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== The G-Man's employers are [[Valve
The G-Man is the personification of Marc Laidlaw's attempts to keep the story linear. As such, it is the G-Man that is to blame for the weird coincidences that keep Freeman on his feet. As the series progressed, G-Man gained more of a personality and characterization, leading to his replacement by the Fourth Wall breaking Vortigaunts in Episode 1.
The series will end with G-Man taking Gordon to meet his employers, upon which the player will view a video recorded by the staff at Valve, thanking them for playing and doing some minor story exposition. The game will then close. When the player attempts to reopen them, the "New Game" button has been replaced with "[[New Game
== As of the events of Half-Life 2, Episode Two, Alyx is carrying Gordon's child. ==
As the Vortigaunts heal Alyx in Episode Two, they ask Gordon to lend them a hand in stabilizing her. Then the Vorts "weave [his and Alyx's] life forces together," forming a "nearly vortal bond." Also note that when the strange beige colour spreads throughout Alyx's body, it originates from her lower
This is semi-foreshadowed by Eli's remarks that Alyx and Gordon would make a good couple, and that they can't "blame an old man for wanting grandkids." Additionally, it explains why the G-Man now takes such an interest in Alyx in particular: now that she's carrying his prime specimen's child, she's super-important to his schemes. That baby could play a vital role in some other intergalactic conflict of his, and it will be the price she pays for being saved from Black Mesa.
== Chell will make an appearence in Half-Life Ep. 3. ==
It has been stated by Gabe Newell in an October 2007 interview that Chell has importance in the overall Half-Life universe, and will eventually have a fairly significant relationship with some of the other characters that we are already familiar with. Who knows, they are heading to the Borealis after all which is an Aperture ship, maybe a portal mishap leads Chell to Gordon's location or vice versa. Perhaps even [[
* This is pretty much exactly my theory. But the Borealis drydock found inside Aperture, without the ship near it, probably doesn't have any teleportation qualities. Plus she's not at the drydock now anyway, having escaped. I always figured that if she ever ended up being teleported to the Borealis, the G-Man would have something to do with it. But if Gordon and company teleported into Aperture, there's the problem of "How do they get out, and then, how do they meet up with Chell, and how do they get back to Eastern Europe?" G-Man again? Then again, the Borealis could just be teleported outside of Aperture somewhere close to Chell's location.
* I could just picture the romantic dialogue between Gordon and Chell as their relationship develops:
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== Episode 3 will have Left 4 Dead style co-op. ==
On the team will be [[The Hero|Gordon]], [[The Chick|Alyx]], [[The Lancer|Barney]], [[The Big Guy|Grigori]], a [[The Smart Guy|Vortigaunt]], and [[Sixth Ranger|Adrian]].
* And [[Eleventh
== Areas in [[
Everyone knows Gordon and teleportation don't mix. Once Gordon and company find the Borealis, they'll probably come across a teleporter of some sort, or maybe even the Portal gun. Once that happens, they'll probably end up traveling to the Borealis' drydock, which can be seen in Portal 2. This will be a [[Nostalgia Level]], and they'll get out pretty quickly, but not before lots of Portal references.
== ''Portal 2'' and ''Episode Three'' '''are''' still connected, due to [[Time Travel]] ==
The Borealis vanished years ago, and suddenly reappeared in present day. It's known, at least by Eli and Kliener, to contain technology powerful enough to take the fight to the Combine, or destroy us all. This may actually ''be'' a method of [[Time Travel]], which caused the Borealis to disappear and reappear. Also, the 'Slow Teleport' from Nova Prospekt to Kliener's lab may actually be [[Foreshadowing]] this. Put together with ''Portal 2'''s [[Time Skip]], we can draw the conclusion that the two stories may still be connected, if only peripherally.
* Some of GLaDOS's comments in the first ''Portal'' have led [[Portal (
== The government drugged the HECU Marines as part of an experiment ==
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== The Head-crabs are able to zombify humans because of The Green flu ==
The Head-crabs normally can only zombify creatures from there home world, but like ten or so years before The Black Mesa incident, While the events of left 4 dead 1 and 2 were going on, either Black Mesa, or Aperture Science figured out a cure that they sprayed into the atmosphere which made living creature a carrier, people rebuilt and the world was doing fine but when the incident happened it just happened to react to the head crabs biology making then be able to turn others into zombies. The combination of it and the head-crabs forcing changes meant to be on a vortigaunt made it so they changed the humans into those horrible creatures.
* And so thats why the fast head-crab zombies scream sounds so much like a smoker to me.
== Gordon spent some time as Special Forces before he went to college ==
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== Black Mesa's firearm program was Team Fortress 2 ==
Gordon spent a lot of time playing ''[[
* Well, that explains why I've always found the sniper rifle so goddamn useless.
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* As much as this troper doesn't like this theory, there is some evidence for it- when the Resistance shuts off the superportal, Dog makes a noise that could be interpreted as dissapointment. The subtitles actually say "Dog Dissapointed", but it might be an automatic thing for one of his sound effects.
** Dog is actually making the noise in response to Magnusson's exuberant celebration of his own genius - his headshake and the 'disappointed' sound effect line up with Magnusson's off-screen happy dance and Alyx's eyeroll.
** This troper personally thinks Dog was a mole, but his attacking the Advisors at the end of Episode 2 was a permanent [[Heel Face Turn|Heel]][[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Face Turn]] on his part.
== The G-man works for Valve ==
The G-man is an agent sent by Valve after the creation of the Half-life universe to trigger the events necessary for the game's plot to occur. This also explains all the powers the G-man possesses, like stopping time at the end of Half-Life 2.
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== Eli hired Gordon from the G-Man. ==
The price for hiring someone from him though, is the death of a loved one because the hired one loses their free will until the contract is finished (basically, Gordon is a merc). However, after doing this, he then told the Vorts' to stop the G-Man when he tries to take his payment. The G-Man didn't mind, as he saw Gordon's usefulness to the Resistance and found the Combine annoying. After Alyx was on the ground, saved by the Vorts' the G-Man informed her of all of this. She is clearly angry, and the G-Man warns her Gordon has about 60 seconds of air left. She decides to get revenge and safe Gordon by making the deal of setting Gordon free (after the Combine are defeated) in trade for Eli, Mossman, and Barney's lives. Barney [[Bus Crash|is killed off screen]], Mossman is killed by the Combine, and Eli is killed by the Advisor. The ending was an act so people didn't catch on. The reason Eli was spooked by what the G-Man had Alyx tell him wasn't just because the G-Man had said that before at Black Mesa, but the G-Man visited him right after his deal with Alyx and said the same.
* This would be interesting if it weren't completely ridiculous. Eli and Alyx have no reason to lie to Gordon (and it isn't as if he'll tell anyone), nor are they that good actors. The GMan doesn't negotiate, he tells other people what to do. It's redundant for anyone to hire Gordon as the GMan does that himself. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And why would Alyx trade Barney's life when she barely knows him?]]
