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Concerned (Webcomic)
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Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman is a Machinomic by Christopher C. Livingston based on Half-Life 2. An Affectionate Parody, it blurs the line between machinima and Webcomics: all images are in-game screenshots taken from Garry's Mod, which allows the user to pose ragdolls and play around with the scripted events of the game, that have had speech bubbles and whatnot added. The name of the strip comes from a letter from "A Concerned Citizen" read in the game by the administrator of Earth, Dr. Breen, which the comic provides an explanation of.The story follows the misadventures of Gordon Frohman, happy-go-lucky if none-too-bright resident of City 17 and former file clerk at Black Mesa, as he precedes/follows in Gordon Freeman's footsteps and attempts to ingratiate himself to the Combine overlords, catch Dr. Breen's latest show, cleanse the city of evil Vortigaunts, find an apartment, survive the horrifyingly friendly residents of Ravenholm, get his trans-human surgical upgrade, and stop that crowbar-wielding jerk from ruining everything. As the comic's name suggests, Frohman dies at the end.If you're at all familiar with Half-Life 2, or even if you're not, you may want to check it out. Expect some spoilers, though.Despite the fact that Frohman did actually die at the end, an unofficial sequel titled ''Concerned 2: A Concerned Rip-Off-The Continuing Adventures of Gordon Frohman'' by Norman N. Black demonstrates that our loveable dumbass survived due to Frohman reloading a save point from before he died. Unfortunately, the unofficial sequel has not been updated since late 2010. | |
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Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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The Millstone | |
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The Millstone: Frohman tries to help the Combine at every turn, but fails at all of said turns - and more besides. Him helping the Combine inadvertently helps the resistance score victories against them (how the Advisors and Breen didn't sent Frohman to Nova Prospekt is anyone's guess). | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Well, almost everyone. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Wallace Breen fulfills this role basically. | |
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...And That Would Be Wrong | |
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...And That Would Be Wrong: Right after Frohman's detailed fantasy about turning on his Strider. | |
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No Bikes in the Apocalypse | |
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No Bikes in the Apocalypse: Averted. Frohman uses a bike more than any other vehicle. Even when he's disguised as a soldier. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When Frohman leads a CP to Kleiner's hideout. Narrowly averted by Dr. Breen rejoicing over Freeman's capture. | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech: Gordon's brother Norman is an expert. | |
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Heal Thyself | |
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Heal Thyself: Medkits are capable of not only healing everything and anything, but also instantly removing any blood stains from clothing. They are also Eco-Friendly and will completely and instantly biodegrade upon use. This doesn't stop Frohman from trying (and failing) to use surgery instead, only giving out medkits when he gets impatient because his favorite show is about to start. | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces: Parodied here in reference to Half-Life, and there's even a duplicate Frohman in the present-day for good measure. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Frohman's a fan of Dr. Breen and writes a long, rambling letter about dating and sex to him, concluding (for a given value of "concluding" given it has two post-scripts) with "I guess my question is this: why has the Combine seen fit to suppress our reproductive cycle? Sincerely, A Concerned Citizen." He then wonders if Breen edits the letters before reading them on-air. | |
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Dressing as the Enemy | |
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Dressing as the Enemy: Frohman gets tired of getting shot at by the Combine, so disguises himself as one to get them to back off. This simply causes the rebels to start shooting him, so he switches back to a rebel disguise and promptly gets the Combine shooting at him again. | |
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Abridged Arena Array | |
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Abridged Arena Array: invoked Parodied when Frohman ends up in Counter-Strike: Source. He gets stuck on de_dust for six days straight, and is only able to escape back to his own game when the map changes over to cs_office and everybody else immediately stops playing to complain and demand that the map be changed back to Dust. | |
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Propaganda Machine | |
