why are vortigaunts friendly

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[Microsoft227sam]

Because they're no longer slaves

[♕ DarkOhio ♕]

Originally posted by Pyro is Spy!:

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They decided to work with the Resistance to defeat the Combine, the combine enslave most vortigaunts, some have escaped to work with the Rebels.

[Patches]

In the events of HL1 during the resonance cascade the Vortigaunts saw the portals to earth as a way to escape from Nihalinth, a powerful being who was enslaving them in Xen. In the panic and confusion they attacked other humans. Despite Gordon offing a number of them in Black Mesa, he destroyed Nihalinth in the end of the game thus saving the entire Vortiguant species, in the events of HL2 they have befriended humans and see Gordon as their "Masiah" for saving them all.

[Amjo]

Originally posted by Number Two:

In the events of HL1 during the resonance cascade the Vortigaunts saw the portals to earth as a way to escape from Nihalinth, a powerful being who was enslaving them in Xen. In the panic and confusion they attacked other humans. Despite Gordon offing a number of them in Black Mesa, he destroyed Nihalinth in the end of the game thus saving the entire Vortiguant species, in the events of HL2 they have befriended humans and see Gordon as their "Masiah" for saving them all.

Slight justification to what Number Two described:
the Vortigaunts didn't escape Xen via the portals to Earth. They were indeed slaves of Nihilanth and were sent by him to attack Earth. Nihilanth was also a slave to the Combine, the last of his kind, and had teleportation capabilities.
A further addition to the story line, and not to ruin the hype of researching, look around on the web to what the Nihilanth keeps saying in the events of HL1 when you teleport from one Xen map to another. it's really interesting. it has to do with the G-Man

EDIT: http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Nihilanth/Quotes

[Ghidrah1]

The Vorts in HL1 also appear to be wearing collars, maybe comms, subbission and or transportation devices. I don't recall the big headed baby on Zen wearing one so maybe the collars are its controllers and not the Combines

[Blixibon]

Originally posted by Number Two:

In the events of HL1 during the resonance cascade the Vortigaunts saw the portals to earth as a way to escape from Nihalinth, a powerful being who was enslaving them in Xen. In the panic and confusion they attacked other humans. Despite Gordon offing a number of them in Black Mesa, he destroyed Nihalinth in the end of the game thus saving the entire Vortiguant species, in the events of HL2 they have befriended humans and see Gordon as their "Masiah" for saving them all.

Most of that is true, but wasn't it actually the Nihilanth running from the Combine?

[Cat]

Originally posted by Number Two:

In the events of HL1 during the resonance cascade the Vortigaunts saw the portals to earth as a way to escape from Nihalinth, a powerful being who was enslaving them in Xen. In the panic and confusion they attacked other humans. Despite Gordon offing a number of them in Black Mesa, he destroyed Nihalinth in the end of the game thus saving the entire Vortiguant species, in the events of HL2 they have befriended humans and see Gordon as their "Masiah" for saving them all.

The Vortigaunts attacked humans because Nihilanth ordered them too. In Decay, two Vortigaunts were sent to Earth to retrieve crystals for Nihilanth. They're just worker drones until Nihilanth is killed, freeing them from enslavement and they make peace with humans.

[-$ilver-]

Originally posted by Pyro is Spy!:

why are the vortigaunts friendly

Because they no longer have electroids attached to their testicles... Ever wonder why a bull in a rodeo is so ticked off... (That could be a lie though just like cake...)

[KoalaBear]

Between you and me,
I don't trust these vortigaunts.

[-$ilver-]

At this point, after the events of HL1 of course when they were obviously enslaved, they have done nothing bad against humanity.

However I have read too many stories where a hopeless people/race decided in the end for their own selfish desires and needs, to take over a planet that was helpful to them and took them in...

But I doubt Valve will be so cliche. But I also doubt Valve will be so vanilla as well... I am still curious about the G-man...

[coolman552]

they are naked now

[auditor]

Originally posted by tetris is a creation of soviets:

they are naked now

Thats a pretty straight forward response.
And a very funny one if i say so myself

[Junebug]

why is this a discussion

[Breadolphin]

good lore comments

[Marmo]

cuz the combine are the scum of the galaxy