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The HEV suit never was intended as a hazardous environment suit
Rather, it was a powered armour prototype disguised as one. It doesn't really protect you all that much from hazardous environments (though presumably the emmissions in in the Anti-mass Spectrometer chamber were harmful, meaning that's one thing it DID work against), stops bullets better than it should, seems to give you the strength to use a crowbar as a weapon (they're unwieldy for that purpose) and has a freaking munitions counter. Its development was probably the result of the G-Man's involvement, as usual.
Eli hired Gordon from the G-Man.
The price for hiring someone from him though, is the death of a loved one because the hired one loses their free will until the contract is finished (basically, Gordon is a merc). However, after doing this, he then told the Vorts' to stop the G-Man when he tries to take his payment. The G-Man didn't mind, as he saw Gordon's usefulness to the Resistance and found the Combine annoying. After Alyx was on the ground, saved by the Vorts' the G-Man informed her of all of this. She is clearly angry, and the G-Man warns her Gordon has about 60 seconds of air left. She decides to get revenge and safe Gordon by making the deal of setting Gordon free (after the Combine are defeated) in trade for Eli, Mossman, and Barney's lives. Barney is killed off screen, Mossman is killed by the Combine, and Eli is killed by the Advisor. The ending was an act so people didn't catch on. The reason Eli was spooked by what the G-Man had Alyx tell him wasn't just because the G-Man had said that before at Black Mesa, but the G-Man visited him right after his deal with Alyx and said the same.
The G-Man is Alex Mercer.
He and be in places faster than you (Disguise + Running over obstacles), He speaks oddly (Ok, Alex doesn't speak weird, but all those voices would mesh sooner or later), He's super smart (arming a NUKE) and also is quite manipulative (Alex has adsorbed some of the smartest people in Blackwatch, plus alot of the people he consumed are Manipulative Bastards), and he's somewhat of an ass (like Alex).
Gordon Freeman was originally evil.
C'mon. A goatee? Seriously? He was just working at Black Mesa in order to build his doomsday gun, but the Resonance Cascade forced him to be a good guy by default. During HL 2, he realized that being good could get ladies like Alex Vance to hang around with him voluntarily and has been reconsidering his ethics since then.
Black Mesa was built next to a certain landfill.
And somehow one of those E.T. cartridges made it into the anti-mass spectrometer. Nice job, Atari. You've caused a Resonance Cascade. After he's done killing endless waves of zombies, Gordon Freeman will sue the hell out of you.
The Combine Will Arrive Right After The Infection.
Here's my theory on the timeline:
Half Life - 200X,
Left 4 Dead - 2009,
Left 4 Dead 2 - 2009,
7 Hour War - 2012,
Portal - 201X or 202X,
Half Life 2 - 202X,
E1 - 202X,
E2 - 202X and
E3 - 202X
The Combine Assassin is still canon.
They have a training ground too. It's a building built by a company they stole those Energy Balls from. Yes, The Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Chell was a Rebel who somehow didn't get her mind wiped. That's why there aren't any by Half-Life 2. They were all dead and the Combine couldn't make more. G La DOS was against them, but was forced to work for them. The employees gassed? Combine. The Morality Core? Combine Obedience Device. The attempt on Chell's life? A trick. She NEEDED to be killed to stop the creation of Assassins. This Was A Triumph (for the Rebels). Where is she singing from? A certain ship lost in the arctic. And, yes, there is Cake (ok, maybe no cake) and an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The backup is activated on her death. She was given a plan by the G-Man. He saves Chell from mind-wipe, she gets her to activate the backup, and Gordon gets a Portal Gun. Perfect plan. Also, the HL 2: E2 Combine Battle Network is based off of G La DOS.
Gordon Freeman is no scientist.
The most technically advanced task he has undertaken is... wheeling a cart of dangerous radioactive materials into a reactor. While the real scientists watched from behind two layers of bulletproof glass. In Half Life 2, he performed the likewise taxing task of plugging in Dr. Kleiner's teleportation machine. Gordon is in fact Black Mesa's janitor. Any references to his scientific credentials are only a cruel running joke among the Black Mesa staff. Whether he resents it or not cannot be determined until he brings himself to speak on the matter.
Gordon's preternatural skills are due to more than the HEV suit.
Think about it; it explains so much. He wasn't the only guy with that suit—but only two other users even made it out of the facility, let alone accomplished the things Freeman has. The only explanation—other than that he's just that awesome—is that he has something nobody else has.
Like, say... the ability to travel through time.
No, seriously—your ability to save your game carries over into the game world. That explains how he never dies, how he always knows the proper way to beat a foe or solve a puzzle. It also explains why he sometimes does such mind-numblingly stupid things as climbing into a stalker pod; either he knew he could just reset to the moment before he climbed in if things went badly, or he knew it was the best available option because he'd already tried everything else!
The G-Man is Gordon Freeman, from the future.
