*THE TIMELINE*
In which literally EVERYTHING is canon, unless directly stated otherwise on the TF2 website .
(email retcons do Not count)
The Beginning
Roughly -4027:
- Merasmus is born, or created. @
- Not long after, God creates the universe. @
Caveman Times:
- Cavemen arrowshot the dinosaurs to death. @
Before Recorded Time:
- “The Razorback is a beautiful hand-carved tribal shield, built using indigenous techniques passed from father to son since before recorded time.” @
- Sniper would go on to have a car battery stuck to his. @
Ancient Sumerian Times:
- The Ancient Sumerians invent the first carnival for evil (literally everything they do is for evil). @
- They have spinning sacrificial altars on which they perform ritual sacrifices to Bonzo the evil circus god. Every evil carnival made after that was with the intent of appeasing Bonzo. @
“Thousands of Years Ago”:
- Monks invent the art of hitting people with broken bottles. @
Ancient China:
- Sun Tzu writes “The Art of War”, but doesn’t write a book about punching out people’s rib cages (to Soldier’s dismay). @
- There’s a lot of other things he may or may not do, including being the inspiration for the word “zoo”. @
“Centuries Ago”:
- Jarate is invented and then hidden by masters of the art for centuries. @
- Despite this, Saxton Hale claims to have invented it. I propose he did CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, and that is why Sniper doesn’t like him. @
- The great riddle that is the concept of shields is first thought up by Scotsmen. @
The 7th Century:
- Monks first develop the method used to make the silk for Spy’s overpriced Louis Crabbemarche suit jackets. @
The 10th Century:
- Merasmus sends the mercs to this time period (Degroot’s Keep!) because Soldier pissed him off. @
- However, there’s a lot of evidence suggesting he lied and only teleported them to a theme park. @
- (A theme park owned by the Degroots? Could be one of Demo's three jobs.) @
Late 1600s/Early 1700s:
- Issac Newton kills his wife, and distracts the police by discovering gravity. @
- (Odd thing to happen, as in our universe he never married and was probably gay.) @
- “[Newton] didn't just invent motion and gravity—when the crappy math of his day wasn't getting the job done, he took an afternoon off and invented calculus like a champ. But then instead of telling anybody he invented calculus, he hung out in his pajamas making immortality potions and looking for the lost city of Atlantis, and somebody else invented calculus first” @
Late 1700s (18th Century):
- George Washington and Shakespearicles, the strongest writer to ever live, invent America. @
- According to historians, Washington's greatest regret is not being permanently invisible. @
- In the same year he invents America, Shakespearicles also invents the two-storey building, the stage play, and the rocket launcher. @
- One of the stage plays written by Shakespearicles is a version of Macbeth where the titular character is from the future, has heat vision and fights Hercules. @
- Although Shakespearicles is able to bench press 700 british pounds, he does not think to invent stairs, so people have to rocket jump to the second storey until 1921. @
The Legend Himself
The American Revolutionary War:
- “In wartime, hats were a useful way of conferring rank, and ensuring that casualties were confined to the lower classes.” @
- This stigma around hatless people persists after America wins its freedom: “During peacetime, hats have been instrumental for men to let the non-hatted know just who is wearing the hat around here.” @
1775:
- During the Battle of Bunker Hill, William Prescott, “a general renowned for only shooting enemy combatants who were poor”, famously commands: “Don't fire till you see the tops of their heads”. @
- This is, of course, because of the hat thing. @
1777:
- 300 men die defending Fort Stanwix from the british. If not for them, Americans would be speaking British English. @
- ...according to Soldier, anyway. @
1788:
- A man named Nicolas Crowder arrives in a recently colonised Australia, and decides to conquer the South Pole instead. @
- He remains in the South Pole, only venturing out on the 18th of December every year to kidnap naughty children to make presents for him. He collects everything the following 17th of December, and sells any duplicates cheaply online. @
- (Unknown if he’s been selling the gifts online since 1788, or if he only began doing that when the internet was invented in the 1900s.) @
