![]() ![]() The Sniper is more concerned that his dad doesn’t think his mercenary work is professional more than pissing in jars and murdering people all day. ![]() The shorts hammer home how simultaneously relatable yet ridiculous these characters are. They range in intricacy depending on the character though, like the super-suave literal motherfucker Spy receiving one of the longest and most plot-driven shorts. Most are shot in a mockumentary format, splicing together interviews and action footage over a couple of minutes to paint a distinct portrait of each character (over the best videogame jazz you’ve ever heard). Known far and wide across the Internet for creating the most iconic characters in video games in just a few minutes apiece, “Meet the Team” is a series of shorts created in the animation tool Source Filmmaker that introduces us to each of the nine character classes. Of course, these comics came after the character clips in “ Meet the Team. Comics were used to give stories behind updates and to create an ongoing storyline - the currently unfinished one these articles began with. After the American mercenaries died out, the “Team Fortress Classic” mercenaries were hired and after them, we reach our current cast. The brothers tried to outlive each other when they came to their mercenary stalemate, but on the verge of death, they both unwittingly commissioned the same engineer to build them immortality machines. Refusing this, the brothers both hired teams of mercenaries to fight over the land to claim it (made up of American legends like the Pyro Abraham Lincoln, the Heavy John Henry and the Spy Fu Manchu). The land was ultimately useless and Zepheniah died hating his sons, leaving the useless land to be split between them in the hope they’d finally share. In the mid-19th century, rich Englishman Zepheniah Mann was convinced by his constantly feuding sons Redmond & Blutarch (the originators of RED vs BLU) to buy most of New Mexico and move there. With such a colorful cast, would you believe me if I said the comics make it zanier?Īlright, just hear me out. There are subversions too - the mass-murdering Russian brute Heavy is actually a gentle giant who cares deeply for his family and Pyro, who is outwardly cruel and maniacal, thinks they’re just playing a childish game. military in World War II) he bought his own ticket to Europe and went on a Nazi killing spree with self-taught skills the Demoman is an explosively angry Scottish alcoholic so obsessed with pyrotechnics that he accidentally killed his parents in pursuit of the Loch Ness Monster the Medic is a German mad scientist following the “ Hippocratic suggestion” who happens to heal people as a byproduct of his morbid experimentation. For example, Rick May’s Soldier is an American so patriotic that (upon being deemed mentally unfit for the U.S. Its characters - split between RED and BLU teams - are more than just archetypes they’re blatant stereotypes exaggerated to an unstereotypical level. ![]()
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