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Team Fortress 2 is home of several memes created by its community. While some stem from the game itself, others were created by using tools such as Template:W to manipulate TF2 characters.

Gentlemen

Original image macro.

Gentlemen.

The "Gentlemen." meme stems from one of the Spy's most ubiquitous catchphrases. His calm, suave, calculating persona is encapsulated in his utterance of the simple address, followed by the careful placement of a cigarette.

The meme itself is a widely recognized image macro, originally spawned by a crudely crafted Template:W caricature of the Spy, with his mouth jammed full of cigarettes. The concept quickly exploded, and expanded to feature a version for every Team Fortress character. The basic formula for the macro is straightforward; it is a caricatured drawing of a character, with their mouth jammed full of objects. The phrase "Gentlemen." may be replaced with other addresses.

Poor and Irish

The term Poor and Irish first appeared in a hidden link of the Classless Update, as a retort by the Gentle Manne of Leisure to a hatless man. Since then, players often use this term to describe players with no hats, or owners of common hats such as the Ghastly Gibus.

A popular associated meme involves players conversing in overly formal language, such as that used by the Gentle Manne of Leisure.

Saxton Hale

Main article: Saxton Hale

Saxton Hale's amazing achievements has resulted in players referring to him as a deity-like figure, capable of superhuman feats.

Saxton Hale can be considered a Team Fortress 2 version of the popular Template:W internet meme. Directly satirizing the phenomenon of Chuck Norris facts, a fansite called Saxton Hale Facts was created, where users can submit facts about Saxton Hale and his many incredible feats.

Spammed Voice Commands

A popular practice among some TF2 players is Spamming Voice Commands, resulting in humorous phrases. Popular examples include the Heavy's "Pootis" and the Scout's "Need a Dispenser here!" spammed continuously.

Spycrab

One of the most famous memes of TF2 is the Spycrab, an animation glitch caused by looking up while holding the Disguise Kit and crouch walking. This causes the Spy to walk in an amusing fashion that resembles a crab. The Dapper Rogue catalogue includes a "Crab-Walking Kit" with the description "It will change your skeleton! Excruciatingly painful but worth it."

Due to its popularity, the Spycrab was included as an alternative taunt for the Disguise Kit in the Sniper Vs Spy Update.

W+M1

See also: Glossary of player terms

The term "W+M1" refers to a technique used by perceived amateur Pyro players, which involves running forward (The W key on the PC) and spewing flames in the general direction of an enemies (Mouse 1) without any thoughts to tactics or self-preservation.

In a chaotic battle a W+M1 Pyro can be highly effective, racking up many kills on unsuspecting or inexperienced players as shown in this video. Because of its perceived simplicity, "W+M1" is often used as a derogatory term for one's playstyle as a Pyro or to offend Pyro players in general.

YouTube memes

Bonk mashups

This meme consists of remixes of various songs in which the Scout's "Bonk!" and "Boink!" voice clips are mashed up with popular songs. The most popular of which is "Mortal Kombonk", which has had over 1 million views.

nope.avi

Created with Template:W by YouTube user Jimbomcb, the nope.avi meme consists of a BLU Engineer on Gravel Pit slowly approaching the screen. As he stops his hard hat floats up, he utters the phrase "nope" and his neck elongates before he promptly leaves.

nope.avi is frequently used in conversations as a humorous negative response. Instead of replying no, instead the person may post a link to the video or type "nope.avi".

Several parodies of the meme exist, consisting of other characters uttering a phrase before a drastic physical transformation takes place.

Painis Cupcake

Created by RubberFruit, this meme involves a crazed Soldier named Painis Cupcake. Often seen crawling on the ground, a demented looking Painis Cupcake introduces himself with the phrase "I am Painis Cupcake. I will eat you." before devouring his victims violently. His first appearance can be found here.

Scout is Delicious

Scout is delicious!

A meme initially spawned with the creation of ARMaster's short two second YouTube video depicting a Heavy eating a Scout whose head is replaced with a Sandvich. Its popularity resulted in thousands of responses parodying the original.

Following the trend of many other popular Youtube Team Fortress 2 Template:W, the Heavy had two separate lines of dialogue crossed to form the phrase "Scout is delicious."

Vagineer

Hurrr...

A meme initially spawned with the creation of J16FOX YouTube video, the Vagineer is a deformed Engineer with heavily distorted facial expressions, giving him the appearance of a vagina.

Vagineer's speech consists of reversed Engineer voice lines, and is usually seen grunting at other characters. He has a large arsenal of attacks, including telekinesis and self deformation. He is also capable of regenerating body parts and turning other people into "Vagi" versions of their characters.

Vagineer is viewed as a demigod-like monster, rarely being defeated by anyone. In the case of his death he usually regenerates and retaliates, often violently.

He also seems to be Snyphurr's master, summoning him by using his extendable tongue to obtain a Buff Banner bugle then playing it.

In the VS Saxton Hale Mod, there is a chance that the player chosen to become Saxton Hale will instead become a BLU Vagineer, with matching voice clips.