- One Australian Christmas night, three mobsters who were owed money by Ol’ Nick went after him. They followed a bright star, and found Ol’ Nick forcing a bunch of small children to make guns. “And so began the legendary shootout…” @
- They say on AC Eve Night, you can see the light on that Sweatshop Smoke Stack, “shining like a beacon to low flying aircraft and the mafia.” @
1800s/19th Century
Early 1800s:
- A young Admin is shown a block of Australium, and apparently she "craved" it at this point too. Yet another lore facet probably killed by the Retcon. @
- Her parents die around this time as well, most likely due to some forgotten Zepheniah related reason. @
1812:
- Charles Dickens is born. He goes on to write many books and plays, including:
- A play about KINDLY COMMUNITY MAP MAKER BOB CRATCHIT and BILLIONAIRE HAT MAGNATE SCROOGE @
- “Feel-good surf classic” Super Good Times. He writes this one in a beach cabana. It opens with: "It was the best of times. It was the best of times." @
- The Tale of Two Cities, and its sequel, Bleak House (a printing error misspelt the book's original title: Good Times Beach House). @
- A version of “A Christmas Carol”, the final scene of which involved Tiny Tim “breaking out of Scrooge's cryogenic storage and unleashing a psychic explosion” and “blasting Ebenezer Scrooge's loanhouse/cryofreeze facility to splinters with his psychokinetic onslaught” @
1814:
- An editorial cartoon about classism and hats is published in Gentle Manne’s Monthly. This magazine is most likely run by Mann Co. @
- It seems common for the elites to make peasants fight for their entertainment, and bet hats on who will win, at this point in time. @
1822
- The GREAT EAGLE SCOURGE of 1822 happens. @
2nd September 1822:
- The Mann triplets are born in Mann Manor in “Manne-Upon-Thames”, London, to Bette Mann neé Darling and Zepheniah Mann. @
- Zepheniah discusses business with Barnabus: “If the sites of infestation are indeed multiplying, so is their need for munitions, munitions we can-”. What exactly he is talking about is unclear, but it is likely either Australium or eagle related. @
- Bette Mann neé Darling dies in childbirth, and Zepheniah doesn't even care. A heavy contrast to Barnaubus, who is driven to tears. @
- Grey Mann is born able to talk from listening to his mother in the womb. However, Zepheniah thinks he is too physically weak to have as a son, and attempts to smother him. Before he can, Grey is absconded by an eagle (victim of The Scourge). @
- Not long after (anywhere between a few months and a few years), Grey kills his eagle mother and siblings and crawls back to civilization. @
Late 1822:
- The Administrator shows up at Mann Manor and is given a job as a governess to the infant Mann brothers. Zepheniah wants one brother to eventually kill the other, as is Mann family tradition. @
- She proceeds to spend their entire childhood pitting them against each other, so that neither would ever stop bickering long enough to kill the other. All part of her long-term plan to get revenge on Zepheniah for unknown (although possibly dead-parents-related) reasons. @
- Strangely, Zepheniah claims to Admin that he is his father's “only son”. @
- This was clearly the world’s laziest attempt at a retcon (Soldier later gets his grubby hands on a copy of the original will portrait, and I shit you not Silas is still in it) so I'm not even going to properly acknowledge it. Rip to my king, the Horseless Headless Horsemann. He could be a distant cousin but I really doubt it what with the whole "there can only be one" Mann family sigma grindset. Someone's bound to have had his parents killed before he could even be concieved. @
1823:
- Admin starts her search for Australium. She goes on to establish TF Industries, as well as thousands of shell companies. @
1840s:
- A man named Claude Huggins founds the town of Teufort after a bear kills everyone in his party except him. He names it “Hugginsville”. @
1847:
- Claude Huggins is “forced” to rename Hugginsville to “Two Farts” by some teenagers. Due to him being too scared to change it back fully, the town becomes Teufort. @
Late 1840s:
1850:
1850s:
- Australia begins outpacing the rest of the world with their advanced technology. Over the next 50 years, they invent cloaking and teleportation, and develop “the entire spectrum of moustache sciences”. @
- It can be assumed they did this either in secret, due to them being notoriously secretive about Australium, or before 1865 (see 15th April 1865). Or a combination of both.
