History WebVideo / HalfLifeAlyxButTheGnomeIsTooAware

* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler: After the Gnome betrays Wayne and steals his place in the real world, he quickly comes to find streaming isn't as fun as he expected and goes into a full MyGodWhatHaveIDone breakdown after he finds Wayne transformed into a completely inanimate and unable to speak Gnome and carries him around for a while. This leads to him reflecting on the new life he'd stolen and realizing he has to swap places with Wayne once again.]]

* ShoutOut: The last stream features end credits that spin up the screen in the shape of a helix, exactly like the credits to ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''. Very fitting, [[GainaxEnding considering how the stream itself ends]].

-> [[spoiler: '''Gabe Newell:''' Half-Life - Half-Life is not what it seems. These games should never be played by mankind.]]

* FakeOutFadeOut: [[spoiler: In the finale during the Gnome's HostileShowTakeover, it's revealed he and Wayne swapped places. The camera dramatically zooms in on gnome!Wayne as it fades to black... and then immediately cuts back to the gnome shrugging it off and continuing Half Life 2.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: Paralleling ''Half-Life: VR'', the series leans more into ExistentialHorror [[HorrorComedy Comedy]] as it goes on. By Act 3, the Gnome's bullying becomes more personal, and starts incorporating RealityWarper elements. [[spoiler:And this is to say nothing about the [[HumanoidAbomination New Contestant]]. The finale drives this to higher levels in the Vault as it's revealed that Half-Life is an alien entity that Valve decided to sell, much to Gabe Newell's regret.]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:When Wayne enters the Vault, the Gnome declares that he has failed the challenge and attacks him. He spawns in a wooden hallway, but he quits the game, taking off the headset. He then hears music coming from a nearby room, and ends up in the hallway again. At the end of the hallway, the Gnome invites him to watch a Peppa Pig movie which starts to talk about cryptic subjects, before turning into a forest clearing. Wayne runs in at the Gnome's behest, only for the Gnome to manifest in real life, playing Half Life 2 (which features [[AndIMustScream Wayne as a gnome]].) The Gnome realizes that doing such a thing to Wayne only ruined himself, so he sings "If I Can't Be Yours" before disappearing and bringing Wayne back at a beach, with only a framed picture of himself reading "Goodbye Gordon" beside him.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Surprisingly, the Gnome himself pulls this at the end by donning Wayne's Valve Index to trade realities with him again. According to Gabe's commentary The Gnome will no longer spawn in Half-Life: Alyx for Wayne so barring a miracle it's a permanent goodbye.]]
* IAmNotSpock: The Gnome insists on referring to Wayne as Gordon, believing him to be the protagonist from HL:VRAI. [[BecomingTheMask Eventually, Wayne stops correcting him.]] [[invoked]]

* {{Kayfabe}}: Just like HLVRAI was treated as if it was a genuine VR port of Half-Life 1 woth self-aware AI, the Gnome is treated as if it's simply just a very advanced mod [[spoiler: until the final stream, where the pretense is gradually dropped.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Gabe regrets creating Half-Life, or rather, releasing it to humanity, and created the commentary nodes as an admission of guilt of sorts for the first person to play through the Gnome Challenge. He begs to whomever completes the Gnome Challenge to not go to the ending of the game.]]

* WhamEpisode: The finale [[spoiler:reveals many things about Half-Life, namely that Valve didn't create it and they simply got their hands on it, releasing it as their own property for profit. Gabe Newell hid commentary nodes in the Gnome Challenge for the first person to complete it to confide in his part in all of it. Then there's the ending, which is detailed in GainaxEnding above.]]

''Half-Life: Alyx but the Gnome is Too Aware'' is a roleplay {{Machinima}} series by [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv WayneRadioTV]] and Radio TV Solutions, the same group behind ''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', which has a similar premise. This time around, it's only Wayne (though still joined on occasion by his friend and fellow Radio TV Solutions member Baaulp) doing a playthrough of ''Half-Life: Alyx'' only to be surprised by the Gnome he must carry throughout the game becoming sentient, talking to him and making various outlandish requests as Wayne tries to juggle taking care of the Gnome, his meters as well as himself.

** Notably {{Averted}} with the Blue Gnome, who is unfailingly polite and friendly to Wayne but is ''insufferably'' sexual towards him. Wayne's horrified reactions to just ''hearing'' the Blue Gnome make it clear his advances are unwelcome.

