Ghastly Gibus

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“
Shoot over my bones, and I shall visit upon you a haunting the likes of which you have never seen.
— Zepheniah Mann
 ”

The Ghastly Gibus is an unlockable headwear item available to all classes. It appears as a slightly damaged, black gibus hat with the top nearly detached. In a similar fashion to the Gentle Manne's Service Medal, the first possible method of getting this hat was to be one of the first 10,319 people to visit a hidden web page. The alternative method, through which it can still be unlocked, is to complete the Ghastly Gibus Grab achievement by dominating a player wearing the hat. Unlike the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Mask you are not restricted to when you can wear the hat. This hat can be worn all year round.

The hat description was written by Esquilax.

Related Achievements

Ghastly Gibus Grab
 Ghastly Gibus Grab
Dominate a player wearing any achievement Gibus hat to earn your own Ghastly Gibus.


Painted variants

Main article: Paint Can
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Single colors
Painted Ghastly Gibus E6E6E6.png Painted Ghastly Gibus D8BED8.png Painted Ghastly Gibus C5AF91.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
Painted Ghastly Gibus 141414.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 2D2D24.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 694D3A.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 7C6C57.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Ghastly Gibus A57545.png Painted Ghastly Gibus CF7336.png Painted Ghastly Gibus E7B53B.png Painted Ghastly Gibus F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Ghastly Gibus E9967A.png Painted Ghastly Gibus FF69B4.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 7D4071.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Ghastly Gibus 2F4F4F.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 424F3B.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 808000.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
Painted Ghastly Gibus 32CD32.png Painted Ghastly Gibus BCDDB3.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Ghastly Gibus A89A8C.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 839FA3.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 3B1F23.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Ghastly Gibus B8383B.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 5885A2.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 483838.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Ghastly Gibus 803020.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 256D8D.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 654740.png Painted Ghastly Gibus 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Ghastly Gibus C36C2D.png Painted Ghastly Gibus B88035.png Painted Ghastly Gibus UNPAINTED.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted

Trivia

  • The hat's original description was "Embroidered initials say 'Z.M.'".
  • The gibus, also known as the opera hat, was invented in 1800–10 and named for its inventor, a 19th century Frenchman. It is a men's tall, collapsible top hat, held open or in shape by springs and usually covered with a black, silky fabric.
  • The ghost of Zepheniah Mann wearing the gibus can be found underneath the control point in the event version of Harvest.
  • The hat may also be a reference to "gib", a term used when a character in a video game is killed in a very gory way, often scattering the characters various body parts apart.
  • The amount of people who obtained a Gibus hat from the secret webpage, 10,319, is the date of Halloween 2009, 10/31/09.
  • Although there were 10,319 original Gibuses, none of these hats report what number they are.
    • However, if you received your Gibus from the secret webpage, it is possible to use an item manager (such as the debug view on TF2items.com) to view what number your Gibus is.
  • It was possible to obtain two Ghastly Gibuses: by finding one through the hidden web page, while the giveaway was in practice, and by earning one with the achievement. This originally served no practical purpose, as the Gibus cannot be crafted into anything else and one single Gibus can be worn by all classes at once, but since the addition of Paint Cans players with two Gibuses can have them in two different colours.
  • While every Ghastly Gibus are marked as non tradeable, only the ones obtained with the Ghastly Gibus Grab Scarechievement are marked as non craftable (such as all achievement items). However, trying to craft an original one still doesn't match any blueprint.
  • The Gibus was misspelled "Ghostly Gibus" in the TF2 Official Blog. However, it was probably just what the Soldier thought it was named.
  • Because of how common the hat is, modelers tend to only make their custom hats replace the Gibus.
  • The October 6, 2010 update made the Ghastly Gibus no longer tradeable.
  • On the second Halloween Update on October 27, 2010, all Ghastly Gibuses received in 09 were renamed to "Ghastlier Gibus." It also gained a slight model change - the headband became more prominent and a white pumpkin was placed on its side.
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