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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