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** (to Engieneers): '''I broke yer toys, Sorry!''' or '''Tá do mháthair an capall Meiriceánach fiáin!''' (meaning: Your mother is a wild american horse!)

 

 

=== A poison master. ===

* (I know Valve already joked about this, but whatever) K9 was originally part of a small local police department from Florida. A team of scientists had privately asked many departments to allow their dogs to be observed and tested for a special project. K9 was one of the hundreds of dogs screened, and managed to make it to the final stage of the project, which was revealed to be an experiment to create a genetically-enhanced, humanly intelligent superdog for undisclosed purposes. Of the final thirty dogs, he was the only one to survive the process. With his new intelligence, he learned how to speak English and use man-made objects. He has been purchased for use in the war between RED and BLU. Ever since gaining his intelligence, he has shown a serious attitude and never tolerates goofing off. He seems to take great pleasure in not having to hold back against his opponents. He also displays a mistrust of all humans, due to a grudge he has held against his original partner for giving him up.

** Info-

*** Job – Canine Assistance

*** Motto – “The bite is definitely worse than the bark.”

* Character based on attacking strategic enemy choke points and disrupting their flow of battle.

* Is of [[Ragin Cajun|Creole]] descent, and used to lead a street racing ring in New Orleans. Took the job after his car was stolen. [[Nice Guy|A little more pleasant than his teammates, despite his gang-banging past,]] [[Cute and Psycho|but can get VERY eager to kill when the chips are down.]]

*** Appearance wise, the Saboteur is tall and skinny, and wears a button-down shirt, snazzy vest and blue jeans . Slightly sunburned complexion, sports a goatee and grey eyes.

* Possible taunts:

 

=== The (New) Civilian; The Courier ===

 

=== The Alien ===

 

== Future Upgrades (in alphabetical order of class) ==

* Courtesy of ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'', and some troper further down the page: Stage Four tacks on the MPBM, Stage Five the TLS, and Stage Six gives the ECM pod so that only melee attacks or an accurate frontal shot at the newly-added air intake will bring the Sentry down... [[Oh Crap]].

** The shotgun shown in the video for the [http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/ Mac update].

*** Confirmed!

* The revivification machine originally built for Redmond and Blutarch. With his grandfather's blueprints, he will make his team MONSTERS!!! And this will prolly bolster a friendship between Medic and Engi.

** That already exists; it's [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist|respawn]].

* A portable dispensor placed on his back.

 

* A new set of gloves that enables either [[Fastball Special]] (if used on allies) or [[Grievous Harm with a Body]] (if used on enemies). The Heavy can easily lift and toss any of his teammates (or enemy classes, except a fellow Heavy, obviously), and the lighter classes like the Scout or the Pyro would make excellent projectiles when trying to capture or defend a point, and enemy ragdolls would make for excellent crowd-clearers.

* A Blog Gun.

* A tricycle.

 

* [[Chainsaw Good|A chainsaw]]. Given that two of his three current melee weapons are axes, a chainsaw is a logical progression. Also, he just happens to be [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|a masked psychopathic manchild]].

* A [[Flaming Sword|sword that is on fire]].

 

=== Sniper ===

* A golf trophy.

* A sniper rifle that doesn't need to be reloaded after each shot. Of course, it does less damage than the stock one.

* A fishing rod. He can use it to hook an enemy's weapon and mess with their aim.

 

* An Alamo-themed set. It would include a colonial-style musket that would deal more damage at the cost of a longer reload time. The new melee weapon would be Bowie knife, which would swing much faster than the stock shovel, but deal less damage. And it would also include, of course, a coonskin cap. Could be called "Cream of the Crocket", or something to that effect.

** Most appropriate, considering that the term "crocket" is TF2 lingo for a ''crit''ical-hit ''rocket''. Throw in a primary weapon with some special capacity to inflict crits, and this set looks good to go!

** The only appropriate primary I could think of for the set is a slightly downsized Davy Crockett missile with a handle. Would deal less damage and reload slower with the benefit of getting criticals more frequently. Could be called "Maybe Crocket".

 

* A mini-fridge equip that replaces the primary weapon and appears as a modified version of the Medic's backpack. As in "Meet the Medic", this item will allow him to snatch up a body part of a [[Ludicrous Gibs|gibbed enemy]] and store it away, extending the respawn timer for the affected opponent and keeping them out of the fray. Also encourages players holding one to partner with offense classes other than Heavies, who have no explosive weapons. Movement speed is decreased while holding an enemy "captive".

* A medigun that can be used to uber sentries, but you can't uber players with it.

