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[[caption-width-right:146:[[IncrediblyLamePun He had his good eye on ya the whole time!]]]]

* LongRangeFighter: Compared to the HHH, who is strictly a melee combatant outside of his stun attack, and Merasmus, who is dangerous to those both far from and near him, MONOCULUS! has absolutely no melee attack to speak of. He just floats around and shoots anyone that [[IncrediblyLamePun catches his eye.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Not even Miss Pauling can escape the slapstick. [[spoiler:In the Old Wounds comic, she gets punched in the nose by Zhanna in order to knock the Classic Demo to the ground, who is sequentially strangled on by the Spy's leg-chains.]]

* StraightMan: Given the [[RefugeInAudacity sheer audacity]] of pretty much every other relevant character in the ''Team Fortress'' universe, she winds up being this by default. This being the universe it is, [[{{Pun}} the token straight man is a lesbian]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: He has very violent policies in place as CEO, such as accepting a takeover [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority only if the rival CEO personally beats him in combat]]. [[spoiler:But he falters with he finds the head of Gray Gravel is a little girl, since he can't bring himself to beat her up.]]

* BlindBlackGuy: Both of Demoman's parents are blind, likely due to their intensive use of explosives. His mother even berates her son for still having one eye left into adulthood.

* ParentalAbandonment: As stated, they gave him up and took him back after his talent for explosives began to show.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: To make sure the reader understands from the get-go that he's an evil, smug hunter, ''Unhappy Returns'' introduces him [[SmugSmiler smirking evilly]]... while holding a self-authored book and standing before a self-portrait of him, both of which portray the exact same expression he has on his face.

* OneShotCharacter: Only appears in the comic "A Smissmas Story".

* FreudianExcuse: Possibly, depending on [[spoiler: whether or not those genealogy records can be taken at face value]]. Helen believes she is constantly SurroundedByIdiots and is paranoid that everyone is out conspiring against her. [[spoiler:It was implied by Teufort's genealogy records that she grew up there, and since everyone there has really goofy brain damage we can't exactly blame her.]]

* WindmillCrusader: Extremely sheltered and brain-damaged as he is, Mike doesn't seem to trust anything outside of Teufort, particularly the mercenaries (who, up until he antagonized them, posed very little threat). When [[SpoofAesop he finally discovers the joys of reading at the local library]], he cheerfully orders all books ''not'' about Teufort to be immediately burned.[[note]]This leaves a grand total of one.[[/note]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: {{In a world|...}} where a gang of guys dressed up in red fight a gang of guys dressed up in blue, it's telling that she and her assistant are clad in ''purple''.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: {{In a world}} where a lot of guys dressed up in red fight a lot of guys dressed up in blue, it's telling that she and her assistant are clad in ''purple''.

TheVoice. Also known as the Announcer, The Administrator is the source of the mysterious disembodied voice that announces vital events during the match, angrily berates the team upon failure and congratulates them upon victory. This disappointed and slightly angry EvilOverlord clearly lets you know in the world of Team Fortress, a tie does not mean everyone wins, but that everyone loses.

The Administrator secretly controls both RED ''and'' BLU (and, by extension, every country on the planet), supporting each team when necessary. To prevent either team from realizing this, she condemns any friendship between RED and BLU. She has an assistant named Miss Pauling and is also an acquaintance of Saxton Hale, allowing her to influence production of new weapons. The Administrator has an affinity for cigarettes and ''Punishment Monthly'' magazine, and occasionally posts on the official ''Team Fortress 2'' blog, usually [[NoFairCheating to berate the players for abusing glitches or exploits to gain unlockable items]].

* AppliedPhlebotinum: In the comics, she uses Australium to fuel her life-extension technology.

* BusmansHoliday: She spends her one hour per year of vacation time in the park... making the pigeons fight each other.

* TheChessmaster: Helen's plans [[spoiler: for the Australium cache she stole]] are so shocking that their UnReveal [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/5/5a/Pyromania_easter_senate003.jpg reduces an entire senate hearing to horrified silence]].

