Every Class in TF2 has an established character and their Associated lyrics in this song are in character. Except for Pyro, what truly lies behind that mask is nebulous and unknowable, so anything can be done with em.

"archatypes, they arent really characters" *you have alerted the horde*

15:52 "I think the Medic may be from Surgeon Simulator." Even funnier when you know there's an actual level in Surgeon Simulator that's literally Heavy's Uberheart surgery from Meet the Medic.

I love that the stupendiums computer at the end is called Stupentium.

By TF2 canon lore, Scout is US-American (from Boston), Soldier is US-American, Pyro is who-the-hell-knows of unknown gender from no-one-knows, Demoman is a Scotsman, Heavy is from Soviet Russia [*], Engineer is US-American (from Texas), Medic is German (from Rottenburg near Frankfurt), Spy is French, Sniper is Australian (but born in New Zealand). And the game's timeline is set in 1968-1973. [*] (... which doesn't neccessarily mean Heavy's ethnically Russian, we don't know where his family lived before his father was executed by Stalinists and his mother, sisters & him were shipped off to a Gulag in Siberia when Heavy was a teen)

Harry101UK voiced Heavy and Soldier because Stupendium’s vocal range can’t go low enough to do their voices. Every other character was done by him.

If you look at the song description, the medic's verse had to be remade because he used the original as the base for his surgeon simulator song.

The spy is French, cant you tell from his outages accent?

Scout: Boston/New York/Jersey. Idk, somewhere in Northeast U.S.A Demoman: Scottish Sniper: Australian Soldier: General American Spy: French Heavy: Russian Engineer: South U.S.A. Pyro: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Medic: German I think that's all the characters' nationalities.

No mention of "Military Millinery Simulator"? Because I think that's a genius line. Stupendium is a friggin' _master_ lyricist.

The curse continues huh? Among Us Stupendium and Dan Bull song came out like an hour ago

the Scout is the only class that can double jump, so the pun is better because it's specifically for him

Harry did soldier and heavy, I never noticed but yeah, Stupendium is the red team and Harry is blue team.

one thing i really appreciate in the first three verses that you kind of touched on was just how high-octane they were, the scout and the demo just spitting rhymes in a way that fits their chaotic characters. then the sniper's verse comes in and he's slow and methodical, but just as scathing, matching his character. i'd say all of the verses and their pacing reflect the characters' mannerisms.

Demo: "IM THE DEMO BOOM GOES MY M.O.!" Ian: "I don't even know what that character's classification would be" Sniper: Aight mate I won't even bother saying who I am then

With the animations, in-game voice lines, and comics from Valve, it's impossible to claim they aren't characters. Even without the comics because they are harder to find than the rest of the things.

I love the funny irony of "Nobody has that many hats" and then him looking around and seeing all his own costume hats..but I also like the alternate ending for Harry101's vid that goes back to a brewing fight and then the walking turrets from Portal 2 showing up with one asking where their fancy hat is. I've never played either game but I will say I love how close both Stupendium and Harry get to what I've heard from the "Meet the team" vids Valve put out..they get pretty close except for Stupendium's Engy..not quite there but..well..he's British trying to do a VERY southern accent that's rather distinct since it's an actual character instead of his more somber Red Dead 2 song where he's playing a generic old west cowboy lamenting the death of the old west as he knows it. Also..just the amount of hats Stupendium actually has is kinda mind boggling..might actually be close to the amount in TF2 when he made the vid.

Engineer seems to be the smartest person in the tf2 universe, he really does have 100 degrees, like college degrees.

Happy to see you reacting to Stupendium once again! Found you by pure accident, and I can say, Im now a happy subscriber!

I love the way you show apreciation with how Stupes does his lyrics! It is true that re-watching his videos is finding another gem, i really like how he puts the names of tf2 hats on the lyrics, hidden in plain sight. Lovely and fun video as usual, thank you

As a Brit I can safetly say it has nothing to do with Jumping its derrived from the dialect jump or jup, meaning a man's short coat or a woman's under-bodice or tunic. This may derive in turn from the French juppe, a petticoat. I found this information on Sweaters VS Jumpers a 2018 article on the subject give it a read if you like that sort of thing.

