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{{Quotation|'''Mr. Bidwell'''|Tears were brought to the eyes, sir. Your breakfast steak.}}
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{{Quotation|'''Hr. Bidwell'''|Rørt til tårer, hr. her er deres morgenbøf.}}
  
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'''Mr. Bidwell''' is one of Saxton Hale's assistants, along with Mr. Reddy. His duties include serving Hale's meals and dealing with customer feedback. Bidwell is the creator of the new ''Mann Co. Weapons Catalogue'', acting as a liaison between the manufacturers of various products and Mann Co. During his first appearance Bidwell sported a handlebar mustache; however, this was later shaved off.
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'''Hr. Bidwell''' er én af Saxton Hale's assistenter, sammen med Hr. Reddy. Hans ansvarområde er bl.a. at servere Hale's måltider og tage sig af tilbagemeldinger fra kunder. Bidwell er skaberen af det nye ''Mann Co.-Våbenkatalog'', han er bindeleddet imellem adskillige produktfabrikanter og Mann Co. I hans første fremtræden, havde Bidwell et cykelstyrsoverskæg, dette var senere barberet af.
  
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Saxton Hale sent Bidwell to Sarif Industries under the pretense of discussing a partnership to jointly develop biotechnology. While Sarif's representatives were looking over the "contract", Bidwell escaped with a crate full of weapons and later reverse-engineered the stolen weaponry to produce [[Manno-Technology Bundle|Manno-Technology]]. Bidwell detailed his exploits in a confidential memo to Hale, who wrote back to Bidwell asking him to "stop writing these things down".  
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Saxton Hale sendte Bidwell til Sarif Industries, som troede at de skulle indgå et partnerskab om at udvikle bioteknologi. Men imens repræsentanterne fra Sarif kiggede igennem deres "kontrakt", unslap Bidwell med en kasse fuld af våben, som senere blev skilt ad og lavet om til [[Manno-Technology Bundle/da|Manno-Tekonologi]]. Bidwell skrev denne udspekulerede udnyttelse ned i en hemmelig besked til Hale, som svarede tilbage og bad Bidwell om at "stoppe med at skrive de her ting ned".  
  
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Bidwell, along with Reddy, risked being dismissed by suggesting the idea of item tryouts and much of the [[Manniversary Update & Sale]]. They showcased various new hats and Miscellaneous items in a section of the Manniversary Update and Sale page before being rudely interrupted by Saxton Hale's dilemma of hiding a dead ostrich.
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Bidwell, sammen med Reddy, var tæt på at blive fyret af Hale, for at foreslå prøveperioder for genstande og meget af {{Update link|Manniversary Update & Sale}}et. De fremviste adskillige nye hatte og beklædningsgenstande i en sektion af {{Update name|Manniversary Update & Sale}}-siden, før de blev pludseligt afbrudt af Hale og hans skøre dilemma om at gemme en død struds.
  
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Three days after the end of "The Gravel Wars" and the death of Blutarch and Redmond Mann, Bidwell is under disguise as a primate violence specialist with Saxton Hale, with the purpose of filming Saxton fight the last-living Yeti. Right before Saxton charges at the Yeti to fight it, Bidwell is informed by Reddy of attacks on Mann Co. stores and relays it back to Saxton, who tells Bidwell that he is very much aware of the attacks. Bidwell then films Saxton's assault on the Yeti, which Saxton uses as a video instructing the mercenaries on their new job of fighting robots and defending Mann Co. Bidwell then sends the tape back to Miss Pauling, who shows it to the remainders of the [[RED]] and [[BLU]] Teams.
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Tre dage efter at "Grus-krigen" blev afsluttet da Blutarch og Redmond Mann døde, fremstod Bidwell som en ekspert på primatvold sammen med Saxton Hale, med det formål af at filme Saxton bekæmpe den sidste levende yeti. Lige før Saxton skal til at tæve yetien, blivwe Bidwell informeret af Reddy at Mann Co.-butikkerne er under angreb. Bidwell overdrager denne information til Saxton, som fortæller Bidwell at han allerede er klar over disse angreb. Bidwell filmer derefter Saxton's overgreb på yetien, som Saxton bruger som en instruktionsvideo til lejesoldaterne, om hvordan de skal bedst udføre deres nye arbejde, som er at beskytte Mann Co. fra robotter. Bidwell sender optagelserne af til Frk. Pauling, som viser det til de resterende lejesoldater på holdende [[RED/da|RED]] og [[BLU/da|BLU]].
  
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* Mr. Bidwell first appeared in the [[WAR! Update]] comic, ''[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/03.htm WAR!]''.
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* Hr. Bidwell dukkede først op i tegneserien ''[http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/03.htm WAR!]'', som kom med {{Update link|WAR! Update}}.
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* Mr. Bidwell makes a bold proposal in [[Bidwell's Big Plan]].
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* Hr. Bidwell foreslår dristige ændringer i [[Bidwell's Big Plan/da|Bidwells store Plan]].
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* Mr. Bidwell appears in disguise with Saxton in the [[Mann vs. Machine (update)|Mann vs. Machine]] comic, ''[[A Fate Worse Than Chess]]''.
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* Hr. Bidwell dukker op i forklædning, sammen med Saxton i {{Update link|Mann vs. Machine (update)}} tegneserien, ''[[A Fate Worse Than Chess/da|A Fate Worse Than Chess]]''.
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; Bidwell dukker også op i følgende:
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* The non-canon comic ''[[The Contract]]''.
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* Den ikke-kanoniske tegneserie: ''[[The Contract/da|Kontrakten]]''.
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* The comic ''[[Ring of Fired]]''.
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* Tegneserien: ''[[Ring of Fired/da|Ring of Fired]]''.
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* The movie short [[Jungle Inferno (Video)|Jungle Inferno]] (Saxton Hale receives a satellite phone call from him).
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* Kortfilmen der kom ud sammen med [[Jungle Inferno (Video)/da|Jungle Inferno]]-opdateringen (Saxton Hale får et opkald fra ham).
 
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Hvis du kan snakke dansk, så skriv på diskussionssiden eller snak med dem, som har bidraget til siden (ved at se sidens historik).
“
Du er den bette tøs som arbejder med den sure dame, som altid skriger af os imens vi slås.
— RED Demoman til Frk. Pauling
 ”

Ikke-spilbare karakterer (non-playable characters på engelsk), typisk forkortet til NPC'er, er karakterer i Team Fortress 2-universet som ikke er en del af de ni klasser man kan spille som. Selvom de fleste ikke er involveret i selve spillet, så tilføjer de stadig en del kontekst til Team Fortress 2-universet. Den primære karakterer i historien: Zepheniah Mann, Silas Mann, Blutarch, Redmond Mann, Gray Mann, Adminstratoren, Frk. Pauling, Merasmus og Saxton Hale, ligger grundlaget for de kampe man udfører i spillet, og deres indflydelse dukker op hver især i spillet, i et eller andet omfang. Mange af de andre mindre betydningsfulde karaktere, befinder sig kun i baggrunden af spillet og den overordnede historie, specielt i tegneserien, de understøtter narrativet i verden og spillets, til tider, useriøse stemning.

Indholdsfortegnelse

TF Industrien og divisioner

Zepheniah Mann

Fra venstre til højre: Barnabus Hale, Blutarch Mann, Zepheniah Mann, Mann's maidservant Elizabeth og Redmond Mann. En mystisk mand kan også ses længest til højre i billedet. (Først antaget at været Silas Mann, men senere opklaret af den anden side af billedet.)

Zepheniah Nieodemus Mann var en rig englænder, som blev overbevist af hans to halvhjernede sønner, Blutarch og Redmond, til at investere i kæmpe landarealer USA. Han havde drømme om at forvandle arealerne til store grusgrave til våbenfremstilling. I hans færd på vej for at sit nyanskaffede land, blev han ramt af næsten hver eneste sygdom på planeten, og fandt ud af at det land havde købt var ikke andet end en tom og ubrugelig ørken. I sidste ende, efterlod hans sig sin sidste vilje og testamente på sin egen hud, der var faldet af pga. sygdom:

  • Til hans stuepige, Elizabeth, efterlod han sin ejendom, inklusivt alle hans skøder, kontoer og gæld, hans tobakplantage og det sidste af hans formue. Elizabeth har en slående lighed til Helen, Administratoren, og er muligvis relateret til hende.
  • Til hans medhjælper, Barnabus Hale, forfader til Saxton Hale, efterlod han herredømmet over Mann Co.
  • Til hans "hjernedøde" sønner, Blutarch og Redmond, efterlod han et partnerskab. Alt det nye land som de havde overbevist ham om at købe, blev delt ligeligt imellem dem, så de ville have en grund til at skændes om det resten af deres liv. Ved hjælp af livsforlængende technologi, gjorder Blutarch og Redmond præcist som deres far havde forudset, og kæmpede om landet helt indtil 1972, da de blev dolket i ryggen af deres længe fortabte bror, Gray.
  • Den sidste del af hans testamente er tildækket, men kan læses som følgende: "Til allersidst... efterlader jeg alt mit... og beder dig opretholde dets opbevaring yderst hemmelig."
    • På endnu en hemmelig side, kan resten af sætningen ses og der står: "Til allersidst, efterlader jeg til min betroede Elizabeth, alt min "mirakle"-grus, som blev opdaget med hjælp fra Barnabus, i en tur til Terra Australis. Mine svækling søn Gray, dukkede op sidste år og truede med at afpresse mig for det. Jeg overlader gruset til dig beder dig opretholde dets opbevaring yderst hemmelig."
  • Ifølge teksten i testamentet, er det tydeligt at Zepheniah's bror, Silas Mann, også var tilstede. Han var dog kun bekræftet til at have været der, efter man fandt endnu et skadet fotografi.
  • På en hemmelig side på den Officielle Team Fortress 2-Blog, er det afsløret at Zepheniah havde en tredje søn, Gray, som blev stjålet af en ørn.
    • Denne side viser også at Zepheniah's kone hed Bette Mann.

Han vil også forbande hvem end der kan finde på at bruge skydevåben tæt ved hans grav, som han lovede, vil det medfølge en hjemsøgelse som man aldrig har set magen. Og hans ord tro, så vil Zepheniah's spøgelse dukke op i tide og utide på Halloween-versionen af Harvest Event, hvor han ligger begravet med sin Gyselig Tophat. Enhver spiller som går for tæt på ham, vil blive skræmt i adskillige sekunder, ude af stand til at hoppe eller angribe. Han blev først nævnt i Haunted Hallowe'en Special, såvel som i det overnævnte testamente. Zepheniah's spøgelse kan også blive set i Helltower, der observerer hans sønners myrdede lig, der bliver eskorteret til Helvedet af lejesoldaterne. Spøgelset vil kortvarigt forsvinde fra sin plads på tårnet når The Witching Hour begynder, og dukker op igen når spøgelsesbroen forsvinder.

