Team Fortress 2/Awesome

Meet the Team Videos

• The Meet The Team videos of Team Fortress 2 shows off the classes doing something both awesome and hilarious as well as ending with an awesome one-liner. This ranges from the Engineer playing acoustic guitar while his turrets kill all charging enemies to the 2009 video of the Scout beating up the Heavy with his bat for the sandvich he was eating.
  • The Sniper's video is full of these. He takes the head off of the Heavy, the same bullet hitting the whiskey bottle of a Demoman, which shoves into his good eye and causes the panicking Demoman to blindly fire grenades until he topples off the bridge he's on and lands on several Exploding Barrels below and his own grenades, effectively blowing himself up. The Sniper then proceeds to kill a Medic, a Soldier and a Pyro in as many seconds, while catching the ejecting brass. Epic.
    • He wasn't catching the brass, he was loading the next round. Watch closely, he's spinning it around his fingers as the expended casing goes off the left.
    • And he backstabbed the Spy.
  • The end of the Demoman's video. He spends the video yelling about how dangerous his job is ("One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of Potassium Chlorate, one errant twitch! And KABLOOIE!"), getting drunk, and delivering lines like "I'm a black Scottish cyclops!" We see him prepping a bunch of stickybombs for a big team of enemies, while his interview self delivers this line on top of the sequence: "So, t'all you fine dandies so proud, so cocksure, prancin aboot with yer heads fulla eyeballs! Come and get me I say! I'll be waitin' for ya with a whiff of the ol' brimstone! I'm a grim bloody fable, with an unhappy, bloody end!" *the enemy team passes through the door, and the Heavy sees the bombs as the Demoman waves at him* *mass stickybomb explosion, gibbing the entire enemy team* "Oh, the're goin' ta have to glue yew back together. IN HELL!"
  • Some of the Demoman's Domination lines are definitely this.

" Go to hell! And tell the Devil I'm coming for him next!"
"And so begins my thousand year reign of blood!"
"Aye, if you've come looking for trouble, lad, ya found it."

"Lot of good that soldier trainin' did ya; I'm Drunk!

"Dominated! I feel everything! I know everything!"

• • Further added to if you realize that, during his rant about the danger of "One wayward pinch of potassium", he has precariously left a still burning cigarette balancing above a table full of explosives.
    • And that he carelessly knocks a grenade off the table. As soon as he touched it, it became armed and blinking.
  • And now we've got the Spy joining the fun, breaking into the BLU base with a literal bang, backstabbing the Sniper in a one-on-one knife fight, breaking the Medic's neck with his bare hands after disguising himself, and finally, finishing off his Magnificent Bastardry by alerting the Heavy and the Soldier to his position split-seconds before he knifes them to death (and in time with the sting, too!). Also, he's screwing the Scout's mom.
    • The BLU spy is pretty awesome here, too. It takes a great deal of magnificent bastardtry (in addition to Crazy Preparedness) to research a yo mamma insult.
    • "Right behind you." *stabbity stab stab stab*
    • The stabbing is in rhythm with the Team Fortress closing theme music.
  • The Meet the Sandvich video (yes, Meet the Sandvich video) is one big CMOA and CMOF. The view is from the inside of the refrigerator as the Heavy opens the door and grabs the sandvich. You only ever see the inside of the fridge from BLU spy's point of view while all the action takes place.

The Scout: OhmygodOhmygodOHMYGOD! My blood! He punched out ALL MY BLOOD!
The Soldier: You call that breaking my spine? You RED team ladies wouldn't know how to break a spine if <CRACK!> AAAAAGGHHHH my spine!!!"

• • • Not to mention some of the rejected lines:

The Scout: "Gimme back my leg bone. <CRUNCH> NO don't hit me with it!"
The Soldier: "Son, you are writing checks your butt will find uncashable! Are you hearing me?! Your backside will be escorted from the bank! You will find this humiliating!"
The Scout: He's like a big shaved bear that hates people!