Mid to Late 1800s:
- For unknown reasons, Silas Mann dies. He goes on to become the Horseless Headless Horsemann. @
- It is possible this transformation has something to do with Merasmus, as he refers to the Horsemann as an “old friend” of his in Scream Fortress 7. @
1857:
- Abraham Lincoln invents stairs. @
- Despite not faking his death for another near decade, he is not able to “grasp the full import of his own invention” before then.@
21st August 1861:
- Barnabus Hale buys a cave full of “fool’s gravel” from the Mann brothers. Presumably it is full of coal, as it is located in Coaltown. @
- Merasmus lives in Scotland, and sells “hat tonic”. @
1862:
- “Massive Depots of Gold” are found in “Australia's most hated enemy, hills”. This is odd as hills haven’t been discovered yet. @
5th August 1862:
- Australia nervously assures the world that there is no gold. Clearly, they have discovered a large stock of Australium instead, and are keeping quiet about it.
- The rest of the world decide to look for gold in Canada instead.
1865:
- “I say this to you with the unvarnished factualism of plain talk: I love Arena Mode” (Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address)
- At another point, he said: “America’s pipelines are a stirring beacon of hope. Let no man befoul their majesty with calumny or bombs”
1865:
- Abraham Lincoln attempts to fake his death by “rocket jumping up the world’s first staircase in his laboratory at Ford's Theatre”. This works, but he is also nearly shot in an assassination attempt by John “Tower of Hats” Booth.
- Still, he avoids the bullet, is flung into a teleporter and ends up in the desert. Presumably he does this so he can focus full time on being a mercenary.@
The teleporter thing isn't Explicitly canon, but this diagram has me pretty damn convinced.
- “Horrified by this tragedy, mankind agreed never to invent anything again, turning its many scientists and scholars to that most noble endeavour, astrology.
- People are forced to continue rocket jumping to the second floor for the next 100 years or so.
- John “Tower of Hats” Wilkes Booth takes advantage of the situation and steals Lincoln's iconic hat, which didn't travel through the teleporter.
- A few days later, Booth, presumed by society to have killed Lincoln, is hunted down and sat on by Bilious Hale while several other men shoot at and kill him. Hale gets to keep the hat, and it is later displayed in the Coaltown museum.
Late 1860s:
- The telephone is invented, and the first 6 people to own one are:
- The then president (Rutherford Hayes, presumably)
- Bilious Hale
- Redmond
- Blutarch
- Alexander Graham Bell
- "Her" (Admin)
1869:
- A commemorative Abraham Lincoln coin is made.
1872:
- Bilious Hale owns Mann Co at this point, and opens up a coal weapons factory in Coaltown.
- He mines by “punching the coal out”, while his hapless employees follow with bags to collect it.
1880s:
- The Administrator slowly hunts for Australium, collecting it “ounce by ounce”
1890:
- Radigan Conagher, an inventor (despite mankind having sworn off science), is hired by Blutarch Mann to make him live forever so he can win the war.
- Radigan is bribed by Admin to do the same for Redmond Mann, in exchange for 100 pounds of Australium. She claims that is her entire stock (liar).
- At this time, every Australian is ridiculously buff and even the women have moustaches. They also choose their king based on who can beat a kangaroo in a boxing match.
- Radigan has a small business called Conagher’s Tools and Munitions, and blueprints for a steam powered sentry. It is likely this company ends up expanding into Frontier Engineering several years down the line.
1894:
- Radigan builds the immortality machines for Blutarch (completed 17th July) and Redmond (completed 3rd August). Both machines are called “Mark 1”.
- He also builds a third machine (Mark 2?), but it is unknown who for or even what year. All we know it was completed on a 14th of April.
- The third machine most likely went to The Administrator, as she mentions that Engie’s family have helped her out in the past.
- It could even be the machine she used to keep Zepheniah’s empty husk of a corpse “alive”.
- (Grey almost definitely built his own machine, as we know he is a genius inventor himself.)
25 January 1895:
- Hills are discovered, “confounding men of australian science”
6th March 1895:
- The King of Australia announces war on hills and decides that they can be studied “after they are dead”.
5th April 1896:
- The war is won, as hills don't (can't) fight back
1890s/Early 1900s:
- Radigan goes hunting for more Australium for his inventions, and makes a map of the caches he finds.
- Radigan’s overexposure to Australium causes him to, for lack of better words, “become Australian”: he drinks more alcohol, becomes extremely muscular, stops wearing shirts, and even grows Texas shaped chest hair.
- The Australium also makes him lose his mind a bit, as he eventually replaces his left hand with the first version of The Gunslinger.
Pre-Canon (Early 1900s)
1900:
- Back in the 1800s, Australia had plans to colonise space by this point. It is unlikely that went ahead.