** As of "A Cold Day In Hell", Charles Darling has reminded us of the above mystery - [[spoiler:the Administrator has amassing the largest collection of Australium outside of Australia itself for years in secret. ''Why is she doing this?'']]
*** "Blood in the Water" gives a fake-out to her motives: [[spoiler:it LOOKS like she wants to power yet another Australium life-extender machine, but it's made clear that it won't save her life for more than a few years, enough to settle some "final debts".]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: InAWorld where a lot of guys dressed up in red fight a lot of guys dressed up in blue, it's telling that she and her assistant are clad in ''purple''.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:She used up the last supply of Australium in one go, which actually ''reversed'' her age, though also reducing what time she has left from six months to barely an hour.]] She then hits us with this quote:

* FeelsNoPain: Apparently she's suffering from nerve dampening in her old age. [[spoiler:Well, OK, that was partly a lie. She's so old that her nerves have decayed to the point that she, by her own admission, doesn't feel ''anything'' anymore. [[GoryDiscretionShot Implicitly]] demonstrated by getting her old Life Extender - which was ''sunken bone-deep into her arm'' - torn out and replaced without any anesthetic.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Possibly, depending on [[spoiler:whether those genealogy records can be taken at face value]]. Helen believes she is constantly SurroundedByIdiots and is paranoid that everyone is out conspiring against her. [[spoiler:It was implied by Teufort's genealogy records that she grew up there, and since everyone there has really goofy brain damage we can't exactly blame her.]]

* IdenticalGranddaughter: Bears a strong resemblance to Zeph Mann's maidservant Elizabeth, down to the skunk stripe. Same with the woman that entices Radigan Conagher with the Australium some decades later. [[spoiler:With the revelation that the Administrator has been using a Life Extender, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld these are probably all the same woman.]]]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: See EvilLaugh. Also, she has several, uh, ''excited'' unused responses for players going on kill streaks in Arena mode, which you may still hear on servers with stat-tracking mods installed. During the WAR! update, whenever a Soldier killed a Demoman or vice versa, she enjoys it maybe a bit too much:

* LargeHamAnnouncer: But of ''course''.
** Especially noticeable in her screeches of "AUSTRALIUM" in Special Delivery mode.

* ManipulativeBitch: She commands and manipulates both the RED and BLU teams, without either knowing. And as explained above in TheChessMaster, that's not even the worse she does.

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Played straight for a while, but then averted when her Life Extender has been shown to be failing in "Blood in the Water"; she's now exactly as wrinkled, decrepit and generally unhealthy-looking as you'd expect from someone who's ''burnt through'' at least one Life Extender machine.]]

* PhlebotinumOverdose: In "The Naked and the Dead" comic, she places a large amount of Australium in her life-extension device, which temporarily turns her back into a young woman but shortens her lifespan to an hour.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:She starts to lose her composure once she realizes that all of the Australium is gone, delivering a BigShutUp to the Engineer before punching a window and using the remaining Australium to go OneWingedAngel.]]

* TheVoice: Whose tones range from arch triumph to poisonous contempt, depending on how badly you're failing her.

!!Mann Co.

* OxymoronicBeing: One would think that lacking a horse means he wouldn't qualify as a HeadlessHorseman in the first place, but that's [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} the TF2 world]] for you.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: PlayedForLaughs. Aside from Soldier, Demoman, Medic, Heavy, Scout, and [[http://www.teamfortress.com/gravematters/#f=4 Mister T-Bone]], everyone refers to Merasmus as either "Ma'am" or "witch-woman". Strangely enough, even ''[[OnlySaneWoman Miss Pauling]]'' makes this mistake.

** Major Bomber, one of the 3 original Final Bosses, is the FinalBoss of Disintegration. While he only has 40,000 HP, he has a regeneration property that allows him to regain 200 HP per second. While he won't fire until fully loaded, the result is a 12-round rain of critboosted grenades that will vaporize or severely wound any class. Even getting close enough to hurt him is dangerous, and to make matters worse, while the other final bosses have no backup besides Spies and Snipers, Major Bomber comes with Scouts and [[DemonicSpiders Engineers.]]

