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* ''[[Half-Life
** ''Half-Life: Opposing Force''
** ''Half-Life: Blue Shift''
** ''Half-Life: Decay''
* ''[[
** ''Half-Life 2: Episode 1''
** ''Half-Life 2: Episode 2''
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* [[Another Dimension]]: Xen, and the Combine as an inter-dimensional empire.
* [[Arbitrary Gun Power]]: In both games, the 9mm pistol is the weakest weapon. The revolver, on the other hand, is the strongest firearm, and both are beaten by the crossbow.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Unforeseen Consequences", which does quintuple duty as [[Foreshadowing]], [[Leaning
* [[Armies Are Evil]]: The shadowy Hazardous Environment Combat Unit who serves under the US military and who, thanks to their orders to kill the personnel of Black Mesa, is one of the main threats in Half Life.
** And even HECU gets their own [[Armies Are Evil|Army]] in the even more shadowy Black Ops unit, who apparently go even higher in command. Like the HECU, they're also to stop the alien infestation after the HECU failed, but [[It Got Worse|the results were predictable.]]
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** The HECU also had a hilarious habit of mixing up their reactions to grenades. When a Marine shouts to his comrades he's throwing or putting down a grenade, they normally crouch and cover their head, while he runs away from the grenade. Sometimes they get confused, and the Marine will put down the grenade at his feet, then crouch beside it and cover his head, and of course be blown to bits. Easy kill.
* [[Auto Doc]]: Both first aid stations, which heal you, and similar looking HEV stations, which recharge your HEV suit.
* [[Backdoor Pilot]]: ''[[Portal (
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Gordon, duh. Dr. Breen himself is perplexed, and had this to say on the matter:
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* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Most bosses in the Half Life series are either a [[Puzzle Boss]] or can be defeated very quickly with a powerful weapon. The Gonarch, however, has no real other strategy to it than "circle strafe while firing all weapons at testicle, avoid white acid, run after it, repeat". It also has invincibility frames.
* [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]: Several times in the first game and at least once in ''[[
* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: Crowbar, meet crate. Somewhat silly, since a crowbar is supposedly designed for ''opening'' crates, but the only way to get at the ammo inside is to smash 'em.
* [[Diegetic Interface]]: Would normally be [[Justified]] by Gordon's [[Powered Armor]], either through his glasses<ref>since he never wears the suit's helmet</ref> or some other way.
* [[Discard and Draw]]
* [[Do Not Run
* [[Door to Before]]
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: "Keep your PCV fully charged and I guarantee it will save your life! Step onto that square!" <player is blasted with a shotgun> "As you may have noticed, YOU ARE NOT DEAD."
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** The [[Final Battle]] with an army of Striders at the end of Episode II has you taking out 2 dozen striders, each of which is backed up by 1-3 Hunters. Though at this point, they're more like [[Mini Boss]] creatures that [[Wolfpack Boss|all attack at once.]]
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Damn near none, since you're in control of your character ''the whole time''.
* [[Gaiden Game]]: ''[[Portal (
* [[Game Mod]]: ''Lots''. The original GoldSrc engine and its successor Source are popular for modding in part because the SDK, which comes free with every game, is capable of effectively producing full standalone games.
* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]
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* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: Justified in the first game being set in a top secret research facility. [[Lampshaded]] by an NPC in HL2: Episode 1 who can be overheard saying "Sometimes it seems like everyone is a Doctor but me."
* [[Justified Tutorial]]: There's a mandatory course when a scientist is assigned an HEV suit [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|that the player can choose to play]].
* [[Kill It
** A quick and relatively easy way of dispatching enemies in Half-Life 2 and episodes, given proper equipment (namely, the Gravity Gun and exploding things like gas cans); Father Grigori makes extensive use of fire traps to thin the zombie horde in Ravenholm. Just... try not to listen too closely when you light up a zombie.