  • Zepheniah Mann dukkede først op i Mann-familieportrættet.
  • Ifølge en replik fra Zepheniah i Scream Fortress 2013-opdateringen, er Gray Zepheniah's yndlingssøn.
  • Zepheniah Mann, sammen med sine sønner, er stemmedubbet af Nolan North.[1]
  • Hans mellemnavn "Nieodemus" lader til at være afledt fra Nikodemus (Engelsk), hvilket er navnet på en farisæer og helgen i det Nye Testamente.

  • Zepheniah Mann som et spøgelse, cirka 1968

  • En ung Zepheniah Mann i Mann Manor, cirka 1822.


Silas Mann

Se også: Horseless Headless Horsemann
Silas Mann
“
R.I.P. SILAS MANN
— Silas Mann's ikke så sandfærdige gravsten
 ”

Den formodet bror til Zepheniah Mann, Silas, er omgivet af mystik. Man ved at han var medejer af Zepheniah Mann & Sons. Quarterly Concern, firmaet som senere hen ville blive til Mann Co. Hans bidrag til firmaet lader til at have været tilføjelsen af nøgler og navneskilte.[Kilde mangler] Silas døde kort tid efter sin bror, men selv i døden, var det ikke det sidste man så til ham. Nu hjemsøger han Mann Manor som den Hesteløse Hovedløse Hestemann, lidt ligesom hvordan Zepheniah hjemsøger Harvest Event, som en lysende blå skikkelse. Portrættet af Silas Mann kan ses ved at klikke på hans navn i på gravstenen i Scream Fortress Opdateringssiden.

  • Den anden halvdel af familieportrættet har et maleri af en yngre Zepheniah og Silas sammen over pejsen.


Bette Mann

Bette Mann (née Darling) var Zepheniah Mann's kone, og mor til Blutarch, Redmond og Gray Mann. Hun døde i barselssengen da hun fødte sine tre sønner. Hendes far var den hæderlige William Darling.

  • Bette Mann bliver nævnt for første gang i Blutarch's, Redmond's og Gray's fødselscertifikat.


Blutarch og Redmond Mann

“
Jeg har ført en koncentreret kampagne imod fritid og ventet på at naturens gang ville gøre ved min bror, det som ingen mænd var i stand til. Og trods alt det, så sidder vi her til sidst. Og han vil bare... ikke... DØ.
— Blutarch Mann der fortæller om krigen imod hans bror
 ”

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Blutarch Mann og Redmond Mann var to af de tre trillinger sønner af Zepheniah Mann. De var henholdsvist ejerne af BLU og RED. De to sønner havde været i en livslang krig imod hinanden, i en kamp om at overtage hinandens tilgodesete land, som de havde arvet fra deres far. Efter Zepheniah Mann døde, hyrede både Blutarch og Redmond et hold af ni lejesoldater, for at hurtigt gøre det af med hinanden og overtage alt den arvede jord for sig selv. Dog, så var deres styrker lige kompetente og endte med at blive en konflikt som ikke havde nogen ende i sigte. Dette førte til at Blutarch og senere Redmond til at opsøge Radigan Conagher for at lave en livsforlængende maskine, så de hver især kunne leve længere end hinanden. Radigan lavede den samme maskine til både Redmond og Blutarch, så deres kamp fortsatte op igennem 1968. Dog, så I 1972, bliver Blutarch og Redmond snydt til at mødes og bliver enige om en våbenhvile så de kan gøre én af dem gravide og sikre en arving. Men det viser sig at Gray Mann står bag dette møde og afslører sig selv som deres længe fortabte trillingebror før at han myrder dem begge to og overtager deres firmaer.

I Grave Matters-tegneserien, er Blutarch og Redmond Mann blevet til spøgelser kort tid efter de blev dræbt. Det første Blutarch gør, er at blære sig overfor hans bror, at han levede længere ed han gjorder, hvortil Redmond påstår at han var stadig ved at forbløde da Blutarch døde. Efter at slås en smule, tager de til RED Soldier, som arbejder som en advokat, for at få juridisk rådgivning for hvem der vandt deres fars land. RED Soldier fortæller dem, at siden de er spøgelser så er de faktisk ikke døde, men fanget imellem verdener og ingen af dem har vundet før én af dem er gået videre til det hinsides. Blutarch og Redmond finder hver især den nærmeste betalingstelefon og ringer til deres sekretærer fra deres tidligere firmaer, for at organisere lejesoldaterne til at sende hinanden i Helvede.

  • Blutarch og Redmond Mann dukkede først op i Mann-familieportrættet.
  • En silhuet af Redmond kan ses i Mann Manor, som er hans palæ, hvor han sidder i et utilgængeligt område foran hans livsforlængelses-maskine.
  • I et af rummene ved kontrolpunkt C i Mann Manor, er der et maleri af en muskuløs og smilende Redmond ved siden af en ond og sygeligt udseende karikatur af Blutarch. Et lignende billede (hvori rollerne på Blutarch og Redmond er ombyttet) kan ses i Blutarch Mann's værelse i Loose Canon-tegneserien.
  • I Blood Brothers-tegneserien, er det afsløret at begge brødre mener at det grus de kæmper om, kan bruges som en energikilde.
  • Ligesom Merasmus, så er Blutarch og Redmond lagt stemme til af Nolan North.

  • Blutarch Mann, cirka 1968.

  • Redmond Mann i hans palæ, cirka 1968.

  • Blutarch Mann, cirka 1850.

  • Redmond Mann, cirka 1850.

  • Blutarch Mann, 1972.

  • Redmond Mann, 1972.


Gray Mann

Gray Mann
“
Mine herrer. Mit navn er Gray Mann. Jeg er jeres bror.
— Gray Mann
 ”

Gray Mann er den tredje af Zepheniah Manns sønner. Han var den mindste af Mann trillingerne, men han var også den mest begavede af dem alle tre. Han kunne snakke perfekt fra da han blev født, men var den fysisk svageste. Afskrækket af hvordan han kunne tale fra fødslen, havde Zepheniah Mann tænkt sig at aflive Gray, men før hans far havde en chance for at gøre det, blev Gray bortført af en ørn; dette fandt sted under "den store ørneplage i 1822". Ørnen bortførte Gray fra sin familie og opdrog ham som en af hendes egne unger. Efter at være opfostret af ørnen der bortførte ham, dræbte han hende og hendes unger og åd dem, hvorefter han kravelede tilbage til civilisation for at bygge hans virksomhedsemperium: Gray Gravel Company. Ifølge Zepheniah Mann, havde Gray Mann i 1849 truet ham med at afpresse ham for hans "mirakelgrus".

Tideligt i 1972, dukkede Gray op igen, og afslørede at han, som sine brøder, havde en livsforlængende maskine, dog en mere effektiv og kompakt version som han havde på ryggen. Efter at snørrer sine brøder til at mødes for en fredsaftale, dræbte han operatørerne der vedligeholdte Redmond og Blutarchs livsforlængelses-maskiner, hvorefter han dræbte sine to brøder Blutarch og Redmond Mann for at overtage deres firmaer og gøre dem til en del af Gray Gravel Co. Gray lavede en hær af robotter til at ødelægge Mann Co. faciliteter over hele verdenen, som vist i A Fate Worse Than Chess-tegneserien. Saxton Hale hyrede lejesoldaterne, som var blevet fyret fra BLU og RED efter firmaerne blev overtaget, for at beskytte Mann Co. fabrikkerne fra robotterne.

I 1972, kapitulerede Gray til Saxton Hale, og perspektiverede deres konflikt til den endeløse krig som hans brødre havde ført imellem sig. Dog, så brugte Gray denne mulighed til at udnytte Mann Co.'s udfordingspolitik, hvori det står skrevet at enhver direktør fra et andet firma kan lovligt set overtage Mann Co. hvis de slår Mann Co.'s direktør i ubevæbnet kamp. Gray satte sin egen datter, Olivia, op imod Saxton Hale, som ikke kunne få sig selv til at tæve et barn, måtte opgive og overdrage firmaet til Olivia.

Seks måneder senere, begyndte Gray's livsforlængelsesmaskine at blive lav på Australium. I sin desperation, fandt han Mann Co.'s hemmelige Australium-opbevaring. Men da han åbnede den, var den tom, og han antog at det måtte være Administratoren som havde stjålet det, efter at finde en cigaret og en enkelt bar af Australium tilbage i opbevaringen. Gray hyrede en ukendt gruppe af individer til at finde Administratoren og skaffe Australiumet tilbage. I A Cold Day in Hell-tegneserien, er det afsløret at Gray havde hyret lejesoldaterne fra Team Fortress Classic, til at finde Administratoren. I handlingerne der sker i Old Wounds-tegneserien, bliver Gray's livsforlængelsesmaskine revet itu af TFC Heavy, som fører til Gray's endeligt. Før at han dør, forklarer Gray til Frk. Pauling og lejesoldaterne at Administratoren har samlet en kæmpe mængde Australium for at fuldfører hendes egen onde planer, som overgår hans egne, og beder dem om at stoppe hende.

  • Gray blev først nævnt i fødselsattesten som er tilgængeligt igennem et link gemt i blodpletten på banneret af den officielle TF2 hjemmeside.
    • Ydermere, blev en opdateret version af Zepheniah Mann's sidste vilje udgivet kort tid efter det skjulte link, som afslører at den hemmelige del af testamentet tilhører Gray Mann.
  • På bunden af Knap Nok Smeltet Kondensator står der 07180125. Når man opdeler det i fire dele og oversætter med talkode (A = 1, B = 2, osv.), står der "GRAY".
  • På den sidste side af Loose Canon-tegneserien, er der en liste af personer som Radigan Conagher har bygget maskiner for og hvornår, på fronten af bogen om den livsforlængende maskine. Der står: d. 17 juli 1894, til Blutarch, 3. august 1894, til Redmond og 14. april (ukendt år) for en unavngivet tredje person. Der er blevet afsløret at findes mere end tre livsforlængelses-maskiner siden da, og den tredje var ikke nødvendigvis den til Gray.
  • Han ser ud til at have ældes meget bedre end hans brødre, eftersom han stadig kan stå på sine egne ben og har bevaret sit hår. Hans bedre helbred kan muligvis var grundet hans mere avancerede livsforlængelses-maskine, som har en kerne af Australium.
  • I "Shadow Boxers"-tegneserien, som kom ud i samhør med Smissmas 2012-opdateringen, blev det afsløret at Gray Mann ejer Gray Gravel Co., et firma hvis logo kan ses på banerne: Gravel Pit og Frontier.
  • Nogle replikker på Helltower Halloween-banen, afslører at Gray er Zepheniah Mann's yndlings af hans tre sønner.
  • I den officielle Versus Saxton Hale-spiltilstand, er Gray Mann lagt stemme til af Matthew Simmons (MegapiemanPHD).

