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RED Team
In General
- Badass Crew: They are capable of taking on entire armies of enemy mercenaries and killer robots alike.
- Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: Fedora, Soldier and Scout fulfill this role.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Some of them have unusual quirks that indicate they are not exactly of sound mind. Doesn't stop each of them from racking up an impressive body count.
- Red Is Heroic: Guess what the dominant color in their clothes is.
- Red Shirt Army: RED team members outside the trio (Fedora, Captain, Frontrunner) dangle between this and Men of Sherwood, since they are seen taking losses, but also usually put up a pretty good fight. The main trio have pretty strong Plot Armor, though.
Fedora
"Suprise."
A RED team Spy who the series is named after.- Action Dad: It's implied that he's Frontrunner (the RED Scout)'s father, as Captain's "somewhere your father is weeping" comment to Frontrunner elicits a nervous chuckle out of him.
- Badass Driver: Has no problems driving in the heat of the moment, best seen in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly where he manages to drive a stolen Jeep through enemy fire, even after its back half gets torn off by an explosion from Captain's rocket jump.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: As is customary for a Spy. He's visibly distraught when Soldier splatters him with the BLU Sniper’s blood in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, lamenting the state of disarray it’s left his suit in.
- Berserk Button: Never call his namesake fedora stupid, as Medic can attest to. And don’t mess with his cigarettes, as another, different Medic can also attest to.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Regularly makes use of a Sharp Dresser to deadly effect. Though it ends up being broken by Medic in Live and Let Spy, he manages to replace it with a shortened Half-Zatoichi in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly.
- Boom, Headshot!: Uses his Ambassador for this purpose, which makes sense with how it works in-game.
- Devious Daggers: Being a Spy, this is to be expected. His weapon was the Sharp Dresser before it was broken in Live and Let Spy, and was replaced with a very shortened Half-Zatoichi in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly.
- Faking the Dead: Is capable of pulling this off with the help of his Dead Ringer.
- Failed a Spot Check: In The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, he observes one of the Blu Team's crates and notices stamped lettering identifying it as "Property of G. Mann". However, he fails to notice the warehouse's address not far below. Pyro, of all people, calls him out on it.
- Hand Cannon: Wields an Ambassador revolver, with deadly precision.
- The Hero: He's the character with the most screen-time, and the series is named after him.
- Master Actor: Demonstrates this in Live and Let Spy, where he manages to fool a BLU Soldier into thinking he's a lowly Heavy janitor with him none the wiser until he gets fed up with the act and kills him. A deleted scene also has him convincingly acting like a drunk Demoman and making the Engie he's speaking to uncomfortable with his advances.
- Only Sane Man: With Frontrunner and Captain both having questionable sanity and intellect at the best of times, it often falls on him to be the brains of their operations.
- Precision F-Strike: Towards the end of The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, he silences Gray Mann mid-boast with the help of his Electro-Sapper and tells the tyrant to "Go fuck yourself.".
- Stealth Expert: Most of the time, he easily sneaks around any enemies until open combat starts, barring the With Catlike Tread moment below.
- Surrounded by Idiots: How he reacts to Frontrunner and Captain's antics. Comes to a head in the fourth installment where the two plan an ultimately pointless ambush on an empty base. Or so it seemed.
- With Catlike Tread: At one point in Live and Let Spy, Fedora takes out a BLU Heavy. This Heavy tumbles down from Well's upper floors and into a crate below, causing a huge crash and drawing everyone's attention to his killer.
Frontrunner
"Yeah, that just happened!"
- Combat Parkour: Frequently takes advantage of his speed and agility to attack in unexpected ways, such as throwing a Flying Guillotine at a BLU Soldier mid-air after backflipping to avoid getting hit by a jeep in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly. It's exaggerated in his Imagine Spot later in the short, where he kicks through a window, does a Matrix-style bullet surf while airborne and flips off of the walls to take out the BLU team. It doesn't work.
