Right. i always see Gman as just a selfish scientist looking at the resistance/combine through a microscope.
And if G-Man were with the Black Mesa team since the beginning? If his influence on the BMRF were acting since the first operations of the complex?
Mabe G-man is just doing lab-work for his community college.
“I am going to get… ehh… an A… on this one…”
Introduces Combine Advisors
G-man…
OMG is it teh GABE MAN?!?!?
oh, and:
Teacher at laboratory: "What happens if we mix this little orange sample with this other specimen, which has properties of human resources as iron and add both on this same substrate <a somewhat liquid version of city 17> ? :freeman:
“Sir, my research indicates that mixing those samples with the substrate might cause the substrate to become unstable.”
“Exactly. Let’s watch, but remember, safety goggles on, we don’t want anyone to get a bullet sample in the eye”
Back on topic!
I think the G-man is the master of mindfucking… and tie-adjustment-ing :S That’s who he is xD
Well personally, I don’t think G-man knew what was going to happen to whom, all he knew was that he orchestrated the resonance cascade (by bringing in the pure crystal, DUH). It’s likely that it has something to do with the combine and their ominous empire. I bet he was just like “Oh I’ll just see who has the will power and guts to survive, then i’ll offer them a job”, but then again, he monitored Gordon and Adrian, but paid no attention to Barney (not any that i know of) in Half-Life, Blue Shift, and Opposing Force (you bet your ass they are canon!!!1)
what if g-man looks different to everyone who sees him or is only seen by those with a sertion gene it would explain a lot.
I think G-man is a pretty cool guy. eh carys brefcase and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Those arguments seem logical enough, except what about when he appears in “real life” (i.e. talking with Odessa Cubbage, or in Opposing Force when some of the other soldiers say they saw a guy in a suit around the base).
I say in response to [YC]sgsells42.
That’s sort of what I’m building on, but it’s completely unnaturall to just pop in, you need interaction, like when he was arguing with Eli in HL1 in the locked door with the window (the scientist model changes everytime, so I have yet to have a black talking with him and a white dude with black hair for the casserole to complete the canon!)
Okay umm. I think you got some details wrong and it’s a good theory but I think the reason Nihilanth is there is pretty much established: The combine are an empire, and they conquer worlds, so they chased Nihilanth and his vortigaunts out of their home world, and the race took refuge on Xen, as Marc Laidlaw said that “nothing is native to Xen”. But I imagine that the race is already enslaved by the Combine, as the vorts have shackles and so does Nihilanth, who has crude surgery marks and legs ending with stumps, which i believe is the doing of Combine. So they let him stay and rule the vorts, much like they let Breen rule Earth. When Gordon caused the resonance cascade, the vorts and Nihilanth saw the dimensional rift. The aliens saw this as a way of escape and so into the portal they go, and Nihilanth holds it open because naturally he has contempt for his race.
:facepalm:
Eli is the Black Guy near the critical computer past the control room (Kleiner is the other guy, but his model is wrong)
Maggnuson is not present in the labs, or he is on the can.
My theory is that he was called away from the lab to oversee a shipment of some sort, and left the black guy in the break room to watch his cassarole in case Freeman tried to mess with it for the nth time.
Good point, but Eli also states that “‘When he brought in that crystal I knew I–I should have aborted that damn test, but I didn’t, the whole world went to hell that day.’” And that most likely sprung from the room where Gman is arguing with someone. But yes it is undisputed that after the resonance cascade the man telling you to get to the surface is Eli.
My personal opinion about Gman is that he is a member of an organization (AKA his ‘employers’) that seeks to rule over the Xen Aliens, and the Combine. My idea is that Gman plots the resonance cascade, so that an individual (AKA Gordon Freeman) would kill off the Nihilinth and the leadership of the Combine, then when the time is right Gmans ‘employers’ would take over both species.
However the destruction of Race-X and the disruption of Black Operations caused by Corporal Shepherd did something that effected this organization somehow, it is possible that Gman and his ‘employers’ are members of Race-X or that members of Black Operations were trained to use the vortessence and Gman is a veteran soldier of Black Ops.
You made sense in the first paragraph, but then I tuned out when you mentioned Race-X.
This maybe a little fire starter on my part. But I did notice a resemblance to Gman and Dr. Freeman. Could Gman be a play on words with Gordon FreeMAN. To the point that they are the same person.
Let’s say Gman is from a demension where Gordon Freeman is more powerfull or even from the future! 
Well don’t hate me for noticing the obvious, I’m new 
Update: I fixed the typo on Freedman to Freeman sorry.
Im the trouble starter, punkin instigator
Im the fear addicted, danger illustrated
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Im the bitch you hated, filth infatuated C yeah
Im the pain you tasted, well intoxicated
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter
Im the self inflicted, mind detonator C yeah
Im the one infected, twisted animator
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
Youre the firestarter, twisted firestarter
Im a firestarter, twisted firestarter
It’s Freeman. Not Freedman.