Triboniophorus Tyrannus
“ | Burn in hell, you mumbling abomination!
Click to listen
— The Spy to the Pyro
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The Triboniophorus Tyrannus, known to the community as the "Brain Slug," is a community-created headwear item for the Pyro and was chosen by Valve to be released with the first wave of community-contributed content due to its outstanding quality. It appears as a green, gelatinous slug attached diagonally atop the gas mask of the Pyro's head.
Painted variants
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Trivia
- This hat is a reference to the brain slugs that occasionally appeared in the animated television show Futurama, where they would be attached to someone's head, controlling their mind, forcing them to appear semi-comatose , talk in a monotonous tone, and do anything to spread the brain slugs throughout the universe.
- The Triboniophorus Tyrannus is one of the few hats that are jiggleboned, meaning that they will jiggle around realistically with the player's movement.
- The Triboniophorus is a type of green slug native to Australia. "Tyrannus" is Latin for "tyrant" or "king."
- The description (written by crushilista) is a reference to The Simpsons. In one episode, Ralph tells Bart that he met a leprechaun that tells him to burn things.
- The description may also be a reference to Futurama. Because the brain slug controls the host's mind, it may be referring to how it would be convenient that it's still telling the Pyro to burn things, which is his usual job, and perhaps usual thoughts.
- It is the first hat thought to be a living creature, the other being the Alien Swarm Parasite.
- This hat may be a reference to the "Purple Pentapus", which can be seen in the popular cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Purple Pentapai appear in the episode "Return to Omashu", when the citizens of Omashu use the marks their tentacles leave on skin to fool the guards into thinking that they have the imaginary disease "Purple Pentapox".
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