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Due to the comedic style of Team Fortress 2 and [[Valve]]'s humor, the game includes '''references''', usually in a humorous fashion. There are many different types, from games to movies, even jokes that have developed within the game and its community have been included. Below are references specific to the [[Heavy]] class.
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Due to the comedic style of Team Fortress 2 and [[Valve]]'s humor, the game includes '''references''', usually in a humorous fashion. There are many sources, including games, movies, and music; even jokes that have developed within the game and its community have been included. Below are references specific to the [[Heavy]] class.
 
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==Books and Comics==
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==Achievements==
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Borscht Belt}}
  
===Crime and Punishment===
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{{W|Borscht Belt}} is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were a popular holiday spot for New York Jews. The term Borscht Belt can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
  
''Achievement: Crime and Punishment''
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{{W|Borscht}} is a vegetable soup that can be found in many Eastern European countries, including Russia.
  
{{W|Crime and Punishment}} (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period.
 
  
Crime and Punishment is also the name of a documentary TV series, but considering the former it is unlikely that the Achievement references this.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Class Struggle}}
  
==Games==
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Communist Mani-Fisto}}
  
===Sinistar===
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{{W|Communist manifesto|Manifesto of the Communist Party}}, often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists {{W|Karl Marx}} and {{W|Friedrich Engels}}, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a working-class revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.
{{Youtube|S-XEINagmaU|width=300}}
 
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Run cowards!|sound=Heavy battlecry02.wav}}
 
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|I live!|sound=Heavy battlecry06.wav}}
 
  
These quotes come from the 1982 arcade game Sinistar, in which a gigantic antagonist taunts the player with said phrases.
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Crime and Punishment}}
  
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{{W|Crime and Punishment}} is a novel by Russian author {{W|Fyodor Dostoevsky}} that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period.
  
===Portal===
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Crime and Punishment is also the name of a documentary TV series, but considering the former it is unlikely that the Achievement references this.
  
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Moist and delicious! Hehaha!|sound=Heavy sandwichtaunt02.wav}}
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Crock Block}}
  
<div>{{youtube|3iTmJy1u1B4|align=right|width=300}}</div>
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Division of Labor}}
  
''(2:13)'' This is a reference to a line from the ending song in Portal, 'Still Alive' (It's so delicious and moist).
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Don't Touch Sandvich}}
  
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===Punch-Out!! (NES Version)===
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Factory Worker}}
  
<div>{{youtube |OWFkMGwgtqM|align=right|width=300}}</div>
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Five Second Plan}}
  
''(0:09)'' The Heavy's [[K.G.B.]] taunt animation is a homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from the NES version of {{W|Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!|Punch Out!!}}
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The {{W|Five-Year Plan (USSR)|Five-Year Plans}} for the National Economy of the USSR were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union.
  
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Gorky Parked}}
  
===Duke Nukem===
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{{W|Gorky Park (Moscow)|Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure}} is an amusement park in Moscow, named after {{W|Maxim Gorky}}, a Soviet author, founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
  
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|My fist! They are made of STEEL!|sound=Heavy specialweapon01.wav}}
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Gorky Park is also a the name of a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows an investigator who is assigned a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park.It was adapted into a well-received film in 1983.
  
<div>{{youtube |qjPQYdTYmKM||width=300}}</div>
 
  
The Heavy's [[Fists of Steel]] item and its (unused) response when he obtains them refer to Duke Nukem's quote
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Heavy Industry}}
"I've got balls of steel"
 
  
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Icing on the Cake}}
  
==History and Politics==
 
  
===Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin===
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Iron Kurtain}}
  
''Achievement: Pushkin the Kart''
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The term "{{W|Iron Curtain}}" was coined by {{W|Winston Churchill}} and refers to the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states developed their own international economic and military alliances, COMECON with the Warsaw Pact on the east side with the USSR as most important member, and the NATO and the European Community on the west side, with the United States.
  
{{W|Pushkin|Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin}} (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪˈrgʲevʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn],(June 6 [O.S. May 26] 1799–February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1837) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Kollectivization}}
  
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Collectivization was a policy of {{W|Stalin|Joseph Stalin}} in the {{W|USSR|Soviet Union}} whose goal was to gather individual land and labor into collective farms. This can be seen as an implementation of a {{W|Command Economy}} during the rapid {{W|Industrialization in the USSR#Industrialization in practice|Industrialization of the USSR}} in the late 1920s to 1940s.
  
