Gargantua (Half-Life)



The Gargantua is a fictional creature from the 1998 computer game Half-Life by Valve Software.

The creature is approximately 4 metres tall, mostly blue in color, and has one red, glowing eye. In place of hands, it sports two appendages that can emit intense energy with enormous destructive power. This attack seems to be a sort of chemical flame, perhaps caused by some sort of secretion from a gland in the arm's opening. Another form of attack it possesses is the ability to send a wave of energy rippling through the ground after stomping on a surface. The Garguantua moves fast and is very strong: it can hurl massive obstacles from its path with ease.

While many inhabitants of Xen have a third vestigial arm, such as the Vortigaunt, the Gargantua has a third and fourth vestigial appendage on its body. This suggests that the Gargantua is not a native of Xen, and may even be a cyborg, or synth. This leads some to believe that the Gargantua is a creation of the Combine that is placed in Xen to monitor and check the activities of Nihilanth.

The Garguantua is a kind of sub-boss creature. It is completely bulletproof, and takes a large amount of explosive damage or energy damage from the Gluon gun or Gauss gun before being destroyed. Gargantuas can be seen in Half-Life in the chapters Power Up, Surface Tension, Interloper and Nihilanth. In most of these locations, there is a convenient way to destroy the Gargantua so that the player does not have to expend scarce ammunition on it.