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** What purpose will this Trophy Taker serve?
 
=== A [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies|Zombie.]] ===
* Valve will make "Zombie Fortress" official, but instead of being Heavy, Scouts and Spies be "Zombies", they'll actually make a proper Zombie class.
=== A Vehicle Operator ===
A female japanese character (thus defying two stereotypes) able to operate vehicles. She will only be available on certain maps designed for and with vehicles. She will not be praticularly durable, fast on foot or well armed (shotgun, pistol and a tire iron), but she can operate ATVs, armed motorcylces and boats under combat conditions (if others try to do so, they suffer and any passengers will hang on for dear life, being unable to fire out, they also kick the bucket if the vehicle is destroyed), vehicles she runs get more durability and she can use vehicle mounted weapons. While driving she can not capture points. The Engineer can repair her vehicles.
 
=== [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|The Portalist]] ===
* Chell's available now, isn't she? After going through twenty chambers of testing hell, she's probably got a few screws loose, which means she'd fit right in with the mercenaries. Two of her weapons would the ASHPD and [[Memetic Mutation|combustible lemons]]. Her health would be very high to reflect her [[The Determinator|determinator]] status, but her attacks do not cause much damage. She would be best for defense, using the portal gun to teleport the rival team away (done by placing one portal somewhere on the map and firing the other underneath/at the other player). This was my friend's idea, I take no credit.
** The first female TF2 class would probably shock the fanbase more than the Free-To-Play announcement...
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=== The Mixer. ===
Similar to the poison master above but a little more diverse and overly dramatic. Besides poisons of all forms both fast and slow acting (he especially likes the hallucinagenic ones), he also uses team colored smoke grenades for entrances, get-aways, and disorienting the enemy. He has a gas mask but, unlike Pyro, you can see his face through it. It's basically a plastic facemask with the breathing apparatus on the bottom. His main weapon is a gas gun that fires large clouds of poisonous gas. gas tanks can be changed out for different effects. His secondary weapon is a Tommy machine gun with medium damage but deadly if the target stands still too long. Melee is a large array of syringes around his waist that are used like Spy's knife which are the only way to poison enemy Pyros and Mixers since obviously, the gas gun wouldn't work on them.He's about the same age as Scout, a [[Nightmare Fetishist|nightmare fetishist]], and a little loopy from breathing in his own gas so he [[Slasher Smile|slasher smiles]] and [[Cheshire Cat Grin|cheshire cat grins]] a lot. Not to mention [[Evil Laugh|mad cackling]]. He has low health and his speed is nothing special. He is also a big music fan so he can be heard singing random songs under his breath.
 
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* A suit of [[Powered Armor]]. What? The Engi Update Teaser certainly reminds some of the [[Forging Scene|Forging Scenes]] with Tony Stark and ''[[Iron Man]]''. Go it, it's not that unique/odd an idea.
* 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 Onon The Wrist|respawn]].
** Imagine it in Arena, though.
** Movable spawn point for Engineer. How often have you wished you could spawn right next to your toys?
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=== Heavy: ===
* A new set of gloves that enables either [[Fastball Special]] (if used on allies) or [[Grievous Harm Withwith 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 gun that does increased damage while you're being healed by a Dispenser or Medic, but less damage otherwise. Could be called the "Soviet Union" or something.
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=== Pyro: ===
* [[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 (Film)|a masked psychopathic manchild]].
* A [[Flaming Sword|sword that is on fire]].
** Confirmed! Sort of. It's a [[Flaming Sword|Flaming Axe]]. And it [[Captain Obvious|sets people on fire when you hit them with it.]]
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* A crossbow with flaming arrows.
** If you ignite a Sniper's Huntsman, then you get flaming arrows, so it's semi-confirmed.
* Masks (or, [[Running Gag|in this game]], hats) [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|made of]] [[Genuine Human Hide|people]], which s/he wears over the gas mask.
 
