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* [[Affably Evil]]/[[Faux Affably Evil]]: [[Protagonist-Centered Morality|Entirely dependent on whether or not you're on the winning side.]]

* [[Army of Thieves and Whores]]

* [[Badass Crew]]: See [[Band of Brothers]] below.

** [[Badass Bandolier]]: The Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, and Heavy all wear them.

* [[Bald of Awesome]]: The Soldier, Heavy, and Engineer wear their hair ''extremely'' short—so does the Spy, presuming from the tight fit of his balaclava.

* [[Battle Cry]]: Each class has a few, and everyone yells at the beginning of a round.

* [[Because I'm Good At It]]: Most mercenaries who feature in the interview-style "Meet the" videos offer this justification for why they do what they do. Even the "Meet The Spy" video, the first to break the interview format, can be considered an inverted version of this trope.

* [[Dysfunctional Family|Dysfunctional Band of Brothers]]

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Them...]]

* [[Five-Token Band]]: Team Fortress 2 takes this to ridiculous lengths — the classes consist of a crass teenager from Boston, an older and severely unhinged man from the Midwest, a black Scottish cyclops, a burly Russian, a guitar-playing Texan, a German doctor, an Australian bushwhacker, a French secret serviceman, and someone (or... something) in a hazard suit that's anyone's guess. This is [[Invoked Trope|deliberate]], as the wildly differing appearance and voices make it instantly possible to identify which class a player is using.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Heroic Comedic Sociopaths]]

* [[Hired Guns]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: They'll trash-talk any class on the enemy team in their domination lines, but they'll genuinely thank any class on their team with the 'Thanks!' command (or automatic responses, like getting healed by a Medic or teleported by an Engineer).

* [[Laughably Evil]]

* [[Large Ham]]/[[World of Ham]]: Just about everyone in the game, but especially Gary Schwartz, the voice of the Heavy and the Demoman.

* [[Psycho for Hire|Psychos for Hire]]

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]

* [[Rule of Three]]: When set on fire, every class except the Pyro coincidentally has a "Fire, fire, fire!" response.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Not just the Soldier. They all enjoy killing their enemies and making fun of them.

[[File:scout.png|frame| [[Bratty Half-Pint|Not Pictured: Humility]]]]

 

 

{{quote|''"Listenin'? Okay -- [[Muhammad Ali|grass grows, birds fly]], sun shines, and brother, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|I hurt people]]."''<br />

An American, with a [[American Accents|Bronx accent]], but is really from [[Southies|South Boston.]] Wears a team-colored t-shirt, a black messenger bag, cleats, dogtags, and handwraps. Looks and sounds exactly like [[Vince Offer]], and to some extent even has a similar personality. The fourth class to receive new equipment. Uses a scattergun, a pistol, and a bat. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=scout Meet the Scout!]

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: The Scout stole a line from Left 4 Dead's "church guy" as of his update. Obviously, they both share a voice actor.

* [[American Accents]]: Boston, although he sounds like he's from Brooklyn (Which is intended).

** Had all his blood punched out, or so he says, in "Meet the Sandvich". An unused line from the video reveals that he would've been hit with his own legbone as well.

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: He's the youngest of the team, and is a [[Bratty Half-Pint]] taken to the max. Which makes sense, as he's the youngest of eight brothers.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

{{quote|"Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brudda... I hurt people. I'm a force of nature. If you were from where I'm from, you would be fucking dead."}}

{{quote|"I am OWNING you, you fat bald fatty fat...fat-fat!"

"You'll never hit me! You'll never hit my tiny head! It's so tiny, I've got a fricken'... such a tiny little head!" }}

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The Scout trained himself to [[Super Speed|run everywhere]], originally so he could reach fights in time to have some fun before his seven older brothers got there.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Unskilled Scouts die quickly, but skilled ones rack up the bodies and capture points. His playstyle requires quick reflexes, constant movement, and in-depth knowledge of the map, as well as good aim since he has to keep moving while shooting to stay alive. He is hard to control for many veteran FPS players, due to his ludicrous speed.

** On the other hand, [[Doom|truly veteran]] FPS players might get a sense of nostalgia from the quick movement and emphasis on dodging attacks rather than soaking them up.

* [[Eat My Dust]]: One of his lines.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Seems to be fond of his. "Look at me, ma!"

** He also doesn't take kindly when he learns the enemy Spy sleeps with his mom.

* [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]: "Extra! Extra! You're frickin' dead!"

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: The most mobile class, but he only has 125 health (110 when using the Sandman).

* [[Genre Savvy]]: In the 2011 [[You Mean "Xmas"|Smissmas]] comic, Scout recognized that Old Nick trying to kidnap Jack was going to end badly for Nick. Downplayed, since he also thought Jack was a disguised Spy.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: As seen [http://www.teamfortress.com/meetthedirector/?p=5 here].

* [[Handwraps of Awesome]]

* [[Hit and Run Tactics]]

* [[I Have Brothers]]: Rare male example.

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: BONK!

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: In an early trailer, his motto simply reads "Too. Much. Caffeine." Plus, two of his unlockable weapons are energy drinks.

* [[Oh Crap]]: [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/4f/Scout_invinciblenotready03.wav Variations] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/2/26/Scout_invinciblenotready05.wav of] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/3/3b/Scout_invinciblenotready06.wav this] when Crit-A-Cola wears off and if he's being hit while trying to chug Bonk! Atomic Punch when his health is in the red.

* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: In the [http://www.teamfortress.com/bombinomicon/?p=1 2011 Halloween comic], he kneels down to eye level with one of the kids and gives him a tooth that he beat out of someone with his bat.

{{quote|'''Hey''' there, slugger. C'mere. You are gonna '''love''' this. You see this bat? Bam! '''That'''... is a human molar. From some dummy with a big mouth that used to be fulla teeth. It's all yours, little talkin' France.}}

** He is also quick to defend the kids at the mall when Old Nick arrives to kidnap them.

* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: [[There Will Be Blood|"I! EAT! YOUR! SANDVICHES! I EAT 'EM UP!]]

* [[Road Runner PC]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: That Bonk! Atomic Punch makes him quite hyperactive.

* [[Unsound Effect]]: Gets a few in the Mac Update comic. PAINFUL FLEX.

* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: One of his actual lines in the game.

* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: The "Baseball Bill's Sports Shine" is basically Scout without his hat.

 

[[File:soldier.png|frame|[[Full Metal Jacket|Show him your REAL war face!]]]]

Voiced by: Rick May }}

 

 

* [[American Accents]]: Drill Sergeant

* [[Artistic License History]]: If [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/victory/ this post about Abraham Lincoln] is part of his interior monologue.

