Gordon Freeman

Gordon Freeman is the main protagonist of the Half-Life series, an FPS thriller franchise created by Valve in 1998. He is depicted as a bespectacled Caucasian man from Seattle, with brown hair and a signature goatee, who graduated from MIT with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. He was an employee at the Black Mesa Research Facility. 
==Biography==
===Half-Life===
====The Resonance Cascade====
At only the age of 27, Gordon Freeman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics. He is then employed at the Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico, where he works as a research associate in the Anomalous Materials laboratories in the year 200-. Gordon works as Dr. Isaac Kleiner's assistant in Sector C in Test Lab C-33/a. 
One day, Gordon is assigned to an experiment involving the anti-mass spectrometer, which is a piece of equipment used to analyze foreign materials such as Xen crystals via electromagnetic fields and plasma. Those crystals derive from an alien borderworld called Xen, which was being researched by Black Mesa for a certain period of time already. Prior to this experiment, a special, uniquely pure crystal sample titled "GG-3883" was delivered by the mysterious G-Man. On May 16th, Gordon is meant to perform the experiment. Prior to his arrival at Sector C, he partakes in a HEV suit training. Later, he is about half a hour late for work. He rides the tram through Level 3 Dormitories, later quickly fitting into his HEV suit and heading off to the test chamber. Dr. Kleiner states G-3883 to be "the purest sample they've seen yet." Still unknown of the samples true properties or its origin, they are forced to power the spectrometer at a staggering 105%, a number many of the scientists don't feel safe about.
Gordon enters the chamber and receives the specimen placed in a special cart, delivered by Gina Cross. Gordon is then told to press a button and push the cart, after which the crystal reacts negatively, causing a Resonance Cascade, thereby opening a rift between Earth and the Xen dimension, releasing hostile aliens throughout the facility, and eventually the rest of New Mexico. The spectrometers explosion kills many of the scientists, far outside of the actual test chamber, however Gordons suit manages to protect him from the blast, leaving him to travel through the wrecked facility. He later discovers that Dr. Isaac Kleiner is alive.
====Getting Topside====
Gordon travels through the wrecked facility, stumbling across piles of rubble and dead bodies, with dozens of aliens teleporting in by the second. Gordon reaches another colleague, Dr. Eli Vance who alerts him that all communication to the surface is lost and tasks Gordon to go to the surface and get help, knowing his suit will protect him. Gordon agrees to the task and makes his way through the facility with the help of other scientists and whatever weapons he can find to combat the oncoming Xen invaders. Although he had little gun experience it is worth to note that gordon can adapt to a weapon at terryfing paces wheter its from human origin or not.
====HECU====
When Gordon finally reaches access to the surface, he hears hope of the military coming to their aid, however his hope is short lived as the military's idea of help is covering up the entire catastrophe by killing the aliens as well as witnesses to the event, including the scientists and Gordon, the latter of whom they believe sabotaged the spectrometer and caused the cascade purposely.
Gordon must then fight through them as well, traveling through several sectors of the facility, finally launching a satellite deliver rocket that would close the rift successfully. Gordon manages to launch the rocket flawless but it doesn't close the rift, having learned about the Lambda Complex on the far side of the base who's scientists are alleged to know how to stop the cascade, Gordon makes his way there, facing more hoards of stronger aliens and military personnel, ultimately ending in the militarizes retreat from the facility. Gordon reaches the facility, where he is informed that the rocket managed to close the rift on their side, but it's still being held open on the other side by a powerful being who rules the Xen borderworld, the Nihilanth. Gordon must travel over to the alien world and kill it. Gordon travels to Xen where he confronts a total hostile and unknown environment, later on as he progresses he battles gonarch, an adult headcrab of colossal size. on the first encounters freeman is the hunted but after the main fight gonarch tries to escape and freeman becomes now the hunter. after some time gonarch is killed and gordon can advance. eventually a giant alien base/factory is found by him and there he notices that vortigaunts aren't hostiles to humans by will, but because they are beign mind controled. the vortigaunts can only witness of how a single human beign is killing hundreds of their captors and start to look the lambda logo man as their savior, when gordon ascends into the last giant elevator they are freed from their slave position and are encouraged enough to beat the rest of their jailers as they watch freeman almost reaching his objective.