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== Meet The Team is canon. Team Fortress 2 itself is [[Licensed Game|the Game of the Movie]]. ==
It isn't [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max]] that's being exhibited in the promotional videos. The videos are the actual story, as of yet not fully realized, and [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] is an adaptation. [[Adaptation Decay]] was necessary to keep the game fun and balanced. Really now, the sheer skill of these guys indicates that if you went up against that team, you'd be utterly screwed. Everyone else is merely imitating them in order to try and match them, thus why you can choose your own classes. They are a bunch of fellows with nothing to lose, banding together for a common cause... A cause which nobody has a bloody clue about. Thus the application of [[The Worf Effect]] to the Heavy in the non-Heavy-focused videos is justified, since only the featured class is "played" by the real one while the ones getting slaughtered are these impostors. The "real" Heavy can tank all those shots and [[Memetic Mutation|doesn't afraid of the Scout]], etc. Alternately: The Meet the Team videos feature the originals; all the player-controlled characters are clones. They're given the signature equipment and skills of the originals, but [[You Suck|they lack the experience and general competence of the originals.]] Mostly.
** Or the BLU Heavy could just be the RED Heavy acting as one, if the theory about the videos being RED's corporate propoganda is to be believed.
* The BLU spy seems to be aware of this: "if you managed to kill them I assure you they were not like me - and nothing, NOTHING like the man loose inside this building." Similarly, the RED Demo states that "If I were a BAD Demoman, I wouldn't be sitting here, discussin' it with ya, now would I?"
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*** ''Related Theory: The BLU Team is Screwed.'' In Meet the Spy, the BLU Spy is killed by friendly fire, and it's implied that the BLU Scout was killed offscreen. Based on their dialogue, it's possible that they were very nearly, if not equally, as skilled as their RED counterparts who star in the Meet the Team videos. I know that doesn't explain the BLU Scout, since {{spoiler|he's actually the RED Spy}}, but think about it: would he really jump into that sort of situation with no prior knowledge of his persona? Odds are, the BLU Scout really was competent enough to kill "dime-a-dozen backstabbing scumbags" with ease, lending credibility to his skills. And without him or the BLU Spy in play, that makes the odds 7:9 in RED's favor ''at best''. That's assuming the Medic and Pyro have representatives equally as awesome as those classes that have already been introduced.
**** ''Related Theory: All of the BLU Team members seen on the startup screen (and outside of the videos) will eventually defect to RED.'' We can see hints of this in Engie’s Comic and Meet the Team video. Dell is perfectly willing to go behind his employer’s back [[For Science!]] and [[More Dakka|More Gun]]… and did you ever wonder why a RED Engineer was sitting in front of a BLU pickup and drinking the other team’s beer? Here’s a hint: Dell didn’t die. [[Heel Face Turn|He just changed shirts.]] By extension, Scout, Sniper, and Soldier’s “Meet the” videos take place after the Spy uses his Dead Ringer to help fake Scout’s, Sniper’s, Jane’s, and Tavish’s (from the WAR update) death. The Administrator won’t notice because [[Lampshade Hanging|all mercenaries look alike to her]], Miss Pauling won’t dare to protest… and [[Fire-Forged Friends|the boys will eventually figure out that they’re being played for saps]]… and when that happens… God help TF Industries.
**** ''Related Theory: [[Fire-Forged Friends|The]] [[Twinmaker|Team]] [[From a Single Cell|will]] [[Immortal Life Is Cheap|eventually]] [[Immortal Assassin|become]] [[Living Forever Is Awesome|immortal.]]'' Let's face it, as it stands now, our heroes have little love for their bosses, nor do they have any reason to have any. For either of the Mann brothers to win the land-grab, some of the team will have to die. And it's recently been revealed to the members of [RED] that Admin ''will'' go after the people and things they love if they don't fall in line; she, of course, couldn't give a crap about their safety or that of their loved ones. That's quite a lot of trouble for their paychecks... but there is a way the team's little problem could be solved. They could enlist the help of Dell, Medic, and their new improved life-extender machine, guaranteed to make it's users not only immortal, but eternally youthful, and absolutely, positively inde-friggin'-structable. Or, if the hint in "Meet The Medic" about [[Send in Thethe Clones|BLUs]] [[We Have Reserves|reserves]] is viable, the two men could secretly perfect [[Brain Uploading|So]][[Soul Jar|ul]] [[Body Surf|Transference]]. Having done so, the team could not only financially destroy the Manns, but the Admin as well, draining their bosses bank accounts as they demand increasingly higher salaries for their excellent, fantastically fun jobs... ensuring that they never stop playing the best game ever.
***** ''Related Theory'': ''[[Monday Night Combat]] is actually Team Fortress 2's world in the future.'' TFIndustries products have been prominently featured, and one has to wonder why... In Team Fortress 2, two corporations, RED and BLU, wage a secret war to control the world. In Monday Night Combat the world has become a Consumerist Dystopia where people are entertained by a deadly sport that only has two known teams, a red team known as the Hotshots and a blue team known as the Icemen. What none of the teeming masses know is that Monday Night Combat and the entire world are controlled by the perpetually rejuvenating... '''A.''' Administrator, '''B.''' Miss Pauling, or '''C'''. ... cabal of nine mysterious (yet very familiar) men, known only as the board of directors of TFIndustries.
 
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[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/2/26/Engineercomic07.jpg This is Radigan Congaher before using Australium.] [http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/radigan/ This is] [http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/wrangdigan/ him] [http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/evolutionaryman/ after ][http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/handyman/ using Australium.] The reason that the Sniper doesn't act Australian is that he isn't in constant contact with Australium.
* That, or the Sniper is required to shave and keep his body hair hidden at all times as a clause in his contract, or otherwise his rugged handsomeness would just turn the battles into "Spooning With Sniper".
** ''[[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spooning]]'' with Sniper, eh?
* ''Related: Australium, while enhancing natural intelligence, depletes common sense.'' If you notice how Radigan had gotten better with his inventions, yet ''cut off his entire hand'', this might mean that Australium, while making you more badass, muscle-bound, and smart, will make you have poorer judgement in life. This is why Australia is the most technological country on the planet, yet they decide their king with a boxing match against a kangaroo.
 
