When Scout was respawned by Medic, his body fell apart as the door opened. That's why he became a pool of blood and you can hear screaming. Which is disturbing because all of his nerves and stuff were remade so he was alive while falling apart..and makes sense why Medic looked so traumatized when Scout's baseball rolled to him.

Your knowledge of German movies does give this reaction a special flavour than all others.

“Something ain’t right here…” That basically sums up the entirety of Emesis Blue in a nutshell.

Obviously Emesis Blue is loosely based on canon TF2 lore, but I’ve heard some people have theorized that RED soldier (in Emesis Blue, for the people who think I was referring you to the OG TF2 lore) was the unfit army guy that went to Europe on an unhinged rampage while BLU soldier is an actual war veteran. I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s fun to think about.

The different mercenaries suffered different malfunctions upon respawn. Both blue and red mercenaries. Red is easier to explain though. Red Demo suffered limb loss, Red Pyro became horribly burnt to the point of being unable to speak, Red Heavy became an absolute juggernaut akin to Mr X, Red Scout mutated into an animalistic form and finally Red sniper didn’t suffer anything physically, instead he was fully aware during the entire respawn process. You see for everyone on the outside, respawning happens in seconds. But on the inside it goes on and on forever. This is why Sniper seems so absolutely done with everything, he was aware the whole time and as he puts it “it’s an eternity in there” “longer than you think”.

Watched it 2 times and watched 3 others react to it but ima still watch cause it's such a masterpiece of a passion project

The lines “longer than you think” and “it’s eternity in there” are from the short story called ‘The Jaunt’ by Stephen King. The plot is that humanity in the future developed instant teleportation (called jaunting) to travel from place to place and planet to planet, however the catch is that people need to be put to sleep with anesthesia before jaunting. If they aren’t unconscious, their minds become trapped for what seems like an eternity in some blank space when in reality, only a few seconds have passed for everyone else. This would result in the unfortunate person dying on the spot or emerging insane while being dramatically aged up. The same thing basically happens to the mercenaries whenever they respawn, being stuck between life and death for an unimaginable amount of time. They remember little to nothing about their time in eternity besides the Sniper, who remembers everything judging from his lines and being physically deformed in his final appearance.

Some clarifications on what is going on in this movie: The "other soldier" seen in the opening scenes is the tenth respawn compatible mercenary. Apparently he went insane and killed himself, and was deemed too unstable to be part of the team. It's hinted that he and Soldier knew each other, likely having served together. The respawn machine doesn't always work correctly resulting in the mercenaries sometimes coming back wrong or incomplete, but it's actually even worse than that: Time works differently on the "other side" and after returning, even if they respawn right after dying, it's as if they spent an eternity being dead. I'm not completely sure but I think the implication is that this was more of a problem with early trial runs and they eventually figured out how to block those memories. Still, respawning seems to cause compounding mental trauma even to the ones who don't remember the other side. (And then there's Red Sniper, who seems able to recall all of it.) This trauma manifests as schizophrenia-like symptoms. To mitigate this, the mercenaries were given Emesis Diazepam (used to treat schizophrenia) disguised as Valium, justified as a treatment for stress-related anxiety. The Plague Doctor is most likely a Medic, but doesn't seem to be the same Medic as the main character of the story. He apparently works with the Pyro, Sniper and the Conagher brothers, but may have his own agenda considering he sets the whole plot up but doesn't involve himself in the events at the slaughterhouse. At any rate he seems to have wanted to get Medic involved for some reason - note that the Conaghers didn't anticipate Medic showing up meaning the Plague Doctor didn't bother to tell them he'd lured Medic there after dropping off Scout and the briefcase. Speaking of which, the Plague Doctor was most likely the one Heavy was originally supposed to deliver the briefcase to. The Dustbowl incident mentioned to one of the Conagher brothers over the phone was a direct reference to Spy's Disguise, a previous movie by the same creators. The time loops are... weird. They're clearly not just hallucinations, so perhaps respawning actually does weird things to reality itself, at least from the perspective of affected people. Alternatively, the loops may be caused by the object inside the briefcase, as they seem to occur to respawn subjects who get close to it. Though, the loops may also just be a David Lynch-style artistic device for causing unsettling scenes, and aren't meant to have an explanation.

