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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Half_Life_Full_Life_Consequences_7517.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:350:Its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the e n e m y s]]
3->''"It's time for me to live up to my family name and face [[TitleDrop FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES!]]"''
4-->-- '''John Freeman'''
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6What began as an innocent {{fanfiction}} titled ''VideoGame/HalfLife: Full Life Consequences'' (by an allegedly nine-year-old kid with the handle squirrelking) was turned into [[SoBadItsGood something great]] as soon as a Website/{{YTMND}} user found it. In mockery, [[https://johnfreemanjohnfreemanjohnfreeman.ytmnd.com he did a dramatic reading of the story,]] and a legend was born.
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8Naturally, seeing that squirrelking had created other fanfics, most notably in the same storyline, other YTMND users had a crack at the dramatic reading thing. Over time, these narrations were turned into [[http://vegeta897.deviantart.com/art/HL-FLC-Part-1-61174719 animations,]] but the most impressive series of animations came from machinima artist [[https://www.youtube.com/user/djy1991 djy1991]] using Garry's Mod. Thus begins the most famous telling of John Freeman's story.
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10The first half of the saga tells the story of Gordon Freeman's brother, John Freeman, [[JumpedAtTheCall who rushes from his job]] to rescue Gordon Freeman in Ravenhol[[strike:d]]m. The second half, entitled "Hero Beggining", takes place some time later, during which the Combine have succeeded in conquering the [[strike:human]] humen race. Henry Freeman takes it upon himself to continue the legacy and lead the resistance against the Combines.
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12Original writing:
13* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2945837/1/Halflife_Fulllife_Consequences Halflife: Fulllife Consequences]]
14* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2946082/1/Halflife_FullLife_Consequences_2_WhatHasTobeDone Halflife:FullLife Consequences 2:WhatHasTobeDone]]
15* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4869457/1/Halflife_Hero_Beggining Halflife: Hero Beggining]]
16* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4988255/1/Halflife_Fulllife_Consequences_Free_Man Halflife Fulllife Consequences: Free Man]]
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18Video by [=Djy1991=] and Icton Entertainment:
19* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs Full Life Consequences]]
20* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8yHguvYYyQ Full Life Consequences 2: What Has Tobe Done]]
21* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NiCYPrAoB8 Hero Beggining]]
22* Free Man Platform/{{Vimeo}} version (see [[http://vimeo.com/30296603 here]], and on Platform/YouTube ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWgEnnmcv4 here]])
23These videos make up the most popular adaptation of the ''Full Life Consequences'' saga, each having been featured on numerous gaming websites. They combine dramatic readings performed by other users and music from the album ''Production Music from [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy]]'', creating a distinct SoundtrackDissonance. The first video combined the low audio quality of the narration and the upbeat music to create an old-time radio drama feel. Subsequent videos strayed from this design for more straightforward presentation.
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25''Full Life Consequences'' was sufficiently popular to inspire a LiveActionAdaptation; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HmujaPtKI see the results for yourself.]] There was also a few {{animated adaptation}}s of the first chapter, [[http://vegeta897.deviantart.com/art/HL-FLC-Part-1-61174719 a Flash animation]] one by [=Vegeta897=], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk9QYnVw6oc another]] by amazingtrout. The latter uses a very similar formula to [=Djy1991=]'s machinima, and both actually ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predate ]]''[[OlderThanTheyThink it by at least half a year]], although you probably wouldn't tell from the Website/{{Youtube}} comments.
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27Video by [=Gaz6231=]:
28* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-hZqQSeVu8 Hero Beggining]]
29* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBJkGwfZvrU Free Man]]
30Solo machinimator [=Gaz6231=] released alternative adaptations of the ''Hero Beggining'' chapters several weeks before the [=Djy1991=] versions. They take a very different style than the above adaptations, favoring intentional NarmCharm and increased body animation over jovial mockery and lip movement. [=Gaz6231=] himself describes it as "the Creator/MartinScorsese to their Creator/MichaelBay". While the ''Hero Beggining'' video is [[SpecialEffectsFailure clearly Gaz6231's first work]], the ''Free Man'' video is [[GrowingTheBeard much more polished and has earned its own following]]. Also unlike the Icton Entertainment videos, all animation, editing, and voices are created by one man. [[BrokenBase There is a bitter dispute as to which series is better]], especially in the case of ''Free Man''.
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32Some also eschewed visual components in favor of providing loads of [[LargeHam ham]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OleqvzDNGxY with this reading]] being one such example.
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34Tropers/{{Seaport}} wrote a "serious" version of the fic, as [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/Doom_Repercussions_of_Evil_Mark_II further]] proof of the SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate, which can be [[http://fav.me/d4w1wuo found here.]]
