185+ TF2 Fun Facts!

Over 185 fun facts about your favorite game!

Introduction

Information was gathered from the TF2 Wiki. The following are locations where these facts were pulled:

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Template:Did_you_know/Previously_featured_facts

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Template:Did_you_know

Scout Fun Facts

#1 A Scout figure can be found in the game Half-Life Alyx



#2 Because of the Mutated Milk's different model physics, this item reskin can be thrown slightly further than the original mad milk



#3 The Flying Guillotine has a maximum throw duration. If it exceeds this duration it will make a noise as if it hit a wall and fall, even if it hit nothing.



#4 In the Mann Vs Machine trailer, Scout switches between the stock bat and Sandman twice.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4cfo0f88Ug

#5 Scout can assist in his own death if his sandman ball is reflected and then he is killed by an enemy player

#6 Scout can reach up to 22.2 miles (35.7 kilometers) per hour. In comparison, Olympic gold medalist, Usain Bolt, reached up to 27.8 miles per hour.

#7 Scout is tied with Pyro for the most amount of unique weapons

#8 In the Meet the Soldier trailer, Scout is shown as wearing his headphones over his right ear, while in-game, it is worn over his left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42d0WHRSck

#9 The cosmetic Batter's Helmet, is designed to be worn by left-handed batters, even though Scout is right-handed



#10 Scout has a scrapped weapon called the Catcher's Mitt which would have let him catch projectiles and throw them back

#11 Upon getting gibbed, Scout has a 1 in 20 chance to have Archimedes fly out of his corpse. This is in reference to Meet the Medic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc

#12 The RED spy is in a relationship with BLU Scout's mother

#13 In all of Valve's "Meet the..." videos, not a single BLU Scout is killed

#14 In the Meet the Scout trailer, the RED team is attacking from BLU's base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNMz0J9TEQ&t=1s

#15 Scout was originally supposed to have a nail gun as his primary weapon



#16 The Fan-O-War was originally going to be for Soldier, rather than for Scout



#17 The SMG was originally intended for Scout

#18 In the Meet the Pyro video, if you turn captions on, Scout says, "He's not here, is she?" when referring to Pyro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I

#19 When using the Atomizer, Scout's triple jump dust will be purple rather than the normal white



#20 Scout's mother is engraved on the Ambassador



#21 In the Meet the Scout trailer, Scout touches the camera and leaves a fingerprint for the rest of the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNMz0J9TEQ&t=65s

#22 Scout's first-person reload is different from his third-person reload

#23 Scout trained himself to run fast so he could beat his brothers to fights in the streets of Boston

#24 Engineer's dispenser has the nail belt from Scout's originally planned Nail Gun



#25 Scout's dog tags are blank

#26 Scout is one of the only classes that doesn't have a class emblem on his shoulder (spy is the other one)

#27 Each class is represented by a piece of bread. Scout is represented as a plain loaf



#28 A hat called the Bonk N' Flash was going to be released but ended up getting scrapped due to concerns over copyright issues with DC's Flash. This was later changed into two separate cosmetics, the Bonk Boy, and the Lightning Lid







#29 The Bonk Atomic Punch comes in two flavors - Cherry Fission (RED) and Blutonium Berry (BLU)




#30 Scout is the youngest of 7 brothers

#31 The Crit-a-Cola was designed the day before it was incorporated into the game

#32 The fluid that splashes out of the Bonk Atomic Punch is recycled from the acid fired by antlion workers in Half-Life 2 Episode 2



#33 The Candy Cane, Boston Basher, Pain Train, Holiday Punch, Killing Gloves of Boxing, and Machina are the only weapons that have not been changed since they were released

#34 The Sandman originally took away Scout's double jump

#35 The Shortstop was supposed to slow down enemies but never worked properly

Soldier Fun Facts

#1 The Soldier is married to Heavy's sister, Zhanna


#2 Merasmus has a tattoo of the Soldier's class emblem on his arm



#3 The voice actors of Soldier (Rick May) and Engineer (Grant Goodeve) both voiced Wolf O'Donnel from Starfox



#4 5 classes are known to smoke. This includes Soldier, Demoman, Medic, Sniper, and Spy.

