History Funny / FreemansMind

--> Barney: "No promisises!"

** “''‘[[ProperlyParanoid Aliens aren't invading, Freeman. You’re just being paranoid]].’ [[SubvertedTrope ‘The mailman’s not spying on you, Freeman. You’re just being paranoid]].’ What else... ‘There’s no society of anthropomorphic frog people living in the sewer, Freeman. You’re just being paranoid.’ ‘Owls can’t read your thoughts, Freeman. You’re just being paranoid.’ [[DoubleSubversion Bet you wouldn’t call me paranoid now if you were still alive!]]''”

--> '''Freeman:''' Shit, did I say that out loud?

* "I like climbing things, it appeals to my simian instincts. And also, makes me regret how I have no tail. Damn my genes; [[ShoutOut I have no tail]], [[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream and I must swing...]]"
* Times like this, I remember why I became a Physicist: to show anti-matter particles WHO'S BOSS! YEAH!!

* "This is a ''[[ScienceIsBad bad experiment!]]'' We are ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate bad people!]]'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Why did we usher forth]] the ''[[ApocalypseHow green apocalypse?!]]''"
--> "What happened? Where am I? Am I dead? I don't feel dead...but how would I know?!...If this is what it's like to be dead, then being dead ''sucks!''"

* [''Gordon is back in the Test Chamber''] "No...no, no, no, no, n-Huh, what? Hehe...hahaha! I'm not in Crazy Land anymore! Man that was weirder than when I stayed up for 48 hours straight and thought my house was being invaded by Frog People!"

* [Facing down a headcrab unarmed] "Okay, I can do this. I am the matador. I fearlessly--" [headcrab jumps] "FUCK! SHIT! PISS! Those things BITE!"

* [''Reading a Warning Sign''] " 'Do not use Elevators.' " [''Pushes the elevator button; drops the elevator car with two scientists aboard''] Oh shit, they weren't kidding! Aww jeez, what do I do; the door won't open! RRRGH! [''smashes the glass door''] Oh, what should I do? I guess, uh... SORRY! DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL YOU! Oh man; I hope they at least were jerks..."

--> '''Holographic Assistant:''' "Walk directly into the ladder, look up, and continue moving forward. If you want to come back down, just move backward."
--> '''Freeman:''' "'To wipe your ass, first orient your hand behind yourself, then move it forward... or backward.' Honestly, who doesn't know how to use a ladder? I mean, it's a ''LADDER''! Somehow, I don't think this program is designed for the gifted."

--> '''Hologuide:''' "Now that you're up here, there's only one way down."
--> '''Freeman:''' ''(Looking around)'' "Where?"
--> '''Hologuide:''' "Find the target on the floor below, and do your best to hit it."
--> '''Freeman:''' [[FlatWhat "What."]]
--> '''Hologuide:''' "If you take any damage from the fall, we will administer medical care at the next station."
--> '''Freeman:''' "Is this a joke? They want me to jump from this height onto ''flat concrete?!'' There must be a typo with the instructions or something that no one corrected. I could climb down, but they want me to hit that target. I'm not doing that, that's retarded! So... I guess I failed the "lemming" portion of the test, but hopefully that's not required to pass the whole course. Well, training's over! I think I'll get out of here and go take my lunch break. ''(pause)'' I'll just tell everyone I passed training. Nobody's going to check this."

--> '''Freeman:''' "Ah, I'm not the only one who's late. SUCKEEEEEEER!"

--> '''Black Mesa P.A.:''' "In the event of an emergency . . . please stay away from electrified rails, and proceed to an emergency station until assistance arrives."
--> '''Freeman:''' "Man, how dumb would you have to be? I mean, they're not going to say something like that unless somebody's already tried to do it, right? I guess if I was drunk enough I might climb out the window here and pull some hang-time on the electrified tram rail. That kind of reminds me of the squirrel that got caught between the power lines one day back at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology M.I.T.]] The thing caught on fire and got fused to the wires, which caused a transformer to blow out and knock out power to all of campus. That squirrel must have cost the university at least ten thousand dollars. It was a good day."

* [''seeing a radioactive spill''] Hey, what's that green crap? What is this?! ''Jesus Christ'', look at this place! This is a disaster! That's gotta be toxic. God, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency E.P.A.]] is gonna tear us apart if they find out about that! Well, I'm not saying anything. I don't want to get called in as a witness in court when the cat gets out of the bag.

* Does my beard intimidate you?

* Right after the resonance cascade and Freeman sees all the death and destruction caused by it, he walks up to Eli and another scientist

* [Facing down a headcrab unarmed] "Okay, I can do this. I am the matador. I fearlessly-" [headcrab jumps] "FUCK! SHIT! PISS! Those things BITE!"

* "Today, all my Limbo practice pays off!"
** "Hey, I can't limbo this! It goes though the floor! That's cheating! Look at this thing! It's an etch a sketch from HELL!"

* "Follow the dead body road! Follow the dead body road! Follow, follow, foll- damn! Look at all that blood!"

*** and, "Oh, good. more blood! I was starting to get worried! God, what happened? this guy looks like he got hit by a steamroller!"
* Upon discovering the Entry Door to the Sector is locked:

** This was even referenced in Ian Rileys ''Barneys Mind''
* Freeman's Priceless Safety 'Revelation':

* Times like this, I remember why I became a Physicist: to show anti-matter particles WHO'S BAWSS! YEAH!!

--> "Who are you?...''No!'' [[EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace I don't ''wanna'' be a schizophrenic!"]]

** "''No''! Shut up! No-one cares about your opinion! You have no rights! ''You're all illegal immigrants!'' Now just do what you're told and jump off this giant meatgrinder! ''No!'' You're ''doing it wrong!'' You're ''all incompetent!''"

-->'''Freeman:''' Oh, no. So, are we gonna play nice, or -

-->'''Freeman:''' Nope. Well, looks like my armor is better than yours! And I'll just loot your bodies, 'cause that's how I roll... and that puts me at six or seven counts of 'self-defense'.

* Freeman's 'sea turtle' plan.

-->"Hey, the lights are on!" ''(hits the [[AC:Test Fire]] button, warning klaxon goes off)'' "Hey, it's doing something! Did somebody fix this? Wait...what did I just do?" ''(giant alien gets incinerated by the rocket jet firing)'' OH! YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT! IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT, ''GET OUT OF THE ROCKET PROPULSION TEST CHAMBER!'' HA HA HA HA! BURN! ''BURN! '''BURN!!!''''' Physics rules!"

-->'''Freeman:''' Hey, that's a ladder! That means this is legit -- this might go somewhere! I mean, it probably leads to a room filled with poison gas and a bunch of dead people that look just like me, but I don't know that, so there's room for hope, I guess.

-->'''Freeman:''' "I was afraid I was going to look down there and see this giant eyeball looking up at me, angry at me cuz I blew off its eyelashes or something. Then the whole building starts shaking and I guess I'd just ball up and cry. Cuz what do you do when something ''that'' big wants to kill you?"

* Radiation -- The Gift That Keeps On Giving!

* Freeman's 'shaky' grasp of electrical theory:

--> "Okay, I'm your dance instructor-no, you're starting too early! Stop that! I SAID STOP THAT! One two three LEFT! One two three LEFT! No, you're rhythm's all wrong! Ugh... I give up. I can't teach this class. Some people just don't want to learn, you know?"

-->'''Shephard''': [''thinking it's the skeleton''] AHHH! What the hell? Oh my god! I'm being haunted by the ghosts of the marines that died because of me!

--> '''Shephard''': Yes, please put me on with your supervi-- NO DON'T PUT ME ON HOLD! [''slams phone''] RRRGH JUST DIE! [''fires pistol'']

--> '''Freeman:''' I suppose I could jump this, but if I stuff it, it's gonna hurt [[{{Understatement}} more than a little bit.]] I'll just play it safe and crawl under. [''Does so''] I don't recall safety regulations saying anything about jumping over explosives, but that would be dope if we had athletes do that at the Olympics though. If a runner screws up he just explodes. I bet it would increase performance..."

* "Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave, we're using it [[ForTehEvulz for evil.]]"

--> '''Freeman:''' Ahh, [[HellIsThatSound stop that noise!]] I hate that! It reminds me of that dream I have where I'm strapped to a gurney watching FraggleRock with flashing lights on either side of me, then I realize: I'm in Hell!

--> '''Freeman:''' "You know how when they say you are part of the help or part of the problem well they were talking about you. [shoots] There now you're part of the solution.

* His musings about how, in grad school, he could get shitfaced one day, hook up an IV with a saline solution, and go to class the next day with little more than a good buzz...all because he had a med student as a roommate.

-->'''Freeman:''' "Who else... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman Charles Whitman]], military training. [...] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_C._York Alvin York]] killed dozens of people, and he was a hero! He didn't even want to, he was like me... am I a hero? Eh, I don't know... I don't think it's heroic if the only person you're saving is yourself."

* "[[ItMakesSenseInContext FUCK YOU FISH!]]"

-->'''Freeman:''' [[MobyDick Call me Ishmael]], ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]''! [...] I am a ''badass'' pool boy.