 

* A skill or equip that allows imitating the Announcer's voice, with a set of clips relevant to the mode of play. Balance will be kept by using two rings of distance, where the Spy's imitation will sound exactly like the announcer within a short range, will be quieter or slightly distorted in a secondary range, and will not be audible outside of the secondary range. Replaces or [[Game Breaker|is available as an upgrade to]] the Disguise Kit, and can be used with the Invisi-Watch for maximum effect.

* A Flamethrower Lighter and/or an Underwater Hypnopen.

* A zoot suit

 

* Female character models. (Yeah, right. But this is WMG.)

** Arguably confirmed in a Pyro-specific way, what with the UI listing Pyro variously as him and her.

{{quote|'''Zepheniah Mann's will:''' To my layabout, brain defective sons, Blutarch and Redmond, I leave the greatest curse of all--partnership. ''What land I have purchased in this new world is to be split evenly between you both.'' You have wasted your lives bickering over ''nothing'', and so I leave you dimwits something of consequence over which to feud. }}

Later in the comic, Blutarch says this to the BLU Engineer ( {{spoiler|Dell Conagher}}):

If Zepheniah Mann managed to will himself as an immortal ghost to haunt those who desecrate his grave, what if he ''also'' managed to will Blutarch and Redmond a curse that, when both of them die, they will be sent to [[The Nothing After Death]]? They "wasted their lives fighting over ''[[Ironic Echo|nothing]],'' so the only ''something'' they have, in this life or the next, is what Zepheniah Mann has willed to them ...

* Consider this... what if Zepheniah ''didn't'' purchase any land in America? Or his use of "new world" was a self-aware reference to a different sort of [[Ironic Hell|real estate]]?

 

 

 

== The Heavy is… ==

* ''...the grandfather of [[Left 4 Dead|Ellis]] .'' The Scout got to know Engineer's daughter and after finishing his job as a mercenary he settled down in Texas to be with her. His son moved to Georgia, where he met Ellis's mother. Besides, the family resemblance is pretty obvious.

** Alternatively, he could be Nick's father.

* ''...the son or nephew of [[Inglourious Basterds|Donnie Donowitz]].'' Bonus WMG: Combining this with [[Word of God|Word of Tarantino]] results in Inglourious Basterds, Team Fortress 2, and True Romance occuring in the same universe.

* ''...the father of [[Batman: The Animated Series|Harley Quinn]].'' Scout works as a mercenary, limiting his time with his own children. Scout and Scout Baby Mama divorce, and she takes the kids to Brooklyn. One of these children is Harley. Harley longs for paternal approval, which is ultimately the seed of her submissive nature in most of her relationships, especially her romantic ones (The Joker, Poison Ivy).

* ''The child of [[Courage the Cowardly Dog|Eustace and Muriel]]. They live in the middle of Nowhere and [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]]. Eustace also seems the vindictive type who just harps on what a crazed gunman his son is.

** They live in the middle of Nowhere, ''Kansas,'' but many Australians have Scottish Ancestry... so... [http://www.teamfortress.com/meetthedirector/?p=6 Huh.] Maybe Muriel has an aunt?

*** ''Relatedly: Sniper is the inventor of Jarate.'' Saxton’s too much of a fisticuffs kinda guy to have come up with this idea, but Sniper demonstrated it… on him… ''Saxton Hale : The events of this comic actually happened… [[From a Certain Point of View|to me!]]'' then sold him the rights in exchange for a 75% cut of the profits and an endorsement deal.

** ''Alternately, The Sniper '''is''' Saxton Hale.'' When “Saxton” says that the events of the Jarate comic actually happened to him, he’s telling the unvarnished truth. Sniper is, indeed, a descendant of Barnabas Hale and the CEO of MannCo, but he neither wanted the drudgery nor the direct responsibility of running such a company, when self-employment seemed far more adventurous and lucrative. Sniper, by nature reclusive, created the Saxton Hale persona ( [[Author Avatar|perhaps even writing the comics himself]] ), as a company figurehead and a sly commentary on his home country. Mister Reddy and Mister Bidwell are not his butlers, but rather, the acting CEOs of MannCo, though they defer any particularly pressing business to Sniper. Though the events of the comics in which Saxton Hale appears are largely fictional in-universe, the call from Miss Pauling was at least partially real, save that Miss Pauling and Helen are likely unaware that “Saxton” is actually Sniper… of course, given that [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Saxton_fire.jpg a child bearing a striking resemblance to Miss Pauling appears on the cover of Girl’s Adventure], Pauling may be Sniper’s trusted [[The Mole|Mole]], his daughter, or both. This also means that the rumors “Saxton” spreads about Helen’s relationship with him are born out of either a raging crush on her, a desire to piss off his boss, [[Real Life Relative|a tiny grain of truth…]] or all three at once.

