Love when Medic got revenge on people who've killed him, he actually does more. Listening to scout "If they hit you with som'in hit 'em back twice as hard." When medic is killed by one of the Conaghers, He was hit 5 times. But when revived and killing him, he gets 6 blows in. As well for spy, he was shot once in Russian roulette, and in the funeral Medic shoots Spy twice.
I've always headcanon'd that the BLU team is composed of serious and hard-working men in contrast with the living meme goofballs that form the RED team, and on top of that, they're literally cloned from the RED team then brainwashed and trained.
*Scene fades to black and then a 2fort gameplay starts playing with a voice over* "That was a recreation of a competitive clip that shows How it FEELS to play Medic"
44:09 You can hear German stuka dive bombers as the sound of the mutated scout which indicates that Emesis blue soldier did serve in the Second World War as opposed to his TF2 version who hasn’t seen the horrors of war, glorifies war and shows off his non existent service in ww2.
Correction, although not officially serving in any US military branch, TF2 soldier did fight in ww2. He just did it by himself. Not disagreeing though, TF2 soldier does glorify war. He's just a psychopath like the rest of his colleagues.
@@jeremiahtomcanin487 that in itself is _also_ wrong. Soldier never fought in WW2. He just went to Germany and started slaughtering innocents indiscriminately... which happened *after* WW2 was over.
i love how despite the fact that the mercs are portrayed as very well past their prime, soldier still sees a rocket launcher and has a caveman instinct to perform a rocket jump
1:36:45 I just find it really funny when the spy tells everyone at the funeral that the guy died and everyone gasps like they weren't at his fucking funeral at that very moment.
I waited far too long to actually sit down and watch this. I didn't know SFM could be used to make a high quality feature film, and a spooky one at that! Everything is so tastefully done. The animation is stylish but respects the source material. The characters line up with the original mercs really well. Nothing is ever gratuitous, and none of the humour that is sprinkled in undercuts the horror.
The 2fort respawn machine being broken and producing deformed mercs actually does a great job at explaing why T-posing scouts are such a common sight on the map.
Not crying. Hes laughing. When your body is overwhelmed by stress or fear your mind starts to try to calm you down by making you laugh. Has hapened to me few times during panic attacks.
In Russia, if hand is rotten, you cut off hand. If arm is rotten, you cut off arm. But if heart is rotten... you cut off leg. This is Russian love song.
Can we talk about Spy for a second? When Spy says "Who is there to save ME, Jules?" He overlooks Soldier. Soldier not only saved him once, during the confrotation with Heavy, but twice, when he tackled Spy to cover. He overlooks the fact it was his own fault, not Soldiers, that the Car blew up. He overlooks that Soldier just couldn't save him, not that he didn't try. When he flicks the cigeratte at Pyro, he never crossed his mind that he would've gotten burnt. He never realized that almost everything bad that happened to him was his own fault, and you could argue that his murder was technically his own fault too, since his insane depravity lead to Medic murdering him. He's a massive fucking hypocrite.
yeah, the canon Spy would consider this dude a fucking hack amateur and "disgrace to spies everywhere" (that's the voice line when a Spy dominates an enemy spy ingame.) His acting sucks (getting caught out as a fake at the crime scene), he didn't matador backstab the Heavy at the beginning of the movie despite having a clear opportunity to, he barely even shoots anyone with his revolver, and just is a fuckup in general.
Let's say, hypothetically, I am a barbie girl. Okay let's even say I'm in a barbie world. Right so, in this scenario, I would obviously know from personal experience that life in plastic is fantastic. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume you could brush my hair and undress me literally everywhere? Imagination; you can derive from the fundamentals of basic logic that life is your creation.
Emesis Blue was made in Source Filmmaker. The most insane and inconsistent animation software known to man. I can barely place a character, move the limbs of the model, and have it on a flat surface. This man deserves monetary compensation far beyond whatever this video makes him. You sir, deserve a saxxy award.
got to agree, this deserves accolades ... hell the entire production team deserves accolades. This was a masterpiece of suspense and horror... 9.5/10 its almost perfect.
I got here tonight to watch this masterpiece again on Halloween night and my birthday. And it's as amazing as a year ago Happy Halloween to everyone who is watching tonight!
I don't think anyone would have guessed a horror-thriller would be the first notable, high-quality, TRUE feature-length SFM animation, that was also still grounded it in the TF2 world (albeit with more grittiness/seriousness and the use of popular headcanons). Personally, I'm a sucker for any exploration into a respawn machine existing and explaining why there are just 9 mercenaries, especially when it explores just how potentially terrifying the concept can be. I genuinely enjoyed watching this abstract piece of art. Kudos to all those who worked on it! You guys put out a GREAT piece of artwork!
Ik it's a strange request but I hope you (or other viewers/influencers) can share this film around. It honestly deserves way more views than its getting right now considering the amount of effort that went into it.
You can tell from 1:22:42 that 4/6 spots in the revolver are empty. the top 3 are empty, and the middle on the bottom is also empty. Meaning, Spy never was in danger, and it was ultimately a 50/50 for Soldier and Medic
You know, when people say “some TF2 animators could make feature length films if they wanted” I don’t think anyone expected someone to actually try for it. I’m already looking forward to this.
I swear, we need to round up a bunch of animators like these to make an original feature film, and put it in for the big screen. Imagine Disney and Pixar getting their asses handed to them by a movie made by some GMOD animators.
The possibilities of what the SFM animators can create with one another are endless! One of the best SFM films out there. Aside from the Pootis Engage films.
I like how scout says "If they ever hit ya with som'in you hit back twice as hard you hear me?" Then at the end doc comes back to life and shoots spy twice
Also at the start the mother was beheaded and held up from the other side of the door what did Ludwig do? Halfway into the movie he held one of the henchmen heads from the other side AND HE USED A HACK SAW LIKE THE MOTHER DOIED!
what's even more serendipitous about that, is that Medic lost russian roulette that he was forced to do by Spy, obviously getting shot once, and then he shoots Spy twice at the end
There is literally a comment that states that Solider used to talk alot before, but after Conagher's Slaughterhouse he didn't talk alot. Proving his trauma.
I think I can (somewhat) provide translations for Pyro here: 37:40 “Don’t move.” 37:49 “Stay right there.” 37:55 “Drop it.” 38:00 “Turn to face me.” 38:08 “Now get down.” 38:18 “Wait right here.” 38:34 (Laughter) 1:06:30 “Where is he?”
I actually saw someone theorize that this is the red spy! And if that's true, it means there is no pyro in this film. Pretty eerie to leave them out :) Not trying to tell you that you're wrong or whatever, I just think it would be cool as fuck.
@@Puro218 A key plot point of this movie is that the respawn machine slowly strips away the humanity of the people using it, and considering Pyro is hardly all there in regular TF2 lore, I'd say it's pretty safe to say that he's not human at all here, just some sort of respawn machine abomination that thinks it's Pyro
@Red-pq4xx I think like it could be the "10th class" (if he isn't already the Undertaker) as in one of the photos and hallucinations later in the video, he's on fire as he comes out of the respawn machine, which explains the peak under the mask.
@kepi1812 I'd like to tell you to imagine a world where no one ever iterated on ideas like a time machine because the namesake book did it 100+ years ago, but the drawers your thinking is stuck in tell me to save both yours and my time.
@kepi1812 too many references yeah. It was neat at first but eventually became really distracting, especially the multitude of Shining references. Student film quality though it’s fantastic.
@@slyseal2091 How pretentious can you be...? He's simply pointing out that it just isn't very good all things considered, and you react by projecting your own closed-minded thinking onto him. "the drawers your thinking is stuck in tell me to save both yours and my time", hahah! How pathetically ironic of you. I suppose my comment is admittedly quite pointless, because with just one comment you have shown to be the kind of person who never changes their mind. You'll simply dig your feet into the group, no matter how stupid your position is.
32:05 these two shots are so damn clever, having him pull his gloves off with his teeth but keeping his hands out of frame and removing his overcoat shown only in silhouette is such an incredibly smartvway to avoid having to animate realistic cloth physics in an engine that was absolutely not designed for them.
I just want to say, that the entire sequence with Scout in his home is genuinely unsettling. Scout listening to his own voice on the other end of the phone, his mothers' head peering out from around the corner at him with the whistling. It's just such a well done scene, so good.
That scene was a complete and utter masterclass in terror. The atmosphere, the lack of music/fanfare/jumpscares, you just see the look of absolute dread on Scout's face...and then the next scene, there it is. Just, perfection.
@@DarkStriker06 I also caught that when I first watched the movie. The atmosphere was already unnerving, and her not sounding normal added to that. Then her head dropped to the ground and you realize it wasn't her at all.
SFM may be wildly outdated & can frequently be as quirky as hell, but one of its greatest strengths is how a creator can so deftly include minor gestures & facial expressions...If the Team were modeled to be more realistically human, you might begin to wonder who hired such great actors.
@@vilxux9752 It's all about the Respawn Machine that brings dead Team members back to life. It's not perfect. It's failures leave unpredictable changes in their minds, psyches, & bodies (sometimes even resulting in another immediate or not so immediate physical death again). Let's face it, even by the standards of the world they live in (ie- the background lore in the comics & various videos), these guys are clinically insane. They had their mental quirks even before being hired & experimented on for this purpose but each respawn they go through further solidifies how bad they are at functioning even in the warped society where they came from. They were chosen because they were the very few who *survived* the initial testing & experimentation but that was by no means leaving them unscathed. The mental scarring is the worst, even if they don't retain any conscious memories after walking out of the machine, there is still the lasting emotional impact. they have to deal with. How else can they find the idea that they're fighting copies of themselves on the opposing Team as being "normal?" Why is it pretty much only those nine people that get thrown into the meat grinder of war? These are just two ideas that they deal with on a daily basis, never really having someone else to unload their mental burdens or help them cope with them. They only have each other even though they're all stuck in the same situation & have no opportunity to see outside of it. What kind of mental stress do they go through every time they're "reconstituted" by that machine? Twenty seconds to respawn "in game" is a long time to a mind on the edge of true death... "It's eternity in there." The human mind was never wired to understand the true meaning of eternity.
Never in my life have I been tricked into watching a horror movie and been absolutely into it for every moment of it, but here we are. Absolute masterpiece, truly one of the greatest things ever created with SFM
This and Pootis Engage stand on two opposite ends of what it means to be masterpieces of SFM work--Balls-to-the-wall screwball parody comedy on one end, dark and compelling psychological horror on the other.
