So Gray Mann was apparently at the reading of his old man's will.
Which makes me wonder why Redmond and Blutarch have no idea who he is when he delightfully stabs everything.
Other than being old twits.
[QUOTE=Exparagus;37207448]It is a company, but it's highly unlikely Gray Mann runs it because Spytech is a subsidiary of Mann Co.[/QUOTE]
And what's to stop Gray from taking over the entire company besides Saxton Hale?
Also, I like how nobody in this thread has yet realized two important things:
1. TF2 is in an alternate timeline or universe, because apparently the presence of a utopian Australium-fueled Australian society wasn't enough to clue people in on this. It is not set in the 1960s. It is set in modern times, but society hasn't advanced as far as it has in our world/timeline because of Australia.
2. Neither Redmont nor Blutarch had a whole lot to do with running BLU or RED. The Administrator does that. If Gray wants to take over Mannco, he'll need to get rid of her and Saxton first - no easy feat, considering the latter is guarded by two teams of mercenaries(new gamemode, anyone?) and the second nearly drove Gorillas to extinction singlehandedly. By the way, is it just me, or does Gray look like an older version of Darling, Hale's nemesis?
But what bothers me the most is... now that the Mann brothers are dead...
Is gonna be Gray the one sitting on the chair from Mann Manor instead of Redmond... or was it Gray all along? :O
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37207509]And what's to stop Gray from taking over the entire company besides Saxton Hale?
Also, I like how nobody in this thread has yet realized two important things:
1. TF2 is in an alternate timeline or universe, because apparently the presence of a utopian Australium-fueled Australian society wasn't enough to clue people in on this. It is not set in the 1960s. It is set in modern times, but society hasn't advanced as far as it has in our world/timeline because of Australia.
2. Neither Redmont nor Blutarch had a whole lot to do with running BLU or RED. The Administrator does that. If Gray wants to take over Mannco, he'll need to get rid of her and Saxton first - no easy feat, considering the latter is guarded by two teams of mercenaries(new gamemode, anyone?) and the second nearly drove Gorillas to extinction singlehandedly. By the way, is it just me, or does Gray look like an older version of Darling, Hale's nemesis?[/QUOTE]
This...
This sounds right.
[QUOTE=RPG;37207521]But what bothers me the most is... now that the Mann brothers are dead...
Is gonna be Gray the one sitting on the chair from Mann Manor instead of Redmond... or was it Gray all along? :O[/QUOTE]
I have 3 theories
1.) The Brothers will respawn or be rebuilt somehow
2.) Valve won't update the map either way
3.) Valve makes up canon as they go along
[QUOTE=Daidarapochi;37207502]So Gray Mann was apparently at the reading of his old man's will.
Which makes me wonder why Redmond and Blutarch have no idea who he is when he delightfully stabs everything.
Other than being old twits.[/QUOTE]
You answered your own question!
With them being 146 and all, they're kinda forgetful
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37207509]And what's to stop Gray from taking over the entire company besides Saxton Hale?
Also, I like how nobody in this thread has yet realized two important things:
1. TF2 is in an alternate timeline or universe, because apparently the presence of a utopian Australium-fueled Australian society wasn't enough to clue people in on this. It is not set in the 1960s. It is set in modern times, but society hasn't advanced as far as it has in our world/timeline because of Australia.
2. Neither Redmont nor Blutarch had a whole lot to do with running BLU or RED. The Administrator does that. If Gray wants to take over Mannco, he'll need to get rid of her and Saxton first - no easy feat, considering the latter is guarded by two teams of mercenaries(new gamemode, anyone?) and the second nearly drove Gorillas to extinction singlehandedly. By the way, is it just me, or does Gray look like an older version of Darling, Hale's nemesis?[/QUOTE]
But it's unlikely that he ran it to begin with. I never said he couldn't take over.
And TF2 is set in the late 60s, two calendars in some spawns say 1968. Yes it is an alternate timeline, but the date is the late 60s.
[QUOTE=Gabe's Cousin;37207301]Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Medic, Sniper and Spy never met the Mann family.
Dell (the Engineer) and Radigan (his grandfather) did.
