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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima)

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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima)	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Hello, Gordon!Have you ever wondered what would happen if Gordon Freeman weren't alone during the events of Half-Life? What if, instead, he were accompanied by a small band of AI-controlled survivors of the Resonance Cascade, and had to shepherd them through the dangers infesting Black Mesa? Now what if those survivors suddenly developed eccentric, frantic, and downright moronic personalities? It turns out, the end of the world becomes a lot sillier.Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware is a roleplay Machinima series by WayneRadioTV and other members of Radio TV Solutions. All episodes are almost pure improv, performed live through the medium of Garry's Mod with minimal scripting and preparation. Wayne takes the role of Gordon Freeman, with his friends playing the roles of his NPC compatriots. The core cast is comprised of Benry, a standoffish security guard obsessed with passports; Tommy, a childlike scientist with a surprising acumen for nuclear engineering; Bubby, a long-suffering particle physicist who brings his problems on himself; and the ever-babbling Dr. Coomer, whose AI appears to be just a bit broken. Only through teamwork will they be able to survive alien invaders and government assassins, if they can go five minutes without killing each other or themselves first!Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The first Act was streamed onto Wayne's Twitch channel on March 5th, 2020 with the fourth and final Act being streamed on April 9th. Edited versions of the streams were then uploaded to Wayne's YouTube channel between March 13th and April 19th of 2020. More VR but the AI is Self-Aware series have been confirmed to be on the way, although if any of them will be a continuation of the Half-Life story is yet to be known.Wayne and the crew would return to play their characters for their "AI-Crushes-All-Banks" Justice Drive charity stream on May 31st that year, where the Science Team makes good on their promise to rob a bank in PAYDAY 2 VR.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_127a3b31	type	Badly Battered Babysitter
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_127a3b31	comment	Badly Battered Babysitter: Gordon is essentially this for most of the series as he's constantly having to keep everyone else out of trouble.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1495d0e6	type	Non Sequitur
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1495d0e6	comment	Non Sequitur: The final battle is over, Earth is saved, Gordon is presented with his final choice... and he immediately gets into an argument with G-Man about whether Chuck E Cheese's is a restaurant or a family entertainment center.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_164bd5fd	type	Hulking Out
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_164bd5fd	comment	Hulking Out: Coomer when Gordon spends a Play Coin to activate Super Player Mode, complete with deepened voice.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Yes. Pretty much everyone who isn’t a Red Shirt is some sort of Eldritch Abomination or a Badass Normal, both of whom are able to fight their way through numerous highly dangerous threats, such as mutants, aliens, and the U.S. Military.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Black Mesa's Frozen Goods Department deals with the flash-freezing of human meat for unspecified reasons. The process gives the meat dangerous properties.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Gordon's Finishing Move on Benrey is to bring a hammer-fist down on him from high up.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: In Act 1, Benry dies when he holds up a closing blast door, while everyone could easily have run through, and said guard refuses to move out of the way of the door.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: One of the biggest perks of the series being in VR is allowing Gordon to punctuate his dialogue with wild hand gestures.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Black Mesa is actually responsible for some of the monsters in the game among other horrors, though this is assuming that the other cast members are telling the truth.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Dr. Coomer exclaiming "Look, Gordon, ropes! We can use these to traverse dangerous pits!" every time he sees a barnacle, almost always followed by "Help me, Gordon!" when he gets caught by them.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: The passports. The science team needs to destroy their passports in order to defeat Benrey.