*MEDIC'S MEDICAL LICENCE* - Official trading card (2008): wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Medic_card_front.jpg - Official website (2011): www.teamfortress.com/classes.php?class=medic - NECA action figure box (2018): m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yDaDQv7qL._AC_SL1500_.jpg *"What he lacks in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity, and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine..."* - Meet the Medic short (2011) Medic: "When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again!" [Laughs madly] [Heavy pauses momentarily, and laughs again, banging his palm on a tray of surgical tools next to him] Medic: *"Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license, heh."* Given how the scene in Meet the Medic is delivered much like the punchline to a joke compared to the above sources which are intentionally player profiles and much more consistently repeated by Valve, it makes a lot more sense for those to be considered "canon". But if you want to eat your cake and have it too, the profiles say he has no *"verifiable"* medical training, so you could argue that the license he refers to could plausibly be an "unverifiable" one, thus both canons can exist as one. Hooray, everyone wins!
@@Casperr The shirt is called ''Jussi-Paita''. It's a common shirt in Southern Ostrobothnia and elsewhere in Finland. But it's not a Russian/Siberian shirt :)
I like the idea that Soldier isn't there because he's the best man for the job, but because he just so happens to know half of the people there, is willing to kill on the cheap, and is surprisingly resistant to dying.
When you think about it, Heavy's friendship with Medic makes sense lore-wise. Heavy states that he's "yet to meet a man who can outsmart bullet", and Medic _is_ a man who can outsmart a bullet. And death. And the Devil.
I think it was scout who can outsmart bullets? Im not very cultured on tf2 lore, hell i dont even play, im just here for the shits n giggles, but i do hear it from tf2 fans in certain comment sections that scout can do that????
@@Dr.Arson_is_on_fire Maybe he can't outsmart them, but he can indeed outrun them: it's an unlockable 'weapon' added later into the game: It's an energy drink which makes him invulnerable for a couple of seconds after consuming, like becoming the Flash in a Popeye-esque kind of way.
Person can outsmart bullet in tf2 game is medic& engineer Because medic have ubercharge And engineer have Wrangler and sentry that make sheild to protect sentry and engi But Some Merc can outrun bullet Scout,soldier,demoman And spy can be both outsmart and outrun bullet Because cloack ability
My favorite fact about the mercs is that if you play as red scout, you can sometimes here a bird cooing. There’s also a very small chance of a bird flying out of red scout when hes killed, both in reference to the ending of meet the medic
One of my favorite facts about the mercs is how Medic's blatant ignorance of the hypocratic oath does not mean he doesn't have at least some inkling of how very odd his life is; as when Pauling asks how Medic is reviving them just by pouring a mix of the partially incongruous blood types into each of their bodies; he lightheartedly acknowledges it makes no sense and shouldn't be working. Then when she tries to parse the non-existent logic he becomes very serious about not questioning it in the moment.
It's possible that medic has some awareness that they are just cartoon characters. Like there's more to him than meets the eye. Like he's seen something unknowable. How else could he just casually rip the souls out of his fellow mercs and use them to con Satan himself. Medic knows what's up if you ask me
"Ms Pauling, ive spent the last 15 mintues wringing blood back into your bodies using my underwear trust me blood type is the least of your worries." Never gonna forget that bit lol
You missed a large portion of Demoman's backstory. The parents we see in the comics ARE his biological ones. They simply abandoned him at birth until his "Degroot Blood" manifested when he accidentally blew up his adoptive parents. His real parents then immediately returned to take him in and teach him how to harness explosives. This is all part of an old and extremely unnecessary family tradition, designed to ensure that Degroots never rely on (or get attached to) their parents. In a twisted way there's a tiny grain of logic to this, because Degroot tradition ALSO dictates that every Degroot will eventually blow themselves up, meaning it's important younger members of the family know how to cope without parents. Still, if you ever wonder why Demoman has a drinking problem, and why he sometimes breaks down and calls himself "jus' a one-eyed bloody monster," this is probably why. Dude had a ROUGH childhood.
Oh, yeah. Jobs are also an important part of Degroot tradition. The men of the family are expected to work as many jobs as possible, until they inevitably make a mistake and blow themselves up. It's unclear what the women do, however considering Demoman's mother has ALSO blinded herself via explosives, it's safe to say it also involves demolition. Perhaps Degroot women are tasked with experimenting on explosive formulas?
And despite the degroot tradition trying to break down paternal bonds, he clearly loves his mother. For a man as chronically drunk as that to not lash out at her, he must really love her.
I know the canon validity of this is dubious at best, but we learn quite a bit about Heavy from his guest appearance in the game Poker Night at the Inventory Here is a couple of them: - Heavy got his PHD in literature from the Soviet College of Mines, Farms and Science. Heavy also uses his PHD in his line of work "more than you think" - When asked by Tycho if he has any hobbies, Heavy states he collects rare coins. However, he only does so to melt them down and create custom bullets for his miniguns (which could be why his guns are so expensive to fire). - Heavy has taken boxing classes. In his school, students had to sign up for either goat herding or boxing. He didn't like it at first but grew to love it. - Heavy finds red-haired women attractive. This comes up after Tycho mentions his girlfrend. - Heavy's favorite movies are The Dirty Dozen and the first twenty minutes of Rocky IV. -Heavy's favorite book is Tsar/King Hunger by Leonid Andreyev - Heavy has recurring nightmares of either himself or his teammates being killed.
I'm pretty sure medic does have formal training, because in the meet the heavy video he says "anyways, that's how I lost my medical license" which implies he at one point did have it
pretty sure he was a real doctor at one point, then stole someones skeleton and vanished. likely the intrusive "crazy medical experiments" thoughts manifesting for the first time. and his license was revoked, hence why he would no longer br dr. but mr.
@@Gravity_studiosshe did not, if he did I doubt that they'd be pissed at him successfully inventing a way to steal skeletons without killing the victim since that's 100% in line with the horrifying shit that they did irl. Because of this I think that it's extremely unlikely that he'd get his license revoked for taking the skeleton, just recieving a different punishment, unless he was a normal doctor
I love how Spy, Scout, and Soldier canonically has killed Santa Claus and everyone treats them like heroes for it. Also I believe the reason why Solider is as dumb as he is, is because he has been lead poisoned by the water in Tuefort which also poisoned the entire town.
Demo is really underrated as a character imo in the fandom. Also! The Eyelander is sentient, can talk, watches bad ghost dramas with Demo, and apparently likes churros.
@@Appletank8 it's said that the eyelander Absorb souls of his victims and it works a cursed sword The one who wields it gets controlled by the sword, but for some reason demo doesn't get affected lol Perhaps the eyelander likes demo or respect him enough to not do that, and basically being degroots family pet
I think it's also worth mentioning that rumors started appearing after Scout's official name was revealed that he was named after Jerma985, a popular TF2 RUclipsr at the time who now streams on Twitch and uploads the cut-down streams to his second channel, 2ndJerma. Years later it was confirmed that those rumors were true by one of the TF team members and one of the artists for the comics.
I always thought it was really sad that Spy was too scared to confess to scout who he was with his true body, even though it would’ve been the last thing Scout took in before he died 😢
I mean it was partly because he wanted scout to be happy in his last moments. Knowing that a man he didn't like was his father wouldn't have made him happy.
@@tylerduncanson2661in Russian culture it’s considered to be a name’s variation rather than a nickname. Reserved for friends or people that know you well. It’s different from a nickname because absolutely all Mikhails also go by “Misha”. Almost all Russian names have those “friendlier” variations. For instance, my full name is Victoria but shorten version would be Vica. So Misha IS Heavy’s name but the official passport version would be Mikhail.
You forgot to mention how musically tallented are our mercs: Scout can play bongos Soldier is great with brass instruments (Bugles and Trombone to be specific) Pyro propably knows how to play guitar (as his air guitar default melee taunt suggests). Engie loves his accoustic Guitar. Demoman not only plays his native bagpipes, but also was seen playing piano in "Expiration Date". Heavy really likes to sing, mostly russian classical and folk music, and, let's be honest here, Kazotsky Kick, while it's an all class taunt, is based on a traditional Ukrainian and Russian dance. It would make sense if it was Heavy who would have teached other classes the Kick. Medic can use his saw as a violin, plus he's great with accordeon. Sniper knows how to play sax and digderidoo. As of Spy, while he isn't shown to play any instrument, one can assume, that to impersonate other classes, he must have learned all of the above. Plus, in one of Miss Pauling's lines from Tough Break, The Spy is teaching her how to play piano, using electroshocks.
It's funny to me that almost all the mercs are fabulously wealthy for some inexplicable reason. Demoman has the DeGroot estate, Pyro was the CEO of a major corporation, Scout has his priceless Tom Jones collection and lord knows how much Heavy spends on minigun ammo
Soldier is somehow somebody who can get into and out off things, such as Getting out of prison Getting out of interrogation Infiltrating a base Getting into jobs.
What I always find cool about tf2 lore is that they literally do whatever they want with it, creating absolutely insane, but unique and memorable world in process.
People always mention that Heavy is more a doctor than medic but even so, Medic is incredibly smart, having as someone already mentioned, literally outsmarted Boolet. So he may not have a docorate or even be a varified Medic of any kind he still is one or two in intelect. Thank you for your time
3:11 Just want to mention. Soldier never suspected Pyro being a woman. In the comic, right after that page where he points at pyro, Soldier pushes Pyro aside to reveal a room full of honey, which attracted bears.