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36Other machinmas and dramatic readings of the various chapters exist.
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38Written by the same person who wrote ''FanFic/HaloHalosInSpace'', and is, naturally, quite similar. Compare ''Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil''. And Creator/PeterChimaera's other fic, ''FanFic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction''. Although it may well be [[FollowTheLeader a cash in]] on ''Full Life Consequences'', it is amazing in that he only wrote it after Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}, an online encyclopedia like [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wikiped]] said he was writing it and decided 'Yeh, ok' and the BigBad's evil plot is to destroy Dallas.
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40One fan wrote a fic called, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5235619/1/QuarterLife_Origin_of_Doom "Quarter Life: Origin of Doom,"]] which ties the Quarter Life and Full Life series together. It too, got the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G04fz2JxsM machinima treatment.]] See also ''WebAnimation/HalfLifeSideStoryGaidenHuntDownFreeMan'', a SpiritualSuccessor based on ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman''.
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42[[http://web.archive.org/web/20090909011140/http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3196540 It eventually turned out to be written by Mattimer, one of the greatest trolls of our time.]]
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44An [[MSTing]] of the full saga can be found [[https://theasylumriffs.wordpress.com/category/half-life/half-life-full-life-consequences/ here.]]
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46----
47!!The original writings provide examples of:
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49* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The death of Gordon Freeman is given quite a bit of weight in the midst of a rather hectic battle scene.
50* AlasPoorVillain: In-universe "John Freeman felt sorry for them becaus they couldnt live there anymore because they were zombie goasts so he blew up the house and killed the zombie goasts [[MercyKill so they were at piece]]."
51* AliensAreBastards: The Combines hate "humens" for no apparent reason.
52* ArcWords:
53** "It's time for me to live up to my family name."
54** "What has to be done."
55* ArtEvolution: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The stories got ''worse'' with each release. For instance, they don't start regularly being referred to as [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "humens" and "wepons"]] until "Hero Beggining", which made it all the more plausible it was all a troll, until the hard confirmation by Mattimer.
56* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: John Freeman [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] be helping the Zombie Goasts do this when he blows up their house.
57* {{Asspull}}:
58** The characters have an uncanny tendency to find wepon on the ground just before entering a battle zone.
59** John Freeman put the laser gun on his motorcycle and his machine gun and his rocket gun that he found on the side of the motorcycle.
60** And also, when John Freeman is stopped by the headcrab zombie police officer, he's able to shoot him in the head with something, despite apparently not having a wepon until he gets to Ravenholdm.
61* AttackItsWeakPoint: "The next boss was laughing at John Freeman so John Freeman said '[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu YOU WILL NOT LAUGH AT ME!]]' and shot a rocket at him since that was his weakness."
62** [[StuffBlowingUp Large explosives]] are perhaps one of the most common weaknesses among... well, things made of matter, but particularly boss-level enemies in the ''Half Life'' franchise.
63* AuthorAppeal: Motorcycles and doing backflips.
64* AuthorCatchphrase: Doing "what has to be done" is a common theme of squirrelking's protagonists.
65* AttackAttackAttack: Some of the rebels get killed during the uprising but they keep on going because they have to [[InnocentInnuendo do it.]]
66* BackFromTheDead: All headcrab zombies, arguably the zombie goasts, and also [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman.]]
67* BadassBiker: John Freeman, who has ''two'' motorcycles at his office, and is accomplished enough with them to perform casual stunts on world-saving missions.
68* BadassFamily: The Freemans, what with Gordon needing no introduction, John being the one Gordon calls for help when aliens and monsters are attacking his place, and Henry, John's son, who leads the revolt against the Combines.
69* BeigeProse: What does John Freeman look like? What does ''anyone'' look like? We don't know, because it just uses their names, with the occasional plot-relevant descriptions (such as the science on Gordon Freeman's face).
70* BigBadEnsemble: The first had the ([[NonIndicativeName not-so]]) FinalBoss, the second had the Next Boss, while the third and fourth had The Combines.
71* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Dark Man and the Combine are defeated and the Earth is saved but John Freeman and a lot of other people had too be sacrificed to make it happen.]]
72* BloodyHilarious: "Then a big rocket came down and blew a guys arm off and legs and head and killed other people too."
73* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:After Gordon Freeman becomes a headcrab zombie, the Combines come and put science in him to make him live and strong and big. He is slain again when John Freeman [[MindScrew kicks the science off his face.]]]]
74* BreakingTheFourthWall: John Freeman discovers how to beat the next boss by.. looking it up on an internet FAQ.
75* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Inverted. [[spoiler:The Dark Man knows EXACTLY who John Freeman's wife is and what happened to her, despite her not having a name and him technically being on some sort of genocide mission.]]
