G-Man (Half-Life) refers to simply as his "employers". His mysterious nature has made him an icon of the "Half-Life" series, with his identity and motives remaining almost completely unexplained. The G-Man's name comes from "G-Man", an American colloquialism meaning "Government Man". However, within the "Half-Life" games, he is identified by this name only in the program code and the multiplayer profile menu as a default name option, not within the story itself; his name is derived from his "Half-Life" model and entity name and has since been reused in subsequent games of the series. His name has been confirmed and he has
G-Man (Half-Life) G-Man (Half-Life) The G-Man, voiced by Michael Shapiro, is a mysterious recurring character in the "Half-Life" series of first-person shooter video games. Described as a "sinister interdimensional bureaucrat", he is known to display peculiar behavior and capabilities beyond those of normal humans. Throughout the story of the "Half-Life" series, the G-Man plays the role of an overseer and employer – he controls player-character Gordon Freeman's insertion to or extraction from the game world on several occasions, and his monologues with Freeman reveal his importance in the series' overall narrative. He claims to answer to some unseen higher authority which he