{{quote|"Sun Tzu said that, and I bet he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it! [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Then he perfected it so that no man could best him in the ring of honor!]] Then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on Earth, then he herded them into a boat and ''beat the crap out of every single one!''}}

* [[Armed Legs]]: The [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Mantreads Mantreads], which enable the Soldier to [[Goomba Stomp]] enemies by falling from heights that would normally hurt him.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: "You are not welcome in MY WORLD!"

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Many of his killing spree voice notes qualify. "Time to inform YOUR NEXT OF KIN!"

{{quote|'''Administrator:''' ''Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! RED Spy is in the base!''

'''Soldier:''' A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE?!

'''Soldier:''' WE NEED TO PROTECT THE BRIEFCASE! }}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He is notably the character with the loosest grip on reality, as evident by him going on a Nazi killing spree and not ending until four years ''after'' World War II ended.

** He apparently has tea parties with cardboard cutout soldiers, and his first reaction upon finding crash-landed alien weapons is to pick them up and go "pew pew" while announcing he's going to join the Space Marines.

* [[Colonel Kilgore]]

* [[Companion Cube]]: His enemies' severed heads.

* [[Death From Above]]: Rocket jumping allows the Soldier to fly to great heights from which he can rain down rockets upon his enemies. The Gunboats greatly reduce the self-damage taken from rocket jumping, allowing Soldiers to perform bombing runs with high frequency, while the Mantreads let him actually ''land on'' enemies to damage them.

* [[Dirty Communists]]: What he thinks of the Heavy.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: '''Rocket jumping.''' A lot of people see it as just a typical advantage that Soldiers and Demos have, but when you can blast all the way across the map in five seconds ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRnw1SV06lk as showcased in the openings to these tutorials]) and even beat out [[Le Parkour|the]] [[Fragile Speedster|Scout]] with enough practice, it becomes clear how useful it really is.

** The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Direct Hit]] rocket launcher is very hard, but rewarding to use: it's one of the few weapons able to one-shot light classes and easily destroy Engineer nests.

** Using the Market Gardener effectively also theoretically falls into this category. If you can get good enough at rocket jumping (which is highly difficult to master in and of itself, particularly airstrafing) and learn all the niche areas of a map, it's possible to drop in on enemies with absolutely no warning and land a [[One-Hit Kill]] on 7 out of 9 classes, then be gone before they can react (or continue mopping them up with your Rocket Launcher).

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Very similar to Sergeant Hartman from [[Full Metal Jacket]], and even more psychotic than his team.

** "You just got dominated, Barble Bapkins!"

** He also seems to understand the relationship between England, Scotland and the UK and uses it to taunt the Demoman. "Scotland is not a real country. You are an Englishman in a dress!"

* [[Eagle Land]]: The Soldier marinates himself with Flavor #2.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: He's tough, but he took three kids trick-or-treating on Halloween, and didn't hesitate to defend the children of Teufort from Old Nick.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Somehow he went from being rejected by every branch of the military, having no training, and being unable to locate Poland on a map to [[One-Man Army|personally killing over 6000 people during and after WW2]].

* [[General Ripper]]

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Can become this with the Equalizer, which gets stronger as he takes damage.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]

{{quote|"You cannot burn me. I am already ablaze with passion '''for war!'''"}}

* [[Irony]]: The Soldier has made his disdain [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/a/a8/Soldier_robot14.wav towards] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/45/Soldier_DominationSoldier05.wav hippies] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/1e/Soldier_robot22.wav and] [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2663 long] [http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/?p=6 hair] (read: anything longer than a buzz cut) clear. There's also a promotional hat in the form of unusual-looking long hair for the Soldier.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Capturing points or intelligence noticeably has him stress in his lines that they are his.

** For people really good at [[Rocket Jump]]ing, he's more of a [[Lightning Bruiser]].

* [[Misery Builds Character]]: As the Soldier says, "Pain is weakness leaving the body!"

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

* [[One-Liner, Name. One-Liner.]]: When the Tin Soldier set is equipped, upon getting a Revenge Kill, the Soldier may say:

{{quote|"Beep boop son, beep boop."}}

{{quote|"''Stand! On! The! Point! '''Numbnuts!'''''"

"''I! Am! On! FIRE!!!''"<ref>After being ignited by the Pyro</ref> }}

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: Sometimes, especially when he's on a kill streak. Also, if he has the Tin Soldier costume set on, he goes "Beep beep boop" and occasionally "Robot noises!" while firing a weapon.

* [[The Scourge of God]]: "If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created ''me''!"

* [[Serious Business]]: Almost to the point of being the team [[Stop Having Fun Guy]].

* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: The Soldier is more eloquent in [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3013 his] [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3019 blog] [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4960 posts] than one might expect from someone who can't spell "heads" right.

* [[Suicide Attack]]: His Kamikaze taunt has him pull the pin on one of the hand grenades on his chest but not throw it, the explosion killing him and [[Taking You with Me|any enemy within a six foot radius]].

** Can be used as a way of circumventing the "No attacking after defeat" mechanic, and an amusing way to inflict a little [[I Surrender, Suckers|post-defeat payback]] if you have good timing and/or are lucky.

* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Captain Dan's army surplus soup. And ribs.

* [[Whip It Good]]: The [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Disciplinary_Action Disciplinary Action.]

 

[[File:pyro.png|frame|[[Top Gear|Some say he used to drum for the Kaiser Chiefs, and that he wears all his clothes backwards. All we know is, he's called The Pyro.]]]]

Race and nationality unknown, as the Pyro dresses in head-to-toe fireproof suit in team color, and a [[The Faceless|face-obscuring gas mask]] which [[The Unintelligible|muffles their voice]]. Since the Pyro's appearance is completely obscured by their suit, the Pyro [[Ambiguous Gender|could actually be a woman]]. Second class to have received new achievements and weapons. Uses a flamethrower, a shotgun, and a fire axe. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=pyro Meet the Pyro]!

 

* [[Air Guitar]]: His melee weapon taunt.

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: The Pyro is either a man, a woman, or a robot.

** In ''[[Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard|Matt Hazard: Blood Bath & Beyond]]'', there is a specific level that has [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to numerous video games, primarily ''TF2''. In the middle of the stage, there are two outhouses in the background, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4yKEKiFHPQ#t=3m45s one for the men, and one for the Pyro].

** Early [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/b/b8/Pyro2.png concept] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/b/b3/Tf2sketches2.png art], however, shows the Pyro as distinctly male.

*** A past update would display random challenges on the title screen for the player to perform with the monicker, "Give him a shot!" referring to the class the challenge was about. When a challenge was issued for the Pyro, the pronoun "Him" could randomly change to "Her" or "It".

* [[An Axe to Grind]]/[[Ax Crazy]]: Depending on whether the person you ask subscribes to the [[Psychopathic Manchild]] interpretation above.

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: The Pyro's compression blast generates a small reflective shield in front of the nozzle.