===Collectivization===
 
  
''Achievement: Kollectivization''
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Konspicuous Konsumption}}
  
Collectivization was a policy of {{W|Stalin|Joseph Stalin}} in the {{W|USSR|Soviet Union}} whose goal was to gather individual land and labor into collective farms. This can be seen as an implementation of a {{W|Command Economy}}, also known as Planned or Directed economy, during the rapid {{W|Industrialization in the USSR#Industrialization in practice|Industrialization of the USSR}} in the late 1920s to 1940s.{{W|Collectivization in the USSR|(Wikipedia)}}
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Krazy Ivan}}
  
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{{w|Crazy Ivan}} is a Naval term for a submarine maneuver, characterized by any number of sudden and sharp turns, used by submarine crews to "look behind" their boat using sonar.
  
===Dialectical Materialism===
 
  
''Achievement: [[Spy]]alectical Materialism''
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Lenin A Hand}}
  
{{w|Dialectical materialism}}, according to many followers of Karl Marx's thinking, is the philosophical basis of Marxism.
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{{W|Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin}} was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
  
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Marxman}}
  
===Five-Year Plans===
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{{W|Marx|Karl Heinrich Marx}} was a German philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary, who was known as the Father of Communism.
  
''Achievement: Five Second Plan''
 
  
The {{W|Five-Year Plan (USSR)|Five-Year Plans}} for the National Economy of the USSR (Russian: пятилетка, Pyatiletka) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|0wn the Means of Production}}
  
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{{w|Means of production}} is a Marxist concept describing the combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. "Own the Means of Production" itself is a quote by {{W|Karl Marx}}.
  
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===Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin===
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Party Loyalty}}
  
''Achievement: Rasputin''
 
  
{{W|Rasputin|Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin}} (Russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Распу́тин) (January 22 [O.S. January 10] 1869 – December 29 [O.S. December 16] 1916) was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei. Rasputin had often been called the "Mad Monk," while others considered him a "strannik" (or religious pilgrim) and even a starets (ста́рец, "elder", a title usually reserved for monk-confessors), believing him to be a psychic and faith healer.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Permanent Revolution}}
  
He reputedly survived being stabbed, poisoned, shot and beaten, after which he was finally killed due to exposure after being thrown into an icy river.
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Photostroika}}
  
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{{w|Perestroika}} is the Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy. Perestroika is often argued to be one reason for the fall of communist political forces in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and for the end of the {{W|Cold War}}.
  
===Joseph Stalin===
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Purge}}
  
''Achievement: Stalin the Kart''
 
  
{{w|Stalin|Joseph Stalin}} (Georgian: ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი, Russian: Иосиф Сталин, ISO 9: Iosif Stalin; December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878 – March 5, 1953) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time he established the regime now known as Stalinism. He gradually consolidated power and became the de facto party leader and dictator of the Soviet Union.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Pushkin the Kart}}
  
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{{W|Pushkin|Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin}} was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.
  
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===Karl Heinrich Marx===
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Rasputin}}
  
''Achievement: Marxman''
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{{W|Rasputin|Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin}} was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Rasputin had often been called the "Mad Monk," while others considered him a religious pilgrim and even a faith healer. He reputedly survived being stabbed, poisoned, shot and beaten, after which he was finally killed due to exposure after being thrown into an icy river.
  
{{W|Marx|Karl Heinrich Marx}} (5 May 1818–14 March 1883) is the German philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary, known as the Father of Communism. His work addresses most contemporary socio-political problems; summarized in the opening of The Communist Manifesto (1848): The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, positing that Capitalism, like previous socio-economic systems, produces the internal social contradictions that will destroy it as a way of life.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Rationing}}
  
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Redistribution of Health}}
  
===Means of production===
 
  
''Achievement: 0wn the Means of Production''
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Red Oktoberfest}}
  
{{w|Means of production}} (abbreviated MoP; German: Produktionsmittel), is a Marxist concept describing the combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. "Own the Means of Production" itself is a quote by Karl Marx.
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The October Revolution, also known as the "Red October", refers to a revolution that began with an armed insurrection in Petrograd. The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. It was followed by the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
  
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It may also refer to {{w|The Hunt for Red October}}, a novel by {{W|Tom Clancy}}. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
  
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Red Oktoberfest is a combination of Red October and the name of the German festival {{W|Oktoberfest}}, as obtaining this achievement requires the collaboration of a [[Medic]] and a [[Heavy]].
  
===Perestroika===
 
  
''Achievement: '''Photostroika'''''
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Show Trial}}
  
{{w|Perestroika}} is the Russian term (now used in English) for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy.
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The {{w|Show trial|show trials}} were a significant part of Joseph Stalin's regime. If defendants refused to admit guilt for their alleged and mostly fabricated crimes, they did not go on public trial, but suffered execution nonetheless. The {{W|Moscow Trials}} of the {{W|Great Purge}} period in the Soviet Union are characteristic.
  
