End of the Line [SFM] 

I love how the only word spoken in this was "Ha." Beautiful.

"Not the kittens!" "Not the orphans!" "NOT THE KITTEN OPRHANS!"

Fun fact: ubercharge doesn't canonically increase strength, it just makes you invulnerable, meaning that the heavy is strong enough to stop a fucking train 💀

I think the most unbelievable part of this is that soldier comes up with a plan that almost works

Casual Payload:"god damn it stop playing spy we need to push the cart!!!!" Competitive Payload:

I like how the spy does ACTUAL spy work in this animation

Blu Pyro did nothing wrong, maybe he wasn't even conscious of what the train was for and just wanted to have fun, and I'm grateful he could survive to the explosion. Underrated character.

The face that soldier makes when he realize the train is aiming for the explosives barrels, kitten store, orphanage and kitten orphanage are so cartoonishly hilarious

5 years later i find myself asking “Where is Red Sniper? Is he alright?”

soldier's face when he realize that the barrel warehouse is conveniently next to kitten store, a orphanage, and a kitten orphanage

Got to say, the concept of a flock of doves carrying a bomb is as haunting as it is hilarious.

10:37 I just realised that the bomb wagon and the duckies wagon hit each other. Basically means that if blue pyro hadn't put his duckie wagon back on the train, the bomb wagon would've probably landed and exploded, possibly causing a lot more damage! Those kinda details just show how carefully crafted this animation is.

Valve's soldier: master tactician, stern commander and fearless leader Also valve's soldier: "I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days"

Me: *wondering which team I’m supposed to root for* Red Team: *has a kitten orphanage* Me: well then-

8 years later, and now the director of this masterpiece has their own game studio with soon to be released game. How the time flies...

I do feel bad for Sniper. He was left all alone, stranded in the middle of nowhere, dangling off a cliff 🥺.

I've only just now noticed how the Heavy puts the King immediately on the front line during his game with Medic, just like he puts himself first against the train.

Notice that Pyro's cart actually destroyed the heavy's cary with all the bombs in it, meaning the pyro saved the entire red team.

10:33 i don't even imagine how many hours it took to make that building shatter like that.

I love how heavy has ZERO fear stepping onto those train tracks. He knows he might die or worse, but he is completely fine with that fact so long as his team is able to live on and prosper. That is the definition of a hero, a man willing to throw away everything he has worked for, willingly just awaiting an end to save more people in a total act of selflessness.

Pyro, the lone survivor of the BLU team, simply because he chased after a kitty.

Morale of the story: heavy does not know how to play chess

11:35 - Engineer is the only merc who doesn't seem relieved when the train car doesn't smash into the TNT. Some quick foreshadowing that he's really BLU Spy in disguise.

I love how a pet store, an orphanage, and a kitten orphanage is conveniently placed right next to an explosives warehouse that is directly connected with train tracks

End of the line [SFM] The video where you can pause at any time and have it as your wallpaper

Blu pyro was too innocent to be on the bad team, nice that he survived

this entire sequence at 3:14 is actually brilliant. The attention to detail, the angles, the shots. Sniper and Scout just standing motionless in shock and dismay as the train blurs past. Absolutely insane.

Everyone's pointing out their favourite little bits, and I want to highlight Scout's face at 5:32 . After getting bounced around, you can see him smile for just a few frames as he gets ready to jump on the train, and it's little details like that which make character animation so compelling. Besides that, the cinematography is stunning. The flare launching into the sky, the introduction with the frozen Sniper, the shot with the forest and Scout on top of the train, and holy shit the Prometheus style running away sequence, the camera movements, the framing, it's all just amazing.

Top 5 reasons to like heavy: -Stopped the damn train

I like how pyro is the only one still alive He’s innocent

With only 6 audible times someone made a sound or spoke, this has more character development and tells a story better than anything else I've seen. Still remains a masterpiece even 8 years later.

10:23 i love how scout jumped out and was running for his life and then saving medic from getting hit

I love how adamantly you stuck to the different building styles for Red and Blu, and added environments into that mix as well. Typically Red is in wooden buildings (warmer colours), Blu in concrete, industrial buildings (colder colours), and then you added in the forest environment for Red, and the snowy mountainous environment for Blu, and it just works!

Probably the only time Scout has ever gone 14 minutes without talking.

3:38 There’s some foreshadowing going on here. Heavy bends the rules to get an advantage, as he does when he stands in front of the train. Nobody’s supposed to do that, but it worked out for him and ultimately saved the base.

It’s really nice to see that everyone praises or appreciates the effort put into this animation nowadays. When this first came out, you saw plenty of comments that tore into this; complaining about how they waited 4 years for a 14 min long animation.

