The BLU Spy's severed head is a legendary lore object and dark comedy joke in Team Fortress 2. It first appears in the Meet the Spy animated short when the RED Soldier kills an infiltrating BLU Spy point-blank with a shotgun. Instead of disappearing, the head is salvaged by the mad RED Medic, who hooks it up to a car battery and a pulsing "Mega Baboon" heart to keep it alive inside his refrigerator. Completely conscious but trapped without a body, the head famously mutters "Kill me," to which the Medic cheerfully replies, "Later." This dark, bizarre prop highlights the Medic's psychopathic nature and stands as one of the community's most beloved memes. Close with his teammates especially BLU Scout (treats him like a son) Now unable to speak well without some slurred words and mistakes here and there.

The RED Medic is portrayed as a gleeful, unhinged mad scientist who possesses a total disregard for standard medical ethics. Operating in a chaotic, dove-filled laboratory, he performs a casual, open-chest heart transplant on a fully conscious Heavy while jokingly revealing that he previously lost his medical license after a patient's skeleton went missing. He dismisses basic anatomy rules, casually sews his pet dove Archimedes inside the Scout's chest cavity, and relies on a crude, glowing machine to accidentally discover the invincibility-granting ÜberCharge. The short highlights him not as a heroic savior, but as a brilliant, morbidly curious sadist who treats battlefield casualties as an exciting playground for his bloody, experimental prototypes. Close with all his teammates especially Heavy.

RED Scout serves as a comedic yet dramatic example of the Medic’s healing powers. The short opens with a heavily bandaged Scout fleeing a barrage of BLU rockets, only to be blown into the air and launched facefirst through the glass window of the Medic's operating theater. After weakly gasping for help, he is later chosen as the test subject for the Medic's newly upgraded, UberCharge-capable Medigun, which instantly repairs his horrific blast wounds and regenerates a missing tooth. Upon sitting up in disbelief at his sudden recovery, a white dove named Archimedes suddenly bursts out of the Scout's chest cavity, revealing that the Medic had accidentally sealed his pet bird, Archimedes, inside the Scout during a previous surgery.

RED Spy is the gentleman assassin, hailing from France with an air of sophisticated, cold-blooded elegance. Dressed in a sharp, pinstriped wine-red suit and a matching balaclava, he relies on deception, stealth, and psychological warfare rather than brute force. He is an enigmatic operative who utilizes high-tech gadgets—like his Disguise Kit and Invisibility Watches—to slip behind enemy lines unnoticed, seamlessly mimicking his foes before eliminating them with a swift backstab from his butterfly knife. Smooth-talking, sarcastic, and deeply arrogant, the RED Spy views his brutal work as an art form, maintaining a calm, professional demeanor while ruthlessly sabotaging enemy equipment with his Sapper.

RED Soldier is an aggressively patriotic American shock trooper who fights in Team Fortress 2 using a rocket launcher for heavy damage and rocket-jumping mobility. Despite his strict military persona, buzzcut, and helmet, he was actually rejected from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, leading him to buy his own ticket to Europe to wage a self-styled, one-man war against German civilians until 1949. He is depicted as fiercely loyal to the RED team, highly aggressive, and clinically insane, frequently holding imaginary tribunals with severed heads and strictly enforcing his own delusional version of military discipline.

RED Demoman is the defensive, one-eyed explosive expert from Scotland in Valve's Team Fortress 2 universe. Characterised by his fierce Scottish accent, love for cheap whiskey, and a missing left eye due to the haunted book Bombronomicon, he specializes in area denial using his Grenade Launcher and Stickybomb Launcher. In the animated short Meet the Medic, he serves as a comedic visual indicator of the RED team's desperate situation, appearing early in the video severely battered, wearing a massive head cast and an arm cast, and frantically rolling for his life in a manual wheelchair to escape an onslaught of BLU rockets.

RED Sniper is the stoic, long-range support mercenary in Team Fortress 2. Voiced by John Patrick Lowrie, he is a practical, self-contained assassin who lives by the code: "Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet." On the battlefield, his primary role is to eliminate high-value targets like Medics and Heavies from a distance using his bolt-action rifle, which deals guaranteed critical damage on headshots and charges up power the longer he stays scoped.

RED Engineer is a soft-spoken, amiable Texan who uses his eleven PhDs to build vital defensive machinery, he locks down territory using automated Sentry Guns, heals teammates with Dispensers, and maintains map pressure via Teleporters. Armed with his trusty wrench, a shotgun, and a pistol, the Engineer acts as a brilliant blue-collar technocrat who prioritises mechanical problem-solving and hard work over brute force.