Don’t know how cannon gameplay and the “Meet The” trailers are, but if we go off those, I love the fact that one of Medic’s Doves, “Archimedes” is actually stuck and living inside Scout’s chest. As seen at the very tail end of the Meet The Medic trailer, and it occasionally in game when gibbing a scout, who has a chance to have a dove fly straight out of the body parts.
medic is basically a cat 1: he has 9 lives but lost one 2: there are many situations that he should not have been able to get out of 3: he is kind of friendly towards you when he is on your side but can easily switch sides and stab you in the back
Fun fact: Scout’s first name, Jeremy, was inspired by Jerma985 (Jeremy Elbertson). When TF2 was being written as a TV show, one of the writers was a fan of Jerma’s TF2 content, and found Jeremy looked strikingly similar to the scout. (I’m not kidding, by the way. You can look this up.)
Another bit of lore regarding the Engineer in Team Fortress 2 is that the Engineer from Team Fortress Classic is either the father or a major role model to the Team Fortress 2 Engineer.
About demoman Its tradition in his family to leave kids and return to them sometimes Its confrimed that after his adpotive parrents died the real parrents returned
Great video, as always, but I'd like to throw out some extra facts: - Pyroland isn't constantly rainbows and colours, a more accurate description of it would be an overexaggerated version of reality according to how Pyro feels like at the moment. Therefore, if Pyro is bored senseless he will perceive reality as dull and grey, if he feels excited about a recently ignited fire it will look bright and cheerful, and if he is infuriated by a certain smokey bear, he will perceive everything as a hellish, flaming landscape. - Heavy has studied russian literature and is speculated that he has a PHD on russian philology. - Sniper's "Jarate" is obviously piss, but it's produced thanks to a combination of drugs distributed by Mann Co. that both triple the size of the user's kidneys as well as nullify the pain caused by the multi-organic shutdown that comes as a side effect of said drugs. - Scout is shown to canonically be "God's gift to Humanity", as stated by the big man himself during the brief time he dies and ascends to Heaven. In fact, Scout's purpose is to get laid with all females and, upon hearing how Scout keeps being rejected, God states that he must destroy Humanity and start anew (thankfully Scout convinces him otherwise before returning to Earth). We also see that the real Tom Jones is in Heaven playing foosball with angels but, in order not to break the illusion that he is Scout's father, the angels re-kill him before Scout notices his presence. This could all be a hallucination by an almost-dead Scout, but it's too funny not to mention. - Spy has a well-groomed beard under his balaclava, and has canonically grey hair, so he could be older than first impressions give off. - Demoman's mother is obviously blind, but so was his father. Apparently all members of the DeGroot family are expected to be blinded by explosives at a very early age, and the Demoman still having an eye left seems to be a disappointment to his family. - Soldier (who, by the way, has no military training whatsoever) went on a Nazi-killing spree in Europe, commemorating his own merits with self-made medals, in an effort to win the war for the Allies. However, unbeknownst to him, the war had long since ended. After some years of this strange crusade, he went back to America. - Medic did have some form of medical training and even obtained a medical license, but in Meet the Medic he comments on how he lost it after stealing a patient's skeleton. - The Engie's father is presumed to be the TFC's Engineer, who used to wear an identical outfit as his son's, minus the soldering goggles. Also, the blueprints for the TF2 Engineer's Sentry Gun, Teleporter and Dispenser seem to be a heritage from his own family, precisely Radighan Conagher, his grandfather.
Medic’s full name is also Ludwig Humboldt as A) the Rottenburg MvM hints that he comes from a long line of Mad Doctors. And B) the Devil referring to him as Mr. Ludwig is commonly used to show respect to others, it was popular in the 60’s and 70’s.
Btw the Team Fortress Classic Engineer that the mercs fight in the last comic isn't Engineer's dad. That's just a random guy, who even mentions that he doesn't know how to build sentries. Mr. Conagher was indeed a part of the TFC team, but he most likely passed away. Meaning that the TF2 Engie is the only Conagher left alive.
You kinda get why Sniper is such a reclusve when u know he is actually a Kiwi, he probably felt super out of the environment of Australium buff people, leading to him adopting a more aloof nature.
I think this is supported by his lines in the comics about how he never "grew australia-shaped chest hair" and preferred to pelt his classmates with rocks from trees instead of fighting hand-to-hand
@@mylesmichel9108 another fun fact, exposure to australium doesn't JUST cause Australia shaped chest hair, Engineers father (or grandfather idk which) had Texas shaped chest hair due to exposure
I love the Frontier Engineering bit in the comics, making it seem like the Engineer, who has the Frontier Justice, would obviously own the Company Frontier Engineering, but have it be the mumbling and delusional Pyro instead.
It’s heavily implied in meet the spy, that BOTH Scouts are actually brothers because Red Spy is canonically shown to be Jeremy’s father and he is shown to be in an intimate relationship with Blu scout’s mother
Jeremy IS the BLU Scout. In "A Fate Worse than Chess" we see it is the Red Spy and Blu Scout that Saxton hires for MvM and these two later star in the main comics. In the 4th Comic, Jeremy says to Saxton "You hired me, we're your mercs!". Also there are two hyperlinks in the main comics to A Smissmas Story and A fate worse than chess, in both Scout is BLU. The RED Scout disppeared after the Gravel Wars ended, we actually haven't seen him in a comic since 2011.
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Afraid not, the scout that was hired after the Gravel Wars is specifically shown to be the Blu Scout. So even though all the mercs wear red coloured clothes, half of them used to be from Blu before the teams merged. The Red Scout disappeared after the Gravel Wars. Comic 1 to 6 Scout is the original Blu Scout.
There aren't any actual teams. There are just 9 characters who sometimes fight for the other teams because they're hired by both of them. So there is no RED Scout or BLU Scout, just Scout. This common mistake is so common and it's fucking infuriating.
@@toxic_shr00m In the Poopy Joe update it is specificially stated there are 18 mercenaries. In "Loose Canon" we see an entire team of nine BLU mercs in one panel, if we go by the "there are only 9" mercs idea then RED at that point would have had noone at all. We've seen both the Blu & Red Heavy and Soldier in the same comic in "Meet the Director". The Administrator went to extreme lengths in "WAR" and "Meet the Director" to stop Red and Blu mercs becoming friends and talking to each other. Why bother if they could swap teams at any point. All the evidence from the comics suggests there were indeed 18 mercs until MvM. Further evidence in "Shadow Boxers" where Soldier didn't know Heavy well, owing to the fact they used to fight on different teams. The 9 mercs only came from a cloing fan theory which is a fun read but has no evidence to back it up.
The story of Soldier and Zhana is one of my favorite in TF2 lore. They're super happy together, and I just love when characters in fiction just get to be happy.
I think canonically that there were a lot more mercs than the 9, and that some of them started out on opposite teams, teams got shuffled around and by the end, our 9, the best of the best were the only ones who didn’t die in the gravel war
If i recall, the current lineup is the result of the red and blue teams combining to survive MvM, and both sides lost certain members to ultimately result in 1 member of each class. For example, Blue Scout is Jeremy and Spy was the Red Spy, but upon the team merging they all took up red uniforms since the robots wore blue ones.
Baxcaber did a video analysis of the main Mercs to divine which team each of them is on (according to the rule that the game’s canon supersedes that of the comics), and came up with a list that puts Demoman, Spy and Heavy on Team RED and everyone else on Team BLU.
When talking about which team the character is, it's best to refer to both of them as the same person, because in the comic Unhappy Returns RED scout mentions an event in A Smissmass Story which features the BLU team instead.
In the game, there is a 1/20 chance for bread to spawn when you exit a teleporter as a reference to the animated short expiration date. Depending on the class you're playing as, the type of bread will be different. Scout is a plain loaf, Soldier is canned bread, Pyro is burnt toast, Demoman is cinnamon swirl bread, Heavy is borodinsky bread, Engineer is cornbread, Medic is a pretzel, Sniper is a crumpet, and Spy is a baguette. It's not related to the lore in any way, but I thought it was interesting enough. (Edit) It doesn't actually matter what class you're playing.. oops
My favourite factoid has to be Medic's deal with the devil. It's so silly but at the same time it serves for some pretty powerful moments in the story, his death and his vengeance in tandem with Heavy just like in the games. It's really smartly written as it makes sense in its own stupidity, and I like bringing it up whenever I can
TF2 is a lore rich video game with writers beyond incredible. Seeing love for all of this lore is only appreciated and I would love to see more! Please do!
great video! i love how despite being relegated to the "comedy relief" role, Soldier is still consistently one of the most competently combatant mercs in the entire series. Like- make fun of the bucket man all you want, but he's probably necessarily (and unnecessarily) killed more people than any tf2 merc
I just love how Pyro is almost entirely unknown about, and nobody else knows anything about him except for maybe his family or Miss Pauling, that is if he even has a family, knowing how crazy TF2 story can be. Pyro is definitely my favorite character story wise, due to just everything about him.