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== Helen The Administrator is… ==
''The granddaughter of Zephaniah Mann and Elizabeth, through her daughter Emily and either of the Mann brothers.'' Elizabeth and Zephaniah’s relationship may have been based on more than mere trust. Elizabeth’s presumed daughter [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Non-player_characters#Emily.3F Emily], [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/18/Engineercomic09.jpg seen here bribing Radigan with Australium] seems to have reaped the benefits of this alliance… in more ways than one. Though its canonicity is hotly debated, A rather… [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/File:Portrait_1_skin_1.png not safe for work portrait of Emily] can be found in Redmond Mann’s current residence, Mann Manor. Winning her attentions may have been another point of contention for the boys. A disturbing question remains… why would Emily want to damn the two men to an [[Ironic Hell|ironic hell]] through bribing Radigan to sabotage the machines? The boys may have toyed with her affections far too much… but there’s yet another disturbing question to answer. This theory has, until now, been built on the supposition that Emily was Elizabeth’s daughter from a previous relationship. But what if Emily had blood ties to the Mann fortune? If Emily was the [[Bastard Bastard|illegitimate daughter of Zephaniah by his maidservant]], she would have had no sure guarantee to his fortune, a burning desire to see two full-blooded but unsuitable heirs punished, [[Magnificent Bastard|and an utterly insane drive]] [[Incest Is Relative|to do whatever it took]] to utterly destroy the both of them. Judging by the looks of things, Emily infected her daughter with that thirst for vengeance as well.
* '' Alternately, Elizabeth is Helen’s Aunt'', thus removing ''some'' of the incestuous connotations of the above theory.
* ''Using the feud as a cashcow for TF Industries and its subsidiaries.'' RED and BLU may own most of the world, but TF Industries is based in 1960’s Washington, and is thusly the weapons supplier to one of the world’s biggest superpowers… [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|in this particular]] [[Alternate History]], its the uncontested biggest. Redmond and Blutarch are clearly willing to pay Helen big money to see their side win, thus furthering her ultimate goal of draining their fortune while seeing them suffer. Every weapon in the game - and I mean ''every'' weapon - is either owned or a product from TF Industries. The Spy gets his stuff [http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day04_english.htm from a branch of the company (scroll down),] the Sniper learned Jarate from a mail order catalog from the same branch ([http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day07_english.htm note Saxton Hale, who is also present on the Mann Co. catalogue]), and so on. Therefore, TF Industries stands to gain a lot of money from this conflict. Note, also, that it's ''Team Fortress'' Industries, and not another, more mundane weapons company. Therefore, the idea is to keep releasing new products to the poor saps, not only to find out what will work and what can eventually be incorporated into the military (not the teleporter, obviously), but to make money as frustrated Snipers pick up cleverly planted Jarate catalogs, and Engineers keep sending for replacement tools and materials. Logically, this war is therefore over absolutely nothing and TF Industries is slowly getting richer and richer.
* Basically ''Confirmed'', but it's even simpler than that. Taken together, RED and BLU don't own ''most'' of the world. ''They own '''ALL''' of it,'' and by extension, [[One World Order|so does]] [[Evil Overlord|the Administrator]] (who just so happens to be [[War for Fun Andand Profit|the CEO]] of all three of the world's [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]]), [[Forever War|for as long as she can keep the conflict going....]]
* ''The person the third life-extender machine was built for.'' She's actually Elizabeth, Emily and all other females of that family line. Her life extender machine works a bit differently, because it only needs to be used once in a great while, instead of her being attached to it all the time (Since Radigan Conhager didn't quite finish it before going crazy with Australium radiation, she had to rely on the combined intellects of Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael Faraday, Guglielmo Marconi, Louis Pasteur and Marie Curie. Needless to say they made significant improvements to the design.) When she does use it, she regresses to the body of a ten-year-old girl, with all her memories and plots intact. She passes for the daughter, or granddaughter of her previous persona, and takes on a new name. She ages as people do normally, and judging by how she looks now, she won't need it again for thirty or so years.
 
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* ''…related to or is [[The Punisher|General Nikolai Alexandrovitch Zakharov]]'' Both are [[Bald of Evil|ba]][[Bald of Awesome|ld]], [[Husky Russkie|heavyset Russians]]. General Nikolai Alexandrovitch Zakharov once stood [[The Determinator|unflinching]] under a hail of automatic fire, earning him the nickname of the [[Stone Wall|Man of Stone]], while the Heavy is capable of taking large amounts of damage from multiple weapons and moves slowly.
* ''[[Metal Gear|Ocelot]]'' Russian – check Rotary Gun – check Can kill people by pointing fingers and saying "bang" - check … Man, he's really let himself go.
* ''[[Halo: Reach|Jorge-052s]] ancestor''
* ''Father Grigori years later.'' Think about it; both Russian, both crazy, both name their guns and seem to enjoy killing, and both are bald. Assuming that TF2 and HL are the same universes, then after the combine took over, Heavy decided to do something else with his life and move away back to Ukraine, which is where the ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'' game takes place, which is in RUSSIA, and live in Ravenholm. He, of course, joined the resistance and fought against the Combine, losing some weight and growing a beard in the process. He maintained his unbalanced mental state, but switched slightly for the better. While living in Ravenholm, he became, or already was but more extreme now, a Catholic or Christian.
* ''…related to [[Sinistar]].'' Heavy: "I am Heavy Weapons Guy" "I live" "run, cowards" "hide, cowards"… Sinistar: "I am Sinistar" "beware, I live" "run, coward" "beware, coward" Also, while he never explicitly says it, the Heavy does hunger.
* ''a sentimental man who names his guns after loved ones.'' He has a wife, Sascha, and a daughter, Natascha. (Note, however, that Sas(c)ha is also a ''male'' name in Eastern European countries.)
** All of Heavy's guns are named Sascha, so the voice clip doesn't need to be changed. Sascha can be short for Natascha, she just uses her "full name" because she's bigger.
* More affected by his past than he lets on. His dad was killed fighting the Communists in 1941, his mother and sisters were sent to a gulag, and it proceeded to burn down, all the soldiers dead. Let's say for argument's sake that [[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|Poker Night At the Inventory]] is canon. He was apparently hired by RED because he killed many soldiers. Heavy was the one who burned down the gulag, killed the soldiers, and because it was his first taste of trauma and death, was somewhat shaken by it. It'd explain why he won't talk about it with The Director and keeps changing the subject back to Sascha. It'd also explain his attachment to Medic. He's really afraid of death and is in denial about respawn.
* ''A member of the'' ''[[wikipedia:Orlov|Orlov]]'' ''family''. Because [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Orlov Sandvich.]]
 
