

Elevator Failure: Calhoun's first assignment is to fix an elevator in Sector G.Later, a scientist tells another guard "Shouldn't you be off guarding some coffee and donuts?" Donut Mess with a Cop: The fat security guard in the firing range is seen trying to reach for his holstered gun while holding a donut with the closer hand.Calhoun himself needs to avoid this same fate when he crosses this catwalk. Here, he's seen running across the same catwalk and trips, hangs on the ledge, and is sent falling to his death not by the zombies, but from a large fan in the room (which also kills the zombies the same way). Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Blue Shift, there's a security guard in the sewer areas of Duty Calls where he's being pulled at each arm by zombies, and later falls into the abyss when they let go.(throws wrench to destroy the annoyance-inducing camera) Needless to say, he deserves every right to destroy that camera due to your continued annoyance efforts. Destroy the Security Camera: A security guard does this if Calhoun flashes the security camera one too many times and he opts to throw the wrench he's using.The same scene happens here, but while the guard still avoids being pancaked, the train ends up blowing through the cargo loader robot behind him, which explodes, leaving his fate up in the air, especially since he was still in the blast radius. Death by Adaptation: An ambiguous example, but in the original game, one of the security guards seen during the Resonance Cascade barely managed to avoid being run over by a speeding cargo tram.Barney's friendship with Gordon is referenced by a sticky note in his locker that reads "Buy a beer for Gordon".Bonus points is that you're also able to actually bang on the door by pressing a button, and if you do so repeatedly, the guard will become irritated. In Blue Shift, the first door you come to malfunctions, and if you look around while waiting for the guard on the other side to open it, you'll see Freeman passing you by. On the initial train journey in Black Mesa, you pass by a security guard banging on a door.When the incident starts, the panel explodes, killing him. Black Dude Dies First: Just like in the original, the first onscreen casualty is Trevor, a grouchy black scientist who asks Barney to fix up the elevator.You even interact with a new maintenance crew NPC at the Canal crusher near the end of the "Duty Calls" level. The Black Mesa maintenance crew appear a lot more here compared to just the brief cameo of one working a forklift in the original Half-Life's Scenic-Tour Level.She has received a surprising amount of dialogue before you even reach the elevator scene itself, and one of the devs implied that she survives the elevator crash. Patrice Patterson, which is one of the scientists riding down the doomed elevator with Barney, the other scientist being named Trevor. He goes from a random security guard banging on a door in Black Mesa to a fully playable character with his own story. Ascended Extra: Barney Calhoun himself.Adaptation Expansion: The remake extends the length of the game by adding more content and flavor both alongside and in already existing maps.Here, a comment by one of the scientists in "Duty Calls" indicates that Black Mesa conducted numerous unapproved experiments (with the implication that some were outright illegal) and that the HECU trying to wipe them out is a somewhat twisted case of Even Evil Has Standards.

Adaptational Sympathy: In the original Half-Life and its expansions, the HECU tries to wipe out the Black Mesa staff seemingly For the Evulz.In their home game, Shepard's osprey is shot down before they can get their mission briefing. The HECU soldiers heard conversing at the end of "Duty Calls" heavily imply that, had they landed successfully, Adrian Shepard and his team would've been among the groups tasked with eliminating all of Black Mesa's staff.