;-; Ian, why do you got to plan something like this so well? literally 2 hours ago his newest song collab with Dan Bull came out. In all honesty though, I enjoy watching your reactions to these types of music, because not only are they hilarious, but you also tend to point out things I would never have noticed. Keep up the good work!

Oh tf2 has a steady follower group. Apparently, there's even still a small group of players still on the Xbox version of the game! And recently, the game has been seeing more traction, with more players returning, and finding the game.

Jumper because you jump around to fend of the cold, also it sounds better than sweater let's be honest.

You might want to check out some of the harryuk101 videos especially his animated song ones that are mainly about portal. "Andriod hell" even futures stupendium as a singer!

I absolutely love this! My new favorite Stupendium song, reacted to by my favorite comedy and/or nerdcore reactor! I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you missed several double entendres, puns, and jokes; but in your defense it’d be easier to count the bars without clever wordplay. My favorites are the engineer’s “hundred degrees” but cause he has several degrees and he had a pretty *hot* bar going on there, Demoman’s M.O. / ammo bit, sniper’s true forte / 2Fort line, spy’s mother bit calling back to him having an affair with Scout’s mother (also being scout’s father) and the “debonair with deadly flair” line, and the totally admissible pyro lines; met your match / strike a match / strike the match off the scoreboard as well as his charcoal soul internal rhyme. Sorry to drag this out, there was so much you were bound to miss some, it just happened to be some of my favorite bits, and in all fairness it took several rewatches to catch them all, not to mention googling “millinery” for the “military millinery” line, ironically a millinery is a person who makes fancy women’s hats and everyone in the song is a guy. Love the video! Hope you’ll react to Stupendium’s Doctor! Doctor! song soon! There’s so many puns!

The double jumper line being for scout is because he in particular is the only class in tf2 with the option to double jump and even has certain guns that offer a 3rd jump

Wait a second! How have you not done a reaction to Stupendium's "Pictures of Spiderman" song? You've appreciated his character portrayals - and *haven't* seen him playing J.Jonah Jameson - it's his best work!

"May be slow. no need to rush ya, when I'm rolling with natascha" is an amazing line because not only does "rush ya" sound like russia, but the natascha is a weapon for heavy and its bullets slow enemies down, making them easier to hit

Demo: IM THE DEMO Ian: I dont know who he is.

All the characters in TF2 have established backstories and character, so the accents and such seen in this rap are taken from the extended TF2 universe (wich even has official comics!) Theres actually a lot of effort put towards keeping it consistent with game lore as well, such as Heavy's gun being named Natascha

DO THE OTHER ENDING!!! Click the link to watch harry101's version!

stupendium and Harry101uk make quite the powerful tag team. i'd love to see what else comes from their combined creativeness.

I recommend you to react to his Find The Keys and Art of Darkness song, they are both about Bendy and The Ink Machine. And I think you would love them

I know I'm late but as a side note Scout is from Boston Soldier is from somewhere in the American Midwest Pyro may not even be from this planet Demoman is from Scotland Heavy is from Russia Engineer is from Texas Sniper is from Australia Medic is from Germany And Spy is from France

“Spy is slightly...German? I guess.” Spy: Quel?

Harry did only 2 characters, actually: Heavy and Soldier.

Why don’t you have more subscribers is this was amazing I loved your reaction!

16:23 fun fact: the hat stack with the #1 pin was a reward for winning a war propaganda poster contest It was back on the War! Update, the Fis place was a solider poster Second was a demoman poster and the last place was another solider poster

You should react to the "Merchandise Rap", it's damn brilliant. (From The Stupendium ofc) And the end of the song is packed with jokes.

jumper is derived from wooly jumper that being the farmers nickname for sheep

I would recommend checking out some of the other videos Harry101UK has made, he has an alternate ending to this video as well as a number of songs for other valve games

i absolutely love how you do reactions compared to how other people do it, its unique and iansanely funny

I very much recommend Stupendium's cuphead song, it's incredible and I feel like you will greatly appreciate it

Heavy has a PhD in russian litterature

Yup back on schedule I see. And when you were talking bout the lyrics on demo's verse I couldn't help but think you have no idea what's coming. It's hard to understand pyro's verse but he has some hard bars in there.

