Spoiler: The G-Man

[André Damli]

Something just dawned to me.

During the ending, the G-Man says "I'm not at liberty to say..."

I just watched a movie with feds in it, and this detective says "What are you doing at my crime scene? There's nothing "national security" about it.", and the fed says "I'm not at..." and she fills in "at liberty to say... you guys need new material."

Is G-Man the feds?

I just found it interesting, since this movie is also about aliens (I don't know for sure. Haven't finished watchint it yet).

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Something just dawned to me.

During the ending, the G-Man says "I'm not at liberty to say..."

I just watched a movie with feds in it, and this detective says "What are you doing at my crime scene? There's nothing "national security" about it.", and the fed says "I'm not at..." and she fills in "at liberty to say... you guys need new material."

Is G-Man the feds?

I just found it interesting, since this movie is also about aliens (I don't know for sure. Haven't finished watchint it yet).

How could he be with the FBI? He can freeze time for pete's sake!
That's an old cliché, he is probably just not at liberty to say. Simple.

 

[André Damli]

How could he be with the FBI? He can freeze time for pete's sake!

He's not at liberty to say *wink*

Who knows. Perhaps the feds were aliens to begin with.
*insert X-Files theme here*

 

[vetebulle]

Most farfetched g-man theory so far.

 

[André Damli]

Yes, but it's so fun to come up with theories like that.

Reminds me of the old Triforce speculations with Ocarina of Time back then

 

[doomed - uk]

Is G-Man the feds?

:thumbs:

Before 1934, “G-Man” was underworld slang for any and all government agents. In fact, the detectives in J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation were so little known that they were often confused with Secret Service or Prohibition Bureau agents. By 1935, though, only one kind of Government employee was known by that name, the Special Agents of the FBI.

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept03/kelly092603.htm

Maybe he's from the galactic equivalent of the FBI.

 

[Jaxors]

Hes the FBI/CIA/whatever agency liaison

Doomed, i beleive you are correct. Seeing as how the definition of [g-man] Is goverment man or fbi man. And if you look at his brief case, the symbol on it is reminicent of a goverment agency emblem. I beleive he is acting as liaison bettween our planet and the other planets officials. Tell me what you think.

 

[Bing_Oh]

The symbol on his briefcase is the logo for Black Mesa. And, you may notice, it's not on his briefcase in HL2.

 

[ltzgonemad]

Is G-Man the feds?

Shi* guys! He found out the mystery! What on EARTH are we gonna do now?

 

[MiccyNarc]

The symbol on his briefcase is the logo for Black Mesa. And, you may notice, it's not on his briefcase in HL2.

It's a yin yang (sp?)

 

[doomed - uk]

Doomed, i beleive you are correct. Seeing as how the definition of [g-man] Is goverment man or fbi man. And if you look at his brief case, the symbol on it is reminicent of a goverment agency emblem. I beleive he is acting as liaison bettween our planet and the other planets officials. Tell me what you think.

That's a good close-up of the logo. I guess Bing_Oh is right about it being the Black Mesa logo.

People who have tried to transcribe the conversation between the scientist and G-man we see through a window at the start of HL1 find that G-man did seem to have some authority over the scientist.

 

[doomed - uk]

The symbol on his briefcase is the logo for Black Mesa. And, you may notice, it's not on his briefcase in HL2.

Didn't people find things are actually in the briefcase in HL1? I think it a gun, paper, a picture of G-Man and other stuff.

What about in HL2? I haven't heard anything yet.

 

[DevgruSeal]

Didn't people find things are actually in the briefcase in HL1? I think it a gun, paper, a picture of G-Man and other stuff.

What about in HL2? I haven't heard anything yet.

Actually somebody noclipped into his bag, but I forgot what they said was in it..

It's a yin yang (sp?)

That resembles nothing like a ying-yang.

http://www.crystalhealings.com/book_grap/ying-yang.jpg

I don't see any similarity...