They have the same piercing green eyes, decisive nature, and a calm in the face of chaos and disaster around them. Obviously, at some point in the future, Gordon will gain a mastery over time and space (as well as corrective eye surgery to alleviate his need for glasses). He is now attempting to create a Stable Time Loop so that his past self will arrive in the same place he is now. As for why he seems to be angry and surprised at the interference of the Vortigaunts at the beginning of Episode One (since he presumably remembers it from the opposite perspective), well, he either tried and failed to change things, or he's just putting on an act to make them think he's lost control, and anyway, he rather quickly regains control of things about a third of the way through Episode Two, thus potentially elevating him (in the case of the second possibility) to Magnificent Bastard status as well. Hell, some people compared pictures of Freeman and G-Man and found, that their facial structure down to the bones is very, very similar
Gordon Freeman is the G-Man, from the future.
And he is trying to reverse what he had done in the past by posing as the puppet, but is really playing an extremely complex xanatos roulette. The goatee, glasses and the muteness are all just for disguise.
Lamarr is Gordon Freeman, from the future.
Due to unforseen consequences of his actions throughout the series, he has turned into a head crab and is now trying to provide support to his past self [human Gordon Freeman] and the rest of the resistance.
The G-Man cannot sing in the key of 'G'.
Which is why he has such strange mannerisms when speaking, he is singing everything he says.
The G-Man is gay.
Stalking single men through the Black Mesa complex? Not stalking Barney, the one with a "Buy flowers for Linda" stickynote in his locker? Purplish tinge in his hair? Coincidence? I think not!
Gordon runs into various dead researchers in Xen, all of which are wearing powersuits with helmets, but he himself did not seem to need one. Gordon was used as a guinea pig for the same experiment that gave Batman the ability to breathe in space. It was not expected how this would affect the fate of the world in the Black Mesa Incident, however.
Alternative to the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is Batman.
By this theory, Robin (not Batman's Robin) only corrected BATMAN'S not being able to breathe in space, and thus, Gordon Freeman is, in fact, Batman. This would contradict his not being a Scientist, and explain his preternatural skills. This theory is further evidenced when you consider that Batman Beyond turns Batman into a Legacy character, so Gordon could be a Batman between Bruce Wayne and Terry Mc Ginnis - meaning Robin has in fact corrected this for every Batman.
Alternative to the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is that kid from Zathura.
Heck, if Batman could breathe in space, and the main characters in that movie could, why the heck not?
By the logic of the previous WMG, Gordon Freeman is Jimmy Neutron.
Think about it! He can breathe in space, he's (allegedly) a science genius, or course he's Jimmy Neutron!
Gordon Freeman is actually Jason Todd.
This actually explains several of the issues here:
The G-Man is William Shatner in the future.
That explains the speech mannerisms. As for the G-Man's other powers, in the late 2100's Shatner will find a way to channel his awesomeness into energy, and use that to travel through time and space.
The G-Man worked for Aperture Science
Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing with one another on a big government contract to develop working teleportation technology. Aperture knew that Black Mesa was getting close to a breakthrough, so they sent G-Man to infiltrate and deliver the Xen crystals to Dr. Vance in order to cause a chain reaction and ultimately destroy the facility. He then captures Freeman, hacks into GLaDOS and makes her kill all of the staff in Aperture Science to steal their secrets, including how to build a hand-held teleportation device that he builds into his briefcase!
Race X from Opposing Force are the Combine.
The G-Man sends Shepherd away because he's seen things he shouldn't. Incidentally, Shepherd's the only living person we know of who saw Race X, as the G-Man clearly doesn't care about people learning of the Borderworld inhabitants. Race X only shows up towards the end of the Black Mesa Incident, when the Nihilianth would have spent more time worrying about silly things like physicists with crowbars than maintaining the barrier between Xen and the Combine worlds. Once the barrier was weakened, the Combine dispatched a legion of Synths to bore through the Borderworld into Earth... and were promptly nuked. But they managed to find Earth and knew how to get to it through the Borderworld, thus setting up the events of the Seven Hour War.
Advisors are just Synths.
Well-made synths, naturally, capable of telepathy, but their feeble bodies makes them no more than advanced cell-phones... that can Mind Rape with their Naughty Tentacles. Note how at least a few of the Advisors we see are described as larval, seems odd to send a baby version of your master race to some alien world you plan on just strip-mining to death. Ergo, if there is a master race to the Combine, Advisors aren't it.
Alternately, the Advisers evolved from humans.
The Advisers were once just like us, but millenia of being waited on hand foot by their countless slaves have turned them into featureless sacks of fat who exist only to consume.
Or maybe Advisors are just Combine middle management.
The fall of the Citadel and the death of Dr. Breen at the hands of the same man who originally took out the Nihilanth (a being of near-cosmic power, note) appears to have upgraded Earth's threat category from 'obscure resource world' to 'possible problem'. So several Combine Advisors (who we first saw as Dr. Breen's immediate supervisors) have now been sent in as crisis managers to handle the situation. Given the (implied) vast scope of the Combine, why should whoever their ruling powers are step in themselves, this early in the storyline? This is what lieutenants are for.
