Bombinomicon

- The Bombinomicon noting and complimenting himself.

## Evil-Doer

Rescue the mercenaries, and anyone else close to death, by bringing them to his personal hell and offering them a way back to the land of the living.
(Succeeded; Possibly Ongoing)

### Hobby:

Turning people's heads into bombs.
Antagonizing Merasmus.
Summoning bomb showers.
Giving people gifts.
Letting people fight against the Scream Fortress monsters in his own hell.
Hanging out with his fellow Scream Fortress monsters.
Hosting and operating his own hell.
Cooking.

### Crimes:

Malefic
Harassment
Torture
Theft
Organ Theft
Grand Theft Animarum
Destruction
Battery
Hacking
Terrorism
Vandalism
Mutilation
Attempted Homicide
Usage Of Dark Magic
Stalking By Proxy
Murder By Proxy
Assault By Proxy

### Type of Villain:

Anti-Villainous Tortious Trickster

**Bombinomicon** is a minor antagonist and tritagonist in the online action-adventure video game *Team Fortress 2*. He is **Merasmus**'s grimoire of forbidden knowledge and ancient wickedness that can summon bombs to reek chaos during the *Scream Fortress* events. He has also has his first appearance in the Comic Strip that *goes by the same name*, while appearing again in a cameo in "Doom-Mates". The Bombinomicon is also the host and director of hell in the *Scream Fortress* map Helltower and Skull Island, he rewards players gifts once they complete the level.

He was voiced by Nolan North, who also voiced Blutarch Mann, Redmond Mann, and **Merasmus** in the same franchise.

## Appearance:

The Bombinomicon is shown to be a brown leather book who has the Demoman's class icon on his forehead. He has red eyes and has a circle of sharp, jagged teeth that holds a bomb in the center of his cover, he doesn't have any facial expressions whatsoever despite his personality.

Also despite being sentient, within him are pages that hint about the haunting to Demoman, along with other references towards various characters from the *Team Fortress* universe, also hinting that the Bombinomicon has great hidden powers that he can use at will.

## Biography:

Similar with Merasmus, The Bombinomicon's true origins and birth place are a complete mystery, even whenever Merasmus met The Bombinomicon is unknown. Though with the information found about Merasmus and The Bombinomicon with their past history, it's assumed The Bombinomicon is around 6,000 years old, or possibly even older. It's also implied The Bombinomicon has dealt with other various occupants of his magical powers, whether or not these individuals were magical, demonic, or simple humans with evil intents is unknown.

According to a ghost story the Demoman told to some trick-or-treating kids, back to when he was 7-years-old on Halloween, and back to when he still has two eyes, he was told by his mother, Tilly DeGroot, to have jobs and has encouraged him to go work for ghastly demons and necromancers because they would be there for only one day. While looking for a job, the Demoman finds a spooky-looking castle and would meet Merasmus there. The Wizard was rather irritated, thinking that Demoman was asking for candy. However, when Demoman quickly explains that he is looking for a job, Merasmus decides to instruct him to sweep the Grand Library for a nickel to get rid of the dust that came from corpses of the many souls who tried to clean it and failed, while also warning him about the Bombinomicon and that he should not gaze upon it's evil tome.

However, as the Demoman was sweeping through the library, The Bombinomicon calls for him to read his pages. Even though Demoman knows that Merasmus told him not to read it, the Bombinomicon asks him on why should he obey Merasmus, which it refers to as "some old idiot in a dress". However, it then tricks the Demoman into looking inside. This eventually leads to Demoman giving in to his own curiosity and peeking at a few pages in it. This allowed the Bombinomicon to haunt the Demoman's left eye and joyfully cheering of now being an eye. Upon discovering this, Merasmus was enraged that the Demoman had disobeyed him, and the magician is forced to cast a spell as a way to save Demoman's life, casting him away from the haunted eye. Demoman would then faint and then later regain consciousness, finding that Merasmus, the Bombinomicon, the castle, and his left eye was gone.