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Also in "The Combine Advisor" newspaper: Of note is that the obituaries run from pages 14 to 38. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Most of the Combine. As is Gordon while he's working for them. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: It wasn't great to begin with, and then Frohman helped make things worse. Especially Ravenholm, which, before our hero got there and told the Combine where it was, was nicer than most of the real world. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Described here. Or lampshaded. Or both. | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills: Frohman manages to take out three metrocops early on with three shots from a pistol, blind-firing from behind cover. He also manages to accidentally kill all three of the rebels in his squad at one point with a single launch of the pulse rifle's secondary fire. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: Gordon's *ahem* forward relationship with the gravity gun, coming to a head *ahem again* in strip #77. Boy, that's a pretty bad cough. Hope you get better! In Concerned 2, a "Breen Idol" and a Lawn Gnome play this role. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Frohman, at the beginning of Sandtraps, states that "jumping puzzles are for effeminate Italian plumbers". This is a reference to the author's original site, Not My Desk, where he once wrote an article suggesting that Mario was gay. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: #120 will leave you in tears. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Froh means happy in German. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Damn near everything. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
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Speak of the Devil: Subverted. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Frohman calls himself a "more synagogue kind of guy" when the fisherman from Lost Coast tells him about the church atop the cliffs, but otherwise shows no real signs or makes any mention of being Jewish; for all we know, it might simply just be an aversion to churches after the annoyance Grigori put him through telling him to meet up at the one in Ravenholm without actually telling him where it was. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Frohman's letter to Breen about the Combine's anti-reproduction field is filled with excessively casual language, idioms, and slang, up until he actually asks the question, which is exactly as it appears in-game: "Why has the Combine seen fit to suppress our reproductive cycle?" | |
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Cigar-Fuse Lighting | |
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Cigar-Fuse Lighting: When Frohman meets his squadmates at the start of the revolt (who all introduce themselves by their character archetypes), one of them claims to be a demolitions expert who'll do exactly this. Not that he gets the chance before Frohman accidentally vaporizes the entire rest of the squad. | |
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One-Paragraph Chapter | |
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One-Paragraph Chapter: No Prospekts, a parody of the chapter Nova Prospekt is one strip; Frohman finally arrives at Nova Prospekt to get his Combine surgery. He is denied access because he does not have an appointment, and promptly leaves. | |
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Vertical Kidnapping | |
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Vertical Kidnapping: Poor Sandy. | |
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Minion with an F in Evil | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: Frohman himself, as seen above. | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You | |
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Not the Fall That Kills You…: It's evidently the ruptured organs and internal bleeding. Although Justified, as Frohman saved himself from the fall due to having Buddha Mode enabled, but due to inadvertently disabling it he ends up suffering Critical Existence Failure due to his injuries from the fall. | |
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You ALL Look Familiar | |
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You ALL Look Familiar: Lampshaded repeatedly, especially in Frohman's flashback. In a meta-example, the same character model used for Frohman (male_07) was also used in the machinima of Full Life Consequences as John Freeman who was Gordon Freeman's brother. And as the Author Avatar of Das Bo Schitt, the creator of The G Mod Idiot Box. As well as the recurring citizen in Civil Protection. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Issue 030 has Dr. Breen note that an I Spy marathon is on TV later. Livingston's notes point out that this is a joke on how Dr. Breen's voice actor, Robert Culp, was the star of that show. | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer: Early on in the comic, Frohman occasionally makes it clear that he's aware he's in a video game. | |
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Bad Liar | |
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Bad Liar: Frohman, in spades. | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder: Dr. Breen decides that Gordon Freeman is "a complete idiot" for climbing into a metal coffin in the Citadel, and asks how long complete idiots survive. Gordon Frohman chimes in with an idiotic comment, and Breen realizes that yes, idiots can survive for a long time. | |
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Voiceover Letter | |
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Voiceover Letter: Frohman "voices over" his various letters to Dr Breen (if you consider writing outside of the letter to be a voice over). He doesn't seem to realise Breen's the bad guy. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Gordon complains about Norman shoving him, when Norman was saving him from a Strider. Gordon doesn't even realize that Norman has been saving his life since they were children. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Used frequently by Frohman. See Suspiciously Specific Denial, below. Also in "The Combine Advisor" newspaper: Of note is that the obituaries run from pages 14 to 38. | |
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Hellish Copter | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_43c77dd9 | comment |
Hellish Copter: Some time in Bike Lane 17, Frohman attempts to discreetly dispose of his Combine disguise by tossing it off a cliff. The body gets caught in the rotors of a passing Combine Gunship, which then proceeds to cause a hilarious case of Disaster Dominoes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_43c77dd9 | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: "[Freeman]'s got. My. Gravity. Gun." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4508b16b | type |