Gordon could talk, once upon a time...
According to The Other Wiki, Gordon Freeman's doctoral thesis was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. Clearly, he used up all his words for life in the title of this thesis. The body of text was completely blank. Apparently, the G-Man must have landed him the job at Black Mesa.
Gordon could talk until the accident.
The radiation accident at the beginning of Half Life 1 permenantly fused his vocal cords. It is likely that his body was also turned to steel by the great magnetic field, thus his Made Of Iron properties.
The Combine and Aperture Science are related/Shared the same tech
First off, GLaDOS sounds remarkably similar to the Combine overwatch, especially in episode 2. As well, the energy balls in the enrichment centre have more than a passing resemblance to the ones in the Combine citadel. The receptors are also very similar as seen in Episode one. As a final note, when Chell is hit by an energy ball, the portal gun disintrigrates the extra same way as the Combine soldiers guns when they are hit by an energy ball.
Lamarr holds the secret to defeating the Combine
Why else would Dr.Kleiner be so concerned about his pet headcrab? After all, there's no shortage of headcrabs about.
The G-Man is a member of the Combine's master race...
He appears to be an uber-advanced alien, and the Combine (and Breen) seem to know who he is. He's just working freelance.
Gordon is The Painkiller.
"Faster than a bullet / Terrifying scream / Enraged and full of anger / He's half man and half machine"
Gordon kills people with weapons.
"Rides the metal monster / Breathing smoke and fire / Closing in with vengeance soaring high"
The "metal monster" is the dune buggy from HL2. It "breathes smoke and fire" with the gauss gun.
"He is the painkiller / This is the painkiller"
Meaningless chorus.
"Planets devastated / Mankinds on its knees / A saviour comes from out the skies / In answer to their pleas / Through boiling clouds of thunder / Blasting bolts of steel / Evils going under deadly wheels"
After the 7-Hour War (Devastates planets: check. Mankind's on its knees: check.) Gordon comes out of stasis.
"He is the painkiller / This is the painkiller"
Meaningless chorus.
"Faster than a lazer bullet / Louder than an atom bomb / Chromium plated boiling metal / Brighter than a thousand suns"
Gordon's able to overcome any threat, and typically borders on Refuge In Audacity with his entries.
"Flying high on rapture / Stronger free and brave / Nevermore encaptured / They've been brought back from the grave"
Gordon eventually saves the human race from the Combine.
"With mankind resurrected / Forever to survive / Returns from armageddon to the skies"
After the Half-Life series ends, Gordon goes back into stasis (or returns to the skies).
"He is the painkiller / This is the painkiller / Wings of steel painkiller / Deadly wheels painkiller"
While he's in stasis after defeating the Combine, Gordon is idolized by the newly-saved human race as a saint, with wings of steel.
The G-Man is the Real Bad Guy
His manipulation of events might not be so much in Gordon's favor. Supported by the fact that the Vortiguants seem to have a negative reaction towards him.
The G-Man is just that; a literal G-Man
This troper thinks it would make sense that the government might have someone keeping watch over Black Mesa, and it was either his assignment or his own initiative to look after Gordon in turn; his seemingly mysterious ways could be explained by technology either developed by Black Mesa or Aperture Science, or possibly obtained through other means.
Myrmidonts fight to the death during spawning season.
You obtain the pheropod from the corpse of a Myrmidont; as demonstrated in the game, this works fine for attaining the allegiance of normal antlions, but other Myrmidonts will still attack you on sight.
The G-Man was Barney
They both have the same voice actor. Gman isn't around whenever Gordon sees Barney. Gman doesn't pay attention to Barney, because HE KNOWS Barney (his past self) already makes it through alright. And when Valve does something horrible to Barney's character it just means he's turned into Gman.
Dr. Breen is related to Colonel Breen of Quatermass and the Pit
It may be possible to fit the Breen of Star Trek in there somewhere.
The Black Mesa Incident was a Xanatos Gambit by Dr. Breen
Breen set up the entire incident, either because the Combine had already contacted him and promised to appoint him the head administrator of humanity, or because he believed the resulting struggle would strengthen mankind.
Nhilanth was a Combine cyborg who rebelled & led his people to Xen to escape their tyranny.
That metal thing sticking out of him does look a lot like some of the other jagged metal stuff the Combine use, doesn't it? Also, the Grunts appear to be cyborgs as well, seeing as how they make a metallic noise when hit with the crowbar, even the apparently fleshy parts. The curious part is that even after they escape the Combine's slavery, the Nhilanth continues to use Vortigaunts as slaves. Chances are the Vortigaunts were slaves long before the Combine showed up. Maybe the irony was lost on Nhilanth.
Gordon Freeman has a lisp.
As a result. He vehemently refuses to talk due to embarrassment.
Gordon Freeman is a vampire.
Regardless of graphical settings, he cannot be seen reflected in water or other surfaces. The HEV suit protects him from sunlight, although he may also be able to spend short periods of time exposed to the sun without protection, since he's forced to run along the rooftops to avoid the Combine, while wearing civilian attire, early in Half-Life 2.