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== The Demoman is ==
* ... related to Chef from [[South Park]]. Think about it, his parents are both Scottish, and I think his mum is blind and... thats all I've got on that one.
* ... in some way related to [[The Princess and Thethe Frog|Doc Facilier or Mama Odie]]. Well, not necessarily voodoo magic, but especially with the incessant voice from the Eyelander, he'd no doubt have friends on the other side.
* He was born on [[Significant Birth Date|November the fifth]] or [[Bank Holidays|Bonfire Night]], aka Britain's 'excuse to light fireworks' day.
* ...Related to, or is, one of [[Tangled (Disney)|the Stabbington Brothers.]] If you glance at Demoman's concept art, this is not as crazy as it first sounds.
* ...a Scottish relation of [[The Incredibles|Frozone]], going off the below shared universes theory.
* ...secretly [[The Mole|a master spy]]. Because he is the [[Beneath Suspicion|least likely person possible]] to be one.
* He was adopted and raised by [[Legacy Character|the Demoman]] of [[Team Fortress Classic (Video Game)|Team Fortress Classic]] and his wife, though he never knew about this and it promptly became inconsequential upon his blowing them up.
* ...colourblind. [[The Chew Toy|As well as being one eyed.]]
* ...missing a leg. He has a prosthetic when not using the Bootlegger.
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* ''...the father of Ness from [[Earthbound]].'' Where do you think Ness's dad got much money if he just works making hamburgers? Ness's SMAAAASH hits are clearly inherited from his father's ability to BONK enemies into submission, as are his PSI powers; the Scout's double jump is a form of levitation. Going further with this theory, note how Ness is the slowest of the four playable characters in Earthbound. What does the Scout take pride in? His Speed! The Scout himself used to be slow as a child, and is embarrassed that his son is suffering the same problems as he did.
* ''...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: theThe 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 son of Yankee Irving from "Everyone's Hero"'' Yankee was about 7 in 1932, that's more than enough time to have a 19 year old son by 1968. Seeing that he's a Yankees fan, while the Scout is from Boston (complete with Red Sox refrences in his achevements), they must REALLY dislike each other.
* ''...the father of [[Ace Attorney Investigations|Byrne Faraday and grandfather of Kay Faraday]].'' Scout is the most adept of all the classes at retrieving the intelligence (or at least he was designed to be so) and it most likely contains lots of incriminating documents (and thus could technically be perceived as "the truth"). Ergo, his last name is Faraday and he's most likely also some sort of a relative of Michael Faraday. The only things he needs now are a Yatagarasu badge and some kind of a chemical weapon.
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* ''...a Kiwi.'' He pretends to be from Australia rather than from New Zealand, because if he didn't, Saxton Hale would probably murder him.
* ''The Scout's father.'' He hates the Spy so much because his wife - the Scout's mother - left him for the Spy.
* ''He's [[The Rescuers (Disney film)|Cody's]] Father.'' Sniper is a neglectful (or divorced) dad. It idly and cleanly connects Team Fortress 2 to [[Disney Animated Canon|the Disney Animated Canon]].
** ''Alternately,'' the Sniper is vaguely related to McLeach, which is why his father severely disapproves of the Sniper's career choice.
* ''Pirelli's descendant''. Apparently, the "Piss-In-Jars" thing runs in the family, only Sniper found a somewhat more practical use for it.
** The first white people to reach Australia were Englishmen, who sent convicted criminals there. Pirelli had a child, who grew up to be a criminal. The child was eventually sent to a prison colony in Australia.
* ''[[Taz -Mania|Bushwacker Bob's]] son.'' When the Sniper says "put Mum on the phone" he wasn't taking about his mother, but his grandmother.
* ''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?
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== The Sandvich is... ==
* ''...[[Soylent Green|PEOPLE!]]'' That mysterious meat slice? [[Human Resources|IT'S NOT "JUST HAM".]]
** [[It Gets Worse]]. The [[I'm a Humanitarian|Heavy]] still [[Nightmare Fuel|talks to it.]] Perhaps that Sandvich [[Alone Withwith the Psycho|WAS a loose cannon but a good cop.]] Hell, the proof has been on [[Memetic Mutation|Youtube]] for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXQw9I8Fic&NR=1 quite] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0zirKso4U some] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2HB9J4Hoyc time.]
*** Even more so when you consider that the description on Pyro's toque blanche(You're today's theme ingredient!) implies him to be a cannibal. Well, if one of the team does it...
* ''Made by the Medic for the Heavy.'' The "V" in "Sandvich" could be used to [[Funetik Aksent|represent the accent of either character]], and it's a healing item. This is a little bit more likely if the above WMG is true.
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** 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!
* ''A grown-up male version of the [[Bio ShockBioshock|Little Sister]].'' Dr. Tenenbaum tried to make a Little Brother, but his self-healing abilities were too slow-acting to be useful so he was promptly abandoned on the surface. When he grew up he got his doctor's degree and, using the invincibility powers of ADAM, invented the Medigun. Notice that he also has a preference towards being protected by big, tough, gun-wielding brutes... Sometime before the game, RED sent him back to Rapture to recover something of interest (possibly more of Tenenbaum's research) and ended up recruiting the splicer that became the Pyro. The [http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Brother artbook for the second game] does mention the existence of "Little Brothers" as a deleted concept; in-universe, they were implanted with the same slugs as the sisters (possibly with similar abilities conferred), but apparently became too violent and destructive to be used as efficient gatherers. Hmm... he has their iconic weapon, the Vita-Saw…
** ''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.
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* the Civilian. Meet the Medic's timeframe is set just as he joined the team. The Heavy, The Scout, the Engineer, the Sniper and the Demoman were originally assigned to protect him so RED could gain exclusive access to his research. The BLU mercenaries, meanwhile, were looking to capture him to make use of his research. Both teams had the goal of finding a way to extend their employer's lifespan further, and the doctor's research in healing chemicals and an efficient way to disperse them was just the right lead to follow. The BLU team, not particularly frightened by the [[Reds]], sent out a team of Soldiers to overwhelm them and take the Civilian to Blutarch. After the Civlian and his bodyguards are cornered in a hospital with ample supplies, he decides to make himself useful and act as their behind-the-lines doctor. However, when Heavy comes in with a chest ripped open by a rocket that never went off, he sees an opprotunity that changes his life forever.
* The Medic isn't Jewish, but his career stalled out during the Third Reich because his particular brand of [[Mad Doctor|Mad Doctoring]] wasn't in accord with Nazi ideology or one of his grandparents had a non-Germanic last name. Out of spite, he joined up with a group of resistance fighters, and became the first person to perform a heart-lung transplant outdoors during a Central European winter, among other accomplishments.
* ''Formerly employed by [[Captain America (Filmfilm)|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?
* ''somebody not even the Nazis could stomach.'' His inhumanity was so great that [[Even Evil Has Standards|even Hitler's goons had a hard time dealing with him,]] and sent police officers after him to catch him and execute him. That, or they didn't appreciate his abduction and dissection of their personnel, especially the Aryans. The Medic is good with weaponry mainly because he had to outfight the Nazi police, and his captives, if the aforementioned dissections actually happened.
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** 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.
* ''The Pyro is a construct similar to a [[Bio ShockBioshock|Big Daddy]]''The Pyro is neither a man nor a woman (though it was once was at a time). The subject went through the same process as a Big Daddy and was turned into an efficient soldier. This is why the Pyro is never seen without their suit: it's their ''skin''.
* ''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.
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* ''an [[Energy Being]]'' He comes from an alternate dimension where everyone is a gaseous [[Energy Being]], and made the firesuit to prevent himself from dispersing. (Something in his home universe prevents him from dispersing there.) His species is highly flammable, and because he's insane, he's perfectly willing to use a weapon that could conceivably destroy himself. Because he's not ''quite'' '''that''' crazy, though, the suit is fireproof. Getting shot tears holes in the suit, causing small parts of his substance to disperse. The suit has internal repair systems that seal the gaps and stop him wafting out completely. The power sources for these systems are located in the [[Boom! Headshot!|head]] and [[Back Stab|back]], which explains why the instant kills work (the transmitted shock takes out the other power source).
* ''Actually deaf'' Taken from [http://www.youtube.com/user/jpqfd jpqfd]'s comment on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUCGbJhNfw&NR=1 this video]. "''Pyro is actually deaf so that's how he keeps his calm the whole time while burning people. He can't hear the flaming, the screams, or the bullets flying. It's all peaceful and in harmony''." Because when I heard that, it all made so much ''sense''. The laughter is actually him thinking he's won some game that the announcer invented for him, and the gas mask obscures everything he sees. He just knows he's supposed to "win".
* A [[Fourth Wall Observer]]. Pyro doesn't think it's a game because s/he's an [[Innocent Inaccurate]]; Pyro thinks it's a game ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|because it's a game]]''.
** 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''
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* ''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]?
* ''a primitive[http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Cremator Cremator]'' Pyro burns people, leaving behind corpses if (s)he's good at his/her work, wears a gas mask, and nobody really knows what the Pyro is like. Cremators use flamethrower-like weapons to dispose of people in the ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]''-verse and are never seen, so nobody really knows much about them, either. Cremators also appear to be at least partially trans-human. The Pyro is merely a prototype, explaining the home-made appearance of the flamethrower and the combine-esque gasmask, since Cremators were to use weapons that essentially burned enemies away.
* '' Scout’s Mom.''
** And the Announcer is Scout's Gran. It works.
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** 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 [[Bio ShockBioshock|Splicer]].'' The Pyro managed to escape Rapture and get work as a mercenary. Though his physical deformities are covered by the suit and mask, her mental deformities brought on by constant splicing are still quite present. For instance, he's obviously quite brilliant with inventing things (both her flamethrower and the chemical thrower appear to be cobbled together from scrap metal and plumbing parts), but he is also sociopathic, having no remorse for burning others to death and even taking joy from it. It would also explain the Pyro's [[Kamehame Hadoken|"Hadoken"]] taunt- it's actually an Incinerate plasmid.
* ''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)
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6bw16I7DqU&feature=feedu Maybe... *sniff* maybe.]
* ''[[Resident Evil 4|Dr. Salvador]]'' The only thing missing is the chainsaw.
* ''[[No More Heroes|Matt Helms]]'' After Travis killed him, he made a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] (Again) to be resurrected to get revenge on Travis. however, while being resurrected, he accidentally went back in time to the 1960s. In order to pass the time until Travis was born, he joined the war between RED and BLU.
* ''[[Black Lagoon|Hansel and Gretel]]''
* Spanish - if you listen closely to the lines they do sound slightly Spanish.
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* ''a unknown species of Pokemon.'' The Pyro is an unknown fire-type Pokemon capable of using Gust (the compression blast), and he can only say his name (the blured sounds are actually him saying his name in a lot of different ways).
* ''Spyro'' He likes fire and his voice/face are muffled. It could be, you never know!
* [[Spoonerism|The Spyro is a pie!]] [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|The pie is a lie.]] [[Insane Troll Logic|Therefore, every Spy as a Pyro is actually]] [[Mind Screw|a dragon dressed up as a man dressed up as]] [[Running Gag|a robot dressed up as]] [[Ambiguous Gender|a woman]] [[Overly Long Gag|dressed up as a man.]] [[I Knew It!]]!
*** [[Word of God]] is that The Pyro is… [[The Un-Reveal|The]] [[Shaped Like Itself|Pyro]]. All of the above?
* Spyro's mother/father! Spyro is purple (red+blue) and breathes fire!
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** The suit is to hide the fact she is female, and it prevents her from doing crazy backflips, but she still plays rad air guitar, and charges into impossible situations utterly sure of success or oblivious to defeat.
** The fire would tie into the ancestor theory. The previous incarnation had a thing for fire, the next one is a punk. Actually, the Pyro can be a punk, too.
* An internet troll. He lights fires in the chat forum by being a complete [[Demonic Spiders|demonic spider]], upon meeting an enemy pyro they often start flame wars, and the Flare Gun is an irritation weapon because he cannot stand lack of attention for too long. The homewrecker destroys anything an eingineer he doesn't like can come up with, the Axtinguisher silences those who have already been set ablaze, the Third Degree hits people trying to assist his enemies, and the reason you don't understand him is beause he speaks in [[Insane Troll Logic|insane troll logic]].
* Saxton Hale.
* Severely Autistic.
* 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.
* [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)/WMG|A four-year-old girl with no idea what death even]] ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)/WMG|is]]'' [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)/WMG|yet]]. The Pyro suit is [[Powered Armor]]. This ties into the guesses that the Pyro is a cisgendered female, thinks the whole thing is a game, and includes mechanical components.
* 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.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi8iI-zwsDQ Engineer's retarded brother.] The fact that the head is so tiny is more than indicative of a serious mental disorder. Though he has the body of a man, he has the mind of a child, which explains his affinity for silly hats and why his battle cry seems to be "Hello!!!". When Engie was recruited, He begged them to hire his brother too. Fortunately, "Dolt" really enjoyed setting things on fire. So Dell built him some equipment and set him "Out to play".
* 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 Onon 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.
* A universe-displaced [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|firebender]], [[Ax Crazy|quite possibly]] [[Villainous Breakdown|Princess Azula.]]
* If Pyro could speak, most of his lines would be [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cooking puns]].
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* The Pyro's full name is 'The Pyrotechnician''. He doesn't use it because [[The Unintelligible|he can't pronounce it.]]
* 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 (Comic Bookcomics)|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.
* ...from [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Transsexual, Transylvania]]. Admit it, this makes sense.
* Pyro is secretly [[In-Universe Camera|the cameraman]] for some of the more gore-splattered parts of the Meet the Team videos. This is why his video is coming last- they couldn't find anyone crazy enough to replace him when he announced he wouldn't be able to shoot ''Meet The Pyro'' [[Secret Identity|for some reason]].
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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.
 
