Dr. Wallace Breen

Half-Life Series
#1

We have a G-man thread, but in my opinion, this guy is as mysterious in some regards.
I don’t think this has ever been explained, but how come did he survive the BM explosion?
What are the relations between the two men?

The only explanation that comes to my mind is that the G-man did save him (just as with Alyx) this would suggest that once they were friendly and working with/for each other.

In my opinion, “my employers” are none other than Aperture Science staff that have time-traveled into a/the future, and… dunno 0_o

/discuss, if unneeded for this to have it’s own thread, then I’m not against a merger.

Maybe “Resonance Cascade” was an attempt of AS to destroy BM, but it had some “unforeseen consequences” known as Combine invasion.

The man that they have tried to fu* with, ironically “allied” himself with the common enemy, Combine, thus they became responsible for the humanity’s downfall.
And that’s why the G-man has employed our hero Gordon.

Also a spoiler: [COLOR=‘Black’]our mysterious guy is in fact none other than a leftover superior specimen of “Mantismen” jk lol, or not? 0_o

#2

Have you ever thought that Breen maybe did escape BM on a legit way rather than getting teleported?

And about Aperture:

  1. They work with portals, not time traveling.
  2. They’re humans while the G-Man has extra-terrestrial powers.
#3

It’s possible, something like Barney’s Blue Shift escape, but it’s canonicity is more than questionable.
Not to mention I don’t see why Alyx had to be teleported, it doesn’t appear like there was much time left to escape and the only ones aware of the bomb were the HECU, Black Ops and G-man.
One way or another, unexplained for now.

also:

  1. “Borealis”
  2. That still doesn’t suggest him not being a human
#4

Hm… kinda interesting Idea, although I would stick to Jack Freemans Intimations.

Have you ever considered to write Marc Laidlaw about information for that Character ?

#5

I hope you’re joking with this because the Borealis is about teleportation and not time traveling.

And if the G-Man is human, could you care to explain to me where he have gotten those extra-terrestrial powers of his?

#6

And to give them an extra reason not to release HL3? better not to :smiley:
I think these things should be revealed in a sequel, so we better let them surprise us.
EDIT: @Freeman, play Portal 2
EDIT2: maybe he has a device of some sorts, or it’s simply a trick of mind

#7

Didn’t he come up in the G-man thread?

Breen probably got out with the marines in HL once they stormed the facility. He’d be wanted alive like the few other high priority targets. In fact he probably got out WITH Alyx, the marines would go far, but shooting kids? Doubt it. A perfect ‘cover’ whilst you let them know who you are.

Breen was duped by the G-man into going ahead with the test under specific circumstances, probably in exchange for power or recognition ( Ha, G-man and his irony ). Once the excrement hit the fan he’d realized he’d been duped and during the Combine invasion realized how far.

The G-man isn’t friendly with anyone, he doesn’t work WITH anyone, at least nothing that isn’t the same as his own kind if there ARE anymore of his kind.

Also, your theories on AP and BM sabotage seem extremely thin, your theories on AP staff time traveling and the G-man being one of them laughable.

#8

1st: Hm… I wouldn’t essentially set those two apart… remember that teleport in HL 2 where Alyx and Gordon only teleported for seconds and were missed a week in which the uprising began ? That’s not exactly time travel but something like slowed down/delayed time. Also, if you teleport from point a on earth to point b in universe X when you would otherwise need thousands of years, isn’t that some kind of time travel ?

2nd. I also think that G-Man is some extraterrestrial entity which cloaks itself as human or uses the human form to be able to communicate with Gordon, Eli, etc. I think it’s a bit too far fetched that he has something to do with the Aperture Science labs… but hey… maybe it’s the reincarnation of Cave Johnson ?!?

#9

Well, they fought constantly in an effort to surpass each other. BM was “the winner” so maybe Cave Johnson came up with a plan to travel into a future where BlackMesa no longer exists or wasn’t even created. But that in turn caused the Combine Invasion and in their reality there was no Gordon, and that’s why the G-man later employed him in the past

#10

Yeah, this seems the most plausible explanation.