* [[Late to
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: Gina and Colette need to do this now and then to solve some of their puzzles. Gordon gets this line constantly from the NPCs he's paired with throughout Half-Life 2, often as a result of a bridge conveniently [[Broken Bridge|breaking itself]] to split the party. Functionally, it's a gameplay tool to force the player to go it alone.
* [[Living Legend]]: The Free Man, who starts a revolution just by showing up. The Combine are well aware of the threat he represents and unleash their everything when they find out about him.
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* [[Nobody Poops]]: Gordon certainly doesn't, nor does he eat or sleep. The stasis between games might have rejuvenated him, but unless his suit has a diaper Gordon has been holding it in for at least four days. Although since the game is not really 72 hours long, there are several times in the story that he ''could'' have taken time out for those things, but which the actual game skips over because it's a game.
** In the first game, Gordon actually could drink. There were several vending machines, each one can dispense five cans of soda, and each soda adds one health.
* [[No Bikes in
** The inversion is subverted in ''[[Concerned]]''; Gordon Frohman rides the bikes.
* [[No Fair Cheating]]:
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** Half Life 2 brings Fast Zombies, Antlions and Rollermines, which love to cuddle up real close to you while they attack.
* [[Photoprotoneutron Torpedo]]: Tau cannons and gluon guns.
* [[Plot
* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: Dr. Wallace Breen was the administrator of Black Mesa at the start of the first game. Given, oh, ''everything that's happened since'', I think it's safe to assume he wasn't the most competent administrator ever. Of course, in the sequel, [[It Got Worse|he]] [[The Quisling|gets]] [[Misanthrope Supreme|worse]].
* [[Portal Pool]]
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* [[Power Limiter]]: The collars and bracers the enslaved Vortigaunts wear in the first game diminish their powers and render them the [[Mook|mooks]] of the Xen invasion. In the second game, when they can use their full powers... well, see [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** Note that the Combine employ similar shackles for the Vortigaunts they capture.
* [[Put
** Barney Calhoun appears to have been put on a train at the end of ''Episode One'', not to be seen since. He is missed.
** Colette Green and Gina Cross haven't been seen since the end of ''Decay'', along with Dr. Keller.
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** Possibly justified. See those shiny green things they wear in the first game? Those are slave collars similar to the ones the Combine put on them. They can't use their full power until the collars are removed.
* [[Reflecting Laser]]: The Tau Cannon / "Gauss". Technically a "hypervelocity projectile" weapon, but works like an insta-hit laser that reflects off any solid map surface at 45 degrees angle or less to the horizontal.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Barney Calhoun, who was technically around and named before ''Half-Life 2'', but never interacted with Gordon (although many characters who looked and sounded exactly like him did). A more blatant example of this is Dr. Magnusson in ''Episode Two'', who ''definitely'' wasn't around before then, at all.
** Amusingly, the [[Brick Joke]] about {{spoiler|the microwave casserole}} only works because he didn't actually appear in the original ''Half-Life'' (at least, not with the same voice or model -- see [[You All Look Familiar]] below).
* [[Retcon]]: Too many to list here. A complete list can be found on the [http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/OverWiki:Retcons Half-Life wiki] though.
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* [[We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum for Years]]: It's revealed in Opposing Force that {{spoiler|the scientists have been experimenting with Xen life for long enough to have a terrarium and have modified a Barnacle to use as a weapon.}}
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Gordon is always depicted carrying the red crowbar.
* [[What Happened to
** Remember Adrian Shephard? The protagonist in Half Life: Opposing Force? What happened to that guy? If we believe Gabe Newell, Valve is actually itching to get him into the main storyline.
** In [[Portal (
** Race X (the alien race from the Opposing Force expansion) is occasionally wondered about, but according to [[Word of God|Marc Laidlaw]], they don't matter to the HL Universe. Gearbox invented them, and the minute Gearbox stopped making HL games, [[Dropped a Bridge
** And none of the characters from ''Decay'' (in paticular the two main characters, Gina and Colette) have been seen since that game's ending.
*** Mostly, or entirely due to the fact that they died.
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