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G-Man: The "government man" Theory Something I've always been interested in is the G-Man speech at the end of Half Life. Primarily because G-Man uses some very choice language, first he says that he took away Gordon's weapons because they were "government property" which could be seen as him being snarky with Gordon but I think it's interesting to remember when coupled with the fact that he later says "Zen is under our control" and then we are in the middle of a scene that shows dead marines and tanks in Zen. I think it's strange that he says this will showing US marines and equipment in Zen, also it's a bit interesting that he thanks Gordon for being responsible for putting Zen in "our control." The Opposing Force G-Man speech makes things even more interesting with G-Man only detaining Adrian Shephard because he's a "witness" and describes Black Mesa as an embarrassment. Why does he care? He also later comments about Shepherd being a "civil servant" which again could just be him making a snarky remark but it thought about in the big picture it could be him giving more information about himself. Now to make a quick counterpoint to myself I know that Shephard is aware of the G-Man before the game even starts according to the manual so it's most likely that he was detained because he simply got too involved and knows too much, regardless it doesn't quite explain why he sees Black Mesa as an embarrassment. The icing on the cake is an early version of his model having a US Department of Defense logo on his briefcase. My theory is that at least when Half-Life came out the original idea might have been that G-Man's employers are literally the US government. Now I think it's safe to say this isn't the case anymore especially since the United States was destroyed when the Combine invaded Earth. Still this is something I've been thinking about for a while and it could explain some things in Half-Life and Opposing Force.