* "Oh this is that door. So leaving was never an option. Crawling in circles until you fucking die there's an option! I LIKE THAT OPTION! LET'S GO WITH THAT OPTION! RAAUUUGHH! ...[[DontExplainTheJoke Actualy I was just kidding,]] [[SarcasmMode I don't like that option.]]"

* Sheperd's Mind:

** Shepard thinks that all the skeletons in the room he is in are talking to him:

-->'''Shepard''': [''thinking it's the skeleton''] AHHH! What the hell? Oh my god! I'm being haunted by the ghosts of the marines that died because of me!

-->'''Shepard''': [''still talking to the skeleton''] I know... you were just following orders. It wasn't your fault, soldier. [''sits down next to the skeleton and starts crying'']
** Shepherd finds a phone and tries to call for help. It doesn't go well.
--> '''Shepherd''': Yes, please put me on with your supervi-- NO DON'T PUT ME ON HOLD! [''slams phone''] RRRGH JUST DIE! [''fires pistol'']
--> '''Shepherd''': [''calmly, to the scientist''] Phone's dead.

--> [[spoiler: '''Shepherd''': "All right. I was never a good marine. I couldn't protect the people under my command. I never caught Freeman. I couldn't go fifteen meters without running into some insurmountable delay. I didn't earn my advanced training or even my rank as Corporal. Some guys just dropped it on me! I'm not even fighting for a cause, I just don't want to die. All the good things I did today were just because I was backed into a corner and could only keep charging forward."]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Shepherd''': "If I die today, nobody's gonna remember. Adrian Shepherd might as well never have existed. And you know what? I refuse to believe that this overconvoluted clusterfuck of a disaster happened just so I could get eaten by a giant squid in a dusty ventilation shaft! So screw it. I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna fucking win! Come and get me yo-"]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Shepherd''': "Ow! Leg cramp, leg cramp, ow! Jeez! Ow, damn! Man! I really need to remember to limber up before this kind of crap. Anyway, have at you!"]]

* "Oh this is that door. So leaving was never an option. Crawling in circles until you fucking die there's an option! I LIKE THAT OPTION! LET'S GO WITH THAT OPTION! RAAUUUGHH! ...[[DontExplainTheJoke Actualy I was just kidding, I don't like that option.]]"

* Right after the resonance cascade and Freeman sees all the death and destruction caused by it, he walks up to a pair of scientists.

* First 30 seconds of the series, as his tram passes by a security guard banging on a locked door:

* "Unlike my colleagues, I have a tendency to stay alive. Since this morning, I've been [[ManBitesMan bitten]], [[OnlyAFleshWound shot]], [[FieryCoverup bombed]], [[ShockAndAwe electrocuted]], [[SuperDrowningSkills almost drowned]], [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou almost fallen to my death]], and [[NeckLift strangled]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Rasputin]] [[RasputinDeath wasn't so lucky]]! But, here I am, [[ILoveNuclearPower exposing myself to radiation.]] Why not? Let's add to the list: maybe I can get [[KillItWithFire burned]], [[KnifeNut stabbed]], and [[PoisonedWeapons poisoned]] before the day is done."

** (upon picking up a spore launcher) [[FullMetalJacket "This is my weird slime spitting alien gun thing. There are many like it, but this one is mine."]]

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[[caption-width-right:280:This is your brain on Gordon.]]

->''Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both! That's right, here at Black Mesa when we talk about [[TitleDrop Half Life]], we mean it in [[JustifiedTitle more ways than one.]] So make your peace and come to Black Mesa! Here you'll win a chance to fight [[AliensAndMonsters freaks of nature]]; [[NoOSHACompliance escape countless safety hazards]]; [[DoorToBefore wander aimlessly for hours]]; and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel die scared, tired and alone]]!''
-->--'''Gordon Freeman'''

''Freeman's Mind'' is a {{Machinima}} by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a LetsPlay and an AbridgedSeries of the original ''HalfLife''. The series follows the rambling, eccentric and narcissistic thoughts of SilentProtagonist Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the game, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut.

Check it out [[http://www.accursedfarms.com/movies/fm/ here]].

For both the official (with Ross's approval) Mind sidestories of Adrian Shephard, Barney Calhoun, Chell, Parker, Felix, and Freeman(-ish) respectively, see also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaJX6gOYMA Shephard's Mind]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgO8O6JuM8 Barney's Mind]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgncUYbzMA Chell's Mind.]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFR1hzjV4HA Parker's Mind.]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs1Z4UqW_Ak Felix's Mind.]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AH0Y7Pla_s Freeman's(-ish) Mind 2.]]

