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Freeman's Mind is a Machinima by Ross Scott that's somewhere between a Let's Play and an Abridged Series of the Half-Life games. It follows the rambling, eccentric, paranoid and narcissistic thoughts of Silent Protagonist Gordon Freeman as he tries to survive the events of the series, showing us that perhaps it was for the better he kept his mouth shut. Imagine a one-man MST3K speaking as he goes through Half-Life and Half-Life 2. The first season was filmed in Half-Life: Source, the initial Source Engine upgrade of Half-Lifenote Aside from Episodes 58 and 59, which take place in the original GoldSrc demo level Half-Life: Uplink.Each episode runs about 8 minutes on averagenote The shortest episode is #23 at 4:57, and the longest is #68 at 18:10 and each episode ends at a point that you can stop watching and come back later. The series encompasses a full playthrough of Half-Life, albeit with a few liberties taken for the sake of comedy.The first season runs a total of 71 episodes (68 full episodes, plus three specials numbered ''0'', ''10.5'', and ''61.5''), with a combined runtime of about nine and a half hours. After running from 2007 to 2014, the final HL1 episode was released on December 31st, 2014.On April Fools' Day 2017, Ross released the first episode of Freeman's Mind 2, which uses Half-Life 2. And to the surprise of many, the episode wasn't a joke. The season is still in production, running a current total of 19 episodes.The series has a recap page.The series' immense popularity spawned a number of copycats, many of which have earned the Approval of God. Notable creators include the "Master Minds", a supergroup that formed to create a sort of continuity between their own, highly-popular Mind spinoffs note with the events of both Shephard's Mind and Barney's Mind receiving subtle shout-outs in the series proper. They are: Shepard's Mind (25 episodes, finished) Barney's Mind (15 episodes, finished) Chell's Mind (7 episodes, cancelled) Parker's Mind (21 episodes, finished) Felix's Mind (21 episodes, finished) Freeman's(-ish) Mind 2 (6 episodes, cancelled)The tropes related to these spinoffs can be found here and here. Also of note is Courier's Mind: Rise of New Vegas, which gained a degree of notoriety for its sheer length - 80 episodes and running, divided into 10-episode "seasons". Tropes relating to it can be found here.See also: Civil Protection, Ross's other machinima series; and Ross's Game Dungeon, Ross's video game review series where the games reviewed are often very obscure and very weird.Has nothing to do with Crispin Freeman, Morgan Freeman, or Freema Agyeman. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: In Episode 0, when Gordon notices that nothing is projecting the Hologram that's talking to him. | |
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Hanlon's Razor | |
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Hanlon's Razor: In Episode 5, after the canals lead him into an ambush, Gordon ponders if Barney is deliberately trying to get him killed, or is just simply that stupid to think of an escape route where Civil Protection can easily surround and shoot down at him from above with impunity was a good idea. He does this again with the entire Resistance in Episode 9, since their operation appears so grossly incompetent he can't tell if their incompetence is genuine and they are unwittingly sending hundreds of people to their deaths, or if the whole thing is actually an Orwellian plot by the government to weed out and slaughter dissidents. Or "a little of Column A, a little of Column B". | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: A subversion. In Episode 15, Gordon starts pondering about how he's still alive with all the injuries he's suffered. Incidentally, in later episodes, he gets bludgeoned, burned, poisoned, and almost crushed. Still not dead, obviously. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: Zigzagged with regard to Gordon's aptitude with guns: most of the time he sprays bullets in the general direction of enemies, only surviving due to his superior armor and the sheer dumb luck that he never gets hit in the head. However, other times he takes careful aim and snipes a target from a considerable distance with little effort. He also has no trouble operating or reloading his weapons, even those that he's never seen before like the Gluon Gun. According to his monologue, he's never fired a gun before the resonance cascade incident, but learned all he knows about guns from watching Die Hard multiple times. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: Lampshaded on at least one occasion. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Has a panic attack once he gets to Xen, realizes that the scientists screwed him over by sending him there instead of Massachusetts like he asked, and gets hit by all the implications of being stranded on another world with no way of getting back home. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: At the start of Episode 13, Gordon thinks the calm following the previous episode is a prelude to a plane passing overhead and bombing him, noting that it's what he'd do. He then spends the rest of the episode outrunning an attack chopper bombing (and shooting) him. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Gordon quickly deduces that he's in the future when he sees a Vortigaunt sweeping the floor, reasoning that humanity couldn't have enslaved the aliens into menial labour overnight. He isn't yet aware that humanity wasn't the one to do it. Gordon figures out he's in a totalitarian regime rather quickly and deduces that the Resistance is likely compromised by a person on the inside based on how quickly their bases fall apart. | |
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Tastes Like Chicken | |
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Tastes Like Chicken: One of Gordon's rants is against those who claim everything they haven't tried tastes like chicken, and he emphatically states that the giant tentacle he just barbecued likely tastes nothing like chicken. Though he does follow up by saying "this probably tastes like grasshoppers," which are on the list of things people claim taste like chicken. | |
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Full-Frontal Assault | |
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Full-Frontal Assault: When he discovers that there's a tracking device in his suit, Gordon considers stripping naked so the military can't track him. He ultimately decides against it since it wouldn't guarantee his ability to avoid the military, and he wouldn't be Immune to Bullets in the buff. | |
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Dressing as the Enemy | |
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Dressing as the Enemy: In Episode 59, Gordon considers dressing as a soldier to fool the others, but their rampant friendly fire has led him to believe the soldiers are intentionally murdering each other as part of a coverup. In the same episode, he inverts the trope by pondering what would happen if he could manage to stuff a zombie into his suit and march it out into hostile fire. He's pretty sure the military would assume him dead. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: He occasionally does this in order to progress, as in the game. Usually lampshaded, like when he speculates that the surprisingly-flimsy concrete barriers are actually just Styrofoam. In Episode 0, he lampshades the stupidity of having to jump from a great height onto a target painted on the concrete floor during the Hazard Course. The idea in the actual game, of course, is to demonstrate what kinds of falls will actually hurt. In this series, Gordon decides to simply lie about finishing the test, assuming his supervisors will be too lazy to check. Stand-out examples include making a running jump across an elevator shaft onto a ladder and running through an open area and strafing to dodge while a Bradley fires its 25mm autocannon at him. He lampshades how maneuvers like this could very easily get him killed: | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Mike and Dave from Civil Protection make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in Episode 7, at about 5:57, with Gordon hearing them talking about how they'll enjoy tacos on their lunch break. Hopefully their hunger spared them from Gordon's subsequent massacre. The All-Knowing Vortigaunt's voice is heard through a sewer gate by Gordon in Episode 15, but he decides it's best not to go after it. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Eddie plays this part. He is Gordon's go-to guy for shady and illegal deals and is quite possibly his only "friend". He is mentioned by Mike to survive and still up to his old antics in Civil Protection, assuming it's the same guy. | |
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Angrish | |
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Then of course his Angrish in Episode 40 as he's firing every bullet he has in his SMG at aliens and soldiers alike: | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: In Episode 28, he complains about an attacker disrupting his "train of thought"... while he's on a rail car, thinking to himself. Every now and then he mentions "solving problems" (i.e., through violence)... and he is a physicist. A profession that involves lots of math. | |
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This Ain't Rocket Surgery | |
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This Ain't Rocket Surgery: In one of his Grappling-Hook Pistol rants, Gordon notes that a grappling hook would allow him to ascend a shaft with a couple swings, then notes that you don't need a physics degree to grasp the concept. The fact that he has one just adds insult to injury. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: Gordon tells an elderly scientist to do this in an early episode after the Resonance Cascade. The scientist falls soon after, letting Gordon spout a hilarious line. | |
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Road Runner PC | |
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Road Runner PC: One of the few game mechanics not lampshaded or defied in this series is Gordon's ability to breeze along at 15 mph without getting out of breath (and swim with equal acumen). He expresses a need in the first episode to practice for the company decathlon, suggesting he has some experience in running and shooting, while episodes often end with him taking a breather. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Gordon assumes this of the soldiers after he sees one gun down a co-worker. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: In Episode 26, Gordon wonders if there's any hidden Nazi Gold inside Black Mesa. Wrong FPS game, Gordon! In a straighter example, Gordon considers bloodstains and dead bodies to be signs of danger, to be avoided, rather than considering them "clues" like a video game player would. This means he often misses supplies and ignores areas most gamers would explore. Notably, he skirted the room where the first shotgun is located, and so did not find one until two full chapters later. He also avoided picking up the Tau Cannon, an extremely powerful weapon, in part because it was covered in blood and body parts at the scene of a recent explosion. The other part, though, was that he'd heard the scientist and guard talking about it...and getting killed from it overcharging. He does pick up the other Tau Cannon just before Xen, however, and makes good use of it. Then in Episode 47, he avoids getting the Hivehand and instead tries to kill it, thinking it's just another alien that wants to kill him. He avoids picking up the other Hivehand in the supply rooms just before Xen; as Ross himself said, no sane person would touch something that looked like that. Throughout the series he continues to believe that the Black Ops enemies are ninjas. However, this is a case when following the wrong genre is a good thing; because he thinks they're ninjas, he carefully searches for them everywhere and manages to gun them down without much difficulty. | |
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Tanks for Nothing | |
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Tanks for Nothing: Gordon somehow blows up an Abrams with a grenade launcher, and blows up a Bradley by shooting it. Both of these are obviously unrealistic, but the latter is particularly notable because said Bradley had just (realistically) taken dozens of rounds of small arms fire and three grenades without taking any damage. This is of course because the tanks and IFVs in Half-Life, just like every other enemy, could succumb to Death of a Thousand Cuts from any weapon, including the crowbar. Though these ones would only take damage from hits to the turret; their bodies were invulnerable. This is despite Ross Scott specifically saying that he wanted Freeman's Mind to be less "video game-y" than Half-Life. The second Bradley Gordon comes across is dispatched realistically, with an anti-tank missile. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: While Dr Isaac Kleiner seems as friendly and endearingly quirky as ever, Gordon remembers him as an amoral Mad Scientist who's not above throwing his assistants to the wolves for an experiment. He even goes as far as to suspect that Kleiner booby-trapped the room containing his HEV suit with Lamarr just so Barney could get turned into a headcrab zombie. | |
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Long-Runners: The series started in December 2007, and is ongoing of today. The first season (covering Half-Life 1) concluded in December 2014. That's seven years. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Not only is this series's interpretation of Gordon a selfish Jerkass, but his reactions also paint Black Mesa, the military, and the aliens as just as incompetent and corrupt as he is, overall leading to a much bleaker Black Comedy-filled interpretation of the Half-Life universe. | |
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Failed a Spot Check: Gordon keeps looking for supplies on everything except the boxes labelled as "supplies". | |
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Appease the Volcano God | |
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Appease the Volcano God: Referenced when Gordon is dealing with the giant tentacle creature. Gordon notes that some cultures used to sacrifice people to volcanoes, and says he'd gladly do the same to the monster if it would keep it quiet. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Gordon is a big fan of this, having ideas like dressing up a pig in a lab coat and throwing it into a giant piston, or cloning body parts and spreading them around a small village just to freak everybody out. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Ross added a lot of things that weren't in the original, such as Gordon shooting a friendly Vortigaunt after falling into a boxcar (not possible in the original game) and his companion reacting accordingly, crawling through a window to the back of a building to search for the G-Man (which was an entirely custom area built for the series), and him nailing boards to a ramp with a custom animation of him flipping his crowbar over to use as a hammer to name a few. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Gordon has great respect for the scientists testing the atomic bomb at Los Alamos because he believes it took balls to detonate a weapon that they were concerned might ignite Earth's atmosphere. He uses this to contrast the scientists at Black Mesa, who were toying with forces they had no understanding of and kickstarted the apocalypse by accident. After finding scores of dead travellers in Xen, Gordon figures that the scientists in charge must just be wantonly beaming them there with no concern for their lives, and probably won't stop until someone kills them. | |
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Steel Ear Drums | |
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See also Steel Ear Drums, Dungeon Bypass, and Immune to Bullets. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Unwanted Assistance: This happens In-Universe: | |
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Trash of the Titans | |
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Trash of the Titans: Gordon makes several comments about the dilapidated state of the city, seeing bodies, crates, and all manner of crap just left out with no one seeming to care to clean it up. He hasn't quite gathered at this point that the Combine are simply looting the planet for resources and don't care to maintain the infrastructure. | |
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times | |
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: In Episode 6 Gordon mentions that he watched Die Hard "like fifty times", which is apparently where all his knowledge of guns comes from. | |
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Puny Earthlings | |
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Puny Earthlings: Gordon is dismayed that he is the puny Earthling here. | |
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Villainous Demotivator | |
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Villainous Demotivator: Gordon discusses the Repressive, but Efficient trope, namely the well-known quote about Mussolini making the trains run on time. Since he's currently being pursued by Metrocops in a train yard, he muses that the trains would run on time if being late meant getting shot. | |
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This Is My Side | |
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This Is My Side: He declares one of the laser tripwires to be "the line" and tells the aliens to stay on their side of it. Apparently he played the trope straight in college. | |
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Bag of Spilling | |
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Bag of Spilling: Lampshaded. Gordon angrily curses the G-Man and his lame-sounding excuse for taking all his weapons away even though he's supposed to be on an important mission, leading Gordon to speculate that he's being thrown into the wild for the G-Man's own amusement rather than having a specific objective in mind. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: Mike and Dave run past a sewer grate Gordon is looking out of in Episode 7, and shortly afterwards, Gordon is ambushed by several CP officers. This prompted a small debate as to whether the two were among the cops Gordon killed. | |
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Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors | |
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Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Spoofed by Gordon when he finds an unmanned-and-yet-to-be-activated sentry gun, which he then completely misses the grenade throw on. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: Gordon milks being trapped at a dam for all it's worth. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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As noted above in the Bilingual Bonus entry, Gordon straight-up offers to buy drugs from a passing scientist. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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The All-Knowing Vortigaunt's voice is heard through a sewer gate by Gordon in Episode 15, but he decides it's best not to go after it. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Gordon is quick to point out the ridiculous architectural design of Black Mesa, including the lack of structural integrity of every catwalk he tries to cross, the chutes-and-ladders elevator shaft, and the infamous "Box Smashing Room". Also, Episode 14: Gordon starts pointing out holes in the plot of the game, saying that a government-funded cover-up would not only be expensive, but pointless against randomly-teleporting aliens. He's also noticed that his day seems to consist of escaping from one death trap only to fall into another one. Episode 28 also hangs a lampshade on the limited models for NPC scientists, when Gordon finds out they know his name. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Referenced. Though, of course, it's subject to Aesop Amnesia. | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: Gordon is overjoyed that he gets something to counter alien and soldier threats. Then the marines bring in the heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and artillery. While definitely a pain when used against him, as they can kill him as if his power armor doesn't exist, he enjoys getting to use them in Episode 49. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Gravity Gun is treated as this in the series since it has a massive kick that knocks the wind out of Gordon. As such, he doesn't like using to do anything other than lifting things. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Discussed in-universe. Gordon thinks that the line is "He who fights drummers" because "there's no way that [he's] going to end up looking like that◊". | |
