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* BridalCarry: Heavy tends to carry Medic like this when the latter is badly injured. It's just practical. And also quite sweet.



-->“Ah you suggesting zat I sound like a ''woman'', Herr Heavy?”

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-->“Ah -->“Ah you suggesting zat I sound like a ''woman'', Herr Heavy?”
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* ColdWar: The reason Soldier doesn't get along with Heavy. Or at least one of them; Soldier [[HeteronormativeCrusader disapproves of homosexuality]] even more than Communism.


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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Soldier. [[spoiler:He even seems more concerned with Shovel's gender than its, you know, being a shovel.]] Scout is less of a crusader and more just rude and obnoxious.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Heavy, in the {{prequel}}, begs Medic not to tell anyone that he's basically just a big old teddy bear.


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* FirstBlood: [[spoiler:Go, Battle Medic!]]
-->[[spoiler:The doctor swiftly sidestepped away from the attack, and managed to land a punch to Soldiers jaw. Soldier reeled backwards, stumbling to a stop and wiping his lip, only to see a streak of red on his fingertips.]]
-->[[spoiler:“FIRST BLOOD!” Scout screeched. “Doc got first blood!”]]
-->[[spoiler:“Ha!” Sniper laughed, and turned to Demoman, “That’s five bucks up front ya owe me, mate.”]]


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* TheLeader: Medic, at first, mainly because everyone is deeply impressed by his [[TheStrategist strategy]] for tackling the zombified [=BLUs=]. [[spoiler:It doesn't hurt that it ''almost'' works without a hitch, too. But then he has a HeroicBSOD after Heavy dies, and the responsibility goes to Engineer.]] In the {{prequel}}, Soldier clearly ''thinks'' he's the leader, but everyone else thinks he's a deranged windbag.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Medic, due to cracked ribs from his fight with Soldier. It's not much of a big deal, though.]]

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* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Medic, due to cracked ribs his injuries from his fight with Soldier. It's not much of a big deal, though.]]
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* GilliganCut: In the {{prequel}}. Medic was only going to have one bottle of beer, which somehow turned into eight.
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* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough: Medic, to Engineer. Fortunately, he actually doesn't drink any more after that.

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* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough: [[IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough I'll Tell You Vhen I Haff Had Enough!]]: Medic, to Engineer. Fortunately, he actually doesn't drink any more after that.
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* NoMedicationForMe: Soldier is very resistant to being medicated for his severe psychosis.

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* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]



* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]
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* TheBait: Scout GotVolunteered by Medic to distract the zombified BLU team when the RED team goes into the BLU base. [[spoiler:Someone also ends up being volunteered to be eaten by zombies to buy time for the others, but Soldier eventually chooses to make a HeroicSacrifice.]]


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* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Medic, due to cracked ribs from his fight with Soldier. It's not much of a big deal, though.]]


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* DroppedGlasses: It's really a good thing Medic keeps at least two spare pairs.


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* HandWave: [[spoiler:How does BLU Spy make that hole in the fence? We don't know, he blacked out.]]


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* JustToyingWithThem: [[spoiler:When Medic goes to find Soldier and Soldier attacks him. Medic is already weak from their previous fight, and Soldier breaks his glasses just to make it worse. Soldier lets him get away just so he can have fun catching him.]]


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* LeeroyJenkins: Goddamnit, Soldier!


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* RidiculousProcrastinator: [[spoiler:It's a good thing Engineer ''didn't'' fix the hole in the fence.]]


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* WeNeedADistraction: Done twice.


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* ZergRush: Zombies. Duh.

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* NotSoDifferent: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway. Also, [[spoiler:Pyro feels a kinship with Stumpy because, in his opinion, they're both monsters.]]

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* NotSoDifferent: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway. Also, [[spoiler:Pyro Demo was initially a bit homophobic, but Medic was initially a bit racist.
**[[spoiler:Pyro
feels a kinship with Stumpy because, in his opinion, they're both monsters.]]


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* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: Engineer's attitude to Medic and Heavy's relationship. He's so uncomfortable with it that he doesn't like Medic's habit of going to him for relationship advice, but he tries not to be offensive about it. Soldier and Scout seem to think there genuinely is something wrong with it. Demo is a bit repelled at first in the {{prequel}}, but says that as a black Scottish cyclops, he tries not to judge others for being different.
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* BeautifulDreamer: In the {{prequel}}, Heavy watches Medic sleep.
-->He looked so delicate as he slumbered, not at all like the fearsome, sadistic man he could be when he was awake.