Ever since the Meet the Medic video, whenever a Scout dies by explosive and is rendered into gibs, there is a 1% chance if a dove flying out from where the gibs lay. This is a reference to the very end of Meet the medic where Medic’s pet dove Archimedes trapped itself inside Scout’s chest cavity when he underwent the operation to get the übercharge implant.
Excellent short explanation for literally everyone. Just one thing: Heavy's sister name, the one that Soldier fell in love with, it's read as "Janna", basically. The ZH represents the buzzing sound in the letter J (d-zh-ayy)
I'm fairly certain that the medic had a medical license, but he lost it. My evidence from this was his line in meet the medic where he explains how he lost it.
@@Shovel________________ I mean in order to steal a skeleton we need to do is make sure the person is still alive so you don't need to patch them back up really doesn't matter how bad of a state they're in as long as you have every bone you've pretty much stolen their skeleton
Some of it could be said to be contentious but there's also all the info we learn on The Heavy in poker night at the inventory. Like him having a degree in russian literature, being schooled as a child assassin and escaping with his family outside of the USSR
For the Russian literature one, it's debated whether it's canon or not, since the game is listed as non-canon. But the USSR part is true, in the Meet The Director comics, Heavy's father was an anti-revolutionary who got killed and Heavy's family spent at least 6 months in a gulag before breaking out and hiding in the moutains. The USSR have sent men to look for Heavy's family, only to be killed and buried by the sisters
@@GCHumanGuy Heavy: My entire family was locked into Russian gulags, and my father, who fought for our freedom, was killed. We managed to break out, and now I have to fill the role my father once did and provide for my family. Also Heavy: Pootis.
@@GCHumanGuy One aspect that does support it though is the way the Russian voice actor for Heavy speaks which is a more dignified and refined manner than what you’d expect from a muscular brute.
Favorite Tidbit: Remember the WAR! update when people pitted the BLU Soldier against the RED Demo to see who would get new items? For context, the reason they fought is as follows: The BLU Soldier and RED Demo apparently met outside of work and soon became good friends. The administrator found out about this, and (for reasons unknown) was afraid that they would start talking about work, which would in turn mean they would start talking about her. She went for the obvious approach: give them each new weapons until one ends the other. Eventually the pair found out, and became friends again, pretending that soldier won. Now, how does this fit in to the actual game? Well; If you don’t know what domination is in TF2, it’s a game mechanic where if you kill someone enough times in a row without them getting a single kill on you, it says in the kill feed that you’re “dominating” them. When you dominate someone, your character will say a voice line, that will depend on who you’re playing as and who you’re domming is playing as. If you are a Demo dominating a Soldier, the domination line is something along the lines of: “Take that! but we’re still friends, yeah?” I love that little hint to their friendship, even after being bribed to kill each-other.
Fun fact: If you are a Red soldier dominating a blu demo, it's an actual mean quote. But if you are a Blu soldier dominating a Red demo, you get the friendly domination lines, due to the fact that the Blu soldier and Red demo are friends.
A few corrections from what I've understod from the lore: 1- Medic did have real medical training. But his medical license got revoked after a freak accident and abandoning a patient. ( At least if you trust that the medic is being truthful about his past ) 2- Miss Pauling accepted to go on a date with scout after the end of "the expiration date". I'd like to pretend there's hope goddamit. 3- Pyro isn't always in Pyromania. Her Pyromania is probably triggered by fire. As you can see in the comics she sees the world as dull and grey while working as a CEO but still can perceive it as it is. 4-From what I've heard Heavy isn't as obsessed with his gun as it's shown in the meet the team videos but rather likes to pretend like he is so that no one suspect nothing more of him more than a big dumb Brute. 5- Soldier was probably a bit more "sane" prior to the game's events. He was the most affected by the lead poisoning in 2fort. Edit: a few changes to better reflect how i got these information and how much i have confidence in them as facts.
"During a brief time where the Medic is dead, and negotiating a deal with the devil..." In any other franchise, that might warrant more than a bit of an offhand mention, but this is TF2.
Actually they use he and she interchangeably in both the meet the team with scout saying "He's not here is she?" And in the comics quite often. And soldier never said he had a suspicion about pyro. It was building up to that but he actually had a suspicion that Emilia Earhart was transporting honey on her last flight.
That's the FNaF Mangle level of screwery I love about the comics towards Pyro's gender. Switching pronouns mid-sentence and using formal titles like Miss and Sir interchangeably are little troll details that are super cool to keep the Pyro's gender a secret. Very interesting.
I don't know if it counts as canon (it could be Scout's revival daze-dream), but it does happen in the comics. After Scout dies, he meets God who is incredibly happy to see him, saying that Scout was "God's gift to women" so they can get laid with him. He gets really mad at mankind when he finds out Scout didn't have sex and actually planned to bring another flood/world disaster, but Scout kind of calmed him down to not blame mankind for being a bunch of dum-dums. After that he sends Scout back from the dead and giving mankind a second chance (to get laid). Also Tom Jones gets his neck snapped in Heaven again during this sequence so that's funny.
To that I think that in TF2 universe every persons' heaven is specifically made to suit their personal taste and as such the god simply says whatever pleases Scout the most
@@firedolphin7621 Considering he 'hallucinates' things he doesn't know or even see at all in his meeting with the big man, I don't think he was hallucinating... Whether or not that's actually god or just Scout's personal heaven is a different question, but we at least know that the Christian depiction of hell seems to be real.
This video made me realise the mercs "names" are just the name of what their role in combat is. Heavy Weapons Guy, Spy, Pyromaniac,Demolition Man, Scout, Medic, Sniper, Engineer, Soldier are just the names of the classes but it just feels like they are their real names. Like, calling Heavy "Mikhail" or Scout "Jeremy" feels ultra cursed.
IMO Medic has a medical training, but i imagine it diffrent way. Lots of his cosmetics are military related. Like he was a soldier, and he was picked in middle of fight to replace other (dead) medic. Not bc of his training, he just was the only one not afraid to get his hands in stomach of screaming human with his guts nearby. Then he got promoted to official doctor, but without training, just for things he did at the front. They quickly changed mind, cause he started "his" kind of medicine (animal organs, stealing skeletons).
9:39 It is worth noticing that he is very worried about her, he cares about her, you can see that he would refuse any other woman just to have her For me, it's an interesting procedure done by the authors I admire them at all for such an unusual arrangement of characters, you can see that each character, even the smallest one is treated so well!
Pretty sure it was a hallucination on account of Scout lacking a soul (it is also my head canon that the entire reason none of the main 9 can actually die is because they don’t have souls)
@@dcmonnie i mean, medic made a deal with the devil, so im actually unsure about that scout is simply hallucinating + god told him when they would meet again + the angels had to hide tom jones from scout. but then again, we dont know and its just a comic
important note, the term "factoid" has two definitions, one meaning a small or trivial piece of information, which I assume is the intended meaning in this context, whilst the other, original definition refers to an assumption or speculation that is repeated so often that it is treated as fact. At any rate, my favorite fact about one of the mercs is that one of the many causes of Soldier's stupidity is that he is _the only one_ drinking the tap water local to where the teams square off, and as such is affected by lead poisoning. All of the other mercs were warned, and it's likely that Jane just missed the memo
Soldier also has no idea what Ms. Pauling is talking about when she says "That's why we give you guys bottled water" in comic #2 so yeah it's very likely lead poisoning
As a new tf2 player, I always thought this game was just a goofy meme base, but now I know that it's much more than that and I wanna know a lot more about this game and it's story, starting from the tf2 classic Edit: and if possible a much more thoroughly detailed video about each and every character of the game and the story itself. Like idc about how big it is, even if it's bigger than the whole of one piece itself I'll sit through all of it and watch it
At 8:30 I got an ad with the most intense rock music I ever heard, and I honestly thought it was part of the video considering the intensity of the ‘reveal’
10:16 he literally makes a joke about losing his medical license in the first minute of his official Meet The Team video. For stealing a whole skeleton.
I find it very interesting that earlier in 2007 up to nearly 2010 or 2011 The Sniper's actual name was Richard Mundy instead of Mick Mundy. That one former name was hidden by Valve by any chance and we cannot confirm that TF2 comics has anything with the name "Richard" within Mick Mundy's family name.
My favorite bit of trivia about the deomman is that the only reason he has any accuracy with his weapons is because his sheer alcohol intake gives him double vision so strong that it makes up for his lack of depth perception.
I would’ve never imagined heavy to be from around Sakhalin Also something that probably should’ve been mentioned is that Heavy and his family were sent to a gulag, but killed all the guards
The fact that Jerma looks like Scout is funny enough, but the fact that they're both named Jeremy and are from Massachusetts is such a crazy coincidence
A detail that would be awesome to see in Team Fortress 3 (hypothetically) would be that Red and Blu have their own version of each Class. Not necessarily with different voice lines but MAYBE different voice actors and DEFINITELY different visual traits. While keeping both versions equally as appealing from either side. A difficult task yes. But it would be great!
a note about Soldier's suspicion: Soldier said that bears are attracted to 2 things. Honey and you-know-what-else. When he yells at Pyro, he was telling it to move because there was honey on the crashed plane, to tease the readers. Also: -The TF Classic engineer is the TF2 engineer's father. -The Medic DID have a license at one point, but he lost it after (most likely) stealing a man's skeleton. -The Demoman's birth parents gave him up for a while, possibly went to the orphanage, was adopted, indirectly killed his adoptive parents, and then his birth parents took him in again from the orphanage. -The Heavy has A PhD in Russian Literature.