The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4508b16b | comment |
The Guards Must Be Crazy: This trope is the only explanation the author has for the battle "tactics" of the Combine soldiers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_46e1fd22 | type |
Walking Disaster Area | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_46e1fd22 | comment |
Walking Disaster Area: Gordon, in spades. Everyone, everyone who comes in contact with him ends up ruined or killed. A rebel he's interested in, the entire town of Ravenholm, his brother... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: As much as Dr. Breen wants to, he doesn't actually have this power. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_474e3977 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: A Combine soldier sees a fellow soldier on a bike talking about rebels as very suspicious. Somehow this doesn't blow Frohman's cover. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_48b9731f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_49d5f48f | type |
Of Corpse He's Alive | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_49d5f48f | comment |
Of Corpse He's Alive: Well, he tried. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_49d5f48f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4a879f41 | type |
Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4a879f41 | comment |
Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Frohman is not the least bit intimidated while making sure he got the Combine Advisor's orders right. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4a879f41 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4c851777 | type |
Black Comedy Rape | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4c851777 | comment |
Black Comedy Rape: Frohman reminisces about a creepy old guy giving him the "Buddha" code, then having Gordon take off his pants. According to the comic note: | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4c851777 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: As Freeman had his crowbar, Frohman wields a shovel. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4de1a4f7 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Read the title. Although, given Frohman and Dr. Breen both pretty well deserved to die, the ending could be seen as a subversion. | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e3d253b | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e6fe81 | type |
Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e6fe81 | comment |
Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: After Gordon walks away with a headcrab on a head for the better part of a chapter, it eventually falls off, having died of malnutrition. Gordon provides a Lampshade Hanging in the background. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e6fe81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_4e6fe81 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Frohman nearly succeeds in assassinating Gordon Freeman and saving Dr. Breen, but takes so long coming up with one of these that their battle is over by the time he's ready. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_508d91a2 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_51640e80 | type |
Bond One-Liner | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_51640e80 | comment |
Bond One-Liner: You got Frohwned!!! | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_51640e80 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_52b36340 | type |
What Measure Is a Mook? | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_52b36340 | comment |
What Measure Is a Mook?: Unintentionally deconstructed with the "Frank Tangent" quartet of comics. Giving a faceless mook a life, family, goals and dreams, and a sympathetic point-of-view was intended for comedy, due to "the ludicrous concept of it all". It didn't really work out as expected. The final strip of the tangent doubles as a Mook Horror Show as Frank's friends head to the next outpost down the road in hopes of stopping Freeman's rampage, only to arrive after he's passed through. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_52b36340 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Subverted. A Combine Elite soldier sits behind a desk while he interviews Frohman for a job, with questions like What is your worst quality? and Where do you see yourself in 5 years? However, he's looking for answers like That I am a disgusting, pathetic human, barely evolved from ape level, and In an off world combine enslavement colony, or dead. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_537dd8fe | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | type |
Flashback | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_53c9fc92 | comment |
Flashback: Nicely lampshaded, as seen on this trope's page. He proves less than adept in actually relaying these, though. | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5521ed05 | type |
No Animals Were Harmed | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5521ed05 | comment |
No Animals Were Harmed: Subverted. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5521ed05 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5521ed05 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: When Frohman suddenly comes across something that does not make sense in terms of game logic, he suddenly launches into a long-winded explanation of what is wrong and how it could be fixed, and goes back to picking his nose in the next comic. Author Filibusters have never been so subtle. He also once built a fully-operational Strider (though he never turned it on) because he didn't have enough dystopian oppression in his life in Ravenholm. Which doesn't even make sense as Striders are modified alien creatures, and probably don't exist in their natural form on earth. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_58626d87 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_598513bb | type |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_598513bb | comment |