- How does the Respawn Machine work? - Well, the dead have to get through Silent Hill, the Shining and a few other Horror dimensions, and THEN they need to be lucky about their backup files.
1. I think they fix every single atom that’s usually in the body, but I’m no TF2 user, nor have I know any lore besides this. So my guess is that they observe any damage and repair them to its regular state. In this one, it has failed to recognize the person and made mistakes. 2. I have… NO idea.
"You're gonna make it, Fritz" "I know" This line hits hard. Doc knew he would pull it through no matter if he got shot or not. This is one of the best psychological horror thriller I've ever seen.
I like how even when they're being attacked by insane serial killers and monsters, Red Demoman and Blu Soldier have a good time together since they're friends, just like in the lore.
This has to be both the creepiest and the most confusing movie I've seen in a very long time. To think such an incredible masterpiece was made on the SFM fills me with awe.
In Russia, if hand is rotten, you cut off hand. If arm is rotten, you cut off arm. But if heart is rotten... you cut off leg. This is Russian love song.
it fills me more with dread that someone was powerful enough to create a movie that long and amazing IN SFM I watched too much lazy purple to not think of all the problems it had, how much it broke and crashed and failed. Yet it is so well made, dunno who gave the creators will and strength to finish it, but I applaud them
Just saw this again for 2nd time my little sister watched it too see thought it was pretty good. I'm gonna see this every Halloween for now long, see you next year Emesis Blue.
Some interesting things I noticed while watching Scout picks up a movie called M (1931), a famous German thriller about a man in black that kills children. He’d paint a bloody M on his palm which stood for Murder. The movie’s director also shares the same first name with the BLU medic: Fritz. Both archibald and scout have stitched wounds on the left side of their head. After Soldier meets Archibald, his head wound is gone, but he is then shot in the exact place his stitches used to be. The color black is synonymous with death. All the undead mercenaries wear it, the RED sniper switches to black attire once he becomes another member. The BLU spy’s trenchcoat is scorched black. The BLU medic wears all black when he emerges from the coffin (which is foreshadowed in an earlier dream sequence) Also for my own personal theory on the plague doctor: I believe it to be a representation or incarnation of Death. It's possible the plague doctor is an alter ego of the medic as well, but I won't go into that as there are a few inconsistencies that disprove this theory. The plague doctor being Death could be shown in how it only seems to manifest or appear where someone has died, or where death is in abundance (the war flashback). It also wears all black, which as shown is symbolic of death in this film. The plague doctor guides the BLU team to the slaughterhouse to uncover the truth, but also in guiding them there, results in the death of all the "undead" creatures that eluded it. It looks on in approval when Fritz executes the BLU spy and begins a slaughter at the funeral.
To add onto this, there are several references to Kubrick's work. The most noticeable examples I saw being two from The Shining (the scenes featuring doors opening and releasing a flood, The Red Bathroom ambiguously representing some sort of afterlife) and one from Dr. Strangelove (The War Room scene, it's already an asset in TF2, but the framing and black-and-white coloring really hones in on the reference to the original movie.) There could be more but those were the ones I remembered on first viewing.
@@icyatlasartworks You could say he was about to join them though, given he was about to use a handgrenade to take himself and Spy out together during Spy's speech, until Medic pulled his switcheroo reveal. Aside from the in-world funeral reason, thematically, it could also be for that too.
@@jeffcarroll1990shock "Oh no! I very much dislike their opinion! Let me cry about it on the internet and call the film a rip-off to make myself feel better!"
Imagine Valve makes a new item just titled "A fucking Emmy" Description: "Yall need to chill, this was intended for comedy" Imbued with an ominous power
1:38:35 Soldier's the real one. He didn't spout the lie, look disgusted by the speech, and was going to put an end to all the charade at the funeral, including himself, with a grenade.
1:37:12 I like to think that Soldier is laughing because of the absurdity of the situation. He seen everything in there and they are trying to cover up the truth. Like he wasn’t there to witness it
One thing I like is, how soldier is portrayed in this film. At first you kind of expect him to be the insane, wild card of the cast, but after a while you realize that he is probably the sanest person in the whole film
@@crossbo5345For the most part. He was willing to do a suicide explosion after realizing that the Smoker and Jules were evil, hence him helping Medic when the police came by and Soldier killing Blutarch.
I tend to think that's the RED Soldier. It's good that the counterparts from both teams have distinct personalities, just like different people play the same character in the game.
the revolver shown is a nagant 1895 revolver converted to double action, if you look you can also see the hammer cocking back as he pulls the trigger as well
@@cactuss33dsYou think these guys actually still watch movies? Bet they haven't even played any games except TF2. Why I think so? Well, they watch reviewers who hate everything, and they base their opinion on it, and because of that, they avoid playing or watching them.
Medic's character arc is unironically one of the best in any film I have ever seen. I'm genuinely blown away at the quality of this film. It doesn't just deserve a Saxxy, it deserves a goddamn Academy Award
@@Stek_Vr9788 all good for the record I was talking about this one: @GoodSaulman_is_McJimmyGill 1 year ago Red Lore: ”WE CANNOT TELEPORT BREAD ANY MORE!” Blu Lore:
01:13:20 Canonically, the blue soldier and the red demoman were friends even though they had to fight on opposite sides. At this moment, even in death, the demoman tries to make a final move to save his friend.
Blu: -Several bullets to the head and chest -Burned alived -Flung 100 meters -Stabbed several times -Smacked many times (With weapons) *Survives without a problem* Red: -Gets shot once *Dead*
@@twerp3428 he goes to the afterlife at the end after being killed in a car crash, and that’s also where all the respawn incompatible people stay for the rest of time. Because Jeremy was respawn incompatible, he stays there forever, and Fritz smiles because he finally sees him again. Then a misformed, flaming version of him spawns from the respawn machine in Connegher Slaughterhouse.
@@Tarnished-bn5gq OOH so he realized that he was like, dead dead, so he smiled. And if you died and didn't come back you were in the afterlife and the other you that came back is a monster. Got it thanks 😎👍
@@twerp3428 not exactly… Fritz dying in the car crash didn’t disable his respawn compatibility, he just was in the purgatory until being respawned, however the respawn machine was broken by the slaughterhouse’s destruction, so the respawned Fritz was the flaming one we saw at the end.
1:39:50 I really like Soldier's Arc on this film, in the beginning he seems determined to fulfill his duty to Archibald and rescue him, and in the end he is like "fuck these rich assholes" and helps the Medic escape, after all the horrrors they've been through, they are the ones who survived, and they earned the right to kill the Mann Brothers and give them Retribution for the horrrors they have endured
(Not sure about this bc I haven’t understood a single thing about this) but I think there are 2 Medics, the one that exited the coffin and the one that cannot die and another one that died(?) this confuses me a lot
Now imagine if valve hired him before the movie was made then made an ending for comics. And then made this movie canonical end for the tf2 and then made trailer for tf3. I know there are a lot of lore mismatches, and there ain't no way valve abandons tf2 while it's still alive and one of the most long living and profitable games, and it's more chance that meteor falls at the same place for 50 times at 2 days time period that Tf3 will ever exist, but just imagine what shock it would cause, of course a lot of people would be mad and a lot of just lost speech just imagine the chaos it would cause.
I like how Soldier is still dumb. Usually in SFM animations he's either normal, just as comically stupid as he is in-game, or a stand-in for some meme thing. It's nice to see that you kept that character trait without making it overbearing.
The reason this was such good horror was the fact that all that none of the main characters acted dumb or make bad choices and most of them still couldn’t escape.
I don't know about that, Spy was pretty dumb when he slapped a literal rocket launcher out of a guys arms. And then he has the audacity to get mad at Solider for blowing up the car as if he didn't throw the launcher on the ground.
Good point! Though this is helped tremendously by the surreal nature of the setting. Hard to tell what's real let alone what a good decision in a situation would be considering that.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 Well spy was the antagonist of the movie much I think, he executed a lot of people for himself, he always called soldier 'an idiot' although soldier saved him from literally death. He lied to people that Medic suicided because he was too scared to be caught, made himself Chairman although he didn't deserve. He was at least an anti-hero.
First we went from short animated funny skits to full length horror films. I swear, the SFM community has not only put another nail in the coffin of Hollywood but also outdone their horror movie industry! This was so well done!
One thing I find really interesting, is how medic's regeneration is... something that shouldn't really be surprising, since he's the only character in game who has passive HP regen without any additional unlocks. He's already a regenerative beast who can heal back a shotgun blast to the chest in less than a minute, it's just recontextualized in the same way the respawns were, making it appear unnatural, surreal, horrific and creepy. What a wonderful film.
yeah, i actually didn't bat an eye at his regeneration scenes, I've read the comics and main him, so having a grotesque regeneration scene is something i kinda expected. SPOILER: I still got so surprised by the funeral regeneration scene i said out lot "A la verga" while my family was asleep lmao
@@DellConagher1 with the comics i meant how he does horrible experiments and bends the laws of nature, dude revived all of the mercs with absolutely insane methods, compared to that i think him having passive regen isnt all out there (The Naked and The Dead had a scene where he talks with the devil and gets up perfectly fine from being shot, don't know if that counts)
This is how you make a horror movie. No dumb characters making dumb decisions, no wastage of time, no repetitive jumpscares and just pure suspense and horror. Fortress Film your years of hard work was definitely way more worth than we thought would love to more videos of these.
The entire Scout side plot was legitimately disturbing. Just a guy getting by, accidentally getting ruined and intoxicated by the medic, only to be stalked, kidnapped, and mutilated into an expendable, thoughtless demon designed to kill
@@theabyss310 I was gonna say I thought that was RED team's Scout but then I remembered he's one of the corpses upstairs in the gun area, so now I don't know lol
10:08 Soldier: Doc... What is wrong with the teleporter? Medic: It doesn't always work like it's supposed to. Tumors get in the bread...Trying to come through. Soldier: What the hell are you talking about, Doc? Medic: We cannot teleport bread anymore...
10:08 Soldier: Doc... What is wrong with the teleporter? Medic: It doesn't always work like it's supposed to. Tumors get in the bread...Trying to come through. Soldier: What the hell are you talking about, Doc? Medic: We cannot teleport bread anymore...
