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* CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker: Once the Ground Protection Team disembarks from their transport in ''Patient Zero'', the Overwatch [=AI=] issues an announcement encouraging all persons in the vicinity to 'cooperate' with the Combine patrol.
* LightningBruiser: ''Patient Zero'''s Spikewall is ''fast'' and can run around as though he's not wearing God knows how much heavy armor, while also capable of tanking an absurd amount of punishment and only going down thanks to a [[BoomHeadshot shotgun slug through the eye]].
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost in ''Anti-Citizens'' resignedly mutters "Shit" before being gunned down.
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** The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost in ''Anti-Citizens'' resignedly mutters "Shit" before being gunneddown.down.
** Similarly, one of the rebel soldiers in ''Patient Zero'' is already aware that attempting to fight an Overwatch soldier isn't going to end well.
---> '''Rebel [=MP5=]''': Shit! Why's there a solder with 'em?
** The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost in ''Anti-Citizens'' resignedly mutters "Shit" before being gunned
** Similarly, one of the rebel soldiers in ''Patient Zero'' is already aware that attempting to fight an Overwatch soldier isn't going to end well.
---> '''Rebel [=MP5=]''': Shit! Why's there a solder with 'em?
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The videos tend to focus on [[TheEmpire The Combine]] from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' (using many of the latter's assets), and their Resistance enemies, with particular care and attention given to the {{Transhuman}} forces of Combine Overwatch, who provide many clear demonstrations why these [[UncannyValley utterly inhuman]] SuperSoldiers are [[TheDreaded rightly feared]] by the shattered remnants of humanity.
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The videos tend to focus on [[TheEmpire The Combine]] from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' (using many of the latter's assets), and their Resistance enemies, with particular care and attention given to the {{Transhuman}} forces of Combine Overwatch, who provide many clear demonstrations why these [[UncannyValley utterly inhuman]] SuperSoldiers are [[TheDreaded rightly feared]] by the shattered remnants of humanity.mankind.
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** And then there's the [[GutturalGrowler utterly unsettling gurgling, roaring noises]] that Spikewall makes in ''Patient Zero''. Are they cries of pain? Frustration? [[ScreamingWarrior A battle cry]]? It's not at all clear.
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** And then there's the [[GutturalGrowler [[EvilSoundsRaspy utterly unsettling gurgling, roaring noises]] that Spikewall makes in ''Patient Zero''. Are they cries of pain? Frustration? [[ScreamingWarrior A battle cry]]? It's not at all clear.
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: Played with. During the firefight at the end of ''Patient Zero'', Spikewall manages to hit "Rebel [=MP5=]" with a glancing energy-shotgun blast, leading to one of these before the Combine goon [[CoupDeGrace finishes him off]]. The scream itself, however, is so ''utterly'' '''''bloodcurdling''''' that concealing the injury doesn't exactly change much.
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* MirroringFactions: At the very beginning of ''Patient Zero'', a Civil Protection officer is seen nervously drumming his fingers against the reciever of his smg. Later, "Rebel Shotgun" shows a similar nervous tick as he and his team are waiting for the Combine to reach their position.
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* MirroringFactions: At the very beginning of ''Patient Zero'', a Civil Protection officer is seen nervously drumming his fingers against the reciever of his smg.[=SMG=]. Later, "Rebel Shotgun" shows a similar nervous tick as he and his team are waiting for the Combine to reach their position.
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* MirroringFactions: At the very beginning of ''Patient Zero'', a Civil Protection officer is seen nervously drumming his fingers against the reciever of his smg. Later, "Rebel Shotgun" shows a similar nervous tick as he and his team are waiting for the Combine to reach their position.
** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
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** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
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[[https://www.youtube.com/@TheParryGod TheParryGod]], real name Richard Makk, is a [[YouTubers YouTuber]] and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source 2 Filmmaker.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/@TheParryGod TheParryGod]], real name Richard Makk, is a [[YouTubers YouTuber]] and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos films set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source 2 Filmmaker.
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** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
** In general, [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection officers]] display noticibly human traits and emotions, most notably fear and [[RapidFireNo panic]]. This is sharply contrasted with the [[WasOnceAMan Combine]] [[EmptyShell Overwatch]].
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* RapidFireNo: The last words of the Civil Protection officer in ''Patient Zero'', when he goes to retrieve a piece of captured Combine [[OrganicTechnology "equipment"]] and walks into an active Hopper Mine.
