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* 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?
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* 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?
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** Barnacles can be killed by the Crowbar in one hit. Barnacles tend to be scraped off of ships with objects, like, you guessed it, a Crowbar.
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* 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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**** Except [[MagicalDefibrillator de-fibrillation doesn't work that way.]]
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* In ''HalfLife 1'', you can nuke some sap's lunch in the microwave until it explodes. In ''Episode 2'', you meet said sap, Dr. Magnusson, and he's annoyed. This is played for laughs. But consider that minutes after you nuked the food, you triggered the resonance cascade and the 7 hour war, since which humanity has been on the run or scrounging or living in a dystopia. That might very well have been the last good meal Dr. Magnusson will ever eat. Double horror if that was made for Magnusson by his wife.
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*** [[SavingPrivateRyan Saving Private Vance]].
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*** Well, it is the '''only''' dead Vortigaunt you see in the game, or any HL game for that matter (Excluding the original of course).
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** It wasn't his mess to clean up, all he did was push a cart in he was just following orders. If someone's going to be blamed its the administrator who authorized the experiment. The same [[BigBad administrator]] who now the admin for Earth under the Combine. Hmm, [[SarcasmMode what a coincidence]].
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** It wasn't his mess to clean up, all he did was push a cart in he was [[JustFollowingOrders just following orders.orders]]. If someone's going to be blamed its the administrator who authorized the experiment. The same [[BigBad administrator]] who now the admin for Earth under the Combine. Hmm, [[SarcasmMode what a coincidence]].
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** It's my assumption that the G-Man's "clients" might be trying to stop the Combine, you know, cause and effect, the cause being Gordon pushing the cart, and the effect being screwing up the Combine on Earth, thus using up the Combine's resources.
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* 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.
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* At the beginning of the chapter Entanglement in HL2, [=HL2=], Alyx says an occasional Vortigaunt has been captured and sent back information about Nova Prospekt. In the previous level, you see a Vortigaunt in a torture chair, dead.
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* It's entirely possible that Gordon, as well as Alyx, is being fed hypnotic suggestions during his journey. Think back to that TV set with the G-Man on it, broadcasting that weird music - harmless little G-Prank, or a trigger meant to bend Gordon to the G-Man's will? It's entirely possible the G-Man had time to perform experiments on the poor dude while he was in stasis for ~20 years.
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* Even on the highest difficulty setting, the Combine are still laughably poor shots who rely on sending in swarms of [[RedshirtArmy redshirts]] rather than any semblance of tactics. Their forcefields can be taken down by yanking a plug out of a socket, and they very rarely have the good sense to set up roadblocks anyway, choosing instead to shoot at a tiny moving target from thirty feet away. And, last but not least, like half their forces in City 17 are wiped out by some dude with glasses and no helmet. They never think to even knock his glasses off and then kill him, let alone shoot him in the head. So....how did they take over Earth, again? Shock-And-Awe tactics only get you so far, and I doubt mankind would've been brought to its knees by a bunch of scared alien wildlife occasionally teleporting up in our grills.
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* 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 ForYourOwnGood, 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. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 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. [[TheWarOnTerror Does this remind you of anything?]]
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* 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 ForYourOwnGood, 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 their stubborn and backward prejudices. They 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. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 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. [[TheWarOnTerror Does this remind you of anything?]]
* 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 ForYourOwnGood, 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 their stubborn and backward prejudices. They 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. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial 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. [[TheWarOnTerror Does this remind you of anything?]]
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* In ''{{Half-Life}} 2'', it is shown that the Combine holds Nova Prospekt prisoners in stasis in coffin-sized containers which also keeps them restrained. The same sorta containers exist in the Citadel. In total, the number of those prisoners may be in the thousands. Gordon was responsible for blowing up both Nova Prospekt and the Citadel.
** It gets worse: in ''Episode One'', those containers are shown falling into the chasm from a broken conveyor. Imagine this: you are restrained by a metal straight jacket in a coffin-sized container and the conveyor transporting you breaks off over a chasm. [[AndIMustScream And there is nothing you can do but watch]].
** Gordon Freeman is also (albeit indirectly) pretty much the reason Alyx's mother [[spoiler: and father both]] died. He triggered the Black Mesa incident and [[spoiler: was the reason the Combine managed to track down the White Forest base. Barney cracking jokes about Gordon getting followed don't sound so funny now, huh?]]
** Humans haven't been able to reproduce for around ''twenty years''. Now add to that all those who were killed when the Combine invaded, those who were made into Soldiers or [[FateWorseThanDeath Stalkers]], those killed during skirmishes or else have fallen prey to the [[PersonalSpaceInvader numerous]] [[BodyHorror other]] [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong aliens]], and those blown up in Nova Prospect/the Citadel. The end result? That humanity is steadily marching towards extinction.
** At the end of Episode 2, though, the suppression field is disabled, and the Combine are cut off from their commanders.
** In ''Episode One'', you are introduced to the Zombine, a Combine transformed into a zombie. You can still hear the cries of the zombie through the soldier's vocoder. On closer inspection, [[FateWorseThanDeath you can hear that the soldier is still conscious]], and you hear him attempting to warn his allies that there are zombies in the area. ''Imagine being a soldier listening to your zombified allies attempting to warn you over the radio.''