Perestroika is often argued to be one reason for the fall of communist political forces in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and for the end of the Cold War.
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Soviet Block}}
  
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During the Cold War, the term {{W|Soviet bloc|Communist Bloc}} (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
 
 
===Red October===
 
  
''Achievement: '''Red Oktoberfest''
 
  
The October Revolution (Russian: Октябрьская революция, Oktyabrskaya revolyutsiya), also known as the Red October, refers to a revolution—as part of the Russian Revolution—that began with an armed insurrection in Petrograd (also regarded as a coup d'état by the worker and Soldier masses) traditionally dated to October 25, 1917 Julian calendar (November 7, 1917 Gregorian calendar). It was the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution of 1917, after the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. It was followed by the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Soviet Union}}
  
It may also refer to {{w|The Hunt for Red October}}, a novel by Tom Clancy. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack (John Patrick) Ryan.
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The {{W|Soviet union|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}} (USSR), also called the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. However, with the exception of a few interregnum periods (notably after the deaths of Lenin in 1924 and Stalin in 1953), the Soviet Union was a de facto dictatorship, with power resting in the hands of the General Secretary, which became a prerequisite for Soviet leadership.
  
Red Oktoberfest is a combination of Red October and the name of the German festival [[Wikipedia:Oktoberfest|Oktoberfest]], as obtaining this achievement requires the collaboration of a [[Medic]] and a [[Heavy]]
 
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Spyalectical Materialism}}
  
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{{w|Dialectical materialism}}, according to many followers of {{W|Karl Marx|Karl Marx's}} thinking, is the philosophical basis of Marxism.
  
===Show Trials===
 
  
''Achievement: Show Trial''
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Stalin the Kart}
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{{w|Stalin|Joseph Stalin}} was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time he established the regime now known as Stalinism. He gradually consolidated power and became the de facto party leader and dictator of the Soviet Union.
  
{{w|Show trial|Show trials}} were a significant part of Joseph Stalin's regime. The Moscow Trials of the Great Purge period in the Soviet Union are characteristic.
 
  
The authorities staged the actual trials meticulously. If defendants refused to "cooperate", i.e., to admit guilt for their alleged and mostly fabricated crimes, they did not go on public trial, but suffered execution nonetheless. This happened, for example during the prosecution of the so-called "Labour Peasant Party" (Трудовая Крестьянская Партия), a party invented by NKVD, which, in particular, assigned the notable economist Alexander Chayanov to it.
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Supreme Soviet}}
  
The first solid public evidence of what really happened during the Moscow Trials came to the West through the Dewey Commission. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more information became available. This discredited Walter Duranty, who claimed that these trials were actually fair.
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The {{W|Supreme Soviet}} of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. It elected the Presidium, formed the Soviet government and Supreme Court, and appointed the Procurator General of the USSR.
  
  
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{{Show achievement|Heavy|Vanguard Party}}
  
===The Communist Manifesto===
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==Weapons==
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===Fists of Steel===
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<div style="height:64px; width:64px; background: #3E3E3E">[[Image:Backpack Fists of Steel.png|64px|link=Fists of Steel]]</div>
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This item is a reference to {{W|Duke Nukem|Duke Nukem's}} quote "I've got balls of steel!"
  
''Achievement: Communist Mani-Fisto''
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===Gloves of Running Urgently===
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<div style="height:64px; width:64px; background: #3E3E3E">[[Image:Backpack Gloves of Running Urgently.png|64px|link=Gloves of Running Urgently]]</div>
  
{{W|Communist manifesto|Manifesto of the Communist Party}} (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.
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[[G.R.U.]] is an acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. GRU is actually an English translation of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which stands for "Главное Разведывательное Управление", meaning "Main Intelligence Directorate".
  
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===Iron Curtain===
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<div style="height:64px; width:64px; background: #3E3E3E">[[Image:Backpack Iron Curtain.png|64px|link=Iron Curtain]]</div>
  
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The term "{{W|Iron Curtain}}" was coined by {{W|Winston Churchill}} and refers to the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states developed their own international economic and military alliances, COMECON with the Warsaw Pact on the east side with the USSR as most important member, and the NATO and the European Community on the west side, with the United States.
  
===The Iron Curtain===
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===Killing Gloves of Boxing===
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<div style="height:64px; width:64px; background: #3E3E3E">[[Image:Backpack Killing Gloves of Boxing.png|64px|link=Killing Gloves of Boxing]]</div>
  
''Achievement: Iron Kurtain'' and ''Item: The Iron Curtain''
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The acronym of the Killing Gloves of Boxing, [[K.G.B.]], was also an abbreviation for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency {{W|KGB|Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty}}, which was disbanded in 1995.
  