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Frog Men | |
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In Episode 4, Gordon recalls a time when he stayed awake for four days and thought his house was being invaded by Frog Men. In Episode 28, during a rant on how he is Properly Paranoid, he lists one of the reasons as being: | |
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Boring Vacation Slideshow | |
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Boring Vacation Slideshow: Gordon has apparently dealt with this before; he laments not bringing a camera to document his survival and everything he did through it, especially because he could spring it on any family members trying to show vacation pictures and immediately shut them up. | |
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Deconstructor Fleet | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: This show would rival Spec Ops: The Line in deconstructing first-person shooters if it wasn't so hilarious. Plus, Gordon deconstructs other tropes as well not related to first-person shooters or even video games at all. For a full list of tropes that the series deconstructs, click here. Firing a gun inside an air vent is a dumb idea, and can permanently deafen you. When Gordon shoots himself up with morphine, he's actually more or less normal, just slightly slurred in his "speech" and considerably less bitter about life than usual. And maybe a little loopier than even his usual self. You can't just invent and build a teleporter, you also need several other major scientific breakthroughs to even make it possible. | |
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Two-Keyed Lock | |
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Two-Keyed Lock: Gordon comments on the unusual lack of this (among other security measures) at the launch site. Granted, it's not for a missile like he thought it was, but still. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Two of these occur in Episode 8. Normally, the player is supposed to turn a valve to raise the water level so that they can swim to the other side of the wall. In this continuity, Gordon shoots at a manhack and accidentally hits an explosive barrel. Cue a chain reaction of explosions that almost makes the sewer collapse. In the ensuing chaos, a pipe breaks and provides the necessary flood Gordon needs. Later in the episode, rather than risk getting electrocuted by walking through a shipping container, he shoots a transformer on a nearby utility pole, cutting off the electricity. | |
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Super Window Jump | |
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Super Window Jump: The scientist pulls this, and Gordon is suitably impressed. Too bad he dies not five seconds later. | |
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Bungling Inventor | |
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Bungling Inventor: Gordon mentions a few Black Mesa projects that turned out badly, compared to the relatively minor problem of his grenades having blinking lights. There was a microwave gun that, since it fired invisible microwaves, was impossible to tell whether or not it was turned on, leading to repeated instances of people getting cooked alive when they walked in front of it assuming it was off. They got in hot water with the Pentagon for making guided missiles that constantly flew out of range of their authentication servers. Why a missile even needs an authentication server in the first place is never answered. They built a laser tank that actually worked quite well... until the lens got cracked, causing the laser to refract and melt the gunner. They tried to build some sort of equipment that would grant the wearer the power to psychically kill people. However, it was very bulky and uncomfortable, used an obscene amount of power, and couldn't kill anything bigger than a small dog, so they deemed it a failure and gave up on the whole thing. | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Averted. Gordon doesn't possess a helmet, but really wants one. | |
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Shoplift and Die | |
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Shoplift and Die: Gordon imagines that in 50 years, in addition to surveillance cameras, Wal-Marts will also come equipped with roof-mounted turret guns to gun down shoplifters. | |
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Sword Cane | |
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Sword Cane: Gordon wants to buy one when he gets older. | |
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La Résistance | |
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Gordon figures out he's in a totalitarian regime rather quickly and deduces that the Resistance is likely compromised by a person on the inside based on how quickly their bases fall apart. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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He remembers Kleiner as something of a Mad Scientist. When the cat incident from the game is brought up, Gordon is dismissive of the whole topic, knowing for certain the cat died and finding nothing weird or unnerving about it, implying more research along the same lines. And he's almost killed Gordon before in different experiments. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Expect Gordon to carpet F-bomb the area with plenty of screaming to go along with it whenever he gets ambushed or almost dies. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Gordon speaks German at one point as his in-game résumé has him working in Austria before joining Black Mesa. | |
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Testosterone Poisoning | |
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Testosterone Poisoning: Doom Guy from Doom Guy's Mind: Episode 7, oh so very much. | |
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Cloning Body Parts | |
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Cloning Body Parts: Gordon muses how he would like to clone individual body parts of a stranger and then spread them across a town over a few months; creating the illusion that someone is getting slowly chopped up by a serial killer. | |
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You ALL Look Familiar | |
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You ALL Look Familiar: Gordon says the only thing that makes him stand out is his beard, being the only scientist with one. Aside from him, you've got black scientist, Einstein scientist, bald scientist, and security guard. | |
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Conspiracy Theorist | |
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And as of Episode 40, door conspiracy. | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: Gordon is quick to take this view, which isn't that unjustified, considering the circumstances. He even references this trope by name in Episode 6. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: He uses the Crazy-Prepared example above to claim to be this, but then starts listing off the ridiculous things he's paranoid of. After all the crap that has happened at Black Mesa, who's to say that there aren't frogmen in the sewers and owls that can read his mind? (Probably escaped Aperture Science experiments if they're not from Black Mesa.) And as of Episode 40, door conspiracy. He learns in Episode 33 that his suit has tracking devices. He ultimately comes to this conclusion. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Gordon's life keeps getting more interesting even before it all went to hell. He remembers Kleiner as something of a Mad Scientist. When the cat incident from the game is brought up, Gordon is dismissive of the whole topic, knowing for certain the cat died and finding nothing weird or unnerving about it, implying more research along the same lines. And he's almost killed Gordon before in different experiments. Gordon was a college can-throwing champion to the point a Metrocop's attempts at bullying him fall flat because Gordon thinks he wants to see the master at work. During a rant, he admits to himself he once attacked a cardboard cut-out at a shoe store. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: In the Rocket Test Lab, Gordon is flabbergasted upon seeing a reel-to-reel memory storage device from the '70s. He's even more confused when he sees what looks like a punch card slot. In Xen, Gordon comments on how the aliens have some technology far beyond that of Earth, such as teleports, yet are severely deficient in other areas like weapons. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: When Gordon has trouble with the boat ramp in the canals, he backtracks a bit to take some boards off a post and nail them to the empty section of the ramp, extending it so he doesn't have to jump as far. Again, not something you can do in the game. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": When Gordon finally comes across an elevator that goes up towards the surface, he gives a deadpan "what" when he finds out the path out is blocked by explosive crates. In Episode 0 (the Hazard Course), Gordon blurts out a "what" when he realizes the training program wants him to jump off a narrow platform, over a dozen feet off the ground, onto a hard concrete floor. On purpose. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: In Episode 51, he declares that his "opinion of humanity is so low right now" due to the stupidity or maliciousness (or both) of everybody involved in the Black Mesa Incident. | |
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Don't Ask, Just Run | |
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Don't Ask, Just Run: Gordon is a firm believer that if you see a whole bunch of people all screaming and running in the same direction, then they probably have more information than you do and you should probably join them. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: Instead of ending credits (since it only takes a couple of seconds to show everyone involved), the last episode shows a collection of the most banal, misspelled, or obtuse comments appended to the series, including at least a few hundred different people asking "what game is this?"note The game is prominently identified on literally every episode's closing credits. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Gordon points out it's really hard to shoot while swimming, as muscle memory might lead to shooting himself in the knee by accident while using the shooting hand, and aiming is terribly compromised too. Since the Vortigaunts are allied with humanity in Half-Life 2, one would assume that Gordon would work with them like in the original game, albeit begrudgingly since he's (understandably) wary of them after the events in the first game. Nope! In episode 4, he immediately shoots the Vortigaunt in the trailer dead, causing the pissed off human ally to threaten Gordon with a gun and tell him to get out. How else was Gordon supposed to react after (almost) every alien tried to kill him back at Black Mesa?note Before you ask, no, killing the vortigaunt isn't possible in the actual game. It's a custom mod that Ross used. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: After multiple hostile encounters with the "rescue team", plus the comments of his fellow scientists, Gordon finally starts to realize something: | |
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue... | |
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue...: One of the YouTube comments displayed during the end credits: | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Commented on by Gordon regarding the snipers he comes across during his trek through Black Mesa. Gordon actually theorizes that the multiple snipers he's encountered are actually all the same guy, stalking him. | |
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Stupidity Is the Only Option | |
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Stupidity Is the Only Option: Lampshaded in Episode 11, after leaping across an elevator shaft onto a ladder on the opposite wall. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: Gordon faces one after learning his suit has trackers in it the military is using to follow him. Ditch the suit and the military can't track him, but they could still find him anyway and the suit's armor is the only thing keeping him alive through the various gunfights he's been getting into. He decides to keep the suit on until he's relatively out of danger, then ditch it. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: In one episode, Gordon overhears two soldiers talking about how mad they are that Gordon killed all their friends (in self-defense). Gordon responds with machine gun fire. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Doom Guy's Mind has shades of this. The humour is much cruder and less sophisticated, and consists mostly of one-liners and swearing, all filtered through a ridiculously gruff voice. | |
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Torture Always Works | |
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Torture Always Works: Gordon confidently states that he would absolutely fold under torture and switch sides if he was captured and threatened with it. It's not like he's a trained soldier, after all. | |
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Follow the Chaos | |
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Follow the Chaos: Soon after the Resonance Cascade, Gordon realizes that the correct paths he needs to follow are often marked by blood, dead bodies, and/or dangerous traps and monsters. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Discussed in Episode 52, where Gordon notes that robots will likely never take over the world since they're only programmed to perform highly specific tasks. | |
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The Only One I Trust | |
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The Only One I Trust: In the first episode, Gordon admits that Kleiner is the only person he trusts at this point. Considering how little respect Gordon usually has for other people, that's saying a lot. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Gordon's opinion of the Resistance, especially when he tries to warn the people in Black Mesa East that the Combine are right behind him and they should evacuate the base, but no one listens to him. | |
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You ALL Look Familiar | |
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Episode 28 also hangs a lampshade on the limited models for NPC scientists, when Gordon finds out they know his name. | |
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Energy Weapon | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4536fd29 | comment |
Energy Weapon: Gordon has frequent encounters with laser beams. Sometimes they're straight-up deadly, other times they activate something else that's deadly, like trip-mines and sentry turrets. More recently he thought about redirecting an exceptionally powerful one and trying to shoot down satellites. | |
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What Does This Button Do? | |
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What Does This Button Do?: The usual reaction to finding a new button or switch he hasn't touched yet. The standard alternate reaction doesn't even bother asking what it does. Gordon himself lampshades this, deciding that he shouldn't keep pressing buttons after one launches a missile. Then lampshades it again when he does so anyway. And in Episode 49: | |
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Game Mod | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_45bf382b | comment |
Game Mod: Ross is playing a custom mod that allows for moments where Gordon does something completely different than what was expected. At first, it was just mapping changes, but the bit with using the crowbar as a hammer had to be custom code. | |
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Moral Sociopathy | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4672ad3d | comment |
Moral Sociopathy: As noted under Pet the Dog, Gordon will avoid killing people and aliens when he has no need. However, he seems to be motivated more by a desire to preserve his reputation and avoid legal trouble rather than any actual empathy. Even when faced with aliens in the middle of Xen where no one would know, he still won't shoot the non-hostile because he doesn't want to discourage it. | |
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In-Universe | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_469e3e2f | comment |
In-Universe, a bullsquid gives Gordon some, and we get to hear about it: | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Barney seems to be shaping up to be one, treating Gordon like the two are best friends when Gordon doesn't remember him at all. Then just to rub it in, Gordon recognizes Kleiner instantly. | |
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The Stinger | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_48081842 | comment |
In The Stinger of Episode 13, after being chased by the Hunter-Chopper, Gordon says he's changed his mind and doesn't want to be a pilot anymore. This is a nod to the very first episode when he spots the Apache from the tram, and notes that he should've been a pilot. | |
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The Elevator from Ipanema | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_48f94fc1 | comment |
...entering an elevator with background music. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4a8c4e5f | comment |
Big "WHAT?!": Episode 4 gave us this brief exchange between Gordon and the security system: | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water | |
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Fish out of Temporal Water: Gordon recognizes that he's been sent some number of years into the future, and is understandably baffled by the Resistance being chummy with the same aliens that used to zap him on the regular mere hours ago from his perspective. It doesn't help that no one has bothered to fill him in on the new status quo. | |
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Everyone Knows Morse | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4ad1816a | comment |
Everyone Knows Morse: Subverted in the finale: | |
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-0.3 | |
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Blood Is the New Black | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4d272d11 | comment |
...killing barnacles and getting showered by gore. | |
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Harsher in Hindsight | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4ec4c5ab | comment |
Harsher in Hindsight: In-universe example. In Episode 32, Gordon theorizes that his boss may be trying to take over the world. In Half-Life 2, his boss actually does take over the world, and it's implied that Gordon's boss used the whole incident to do this. | |
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Friend in the Black Market | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4f23ab52 | comment |