• • • The Heavy standing in the middle of a battlefield eating his sandwich (er, sandvich) while there's the usual chaos going on around him.... Just awesome.
      • If you watch closely, it's the EXACT same sequence as the one in Meet the Heavy. The only difference is what the Heavy is doing; everything in the background in the pan-around is the same. This is possible because these movies are done in the Source engine.
  • Meet the Medic's end scene.

The Heavy: Doktor! Are you sure this vill vork?!
 The Medic: Ha ha...I have NO IDEA!

• • The Heavy's glorious scene at the end: "HAHAHAHAA, I AM BOOLLET-PROOFF!!"
  • "Now? (Evil Laugh) Let's go practice medicine."
    • Followed by what is possibly the greatest Lock and Load Montage and Power Walk in the history of video games.
• In the outtakes from Meet The Medic, Medic is tending to Heavy with a IV line. A enemy Spy arrives and shoots the IV line, then runs away. When he returns, he attempts to backstab the Medic, but the Medic grabs his arm, severs his head (which lands in Heavy's hand), then jams the severed IV line into Spy's body and steps on him repeatedly for a makeshift IV.

Comics and Other Supplemental Material

• Near the end of the Engineer Comic. Engi's been his usual friendly, quiet self up until he is physically threatened, at which point he calmly dishes out the largest amount of badassery yet seen in the canon, in a single sentence:

Engineer: I appreciate that you're my employer, and an old man besides... but if you don't take your goddamn hands off me I will break you in HALF.

• • Made even more awesome in that the Engineer is being electrocuted when he's saying this.
• The Smissmas update brings us BLU team vs Old Nick.
  • It's not all of the BLUs, either; it's the Soldier, Scout (both with only Christmas items as weapons) and Spy, plus a child.

Community-Created Stuff

• This. Some genius user modded one of the unnecessary achievement maps to have a GIANT CAT emerge from the ground SCREAMING and attack all players on the field with LASERS and BEES. The cat has, to date, proven to be invincible, as the link also shows a barrage of rockets did nothing but leave burn marks. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
  • Doubly so when you realize it was created as punishment for grinding out achievements.
  • It took a while, but some mad genius has managed to one-up this one. Behold achievement_golden_wrench_v2.
    • On a followup note, that mad genius ended up winning a Saxxy for Best Set Design.
• Some servers also use Unreal Tournament-style sound effects: "HEADSHOT!" "DOUBLE KILL!" "TRIPLE KILL!" "HOLY SHIT!" and et cetera.
• And now that the Saxxy Awards are done, we have a bunch more player-made moments of awesome.
• This very daring escape by a lonesome Engineer.

The Game Itself

• All three of the Pyro's taunt animations (raising the flamethrower over his head in homage to the Tuskan Raiders of Star Wars, throwing a fireball in homage to Street Fighter, and playing air guitar on a fire axe).
  • The fireball taunt can now kill opponents in one hit, with the trade-off that it's actually genuinely hard to reliably land a successful hit on someone in combat. Doing so in a proper match is in itself a Crowning Moment. The downside to this is that getting killed mid-taunt is rather embarrassing.
  • The Pyro axe, Third Degree actually has a guitar riff when the Pyro taunts with it, which makes it even more awesome. During Halloween and full moon nights, you can even do this while dressed up like the devil.
  • The Soldier's Taunt Kill is especially humiliating, as it can kill multiple targets in one hit.
  • Landing a successful Taunt Kill with the Scout qualifies as this - it has the largest charge-up time, but a successful hit can send the target flying halfway across the map.
• The game itself naturally develops Crowning Moments of Awesome through the automatic responses from the player characters under certain circumstances. From the Soldier's "If God had wanted you to live, He wouldn't have created me!" to the Demo's "All yah dandies prancin' aboot with ya heads full of eyeballs." right up to the Scout's "Eat it, fatty!" when batting a Heavy to death. Most sound scripts are perfectly designed to be awesome when said or even heard.
  • Here's a collection of the characters' taunts.
  • ... And here's a collection of some lines that the Scout will spout out when Dominating an enemy.
  • From the Demoman to the Engineer, there's

"Go on and build more o' yer little guns. I'll shove every one of them up yer arse!"

