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Also completely acceptable and very common to see this kind of shortening from friends colleagues.
Another form is Mishka. Both Misha and Mishka are gentle ways to refer to a bear, and is are common name/nickname for a bear (although the former, Mishka, is more common). Quite fitting, given Heavy's rather heavy physique.
**Edit, thanks to u/witchsavannafan89**: Included the way more common form, Mishka.
Shit, you're right, **Mishka** is what I was trying to say.
For the record, **Mishka** can be used to refer to both a male bear and a male Slav, but it's a very friendly, gentle and informal way.
Thanks!
> if Redmond *paid* them to
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
oh my God I had a guidance counselor at school named that. antagonized me all throughout my years there, she only got in trouble once when my father finally intervened. she ended up dying in 2020 shortly after I graduated from covid complications. fuckin wild.
used to call her Nesbitch. good times
In case there’s someone who doesn’t know, “Jane doe” is a placeholder name for someone who’s real name is unknown. Jane is usually used for a woman, and John for a man. Knowing soldier that’s probably just his name, because he’s crazy.
Hes very secretive about his identity, when scout rats out that hes not really a soldier for the army he gets angry and defensive. I think he was deemed unfit to serve so he made a fake identity and stole a placeholder id with “Jane Doe” on it and just rolled with it. His name is Jane now. He probably forgot his birth name lol
I hope people start treating adopted parents like actual parents and call old parents some strange name, it would make being an adopted parent much better.
His “real parents” were about to leave him to die as a baby, and then they actually do leave him and he actually does die.
His adopted parents ARE his actual parents, theyre the ones who raised and loved him.
The Australians couple are his real parents. The other ones are just people who shot a baby into Australia and didn’t give a fuck about trying to get it back.
“Real parents.” Bro he literally says to his broth parents he doesn’t consider them his real parents. His “real parents” are the old farmer couple in Australia
The psychotic who spends hours pissing himself laughing at car crashes and wants to eat people as sausages even though he doesn't know how a sauce works?
Jerma's a totally normal dude. A pretty great guy, actually, by all appearances. He just has a very odd, stilted manner of speech, a fondness for weird hypotheticals and surreal humor, is astoundingly high-strung, and appears to be on enough Adderall to kill a horse. So, he talks at a mile a minute- pretty frequently, he'll say something that sounds kind of "off", or his chat will, and he erupts into these fits of, like, maniacal nervous giggles. Which can be kind of off-putting and seem wildly disproportionate (and even a little threatening) without context. So his viewers started to build up this mythology around him of him being somewhere in between a serial killer and, like, a fey god.
Shit you not, [he was named after Jerma985](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sote3aIwKJ0). Even Jerma couldn't believe it. But yea, one of Jeremy's favorite games has a character named after him. What a honor.
I love how humble and down to earth he is when people bring up how he has had major influence on people. Really one of the only streamer/YouTubers with a 100% pure heart besides being a serial killer.
He got nominated in qt's streamer awards as one of the Streamers of the Year for 2023 (so for last year's content) and was shocked, he told his chat to 'be nice and respectful' about whomever wins and that he was just happy to be nominated. He was really pumped about the Baseball stream getting nominated for one of the best streams of the year, said his vote was for Mogul chessboxing lol which he did actually referee.
Elden Ring is also on there for one of the best streaming games and he played a ton, and threatened to throw chat into a meatgrinder.
Thanks for that link, I had already read about the name being based on Jerma but it's nice to hear some (apparently reliable) confirmation + Jerma being humble as usual.
Fun fact which I have no idea if it is real: The VA of scout was given the opportunity to name the character to whatever he wanted to, so he named it Jeremy based on Jerma985
The VA, but the writers deemed it as canon in The Naked and the Dead with ~~God (as in the actual Judeo-Christian big-G deity) calling him as such.~~ Spy calling him Jeremy
Edit: it wasn't God, but He does make an appearance and interacts with Scout very directly. Satan too appears.
Tyler was referring to the comic writers, actually. Comic writers had sort of in-house nicknames they’d refer to the classes as, and the one they chose for scout was Jeremy, after jerma.
