List of references (Medic)
Due to the comedic style of Team Fortress 2 and Valve's humor, the game includes references, usually in a humorous fashion. There are many sources, including games, movies, and music; even jokes that have developed within the game and its community have been included. Below are references specific to the Medic class.
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Achievements
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Autoclave Assist in burning 5 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Pyro. |
When medical equipment needs to be sterilized, a machine called an Template:W subjects them to high pressure steam, effectively killing any bacteria or unhygienic substances.
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Autopsy Report Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you taunting above their ragdoll. |
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Bedside Manner Be healing a teammate as he achieves an achievement of his own. |
Template:W is the manner in which a doctor explains a diagnosis to his/her patient. A good bedside manner is typically one that reassures and comforts the patient while remaining honest about the diagnosis.
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Big Pharma Assist a Heavy in killing 10 enemies, where neither of you die. |
The phrase "Big Pharma" is often used to refer to large pharmaceutical companies or the pharmaceutical industry as a whole.
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Blast Assist Assist in exploding 5 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Soldier. |
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Blunt Trauma Assist in punching 2 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Heavy. |
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Chief of Staff Accumulate 1 million total heal points. |
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Consultation Assist a fellow Medic in killing 3 enemies in a single life. |
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Doctor Assisted Homicide Assist in killing 20 nemeses. |
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Does It Hurt When I Do This? Kill 50 Scouts with your syringe gun. |
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Double Blind Trial Deploy an ÜberCharge within 8 seconds of a nearby enemy Medic deploying his. |
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Family Practice ÜberCharge 5 of your Steam Community Friends. |
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First Do No Harm Play a full round without killing any enemies, and score the highest on a team of 6 or more players. |
This phrase expresses one of the principal precepts all medical students are taught in medical school and is a fundamental principle for the emergency medical services. It reminds the physician and other health care providers that they consider the possible harm that any intervention might do. This is most often mentioned when debating use of an intervention with an obvious chance of harm but a less certain chance of benefit. Since at least 1860, the phrase has been for physicians a hallowed expression of hope, intention, humility, and recognition that human acts with good intentions may have unwanted consequences.
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FYI I am A Medic Use your bonesaw to kill a spy who has been calling for 'Medic!'. |
This achievement refers to popular Youtube video FYI I am a Spy, in which a Spy uses his spray tag reading "FYI I am a Spy" to distract an enemy Medic and backstab him.
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Grand Rounds Heal 200 teammates after they've called for 'Medic!'. |
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Group Health Work with 2 other Medics to deploy 3 simultaneous ÜberCharges. |
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House Call Join a game that one of your friends is in and then deploy an ÜberCharge on him. |
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Hypocritical Oath Kill an enemy Spy that you have been healing. |
The Template:W is an oath traditionally taken by physicians pertaining to the ethical practice of medicine. It is widely believed that the oath was written by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in the 4th century BC, or by one of his students.
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Infernal Medicine Extinguish 100 burning teammates. |
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Intern Accumulate 7000 heal points in a single life. |
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Medical Breakthrough Assist in destroying 5 enemy Engineer buildings with a single ÜberCharge on a Demoman. |
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Medical Intervention Save a falling teammate from dying on impact. |
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Midwife Crisis Heal an Engineer as he repairs his sentry gun while it's under enemy fire. |
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Peer Review Kill 10 Medics with your bone saw. |
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Placebo Effect Kill 2 enemies in a single life, while having your ÜberCharge ready, but undeployed. |
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Play Doctor In a team with no Medics, be the first person to switch to Medic after a teammate calls for 'Medic!', and then heal 500 health. |
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Quadruple Bypass Heal a teammate who's taking fire from 4 enemies at once. |
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Sawbones Hit enemies with your bonesaw 5 times in a row without dying or missing. |
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Second Opinion ÜberCharge 2 teammates at once. |
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Specialist Accumulate 10000 heal points in a single life. |
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Surgical Prep Have an ÜberCharge ready before the Setup phase ends. |
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Trauma Queen Deploy 3 ÜberCharges in less than 5 minutes, and assist in 5 kills during that time. |
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Triage Deploy an ÜberCharge on a teammate less than a second before they're hit by a critical explosive. |
A triage is where patients under medical care are sorted in order of how much treatment they require.
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Ubi concordia, ibi victoria Assist in killing 3 enemies on an enemy control point, in a single life. |
This translates to "Where there is unity, there is victory", a Latin phrase attributed to Template:W.
The dove also has special significance to Medic, as he keeps many as pets.
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You'll Feel a Little Prick Assist in killing 3 enemies with a single ÜberCharge on a Scout. |
Weapons
Kritzkrieg
The Kritzkrieg's name is a reference to the term Template:W (German for "lightning war"), a popular name for an offensive operational-level military doctrine which involves an initial bombardment followed by the employment of motorized mobile forces attacking with speed and surprise to prevent an enemy from implementing a coherent defense.
Heal Grenade
The design of the scrapped Heal Grenade appears to be a reference to the Holy Hand Grenade from 1975 comedy film Template:W.
Hats & Miscellaneous Items
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Ze Goggles Nothing. |
The name and description for Ze Goggles is a reference to a line from an episode of Template:W, where an actor shouts during a botched action sequence "Ze goggles do nothing!"
The design of the goggles are based on the Ecto-Goggles from Template:W. Medic dresses and looks like the absent-minded doctor Egon Spengler from the movie.
Taunts
Kritzkrieg
The Medic's Oktoberfest taunt refers to a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany from late September to early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Template:W celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
Übersaw
The Spinal Tap taunt is a reference to the colloquial term for a Template:W, a medical procedure in which a needle is inserted between the vertebrae at the base of the spine to extract a sample of spinal fluid. Though not at all fatal when performed by a professional (i.e. anyone but the Medic), it does have the potential to be extremely painful.
Responses
Other Responses
Template:W (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, storm and drive or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion, were given free expression in response to the confines of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements.
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- "Cheers" voice command or Oktoberfest taunt
The Template:W is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany from late September to early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
"Turn your head and cough." - unused response
Turning your head and coughing is part of the procedure of testing for a hernia.
"I am ze Übermensch!" - "Cheers" voice command or while on defense
The Template:W (or "superman") is a concept in the philosophy of Template:W. Nietzsche posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Template:W.
Interestingly, the idea of the "Übermensch" was also further developed by the Nazis, using the term to denote the Aryans as the "Superhuman" race. Although within the same period of time, the Medic's voice command was most likely referring to the initial aforementioned idea, due to Valve stating that the Medic was not a Nazi. This fits with the Medic's sadism and his ethical procedures and methods (or lack thereof), as Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch orbits around moral values and the progress of humanity and their interactions.
"Horrido!" - at round start
"Horrido" is a traditional German hunting and war cry.
"Can you feel ze Schadenfreude?" - after killing more than 3 enemies in 20 seconds with a primary weapon
Template:W is enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else. The word referring to this emotion has been borrowed from German by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages.
"Teeeeeeam!" - at the start of Sudden Death
This is a reference to Colonel Klink's oft heard exclamation of "Schuuuulllllttttz!" from Template:W.
Media
Bio
The Medic's home city of Template:W (pronounced Template:W) is the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the sixth-largest city in Germany.
Template:W, the name of Medic's favorite pet dove, is named after a Greek scientist and mathematician. Alan Moore's comic Template:W used the name Archimedes as that of Nite Owl II's ship, which in turn was named after Merlin's pet owl in Disney's Template:W.
See Also
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