History Characters / FreemansMind

* GivenNameReveal: For all of Freeman's Mind and some chapters of Freeman's Mind 2, Gordon just calls them Facehuggers. He eventually starts adopting the name Headcrab in Half-Life 2 after learning that's what people call them.

* FridgeLogic: [[invoked]] When Gordon encounters them again in season 2, he can't help but wonder how they can grow themselves on ceiling grates and still be able to swallow entire bodies whole.

* ChuckCunningmanSyndrome: They don't appear in Freeman's Mind 2.

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* MakeMeWannaShout: How they attack.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Gordon isn't a good guy in the slightest and is a [[AxCrazy lunatic]] mostly concerned with his own welfare, but he's absolutely a lesser evil compared to the people he fights. Where the Xen aliens, the military, and the Combine tend to kill indiscriminately and have far-reaching evil goals, Gordin just wants to stay alive and only murders civilians [[AccidentalMurder by accident.]]

* MortonsFork: In episode 34 of season 1, Freeman finds out that his HEV suit has built-in trackers that the military has been using to hunt him down with. He deduces that he can either take the suit off and walk around in a warzone naked yet mostly undetectable, or keep the bullet-proof suit on and keep attracting trouble to himself. He choses the latter out of necessity.

-->'''Gordon:''' Kleiner, I've got a lot of bad memories with that suit. Can we-? (* Beat) Oh no, he's giving me the look. I'd better do what he says, I know that look.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Gordon claims to have never fired a gun in his life before the Black Mesa Incident, and that all his knowledge of firearms comes from watching ''Film/DieHard'' "like fifty times". It's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], though; Gordon is [[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay woefully ignorant about the actual workings of firearms]] (for example, claiming that a Glock 17's "safety is off" -- Glocks have an integrated safety system that toggles on/off with each trigger pull, and thus can't be fully disabled) and demonstrates a complete disregard for gun safety, which has [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace occasionally fatal]] consequences for those around him.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Gordon claims to have never fired a gun in his life before the Black Mesa Incident, and that all his knowledge of firearms comes from watching ''Film/DieHard'' "like fifty times". It's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], though; Gordon is [[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay woefully ignorant about the actual workings of firearms]] (for example, claiming that a Glock 17's safety is off when Glocks don't even ''have'' a safety) and demonstrates a complete disregard for gun safety, which has [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace occasionally fatal]] consequences for those around him.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mocking a security guard for being late [[{{Hypocrite}} even though Gordon is himself likewise late to work,]] then shrugging off the possibility that this might get him fired before contemplating stealing some expensive work equipment before leaving if that's the case. He's also notes a large chemical spill and rockets amongst other bizarre things during the tram ride, far from the first surreal things he will come to experience at Black Mesa and beyond.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mocking a security guard for being late [[{{Hypocrite}} even though Gordon is likewise late to work,]] then shrugging off the possibility that this might get him fired before contemplating stealing some expensive work equipment before leaving if that's the case. He's also notes a large chemical spill and rockets amongst other bizarre things during the tram ride, far from the first surreal things he will come to experience at Black Mesa and beyond.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mocking a security guard for being late [[Hypocrite even though Gordon is likewise late to work,]] then shrugging off the possibility that this might get him fired before contemplating stealing some expensive work equipment before leaving if that's the case. He's also notes a large chemical spill and rockets amongst other bizarre things during the tram ride, far from the first surreal things he will come to experience at Black Mesa and beyond.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: It's common for Freeman to be ranting about something or other, only to cut himself off with ''"[[CatchPhrase Hey, what's this do?]]"'' and fiddle with whatever button catches his eye. Taken up to eleven when he's on morphine; he gets distracted by a massive control panel. Twice.

* CatchPhrase: Multiple.