#5 You can look directly through Soldier's stock rocket launcher



#6 Soldier has a higher chance to spawn bread when teleporting

#7 Each class is represented by bread. Soldier's is a military ration



#8 Soldier was originally going to receive a melee weapon called the Stratonic Swatter, as seen in this Halloween promotional image



Kill icon:

#9 The BLU soldier has died in every Meet the Team video

#10 The Lumbricus Lid plays "Halleluiah" from Handel's Messiah when taunt killing



https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/9/9c/Taunt_wormsHHG.wav

#11 Soldier was rejected from all branches of the military during WWII

#12 Soldier has several voice references related to the Hobbit when dominating a Sniper. The list goes as follows:

"You just got dominated, Bilbo Baggins!"
"You just got dominated, Balbo Biggins!"
"You just got dominated, Bablo Bravins!"
"You just got dominated, Barble Bapkins!"
"You just got dominated, Basbo Bibbins!"
"You just got dominated, Bulbo Buttons!"

The Soldier sees the Sniper as a coward who does not want to fight close up, similar to hobbits who do not like to fight

#13 Overwatch's Pharah references Soldier's gameplay style when she says, "Rocket jump? That sounds dangerous."

#14 The Market Gardener is a reference to Operation Market Garden, an Allied military operation in World War II, and The largest airborne operation failure in history

#15 The Blackbox was originally going to be the name of new content for the Orange box





#16 The achievement Project Excelsior - Parachute 19.47 miles, is a reference to a series of extremely high-altitude parachute jumps conducted by the U.S. Air Force over the New Mexico desert in 1959 and 1960. This project set a jump altitude record of 19.47 miles.



#17 Rocket Jumping was invented by Shakespearicles, the strongest writer who ever lived.



Valve has a large poster of Shakespearicles in their office

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Non-player_characters#Shakespearicles

#18 The Rocket Jump Waltz actually a waltz since it is written in 4/4 time instead of 3/4 time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdtBLD8Lbg

#19 The Market Gardener will crit from using enemy rockets to jump

#20 The Liberty Launcher has a reference to the Liberty Bell



#21 A RED Soldier appeared as a model placeholder in Notch's beta game, 0x10c

#22 Merasmus and SOodier are roommates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT4PTyuTsnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-9WZ-RTz6U

Pyro Fun Facts

#1 Pyro uses the same voice lines in all languages

#2 Even though Pyro is right-handed, he holds the fire axe left-handed

#3 Pyro was originally going to receive a flame thrower called "Wrath of Wan Hu" but it got reworked and eventually became Heavy's Huo Long Heater

#4 Pyro has the most taunt kills

#5 The BLU team's first Pyro was President Abraham Lincoln

#6 In early versions of TF2 there was a file named "female_head_black.vtf" which started the conspiracy that Pyro is actually a female

#7 Portal 2 had a trailer where Aperature employees were watching the Meet the Pyro video 2 months before it was announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U38n3OmiDCc&t=1s

#8 The flame thrower originally could not airblast projectiles before the Pyro update

#9 Each class is represented by a piece of bread. Pyro is represented as a burnt piece of toast

#10 Pyro's Respectless Rubber Glove hat was the first hat to have jiggle bones



#11 All stock melee weapons except for the Fire Axe are one-handed

#12 There is a giant Balloonicorn in Valve's office



#13 The Neon Annihilator was originally suggested to be a Chinese lantern

#14 The Neon Annihilator text translates to "bar" from simplified Chinese



#15 Pyro's Powerjack is made up of a 1950s automobile jack and a car battery



#16 In the Meet the Sniper video, the Pyro can be seen with the Flare Gun before it was announced



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZDwZbyDus

#17 The Dragon's Fury projectiles can be reflected

Demoman Fun Facts

#1 Every class has blue eyes except for Demoman (and Pyro, whose eye color is unknown)

#2 If Demoman hits anything with a critical bottle swing the weapon breaks

#3 Demoman's dad walked 15 miles (24.1 kilometers) in the rain to blow up the queen of England for a nickel



#4 Demoman is the only class whose shirt emblem is different than their actual class emblem

#5 RED Demoman and BLU Soldier were best friends until the Administrator turned them against each other

#6 MONOCULUS uses Demoman's voice but slowed down

#7 The map Degroot keep is named after Demoman, whose real name is Tavish Degroot

#8 Demoman was originally supposed to be white

Concept art:






https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1783

#9 Demoman lost his original foster parents at the age of 6 in a botched attempt to blow up the Loch Ness monster

#10 Both Demoman and Heavy are voiced by the same voice actor, Gary Schwartz



#11 With the Ali Baba Wee Booties or Bootlegger, a shield, and 4 or more collected heads, the Demoman becomes faster than the Scout



#12 The Dangeresque, Too? cosmetic was the furthest Valve wanted to go in their cosmetic style since the game takes place in the 60's - 70's, and this cosmetic is based on a style in the 80's.



#13 Decapitation turns the player's head model so small that it can't be seen. It then spawns in a gibbed head.