  • Fødselsattest


Olivia Mann

Olivia, circa 1972
“
Hale! Jeg har ikke hele dagen.
— Olivia der er ved at miste tålmodigheden
 ”

Olivia er datteren af Gray Mann og den nuværende direktør af Gray Gravel Co. Hun blev også direktør af Mann Co. efter teknisk set at vinde over Saxton Hale, pga. en virksomhedspolitik hos Mann Co. der tillader overdragelsen af direktørrollen ved at vinde i ubevæbnet kamp. Hale, der ikke kunne få sig selv til at kæmpe imod hende, gjorder han sin butler, Hr. Bidwell, til direktør. Men da Bidwell heller ikke ville tage kampen op, var Hale tvunget til at overdrage Mann Co. til Olivia.

  • Olivia dukker først op i del 1 af 6-delte tegneserie: Ring of Fired.
  • Olivia's biologiske forhold til Gray er ikke bekræftet, og med den overvejende aldersforskel på dem, kan det tyde på at hun er adopteret.
  • Olivia's navn viderefører arven om at refererer til en farve, ligesom hendes far og onkler (Olivia = olivengrøn).
  • Olivia er på nuværende tidspunkt, det eneste stadig levende medlem af Mann-familien.


Administratoren

“ ”
Hovedartikel: Administrator

Den originale og sædvanelige kommentator i Team Fortress 2 er også den nuværende (cirka 1960-1972) administrator af TF Industries, samt firmaerne Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) og Builders League United (BLU), og er den (rigtige) arbejdsgiver til lejesoldaterne (på begge hold). Administratoren er dukket op og er blevet refereret til adskillige gange i Team Fortress 2-tegneserien og andre medier. Kvinder med lignende udseende er også dukket op, men har varieret meget i tid og alder; og visse karakterer påstår at hun har været aktiv i mere end et et århundrede.

Elizabeth

Hovedartikel: Elizabeth

Elizabeth var tjenestepige hos Zepheniah Mann i det 19-århundrede, og har en slående lighed i udseende til den nuværende Adminitrator. Da han døde i 1850, overlod Zepheniah hans resterende formue (Engelsk) og hans depot af "mirakelgrus" til hende.

  • Elizabeth dukkede først op i Zepheniah Mann familieportrættet.


Administratorens budbringere

Administatorens budbringer
“
Det her er stedet.
— Administratorens budbringer da han finder BLU Soldier's lejlighed
 ”

Administratorens budbringere er mystiske individer hyret af Administratoren til at levere beskeder til lejesoldaterne, via et mini-fjernsyn de har rundt om maven. En budbringer blev vist første gang, i BLU Soldier's lejlighed, hvor han leverer en besked fra Adminstratoren som kan ses på det lille fjernsyn.

Endnu en budbringer kan ses i Meet the Director-tegneserien, dræbt af lejesoldaterne fra RED, i et forsøg på at lokke information ud af ham. Administratoren tog ikke så pænt at de dræbte budbringeren, grundet at han så ikke længere kunne retunere fjernsynet, så hun er nødsaget til at købe flere. Administratoren's kommentar om at lejesoldaterne har "skudt endnu en budbringer", indikerer at der har været tideligere budbringere, og lejesoldaterne har gjort det til en vane at dræbe dem.


Frk. Pauling

Frk. Pauling i Expiration Date
Hovedartikel: Frk. Pauling

Frk. Pauling er den Administratorens loyale assistent. Hun udfører en række opgaver, hun står bl.a. for: usædvanelige baggrundstjek, bestilling og levering af varer, vedligeholdelse af kommunikationskanaler og mord. Frk. Pauling vil som regel gøre som hendes arbejdsgiver befaler selv hvis hun ikke synes om opgaven, af frygt for at gøre Administratoren vred.

  • Frk. Pauling dukkede først op i WAR! opdaterings-tegneserien.
    • Frk. Pauling blev animeret for første gang i Love & War-opdateringsfilmen: Expiration Date.
      • Dette betyder at hun er den første NPC som er animeret af Valve.
  • Scout har udtrykt at han har romantiske følelser for Frk. Pauling, som hun prøver at ignorere fuldt ud.

Direktøren

Direktøren
“
Hvis du kunne vælge ét ord til at beskrive dig selv, Hr. Mundy, Hvad ville det så være? Det vil jeg besvare for dig: "offer."
— Direktøren
 ”

Direktøren er en mindre arrogant filmskaber, hyret af Administratoren. Direktøren er ansvarlig for Meet the Team-serien, som var lavet i et forsøg på at lokke information ud af lejesoldaterne, i tilfælde af at Administratoren skulle bruge deres egne ord imod dem. Dog, så var Direktøren blevet overbevist om at disse film skulle vise beboerne i Badlands, at de ikke bare var "bevæbnede psykopater der sprænger deres områder i luften på en daglig basis".

Da Administratoren mente at hun havde indsamlet nok snavs på hendes arbejdere, beordrede hun Frk. Pauling til at myrde Direktøren. Frk. Pauling tog ham med ud til en mine, hvor han var under opfattelsen at Administratoren ventede der, på at få lavet hendes interview. Frk. Pauling havde en pose med hurtigttørrende cement og en skovl gemt omme i baggagerummet. Direktørens nuværende velbefindende er uvist, men det er antaget at han er død efter hans "interview" med Administratoren . En plakat der oplyser at Direktøren er meldt savnet, kan findes bl.a. på Doomsday, Coal Town, Mannworks, Powerhouse, samt andre baner, hvilket yderligere tyder på at han ikke længere er i live.

Ukendt person

I det næsten komplette familieportræt, kan man se endnu en person i mellemrummet af de to billedhalvdele. Navnet på dette individ er ukendt, og er ikke blevet referet til endnu. Vedkommende kan ses her. I portrættet ligner det at personen holder noget i sin venstre arm, men det er ikke tydeligt hvad det er.


Hale-Stamtræet

Barnabus Hale

Barnabus Hale i 1850.
“
Jeg er vild med den her pumas PEBERSOVS!
— Barnabus Hale der bekæmper et fjendtligt rovdyr ved en bisættelse
 ”

Barnabus Hale var en nytilkommen jager i det 19.-århundredes Australien, hyret af Zepheniah Mann. Da Bette døde i barselsengen efter at have født, græder han for hende, dét han var tilsyneladende den eneste der gjorder. Hale ville senere arve Mann Co. da Zepheniah døde. Han er bedstefar til Saxton Hale, og deler den samme meget maskuline personlighed.


  • Barnabus Hale i cirka. 1861

Bilious Hale

“
Ingen lejesoldat-kampe på området.
— Bilious Hale om hans hemmelighed til at Mann Co. er udvalgt som "den sikreste arbejdsplads i Badlands"
 ”

Bilious Hale er far til Saxton Hale og var ejer af Mann Co. i 1900-tallet, da han overtog det efter sin far, Barnabus Hale. Bilious var udsat for en farligt sammenstyrtning af en mine, der dræbte fjorten arbejdere, men Bilious var i stand til at grave sig ud ved at slå murbrokkerne itu med sine bare næver, hvilket gjorder ham endnu mere berømt og omtalt i avisen. I marts 1922, lukkede Bilious Hale for kulminen og ammunitionsfabrikken der udnyttede kullet, 50 år efter at de blev grundlagt. Dog, så var ét af rumende efterladt som et "historisk bevarende rum", på begrundelsen af at de genstande som befandt sig i rummet ikke var nødvendige på daværende tidspunkt. Men at de kunne bevares til fremtiden, hvis de skulle blive nødvendige. I hans levetid, var Bilious én af fem personer som ejede en telefon i USA, sammen med Redmond & Blutarch, præsidenten, Alexander Graham Bell og angiveligt Administratorens forgænger.

  • Bilious Hale's portræt

  • Bilious der ryger en cigar efter en hård arbejdsdag i kulminen

Saxton Hale

Saxton Hale som han ser ud i videoen der kom med Jungle Inferno-opdateringen.
“
Vi sælger produkter og laver slagsmål.
— Saxton Hale's slogan
 ”
Hovedartikel: Saxton Hale

Saxton Hale er en vovende australier, direktør og CEO af Mann Co. og stjernen af mange af tegneserierne.

  • Saxton er den sidste i sin familie som overtog magten ved Mann Co. firmaet

Hr. Bidwell

Hr. Bidwell
“
Rørt til tårer, hr. her er deres morgenbøf.
— Hr. Bidwell
 ”

Hr. Bidwell er én af Saxton Hale's assistenter, sammen med Hr. Reddy. Hans ansvarområde er bl.a. at servere Hale's måltider og tage sig af tilbagemeldinger fra kunder. Bidwell er skaberen af det nye Mann Co.-Våbenkatalog, han er bindeleddet imellem adskillige produktfabrikanter og Mann Co. I hans første fremtræden, havde Bidwell et cykelstyrsoverskæg, dette var senere barberet af.

Saxton Hale sendte Bidwell til Sarif Industries, som troede at de skulle indgå et partnerskab om at udvikle bioteknologi. Men imens repræsentanterne fra Sarif kiggede igennem deres "kontrakt", unslap Bidwell med en kasse fuld af våben, som senere blev skilt ad og lavet om til Manno-Tekonologi. Bidwell skrev denne udspekulerede udnyttelse ned i en hemmelig besked til Hale, som svarede tilbage og bad Bidwell om at "stoppe med at skrive de her ting ned".

Bidwell, sammen med Reddy, var tæt på at blive fyret af Hale, for at foreslå prøveperioder for genstande og meget af Manniversary-opdatering & udsalget. De fremviste adskillige nye hatte og beklædningsgenstande i en sektion af Manniversary-opdatering & udsalg-siden, før de blev pludseligt afbrudt af Hale og hans skøre dilemma om at gemme en død struds.