- The American monkeynaut program was launched some time before this, and was eventually bought out by famously Australian company Mann Co. Ironic.
January 23rd 1901:
- Mann Co invents robots that will “only be used for violence”. Robin is the most popular girls’ name in Australia.
- Robin is the most popular girls’ name in Australia.
- Contender for least funny joke in all of TF2 canon if I'm being honest. Other than the "no one knows team fortress" retcon.
1901:
- Newell and Son (unknown whether or not it is a division of TF Industries) release a “turnless” board game called “Teams and Fortresses 2”.
- The game is most likely inspired by the Gravel Wars Mercs of this time. Delivery is via carrier pigeon, until…
Early 1900s:
- …Newell and Sons release their new STEAM system, where they connect pipes between their “home in Kirkland, WA” and the homes of every “STEAM subscriber”. Updates are transported via compressed steam being pumped through the pipes at speeds up to 200mph. Also, 5 hats are released for the TaF2 figurines.
- Computers exist, and are coal powered
- Famous painter Kicasso has his “hunted in the jungle” period
- Radigan dies, and is buried with the blueprints for all his inventions, as well as his Australium cache map. Not long after, Blutarch steals these blueprints from the coffin, but is unable to decipher them.
13th June, 1907:
- Mann Co is voted the safest workplace in the Badlands, due to the lack of mercenary warfare on the premises. A reporter is “sent to RED and BLU for comment” and is “killed in crossfire by mercenaries”
- Captain Dan’s Soup (Soldier’s favourite brand) is popular enough to be advertised on the front of a newspaper.
Late 1910s:
- Medic/Herbert Ludwig (possibly not real name, as implied by the Devil) is born in a town called Rottenburg, in Stuttgart, Germany in “an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion”. Despite that, for a while he thinks “doing no harm” is a good idea.
- Rottenburg is famous for its “centuries-old traditions of 1) chasing the next in the resident lineage of mad doctors out of town with torches and pitchforks whenever they swapped out too many super-charged baboon hearts, and 2) never having been attacked by an army of robots”.
- That first “tradition” implies Medic has some relation to the “Humboldts”, who own a pharmacy seen in the background of a promotional MvM image. However, this has yet to be confirmed or denied.
- Heavy/Mikhail is born somewhere in Russia.
- All we know of his early childhood are dubiously canonical anecdotes mentioned in Poker Night, such as learning to box in school, and burying a sparrow he witnessed another boy kill.
- Spy is born. Probably in France, but he could be faking his accent. Out of all the mercs, besides Pyro (who I’m not even going to guess the birth year for), we know the least about his backstory and upbringing.
- Spy canonically speaks French, Spanish and Catalan (according to his action figure), suggesting he grew up in a region where those languages are/were spoken.
13th August, 1915:
- “Mining millionaire [Bilious] punches way out of mine shaft collapse”. 14 people die in this incident both from the cave-in and “punch related injuries”.
24th January, 1916:
- “Mann Co wins bid; Now sole munitions supplier to RED, BLU, warring mercenaries”. The citizens of Badlands are both overjoyed and terrified at this.
- “Guns will help us end the war with haste”, promises Redmond Mann. Hahahaha.
Early 1920s:
- Soldier/Jane Doe is born somewhere in the American midwest. We know literally nothing else about his childhood, but a common theory is that his obsession with the military stems from having a relative who fought in WW1.
1921:
- “Hot headed pisces” Franklin D Roosevelt loses his legs rocket jumping, and comes across Lincoln's staircase notes. Thus, the “modern staircase” is created, and presumably most of mankind begins to trust in science again.
- “Eager to re-ignite the nation’s waning interest in coal, Bilious Hale introduced this steam-powered hat [prototype] in 1921 at the Paris World Fashion Expo. It required 50 pounds of coal per day to run.”
13th March, 1922:
- “Mann Co stops production on coal-powered weapons”, presumably because Bilious’s coal hat scheme failed miserably.
- Bilious Hale shuts down the coal mine and coal weapon factory. The factory is almost immediately turned into a museum.
- New Mann Co factories are to open soon after this, selling hats (the “next big industry boom”)
- Interestingly enough, the triplets turn 100 this year.
