TF2 Comic 7; Missed Details & Explanations

[@Victor-056]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a> An even funnier detail: The Trail marks under Soldier's feet tells us that Soldier didn't change his stance when he turned to Zahana... Implying that Soldier had turned around while staying stock still like a statue, much like an SFM or Gmod Skit. This really feels like a homage to the Fanbase as a result.

[@venom_spy_chaosgod]

The funniest thing, that turning THAT WAY around fitting for character!XD

[@NoahWood-j1v]

Dude just t posed, crouched, and span

[@BrimBlam]

Even if its not true I will gaslight myself and believe you because that makes this play out so much funnier than it already was.

[@mariofeds1101]

scout no longer dies a virgin

[@Doofwithgun69]

He never was

[@daniboi_oneninefive]

"Here lies Scout, He ran fast." -Spy

[@TheTundraTerror]

"Here lies Scout. He finally scored."

[@AnotherrandomaltOBC]

"Here lies Scout. He ran fast and died a loving father" -Spy, December 4th, 1987

[@gamer_glenn5438]

*french crying intensifies* ​@AnotherrandomaltOBC

[@LordRemiem]

I still can't believe it, Spaceguy. The final comic, and it's not a rushed thing to appeal to the fans - it's a well made story that connects all dots and ends the story. I have no idea why they suddenly decided to make it... but here we are.

[@luk4323]

Yes I'm so happy that they took there time because most of devs just want money and they don't care about quality and stuff

[@me67galaxylife]

meh, it's not bad but really underwhelming

[@SalesmanWave]

​@@me67galaxylife Why so toxic in the comments? You're that guy who ruins all reply threads.

[@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672]

​@@me67galaxylife Fair enough, but tbh, anything would be underwhelming after 7 years of waiting, no matter what.

[@me67galaxylife]

@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672 nah honestly i mean at least for me i didn't stack up expectations, i didn't know what to expect i think this is not what they had originally planned 7 years ago though, if they had something planned at all, because it doesn't feel like it

[@PotatoPete345]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> It's a racoon zombie, reference to soldier turning Merasmus castle into a racoon sanctuary

[@compatriot852]

Also a refrence to his Halloween racoon cosmetic too

[@maskofthedragon]

You know Helen isn't a reliable narrator when her memories are full of STAIRS before Abraham Lincoln invented them

[@M.F.Hafizhan]

those are ramps for trimping

[@brothel_exe]

No, you can only see the banister. It's a surf ramp

[@personamithulu]

I think what the Administrator ment by "she forgot." Is that simply she's been so focused on making Zepheriah's life hell by keeping him alive and torturing him, she just forgot as to why she did it in the first place. We the reader know why, it's because he's responsible for killing her parents thanks to the covers. But for her personally she kept this game going for so many years, that eventually she just couldn't be bothered to remember anymore.

[@handlessuck589]

It's worth mentioning that there is more than one cover of her parents being killed three different ways. So not only does she not remember, but how her parents die contradict each other and that the presence of the 3 covers is meant to be up to the reader's interpretation.

[@Moss_Dude]

Maybe that's also why there are 3 different pictures of her crying over her dead parents in completely different situations. She can't even remember _how_ they died, if she even remembers that they were killed at all.

[@vitaleriof]

the administrator in hell seeing that ms.pauling actually had the australium:

[@Techhunter_Talon]

And dumped it all into some trench in the middle of the ocean with the help of the Engineer. :P

[@turnip_lol]

​@@Techhunter_Talonhow to die twice

[@the-tum-tum-tree]

XD

[@orangeaurora]

i think once in the afterlife and remembering why this was happening, shed probably be thankful

[@abod_bios2]

@@turnip_lol administrator:shadows die twice

[@sparky00777]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> so confidently wrong. that is a raccoon, a reference to when Soldier turned Merasmus' castle into a raccoon sanctuary. Possibly also a nod to the Lieutenant Bites the Dust cosmetic for soldier.

[@gamingtime468]

"so confidently wrong 🤓🤓"

[@ShockInazuma]

@@gamingtime468Bro couldn’t come up with an actual argument, so he resulted to nerd emojis. Pathetic.

[@LeafMaltieze]

I was surprised he got this wrong as well. It's looks just like the Lieutenant Bites cosmetic.