The museum aesthetic and subsequent organization of the information to fit the theme really made the video easy to follow. I found I was subconsciously ready for the next bit of information every time the screen transitioned. I don't know if this qualifies as a compliment but it was gud vid thanc u
The one part of the tf2 lore that blows my mind is how the tf classic were actual people. They did not need to connect the two games together BUT THATS SO COOL
10:11 He did have a medical license at some point though, so does that technically count as training? (As said in the "Meet the Medic" video from Valve, Medic apparently stole a skeleton from a patient, "and that's how I lost my medical license!")
my favourite random fact of the mercs might be that as of the time the Game plays in, Scout canonically has Archimedes, medic's pet dove in His chest which has a Chance of flying Out when a Scout is killed by Explosions
Scout had always really reminded me of Jerma985, the streamer, but I’d mostly only said it as a joke. but hearing scouts name is Jeremy is making me rethink it.
Also one of my favorite facts of them is that the pyroland isn't entirely how pyro sees the world. Yes the pyro is a bit mentally unstable, having a childlike personality, Being a pyromaniac obsessed with fire, disassociation with the real world, the pyroland itself is because of the goggles on their mask. Because it's an item all classes can wear, making the world look colorful or chearful. Pain sounds turning to laughter, domination and revenge in the kill feed becoming best friends and breaking up, and some maps get a pyroland rework. Now it's not as intense as we see from pyros point of view so it can be believed that they have some form of schiphrinia as well so maybe I was wrong with my initial statement
somebody else mentioned that it depends on their emotional state, which suggests that while the other mercs are happy doing their jobs, pyro is absolutely euphoric.
@@bonnieturner9116 true I've heard that as well, which would explain when they're acting as CEO, everything is dull and gray. And they do love anything to do with fire which is why the world around the fire soldier and Pauling made attracted them so. But yeah, it does depend on the emotional state as much as everything else
Only wanna throw in one more quick fact. Apparently, Soldier and Demoman are best friends, but the admin hated this. So she sent Ms. Pauling to say bad things behind the others back to one another, while also giving them weapons to kill each other with, saying that the offer was made to the other character and they accepted. This is even tho the offer was not made to either character before asking the other. This is shown through the in game voice lines that can sometimes happen when you kill the other character. Edit: I made a mistake, it is when Dominating the opposing character, not just killing.
![The Art of Spychecking [SFM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/M9kmE82QYQg/mqdefault.jpg)
*MEDIC'S MEDICAL LICENCE*
- Official trading card (2008): wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Medic_card_front.jpg
- Official website (2011): www.teamfortress.com/classes.php?class=medic
- NECA action figure box (2018): m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yDaDQv7qL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
*"What he lacks in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity, and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine..."*
- Meet the Medic short (2011)
Medic: "When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again!" [Laughs madly]
[Heavy pauses momentarily, and laughs again, banging his palm on a tray of surgical tools next to him]
Medic: *"Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license, heh."*
Given how the scene in Meet the Medic is delivered much like the punchline to a joke compared to the above sources which are intentionally player profiles and much more consistently repeated by Valve, it makes a lot more sense for those to be considered "canon". But if you want to eat your cake and have it too, the profiles say he has no *"verifiable"* medical training, so you could argue that the license he refers to could plausibly be an "unverifiable" one, thus both canons can exist as one. Hooray, everyone wins!
YAY! everyone ones!
E.
Can I please have a source to the thumbnail picture? I'm asking because I'm wondering what the reason on why heavy is wearing a FINNISH shirt?
Thumbnail was made by Mr Light and as for why that particular shirt... I just assume he liked the look of it 🤷♂️
@@Casperr The shirt is called ''Jussi-Paita''. It's a common shirt in Southern Ostrobothnia and elsewhere in Finland. But it's not a Russian/Siberian shirt :)
I like the idea that Soldier isn't there because he's the best man for the job, but because he just so happens to know half of the people there, is willing to kill on the cheap, and is surprisingly resistant to dying.
I mean he was never soldier. He just got into hot spot and started to kill every german he saw. So thats much as well be true.
@@shadowclaw7210correct, he didn’t pass for the military but still went over there
Wouldn’t that make him the best man for the job?
Also he has brain damage
he wasnt given permission to die
When you think about it, Heavy's friendship with Medic makes sense lore-wise. Heavy states that he's "yet to meet a man who can outsmart bullet", and Medic _is_ a man who can outsmart a bullet. And death. And the Devil.
I think it was scout who can outsmart bullets? Im not very cultured on tf2 lore, hell i dont even play, im just here for the shits n giggles, but i do hear it from tf2 fans in certain comment sections that scout can do that????
@@Dr.Arson_is_on_fire Maybe he can't outsmart them, but he can indeed outrun them: it's an unlockable 'weapon' added later into the game: It's an energy drink which makes him invulnerable for a couple of seconds after consuming, like becoming the Flash in a Popeye-esque kind of way.
Person can outsmart bullet in tf2 game is medic& engineer
Because medic have ubercharge
And engineer have Wrangler and sentry that make sheild to protect sentry and engi
But
Some Merc can outrun bullet
Scout,soldier,demoman
And spy can be both outsmart and outrun bullet
Because cloack ability
Medic invented Ubercharge. This is outsmarting bullet.
He can prevent heavy from shooting him by asking heavy out to dinner and maybe kissing
I love that there are two mercs with actual doctorate degrees, and the medic is neither of them.
Damn
which two?
@@emiliesricecooker Engineer and Heavy.
@@Judgement_Kazzy heavy has a PHD?
@@scheng8182 it's not strictly canon, but there was a crossover game where he claimed to have a PHD in Russian literature
My favorite fact about the mercs is that if you play as red scout, you can sometimes here a bird cooing. There’s also a very small chance of a bird flying out of red scout when hes killed, both in reference to the ending of meet the medic
That’s amazing thank you for commenting this. Wow
like a badnik?
Woah, first time hearing about the cooing sound!
I like to think that the bird is the reason the scout is able to double jump
@@Fozzy10XT And why else would he count as two people when capturing a point? He IS two life-forms.
I like to imagine Soldier’s parents didn’t know about Jane Doe being the name of unidentified female corpses and just named him that by accident.
i've always thought the soldier's paperwork just got mixed up with a dead corpse's
so tf2 is also connected to roblox because of an account called jane doe that used to exist
@@stanley279jane doe is not something roblox created bro
@@stanley279dawg what
@@stanley279 What the Piss?
One of my favorite facts about the mercs is how Medic's blatant ignorance of the hypocratic oath does not mean he doesn't have at least some inkling of how very odd his life is; as when Pauling asks how Medic is reviving them just by pouring a mix of the partially incongruous blood types into each of their bodies; he lightheartedly acknowledges it makes no sense and shouldn't be working. Then when she tries to parse the non-existent logic he becomes very serious about not questioning it in the moment.
"it just works, dont jinx it"
It's possible that medic has some awareness that they are just cartoon characters. Like there's more to him than meets the eye. Like he's seen something unknowable. How else could he just casually rip the souls out of his fellow mercs and use them to con Satan himself. Medic knows what's up if you ask me
"Ms Pauling, ive spent the last 15 mintues wringing blood back into your bodies using my underwear trust me blood type is the least of your worries."
Never gonna forget that bit lol
Heavy has a PHD in Russian Literature and even in the Russian dub of the game speaks with a more refined manner than others.
Nice
Not cannon
@@lesymon8483 It is canon.
@@hiddendesire3076 but it's from that one poker game right?
It's weird that this comment is a year old but yet these replies are 5 days - today old
You missed a large portion of Demoman's backstory.
The parents we see in the comics ARE his biological ones. They simply abandoned him at birth until his "Degroot Blood" manifested when he accidentally blew up his adoptive parents. His real parents then immediately returned to take him in and teach him how to harness explosives.
This is all part of an old and extremely unnecessary family tradition, designed to ensure that Degroots never rely on (or get attached to) their parents.
In a twisted way there's a tiny grain of logic to this, because Degroot tradition ALSO dictates that every Degroot will eventually blow themselves up, meaning it's important younger members of the family know how to cope without parents.
Still, if you ever wonder why Demoman has a drinking problem, and why he sometimes breaks down and calls himself "jus' a one-eyed bloody monster," this is probably why. Dude had a ROUGH childhood.
Oh, yeah. Jobs are also an important part of Degroot tradition. The men of the family are expected to work as many jobs as possible, until they inevitably make a mistake and blow themselves up.
It's unclear what the women do, however considering Demoman's mother has ALSO blinded herself via explosives, it's safe to say it also involves demolition.
Perhaps Degroot women are tasked with experimenting on explosive formulas?
Demo took the L in childhood
Honestly both rough and wholesome.
And despite the degroot tradition trying to break down paternal bonds, he clearly loves his mother. For a man as chronically drunk as that to not lash out at her, he must really love her.
he controls the drunk in his blood
I know the canon validity of this is dubious at best, but we learn quite a bit about Heavy from his guest appearance in the game Poker Night at the Inventory
Here is a couple of them:
- Heavy got his PHD in literature from the Soviet College of Mines, Farms and Science. Heavy also uses his PHD in his line of work "more than you think"
- When asked by Tycho if he has any hobbies, Heavy states he collects rare coins. However, he only does so to melt them down and create custom bullets for his miniguns (which could be why his guns are so expensive to fire).
