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{{quote|''Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both! That's right, here at Black Mesa when we talk about [[Title Drop|Half Life]], we mean it in [[Justified Title|more ways than one.]] So make your peace and come to Black Mesa! Here you'll win a chance to fight [[Aliens and Monsters|freaks of nature]]; [[No OSHA Compliance|escape countless safety hazards]]; [[Door to Before|wander aimlessly for hours]]; and [[Nightmare Fuel|die scared, tired and alone]]!''
|'''Gordon Freeman'''}}
''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' is a [[Machinima]] by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a [[Let's Play]] and an [[Abridged Series]] of the original ''[[Half Life]]''. The series follows the rambling, eccentric and narcissistic thoughts of [[Silent Protagonist]] Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the game, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut. Imagine a one man ''[[
▲{{quote|''Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both! That's right, here at Black Mesa when we talk about [[Title Drop|Half Life]], we mean it in [[Justified Title|more ways than one.]] So make your peace and come to Black Mesa! Here you'll win a chance to fight [[Aliens and Monsters|freaks of nature]]; [[No OSHA Compliance|escape countless safety hazards]]; [[Door to Before|wander aimlessly for hours]]; and [[Nightmare Fuel|die scared, tired and alone]]!''|'''Gordon Freeman'''}}
Check it out [https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224057/http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/ here].
▲''Freeman's Mind'' is a [[Machinima]] by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a [[Let's Play]] and an [[Abridged Series]] of the original ''[[Half Life]]''. The series follows the rambling, eccentric and narcissistic thoughts of [[Silent Protagonist]] Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the game, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut. Imagine a one man ''[[MST3K]]'' speaking as he goes through ''Half Life''.
▲Check it out [http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/ here].
The series, currently at 43 episodes (41, plus two numbered "0" and "10.5"), totals about 5 hours and 13 minutes as of episode 39, but each episode runs about 7 and a half minutes on average and each episode ends at a point that you can stop watching and come back later. For people who have already played through ''[[Half Life]]'', {{spoiler|this series is past when Gordon is captured and left in the compactor - the last episode, 41, had Gordon managing to escape the bio labs.}} [[Examples Are Not Recent]], but the most recent ''as of this writing'' was released on May 4, 2012.
Now has a [[
For both the official (with Ross's approval) Mind sidestories of Adrian Shephard, Barney Calhoun, Chell, Parker, Felix, and Freeman(-ish) respectively, see also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaJX6gOYMA Shephard's Mind], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgO8O6JuM8 Barney's Mind], [[
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== The Main Series ==
* [[The Abridged Series]] / [[Dungeon Bypass]]: Thanks to the use of cheat codes, Gordon can "climb" over obstacles and skip some sections of the game. His guns also deal more damage.
** Gordon's ability to "climb" obstacles is possibly [[Lampshaded]] in one of the episodes as he comments on how he can do a pull-up.
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** Gordon at one point nearly bypassed the rest of the game... only to realize that he was in the middle of the desert in a metal suit with no supplies. He promptly returned to the dungeon.
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: The first rant of episode 26 begins with Freeman acknowledging that he's doing this. He claims that to do otherwise would be absurd because he sees so little "positive."
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* [[Accidental Hero]]: See [[The Fool]]
* [[Accidental Pun]]: Gordon asks "What's up with this ceiling?" not knowing he made an awful pun, then chastises himself over it.
* [[
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Upon finding an elevator finally leading to the surface and presumably to his escape, Freeman muses: "I am gonna get ''so'' drunk tonight. I mean, ''way'' more than usual." And he comes into work having had two shots of vodka for breakfast.
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Gordon is quick to take this view, which isn't that unjustified, considering the circumstances. He even calls out the trope by name!
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* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|Argh, Me Accent Be Slippin'!]]: Episode 27
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Episode 38, on a conveyor belt, trying to go past what is practically a [[Death Course]]:
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* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Gordon is very quick to point out the marines stupid tactics, including bombing the area where their soldiers (and no one else) are, killing each other with grenades, running straight at him around a corner even though they just saw their friends getting shot running around the same corner, firing missiles in an underground tunnel, and shooting him in the body with their MP5's, even though he repeatedly lampshades that it has little to no effect on his bullet proof suit. This is a very ironic meta joke, since Half Life was the first game to include complex and smart enemies, but they appear stupid in Freeman's Mind for two reasons: 1. They are pretty aged in terms of AI. 2. They were never designed to fight enemies with realistic damage values (in Freeman's Mind, it only takes 3 shots to kill a soldier rather than 10 as in the original [[Half Life]] or 7 in source). He thinks that natural selection is making them smarter though, commenting on how a few actually throw grenades instead of suicidally charging forward, and how they set up powerful turrets which could probably breach his suit.