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_24321e44	comment	Act Three: Part Three: The events of the last few episodes have clearly gotten to Gordon's head, putting his Only Sane Man status into serious question. G-Man at one point shows up (and he seems to be a self-aware NPC as well), and at the end of his usual schtick, he reveals that he has a child. And then at the very end of the episode, the skeleton shows up, and it's implied that he's been controlling Benrey all along. Oh, and Gordon drinks the soda.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gordon is trapped in a dark room and has the shit beaten out of him when Benrey and Bubby turn against him. He loses his right hand in the process.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The videos have plenty of references to Wayne's past streams and in-jokes between the members of Radio TV Solutions: Gordon's locker contains a baby photo, which he claims is of his son Joshua. "Joshua" was the name the crew gave to a weird text-to-speech voice they made via a machine learning service, declared to be Wayne's "son" and would torment him with onstream. The reason Dr. Coomer starts reciting the Wikipedia article on chairs in Act 2 is because Holly, who played him, memorised it back in the early 2010s to annoy her friends. It's not the reason why everyone kept namedropping Wikipedia throughout the act (that was because they were joking about the infamous cock and ball torture article prior to the stream), but there was a mutual understanding between them that it was only a matter of time before Holly used it as an excuse to do the chair bit. During Benry's Motive Rant he talks about using "YouTube Yownloader", a typo that has been a long-standing in-joke between the group. In the Act 4 commentary stream they note that Scorpy, who works as a professional video editor, once managed to sneak "youtubeyownloader.bat" into a commercial he did for a major brand. Gordon and the G-Man's debate over whether or not Chuck E. Cheese's is a restaurant is directly based off of a similar debate that Wayne and his friends had during a stream of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. One Wayne admits they included purely for themselves is the clip of Tommy sitting on Vin Diesel's lap like he's a mall Santa during the credits, calling back to an old series of GMod videos Scorpy made for their movie nights in which Vin Diesel would interview various characters via text-to-speech.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: At 19:02 in Final Act: Part 1, Benrey can be seen dancing in the background while Gordon is trying to talk to Tommy.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Can be seen as one to Freeman's Mind, as both are absurdist playthroughs of the original Half-Life campaign, with the previously un-voiced characters taking on a mind of their own, albeit with the treatment given to multiple characters rather than just Gordon this time.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2bc48235	type	Dream Apocalypse
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2bc48235	comment	Dream Apocalypse: Dr. Coomer asks Gordon to transfer his and the other AI's code to another game in hopes of averting this. Judging by dialogue during ACAB, Gordon has indeed done this, bringing their code over to Payday 2.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2fbff140	type	Back to the Early Installment
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2fbff140	comment	Back to the Early Installment: Gordon has to travel back in time, thanks to a portal gun Bubby found, to before the experiment that caused the Resonance Cascade to find his passport in his locker so he can destroy it in order to defeat Benrey.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2feeca6e	type	Lightmare Fuel
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_2feeca6e	comment	Lightmare Fuel: Benrey becomes this full stop after his reveal as the Xen God that caused the resonance cascade. He's treated as the Eldritch Abomination that he is, but he's still an Almighty Idiot and a Psychopathic Manchild who acts as his usual goofy self.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_30b6f084	type	Canis Major
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_30b6f084	comment	Canis Major: Sunkist is as tall as an adult man while seated. He's also a two-dimensional image, but Tommy loves him all the same.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_31c09bd8	type	"Let's Watch Our Show" Plot
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_31c09bd8	comment	"Let's Watch Our Show" Plot: After Tommy's birthday bash, the part 1 commentary starts when the G-Man forces Gordon to accompany him and the science team to watch a movie... which, to Gordon's confusion, is the commentary footage. As usual, no one else questions what they're watching. The openers for the succeeding commentary videos continue building off of part 1's.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: Dr. Coomer has a way of making NPC-like chatter into a charged threat, mostly owing to pointing his revolver at Gordon when he does it. Gordon accuses Benry of this often, but Benry's motives are never quite clear...
