Emesis Blue - TF2's Most Disturbing Masterpiece

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
7:39 Prologue
15:57 Chapter 1 Graveyard Shift
19:50 Chapter 2 Dinner’s Ready
27:33 Chapter 3 Intel Hell
42:42 Chapter 4 Crossroads
56:57 Chapter 5 The Doorway
1:26:11 Chapter 6 Katabasis
1:38:49 Chapter 7 Blood Brothers
1:50:20 Analysis

[@TheWhatShow]

*THIS VIDEO IS A REUPLOAD* The old one got restricted it so I had to cut it up to be more ad friendly. Thanks for watching and hopefully this whole kerfuffle doesn't completely kill the hype of the video. And also want to give a big shoutout to Mannco.store for sponsoring. Their help has made all the work that got put into this video worth it. Turns out spending lots of money on tf2 items has it's perks sometimes lol. Check 'em out! mannco.store/?ref=thewhat89 This video has been in the works for months thank you so much to everyone who watched it! Before I was able to upload my video, someone else also made a breakdown of emesis blue, but I haven't watched it yet cause I didn't wanna accidentally copy their work. Here's the video and I'm gonna watch it later to see how our theories stack up against each other and if you want more Emesis Blue content I recommended giving it a shot as well kzbin.info/www/bejne/marUnKyOpM2jp68

[@Clamitycannon]

Wonder What KZbin thought was too scary...

[@youmukonpaku7661]

TheWhatShow TheWhoShow TheWhyShow TheWhenShow TheWhereShow TheHowShow Idk why I wrote this but whatever

[@waffles9733]

L

[@flickerbrick3399]

I thought this was permanently gone.

[@tamaskasz986]

Wow that's so cool I sure hope KZbin ends up recommending it to kids

[@comicsans9857]

Even if this is a horror film, I can't get over soldier's line of: "It's the voice of God, you sonofabitch, and I'm COMING FOR YOU!"

[@technoturnovers7072]

it's totally in character, too

[@jamiemaden130]

The most based soldier thing ever said

[@sdedqeq12]

@@technoturnovers7072 No I dont think it's in soldier's character considering he never swears.

[@StanleyNumber427]

@@sdedqeq12 Soldier swore before. In his domination line of the Demoman, he said "Consider yourself dominated, you Scotch son of a b!tch!" And in his domination line of the Heavy, he said: "This American boot just kicked your ass back to Russia."

[@-_J_-]

[@luckyanubis_]

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. Emesis Blue is an Sfm animation depicting how it feels to wait out a 15 second respawn timer.

[@koyooko5160]

Its eternity in there

[@stanislavkoshkin6224]

It gets even worse, when timer is 21 seconds long

[@ImTheGuy]

It's longer then you think

[@romeokukita277]

Or like waiting for the match end after dying in a no respawn server

[@h1lw]

​​@@romeokukita277he no respawn server is exactly what happened in emesis. One of the engineers got very pissed at the spy for exploiting some kind of special disguises and engineer broke the respaen machine.

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

Whoever voiced Scout and Soldier in this movie were absolute top-notch impersonators of the original VA-s, they deserve a goddamn award.

[@lordmanatee439]

Scout's VA may have been the actual VA. He is still active online and in the community.

[@squish2108]

@@lordmanatee439 No, the creator did it himself

[@tarekvr]

Medics VA is the actual VA I believe, I heard it somewhere@@squish2108

[@steamoreeno]

​@@lordmanatee439 that's sadly impossible since he quit :(

[@veganmeatball6780]

I initially thought they used the cut up voice lines from the game

[@AUserThatIsDeleted]

A theory I have on why Scout seems more messed up by the respawn machine than everyone else comes from a Reddit thread, someone on Reddit asked which class dies the most often and I saw a lot of people say the Scout due to his low health, fast paced and rush down style of gameplay. So if Scout is the one dying the most then he is also the one respawning the most which could explain why the Respawn machine has messed him up more than the others.

[@agquad]

Sounds like the same thing that happens when you copy a VHS over and over again, it degrades. Imperfections are magnified over generations.

[@DAVID_L0L]

​@@agquadman thats incredible

[@prettys4313]

@@agquadbasically what Generation Loss is 😛

[@evilsclone2499]

​@@prettys4313let's also not forget this fucking twig drinks things with enough sugar to cause cancer. So all in all I fell like the scouts horrible bodily damage compounded the issue

[@juanpabloamodei1149]

If you pay attention to Scout's medical report you will notice that it's written as patient SC-10498 as a way to refer to Scout. we can guess that SC is short for Scout Class while the number is probably how many times scout respawned AFTER the trials for the respawn machine were completed so Scout probably died and respawned way more times

[@giantmutantbug]

I swear emesis blue had to have come from a joke of the creator of this sfm referencing the jaunt while waiting 20 seconds to respawn. They probably kept on repeating, "it's an eternity in there" "it's longer than you think" before realizing that you could actually do something with that premise in a tf2 horror movie

[@thesillyrandom]

I can't wait for the Director's Commentary in like 10 years

[@Fakheet]

I remember reading theories about respawn room being some horrible or esoteric device a very long time ago, like 2013 or so. So the idea was floating around for a very long time

[@hardygal2]

I remember the line "longer than you think" stood out to me because it's a line from a short Stephen King horror(?) story called The Jaunt that had very similar themes, the line being spoken by someone who remained awake during an 'instant' teleportation instead of allowing the sleeping gas to knock him out like the other passengers

[@godoftune]

@@hardygal2this is mentioned in the video

[@hardygal2]

@@godoftune Yep 👍 Was reading the comments as I was watching the video, so I hadn't gotten to that part at the time

[@therealblacktronempire1987]

I loved Soldier in this movie, because they nailed his goofy personality while somehow maintaining a serious tone.

[@Funny_Valentine-real9467]

"how did you know he wasn't gonna shoot you in the head" "I didn't"

[@tylercoon1791]

‘Who is this?’ ‘It’s the voice of God, you son of a bitch! And I’m coming for you!’

[@Bushman06]

@@Funny_Valentine-real9467 either way if he shot him in the head hewouldn’t be able to cause helmet

[@Funny_Valentine-real9467]

@@Bushman06 military helmets were not made to protect bullets and it cannot protect the wearer from the impact of a sniper rifle

[@kankeydong2500]

It was meant more like to protect the wearer from debris, like shrapnel, grenade fragments, etc.

[@cooldude8407]

I can't belive Fortress films made an almost two hour long incredibly complex SFM movie just to communicate that it takes forever to respawn in the game

[@lasagnatheory9108]

It's eternity in there

[@AxoCooki]

It's longer than you think

[@Crack_dowg]

Its longer than you think ​@AxoCooki

[@Crack_dowg]

​@@AxoCookiit's longer than you think

[@fiammanerapatrick3215]

When you're on red it does feel like an eternity to respawn

[@fleainfestedmongrel]

1:49:02 i love how medic goes to frowning to smiling when scout walks in the bathroom and says "hey doc"

[@RomanCollapses]

Cuz he met him in purgatory awww 😢😢 I can’t bro

[@rowanjones5562]

To be fair, waiting out an eternity in purgatory is a hell of a lot better with friends.

[@thecatacombhimself]

@@rowanjones5562 "yo is that fucking satan" "yeah"

[@DaRealBruner]

The clones of BLU Soldier could also be an explanation to the army of BLU Soldiers that appear in Meet The Medic.

[@phantomstriker7996]

I'd like to mention that a BLU Soldier gets killed in every single valve meet the team video atleast once. But in Emesis Blue he is the only one that makes it out alive.

