuousConsumption: In terms of the cost of his minigun's ammo, at least. In "Meet the Heavy," he says that it fires 10,000 rounds a minute, with the cartridges costing $200 each. "It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds."

->''"So.... T'all you fine dandies so proud, so cocksure, [[EyepatchOfPower prancin' aboot with your heads full of eyeballs!]] [[BringIt Come and get me I say!]] I'll be waiting on ya with a whiff of the 'ol brimstone. [[BadassBoast I'm a Grimm bloody fable... with an unhappy, bloody end!]]"''

[[caption-width-right:146:[[DrunkenMaster HE'S drunk. You don't have an excuse!]]]]

The Demoman is a [[ScaryBlackMan black]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotsman]] [[EyepatchOfPower wearing an eyepatch]], with a knack for explosives and strong alcohol. He is a BoisterousBruiser and a cheerful drunkard who enjoys blowing everything to bits while chugging on Scrumpy. Abandoned at birth by his parents, his talent with explosives resulted in the death of his adoptive parents, and his family welcomed him back in the {{DeGroot}} clan. Since then, he's been working as a mercenary. On account of his lack of an eye, and blood heritage, he considers himself something of a LastOfHisKind. He shared his [[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part1/index.htm class update]] with the Soldier, much like the Sniper and Spy. The update revealed the Demoman's lifestyle; along with working three jobs, he lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his blind mother. [[http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=demoman Meet the Demoman!]]\\

->''"Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe... Maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart '''bullet'''."''

[[caption-width-right:146:[[LargeHam An ingredient in his sandvich, honestly...]]]]

->"''Hey look, buddy. I'm an engineer — that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?' because [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy]]. I solve'' practical problems."

[[caption-width-right:146:[[GadgeteerGenius He told you not to touch that darn thing.]]]]

* LightningBruiser: Proper application of sticky-jumping turns the Demoman into an extremely mobile class with high damage output. Demoknights gain extra durability in exchange for range and charge to close the distance with frightening speed.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Under no circumstances should you allow that Heavy to eat that Sandvich. However, it is also very unwise to try to keep him from it.

** The Medic. When all else fails — when the Demo can't get around the corner, when the Spy is being heckled by the Pyros or can't deal with the Engineer himself, and when the Soldier can't gain good line of sight, a well-coordinated Über of the stock Medigun invincibility type can be the last desperate attempt to take down a well dug-in Sentry Nest. Few things are more frightening to an Engineer than seeing an [[OhCrap Übered Heavy-Medic combo round a corner]], followed by a gaggle of the enemy team. Even if the push fails, it can distract the Engineer's team long enough to let the other counters do their jobs.

** Pyros. Pyros are the soft counter to Demo: a good Pyro can flank and get too close for the Demoman to deal with, much like the Scout, and their close range damage is even more devastating than the Scattergun. However, the Pyro has one tool that the Scout doesn't — the Compression Blast. Since all of the Demoman's non Demoknight-centered weapons (shields and boots, that is) fire projectiles, a competent Pyro with use of the airblast can completely shut down a Demoman's offense by reflecting their fired pipes back into his face, or shut down ''their defence'' by airblasting their stickytraps and rendering them useless. In the hands of a skilled player, an enemy Pyro is the scariest thing the Demoman can face on the battlefield. And don't think Demoknight helps much either, considering the Pyro can roast him even with the Chargin' Targe (which itself is meant to counter the Pyro's main advantages) and simply airblast the Demoknight every time they're within the not-inconsiderable range of their melee weapons.

* AnimalMotifs: Scout compares him to a "big shaved bear that hates people", his class bio describes him like a bear, and the diminutive of his name can mean 'bear' (Russia's national animal). Embracing this motif, the Heavy can equip the Warrior's Spirit (two severed bear claws wrapped around his fists) to beat enemies to death with, and an item set called the Hibernating Bear (Brass Beast, Buffalo Steak Sandvich, Warrior's Spirit, and the Big Chief cosmetic). On the cosmetic side, he gets the Bear Necessities (a bear pelt that wraps a bear's head and front arms around his head), the Unshaved Bear (Heavy growing a beard out), and the Little Bear (a pocket plushie version of Giant Heavy robots from Mann vs. Machine).