[@darealmrman2266]

​@@gamingtime468This man, 🤡 reply him

[@mr.monkey354]

​@@gamingtime468"🤓🤓" - 🤡

[@zeisiro]

the fact that zepheniah mann is canonically watching everything is so fucking funny to me too

[@doggu7398]

Zeph watching me staring at the futa vore inflation feet fetish spray on 24/7 dustbowl

[@ShockInazuma]

Zephaniah watching me goof off with other people in a silly server:

[@zeisiro]

@@ShockInazuma zepheniah mann watching me spark an in-depth discussion on which merc is the most fuckable on a skial 24/7 2fort server:

[@nahu_j1n]

Zepheniah watching the players running around using the objector signs with porns on it :

[@sunshineskystar]

The administrator and zepheniah sees me spraying loli and pony hentai in a public server.

[@Dafuqinator7]

A few extra details: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="195">3:15</a> The dirt on the ground under Soldier implies he literally rotated in place like in a gmod skit. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> Demo also has no eyepatch. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="258">4:18</a> Team Ajax used to be called Team Vanguard, but was probably renamed to fit the alphabetical theme

[@Professor.Chucklenuts]

I knew i wasn't going crazy with the Vanguard team.

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@Dafuqinator7 The real issue isn't the lack of an eyepatch (I mean if you fell asleep you'd probably take it off akin) it's the fact he actually has eyelids at all since Monoculus is just his eye straight up

[@Jacob-Jack]

@@SpaceGuyOnline headcanon: Medic helped Demo get the eyelid and JUST eyelid back [getting the whole eye back would upset the curse or whatever]

[@dialga236]

when i first heard that the 7th comic was actually in the works, i think i like almost everyone was skeptical it would a) come out and b) be good, but i can confidently say that the team knocked it out of the goddamn park. the art is goddamn beautiful, and while i thought it was a bit of an asspull of "oh soldier had australium the whole time!!!!" but i can look past that and appreciate this comic for what it is, a labor of love. thank you so much, comic team!!!!

[@T_Jester]

Honestly i think the detail that the australium soldier had the whole time being pointless to the plot makes it easier to look past

[@self-proclaimedanimator]

But what was the point of adding Soldier having Australim? They don't give it to Administrator in the end So kinda pointless

[@VaultN95]

​@@self-proclaimedanimatorIt allows Miss Pauling to let go of the past by choosing not to give it to Administrator and dump it in the trench, ending the cycle. It's moreso thematically than narratively important

[@notapplicable6985]

​@@self-proclaimedanimatorIn addition, if they ever decide to do a tf3 thats what they can use as a plot starter

[@Nebula.Dragon]

An extra detail is the title of the comic itself, "The Days Have Worn Away". This is (from what I've found) a Charles Dickens reference, specifically from Great Epectations. The line is said in the book by the character of Miss Havisham: > There was not much time to consider the subject, for we were soon in Miss Havisham’s room, where she and everything else were just as I had left them. Estella left me standing near the door, and I stood there until Miss Havisham cast her eyes upon me from the dressing-table. > “So!” she said, without being startled or surprised; “the days have worn away, have they?” Doing a bit of digging, I found that Miss Havisham's character actually reflects the Administrator's character in the flashbacks in a number of ways. She's an old spinster woman who was defrauded by a man who pretended to fall in love with her and marry her, only to leave her at the altar and steal her money. After this, she began to live a life of solitude and misery in her manor house, always wearing her wedding gown and having the clocks stopped. The manor house became ruined over time and she became visibly aged and withered due to lack of sunlight. She adopted a daughter with the intent to keep her safe, but over time became cold-hearted and began to use her as an instrument of revenge, training her to break the hearts of men in order to take vicarious revenge for her own pain. In the novel, she uses her to break the protagonist's heart. Essentially, she's a woman whose whole life became defined by a single man ruining her, resulting in her living alone in an English manor house that became steadily more decrepit and she became steadily more miserable and cruel, seeking to take revenge against that man by causing pain through the manipulation of others, most especially a young woman she controls personally, all around about the middle of the 19th century. Sounds like the Administrator in those flashback panels showing her revenge on Zepheniah, the misery that followed, and her relationship with Miss Pauling, no? I can't say whether the writers were taking Miss Havisham as inspiration or if they just saw the parallels themselves, but considering that all the titles and covers of the comics are a reference to something (Ring of Fired, Unhappy Returns, A Cold Day In Hell etc. are riffs on common sayings), I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that they are at least referencing her here. Or I'm wrong and this is more 'what seven years without updates does to a mf' delusion on my part.