[@fish8415]

Id also like to add that the mutated scout screaming is just scout screaming but slowed down

[@KannaTheGamer]

@@fish8415 to be fair, i know this will be very out of place but, perhaps the mutated scout was inspired by scp-096? when he first chases soldier, you can hear his screaming achoing in reverse, his arms at the front, has abnormally long arms and legs, and does not die no matter what (he got his head penetrated but still survived and attacked the giant heavy)

[@fish8415]

@@KannaTheGamer honestly man there are so many fucking references that this could also be one

[@creed8712]

They’re all clones right. I could have sworn that was already something in the lore as to how these morons keep fighting fr like 60 years

[@noah-ux2cz]

Seeing a Tf2 SFM take itself fully serious is absolutely insane.

[@noah-ux2cz]

Also I just want to clarify that I don’t mean to say that other Tf2 SFMs don’t take themself serious or put in effort. I am just tying to say that I’ve never seen anything done in SFM with so much care, references, and insane detail and horror

[@noah-ux2cz]

And I’ve also never seen something so insanely long done in SFM

[@billyboleson2830]

@@thypeasantslayer3621tipsy is so morbid is loops back around to being funny

[@JoetheDilo1917]

Not even taking into account a depiction of Soldier that is actually somewhat serious and isn't pure comic relief

[@whatever_you_do_anikin_no]

Yea, especially with all the memes going around nowadays

[@AlexXnotM]

I feel bad for scout, his mom died, he thought it was medic, runs away from him just to be tortured by the electric drill, just for him to brutally turned into mush by the respawn machine. Also why did the flashback medic scare me so much 💀

[@roninmain4971]

One thought I had... In the Emesis Diazepam teaser, it's listed that the medication is compounded specifically for each perscribed patient. Perscription medication, such as Ritalin and Dexamphetamine, do have unintended effects on those not perscribed for it. My thought is that, given how many bottles can be seen in multiple scenes, that both RED and BLU purchased bulk loads of expired Emesis Diazepam that are perscribed to someone else to give to the mercs. The tablets were never going to work on the mercenaries.

[@ajc0072]

They're either meant to be placebos, or something worse

[@TheMaskOfFairies]

Fun Fact: If you listen to Scout’s mother’s last line of dialogue saying something about dinner, it might sound a bit scrambled, sorta like if someone patched together audio recordings to sound like someone.

[@The_whales]

If you replay it enough times I think you will notice mainly the pitches up voice

[@redthewifeyhunter4034]

It also doesn't sound like a natural line delivery. It always unnerved me that she didn't sound upbeat about dinner. Instead relegating to sounding like Squidward after a long day of dealing with SpongeBob. And that adds to the atmosphere honestly because that just leads me to believe that she was dead either before Scout got home or while Scout was home. I opt for the first as it would make more sense instead of the murder happening during as Scout would probably hear it

[@netherlordgaming995]

i just went and rewatched the scene i never noticed it before but now that you mention it yeah

[@00M_Clanks]

It sounds like text to speech. I thought it was weird that they didn’t hire a voice actress for her, but maybe it was intentional.

[@redthewifeyhunter4034]

@@00M_Clanks I imagine it was intentional because it adds to the already unnerving atmosphere created from the reality warping happening with Medic and his office

[@Dunkelheit974]

Fact that everybody who watched it Is saying that its the masterpiece explains absolutely everything

[@unnamed9482]

>tf2g

[@sunrupuk9634]

I once met a guy in 2fort saying that emesis blue is mid.

[@Alicethedragoness]

okay, emesis blue was so fucking good i watched it again which almost never happens with me. might just watch it again.

[@Kernwadi]

"People call me racist... I can't even drive." -Bilbo Baggins

[@toxdz_quack8466]

​​​@@sunrupuk9634 to be fair the movie does kind of mid-ify the mercs. These people are complete psychos and professionals in their psycho field, and the movie just removes that by making them weak mentally weak. In meet the sandwich even soldier screamed "you red team ladies wouldn't know how to break a spine-" while he was basically murdered by heavy, which says a lot about how the real mercs would've reacted to all that was happening

[@TwilightWaffleXD]

"Funerals are an absolute waste of money". "Like war?" That really hits hard

[@holojet]

39:06 the unintelligible part is actually saying "forget the test subjects, I think we've been compromised" I know this from the screenplay which was released for Patreon members

[@RazorsharpLT]

Oh, and there's an... in lore explanation for the nightmares. In a TF2 comic - when heavy was asked about respawning - he said that he thinks that all the lives he lived and died previously were "nightmares" So yeah... this is actually a bit accurate to the lore, scarily enough.

[@Kronosfobi]

Can you link me the comic?

[@portalworld9880]

Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s his lines from the Poker night game he’s in. The first one. He says that he then wakes up and “realizes” it was just a “dream”

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Damn.

[@RazorsharpLT]

@@Kronosfobi As a comment mentioned it's the part where Heavy references them in Poker Night at the Inventory and believes they are just a series of nightmares

[@RazorsharpLT]

@@Kronosfobi For clarity: the past lives where he goes out of spawn and dies are nightmares. Not respawning in general.) But still, this is... kinda scary. Considering one of medic's dreams are of a dump truck throwing out bodies into the canals in slaughterhouse indicates that he was still barely alive during that point, and he remembers his past life where he died.

[@PK-Radio]

Emesis Blue is a really good representation of the average 2fort match

[@noah-ux2cz]

No it’s just the average timeline of a Medic main’s mental health after playing for a whole match.

[@user-nj7hm4xn6l]

heh, longer than you think

[@Biddybud]

​@@user-nj7hm4xn6l you deserve a medal for that joke

[@freshflesh3292]

Fr

[@Vic_PT]

Ah yes, never ending torment

[@manuelsisi3239]

The end is actually a good ending. At the end Scout says "Hey doc!" to Medic. Indicating that when both of them died they met in purgatory. "Til death do us apart"? *Laughs in Medic and Scout friendship*

[@supahsta2]

Not really cuz its been theorized he gets revived by the respawn core in the briefcase and gets burned at the end, becoming the plague doctor and thus restarting the timeloop

[@supahsta2]

he doesnt get to spend much time with scout sadly

[@XXXNEROXOIDXXX]

58:51 Him saying "its a real body" calmly and terrifiedly gives me goosebumps

[@KonekoFirey]

i wish it wasnt a real body.

[@Dark_Slayer3000]

If soldier is the most sane character in a movie, you know things are incredibly messed up 😂

[@samuelsabourin342]

Either that or he’s high on merasmus’s kill-me-make me stronger pills

[@Dark_Slayer3000]

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[@gingerbreadlemonzest024]

if it's soldier, we wouldn't even know if he's high or not

[@TheRogueCommand]

TFW you realize his off handed joke about not taking his meds is what ends up saving his life

[@Dark_Slayer3000]

@@TheRogueCommand Bad real life advice, but really good in the context of Emesis Blue 😅

[@aeroblu2002]

In Poker Night, Heavy actually mentions the respawn system puts him through some seemingly endless nightmares. That scene alone was probably the whole inspiration for this movie.

[@ajgonzalezjr]

“I will make hat out of you, little bunny >:(.”

[@SummerzABummer]

1:22:24 who gave spy the n-word pass???

[@ShadowTheCunt.]

​@@ajgonzalezjrMax 😭

[@AAAA-cn2qk]

No they don't. Heavy: Tiny Heavy. Strong Bad: What is it? Heavy: Do you get the nightmares? Strong Bad: I get the Jibblie nightmares. There's this one where Homestar is a giant cheese blintz and Marzipan holds me at gunpoint and makes me eat him and... uhhh... Uh-oh! Jibblie, jibblie! Heavy: I am talking about visions of endless suffering. Dead doctors, everywhere. Spy cannot be found. Strong Bad: No, but that sounds like the Jibblies, man... Heavy: I do not like this "Jibblies".

