Gman part of the US govt, as seen in opposing force?

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You disarm the nuke but you see him later on playing with it, and then at the end there's that white flash.

Now, it just makes me wonder if he worked for the US govt. or if he just had similar priorities.
 
Nah, he doesn't work for the U.S. Government, he's much more powerful than that, he might work with/manipulate the U.S. Government on occasion though.
 
Yeah if the US government were that powerful they wouldnt have allowed the combine to take over
 
maybe he's the US president at the time of the combine invasion and 7 days war. he went into the future with his Presidential Time Machine and arrived at the year 3,000. There, he met with the Mole Men, who in the year 2700 had overthrown the combine with their teleportation and psychic powers. He was infused with their abilities, and then sent back to the past to kill Gordon Freeman, the great great great great great grandfather of the human resistance against the Mole Men. The G-man fell madly in love with Gordon, however (G-man=Gay-man, duh), and decided to help him instead.
 
Alientank said:
You disarm the nuke but you see him later on playing with it, and then at the end there's that white flash.

Now, it just makes me wonder if he worked for the US govt. or if he just had similar priorities.
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I think probly G-man was blind at the time :x
 
i think he does work for the u.s government at the end of hl1 he says

"" iv taken the liberty to take away your weapons after all the do belong to the u.s government ""
 
Fluffeh said:
i think he does work for the u.s government at the end of hl1 he says

"" iv taken the liberty to take away your weapons after all the do belong to the u.s government ""
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good point. AND he also says at the end "we are in control of the border world xen for a time being" when it's obvious that US goverment forces were fighting there....
 
Well G-man seems to be "employeed" in a sense, and he currently uses you as a tool.

Perhaps in Half-Life 1 he was employeed by the U.S. government in some form?
 
From what I've read. the G-Man has no ties to the Government. Any. He was however, an investor of Black Mesa. Sent to do so by his true employers.

Rumours say G-Man is working with an inter-galatic resistance that plans to strike down the Combine. After all, G-Man staged the events of Half Life 1. And Gordan struck a blow to the Combine's invasion of Xen when he killed Nihilanth (the Xen comparison of Breen.)

Gordan has struck his second blow to the Combine invasion by sabataging their occupation of Earth.

I'm sure G-Man's employers are impressed with Gordan's capabilities in dealing two consecutive blows against the Combine universal domination.

Also, your services in Half Life 2 were purchased by the Resistance. Stop by the Combine house on the coast (first or second, I think. As soon as you get the buggy) and check the telescope. You'll see the G-Man talking with Odessa Cubbage.
 
LeyBooFuMan said:
G-Man = Gordon Free Man from da future.
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No, not really. It's been talked about consistantly and is pathetic speculation. The G-Man does not behave like he is you from the future. One thing is, he tests you. Now, if G-Man was Gordan from the future, he would know his own capabilities. Therefore, eliminating the theory. :p
 
by the by, it's not just 'as seen in opposing force'... at the end of HL he says 'we've taken control of the borderworld' or whatever, which is sort of vague, but he also says 'I've taken the liberty of removing your weapons. Most of them were government property' or something along those lines

what I'm saying is, while he may not actually work for the government, he certainly plays at it in ALL of the 'first gen' games
 
If G-man is Gordon from the future, now we know why he never talks in-game. Because his voice would annoy everybody.
 
I'm still interested in that Gman - Odessa conversation, what could they probably have to say to eachother?! And i don't think
the Resistance purchased any services because; a ) they don't appear to be very rich and b ) what would the Gman want with
money? Could it be that he just informed Odessa of Gordon coming his way?
 
"We've just been informed that there's a gunship on the way"
G-Man assisted Gordon where necessary.
 
Sir Smokealot said:
I'm still interested in that Gman - Odessa conversation, what could they probably have to say to eachother?! And i don't think
the Resistance purchased any services because; a ) they don't appear to be very rich and b ) what would the Gman want with
money? Could it be that he just informed Odessa of Gordon coming his way?
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because, obviously, they're not paying him in money. think about it this way...when americans started taking over indians' lands, we didn't want their currency...beads or shells or whatnot...we wanted LAND, which was a resource they took for granted, and didn't really understand the concept of us owning it, if i'm not mistaken.

the resistance must have paid the g-man SOMETHING to get gordon's services, assuming that they did "purchase" him. whether our (our being the citizens of earth) payment will come back to bite us in the ass or not is stilil to be determined
 
At the end of HL1 the G-Man says something along the lies of " I have taken your weapons, after all, most of them where government property." He may say government, but he does not say which government they belong to.
 
Another thing is, Odessa or one of the other resistance members says "We've just been informed of a Combine Gun-Ship heading this way." If the G-man knew about the Combine Gun-Ship, and was the one who told Odessa about it, how does he know this or where does he get this information from? His "employers" maybe? If the G-Man knows what the future holds, then why doesn't he inform the worlds Governments of the Xen and Combine invasion?
 
roffle said:
Another thing is, Odessa or one of the other resistance members says "We've just been informed of a Combine Gun-Ship heading this way." If the G-man knew about the Combine Gun-Ship, and was the one who told Odessa about it, how does he know this or where does he get this information from? His "employers" maybe? If the G-Man knows what the future holds, then why doesn't he inform the worlds Governments of the Xen and Combine invasion?
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Mayube he just knows a lot about the present, if he knew enough about the prsent he could slightly predict the future

For example, he could know that a Gunship had been ordered to attack that area
 
Fluffeh said:
i think he does work for the u.s government at the end of hl1 he says

"" iv taken the liberty to take away your weapons after all the do belong to the u.s government ""
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I have that little speech of his burned into the back of my head and the actuall quote was "I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons *pause* most of them were government property"
 
Well despite the Gman seem to have time traveling capabilities and possiblly all kinds of other power as in the end he frozed time and went through a special door but there still a chance he can still be working for the remnace of the us goverment. At the end of HL1 he return the weapons back to the goverment, provided the us the borderworld, and I believe played some part of the cascade in the frist place. I think it can be possible after the 7 hours war the US goverment went underground and the Gman contineus to work for them (not for money but for something else like his country or something). The problem that will have a hard time explaining the time being frozed at the end and the way he left.
 
DarkGhost89 said:
Well despite the Gman seem to have time traveling capabilities and possiblly all kinds of other power as in the end he frozed time and went through a special door but there still a chance he can still be working for the remnace of the us goverment. At the end of HL1 he return the weapons back to the goverment, provided the us the borderworld, and I believe played some part of the cascade in the frist place. I think it can be possible after the 7 hours war the US goverment went underground and the Gman contineus to work for them (not for money but for something else like his country or something). The problem that will have a hard time explaining the time being frozed at the end and the way he left.
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You do realise there are other Goverments in the world?
 
Biggleska said:
You do realise there are other Goverments in the world?
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It's implied that Gman worked for the US government. Think about it, the US Marines that appeared in Xen, the fact that Black Mesa was in the American Southwest, the use of American weapons and troops in the Black Mesa incident...

At any rate, I think that DarkGhost's idea is a neat one. In one of my short stories, there is an illuminati like group that manipulates the world secretly. They don't realize that they themselves are being manipulated by an even more secret group.

It could be a similar situation here, with a general 'public' secret research facility, like black mesa, and a much more covert 'black' research facility where all the real advances are made.

BMRF could just be a front. I mean, it wasn't particularly well hidden (nobody's going to notice a big dam on a river?)
 
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