Meet the Medic

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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


Speculation

In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic. [1]. They took a photograph of a poster 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 which depicted the Administrator at her control panel, with 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 explode upon contact but do 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 Blog 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 TF2 Official Blog, 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 Blog were removed as part of the website redesign.

"Meet the Medic" Video Transcript

Gallery

Trivia

  • The hospital seen in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
  • A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56 and again at 1:22.
  • At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: three hearts, a Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, a BLU Spy's Head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
    • Considering the over turned bottle and the half eaten Sandvich at the bottom shelf of the fridge, this fridge may be the very same featured in Meet the Sandvich.
  • Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his body can be seen in the background, which shows a bomb lodged inside. The extracted bomb can be spotted in a bucket behind the Medic.
    • This is the same bomb seen in the "Meet the Medic" title card.
  • Despite the Quick-Fix being incapable of providing invulnerability in-game, the Medic is able to use it to make the Heavy invulnerable via Übercharge in Meet the Medic. 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 and it could never be used again.
  • In the waiting room at the end of the video, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine, featuring The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper on the back cover.
    • He/she appears to be trying to light the magazine on fire with a lighter on the front cover.
  • In the waiting room at the end of the video, the Spy checks his watch as if he is looking for the time, yet his watch can't tell the time; it only can be used to Cloak.
  • For a short period before the Über Update, doves would sometimes fly out of Scouts after they were killed. This foreshadowed the final gag of the video, in which Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after his operation.
  • The various hats worn by the army of BLU Soldiers include the Stainless Pot, Proof of Purchase, Soldier's Stash, Lumbricus Lid, Grenadier's Softcap, Jumper's Jeepcap, Forntline Field Recorder, and Armored Authority. A number of Soldiers are seen wielding unlockable weapons as well, including the Direct Hit, Black Box, and the Equalizer.
  • The large number of Soldiers charging to their deaths may be a reference to Trailer 2, where a swarm of Soldiers charged in front of an Engineer's Sentry Gun, a Heavy's Minigun, and Rocket Jump all over the map to show off those abilities.
  • A broken-down van similar in appearance to the Sniper's camper van can be seen in the tunnel the Medic comes out of when he heals the Demoman and the Scout. Whether the two vehicles are one and the same is unknown.
  • One of the Medic's doves shares its name with "Template:W", the Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.
  • 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 can be seen underneath the bucket containing the extracted bomb.
  • A heart monitor 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.
    • Strangely, one would not expect the monitor to display anything but a flat line when there is no heart connected to the body.
  • When the Demoman 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.
  • Despite the Heavy being fully healed after his procedure, during the process it should be noted that his rib never does grow back even when everything else does, confirming the Medic's statement that ribs do not grow back.
    • Oddly enough, later in the video, the Medi Gun was able to make the Scout grow a new tooth. This is strange considering both teeth and ribs are a part of bone structure, and if one can grow back then logically so should the other.
      • It is also odd that the BLU Spy in the fridge is still alive after decapitation, the Scout is still alive after direct hits by explosives, and the Heavy is still alive after his heart explodes. Because obviously the biologies of the TF2 characters match ours completely.
        • Evidently, the large Medi Gun in the surgery room keeps Heavy stable during his surgery while also powering the small Übercharge device.
  • During the scene where the Demoman attempts to escape the BLU Soldiers, a RED Pyro is briefly seen running away behind a rock in the humiliation pose. The Pyro is holding the Flamethrower despite the humiliation animations disabling weapon models when seen in-game.
  • In the beginning of the video, the Scout is seen with bandages over his shirt. Later in the video when he is being healed by the Medic, the Scout no longer has those bandages on.
  • The Scout's messenger bag that is usually seen on his in-game model is not present at all in any of the scenes.
  • The Medic doesn't wear gloves while operating on the Heavy and lacks concern for the level of hygiene expected for a major operation, instead relying on his Medi Gun to heal his patients.
  • When the Demoman is fleeing the BLU Soldiers in a wheelchair, he has a bandage over the top part of his head with an eyepatch 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.
  • The Scout's bat seems to spontaneously fall from the sky; however when he leaps back to his feet you can see the bat flying up from behind him: ostensibly from a belt, pocket, or hammerspace.

Related merchandise

See also

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 Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.