The G-Man is a mass hallucination.
But... Gordon is the only one who sees him.
The G-Man is in the employ of a rival power to the Combine, working to destroy it.
He set up the Resonance Cascade to bring Xen into contact with Earth, leading to the Combine invasion. He knew that the Combine would conquer Earth, but there would be a human resistance. He unleashed Gordon at the right time to trigger a full-scale revolt capable of toppling the Combine on Earth. He also knows that humans will not settle for their own liberation - they will not rest until the entire Combine Empire lies in ruins. While he had other plans for Gordon after the destruction of the Citadel, things are still going mostly according to plan.
The G-Man is Nyarlathotep
Sure, Nyarly's human avatar usually has dark skin, but changing one's skin colour shouldn't be aproblem for the god with a thousand forms. G-Man is clearly not a human, posessing strange powers and knowing things that normal peopel shouldn't. Also, Nyarly does have a habit of appearing as a figure of authority (such as a business man, a scientist or a goverment employee). If he would indeed be an avatar of an alien god, it would explain a lot of his abilities. He has clearly orchestrated that Black Mesa incident and the coming of Combine to further his schemes of awaking the Great Old Ones, which will end in the destruction of both mankind and Combine.
Alyx Vance is completely and totally in love with Gordon.
For a start, she probably grew up hearing about him from her father - the young scientist who almost single-handedly saved the day. She builds up this image of Gordon as this superhuman figure. Then she rescues Gordon, and she sees that he isn't invincible. But then he puts on the hazard suit, and he's just as powerful as he was in the stories Eli told her. That is the clincher. She completely falls for him.
The G-Man prevents Gordon from talking.
Theorize what you will about Half-Life, but from 2 onward, the G-Man prevents Gordon from speaking so that his knowledge of how the G-Man operates doesn't ruin the plot for the player. Or maybe just 'cause it makes the G-man chuckle whenever Gordon knows the obvious solution to a problem and he can't tell Alyx/Barney/the player.
Eli Vance will be back, but as an Advisor
Think about it, the Combine could easily use the genius of Eli Vance to create new technologies as an Advisor, instead of merely killing him.Also, host bodies were offered to Dr. Breen and seem to be able to be provided by current Advisors.
Poison Zombies are pissed that they have to carry so many headcrabs.
Think about it. You've got three or four of these things on your back, and they're heavy enough to make you walk hunched over. Then you see some cocky bastard who's carrying around nothing but a crowbar. It's only natural that you'd try to get him to pull his own weight.
One day, Gordon will invent an isotope so vollatile that it does not have a half-life but quarter-life
They will have to observe with hasty .
G-Man works for the Cosmic Maintenance company
Moorcock, Heinlein & Lequare, Ltd is the multiversal contractor of universe maintenance. When a universe under goes technical difficulties, a Cosmic Maintenance Man is often dispatched to sort the continuitium out. Although this may take time, as there are only a finite number of Cosmic Maintenance Men and an infinite number of universes, if Hugh Everett is right, anyways.
To help with the ever increasing workload, G-Man has been assigned with the task of harnessing the resource that is Gordon Freeman. The typical Hero With A Thousand Faces is a power that, until now, MH&L, Ltd had not yet been able to control, but G-Man offered a interesting solution to the usual refusal of voluntary services that most Heroic Mimes answer with. Mainly, this is done through liberal helpings of Mind Screw.
The events of Halflife are being manipulated by the G-Man in order to produce a One Man Army that can adapt to situations in a heartbeat, be accustom to sudden upgrades in order to complete a suddenly difficult mission and generally be immune to the effects of being dumped randomly in hazardous situations and being left there until the right man in the wrong place can sort things out, defeat the bad guys and get the universe going in the direction that MH&L, Ltd feel is most appropriate for the universe.
Once Freeman is fully trained, there's already a universe selected that he needs to fix. And then G-Man has some other individuals scouted out for the next recruitments.
Gordon Freeman uses the same crowbar in all the Half Life games and episodes
Because... why not?
Civilians in City-17 are extremely resistant to pain.
Evidence: when you set a civilian on fire, they walk around for a bit, then die. When you set a CP or Combine soldier on fire, they thrash around in agony, then die.
Alyx looks better in the Episodes 1 and 2 because the Suppression Field is down.
Alyx Vance's slightly upgraded look in the episodes isn't just because of improvements in graphics since Half Life 2, but because the Combine Suppression Field that canceled reproductive desires has been destroyed, literally making her look more attractive to Gordon.
The Borealis contains a Time Machine
Aperture Science has been shown to have created technology several times more advanced then the rest of the Half-Life universe. (For example, both GLaDOS and the ASHPD are more advanced then the HL2's closest examples, D0g and Kliener's teleporter.) The Borealis originally disappeared when Chell activated the time machine to protect it from the Combine. (Which would take place in Portal 2, making Portal set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2).
The G-Man is just an alien suitcase.
