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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 [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]]: [http://starrysky01.blog.me/70102294966 This Korean dub] of the beginning of the original video game.
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: The barnacles in ''Half-Life 2''.
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