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Benrey replaces Nihilanth as the Final Boss of the journey.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Black Mesa's projects are all either insanely dangerous, like the Peeper Puppies and the Pita Cutter, or completely nonsensical, like replacing the fluoride in water with blue Powerade. Darnold, in spite of being the most stable member of the cast, is definitely one of these, since he makes regenerative potions that cause Gordon to grow a Hand Cannon that shoots fingernails where his hand used to be.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Discussed in the commentary for Act 3, G-Man and Benrey have a white glow around their text to symbolize their status as Reality Warpers.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: In spite of Black Mesa providing the U.S. Military with the majority of its funding and equipment, the military still tries to murder everyone in Black Mesa for no reason.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_420c50b7	comment	Dr. Coomer speaks in a typeface that wouldn't look out of place on a computer from the 80s, indicative of how his A.I. Is a Crapshoot even compared to the other scientists.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4d044580	comment	During Benry's Motive Rant he talks about using "YouTube Yownloader", a typo that has been a long-standing in-joke between the group. In the Act 4 commentary stream they note that Scorpy, who works as a professional video editor, once managed to sneak "youtubeyownloader.bat" into a commercial he did for a major brand.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "THERE'S NOTHING THERE." "There he is! Get him!" Two in Act Three: Part Three: "And we're BAAACK!" The "wham" here is that Benrey's Rainbow Speak suddenly goes from navy to navy with a red outline. In the PAYDAY 2 stream for charity:
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: When the party arrives at the surface, they find the military is bombing the place. Then we see the skeleton running around, and so disappears the last vestiges of normalacy in Gordon's life. In Act Three: Part Three, Benrey can see the skeleton, and it has a passport. If you look closely at it, its name is "You." When the party gets to Xen, Benrey is suddenly floating in the air and way bigger than he used to be.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early Installment Weirdness: A lot of these were pointed out by the crew in the Act 1 commentary stream. The stream notifications and mediashares were left in the Act 1 highlight videos, since no one was expecting the series to blow up as hard as it did. This leads to a lot of immersion-breaking moments such as Morshu suddenly popping up in the middle of the screen, or a Russian cooking video playing over an otherwise tense scene. Starting with Act 2, Wayne made the notifications smaller and less obtrusive, put strict rules in place as to what could be requested through mediashare, and recorded the audio separately for the highlight videos. During Tommy's first appearance, Gordon is noticeably disturbed by him and calls him a freak. Compare this to the later parts, where Tommy is the only Science Team member he fully trusts and the one he gets exasperated with the least. In Act 1, Gordon claims the baby photo in his locker is of his son, Joshua. This receives a Call-Back near the end of the act, but after that there are no other mentions of Gordon being a father. Gir theorizes that the photo just came with the picture frame and Gordon was too embarrassed to admit he never removed it. During Act 1, Coomer would get Benry's name wrong every time he mentioned him (his actor, Holly, assumed they were doing a Running Gag about nobody remembering his name). From Act 2 onwards, this is no longer an issue. It took until Act 3 before the series implemented a custom model for passports, which meant that before then, everyone was forced to make do with what they had. This led to moments such as Benry calling his Pulse Rifle a "passport" and Gordon trying to present a toolgun as his during Act 1.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The subtitles for each member of the Science Team come in different fonts, reflecting their different personalities: Dr. Coomer speaks in a typeface that wouldn't look out of place on a computer from the 80s, indicative of how his A.I. Is a Crapshoot even compared to the other scientists. Tommy's subtitles are written in a font reminiscent of crude handwriting, which is fitting for the Manchild of the group. Discussed in the commentary for Act 3, G-Man and Benrey have a white glow around their text to symbolize their status as Reality Warpers.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5080221	type	Faux Horrific
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5080221	comment	Faux Horrific: The moths, which the entire party opens fire on.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Happens when the party come across a Dr. Coomer clone.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_56f6d892	type	Injured Player Character Stage
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_56f6d892	comment	Injured Player Character Stage: At the end of Act 3 Part 1, Gordon has his right hand cut off, leaving him defenseless and forcing him to rely on the rest of the party to protect him.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: A few things happen differently in this version of Half-Life. For example, after being clobbered unconscious and left for dead in a trash compactor, Gordon wakes up to find out he's on the outside of the smashing pistons, so he was never in danger of being crushed.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5c17c12f	type	Bribing Your Way to Victory
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: Parodied; Dr. Coomer repeatedly offers PlayCoin transactions in order to grant Gordon enhanced abilities or vital services.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: The party can sometimes see the skeleton, and sometimes cannot. And then sometimes only certain party members can see it. Gordon wastes no time shooting it in any event.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The Stinger for Act 4 has Dr. Coomer ask Gordon/Wayne to save the scientists' data somewhere else before closing the game for good, possibly hinting at future adventures.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Act 1: Part 1, as Gordon is sprinting towards the door at around 4:50, you can see a scientist dancing on a ledge on the other side of it. At 5:49 in Act 1: Part 2, while Benry is shooting the pigeons, you can see Father Grigori standing in the corridor for a split second. At the end of Act 1: Part 2, after the Science Team gun down the skeleton, you can see a Pikachu holding a crowbar appear behind Dr. Coomer. In the commentary for Act 1 it was revealed that this appearance was their stagehand photobombing them.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6400a34	type	Arm Cannon
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6400a34	comment	Arm Cannon: Some time after losing his right hand, when the group arrives at Darnold's lab they're able to give him a replacement: the minigun from Unreal Tournament, which apparently shoots fingernails.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: In AI Crushes All Banks the ghost of Elvis Presley is able to phase through people and mind control them with his dancing.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6d07bf85	type	Welcome to Corneria
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6d07bf85	comment	Dr. Coomer saying "Hello, Gordon!" almost every time Gordon talks to him.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6edb0066	type	Zero-Effort Boss
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6edb0066	comment	Zero-Effort Boss: One of Science Team's passports is being protected by Benrey in a Mokujin robot. However, its shoddy construction causes it to explode after a couple seconds of gunfire without attacking once.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6f7e717a	type	Surrealism
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_6f7e717a	comment	Surrealism: Alternates between the Surreal Humor and Surreal Horror, and sometimes does both at the same time.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Gordon's "Spin Move!" and a non-attack example, "Gordon Sprint!"