** Then the Marines hired ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' for episode 30 and they starting blowing each other up with grenades.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Gordon, [[Driven to Madness|in later episodes]]. For example, in episode 15, he comments on how fun it was to shoot aliens, and in episode 24, he thinks about decapitating an injured security guard and using his intestines as rope, but decides against it because it would be too slippery (and [[Squick|gross]]). As of episode 39, he's killed a Black Mesa security guard in cold blood, believing that the guard was out to get him.
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** To be fair, Gordon made a good point: The guard he killed was ''not'' shot by a soldier whose job description currently includes "killing everyone in the building", despite the fact that the guard was standing in plain view in the hallway the soldier had just walked through.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Freeman constantly rants about how awesome his beard is, and how no one else has any style and how [[You All Look Familiar|everyone looks the same]].
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** This of course bites him in the ass when he realizes it helps the ''HECU'' marines pick him out from the rest of the science team, and [[Sarcasm Mode|totally not the hazard-orange, bulletproof safety suit...]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Gordon makes no bones about his education; he's a graduate of MIT, and among other things he tells a bunch of enemy soldiers that his diploma is more valuable then they are. He simultaneously mocks his fellow scientists for not being as fit as him.
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The scientist who jumps through a window in Episode 10 and keeps a shotgun in his desk, Freeman even remarks on his badassery. Somewhat ruined since the scientist is killed by zombies moments later.
* [[Berserk Button]]: He hates cockroaches. And locked doors. And dead ends. And Vortigaunts or soldiers interrupting his train of thought.
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* [[Big Electric Switch]]: One of the few design elements in Black Mesa of which Gordon wholeheartedly approves.
* [[Big OMG]] During episode 37, he gets one of these as he is dropped from a conveyor belt 10 meters up into a pool of water. To make matters worse, {{spoiler|he's still recovering from being knocked out, and as such, is drowsy}}
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In Episode 33, Gordon gets the impression that a scientist is Spanish (or Mexican).
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''I want some drugs, where are they? I have money.'' }}
** In an earlier episode, he uses German. The back story says he worked in Innsbruck, Austria before Black Mesa
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''Show me the money!'' }}
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: After killing the Ichthyosaur.
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* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]
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* [[Brick Joke]] / [[Call Back]]: In episode 4, Gordon recalls a time when he stayed awake for four days and thought his house was being invaded by frog people. In episode 28, during a rant on how he is [[Properly Paranoid]], he lists one of the reasons as being "There's no race of anthropomorphic frog people in the sewers Freeman! You're just being paranoid!"
** When Gordon gets his hazard suit, he mutes the suit's computer as it narrates activating all the various systems. In the first April Fool's episode, when Gordon falls to his death, the impact unmutes the suit computer.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Despite his ramblings, Gordon's inner monologue does show that he knows a lot about science.
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'''Gordon:''' NO! Do you know if leptons are really compound particles?! Friggin' donuts... }}
** Early on, he mentions seeing one of the [[You All Look Familiar|(many)]] white-haired geezer physicists writing down the equation for [[wikipedia:Gravitational force|gravitational force]], mentioning how it's something you'd see in Physics 1 classes. Truth of the matter? ''It really is.'' Most physics teachers (college-level, at least) also have (much) longer equations ''completely memorized'' so having to write down such a short, basic equation ''at all'' is just plain sad for a PhD-grade physicist.
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** Not to mention he actually ''does'' start reciting a lecture about fermions as he comes to in the trash compactor.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "You know, I'm starting to think this ''isn't'' a rescue operation..."
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* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: By his own admission (though without any air of self awareness), a lot of dates he goes on end with him getting tasered. He also makes reference to repeatedly hitting on a girl named Heather and failing, and theorizes he probably ended up in a trash compactor since she threw him in there.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hey! I have a doctor's degree!"
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Gordon. Half the fun of the series is seeing how freaked out he will get the next time he sees a giant alien or another new obstacle courtesy of the HECU.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Gordon
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* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: In the first episode, as Gordon gets off the train, he looks back down the tracks asking "Is someone following me?" While this, at first, comes across just as him being paranoid, if one considers the actual events of Half-Life, the G-Man ''is'' following Gordon. Throughout all of the events that have happened to him so far.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Expect Gordon to carpet bomb the area whenever he gets ambushed or almost dies.
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* [[Copy and Paste Environments]]: The staircase that looks exactly like the one Gordon got shot by a turret gun in makes him freak out for a moment.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Freeman decides that Black Mesa is surely run by one.
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** Episode 34 has him concluding that the company is, in fact, run by a [[James Bond|Bond]] villain.
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: After realizing his bank accounts are probably frozen, Gordon mentions getting back to Massachusetts to find the 10,000 dollars in gold he has buried in Harold Park State Forest.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Sort of. Ross Scott prefers to work on ''[[Civil Protection]]'', but difficulty in coding caused him to concentrate more on the easier to make ''Freeman's Mind''.