This speaks on so many levels,two most important in my eyes is: -It speaks on how good SFM animation can still be,regardless of the age -It speaks on behalf of how good the creator/director and everyone involved in the making of this is at making,just in general. Congratulating this couldn't transcribe it well enough. This is just phenomenal through and through. Everybody's highest praise to anyone who worked on this.
> -It speaks on how good SFM animation can still be,regardless of the age Adding onto that, I would like to know the process behind the film. It must have been hell to make a feature-length film in SFM - we've already seen LazyPurple's suffering to make a few minutes of SFM.
Doesn't only speak on how good SFM animation can be, and how good the cast was, but also further proves how the budget does *not* matter to make quality movies.
everything about this is perfect, the acting, the animation, the lighting, the colors, the composition, the plot, the horror. Honestly hope that this blows up more than it already has.
Ima be honest im kinda disappointed with the story, i thought it would all go back around and make sense, like maybe spy turns into the guy with the mask and maybe the medic at the end gives the briefcase to heavy and restarts the story
The elevator was mortifying. So much emotion, yet zero words. Watching medic lose it while the other two just stare at each other...what a brilliant scene
I wasn't sure what to expect going into Emesis Blue, but this is beyond incredible. In the past, I've considered Spy's Disguise to be my favorite SFM movie and a standout in quality and production value, yet this blows it out of the water. The animation is realistic, with characters having a real depth to them. Ludwig and Doe are excellent protagonists, with badass moments and moments of human vulnerability. Even the side characters have hints at their own stories, with their distinct models and personalities helping them stand out in their own right. As a surreal horror/mystery thriller, Emesis Blue performs extremely well. The imagery is haunting, in no small part thanks to the cinematic look and feel of the whole movie. I'm able to follow the main gist of the story, but there's still so much left to interpretation. The voice acting is superb, though my only criticism is that the Corporal and Medic's panting sometimes sounded strange, like they were exhaling the word "Hai" instead of what people exhaling usually sounds like, if that makes sense. It's a minor thing, though. Otherwise, sound design was great, as were the other usual factors - lighting, particle work, scenebuilding, custom props and design. All incredible work. I don't think I'll ever understand everything that happened, and that's okay. But I did want to write down some thoughts on specific parts of the movie, so, Warning: Spoilers Ahead. The premise seems straightforward enough. Essentially, the Mann brothers contracted Jules Archibald to create a respawn machine which was supposed to help them win the Gravel War. Since he played both sides, the war stayed in a deadlock. But the real secrets - the true horror - lies in the underworkings of the respawn system. In Spy's Disguise, all we really saw was that the respawn system could be disabled, restoring the natural state of people dying when killed. In Emesis Blue, the respawn system is shown to be a superficially ingenious solution to the costly problem of hiring mercenaries. Beneath the surface, it's a flawed, experimental program that - beyond the obvious inhumanity of killing these people over and over again and cheating death - can also result in its users being... corrupted? I'm not sure what actually brought about phenomena like the spindly Scout monstrosity, or the zombie mercs, or the undead but lucid mercenaries (such as the masked Heavy) who are able to survive heavy physical damage unless it involves decapacitation. While the respawn system seems to be one factor, there's also the medical experiments, like when Red Medic injected the dead Heavy with some sort of solution - perhaps whatever was in that syringe is actually what's used to revive the dead within the respawn system. All these people seem to be victims, even the killers. Results of horrific medical experiments. Subordinates who know that Hell awaits them either way. Or, in Scout's (and his mom's) case, people being silenced for being involved. So the question is, who's the mastermind? Jules Archibald? But he's dead. His revival at the very end was but a figment of the dying Ludwig's imagination. He's a pawn, I'd imagine. A face for selling products and closing deals. There's still one character we don't know anything about. The person with the Grimm Hatte, Blighted Beak, and glowing glasses. The one who took the briefcase from the Corporal. We don't see them for almost all of the movie, somehow. They briefly appear in the crowd fleeing after Ludwig shoots the Corporal, but that seems to be the end to their screentime. Who are they? Are they the mastermind, or just another undead mercenary working for some other higher-up? The Mann brothers obviously don't know anything, though they make an entertaining comedic duo during their very brief moments on screen. In terms of named characters that haven't died, there's also Dell Conagher, but the bartender is clearly a subordinate as well, and his significance probably lies in his work on the respawn system. Going by TF Comics lore, he might even be the original creator, but who knows. Regardless, he seems more like the lead engineer type than the CEO type. Which reminds me of another important question - just what did Ludwig see inside that briefcase? I can't begin to guess at the specifics, but it should be related to Emesis® Diazepam. I'm a little confused by the relation between Diazepam and the rest of the story, but I can extrapolate that it might be connected to the solution being used to revive the dead and induce all those nasty side effects. If so, Emesis has created a gruesome sort of immortality machine. As for what their true purposes are (because it can't just be money) - I have no clue. What makes this truly surreal is all the temporal and spatial anomalies that occurr in the Conagher Slaughterhouse. Characters see the past and interact with their past selves only insofar as to fulfill what they saw in the future in some kind of time loop. This goes beyond hallucinations, flashbacks, or memories - this is actual distortion in spacetime. It's visual, auditory, and tactile, with the past being seen, heard, and felt. People and objects disappear - entire scenes rearrange themselves into separate environments - Demo somehow finds himself in a bar with Dell, Doe listens to a past meeting between stakeholders, and Ludwig scrambles his way into a whole chapel. Though there still remains a thread of logical consistency between locations even while deep in the Slaughterhouse, there's clearly some mysterious greater power at work here. Ludwig is a deep, meaningful character. We see a religious man going mad from what he witnesses. We see him wracked with guilt over Scout's torture and death. We see him growing cold, calculating, beginning to accept the harsh reality he was facing. What I still wonder is why he's able to resurrect, him alone. Once after being shot by a Conagher, and then again after losing Russian roulette (seemed to take longer the second time). Perhaps he's tied to the respawn system in the Slaughterhouse? At the very end of the movie, it seems he does finally get to die. His apparent inability to resurrect after opening the briefcase may be related to the Diazepam he took (or did he? That was just a dream sequence, wasn't it?), or it may be because of the destruction of the Slaughterhouse, which contained the respawn system. Also, I haven't mentioned it yet, but Doe makes an excellent deuteragonist as well. His reckless nature covers his traumatic, wartorn past. I was rooting for him the entire time, even though he wasn't really the "main" character. He was a courageous badass being thrown into situations he should never have faced. He works well as a supporting character with his own goals, fears, and motivations. It's a shame that his buddy one-armed Demo had to die, like it's the War! comic all over again. Emesis Blue is the sequel to Spy's Disguise. So more hints may lie in how the BLU Spy and Engi from Spy's Disguise, well... where even were they in this film? I don't believe we know the actual names for those two characters, so we can't definitively conclude whether they are the same as certain Spies or Engies in this movie. But I'll try to make guesses anyways. After seeing the tape, Scout blames Ludwig for everything. Ludwig recorded those series of tapes while he was treating BLU Spy after the bloodbath at Sawmill, having seen the machine abomination that Spy could turn into. That was the end of last movie; now, Ludwig's alone, and Spy seems nowhere to be found. Just based on that, one could probably conclude that Spy is the mastermind responsible for the events in this movie, and Scout was angry that Ludwig permitted such an abomination to run free. One could even draw a correspondence between the Grimm Hatte figure (aka potential mastermind) and BLU Spy, as well as Dell Conagher and BLU Engi. That's what I would say except for the obvious physical differences between these people. The Grimm Hatte figure is wearing Medic cosmetics, and Dell's attire and physical appearance don't match the BLU Engi at all. So honestly, I have no clue whatsoever where BLU Spy and Engi are. Maybe they just didn't make an appearance in this movie after all. There's one last detail I noticed. At Scout's house, Ludwig sees a bloody M painted on the wall. In the bar at the very end, the camera pans to an M on the wall as Ludwig enters the bathroom, where he consumes the Emesis (pronounced M-esis) pills. All this actually shows is Emesis's involvement, which was already clear, but I figured it was worth mentioning anyways. There's a lot I want to know, and a lot more I haven't said. It's hard to express how I felt seeing the head of Scout's mom that first time, or hearing a dying Conagher cackle in his last moments, or realizing that Ludwig had died and the bar scene was never real. All in all, Emesis Blue is a monumental achievement of SFM animation and storytelling. It's an inspiration and a testiment to the ever-expanding limits of what can be accomplished with this decade-old animation program. Fortress Films, you've really outdone yourselves yet again.
The fact in how you can grab these normally cartoony characters on somehow write and produce thriller that is not only well made but that also can be taken seriously and get you invested from start to end is more than just impresive. This is more than a fan animation, this is a work of art.
"I'm so excited to see scout in emesis blue" I saids with excitement. little did I knows it would be a feature a creature feature featuring, the creature
what the fuck happened, did the doc just hallucinate everything this whole time or did this shit actually happen but was replaying through doc's head because of those pills????
The tunnel soldier was in I believe the roaring was from the mutant scout he stabbed in the head with the crowbar because of how the lights in the tunnel went out like when he encountered him on the stairs.
56:00 this shot has to be the most spine chilling tf2 sfm creation I have ever seen. It reveals the obvious truth about pyro, but it manages to do it in a way that still feels freaky and terrifying. God I wish I could watch this scene for the first time again.
![SPY'S DISGUISE [SFM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9MiJWNkmWfs/mqdefault.jpg)
![SPY'S DISGUISE [SFM]](/img/tr.png)
This happens when you get 20 Seconds to respawn
True.
Exactly how I feel every time
bro
fuck 2Fort respawn timer, by the time I respawn, the enemy already capped the intel 3x and won
Yep.
Red Lore: ”WE CANNOT TELEPORT BREAD ANY MORE!”
Blu Lore:
I piss myself
lol
@@windcap6449*insert meet the sniper*
"You didnt have to cut me off"
@@The_whales who jus-
To think that Soldier was the most sane person out of everyone in this SFM says alot…
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Love when Medic got revenge on people who've killed him, he actually does more. Listening to scout "If they hit you with som'in hit 'em back twice as hard." When medic is killed by one of the Conaghers, He was hit 5 times. But when revived and killing him, he gets 6 blows in. As well for spy, he was shot once in Russian roulette, and in the funeral Medic shoots Spy twice.
