Headcrabs
Character from Half-Life 2 by Valve
Xen's most successful parasite — small, tenacious, and responsible for more nightmares than the entire Combine army.
Also known as: Headcrabs, Crabs, Headhumpers
What They Know
- Host takeover process — attachment, neural integration, and the physical transformation of the zombie host
- Three variants with different behaviors — standard (ambush), fast (pursuit), poison (area denial through neurotoxin)
- Vulnerability to fire and blunt force trauma — the crowbar exists for a reason
- The Combine weaponizes them in headcrab shells for area denial and terror bombardment
Connections
- native_to — xen
- weaponized_by — combine
- infested — ravenholm
- enemy_of — gordon
- species_of — lamarr
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