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| “ | Snipin's a good job, mate. It's challengin' work, outta doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. 'Cause at the end of the day, long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead. | „ |
| ~ The Sniper |
| “ | Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes that bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy. Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet. | „ |
| ~ The Sniper on his rule about professionalism. |
| “ | Dad? Dad, I'm a- Ye- Not a "crazed gunman", dad, I'm an assassin! ...Well, the difference being' one is a job and the other's mental sickness! | „ |
| ~ The Sniper arguing with his adoptive father over his job as a mercenary. |
Mick Mundy, born Mun-Dee, and better known as the Sniper, is one of the main protagonists of Valve Corporation's Team Fortress franchise, and one of the nine playable classes.
Hailing from Australia (but born in New Zealand), he prefers to pick his targets off from a distance, though he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty if the situation requires. Preferring to hide in elevated or hard-to-see spots, the Sniper can pick off slow-moving classes like the Heavy with ease. The Sniper is also ideal for eliminating enemy Medics and Engineers, giving his team a chance to advance. While he traditionally uses the sniper rifle, he can also equip a bow and arrow.
He is voiced by John Patrick Lowrie.
Biography[]
Under his birth name Mun-Dee, the Sniper was born in the underwater country of New Zealand to Bil-Bel and Lar-nah. After his father made a failed attempt to get New Zealand's council of leaders to send their country into space he decided to a build a rocket for himself in order to go to space by himself. However, since his rocket is only built for one person, he ended up getting into a fight with his wife over on who gets to be the only occupant. Amidst the confusion, the Sniper, who was an infant back then, proceeded to crawl into the rocket and he was launched through New Zealand's underwater dome which flooded the city and killed all of its inhabitants save for his parents, who managed to survive. Because of faulty construction on the rocket, the Sniper crash-landed in Australia where he was found by his adoptive parents; Jonathan Mundy and his wife Mrs. Mundy.
Having been raised by his adoptive parents throughout his childhood, the Sniper likes to spend his time outdoors under the hot sun. During the summer of 1968, he was hired as a mercenary to continue the war between Redmond and Blutarch Mann, as each fight each other for the land their late father had purchased. During those years, the Sniper would stay in touch with his adoptive parents either by payphone or mail. In 1971, during the Robot Wars, he fought against Gray Mann's robot army with his team, in which they secured victory. Eventually, after he and the other mercenaries were fired by Gray Mann after he took over Mann Co.- thanks to his daughter Olivia Mann- the Sniper returns to Australia where he reunites with his adoptive parents. Jonathan and his wife died six months later, leaving the Sniper to now live on his own. One day, while he was cleaning his parents' house, he discovered that he is adopted. During his time alone, he had gone bush, abandoning his normal surroundings and reverting to feral quotations.
When Miss Pauling and the Demoman arrived and began looking through his parents' house, Sniper emerges from the shadows and sedates the Demoman, taking both him and Miss Pauling captive. When Miss Pauling demanded the Sniper to tell her if he poisoned Demoman, he revealed that he just gave him some of his family's moonshine liquor. He further reveals that he is adopted and that Jonathan and Mrs. Mundy are not his birth parents. When Miss Pauling tells him that she and Demoman were going to meet his real parents, he immediately snaps out of his hostile state and was left in shock, as he was injected with wolfsbane while he was tying Miss Pauling up. Immediately joining her, the Sniper, along with Demoman, Pyro, Soldier, and Zhanna, travelled to New Zealand by submarine. There, in a sealed laboratory, he was reunited with Bil-Bel and Lar-Nah, the latter of whom had become an alcoholic. When Bil-Bel asked his son on how he returned from space, the Sniper tells him that he never reached space and his rocket just crashed. When his father wondered on how he survived being burned by magma, as he had calculated that it will cover the earth, the Sniper reveals that there is no magma covering the earth, which left Bil-Bel speechless. Bil-Bel then proceeded to ask him for money, as it was what he has been waiting to ask. Annoyed, the Sniper did just that.