That's actually such a cool detail I wouldn't have noticed by my own
Medic is immortal
So all of this happened during Halloween.
Boy, this is the most intense Scream Fortress event I've ever seen.
I wonder what their gonna make for Swissmas.
@@ThatguyUkn0wfr0mS0mewhereBLUE CHRISTMAS
Yea they should put an event on halloween where they show this video and have cosmetics like the end of the line update
The M is for Merasmus
The M is for miraculous animation
I'd like to imagine this is the kind of story the BLU team gets involved in regularly, while RED is fighting robots and teleporting bread.
RED Soldier : " I teleported bread! "
BLU Soldier : " I've killed 5 men in cold blood.. "
I've always headcanon'd that the BLU team is composed of serious and hard-working men in contrast with the living meme goofballs that form the RED team, and on top of that, they're literally cloned from the RED team then brainwashed and trained.
@@joltz..2042
RED Medic: "I am Ze Ubermenzch!"
BLU Medic:
@@RinHere1937 that's it I'm in the fandom now and will be for many years thank you for this head cannon
@@avrie6668 Np, happy to share this headcanon with someone
SFM artists on their way to go from making 30 second skits featuring a fat Russian saying “Pootis” to horror movies 2 Hours long
Two hour long horror movies!
@@Wolfsbane1745 two hundred thousand dollar long horror movies!
@@berchead12 Fantastic!
You sound like if it was a bad thing
@@Littlesegitiga cocacolastic
Spy is literally the embodiment of every spy main
Blames everything that was their fault on other people
And Medic is well..
the embodiment of a medic main
*Scene fades to black and then a 2fort gameplay starts playing with a voice over*
"That was a recreation of a competitive clip that shows How it FEELS to play Medic"
Lazy Purple reference i see? Cultured Mann.
Vs machine
as a medic main, i can confirm
Underrated comment, got me pissin myself lmaoooo!!!! xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
It could actually work lol😂😂😂
For such a spooky movie, the "He's been handy sir"
"He's got none left!" Really got me
Don't forget the pregnancy machine
@@theone.whoaskedlmao
"I did not ask for your opinion"
What timestamp
@@True_Sun_God 57:50
BLU: *Complete Horror and tragedy*
Meanwhile RED: "I teleported bread."
One rule don't teleport the bread or you get me hi I'm the bread man and my life it's kinda crazy
@@DecepticonComOfficerCRAZY? I was crazy once, they locked me in a rubber room, a rubber room full of rubber rats.
It's not as funny since I changed my username but oh well
@@DecepticonComOfficerAwww.
@@DecepticonComOfficerAw man.
44:09 You can hear German stuka dive bombers as the sound of the mutated scout which indicates that Emesis blue soldier did serve in the Second World War as opposed to his TF2 version who hasn’t seen the horrors of war, glorifies war and shows off his non existent service in ww2.
Correction, although not officially serving in any US military branch, TF2 soldier did fight in ww2. He just did it by himself. Not disagreeing though, TF2 soldier does glorify war. He's just a psychopath like the rest of his colleagues.
@@jeremiahtomcanin487 that in itself is _also_ wrong. Soldier never fought in WW2. He just went to Germany and started slaughtering innocents indiscriminately... which happened *after* WW2 was over.
@@EripmavsDYraidActually Soldier went to Poland in 1949, and went on a rampage on the poor Polish mistaken them for German soldiers and officers.
Soldier went to Europe in 1941 as that’s the year the USA went to war
"And that's how I lost my medical license!"
Heavy in his mind: ... am i going to become zombie?
@@Жнец-ь1ы No idea :D
underated comment
You know you can't lost something you never had
@@Жнец-ь1ы don’t cry you big baby…. It’s just your life and not mine 😊
i love how despite the fact that the mercs are portrayed as very well past their prime, soldier still sees a rocket launcher and has a caveman instinct to perform a rocket jump
I guarantee you should demo have a sticky launcher in this movie,the first thing he'd do is sticky jump
757
Bridget enjoyer spotted
Respect+
what timestamp
27:35 @@Diplexify
1:36:45 I just find it really funny when the spy tells everyone at the funeral that the guy died and everyone gasps like they weren't at his fucking funeral at that very moment.
"The heavy is dead!?"
"Yes. He died!"
Definitely feels like a joke that the TF2 comics would make.
@@jtlego1 i wish the tf2 comic was still going
@@GermaphobeMusic why is dead heavy?
I think it’s more the fact he was murdered and didn’t have a heart attack or something
I waited far too long to actually sit down and watch this. I didn't know SFM could be used to make a high quality feature film, and a spooky one at that! Everything is so tastefully done. The animation is stylish but respects the source material. The characters line up with the original mercs really well. Nothing is ever gratuitous, and none of the humour that is sprinkled in undercuts the horror.
Imagine if they were using a software more powerful than SFM (pretty much everything), wouldn't that just make it a more than perfect movie?
Also there are no cheap jumpscare to create that artifical sense of tension and horror.
“What’d he tell ya?”
“It’s eternity in there.”
Gives me chills, favorite line in the entire movie.
i loved the part where soldier blows the shit outta sniper
Stephen King's "The Jaunt" . . .
@@BrewMe96 yeah me too
@@BrewMe96 🤨🤨🤨
i see what you mean before i got to that scene i took a gander at the comments and found yours i just got to the part where he says it
very spooky
My favorite part of this is honestly how they kept the friendship between Soldier and Demo. It’s just nice, I don’t know.
facts! i was so happy
Soldier and demoman actually friends (yes its canon.)
same, the freezer scene was oddly wholesome!
In TF2 comics, Blu Soldier was friends with Red Demoman, so it makes sense. In this, it is also Blu Soldier and Red Demoman.
Best part it, Blu soldier and Red demo man became friends in the lore canonically
The 2fort respawn machine being broken and producing deformed mercs actually does a great job at explaing why T-posing scouts are such a common sight on the map.
Lol
ikr lol
It probably generate even the bots, freak the most common Place Is two Fort.
It's the reason we have Heavy A-posing and singing "I'm only human"
800th like
RED lore:
- teleporting bread
- pootis
- Scout's relationships
BLU lore:
- Emesis Blue
- Zombie Virus
- Battle against Devilish Saxton Hale in Hell
RED Lore:
Archimedes (The TF2 Soundtrack)
BLU Lore:
*Dreams of Cruelty* (Also the TF2 soundtrack)
RED Lore: Comedy and over all goofy crap
BLU Lore: .-- . / .- .-. . / .- .-.. .-.. / .. -. / .- / .... . .-.. .-.. / .-- . / -.-. .- -. .-..-. - / . ... -.-. .- .--. .
It ironic that the team that’s talked about the least is also has the best fan made lore ever
Guys don’t forget about HoovyDundy
Zombie Virus? Saxon in hell? I Eva watch this lol
The scene where medic is crying and soldier offers him his last cigarette is a masterpiece
Not crying. Hes laughing. When your body is overwhelmed by stress or fear your mind starts to try to calm you down by making you laugh.
Has hapened to me few times during panic attacks.
@@draw2death421
He cries due to shock, then he gets a cig and laughs out of overwhelming stress
Be there for your bros. They go through stuff and you just gotta be there. That's what matters
@@mister_needles yes
In Russia, if hand is rotten, you cut off hand. If arm is rotten, you cut off arm. But if heart is rotten... you cut off leg. This is Russian love song.
Can we talk about Spy for a second?
When Spy says "Who is there to save ME, Jules?" He overlooks Soldier. Soldier not only saved him once, during the confrotation with Heavy, but twice, when he tackled Spy to cover. He overlooks the fact it was his own fault, not Soldiers, that the Car blew up. He overlooks that Soldier just couldn't save him, not that he didn't try. When he flicks the cigeratte at Pyro, he never crossed his mind that he would've gotten burnt. He never realized that almost everything bad that happened to him was his own fault, and you could argue that his murder was technically his own fault too, since his insane depravity lead to Medic murdering him. He's a massive fucking hypocrite.
yeah, the canon Spy would consider this dude a fucking hack amateur and "disgrace to spies everywhere" (that's the voice line when a Spy dominates an enemy spy ingame.) His acting sucks (getting caught out as a fake at the crime scene), he didn't matador backstab the Heavy at the beginning of the movie despite having a clear opportunity to, he barely even shoots anyone with his revolver, and just is a fuckup in general.
True
That's a damn good detail
spy is the DSP character of the film, he did nothing wrong and its everyone elses fault
Let's say, hypothetically, I am a barbie girl. Okay let's even say I'm in a barbie world. Right so, in this scenario, I would obviously know from personal experience that life in plastic is fantastic. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume you could brush my hair and undress me literally everywhere? Imagination; you can derive from the fundamentals of basic logic that life is your creation.
Emesis Blue was made in Source Filmmaker. The most insane and inconsistent animation software known to man. I can barely place a character, move the limbs of the model, and have it on a flat surface. This man deserves monetary compensation far beyond whatever this video makes him. You sir, deserve a saxxy award.
Nah fuck that, they deserve an EMMY.
This needs to be in THEATERS homeboy
It was a whole team of people who made this, I think
whole ass team deserves 20 per person fr
got to agree, this deserves accolades ... hell the entire production team deserves accolades.
This was a masterpiece of suspense and horror... 9.5/10 its almost perfect.
I got here tonight to watch this masterpiece again on Halloween night and my birthday. And it's as amazing as a year ago
Happy Halloween to everyone who is watching tonight!
Hell yeah! Seemed like the perfect time to rewatch it :D
Same
this was my first time ever watching and i had the greatest time!
I don't know if im trippin or seeing things, but when i squinted my eyes, i saw the funny mustache man from Austria on your profile picture
Same but I saw this comment late
Soldier's voice actor is absolutely phenomenal, and his perfomance is a perfect tribute to what Rick May left behind.
Im glad that someone else agrees! I loved Solly's voice actor, One of my favorites in this sfm!
@@HurricaneBady yes
THIS WAS DUBBED!?!?
Your goddamn right
It was so good i didnt even realize how amazing it was until the second watching felt completely immersed in the story
Gotta say, Fortress Films did a great job of portraying the least painful round of 2fort
@gamingpotato stop It with the fucking Ohio jokes they arent funny anymore
@gamingpotato sssssshhhh!!!!
@gamingpotato this joke is milked way too much.