- Fragile Speedster: Hits fast and hard, but can't take much damage in return, as shown by him having to sit out the fight with Gray Mann’s bots in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly after being sliced up by glass shards during his botched Dynamic Entry.
- Imagine Spot: Has one in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly where he plots out his team's Dynamic Entry into the suspected BLU base and killing all the BLU Mercs in it. It... doesn't quite pan out as planned.
- Lovable Jock: He's the most energetic, athletic and physical of the main trio, and wears very sporty clothing (namely the Front Runner and the Track Terrorizer).
- Improvised Weapon: Wields a Flying Guillotine (a weaponized meat cleaver) to deadly effect, most notably by throwing it to take out a BLU Soldier and Heavy simultaneously in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Uses a variety of Scatterguns. As of The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, he seems to have settled on a Back Scatter.
- Super Window Jump: Tries to do this as part of his plan in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly. Unfortunately for him, Soft Glass was not in effect and he ends up slashed up pretty badly as a result.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Since we see his Imagine Spot of how his plan should go, it's apparent it's not gonna go that way.
Captain
"Human grit always beats robot magic!"
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Played With. In earlier videos he's more level-headed, but in In Live and Let Spy and The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, he's noticably more of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When he's outside of combat, Captain seems to be nothing more than an incompetent fool who has trouble keeping up with plans and has poor lapses in judgement. But when the situation goes south, he shows extremely competent battle prowess, and is capable of wiping the floor with many of the mooks the team faces.
- Deadpan Snarker: At the end of The Bolted Behemoth, as the Administrator reports that they failed and that the enemy intelligence returned to their base, Captain retorts: "My intelligence!"
- Dumb Muscle: Not the sharpest tool in the shed, but definitely an effective one when push comes to shove.
- Dynamic Entry: His role in Frontrunner's plan has him drive a jeep through a wall and shooting up the BLU Mercs inside. Instead, he crashes the car into a pillar and injures himself.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Employs this on an unfortunate BLU Scout in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly. However, he fails to get any information out of him because he forgot to remove his gag first.
- Made of Iron: In addition to taking an utter battering from the Bolted Behemoth and coming back for more, The RED, the BLU and the Ugly really showcases how tough he is after he gets shot full of bullets by the robot Heavy and still puts up a good fight.
- Precision F-Strike: In The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, after shooting a BLU Heavy who had a grudge against him dead:Captain: Go back to Russia, bitch!
- And again while fighting off robot mercenaries:
Captain: Reboot in robot hell, you tin savages! Motherfucker! Spark-bag! - Pummeling the Corpse: In The RED, the BLU and the Ugly he pumps a dead BLU Scout full of shotgun shells until Fedora gets him to shoot Gray Mann's robots instead.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Reacts with a cheerful "Yay!" when Frontrunner mockingly cheers him for killing the Sniper that Fedora was trying to get info out of.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Regularly uses his shotgun, with his Black Box being used when heavier firepower is needed and his Equalizer serving as a close-quarters backup.
Demoman
"Nice shot, man!"
- Cool Sword: A Claidheamh Mòr to be specific, which he uses to run through a BLU Scout trying to ambush him.
- Dead Hat Shot: After he dies in the Bowdlerized version of The RED, the BLU, and the Ugly blowing a BLU Heavy and a BLU truck they were on, a bloodied Stickybomb Launcher can be seen nearby (the Director Cut version shows his severed arm instead).
- Due to the Dead: Is notably the only RED teammate that Fedora and his team mourn after he dies.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: When he sees a BLU Heavy covered in his sticky bombs charging at him his response is to put even more bombs on him in order to blow up the BLU truck along with the two of them.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Becomes this with Pyro in the climax of Live and Let Spy, and the beginning of The RED, the BLU, and the Ugly.
- Not Enough to Bury: In the Director Cut version of The RED, the BLU, and the Ugly, what is left of him after his Heroic Sacrifice is his severed arm.
- Stuff Blowing Up: He's a Demoman. What did you expect?
- Out of Focus: Of all the RED teammates, he has significantly less focus than even Pyro does. He does get a Dying Moment of Awesome to make up for it however.