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Frohman brothers, Gordon and Norman, respectively. Gordon is spectacularly dumb, as you can see elsewhere on this page, while Norman has often had to bail him out of trouble. | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_598513bb | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5a5dcecd | type |
Boss Room | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5a5dcecd | comment |
Boss Room: Confused for "a perfect place to rest" by our hero. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5a5dcecd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5a5dcecd | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5ff56a1f | type |
Long List | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5ff56a1f | comment |
Of note is that the obituaries run from pages 14 to 38. | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_5ff56a1f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: From the abundance of medpacks to aid the resistance, to the surplus supply of Exploding Barrels the Combine is forced to take cover behind, Frohman is his enemies' greatest ally. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60194b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60194b82 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: The idea of shelling beautiful, isolated Ravenholm with headcrab-filled artillery came from, you guess it... | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_60414102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: By virtue of one in every nine citizens of the city sharing their features, Gordon asks this of his twin brother Norman regarding his birthday. Gordon, being Gordon, then decides Norman needs to ask him a question to verify he's really Gordon. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6163afd9 | type |
Reliably Unreliable Guns | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6163afd9 | comment |
Reliably Unreliable Guns: Several pulse rifles, with both Mr. Henderson and later Frohman accidentally triggering the secondary fire and killing several people. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6480c255 | type |
Robbing the Dead | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6480c255 | comment |
Robbing the Dead: Frohman and some other rebels get separated from Freeman after a hopper mine goes off near them, and Frohman begins complaining that he assumed they were dead and left them to die. One of the other rebels finally has enough of his constant bashing of Freeman and pulls his gun on Frohman... only to promptly discover Freeman assumed they were dead, stole all their ammo as such, and then left them to die. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6480c255 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6480c255 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: The reason the strip exists is precisely because the creator loves a great deal of the things Half-Life 2 does. Read his notes for more in-depth information. | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6627695f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_66755d29 | comment |
And as the Author Avatar of Das Bo Schitt, the creator of The G Mod Idiot Box. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_66755d29 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Grigori loves these so much he even puts them in print in a roommate-wanted ad: An earlier example, followed by Is This Thing Still On?: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_68068108 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Frohman was more than a little miffed that Freeman had left him and an NPC for dead, prompting the NPC to try shooting him for insulting Freeman. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6b05b601 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: The series' bookends are snide comments on Valve's missed release dates. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6edc54d5 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7012424f | type |
Stealth Hi/Bye | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7012424f | comment |
Stealth Hi/Bye: Sometimes Frohman gets the better of the G-Man, and sometimes he doesn't. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7012424f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7012424f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7012424f | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_71d17dff | type |
Everything Fades | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_71d17dff | comment |
Everything Fades: Lampshaded with the first medkit Frohman stumbles upon, which has a disclaimer claiming it is "eco-friendly and will completely and instantly biodegrade upon use". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_71d17dff | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74e2ef76 | type |
Orphaned Punchline | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74e2ef76 | comment |
Orphaned Punchline: "So anyway, I said to Tony, 'Strider? I hardly KNOW 'er!'" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74e2ef76 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74ea980d | type |
Magically Regenerating Clothing | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74ea980d | comment |
Magically Regenerating Clothing: Lampshaded. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74ea980d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_74ea980d | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_751bd286 | type |
Is This Thing Still On? | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_751bd286 | comment |