Heavy gets in front of tracks Medic: "The heavy is dead!" Everyone: "The heavy is dead?"

The symbolism in the chess game heavy plays actually predicts what happens with the train. Heavy sends out himself, his king, to protect his pawns, his teammates. Showing that he did know that it would lead to certain defeat, yet was happy to protect those he had grown to care about over the years of mercenary work with them.

can we talk about how good the 10:24 shot looks with that container being crushed and the building getting destroyed I don't think people realise how long this had to have taken to make. edit: I just noticed the powerline being cut by the container and rapidly snapping back

its been 7 years and the ost still hits like a train

Scout is literally that subway surfer kid

all the good guys survived The reds the kittens the orphans the kitten orphans and most importantly the blue pyro and that cat

9:37 this is what one of, if not the most badass and emotional scene I’ve ever watched And the small detail that the medic didn’t fully put on his coat is beautiful

I love the end part where Pyro was saved by chasing a cat implying it's his reward for keeping the rubber ducky cargo without it the ending would be too much to bear. Love the little details

I love how despite his super cocky not caring attitude the Scout still went out of his way to save the medic

Honestly, I really do love it more when the team is actually professional and badass than when they're used as jokes. Yes they're hilarious as memes and jokes, but when they act like a team it's really damn cool

You gotta love how they made sure to show medic saddened by what he thought was heavys death and how he was sorry about how he treated him

Soldier thought not about himself, but about protecting those around him, truly what a soldier should be.

That moment when you realize that a 14 minute animation created by a couple of jokers is better than professionally made movies with a budget of 200 million dollars.

Not a single line spoken and yet you totally get that Heavy and Medic are good friends. That's the power of facial expression, body language and camera work for you.

Everyone's respect for heavy after the SFM: 📈📈📈📈

I really love the idea of the BLU team's classes having slightly different personalities, despite being from the same clone batch of the original mercs I wish I could've said this 8 years ago, when this thought first crossed my mind but I was too fucking stupid to even formulate it. Feels weird that I barely remember this vid despite it(coincidentally) marking pretty much the end of my years of playing TF2. I think they also disabled custom texture and sound support shortly after this Edit: Holy shit, this was the end of the line for my time with TF2

people are asking "what happened to red sniper" but nobody's asking "wheres red engineer"

Scout being silent actually makes him more badass and less annoying. I’m actually loving him a lot in this animation.

There are so many things I love about this animation. At 0:45, Soldier puts the train plan over a plan for a "stealth pigeon bomb." At 13:10, Sniper wakes up to see this plan put into action. At 5:04, Sniper watches in shock and disappointment as Scout breaks the side view mirror. At 11:57, we get to witness Heavy bend the barrel of a gun 90 degrees in less than a second with a single hand, then proceed to fold Spy's spine in half by driving his whole body 2 feet into the ground, leaving Spy in more shock and confusion than pain.

I love how BLU Pyro survives. He honestly deserved it

11:35 Notice how the "Engie" is the only one who isn't relieved. The attention to detail is amazing, easily one of the best SFM shorts ever.

Some things I noticed: -Blu Pyro put his cart back into the train -Engineer was dead

9:39 is one of the most epic, yet heartbreaking moments of cinema. Literally almost cried

This entire cinematic should've been its own gamemode called "Train Sabotage", where you're actually in the train, and the red team would start at the last cart, while the Blu team would start near the front. The red team would have to capture 5 control points, (so 5cp and 1 control point for each cart). Despite the fact that the trains would have to be a quite comically large, by themselves they would be too contained, so there'd probably be a lot of hand-built wooden platforms and/or outer railings on the sides. You could also go on the roofs of the train carts too, (though not every cart will have a roof, and one of the control points would be open with few barricades/storage crates for cover). The time limit would be continuous, (but it would be long enough to be reasonable), and as the time goes down the background would slowly change. It would start at the snowy area, to the mountains, and very slowly have the sunset start to fade in as it then goes into the tunnel, then after emerging it's the warm forest area. If the time were to run out, it would ram right into the barrels of dynamite and explode the whole town, (and despite there being the orphanages, it could be said that they were evacuated as a precaution if the red team were to fail). I also think it'd have to be 9v9, (18 players), where every player would have to excel at only 1 certain class, meaning no multiple of the same classes. (It would be kinda a pseudo-competitive). Because I just feel that 12v12 would just be too much. These are just some thoughts I had after rewatching this SFM, even though there's probably a lot of flaws with them, I still think that with enough polish it could be something. Open to criticism on my ideas, and I'm curious as to what else anyone can come up with.

