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** The Fireproof Secret Diary mentions "ancient astronauts" in it's description. Punch that phrase into Wiki/TheOtherWiki, and you can find a listing of them in popular culture. One of the earliest known examples, even pre-dating [[CthulhuMythos Lovecraft's]] [[CosmicHorror horrors]] from [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} beyond]], dates back to "Edison's Conquest of Mars," [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars a sequel to a War of the Worlds-style rip off sci-fi novel.]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_Prisoner_-_conquest_of_Mars.png The aliens from the novel look a lot like Gray]]: Gray was even the name of the original magazine serial's illustrator!

[[WMG: The game takes place in the same universe as ComicBook/{{X-Men}}. ]]
* All the classes are mutants, as they can all do extraordinary things(see above ''Incredibles'' guess) This would also explain the [[NamesTheSame two Pyros.]] The time periods would fit as well, if we look at the earliest publication dates of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} - possibly Mutants are just beginning to emerge from the woodwork.

* Valve was created specifically for the release of [=TF2=]. The original mod had unwittingly stumbled upon their mode of fight, so they bought the rights for it so they could make what was released as [=TF2=]. The previous games (Half-Life, ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'', etc) were created to establish a fanbase and a name for themselves, to ensure a huge volume of people would buy it, allowing for the maximum number of disputes to be solved.

** The Fireproof Secret Diary mentions "ancient astronauts" in it's description. Punch that phrase into Wiki/TheOtherWiki, and you can find a listing of them in popular culture. One of the earliest known examples, even pre-dating [[CthulhuMythos Lovecraft's]] [[CosmicHorror horrors]] from [[{{Quake}} beyond]], dates back to "Edison's Conquest of Mars," [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars a sequel to a War of the Worlds-style rip off sci-fi novel.]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_Prisoner_-_conquest_of_Mars.png The aliens from the novel look a lot like Gray]]: Gray was even the name of the original magazine serial's illustrator!

** The Fireproof Secret Diary mentions "ancient astronauts" in it's description. Punch that phrase into TheOtherWiki, and you can find a listing of them in popular culture. One of the earliest known examples, even pre-dating [[CthulhuMythos Lovecraft's]] [[CosmicHorror horrors]] from [[{{Quake}} beyond]], dates back to "Edison's Conquest of Mars," [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars a sequel to a War of the Worlds-style rip off sci-fi novel.]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_Prisoner_-_conquest_of_Mars.png The aliens from the novel look a lot like Gray]]: Gray was even the name of the original magazine serial's illustrator!

* This seems oddly similar to the Christmas Truce in the first year of WW1.

[[WMG: The game takes place in the same universe as PunchOut]]

[[WMG: Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, and Counter-Strike are all video games in the {{Left 4 Dead}} universe.]]

* IN the Left 4 dead comics, Louis has a Heavy action figure and makes statements like "I feel just like Gordon Freeman" when he picks up a crowbar, or "this is just like counterstrike" when he picks up an Uzi. Granted that the Left4Dead 'verse is more realistic than Valve's other games, this might imply the more fantasy/sci-fi ones are games within that universe, kinda like how Kill BIll would be a movie within a movie in Pulp Fiction.

[[WMG: The game takes place within the {{Inception}} World.]]

GLaDOS, or a backup or her at another site, is Helen and she manipulates everything. Another Adventure Core is Saxton Hale.

*** You wouldn't need Wheatley; Chell's description of her time at Aperture leads both RED and BLU to send teams to this bottomless cavern of awesome technology, leading to a three-way battle with each other and GLaDOS defending her kingdom.

* One possible explanation for this is that, following the re-emergence of supers, some shadowy multi-national conspiracy is assembling and training a clone army, just in case one or more supers ever needs to be put down -- similar to the Cadmus project on ''Main/JusticeLeagueUnlimited''. The fact that these exercises are live-fire and clearly lethal suggests that battlefield experience and training is hard-wired into each clone, so that each one comes out of the vat a little bit smarter than his predecessors.

