The Right Man In The Wrong Place | Dr. Gordon Freeman | FULL Half-Life Lore

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I love that the hero of this story is not some exotic being with otherworldly powers, or anything like that. When the story starts, he's just a guy who is late for work.

I had an idea a while back; that it was Adrian Shepard rather than Gordon Freeman that G-Man wanted to destroy Nihilanth in HL1. While G-Man looks curiously towards Freeman a few times but doesn't really interfere with him, he seems to more actively direct Shepard's progress: freeing him from the room of toxic waste, blocking his departure on the V-22 Osprey, reactivating the bomb he'd only just deactivated. He even appears in the 'Boot Camp' training segment. It seems like Shepard and his unit were a more controlled factor to G-Man while Freeman was more a random element. And I'm sure G-Man was intrigued that Freeman defied his expectations and became the one to destroy Nihilanth instead.

Don't forget his brother who faced full-life consequences: John Freeman.

I love that Gordon is good at climbing through vents is because he was trying to beat Barney in a race to unlock a door.

Gordon being teleported into Breen's office, and then being teleported there AGAIN when Breen is calling the Advisor, getting both of their attention is near-comedic.

i love how the microwave incident is actually something that's important to the story

Fun fact: the name “white forest” is actually the opposite of “black mesa”

It's a shame that Gordon's VA didn't want to play the role anymore, it would have been great to get a wrap-up to this story. Then again, not sure Valve would have wanted to bring him back in after all the things he said...

When bashing the crowbar around like a caveman in game, it's easy to forget that Gordon is canonically a scientific genius with the same unauthoritative caliber of education as Kliner or Eli. I always wondered what deeper questions he was asking about the new world he found himself in; the alien life, combine tech, the overall impactions for the multiverse... But more importantly, just how did he get so good at killing things? Side theory: After being hired by the Gman, Gordan no longer needs sleep. He's awake for nearly a week by Episode 2.

It's funny how, after years of knowing Gordon as an alcoholic sociopath, hearing about his canonical friendly, helpful personality is what feels weird to me.

It's so wild to think that Gordon just went to work one morning and participated in an accident that sent him and the rest of humanity down a path of unforeseen consequences. Like he doesn't get a moment of rest, during one moment he's fighting for his life in black mesa, killing an alien overlord and getting recruited by an interdimensional creepy guy in a suit and a couple of seconds later he gets teleported onto a train which leads to him becoming the posterchild of humanities resistance against a oppresive alien empire.

I always thought Gordon was an anomaly. He never speaks, but his somewhat close relationship with the people around him (like the black mesa folks) makes me think he used to be able to speak. Or maybe he just appeared one day and all the people around him were given false memories. Any way, its interesting stuff.

Inventive way of explaining the ending without spoiling EP2 or Alyx

I like that even though Gordon is supposed to blank state character that hasn’t stopped Valve from giving him a detailed backstory of his origins as a scientist and his connections to other characters as well ad plenty of characterization as a stoic person that can remain calm and work through problems with his own intelligence even under immense pressure I’m really hoping we get to see more of Gordon’s story someday

I've always thought that the G-man's line "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world" added lore to the game.

Can you imagine if Gordon actually talked or was a separate character? What he would think about the world overall and about the Gman and everything else and what his personality would look like.. Also there will be no lore video about the Gman cause it's will quickly be theory video lmao

Can we just appreciate how great of a job freeman's voice actor did? Edit: y'all are stupid. The best voice line was interact sound

Theory, Gordon went to a crazy concert the day before and got a sore throat, thus can't talk until it heals... It's technically only been a couple of days or so since for him

Dr. Freeman is one of my favorite video game protagonists. He's the one guy who can destroy his enemies while solving various quantum physics problems in his head.