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[[File:Gmodmenu_2392.jpg|frame]]Garry's Mod is an independent mod of the Valve game [[Half Life]] 2 created by Garry Newman. Originally just Half Life 2 with the rope, manhack and rollermine guns, it has evolved considerably since then. Rather than taking place in any sort of universe, the game is a sandbox where you can construct and demolish buildings using props from various Source games like ''[[Counter-Strike]]'', [[Team Fortress 2]] and [[Zeno Clash]]. The ragdolls, and even NPCs from these games are also at your disposal. Considered one of the most popular [[Machinima]] devices as of now. The game uses a lua scripting format for its weapons and events, meaning it's possible to code your own weapons into the game. Currently, it's available on Valve's Steam client for download.▼
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It is available at [https://garrysmod-play.com/ its own website].
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Very frequent. One of the sample scripted weapons (or SWEPs in community jargon) included with the game, the Flechette Gun, is exactly like the USP from ''[[Half Life]] 2'' only it shoots an [[Bottomless Magazines|endless stream]] of the exploding rounds fired by the Hunter enemy from ''[[Half Life]] 2: Episode 2''. You can build prop cannons that can shoot everything from sawblades to watermelons. And let's not get started on the various SWEPs devised by the community...
** The eponymous creator of the game, once scripted an AK-47 SWEP that shot ''babies'' as ammunition. In response, someone created a Baby SWEP that ''fired AK-47s'', and another person made another AK-47 SWEP that could shoot either babies or ''sawblades''.
** A mod of the already awesome molten rebar crossbow made it shoot sawblades.
** One SWEP, named the "Scavenger Cannon", is, essentially, the [[Fallout 3|Rock-It Launcher]]
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Most spawned NPCs will stand ramrod still, firing wildly at anything that comes nearby, ''unless'' the map they are spawned on is "noded" properly to allow for complex
** Or if the user downloads one of the several mods that allow manipulation of NPC behavior. Can be useful for [[Machinima]].
* [[Beam Spam]]: The GCombat and Spacebuild Enhancement Project
* [[
* [[Camera Abuse]]: The Camera ''tool'' is very easy to knock out of place if it's not welded to something.
** Getting slapped by NPCs or falling objects while wielding the Camera gun also counts.
* [[Character Customization]]: Most RP servers have this, in some form or another and to varied extents.
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: You'll have so much fun with these. ''So much fun...'' By "fun", we mean "let's play crash the server by spawning enough of them to fill the map and then detonate one."
* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: The Camera allows you to take pictures from in-game and have them saved to file. Hence, there have been many [[Web Comics]] created via ''Garry's Mod''.▼
* [[Game Mod]]: Not only
▲* [[First-Person Snapshooter]]: The Camera allows you to take pictures from in-game and have them saved to file. Hence, there have been many [[Web Comics]] created via Garry's Mod.
▲* [[Game Mod]]: Not only is the game itself this, but it has another built in one where you race watermelons.
** And build tanks.
** And build spaceships.
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** And disguise yourself as inanimate objects for a game of [[Hide and Seek]].
** And film movies.
** [[Elevator Source|And ride an elevator
* [[Griefer]]: So very much. Much like the
** Killing while building.
*** Killing with build objects.
*** Killing with coded objects.
*** Killing... Well, there are many ways.
** Crashing the server by [[Wreaking Havok]] a little ''too'' much.
** Playing sound files -- especially low quality ones -- without anyone's consent (or approval).
** Blocking off the spawn so that no one can get out.
* [[Hit Points]]
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: A lot of them. Special mention goes to the Vagineer, the Engina, Dic Soupcan and many more.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: You can keep all of the weapons in the "weapons" section of the spawn menu on your person, which can lead to a [[Rummage Fail]]. Better yet, you can't drop weapons.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: You can kill people not only with guns, but also with ''their ammo pickups
* [[Infinite Flashlight]]: Compared to the [[Ten-Second Flashlight]] one of the original games.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Various mods allow players to import characters from other non-Valve franchises, from ''Super Mario Bros'' to ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' to ''My Little Pony: Friendship
* [[Joke Character]]: The Hobo from [[Dark RP]]. No salary, [[Body Horror|looks like a corpse]], and only has the ability to throw crap at people (literally).
* [[Le Parkour]]: Possible using the Parkour Swep (a scripted weapon which allows you to jump large distances and negates falling damage), Perfected Climb Swep (a scripted weapon that allows you to climb and grab onto ledges), Smod Leg (
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Downloading excessive numbers of
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: The [http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=52104 Dismemberment Mod]. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHfNcleaOo Gore Mod] probably takes home the gold though.▼
▲* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: The [http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=52104 Dismemberment Mod].
* [[Machinima]]: Tons of it and then some.