76** This may have something to do with the fact that [[spoiler:the Dark Man is Gordon Freeman]].
77* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Henry Freeman's "Hero Beggining" commences after [[spoiler:the Combines murder his mom]].
78* CainAndAbel: John Freeman vs. [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman/The Dark Man.]]
79* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman returns as headcrab zombie goast in What Has Tobe Done, and as a Combine in Free Man.]]
80* AChildShallLeadThem: As it's implied Henry Freeman is still a child at the time of Hero Beggining (even if the machinima doesn't portray it that way), the trope applies when he leads the revolt against the Combines.
81* [[DarkerAndEdgier Darker And Scarrier]]: The second arc involves the future of the [[strike:human]] humen race, unlike the first arc that mainly revolved on revenge. The main threat of the first two chapters were the bosses and the zombie goasts, which are nowhere to be seen in the second half of the saga spearheaded by the takeover of the Combines. Not to mention heavy casualties on both sides given in detail.
82* DecapitatedArmy: Averted. Killing The Dark Man does not stop The Combines from defending their tower. In fact, they're able to organize an offensive to stop the humens from escaping the blast radius, and are only stopped by [[OneManArmy John Freeman]] [[HeroicSacrifice staying behind]] to stop them.
83* DecoyProtagonist: Hero Beggining, the next-to-last part of the FLC series, follows Henry Freeman shoting at Combines, throwing stiders with gravity guns, and eventually climaxing with [[spoiler:John Freeman's appearance (out of a portal ''in the sky'') yelling [[WhamLine "Combines leave my son alone."]]]]
84* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment
85** It's a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys.
86** John Freeman loked back and saw Gordon get steppd on by the next boss and he was mad and angry.
87** John Freeman drove in and did another flip n jumped off his motorbike and the motor bike took out some headcrab zombies infront of John Freeman.
88** Henry Freeman realy hated Combines because they beat up every one and Henry Freeman hated it.
89** he turned on off the computer and wet on the platform again down to his other more faster motorcycle that had gas in it this time.
90** John Freeman walked like speed of light back to his motorcycl and left behind the bad place behind him.
91** [[MindScrew He didnt want nothing to happen to Henry Freeman because Henry Freeman was John Freeman saw Combines start to run like monsters to humens and Henry Freeman and saw Henry Freeman and humens run like brave to Combines.]]
92** John Freeman walked to wards Combines and made fists with hands.
93** "Zombie goasts."
94** "''Dead'' zombie goasts."
95* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:John Freeman braved the Combines' assault of [[strike:machine]] masheen guns and '''rockets''' to try to disable the tower and save humankind. At one point, John Freeman is struck by a rocket, stabbed in the back, and is shot multiple times in succession, but John Freeman isn't slowed at all. He [[LodgedBladeRecycling pulls the knife from his back]] and ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome brains the Combine who stabbed him]]'', then kicks and fights the others who were shooting him.]]
96* DeusExMachina: At the end of ''Hero Beginning'' and at the start of ''Free Man'', [[spoiler:John Freeman [[strike:pops out from a portal]] '''backflips''' out of the sky to tell the Combines to leave [[LukeIAmYourFather his son]] alone.]]
97* DiabolusExMachina:
98** After killing the final boss, the "next boss" appears out of nowhere and step on Gordon Freeman.
99** And after defeating the Next Boss, John Freeman finds out that Gordon Freeman became Zombie Goast.
100** ''And after that'', [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman gets turned into a Strong and Big Combine known as "The Dark Man", and leads the Combines into defeating the humen forces under Henry Freeman]].
101* DiabolusExNihilo: The Next Boss in the first series. Arguably The Combines as well, due to noone knowing why they came.
102* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Gordon Freeman kills the final boss by punching it in the face. No really.
103** After being shot ''by'' bullets in the eye from '''teh gun''' by John Freeman, mind you.
104* DiscOneFinalBoss: While the antagonist of the first story is called the "Final Boss", he's supplanted after his death by the Next Boss, and then by the Dark Man.
105* DisSimile: "Combines were robot things that werent robots..."
106* DisposableWoman:
107-->'''The Dark Man:''' [[spoiler:Henry Freeman's Mom]] is shot in head.
108* DownerEnding: At the end of ''Full Life Consequences'', Gordon Freeman is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed immediately]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog after John Freeman rescues him.]] At the end of ''What Has Tobe Done'', he is reanimated as a zombie goast. [[spoiler:The ''Hero Beggining'' arc reverses this.]]
109* DragonInChief: Apparently the Dark Man [[spoiler:aka Gordon Freeman]] for the Combines.
110* DyingAsYourself: In his final moments, [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman is free of both the Combine "science" in him and the headcrab]].