Doomprimaryfire
@gamingpotato most funny joke in youtube comment section
I don't think anyone would have guessed a horror-thriller would be the first notable, high-quality, TRUE feature-length SFM animation, that was also still grounded it in the TF2 world (albeit with more grittiness/seriousness and the use of popular headcanons).
Personally, I'm a sucker for any exploration into a respawn machine existing and explaining why there are just 9 mercenaries, especially when it explores just how potentially terrifying the concept can be. I genuinely enjoyed watching this abstract piece of art. Kudos to all those who worked on it! You guys put out a GREAT piece of artwork!
the skymin is real?!?
I agree! The people who made this did an amazing job, it's really cool that somebody got an idea like this as I think it works very well.
Ik it's a strange request but I hope you (or other viewers/influencers) can share this film around. It honestly deserves way more views than its getting right now considering the amount of effort that went into it.
Huh, looks like other TF2Tubers enjoy this stuff too.
Why do i feel like ive seen you before??? Sorry if this confuses you, but im very confused myself
You can tell from 1:22:42 that 4/6 spots in the revolver are empty. the top 3 are empty, and the middle on the bottom is also empty. Meaning, Spy never was in danger, and it was ultimately a 50/50 for Soldier and Medic
You know, when people say “some TF2 animators could make feature length films if they wanted” I don’t think anyone expected someone to actually try for it. I’m already looking forward to this.
I swear, we need to round up a bunch of animators like these to make an original feature film, and put it in for the big screen. Imagine Disney and Pixar getting their asses handed to them by a movie made by some GMOD animators.
The possibilities of what the SFM animators can create with one another are endless! One of the best SFM films out there. Aside from the Pootis Engage films.
>Unusual Redemption
@@willc3697 pp😊😊😊😊pppppp
Really putting the film in source filmmaker
I like how scout says "If they ever hit ya with som'in you hit back twice as hard you hear me?" Then at the end doc comes back to life and shoots spy twice
Also at the start the mother was beheaded and held up from the other side of the door what did Ludwig do? Halfway into the movie he held one of the henchmen heads from the other side AND HE USED A HACK SAW LIKE THE MOTHER DOIED!
That’s such a cool detail
UA-cam
what's even more serendipitous about that, is that Medic lost russian roulette that he was forced to do by Spy, obviously getting shot once, and then he shoots Spy twice at the end
You spoiled it😭
I guess soldier really lives up to his name. He was the only true survivor, he didn’t lose much of his sanity and he even was caring for his friends.
You could say that he was the “final girl” of every horror movie
More like final man.
More like final mann
Bruh
There is literally a comment that states that Solider used to talk alot before, but after Conagher's Slaughterhouse he didn't talk alot. Proving his trauma.
I think I can (somewhat) provide translations for Pyro here:
37:40 “Don’t move.”
37:49 “Stay right there.”
37:55 “Drop it.”
38:00 “Turn to face me.”
38:08 “Now get down.”
38:18 “Wait right here.”
38:34 (Laughter)
1:06:30 “Where is he?”
I actually saw someone theorize that this is the red spy! And if that's true, it means there is no pyro in this film. Pretty eerie to leave them out :) Not trying to tell you that you're wrong or whatever, I just think it would be cool as fuck.
Yeah I think so because pyro has canisters on his mask and that wouldn't work with the mask
@@Puro218 A key plot point of this movie is that the respawn machine slowly strips away the humanity of the people using it, and considering Pyro is hardly all there in regular TF2 lore, I'd say it's pretty safe to say that he's not human at all here, just some sort of respawn machine abomination that thinks it's Pyro
@Red-pq4xx I think like it could be the "10th class" (if he isn't already the Undertaker) as in one of the photos and hallucinations later in the video, he's on fire as he comes out of the respawn machine, which explains the peak under the mask.
Dude, he didn't even talk XD
Everyone who worked on this needs to put this in their portfolios and resumes. This isn't just a good sfm, it's a good film in general.
Ong
@kepi1812 Kinda sad that a student film is leagues better than a lot of Hollywood releases these days.
@kepi1812 I'd like to tell you to imagine a world where no one ever iterated on ideas like a time machine because the namesake book did it 100+ years ago, but the drawers your thinking is stuck in tell me to save both yours and my time.
@kepi1812 too many references yeah. It was neat at first but eventually became really distracting, especially the multitude of Shining references. Student film quality though it’s fantastic.
@@slyseal2091 How pretentious can you be...? He's simply pointing out that it just isn't very good all things considered, and you react by projecting your own closed-minded thinking onto him.
"the drawers your thinking is stuck in tell me to save both yours and my time", hahah!
How pathetically ironic of you.
I suppose my comment is admittedly quite pointless, because with just one comment you have shown to be the kind of person who never changes their mind. You'll simply dig your feet into the group, no matter how stupid your position is.
This entire movie just shows me how if you change the lighting in any scenario, it can instantly become spooky
Lighting and sound make a scene
Nah but for real, the color grading in this is beyond impressive
this is just a loop
Also don't forget the ambience
@@bluespy377lighting and sound make an ambience
32:05 these two shots are so damn clever, having him pull his gloves off with his teeth but keeping his hands out of frame and removing his overcoat shown only in silhouette is such an incredibly smartvway to avoid having to animate realistic cloth physics in an engine that was absolutely not designed for them.
Holy shit, you are right. That is clever as crap.
Don't forget the scene where Spy's mask is removed. The way they did it was... Mwa, chief's kiss.
@tavdog11 chief’s kiss
Do y'all mean Chef's Kiss?
ja
I think it's to change models, from the coated one to the uncoated one.
Every year on Halloween, I come back to this masterpiece to rewatch it.
Every year? It's barely 2 years old. Regardless it's a really good movie. :)
God I wish Valve still did the Saxxy awards so this masterpiece could get what it deserves
it is saxxy in our hearts
@@zimrielvery saxxy
They need to make a whole new award for this level of film.
A Golden Crowbar?
@@DoctorProph3tno, the golden pill bottle
This is beyond the Saxxy awards. This deserves so much more
never thought I'd see the day that a really fantastic psychological horror film would take place primarily within 2fort starring tf2 characters.
2fort is a psychological horror that every tf2 fan fear
I love the way they made them look I don’t know, but they changed they look more human and cold
@@elijah1791The use of mo-cap suits definitely helped, but I think the main thing is the animation for the facial expressions, especially the eyes.
Once upon a time in 2fort part 2 kinda was close to what you’re describing
@@mechanicpluto2430did they really use mocap? How
I just want to say, that the entire sequence with Scout in his home is genuinely unsettling. Scout listening to his own voice on the other end of the phone, his mothers' head peering out from around the corner at him with the whistling. It's just such a well done scene, so good.
That scene was a complete and utter masterclass in terror. The atmosphere, the lack of music/fanfare/jumpscares, you just see the look of absolute dread on Scout's face...and then the next scene, there it is. Just, perfection.
I found the mother's voice a bit unsettling when she says "Dinner's ready dear" right before the phone rings. It doesn't sound right
You forgot about the mothers head dropping.
@@DarkStriker06 I also caught that when I first watched the movie. The atmosphere was already unnerving, and her not sounding normal added to that. Then her head dropped to the ground and you realize it wasn't her at all.
“You ever get the feeling like you're being watched?”
RED: "random goofy things including fighting robots and teleporting bread"
BLU: "actual horror that will make you stay up at night"
I love how both Spy and Soldier were absolutely flabbergasted that their radio can transmit. Both reveals were executed perfectly.
A movie being made in SFM making me feel more emotions than most movies nowadays. This movie is just incredible.
Thats when you know the movie was made with passion, most movie studios just throw grabage at it just to profit of it and become rich
SFM may be wildly outdated & can frequently be as quirky as hell, but one of its greatest strengths is how a creator can so deftly include minor gestures & facial expressions...If the Team were modeled to be more realistically human, you might begin to wonder who hired such great actors.
I'm 42 minutes in and i have no idea what is happening
@@vilxux9752 i watched it 3 times
And i barely know whats going on bruh
@@vilxux9752 It's all about the Respawn Machine that brings dead Team members back to life. It's not perfect. It's failures leave unpredictable changes in their minds, psyches, & bodies (sometimes even resulting in another immediate or not so immediate physical death again).
Let's face it, even by the standards of the world they live in (ie- the background lore in the comics & various videos), these guys are clinically insane. They had their mental quirks even before being hired & experimented on for this purpose but each respawn they go through further solidifies how bad they are at functioning even in the warped society where they came from. They were chosen because they were the very few who *survived* the initial testing & experimentation but that was by no means leaving them unscathed.
The mental scarring is the worst, even if they don't retain any conscious memories after walking out of the machine, there is still the lasting emotional impact. they have to deal with. How else can they find the idea that they're fighting copies of themselves on the opposing Team as being "normal?" Why is it pretty much only those nine people that get thrown into the meat grinder of war? These are just two ideas that they deal with on a daily basis, never really having someone else to unload their mental burdens or help them cope with them. They only have each other even though they're all stuck in the same situation & have no opportunity to see outside of it.
What kind of mental stress do they go through every time they're "reconstituted" by that machine? Twenty seconds to respawn "in game" is a long time to a mind on the edge of true death...
"It's eternity in there."
The human mind was never wired to understand the true meaning of eternity.
Another thing; not only does Soldier get quieter the more happens to him, you also see more and more of his eyes as the movie progresses
It's like his eyes have finally been opened to the horrors around him. He's seen too much, and now he can't *unsee*
I can't believe it's been 11 months since I watched it when it came out. I thought it was like 5 months...
He'll never be able to go fully back to normal after what he's seen...
You’re black
Holy, I never even realized that and I’ve watched this like 4 times. Good find
Medic: "i killed the Conaghers!"
Soldier :" who gave you that order?"
Medic :They tried to kill me,Is that enough?"
Never in my life have I been tricked into watching a horror movie and been absolutely into it for every moment of it, but here we are. Absolute masterpiece, truly one of the greatest things ever created with SFM
I thought I hated horror, but I love this in the way that I love much of the scp foundation. It's far more than just horror. This is art.
YOU DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS A HORROR MOVIE FROM THE FIRST 30 SECONDS??
@@sami_irl He prob did.
