G-Man

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The G-Man is a mysterious recurring character in the Half-Life series of first-person shooter video games. Described as a "sinister, interdimensional bureaucrat",[2] 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 navigates player-character Gordon Freeman's insertion to, or extraction from, the game-world on several occasions, and his monologues with Freeman reveal his importance to the series' overall narrative. He claims to answer to some unseen higher authority, to which he refers 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.