[@Kanine80yt]

Fun

[@ventithedrunk9506]

39:06 I can can translate it, they said. "They've got the test subjects, I think weve been compromised." 45:15 Theres a glimpse where spy also has red and blue eyes before switching to soldier's panel but red was surrounding the blue. Signifying hes totally given up that side of him. And During Medic's miraculous revival his face was emotionaless because for some reason whatever is bringing him back has not fully revived him and is still doing so, later his face becomes clearer. He doesnt speak or make any emotions during that time because dead corpses stiffen, we even see that he isnt even fully in control of body yet as he falls down the coffin. As the story nears its end we can see medic slowly regaining the color of his skin too. Another interesting thing you probably missed is that as Medic spared the ambulance driver the lights are blue. And abulances have both red and blue lights, yet here the light red doesnt touch him and red lights are off. Theres a possibility the one in control isnt the insane version of him. Its just him. A He experienced different type of respawn, a better way of getting revived, relying not on the respawn chamber. His true "rebirth" in the movie since he also has that ability. The moment he accepted the dark parts of him but still his sanity was in control. But I also believe that since this story is also based on Psyche, also mean he adopted/accepted his dark side but the one in control in the true him. The him that posses both law and order, light and the dark. Making him at hus full potential. As the old saying goes. "To conquer your demons you have to accept them." So medic here has conquered his underworld but not fully since all individuals who have conquered thier hell must face it one more time to test if they have truly conquered it. And thats where the movie in the end happened. His relapse using the drugs. The one causing his hell. His dark side coming out when it was revealed what this pills actually were. His coming out the coffin was a metaphore about being "born again." In a new light. Basically the heroes journey if this was Psychology. But sadly that "rebirth" ends short causr he actually dies. But who knows? Doc does have this certain power. Itll probably be used in the next film Would also like to note that soldier here isnt that dumb. Hes aware. So hes just old here and slightly brain damaged but he isnt like the soldier in the TF2 we know who can be shocked with a bucket and something more inside it. Maybe this clone is a lot closer to the original soldier where hes actually more veteran like. The fauled clones are the ones with probably unrecognizable goofy personality with pbviously lower I.Q. this one however somehow got the right personality. This is the soldier who served the war

[@drakeniko1298]

Seems legit about medic on blood brother chapter that he is full conscious and aware of his consequence rather than his alter ego killing machine that we know from the previous chapter... And yea i guess this is a different soldier

[@ultra6351]

I mean the comics tell us that Soldier is only goofy because he’s been severely lead poisoned

[@NotOnLand]

I think the plague doctor is Death itself. His ultimate goal is to destroy the respawn machine, the only thing that can counteract him. It also explains why he's in Medic's nightmares and why they play chess, as that is what doctors do: fight back death. The only people who can see or interact with him are those who went through the respawn machine as they've died before. If the briefcase _does_ contain souls or the like, he's trying to collect what he's owed. When ordered to open it, Medic says "I can't, it's not mine." What does open it? _The crash that kills him._ He also drives a hearse, which is a bit on the nose but still fits.

[@johannesneumayer6041]

One cool detail is that, the Conagher who shot scout, said: „You look lost, boy.“ Later, when Dell meets Medic, he says: „You look lost, Stranger.“

[@Brutarii]

Wait did the medic himself never respawn? I was assuming dell called medic stranger because the medic never found him self in respawn limbo cause he never respawned, he just undied like when his alter ego took over.

[@kiggm8599]

spy also says it to heavy in chapter 1 in 17:20 idk if this has any significance

[@johannesneumayer6041]

@@Brutarii I came to the conclusion that Dell didn’t recognise him, because he has no eyes.

[@MaximusChivus]

​@@johannesneumayer6041 I thought it was the conagher who's glasses fell off after medic killed him

[@capitaoebola8017]

​@@kiggm8599l

[@pawelzawrotniak3826]

The fact the movie uses so many references to other good titles just shows how much fun creators had.

[@supertrike5893]

And also those movie references have actuall plot relavence and weren't just thrown in for the sake of referencing like with the most high budget movies

[@pawelzawrotniak3826]

@@supertrike5893 damn right

[@Fakheet]

I'm kinda torn about all the references. While some like Demo in Dell's bar fit really well, others feel on the nose and almost out of place, especially shawshank redemption one and the "ol' regular zombies" sequence also feels out of place. Overall I feel like the amount of them hurts the movie a bit, doesn't let it fully stand on its own. At some points you start to think "how many of the scenes are references then?" and it detracts from the experience.

[@kyrauniversal]

The chess moment between Plague Doctor and Medic was a good touch a lot of people could miss.

[@AtomicFeasT]

@@Fakheet I didn't know about any of the references since i'm not a movie guy, it still made a lot sense and i could connect many scenes with one another understanding their meaning for the narrative, so maybe it's just a knowledge curse that you have, since you know the references you wilfully disconnect them from the film reducing their comprehension value.

[@madam-mint]

I have to say, this is the absolute best explanation I’ve seen of Emesis Blue so far. The constant coconut bonks and little jokes (“HAVING A PICNIC”) also kept me laughing even through the twisted plot lines. Well done.

[@user-bk5ms1tg2c]

Neat fact apparently in the scene where the medic is running away from the thing in the depths the sound that can be heard is an Aztec death whistle

[@omppusolttu5799]

Note that in the Russian roulette scene the Soldier says "Your gonna make it Fritz." and Medic responds "I know." before shooting himself, which is related to his ability to revive.

[@coltforceplayer]

I think the Soldier said that as confidence to reassure the Medic but he ironically didn’t make it (before coming back)

[@agrro_krysia3244]

He shoot himself in different manner than Spy or Soldier

[@skelebrowhovian6817]

One thing, the mercs ARE aware of respawn in game. Engineer has a few lines referring to it, like when Dominating a Heavy, he mays say "Never mind the bullets, how much are all those coffins costing ya'?"

[@alfalldoot6715]

That's probably just a reference to Heavy being a big guy and needing more than one coffin to contain him but it does fit in with the movie.

[@romanbeckett3130]

Snipers "See you in 5 minutes" kill line too

[@firalioue4040]

"Oh they'll have to glue you back together,IN HELL!"

[@ArcliteS08]

"It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds..."

[@0cT_project]

I'm pretty sure he was referring to all the people heavy kills

[@scooderman7]

He missed one detail that I loved, that was how at the end of the film they play a demon version of Silent Night.

[@task_failer8223]

A theory I also like is that the Plague Doctor is a representation of Death, wanting the respawn machines gone so it can claim the souls of the always respawning mercenaries. "It's an eternity in there" because Death tries to hold onto them, tries to keep them dead, yet even so they always come back to life. The Plague Doctor distroting reality with it's very being as it is an entity beyond anything we could understand. Edit: Some things that I found on a rewatch of the original that IMO play into this theory are: 1. Soldier immediately asks if the Plague Doctor is an undertaker, and Spy says "almost" as response, alluding that their job isn't that to an undertaker, but closely related. 2. The Plague Doctor gets stopped by police in "Purgatory Avenue" and after doing something to the police officer, soldier calls it "Purgatory". 3. In the short scene where Medic is trapped in the coffin, the Plague Doctor is the only other character there, calmly watching as someone already inside a casket, comes back to life.

[@simula152]

Valium is used in real life to induce memory loss after certain medical procedures, mostly painful/traumatic ones. This makes perfect sense in this case. It's used to make the mercenaries forget the time between life and death.

[@queenofvermin]

Soldier never took them, and during the movie he cheats death many times, could it be that he's not respawned?

[@ArkanStrata]

@@queenofvermin Yeah, actually. He's never respawned, because for some reason or another, soldier's been cloned instead. Soldier's never seen the other side, and that means there's nothing to forget.