[@apenasumabatata4741]

Hehe, Dickens

[@BabyGhast4]

That honestly seems very spot on, what an insightful analysis.

[@arkenn3497]

I think you're correct

[@AbiBomb]

@@apenasumabatata4741tf2 reddit post

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="365">6:05</a> the middle book is a joke about how the statue is Bronze and not alabaster like depicted (in most things, really)

[@Nilon241]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="410">6:50</a> Silas was only ever referred to as 'the long-lost member of the Mann family'. Not Zephaniah's brother.

[@nickrustyson8124]

I'm going to headcanon that Tom Jones and Merasmus are doing the Salt and Pepper Diner during the party, 20 What's New Pussy Cats but after the 6th What's New Pussy Cat they will play It's Not Unusual then continue the What's New Pussy Cats

[@anthonyriego659]

7 years of waiting the final comic. It was worth it. Totally worth it.

[@Victor-056]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="742">12:22</a> Heavy seems to be more like: "Oh Great, this war was for something Petty."

[@sunshineskystar]

I don't think he cares since he already got paid.

[@Victor-056]

@@sunshineskystar He does care, as the War would have dragged his sisters into the conflict. Finding out it was all to fuel a petty woman's ego probably stung even more as he fought his way out of a Gulag to escape such pettiness.

[@Satellaview1889]

@@Victor-056 Yeah it was definitely just him feeling like the last few years of his life were pointless. Like, don't get me wrong, he valued getting to send the money back to his family, but he was sending it to them as they stayed in the middle of the Siberian wastes. He could have been happily living with them in America for years, but he kept them there because he thought he was keeping them safe. In reality, this war was over nothing but a petty grudge held for too long.

[@rRecoveryProd]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="233">3:53</a> I always assumed Zhanna was just behind everybody else inside the plane.

[@MBP1918]

Spy unmasked was the best Smissmass present ever.

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

Guy in the picture was probably meant to hint at Grey before they hashed out his story more

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@RebelTrooperHoth To completely dispell this theory since it's one of the more common answers. Grey Mann as a character was first created alongside the photo in question, as in Zeph's will and the family photo were created in conjunction with one another. Meaning it makes very very very little sense why Grey, who was blackmailing Zeph for his australium cache would then be by his father's deathbed... and go completely unnoticed by everyone else present as well

[@4n0r15]

Grey also introduced himself to Redmond and Blutarch moments before he killed them. They didn't recognize him and were surprised by the fact that they even had a third brother. If Grey was on the photo with the other Mann brothers, they would have met him and would have known who he was.

[@T_Jester]

how does zepheniah mann showing up as a ghost in halloween make sense now?

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@T_Jester If you want an explanation from the writers mouth it's "We don't really care, it's funny either way and his ghost is from 2009 when this was planned in like 2018" If you want a semi-lore relevant/plausible answer, I mean everyone with a life extender machine has been shown to periodically die and come back, whose to say zeph doesn't just temporarily die, come back as a ghost and then gets reanimated again

[@T_Jester]

@@SpaceGuyOnline Thanks!

[@dannydevito2275]

​@SpaceGuyOnline where'd they say it,?

[@atpsoldat6108]

Blutarch says it in his comic with the engineer.

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@dannydevito2275 There's several emails from Jay Pinkerton whose the head writer regarding the comics, take it with a grain of salt though obviously as the legitmacy of those is up. If you mean the 2nd half of that comment, it's just something I came up with now to sorta explain the inconsistency

[@maskofthedragon]

It makes sense that a mini-series that was supposed to be finished in 2014 would have quite a few writing flubs when there is a 7 year gap between releases

[@veryangryman4314]

Fun fact: Before the 7th comic, TFC Heavy calls it Team Vanguard instead of Team Ajax, this is likely to make it tie into the statue

[@Basilisk650]

I believe the middle person in that photo of “where all this started” would be Greymann, he was always looked down upon mentioned as a useless and incompetent, stories of such where he was taken by an eagle as a child which Grey debunks and also had studied great knowledge of Australium, spent his 30 years to fully comprehend the information and probably used it to regain the lost years, probably the free time he had and no one took attention that he was there, being the neglected one. The only time he was ever given attention was the photo of, Silas, Barnabus, Redmond and Blutarc, whole family photo basically, upon it being made, then a little bit forward a few days, Greymann and Zephaniah had a argument which was deeply heated and probably shook Redmond’s and Blutarc’s boots, in response Zephaniah exiles Grey for a time till Zephaniah dies and when he died, Grey returned to the manor after hearing his father’s death. And we have the moment where Grey revived Administrator.

