Adrian Shephard

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Inconsistently Admirable
Full Name	Adrian Shephard
Alias	Corporal Shephard
Origin	Half-Life: Opposing Force
Family	No information
Allies	HECU Black Mesa Staff
Enemies	Xen Race X Gene Worm Pit Worm Black Ops
Powers / Skills	Intelligence Gunmanship Marksmanship Pipe Wrench Combat Knife Barnacle Grapple Glock 17 Desert Eagle MP5 SPAS-12 RPG Mk.2 Hand Grenades Laser Tripmines Satchel Charge Snarks M249 SAW M-40A1 Sniper Spore Launcher Shock Roach Displacer Cannon
Goals	Find and kill Gordon Freeman (failed, abandoned) Defuse the Black Ops Bomb (Successful, until reactivated by G-Man) Defeat Race X and Gene Worm (succeeded)
Greatest Actions	Stopping Race X's invasion.
Type of IA	Military Extremist

Adrian Shephard is the main protagonist of the Half-Life Expansion Pack Half-Life: Opposing Force.

He is a 22-year old HECU Marine and Corporal in the U.S.M.C. sent to Black Mesa in order to cover up the incident and push back the Xen invaders. After his V-22 Osprey crashes, however, he is separated from his unit and is forced to fend for himself against both inter-dimensional aliens and agents sent by the Central Intelligence Agency in order to leave no witnesses behind.

His Good Ranking

What Makes Him Admirable?

• Although distrustful of each other, Shephard does spare and work with Black Mesa Science Personnel and Security Guards due to never being given orders to silence them which is contrasted by the many other HECU Marines who slaughter the Staff without remorse.
• Even after finding out what his orders were from talking to scientists within the game, Shephard still refrains from killing them, likely feeling indebted after they saved his life.
• Even though he is a part of the HECU, he he's shown no hate/animosity towards Gordon Freeman and in fact letted him to enter Xen after seeing him in the Lambda Portal Room as he realized the Xenians, Race X and the Black Ops were bigger threats than him.
• Genuinely cares about his fellow Marines, as he goes out of his way to save them multiple times at the risk of his own life.
• Fights back against the CIA Black Operatives who have been sent to wipe out both the Black Mesa Staff and the HECU Marines, ultimately pushing them out.
• Fights back against Race-X, an alien race who is attempting to conquer and terraform earth into an inhospitable world.
• Disarms a Thermonuclear warhead planted by the Black Ops in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Black Mesa.
• Kills the Gene Worm at the end of the game, ending the Race-X invasion once and for all.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?

• His main goal isn't to be heroic, but rather to escape the Black Mesa Research Facility, thus making him a hero-by-proxy.
• He is an extremist since he makes use of multiple unpredictable experimental weapons and alien lifeforms (who are unwilling and still alive) for the sole purpose of fighting back against Race X and the Black Ops. Unlike Gordon Freeman's use of the Hivehand, the Shock Roach and Spore Launcher are confirmed to be fully aware.

Trivia

• He is thus far the only Half-Life/Portal character to be Inconsistently Admirable.

External Links

• Adrian Shephard on the Heroes Wiki
• Adrian Shephard on the Combine Overwiki