![]() ![]() Guns Are Worthless: Because the characters already spend most of their time in the game shooting each other, the mercenaries almost never use their weapons in the comics, generally fighting on-panel with their bare hands, strange Improvised Weapons, or indirect methods.Naturally, the madness of the webcomics has bled back into the game. However, the webcomics significantly exaggerate the cartoonish malady of the entire TF2 universe (see Cloud Cuckoo Land above), making it a hilariously corrupt, absurdist, nonsensical Crapsack World with no semblance to reality whatsoever. Comedy in the early promotional material for Team Fortress 2 came from the mercs' eccentric personalities, though the setting itself was relatively grounded. Flanderization: The entire setting is subject to this with each passing release.When Sniper has him at gunpoint shortly afterward, and the Classic Sniper starts to try and talk his way out, he immediately shoots him. When Classic Sniper captures the Spy, he plans to kill him slowly. Combat Pragmatist: The Sniper, in contrast to the Classic Sniper.Really, just about every bit of information available about the TF2 world only serves to emphasize how insane it is. Then there's Gray Mann, who invented a robot army powered by money. What's more, it turns out that the second floor was invented (by Shakespearicles, the strongest poet who ever lived) 200 years before the staircase (invented by Abraham Lincoln), and in the intervening time people had to rocket jump up to the second floor. Australia itself is also hyper-masculine, with everyone being incredibly muscular and owning a mustache (yes, even the women), and whose leader is chosen by boxing match with a kangaroo. Weapons are supplied by Mann Co., a company owned by an overly masculine Australian who spends most of his time getting into fights. The entire world is owned by one of two corporations, founded by two feuding brothers fighting over worthless pits of gravel, and both owned by a single sociopathic woman who keeps both sides in conflict. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Put simply, the whole TF2 universe is crazy in a box with a side order of fries.and has her ?fight? Saxton, who forfeits because he can?t bring himself to beat up a child. Gray Mann makes his tiny daughter Olivia the CEO of Gray Gravel Co. ![]() by force with his army of robots, he decides to take over the company through its CEO Saxton Hale?s declaration that any rival CEO can replace him if they defeat him in personal combat. Children as Pawns: When Gray Mann fails to conquer Mann Co.Pauling's eyes squirting blood when she is squeezed, and Heavy's horrified reaction to Zhanna's dating of Soldier. The next comic reveals that Demoman's body is able to produce its own alcohol to cause the robots to malfunction, and has antics like Soldier readily holding open a chest cavity to accept more blood into his body, Ms. Pauling, and Zhanna facing off against impossible odds - all without weapons, they are taken out by Gray's bloodsucking robots which seem to kill them off for real. Old Wounds ends with Soldier, Pyro, Demo, Spy, Ms.Pauling tells the team that Gray's robots run on piles of money. The next TF comic is about Saxton Hale explaining to the mercs what to do while he fights a yeti, while Ms. Redmond and Blutarch are brutally murdered by Gray in cold blood as he begins preparing for his robot takeover of Mann Co.Here are some of the best examples of this: While many update comics feature absurdly comedic situations, nearly all of them are treated as canon. Burn Scars, Burning Powers: The flamethrower wielding Pyro from Team Fortress Classic is seen unmasked, and she turns out to have a burn scar over one eye. ![]()
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