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Eli Maxwell

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The subject matter of this article contains in-development information that was cut from the final version of an official and/or canonical source and appears in no other canonical source. It may also contain incomplete information since not all cut material is publicly known.

This article is about the early character. For his successor, see Eli Vance.

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Eli Maxwell
Biographical information
Homeworld

Earth

Function(s) / Belongings
Rank / Occupation

Scientist

Physical description
Species

Human

Gender

Male

Hair color

White

Eye color

Unknown, wears glasses

Chronological and political information
Era(s)

Combine occupation

Faction

The Resistance

Game information
Designer(s)
Voice sample(s)

Older version:

Younger version:

"First storm I saw, I made the mistake of stoppin' to study it. That's... how I lost my leg."
― Eli Maxwell[src]

Eli Maxwell[2] (also known as The Junkman) is a character cut from Half-Life 2 who was merged with Captain Vance to form Eli Vance.[1]

Overview[edit]

Originally, the character that ultimately became Eli Vance was not intended to be a relative of Alyx Vance. He would appear as an old bespectacled man with a white beard, a beanie, an apron, and a walking stick due to his missing leg, and was named "Maxwell". "Vance" was the name of the captain, Alyx's original father.

He was to use a scrapyard and a cave as his lab, rather than a real building like Black Mesa East.[1][3] A prototype map of this original lab, last edited in August 2001, can be found in the WC map pack under the name proto_eliden003 ("Eli's Den"). It does not contain any hint of a lab, but rather some sort of garage with a damaged school bus and several damaged cars, mirroring Mossman's sentence about the facility being more suited to mechanics than research scientists.[2][3]

He would work in that lab on the physics manipulator with his robot Dog and show Gordon a slideshow of what happened between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, mentioning the Air Exchange, among others.[1] In sound files located in the Half-Life 2 leak files (in the folder /sound/temp/Eli/), he also warns Gordon about Particle Storms because he lost his leg to one,[2] whereas the final version of Eli lost his leg to a Bullsquid.[1]

Fate[edit]

Apart from his last name, physical appearance, and relation to Alyx, Maxwell's role is mostly identical to the final Eli Vance.

In Half-Life: Alyx, the younger form of Eli Vance seen in the game wears a black beanie similar in style to the one shown in concept art worn by Eli Maxwell.

Gallery[edit]

List of appearances[edit]

References[edit]

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