• • • Because who hasn't wanted to say that to a especially pesky Engy?
  • When the Heavy captures a control point, there's a defiant

"Come, take it back!"

• • • He's just daring the enemy team to challenge him.
• Thanks to the Polycount Update, the Sniper is implied to have killed a crocodile and made two hats and a functional shield out of it's teeth and hide.
• You'll certainly feel plenty awesome should you pull off a seemingly improbable kill and/or help your team to victory.
  • Defeating a Demoman chargin' you with a taunt kill. A Sniper stinging him with his arrow perfectly timed, and then yanking the arrow out of the dead Demo's body.
  • For newer players, the first Intel you successfully bring back could feel like this -- particularly if you're playing an oddball class like a Heavy ("Not usually my job, but... heh heh.") or Medic ("How embarrassing, they let a man of science escape with their papers!").
  • Try airblasting an arrow. It's hard. Now try airblasting the arrow and actually score a headshot with it on the Sniper that shot it at you. Kick. Ass.
    • Airblasting a pair of ÜberCharged players apart. Or together, off a cliff.
• The game itself will also play an impressive James Bond-esque stinger whenever you Dominate an opponent, get revenge on a domination, or earn a new drop item. A dramatic sting accompanied by applause also greets anyone who completes an achievement, along with a trophy icon and confetti over the player's head.
• This video proves that the Sticky Jumper, a weapon that deals absolutely no damage to anyone, is incredibly awesome in the right hands.
  • I think his teammate's quote puts it better than we ever can.

"Damn, Gravy. Leave some for the rest of us."

• • The later exchange works, too.

Teammate 1: Shit! I didn't even see anybody!
Teammate 2: Gravy got all of them.

• This thread on the Steam forums tells of one player's complaints of an enemy Sniper using an aimbot hack. Everyone in the server is pissed off at this hacker because he gets perfect headshots every single time, in rapid succession. So what the player do? Put on his "Croc-O-Style" set, an item set that lets a Sniper survive headshots with one HP left. And since the enemy aimbot can only do headshots, the player is now technically immune to headshots. The player then proceeds to dominate the hacker. The hacker switches to Spy, fails horribly, and then ragequits. And There Was Much Rejoicing!
• The Phlogistinator is quite polarising. In return for losing your airblast, after burning enough people, you can activate a "Mmph" feature that gives you a few seconds of critical damage. That's certainly enough to kill everyone in your way, so there's a lot of arguing over whether the high risk play of the lack of airblast justifies the high reward of the damage. Regardless of your opinion, here is the awesome part. When you activate the "Mmph", Pyro raises the Phlogistinator in the air like the default flamethrower, but with added flashy effects, and lets out a triumphant shout. That may sound suicidal mid-battle, but during the taunt Pyro both regains all his health and is almost invulnerable. The taunt is only a warning to the other team. And what a warning it is. It's quite a sight and quite common to see a entire enemy offensive spin 180 and flee in terror as you stand in the centre of the battlefield with Phlogistinator glowing and raised in defiance, knowing they will be burned to cinders if they stay.
  • This Troper got a surprise Uber when using the "MMPH". The entire server erupted into cries of "OH GOD WHY?!"
  • Kind of ruined if a Sniper or a Spy takes advantage of that split second, though.
  • Eh, YMMV, but to some, that'd be awesome on the part of the Sniper or Spy; especially the Spy seeing as more often than not, they avoid Pyros like the plague.
• There is nothing more awesome than getting a team of people who are not only good, but are willing to cooperate. People who alert their teammates to any incoming threats. Pyros who spycheck often around the Engineer nests. Medics who do more than just heal one person. Snipers who take down more than just the enemy Sniper. Spies who sabotage any machinery that is within eyesight. Heavies who take care of their teammates. Demomen who set traps or beat the living hell out of anything that dares look them in the eye. Scouts who cap points, intel, push carts, and do all they can to be useful. Soldiers who take out sentry nests, Canadians, 'Commies', 'Nazis', and anyone else who looks at them funny. Engineers who build in strategic places and set up dispensers and teleporters for their teammates. Thank you. You are awesome.