History Characters / HalfLife

* MixedAncestry: She has a black father and a Malaysian mother. Applies to her voice actress as well (who has a black father and a Japanese mother).

* HateSink: Breen is good at holding public speeches, but they underly his deceitfulness. Otherwise he lacks any sympathetic, likable or even cool qualities, and apart from being a ruthless dictator, he is shown to be little more than an incredibly smug, condescending, cowardly asshole who is slowly wiping out humatity for personal power.

* HateSink: Breen lacks any sympathetic, likable or even cool qualities, and apart from being a ruthless dictator, he is shown to be little more than an incredibly smug, condescending, cowardly asshole.

* EasilyForgiven: The vortigaunts don't seem too upset about you killing scores of them in the first game. Justified as you had no choice but to fight them and the surviving vortigaunts see what you did as more of a MercyKill.

* ShockAndAwe: Their primary attack is releasing bolts of lightning from their fingertips.

* SpyCatsuit: The females are well-known for wearing these. Downplayed with the male soldiers, as their outfits are a bit more modest, but still relatively form-fitting.

* ColdSniper: Some of them have sniper rifles.

* TheQuisling: Whoever she is, it's clear from her brief appearance that she's a Combine sympathizer.

->Voice Actor: Mike Shapiro (English), Dmitry Filimonov (Russian) (''Half-Life 2'', ''Episode One'')

-> Voice Actor: Merle Dandridge (English), Zhanna Nikonova (Russian) (''Half-Life 2'', Episodes ''One'' and ''Two'')
-> Ozioma Akagha (''Half-Life: Alyx'')

-> Voice Actor: Creator/RobertGuillaume (''Half-Life 2'', Episodes ''One'' and ''Two'') (English), Diran Megreblyan (''Half-Life 2''), Alexander Gruzdev (Episodes ''One'' and ''Two'') (Russian)
-> Creator/JamesMosesBlack (''Half-Life: Alyx'')

->Voice Actor: Harry S. Robins (''Half-Life 2'', Episodes ''One'' and ''Two'') (English), Dmitry Polonsky (''Half-Life 2'', Episodes ''One'' and ''Two'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: Creator/MichelleForbes (''Half-Life 2'', ''Episode One'') (English), Rita Weisman (''Half-Life 2''), Larisa Grebenshchikova (''Episode One'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: John Aylward (''Episode Two'') (English), Andrey Yaroslavtsev (''Episode Two'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: Jim French (''Half-Life 2'') (English), Vyacheslav Shumov (''Half-Life 2'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: John Patrick Lowrie (''Half-Life 2'') (English), Boris Isarov (''Half-Life 2'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: John Patrick Lowrie (Griggs, ''Episode Two''); Creator/AdamBaldwin (Sheckley, ''Episode Two'') (English), Andrey Yaroslavtsev (Griggs, ''Episode Two''); Maxim Pinsker (Sheckley, ''Episode Two'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actor: Mike Shapiro (''Half-Life 1'', ''Half-Life 2'', ''Half-Life 2: Episode One'', ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', ''Half-Life: Alyx'') (English), Oleg Fedorov (''Half-Life 2''), Nikita Prozorovsky (''Half-Life 2: Episode One'', ''Half-Life 2: Episode Two'')

-> Voice Actor: Creator/RobertCulp (''Half-Life 2'', ''Episode One'') (English), Nikita Prozorovsky (''Half-Life 2'', ''Episode One'') (Russian)

-> Voice Actress: Creator/EllenMcLain (''Half-Life 2'', ''Episode One'', ''Episode Two'', ''Alyx'') (English), Natalia Radskaya (''Half-Life 2''), Olga Kuznetsova (''Episode One''), Zhanna Nikonova (''Episode Two'') (Russian)

* HateSink: Breen lacks any sympathetic, likable or even cool qualities, and apart from being a ruthless dictator, he is shown to be little more than an incredibly smug, condescending, cowardly asshole.

* HatedByAll: Given that he's TheQuisling for [[AliensAreBastards The Combine]] and it's heavily implied that he's really in this just for the power, pretty much no one outside of the Combine's own forces like him.
* HateSink: Breen lacks any sympathetic, likable or even cool qualities, and apart from being a ruthless dictator, he is shown to be little more than an incredibly smug, condescending, cowardly asshole.

* CompositeCharacter: Barney Calhoun is identified as the protagonist of ''Blue Shift'' (the security guard seen banging on a locked door midway through Gordon's tram ride), but when he appears as a major character in ''Half Life 2'' he mentions owing Gordon a beer, which is something said by the security guard that greets Gordon at the end of the tram ride when he arrives at the lab.

* ChildrenAreAWaste: The G-Man seems to disagree, as he saved [[spoiler:Alyx Vance]] despite objections from his employers, presumably because he anticipated [[spoiler:the role she'd play in the future]]. They didn't want him to, because "she was a mere child, and of no practical use to anyone." Well... how about now?

* HeroAntagonist: In ''Opposing Force''.

A scientist partly responsible for the Black Mesa incident and the military storming the facility, he attempts to flee the facility unlike his colleagues [[ActionGirl Gina and Colette]]. While hatching a escape plan, he gets [[DudeInDistress captured]] by soldiers and is rescued by Barney Calhoun, who helps him and the other scientists escape from the facility.

* LastNameBasis: His colleagues only ever call him "Rosenberg".
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Pulls this during the incident, thinking that [[SilentProtagonist Gordon Freeman]] and the [[MenOfSherwood Lambda Team]] can handle it.

* MookCommander: Beret-wearing Marine squad leaders provide coordination for their squad, and also make good usage of their MP5's undermounted grenade launcher.

* EliteMooks: In addition to being completely silent, the male black ops use powerful spin kicks at close range, run much faster than the marines, and have a little more health. They also all seem capable of using their MP5's undermounted grenade launcher, instead of only squad leaders and demolitionists doing so like the HECU. The female black ops on the other hand prefer to flip and jump around wildly while pelting the player with pistol fire and kung-fu kicks.

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* TheWorfEffect: [[spoilers:Suffers a DisneyDeath at the hands of a Hunter in Episode 2 and she would’ve become Antilon food if a Vortigaunt didn’t save her.]]

->''"Whoa whoa whoa what! [[OhCrap Jeff is bulletproof]]!

->''"We bear witness to the bright eternity of the [[FinalBoss Nihilanth]]'s demise. You leap, you fall, we see you flash between the barriers."''

* GenreSavvy: She is actively trying to convince the Combine to move the Vault when Alyx overhears her conversation, as she believes that would be much more effective to move it to a more secure location than try to stop Alyx directly, as she thinks the soldiers guarding it won't be able to stop her. She's right.

->''"Attention ground units. Anticitizen reported in this community. Code: lock, cauterize, stabilize.''"

She's also the main playable character of her eponymously subtitled VR interquel, ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'', making her the first ''Half-Life'' protagonist to be voiced.