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** If you're talking about the Mann parents in-universe, they might not have thought about the colours angle--Redmond and Blutarch sound sufficiently like actual old-timey names that it's very possible the colour connection was just a coincidence. Out of universe, it's been suggested that Gray represents the spectating "team" in the actual game--someone who observes from afar but doesn't actually interfere in the affairs of either the Red or the Blu teams.
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* So they went with red and blue for the other sons, why not name the third son something akin to yellow[[note]]or green if you're considering additive colours.[[/note]] to complete the primary colour trio, or something like purple since it's a mix? Why grey of all colours?

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* So they went with red and blue for the other sons, why not name the third son something akin to yellow[[note]]or green if you're considering additive colours.[[/note]] to complete the primary colour trio, or something like purple since it's a mix? Why grey of all colours?colours? It feels more than a bit arbitrary.
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* So they went with red and blue for the other sons, why not name the third son something akin to yellow[[note]]or green if you're considering additive colours.[[/note]] to complete the primary colour trio, or something like purple since it's a mix? Why grey of all colours?

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* In "Meet the Spy," Blu Spy has photos of Red Spy in bed with Scout's mom. We are led to believe this is Blu Scout's mother...except, as revealed by the comics, Spy is [[spoiler: ''Red'' Scout's father]]. Either all Scouts have the same mother, or Spy is two-timing. What's the deal here?

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* In "Meet the Spy," Blu Spy has photos of Red Spy in bed with Scout's mom. We are led to believe this is Blu Scout's mother...except, as revealed by the comics, Spy is [[spoiler: ''Red'' Scout's father]].father. Either all Scouts have the same mother, or Spy is two-timing. What's the deal here?



** Finally answered by the comic in "[[http://www.teamfortress.com/tf06_thenakedandthedead/ The Naked and the Dead]]". [[spoiler: It actually ''has'' been regrowing underneath Demo's eyepatch. However, around Halloween, it bursts out of his eyesocket and becomes a monster that the team has to kill, similar to MONOCULUS!. This has happened eight times thus far, and the Medic theorizes that the eyesocket itself is haunted. Medic has given Demoman LaserGuidedAmnesia (by way of scooping out the relevant parts of his brain) every time it happened so that he'd stop asking about it.]]

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** Finally answered by the comic in "[[http://www.teamfortress.com/tf06_thenakedandthedead/ The Naked and the Dead]]". [[spoiler: It actually ''has'' been regrowing underneath Demo's eyepatch. However, around Halloween, it bursts out of his eyesocket and becomes a monster that the team has to kill, similar to MONOCULUS!. This has happened eight times thus far, and the Medic theorizes that the eyesocket itself is haunted. Medic has given Demoman LaserGuidedAmnesia (by way of scooping out the relevant parts of his brain) every time it happened so that he'd stop asking about it.]]



* What's going to happen to Olivia now that [[spoiler:Gray Mann is dead]]?

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* What's going to happen to Olivia now that [[spoiler:Gray Gray Mann is dead]]?dead?
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** You all know she's [[IncrediblyLamePun hot underneath]]

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** You all know she's [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} hot underneath]]
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But that reminds me: for equally vague reasons, when people draw a genderbent version of Heavy, she's usually blond for no good reason, despite the fact the canon male Heavy has dark eyebrows. Maybe people just tend to envision strong, ''zaftig'' Russian ladies as blondes? Or it's more self-fanservice, to go with the [[BuxomIsBetter great big knockers]] they put on genderbent Hoovies too...

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But that reminds me: for equally vague reasons, when people draw a genderbent version of Heavy, she's usually blond for no good reason, despite the fact the canon male Heavy has dark eyebrows. Maybe people just tend to envision strong, ''zaftig'' Russian ladies as blondes? Or it's more self-fanservice, to go with the [[BuxomIsBetter great big knockers]] knockers they put on genderbent Hoovies too...
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** They actually do respond to getting splashed by Jarate/Mad Milk/the Gas Passer. Spy's the most vocal (and actually unique), likely because of the aforementioned custom-tailored suit and also because it directly counters his cloak.
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** He most little knocked the can to reduce the explosion (that's why you can still see some fizz come out) this is a real trick you can do seen here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjbafEl9xw&ab_channel=9NEWS).
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** How do you know they didn’t? Maybe they did do that offscreen ([[FridgeBrilliance they’d have plenty of time, given the several hour seduction training session Spy gave Scout]], and once they saw there weren’t rumors growing in everyone, they did more tests on the bread and figured out the teleporter only affects wheat.

