true^, but this discussion is getting interesting. 
G-Man is highly unlikely to be a contraction of Gordon Freeman.
It’s real-world usage is a contraction of Government Man, used to describe FBI agents.
welcome to 1933
Welcome to 1933 makes perfect sense (though I’d associate it more with the 50s) since Half-Life is effectively a B-Movie in game form.
Aliens, government cover ups, science gone wrong… having a ‘G-Man’ character seems practically necessary.
G-man is the filename of the character model. It was used to refer to him since there was no reference made to a name in HL1. Or HL2, either. The closest thing we have to an in-game name is “our mutual friend”, from EP2. So even if the term G-man wasn’t already around, since its never been said in game, G-man’s name is not a valid line of reasoning. Besides all the theories that say G-man is Gordon are tenuous, at best.
Though ballsopt claims trolling, his idea is interesting, though ultimately moot. I can’t think of any compelling evidence for or against the idea that Gordon was in on the plan from the beginning. We never hear anything of what Gordon is thinking so how can we possible know if he was in cahoots with G-man?
Nevertheless, I like to speculate that G-man was always working for the Combine, advancing their interests, and was using Gordon to incite a rebellion so that the Combine could identify, capture and eliminate opposition (especially those who would know where the Borealis was). It would be a nice shocking moment when Gordon finds out, and then maybe there’d be a G-man boss fight. :aah:
The fact that Gman offers Gordon a job AFTER he kills the Nihilanth, and that he is spoken to in a manner of a first time meeting.
Why is everyone overlooking this?
Because you overlooked the posts mentioning it.
Laziness > Accuracy
You don’t “wake-Up” at the train in half-life blue shift you can see gordon walking towards the train, it’s just where the game starts.
I think it’s basically because the Combine pulled most of their forces off Earth after the population was properly subjugated, and only left a comparatively tiny force to keep an eye on things. When the uprising started, they probably didn’t see it as enough of an issue to bring over many reinforcements. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t count on Gordon Freeman.
The fact that we wouldn’t have lasted seven minutes if the super portal had opened makes it reasonable to assume that if the Combine had decided to put more resources into countering it, the uprising would have been over very quickly. And even without that, the citizenry just about managed to scrape through with the help of Freeman. Breen wasn’t so wrong after all.
Way to not read.
And the fact that there’s no reason for him to go back in time is not the only flaw in the theory. As someone’s already mentioned, “G-Man” is only the file name, and is an old term for “government man”. On top of that, it’s just shitty story telling.
Ok…. what about that cut scene, in E2, when G-man tells Gordon, “see her safely to White Forest – I wish I could do more……blah, blah, blah”? It’s like he wants things to work out for the good side. I’m so confused 
:awesome:
But since people still care:
gman knows what he’s doing, and always has. he knew freeman was going to be there that day, and he knew that he would push the cart into the AMS. The entire facility (computer network crash, AM equipment malfunctioning) was slowed down that day, in prep. it’s really not that far fetched.
if you really want to stretch it; in DECAY, the crowbar is found lodged into the cart elevator’s gearbox, to keep the crystal from being delivered (right before the RC). one could say that Freeman, in secret from gman, desperately jammed the gears so that the cart wouldn’t be delivered to him the next day.
as for gman’s illusion of free choice at game’s end, who knows. maybe it was just the offering of a full time job.
Very cool idea
I was going to mention this, actually…
It is possible that G-Man contacted Gordon prior to the incident and offered him something in exchange for helping him execute his plan at Black Mesa. He didn’t tell Gordon the RC would occur, planning simply to kill him off, and then became impressed by his work. Another possibility is that G-Man told Gordon what would happen, and told him that if he survived that test he could get him a job with his “employers”.
G-Man does seem to be meeting Gordon for the first time (“Gordon Freeman, in the flesh…or rather, in the hazard suit.”), but it could be that he talked to him over the phone but never met him.
Anyway, I think it’s a rather unlikely scenario, but not altogether impossible.
If they make a Half-Life movie adding something like this would make the script interesting enough to make a compelling movie.
Trolling? Riiiiiiight. I’ve never heard anyone defend a stupid point by saying they were trolling.
G-Man knew: again, so what? That doesn’t mean Gordon had anything to do with it.
Considering the checks they must go through, I don’t think the crowbar would have stayed there for such a long time. And again, why did Gordon do it? You’re simply pointing out things that went wrong and saying “GORDON DID IT GORDON DID IT”. Why didn’t Breen do it? Why didn’t Eli? Why didn’t G-Man do it himself?
u mad?