Late 1920s:
- Engineer/Dell Conagher is born in Bee Cave, Texas. The TFC Engineer, Fred, is his father, and Radigan Conagher is his grandfather. We don’t know anything about his childhood, but he goes on to spend “ten years as a roughneck in the west Texas oilfields”, and get 11 “hard science” PhDs.
- Although Engie implies he knew Radigan personally in Loose Cannon, he’s talking out of his ass. The man died “60 years” before he was employed under BLU, AKA a couple of decades before Engie was born.
- Demoman/Tavish Finnegan Degroot is born in Ullapool, Scotland, and is abandoned by his parents, as part of “a long-standing, cruel, and wholly unnecessary tradition among the Highland Demolition Men”.
1930:
- The mercs we play as in Team Fortress Classic work for the Mann brothers at this time. It is unknown for how long their contracts lasted, especially when we take into account the many other mercenary groups revealed at the end of comic 6/beginning of comic 7.
Early 1930s:
- A six year old Demoman attempts to blow up the Loch Ness Monster, and accidentally kills his adoptive parents. He is sent to the Crypt Grammar School for Orphans, and is soon re-adopted by his biological parents.
- It is unknown whether or not he succeeded in blowing up the monster, but in Meet the Demoman he implies it survived and there may be multiple of them (“there’s more feckin’ sea monsters in the great Loch o’ Ness then there are the likes o’ me”)
- Interestingly, Medic keeps the heart of a “Loch Ness Hamster ” in his fridge in Meet the Medic. Unknown if that is at all relevant.
- A year after being adopted, on Halloween night, Demo’s mother sends him out to find a job working for ghosts. Instead, he is hired by Merasmus to clean his library for a nickel. The Bombinomicon tricks Demo into opening it and haunts his eye socket. Demo passes out and when he wakes up his eye (and Merasmus, the book and the castle) is gone.
- His missing eyeball spends the next thirty-odd Halloweens haunting the Scottish moors at midnight.
1933:
- A scientist in New Zealand named Bil-Bel is convinced that an apocalypse will end the world soon. He convinces the country’s leaders to place a dome over the country and sink it to the bottom of the ocean. They agree, spending all the country’s resources and money in the process, but the apocalypse does not happen.
1937:
- Amelia Earhart’s plane crashes somewhere in the Dzhugdzhur mountains, while she’s dressed in a hotdog suit. She dies.
1939:
- World War Two begins. Soldier is desperate to fight, but is rejected from every branch of the US military. Undaunted, he pays for his own plane ticket to Europe, teaches himself how to use weapons, and embarks on his own nazi killing spree. He later claims to have done three tours of duty, although it is unclear if by that he means his time spent in Poland or what.
- Also, reminder: the TF2 devs have confirmed that Medic *IS NOT* a Nazi. I say this because the sheer number of tryhard edgelords in youtube videos and comment sections making the same “hur dur, what was Medic doing in ww2??” “jokes” over and over is starting to drive me crazy. He would not be working with the people he works with, or filling their chest cavities with random organs, if he was a Nazi. It’s almost like people say stuff like that for shock value without actually knowing anything about what Nazis believed in! Haha. Imagine.
September 1941:
- Heavy's father, a counter-revolutionary, is killed.
- Heavy and his family are deported to a northern Siberian gulag.
December 1941:
- The gulag burns to the ground. Everyone, including Heavy and his family, escape and all of the guards are later found tortured to death.
- Heavy and his family go into hiding in the Dzhugdzhur Mountains and remain there for several decades.
1943:
- Sniper/Mun-Dee is born in the underwater New Zealand, a decade after the sinking, to Bil-Bel and his wife Lar-Nah.
- Some months after this, Bil-Bel decides shooting the country into space would be a great idea, but due to the lack of resources this would be impossible. Bil-Bel decides to use a rocket to escape on his own, to the annoyance of his wife.
- While the couple fight, baby Sniper crawls into the rocket. It takes off with him inside, crashing through the glass dome, and eventually lands in Adelaide, Australia.
- Sniper is adopted by an elderly couple, the Mundys, and is re-christened Mick Mundy.
- He grows up an outsider, due to the lack of Australium coursing through his veins, and goes on to become a tracker of dangerous game in his late teens.
- It is unknown if he only became an assassin after being hired by TFI, or if he was one between then and the animal tracking.
- Meanwhile, the hole left in the dome by the rocket floods New Zealand, and the entire population of the country drowns. Except Bil-Bel and Lar-Nah who hide away on their own in a sealed off lab like the assholes they are.