* This idea still works if Eli's own life was the payment for Gordon's services, or if there was some other payment that we are as yet unaware of. Eli certainly knows of the G-Man's existence, and when Gordon first arrives in City 17, Barney and Dr. Kleiner don't seem like they're surprised that he's there in the first place, just that he showed up without any warning (Dr. Kleiner even says "I expected more warning", implying that he knew Gordon was coming, but he didn't know when.) In Episode 1, Alyx remarks on how Eli was "so sure [she] wouldn't find [Gordon]" still at the base of the Citadel. Perhaps the contract was merely for the destruction of the Citadel, and Eli figured that the G-Man would be taking Gordon back to wherever after that. However, the Vortigaunts, having gained a new admiration for Gordon upon seeing him in action during the uprising, decided to intervene and remove him from the G-Man's control so that he could continue to boost the morale of the Resistance.
== The G-Man is [[Prototype (
He arrives in places faster than you (Disguise + Running over obstacles), He speaks oddly (Ok, Alex doesn't speak weird, but all those voices would mesh sooner or later), He's super smart (arming a NUKE) and also is quite manipulative (Alex has absorbed some of the smartest people in Blackwatch, plus a lot of the people he consumed are [[Manipulative Bastard
== Gordon Freeman was originally ''evil''. ==
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== Black Mesa was built next to a certain landfill. ==
And somehow one of those E.T. cartridges made it into the anti-mass spectrometer. Nice job, Atari. You've caused a Resonance Cascade. After he's done [[Multi Mook Melee|killing endless waves of zombies,]] Gordon Freeman will [[
* This makes some sick sort of sense because half of Half Life is climbing out of holes, just like in that infuriating Atari game (which was the first game this Troper ever beat).
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Left 4 Dead 2 - 2009,
7 Hour War - 2012,
[[Portal (
Half Life 2 - 202X,
E1 - 202X,
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== Gordon Freeman is no scientist. ==
The most technically advanced task he has undertaken is... wheeling a cart of dangerous radioactive materials into a reactor. While the real scientists watched from behind two layers of bulletproof glass. In ''Half-Life 2'', he performed the likewise taxing task of ''plugging in Dr. Kleiner's teleportation machine''. Gordon is in fact Black Mesa's janitor. Any references to his scientific credentials are only a cruel running joke among the Black Mesa staff. Whether he resents it or not cannot be determined until he brings himself to speak on the matter.
* So basically, [[Portal (
* Gordon was in a bad economy. Having a PHD without any experience Gordon was (un)lucky his old professor (Kleiner) got him the Black Mesa janitor job.
** A Ph.D. in theoretical physics is required for janitors at Black Mesa.
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* Alternatively, Gordon Freeman is actually dying of some strange disease which does not allow him to speak. And his life-long dream was to become a famous theoretical physicist and save the world from an alien invasion, which is being granted by the Make-A-Wish foundation. It would certainly explain why everyone treats him like he's a genius for doing the simplest things.
** More likely, that was some dying kid's wish and it is being granted to Gordon by Aperture Science's Take-A-Wish Foundation (Really, the TAW Foundation is canon and that is what it does). Destroying BM was just a side benefit.
*** Except the Take-A-Wish foundation was replaced by the Aperture Science Self-Esteem Fund for Girls, presumably because of the former's complete lack of [[Slave to PR|good publicity]]. (According to [[Aperture Science]].com's timeline, the US government made use of the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver to assassinate terrorists and the [[Portal (
* The idea of it being a joke is evident with the G-Man. Whenever he addresses Freeman, it's either "Mister Freeman", or "Doctor Freeman" with a slight air of sarcasm on "doctor".
** Not only that, in the first game ''everyone'' adresses him as '''Mr.''' Freeman, not '''Dr.''' Freeman. It's kind of condescending to do that to someone who's supposed to have earned a PhD.
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== Gordon's preternatural skills are due to more than the HEV suit. ==
Think about it; it explains so much. He wasn't the only guy with that
Like, say... the ability to travel through time.
No, seriously--''your ability to save your game carries over into the game world.'' That explains how he never dies, how he always knows the proper way to beat a foe or solve a puzzle. It also explains why he sometimes does such mind-numblingly stupid things as climbing into a stalker pod; either he knew he could just reset to the moment before he climbed in if things went badly, or he knew it was the best available option because ''he'd already tried everything else!''
* What's more, it's common knowledge among the resistance, as evidenced by lines like, "Don't worry, he's done this before." when Freeman "dies."
* What if Gordon is actually the [[Prince of Persia]]?
* In ''[[Portal (
* The ability to [[Groundhog Day Loop|groundhog]] your way to inevitable success would be ''the most awesomest superpower'', if it didn't come at [[Blessed
** In fact, Gordon seems to be the sorting operator of a [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bogo-sort.html Many Worlds Stupid Sort Algorithm] working on the premise "if (Gordon succeeds) continue(); else destroyUniverse();", thus leaving only the universes where "''the Freeman excels at all tasks''" intact. Appearently, the Vortigaunts are aware of this, and calling Gordon "the one free man" is in fact a display of scathing irony on their part.
*** Or, due to his many universe nature, he is free, free to doom as many universes as he wants, kill resistence members with impunity, and choose about the gnome.
* This Troper have always taken the gameworld in a very literal sense: Gordon's "powers" and his lack of freewill is simply due the fact he is controlled by a supravesal entity(a player, yes us) something that the G-man an the Vortigaunts is aware of. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] multiple time throughout the game.
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* Something I stumbled upon on [http://niceguyharry.deviantart.com/art/Laurrie-as-Freeman-39167230 DeviantArt]{{Dead link}}:
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== The Crowbar is a powerful magical artifact, given by the G-man, and the source of Gordon's power ==
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*** This Troper does support the theory. If you look at the Half-Life 2 covers with Gordon and the G-man, G-man's widow's peak is in the same place as Gordon's hairline. Ergo: G-Man gets a haircut to make it look like he has a widows peak, to make him look even creepier than he is.
* That explains why the G-Man rescued Alyx from the Black Mesa. He ''knew'' he'd need her help in the future. Or... past. Or... his past and Gordon's future. Or... [[Time Paradox|ARGH!]]
* G<ref>ordon Free</ref> man. That is all.
== Gordon Freeman is the G-Man, from the future. ==
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== Gordon Freeman is Gordon Freeman, from the future. ==
The events of "Half-Life 2" take place BEFORE the events of Half-Life 1, and at some point, he sends himself back in time to ensure that the events of the past cooincide with the events of the future, creating a stable time-loop.
== Gordon Freeman from the future is Gordon Freeman ==
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== Gordon Freeman from the present is actually Iron Man ==
They both wear power armor.
== Lamarr is Gordon Freeman, from the future. ==
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== The G-Man mimicks the facial features of whoever sees him. ==
The reason his face so closely resembles Gordon's (see - The G-Man is Gordon Freeman from the future) is because that's who the player is seeing him through. To a Vortigaunt, he'd look like one of them. To Alyx, he'd be a woman. It's possible that he has no true form of his own, or it could be that his true form is masked in this way.
* Makes sense if he had a high-profile perception field, such as, I don't know... his TIE??? That's why he's always adjusting it!
