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Fanfic: Half Life Full Life Consequences |
alt title(s): Half Life Full Life Consequences
John Freeman: I can't give you my license, officer.
Headcrab Officer: Why not?
John Freeman: BECAUSE YOU ARE HEADCRAB ZOMBIE!
What began as an innocent fanfiction titled Half Life: Full Life Consequences (by an allegedly nine-year-old kid with the handle squirrelking) was turned into something great as soon as a YTMND user found it. In mockery, he did a dramatic reading of the story. It was a hit. Naturally, 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 animations, but the most impressive series of animations came from machinima artist djy1991 using Garry's Mod. Thus begins the most famous telling of John Freeman's story.
The first half of the saga tells the story of Gordon Freeman's brother, John Freeman, who rushes from his job to rescue Gordon Freeman in Ravenhol dm. The second half, entitled "Hero Beggining", takes places some time later, during which the Combine have succeeded in conquering the human humen race. Henry Freeman takes it upon himself to continue the legacy and lead the resistance against the Combines.
Original writing:
Video by Djy1991 and Icton Entertainment:
These 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 Ren & Stimpy, creating a distinct Soundtrack Dissonance. 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. Several line readings from it have been adapted into not one, but two surprisingly awesome and well made Drum and Bass tracks by a professional DJ known as Renard (under the alias "Furries in a Blender"), neither of which would sound out of place at a rave.
The first video was so succesful that some people decided to make the life action movie of Full Life Consequences, see the results by yourself. Similarly, check out the Animated Adaptation.
Video by Gaz6231:
Solo 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 Narm Charm and increased body animation over jovial mockery and lip movement. Gaz6231 himself describes it as "the Martin Scorsese to their Michael Bay". While the Hero Beggining video is clearly Gaz6231's first work, the Free Man video is 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. There is a bitter dispute as to which series is better, especially in the case of Free Man.
Other machinmas and dramatic readings of the various chapters exist, but none of them have the notability of the above authors.
Compare Doom Repercussions Of Evil. And Peter Chimaera's other fic, Quarter Life: Halfway to Destruction. Although it may well be a cash in on Full Life Consequences, it is amazing in that he only wrote it after Uncycylopedia, an online encyclopedia like Wikiped said he was writing it and decided ' Yeh, ok' and the big bad of the piece's plan is to destroy Dallas. I don't know either.
It eventually turned out to be written by Mattimer, one of the greatest trolls of our time.
The original writings provide examples of:
- Aliens And Monsters - And final bosses and next bosses and Combines.
- Asspull - The characters have an uncanny tendency to find wepon on the ground just before entering a battle zone.
- This troper considers the serendipitous proximity of wepons to battle zones to be a function of Adaptation Distillation. Wepons in the inspiring game tend to be acquired in notably fortuitous ways. Also; battlefields tend to have guns laying around. Scientific Fact.
- 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.
- Attack Its Weak Point - "The next boss was laughing at John Freeman so John Freeman said 'YOU WILL NOT LAUGH AT ME!' and shot a rocket at him since that was his weakness."
- Author Catchphrase - Doing "what has to be done" is a common theme of squirrelking's protagonists.
- Attack Attack Attack - Some of the rebels get killed during the uprising but they keep on going because they have to do it.
- Back From The Dead - Gordon Freeman.
- Badass Biker - John Freeman
- Badass Family - The Freemans.
- Beige Prose
- Brainwashed And Crazy - 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 kicks the science off his face.
- Beyond The Impossible - John Freeman seems especially fond of pulling off improbable motorcycle stunts (particularly of the backflip variety), especially if it kills zombies in the process.
- Bloody Hilarious - "Then a big rocket came down and blew a guys arm off and legs and head and killed other people too."
- The Call Knows Where You Live - Henry Freeman's "hero beggining" commences after the Combines murder his mom.
- Came Back Wrong - Gordon Freeman returns as headcrab zombie goast in What Has Tobe Done, and as a Combine in Free Man.
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome - "I have to kill fast and bullets too slow!"
- Crowning Moment Of Funny - Many, but special mention must go to "BECAUSE YOU ARE HEADCRAB ZOMBIE"
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming - "And it gave them hop!"
- Darker And Scarrier - The second arc involves the future of the
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.
- Determinator - John Freeman braved the Combines' assault of
machine masheen guns and rockets to try to disable the tower and save mankind humenkind. At one point, John Freeman is backstabbed by a Combine, but not only does this fail to slow him, but John Freeman pulls the knife nife out and brains branes the Combine with it.