During the Comic "Doom-Mates", When Merasmus returned home to his castle, after attending WizardCon MCLVI for three days, he was horrified to discover that his room-mate, the Soldier, had trashed his home as well as having turned it into a raccoon sanctuary. Merasmus is then furious when he noticed that the Soldier's raccoons are eating away at the Bombinomicon, but he managed to shoo them away, thus preventing them from causing more damage to his grimoire, though parts of it were already stained with saliva.

## Personality & Powers:

The Bombinomicon is a hyperactive, fast-talker and is a somewhat crude jokester. Next to making crude jokes, he likes to toy with the people he brings to his "hell", usually trying to be lighthearted about his jokes but due to his nature ends up being crude or comes off a little rude. Even through with his jokes, Bombinomicon isn't a reckless or dumb individual and possesses great intelligence, which are shown with his jokes and dialogue. Albeit with his personality he shows to care for the players that pass against the enemies they'd have to encounter, as he is shown to appreciate and like those who he gives his gifts to, usually letting players go back to the real world once they have survived, while also not entirely meaning to give people harm from his hell.

Aside from his lines in-game, there isn't much about his powers or what he can do as a tortious item, though it hints he can do powerful magic as well as an unknown amount of stamina and endurance, also implying he may possess a form of immortality though a lot of this is not currently clear, leaving quite a few of his powers up to debate. The Bombinomicon despises Merasmus, so much that he even called him an "idiot in a dress", Despite this, he enjoys raining bombs on the TF2 Mercenaries when Merasmus commands him to do so. Most of his others motives are unknown or he just does them for the fun of it.

## Gallery:

The Bombinomicon in-game.The Bombinomicon at Helltower.The Bombinomicon rewarding players loot on skull island.
## Trivia:

* As said in the official TF2 Wiki, it is said that The Bombinomicon is a $6.66 (discount) 15th edition book.
* Despite working for Merasmus, he apparently doesn't really like his keeper/owner.
* According to Merasmus himself, not only is he 6,000 years old, it's implied at an early age he had met The Bombinomicon and convinced The Bombinomicon to work for him, as this implies The Bombinomicon is around 6,000 years old, he's most likely much older considering his backstory.
* The Bombinomicon has glowing green bombs. While hovering above a bomb-headed player, the space between him and the bomb is green.
* The Bomb Book contains over 400 pages of spells, enchantments, recipes and anecdotes about blowing up things. Two of those spells are used, one when Merasmus uses the Bombinomicon to rain bombs on the mercenaries and the other when the Bombinomicon turns a player's head into a bomb.
	+ The Bombinomicon also claims to know about how to attract ladies and briefly mentions about being a cookbook.
* The Bombinomicon speaks in an Italian accent.
* The Bombinomicon is the one responsible for the creation of the Monoculus**Monoculus**.
* The Bombinomicon was also given as a special Cosmetic badge for all TF2 Classes in the "Very Scary Halloween Special" Patch Update in October 27th, 2011.
	+ When the person who wears the Bombinomicon cosmetic gets killed, the player's body that is wearing it will explode into Gibs. The cosmetic of it awarded to players who earn the "Dive Into a Good Book" achievement by going to Loot Island.
		- It explodes in different colors depending on what current day it is. When it is during a Full Moon or Halloween event, the explosion is purple. However, at any other time during the year, it's explosion would mainly be in a gold color.
* It's name originates from combined words of "Bomb" and "Necronomicon", a fictional book of dark magic from H. P. Lovecraft.
* Despite being almost impossible to see in-game, the model for the Bombinomicon also has a texture at the back. It has a back summary from the character Bombinomicon.
* It's also possible to find two pages with the symbol of the Demoman class inside the Bombinomicon on the "forehead" of it's cover, even though the book cannot be opened in any way.
* The Bombinomicon, unlike other Halloween items, is not restricted to only be used on Halloween and can be used by the player all year-round.
* Inside the Bombinomicon, some of the hidden images inside the pages in Eyeaduct shows a monster wearing some Demoman grenades in a circle and other assorted Demoman and bomb-making paraphernalia.