!!Examples In The Main Series
* TheAbridgedSeries / DungeonBypass: Thanks to the use of cheat codes, Gordon can "climb" over obstacles and skip some sections of the game. His guns also deal more damage.
** Gordon's ability to "climb" obstacles is possibly {{lampshaded}} in one of the episodes as he comments on how he can do a pull-up.
** And later subverted in episode 24, where he attempts to do this and fails due to a sloped edge. In fact, the whole Power Up arc is something of a subversion, since he spends more time wandering around and backtracking than he needed to.
** Gordon at one point nearly bypassed the rest of the game... only to realize that he was in the middle of the desert in a metal suit with no supplies. He promptly returned to the dungeon.
* AccentuateTheNegative: The first rant of episode 26 begins with Freeman acknowledging that he's doing this. He claims that to do otherwise would be absurd because he sees so little "positive."
-->'''Gordon:''' Wow, you sure did a great job falling down that elevator shaft!
* AccidentalHero: See TheFool
* AccidentalPun: Gordon asks "What's up with this ceiling?" not knowing he made an awful pun, then chastises himself over it.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "My simian skill saw me safely" and "The ruptured, rusty rods reveal a rift!"
* TheAlcoholic: Upon finding an elevator finally leading to the surface and presumably to his escape, Freeman muses: "I am gonna get ''so'' drunk tonight. I mean, ''way'' more than usual." And he comes into work having had two shots of vodka for breakfast.
* AliensAreBastards: Gordon is quick to take this view, which isn't that unjustified, considering the circumstances. He even calls out the trope by name!
* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the first episode, Gordon recalls how a squirrel got caught in an electrical wire at M.I.T, and how it knocked out power to the whole campus once a transformer blew up. According to Ross Scott, this actually happened. In fact, squirrels killing themselves on power lines is common enough that it comes up in the news every now and then.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: In episode 0, when Gordon notices that nothing is projecting the {{Hologram}} that's talking to him, he says it "must be nano-emitters or something".
* AprilFoolsDay: Two episodes so far. Both of them feature a variant of the "Gordon head" title card, relevant to the episode's gimmick.
** 2009, Episode 10.5: Short non-canonical episode, at the end of which Gordon dies. Episode 11 begins at the same spot as this one, with Gordon having a strange feeling of deja vu, which he suspects comes from eating bad doritos. The title card features X marks in Gordon's glasses.
** 2010, Episode 27: Gordon spends the entire video talking (or thinking) [[TalkLikeAPirate like a pirate]]. Title card features Gordon's pirate version, complete with an eyepatch and a scar on his cheek. Episode 28 starts with Gordon deciding that the pirate accent is too hard to keep up.
* [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Argh, Me Accent Be Slippin'!]]: Episode 27
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Episode 38, on a conveyor belt, trying to go past what is practically a DeathCourse:
-->Red lights, walking backwards, GIVE ME SOME MORE PRESSURE, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH! '''YES! BIOHAZARD! PERFECT! THANK YOU!''' AAAHH, FALLING TO MY DEATH! TANK OF ACID, SUPERB! ''[annoyed]'' Sidestepping...
* ArtificialStupidity: Gordon is very quick to point out the marines stupid tactics, including bombing the area where their soldiers (and no one else) are, killing each other with grenades, running straight at him around a corner even though they just saw their friends getting shot running around the same corner, firing missiles in an underground tunnel, and shooting him in the body with their [=MP5=]'s, even though he repeatedly lampshades that it has little to no effect on his bullet proof suit. This is a very ironic meta joke, since Half Life was the first game to include complex and smart enemies, but they appear stupid in Freeman's Mind for two reasons: 1. They are pretty aged in terms of AI. 2. They were never designed to fight enemies with realistic damage values (in Freeman's Mind, it only takes 3 shots to kill a soldier rather than 10 as in the original HalfLife or 7 in source). He thinks that natural selection is making them smarter though, commenting on how a few actually throw grenades instead of suicidally charging forward, and how they set up powerful turrets which could probably breach his suit.
** Then the Marines hired ''TheThreeStooges'' for episode 30 and they starting blowing each other up with grenades.
* AxCrazy: Gordon, [[DrivenToMadness in later episodes]]. For example, in episode 15, he comments on how fun it was to shoot aliens, and in episode 24, he thinks about decapitating an injured security guard and using his intestines as rope, but decides against it because it would be too slippery (and [[{{Squick}} gross]]). As of episode 39, he's killed a Black Mesa security guard in cold blood, believing that the guard was out to get him.
-->'''Freeman:''' Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, everyone dies!
* BadassBeard: Freeman constantly rants about how awesome his beard is, and how no one else has any style and how [[YouAllLookFamiliar everyone looks the same]].
-->'''Freeman:''' Does my beard intimidate you?
** This of course bites him in the ass when he realizes it helps the ''HECU'' marines pick him out from the rest of the science team, and [[SarcasmMode totally not the hazard-orange, bulletproof safety suit...]]
* BadassBookworm: Gordon makes no bones about his education; he's a graduate of MIT, and among other things he tells a bunch of enemy soldiers that his diploma is more valuable then they are. He simultaneously mocks his fellow scientists for not being as fit as him.
-->'''Gordon:''' I'm a physics-crunching badass. I'm the complete package.
* BadassGrandpa: The scientist who jumps through a window in Episode 10 and keeps a shotgun in his desk, Freeman even remarks on his badassery. Somewhat ruined since the scientist is killed by zombies moments later.
* BerserkButton: He hates cockroaches. And locked doors. And dead ends. And Vortigaunts or soldiers interrupting his train of thought.
-->"''Okay children, Class is in session! Everyone take your seats! '''I said everyone take your seats!''' Dammit Billy, that means you too! '''Take your seats!'''''"
* BigElectricSwitch: One of the few design elements in Black Mesa of which Gordon wholeheartedly approves.
* BigOMG During episode 37, he gets one of these as he is dropped from a conveyor belt 10 meters up into a pool of water. To make matters worse, [[spoiler:he's still recovering from being knocked out, and as such, is drowsy]]
--> '''Gordon:''' OH MY GOD I'M GONNA DROWN!!
* BilingualBonus: In Episode 33, Gordon gets the impression that a scientist is Spanish.
-->'''Gordon:''' Quiero un poco de drogas. ¿Dónde están? Tengo dinero.
---->''I want some drugs, where are they? I have money.''
** In an earlier episode, he uses German.
--->'''Gordon:''' Zeigen Sie mir das Geld!
-----> ''Show me the money!''
* BondOneLiner: After killing the Ichthyosaur.
-->'''Gordon:''' Call me [[MobyDick Ishmael]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
* BrickJoke / CallBack: In episode 4, Gordon recalls a time when he stayed awake for four days and thought his house was being invaded by frog people. In episode 28, during a rant on how he is ProperlyParanoid, he lists one of the reasons as being "There's no race of anthropomorphic frog people in the sewers Freeman! You're just being paranoid!"
** When Gordon gets his hazard suit, he mutes the suit's computer as it narrates activating all the various systems. In the first April Fool's episode, when Gordon falls to his death, the impact unmutes the suit computer.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his ramblings, Gordon's inner monologue does show that he knows a lot about science.
--> '''Random Scientist:''' Do you know who ate all the doughnuts?\\
'''Gordon:''' NO! Do you know if leptons are really compound particles?! Friggin' donuts...
** Early on, he mentions seeing one of the [[YouAllLookFamiliar (many)]] white-haired geezer physicists writing down the equation for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_force gravitational force]], mentioning how it's something you'd see in Physics 1 classes. Truth of the matter? ''It really is.'' Most physics teachers (college-level, at least) also have (much) longer equations ''completely memorized'' so having to write down such a short, basic equation ''at all'' is just plain sad for a [=PhD=]-grade physicist.
--> '''Gordon:''' Those monkeys in there are having trouble learning about gravity. Whereas I can recite the quantum chromodynamic gauge-invarient Lagrangian in my sleep!
** Not to mention he actually ''does'' start reciting a lecture about fermions as he comes to in the trash compactor.
* CaptainObvious: "You know, I'm starting to think this ''isn't'' a rescue operation..."
-->'''Gordon:''' [''Seeing the Anti-Mass spectrometer malfunction and blow up the room'']: No no, this is not good.
* CasanovaWannabe: By his own admission (though without any air of self awareness), a lot of dates he goes on end with him getting tasered. He also makes reference to repeatedly hitting on a girl named Heather and failing, and theorizes he probably ended up in a trash compactor since she threw him in there.
* CatchPhrase: "Hey! I have a doctor's degree!"
* TheChewToy: Gordon. Half the fun of the series is seeing how freaked out he will get the next time he sees a giant alien or another new obstacle courtesy of the HECU.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gordon
-->'''Gordon:''' I am Captain Gordon Freeman of the Intergalactic House of Pancakes ordering you to open!