== The G-Man cannot sing in the key of 'G'. ==
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== [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Gordon Freeman can breathe in space]]. ==
Gordon runs into various dead researchers in Xen, all of which are wearing powersuits with helmets, but he himself did not seem to need one. Gordon was used as a guinea pig for the same experiment that gave [[Batman]] the ability to [[Shortpacked
* Possibly, the other dead researchers had helmets for protection, not because of low pressure or an airless environment. This might appear impossible, but Xen's anomalous gravity is at least as impossible as its apparently breathable atmosphere. The presence of Gordon's HEV suit HUD also seems to imply that he does have a helmet. He is seen without one several times in ''Opposing Force'' and ''Blue Shift'', but these are non-canon.
** [[Psyber Goth|This Troper]] conjectures that the HUD is projected onto his glasses by the HEV suit, Adrian's PCV is linked to his Gas Mask, and Barney's helmet has an eyepiece on it a la ''[[Halo]]'' Marines.
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== Alternative to the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is Batman. ==
By this theory, [[Shortpacked
* Alternatively, Gordon Freeman is Bruce Wayne, possibly during one of his times leaving Gotham City (which have occured a few times during DC's plot). This explains how he's so handy with guns - Batman has been shown using them, both in his oldest eras and for ballistics study.
* Sadly, there is a flaw with this theory. Gordon Freeman is quick to respond to enemy hostiles with lethal force. Batman has made an oath not to kill, so the two must be different people. While there is quite possibly a strong connection to the two, it is uncertain what that connection is.
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** The glasses are optical flats. They don't actually affect his vision. They're just the disguise.
** Or, to make the disguise even better (''Batman'' doesn't wear a bad disguise) the glasses are real, and he has to wear contact lenses underneath them. The contacts and glasses cancel each other out.
*** Of course, the price of doing that would be that his peripheral vision would suck, because he has distorted vision from the contacts that isn't being canceled by the glasses. Which, come to think of it, is true in the games. It's a [[First
== Alternative to the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is that kid from ''Zathura''. ==
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== By the logic of the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is Jimmy Neutron. ==
Think about it! He can breathe in space, he's (allegedly) a science genius, or course he's Jimmy Neutron!
* Come to think of it, didn't Jimmy Neutron have a
== Gordon Freeman is actually Jason Todd. ==
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== Gordon Freeman is Duke Nukem from the future ==
See above. He's got BALLS OF STEEEEEL.
== The Combine and Aperture Science are related/Shared the same tech ==
First off, GLaDOS sounds remarkably similar to the Combine overwatch, especially in ''Episode 2''. As well, the energy balls in the enrichment centre have more than a passing resemblance to the ones in the Combine citadel. The receptors are also very similar as seen in ''Episode One''. As a final note, when Chell is hit by an energy ball, the portal gun disintrigrates the exact same way as the Combine soldiers guns when they are hit by an energy ball.
* Though you're certainly right that Aperture seems to use a lot of technology formerly associated with the Combine before ''Portal'''s release, and you're right that the Overwatch and GLaDOS sound similar (because they are in fact both played by Ellen McLain) it's got to be noted that this technology is all used by the Combine Overwatch; that is, the human aspect of the Combine's presence. So, egg and chicken: It's possible Breen specifically equipped his transhuman forces with technology he ordered cannibalized from Aperture's Enrichment Center {{spoiler|along with its AI?}}
** Ellen McLain also voices The Announcer in ''[[
* I am going to go one further and say they are competing corporations. With this being the case, Chell is actually an [[Opposite
== Lamarr holds the secret to defeating the Combine ==
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** But the rocket was supposed to transmit to the Black Mesa anti-Portal Satellites, so s/he never had to deal with the superportal.
* This troper argues that his concern is completely logical for a pet owner. After all, there's lots of dogs, cats, etc. around in the real world too.
** This troper must point out that Dr. Kleiner put the cat into the teleporter to test it, and it didn't end happily. [[What Measure Is a Non
** This troper must point out that Dr. Kleiner is more nuts than a room full of scrotums.
* This troper believes that either Gordon or Alyx will die in ''Episode 3'', followed by a "heart-to heart" from the G-Man saying how he took precautions to keep him/her alive, followed by one of the fuel tanks from the rocket crashing to Earth with Lamarr crawling out of it, zombifying the deceased party and fighting on your side/relinquishing control to you. Either that, or she zombifies the gnome into a vicious killing machine.
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== The G-Man is a something of a third party contractor for interdimensional/multidimensional entities/Corporations/CosmicHorrors. ==
The way he acts and the way Breen talked about Gordon(i.e. the line about "your contract is open to the highest bidder") demonstrates that the G-Man may be mostly neutral in regards to earth. This troper views him as a sort of middle man. He is hired to enact a change, but direct action is not subtle enough to get the desired effect for his clients(whoever or whatever they may be), so he manipulates people close to the subject at hand to bring about the desired outcome. His job is to be a professional, pandimensional [[Magnificent Bastard]] . His clients took a fancy to Gordon, which is why the G-Man was told to keep him somewhere(I haven't played Half-Life in a long time but I swear the end of it contained a line about how his superiors wanted to use Gordon further.)
The G-Man and his employers have no interest in Barney Calhoun which is why(if memory serves me correctly, as it has been a few years since I played Blue Shift) there are almost no appearances of the G-Man in Blue Shift, or at least no of him observing Barney.
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'''Moorcock, Heinlein & Lequare, Ltd''' is the multiversal contractor of universe maintenance. When a [[The Multiverse|universe]] under goes [[Downer Ending|technical difficulties]], a Cosmic Maintenance Man is often dispatched to sort the continuitium out. Although this may take time, as there are only a finite number of Cosmic Maintenance Men and an infinite number of universes, if Hugh Everett is right, anyways.
To help with the ever increasing workload, G-Man has been assigned with the task of harnessing the resource that is Gordon Freeman. The typical [[Hero With A Thousand Faces]] is a power that, until now, '''MH&L, Ltd''' had not yet been able to control, but G-Man offered a interesting solution to the usual refusal of voluntary services that most [[Heroic Mime
The events of ''Halflife'' are being manipulated by the G-Man in order to produce a [[One
Once Freeman is fully trained, [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|there's already a universe selected that he needs to fix]]. And then G-Man has some [[Doom|other]] [[Halo|individuals]] scouted out for the next recruitments.
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== The Borealis contains a [[Time Machine]] ==
Aperture Science has been shown to have created technology several times more advanced then the rest of the ''Half-Life'' universe. (For example, both GLaDOS and the ASHPD are more advanced then the ''HL2'''s closest examples, D0g and Kliener's teleporter.) The Borealis originally disappeared when [[Portal (
* Does that mean the last scene of ''Episode Three'' will be a fade to black with a door of light opening and you just hear "Come with me" as [[Doctor Who
== The G-Man is just an alien suitcase. ==
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* And, based on a theory that GLaDOS has Chell backed up on file, Freeman will storm the Combine with an army of Chell clones.
== Half-Life doesn't take place on Earth, but on a world in ''[[Warhammer
Think about it. The reason teleportation is so dangerous is because it involves passing through the Warp. Xen is a daemon world in the Eye of Terror, and the Nihilanth and its allies are followers of Tzeentch. The ant lions are a stranded strain of Tyranid that lost their connection with the Hive Mind until they rebuilt sufficient strength, and so are the headcrabs. The Combine are a special-operations force from the Tau Empire. The G-Man is either the Deceiver or an Eldar Farseer. The HEV suit was reverse-engineered from power armour.
