I imagine Gordon before the incident as an everyday guy who just lives life and does his job and and throughout the course of the story he become more of a hero. I always see Gordon as being modest and not claim to be a hero.
Given the guy managed to get into MIT and go on to do work overseas I have to say he’s more than your average guy. He’s obviously smart, and I like to attribute that to his survival and skill somewhat.
I like to think half of it is just him scrambling to make it through things, while the other half of him is analyzing and calculating it all, and there’s this inner-conflict in which his logical mind is overcome by the immense nature of his situation and gives leeway to his “shut up and run and kill stuff” method for figuring things out.
As Forrest Gump.
I tend to imagine Gordan Frohman doing unspeakably perverted things to alyx in his mind as he follows her around, leering at her in those really tight pants.
^ He’s probably doing his best NOT to think of that, because A. he’s trying to save the world and B. technically he’s 20 years older than her, but not because of the G-Man’s stasis.
Apparently the REAL reason the G-Man puts people into stasis is so he can hook them up with total jailbait. If that makes it into Episode Three I fucking called it.
Point… Alyx was about 5 during the Black Mesa incident. Gordon was 27… cough
All that stasis did was not let Gordon get older, and when he gets out, Alyx is around 25…
I was honestly hoping for a cameo of G-Man entering a portal with a very young, child-looking female person held by hand… You gotta admit that would be cool 
It would be neat, but out of place, since pretty much the only place Alyx would logically be is in the dormitories.
I don’t get the problem with Gordon being techically 47 and Alyx being 20’s
Yeah, you’ve a valid point there Pyro.
Shame, really. Could’ve been in “daddy’s” (Eli’s) office when RC went down, though… 
I imagine him as being shy, but given an unfortunate situation, his will to survive takes over. I also can’t help but think he’d be a great friend to anything that doesn’t want him dead. But, considering he’s whatever the player is, he could well be some annoying prick who only wants to ruin casseroles and destroy boxes.
Well, as a friend of Gordon Freeman, I can tell you this:
- He is a mute. We just don’t talk about that in front of him because it makes him sad. He almost had a break-down when Alyx told him that he doesn’t talk much.
- He learnt to use weapons because he lived in a very religious part of Seattle where there’s this cult that don’t like mute people.
- He was normally a conscientious objector to the whole “anomolous materials” thing, like the rest of the team. We actually hadn’t performed a test to date, and were only acting like we had because there were evaluators coming on that day. We had just made up all the numbers 'till then. (“110%!” Oh, Dr. Kliener, ad-libbing all the way!)
- He makes a mean casserole. And I mean mean.
- Gordon went on other adventures throughout space and time and parallel, as well as perpendicular universes before ending up in City 17. He has been known during these ventures as names such as (and these are just a few) Boba Fett, The Grouch, Jack the Ripper, Camp Koala (RIP sniff), Morgan Freeman, Al Gore and that one off Breaking Bad.
- He is extreemly short sighted.
- He does drink a hell of a lot. Started in Munich, I think. He also writes novels under the psuedonym “Dan Brown”.
Eli Vance, your utter hilarity amuses me. You are the funniest person i know. Man, I wish I was a cool as you. But no, I’m nowhere near as good. You are able to use one joke over and over and it’s still not funny! man I envy you.
Gordon Freeman is Jesus. He’s gonna give his life for us.