>>42720156G-Man from Half Life is actually the Angel, Gabriel.
He take the appearance of a business man since Gordon Freeman is a scientist who primarily works for Black Mesa.
Aside from the G being the first letter in both their names (which G-man never explicitly states his own name), Gabriel share many other attributes with G-Man, and some things Gabriel is known for would explain a lot about plot elements.
>Gabriel is associated with communication and messages>G-Man speaks clearly to Gordon during cutscenes>The other humans can also possibly communicate with Gordon due to G-Man communicating with them, filling in for Gordon>Despite being an Angel, in Luke 1:12 “And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.”>In Half Life, G-Man is seen as creepy, but is in fact helping humanity and having Gordon go through his life journey>Both look after humanity to protect it, with G-Man being seen watching over the playerSome other notes
>G-man can give people visions>At the end of HL2, G-Man enters a door into a completely white room, implied to be heaven>G-man’s employers could be God himself, but uses business terms as Gordon understands themAnd one final note
If you take the first letters of
Gordon
Alyx
Barney
Isaac
Eli
Lamarr
Spells out Gab_iel
Where’s the r?
Well, look at Judith.
What happens when you rotate a J 180 degrees?
And so you know what Judith Mossman does in Half Life 2?