Meet the Medic
| Meet the Medic | |
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| Released: | June 23, 2011 |
| Run time: | 4:09 |
Meet the Medic is the penultimate short in the Meet the Team series, featuring the Medic. It was released on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011, the final day of the Über Update.
The final few seconds of the film announce that Team Fortress 2 would be free-to-play forever.
Contents
Speculation
In March 2011, user "Political Gamer" visited Valve headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, and confirmed the production of Meet the Medic. [1]. They took a photograph of a poster at the Valve HQ, depicting the Medic posing alongside several flying doves.[2]
The comic Meet the Director, released alongside the Replay Update on May 5, 2011, featured a page which depicted the Administrator at her control panel, with a number of screenshots from Meet the Medic on the displays.
On June 8, 2011, a patch to Team Fortress 2 was released and included an update that placed several doves in various positions in Valve maps. The doves explode upon contact but do not cause players damage. On June 17, 2011, an additional patch was released which added a secondary dove model with animations. Later the same day, the page layout of the TF2 Official Blog was updated to feature three doves perched upon the title banner, which was covered by bird droppings. Each dove linked to three separate hidden images depicting a rundown hospital, an empty hospital waiting room, and a doctor's office.
Part of the rundown hospital seen in the first hidden image can be seen in the background of the Medic's page on the official site, fully modeled.
On June 20, 2011, Meet the Medic was confirmed by TF2 Official Blog, and its release was announced to coincide with the Über Update, to be released on June 23.[3] The doves that were perched on the site banner of the TF2 Official Blog were removed as part of the website redesign.
"Meet the Medic" Video Transcript
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The word "Medic" below refers to the protagonist, a RED Medic.
[Cut to an injured RED Scout and wheelchair-bound RED Demoman, bandaged up and rushing over a hill]. Scout: "Move cyclops, move!" [Cut to Scout and Demoman fleeing from a barrage of rockets.] Scout: "Come on, come on, almost" [Scout gets knocked over by a rocket; Demoman keeps going] Scout: "Augh! Nuh! Eerrrrgh! Argh." [A trio of rockets arc down towards Scout, still on the ground] Scout: "Whoa who da fu- AAAAAAAA-" [Scout gets blown forward into a glass window; a dove is startled] Scout: "Medic..." ["Meet the Medic" card appears.] [Cut to the Medic, casually chatting with an opened-up and conscious RED Heavy, whilst holding Heavy's heart in his hand. A prototype Medi Gun mounted to an overhead rig is firing its beam into the Heavy] [Heavy laughs loudly] Medic: "Wait, wait, it gets better. When ze patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and ze doctor was never heard from again!" [Laughs madly] [Heavy laughs also] Medic: "Anyvay, zat's how I lost my medical license" [Heavy suddenly looks very concerned] [A dove pops up from inside Heavy's gut, surprising both the doctor and his patient] Medic: "Archimedes! No!" [Shoos the dove away] "It's fithy in zere! Eugh." [Heavy looks towards Medic with a somewhat-angry look] "Birds." [Medic chuckles to himself] [Cut to a mechanical heart device on a tray. The word "Uber" can be seen on a small charge meter] [Medic grabs the "Uber" device] Medic: "Now, most hearts couldn't withstand zis voltage [Medic plugs the device into Heavy's heart and brings it into the Medi Gun's beam] but I'm fairly certain your heart..." [Heavy's heart explodes] [Cut to a trio of doves, Archimedes gets blown back by the force of the explosion] [Cut back to Medic, with Heavy in the background] Heavy: "What was noise?" Medic: "Ze sound of progress, my friend." [Cut to Medic opening a refrigerator containing several hearts including the heart of the Loch Ness Hamster and a Mega Baboon] Medic: "Ah... perfect..." [Medic grabs the baboon heart, revealing the decapitated head of a BLU Spy in the back of the fridge, somehow sustained by a battery] Spy Head: "Kill me." Medic: "Later." [Cut to Medic standing by the Heavy, baboon heart and Uber device in each hand] Medic: "Where was I? Ah, zere we go." [Jams device into heart] [Cuts to Medic holding the cyborg heart in front of the medi beam] Medic: "Come on, come on..." [Heart starts beating, Medic starts laughing madly as the heart starts flashing unevenly.] [Heart glows red; Heavy laughs nervously] [Cuts to the Uber meter on the device going to full] [Cuts to Medic, who has stopped laughing and is leaning his head away, as if expecting the heart to explode] [Cuts to doves for a brief moment] [Heart stabilizes and stops glowing, its texture changes to a Uber Texture.] Medic: "Oh, zat looks good." [Medic drops the heart into Heavy's open chest] Medic: "Very nice zere." [Heavy looks at the heart] Heavy: "Should I be awake for dis?" Medic "Ah heh. Vell, no, he." [Medic adjusts his glasses] "But as long as you are, could you hold your rib cage open a bit?" [Heavy moves his hand as if to adjust his rib cage as Medic is pushing the heart inside] "I can't... seem..." [Cuts to Heavy's face as he yells out in pain as a crack is heard] [Cuts to Heavy showing Medic a snapped off rib. Both look at it tentatively] Medic: "Oh, don't be such a baby..." [Medic takes the rib from Heavy] Medic: "...ribs grow back!" [Medic tosses the rib aside and turns to Archimedes sitting on top of the medigun] Medic (whispering to the bird): "No zey don't..." [Cuts to Archimedes, covered in blood, who cocks his head and flies away] [Medic swings the Medi Gun over to the open Heavy and raises the