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** Episode 18 has him concluding that he must have encountered a pixie. He's frighteningly serious. It's safe to assume he's snapped at this point. Although, when you consider what has happened that day, the existence of pixies wouldn't be completely out of the question.
** Episode 25, he's hearing voices of the damned.
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** And in 26, he genuinely can't remember if gnomes exist (but again, considering what he ''has'' run into so far...)
** And now in Episode 27, he's started talking (thinking?) like a pirate.
** In episode 29 he starts howling like a wolf for no reason when he sees the full moon outside.
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** In episode 39, he decides that everyone in the world is out to kill him, and thus he should kill everyone in the world. While he's said things like this before, he finally substantiates it by killing a friendly security guard without a second thought and shooting marines on sight. [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|It may be all downhill from here.]]
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*** To be fair to Gordon, he does have amnesia at this point. He's forgotten that the security guards are friendly. Although he's definitely in a "shoot first, don't bother to ask questions" mode of thinking. Gordon also rightfully points out that the soldier he just shot would have needed to pass by said guard, who obviously wasn't harassed.
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Even Gordon gets his moments.
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* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Gordon has amnesia from Episode 34 onwards after a few punches to the face. He writes it off as the result of getting drunk the night before.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: One of Freeman's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu Dog."
** He also theorizes that the tentacle is a huge creature buried beneath black mesa, and that what he destroyed may have only its hair strands. Its pretty safe to say he reasonably thinks all the aliens are [[Eldritch Abomination
* [[Emergency Stash]]: Mentioned in ep. 28.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: "I don't understand! Why is everyone trying to kill me?! I'm awesome! Are you all jealous!?"
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* [[Flat What]]: Gordon has one of these in episode 28. He finally comes across an elevator that goes up towards the surface, and gives a deadpan "what" when he finds out the [[Yank the Dog's Chain|path out is blocked by explosive crates.]]
** It appears again later ([[Continuity Snarl|earlier?]]) during Episode Zero (The Hazard Course) when he figures out the training program wants him to jump off a narrow platform, over a dozen feet off the ground, onto a hard concrete floor. On purpose.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: At this point, it seems every kid with FRAPS and [[
** "[http://parkers-mind.blogspot.com/ Parker's Mind]" by [http://www.youtube.com/user/emperorpsymon Emperorpsymon], "[[Resident Evil|Leon's]] Mind", "[[
*** And the spinoffs have spinoffs: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140530142055/http://felixsmind.blogspot.com/ Felix's Mind] claims to be inspired by Barney's Mind.
* [[The Fool]]: In his blind efforts to get out, Gordon manages to clear his own path simply by wandering around. Most obvious example is in episode 19 when, when he returns to the rocket testing station after activating the electricity and fuel needed to start the rocket and kill the worm monster.
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[''shortly thereafter'']
'''Gordon:''' Awwright! [[Lampshade Hanging|I'm making a lot of progress for not knowing what the hell I'm doing!]] }}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: "I'm torn between wanting to kill every bug in this building, or just leveling it with explosives... I need a bomb."
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**** Of course, this might explain why the rebels call him 'The One Free Man' in Half-Life 2...
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Gordon has frequent encounters with laser beams. Sometimes they're straight-up deadly, other times they activate something else that's deadly, like trip-mines and sentry turrets. More recently he thought about redirecting an exceptionally powerful one and try to shoot down satellites.
* [[Gang Up
* [[General Failure]] / [[General Ripper]]: Freeman theorizes whoever is in charge of the Black Mesa cleanup is this.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: "Uh-oh, I'd better check my flank. That's how they got that dude in ''[[Jurassic Park]]''."
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: [[In
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* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Gordon wants one, badly.
* [[Gratuitous German]]: "Zeigen Sie mir [[Nazi Gold|das Geld]]!"
* [[Hand Wave]]: Gordon usually doesn't take any real damage, because the creator is playing the game with godmode on, presumably. This is handwaved by the damage Freeman takes being written off as minor. Electricity hurts, but doesn't injure. Bullets bounce off the suit or [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|miss altogether]]. Large caliber rounds or explosives can kill him right through his suit, but he dodges them. Headcrab bites are scratches. Bullsquid spit stinks but doesn't hurt.
* [[Hard
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In-universe example. In Episode 32, Freeman theorizes that his boss may be trying to take over the world. In [[Half Life]] 2, his boss actually ''does'' take over the world, and it's implied {{spoiler|that Freeman's boss used the whole incident to do this.}}
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Freeman eventually begins to enjoy killing aliens and soldiers.
** Although he only really does it when he has to. He tries to negotiate with them at first (it doesn't work), and in episode 28 goes out of his way to avoid fighting a few soldiers.
