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) dimensions on a whim. He is also able to stop or slow down time at various points. In "Half-Life", the G-Man will repeatedly appear in places that he should not be able to exit unnoticed or at all, yet is always gone by the time the player can investigate. At the very end of "Half-Life 2", on top of the Citadel, he halts time completely during a huge explosion that would have killed Gordon and Alyx. The G-Man seems to be able to take people into "parallel universe"-like "voids" and put them into stasis. In most games featuring the G-Man,