** Most players overlook the "ambush" aspect of playing a Pyro. A single Pyro, even an inexperienced one, unexpectedly flanking his foes and setting them all ablaze is an effective, if sometimes suicidal tactic. And if coupled with the Axtinguisher, the Pyro becomes a close range assassin, setting unaware foes on fire, and then swiftly whipping out the Axtinguisher to finish them in a single blow. The flame and axtinguish combo is commonly referred to as the "Puff 'n Sting".

** Mastery of the Flare Gun can result in Pyros out shooting Snipers from halfway across the map.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: In [http://www.teamfortress.com/truemeaning/ True Meaning], the Pyro doesn't appear to be too shaken by a rocket that crashed into the Engineer's house, barely missing the two.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Homewrecker Homewrecker.]

* [[The Faceless]]: Nobody knows what's under that mask... yet. (In the character model, the Pyro's head ''is'' the mask.)

* [[Featureless Protagonist]]: Nobody has ever seen what the Pyro looks like under that suit.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Apparently Engineer and Pyro live together. When a rocket crashed into their house he joked that they may have just adopted a super baby. This [[Fridge Brilliance|mirrors their relationship in-game]]; no Engineer is complete without a Pyro.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: Part of the Pyro's miscellaneous item, the "Whiskered Gentleman".

** In terms of counter cycles, the Pyro is mostly used for spy checking but can also completely neutralize enemy Soldiers and Demomen.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Has the highest health/speed balance of all the classes. 100% of baseline speed, with 175 health; only three other classes meet or exceed the Pyro's health level, and they're all slower than Pyro. Couple with the major damage that Pyro can do with the flamethrower (albeit at short range, hence the speed), and you have this.

* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: One of the Pyro's taunts. Is also capable of an [[Cherry Tapping|instant]] [[Lethal Joke Item|kill]] on multiple enemies if you are lucky enough.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]

* [[Mysterious Past]]

* [[Not So Different]]: The Backburner Pyro has to sneak around and punishes enemies from behind. Kind of like a Spy...

* [[Ornamental Weapon]]: Those napalm grenades are apparently just a style statement.

* [[Proud to Be a Geek]]: The Pyro's hats would suggest this, coupled with the game's time period (the 60s) being a hotbed of sci-fi B-movies and [[Silver Age]] comics.

* [[Pyromaniac]]: Of course!

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: While taunting with a melee weapon.

* [[Skill Gate Characters]]: When using the aforementioned [[Leeroy Jenkins|W+ M1]] strategy. A charging Pyro is pretty hard to beat if you can't react fast enough, but it's a minor threat to more skilled/lucky players.

** The "Puff 'n Sting" Axtinguisher combo when airblasting requires enemies to be too disoriented in the split second they're in the air to fire and aim at the Pyro, which rarely works against sufficiently skilled players.

* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: Just about every [[Leeroy Jenkins|W+M1 Pyro]] will be this, constantly chasing down any enemy they see (including other Pyros) until they're a pile of char.

* [[Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Forms a very firm one with Spy and Engineer. A Pyro is the best counter for a Spy, who is the bane of the Engineer, who can easily dispatch the range-challenged Pyro.

** This means when a Pyro has the patience to stay with an Engineer, the security of the Engineer becomes a ''lot'' better. It helps too that the Pyro can neutralize incoming explosives, meaning only enemy Snipers and Heavies pose a threat, under ideal circumstances.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: [[Wild Mass Guessing]] has the Pyro pegged down as this due to the beanie (an old symbol of the tricky little kid), meaning that possibly all hints of the Pyro's femininity are merely his attempts at screwing with the rest of the team.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: Perhaps a comm line in the mask would help...

 

== Defense ==

[[File:demoman.png|frame|[[Drunken Master|HE'S drunk. You don't have an excuse!]]]]

 

{{quote|''"One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch, and [[Stuff Blowing Up|KABLOOEY!!]]"''<br />

Voiced by: Gary Schwartz }}

[[Scary Black Man|Black]] [[Violent Glaswegian|Scottish]] [[Eyepatch of Power|cyclops]]. Characterized as a [[Drunken Master]] and wears bandoliers of grenades on his black vest, worn over a team-colored suit. Apparently considers the Loch Ness Monster his mortal enemy, may have lost an eye in an attempt to slay it, and accidentally killed his first set of adoptive parents. On account of his lack of an eye, and blood heritage, he considers himself something of a [[Last of His Kind]]. He shared his [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/part1/index.htm class update] with the Soldier, much like the Sniper and Spy. The update revealed the Demoman's lifestyle; along with working three jobs, he lives in a mansion in New Mexico with his blind mother. Uses a grenade launcher, a stickybomb launcher, and a bottle. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=demoman Meet the Demoman!]

 

* [[Afro Asskicker]]: When he has his afro.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Ever wonder why the Demoman drinks? [[Fridge Brilliance|1968 was an especially bad year to be a minority.]]

* [[Eye Scream]]: He was said to have lost his eye in an explosives accident. He says himself that he lost it to a wizard who removed it to remove the bragging rights of an evil spirit.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Demo[[Frying Pan of Doom|pan]]

** In-game, the Demoman is a highly versatile class that fares well at close-to-medium range with attacks that deal area of effect damage. By comparison, the Sniper is a highly specialized class that solely focuses on the precise elimination of targets at long-range.

** This even extends to the players, who would much rather have a demoman than a sniper, regardless of player strengths. A team with 4 or more demomen would be considered near-unstoppable, while anywhere more than 1 sniper on anything other than defense usually meant someone would be raging over allchat.

* [[Mad Bomber]]

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: "Oh, that smarts."

* [[Nice Hat]]: His trademark beanie.

* [[Not So Different]]: One of his domination lines toward Snipers is "I hate you bloody campers! EVERYONE bloody hates you!" Yet defensively-minded Demomen tend to lay stickybombs at crucial chokepoints and then sit there, waiting for a ripe opportunity to detonate them.

* [[Trap Master]]

* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: ''"I'm a [[Scary Black Man|black]] [[Violent Glaswegian|Scottish]] [[Eyepatch of Power|cyclops]]! They got more [[Cluster Bleep Bomb|&#%$*@!@&#&!#*$]] than they got the likes of me."''

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]/[[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Despite his seven figure salary, Demoman's mother disapproves that he only works three jobs (his dad had ''twenty-six'' jobs) and hasn't yet lost more than one eye, since every other member of his clan has lost both of their eyes long before him.

* [[Your Mom|Your Wife]]: "Dominated! An' I've been shagging your wife!"

 

[[File:heavy.png|frame|[[Large Ham|An ingredient in his sandvich, honestly...]]]]

 

{{quote|''"Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe... Maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart '''bullet'''."''

