Saxton Hale

Saxton Hale is a character from the Team Fortress 2 series.
== Charactah Account ==
Saxton is the rugged Australian CEO of Mann Co. and an all-around man among men whose favorite pastimes include fighting, drinking and battling with rare and ferocious animals. Saxton is the latest Hale to take up the reins of Mann Co. since Zepheniah Mann left its ownership to loyal aide and tracker Barnabus Hale in his last will and testament. His boisterous presence is felt in all areas of the company, from the slogan ("We sell products and get in fights") to the customer forms, which include tickboxes for informing product-thieving rivals that he is coming to pummel them to death with his bare hands. His inspiring image also features on numerous Mann Co. catalogs and promotional materials. He is known (and feared) for his belief in handling customer service issues personally, with his official policy being: "If you aren't 100% satisfied with our product line, you can take it up with me!".
Saxton's favorite pastimes include fighting, drinking, and battling with ferocious animals. In fact, most kids sleep with a teddy bear at night, but Saxton Hale sleeps with an actual bear that he tamed while in the Brazilian Jungles.
His boisterous presence is felt in all areas of the company, from the slogan "We sell products and get in fights" to Gorilla Wrestling Fridays – his attempt at employee morale building. He also fills out customer forms with tick-boxes to either intimidate any product-thieving rivals or commend new inventors submitting a new product idea to him. His inspiring image is also featured on numerous Mann Co. catalogs and promotional materials.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Girl's Adventure Starring Saxton Hale
* Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action
* Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl
* Saxton Hale's Mail Storm
* Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales
* Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales
* Team Fortress Comics
=== Video Games ===
* Super Time Force
* Team Fortress 2
== Trivia ==
* Saxton Hale's image as CEO of Mann Co. was introduced in media for the Sniper vs. Spy Update. At the time, Saxton Hale was a one-shot gag, but later proved popular with the community and became a notable figure related to Team Fortress 2.
** Day 4 Update Page: Saxton Hale's iconic image first appears as an image of Mann Co.'s CEO.
** Day 7 Update Page: The first multi-frame Team Fortress Comic, The Insult, shows that Hale's image was based on the famous Charles Atlas advertisements.
** May 20, 2009 Blog Post: Saxton Hale makes his first of a number of blog posts on the TF2 Official Website, this one linking to the Sniper vs. Spy Update pages, which on the day of the post would have shown the Day 7 page with The Insult comic.
* Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales is illustrated by comic artist Mike Oeming.
* Saxton Hale's name is an anagram for a sexually explicit phrase that Valve may or may not have originally intended, as referenced in the Mann-Conomy Update.
* Saxton Hale is implied to have been in a relationship with the Administrator some time ago, referring to her as a "chain-smoking seductress" and being on first name terms with her.
* Saxton Hale has had a river named after his family.
* In Poker Night at the Inventory, Saxton Hale makes a cameo appearance as the Ace of Spades in the Team Fortress 2 deck of cards.
* A server mod called VS Saxton Hale allows one player, taking on the role of Saxton Hale on the BLU team, to fight against the rest of the players, who are all on the RED team. And, rather fittingly, he is usually equipped with strange fists that have reached the rank of "Hale's Own".
* Saxton Hale Boss Fight is a 1v6 Elimination Mode game selection visible in the Introducing the Game Browser trailer for Overwatch.
* Saxton Hale's chest-hair changed shape into a Christmas tree during Australian Christmas.
* Saxton Hale sent a letter to all Team Fortress 2 and Spiral Knights players on Steam requesting that the player go on a mission to reach the first Clockwork Terminal in Spiral Knights, in which if the player does, it leads to unlocking the Spiral Sallet hat.
* A child dresses as Saxton Hale during the Bombinomicon comic, which the RED Heavy intimidates until he cries.
* While it is said that Saxton slept with a bear that he tamed in the Brazilian jungles, there aren't any kind of bears of any species in Brazil.
* Saxton Hale, along with the Pyro, are playable characters in the game Super Time Force Ultra.
* Saxton Hale (in the Jungle Inferno video) shares a voice actor (JB Blanc) with another muscular man with a magnificent mustache and a bare chest, Braum from League of Legends.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Saxton Hale at Official TF2 Wiki | Official Team Fortress Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Team Fortress 2