Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freeman is the main protagonist of the Half-Life series.
== Charactah Account ==
Gordon is a recently graduated scientist who is about half a hour late for an experiment, taking place deep within the Black Mesa Research Facility.
Finding himself at the ground zero of a disaster, trapped between an invasion of aggressive creatures from the dimension Xen and a shadowy military force that wants him and his colleagues dead, Freeman manages to battle his way across the facility in the span of two days, staying alive against all odds, aided by his HEV suit and staunch determination. He is eventually teleported to Xen, where he takes on the leader of the aliens, after which he finds himself face to face with the mysterious G-Man, who offers him a job.
Displaced by G-Man in time and space, Gordon suddenly finds himself in the so-called "City 17", in some undisclosed part of Eastern Europe two decades after the events at Black Mesa. He discovers that Earth has been conquered by an alien empire called "The Combine", who rules their new colony with an iron fist, and he quickly manages to run afoul of them and is soon hunted by their military. But he also finds out that some of his old friends from Black Mesa have organized a resistance group that fights against the regime, and that he himself has become a revered and famous figure for the rebels due to his actions at Black Mesa. Together with the resistance fighter Alyx Vance, he ignites a full-scale rebellion against the Combine and manages to bring down their central control-center on Earth.
In the wake of the overthrow of the Combine control, however, Gordon and Alyx, along with the rest of the rebels, soon find themselves engaged in an even more bloody and desperate struggle to defeat the remaining Combine forces on Earth, and, even more importantly, preventing them from contacting the empire proper for reinforcements.
== Appearance ==
=== Literature ===
* Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar - A Behind the Scenes Look: Prima's Official Insider's Guide
* The Final Hours of Portal 2
=== Video Games ===
* Codename: Gordon
* Half-Life
* Half-Life 2
* Half-Life 2: Episode One
* Half-Life 2: Episode Two
* Half-Life 2: Survivor
* Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
* Half-Life: Alyx
* Half-Life: Day One
* Half-Life: Source
* Renegade Ops
== Trivia ==
* In Half-Life, the picture of a baby with besides an adult hand making a "thumb's up" can be found in Freeman's locker. Although the baby on the picture is Harry E. Teasley's daughter Isabel, and the picture was officially explained as being an Easter egg placed by the level designer, Marc Laidlaw offered the idea that it could be an infant relative of Gordon's, such as a niece or nephew. The locker also contains the books The 37th Mandala and The Orchid Eater by Marc Laidlaw and what seems to be Gordon's diploma in a frame, a Thermos and a cup, an HEV Suit battery, two sticky notes, and a blue suit. After the Resonance Cascade, the Thermos fell on the floor and the diploma fell on its face.
* Comparing Adrian Shephard and Gordon's shooting animations in Half Life 1, Freeman has slightly less recoil management than Shephard, this would make sense lorewise considering Gordon's only experience with weapons being the Black Mesa Hazard Course, and a butane powered tennis ball cannon he constructed at age 6. And Shephard being a marine would indefinitely have more weapons experience. However this could all just be the result of Half life 1 and Opposing Force being made separately by valve and gearbox
* Gordon's face model is the result of Valve's David Speyrer, Eric Kirchmer, Greg Coomer, and Kelley Bailey's faces being morphed together.
* Though Gordon is commonly thought to be mute, this is contradicted in the Half-Life PlayStation 2 manual. The image of Gordon Freeman's letter of acceptance to the Black Mesa Research Facility mentions a "recent telephone conversation" between Freeman and someone at Black Mesa.
* In Blue Shift and Opposing Force, Gordon's model doesn't have a death animation; if he dies, he will do the walking animation instead. However, his body can be destroyed.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gordon Freeman at Half-Life Wiki
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