- ...One rocket hit John Freeman but he got up... Yes, very determined.
- Deus Ex Machina - In Hero Beggining, John Freeman
pops out from a portal backflips out of the sky to tell the Combines to leave his son alone.
- Diabolus Ex Machina - After killing the final boss, the "next boss" appears out of nowhere and step on Gordon Freeman.
- Did Not Do The Research - The "Combines" in Hero Beggining are described as the Metro Police. "Combines" do not come from space. They also do not have laser guns.
- And that's not just limited to the Full Life Consequences series, either. Squirrelking's Halo fanfics imply that Master Chief is a robot that can fly, and that the Flood are an actual flood. Of water.
- The story also refers to an unnamed final boss (Dr. Breen in the Djy version) and a boss after that (The G-Man in the Djy version) without any description except the latter possessing a weak spot, which gives the impression that the author never played the game.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu - Gordon Freeman kills the final boss by punching it in the face. No really.
- After being shot by bullets in the eye from teh gun by John Freeman, mind you.
- Downer Ending - At the end of Full Life Consequences, Gordon Freeman is killed immediately after John Freeman rescues him. At the end of What Has Tobe Done, he is reanimated as a zombie goast. The Hero Beggining arc reverses this.
- Dying As Yourself - In his final moments, Gordon Freeman is free of both the Combine "science" in him and the headcrab.
- Engrish - The author says he started speaking English a short time ago in his profile. This shows a lot.
- Facing The Bullets One Liner - Played with in that Henry Freeman's mother delivers her last message to her son after her head was shot off.
- Final Boss - The (not so) aptly named Big Bad of the first chapter.
- For The Evulz - The Combines beat the humen girl in the street and kill Henry Freeman's mother for no apparent reason.
- Actually because Mom and the girl were humen and the Combine were evil Combines from science and outer space.
- Fridge Logic - The zombie goasts. Undead spirits of the undead?
- Also, John Freeman "ddint have weapon" when driving his "motorcycl", yet shot the headcrab zombie moments later.
- Don't overthink about it.
- Full Name Basis - In case you haven't noticed by now...
- Somehow averted only once in the entire saga.
- Giant Foot Of Stomping - The next boss's means of attack.
- Giant Space Flea From Nowhere - the Next Boss in the first series.
- God Mode Sue: Is there anything John Freeman can't do? Other than making the hug tower not explod.
- He also failed to rescue Gordon Freeman or prevent him from becoming zombie goast.
- Go Out With A Smile - Gordon Freeman
- Arguably, John Freeman as well.
- Heroic Sacrifice - Gordon Freeman warns John Freeman to flee just before he's crushed by the "next boss".
- Also, John Freeman in Free Man. "John Freeman, Saver of Humens". *sniff*
- I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight - John Freeman vs. Gordon Freeman
- Improbable Aiming Skills - Averted. The Resistance 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
armaments wepons.
- Jumped At The Call - Gordon Freeman's email was all it took for John Freeman to abandon his workplace to go fight bosses.
- Kid Hero - Henry Freeman (implied)
- La Resistance - Henry Freeman leads a mass insurrection in the third chapter to liberate humenkind.
- Lamarck Was Right - 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.
- Large Ham - John Freeman has no qualm with announcing his intentions to kill an evil boss at the top of lung in his own office.
- Also when he addresses the zombie goasts in What Has Tobe Done:
John Freeman. Zombie goasts, I have killed your friends at the old house and I don't want to shoot your heads. Move near the countrysides and you will be friends of John Freeman!
- And when he goes to fight the next boss, he turns on off EVERYONE'S computers. While they are still working on them.
- Last Stand - In Free Man, 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.
- Made Of Iron - While fighting the Combines in Free Man, John Freeman is hit by a rocket, backstabbed, and shot with
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.
- Memetic Mutation - Several lines, such as the quotes on the top of the page.
- Moe Greene Special - Performed by John Freeman on the final boss.
- More Dakka - John Freeman loads up with a laser gun, a machine gun and a "rocket gun" for his second journey to Ravenholdm.
- Subverted in Free Man: 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
bare bear hands.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot - Zombie goasts. Zombies that are also goasts. Though no one knows what a "goast" is.
- No Kill Like Overkill - 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.
- Well they're zombie goasts. They've already been dead at least two times over.