Voiced by: Gary Schwartz }}

Interestingly, The Heavy also makes an appearance along with [[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Max]], [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] and [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Tycho]] in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'' by [[Telltale Games]].

 

* [[Acrofatic]]: It's surprisingly easy for him to sneak by an entire team and punch them to death.

* [[Angrish]]: His '''''AAANNGGHHH YAAAA DAH'''''.

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: As of the time of writing, Heavies are considered one of the most dangerous and effective classes when played well, and can rack up high body counts with ease. They're also [[Trigger Happy|very]], [[Boisterous Bruiser|very]], ''[[Large Ham|fun]]'' to play!

** This has led to people who believe that players who use the Heavy a lot lack the skill needed to play other classes and thus have a low opinion of players who frequently use him.

* [[BFG]]

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Big Fancy Cabin, really. We only see how big it is through one photo in "Meet the Director", but it's pretty impressive.

* [[The Big Guy]] / [[The Brute]]: Depends on whether or not he's on your side.

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: "Ho, hohoho, oh that slaps me on the knee!"

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: '''"Is good time to run, cowards!"'''

* [[Cargo Ship]]: [[In-Universe]], according to the Director update comic, as it shows the Heavy as having ''bought a bed'' for his mini-gun, and he sleeps next to it. In game, a dominating enemy Scout will taunt the Heavy about taking Sasha out for a nice steak dinner.

* [[Companion Cube]]: He talks to his Minigun and his Sandvich.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Making the Hound Dog hat official might be a reference to the "hair Heavy", a Heavy with wavy black hair, seen in the Heavy's "Soviet Union" achievement portrait, which itself is a reference to the original concept art of Heavy, which had said hairstyle.

** The Heavy Doorag helps give him a slight resemblance to the original Heavy from ''Team Fortress Classic''. There's an unofficial reskin for it that also gives him the ''TFC'' Heavy's goggles.

{{quote|'''Director''': Your father was a counter-revolutionary. When he was killed, you, your mother, and your sisters were transported to a North Siberian gulag. Paint me the picture.

'''Heavy''': No. This is my gun. I like to shoot this gun. Is all you need to know. }}

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: The Heavy's blurb for "Meet the Heavy" video series spells it out--''"though he speaks simply [...] the Heavy isn't dumb."'' In fact, he's more eloquent in his native Russian than in English. In ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'', he claims to have a PhD in Russian Literature from the Soviet College of Mines, Farms and Science.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: For the things he's passionate about, he's quite knowledgeable. Such as ammo expenses...

* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]: Just to give you an idea, here are some of his achievements: [[Hurricane of Puns|Lenin a Hand, Pushkin the Cart, Gorky Parked, Soviet Block, Supreme Soviet, 0wn the Means of Production, Show Trial, Stalin the Cart, the Communist Mani-fisto,]] the list goes on.

* [[Go-Karting with Bowser|Playing Poker With The Heavy]]: His appearance as a playable character in ''Poker Night at the Inventory'' is rather casual when compared to what he usually does.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVtAFoS0GyM He practiced boxing back in school]. It was either that or herding goats. [[Noodle Incident|He is not good with goats]].

* [[Gun Twirling]]: With the Shotgun and the Family Business.

* [[The Heavy]]: [[Name's the Same|Ironically,]] not always. But a good player can definitely turn him into one.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The Heavy's a college graduate according to Poker Night, with a PH.D in Russian Literature.

* [[Husky Russkie]]

* [[More Dakka]]

* [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: [http://www.teamfortress.com/bombinomicon/?p=3 This comic] for Halloween sees the Heavy giving a child trick-or-treating on his doorstep ''seven thousand dollars'', after he mocked the idea of spending his money on candy for someone like the child and insulted the kid until the kid started crying. He realized he called the child fat when he doesn't like how other people call him that.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Despite appearing fairly erudite in "Meet the Heavy" some of his in-game lines suggest things, especially whenever he starts talking to the Sandvich.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Under no circumstances should you allow that Heavy to eat that Sandvich.

** However, it is also very unwise to try to keep him from it.

* [[Vodka Drunkenski]]: Averted, as ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]'' reveals that he is very sensitive to both alcohol and carbonation and that his favorite drink is Peach Bellini.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Despite being a brawny, bear-like brute, the Heavy has a PhD in classic Russian literature and enjoys Peach Bellini over vodka, [[All There in the Manual|according to]] ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]''.

 

[[File:engineer.png|frame|[[Gadgeteer Genius|He told you not to touch that darn thing.]]]]

 

{{quote|''"Hey look, buddy. I'm an engineer — that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?' because [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy]]. I solve '''practical problems.'''"''<br />

Voiced by: Grant Goodeve }}

American, from Bee Cave, [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]]. Dressed in coveralls of team color, [[Fashionable Asymmetry|one welding glove]], hard hat, and goggles. Exhibits [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] during the "Meet the Engineer" trailer, but this is [[Cutscene Power to the Max|markedly absent from his in-game dialogue]]. Judging by the maniacal laughter he sometimes indulges in (including as one of his taunts), he seems to have a bit of the [[Mad Scientist]] to him as well. [[Southern-Fried Genius|Has]] [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist|11 PhDs]]. Was the last class to receive new weapons. Uses a shotgun, a pistol, a wrench, a building tool and a destroying tool. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=engineer Meet the Engineer!]

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Aside from his voice acting work, Grant Goodeve is best known as a musician. Sometime around his first update, Engineer acquired a guitar.

* [[American Accents]]: Southern.

** The Short Circuit is a [[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Lawrence Barret-style]] device disguised as a more natural-looking gloved hand.

* [[Bald of Awesome]]/[[Bald of Evil]]: When hatless.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Has this to say when Blutarch Mann ''electrocutes him'':

{{quote|[[Dissonant Serenity|"I appreciate that you're my employer,]] [[Affably Evil|and an old man besides...]] [[Precision F-Strike|but if you don't take your goddamn hands off me]] [[Tranquil Fury|I will break you in HALF."]] }}

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: The Widowmaker [[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|DE:HR]] promotional weapon uses up building metal as ammunition. Each hit on target returns metal according to the damage done to the enemy, so a engineer that can aim consistently can literally shoot forever without as much as picking ammo crates. Regardless of the method used to recover used up metal, the Widowmaker has no reload animation nor needs one.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: A photo from his update reveals that his father was the Engineer from ''[[Team Fortress Classic]]''. One of his domination lines towards the Spy is a reference to this.

{{quote|"''That's what my daddy taught me to do to backstabbers.''"}}

** In battle, Engineers can be pretty calm and relaxed just a few feet away from where the rest of their team is getting murdered. But then a spy comes in...