* In that case, Gordon is a Primarch. It explains his awesomeness quite well, no?
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== The Xenians were protecting Earth from the Combine. ==
When the creatures from Xen first invaded, it was because they were trying to stop the human scientists from messing around with portal technology, since the Combine could detect such incursions. When Nihlanth was destroyed, now nothing stood in the way of the Combine, who promptly invaded. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Need I say it]]?
* [[Word of God]] is that the Xen army had their backs to the wall. Nihlanth was out of options and desperate. When a portal opened to Earth, a world that was free of Combine, he took the first chance he got and ran like hell, figuring nothing could be worse than the Combine. It failed, and his death caused the portals to remain open.
== Gordon Freeman is a crazed psychopath who enjoys murdering innocent scientists. ==
Come on, who of us ''hasn't'' used cheats to give Gordon a gun ''before'' the Resonance Cascade and kill your fellow scientists? Some of us even continue working through the whole game, offing the people we are trying to rescue after they've served their useful purpose (i.e. opening a door).
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== The HECU is not a Marine operation. It is, instead, Bad Company. ==
This troper has a quite a few family in the Corps, and when presented with even a fraction of the evidence, they scream and moan that the HECU is, in fact, not Marine. Added to the behavior of the unit in a clear combat zone, they resemble more of a motley crew of ragtags and misfits from the Army than Special Forces Marines. Hence, the HECU is not Marine, but is, in fact, Bad Company, sent to clear the way for the Black-Ops, then be silenced themselves.
** That... makes tons of sense. It also explains why their equipment sucks so much (sub machine guns as opposed to assault rifles, M1 Abrams that can be destroyed by rockets when real ones require simply ridiculous amounts of explosives to destroy, world war 2 era grenades, etc.)
== Gordon Freeman is Max Payne ==
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== Alyx Vance died during the Black Mesa incident, the “Alyx� we know and love is Eli’s replacement ==
Eli Vance’s daughter Alyx died with her mother in Black Mesa, killed by a Bullsquid. Eli eventually took in one of the many orphans left by the Seven Hour War (one who remained Eli of his deceased daughter) and raised her as his late daughter Alyx.
While Eli came to genuinely to care for his adopted daughter he could never bring himself to tell “Alyx� the truth.
* Eli eventually did love “Alyx� as a daughter, for who she was and not who she was supposed to replace {{spoiler|enough to die for her}}.
Eli Vance’s daughter Alyx died with her mother in Black Mesa, but Eli Vance built an advanced android to replace his daughter.
* Which explains a previous theory regarding Alyx’s [[Made of Iron]] tendencies. Alyx isn’t wearing Unobtainium, she is made of Unobtainium.
It was stated or implied in episode 2 that the G-man rescued Alyx from Black Mesa, and he further implies it was only because he plans to use her.
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== Valve is the Combine ==
Valve's games are their more subtle version of the reproductive suppression field - they keep countless potential [[Badass Bookworm
* That would mean [[TV Tropes]] is an adjunct of the Combine, even if an unknowing one.
* Then it's raping time! Make babys with much hasty!
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== The Resonance Cascade gave Gordon superpowers. ==
Think about it. Prior to the Resonance Cascade, Gordon did nothing extraordinary. Afterwards, he's a [[One
* Perhaps this lifeform also removed his ability to speak?
* Console mode is an extension of this: Gordon's nascent telekinetic abilities allow him to erect an impervious personal shield ([[God Mode]]); increase the power of his [[
== Gordon is an [[Dollhouse|Active]]. ==
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== The G-Man is mostly benevolent ==
He is infact an alien from a world enslaved by the combine in human disquise, his odd speach and looks are because of his unfamiliarity to humans and their communication. Like the ''[[
== The G-Man is a Combine scout. ==
He found earth and found it to be a good resource planet for the Combine. He started the Black Mesa incident to signal his masters. Soon he realized that he maniplulates The Freeman [[The Starscream|he can take over the Combine]] by having him kill his masters or had a change of heart and regrets his actions, helping The Freeman to remove the Combine once and for all.
== Gordon Freeman is the [[Warhammer
Shortly before the events of the first game, the Emperor decided to try to guide humanity more directly by helping to advance science. The disaster that resulted after the Resonance Cascade convinced him to butt out (once he'd fixed things), and he went back to guiding from the shadows until finally deciding to found the Imperium of Man. The G-Man, given his machinations and manipulation, is Tzeentch, or an avatar of Tzeentch.
* No way the Emperor would be led around by the nose, even by Tzeentch. But Gordon could be a Primarch, or even the Emperor's earliest experiments to make superhuman soldiers.
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If the Engineer had just shared his teleportation tech way back when, all this mess could have been avoided.
* Alternatively, he ''did'' share it, but either he didn't proplerly explain details that he considered obvious or he died and someone just found his old notes and blueprints with a similar lack of detail, and other scientists failed to properly recreate it.
* Alternatively, '''Gordon''' is the Engineer. Spending time with the Demoman and the Soldier taught him greater proficiency with more firearms, and he doesn't talk because folks made fun of his accent. That's why he was working on the teleporter
== Valve will include references to ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences]]'' in their next game. ==
Have you seen how popular it is? They might make something along these lines:
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'''Rebel 2''': What the hell are you saying?
'''Rebel 1''': It's a family mantra, if you say it, you're guaranteed to not need bullets in battle, because they are so slow at points!
'''Rebel 2''': John, I just don't understand you. }}
* They'd better damn reference ''[[Concerned]]'' as well. At the same time, if possible.
** They already did. In ''Episode One'' you can hear a rebel saying that he misses Dr. Breen's T.V. show.
*** It had juggling.
* And if I don't hear a [[
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** I would abate to that Episode 3 is (I think) going to center around the Borealis, so maybe Alyx could ask if Gordons suit has a Grappling hook
** I can hear it now. Gordon leads some Rebels across a landscape. One of them interjects. "This the same hill we were at afew minutes ago! We're walking in circles ''again''!"
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He's the son of Morgan Freeman, who is God, and is therefore Jesus saving humanity from the alien overlords. And the G-man may or may not be Satan. This also explains the God Mode cheat. And Alyx is Mary Magdaline.
== Gordon Freeman suffers from the same issue as The Narrator from ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]''. ==
The G-Man is his Tyler Durden.
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We all know that House loves video games, so when he shocked himself into a near death experience in one episode, instead of having a religious journey, he played his ideal video game. He was a mute hero with working legs, able to solve greater puzzles than those provided by modern disease. The fact that he is mute is an allusion to how House would have more friends if he said nothing than if he made fun of people any longer.
== The G-Man is [[Death Note
He didn't die, per se, but went from a whole life to half of one, in another reality. Considering how good he is with planning things, and ensuring his plans work even when they don't, he became the G-Man in this reality. His behaviour regarding the vorts taking control of Gordon Freeman was just a ruse so that the Vortigaunts wouldn't realize it's what he wanted them to do. With the help of the Vortigaunts, Gordon was able to get to White Forest and ensure the rocket would be launched, which would ensure that the Combine would react with the murder of at least one top official in the rebellion. This would ensure the rest of the rebels would not stop fighting until the Combine was destroyed across the entire reality. Things are going... Just As Planned.