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* ShmuckBait: After gunning down most of the resistance fighters in ''Patient Zero'', and forcing the rest into hiding:
--> '''Spikewall''': Attention, Hostile Targets. [[BlatantLies You Can Come Out Now]]. It Is Safe.
--> '''Spikewall''': Attention, Hostile Targets. [[BlatantLies You Can Come Out Now]]. It Is Safe.
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* ShoutOut: The firefight at the climax of ''Protectors'' is set to "''V''" from the ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' soundtrack.
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* ShoutOut: The firefight at the climax of ''Protectors'' is set to "''V''" from the ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' soundtrack.[[https://youtu.be/ix_XmEXkljg a mashup]] of ''[[VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077 "V"]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/DoomEternal "The Only Thing They Fear is You" ]]''
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost in ''Anti-Citizens'' resignedly mutters "Shit." before being gunned down.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost in ''Anti-Citizens'' resignedly mutters "Shit." "Shit" before being gunned down.
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* BlatantLies: Spikewall, after gunning down three of the rebels, reassures the two survivors that [[SchmuckBait it's safe to come out now]]. Then, one of them accidentally kicks a bottle, and he ''knocks down half the building'' firing his plasma shotgun towards the noise. Though the fact that he refers to them as "Hostile Targets" probably gave it away before that.
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* BlatantLies: Spikewall, after gunning down three of the rebels, reassures the two survivors that [[SchmuckBait it's safe to come out now]]. Then, one of them accidentally kicks a bottle, and he ''knocks down half the building'' firing his plasma tau shotgun towards the noise. Though the fact that he refers to them as "Hostile Targets" probably gave it away before that.
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** In ''Patient Zero'' we get Spikewall splitting a rebel's head in half with his plasma gun, and the shotgun-armed rebel miraculously managing to put down the Combine behemoth with a slug straight through the eye.
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** In ''Patient Zero'' we get Spikewall splitting a rebel's head in half with his plasma gun, tau shotgun, and the shotgun-armed rebel miraculously managing to put down the Combine behemoth with a slug straight through the eye.
* EnergyWeapons: Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' is a variant of the Combine Charger/Wallhammer from ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' equipped with a ''[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter tau shotgun]]'', which is [[{{BFG}} just as terrifying as it sounds]].
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* PlasmaCannon: Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' is a variant of the Combine Charger/Wallhammer from ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' equipped with a ''[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter plasma shotgun]]'', which is [[{{BFG}} just as terrifying as it sounds]].
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: Played with. During the firefight at the end of ''Patient Zero'', Spikewall manages to hit "Rebel MP5" with a glancing energy-shotgun blast, leading to one of these before the Combine goon [[CoupDeGrace finishes him off]]. The scream itself, however, is so ''utterly'' '''''bloodcurdling''''' that concealing the injury doesn't exactly change much.
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* ScreamDiscretionShot: Played with. During the firefight at the end of ''Patient Zero'', Spikewall manages to hit "Rebel MP5" [=MP5=]" with a glancing energy-shotgun blast, leading to one of these before the Combine goon [[CoupDeGrace finishes him off]]. The scream itself, however, is so ''utterly'' '''''bloodcurdling''''' that concealing the injury doesn't exactly change much.
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* NormalFishInATinyPond:
** If your name's [[OneManArmy Gordon Freeman]] or [[ActionGirl Alyx Vance]], Combine troops are [[EliteMooks tough, but still mere obstacles to be bowled over]]. To poorly equipped, ragtag bands of rebels with at best minimal training, they're ''[[SuperSoldiers terrifying]]''.
** Similarly, when you're wearing PoweredArmor and equipped with a [[GravityMaster Gravity Gun]], Hopper Mines are just a nuisance to be tossed away. When one activates mere centimetres from the unlucky CP driver in ''Patient Zero'', he can only [[RapidFireNo plead futilely in horror]] as it launches itself at him and blows him to shreds.
** If your name's [[OneManArmy Gordon Freeman]] or [[ActionGirl Alyx Vance]], Combine troops are [[EliteMooks tough, but still mere obstacles to be bowled over]]. To poorly equipped, ragtag bands of rebels with at best minimal training, they're ''[[SuperSoldiers terrifying]]''.