...mentioning his friend Eddie who could either supply him with certain [X] or could buy certain [X] from him. ([X] being the not very easily legally obtained good of discussion) | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: Early on, Gordon uses the word "dimension" in a fairly typical science fiction context. Much later on, he goes off on a rant after hearing other people use that word in the same way and talks about how that's not what it means. | |
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Badass on Paper | |
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Badass on Paper: Despite all said, Gordon is still a delusional and neurotic Cloud Cuckoolander who has survived more than one encounter via pure luck. It doesn't stop fellow Black Mesa personnel from seeing him as a living legend and believing him to be the only one that can stop the alien invasion. Gordon lampshades his improbable luck repeatedly. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: See Contractual Immortality above. In summary, Gordon never dies in the main series, except in Episode 10.5. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After throwing a remote-detonating satchel charge between two soldiers who fail to notice it. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: If you invade his personal space while he's stressed out, expect him to yell at you a lot if you're lucky, or shoot you if you're not. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: After killing the Ichthyosaur. | |
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Scenic Tour Level | |
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Scenic-Tour Level: It's the former Trope Namer, so of course, Gordon goes through it in the first episode. He uses the time to comment on the various safety and security failures, his lateness and intent to rob the company if he's fired, and his various strange acquaintances. | |
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Team Killer | |
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Team Killer: Gordon has killed (or at least incapacitated) at least one security guard intentionally, shot another after he ran in front of his gun, and comments about how the soldiers have killed their own guys on several occasions. | |
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Broad Strokes | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_547196be | comment |
Broad Strokes: Back in episode 61 of season 1, Shephard's Mind was implied to be in the same continuity as Freeman's Mind (and by extension Civil Protection) based on Robin Darnell's Shephard shouting at Ross Scott's Gordon while the latter jumps through the portal, an event that occurs in both series. Season 2 of Freeman's Mind leaves it ambiguous if Barney's Mind is in the same continuity (not only does Barney sound different, but Gordon also doesn't recognize Barney when Barney's Mind claims that Barney was Gordon's best friend and college roommate), despite a whole episode being devoted to Ian's Barney conversing with Robin's Shephard. This suggests that while Shephard's Mind happened, some of the details were different; funnily enough, this matches the canon position of Opposing Force itself pretty well. | |
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity | |
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: Gordon is deeply suspicious, and slightly unnerved, at the discovery of random ammo packs that happen to be strewn across his path. Especially since the packs are always the right calibre for his gun. May double as a Call-Back to when he mused the possibility of being a cosmic pawn in the first series. He eventually concludes that the cops are so trigger-happy that they just walk around carrying these big boxes of ammo everywhere and sometimes drop them accidentally. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: When he picks up the Rocket Launcher and he hears the return of the helicopter he starts speaking like this. | |
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Achievements in Ignorance | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_57b74bd4 | comment |
Achievements in Ignorance: Gordon outright refuses to listen to any of his colleagues' attempts to explain to him what he needs to do to end the invasion. Fortunately, his wandering the compound hitting random buttons and switches in an attempt to find his way out ends up being exactly what he needed to do to complete his rejected mission. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Gordon really doesn't like Vortigaunts. He's still sore over the whole alien invasion thing since it only happened recently for him, plus nobody told him that they're now on the side of the Resistance, leading him to assume that humanity has enslaved them all as revenge for invading Earth. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Gordon thinks this trope is in effect when he falls into a train car containing a man and a Vortigaunt, and immediately shoots the Vortigaunt dead, still unaware that humans and Vortigaunts are now on the same side. As far as he's concerned, he just saved the guy's life and the thanks he gets is a gun pointed in his face and a boot out the door, which leaves him utterly baffled. He decides that the only explanation that makes sense is that the Vortigaunt was the guy's slave, and the guy was simply angry about his personal property being destroyed, as anyone else would be. | |
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Not His Sled | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5a36f8bc | comment |
Not His Sled: There are quite a few changes from the original source material thanks to Ross and Toby modding the game: Episode 4 has Gordon dropping inside of the train car with a rebel and a Vortigaunt. Unaware that the Vortigaunts are allied with the Resistance, he proceeds to gun the alien down immediately upon seeing him. The rebel is understandably pissed and threatens Gordon with a gun, telling him to get out. Two of these occur in Episode 8. Normally, the player is supposed to turn a valve to raise the water level so that they can swim to the other side of the wall. In this continuity, Gordon shoots at a manhack and accidentally hits an explosive barrel. Cue a chain reaction of explosions that almost makes the sewer collapse. In the ensuing chaos, a pipe breaks and provides the necessary flood Gordon needs. Later in the episode, rather than risk getting electrocuted by walking through a shipping container, he shoots a transformer on a nearby utility pole, cutting off the electricity. In Episode 9, Gordon spots the G-Man and tries to follow him into Station 7 only to find out that he disappeared. He then gets knocked back into the water by one of the zombies for his troubles. Normally, the only other interesting things in the station are the voice of a woman trying to hail the station on the radio and some optional supplies. Here, Gordon goes further to try to find out where the G-Man went. He goes through an open window and searches two houses, which doesn't turn up anything since the station is abandoned, before giving up and going back to the boat. A minor case in Episode 10. Gordon comes across a jump where the player is normally supposed to use the barrels to lift a ramp in order to proceed. He does attempt to do this at the end of Episode 9, but screws up the jump on the boat, which he later concludes to be the fault of the giant hole in the ramp. His solution? To knock down the wooden boards nearby using the blunt end of his crowbar and hammer them in diagonally over the hole. It works. Two cases of this happen in Episode 14. First, rather than go through a weight puzzle to lift another ramp that'll let him pass a wall, Gordon proceeds to blow up the latter with a grenade and simply drive the boat through the gap. Second, normally the rebels wish you luck and tell you to give the Hunter-Chopper hell after a Vortigaunt installs a gun on your boat; here, however, Gordon still doesn't trust the Vortigaunt and threatens him at gunpoint to get away from the boat when the male rebel reveals this to him. No one says a single word to him afterward and the female rebel silently opens the gate for him to proceed after Gordon demands it. Episode 15 shows one of the biggest examples of this as of the time of writing. In the actual game, the player is required to jump off a dam with the boat in order to reach Black Mesa East. Here, Gordon makes it clear that there's no way in hell he's jumping off a massive dam and ditches the boat. He then simply walks down a separate pathway to make it to Black Mesa East. Once inside, the rebels' decontamination gas briefly knocks Gordon out, leaving him dazed and angry when he recovers in Episode 16. | |
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Gang Up on the Human | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5ade9ace | comment |
Gang Up on the Human: Gordon gets frustrated that he appears to be the only target of all of the antagonists when the different factions should really be fighting each other. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: One Headcrab inadvertently jumps off a cliff to its death while trying to attack Gordon. | |
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AbridgedSeries | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5d0c92b6 | comment |
Abridged Series: So far, the first series' habit of skipping over less interesting sections of the game has been inverted more than anything, with Gordon being clueless as to how to progress (the puzzle in the tunnels that involves flooding the room), getting sidetracked (searching for the G-Man), or just being unable to solve a puzzle the correct way and having to resort to almost ten minutes of extra busywork (the boat ramp). In all three cases, the game had to be modded to accommodate this. | |
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You Kill It, You Bought It | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5e2f5ad2 | comment |
Gordon reluctantly admits that he hasn't acquired the powers of an Elder God, referring to his victory over the Nihalanth in which he hoped that he was God after killing the previous holder of the title. | |
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Kleptomaniac Hero | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5e7c0ab7 | comment |
Kleptomaniac Hero: Gordon frequently muses about stealing office supplies, computers and experiments. | |
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Nazi Gold | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_5fb4ac87 | comment |
In Episode 26, Gordon wonders if there's any hidden Nazi Gold inside Black Mesa. Wrong FPS game, Gordon! | |
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Inventional Wisdom | |
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Inventional Wisdom: Gordon questions the reasoning behind the Combine grenades having a bright light and beeping timer that warns potential enemies of the incoming danger, believing it would make more sense to disguise them as potatoes so his foes wouldn't see their deaths coming. | |
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Tastes Like Purple | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_620475f4 | comment |
Tastes Like Purple: After getting teleported to Uplink, Gordon increasingly experiences flashes of green light until they take him back to the main game. The first time this happens, he thinks he just heard "someone green" and then wonders if he's suffering temporary synesthesia due to head trauma. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: Sometimes his rants border on this instead of merely venting frustration. Teeters on the edge of total breakdown when he first enters Xen, as he's utterly furious at (what he perceives as) being tricked and abandoned by the scientists, and completely terrified at the prospect of navigating a world that makes no physical sense. Once again, screaming at himself for a few minutes seems to help. | |
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He Knows About Timed Hits | |
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When Gordon runs the training course, he is immediately critical of the tutorial which instructs the participant to press the button before telling them that it resets the tutorial. He also thoroughly lampshades the He Knows About Timed Hits parts. | |
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Emergency Stash | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_625cfe89 | comment |
Emergency Stash: After realizing he's a fugitive and his bank accounts are probably frozen, Gordon mentions a stash of 10 thousand dollars in gold he hid in Massachusetts for precisely a situation like that. | |
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Death Glare | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: Initially, Gordon refuses to put on the hazard suit because it gives him bad memories, but acquiesces after seeing the way Kleiner is looking at him. | |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs | |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: Apparently, Gordon believes that HE killed the dinosaurs. | |
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Armor Is Useless | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_638b65bc | comment |
See Armor Is Useless above. Sure, what happens can easily be rationalized, but interviews reveal that those rationalizations don't fit Scott's intentions. | |
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Universal Ammunition | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_63a865c9 | comment |
Universal Ammunition: Lampshaded and averted. In episode 7, Gordon finds out he can't use all the pistol ammunition he's collected in the SMG he's just picked up because they're of a different calibre. This causes him to lament how pistols and machine guns in Black Mesa used the same calibre, which made it easier to manage his ammo. | |
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Militaries Are Useless | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_68148dc | comment |
Militaries Are Useless: Gordon certainly thinks so, as he observes them spend most of their time trying to kill him, and killing unarmed civilians or each other, rather than actually doing anything about the Alien Invasion. When he sees them actually fighting and beating aliens in Episode 49, he seems more genuinely awestruck than anything else... only to react casually and with a lack of surprise when he sees the soldiers getting their asses handed to them by Alien Grunts a few rooms later. Including one soldier being punched through a concrete wall. | |
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Double Tap | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_68186dcd | comment |
Double Tap: Subverted. After killing Rocky the Rocket Ranger, Gordon muses that he might not be dead, but is satisfied as long as the guy stays down and doesn't think he's reached the point where he needs to start doing confirmation kills. | |
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Punctuated Pounding | |
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Punctuated Pounding: Just about every time he attacks something. | |
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Outfit Decoy | |
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Outfit Decoy: Similar to his opinion of the military in the first game, Gordon speculates that if he could manage to rig up a dummy and paint it orange, the chopper would probably spend 20 minutes firing at it before they figured out it wasn't him. | |
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Made of Plasticine | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_68f6e811 | comment |
Made of Plasticine: Occasionally, Gordon is astonished that seemingly sturdy materials like metal gates or wooden crates burst apart with suspicious ease when he applies gunfire or a crowbar, especially when other objects, like doors, seem to be Made of Indestructium. In one episode, he shoots down a helicopter with an MP5. He spends the beginning of the next episode pondering how that's even possible. In another episode, he rams a series of concrete bollards with a tram, expecting nothing more than that the tram will explode, while it instead plunges right through without slowing down. He eventually concludes that the bollards must have been made of Styrofoam. In Episode 45, he's pleasantly astonished at managing to somehow destroy a tank with a submachine gun. | |
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Justified Tutorial | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_69ab6c58 | comment |
In Episode 0, Gordon finds most of the Hazard Course training to be rather patronizing. Outside the context of teaching the player how to play the game, telling someone how to jump or climb a ladder is basically insulting their intelligence. Later on, Gordon is asked to jump from a great height to teach the player about Falling Damage. Naturally, he doesn't out of fear of injuring himself and refuses to complete the rest of his training. | |
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Continue Your Mission, Dammit! | |
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Continue Your Mission, Dammit!: In the third episode, Gordon's response to a scientist's prodding. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: When Gordon sees a train run down a cop without even trying to brake, he assumes they must be really serious about their schedules. | |
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The Stoner | |
| Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_6db06839 | comment |
The Stoner: In Episode 9, when Gordon realizes he's supposed to make a ramp in the middle of the water and jump off it with his airboat in order to progress, he concludes that the Resistance member who designed this escape route was probably high when he did it. | |
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Another Dimension | |
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Another Dimension: Deconstructed by Gordon, who observes that the aliens are quite clearly three-dimensional, and shows a great deal of annoyance at the misuse of the word. | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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In Episode 9, Gordon spots the G-Man and tries to follow him into Station 7 only to find out that he disappeared. He then gets knocked back into the water by one of the zombies for his troubles. Normally, the only other interesting things in the station are the voice of a woman trying to hail the station on the radio and some optional supplies. Here, Gordon goes further to try to find out where the G-Man went. He goes through an open window and searches two houses, which doesn't turn up anything since the station is abandoned, before giving up and going back to the boat. | |
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Calling Your Attacks | |
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Calling Your Attacks: GRE-NAAADE! | |
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Vanity Plate | |
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Vanity Plate: The Accursed Farms cow appears at the end of every episode. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: Gordon never looks for a fight. He just wants to leave Black Mesa. But then people get it into their heads that he needs to die and find out the hard way that he's a One-Man Army. | |
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Door to Before | |
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...realizing he's just gone through a Door to Before. | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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Invoked Trope by Gordon, a lot, in that everything he's doing is in Violation of Common Sense. | |
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Almighty Janitor | |
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Almighty Janitor: Gordon suspects that the janitors have the highest rate of survival out of all of the Black Mesa employees. They start out with a melee weapon, know the building inside and out, and have the keys to every door. | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw | |
