Was Dr. Breen actually a villain?
Literally who.
>>683684631FULLY
>>683684631Mrs. Breen, leader of the transhuman forces
>>683684631Not a villain but a henchman.Or maybe a negotiator but the Combine's motives are too poorly written to know for sure.
>>683685042MODELLED
>>683685042FERNS
>>683684631>Look Gordon, I turned myself into a Brazilian tranny!
>>683685571>Make fun of the ferns>Live in East Yurop>Go outside>More abandoned parts of the city have just as much ferns everywhereI'll never admit to it being accurate, I'll keep making fun of it.
>>683685042>>683685328>>683685571Why is it bad for HL2 to have fully modeled vaginas, but it's ok when Skyrim does it?
>>683684631shitposting aside Breen is a fantastic character. He *literally* saved humanity, caused enslavement yes but humanity would have been wiped out if not for Breen communicating and also pointing out humans had teleportation technology. Factor in Mossman being a double agent, meaning Breen knew how Eli/Kliner’s teleportation redevelopment was progressing, and was already replicating their work at Nova Prospekt, but he had eyes on humanities best bargaining chip with the combine is the point. Would he of sold out humanity again if the red letter day went as planned? Potentially, but his actions in the 7 hour war at least bought everyone time. Hell the only reason HL2’s plot even kicked off is because Gordon just happened to of teleported directly into his office during an advisor meeting, literally showing a eldritch middle manager that humanity had teleportation technology ready again. Breen gets even more interesting with the BreenGrub notes, which I hope will still get used come HL3>>683685307>motive poorlythey literally just want teleportation tech that Black Mesa made in 1998, it’s much better than their tech.
>>683686560because you can have sex mods in skyrim
>>683684631Maybe you should make up your own mind actually sorry no wait until I drop a 7 hour video essay brought to you by audible trial.
>>683684631Breen if he FtM
>>683688113>just want teleportation techThen why invade a planet, subdue the population with overwhelming force and drain the oceans of water if you just want some tech?Combine are comically written villains.
>>683689849>invade planet with overwhelming force for 7 hours>literally fuck off and leave behind a garrison at best>garrison supported via feeding humans into it, suppressing their own species for privileges and being physical/mentally augmented as promoted >drain the ocean because fuck it everyone needs water, but slowly overtime to keep population alive long enough to finish developing the teleporteridk seems like a solid and in-character plan made by inter-dimensional bean counters too me.
>>683684631he's a character that can't be put into one box. he bought time for humanity but also condemned them to slavery. he was given the option to end it all quickly or let history slowly die out in a miserable flame and he chose the latter. while this does give the resistance some time to fight back i doubt that was his intention, so i'm not sure whether i'd count that one on his side. i think he genuinely believes what he is doing is good though, considering how he doesn't drop the act when privately addressing gordon in the citadelhim poking fun at gordon being mute will never not be funny
yes he is 100% a villain. valve clearly was not interested in portraying a world weary collaborator trying to stall the combine for the best outcome. he's a craven sociopath that cackles about torturing eli and feels up a restrained woman he knew as a kid. That moral greyness would have just undermined the 1984 people's revolution thing they were going for.
