With Half life alyx on the horizon there has been a surge of people jumping back into the
half life universe to revisit one of the most famous franchises in gaming history.
And with the return to this masterpiece of entertainment many people are trying to break
down who the mystery man known as g-man is.
On todays lifes biggest questions we are going to deep dive into who this character is and
answer the question what if G-man was real.
Im your Host Che Durena and lets get into it.
As is tradition here and lifes biggest questions we are going to start this list off by giving
a break down of who G-man is.
And there is no better way to start then to fly back to the original half life game.
At the begging of half life one you play Gordon Freeman who is at his first day working at
the Black Mesa research facility.
This is a top security facility that works on all sorts of experimental tech and interdimensional
travel.
A portal is opened up to a borderland dimension known as zen and this causes a massive amount
of aliens to spill out.
With Gordon being the lose on the employee totem pole it is up to him to clear out all
the aliens, go to the zen boarder world, fight through more hoards and eventually get to
the alien leader known as the Nialthe.
Who looks every gross and has a head full of energy for some reason.
After you kill off this big bad alien the screen goes black and Gordon wakes up on some
sort of elevator and there is an older man in a suit talking to him.
This is the first appearance of G man.
Right off the bat this guy is creepier than Stephen king novel and he informs you that
this alien world you just ransacked is now under control by the people G man works for.
He teleports you to a few different locations which already showcases his unknown level
of power.
And then he give you a job offer because your the best alien killer in the business.
The game actually gives you a choice on whether or not to take this offer, if you accept you
get put into a sleep state until Gman and the enigmatic people he works for need you.
Deny of the offer and he will send you to a room filled with killer aliens that well,
kill you.
Now the strange part about this is that if you replay the game you can see several scenes
where gman is standing in the distance watching you, so he has been following you this whole
time.
Throughout the squeals and expansions to this series we see the gman make more and more
appearances that give us some clues as to who he might be but it is never revealed.
But we do get to see some of his powers.
He can teleport, use telekinesis, he can stop time it seems like none of the laws of space
and time apply to this god like character.
Its also revealed later that the G man is the one who gave the super powered crystal
to the black mesa facility that opened up the original portal to unleash the aliens.
This isnt the only time he has done something to drastically affect the future, so it its
suggested that he might have the ability to predict the future.
However who he is and who his mysterious employers are is never revealed, we can take the information
we have and now try and answer the question, what if G-man was real.
Based on what we know we can determine that if the G-Man was real interdimensional travel
would be possible, not only that but he would most likely use his powers to invade some
level of government to make sure that we succeed with it.
The G man would change the course of history for his own benefit.
It wouldn't take long before we saw a massive outbreak of aliens flow out of some top secret
base and start attacking earth.
Now what happens after that would all come down to what the gmans plan was.
We might never know about this, it might stay contained if the gman was looking for a Gordon
Freeman type character.
He would use the outbreak of aliens as a test to find a hero he could lock away in space
and time and use whenever he feels the need to alter history to his benefit.
This would be the best course of action, it would keep the world safe and if the safety
of the planet is in the best interest of the gman then there shouldnt be too much to worry
about.
But there is also option two, what if Gman and his mysterious employers what to use earth
as a new boarder world, what if zen is no longer comfortable for the Nialith race that
is living there and Gman wants to use earth as a new home world for these aliens that
like to jump on your face and then eat your head.
Well we would start to see the end of the world, it would be nice to think that we could
possibly win this battle but I dont think earth would stand a chance
G-man is an all knowing, time manipulating, interdimensional man of mystery.
Not only that but his human appearance would allow him to get into every level of government
he needs to in order to see his plans go through.
This wouldnt be a simple war of us vs the aliens.
G man would use his infiltration skills and ability to see the future to make sure that
everything he wanted to happen would flow easily.
But this might mean that one of you out there would end up being Gordon Freeman.
You would have to save earth and work face to face with the gman.
This isnt not the position I would want to be in at all, and thankfully because I dont
have a PhD I dont think this is something I would ever need to worry about.
I want to thank you all for tuning in to todays Lifes biggest Question, I would love it if
you could get into the comments and let me know what you think would happen if Gman was
real.
Are you a believer that this would mean the end of the world as we know it or do you think
that Gman would be on our side.
Until next time Ive been your host Che Durena and Im here to answer all your questions.