After defeating the Nihilanth, Gordon meets an enigmatic humanoid entity, the aforementioned G-Man, who has been watching Gordon's progress all along. The G-Man praises Gordon and is impressed with his capability to adapt, survive, and fight, so much so that the G-Man's "employers" are willing to hire Gordon. If Gordon refuses, he is teleported to an area full of alien soldiers to be killed immediately. If Gordon accepts, the G-Man congratulates him and places him into stasis to await his next task.
===Half-Life 2===
Gordon is awakened from his stasis by G-Man over 20 years into the future. There, Gordon learns that the death of the Nihilanth caused numerous portals to strike across Earth in the form of a storm, allowing numerous Xen creatures to flood the planet. This event attracted the attention of the Universal Union, also known as the Combine, a multidimensional empire that managed to conquer Earth in only seven hours. They ultimately overpowered Earth's armed forces and enslaved the human race. 
The only human with any freedom at all is Wallace Breen, the former Administrator of Black Mesa. Breen represents the Combine on Earth, acting as a sort of tyrant, though under the Combine's supervision. He seemingly negotiated with the Combine to give humanity at least somewhat more freedom once he became Earth's administrator. He resides in the Citadel, which is an enormous building constructed by the Combine, that is over 2 kilometers tall.
Upon enslaving humanity, the Combine began capturing the most reluctant humans and converting them into enhanced soldiers with heavily altered bodies and memories replaced with codenames and combat tactics. However, the most rebellious ones are forced to undergo an extremely painful process of being transformed into Stalkers, which are heavily emaciated humanoids who are missing their limbs, which were replaced by poor quality prosthetics meant to significantly limit movement. They are extremely gaunt, with very little to no muscle left, however they're kept alive via life-supporting devices implanted into their bodies. A large portion of their face was replaced by a plate with a built-in laser projector intended for repairing broken Combine equipment. Their vocal cords were most likely heavily damaged, as all they can emit is distorted screeching. Unlike other Combine units, Stalkers are never brainwashed - they are fully conscious through the entire process and the process of brainwashing is unnecessary due to the horrific mental damage sustained by them. Stalkers essentially serve as labor for the Combine, they also tend to be guarded by a single Combine Soldier, however they're also seen alone. They don't resist further as they know they will never escape nor return to normal lives. Combine have also performed similar processes with numerous other races, as shown by multiple modified creatures seen throughout the game, including (but not being limited to) Gunships, Dropships and Striders, all of which are still living beings, albeit heavily modified and brainwashed to obey the Combine.
Back to the main topic, Gordon was originally meant to take the train to Nova Prospekt - a former top-security prison taken over by the Combine, essentially remade into a Combine Soldier factory. However, a metropolice (unmodified humans serving the Combine) unit interrupted this, taking Gordon to interrogation. The unit later turned out to be Barney Calhoun in disguise. Prior to disabling cameras in the interrogation room, Barney reintroduces Gordon to Dr. Kleiner via a transmission. After a short conversation between Barney and Isaac, missing camera surveillance raises suspicion. Other metropolice attempt to get to the interrogation room. Barney quickly helps Gordon escape, which later attracts the attention of multiple metropolice units. He is eventually ambushed, although saved by Alyx Vance, who is the daughter of Eli Vance, who's now the main Resistance leader. Alyx leads Gordon to Dr. Kleiner's lab where they converse for a while. Barney arrives shortly after as well. Gordon is about to receive another HEV suit, modified by Dr. Kleiner. A Headcrab (small, crab-like alien parasite) appears, however it turns out to be Dr. Kleiner's pet Lamarr, which was debeaked and tamed. Lamarr scurries off and crawls into a vent. Gordon then fits into the modified HEV suit and is introduced by Dr. Kleiner to his teleporting device. Alyx is successfully teleported to Black Mesa East, which is one of the main resistance bases supervised by Eli Vance. When an attempt in teleporting Gordon occurs, Lamarr suddenly reappears and jumps on the device, causing it to malfunction. Gordon is teleported to numerous places such as a wasteland (where Lamarr simply walks away), Dr. Breen's office, an unknown underwater area, in Dr. Breen's office once more and eventually right outside Dr. Kleiner's lab. He receives a crowbar from Barney and has to make his way to Black Mesa East manually.