If the G-Man had anything to do with Aperture Science, he wasn’t working with them any more than he was with Breen - he used them for his own ends, nothing more. I do have a pet theory that Aperture was sending survey teams to the Combine Overworld like Black Mesa was with Xen, but I don’t know how realistic that is.

#11

I wouldn’t put to much thought into AS or Cave Johnson. You’ve gotta think of AS as the comedy relief of the Half-Life universe. Other than the actual business itself there won’t be a crossover into the half-life side, it simply WOULDN’T work.

How could there be no gordon in the combine invasion reality? What? Have you PLAYED the original game? How does that make sense? Where do you get that from?

Also, it would seem Cave Johnson died well before teleportation existed on earth. It would seem whoever took over AS decided to take the company in a much more ‘sane’ direction, hence the borealis.
( Unless of course the Borealis is extremely old, evidenced by black and white pictures, and has only just come back recently. I however am not convinced of this. )

Also, being able to travel forward in time because your using a slow teleport doesn’t mean at all you can travel back. There is literally nothing within the HL series that shows us you can do such a thing. If there was it’d probably of been hinted at, like being able to travel forward ( in a sense ). So what Cave Johnson could hope to achieve is beyond me. I just don’t get your logic tbh, I think you’ve got far too hung up on Portal and its sequel.

Interesting but I wouldn’t imagine so. If AS had been to any Combine world they’d of drawn attention, and thus an invasion would of happened much sooner. I’m not even sure how the portal gun works, and whether it even uses Xen at all ( although I assume it must to an extent ) or if AS knew about it, perhaps nodding to why the Borealis went so disastrously wrong.

#12

I don’t think Aperture would travel to the Combine Overworld since it needs a tremendous amount of power, much more than a portal to Xen.
But Aperture can make their whole facility run on only 1.1 volts so /shrug.

#13

My pet theory is that Aperture was like G-Man’s first draft of Black Mesa. They proved too insane to be useful, so he moved on.

#14

too much bat-shit crazy theories
AP isn’t really that clever to pull something like that off, really

#15

LALALA

#16

lol

#17

In what way Wallace Breen and Gman are related to eachother? I still dont understand the meaning of this scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOgv6HpByw

at 2: 35 he’s offering Gordon to work by his side so he can controll the rebels.
“How about it Dr Freeman? Did you realise your contract was open to the highest bidder?”

Did Gman release Gordon into City17 because Wallace Breen payed for his contract?

#18

Hm… still some mysteries about Breen… I guess it could be how you mentioned it but I think Breen hasn’t payed but WILL pay (he can bargain with the Combine, now that he has Gordon and Eli, two of the resistance leaders), so it wasn’t the Motivation for GMan to release Gordon because Breen didn’t pay before hand. If so, he wouldn’t be so surprised to actually see Gordon when the teleport went wrong.

#19

You’d think so, but the Combine don’t seem to be that observant. They didn’t really notice a whole underground resistance movement in their primary city until Gordon led them right into it. Like Alyx said “The Combine can be slow to wake, but once they’re up you don’t want to get in their way”.

There’s also some evidence to support this theory, what with Mossman’s transmission about the Borealis containing contact codes for the Combine Overworld, the suspiciously similar tech Aperture has to the Combine (High Energy Pellets, Hard Light Bridges and Excursion Funnels reek of their influence), and the fact that they have a Combine health charger. These can be explained away, and I have my doubts that Valve would go in that direction, but when you put them all together it does seem to indicate something.

I don’t think the G-Man is payed for by any human. He makes contact with them to further his goals, but his motivations are his own as far as anyone on Earth can tell. Either he mentioned Gordon to Breen, or Breen learnt of his involvement from the Advisors. Presumably they have some means of taking Gordon back from him, a la the Vorts.

#20

Breen saw Gordon in the start of Half-Life 2, when the portal to Black Mesa East failed, he got to the top of the Citadel, Breen looked at him and asked “What is this? Who are you?”.
Then he teleported up there again and Breen was talking with an advisor; “I am absolutely sure that was… Turns head to Gordon Gordon Freeman.”

So I don’t think the advisors told him or anything.

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