Did you know nomination
- ... that the interpretation that the Heavy and the Medic are romantically involved is prevalent in the Team Fortress 2 fandom?
- Source: Lindgren, Sofia; Gate, Nora; Eladhari, Mirjam Palosaari (2025), "Finding Queerness in Gaming: How Players See LGBTQ+ Themes in Non-queer Games", in Murray, John T.; Reyes, María Cecilia (eds.), Interactive Storytelling, vol. 15468, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, p. 109, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78450-7_6, ISBN 978-3-031-78449-1, retrieved June 21, 2026,
The majority of participants brought up prevalent shared headcanons unprompted, such as Heavy and Medic being romantically involved or ideas about Pyro's gender identity. Two participants remarked upon even getting into the fandom and the franchise at large due to the fandom and the diversity of the theories within it. One of them mentioned that the importance of widespread and generally accepted fandom-interpretations was particularly important to them.
Converted from a redirect by Howardcorn33 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 5 past nominations.
―Howard • 🌽33 17:42, 28 June 2026 (UTC).
- I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 18:56, 28 June 2026 (UTC)
- Just a note Howardcorn33, a second QPQ is required for this nomination. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:12, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
- Dclemens1971, Launchballer 2nd QPQ done at Template:Did you know nominations/Corporate Memphis. Also, given that the current Medic article is nominated at AfD, I would accept it if the DYK nomination is further delayed until the conclusion of the AfD, or if the Medic's link is removed now from the hook if that is more practical. ―Howard • 🌽33 16:24, 1 July 2026 (UTC)