Train-Loving lurker
Anyone know where this page's header came from? Is it original to this site and one of the users here wrote it, or did it come from an older version of the TF 2 website. Asking because the site with the videos on it doesn't have it as the description.
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What I understand is that this blurb used to be on the main TF2 website’s Meet the Team section, but it has since been replaced.
There used to be a weapons sub-page for this game, but it seems to have long vanished. Should we add a subsection for weapon-related tropes on the character pages? The Kirby character page is doing something similar for Kirby's copy abilities.
Level 9 Half-Elf Chirurgeon
I'd hold off on the confirmation of Pauling being a lesbian until the next comic comes out. As much as I want it to be true, this is Valve we're talking about. They lie a lot to mess with their fanbase, and they know the fans really want a canonical LGBT confirmation. Although it would be really douchey of them to claim she was gay and then confirm it was a joke.
“Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something!” - Jake the Dog
Given the rather large number of characters listed under NP Cs, I would suggest that we split the page in two. One page for NP Cs (the Administrator, Merasmus, the Robots, etc.) and one page for characters who appear only in supplementary material (Saxton Hale, the Mann Brothers, Miss Pauling, etc.) It would be a better way to organize the constantly growing number of additional characters.
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Level 9 Half-Elf Chirurgeon
Is it possible Robin Atkin Downes (The Medic) is Merasmus? It sounds a lot like his Thundercats (2011) Mumm-Ra voice.
“Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something!” - Jake the Dog
Harley Quinn hyenaholic
Just a small comment to an edit, but the Team are not Heroic Comedic Sociopaths. Because they're not really all that heroic. It's enough just to say they are comedic sociopaths.
Wait, hold on here, when did Elizabeth suddenly become Zeph Mann's wife and his maidservant? If she died giving birth to the triplets, she couldn't have been alive to inherit his estate.
I'd just like to point out, in regards to the Foil entry for the Demoman, being blind in one eye does nothing to hamper long-range accuracy - you only look through a scope with one eye to begin with. I would know, I'm blind in one eye and I've fired my share of guns.
So that's why I'm excising that little detail. Felt it warranted an explanation otherwise it'd look really odd.
Tired forever.
"Ambiguously Gay: When a rocket crashed through his house, he expressed concern that he and the Pyro would have to be parents to a super baby."
I'm literally facepalming right now.
What is this "sleep" you speak of?
Bitchy Science Lady
Where (and why) did Beware the Silly Ones go? All the Team are blatant comedic archetypes... until things need to get bloody, that is.
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The trope is for characters who are presented as goofy and harmless but are actually very dangerous.
The mercenaries are all introduced as skilled Career Killers and most of them are presented as psychopaths as well. While they do have occasional lapses of silliness (Engineer's victory dance and Spy's snort-laugh for example) it isn't the most prominent part of their character and is mostly overshadowed by more malevolent behavior. I really don't think the trope applies to them.
Edited by GingerSnaps What is this "sleep" you speak of?
Has anyone noticed that John Mactavish is a lot like the demoman, black, scottish and explosive.
I found out something interesting that changes the way this troper thinks about the Heavy. There's a Russian proverb that goes, "Fools shoot, but God directs the bullets." In "Meet the Heavy," Heavy mentions that he hasn't met anyone who can "outsmart boolit." To my mind, when you think about that alongside the old proverb, it almost sounds as though he's talking about Divine Intervention; he could mean that, with God directing the boolits, his opponents can't win because they can't defy God. Could the Heavy be a Religious Bruiser? Thoughts?
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I honestly think that one's a bit of a stretch., seeing as there aren't any other religious references he makes or word of god to back it up. It just crosses into WMG a little too much.
It's an interesting find though.
What about when you factor in his Ph D in Russian Lit? Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, two of the most famous Russian authors of all time, worked a lot of Christian themes into their works. Surely Heavy would have an extensive working knowledge of such themes if he holds any kind of degree in the subject. Also, based on his description in Poker Night at the Inventory of respawning as a series of nightmares, it could be that he's affected in a spiritual manner by all of the nightmares of death.
Of course, I know this is all wild speculation and there's nothing in the actual source material to support this. I just think it's kinda cool to think of Heavy in that way.
Ramblin' Mushroom
Since somebody decided it was best to remove all the weapons from the list in a huge edit, I'm going to move the weapon descriptions to the weapons section. Besides, it would've broken the folders eventually listing so many weapons.
I think the spoiler tags for "Meet the Medic" may last for a few days, but should be removed then (as there are none for the other characters)
Green-haired Tesla
The scout is "difficult to control, especially for veteran FPS players"? I'd say it's exactly the opposite. His speed is the only one that comes even remotely close to that of Quake and its infamous strafe-jumping.
I'm wondering if the Demoman's mother qualifies as a non-Jewish Jewish Mother. She complains he hasn't got enough jobs!
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Yeah, it would fit. Takes a special kind of mother to guilt-trip a man's work ethic while living inside his MANSION.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm convinced that the Engineer's an Aggie. Think about it. He's a Texan with Southern Hospitality, an engineer (something A&M is famous for) loves guns (A&M is also famous for its Corps of Cadets) and he has 11 PH Ds (its graduate school is well-known and notoriously hard to get into).
I'd like to know why the real names of some of the characters are hidden behind spoilers.
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They've been unspoilered.
My question is - where did everyone get Delmond as the Engineer's first name? I remember him insisting on being called "Dell" in the Loose Cannon comic - was there another comic I missed or something?
Shamboozle!
Just a quick remark, but this is the most well-written character page I've ever seen.
A Made Of Win to all the contributors.
Now that Saxton is playable should we remove him from NP Cs?