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KamikazePotato posted...

I'm gonna call this video into question, because Valve didn't make it. It's a community fan video that got upgraded to 'official' status because why not, saves the company work. Maybe that's enough to make things canon, but eh. Heavy tanking a train is more over-the-top than anything I would have expected from the comics or Valve-produced videos.

I double-checked with our resident TF2 lore expert before posting it, just in case, and got the go-ahead. It's notably the only video to have ever received this distinction, far as I can tell, too. To be clear, I'm not arguing Heavy can tank a runaway train, because that's clearly the Ubercharge at play. What I propose is that Heavy is beefy enough to take the traincar falling on him after, since by that point Medic's stopped ubering him. I don't think that's beyond the pale considering Soldier (never considered as tough as Heavy) survives having his spine completely shattered in the Jungle Inferno video and is just fine like, a minute later or less.