Gordon makes his way to Black Mesa East, which is suddenly raided by the Combine. Gordon is separated from Alyx and is forced to evacuate through Ravenholm, a town flooded with Headcrabs and infested with zombies, which the Combine indirectly caused. Gordon eventually makes his way through, while being accompanied by Father Grigori, presumably one of the last survivors in Ravenholm which helps him in varied ocassions, when they both finally met face to face the ravenholm resident tells him that if he wishes to leave from there he must go through the graveyard. Grigori and gordon use various fire sources to kill the zombified humans and reach the fence-gate. the father keeps the door open for gordon to pass and closes it after. grigori says to gordon to take care of himself and says goodbye while he vanishes in the fire killing more zombies, it is unknown what happened to grigori after this. 
After all that happened freeman can progress and travels into the ravenholm mines which he trespass and eventually finds the exit to a train station area in the surface. However our protagonist notices he just went back to the main point of the cruel reality with the combine menacing human/alien existence. this is further noted when freeman reachs just in time to help a rebel base agaisnt their enemy, they pull them back but one of them is injured heavily. all rebels notice of gordon's arrival and congratulate but quickly guide him to communicate with alyx on a screen for the next step. She informs that his father (eli vance) has been captured and sent somewhere in nova prospekt, a giant combine empire prison which incarcelates the most wanted infractors. Freeman is tasked by alyx to go through Highway-17 and find her in the prison. the rebel that is also hearing the transmission says that freeman wouldn't last long on highway-17 if he implies to only walk all the way because is antlion's season. which alyx replies and suggest for gordon to use a car the vance family gave to that base. everyone accepts the plan and freeman goes outsisde where the car is landed for him, he goes aboard and departs to Nova Prospekt 
=== Highway-17 ===
On his way to the prison gordon has many different encounters with allies and enemies which are the following: 
*Abandoned buildings: Usually these are houses with nobody inside, except few zombies. some are even used as combine's outpost as one of these had binoculars which were pointing to a rebel base 
*Coast base: On his journey to Nova Prospekt gordon finds a rebel base which he enters to a basement and forms part of a meeting where a squad leader is looking for volunteers to use a rocket launcher to take care of the combine aerial forces.
The weapon is given to freeman by this leader called Odessa Cubbage
*Crane Transport: Freeman finds theres no more path for the car to go and he has the wonderful idea of handling a mechanical crane to move the car to where the road continues
*Bridge FIght: Gordon path is blocked off by a forcefield wall that prevents anyone that isnt the combine to move on. Freeman finds a lower path in the bridge where he can hope to find a way to shut down the forcefield system which eventually does after fighting more combine units and vehicles
*Lighthouse Point: After going through an infested tunnel, gordon reachs the end of highway 17 and deposits the car in a garage where other people will take care of it. The rebels tell freeman to prepare to defend the lighthouse outpost as a giant combine army is arriving, with help everyone fights them but as time passes the rebels notice they aren't going to win since they dont stop coming. one of those decides to show freeman a secret door on the lighthouse and screams at him to go now before more of the combines arrive, gordon departs and the rest of the rebels are murdered not so long after
One of the two survivors that were trying to reach a nearly safe base alert freeman of not stepping on the sand as that alerts the antlions, gordon takes care of that and watches not to touch the ground making a effective and very creative use of the gravity gun to prevent it, he after a while finds that main rebel base in the coast but alerts an antlion guard which confronts and kills. A vortigaunt comes out from the refugee and pulls out a pheromone from the dead antlion guard, gordon is given a quick visit at the base but is informed to not waste time as he must learn to use the pheromones to make antlions help him on the nova prospekt raid, he quickly adapts to them. The vortigaunt congratulates him and opens the path to the nova prospekt coast and the assault begins.
=== Nova Prospekt Raid ===
 
===Half-Life 2: Episode One===
The explosion buries Gordon under a pile of rubble, but he is dug up and saved by Dog, who helps him and Alyx reach the still-standing-but-ready-to-explode Citadel, where they must find a secret code that the Combine intend to use to open a portal to their world. They find the code, as well as the results of their previous actions, which have led to the zombification of multiple Combine squads. They manage to evacuate the remaining City 17 civilians and escape outside of town as the Citadel finally explodes.
