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If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! ...Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do pal, because he invented it. And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor! Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on Earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one! *sinister laugh* And from that day forward, anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place, it's called a ZOO! ...Unless it's a farm!
~ The Soldier giving a speech to his collection of enemy heads.

The Soldier, also referred to as "Jane Doe" or "Mister Jane Doe", is one of the main protagonists and playable classes of the video game Team Fortress 2. A crazed patriot from Midwest, USA, he is tough, durable, and well-armed, being capable on both offense and defense and is also a great starter class for players so that they could be familiar with Team Fortress 2. Being xenophobic and jingoistic, the Soldier has an extreme hatred of foreigners and hippies.

The Soldier was voiced by the late Rick May, who also voiced Andross in Star Fox 64, with Nolan North giving one brief line in "Expiration Date".

Overview[]

The Soldier is well known for his spectacular rocket jump. In defiance of all common sense and judgment, the Soldier can detonate a rocket at his feet and launch himself skyward at the cost of some health. This ability allows the Soldier to pop up in unexpected places and reach areas off-limits even to the Scout's double jump.

The two grenades on the Soldier's character model cannot be used unless the player finishes the Kamikaze taunt, which can only be used when the Equalizer or the Escape Plan are equipped.

While most if not all of the characters in Team Fortress 2 are mentally unstable, he is one of the two that seem to be completely insane (along with the Pyro). This is demonstrated in his Meet the Team video where he talks to the heads of decapitated BLU mercenaries, as well as to his "war buddies", which are actually cardboard cutouts that he talks to in the TF2 comic Grordbort`s Crash, where he named them Salty Pete, Iron Eye, Pepper Pot Pete, Peter Pepper-Pants, and Salsa Pete.

The Soldier "claims" his name is Mr. "Jane Doe" despite that name being used for unidentified corpses of women, instead of John Doe, the male equivalent. In the Shadow Boxers comic he is shown to believe his entire team consists of only Americans, even though only he, the Engineer, and the Scout are confirmed to be American (Medic is German, Demoman is Scottish, Heavy is Russian, Spy is French, Sniper is Oceanic, and no one knows the Pyro's nationality, though it's theorized that it is of Mexican origin.).

In Grave Matters, a possible "real" name or just another alias "Barrister Joe" and rank are mentioned by the ghost of his boss Redmond Mann. In Meet the Spy and later videos, the Soldier tends to act more idiotic and immature. This may be due to one of the comics revealing he has been drinking contaminated water, instead of the bottled water meant for the team. The Soldier was the basis for many Freak Fortress freaks, such as Painis Cupcake and Rubberfruit.

Personality[]

The Soldier is a patriotic mercenary who strives to fight for his own country and is known to take great pride in his status as an American, even looking down on people from every country that isn’t America, openly insulting the nationality of non-American classes (as his domination quotes contain a number of offensive slurs against the Scottish, the French, the Germans, the Russians, the Australians, and even the Canadians, as he calls the Engineer a "cow-herdin' Canadian" in one such response).

In battle, he is known to yell out insults/threats in a nonsensical way in which the words he speaks are mostly or in complete nonsense. He is strongly in denial as he proclaims himself as a military man, even though he didn't serve in the army (in fact, he was regarded as so mentally unstable for even qualify for national service, being rejected of every branch of the United States Armed Forces), and refused to accept the fact that he is just a normal civilian. Because of this, the Soldier becomes really secretive and kept his true status from anyone, even his own team and enemies. If he is called a civilian, which would thus expose his secret, the Soldier becomes furious and vengeful. As he believes himself to be an actual military man and soldier and is also delusional, he would tell false tales of his time in wars, which never existed as he never joined the army. In additions, he likes to eat from military rations such as cans of surplus Captain Dan's soup, which his BLU counterpart hoards in his apartment.