Do you think the Heavy in the suit was essentially Mr X from RE2
@@adamgill9730 Yeah, that was definitely the vibe I got, plus a little bit of Nemesis with the "S.T.A.R.S..."-esque line of *"BUILDERS LEAGUE..."*
This and Pootis Engage stand on two opposite ends of what it means to be masterpieces of SFM work--Balls-to-the-wall screwball parody comedy on one end, dark and compelling psychological horror on the other.
Balls to the wall screwball comedy with some of the best fighting in SFM
@@cookiecraze1310 That too, with a mention to CrashMaul in the action category as well.
@@zergvsgenin CrashMaul is my favorite to watch when it comes to SFM action
RobCo vs General Atomics
end of the line is still more cinematic than both
- How does the Respawn Machine work?
- Well, the dead have to get through Silent Hill, the Shining and a few other Horror dimensions, and THEN they need to be lucky about their backup files.
Oh, it seems you forgot went through the Warp or Inmaterium too
@@elduquecaradura1468 yeahhh i can definitely see some of this stuff being the work of Chaos
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1. I think they fix every single atom that’s usually in the body, but I’m no TF2 user, nor have I know any lore besides this. So my guess is that they observe any damage and repair them to its regular state. In this one, it has failed to recognize the person and made mistakes.
2. I have… NO idea.
What about death forest?
“No!” At 1:23:17 is the last thing soldier says in this entire movie
It truly shows a shift in character
Soldier becomes more and more quiet and he's eyes more and more uncovered till the escape from the slaughterhouse
Umm… aktually..🤓🤓 it was “ HA HA HAHAHA “🤓🤓
Im glad that despite the incredible horror he still managed to include "pregnancy machine" as a throwaway joke
timestamp?
1:03:18@@cevatkokbudak6414
Srsly we need the timestamp
@@Spy_cr4b 1:03:18
@@kaiuniverse876 thanks
"You're gonna make it, Fritz"
"I know"
This line hits hard. Doc knew he would pull it through no matter if he got shot or not. This is one of the best psychological horror thriller I've ever seen.
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I liked every reply and comment 👍
Dude I swear right when I read this comment I was exactly at 1:23:11. It’s rare for an hour long video.
Trys
Mario movie? DOOM? Final Fantasy?
*TF2* has entered the chat.
Tf2 has to have some of best short films and movies out there.
What Half - Life?
Vengo del after...
Que buena recomendación
@@juani4718 Yo también
Its a little uncanny coming back to this video after comic 7 finally came out and how they ALMOST got the spy without his mask design EXACTLY right
I like how even when they're being attacked by insane serial killers and monsters, Red Demoman and Blu Soldier have a good time together since they're friends, just like in the lore.
Redmond Mann: YIPEE YOUR DEAD I LIVE
Medic: Nuh uh
@@sutatpogquan815funi
@@sutatpogquan815
a tree: yuh uh
Hey wait a minute your not a assassin your a crazed gun mann
"He's been handy sir."
"HE'S GOT NONE LEFT!"
absolutely killed me
Which part?
@@BoundedLead 58:00
This has to be both the creepiest and the most confusing movie I've seen in a very long time. To think such an incredible masterpiece was made on the SFM fills me with awe.
that used to be my old pfp so you can imagine my horror as I saw it, like no way I saw this before lmao, thought I pulled a medic
In Russia, if hand is rotten, you cut off hand. If arm is rotten, you cut off arm. But if heart is rotten... you cut off leg. This is Russian love song.
its you
Deez nuts fill u with awe
it fills me more with dread that someone was powerful enough to create a movie that long and amazing IN SFM
I watched too much lazy purple to not think of all the problems it had, how much it broke and crashed and failed. Yet it is so well made, dunno who gave the creators will and strength to finish it, but I applaud them
Just saw this again for 2nd time my little sister watched it too see thought it was pretty good. I'm gonna see this every Halloween for now long, see you next year Emesis Blue.
Same here. :)
Some interesting things I noticed while watching
Scout picks up a movie called M (1931), a famous German thriller about a man in black that kills children. He’d paint a bloody M on his palm which stood for Murder. The movie’s director also shares the same first name with the BLU medic: Fritz.
Both archibald and scout have stitched wounds on the left side of their head. After Soldier meets Archibald, his head wound is gone, but he is then shot in the exact place his stitches used to be.
The color black is synonymous with death. All the undead mercenaries wear it, the RED sniper switches to black attire once he becomes another member. The BLU spy’s trenchcoat is scorched black. The BLU medic wears all black when he emerges from the coffin (which is foreshadowed in an earlier dream sequence)
Also for my own personal theory on the plague doctor: I believe it to be a representation or incarnation of Death. It's possible the plague doctor is an alter ego of the medic as well, but I won't go into that as there are a few inconsistencies that disprove this theory.
The plague doctor being Death could be shown in how it only seems to manifest or appear where someone has died, or where death is in abundance (the war flashback). It also wears all black, which as shown is symbolic of death in this film. The plague doctor guides the BLU team to the slaughterhouse to uncover the truth, but also in guiding them there, results in the death of all the "undead" creatures that eluded it. It looks on in approval when Fritz executes the BLU spy and begins a slaughter at the funeral.
To add onto this, there are several references to Kubrick's work. The most noticeable examples I saw being two from The Shining (the scenes featuring doors opening and releasing a flood, The Red Bathroom ambiguously representing some sort of afterlife) and one from Dr. Strangelove (The War Room scene, it's already an asset in TF2, but the framing and black-and-white coloring really hones in on the reference to the original movie.) There could be more but those were the ones I remembered on first viewing.
Does the rule of black dress also apply to Soldier, since he shoots and kills Blutarch?
@@icyatlasartworksI think Soldier wore black because he was initially attending a funeral.
@@cedplayable Oh, I forgot about that.
@@icyatlasartworks You could say he was about to join them though,
given he was about to use a handgrenade to take himself and Spy out together during Spy's speech, until Medic pulled his switcheroo reveal.
Aside from the in-world funeral reason, thematically, it could also be for that too.
The fact that it's a psychological horror made by TF2 characters made it so unexpecting it had my jaws dropped the whole film.
@@jeffcarroll1990shock they only gave their opinion on the movie. if thaf offended you then learn to scroll チqkfqce.
@@jeffcarroll1990shock "Oh no! I very much dislike their opinion! Let me cry about it on the internet and call the film a rip-off to make myself feel better!"
@@jeffcarroll1990shock Lovecraft just ripped off reality itself.
@@jeffcarroll1990shock I've seen my fair share of hot takes but yours is hot enough to become a miniature Sun
it's also wrong
@@jeffcarroll1990shock wrong, and also lets you make a better sfm lol
Y'all don't just deserve a Saxxy, y'all deserve an Emmy
No, not an Emmy. An Oscar
Imagine Valve makes a new item just titled "A fucking Emmy"
Description: "Yall need to chill, this was intended for comedy"
Imbued with an ominous power
Tbh Saxxy has become a more impressive reward since they stopped giving them
If Markiplier in Space was nominated we can get this nominated
@@smolltaco5667 i was talking about SFMs
The end really brought it together with medic taking diazepan unknowingly and being found dead by crashing
The dedication to making a 2 hour horror film with nothing but sfm is absolutely mind boggling
they used other assets.
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 it's still sfm lmao
@@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 what did you expect them to create a 2 hour horror film only using models from tf2?
The whole using the same scenes in a loop part is really great - and probably made using SFM for this (slightly) easier (but only slightly)
@@alikks8161 thats what the og commenter was implying
Cant belive that someone just made a tf2 horror movie on a decade old software and with more love than valve for the original game is amazing
Yep
Theres a distorted voice in reverse in 34:06 when medic goes out of his kill mode. Does anyone know what it says?
@@RazorsharpLT”If I had a gun I’d shoot you, you sick bastard” but pitched down and in reverse
@@RazorsharpLT "your mom"
not funny.
1:38:35 Soldier's the real one. He didn't spout the lie, look disgusted by the speech, and was going to put an end to all the charade at the funeral, including himself, with a grenade.
1:37:12 I like to think that Soldier is laughing because of the absurdity of the situation. He seen everything in there and they are trying to cover up the truth. Like he wasn’t there to witness it
@@toheekang174 and plus the PTSD from it really messed with him
Spoilers!!!
Heheheh
Taunt kill refrence
The longest and most amazing SFM I’ve ever seen. Watching this on October got me hiding under my blankets though
One thing I like is, how soldier is portrayed in this film. At first you kind of expect him to be the insane, wild card of the cast, but after a while you realize that he is probably the sanest person in the whole film
to me, he's kind of like a loyal dog. willing to follow you to the end of the earth, and nearly forgiving of everything.
@@crossbo5345For the most part. He was willing to do a suicide explosion after realizing that the Smoker and Jules were evil, hence him helping Medic when the police came by and Soldier killing Blutarch.
I tend to think that's the RED Soldier. It's good that the counterparts from both teams have distinct personalities, just like different people play the same character in the game.
your mistaken 1:22:25 spy is the most sane
Same
9:26 The subtle rotation of the cylinder of the revolver as he applies pressure to the trigger, right before he spares him.
When spy catches on fire he tries to attempt suicide by pointing the revolver at his head
Attention to detail
the revolver shown is a nagant 1895 revolver converted to double action, if you look you can also see the hammer cocking back as he pulls the trigger as well
Never thought I'd see a Team Fortress 2 horror movie, let alone one that is unironically better than way better than most modern horror movies
thanks duke nukem!!!!
That’s a bit of a stretch
i love when people say things like this. it really emphasizes how few modern horror movies you've actually seen that aren't like, The Conjuring.
@@DriedPlaneta pretty recent example is Evil Dead Rises; it’s not scary, just extremely gory.
@@cactuss33dsYou think these guys actually still watch movies? Bet they haven't even played any games except TF2.
Why I think so? Well, they watch reviewers who hate everything, and they base their opinion on it, and because of that, they avoid playing or watching them.
Almost 2 years old and this is a masterpiece that we on in the team fortress to community for all of our lifestyles
Thank you Fortress Films
Medic's character arc is unironically one of the best in any film I have ever seen. I'm genuinely blown away at the quality of this film. It doesn't just deserve a Saxxy, it deserves a goddamn Academy Award
I honestly really liked Medics character as well
Is it possible you could explain Medic's Character arc to me? Frankly, I don't understand it.
This video Has many plotholes, example when did he pick up the bazooka after being shot at?
@@Shitposting_IHMN I mean, your not watching a blockbuster studio production
An oscar
RED Soldier: "I have done nothing but teleport bread for three days!"