Is This Thing Still On?: See Evil Laugh above. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_751bd286 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_751bd286 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Happens a lot, although it's still usually fatal to people besides Frohman. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_78c895c8 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: The shots are always taken so that Gordon Freeman's face is never seen, to the point where his picture on the character page is a broken jpeg. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7abba202 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7abba202 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Norman gives one to his brother Gordon after Gordon complains about Norman "shoving him" to save him from danger, showing that Gordon's too stupid to realize that Norman has been saving his life since they were children. | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc | type |
Developing Doomed Characters | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc | comment |
Developing Doomed Characters: Played for laughs in one strip, which introduces Frohman's new squadmates, each of whom gives a lengthy infodump on what they'll be up to: a youthful, optimistic recruit who has a picture of his sweetheart whom he'll marry when the war is over and will probably die tragically while cradled in someone's arms; a shifty-eyed and untrustworthy sort who will abandon the group but then return and sacrifice himself; and a Demolitions Expert who lights fuses with cigars and walks away from explosions without looking but skipped the class that teaches you the last wire to cut when defusing a bomb. Naturally, all of them die seconds after giving these infodumps when Frohman, who is busy trying to find how to work the pulse rifle's secondary fire, manages to find it. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7f390ebc | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Where to begin...? Ravenholm. It used to be a peaceful sunny community, with only one whackjob priest who is ignored as a loon. Then Frohman comes by... Frohman gets rebels killed by ignoring the radio cry for help, and then proceeds to broadcast the location of their hideout to all rebels. Not only are the combine listening in, they approve of some ideas for weapons that Frohman mentions. He takes a short break from thoroughly screwing up the world of Half-Life to ruin the only good Counter-Strike server. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Concerned (Webcomic) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Frohman quit his job at Black Mesa because ravenous creatures from the Xen borderworld invaded, killing nearly everyone in the complex. Soon the military arrived and they killed everyone else. Then the facility got nuked. "Plus, they were dicks about paying overtime." | |
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Informal Eulogy | |
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Informal Eulogy: "I'll never forget the day I met him. It was today. About a minute ago, when my head collided with his neck, breaking it. His neck, I mean. Not my head. My head is fine, not that anyone asked. Anyway. He seemed like a great guy with a lot of strong traits. Except for his neck, which was as brittle as glass. Amen." | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist/Villain Protagonist: It's easy to forget because he's such a lovable goofball, but Gordon Frohman is actively trying to be the best traitor-to-humanity he can be. He's just terrible at it. Though he's managed to cause just as much of a mess for the other side as well, also through sheer incompetence. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There was a big outcry by fans when Gordon was Killed Off for Real. Christopher C. Livingston pointed out the name of the comic was Concerned: The Half-Life and Death Of Gordon Frohman. | |
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Fatal Family Photo | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_8560c16f | comment |
Fatal Family Photo: Lampshaded to hell and back with Robbie Rauschenberg. | |
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Shovel Strike | |
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Shovel Strike: Frohman acquires a shovel in #60, or rather a "client-enabled moisture-resistant watercraft-propulsion device" to power the "occupant-propelled open-air semi-buoyant watercraft" he's upsold on over the airboat. It shows up several more times across the rest of the comic, though the only striking Frohman does with it is trying to open up a chopper mine he mistakes for a supply drop, and it hitting him on the head after he's fallen out of the Citadel and landed on Breen. | |
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Propaganda Piece | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_8a336276 | comment |
Propaganda Piece: One edition has a rebel newspaper report on Freeman's rampage through Nova Prospect. The Combine response? EVERYTHING IS FINE! | |
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Exploding Barrels | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_8a888e34 | comment |
Exploding Barrels: And Frohman, being Frohman, is the reason there are so damn many of them all over the game.note One of the notes alongside an early comic noted that, after the one where Frohman accidentally ordered 100,000 of them, Livingston had planned to dump a ton of them in the background of every comic afterward, though it was only a matter of days before he started posing comics in such a way that they were rarely visible, and only a few more before he stopped remembering to put the barrels in. Then there's Frohman's hilariously-inept attempt at one of the early physics puzzles involving barrels in Water Hazard. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Referred to by name. | |
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence | |
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Lampshaded, of course. | |
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Lethally Stupid | |