I would recommend reacting to some of his older songs particularly around 2 years ago. Stuff like -The Aftermath -The West was One -Why did I say Oki-Doki? And others from that “time period”

Found you by looking up stupendium reaction 😂 now im subscribed

I didn't know that thing about the butterfly and the bee. Pretty neat.

The next song is dan bull VS stupendium in among us so... difficult decide

"First Ianpression! 'Cus I'm Ian" I laughed because it was viciously humorous

There's also a bunch of pun with hat names. For example grease lightning is the name of a hat in tf2. Tartan spartan is also a hat name in tf2 and he makes verses with them.

About youre comment on Surgeon Simulator, there actually is a level where you are the Medic opperating on Heay weapons guy.

There's more hats in Team Fortress Two the there are forts in the whole EU.

Suggestion for songs like these where its ensemble or there's sections to each verse (in this case 3 sections per verse from one attack class character, one defense class character, one support character not necessarily in that order) watcyh each section all the way through without pausing, it'll let you appreciate the music part, Flow, visuals, etc, and then rewind that section and do the intermittent pausing to look at the lyrics and references etc parts. I've always found reactions that do that generally have better structure in their analysis and less things slip through the cracks. Of course this may not work fr you specifcially, everyone's style is different, but I reccomend trying it at least once! ESPECIALLY for something like Stupendium or JT music or Dan Bull etc etc, as the usually have that exact kind of structure as shown here. But again, you might find it doesnt work as well and if you find that to be the case no worries, it's just probably at least worth experiementing with. You clearly have a lotof knowledge on these kind of works (as the comedy musician bit implies) but there are times it seems like your're stumbling trying to keep up, espeically in one like this where the flow is wayyyyy more fast paced than pletny of Stupendium's other works. And as for the whole "I'll probably watch it in full uninterrupted on my own time to fully enjoy it", don't get the wrong idea: most people I've sseen who watch reaction channels, this definitely applies to myself, love when the reactor can appreciate the work itself but also usually more than anything else want to see if the person *enjoys* the work. That's why you have so many reaction channels that are decently popular even if they're in no way an expert on what they're reacting to, because they express their enjoyment. There's a psychological reason for this but without going into too much depth (psych major speaking) in simple terms its a sort of validation, they love this song to the point they want to see someone else's initial reaction to see if they feel that same enjoyment from it. ESPECIALLY with less mainstream things like these pseudo-underground musical artists, it gives that idea that "it's something to me and not so popular that it's a given I know and like it, but at the same time now I know there are other people who like and appreciate it as well! All that said though, you did a good job as always, in fact your lack of familiarity let you catch things that someone who is fixated on the TF2 part entirely might not catch (IE a Jumper being a British name for sweater, the Muhammad Ali reference, etc) a very special example being "No need to Rush ya" cause the lineitself is about a weapon that slows down enemies as it hits, I myself never even noticed that "Rush Ya, Russia" bit cause I directly link it to the following line that name drops that slowdown weapon The Natasha. So hey even as someone who knows every single one of these characters to death you helped me find a new double meaning in a lyric!

If you want to, Harry made a song with the stupendium a while back based on Harry's protal series called "Android Blues" if I remember correctly, but im not sure if it fits with most of what you react to. His animations also have some funny moments, but I dont think they would fit in the style of video you do either.

KZfaq is doing that thing again Video: posted 5 hours ago Comments: 17 hours. Also, loved the video. Your talks are fun to hear, and this video was really amazing, especially to a tf2 nut like me who couldn't stop playing this on repeat for a week. Love the vid, bye

13:54 actually, its even better that whole phrase was a double meaning "im hot stuff, cause im 100 degrees, so if you boil my blood youll get burned on steam" hot stuff meaning both 100 degrees and attractive 100 degrees, aiding the hot stuff bit and also shows intelligence boil my blood and burned on steam, the boiling point of water is 100 degrees C, boil my blood, make me angry burned on steam, killed by machinery

Medic's second verse is what actually made it into the song because the first one was moved to the Surgeon Simulator song

The sweater dreams of being able to jump. Let the sweater dream, ian.