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the first episode, as Gordon gets off the train, he looks back down the tracks asking "Is someone following me?" While this, at first, comes across just as him being paranoid, if one considers the actual events of Half-Life, the G-Man ''is'' following Gordon. Throughout all of the events that have happened to him so far.
* ClusterFBomb: Expect Gordon to carpet bomb the area whenever he gets ambushed or almost dies.
* ComedicSociopath: Gordon keeps fantasizing about killing his coworkers. As well as scamming the company in various ways (and it's implied at one point that he's ''already been'' stealing from them).
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Gordon isn't being more GenreSavvy (and crazy) than everyone else, he's frequently this.
** "[[HeroicSociopath I'm on your side, you fucking idiots!]] [[TriggerHappy How many of you do I have to kill]] [[TooDumbToLive before you understand that?!]]"
** "This self-defense crap isn't cutting it because I never get to fire first!"
** "Look at all these dead scientists! This rescue mission's a disaster."
** "Those shots came dangerously close to my head. You guys could've killed me you know that?"
* ComputerEqualsTapeDrive: "Whoa, whoa, what's this? Are you kidding me? Are we using tape reel computers? Noooo! Wait ... are those slots for punched cards?"
** "I think they ''are'' punch card slots!"
* ContractualImmortality: Double-subverted with the April Fools episode 10.5, which ends with Gordon taking a flying leap at a ladder, only to fall down into a chasm and die. The episode fades out as the HEV suit voices phrases such as "Emergency! User death imminent!" The next episode picks up where the previous one began as though it never happened. Gordon [[LampshadeHanging remarks on a feeling of deja vu]] and assumes he has eaten some "bad nachos".
* CopyAndPasteEnvironments: The staircase that looks exactly like the one Gordon got shot by a turret gun in makes him freak out for a moment.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Freeman decides that Black Mesa is surely run by one.
-->'''Gordon:''' I wonder if the CEO just rubs himself with money...
** Episode 34 has him concluding that the company is, in fact, run by a [[JamesBond Bond]] villain.
-->'''Gordon''': We've got missiles, tons of weapons, lasers, a shark tank, and now ninjas.
* CrazyPrepared: After realizing his bank accounts are probably frozen, Gordon mentions getting back to Massachusetts to find the 10,000 dollars in gold he has buried in Harold Park State Forest.
* CreatorBacklash: Sort of. Ross Scott prefers to work on ''CivilProtection'', but difficulty in coding caused him to concentrate more on the easier to make ''Freeman's Mind''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gordon of course, the quote at the top of the page should say it all.
* DitzyGenius: Gordon ''is'' legitimately intelligent, knows much about theoretical physics, and speaks five languages. [[HeroicSociopath He just]] [[TheStoner has]] [[TheAlcoholic a lot]] [[CrazyPrepared of]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weird]] [[ProperlyParanoid habits.]]
* DrivenToMadness: It's supposed to be funny, but in the beginning of episode 17, an exhausted Gordon becomes frustrated with the monsters for not answering his questions. Later in the episode, in an unconnected rant, he questions whether he's already insane and imagining it all, then goes on about the unimaginable psychological torment he's going to endure later in life. It's actually one of the series' smartest rants, and one of few that could actually be taken rather seriously.
** ''Gordon:'' (Hurling a grenade at a wall of explosive crates) I ''HAVE'' TO BLOW EVERYTHING UP! '''''[[SanitySlippage IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO PROVE I'M NOT CRAZY!!]]'''''
** ''Gordon:'' (Shooting at a group of soldiers) I AM ON YOUR SIDE GOD DAMMIT, ''HOW MANY MORE OF YOU DO I HAVE TO KILL BEFORE YOU REALIZE THAT!?!?''
** In episode 24, he thinks about decapitating an injured security guard and using his intestines as rope, but later decides against it simply because he figured the intestines would be too slippery.
** Episode 18 has him concluding that he must have encountered a pixie. He's frighteningly serious. It's safe to assume he's snapped at this point. Although, when you consider what has happened that day, the existence of pixies wouldn't be completely out of the question.
** Episode 25, he's hearing voices of the damned.
--->(It's worth pointing out that the sounds he's hearing are ''actual'' cries of the damned. The zombie Horde warning cry from Left4Dead / Left4Dead2, to be specific.)
** And in 26, he genuinely can't remember if gnomes exist (but again, considering what he ''has'' run into so far...)
** And now in Episode 27, he's started talking (thinking?) like a pirate.
** In episode 29 he starts howling like a wolf for no reason when he sees the full moon outside.
--->'''Gordon: *clears throat*''' AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- wait, what the hell am I ''doing''?
** In episode 39, he decides that everyone in the world is out to kill him, and thus he should kill everyone in the world. While he's said things like this before, he finally substantiates it by killing a friendly security guard without a second thought and shooting marines on sight. [[JumpingOfftheSlipperySlope It may be all downhill from here.]]
---> [[spoiler:'''Gordon:''' "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, ''EVERYONE DIES!''"]]
*** To be fair to Gordon, he does have amnesia at this point. He's forgotten that the security guards are friendly. Although he's definitely in a "shoot first, don't bother to ask questions" mode of thinking. Gordon also rightfully points out that the soldier he just shot would have needed to pass by said guard, who obviously wasn't harassed.
* DyingLikeAnimals: Even Gordon gets his moments.
-->'''Gordon''': ''(staring down a chasm filled with water and contemplating whether or not to jump)'' So... let's assess: Cons, I could starve to death where no one could ever find me. Pros, this could be fun as hell... I'm gonna do it. ''(jumps)''
* EasyAmnesia: Gordon has amnesia from Episode 34 onwards after a few punches to the face. He writes it off as the result of getting drunk the night before.
* EldritchAbomination: One of Freeman's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu Dog."
** He also thinks the tentacle is a huge creature buried beneath black mesa, and that what he destroyed was only its hair strands. Its pretty safe to say he reasonably thinks all the aliens are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* EmergencyStash: Mentioned in ep. 28.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: "I don't understand! Why is everyone trying to kill me?! I'm awesome! Are you all jealous!?"
* FanNickname: In-universe, although the "fan" part is up for debate. Gordon calls Headcrabs "[[{{Alien}} Face-huggers]]'', Vortigaunts "Zappers", and Bullsquids "Cthulhu dogs". Interestingly, he comes up with the "Face-hugger" name before he sees one actually jump on a scientist's head, just because it looks like one.
* FlatWhat: Gordon has one of these in episode 28. He finally comes across an elevator that goes up towards the surface, and gives a deadpan "what" when he finds out the [[YankTheDogsChain path out is blocked by explosive crates.]]
** It appears again later ([[ContinuitySnarl earlier?]]) during Episode Zero (The Hazard Course) when he figures out the training program wants him to jump off a narrow platform, over a dozen feet off the ground, onto a hard concrete floor. On purpose.
* FollowTheLeader: At this point, it seems every kid with FRAPS and [[GarrysMod Garry's Mod]] is making his own version of "''So-and-so's Mind''". Because they mostly rely on the same exact jokes as the original, with poor pacing and less attention to detail, they are generally not as good as the original, though YourMileageMayVary. However, there are some rather well done {{Spinoff}}s which include:
** "[[http://parkers-mind.blogspot.com/ Parker's Mind]]" by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/emperorpsymon Emperorpsymon]], "[[ResidentEvil Leon's]] Mind", "[[BioShock Jack's]] Mind", [[http://www.shephardsmind.half-lifecreations.com/ Shephard's Mind]] by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/KrimsinYT Krimsin]], [[http://barneysmind.blogspot.com/ Barney's Mind]] by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/IRAMightyPirate Ian Riley]], [[DeadSpace Issac]][[http://www.youtube.com/user/WolfGamerX Clarke's Mind]] , and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgncUYbzMA/ Chell's Mind]] by [[http://www.youtube.com/user/CyhAnide/ CyhAnide]].
*** And the spinoffs have spinoffs: [[http://felixsmind.blogspot.com/ Felix's Mind]] claims to be inspired by Barney's Mind.
* TheFool: In his blind efforts to get out, Gordon manages to clear his own path simply by wandering around. Most obvious example is in episode 19 when, when he returns to the rocket testing station after activating the electricity and fuel needed to start the rocket and kill the worm monster.
-->'''Gordon:''' Hey, the lights are on! [''Pushes button''] Hey, it's doing something! Did somebody fix this? ''(Rocket begins to start up)'' What did I just do?
-->[''shortly thereafter'']
-->'''Gordon:''' Awwright! [[LampshadeHanging I'm making a lot of progress for not knowing what the hell I'm doing!]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "I'm torn between wanting to kill every bug in this building, or just leveling it with explosives... I need a bomb."
** Freeman's plans to terrorize and plunder cruise ships with a giant sea turtle, and explicitly ending episode 26 with the comment "I shoulda' been a pirate." The results are mentioned above.
** Not to mention that he talks about buying a scientist zombie off of the G-Man in episode 12. Guess what later happens to him in-canon?
** "This is so unfair, [[LargeHam I AM DESTINED FOR GREATNESS!]] [[TemptingFate I'll show everyone...]].
*** In episodes 5 and 36, he actually calls himself "The Freeman".
**** [[FridgeBrilliance Of course, this might explain why the rebels call him 'The One Free Man' in Half-Life 2...]]
* FrickinLaserBeams: Gordon has frequent encounters with laser beams. Sometimes they're straight-up deadly, other times they activate something else that's deadly, like trip-mines and sentry turrets.