BLU Soldier:
"I have done nothing but go through..."
Hell
Bro stole top comment
@@JesseMC_yt I did? sorry i didnt see it my bad
@@Stek_Vr9788 all good
for the record I was talking about this one:
@GoodSaulman_is_McJimmyGill
1 year ago
Red Lore: ”WE CANNOT TELEPORT BREAD ANY MORE!”
Blu Lore:
Fun fact: this movie was so good that a small company called valve decided to make a game based off it
Wow 😮
thats so cool, wonder what the game is called. maybe feam tortress 2.
@@JoyScreams Don't you mean the second installment of squad-factioned military stronghold?
@@mahlawn2808 no no it goes Group-Castle 1??
@@becauseiexistlmaomembership household 0
01:13:20 Canonically, the blue soldier and the red demoman were friends even though they had to fight on opposite sides. At this moment, even in death, the demoman tries to make a final move to save his friend.
Blu:
-Several bullets to the head and chest
-Burned alived
-Flung 100 meters
-Stabbed several times
-Smacked many times (With weapons)
*Survives without a problem*
Red:
-Gets shot once
*Dead*
They just take longer to respawn
Lol
It was a random crit
payback for the meet the team animations
@@gustavomonteirorodrigues3554genius😂
The fact that at one moment they aren’t even talking anymore and just heavy breathing and screams keeping us entertained is crazy
???
what language is this
@@willzsocial let me break it down for you: "The film does such a great job of showing that even without dialogue it's entertaining"
“Hey, Doc!”
Holy shit, that was one of the most chilling final scenes in any movie I’ve ever watched.
i don't really get it, can you explain?
@@twerp3428 he goes to the afterlife at the end after being killed in a car crash, and that’s also where all the respawn incompatible people stay for the rest of time. Because Jeremy was respawn incompatible, he stays there forever, and Fritz smiles because he finally sees him again. Then a misformed, flaming version of him spawns from the respawn machine in Connegher Slaughterhouse.
@@Tarnished-bn5gq OOH so he realized that he was like, dead dead, so he smiled. And if you died and didn't come back you were in the afterlife and the other you that came back is a monster. Got it thanks 😎👍
@@twerp3428 not exactly… Fritz dying in the car crash didn’t disable his respawn compatibility, he just was in the purgatory until being respawned, however the respawn machine was broken by the slaughterhouse’s destruction, so the respawned Fritz was the flaming one we saw at the end.
@@Tarnished-bn5gq im gonna hafta re watch the movie :C
I find it so impressing how it turns constantly from horror to normal, to strange, to friendship, but back to horror
1:39:50
I really like Soldier's Arc on this film, in the beginning he seems determined to fulfill his duty to Archibald and rescue him, and in the end he is like "fuck these rich assholes" and helps the Medic escape, after all the horrrors they've been through, they are the ones who survived, and they earned the right to kill the Mann Brothers and give them Retribution for the horrrors they have endured
(Not sure about this bc I haven’t understood a single thing about this) but I think there are 2 Medics, the one that exited the coffin and the one that cannot die and another one that died(?) this confuses me a lot
@@theitak9946
It’s the same medic. He hid himself in the coffin after he revived
I was scrollimg through the comments and you just spoiled me😢
@@Overdose141 why are you scrolling the comments of you havent watched it yet
@@ellieh.5419 i just wanted to see peoples rating about the movie but its ok i guess
This dude hands down created the best horror movie using the most unforgiving film engine in existence and doesn’t even have a gold play button
We gotta change that
Its sad how skibidi toilet has 50x the amount of views on certain videos compared to this
Now imagine if valve hired him before the movie was made then made an ending for comics. And then made this movie canonical end for the tf2 and then made trailer for tf3. I know there are a lot of lore mismatches, and there ain't no way valve abandons tf2 while it's still alive and one of the most long living and profitable games, and it's more chance that meteor falls at the same place for 50 times at 2 days time period that Tf3 will ever exist, but just imagine what shock it would cause, of course a lot of people would be mad and a lot of just lost speech just imagine the chaos it would cause.
@@luminaryFPSthe story is actually good kinda
@@vrexyyzeditzno it isnt LMFAO it doesnt have any lore 80% of it is fan made and its mid anyways
I like how Soldier is still dumb. Usually in SFM animations he's either normal, just as comically stupid as he is in-game, or a stand-in for some meme thing. It's nice to see that you kept that character trait without making it overbearing.
In this they made him naive instead, then broke it down. Seems more appropriate for a project like this, I like that.
yeah his morals cracked after what he saw
I wouldnt say dumb more so cocky and naive, good point tho it is a nice change of pace
The model skeleton gag wouldn't be out of place in your typical screwball SFM animation
THE OCEAN IS A SOUP
Finally sat down to watch this and am super happy I did, love all the inspiration from "The Jaunt"
Fun fact: when at 4:19 scout says if they hit you hit them back twice as hard and when medic was in the coffin he shoots the spy twice
Never realized that
Even worse, we tried teleporting a sandwich and ended up with a teleporting pickle instead! Talk about a dill-emma!"
@@vishburgula7050DAMN THATS SAD
I know i saw it from a short
@@PeterAndreiBeroin-tj1wiyeah, my short
The reason this was such good horror was the fact that all that none of the main characters acted dumb or make bad choices and most of them still couldn’t escape.
I don't know about that, Spy was pretty dumb when he slapped a literal rocket launcher out of a guys arms.
And then he has the audacity to get mad at Solider for blowing up the car as if he didn't throw the launcher on the ground.
Good point! Though this is helped tremendously by the surreal nature of the setting. Hard to tell what's real let alone what a good decision in a situation would be considering that.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 Well spy was the antagonist of the movie much I think, he executed a lot of people for himself, he always called soldier 'an idiot' although soldier saved him from literally death. He lied to people that Medic suicided because he was too scared to be caught, made himself Chairman although he didn't deserve.
He was at least an anti-hero.
@@AlwaysAFKUser im not questioning his morality im questioning his intelligence.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 right, well you can count the throwing cigarette to the floor had gas all over it
First we went from short animated funny skits to full length horror films. I swear, the SFM community has not only put another nail in the coffin of Hollywood but also outdone their horror movie industry! This was so well done!
Don't forget the rule34 side of SFM
@@domino_kid the true horror begins there
@@domino_kid the pyroshaker
Fr, if I could, I'd pay money just to see this on the big screen!
if you watched thor love and thunder, eternals, ant man quantumania, and doctor strange 2 this would be better then all of them
I would recommend this movie. I don't even care if I'm late on watching this. This is a beautiful and very unique SFM (or movie I don't know)
One thing I find really interesting, is how medic's regeneration is... something that shouldn't really be surprising, since he's the only character in game who has passive HP regen without any additional unlocks. He's already a regenerative beast who can heal back a shotgun blast to the chest in less than a minute, it's just recontextualized in the same way the respawns were, making it appear unnatural, surreal, horrific and creepy. What a wonderful film.
yeah, i actually didn't bat an eye at his regeneration scenes, I've read the comics and main him, so having a grotesque regeneration scene is something i kinda expected.
SPOILER:
I still got so surprised by the funeral regeneration scene i said out lot "A la verga" while my family was asleep lmao
@@SommerSen when was it shown/highlighted in comics he had passive regen?
@@DellConagher1 with the comics i meant how he does horrible experiments and bends the laws of nature, dude revived all of the mercs with absolutely insane methods, compared to that i think him having passive regen isnt all out there
(The Naked and The Dead had a scene where he talks with the devil and gets up perfectly fine from being shot, don't know if that counts)
I think it's less about the in-game regen, and more tied to the comics, where medic made a deal with the devil to come back to life.
@@SommerSen yeah but thats all flashy stuff
This is how you make a horror movie. No dumb characters making dumb decisions, no wastage of time, no repetitive jumpscares and just pure suspense and horror. Fortress Film your years of hard work was definitely way more worth than we thought would love to more videos of these.
And no pootis
@@flonkifyray nOOOOO
@@flonkifyray 😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@flonkifyray pootis NOW!!!
peak movie
The entire Scout side plot was legitimately disturbing. Just a guy getting by, accidentally getting ruined and intoxicated by the medic, only to be stalked, kidnapped, and mutilated into an expendable, thoughtless demon designed to kill
They also decapitated scouts mother and kinda toyed with it before kidnapping adding even more pain
Wait are those two are the same scout?
@@dingdong896 I'm not really sure? I always thought they were
I thought that the monster Scout was a hallucination kinda deal
@@theabyss310 I was gonna say I thought that was RED team's Scout but then I remembered he's one of the corpses upstairs in the gun area, so now I don't know lol
Now... make emesis red, about a teleporter failure...
expiration date:
10:08
Soldier:
Doc...
What is wrong with the teleporter?
Medic:
It doesn't always work like it's supposed to.
Tumors get in the bread...Trying to come through.
Soldier:
What the hell are you talking about, Doc?
Medic: We cannot teleport bread anymore...
Cod zombies reference.....
10:08
Soldier:
Doc...
What is wrong with the teleporter?
Medic:
It doesn't always work like it's supposed to.
Tumors get in the bread...Trying to come through.
Soldier:
What the hell are you talking about, Doc?
Medic: We cannot teleport bread anymore...
Not gonna lie, the dude saying “it’s a eternity in there” isn’t wrong considering just how long it takes to respawn
I'm pretty sure that phrase alone is enough to sum up a single round on 2fort.
@@nick-brothwood or hightower haha
@@mirabile1221 that too lol
still waiting
I get the feeling that might have inspired this whole thing, at least somewhat.
This speaks on so many levels,two most important in my eyes is:
-It speaks on how good SFM animation can still be,regardless of the age
-It speaks on behalf of how good the creator/director and everyone involved in the making of this is at making,just in general.
Congratulating this couldn't transcribe it well enough. This is just phenomenal through and through. Everybody's highest praise to anyone who worked on this.
> -It speaks on how good SFM animation can still be,regardless of the age
Adding onto that, I would like to know the process behind the film. It must have been hell to make a feature-length film in SFM - we've already seen LazyPurple's suffering to make a few minutes of SFM.
