So

So
Who the fuck is this?

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did... that move a little when anyone else clicked it?
weird.

Gman

I think he was just there to move the plot forward when needed.

Me.

Most people assume he's a stan-in for Valve, and it makes sense. He's a walking, talking omniscient plot device that does arbitrary things for seemingly no reason.

a plot device

Im guessing it has something to do with the Black Mesa Incident. Xen aliens came to Earth, Combine came, but secretly also this alien fucker got teleported/discovered Earth because of the incident

Isn't he seen through a window talking to a scientist before the resonance cascade?

Someone from an alien race that is even more powerful than the Combine. He just wants to make sure that the Combine don't get their hands on technology that would allow them to compete with G-Man's race. Anything that happens to humans is incidental.

He already knew of Earth before the resonance cascade. Hell, he's the one who gave them the research sample.

Some alien from a species that actually hates the Combine and is using Gordan to destroy them somehow.

>Heils from a godlike race who's basically mastered all forms of teleportation
>Takes notice in how humans have managed to develop potentially useful portal technology
>"Welp we can't have that"
>Decides to fuck humanity in the ass in the most ultimate way possible by supplying them with the unstable sample
>Oversees gordon's progress to kill the nihilanth and destroy the one entity keeping the combine from catching wind of the portal storms and invading earth in full force
>"Looks like this guys useful, I'll put him in storage for when I need his services again"
>Wakes gordon during the combines occupation and sends him on another mission to cut off their contact with the home dimension after he believes humanity has had enough
>Puts him in stasis again at the end, probably going to send him after the borealis next to destroy the bootstrap device but vorts release his hold
"Damn their holding me back, oh ok I'll take over this girl now"
>Coincidentally, beyond his influence, Gordon ends up going after the borealis anyway
>Fully aware that the vorts are have a hold on gordon, G-man departs with alex instead as a means of having someone to fulfill his deeds.

Aperture scientist from another dimension who doing this for shits and giggles

he was hired by the vorts to free them. eli put the g man in contact with gordon who "hired" him to free the vorts

Actually they just want to make better curtains

He's a "Combine" Advisor who isn't under control of the Combine.

Literally God.

Some space bureaucratic troll
Bending time and space just to mess with people

>greg is cave johnson assistant and dude that makes up all the other dimension aperture cool shit
>g-man

It's deus ex machina in game form.

It's Chim in human form

Christopher Walken

Gordon freeMAN

A Nihilanth imitating the human form.

you know nihilanth kinda looks like an evolved, fucked up advisor

He's also watching you on the train ride into work.

This
The Dyon Sphere makes humans look like ants to the Combine, but the Combine is like ants to the G-Man.

Part of a combine conspiracy to overthrow the current management.

He was a scientist on the borelais

>jpg
>did it move
gee I wonder

Anyone else interested on what Striders or Gunships looked like before being combined?

HL is such a meme. He's the smoke monster from lost, there to insert some conspiracy theories in the game as they go.

>Alien species so far advanced they operate beyond space and time
>Still wear a 20$ two piece suit & tie.
Really makes you think.

littlefinger

a badly written plot device.

and somehow voritgaunts could block him

Tell me who the fuck are you?

>GMan
>Gordon Freeman
>G
>Gordon
>Man
>Freeman
Yw op

>gman
more like Fman lmao

;_;

I'll only tell you guys this single piece of fact once. He's Gordon's son.

Fuck You!

This. People assume they had all of this planned out but by the fact that they scrapped almost all of HL2 because of the leak it's clear they were just making it up as they go. In the first game I'd imagine it was just that. Weird off puting character to add to the overall feel of the game. They ran with that in 2

would've imagined he'd be the only way gordon could've defeated the combine

lambdageneration.com/discussion/half-life/5-intriguing-things-breengrub-teaches-us-about-the-half-life-saga/
An article from 2016 about Marc's Breengrub account
It says some advisors may have escaped the combine and that they can change their appearance during larval stage
What if G-man is a grub or something and he just uses psychic powers on everyone?

>doug rattman is g-man

would explain his sporadic behavior/need to fuck with black mesa.

half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Rattmann

Was it ever explained why a civilization of inter-stellar warrior slavers capable of building spheres around stars couldn't deal with a couple of rag-tag rebels in beanies?

they left the equivalent of mall cops in charge while everyone else went off to conquer the next planet

I might be wrong but I believe they say that earth is a little backwater province so they don't expend any serious resources or manpower on it.

You'll also have to realize HL2 and the eps are very local events. City 17 is ONE city and the outskirts are hardly key areas of the invasion.

Ok, makes sense.

It got bigger.

A merc?

>Causes Combine to go to earth
>sells anti-combine services after shit goes down.
>earth is just another shrewd business scheme

Well they were using their weakest force to manage the rebels - whenever in the game you see them deploy anything even slightly better than the (human) combine soldiers the rebels get annihilated (such as when the striders and hunters are deployed).