And he's controlling a corpse. Think about it. He's very pale, Isn't comfortable with speech and so very obviously isn't human, yet he looks like one. He seemed to have less power when he was stopped by vortugaunts, the only time he didn't have a suitcase.
The G-Man is God.
Think about it. He can teleport, stop time, control other beings, transfer objects anywhere in the space-time continuum, steal things from other universes, can't be damaged by any weapons ever unless you're abusing Garry's Mod, can't even be hindered except by the Vorts, and the entire race has to hold the barrier against him at the same time (seriously, if even four of them stop focusing on it, it falls), and oh yeah, is named the G-man. You know, the god-man?
Adrian Shepherd will be sent to retrieve Freeman by the G-Man
For whatever reason, the G-Man can't just blip Gordon back out. He still has Shepherd in storage. Humans can take action without restriction, and the G-Man can implant orders into people. This will end violently.
There is a scenario similar to Chzo Mythos, and Gordon Freeman is actually not Gordon Freeman.
Just like in 7 Days a Stranger, Gordon might be someone else who everybody mistakes for Gordon, who has possibly killed the real Gordon for some reason. That's why he doesn't talk: To not betray his ignorance about particle physics.
Gordon's mouth is full.
His suit doesn't have enough pockets, so he's forced to carry a few guns in his mouth. That's why he doesn't talk.
The G-Man was pulling Alyx out of the Citadel with Gordon
We know that he saved her once before, and that he considered her a valued investment. Whether he was going to keep her with Gordon, or deliver her to Eli is yet unknown. What Eli did to get the G-Man to rescue her from Black Mesa will be important in the future.
Alyx is wearing Unobtainium.
Alyx is Made Of Iron for no apparent reason. Maybe she has some advanced combat technology that was developed by her father and Dr. Kleiner to fight the Combine. The same may also apply to other resistance members.
GLaDOS' backup is on the Borealis, where she and Freeman shall have some cake.
Also, whilst he is smart and a scientist, he is also a full-time employee - of Black Mesa. Turrets ensue.
Half-Life doesn't take place on Earth, but on a world in Warhammer 40000.
Think about it. The reason teleportation is so dangerous is because it involves passing through the Warp. Xen is a daemon world in the Eye of Terror, and the Nihilanth and its allies are followers of Tzeentch. The ant lions are a stranded strain of Tyranid that lost their connection with the Hive Mind until they rebuild sufficient strength, and so are the headcrabs. The Combine are a special-operations force from the Tau Empire. The G-Man is either the Deceiver or an Eldar Farseer. The HEV suit was reverse-engineered from power armour.
after Eli Vance dies, his brain will be put into d0g's body, or another robot body.
Eli built d0g not only to protect Alyx, but as a last-ditch effort to becoming immortal. His prosthetic leg is the first step (no pun intended) in his trans-humanization efforts.
The cassarole incident with Magnusson? Not an accident.
Gordon Freeman's deepest desire is to recognized for his scientific intelligence. Freeman also hates Magnusson, since Freeman is stuck carting around isotopes and the one who gets recognized is a jerk like Magnusson. So Freeman saw Magnusson's beloved cassarole and took an oppurtunity...
The Crowbar is forged from the one ring.
Think about it. The crowbar looks always the same, if you hold it to a fire, Gordon doesn't get his hands burned and most important: It always returns to its master. So, Gordon is also Sauron, the Dark Lord!
The Xenians were protecting Earth from the Combine.
When the creatures from Xen first invaded, it was because they were trying to stop the human scientists from messing around with portal technology, since the Combine could detect such incursions. When Nihlanth was destroyed, now nothing stood in the way of the Combine, who promptly invaded. Need I say it?
Gordon Freeman is a crazed psychopath who enjoys murdering innocent scientists.
Come on, who of us hasn't used cheats to give Gordon a gun before the Resonance Cascade and kill your fellow scientists? Some of us even continue working through the whole game, offing the people we are trying to rescue after they've served their useful purpose (i.e. opening a door).
Scientist: Ah! Hello, Gordon Freeman! It's good to see—
(BLAM!)
Gordon Freeman is Black Sabbath's "Iron Man".
Freeman's durability would be explained by being "turned to steel". He can't get over waist high fences due to the "boots of lead".
The Vortigaunts are evolving.
As evidenced by their elevation from weak mooks in Half Life to Bad Ass killing machines in Episode 2. Also, note the change in skin texture and vocal outputs. This has something to do with the growing power of the Vortessence.
The Combine can not control the Vortiguants.
The only living Vortiguants you see in Half Life 2 and later are in the company of the Resistance. Despite having a number of abilities that would make them more useful as a slave race than humans, you only ever see them tortured to death in Nova Prospekt. And comments from episode three would indicate that they are an actual physical threat to the Advisors. Humans could be threatened with pain and death, and altered with surgery. Vortiguants, however, did not fall to such things.