The term {{W|Iron curtain|"Iron Curtain"}} was coined by {{W|Winston Churchill}} and refers to the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states developed their own international economic and military alliances, COMECON with the Warsaw Pact on the east side with the USSR as most important member, and the NATO and the European Community on the west side, with the United States.
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==Hats & Miscellaneous Items==
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{{Achievement|Tough Guy's Toque|Because when you're the toughest Mother Hubbard in the fort, nobody's criticizing your fashion sense.|Backpack Tough Guy's Toque.png}}
  
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This hat is a possible reference to Jayne, the big, gun-toting mercenary in Joss Whedon's series {{W|Firefly (TV series)|Firefly}} and the subsequent movie, {{W|Serenity (film)|Serenity}}. Like the Heavy, Jayne personifies everything it means to be a "tough guy", and has given his gun a name, Vera. Also like the Heavy, Jayne acquires a knitted cap much in this same style, of which he is irrepressibly proud.
  
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==Taunts==
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===Killing Gloves of Boxing===
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''Also works with [[Gloves of Running Urgently]], [[Fists of Steel]], and [[Warrior's spirit]].''
  
===The Soviet Bloc===
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The Heavy's [[K.G.B.]] taunt animation is a homage to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFkMGwgtqM Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique] from the NES game {{W|Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!|Punch Out!!}}.
  
''Achievement: Soviet Block''
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==Responses==
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===Other Responses===
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[[Media:heavy_battlecry02.wav|'''"Run, cowards!"''']]
  
During the Cold War, the term {{W|Soviet bloc|Communist Bloc}} (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).
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[[Media:heavy_battlecry06.wav|'''"I live!"''']] ''- at round start''
  
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These quotes come from the 1982 arcade game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XEINagmaU Sinistar], in which a gigantic antagonist taunts the player with said phrases.
  
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===The Soviet Union===
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[[Media:Heavy sandwichtaunt02.wav|'''"Moist and delicious! Hehaha!"''']] ''-after eating the [[Sandvich]]''
  
''Achievement: Soviet Union''
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This is a reference to a line from the ending song in Portal, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTmJy1u1B4 Still Alive] (It's so delicious and moist).
  
The {{W|Soviet union|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}} (abbreviated USSR, Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, СССР?·i; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), also called the Soviet Union[1] (Russian: Советский Союз; tr.: Sovetsky Soyuz), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. However, with the exception of a few interregnum periods (notably after the deaths of Lenin in 1924 and Stalin in 1953), the Soviet Union was a de facto dictatorship, with power resting in the hands of the General Secretary, which became a prerequisite for Soviet leadership.
 
  
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[[Media:Heavy specialweapon01.wav|'''"My fists! They are made of STEEL!"''']] ''- unused response when the [[Fists of Steel]] are found''
  
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This phrase is a reference to {{W|Duke Nukem|Duke Nukem's}} quote "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjPQYdTYmKM I've got balls of steel!]"
  
===The Supreme Soviet of the USSR===
 
  
''Achievement: Supreme Soviet''
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[[Media:Heavy specialweapon07.wav|'''"I am Heavy weapons guy, and this is my ''new'' weapon."''']] ''- unused response when a new weapon is found''
  
The {{W|Supreme Soviet}} of the USSR (Russian: Верхо́вный Сове́т СССР, Verxóvnyj Sovét SSSR) was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. It elected the Presidium, formed the Soviet government, the Supreme Court, and appointed the Procurator General of the USSR.
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This is very similar to one of the Heavy's lines in [[Meet the Heavy]].
  
  
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[[Media:SandwichEat09.wav|'''"Nom nom nom, om nom."''']] ''-while eating a [[Sandvich]]''
  
===Vladimir Ilyich Lenin===
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The Heavy's distinctive Sandvich-devouring noise is a reference to popular internet phrase "OM NOM NOM", an onomatopaeiac representation of the act of eating believed to have been coined by {{W|Cookie Monster}} from the children's educational television series {{W|Sesame Street}}. "Copyright Omnomnom" is also seen on the ending card of ''[[Meet the Sandvich]]''. The phrase is often misspelled as "nom nom nom".
  
''Achievement: Lenin a Hand''
 
  
{{W|Lenin|Vladimir Ilyich Lenin}} (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов), and also known by the pseudonyms V. I. Lenin and N. Lenin, (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1870  – January 21, 1924), was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River. He was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. His contributions to Marxist theory are commonly referred to as Leninism. His body is currently preserved and on display in Moscow.
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[[Media:Heavy_singing01.wav|'''(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen)''']]
  
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[[Media:Heavy_singing03.wav|'''(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen) "C'mon!"''']]
  
