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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: "If you follow standard insertion procedure, everything should be fine."

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: In Episode Two, Alyx's "Great driving, Gordon!" line sounds really sarcastic if you're the kind of player who's already crashed twice.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Gordon Freeman stopped an [[Alien Invasion]] ''with a crowbar''. He is well on his way to doing it a second time... [[After the End|after]] the aliens in question have already [[Take Over the World|taken over the world]]. Is it still memetic if it's only barely exaggerated?

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: What happened when someone noticed that one of the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider bore a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107162046/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/09/terrible-news-gordon-freeman-spotted-near-large-hadron-collider/ resemblance] to Gordon Freeman. The Internet ran with it and went so far as to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023180349/http://blog.reddit.com/2008/09/crowbar-headcrab-and-half-life-strategy.html send] a care package of items Gordon would need to save us all once the activation of the collider opened a portal to Xen. The G-Man was spotted too, so you know we're all fucked.

* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The barnacles in ''Half-Life 2''.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[Half-Life (series)/Nightmare Fuel|Gallons.]]

* [[That One Boss]]: The Gonarch, which also doubles as [[That One Level]]. The same goes for the Nihilanth, and really, the entirety of Xen is "That One Level". The {{spoiler|masssed Striders you face}} at the end of Episode 2, as well. Hunters EVERYWHERE, Magnusson whingeing at you constantly and the Magnusson devices seem to be a bit finicky about whether they stick or just bounce off: [[That One Level]] sandwiched right between a great game and a jaw-dropping ending. Gnnn.

** Actually, the Magnusson devices always stick; problematically, the Hunters can shoot the devices right off the body of a Strider, and they do it fast enough to be truly aggravating.

* [[Unfortunate Character Design]]: The Gonarch's egg-sack looks like a huge scrotum, which is completely deliberate. Quoth Gabe Newell in ''Raising the Bar'':

{{quote|''"Sometimes we're just sitting around and we're tired and somebody comes up with a goofy idea like, "Why don't we put a giant testicle on a 20-foot-tall armored spider?""''}}

** The Combine could fit this. Considering they are a multiverse empire with technology far ahead of ours, sounds powerful, their biggest threat? An average joe with a crowbar, suddenly they sound way less powerful/intimidating.

 

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