We have never seen a true Headcrab Zombie
Headcrabs are probably native to the Vortigaunt homeworld. They evolved zombie powers to deal with Vortigaunts and their electric attacks. When one possesses a human, though, they do not know the difference and force the mutation they'd normally execute on a Vortigaunt.
The HECU is not a Marine operation It is, instead, Bad Company.
This troper has a quite a few family in the Corps, and when presented with even a fraction of the evidence, they scream and moan that the HECU is, in fact, not Marine. Added to the behavior of the unit in a clear combat zone, they resemble more of a motley crew of ragtags and misfits from the Army than Special Forces Marines. Hence, the HECU is not Marine, but is, in fact, Bad Company, sent to clear the way for the Black-Ops, then be silenced themselves.
Gordon Freeman is Max Payne
After the horrific events of the first two Payne games, the governemnt used Max's college minor and some intense training to put him in an out of the way facillity studying some pointless energy crap. And changed his name. Of course, that all went to hell. The HEV suit simply dumps loads of painkillers into the hero's body when he is injured. And the film/noir secret behind this move? They stole Max/Gordon's bullet-time. And gave it to the G-Man. That's why the government has been interested in Max all this time. They wanted his bullet-time.
Alyx Vance died during the Black Mesa incident, the “Alyx” we know and love is Eli’s replacement
Eli Vance’s daughter Alyx died with her mother in Black Mesa, killed by a Bullsquid. Eli eventually took in one of the many orphans left by the Seven Hour War (one who remained Eli of his deceased daughter) and raised her as his late daughter Alyx.
While Eli came to genuinely to care for his adopted daughter he could never bring himself to tell “Alyx” the truth.
Gordon Freeman is a headcrab zombie
Even as a headcrab zombie Gordon still fights for both humanity & Earth, suppressing his desire to kill and channeling his murderous intent against the Combine.
In the initial resonance cascade Gordon was briefly teleported to Xen. Alone, disoriented, unarmed, and without a helmet Gordon was easy prey for headcrabs. Soon after zombification Gordon had the strength of will to remove the headcrab but still survive as a zombie.
Valve is the Combine
Valve's games are their more subtle version of the reproductive suppression field - they keep countless potential Badass Bookworms like Gordon Freeman from reproducing, since they're too busy playing Valve games and writing about those games on this website.
Due to a Vortigaunt prophecy, Gordon Freeman is the only person who can kill the G-Man.
As a result, Freeman has been made a major factor in the G-Man's plans. In the first game, he engineered the Black Mesa Incident in order to kill Freeman. When Freeman survived, the G-Man decided "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" and forced Gordon into working for him. When the Vortigaunts freeded Gordon, the G-man began working desperately not only to get things back under his control, but to prove to his usperiors, the vortigaunts and himself that his destiny is his own and it is most certainly not to die at the hands of a not-scientist because a bunch of magical aliens with throat problems said so.
In the absence of Gordon, Alyx is now the G-Man's agent.
Gordon is apparently no longer under the G-Man's control. To keep the war in his favor, the G-Man recruited the next best person: Alyx Vance, who works closely with Gordon and is a major player in the war. To keep the Vorigaunts off his trail, the G-Man made his control over Alyx much more covert, implanting several Manchurian Agent-style triggers in her. The one Gordon saw in Episode 2 "Prepare for unforseen consequences," is just one of many commands the G-Man has given to Alyx.
The G-Man is The Starscream.
In the first game, he mentioned his superiors. In the second and onwards, he speaks as if he was the one in charge. The answer is simple: he had superiors in the first game, but decided he could do a better job then they could and had them killed.
The resonance cascade gave Gordon superpowers.
Think about it. Prior to the resonance cascade, Gordon did nothing extraordinary. Afterwards, he's a One Man Army. Maybe some Xen lifeform merged with Gordon, not altering his mind or appearance, but making him nigh-invincible.
Gordon is an Active.
The senior officials at Black Mesa (above Dr. Breen) knew that a resonance cascade was a possibility. So they hired a Doll who believed he was a scientist, but had latent combat skills (similar to Echo in "Stage Fright").
The G-Man is mostly benevolent
He is infact an alien from a world enslaved by the combine in human disquise, his odd speach and looks are because of his unfamiliarity to humans and their communication. Like the Galaxy Quest aliens, he thought that human media showed they had traits that would mean they wouldn't bend over against the combine and instead defeat them completly. He caused the black Mesa incident to bring the Combine to Earth so they get defeated. Freeman attracts the G-mans attention because, like Shepard, he excelled at fighting Xen and the G-Man decided to be use him as strategics weapon against the Combine.
The G-Man is a combine scout.
He found earth and found it to be a good resource planet for the Combine. He started the Black Mesa incident to signal his masters. Soon he realized that he maniplulates The Freeman he can take over the Combine by having him kill his masters or had a change of heart and regrets his actions, helping The Freeman to remove the Combine once and for all.
Gordon Freeman is the God Emperor of Mankind.