** Also, in [http://www.teamfortress.com/truemeaning/ True Meaning], he stays calm during and in the aftermath of a rocket crash into his living room that barely missed him and the Pyro.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Pretty much Flavor #1, almost an opposite of the Soldier. Nicest of the bunch, but as of the Engineer Update, he has received somewhat [[Jerkass|mean-spirited]] class specific domination lines like the other classes did in theirs.

* [[The Engineer]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Obviously.]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Sentries, dispensers, and teleporters, oh my!

* [[Glass Cannon]]: The Widowmaker has no need to stop to reload, as it uses Engineer's metal supply. However, it also restocks this ammo upon hitting someone, possibly fully refunding the metal cost. With the effect caused by Kritzkrieg, a surprise Engineer holding the Widowmaker theoretically becomes a ''wall of endless gunfire'' for about ten seconds.

* [[Good Ol' Boy]]

* [[Gun Twirling]]: When drawing his pistol and during his taunt when it's in use.

* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: His grandfather Radigan worked for RED and BLU and was also a skilled engineer.

* [[Machine Empathy]]: Engineer is always aware of his deployables' state even without looking at his PDA. And he really, ''really'' cares about them.

* [[More Dakka]]: "Use ''more'' gun."

** His Pistol replacement, The Wrangler, doubles the firing rate of the Sentry Gun. [[Bullet Hell|This includes the time it takes for the rockets to reload on a Level Three]].

** With the Frontier Justice, a sentry-less Engineer can be a very nasty [[Glass Cannon]] (a crit shotgun can deal up to 180 damage per shot, letting him [[One-Hit Kill]] anything weaker than a Soldier, and two hit kill anything weaker than an overhealed Heavy).

** Even more so with a Gunslinger; the most common plan with that is to drop sentries, rack up kills, then use the revenge crits with the Frontier Justice to wreck the enemy team.

*** The shots also penetrate, so essentially you can kill more than one enemy with it equipped. So in a strategic location place a teleporter, sentry, dispenser and have Engie with equipped with Pomson and watch him go to town on the enemy, they ill barely be able to attack you and your allies will have cover as they exit.

* [[The Turret Master]]

* [[Un Evil Laugh]]: He coughs during his Schadenfreude taunt.

* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: The "Texas Slim's Dome Shine" is basically Engineer without his hat.

 

 

== Support ==

[[File:mediiiic.png|frame|[[Deadly Doctor|On second thought, I'll walk it off...]]]]

 

{{quote|''"Now? ''([[Evil Laugh| chuckle]])''... '''[[Deadly Doctor|Let's go practice medicine]]'''."''<br />

Voiced by: [[Robin Atkin Downes]] }}

A [[Herr Doktor|German]] [[Mad Doctor]], implied to hail from the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] era ([http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/medic_front.jpg "raised in Stuttgart, Germany, during an era when the Hippocratic Oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion"]) with team-colored heavy rubber gloves, a [[Badass Labcoat]], and an [[Awesome Backpack]]. The TF2 trading cards describe the Medic as madly curious about human flesh and/or pain and healing to be his investment to see more hurting in the future... not to mention that the healing benefits of the medigun were originally just a side effect of whatever he was ''really'' shooting them with. He was the first class to receive new weapons. Uses a syringe gun, a Medi Gun, and a bonesaw. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=medic#movie Meet the Medic!]

 

* [[Ascended Fanon]]: As a matter of strategy, the Medic spends most of his time behind a Heavy, so fans generally assumed that they're awesome buddies (at the least). This was brought to canon in the "Meet The Medic" video, where the Medic chats affably with the Heavy while performing surgery, then works with him to do all that killing.

** Medic players also have some venom towards Spies (since they're regularly tricked into healing them). This too was referenced, when we see the head of the BLU Spy hooked up to a car battery, begging for death.

* [[Badass Labcoat]] He's the page's image.

* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: When he's with the Heavy (which he ''should'' be if the player is smart) he's the Little Guy.

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Not him, but the Pocket Medic doll in his likeness.

* [[Bow and Sword in Accord]]: With the Australian Christmas update, the Medic can now equip the Crusader's Crossbow and the intimidatingly large Amputator.

* [[Combat Medic]]: His syringe gun and bonesaw never see use as medical tools, and his Medigun is best suited for breakthrough support.

** There also exists such thing as a "battle medic", a player who would rather fight and often refuses to heal. Woe befall any player that actually tries this with him though. Battle Medics are so despised they tend to get votekicked off even if everyone else on the team are dead.

* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: The ÜberCharge system, as revealed in the "Meet the Medic" video.

{{quote|'''Heavy:''' Doctor! Are you sure this will work?

* [[Creepy Good]]: He is a [[Deadly Doctor]] who performs [[Meatgrinder Surgery]], can pull a pretty decent [[Slasher Smile]], and is able to scare even [[Blood Knight|the Heavy]].

* [[Deadly Doctor]]: "Zat was doctor-assisted homicide!"

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: The Ubersaw allows two Medics to infinitely chain Übers one after the other while dishing out large amounts of damage. However, this requires both of them to have excellent communication (to save Übers when there's no enemy and to instantly switch Übers once one runs out), something many people tend to forgo in this game.

* [[Disturbed Doves]]: In his "Meet the Team" video. The Medic keeps several doves as his pets, one of which is named Archimedes.

* [[Dressed to Heal]]: Medic wears a white labcoat and gloves. A patch eventually added a [[Randomly Drops]] mirror for his head and a surgical mask for his face.

** In Beta, he had a stethoscope slung around his neck for [[Goggles Do Nothing|absolutely no reason]]. While he no longer carries it with him it can still be seen in his cubby in the respawn room, and another [[Randomly Drops]] item allows him to put it back around his neck.

* [[Einstein Hair]]: Part of his Halloween 2011 costume.

* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: Fond of insulting people in German.

* [[For Science!]]: Progress sounds like hearts exploding, apparently.

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: The Medic received a pair of goggles called Ze Goggles as a hat option in one update, which he wears on top of his head.

* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: One of the most popular classes with [[Periphery Demographic|fangirls]], despite looking to be in his mid-50s. There's just something about older men...

* [[Healing Factor]]: The Medic [[Gradual Regeneration|regenerates]] health constantly. The Blutsauger reduces it in exchange of draining the life out of stricken enemies. An update introduced the Medieval Medic Set, which boosts the healing rate even further. Specifically, he can heal up to 7 hit points a second - so fast that there's typically no point in running to find health, as by the time you get there you'll have already healed yourself. Coupled with not relying on ammo in normal circumstances, a properly equipped Medic can go indefinitely without any form of external resupply, leaving his allies to fight over ammo drops.

* [[Herr Doktor]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The definition]]. Fellow Medics even say "Thank you, Herr Doctor!" when they're healed.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: He can grant this ability to a teammate for up to eight seconds. Uses it memorably on the Heavy in "Meet the Medic":

{{quote|'''Heavy''': I AM BULLETPROOF!}}

* [[In Love with Your Carnage]]: "Ha ha! Vat a bloodbasz!"

