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** "[[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|This looks like a job for a physicist]]!"
* In the first Half Life, you see a blue jumpsuit in Gordon Freeman's locker, likely given to him as by Black Mesa. So guess what the standard issue of dress is for civilians in a world now ruled by the very same administrator as Black Mesa?
* The Combine is a technologically advanced civilization which is inclined to spread its ideas of transhumanism and immortality to other worlds. They seem to believe honestly that it's cool to have your natural limbs replaced by "better" cyber-organic gadgets; after all, the Advisors are heavily modified, too. And they are willing to convince you of the superiority of their ways [[For Your Own Good]], with military means, if necessary. So they invade Earth and, after an overwhelming blitz campaign, install a local government which shares their views on how things must be run and which is supported by a certain number of volunteers. However, they get stuck in a decade-long guerrila warfare against a rebel movement with its stubborn and backward prejudices. Those fanatics who send waves of barely armed infantrymen against armored units and reinforced positions (with respective losses) just don't catch that what they call genocide is merely collateral damage, a necessary bit of suffering and instability on the path to the bright future of humanity. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact]] that the Earth bears large amounts of a certain liquid resource which is very valuable to the Combine. [[The War
* At the beginning of Episode One, Alyx says her father told her not to keep looking for Gordon, that he wasn't there; he's completely astonished when she finds him and checks in. The real reason he's so surprised? He knows about the G-man, and knows that after the explosion, the G-man would have put Gordon in stasis again.
* The reason why the world was easily taken by the Combine in seven hours? The military exhausted all their resources fighting off the Xen creatures and the Race X. Thus the Combine saw an opportunity to take Earth. Bloody brilliant, Combine.
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* Gordon Freeman [[Unfortunate Implications|single-handedly fucked us all]]. Think about it. He put the crystal into the machine that caused a resonance cascade, releasing Xen creatures into our universe. The Combine were then allowed onto the Earth and everything went to utter shit. Gordon Freeman, you suck!
** Damned if he isn't trying to clean up his own mess, though.
** It wasn't his mess to clean up, all he did was push a cart in he was [[Just Following Orders
*** And according to the G-Man, its for the best anyway.
** Actually, wasn't it G-man who gave them the sample anyway? So what is ''he'' up to, then?
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