Tre dage efter at "Grus-krigen" blev afsluttet da Blutarch og Redmond Mann døde, fremstod Bidwell som en ekspert på primatvold sammen med Saxton Hale, med det formål af at filme Saxton bekæmpe den sidste levende yeti. Lige før Saxton skal til at tæve yetien, blivwe Bidwell informeret af Reddy at Mann Co.-butikkerne er under angreb. Bidwell overdrager denne information til Saxton, som fortæller Bidwell at han allerede er klar over disse angreb. Bidwell filmer derefter Saxton's overgreb på yetien, som Saxton bruger som en instruktionsvideo til lejesoldaterne, om hvordan de skal bedst udføre deres nye arbejde, som er at beskytte Mann Co. fra robotter. Bidwell sender optagelserne af til Frk. Pauling, som viser det til de resterende lejesoldater på holdende RED og BLU.

Bidwell dukker også op i følgende


Mr. Reddy

Mr. Reddy
“
You're now the sixth richest man in America, Mr. Hale.
— Mr. Reddy
 ”

Mr. Reddy, along with Mr. Bidwell, is one of Saxton Hale's assistants. Specifically, he is Hale's accountant and takes his calls. Under Hale's orders, Mr. Reddy sent the five richest men in America congratulatory bouquets and "You're a dead man" form letters. During his first appearance, Reddy sported a thick box car mustache, however, this was later shaved off. Upon completing the achievement Mission Accomplished in Spiral Knights, Mr. Reddy sends the player a congratulatory letter and the Spiral Sallet. He also created the Dueler, Gifting Man From Gifting Land and Philateler.[2]

Reddy, along with Bidwell, risked being dismissed by suggesting the idea of item tryouts and much of the Manniversary Update & Sale. They showcased various new hats and Miscellaneous items in a section of the Manniversary Update and Sale page before being rudely interrupted by Saxton Hale's dilemma of hiding a dead ostrich.

Reddy later informed Bidwell of the attacks by robots on all Mann Co. facilities.


Patience Meriweather

Patience Meriweather, circa 1822

Patience Meriweather helped to deliver the three sons of Zepheniah Mann and his wife Bette: Redmond, Blutarch, and Gray. She also gave the news of Bette's death to Zepheniah and Barnabus Hale, who was present at the time.


Blutarch Mann's assistant

1960
1890
“
Give him a moment, dear. He's just dead.
— Blutarch Mann's assistant's everyday routine.
”

Blutarch Mann's assistant is an unnamed woman who has worked for Blutarch for at least 60 years. She is shown in 1960 presenting Dell Conagher to Blutarch Mann and again in an 1890 flashback presenting Radigan Conagher to Blutarch Mann. After she calls Dell "Mister Conagher" a couple of times, he politely tells her to just call him "Dell" since "Mister Conagher" was his grandfather's name. She replies, "Yes. I remember."

  • Blutarch Mann's assistant's first appearance was in the comic Loose Canon.


Groups

Australians

Australians in the 1890s.
“
Every one of mankind's innovations now comes from the lager-pickled brain of an Australian.
— The Administrator's ancestor on the mustache-sporting, beer-swilling, deathray-inventing Australians
 ”

Once thought of as a nation of idiots, since 1850 Australians had become world leaders in technology. Every innovation, including Cloaking and teleportation, now came from the brain of a lager-loving Australian. By the 1890s, Sydney had become a city of tomorrow with flying cars, giant airships, and self-grooming mustaches. Much like their national hero, Saxton Hale, every man, woman and child in the nation of Australia (with the exception of at least three, the Sniper and his adoptive parents) sports a glorious, full mustache. An ancestor of the Administrator theorized that the nation's incredible intelligence came from a rare element, Australium. This theory seemed to prove true as the element amplified Radigan Conagher's intelligence to phenomenal levels, and also caused various Australian-related side effects including rapid mustache growth, extreme masculinity, and the primal urge to take off his shirt and grow chest hair in the shape of his homeland. However, as the Australium deposits located in Australia that gave these phenomenal people such capacity declined, mainly due to the intentions of the Administrator, the once proud race are reduced to weaker simpletons. It is mentioned by Spy that the Australium mines had run dry 2 months prior to Zhanna, Soldier and Spy's success in securing a submarine.

Australia chooses its king through a Kangaroo boxing match.


Mann Co. Monkeynautics

Mann Co. Monkeynautics is a subdivision of Mann Co. that, after offering to host the launch for the price of one dollar, worked to send Monkeynaut Poopy Joe into space to fight Russian rival Vladimir Bananas, among other reasons. The Mann Co. Monkeynautics logo appears across the map Doomsday as the company hosting the event, whose rocket malfunctions and crashes into a nearby satellite tower, exploding and killing the Monkeynaut inside.


Badland Brawlers

The Demoman with a Badland Brawlers foam hand.

The Badland Brawlers are a sports team from the Badlands.


BLU team (original)

BLU team, 1850s
“
...I assembled a team of the world's deadliest mercenaries to take it all by force. What I did not expect was that my idiot brother would do the same.
— Blutarch Mann discussing his original BLU team
 ”

The original BLU team was assembled by Blutarch Mann in the 1850s in an attempt to claim all of the land bequeathed to him and his brother, Redmond, by their father. Unfortunately for Blutarch, it appears that the original RED team was assembled at the same time, leaving both siblings at a stalemate. The original team consisted of the same nine classes as the current organization. The Scout, inspired by Billy the Kid, took on the appearance of a young cowboy, complete with spurred boots. The Soldier, who resembles Stonewall Jackson, dressed like a member of the Confederate States Army, utilizing a rifle, rather than a Rocket Launcher. In keeping with tradition, the Demoman, inspired by Alfred Nobel, was a one-eyed dynamite-loving prospector. Unlike his modern Russian counterpart, the Heavy resembled John Henry, preferring to put his enemies out of commission with a monstrous sledgehammer, whilst the Sniper, like Davy Crockett, partnered his trusty rifle with a coonskin cap. Prior to his appointment as President of the United States, the Pyro, Abraham Lincoln, used an experimental Flamethrower to aid his comrades in battle. BLU team's Medic, resembling Sigmund Freud, appeared to retain his contemporary's love of the Bonesaw, whilst the team's Engineer, who resembles Nikola Tesla, was forced to make do with a satchel of Blueprints, rather than a PDA. Finally, the Spy eschewed a balaclava in favor of a domino-mask and equally-sinister mustache in the style of Fu Manchu.

  • The original BLU team first appeared in the Loose Canon comic.


Team Fortress Classic mercenaries

The Team Fortress Classic Mercenaries along with Bilious Hale in the 1930s

In the A Cold Day in Hell comic, the Team Fortress Classic mercenaries (minus their Medic) appear, willing to help Gray Mann find the Administrator and the current Team Fortress 2 mercenaries.

  • One Team Fortress Classic mercenary first appeared in the Team Fortress Comic Ring of Fired as a shadowy silhouette of the Classic Heavy.
  • The identity of the silhouette along with his team was revealed in the Cold Day in Hell comic.
  • The Classic Mercenaries from the 1930s appeared in the Catch-Up Comic
    • The Classic Medic has yet to appear in any other Comic. His current whereabouts are unknown.
  • In Old Wounds, the Classic Demoman, Spy and Pyro are all killed at the hands of the Team Fortress 2 Mercenaries while the Classic Heavy kills Gray Mann for his Life Extending Machine before draining all the blood of the TF2 Mercenaries.


Hippies

Hippies protesting Mann Co.

Hippies were a 1960s and early 1970s minority subculture reputed for protesting, pacifism, and relaxed hygiene.[3] They were particularly noted for long hair, burning "patchouli oil incense", and protesting the Vietnam War (nominally in the name of anti-violence). In Team Fortress 2, hippies are a recurring adversary for Saxton Hale and Mann Co. The Soldier makes several mentions of hippies, usually disparaging their pacifism and hair length.


RED and BLU family members

Scout's mother

BLU Scout's mother
Scout's mother in his dream (top left)
“
BLU Scout: "What're you? President of his fan-club?"
BLU Spy: "No... that would be your mother!"
— The "BLU Scout" and the BLU Spy
 ”

The Scout's mother is briefly mentioned and shown in Meet the Spy when the BLU Spy reveals photographs of a tryst between RED Spy and the Scout's mother to the team's Heavy and Soldier, and the RED Spy disguised as the team's Scout. She also appears in the beginning of the Second Annual Saxxy Awards trailer, where her arm can be seen and she can be heard screaming while she runs away. She raised the Scout and his seven "mad-dog" brothers in south Boston, and somehow still managed to keep her figure. She is in a romantic relationship with the RED Spy, who lovingly calls her "ma petit chou-fleur", which roughly means "my little cauliflower" in French. The BLU Scout's mother wears a classic late 60s style dress and bob hairstyle. Seven compromising photos of her with the RED Spy are kept in a top secret file labeled 'Scout's Mom' in the BLU base. The Spy has a likeness of her engraved on the barrel of the Ambassador.

  • The Scout's mother first appearance was in Meet the Spy. She was later seen in the Second Annual Saxxy Awards trailer.
  • The Scout's mother appears in the comics in a dream in A Cold Day in Hell where Scout dreams she is standing alongside the Spy watching an infant Scout take his first steps.

Engineer's father

The young Engineer with his father.

"Engineer's father" appears in a photo presumed to have been found within Radigan's notes that his grandson, Dell Conagher, received from Blutarch Mann. This has been interpreted as an engineer, wearing an older style of pressed aluminum, full-brimmed hard hat, giving a boy his first pair of goggles. That boy is presumed to be a young Dell and the man to be Dell's father.

  • In The Naked and the Dead, the Team Fortress Classic team's Engineer is portrayed as overweight with both his legs replaced with robotic legs and wearing a full-brimmed hard hat with a different ribbing pattern. Addressed by the TFC Heavy as "Fred", the Community has interpreted this character as Fred Conagher, Dell's Father.
  • At the conclusion of The Naked and the Dead, all of the TFC team are presumed dead, killed in the fighting, except for Fred, whose fate is not shown.


Mr. & Mrs. DeGroot

Family portrait
Elderly Mrs. DeGroot
“
Yer da walked fifteen miles in the rain to blow up the Queen of England for a Nickel!
— Mrs. DeGroot on the family trade
 ”

The Demoman's mother, Mrs. Tilly DeGroot, is a blind, elderly woman who reminisces constantly about the Demoman's late father, Mr. DeGroot. Even with her son's multi-million dollar salary and mansion, she still thinks he does not work hard enough, claiming that the Demoman's father would be spinning in his grave at his idleness and had 26 jobs. She insisted on bringing up the Demoman Scottish, and does not like to see him "squandering his gifts." She also comments: "No Demoman worth his sulfur ever had an eye in his head past thirty!"