[@sebastiang3561]

To add to what Valium is used for irl and what TWS says about sniper, it might be that sniper HAS taken the pills like the other mercs have, and (at least for scout) it can be inferred that Scout and Sniper have died a similar amount of times before, but we see sniper die at least once in the film while in the slaughter house without the pills. Another thing for sniper to be SO mentally broken is that his body might be drug resistant (like mine is.) He may have taken these pills so much that not only is his body growing a tolerance to it so it feels like an eternity regardless of whether he takes them or not, his body might also relapse when he doesn't, making it worse. It would explain better why sniper laughs so manically when he first bleeds out, cause he already knows what's coming and is having a mental breakdown just thinking about it as we KINDA see with soldier, realizing what's happening at the funeral and breaks down mentally.

[@asie]

​@@ArkanStrata why would Soldier be prescribed Valium if he hasn't been respawned? maybe to forget about the war?

[@GabrielWard-yu6sk]

@@asieor just standard procedure sense it’s reasonable enough to say he would respawn anyways otherwise why would he be considered respawn compatible.

[@sansgolem168]

Theory: the pile of soldier bodies in Ketabasis is supposed to represent the huge amount of soldier mains that there are in the actual game

[@elkakasbadcontent2275]

soldier mains without medic girlfriends*

[@CBRN-115]

I am one of them

[@0mnijax966]

​@elkakasbadcontent2275 what happens when soldiers don't get their medicgf

[@fattestroyal198]

I imagine one of them like me: "I WILL KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS I HAVE TO AS LONG AS YOU ARE ONE OF THEM!" *self critical*

[@JediSteve-J3-]

All the failed rocket jumps

[@LeviathanGregware]

imagine if the longer they're mutated from the failed respawn, the more uncontrollable they get and the reason the mutated scout attacked the mutated heavy was because he took over as his normal self and managed to buy them some time. or when they mutate, they just go straight up rogue

[@JarOfMayonnaise_TF2]

I just got an ad, that plays in the hall of the mountain king, while watching this. This may be my last words, boys...

[@trisrock7780]

Perhaps the reason the sniper remembers all of his stasis is due to his differing fate from the rest of the characters. While every other mercenary gets a quick death, the sniper is the only character noted to have been left to bleed out slowly. Similar in essence to how Ricky held his breath to not fall asleep, the sniper's consciousness wasn't able to end before he was brought back into the stasis.

[@jc_art_]

Damn i knew those details were all important in some way, i just couldnt tie them together. This makes perfect sense!

[@memesalvv3226]

36:50

[@ExileAnimation]

​@@memesalvv3226"dumbass"💀💀

[@paradoxglitch1108]

I think this idea also runs well with how we see Scout again when we're in Soldier and demo man's point of view because much like sniper he didn't have a quick death either he was slowly tortured by one of the engineers Another idea is that both sniper and Scout seem to share something like this with the 10th class in the third experiment as he was shaky, and his fingers looked extended much like the Scout we see

[@TheMadwomen]

It's also likely he just didn't take the Emesis pills. Simple as that.

[@gellax111]

Something I realised while watching the analysis: during Soldier WW2 hallucination, Medic is seen playing chess with the Plague Doctor, the latter whom moves a blue pawn as an opening. Remember at the beginning of the movie when Scout's face is seen above a chess board? Said board has one blue pawn in the middle of it, surrounded by red pieces, representing scout's being trapped in the scene. Blue pawn is the Scout. That opening move is sending the Scout (blue pawn) towards the medic. Meaning the Plague Doctor intended for Scout to somewhat notice his presence and go see the Medic for it, kicking in the events of the movie.

[@Deathmode13-ue7nr]

I just realized that

[@Violent_APC]

I dont think the plague doctor intended for scout to die because the plague doctor put him in the coffin to be saved by medic. Medic is obviously the only merc that can heal and plague doctor knows that. He wasnt suppose to run of and get shot. Plague doctor wasnt on any side he was watching.

[@zeropoint703]

noticeably, they also move the piece like a knight. it goes two ahead, one left; an illegal move.

[@maytelue8206]

😮😮650

[@zacharyholmes4737]

Little detail is that both medics show references to the fact that the medic heals abut over time in game, that’s how blue medic survives a shotgun blow and a magnum shot, and how red is able to live till heavy splats him

[@phantomblue523]

Spy telling Soldier who just readied his weapon after seeing himself to "give that here before you hurt yourself" is actually brilliant.

[@DrBodyshot]

You missed a small detail with the Red Demoman. His death is a reference to how Jack died in the Shining when he froze to death in the hedge maze.

[@e8348]

Damn i was still reading the shining

[@carlosemilio5180]

​@@e8348youll never guess who sephiroth kills during final fantasy 7

[@e8348]

@@carlosemilio5180 ive never played final fantasy 7

[@e8348]

Its it that girl praying like he just falls down and stabs her?

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

@@carlosemilio5180 no spoilers pls I'm just in September 1940 on the Wikipedia WW2 Timeline page.

[@arcanosmox7113]

44:54 It's worth mentioning that the RED and BLU team are different people in the lore, and we only follow the RED team. Although RED soldier is a maniac who was never a proper soldier, BLU soldier could very well be a maniac that is a former soldier

[@avocadothecat]

But isn't Dell Conagher canonically a BLU employee?

[@aro_ger_]

He's both.

[@Generalcloud876]

I thought demo, heavy, spy, pyro, and medic were on red while soldier, scout, engi, and sniper were on blu.

[@rinkothelad]

@@Generalcloud876I thought so too, considering all the promotional material and comics show this.

[@snakyYT]

im confused i thought it focused on the blu team

[@michellesullivan7541]

I think a sequel based on the Resupply Cabinet would be cool. Like how does it supply ammo infinitly? What if it malfunctions what horrors would it create. AND FINALLY, would its malfunctions create what we know as Random Critical Hits?

[@BLIZZARD1999]

i really like the depication of a traumatic experience on emesis blue, how soldier went from a vocal silly guy to silent and traumatized, really makes me feel bad for him

[@Youhadabadday2021]

I actually think that Demoman's death is actually not only poetic, but a perfect end to his character. I mean, think about it. This poor bastard has been dismembered and resuscitated for god knows how long for someone else's sick amusement, yet only in the comforting embrace of the cold can he finally properly rest. Sure, freezing to death is an unpleasant way to go, but it's clear that not only did he not actually suffer, since he managed to see Conagher one last time before passing on, but the way he died was perfectly crafted by fate itself to make sure he suffers no longer, even in death. His body is perfectly perserved in ice, with no deformations present aside from the one he already had. If anyone ever tried to deform him further, he would just crumble. No longer will he have his body mutilated beyond recognition, for the cold embrace of death itself has made sure that no-one will ever be able to touch him with the intent to harm ever again.

[@skem9622]

this is legitimately poetic. no further comment needed.

[@skem9622]

@@pintlebert921 indeed it does

[@Stillbraixentho]

I mean even if hes frozen you could still mutilate him,but there would be no point on torturing a dead body besides some sick entertainment

[@bluedragonfly5145]

Based on some of the near death reports I have read hypothermia is (relatively speaking) a pretty comfortable way to go. According to these reports the victim will experience a comfortable growing warmth until they are unconscious.

[@beepthefox]

Hypothermia is actually a pretty calm demise, all things considered. After a point, your brain stops working, and you feel warm and things slow down. Also, his body is 100% mutilated, a grenade went off in his lap. He's gonna look like he hit his kill bind.

[@n_o_o_ne]

This entire film is just a cleverly disguised ad for red pens

[@psfm0620]

Pass Me a Red Pen

[@claudedebussyreal]

I love red ink

[@pdx_itsyaboyblue8403]

Everyone has a red pen

[@Embersofthedark]

Anyone got a red pen?

[@FatherMerica]

nah its an ad for red food dye

[@graysondolatowski2543]

I don't know how you made this scarier than the original Emesis Blue, but you did, i kept looking over my shoulder the entire time thinking that the 10th class or something was watching me.