End of the line is beautiful, and Canon apparently, so this means (in canon): Medic and Heavy play chess together Heavy isn't seen as a good ally much. Pyro owns a cat. The blu team fail. Spy is actually competent when on red team. Soldier cares about orphans and cats.

When Medic's beam breaks off of Heavy after the train hits him, you just see Medic's grit turn to emotionlessness and hopelessness. He doesn't care when he loses his coat. He doesn't care that 15 feet to his right is a symphony of crashes, slices, carnage and chaos. He doesn't even notice the train car barreling towards him. Scout gets him out of the way, saving his life. When he sits up, he doesn't stand up. He just stares at the tracks, where Heavy was.

5:04 i love how much all of the classes care for eachother in this

10:40 This scene alone was just purely amazing. sounded like an actual movie scene. Also, the complete lack of voice acting is just awesome. this would win a Saxxy easily

2014: Wow, amazing video! 2015: Wow, amazing video! 2019: Wow, amazing video!

5:04 y'all see how the sniper get angry when his rearview mirror broke? this sfm level of detail is godly, these dude should help vavle with their animation no joke

almost 8 years later, this animation still doesn't get nearly enough praise... actual masterpiece.

As a car enthusiast, this moment hit hard... 4:53

But for a team that hadn't got supplies in about 73 days *and* suffers from freezing temperatures, they had a really good plan.

“How to prevent a train wreck” Google: learn how to drive a train! Bing:

There's nothing than embodies TF2 more than Heavy stopping a whole fucking train with his sheer body strength, with Uber being the only thing keeping him alive

4:30 the real soldier doesn't fight for hating what's on front of him but for loving what is behind him

I love how they all stay silent and their communication is solely from the top tier animation

I just noticed at 0:23 the blue sniper gets the mug which says second best while at 2:58 red sniper gets the first. The little details make it worth rewatching.

Anyone else still get goosebumps when watching the train stopping scene

Scout showing off his stupid bravery is my favorite thing about this. I’d say his courage is his greatest virtue and it makes me giddy to see it shown off without question

Heavy moved the King chess piece to the front, because he believes that true leaders lead from the front. Which is also why he was willing to put his life on the line to stop the train and save everyone.

I still love this SFM so much. Not the kittens! Not the orphans! Not the kitten orphans!

3:40 I love how the medic’s expression on his face when he loses. I can just tell he is saying “ would you like me to take out your skeleton “ with just his face

Soldiers faces when learning of what will be lost is amazing. The kitten orphanage completely changed his face

Love the little detail of the "Engineer" being the only one who doesn't sigh in relief at 11:35

this could literally be an official tf2 short and nobody would notice. it's THAT well made. [I KNOW THAT IT WAS MADE OFFICIAL BY VALVE. I was referring to the fact that it wasn't created by valve.]

4:12 It's very funny how The RED Soldier get's more and more scared as he sees more things. XD

9:08 man, this scene is so cool. i love the animation, the sondtrack and how iconic it is

I just love how the Pyro is actually rewarded for his nice art on the train, as he survived the blast in the BLU base. Thus, he gives his gratitude by sending those ducks.

What? An SFM that doesn't have Scout as the main character?!

10:29 I can never get over this shot of Scout shoving Medic down just before a train sweeps right through where he was standing.

I love the subtle detail that blu snipers mug says #2 sniper and reds is #1

Finnaly. *slurp slurp*.

8:41 This is even funnier when you realize the TF2 scout is canonically illiterate.

This shows how heavy doesn't just love his mini gun but also has a great love for the others on his team and in the facility

I've looked through so many comments and no one's commented that the stealth pigeon bomb schematic at 0:46 is the one at 13:16. Loved that detail.

Jesus, this is like a Pixar short. The amount of emotion and story you managed to convey without a single word of dialogue...absolutely incredible. There’s not a single thing I didn’t like about this.

*Explosive barrels* Soldier: *Destruction of base* Soldier: *Kitten orphans* Soldier: *OH GOD SEND THE ENTIRE MILITARY*

I love how Heavy didn’t hesitate to stop the train with or without Medic’s help.

I am at a loss for words. The fact that not only is this such a compelling and phenomenal project, but also one with little to no voice acting is absolutely breathtaking.

"Hey Red, Go Die, yours Truly, Heavy"

This SFM is basicly the meaning of "an image says more than 1000 words" The facial expressions and actions of the mercs says all theyre thinking without a SINGLE WORD. Congrats, this animation is fucking awesome

Reminder, the ubercharge ran out halfway through Heavy pushing the train, so cannocially speaking, in this universe, the red heavy is stronger enough to survive half a rogue train crushing him

I don´t care if the update was bad, this animation was GOLD and everyone should prase it