She, along with the Demoman's father, collected the young Tavish from the Crypt Grammar School for Orphans, revealing themselves as his true parents. They explained that he was abandoned at birth until his skills manifested themselves, a longstanding, cruel, and wholly unnecessary tradition among the Highland Demolition Men.

The Demoman's mother advised her son to go searching for jobs on All Hallow's Eve, saying that all of the ghouls would vanish in one day.

  • Mrs. DeGroot first appeared in the WAR! Update comic, WAR!.
  • Mrs. DeGroot appears again in Ring of Fired. She chastizes the depressed Demoman and his "lazy goost-sword" for their lack of jobs. She is last seen cheering as the Demoman is rehired by Ms. Pauling.


Mr. & Mrs. Mundy

Mr. & Mrs. Mundy
“
I'll be honest with ya: my parents do not care for it.
— The Sniper on his trade
 ”

Mr. Jonathan Mundy & Mrs. Mundy are the Sniper's adoptive parents. Being a dutiful son, the Sniper makes sure to keep in touch with his parents via phone or mail to inquire about their well-being and keep them up to date with his latest adventures and exploits. Living in the "Red House on the Left on Adelaide St. in Australia", the Sniper's parents do not approve of his occupation. The Sniper's dad is especially condemning, calling the Sniper a "crazed gunman" against the Sniper's insistence that he is an "assassin". In a bid to bring the arguments to an end, the Sniper wrote to his mom asking her to just tell his dad about how he makes more than a doctor and then finally asks her to just tell him that he is a doctor. After the Sniper was interviewed by the Director, the Sniper received mailed photographs of his parents.

Like their adoptive son, neither one of them have mustaches, a seemingly rare trait amongst Australians. Mr. & Mrs. Mundy also bear a striking resemblance to Eustace and Muriel Bagge from Courage the Cowardly Dog. The comic's illustrator later confirmed that this similarity, along with the similarities of their homes, was "very much on purpose" due to time constraints.[Kilde mangler]

In the Team Fortress 2 Comic #4 Blood in the Water, Sniper reveals that his parents passed away six months prior, shortly after Gray's takeover of Mann Co., and learned that the Mundys were not his birth parents.

Mr. & Mrs. Mundy appeared in Sniper's vision of Heaven in Old Wounds. Having been killed in action in the previous issue, the Sniper expresses his wish to be reunited with his adoptive parents in the afterlife. The Mundys share his sentiments, but gently remind him that he's still a professional assassin, and that there are still enemies that need to be killed. Upon revival, the Sniper tells the Medic what happened, but the Medic claims that the vision was a hallucination as a result of injecting a blue whale's pineal gland into his brain stem, but the Sniper assures him of what awaits him and declares himself the most dangerous man alive thanks to the encouragement from his parents.


Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah

Sniper's parents at a younger age.
“
Get the @#$% out of my rocket!
— Young Bill-Bel yelling to Young Lar-Nah as she gets in the rocket
 ”

Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah are the Sniper's birth parents. They originate from the lost underwater country of New Zealand.

Years prior, Bill-Bel theorized that the Earth would be covered in magma, and he proposed that the country be encased in a glass dome and sunk to the bottom of the ocean to escape danger. He later proposed to New Zealand's council of leaders to send the country into space, but the council furiously rejects him, pointing out that they are now out of resources due to his original plan and all detest their underwater existence. Bill-Bel returned home, having built a rocket with which to get into space, only to get into a fight with his wife Lar-Nah over who gets to be the only occupant. In the confusion their toddler son Mun-dee (an infant Sniper) crawls into the rocket, which launches through New Zealand's protective dome, flooding the city and dooming its citizens.

Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah survive drowning by hiding out in a sealed laboratory, cut off from the rest of the world until Miss Pauling, Sniper and the other mercenaries arrive in a submarine; Lar-Nah has become a grouchy alcoholic constantly furious at her husband's idiocy. Much to Miss Pauling's horror, Bill-Bel, not understanding the metal's true potential as nuclear energy source and for life extension, used the last cache of Australium stored in New Zealand to paint his prototype escape rockets, all of which exploded save for one. Lar-Nah then offers Miss Pauling some of her wine as the latter is flabbergasted at Bill-Bel's stupidity.

Upon learning from Sniper that the Earth was not covered in magma (thereby disproving Bill-Bel's theory), Lar-Nah steals the only remaining rocket, successfully escaping into space. Likewise, Bill-Bel steals the navy submarine Miss Pauling and the team had arrived on, stranding the group in the steadily flooding ruins.

  • Bill-Bel and Lar-Nah were first introduced in Blood in the Water.
  • Sniper bears a striking resemblance to his mother Lar-Nah. Both have the same facial shape, structure as well as skin tone.
  • Although being the biological parents of Sniper, they do not care for their son instead looking out for themselves.

  • Sniper's Father at his current age in the comic's story.

  • Sniper's mother at her current age in the comic's story.


Radigan Conagher

Radigan Conagher
“
...Alright.
— Radigan Conagher on making people monsters
 ”

The BLU Engineer's grandfather, Radigan Conagher, was hired by Blutarch Mann to build a machine to artificially allow him to live longer than his brother. He agrees to build the machine for Blutarch. Later, he is approached by a woman who bears a resemblance to that of The Administrator. She offers him Australium to build Blutarch's Machine, under the stipulation that he covertly builds an identical machine for Redmond as well. On a personal level, Radigan Conagher had a fascination for Abraham Lincoln. In the first edition of The Engineer Update, several pages of notes are dedicated to inventing an object that could have saved Lincoln from John Wilkes Booth. Some devices include: a hat that would shoot at the attacker, a chair that would swing over and under a balcony away from the attacker, and a teleporter.

Radigan goes through a drastic transformation as shown in the hidden links of the Engineer Update. He seems to have become taller, grown a mustache, developed large muscles, and has a fond thirst for beer. This matches the qualities of the stereotypical Australians in Team Fortress 2. This is probably due to his exposure to Australium. One could even say he looks like an older Saxton Hale. In the photographs displayed on the Engineer Update webpage, Conagher is also shown holding what seems to be the very first Southern Hospitality. In the final stage of his transformation, it is shown that he had replaced his left hand with a robotic arm and his chest hair had grown into the shape of Texas, similar to Saxton Hale's Australian shaped chest hair. He also appears more "Australian" than before, as a large jovial man (in contrast to his previously reserved personality) with a big, bushy mustache and carrying a barrel of BLU Streak beer, a taste shared by his grandson Dell. One of the Paint Can colors, "Radigan Conagher Brown" bears his name.

  • Radigan Conagher first appeared in the Loose Canon comic.


Heavy's family

RED Heavy embracing his mother
“
Yana: We have caught dinner!
Bronislava: It is bear. Again.
— The Heavy's sisters returning from a hunt
 ”

While not much is known, the family history of Misha, the Heavy, was first discussed in the Meet the Director comic. Heavy's father was executed for being a counter-revolutionist. After the death of his father in autumn of 1941, Misha was deported to a Northern Siberian gulag along with his mother and three underage younger sisters, Zhanna, Yana, and Bronislava. The Heavy and his family worked at the gulag for three months, until it was burned to the ground some time in December 1941. It was later found that all of the prisoners had escaped and the guards of the camp had been tortured to death.

The Heavy was shown to be still in contact with his family and using his mercenary wages to provide for them in the comic Bombinomicon. In A Cold Day in Hell, the Heavy's family was shown to be living in the Siberian mountains, eating almost exclusively bear meat, where the Heavy had been protecting them from "the people who hurt [them] before." However, with the Heavy rejoining the team, his family began to move to the United States.

Yana and Bronislava are apparently attracted to some of the mercenaries, namely the Sniper and Spy. Zhanna, however, plays the biggest role in the comics compared to Heavy's other sisters; she begins a relationship with the Soldier due to her not having seen a man in twenty years, and after her rejection of the Scout because he talked too much. Her relationship with Soldier stays strong as she tags along with the mercenaries through the events of Blood in the Water, Old Wounds and The Naked and the Dead. She also begins to learn how to fight along with the Soldier, albeit through his unorthodox (and incorrect) ways - including losing her left hand after attempting to escape from a pair of handcuffs using the "old dislocating thumb trick", and fighting stark naked while covered in honey.


Other main Storyline characters

Other characters with either important Storyline dialog or having recurrent appearances or mentions.

Archimedes

This section is about the non-player character. For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation).
A bloodied Archimedes, among the Medic's other doves.
“
Archimedes, no! It's filthy in there!
— Medic in response to Archimedes frolicking in the Heavy's innards
 ”

Archimedes is one of the RED Medic's many white pet doves, identifiable by his permanently blood-stained feathers. Archimedes first appeared in Meet the Medic, and was shown to have a habit of burrowing into the Medic's patients; his in-game description attests to this also.

Archimedes previously worked as a wedding dove, until the Medic stole a catering van with him inside from the wedding of a prime minister.



Bombinomicon awarding players prizes on Skull Island.

Bombinomicon

Hovedartikel: Bombinomicon (character)
Se også: Bombinomicon (cosmetic item)

​Bombinomicon is a sentient book of forbidden knowledge and ancient wickedness, who lived for a time in the possession of Merasmus the Magician, and has multiple appearances in maps and cosmetics.


Captain Dan

Captain Dan's Army Surplus Soup

Captain Dan is a local soup manufacturer. After a massive soup recall, he generously volunteered in disposing the rancid product, and a relieved President awarded him the Key to the City and a License to Kill. The Soldier is a fan of his brand of tomato soup. Captain Dan's name is also on the sticker of the Cheese Wheel.

  • In Mannhattan signage, next to the pulp grinder, Captain Dan advertises that the wood pulp in his products is Now Legal to Eat. Adding wood pulp to food, especially bread, and now soup, as a cheap filler or thickener is an old practice.


Charles Darling

Charles Darling
“
A hunter needs his trophies, Saxton. You of all people should understand that. You were my best student, once. Before you gave it all up, for her.
— Charles Darling on hunting
 ”

Charles Darling is the former hunting mentor of Mann Co. owner Saxton Hale. Formerly a hunter, Darling decided to give up a life of savagery for a more comfortable one of zoo-keeping. His falling-out with Saxton appeared to occur following Saxton's decision to abandon his training for Her. He is currently the owner and proprietor of Darling Zoos.