#14 The Bottle is dated to be from 1808 and the Scottish Handshake is dated at 1680

#15 The swords: Eyelander, Nessie's Nine Iron, and the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker occasionally whisper "Heads"

Heavy Fun Facts

#1 In the map, Egypt, the hieroglyphics showcase several TF2 references, including a Heavy with a minigun



#2 Heavy's original melee weapon was supposed to be a lead pipe


#3 Heavy's original character model had a mullet



#4 It costs $400,000 to fire Heavy's gun for 12 seconds... That would be equal to $3,600,000.00 in 2024

#5 In the Left 4 Dead section of the Sacrifice comic book, Heavy makes a showcase as an action figure

#6 In the Meet the Heavy video Heavy fires his minigun for exactly 12 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0

#7 The emblem on Heavy's sleeve was originally going to be a skull with crossbones

#8 A fully healed Heavy can survive all of Pyro's taunt kills

#9 The cosmetic Siberian Sophisticate adds a bar code to the back of Heavy's head



#10 Heavy's finger gun taunt kills the target with the code equivalent of a wide invisible bullet

#11 Heavy fires bullets from the brand "Super Caliber Fragile Ballistic", referencing Mary Poppins

#12 Heavy is Russian, but his gun, Natascha, is spelled the German way

#13 Heavy may sing Mily Balakirev's "Song of the Volga Boatmen", Chopin's "Funeral March", and Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZY5DBmgC_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI

#14 The game Henry Stickmin has an achievement that references the Heavy. It is called "Kredit 2 Team", a voice line that is often said after teleporting

Engineer Fun Facts

#1 The Sentry gun is the fastest building to fully deploy



#2 Engineer is the only class that doesn't give a thumbs up when using the "Thanks!" voice command

#3 When the engineer reloads the pistol he inserts the ammo backwards

#4 In the Meet the Engineer video, Engineer's fire is a burning BLU sniper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgNBsCI4EA

#5 Engineer is the shortest of all characters at 5'7"


(Imagine retrieved from TopTier Tactics' article, TF2 is Overpowered: The OP argument as applied to the TF2 classes)

#6 The song Engineer plays in his Meet the Engineer video is based off a real song called Someone Else's Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ysuCDuPJk

#7 Many classes have nicknames for the Engineer. Scout calls Engineer "Hardhat", Soldier calls him "Engy", Sniper calls him "Truckie", Medic calls him "My hard-hatted-friend!", and Spy calls him "Laborer"

#8 The reason Engineer only has one glove is that Pyro has mistaken the other one for a hat





#9 The first time Engineer is seen without his goggles is in the Loose Cannon comic



#10 Engineer had a scrapped weapon called the Repair Node. This weapon would have repaired all nearby buildings for a short period of time, allowing the Engineer to leave his nest



#11 The Pip-boy changes the construction menu

#12 The Engineer wears the default hat backwards

#13 The Hotrod cosmetic falls down when Engineer is in construction mode



#14 The Ghoul Box cosmetic has a tiny hidden rat with a halo to pay tribute to the creator's pet rat which had passed away. Can you find it in the image of the textures?





#15 It takes about a second for the Sentry gun to do a 360

#16 Engineer has eleven PhD's in hard science

#17 Sentry guns beep according to their level

#18 Engineer can climb higher using a level 1 Sentry than a Dispenser

Medic Fun Facts

#1 The Medic traded a share of his soul for a pen



#2 In the Meet the Spy video, after Spy knocks Medic's glasses off, a Half-Life crate appears behind them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4N5OhcY9s

#3 Surgeon Simulator has a reference to Meet the Medic



#4 The Medic has no class-specific domination lines

#5 Stickybombs that have been Kritzed during setup time will turn back to normal if the Medic changes class

#6 Medic's Bonesaw and Vita-Saw have a chance to play the song Playing With Danger, the Domination sound, and the Revenge sound

#7 Medic plays his melee violin on the wrong shoulder

#8 The Medic and Engineer have the least amount of unique weapons

#9 Activating all 4 of the Vaccinator's charges will last 10 seconds, whereas all other ubers only last 8 seconds

#10 Medic's Clinical Trial set is the only set that does not include a cosmetic



#11 The Kritzkreig, Blutsauger, and Ubersaw were the first weapon unlocks added to the game

Sniper Fun Facts

#1 Sniper's voice actor, John Patrick Lowrie, is married to Ellen McLain, the person who voices the Administrator (and GLaDOS from Portal 2)





#2 Sniper is actually from New Zealand

#3 The Huntsman can be drawn in mid-air but cannot fire until the Sniper touches the ground

#4 The Manniversary Paper Hat is made from a folded copy of a Jarate ad





#5 The reflection of the Sniper's scope is made from pre-rendered textures

#6 If you equip the Sydney Sleeper, the bullets in Sniper's pocket are replaced by darts




#7 The road sign in the Meet the Sniper video has a headshot icon on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZDwZbyDus&t=1s

#8 Sniper's in-game model changed to include a scar after the Meet the Spy video



#9 The Sniper and Spy are the only classes who wear watches

#10 In first-person Sniper has gloves on both hands. In third-person he only has one glove.