== Father Grigori survived. ==
Because he wasn't a mere [
* OR he and Gordon did a better job of clearing out the zombies in Ravenloft than we are led to believe, and after you left, he finished off the few that were still following you,and had a very casual stroll back to his church.
== The experiment in the first game was an attempt to duplicate [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]], with Gordon as the unwitting test subject. ==
It didn't quite succeed, but years later, the weapons scanner gave Gordon the kick to temporarily tap into his cosmic powers and melt people.
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After Dr Manhattan left earth, and the situation between the USA and the USSR stabilised, the ''real'' Eldritch Abominations started taking notice of our [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] as scientists attempted to continue Manhattan's research into teleportation, discovering that the border world Xen was used by Manhattan as a dimensional slingshot whenever he teleported things, unknowingly attracting the attention of the Universal Union. The Combine's typical ponderous sluggishness meant that Black Mesa's resonance cascade happened before their attempted invasion, making it easier for them to invade.
* At the moment, I'm supposed to be writing an essay.
* There's a [[Watchmen (
** Sounds more like they were owned by Aperture Science. Black Mesa is incompetent and stupid. That's outright mad scientist level hostile, which sounds like something Cave Johnson would do.
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== Doctor Breen was brainwashed. ==
Even to the bitter end, he's telling [[Blatant Lies]] about serving humanity and furthering their progress - and seems rather earnest in that. It's possible he got exposed to something similar to [[Nineteen Eighty
* Humans have an incredible capacity for self-delusion. It's probable he genuinely believed the "immortality" and "ascension" claptrap in the beginning, but as the horrors of Combine rule became more self-evident he would have had to systematically deactivate the reason portions of his brain to prevent reality from contradicting his preconceptions.
* Known in psychology as belief perseverance. It happens as a coping mechanism after we find out that we're wrong about something, so in Breen's case, it could be keeping him from realizing [[My God, What Have I Done?|he's made a huuuuuge mistake...]]
== The Vortessence is [[The Force]] ==
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To show this off, the G-man will try to make Gordon kill his friends. This either results, as the above WMG suggests, in Gordon arranging an intimate meeting between the G-man's mouth and Gordon's shotgun, or one hell of a downer ending.
== Father Grigori is an older version of [[Team Fortress 2
Let's see...
* [[Husky Russkie|Both are Russian.]]
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After Lamarr jumps into the teleporter, it (as the concept of Headcrabs having genders is both unfounded and disturbing) can be seen attacking birds on a beach and is left there when Gordon continues teleporting, yet after Nova Prospekt it appears to miraculously return. This is because Kleiner found another Headcrab, de-beaked it and called it Lamarr. He has done this numerous times after Lamarr dies, wanders off or is simply "removed" by a concerned-for-his-nervous-system Barney, either refusing to accept the loss of his beloved pet or simply being completely batshit insane. If there is another Lamarr in ''Episode Three'' this will have been confirmed, since being shot into space is not something that is easily fixed.
== ''Episode Three'' will end in Gordon [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|royally screwing things over for everyone]]. ==
Probably stating the obvious here. It's one of the consistent themes of the series (the Resonance Cascade, killing the Nihilanth, instigating the Combine to raid Resistance strongholds, destroying the Citadel's Dark Fusion Reactor) and the first ''Half-Life'' ends with the biggest screw up of all, so it is only reasonable the ''Half-Life 2'' story will end with one as well. Considering Eli's warning it will almost certainly be caused by the technology hidden in the ''Borealis'', which itself is almost certainly portal technology. I predict that Gordon will use it to end Combine presense on Earth once and for all, targeting all Combine Advisors by focusing it on one in particular (which of course will only be achievable after defeating it in combat) and killing them all simultaneously. In doing so however another Resonance Cascade will be created, this one making Earth vulnerable to ''numerous'' dimensions and worlds instead of merely Xen or the Combine Overworld, turning Earth into the battlefield for a [[Battle Royale With Cheese]] with every alien species looking to dominate Earth or fill the power vacuum left by the Combine. Gordon will, of course, slaughter every last one of them, but only until ''Half-Life 3''.
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== Alyx sent Gordon into Ravenholm for selfish reasons. ==
After being separated from Alyx, she ''immediately'' tells Dog to open the Ravenholm tunnel despite at least one route still available. This is because, either due to knowing people in Ravenholm or even living there at one time, the town is a source of great anger and frustration for her, and having heard the stories of the great Gordon Freeman likely directly from people who survived Black Mesa her subconscious mind creates the idea of sending Gordon there to "clean up", so to speak (perhaps not knowing that Grigori was doing the same thing). Her conscious mind however rejects the concept of intentionally putting Gordon in harm, thus her thoughts originally only manifest as a comment that "we don't go there anymore", despite her having no reason to mention Ravenholm. When the Combine attack and the two are separated, suddenly she is given a justification, and she latches to it as firmly as the Headcrabs she sends Gordon to exterminate.
* Or Alyx sent him into Ravenholm as a test of his strength. She finds the stories of the courageous Gordon Freeman difficult to believe, and so she sends him somewhere that she knows to be extremely dangerous, subconciously trying to test him, to see if he really is the superman that everyone thinks he is.
== Gordon Freeman has one superpower. ==
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== Gorden Freeman is a zombie goast ==
This is why he is so resistant to attack; he is a goast. Also, a zombie.
== Gordon was tested by [[Portal (
With the new Portal patch adding a bunch more WMG fuel and possible Portal-Half-Life links how about this for an insane theory? Gordon was part of Aperture science testing in his past (although not necessarily tests related to the Portal gun). At some point he escaped and, after discovering a talent for science, joined Black Mesa just to spite Aperture. When the events of Half-Life 1 went down the [[Training
One of the new sound files, when reversed, sounds like "Gordon, you're next". This could be Glados, who wants revenge on Gordon for some transgression against her in the past; maybe he was even a contributor to her insanity. This goes into Portal being an [[Evil Plan]] by Glados to escape into the "real world" and hunt down Gordon. Of course she'll be very happy when she finds out he is en-route to an Aperture Facility where Gordon is at her mercy... Until Alyx, The Combine, newly-freed Chell and Gordon's own unexpected competence combine to throw a colossal [[Spanner in
== Gordon Freeman is dead ==
He died when he was performing the simple experiment, and the rest of the series is his fever dream while the medical team at Black Mesa try to revive him.
== The Combine is a multiuniversal corporation ==
The Combine aren't [[The Empire]], but rather a [[Mega Corp]] that controls countless worlds for the sole purpose of harvesting resources. It's military is used to keep their grip on their worlds. The Advisors are [[Corrupt Corporate Executive
== The Pulse Rifle was designed to be a light machine gun ==
I get that this WMG very much [[Mood Dissonance]], but bear with me.
The combine Overwatch uses three main small arms: the MP7, the SPAS-12, and the pulse rifle. At a first glance, the pulse rifle appears to be a modified assault rifle-it's bigger than the MP7, fires a more damaging round, and is more accurate at range. However, there are problems with this theory, mainly the fact that the gun is ''way'' over sized for an assault rifle, and the fact that only one soldier in each Overwatch squad actually uses it. This might be justified during close-quarters battles during the battle of city 17, but the same squad setup is used by the combine outposts on the coast, where the poor accuracy of the MP7 would be fatal if an Overwatch squad enters battle with the rebels at any range beside what is effectively point-blank. It's also worth noting that the gun has ridiculous amounts of recoil-more than most assault rifles. Why? Because the pulse rifle was designed for one thing-''suppression fire''. Accuracy is unecessary when your role in the squad is literally to provide [[A
TL;DR: The pulse rifle is based off world-war two era machine guns.