== The Spy is.... ==

* ''...“A [[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent]] …”'' [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Spy2.jpg In his old trading card bio], it says that the Spy “knows the byzantine details of who really runs things.” This may still hold true. He could be working as a double-agent for both RED and BLU while reporting to the Administrator… (he may have been the man who delivered her message to the soldier) but none of those could be where his true allegiance lies… so, just who is the Spy?

* ''A descendant of the unseen man?''

* ''The head of SpyTech Industries?''

** [[Not So Different|The purse is Pyro's attempt at a disguise, then?]]

* ''A woman.'' It would be damn near impossible for a woman to be hired for an other-wise all male mercenary team in the 1950's and '60's, no matter how good she was at Spy-ness. The obvious response to being scorned in that fashion would be to invent a new male persona, get hired, and then spite your employer by never really being on their side.

* ''involved in the project that created [[Hitman|Agent 47]].'' He's very likely bald, given the snug fit of his balaclava, he wears extremely well-tailored suits to the battlefield, and he assassinates people via infiltration and disguises. Sounds like anybody else we know?

* ''A descendant of [[Assassin's Creed|Altair]]'' Stealthiness, assassination skills, all that jazz.

* ''[[Diabolik]]'s teacher.''

* ''Ocelot'' * Revolver – check,

 

== The Medic is… ==

** Possibly supporting the Jewish theory: Listen to "Archimedes" and tell me there isn't a Klesmer/Yiddish vibe going on.

* A grown-up Klaus Baudelaire from [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]], which also factors in [[Break the Cutie]] and [[Ambiguously Jewish]]. He's short-tempered because of his bad childhood. Think about it. He became a doctor because he's used to protecting his two siblings, both are very intelligent, Klaus is a German name, and he looks a lot like a young Medic.

** Probably Jossed in ''Meet The Medic''. He does have a doctorate degree, but his license to practice medicine was revoked.

* ''[[Left 4 Dead|Keith's]] [[Running Gag|grandfather]]''. How can he survive everything that happens to him? Hereditary healing factor, of course!

** ''Related Theory: Medic is Tenenbaum's brother.'' He lost track of his sister in the camps, and never saw her again. He had a medical talent and scientific curiosity to match hers, but as he grew more tortured and twisted by what he was forced to do, he grew to resent the altruistic behavior he remembered of her, becoming increasingly certain that she had been killed because of her naiveté … [[Stockholm Syndrome|gradually, he began to suspect that]] [[Moral Event Horizon|his captors had the right idea….]]

* ''Gay.'' Remember, the Nazi's most famous racial prejudice was against Jews, but they also sent gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, and ''homosexuals'' to concentration camps. Thus, why he was never a Nazi, as he agreed with their views on human life, but not on gay rights.

** Building off of that, he could have ''wanted'' to join the Nazis, but realized that their idea of a "master race" was stupid. His backstory in Meet the Medic will end on the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] note of the lesson that he learned in his experiences: ''[[An Aesop|No-one deserves to be dissected for their religion, race, or ethnicity. People may be different on the outside, but they're all the same on the inside.]] [[Broken Aesop|Believe me, I've looked.]]''

*** ''Alternately, Meet the Medic will feature the Medic playing a Violin while flashing to various things the medic has done.'' Bonus points for having the medic playing the Team Fortress 2 theme with himself making a commentary on his job.

** Unfortunately, as a side effect of working with him for some time, along with the possibility of being exposed to Element 115, Richtofen's own erotic (and insane) behavior completely broke the Medic's mental well-being, and turned him into the [[Mad Doctor]] we see now. They both obsess in causing pain, dislike their allies, and they're both more than capable of combat. Funny how they both ended up fighting alongside a Russian and a psychotic American soldier. Though.. how the world managed to quickly recover from the zombie infestation as though nothing happened is anyone's guess.

* Never joined the nazis, nor was he ever sent to the prison camps. Despite being a jewish doctor, most of the people in his village knew his as "that crazy bird man". He made sure the people of his village knew about his experiments with non-bird animals so they would be frightened away. He also trained his birds to attack villagers he didn't like, and bring him their organs for further experimentation. He did run a small clinic, but the people would only go to him as a last resort due to his unorthodox methods and the fact he let the birds in the operating room. When WWII rolled around, Medic was the only jew left in town. Some Nazis came to his house and demanded that he care of an injured comrade and they wouldn't send him to the camps. Not trusting them, he packed up all his birds and tools, stole the patient's skeleton as a "trophy" and got the hell out of dodge.

