Flippin' Awesome

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The Wright Brothers required mechanical breakthroughs and years of work to fly. All you need is a wide-open sky and a helping hand.
— Love and War Blurb

The Flippin' Awesome is a two-player Action taunt for all classes.

When initiated, the player will crouch and form their hands into a cup, whilst saying a voice line. This pose will continue indefinitely until another player taunts in front of the initiator. The initiator will then allow the other player to jump into their cupped hands and hoist them into the air to perform a backflip.

When a Heavy is flipped, he will instead land on his head. If the Heavy is the initiator, he will use one finger to flip the other player rather than both his hands.

Demonstration

Related achievements

Leaderboard class pyro.png Pyro

Flip-Kabob
Flip-Kabob
Ignite a player that is being flipped by someone using the Flippin' Awesome taunt.

Update history

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

  • Flippin' Awesome was added to the game.

June 23, 2014 Patch

January 27, 2015 Patch

  • Fixed some taunt sound effects that were clipping the character lines.

Trivia

  • The animations for Flippin' Awesome and several other taunts added in the Love and War Update were added to the game in the Scream Fortress 2013 event, as shown in this video uploaded on November 1st, 2013.
  • The taunt has different outcomes for some of the classes:
    • The Scout will flip forward first, and then proceed with a backflip.
    • The Pyro will dive into the initiator's hands as if going into a swimming pool.
    • The Demoman will briefly lose consciousness after flipping.
    • The Heavy will attempt to flip, but will instead fall flat on his back, shaking the ground beneath him. Meanwhile, the other Heavy will only hold out his index finger.
    • The Spy will perform a split and spin several times after flipping.

Gallery