* FromACertainPointOfView: At one point Gordon considers taking one of the Xen aliens to a taxidermist, thinking he would tell them that he doesn't know what it is and that he'll just say he got while out hunting. Then he realizes that what he's doing is ''sort of'' like hunting, and that he ''really doesn't'' know what the aliens are.
* GeneralFailure / GeneralRipper: Freeman theorizes whoever is in charge of the Black Mesa cleanup is this.
-->We must hire over a thousand people, you can't hunt down every single-- ''(gets attacked by a zombie and kills it)'' and aliens. We've got aliens popping out of nowhere. What are they going to do? Shoot everyone in New Mexico?
* GenreSavvy: "Uh-oh, I'd better check my flank. That's how they got that dude in ''JurassicPark''."
* GrapplingHookPistol: Gordon wants one, badly.
* GratuitousGerman: "Zeigen Sie mir [[NaziGold das Geld]]!"
** There's also Gratuitous Haitian in episode 12 and Gratuitous Hindi in 28. Either Gordon is a prodigy with languages or he's making it up.
** Episode 33 gives us "[[GratuitousSpanish Quiero un poco de drogas, ¿donde están? Tengo dinero]]." -- ''"I want some drugs, where are they? I have money."'' So the 'prodigy' angle seems more and more likely.
* HandWave: Gordon usually doesn't take any real damage, because the creator is playing the game with godmode on, presumably. This is handwaved by the damage Freeman takes being written off as minor. Electricity hurts, but doesn't injure. Bullets bounce off the suit or [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy miss altogether]]. Large caliber rounds or explosives can kill him right through his suit, but he dodges them. Headcrab bites are scratches. Bullsquid spit stinks but doesn't hurt.
* HardOnSoftScience: Gordon has a dim view of Freudian psychology and relishes the prospect of disproving string theory.
* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe example. In Episode 32, Freeman theorizes that his boss may be trying to take over the world. In HalfLife 2, his boss actually ''does'' take over the world, and it's implied [[spoiler:that Freeman's boss used the whole incident to do this.]]
* HeroicSociopath: Freeman eventually begins to enjoy killing aliens and soldiers.
** Although he only really does it when he has to. He tries to negotiate with them at first (it doesn't work), and in episode 28 goes out of his way to avoid fighting a few soldiers.
** From Ross Scott himself in an interview with ''PC Gamer'':
-->'''Ross:''' In retrospect, I realized that the sheer number of people you have to kill in the Half-Life games suggests that some sort of paranoid psychopath might actually have a far better chance of survival than someone sensible.
** "Oh, look at this. Aliens that can't shoot back! I'm gonna take my time here."
* HopeSpot: Gordon ''finally'' finds an elevator that isn't broken and goes up instead of down. He starts dancing in glee. Then it reaches the top, and the exit is blocked by explosive crates.
** Gordon finds a set of ridged pipes he can climb out of the facility with. [[spoiler:Then remembers he is in New Mexico, surrounded by barren desert wastelands that he wouldn't survive.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: When Gordon encounters the soldier firing a rocket launcher, he rants about how stupid and dangerous it is to fire one inside an underground tunnel. Then after killing the soldier and approaching the rocket launcher, his first reaction is to try to use it himself.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: When he finally gets his hand on the shotgun he was looking for, Freeman accidentally ''almost'' shoots a scientist who holed up in the room where he found it.
* IncompetenceInc: Black Mesa appears to be this to Freeman. One of the signs implores employees, "Work Harder, Not Smarter."
-->'''Gordon:''' Yeah, that's us alright -- we stay the course with stupid.
* IndianBurialGround: Gordon speculates that Black Mesa may have been built on top of one.
* InkSuitActor: [[http://civil-protection.blogspot.com/2008/03/portrait.html Ross Scott looks surprisingly similar to Gordon.]]
* InnerMonologue: The whole point.
* InsufferableGenius: Gordon graduated from M.I.T., and we he won't hesitate to let everyone know it.
-->'''Gordon''': ''(firing at soldiers)'' MY DIPLOMA'S WORTH MORE THAN YOUR LIFE!
* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Gordon runs into several flavors of these every time he thinks he's found an exit out of Black Mesa, {{Lampshading}} the original game's {{Railroading}}. Gordon winds up giving his own rationalizations for why they're there in the first place. However, unlike in the original HalfLife, Gordon can actually do pull-ups over easy obstacles, which ends up saving him a lot of time.
-->'''Ross Scott''': ''(in an interview with Podcast 17)'' Well I mean if you were in that situation what are you going to do? You see a bunch of things hanging down their tongues that can eat you, with a bunch of turret guns and mines lined up along the way, and you hear a bunch of soldiers chattering on their radios. Do you go that way, or do you just do a pull-up over a 7 foot wall?
** Gordon is convinced that the Adamantium (Exit) Doors have one-way mirrors and bulletproof glass. And they're all locked.
** Gordon encounters the Frictionless Hill during his brief stint on the surface ("The sandstone just breaks off!"). He finds a ridged pipe to climb, though that becomes a HopeSpot of its own.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gordon.
* JustifiedTrope: Gordon himself provides the answers for Black Mesa's unstable structure when he realizes the monsters might be teleporting into the walls. He has some more when he realizes that the "Box Smashing Room" was probably built to pad out the facility's costs so they could get the same amount of grant money on the following year.
* KillItWithFire: With regards to taking down the tentacle monster:
-->"''Haha! If you can't take the heat, get out of the rocket propulsion test chamber! [''EvilLaugh''] Burn! Burn! '''Burn!''' Physics rules!''"
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Gordon has this opinion when confronted with the lightning spewing aliens.
* LackOfEmpathy: Freeman actually ''does'' feel bad about killing the soldiers at first, but later starts to just stop caring all together. They probably don't deserve any better.
-->'''Gordon:''' [''Having just killed several soldiers''] You know, its strange. I thought I would feel weird about killing all these people, but really, I don't. That's because they're all [[SociopathicSoldier pricks and deserve to die]]! I'll make a speech at their funerals if someone wants me to. I have no problem with going up to a grieving widow and telling her "I'm sorry for your loss... but your husband was a [[DumbMuscle ratfuck meathead who tried to kill me for no goddamned reason because he was too stupid to figure out what the word "civilian" means]]. [[MercyKill If I hadn't put him down]], he likely would have come home later and strangled you in your sleep. [[{{Fetish}} And not in the kinky way]] either. I know how you base wives are..."
* LampshadeHanging: Gordon is quick to point out the ridiculous architectural design of Black Mesa, including the lack of structural integrity of every catwalk he tries to cross, the chutes-and-ladders elevator shaft, and the infamous "Box Smashing Room".
-->'''Gordon:''' So where do these things go that we need this many crates? ...That doesn't go anywhere! That's a wall! That means we're just loading up these crates so we can drop them into this pit! That means there's NO DAMN POINT TO THIS WHOLE ROOM!
** Also, Episode 14: Gordon starts pointing out holes in the plot of the game, saying that a government-funded conspiracy would not only be expensive, but pointless against randomly-teleporting aliens.
** He's also noticed that his day seems to consist of [[DeathCourse escaping from one death trap only to fall into another one]].
** Episode 28 also hangs a lampshade on the [[YouAllLookFamiliar limited models]] for NPC scientists, when Gordon finds out they know his name.
--->'''Gordon:''' Dammit, my '''beard''' betrayed me! They found my ID because I'm the only fucking scientist in here with a beard! If I went with that stupid [[EinsteinHair Einstein hairdo]] they wouldn't have been able to pick me out from a lineup.
* LargeHam: Again, Gordon.
* MadeOfExplodium: "Why does everything keep exploding?! Did we wire this place to self-destruct?"
* MadeOfIndestructium: Gordon is not happy that the doors all have bullet-proof glass. He ''is'' happy that, in an inversion, the concrete barriers shatter like Styrofoam when the tram car rams into them, but he's very confused.
** He's likewise confused why blowing an entire pile of crates full of explosives does nothing to the walls but leave scorch marks. "THOSE WEREN'T FIRECRACKERS!"
* MadeOfIron: The series abandons the standard convention of health bars and medkits, presumably in the name of realism, but in its stead simply has Gordon not take any persistent damage aside from the hole in his ear that he needs to bandage up. The creator says this is because, in this version of the ''Half-Life'' universe, the suit is impervious to low-caliber rounds. Gordon has repeatedly expressed his amazement at the durability of the suit.
* MadScientist: Freeman wishes he could be one.
-->Working in an underground lab is pretty cool. It makes me feel like I'm an evil scientist. I've always wanted to be an evil scientist. [[EvilLaugh Heh heh heh. Ha ha ha ha. BWAH HAHAHAHAH-]] wait, I better shut up. I don't want a repeat of [[NoodleIncident Monday.]]