However, seconds after he gave some money to his father, he watched in shock as his mother blasted off into space with the last of his father's rocket ships, which was painted with a faction of the last cache of Australium. As the area is rapidly flooding with water, the Sniper looked for his dad. However, before he could even go and rescue his father, the Soldier points out that he is at their submarine, which he then took for himself. After Bil-Bel departed, the Sniper felt hurt by this, as he believed that his birth father had left him and the others to die. However, he is soon overjoyed when a submarine enters and he assumed that he had come back, or so he believes it to be. When he saw that the submarine is not the one his father had taken, he was immediately riddled with bullets, leaving the Sniper in critical condition. When the TFC mercenaries revealed themselves along with the Medic, who had unexpectedly joined them, the Sniper immediately noticed this before dying from his wounds.
The Medic proceeded to take the Sniper's body to the morgue of Gray Gravel Co., the island headquarters of Gray Mann, where he proceeded to stitch up his dead teammate's wounds. Meanwhile, in Heaven, the Sniper reunites with his adoptive parents. When he insisted that he wanted to stay with them, Mrs. Mundy lovingly tells him that though they wanted him to stay there is still some unfinished business left on earth. Jonathan, agreeing with her and now approving of his adopted son's profession as an assassin, insists that he return to earth and give his enemies hell. Upon regaining his life back, the Sniper, in his wrath, proceeded to grab the Medic by the neck. When he accused his old teammate of killing him, the Medic denies this and states that he was just beside the person who killed him. The Sniper demanded on why he joined the TFC mercenaries and the Medic explained his reasons on why he joined them. When the Sniper asked how long he had been dead, the Medic reveals that it was just for 12 hours. This caused the Sniper to realize that his brief reunion with his adoptive parents was real and he proudly tells the Medic that he is now the "most dangerous bloody man" on the island and no longer fears death.
Personality[]
Sniper doing about his job as an assassin and mercenary.
The Sniper is an outdoorsman who's loved to spend his time outdoors ever since childhood. He loves his job as an assassin, but this usually results in a conflict with his adoptive father, who believes that his son has become a "crazed gunman". Sniper takes his job as a mercenary seriously. Since sniping is quiet, calm, and focused, he has developed a high level of patience, as he can wait until the sun sets to finally kill his target. Despite his status as a deadly mercenary, he proves himself to be quite an oddball by, for instance, urinating in mason jars while on the job to use as a weapon on his targets. In addition, he seems to be against people who murder simply to murder, referring to it as "mental sickness". He also finds torturous killings to be unprofessional.
Regardless of the tensed conflict with his adoptive father over his mercenary job, Sniper loves both him and his adoptive mother and would always keep in touch with them. This love extended to the point where after Sniper died, when he succumbed to the wounds inflicted on him in the comic "Blood In The Water", he begged to stay with his adoptive parents in Heaven. It is there that Sniper finally gained the approval of his adoptive father.
Weapons[]
Primary Weapons[]
- Sniper Rifle
- Huntsman
- Sydney Sleeper
- Bazaar Bargain
- Machina
- Hitman's Heatmaker
- Classic
Secondary Weapons[]
- Jarate
- SMG
- The Cleaner's Carbine
- Razorback
- Darwin's Danger Shield
- Cozy Camper
Trivia[]
- Sniper lives in a 1958 Land Rover Series II model camper van.
- The revelation of Sniper's true birthplace explains why he isn't extremely strong and brash like other Australians in the TF2 universe, being unaffected by Australium in the womb.
- In "Comic #5: Old Wounds", it is shown that Medic has given Sniper stitches on his torso (two straight ones on the left side with a Y-shaped stitch on the top) and one on each arm to sew up his wounds.
- Although never stated in-game, Sniper's full adopted name of 'Mick Mundy' is revealed on the box of his NECA action figure.
- According to a rare Miss Pauling contract voice line from the Tough Break Update, Sniper does psychedelic mushrooms.
External Links[]
- Sniper on the Heroes Wiki
- Sniper on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Sniper on the Team Fortress Wiki
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