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[[Media:Heavy_singing04.wav|'''(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen) "Push!"''']] ''- pushing payload cart forward''
  
==In-Jokes==
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[[Media:Heavy_singing02.wav|'''(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen)''']] ''- unused response''
  
===Meet the Heavy===
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This is the Heavy's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cgCDHz6G1s rendition] of {{w|The Volga Boatmen's Song|The Song of the Volga Boatmen}}, a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs. It was inspired by Repin's famous painting, Burlaks on the Volga, depicting the suffering of the people in the depth of misery in Tsarist Russia.
  
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|I am Heavy weapons guy, and this is my ''new'' weapon.|sound=Heavy specialweapon07.wav}}
 
  
*A reference to one of the Heavy's lines in ''[[Meet the Heavy]]''.
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[[Media:Heavy_specialcompleted01.wav|"Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-da-Kaboom-Kaboom!"]] ''- after destroying a [[building]]''
  
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This is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI Sabre Dance], by {{W|Aram Khachaturian}}. It evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Due to its exceptionally exciting rhythm, the Sabre Dance established a place for itself in common concert practice, leading also to various adaptations in popular music.
  
*The ending of Meet the Sandvich is a direct reference to the ending of ''Meet the Heavy'', with the Heavy eating his Sandvich rather than firing his [[Minigun]].
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[[Media:Heavy_cheers07.wav|'''"Dah da da-dah da da-da-da-da-da-dahhhh!"''']] ''- using "cheer" voice command''
  
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One of the songs the Heavy sings as part of his cheer lines is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5UrVdvk1Ao Funeral March], the third and most recognizable movement of Chopin's {{W|Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor (Chopin)|Piano Sonata No. 2}}. This has become well known in popular culture, and was also used at the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and those of some Soviet leaders.
  
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==Media==
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===Meet the Sandvich===
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The ending of Meet the Sandvich is a direct reference to the ending of [[Meet the Heavy]], with the Heavy eating his Sandvich rather than firing his [[Minigun]].
  
 
===Meet the Scout===
 
===Meet the Scout===
 
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The [[Sandvich]] first appeared as a joke in the [[Meet the Scout]] video, acting as a point of contention between a [[BLU]] Heavy and the [[Scout]]. It was later added into the game as an unlockable weapon and major class addition to the Heavy.
The [[Sandvich]] first appeared as a joke in the ''[[Meet the Scout]]'' video, acting as a point of contention between a [[BLU]] Heavy and the [[Scout]]. It was later added into the game as an unlockable weapon and major class addition to the Heavy.
 
 
 
 
 
==Music==
 
 
 
===Song of the Volga Boatmen===
 
 
 
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{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Da da da da. Da da da da. Come sing with me! Da da da da da.|sound=Heavy_cheers08.wav}}
 
 
 
One of the songs the Heavy sings as part of his cheer lines is {{w|The Volga Boatmen's Song|The Song of the Volga Boatmen}}, a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs. It is a genuine barge-haulers' shanty. Balakirev published it with only one verse (the first). The other two verses were added at a later date. The song, also called The Volga Burlak's Song, was inspired by Repin's famous painting, Burlaks on the Volga, depicting the suffering of the people in the depth of misery in Tsarist Russia.
 
 
 
 
 
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===Funeral March===
 
 
 
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{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Dah da da-dah da da-da-da-da-da-dahhhh!|sound=Heavy_cheers07.wav}}
 
 
 
One of the songs the Heavy sings as part of his cheer lines is the 'Funeral March', the 3rd and most recognizable movement of Chopin's {{W|Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor (Chopin)|Piano Sonata No. 2}}. The 3rd movement is structured as a funeral march played with a Lento interlude. While the term "funeral march" is perhaps a fitting description of the 3rd movement, complete with the Lento interlude in D flat major, when the "Chopin Funeral March" is actually played (typically by a brass ensemble) in a funeral procession, only the part in B flat minor is used. This "funeral march" adapted for brass as described, has become well known in popular culture. It was also used at the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and those of Soviet leaders, including Leonid Brezhnev. It was transcribed for full orchestra by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1933 and its first performance was at his own memorial concert the next year. It was played at the graveside during Chopin's own burial at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
 
 
 
 
 
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===Sabre Dance===
 
 
 
{{youtube|gqg3l3r_DRI|align=right|width=300}}
 
 
 
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-da-Kaboom-Kaboom!|sound=Heavy_specialcompleted01.wav}}
 
 
 
One of the songs the Heavy sings as part of his responses is the {{W|Sabre Dance}}, a movement in the final act of the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane, completed in 1942. It evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Due to its exceptionally exciting rhythm, the Sabre Dance established a place for itself in common concert practice, leading also to various adaptations in popular music. In its middle section it uses an Armenian folk song from Gyumri, Armenia.
 