[@NataliaLizak-cb7nv]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="917">15:17</a> It kinda reminds Administrator's plot. Just like Charles Daling, she wanted to get the australium to look into sad eyes of the Mann, for pure joy and satisfaction

[@zeisiro]

it's possible silas mann was disowned from the mann family at some point, and zepheniah refers to himself as an only child because he doesn't even want to acknowledge his brother's existence. that's my headcanon, anyway

[@TV_body_else3636]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1079">17:59</a> _“WHAT THE FUCK?! IS THAT BRICKIEST BRICK?!”_ for having brickiest brick in your video you deserve my like and subscribe

[@-AAA-147]

* 16:11 is where Brickiest Brick shows up

[@rattyratqueen]

tf2 scout facts!

[@TV_body_else3636]

@-AAA-147 17:59 is when he starts speaking

[@-AAA-147]

@TV_body_else3636 I would explain but killing jokes (and people) is illegal where I live.

[@THEFurfoot]

scouts kids and mom not being at the dinner will forever haunt me

[@Satellaview1889]

She was just keeping the kids occupied in the living room for a sec.

[@RhythmOSauce]

7th comic huh? I feel like there's a lot of symbolism with the number 7 with other medias and franchises. But overall, god damn this made me cry... I'm glad that the mercs got their happy and well deserved ending.

[@scarletcrusader5431]

I still can't believe it ended on Saxton and Mags commiting suicide. That hit hard.

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

They don’t commit suicide actually, Mags says they could jump and potentially survive, while Saxton says they should die fighting

[@sunshineskystar]

I mean that page is confirmed to take place in 2024. They will die either way from old age.

[@sasasa1541]

They’d mangled a few cheetahs already, who’s to say they couldn’t fight through/scare off the rest?

[@skeptic_lemon]

I don't think they commited suicide, or even necessarily died in that panel. I think Saxton Hale just said that as a way to refute the concept of living forever through Australium, and also refute the concept of giving up. I mean, it doesn't matter whether they live or die trying, they might as well fight.

[@DelphanGruss]

"A certified zombie bear." Bro. That's a racoon. Soldier LITERALLY has that cosmetic in-game. Smh... for a dude whose entire face is a giant red eyeball, I swear...

[@FUCKYOUYOUTUBE2222]

OP doesn’t call zombie bears zombie bears 😂😂😂

[@cadsquade]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="827">13:47</a> Soldier never explains why he needs the money nor why it's linked with this photo, absolute cinema. ✋️😐🤚

[@Nick-yl4qp]

He needed the money because miss pauling and engi took all his fake gold.

[@darker8484]

he needed 17 dollars.

[@omega.4433]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="181">3:01</a> that is a Raccoon. Soldier's cave was full of them.

[@Sypitz]

How you pronounce Silas hurts.

[@jevilTF2]

Didn't say this in the comic, but some guy reached out to the writers and they confirmed Medic's first name is Herbert

[@skeptic_lemon]

it could've been fucking anything else, and they chose Herbert I don't even know what to say

[@DogDogGodFog]

Shares a name with that one tiny white kitten.

[@TastySalamanders]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="400">6:40</a> Silas Mann could be Zephaniah's second cousin based on other information Zephaniah gives us in the same scene that he says he's an only son. Zephaniah's grandfather Ebenezer had 4 older brothers - so entirely possible that one of them fathered a child before their deaths.

[@sauceinmyface9302]

His name is Silas. Why are you pronouncing it like it's "Sialas"?

[@ENGINEERTHECOWBOY]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1071">17:51</a> Man, this made me cry. 😭

[@maladroitknight]

Maybe the real fortresses were the teams we made along the way

[@jackmack4181]

A detail that I have yet to see anyone talk about is how once the Australium runs out, zethania lays his head eyes on Helen and starts to cry Were those tears of Great Depression or of fear

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

Unless I'm mistaken, Silas was never confirmed to be a brother, only an undefined relative.likely a cousin from one of the "failed' brothers.

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Correct although brother is a fairly common assumption and likely what Valve was expecting. Zeph's father apparently had all his sisters perish in a house fire before the age of 17 and he was a middle child. I mean theoretically it's possible that one of them married and had a kid before hand but that's an insane amount of thinking and reasoning to place behind a character that's mentioned 3 times in total hence the whole "yup brothers" line of thought.

