Gman = Stalker working from the future?

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If Gman is indeed from the future, it is possible that he might of been being converted into a stalker (however the process was desrupted by a 3rd party). Labotomy has never been an exact science and could be responcible for the lack of his ability to talk and articulate words properly.

Anyhow, how does he walk? In the first half-life, he walked like he had a limp or he was some kind of robot (Possibly the stick legs they put on the stalkers)

Teleportation. Its reasonable that he or his employers can control time. When you reappear with Alyx into klieners labs, it was evident that you lost a week, and kliener found out about this.

So it is possible that gman's employers are from the future and possibly from a failed resistance or something. Employers could be anybody from HL2. I reckon it could be kliener or Gordon himself.

He says something about choice being an illusion or something in the game, so that scene from the end of HL1 where he doesn't accept the offer does not really happen, it just there to shake you up a bit and it could be what Freeman might imagine what his death might be like, so he decides to accept the offer bar certain death (or so he fears)
 
Hmm i don't know really.

Dr Breen knows more about the G-Man because he said at the end of the game in his office to Gordon that Gordon worked for the highist bidder.
That means that the G-man works for an unknown agancy.
And he keeps a close eye on you in the game because he was spotted many times.

But who is the G-man... we just don't know :x
 
ok dont call me a hl2 fan but i never had time to complete the entire of hl1, and the bits i did do i cant remember. i completed hl2 mind u and who is the Gman, i thought he was just gordans dream or vision.

more details please :)
 
G-Man

Freeman basicly sold is soul to the G-man at the end of HL1 (But it was a choice between that and death, so don't blame the poor guy.) I think the G-man basicly owns you now. (He drops you in city 17 to do a job, and once you have done it he takes you out again, creepy)

He is certainly like a vision in HL2, but he was "solid" in HL1 though you never touched him so the theory that he is just some outside force communicating with you by messing with your mind is quite a good theory.
I think that he does serve a higher power, for the moment but I think he has questionably loyalties and will lend your services to the highest bidder, it is just luckly that what he wants you to do happans to be good. I would love to see G-man munipulating you into doing evil stuff in a future game.

Its really fun to speculate on him, you know so little, I love a mystery, thank you valve for such a creepy and mysterious plot :).
 
I see him as somewhat like a salesman. City 17 was a type of product demonstration. Kind of like the Bink videos. Hehe it seemed like the story of HL2 was the story of the development cycle of HL2. You had people taking shots at you, you're rushed to it, you have people expecting so much from you, and in the end you must make a deadline.
 
LOL

Nah, he mentions loaning you out, but he doesn't seem too enthusiastic about it, if my memory serves correct.
 
yes he does say "i dont usually entertain such offers"
 
MrWynd said:
yes he does say "i dont usually entertain such offers"

And he says something about the times having changed or now being a different time..........like he maybe isn't completely omnipotent because he's in some kind of situation himself (Gman) that he needs to resolve.......

This is so fascinating.........

But we'll never figure it out...........This whol thing about putting Freeman out to bid to the highest bidder means that their is a huge larger story that we are clueless about and no way to infer anything really about it.
 
I just hope to death that the G-man doesn’t have a thing to do with time travel… I’m just so tired of that plot and all of the paradoxes that come with it. Honestly humanity doesn’t have a clue as what happens during time travel. Which is why no matter how it is portrayed in media it always comes out kind of stale. Many serious theorists on the matter believe that if time travel does become a possibility we not be actually visiting our own past or future but instead very similar alternate pasts or futures. So similar that we can’t really tell them apart. That’s from the school of thought that every quantum decision is expressed in an infinite array of possibilities. Another theory sates that travel backward in time would only be possible through the time machine itself. Therefore you could only go back as far as the device was in existence and powered on. If the portals are possible time travel devises backward in time, and not just slow forward devices, then maybe during the first experiment at black mesa, when they flipped switch on, the G-man just game waltzing on out the portal... That would pretty amusing in my book.
 
hmm it looks to me like the G-Man can time travel, or something similar. I mean when you complete the game, just before the credits if you look at the background textures it looks like one of those dodgy sci-fi time travel moveies. Start the game again, notice how when the G-Man starts talking to you the background is the same, and the guy sat down on the train says he doesn't remember you getting on. Also like others said, you lost a week getting to the lab. Looks kinda like time travel :eek:.
 
Ok the things are or are most likely facts

The Gman is a salesguy of sorts selling heros
The Gman cares little about us and our fate as long as he is payed
Someone/thing is causing rifts in time (we missed 1 week folks)

Possibilities

The Reconosance thing in HL1 was planed
The people paying the Gman for us MUST have connections to Earth.. Maybe even someone we know.

My Personal Theroy (and thats what it is JUST a theroy)

Gordon was a normal guy living his life..
Somebody from the future or some other planet wanted to save Earth before anything bad happened. Seeing as Gordon opened the gateway to Xen it was only right for him to do the cleaning up. Unfortunantly after saving earth for Xen and Nihlianith (spelling?). Now obviously we know to much (trite, no?) but we (Gordon) did such an exeptional job the Gman decides we would make a good addition to his.. inventory.. Unfortunatly we attracted the attention of the Combine in some way. And HL2 begins..