- Heavy has taken boxing classes. In his school, students had to sign up for either goat herding or boxing. He didn't like it at first but grew to love it.
- Heavy finds red-haired women attractive. This comes up after Tycho mentions his girlfrend.
- Heavy's favorite movies are The Dirty Dozen and the first twenty minutes of Rocky IV.
-Heavy's favorite book is Tsar/King Hunger by Leonid Andreyev
- Heavy has recurring nightmares of either himself or his teammates being killed.
omg I absolutely love this. Heavy the best teammate
Lore confirmed that Heavy isn't a homosexual, medi-shippers seething
Wasn't he also in a gulag at some point
@@jorgenajar9407 his entire family was until a breakout in 1941 and they went into hiding
The first 20 min of Rocky IV? Thats hilarious.
I'm pretty sure medic does have formal training, because in the meet the heavy video he says "anyways, that's how I lost my medical license" which implies he at one point did have it
My headcanon is that he stole someone elses licence after being thrown out of medical school. And then he proceeded to lose that licence.
pretty sure he was a real doctor at one point, then stole someones skeleton and vanished.
likely the intrusive "crazy medical experiments" thoughts manifesting for the first time.
and his license was revoked, hence why he would no longer br dr. but mr.
I can imagine he worked for the German (pseudo)scientific research Institutions from WW2
@@Gravity_studiosshe did not, if he did I doubt that they'd be pissed at him successfully inventing a way to steal skeletons without killing the victim since that's 100% in line with the horrifying shit that they did irl. Because of this I think that it's extremely unlikely that he'd get his license revoked for taking the skeleton, just recieving a different punishment, unless he was a normal doctor
@@Gravity_studioss And yet he's not actually a Nazi.
I love how Spy, Scout, and Soldier canonically has killed Santa Claus and everyone treats them like heroes for it. Also I believe the reason why Solider is as dumb as he is, is because he has been lead poisoned by the water in Tuefort which also poisoned the entire town.
TBF, the Santa Claus of the TF2 universe seems to have a penchant for kidnapping children instead of spreading gifts.
@@Appletank8 True but without context, like the newspaper in the comic does, it sounds a lot worse.
Aren't there two Santas?
@@helixsol7171 krampus?
@@danteautumn6342 Well in another Christmas comic Engineer is telling Pyro a story of Santa and to me it sounds exactually like Krampus.
Demo is really underrated as a character imo in the fandom.
Also! The Eyelander is sentient, can talk, watches bad ghost dramas with Demo, and apparently likes churros.
I wonder if the Eyelander eats things by cutting them.
@@Appletank8 it's said that the eyelander Absorb souls of his victims and it works a cursed sword
The one who wields it gets controlled by the sword, but for some reason demo doesn't get affected lol
Perhaps the eyelander likes demo or respect him enough to not do that, and basically being degroots family pet
@@guilhermef.cabral8252
Sure, but Churros don't have souls to eat ... right?
@@Appletank8 the only soul in food I bet, is the flavor itself. Since, flavor is the soul of food.
which is why i always play him with his beloved Eyelander
I think it's also worth mentioning that rumors started appearing after Scout's official name was revealed that he was named after Jerma985, a popular TF2 RUclipsr at the time who now streams on Twitch and uploads the cut-down streams to his second channel, 2ndJerma. Years later it was confirmed that those rumors were true by one of the TF team members and one of the artists for the comics.
Honestly incredible. One of the coolest things ever
When the imposta is sus
@@matthewplays7232 do not
I mean it fits perfectly, with him being from boston and even looking like him.
@@bulkypigeon
Jerma and Nathan are twins. This is what the government does not want you to know.
I always thought it was really sad that Spy was too scared to confess to scout who he was with his true body, even though it would’ve been the last thing Scout took in before he died 😢
I mean it was partly because he wanted scout to be happy in his last moments. Knowing that a man he didn't like was his father wouldn't have made him happy.
Thank you SO much for getting Heavy’s real name right. So many people think that Misha is his name, its so frustrating.
Well in the comics, his family calls him Misha and Misha is traditionally short for Mikhail
@@xandarian07That still makes it a nickname, not his actual name.
@@tylerduncanson2661in Russian culture it’s considered to be a name’s variation rather than a nickname. Reserved for friends or people that know you well. It’s different from a nickname because absolutely all Mikhails also go by “Misha”. Almost all Russian names have those “friendlier” variations. For instance, my full name is Victoria but shorten version would be Vica.
So Misha IS Heavy’s name but the official passport version would be Mikhail.
@@duckyduck34так не только у нас! У тех же английских имён так же: Дэниэл - Дэн, Эндрю - Энди, Эшли - Эш и т.д.
You forgot to mention how musically tallented are our mercs:
Scout can play bongos
Soldier is great with brass instruments (Bugles and Trombone to be specific)
Pyro propably knows how to play guitar (as his air guitar default melee taunt suggests).
Engie loves his accoustic Guitar.
Demoman not only plays his native bagpipes, but also was seen playing piano in "Expiration Date".
Heavy really likes to sing, mostly russian classical and folk music, and, let's be honest here, Kazotsky Kick, while it's an all class taunt, is based on a traditional Ukrainian and Russian dance. It would make sense if it was Heavy who would have teached other classes the Kick.
Medic can use his saw as a violin, plus he's great with accordeon.
Sniper knows how to play sax and digderidoo.
As of Spy, while he isn't shown to play any instrument, one can assume, that to impersonate other classes, he must have learned all of the above. Plus, in one of Miss Pauling's lines from Tough Break, The Spy is teaching her how to play piano, using electroshocks.
A:Spy can play the piano
B:Most people can play an instrument
On the topic of music, Heavy is a fan of Huey Lewis and the News.
@@randomzergling3661 most can play one sure. But can most play them well?
@@MaskedButcher7 Where and when did Pyro play violin?
Pyro also plays a mini piano for the scorching solo taunt, and they all have an actual electric guitar taunt (shred alert)
It's funny to me that almost all the mercs are fabulously wealthy for some inexplicable reason. Demoman has the DeGroot estate, Pyro was the CEO of a major corporation, Scout has his priceless Tom Jones collection and lord knows how much Heavy spends on minigun ammo
they're fabulously wealthy because they're mercenaries. do you think a merc works for very little, or even no money?
Mercenary work pays a lot of money because you don't expect them to stay alive for very long.
Soldier is somehow somebody who can get into and out off things, such as
Getting out of prison
Getting out of interrogation
Infiltrating a base
Getting into jobs.
@@prorandocopier7945 and getting a woman which seems like the main "getting into" if you know what i mean
@@prorandocopier7945 the only thing he couldn’t get into was the military during world war 2. There’s also a guy screaming outside, be right back
What I always find cool about tf2 lore is that they literally do whatever they want with it, creating absolutely insane, but unique and memorable world in process.
People always mention that Heavy is more a doctor than medic but even so, Medic is incredibly smart, having as someone already mentioned, literally outsmarted Boolet. So he may not have a docorate or even be a varified Medic of any kind he still is one or two in intelect.
Thank you for your time
3:11 Just want to mention. Soldier never suspected Pyro being a woman. In the comic, right after that page where he points at pyro, Soldier pushes Pyro aside to reveal a room full of honey, which attracted bears.
Don’t know how cannon gameplay and the “Meet The” trailers are, but if we go off those, I love the fact that one of Medic’s Doves, “Archimedes” is actually stuck and living inside Scout’s chest. As seen at the very tail end of the Meet The Medic trailer, and it occasionally in game when gibbing a scout, who has a chance to have a dove fly straight out of the body parts.
This can only happen on one day each year, Meet The Medic's release date.
Also when capping a point as scout, it counts as 2 ppl capping a point instead of 1. Possibly referencing archimedes being inside scout
My head canon is that medic opened scout up and took out Archimedes. Hence the cosmetic, too.
Would probably explain why Scout counts as 2 people when capping points
Still don't know how the hell the Pain Train weapon does it tho...
Eventually he gets out safe and sound
medic is basically a cat
1: he has 9 lives but lost one
2: there are many situations that he should not have been able to get out of
3: he is kind of friendly towards you when he is on your side but can easily switch sides and stab you in the back
Oh yeah, it's all coming together
First, he lost two souls as he sold his soul in exchange for a pen and secondly, medic can't backstab only spy can
@@youssefmahany3859 idk man , getting a saw to your spine seems much more effective than a knife
@@bankionic I mean... Have you ever tried?(actually when I think about it random crits do hurt more)
@@youssefmahany3859 crits are pretty much more harmful , they kind of look like a lazer so it should sting very much i guess
Fun fact: Scout’s first name, Jeremy, was inspired by Jerma985 (Jeremy Elbertson). When TF2 was being written as a TV show, one of the writers was a fan of Jerma’s TF2 content, and found Jeremy looked strikingly similar to the scout. (I’m not kidding, by the way. You can look this up.)
I'm pretty sure Scout's voice actor was a fan of jerma
Yes scout looks like jerma
I looked this up and now I'm on the run! Send help
A TV hwhat now
I don't believe you.
