History Characters / TeamFortress2NonPlayerCharacters

** Irony: The Sniper is the best class to use against him, particularly if he has the Huntsman.

* ActionBomb: Subverted: during his boss fight, he can turn ''you'' into one. This forces you into the "scared" state in which you can only run around helpless until the bomb explodes and kills you.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Running into Merasmus in this state will damage ''him'' instead and stun him; all attacks done to him while he's stunned, if not already critical, will count as [[ForMassiveDamage mini-crits]]. This is key to defeating him.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Merasmus actively apologizes for the "Jarate rain" card in the Wheel of Fate.

* GetBackHereBoss: At both one-half and one-sixth of his HP, he will take a cue from [[GameMod Prop Hunt]] and spawn random objects around the map, at the same time [[VoluntaryShapeshifter turning into one himself]]. Fakes will explode and drop HP replenishing items, while the real one will reveal a stunned Merasmus upon destruction.

** He uses this to varying effect during his Halloween boss fight, either turning a character's head into a bomb or causing masses of bombs to rain from the sky. Either is a OneHitKill unless the victim is Ubercharged.

* OffWithHisHead: He can decapitate players with this staff.

* TarotMotifs: He has a custom-made deck of eight tarot cards for use on the Lakeside event map. A random one is chosen every time the control point changes teams, each with a different effect including [[GravityScrew Gravity Screws]], SuperSpeed, all players suddenly [[InvoluntaryDance dancing on the control point]], the aforementioned Jarate Rain, and so on.

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* TheCasanova: Claims to know how to attract the ladies.
* TheDogBitesBack: Apparently he doesn't like his owner. He'll choose two players to turn into bombs and instruct them to run at Merasmus.
* MotorMouth
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud
* ThrowDownTheBomblet
* TomeOfEldritchLore
* TheTrickster
* VerbalTic: Hey buddy! Pow, zoop!

* ArtificialBrilliance: Not limited to one attack like the Horsemann and MONOCULUS!, and he knows how and when to use them effectively.

* ActionBomb: Subverted: during his boss fight, the Bombinomicon can turn ''you'' into one. This forces you into the "scared" state in which you can only run around helpless until the bomb explodes and sends you flying.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Running into Merasmus in this state will damage ''him'' instead and stun him. Thanks to a composite Ubercharge/Kritzkrieg buff upon doing this successfully, you take no damage and are free to wail on him.

* CanisLatinicus: His spell incantations.
-->'''Merasmus:''' Mortus Longdistinus!

* EnemyMine: Invoked the same was as with MONOCULUS!, the control point becomes locked whenever he's around. And he ''will'' require complete cooperation of both teams to bring down.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Merasmus actively apologizes and expresses shame for the "Jarate rain" card in the Wheel of Fate.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: His death animation involves him spinning and flailing wildly in mid-air. Can either be played straight or an aversion [[YourMileageMayVary depending on your point of view]].

* ForMassiveDamage: You'll be lucky to get him down to half HP before he leaves if you don't invoke this yourself.
** As listed above, ramming into him while transformed into an Action Bomb stuns Merasmus. While stunned, everything that hits him is a crit.
** He's also fully crit-vulnerable while raining bombs on the control point, though approaching him while he's doing this is obviously a very bad idea.
** Other than dropped crit-pumpkins or Kritzkrieg-boosted players, only Snipers are able to do constant crit-damage with headshots. Notably, Merasmus is the only boss vulnerable to this.
*** This is the reason people agree that a Huntsman Sniper-rush is the best way to tackle Merasmus. He takes a thousand or so damage per every headshot with a fully-drawn arrow.
* GetBackHereBoss: At both one-half and one-sixth of his HP, he will take a cue from [[GameMod Prop Hunt]] and spawn random objects around the map, at the same time [[VoluntaryShapeshifter turning into one himself]]. Fakes will drop crit-pumpkins, while the real one will reveal Merasmus upon destruction. Be careful, as he'll attack you immediately after being discovered!
* IShallTauntYou: He throws banter at you while he's hiding.

** He uses this to varying effect during his boss fight, either randomly rolling a bomb at you, turning a character's head into a bomb or causing masses of bombs to rain from the sky. The second one is severely-damaging (possibly even a OneHitKill if you die from the fall damage) while the third destroys anything on or around the control point that isn't Ubercharged with deadly efficiency.
* MagicMisfire: Some of the Wheel of Fate consequences he's trying to curse the players with are actually ''entirely beneficial.''
-->''Magic is... not an exact science.''

