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Team Fortress lore goes hard. There's a lot of other stuff before the Manns' history, like Shakesperacles, the strongest writer to man inventing rocket launchers and the two story house (and by extention Rocket Jumping), and George Washington, who invented stairs.
love the contrast between half lifes lore and tf2s lore. here's a world where a horrific accident causes otherworldly beings to enslave humanity under the worst oppression they've ever known. now here's a world where two idiot brothers fight over gravel and gold that gives you super powers and a mustache!
Wait, Helen (the administrator) is the child of Elizabeth (Maan's nursemaid)? I thought the Administrator WAS Elizabeth just going by a new name, hence why when she uses the last of the funny gold stuff at the end of the comics she wears a dress in the style of the mid to late 1800's.
I thought the same. She had also kept herself alive. I did read somewhere that a developer claimed they were different people though. Although I would disagree, I can't go against the words of a developer 😂
She is, he asked radigan to build another life extender machine for redmon too, BUT to also build a third machine, which is safe to asume was for herself
The gravel no matter how small have some bits of metal in it and America was capitalizing infrastructure and Roads and other materials gravel is the basics
20:23 Has anyone else noticed Olivia Mann's weird amber pupils? The comic gives literally every other character simple black pupils, but intentionally pulls away from that established rule for Olivia. The ONLY other time we see characters with amber pupils is when they've overdosed on Australium, and that feels TOO deliberate. Did Grey Mann genetically modify Olivia with Australium, perhaps? He mentioned he had far greater plans for the Australium than immortality... maybe Olivia was the prototype for these "greater plans?"
Technically with this taking place in the late 60s early 70s, it could take place in the half life/portal universe. Maybe the teleportation tests that black Mesa was working on was inspired by the Australium teleporters lol.
Fun Fact : A Cancelled Half-Life game Half Life Hostile Takeover Had that the Classic Mercs were a part of the Half-Life Universe If Valve did actually released that game imagine what tf2 would have been
@@self-proclaimedanimator It wouldn't reach the meme potential like our current time but it would be an interesting title to be talked... through for a niche fanbase. I'm pretty against the idea of connecting everything to Half Life. The reason L4D2 and TF2 are golden mine of meme is because they distant themselves from the seriousness and also the world of Half Life. I love Portal, don't get me wrong. But it will benefit more if it's a standalone story on its own.
I love TF2. Some wacky Looney-Tunes logicked human world with a bit of Norman Rockwell and other mid-century Americana aesthetics. The absurdity of the people and world is great. Like stairs being invented by Abraham Lincoln after someone else invented rocket-jumping when they invented a two-storey house without stairs. Also, love that Abraham Lincoln was the pyro during an early group of Gravel War mercs. XD
I am immeasurably grateful for this video. I played TF2 for years and was too lazy to learn the story from comics. Now that I got familiarized with the TF2 story, I am more proud to call myself a fan of this game and its universe. Though I don’t play video games anymore, I enjoy your videos about TF2, Half Life, and Portal. Cheers to you, Skyrionn 🎉❤
Hey man. Great video. Each of TF2 playable characters just like their Meet videos are iconic characters in the gaming industry. Consider making a video about each of the 9 classes. I know I'd watch it.
The beauty of the Mann Civil War is that Gray won. His daughter and heir is the CEO and heiress to whatever is left. And Redmond and Blutarch are to busy fighting in the afterlife to even realize this
24:20-24:25 "I play as the Engineer, and my greatest enemy is the Spy", LOL I'm the opposite, my greatest enemy is the Engineer and my favorite class is the same as Gaben.
I’m used to you talking about the dark and gritty story of Half-Life so hearing you talk about the goofy ass story that is Team Fortress 2 is pretty interesting
I love the original mercs, classic mercs, current mercs. Are from Team Fortress games from 3 different game engine. Og Mercs: Team Fortress (Quake Engine) Classic Mercs: Team Fortress Classic (GoldSrc Engine) Current Mercs: Team Fortress 2 (Source Engine)
Uh.....Redmond and Blutarch could have just gotten a surrogate.......years ago...... Im pretty sure that's how Gray got Olivia..... Um ya know what nevermind
Keep in mind the game and comics are canonically produced by Mann Co., so it's very likely everything we know about the lore is just corporate propaganda.
0:23 you forgot the most important question -- How long can Skyrionn talk about something this ridiculous and keep a straight face? :D You made it through this one but you say you're gonna do more... I think we'll hear you cracking up before the end of the third :) And... hang on... a bunch of people from the past in the UK, fighting an endless series of epic and vaguely futuristic battles in a bunch of empty gravel quarries? This is starting to sound a little bit familiar....
Oh I was smiling the whole way through! It was the weirdest story I have ever covered. I'm gonna look at other interesting topics within this series to cover too.
…are you referring to Xenoblade 3? I love that game too, but I’m pretty sure it’s just the tutorial area that’s gravel-y; battles take place literally everywhere else as well in canon.
That Red & Blu War Look Likes Reference Cold War. capitalism ( Blu Color ) vs communism ( Red Color ) What a insade Valve & Robin walker, John Cook ( Team Fortress Founders in 24 August 1996 )
I love the amazing cominty of tf2 thousand of sfm animation, unique story of game,strong cominty... unique gameplay and animations... Characters and more... we make a whole horrer movie... our own mods... when valve abonden us we start to make our own game just this months people started to make ai covar songs of tf2 characters... I love Tf2
never really thooouuught aabout it but why are the mercs different coloured in the offcial team shot at 14:17 throughout the coics we see the whole 9 mercs as being on the same team, not against each other, yet that picture seems to suggest somthing different