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_72dd7026	type	What the Hell, Player?
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_72dd7026	comment	What the Hell, Player?: In the earlier stages, the scientists are quick to admonish Gordon whenever one of the regular scientist NPCs die. Regardless of whether Gordon was actually at fault, or if the NPC was in fact killed by a collapsing bridge, being executed by the AI themselves, or inexplicably swelling in size then igniting and burning to death.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7d34f23a	comment	Dr. Coomer has a way of making NPC-like chatter into a charged threat, mostly owing to pointing his revolver at Gordon when he does it.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: Nobody is exactly sure on what year it is. When Gordon asks about it, he thinks it's 1998, Bubby guesses it's "2000-and-something", and Coomer ominously says "2020". Most of the older things mentioned to set the series in the recent past* Heavenly Sword, the HD DVD/Blu-Ray format war, Justin.TV, etc. are from around 2007, but then there's Gordon's favorite game being Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days from 2010. It's probably not worth worrying about.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Benrey claims that all of this happened because of a rude conversation Gordon had with him ages before the cascade. Gordon doesn't remember the exchange at all.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8029fa50	type	True Final Boss
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8029fa50	comment	True Final Boss: Benrey turns out to be the Science Team's ultimate foe.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_80874b5d	comment	Mechanical Abomination: The "regenerating helicopter"/Helicopter Heap. It's this out-of-universe too, due to it being a fuckup with the map that infinitely spawned helicopters rather than an intentional creation.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_82a631b8	type	Present-Day Past
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_82a631b8	comment	Present-Day Past: The series is seemingly set in the late 2000s, with topical mentions of Heavenly Sword, The Irate Gamer, and Justin.tv. This adheres to the original lore of Half-Life, being set in 200X. However, there are a few anachronistic mentions from the year 2010, including Kane And Lynch 2: Dog Days, Despicable Me, and Playstation Plus subscriptions. In one of his bouts of "seriousness", Coomer answers a question of what year they're in with "ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ-ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ".
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_844b6779	type	Super Mode
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_844b6779	comment	Super Mode: After gaining a minigun hand, Gordon is told that he can "PRESS ALL BUTTONS TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!" Not knowing what that means, he attempts to clench all of his muscles at once, accomplishing nothing, and is later informed that "IF YOUR BODY IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH, YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!" He finally manages it upon reaching Xen; the mode temporarily gives his arm a significantly higher rate of fire but requires a cooldown afterwards. In the final battle against Benrey, Gordon gives Dr. Coomer all of his Playcoins to activate "Super Player Mode," which causes Coomer to Hulk Out.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "Don't fuck with the Science Team!" is a favorite of Doctor Coomer's.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_884e513b	comment	"THERE'S NOTHING THERE."
