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In honour of everyone thinking Half-Life 3 might be about to be announced (lmao), and me being the biggest worst/best Half-Life sicko, here I exclusively reveal to you the identity of the Gman

I always thought he was a type of interdimensional broker, taking clients that want to alter the state of things or course of events and employing a gaggle of wildcard motherfuckers like Gordon to inject strategically into time+space

safe to say that is what he is now, but when did he become that! many theories

when making HLA they forgot about this, but!!! in hl1 the gman talks about his employers, and 20 years later in hl2 era he never mentions them, he talks about making all gordon-related decisions himself, he used to have to bother with dissenters but doesn't anymore, and his briefcase logo is gone

I could've swore he mentions his employers again because I haven't played half life 1 myself and I distinctly remember him mentioning them during alyx, am I mistaken?

Yeah that's what I mean by they forgot about it for HLA. It was clearly deliberate in hl2 and the episodes imo, but the hla folks didn't notice and had him talk about them again

another idea that always floated around in my head was that the gman orchestrated the rezzo casc specifically in order to get out from under his employers as some element of a sort of coup

the g-man, Gabe Newell, offers gordon as a service (GAAS) to the highest bidder regardless of consequence. unfettered capitalism is the omnipresent villain of half-life as in our own lives; it feels impossible to imagine a world without it, but half-life dares you to dream