** Similarly, when you're wearing PoweredArmor and equipped with a [[GravityMaster Gravity Gun]], Hopper Mines are just a nuisance to be tossed away. When one activates mere centimetres from the unlucky CP driver in ''Patient Zero'', he can only [[RapidFireNo plead futilely in horror]] as it launches itself at him and blows him to shreds.
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* CallBack: The corridor where the climactic fight in ''Protectors'' took place is revisited in ''A Tape From City 17'', complete with the decaying corpses of the rebels killed in the shootout.
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** The corridor where the climactic fight in ''Protectors'' took place is revisited in ''A Tape From City 17'', complete with the decaying corpses of the rebels killed in theshootout.shootout.
** ''This Time Tomorrow'' is filled with references to the films preceding it, including the immediate aftermaths of ''Protectors'', ''Anti-Citizens'', and ''Infestation''.
* CanonForeigner: Some of his videos feature "transition period" Overwatch soldiers who are meant to be successors to the ''Alyx'' units and predecessors to the ''Half-Life 2'' ones. "Spikewall" is a transition period shotgunner and direct upgrade of the Charger, while the soldier briefly glimpsed in ''This Time Tomorrow'' is a more standard unit.
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** ''This Time Tomorrow'' is filled with references to the films preceding it, including the immediate aftermaths of ''Protectors'', ''Anti-Citizens'', and ''Infestation''.
* CanonForeigner: Some of his videos feature "transition period" Overwatch soldiers who are meant to be successors to the ''Alyx'' units and predecessors to the ''Half-Life 2'' ones. "Spikewall" is a transition period shotgunner and direct upgrade of the Charger, while the soldier briefly glimpsed in ''This Time Tomorrow'' is a more standard unit.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: ''This Time Tomorrow'', a showcase of the Combine's totalitarian rule with {{call back}}s to the dreary endings of previous animations, is set to an upbeat cover of the titular song by The Kinks.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Overwatch soldiers are shown to be ''far'' more lethal and competent than would be possible in the games, and makes Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance look almost unbelievably tough in being able to take out dozens of Combine troops on their own.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Overwatch soldiers are shown to be ''far'' more lethal and competent than would be possible in the games, and makes making Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance look almost unbelievably tough in being able to take out dozens of Combine troops on their own.
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* DistinguishingMark: Rebel Shotgun is identifiable by the Combine insignia tattooed on his forehead, the same one the Lone Vortigaunt in ''Half-Life: Alyx'' has on his chest.
* {{Found Footage Film|s}}: ''A Tape From City 17'' presents itself as a series of video tapes recorded by a citizen who arrives in the city by train, stays for some time, then stows away on another train and leaves the city.
* {{Found Footage Film|s}}: ''A Tape From City 17'' presents itself as a series of video tapes recorded by a citizen who arrives in the city by train, stays for some time, then stows away on another train and leaves the city.
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* UnbrokenFirstPersonPerspective: ''Infestation'' is presented entirely from the eyes of an Echo unit accompanying a Wallhammer into the Quarantine Zone.
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** When the [[TheBigGuy AFP]] APF]] gets shot in ''Protectors'', he exclaims "I'm Hit! '''Bodypack holding'''!" What sort of [[WasOnceAMan thing]] has a 'Bodypack'?''What 'Bodypack'?'' What the hell is under that suit''? Do you even '''want''' to know?
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[=TheParryGod=], real name Richard Makk, is a YouTuber [[YouTubers YouTuber]] and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source Filmmaker 2.
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[=TheParryGod=], real name Richard, Richard Makk, is a YouTuber and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source Filmmaker 2.
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->''Holding for Advanced Directive.''
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[=TheParryGod=], real name Richard, is a YouTuber and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source Filmmaker 2.
The videos tend to focus on [[TheEmpire The Combine]] from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' (using many of the latter's assets), and their Resistance enemies, with particular care and attention given to the {{Transhuman}} forces of Combine Overwatch, who provide many clear demonstrations why these [[UncannyValley utterly inhuman]] SuperSoldiers are [[TheDreaded rightly feared]] by the shattered remnants of humanity.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Overwatch soldiers are shown to be ''far'' more lethal and competent than would be possible in the games, and makes Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance look almost unbelievably tough in being able to take out dozens of Combine troops on their own.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. The body armour of the heavy Combine infantry can shrug off small-calibre rounds rather easily.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if "Tom", the semi-auto pistol wielding rebel from ''Patient Zero'', survived or not. We don't see where Spikewall's last shot went, but we don't hear him scream or [[SickeningCrunch any other sounds of him getting hit]] either.