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: In a roundabout way, the series serves as one for Gameplay and Story Segregation in a coop multiplayer game. The four companions, with their goofy antics, itchy-trigger fingers, and general trolling, wouldn't seem out of place as a random group of friends going for a romp through the game with a handful of cheat codes turned on (which of course is not so far from the truth). Poor Gordon meanwhile, as the Only Sane Man, is stuck inside the fourth wall and treats life-and-death dangers and the loss of human life as Serious Business, and quickly becomes unhinged when he's the only one doing so.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: Forzen fails at pretty much everything he does, and when he winds up in a position of authority, he starts making nonsensical and petty demands to the Science Team even after it becomes clear he has no leverage over them since Sunkist is Immune to Bullets.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The HECU use all of their resources on utterly ridiculous and impractical tactics. They're so inane that they get most of their men killed, eventually causing their entire attack on Black Mesa to fall apart.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Act Three winds up being a whole string of these. Act Three: Part One: Benrey and Bubby, who've obviously been plotting behind Gordon's back during the entire episode, trap him in a pitch-black room as HECU soldiers start beating the shit out of him, before ultimately severing his right arm. Dr. Coomer does nothing to stop this because Gordon is out of Playcoins™, and Tommy is the only one genuinely concerned about Gordon. Then he's captured by the military... Act Three: Part two is even crazier. Gordon wakes up missing his arm, traumatized beyond belief, and barely able to function... then he discovers an army of Dr. Coomer clones, revealing that Dr. Coomer is aware he's in a artificial world and that there's a world inside Gordon's dreams. Act Three: Part Three: The events of the last few episodes have clearly gotten to Gordon's head, putting his Only Sane Man status into serious question. G-Man at one point shows up (and he seems to be a self-aware NPC as well), and at the end of his usual schtick, he reveals that he has a child. And then at the very end of the episode, the skeleton shows up, and it's implied that he's been controlling Benrey all along. Oh, and Gordon drinks the soda.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Benry's first death, in Act 1.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_940a5958	comment	Barnacles are called "ropes" by Dr. Coomer, though when he is not compelled by his Artificial Stupidity, he actually does call them "barnacles".
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4	type	Exposition Fairy
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_95a2cbd4	comment	Exposition Fairy: Dr. Coomer acts like one of these with a heaping helping of Artificial Stupidity.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Black Mesa runs Wikipedia, and uses the donations for Wikipedia to provide the budget for the experiments they run. Later, Dr. Coomer claims that Black Mesa also uses Wikipedia to fund the U.S. Military, who they provide with weapons in exchange for being allowed to conduct their deranged experiments. Discussed by Dr. Coomer and Gordon when he asks if Black Mesa invented the nuclear bomb after coming across a missile silo that Coomer claims contains "ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪɢ ᴏɴᴇ".
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add	type	HulkOut
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cbb0add	comment	In the final battle against Benrey, Gordon gives Dr. Coomer all of his Playcoins to activate "Super Player Mode," which causes Coomer to Hulk Out.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9cde2df1	comment	Darnold, in spite of being the most stable member of the cast, is definitely one of these, since he makes regenerative potions that cause Gordon to grow a Hand Cannon that shoots fingernails where his hand used to be.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the end of ACT 3, Benrey is suddenly able to see the skeleton and asks for its passport. It shows it to him, and he accepts it. If you examine the passport closely, you can see that the name on it is "YOU". In the finale, the skeleton is revealed to be either Benrey's true form or some kind of extension of him. When Gordon first meets Benrey, he innocuously crouches down in front of him. This was actually Benrey's player, scorpy, planting the seeds for Gordon's supposed dick slip.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: The ending of Half-Life 1 has all the characters dancing and celebrating at Tommy's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese's.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c	type	Sensory Abuse
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a484ef6c	comment	Sensory Abuse: The sound made by the Helicopter Heap, to the point that the Youtube highlight includes an onscreen warning right before its appearance.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Passports, which apparently hold some sort of great power. Benry's Pulse Rifle is a passport (until the point where actual passports are obtained by the cast), and the final battle is focused around Gordon and the science team seeking out everyone's passports to destroy them and deprive Benry of his powers.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: This adaptation of Half-Life seems to take place in the late-00s, with Gordon wanting to be a streamer for at-the-time relevant justin.tv and Benrey rambling about Heavenly Sword on the PlayStation 3. Gabe Newell is also referenced to just be a famous knife collector, though Dr. Coomer seems to know him for different reasons.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Sometimes the chat chooses what Background Music plays, which means this chaos can be accompanied by such songs as 'La Marseillaise', 'Soul Bossa Nova', or 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis'
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: After facing the terror of the Helicopter Heap, Gordon attempts to climb a ladder. However, thanks to the poorly-interacting combo of GoldSource era ladder physics (or lack thereof), the VR game's methods of climbing ladders, and the fact that the ladder has about six inches of foot space at the bottom before the cliff edge, Gordon falls off the cliff and is left clinging on for dear life.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604	type	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_aea21604	comment	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: Some of the lines from the scientists either aren't very clear, or plain nonsensical, leading to this. Usually, even the actors don't know what they were saying.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	"There he is! Get him!"