[@Zero-qh6ct]

There seemingly being a supernatural element to the respawn machine makes sense because we know in the tf2 universe that magic exists through Marazmus but we also know that medic literally sold all of the mercs' souls to the devil

[@MTF_agent-1473]

“Medic and the plague doctor couldn’t be the same person existing at the same time.” Literally soldier looking at his past self

[@somerandomguy2316]

Not even just looking, chucking a crowbar at his future self too

[@highbahamut6188]

@@MTF_agent-1473 i think the plague doctor is medic after respawing and using the time loop to travel back in time to kidnap scout in order to make the mercs destroy the spawing machine also the reason why scout was so mad a medic when he tried to rescue him.

[@Vegetafan756]

soldier interacts with his past/future self twice and medic does it multiple times as well

[@somerandomguy2316]

@@MTF_agent-1473 yes. He chucked a crowbar *at* his future self

[@heisenberggaming6548]

Thats his future self

[@1whospeaks]

Imagine how absolutely hard Emesis Blue would hit if it included all the original voice actors.

[@iluvpandas2755]

Too bad og soldier’s voice actor is dead.

[@Datamal]

that wouldnt work, concidering that soldiers va passed away

[@thatguy1366]

@@Datamal AI power

[@ZachTheHuman]

Alas, there is no way of this succeeding when one simply considers the original soldier voice actor has left us.

[@Lukepuke311]

@@iluvpandas2755just mvm revive him

[@jameslee4086]

37:19 scout looks at medic with pleading eyes as if he regrets punching him, as if he knows who really did it

[@MisterBurgerBeachball]

Soldier being cloned could be a reference to "Meet the Medic", where a mob of soldiers with differing hats can be seen attacking Red team before being mass slaughtered by Heavy and Medic.

[@CommanderWiggins]

The fact that they made a near feature length film using the world and characters of TF2, animated it in the goofy meme animation engine, and somehow produced this incredible movie is so amazing to me. It's like peeforming a symphony orchestra with nothing but kazoos and tin cans and having it sound movingly beautiful. It's a massive achievement and I'm glad it's gotten so much attention and praise.

[@Potacintvervs]

Near feature length? A feature length film is any film longer than 40 minutes. Emesis Blue passes that by an hour.

[@eukyre]

you mean the goofy porn animation engine

[@CommanderWiggins]

@MultiMonkyman You're right. I had just watched a 2 and a half movie before I wrote that comment, so my brain went "Ah yes, 2 hours and 30 minutes is the benchmark for a feature length film."

[@raditzhoneyham]

@@Potacintvervs I thought feature length was 90 minutes

[@hacysack]

That animation engine was my favorite animation engine to use because holy hell it was so crappy that it was funny

[@SemiO11]

[SPOILERS] The plague doctor is absolutely the medic after he respawns at the end of the film. He's the representation of the entity trying to take hold of medic throughout the film, and the one that does just before medic dies and respawns. Also, he is marked with "M", supposed stating that he is the killer of scout's mom, but he didn't. But, if he had come back as the plague doctor, then technically he WAS the killer. Plus, the medic drives exclusively an ambulance, a symbol for life, and the plague doctor drives exclusively a hearse, a symbol for death.

[@Underboy-jh6nr]

legit same thought

[@m.v2838]

Thought so as well

[@highbahamut6188]

i have the same theory but i think the plague doctor is medic after respawing and using the time loop to travel back in time to kidnap scout in order to make the mercs destroy the spawing machine also the reason why scout was so mad a medic when he tried to rescue him.

[@austynmorris318]

Also the plauge doctor and Medic were seen playing chess is soldier's war flashback. It's Medic and his psyco side vying for control with the psyco side taking form as the plauge doctor, possibly to help connect the dots that Medic and the doctor are the same.

[@jaxonjaxon-i1309]

​@@highbahamut6188my thoughts exactly! I made a comment going into a bit more detail for the theory

[@coronelkittycannon]

Btw, isn't Emesis a medical word for vomit? Then Emesis Blue might just mean "regurgitating the BLU mercenaries back". The respawn machine is meant to bring them back to life intact, but is actually just regurgitating them from death. Their original selfs (soul + mind + body), (I imagine, awaiting to go to eternal rest), are forcefully brought back, as whatever it happened to them in the other side is not reversed. I imagine, it can reverse the physical part, which stays on this world. But the spiritual part is regurgitated. Destroyed, mashed together, and put back in place.

[@thefire5219]

interesting theory. this would explain why their can be several instances of a person at the same time. maybe their souls aren't regurgitated properly.

[@Colonel_Arthur]

I think soldier is the only person in this whole film to not lose his sanity. What a tough guy.

[@MenacingNoodler]

He didn’t take the pills.

[@boi7316]

Film fact: There are 7 triple candles on top of Medic's coffin on one of his dreams, bringing up the fact that he has used up 7 of his 9 lives (that he surgically added to himself). He died 2 more times in this film before dying once more and then getting brought back to life by the Conagher Slaughterhouse's Respawn Machine.

[@Brutarii]

Ok this confirmed my theory as to why dell called medic stranger when he showed up in respawn limbo, the medic just hasnt actually respawned before/yet, or its been really long since his last respawn and dells limbo bar hasnt existed yet.

[@pemo2676]

@@Brutarii wow, the OP comment and this reply are great! really interesting thoughts

[@purplehaze2358]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that the medic's cross necklace seemed to physically hurt the pyro, implying he's demonic in some way.

[@Kernwadi]

Where do I know you from?

[@everwix7692]

I thought pyro just got hit by the rocket that zombie heavy shot which soldier avoided and eventually hit the wall next to pyro and medic Edit: Just finished the vid and realized it was sniper who shot it not heavy

[@boowompwompwomp]

I mean by the fact how some people treat the pyro class that's pretty accurate

[@neckbeardeater682]

Phlog pyro

[@umamifan]

Not too far from how he's viewed in-universe

[@TScheezpuffs]

1:34:30 I wanna point out that the sound here is actually the sound of the Aztec Death Whistle, which is a skull-shaped device that warriors would blow before they engaged in war, typically to scare their opponents and effectively tell them of their fate beforehand.

[@MintyIron21]

36:26 Man, everyone has those red pens they must be really good pens

[@revanbang]

Yes

[@E.G.I.L.3D]

This movie is the prime example of how to use references. They are there not to just make you feel good for recognizing them, they actually help you understand and even solve the plot beforehand

[@SummerzABummer]

46:17 the fact that was really sniper shocked me ngl

[@tibayonex4505]

This is known as allusion

[@thesupreme8062]

Thw fact that a tf2 film understands this but lucasfilms doesnt is astounding.

[@electricfishfan7159]

Yes, I’ve never seen a reference and felt, “omg I have to keep watching this I’m so invested now,” before, but I was completely hooked as soon as M started playing. I could feel that it was purposefully going somewhere, and the sound design was fantastic. Very tasteful all the way through.

[@mothermia]

One detail I feel like people overlook during the scene in Scout's apartment is the change in the voice of his mom. At the beginning of the scene, her voice is natural sounding, and not choppy. But when she says "dinner's ready, dear" it sounds superficial and choppy, almost as if someone was impersonating her. Also, every time I rewatch Emesis Blue I always catch a detail I never noticed in my previous watch.

[@superluigicam6660]

Yes! I was thinking that while watching the video! The voice sounded like, "DinnErs REady DeAR." With sudden choppier sounding parts of the word. Reminded me a lot of the alternates in Mandela Catalog.

[@blessedXIIV]

Yeah I noticed that I just thought they used ai voice for that part or something lol

[@rokamayono8590]

I’m assuming that’s when Medic got to her

[@Somedude17741]

The fact that there is a lot of corpses of a blue soldier really reminds me of the meet the medic video, you can see that every blue opponent on the video is just soldier.

