#and I am NOT calling my boy Scout Willis ew

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Chrimas Eve Fandom Opinions Yeeee-haw!!

Team Fortress 2 Canon Name Reveal opinions, but I don't even think Valve trying to give the Medic a canon first name or Scout a canon last name were even necessary or a good idea this much time later. The other characters' with at least some of their name shown in older comics over time made sense--we got a bunch of the Demo man's backstory and it made perfect sense to fully name the guy. But seven years later suddenly scrambling up "Herbert" and especially "Willis", with the former not even being in the comic, just a random infodump on social media, was just... *deflating balloon noise*. Valve shoulda known by now the fandom was all about just coming up with a name, or the other half of a name, or just leaving it mysterious and calling them by their class all on their own.

I think Herbert is fine. Just fine... it's a Re-animator reference which is cool and all but I think confirming Fritz in honor of Emesis Blue--one of the best fan-made TF2 films of all time--would have been better. Also in a roundabout way would be a nod to Fritz Lang. Also it would still mean our Dr. Ludwig would have an embarrassingly nerdy name as "Fritz" is short for "FRIEDRICH".

My more controversial name opinion is that I HATE giving Scout the last name "Willis". This is not even a Ludwig situation, where it's a last name as often as it is a first name. Willis is almost always a first name. Also, it's... so SO generic ambiguously English-White of a name. I would have hoped for a surname that at least hinted at some Italian, or Greek, or... I dunno, make it Moldovan or even, hey, oops, FRENCH for all I care, but make it something. Not basically the equivalent of revealing his name is "Jeremy John". I actually hope they don't reveal any more names (or unknown halves of names. Seriously, Mikhail still doesn't have his family's last name known but they felt the need to give Dr. Ludwig and poor Jeremy a fully known name at the last minute? Bogus). I think they should leave the rest to the fans, since most people making fanart, films or stories already have their fun headcanon names to use when they want.