Shortly before the events of the first game, the Emperor decided to try to guide humanity more directly by helping to advance science. The disaster that resulted after the Resonance Cascade convinced him to butt out (once he'd fixed things), and he went back to guiding from the shadows until finally deciding to found the Imperium of Man. The G-Man, given his machinations and manipulation, is Tzeentch, or an avatar of Tzeentch.
Half Life and Team Fortress 2 take place in the same universe.
If the Engineer had just shared his teleportation tech way back when, all this mess could have been avoided.
Valve will include references to Half Life Full Life Consequences in their next game.
Have you seen how popular it is? They might make something along these lines:
Gordon Freeman is Jesus.
He's the son of Morgan Freeman, who is God, and is therefore Jesus saving humanity from the alien overlords. And the G-man may or may not be Satan. This also explains the God Mode cheat. And Alyx is Mary Magdaline.
Gordon Freeman suffers from the same issue as The Narrator from Fight Club.
The G-Man is his Tyler Durden.
Dr. Gregory House's near-death experience was in fact, the entire Half Life universe
We all know that House loves video games, so when he shocked himself into a near death experience in one episode, instead of having a religious journey, he played his ideal video game. He was a mute hero with working legs, able to solve greater puzzles than those provided by modern disease. The fact that he is mute is an allusion to how House would have more friends if he said nothing than if he made fun of people any longer.
The G-Man is Light Yagami.
He didn't die, per se, but went from a whole life to half of one, in another reality. Considering how good he is with planning things, and ensuring his plans work even when they don't, he became the G-Man in this reality. His behaviour regarding the vorts taking control of Gordon Freeman was just a ruse so that the vortigaunts wouldn't realize it's what he wanted them to do. With the help of the vortigaunts, Gordon was able to get to White Forest and ensure the rocket would be launched, which would ensure that the Combine would react with the murder of at least one top official in the rebellion. This would ensure the rest of the rebels would not stop fighting until the Combine was destroyed across the entire reality. Things are going... Just as planned.
Father Grigori survived.
Because he wasn't a mere man, he was just masquerading as one.
The experiment in the first game was an attempt to duplicate Dr. Manhattan, with Gordon as the unwitting test subject.
It didn't quite succeed, but years later, the weapons scanner gave Gordon the kick to temporarily tap into his cosmic powers and melt people.
The G-Man is the BLU Spy.
Seriously, the similarities are amazing: they both wear a blue tuxedo, they have a similar physical build and facial structure (check out the cheekbones! The nose! The eyebrows!), and he is always carrying a briefcase reminiscent of the one the Team Fortress 2 characters fight over. Besides, his ability to turn invisible explains how he seems to just disappear by turning a corner as well as how he just pops up out of nowhere, and his ability to disguise as enemies explains how he didn't get killed by soldiers/combines/Resistance members/vortigaunts. Heck, his habit of smoking could even explain how his voice got deeper!
Alyx was heavily genetically modified.
This is the true reason for her regeneration, durability and her understated reaction to getting shot. She is completely unaware of this and thinks she's more or less normal.
The G-Man is a Time Lord.
Really, nobody has said this yet? Alright, here's how I see it. The G-Man is a Time Lord, with 'G-Man' a title like 'Doctor' or 'Master'. His briefcase is a TARDIS. The black, featureless place he tends to show up in is one room of his TARDIS, meaning when the G-Man has his briefcase within it, the TARDIS is inside itself, recursively. This explains how he survived when the Time Lords were wiped out: He was in his TARDIS, and the wave of death couldn't reach him because the entrance to the TARDIS was inside the TARDIS itself. Having dodged that bullet he's been knocking about the universe, until one day he went to refuel at the Cardiff Rift, temporal service station that it is. Whilst there, however, one of the events mentioned in Torchwood occured, in which the rift consumes a passer by, spitting them out somewhere vastly removed. The G-Man was spat out on a parallel Earth, and his TARDIS was damaged, preventing him from being able to time travel, but leaving his spatial travelling intact. The G-Man has been orchestrating all events to encourage the development of portal technology. He seems to switch sides because he needs the fight to go back and forth to provoke new breakthroughs. He's hoping that eventually one faction or another will invent a teleporter that can return him to the Time Lords' universe. He can't intervene too directly for fear of causing paradoxes, and the dangers inherent therein. Freeman was just The Right Man In The Wrong Place, there was nothing special about him, the G-Man just saw he could be used as a middleman for working his plans. His references to 'Employers' combined with his government appearance are just a masquerade, to lead anyone who discovers him to assume he's part of an Earth government's conspiracy. He's dropped this act as of Half-Life 2. He's also renting out his pawns to the more highly-advanced individuals of the universe's races, in exchange for the technology required to repair his TARDIS.
The different-looking Vortigaunts from Episode 2 are younger Vortigaunts
There are all kinds of stuff to back this up, mainly the smoother skin and the higher voice.
Gordon Freeman is an Eldritch Abomination
That thing shaped like a physicist that you talk to? That never speaks, eats, or sleeps? That can survive amounts of physical punishment that would destroy armored tanks? That has single handedly, remorselessly, slaughtered thousands of people despite no apparent training or aptitude? And that, for some reason, despite having never met him, people feel an overwhelming sense of trust and confidence in? Gordon Freeman is the gun toting version of Stephen King's Buick 8.