== [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Discord.]] == He escaped a second time, but [[Genre Savvy|knew the mane 6 would imprison him again]] if he spread chaos in Equestria. He crossed dimensions to our world and [[The Chessmaster|manipulated '''everything''',]] including the formation of RED and BLU. He now roams the battlefields he has brought into being, incinerating all in his path and reveling in the glorious, beautiful chaos he's creating.
* Or Pyro is Pinkie Pie off her meds.
* Alternately, a Discord-assisted [http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/951e997bf000fba1c331a8b434836108/45006%20-%20Hasbro%20firecracker_burst%20recolor%20toy.jpg Firecracker Burst]. Or Derpy!
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== Meet the Pyro ==
* The video will consist of all of the Pyro's teammates talking about him/her in voice over, his/her insanity, how he/she screws around with them… while we are treated to a of a POV [[Oner]] shot from ''inside'' the Pyro's mask... ''as all of the BLU Team burn to death.'' Expect plenty of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to classic horror movies- ''[[The Shining]]'' especially. [[Actor Allusion|The Spy will know exactly who the Pyro is]], he will even have photographic evidence (see Meet the Spy), but he won't be able to reveal it: the Pyro will shoot a flare through the file. The movie will end when he (or she) [[The Un-Reveal|begins to take his/her mask off]].
* The soundtrack will be rock or [[Heavy Metal (Music)|heavy metal.]] S/he does play air guitar as a taunt (also, the Third Degree’s guitar riff), and the pyrotechnics would fit nicely with it.
* It will be a [[Mook Horror Show]], in the [[Slasher Movie|slasher vein]]. And Scout will be the [[Final Girl]].
* BLU Spy’s head [[Off Withwith His Head|will be somehow removed.]] He seems to be having bad luck [[Running Gag|that way.]]
* Pyro will actively troll the audience about what’s under his/her mask. Or, in universe, the camera crew.
* 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 [[ModernCall Warfareof (VideoDuty: Game)Modern Warfare|Makarov]]in disguise. ==
Yuri and Price didn't ''really'' kill Markarov, he ''faked'' his death. He's adopted a new persona--that of an effeminate/childish pyromaniac--as part of a revenge plot against Yuri, Price, and the Russian Loyalists. First, he must find and kill Saxton Hale...
 
