G-Man

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Alias

The G-ManThe Cryptical Bureaucrat
Mystery Man
Government Man
Our mutual friend
The Employer
Gordon Freeman  (mistakenly)

### Allies

Gordon FreemanAdrian Shepherd
Alyx Vance
His employers

### Powers/Skills

TeleportationChronokinesis
Subliminal messenging
Time travel
Technopathy
Reality warping
Genius-Level Intelligence
Immortality (possibly)

### Goals

Unknown  (possibly to please his employers and/or cover up the Black Mesa incident)

### Crimes

Instigating the Black Mesa incidentDestruction
Stalking
Interfering with military operations
Kidnapping
Conspiracy
Espionage
Mass murder
Genocide  (indirectly)

### Type of MB

Enigmatic Manipulator

The **G-Man** is the overarching antagonist of the *Half-Life* series, serving as the overarching antagonist of *Half-Life*, *Half-Life: Blue Shift*, *Half-Life: Opposing Force*, *Half-Life: Decay*, and *Half Li*, one of the overarching antagonists (alongside the Advisors) of *Half-Life 2* and *Half Life 2: Episode 1,* and the main antagonist of *Half-Life: Alyx*.

It remains a mystery who or what he truly is or what his true role and motives are. Appearance-wise, the G-Man appears as an aging businessman who is encountered throughout the series in various forms and places, often delivering cryptic messages to the main characters, and seemingly controlling them, or at least observing them at all times. He is usually seen with a mysterious briefcase.

While not strictly opposing the protagonists or even confirmed to be truly evil, he alters a chain of events in history and in turn is responsible for inciting several primary conflicts in the *Half-Life* universe; he is the instigator of the Black Mesa Incident, and the indirect catalyst of the Seven Hour War, which led to the Combine Empire's brutal occupation of Earth, out of the interest of his enigmatic "employers".

During gameplay, the G-Man often makes appearances in areas that are out of the player's reach, only confronting the player directly at the end of the game where he has taken away the access to their weapons. In between *Half-Life* and *Half-Life 2,* he seems to put Gordon Freeman in stasis until the Earth has been successfully taken over by the Combine.

He was voiced by Michael Shapiro.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* Wears a fancy suit with a tie.
* Is one of the most enigmatic and mysterious villains in video games.
* Is affable and polite and always talks nice.
* Always manages to get things to happen the way he wants thanks to his employers.
* Has a lot of memorable and famous quotes like "*prepare for unforeseen consequences*" or "*time, Dr. Freeman?*".
* Nuked Black Mesa facility to successfully dispose of all witnesses and evidence.
* Put Adrian Shepherd into a dimension where "no harm he could cause".
* When the purple vortigaunts take Gordon away from him he says "we'll see about that", which means he intends on retrieving Gordon later when he can.
* When Gordon starts unsatisfying him, he comes up with a back-up plan by going back 5 years earlier during the events of *Half-Life: Alyx* so he could hire Alyx as his next employer because he saw potential within her.
* Had Alyx save her father from his future death because it arranged him and it was a part of his deal with her.
* He is far less heinous and despicable than Wallace Breen, hypocritical coward who committed genocide and horrendous crimes.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* He brought the sample in Black Mesa that opened the Xen portal thus causing the events of the series.
* If Gordon refuses to work for him, he will teleport him to the aliens, without weapons, and have them kill him.
* He trapped Alyx into his dimension and is now forcing her to work for him.

## Trivia

* He is the only *Half-Life* character to be Magnificent Baddie.