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Another day, another dollar" is Black Mesa's, according to Doctor Coomer.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Averted. The entire facility is built to-code. It is all OSHA-approved. The US lets them do this.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: Various parts of Half-Life are skipped through a combination of god mode to bypass obstacles that are meant to kill you, or by having someone trigger map scripts to open doors to before from the other end. Occasionally the group will teleport past segments, or just skip them between videos, either when a mazelike area causes them to become completely lost or if they won't work in VR/multiplayer.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: By indirect means, in that Forzen is very insistent that The Irate Gamer most definitely did not rip off The Angry Video Game Nerd, yelling that this is not the case multiple times and getting very angry with anyone who disagrees.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21	type	Rainbow Speak
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b6f33a21	comment	"And we're BAAACK!" The "wham" here is that Benrey's Rainbow Speak suddenly goes from navy to navy with a red outline.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b707726f	comment	Bullsquids are simply called "creatures" or "beasts", and are claimed to be not aliens but genetically-engineered waste disposal beasts of burden. Bubby chides Gordon for calling them "bullsquids" as nomenclature is nothing to play with.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613	type	Elvis Lives
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_b739b613	comment	Elvis Lives: Averted in AI Crushes All Banks, where Elvis’s ghost shows up.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854	type	Classified Information
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bb76c854	comment	Classified Information: The purpose behind the Frozen Goods Department as well as the existence of headcrab zombies were kept from most Black Mesa employees prior to the Resonance Cascade, though Dr. Coomer appears to have been briefed on them.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: Due to the series running on the law of "whatever's funniest at the moment," plot details are continuously forgotten or contradicted (Early Installment Weirdness lists a few). Just roll with it.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416	type	Immortality
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_bf9ed416	comment	Immortality: Tommy claims his dog Sunkist is immortal. It turns out he was telling the truth.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: AI-Crushes-All-Banks seems like an unwieldy title until you realize the acronym is ACAB, or All Cops Are Bastards
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While Gordon is running away from some orbital strikes, Coomer manages to punch off the top of a tank.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the commentary streams, Holly mentions that the SuperPlayer Feature was based on the "Super Guide" from Donkey Kong Country Returns, where you can have a golden "Super Kong" complete a level for you if you die too many times on it. Super Player Mode Coomer bellows out "TRAIN AND FIGHT, GORDON!" before charging into battle in reference to the popular Tumblr inspirational blog warriormale. When Dr. Coomer activates SuperPlayerMode, it's accompanied by the Super Saiyan power-up sound. Gordon makes a pretty subtle one to this Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic in Act 2: Part 2. Tommy's favorite TV show is Invitation to Love. Whenever Bubby says "oh yes" he always says it with the same inflection as Bob Page in the intro to Deus Ex. Gir has confirmed this was intentional, and was a reference to his favourite part of "Deus Ex: The Recut".
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: In the finale, Gordon learns that the G-Man is Tommy's father.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: The Black Mesa Sweet Voice is something along these lines, allowing the user to write on thin air and even control minds. Tommy is fluent in the meanings of the various colors and often translates them in rhyming phrases. Benrey's skeletal minions use the Sweet Voice to hinder the science team during the final battle.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: The HECU, who are both just as evil as they were in the original source material, and much dumber. Dr. Coomer claims that they get their funding and equipment through Black Mesa, which makes it seem like a suicidal move to attack Black Mesa.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_cbeb76de	type	Wacky Sound Effect
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_cbeb76de	comment	Wacky Sound Effect: A cartoon cymbal crash plays whenever a party member takes fall damage or falls unconscious.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_d028e0da	comment	Act Three: Part One: Benrey and Bubby, who've obviously been plotting behind Gordon's back during the entire episode, trap him in a pitch-black room as HECU soldiers start beating the shit out of him, before ultimately severing his right arm. Dr. Coomer does nothing to stop this because Gordon is out of Playcoins™, and Tommy is the only one genuinely concerned about Gordon. Then he's captured by the military...