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Definitely invokes this; the only team member to wear tons of white, associated with doves and angelic music and yet probably the most sadistic member of the whole team.

* [[Mad Doctor]]: His "Meet the Team" video displays that the Medic has absolutely nothing even remotely resembling sanity left in his brain - not that the other characters are much better.

* [[The Medic]]

* [[Morality Pet]]: His pet doves, including one called Archimedes. Though Archimedes has a strange habit of hiding inside the people on the operating table.

{{quote|'''Scout, after the operation:''' Oh man, you would not ''believe''...! ''([[Beat]])'' how much this hurts.

{{quote|"Vhen ze patient voke up, his skeleton vas missing, and the doktor vas never heard from again! Ahaha!"}}

* [[Oktoberfest]]: The Kritzkrieg taunt.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Despite being a clear [[Mad Scientist]], "Meet the Medic" surprisingly shows him having a bunch of doves he takes care of. One is named [[Named After Somebody Famous|Archimedes]].

* [[Regenerating Health]]: See Healing Factor.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Based on the "Meet the Medic" video, the Medic would be a ''perfect candidate'' for a B-list horror movie villain.

* [[Stat-O-Vision]]: When you have the [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Solemn_Vow Solemn Vow] equipped, you can see the names and health of your enemies.

{{quote|"Ha ha haaa! Oktoberfest!"}}

* [[Team Pet]]: Archimedes and the other doves. He even tells them his secrets!

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Averted. [[Word of God|Robin Walker]] stated that it would have been too easy and boring to make him a Nazi. Although it may be because a Nazi character wouldn't be allowed in Germany.

* [[Turn Your Head and Cough]]: This is one of the lines that may be spoken when holding a melee weapon, aiming at an enemy player, and choosing the "battle cry" speech.

* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: What he wears underneath the labcoat, as seen in "Meet the Medic".

* [[Worst Aid]]: It's not clear just how much Medic knows about real medicine. If he invented the uber-heart, he is a genius. Still, you wouldn't want to be on his operating table...

 

[[File:sniper.png|frame|[[Cold Sniper|About as close as he'll let you.]]]]

 

{{quote|''"[[Even Evil Has Standards|Professionals have standards]]. [[Affably Evil|Be polite]]. [[One-Hit Kill|Be efficient]]. [[Crazy Prepared|Have a plan to kill everyone you meet]]."''<br />

Voiced by: John Patrick Lowrie }}

An [[Land Down Under|Australian man with a bush hat and khakis]], and shooter glasses. Appears to be [[Parental Abandonment|estranged from his parents to the point his father calls his occupation "crazed gunman"]]. Fancies himself to be something of a [[Cold Sniper]] ("You know who has feelings? Blokes what bludgeon their wife to death wif a golf trophy. Professionals have ''standards''."), but in actuality emotes just as much as any other class (except maybe [[The Faceless]] Pyro). He had to [http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/ share his update with the Spy], which led to an [[Escalating War]] between the [[Foe Yay|two characters]]. (As if Snipers didn't hate Spies enough...) Uses a sniper rifle, an SMG, and a kukri. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=sniper Meet the Sniper!]

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Arrows on Fire]]: Arrows from the Huntsman can be lit with [[Benevolent Architecture|braziers]], the Soldier's Cow Mangler 5000, the Engineer's Pomson 6000, or any of the Pyro's flamethrowers.

* [[Being Personal Isn't Professional]]: His spiel, as shown in his "Meet the Team" video.

* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Lampshaded in "Meet the Sniper" as he flicks a Civilian bobblehead.

"Where'd I get you that time? The liver? The kidney? I'm losing track." }}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: The BLU Snipers in "Meet the Engineer". They get killed on-screen more than any other class (in rather humiliating ways as well) and the ending reveals that the Engineer's [[Stealth Pun|campfire]] is in fact a BLU Sniper's burning corpse. A BLU Sniper is also one of the RED Spy's victims in "Meet the Spy" and in an early concept of "Meet the Medic", a BLU Sniper dies dramatically in the arms of a BLU Soldier, seconds before the two get run over by a train. In "Meet the Pyro," an explosion cause the Blu Sniper to fall out a shack, he crawls, cries for "Help", and finds out too late that the ankle he grabs was the Red Pyro, who blasts him with the flamethrower.

* [[Cold Sniper]]/[[Friendly Sniper]]: [[Zig Zagged Trope|Zigzagged]]; Sniper is cold, cruel, and occasionally outright gleeful at killing his enemies; but he's also friendly towards his teammates and is very down-to-earth compared to the rest of the classes.

* [[Consummate Professional]]: As close as you're gonna get in this game series anyway. It's hard for any character to be overly serious in this series, but the Sniper sure tries his darnedest.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: He keeps in contact with his mother via phone calls and postcards.

** In the "Meet the Director" comic, he's ''very'' pissed off when an anonymous source (actually the Administrator) sends him photos of his parents as a threat.

* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]]: When you're using the [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Machina Machina.]

* [[Fingerless Gloves|Fingerless]] [[Fashionable Asymmetry|Glove]]

* [[Lean and Mean]]: Especially in his domination lines to the Heavy.

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: The Sniper (of both teams, no less) has had a scar across his nose, cheek, and ear ever since "Meet the Spy", where the RED Spy cut the BLU Sniper's face with his knife before [[Death Is Not Permanent|stabbing him in the back with it]].

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]]: In the "Meet the Sniper" video.

{{quote|"Not so smart with your brain ''outside'' your head, are ya?"}}

* [['Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain]]: When equipped with a full Croc-o-Style kit, he cannot be killed by headshots, automatically setting his health to 1. It doesn't matter whether the bullet was charged or how much health he had before.

* [[Verb This]]: Several of his responses after killing a Spy goes along these lines.

{{quote|"Sneak around that, ya phony scoundrel!"}}

* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: The "Ritzy Rick's Hair Fixative" is basically Sniper without his hat.

 

 

[[File:spy.png|frame|[[Three Panel Soul|Totally Not A Spy]]]]

French, with a weird accent that seems to take a drunken tour of most of southern Europe. A [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]. [[Tuxedo and Martini|Upper class]], balaclava mask, flower in lapel, wingtips, [[Smoking Is Cool|omnipresent cigarette]]. [[Shoe Phone|Equipment disguised as other stuff.]] He shared the update with the Sniper, [http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/ and they'd been trying to constantly kill each other over it]. Uses a revolver, an electro-sapper, a knife, a disguise kit, and an invisibility watch. [http://www.tf2.com/classes.php?class=spy Meet the Spy!]

 

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Thinks of himself as very professional and effective. Also a bit of an asshole.