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== But what if the Dead Ringer hadn't existed at all? The BLU Spy would be afflicted with... ==
[[Bubble Bobble (Video Game)|The Curse]]. If you touch anything<ref>Well, including getting hit by others' weapons but definitely not friendly objects</ref>, [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|you'd die]]. And the BLU spy was hit by shotgun fire to the head, therefore, among [[The Many Deaths of You|the many EXAGGERATED ways a character can die (getting so fatally numb from touching anything that you gain a literal black line across your eyes, incineration from a small laser bolt when it should cause a small burn, getting FROZEN TODAY from a snowball when it should just feel cold at the impact point, getting electrocuted from small un-bubbled electricity when it should be a tingle)]] it'd ''obvious''ly quickly cause [[Your Head Asplode]], as if his body wouldn't <s>poof away into magic dust, which does not happen in the TF2 world</s> explode anyway. This would of course deny the possibility that any one of us would see his eyes getting crossed off by a literal black line. [[Squick|Squicky]] and potentially disgusting detail: {{spoiler|Whatever cross-out line the spy would have would probably be on whatever skin fragments that got peeled off his face during the shotgun blast. Ick indeed.}}
 
== The RED Spy didn't kill the BLU Scout in ''Meet The Spy'' ==
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== Where Are We? ==
== Waiting For The Combine--'[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] is a sequel to TFC and a prequel to [[Half Life]]/Portal ==
''[[Half Life]]'' takes place in modern day, in a top secret science/industrial facility in the middle of the desert. ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' takes place about 30 years prior to ''Half Life's'' release, and is about a bunch of guys building some sort of complex in the middle of the desert. All the killing suggests that the project is rather shady and ethically questionable (you know, like a top secret science facility). Any inconsistencies (like the art style) can be explained by the copious amount of drugs everyone was on back in the 60s. I know the Half-Life connection has been brought up before, but TFC is the link between the two. The page for the engineer update shows the TFC engie with a young boy (presumably TF2's engineer) trying on goggles. That establishes the link between TFC and TF2. Now, on the TFC map "Ravelin" there are computers with the Black Mesa logo on their screen, thus establishing the Half-Life connection. TFC's "Hunted" map also takes place during a section of the Half-Life 1 Single Player campaign. Plus, Aperture Science and Black Mesa stock symbols are seen during the Spy Update.
* '' Black Mesa is a subsidiary of RED, Aperture Science of BLU '' Even more believable if you are one of those who plays with the Aperture vs Mesa texture replacements. It looks so right!
** Think about this in Half-life: Opposing Force you have to disarm a nuclear warhead in Black Mesa, as far as what's known, Aperture Science made no weapons of war, let alone nukes.
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== A World of Darkness == - The characters are all Geniuses]]
Not in the sense of being clever, but being one of the titular characters from the ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|Genius: The Transgression]] [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|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;
 