** From Ross Scott himself in an interview with ''PC Gamer'':
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** "Oh, look at this. Aliens that can't shoot back! I'm gonna take my time here."
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Discussed in-universe. Gordon thinks that the line is "He who fights drummers" because "there's no way that [he's] going to end up looking like [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090603000025/half-life/en/images/d/de/Tentacle_pit.jpg that]".
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** "Yeah! It's the surface! PARTY! PARTY! (soldiers appear and open fire) Man! It's the fun police!"
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Gordon encounters the soldier firing a rocket launcher, he rants about how stupid and dangerous it is to fire one inside an underground tunnel. Then after killing the soldier and approaching the rocket launcher, his first reaction is to try to use it himself.
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: "Man, you can just ''smell'' the money burning in this place." Black Mesa appears to be this to Freeman. One of the signs implores employees, "Work Harder, Not Smarter."
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** As per episode 40 it appears Black Mesa has been this for quite a long time, as Freeman implies that people have died regularly enough in experiments that the first thing that comes to mind when he sees a dead guy in a cage is.....
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* [[Indian Burial Ground]]: Gordon speculates that Black Mesa may have been built on top of one.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: [http://civil-protection.blogspot.com/2008/03/portrait.html Ross Scott looks surprisingly similar to Gordon.]
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** However, an [[Inner Monologue]] isn't usually garbled when underwater, implying that he's been talking out loud the whole time. Or possibly just since he started losing his mind.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Gordon graduated from M.I.T., and we he won't hesitate to let everyone know it.
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* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: Gordon runs into several flavors of these every time he thinks he's found an exit out of Black Mesa, [[Lampshading]] the original game's [[Railroading]]. Gordon winds up giving his own rationalizations for why they're there in the first place. However, unlike in the original [[Half Life]], Gordon can actually do pull-ups over easy obstacles, which ends up saving him a lot of time.
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** Gordon is convinced that the Adamantium (Exit) Doors have one-way mirrors and bulletproof glass. And they're all locked.
** Gordon encounters the Frictionless Hill during his brief stint on the surface ("The sandstone just breaks off!"). He finds a ridged pipe to climb, though that becomes a [[Hope Spot]] of its own.
* [[Jerkass]]: Gordon.
* [[Justified Trope]]: Gordon himself provides the answers for Black Mesa's unstable structure when he realizes the monsters might be teleporting into the walls. He has some more when he realizes that the "Box Smashing Room" was probably built to pad out the facility's costs so they could get the same amount of grant money on the following year.
* [[Kill It
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* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: Gordon has this opinion when confronted with the lightning spewing aliens.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Freeman actually ''does'' feel bad about killing the soldiers at first, but later starts to just stop caring all together. They probably don't deserve any better.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Gordon is quick to point out the ridiculous architectural design of Black Mesa, including the lack of structural integrity of every catwalk he tries to cross, the chutes-and-ladders elevator shaft, and the infamous "Box Smashing Room".
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** Also, Episode 14: Gordon starts pointing out holes in the plot of the game, saying that a government-funded conspiracy would not only be expensive, but pointless against randomly-teleporting aliens.
** He's also noticed that his day seems to consist of [[Death Course|escaping from one death trap only to fall into another one]].
** Episode 28 also hangs a lampshade on the [[You All Look Familiar|limited models]] for NPC scientists, when Gordon finds out they know his name.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Again, Gordon.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: "Why does everything keep exploding?! Did we wire this place to self-destruct?"
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* [[Made of Iron]]: The series abandons the standard convention of health bars and medkits, presumably in the name of realism, but in its stead simply has Gordon not take any persistent damage aside from the hole in his ear that he needs to bandage up. The creator says this is because, in this version of the ''Half-Life'' universe, the suit is impervious to low-caliber rounds. Gordon has repeatedly expressed his amazement at the durability of the suit.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Freeman wishes he could be one.
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* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Gordon is quite surprised by how cool one of the scientists in episode forty one is when he gets shot in the leg.
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* [[Man Child]]: It borders on [[Psychopathic Manchild]] in later episodes due to his mental breakdown, but Ross Scott once described Freeman in an interview as:
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* [[Metaphorgotten]]: '''All. The. Time.'''
* [[Metaphorically True]]:
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** At one point Gordon considers taking one of the Xen aliens to a taxidermist, thinking he would tell them that he doesn't know what it is and that he'll just say he got while out hunting. Then he realizes that what he's doing is ''sort of'' like hunting, and that he ''really doesn't'' know what the aliens are.
* [[Mind Screw]]: The ladder in the elevator shaft in Episode 11.
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* [[Mook Chivalry]]: The marines usually either avert this or play it straight, due to the schizophrenic AI of [[Half Life]]. On one hand, they politely run around corners after they just saw their partners get shot doing the same thing, but on the other, they do things like throw grenades and aim for the head.