* Was never a "human" doctor to begin with. He's a veterinarian. With a specialty in birds, but he also dabbled with other animals. When so many doctors were shipped off to treat all the army injuries (Medic got out of it by proving to be deaf in one ear, or some other minor injury), Medic was left to take care of animals and people.

* ''Formerly employed by [[Captain America (film)|HYDRA]].'' After all, the Nazis could be so tediously dogmatic about their political ideology, often to the detriment of scientific progress.

* ''Originally from [[East Germany]], and a practitioner of [[Soviet Superscience]].'' Why else would The Heavy, who's probably old enough to have seen the results of Nazi occupation firsthand, be prepared to work with him?

* ''[[South Park|Kenny]] all grown up.'' He speaks with muffled unintelligible dialogue which is often hilarious when heard, he gets killed constantly, and "setting people on fire" is totally a job Kenny is crazy enough to take. Also because someone had to say it.

* ''Abraham Lincoln.'' The Previous Pyro, a life –extender machine is known to have been in working order the day he died [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/victory/ in a tragic rocket jumping accident], the sort of incident where, if one could survive it; they would still be terribly scarred and maimed from their burns. [http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/ Radigan is documented as having been working on a machine to save his life.] Pyro’s feminine behavior is, as such, easily explained: Since Lincoln’s actual real-life death, rumors have swirled about his sexual orientation…

** The Pyro being Adam [[Nice Hat|explains the love for hats.]]

** As of the episode "Fire and Ice," Jamie has constructed his own homemade flamethrower, and both of them have been in fire retardant suits that obscure their individual identities, but allow for gestures, pantomiming, and in Adam's case, gratuitous dancing.

* ''Hanz from [[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' He's so cold. But he's warm when other people burn. :3

* ''[[Order of the Stick|Vaarsuvius.]]'' They're both ambiguously-gendered people fond of explosions and fire. That's all I got.

** He keeps everything about himself a secret in order to to screw with people, hide as another masked character in an entirely different fictional work if need be, and [[Magnificent Bastard|prevent anyone from]] ever creating completely accurate Rule 34 of him.

* ''incapable of feeling pain properly.'' This struck me while I was in an idle server. I noticed the Pyro's flinch when taking damage was far less noticable than most others, and simply a repositioning of the elbows. Then I realized the Pyro's grunts don't even play that often when under heavy fire. This is why most classes are afraid of it. It's a ground troop that defuses most Spy efforts, can decimate ambush forces, plow through most defenses, overall ruin an organized plan, and it won't even so much as wince when shot most of the time… ''and he’s probably covered in third degree burns''

* ''Pyro has no immune system.'' You just never see hir running to a hospital to be put on masses of antibiotics and [[Applied Phlebotinum|antivirals]] after the suit is damaged because none of the battles last more than a couple of hours.

* ''Pyro is a [[Mass Effect|Quarian]].'' Building on the "no immune system" theory above, it is entirely possible that the Pyro has a weak immune system because he isn't even from this planet. Unfortunately, some aspect of his <s> arrival</s> crash-landing damaged the synthesizer that most Quarians seem to use in order to be heard past their masks, leaving him unintelligible, if he's even capable of speaking English. He's playing the in order to get enough to repair his craft and return to his flotilla.

* ''The Pyro is [[Left 4 Dead|Keith]].'' Like Keith, the Pyro has extensive experience in starting fires and making them much worse. He spends all his time in a full-body suit, which is an excellent idea if you're in the habit of recieving third-degree burns over 95% of your body. The Pyro also seems to be relatively unfazed by life in a constant warzone, a trait you'd expect in a man who's cheated slapstick death numerous times and survived being bombed by the army. Given his previous work history, being a flamethrower-wielding mercenary is probably the closest Keith's even been to having a steady paycheck.

* ''The Pyro is [[Mr. Bean]]'' Try to imagine the how the Pyro would handle everyday life. Would it look anything like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoI57NeMwCc this]?

* '' Scout’s Mom.''

** And the Announcer is Scout's Gran. It works.

*** It's an interesting theory, although why Dell would program a robot to have a habit of wearing women's clothing just raises further questions, unless he's still working out the kinks in the AI.

*** Maybe brain uploading played a role.

** ''Relatedly:'' The Pyro may have decided to install a voice filter on the mask because she knows that otherwise all the guys on both teams would constantly be jokingly hitting on her and it would get annoying. (Oh yeah, plus the all-male mercenary group in '68 thing below, thank you).