 
 
==Organizations==
 
 
 
===Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye===
 
 
 
[[G.R.U.]] is also the acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, (formerly the Red Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). GRU is actually an English transliteration of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which stands for "Главное Разведывательное Управление", meaning Main Intelligence Directorate. The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence bureau, deploying 6 times as many agents as the SVR (The K.G.B.'s intelligence successor) and commanded as many as 25,000 'Spetznaz' Special Forces Units in 1997.
 
 
 
===Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty===
 
 
 
The acronym of the Killing Gloves of Boxing, [[K.G.B.]], was also the acronym for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency {{W|KGB|Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty}}, which was disbanded in 1995.
 
 
 
==Places==
 
 
 
===Borscht Belt===
 
 
 
''Achievement: Borscht Belt''
 
 
 
{{W|Borscht Belt}} is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were a popular holiday spot for New York Jews. The term Borscht Belt can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
 
 
 
{{W|Borscht}} is a vegetable soup that can be found in many Eastern European countries, including Russia.
 
 
 
 
 
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===Gorky Park===
 
 
 
''Achievement: Gorky Parked''
 
 
 
{{W|Gorky Park (Moscow)|Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure}} is an amusement park in Moscow, Russia, named after Maxim Gorky.
 
 
 
{{W|Maxim Gorky|Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov}} (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28 [O.S. March 16] 1868 – June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
 
 
 
Gorky Park is also a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows Arkady Renko, a chief investigator for the Militsiya, who is assigned to a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park, an amusement park in Moscow, who have had their faces and fingertips cut off by the murderer to prevent identification. It was adapted into a well-received film in 1983.
 
 
 
 
 
==Sayings and Phrases==
 
 
 
==="Crazy Ivan"===
 
 
 
''Achievement: Krazy Ivan''
 
 
 
{{w|Crazy Ivan}} is a Naval term for a submarine maneuver, characterized by any number of sudden and sharp turns, used by submarine crews to "look behind" their boat using sonar.
 
 
 
 
 
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==="OM NOM NOM"===
 
 
 
{{Quotation|'''The Heavy'''|Nom nom nom...om nom.|sound=SandwichEat09.wav}}
 
 
 
The Heavy's distinctive Sandvich-devouring noise is a reference to popular internet phrase 'OM NOM NOM', an onomatopaeiac representation of the act of eating believed to have been coined by {{W|Cookie Monster}} from the children's educational television series {{W|Sesame Street}}. "Copyright Omnomnom" is also seen on the ending card of ''[[Meet the Sandvich]]''. The phrase is often misspelled as "nom nom nom.".
 
 
 
==TV and Film==
 
 
 
===Firefly===
 
 
 
The [[Tough Guy's Toque]] hat is a possible reference to [http://www.knittingninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/jayne.jpg Jayne], the big, gun-toting mercenary in Joss Whedon's series {{W|Firefly (TV series)|Firefly}} and the subsequent movie, {{W|Serenity (film)|Serenity}}. Like the Heavy, Jayne personifies everything it means to be a 'tough guy', and has given his gun a name, Vera. Also like the Heavy, Jayne acquires a knitted cap much in this same style, of which he is irrepressibly proud.
 
 
 
{{youtube|eZEr44e-ggc|width=300|align=left}}
 
 
   
 
   
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 23:47, 23 May 2011

Due to the comedic style of Team Fortress 2 and Valve's humor, the game includes references, usually in a humorous fashion. There are many sources, including games, movies, and music; even jokes that have developed within the game and its community have been included. Below are references specific to the Heavy class.

List of references (Heavy)

Achievements

Borscht Belt
Borscht Belt
Kill 10 Heavies with The K.G.B.


Template:W is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were a popular holiday spot for New York Jews. The term Borscht Belt can also refer to the Catskill region itself.

Template:W is a vegetable soup that can be found in many Eastern European countries, including Russia.


Class Struggle
Class Struggle
Work with a friendly Medic to kill an enemy Heavy & Medic pair.



Communist Mani-Fisto
Communist Mani-Fisto
Kill an enemy with a critical punch.


Template:W, often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Template:W and Template:W, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a working-class revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.


Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Kill 10 enemies carrying your intelligence.


Template:W is a novel by Russian author Template:W that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period.

Crime and Punishment is also the name of a documentary TV series, but considering the former it is unlikely that the Achievement references this.


Crock Block
Crock Block
Survive a direct hit from a critical rocket.



Division of Labor
Division of Labor
Kill 10 enemies with a Medic assisting you, where neither of you die.



