LORE - Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine Lore in a Minute!

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Written by Phil

Voiced by Dodger

Edited by Schroeder

Art by D.J. "Metaly" Ross

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LORE - Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine Lore in a Minute!

We begin in 1850 when a wealthy Englishman, Zepheniah Mann, owner of Mann & Sons Co., is convinced by his idiot twin sons - Redmond and Blutarch - to purchase land in the United States to expand their company. Zepheniah Mann discovers that the gravel pits and dust bowls he purchased were useless and on top of that, he contracted various illnesses traveling to the United States. With his last will, which he wrote on his skin, he left his sons equal halves of his land, ensuring that they would fight over it for the rest of their lives.

To capture his brother's half, Blutarch hired 9 mercenaries but unbeknownst to him, Redmond had ALSO contracted exactly 9 mercenaries to do exactly the same thing. And for the next 40 years, they would engage in an endless war because neither brother was bright enough to, perhaps, hire more mercenaries. Blutarch, nearing death from old age, contracts expert craftsman Radigan Conagher to build a machine that would extend his life. However, Radigan was also convinced to build the same machine for Redmond by a stranger offering Australium, a rare and powerful element only found in Australia that turned a nation of savages into hyper-intelligent beings.

After fighting for decades, Redmond and Blutarch realize that they have no sons to carry on their family legacy. They put aside their differences and resolve to build a machine to get one of them pregnant, but not before Gray Mann reveals himself to be their long-lost brother, then murders them. Abducted as an infant and raised by eagles, Gray returns with a legion of deadly robots that run on piles of money and launches an all-out assault on Mann Co. and its CEO, Saxton Hale.

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[nicklafontaine]

So the robots run on money? That explains a lot.

[leonderprofie]

Please, can you talk a little faster?

[TheCameraBro]

Grey killed the brothers because he was trying to convince them to invest in oil instead of gravel, but they were too idiotic to see his point of view, and thought gravel was valuable.

[EnderSayninMC]

The game takes place in the 1960's. Like..the cold war,
And they're in the *COAL* war. 
*explodes*

[dc]

this is extremely similar to their regular TF2 

[ZeeCobra]

Did you know: In the comic Shadow Boxers, we are aware that Soldier has infiltrated GreyMann's base and he is known of a fact where the robots will attack. He built the Decoy base, explaining all the weird: "Mann Co Headquarters here!" Signs outside of the Decoy map.

[doubliestchin]

You don't talk about the part where RED team and BLU team have to do the Payload Race thing with Redmond's and Blutarch's bodies where RED team ends up winning and BLU team gets stuck in Hell. Then RED team has to dell with Graymann's robots! That's why there's no BLU team in MvM!

[powerist]

Turned out that the gravel was actually mistaken for coal, which further show their idiocracy (and not knowing about diesel, let alone diesel train).

[RandomG]

if u want to know full lore go read tf2 comics on internet

[dezzy]

-10/10 star_ or jerma didn't voice this...

[bryceanderson]

You need to add a little more info such as the following ;
Blutarch and Redmond try to send each other to hell.
Saxton Hale looses to a Olivia Mann on a fist fight
Grey Mann takes over Mann
Administrator goes missing and tells Miss Pauling to assemble the mercs
Grey Mann invents more bots

[GentleWruzzPuppet]

Whoa what i did not know this awesome!

[oonoon]

I just watched every single one of these Lore videos in the Lore In A Minute playlist. I have never learned so much useless information in the span of about an hour. And I enjoyed every single minute of it.

[legots]

He wasn't raised by eagles, he was taken by the EAGLE, aka he was taken to America and was raised and lived there.

[nomad]

Nowadays every match is man vs machine

[phantom]

Why weren't the Robots colored grey then? and then we could have been playing as blu and red instead of red vs blu robots

[jamisunne]

I just watched this right after i was done playing mvm_manhattan.

[holliday]

I thought the red guy and blu guy died of old age, didn't know that

[cool]

Do they actually run on money? Or is it just humour for this video????

[PitZagufull]

Guys. Stop it with these Clues. Half Life 3 is ALREADY confirmed, we just don't know when it's coming out. (Including Left 4 Dead 3)