History Characters / FreemansMind

''Machinima/FreemansMind'' doesn't just have the eponymous character, but his perception of those around him.

* PunchClockVillain: While most of them are murderous and brutal, Freeman also witnesses [[Machinima/CivilProtection two of them]] going on their lunch break, excited that it's taco day.

* {{Crossover}}: One episode of ''Machinima/CivilProtection'' mentions he became a member of Civil Protection, [[DirtyCop and has taken advantage of this by using his authority to steal people’s stuff.]]

'''Gordon:''' Yeah, feel the sting of Defense Department funding! I don't know what this gun is, but it's VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE!

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** The episode descriptions call him a "neurotic individual", which... may be putting it mildly. Judging from his frequent delusions and antipathy towards others, he most likely has paranoid schizophrenia and some form of antisocial personality disorder at the very least, compounded by his [[FunctionalAddict many drug addictions]] and all the trauma he's accumulated throughout the Black Mesa Incident.
** Season 2 makes it pretty clear that he's suffering from some sort of trauma disorder. In Episode 16, when he's in a nominally safe place, he's barely able to focus on what's going on around him, instead constantly worrying about the location of the exits and expressing disbelief at the complacency of the scientists, as well as his conviction that they are about to be attacked. [[ProperlyParanoid Repeatedly turning out to be right]] hasn't helped matters.

* 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 UpToEleven when he's on morphine; he gets distracted by a massive control panel. Twice.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Gordon ''is'' actually pretty smart, physically fit, and overall competent, though he tends to [[UpToEleven inflate it to godlike levels.]]

* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Freeman ''loves'' pushing buttons. While usually this allows him to progress further, it's occasionally backfired. It's taken UpToEleven when he's on morphine- he twice gets distracted by pushing a panel of buttons.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Freeman assumes their gas masks are signs that they've been [[Literature/TheTripods capped by the Tripods]].

* InstantEmergencyResponse: Applicable in some way since Freeman thinks they're cops, but he's consistently surprised in how fast they respond to any alarms, what with the game insta-spawning them as soon as the triggers are tripped.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Can appear and disappear at will while stalking Gordon on his journey. It only reinforces Gordons view of him being a Time Lord, though whether it's a natural power or incredibly advanced time travel technology remain to be concluded for him (the latter of which annoys Gordon because it'd be like, quote ''"If we were in the 1800s inventing the internal combustion engine and he just shows up in a Ferrari doing doughnuts outside our workshop, it's really demoralizing!"'')

* EveryoneHasStandards: As selfish and borderline AxCrazy as he is, Freeman is still horrified in season 2 episode 10 when he reasons that Barney has probably tortured a bunch of people.

** In his April 2017 video chat, a fan asked Ross Scott whether he considered his Freeman character to be "evil." He responded that he doesn't, and that Freeman is selfish and paranoid can be fairly decent to people he doesn't perceive as a threat. He cites Freeman occasionally attempting to save scientists as an indication of that within the series itself.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Freeman's nickname for him.

* BastardBoyfriend: Freeman at one point describes how if he met a widow of one of the soldiers he killed he'd tell her that her husband was a "rat-fuck meathead" who'd otherwise have strangled her in her sleep ([[TooKinkyToTorture and not in the kinky way]]).

* Determinator: Freeman believes that the same sniper who scared the hell out of him the night before tracked him down and to try and snipe him again the following afternoon.

* BadassBeard:
** Freeman constantly rants about how awesome his beard is, and how no one else has any style and how [[YouAllLookFamiliar everyone looks the same]].
--->'''Gordon:''' Does my beard intimidate you?
** Though once the military invades and is out for him personally, he starts to regret having a beard somewhat since it makes him instantly recognizable.
--->'''Gordon:''' If I had went with that stupid EinsteinHair, they wouldn't be able to pick me out of a lineup!

* BastardBoyfriend: Freeman at one point describes how if he met a widow of one of the soldiers he killed he'd tell her that her husband was a "meathead rat fuck" who'd otherwise have strangled her in her sleep ([[TooKinkyToTorture and not in the good way]]).

* {{Manchild}}: Based on her above behaviour and the fact that she treats everything more like a game of Cops & Robbers than the deadly serious situation that it is, Gordon concludes that she must have the mind of a child, and that growing up in a dystopian future must have seriously stunted her development.

* ArtificialLimbs: He has a prosthetic limb following the Black Mesa incident.

A pair of scientists in a heavily tripwired corridor. If Freeman is to be believed, they're voodoo zombies, and the reason don't do anything more than stand around and occasionally say things is that their master is on break.

** Season 2 makes it pretty clear that he's suffering from some sort of trauma disorder. In Episode 16, when he's in a nominally safe place, he's barely able to focus on what's going on around him, instead constantly worrying about the location of the exits and expressing disbelief at the complacency of the scientists, as well as his conviction that they are about to be attacked.

* AmbiguousDisorder: The episode descriptions call him a "neurotic individual", which... may be putting it mildly. Judging from his frequent delusions and antipathy towards others, he most likely has paranoid schizophrenia and some form of antisocial personality disorder at the very least, compounded by his [[FunctionalAddict many drug addictions]] and all the trauma he's accumulated throughout the Black Mesa Incident.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: He's the one that Gordon talks to right after the Resonance Cascade, but Gordon never bothered getting his name and obviously doesn't recognize him in the present.

* FantasticRacism: Gordon develops this attitude towards the Vortigaunts. When he sees one cleaning the floor after the G-Man releases him from stasis he cheerfully thinks it was enslaved by humans AND that other humans littered on the floor just so it would clean up after them, stating the only thing that would have made him happier is seeing "their heads on a stick". The first time he sees one without chains, he starts yelling at everybody to kill it. Later Gordon murders one that was part of the anti-Combine resistance and at first doesn't understand why a nearby human resistance member is angry at him for "saving you" before concluding that the Vortigaunt he killed was the rebel's slave. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], since Vortigaunts spent the entirety of the first season jolting Gordon with electric discharges which, although rendered non-lethal by his [=HEV=] suit, were still quite painful.

* KickTheDog: When recovering from amnesia (and getting shot by a marine), Gordon remembers and concludes that everyone is trying to kill him. Cue him turning the corner to face a hiding guard and instantly shooting him in the face with a revolver (unlike other friendly fire incidents, this one was 100% intentional).

* WeirdnessMagnet: Lampshaded in episode 51.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Enjoys shocking himself with a cattle prod.

* TheMole: Gordon speculates that he's secretly working with the Combine to get him killed. Later he considers the possibility that Barney is piloting the Hunter-Chopper that is tracking him.

-->'''Scientist:''' Do you know who ate all the doughnuts?
-->'''Freeman:''' The donu- No! I've got more important things on my mind!

* ReverseMole: Gordon speculates that he's secretly working with the Combine to get him killed. Later he considers the possibility that Barney is piloting the Hunter-Chopper that is tracking him.