- Those Two Guys: With the Pyro.
Pyro
(muffled boasting)
- Blood Knight: In Live and Let Spy, the Pyro laughs maniacally after burning several BLU mercs. Then there's that aforementioned scene in The RED, the BLU, and the Ugly involving the Pyro and the BLU Spy...
- Cold Sniper: Frontrunner's Imagine Spot plan has the Pyro with a silenced rifle snipe some BLU Mercs from a lake at quite a distance. For what actually happens, see Super Drowning Skills below.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Becomes this with Demo in the climax of Live and Let Spy, and the beginning of The RED, the BLU, and the Ugly.
- Super Drowning Skills: When trying to put Frontrunner's plan into action, the only shot we get of Pyro is them floating in the middle of the aforementioned lake, dead.
- Undignified Death: At least the RED Demoman went out in a blaze of glory and was mourned by Fedora, Frontrunner and Captain. Pyro just drowned while trying to follow Frontrunner's terrible plan and is immediately forgotten about afterwards.
BLU Team
In General
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: The BLU team heavily outnumbers RED in every video, yet are always trounced without too much difficulty. In contrast, the lone Bolted Behemoth or BLU Medic put up a much better fight.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Due to Winglet's videos being Bloodier and Gorier compared to the base game, it's frequently showcased by BLU mercs getting killed in gruesome fashion.
- Enemy Mine: At the end of The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, a few BLU team members team up with Fedora, Soldier and Scout to prepare for Gray Mann's inevitable assault.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The number of dead RED Mercs by their gunfire on-screen can be counted on one hand.
- Mecha-Mooks: Make extensive use of these in Live And Let Spy, but even they are ultimately defeated.
- Mooks: Fit this trope to a T. In every video, the BLU team heavily outnumbers the RED team, and in all of them they suffer horrible casualties.
- Undignified Death: While most of them get mowed down with gunfire or explosives, quite a few of them die in very humiliating ways.
- What Measure Is a Mook?: This gets poked fun at and Double Subverted in The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, where one BLU Heavy tries to take revenge on the RED Soldier for killing a BLU Spy friend of his in Live and Let Spy, but by the time he's finished with the flashback, Soldier just shoots him to death.
The Bolted Behemoth
A Massive Robot BLU sends to destroy the RED team.
- Achilles' Heel: In a straight fight, the Bolted Behemoth is nigh-indestructible. The remote that controls it, however, is not.
- Giant Mook: Being a giant robot.
- Immune to Bullets: As an unfortunate RED Sniper finds out when it simply plucks one out of its head.
- Mechanical Monster: It gives a very tough fight to the entire RED team.
- Silent Antagonist: It never speaks as it tears through the RED team. The only time it does talk is when it's about to be destroyed by a buzzsaw.The Bolted Behemoth: OH NO! MEDIC!
- Super Prototype: Despite being only the first part of Grey Mann's master plan and the first robot to fight the RED team, it's easily the most dangerous one of them all.
- Super-Strength: It was strong enough to launch a RED Pyro into orbit!
- Walking Armory: Miniguns, rocket launchers, flamethrowers, rocket boosters... the Behemoth is armed with enough weaponry to take on an entire crew of RED mercenaries.
Gray Mann
The Mann himself, who hired the BLU team to do his dirty work, and provided them with robots.
- Big Bad: Is shaping up to be this as of The RED, the BLU and the Ugly, whereas he was The Man Behind the Man in the previous shorts.
- Evil Plan: One that's not too far from the one in canon TF2, where he wants to take over Mann Co. using a large robot army. Unlike canon, here he hired the BLU team, who stopped working for Blutarch Mann. This plan is discovered by Fedora in Live and Let Spy.
- The Man Behind the Man: Plays this role in The Bolted Behemoth and Live and Let Spy, where he provided BLU team with the titular Behemoth, and an army of robots, respectively.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the BLU team uncovers the crystallized Australium Gray Mann hired them to find, he sets his robots to kill them. Thankfully for them, Fedora intervenes.
