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The prologue in Half-Life 2: Episode One, featuring the G-Man held back by a group of purple-colored vortigaunts.

Image originally uploaded by User:Doug1984 as Gman.PNG on June 4 2006; image was converted to a JPG to reduce filesize.

[edit] Licensing: Fair use for G-Man and vortigaunt

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The image qualifies fair use for the following reasons:

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The image is necessary to describe a scene in Half-Life 2; nothing else.
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