I've rewatched this film about 15 times and I just realized that the explosion which saved Medic from the Pyro is symbolic by showing the Cross on his chest but also that it was probably Sniper shooting the rocket that caused it. I always thought it was some sort of hallucination, your brain rationalizing something that has no apparent cause.

THE MAGNUM OPUS OF THE TF2 COMMUNITY!!!!!! I've also said this to other people, that this is the *ARCANE* of tf2. Both projects take place in they're respected universes, but they're not in the main universe since both use the characters loosely, (for example) tf2 soldier in the main universe wasn't actually a real soldier, he bought his own ticket to Poland and went on a nazi killing spree (not knowing that ww2 already ended in 1946, his spree ended in 1949). But in the "emesis Blu universe" he ACTUALLY WAS a soldier that fought in the trenches of war. I hope this makes since

It's an absolute tragedy that they stopped doing the Saxxy awards in 2017...

1:07:45 They used the Gmod corpse texture, which itself was a detailed texture produced from of a photo of an actual burn victim.

Emesis Blue is a Pootis Engage of the horror genre

1:41:36 Reference: The House That Jack Built Also... one of the movie tapes had the title "The King in Yellow" which is also a name of a book and the main idea was that whoever read said book would go insane and kill others just for its possession... and the brieface in this movie could be a subsitute for the book

Little tidbit about this masterpiece: Medic shooting out Pyro’s eyes was a reference to Halloween II (1981) when Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) does the same thing to Michael Myers at the end of the film.

One of the VHS movies was i think "The cabinet of Dr.Caligari" and It's about a doctor turning a man into a killer while he sleepwalks

I wonder if the mercs were really death row convicts, or if that was a cover up to try and give them a false past to make them more loyal. If you mold their mind, they can be what you want them to be. Remember we see Fat bastard make spy execute Heavy, Sniper, and Scout on dubious charges. And that pic with soldier is oddly sus too. Why would Archibald execute soldier himself, and why would he do it with a gun, except if it was some sort of cover up? Also, if they were convicts, why does scout seem to still have a good relationship with his mom? Being a heinous criminal tends to burn bridges.

To me, That plague doctor medic is Kinda the Angel of Dead, that is ALWAYS around the Mercenaries, specially Medic, who (to me) was already Dead the Whole time, and this is some kind of Purgatory. And perhaps soldier is Part of it, or Everyone else is a bunch of Torment Souls in they're own personal Hell.

In TF2 comics canon, Medic claims to have "surgically attached 8 other souls" to himself as a way to get out of his deal with the Devil (he sold his original soul, but can't go to Hell until he loses the remaining 8). Since Emesis Blue clearly takes place in its own, loosely inspired canon, this could be completely irrelevant, but it does make me wonder how Medic manages to keep coming back to life throughout the movie. I don't think they ever address that in the movie, other than by implying he has an evil plague doctor alter-ego which I guess somehow won't let him die?

What makes it more disturbing is that the face of the butcher was a reflected face of an actual burnt corpse that was used in hl2 and gmod, it was found in a medical book and they used it in the game which is messed up

this is by far the best reaction to emesis blue i've seen, you caught so much! I love how you heard the air-raid sirens during scout's attack and connected it to soldier's ptsd, i think the more you watch it the more heroic and likable soldier becomes, i wish we got to see demo and soldier's relationship established a little more but either way the scene in the freezer with the two got an emotional response out of me. there's more you noticed that i'm forgetting but overall great job! :)

If you pay attention there are a couple of scenes that foreshadow to future events, in Soldier's hallucination in the trenches Spy gets torched by a flamethrower then later on he gets seriously burned in a fire he caused, scout being shot in the head hints at his brain atrophy from his respawn malfunction (and likely how he died in the first place before the respawn) and also the corrupted version of him being stabbed in the head by the crowbar around the same spot as the bullet

The model in question at around 16:33 is one of the playable Americans from the Source game Day of Defeat.

