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[''Medic grabs the device'']
 
[''Medic grabs the device'']
  
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'''Medic''': "Now, most hearts couldn't withstand this voltage, [''Medic plugs the device into Heavy's heart and brings it into the Medi Gun's beam''] but I'm fairly certain your heart..."
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'''Medic''': "Now, most hearts couldn't withstand this voltage," [''Medic plugs the device into Heavy's heart and brings it into the Medi Gun's beam''] "...but I'm fairly certain your heart..."
  
 
[''Heavy's heart explodes'']
 
[''Heavy's heart explodes'']
  
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[''Cut to a trio of doves, Archimedes gets knocked away by a piece of the Heavy's heart'']
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[''Cut to a trio of doves. Archimedes gets knocked off his perch by a piece of the Heavy's heart'']
  
 
[''Cut back to Medic, with Heavy in the background'']
 
[''Cut back to Medic, with Heavy in the background'']
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'''Heavy''': "What was noise?"
 
'''Heavy''': "What was noise?"
  
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[''Medic quickly recovers from his surprise, casually removing the remains of Heavy's heart from the "Über" device'']
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[''Medic quickly recovers from his surprise, casually removing the remains of Heavy's heart from the Über device'']
  
 
'''Medic''': "The sound of progress, my friend."
 
'''Medic''': "The sound of progress, my friend."
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'''Spy Head''': "Kill me."
 
'''Spy Head''': "Kill me."
  
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'''Medic''': "Later."
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'''Medic''': "Later." [''Closes fridge door'']
  
 
[''Cut to Medic standing by the Heavy, baboon heart and Über device in each hand'']
 
[''Cut to Medic standing by the Heavy, baboon heart and Über device in each hand'']
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[''Cuts to Heavy showing Medic a snapped off rib. Both look at it tentatively'']
 
[''Cuts to Heavy showing Medic a snapped off rib. Both look at it tentatively'']
  
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'''Medic''': "Oh, don't be such a baby..." [''Medic takes the rib from Heavy''] '''Medic''': "...ribs grow back!"
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'''Medic''': "Oh, don't be such a baby..." [''Medic takes the rib from Heavy''] "...ribs grow back!"
  
 
[''Medic tosses the rib aside and turns to a dove sitting on top of the Medi Gun'']
 
[''Medic tosses the rib aside and turns to a dove sitting on top of the Medi Gun'']
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'''Medic''' (whispering to the bird): "No they don't."
 
'''Medic''' (whispering to the bird): "No they don't."
  
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[''Cuts to Archimedes, covered in blood, who cocks his head and flies away'']
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[''Cuts to Archimedes, who cocks his head and flies away'']
  
 
[''Medic swings the Medi Gun over to the open Heavy and raises the power'']
 
[''Medic swings the Medi Gun over to the open Heavy and raises the power'']
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[''The Medi Gun completely heals the Heavy, as if by magic, even repairing and sewing his clothes'']
 
[''The Medi Gun completely heals the Heavy, as if by magic, even repairing and sewing his clothes'']
  
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'''Heavy''' (impressed): (Deep inhale) "What happens now?"
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'''Heavy''' (impressed): [''Inhales deeply''] "What happens now?"
  
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[''Medic helps Heavy up''] '''Medic''': "Now? (Chuckles) Let's go practice medicine..."
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[''Medic helps Heavy up''] '''Medic''': "Now?" [''Chuckles''] "Let's go practice medicine..."
  
 
[''Cuts to Medic putting on his gloves, coat, and prototype Medi Gun (the eventual [[Quick-Fix]]) while [[MEDIC! (Soundtrack)|Medic!]] plays'']
 
[''Cuts to Medic putting on his gloves, coat, and prototype Medi Gun (the eventual [[Quick-Fix]]) while [[MEDIC! (Soundtrack)|Medic!]] plays'']
  
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[''Cuts to a door bearing the red cross opening to reveal the Medic and his doves along with angelic music'']
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[''Cuts to a door bearing the red cross opening to reveal the Medic and his doves'']
  
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[''Heavy runs past Medic with Sasha ready'']
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[''Heavy runs past Medic with [[Minigun|Sasha]] ready'']
  
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[''Cuts to show a battlefield outside Medic's office with a RED [[Engineer]] and [[Sniper]] hiding behind cover, the injured Scout on the ground, and the wheelchair bound RED Demoman wheeling frantically towards them'']
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[''Cuts to show a battlefield outside Medic's office with a RED [[Engineer]] and [[Sniper]] hiding behind cover, the injured Scout on the ground, and the wheelchair-bound RED Demoman wheeling frantically towards the Medic'']
  
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'''Demoman''': "Medic!" [''Demoman gets blown off his wheelchair by several rockets, landing face-first on the ground front of Medic'']
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'''Demoman''': "Medic!" [''Demoman gets blown off his wheelchair by several rockets, landing face-first on the ground in front of Medic'']
  
 
[''Medic grimaces, then pushes his glasses up his nose and flips a switch on the Quick-Fix'']
 
[''Medic grimaces, then pushes his glasses up his nose and flips a switch on the Quick-Fix'']
  