Aside from being a patriot, the Soldier is also a crazed madman in which he acts or does various actions that are usually seen by others as crazy; he trashed the castle of Merasmus as a way of welcoming him home, he shaved off the hair of a boy named Jack while dressed as Santa Claus, and murdering Tom Jones, which the Soldier is proud of since the singer became Merasmus new roommate, since the wizard had moved and had gained a better life, while the Soldier lived miserably since he lives in a box and was fired from his job by Gray Mann. Despite his instability, the Soldier is strongly supportive of his team and greatly cares for his teammates in which he will help them in dire situations.

Trivia[]

  • The Soldier can be considered to be the antithesis of the Engineer; Engineer is from the southern part of the US, is calm, intelligent, and constructive, he wears a hardhat, and seems to be mostly sane. For the Soldier, he is from the northern part of America, is belligerent, idiotic, and destructive, he wears a metal military helmet, and is generally unstable.
  • While the Soldier has a xenophobic dislike for foreigners such as French and Scottish people, he has been shown to enjoy The Art of War, which is of Chinese origins as the author Sun Tau is Chinese. Additionally, he seems to make exceptions for some of his teammates like the Demoman, Spy, Heavy, Sniper, and Medic, but that only depends on what team the Soldier is aligned with. But in the continuity of the comics (Specifically the Shadow Boxers issue), Solider isn’t aware of his teammates true nationalities, and assumes that they are all American.
  • Each of the Soldier's primary weapons are some form of rocket launchers. His default secondary weapon is a shotgun, though he may also equip a wide variety of useful tools instead, such as an energy weapon pistol or specialized bugles that grant status buffs to his team. His default melee weapon is a shovel, though he has access to several military-grade tools such as pickaxes.
  • The BLU Soldier formed a strong friendship with the RED Demoman. Their employer did not appreciate this arrangement, and tricked the two into becoming enemies again.
  • The "Meet the Scout" video and "Righteous Bison" taunt show that he enjoys juggling explosives, despite the risk.
  • When Soldier screamed "I teleported bread!" in "Expiration Day", his dialogue was briefly provided by Nolan North as Rick May at the time had throat cancer and couldn't properly scream.
  • He is one of the only two mercenaries in TF2 that do not wear any hand protection whatsoever, the other being Demoman. The Scout wears hand wraps, and the other classes wear gloves.
  • Soldier was rejected from every branch of the United States military during World War II, so to get around this, he bought a plane ticket to Poland and went on a "Nazi" killing spree, which quickly ended when he found out that the war had already ended in 1949. He awarded himself with medals that he designed and patented himself.
  • After the Soldier's voice actor Rick May passed away from complications related to COVID-19 in 2020, Valve, the company that made Team Fortress 2, placed numerous statues of the Soldier across twenty-nine maps in tribute, with a plaque on each reading, "Rick May / 1940 - 2020 / That was a hell of a campaign son!". The statues only appear every April 8th, but the one located in Granary is permanent, as the map is where Meet the Soldier took place.
  • Soldier almost always talks in a shout, regardless of who he's talking to or what he's talking about.
  • By default, the Soldier has a crew cut beneath his helmet. He also speaks derisively of long hair in many of his voice lines, sometimes vowing to give his opponents haircuts. Ironically, a handful of his cosmetic items gift him a fuller head of hair.
  • In the comic "Grave Matters," Soldier claimed to be a priest in Guam.
  • Sometimes, especially when he's on a kill streak, he'll say "Kaboom!" or "Pa-pow!". Also, if he has the Tin Soldier costume set on, he goes "Beep beep boop" and occasionally "Robot noises!" while firing a weapon.
  • According to the Soldier, he believes that true men get haircuts, yell, eat ribs, do push-ups, and defend hills. Any person who doesn't do these activities every waking moment is considered not manly (or a specifically offensive term used for gay man).
  • Soldier's favorite foods are Captain Dan's army surplus soup and ribs.
  • In the comics, his signature move would be snapping necks, which are always accompanied by a yell of "HUTTAH!"

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