[@elijahbrown8250]

I never thought this day would come but it has after do many years of waiting I lost hope only to have my faith restored. We got the final tf2 comic before GTA 6

[@lamergamer8211]

youtube didnt hide this from me, i didnt even want to see it. HELP HOW DO I LEAVE

[@jklleskov2699]

You can't

[@thomaspau211]

Just don't use youtube🤷

[@_PhamBaoDuy-tt2os]

Personally The Soldier had X the whole time plot was a good hook to build up the tension and the payout of it being all for nothing was unexpected. Was it good ? No but it work since that's the point of comic 7. Even the Blog for Comic 7 also talk about how The Series atleast got an Ending and how lucky you are to see it happened. One could said they Cope out but just like TF2 current state, if it is even worth to keep The Game Alive when the whole point of it being lost. -The Admin lost her mind as She keep Living despite the fact of already Dead seem like a good anology to The Lost of -Art Style as The Game keep going on. -The Game Economy (Australium = Cosmetic/Items being worthless to Outsiders but to People who want to live forerver from Gray Mann monolouge = TF2 Players) being what keep it alive. Unlike how any Online Game On The Market that should have dead from normal cause of Time and Mistake. -The Ending being Saxton and Maggie the love of his life vs Cheetah is quite frankly Poetic for not only coming full circle with the whole Theme of end time but also call back to First Saxton debut. -The Mercs Story have an happy ending with you being part of it.

[@Gobrus]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> erm actually that's a racoon

[@TheSmashWaffle]

"Way back when in 2015" That couldn't have been that long ago, r- *that was a fucking decade ago*

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodsc1447]

my headcannon names for teams B and D are Bulwark and Delta so we got Teams; Ajax Bulwark Citadel Delta Echelon Fortress

[@TuMadre8000]

when the scout said "thank you so much-a for to playing my game" at the end i cried

[@NoahWood-j1v]

It’s actually beautiful. Spy taking off his mask, soldier having kids, same for scout, the continuation is amazing.

[@The_D_ray]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> Demo missing his eye patch is a clear reference to the fact that people using them usually take 'em off before going to sleep.

[@wiifitt]

that last line was a reference?! I thought it was just a really clever line considering the whole point of the tf2 lore.

[@simplysmiley4670]

Man, still surprised we actually got the final issue, and that it's a damn good closure to the story. Nor did I expect the administrator to easily take "The Biggest Hater" award of the century.

[@themightykingrex9514]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1206">20:06</a> when it says now does is mean 2024? if so then this scene really hits hard.

[@Yozzoy]

High key, the final dialogue exchange with the audience and Scout legit made me cry. Its been a helluva journey. I love this game 😭

[@Vienna3080]

I have been calling Two Fort, Two Fart for the longest time as a joke, I was not expecting the comic to also make a joke about the name

[@mr.monkey354]

They have been for years

[@ThiagavalThiagales]

Cant believe hottest brick dubbed scout

[@IwanRoberts-m8j]

TF2 CMMIC 7 IS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAL

[@sunshineskystar]

My headcannon is that medic steal the australium engie and ms.pauling dumped after seeing what it could do.

[@AmelpsXett]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> i hate how they dont show us the full picture of the cooler pyro (tho by the looks of it he is the cooler pyro, or looks identical)

[@Elevator_Man]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="126">2:06</a> i think that gun is ivys gun from deadlock and if it is true then that cover is probably the real one

[@Bluehoodie_guy]

Demo has both eyes in the plain

[@dubuyajay9964]

But does Scout know the Spy is his actual dad or not?

[@SpaceGuyOnline]

@@dubuyajay9964 Scout thinks Tom Jones is his dad

[@dubuyajay9964]

@SpaceGuyOnline 😞

[@redstonemecha7716]

It was kind of rushed in the ending, but this comic was a ride that I never want to forget.

[@breadboy11-l2y]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="209">3:29</a> DEMO HAS 2 EYES

[@Feasco]

the lids are closed, he probably just took the patch off to nap

[@breadboy11-l2y]

@@Feasco maybe?

[@yup635]

And now the next cosmetic case Is gonna be full of hats based on the final merc designs.

