Mystery Combat Man

Mystery Combat Man is a Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod parody series created by Nullenhl2b (The Zealot/Sgt. Stacker) and CrazyBubba. The series entails the journey of the Mystery Combat Man (Captain Pantz) and the massive Mystery Combat Squad, a diverse group of freedom fighters whos personal quest is to combat the terror of intergalactic empires throughout time and space.
Debuting in 2011 with the series title dubbed by a name generator, Mystery Combat Man was most notably depicted by Nullen and has been passed down throughout the series as a major parody and "Shitpost" on ModDB before their account was effectively banned. Due to a majority of the series content becoming lost media and its obscurity, Mystery Combat Man has gone undocumented and unarchived.
== Gameplay ==
Akin to its original nature as a parody and "shitpost", the series is notorious for its lacking story, random characters, absurd enemy count and major disconnect in disjointed levels and nonsensically abstract level geometry.
Coinciding with this, the series is also well known for its egregious usage of obnoxiously pitched famous music from popular culture such as "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" by William Smith and "X Gon' Give It To Ya" by Earl Simmons, as well as using retextured and reconstructed maps from other games such as the secret Alzoc III mission from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II and Test Chamber 09 from Portal. 
The enemies and fellow Squad members encountered throughout the franchise can vary between jarring and uncanny valley, outright model ripping from various media such as Imperial Stormtroopers, Unreleased Team Fortress 2: Invasion Beta models and even Halo Marines. While many are slightly altered Half Life 2 models akin to a yellow Kleiner or blue semi-translucent Breen, others can be seen as missing texture block men, or altered character textures overlayed with imagery much like the face of Pual Blart.
== Series History ==
Similarly to the episodic nature of the Half-Life series, the Mystery Combat Man series has been episodically nicknamed featuring their own perils and gimmicks. However, it should also be noted that the series non-linear and loose storytelling are disconnected between chapters with no viable interconnection such as loading zones.
=== Mystery Combat Man 1 ===
The debut of the Mystery Combat Squads struggles against the many warring factions of the universe, battling to bolster their armaments and procuring supplies all the while encountering heavy resistance and hurdles against the Galactic Empire, Covenant and Combine foothold of Earth.
* Chapter 1 (The Heinous BestBuy Heist)
* Chapter 2 (Evil/Oppression Incorporated)
* Chapter 3 (Afghanistan)
* Chapter 4 (Assault on McDonalds)
* Chapter 5 (Covenant Chaos/Invasion of the halo dinosaurs)
* Chapter 6 (D-Midday)
* Chapter 7 (Imperial Takeover)
* Chapter 8 (Arctic Atrocities)
* Chapter 9 (Inconspicuous Industrial Site)
* Chapter 10 (New Beginning)
* Chapter 11 (Brigadier Bryan Part 1)
* Chapter 12 (Brigadier Bryan Part 2)
* Chapter 13 (Ballad of Angry Aaron)
=== Mystery Combat Man 2: Reprise ===
The Mystery Combat Squad are brought back to the past and forced into action in 1973 World War II, battling against the likes of Germany and Vietnam in order to return to their own time, leaving off where Mystery Combat Man 2: Electric Boogaloo starts.
* Chpater 1 (Mount. Haang Huan Xue)
* Chapter 2 (Intervention)
* Chapter 3 (Run through the Jungle)
* Chapter 4 (Comatose)
* Chapter 5 (Relapse)
* Chapter 6 (The way Home)
* Chapter 7 (Breakdown)
* Chapter 8 (Seek Revenge)
* Chapter 9 (Mafia Hideout)
* Chapter 10 (Skid Row)
* Chapter 11 (Special Delivery)
* Chapter 12 (Day of the Pay)
* Chapter 13 (Time Device)
* Chapter 14 (Hostile Badlands)
* Chapter 15 (Auschwitz)
* Chapter 16 (Future will never be the same)
* Chapter 17 (Behemoth)
* Chapter 18 (Abyss)
* Chapter 19 (Reunion)
* Chapter 20 (Betrayal)
=== Mystery Combat Man 2: Electric Boogaloo ===
* Chapter 1 (Take Back the Town)
* Chapter 2 (Plastic Fantastic)
* Chapter 3 (-Unknown-)
=== Mystery Combat Man 3 ===
Fresh off the heels of their prior victories, the Mystery Combat Squad return to overthrow the experiments of the Combine menace, only to be betrayed by their most recent ally Odessa Cubbage. Forced to make a truce after a falling out with Wallace Breen, the newly reformed ragtag gang of the Mystery Combat Squad create an uprising to rebel against Odessa's reformed Combine Capital City, battling their way to the squads most dangerous foe yet.
* Chapter 1 (Escape)
* Chapter 2 (The Experiment)
* Chapter 3 (Gambit)
* Chapter 4 (High Noon Shootout)
* Chapter 5 (Battle of the Paper Plains)
* Chapter 6 (Crackdown)
* Chapter 7 (Desolation)
* Chapter 8 (Prison Break)
* Chapter 9 (Capital City)
* Chapter 10 (Escalation)
* Chapter 11 (Perilous Crash)
* Chapter 12 (Southern Bog)
* Chapter 13 (Ghetto)
* Chapter 14 (The Return)
* Chapter 15 (Uprising)
* Chapter 16 (Breaking Stalemate)
* Chapter 17 (Perimeter Breach)
* Chapter 18 (Final Push)
* Chapter 19 (Confrontation)
* Chapter 20 (Redemption)
=== Mystery Combat Man 3.5 ===
Due to the increasing demand for the beta of the future Mystery Combat Man franchise, the Mystery Combat Squad are once again called into action to do battle against the interdimensional forces of the multiverse in order to pull off their most daring mission yet: to acquire the beta of Mystery Combat Man 4 from Doctor Kleaner's Cool Beet Man Beta Laboratories, and wiping out the Anti-Beta operations of a group named the Hoarders.