* {{Manchild}}: It borders on PsychopathicManchild in later episodes due to his mental breakdown, but Ross Scott once described Freeman in an interview as:
-->'''Ross:''' He has shifting paranoia, egomania, mild schizophrenia, over-aggressiveness, petty motivations, and immaturity in general.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: '''All. The. Time.'''
* MindScrew: The ladder in the elevator shaft in Episode 11.
-->"''Why do you have a ladder in an elevator shaft? To fix the elevator! How do you get to the ladder? You take the elevator that doesn't work! Who thought this one up?!?''"
* MookChivalry: The marines usually either avert this or play it straight, due to the schizophrenic AI of HalfLife. On one hand, they politely run around corners after they just saw their partners get shot doing the same thing, but on the other, they do things like throw grenades and aim for the head.
-->'''Gordon:''' Goddamit, those shots came dangerously close to my head... why can't you [[MookChivalry aim for my impenetrable body armor like everyone else!]]
* MoreDakka: "Is that an [[CoolGun MP5]]? It '''is'''! (EvilLaugh) Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
** And then the marines bring in the tripod guns and rocket launchers...
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In episode 3 during the resonance cascade:
-->'''Gordon:''' [[ScienceIsBad This is a bad experiment!]] [[HumansAreBastards We are bad people!]] WHY DID WE USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
-->Jesus Christ I launched a missile... I'm not helping ''anything''.
* NoodleIncident: In episode 3, Gordon says that he should calm down to avoid a repeat of "Monday".
** And after shooting a Barnacle and watching its innards (or lunch) spill onto the floor, he says "This is like a repeat of when I worked in fast food that summer."
** And in episode 16, after turning on a fan that almost cuts his head off:
-->'''Gordon:''' I guess I don't have anyone to blame but myself. You go around pushing enough buttons and heavy machinery, and you end up in trouble. At least there were no witnesses this time. I mean, this is ''nothing'' compared to woodshop back in high school. I almost got expelled over that.
** He states in episode 35 that he woke up in a trash compactor ''again''. One can only imagine the other times it happened.
** He also mentions an incident in Austria that he considers even worse than the current situation, where he woke up naked and had to make clothes out of garbage bags.
** It's a character trait and not an event, but his fear of [[TheMuppets Muppets]] is presented with the same casual tone and lack of elaboration as these.
** Then there's his "memory" of "last night" when he comes to in the trash compactor. Was it his dream, a false memory induced by the temporary memory loss, or something that really happened the night before the experiment?
* NoOSHACompliance: One of Gordon's many sources of ramblings.
* NoThemeTune: But it does have a pretty recognizable "Bump bump chu...bump bump chi...bump bump" noise that plays at the beginning.
** That noise is the opening to "Military Precision" from the ''HalfLife'' soundtrack, and is copied into every ''Mind'' clone. The part right after that can be heard in the closing credits of ''Barney's Mind'' (see under FollowTheLeader above).
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Gordon finally finds the elevator to Surface Access by the end of Episode 12. [[ItGotWorse It doesn't go well next episode...]]
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: "Oh hell. Is that guy dead? Dammit, I'm a doctor not a... normal doctor!"
* OhCrap: In episode 23, Freeman camps out behind a corner and waits for the soldiers to run around, because he had killed several soldiers like that already, and is confident that they'll continue to do so. One of them instead chucks a grenade. After running in terror, he comments that he is watching natural selection in action.
** Earlier than that, there was his reaction to the first HECU soldier he found:
--->'''Scientist:''' Rescued at last! Thank god you're here! [''Runs towards the soldier'']\\
'''Gordon:''' Alright the rescue team!\\
[''Soldier guns down the scientist'']\\
'''Gordon:''' Or ummm, what?
* {{Omniglot}}: Gordon apparently speaks five languages, English, Spanish, German, Hindi, and Haitian Creole. He says he's been to Haiti and India in the past, and he mentions Austria a few times (where German is spoken)--specifically Innsbruck, which matches with Freeman's ''canon'' background. No word yet on where he learned Spanish, though he ''does'' live in New Mexico....
* OneManArmy: Freeman, as usual. Though Deconstructed to a degree: Freeman is very vocal about the outcome of his body count, probably predicting it will result in extreme mental breakdown and the U.S. Government hunting him down even if he manages to escape. Also, while Freeman's high intellect, physical strength, and resourcefulness help him survive, he's clearly acknowledged several times that without his suit he'd most likely be dead. [[ArtificialStupidity His enemies']] [[UnfriendlyFire blunders]] also help.
** In episode 31, he has come to the conclusion that, since he has no prior military or firearms training, doesn't belong to any extremist groups, and is just a theoretical physicist, it would be extremely difficult for the military to really believe he's killed dozens of their numbers single-handedly, and thus he may not end up being the fall guy.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, Freeman mentions having a cousin Jesse as well as another Jesse who likes to zap himself with a cattle prod for fun.
* OnlySaneMan: Freeman sees himself this way. Surprisingly, there is a lot of truth in his statements, as per the nature of ''Half-Life'', everyone is either completely retarded (he frequently lampshades the scientists' and marines' suicidal tendencies) or trying to kill him. Or both. At the beginning of episode 13, he even says "Everyone is crazy but me!" while reacting to the marines bombing the surface. This by no means makes him [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} that sane himself]]
* OwlBeDamned: In Episode 28 when Freeman's mocking those who called him paranoid, he says "Owls can't read your mind, Freeman!"
* PaintingTheFourthWall: See ContractualImmortality.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When faced with a keypad lock, Gordon successfully tries "1234" as a combination. He laments that this can be attributed not to his genius, but someone else's stupidity.
* ProperlyParanoid: He uses the CrazyPrepared example above to claim being this, but then starts listing off the ridiculous things he's paranoid of.
** After all the crap that has happened at Black Mesa who to say that there isn't frogmen in the sewers and owls that can read his mind? (Probably escaped Aperture Science experiments.)
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality:
-->'''Gordon:''' "Sooooo...guess I just started WorldWarThree. This has been a busy day. But in the end, there's only one thing that matters: ''I'' did not leave any fingerprints. ''I'' was wearing my suit."
* PunchClockVillain:
-->'''Gordon:''' [''After seeing a soldier gun down his co-worker''] You see, he's not even trying to plant a gun on him or hide the body. That's a bad sign. Like this is just another day at work for him.
* PunctuatedPounding: Just about every time he attacks something.
* RasputinianDeath: A subversion. In episode 15, Gordon starts pondering about how he's still alive with all the injuries he's suffered.
-->'''Gordon''': So far, I've been bitten, shot, bombed, electrocuted, almost drowned, almost fallen to my death, and strangled! Rasputin wasn't so lucky! Now here I am, exposing myself to radiation! [[SarcasmMode Why not? Let's add to the list! Maybe I could get burnt, stabbed and poisoned before the day's done.]]
** Incidentally, in later episodes, he [[TemptingFate gets bludgeoned, burned, poisoned, and almost crushed]]. Still not dead, obviously.
* RefugeInAudacity: Freeman thinks that there's no way that the military can convict him for the killing of dozens of marines simply because it wouldn't make sense.
-->'''Gordon''': "No military training, never fired a gun, acquitted for petty theft, not a member of any extremist organizations, has a PhD in theoretical physics. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that sounds like our man]]."
* RuleOfFunny: Freeman slurs to an extreme degree whenever dizzy. Why? Because it's goddamn funny.
* RunningGag: Gordon repeatedly...
** ...commenting that he misses his suit helmet.
** ...killing barnacles and getting [[BloodIsTheNewBlack showered by gore]].
** ...channeling his inner monkey.
** ...wishing his suit had a grappling hook.
** ...realizing he's just gone through a DoorToBefore.
** ...contemplating hocking a loogie into various deep pits.
** ...trying to kill all of the cockroaches.
** ...getting frustrated by dead ends and trying to open them by hitting them with his crowbar (even the metal ones).
** ...checking whether someone is following him.
** ...ruminating that things are okay because he has a ''gun''. (Emphasis his.)
** ..."I should have been a _______"
* SanitySlippage
** "OH GOD I'M OUT OF AMMO!! WHOSE JOB IS IT TO RELOAD?! YOU'RE FIRED!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO AMMO LEFT?! YOU'RE FIRED TOO!!" Yep, he's talking to himself. It seems to calm him down a little.
* ScheduleSlip: After making a new video about once a month Scott didn't upload anything for the last four months of 2010[[hottip:*: Not entirely his fault since Machinima seems to take a while to put his videos up]].
** {{Subverted}} from May 7 to June 24 2011 Ross Scott made episodes 32-37 and the bonus episode 0 running a nearly weekly schedule, and Ross Scott has stated he hopes to prevent large droughts again, but unfortunately, the switch to Windows 7 and the time spent on setting everything up delayed ep.38 for almost two months.
--> '''''Progress Report''': Windows 7 is kicking my ass.''