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** How do you know they didn’t? Maybe they did do that offscreen ([[FridgeBrilliance they’d have plenty of time, given the several hour seduction training session Spy gave Scout]], Scout]]), and once they saw there weren’t rumors growing in everyone, they did more tests on the bread and figured out the teleporter only affects wheat.
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** How do you know they didn’t? Maybe they did do that offscreen ([[FridgeBrilliance they’d have plenty of time, given the several hour seduction training session Spy gave Scout]], and once they saw there weren’t rumors growing in everyone, they did more tests on the bread and figured out the teleporter only affects wheat.
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* Regarding Mann vs. Machine, how come I see so many people saying they're not touching it because they have to buy a token to play it. As far as I know, you only have to buy a token to get the [[NiceHat Hats]] or weapon drops, you can still play the mode. Did Valve not exactly specify what the tokens would be used for?

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* Regarding Mann vs. Machine, how come I see so many people saying they're not touching it because they have to buy a token to play it. As far as I know, you only have to buy a token to get the [[NiceHat Hats]] Hats or weapon drops, you can still play the mode. Did Valve not exactly specify what the tokens would be used for?
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** Plenty of women have broad shoulders and/or a more masculine build than your typical female. And the suit could be made for a man and/or have a lot of padding both of which would help to obscure a female figure in addition to bagginess.
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** Again, NotSoDifferent? Or perhaps that sort of metal is really, really expensive, more expensive than using money for fuel, so he could design only Pyro robots, since they'll need it the most.

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** Again, NotSoDifferent? maybe they're not so different? Or perhaps that sort of metal is really, really expensive, more expensive than using money for fuel, so he could design only Pyro robots, since they'll need it the most.

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** He probably actually has a very poor understanding of what "sex" is so he probably did something else that was equally lewd

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** He probably actually has a very poor understanding of what "sex" is so he probably did something else that was equally lewd lewd.
** He had Zhanna literally demaning sex from him, and a mini mind-Pauling stopped him before he could do it. Any number of things could have happened between "Hey, you wanna do it?" and "You know what, never mind, let's not."
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** The rest of the team doesn't wear custom-tailored suits worth several thousand dollars a piece.
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* In "Meet the Spy," Blu Spy has photos of Red Spy in bed with Scout's mom. We are led to believe this is Blu Scout's mother...except Spy is [[spoiler: ''Red'' Scout's father]]. Either all Scouts have the same mother, or Spy is two-timing. What's the deal here?

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* In "Meet the Spy," Blu Spy has photos of Red Spy in bed with Scout's mom. We are led to believe this is Blu Scout's mother...except except, as revealed by the comics, Spy is [[spoiler: ''Red'' Scout's father]]. Either all Scouts have the same mother, or Spy is two-timing. What's the deal here?
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* In "Meet the Spy," Blu Spy has photos of Red Spy in bed with Scout's mom. We are led to believe this is Blu Scout's mother...except Spy is [[spoiler: ''Red'' Scout's father]]. Either all Scouts have the same mother, or Spy is two-timing. What's the deal here?
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** Its because the R.E.D is always about to launch a doomsday weapon. Dustbowl, for example, has that nuke at the final point.

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** Its because the R.E.D RED is always about to launch a doomsday weapon. Dustbowl, for example, has that nuke at the final point.
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[[folder: Apathy to Jarate]]
* Why does only the Spy has voice lines for having Jarate thrown at him? Does the rest of the team just...not care about a jar of piss drenching them?
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[[folder:Why didn't the Medic check somebody for tumors?]]
* The plot of Expiration Date revolves around the mercenaries' impending death from teleporter tumors. But despite Medic using that time to study the bread tumors, he never used the opportunity to cut somebody open and see how the tumors were affecting a human body? Most of them aren't even doing anything at the time besides moping about. The Engineer was even working alongside Medic on this.
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* In the end when he burns Sniper alive, what did the pyro think he/she was doing to him in pyroland?
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**He probably actually has a very poor understanding of what "sex" is so he probably did something else that was equally lewd
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[[folder:Scout the virgin]]
* According to God, Scout died a virgin. But in ''Expiration Date'', Scout once had sex with a girl [[ItMakesSenseInContext because they both had buckets of chicken]].

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*** One has to take into account that if the Pyro is a woman, she'd likely be in her late 40s, and probably with extremely saggy breasts like a large woman will get if she never wears a bra. Even though her shape is hidden by the suit, I can visualise myself what would be underneath - and it's not pretty.


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* The biggest problem I have with calling Pyro female is the way the suit falls. And even keeping in mind how loose that asbestos suit is, the proportions of the suit are very tough to deal with for a female figure. The broad shoulders are particuarly difficult to come to terms with.
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** It's because Olivia attacks him (albeit not very effectively) and he refuses to fight back, making it an automatic forfeit on his part.
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** Maybe she'll be raised by his robots?


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[[folder:Mann Co. Challenge]]
* Shouldn't Saxton Hale have won the Mann Co. Challenge against Olivia, even if he was unable to attack her? The Mann Co. Challenge explicitly states that the challenging CEO must beat him in unarmed combat, and while Hale couldn't defeat Olivia, she didn't exactly do any damage to him either.
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***Read the comics to understand why the Administrator (aka the announcer) is playing both sides against each other.

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