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* [[More Dakka]]: "Is that an [[Cool Gun|MP5]]? It '''is'''! ([[Evil Laugh]]) Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
** And then the marines bring in the tripod guns and rocket launchers...
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In episode 3 during the resonance cascade:
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: In episode forty one, Freeman has this opinion about a scientist who got shot in the leg by a soldier while helping Gordon escape the building:
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: In episode 3, Gordon says that he should calm down to avoid a repeat of "Monday".
** And after shooting a Barnacle and watching its innards (or lunch) spill onto the floor, he says "This is like a repeat of when I worked in fast food that summer."
** And in episode 16, after turning on a fan that almost cuts his head off:
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** He states in episode 35 that he woke up in a trash compactor ''again''. One can only imagine the other times it happened.
** He also mentions an incident in Austria that he considers even worse than the current situation, where he woke up naked and had to make clothes out of garbage bags.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: In episode 23, Freeman camps out behind a corner and waits for the soldiers to run around, because he had killed several soldiers like that already, and is confident that they'll continue to do so. One of them instead chucks a grenade. After running in terror, he comments that he is watching natural selection in action.
** Earlier than that, there was his reaction to the first HECU soldier he found:
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'''Gordon:''' Alright the rescue team!
[''Soldier guns down the scientist'']
'''Gordon:''' Or ummm, what? }}
* [[Omniglot]]: Gordon apparently speaks five languages, English, Spanish, German, Hindi, and Haitian Creole. He says he's been to Haiti and India in the past, and he mentions Austria a few times (where German is spoken)--specifically Innsbruck, which matches with Freeman's ''canon'' background. No word yet on where he learned Spanish, though he ''does'' live in New Mexico....
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* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: When faced with a keypad lock, Gordon successfully tries "1234" as a combination. He laments that this can be attributed not to his genius, but someone else's stupidity.
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: After throwing a remote-detonating satchel charge between two soldiers who fail to notice it.
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* [[Properly Paranoid]]: He uses the [[Crazy Prepared]] example above to claim being this, but then starts listing off the ridiculous things he's paranoid of.
** After all the crap that has happened at Black Mesa who to say that there isn't frogmen in the sewers and owls that can read his mind? (Probably escaped Aperture Science experiments.)
*** And as of episode 40, [[Conspiracy Theorist|door conspiracy]].
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]:
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* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: When Freeman fails to follow [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]], he justifies it by saying "That's not my job!"
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]:
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* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: Just about every time he attacks something.
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: A subversion. In episode 15, Gordon starts pondering about how he's still alive with all the injuries he's suffered.
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** Incidentally, in later episodes, he [[Tempting Fate|gets bludgeoned, burned, poisoned, and almost crushed]]. Still not dead, obviously.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Freeman thinks that there's no way that the military can convict him for the killing of dozens of marines simply because it wouldn't make sense.
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* [[Rule of Funny]]: Freeman slurs to an extreme degree whenever dizzy. Why? Because it's goddamn funny.
* [[Running Gag]]: Gordon repeatedly...
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** "OH GOD I'M OUT OF AMMO!! WHOSE JOB IS IT TO RELOAD?! YOU'RE FIRED!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO AMMO LEFT?! YOU'RE FIRED TOO!!" Yep, he's talking to himself. It seems to calm him down a little.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]
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* [[Schedule Slip]]: After making a new video about once a month Scott didn't upload anything for the last four months of 2010.<ref>
** [[Subverted]] from May 7 to June 24, 2011 Ross Scott made episodes 32-37 and the bonus episode 0 running a nearly weekly schedule, and Ross Scott has stated he hopes to prevent large droughts again, but unfortunately, the switch to Windows 7 and the time spent on setting everything up delayed ep.38 for almost two months.
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* [[Schizo-Tech]]: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the 70's. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot.
* [[Shaky Cam]]: As the series is in first-person, Gordon's freaking out and spraying bullets everywhere during a firefight creates a similar effect. Justified, as a real physicist with no prior military training would probably do that too.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A lot of them. ''[[
** Players of ''Half-Life'' mods can notice clever references to mods.
** "[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|I have no tail, and I must swing.]]"
** Episode 5 had Gordon saying that manslaughter [[Sweeney Todd|sounds like a butcher in a evil meat shop who grinds up people for meat]].
** Episode 25 had [[Doom|him wondering if the aliens were in fact demons.]]
** [[Star Trek
** "Bugs can crawl on walls. Maybe I should have been a bug. [[The Metamorphosis
** [[Airplane!|"Roger, Roger. What's your vector, Victor?"]]
** "YOU SHOT ME [[Fight Club|IN THE EAR]]!"
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** In episode 36, Gordon recalls the biology department making [[The Happening|plants with killer pollen]].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: In one episode, Freeman overhears two soldiers talking about how mad they are that Freeman killed all their friends (in self defense). Gordon responds with machine gun fire.