* SchizoTech: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the 70's. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot.
* ShakyCam: As the series is in first-person, Gordon's freaking out and spraying bullets everywhere during a firefight creates a similar effect. Justified, as a real physicist with no prior military training would probably do that too.
* ShoutOut: A lot of them. ''Film/DieHard'', ''StarWars'', ''{{Alien}}'', HPLovecraft, ''JurassicPark'', SpiderMan, SuperMarioBros... Gordon is a bit of a pop culture junkie.
** Players of ''Half-Life'' mods can notice clever references to mods.
** "[[IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream I have no tail, and I must swing.]]"
** Episode 5 had Gordon saying that manslaughter [[SweeneyTodd sounds like a butcher in a evil meat shop who grinds up people for meat]].
** Episode 25 had [[{{Doom}} him wondering if the aliens were in fact demons.]]
** [[StarTrek "Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a... normal doctor!"]]
** "Bugs can crawl on walls. Maybe I should have been a bug. [[TheMetamorphosis Go team Kafka.]]"
** [[{{Airplane}} "Roger, Roger. What's your vector, Victor?"]]
** "YOU SHOT ME [[FightClub IN THE EAR]]!"
** "WHY ARE YOU BOMBING? THERE'S NO ONE HERE! WHY ARE THE SOLDIERS BOMBING EACH OTHER? [[UnReal IS THIS REAL?"]]
** "We're the ''big'' [[LittleShopOfHorrors shop of horrors."]]
** [[TheTimeMachine "Yeah, I'm a first generation Morlock!"]]
* ShutUpHannibal: In one episode, Freeman overhears two soldiers talking about how mad they are that Freeman killed all their friends (in self defense). Gordon responds with machine gun fire.
-->There, that's for trying to guilt trip me! Yeah, the BigBad Freeman. Of course! [[SarcasmMode You guys didn't start shit!]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: Gordon ''is'' actually pretty smart, physically fit, and overall competent, though he tends to [[UpToEleven inflate it to godlike levels.]]
-->'''Gordon''': ''(after killing a Gargantua)'' That's why the dinosaurs went extinct: ME!
* StealthPun: In episode 28, he complains about an attacker disrupting his "train of thought"... while he's on a rail car, thinking to himself.
** Every now and then he mentions "solving problems" (i.e., through violence)... and he is a physicist. [[DontExplainTheJoke A profession that involves lots of math.]]
* SteelEarDrums: Averted in episode 8.
-->'''Gordon:''' [''Sees a few Head Crabs in the vent''] Oh, you son of a bitch!\\
[''Fires several shots with his handgun, which are immediately accompanied by a high-pitched 'eeeeeee~' sound'']\\
'''Gordon:''' ''Auuuugh!'' My ''ears!'' That was not smart... firing a gun inside an air vent! I hope I'm not deaf!
* TheStoner: Gordon seems to have an unhealthy fixation with Oxycodone, though it only shows up twice so far in the series. In one of the first episodes, he presumably has a "stash" of it in his locker (which goes missing beforehand), and in Episode 17, he sees a sign reading "Oxy" and thinks it stands for Oxycodone before he realizes it's liquid oxygen for a test rocket. "I don't think you can get high off oxygen.[[hottip:*:You can't, in case you were wondering.]] He later climbs into a shark cage in the hope of procurring animal tranquilizers (and is disappointed upon finding out he can't get high off the type Black Mesa uses)
** Upon seeing a crawlspace in the ceiling in Episode 20, he remarks "You could store a lot of drugs in there!"
** Gordon's Oxycodone addiction becomes a cross-series BrickJoke when, in episode 18 of Shephard's Mind, Adrian stops to take some antidepressants [[spoiler:that he found in Gordon's Locker]], only to discover after that fact that he had in fact overdosed on stolen Oxycodone, and spends the next episode completely stoned on the stuff.
** As noted above in the BilingualBonus entry, Gordon straight-up offers to buy drugs from a passing scientist.
* StopHelpingMe:
-->'''Gordon:''' Uh oh, everything's working fine, better call in the military!
* StuffBlowingUp:
-->'''Gordon:''' [''Hurling a grenade at a wall of explosive crates''] I ''have'' to blow everything up! ''[[SanitySlippage It's the only way to prove I'm not crazy!]]''
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Lampshaded in episode 11, after leaping across an elevator shaft onto a ladder on the opposite wall.
-->'''Gordon:''' Oh my God! That was stupid. Why do I keep doing stupid things? Oh my God. I could've ''died!''
* SuperWindowJump: The BadassGrandpa scientist pulls this, and Gordon is suitably impressed. Too bad he dies not five seconds later.
* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: "This is... suspiciously convenient. I haven't been used to things going my way for quite a while now."
** "What's with all these grenades everywhere?"
* TakeAThirdOption: Gordon brings this up when talking about the Uncertainty Principle (how measuring an electron's position changes its momentum, and vice versa). According to Gordon, there's only one correct answer--to get drunk and light things on fire.
* TakeMyHand: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist [[spoiler:falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Gordon:''' No, your ''other'' hand, you idiot!]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: Freeman wishes he could do this, and constantly fantasizes about what he'd do if he ruled it. He also has always wanted to build a robot army, and live in a giant metal spider fortress. He has no way of actually following through on it though, so it's pretty harmless.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Episode 27
* TastesLikeChicken: One of Freeman's rants is against those who claim everything they haven't tried tastes like chicken, and he emphatically states that the giant tentacle he just barbecued likely tastes ''nothing'' like chicken.
* TastesLikeFeet: He says the bullsquid's secretions "taste like dead caterpillars."
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Gordon tries to kill a cockroach with his machine gun, and when it fails, he says that's why he needs a shotgun.
* ThisIsMySide: He declares one of the laser tripwires to be "the line" and tells the aliens to stay on their side of it. Apparently he played the trope straight in college.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Freeman gets noticeably more callous, uncaring, and cynical as the series goes on. Compare episode 4, where he tries to [[TakeMyHand save a scientist from falling]], to episode 10, where he says to a scientist "You're on your own, chump" and abandons him. He also talks about how slavery was a good idea and makes a back-up plan in case he accidentally shoots a civilian. There's a [[SanitySlippage couple]] [[RuleOfFunny reasons]] for this.
* TrackingDevice: In episode 33, Gordon is understandably upset when he learns his suit is full of these, which is how the HECU has been tracking him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Doritos. Spends several episodes musing about them, and when he gets them in episodes 10-11, he thinks there's something wrong with them, despite having "enough preservatives...to mummify a small dog."
** In later episodes, he spends considerable time talking about pizza, and unusual ways of delivering it (via trams, amphibious deliveries to beaches, etc.). Unsurprisingly, this coincides with Freeman mentioning that he's pretty hungry.
* [[spoiler: TraumaInducedAmnesia: Gordon's "apprehension" at the end of episode 34 consisted of at least one blow to the head. In episode 35, he can't remember the events of the previous day or so, including the resonance cascade scenario. It's not until halfway through episode 37, after he faces a bullsquid, that he really starts to remember all of what had happened.]]
** But for some reason [[spoiler: he has false memories of it being caused by a Lovecraftian cult.]]
* TwoKeyedLock: Gordon comments on the unusual lack of this (among other security measures) at the launch site. Granted, it's not for a missile like he thought it was, but still.
* UnfriendlyFire: In episode 30, an officer blows up a pair of his troops with a grenade launcher. Freeman theorizes this is the reason.
-->'''Gordon''': I don't even think he was aiming for me, I was just the excuse!
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Freeman, and all the other mind series protagonist, to an extent.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: He occasionally does this in order to progress, as in the game. Usually lampshaded, like when he speculates that the surprisingly-flimsy concrete barriers are actually just Styrofoam.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption / ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Invoked by Freeman, who makes a few attempts at communication with the aliens and HECU and comes to this conclusion because, well, they still try to kill him.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: "This is almost getting to be like a chore. You know, wash the dishes, do the laundry, shoot the [[EldritchAbomination Snot Thing]], empty the trash..."
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: The usual reaction to finding a new button or switch he hasn't touched yet.
-->"''[[CatchPhrase Hey, what's this do?]]''"
* WhatTheHellHero: Gordon's reaction to the HECU soldiers trying to kill him.
-->"''This is the worst rescue operation in '''history!'''''"
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Gordon is less than enthused about the "fall three stories aiming for a red circle" part of training.
* WhyWontYouDie: Gordon ponders this about ''himself'', saying, "I've brushed with Death so often, I should start giving him high-fives as I pass."
* WouldHitAGirl: Freeman does so by necessity, gunning down the female black ops he mistakes for ninjas.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Occasionally; in Episode 26, Gordon wonders if there's any hidden NaziGold inside Black Mesa. Wrong FPS game, Gordon!
* YouMakeMeSic: Averted. Gordon doesn't even deem "Yore Dead Freemen" to be worth mocking.