Another bit of lore regarding the Engineer in Team Fortress 2 is that the Engineer from Team Fortress Classic is either the father or a major role model to the Team Fortress 2 Engineer.
Nah, he's explicitly his dad. Which is neat, because his dad is the one Classic merc implied to not be a massive piece of shit.
@@pkfiremain710 and the tfc medic prob, who we dont know anything about rlly
It's crazy how much lore there is, I wish Valve would do more with TF2
About demoman
Its tradition in his family to leave kids and return to them sometimes
Its confrimed that after his adpotive parrents died the real parrents returned
Source?
@@Ratscallion_exe comics
Did not think i would find someone with my same profile pic lol
@@Vintenuthewizard there are several people with that profile picture
@@philsharpe4315 In Fact, A fuck ton of people has the same PFP
Great video, as always, but I'd like to throw out some extra facts:
- Pyroland isn't constantly rainbows and colours, a more accurate description of it would be an overexaggerated version of reality according to how Pyro feels like at the moment. Therefore, if Pyro is bored senseless he will perceive reality as dull and grey, if he feels excited about a recently ignited fire it will look bright and cheerful, and if he is infuriated by a certain smokey bear, he will perceive everything as a hellish, flaming landscape.
- Heavy has studied russian literature and is speculated that he has a PHD on russian philology.
- Sniper's "Jarate" is obviously piss, but it's produced thanks to a combination of drugs distributed by Mann Co. that both triple the size of the user's kidneys as well as nullify the pain caused by the multi-organic shutdown that comes as a side effect of said drugs.
- Scout is shown to canonically be "God's gift to Humanity", as stated by the big man himself during the brief time he dies and ascends to Heaven. In fact, Scout's purpose is to get laid with all females and, upon hearing how Scout keeps being rejected, God states that he must destroy Humanity and start anew (thankfully Scout convinces him otherwise before returning to Earth). We also see that the real Tom Jones is in Heaven playing foosball with angels but, in order not to break the illusion that he is Scout's father, the angels re-kill him before Scout notices his presence. This could all be a hallucination by an almost-dead Scout, but it's too funny not to mention.
- Spy has a well-groomed beard under his balaclava, and has canonically grey hair, so he could be older than first impressions give off.
- Demoman's mother is obviously blind, but so was his father. Apparently all members of the DeGroot family are expected to be blinded by explosives at a very early age, and the Demoman still having an eye left seems to be a disappointment to his family.
- Soldier (who, by the way, has no military training whatsoever) went on a Nazi-killing spree in Europe, commemorating his own merits with self-made medals, in an effort to win the war for the Allies. However, unbeknownst to him, the war had long since ended. After some years of this strange crusade, he went back to America.
- Medic did have some form of medical training and even obtained a medical license, but in Meet the Medic he comments on how he lost it after stealing a patient's skeleton.
- The Engie's father is presumed to be the TFC's Engineer, who used to wear an identical outfit as his son's, minus the soldering goggles. Also, the blueprints for the TF2 Engineer's Sentry Gun, Teleporter and Dispenser seem to be a heritage from his own family, precisely Radighan Conagher, his grandfather.
Medic’s full name is also Ludwig Humboldt as A) the Rottenburg MvM hints that he comes from a long line of Mad Doctors. And B) the Devil referring to him as Mr. Ludwig is commonly used to show respect to others, it was popular in the 60’s and 70’s.
All of these are facts and I love how much they tell about the mercenaries in question
UNLISTED SCOUT FACT: as scout is walking back down the stairs to heaven, god says the next time he will die is December 4th, 1987
Bro the first fact somewhat proves that pyro loves fighting and isnt a brainwashed person (?) That fights bc of the googles
Btw the Team Fortress Classic Engineer that the mercs fight in the last comic isn't Engineer's dad. That's just a random guy, who even mentions that he doesn't know how to build sentries.
Mr. Conagher was indeed a part of the TFC team, but he most likely passed away. Meaning that the TF2 Engie is the only Conagher left alive.
You kinda get why Sniper is such a reclusve when u know he is actually a Kiwi, he probably felt super out of the environment of Australium buff people, leading to him adopting a more aloof nature.
I think this is supported by his lines in the comics about how he never "grew australia-shaped chest hair" and preferred to pelt his classmates with rocks from trees instead of fighting hand-to-hand
@@mellow_mallow wait
Saxton Hale isn't the only one to have an Australia-shaped chest hair ?
All Australians does ?
@@mylesmichel9108 yes, presumably the women do as well since we see they also grow the signature mustache all the men grow when exposed to Australium
@@Skibbutz wow
@@mylesmichel9108 another fun fact, exposure to australium doesn't JUST cause Australia shaped chest hair, Engineers father (or grandfather idk which) had Texas shaped chest hair due to exposure
I love the Frontier Engineering bit in the comics, making it seem like the Engineer, who has the Frontier Justice, would obviously own the Company Frontier Engineering, but have it be the mumbling and delusional Pyro instead.
12:58
I like to believe that it just keeps happening. Natural, adopted and now they've stopped trying to kill the Loch Ness Monster
It’s heavily implied in meet the spy, that BOTH Scouts are actually brothers because Red Spy is canonically shown to be Jeremy’s father and he is shown to be in an intimate relationship with Blu scout’s mother
Jeremy IS the BLU Scout. In "A Fate Worse than Chess" we see it is the Red Spy and Blu Scout that Saxton hires for MvM and these two later star in the main comics. In the 4th Comic, Jeremy says to Saxton "You hired me, we're your mercs!". Also there are two hyperlinks in the main comics to A Smissmas Story and A fate worse than chess, in both Scout is BLU. The RED Scout disppeared after the Gravel Wars ended, we actually haven't seen him in a comic since 2011.
@@jackfinn1108 isn’t that red scout in comic 6?
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Afraid not, the scout that was hired after the Gravel Wars is specifically shown to be the Blu Scout. So even though all the mercs wear red coloured clothes, half of them used to be from Blu before the teams merged. The Red Scout disappeared after the Gravel Wars. Comic 1 to 6 Scout is the original Blu Scout.
There aren't any actual teams. There are just 9 characters who sometimes fight for the other teams because they're hired by both of them.
So there is no RED Scout or BLU Scout, just Scout.
This common mistake is so common and it's fucking infuriating.
@@toxic_shr00m In the Poopy Joe update it is specificially stated there are 18 mercenaries. In "Loose Canon" we see an entire team of nine BLU mercs in one panel, if we go by the "there are only 9" mercs idea then RED at that point would have had noone at all. We've seen both the Blu & Red Heavy and Soldier in the same comic in "Meet the Director". The Administrator went to extreme lengths in "WAR" and "Meet the Director" to stop Red and Blu mercs becoming friends and talking to each other. Why bother if they could swap teams at any point. All the evidence from the comics suggests there were indeed 18 mercs until MvM. Further evidence in "Shadow Boxers" where Soldier didn't know Heavy well, owing to the fact they used to fight on different teams. The 9 mercs only came from a cloing fan theory which is a fun read but has no evidence to back it up.
The story of Soldier and Zhana is one of my favorite in TF2 lore. They're super happy together, and I just love when characters in fiction just get to be happy.
Heavy’s face the entire time just said I don’t consent to this
@@Endrgamr262you can tell he's at least happy she is.
I think canonically that there were a lot more mercs than the 9, and that some of them started out on opposite teams, teams got shuffled around and by the end, our 9, the best of the best were the only ones who didn’t die in the gravel war
autobalanced
yeah its very possible that only the ones we see in the mvm trailers + a few are left and the rest just died
@@jackferno7614
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Blu Scout is Jeremy
If i recall, the current lineup is the result of the red and blue teams combining to survive MvM, and both sides lost certain members to ultimately result in 1 member of each class. For example, Blue Scout is Jeremy and Spy was the Red Spy, but upon the team merging they all took up red uniforms since the robots wore blue ones.
Baxcaber did a video analysis of the main Mercs to divine which team each of them is on (according to the rule that the game’s canon supersedes that of the comics), and came up with a list that puts Demoman, Spy and Heavy on Team RED and everyone else on Team BLU.
When talking about which team the character is, it's best to refer to both of them as the same person, because in the comic Unhappy Returns RED scout mentions an event in A Smissmass Story which features the BLU team instead.
In the game, there is a 1/20 chance for bread to spawn when you exit a teleporter as a reference to the animated short expiration date. Depending on the class you're playing as, the type of bread will be different. Scout is a plain loaf, Soldier is canned bread, Pyro is burnt toast, Demoman is cinnamon swirl bread, Heavy is borodinsky bread, Engineer is cornbread, Medic is a pretzel, Sniper is a crumpet, and Spy is a baguette.
It's not related to the lore in any way, but I thought it was interesting enough.
(Edit) It doesn't actually matter what class you're playing.. oops
Also Soldier has a higher chance of spawning bread
Did you know??? If you do nothing but teleport Soldier for 3 days straight, you get to fight *_THE BREAD BOSS??_* It's true, try it!!
Playing classes doesn't actually effect what spawns. It's always a 1/9 chance to spawn any of them.
HAHAHA! I TELEPORTED BREAD!!
@@toxic_shr00m Shounic made a video about it, soldier in specific has a higher chance than the other classes
8:50 Just like heavy said
“Your Father disappears often.”
And scout even replies denying that his father is even alive.