*** Alternatively: the Pyro is [[The Venture Brothers|Doctor Girlfriend]].

* ''[[Hellsing|a ghoul]] created by the Announcer.'' Ghouls can't speak and have limited intelligence, but can operate weapons. The Announcer never goes outside (notice how many of the stages are set during the day?) The rubber mask is so the Pyro's teammates don't notice that he's an undead monstrosity and stop healing him. The Announcer turns all of the casualties she can into more Pyros and eventually will be able to attack Redmond and Blutarch, who have been turning the others into freaks with a taste for bloodshed.

** Well how many does she need? Everyone's died at least a million times already!

** Then how does one explain the suit and mask hanging in the locker room?

*** Backups.

** Alternately, Pyro's a [[Recursive Crossdressing|woman playing up her feminine gestures]] to tease people into [[I Know You Know I Know|believing there is a possibility]] she's a woman when they wouldn't have [[Magnificent Bastard|even considered the thought beforehand.]]

* ''…an infected.'' Or a zombie, if you prefer. The muffled grunting, the shambling gait, the complete lack of any self-preservation? (S)he'd be gnawing on brains right now, if not for that pesky gas mask ([[Our Zombies Are Different|or not]]).

* ''a highly intelligent jerk.'' Listen to clips of his voice after reading the probable translations on <nowiki>http://wiki.teamfortress.com/</nowiki>. You'll notice that he sounds extremely condescending all of the time, and everything he says that's directed at other people is basically * instruction* * insult* . And not like the Soldier's "GET ON THE POINT, NUMBNUTS". The Soldier sounds angry, but the Pyro just sounds like he's tired of having to explain everything to people.

* ''of Asian descent'' His voice clips seem to put emphasis on all the wrong words, kind of like a badly dubbed Japanese movie. Considering the horrible accents of the other foreign characters, this might not be too far-fetched. It might also explain why others refer to him as a "freak" - relationships with Asia weren't exactly nice at the time, what with Vietnam and Communist China and such, so people will go out of their way to make fun of/taunt/abuse the poor guy. That would explain the Spy's hatred for him (before turning communist Vietnam was a French colony)

* Deadpool. Marvel once did a one-off story which put forward the idea of an alternate, [[WW 2]] version of Deadpool. A soldier in [[WW 1]], he was forced to wear a gas mask at all times due to smoking his lungs to hell and back, and his mind was shattered by lack of human contact and spending every penny on budget rubber-hose cartoons. At the height of the Great Depression, he was tricked by German spies into undergoing a flawed version of the operation that made Captain America. It gave him the strength and speed of Cap and a healing factor, but it set him on fire and the scars were so bad the researchers decided to never try the operation again. Called "Veapon X" (with the X stylized to resemble a swatstika), Deadpool was deployed in the field but had a change of heart and decided to go AWOL for the rest of the war. He was never heard from again.

* A former Valve employee. Some habits from his old job stuck, and without a userbase to troll, he can't resist messing with his teammates' heads.

* A clone of the original Pyro, Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, due to the Pyro being blown to chunky red gibs repeatedly, the cloning agency had to cut a few corners. Namely, the Pyro is insane (the cloners don't have the time or money to make each clone a rational human being), the Pyro has no set gender (usually male, due to Lincoln's DNA, but sometimes something gets flipped and the clone is female), the Pyro has a rapidly decaying outer skin (he/she/it can survive for a few hours outside the suit before he/she/it starts to break down. Again, not enough time or money to make each clone stable.)

* Pyro is [[The Ghost|Medic's wife]]. Er...them possibly sharing a gender, Heavies dominating them often and Pyros being good ubercharge candidates are pretty much all I got here.

* ''Jessie and James of Team Rocket.'' They botched a mission even worse than usual, and Meowth was killed as a result. Neither could take the loss of their friend and they both snapped, Jessie moreso than James (meaning, James became a sociopath, and Jessie went ''absolutely batshit insane''.) Burning everything in sight is their way of coping with their failure and loss. W + M1 Pyros are Jessie, and more savvy Pyros are James. They also take turns on the battlefield; that's why the Pyro is referred to as "he" and "she".

* The engineer's daughter. It would explain why the two work so well together, and why Engie was reading Pyro a story about Australian Christmas in the Christmas 2011 comic.

* The Pyro is covered in severe burns, perhaps [[It Amused Me|cheerfully self-inflicted]]. If they destroyed his nerve endings this may overlap with the above 'Pyro feels less/no pain' theory above.

* Related to [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]]. He wears the suit to avoid being set on fire like Freddy, and if Scout is any indication he also likes killing teenagers.