** ''[[Concerned]]'' was made using almost solely Garry's Mod.
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* [[Magnet Hands]]: It doesn't matter if you're underwater, in outer space, on fire, flying at 200/kph, you'll be holding your tool gun/Gravity Gun/Physgun in an indestructible death grip.
** Until [[Critical Existence Failure]] hits, and then the weapon will disappear entirely.
* [[The Many Deaths of You|The]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaaFpKqUGAc Many] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65w1uCTDRuI&feature=channel Deaths Of You]. The aforementioned Ragdoll Slaughter, you ''yourself'' can ragdoll upon death, so...
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: There are a lot of models available for this game. Many of them are ragdolls of characters from other games, which can be used to create some rather interesting scenes if you're good at posing. This is because most models need only be hexed and then imported.▼
▲* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: There are a lot of models available for this game. Many of them are ragdolls of characters from other games, which can be used to create some rather interesting scenes if you're good at posing.
* [[More Dakka]]: The Turret tool, among other things.
* [[Muzzle Flashlight]]
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Posing is rather tricky, even if you know what you're doing.
** Large, gangly ragdolls can be a nightmare, and can potentially kill you if you're too close while the physics causes them to flail about because you moved their arm a pixel in the wrong direction. The author of ''[[Concerned]]'' once got killed while posing a Strider, as the Physics Gun jerked the Strider's leg too fast at him. Can be offset by placing heavy objects near them, to help control their jerkiness. Possibly-relatedly, he only had a posed Strider show up in one other comic, nearly two years later.
** Finger slipped from E to R when pointing at the ground with the Physics Gun out? Say bye to your contraptions!
* [[Noob
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: As you'll often be [[The Aloner]] (unless you're in Multiplayer, of course), this can kick in on night-time maps, or just in general. Also how most horror maps do their business, since the closest thing to getting scary with Mooks are the regular Headcrab Zombies (packaged with ''GMod''), and those often get boring fast. Combined with [[Hell Is That Noise]], maps like Gm_Ghosthunt and Gm_Scream have terrified audiences without even showing an enemy.
* [[Not Quite Flight]]: Balloons+thrusters, typically combined with the airboat. It is possible to ride sufficiently large props via phys gun or thruster use, but good luck getting down (alive anyways).
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Garry's Bombs, and Teta_Bonita's nuke
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: The Harmless Companion Cube
** The toybox now has [[Doctor Who|Weeping Angels]].
* [[Player Versus Player]]: Straight Deathmatch servers exist
* [[Ragdoll Physics]]: Most ''Garry's Mod'' [[Machinima]] depends on it
* [[Rule of Fun]]: Oh so much. Highlights include building random things out of props, destroying them, making NPC's fighting each other, destroying them, blowing up stuff with nukes, downloading
* [[Rummage Fail]]: As mentioned above, you may find yourself doing this after an extended session of messing around with SWEPs. It doesn't help that only a few user-created ones can be dropped and the only way to reset your arsenal without losing your ''[[Half Life]] 2'' weapons, physgun
* [[Run, Don't Walk]]: In the default controls, the Walk function isn't even macroed to a key (back when it was, the corresponding function didn't even ''exist''). Although, running ''is'' faster...
** If players want to move slowly, they generally crouch anyway. The only difference between that and walking is the animation and the smaller hitbox. And the fact that it's bound by default.
* [[Science Fiction]]: The Spacebuild gamemode, usually used in combination with the futuristic props of the Spacebuild Enhancement Project. [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|Not that's there anything stopping you from just sticking a oxygen tank on a WW2 fighter and flying off to Neptune
* [[Skybox]]: Most decent maps will have one of these. The really good maps will have a detailed, 3D skybox.
* [[Surreal Humor]]:
*
** Elevator: Source derives half of it's humor from the fact that you will more often than not find a beach and a detective's office within two floors of
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The premise of the [http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Armored_Combat_Framework ACF (Armored Combat Framework)]{{Dead
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: You're not going to run out of stuff to do.
* [[Wimp Fight]]: Most effort ever put into fight scenes in comedies usually involves welding invisible thrusters to the characters' limbs and holding down the ignition button. For good reason, it's meant to be funny, not serious, and it is indeed funny.
** One of the best examples is [[The Gmod Idiot Box|Das Bo Schitt's]] "Billy Mays Vs. Vince Offer". It's hilariously epic due to the incredibly over-the-top slap-fights and body slams.
▲** Another good one is the Stargate mod and it's many addons, hell with the Stargate, just standing too close to the gate will cause vaporization like in the show, hell another superbomb example is the Naquadah Bomb which is similar to the fusion bombs you can make in Spacebuild (don't ever make one intentionally on a server, it's pisses people off, and will often get you banned fast (also, it's the main reason I play on SB servers that use the Stargate mod (like most), so I can just use a ZPM instead of a fusion reactor)).
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