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"Meet the Soldier" Video


"Meet the Soldier" Video Transcript

[Cut to a BLU Pyro firing a blast of flame from his Flame thrower. He thrusts his weapon in the air and laughs triumphantly as a rocket heads towards him from off screen].

Pyro: [Rocket hits Pyro, who is gibbed.] "Ow!"

[Cut to Demoman taking a drink, also getting blown up by a crit rocket from off screen.]

[Cut to Heavy performing his fists taunt.]

Heavy: "Pow!" [Explodes]

["Meet the Soldier" text appears.]

[Cut to the soldier, drilling what appears to be a line of recruits.]

Soldier: "If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor."

[The Art of War plays]

[Cut to the Soldier holding his Shovel and screaming.]

[The Soldier then charges the final capture point in Granary with his Shotgun and kills a Demoman, who fires at him but misses.]

RED Heavy: "To the left!"

Soldier: "Maggots!"

[The Soldier turns to the left and fires a rocket at a Medic, gibbing him.]

RED Sniper: "Right up! Right up!"

RED Heavy: "Go, go, go!"

[The Soldier, Sniper and Heavy charge into battle together, as explosions occur all around them.]

[Cut back to the Soldier's drill.]

Soldier: "Then, he used his fight money...

[The Soldier unhooks two grenades from his belt, one in each hand.]

Soldier: ...to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat...

[The Soldier demonstrates by using the grenades, moving them in a walking motion.]

Soldier: ...and then he beat the crap out of every single one."

[The Soldier bangs the two grenades together repeatedly.]

[Cut back to battle scene.]

RED Scout: (Behind cover) "Sentry up there!"

[The Soldier runs up to the Sentry gun and rocket jumps onto a pipe, both destroying the Sentry and killing the Engineer in the process.]

[A BLU Heavy and Pyro are holding the final capture point. The Heavy is laughing gleefully. The Soldier jumps downward, firing a rocket that lands just before he does. The explosion kills both the Heavy and Pyro. A Spy uncloaks and attempts to backstab the Soldier, but the Soldier pulls out his shovel, swiftly knocking out the spy with it.]

[Freeze frame]

[Cut back to the Soldiers drill]

Soldier: [Laughs to himself] "And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a 'zoo'!"

[Crickets chirp as the 'recruits' are revealed to be the Gibbed heads of BLU team members perched on a gate, all wearing BLU Soldier helmets. The Medic's head falls off the gate.]

[Team Fortress 2 ending flourish music plays.]

Soldier: [To the Medic's head] "Unless it's a farm!"

Notes

  • When the Heavy is gibbed near the beginning of the movie, an unusual gib falls in front of the camera. Rather than the normal Heavy head gib, it's the head that will later be shown on the fence (with tongue sticking out and a bone coming out of the neck).
  • This video was the first to feature both intro text and the updated group picture at the end.
  • When the "Meet the Soldier" title card appears, there is a the copyright is apparently "LOLOLOL". This trend continues in all of the "Meet the Class" videos with the title card.
  • Sun Tzu was an honorific title bestowed upon Sūn Wǔ (c. 544 BC – 496 BC), the author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.[1]
  • The The Art of War track first played in this video, after which it was patched into the game as menu music by Valve.
  • In the battle sequence, a Sniper is shown charging into battle on the front lines. Rather unusual.
  • The Soldier removes and interacts with his grenades. In game, they are only removed during the shotgun taunt and can not be used, just as with the Pyro. The Heavy is similarly unable to use the ammo belts on his chest to supply his minigun or Natascha.
  • The Red Team seem to be charging back to their own capture point. Also unusual.
  • Ironic Sign: A 'No Smoking' sign is visible in the background when the Soldier whacks the Spy with his shovel.
  • The line-up of heads shown at the end of the video in order of left to right is Engineer, Pyro, Heavy, Spy, Medic, Demoman, Sniper, Soldier (with the Scout being unaccounted for).
  • The video briefly shows the Soldier's eyes. In-game,they are rarley seen in deathcam and even more rarely when he fires a rocket.
  • There's some text on the container the Soldier walks in front of. It appears to say 'Flesh Giblets'.


  • Body Count: 9
  • The Meet the Soldier Video was released 22th August 2007. Current language versions include:
    • English
    • French
    • German
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