My favourite factoid has to be Medic's deal with the devil. It's so silly but at the same time it serves for some pretty powerful moments in the story, his death and his vengeance in tandem with Heavy just like in the games. It's really smartly written as it makes sense in its own stupidity, and I like bringing it up whenever I can
I thought demoman 12:22 had accidentally super glued his eyepatch on at Halloween and he couldn’t get it off 😂😂😂 thanks for the info
TF2 is a lore rich video game with writers beyond incredible. Seeing love for all of this lore is only appreciated and I would love to see more! Please do!
great video!
i love how despite being relegated to the "comedy relief" role, Soldier is still consistently one of the most competently combatant mercs in the entire series.
Like- make fun of the bucket man all you want, but he's probably necessarily (and unnecessarily) killed more people than any tf2 merc
That and it’s not really insulting when each and every one of them is made for comedic purposes in some form or other.
Especially after his nazi killing spree in World War Two.
I just love how Pyro is almost entirely unknown about, and nobody else knows anything about him except for maybe his family or Miss Pauling, that is if he even has a family, knowing how crazy TF2 story can be. Pyro is definitely my favorite character story wise, due to just everything about him.
Medic probably also knows because of surgery stuff
if they even are a 'him'...
Or her
@@insanitygaming1526 Pyro is male and always has been
@@jackeroni216 Medic has probably fucked around enough to the point where it's no longer recognizeable.
Really enjoyed this video, I'd love another one about the non-playable characters
Commander, The Dog Guard and the famous Civilian
@@JharedPH now meet the "backstory" team
"id love to another one about the nonplayable characters"
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@@mykolas8575 shhhh
@@mykolas8575 Your parents shouldn't have had any children at all
9:16 I still have a question though, Does scout's seven brothers are related to spy as well?
hol up.
thats a damn good question
Maybe maybe not
If I remember correctly only Scout is related to Spy
7:00 pretty accurate in real life
Ever since the Meet the Medic video, whenever a Scout dies by explosive and is rendered into gibs, there is a 1% chance if a dove flying out from where the gibs lay. This is a reference to the very end of Meet the medic where Medic’s pet dove Archimedes trapped itself inside Scout’s chest cavity when he underwent the operation to get the übercharge implant.
Excellent short explanation for literally everyone. Just one thing: Heavy's sister name, the one that Soldier fell in love with, it's read as "Janna", basically. The ZH represents the buzzing sound in the letter J (d-zh-ayy)
I'm fairly certain that the medic had a medical license, but he lost it. My evidence from this was his line in meet the medic where he explains how he lost it.
he stole a man's whole skeleton somehow
@@Shovel________________ I mean in order to steal a skeleton we need to do is make sure the person is still alive so you don't need to patch them back up really doesn't matter how bad of a state they're in as long as you have every bone you've pretty much stolen their skeleton
@@arcticfluffyfoxybut as medic says
"When the patient woke up". That means that medic somehow made a man without a skeleton live.
@@thetroopofthebruhify9058 yeah I already said about that
@@thetroopofthebruhify9058medic just did a bone stealer
5:16 Never heard it pronounced that way, always heard it said like “Conaggur”
My biggest flex is that I’ve played so much tf2 that I didn’t learn anything this video
Some of it could be said to be contentious but there's also all the info we learn on The Heavy in poker night at the inventory. Like him having a degree in russian literature, being schooled as a child assassin and escaping with his family outside of the USSR
For the Russian literature one, it's debated whether it's canon or not, since the game is listed as non-canon.
But the USSR part is true, in the Meet The Director comics, Heavy's father was an anti-revolutionary who got killed and Heavy's family spent at least 6 months in a gulag before breaking out and hiding in the moutains.
The USSR have sent men to look for Heavy's family, only to be killed and buried by the sisters
@@GCHumanGuy Heavy: My entire family was locked into Russian gulags, and my father, who fought for our freedom, was killed. We managed to break out, and now I have to fill the role my father once did and provide for my family.
Also Heavy: Pootis.
The characters featured actually meeting up isn't canon. Doesn't mean the things heavy talks about aren't either.
@@GCHumanGuy One aspect that does support it though is the way the Russian voice actor for Heavy speaks which is a more dignified and refined manner than what you’d expect from a muscular brute.
@@hiddendesire3076 And especially for a professional killer, he knows his way around words.
Favorite Tidbit:
Remember the WAR! update when people pitted the BLU Soldier against the RED Demo to see who would get new items?
For context, the reason they fought is as follows:
The BLU Soldier and RED Demo apparently met outside of work and soon became good friends. The administrator found out about this, and (for reasons unknown) was afraid that they would start talking about work, which would in turn mean they would start talking about her.
She went for the obvious approach: give them each new weapons until one ends the other.
Eventually the pair found out, and became friends again, pretending that soldier won.
Now, how does this fit in to the actual game? Well;
If you don’t know what domination is in TF2, it’s a game mechanic where if you kill someone enough times in a row without them getting a single kill on you, it says in the kill feed that you’re “dominating” them.
When you dominate someone, your character will say a voice line, that will depend on who you’re playing as and who you’re domming is playing as.
If you are a Demo dominating a Soldier, the domination line is something along the lines of: “Take that! but we’re still friends, yeah?”
I love that little hint to their friendship, even after being bribed to kill each-other.
Fun fact: If you are a Red soldier dominating a blu demo, it's an actual mean quote. But if you are a Blu soldier dominating a Red demo, you get the friendly domination lines, due to the fact that the Blu soldier and Red demo are friends.
@@mattburrowes I was unaware the team color had any affect on the selected voice lines
A few corrections from what I've understod from the lore:
1- Medic did have real medical training. But his medical license got revoked after a freak accident and abandoning a patient. ( At least if you trust that the medic is being truthful about his past )
2- Miss Pauling accepted to go on a date with scout after the end of "the expiration date". I'd like to pretend there's hope goddamit.
3- Pyro isn't always in Pyromania. Her Pyromania is probably triggered by fire. As you can see in the comics she sees the world as dull and grey while working as a CEO but still can perceive it as it is.
4-From what I've heard Heavy isn't as obsessed with his gun as it's shown in the meet the team videos but rather likes to pretend like he is so that no one suspect nothing more of him more than a big dumb Brute.
5- Soldier was probably a bit more "sane" prior to the game's events. He was the most affected by the lead poisoning in 2fort.
Edit: a few changes to better reflect how i got these information and how much i have confidence in them as facts.
Did Miss Pauling ever directly reject Scout's advances? Because most of the time she just kind reacts like "huh" when Scout tries to flirt with her.
pyro isn't female
Heavy has PhD in russian literature, and not a "big dumb brute"
He is one of the most sane person in the team,and more educated than scout and demo.
@@fazmade It isn't known for certain if Pyro is Male or Female. The comics even joke about it at some point
@@tavishdegroot9127 demo is still my favorite. compare this story to overwatch which is stereotypical hero nonsense.
"During a brief time where the Medic is dead, and negotiating a deal with the devil..."
In any other franchise, that might warrant more than a bit of an offhand mention, but this is TF2.
I'd really love to see a summary of the side character's backstories, there's some great characters out there.
Actually they use he and she interchangeably in both the meet the team with scout saying "He's not here is she?" And in the comics quite often. And soldier never said he had a suspicion about pyro. It was building up to that but he actually had a suspicion that Emilia Earhart was transporting honey on her last flight.
That's the FNaF Mangle level of screwery I love about the comics towards Pyro's gender. Switching pronouns mid-sentence and using formal titles like Miss and Sir interchangeably are little troll details that are super cool to keep the Pyro's gender a secret. Very interesting.
Unless you saw some translation that says that, scout definitely said, "he's not here is he." Just said it very quickly cause he was panicked.
And in one of Engineer's domination lines aimed at Pyro he calls them "ma'am"
I don't know if it counts as canon (it could be Scout's revival daze-dream), but it does happen in the comics.
After Scout dies, he meets God who is incredibly happy to see him, saying that Scout was "God's gift to women" so they can get laid with him. He gets really mad at mankind when he finds out Scout didn't have sex and actually planned to bring another flood/world disaster, but Scout kind of calmed him down to not blame mankind for being a bunch of dum-dums.
After that he sends Scout back from the dead and giving mankind a second chance (to get laid).
Also Tom Jones gets his neck snapped in Heaven again during this sequence so that's funny.
To that I think that in TF2 universe every persons' heaven is specifically made to suit their personal taste and as such the god simply says whatever pleases Scout the most
@@Ykskolme Either that or it's a hallucination by scout.
why would scout want to kill his own supposed father then?
@@firedolphin7621 Considering he 'hallucinates' things he doesn't know or even see at all in his meeting with the big man, I don't think he was hallucinating... Whether or not that's actually god or just Scout's personal heaven is a different question, but we at least know that the Christian depiction of hell seems to be real.
I'm pretty sure that's why he was revived, so there's a good chance that it's canon
This video made me realise the mercs "names" are just the name of what their role in combat is. Heavy Weapons Guy, Spy, Pyromaniac,Demolition Man, Scout, Medic, Sniper, Engineer, Soldier are just the names of the classes but it just feels like they are their real names. Like, calling Heavy "Mikhail" or Scout "Jeremy" feels ultra cursed.