* VagueAge: The Gnome initially claims to be four ([[UnitConfusion though he never specifies "years"]]), but when called out for his TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, he amends his story to say that, [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope for legal purposes]], he's 37.

* CerebusSyndrome: Paralleling ''Half-Life: VR'', the series leans more into ExistentialHorror [[HorrorComedy Comedy]] as it goes on. By Act 3, the Gnome's bullying becomes more personal, and starts incorporating RealityWarper elements. [[spoiler:And this is to say nothing about the [[HumanoidAbomination New Contestant]]. The finale drives this to higher levels in the Vault as it's revealed that Half-Life is an alien entity that Valve decided to sell, much to Gabe Newel's regret.]]

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The Blue Gnome makes his debut in the final act. The Gabe Newel commentary also starts appearing, but the Gnome claims to have made them. It's very heavily implied, however, that the commentary node in the Vault was by the real Gabe Newel himself.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Gnome is an annoying thing that Wayne has to constantly keep in check, but [[spoiler:the Blue Gnome actively ''hurts'' Wayne if he holds it, so he ignores his pleas to go with him and not the red Gnome. Eventually, Wayne starts arguing in genuine favor of Chompski against the Blue Gnome.]]

* WhamEpisode: The finale [[spoiler:reveals many things about Half-Life, namely that Valve didn't create it and they simply got their hands on it, releasing it as their own property for profit. Gabe Newel hid commentary nodes in the Gnome Challenge for the first person to complete it to confide in his part in all of it. Then there's the ending, which is detailed in GainaxEnding above.]]

[[TheStinger Thank you for reading the article. You have failed the challenge!]]

All Wayne wanted to do was play ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' and earn the [[SelfImposedChallenge Garden Gnome achievement]]. How hard could it actually be? Well, when the normally inanimate Gnome Chompski begins speaking, seemingly on his own.

''Half-Life: Alyx but the Gnome is Too Aware'' is a {{Machinima}} series by [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv WayneRadioTV]] and Radio TV Solutions, the same group behind ''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware'', which has a similar premise.

The first Act was streamed on November 12th, 2021 and after a long delay, the finale would be streamed on February 4th, 2023.

* WhamEpisode: The finale [[spoiler:reveals many things about Half-Life, namely that Valve didn't create it and they simply got their hands on it, releasing it as their own property for profit. Gabe Newel hid commentary nodes in the Gnome Challenge for the first person to complete it to confide in his part in all of it.]]

* MyGreatestRegret: [[spoiler:Gabe regrets creating Half-Life, or rather, releasing it to humanity, and created the commentary nodes as an admission of guilt of sorts for the first person to play through the Gnome Challenge. He begs to whomever completes the Gnome Challenge to not go to the ending of the game.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: Paralleling ''Half-Life: VR'', the series leans more into ExistentialHorror [[HorrorComedy Comedy]] as it goes on. By Act 3, the Gnome's bullying becomes more personal, and starts incorporating RealityWarper elements. [[spoiler:And this is to say nothing about the [[HumanoidAbomination New Contestant]].]]

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler:The Blue Gnome makes his debut in the final act. The Gabe Newel commentary also starts appearing, but the Gnome claims to have made them.]]

The first Act was streamed on November 12th, 2021 and after a long delay, the finale would be streamed on February 2nd, 2023.

* KilledOffForReal: Trash compactors, as it turns out, can kill a Gnome permanently, as Wayne finds out when he tosses the Gnome into the compactor used to kill [[spoiler:The New Contestant]], but he reloads the save so as to continue the challenge. [[He also uses it against the Blue Gnome to stop him from popping up any further.]]

* MustHaveNicotene: One of the Gnome's many meters is a "Cigarette Meter," requiring him to smoke often.

* BottleEpisode: Intended to bridge the hiatus between ''Half-Life: VR'' and its sequel, this series eschews the custom assets and scripted plot-beats from its sister series, focusing instead on an unmodified playthrough of ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' while Wayne riffs with his friends over [[SyntheticVoiceActor text-to-speech]].

''Half-Life: Alyx but the Gnome is Too Aware'' is a {{Machinima}} series by [[WebVideo/WayneRadioTv WayneRadioTV]]

All Wayne wanted to do was play ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' and earn the [[SelfImposedChallenge Garden Gnome achievement]]. How hard could it actually be? Well, when the normally inanimate Gnome Chompski begins speaking, seemingly on his owm