The Heavy is a [[HuskyRusskie towering powerhouse of a man hailing from the arctic regions of Russia]], with a [[BaldOfAwesome cleanly-shaven head]] and PermaStubble, and wields a [[GatlingGood massive minigun]]. Having escaped from the Gulag with his family to the Dzhugdzhur Mountains, the Heavy has left the U.S.S.R. to work as a mercenary in America and sends his money to his mother and sisters. His hulking appearance, brutish behavior, and mediocre English make him look unintelligent, but the Heavy is actually smarter than he looks and can be perceptive and calm, [[BadassBookworm along with a PhD in Russian literature]]. At the same time, he really enjoys killing people and has [[ICallItVera dubbed his miniguns]] with affectionate names "Sasha", "Natascha", or "Tomislav". The Heavy is perhaps the closest thing to a main character in the game, in how he is often featured "front and center" due to his size in artwork (in one splash screen, in the game's box art, in the selection lineup, and in the promotional team lineup) and him getting the first class-centric video (and appearing first in both trailers and foremost in "Meet the Sandvich"). The Heavy was the third class to be updated with fun new toys. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Heavy The Heavy's page on the TF2 Wiki]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0 Meet the Heavy!]]\\

The Demoman is a [[ScaryBlackMan black]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotsman]] [[EyepatchOfPower wearing an eyepatch]], with a knack for explosives and strong alcohol. He is a BoisterousBruiser and a drunkard who enjoys blowing everything to bits while chugging on Scrumpy. Abandoned at birth by his parents, his talent with explosives resulted in the death of his adoptive parents, and his family welcomed him back in the DeGroot clan. Since then, he's been working as a mercenary. On account of his lack of an eye, and blood heritage, he considers himself something of a LastOfHisKind. He shared his [[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part1/index.htm class update]] with the Soldier, much like the Sniper and Spy. The update revealed the Demoman's lifestyle; along with working three jobs, he lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his blind mother. [[http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=demoman Meet the Demoman!]]\\

* AchillesHeel: The Heavy, being ''so goddamn slow'', is easy pickings for most classes (on his own at least), but two stand out:

** Spy. Spies also like Medics, but the Heavy is even easier pickings for him than the Sniper, since it's very easy for the Spy to strike while the Heavy is distracted by all of his duties, and when a Heavy is revved up, they're not likely to hear the decloak of even the most incompetent Spy. Combined with the Heavy's slow speed (which is even slower when they’re revved up), and the fact that the Spy is one of the only two classes that can efficiently take out even an overhealed Heavy with a Medic (even a Sniper can struggle to do that), game-sense is the only weapon in the Heavy's arsenal that can help with this weakness. The [[IncendiaryExponent Huo-Long Heater]] can deter Spies, which generates a ring of fire around the Heavy while he's revved [fire being the Spy's greatest fear this side of Jarate]; the caveat here is that it [[JustForPun burns]] through ammo at a speedy rate [unless pushing the cart, which constantly replenishes ammo] and the fact that a good Spy can simply jump over the ring or time their backstab for when the fire isn't out).

** To a lesser extent, there’s also the Sniper. A skilled Sniper can headshot an Engineer far away from the sentry gun’s proximity while he’s building, thus leaving his entire nest vulnerable to the enemy team. Some of Sniper's rifles also have the capability to wipe out lower level buildings in one hit with a charged shot, or do severe damage to higher-leveled ones. It's possible to counter Snipers by using a Wrangler, but the severe damage falloff means you'll only ward them off for a few minutes at best.

The Demoman is a [[ScaryBlackMan black]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotsman]] [[EyepatchOfPower wearing an eyepatch]] and a demolition expert. He is a BoisterousBruiser and a drunkard who enjoys blowing everything to bits while chugging on Scrumpy. Abandoned at birth by his parents, his talent with explosives resulted in the death of his adoptive parents, and his family welcomed him back in the DeGroot clan. Since then, he's been working as a mercenary. On account of his lack of an eye, and blood heritage, he considers himself something of a LastOfHisKind. He shared his [[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part1/index.htm class update]] with the Soldier, much like the Sniper and Spy. The update revealed the Demoman's lifestyle; along with working three jobs, he lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his blind mother. [[http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=demoman Meet the Demoman!]]\\

With 175HP and 93% base speed, the Demoman's true worth lies with his powerful weaponry. The Demoman primarily uses a grenade launcher which fires its projectiles in an parabolic arc, and whose grenades can bounce against obstacles before exploding; thus, he's the only class capable of indirect fire, dealing explosive damage without even seeing the enemy. His secondary slot is occupied by a stickybomb launcher, meaning he can lay down a bunch of bombs anywhere and make them explode at the same time. Thus, he can defend choke points easily and can eliminate anyone in one massive blast. On the other hand, his projectile-based weapons make him suboptimal when fighting at close range. His melee weapon is a bottle. Alternatively, the Demoman can specialize in melee combat, dotting a shield, a longsword or whatever, and maybe some boots to speed him up.\\

