Kingpin

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Kingpin
General information
Type	Wildlife
Affiliation	Xen
Individual information
Attacks / Weapons	Psionic attack/defense
Game information
Designed by	Ted Backman

The Kingpin is an alien enemy cut from Half-Life. While it lacked convincing AI and gameplay goals, it was scripted nevertheless. It can be found in the game files.

Overview

Twice the height of an average person, it was to have a massive brain filling its entire body, with four eyestalks spaced evenly around it. An early version was to walk on three chitinous legs with a clicking sound; a later version traded the rear leg for a thick, worm-like "tail". It was to be found at least on Xen, in some caves.

Behavior and skills

Its psionic attacks and psionic defenses would have made it immune to missile weapons, although this is unconfirmed.

Trivia

• The Kingpin’s psionic attacks, originally to be used for the Prospero main protagonist, were probably recycled for the Combine Advisor, also both sharing the worm-like design and the two front legs. The Kingpin also shares some features with the Alien Combine Soldier, another cut enemy.

• It appears that Ted Backman reused some of the Kingpin's features for his Alien Fauna, cut from Half-Life 2.

Gallery

Concept art for the first version, front.

Concept art, left side.

Concept art for Xen, including two Kingpins in caves.

List of appearances

• Half-Life (First appearance) (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (Non-canonical appearance)