He enjoys watching the animals in his zoos suffer, and in the comic A Cold Day in Hell he has animals stand on boxes and stick their head through mounting plates, so he can look at the defeated looks in their eyes, which he finds amusing.

However, not satisfied with humiliating nearly or recently extinct animals, he created Charles Darling's Triassic Preserve to disgrace the great creatures of the past — today!

He is one of the parties pursuing Australium; his intention for the metal being to make his animals, "the last of their breeds", immortal.

  • Charles Darling may be presumed to be a descendant of Bette Mann's father, Wm. Darling, Esq., and thus to be a distant relative of the Mann triplets.
  • He is thought to be based on the famed evolutionist Charles Darwin; the animals shown in the opening page of Bidwell's Big Plan are all specific examples of animals Charles Darwin discussed in his book On the Origin of Species: Pygmy rabbit: infantile cuteness and tameness in domesticated rabbits; Dodo: vestigial organs (vestigial wings in Logger-back ducks); Bird cage: Darwin’s finches; Sea cows: Sirenia; Tasmanian wolf: convergent evolution; Quagga: Zebra stripes in domestic horses; Giraffes.
  • Charles Darling first appeared in Bidwell's Big Plan.
  • Charles Darling also appeared in Unhappy Returns and A Cold Day in Hell.


Devil

The Devil in Hell
“
We will... not be... DENIED!
— The Devil to the Medic
 ”

Within TF2, Hell is shown as a tangible place, the mercenaries having even performed missions there. The Devil, a large, horned, red-skinned businessman in a sharp suit, works as is its chief executive manager, receiving recently departed souls on their way to Hell, especially those whom have entered into contracts with him, such as the Medic.

  • In The Naked and the Dead, the Devil learns that, contractually, he has only minority share in the Medic's now surgically appended soul. Rather than releasing Medic to Heaven, the Devil accepts Medic's proposal to resurrect him and allow the Devil time to attempt to regain majority share in Medic's souls.


Eyelander

For the weapon, see Eyelander.
Eyelander, watching ghost D.A.
“
...headddds....
Klik for at høre
— Eyelander
 ”

Eyelander is a sentient, speaking, haunted sword.

  • Eyelander became Demoman's companion following Demoman's estrangement from Soldier.
  • In Unhappy Returns, it is suggested that Eyelander is capable of striking victims on its own.
  • Upon its first appearance, Eyelander was only able to whisper the word heads. As of Ring of Fired, however, it is now able to watch television, speak more words (including swearing, which it does frequently), and apparently eat churros.


Francis the Talking France

Francis the Talking France
“
They sound complicated enough that Valve decided they had no business judging cinéma.
— Francis the Talking France on French vocabulary
 ”

Francis the Talking France is a sentient manifestation of France with an apparent knowledge of cinema. He claims to be the inventor of the French terms "Mise en scene! Auteur! Avante-garde! Montage! Even cinéma!". Valve put him in charge of judging all the Saxxy entries, but realizing that the job would be too big even for himself, he opened the voting to the public.

  • Francis the Talking France first appeared on the website Old Man Murray, co-written by Valve writer Erik Wolpaw.[4]
  • The character appeared on the Official Team Fortress 2 Blog on the 20th of May.[5]
  • Francis is actually a mirror image of France, with its west in the east and vice versa.
  • A child dresses as Francis for Halloween in the Bombinomicon comic.
  • A cartoonized Francis appears on baby Scout's shirt on page 53 of A Cold Day in Hell.
  • Miss Pauling references Francis the Talking France in one of her voice mail recordings to the Spy when giving him a rare contract.
  • Francis can be seen on the cover of the comic book Scout reads when performing the Homerunner's Hobby taunt.


God

God along with two angels
“
Too... bright! Too glorious!
— God upon seeing Scout's magnificent flex
 ”

God is the ruler of Heaven and personal designer of the Scout, introduced in The Naked and the Dead. God claims to have made the Scout specifically as a "gift to the ladies"; the Scout is not his son however, although God says he wishes he were.

  • In The Naked and the Dead, God, infuriated to learn that not all women had Slept with the Scout, considers punishing them by destroying the Earth. The Scout convinces him against this however, and he opts instead to resurrect the Scout to give them all a final chance to have sex with him.


Jerry

Jerry
“
Here, hold these engine parts.
— Saxton Hale right before jumping off the plane
 ”

Jerry is Saxton Hale's pilot, and has survived leaping from at least two different crashing planes; both of these crashes were caused by Hale.


Maggie

Saxton and Mags talking romance as they are kicking a bunch of panthers
“
You left me, Sax. For your father's stupid hat company.
— Maggie to Saxton Hale.
”

Margret, also nicknamed Mags and Maggie, is the ex-girlfriend of Saxton Hale. The two used to fight exotic animals together while both holding Charles Darling as their nemesis. Maggie broke up with Hale after he became CEO of Mann Co. After the break up, Mags had married four men, whom had all died while on her extreme adventures. When Gray Mann took over Mann Co., Maggie, now an employee of Darling, helps Hale ask him for help in winning back the company.


Mayor Mike

Mayor Mike
“
Of course I can, I'm the Mayor! Mayors can do anything!
— Mayor Mike on what he believes to be the law
 ”

Mayor Mike, or just Mike as he prefers, is the grossly incompetent mayor of Teufort, first introduced in Unhappy Returns.

Despite acting as mayor, Mike has absolutely no idea what a mayor can legally do, his abuse of power going as far as forcing a man to live as an Italian stereotype for ten years. Mike also committed a series of mistakes of criminal civic mismanagement, all of which he pinned on the mercenaries, whom he subsequently attempted to have arrested.

Mike succeeded in arresting the Scout and Spy in an ambush at the Teufort bank, then illegally acted as a judge to preside over the pair's trial for historic crimes against the city, during which both the Soldier and Demoman were also captured. Mike attempted to sentence all four to death by hanging, before Miss Pauling explained to him how little a mayor could actually do, and he relinquished to visit the Teufort library to learn more on his actual duties to the town.


Merasmus the Magician

Merasmus the Magician
Hovedartikel: Merasmus

Merasmus the Magician is a powerful wizard and former roommate of the Soldier, who has wide ranging participation as a non-player character in the game, Background, and Comics.


Poopy Joe

Poopy Joe, monkeynaut and American hero.
“
I have no idea what you're - ooo, right. That poor monkey.
— Saxton Hale suddenly remembers his involvement in the loss of Poopy Joe
 ”

Poopy Joe was the first (and the only fully trained) American Monkeynaut, who died in the crash of his rocket moments after launch. The rocket in question had been sabotaged by Mann Co. who had hosted its launch for the price of one dollar as a ploy to steal its Australium fuel source; the crash was subsequently covered up.

Mann Co. denies all responsibility for his death, and actually created commemorative plates in remembrance of Poopy Joe, and America's dream of conquering space. The plates depict a series of items that Poopy Joe would have used in space, which were: A Sword for fighting Vladimir Bananas, a Bugle to be blown to sound for help should he encounter trouble, and a Pick-axe for digging into Heaven's vault.

During the ARG leading up to the Pyromania Update, new information surrounding the death of Poopy Joe came to light. In leaked pages from the Senate Hearing of Mann Co. it is revealed that the rocket's Australium fuel had been switched for gravel water from defective suitcase explosives, and stolen by the Administrator. Once the rocket hit ignition the lack of fuel caused it to malfunction and crash, detonating the explosives on impact and killing Poopy Joe.

Vladimir Bananas

Vladimir Bananas was a Soviet space chimp and the first monkey in space, mentioned in the footnotes of Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl #44. America rushed to follow with their own Monkeynaut launch, which ended in disaster.


Nicholas Crowder/Old Nick

Nicholas Crowder, now known as "Old Nick".
“
The nice children are given the greatest gift of all -- they are not abducted along with the naughty ones and carted off to the South Pole.
— Robin Walker on the story of Old Nick
 ”

Nicholas Crowder or Old Nick is a Smissmas holiday mascot and conqueror of the South Pole. He is shown to ride a sleigh pulled by at least three reindeer, one of whom wears an eye-patch, and a red-nosed Kangaroo wearing the Prancer's Pride.

According to legend, on December 18th, 1788, Nick, initially a settler to Australia, changed his mind on arrival and left for the South Pole, returning each December 18th to pass judgement on the children of Australia, sparing the nice, and abducting the naughty. Those abducted spend the next year crafting toys for Nick, which are wrapped and delivered to his mansion on December 17th. Nick then opens each, selling duplicate items for greatly reduced prices online.

  • Old Nick was introduced in the Australian Christmas update.
  • In the events of A Smissmas Story, Old Nick attempts to abduct children from a Teufort mall where three of the Mercs are performing community service. After being severely beaten by the Scout and Soldier, he relinquishes to abducting only one child, who, under the Spy's instruction, stabs him in the throat with an icicle, killing him.
  • His name, "Old Nick", is a name sometimes given to the Devil within Christian theology, and is used here as a play on words of the name of traditional Christmas character Saint Nick, otherwise known as Santa Claus.


The Park Warden

The park warden.
“
You're scaring ostriches on the premises? That's a hefty fine, ma'am.
— The Park Warden to Merasmus
 ”

The Park Warden is a civil servant in the employ of a Badlands city, introduced in Doom-Mates. She is tasked with evicting Merasmus, whom she mistakenly refers to as Ma'am, as his castle had been annexed by the city as a Raccoon sanctuary, with Soldier assigned as its park Ranger.


Shakespearicles

Shakespearicles, the strongest writer who ever lived.

Shakespearicles was the strongest writer who ever lived. He was the inventor of the two-story building, the stage play, America, and the Rocket Launcher. Despite his powerful grasp of language and the ability to bench press 700 British pounds, several inventions eluded his iron grip – most tragically among them, stairs.

For the next three hundred years, people who needed to reach a building's second floor used the only method available, which was rocket jumping. This persisted until 1857, when the young bearded inventor named President Abraham Lincoln invented stairs.

  • Valve has a large poster of Shakespearicles in their office.
  • Shakespearicles was first mentioned in the gunboats page of the War! Update, with an accompanying image given on a hidden page.
  • Shakespearicles' name and part of his backstory are based on William Shakespeare, a famous British playwright, and Heracles (herr-ə-kleez), a hero of Ancient and Classical Greece known for his incredible strength.
  • One of Miss Pauling's rare Tough Break contract calls attests to a Shakespearicles in the Park performance of Hamlet.
    • Echoing Shakespearicles' biography and the portmanteau of his name, the characters of the play are Hercules and the Shakespearian Macbeth engaged in a super-powered championship cage-wrestling match.