Snyphurr

Vagineer has a weird taste in pets...

A meme involving a very deformed Sniper, who is a floating torso with his hands poking out of his rear end. Once called by Vagineer, he floats down from above, and approaches his victims while uttering intelligible phrases. He then reveals his blood-soaked face, emitting a red aura which turns his victims to stone. The original video can be found here.

Spyper

Spyper

A genetically altered version of the Sniper, Spyper is a Sniper/Spy composite that seemingly changes his personality by cricking his neck. Although friends with Intelligent Heavy, he attacks/scares the other classes. His Spy alter ego is polite and friendly in contrast with his Sniper alter ego who hates everyone. The original video can be found here.

Christian Brutal Sniper

It's like Christmas morning...

Created by KelThezadMadness, Christian Brutal Sniper is a sadistic RED Sniper who appears in random areas and butchers people using a variety of weapons. Christian Brutal Sniper dismembers, decapitates and impales multiple characters in every episode; all without any apparent motivation, he continually taunts his enemies and mutters to himself while he does so. One of his catchphrases is "It's like Christmas morning..." which he usually says upon a successful and extremely gory kill. Christian Brutal Sniper has gained a great many fans and tributes since his first appearance in this video.

Sewer Medic

Get avay from my sewer!

Created by gb7zone7 and first appearing in this video. Sewer Medic is a RED Medic who resides in a sewer system which he defends from all intruders. Anyone who dares enter his land risks being attacked by the Sewer Medic who kills his enemies by inflating his head and yelling at them until they explode.

TF2 Rick Roll

Created by YouGotTF2Rolled, this meme features the Engineer dancing while Template:W's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is being played. This is a TF2 version of original video.

-gineer/-neer

Various -neers

Created by OluapPlayer (Youtube channel), this meme involves the Engineer with the head of another class or an item. The characters name is constructed from the characters choice of head with an "gineer" or "neer" appended on the end. The meme originated from this video.

Popular variations include Paintraingineer, Spyneer and Demoneer, all shown to the right.

Solgineer

We are a mistake of nature!

Solgineer was created by Malcolm9762 and first appears in this video. He appears as a RED Soldier and Engineer fused together by the torso as a result of a telefragging experiment gone wrong. Solgineer introduces himself as "a mistake of nature" and speaks intermittently between both the Soldier head and Engineer head. Solgineer attacks his enemies by shooting rockets out of his crotch.

Weaselcake

Created by Sonicrulez11, Weaselcake appears as a Sniper who moves via floating in the air and teleporting due to his legs being broken. He has a veriety of powers including altering his enemies gravity and spiiting acid or nails. He usually acts as a positive character. Weaselcake first appears in this video, and an informational video by the creator provides much more info about him.

Dic Soupcan

I'm Dic Soupcan!

Dic Soupcan is an incredibly drunk RED Demoman on a never-ending quest for Scrumpy. He is initially harmless, seeking only to get Scrumpy from whatever source and mumbling unintelligible drunken gibberish, however, when angered, Dic Soupcan becomes incredibly violent, allowing an Eyelander possession to take over his body and brutally murdering other characters, sometimes even transporting them to a separate realm where he decapitates them. Dic Soupcan is also known to be able to spit grenades at his enemies.

Seeman

See?

Seeman is a RED Demoman who constantly says the word "See?" in the phrase "See? I told ye they were a buncha' wee lasses!". He appears in random situations and has the ability to place large amounts of sticky bombs under other characters, he then points to these, says "See?" as his face distorts, and detonates the bombs.

Heavydile

Wuaaaargh!

Heavydile is a water-dwelling Heavy who speaks in an extremely deep voice and eats other characters. He mostly resides in watery areas such as the river in 2Fort or the drain systems in Well but has appeared on land and walking upright on several occasions. Heavydile usually plays a negative role, but is sometimes portrayed as a "good" character.

Odd Scout

Drr... Drr! ... DRR!

Created by dudeguy707 in Template:W, The Odd Scout first appears in this video and is a severely deformed Scout with elongated limbs and an apparently broken neck. The Odd Scout says nothing, and instead patrols 2Fort. There are 3 episodes of Odd Scout thus far, the first simply shows a RED Odd Scout crossing the 2Fort bridge, the second episode shows the RED Odd Scout encountering a BLU Scout and "oddifying" him, and the third shows both Odd Scouts encountering a RED Medic, twisting his neck around and causing him to explode merely by staring at him. Parallels between Odd Scout and both the horror manga Enigma of the Amigara Fault and the Slenderman meme have been drawn by fans, and the Odd Scout is often regarded as a surreal or even horror meme.

Abstract Spy

Mrrph

Created by NOTFREUDERSON, The Abstract Spy is a floating, severally deformed BLU Spy, he appears out of nowhere and speaks in unintelligible muffles, he displays no powers aside from flight, but invokes fear in other characters for an unknown reason. The Abstract Spy first appears in this video.