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Yeah, why don't you come over and say that to my face, tough guy? Click to listen — The Scout's final words to an angry Heavy

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Each class has its own series of taunts. These can be performed using default key: G, to bring up a small menu to select an action taunt, or press G again to perform the taunt for their weapon, for the PC, OS X, and Linux, for the Xbox 360, Right Bumper for the Sixense/Razer Hydra Motion Control and for the PS3, with most weapons possessing their own unique animation and dialog line(s), though some taunts may be shared between similar weapons. Several lines of dialog are chosen at semi-random during a taunt, with one line being chosen at random and every line after it following a specific order. Taunts are generally used for gloating purposes after killing an opponent, to celebrate a victory, provoke living opponents, or simply for comedic effect, and for the most part have no direct effect on gameplay. However, certain taunts have effects such as healing the player and his teammates, stunning, damaging, and usually killing opponents. Taunts that kill enemy players are known as "Attack taunts" or "Kill taunts". Several achievements also require the use of taunts. Although taunts can be used during humiliation and Stalemate, related achievements are not awarded. Caution should be exercised when performing a taunt; while a player performs a taunt, they are left vulnerable and the view shifts from first to third-person, leaving the player unable to act until the taunt is concluded (though Demomen are able to activate their Stickybombs while taunting).

Taunting cannot be performed underwater or while airborne. The effects of knockback will instantly cancel any taunt. All taunts, including Kill taunts, can be successfully performed while stunned.

A minority of weapons, such as the Engineer's PDAs, Jarate, and Sapper, all lack taunts. The Heavy's food and Scout's drinks function as both a consumable and taunt when activated, moving the player into a third-person view. While the Heavy's consumable taunts activate upon pressing the taunt key, the Scout's consumables only activate upon pressing the primary fire key. All weapons that have been released in "Community" updates do not have unique taunts, instead using a pre-existing taunt or nothing at all.

On servers with the variable tf_allow_taunt_switch set to 1, it is possible to switch weapons after pressing the key to taunt, but before the taunt animation actually plays. This results in a character performing the taunt for the weapon being used before pressing the taunt key, but holding the new weapon. This behavior was originally a glitch that was unintentionally "fixed" in the Mann-Conomy Update, and later made into a server side option at community request. Setting this variable to 2 results in the ability to switch weapons at any time during the taunt. With the variable set to 0, any attempt to switch weapons will result in the player instantaneously switching back to the weapon used for the taunt.

Taunts by class

• Scout taunts
• Soldier taunts
• Pyro taunts
• Demoman taunts
• Heavy taunts
• Engineer taunts
• Medic taunts
• Sniper taunts
• Spy taunts

Special taunts

Certain special taunts are also known as "Kill taunts" or "Taunt attacks", as they deal 400+ damage and have the potential to kill any opponent in a single hit (with the exception of Armageddon and Execution, which can only deal a maximum of 400 damage, and so are not powerful enough to kill a Heavy with maximum overheal).

