Meet the Team is a series of animated shorts Valve released to introduce the nine playable classes in Team Fortress 2, beginning with Meet the Heavy in 2007. Each video opened with the same short musical sting and title card before cutting to interviews and action built around one class. The shorts became some of the most quoted and rewatched promotional videos in gaming, and their opening cue stayed familiar long after the original run ended, turning up in fan edits and class reveal parodies.
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The short orchestral intro sting from Team Fortress 2's Meet the Team videos, used for character reveals, team introductions and gaming edits.
This is the brief opening fanfare that plays over the title card at the start of each Meet the Team short from Team Fortress 2. A punchy burst of brass, strings and percussion builds in just a few seconds, sounding heroic, old fashioned and slightly over the top for something so short. It frames the class about to appear like a star making an entrance. Viewers who know the game instantly recognise the cue and expect a character reveal, which is why the sound alone works as a setup even without the visuals.