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[''Music intensifies as a healing beam is fired at the Demoman, healing him completely. Demoman nods toward the Medic, picks up his [[Stickybomb Launcher]] and heads back towards the battlefield.'']
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[''Music intensifies as a healing beam is fired at the Demoman, healing him completely. Demoman nods toward the Medic, picks up his [[Stickybomb Launcher]], and heads back towards the battlefield'']
  
 
[''Medic then fires the Quick-Fix at the RED Scout, fixing him up also'']
 
[''Medic then fires the Quick-Fix at the RED Scout, fixing him up also'']
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[''The Scout leaps to his feet'']
 
[''The Scout leaps to his feet'']
  
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'''Scout''': "Yeah!" [''The Scout grabs his [[Bat]] from out of the air as he gets up and runs off''] '''Scout''': "Woohoohoo!"
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'''Scout''': "Yeah!" [''The Scout grabs his [[Bat]] from out of the air as he gets up and runs off''] "Woohoohoo!"
  
 
[''Heavy hides behind a red truck as the Scout runs past'']
 
[''Heavy hides behind a red truck as the Scout runs past'']
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[''Medic fires the Quick-Fix at the Heavy, who pops out from his cover'']
 
[''Medic fires the Quick-Fix at the Heavy, who pops out from his cover'']
  
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'''Heavy''': "EYAAAAAAAAAH!" [''Cuts to show Heavy's mega baboon heart beating rapidly, then cuts back to show Heavy glowing with ÜberCharge power''] '''Heavy''': "HA HA!"
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'''Heavy''': "EYAAAAAAAAAH!" [''Cuts to show Heavy's mega baboon heart beating rapidly, then cuts back to show Heavy glowing with ÜberCharge power''] "HA HA!"
  
 
[''Medic and the ÜberCharged Heavy advance under rocket fire, and Heavy starts laughing'']
 
[''Medic and the ÜberCharged Heavy advance under rocket fire, and Heavy starts laughing'']
  
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[''RED [[Engineer]], wielding the Frontier Justice, and RED Sniper, wielding the [[Sniper Rifle]], watch bewildered as the Heavy glows with power and shrugs off volleys of rockets'']
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[''RED Engineer, wielding the [[Frontier Justice]], and RED Sniper, wielding the [[Sniper Rifle]], watch bewildered as the Heavy glows with power and shrugs off volleys of rockets'']
  
 
[''Cuts back to the Heavy, still advancing''] '''Heavy''': "I am bulletproof!"
 
[''Cuts back to the Heavy, still advancing''] '''Heavy''': "I am bulletproof!"
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[''Ending title card appears and accompanying music plays'']
 
[''Ending title card appears and accompanying music plays'']
  
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[''Cuts to waiting room where the rest of RED are waiting as they do things to pass the time, e.g. the Engineer playing his guitar'']
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[''Cuts to waiting room. The camera passes over the rest of the RED team, who are doing things to pass the time. The Engineer is playing his guitar, Spy is looking at his ticket, Pyro is reading and flicking a lighter, Soldier is standing at attention, Demoman is drinking from his [[Bottle]], and Sniper is sleeping'']
  
 
'''Medic''' (off-screen): "That looks good. Very nice there. Yes!"
 
'''Medic''' (off-screen): "That looks good. Very nice there. Yes!"
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'''Scout''' (off-screen): "Hey, thanks doc!"
 
'''Scout''' (off-screen): "Hey, thanks doc!"
  
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[''A 'ding' is heard as the "Now Serving" sign changes to number 2'']
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[''A 'ding' is heard as the "Now Serving" sign changes to number 2. Everyone in the waiting room looks toward the door'']
  
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[''Scout emerges from the operating room, his chest glowing.'']
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[''Scout emerges from the operating room, his chest glowing'']
  
 
'''Scout''' (gallant): "Awhawhaw, man! You would not BELIEVE ... how much this hurts."
 
'''Scout''' (gallant): "Awhawhaw, man! You would not BELIEVE ... how much this hurts."

Revision as of 10:34, 24 March 2012

This article is about the video. For the taunt item, see Meet the Medic (taunt).
Meet the Medic
Meet the Medic Titlecard
Video Info
Released: June 23, 2011
Run time: 4:09

Pre-release

In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington and confirmed production of Meet the Medic.[1] A photograph of a poster was taken at the Valve HQ, depicting the Medic posing alongside several flying doves.[2]

The comic Meet the Director, released alongside the Replay Update on May 5, 2011, featured a page depicting the Administrator at her control panel, showing a number of screenshots from Meet the Medic on the displays.

On June 8, 2011, a patch to Team Fortress 2 was released and included an update that placed several doves in various positions in Valve maps. The doves exploded upon contact, but did not cause players damage. On June 17, 2011, an additional patch was released which added a secondary dove model with animations. Later the same day, the page layout of the TF2 Official Website was updated to feature three doves perched upon the title banner, which was covered by bird droppings. Each dove linked to three separate hidden images depicting a rundown hospital, an empty hospital waiting room, and a doctor's office.

Part of the rundown hospital seen in the first hidden image can be seen in the background of the Medic's page on the official site, fully modeled.