Class	Kill Taunt	Kill Icons	Weapons	Damage	Duration	Details
Scout	Grand Slam		Sandman Atomizer	500 (Instant kill)	5 seconds	Sends the enemy flying Slowest kill taunt
Soldier	Grenade		Equalizer Escape Plan	500 (Instant kill)	4 seconds	6ft blast radius Kills player upon completion. Destroys buildings
		(Lumbricus Lid)
Pyro	Hadouken		Shotgun Flare Gun Detonator Reserve Shooter Manmelter	500 (Instant kill)	3 seconds	Kills with fire effect Can kill more than one opponent at once Slightly slower than Showdown Destroys buildings Knocks enemy back a few feet
	Armageddon		Rainblower	400 (damage halved for every subsequent enemy hit) 60 (afterburn)	5 seconds	Deals heavy damage with fire effect within 6ft radius Applies afterburn Slight knockback
		(Afterburn)
	Execution		Scorch Shot	400 (Close range) 15 (Medium to long range)	4 seconds	Deals heavy damage with fire effect at point blank or close range At longer ranges or on miss it will act like a normal flare Consumes ammo
Demoman	Barbarian Swing		Eyelander Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker Claidheamh Mòr Half-Zatoichi Persian Persuader Nessie's Nine Iron	500 (Instant kill)	5 seconds	Adds a head to the killer's head count when wielding the Eyelander, Nessie's Nine Iron, and the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker. Counts as an honourable kill with the Half-Zatoichi and allows you to sheath the weapon
Heavy	High Noon		Fists Saxxy Apoco-Fists Holiday Punch	400-500 (Instant kill)	3 seconds	Has medium range and a wide bullet spread Fastest kill taunt
Engineer	Guitar Smash		Frontier Justice	500 (Instant kill)	4 seconds	Will smash the target's head in, so it appears their neck has been broken
	Arm Blender		Gunslinger	1 per hit (Stun, 14 fast hits) 500 (Instant kill)	4 seconds	Gibs the opponent if they were killed by the final blow, ragdolls if killed by the spinning
Medic	Uberslice		Ubersaw	1 (Swing, stun effect) 500 (Instant kill)	4 seconds approx	Initial stab has stun effect (1 damage, adds 25% to ÜberCharge meter), followed by the killing Ubersaw removal (adds 75% to ÜberCharge meter, 100% in whole)
Sniper	Arrow Stab		Huntsman Fortified Compound	None (Stab, stun effect) 500 (Instant kill)	4 seconds	Arrow stab with stun effect, followed by arrow removal, causing death Moving target may keep moving after stab for 0.1 seconds, allowing time to get out of the arrow removal radius Stun lasts longer than time it takes to complete taunt, making it possible to skew again if target dodges removal
Spy	Fencing		Knife Your Eternal Reward Conniver's Kunai Saxxy Big Earner Wanga Prick Black Rose	50 (Swings) 500 (Instant kill)	5 seconds	Two swings followed by a killing thrust Can kill more than one opponent in a single thrust Destroys buildings

Other taunts will grant the user and/or their teammates special abilities.

Class	Taunt Effects	Weapons	Duration	Details
Scout	Drinking	Bonk! Atomic Punch Crit-a-Cola	1.2 seconds	Bonk! Atomic Punch grants the user invulnerability for 8 seconds. The user will also go into 3rd perspective for the duration of the time. Crit-a-Cola will allow the user to give out Mini-crits for 8 seconds as well as increase speed by 25% at the cost of an extra 10% damage intake.
Pyro	Mmmph	Phlogistinator	2 seconds	Fills all health, enables a primary weapon crit boost, and gives 75% damage resistance for the duration of the taunt, once Mmmph bar is full when the Phlogistinator is equipped. Can protect the user from Telefrag.
Heavy	Nomming	Sandvich Buffalo Steak Sandvich Dalokohs Bar Fishcake Robo-Sandvich	4.3 seconds	The Sandvich will gradually restore all health over the duration of the taunt (75 health each second, does not overheal), and will not trigger the cooldown if health is already full. The Buffalo Steak Sandvich restricts the user to their melee weapon, causes them to dish out Mini-crit attacks and take an additional 25% damage, and grants a 35% movement speed increase; this effect lasts 15 seconds, and has a cooldown that activates under the same conditions as the Sandvich. The Dalokohs Bar and Fishcake will grant the user an extra 50 health for 30 seconds and will heal 100 health (25 health each second). Unlike the other lunchbox items, it has no cooldown bar.
Engineer	Eureka Effect Taunt	Eureka Effect	2 seconds	Teleports player to teleporter exit or back to spawn and replenishes all health, metal, and ammo
Medic	Oktoberfest	Kritzkrieg	4 seconds	Heals player for 11 health
	Medicating Melody	Amputator	4 seconds	Heals nearby teammates