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Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Among the list of things Gordon wants. From Episode 10: | |
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Police Brutality | |
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Police Brutality: Gordon notes that the Civil Protection officers didn't even bother to shout "Freeze!" at him before opening fire. | |
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Who Would Be Stupid Enough? | |
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Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: During the tram ride when the PA advises occupants not to touch the electrified tram rails, Gordon muses that they would only make such a declaration if someone in the past was dumb enough to try, though he then concedes he might do it himself were he drunk enough. | |
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Remember the New Guy? | |
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Remember the New Guy?: Lampshaded. While Barney knows who Gordon is, Gordon has no idea who Barney is. He doesn't recognize Dr Breen either. He does, however, immediately recognize Dr Kleiner and seems to think well of him, despite not having mentioned him at all throughout the previous series. Ross Scott justified this in a fan chat when he explained that Barney is not mentioned anywhere in the original game, whereas Kleiner is at least mentioned in the manual as part of Gordon's backstory. Going on the canonical sources and taking them at face value, there's no reason to expect that Gordon knows Barney. He also has no memory of Breen or Eli Vance for the same reason. | |
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Shooting Superman | |
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Shooting Superman: This series does away with health packs and HEV rechargers in favour of simply having Gordon's Powered Armor make him impervious to low level threats (low power rounds, Bullsquid poison, Vortigaunt electrical attacks, et cetera), with the higher level threats (such as explosives, high calibre rounds, and giant monsters) being instantly fatal, forcing Gordon to always dodge them at all costs. As a result, the marines' continuous attempts to kill Gordon by just shooting him in the torso with their MP5s comes off as this. Gordon lampshades it a few times. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Amusing Injuries: All forms of alien projectiles are treated as non-lethal (to Gordon, anyway; soldiers and such can still be seen dying to lightning and bees) and thus Gordon getting hit with them is a source of humour. Whether it's Vortigaunts' lightning bolts, Houndeye's sonic booms, Bullsquid's spit, a swipe from a Headcrab, Grunt's Bee-Bee Gun or Alien Controller's energy blasts, getting hit with these will only annoy Gordon unless it gets him in the face, in which (based on his reaction) it leaves a bruise or laceration at worst. Bullets (especially high-calibre rounds), Death Rays, and explosives are treated more seriously. Zig-zagged when Gordon is shot in the ear: he complains at first, then decides it's a free piercing and goes on a tangent about ear piercings, then treats it seriously again when he finds a first-aid station and bandages himself up. After that, it's barely ever mentioned again. | |
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Violence is the Only Option | |
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Violence is the Only Option: Invoked by Gordon, who makes a few attempts at communication with the aliens and HECU and comes to this conclusion because, well, they still try to kill him. | |
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Hearing Voices | |
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Hearing Voices: Gordon begins to suspect he is when he hears a Breencast speech before he discovers the source. Implied when Gordon finds a dead body and says this: Gordon initially thinks this is the case with Father Grigori's disembodied preaching before he actually sees the man. | |
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Smart People Play Chess | |
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Smart People Play Chess: In Episode 49, Gordon muses about Shotgun Chess, but then disregards it all by shouting how he hates chess. He also subverts it by insisting that Chess isn't as much about intelligence as it is about being able to think further ahead than your opponent. A few episodes after the above, he comments on how chess can't possibly prepare one for anything he's gone through. In an earlier episode, he remarked that the soldiers probably suck at chess. | |
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I Can't Hear You | |
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I Can't Hear You: During the "power up the portal to Xen" sequence in Episode 61, the noise of the portal powering up and the enemies attacking him means that he can't hear the scientist shouting at him about what's going on with the portal. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gordon gives one to a security office he thinks is behind the murder of a scientist. | |
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Talk Like a Pirate | |
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Talk Like a Pirate: Episode 27 has Gordon taking up a pirate persona and the very beginning of Episode 28 has him trying to continue but goes into a coughing fit and stops. | |
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Ambiguous Time Period | |
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Ambiguous Time Period: While never remarked upon in the series proper, Ross Scott has pointed out during his video chats that none of the historical or pop culture references in the series goes beyond the year 2000. This is because Half-Life 1 is set in 200X, and Ross doesn't want to step on the timeline's toes. That said, there is some contradiction to when exactly the Mind Series (and its spin-offs) takes place: Some of Gordon's references heavily imply the series takes place very early in the 2000s as opposed to later in the decade, given the lack of The War on Terror references when Gordon discusses the military, law enforcement, and Department of Defense (common topics, given his situation), and Black Mesa using Cyrix processors.note The company went out of business in 1997, but it's perfectly plausible that a government office could still be using their products in 2000. In 2009, substantially less so. Though on the opposite side, in Shephard's Mind (which is confirmed by Episode 61 of the first season of Freeman's Mind to be in-continuity) Episode 17, Shephard wishes that he was sent to Afghanistan instead of Black Mesa and explicitly blames Barack Obama. Along with the references to video games like BioShock and Team Fortress 2, this would suggest that the series takes place in 2009. | |
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Unfriendly Fire | |
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Unfriendly Fire: In Episode 30, an officer blows up a pair of his troops with a grenade launcher. Gordon theorizes this is the reason. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gordon laments some of the things he has to do just to progress his own escape. | |
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Freak Out | |
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In Episode 55, he has a Freak Out when an alien almost teleports inside him, complete with three consecutive "OH MY GOD!" statements in a row. | |
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Shared Universe | |
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Shared Universe: In addition to the Shepard's Mind shout-out in Episode 61 of season 1, Episode 5 of season 2 reveals that Freeman's Mind takes place in the same continuity as Ross Scott's other series, Civil Protection. The jury's still out on his Source shorts Galaxy Gulp and A Stranger in Need. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Like in the main game, the "rescue team" has one when the first soldier Gordon sees guns down a scientist. But in Freeman's Mind specifically, they have another one involving the second group of soldiers Gordon sees: One of which accidentally blows his teammate up with a grenade. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Episode 38, on a conveyor belt, trying to go past what is practically a Death Course: | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: Gordon assumes that he's just a nobody who nobody is rallying behind and the local dictatorship can make up any story they want to make him into a scapegoat. He couldn't be more wrong, considering his Living Legend status that will, in time, end up resulting in an outright revolution. | |
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AirVentEscape | |
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Air Vent Escape: Gordon has to traverse quite a few vents on his way through the facility, comparing it to Die Hard. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Gordon, and all the other mind series protagonists, to an extent, due to their blatant disregard for the life of others. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
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Compensating for Something: Gordon speculates this is the reason behind all the automatic turret guns. | |
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BFG | |
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Stand-out examples include making a running jump across an elevator shaft onto a ladder and running through an open area and strafing to dodge while a Bradley fires its 25mm autocannon at him. He lampshades how maneuvers like this could very easily get him killed: | |
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No Theme Tune | |
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No Theme Tune: But it does have a pretty recognizable "Bump bump chu... bump bump chi... bump bump" noise that plays at the beginning. That noise is the opening to "Military Precision" from the Half-Life soundtrack and is copied into every Mind clone. The part right after that can be heard in the closing credits of Barney's Mind and in the credits of the last episode of Freeman's Mind. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Gordon reaches Black Mesa East, he's paranoid that the Combine will find the place, as he shot down one of their choppers close to the entrance and a search party would stumble upon it easily. They do quickly catch up to him, but he's wrong about why. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: With the game as Gordon's "reality": | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: Gordon wants one, badly. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Gordon nonchalantly gets a short one in while recapping the events of the first series finale. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
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They tried to build some sort of equipment that would grant the wearer the power to psychically kill people. However, it was very bulky and uncomfortable, used an obscene amount of power, and couldn't kill anything bigger than a small dog, so they deemed it a failure and gave up on the whole thing. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Fundamentally useless rooms like the box-smashing shed are attempts to pad out the budget (a very common real-life technique). | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: Discussed. One of Gordon's nicknames for the Bullsquids is "Cthulhu dog", because of their tentacle faces. He remarks that he was expecting to face one of these instead of a dog-sized beast, commenting "Cthulhu was supposed to be really big! Frankly, I'm quite disappointed." He comes to regret his words when he runs into big, powerful aliens that actually can be considered such and which would fit in pretty well with the Great Old Ones. After killing the three-story tall tentacle monster, he comments that he thought it was actually a huge creature buried beneath Black Mesa, and that what he destroyed was only its hair strands. When he finally meets the Nihilanth (a building-sized cybernetic fetus-like alien that can levitate, shoot lightning, and project portals and force fields), he calls it an Elder God and exclaims: He thinks that the Gonarch is some kind of god after seeing it shrug off multiple anti-tank missiles (of course, a few more missiles plus some well-placed satchel charges do her in). | |
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Major General Song | |
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Major General Song: Gordon sings the entire song and adds another verse while killing an entire military squad in Episode 45. | |
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Always a Bigger Fish | |
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Gordon quickly deduces that he's in the future when he sees a Vortigaunt sweeping the floor, reasoning that humanity couldn't have enslaved the aliens into menial labour overnight. He isn't yet aware that humanity wasn't the one to do it. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: Upon launching the rocket: In Episode 54 he leaves a scientist to be killed by aliens (that he freed) under the pretence that he needs to save ammunition. To be completely fair, however, any self-respecting scientist who stores a bunch of dangerous aliens in a container that can be freed at the press of an (unlabelled) button is kind of asking for it. At one point Gordon complains about doing a task, but muses that when he eventually gets minions he can tell them he's done the same thing that he's ordering them to do. However, that implies he would never order someone to do something he hasn't done himself and gleefully admits he would order men to their deaths if it meant not waiting in line or getting a better parking spot. It seems that he wouldn't mind being a Corrupt Corporate Executive. | |
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Do Wrong, Right | |
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Do Wrong, Right: Gordon is miffed when he thinks the Vortigaunts are being used as personal slaves. He has no problems with enslaving them and, in fact, enthusiastically approves of doing so; it's the personal part that he objects to as he finds it irresponsible. Gordon finds the actions of Civil Protection to be counter-intuitive; they destroy rebel bases instead of just letting them all congregate in one spot and get picked off all at once, or set up outposts along the canals for would-be members to get lured to their deaths at. He likens it to stomping on cockroaches heading to their nest instead of following them to their home. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Gordon and/or Ross might have a thing for Porsches as Gordon remarks about buying a Porsche with Department of Defense contracts, another when he remarks the military truck he didn't know how to hot wire wasn't a Porsche with a laser-cut key and the second time Gordon encounter's the room with the techno music playing, it was playing music from Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed. In episode 48, Gordon rambles to a security guard about buying an ex-police Ford Crown Victoria Interceptor and customizing it with fake blood splashed on the hood. | |
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Exploding Barrels | |
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Exploding Barrels: Lampshaded when Gordon ponders the precise fume-to-liquid ratio which would be necessary to make barrels explode in such a fashion, and how spectacularly unsafe it would be to design them as such. He concludes Civil Protection must have deliberately engineered and placed them to make their indiscriminate killing easier. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Gordon tries to kill a cockroach with his machine gun, and when it fails, he says that's why he needs a shotgun. In Episode 42, he sees an alien shark in the water. Not wanting to have another close call, he decides to simply kill it from far away with his machine gun. After firing about thirty rounds into the water, he fires his grenade launcher just to be sure. When the helicopter starts firing missiles at him, instead of just taking him out with its machine gun, he declares it to be a case of this. He has a similar reaction when the soldiers start firing artillery at him at the dam. Gordon concludes that this is the reason the military puts trip-mines everywhere. In Episode 56, he takes out a Grunt with a rocket launcher because he's low on other ammo. He then spends the rest of the episode ruminating on whether it's 'honorable' to use such an overpowered weapon. | |
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Grammar Correction Gag | |
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Grammar Correction Gag: Gordon's reaction to "Yore Dead Freemon". | |
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Psychic Static | |
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Psychic Static: Aside from "FREEEEEEEEMMMMAAAAANNN", none of the Nihilanth's psychic messages are noticed by Gordon as he moves through Xen due to his own thoughts blocking them out. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Episode 8 has Gordon shoot a headcrab while in a vent, causing an ear-piercing ringing to echo throughout the vent and temporarily making Gordon deaf. He notes how shooting inside a vent wasn't exactly a bright idea. Episode 29 has him reference the trope by name after setting off some explosive crates that were blocking his way without considering the possibility of them collapsing the corridor or elevator shaft he needs to use. Gordon spends a lot of time trying to simply find a way out of Black Mesa. When he does, he quickly realizes he's in the middle of the desert with no supplies to cross it and begrudgingly goes back inside to find some means of transportation to get him across the desert. | |
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now! | |
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Gordon finally finds the elevator to Surface Access by the end of Episode 12. It doesn't go well next episode... | |
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence | |
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Gordon runs into several flavours of these every time he thinks he's found an exit out of Black Mesa, Lampshading the original game's Railroading. Gordon winds up giving his own rationalizations for why they're there in the first place. However, unlike in the original Half-Life, Gordon can actually do pull-ups over easy obstacles, which ends up saving him a lot of time. Gordon is convinced that the Adamantium (Exit) Doors have one-way mirrors and bulletproof glass. And they're all locked. Gordon encounters the Frictionless Hill during his brief stint on the surface ("The sandstone just breaks off!"). He finds a ridged pipe to climb, though that becomes a Hope Spot of its own. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Discussed. Gordon mentions he feels no guilt over killing hordes of soldiers because they're trigger-happy lunatics who attack him and unarmed civilians. | |
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External Retcon | |
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External Retcon: Freeman's Mind rationalizes a lot of things that don't make sense in the original game: In the original Half-Life, the fact that Gordon didn't have access to any of the retinal scanners didn't make much sense in the Anomalous Materials lab, where he worked and should therefore have had access. In Freeman's Mind, we learn that the reason for this is that he got caught playing racketball in the anti-mass spectrometer room. Management doesn't want Gordon going anywhere in the facility without permission. Fundamentally useless rooms like the box-smashing shed are attempts to pad out the budget (a very common real-life technique). Despite his PhD, Gordon's role in Black Mesa appears to consist mainly of pushing trolleys because he couldn't be trusted with anything else, because all the other scientists are too frail to lift a box, and because he is the new hire. Freeman would've just returned from Innsbruck and graduated relatively recently. New hires and recent graduates are given menial labour and minor calculation work and are only trusted with vital information and responsibilities when they have proven themselves. Gordon realizes the Administrator is evil far before anyone else. Ironically, when he's actually shown a picture of Dr Breen in Freeman's Mind 2, he fails to recognize him, on the logic that he was one boss of many that Gordon couldn't be bothered to remember. | |