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Lethally Stupid: Frohman demonstrates his lethality in the Bike Lane 17 chapter, where he stumbles into the lost Counter-Strike server. He injures a teammate while adjusting to the most powerful weapon, pushes another into the line of fire, guns down the hostages, and frags his own team. | |
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Justified Trope | |
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Although Justified, as Frohman saved himself from the fall due to having Buddha Mode enabled, but due to inadvertently disabling it he ends up suffering Critical Existence Failure due to his injuries from the fall. | |
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity | |
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Suspicious Videogame Generosity: Lampshaded. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: When Frohman has a flashback of the good ol' days back at Black Mesa, everyone and everything - except for Frohman himself - is using a model from the first Half-Life. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction: Currently provides the page image, and is the last straw for Sandy. | |
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Webcomic of the Game | |
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Webcomic of the Game: Frohman ends up following almost the exact same path Freeman does, though until the uprising starts in the last quarter or so of the strip, the events of Half-Life 2 are happening in Frohman's wake. | |
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Unhand Them, Villain! | |
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Unhand Them, Villain!: In Concerned 2, Frohman threatens a barnacle with a lawsuit unless it lets go of his Breen Idol. Upon finding out that it's inedible, the Barnacle complies by dropping the bust...on Frohman's head. | |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_99ddfcec | comment |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Constantly, though of particular note is the fact that Frohman http://www.screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-08-04 almost-directly caused the events of both games by accidentally swapping the Xen sample with cheese. | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
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Been There, Shaped History: Nearly everything that Gordon Freeman has to deal with in Half-Life 2 was directly or indirectly caused by Gordon Frohman. It turns out he's also directly responsible for the events of the first game, as he delivered a piece of cheese to the Black Mesa lab instead of the Xen borderworld sample. | |
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Dumb Is Good | |
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Dumb Is Good: Sort of. Despite Gordon Frohman's incredible stupidity and desire to serve the Combine, his attempts to help them often end up making things better for the heroes. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Springtime for Hitler: When ordered by Barney to order a shitload of guns online for the Rebels to use in their uprising, Frohman attempts to fake said order and surreptitiously send a distress call to the Combine... only to accidentally place a real order for guns. A hundred-thousand of them, even. | |
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Animal Athlete Loophole | |
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Animal Athlete Loophole: In a flashback to the first Half-Life, for Frohman's pet Gargantua: | |
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Wreaking Havok | |
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Wreaking Havok: There's a reason Frohman loves the Gravity Gun so much. | |
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Black Shirt | |
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Black Shirt: Frohman is staunchly pro-Combine and an avid fan of Dr. Breen, but is fortunately such a screw-up that he ends up helping the good guys by accident. How big of a screw-up? He's so terrible at being pro-Combine that he's one of the Resistance's best assets. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_a7382a73 | comment |
Imagine Spot: Frohman imagines himself killing hundreds of the Combine, him abandoning Sandy, and later him carrying Judith Mossman. In reality, she's carrying him. | |
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Fatal Flaw | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_aba8065b | comment |
Fatal Flaw: Gordon Frohman's flaw is his stupidity, especially when he fails to realize that people are trying to help him. Because of this, he ends up refusing a rescue from some Vortigaunts after accidentally disabling his invincibility code, because he still hasn't realized the Vortigaunts underwent a Heel–Face Turn after Black Mesa, resulting in him bleeding to death. | |
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New Ability Addiction | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_b2f198c0 | comment |
New Ability Addiction: When Frohman gets hold of the Gravity Gun, he starts using it for everything (parodying the way a lot of players became obsessed with it). Eventually, everyone at Black Mesa East gets sick of this and takes it away. This becomes a Brick Joke when it turns out that he was the one who caused it to become the dark gravity gun near the end of the game, because he tried to stop a confiscation field from deleting it. | |