1945:
- World War Two ends. Soldier’s rampage, however, does not.
1947:
- Spy has relations with a woman from Boston. He conceives a child with her, and Scout/Jeremy Willis is born. He is the youngest of eight children, some of which may or may not also be spawn of Spy.
- When Scout grows older, his brothers get into fights with random people often. Being the “runt of the litter”, he isn't usually able to get to the fight in time to land a punch. Thus, he learns to run fast.
- People who claim he learned to run to avoid his brothers and/or fights are doing a GREAT disservice to his character fr.
- A Kangaroo named Trixie is made Queen of Australia, presumably by either beating the “beat up to become king” kangaroo in a fight, or by beating the previous king in a fight.
1948:
- Spy sticks around, or at least visits his lover and son(s?) frequently for a while (babies walk at a year old, and when Scout’s doing that Spy’s still around), but eventually he leaves for good. His motive for doing this is uncertain: it could be out of fear for his family, out of selfishness, or due to employers breathing down his neck. Still, he's clearly still broken up about it thirty odd years later.
- In any case, it’s implied Spy stays in correspondence with Scout’s mother (photos on the inside cover of the Fight Songs cd case, “off to visit your mother!!”, the second Saxxys trailer, etc).
1949:
- Soldier hears about the end of the war and ends his killing spree. Presumably he goes back to America after this, and possibly meets Merasmus not long after.
- However, he may have done those three “tours of duty” after his ww2 shenanigans before going home.
- He claims to have spent voluntary time in a POW camp at one point, which could have also been either during or after the war.
Late 1940s:
- Flo Pauling is presumably born around this point. Chances are, she didn’t have a very good childhood, as it is likely she started working for the Administrator when she was in her mid/late teens. @ @
1955:
- Jonas Salk invented money so he would have a way to earn a living from his polio vaccine.
- “Before that, people just traded things they found for things that other people had found. [...] It was a perfect system with only one drawback: people spent their lives bartering for piles of garbage before dying of polio.”
Early 1950s:
- Saxton and Mags are having a fabulous time running around and beating up extremely dangerous animals. Charles Darling, however, is not. No wonder he fucked off to become evil. Saxton and Mags are lowkey horrible to him. @
Late 1950s:
- Demoman’s father blows up the Queen of England for a nickel after walking 50 miles in the rain, and while holding down 26 jobs.
- The effect of this on the UK and its monarchy as a whole is unknown, but he dies himself not long after.
1957:
- Saxton Hale has given up working with his mentor, Charles Darling, in favour of an ambiguous “Her”. Probably Mags, but the “Her” theme points to Admin. Possibly some sort of retcon.
- Saxton Hale and Mags are happily together at this point, and Saxton is very against the idea of taking over Mann Co from his father. He even goes so far as to claim he turned down the job.
- Charles Darling is about to invent the zoo, name possibly inspired by Sun Tzu.
- Not long after this, Saxton becomes the CEO of Mann Co, possibly due to his father suddenly dying. Bilious owned the company for nearly ninety years.
- Saxton and Mags, the anti-capitalist queen, break up, and Mags goes on to marry four men. None of them survive more than a week with her, so she gets a job at Charles Darling’s zoo.
- It is likely the affair Saxton goes on to have with Admin some time before 1962 is something of a rebound.
Early 1960s:
- “Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalised on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost.”
- “By Issue #40, however, the Peacenik movement had gripped the US in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a lifelong feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.”
- Dick van Dyke takes a musket shot to the stomach from Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Unless Soldier made that up.
- Strangely enough, he called Eva “Ava”.
1961:
- “Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase on postage costs for their weapons catalogues.”
- “The first 64-page issue contained four pages of thrilling tales and sixty pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products.”
- “But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. founder Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.”
Actual TF2 (Game and Comics)
Early 1962:
- The war featuring our mercs begins.
- At this time, there are “three tv stations, one phone company and two holding corporations that secretly control every government on the planet”.
- These are, of course, Red and Blu, who are controlled themselves by TFI.
- “Each corporation administers its half of the world with a multi-disciplined army of paper pushers. For any problem lacking an obvious bureaucratic solution, mercenaries like these are contracted to address the situation through a massive application of force”.
- Many, many sets of mercenaries according to comic 7.
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