The Engineer is the only character who has a relation with the story behind the game.
Gray wanted to take the control of the badlands, just like Blutarch and Redmond did, but he couldn't because an eagle took him away when he was a newborn. He now decided to hire Dell to build his own team: the TBR (ToBoR) or GREY team.
Notice also that Gray has a sort of exoskeleton, visible in the Blood Brothers comic, that has a yellow liquid.
Now think about this:
The yellow substance is liquid Australium. He took the coal (wich is mentioned in the comics) from Foundry and cooked the Australium in Dustbowl. Thus explains the map changes regarding the chimneys in maps such as Dustbowl.
References in Meet the Medic:
"When ze patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and ze doctor was never heard from again!" Could the Medic have been referring to Gray Mann all along?
Let's look at the clues: First of all, at the end of Meet the Medic, we see a "please take a ticket" dispenser which is on ticket number 11, suggesting 10 tickets were taken beforehand. Assuming the Medic took one for himself for his own heart transplant (standard procedure of course), one ticket must have been taken before he and the other eight classes became über-able. And what do we see clipped to Gray's Revenge list? A ticket. But how would Gray survive? By using his intelligence to build a robotic skeleton, which could possibly double as the third life-extending machine.
So basically, Gray possibly went to see Medic at some point in his life (maybe after he left the eagle's nest and "crawled back to civilization"), only to have his skeleton taken for some purpose or another, meaning he (or his machines) had to construct a replacement skeleton, after which he wrote his "Revenge Alamo'd" list.
Meet the Medic source: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/y4bcp/mvm_speculation_the_medic_owes_gray_a_skeleton/[/url][/QUOTE]
Okay.
You win. You win forever.
i think the "spytech gone bankrupt" thing is just a trick to fool mannco into thinking that their competitor is a threat no more, leaving room for a surprise attack
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37207509]
It is not set in the 1960s. It is set in modern times, but society hasn't advanced as far as it has in our world/timeline because of Australia.
[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;RE9ppUnuNpw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE9ppUnuNpw[/video]
This woes not to criticize Mr. Strongbad here.
More of it blowing my fucking mind
[QUOTE=Karmal Khan;37206952][t]http://i.imgur.com/4qIBk.jpg[/t]
~Possibilities~[/QUOTE]
2 + 24 + 20 + 12 = HALF LIFE 3 IN BINARY CODE
DON'T FUCK WITH ME MY DAD'S GRANDMOTHER'S BEST FRIEND BABYSAT GABE NEWELL AS AN INFANT
[QUOTE=Exparagus;37207553]But it's unlikely that he ran it to begin with. I never said he couldn't take over.
And TF2 is set in the late 60s, two calendars in some spawns say 1968. Yes it is an alternate timeline, but the date is the late 60s.[/QUOTE]
Which, again, is 'modern times' in the TF2-iverse, because it's an alternate timeline/universe.
The comic starts off saying "Some time in the future..."
What does that mean?
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;37207439]Is Blood Brothers set in our time, or like 10 years later?[/QUOTE]
Going off a few things in the comic, it's probably the middle of the 1970's. TF2 supposedly takes place in 1968.
[QUOTE=butters757;37207589]Going off a few things in the comic, it's probably the middle of the 1970's. TF2 supposedly takes place in 1968.[/QUOTE]
what if it turned out RED and BLU are really fucking lazy and just forgot to replace the calenders
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;37207580]The comic starts off saying "Some time in the future..."
What does that mean?[/QUOTE]
Not the present, nor the past.
So if Redmond's going to get killed off...
Whose going to be the guy in the RED spawn room at Mann Manor in the future?
[QUOTE=Strongbad;37207579]Which, again, is 'modern times' in the TF2-iverse, because it's an alternate timeline/universe.[/QUOTE]
Yes, modern times in the TF2-niverse is still 1968 for us. I'm not really sure what you're getting at. The comic takes place in the future from the "modern" TF2-niverse (some time after 1968). Is that what you mean?
[QUOTE=Sardonus;37207611]what if it turned out RED and BLU are really fucking lazy and just forgot to replace the calenders[/QUOTE]
That would mean the Mann. twins would be over 200.