The Heavy's voice is, well, Heavy as hell.

I know I'm a year late but harry101uk is a youtuber who dise portal related sfms with his voice acting in it mostly portal 2 specifically

if you look at the hats at the end on the table is the "hat" used in the newest video

Spy is my favorite character too

fun fact: medic is actually in surgeon sim also great vid

You were mostly right about the double entendre; it also extends to the "socially awkward" and potentially offensive.

“I don’t know who this character is-“ First line of his verse is “I’m the Demo”

Did you notice Stupes' computer said Stupentium? IT's all about The Pentiums of course.

the sound that he makes at 7:41 is just plain funny

Methinks I see a teaser - 17:12 on the lower right, I think -I see an imposter's helmet.... and as noted, his Among Us song came out the day this was posted

There's a 2nd version of this song with an alternate ending on Harry101's channel, that ending is a Portal 2 crossover (because Harry101 does a lot of Portal 2 themed music and animation). Similar to when Dan Bull and Stupendium did their "2 alternate endings" Frostpunk song.

And that's only the fourth costume department.

You know I don't say this about a lot of KZfaqrs but he actually kind of makes me laugh

Good as always... although I've never seen a youtuber using the keys to play-pause/FF/etc (J > 10 sec) It's far less invasive than the mouse e-e. So that's my only recomendation... I like your channel!

Stupendium just released a new song about among us, you should watch it when you can, was quite good, and maybe since he did collab with Dan Bull show the alternative ending in the same video, your choice. I just want to see your reaction to it. Good video btw.

Ian thought the spy was German, he's actually French.

Something I really liked about this one was that he did stuff to the subtitles that was happening in the video

The computer at the end said "stupentium" 😂

Enjoy the fact that you rewind it after pausing to get back into the flow

I didn't know who Ian was until the algorithm did it's shenanigans. But now I have plenty of good content to binge watch

Man ian really was like yeah spy sounds german

When the engie speaks I knew it was my favorite

You should totally react to their song The Fine Print. It's really good imo and a lot of people compare it to Capitalism so it's really cool.

spy is french medic is german heavy is russian scout is from boston(i think) soldier is American(he has a rocket launcher no wonder) engineer is from texas demoman is scootish sniper is from austrailia and new zeland

Why do Brits call it a jumper? It's derived from an old French word, “jupe" which was a type of short coat. At some point in time the word in English became “jump" and then eventually “jumper" and became used to describe what we now call a jumper (Sweater).

This song was how I first found stupey :D

Every time you come out with a video he uploads a new one

The only characters Harry performs are Soldier and Heavy, all the other blue characters are still Stupendium

Dude I feel you I am a human heater.

Its the voice of heavy btw the heavy voice that are in game tf2 right now

I know this was three years ago but I hope your problems get solved and end up in a positive

i feel that is decently easy to recognize as a french accent, but ive also heard that for 3 years. i enjoy for the videos the commitment to the gas mask, i wish the app versions were easier to hear.

12:12 spy is French medic is German heavy is Russian

i think you mean sweater is the american word for jumper

8:38 slight annoyance i have with this song is the confusion between china and japan here... (the speech bubble says 'you are very cool' if anyone is wondering) but other than that, great reaction . Would love to see you make a song called 'Frist Ian-pression' actually :P

I love this song as much as the game which means a lot but I have a sugestion for a artist who likesto so these comedy songs Wilbursoot he is a minecraft youtuber but started with doing music two songs you should watch are The Internet ruined me and I'm in love with an E-girl. btw great reaction :)

You should watch Harry101UK's version of the song. The ending is different and portal 2 themed.

I listened to the song so much I know Pyro's part with just the song, no subtitles. I might have a problem.

Spy is french.

Btw little correction about the accents Stupendium has done: As you've guessed it Demoman is canonically Scottish, and Heavy is Russian but the Spy is actually supposed to actually be French and Medic German Still even if you didn't get every reference (since you haven't played TF2 in a long time) it turned out to be a really enjoyable vid And yes people are still playing TF2 (myself included) thanks for the video Ian