If you’re gonna be brave enough to say Portal 2 has “le epic 2012 humor” writing, you might as well come out and say TF2 does too. Pyro hallucinates killing people as playing in Candyland, Abraham Lincoln died trying to rocket jump because stairs didn’t exist, New Zealand went underwater and Australians are roided-out superhumans, Scout has a bird stuck in his ribcage, evil robots are powered by money, Saxton Hale’s mortal enemy is an evil zookeeper who kidnaps the animals he’s trying to kill, Soldier covers himself in honey and beats up bears, Scout can kill people with a mackerel wrapped in newspaper, Sniper performs urine-based martial arts where he throws his piss on people to mini-crit them.
If you’re gonna come out swinging, you better be ready to take on the king.