111* EpisodeTitleCard: Always consisting of official Half-Life artwork with John Freeman's head taped onto Gordon's body (and Henry Freeman's head taped onto Alyx's body when he appears.) Quarter-Life parodies this by having Gordon's head taped onto his own body.
112* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Not so much stumped as expressing profound confusion when attempting to transcribe the author's attempt at SceneryPorn.
113--> '''Narrator''': THE CONTRYSIDES WERE NICE AND THE PLANTS WERE SINGING AND THE BIRDS AND THE SUN WAS ALMOST DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE SKY ???
114* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Subverted. "The laughed overed quickly" when John and Gordon were attacked by the next boss.
115* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, UnnamedParent: Henry Freeman's mother, [[spoiler:John Freeman's wife]].
116* EvilIsBigger: The Combines, particularly the Dark Man, are said to be strong and big.
117* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:The Dark Man, aka Gordon Freeman after having Combine Science put in him, to Henry Freeman, who also happens to John Freeman's son.]]
118* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman's fate after being found as a Zombie Goast by the Combines was to have Combine Science put in him which made him Strong and Big, consequently turning him into the Dark Man.]]
119* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Played with in that [[spoiler:Henry Freeman's mother delivers her last message to her son ''after'' her head was shot off.]]
120* FantasticRacism: According to Henry Freeman's mom, the Combines beat up a girl because she is humen.
121* FinalBoss: The ([[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil not so]]) aptly named BigBad of the first chapter.
122* ForTheEvulz: The Combines beat the humen girl in the street and [[spoiler:kill Henry Freeman's mother]] for no apparent reason, other than the fact that [[spoiler:Mom]] and the girl were humen and the Combine were [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] Combines from science and outer space and hate humens.
123* {{Foreshadowing}}: Henry Freeman mentions the family name, but if it wasn't obvious at ''that'' point...
124* FriendToAllLivingThings: John Freeman notices a nest of eggs on the ground after cutting down a tree and puts them "back home safe." [[note]] *Not safe* [[/note]]
125** He is even a friend to non-living things, as he feels bad about killing the zombie goasts.
126* FullNameBasis: John Freeman and Henry Freeman are only ever referred to as such. Outside of four total aversions in the first story, Gordon Freeman is only referred to as such as well.
127* GiantFootOfStomping: The next boss's means of attack.
128* [[GoOutWithASmile Go Out With Smiles On Face]]: [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman dies in John Freeman's arms at peace that he was freed from the Combines. Later, John Freeman as well when he is sure Henry Freeman and the humens will be safe when the Combines Tower explodd.]]
129* GunsAreWorthless
130-->'''John Freeman''': I have to kill fast and bullets too slow
131* HeroicSacrifice: Gordon Freeman warns John Freeman to flee just before he's crushed by the [[TrueFinalBoss "next boss"]].
132** Also, [[spoiler:John Freeman in ''Free Man''. "John Freeman, Saver of Humens". * sniff* ]]
133* [[HopeSpot Hop Spot]]: In Hero Beggining, humenkind seems to be wining, only for more Combines to come, and surround them. [[spoiler:Subverted by the fact John Freeman comes afterward.]]
134* HorrifyingTheHorror: When John and Henry Freeman team up, the Combines get 'scarred' and run back to the 'hug tower'.
135* [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight "I Kno You ARe In There Somewhere Bro" fight]]: [[spoiler:John Freeman vs. Gordon Freeman]]
136* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Assuming the Next Boss is a Strider (something that would explain why it was weak to rockets), this is likely how Gordon Freeman getting stepped on resulted.
137* ImprobableAimingSkills: Averted. The [[LaResistance Resistance]] [[RedShirtArmy Army]] led by Henry Freeman is described as successfully hitting Combine troops "sometimes". That would make sense, seeing as how they were more of a mob that suddenly acquired [[strike:armaments]] [[strike:wepons]] laser guns and rocks.
138* InNameOnly: The only character from the actual ''Half-Life'' games it features is [[HeroicMime Gordon Freeman]], and its connection to the games' canon seems generally pretty specious (the Combines and headcrab zombies of the fics seem pretty different from the ones in the games). Starting with "Hero Beggining" the Combine have conquered and enslaved the humens, which is at least closer to the premise of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2.''
139* JumpedAtTheCall: Gordon Freeman's email was all it took for John Freeman to abandon his workplace to go fight bosses.
140* KidHero: Henry Freeman (implied), though possibly averted as he's old enough to be president in the epilogue.
141* LaResistance: Henry Freeman leads a mass insurrection in the third chapter to liberate humenkind, giving them hop!
142* LamarckWasRight: John Freeman and Henry Freeman either have a knack for acrobatics and combatting unconventional enemies or got their skills the same way Gordon Freeman got them.