I have a theory that the plague doctor is medic who got sent to the past. The evidence is: -after he died in the last act, there is a scene in the very end where a person is emerging in the respawn machine. My theory it's medic. But you might wondering why I said medic was sent to the past. Do you remember the projector scene with soldier. The scene show Archibold explaining about 10 people being respawn compatibility. In the end of that scene, something was burning. I think the two scenes are connected. Also, in the scout kidnap scene, I think plague doctor (medic) is the one who killed scout mother and used her head to distract scout. Then there's the scene where sniper confronted soldier, medic used the same trick with pyro's head to lure sniper. Coincidence? I think not. In the coffin scene, medic freed scout. But when scout sees medic, he freaked out and gets angry on him. But why? The answer, scout saw what's under the plague doctor's mask, which is medic.

the pyro´s face in the movie is from an actual real person.... the only edited part is a copy pasted eye, but it´s basically a real person´s face. was, cus he very much dead.

Your weirdly good knowledge of German movies is a really nice breath of fresh air, along with your very good investigative skills. Great Reaction!

Your reaction is by far one of the best out of all reaction videos to this movie! You have some incredible film knowledge and not to mention how quickly you can already predict what happens later in the movie!

16:28 fyi, that extra merc in basically the mythological tenth class exact description is unknown but what is known is that his model comes from valve's day of defeat

1:33:06 the 10th one was overheard committing self-die in the call Soldier overheard at the skeleton board. 1:41:32 also, that _was_ technically claimed to be the address the hearse was headed to during the first or second chapter. Purgatory Lane. 2:00:06 A twofer, probably; the ‘M’ at Scout’s crime scene might have been a hint that the drugs were involved (though it gets read as the M from the film instead), and Archibald did mention that he “might” use the machine as a way out of getting taken out (though it would have to have been through a different machine elsewhere). (Ope, or not. Hmm. Respawn might have been drawing their ‘wrong’ spawns from when they die worse)

I have a theory (that i one day fully share in the movie comments) that respawn machine glitched respawns have something to do with the way person died. For example Scout was tortured physically and mentally before he died. So when he respawned his twisted body was the result of his twisted mind.

Something about this animation players would notice is how they incorporated each classes' mechanics into the story: Medic's "Immortality" is due to his regeneration mechanic ingame. Everytime we see him 'die', it's usually by means that are relatively tame in a normal tf2 match, like a shotgun to the chest or even a revolver headshot. Medic had plenty of time to recover fully in between each near death experience. Pyro is immune to fire, but an Item called the Gas Passer allows fire to bypass that effect, it is also a gasoline tank, which is what we see is used to engulf both him and Spy.

Emesis Blue has got to be one of the scariest movies on KZfaq I’ve seen. It’s gives the feeling of a nearing danger and what I can only describe as, “a lurking shadow in the void”

Amazing reaction as always chief. To explain the last scene: Dell's appears to be figurative place between life and death where Mercs wait for respawn, as revealed by Demomans's bar sequence. You can see Conagher brothers in the back, as evident by one smoking and other playing piano. Dell Conagher is our engie who died in Dustbowl a little before Emesis Blue took place as shown in other piece by the same author. Fritz Lugwig died on a road, plagued by sleep depravation, ending up at the Dell's. Then, he entered a bathroom, showing off why the letter "M" was all over the movie as medic ends up in a room with a big M on the door...male bathroom. Diazepam is much more known name for Valium, hence his shock as he understood what he was taking. The pills are meant to stop the degrading effect of respawning, evidenced with Soldier not suffering as much from the effects as he never took them, only suffering from PTSD. Medic realizes where he is after meeting Archibald, who revealed he plans to use respawn machine if needed and hearing Jeremy's voice (that's a Jerma985 reference as his name is Jeremy Elbertson). He and Dell are the only ones who know how long of a night it'll be. And it's longer than you think.

you're that one type of friend when he watches a movie he finds out everything about the movie.

Loved seeing your reaction to this, gives me goosebumps seeing some of the scenes from this again.

Goof: the VCR tapes in Medic's lab weren't invented until after 1970. granted, the TF2 universe has teleportation, regeneration, ubercharges and invisibility, so _some_ leap in technology could have affected the media recording field,... but everywhere else there's only film reels and large cabinet computers consistent with late-1960's technology, so VCR tapes seem out of place.

you're the first reaction channel i watched who notices most of the references and some of the symbolism in the movie (yes, i'm calling it movie). you're amazing, man

The context for soldier blue is he is a war veteran. He is also actually friends with Red demo, man. Red soldier is the one that's not actually a veteran.

