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"Miss Pauling" speculation

I don't think "Miss Pauling" needs to or should be mentioned as it's pure speculation and just vaguely resembles a human like figure. It doesn't have the distinct purple coloring that Miss Pauling or The Administrator are known for (figure just looks grey) and the whole thing always felt like a massive stretch to me personally. As far as I'm aware there's never been any form of confirmation that the figure is Pauling or anyone else for that matter so don't feel the wiki should just be throwing out a baseless guess that the figure might be Miss Pauling with literally nothing to back it up. Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 23:31, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

I do think it can reasonably be seen as an early concept of Miss Pauling. She was only given this distinct purple colour less than a month before the video came out in Meet the Director, before that she was seen with very little purple colour. Her glasses and shirt match up with this appearance, and (imo) her hair looks quite similar too. It's 100% possible that they did not go out of their way to update the colouring for this one easter egg model based on a month-old comic, but instead based it on the WAR! Comic which was ~2 years old at the time. It's clearly an early version model of her, so I can't say it's enough to remove this purely based on how we know Miss Pauling today.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 14:50, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
I don't see glasses at all. Just looks like a blurry out of focus figure to me. The earlier Pauling design you mention still has distinct purple around the collar/shoulder area which seems to be completely lacking in Meet the Medic. Also the figure looks as if it's wearing black boots to me which doesn't line up with either Pauling designs. I don't see how there's enough detail to say confidently that it's anyone let alone naming a specific character. It could also be Scout's mom. Who knows there's only a small handful of pixels to work with. Saying it's an early concept model of a certain design is still just speculation at the end of the day and should not be included imo. Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 16:49, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
If you look at the full res image there are quite clearly glasses and the collar of the entire shirt is unnoticeable (so we can't see if it's purple or not), but the whole design and overlooking Medic fits Miss Pauling's character a lot more. I think we both know that Scout's mum is a disingenuous suggestion and she doesn't look like her at all. It matches up clearly enough to the old design to me that I don't see the removal of it justified, especially when it hasn't really been questioned for all those years despite the image. Even if there is no de facto source on it, that goes for many old points of trivia on the Wiki which are pretty much considered to be true unless proven otherwise.
As for being speculation, with the introduction of Valve-created things not requiring proof but widespread agreement on what is and isn't trivia I think it's perfectly valid to stay.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 18:37, 5 April 2025 (UTC)