* SophisticatedAsHell: Sometimes God uses a less than formal volcabulary.
--->'''God:''' So... man to man... the ladies back on earth. They've all lain with you, right?\\

[[Characters/TeamFortress2Offense Offense Classes]] ([[Characters/TeamFortress2TheScout The Scout]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheSoldier The Soldier]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2ThePyro The Pyro]])\\
[[Characters/TeamFortress2Defense Defense Classes]] ([[Characters/TeamFortress2TheDemoman The Demoman]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheHeavy The Heavy]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheEngineer The Engineer]])\\
[[Characters/TeamFortress2Support Support Classes]] ([[Characters/TeamFortress2TheMedic The Medic]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheSniper The Sniper]] | [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheSpy The Spy]])\\

* MiniMe: A Pocket Zepheniah, in his ghost form, is one of the four options for the [[EverythingsBetterWithPlushies "Pocket Halloween Boss"]] cosmetic.

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: In-universe, Medic has a cosmetic doll of Archimedes called the Pocket-Medes he can wear on his shoulder. Out-of-universe, Archimedes (covered in blood) was once made into a collectible plush by Valve.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: See EvilLaugh. Also, she has several, uh, ''excited'' unused responses for players going on kill streaks in Arena mode, which you may still hear on servers with stat-tracking mods installed.
** During the WAR! update, whenever a Soldier killed a Demoman or vice versa, she enjoyed it maybe a bit too much:
--> "Kill him, slaughter him like a ''dog!''"
--> "Dominate him! Crush his bones to powder!"
--> "Kill him again, and again and '''AGAIN!'''"

--> '''Administrator:''' I apologize. You've done well and I'm... proud of you.

--> '''Administrator:''' Your family has already given me more time than any of us deserve, Mister Conagher.

The two [[AlwaysIdenticaltwins twin brothers]] who own RED and BLU, respectively, and continually fight for ownership of a worthless parcel of land their father willed to them both. Blutarch decided to take the land by force by hiring nine mercenaries to perform a land grab; unfortunately, his brother thought to do the exact same. Since neither twin could take the land by force, both decided to simply outlive the other twin, hiring Radigan Conagher to build them a life extending machine. [[spoiler: Turns out they aren't twins, but triplets, and their brother Gray killed them both in "Blood Brothers".]]

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According to his will, he has only given his belongings to four people: his maid Elizabeth, who got his personal estate [[spoiler:and the "miracle" gravel he wanted to keep away from Gray]], his aide and tracker Barnabas Hale, who took control of his business empire, and his sons Blutarch and Redmond Mann, who [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning got the land to fight over.]]

The lost third son of Zepheniah, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/gray/ revealed in his hidden birth certificate]]. Rather than stupid and greedy, he's instead intelligent and cold, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/bloodbrothers/ and he's made his move.]]

The daughter of Gray Mann [[spoiler:and the CEO of Gray Gravel.]]

Very wealthy former adventurer and mentor of Saxton Hale, currently his nemesis. Owns Darling Zoos, and intends to capture every wild animal on the planet and put it in a cage instead of fighting them to the death. [[spoiler: Hale comes to him for help after losing Mann Co. to Gray Mann]].

The previous Team Fortress, comprised of the characters from the game ''VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic''. Gray Mann reunites them to battle against their successors. As revealed in ''Catch-Up'', they used to work for Redmond and Blutarch starting from 1930 before they were fired and replaced with the Modern Team sometime before 1968. For their game-related tropes, you can go [[Characters/TeamFortressClassic here.]]

** Scout: Greg
** Soldier: Ross
** Pyro: [[SamusIsAGirl Beatrice]]
** Demoman: [[OneSteveLimit Greg]]

** Engineer: Fred
** Sniper: Virgil
* ImmortalitySeeker: Seems to be Classic Heavy's new goal.

* KilledOffForReal: Classic Pyro (Beatrice), Classic Demo (Greg) and Classic Spy are all murdered by the Modern Team in "Old Wounds".
** By the time "The Naked and the Dead" ends, the only one left alive is the Classic Engineer, considering the Classic Medic is nowhere to be found.

* {{Retcon}}: Possibly. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/47/Engineer_child_photo.png?t=20111123145019 Art from the Engineer Update]] implied the Classic Engy was current Engy's father, but this Engineer is either unrelated to him or looks much different due to age. This stands out moreso since [[http://www.teamfortress.com/catchup/#f=14 Catch Up shows the whole team in their prime]], and Classic Engy ''does'' look like Modern Engy's father. Then again, forty years (in-universe) is enough time for his appearance to change so drastically.
** The Classic Pyro was unambiguously male in ''Team Fortress Classic'', since they all shared the same masculine voice lines. "Old Wounds" revealed that the Classic Pyro was a woman named Beatrice.