9:26 It says "Das Cabinet des..." (the cabinet of...) so it has to be the 1920 horror film "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (Dr. Caligari's cabinet)

I dunno why everyone is saying, but this Barbie movie is 🔥 Sure it's a bit dark-ish, but it's 10/10! Would recommend!

my favorite theory is that medic completely blames himself for the kidnapping of scout and the death of his mother, so he hallucinates of himself being the culprit. The kidnappers (pyro and presumably someone like sniper sorrounded his house and they had knowledge of scout and medics relationship, so they framed medic, its also the symbolism of multiple RED chess pieces sorrounding a smaller blue one) When medic was gonna respawn scout he hallucinated his mother behind him, judging him for what he did. And since scout had presumably brain damage from the failed respawn he thought that medic snuck in his house and killed his mother. The layers, theres so many and theyre so rich. theres also the knocking down the tapes, chances are it wasnt him or a time loop, but instead its his mind hallucinating as the villain as the Scouts room inside the respawn machine was one and was (presumably) full of scout's... stuff when he got in

The phrases “it’s an eternity in there” and “it’s longer than you think” are both references to the Steven King story The Jaunt.

54:00 You are another one of the reactors who managed to find out this is a time loop by recalling the conversation a while ago. The other reactors who also immediately knew it are Wrath2501 and his pals

the only movie I saw that gives me true fear with no need for jump scares

In the end credits, it plays the "Silent night" I think its cuz the Mann brothers are dead there is no war just like the christmas eve during the war. Also when pyro burned medic there was the M letter on his cheek. And during the "promotion scene" you can see the black suit heavy in the back. I enjoyed the reaction, "Emises Blue" is a countinue of "Spy disguise" a previous creation of fortress films.

If you don't mind doing another long reaction, TheWhat Show made a great video about this movie. He explains pretty much everything about it (the references, the plague doctor, the war, the medicines, the time loop, the weird hellish dimension, the briefcase, etc).

fun fact! the pyro face is from half-life and they used an actual face for it in the game. another level of horror, who said good idea?

i just realized the plague doctor's gun he holds to spy's head is spy's own gun

Loved every second of your reaction, I can't believe how many of the refrences you caught!

It seems that the red team is now respawning without the device, popping back to life in their original bodies. Whether this is due to red medic experimenting or overuse of the machine is unclear. It also seems that RED is focused on destroying the respawn system, the thing in the briefcase may be a form of bomb that respawns with you, hense the medic spawning into a burning machine..

55:21 The sirens of German Stuka dive bombers when they are diving during ww2. War trauma in the form of audio for soldier since soldier did serve in ww2 in Emesis blue.

I loved finding out that the movies story is partly based on Stephen King's short story The Jaunt but instead about being aware of the teleporation process which even though physically happens in second mentally could drag on for years, Emesis Blue uses it to show it about respawning.

FUN FACT: The face at 1:07:46 is the actual face of a burn victim!

Medic, Engineer and Sniper have their final words before execution scratched on the walls to the individual cells if you look hard enough while Soldier and Demoman are rescuing Archibald. Medic: Gott Helfe Mir. Engineer: It's eternity in there. Sniper: It's longer than you think. This implies that they were probably the last on the list for the respawn test due to their jobs being high priority unlike Soldier's which was easy to replace.

The trenches scene explained a lot, it showed that the plague doctor and the medic were playing a game making the events happen, the water on the floor is a mix of the scout being turned into blood and the sewers, it going back to ww2 is like how its a time loop, the spy being burnt by the pyro and the scout going into seizure like how the paper said he does when he takes the drugs, which is also how scout became that long armed walking thing

9:53 I find it funny that you refrence the scp foundation here when the movie "the king in yellow" is the origin of one of the older locations and scps "the hanged king" an scp based around the king in yellow

Scout said “hit ‘em back twice as hard you hear me” medic is shot once by spy and he shoot spy twice

This animatin is in the same world as an older movie made by the same creator. It is referenced in this movie. The duatbowl thing and the possibly dead younger brother are the main parts in that movie

The world war 2 soldier model are from another VALVe game called DAY OF DEFEAT : Source

truly a movie I will rewatch this Halloween

The blue and red teams have different companies behind them and basically blue company helped America in ww2 by making the respawn machine so those soldier figures are other soldiers who were put in the respawn machine for testing. So did the red company but I don’t really know much about them.