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Justified Trope | |
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Though this could all be a Justified Trope: Gordon outright states he's never had a gun before coming to Black Mesa and that his only knowledge of them comes from repeated viewings of Die Hard. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Gordon is ecstatic when he finds a Vortigaunt being forced to sweep the floors. Short of mounting their heads on spikes, he couldn't have asked for a better outcome. He's also delighted to see trash littered everywhere, thinking people are doing it on purpose just to make the aliens clean it up. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: Gordon is quite surprised by how calm one of the scientists in Episode 41 is when he gets shot in the leg. | |
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Accidental Pun | |
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Accidental Pun: Gordon says "what's up with the ceiling". It takes him a few seconds to realize what he just said. | |
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Damage-Sponge Boss | |
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He also says this regarding the Gonarch, pointing out at one point that he's killed tanks with the weaponry he's already thrown at it. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: Gordon rants about the misuse of the word "dimension" in Episode 55. | |
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet | |
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet: During his journey through Ravenholm, Gordon is briefly confused by the total lack of aircraft and gunfire, even though he's practically within spitting distance of the Resistance base. He figures they must be busy dealing with the Resistance but is concerned they may spread out in search of him if he's still considered a high-value target. | |
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LampShading | |
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Gordon runs into several flavours of these every time he thinks he's found an exit out of Black Mesa, Lampshading the original game's Railroading. Gordon winds up giving his own rationalizations for why they're there in the first place. However, unlike in the original Half-Life, Gordon can actually do pull-ups over easy obstacles, which ends up saving him a lot of time. | |
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TastesLikeFeet | |
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Tastes Like Feet: He hates that he gets the bullsquid's secretions on his face and mouth. | |
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Ominous Owl | |
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Ominous Owl: In Episode 28 when Gordon's mocking those who called him paranoid. | |
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Artificial Stupidity | |
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Artificial Stupidity: Gordon is unimpressed with the AI of the Manhacks, which he deduces are programmed to fly straight toward any humanoid shape that appears on infrared. Since their only weapon is a spinning saw blade, this means they can be reliably defeated with something as simple as a baseball bat. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In Episode 5, Gordon pukes his guts out after freeing himself from a Barnacle's strangling Neck Lift. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
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He does this again with the entire Resistance in Episode 9, since their operation appears so grossly incompetent he can't tell if their incompetence is genuine and they are unwittingly sending hundreds of people to their deaths, or if the whole thing is actually an Orwellian plot by the government to weed out and slaughter dissidents. Or "a little of Column A, a little of Column B". | |
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Mook Chivalry | |
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Mook Chivalry: At the start of his escape, when he is armed with nothing but a crowbar and being shot at by multiple cops, he thanks one of them for coming at him with a stun baton. | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way: It's clear that Gordon's knowledge of guns has not improved after his time at Black Mesa. In Episode 12, Gordon attempts to shoot a Hunter-Chopper with his magnum revolver, guessing that the heavier caliber weapon would succeed where his MP7 failed. Even when considering that he shot down a helicopter with an MP5 at Black Mesa, there are two problems with that: One: Any armored helicopter is going to, at the bare minimum, be proof against 7.62x39mm ball and 5.56x45mm ball (some of the most common rounds in the world). Being rifle rounds, the latter have far greater penetration than nearly any pistol round (bar novelty guns and certain tungsten sub-calibre penetrators), to the point that a weakened subsonic 5.56x45mm round can still zip through multiple class III-A vests like so much paper when just one of them can stop a .44 magnum round cold. Two: the MP7's 4.6x30mm rounds, while not as penetrative as high-powered rifle rounds, still have better penetration than most pistol rounds (including .44 magnum) due to their 700-800 m/s muzzle velocity and steel cores. Though because the Hunter-Chopper is likely constructed of a similar material to other Combine technologies and structures, any form of small-arms fire likely won't even make a dent, to begin with. | |
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Behind the Black | |
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Behind the Black: Lampshaded. When a Hunter-Chopper appears out of nowhere to attack him in Episode 12, Gordon notes that he didn't hear it coming despite how noisy it is. | |
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A-Team Firing | |
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A-Team Firing: Gordon doesn't have any advanced training in firearm handling, so he tends to just fire his gun in the general area his enemy is in while barely keeping his aim steady, making it so only a small number of the bullets hit them. | |
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Big "OMG!" | |
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Big "OMG!": During Episode 37, he gets one of these as he is dropped from a conveyor belt 10 meters up into a pool of water. In Episode 55, he has a Freak Out when an alien almost teleports inside him, complete with three consecutive "OH MY GOD!" statements in a row. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Gordon blames a guard for opening a door, startling him and causing him to shoot the guard in Episode 48. | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Gordon complains about the G-Man, Barney, and the Resistance at large giving him no explanation of where he's supposed to go, what he's supposed to be doing, or even very useful resources like a multi-tool, a map, or basic necessities such as food and water. | |
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Tanks, but No Tanks | |
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Tanks, but No Tanks: Gordon refers to two Bradleys as tanks, even though they're not. Justified in that Gordon, by his own admission, knows next to nothing about this stuff, and would likely make a mistake like this. | |
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Immune to Bullets | |
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Immune to Bullets: In contrast to Half-Life itself, where even the weakest attack will at least do Scratch Damage, Gordon's HEV suit is immune to most alien projectiles and most small arms fire, with pistol rounds and thornets doing nothing, Vortigaunt electrical attacks and Controller ball lightning only stinging, and most rifle rounds only hurting like paintball. On the other hand, things like heavy machine gun rounds, alien melee attacks, and explosions are indicated to be instantly lethal, assuming Gordon gets hit by them, which again is unlike the actual game, where even rocket launchers and tank shots can't kill Freeman in one hit and can be shrugged off by simply picking up a couple of medkits after. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Discussed. Gordon theorizes that the zombies are getting smarter after two of them seem to set an ambush for him. | |
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Nested Mouths | |
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Nested Mouths: Gordon comments on this feature of the barnacles after killing one, then notes that he doesn't recall them having it before. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: With regards to taking down the tentacle monster: | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal: Gordon lampshades the sheer impossibility of the Hunter-Chopper that sprays out basketball-sized mines like candy, and immediately starts working up theories as to how the chopper could hold more mines than its volume would allow. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
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Interface Spoiler: The credits of Episode 68 cite footage from the "G-Invasion" mod, which is nowhere to be seen in the episode itself (or, for that matter, any other episode in the series). This tips off attentive viewers that there's a post-credits sequence. | |
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Last Episode Theme Reprise | |
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Last Episode Theme Reprise: The text crawl that shows after the finale plays the song from the Half-Life soundtrack from which the eight-note stinger was taken to make the introductory music, "Military Precision". | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Gordon foreshadows the ending of Half-Life: Opposing Force a couple of times. Gordon 's plans to terrorize and plunder cruise ships with a giant sea turtle, and explicitly ending Episode 26 with the comment "I shoulda' been a pirate." The results are mentioned above. Not to mention that he talks about buying a scientist zombie off of the G-Man in Episode 12. Guess what later happens to him in canon? Gordon doesn't realize what he's setting himself up for in Half-Life 2. In episodes 5 and 36, he actually calls himself "The Freeman". Of course, this might explain why the rebels call him 'The One Free Man' in Half-Life 2... In Episode 66, Gordon accurately predicts that the Vortigaunts will worship him once he kills their leader. He theorizes that the Administrator is a Bond villain. Said administrator would later take over the world and run it like a 1984 dystopia. Ironically, when he sees Breen in the early episodes of Freeman's Mind 2, he completely fails to recognize Breen as his old Administrator, thinking of him as one boss of many. When Gordon first encounters a bullsquid, he comments that it looks like a Cthulhu dog, and tells it to say hello to the elder gods on his behalf. Cue the final episode when he finally encounters the Nihilanth, and he quickly concludes that he is an elder god and that Lovecraft was right about everything. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: The series abandons the standard convention of health bars and medkits, presumably in the name of realism, but in its stead simply has Gordon not take any persistent damage aside from the hole in his ear that he needs to bandage up. Ross has stated that this is because, in this version of the Half-Life universe, the suit is impervious to low-calibre rounds. Gordon has repeatedly expressed his amazement at the durability of the suit. As the series goes on, Gordon increasingly disregards small-arms fire and alien projectiles, while continuing to take high-calibre gunfire, explosives, and artillery seriously. As well as giant monsters (e.g. Gargantuas). And anything that comes near his head. At one point he comments that he hasn't been shot enough times to scrape the paint off his suit, which suggests that there's a kinetic threshold below which the thing is completely impenetrable. Rifle rounds are able to dent the suit and leave welts and bruises on the wearer, implying that the soldiers could take him down with mere body shots if they packed assault rifles and shot him enough times. It's just that, in the original Half-Life, almost every soldier was packing a submachine gun. Also, just as in the original Half-Life, Alien Grunts take a lot of punishment to bring down due to their thick skin and bulletproof armor, much to Gordon's annoyance. The Gonarch takes so much punishment that it causes Gordon to completely freak out, eventually coming to the conclusion that he is fighting God Himself. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: After realizing he's on the tram, Gordon points out that the "deal" was that he was going to go to Hawaii. He's disappointed to find that he's been dumped in a Russian work camp with no clue what he's supposed to be doing. 20 years in stasis between HL1 and HL2 have done little to cure Gordon's opioid addiction. The first thing he does upon seeing Alyx for the first time is to ask for morphine, and in a later episode, when a resistance member in the sewers offers him his supplies, he hopes to find drugs in there. Even though Kleiner claims his hazard suit's been upgraded, Gordon's still peeved about the lack of a helmet. During the teleporter accident in Episode 2, Gordon immediately recalls the resonance cascade in the previous series and starts screaming for Kleiner to shut the system down, just as in the previous incident, and stressing out over the possibility of ending up back in Xen. Gordon pointing out how Kleiner with a Headcrab pet (Lamarr) is based on "his lab, his rules" is a callback to the Lambda Core when Gordon bailed on the Gluon Gun scientist who he accidentally unleashed a couple of Headcrabs on. Gordon refuses to charge his suit's batteries because it would mean the annoying voice would turn back on again. Gordon reluctantly admits that he hasn't acquired the powers of an Elder God, referring to his victory over the Nihalanth in which he hoped that he was God after killing the previous holder of the title. Standing on a spinning turbine has Gordon recall his earlier difficulties with the spinning elevator in Sector C. In Episode 8, Gordon refers to one of the Headcrabs as "Billy" and starts lecturing it about failing an exam. This references Episode 9 of the first Freeman's Mind, where Gordon pretends to be a teacher and, while pretending that the Headcrabs are his students, names one particularly misbehaving Headcrab "Billy". In Episode 12, Gordon fires his gun in an enclosed space (a cargo container to be exact), similar to episode 8 in the first series. It produces the same painful sound as the last time; he even groans "Not again..." In The Stinger of Episode 13, after being chased by the Hunter-Chopper, Gordon says he's changed his mind and doesn't want to be a pilot anymore. This is a nod to the very first episode when he spots the Apache from the tram, and notes that he should've been a pilot. At the beginning of episode 16, while being still dazed by the knockout gas, Gordon complains about having had bad nachos, a call back to the beginning of episode 11 of the first Freeman's Mind. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Despite his PhD, Gordon's role in Black Mesa appears to consist mainly of pushing trolleys because he couldn't be trusted with anything else, because all the other scientists are too frail to lift a box, and because he is the new hire. Freeman would've just returned from Innsbruck and graduated relatively recently. New hires and recent graduates are given menial labour and minor calculation work and are only trusted with vital information and responsibilities when they have proven themselves. | |
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Friendly Fireproof | |
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Friendly Fireproof: Averted, unlike in the actual game. Gordon guns down the first friendly Vortigaunt he meets under the assumption that it's hostile, earning the ire of the human it was working with. Gordon is extremely confused by this since as far as he knows, he just saved that guy's life. He comes to the conclusion that the Vortigaunt must have been the guy's slave and the guy simply got mad at him for destroying his property. | |
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It Is Beyond Saving | |
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It Is Beyond Saving: Gordon ponders this about Earth when he sees nearly a dozen barnacles grouped up in a sewer. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Sarcasm Mode: Alyx calling Gordon a "man of few words" is played as this since in this series Gordon doesn't shut up. | |
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General Failure | |
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General Failure: Gordon theorizes whoever is in charge of the Black Mesa cleanup is this. In Episode 44, he's very confused when he finds a squad of soldiers camped out on the side of a cliff, which has no strategic value and is very easy to fall off of. He gets even more confused when he sees a soldier ambush him by jumping out of a cave. Later, he sees a soldier hiding in another cave who has been crushed by a rock, and concludes that they were probably ordered to hide in caves. In Episode 46, he draws attention to the very poor job that the soldiers are doing at killing him. He suggests that they should just use nerve gas on him since he isn't wearing the HEV's helmet. | |
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Stunned Silence | |
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Stunned Silence: Gordon's legendary mouth fails him at the sight of the Hunter-Chopper spraying out a fan of mines like some kind of clown car, simply because the sheer impossibility of it has him completely baffled. | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Gordon's opinion of the City 17 Metrocops isn't much better than the HECU troops he fought at Black Mesa. | |
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Dumb Muscle | |
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Gordon is annoyed that the other main characters don't hold him in awe after he kind of saved the world. In particular, he dislikes Barney's flippant attitude, as he regards the former security guard as mere Dumb Muscle. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: In Episode 3 during the resonance cascade: | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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Gordon points out it's really hard to shoot while swimming, as muscle memory might lead to shooting himself in the knee by accident while using the shooting hand, and aiming is terribly compromised too. | |
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Enemy Chatter | |
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Enemy Chatter: Gordon overhears some of it. A memorable example occurs in Episode 30, where he lampshades the Mad Libs Dialogue nature of the soldiers' idle dialogue. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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In Episode 34, a security guard greets Gordon with a message: "Make sure you don't-" before being shot dead by an assassin. Gordon simply assumes the guy was trying to warn him not to kill himself and was using an overly dramatic way to get the point across. | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!" | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!": Gordon's reaction in Episode 11 when he sees the canal gate closing. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": When faced with a keypad lock, Gordon successfully tries "1234" as a combination. He laments that this can be attributed not to his genius, but someone else's stupidity. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Upon being teleported to the Nihilanth's lair, Gordon begins screaming in terror — as the episode abruptly ends with this playing during the end credits. | |
