A Collection of TERRIBLE Fates | The Worst Fates | FULL Half-Life Lore

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One fateful day, the scientist at Black Mesa, dr. Gordon Freeman, woke up and got to work to push some buttons. Only this time, he was "the right man in the wrong place". All the other scientists watched Dr. Gordon Freeman push the button he should've never pushed. No one could've truly know, what terrors would that results in. The world would never be the same ever again. Those few, unlucky enough to survive, will never forget the tragedy of The Casserole Incident.

I really wonder how Magnuson made it through the casserole accident. I would've lost my mind personaly.

"this was a fate worse than Jeff." out of context that line is hysterical

The most soul-wrenching line of Father Grigori when the player dies is: "So... again, I am alone."

Stasis doesn't seem so bad. To quote Red Dwarf: "Oh, you don’t feel a thing. The stasis room creates a static field of time. See, just as X-rays can’t pass through lead, time cannot penetrate a stasis field. So, although you exist, you no longer exists in time, and for you time itself does not exist. You see, although you’re still a mass, you are no longer an event in space-time, you are a non-event mass with a quantum probability of zero.” Simple as that.

I think I remember something that a dialogue in HL2 said that there were no wheat fields left on Earth after the Combine or something like that, cause Chell entered the surface in a wheat field, it acts as confirmation that the resistance won

Half Life made me realise that there are things worse than death and I feel like death itself is a mercy and salvation to them because of how much pain and suffering they had

The barnacles still scare me a lot. As a kid I was stuck for days in some chapters because just seeing the body of the barnacles close together (even dead) caused me horror.

Imagine being one of the soldiers in the seven hour war. See your comrades and the best tech Mankind has to offer being destroyed withing seconds. Seeing Wallace surrender in name of Humanity. The feel of despair and desperation. Nobody survived that war.

I always think it would be so cool to go into the half-life universe, but thinking about how fast it can truly become hell. Maybe I should just stay here.

I thought the Casserole Incident was going to be a horrific description of being nuked in the microwave by Gordon Freeman. That you'd go as far to describe in every vivid detail as the seconds felt like hours the pain inscrutable. As you were ruined. Your ingredients erupting from you. With only the ire of a silent, yet perceivably psychopathic presence forcing its gaze down upon you. Unable, as a casserole. To understand the pure waste and wanton destruction being wrot this day. Know your purpose and lifes dreams were to go unfulfilled. In your final moments before the indomitable pressures around you force your very being to burst you let out one last gasping dispation of air pressures in that asking: "Why?". Your final glimpse of this world before entering oblivion are hallucinated memories. Imagining the moments you'd have spent with your creator The loving Dr. Magnusson.

The casserole one is actually something I had thought of but never actually bothered to talk about because it felt so out of pocket.

I've had a theory for years that the headcrabs from Half-life 1 and 2 were actually two different types: The headcrabs from HL1 were natural, feral headcrabs, as they show no signs of being organized in any way. Their hosts also showed no signs of consciousness once they became zombies. On top of that, in opposing force they eventually would grow into giant, hulking, projectile throwing beasts that we never saw in HL2. The headcrabs from HL2 on the other hand were genetically modified by the combine to be the ultimate terror weapon. Likely modified so that their zombification process would not only keep the host conscious, but also make it obvious to every else that they're still conscious and suffering in ways unimaginable. The headcrabs were also launched in large pods to areas that freeman was known to be at. Their hosts also never grew beyond the initial stage of infection.

I believe stasis is probably the second worst thing here behind being controlled by a headcrab. The fact that Gordon almost blinked into the future means he most likely has gotten no sleep or rest, and he still hasn't had a chance to fully mourn his lost past as he is quickly shoved into another trip through hell is truly terrifying.

I feel that, in a way, Jeff had it better off than Headcrab Zombies. At least he lost what little of himself remained so that by the time you find him he's mostly a husk. The Headcrab Zombies are still aware, and have consciousness in there, trapped inside their own bodies.

Just gotta love how the nuked casserole is not only canon in this story, but caused by Gordon himself (for some reason), lmao

I remember in HL1 that zombies kneel over their victims and pull flesh towards their stomach, but I've never seen anyone talk about it. I just assumed the split open chest and stomach is to allow for putting things inside the hosts stomach(?) and it regurgitates it up to the headcrab to feed on. Just one more awful thing added to the zombie experience x)

blud compared losing a casserole to getting killed in every way possible and impossible 💀

you forgot to mention the worst part about the Headcrab Zombies. The human were pretty much conscious all the time. Every time you hear it scream is not the headcrab screaming but the human, you can even hear "help me" in the scream sometimes