The Heavy is a [[HuskyRusskie towering powerhouse of a man hailing from the arctic mountains of Russia]], with a [[BaldOfAwesome shaved head]] and PermaStubble, and wields a [[GatlingGood massive minigun]]. Having escaped from the Gulag with his family to Dzhugdzhur Mountains, the Heavy has left the U.S.S.R. to work as a mercenary in America and sends his money to his mother and sisters. His hulking appearance, brutish behavior, and mediocre English make him look unintelligent, but the Heavy is smarter than he looks and can be perceptive and calm, [[BadassBookworm along with a PhD in Russian literature]]. At the same time, he really enjoys killing people and has [[ICallItVera dubbed his miniguns]] with affectionate names "Sasha" and "Natascha", and a machinegun "Tomislav". The Heavy is perhaps the closest thing to a main character in the game, in how he is often featured "front and center" due to his size in artwork (in one splash screen, in the game's box art, in the selection lineup, and in the promotional team lineup) and him getting the first class-centric video (and appearing first in both trailers and foremost in "Meet the Sandvich"). The Heavy was the third class to be updated with fun new toys. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Heavy The Heavy's page on the TF2 Wiki]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0 Meet the Heavy!]]\\

With a massive 300HP and his primary weapon being a minigun, the Heavy is a Defense character who acts like a mobile meat shield for his team and a shock trooper, who can absorb the bulk of the enemy fire to provide cover for his teammates and dish out plenty of damage in return, at least at short-to-mid range. His secondary is a shotgun (which he can switch with food items to replenish health), and his melee weapons are his own fists. Powerful and quite tanky, the Heavy thrives when confronting his foes head-on; on the other hand, he lumbers around slowly at 77% base speed and his minigun's windup time (and his being even ''slower'' while winding up, firing, or keeping his minigun wound up) means that he can be easily outmaneuvered and ambushed. Moreover, he is very vulnerable to the Sniper and Spy, who can kill him in one hit [[note]]they can kill ''anyone'' in one hit, but they mostly find the Heavy to be an especially easy target due to being so big and slow[[/note]].\\

* HuskyRusskie: He is arguably TheGiant and has quite the StoutStrength (lifting 150 kg of Minigun, punches that spark on metal and kill a living person in 2-3 hits, able to take on a giant bear in hand-to hand combat...). He is even as fast as everyone when wielding the GRU and as a Soldier with the Eviction Notice: he can match the Scout in speed when whipped by the Disciplinary Action with those weapons.

* MoreDakka: A 200-ammunition clip (each one firing four bullets at once) is the base amount, which you can chew through in under a minute. [[MemeticMutation Poot]] a Heavy by a Dispenser and he becomes a bottomless fountain of bullets. Mann vs. Machine lets you upgrade to a 500-round clip and increase your fire rate significantly. Valve had to give the tanks (the mini-bosses in Mann vs. Machine mode) a 75% damage resistance to miniguns just to stop Heavies from simply chewing through them in a matter of seconds. With a fully upgraded Brass Beast and a crit canteen, he does literally 2560 damage a second, enough to kill a Giant Robo-Heavy or Medic in roughly two seconds of sustained fire and around one second for any other giant.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: He has a doctorate in Russian literature. It's apparently more useful than you'd think in his line of work.

** His second Halloween costume (from Scream Fortress 2013) is a pink fairy princess dress.

** The BLU Heavy (along with BLU Soldier) is pretty much the ButtMonkey of all the ''Meet the Team'' videos and the class most often shown getting beat on whenever a new update happens. The RED Heavy inverts this; whenever ''he's'' taking center stage, everyone ''else'' suffers the most. (Although even RED Heavy was victim to having his rib snapped off.)

The Engineer is a American cowboy possessing [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist 11 [=PhDs=]]] hailing from [[SouthernFriedGenius Bee Cave]], [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]]. He appears to be the nicest and most well-adjusted member of the team, to the point where his domination taunts sound more like good-natured ribbing than anything. It has been noted, however, that going by the ''stereotypes'' that the game uses for its characters, those same good-natured southerners are said to be putting on a facade of pleasantries and are ready at any moment to blow a stranger's head off with a shotgun for trespass or grab their torches and pitchforks in a display of friendly neighbourhood mob justice. Never forget that this is the very same good-natured southerner who sawed his own hand off to test the experimental Gunslinger. Never forget he has claimed quite a lot of tech to be his own design when it's actually his grandfather's. And never forget that Mann Co. always hires the lowest bidder. He may seem nice, but the Engineer is a weapons-based MadScientist with a penchant for skipping straight to the live testing.\\

** Über. When all else fails — when the Demo can't get around the corner, when the Spy is being heckled by the Pyros or can't deal with the Engineer himself, and when the Soldier can't gain good line of sight, a well-coordinated Über of the stock Medigun invincibility type can be the last desperate attempt to take down a well dug-in Sentry Nest. Few things are more frightening to an Engineer than seeing an [[OhCrap Übered Heavy-Medic combo round a corner]], followed by a gaggle of the enemy team. Even if the push fails, it can distract the Engineer's team long enough to let the other counters do their jobs.