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Icon of Rebellion | |
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Icon of Rebellion: Gordon figures out that the Lambda symbol is one for the Resistance, and promptly goes into a rant about how stupid it is to tag every rebel location or ammo dump with it since if he was able to figure it out that easily, the authorities most definitely can too and can use it to identify Resistance strongholds and secret areas. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Rule of Funny: Gordon slurs to an extreme degree whenever dizzy. Why? Because it's goddamn funny. Presumably, it's also the reason his inner monologue gets so muffled underwater. | |
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Gratuitous Ninja | |
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Gratuitous Ninja: Gordon hates ninjas. Plus, he wasn't expecting them. | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: The first rant of Episode 26 begins with Gordon acknowledging that he's doing this. He claims that to do otherwise would be absurd because he sees so little "positive." | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In Episode 10, Gordon lampshades the poor aim of a CP officer by calling him a stormtrooper in the making and nicknames him "Darth Uzi". | |
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Contractual Immortality | |
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Contractual Immortality: invokedDouble-subverted with the April Fools Episode 10.5, which ends with Gordon taking a flying leap at a ladder, only to fall down into a chasm and die. The episode fades out as the HEV suit voices phrases such as "Emergency! User death imminent!" The next episode picks up where the previous one began as though it never happened. Gordon remarks on a feeling of déjà vu and assumes he has eaten some "bad nachos". | |
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Adaptational Jerkass | |
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Adaptational Jerkass: Barney. In the original, he was more of a snarky sidekick, while in Freeman's Mind, he is more of a Small Name, Big Ego and Know-Nothing Know-It-All who expects Gordon to instantly recognise him even though he is one of the dozens of Black Mesa security guards, pushes Gordon out of his way in the lab, and doesn't give him a gun when the Civil Protection is after him. | |
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Bee Afraid | |
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Bee Afraid: Subverted with the alien Bee-Bee Gun used by the Alien Grunts. Gordon is not impressed by the ineffectiveness of alien bees. In Episode 65, just as he's about to teleport to the next area, Gordon assumes that he'll land somewhere filled with bees. After all, Xen's just been one hell after another, so why expect anything less? | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: Gordon at one point muses he's being used as a scapegoat because he's not a political dissident people are rallying behind. If only he knew... Gordon didn't realize the Vortigaunts were enslaved back on Xen, and now they're freed and amicable to humans he assumes they're slaves. | |
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Bee-Bee Gun | |
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In Episode 51, he notices that a guard stopped following him and remarks that he probably wandered off and screwed around. Earlier in the video, the guard can actually be seen dying to Bee-Bee Gun fire. Gordon must not have been focusing on that. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: While trying to shoot a manhack, Gordon accidentally hits an explosive barrel, which he knows will explode with ridiculous ease, in a cramped sewer room stacked to the ceiling with them. He has enough time to notice the flames after the manhack is down. | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
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Apocalyptic Log: Discussed in regards to all the dead explorers Gordon comes across in Xen. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Doritos. Gordon spends several episodes musing about them, and when he gets them in episodes 10-11, he thinks there's something wrong with them, in spite of other... virtues. In later episodes, he spends considerable time talking about pizza, and unusual ways of delivering it (via trams, amphibious deliveries to beaches, etc.). Unsurprisingly, this begins to happen not long after Gordon mentions that he's pretty hungry, and generally coincides with his surroundings - being near trams, water, etc. | |
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Knockout Gas | |
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Knockout Gas: Once Gordon makes it to Black Mesa East at the end of Episode 15, they proceed to fill the room with gas to knock him out rather than the decontamination spray in the actual game. Shooting at one of their cameras probably didn't help with that. | |
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Glory Hound | |
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Glory Hound: In episode 12, Gordon accuses the "rescue team", aka the cleanup battalion, of being full of these. They all wanna be the big hero and are killing the base's personnel so their fellows cannot take credit for rescuing them. | |
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ShakyCam | |
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Shaky Cam: As the series is in first-person, Gordon's freaking out and spraying bullets everywhere during a firefight creates a similar effect. Justified, as a real physicist with no prior military training would probably do that, too. | |
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Armor-Piercing Attack | |
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Then the marines bring in the heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and artillery. While definitely a pain when used against him, as they can kill him as if his power armor doesn't exist, he enjoys getting to use them in Episode 49. | |
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All Up to You | |
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All Up to You: Lampshaded frequently. Gordon constantly complains that he has to do everyone else's job on his way through the facility. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: When Gordon first sees a Combine Strider synth, he assumes them to be the antagonists of The Tripods and have "capped" the population. He emphatically declares that he'll kill everyone in the city before he allows that to happen to him. | |
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Tracking Device | |
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Tracking Device: In Episode 33, Gordon is understandably upset when he learns his suit is full of these, which is how the HECU has been tracking him. In Episode 45, he wonders why he can't use it, then decides it's to deter thieves like him. | |
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Grenade Spam | |
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Grenade Spam: Gordon gleefully engages in this in episodes 10 and 11. In Episode 12, he remarks that he's come to use grenades much more freely than he used to, and puts it down to "becoming soft". | |
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Going Down with the Ship | |
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Going Down with the Ship: As he debates the merits of boat ownership, Gordon recalls this tradition and immediately subverts it: if his ship is going down, he wants everyone to go down with him, as a monument to the boat. He grants an exception for stowaways because they weren't actually invested. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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He theorizes an alien must be a "galactic stoner" upon witnessing it fall through a traditional Black Mesa catwalk and ignore his subsequent gunfire. | |
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Dungeon Bypass | |
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Dungeon Bypass: Gordon is more flexible than the player in the actual game. He can climb ledges and squeeze through large-enough gaps, bypassing obstacles that the player would have to find a way around. This is lampshaded in one of the episodes as he comments on how he can do a pull-up and mocks another scientist for not being able to. Parodied in Episode 46. Gordon decides to simply climb on top of a building after seeing that the way to the ladder is lined with mines and guarded by a sniper. The game of course intends you to go that way. Then he later finds out it's even more dangerous than he thought, making him extra happy that he didn't go that way. Subverted when he reaches the missile launch site and tries to climb a ridged pipe out of the facility, only to realize that he is in the middle of the desert in a metal suit with no supplies. He promptly returns to the dungeon. The whole Power Up arc is a subversion since he spends more time wandering around and backtracking than he needed to. In Episode 52, Gordon imagines that once he gets out, he will meet an original architect of Black Mesa just to find out that he took the longest possible route to escape. | |
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Make an Example of Them | |
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Make an Example of Them: During his trip through the Uplink demo, Gordon sees the military execute some scientists just as he shows up, and assumes they did it on purpose to get back at him. It fails because Gordon doesn't know those scientists and thus doesn't care. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: Any time the soldiers blow each other up in their attempts to kill Gordon. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Welcome to Grenadier Gordon's Grenade Emporium!" | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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In a straighter example, Gordon considers bloodstains and dead bodies to be signs of danger, to be avoided, rather than considering them "clues" like a video game player would. This means he often misses supplies and ignores areas most gamers would explore. Notably, he skirted the room where the first shotgun is located, and so did not find one until two full chapters later. He also avoided picking up the Tau Cannon, an extremely powerful weapon, in part because it was covered in blood and body parts at the scene of a recent explosion. The other part, though, was that he'd heard the scientist and guard talking about it...and getting killed from it overcharging. He does pick up the other Tau Cannon just before Xen, however, and makes good use of it. | |
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Follow the Plotted Line | |
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Follow the Plotted Line: Parodied. Gordon desperately wishes he didn't have to follow the game's plot (and in fact never listens to people trying to tell him about it), but inevitably, the only directions that work are the ones that lead him into more danger. | |
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Sentry Gun | |
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Sentry Gun: Gordon is at multiple points frustrated by Black Mesa inexplicably having automatic turret guns strewn throughout the facility in areas that, logic would suggest, are meant for employees to use. The fact that they also target the aliens is, at best, rubbing salt in the wound. | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Gordon's "apprehension" at the end of Episode 34 consisted of at least one blow to the head. In Episode 35, he can't remember the events of the previous day or so, including the resonance cascade scenario. It's not until halfway through Episode 37, after he faces a bullsquid, that he really starts to remember all of what had happened, but for some reason he has false memories of it being caused by a Lovecraftian cult. He isn't exactly wrong, though. | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality: While the series does deconstruct a lot of elements about the game, one aspect that Ross knowingly glosses over is how Gordon would realistically be two seconds away from dropping dead from exhaustion, lack of adrenaline, and hunger after fighting for two days straight. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: When Gordon encounters the soldier firing a rocket launcher, he rants about how stupid and dangerous it is to fire one inside an underground tunnel. Then after killing the soldier and approaching the rocket launcher, his first reaction is to try to use it himself. Then of course his Angrish in Episode 40 as he's firing every bullet he has in his SMG at aliens and soldiers alike: He mentioned that soldiers are so stupid that the headcrab zombies could probably trick them into not attacking by stealing their uniforms, then mentions in Episode 66 that he would assume a Vortigaunt was an employee with severe burns if they weren't attacking him. | |
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Ink-Suit Actor | |
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Ink-Suit Actor: At one point, Ross Scott looked very similar to Gordon. | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: Gordon thinks this of the advice given to him by a security guard, who was rather lax on the details when it came to escaping the facility. At one point Gordon considers taking one of the Xen aliens to a taxidermist, thinking he would tell them that he doesn't know what it is and that he'll just say he got it while out hunting. Then he realizes that what he's doing is sort of like hunting and that he really doesn't know what the aliens are. | |
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Valley Girl | |
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Valley Girl: Gordon talks like this after having sung "Modern Major General" trying to justify his actions to a corpse. | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt: Lampshaded by Gordon. After Alyx murders the Civil Protection officers beating him up, Gordon berates her for it, noting that killing a police officer means they will come after you with greater force and intensity. When he's hunted by the Civil Protection in the train station, he assumes that it's due to a "guilt by association" thing, and he's only making it worse by defending himself. | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating: Done with dialogue. When Barney comments that he's behind on his "beating" quota, Gordon quips "Pervert." Gordon does eventually assume that Barney tortures people on the side after thinking it through. | |
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Computer Equals Tapedrive | |
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Computer Equals Tape Drive: Gordon is shocked when he comes across some really ancient computers in the facility. | |
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Short-Range Shotgun | |
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Short-Range Shotgun: Averted in that Gordon uses the shotgun at a much longer range than it is effective at in-game. Ross didn't modify it's accuracy or anything, he's just raised the damage to disguise the fact that only a few pellets are actually hitting the target in-game, making it look like it's taking several long range shots to down the target (usually a soldier). A similar thing is done with the MP5. | |
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To Serve Man | |
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To Serve Man: Inverted when Gordon contemplates eating the aliens in Episode 51, but lacks a means by which to cook them. | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: While fighting the Nihilanth, Gordon is teleported to another room. As he reaches the teleporter to get back, he considers whether or not to do so, but ultimately decides: | |
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Goddamned Bats | |
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Goddamned Bats: In-Universe. Gordon really gets annoyed when the Vortigaunts shock him. Episode 49 has him deciding that the aliens as a whole are this to the soldiers' Demonic Spiders. | |
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Undignified Death | |
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In Episode 44, he's very confused when he finds a squad of soldiers camped out on the side of a cliff, which has no strategic value and is very easy to fall off of. He gets even more confused when he sees a soldier ambush him by jumping out of a cave. Later, he sees a soldier hiding in another cave who has been crushed by a rock, and concludes that they were probably ordered to hide in caves. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
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Brief Accent Imitation: Gordon spends the entirety of Episode 27 talking like a pirate. He drops it at the start of 28, commenting that he needs to drink a lot more whiskey to make his voice sound like that normally. Gordon does one when mocking conveyor belt workers, in a Southern drawl. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
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Shrouded in Myth: Gordon believes himself to be this. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The ladder in the elevator shaft in Episode 11. | |
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Better than a Bare Bulb | |
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Better than a Bare Bulb: Gordon spends the series constantly pointing out all the inherent Fridge Logic in the game's premise, such as the sheer impracticality of the government cover-up and even the various bits of Technobabble heard throughout the game. | |
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Wingding Eyes | |
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2009, Episode 10.5: Short non-canonical episode, at the end of which Gordon dies. Episode 11 begins at the same spot as this one, with Gordon having a strange feeling of déjà vu, which he suspects comes from eating bad Doritos. The title card features X marks in Gordon's glasses. | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH! | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: Gordon uses this as a boast when dealing with the turret guns and their incessant beeping. | |
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Jump Scare | |
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...being startled by scientists or guards suddenly talking or appearing in front of him. | |
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Path of Most Resistance | |
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Path of Most Resistance: Gordon lampshades that the right way generally seems to be where all the bodies and bloodstains are. | |
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Humans Are Warriors | |
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Humans Are Warriors: Gordon hypothesizes that the reason for the aliens' bad tactics is because humans are just that much better at invasions than them. He cites the fact that scientists were still studying alien creatures as the facility was being invaded as evidence of how far ahead of them we are. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
