Troublemaker's Tossle Cap

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The Troublemaker's Tossle Cap is a community-created headwear item for the Scout 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 slightly baggy winter hat, also known as a beanie.

Painted variants

Main article: Paint Can

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Single colors
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge	Color No. 216-190-216	Peculiarly Drab Tincture	Aged Moustache Grey
A Distinctive Lack of Hue	After Eight	Radigan Conagher Brown	Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Muskelmannbraun	Mann Co. Orange	Australium Gold	The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Dark Salmon Injustice	Pink as Hell	A Deep Commitment to Purple	Noble Hatter's Violet
A Color Similar to Slate	Zepheniah's Greed	Drably Olive	Indubitably Green
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime	A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED)	Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU)	Balaclavas Are Forever (RED)	Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Team Spirit (RED)	Team Spirit (BLU)	Operator's Overalls (RED)	Operator's Overalls (BLU)
The Value of Teamwork (RED)	The Value of Teamwork (BLU)	An Air of Debonair (RED)	An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Cream Spirit (RED)	Cream Spirit (BLU)	Unpainted (RED)	Unpainted (BLU)

Trivia

• The beanie is most often worn by "gang bangers" and teenage/college-age criminals, most often in urban areas such as New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. This could be a reference to the Scout's Bostonian heritage, and implies his apparent involvement in some kind of gang. Considering the Scout's personality, this is plausible.
• This hat is reminiscent of the one worn by rapper Eminem in the film 8 Mile. His outlandish media personality is not unlike that of the Scout's.
• This hat was submitted under the name of the "Rapper's Hat" before Valve renamed it the "Troublemaker's Tossle Cap".
• The item description "Straight outta control point." is an obvious reference to "Straight Outta Compton", an album by hip-hop group 'N.W.A'. Compton is a city in California that is infamous for gang-related activities, mainly by the Bloods and the Crips.
  • Interestingly enough, the colors red and blue are the associative colors of the Bloods and the Crips, respectively.
• Unlike other hats, when the Troublemaker's Tossle Cap is painted it simply gets one small and one big stripe in a similar style to the Tough Guy's Toque, rather than having the entire hat painted, this stripe is not visible without paint. This is the only hat that differs with paint.
• Before the Mann-Conomy update, the Troublemaker's Tossle Cap looked like a cloth beanie. After the release, a shine effect was added that made the hat look like latex, many now call it the Troublemaker's Swim Cap. However, this is merely a glitch due to the fact that both the hat's paint and phong shading use the same alpha channel.
• The hat description was written by spam_word.