!!Examples In The Spinoffs

* AdaptationExpansion: The last episode of Baney's mind involves Barney hijacking a plane and escaping Black Mesa which wasn't in Blue Shift. (It's filmed in MS Flight Simulator X.
* AmusingInjuries: In Shephard's Mind.
--> '''Shephard:''' [[ShotInTheAss "Aw, I have shrapnel in my ass now."]]
* ApologeticAttacker: Parker's Mind episode 6, when he shoots the technician who won't lower the submarine.
** More or less Shephard, when he attacks the Black Ops agents that he wishes to go on a date with.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Video Description]]: "Who's Felix?"
** "What game is Parker's Mind really in?"
** "Are you really a girl??"
* AprilFoolsDay: The author of Felix's Mind pulled off a very convincing April Fools prank, having everyone think he was giving up his series with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcpVbGdh9Lk this]] episode.
* ArtShift: The last half of the final episode of Barney's Mind are recorded in [[MicrosoftFlightSimulator Flight Simulator]].
** Parker's Mind in episode 4, where Parker traverses through Half-Life, Doom 1 and real life.
* ArtificialStupidity: In Parker's Mind, he is constantly raving about how stupid the Ultor guards are. This is somewhat subverted however, when he first fights the Mercenaries, who actually have proper combat training.
* AWizardDidIt: Shephard decides that this is surely the reason for everything that's going on.
* AxeCrazy: Chell is slowly becoming this. She takes great delight in burning up many a CompanionCube, [=GLaDOS'=] cameras, and even a Radio when the lyrics to the song freak her out.
* BeardOfEvil: Chell is convinced that her EvilTwin has one.
** Chell thinks GLADoS has this ''and'' eyeliner
* BelligerentSexualTension: Felix alternates between demonstrating attraction and clear disdain for "Joni" (Alyx). Particularly when she volunteers him potentially suicidal missions while she stands somewhere safe doing little, yet [[DudeWheresMyRespect is routinely given a share in the credit afterwards.]]
** From what he describes, Felix's relationship with Chell definitely appears to have been this.
* BerserkButton: ''Everyone'' mistakes Felix for being Gordon, much to his annoyance.
* BrickJoke: In the Barney's Mind/Shephard's Mind crossover episodes, Shephard finds a bottle of "antidepressants" in Gordon's locker, with the brick dropping in episode 18 when he finds out that it was actually oxycodone ''after'' he had already taken about four of them. Cue CrowningMomentOfFunny that lasts all through episode 19 and partly into episode 20.
** Remember when Gordon yelled "Sucker!" to the random guard banging on the door in the first episode of Freeman's Mind? The same joke gets shown again from Barney's point of view in the first episode of Barney's Mind, with Barney soundly thinking that he'll kill Gordon for that.
** When Shephard and Barney are talking (with Shephard in a locker and Barney pondering how to get him out), they come to the conclusion that the electrified toxic waste is "an ingredient in Red Bull or something". In Chell's Mind, Chell says "Red Bull, now with more electrified toxic waste! Red Bull, if gives you cancer!"
** Felix mentions Gordon Freeman's stash of gold.
* CallingYourAttacks: "[[{{Pokemon}} Barney uses crowbar! It's ''super effective''!]]"
* CelebrityParadox: Present in the spinoff Barney's Mind. While chattering away at attacking soldiers, he asks them if they play various video games, including Counterstrike. When you consider [[HalfLife what game]] that was modded from...
** Shephard does the same thing with ''TeamFortress2'' in one episode by doing his best impression of the Sniper.
* ColdSniper: Shephard wishes he could be one:
-->'''Shephard:''' [''Looking at the G-Man''] Man how badass would it be if I just shot that phone right out of his hand right now. He'd just freak out for a second, then look around for where the shot came, then he'd see me with my smoking rifle and my cold emotionless mask, I'd slowly raise my hand, point to my eyes then back to him, and in that moment, he'd know I was the wrong person to-- [''G-Man walks into a teleporter''] god damn it my monologue took too long!
* CompanionCube: Ironically, the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device ([[ICallItVera She calls it ASHPoD]]) in Chell's Mind.
** Even more ironic as she actually takes wonderful sadistic delight in burning up the CompanionCube.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pretty much a must for any mind series but Chell is especially note worthy.
* CrossOver: Barney and Shephard meet each other at one point. And at the end of the 5th episode of ''Chell's Mind'', Chell hears [[spoiler:Barney's voice]]. Krimsin, Ian and [=CyhAnide=] all mentioned collaborating and borrowing jokes from each other.
** Chell appears in episode 14 of Felix's Mind, just after he had been [[spoiler:mortally wounded by a sniper]].
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Parker comments on a useless guard while searching for Gryphon. Said guard takes offense to the comment, causing Parker to invoke the trope.
* DivideByZero:
** Shephard thinks about this with one of the enemies.
---> '''Shephard:''' What if a barnacle tried to eat a barnacle? I think that's how black holes are formed.
** Before that, he fired a Displacer shot at the Anti-Mass Spectrometer thinking that it would "teleport a teleporter."
** Also, from ''Chell's Mind'':
---> '''Chell:''' What will happen if I shoot a blue portal into an orange one. Radiation? Black Holes? What do you get when you divide by zero again. Man I hate calculus.
* DoomMagnet: Shephard lampshades it in Episode 22: Nobody he meets seem to stay alive for much longer.
** Every friendly (the [[RedshirtArmy Red-suited people]]) Parker meets seems to die at some point or another.
* ExpositionFairy: Shephard has a conversation with a Black Ops agent in episode 24 who basically serves this role.
* EvilTwin: Chell thinks the voice in her head is one.
* {{Expy}}: Harrison is pretty much just Barney in AlienVsPredator. (Not that this is bad.)
* FlatWhat: Shephard lets out a string of these after releasing the snarks in episode 15.
* FluffyTamer: Shephard, who at this point has three [[LivingWeapon alien creatures that he uses as weapons]], who he's named [[FluffyTheTerrible Gil, Sparky, and Barney]].
* GenreSavvy: Chell becomes aware that [=GLaDOS=] is a malfunctioning evil AI who's constantly lying to her by the ''third room''.
* GratuitousJapanese: Chell will often break into Japanese phrases for no particular reason.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Lampshaded by Shephard:
-->'''Shephard:''' [''Shooting at a giant alien worm''] I'm carrying more ammo than should be physically feasible on one human being! I'll sit here and shoot at you all day if I have to.
** Also averted, as he refuses to pick up the heavier weaponry (the missile launcher and the heavy machine gun) because it would be too hard to carry.
* HypocriticalHumor: In episode 10 (part 1) of "Barney's Mind", Barney complains how stupid scientists are for getting locked in freight trains. A few seconds later, he enters a freight train and it closes and locks on him.
* ICallItVera: Chell calls her portal gun "[=ASHPoD=]," [[CompanionCube and talks to it as if it were a person]].
** Parker likes the Semi-Automatic rifles used by the Mercs so much he gives his own one a name.
* IFellForHours: Shephard's Mind plays this trope about as straight as possible in episodes 10 and 11.
** Chell falls ''several miles'' via Portal recursion and is utterly terrified.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Gryphon: "Damnit Parker, I'm an executive, not a pilot!"
* IntoxicationEnsues: Actually, Shephard, those aren't antidepressants.
* ItsTheBestWhateverEver: Shephard finds the "best ladder ever" at the end of episode 18. Then at the end of episode 19, when he's high off oxycodone, he finds another ladder and happily proclaims "I was wrong before! '''This''' is the best ladder ever!"
* IveGotAnXAndImNotAfraidToUseIt: Shephard uses this line, sort of.
--> '''Shephard:''' I've got a half-melted chocolate bar and I'm not afraid to eat it! 'Cause it would be good...
* JerkAss: Again, a must for any mind series, but the protagonists of Ander's and Parker's mind really stand out.
** Of all of the Mind series, Shephard seems to be the most sociable one despite being a marine. He strikes a chord with Barney and treats other people reasonably friendly. On the flip side though, people around him [[DoomMagnet seem to die quite frequently]].
** Toward the end of Parker's Mind, he starts to feel a little more for the people around him (even when he went on a [[spoiler:RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the mercs after they shot Hendrix]]), but still lives up to this trope.
** Averted by Chell, who is more psychotic than a jerk. Then again, there isn't anyone to be a jerk to.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Barney and Shephard. The former starts off cold and detached, but eventually ends up growing fond of some scientists and helps rescue them. The latter is a marine, and is of course going to be combat oriented, but he genuinely cares for competent people, most notably Otis.
* KarmaHoudini: Felix is starting to believe that his misfortunes are the result of the Universe actively punishing him for previously acts of jerkassery he got away with.
* KilledMidSentence: Shephard is in the middle of a battle and asking one of his comrades about the operation
-->'''Shephard:''' Hey, is it true this whole thing is all a government cover up?\\
[''Spore grenade lands next the medic'']\\
'''Medic:''' Government cover ups are--\\
[''Spore grenade explodes and kills him'']\\
'''Shephard:''' [''To the aliens''] Oh fuck off! He was just about to explain everything!
* MoreDakka: From Shephard's Mind.
-->"''On the other hand, do I really need four guns? '''Hell yes I do it's an alien invasion!'''''"
* NoIndoorVoice: Shephard gets annoyed with one Marine in episode 21 for this.
--> '''Shephard:''' HI. HELLO THERE. DO YOU MAYBE HAVE AN ''INDOOR'' VOICE?
* OhCrap: In episode 21, Shephard turns on his night-vision only to find [[spoiler:an alien staring at him]].
* OneLiner: Most Mind series protagonists are pretty prone to this, but Shephard in particular seems to absolutely love these. There are ''at least'' seven or eight in episode 22 alone, with plenty more to be found in other episodes.
* OneManArmy: every main character, obviously. Well, except Chell. Special mention goes to Felix and his 1st season finale.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: [[DeadSpace Isaac Clarke]] (Isaac Clarke's Mind) seems to be at least partially [[MediumAwareness aware that he's in a video game]], often acknowledging "plot holes" as he comes across them, as well as being able to hear the background music. Also, Barney, in musing about the strangeness of his situation, says that it's almost as if someone's "recording [his] every move and thought for some strange tv series and posting the videos on a website."
* PresentCompanyExcluded: After being attacked by a shock roach: "Not today you jumping thunder****! No offense [[FluffyTheTerrible Sparky."]]
* PromotedFanboy: In-universe example. The core Mind series group, called the "Masterminds," originally started out with just Ian (Barney's Mind) and Krimsin (Shephard's Mind). All the Masterminds that came after are pretty much one of these.
* ProudToBeAGeek: Shephard seems to enjoy tabletop RolePlayingGames and orders around a squad of soldiers as if they were all playing ''WorldOfWarcraft'' together.
* PunctuatedPounding: Shepherd in Episode 24. With a shotgun.
--> '''Shepherd:''' Dammit! Stop! [''Bang''] Shooting! [''Bang''] Me! [''Bang'']
* TheQuietOne: Douchebag in Barney's Mind, up until the final episode.
* RunningGag: Chell is ''starving''.
** Parker hates Hendrix, and constantly comments on how ugly Capek is.
** Felix is often mistaken for Gordon.
** Barney hates bees. And stairs. Did he mention that he hates stairs?
* SanitySlippage: Chell is obviously starting to crack.
* SchizoTech: Parker is quite weirded out when he has to send out an encoded message, that is stored on a floppy disk, when they are several decades obsolete.
* ShoutOut: Shephard's Mind ep 23: "Diplomacy with aliens is hard. That {{Iji}} chick makes it look so simple!"
** Shephard's Mind Episode 20:
---> '''Shephard:''' Come to think of it, Mark Meer kinda sounds like me. '[[MassEffect I'm Corporal Shephard, and this is my least favorite tunnel in Black Mesa.]]'
** Shephard recalls a time he snuck into Aperture Science and messed with all the keyboards as a prank. This a reference to a small easter egg in ''{{Portal}}'' where all the keyboards have the letters in "Adrian Shephard" lit up.
** Barney's Mind Episode 14: After Barney rants about the Alien Grunts launching bees, he wants to know why they don't launch [[FindingNemo mollusks... or sea turtles]].
* StopHelpingMe: Parker's Mind, with Hendrix.
* TalkingToTheDead: Barney's Mind episode 4: "Hey dead guy, got anything useful on you?"
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: The whole point of Felix's Mind; Felix is Gordon Freeman's twin brother that everyone else is constantly mistaking for Gordon.
* ThisIsSparta: Done in emulation of the [[ThreeHundred trope namer]] in Shephards mind episode 18 by smashing a window through kicking
** And played for laughs in spin-offs were theres a SPARTA remix of certain lines (Like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mmqRqey3pQ Barneys mind 300 bees]] for example).
* UnexplainedAccent: The protagonist of Declan's Mind is supposed to be an American black ops agent, but he speaks with a Lithuanian accent. The series probably wouldn't be as funny otherwise.
** Even Chell is confused why [=ASHPoD=] is British.
* UnflinchingWalk: [[spoiler: Shephard]] shows a fantastic example of this, during [[spoiler: his fight with the lightning pigs]] in the finale.
[[spoiler: Shephard]]: This makes me ask myself, did teleporting to an alien planet make you completely Asiatic? To which I respond: "Yes, but watch this."
* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Quite common in all Mind spinoffs. Except perhaps Chell's Mind, where it's more obvious as to what the buttons do.
* WhatWouldXDo: In episode 3 of Parker's Mind, Parker is hesitant to climb a rickety ladder due to his fear of heights but realizes he can't stay at the bottom of the elevator shaft forever. He wonders what Jesus would do -- cut to a cartoon of Jesus telling Parker to stop being a wuss and climb the ladder.
* WouldHitAGirl: Shephard, of all people, in a pretty brutal way, with a healthy dose of [[HeroicSociopath Sociopathy]] to boot.
-->''Yup. I'm a saint''.
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