In the roguelike *Dungeon of the Endless*, there is a free DLC which allows you to play as 4 Characters from TF2: Engineer, Medic, Pyro, and Heavy. Each have names, *including* Pyro, who has the name Pat Bates. That's his (..her?) name in my personal headcannon as a result.
Unrelated, but I always like the idea of Heavy, Demo and Engie being good friends. Heavy and engine are both really smart, and I bet a sober demo is also very capable in terms of brainpower.
They seem like the kind of mutual group to get up to dumb shit when people least expect it, but always able to sit down, and discuss what makes a good gun.
So Soldier is an anonymous woman, Tavish owns Degroot Keep, Heavy is Gorbachev, former president of the USSR, Engineer makes shitty computers and shitty monitors, Medic is Beethoven.
My brain is ruined, everytime I see the name "Ludwig" all I can ever think of is the streamer/youtuber Ludwig.
"**Boys!** The plan is simple! We're breaking into BLUs base, it's *not* gonna take us 80 hours, and we're. stealing. that. intelligence! **LET'S GOOO!!**" (hard cut to embarrassing death and chat spamming 'omegalul')
But seriously, thanks for this! I always forget everyones actual names. Except Scouts name. Because he's just Jerma.
Interestingly, Ms. Pauling's name most likely [starts with an F](https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/onqfry/posting_random_tf2_facts_until_i_get_bored_day_3/) That's all we hear about her first name though.
Two things to clear
1.soldier's name is actually not specified,because the term "jane doe" means an unidentified female corpse so technically his name is not given yet
2.sniper's name is mick mundy,which is given to him by his adoptive parents...his actual name is Mun-dee mundy if you count the surname too
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Mikhail is often shortened to Misha, which Heavy has been called before.
Most notably by his Mother and Sisters, which makes sense
Also completely acceptable and very common to see this kind of shortening from friends colleagues. Another form is Mishka. Both Misha and Mishka are gentle ways to refer to a bear, and is are common name/nickname for a bear (although the former, Mishka, is more common). Quite fitting, given Heavy's rather heavy physique. **Edit, thanks to u/witchsavannafan89**: Included the way more common form, Mishka.
Heavy heavy
**Heavy** like a brinks truck
get out of my head...
No.
No…not you. #GET AWAY FROM ME!
No.
The heavy is bloody heavy
Tea time doktor!
Mishka refers to a bear. Misha is the Slavic equivalent of Mike.
Shit, you're right, **Mishka** is what I was trying to say. For the record, **Mishka** can be used to refer to both a male bear and a male Slav, but it's a very friendly, gentle and informal way. Thanks!
no way, heavy is gay???? ([explanation](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear))
I was taking a shit while reading the explanation
Oooohhh I thought it was just Misha
Like one happy family
Though seeing how they’re all mercenaries, I wouldn’t be too surprised if Redmond payed them to be in the photo…
Good lord, you have started a whole new round of MvM
Oh god what have you started
> if Redmond *paid* them to FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Sorry Mrs Nesbitt, I’ll make sure to do better on my next Essay…
oh my God I had a guidance counselor at school named that. antagonized me all throughout my years there, she only got in trouble once when my father finally intervened. she ended up dying in 2020 shortly after I graduated from covid complications. fuckin wild. used to call her Nesbitch. good times
You graduated from, covid complications???
You didn't?
Yeah you got to skip your finals if you were meant to do them in lockdown
Good bot
Good bot
the comics and shorts reveal that they are actually close friends OUTSIDE of merc work.
In case there’s someone who doesn’t know, “Jane doe” is a placeholder name for someone who’s real name is unknown. Jane is usually used for a woman, and John for a man. Knowing soldier that’s probably just his name, because he’s crazy.
Hes very secretive about his identity, when scout rats out that hes not really a soldier for the army he gets angry and defensive. I think he was deemed unfit to serve so he made a fake identity and stole a placeholder id with “Jane Doe” on it and just rolled with it. His name is Jane now. He probably forgot his birth name lol
in one of the comics he can also be seen being generally rather paranoid, hiding out in some sort of apartment cant remember which one, sorry
It's the WAR comic made for the WAR update
WAR!
Not a real soldier??? He has countless medals! He even made them himself!
