Fan Casting The Heavy Weapons Guy in Team Fortress

The Heavy Weapons Guy (usually referred to as just the "Heavy") is a towering powerhouse of a man hailing from the arctic regions of Russia, with a bald head of toughness and perma-stubble, and who wields a truly massive minigun. Having escaped from the Gulag with his family to the Dzhugdzhur Mountains in Siberia, the Heavy has left the U.S.S.R. to work as a mercenary in America and sends his money to his mother and sisters. His hulking appearance, brutish behavior, and mediocre English make him look unintelligent, but the Heavy is actually smarter than he looks and can be perceptive and calm, having earned a PhD in Russian literature. At the same time, he really enjoys killing people and has dubbed his various miniguns with affectionate names, including "Sasha," "Natascha," "Oksana," "Svetlana," and "Sheila." The Heavy is perhaps the closest thing to a main character in the game, in how he is often featured "front and center" due to his size in artwork (in one splash screen, in the game's box art, in the selection line-up, and in the promotional team line-up) and him getting the first class-centric video (and appearing first in both trailers and foremost in "Meet the Sandvich"). The Heavy was the third class to be updated with fun new toys.