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'''Respawn of the Dead''' is a ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' fanfiction. Written by [[Big Name Fan]] Cat Bountry, it is a complex tale of relationships (both romantic and not), suspense, danger, conspiracy, a liberal dash of humor, and... oh, yeah. ZOMBIES.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: {{spoiler|BLU Medic kept a video record of his experiments, eventually filming his own transformation into a zombie.}}

* [[Apologises a Lot]]: [[Boisterous Bruiser|Surprisingly]], Heavy in the [[Prequel]]. It may just be that he gets a bit shy around Medic, and Medic throwing a boot at him probably didn't help.

“I said, ‘stop apologizing!’” Medic chided. “Really, it’s like you ah a completely different person vhen you have zat gun in your hand.” }}

* [[Ate His Gun]]: {{spoiler|Spy.}}

* [[Battle in the Rain]]: Medic and Soldier.

* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: In the [[Prequel]], Heavy watches Medic sleep.

* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: In the [[Prequel]], {{spoiler|Medic is a lot happier going to sleep next to Heavy when he was drunk than he is waking up next to him hungover.}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Demoman doesn't take it well when he's told about Nessie not existing. Medic hates it when [[Not Using the Zed Word|people use the zed word]], and he hates being called a Nazi even more.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: {{spoiler|Medic, due to his injuries from his fight with Soldier. It's not much of a big deal, though.}}

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]:

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: "YOU WERE LIKE CHILDREN TO ME AND {{spoiler|OLD ANNOUNCER.}} WE WATCHED YOU FIGHT AND LIVE AND TALK AND SHOWER..."

* [[Bridal Carry]]: Heavy tends to carry Medic like this when the latter is badly injured. It's just practical. And also quite sweet.

* {{spoiler|[[Death Faked for You]]: All the surviving characters who have family.}}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting Ice King]]: Medic is this in the [[Prequel]], but several of the team members, particularly Heavy, help draw him out of his shell. He still stays a little frosty, though.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: {{spoiler|Spy, who notes that [[Eagle Land|Americans]] "[deny] yourselves ze pleasures of bozh of ze sexes".}}

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Medic falls headlong over it after {{spoiler|the Team is forced to leave Heavy to his death. Engineer pulls him back.}}

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Heavy, in the prequel. Well, it's not his fault that Medic didn't realize he was almost quoting Greta Garbo word-for-word, but...

“Nyet! You sound like a man!” Heavy was now fumbling to recover from this horrible implication. “Tiny, leetle man, but still man. And I am happy to be fighting vit you, Doktor!” }}

* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: The team's first meeting in the prequel.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Heavy running out of ammo while ubered.

* [[Dropped Glasses]]: It's really a good thing Medic keeps at least two spare pairs.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Soldier. He [[Rocket Jump|Rocket Jumps]] into the zombie horde, blowing most of them up in the process. He then shoots at the rest until he runs out of ammo, bludgeons a few to death with the still-hot shotgun, and ''beats the zombies with [[Grievous Harm with a Body|his own severed leg]]'' while they're ripping out his guts and eating them.}}

* [[Fingore]]: {{spoiler|Soldier is just about to start cutting off Medic's fingers when Heavy has his [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.}}

* [[First Blood]]: {{spoiler|Go, [[Combat Medic|Battle Medic!]]}}

{{spoiler|“Ha!” Sniper laughed, and turned to Demoman, “That’s five bucks up front ya owe me, mate.”}} }}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Soldier's is mentioned in the [[Prequel]]. He seems to be in denial about it.}}

* [[Nakama]]: The RED Team, despite everything. {{spoiler|Including losing almost half their number through the course of the story- three to various sacrifices, one to a cruel betrayal.}}

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: {{spoiler|In the epilogue, Demoman and Sniper almost score with two female versions of the trope.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]: Engineer.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|BLU Scout would have survived if Soldier hadn't fired a rocket at him.}}

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Medic, of course. In the [[Prequel]], he bonds with Demo over Demo's empty eye socket.

“Ye know wot? Yer not so bad,” Demoman said. }}

* [[Noble Bigot]]: Engineer on homosexuality, Medic on race.

* [[Nobody Over 50 Is Gay]]: Medic is at least over forty. Scout certainly seems to think he's pretty much the oldest man in the world.

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]:

* [[No Medication for Me]]: Soldier is very resistant to being medicated for his severe psychosis.

* [[Not So Different]]: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway. Also, Demo was initially a bit homophobic, but Medic was initially a bit racist.

** [[Insistent Terminology]]

* [[No, You]]: Medic bickers with Pyro about ''[[Star Trek]]'' in the [[Prequel]].

“Very funny,” Medic said, moving one of his pawns forward. “Vhere did you learn zat vone, on ze playground?” }}

* {{spoiler|[[Nuclear Option]]}}

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Spy and his masks.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Medic doesn't always swear, [[The Most Interesting Man in the World|but when he does]], it's awesome.

* [[Primal Scene]]: In the [[Prequel]], Scout mentions that this trope has happened to him.

* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]: ...and ends up coming almost true, except sans any type of equine.

* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: Discussed in the [[Prequel]].

* [[Raising the Steaks]]: "The cows, man...fuckin' zombie cows."

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Soldier.}}

* [[Right Through the Wall]]: The rest of the team likes to avoid the area when they hear loud classical music coming from the infirmary; it's Medic's attempt to be considerate about his screaming orgasms.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Discussed. Engineer thinks it's stupid.

* [[Run for the Border]]: {{spoiler|At the end, the surviving members of the RED team end up living in Mexico.}}

* [[Russian Guy Suffers Most]]: {{spoiler|If you ''had'' to be eaten by zombies, you'd probably rather go down fighting than be devoured from behind while trapped in a hole in a fence, wouldn't you? ''Shudder''.}}

** Another would be when Spy confronts a numbered keypad, and finds out the password is "1111", which was also the password in the "Meet The Spy" video.

* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]

'''Sniper''': "Dinnit’ know [[Hidden Depths|ya read Shakespeare]], mate."<br />

'''Demoman''': "[[You Didn't Ask|Ye never asked]]. Le’s go." }}

* [[Team Mom]]: Medic gets annoyed when he feels like he's being expected to take this role. He's not your mom just because he patches up your booboos. Still, he doesn't seem to mind being this to Pyro.

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Medic, in the [[Prequel]], seconds away from being blown up by a rocket.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Sniper and Demoman

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Medic states that he was pressured into joining the Nazi party during the war.

* [[Who Shot JFK?]]: Sniper and Demoman both argue over this.

* [[Worst News Judgment Ever]]: {{spoiler|After an entire town is destroyed by an outbreak of zombieism and the subsequent containment efforts...}}

* [[Your Mom]]: In the [[Prequel]], Pyro retorts to Medic's assertion that ''[[Star Trek]]'' is mindless garbage by [[No, You|saying that Medic is mindless garbage]], and when Medic asks whether he learned that one on the playground, he says he in fact learned it from Medic's mom.

* [[You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses]]: Averted, but the justification is demonstrated twice.