* Soldier: Grimm, from the anger of not being able to join the army. Or maybe Neid, from the need to prove himself as a soldier.
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* The Soldier: The [[Stop Having Fun Guy]] who treats [[Capture the Flag]] as [[Serious Business]]. Acts like the game is a real war. Only user of weaponry that could actually be found in military hands (everyone else's looks like they made it themselves). Most of his vocal lines sound like they come from [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].
* 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 (Video Game)|the previous game]]. Also the guy that prefers [[Guns Are Worthless|blades to guns]].
* The Heavy: [[Mighty Glacier|the guy]] who gets the [[BFG]] he can find and then mows everyone down with it. The guy who has little care for tactics beyond "Shoot It Until It Dies."
* The Engineer: representative of the [[Gadgeteer Genius|mod community]]. [[The Engineer|Builds things]] that augment the game and alter the course of battle.
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** The Medic is the guy that operates the Blood Machine
 
== TF2 is the American Equivalent of the [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|Reaper's Game]] ==
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.
 
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** Objection! The Engineer is clearly the Void Dragon, the C'tan Machine God. The Announcer is the C´tan Deceiver. While Saxton Hale´s overall combat ability, hatred of hedonistic hippies, supplying of weapons and [[Testosterone Poisoning|shining leadership by example]] clearly mark him as being the [[God-Emperor]] of Mankind. ([[Rule of Cool|Besides, whose name would you rather call out as you visit His wrath upon your enemies? Dell Conagher, or SAXTON HALE?]])
 
== The game takes place in the same universe as [[X Men|X-Men]] ==
* All the classes are mutants, as they can all do extraordinary things(see above ''Incredibles'' guess) This would also explain the [[Name's the Same|two Pyros.]] The time periods would fit as well, if we look at the earliest publication dates of the [[X -Men]]- possibly Mutants are just beginning to emerge from the woodwork.
 
== [[Global Agenda]] takes place in the [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] universe. ==
In the far future, the coorporations gave up on fighting over land and came to realise they could make far more money by selling their geneticly engineered soldiers to the goverment. Then they realised this wasn't very fun, and began to hire freed agents of their own design to fight over worthless landmasses. They originaly spliced together the Sniper/Spy/Scout, the Heavy/Soldier, the Medic/Pyro and the Engineer/Demoman.
 
== [[The Sims]] 2 is related to [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] in some way. ==
The Engineer can build killing, healing, and teleporting machines, and upgrade them, by hitting them with a wrench or punching them with a bionic hand. Sims can build sentient robots by bashing a piece of metal with a wrench and screwdriver.
 
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** ''Perfectly''.
 
== ''Obviously'', this takes place in the [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]] universe. ==
I'm ashamed I haven't thought of that earlier; we have people only named after their Classes (Medic, Spy, Sniper, etc.), we have them fighting for the Intelligence (the Grail) and territorial control is obviously used to get a sacred ground to summon the Grail.
 
== [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] takes place in the same universe an [[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert ==
RED and BLU are secretly controlled by the Soviets and Allies respectively. [[Word of God]] states that The Medic was never a Nazi. That's because, in this world, the Nazis never came to power (but they still existed, enabling The Soldier to kill them) explaining The Heavy's willingness to work with The Medic. Also, Spies. In both universes they have the ability to disguise themselves as an enemy unit though some kind of holographic technology. (Not sure where the Empire of the Rising Sun fits in...)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHjNS4awss This video] will explain a lot. The Empire of the Rising Sun will be the new Orange Team.
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== The game takes place in the [[Fallout]] universe ==
Specifically, the game is a stage-play put on somewhere that was turned into a Utopia by a GECK about warring tribes that survived the holocaust with some semblance of resources. This is why the art direction, by Valve's admission, leans toward making everything look semi-homemade; they had to make do with what they had after the nuclear fire wiped out the infrastructure. The battle appears pointless and fought between clones because the play is highly fictionalized. The equipment is to be taken literally, however, because things like the Medigun and the Spy's gear would fit right in with [[Fallout|Fallout's]] zany retro-futuristic technology.
* Possibly, the stage-play is like those that happen in [[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]; namely, that the staged fights are real, just on a stage.
* Also, the Pyro is a ghoul who wanted in on the play, and was made to wear the gas mask and suit so as not to freak out the other actors.
* Theoretically, it could also be like the tranquility lane simulation, reset every time somebody dies/every match.
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* This would make Sniper's "What's up, Doc?" domination line hilarious.
 
== Team Fortress 2 takes place in a [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]] style [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. ==
It seems as if it's always June 1968. And those who are killed are always resurrected.
 
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== Medieval mode takes place in... ==
Soldier didn't just insult a magician, he insulted the one known as [[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|"Zero"]].
** Thanks for the idea... To the Fanfic-Mobile!
 
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[[G La DOS]], or a backup or her at another site, is Helen and she manipulates everything. Another Adventure Core is Saxton Hale.
 
== Again, it's the world of [[Half-Life (Video Gameseries)|Half-Life]]/[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]], but not the past. TF2 is in the future. ==
While Chell was in stasis, Gordon Freeman and company crowbarred the Combine off the planet. With everything wrecked, first by the invaders and then by the war against them, civilisation had to be rebuilt, resulting in ''TF2'''s [[Schizo-Tech]]. Strange effects from the invasion also manifested in Australia, creating Australium. ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' is concurrent with ''TF2''; Chell will emerge to find things at a sort-of '50's-'60 level, hopefully encountering RED first. (Orange being closer to red than blue.) If she tells them about the Enrichment Center, RED and BLU will soon be fighting to posess it.
** And Wheately is going to get knocked down from space around the same time, get picked up by BLU (for obvious reasons) and lead them to Aperture.
 