 

[Earl Danish]

If you actually watch closely at the end of HL2 - G-man picks at Alyxs' clothes to remove some fluff - he is clearly her personal dresser.. ;] :cheers:

 

[Jaxors]

The symbol on his briefcase is the logo for Black Mesa. And, you may notice, it's not on his briefcase in HL2.

Damn earl danish got us. Ok, well even if its a black mesa logo he still seems like a fed to me, the suit and all. Perhaps an alien fed/personal dresser? I say gordon goes mission imposible style and make a latex mask of him. Then pretend he the gman and find out who the **** is in charge.

5 bucks say Bill Gates is on the other side of that white doorway at the end of hl2.
-ps- i did see that the symbol was missing from his brief case at the end of hl2, curious....

 

[Captnal]

I say that on the other end of that white dorway is a simulator and Gordon is the subject, so everything he (we) saw is only real to his mind. Oooh oooh and the world is controlled by these machines who enslave people and make batteries out of them. Oh wait thats the maitrix. dang.

 

[Earl Danish]

IF you are nimble-fingered enough - go into no clip mode and actually look inside the speck of dust which gman plucks from alyx - there is a screenshot of the sourcecode for HL3 inside - I would have taken a screendump but I had no toilet paper. ;]

 

[MiccyNarc]

That resembles nothing like a ying-yang.

http://www.crystalhealings.com/book_grap/ying-yang.jpg

I don't see any similarity...

Rotate the Ying Yang 90 degrees, make the white a little larger, and remove the dots. What do you have?

 

[Jaxors]

Actually somebody noclipped into his bag, but I forgot what they said was in it..

Are you talking about nocliping into it on hl2 or hl1. Because theres just a gun and id card. etc. nothing of importance in hl1.

 

[oogly]

Rotate the Ying Yang 90 degrees, make the white a little larger, and remove the dots. What do you have?

What you then have is nothing that looks like a yin yang or the black mesa emblem.

Oh an Ying Yang is a pair of rappers, yin yang is the symbol.

 

[ultraflip]

In HL1 there were some pencils, a PDA or some other mini-computer with Gmans photo on it, a gun and some papers in the briefcase.
nothing real special. Of course it was impossible to read the letters or whatever it was.
I didn't try it in HL2 yet, but i don't think he has anything intresting in his briefcase this time.

 

[Ebenol]

In HL1 there were some pencils, a PDA or some other mini-computer with Gmans photo on it, a gun and some papers in the briefcase.
nothing real special. Of course it was impossible to read the letters or whatever it was.
I didn't try it in HL2 yet, but i don't think he has anything intresting in his briefcase this time.

The briefcase is now a solid block lacking any details of the interior.

 

[Is This Tea]

i did see that the symbol was missing from his brief case at the end of hl2, curious....

I think it could be possible that the G-Man simply had that logo on his briefcase before the incident as a guise. That way anybody who saw him would just think that he was part of the black mesa administration and he wouldn’t attract as much attention while walking around in his favorite outfit… or valve changed their minds about a plot point after the model was done! But I like to believe that it’s the first. That’s what they call suspended disbelief and it’s what it’s all about. :thumbs:

 

[sikshot]

maybe there's a blow up doll in his briefcase is HL2. ahhh who the hell cares who this guy is. ever think maybe valve wants to keep it a mystery to us who he is? just play the damn great game.

 

[Br1ght Boy]

Idle speculation here. Totally off the top of my ass.

G-man was a mole planted within the branch of the US government responsible for Black Mesa and teleportation research. G-man actually works for an unkown alien presence with a vested interest in the fate of Earth and/or the resistance and downfall of the Combine. Just a thought. Poke holes in it.
-Br1ght Boy

 

[Is This Tea]

Idle speculation here. Totally off the top of my ass.

G-man was a mole planted within the branch of the US government responsible for Black Mesa and teleportation research. G-man actually works for an unkown alien presence with a vested interest in the fate of Earth and/or the resistance and downfall of the Combine. Just a thought. Poke holes in it.
-Br1ght Boy

No holes. I think that is well within the range of possibilities. It’s similar to the theory I posted above but much more solid. Good thinking.