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* 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?]]

*** 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 Person Shooter]], so you can only see the area directly in front of you, and not areas to the left and right that would ''normally' be visible. So now we have proof!

** 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 Cute|And that's a cute, cuddly cat]]. Rather than one of the most horrifying creatures you're ever likely to meet.

The events of ''Halflife'' are being manipulated by the G-Man in order to produce a [[One Man Army]] that can adapt to situations in a heartbeat, be accustom to [[Eleventh Hour Superpower|sudden upgrades]] in order to complete a suddenly difficult mission and generally be immune to the effects of being dumped randomly in hazardous situations and being left there until the right man in the wrong place can sort things out, defeat the bad guys and get the universe going in the direction that '''MH&L, Ltd''' feel is most appropriate for the universe.

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]]?

Think about it. Prior to the Resonance Cascade, Gordon did nothing extraordinary. Afterwards, he's a [[One Man Army]]. Maybe some Xen lifeform merged with Gordon, not altering his mind or appearance, but making him nigh-invincible.

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 Four|Room 101]], except instead of being executed, he's their new leader.

* 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...]]

== ''Episode Three'' will end in Gordon [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|royally screwing things over for everyone]]. ==

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 From Hell]] Aperture gave him inadvertently resulted in him being a [[Badass]] [[One Man Army]] and allowed him to bring the situation under some sort of control and survive the subsequent Combine invasion.

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|Corrupt Corporate Executives]], and the Planet Administrators [[Pointy Haired Boss|Pointy Haired Bosses]]. Considering the Combine's high-tech appearence and cold blue motif, it may even be the [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|BLU Corporation]], only from the future.

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 Team Firing]], and only one soldier in most modern squads gets issued a light machine gun. And not only this, but in several places in ''Half Life 2'', Gordon encounters a mounted machine gun variant of the pulse rifle. You don't modify assualt rifles to serve as mounted machine guns. And while the rebels in white forest call it the AR2, the name the half-life wikia gives it is the [http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Overwatch_Standard_Issue_Pulse_Rifle Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle]. And why does the overwatch elite use it exclusively? Not that in every First Person Shooter game ever ever made, the most dangerous enemies are always the ones using machine guns.

When Half-Life 2: Episode 3 finally comes out Gordon will defeat the Combine by [[Nuke Em|nuking 'em]]. This particular strategy will earn Gordon the nickname [[Duke Nukem]]. Now having saved the planet twice over, he will gain significant fame in the post-reconstruction world, his ego will to swell to enormous levels and he'll even write an autobiography entitled "Why I'm Great".

* 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 Man Army]] because he wanted a badass character. He blew up Black Mesa because he wanted to be cruel to Adrian. He made the Combine invade because he wanted a war. Gordon is just one of the characters in the game, at his mercy just like everyone else.

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 Em|his glasses could be gone too]].

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 Man Army]], he will stop the G-Man and ''maybe'' save Alyx, but he will have broken Gordon, hoping that he will turn out just like himself. Will Gordon become the next G-Man, starting a vicious cycle, or will Gordon overcome the heartless mirror of himself? Again, only time will tell.

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}}.

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]].