[QUOTE=Schmoes;37207303]I think all of the major players in this thread have fallen asleep.
[sp]At their desks[/sp][/QUOTE]
I'm here, anyone else?
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37207643]I'm here, anyone else?[/QUOTE]
How long have you been awake?
[QUOTE=BanthaFodder;37207332]This is it gentlemen, I'm making the call.
We are officially at [b]Tonight's The Night Status[/b] for the next week.
[IMG]http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/BanthaFodder95/waitingforaTF2updatebefore.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20961143/Selfmade/Speculation.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;37207627]So if Redmond's going to get killed off...
Whose going to be the guy in the RED spawn room at Mann Manor in the future?[/QUOTE]
A.) Redmond might not be dead, the classes keep respawning. Also, vita-chambers
B.) Even if he is dead, Valve probably won't ever change it so don't get your hopes up
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;37207627]So if Redmond's going to get killed off...
Whose going to be the guy in the RED spawn room at Mann Manor in the future?[/QUOTE]
If you noclip to see what's on the other side of the chair, you find that there's only a hand holding a cane. It has no body.
OooooOOOOOooooooOOOooo, spooky
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;37207627]So if Redmond's going to get killed off...
Whose going to be the guy in the RED spawn room at Mann Manor in the future?[/QUOTE]
Well, if you use noclip, it's really just a hat on top of a chair...
so I guess that's canon now?
V:v:V
[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;37207627]So if Redmond's going to get killed off...
Whose going to be the guy in the RED spawn room at Mann Manor in the future?[/QUOTE]
*sometime in the future*
Mann manor was 2 years ago
Ok, before I go to sleep.
[IMG]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/1d/Noticeboard_in_BLU_Secret_Room.jpg[/IMG]
- Spytech goes bankrupt thanks to Mann Co. taking over the market.
- Gray, Spytech's supposed owner, checks the files of the sales in order to see who are directed to those sales of Mann Co. (it is SPYtech after all, spying and all that shit...) , turns out to be the Administrator, who gives the weapons to the mercenaries in order to blow each other up, mercenaries "owned" by Redmond and Blutarch.
- Gray sends the truce letter in order for them to stop fighting so that Gray can associate with them in order to get their fortune.
- Gray's plans change as he notes of the Pregnancy plan on a man, and proceeds to kill them (or maybe it was just to make the truce in order to just catch them up weak and kill them right away and take their fortune and manpower right away to go after Mann Co., I go more for latter one, actually)
???
[QUOTE=butters757;37207589]Going off a few things in the comic, it's probably the middle of the 1970's. TF2 supposedly takes place in 1968.[/QUOTE]
Blood Brothers is set in 1972 because Redmond, Blutarch and Gray are born in 1822 and in the comic they say they are 150 years old.
1822+150 = 1972
[QUOTE=RPG;37207684]Ok, before I go to sleep.
[IMG]http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/1d/Noticeboard_in_BLU_Secret_Room.jpg[/IMG]
- Spytech goes bankrupt thanks to Mann Co. taking over the market.
- Gray, Spytech's supposed owner, checks the files of the sales in order to see who are directed to those sales of Mann Co. (it is SPYtech after all, spying and all that shit...) , turns out to be the Administrator, who gives the weapons to the mercenaries in order to blow each other up, mercenaries "owned" by Redmond and Blutarch.
- Gray sends the truce letter in order for them to stop fighting so that Gray can associate with them in order to get their fortune.
- Gray's plans change as he notes of the Pregnancy plan on a man, and proceeds to kill them.
???[/QUOTE]
Interesting theory.
Also, I like the Soldier set reference on the board.
[QUOTE=Schmoes;37207651]How long have you been awake?[/QUOTE]
I fell asleep then got up at 3:30 CDT
[editline]12th August 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=RPG;37207684]
- Gray's plans change as he notes of the Pregnancy plan on a man, and proceeds to kill them.
[/QUOTE]
Could the Soldier be the one that is pregnant because he spoke robot as early as a pregnancy ago?
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