* Someone who hates sandviches [[Reality Subtext|for no reason]].

* Pyro is [[The Chessmaster|actually behind everything]], and [[Obfuscating Stupidity|pretends to be a ditz]] so [[Manipulative Bastard|no one suspects him.]]

* Pyro has a supreme ego complex. Note- he's not 'The Pyrotechnician'. He's just The Pyro. [[I Am the Noun|He is fire itself.]]

* [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]], who is masked and once used [[Improvised Weapon|a flamethrower]]. Dr. Manhattan teleported him to this universe at the end of ''Watchmen'', (feeling this time period would be most familiar to him), and he is acting far more feminine than is usual to compensate for his previous misogyny.

 

== .... A [[Time Lord]] ==

 

== The Pyro's real name will be revealed in a comic. ==

It will be [[Tomboyish Name|unisex]] or [[Line-of-Sight Name|obviously fake]], because Valve are trolls and want to keep us guessing.

 

 

== The Pyro is a ''literal'' '[[Frankenstein's Monster|Frankenstein of a Man]]'. ==

Using the third life extending device. He uses a flamethrower to protect his grandson from spies, and puts on a flamboyant persona so Dell won't suspect who he is.

 

* Or Pyro is Pinkie Pie off her meds.

* RED Pyro is Discord and BLU Pyro is Nightmare Moon!

* Screwball. She even has the [[Nice Hat|propeller beanie]]!

* It will be another interview film. But Pyro being [[The Unintelligible|Pyro]], it will [[Even the Subtitler Is Stumped|fail hilariously.]]

* Pyro will find Spy via [[Spotting the Thread|awesome detective skills]], a cutscene version of spy-checking. BLU Spy ''is'' capable of being [[Boom! Headshot!|harmed by his own teammates]] in Meet the Spy, so maybe they’ll want to keep it consistent in-universe.

 

== The Pyro is [[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare|Makarov]]in disguise. ==

 

== Pyro's appearance in [[Killing Floor]] was canon ==

 

== Wait a minute... Scout's Mom... ==

* She could have had Multiples on one or more occasions. It's a lot easier to reach eight kids if you pop out three in one go. Maybe Scout was the only one of her Children who DIDN'T have a twin.

* Of course he has a twin, there ARE two scouts aren't there? The third one is an intellectual in college, since his brothers picked on him in their youth since he was more interested in reading than baseball.

== In Meet the Spy, the BLU Spy knew the Scout was the disguised RED Spy all along. ==

The BLU Spy knows that he's on the losing team. He decides that, in order to send a message, he has to defeat his counterpart in a particularly embarrassing fashion. To start, he out-Spied the Spy, catching him mid-coitus. The woman wasn't actually the Scout's mom (does she look like someone who's had 8 kids?), but the BLU Spy showed the pictures to the RED Spy in order to let him know that he had been outplayed. The BLU Spy claimed that she was the Scout's mom to psyche him out without blowing his cover (the BLU Spy wanted to watch his doppleganger squirm for a bit). The recounting of the RED Spy's exploits was just to toy with him. Unfortunately, the BLU Soldier intervened at the last second, just before he was ousted.

** Then how were the Soldier and the Red Spy seen together?

** Simple: there was ''another'' RED Spy, this one cloaked, in the room at the time. He knew that his buddy had infiltrated the intelligence room disguised as a BLU, but [[Poor Communication Kills|he didn't know which class]]. When he saw the Scout sneaking up on the other two, he made the same conclusion that the viewers did, decloaked, backstabbed the Heavy, and was about to do the same to the not!Soldier. At this point, however, the Scout (who never considered the fact that there might be multiple RED Spies) decided that he had been wrong in his appraisal of the soldier, and unleashed an almighty batting on the second RED Spy. The ''first'' RED Spy, the one disguised as a Soldier, displayed absolutely no gratitude and promptly backstabbed the Scout, leaving with the Intelligence.

 

== But what if the Dead Ringer hadn't existed at all? The BLU Spy would be afflicted with... ==

 

== The RED Spy didn't kill the BLU Scout in ''Meet The Spy'' ==

 

== Team Fortress 2 is the virtual viewpoint of cyborg soldiers. ==

 

== The game is actually an [[Darker and Edgier|incredibly dark]] examination of mankind's obsession with war ==

* The world's problems HAVE been solved. With no need for materials (dispenser), food (neverending sandvich), death (respawn) and injury (medigun, dispenser, sandvich) there's nothing to do but to fight over the one limited resource: pictures of Scout's Mom.

