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The '''Civilian''' is a [[Classes#Special|special class]] unique to ''Team Fortress 2 Classified'' that is designed around the [[VIP]] and [[VIP Race]] game modes, the only modes he can be played in. During a VIP match, he must be escorted by his bodyguards, the [[Teams|BLU]] team, while avoiding being killed by the assassins, the [[Teams|RED]] team. He is extremely short and fat, has 200 health and 93% speed, and is equipped only with the [[Umbrella]] or the [[Derby Cane]], both of which are low-damage melee weapons. As a result, he is completely useless in direct combat, but benefits his team with a variety of special effects. During a VIP Race match, it's two competing Civilians who need to each be escorted to safety by theirs respective teams in order to decide which of the two truly deserves the title of ''Oil Baron''.

He constantly emits an aura around him, benefitting his teammates with 20% damage resistance, which doesn't affect the Civilian himself, and healing them for 5 to 15 health per second, which the Civilian does benefit from. Like the [[Medi Gun]], he gives less health to players damaged within 10 seconds. The aura checks for players within it every second, has a slightly larger activation range than deactivation range, makes a wooshing sound on an active player, shows a badge on their health, is active through walls, and will benefit disguised [[Spy|Spies]]. If there are somehow two Civilians on the same team, they can buff each other, but the resistances do not stack. The damage reduction does not affect taunt kills, and only gives 6.66% damage reduction against [[Critical hit|critical hits]].

His [[Umbrella]] is an excellent weapon for dealing damage, but not in direct combat. It will instead grant an 8-second [[mini-crit]] boost to any one of his teammates, making them deal 35% extra damage, and which recharges over 15 seconds. Mini-crit boosting the Medi Gun or [[Kritzkrieg]] increases their heal rate and [[ÜberCharge]] rate by 35%. Other than the boost, the Umbrella is identical to the [[Bat]], and so only deals 35 damage a swing despite swinging faster than normal. This means the Civilian should not attempt direct combat with an enemy under any circumstances, especially in VIP mode, where killing him will reduce the time limit by 20 seconds and give his killer guaranteed critical hits. In VIPR, killing the enemy Civilian resets the other team's capture progress instead. The Civilian can be somewhat reliable in combat outside of VIP, as he can attack fast and can be helpful in life-or-death situations.

He also has the fastest capture rate out of all classes in the game, capturing five times faster than normal. However, this is a moot point, because he is the only class able to capture points in VIP mode. If he is enabled outside of VIP mode using the server command {{code|tf2c_allow_special_classes}}, he is able to be selected as normal, and will play much the same way as he does in VIP - which is to say, a terrible fighter with exceptional passive effects. If he is killed outside of VIP/VIPR, he will not grant the enemy guaranteed crits when killed.

''Main article: [[Basic Civilian Strategy]]''