Feel free to punch holes in the theroy!
 
I don’t have a clue as to the G-man’s powers but pausing and slowing time passage doesn’t tell me for sure that he can go backwards through time also. I hope that he can’t or chooses not to.
 
True..you have a point there.

Armageddon..it's spelled THEORY...not THEROY..WTF IS THEROY :|

Theory.
 
hes prob a scientist from the future thats trying to change what happened , by helping gordon , but its strange why hes talking to resistance people... we might find out.. once...

if thats not try think were in his virtual shit... and that wouldnt be fun
just like metal gear solid 3 ( substance )
 
I dont know for sure about this one but

Some people have said that Gman isnt the guy working hes just like the middle man. Hes profiting off someone who wants to save Earth-or us.
 
Yeah, I agree with "Is This Tea". I hope that the whole plot isn't related to time-travel. I'm tired of that. Time travel is impossible. You wanna know the only way to travel in time? Look around. Everything you see is the past, there is no present, we can't discern it with our eyes. By the time it takes a photon to hit an object (doesn't matter if you put it right in front of your eye) and reach the back of your retina, the object has changed an infinite amount times. Look up at the sky, you're seeing the sun how it was 8 minutes ago. Look up at the nightsky, you're seeing what the universe looked like millions, even billions of years ago.

Now, I didn't play the original HL1 until its end (I hated Xen) but I agree with others that the g-man's simply working for a higher force and that his appearance is just that. He took a form that Freeman would recognize (like in Dreamcatcher) and is in our universe to make sure that something doesn't happen. I don`t know what though (maybe in hl3 or 4). Anyhow, he looks for the highest bidder not in terms of money, he couldn`t care less about that rubbish. Maybe he chose the rebels because they told him they'd sacrifice themselves to their cause and the g-man's race enjoys watching people die or something. Anyhow, it's not money he's after and he's got a cause.
 
Armageddon00 said:

Someone/thing is causing rifts in time (we missed 1 week folks)


The missed week was caused by the teleporter exploding at the same time you and alyx teleported, most likely creating some kind of wormhole (an einstein-rosen bridge?) .
 
kernkraft said:
the g-man's race enjoys watching people die or something. Anyhow, it's not money he's after and he's got a cause.

I never thought that the gman wouldnt be interested in money but it seems so obvious once pointed out :)

I dont think he's particularly evil though, i don't really get that vibe from him, not the "enjoys watching death" vibe anyway :frog:
 
I view him as your employer, simple as that...i dont think he wants earth...wants to destroy humanity (this is painfully obvious now the combine have control of the planet)

I also think he couldnt care less about us humans, and uses you as a mercenary and sells you to people who want it (some interesting offers for your employement)

Therefore i believe the resistance hired you, as a last ditch attempt to rid earth of the combine.
 
My Theory.
G-man Is currently working for some alien race at war with the combine, maybe they wanted you to loosen the combine's grip on eath so that they could go in, maybe now that the citidal is destroyed they can take over. (I assume that the explosion will destroy it) This also means that gordan my have been actually working towards an even more total destruction of humanity than the combine wanted. (In Nova prospect you hear Breen talking about how unless the combine outwatch proved useful, the combine may destroy them and all humanity.)

Evidence:
Why would the combine take such an intrest in earth unless it was part of a wider war??
I believe that he mentions his superiors a few times, and he also mentions goverment I think at the end of HL1 and somthing about the "border world" of Xen being won? Im really not too sure about these though, (does anyone know where I can get a transcript of the HL1 ending?)
 
timetravel = new entanglement teleportation????

interesting theory very interesting indeed with all that work with entanglement who knows what is possible
 
Da Funkey Gibbon said:
My Theory.
G-man Is currently working for some alien race at war with the combine, maybe they wanted you to loosen the combine's grip on eath so that they could go in, maybe now that the citidal is destroyed they can take over. (I assume that the explosion will destroy it) This also means that gordan my have been actually working towards an even more total destruction of humanity than the combine wanted. (In Nova prospect you hear Breen talking about how unless the combine outwatch proved useful, the combine may destroy them and all humanity.)

Evidence:
Why would the combine take such an intrest in earth unless it was part of a wider war??
I believe that he mentions his superiors a few times, and he also mentions goverment I think at the end of HL1 and somthing about the "border world" of Xen being won? Im really not too sure about these though, (does anyone know where I can get a transcript of the HL1 ending?)


Also vortigaunts, they get freed from nihilith (sp?) and no work for G-man too, they, Gordan, and others are pawns in a big inter-dimentional war between the combine and other people, Breen is also a pawn on the combine's side. I don't think gordan is actually fighting for humanity any more than Breen is, I don't think that the G-man's masters are terribly benelovent.
 
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