| Sniper | |
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Series |
Team Fortress |
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Debut |
Team Fortress Classic (1999) |
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Console of origin |
PC |
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Species |
Human |
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Gender |
Male |
The Sniper is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise. As his name would suggest, the Sniper is more than happy to relieve your skull of the duty of holding your brains.
Description[]
The Sniper is a character class in the Team Fortress franchise and is considered one of three support classes (the other two being Spy and Medic). As his name would suggest, the Sniper uses a Sniper Rifle as his primary weapon and is best used for picking off characters from a long range. The Sniper Rifle "charges up" while the player is looking through the scope, and deals more damage as the charge increases. The Sniper Rifle only critical hits when it gets a headshot (critical hits cause 3x normal damage). A fully charged headshot will kill any non-ubered enemy. The Sniper is also equipped with a Submachine Gun and a Kukri survival knife to deal with enemies who are too close to be effectively targeted by the Sniper Rifle.
Sniper's parents are based physically on Eustace and Muriel Baggs from Courage The Cowardly Dog, after a long-running joke in the fandom. His mother seems to be more understanding of his job than his father is. The three of them appear to be the only ones in Australia without mustaches, perhaps due to lack of exposure to Australium. Sniper's real name is Mr. Mundy, and he really seemed to dislike The Director trying to portray him as a victim.
History[]
In his former life as a tracker of dangerous game in the unforgiving Austrailian outback, the Sniper would spend months by himself. Prolonged isolation taught him a valuable lesson: You don't have to rely on other people if you never miss. The Sniper's father does not like his job and calls him "a crazed gunman" (the Sniper's counter argument is that he is an "assassin" and that "ones a job and the other is mental sickness"