* Chapter 1 (The Trash City)
* Chapter 2 (The Neon Military)
* Chapter 3 (Shitfuck vent)
* Chapter 4 (Surrealism)
* Chapter 5 (Battle of the beta)
* Chapter 6 (Aaaaaaa)
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
=== Mystery Combat Man 4: Leak ===
* Chapter 1 (Samuel's Regrets Part 1)
* Chapter 2 (Samuel's Regrets Part 2/3)
* Chapter 3 (Samuel's Regrets Part 4)
* Chapter 4 (Announcement Trailer Part 1)
* Chapter 5 (Announcement Trailer Part 2)
* Chapter 6 (Announcement Trailer Part 3)
* Chapter 7 (Cinema Trailer Part 1)
* Chapter 8 (Cinema Trailer Part 2)
* Chapter 9 (Cinema Trailer Part 3)
* Chapter 10 (Cinema Trailer Part 4)
* Chapter 11 (Cinema Trailer Part 5)
* Chapter 12 (Cinema Trailer Part 6)
* Chapter 13 (Cinema Trailer Part 7)
* Chapter 14 (Cinema Trailer Part 8)
* Chapter 15 (Cinema Trailer Part 9/10)
* Chapter 16 (Cinema Trailer Part 11/12)
* Chapter 17 (Cinema Trailer Part 13/Outpost 2)
* Chapter 18 (Ultimatum Trailer)
* Chapter 19 (Romance Trailer)
* Chapter 20 (Future Venice)
* Chapter 21 (Future Venice 01)
* Chapter 22 (Outpost 1)
* Chapter 23 (RD4 Tank)
* Chapter 24 (Bonus: Murder Mobile)
* Chapter 25 (Bonus: MCM2 lvl 8)
== Notable Games ==
Mystery Combat Man
Mystery Combat Man 2: Electric Boogaloo
Mystery Combat Man 2: Reprise
Mystery Combat Man 3
Mystery Combat Man 3.5
Mystery Combat Man 4: Leak
Mystery Combat Man 4: The End of Time
== Trivia ==
* As stated, many chapters are retextures and recreations of other notable maps from video games. This can be seen in:
** MCM2R: Chapter 1 Mount. Haang Huan Xue is a retexture of Thunder Mountain from Team Fortress 2.
** MCM2EB: Chapter 1 City Escape (mys2_1) is a retexture of City 17 from the Half-Life 2 beta.
** MCM3: Chapter 1 Escape (mcm_evil_lair) is a retexture of Test Chamber 09 from Portal.
** MCM3: Chapter 2 Experiment (mcm3_2) is a recreation of the hidden Alzoc III mission from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II.
** MCM3: Chapter 3 Gambit (mcm_plottwist) is a retexture of gm_construct from Garry's Mod version 10-11.
** MCM3: Chapter 5 Battle of the Paper Plains (mcm_assault) is a retexture of demo_arctic from the Half-Life 2 demo in 2001.
** MCM4L: Chapter 10 Cinema Trailer Part 4 is a reused map named d2_prison_02 of the Nova Prospekt prison from Half-Life 2.
** MCM4L: Chapter 12 Cinema Trailer Part 6 is a reused mishamshed variation of d3_c17_05 of City 17 from Half-Life 2.
** MCM4L: Chapter 16 Cinema Trailer Part 11/12 is a reused mishamshed variation of d1_trainstation_01 of the introduction to Half-Life 2.
** MCM4L: Chapter 17 Cinema Trailer Part 13/Outpost 2 is a recreation of the Death Star multiplayer level from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II.
** MCM4L: Chapter 19 Romance Trailer is a reused and slightly altered variation of d1_trainstation_05 of Isaac Kleiners Lab in Half-Life 2.
** MCM4L: Chapter 22 Outpost 1 is a recreation of the Imperial Labs: Raven multiplayer level from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II.
* Much to the frustration of many, the soundtrack of the series is tied into the Sound Effects volume and not the Music volume, rendering the game entirely mute if turned off. Fortunately, it is entirely possible to use "StopSound" in the console in order to completely cut any music ques and retain the normal games sound effects.
* Despite outright cancelation with its unfinished and unreleased beta levels and being outright forgotten due to being succeeded by numerous sequels, there has still not yet been any consideration to finish Mystery Combat Man 2: Electric Boogaloo.
* Mystery Combat Man 2: Reprise' nature was so offensive at the time of its release that it was outright banned from ModDB and other sources in no part due to the racist undertones portrated using asian characters with Sedge Hats and a map depicting auschwitz with seizure inducing and Nazi Flag imagery. As of 2022, it is completely impossible to obtain the files for the game.
* The map selection found in Mystery Combat Man 3.5 is shown to not work with many of its maps completely missing after Chapter 9.
* Oddly, there is a credit to a developer named HGrunt while exploring the lower portion of Future Venice 01 in Mystery Combat Man 4: Leak.
* Various death sounds heard throughout the series are from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II, using the death screams of characters falling off a cliff ranging from Luke Skywalker and Rodians to many others.
* A level not released to the public for Mystery Combat Man 2: Electric Boogaloo can be seen on a developers Youtube channel, Slackingstacker featuring a walkthrough of the second chapter "Plastic Fantastic"
* A demo had been showcased of the beta of Mystery Combat Man 3.5 in 2016 on a developers Youtuber channel, N & B. However, despite their computers processing, it was barely able to keep up with the amount of hostile NPCs spawned.