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Take That! | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Chris made more than one jab at Donnie Darko during the comic's run, both in the notes (#43) and in-comic (#167). The entire Counter-Strike arc is one giant one at CS and its players - who, ironically, were among the arc's biggest fans. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Frohman, who bypasses a puzzle by flinging himself and his boat over an obstacle via exploding barrels, nails boards to his feet to cross sandtraps without alerting antlions, and gets the "take pictures of you" and "chop you up with a whirling blade of death" flying drones mixed up at every turn. Also done with the first Counter-Strike server Frohman's accidentally launched into. And again, surviving zombification by having the headcrab starve to death on his head. It's revealed late in the comic that he's only survived to the end of the game due to a cheat code. He even literally fulfills this trope by being so dumb he turns off the code because he thinks "Buddha" is a funny word. And even that wouldn't have been enough, since the Vortigaunts make an attempt to save his life... only for him to screw it up because he is completely incapable of realizing they're not still hostile, causing them to quickly give up on him. Frohman dies soon after. Lampshaded here. If someone unironically praises Frohman for his insight, they likely qualify as this too. In a rare non-Frohman example, one of the notes by Livingston questions Gordon Freeman's decision to enter a "steel coffin" for no reason. | |
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Face Framed in Shadow | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_b5c562be | comment |
Face Framed in Shadow: Invoked by Frohman here. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: While Frohman quickly falls in love with Judith Mossman and a random female rebel, he casually pushes past Alyx Vance, who almost never appears for the rest of the series. Of course, when she does next appear, she gets caught by the Combine and it's Frohman's fault. The notes for that comic make note of this, saying that Livingston had originally planned for the final panel to be reversed - Alyx climbing up the side of a building in the foreground and Frohman plus captors far off in the background - but then realized that it would make no sense to focus so heavily on Alyx considering her complete lack of involvement in the rest of the comic. | |
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Cool Ship | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_bb094e0a | comment |
Cool Ship: G-Man's magical hovercraft, apparently. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button/Tranquil Fury: "He's... got... my... gravity... gun." | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_bdbfd01c | comment |
Perfectly Cromulent Word: When Frohman's applying for a job at the Combine tower. | |
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Locked Door | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_bf7cad7d | comment |
Locked Door: Lampshaded. | |
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Zombie Infectee | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_c14ca4e0 | comment |
Zombie Infectee: Frohman actually becomes one in Ravenholm, but survives thanks to Buddha mode, so he just waits till the headcrab dies of malnutrition and heals himself (including cleaning the blood off of his clothes) with a medkit. He also suggests using a headcrab to revive a patient he killed. | |
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Hope Spot | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: In the final comic, we watch from first-person as a pair of medics find someone at ground zero and manage to get medical aid to them just in time - and it turns out it's not Frohman. He's lying dead on top of Dr. Breen. | |
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Ass Shove | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_c45c9fcd | comment |
Ass Shove: After Frohman tries to get Kleiner arrested by the Combine, Barney knocks him unconscious, and implies he's going to stick the stun-stick up his ass when he awakens. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Frohman has a kill-on-sight response to the friendly Vortigaunts and wants to join the Combine. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: "There's nothing worse than having to pose the same scene twice. Well, maybe genocide. But posing the same scene twice is pretty lame, too." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: To Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Another one: Gordon Frohman's grandfather, who fought in World War II, was apparently named Morgan Frohman. Also, a Metal Gear Solid reference in #100 and a The Legend of Zelda one referencing the cuccoo catching sidequest in Ocarina of Time in #82. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Norman gets speared from behind by a Strider. | |
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My Eyes Are Up Here | |
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My Eyes Are Up Here: Frohman is fascinated by the Combine Elite outfit that somehow renders everything in 2D. He then exclaims things are 3D again when he stares at Judith Mossman's breasts, causing Judith to state the trope. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Frohman is type 4 - no one really notices he is a villain because he's so incredibly terrible at helping the Combine. Anyone he does manage to kill is usually an accident... and more often than not a member of the Combine rather than the resistance. Well, the citizens of Ravenholm eventually do. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Sandy, Frohman's unfortunate temporary traveling companion, who wisely decides to abandon the sole being who might get them both killed in bouts of stupidity. | |
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Battle Couple | |
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Battle Couple: Frohman thinks of Sandy as his girlfriend. Sandy thinks of Frohman as a liability. | |
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Shoot the Medic First | |
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Shoot the Medic First: Tired of being shot at by both sides, Frohman attempts to adopt neutrality by dressing as a medic, figuring that the Rebels will love him for his healing skills and the Combine won't shoot him due to the Geneva conventions. He takes a shotgun blast to the gut almost immediately. | |
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Quip to Black | |
