Team Fortress 2, released by Valve in 2007, features nine playable classes, and Demoman is its Scottish explosives specialist, armed with grenades and sticky bombs. Highlander is the game's popular nine-versus-nine competitive format, in which each team fields exactly one player for every class, so the Demoman carries a crucial area-denial and damage role. Clips like this circulate among TF2 players, editors and meme makers because they instantly signal the character and the competitive scene, keeping a long-running game present in short-form videos and highlight reels.