- Nonindicative Name - The final boss. It isn't actually the last boss.
- Not So Fast Bucko - After John Freeman kills the Big Bad of the second chapter, Gordon Freeman comes back to life as a zombie goast because "[he] got there slow".
- Our Founder - At the end of Free Man, Henry Freeman is elected president and a statue of John Freeman is erected in the new city.
- Plot Hole - John Freeman is able to shoot the Headcrab Officer in the head, despite not having weapon.
- Police Are Useless - The only authority figure to ever appear in the entire saga is a lone police officer. Who is headcrab zombie.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner - Gordon Freeman said "its time to end this ones and for all!"
- "I have to kill fast, and bullets too slow."
- Prep Air To Die - The Dark Man said.
Run Dont Walk Walk Fast - The word "run" is sometimes spoken but never actually done in the first two chapters.
- Redundancy Department Of Redundancy:
- Ret Con - At the end of What Has Tobe Done, 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...
- The Reveal - In possibly the best twist to ever grace poorly written fan fiction, the last line of Hero Beggining reveals John Freeman to be the father of Henry Freeman.
- Rock Beats Lazers - In Hero Beggining, the humen were wining against the lazers gun-equipped Combine despite having to rely on rocks as weapon.
- It may have meant to say "rockets". But with squirrelking, you can never be sure.
- Then again, he said "rackets" instead of rockets in Free Man...
- Rouge Angles Of Satin - In droves.
- Sacrificial Lamb - Henry Freeman's mom.
- Science Is Bad - The Combines came from "science and
outer outter space" to enslave humens.
- Combine "science" in Gordon Freeman turns him evil.
- Oddly enough, it's a tangible object, like it is in Light And Dark The Adventures Of Dark Yagami, 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).
- Self Destruct Mechanism - The button the Dark Man pushes that makes the tower start glowing and eventually
explode explod.
- Stealth Parody - 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 usuage of "Do a barrel roll!" in one of squirrelking's other fanfic, Halo: Halos in Space.
- So Bad Its Good
- Stuffed Into The Fridge
The Dark Man: Henry Freeman's Mom is shot in head.
- Tear Jerker - John Freeman, Saver of Humens
- Gordon Freeman's really actually final last death.
- Teleporters And Transporters - "Gordon Freeman teleportaled to John Freeman and hit him with crow bar."
- Time Skip - Hero Beggining starts an unspecified amount of time after What Has Tobe Done, and some events in between, such as 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.
- Title Drop - "its time for me to live up to my family name and face full life consequences"
- Troll Fic - The saga was suspected by some to be this, as squirrelking's spelling got worse with each story. It was later confirmed to be as such as noted above.
- 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.
- Also, squirrelking uses the word "human" multiple times in Halo: Halos in Space. Yet suddenly, when Hero Begginings turns around, they're "humens"!
- Trope Overdosed - Compare the length of the four fics combined to the length of this page.
- True Final Boss - The "next boss" shows up immediately after the final boss fell.
- Unnamed Parent - Henry Freeman's mother is only referred to as Mom or Wife.
- Voice Of The Legion - A "big Combine army with lots of striders" collectively asks La Resistance 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.
- Wall Banger - John Freeman has the civility to give his enemy a proper burial but not his own brother?
- Well, Gordon Freeman was already driven into the ground.
- And before he could do anything, he came back as a zombie goast.
- We Have Reserves: 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".
- What Measure Is A Non Humen - John Freeman kills the zombie goasts and blows up their house.
- But he does it so the zombie goasts will be at piece.
- Word Salad Title - The "full life consequences" are alluded to several times in the story but never explained in detail.
- You Should Know This Already - Hero Beggining was not titled as part of the Full Life Consequences saga to hide John Freeman's surprise appearance at the end and his subsequent role in the final chapter, which restored the label.
- You Will Be Assimilated - "You will be one of us!" yelled the dead zombie goast.
- Also, in Free Man, Combine Gordon Freeman plans to make John Freeman and Henry Freeman headcrab zombies.
The machinimas provide examples of:
- Adaptation Decay - The machinima by Djy1991 gets a few lines wrong, but is otherwise considered faithful to the original scripts.
- Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever - The next boss.
- Alternate Character Interpretation - In the Djy version, the Dark Man is the same person as revived Gordon Freeman. In the Gaz version, they're two separate people.
- Beyond The Impossible - Even more visible in the Djy1991 adaptation of Free Man, where, among other things, John Freeman pile-drives a train.