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Outrun the Fireball: Gordon sort of does this in Episode 49, after a soldier attempts to kill him by throwing a satchel charge in the pipe Gordon is crawling through. "Sort of" because he's close to the exit when it's thrown in, is able to get to the exit before the soldier detonates it, and spends less than a second in the pipe after it goes off, quickly dropping out. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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In Episode 49, Gordon muses about Shotgun Chess, but then disregards it all by shouting how he hates chess. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: In a few instances, Gordon makes use of brute force to solve a few scenarios.note It should be noted that these cases are not achievable through regular gameplay and are a result of Ross modding the maps they take place in. Done unwittingly after discussing the trope with the actual trope namer (saying you just look like a brute that couldn't solve it the right way; to be properly deified, you would need to untie it properly, then start beheading people just to prove a point), early into episode 8. What he needed to do was turn a valve to flood the sewer he was on, and swim out a pipe that he couldn't reach with the current water level. What he did do was accidentally hit an explosive barrel while trying to kill a manhack, causing a chain reaction that wrecks the entire place and shatters the pipes, causing the needed flood. In the same episode, Gordon is presented with a fallen power line electrifying an empty container blocking the way, which he would need to make it through without touching the walls even once to survive. Gordon decides to simply back up a bit, follow the fallen line and shoot its respective transformer until it goes off, leaving a safe, non-electrified passage. When Gordon comes across a ladder blocked by a grate, rather than simply shoot the lock holding the grate on, he simply climbs the grate because the gaps are wide enough for him to get a grip. | |
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Indian Burial Ground | |
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Indian Burial Ground: Gordon speculates that Black Mesa may have been built on top of one. Though he changed his mind by Episode 44 when finding out that Black Mesa is actually built inside a mesa. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: Gordon runs over quite a few Civil Protection officers with his airboat during the "Water Hazard" episodes. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Gordon lampshades the improbability of stumbling upon the Black Mesa East Resistance base while the Combine army is right on his ass, and fully expects the place to come under attack any minute. He's naturally proven right. | |
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Inner Monologue | |
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Inner Monologue: The whole point. However, an Inner Monologue isn't usually garbled when underwater, implying that he's been talking out loud the whole time. Or possibly just since he started losing his mind. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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When Gordon finally comes across an elevator that goes up towards the surface, he gives a deadpan "what" when he finds out the path out is blocked by explosive crates. | |
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Mêlée à Trois | |
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Mêlée à Trois: Episode 49 has Gordon acknowledging that he's caught in one of these. He eventually concludes that, if anything, he'd want the aliens to win, since the soldiers are a much bigger threat to him, and if the aliens win all the charges against him will probably be dropped. | |
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With This Herring | |
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With This Herring: In Episode 3, Barney gives Gordon a crowbar. Even though it's his trademark weapon, Gordon is not pleased, as he considers guns more useful. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: See its subpage. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: Gordon. Bullsquids are "Cthulhu Dogs", and later "Snot Monsters". Vortigaunts are "Zappers", though he admits it isn't a great name. The Gargantuas are "Godzilla". Xen trampolines are the "Asphalt Tumour Tide". He also assigns names based on his comparison of the situation to chess. Vortigaunts are pawns, alien soldiers are rooks, and human soldiers are bishops. The soldier who nearly kills him with a rocket launcher in Episode 28 is "Rocky the Rocket Ranger". And the black-ops soldiers are ninjas. | |
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ComedicSociopath | |
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Comedic Sociopath: Gordon keeps fantasizing about killing his coworkers, as well as scamming the company in various ways. It's implied at one point that he's already been stealing from them. | |
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Smash to Black | |
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Smash to Black: We get one at the end of Episode 57 when Gordon steps into the teleporter, after he has spent the last minute or so insisting that the teleporters are just holograms. Episode 58 picks up the dialogue where 57 left off. Another one at the end of Episode 67, as Gordon screams upon seeing the Nihilanth for the first time. Again, the next episode finishes the scream. | |
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It Can Think | |
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It Can Think: In Episode 59, Gordon begins to wonder if the zombies are getting smarter when one of them uses a dead soldier as a puppet. He becomes dead certain of it when they later set up an ambush. | |
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Death of a Thousand Cuts | |
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Gordon somehow blows up an Abrams with a grenade launcher, and blows up a Bradley by shooting it. Both of these are obviously unrealistic, but the latter is particularly notable because said Bradley had just (realistically) taken dozens of rounds of small arms fire and three grenades without taking any damage. This is of course because the tanks and IFVs in Half-Life, just like every other enemy, could succumb to Death of a Thousand Cuts from any weapon, including the crowbar. Though these ones would only take damage from hits to the turret; their bodies were invulnerable. This is despite Ross Scott specifically saying that he wanted Freeman's Mind to be less "video game-y" than Half-Life. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: In Episode 14, Gordon rants (again) about reality collapsing since he was supposed to die but didn't, and decides that he's going to take all of reality down with him if that's the case. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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At one point Gordon complains about doing a task, but muses that when he eventually gets minions he can tell them he's done the same thing that he's ordering them to do. However, that implies he would never order someone to do something he hasn't done himself and gleefully admits he would order men to their deaths if it meant not waiting in line or getting a better parking spot. It seems that he wouldn't mind being a Corrupt Corporate Executive. | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor: Gordon lampshades this himself when medical skills might be useful. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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He thinks that the Gonarch is some kind of god after seeing it shrug off multiple anti-tank missiles (of course, a few more missiles plus some well-placed satchel charges do her in). | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Gordon has this opinion when confronted with the lightning-spewing aliens. Demonstrated again later when he witnesses two soldiers kill an Alien Grunt and a Vortigaunt: | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: Gordon pines for this trope, having come across a tank with an open hatch but it's still locked (the actual reason of course being that Half-Life doesn't provide for driving any of the vehicles) and just thinking about it depresses him. He has to settle for using the mounted machine gun. | |
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Screw Destiny | |
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Screw Destiny: Gordon takes this position as part of his determination to escape his situation. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Gordon does it on occasion. See also Bond One-Liner. | |
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Nightmare Fuel | |
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Nightmare Fuel: In-Universe, a bullsquid gives Gordon some, and we get to hear about it: Sometimes he makes things Nightmare Fuel just as a means of self-defence. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: In Episode 16, Gordon tries to warn multiple rebels in Black Mesa East that he was followed by the Combine, and the base is probably going to be attacked at any moment, but no one listens or even reacts to his warnings. | |
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E = MC Hammer | |
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E = MC Hammer: When Gordon sees Newton's formula for gravity written on a whiteboard, it throws him into a rant. As he rightfully points out, any self-respecting scientist, especially one with a PhD, should be able to recite that, as well as dozens of far more advanced formulae, in their sleep. | |
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Made of Indestructium | |
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Occasionally, Gordon is astonished that seemingly sturdy materials like metal gates or wooden crates burst apart with suspicious ease when he applies gunfire or a crowbar, especially when other objects, like doors, seem to be Made of Indestructium. In one episode, he shoots down a helicopter with an MP5. He spends the beginning of the next episode pondering how that's even possible. In another episode, he rams a series of concrete bollards with a tram, expecting nothing more than that the tram will explode, while it instead plunges right through without slowing down. He eventually concludes that the bollards must have been made of Styrofoam. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Gordon, when encountering turrets, is constantly thinking about mundane applications for them. He says that meteorologists should attach machine gun turrets to their weather balloons, and have them shoot anyone who gets close. He remarks that with security cameras already being common at Walmart, in the future he might see the whole store rigged with machine gun turrets just to deter shoplifters. But by far the best is his reaction when he gets shot at by a turret stored in the back of a truck: | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
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In Spite of a Nail: The series makes some minor deviations from the canonical Half-Life (e.g. the way Gordon's armor works, Uplink being inserted in episodes 58-59, Gordon being able to pull the occasional Dungeon Bypass), but most of it remains unchanged. | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Gordon starts to suspect this is the real reason the G-Man thawed him out and released him in City 17, to be human prey for him and his "employers". He even wonders if the G-Man is the pilot of the attack helicopter that pursues him through the canals. | |
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Monster Closet | |
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Monster Closet: Gordon points out that not only is this the reason the facility is falling apart, but that an alien could teleport into a person. At any time. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: It's not so much that Gordon takes a schmuck bait, it's more that he's a troublemaker and that trouble is usually beneficial to him. | |
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Lampshaded | |
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Gordon is more flexible than the player in the actual game. He can climb ledges and squeeze through large-enough gaps, bypassing obstacles that the player would have to find a way around. This is lampshaded in one of the episodes as he comments on how he can do a pull-up and mocks another scientist for not being able to. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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Since the Vortigaunts are allied with humanity in Half-Life 2, one would assume that Gordon would work with them like in the original game, albeit begrudgingly since he's (understandably) wary of them after the events in the first game. Nope! In episode 4, he immediately shoots the Vortigaunt in the trailer dead, causing the pissed off human ally to threaten Gordon with a gun and tell him to get out. How else was Gordon supposed to react after (almost) every alien tried to kill him back at Black Mesa?note Before you ask, no, killing the vortigaunt isn't possible in the actual game. It's a custom mod that Ross used. | |
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Hypno Fool | |
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Hypno Fool: Gordon gets nearly hypnotized by watching a gauge spin around, and then again when watching a piston move back and forth. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Gordon thinks that there's no way that the military can convict him for the killing of dozens of marines simply because it wouldn't make sense. Later on, Gordon starts screaming at some soldiers and aliens fighting "I AM NOT REAL! IGNORE ME!" while shooting a .50 calibre. | |
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Western Terrorists | |
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Western Terrorists: Discussed. Gordon notes that the government would have a hard time convincing people that he's a One-Man Army with dozens of kills to his name because he doesn't fit the profile of a typical spree killer and lacks connections to extremist organizations. In the course of his musings, he brings up Timothy McVeigh, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Charles Whitman, and notes that each of them had military training, contrasting them with himself, a theoretical physicist who's never fired a gun before. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: After ranting that Cutting the Knot just makes you look like you were too stupid to solve the problem the right way and that someone as smart as him doesn't need to resort to "cheating" like that, Gordon accidentally hits an explosive barrel while trying to shoot a manhack, triggering a chain reaction explosion that ends up cutting his knot for him. He proceeds to brag about solving the problem, which makes him a hypocrite on two fronts: 1. That he "cheated" by his own standards and didn't solve the problem the right way, and 2. He didn't even solve the problem himself, it got solved for him purely by accident. Later in the episode, Gordon continues his hypocrisy by deliberately cutting another knot in his path. Both times, Gordon does something that isn't even possible to do in the actual game and was added in with mods, so he definitely isn't solving his problems the intended way! | |
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Inter-Service Rivalry | |
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Interservice Rivalry: Episode 46 has Gordon wondering if the air force is in on the army's conspiracy to kill him. | |
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Training from Hell | |
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Training from Hell: Gordon is flabbergasted to see a squad of soldiers entrenched on the narrow paths of a mountain. He wonders if this is the reason that they're there. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As the series goes on, Gordon gets less and less surprised about the stupidity of the rest of the human species, and his constant near-death experiences. For example, in Episode 10, he doesn't even seem to care that zombies can punch right through concrete walls, even though that would be very bad for him if they ever got close. In Episode 46, he can't even bring himself to utter a "What the fuck?" when he sees an entire missile testing facility turned into a giant trip-minefield by the "rescue team". He just has a simple quip: | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Gordon's main goal since the resonance cascade has just been to escape from the facility. But its labyrinthine design and the lethality of the firefight on the surface repeatedly force him to stay on the path. In the Episode 0 prequel, which covers the tutorial level, Gordon skips the rest of the training session after he realizes he's been ordered to deliberately jump off a high platform and be injured in order to learn to use the game's medical supplies. | |
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Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing | |
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Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Mentioned when Gordon encounters a pair of NPCs located near a Door to Before for the second time, and gripes. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
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Ludicrous Gibs: This happens a few times, as this IS Half-Life. Gordon also references this trope a few times in hypotheticals, like when he says that getting hit by a particularly powerful blast of electricity would cause his "head to blow up like a baked potato wrapped in tin foil", or when he thinks that the Bradley that's pinning him down will "turn [him] into red paste" if he tries to leave cover. | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Hand Wave: Gordon usually doesn't take any real damage, because Ross is playing the game with godmode on, presumably. This is handwaved by the damage Gordon takes being written off as minor. Electricity hurts but doesn't injure. Most bullets bounce off the suit or miss altogether. Pistol rounds and buckshot do so without hurting. Rifle rounds hurt like paintball, but are otherwise harmless. Large calibre rounds and explosives can kill him right through his suit, but he dodges them. Headcrab bites are scratches. Bullsquid spit stinks but doesn't hurt. Et cetera. Gordon himself provides the answers for Black Mesa's unstable structure when he realizes the monsters might be teleporting into the walls. He has some more when he realizes that the "Box Smashing Room" was probably built to pad out the facility's costs so they could get the same amount of grant money the following year. The contents of Gordon's locker don't really mesh with the heavy substance abusing lifestyle that this Gordon has. The discrepency is explained away by Gordon being very confused and concerned as to why his locker is totally different from how he left it and that someone took his drug stash. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: After killing the Nihilanth, Gordon claims to be the new god because he thinks that's how it works. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: As mentioned under Entertainingly Wrong above, Gordon believes he's just some random guy nobody has ever heard of that the government is using as a scapegoat purely out of convenience, ignorant of the fact that the Resistance practically worships him. | |
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Who Writes This Crap?! | |
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Who Writes This Crap?!: Gordon is less than enthused about the "fall three stories aiming for a red circle" part of training. | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue | |
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Casual Danger Dialogue: Gordon ends up really used to having people and aliens wanting his head on a silver platter, and does this a lot in later episodes. He does this both when his enemies pose no real threat to him, like when he's beating Houndeyes to death with a crowbar, and against stuff like being pinned down by a .50 BMG machine gun, or when an IFV is shooting at him with rockets. Gordon overall seems really chill on Xen, a totally alien world from which he has no escape, after a little while. Especially when he's speculating on how the other scientists wearing the same suit as him and carrying the same weapons probably died (e.g. killed by the Gonarch, beaten to death by Vortigaunts, gored on the floor after falling off a ledge or out of the sky...). | |