[[WMG: The Brothers' Feud wasn't so trivial after all]]

[[WMG: Radigan Conagher is [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Ferb]] from the future]]

[[WMG: [[DaddysLittleVillain Olivia Mann]] will have a HighHeelFaceTurn against [[ArchnemesisDad her father]]]]

[[WMG: [=TF2=] is suffering The Magic goes away]]

By the time the arms race ends it will be too late to conserve what's left of the australium.

* ''Is Miss Pauling's mother.'' The life extender means she could have had Miss Pauling at any point. Helen's just so emotionally distant that she never calls her by name.
** Intends to pass the fortune on to Miss Pauling - well, when she's tired of being alive. Miss Pauling does seem to be almost as in the loop as the Administrator.
* ''Is manipulating Gray.'' If Gray is Senator Gray, then Helen's commissioned Australium theft and subsequent "outburst" in court may have been a calculated attempt to goad him into attacking Mann Co. More money for her and Saxton! (Yay!) That, or she'll finally be rid of the man who constantly hits on her. (Yay!)

[[WMG: Little Jack from the Christmas comic will grow up into a badass mercenary]]
He's already seen the BLU team in action, [[PetTheDog had a conversation with Spy]], and ''[[BadassAdorable killed a man]]''. Perhaps he'll grow up [[EvilIsCool to be a hired gun]], even a Spy specifically!
* Expanding on this theory, the kids from the Merasmus/Monoculus comic will also become mercenaries, inspired by the gifts of tremendous amounts of cash/delicious life-affirming nicotine/human teeth. If we're adding all the kids in the canon, [[http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/d/db/Saxton_fire.jpg these girls]] will become Pyros.

* ''Is Miss Pauling's Grandmother, mother, aunt, etc.'' Helen's just so emotionally distant that she never calls her by name.

*** ''Scout's Mom'' might be Pauling's Mom too: If Miss Pauling isn't acquainted with her, she may be trying to become so. Her intense disgust at Scout's advances is not simply the average reaction to a HandsomeLech[=/=]CasanovaWannabe; she can't believe that that sleazebag is both her half-brother and attracted to her. UGH!

** It would seem the theory for Scout is jossed as of Expiration Date-she just didn't know he was looking for a real relationship.

All of the diffrences between this world and [=TF2=] can be traced down to the presence of the genius-creating, world-altering Australium deposits but now they are running out.

[[WMG: All of the battles are actually a televised sport, like VideoGame/UnrealTournament.]]
It’s a very, VERY sick wargame. The family feud backstory is true, but some descendant must've thought to himself, "If this was a result of Zepenniah wanting his sons to fight over something so he could watch, why not have EVERYONE watch it?" It's top secret, so no government could come in and arrest the companies. The truth will come out to the classes when they unmask the Pyro and reveal that it's a four-year-old girl with no idea what death even ''is'' yet. Both teams will team up and capture the Announcer and Saxton Hale, bring them to the FBI (or something else), and have them arrested.
* Confirmed to an extent; when Doublecross was released, it was mentioned that the people who live around the Badlands where the teams fight sometimes watch them and aren't fooled at all.

[[WMG: All the strange stuff in game can be explained using Australium]]
Everything in the merc's world (weapons, tool, the landscape, even the merc's themselves) either have Australium as part of their construction or have been exposed to a low level of Australium radiation.

[[WMG: [[RobotWar MvM]] will become [[ZombieApocalypse Mann]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent vs]] [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Zombies]]...]]
Think about it; Endless waves of enemies charging at you with no remorse? Check. [[AllHallowsEve Halloween Right Around the Corner?]] Check. Something so epic they can't possibly pass it? [[RuleOfThree Check!]] I predict Mann vs. Zombies coming for Halloween. Not only will it have new hats and costumes, it'll also have Zombies that only use melee weapons and secondary weapons. Unlike Mann vs Machine, however, the waves will be much, much, much harder and longer. Why would Zombies even exist in [=TF2=]? Why, because of the new boss for this year's Halloween, Merasmus the Wizard! He's already caused destruction last year with his giant Eye of Doom, and now he wants to completely destroy the Soldier and his friends with waves of fallen warriors.
* Confirmed. However, what set Merasmus off was the loss of his Castle of Eldritch Horror.