* BigNo: Jake, the hazmat-suited rebel and probable leader of the group in ''Protectors'', has this reaction when Lily, his ImpliedLoveInterest, is [[BoomHeadshot headshotted]] by the Ordinal.
* BlackComedy: This absolute gem from Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'', as he searches for the remaining rebels after [[CurbStompBattle brutally slaughtering most of their squad]]:
--> '''Spikewall''': Attention, Hostile Targets. [[BlatantLies You Can Come Out Now. It is Safe]].
--> (''hears movement'')
--> [[ImmediateSelfContradiction *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*]]
* BlatantLies: Spikewall, after gunning down three of the rebels, reassures the two survivors that [[SchmuckBait it's safe to come out now]]. Then, one of them accidentally kicks a bottle, and he ''knocks down half the building'' firing his plasma shotgun towards the noise. Though the fact that he refers to them as "Hostile Targets" probably gave it away before that.
* BoomHeadshot: Frequently.
** In Protectors, Echo-2 shoots a headcrab right off its host, and the Ordinal nails Lily when she is forced to duck out of cover to take out his Manhack.
** In ''Patient Zero'' we get Spikewall splitting a rebel's head in half with his plasma gun, and the shotgun-armed rebel miraculously managing to put down the Combine behemoth with a slug straight through the eye.
* BornLucky: The Resistance member known only as "Rebel Shotgun", who appears both in ''Anti-Citizens'' and ''Patient Zero'' seems to be this. While he's definitely a BadassNormal for surviving two separate encounters with Overwatch heavy infantry, he only avoids being [[NeckSnap clobbered by Wallhammer]] because a stray bullet hit a [[ExplodingBarrels conveniently placed propane tank]] which explodes and cripples the Combine soldier. And then his defeat of Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' seems equally likely to be a [[BoomHeadshot lucky shot]] as opposed to [[ImprobableAimingSkills him just being that good]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In ''Blue Eyes'', a Combine Hunter fires a flechette right through the head of a rebel, who is only able to gurgle in shock/horror/confusion for a brief moment before [[YourHeadASplode it blows up]].
* CurbStompCushion:
** The Resistance fighters in ''Protectors'' [[EverybodyDiesEnding get wiped out]], but manage to kill both of the stabilisation team's Grunts and score a hit on the AFP.
** In general, the Resistance are always shown to be ''competent'' -- they have plans, they set ambushes, they're good shots, and are normally more than a match for [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection]]. But once Overwatch shows up they're dead meat: without any heavy weapons, [[PoweredArmor HEV Suits]] or PlotArmor to help them, they're completely outmatched by the Combine SuperSoldiers.
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** In the opening shots of ''Protectors'', a [[DummiedOut Cremator]] can be seen walking behind the passing Razor Train.
** At the start of ''Anti-Citizens'', a Ordinal's backpack, rigged to act as a jammer, is placed beside the door of the CP outpost -- this was highlighted by [=TheParryGod=] himself after a commentor asked what the opening dialogue (the different CP teams reporting in) meant -- which explains why the [=CPs=] mention a loss of signal.
** "Rebel Shotgun" can be seen loading his weapon with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug slugs]], presumably as they'd be more effective against Spikewall's heavy armour than buckshot -- this almost definitely saves his life.
* {{Hackette}}: The female rebel in ''Anti-Citizens'', who's able to breach a Combine door lock, operate their alien computers, and is probably responsible for rigging the rebels' jammer, too.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: One can assume that you ''do not'' want to mess with something called '''Spikewall'''. And you'd be right.
* NeckSnap: In ''Anti-Citizens'', Wallhammer hits a rebel with his truncheon [[SuperStrength so hard]] that his head turns 90 degrees, breaking his neck.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The improvised jammer used by the rebels in ''Anti-Citizens'' is stated to be an Ordinal's backpack, implying someone was able to take one out -- no mean feat, given that they're [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership really damn tough]] and [[TheLeader never alone]].
* PlasmaCannon: Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' is a variant of the Combine Charger/Wallhammer from ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' equipped with a ''[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter plasma shotgun]]'', which is [[{{BFG}} just as terrifying as it sounds]].
* PyrrhicVictory: The rebels' ambush in ''Patient Zero'' worked, and they wiped out the Ground Protection Team. Problem is, they got more or less the same in return, with at best two members of their squad being left alive by sheer luck and/or ImprobableAimingSkills. it's unclear what they hoped to gain.