Yeti

The Yeti, pacified by hippies.
Se også: Yeti (disambiguation)

Yeti was a member of a recently extinct primate species that was native to the Himalayas, but had been seen in other remote alpine locations.

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Yetis were a rare and unspeakably savage race of creatures. As such, they were sought by Saxton Hale, who wanted to fight them. After falling out with his mentor, Charles Darling, Mr. Hale sought increasingly challenging animals to fight, from snow leopards and sharks to smarter than average grizzly bears. Days after the murder of Redmond and Blutarch, Saxton Hale had finally tracked the last Yeti to the Kingdom of Bhutan, only to discover that it had been pacified by hippies employing Behavioral Counseling and aromatherapy. By punching the Yeti in the face, Saxton undid these months of reconditioning. In the resulting fight, Saxton Hale defeated and captured the Yeti, then keeping it confined in a simple habitat in the fighting theme park, Yeti Park. In the following months, the captured Yeti was biomedically enhanced for even less speakable savagery within the YTI Institute for Research and Development adjacent to the park. The whole bloody point of this conditioning was to create the most challenging animal for Saxton Hale to fight when it escaped. Almost a year later, seething with steroidal strength and rage, the Yeti broke free of its laboratory confinement, bloodying the walls with the unfortunate staff of the Institute. With an assist from the Scout, Saxton Hale tracked and fought the escaped Yeti, killing it with a Yeti Punch.

Saxton Hale stuffed and mounted the defeated Yeti and displayed the trophy in his office with other mementos of his earlier adventures and animal fights; shortly before losing his collection, his office, and his entire company to Olivia Mann.

  • The last Yeti was introduced in A Fate Worse Than Chess.
  • The biomedical enhancement and violent escape is portrayed in the Mercenary Park map.
  • The death of the last Yeti is portrayed in the Jungle Inferno video.
  • In Ring of Fired, Hale brings the stuffed and mounted Yeti home for display in his office, which he then loses within the hour.
  • The mounted Yeti appears in The Contract, but this does not fit the Storyline.
  • A bloody Yeti hand print can be found outside of the playable area of Cursed Cove.


Minor ongoing characters

Minor character that have some correlation to the storyline with more than one mention or appearance (e.g., in both a map and a Comic, cosmetics).

Ebenezer Scrooge & Bob Cratchit

“
Okay. Eat your own hand, then. Not the map-making one!
— Scrooge on Cratchit's refusal to eat his only candle.
”

Bob Cratchit, a "kindly community map maker", and Scrooge, a "billionaire hat magnate", are characters in a Christmas play detailed in the Australian Christmas update.

  • These are satires of exceedingly popular characters in the Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.


Bonzo the Circus God

An effigy of Bonzo
“
Be afraid, mortals! Bonzo, the ancient Sumerian circus god, is coming!
— Merasmus on the arrival of Bonzo
 ”

Bonzo is the evil Ancient Sumerian god of circuses, worshiped by Merasmus.


Claude Huggins

Claude Huggins, founder of Teufort, NM

Claude Huggins, first mentioned in A Cold Day in Hell, was the founder of Teufort, which he originally named Hugginsville. Huggins survived a bear attack by hiding under the mauled corpse of his wife, founding the settlement on the very spot of the attack.

Claude Huggins's and Teufort's proud legacy of hiding is commemorated in the half dollar coin (pictured) and the statue in the Teufort Town Square City Dump.

  • A hidden image on the TF2 Blog that appeared before the Über Update depicts a doctors office. While the text on the box on the desk is just illegible, it is evocative of "Dr. Claude Huggins DECEASED".
  • Claude Huggins' name also appeared in a piece of graffiti, found on a wall in the Left 4 Dead series. Echoing the character's biography, the scrawled writing that mentions him says "CLAUDE HUGGINS / YOU ARE A COWARD / AND YOU LET YOUR CHILDREN DIE".


Gentle Manne of Leisure, his Companione, and Smelly Unfortunate

“
A-ha-ha! You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and IRISH. Tarnish notte the majesty of my TOWER of HATS.
— The Gentle Manne of Leisure commenting to Smelly Unfortunate
 ”

The Gentle Manne of Leisure is a Victorian Englishman who was rich enough to buy a tower of hats. He traveled the streets of a Victorian English city with his Companione, informing Smelly Unfortunate that the latter was presumptuous, poor, and Irish. The Gentle Manne of Leisure wore a tuxedo, carried a cane, and was never seen without his most prized possession – his tower of hats. It is possible that he is referred to as "Sinclaire" by his Companione as they spectate their 'Hatless Commoners' boxing.[6] Also, the quotation above is used as the description for the Towering Pillar of Hats.

  • The Gentle Manne of Leisure was first shown in the Classless Update, flanked by his Companione.
  • The pair, and Smelly Unfortunate, can be found in the June 1814 edition of Gentle Manne's Monthly.
  • Gentle Manne of Leisure and Smelly Unfortunate are also in the list of random bot names.

  • The Gentle Manne of Leisure and his Companione

  • Smelly Unfortunate


Gonzo

Gonzo is the indentical twin brother of the evil Ancient Sumerian god of circuses, Bonzo.

  • Gonzo first appeared in the Scream Fortress 2021 map Terror Where the Red team defends him from the Blu team who attempts to push a bomb into his mouth.
  • Gonzo's mouth contains Crocodiles that will eat any unfortunate victims that fall in.


Little Jack

Little Jack
“
An' I wanna Action Saxton, and a Action Saxton Hippie-Drome Battle Arena, an' a Poopy Joe Rescue Rocket, an' I wanna...
— Little Jack's Smissmas list
 ”

Little Jack is a young boy and Teufort local hero introduced in A Smissmas Story, responsible for the death of Smissmas holiday mascot Old Nick, whom he stabbed in the throat with an icicle. Jack killed Old Nick under the instructions of the BLU team's Spy, during an attempted kidnapping by Nick at the Teufort mall Santa booth.

  • In A Smissmas Story, Little Jack came to the Santa booth to ask for a slew of Saxton Hale toys. In response, the Soldier shaved the child's head, and gave him the gift of watching his father be beaten up by the Soldier.


Soldier's cutout war buddies

The Soldier's cutout war buddies.

Just as Soldier made his own medals, he also made his own old war buddies. Cutouts constructed of plywood or cardboard, Soldier sits with them around campfires, reminiscing about nonsensical war experiences, which exist only in his imagination.

  • In Grordbort's Crash, Soldier sits with well-painted plywood cutouts he names Salty Pete, Iron Eye, and Pepper Pot Pete, later also naming Peter Pepper-Pants and Salsa Pete. He addresses them as survivors of his old platoon as he hosts a "tea party" (ironically).
  • In rare Gun Mettle and Tough Break contract calls, Miss Pauling is aware of Soldier's campfires with his cardboard cutout buddies and knows his names for some of them, including Salty Pete, Pepper Pot Pete, Perry Pepper Pants, Peter Poopy-Toots.



Trivial characters

These one-off characters are either gags or otherwise make no contribution to the Canon Storyline. See also spin-off timelines.

Apple Store manager

Saxton sees the unknown manager.
“
Let me see your manager.
— Saxton Hale on blowing up the moon with Apple's latest product
 ”

The Apple Store manager is the manager of the Apple Store located on the outskirts of Dustbowl, employer of Trent and Jessica.

When Saxton Hale asked to buy out the company, the manager denied the request, Hale immediately recognizing him and saying the store 'had his curvy stink all over it'. He is presumably one of Hale's long time rivals.

  • Appearing in the non-canon Mac Update comic, A Visual History, the character refers to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as identified by his trademark black mock turtle neck characteristically rolled up over his elbows.


Archibald and Julius

Archibald (left) Julius (right)
“
Truly it is a Smissmas Miracle for the poor bombless unfortunates of Teufort!
— Julius overjoyed at the great gift he and Archibald received.
”

Archibald and Julius are the proprietors of the Bombs for the Poor non-profit charity, introduced in 2011's A Smissmas Story. Both are completely fictitious characters, invented by the Scout and Soldier as an alibi while on trial for blowing up a Mall Santa training facility.


Chicken Girl

Fried Chicken Tramp
“
Eh, okay.
— Chicken Girl on deciding to "do" the Scout
 ”

The Chicken Girl, referred to indirectly by the Spy as a Fried Chicken Tramp, is an anonymous girl who appeared in Expiration Date and Scout met at a Conquistador Fried Giblets fast food restaurant. Scout points out to her that they both have buckets of fried chicken and asks her if she wants to "do it", to which she replies "Eh, okay."


Christopher the Communist Mountain

Featured in comic #3 A Cold Day in Hell, Christopher the Communist Mountain is an archenemy of Soldier. On a trek in Siberia, Soldier, Scout, and Pyro are on a mission to find Heavy in the Siberian Mountains. Shortly after their journey starts, the trio encounters Christopher, and he tempts Soldier to eat things around him, such as the wildlife, his hands, and even Scout.


The Judge

The Judge
“
I hereby sentence all three of you imbeciles to community service.
— The Judge
 ”

The Judge presided over the trial of the Scout and Spy, with the Soldier as their attorney in A Smissmas Story. The pair were being tried for blowing up a Mall Santa training facility. He convinces the Scout to rat out the Soldier as the mastermind of the attack and sentences all three to community service at a Mall Santa booth.


Kicasso

Self-portrait of Kicasso
“
Say, uh... That ain't an original Kicasso, is it?
— Dell Conagher
 ”

Kicasso is a painter only mentioned in the Loose Canon comic, whose work is on display in the lobby of BLU's headquarters. The displayed piece is noted as having been painted during his "Hunted in the Jungle" period of artwork.


Trent and Jessica

Trent and Jessica
“
...and the bullets biodegrade once they hit flesh, leaving nothing behind but a blog post.
— Trent explaining Apple's advances in the Minigun market
 ”

Trent and Jessica are two employees (and, according to the Soldier, hippies) of the Apple store located just outside Dustbowl.


Trevor

Trevor, formerly known as "Guiseppe".(sic)
“
Trevor can't-a remember how-a he use-a to talk!
— Trevor
 ”

Trevor is a resident and former pizzeria owner of Teufort, first introduced in Unhappy Returns.