Gordon Freeman is Snake Eyes
Well, have you ever seen Snake Eyes' face? No. No, you haven't. Therefore, theory valid.
The G-Man is the Time Lord Cowboy Bebop
And that suitcase is where he keeps his computer! And he's also a Skrull! It all makes perfect sense! Perfect fucking sense!
Half-Life takes place in the world of Watchmen.
After Dr Manhattan left earth, and the situation between the USA and the USSR stabilised, the real Eldritch Abominations started taking notice of our Insignificant Little Blue Planet as scientists attempted to continue Manhattan's research into teleportation, discovering that the border world Xen was used by Manhattan as a dimensional slingshot whenever he teleported things, unknowingly attracting the attention of the Universal Union. The Combine's typical ponderous sluggishness meant that Black Mesa's resonance cascade happened before their attempted invasion, making it easier for them to invade.
Solid Snake was in the Weighted Companion Cube.
After the Combine invasion Snake eventually joined the resistance. Eventually Kleiner and Otacon send Snake on a mission to retrieve the remains of Aperture Science technology for the resistance, infiltrating the facility in a Weighted Companion Cube…
Half Life takes place in the same universe as the Cthulhu Mythos.
Granted, the means are more scientific than arcane, but something as powerful as the Nihilanth would almost have to be a Great Old One. The experiment with the Zen crystal just gave it a pathway into our world, and of course other critters from that realm are going to leak through. And of course, once it saw what a fascinating world we had, of course it was going to send its slaves (Vortigaunts) and creations (headcrabs, alien grunts) through to check things out. Yes, soaking up Gordon's entire supply of ammo in the endgame hurt a lot. It was being shot in the brain. No, it's not coming back. Why? Because it got pwned by one guy. Unfortunately, this means that Gordo isn't going to be able to kill the real Big Bad behind everything, only force it back into its own realm and shut the door for the time being.
Gordon Freeman is suffering from PTVD.
It's an incredibly likely scenario. While from a gameplay perspective keeping him from speaking would allow the player to identify with him and personalize his experiences, in-universe being bounced around between dimensions, being attacked by creatures both terrestrial and alien, dropped in nuclear waste, trash compactors, shot at, bombed, and generally put through hell, he could very well have developed post-traumatic vocal disarticulation.
Doctor Breen was brainwashed.
Even to the bitter end, he's telling Blantant Lies about serving humanity and furthering their progress - and seems rather earnest in that. It's possible he got exposed to something similar to Room 101, except instead of being executed, he's their new leader.
The Vortessence is The Force
I seem to remember one of the Vorts saying something like "there is a disturbance in the Vortessence," But I may be wrong
Adrian Shepard ends up in the Mass Effect universe.
...and somehow becomes Commander Shepard.
The secret ingredient in the Gravity Gun is Element Zero.
Hence the reason the Resistance only has the one, and the reason that they didn't use it in the field until Gordon grabbed it.
Additionally, the stuff that caused the Resonance Cascade was probable unprocessed Element Zero.
The series will ultimately end with Gordon killing the g-man.
Think about it: This is the guy responsible for EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED. The Vortigaunts have shown themselves capable of suppressing him. Gordon kills the shit out of anything. Put 2 and 2 together.
At some point, the G-man regains control of Freeman.
To show this off, the G-man will try to make Gordon kill his friends. This either results, as the above WMG suggests, in Gordon arranging an intimate meeting between the G-man's mouth and Gordon's shotgun, or one hell of a downer ending.
Father Grigori is an older version of The Heavy.
Let's see...
The G-Man created Gordon
The G-Man wasn't allowed by his superiors to directly influence the situation. In order to get around this, he managed to create a man with the right skills who's always in the right place at the right time without any of his superiors noticing. His superiors did notice that Gordon was singlehandedly stopping the entire Vortigaunt army, though, so they had him put in stasis. Then 15 years later the G-Man tried slipping him in again. He was caught and forced to return Gordon before he did any permanent damage. Then the Vortigaunts intervened. He's been subtly helping the rebellion (he tried to warn Eli, he saved Alyx, and various other things) ever since.
Father Grigori used to be a mass murdering psycho.
He claims that his traps are "the work of a man who once had too much time on his hands... and now finds time for nothing but the work of salvation." This implies that he constructed the traps BEFORE the zombie crisis happened. What do you call a man who deliberately arranges numerous death traps all over a lively town filled with innocent citizens? After the bombing happened, he was so moved by this that his mind suddenly reverted back to normal, realized what horrible deeds he had done, and promptly went batshit insane again - though in a different way.
The reason the people from Black Mesa East stopped visiting Ravenholm is because Father Grigori (who, like Gordon and Alyx, seems to be one of the rarely-encountered individuals who are born Made Of Iron) took over the town, killed or imprisoned most of population, and set up traps to hunt down the survivors.
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