[@stupid2735]

I think what always got to me was that we never find out what pyro is motivated by

[@Dragonship3647]

Fiiiire

[@darienaustin8718]

Idk, but he was seen both working with the Sniper and the plague doctor(?)

[@icetide9411]

I like to believe that why Demo has his eye back is because it's October 31st. Halloween. Something very fun happens to his eye every halloween, so it was just getting REALLY close to becoming Monoculus and really spicing up the night.

[@prorandocopier7945]

damn, it fucked up time, went in a loop, then just decided to move onto november

[@jotopeka]

But from the comics we know that Medic always tried to give Demoman a new eye, which functioned until Halloween and got haunted. So therefore technically the eye doesn't appear by Halloween itself, Demoman's cursed eye socket haunts his new eye every year

[@ArthurOrtigosa]

Man maybe thats why his not longer missing eye on this scene is so ghouly-looking

[@theshyowl7301]

There's one more tie-in to Spy's Disguise you missed. The scene at the end of the film where medic crashes the ambulance actually happens directly after Spy's Disguise. If you look closely, the scar on his cheek matches the one he has in that video, something he had nowhere else in Emesis Blue. So assuming Spy's Disguise took place before the events of Emesis Blue, that's actually the first time we see him die.

[@dvoraturtlerider1126]

Holy shit I think you’re onto something

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Damn!

[@socialaccount0000]

The movie really isn't in chronological order goddamn. Perhaps when Medic dies in the ambulance, he wakes up in his office at the beginning of the movie, having imagined the events of Spy's Disguise as a dream or (due to the diazepam) a vague memory which he quickly forgets as Jeremy knocks on his door. As for the Plague Doctor, it could be death about to take Medic for good, only for the time loop to save him at the last second.

[@BlackReaper0]

But then, how did this medic get the briefcase?

[@theshyowl7301]

@@BlackReaper0 I guess he started out with it, which gives a good explanation as to why he'd be so interested in getting it back during the film. As to why he has it, your guess is as good as mine.

[@wampXs]

Medic confronting Pyro for his last moments is totally a Breaking Bad reference. (When Hank survives the Twin's hit on him in the parking lot)

[@Coreupt7118]

The Plague Doctor only ever appeared when/after someone dies, this could mean that The Plague Doctor could represent Death. Edit : Another note, the briefcase seems to have something to do with the respawn machine, the Plague Doctor, if it is Death, could want to get it's hands on the briedcase because of the fact the respawn machine is practically infinite life and I don't think that Death would like that very much.

[@HenryVarn]

Also if they are Death, then them playing chess would make sense in reference to The Seventh Seal.

[@ashumon23]

I'm pretty sure the Plague Doctor represents death. Actual, final death. And he's got a vendetta against the machine and more importantly, the people, who defy it so greedily. Makes sense, too, why medic is usually depicted being at odds/fighting against him.

[@polybius-jy5rc]

i think the plague doctor may be ether the 10th class or someone like dell. in general i think the doctor is a victim who while unable to himself is trying to let the other's die and never be respawned maybe the hearse had his body and was set on fire as a cremation so his corpe's could not be used. on another note iv just realized that. were are they getting the material to make the respawned individuals body's. considering the vehicle in hell i wouldn't be surprised if there using the dead body's in "hell" to make them. edit: im at the end of the video and i just realized the plague doctor has glowing eye's. and dell were's glowing goggle's in the seen were he's talking with demoman.

[@Grumpdump]

I align more with this idea too. He's the other side of the coin to Medic. I think it's well presented in soldier's nightmare, where death is Playing chess with medic, a person who's job in a war is to prevent death. It's a lifelong feud for these two, one that loops.

[@polybius-jy5rc]

@@Grumpdump that would imply it's a competition and the p doctor would want death in general or to stop people cheating death

[@tracedd]

​@@polybius-jy5rccorrect.

[@tracedd]

I came here to see if anyone else had this opinion. And I'm quite glad you do. I'm fully with you. It also explains why they want the case. It's the souls of the dead they're owed and they've come to collect. I'd be interested to see who and why the heavy was set up to exchange the souls. But I feel like there will always be unanswered questions.

[@AmaryInkawult]

Soldier not taking his meds is the most in character thing ever done.

[@SoMEoNe_A1]

I wonder if the plague doctor might be the medic from the end, now knowing about the respawn machine and ready to take it out, unintentionally acting as the main catalyst for all of the events, as they keep restarting the timeloop. I think it explains how they are able to drive the car when the present-day medic is driving the ambulance and also why their playing chess in the PTSD Flashback - It is quite literally mind bending game they are playing, with the plague doctor winning every time as the same ending is achieved every single time. It is very interesting though, but I don't know, maybe the plague doctor is more a representation of the 'red side' within medic, the psychopathic-murderous side of him. It would kind of make sense that side would be fully in control, as you say, since the medic has most likely gone fully insane after the effects of living infinite times and dying infinitely in the same ways, with him fully embracing the chaos and destruction. Anyways, sorry for the rant, just thought it was cool. I always thought that the story of Emesis Blue was complicated but with good reason, but now I see it just takes a little digging and a reading/watching of the shining!

[@FallenA1]

1:41:33 Fortress Films did a great job using the Original laugh used by Soldier by the late Rick May. And how they used his scream for when the Heavy was crushed by the burning building was also great

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

42:15 the alter ego doesn't actually take over Medic's body when he's unconscious, he takes over when Medic is _dead._ You see, a hard blow to the back of the head can result in death, which is what happened the first time over.

[@touyatodoroki7935]

but what about when he took a nap in his ambulance? that is alluded to have been when he killed scout's mother alongside pyro. assuming he is indeed a sleeper agent, him napping would've been the trigger for him to kidnap scout alongside pyro after scout told him about his plans to sue builder's league. him getting knocked out by the counter would've merely been the trigger to get rid of any witnesses.

[@janetmontalvo6944]

@@touyatodoroki7935 no like the video said I’m pretty sure the murder was done by Pyro and Plague Doctor/ 10th class.

[@storm_fling1062]

​@@janetmontalvo6944you can see medics glove behind the head when he drops it, medic 100% killed scouts mom

[@AncestralFruitcake]

@@storm_fling1062 not really? you see a grey outline of fingers, not anything concrete. I think it was probably the plague doctor who did it.

[@NexosPlace]

​@@storm_fling1062 You can see the car driven by the plague doctor in front of scouts house as he enters the house.

[@cat-nl4sv]

1:43:13 one thing to note is that blutarch crashes into the black hearse, meaning its possible the plague doctor crashed into him on purpose

[@fattestroyal198]

With the time loop, the entirety of Medic hitting back twice as hard as scout advised, and Medic's little black outfit at the end nearly matching the plague doctor, along with his deformities giving him a reason to wear the mask, seem to line up with Medic now finishing up what Medic failed to do.

