Half Life G-Man Theories

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Yeah... Maybe the G-Man is building up his own personal army to destroy Black Mesa, and the Combine, so he can rule... It's a possibility...

Or more likely, so that his "employers" can rule. (BTW, ever wondered just what kind of "salary" the G-Man gets from his employers? )

It's interesting, though... the G-Man mentioned that Xen is now under the control of his employers, thanks to Gordon's efforts in HL1. Since Xen is the "border world," it's likely that his employers saw it as a strategic location, as it would give them easy access to other dimensions. And now that Nihilanth is gone, the main thing that stands in their way is the Combine, which is why the G-Man has brought in Gordon to fight them. Breen's comment about the "highest bidder" would suggest that the Combine are a major rival of whoever the G-Man's employers are.

So, It's as if The G-Man and Dr. Breen are sort of using Freeman as a weapon, that they want to use to destroy the other. Yeah, that's a good explanation. That must be why The G-Man placed Freeman on the train into City-17... Interesting... That is a good idea, though It'll be good to see how the next G-Man sightings in Ep 3 go, that could give away some more clues, you never know, they might find Aliens on the Apature Science Vessel, or even the Combine...

I think that the G-man is supposed to be somthing that is not really there. What I mean by that is that he is a repersation. You have to remember without the G-Man the Black Mesa Incdent would never have occruced and netheir would any event's in the half games. He is everywhere at once. G-Man is aslo a slang term for 'goverment man' which gives rise even more to my conculsion that he is suppsoded to be a Big Brother type repersation. Meaning his identy will never be revealed and nor will that of his employers. Becuase he speaks of his employers as though he is seperate for them. When he said " I have received some intersting offers for you services. Normally I wouldn't have considered them, but these are extroidary times." This shows that he is obviously a seperate entiey. If you remember during the time he is wacthing Gordan Freeman in the first game. He is aslo wacthing over Shepard form the Oppsing force game. There fore this shows that he can be everywhere at once. I think he is ment more as a symbol then a actul charater. Though I could be wrong do to the fact that at the end of Epsiode 2 Eli was about to tell Gordan somthing before his death. What he had to tell him is obviously somthing about the G-man becuase Eli refered to him as "Our Mutal Friend". So it could be that in the coming up game's they will revel his indenty and alot about him. Though I find this unliky. Though it must aslo be noted that he is not all powerful and all seeing. Gordan during Epsiode 1 and 2 had slipped form the G-man's sight. The G-man admit's this himself when he appers before Gordan half-way through Epsidoe 2. That is way he is not as powerful as he is sometimes shown to be. Though most events in the half life universe happened because he made them happen. In one way or anther. It was as he said " The right man in the wrong place can make all the differnce in the world."

Sorry if I sound like I ramble or for any errors. Once I have a idea they just sorta flow.

I don't think it was in Ep1, but in Ep2 the Vortigaunts were blocking G-man from communication, and he was only able to break free at the very end.

So do the Vortiguants know who the G-Man is?

Ok, so I've been doing some research, and it appears to be time for an update.

It says on CombineOverWiki that:

Also..


The G-Man presumably has a HUGE list of insiders, he's seen throughout the game, speaking to different people within Black Mesa, and could have possibly had help using the 'Breencast' monitor, when he projected different messages through the screens on the level 'Water Hazard'. Also, if the G-Man is working with Black Mesa, it seems very possible that he could have had help spying on Gordon.. Remember the first level with him on the other railtram? With a member of Black Mesa who appeared to notice him...?

I also found a strange spot during HL2 which I might replay. The shack being held up by pillars over the water that the G-Man walks into during one of the sightings. I went up a ladder there, and found a few ammo crates on the roof, and a few zombies, other than that, I didn't bother to explore, but er..

I am wondering whether the G-Man has a connection with Alyx also, in any way, mainly because of this fact..



I don't get whether there are any other facts to strengthen this idea.

Also, I reckon the G-Man must be looking for different people to help him, inside Black Mesa..(Shephard, Freeman...)

Actully they were blocking him in Ep 1 because remember what happened in the begening of that game. Plus the fact he never once showed up that entire game expect what he did at the beganning. So he was blocked until the point in epsiode two when the Vortiguants where healing Alex. I aslo think that they do know about him or else they would have not be able to save Gordan. I don't think he has any special thing with her. I think that was just the hyptoic tigger for her to say those words.

I'm not sure what happens between HL1 and HL2 but what I know is this:
--As a result Gordon killing the Nihilanth (final boss of HL1), giant portal appear all over earth
--Portals spew out Xen creatures, overwhelming Earth's military forces
--Combine also come out of portal and kill Xen creatures
--Then combine start to attack Earth
--Wallace Breen organizes earths surrender. Combine enslave entire Earth
--And the G-Man lets Gordon off onto a train into the Combine's City 17.

Back on the subject of the G-man, it can be noted that the whole sorry mess of HL1 and HL2 was started by the Xen crystal which starts the resonance cascade. Guess who supplied that crystal? Our mutual fiend.

What it was the Zen creatures did was to force all the people of earth into city's where they could be protect and when the Combine came through it was easy to pick off Earth's forces in what was known has the 7 hour war. Though at the time the Combine invaded they only where able to use things like the Hunters and The Striders becuase they had yet to create a solider for Earths evoriment. They always create a solider for each plant they invade. That is why the are call Combine. Though the only creatures who are turely of that specis is the Advisors. Or so it seems.

No, don't really remember...I forgot most of Ep 1 because it wasn't that good =/

All I remember was they made you go through the Citidel with the second gravity gun some more >_< To me, this was the most boring part of HL2, and I certainly didn't enjoy more of it in Ep1

The Advisors have some weird name for their species, but I forget how it's spelled. Anyway, from what I understand, the name "Combine" is not a species... the name refers to their empire. It's probably not even their "official" name, but a colloquial human term, as evidenced when Dr. Breen refers to them in one speech as "that universal union who small minds call 'The Combine.'"

my theory on the g man is that he is a stalker that really needs plasic surgery LOL

Actully The Universal Union is the name of there empire. Even though it is actully a muti-dimensional empire. Becuase Zen was a border world in anthoer dimsion. So it is safe to assume there are other such worlds.

This is interesting, but I think the G-man is an immortal entity that travels through space and time with special portals and there are many like him.

I see a lot of assumption that the developers actually wrote a back story for this character when the simple truth may be that they're making it all up as they go along, and that there is no purpose other than to add atmosphere and to entertain.

I think they just thought the G-Man would add an interesting element of mystery and your imagination would do the rest. The original Half-Life was developed during the heyday of the X-Files and it is not hard to see the influence that the series had on the game, particularly so with the G-Man character.