10:15 I thought it was confirmed in meet the medic that he had a medical license but it was removed after the incident he talks about in that video
IMO Medic has a medical training, but i imagine it diffrent way. Lots of his cosmetics are military related. Like he was a soldier, and he was picked in middle of fight to replace other (dead) medic. Not bc of his training, he just was the only one not afraid to get his hands in stomach of screaming human with his guts nearby. Then he got promoted to official doctor, but without training, just for things he did at the front. They quickly changed mind, cause he started "his" kind of medicine (animal organs, stealing skeletons).
9:39 It is worth noticing that he is very worried about her, he cares about her, you can see that he would refuse any other woman just to have her
For me, it's an interesting procedure done by the authors
I admire them at all for such an unusual arrangement of characters, you can see that each character, even the smallest one is treated so well!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that scout is Gods literal, non-figurative, actual, gift to earth
thats true becuase tom jones is dead there but scout didnt think he died because of what spy did
Pretty sure it was a hallucination on account of Scout lacking a soul (it is also my head canon that the entire reason none of the main 9 can actually die is because they don’t have souls)
@@dcmonnie i mean, medic made a deal with the devil, so im actually unsure about that scout is simply hallucinating + god told him when they would meet again + the angels had to hide tom jones from scout. but then again, we dont know and its just a comic
important note, the term "factoid" has two definitions, one meaning a small or trivial piece of information, which I assume is the intended meaning in this context, whilst the other, original definition refers to an assumption or speculation that is repeated so often that it is treated as fact. At any rate, my favorite fact about one of the mercs is that one of the many causes of Soldier's stupidity is that he is _the only one_ drinking the tap water local to where the teams square off, and as such is affected by lead poisoning. All of the other mercs were warned, and it's likely that Jane just missed the memo
I seem to recall Scout not having drunk the bottled water either
@@slosh7072 doesn't mean he was drinking from the tap... frankly, Scout seems like the type who'd only drink somethin' flavored or alcoholic
@@fiend-off-the-grid Scout probably drank exclusively his secondary slot drinks for hydration
Soldier also has no idea what Ms. Pauling is talking about when she says "That's why we give you guys bottled water" in comic #2 so yeah it's very likely lead poisoning
As a new tf2 player, I always thought this game was just a goofy meme base, but now I know that it's much more than that and I wanna know a lot more about this game and it's story, starting from the tf2 classic
Edit: and if possible a much more thoroughly detailed video about each and every character of the game and the story itself. Like idc about how big it is, even if it's bigger than the whole of one piece itself I'll sit through all of it and watch it
At 8:30 I got an ad with the most intense rock music I ever heard, and I honestly thought it was part of the video considering the intensity of the ‘reveal’
10:16 he literally makes a joke about losing his medical license in the first minute of his official Meet The Team video. For stealing a whole skeleton.
Yea so probably he was actually a doctor once
I can't believe you forgot to mention scout is canonically god's gift to humanity
As expected of course
I find it very interesting that earlier in 2007 up to nearly 2010 or 2011 The Sniper's actual name was Richard Mundy instead of Mick Mundy. That one former name was hidden by Valve by any chance and we cannot confirm that TF2 comics has anything with the name "Richard" within Mick Mundy's family name.
Fun fact: Scout is named after Jerma985, who his VC is a fan of.
My favorite bit of trivia about the deomman is that the only reason he has any accuracy with his weapons is because his sheer alcohol intake gives him double vision so strong that it makes up for his lack of depth perception.
I'd honestly be very interested in learning about the full history of Saxton Hale
He punch stuff
If you want a recommendation, I suggest SquimJim’s history of Saxton Hale video
I would’ve never imagined heavy to be from around Sakhalin
Also something that probably should’ve been mentioned is that Heavy and his family were sent to a gulag, but killed all the guards
10:07 not true, he had a medical license but lost it when he stole a man’s skeleton during surgery
10:04 Please, I got so scared. I thought he was gonna say “MRS.” instead of “Doctor” the second time.
6:53 yay!!! Finally a NZ character!!!
The fact that Jerma looks like Scout is funny enough, but the fact that they're both named Jeremy and are from Massachusetts is such a crazy coincidence
The scout’s name was chosen by the voice actor as a reference to jerma him self
A detail that would be awesome to see in Team Fortress 3 (hypothetically) would be that Red and Blu have their own version of each Class. Not necessarily with different voice lines but MAYBE different voice actors and DEFINITELY different visual traits. While keeping both versions equally as appealing from either side. A difficult task yes. But it would be great!
I agree but I doubt Team Fortress 3 is ever going to happen.
A revival of the TFC cast for BLU Team (like in the comics) would be a good way to go about it.
Thats impossible because valve cant count above 2
@@Star-vh4cs We'll get a vr spinoff Team Fortress:Alyx instead
@@aaaaa___it was called that because alyx was an hl character so... either "Team Fortress: Tavish" or "TF. Industries Desk Job"
I thought medic had training, and specifically lost his license
yes, he did mistake that part
I love how as well as being a remorseless killing machine, heavy is also just a guy who cares about his family.
3:30 that refers to if they are even human, its not about the gender
a note about Soldier's suspicion:
Soldier said that bears are attracted to 2 things. Honey and you-know-what-else. When he yells at Pyro, he was telling it to move because there was honey on the crashed plane, to tease the readers.
Also:
-The TF Classic engineer is the TF2 engineer's father.
-The Medic DID have a license at one point, but he lost it after (most likely) stealing a man's skeleton.
-The Demoman's birth parents gave him up for a while, possibly went to the orphanage, was adopted, indirectly killed his adoptive parents, and then his birth parents took him in again from the orphanage.
-The Heavy has A PhD in Russian Literature.
Also: scout is canonically God's gift to the earth
@@refrigeratorskator hahaha i love this series
@@refrigeratorskator no, he is God's gift to women
15:59 I don't think Ms. Pauling was lookin' at Soldier tbh
Demo and Heavy are surprisingly wholesome when you read the comics.
5:17 BEE CAVE MENTIONED 🗣️🔥💯
The reason blu team was never fleshed out was because it would turn into a phycological horror film
The museum aesthetic and subsequent organization of the information to fit the theme really made the video easy to follow. I found I was subconsciously ready for the next bit of information every time the screen transitioned. I don't know if this qualifies as a compliment but it was gud vid thanc u
I consider it a glowing compliment, thank you kindly for saying so 🥰
15:33 can you blame him
yes
no
Now this has downgraded quickly
16:13 "recently delivered baby baboon"
*wait a damn minute*
Yep, the TFC Heavy gave birth.
@@Crystal_Moon248… thank you for answering my question.
please, make sure I never gain memory again
@@wandomwindow And you're welcome.
@@Crystal_Moon248 it’s been 4 months and you respond in 5 minutes
@@wandomwindow Lol
I got an ad right after "demoman's second dear, loving relationship:" so i guess it's the same great taste of something i already forgot
The one part of the tf2 lore that blows my mind is how the tf classic were actual people. They did not need to connect the two games together BUT THATS SO COOL
A very good round up.
For anyone curious about the mercs, this is the link to hand over.
soldier
are you on weed again
good sir, are you alright?
14:15 Rest in peace Rick Mays, you magnificent bastard
Again, another amazing video. You definitely make some of the best tf2 content out there. Keep it up man.👍
10:11 He did have a medical license at some point though, so does that technically count as training? (As said in the "Meet the Medic" video from Valve, Medic apparently stole a skeleton from a patient, "and that's how I lost my medical license!")
my favourite random fact of the mercs might be that as of the time the Game plays in, Scout canonically has Archimedes, medic's pet dove in His chest which has a Chance of flying Out when a Scout is killed by Explosions
Scout had always really reminded me of Jerma985, the streamer, but I’d mostly only said it as a joke. but hearing scouts name is Jeremy is making me rethink it.
There is official confirmation that Scout was actually named after Jerma
Also FNAF reference???
Also one of my favorite facts of them is that the pyroland isn't entirely how pyro sees the world. Yes the pyro is a bit mentally unstable, having a childlike personality, Being a pyromaniac obsessed with fire, disassociation with the real world, the pyroland itself is because of the goggles on their mask. Because it's an item all classes can wear, making the world look colorful or chearful. Pain sounds turning to laughter, domination and revenge in the kill feed becoming best friends and breaking up, and some maps get a pyroland rework. Now it's not as intense as we see from pyros point of view so it can be believed that they have some form of schiphrinia as well so maybe I was wrong with my initial statement
somebody else mentioned that it depends on their emotional state, which suggests that while the other mercs are happy doing their jobs, pyro is absolutely euphoric.
@@bonnieturner9116 true I've heard that as well, which would explain when they're acting as CEO, everything is dull and gray. And they do love anything to do with fire which is why the world around the fire soldier and Pauling made attracted them so. But yeah, it does depend on the emotional state as much as everything else
Only wanna throw in one more quick fact. Apparently, Soldier and Demoman are best friends, but the admin hated this. So she sent Ms. Pauling to say bad things behind the others back to one another, while also giving them weapons to kill each other with, saying that the offer was made to the other character and they accepted. This is even tho the offer was not made to either character before asking the other. This is shown through the in game voice lines that can sometimes happen when you kill the other character.
Edit: I made a mistake, it is when Dominating the opposing character, not just killing.
i like how medic didnt have any medical training, but can be a perfectly good doctor.