===Half-Life 2: Episode Two===
They make their way to the rebel base to use the code to program Kleiner's rocket to destroy the Combine portal which is now active. Along the way, they encounter the smaller counterpart to the Strider, the Hunter, multiple squads and traps, and come face to face the Advisors, the devolved leaders of the Combine Empire. At the base, they learn of a mysterious vessel known as the Borealis, which Eli insists in finding, located in Antarctica. The group destroys the portal and heads for Antarctica, but not before two Advisors arrive and kill Eli, before Dog drives them off. The scene ends with Alyx weeping over her father's corpse.
===Half-Life: Alyx===
Gordon is shown to Alyx by the G-Man at the end of Half-Life: Alyx. The G-Man had grown displeased with the lack of progress Gordon had apparently made as well as his refusal to obey orders, and Alyx would be a suitable replacement for him. His HEV Suit has been visibly battle damaged from the events of Half-Life 2 and its episodes.
In the post-credits scene, after Eli's resurrection, the player briefly controls Gordon as Eli swears revenge on the G-Man for taking his daughter away from him. Dog then shows up carrying Gordon's signature crowbar. Eli takes the crowbar from Dog and hands it to Gordon, saying, "C'mon, Gordon. We've got work to do."
==Description==
Gordon Freeman is a 27 year old American MIT graduate, with a PhD in theoretical physics who is constantly tasked with defending the human race from interdimensional evil. Gordon is seen wearing glasses, a Hazardous Environment protection suit, which helps protect against, bullets, explosives, and radioactivity, and his signature red and white crowbar. Gordon is a silent protagonist throughout the entire series, his only vocal piece being heavy breathing, occasional pained grunts, and his suits AI warnings that alert the player of ammo, health, and hazards. Gordon's suit gives him almost super human attributes, often making him the last hope for humanity in time of crisis.
==Heroic Deeds==
* Launched the rocket to close the portal bridge between earth and xen
* Saved dozens of scientists from various threats (Xenians,HECU,Black ops,etc)
* Almost restored black mesa order (Failed as g-man reactivated the bomb Adrian Shephard stopped
* Killed Nihilanth, the main antagonist of half life 1 
* Liberated the vortigaunt race from their slave condition
* Saves hundreds of lifes at the time of half life 2 and it's concurrent expansion episodes
* Destroys nova prospekt, the main combine's empire prison
* Destroys the citadel, the main combine's empire base
* Kills wallace breen indirectly
* He and alyx vance defend a train to let barney and the remaining allied people escape from the incoming post-explosion citadel
* Succesfully defends the white forest base from raids and ambushes
* Along with the vortigaunt help, saves alyx from a secured death
==Equipment==
*The Hazardous Environment Suit: The Hazardous Environment or HEV suit is multi-skilled exo-skeletal suit that adds protection in hazardous environments, and is almost always seen being worn by Freeman to protect him in non-survival situations to normal people.
*Crowbar: The Crowbar is the first weapon Gordon receives in Half Life 1, 2, and Alyx. it is eponymous with the franchise.
==Appearances==
=== Games===
st (2005)
*Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (2006)
*Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)
*Half Life 2: Survivor (2006)
*OMGWTFOTL (2006)
*The Orange Box (2007)
*Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
*Renegade Ops (2011)
*McPixel (2012)
*Black Mesa (2020)
*Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
*Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (2020)
===Webcomics===
*Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman .
==Gallery==
===Images===
Art-gordon-greybg-1-.jpg|Gordon Freeman with a shotgun
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Gordon alyx hunters.jpg|Gordon and Alyx being stalked by Combine Hunters
Gordon Freeman.png|Gordon Freeman in Half Life: Alyx
==Trivia==
*On the back of Gordon’s HEV suit Mark IV is the Valve logo, however this can only be seen by using console commands such as third person or noclip.
* Gordon’s last name comes from that of famous physicist Freeman Dyson.
* Gordon's original player model in Half-Life actually had a ponytail, which explains Gordon's slicked back hair on the official art. In subsequent sequels (and in the fan-made Half-Life remake Black Mesa), the pony tail was removed.
*The only times Gordon Freeman is seen as a non-player character in the series are in Half-Life: Opposing Force, Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Alyx (although here he briefly becomes playable at the end).
*The only vocal sounds he makes are heavy breathing and pained grunts when on fire or sustaining heavy fall damage. Though it is worth to mention that he can communicate with scientists and security guards in the first game, and that in the manual of the Playstation 2, it is confirmed that he had a phone conversation.
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