The parents of the Sniper. Apparently do not approve of his chosen career. [[spoiler:As revealed in "Blood in the Water," they're not his birth parents.]]

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: According to Sniper, they're not big fans of what he does for a living. In his Meet the Team video, Sniper is seen arguing with his father over the phone on the subject.
** [[spoiler:[[WellDoneSonGuy That said,]] they finally come around to admire his job ''after they're dead'', their souls telling Sniper to leave heaven and give their murderers [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the vengeance they deserve]].]]

The Engineer's soft-spoken grandfather, who was contracted to build an immortality machine for Blutarch Mann so he could outlive his brother Redmond. He was later asked by the Administrator's ancestor to create the same machine for Redmond as well. In exchange for this offer, Radigan was given one hundred pounds of Australium, an element that helped Australia become the world's most technologically advanced nation. [[spoiler: He may have also built a better functioning version for Gray Mann.]]

An old magician and an early contractor of the Demoman, partially responsible for the latter's loss of his eye. He was also the Soldier's roommate until the Soldier became intolerable. Eventually, Soldier evicted Merasmus and killed him by accident (if reflexively burning dead bodies can be considered an accident), causing the magician to vow revenge on Soldier's entire team; these events led him being the Scream Fortress 2012 boss. [[spoiler: However, his skirmish with the mercs didn't result in his complete death, as by "Ring of Fired", 10 months after the Halloween event (and likely a bit longer in the ''[=TF2=]'' canon universe), he's back in his solid body and living with Tom Jones.]]

-->'''Scout:''' You would not believe ... how much this hurts.
--> (Archimedes coos from inside Scout's chest)
--> '''Medic:''' Archimedes?

Yes. The Big Man himself. He appears in the comics to greet Scout [[spoiler: when the latter briefly dies]].

--->'''God:''' So... man to man... The ladies back on earth. They've all lain with you, right?\\

* PaletteSwap: Aside from his entrance, exit, and scaring animations, he's a sized up reskin of the Demoman.

* ShowsDamage: As his health goes down, he readjusts his grip on his axe. He goes from an erect stance a with a two-handed grip on the weapon, to a slouching stance with a one-handed grip on the weapon.

* ActionGirl: Has hints of this. While she's no mercenary herself, she's not afraid to do clean-work with her guns and was ready to storm RED base by herself with a shotgun to find RED's intelligence. She's also fine with digging shallow graves, sanding prints off corpses' fingers, yanking out teeth...

* BeleagueredAssistant: To ''every member of the team, including the Administrator''. In the Australian Christmas/Smissmas update, she desperately tries to stop the Spy from involving a child in a shopping mall massacre. The Spy outright ignores her, though thanks to him, the child singlehandedly takes out the HumanoidAbomination Old Nick with an icicle to the neck. By "Expiration Date" she had become mission control, cleanup crew and backup member for the merc group in case of emergency.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Murder is apparently just another day in the office for Pauling. "Expiration Date" has her disposing of witnesses from the Mercs' latest shenanigans... while at the same time having a ''video'' chat with said Mercs. [[spoiler:Her possible plans for a date with Scout involve burying said witnesses' bodies, and at the same time implies she intends to kill ''him'' too.]]

* CloserToEarth: ''Relatively'' Closer To Earth, that is. Especially evident in "Ring of Fired":

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Since she does work for the Administrator, it's only fitting that she also wears purple.

* ConsummateProfessional: Takes her work very seriously, to the point of having nonchalant chat with Sniper (the team's ConsummateProfessional) about the most efficient body disposal techniques while doing their jobs in "Blood in the Water."

* DoWrongRight: After talking the Sniper out of killing her and the Demoman, she critiques the shallow graves he left, as giving himself too much work, when he ''should'' have cut up their corpses to speed up the decomposition rate.

* TheDragon: While she's definitely a nice girl, she's also capable of casual cold blooded murder.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: He and anyone associated with Mann Co were "nowhere near the launch site [of the rocket piloted by Poopy Joe, and have '''nothing whatsoever''' to do with the tragic explosion that occurred moments later."