power] [The medigun completely heals the Heavy, as if by magic, even fixing his clothes] Heavy (impressed): (Deep inhale) "What happens now?" [Medic helps Heavy up} Medic: "Now? (chuckles). Let's go practice medicine." [Cuts to Medic putting on his gloves, coat, and the Quick-Fix(currently a prototype medigun) while marching music plays] [Cuts to a door bearing the red cross opening to reveal the Medic and his doves along with angelic music] [Heavy runs past Medic with Sasha ready] [Cuts to show a battlefield outside Medic's office with an Engineer and Sniper hiding behind cover, the injured Scout on the ground, and the wheelchair bound RED Demoman heading towards them] Demoman: "Medic!" [Demoman gets blown off his chair by a rocket as the Medic winces] [Medic pushes his glasses up his nose and flips a switch on the Quick-Fix] [Music intensifies as a healing beam is fired at the Demoman, healing him completely] [Medic then fires the Quick-Fix at the Red Scout, fixing him up also] Scout: "Yeah!" [The Scout grabs his Bat from out of the air as he gets up and runs off] Scout: "Woohoohoo!" [Heavy hides behind a red truck as the Scout runs past] [Scout runs up to a BLU Soldier and whacks him with his bat] Scout: "Oh yeah!" [Cuts to show a massive horde of BLU Soldiers coming over the crest of the hill] Heavy: "Doctor!" [Cuts to Heavy] Heavy: "Are you sure dis will work?!" [Cuts to Medic] Medic: "Ha ha ha, I have no idea!" [Medic flips a switch, and a panel lights up as a meter labeled "Voltmeter" reaches full. The words "Ubercharge Ready" can be seen on the panel. Medic's backpack starts humming with power] [Medic fires the Quick-Fix at the Heavy, who pops out from his cover] Heavy: "EYAAAAAAAAAH!" [Cuts to show Heavy's baboon heart beating rapidly, then cuts back to show Heavy glowing with Ubercharge power] Heavy: "HA HA!" [Medic and the Ubercharged Heavy advance under rocket fire, and Heavy starts laughing about his invulnerability] [RED Engineer, wielding the Frontier Justice, and RED Sniper, wielding the Sniper Rifle, watch bewildered as the Heavy shrugs off rockets] [Cuts back to the Heavy, still advancing] Heavy: "I am bulletproof!" [Heavy keeps moving, mowing down BLU Soldier after BLU Soldier] [Cuts to BLU Soldiers dropping like flies] [Medic and Heavy climb atop a mountain of dead bodies and a flock of doves fly overhead] [Ending title card appears and accompanying music plays] [Cuts to waiting room where the rest of RED are waiting as they do things to pass the time, i.e. the Engineer playing his guitar] Medic (off-screen): "That looks good. Very nice zere. Yes!" Scout (off-screen): "Hey, thanks doc!" [A 'ding' is heard as the "Now Serving" sign changes to number 2] [Scout emerges from the operating room, his chest glowing.] Scout: "Awhawhaw, man. You would not believe... how much this hurts." [Muffled dove coos, and Scout's chest moves] Medic: "Archimedes?" |
Gallery
Poster displaying a likeness of a scene from Meet the Medic
Page 10 of Meet the Director, showing the Quick-Fix
The dove model.
Flying dove model.
Doves on the old official website
Hospital hidden image
Waiting Room hidden image
Doctor's Office hidden image
Meet the Medic Teaser Image
The Trailer logo
The silhouette of a woman, presumably Miss Pauling
Trivia
- The hospital seen in one of the hidden images resembles the Pacific Medical Center in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, close to Valve headquarters.
- A mysterious woman resembling Miss Pauling can be seen through the window at 0:56.
- At 1:03, the entire contents of the fridge can be viewed: three Hearts, a Sandvich, three bottles of Red Shed beer, a BLU Spy's Head (alive), a battery for his head, and an ashtray for his cigarettes.
- Throughout the Heavy's procedure, an X-Ray of his insides can be seen in the background, which shows that he has somehow swallowed a nuclear bomb. The bomb is seen in a large bucket behind the Medic, the removal of which no doubt caused the giant hole in the Heavy's chest.
- Despite the Medic using the Quick-Fix, he is able to make the Heavy invulnerable. This is explained on the fourth day of the Über Update as the invulnerability function shorting out following the Ubering of the RED Heavy.
- At 3:48, the Pyro can be seen reading a magazine while playing with a lighter. The back of the magazine appears to be The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper.
- For a short period before the Über Update, doves would sometimes fly out of Scouts after they were killed. This is a reference to the end of the video, where in Archimedes is left inside the Scout's chest after he is operated on.
- The various hats worn by the army of BLU Soldiers include the Frontline Field Recorder, Stainless Pot, Proof of Purchase, Soldier's Stash, Lumbricus Lid, Grenadier's Softcap, and Armored Authority.
- Chronologically, this takes place before the other Meet the Team videos(possibly excluding Meet the Sandvich), as this was the Medic's first Ubercharge.
- Despite this, various members of the BLU Soldier army can be seen brandishing the Equalizer. In addition, a Direct Hit can be seen in the pile of corpses.
- A broken-down van similar in appearance to the Sniper's camper van can be seen in the tunnel the Medic comes out of. Whether the two vehicles are one and the same is unknown.
Related merchandise
- MeedTheMedicLithograph.png
See also
References
- ↑ "Back from Valve" on Steam Users' Forums, Political Gamer, posted March 22, 2011. Accessed June 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Videogame.it Valve HQ Article posted April 1, 2011. Accessed June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "The Über Update, Day One", TF2 Team, TF2 Official Blog, posted June 20, 2011. Accessed June 21, 2011.
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