[@francoislebois]

​@@fattestroyal198this is genius

[@Thorughtheavenandearth]

I love how this analysis is longer than the actual movie

[@brichan1324]

So I have a mini theory about what is going on, especially with the emesis diazepam. Emesis means “the action or process of vomiting” aka a fancy term for throwing up what’s in your stomach, and as you mentioned, diazepam is for alcohol withdrawal and anxiety, and Valium being another name for the diazepam. Saying this, I believe that the hallucinations that all the mercs are seeing are their mental “emesis”, a throwing up of their own psychosis and the effects of the respawn machine. Medic having some sort of split personality, red light being the emesis of his own sins. The medical malpractice he has done in the past, seeing what happened to a previous version of the blue spy, his own personal mental health deteriorating over the course of this movie. Scout being mentally and physically disabled by the machine, and being the reason why medic is having his “emesis” response to everything. Soldier being brought back to the war via simple things being more akin to a ptsd driven flashback, having his emesis respond being less extreme than medics because he didn’t take the Valium. Maybe the reason why he managed to live is because of the fact that his “emesis” was not amplified by the medication, compared to everyone else’s. Again, the monster scout being the main reason why he had those flashbacks to the war, the reason for his “emesis” of his mental issues of possible ptsd from World War Two. The medication brings out the worst in the mercs, heavy’s job mentality and hunting down his past teammates, spy arrogance and smoking habits ending with him burned and shot to death, medic psychosis and split personality becoming worse after every death, scout being a both a metaphorical and physical monster to everyone in the slaughter house, engineer being the bartender, demo’s relapse in the bar and subsequent death, snipers being extremely aggressive post revival, pyro menacing aura being worse without their more childlike behavior, all becoming worse people after taking the medication… all accept soldier. Soldier was the only one who appeared to never take the pills, his “emesis” being tamer and much less frequent than the others thanks to it. His “emesis” being a result of ptsd than the medication, and it appears that he is respawned differently than the other mercenaries. I’m not going to theorize about soldier and the implications of him being frozen in test tubes in the lab, but I have ideas. Tdlr: the medicine the blue team takes is making them hallucinate and turning them into worse people than before, soldier is the only one not effective by it as he doesn’t take it. The medicine has an effect that can basically be said as a mental vomiting of one’s own issues, and it is amplified by the respawn machine thanks to it.

[@Videogamefangirl]

Just a few interesting tidbits I've noticed that I didn't quite see mentioned: 1. "Emesis" is the clinical term for vomitting. Your body only tries to vomit in response to immense physical or mental distress. Emesis might be forcibly induced on someone who's ingested poison. 2. Diazepam/Valium is REALLY NOT MEANT FOR LONG TERM USE LIGHTLY. It wouldn't be used for chronic insomnia. The withdrawl symptoms are god awful, and misuse of diazepam can cause antegrade amnesia (can't form new memories properly), suppression of REM sleep (which causes increased aggression, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating), and dizziness. Also, while it's a drug that passes through your body relatively quickly, you would NOT prescribe 25mg dose straight up. Safe use of Valium is in the 1-10mg range, with several hours in between doses. In other words, Medic has been taking meds that are melting his brain the whole film - is it a surprise that he's an unreliable protagonist? 3. However...it's worth noting that Valium has a shelf life of 5 years. If the medicine is from 1963, and the films events are in 1968, five years later... 4. The Medic emerging from a flaming Respawn machine could be a reference to TF2's lore, where Medic sold his soul to the Devil, but stole 9 other souls. If his death in the ambulance is his final death, and the respawn machine is gone, then...he only has one place left he can go.

[@junkyporpoise4254]

I’m glad you mentioned the date on the bottle of pills. Instead of it being some kind of time loop, I took it as BLU giving the mercs expired meds that they slapped a label over (probably to save money). Like you said, it’s no wonder the mercs are losing it, taking expired medication, especially Diazepam causes it’s effects to weaken, making a person (like Medic) take more and more of it to counteract that and probably upping the side effects significantly.

[@JosephKinstupJeffrey]

The fourth one actually makes really good sense

[@I_am_somebody_1234]

He better have a very good talk with scout in the bathroom, cuz médic aint coming back after that...

[@bouncycreepy]

I left a separate comment explaining my full take on this, but the medic dies 3 times in the movie. In the TF2 comics it is stated that the devil only needs a majority share in the medic's souls to permanently keep him in hell, and in the same comic medic loses two of his souls to the devil - one for dying, and one in exchange for the devil's pen. In total, the medic has 9 souls, and by the end of emesis blue, he has died 5 times, which is just enough for the devil to have a majority share in his life.

[@liammiddleton7725]

edgy

[@neevko267]

What I love about the phrase "longer than you think" is that you can take it the obvious route (The jaunt/respawning is longer than anything our minds could possibly imagine) but you can also take it literally. The Jaunt/Respawn is quite literally longer than what your mind is capable of producing thought for. Take your most boring moment, a moment you were straight up struggling to come up with any thoughts for an extended period of time while doing nothing. Take that moment and extend it not just for a lifetime, but multiple. It's longer than you think.

[@omegablaze135]

Nice theory anyway nice pfp!

[@StanleyNumber427]

@@omegablaze135 If you're curious, that profile picture is Neko, the main character of the indie game One Shot.

[@omegablaze135]

@@StanleyNumber427 Yep I know

[@raul-aurelianserban8295]

It maybe just means it takes longer than you would think it would (considering goddamn the tf2 respawn times take forever I can't survive in non fast respawn servers) But take this with a grain (or 25) of salt cuz I just skipped the entire film due to scaredness

[@raul-aurelianserban8295]

Coming back and actually trying to watch now Ngl I've watched so many scary things as a child that I've basically corrupted my mind into asking ,,what if x monster came out of the dark/was behind this door and killed me" that this is nothing

[@Aidertot]

“ Builders league..” The What show: nothing can stop this man. The building: are you sure about that?

[@infantry4lyfe252]

Theory: the ending of the film where medic dies in the crash isn't actually the ending, it's the beginning. Note how medic's outfit has changed, he's no longer decrepit, and he respawns afterward. This is the event that started all the things that happened in the film and somehow, combined with the crash, whatever was in the briefcase was the catalyst for all the supernatural events as well as medics ability to resurrect himself.

[@madam-mint]

That…could be it. Holy moly, this movie is a brain twister.

[@washmonument]

no, time-loop.

[@infantry4lyfe252]

@@washmonument and I don't agree

[@RealBasil143]

and notice the eyes are the same as his vision of him killing scouts mother

[@Armageddon735]

@@infantry4lyfe252why did you even reply?

[@Nick-Wickerbeast]

One thing I don’t see people ever notice or point out, is when the red Demo man is frozen, he isn’t holding the grenade out at first, but after the heavy becomes present the Demo man is suddenly holding out the grenade while now also looking at soldier. Even though we know the Demo man is reasonably dead, he’s able to move his body to help soldier (via holding up the grenade for soldier).

[@angeryfluuf6514]

rip a real one frfr

[@TheKishinhunter]

he also has both eyes for some reason

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Of course, he literally drops the grenade after soldier pulls the pin.

[@Olympus_county]

His last act of life to save another’s

[@victorwallec2534]

time stamp pls

[@persivle9]

This analysis really helped me contextualize some of the minor details I glossed over when I first saw emesis blue, but I do have one objection to make. Your thoughts on the non-linearity of time feel convoluted in a way they don't need to be, though having watched your video to the end I understand how that specific detail is crucial to your take away of the film. Rather than the whole situation being an endless loop repeating with each character only having vague memories. I believe, quite simply, that when they say "it's eternity in there" they mean it literally. They might not spend an actual eternity in what is for all intents and purposes purgatory but they do stay for "longer than you think" and during that time they can experience Any Moment in eternity and in a weird homage to the movie interstellar the mercs can not only witness moments from their pasts and futures but interact with them. Other than that it was a lovely video.

[@dylanfarmer8405]

chapter 0: the intro chapter 1: graveyard shift chapter 2: dinner's ready chapter 3: intel heck chapter 4: crossroads chapter 5: the doorway chapter 6: katabasis chapter 7: blood Brothers

[@maddoxlacy9072]

I think its worth noting that out of all of the people repeatedly respawning, Soldier seems the most put together. *he never takes the pills.*

[@noahshad09]

He also remembers the mercenary battles (as he says “I’ve done it before” in reference to rocket-jumping)

[@soulsearcher9620]

He doesn't take the pills but still hallucinates. So there's an inconsistency there.