[@larrybanks3821]

Regarding Silas as while Zephaniah could of just hated his brother so much as to not think of him as his brother as a sort of competitive thing with him, my theory is that Silas could be that one family member who not only didn't want to be part of this feud to decide who gets to be top of the family, but that he could of left the family business and go off on his own much like Olivia does, as well as being caring enough about his brother to visit him on his death bed. But Zephaniah would of been so mad at this that he personally went out of his way to disconnect Silas from everything from his life until his final days as he was either so out of it that he couldn't remember why he hated Silas in the moment or had some shred of family love to let him in, but probably never refer to him as his brother. That's just my take though.

[@TorridPrime217]

I'm convinced the Torn Mann in the Family Photo was originally intended to be the G-Man from 'Half-Life', and that Valve had originally wanted to tie TF2 into the HL canon [at the very least, as comic-exclusive characters who were absolutely important to the HL story, but you'd only know that by reading the comics] But when it started to look like Half-Life 3 might not happen, they dialed it back to being some generic, cosmic horror entity that took on the appearance of Abraham Lincoln, and the Administrator's 'debt to be settled' was made into just an agreement to keep bloody conflict going in exchange for her immortality. And then, when production of the final issue stalled, likely because not everyone was happy with the proposed ending; they would eventually scrap the entire concept and start over completely fresh, and they're just hoping we won't be too mad that the Torn Mann has been erased from the photo [among other unsatisfying answers] I have to be real; while I am glad the comic didn't end on a dour or insulting note, I'm still not happy with it. It feels way too cluttered and disorganized, and the Team, for the most part, play next to no role in it [and I think Scout's ex's screwed him over by taking advantage of him not knowing how alimony is supposed to work]. AT this point, I much prefer the darkly ironic ending that ends in Nuclear Holocaust, and two Red and BLue cavemen restarting the entire conflict, over again

[@Grakalor]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="270">4:30</a> I actually think that the statue of the teams is there to commemorate the ones who were killed by TFC and they out F up there just believing they’d die but had to hastily remove it once they learned they hadn’t Also the person in the ripped photo is probably Gray, just as a teaser

[@davidcaceres9184]

Team Defense Fort 2

[@MetaKaios]

(two)

[@davidcaceres9184]

@MetaKaios (Two) Team Defense Fort 2

[@jokerofspades-xt3bs]

Please don’t “woo loo loo loo *dropkick*” me mister cloaker sir.

[@predator5775]

I do love this ending, but some plot points do feel a bit undisclosed: How did Saxton get Mann co. back if it meant he had to beat up Olivia? Was there a loophole or did he get over his vow to never fight a child? Also what were the stakes with Mags being upset with Saxton having to help Darling? Aside from not even touching the whole reason of showing kid Administrator, those were the only things that nagged at my brain.

[@Doktersocks]

I think it would be cool if scout had a picture of his team in his house. But I must say, that comic had me crying

[@zeepepperman540]

In the big area there could a easter egg of gman of him walking away but it could not be

[@JasonKane.457]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="184">3:04</a> Zombie bear, That's a racoon, he was most likely trying to make a spell to turn the racoons on soldier and let them free.

[@juke9674]

Is that Whispered World music?

[@daniboi_oneninefive]

the guy in the middle of the picture is acctually a random homeless man that refused to leave the picture

[@Kevin-hx2ky]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a> Zhanna is pronounced similarly to the French name "Jeanne", as it is derived from it.

[@NotWendy3]

Yeah, "Za-hannah" is a pretty funny pronunciation.

[@breadboi2]

Pyro on the merry smissmas page actually looks a lot like the soupcan pyro meme, so idk maybe that's something

[@__-be1gk]

The admin and mann's dust poofs into a heart! mention it!

[@theshyestguy4221]

So wait did soldier always have a cave or was that a reckon too?

[@imlegos2153]

Comic 1 told us that Soldier got kicked out of the raccoon sanctuary after he lost his job with TFi. Presumably, the cave was his home between the team's disbanding and Ms. Pauling framing Merasmus for killing Tom Jones for Soldier.