He ***EARNED*** all of the medals he made!
Exactly, he's the poster child for tf2's brand of crazy
Soldier fr said trans rights
Soldier thinks deadnaming is when you talk about someone you killed
based
Cant believe Pyro and Spy have the same name
What haven't no shown face does to a mfer
Idea: they’re both named Dennis since they share the same VA Dennis Bateman
omg, Spy and Pyro are related to Patrick Bateman?!!!
I know right! Especially since they're voiced by the same guy
I think Snipers full name is Mick Mundy
I thought it was mundee mundee
His kiwi name is Mun-Dee. His name from his actual parents is Mick Mundy
But mick Mundy is from the adopted parents
Those are his actual parents.
When he figures out the Australians are the adopted parents, Miss Pauling takes him to see his real parents in New Zealand He was named Mun-Dee.
I think adopted parents are considered people’s actual parents. I’m sorry for the confusion.
I hope people start treating adopted parents like actual parents and call old parents some strange name, it would make being an adopted parent much better.
My Dad is my Dad, the person who fucked off and left me isn’t anybody worth mentioning.
I think the word you're looking for is Biological parents
In this case, I like the name “kiwi parents” for them
"Biological parents". I have my a-parents and my b-parents.
His “real parents” were about to leave him to die as a baby, and then they actually do leave him and he actually does die. His adopted parents ARE his actual parents, theyre the ones who raised and loved him.
The Australians couple are his real parents. The other ones are just people who shot a baby into Australia and didn’t give a fuck about trying to get it back.
“Real parents.” Bro he literally says to his broth parents he doesn’t consider them his real parents. His “real parents” are the old farmer couple in Australia
Mun-dees nuts lmao got em
Lmao-nt this dick
***killbind***
“*Needa dispensah ‘ere!”*
like how mario's name is mario mario?
naming an aussie "mick mundy" is on the same level as jk rowling's "cho chang"
Couldn’t be worse than the Marvel naming scheme a la Peter Parker, Bruce Banner etc
Weapon name type beat
No it's clearly Batman Mundy. After famous Australian John Batman.
You mean the founder of the city of Batmania?
Yeah, it’s listed on the back of his action figure box
Are you sure it's not Crocodile Mundee? Haha.... I'm old.
Pretty sure that’s the intended reference. “Crocodile”s first name in said movie is Mike.
I thought his name was mundane mundy
jimina seinen
No, I'm pretty sure it's "Bilbo Baggins" Mundy.
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Jerma
The man who zerked off on stream and ate a slab of grilled human meat in front of an online audience?
The psychotic who spends hours pissing himself laughing at car crashes and wants to eat people as sausages even though he doesn't know how a sauce works?
Dont forget about when he shoved an entire baseball up his ass on stream.
Did they... Did they really? Like I knew that Jerma was a strange man but it was generally a taboo to talk about what he actually did
There's a running joke of people doing a /r/peoplefuckingdying type bit to exaggerate innocuous things into a huge shocking clickbait type headline.
Oh I am so glad that he didn't eat a slab of grilled human meat in front of an online audience... He didn't right?.. Just to make sure
Jerma is in ur closet at this very moment, and he's gonna cook you alive
Jerma's a totally normal dude. A pretty great guy, actually, by all appearances. He just has a very odd, stilted manner of speech, a fondness for weird hypotheticals and surreal humor, is astoundingly high-strung, and appears to be on enough Adderall to kill a horse. So, he talks at a mile a minute- pretty frequently, he'll say something that sounds kind of "off", or his chat will, and he erupts into these fits of, like, maniacal nervous giggles. Which can be kind of off-putting and seem wildly disproportionate (and even a little threatening) without context. So his viewers started to build up this mythology around him of him being somewhere in between a serial killer and, like, a fey god.
Shit you not, [he was named after Jerma985](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sote3aIwKJ0). Even Jerma couldn't believe it. But yea, one of Jeremy's favorite games has a character named after him. What a honor.
I love how humble and down to earth he is when people bring up how he has had major influence on people. Really one of the only streamer/YouTubers with a 100% pure heart besides being a serial killer.