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Gordon ''is'' actually pretty smart, physically fit, and overall competent, though he tends to [[Up to Eleven|inflate it to godlike levels.]]
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: In episode 28, he complains about an attacker disrupting his "train of thought"... while he's on a rail car, thinking to himself.
** Every now and then he mentions "solving problems" (i.e., through violence)... and he is a physicist. [[Don't Explain the Joke|A profession that involves lots of math.]]
* [[Steel Ear Drums]]: Averted in episode 8.
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[''Fires several shots with his handgun, which are immediately accompanied by a high-pitched 'eeeeeee~' sound'']
'''Gordon:''' ''Auuuugh!'' My ''ears!'' That was not smart... firing a gun inside an air vent! I hope I'm not deaf! }}
* [[The Stoner]]: Gordon seems to have an unhealthy fixation with Oxycodone, though it only shows up twice so far in the series. In one of the first episodes, he presumably has a "stash" of it in his locker (which goes missing beforehand), and in Episode 17, he sees a sign reading "Oxy" and thinks it stands for Oxycodone before he realizes it's liquid oxygen for a test rocket. "I don't think you can get high off oxygen.<ref>You can't, in case you were wondering.</ref> He later climbs into a shark cage in the hope of procurring animal tranquilizers (and is disappointed upon finding out he can't get high off the type Black Mesa uses)
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** As noted above in the [[Bilingual Bonus]] entry, Gordon straight-up offers to buy drugs from a passing scientist.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]:
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]:
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* [[Stupidity Is the Only Option]]: Lampshaded in episode 11, after leaping across an elevator shaft onto a ladder on the opposite wall.
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* [[Super Window Jump]]: The [[Badass Grandpa]] scientist pulls this, and Gordon is suitably impressed. Too bad he dies not five seconds later.
* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: "This is... suspiciously convenient. I haven't been used to things going my way for quite a while now."
** "What's with all these grenades everywhere?"
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Gordon brings this up when talking about the Uncertainty Principle (how measuring an electron's position changes its momentum, and vice versa). According to Gordon, there's only one correct
* [[Take My Hand]]: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line.
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* [[Take Over the World]]: Freeman wishes he could do this, and constantly fantasizes about what he'd do if he ruled it. He also has always wanted to build a robot army, and live in a giant metal spider fortress. He has no way of actually following through on it, though, so it's pretty harmless.
* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]: Episode 27
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* [[This Is My Side]]: He declares one of the laser tripwires to be "the line" and tells the aliens to stay on their side of it. Apparently he played the trope straight in college.
* [[Throw It In]]: A glitch in the Houdeye's ragdoll may sometimes send it careening away through the air upon death. This happens once, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkccVO2Z14&t=3m46s in episode 15], and Gordon [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the situation]].
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In episode 41, Gordon recruits a scientist to open the door leading outside, but first has to get past a couple of spinning blades. Gordon easily moves through them and tries to coach the scientist to do the same. The next thing you hear is *SPLAT*. Gordon is annoyed. Luckily, there were two more scientists to work with.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tracking Device]]: In episode 33, Gordon is understandably upset when he learns his suit is full of these, which is how the HECU has been tracking him.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Doritos. Spends several episodes musing about them, and when he gets them in episodes 10-11, he thinks there's something wrong with them, despite having "enough preservatives in them to mummify a small dog."
** In later episodes, he spends considerable time talking about pizza, and unusual ways of delivering it (via trams, amphibious deliveries to beaches, etc.). Unsurprisingly, this begins to happen not long after Freeman mentions that he's pretty hungry, and generally coincides with his surroundings - being near trams, water, etc.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Gordon's "apprehension" at the end of episode 34 consisted of at least one blow to the head. In episode 35, he can't remember the events of the previous day or so, including the resonance cascade scenario. It's not until halfway through episode 37, after he faces a bullsquid, that he really starts to remember all of what had happened.}}
** But for some reason {{spoiler|he has false memories of it being caused by a Lovecraftian cult.}}
* [[Two
* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: In episode 30, an officer blows up a pair of his troops with a grenade launcher. Freeman theorizes this is the reason.
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* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Freeman, and all the other mind series protagonist, to an extent.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: He occasionally does this in order to progress, as in the game. Usually lampshaded, like when he speculates that the surprisingly-flimsy concrete barriers are actually just Styrofoam.
** In Episode 0, he lampshades the stupidity of having to jump from a great height onto a target painted on the concrete floor during the Hazard Course. The idea in the actual game, of course, is to demonstrate what kinds of falls will actually hurt.
* [[Violence Is the Only Option]] / [[Violence Really Is the Answer]]: Invoked by Freeman, who makes a few attempts at communication with the aliens and HECU and comes to this conclusion because, well, they still try to kill him.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: The usual reaction to finding a new button or switch he hasn't touched yet.