Don't Touch Sandvich
Don't Touch Sandvich
Kill 50 Scouts using Natascha.



Factory Worker
Factory Worker
Kill 20 enemies while being recharged by a dispenser.



Five Second Plan
Five Second Plan
Kill an enemy in the first 5 seconds after you exit a teleporter.


The Template:W for the National Economy of the USSR were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union.


Gorky Parked
Gorky Parked
Kill 25 enemies while you're standing on a control point you own.


Template:W is an amusement park in Moscow, named after Template:W, a Soviet author, founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.

Gorky Park is also a the name of a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows an investigator who is assigned a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park.It was adapted into a well-received film in 1983.


Heavy Industry
Heavy Industry
Fire $200,000 worth of minigun rounds in a single life.



Icing on the Cake
Icing on the Cake
Get 20 kills on players that you're dominating.



Iron Kurtain
Iron Kurtain
Take 1000 points of damage in a single life.


The term "Template:W" was coined by Template:W and refers to the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states developed their own international economic and military alliances, COMECON with the Warsaw Pact on the east side with the USSR as most important member, and the NATO and the European Community on the west side, with the United States.


Kollectivization
Kollectivization
Get 1000 assists.


Collectivization was a policy of Template:W in the Template:W whose goal was to gather individual land and labor into collective farms. This can be seen as an implementation of a Template:W during the rapid Template:W in the late 1920s to 1940s.


Konspicuous Konsumption
Konspicuous Konsumption
Eat 100 sandviches.



Krazy Ivan
Krazy Ivan
Kill 50 enemies while both you and your victim are underwater.


Template:W is a Naval term for a submarine maneuver, characterized by any number of sudden and sharp turns, used by submarine crews to "look behind" their boat using sonar.


Lenin A Hand
Lenin A Hand
Help 5 teammates get revenge on their nemeses.


Template:W was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.


Marxman
Marxman
Kill 10 enemies in mid-air with the minigun.


Template:W was a German philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary, who was known as the Father of Communism.


0wn the Means of Production
0wn the Means of Production
Remove 20 stickybombs by killing the Demomen who produced them.


Template:W is a Marxist concept describing the combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. "Own the Means of Production" itself is a quote by Template:W.


Party Loyalty
Party Loyalty
Kill 50 enemies within 3 seconds of them attacking your Medic.



Permanent Revolution
Permanent Revolution
Kill 5 enemies without spinning down your gun.



Photostroika
Photostroika
Provide an enemy with a freezecam shot of you taunting while invulnerable.


Template:W is the Russian term for the political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy. Perestroika is often argued to be one reason for the fall of communist political forces in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and for the end of the Template:W.


Purge
Purge
Kill 15 enemies capturing a control point you own.



Pushkin the Kart
Pushkin the Kart
Get 50 caps on payload maps.


Template:W was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.


Rasputin
Rasputin
In a single life, get shot, burned, bludgeoned, and receive explosive damage.


Template:W was a Russian mystic who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Rasputin had often been called the "Mad Monk," while others considered him a religious pilgrim and even a faith healer. He reputedly survived being stabbed, poisoned, shot and beaten, after which he was finally killed due to exposure after being thrown into an icy river.


Rationing
Rationing
Kill an enemy with your shotgun while you're out of minigun ammo.



Redistribution of Health
Redistribution of Health
Heal 1000 damage with med-kits in a single life.



Red Oktoberfest
Red Oktoberfest
Earn a domination for a Medic who's healing you.


The October Revolution, also known as the "Red October", refers to a revolution that began with an armed insurrection in Petrograd. The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. It was followed by the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

It may also refer to Template:W, a novel by Template:W. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack Ryan.

Red Oktoberfest is a combination of Red October and the name of the German festival Template:W, as obtaining this achievement requires the collaboration of a Medic and a Heavy.


Show Trial
Show Trial
Kill an enemy with a taunt.


The Template:W were a significant part of Joseph Stalin's regime. If defendants refused to admit guilt for their alleged and mostly fabricated crimes, they did not go on public trial, but suffered execution nonetheless. The Template:W of the Template:W period in the Soviet Union are characteristic.


Soviet Block
Soviet Block
While invulnerable and on defense, block an invulnerable enemy Heavy's movement.


During the Cold War, the term Template:W (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania).


Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Get 25 enemy kills where you either assist or are assisted by another Heavy.


The Template:W (USSR), also called the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. However, with the exception of a few interregnum periods (notably after the deaths of Lenin in 1924 and Stalin in 1953), the Soviet Union was a de facto dictatorship, with power resting in the hands of the General Secretary, which became a prerequisite for Soviet leadership.


Spyalectical Materialism
Spyalectical Materialism
Kill or assist in killing 10 cloaked Spies.