Sick! Love to see this here excited for ths reaciton.

29:52 It took me too long to realize that was a joke too...

After seeing Emesis Blue popping up in my feed several times, I watched this film a month after its release, blind. At 19:14 (your video's timestamp) everyone was hooked...

My own personal theory: Just because nobody will use a respawn machines after their destruction, won't stop the mercs from Respawning, even in the past, when the machines worked. Hence the time travel. However they can't seem to travel back before they respawned the first time, as it could create a paradox. Jules Archibald is stuck in a closed loop of being in a cell and Spy killing him for all of his eternity. Scout will eventually turn into the pool of blood medic will see, after having the humanity removed from him. Medic will continue to fight his demons, and eventually come to fight himself as an avatar of those same demons, the plague doctor.

I was wondering if you'd react to this! I can't even count how many times I've rewatched this movie, cna't wait to see your reaction!

I've been waiting for this. Great video as always my man

One theory that I’m a fan of is that the respawn machine uses time manipulation to to its job. It leaking could explain the time anomalies. One thing I noticed is that mercs that respawned using the broken machine tended to still have the injuries from before their respawn, see the sniper.

@36:56 BRUH. NOT THE CAR!

the model from the start that was a soldier of some sort that was different than the mercs is from day of defeat which is another source game

You could watc TheWhatShow's breakdown of Emesis Blue, it is very detailed and good to watch.

Glad you reacted to this

The constant call back to 'its eternity in there' and 'longer than you think' is the reference to the short story from Stephen King 'the jaunt'

when i first watched this, it ment alot to me. after rewatching it, it felt like it was a really old memory i had along time ago, i feel like i was really there and experienced the entire thing in real life, but i know i didnt.

8:33 - Its not a bottle its a bomb.

The 10 class was a Comandor but was scrap, his spirt hunted slaughterhouse. I think a reference this class forget by Vale and TF2 comunity

Bro looks like a overqualified cop

I love your mustace so much, it fits you great.

Gonna break out the popcorn for this one.

Dude, you’re one of the only reaction/ gaming channels I watch now. Thanks for the ✨magnificent✨commentary.

btw the model they used for pyros face was a gmod model which was taken from a real burn victim 😭

Finally an reaction guy that does not pause every 5 nanoseconds

FINALLY YOU"RE REACTING TO IT

You need to watch fortress films previous videos it all ties back to eachother. Spies disguise take place in dustbowl. The phone says dustbowl is compromised. And the red light is also dustbowl. (Red lights mark locations of respawn machine)

Metropolis drives you into existential turmoil. That's enough of an SCP classification right there.

Cool staches my man

This is an amazing video, No, Really It doesnt stop every moment, and whenever it stops its a short thorough explanation and references, i have watched the movie, and so far 2 reactions, this one being the best obviously.

I have a theory: Dr. Ludwig, having revived, what? Three times? (First time, brain trauma. Second time, shot. Third time, Russian Roulette match) might have only truly died the last time (car accident) due to his amount of souls. This is only valid if Emesis Blue is loosely based on the comic in just the right way. 9 souls - 2 sold - 3 used = 4 left. This would mean that hell *would* then own a majority stake in his soul, (see "The Naked and the Dead") deeming Dr. Ludwig dead. However, this is unlikely because Mann Vs. Machine (time of the comic, I'm pretty sure) is set in 1972, I think, and Emesis Blue takes place in 1968. Fun to think about, though.

1:42:33 Doctor: THE HEAVY IS DEAD?!?

@The Chill Zone In this universe soldier is a Military veteran

42:22 - 42:44 reference to the ending of Falling Down

I'm pretty sure the briefcase holds the respawn core. Thats why medic is immortal

The thing I like about the chill zone is because this many really knows his stuff.

11:32 He's already figured out the plot. This dude is so underrated.

The big theory is the case has the souls of the 10 merc’s which is why they get revived and stay in hell like state which why they say it’s forever in there.

Time paradox broken memories turned reality

this movie is depicting that 2fort is an awful map

I think the reason hes a war veteren is bc the blu and red teams although they look the same they actually are completely different people so maybe the red soldier was a dumbass who went to war on his own years after it ended and the blue soldier was a real soldier who fought in the war

I watched this like 8 times now its so good

It's my second time watching this reaction, kinda addicting watching emesis with him