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Insufficiently Advanced Alien | |
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Insufficiently Advanced Alien: In Episode 65, Gordon lampshades the fact that teleporting aliens lack even the most basic facets of modern society. If not for their armored Elite Mooks, they wouldn't even be an industrialized society. As far as he's concerned, taking over their world now that he's been stranded there is doing them a favour. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: Gordon expresses this sentiment in Episode 59 when he sees a soldier being dragged into a barnacle's mouth. | |
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Hilarious Outtakes | |
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Hilarious Outtakes: It's not really hilarious, but the ending text is accompanied by a video of some of the glitches that Ross Scott had to deal with while producing the series. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
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Made of Explodium: Gordon is astonished that this is another one of his obstacles: | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: It borders on Psychopathic Manchild in later episodes due to his mental breakdown, but Ross Scott once described Gordon in an interview as: | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Gordon seems to truly respect Kleiner, despite his usual caustic, misanthropic attitude towards everyone else. Although some of this "respect" seems to stem from fear, as he remembers a very different Kleiner from the one we get to see. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: After the failed teleport, Gordon is sent out alone by Barney with nothing but a crowbar and his orange Hazard Suit for protection. Gordon theorizes that this is a deliberate attempt by Barney and Kleiner to have him draw the cops off while they escape. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
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11th-Hour Superpower: Gordon gets the long-jump module just before his trip to Xen, and immediately hangs a lampshade: | |
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Death Course | |
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He's also noticed that his day seems to consist of escaping from one death trap only to fall into another one. | |
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Percussive Maintenance | |
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Percussive Maintenance: When something doesn't work, Gordon's first instinct is to hit it with his crowbar. It usually doesn't help, though. | |
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Wastebasket Ball | |
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Wastebasket Ball: When Gordon encounters the "Pick up that can!" Civil Protection officer, one might expect him to take the route of most players and throw the can in his face instead of putting it into the trash as ordered. Instead, he is only too happy to comply with the order... by making a magnificent shot into the trash from the other side of the room. He didn't even realize that the officer was trying to bully him; he thought the can-throwing skills that he honed during his college years were just that famous, and that the officer was simply asking the master for a demonstration. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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April Fools' Day: The series premiered on April Fools' Day 2017. The joke (presumably) is that the viewer expects the video to be a joke when it actually isn't. A lot of viewers didn't get it and were astonished when the series continued. | |
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Big Electric Switch | |
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Big Electric Switch: One of the few design elements in Black Mesa of which Gordon wholeheartedly approves. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: Freeman's Mind makes references to two of its most popular spinoffs, Shepherd's Mind and Barney's Mind, though both are very subtle; whereas the spinoffs are generally assumed to be set in the same continuity as Freeman's Mind and make direct references to it, the parent series is ambiguous about their canonicity, perhaps to prevent viewers from having to view those series in order to understand any jokes. In Episode 61, as he's jumping into the portal to Xen, Shepherd's voice can be heard shouting "Backrubs!" This is highlighted by a caption appearing at the bottom of the screen. At the equivalent point in Shepherd's Mind, Shepherd is actually shouting "Get back here, you big orange fuck!" Krim, the creator of that series, requested that this line be included in the main series, but Ross Scott decided it would be too obvious, plus confusing for anyone not familiar with the spinoff, so went with something more unexpected. The explanation is that the noise created by the portal machine makes Gordon unable to understand what anyone is saying. In Episode 67, Barney's voice can be heard among a jumble of voices coming from the final transmitter, saying "I wanted a cheeseburger!" | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: In his April 2017 Videochat, Ross said he wrote Gordon like this: | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In Episode 41, Gordon has this opinion about a scientist who got shot in the leg by a soldier while helping Gordon escape the building: | |
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Take Over the World | |
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Take Over the World: Gordon wishes he could do this, and constantly fantasizes about what he'd do if he ruled it. He also has always wanted to build a robot army, and live in a giant metal spider fortress. He has no way of actually following through on it, though, so it's pretty harmless. After he gets "exiled" from Earth, he decides to take over Xen instead. He says that his first step should be to kill their leader, thinking that the aliens will abandon their invasion and follow him. | |
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Why Won't You Die? | |
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Why Won't You Die?: Gordon ponders this about himself. He also says this regarding the Gonarch, pointing out at one point that he's killed tanks with the weaponry he's already thrown at it. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted, Gordon mentions having a cousin Jesse as well as another Jesse who likes to zap himself with a cattle prod for fun. | |
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Lesser of Two Evils | |
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Lesser of Two Evils: In Episode 49, Gordon decides that the aliens are this, on part of the soldiers being a much bigger threat to him due to their weaponry, and having the capability to hunt him down after he escapes Black Mesa. After figuring out his suit has tracking devices that let the military set ambushes for him literally every few minutes, he decides to keep wearing it anyway, thinking it gives him better odds of survival. His justification is that, if he happens to run into a military patrol without it, and gets shot... well, that's it. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: It's inevitable that Gordon goes into some of these during his travels. | |
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Hiccup Hijinks | |
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Hiccup Hijinks: Gordon hiccups throughout Episode 40 because he worries if he has more people to kill. | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Gordon thinks this trope is in effect when he falls into a train car containing a man and a Vortigaunt, and immediately shoots the Vortigaunt dead, still unaware that humans and Vortigaunts are now on the same side. As far as he's concerned, he just saved the guy's life and the thanks he gets is a gun pointed in his face and a boot out the door, which leaves him utterly baffled. He decides that the only explanation that makes sense is that the Vortigaunt was the guy's slave, and the guy was simply angry about his personal property being destroyed, as anyone else would be. Gordon himself complains about Alyx saving him because she killed five cops, not realizing they are already on a full manhunt for him anyway, and doesn't quite get that Barney bailed him out at a checkpoint, solely complaining about the lack of directions to Kleiner's lab. | |
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Hold Up Your Score | |
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Hold Up Your Score: Gordon assumes the test monitors will start doing this when he notices that there's a whole panel of them at the Hazard Course. | |
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Your Other Left | |
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Your Other Left: Early on, when Gordon encounters a scientist dangling from a broken catwalk, Gordon tries to save him. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Episode 4 has Gordon dropping inside of the train car with a rebel and a Vortigaunt. Unaware that the Vortigaunts are allied with the Resistance, he proceeds to gun the alien down immediately upon seeing him. The rebel is understandably pissed and threatens Gordon with a gun, telling him to get out. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Gordon pulls this off a LOT, especially when he is under attack and yells very loudly at his attackers. Though given the name of the series, he might not be saying anything out loud. | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: In Episode 57 Gordon finally realizes the first aid kits contain morphine. The main effect is that his train of thought slows down a little bit, and some of his tendencies (hey, button!) are taken up to eleven (Buttons!). | |
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Accidentally-Correct Writing | |
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Accidentally-Correct Writing: Invoked by Gordon upon seeing the Nihilanth in the final episode: | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: After going through various instances of pointless, illogical, and wasteful implementations of bulletproof glass (from vending machines to emergency exit doors), Gordon acknowledges that the only time this practice made any sort of sense was at a security station. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Invoked. Gordon is livid that the Resistance has so readily accepted the Vortigaunts after how the latter nearly wiped out mankind and were a major pain in the ass for him back in Black Mesa. He's convinced that their friendship is an act and becomes increasingly agitated by how no one else sees any issue with this. | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum: In Episode 16, Gordon is shocked to learn the rebels at Black Mesa East are holding a portable gravity modifying device and they only use it to move crates around. In the next episode, he goes so far as to rant that the Resistance should be winning the war with the tech they have, were it not for the obvious disparity in resources. | |
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Varying Competency Alibi | |
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Varying Competency Alibi: While Gordon's initially terrified of being arrested for all the soldiers he's mowed down trying to escape Black Mesa, he ultimately decides that the more he kills the less likely he is to get convicted. How are you going to convince a jury that a doctor of theoretical physics with rudimentary firearms training and no criminal history managed to kill a small army of soldiers? | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking? | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking?: In Episode 65, Gordon encounters a couple of Vortigaunts who don't attack him. He decides to let them live because he doesn't want to discourage that mentality. He does it again in Episode 66. | |
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Incompetence, Inc. | |
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Incompetence, Inc.: Black Mesa appears to be this to Gordon. One of the signs implores employees, "Work Harder, Not Smarter." As per Episode 40 it appears Black Mesa has been this for quite a long time, as Gordon implies that people have died regularly enough in experiments that the first thing that comes to mind when he sees a dead guy in a cage is..... | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
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Verbal Backspace: When he gets stuck at a security checkpoint, Gordon begins to explain that he's a political refugee in an attempt to jockey for asylum, then another guard calls him "citizen" and he immediately agrees with the term. | |
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Science Is Bad | |
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Science Is Bad: Gordon declares as much during the Resonance Cascade. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Gordon is annoyed that the other main characters don't hold him in awe after he kind of saved the world. In particular, he dislikes Barney's flippant attitude, as he regards the former security guard as mere Dumb Muscle. Averted with Kleiner, who does properly recognize Gordon's contributions. Gordon especially likes how Kleiner says that "trouble follows in his wake," as it means that he's the victim of it, not the cause. Hilariously, Gordon misses Breen's speech about him becoming a Messianic archetype for the resistance. Gordon keeps thinking Barney and G-man are psychos who are using Gordon as bait to fulfil some other goal instead of having absolute trust in Gordon's ability to succeed no matter the odds. He also complains about women showing interest in him only to instantly turn cold towards him when they talk to him. This is despite it being very obvious that Alyx has minor hero worship for him. | |
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Metal-Poor Planet | |
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Metal-Poor Planet: Gordon speculates the aliens come from one based on their lack of technology. He then offers to share Earth's metal with them... at high velocities. | |
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Enemies List | |
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Enemies List: Gordon puts a scientist on his list for annoying him during the experiment in the test chamber. One can only presume that the aliens and the "rescue team" are on it too if he hasn't completely forgotten about it. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Gordon repeatedly... ...commenting that he misses his suit helmet. ...killing barnacles and getting showered by gore. ...channelling his inner monkey. ...wishing his suit had a grappling hook. ...realizing he's just gone through a Door to Before. ...contemplating hocking a loogie into various deep pits. ...trying to kill all of the cockroaches. ...getting frustrated by dead ends and trying to open them by hitting them with his crowbar (even the metal ones). ...checking whether someone is following him. ...ruminating that things are okay because he has a gun. (Emphasis his.) ...stating "I should have been a _______." ...commenting on the facility being a James Bond Super Villain company. ...mentioning his friend Eddie who could either supply him with certain [X] or could buy certain [X] from him. ([X] being the not very easily legally obtained good of discussion) ...witnessing the soldiers blowing each other up. ...being startled by scientists or guards suddenly talking or appearing in front of him. ...complaining about flimsy, easily-broken catwalks. ...fancying whether he would be able to explain all the kills he made as N+1 cases of self-defence and getting increasingly sure that he won't. ...entering an elevator with background music. ...missing his throws with hand grenades about as often as he makes them. ...intentionally avoiding areas where he could find a new weapon. ...and intentionally avoiding picking up certain new weapons when he finds them. To be fair, he usually has a good reason for doing so. | |
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Three Stooges Shout-Out | |
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Three Stooges Shout-Out: After seeing a soldier toss a grenade at his buddies, Gordon compares them to the Three Stooges and muses that he could see Moe lose it and kill the other two. He then dials it back a bit by saying that Larry could be brought back into the fold, but that Curly was Beyond Redeption. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Every now and then he mentions "solving problems" (i.e., through violence)... and he is a physicist. A profession that involves lots of math. | |
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The Abridged Series | |
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The Abridged Series: The character-based humour and frequent Lampshade Hanging are very reminiscent of an abridged series. As for the actual abridged part, for the sake of storytelling, Gordon's guns deal more damage and he can "climb" over obstacles to skip some sections of the game. Gordon also jumps into the Uplink demo at one point. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: When Gordon isn't being more Genre Savvy (and crazy) than everyone else, he's frequently completely ignoring obvious things. Gordon briefly discusses He Who Fights Monsters, but dismisses it since he's never going to look like the tentacle monster he's fighting. In Episode 34, a security guard greets Gordon with a message: "Make sure you don't-" before being shot dead by an assassin. Gordon simply assumes the guy was trying to warn him not to kill himself and was using an overly dramatic way to get the point across. In Episode 50, a guard following Gordon says "Sorry sir, but I can't take much more of this". Gordon berates him for being lazy, as they'd only been walking for two minutes and completely ignores that the guard just took a blast from the Vortigaunt that would ordinarily be lethal. In Episode 51, he notices that a guard stopped following him and remarks that he probably wandered off and screwed around. Earlier in the video, the guard can actually be seen dying to Bee-Bee Gun fire. Gordon must not have been focusing on that. In Episode 57, Gordon comes across a dead scientist lying in a massive pool of blood. His response is startled shock, questioning how he missed... the first aid kit on the ground beside him, which could potentially contain morphine. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Gordon commits a few of these. A couple of times it's due to the stupidity of the other Black Mesa personnel, such as one unfortunate guard who ran in front of Gordon'sgunfire. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Early in the series, Gordon remarked on how he hated string theory and hoped the Black Mesa experiments would finally see it disproved. When he gets to Black Mesa East, Mossman makes an offhand reference to the portal technology being "string-based", to which he reacts with disgust. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: In Episode 7, Gordon complains that the new handgun and submachine gun use different calibres, while the ones at Black Mesa used the same calibre. In the original Half-Life, the handgun was a Glock 17 and the submachine gun was a Heckler & Koch MP5 note MP5SD3 specifically, which both fire 9x19mm Parabellum bullets and share the same in-game ammo pool. By contrast, Half-Life 2's handgun is a Heckler & Koch USP Match (which uses 9x19mm Parabellum bullets) and its submachine gun is a Heckler & Koch MP7 (which uses 4.6x30mm bullets), so they use separate in-game ammo pools. In short, he's leaning on some cross-game Gameplay and Story Integration. | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You | |
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Everything Trying to Kill You: Gordon lampshades it several times. | |
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