** One of the Combine's lesser security measures is a force field that only lets recognised individuals pass through - so to Gordon, they're a solid wall. In a few places, force fields are used to block off train tracks to stop the player wandering the wrong way. Both Combine and human trains are repeatedly seen passing through these force fields. Have fun thinking about the passengers who were randomly reassigned anticitizen status mid-journey!
** Speaking of ''Half-Life'', did you ever pay attention to what the headcrab zombies are saying? [[spoiler: They're all screaming "oh God help me" backwards. They are fully conscious, and well aware of what is going on around them. There is nothing they can do about the guy bashing their skull in with a crowbar.]]
*** The Zombine are even worse: [[spoiler: they're forever radioing their comrades about the infestation, unable to reach them but not able to ''stop trying''...]]
** It gets worse: in ''Episode One'', those containers are shown falling into the chasm from a broken conveyor. Imagine this: you are restrained by a metal straight jacket in a coffin-sized container and the conveyor transporting you breaks off over a chasm. [[AndIMustScream And there is nothing you can do but watch]].
** Gordon Freeman is also (albeit indirectly) pretty much the reason Alyx's mother [[spoiler: and father both]] died. He triggered the Black Mesa incident and [[spoiler: was the reason the Combine managed to track down the White Forest base. Barney cracking jokes about Gordon getting followed don't sound so funny now, huh?]]
** Humans haven't been able to reproduce for around ''twenty years''. Now add to that all those who were killed when the Combine invaded, those who were made into Soldiers or [[FateWorseThanDeath Stalkers]], those killed during skirmishes or else have fallen prey to the [[PersonalSpaceInvader numerous]] [[BodyHorror other]] [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong aliens]], and those blown up in Nova Prospect/the Citadel. The end result? That humanity is steadily marching towards extinction.
** At the end of Episode 2, though, the suppression field is disabled, and the Combine are cut off from their commanders.
** In ''Episode One'', you are introduced to the Zombine, a Combine transformed into a zombie. You can still hear the cries of the zombie through the soldier's vocoder. On closer inspection, [[FateWorseThanDeath you can hear that the soldier is still conscious]], and you hear him attempting to warn his allies that there are zombies in the area. ''Imagine being a soldier listening to your zombified allies attempting to warn you over the radio.''
** One of the Combine's lesser security measures is a force field that only lets recognised individuals pass through - so to Gordon, they're a solid wall. In a few places, force fields are used to block off train tracks to stop the player wandering the wrong way. Both Combine and human trains are repeatedly seen passing through these force fields. Have fun thinking about the passengers who were randomly reassigned anticitizen status mid-journey!
** Speaking of ''Half-Life'', did you ever pay attention to what the headcrab zombies are saying? [[spoiler: They're all screaming "oh God help me" backwards. They are fully conscious, and well aware of what is going on around them. There is nothing they can do about the guy bashing their skull in with a crowbar.]]
*** The Zombine are even worse: [[spoiler: they're forever radioing their comrades about the infestation, unable to reach them but not able to ''stop trying''...]]
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* Ever wonder why there are so many puzzles involving the game physics and the Gravity Gun in-game? It's Freeman's area of expertise! He's physicist! Understanding stuff like that is his job!-TheLibrarian
** "[[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman This looks like a job for a physicist]]!"
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* At the beginning of the chapter Entanglement in HL2, Alyx says an occasional Vortigaunt has been captured and sent back information about Nova Prospekt. In the previous level, you see a Vortigaunt in a torture chair, dead.
** It looks like an electrical torture chair as well. Possibly an electricity draining device?
** How is a dead Vortigaunt that sent back information worse than a regular dead Vortigaunt?
* Gordon Freeman [[UnfortunateImplications 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. If someone's going to be blamed its the administrator who authorized the experiment. The same [[BigBad administrator]] who now the admin for Earth under the Combine. Hmm, [[SarcasmMode what a coincidence]].
*** 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?
* When you look over Alex once she's been stabbed by the Hunter, you'll notice two things: her eyes are half open, but not tracking, and she's certainly not breathing in any visually detectable way. She's probably already dead, but dead for a short enough period that the Vortigaunts can keep her from passing on completely, and even bring her back. Which also makes the Vortigaunts even more intimidating.
** Oh, I'm absolutely convinced Alyx died. I don't doubt it for a second. It's like the aliens from RedVsBlue, "they don't treat death the same way we do". But it does make you even more wary about what exactly Vortigaunts can do, what their stake is in this whole thing, and what they're up to... as well as be extremely glad they're on your side!
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* ''Episode One'' begins with an ArmorPiercingQuestion from Dr. Breen: "''Tell me, Dr. Freeman. If you can. You have destroyed so much. What is it exactly that you have created? Can you name even one thing?''" ... and then immediately provides an answer, when the Vortigaunts (free to act on their own by Gordon's defeat of the Nihilanth) rescue Alyx from the Citadel collapse, and Freeman himself from the G-man's stasis. What has Gordon created? A future for an entire species (he's still working on attempt #2...) -- [[{{Tropers/Burai}} Burai]]
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