[@ajc0072]

He still suffers from hallucinations and such, but they're incredibly rare and mild Some of the hallucinations aren't even hallucinations

[@dragon_ball_sucks_video]

Its not a good "movie"

[@Satorish]

​@@dragon_ball_sucks_videoplay russian roulette with 6 bullets loaded in

[@vinomatic8853]

Genius idea to tie in the time loops of the film with the reuploads of the video

[@TheWhatShow]

bravo thewhat

[@maybe-ef4ch]

@@TheWhatShow does it also get worse with every reupload like in the time loops

[@ImTheGuy]

@@maybe-ef4ch Next reupload half of the screen will be blurred when there is a single drop of blood.

[@Shemsy.C]

@@TheWhatShow You should totally do a thing where the reuploads get worse overtime

[@humanharddrive1]

my eyes hurt

[@leejesm]

1:41:47 I think it's also interesting that this mirrors the scene in the elevator where medic goes from crying to laughing.

[@samurexatlas7373]

27:20 Scout's saying "I'm gonna kill you!" to the plague doctor. It's a simple confusion on your half.

[@jackbeecher4050]

1:10:26 What is (if it is true) kinda terrifying is that in the Manual Respawn of Scout the Terminal states that it sequences his Genomes, Skeleton, Nervous System, Muscle Tissue, etc and when it comes out with an Error it outputs just liquid (which is almost definitely blood because of the colour). Because whatever was inside gave a horrified scream, that would imply that he was fully conscious for that short period as he essentially fell apart.

[@p24p14]

I think that is exactly what happened. He was a fully conscious, half formed meat puppet that got exploded into a big ol' splash of blood.

[@StanleyNumber427]

I have a question: does this have any connection to Scout turning into an SCP 096-like creature?

[@jackbeecher4050]

@@StanleyNumber427 Hm. I mean the two-face bootleg Medic is also exactly like the scout. That medic was using some sort of substance that brought heavy back to life which DID however turn him into fucking Nemisis from Resident Evil and could not die. He got stabbed in the eye, blown up with a rocket... the only thing that stopped them was a burning building that collapsed on him and even then we don't know if it actually killed them. Seeming the deformed Scout was stabbed in the brain with a crowbar and then after soldier looks away moments later the Scout is now gone.. probably like a repeat cycle? We did see soldier repeat when he saw the future soldier talking to demo man so perhaps it's instead just a loop and his body just got 'reset' in a way.

[@jogclemson4430]

I was always under the impression that Medic bringing Scout back was in the past (like how solider throws a crowbar at himself) and what Medic does ends up making Scout into that monstrosity

[@jackbeecher4050]

@@jogclemson4430 could very well be the case. No one actually knows what the real reason for everything Is. I guess that's what makes it enjoyable.

[@enigmatvarence4319]

A small but very visible detail in Scout's apartment when Medic checks in on him. When Medic sees the M and then the knocking, at the moment of him falling and hitting his head you can see the very same hallway with no M written on the wall. This further implies that Medic is losing his shit.

[@s4mukn1ght35]

I was also thinking that the M on the walls could actually stand for Maynard, one of the two engies. But its probably not. Ludwig could probably draw em while going insane. But who knows, it xould be even be the plague doctor.

[@Cheesburger1009]

Am i not he only one here who thinks M is for medic?

[@jennykeele]

the M stands for mcdonalds

[@StanleyNumber427]

The M symbol is actually a reference to the classic movie called 'M', made in 1931, by Fritz Lang, a German director. The movie is about a child killer. There are some things in that movie that are relevant to Emesis Blue. For example, in the film, the killer had a habit of whistling the song "In the Hall of the Mountain King." In Emesis Blue, when Scout turned to his right, he suddenly heard the same song being whistled by someone.

[@zeldafactstotk]

​@@StanleyNumber427This is covered by the video, just an fyi

[@olyviermonteau4300]

Imagine valve punishes cheaters by making their game account sentient and escapes effectively removing their account data

[@JustMaxAsh]

I have a theory, that one of the reasons, why there are so many corpses of Soldier, is the "Meet the Heavy" video.

[@lanzarexiya]

i have ptsd related to medical trauma and when i watched emesis blue - i was actually stunned. somehow some goofy tf2 sfm has been the best portrayal for ptsd i’ve ever seen. the constant flashbacks, losing understanding on your current reality, paranoia of who and what you’ve become. it’s incredibly distressing yet incredible at the same time

[@madam-mint]

As another person with PTSD, first off, sorry dude, I know that it’s rough. Second, you’re absolutely right. They portray it startlingly well.

[@KleerAsDay]

Little fun fact: The model used for the 10th merc is one from Day of Defeat Source, a game set in World War 2, implying he was a fighter. Soldier had a vision with the plague doctor, which might mean he fought with #10

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Interesting.

[@sv_cheats1970]

Yup US soldier

[@davisdf3064]

Wich is Valve's least popular game, kinda like a failure in a way

[@KleerAsDay]

@@davisdf3064 you'd be surprised to find out the number of people who still play DoD source and even the original goldsrc version

[@Xinevlin]

my theory is, Dell's bar is stop place for mercenary soul soo they didn't go any futher because if they go further (heaven or hell) they can't be respawn back.

[@axclution]

It was un-be-liev-a-ble! I've already watched the film months ago but rewatching it with you and seeing the important references and details made it better! Fortress Films really deserve the every respect and reputation they've got from this sfm! I remember watching Spy's Disguise back in 2018 when I was a newbie in TF2 and even back then it was magical experience for me! Thanks mate for this terrific analysis video!

[@jusstyno]

Emesis Blue had me on edge the entire time and it was a super uncomfortable experience for me. 10/10 great horror without any cheap tricks, just pure mindfuck.

[@PoisonPlayzSouls]

yeah, i'm never watching it again. i feel like i just lost my mind

[@SummerzABummer]

1:16:50 the fact that the both movies are connected is amazing 👏

[@slaughtrrbeach]

For real, uncomfortable but /pos

[@clayrockz]

I finish watching emesis blue, i was shook at the end.

[@sonicman9910]

Emesis blue had me edging the whole time

[@doodlespiral7110]

3:36 Sniper: "How many times have you died, I'm actually gettin' impressed." Scout: "Go ahead, rage quit. Yeah, I dare ya, make us both happy." These lines, along with many others, do infact indicate that they're fully well aware of their dying/respawning in-game. This isn't even including the domination acknowledging voice-lines which only occur when killing the same enemy three times without them killing you. Yeah, they're aware, and they clearly don't care.

[@Brass319]

I choose to believe this is because tf2 canonically uses the same respawning as from STBlackST's gmod animations where you drop something related to them in a bucket and they pop out unharmed

[@Casandraelf]

emesis blue: respawning happens and it fucks people up, mind, body and soul canon tf2: respawning happens and none of the mercs give a shit, instead accepting it as a part of life

[@shatteredcrystal0909]

holy shit the indomitable human spirit

[@fatblackcap4532]

@@shatteredcrystal0909 nah sthu tf2 characters are just giga chads

[@OneSingularStair]

1:47:30 I don’t know if this is intentional but I small niche detail that I will say anyway, is the title of the newspaper ‘Mortem’ means death in Latin, while ‘Post’ means after, hence the saying ‘Post Mortem’ meaning after death. With Dell’s being a stasis between life and death, the phrasing could mean that it’s a place before dead but after life. If we translate the literal meaning of the tabloid title, it comes out to ‘The Death Post.’

[@OneSingularStair]

This could reaffirm the stance of ‘What is Dell’s?’. But I also believe it could be a place of judgement, though I’m a bit less certain of that. If the drifter decided to relapse, meaning they give up on seeking help and betterment, they die. But if they choose to leave (or wake up), they are given a chance at redemption. Like a final decision to make to see if the person is worthy despite previous sins.

[@Exodia0715]

Fun fact: the Emesis Pharmaceuticals ads seem to be references to the analog horror series "Gemini Home Entertainment". From the similar logos, to the visual artifacts the videos feature, to the strange supernatural corruption of the commercials, it all falls in line with a standard GHE video

[@mrthrowaway5414]

Its not. They arent even similar