== At the end of Episode 3, Gordon (and the player) will have to make a [[Sadistic Choice]] ==
...A choice between saving humanity or saving Alyx.
Let's go over the facts.
It's no secret that there's a growing relationship between Alyx and Gordon. Even Valve's own commentary suggests it, as well as commenting on how they have tried to create a bond between her and the player at every opportunity. And they've done a good job, as I'm sure everyone here can attest.
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[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=240672 A recent interview] with Gabe Newall himself indicates they want to "broaden the series' emotional palette." When asked what will draw the best response, what players fear the most, he responded, "The death of their children. The fading of their own abilities."
With these facts in mind, the final climax practically writes itself. Gordon and Alyx fight their way through the bowels of the ship, planting explosives to destroy it. They separate or are separated somehow, either to draw away the Combine or because the Combine force them apart. In the end, Gordon escapes, but is confronted by none other than a Combine Advisor, [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090112012512/half-life/en/images/2/2e/Advisor_Intothepixel.jpg as in this picture.] As the final boss, it puts up a hell of a fight, delaying the player for many action-packed minutes. But in the end, those few minutes wreck everything. Alyx is still trapped on the ''Borealis''; the ship has been activated by the Combine, and they're preparing to open a portal which will allow their forces through in planet-consuming droves.
Now both Gordon and the player find themselves in a no-win situation. This is not a problem they can force their way through with a crowbar. Their combat abilities will do them no good here, and they must make a choice which will doom their children; either Gordon and Alyx's potential offspring, or all the children of the human race. So, what will it be? Fulfill Eli's last wish and destroy the ''Borealis'', or save your companion/love interest? If Valve really wanted to screw with us, they could put a timer on the decision. One can only imagine...
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== G-Man created Gordon to take out his various enemies. ==
'''''Warning: There's so much spoilers in here that it was almost unreadable with proper tags, so instead this warning will have to suffice.'''''
So here's how it works. G-Man is asked by his superiors to deliver the sample that causes the Resonance Cascade. The G-Man gets a better offer from the Combine to weaken both sides enough that an invasion would succeed, but his superiors won't let him directly interfere. To get around that, he carefully and quietly inserts Gordon, who is the perfect "right man in the wrong place". Gordon kicks lots of ass, but then various factors (mainly vortigaunts interfering and the G-Man underestimating his creation) let Gordon slip away. Gordon kills the Nihilanth, which severely weakens Xen, which lets the Combine invade but interfers with the G-Man's [[The Chessmaster|plans to screw over the Combine later]]. In the brief chaos following the Nihilanth's death, he manages to regain control of Gordon and lock him up fast. He waits until the resistance is at its strongest, then drops him right in the middle of it. This lets the rebellion do serious damage to the Combine. Then, right when he feels like enough damage has been done, he tries to pull Gordon out. The Vortigaunts are on to his tactics, though, and quickly contain him. He is forced to release Gordon, and the Vortigaunts take control of him. At some point around this time, he comes up with the plan of using the tech of the Borealis against the Combine. The Vortigaunts, thinking that he's trying to help the rebellion this time, get a little lax with containing him. Eli tries to stop him, so G-Man gets a couple of Advisers to slip in during the chaos, set up an ambush in the hangar, and kill him. The Vorts are probably already on his ass by the time Eli's body hits the floor. I predict that the Borealis will not only damage the Combine, but also endanger humanity as well, just as one last big fuck-you to the world on the G-Man's part.
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== Duke Nukem is the future Gordon Freeman. ==
When Half-Life 2: Episode 3 finally comes out Gordon will defeat the Combine by [[Nuke
He'll abandon his friends, dye his hair and shave his beard, then to suit his new "Hollywood" persona he'll ditch his glasses for a pair of prescription shades (Why he didn't wear them before Duke Nukem 3D is anyone's guess.) He no longer has the HEV suit because it was either damaged beyond repair or he donated it to a museum. His muscular physique is entirely logical considering the running and gunning he did fighting the Combine and the reason behind his constant one-liners is that he's seen far worse.
When Duke Nukem Forever/Half-Life 3 finally comes out Gordon Freeman, or "Duke Nukem" as he now calls himself will come out of retirement, pick up a modified HEV suit and face off against the G-Man's forces.
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== Humans are on the brink of extinction ==
Probably stating the obvious here. Considering that by ''Half-Life 2'' there have been almost two decades of not only no human reproduction whatsoever, but also the planet overrun by vicious, incredibly numerous and deadly aliens that kill without hesitation, the Combine converting who knows how many people into soldiers and Stalkers and outright killing many more, and the untold millions that would have died from starvation, infection and general things resulting from the collapse of human civilisation, well, the numbers don't look good. With the Uprising killing many more and with most humans probably now evacuated from the cities and living in the alien infested wastelands, those numbers are going to drop rapidly before anyone even has the opportunity to reproduce.
* Note the Seven Hour War is named that [[Exactly What It Says
== The ''Borealis'' is not going to contain portal technology, but time travel technology ==
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== Reason why headcrabs only zombify humans. ==
* In other species (or at least the species they evolved alongside, probably from the Vortigaunt homeworld) it's possible they form a symbiotic relationship with other creatures, perhaps similar to mitochondria only on a macroscopic scale. But whatever they do, they interface with a specific chemical in the creature's body.
* Now, here's where the theory comes in. Whatever chemicals the headcrabs interface with, the same or very similar chemicals are present in the human brain. Due to this coincidence, the headcrabs are attracted to human brains, and can interface with them, allowing them to take partial control of the human body. The chemicals present in the human brain also causes the headcrab to become extremely aggressive, which is why the zombies will attack anyone living who comes near.
* It's also possible that the chemicals present in the brain are tastier than the chemicals they normally encounter, and so after gaining a taste for humans, they become addicted- hence why they attack any human who comes near.
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== Father Grigori used to be a mass murdering psycho. ==
He claims that his traps are "the work of a man who once had too much time on his hands... and now finds time for nothing but the work of salvation." This implies that he constructed the traps BEFORE the zombie crisis happened. What do you call a man who deliberately arranges numerous death traps all over a lively town filled with innocent citizens? After the bombing happened, he was so moved by this that his mind suddenly reverted back to normal, realized what horrible deeds he had done, and promptly went batshit insane again - though in a different way.
The reason the people from Black Mesa East stopped visiting Ravenholm is because Father Grigori (who, like Gordon and Alyx, seems to be one of the rarely-encountered individuals who are born [[Made of Iron]]) took over the town, killed or imprisoned most of population, and set up traps to hunt down the survivors.
* So... Father Grigori is actually [[Saw|Jigsaw?]]
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== The Half-Life series is a game-within-a-game. ==
...And the G-Man ''is the player.''