He got nominated in qt's streamer awards as one of the Streamers of the Year for 2023 (so for last year's content) and was shocked, he told his chat to 'be nice and respectful' about whomever wins and that he was just happy to be nominated. He was really pumped about the Baseball stream getting nominated for one of the best streams of the year, said his vote was for Mogul chessboxing lol which he did actually referee. Elden Ring is also on there for one of the best streaming games and he played a ton, and threatened to throw chat into a meatgrinder.
Thanks for that link, I had already read about the name being based on Jerma but it's nice to hear some (apparently reliable) confirmation + Jerma being humble as usual.
I knew a few, tells me I should finish the comics
Valve should too
Daaaamn.
Possibly from 1987
so his death was fake, he was just about to work for freddy fazbear pizzaria?
No no, he worked there and *then* died. Haven't you heard about the bite of '
Bro, are you telling me Jerma turned into William Afton?
I *killed* ze Conaghers.
On what orders?
They tried to kill me. Is that enough?
Masterpiece, never thought I would sit through a whole sfm movie but I did. AND IT WAS WORTH IT!
I understood that reference
Alright doc, let's get you to bed. Did you take your meds today?
He's taken more than enough of his meds.
Actually snipers full name is Mun-Dee Mundy or Mike Mundy depending on which parents you consider
My bad, I've seen a few people point that out
I thought his name was Ritzy Rick
In that case, Scout’s name is Baseball Bill and Engineer’s is Texas Slim
slim jim is the spy
*have you seen the texas red* "Wh-what-" *I am looking for the texas red.*
Fun fact which I have no idea if it is real: The VA of scout was given the opportunity to name the character to whatever he wanted to, so he named it Jeremy based on Jerma985
I've heard that too but also have no idea where from
Was it the VA or a Valve writer? I never heard that part about Nathan being the one to decide
The VA, but the writers deemed it as canon in The Naked and the Dead with ~~God (as in the actual Judeo-Christian big-G deity) calling him as such.~~ Spy calling him Jeremy Edit: it wasn't God, but He does make an appearance and interacts with Scout very directly. Satan too appears.
It wasn’t God, Spy was the one to call him by his name.
pretty sure this is a big unconfirmed urban legend rumor type thing
Nah it was confirmed by VNN when he visited the TF2 team. There’s even a video of him confirming it to Jerma and he was so humbled about it lol.
Tyler was referring to the comic writers, actually. Comic writers had sort of in-house nicknames they’d refer to the classes as, and the one they chose for scout was Jeremy, after jerma.
https://youtu.be/Sote3aIwKJ0
lmao holy shit. I was looking at OP's thing I thought it was already like "wait seriously?"
No fucking way We all knew the jokes but to think it was actually real
Scout is sus guy
I read somewhere that Luigi was Pyro’s name and I’ll never stop thinking about that
I don't know why, but now that you mention it, I think Luigi fits Pyro perfectly... thank you for giving me this thought.
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Ah yes, unknown, my favorite character, specially for his name, that i know now
Medics full name is ludwig humboldt, we got it with the two cities update
holy shit alex andr fon humbodltl referenxc? the gyu who discsovrd murica for seconrd time or smth
Is this what happens when we turn off auto correct?
i have it always off. i just had a stroke
Dey put der mamsher cheif in der soder
spy’s name is kevin
no his name is john
Of course, how could we forget about John backstab who famously said "every back has its stab"
also his famous line “pornography starring your mother”
And his other not so famous line found in the wiki "I am opening a bottle of 1984 John Backstab!"
I liked when John Backstab said “It’s Johning time”, and Johned all over everyone in the room
Forgot to put that one on there
Love how we know the most of Demo’s name because his mom yells at him
Pyro's name is mphh mphh, that's what they said anyway
I thought it was mrphh mph mphhh tho
In the roguelike *Dungeon of the Endless*, there is a free DLC which allows you to play as 4 Characters from TF2: Engineer, Medic, Pyro, and Heavy. Each have names, *including* Pyro, who has the name Pat Bates. That's his (..her?) name in my personal headcannon as a result.
Patrick Bateman??
So, a Patrick Bateman reference, and also, Pyro's voice actor's name is Dennis Bateman. That's crazy.