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Most of the deaths, to some degree, but particularly Heavy's. If you try imagining it in any detail you'll probably lose sleep over it.]]

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* HeadbuttOfLove: [[spoiler:During Heavy and Medic's last moments together.]]



* InelegantBlubbering: Medic, in the {{prequel}}, after [[spoiler:drunkenly kissing Heavy, then vomiting on him.]]

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* InelegantBlubbering: Medic, in the {{prequel}}, after [[spoiler:drunkenly kissing Heavy, then vomiting on him.]]]] It's also described as "blubbering" and seems to be this trope when he [[spoiler:cries after Heavy's death]].
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-->“I’m sorry, Doktor.”
-->“Stop apologizing,” Medic said. “You are a proud man on ze battlefield, Heavy. You have confidence out zere. Try showing some off ze field for vonce, hmm?”
-->“Sorry,” Heavy mumbled.
-->“I said, ‘stop apologizing!’” Medic chided. “Really, it’s like you ah a completely different person vhen you have zat gun in your hand.”
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* HemoErotic: The {{prequel}} makes it clear that Medic likes biting, and the taste of blood, and playing with scalpels in bed...
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* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough: Medic, to Engineer. Fortunately, he actually doesn't drink any more after that.


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* ATankardOfMooseUrine: In the {{prequel}}, Spy and Medic agree that American beer tastes like piss. So Medic doesn't know why he keeps drinking it, but he certainly does.

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Do you ever wish This Wiki could just alphabetize itself?


* NiceGuy: Engineer.



* NiceGuy: Engineer.
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* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him]]: In the {{prequel}}, this is Spy's reaction to realizing that Heavy and Medic have become a couple. You can probably guess which one he thinks could have done better (where "better" really means "Spy").

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* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him]]: Him?]]: In the {{prequel}}, this is Spy's reaction to realizing that Heavy and Medic have become a couple. You can probably guess which one he thinks could have done better (where "better" really means "Spy").

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* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Heavy chooses to die so that his beloved Doktor can have a shot at escape and survival.]]

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* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Spy's response in the {{prequel}}, {{prequel}} when Medic tells him he and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:
Heavy chooses are going to die so that go play chess and he can mind his beloved Doktor can have a shot at escape and survival.]]own business.


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* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Heavy chooses to die so that his beloved Doktor can have a shot at escape and survival.]]


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* PunchClockHero: Discussed in the {{prequel}}.
-->“Vhat kind of var has its fighters coming back from ze dead constantly? Honestly, I feel like I should be punching a time clock every time I go out zere.”


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* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him]]: In the {{prequel}}, this is Spy's reaction to realizing that Heavy and Medic have become a couple. You can probably guess which one he thinks could have done better (where "better" really means "Spy").
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* PrecisionFStrike: Medic doesn't always swear, but when he does, it's awesome.

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* PrecisionFStrike: Medic doesn't always swear, [[TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld but when he does, does]], it's awesome.
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* NotSoDifferent: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway.

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* NotSoDifferent: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway. Also, [[spoiler:Pyro feels a kinship with Stumpy because, in his opinion, they're both monsters.]]
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* [[spoiler:CoveredWithScars: Pyro. Medic, of course, is not horrified, just intrigued.]]


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* [[spoiler:TheGrotesque: Pyro was badly scarred and deformed by a fire, which is why he only takes off his mask and suit alone. He seems to have been this way since he was a child, which might explain his childlike demeanor. Typical of the trope, he has a very sweet and endearing personality.]]


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* ThroughHisStomach: In the {{prequel}}, it turns out that Medic made the first sandvich.
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* SickAndWrong: In the {{prequel}}, Demoman suggests to Sniper that maybe Heavy and Medic are "buggerin’ each other". They crack up laughing and Sniper gets pissed off at him for putting the mental image into his head and says not to even joke like that. Well... they haven't gone quite that far yet.

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* SickAndWrong: In the {{prequel}}, Demoman suggests to Sniper that maybe Heavy and Medic are "buggerin’ each other". They crack up laughing and Sniper gets pissed off at him for putting the mental image into his head and says not to even joke like that. Well... they haven't hadn't gone quite that far yet.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Heavy, in the prequel. Well, it's not his fault that Medic didn't realize he was almost quoting Greta Garbo word-for-word, but...
-->“Ah you suggesting zat I sound like a ''woman'', Herr Heavy?”
-->“Nyet! You sound like a man!” Heavy was now fumbling to recover from this horrible implication. “Tiny, leetle man, but still man. And I am happy to be fighting vit you, Doktor!”