* [[Assassin Outclassin']]: When dominating enemy Spies.

** That said, the Spy is the only class which can counter any other class with impunity, but unless you're actually good at quickswitching weapons and have the reflexes to use them, you'll be lucky to average 1 kill per lifetime, whereas other classes can easily average an upwards of 5 kills per life.

** The Cloak and Dagger takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. Suddenly you have someone who can appear from almost anywhere, nearly silently, and insta-kill any class in the game. Hard to pull off but worth it when it works.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Part of his schtick of being a high class gentleman.

* [[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent]]: [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: The Spy's flawless disguises actually consist of... a paper mask with a face painted on it. The enemy team must be rolling a lot of ones.

** This was done so [[Notice This|friendlies can see it's their own Spy]], [[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent|but enemy Spies can do the same]]. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Presumably the Disguise Kit is a hologram projector of some description]].

* [[Foreign Cuss Word]]: One of the Spy's responses for losing a match or going to sudden death is "Ohhhhh... merde." "Merde" is the French equivalent of the expletive "shit".

* [[French Jerk]]: Quite condescending towards his enemies.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Maybe not ''all'' children, but the BLU Spy seems pretty happy to be giving a kid a piggyback ride in [http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/?p=14 this] newspaper image.

* [[Gratuitous French]]/[[Gratuitous Spanish|Spanish]]/[[Gratuitous Italian|Italian]]

* [[Hand Cannon]]: His [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolvers]]. One fan roughly computed his Ambassador as having a .668 caliber.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The RED Spy seems to be sincerely in love with the BLU Scout's mother, as apparent from his warm smile when he finds a photograph of them holding hands in a parking lot.

** In the 2011 Christmas comic, the BLU Spy has a surprisingly tender conversation with a frightened child and even gives him a piggyback ride later on.

* [[Invisible Jerkass]]

* [[Jerkass]]: More of one than he lets on. When doing particularly well (especially Dominating someone) he tends to drop his suave demeanor and resort to petty name calling and juvenile taunting. He'll also lose his cool if certain things happen to him: one of his responses to Jarate is an amazingly vicious growl of "[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/d/d2/Spy_JarateHit03.wav I HATE YOU]".

* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: The RED Spy with the BLU Scout's mother.

* [[Lean and Mean]]: Just listen to how fond he is of calling Heavies "Fatty" or "Morbidly Obese."

* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: "I do believe I'm on fire" and "I appear to have burst into flames." Interestingly, the third reaction is "Fire, ''fire'', ''FIRE''!"

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: One of his post-domination lines for the Scout is "Here likes the Scout: He ran fast, and died a virgin."

** During Humiliation, all of the classes but two cringe in surrender. Guess [[You Should Know This Already|who else]] merely acts annoyed with their teammates' stupidity?

** We know all the hometowns of all the classes, except the Spy, who from an indeterminate region of France, and the Pyro, who is from an indeterminate... [[The Spook|region]].

* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoking]] this trope is most of the point of the class. Your allies? Could be enemy Spies (yes, even the Spies!). The Spy you just killed? Might not be dead. See something in the corner of your eye? A cloaked Spy, waiting for you to pass so he can stab you in the back.

** The Cloak & Dagger has added a new level of paranoia, though - there could now be a spy ANYWHERE, waiting for a large, confusing battle in which to strike, stab and sap. Meanwhile, the Dead Ringer hardly helps matters - you finally killed that spy that was causing your team no end of misery! Except... maybe you didn't...

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Along with the Scout and Soldier, the Spy defends Teufort's children from getting abducted by Old Nick. He teaches one to defend himself and later even happily lets the boy ride on his shoulders.

* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: One of the Spy's taunts is "Just lay your weapons down and walk away."

** Considering his archrival is the Australian Sniper, this may well be a [[Mad Max|Road Warrior]] [[Shout-Out]].

'''Jack:''' Hm. No.

'''BLU Spy:''' Good. [[You Mean "Xmas"|Merry Smissmas]]. }}

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: His default attitude is a cold, collected professional. When he's dominating someone, he instantly switches to a snorting, juvenile pun-thrower with all the elegance of a 12-year old (which he makes up for by being [[Rule of Funny|screamingly funny]].)

{{quote|"May I borrow your ear piece?" ''(in falsetto)'' 'This is Scout! Rainbows make me cry! Over!'"

"What's the matter? ''Fat'' got your tongue?"

"I'm looking at your X-ray, and I'm afraid ''you suck!''" }}

* [[Spot the Impostor]]: Bad juju awaits if you happen to bump into the person you are disguised as.

** Then again, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8Hs01VJ6v7Y#t=92s not everyone is so quick on the uptake...]

* [[Stock Ninja Weaponry]]: The [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Connivers_kunai Conniver's Kunai.]

* [[Tele Frag]]: Sappers affect both ends of a Teleporter. Find a teleporter entrance, put on a disguise, drop a sapper on the tele, and stand on it. If an Engineer on the other end comes running to fix the exit, and stands too close when he breaks the sapper, you'll instantly teleport into his face and kill him.

* [[Tuxedo and Martini]]: Everyone is dressed appropriately for a warzone, except him.

* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: ...''Fritalianish''?

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

* [[Your Mom]]: The RED Spy is having an affair with the BLU Scout's mom.

 

== [[Non-Player Character]]s ==

The Administrator secretly controls both RED ''and'' BLU (and, by extension, every country on the planet), supporting each team when necessary. To prevent either team from realizing this, she condemns any friendship between RED and BLU. She has an assistant named Miss Pauling and is also an acquaintance of Saxton Hale, allowing her to influence production of new weapons. The Administrator has an affinity for cigarettes and ''Punishment Monthly'' magazine, and occasionally posts on the official ''Team Fortress 2'' blog, usually [[No Fair Cheating|to berate the players for abusing glitches or exploits to gain unlockable items]].

 

* [[Large Ham Announcer]]: But of ''course''.

* [[Art Evolution]]/[[Progressively Prettier]]: Compare her [http://makani.deviantart.com/art/mission-begins-in-five-102983857 original design] with the picture on the far right.

* [[The Baroness]]: Rosa Klebb variety.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4822&p=1 Just read the first paragraph of this blog post].

* [[Iron Lady]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Mission Control]] ([[Mission Control Is Off Its Meds|Is Off Its Meds]]): Type 1, for both opposing teams.

* [[Mysterious Employer]]

* [[Workaholic]]: [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6679 Apparently], her vacation time is one hour per year.

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Plenty of times, usually when your team loses, and hilariously parodied in the WAR! update when she classifies friendship as a personal failure.

 

[[File:misspauling 1939.png|frame|[[Perky Female Minion|The Loyal Assistant]]]]

The Administrator's young and perky assistant, taking care a variety of odd jobs ranging from secretarial duties to carrying out hits and disposing of bodies. Despite having a much more merciful attitude, she still gets her jobs done efficiently.