- Big Damn Heroes - John Freeman in Hero Begginning.
- Big No - Averted, Gordon's "NOO!" is quite small, especially in the dramatic reading.
- Played straight in Free Man when Combine Gordon Freeman angers at John Freeman in the Gaz6231 version.
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment - Plenty in the original writings, but the machinimas take this trope to extremes.
- And don't let me get started on the Djy1991 adaptation of Free Man, they added in a scene that lasts from 6:12 to 11:38, where they deviate from the original, making John Freeman into a badass god figure by showing him fighting through a number of memetastic locales. While it was praised by some viewers, others felt that it added nothing to the video.
- Within that segment, while most of the fighting was more or less in line with the rest of the story and John Freeman's larger-than-life image, there is an indisputable BLAM when the G-Man, who has a Hitler mustache, shows up and kicks John Freeman into the sky, before turning into Saxton Hale. John Freeman goes flying over various locales from assorted Source-based games such as cp_gravelpit, ctf_convoy_v2 and gm_bigcity, ultimately landing in GLaDoS's main chamber, where John Freeman gets into a one-sided argument with her, blows her up and arrives back at the Citadel just in time to see the humens at safe place before the Citadel explods.
- How about "the countrysides were nice and the plants were singing and the birds and the sun was almost down from the top of the sky".
- The Cameo - In the Djy1991 version of Free Man, Spider-Man, the Sniper, Ronald McDonald, The Dancing Banana, Bill, Zoey, Francis, and Louis and even BILLY MAYS appear for sight gags, there ought to be a list of Cameos, you know that?
- Also, I don't think all of them are sight gags, I think some of these cameos are rebels.
- Also also, 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.
- Catchphrase - "It's time for me to live up to my family name!"
- Crowning Moment Of Funny - The accompanying visual gag with "And it gave them hop!" in the Djy1991 version.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome - "Chateau" from The Matrix (Djy1911 version) or "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky 3 (Gaz version) during the Grand Finale.
- Crosses The Line Twice - The DJY adaptation of Hero Beggining manages to make Henry Freeman's Mom's death HILARIOUS.
- Dance Party Ending - The DJY adaptation of Free Man
- Dangerously Genre Savvy - John Freeman goes on the internet to find the next boss' weakness. He even calls them "bosses", although which bosses he's combating is not made explicit.
- Everything Fades: Henry Freeman's mother in the Djy version.
- Finger Twitching Revival - in the Djy1991 version of Free Man.
- Foe Tossing Charge
- Fridge Brilliance - In the machinima, when the transformed Gordon Freeman yells "NO!", he makes the same pose he made the last time he said it(just before being stepped on by the next boss).
- Funny Background Event - Loads in the Djy series, in fact they're popular in pretty much all GMod machinimas.
- Go For The Eye
- Guns Akimbo - John Freeman in the Djy adaptation.
- Memetic Badass - John Freeman. He can pick up and throw a train, honest!
- Narm - Several otherwise well-done bits in Gaz6231's Free Man film are ruined by the in-game death reports.
- “I know bro but you are hero” John Freeman said back to comfart Gordon.
- Narm Charm
John Freeman: Gordon Freeman is now these hands... i must kill the next boss and live up to full-life consequences!
John Freeman: These birds don't have to see Gordon Freeman yet. It's not time.
John Freeman: I WILL KILL THE BOSS AND GORDON FREEMAN WILL BE HAPPY SOUL!
- Resuscitate The Dog - John Freeman disturbs the eggs on a tree while test-firing the laser gun. He puts them back up safe, but the machinima disagrees.
- Spit Take - For Djy's video:
"STOP THE HUMENS!"
- Stupid Statement Dance Mix - [1]
- The Djy's version of Free Man includes a music video of it.
- This Is My Side - GLaDOS attempts to invoke this in Djy's version. Doesn't take.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance - The Gaz6231 videos use the same model for Henry Freeman and John Freeman.
- Visual Pun - The Gaz version has several of these.
- What Happened To The Mouse - It isn't clear what happened to The Dark Man in the Gaz version of Free Man.
- Lening evidence to the theory that he and Gordon Freeman are the same.
- Yeah Shot
- You Make Me Sic - Appears to be compulsory in any visual adaptation of fan fiction like this.
- Zero Chops - When Gordon fights the final boss in Djy's version, the Garry's Mod models just flail at each other.
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