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* LickedByTheDog: Pyro hugging Medic in the {{prequel}}.



* LoveYouAndEverybody: Medic suggests that the reason Pyro signs a letter to him with "Love, Pyro" is either that it's a strange joke or Pyro just doesn't know the socially acceptable way to write letters to your coworkers. However, it seems entirely possible that it's just because Pyro considers him to be a good friend.



* MadScientist: RED Medic. [[spoiler: Also BLU Medic and his experiments to replicate the respawn technology]]

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* MadScientist: RED Medic. [[spoiler: Also BLU Medic and his experiments to replicate the respawn technology]]technology.]]
* MoralityPet: Medic and Pyro, particularly in the {{prequel}} when Medic is a lot more cold and reserved.


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* PetTheDog: In the {{prequel}}, even though Medic starts out being kind of an asshole to everybody else, he lets Pyro get away with fleeing his physical and [[spoiler:going AWOL from their first battle due to throwing up. "Urr lurrt."]]
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* SickAndWrong: In the {{prequel}}, Demoman suggests to Sniper that maybe Heavy and Medic are "buggerin’ each other". They crack up laughing and Sniper gets pissed off at him for putting the mental image into his head and says not to even joke like that. Well... they haven't gone quite that far yet.

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* CreatorThumbprint: [[OfficialCouple Medic and Heavy]] make plans to [[HomeSweetHome settle down together]] in {{Venice}}, which they've actually managed to do in "Reunion", although it's clearly set in a different continuity. Also, there's one major element in common with "FanFic/WithApologiesToHarlanEllison".

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* CreatorThumbprint: [[OfficialCouple Medic and Heavy]] make plans to [[HomeSweetHome settle down together]] in {{Venice}}, which they've actually managed to do in "Reunion", although it's clearly set in a different continuity. Also, there's one major element in common with "FanFic/WithApologiesToHarlanEllison". Also, [[spoiler:the unanswered question of whether the RED and BLU teams are clones is also brought up in "Reunion".]]
* [[spoiler:DeathFakedForYou: All the surviving characters who have family.]]



* ImageSong: ''Werner Von Braun'' could be said to be Soldier's- he sings it (and has Scout sing it) throughout the story for the purpose of antagonizing Medic. [[spoiler: He also sings it as he goes to his certain death.]]
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Medic is a ''screamer''. So much so that he plays Beethoven and Mozart to try and cover it up (key word: try).
* InelegantBlubbering: Medic, in the {{prequel}}, after [[spoiler:drunkenly kissing Heavy, then vomiting on him.]]



* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]



* ImageSong: ''Werner Von Braun'' could be said to be Soldier's- he sings it (and has Scout sing it) throughout the story for the purpose of antagonizing Medic. [[spoiler: He also sings it as he goes to his certain death.]]
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Medic is a ''screamer''. So much so that he plays Beethoven and Mozart to try and cover it up (key word: try).
* InelegantBlubbering: Medic, in the {{prequel}}, after [[spoiler:drunkenly kissing Heavy, then vomiting on him.]]
* InVinoVeritas: Medic gets very drunk in the {{prequel}}, and becomes fixated on teasing Engineer for being short. Then [[spoiler:he kisses Heavy.]]


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* NiceGuy: Engineer.

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Hmm, I hope I\'m not being too spoiler-tag-happy. Also, now there\'s so much stuff from the prequel...


* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:New Announcer.]]



* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:New Announcer.]]



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only five of the main characters survive, and what's more, those who had families find out that their families believe they've seen their dead bodies.]]



* BluntMetaphorsTrauma:
-->“Are you doing[[hottip:*:[sic], I have no idea whether it's a typo or his English is just going rapidly downhill]] to… dark-mail me?” Heavy asked, obviously unsure of his choice of words.



* CompensatingForSomething: Subverted. Medic finds it humorously appropriate that Heavy doesn't even know what the phrase means. Because, you know... [[BiggerIsBetterInBed he's not.]]



* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: The sections from Heavy's perspective contain some rather sophisticated observations he probably just doesn't have sufficient English skills to actually say. There's a part in the {{prequel}} where he wonders how he's going to have a particular discussion in English and wishes that Medic spoke Russian so they could communicate more easily.



* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Medic and Heavy have happy, loving, extremely ''loud'' sex. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's also clearly a bit kinky, and they do have their problems at first. [[spoiler:Spy and Soldier are both the villainous side of this trope. Particularly Spy, who actually threatens to rape Sniper.]]
* HappyBirthdayToYou: MarilynMonroe was going to [[UnusualEuphemism blow out Sniper's candle]].

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* [[spoiler:GodzillaThreshold: The government of the United States ends up nuking the hell out of the southwest.]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Medic and Heavy have happy, loving, extremely ''loud'' sex. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's also clearly a bit kinky, [[CasualKink kinky]], and they do have their problems at first. [[spoiler:Spy and Soldier are both the villainous side of this trope. Particularly Spy, who actually threatens to rape Sniper.]]
* HappyBirthdayToYou: Sniper has an EroticDream in which MarilynMonroe was going to [[UnusualEuphemism blow out Sniper's his candle]].



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:After they blow up the BLU base.]]



* InterruptedIntimacy: In the {{prequel}}. [[spoiler:Results in Heavy and Medic chasing after Scout in a very indecent state of dress, Medic with his wrists tied together.]]



* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: [[spoiler:First, the RED team blowing up the BLU base, then the United States government blowing up most of the southwest.]]



* LeftHanging: What was that about [[spoiler:clones]]?



* NightmareFetishist: Medic, of course. In the {{prequel}}, he bonds with Demo over Demo's empty eye socket.
-->He could see the bone and muscles and tissue inside, and took delight in being able to see the man’s sinuses up close.
-->“Ye enjoyin’ yerself, lad?” Demoman asked, flashing a pearly white grin.
-->“Very much, danke,” Medic said, smiling.
-->“Ye know wot? Yer not so bad,” Demoman said.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, Demoman and Sniper almost score with two female versions of the trope.]]
-->[[spoiler:[...]a pair of lost flower children, abandoned by the fall of their own counter-culture.]]



* NobodyOver50IsGay: Medic is at least over forty. Scout certainly seems to think he's pretty much the oldest man in the world.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
-->[[spoiler:The man had taken him back to his room, had been puked upon for his trouble, stayed with him the night, and had even neatly folded the doctor’s clothes… and what was his thanks? A boot to the head.]]



* NotStayingForBreakfast: Well, everyone eats breakfast together anyway. But [[spoiler:Heavy is rather upset when Medic says it wouldn't do for him to be seen doing the walk of shame out of the infirmary in the morning.]]



* [[spoiler:NuclearOption]]



* TheReveal: [[spoiler: RED and BLU have merged, were planning on taking advantage of the zombie plague for profit, and had given Spy orders to kill his teammates for knowing too much. Oh, yes, and the human Administrator is dead and has been replaced by an AI. Damn.]]
** [[spoiler: ARE YOU DONE EXPOSITING YET, RED SPY?]]



* STDImmunity: Averted. Crotch crickets!
* StupidSexyFlanders: Stupid pretty Medic.



* TheReveal: [[spoiler: RED and BLU have merged, were planning on taking advantage of the zombie plague for profit, and had given Spy orders to kill his teammates for knowing too much. Oh, yes, and the human Administrator is dead and has been replaced by an AI. Damn.]]
** [[spoiler: ARE YOU DONE EXPOSITING YET, RED SPY?]]
* STDImmunity: Averted. Crotch crickets!
* StupidSexyFlanders: Stupid pretty Medic.



* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Pyro's Star of David necklace, which Medic is wearing in the epilogue.]]

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* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Pyro's Star of David necklace, which Medic is necklace seems to be one for him, and in a different way for Medic, who's wearing it in the epilogue.]]


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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: [[spoiler:After an entire town is destroyed by an outbreak of zombieism and the subsequent containment efforts...]]
-->[[spoiler:There was no news about zombies; only the escalating war in Vietnam, some Presidential election coverage, news of university campus protests and race riots.]]


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* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Averted, but the justification is demonstrated twice.
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* RussianGuySuffersMost: [[spoiler:If you ''had'' to be eaten by zombies, you'd probably rather go down fighting than be devoured from behind while trapped in a hole in a fence, wouldn't you? ''Shudder''.]]
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* AfterlifeExpress: Medic's dream [[spoiler:on the train after Heavy dies]].

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* AfterlifeExpress: Medic's dream [[spoiler:on the train after Heavy dies]].

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