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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.
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* [[Mary Sue]]: You will most likely be harshly criticized for saying this, but Gordon Freeman could arguably fit this. He is well-known, constantly showered in praise (both in and out of the game), seen by allies as moral boosting hero who instantly have faith in him and never doubt him for a second (even treating him like he is a close friend of sorts), can complete missions on his own in situations where most men would fail, even being able to beat military soldiers with no training of his own, and even being the greatest threat to a multiverse empire (again, where the military could not). Then there is that if you say anything about him (again, both in an out of game) that is not showering praise, you will be harshly criticized.
* [[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.
* [[Narm]]: [
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The barnacles in ''Half-Life 2''.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[Half-Life (series)/Nightmare Fuel|Gallons.]]
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* [[Sacred Cow]]: Boy is it ever.
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: Aw ''man'', the first game suffers from this so hard today simply because ''everything'', '''''everything''''' it did was relentlessly copied by every single studio in the business. Modern gaming neophytes can have difficulty understanding how important it was, simply because they're very likely played a bunch of games previously which cribbed notes from what Half-Life did.
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Some of the Achievements are this. For example:
** ''Half-Life 2'' challenges you to beat Ravenholm with only the Gravity Gun.
** In <s>the Xbox 360 version of</s> ''Episode One'', there is an achievement called "The One Free Bullet". You get one shot to shoot off a padlock ''and that's the only round you can fire in the game.'' Feel free to use as many explosives and physics objects as you like, though.
** Shooting down the helicopter in ''Episode Two'' without missing once is also an Achievement.
** Lets not forget "Little Rocket Man" (carry the gnome you discover at the start of episode two all the way through the game and place him in the rocket, inside a special compartment at the end of the game).
** Not stepping on the sand in the ''Half-Life 2'' chapter ''Sandtraps''.
** Saving all citizens in the last chapter of ''Episode One''. Compared to the rest of the challenges, however, this one is fairly easy.
** Keeping all buildings intact during the strider battle in ''Episode Two''.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Gordon Freeman's suit. Not only does it protect from dangerous hazards, it can block bullets, generate air, it has a flashlight, it can [[Hyperspace Arsenal|hold many weapons]], allows Gordon to run faster, and has a scope.
* [[Scrappy Weapon]]: The Tripmines in the first game, the sub machine gun in the second. The tripmines were this because they were functionally useless since most enemies moved so fast, only being really useful on the last boss gargantua you face, on Xen. The sub machine gun in the second game seems powerful and fun to use at first, but later when the combine soldiers start coming in, it becomes painfully obvious that it is inaccurate and weak, not even scratching combine soldiers.
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* [[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.
** As noted on the actual [[That One Level/
* [[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?""''}}
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** 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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