== [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] and [[Fallout]] take place in the same universe ==
The Fallout universe's timeline split with our own after World War II. They sacrificed cultural development, but are much more technologically advanced than our universe. In TF2, which is set in 1968, there are machines that give out infinite health and ammunition, magical backpacks that do the same, robot hands, and I don't even know what else. Nuclear power and energy weapons have yet to become widely used, and everything else meshes pretty well.
* Actually, Fallout's ''universe'' isn't all ''that'' much more advanced than ours... as far as we know yet, at least. Remember, not only is the technological level of Fallout in some ways ''behind'' ours, but the technological level showcased in Fallout dates to 2077. We still have six decades to develop all sorts of fun stuff Fallout doesn't have. Basically, as far as Fallout tells us, there ''shouldn't'' be machines that give out infinite health and ammunition in 1968.
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== The fight is still going... as TF2 ==
* Everything in what we think of as the TF2 Universe is actually real, except for the fights. Originally, the fights were ALL like Arena mode, as there were no respawns - you were dead. Increasing costs of repeatedly getting new mercenaries, and the advent of online gaming allowed TF industries to create what we treat as just a game, but is infact the same battles as were previously being fought by real people.
* Valve was created specifically for the release of TF2. The original mod had unwittingly stumbled upon thier mode of fight, so they bought the rights for it so they could make what was released as TF2. The previous games (Half Life, ''[[Counter-Strike (Video Game)|Counter-Strike]]'' etc) were created to establish a fanbase and a name for themselves, to ensure a huge volume of people would buy it, allowing for the maximum number of disputes to be solved.
* The characters are modelled on the greatest examples of the mercenaries that used to fight, including their actual backstories. That's why they all die so easily - not because they're just imitations of the real thing, but because the best are being pitted against the best, something that almost never actually happened.
* To hide their existance, RED and BLU collaborated to create the history we're taught. Due to fans wanting more depth to the characters, they started to release details of the real history (to ensure nobody started trying find out on their own), and recordings of the characters the game was based around - the Meet The Team videos (with modern software creating the "cartoony" style to help hide the actual identities).
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* In inception, the dream sharing technology was originally created for military training purposes. The Team Fortress 2 world was created when someone used a sedative that was too powerful to allow waking up on death, accidentally bringing the soldiers into limbo during the exercise. While in limbo, the dreamers continued trying to train, becoming the mercenaries, while the overall person supervising the training (whatever they'd be called) continued to try and supervise. However, thanks to not remembering where they came from or who exactly they were, the soldiers turned into mercenaries, probably representing more suppressed aspects of their personality, while the training supervisor became the announcer, and mentally built several arenas for the soldiers to fight in. The soldiers would have fought for several decades, continually respawning because in limbo there is nowhere else to go to after dying, until the sedative ended and they woke up, the first people exposed to limbo, and a source of information for how limbo works.
 
== The world of [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] represents the balance of life being upset ==
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.
 
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* It would also explain why the two teams are exactly alike. The Administrator could have set each character to have two Gangers, one on each side to fight themselves forever.
 
== The teams are composed entirely of [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Butlers]]. ==
Blutarch hired them and Redmond cloned them instead of hiring other mercenaries because it's hard to outdo a team of nine Butlers.
 
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== Assorted Tinfoil Hat Ramblings ==
== On the respawning system... ==Instead of all the cloning B.S. and such, 'respawning' in [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|TF2]] means you are just patched up by an off-field medic, explaining the 20-second wait. switching classes means that you call in the nearest-by heavy, medic, pyro or what have you, and it still takes 20 seconds. I mean, this is a game where ghostbuster-styled guns can close up any wound, you can turn invincible for 8 seconds, and fight off floating eyeballs with a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser gun]].
 
== [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]] exists in the TF2 universe... ==
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* 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?
 
== The game shares a universe with ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' ==
 
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.
 
== [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]] is responsible for the [[Anachromism Stew]] in TF2. ==
[[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|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.
 
== During spectator mode, you are playing the Announcer. ==
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== Merasmus was originally intended to be a hired mercenary, but the Soldier decided to be spiteful. ==
With the possible exception of the Pyro (and Heavy, if you consider his degree in Russian Lit. to be [[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|non-canon]]), the rest of the team has incredible potential outside of their mercenary work; and in some cases, hired because of this potential. In fact, historical evidence shows that this isn’t just a coincidence; prior teams have been composed of historical greats, as well. In this 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'-esque setup, where does Soldier, a lunatic who decided to go on a Nazi-killing rampage several years after World War Two ended, fit? The short answer, he doesn’t.
 
Around the time the nine mercenaries were first being recruited, Soldier somehow caught wind that Merasmus was to be hired as a mercenary instead of him. Obviously quite frustrated with these circumstances, the Soldier then decides to commit the most glorious act of identity theft of the 1960’s, effectively being recruited for hire in place of his roommate. By the time the mistake was noticed, it was far too late to rectify this mistake, and so the Soldier stayed.
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== Some of the characters have had dealings with magicians in the past. ==
We already know Merasmus exists and that he can send people back in time. But [[A Wizard Did It|magic could also explain]] some of the cast's unnatural abilities, such as Medic's [[Regenerating Health|regenerating health]], Pyro's [[Playing Withwith Fire|Hadoken]] and the fact ''Heavy can kill people [[Improbable Weapon User|with his finger gun]]''- they made deals with wizards. Or threatened wizards. Or ''are'' wizards. [[Overly Long Gag|Or Pyro is Merasmus.]]
 
== The teams were a package deal ==
At some point in time, some or all of the Red(and separately the Blu) team members met, either all at once or [[Everyone Meets Everyone|gradually inducting]] people into the group, and decided to team up to collectively bulldoze the competition, maximize profits and make them the world's [[Badass Crew|most badass mercenary team]].
 
== Everyone is related to/somehow associated with [[Team Fortress Classic (Video Game)|the previous generation]] ==
Either as descendants or proteges of the original. Well, we already know Dell's father was their Engineer...
 
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