* ShoutOut: The firefight at the climax of ''Protectors'' is set to "''V''" from the ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' soundtrack.
* ThereWasADoor: In ''Anti-Citizens'', the rebels' intelligence-gathering operation is rudely interrupted by Wallhammer smashing right through a wall to attack them.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost resignedly mutters "Shit." before being gunned down.
* UncannyValley: Very intentionally {{Invoked}} with regards to the Overwatch soldiers, to emphasise that these [[MeatPuppet twisted amalgamations of flesh, bone and machinery]] are ''not'' human in anything other than a superficial sense.
** For one thing, they [[{{Determinator}} don't seem to feel pain or fear]]. Both the Rebels and [=CPs=] are depicted as being anxious and scared before and during combat, while the Overwatch troops will advance unhesitatingly, displaying as little self-preservation as tactically logical.
** When the [[TheBigGuy AFP]] gets shot in ''Protectors'', he exclaims "I'm Hit! '''Bodypack holding'''!" What sort of [[WasOnceAMan thing]] has a 'Bodypack'?''What the hell is under that suit''? Do you even '''want''' to know?
** And then there's the [[GutturalGrowler utterly unsettling gurgling, roaring noises]] that Spikewall makes in ''Patient Zero''. Are they cries of pain? Frustration? [[ScreamingWarrior A battle cry]]? It's not at all clear.
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''[-Overwatch. Sector is clean.-]''
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner "CP Units are Flatline. Spikewall is Solo Active."]]''']]
->''Holding for Advanced Directive.''
-->--'''Multiple Overwatch units'''
[=TheParryGod=], real name Richard, is a YouTuber and animator who specialises in creating high-quality short videos set in the world of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', using Source Filmmaker 2.
The videos tend to focus on [[TheEmpire The Combine]] from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' (using many of the latter's assets), and their Resistance enemies, with particular care and attention given to the {{Transhuman}} forces of Combine Overwatch, who provide many clear demonstrations why these [[UncannyValley utterly inhuman]] SuperSoldiers are [[TheDreaded rightly feared]] by the shattered remnants of humanity.
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!! [=TheParryGod=]'s videos provide examples of:
* AdaptationalBadass: The Overwatch soldiers are shown to be ''far'' more lethal and competent than would be possible in the games, and makes Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance look almost unbelievably tough in being able to take out dozens of Combine troops on their own.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. The body armour of the heavy Combine infantry can shrug off small-calibre rounds rather easily.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if "Tom", the semi-auto pistol wielding rebel from ''Patient Zero'', survived or not. We don't see where Spikewall's last shot went, but we don't hear him scream or [[SickeningCrunch any other sounds of him getting hit]] either.
* BigNo: Jake, the hazmat-suited rebel and probable leader of the group in ''Protectors'', has this reaction when Lily, his ImpliedLoveInterest, is [[BoomHeadshot headshotted]] by the Ordinal.
* BlackComedy: This absolute gem from Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'', as he searches for the remaining rebels after [[CurbStompBattle brutally slaughtering most of their squad]]:
--> '''Spikewall''': Attention, Hostile Targets. [[BlatantLies You Can Come Out Now. It is Safe]].
--> (''hears movement'')
--> [[ImmediateSelfContradiction *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*]]
* BlatantLies: Spikewall, after gunning down three of the rebels, reassures the two survivors that [[SchmuckBait it's safe to come out now]]. Then, one of them accidentally kicks a bottle, and he ''knocks down half the building'' firing his plasma shotgun towards the noise. Though the fact that he refers to them as "Hostile Targets" probably gave it away before that.
* BoomHeadshot: Frequently.
** In Protectors, Echo-2 shoots a headcrab right off its host, and the Ordinal nails Lily when she is forced to duck out of cover to take out his Manhack.
** In ''Patient Zero'' we get Spikewall splitting a rebel's head in half with his plasma gun, and the shotgun-armed rebel miraculously managing to put down the Combine behemoth with a slug straight through the eye.
