Pyro (Team Fortress 2)

"I fear no man. But that thing... it scares me."

- The Heavy on The Pyro

The Pyro is a mysterious mumbling pyromaniac of unknown origin in Team Fortress 2. With an unknown gender and nationality, the Pyro is undoubtedly the most arcane of the mercenaries. Judging by how this mercenary is displayed in their Meet the Team video and how the mercenaries of both teams fear this individual, the Pyro can be considered an individual/weapon that could either save or destroy the planet as far as anyone can tell.

Personality
Thanks to the fact that this entity wears a gas mask and a fire-retardant suit, little is known about this individual, save for the fact that it has a strange liking of fire.

Due to their delusional behavior, the Pyro almost certainly suffers from  Schizophrenia, a mental illness that makes this entity fail to realize what is real and what is not. Because of this, the Pyro observes frequent hallucinations of an imaginary Utopia dubbed "Pyroland".

Weapons and Skills
The Pyro specializes in fighting enemies at close range using a homemade flamethrower. While its firepower is not overly impressive, the weapon does have a lasting effect, leaving enemies suffering from afterburn damage for a descent amount of time after being exposed to the flames. The Pyro's flamethrower is also capable of deflecting and reflecting certain projectiles such as rockets and arrows back to their senders via an action known as a compression blast (or air blast). The Pyro is also the best class for detecting enemy spies, as the afterburner from the flamethrower exposes their invisibility cloak or even their disguise as an unsuspecting ally.

The Pyro is also capable of wielding an assortment of various secondary weapons, from the standard shotgun, to a flare gun, which blasts a flare that ignites enemy mercenaries upon contact, and does critical damage when hit by a flare while they are on fire. Another weapon, called the Scorch Shot, shoots a detonating blank that explodes after a set amount of time.

The Pyro also carries a fire axe as his melee weapon of choice, which to its vision can be interpreted as a giant lollipop.

Out of all the mercenaries, the Pyro has the most taunt kills with a total of 3, however, the pyromaniac can only equip two at once. Its default taunt kill bears a strong resemblance to Street Fighter character Ryu's Hadouken, which can hit multiple enemies at once. The second taunt kill shows the Pyro creating a rainbow complete with a imaginative creature known as a Balloonicorn sitting atop it, once the rainbow is fully created, the Pyro then unleashes a thundering tremble which sets all unfortunate mercenaries within a 6 foot radius ablaze; this taunt can only be used by a variation of the Pyro's flamethrower known as the Rainblower. The third and final taunt kill has the Pyro exclusive to the Scorch Shot, the Pyro positions itself in the firing stance of a military official preparing for an execution, the pyromaniac then fires a blank that, at close range, kills and ignites unfortunate mercenaries that get within close proximity, however at longer ranges, the blank behaves in a similar manner as a standard shot fired by the Scorch Shot.

Role
Like the other characters, the Pyro is an anti-hero/anti villain depending on whose side you're playing on.