 

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]/[[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]/[[Only Sane Employee]]: To every member of the team, including the Administrator. In the Australian Christmas/Smissmas update, she desperately tries to stop the Spy from involving a child in a shopping mall massacre. The Spy outright ignores her, and thanks to him, the child singlehandedly takes out the [[Humanoid Abomination]] Old Nick with an icicle to the neck.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: Miss Pauling will lie, turn friend against friend, and put a bullet through her fellow employee's brains, all while maintaining a pleasant demeanor and a (relatively) cool head.

* [[Morality Pet]]: [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4822&p=1 This blog post] suggests she's this to her boss, at least a little.

* [[One Name Only]]

* [[Perky Female Minion]]/[[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Despite breaking friendships and seemingly killing a man, she still comes across as this. [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Tf2winter8.jpg Push her too far, though, and that mask of sweetness will slip.]

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]

 

 

[[File:saxtonhale 7638.png|frame|[[Rated "M" for Manly|Machismo Ho!]]]]

[[Testosterone Poisoning]] personified. Saxton Hale is the rugged Australian CEO of Mann Co., star of the ''Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales'' comic series and an all-around man among men whose favorite pastimes include fighting, drinking and battling with rare and ferocious animals. Identifying features include his exceptional moustache, trademark shirtlessness, rippling muscles, crocodile-tooth lined hat and a patch of chest hair shaped like Australia. Saxton is the latest Hale to take up the reins of Mann Co. since Zepheniah Mann left its ownership to loyal aide and tracker Barnabus Hale in his last will and testament. His boisterous presence is felt in all areas of the company, from the slogan (''"We sell products and get in fights"'') to the customer forms, which include tickboxes for informing product-thieving rivals that he is coming to pummel them to death with his bare hands. His inspiring image also features on numerous Mann Co. catalogs and promotional materials. He is known (and feared) for his belief in handling customer service issues personally, with his official policy being: ''"If you aren't 100% satisfied with our product line, you can take it up with me!"''.

 

* [[Arms Dealer]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: He started off as a small image in an update page, and later became one of the major storyline characters.

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|Remember When You Blew Up The Moon?]]: The Apple employees are quick to apply a certain incident in which the moon gets blown up to Saxton Hale after it gets announced on a newscast.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: He and anyone associated with Mann Co were "nowhere near the launch site [of the rocket piloted by [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Poopy Joe]]], and have '''nothing whatsoever''' to do with the tragic explosion that occurred moments later."

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: He doesn't provide the trope picture for nothing.

 

[[File:blutarchandredmond 9150.jpg|frame|[[Sibling Rivalry|Blutarch (top) and Redmond (bottom)]]]]

 

=== Redmond and Blutarch Mann ===

The two [[Always Identical Twins|twin brothers]] who own RED and BLU, respectively. They are forced into partnership by their father for their constant bickering. Naturally, Blutarch decides to take the land by force by hiring nine mercenaries to perform a land grab; unfortunately, his brother thought the exact same. Thus, a stalemate. Since they could not take the land by force, both decided to simply outlive the other twin, hiring Radigan Conagher to build them a life extending machine.

 

* [[Always Identical Twins]]

* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: Blutarch has died a few times, his life extending machine bringing him back to life every time.

{{quote|'''Blutarch's assistant''': Give him a moment, dear. He's just dead.}}

* [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]: Their suits are [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|red and blue]].

* [[Missing Mom]]

He appears on the map Harvest Event as a ghost to haunt the mercenaries for waging noisy battles over his grave. Any player who gets too close gets stunned for several seconds.

 

* [[Arms Dealer]]

* [[Bedsheet Ghost]]: His undead form on Harvest Event.

* [[Call Forward]]: Tons, not least the 'pit of gravel'.

* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: He deliberately left the otherwise worthless land to both his sons, so they'd fight over it. He probably didn't predict just where this would lead...

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: In his trip to the Americas he apparently contracted over two dozen horrible diseases.

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]

 

[[File:radigan 2415.jpg|frame|[[The Quiet One|"..."]]]]

From this amount of Australium, Radigan created a variety of new inventions. However, the Australium's radiation eventually caused Radigan to become Australian; he went from a regular scientist to a muscular, shirtless, mustached scientist with a robotic left hand and chest hair in the shape of Texas.

 

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Golden Wrench, implied to have been built from Australium.

* [[Carpet of Virility]]: After his transformation into an Australian, he gets one- in the shape of Texas, no less!

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[Viral Transformation]]

 

[[File:horsemann 1095.png|frame|[[Headless Horseman|TF2's Resident Headless Horseman]]]]

The crazed and powerful spirit of Zepheniah's apparent brother Silas Mann, the Horseless Headless Horsemann is the first boss NPC of Team Fortress 2. He is commonly found haunting Mann Manor.

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]: The Horseless Headless Horsemann, and the two items associated with him: the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head and the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker.

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Palette Swap]]: Aside from his entrance, exit, and scaring animations, he's a sized up reskin of the Demoman.

* [[Slasher Smile]]

 

[[File:merasmus 6282.jpg|frame|[[Shmuck Bait|Don't disturb him.]]]]

An old magician and an early contractor of the Demoman, partially responsible for the latter's loss of his eye. He is also currently the Soldier's roommate.

 

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: His existence is as much of a defiance to this trope as a literal example. He actually ''is'' (somewhat) responsible for the Demoman losing his eye, unleashing MONOCULUS! upon the mercenaries, and sending them back in time in Medieval Mode.

** Subtly noted by the BLU Spy as the reason why [[Noodle Incident|Soldier was somehow qualified to be a public defender in a court of law]].

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Apparently an avid collector of these. Hell, he even tells people to not gaze upon his ''broom'', despite the Demoman actually being ''forced'' to do so to do his work (either that or it's a [[Verbal Tic]]).

* [[Black Magic]]

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Monster Roommate]]: To the ''Soldier'' of all people.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: If you mention one of his possessions, he'll reflexively tell you to [[Large Ham|GAZE NOT UPON IT!!]]

 

[[File:monoculus 4312.jpg|frame|[[Incredibly Lame Pun|He had his good eye on ya the whole time!]]]]

The Demoman's disembodied left eye taken from his body and haunted upon opening a forbidden tome at Merasmus the Magician's castle. After Soldier enrages Merasmus, he unleashes the eye upon the team, setting up the events leading to the 2011 Halloween event.

 

* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: His AI is more complex than the Horsemann, that's for sure. He leads his shots, prioritizes threats, and can juggle combo.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Gets really pissed upon taking a critical hit.

** Thanks to an update, defeating him causes him to become stronger when he next spawns.