* BornLucky: The Resistance member known only as "Rebel Shotgun", who appears both in ''Anti-Citizens'' and ''Patient Zero'' seems to be this. While he's definitely a BadassNormal for surviving two separate encounters with Overwatch heavy infantry, he only avoids being [[NeckSnap clobbered by Wallhammer]] because a stray bullet hit a [[ExplodingBarrels conveniently placed propane tank]] which explodes and cripples the Combine soldier. And then his defeat of Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' seems equally likely to be a [[BoomHeadshot lucky shot]] as opposed to [[ImprobableAimingSkills him just being that good]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In ''Blue Eyes'', a Combine Hunter fires a flechette right through the head of a rebel, who is only able to gurgle in shock/horror/confusion for a brief moment before [[YourHeadASplode it blows up]].
* CurbStompCushion:
** The Resistance fighters in ''Protectors'' [[EverybodyDiesEnding get wiped out]], but manage to kill both of the stabilisation team's Grunts and score a hit on the AFP.
** In general, the Resistance are always shown to be ''competent'' -- they have plans, they set ambushes, they're good shots, and are normally more than a match for [[LesCollaborateurs Civil Protection]]. But once Overwatch shows up they're dead meat: without any heavy weapons, [[PoweredArmor HEV Suits]] or PlotArmor to help them, they're completely outmatched by the Combine SuperSoldiers.
* FreezeFrameBonus:
** In the opening shots of ''Protectors'', a [[DummiedOut Cremator]] can be seen walking behind the passing Razor Train.
** At the start of ''Anti-Citizens'', a Ordinal's backpack, rigged to act as a jammer, is placed beside the door of the CP outpost -- this was highlighted by [=TheParryGod=] himself after a commentor asked what the opening dialogue (the different CP teams reporting in) meant -- which explains why the [=CPs=] mention a loss of signal.
** "Rebel Shotgun" can be seen loading his weapon with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_slug slugs]], presumably as they'd be more effective against Spikewall's heavy armour than buckshot -- this almost definitely saves his life.
* {{Hackette}}: The female rebel in ''Anti-Citizens'', who's able to breach a Combine door lock, operate their alien computers, and is probably responsible for rigging the rebels' jammer, too.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: One can assume that you ''do not'' want to mess with something called '''Spikewall'''. And you'd be right.
* NeckSnap: In ''Anti-Citizens'', Wallhammer hits a rebel with his truncheon [[SuperStrength so hard]] that his head turns 90 degrees, breaking his neck.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The improvised jammer used by the rebels in ''Anti-Citizens'' is stated to be an Ordinal's backpack, implying someone was able to take one out -- no mean feat, given that they're [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership really damn tough]] and [[TheLeader never alone]].
* PlasmaCannon: Spikewall in ''Patient Zero'' is a variant of the Combine Charger/Wallhammer from ''VideoGame/HalfLifeAlyx'' equipped with a ''[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter plasma shotgun]]'', which is [[{{BFG}} just as terrifying as it sounds]].
* PyrrhicVictory: The rebels' ambush in ''Patient Zero'' worked, and they wiped out the Ground Protection Team. Problem is, they got more or less the same in return, with at best two members of their squad being left alive by sheer luck and/or ImprobableAimingSkills. it's unclear what they hoped to gain.
* ShoutOut: The firefight at the climax of ''Protectors'' is set to "''V''" from the ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' soundtrack.
* ThereWasADoor: In ''Anti-Citizens'', the rebels' intelligence-gathering operation is rudely interrupted by Wallhammer smashing right through a wall to attack them.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The first CP to notice that rebels have broken into their outpost resignedly mutters "Shit." before being gunned down.
* UncannyValley: Very intentionally {{Invoked}} with regards to the Overwatch soldiers, to emphasise that these [[MeatPuppet twisted amalgamations of flesh, bone and machinery]] are ''not'' human in anything other than a superficial sense.
** For one thing, they [[{{Determinator}} don't seem to feel pain or fear]]. Both the Rebels and [=CPs=] are depicted as being anxious and scared before and during combat, while the Overwatch troops will advance unhesitatingly, displaying as little self-preservation as tactically logical.
** When the [[TheBigGuy AFP]] gets shot in ''Protectors'', he exclaims "I'm Hit! '''Bodypack holding'''!" What sort of [[WasOnceAMan thing]] has a 'Bodypack'?''What the hell is under that suit''? Do you even '''want''' to know?
** And then there's the [[GutturalGrowler utterly unsettling gurgling, roaring noises]] that Spikewall makes in ''Patient Zero''. Are they cries of pain? Frustration? [[ScreamingWarrior A battle cry]]? It's not at all clear.
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''[-Overwatch. Sector is clean.-]''
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