143* LargeHam: John Freeman has no qualm with announcing his intentions to kill an evil boss at the top of lungs. Also when he addresses the zombie goasts in ''What Has Tobe Done:''
144-->'''John Freeman.''' Zombie goasts, I have killed your friends at the old house and I don't want to shoot your heads. [[LastSecondChance Move near the countrysides and you will be friends of John Freeman!]]
145* LastStand: In ''Free Man'', [[spoiler:John Freeman]] realizes that stopping the tower's activation is impossible, so he sends the humens off and stays to keep the Combines at bay as the humens escape.
146* LateArrivalSpoiler: Averted. ''Hero Beggining'' was not titled as part of the ''Full Life Consequences'' saga to hide [[spoiler:John Freeman's surprise appearance at the end and his subsequent role in the final chapter, which restored the label.]]
147* LightningBruiser: John Freeman can do things fast like speed of sound, and is capable of taking on all of the combines singlehandedly, and is able to ''kick the science off of someone else's face''.
148* MadeOfIron: While fighting the Combines in ''Free Man'', [[spoiler:John Freeman is hit by a rocket, backstabbed, and shot with [[strike:machine]] masheen gun fire, yet carries on fighting.]] There is some credence to this in that, in the Half-Life game universe, a character with full health and armor can take a whole lot of punishment, especially on lower difficulty settings.
149* MoeGreeneSpecial: Performed by John Freeman on the final boss.
150* MoreDakka: John Freeman loads up with a laser gun, a masheen gun and a "rocket gun" for his second journey to Ravenholdm.
151** The Combines try to stop John Freeman later with masheen guns and rockets in "Free Man".
152** Subverted in ''Free Man'': [[spoiler:John Freeman, needing to "kill fast" suddenly decides that "bullets too slow", so he drops his wepon and proceeds to kill the Combines in his way with his [[strike:bare]] bear hands.]]
153* NeckSnap: In ''Free Man'', there's mention of John Freeman ''barking'' necks as he kills Combines with his bear hands.
154* NegativeContinuity: It's noted that John Freeman doesn't have a weapon. This doesn't stop him from shooting the headcrab-possessed police officer a few lines later. [[spoiler:Freeman also dies by getting stomped on by a boss, but in the next story, he got headcrabbed.]]
155* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Zombie goasts. Zombies that are also [[OurGhostsAreDifferent "goasts"]].
156* NeverTrustATitle: There are no characters named Tobe in "What Has Tobe Done".
157* NoKillLikeOverkill: When he encounters zombie goasts for the second time, John Freeman shoots them before running off to face his real enemy. When the zombie goasts taunt him, he then turns back, laughs at them and rockets them. Even though they're already dead.
158** In "Hero Beggining", a rocket manages to blow a guy's arms off and legs off and head off and him up. In that order.
159* NonindicativeName: The final boss. It isn't actually the last boss. It's the [[DiscOneFinalBoss first one.]]
160* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: In ''Hero Beggining'', Henry tells the Combine that the humen race is "not scarred no more"
161* OurFounder: At the end of ''Free Man'', [[spoiler:Henry Freeman is elected president and a statue of John Freeman is erected in the new city.]]
162* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:John Freeman]]
163* PlotHole: John Freeman is able to shoot the Headcrab Officer in the head, despite not having we'''a'''pon.
164* PoliceAreUseless: The only authority figure to ever appear in the entire saga is a lone police officer. Who is headcrab zombie, manning his speed trap even after getting zombified. That's a dedicated police officer right there.
165* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Gordon Freeman said "its time to end this '''''ones and for all!'''''"
166** "I have to kill fast, and ''bullets too slow."''
167* [[PrepareToDie Prepair To Die]]: The Dark Man said.
168* [[RunDontWalk Walk Fast]]: The word "run" is sometimes spoken but never actually done in the first two chapters.
169** John Freeman has two speeds: "Walk fast", and "backflip", with the very occasional front-flip and single instance of "slow like a turtle".
170* RecursiveAmmo: John Freeman shoots bullets from the gun, and then the bullets shoot the final boss.
171* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman, after being found as a Headcrab Zombie by the Combines, is made Strong and Big and is given Combine Science on him.]]
172* {{Retcon}}: At the end of ''What Has Tobe Done'', [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman becomes zombie goast. When he retells this to John Freeman in ''Free Man'', he says that he became headcrab zombie. Mind you, he ''did'' get turned into zombie goast by headcrab...]]
173* TheReveal:
174** [[SincerityMode In possibly the best twist to ever grace poorly written fan fiction]], the last line of ''Hero Beggining'' reveals [[spoiler:John Freeman to be the father of Henry Freeman]].
175** In Free Man, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman]] is not only still alive, but also [[spoiler:the de-facto leader of the Combines (as The Dark Man)]].