* DumbassHasAPoint: Redmond ''very nearly'' approaches a valid point by asking what humanity will use for fuel when gasoline runs out, and how there may be a need for a renewable fuel source. Unfortunately, his logic is… less than sound otherwise.

* SiblingRivalry: And how! It started ''literally the moment they were born.'' And it was so strong that they [[spoiler:turned into ghosts because they weren't sure who died first]]!

According to his will, he has only given his belongings to five people: his maid Elizabeth who got his personal estate [[spoiler:and the "miracle" gravel he wanted to keep away from Gray]], his tracker Barnabas Hale who took control of his business empire, and his sons Blutarch and Redmond Mann who [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning got the land to fight over.]]

* AssholeVictim: See {{Jerkass}} below. The numerous diseases he contracted (and eventually died of) while in the Americas. He was so sick he ended up writing his last will and testament ''on scraps of his own skin'', but it's pretty hard to feel bad for him at all.

* {{Troll}}: He deliberately and posthumously screws over both his sons by splitting the worthless land they got him, knowing they'd be far too stupid to realize that he gave their true birthright to a third party, instead spending more than a century trying to kill each other, to the point where they managed to commission ''immortality machines'' to try and outlast each other as much as possible [[spoiler:until Gray finally shows up and kills them, and even then, they still don't give up on that, instead focusing on trying to send each other to Hell in order to win. Zepheniah's ghost is at least impressed by their tenacity, but he's more than happy to mock them both by telling them that Gray is his favorite.]]

->''"Unlike you two pampered imbeciles, I'' built ''my empire. I have studied. I have plotted. I have waited."''

The lost third son of Zepheniah. [[http://www.teamfortress.com/gray/ Revealed in his hidden birth certificate]]. Rather than stupid and greedy, he's instead intelligent and evil, [[http://www.teamfortress.com/bloodbrothers/ and he's made his move.]]

* TheAgeless: He has a spine implanted immortality machine that is substantially better than his brothers'. While he still has aged, he still looks to be in his 70s, able to walk upright, and have enough strength to fatally stab, as opposed to nearly dead and confined to a wheelchair.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: InAWorld where a lot of guys dressed up in red fight a lot of guys dressed up in blue, it's telling that she dresses in ''purple''.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Fine with murder and deception, but [[http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6679 really hates cheating]]. It robs you of the feeling of superiority you get from you besting your foes!

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:She used up the last supply of Australium in one go, which actually ''reversed'' her age, though also reducing what time she has left to just 1 hour from 6 months.]] Followed with this quote:

* IdenticalGranddaughter: Bears a strong resemblance to Zeph Mann's maidservant Elizabeth, down to the skunk stripe. Same with the woman that entices Radigan Conagher with the Australium some decades later. [[spoiler:With the revelation that the Administrator has been using a Life Extender, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld these are probably all the same person.]]]]

* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:She has a Life-Extender machine. ''The Naked and the Dead'' reveals that she ''had'' the last remaining Australium in existence enough to give her an extra six months...only for her to burn through said supply just to reverse her age and to do one last thing. Even worse, the Engineer is horrified by her decision, since she only has a few hours left if she's ''lucky''.]]

--> '''Administrator:''' Your family has already given me more time than any of us deserves, Mister Conagher.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Most likely the oldest living character in the series, easily somewhere over 150. It helps that she has a Life Extender far superior to the ones the Manns use.]]

* WidowWoman: Margaret ended up taking ''four'' different husbands after Saxton took on his job at Mann Co. However, not one of them lasted longer than a week. A decade before the events of the comic, Margaret had invited Saxton to attend a funeral honoring her husband; only for Saxton to ruin the funeral by fighting a turtle [[ButForMeItWasTuesday and thinking that it was a "Party"]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Not only did Bill-Bel doom New Zealand with his escape rocket, he wasted almost all of the remaining Australium in the world to paint failed rockets.

* AnAxeToGrind: His trademark weapon, the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. Players that defeat him can also craft one for themselves.

* TheUndead: Silas Mann's ghost, who has possessed his skeletal corpse, [[AnAxeToGrind got an axe]] and [[AxCrazy gone on a rampage]]...for some reason.

* DaddysLittleVillain: Despite her cute looks, she's just as nasty as her father.

* VoiceOfDramatic: She can make an announcement of Poopy Joe being launched into space sound proud and significant.