Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

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## Magnificent Baddie

* RED
* BLU

### Alias

Engineer
Engie
Cowboy
Pardner
Mr.Conagher
Dell

### Allies

**The Team**:
Pyro (roommate)
Medic
Heavy
Scout
Demoman
Sniper
Soldier
Spy
**Others**:
Miss Pauling
The Administrator
TFC Engineer (father)
Blutarch and Redmond Mann (purely pragmatic alliance)
Saxton Hale

### Powers/Skills

Very high intellect
Expert engineer
Sentry guns, Teleporters and Dispensers
Gunmanship
Mechanical right hand
Guitar-playing skills
Smooth-talking

### Goals

Make a living as a mechanic and mercenary. (succeeded for a while)
Increase his technological know-how.
Defeat Gray Mann. (indirectly succeeded)
Aid the Administrator.

### Crimes

Mass murder (mostly indirectly)
Accidental property damage
Aiding and abetting

### Type of MB

Affable Mercenary Technician

**Dell Conagher**, better known as the **Engineer** is one of the nine playable classes of Valve's 2007 first-person-shooter videogame *Team Fortress 2* and one of the protagonists of the supplementary animated shorts and comics.

He is the grandson of the late Radigan Conagher, the inventor of the Mann Brothers' lifespan-enhancing machines, and the son of the *Team Fortress Classic* Engineer. Dell carries on their technological legacy by being the brilliant Engineer for the RED and BLU Team, aiding himself and his teammates with Teleporters and Dispensers and murdering his enemies en masse with his Sentry guns. After Gray Mann's takeover of Mann Co., the Engineer has spent months attending to the Administrator's lifespan machine in her hideaway.

He was voiced by Grant Goodeve.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He is a technological mastermind and, in the early 1970s, is able to quickly build machinery some of which is Sci-Fi even by modern standards:
	+ Sentry guns which track down the enemy and gun them down;
	+ Dispensers through which his team is provided with healing supplies and ammunition;
	+ Teleporters with which his team can immediately traverse great distances.
* He is very cordial, easy-tempered and soft-spoken, arguably being the most pleasant and level-minded of the Team Fortress mercenaries. That being said, he too knows when to get serious or put his foot in the door, even threatening his boss, Blutarch Mann, with tranquil fury when Blutarch was getting too agressive.
* When not relying on his machines, he is fully capable of getting his own hands dirty in combat with a wide array of guns.
* Grant Goodeve provides a great vocal performance, giving Engineer a very smooth, charming texan voice (with the occasional haminess a la cowboy) that can occasionally become much deeper and more threatening in the rare occasions where Engineer truly gets serious or angry, such as when Soldier reveals to have stupidly teleported bread in *Expiration Date*.
* While most of the other mercenaries have at least one frenemy or rival in the team (i.e. Spy's animosity with Sniper), Engineer gets along with all of his teammates, as most of them affectionately call him Engie.
	+ His friendship with the other mercs is so strong that when his Teleporters were believed to have given the mercs deadly tumors in *Expiration Date*, none of them so much as berated him for this lethal mistake.
* He doesn't fear or despise Pyro at all, unlike the rest of the Team, and is even roommates with them, telling the Pyro stories and presumably even teaching him engineering, as Pyro became an insanely successful CEO for an engineering company after Gray Mann fired the mercenaries.
* In *Meet the Engineer*, he gives a calm introductory speech while playing the guitar and drinking beer while the entirety of the BLU Team tries to charge at him, but is massacred by his Sentries.
* In *Expiration date*, he and Medic study the teleporter's effects on the mercs' bodies by experimenting on bread. When they erroneously diagnose that the mercenaries have just 72 hours left to live due to tumors, Engie and Medic spent most of those hours continuing to experiment until they find a solution, eventually finding out that Teleporters only had effect on bread and the Team was fine.
* In *Loose Canon*, Engineer fixes Blutarch's (and, presumably, Redmond's) lifespan-enhancing machine with his late grandfather's blueprints. In defiance to the Manns' orders, Engineer secretly uses some of the blueprints to better his own guns and machines.
* After Gray Mann murders the Mann twins and tries to take over Mann Co. with his robot army, Engineer makes truce with his enemy team to defeat him.
* In *Mann Co. No More*, after Gray Mann took over Mann Co. and fired the Team, Engineer successfully disappeared from the radars completely (something not even Spy was able to do in time) and joined the Administrator in her secret hideout, where he mended to her life-expanding machine and saved her life many times.
* On top of apparently being one of few people who Miss Pauling sees as a colleague rather than a pawn, he seems to be the only person that the even more manipulative Administrator truly respects, trusts and confides in, other than Miss Pauling herself.
* In-game, if the player wishes to, the Engineer will forgo his animosity against the enemy team and join them in various group dances.
* He has various talents on top of machine and weapon proficiency:
	+ He is an excellent acoustic guitar player, even being able to play a soothing tune while wearing a working glove;
	+ He is stated on the official website to be a fan of barbeques.
	+ He is cultured in the arts, being able to recognize an original Kickasso in Blutarch Mann's office.

## What Makes Him a Baddie

* With his Sentry guns (or even his own hands) Engineer murders the enemy team by the dozens.
* He will often mock his enemies after killing them.
* Like all the mercs, he is accidentally responsible for various destructions of property or even casualties among civilians because of his Team's explosive battles.
* In *Gargoyles and Gravel*, he helps Medic trap a mugger's consciousness into a Jack-o'-Lantern pumpkin.

## Trivia

* Engineer, Medic and Spy are, so far, the only three Magnificent Baddies from the *Team Fortress* games, even if some other characters have high potential to qualify.
	+ Ironically, Engineer and Spy are archenemies due to Spy's sapper being lethal for Engineer's machine-based strategy.
	+ They're also three of the four MBs to come from a *Valve* game, the other being GLaDOS.

## External Links

* Engineer at the Villains wiki.
* Engineer at the Heroes wiki.
* Engineer at the Team Fortress 2 wiki.