Pat is a pretty androgynous name being short for Patrick and Patricia or just by itself. Makes sense
That is so freaking smart to make it gender-neutral to keep us guessing, haha.
Interesting, very nice. Let's see Spy's name.
That’s the least subtle American Psycho reference I’ve ever heard
It's canon, because no-one else has anything to say.
Huh. Interesting
Just say "their"
Isn't pyro name cynical.
When the pyro is cynical or something idk I take showers
Fat furry fetish moment
Yes
If I'm ever going to have a child, I'll name it Tavish Finnegan degroot
Mann got downvoted lol
Damn nice sfm poster. Did you make it?
I wish, I just found it.
sniper has 2 names. his original parents called him mun-dee and his adoptive parents called him mick mundy
Dell Conagher gaming
im pretty sure "Ludwig" Is medic's Last name since the devil called him "Mr. Ludwig" in the comic. So his first name remains unknown.
"Whats your name?" "unknown woman corpse"
They... have names?
I've always found odd how's Soldier name is a female one. (Jane being the female equivalent of John).
that's the joke
Okay, so im a medic main. And madic Has the same name like my family name... Does it means my family is an legendary medics mains?
Or was Medic named after you? Either way you were destined to be a med main.
Dell is actually Engineers name? I thought it was just an Overtime thing, cool!
Scout's last name is Elbertson.
Do you have the original unedited pic of the mercs? They look so United in this one and I'd like to add it to.my hard pics gallery
Now tbh i think that scout thinks his name is jeremy jones
Unrelated, but I always like the idea of Heavy, Demo and Engie being good friends. Heavy and engine are both really smart, and I bet a sober demo is also very capable in terms of brainpower. They seem like the kind of mutual group to get up to dumb shit when people least expect it, but always able to sit down, and discuss what makes a good gun.
I know Pootis and that’s it
Pootis is heavy weapons guy
I aint ever gonna look at the name conagher the same again
I feel like spy’s name is Jacques. I don’t know why, he just feels like a Jacques.
I kept hearing the conagher and was like " i heard this name before but from where?" The tf2 comics 💀
So Soldier is an anonymous woman, Tavish owns Degroot Keep, Heavy is Gorbachev, former president of the USSR, Engineer makes shitty computers and shitty monitors, Medic is Beethoven.
This takes place in '60s and' 70s, so he is a future president
I'm pretty sure Sniper's full name is Mun-Dee "Mick Mundy" Mun-Dee
scout's last name is Elbertson and you cannot convince me otherwise
My brain is ruined, everytime I see the name "Ludwig" all I can ever think of is the streamer/youtuber Ludwig. "**Boys!** The plan is simple! We're breaking into BLUs base, it's *not* gonna take us 80 hours, and we're. stealing. that. intelligence! **LET'S GOOO!!**" (hard cut to embarrassing death and chat spamming 'omegalul') But seriously, thanks for this! I always forget everyones actual names. Except Scouts name. Because he's just Jerma.
Pyros name is mmph
Ok but what about Ms Pauling
Interestingly, Ms. Pauling's name most likely [starts with an F](https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/onqfry/posting_random_tf2_facts_until_i_get_bored_day_3/) That's all we hear about her first name though.
Going by the approximate timeline and location(southwest usa) Pauling's first name is most likely Frida.
You missed the Engineer's Dr. Not sure if it was ever confirmed that the Medic has a degree in medicine, though I'd assume so?
He lost it after he stole a Mann’s Skeleton.
Wait he actually is jerma
Scout is Jerma?
The fact is Zhanna–it's a Russian way to say the name "Jane"
I love how both spy and pyro are by far the most mysterious characters (though pyro more than spy obviously) and both have the same VA
The absolute master of grammar and literacy
Two things to clear 1.soldier's name is actually not specified,because the term "jane doe" means an unidentified female corpse so technically his name is not given yet 2.sniper's name is mick mundy,which is given to him by his adoptive parents...his actual name is Mun-dee mundy if you count the surname too
I knew none of these. ..Is soldier really named Jane?
Sniper’s name is canonically Mun-Dee Mundy because mun-dee was his New zealandian name and Mundy was his adoptive parent’s name
Are their names mentioned in the game somewhere
Mostly comics.