#11 In the Meet the Sniper video, Sniper has an injury on his thumb called a Garand Thumb

#12 Merasmus uses Sniper's melee animations



#13 If two Huntsman arrows hit each other in mid-air they will both be destroyed

Spy Fun Facts

#1 In the Meet the Spy video, the number 1 on the keypad is worn out. This is because the passcode is "1111"

#2 The Japanese text on the box trot reads, "The Spy is in this box"

#3 Spy backstabs Heavy and Soldier in Meet the Spy to the tune of the ending flourish

#4 The cigarette that Spy flicks away in his disguise kit taunt has physics

#5 The Meet the Spy video got leaked 2 days before they intended to release the video

#6 There are two RED Spy indicators on the BLU team's dashboard in Meet the Spy



#7 Spy has a scrapped weapon called the Gas Grenade. It is believed that this would act the same way as the hallucination grenade from Team Fortress Classic



#8 The idea to create Spy came from a bug. It originated from a glitch in Quake where people would look like they were on the wrong team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNZAoIrEPpQ

#9 Spy fights with the knife in his right hand, but fences with it in his left

#10 Spy is fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Italian

#11 The animation for pulling out the sapper is the same as Heavy pulling out a Sandvich

#12 Spy's disguise kit is called the Spytron 3000



#13 Spy has an English accent when the game is played in French

#14 Reloading your Revolver while disguised will cause your disguise to reload their weapon

#15 The Red-Tape Recorder occasionally says "Let's make some noise" when it's slowed down to 80% speed

Bonus Fun Facts

#1 German version of the Meet the Team videos are censored, bleeding oil and exploding into cogs and screws when gibbed instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvRCZ__iIM

#2 The loading screen has 21 bars



#3 Pipeline is the first official map to take place during night



#4 The Administrator's design was originally created by the artist Heather Campbell before December 2009



Original rendition

#5 Saxton Hale's chest hair is shaped like Australia



#6 A figure that resembles Miss Pauling can be seen in Meet the Medic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lSzUMBJnc

#7 According to the comic, Death of a Salesbot, the President of the United States in 1999 is a Pomeranian


(His name is Kisses Von Butternubs)

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesbot

#8 The ghost of Zepheniah Mann wearing a Ghastly Gibus



#9 The Valve Store mislabeled their Demoman action figure's Stickybomb Launcher as the Scottish Resistance

#10 MONOCULUS is the RED Demoman's missing eye, grown to a giant size from the Bombinomicon








#11 The Horseless Headless Horsemann is the presumed brother of Zepheniah Mann

#12 Zephaniah Mann contracted several diseases "On our sailing trip to the new world I contracted white plague, marasmus, sweating sickness, deplumatious tumors of the eyelids, pleurisy, membranous croup and scarlet rash..."

#13 The Kazotsky Kick music can be heard on the map Train in CS:GO

#14 Merasmus borrowed $12,000 from the Japanese Mafia to construct a carnival

#15 ...And he borrowed money from the Russian Mafia


#16 MONOCULUS went back in time to try and become the Mercenaries' parents

#17 TF2's art style has gone from the idea of having a claymation look, where players would explode into chunks of clay, to being announced as a realistic first-person shooter in 1999, to what we have today

#18 Team Fortress 2's mercenaries are the third generation of mercenaries hired by Blutarch and Redmond Mann







#19 In the Meet the Team videos Valve shows how lenient they are with their promotional work by writing "Copyright LOLOLOL"



#20 This excludes the Meet the Sandvich video, where "LOLOLOL" is replaced by "OMNOMNOM"



#21 When you sort your backpack by class, it sorts it by the Team Fortress Classic class order instead of Team Fortress 2

#22 There are modern-day computers hidden behind a cracked open door in Degroot keep

#23 A tombstone in Harvest reads "R.I.P. The 10th Class"

#24 There is an unused song originally meant to be played when using an upgrade station in Mann vs Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7eJg7hRvqE

#25 It was once possible to stop the Trains on the map Well

#26 Sawmill is the first official map to have weather

#27 The eye color of bots indicates their difficulty. Easy and normal bots have blue eyes, hard and expert bots have yellow eyes.

Closing

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thank u for this the scout fun facts and pyros melee weapons fun facts were good

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