** Irony: The Sniper is the best class to use against him, particularly if he has the Huntsman.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: Adding ubercharges to the wheel of fate doesn't seem like such a good idea in hindsight.
-->'''Merasmus:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU! ARE! GODS!]] [[LampshadeHanging ...I don't know why I put that on the wheel...]]
* TarotMotifs: He has a custom-made deck of tarot cards for use on the Lakeside event map. A random one is chosen every time the control point changes teams, each with a different effect including [[GravityScrew Gravity Screws]], SuperSpeed, all players suddenly [[InvoluntaryDance dancing on the control point]], the aforementioned Jarate rain, and so on.

* WildCard: Not so much Merasmus, but rather the Bombinomicon. The sentient TomeOfEldritchLore will happily give you the main hint on how to stun Merasmus as he turns your head into a bomb, yet he'll have no qualms about turning the control point into a blasting zone at Merasmus' command.

* ActionBomb: Subverted: during his boss fight, he can turn ''you'' into one. This forces you into the "scared" state in which you can only run around helpless until the bomb explodes and kills you.
** HoistByHisOwnPetard: Running into Merasmus in this state will damage ''him'' instead and stun him; all attacks done to him while he's stunned, if not already critical, will count as [[ForMassiveDamage mini-crits]]. This is key to defeating him.

* GetBackHereBoss: At both one-half and one-sixth of his HP, he will take a cue from [[GameMod Prop Hunt]] and spawn random objects around the map, at the same time [[VoluntaryShapeshifter turning into one himself]]. Fakes will explode and drop HP replenishing items, while the real one will reveal a stunned Merasmus upon destruction.

** He uses this to varying effect during his Halloween boss fight, either turning a character's head into a bomb or causing masses of bombs to rain from the sky. The first is a OneHitKill unless the victim is Ubercharged and while the second makes it very difficult to keep damaging him in range.

* TarotMotifs: He has a custom-made deck of eight tarot cards for use on the Lakeside event map. A random one is chosen every time the control point changes teams, each with a different effect including [[GravityScrew Gravity Screws]], SuperSpeed, all players suddenly [[InvoluntaryDance dancing on the control point]], the aforementioned Jarate Rain, and so on.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Merasmus actively apologizes for the "Jarate rain" card in the Wheel of Fate.

* CanisLatinus: His spell incantations.

** He uses this to varying effect during his Halloween boss fight, either turning a character's head into a bomb or causing masses of bombs to rain from the sky. Either is a OneHitKill unless the victim is Ubercharged.

* ThatOneBoss: Hoo boy, a vast number of players were thrown for a loop at how difficult he is not too long after the patch was released. Cooperation between both teams is an absolute ''must''.

* MadBomber: Thanks to the Bominomicom's magic, he has as many bombs as he wants.

* TeleportSpam

* LargeHam
* MadBomber

* ThatOneBoss: He has possibly the most health out of the three bosses so far. To the point where killing him within the time frame given is near impossible. It isn't helped by the fact that he specializes in explosives and knockback, and halfway into the fight he plays hide and seek by scattering cursed props across the area and hiding in one of them.

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.

* BoomHeadshot: Upgrades for the Sniper's primary weapons take it to the extreme; headshots on robots will cause them to explode and damage nearby robots.

* HumiliationConga[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:In the comic "Doom-Mates," the Soldier buries Merasmus's fridge in the yard, gets his home infested by raccoons, has his home forcefully converted into a raccoon sanctuary (which is in turn owned by the Soldier), is mistaken for a woman multiple times, is heavily fined, and finally, his body is burned by the Soldier when his spirit leaves his body.]]

* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:Upon discovering that the Soldier took "Kill Me Come Back Stronger Pills," Merasmus decides to kill everyone the Soldier cares about.]]

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:In the comic "Doom-Mates," the Soldier buries Merasmus's fridge in the yard, gets his home infested by raccoons, has his home forcefully converted into a raccoon sanctuary (which is in turn owned by the Soldier), is mistaken for a woman multiple times, is heavily fined, and finally, his body is burned by the Soldier when his spirit leaves his body.]]

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:In the comic "Doom-Mates," the Soldier buries Merasmus's fridge in the yard, gets his home infested by raccoons, has his home forcefully converted into a raccoon sanctuary, which is in turn owned by the Soldier, is mistaken for a woman multiple times, is heavily fined, and finally, his body is burned by the Soldier when his spirit leaves his body.]]

* HumiliationConga: [[In the comic "Doom-Mates," the Soldier buries Merasmus's fridge in the yard, gets his home infested by raccoons, has his home forcefully converted into a raccoon sanctuary, which is in turn owned by the Soldier, is mistaken for a woman multiple times, is heavily fined, and finally, his body is burned by the Soldier when his spirit leaves his body.]]

* ExpressiveAccessory: The ram skull he has on his head, unsurprisingly, seems to be sentient. Being a skull, however, it just stares at things.

* ActorAllusion: [[{{Portal2}} "Don't disappoint me."]]

* ActorAllusion: [[Portal2 "Don't disappoint me."]]