Meet the Medic - Outtake - Don't You Die on Me!

Outtake 1 of 4.

Our first idea had Medic returning to the TF2 team after a long vacation. During his absence, of course, the mercs have been getting slaughtered but can't figure out why.

Showing the Medic returning from his time off via train gave us the opportunity to have some fun with the opening, as you can see from this animated storyboard.

For a long time, we'd wanted to play around with the cornball "Don't you die on me!" scene you tend to see in a lot of super-serious movies. This scene would have eventually had full string accompaniment, playing out as melodramatically as possible, until getting pantsed by the Medic's speeding locomotive in a not-so-super-serious nod to TF2's more tongue-in-cheek approach to death.

Why It Got Cut: The Medic's vacation, and the mercs' confusion with their subsequent poor performance, was taking a long time to set up in order to deliver a simple premise: The TF2 team needs the Medic to win. Since the big battle finale was shaping into a real keeper with successive iterations, and expressed pretty much the same message, the whole Medic vacation storyline was starting to feel redundant.

So we killed it. But that now meant there wasn't any connective tissue for the train in the opening. The scene, while funny, didn't have anything to do with everything that came after it.

[m.bukhori]

"I will send my condolences to your kangaroo wife"

[MagicAssasin]

Holy crap, I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time.

Valve, never lose your dark humor, please. The world needs more of it.

[notamuffin]

It really bothers me how the blood in the actual TF2 game looks like triangular splodges of strawberry juice, whereas in the SFM TF2 videos, they look like cartoonish blood splatters, which look so much better. 

[Futonpotatos]

20 Seconds later they are back at spawn

[JustLunarr]

They wanted a medic and they got one alright!

[Bosco]

Meet the team: RED always wins

Actual game: BLU Kicks ass

[nabbitsyoutube]

Yeah, they've been shipped...




...For a few miles for what's left of them, stuck on the wheels.

[Jugofmilkj]

Where girls cried: Titanic

Where boys cried: Shepherd’s betrayal

Where men cried:

[taxiderby]

This scene will always be funny to me, and while I'm sad to see it cut, I'm relieved to know that it was cut because it needed to be and not some dumb reason.

[Cubicstudios]

"Sniper thinking for himself: I like trains!"

[luteus]

As the Sniper's eyes slowly closed, he was able to choke out three final words:
"I... like...

[JustReelo]

I wonder who was going to play chess with Medic....

[Amarenamann]

A foolish man complains about his torn pocket. A wise man uses it to scratch his nuts.

[alvinyu]

*splat*
Medic: *Looks around*
Thinks: "Wah- Wai- Wait. What's happening?"
*continues work*

[microwave]

On one hand this is very sad, seeing the situation and how Soldier had to see two of his teammates die.
On the other hand, this is perfect comedy.

[JillofTrades]

"Someone called?...Hmph...."

[crocidy]

i would love to see this as a real finished sfm project

[SealShpeeDaSweggy]

10 ways to hold your buddy's guts in "The buddy who wouldn't die"

[SpearWieldingOctopus]

"Sounded like we hit a soldier comforting a sniper at his moment of death, sir"

[PhantomDZ]

If you checked the updated competitive matchmaking background, 0:09 is used inside the background with additional blood.