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** The standard alternate reaction doesn't even bother asking what it does.
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Gordon's reaction to the HECU soldiers trying to kill him.
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* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Gordon is less than enthused about the "fall three stories aiming for a red circle" part of training.
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: Gordon ponders this about ''himself'', saying, "I've brushed with Death so often, I should start giving him high-fives as I pass."
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Freeman does so by necessity, gunning down the female black ops he mistakes for ninjas.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Occasionally; in Episode 26, Gordon wonders if there's any hidden [[Nazi Gold]] inside Black Mesa. [[Wolfenstein (2009 video game)|Wrong FPS game]], Gordon!
** In a straighter example, Gordon considers bloodstains and dead bodies to be signs of danger, to be avoided, rather than considering them "clues" like a video game player would. This means he often misses supplies and ignores areas most gamers would explore. Notably, he skirted the room where the first shotgun is located, and so did not find one until two full chapters later. More recently he avoided picking up the Tau Cannon, an extremely powerful weapon that [[Lost Forever|only shows up once]], just because it was covered in blood and body parts at the scene of a recent explosion.
* [[You Make Me Sic]]: Averted. Gordon doesn't even deem "Yore Dead Freemen" to be worth mocking.
▲== Examples In The Spinoffs ==
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The last episode of Baney's mind involves Barney hijacking a plane and escaping Black Mesa which wasn't in Blue Shift. (It's filmed in MS Flight Simulator X.
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: In Shephard's Mind.
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* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Parker's Mind episode 6, when he shoots the technician who won't lower the submarine.
** More or less Shephard, when he attacks the Black Ops agents that he wishes to go on a date with.
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** "Are you really a girl??"
* [[April Fools' Day]]: The author of Felix's Mind pulled off a very convincing April Fools prank, having everyone think he was giving up his series with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcpVbGdh9Lk this] episode.
* [[Art Shift]]: The last half of the final episode of Barney's Mind are recorded in [[Microsoft Flight Simulator
** Parker's Mind in episode 4, where Parker traverses through Half-Life, Doom 1 and real life.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: In Parker's Mind, he is constantly raving about how stupid the Ultor guards are. This is somewhat subverted however, when he first fights the Mercenaries, who actually have proper combat training.
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: Chell is slowly becoming this. She takes great delight in burning up many a [[Companion Cube]], GLaDOS' cameras, and even a Radio when the lyrics to the song freak her out.
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Chell is convinced that her [[Evil Twin]] has one.
** Chell thinks [[
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Felix alternates between demonstrating attraction and clear disdain for "Joni" (Alyx). Particularly when she volunteers him potentially suicidal missions while she stands somewhere safe doing little, yet [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|is routinely given a share in the credit afterwards.]]
** From what he describes, Felix's relationship with Chell definitely appears to have been this.
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* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: "[[Pokémon|BARNEY uses CROWBAR! It's ''super effective''!]]"
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Present in the spinoff Barney's Mind. While chattering away at attacking soldiers, he asks them if they play various video games, including Counterstrike. When you consider [[Half Life|what game]] that was modded from...
** Shephard does the same thing with ''[[
* [[Cold Sniper]]: Shephard wishes he could be one:
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* [[Companion Cube]]: Ironically, the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device ([[I Call It Vera|She calls it ASHPoD]]) in Chell's Mind.
** Even more ironic as she actually takes wonderful sadistic delight in burning up the [[Companion Cube]].
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** Chell appears in episode 14 of Felix's Mind, just after he had been {{spoiler|mortally wounded by a sniper}}.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Parker comments on a useless guard while searching for Gryphon. Said guard takes offense to the comment, causing Parker to invoke the trope.
* [[Divide
** Shephard thinks about this with one of the enemies.
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** Before that, he fired a Displacer shot at the Anti-Mass Spectrometer thinking that it would "teleport a teleporter."
** Also, from ''Chell's Mind'':
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* [[Doom Magnet]]: Shephard lampshades it in Episode 22: Nobody he meets seem to stay alive for much longer.
** Every friendly (the [[Redshirt Army|Red-suited people]]) Parker meets seems to die at some point or another.
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* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Chell will often break into Japanese phrases for no particular reason.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Lampshaded by Shephard:
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** Also averted, as he refuses to pick up the heavier weaponry (the missile launcher and the heavy machine gun) because it would be too hard to carry.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In episode 10 (part 1) of "Barney's Mind", Barney complains how stupid scientists are for getting locked in freight trains. A few seconds later, he enters a freight train and it closes and locks on him.
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* [[I Fell for Hours]]: Shephard's Mind plays this trope about as straight as possible in episodes 10 and 11.