Also the Rebels were losing badly, the game has many areas which are rebel bases (you can conclude from radios which occasionally play broadcasts of other rebel bases trying to get in contact and/or being captured or attacked themselves) and you slowly realise each are deserted with old corpses strewn about. Some of which have headcrab cannisters fired into them and its clear the rebels had been turned to zombies.

They only have temporary "wins" when Gordon is around

The question is why would they need slaves or soldiers at all
If they can build Dyson Sphere they're way past the meatbag stage

TF2 CROSSOVER
I'm sure he prefers the term business man to merc.

It's because of G-Man who managed to find a human who is able to respawn on death and retry scenarios endlessly until his enemies are defeated.

That's just lack of research on the writers' part. It's justified in-universe even though the game universe doesn't correspond to what we know of our universe.

Nihilant is large vortigaunt, he has same third arm or head as controllers.

Does G-man's actions benefit Earth, Xen or Combine the most?

Getting Freeman back from Xen to fuck up portals on earth and "saving" Alyx after sending Borealis to dent the Dyson Sphere sounds quite anti-combine. The benefactors he speaks of does not seem to be against humanity's rebellion directly.

You can disguise a .gif as a .jpg
People have done it before with jumpscare gifs.
I don't fucking know how to do it and the last time I saw someone do it was years ago on /x/.
But it's possible.

>ants analogy again

Who knows, maybe he's a third party.

Doctor Freeeeeemaaaaan....

Real combine army probably looks like this or these green crab things in HL2 Citadel.

That's just probably a power suit or a bot.

its how the elites should have looked

There isn't a single actual combine soldier depicted in the entire half-life series.

the combine are just living creature + combine tech
its probably just some eldritch horror thing

well shit
the extension got corrected to gif

BUT THAT'S JUST A

the combine advisors are the lowest rung of life in the combine empire. they are basically useless garrison fodder that the REAL races of the combine empire use to deal with shitty backwater planets that are so inconsequential they probably already forgot they exist.

>What is invaders losing to lack of supplies in foreign territory
>Literally war 101

it's the weird dude from drifters

because they need to kill fast and bullets too slow.

That's what she said

there is no standard template combine soldier. they engineer them per-environment they are occupying.

The notion that he is a member of an even more powerful alien race than the combine is LITERALLY the only one that makes sense. But the claim that his goal was just to prevent the portal technology of Black Mesa and Aperture from falling into Combine hands isn't enough to explain all of his actions because, of course, he lured the Combine to Earth in the first place. Straightforwardly counterproductive if preventing them from discovering human portal technology was his only motivation.

I like to think of him as a chess master who isn't thinking five moves ahead but five tournaments ahead.

I think he's just an entity who figured out all there is to know in the universe and just became a god. toying with mortals for his own amusement. but he implies other people like himself existing. and how there are others who would like to buy gordon freeman's services.

Good comparison, although I do prefer the idea of just being a intergalactic business man. Doesn't have any personal desires, just what's he's hired to do, sometimes taking an interest in more particular people, like Gordon or Alyx.

some ugly fuck KILL HIM

>g-man
>g
>god
He's god, no one is ready for teleportation devices except for him and his son Jesus who teleported out of the cave.

Thanks for that piece of fact.

Where did you get that picture of my wife's son?

I get the feeling that he's from some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-esque bureaucratic government of the universe. He's a Government Man after all, it's in his name.

>Puts him in stasis again at the end, probably going to send him after the borealis next to destroy the bootstrap device but vorts release his hold
I doubt that. Gordon only goes after the Borealis because the Vorts fuck with G-Mans Stasis

But he does not try to sell you hats and knives...

the fact that the vorts can override gman's powers is interesting.

Its Gordon Freeman from the future

Fuck me, it actually makes fucking sense BUT NOW I HAVE EVEN MORE QUESTIONS FUCCCCKKKKK

its jordan from florida

Yeah I could go with that, pure mercenary type of person.

A combine defector
OR a combine double agent
OR a human from the future
OR an another kardashev-2/3 civilization agent
OR a bored creator
OR a literal walking plot device, an extention of the universe, like a physical law. Not a God, but part of it.

this.
You have to be a fucking idiot or gabe newell cocksucking fanboy not to get this.

He is an alien from another world that has been invaded by combine.

He is nothing more than a simple soldier, there is millions like him that has been sent to many worlds to help the local fight against the combine, in a collective effort to stop the threat they all face.

The combine presence / timeline on earth is nothing but a grain of sand in the whole thing though.

The borealis is capable of time and space travel

Time travel has been introduced and they'll somehow salvage the tech to do it

Gordon from the future

No its not you fag

Mercenary is such a dirty word.
Business man feels more appropriate.

> not to get this.
So is he a paradox or is he not? If he's not a paradox then why would he fuck up Earth, since it was him that gave the crystal to Breen, which pretty much initiated Resonance Cascade, which later turned out to be a 7 hour war.
If he's a paradox and he's actively changing the past, why would vortigaunts hate him? Why would he let himself die on the Borealis?

Gordon from the future with botched speech therapy.