176* [[RockBeatsLaser Rock Beats Lazers]]: In ''Hero Beggining'', the humen were wining against the lazers gun-equipped Combine despite having to rely on rocks as wepon.
177** It may have meant to say "rockets". But with squirrelking, you can never be sure.
178*** Then again, he said "rackets" instead of rockets in ''Free Man''...
179* RougeAnglesOfSatin: In ''droves'', [[SelfDemonstratingArticle as seen all over the page]].
180* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Henry Freeman's mom.]]
181* ScienceIsBad:
182** The Combines came from "science and [[strike:outer]] outter space" to enslave humens.
183** Combine "science" in [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman]] turns him evil.
184** Oddly enough, a "science" is a tangible object, like it is in Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami, but it's unclear what it is exactly (The Djy version has it as a Metrocop mask, while the GAZ version has it as a cybernetic eye).
185* SelfDestructMechanism: The button the Dark Man pushes that makes the tower start glowing and eventually [[strike:explode]] explod.
186* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Next Boss causes the most trouble for the rest of the fic despite not really doing much after stepping on Gordon. [[OrcusOnHisThrone He mostly just chills at Ravenholdm and waits for John Freeman to come back.]] But him stepping on Gorden Freeman eventually results in Freeman becoming a headcrab zombie goast, and then turning into the Dark Man, taking control of the Combines, and then blowing up the tower that was big onto the sun, which resulted in [[spoiler:John Freeman's death]].
187* {{Starscraper}}: The tower that was big onto the sun.
188* StealthParody: Some signs point to the series being one, such as squirrelking's writing actually becoming ''worse'' in the span of three years (See the Flanderisation entry above) and the usage of [[MemeticMutation "Do a barrel roll!"]] in one of squirrelking's other fanfic, ''Fanfic/HaloHalosInSpace''. [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3196540 This]] Website/SomethingAwful thread confirms that it is.[[invoked]]
189* StealthSequel: Aside from a brief mention of the ArcWords related to the Freeman family name, nothing indicates that ''Hero Beggining'' is a sequel to the other stories until John Freeman shows up at the end and reveals that Henry is his son.
190* SpectacularSpinning: Lots of backflips happen throughout the fic.
191* StormingTheCastle: Attempted by the Humens on the Hug Tower to stop the botton. [[spoiler:They fail and John Freeman decides to sacrifice himself instead, letting the Humens escape from the Combines.]]
192* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:The Hug Tower explods in the end.]]
193* SupportingLeader: Henry Freeman.
194* TakingYouWithMe: The Dark Man attempts this on a massive scale when the humen rebels reach the Combine Tower. He activates the SelfDestructSequence and he and the Combines fight to the bitter end to keep the humens from reaching the abort button. Even when he himself is [[AmbiguousSituation seemingly]] slain [[spoiler:depending on whether or not you think he and the BrainwashedAndCrazy Gordon Freeman are the same person]], The Combines actually try to stop the rebels from retreating from the blast zone rather than [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere evacuate]] [[SkewedPriorities themselves]].
195* TeleportersAndTransporters: [[spoiler:"Gordon Freeman teleportaled to John Freeman and hit him with crow bar."]]
196* TimeSkip: ''Hero Beggining'' starts an unspecified amount of time after ''What Has Tobe Done'', and some events in between, such as [[spoiler:John Freeman's marriage, the age of Henry Freeman and how John Freeman escaped zombie goast Gordon Freeman]] have not been clarified by the series' conclusion.
197* TitleDrop:
198** "its time for me to live up to my family name and face '''full life consequences'''"
199** "Gordon Freeman is now these hands... i must kill the next boss and live up to '''full-life consequences'''!"
200* TookALevelInBadass: Henry Freeman was a grown man who still lived with his mom [[VagueAge (or just a kid)]]. Then he became the leader of a rebellion against the Combines.
201* TrollFic: The saga was suspected by some to be this, as squirrelking's spelling got ''worse'' with each story. [[spoiler:It was later confirmed to be as such as noted above.]]
202** For example, "wepon" is initially a simple misspelling of a word that he usually manages to spell correctly. A few stories later, and "wepon" pops up in all of his stories, often with fanfare.
203** Also, squirrelking uses the word "human" multiple times in ''FanFic/HaloHalosInSpace''. Yet suddenly, when ''Hero Begginings'' turns around, they're "humens"!
204* TrueFinalBoss: The "next boss" shows up immediately after the final boss fell.
205* UnnamedParent: Henry Freeman's mother is only referred to as Mom [[spoiler:or Wife.]]
206* VagueAge: Henry Freeman's age is never specified.
207* VillainBall: Information about [[TrueFinalBoss The Next Boss']] weakness can be found on the internet. Be careful what you post on Facebook, Next Boss.