** (Punchline: fantastic.) The battles are a sham, and deliberately limited to arena-like areas. Though the world is peaceful and prosperous, there's still people who want to fight or destroy. The "missions" are a release valve for society, and keep a army of fighters active and occupied in case they're needed.

 

Not in the sense of being clever, but being one of the titular characters from the ''[[Genius: The Transgression]] [[New World of Darkness]]'' fan project (or perhaps a group of beholden equipped and controlled by an unmada or someone one the way there). Think about it; their weapons are either wonders, mainly made with Katastrofi (even the medic's medigun would need it for the beam effect), the medigun's powered by exelixi, the engie's sentry uses automata, the spies' cloaking device and disguise kit are from Metaptropi and the sniper's ability to generate jarate and the pyro and heavy's 1 hit kill taunts were down to a Progenitor modifying them. They're clearly all quite unstable. They're constantly fighting (for and grant money). The briefcase in CTF mode is a stack of blueprints. Furthermore all the bios imply events that could have lead to their catalysation;

 

== The game takes place in the same universe as Pixar's ''[[The Incredibles]]''. ==

The visual, stylistic, and musical similarities between the two works are too great to be denied. So, the question is, why would there be two teams of nigh-identical warriors blowing each other to smithereens in this universe?

* Another theory is that the two clone armies are killing each other ''for sport''. They're duking it out, gladiator-style, for the entertainment of those rich and hedonistic enough to finance this sort of thing. "Red vs. Blue in a bloody, explosive duel to the death, this Sunday, Sunday, Sunday on Pay-Per-View!"

* Or it could be a bit more logical and still take place in The Incredibles: two Arizona-based evil organizations sprung up in close proximity and spend all their resources pounding each other into the ground. Neither has the time, money, or desire to expand operations beyond hiring mercenaries to fight it out. Since the movie obviously takes place somewhere more temperate, the two never really deal with each other.

* The Pyro: the guy (or gal) who never talks and uses the weird weapons, but is somehow incredibly dangerous. An enigma: no one knows anything about him, but everyone runs in terror (or runs for [[Hit Points|health packs or the medic]]) when he comes through.

* The Demoman: the grenade spammer, who still uses the same tactics that dominated [[Team Fortress Classic|the previous game]]. Also the guy that prefers [[Guns Are Worthless|blades to guns]].

* The Engineer: representative of the [[Gadgeteer Genius|mod community]]. [[The Engineer|Builds things]] that augment the game and alter the course of battle.

* The Medic: [[The Medic|the most straightforward example]]: the player who does everything he can to be a team player and help other players survive. The guy who actually cares about winning.

Also notice that there are no female playable characters, a jab at the "no girls on the internet" joke. There is the obviously female announcer, but she's the one running the show; why should she kill people when she can make a dozen idiots do it for her?

 

...''somehow''. Perhaps the team are early versions of Heaven's Smiles/the Personas, or some combination thereof.

* The Heavy is MASK

All the characters previously died, and are fighting for their one chance to come back to life. They must survive until the end of the round, and must complete whatever mission they are given, and are forced into one of 9 forms to make sure they are fit for battle. All the classes are Players, the Administrator is the Composer and Saxton Hale is the Producer. This version of the Reaper's Game, although shorter than the one in Japan, generally contains a much higher casualty rate.

 

* Scout: Gork/Mork (the smart one)

* Soldier: Khorne

 

== The game takes place in the same universe as [[X-Men]] ==

 

== [[Global Agenda]] takes place in the [[Team Fortress 2]] universe. ==

** With the new Arena mode, that's now possible.

** Everyone knows only true warriors play Territorial Control anyway.

** He was talking about the people he killed, not the ones which are still alive.

Even better, each of the team is from a different time period, it's just that this Valhalla updates itself to the newest arrival, and he showed up in the 60s. Here's an interesting time frame for when the characters showed up.

* Theoretically, it could also be like the tranquility lane simulation, reset every time somebody dies/every match.

 

It’s a very, VERY sick wargame. The family fued backstory is true, but some descendent must've thought to himself, "If this was a result of Zepenniah wanting his sons to fight over something so he could watch, why not have EVERYONE watch it?" It's top secret so no government could come in and arrest the companies. The truth will come out to the classes when they unmask the Pyro and reveal thats it's a four-year-old girl with no idea what death even ''is'' yet. Both teams will team up and capture the Announcer and Saxton Hale, bring them to the FBI (or something else) and have them arrested.

* Confirmed to an extent; when Doublecross was released it was mentioned the people who live around the Badlands where the teams fight sometimes watch them and aren't fooled at all.