Trevor was forced to live as an Italian stereotype for ten years due to Mayor Mike's abuse of power. Forcing Trevor to wear a fake moustache, wig, speaking with a stereotypical accent and changing his name to "Guiseppe" (a misspelled variant of the real Italian name Giuseppe). Trevor's pizzeria was closed due to Mayor Mike requisitioning a city dump in front of the entrance.

After Miss Pauling stops the hanging of Spy, Scout, Soldier, and Demoman, Trevor leaves with the rest of the Teufort citizens to the Teufort library to learn about Italy.



Historical figures

U.S. Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, depicted mid rocket jump

Wikipedia article: Abraham Lincoln

“
I say this to you with the unvarnished factualism of plain talk: I love Arena mode.
— Abraham Lincoln in his Second Inaugural Address, 1865
”

Alongside being the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln is attributed with several other feats within the TF2 Universe. An inventor by trade, documenting Lincoln's history is problematic due to conflicting information regarding an invention attributed to him, and the circumstances of his death.

Within in his first mention on the Victory page of the WAR! Update, Lincoln was stated to have invented stairs in 1857 as a solution to the 300 year old problem of only being able to reach the second floor of a building by rocket jumping. Lincoln then built the world's first staircase in his laboratory at Ford's Theatre, where he subsequently perished in a misguided attempt to rocket jump up it.

In image scraps from the background of the first page of the Engineer Update, and in a painting depicted in its accompanying comic, its shown that Lincoln acted as the Pyro of the original BLU team, wielding an experimental flamethrower of his own design. Further down, a wanted poster of John "Tower of Hats" Booth appears, alleging that, contrary to the explanation given previously, Lincoln was instead murdered.

In the Gun Mettle Update, a commemorative coin was added to track a players contract points. Upon totaling 2000 points, the coin would upgrade to a Silver Gun Mettle Campaign Coin, embossed with a rocket jumping Lincoln, and the phrase "inventor of the rocket jump". This is, again, highly contentious, as the WAR! page implies rocket jumping had existed for at least 250 years before his birth.

  • Lincoln's role as the original BLU Pyro is further evidenced by his appearance in the comic Catch-Up, although here he has a somewhat-reddish hue.
  • The simplest explanation to the rocket jump inconsistency is that the artist responsible simply confused his invention of stairs with his death jumping up them while making the coin. This is inferred both from the coin's other embossing, "I love Arena mode", which is a direct quote from Lincoln's Second inaugural address first stated in page two of the Sniper vs Spy Update, and from the fact that the bronze and gold variants of the coin both also make reference only to lore that has been previously established.
    • On the same page, a quote attributed to Lincoln is printed on the back of a postcard, which reads "America's pipelines are a stirring beacon of hope. Let no man befoul their majesty with calumny or bombs."


Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wikipedia article: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also referred to as Franklin D. Roosevelt or FDR, was mentioned on the Victory page of the WAR! Update. While recovering from a rocket jumping accident in 1921, Roosevelt found Lincoln's plans for stairs, which he subsequently perfected the design of, at last freeing the world from the tyranny of the second floor.


George Washington

The "ghost" of George Washington

Wikipedia article: George Washington

“
Hello, Everyone! It is I! George Washington!
— George Washington announcing his appearance
”

George Washington was the inventor of the United States of America, first mentioned in Dapper Rogue, appearing on page 4 of the Sniper vs Spy Update. Historians agree Washington's greatest failing was his inability to remain permanently invisible, a problem only solved by the advent of the Cloak and Dagger, allowing the Spy to succeed where the inventor of the US failed.


Other

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart's bones, seen flying from the Hotdog costume in which she died

Wikipedia article: Amelia Earhart

“
Of all the bones in all the hot dog costumes in Siberia, I gotta get one made outta egg shells.
— The Scout on the quality of Amelia Earhart's bones
 ”

Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, who set many other records and wrote a number of best-selling books, before her tragic disappearance on July 2nd, 1939, while expected to be en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea.

The Pyro found Earhart's plane in the exact opposite direction (page 18) while trekking through southeastern Siberia in A Cold Day in Hell, within which they found several crates of honey, the Soldier noting Earhart had a famous Sweet-Tooth, and a Hotdog costume, which was taken by the Scout for warmth; this was later shown to contain Earhart's bones, implying she was wearing it when she died.


Benedict Arnold

The "ghost" of Benedict Arnold

Wikipedia article: Benedict Arnold

“
My only regret is I didn't watch enough cartoons.
— The last words of Benedict Arnold
 ”

Benedict Arnold was an American general during the American Revolutionary War who infamously defected to the British; his greatest crime was not eating soup.


Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Wikipedia article: Fred Astaire

“
MAKE HIM PAY
— An advertisement selling the ability to kill Fred Astaire
 ”

Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. Astaire appeared in an advertisement found on hidden page from the WAR! Update, where he was noted as being particularly susceptible to projectile weapon fire.



John Wilkes Booth

John "Tower of Hats" Booth

Wikipedia article: John Wilkes Booth

John "Tower of Hats" Booth was the assassin of beloved US president Abraham Lincoln.

In image scraps from the background of the Day One page of the Engineer Update, a wanted poster for Booth is seen, featuring a photograph of him wearing his eponymous tower of hats, with an adjacent edited photo for comparison, depicting how he may look with Lincoln's hat added to his tower.

Booth was later killed in a shootout between himself, Bilious Hale and a large group of people, during which Hale sat on his chest as others took turns shooting him; Hale was subsequently awarded Booth's hat tower for his bravery.


Sun Tzu

Wikipedia article: Sun Tzu

“
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!"
— Soldier paraphrasing chapter 10 of The Art of War
”

Sun Tzu (Simplified Chinese: 孙武; Traditional Chinese: 孫武; pronounce: /suːn ˈdzuː, suːn ˈsuː/) was an ancient Chinese tactician and philosopher, best known for his book The Art of War, detailing innovative Chinese strategy in warfare. He gained fame for his remarkable strategies and many policies on warfare, particularly in the West, his work continuing to influence warfare and politics to this day. The Soldier has an intense respect for Sun Tzu, whom he believed to have invented both fighting and war, although Soldier strongly disagrees with less violent points of his wisdom.

Sun Tzu was first mentioned in Meet the Soldier, in which Soldier claims Sun Tzu invented and perfected fighting such that none could best him in the ring of honor. Continuing, Soldier claims Sun Tzu used money obtained from his fighting to purchase two of every animal on earth, which he herded onto a boat and then beat the crap out of.


William Prescott

Wikipedia article: William Prescott

“
Don't fire till you see the tops of their heads
— William Prescott on shooting the poor
”

William Prescott was an American Revolutionary War colonel who notably led the patriot forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Mentioned on the Day One page of the Classless Update, Prescott loved hats and encouraged others to shoot only those combatants too poor to wear them, saying, ("Don't fire till you see the tops of their heads").


Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

Wikipedia article: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin

“
It's the same spirit of competitive enterprise that stalled the moon landing by three years
— Pyromania Day One Page on the subject of the map Doomsday
 ”

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were two American Astronauts, famed respectively as the first and second man on the moon. First mentioned on the Day One page of the Pyromania Update, the pair inadvertently stalled the moon landing by 3 years when Aldrin suplexed Armstrong into a pile of folding chairs at the 1969 wrestling event "Astromania".


Aleister Crowley

Wikipedia article: Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, mentioned in a hidden page on the Official Team Fortress 2 Blog, where he is noted as having cursed the scenic Skull Island during one of his famous speedboat cursing tours.


Tom Jones

Tom Jones in Heaven

Wikipedia article: Tom Jones

“
Man, I just dropped a Sex Bomb on that steam room!
— Tom Jones after some time in Heaven's spa
 ”

Sir Thomas John Woodward, better known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer, known for his many hit singles including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat", and "She's a Lady".

In the events of Ring of Fired, his first true appearance, Merasmus moved in with Tom Jones following his eviction from Castle Merasmus. After breaking into the pair's home whilst guiding a tour of celebrity houses, the Soldier snaps Tom Jones' neck, leaving Merasmus to take the rap for his death.

In the events of The Naked and the Dead, Spy disguises as Tom Jones as an effort to comfort the Scout in his final moments, explaining he is the Scout's father. Once in Heaven, Scout and God converse before the real deceased Tom Jones approaches. To hide him from Scout, Jones receives another neck snap from an angel, and is dragged off.

Subnote: The specific choice of Tom Jones as a recurring historical character may seem bizarre, but is no accident, and is instead the result of a Community in-joke being taken and used within the games official media.

  • Jones' work was first related to Team Fortress 2 with the advent of Community videos in which Jones' song "It's Not Unusual" is played over footage of Crates being opened, as a humorous reference to the extreme rarity of unboxing an Unusual cosmetic.
  • A nod to this joke later appeared in Expiration Date, where, during his training montage, the Scout is shown performing a dance referred to by many as The Carlton. The Carlton was a dance first performed by Jones' in the video of his song "It's Not Unusual", and was later popularized by the television series Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in a scene in which its name sake character dances to the song.
    • The animation was later released as a taunt for the Scout within the Meet Your Match Update, also under the name of Carlton, with its description featuring references to Jones' other songs "What's New Pussycat" and "Sex Bomb".


Other Valve characters

Whitaker

The advertisement depicting Whitaker wearing Ellis' Cap while showing off the frying pan.
“
RED, BLU -- your money's all green here.
— Whitaker — he don't pass judgment, and he don't take sides.
 ”

Whitaker, a minor character in Left 4 Dead 2, wrote a blog update on the Official Team Fortress 2 Blog advertising the promotional Ellis' Cap and Frying Pan one can get from purchasing or previously owning Left 4 Dead 2. Based on his opening paragraph, he is southern like the other Left 4 Dead 2 characters. It seems he is neutral towards the RED and BLU corporations' feud, and also seems to know little-to-nothing about TF Industries other than "what he is told". It also appears that his existence is outside of Team Fortress 2's canonical storyline as he refers to the war as an "infernal game called Team Fortress 2". However, this can be countered by the fact that he seems to be addressing the RED and BLU team members in the blog. Within Left 4 Dead 2, he is voiced by Dayton Callie.


Wheatley

Hovedartikel: Ap-Sap

Announcers

Hovedartikel: Community announcers

See also

References

  1. ↑ E-mail fra Erik Wolpaw
  2. ↑ http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=7655
  3. ↑ Clinical Features of Plague in the United States In 1969-1970, New Mexico experienced an outbreak of bubonic plague in hippie cooperatives.
  4. ↑ http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/78.html
  5. ↑ http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5514&p=1
  6. ↑ http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/barbary/

External links

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