[@theshyestguy4221]

@ istg it was a box he lived in tho, unless that was another comic or something

[@maskofthedragon]

He only mentioned a box and if he lived in a cave full of Australium Miss Pauling would have noticed when she was looking for him

[@mike1564]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="256">4:16</a> *6 months.*

[@akira6457]

Tbf engie and his family have major impact in the story despite being the merc with one of the least screentime

[@A_Guy_64]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="854">14:14</a> It's the french. French has one streak of white in his hair (similar thing to the administrator), which not many people know because usually he has his mask on. What if this is french before exposure to australium, and later he discoveres australium, allowing him to live longer than he should've? Boom, I fixed the lore. You're welcome 😊

[@ecksdee1149]

imagine creating a mystery around a character by having them ripped out of an old photo where they are standing with Hale and the Mann family just to retcon them out of the story fkn pisses me off

[@Dilophosaurus2009]

I think the mysterious person that Scout shows in at the very end is meant to represent the TF2 community, and when he says “We couldn’t have done any of this without you” is a big thank you from Valve. Since we’re finally getting some tf2 content after 7 years, could this be a teaser for the Next Update?! Heavy Update?!

[@eye_mask582]

I genuinely cried at the Swissmass part

[@santiagosuarezzambrano9384]

The only "problem" I have with the twist that Zepheniah's been alive all this time is that it creates a plot hole since we've actually seen Zepheniah's ghost in Halloween maps like Harvest Event. I have to say that it doesn't bother me and it isn't a real problem since it can be explained in other ways: His ghost could manifest whenever he's dead, which we know happens regularly to Australium users over a 100 years old like Redmond and Blutarch, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume Zepheniah's "dead lapses" are longer since he's been dead for over 100 years. Another less inventive explanation is that whenever the Mercs fight in Harvest Event it was after Zepheniah's and The Administrator's final death since there's a chance the Mercs continued to fight despite knowing what happened to The Administrator since they just like to kill other people, they were already fighting a useless and meaningless war so what's doing that again for fun?

[@BenisMannn]

Sadly it was rushed and didnt adress Darling talking with Hale in #3

[@BROMALGAMATE8011]

There's one thing I wish this issue explained but didn't: the BLU Team. What happened to them after the 6 month timeskip in Ring of Fired? Why did they look identical to the RED Team (no-one say "they're clones", that is a FAN THEORY and not canon)? If the BLU Team was so much worse than the RED Team, why was the Gravel War locked into such a permanent stalemate? If the RED "Team Fortress" was hired to work for Redmond, and the BLU "Team Fortress" was hired to work for Blutarch, why was only the RED Team shown to be employed by the Administrator? To answer my own last question, the BLU Team probably wasn't shown to be employed by the Administrator because they likely thought they were still fired. Admin told Miss Pauling to "assemble the team", and because she likely only supervised the RED Team, that was the team she assembled. But that begs the question, did the BLU Team have a supervisor? Why didn't Admin contact THEM? If Team Fortress was her last resort because the TFC mercs killed her best teams, wouldn't two be better than one? A Fate Worse Than Chess shows us that the two teams can cooperate. (Actually, I'm pretty sure Miss Pauling supervised both, because in A Fate Worse Than Chess she was the only other person in the room when Saxton was giving them that message. Even then, why didn't Miss Pauling think to get both groups? 18 idiots with guns is better than 9 idiots with guns.) So, yeah, I just really wanna know what the BLU Team's been up to.

[@ham5924]

where's my video essay about the manmelter mr spaceonline?

[@compatriot852]

Although I loved this conclusion, it still left a lot of loose ends like explaining Silas Mann's role in all this and how he became an immortal monster just for starters or what happened to Engineer's father

[@alexsheperd2060]

Honestly as much as people wanna be upset we didn’t really get a resolution for the overall story I think it fits. In the end we aren’t anyone special, we’re just Mercs in their stupid little pissing match and at the end of the day we don’t really care who’s right. It also really fits the overall theme of the Mann family just being bratty morons for the entire story to just end up forgotten by the two most important people in it. Everyone linked to the Mann family just sucks and that’s been established and reestablished more than TF2 has had bot crisises

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Truly a beauty that we live to see the end of an era.

[@stepan7830]

Crazy to think i was like 3 or 4 when comic 1 released crazy

[@insertuncreativenamehere]

I am in disbelief that the 2fort lore from the third issue is real.

[@japanlad-kk7fz]

There is a crowbar on the first cover, I don't know of that's supposed to be a Gordon Freeman refence or not

[@folmhaigh039]

with the gray mann; she could have thought it not actually true

[@Kaibwah]

Does the last panel, where scout say thank you to us. Is it steam tealling us to go forward

[@maqsud101]

No bear this is racoon!

[@DogDogGodFog]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="727">12:07</a> I'd say that Spy looks annoyed

[@Er_doktor_tf2]

Quick correction , the animal in the book is a raccon not a bear