Once [[MechanicalEvolution one of the robots becomes sentient]], that robot will not charge blindly into battle, but begin thinking about different and more effective strategies. Once Gray Mann notices, he will put the robot to work upgrading its fellow machines. At first, this will just be advanced weaponry. Soon, though, it will grant secretly grant the robots sentience so that they will become capable of using its complex strategies. After they've used these strategies to crush the feeble RED and BLU Teams, Gray Mann will have no use for them and try to have them decommissioned. The now-intelligent robots will naturally see this as a threat. Using their advanced strategies and weapons, they will rise up against Gray Mann and, no doubt, quickly defeat him. Having thus tasted power, the machines will realize that all of humanity wishes to see them destroyed, and decide to destroy humanity in self-defense. They will rebuild the demolished Mann Co. factories and use them to mass-produce robots in large numbers. The robots will spread out all over the world in well-organized strikes. There will be no time to prepare. The governments of the world will crumble, and the machines will take over. The original robot, the first to gain sentience, will rule over his fellow machines with [[AWorldwidePunomenon an iron fist,]] and will be given the name [[TheTerminator Skynet.]]

*** ''Related Theory'': ''MondayNightCombat is actually Team Fortress 2's world in the future.'' [=TF=]Industries products have been prominently featured, and one has to wonder why... In Team Fortress 2, two corporations, RED and BLU, wage a secret war to control the world. In Monday Night Combat, the world has become a Consumerist Dystopia where people are entertained by a deadly sport that only has two known teams, a red team known as the Hotshots and a blue team known as the Icemen. What none of the teeming masses know is that Monday Night Combat and the entire world are controlled by the perpetually rejuvenating... '''A.''' Administrator, '''B.''' Miss Pauling, or '''C'''. ...cabal of nine mysterious (yet very familiar) men, known only as the board of directors of [=TF=] Industries.

[[WMG: TF2 is suffering The Magic goes away]]
All of the diffrences between this world and tf2 can be traced down to the presence of the genius-creating, world-altering Australium deposits but now they are running out.

** ''Alternatively, Her given name is Violet, or Viola,'' to match Olivia Mann's color-coding, which would make her initials, V.P., a reference to the [[HypercompetentSecretary more or less vice-presidential capacity she serves in.]]

[[WMG: [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] is responsible for the AnachromismStew in [=TF2=].]]

[[WMG: TF2 is not based off 2 teams, but actually many different Teams of RED and BLU]]

* Spies in TF2 can easily convince their opponents that they are somebody on their opponents' side by putting a literally PaperThinDisguise on their head. Masked Takenouchi from CHS is of a completely different body type than the actual Takenouchi, but can still imitate him by putting on a mask and writing the first letter of the 'victim's' name on his forehead, which is hardly even an excuse for a literal PaperThinDisguise. Sound similar?

Soldier didn't just insult a magician, he insulted the one known as [[LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima "Zero"]].

[[WMG: The game is in the same world as RedVsBlue.]]

[[WMG: Team Fortress 2 takes place in a VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi style GroundhogDayLoop.]]

[[WMG: Tf2 is not based off of 2 teams, but actually many different Teams of RED and BLU]]
Redmond and Blutarch originally hired 2 teams to fight against each other, but they settled on hiring many more mercenaries to fight, for they can claim / capture facilities more efficiently. This also explains the ability to have more of one class when playing. One such example is in "Meet The Medic", where you see multiple soldiers attacking BLU, they are not clones. They are simply reinforcements sent in by the BLU team to attack RED. The reason why clones are not a option is because Cloning would have to go up against the Mercs Families / Themselves. In other words, there is a sense of consent among the Employers / Mercenaries. The locations that you fight in are simply different locations that are built the same.