Doesn't only speak on how good SFM animation can be, and how good the cast was, but also further proves how the budget does *not* matter to make quality movies.
everything about this is perfect, the acting, the animation, the lighting, the colors, the composition, the plot, the horror. Honestly hope that this blows up more than it already has.
yo ur verified!!1
Its batshit insane good
indeed
Ima be honest im kinda disappointed with the story, i thought it would all go back around and make sense, like maybe spy turns into the guy with the mask and maybe the medic at the end gives the briefcase to heavy and restarts the story
@@smolltaco5667 Yeah, the loop didn't make much sense if it there wasn't an actual time loop
I was confused at times, but I saw lots of symbolism. Truely a masterpiece of a film. We need more like emesis blue.
The elevator was mortifying. So much emotion, yet zero words. Watching medic lose it while the other two just stare at each other...what a brilliant scene
I love how Demo was shaking his legs, showing his anxiety about what he was going to see
Bro was a real man for giving him his last cigarette
my guy this movie isnt that good, stop dick riding it like its a masterpiece
Demo man was just chillin though
@@blinbleart8541 nah, Demo only chilled in the lab afterwards
I wasn't sure what to expect going into Emesis Blue, but this is beyond incredible. In the past, I've considered Spy's Disguise to be my favorite SFM movie and a standout in quality and production value, yet this blows it out of the water. The animation is realistic, with characters having a real depth to them. Ludwig and Doe are excellent protagonists, with badass moments and moments of human vulnerability. Even the side characters have hints at their own stories, with their distinct models and personalities helping them stand out in their own right.
As a surreal horror/mystery thriller, Emesis Blue performs extremely well. The imagery is haunting, in no small part thanks to the cinematic look and feel of the whole movie. I'm able to follow the main gist of the story, but there's still so much left to interpretation. The voice acting is superb, though my only criticism is that the Corporal and Medic's panting sometimes sounded strange, like they were exhaling the word "Hai" instead of what people exhaling usually sounds like, if that makes sense. It's a minor thing, though. Otherwise, sound design was great, as were the other usual factors - lighting, particle work, scenebuilding, custom props and design. All incredible work.
I don't think I'll ever understand everything that happened, and that's okay. But I did want to write down some thoughts on specific parts of the movie, so,
Warning: Spoilers Ahead.
The premise seems straightforward enough. Essentially, the Mann brothers contracted Jules Archibald to create a respawn machine which was supposed to help them win the Gravel War. Since he played both sides, the war stayed in a deadlock. But the real secrets - the true horror - lies in the underworkings of the respawn system. In Spy's Disguise, all we really saw was that the respawn system could be disabled, restoring the natural state of people dying when killed. In Emesis Blue, the respawn system is shown to be a superficially ingenious solution to the costly problem of hiring mercenaries. Beneath the surface, it's a flawed, experimental program that - beyond the obvious inhumanity of killing these people over and over again and cheating death - can also result in its users being... corrupted?
I'm not sure what actually brought about phenomena like the spindly Scout monstrosity, or the zombie mercs, or the undead but lucid mercenaries (such as the masked Heavy) who are able to survive heavy physical damage unless it involves decapacitation. While the respawn system seems to be one factor, there's also the medical experiments, like when Red Medic injected the dead Heavy with some sort of solution - perhaps whatever was in that syringe is actually what's used to revive the dead within the respawn system.
All these people seem to be victims, even the killers. Results of horrific medical experiments. Subordinates who know that Hell awaits them either way. Or, in Scout's (and his mom's) case, people being silenced for being involved. So the question is, who's the mastermind? Jules Archibald? But he's dead. His revival at the very end was but a figment of the dying Ludwig's imagination. He's a pawn, I'd imagine. A face for selling products and closing deals.
There's still one character we don't know anything about. The person with the Grimm Hatte, Blighted Beak, and glowing glasses. The one who took the briefcase from the Corporal. We don't see them for almost all of the movie, somehow. They briefly appear in the crowd fleeing after Ludwig shoots the Corporal, but that seems to be the end to their screentime. Who are they? Are they the mastermind, or just another undead mercenary working for some other higher-up?
The Mann brothers obviously don't know anything, though they make an entertaining comedic duo during their very brief moments on screen.
In terms of named characters that haven't died, there's also Dell Conagher, but the bartender is clearly a subordinate as well, and his significance probably lies in his work on the respawn system. Going by TF Comics lore, he might even be the original creator, but who knows. Regardless, he seems more like the lead engineer type than the CEO type.
Which reminds me of another important question - just what did Ludwig see inside that briefcase? I can't begin to guess at the specifics, but it should be related to Emesis® Diazepam. I'm a little confused by the relation between Diazepam and the rest of the story, but I can extrapolate that it might be connected to the solution being used to revive the dead and induce all those nasty side effects. If so, Emesis has created a gruesome sort of immortality machine. As for what their true purposes are (because it can't just be money) - I have no clue.
What makes this truly surreal is all the temporal and spatial anomalies that occurr in the Conagher Slaughterhouse. Characters see the past and interact with their past selves only insofar as to fulfill what they saw in the future in some kind of time loop. This goes beyond hallucinations, flashbacks, or memories - this is actual distortion in spacetime. It's visual, auditory, and tactile, with the past being seen, heard, and felt. People and objects disappear - entire scenes rearrange themselves into separate environments - Demo somehow finds himself in a bar with Dell, Doe listens to a past meeting between stakeholders, and Ludwig scrambles his way into a whole chapel. Though there still remains a thread of logical consistency between locations even while deep in the Slaughterhouse, there's clearly some mysterious greater power at work here.
Ludwig is a deep, meaningful character. We see a religious man going mad from what he witnesses. We see him wracked with guilt over Scout's torture and death. We see him growing cold, calculating, beginning to accept the harsh reality he was facing. What I still wonder is why he's able to resurrect, him alone. Once after being shot by a Conagher, and then again after losing Russian roulette (seemed to take longer the second time). Perhaps he's tied to the respawn system in the Slaughterhouse? At the very end of the movie, it seems he does finally get to die. His apparent inability to resurrect after opening the briefcase may be related to the Diazepam he took (or did he? That was just a dream sequence, wasn't it?), or it may be because of the destruction of the Slaughterhouse, which contained the respawn system.
Also, I haven't mentioned it yet, but Doe makes an excellent deuteragonist as well. His reckless nature covers his traumatic, wartorn past. I was rooting for him the entire time, even though he wasn't really the "main" character. He was a courageous badass being thrown into situations he should never have faced. He works well as a supporting character with his own goals, fears, and motivations. It's a shame that his buddy one-armed Demo had to die, like it's the War! comic all over again.
Emesis Blue is the sequel to Spy's Disguise. So more hints may lie in how the BLU Spy and Engi from Spy's Disguise, well... where even were they in this film? I don't believe we know the actual names for those two characters, so we can't definitively conclude whether they are the same as certain Spies or Engies in this movie. But I'll try to make guesses anyways.
After seeing the tape, Scout blames Ludwig for everything. Ludwig recorded those series of tapes while he was treating BLU Spy after the bloodbath at Sawmill, having seen the machine abomination that Spy could turn into. That was the end of last movie; now, Ludwig's alone, and Spy seems nowhere to be found. Just based on that, one could probably conclude that Spy is the mastermind responsible for the events in this movie, and Scout was angry that Ludwig permitted such an abomination to run free. One could even draw a correspondence between the Grimm Hatte figure (aka potential mastermind) and BLU Spy, as well as Dell Conagher and BLU Engi. That's what I would say except for the obvious physical differences between these people. The Grimm Hatte figure is wearing Medic cosmetics, and Dell's attire and physical appearance don't match the BLU Engi at all. So honestly, I have no clue whatsoever where BLU Spy and Engi are. Maybe they just didn't make an appearance in this movie after all.
There's one last detail I noticed. At Scout's house, Ludwig sees a bloody M painted on the wall. In the bar at the very end, the camera pans to an M on the wall as Ludwig enters the bathroom, where he consumes the Emesis (pronounced M-esis) pills. All this actually shows is Emesis's involvement, which was already clear, but I figured it was worth mentioning anyways.
There's a lot I want to know, and a lot more I haven't said. It's hard to express how I felt seeing the head of Scout's mom that first time, or hearing a dying Conagher cackle in his last moments, or realizing that Ludwig had died and the bar scene was never real. All in all, Emesis Blue is a monumental achievement of SFM animation and storytelling. It's an inspiration and a testiment to the ever-expanding limits of what can be accomplished with this decade-old animation program. Fortress Films, you've really outdone yourselves yet again.
Whoa that is a while list here but. I will agree with what you said... I would hope to see what else could happen next
Bro, how did you even make the time to write a full novel? XD 👏
I mean- about the BLU Spy and BLU Engineer part of your “novel”. They could just be from Spy’s Disguise, and didn’t show up?
Wow. Please bless me with the skill to write a full essay easily!
This captures so much of what I've struggled to put into words. I love, love, love this film
The fact in how you can grab these normally cartoony characters on somehow write and produce thriller that is not only well made but that also can be taken seriously and get you invested from start to end is more than just impresive.
This is more than a fan animation, this is a work of art.
"I'm so excited to see scout in emesis blue" I saids with excitement.
little did I knows
it would be a feature
a creature feature
featuring, the creature
The fact that the soldier talked quite a bit at the start, but as it went on he went silent really just shows the trauma and horror he went through
Time to wait another 4-5 years for another masterpiece
what the fuck happened, did the doc just hallucinate everything this whole time or did this shit actually happen but was replaying through doc's head because of those pills????
@@legendly8442 damn..
@@legendly8442Maynard is the other brothers name, apparently there doctor Strangelove references or something.
The tunnel soldier was in I believe the roaring was from the mutant scout he stabbed in the head with the crowbar because of how the lights in the tunnel went out like when he encountered him on the stairs.
56:00 this shot has to be the most spine chilling tf2 sfm creation I have ever seen. It reveals the obvious truth about pyro, but it manages to do it in a way that still feels freaky and terrifying. God I wish I could watch this scene for the first time again.
I think the severed head watching you from a corridor is worse
This shit is better than modern day marvel
apparently that's another spy from a previous fortress film
did you know that the face of that particular model was modelled after a real life burn victim for half life 2
@@bread4776 yes
Blu lore: violence, horror, ton of tragedy, and a whole lot of loops
Red lore: *b r e a d*
funny bread tumors
SLICER
B-R-E-A-D
mmmmm bread
I teleported bread
Since we got to the end of the comics with RED team, this is the canonical ending for the BLU team.