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) "Half-Life 2" model is based, was originally slated to be the model for Dr. Breen. It was chosen for the G-Man's appearance after Bill Van Buren created a modified image of Sheldon, with chopped-off hair and a scaled down face shape. Doug Wood, who designed the facial expressions of the "Half-Life 2" G-Man model, wanted the player to never quite know what side the G-Man was on by giving him ambiguous facial expressions. The G-Man appears throughout the series either in monologue scenes which occur at key points in the story, or in live gameplay, where he can be seen