208* VillainousPlanInertia: Even when The Dark Man is slain, The Combine are still numerous and organized enough to not only defend the abort switch for the self-destruct button, but send out an army to stop Henry Freeman and the other humens from escaping the blast radius, forcing John Freeman to pull off a HeroicSacrifice to keep them at bay.
209* VillainTeleportation: The Dark Man [[spoiler:or rather, Gordon Freeman]] teleportals to John Freeman to fight him in "Free Man".
210* VoiceOfTheLegion: A "big Combine army with lots of striders" collectively asks LaResistance what it plans to do. In a rare heroic example, the "people" later tell John Freeman they would rather fight than let him face the Combines by himself.
211* WeHaveReserves: The humens send many people after the button in spite of some of them getting killed, only stopping when Combines come out of the "hug tower".
212* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure Is A Non Humen]]: John Freeman kills the zombie goasts and blows up their house.
213** But he does it so the zombie goasts will be at [[IncrediblyLamePun piece]].
214* WhamLine: In "Hero Beggining": [[spoiler:Combines leave my son alone!]]
215* WeaksauceWeakness: As John Freeman found out on the internet, the next boss' weakness is rockets. Bullets fired from teh gun, lazer guns, masheen guns, crow bars, and other wepons just won't work on it.
216* WordSaladTitle: The "full life consequences" are alluded to several times in the story but never explained in detail.
217** This could be referring to [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman's death, and John Freeman's HeroicSacrifice.]]
218* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: After John Freeman kills the BigBad of the second chapter, Gordon Freeman comes back to life as a zombie goast because "[he] got there slow". This may also be a CallBack to the original, where Gordon Freeman jokingly says to get there faster next time.
219* YouWillBeAssimilated: "You will be one of us!" yelled the dead zombie goasts.
220** Also, in Free Man, [[spoiler:Combine Gordon Freeman plans to make John Freeman and Henry Freeman headcrab zombies.]]
221
222!!The machinimas provide examples of:
223
224* AdaptationalBadass: [=Djy1991=]'s version depicts John Freeman as almost unstoppable in [[AdaptationExpansion a 7-minute sequence not in the original fic]].
225* AdaptationExpansion: [=Djy1991=]'s version of ''Free Man'' contains about seven minutes of entirely added-in carnage, wherein John Freeman meets and then kills a bunch of Combines, hijacks a bioflyer, ''throws a freight train'', meets [[RunningGag and then kills]] [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]...
226* AdaptationalVillainy: The Dark Man uses Eli Vance's model in [=Gaz6231=]'s take on ''Free Man'', in spite of Eli Vance being a heroic character in the games.
227* AscendedExtra: Whilst in the fic, John Freeman is a well established character as Gordon's brother, the use of one of the generic Resistance NPC models from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' to depict the Saver of Humens in the machinima makes him appear more like the random self-insert OC he actually is.
228* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The next boss.
229* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:John Freeman]] in Hero Beggining.
230* BigNo: Averted, Gordon's "NOO!" is quite small, especially in the dramatic reading.
231** Played straight in ''Free Man'' when [[spoiler:Combine Gordon Freeman angers at John Freeman]] in the [=Gaz6231=] version.
232* BigRedButton: Everywhere. One of which John Freeman pushes ''with his face''.
233* BodyHorror: Tell me the sight of the [=Gmod=] models bending in ways that humen joints don't allow isn't creepy.
234** It's ''hilarious''.
235* BrickJoke: At the end of ''Free Man,'' we see many of the characters who died in the series as angels on their way to Heaven, including the pants that were dead in the first FLC and [[FanFic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction fellow scientist cow-orker Jimm]].
236* TheCameo:
237** In the [=Djy1991=] version of Free Man, [[spoiler:Spider-Man, the Sniper, Ronald [=McDonald=], The Dancing Banana, [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Bill, Zoey, Francis, and Louis]] and even Creator/{{BILLY MAYS}} appear for sight gags, there ought to be a list of Cameos, you know that?]]
238** Characters from other Valve games are members of LaResistance.
239** Also, [[spoiler:[[WebAnimation/TheGModIdiotBox Dr. Hax]] near the end of the story. He isn't the final boss because only his head is big, and his eyes are intact.]]
240** Finally, also in [=Djy1991=]'s Free Man, Gordon Freechman's [[spoiler:fellow scientist coww-orker Jimm]] and [[spoiler:bad guy from the game]] from his other half-life fanfic adaptation ''FanFic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction'' are seen [[spoiler:rising to heven]] with everyone else. And [[spoiler:bad guy from the game]] is still doing his [[spoiler:isotop holding pose]].
241* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: John Freeman lifts a train of its tracks and throws it into a ravine with his bare hands. Not the engine, not one of the train cars, THE ENTIRE TRAIN.
242* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: The Combine "Science" that they put into Gordon Freeman is portrayed this way, as cybernetic implants that make him evil.
243* DancePartyEnding: The DJY adaptation of Free Man, set to a VoiceClipSong courtesy of furriesinablender.
244* DecompositeCharacter: Likely accidentally, due to ambiguous wording; in Gaz's version, The Dark Man is a separate character from [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman]], who they were most likely supposed to be. This results in The Dark Man [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disappearing halfway through the plot]].
245* TheDoorSlamsYou: John freeman knocks on a door. Gman kicks it open and sends John Freeman flying for hundreds of miles.
246* DrivingUpAWall: In the ICTON video John Freeman's motorcycle randomly drives up a cliff face at one point after a passage is finished being read, purely for RuleOfFunny.
247%%* [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped Even The Narrator Is Stumped]] by "normal people close."
248%% Please rewrite to remove the sinkhole + add context.
249* EverythingFades: [[spoiler:Henry Freeman's mother]] in the Djy version.
250* EvilCostumeSwitch: In the Djy version, [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman, following his conversion into The Dark Man, gets a black and dark gray version of his HEV suit, in addition to the Combine Science on his head.]]
251* FingerTwitchingRevival: John Freeman after he crashes the dropship into the train in the DJY adaptation of Free Man.
252* {{Flight}}: John Freeman, for little obvious reason.
253* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Loads in the Djy series, in fact they're popular in pretty much all [=GMod=] machinimas.
254* GunsAkimbo: John Freeman in the Djy adaptation.
255* MustMakeAmends: John Freeman disturbs the eggs on a tree while test-firing the laser gun. He puts them back home safe, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments but the machinima disagrees.]]
256* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: [[spoiler:"Save humens, and Henry Freeman!"]]
257* MythologyGag: In Djy's adaptation of ''Free Man'', [[spoiler:after the world's peaceful]], Grigori appears next to a bear when they say the people and animals lived in peace, there's a reason that Grigori is described as an animal in the Adaptation: [[spoiler:It was a ThrowItIn gag in the original ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'', where Grigori was placed as an animal rather than an ally, to be fair, it wasn't that far from the truth]].
258* OffhandBackhand: Pay close attention at around 1:45 in the [=Gaz6321=] version of Free Man; John Freeman gets off a headshot variation.
259* PragmaticAdaptation: Two ways, the Djy machinima makes the whole thing comedic, given its narm and misspelling, good for gags. The Gaz version of Free Man manages to pull of the drama and make certain scenes work.(but it's still pretty funny!)
260* RuleOfCool: John Freeman seems especially fond of pulling off improbable motorcycle stunts (particularly of the backflip variety), especially if it kills zombies in the process.
261* SerialEscalation: Even more visible in the [=Djy1991=] adaptation of ''Free Man'', where, among other things, John Freeman '''''pile-drives a train'''''.
262* ShoutOut: Watch the music video at the end of Djy's adaptation of Free Man until you get to "the birds and the sun was almost down from the top of the sky" and look at John Freeman's pose. Remind you of [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto a certain other God Mode Sue?]]
263** A possible one is when the Combines are said to be "too strong and big", echoing a similar line from an infamous botched translation of Star Wars Episode III, known as "WebVideo/BackstrokeOfTheWest".
264* SpitTake: For Djy's video:
265-->"''STOP THE HUMENS!''"
266* StylisticSuck: Some of the animations at the end of the Djy adaptation reveal that [=Gmod=] is capable of subtle and realistic movement -- but watching character mods flail around wildly is more funny and reflects the poor writing of the source material.
267** Djy's version also invokes a bit of this: this is one of the few scenes where John Freeman's face doesn't contort sporadically.
268* ThisIsMySide: [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] attempts to invoke this in Djy's version. Doesn't take.]]
269* TubeTravel: How John Freeman gets into [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]'s chamber]] in [=Djy1991=]'s version.
270* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The [=Gaz6231=] videos use the same model for [[spoiler:Henry Freeman and John Freeman]].
271* VisualPun: The Gaz version has several of these.
272** So does Djy's version.
273** Gaz and Djy ''both'' do. Ex: '''''BEAR HANDS!'''''
274** "The pants were dead."
275** John Freeman yelled from the top of lungs!
276* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It isn't clear what happened to The Dark Man in the Gaz version of ''Free Man'', lending evidence to the theory that he and [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman]] are the same.
277* WimpFight: When Gordon fights the final boss in Djy's version, the Garry's Mod models just flail at each other.
278* YeahShot: The Djy adaptation of ''Hero Beggining'' provides the current page image for that trope.

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