* It would explain how all-powerful he is, and why his motives don't make much sense- he's just messing around with the game world. He caused the Black Mesa incident because he wanted an alien invasion. He made Gordon a [[One
** However, from Episode 1 onwards, some of the video game AI (the Vortigaunts, perhaps others) has become [[
* Alternatively, the G-Man is just ''one'' of the players in an MMORPG, who uses cheats to mess with the game. The Vortigaunts are admins. Gordon, Adrian and Barney might be players, or they might be NPCs.
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== Gordon is an android ==
That's why he doesn't eat, sleep or take a dump at any time during the game. He doesn't need to. That's also why headcrabs do not try to attach themselves to him, and why he volunteers to do life-threatening assignments for the Resistance. He knows that he would be more likely to survive than a human.
He refused to believe that Android Hell was a real place and escaped from the Aperture Science lab. His hatred of Aperture Science caused him to join Black Mesa knowing nothing except that they were "rivals" and he became fiercely loyal to them. He later fights the Combine out of this loyalty, which he now displays toward Black Mesa's ex-scientists. They do not know he's an android because his appearance was altered like Andrew's in [[Bicentennial Man]].
== Gordon Freeman is multi-lingual. ==
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== Half-Life 2 is actually an extremely well-thought-out FPS [[Romance Game|ren'ai game]]. ==
Valve's commentary would suggest that the developers are putting just as much time into making Alyx a believable, likeable character as plotting and developing the rest of the story. She's been so carefully written that it's almost impossible to find something to dislike about her, and she hits so many different points of appeal ([[Action Girl]], [[Wrench Wench]], and [[Break the
== Advisors are weak to whatever metal the Crowbar is made of. ==
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== The world of Half-Life is the same as [[Battlefield Earth]], but with a credible story. ==
Just think about it:
An invasion from another dimension.
Earth's defense forces wiped out pretty fast.
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== Shepard is still alive in the world of Half Life 2 ==
I know there are tons of WMG's like this, but just think about it: Where as Gordon Freeman managed to spark a rebellion in Eastern Europe, Shepard was probably dropped by the G-Man into North America. I mean, a worldwide rebellion is mentioned, and there is no way Gordon could've done that alone. Basically, after the BM Icindent, Shepard gained a reputation as a great fighter and the only friendly marine, so he is dropped in North America by the G-Man, where similar events occur that spark a rebellion there, except mainly headed by former marines before the seven hour war, as Shepard is a war hero for singe handedly dealing with Race X (who were part of the combine and the seven hour war), at least until they invaded.
== Barney sabotaged the teleporter in Half Life 2 ==
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== [[Left 4 Dead]] and [[Half Life]] take place in the same Universe ==
The Virus that keeps getting mentioned in Left for Dead is actually a biological weapons agent manufactured by the combine that turns approximately 75% of humanity into zombies. After seeing the Nihilianths forces get killed by a nuke at black mesa, they realized the destructive power of humanities arsenal, so they sought to minimize casualties by weakening humanity by developing the Virus using biological information from the dead scientists at Xen. Humanity was winning the war against the zombies, but only 24% of humanity was left. The Combine then launched their invasion using massive amounts of Striders, Gunships, Hunters, Dropships, and Race X creatures. They overtook the worlds combined military in a matter of hours with light to medium casualties, eventually implementing their new rule, and officially making clearing out the rest of the zombies the new overwatch forces first test. They succeeded very well, which is why there are no live zombies like that in Half Life 2. This could also explain some of the Combine soldiers equipment: The gas masks are to prevent non-immune people from being infected via the air, and the blinking on the hand grenades is to attract zombies like the pipe bomb in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' and ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' take place in 2009. We know (from the Half-Life manual) that the Black Mesa incident took place in 200X, which assuming it's concurrent with the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' universe, places it at May
== Gordon Freeman's symbol is not a Lambda, but a [
"Think not that I have come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a crowbar."
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* He charges into the fire, but continues to laugh, implying he survives fire due to his holy protection(Shadrak, Meshack and Ebegnigo).
== Half-Life: Episode 3 and [[
Because it'd be funny, and it makes sense. And packs seems to be a growing trend in gaming these days.
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Day of Defeat/ Source - WWII. No real relation to main events
[[
[[
HL1/Blue Shift/Opposing Force - Black Mesa Incident.
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== The Advisors are babies. ==
Am I the only one who though the Advisor inside its pod looked like a baby tucked in a crib? It even had a blanket!
== The reason we never see Gordon - or any main character - eat, sleep, or use the bathroom is because all of those functions are tied into the medkits and medical stations littered throughout the games. ==
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There, helmet/no helmet flame war solved.
* This actually explains a lot of things, like why there are no separate helmets available in any of the suit storage areas, and why none of the suit-wearing corpses have the helmet knocked off of them (being attached to the suit). Also, the reason Gordon doesn't activate the helmet in ''[[
== G-Man is Satan ==
He shows up all over the place, even inside unpowered or almost broken electronic devices: A tv and a couple of the big screens scattered around City 17.
He can make deals with people, if you take Breen's word for it. Breen would probably know, G-man was at BM when Breen was administrator.
Satan isn't God, but he's powerful. The Vortigaunts could have held him off with enough power.
== The G-man is Xen's [[Homestuck
* The teleporting effects in game one is green lightning, just like the ''[[
* G-man changes the scene several times he speaks to you (especially prevalent in the [[Half Life|HL2]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCKDTA3ghPo opening]), just like Bec does in his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921095256/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002880 strife with Jade].
* He isn't a blank white form because that suitcase. if it were destroyed the charade would be up.
* The Xen session (called Svort) never started because of the resonance cascade and is a doomed timeline that somehow stabilized into its own universe with the doomed timelines of other sessions, including the Earth session (Sburb) and the Combine session (Sbine). The Troll session (Sgrub) is probably there too.
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* Apparently he has expanded his powers beyond [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AqFBSf4xS4#t=02m55s flying].
== [[
At the climax of the game, Chell activates some kind of secret massive portal device onboard the ''Borealis'', teleporting the ship (and part of the drydock, according to Eli) to the arctic. The Combine hope to find the ship in order to use its giant portal device.
* but... portal 2 takes place 100 years after the first portal...
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== Gordon will finally speak at the end of Episode 3 ==
Imagine This: Near the end of Episode 3, Gordon finds himself in a situation where he can easily defeat the Combine in one fell swoop. As soon as he tries, however, Alex ends up being attacked by a Combine Adviser, and is dragged away from Gordon. Gordon immediately gives chase, only to be stopped in his tracks by the G-Man. The G-Man, supposedly having a contract to help the Resistance destroy the Combine, orders Freeman to go back and eliminate the Combine for good. The player hears a cry for help from Alyx. It's at this point control is taken from the player for only one moment, as the camera swings around to show Freeman's face, and he says one word, "No." This could possibly lead to some sort of boss fight with the G-Man for Freeman's 'Contract'.
** This sounds pretty [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic]].
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== Lamarr Was Thrown Into Another Dimension ==
When the rocket Lamarr was in was fired at the Combine portal in Episode 2, it caused a distortion of the barriers which separate dimensions and Lamarr was tossed into an alternate dimension... The dimension of Super [[
== Gordon will destroy The G-Man with a crowbar ==
Read the above WMG about Gordon finally speaking.
