Abraham Lincoln (Team Fortress 2)

Abraham Lincoln is a character from the Team Fortress 2 comic series. He is based off of the American lawyer and statesman of the same name, known for being the 16th President of the United States. In the Team Fortress 2 universe, he is credited as the inventor of stairs and the inventor of the "rocket jump."

In-universe information
Alongside being the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln is attributed with several other feats within the Team Fortress 2 universe. An inventor by trade, documenting Lincoln's history is problematic due to conflicting information regarding an invention attributed to him, and the circumstances of his death.

Within in his first mention on the Victory page of the WAR! Update of Team Fortress 2, Lincoln was stated to have invented stairs in 1857 as a solution to the 300 year old problem of only being able to reach the second floor of a building by rocket jumping. Lincoln then built the world's first staircase in his laboratory at Ford's Theatre, where he subsequently perished in a misguided attempt to rocket jump up it.

In image scraps from the background of the first page of the Engineer Update, and in a painting depicted in its accompanying comic, its shown that Lincoln acted as the Pyro of the original BLU team, wielding an experimental flamethrower of his own design. Further down, a wanted poster of John "Tower of Hats" Booth appears, alleging that, contrary to the explanation given previously, Lincoln was instead murdered.

In the Gun Mettle Update, a commemorative coin was added to track a players contract points. Upon totaling 2000 points, the coin would upgrade to a Silver Gun Mettle Campaign Coin, embossed with a rocket jumping Lincoln, and the phrase "inventor of the rocket jump". This is, again, highly contentious, as the ''WAR! page'' implies rocket jumping had existed for at least 250 years before his birth.

According to the Loose Canon comic, there were blueprints for three "Life-Extender Machines", the last one apparently built on the day of Lincoln's death. This led to the speculation that he may still be alive. It was later revealed that the third "Life-Extender Machine" was used by Gray Mann.

Appearance
In the comics, Lincoln is wearing a dark brown hat and dark brown clothes. He has a beard very similar to the real Abraham Lincoln. Not much can be said about how he looks, because he only appears in one panel throughout the whole Team Fortress 2 comic series.