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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 ma…