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Quip to Black: Gordon's brother Norman is fond of doing these. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: In Half-Life 2, Barney implies that when they first tested the teleporter with a cat it...didn't go well. In Concerned, Kleiner tells Barney to get the cat for the test, insisting it will be fine. In the flashback to how Frohman activated the "Buddha" code, he eagerly talks about all the things he will do in City 17, such as having an antlion for a pet, visiting Counterstrike, and killing everyone in Ravenholm. | |
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11th-Hour Superpower | |
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11th-Hour Superpower: The truth behind the blue gravity gun revealed! | |
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Fauxtivational Poster | |
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Fauxtivational Poster: Frohman made a few in an attempt to liven up the Combine Citadel. Incidentally, if you save the comic JPG and crop them right, you can make some kickass custom sprays. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial Frohman does this. A lot. And Frohman again. | |
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The Rant | |
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Lampshaded in The Rant of this strip, where he manages to go three-for-three in six panels. | |
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Comically Inept Healing | |
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Comically Inept Healing: When he starts impersonating a medic, Frohman initially tries to do surgery. Despite, you know, medkits existing - something he only takes advantage of just to get patients out the door faster so he can watch Dr. Breen's broadcast. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Gordon Freeman ends up looking like this, mercilessly killing an innocent Combine soldier, and later taking all his fellow rebels' ammo because he assumed they were dead. | |
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Sprint Meter | |
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Sprint Meter: Lampshaded, particularly the fact that it and the Ten-Second Flashlight somehow work off the same battery.note this was all before Episode Two separated them | |
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I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday | |
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I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: In #132, Laszlo and Sandy wonder what's made the antlions so aggressive. Frohman starts on a flashback, saying that it feels like it happened an hour ago, "probably because it happened an hour ago". Laszlo and Sandy are then left in the dark because Frohman forgets to actually narrate his flashback. | |
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That Cloud Looks Like... | |
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That Cloud Looks Like...: Hmm, that thing in the canal looks like a guy in a little boat. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: The rebel Clay introduces himself thusly (though being a squadmate of Frohman's, he doesn't make it long enough to do any of it). | |
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Expospeak Gag | |
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Expospeak Gag: A rebel successfully talks Frohman into not taking the airboat, in favor of "the latest development in personal occupant-propelled open-air semi-buoyant watercraft," with complimentary "client-enabled moisture-resistant watercraft-propulsion device." The former is a rickety old rowboat, the latter is a shovel being used as an oar. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Evil Twin: Subverted with Norman Frohman, a former special ops agents working for the Resistance and who is actually effective in combat — the total opposite of his twin. The subversion is that, if anything, Gordon is the evil one given his love for the Combine. | |
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Cliché Storm | |
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Cliché Storm: invoked Frohman's squad of rebels seems to be full of archetypal war movie characters whose character arcs reference various clichés of the genre. Said clichés never end up happening, because Frohman accidentally kills them. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: Used here, here, and here. Made all the more jarring considering Frohman's utter stupidity. And Frohman lampshades it here, when he's first given the Gravity Gun. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Parodied in the notes for this comic. | |
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Ow, My Body Part! | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_f7e540ee | comment |
Ow, My Body Part!: Ow! My health points! | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Whenever Frohman orders in bulk, he ends up ordering far more of the item in question than needed, usually 100,000. He blames the keys being stuck. Also how his name is almost the same as Gordon Freeman. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
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I Call It "Vera": Gordon becomes quite... attached to the Gravity Gun. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Boy, that's a pretty bad cough. Hope you get better! | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: "Medical Doctor of Medicine". | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Concerned (Webcomic) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: In the very first comic, two members of Civil Protection comment that the train is running late. In the very last comic, the rebels comment that the train to Episode Two is running late, with one of the group commenting "again?" Lampshaded in The Rant of this strip, where he manages to go three-for-three in six panels. The T.G.I. Friday's is turned into one with the unofficial sequel. | |
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