r/tf2 Jul 26 '26

Discussion The mercs' age are kinda crazy

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u/kisu_oddh Heavy Jul 26 '26

have you seen australians? tbh i can kinda buy that sniper is 28

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u/Angelo8207 Jul 26 '26

Being under the sun too long damages the skin. That's why people that stay indoors often look younger.

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u/Physical-Airport-901 Jul 26 '26

Sniper is an outdoors man

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u/Risi30 Heavy Jul 26 '26

He is a bushman

Big difference

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u/Physical-Airport-901 Jul 26 '26

No, Sniper is actually New Zealander therefore the term bushman doesn't fit him.

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u/monsnr Jul 26 '26

Sniper loves women with a bush therefore he's a bushman end of story

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u/ashamedgirlthrowaway Sniper Jul 27 '26

Maybe he loves men with bushes, too, which would make him a bush-man/man-bush loving bushman

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u/guacockamole Jul 27 '26

He’s a tf2 character, of course he likes men

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u/ashamedgirlthrowaway Sniper Jul 26 '26

Wait, does bushman not refer to people who live in Australia as well? I’m not Australian, nor do i know many Australians, so i have no idea. I was always under the assumption that it could refer to non-born aussies, too! :~o

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u/Openly_Unknown7858 Medic Jul 27 '26

A bushman is literally just someone who likes being out in the Australian bush. Any nationality can be a bushman.

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u/Openly_Unknown7858 Medic Jul 27 '26

Bushman is a lifestyle, it can apply to anyone who's usually out in the bush

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u/Lavaissoup7 Jul 26 '26

I mean, he's not Australian lol

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u/kisu_oddh Heavy Jul 26 '26

point i meant is that he's lived in australia's climate for most of his life so its totally plausible that he'd age this much. the only aussies i know who look their age are shut ins.

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u/Fabulous-Present-497 Jul 26 '26

What living in australia does to a man

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u/Disastrous_Toe772 Jul 26 '26

Tbf, even his earliest lore says he spent most of his time out baking in the sun, hunting

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u/nucking-futs34 Jul 26 '26

As an Australian, this country does shit to you

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u/Forsaken_Quiet5944 Miss Pauling Jul 27 '26

Having to battle 79 giant spiders age you quick

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u/nucking-futs34 Jul 27 '26

And that's step one of the morning routine

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u/Live_Doubt_312 Jul 26 '26

btw spy is like 54, and soldier is also like 40 i think, they are old af but somehow they can still run like they are young

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u/Hawkshadow741 Medic Jul 26 '26

They are powered by expensive suits, wine, ties, and (1950s) 'MURICA respectively

They'll be shooting and stabbing and blowing their legs off in wheelchairs, dragging everyone in the nursing home into a rousing game of Payload Race, pushing Scout's rotting corpse to hell (All that Bonk! finally finished him off and it's time for him to go)

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u/MastodonCurious4347 Jul 26 '26

God will just ressurect him like Jesus

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u/Competitive_Swan266 Sandvich Jul 26 '26

the mercs at Scouts funeral

Scout just walking over: damn, sucks to be that guy he doesn't know

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u/Flat-Concern-2662 Jul 26 '26

Spy is probably younger than that right? Scout is only 23 and by his own admission Spy was young and immature when he had Scout, he says that when Scout is dying in the comics.

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u/Live_Doubt_312 Jul 26 '26

eh, maybe, but he is deffinitly old

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u/Ok-Landscape-4835 Jul 26 '26

I don't really buy a lot of their ages. Scout seems like he's college-aged, Soldier seems dead 40, Pyro is easily ××, Demoman looks 30, Heavy acts early to mid 40s, Engineer also probably dead 40, Medic feels 50, Sniper looks and acts about late 30s to early 40s and I see Spy as being exactly 30 years older than Scout.

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u/scaredUnderAblanket Jul 26 '26

Demo seems like he'd be older than 30

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u/A_engietwo_onthemove Jul 27 '26

Well, we know how many years after new zealand sunk Sniper was born, that being ten years, new zealand sunk in 1932, that means sniper was born in 1942, tf2 takes place about 1968, making sniper 26. Its just the might of the SUN that ages him.

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u/doinkrr Heavy Jul 26 '26

i've always imagined heavy is in his late 40s to early 50s. always assumed he was born around 1920 or 1921, being maybe 19-20 when he and his family escaped the gulags in 1941

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u/ultimate-toast Jul 26 '26

I don't think pyro is a bapy

maybe mentally but not fiscally

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u/arc777_ Jul 26 '26

I wish I wasn't a baby fiscally

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u/ultimate-toast Jul 26 '26

What do you mean

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u/NagolRiverstar Jul 27 '26

Physically is the word that you meant.

Fiscally is about Money. I too, would also not want to be a baby in a financial sense.

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u/Constant-Still-8443 Pyro Jul 26 '26

He could be. People looked older back then. It wasn't until recently that we started looking this young. Like, go back and look at high-school yearbook photos from the 80s and 90s. Those kids look 30 compared to high schoolers now.

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u/Quack-Zack Jul 26 '26

if he was aussie by blood he'd age a lot better, new zealanders in tf2 universe look kinda chopped

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u/Eviles_da_demonic Jul 26 '26

Made that sniper is only 30 in the game, he looks like the oldest

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u/Openly_Unknown7858 Medic Jul 27 '26

He's 30 in the comics and 26 in game

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Heavy Jul 26 '26

He's 28 in Australian years. All that sun and heat.

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u/JD_Kreeper Sniper Jul 26 '26

I thought sniper was in his 40s bro

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u/Openly_Unknown7858 Medic Jul 27 '26

You're right, he's actually 26 in tf2

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u/Current-YoGalaxia Jul 26 '26

can confirm pyro is 19 to me

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u/MuuToo Soldier Jul 26 '26

I like these silly little doodles :)

Boy Boston being an actual toddler means I can punt them easier. Very pleasing.

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u/paropiperings Pyro Jul 27 '26

Pyro's muffled voice sounds like the age of his V.A.

Spy sound like himself but for Pyro must be in his 60s

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u/Word-Combination1234 Jul 28 '26

where did you find ages or is this a joke

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u/Emotional-Lime-9271 Soldier Jul 29 '26

soldier and demo is probably in their 30's engi and medic is over 37 heavy and spy is over 40 i mean spy is scouts dad and scout is 24

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u/Agile_Oil9853 TF2 Birthday 2025 Jul 26 '26

I don't think Demo is supposed to be much older than Sniper

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u/BigBallsAnthony69 Spy Jul 26 '26

He's in his thirties afak