Meet the Demoman

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Meet the Demoman
Meet the Demoman Titlecard
Video Info
Released: October 9, 2007
Run time: 1:45

"Meet the Demoman" Video Transcript

Notes

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Meet the Demoman Storyboard Concept Sketches


  • The Demoman's alcohol is made by 'Red Shed'. The Red Shed Distillery is the RED team's base on the map Well. Red Shed is also featured in Meet the Sandvich.
  • The Demoman's grenade bounces, then explodes on contact. The ability for grenades to detonate on contact after the first bounce was removed in a later patch for both the PC and 360.
  • The Demoman's unused Dynamite Pack weapon can be seen on his desk, most prominently at 0:31 in the video.
  • The closing screen features the following disclaimer: "All information regarding Demoman grenade behavior was obtained from Australians believed to be reliable at the time. It is submitted to the possibility of errors, omissions, or nerfing without notice."
  • The music that plays during the battle sequence — " Drunken Pipe Bomb" — did not appear on the soundtrack or in the game files in any form, similar to "Magnum Force", the track that plays during Meet the Sniper. Valve, however, added the song as menu music in the WAR! Update on December 17, 2009.
  • Valve teamed up with KritzKast and ran a contest to decipher what the Demoman said during those few censored seconds. Winners were selected for most humorous but clean lines, most obscene lines, and lines most accurate to the original script.
  • The titlecard displays "COPYRIGHT LOLOLOL" on the bottom right corner, a recurring joke throughout the "Meet the Team" videos.
  • The RED team is shown to be coming out of the BLU spawn at Gravel Pit and vice versa, even though BLU is the attacking team.
  • At 0:56, the Demoman's hand bumps into the grenade on his desk and it becomes active; however, it does not detonate.
  • During the video, the Demoman can be seen with blank badges on either shoulder. The ending shot of all nine classes shows the Demoman with his original dynamite badge, later changed to a generic bomb and finally to the current Stickybomb shoulder badge.
  • When the Demoman charges at the Sentry Gun, a Dispenser is clearly seen. In the next shot when the Demoman destroys the Sentry Gun, the Dispenser is gone.
  • When the Demoman fires his grenades at the Sentry Gun, it targets them once they're in range and ignores the Demoman.
  • As a nod to the Demoman's Scottish origins, bagpipes can be heard in the outro 'flourish' as the video cuts to the team shot.
  • The Demoman placed 16 sticky bombs when he ambushed the incoming BLU team. This was the original amount of sticky bombs that a Demoman was capable of having active at once. Due to balance issues, this number was later reduced to 8. Coincidentally, a player with the Scottish Resistance equipped is capable of placing 14 sticky bombs at a time.
  • At 0:44 the Demoman shoots only one pipebomb but in the next frame there is another pipebomb that appeared out of thin air.
  • The teams roles are reversed from what they are in the game's Gravel Pit. RED are shown attacking whilst BLU defend. The RED team are also shown emerging from the BLU spawn, and later the BLU team members running from C seem to have come from the RED spawn.