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In one of the G-Man's first appearances, he requests that Gordon take care of his "progeny". Initially, one might assume the G-Man is referring to Benrey from his similarly supernatural powers, but he's actually talking about Tommy.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: Benry's passport lists his name multiple times, to the point where the text cannot be contained by the paper itself and just hangs it off the side.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e150c4c7	comment	Tommy's subtitles are written in a font reminiscent of crude handwriting, which is fitting for the Manchild of the group.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Pretty much everyone is a murderous psycho, a stupid murderous psycho, or a murderous psycho who's even more dangerous, cruel, and violent than the rest. Even Gordon and Tommy, the nicest and most moral characters in the series, have their moments of cruelty, although it's usually unintentional.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Never just Wikipedia.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Gordon quickly gets used to his companions dying and coming back, save for the occasional Plotline Death. And even those don't often stick.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: ACAB jettisons Benrey's Lawful Stupid traits in favor of playing up his incompetence, childishness, and delusional view of the world.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Gordon delivers one of these seconds before the HECU starts shooting at the party.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Benry and the Science Team, sans Gordon and, to a lesser extent than Gordon, Tommy. They are more than comfortable with murdering other scientists and each other based on the smallest of whims, yet chastise Gordon for vandalism and for not saving scientists they killed, amongst other things. Benry in particular stands out, as he has no qualms with killing every NPC they happen upon or luring Gordon to the HECU and instructing them to cut off his arm, but is deeply offended by Gordon's lack of a passport and seems to consider it more important than anything else. In Tommy's case, while he is the most "human" of the three and generally reacts to situations as a normal person would (such as when he begins panicking and freaking out as Gordon's arm is forcibly cut off), he is seen on more than one occasion participating in the random violence (more often against other Science Team members than others, though). In addition, although he is shown to be very caring toward Gordon in particular, he has no qualms threatening him with a gun when Gordon suggests that he cut down on the soda (though given Tommy’s lack of knowledge on firearm safety and Reckless Gun Usage, it’s possible this wasn’t actually a threat).
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ec02c97e	comment	The party doesn't know what to call vortigaunts, though Dr. Coomer suggests they remind him of his ex-wife. Gordon declares they are not calling them "ex-wives". Later on, they occasionally call them "Vonneguts."
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ef92caa4	type	World Gone Mad
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ef92caa4	comment	World Gone Mad: For Gordon, there's no Gameplay and Story Segregation; the various Good Bad Bugs invoked and Black Comedy jokes made by his comrades are taken totally at face value, and are terrifying to him.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the hell Gordon and the scientists go through to navigate Black Mesa and kill Benrey, the G-Man rewards them by taking them all to Chuck E Cheese's for Tommy's birthday.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The party is trapped in a hopeless fight with Benrey on Xen, though they destroyed their own passports. Bubby uses a gun he found in Darnold's lab that sends Gordon back in time to before the Resonance Cascade test, where the giant Benrey still chases him down. He goes and destroys his passport, but needs to go back to Xen. So he begs a pre-sentience Dr. Coomer to let him give him his Playcoins to him, begs him to remember anything, as Benrey slowly closes in.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Benrey constantly asking Gordon for his passport. Dr. Coomer saying "Hello, Gordon!" almost every time Gordon talks to him. Dr. Coomer exclaiming "Look, Gordon, ropes! We can use these to traverse dangerous pits!" every time he sees a barnacle, almost always followed by "Help me, Gordon!" when he gets caught by them. The pigeons that inexplicably begin swarming Black Mesa at the Resonance Cascade. "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit!"
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: All over the place, from Coomer's dialogue swapping from complete sentences to being cut off at the last second, to "hog noise" and a picture of a Smoker zombie being used to subtitle the slurping noises the scientists make when drinking soda.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ff934825	type	Evil, Inc.
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ff934825	comment	Evil, Inc.: Between the human experimentation, the mutant animals running loose, and the company concealing a potential Zombie Apocalypse from its own staff, this version of Black Mesa is far more obviously sinister than its canon counterpart.
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Machinima) / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: All of the characters are male, though Dr. Coomer is played by a woman, and no female characters are even referenced except for Dr. Coomer's "ex-wife" (if she even existed at all, which, given that this is Dr. Coomer we're talking about, is entirely up for debate.
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