The Demoman is a [[ScaryBlackMan black]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotsman]] [[EyepatchOfPower wearing an eyepatch]] and a demolition expert. He is a BoisterousBruiser, constantly drunk and enjoys blowing everything to bits. Abandoned at birth by his parents, his talent with explosives resulted in the death of his adoptive parents, and his family welcomed him back in the clan. Since then, he's been working as a mercenary. On account of his lack of an eye, and blood heritage, he considers himself something of a LastOfHisKind. He shared his [[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part1/index.htm class update]] with the Soldier, much like the Sniper and Spy. The update revealed the Demoman's lifestyle; along with working three jobs, he lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his blind mother. [[http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=demoman Meet the Demoman!]]\\

With 175HP and 93% base speed, the Demoman's true worth lies with his high-damage weaponry. The Demoman primarily uses a grenade launcher which fires its ammo in an arc, and whose grenades can bounce against obstacles before exploding; thus, he's the only class capable of indirect fire, dealing explosive damage without even seeing the enemy. His secondary slot is occupied by a stickybomb launcher, meaning he can lay down a bunch of bombs anywhere and make them explode at the same time. Thus, he can defend choke points easily and can eliminate anyone in one massive blast. On the other hand, his projectile-based weapons make him suboptimal when fighting at close range. His melee weapon is a bottle. Alternatively, the Demoman can specialize in melee combat, dotting a shield, a longsword or whatever, and maybe some boots to speed him up.\\

* MightyGlacier: Played with; per the official wiki, the Defense Classes possess the highest firepower, but are slow to deploy. His Grenade Launcher is hard to aim, his Sticky Bombs have a priming time, and his running speed is below-average (but still a bit faster than the Soldier's). All this allows the speedy Scouts to get up in his face and take him down while dodging his explosives. On the other hand, his explosives deal some of, if not ''the'' highest burst damage in the game (the Mighty part), and he can subvert this by Sticky Jumping to become a LightningBruiser.

The Heavy is a [[HuskyRusskie massive Russian]] with a [[BaldOfAwesome shaved head]] and PermaStubble, who wields a [[GatlingGood minigun]]. Having escaped from the gulag with his family, the Heavy has left the U.S.S.R. to work as a mercenary and sends his money to his mother and sisters. His appearance, brutish behavior, and lacking English make him look stupid, but the Heavy is smarter than he looks and can be perceptive and calm. At the same time, he really enjoys killing people and has [[ICallItVera dubbed his miniguns]] with affectionate names "Sasha" and "Natascha", and a machinegun "Tomislav". The Heavy is perhaps the closest thing to a main character in the game, in how he is often featured "front and center" due to his size in artwork (in one splash screen, in the game's box art, in the selection lineup, and in the promotional team lineup) and him getting the first class-centric video (and appearing first in both trailers and foremost in "Meet the Sandvich"). The Heavy was the third class to be updated with fun new toys. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Heavy The Heavy's page on the TF2 Wiki]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0 Meet the Heavy!]]\\

With 300HP and his primary weapon being a minigun, the Heavy is a Defense character who acts like an anchor point for his team and a shock trooper, who can weather a lot of damage and deal it in return, at least at short range. His secondary is a shotgun (which he can switch with food items to replenish health), and his melee weapons are his own fists. Powerful and quite tanky, the Heavy thrives when confronting his foes head-on; on the other hand, he is very slow at 77% base speed and his minigun's windup time (and his being even ''slower'' while winding up, firing, or keeping his minigun wound up) means that he can be easily outmaneuvered and ambushed. Moreover, he is very vulnerable to the Sniper and Spy, who can kill him in one hit [[note]]they can kill ''anyone'' in one hit, but they find the Heavy to be an especially easy target due to being so big and slow[[/note]].\\

* AchillesHeel: The Heavy, being ''so very slow'', is easy pickings for most classes, but two stand out:
** Sniper. Heavies are a Sniper's favorite target after the Medic, since they're so slow and really struggle to traverse any great distance without getting their head popped like a grape. At close range, though, there's no real contest, unlike...

** Another example lies in the [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Ullapool_Caber Ullapool Caber]]. To put it simply, you're using a stick grenade as a ''melee weapon''. The flavor text on the item even reads "A sober man would throw it."

* DrunkenMaster: The Demoman is nearly ''always'' drunk on the battlefield. He may come across as a boozed-up buffoon, but make no mistake, he is an expert at his craft. After all, if he wasn't a good Demoman, ''Meet the Demoman'' as we know it wouldn't have happened.