Team Fortress 2/Trivia


 * While otherwise forgettable, in the French dub, Heavy is Ahnold and Sam Fisher, Soldier is Russell Crowe and Sniper is Goku.
 * One class is a known smoker: the Spy. This increases to 5 with some hats (to be exact, the classes are the Soldier, the Demoman, the Sniper, and the Medic). The Pyro carries a lighter, but probably for a different reason.
 * When the Engineer is gibbed with the Gunslinger equipped, his right hand will still be the normal gloved hand.
 * Similarly, if a player wearing an unlockable hat is gibbed, the regular hat gib may still spawn.
 * The Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head and the Saxton Hale Mask have an unspecified bonus. Specifically, they protect against the Horsemann's Scare taunt.
 * The Horseless Headless Horsemann doesn't do damage in the normal way. His attacks are treated as environmental kills, much like getting run-over by a train in other maps or falling down a pit. You can see this if you look at the console after he kills people. This prevents his attacks from being survivable in most normal ways.
 * Image Source for: Awesome Aussie, Back Stab, Battle Discretion Shot, Capture the Flag, Excuse Me While I Multitask, Fire-Breathing Weapon, Flexing Those Non-Biceps, Friendly Sniper, Good Bad Bugs, I Banged Your Mom, I Shall Taunt You, Incredibly Obvious Bug, Losing Your Head, Meatgrinder Surgery, The Medic, Nice Hats/Video Games, Overt Operative, Parody Commercial, Satiating Sandwich, Schematized Prop, Shouting Shooter, Southern-Fried Genius, Talking Weapon, Testosterone Poisoning, Top-Heavy Guy, The Turret Master, Twist Ending, Two-Faced Aside.
 * Inspired the trope images for: Adam Smith Hates Your Guts, Berserker Tears, Friendly Fireproof, Healing Shiv, Moment Killer, Paper-Thin Disguise, Shoot the Medic First, Yeah! Shot.

Trivia Tropes used:
"Chet Failzek, writer: We wanted to make it sound like what Americans in the '60s would have imagined these people sounded like, not what they actually sounded like."
 * Fake Nationality: None of the characters is of the same nationality and region as their voice actor, except maybe the Pyro.

"Scout: Give me back my leg bone! *whack* Don't hit me with it!
 * Fan Nickname:
 * A Demoman wielding his melee weapon and shield is referred to as a "Demoknight" or "Sword and Board". "Targelander" and "Targe Demo" are also considered acceptable parlance for one with the Chargin' Targe and Eyelander. Likewise, a Demoman with a frying pan, Bounty Hat, shutter shades, and targe is called a Demopan.
 * Bitter players have taken to calling the Pyro "W+ M1" (forward movement + attack) due to the (alleged) notion that the only thing you need to do to win as Pyro is charge forward.
 * His axe taunt has been called Guitar Pyro.
 * Pick the Huntsman as your primary and prepare for the barrage of "Cuntsman", "Huntspam", or "Lucksman".
 * Same for "Fail-a-Nature" for Force-a-Nature.
 * The Direct Hit has been called the "Direct Shit" on occasion for its general lack of effectiveness in all but the right hands.
 * In similar fasion, the Loch-and-Load has become the "Lucks-and-Lolz" to some for it's similar directy-hit-only damage style.
 * A Soldier with the Frying Pan and Stainless Pot may be called a Kitchen Warrior.
 * A Pyro with the Gas Jockey's Gear set and Detonator is a Det Jockey, while one with that set and the Flare Gun is a Flare Jockey.
 * An Engineer with the Frontier Justice and Gunslinger is a Revengineer, named for his ability to deploy Mini-Sentries quickly, get some kills, then kill opponents with "revenge crits" after the sentry has been destroyed.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * Scout: Nathan Vetterlein is the infected church guy in Left 4 Dead. This got an Actor Allusion.
 * Soldier: The Soldier is voiced by Rick May, the voice of Wolf, General Pepper, Leon Powalski, and Andross in Star Fox 64.
 * Pyro/Spy: Dennis Bateman also voiced the helicopter pilot who picks up the Survivors at the end of No Mercy; he recorded a set of unused lines for that character which would have added storyline continuity between the missions.
 * Demoman/Heavy: Gary Schwartz also voices the radio voice at the airport runway in Left 4 Dead.
 * Engineer: For the Nintendo players out there, the Engineer is voiced by Grant Goodeve, also known for Star Fox Assault Wolf.
 * When you're playing First Encounter Assault Recon, you'll eventually realize that Harlan Wade is one seriously disturbed Genetic Engineer.
 * Medic: Medic's voice actor also played as Travis Touchdown.
 * As well as Master Miller, Luxord, Samanosuke Akechi, Sean Devlin, Faldio, Navarro, Delita, and a bunch of other roles. See Robin Atkin Downes's page for all of his roles.
 * Sniper: John Patrick Lowrie does Sniper and most of the random male characters in Half-Life 2. And he's married to Ellen McLain, who does the Overwatch, Announcer, and G La DOS (as stated below). Definitely Valve's go-to couple -- one or the other of them has been in every game Valve have put out since HL2.
 * Announcer: One wonders if the same computer powers the Combine overwatch, GLaDOS, and the team loudspeaker announcement system.
 * Put this way: One wonders if the Administrator worked for Cave Johnson as a secretary, and then went crazy after her personality was copied into G La DOS, and to cover things up, Johnson had her "sold" to already crazy brothers Redmond and Blutarch. And then the Combine simply copied her personality when they invaded Earth much later.
 * Official Fan Submitted Content
 * Teasing Creator: Valve on the gender of the Pyro and on the timing/content of future updates.
 * Trope Namer:
 * Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
 * Shoot the Medic First: Well, technically a Penny Arcade comic based on the game, but still.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * The game itself underwent many, many, MANY different iterations before the development team settled on the current gameplay and visual design. (For example, it was originally pitched as a combination FPS/RTS with a realistic art style, with a class specializing in commanding the other units around somehow.)
 * Character design similarly had a lot of changes:
 * The Heavy once had a mullet.
 * The Medic, Engineer, and Spy wore their class badges on armbands.
 * The Scout's apparent age and toughness bounced all over the place.
 * The Demoman was just plain stereotypical Scottish (kilt and all).
 * The Pyro wasn't always The Faceless.
 * The Sniper looked a lot older and crazier.
 * The Soldier looked more like he actually fought in the army.
 * There were a few more ideas for Meet the Medic which didn't make it in due to killing the pacing and/or it not really meshing with The Verse's general aesthetic (BLU Spy's still living severed head is a nod to one of the scrapped ideas). Finally, they settled on THE iconic image (a Medic Über Charging a Heavy) and built the story around that.
 * Meet the Sandvich had many scrapped lines. Some of which are:

Soldier: You cannot hurt me! Pain does not hurt! *crack* I stand corrected!

Scout: He's like a bear! He's like a big, shaved bear that hates people!"