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God and his angels will have to drag me screaming to Heaven. I don't want to die! Damn you all to Hell!
~ Zepheniah Mann's in his last will.
Redmond/Blutarch: Look at me now, father!
Zepheniah: You did great, son.
Redmond/Blutarch: Yes, yes, yes, yes!/Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Zepheniah: Gray is still my favorite though.
Redmond/Blutarch: What? No!/No! Noooo!
~ Zepheniah showing his favoritism of Gray to his other sons even after death.

Zepheniah Nieodemus Mann is the overarching antagonist of the Team Fortress series.

He is the founder and former CEO of Mann Co., the patriarch of the Mann Family, and father of Redmond, Blutarch and Gray Mann. Zepheniah intentionally sparked the Gravel Wars after his death to punish his dimwitted sons Redmond and Blutarch by leaving them to fight over the worthless land they convinced him to buy, while his attempt at murdering his third son as an infant left Gray with a desire to claim Mann Co. for himself at all costs.

He was voiced by Nolan North (However according to the TF Comic Wiki he was voiced by an uncredited Frank Welker).

Personality[]

Even before his death Zepheniah Mann was already a cruel and corrupt businessman that cared little for anyone around him and was solely concerned in increasing his wealth and power, without even a hint of sympathy or remorse toward his wife and children. He even goes as far as trying to murder one of his newly born sons Gray Mann after realizing he could talk moments after birth. Zepheniah especially despises his other two sons Redmond and Bluetarch due to their dimwitted nature and tendency to bicker amongst each other for even the most menial thing. For ruining his life overall, Zepheniah made it so that they would fight each other for the rest of their lives over the land he didn't even want in the first place.

Appearance[]

Zepheniah Mann is portrayed as a wealthy lavish English man, who in is prime was seen with grey hair, sunken cheeks, and dressed in Victorian era fashion. Later as an old man, Zepheniah is seen wearing tattered brown clothes along with a broken tophat referred to as the Ghostly Gibus within the game. As a ghost, Zepheniah resembles a typical cloaked cartoony ghost but he still wears his Ghostly Gibus hat.

Biography[]

While it is unknown where and when Zepheniah Mann was born and how he founded his company, he was shown to be an extremely successful entrepreneur that founded a vast multi-million dollar hat and munitions empire. But it wasn't enough to satiate his lust for wealth and glory, and so he sought to produce an heir that will inherit his company the day he dies. It was here In 1822 at his mansion in England, on a dark rainy night, that he and his faithful weapons tracker Barnabus Hale (Saxton Hale's grandfather) where negotiating on how to increase their company's finances. When suddenly the mansion's maid bursts into the room to give off some saddening news; Zepheniah's wife Bette had indeed given birth to three children, but died after childbirth. Zepheniah, unfazed and uncaring, simply asked for her to introduce him to his three new heirs. The first to be introduced were Redmond and Bluetarch, whom Zepheniah casually nodded. However, when being introduced to Gray Mann and hearing him talk despite being moments after birth, Zepheniah was horrified and demanded the baby to be smothered. But before Zepheniah could do anything, a great eagle bursts thru the window and snatches the infant Gray Mann, never to be seen in a long time.

Decades later, a matured Redmond and Bluetarch tried to convince their father into buying a sizeable amount of land in America in order to reap it's natural resources to their benefit and expand their company even further. It took some time, but eventually Zepheniah agreed. And so, after spending almost every ounce of the family fortune they had into acquiring their new land, the family makes their grand trek into the Americas with Zepheniah thoroughly contracting every disease known to man along the way. However, upon arriving at their destination they find themselves in an endless desert of dustbowls that Zepheniah ultimately deemed useless. To make matters worse, not only where his illnesses catching up to him, but his long lost son Gray Mann has resurfaced and has threaten to blackmail Zepheniah into giving up the ownership of the company to him. Knowing that he will eventually die in the "hell" he unwillingly got himself into thanks to his idiot twin sons, Zepheniah Mann writes down his Last Will and Testament within his own skin. There he dictates that his company's ownership will be given to Barnabus Hale, while the remainder of his wealth will be given to his assistant Elizabeth for safe keeping, and that he will haunt the Badlands for the rest of days as a restless spirit should anyone bare firearms in his resting place. And as a last act of vengeance Zepheniah dictates that his useless land will be split evenly amongst his sons, ensuring that they will fight over each others lands for the rest of their lives. With his letter finished, Zepheniah quickly succumbed to his illnesses and dies, and so begins the Gravel Wars between Redmond and Bluetarch and their companies RED and BLU.

After his death, Zepheniah placed a curse upon his grave. Anyone who dares to bring a weapon near it shall incur his ghostly wrath. When Blutarch and Redmond both died and tried to send the other to hell via a gate that was accidentally opened during mining operations to finish their unresolved dispute, Zepheniah's spirit could be seen watching them from afar.

Quotes[]

Well, thank heavens for all small mercies, at least she finally stopped screaming.
~ Zepheniah Mann about Bette Mann
Zepheniah: As I was saying, Barnabus, if the sites of infestation are multiplying, so is their need of munitions. Munitions, we can-
Patience Meriweather: Mister Mann. Sir?
Zepheniah: Well?
Patience Meriweather: Your wife, sir... She didn't make it.
Barnabus: Bette-
Zepheniah: Yes. Well. And the child?
Patience Meriweather: Ch- Children, sir. Three boys.
Zepheniah: Good. At least she did something right. Take me to them.
~ Zepheniah Mann after Patience Meriweather gave him news that Bette Mann died after giving birth to three sons.
Zepheniah: Strapping. Alert. Handsome. Mm. They'll do. Wait... where's the third child?
Patience Meriweather: Sir, he's... He came out small, and... There's something you should know about him... (gets interrupted)
Zepheniah: SHOW HIM HIM TO ME.
Patience Meriweather: He can talk, sir.
Baby Grey Mann: Hello, father.
Zepheniah: BLUAGH! Smother it!
[Suddenly, a female Bald Eagle broke through the windows and took baby Grey with it.]
Zepheniah: CURSE YOU, DEMON BIRD! I'LL SMOTHER YOU BOTH!
Bald Eagle: *Brawk*
Baby Grey Mann: What is happening?
~ Zepheniah looking at his sons, while trying to demand Patience to kill Grey Mann after Grey Mann spoke, only for a Bald Eagle to take Baby Grey away to adopt it as its own children.
Good. At least she did something right. take me to them.
~ Zepheniah Mann's reaction to finding out Bette had three sons

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Trivia[]

  • Ironically, despite having tried to kill him as an infant, Zepheniah considers Gray to be his favorite son, most likely because he was not irritatingly dimwitted like Redmond and Blutarch. However this may have just been his attempt at annoying them both.

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