After the nuclear wars of the '50s, Oceania and Eurasia began to establish themselves as megastates, but this theory speculates that the 24/7 surveillance of everyone everywhere, brainwashing and revision of history took longer to establish. So while Oceania and Eurasia began waging their perpetual wars to consume resources, they also decided they could use these wars to kill (or at least keep away from the general population) a few [[Axe Crazy|axe crazies]] with....unique, personalities, and strong senses of national identity (even though their countries no longer exist). The battles keep the mercenaries away from the impressionable civilians likely undergoing preliminary conditioning, and use up resources (which is the whole point of the war). $400,000 for 12 seconds of minigun fire sounds like a good investment to me. Oceania is BLU, Eurasia is RED, and Eastasia was formed after the other two, and was not organized enough to contend in the battles covered by the game. And obviously, the Administrator is behind the whole thing with {{spoiler|O'Brian}} as a lieutenant and trusted advisor.

 

* The Scout is the Eldar. He is very fast, physically frail, and does hes best damage at close range, but isn't too bad at medium range, either. Note that it is very dangerous for a Scout to stay in one place for too long, in a metaphorical parallel to the Eldar's constant fleeing from Slaanesh.

* The Soldier is a [[Space Marine]]. He fill in the role of the [[Jack of All Stats|well balanced fighter]], his primary weapon fires RPGs (though, being in Warhammer 40k's ancient past, it's much more primitive than a Bolter), and he also has the crazy [[Blood Knight]] attitude. His weapons show a distinct lack of chainsaws, but if there's any weapon in TF2 that would fit in Warhammer 40k, it's a pick-axe that does more damage the more injured it's user is.

 

== Medieval mode takes place in... ==

** Thanks for the idea... To the Fanfic-Mobile!

 

 

== The whole world is a simulation run by Aperture Science ==

 

== Again, it's the world of [[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]/[[Portal (series)|Portal]], but not the past. TF2 is in the future. ==

Seeing as we have a conflict between '''B'''uilders '''L'''eague '''U'''nited (creators) and '''R'''eliable '''E'''xcavation '''D'''emolition (destroyers), there seems to be some sort of Yin Yang relationship going on between the two teams; when one defeats the other, the aspects of life get thrown off balance.

 

A constant cycle of lives with no consequence of death? Given the amount of Australium powered reality bending devices we've already seen from the canon, it's possible that 'the government's worst kept secret' would be among them.

* That respawn countdown? It's the time it takes to whip up another Ganger and drop it into the map.

 

== Assorted Tinfoil Hat Ramblings ==

 

== [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]] exists in the TF2 universe... ==

 

== The battles are entertainment in-universe ==

* Well, a number of the maps are in far-off, abandoned locations, and the official description for one actually mentions people going out to watch the teams fight. As for the mercenaries themselves... well, do the brothers Mann really seem like ''sensible'' people to you?

 

Inspired by [http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/686/dark-horse-vs-dr-mcninja-vs-saxton-hale these] [http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6722 links]. It certainly ''would'' explain the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] being gradually added to the gameplay.

 

[[Poker Night At the Inventory]] features a cameo by Trixie Trotter from Telltale's BTTF game, thus confirming that (at least in the Inventory continuity) it's in the same universe as TF2. Doc Brown became friends with Engineer and Medic, and brought them back trinkets they'd possibly find useful, like iPods.

 

The Pyro is not a he, or a she. Pyro is a robot, created by Engineer; (some of his eleven [[PH Ds]] could be in biological or robotic engineering), possibly as a prototype for the Manns, as transferring their brains into robot bodies would be an easy way to appease them while Dell could keep the life extender machine's blueprints for himself. The suit actually IS the Pyro's skin, and beneath the eyes of the gas mask are cameras, possibly in infrared. More evidence for this theory can be found in Meet The Spy: (One of the possible messages on the alert screen is ''The Pyro is/a Robot'',) True Meaning, (Dell lives with Pyro) and The Foundry map: There are photos in the RED team's room on Foundry, and a prominent bloodstain in BLUs. 1961 is the year the Unimate robot was first installed on an assembly line, while the neatly divided sectioned word fragments in the sign reading AU'''TO-BOR'''AX spell '''"ROBOT"''' backwards. While we're on the subject, guess who uses the ax? As for when Meet the Pyro comes out... maybe '''AU'''GUST of 2012? Alternatively,

an Australium Ax could be the Pyro's next weapon...

 

== Weird Al wrote CNR for the Charles Nelson Riley in the Team Fortress universe. ==

They both contain a mostly one gender cast of questionable sanity, have more stuff flying around than world war 2 and breeding pools for countless meme's.

 

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