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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.
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* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The barnacles in ''Half-Life 2''.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: [[Half-Life (series)/Nightmare Fuel|Gallons.]]
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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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