** Chell falls ''several miles'' via Portal recursion and is utterly terrified.
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: Actually, Shephard, those aren't antidepressants.
* [[
** After he inadvertently uses the spore launcher blows up a headcrab zombie, he says "You are officially the best squid EVER!" He then proclaims [[Full Metal Jacket|"This is my weird squid, slime-spitting alien gun thing. There are many like it, but this one is mine!"]]
* [[I've Got an X
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* [[Jerkass]]: Again, a must for any mind series, but the protagonists of Ander's and Parker's mind really stand out.
** Of all of the Mind series, Shephard seems to be the most sociable one despite being a marine. He strikes a chord with Barney and treats other people reasonably friendly. On the flip side though, people around him [[Doom Magnet|seem to die quite frequently]].
** Toward the end of Parker's Mind, he starts to feel a little more for the people around him (even when he went on a {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the mercs after they shot Hendrix}}), but still lives up to this trope.
** Averted by Chell, who is more psychotic than a jerk. Then again, there isn't anyone to be a jerk to.
* [[Jerk
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Felix is starting to believe that his misfortunes are the result of the Universe actively punishing him for previously acts of jerkassery he got away with.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Shephard is in the middle of a battle and asking one of his comrades about the operation
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[''Spore grenade lands next the medic'']
'''Medic:''' Government cover ups are--
[''Spore grenade explodes and kills him'']
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* [[More Dakka]]: From Shephard's Mind.
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Shephard gets annoyed with one Marine in episode 21 for this.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: In episode 21, Shephard turns on his night-vision only to find {{spoiler|an alien staring at him}}.
* [[One-Liner]]: Most Mind series protagonists are pretty prone to this, but Shephard in particular seems to absolutely love these. There are ''at least'' seven or eight in episode 22 alone, with plenty more to be found in other episodes.
* [[One-Man Army]]: every main character, obviously. Well, except Chell. Special mention goes to Felix and his 1st season finale.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: [[Dead Space (
* [[Present Company Excluded]]: After being attacked by a shock roach: "Not today you jumping thunder****! No offense [[Fluffy the Terrible|Sparky."]]
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: In-universe example. The core Mind series group, called the "Masterminds," originally started out with just Ian (Barney's Mind) and Krimsin (Shephard's Mind). All the Masterminds that came after are pretty much one of these.
* [[Proud to Be
* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: Shepherd in Episode 24. With a shotgun.
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* [[The Quiet One]]: Douchebag in Barney's Mind, up until the final episode.
* [[Running Gag]]: Chell is ''starving''.
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* [[Schedule Slip]]: The last episode of Chell's Mind was back in 2010.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Parker is quite weirded out when he has to send out an encoded message, that is stored on a floppy disk, when they are several decades obsolete.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Shephard's Mind ep 23: "Diplomacy with aliens is hard. That [[
** Shephard's Mind Episode 20:
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** Shephard recalls a time he snuck into Aperture Science and messed with all the keyboards as a prank. This a reference to a small easter egg in ''[[Portal (
** Barney's Mind Episode 14: After Barney rants about the Alien Grunts launching bees, he wants to know why they don't launch [[Finding Nemo|mollusks... or sea turtles]].
** Chell's Mind Episode 03: Chell makes a few references to other games after lamenting that although her situation is rather bad, it could be worse.
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* [[Sudden Downer Ending]]: While those who played ''Opposing Force'' knew it was coming, {{spoiler|Shepard being "detained" by the G Man}} at the end of ''Shepard's Mind'' is surprisingly somber compared to the rest of the series.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Parker's Mind, with Hendrix.
* [[Talking to
* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]: The whole point of Felix's Mind; Felix is Gordon Freeman's twin brother that everyone else is constantly mistaking for Gordon.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Done in emulation of the [[
** And played for laughs in spin-offs were theres a SPARTA remix of certain lines (Like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mmqRqey3pQ Barneys mind 300 bees] for example).
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Shephard believes this is the case for all of the soldiers and Black Mesa staff who seemed to have died within arm's reach of a perfectly good medkit or health dispenser. [[Fridge Logic|Why didn't they just use them if they were about to die?]]
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** Even Chell is confused why ASHPoD is British.
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: {{spoiler|Shephard}} shows a fantastic example of this, during {{spoiler|his fight with the lightning pigs}} in the finale.
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* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: Quite common in all Mind spinoffs. Except perhaps Chell's Mind, where it's more obvious as to what the buttons do.
* [[What Would X Do?]]: In episode 3 of Parker's Mind, Parker is hesitant to climb a rickety ladder due to his fear of heights but realizes he can't stay at the bottom of the elevator shaft forever. He wonders what Jesus would
* [[What You Are in
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Shephard, of all people, in a pretty brutal way, with a healthy dose of [[Heroic Sociopath|Sociopathy]] to boot.
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