Template:W, according to many followers of Template:W thinking, is the philosophical basis of Marxism.


{{Show achievement|Heavy|Stalin the Kart} } Template:W was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. During that time he established the regime now known as Stalinism. He gradually consolidated power and became the de facto party leader and dictator of the Soviet Union.


Supreme Soviet
Supreme Soviet
Get ÜberCharged 50 times.


The Template:W of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. It elected the Presidium, formed the Soviet government and Supreme Court, and appointed the Procurator General of the USSR.


Vanguard Party
Vanguard Party
Be the first on your team to start capturing a control point in a round.


Weapons

Fists of Steel

Backpack Fists of Steel.png

This item is a reference to Template:W quote "I've got balls of steel!"

Gloves of Running Urgently

Backpack Gloves of Running Urgently.png

G.R.U. is an acronym for the Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. GRU is actually an English translation of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which stands for "Главное Разведывательное Управление", meaning "Main Intelligence Directorate".

Iron Curtain

Backpack Iron Curtain.png

The term "Template:W" was coined by Template:W and refers to the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states developed their own international economic and military alliances, COMECON with the Warsaw Pact on the east side with the USSR as most important member, and the NATO and the European Community on the west side, with the United States.

Killing Gloves of Boxing

Backpack Killing Gloves of Boxing.png

The acronym of the Killing Gloves of Boxing, K.G.B., was also an abbreviation for the Russian security agency, secret police and intelligence agency Template:W, which was disbanded in 1995.

Hats & Miscellaneous Items

Tough Guy's Toque
Tough Guy's Toque
Because when you're the toughest Mother Hubbard in the fort, nobody's criticizing your fashion sense.


This hat is a possible reference to Jayne, the big, gun-toting mercenary in Joss Whedon's series Template:W and the subsequent movie, Template:W. Like the Heavy, Jayne personifies everything it means to be a "tough guy", and has given his gun a name, Vera. Also like the Heavy, Jayne acquires a knitted cap much in this same style, of which he is irrepressibly proud.

Taunts

Killing Gloves of Boxing

Also works with Gloves of Running Urgently, Fists of Steel, and Warrior's spirit.

The Heavy's K.G.B. taunt animation is a homage to Mr. Sandman's warm-up technique from the NES game Template:W.

Responses

Other Responses

"Run, cowards!"

"I live!" - at round start

These quotes come from the 1982 arcade game Sinistar, in which a gigantic antagonist taunts the player with said phrases.


"Moist and delicious! Hehaha!" -after eating the Sandvich

This is a reference to a line from the ending song in Portal, Still Alive (It's so delicious and moist).


"My fists! They are made of STEEL!" - unused response when the Fists of Steel are found

This phrase is a reference to Template:W quote "I've got balls of steel!"


"I am Heavy weapons guy, and this is my new weapon." - unused response when a new weapon is found

This is very similar to one of the Heavy's lines in Meet the Heavy.


"Nom nom nom, om nom." -while eating a Sandvich

The Heavy's distinctive Sandvich-devouring noise is a reference to popular internet phrase "OM NOM NOM", an onomatopaeiac representation of the act of eating believed to have been coined by Template:W from the children's educational television series Template:W. "Copyright Omnomnom" is also seen on the ending card of Meet the Sandvich. The phrase is often misspelled as "nom nom nom".


(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen)

(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen) "C'mon!"

(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen) "Push!" - pushing payload cart forward

(Mily Balakirev's Song of the Volga Boatmen) - unused response

This is the Heavy's rendition of Template:W, a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev, and published in his book of folk songs. It was inspired by Repin's famous painting, Burlaks on the Volga, depicting the suffering of the people in the depth of misery in Tsarist Russia.


"Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-da-Kaboom-Kaboom!" - after destroying a building

This is the Sabre Dance, by Template:W. It evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Due to its exceptionally exciting rhythm, the Sabre Dance established a place for itself in common concert practice, leading also to various adaptations in popular music.

"Dah da da-dah da da-da-da-da-da-dahhhh!" - using "cheer" voice command

One of the songs the Heavy sings as part of his cheer lines is the Funeral March, the third and most recognizable movement of Chopin's Template:W. This has become well known in popular culture, and was also used at the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and those of some Soviet leaders.

Media

Meet the Sandvich

The ending of Meet the Sandvich is a direct reference to the ending of Meet the Heavy, with the Heavy eating his Sandvich rather than firing his Minigun.

Meet the Scout

The Sandvich first appeared as a joke in the Meet the Scout video, acting as a point of contention between a BLU Heavy and the Scout. It was later added into the game as an unlockable weapon and major class addition to the Heavy.

See Also