== Gordan will be [[But Thou Must!|forced to]] walk through an Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grid on board the Borealis during Episode 3. ==
It is supposed to have one, and one of the things that scares us is the loss of our abilities. They said they plan to add that to a future game anyway, and the ASMEG is a convenient way to accomplish it. It certainly would be scary, too, considering that: none of his weapons would make it through, his HEV suit would likely be "emancipated" as well, [[It Got Worse|and it's entirely possible that]] [[Blind Without
* Soooo... Gordon's gonna be naked?
** No. Chell's jumpsuit stays put when she walks through an ASMEG, and it's probably safe to say that Gordon's wearing something similar under the HEV suit. He might have commando training, but I doubt he [[Going Commando|goes commando]]
== Alyx will serve as Gordan's anchor... ==
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As such, he summoned a Hunter upon Alyx, so that not only would Gordon have to follow his path to White Forest, but Alyx could be an exploitable force. To further this, he killed Eli and kept Barney and Izaak far away, so Gordon would only feel loyal to Alyx.
As for what he will do in Episode 3, he will use Alyx to force Gordon into doing something unspeakable. I don't know what it is, but many theories are abound, and my favorite is the [[Sadistic Choice]], so we will go with that one for the time being. He will make Gordon choose: save the world or save Alyx. If he chooses Alyx, which the G-Man knows he will, this will put G-Man or his employers in a position of power over the Combine. Since Gordon is a [[One
== The G-Man arranged Eli's death. ==
At the beginning Episode 1, the Vorts steal Gordon away and essentially break the contract made with the G-Man. Obviously, the can't be allowed to happen without some kind response. There has to be some kind of price paid. But who can he use? He can't waste all the time and energy he poured into Alyx and the Vorts don't really care about Barney or Kleiner. Plus, when Gordon goes off the radar, there's the possibility that he and Eli might start to compare notes and complicate some carefully-laid plans. So, the G-Man arranges for the Combine to patrol certain areas he considers likely for Gordon and Alyx to be travelling. He gets lucky and re-establishes tabs on Gordon during the Vortigaunt ritual. Now he can control the situation again and he lets Gordon know it.
But there's more. He implants a message into Alyx in order to provoke a specific reaction from Eli. Thus, after his death, Alyx will be determined to carry out his last wish and destroy the Borealis. Except that there's going to be a snag - it will turn out that the Resistance really will need the tech onboard to defeat the Combine, meaning that Gordon will have to 'betray' her in order to save humanity. This move will end up isolating Gordon and forcing him to once again submit to the G-Man's control and it will be made very clear that Gordon will remain in his employ for the rest of his life.
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Sounds like an Observer to me!
== The G-man is [[Doctor Who
Okay, I admit this mostly comes from the suit.
Despite being [
* ...and strikes a bargain with the Shadow Proclamation, becoming their agent charged with maintaining galactic stability around Earth. He obtained the ability to turn any vehicle into a replacement for the
== The Resonance Cascade was the best thing to happen to Humanity since sliced bread ==
In Half-Life 1, Black Mesa was [
In Half-Life 2, '''Humanity''' was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spr5YFfrnA0 going to end up destroying itself] if it wasn't for the aliens.
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== The black mesa complex was created as a superbunker during the cold war. ==
It was made to hold everyone society needed to survive, as well as fire back at any remaining east block areas. All the ridiculously large chambers, such as the crate-smashing chamber, were made to hold ICBM's. The facility produces so much radioactive crap because it was assumed that, when taken in use, the earth would be a radioactive wasteland anyway. The turrets and mines would be automatically activated after the initial habitation of the complex, both to halt any potential soviet remains, as well as stopping people from flooding the facility with radiation by attempting to open the doors. Because it was built to hold so many people, many parts of the complex are now empty and it has an utterly massive waste treatment plant. The walkways were constructed to be as light as possible, so that people could use the areas below it as shelter, while not being harmed by the walkways as they collapsed due to the tremors caused by thermo-nuclear weapon. After the cold war, the government kept it in good condition in case of a new nuclear threat. They loaned it to the black mesa company and performed free maintenance as part of a payment deal (the black mesa company only got 10 billion in government funding a year, according to portal, the facility was added as an extra).
* ''[[
== The ant-lion and leech incursions were manufactured by the combine ==
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== Aperture Science is the origin of the Combine ==
In Portal 2, a lot of the insane projects Cave Johnson talks about in his recorded messages sound like they could be the beginnings of the Combine. Experimental cyborg augmentation on hobos, replacing managers with android robots, experimenting with beams that turn blood into gasoline, creating an army of genetically engineered Mantis Men... There are also mentions that Aperture Science was experiencing unexpected time travel in the course of their testing. It seems possible that some component of Aperture Science (i.e. a vessel or outpost like the Borealis) was sent backwards in time and became the seed that eventually turned into the Combine. This is reinforced by the fact that Aperture tech and Combine tech are remarkably similar (even in Portal 2, where the level resources were all entirely original instead of reused from ''Half Life 2'') and both Aperture and the Combine seem characterised by total amorality in the singular pursuit of a focused goal (namely, [[For Science!]]!). Building on that, Combine Advisors are simply more advanced, bio-organic versions of Glados, {{spoiler|a human mind uploaded into an artificial construct, allowing it to live forever; albeit with a high degree of [[Clone Degeneration]] over the years}}.
== The Combine will be destroyed by their own slaves ==
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== The Nihilanth is a [[Cthulhu Mythos|Great Old One]] ==
Come on. He fits every single requirement. Has a race of small versions of him? Check. Utterly creepy? Check. [[Blue and Orange Morality]]? Check. Psychic powers? Check. From another dimension? Check. Worshipped as god by other races? Check. Looks like Gordon Freeman really did [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punch out Cthulhu]].
== The Zombine's head is still there, but falls off with the headcrab ==
If you shoot off a Zombine's headcrab, you'll notice that most of the head above the lower jaw is missing. However, you'll also notice that it's trying to contact it's allies before you kill it, despite it's lack of a mouth or even a ''brain''. So, obviously, Zombine's still have their heads when the headcrabs are on, but for whatever reason it comes off when the headcrab dies/detaches.
* It's possible that the reason the Zombines keep trying to radio their allies is because the headcrab can't subsume the mechanical parts of their brain, which is why they have a jerky movement torn between soldiery things (radioing, pulling grenades) and zombie things ([[Attack! Attack! Attack!|charging the player down with the grenade]]). The grenade thing could even be the soldier trying to trick the headcrab into a suicide rush to escape the [[And I Must Scream]] existence. This actually doesn't affect your WMG much...
== There is more than one Overwatch ==
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== Alternatively, the reason Episode 3/Half-Life 3 is taking so long is that Valve is perfecting the Source engine. ==
Let's see now: Averting [[No Flow in CGI]] for [[Left 4 Dead]], advancing facial animations in Portal2, improved mapping in [[
* ...facial animations? What?
** I think he's talking about Wheatley and the rest of the personality cores showing a lot of facial expressions despite technically not having faces at all.
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== Headcrabs prefer to couple with very intelligent brains ==
Which is why only scientists got zombified in the original Half-Life, because they went after the genius scientist brains.
== Odessa Cubbage is secretly a Special Air Service operative. ==
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