On June 20, 2011, Meet the Medic was confirmed by the TF2 Official Website and its release was announced to coincide with the Über Update, to be released on June 23.[3] The doves that were perched on the site banner of the TF2 Official Website were removed as part of the website redesign.

Video transcript

Gallery

  • Poster displaying a likeness of a scene from Meet the Medic.

  • Page 10 of Meet the Director, showing the Quick-Fix.

  • The model of the dove.

  • The model of the flying dove.

  • Doves on the old official website.

  • Hospital hidden image

  • Waiting room hidden image

  • Doctor's office hidden image

  • Meet the Medic teaser image

  • The trailer logo

  • The silhouette of a woman, presumably Miss Pauling.

Notes

  • The music that plays when the Scout and Demoman are fleeing from a barrage of rockets is a slowed down version of "Faster than a Speeding Bullet".
  • The title card displays "COPYRIGHT LOLOLOL" on the bottom right corner, a recurring joke throughout the "Meet the Team" videos.
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-ray of his body is in the background, showing a bomb lodged inside him. The extracted bomb can be spotted in a bucket behind the Medic. This is the same bomb on the Meet the Medic title card.
  • The Heavy's Minigun can be spotted in the background of a few operating room shots, resting on its own stretcher.
  • The Medic's Overdose is next to the bucket containing the extracted bomb.
  • A heart monitoring device titled "CARDIOSCAN 2000" can be seen working behind the Heavy early in the video. When his heart is destroyed, the line on the monitor goes flat. The next time it is seen, after the Medic retrieves a new heart, it resumes its old display (as if the machine detected the heart's presence).
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with Template:W, the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge are visible: three hearts, the Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, the BLU Spy's head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
    • The labels on the hearts at 1:04 read "Loch Ness Hamster" and "Mega Baboon", respectively. The name on the smallest heart is unreadable.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56 and again at 1:22.
  • Despite the Medic believing otherwise, human ribs are actually capable of growing back when properly shortened.
  • When the Medic swings the Medi Gun rig over the Heavy, a Battalion's Backup is visible on top of the cabinet in the background.
  • At 2:28, a Pyro can be seen running in its Humiliation pose, quickly disappearing into the black smoke on the right.
  • In the opening, when the Demoman is fleeing from the BLU Soldiers in a wheelchair, he has a bandage over the top part of his head and an eyepatch worn on top of the bandage. Later, when the Demoman is healed by the Medic, he rips off the bandage with the eyepatch on it to reveal another eyepatch underneath the bandage.
    • Similarly, when he is fleeing from the Soldiers in the first battlefield scene, his Stickybomb Launcher rests on his lap and is his only visible weapon. In the second battlefield scene, the Grenade Launcher replaced the Stickybomb Launcher, but after an explosion sends him flying out of his wheelchair, the weapon that lands in front of him is, mysteriously, the Stickybomb Launcher instead of the Grenade Launcher he was just holding.
  • In the up-close scene of the Demoman fleeing the Soldiers, the Engineer and Sniper are missing.
  • The Quick-Fix uses sounds from the Medi Gun.
  • At 2:49, the Scout's Bat seems to appear out of nowhere so he can catch it.
  • Despite the Quick-Fix being incapable of providing invulnerability in-game, the Medic is able to use it to make the Heavy invulnerable via an ÜberCharge. The fourth day of the Über Update explains that the Quick-Fix's first ÜberCharge, seen in the video, permanently shorted out the invulnerability feature of the gun.
  • Although the Heavy was ÜberCharged, his Minigun doesn't glow in team colors as in the game.
  • At 3:24, a rocket is shown deflecting off of the invulnerable Heavy. Rockets never deflect off players in-game and simply explode without damaging the invulnerable target.
  • In the final scene, the Engineer is strumming "A Little Heart to Heart". Next to him is a Ciggy Stop vending machine, identical to the one in the Intelligence room in Meet the Spy.
  • In the waiting room, the Pyro is reading a magazine that features The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper on the back cover.
  • Since the June 17, 2011 Patch, a dove will sometimes fly out of gibbed Scouts. This foreshadowed the final gag of the video, where Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after his operation.
  • In the outtake "Kill Me!" the Medic fires 9 bullets from the Spy's Revolver without reloading.
    • This is the only instance of a class using another class's weapon.

Outtakes

On July 11, 2011, the TF2 Team posted several outtakes from Meet the Medic on the TF2 Official Website.[4]

Don't You Die On Me! My Darkest Moment
Kill Me Making Gods

Trivia

  • The hospital in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
  • According to an article posted on the TF2 Official Website on July 11, 2011, Meet the Medic was originally intended to be an interview-style video, similar to the earlier "Meet the Team" videos. The video would have explained how the Medic accidentally discovered the healing formula used for his Medi Gun and its ability to ÜberCharge.
  • Medic's voice actor, Robin Atkin Downes, has his own YouTube channel, and as a gift to the fans, he not only uploaded a short snippet of himself recording the lines for "Meet The Medic", but redubbed the outtakes in Medic's voice.

Related merchandise

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Website, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ http://tf2.com/post.php?id=5816


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