Portal (series)/Heartwarming

""Goodbye, sir.""
 * In the Lab Rat tie-in comic, it's revealed that despite her file listing her as being rejected. Why?
 * The credits song in 'Portal 2' has GLaDOS sing that
 * And before that,
 * Especially since she could have finally accomplished her original goal of
 * Debatably, GLaDOS
 * Even better:
 * Both Heartwarming and a Tear Jerker.
 * GLaDOS's response to Cave Johnson's pre-recorded last words:
 * Even better:
 * Both Heartwarming and a Tear Jerker.
 * GLaDOS's response to Cave Johnson's pre-recorded last words:
 * Both Heartwarming and a Tear Jerker.
 * GLaDOS's response to Cave Johnson's pre-recorded last words:


 * Earning the "No Hard Feelings" achievement. The defective turret's quiet, desperate plea of "I'm different" and its subsequent thankfulness upon being rescued really make the moment.
 * Which may turn into tragicomedy if you then accidentally push it through an Emancipation Grill.
 * "Accidentally"?
 * The test results were right. You are a terrible person.
 * It's right behind a corner! You can do it before you even realize it!
 * The alternative is leaving it behind, immobile and alone. And it's unlikely that it would be called for because where you found it is the last place GLaDOS would look for functioning turrets. Fizzling it is arguably sparing it a Fate Worse Than Death.
 * It's a turret. Being immobile and alone is basically its function in life. I remain convinced it's happy right where it is.
 * The ending to the co-op campaign.
 * at the end of 2 gets his fondest wish, and he sounds absolutely overjoyed.
 * Which could have been gut-wrenching instead if they had left in some Dummied Out lines.


 * ... Oh god...
 * During the ending credits of 2, The lyrics for one line read "REDACTED," and the sound becomes a bit garbled, but the words are still easily audible:  GLaDOS, you big softy!
 * The fact that, after everything that happens in both games, after all the hell that GLaDOS and Chell have put each other through,
 * Part of the ending to Portal 2 where
 * It gets even more heart-warming when you look at the English translation of the Italian lyrics:


 * This is particularly poignant if you believe that.
 * Some of us think it's more poignant if she's not.
 * Spoilers for the ending of Portal 2, and not explicitly canon... but come on. Tell me this doesn't put a smile on your face.
 * During the final test for the Hard Light Bridges portion of the Co-Op Campaign, Atlas and P-body are faced with a problem with a relatively simple execution: Shortly after, Atlas hugs P-body, cementing their already developing friendship.
 * The trailer has a similar hug moment:
 * GLaDOS showing


 * Just the fact that GLaDOS
 * It had to have been several hours since
 * Wheatley's apology.
 * The space personality core was so obsessed with space. It was cute, and really sad once he realized that, once he finally got to space, he couldn't go back to Earth. This, and this
 * The song "Love as a Construct" from Portal 2 for the companion cube is very sweet and oddly touching, in its beepy electronic way.
 * Love As A Construct nothing, Exile Vilify is the most heartwarming thing in the entire Valve body of work. Just imagine it playing at the end of the Lab Rat comic, as Rattmann peacefully goes to sleep...
 * Similarly, listen closely to the song's tune.
 * Yes, that song's associated with love in this game, it's so sweet how the Companion Cube hums it just for you!
 * Listen to the end song, and listen carefully. Notice a slight difference in the . That's because If that isn't heartwarming for Portal, I don't know what is!
 * In this case, "Want You Gone" means "I want you out of this shithole of a place and somewhere else." Which every animal parent does: push their children out of the nest.
 * Another from the ending song: "Under the circumstances I've been shockingly nice." That line makes one realize that
 * Another point about the ending song: In the second verse, GLaDOS sings, "Now little Caroline is in here too". The next two lines, on the other hand, are "One day they woke me up/So I could live forever". Those two lines  Not only that, but the next line is "It's such a shame the same will never happen to you", which might in fact be  . Basically that whole part is telling Chell:  . Heartwarming and a Tear Jerker when you really think about it.
 * Proposing with Portals. I dare you to do something half as romantic.
 * This live-action short film. At first, it just seems like it's about her having GLaDOS flashbacks and trying to survive,


 * The ending of the new DLC "Art Therapy" co-op course, where GLaDOS . Even though the scene is tinged with the same abrasiveness and fridge horror GLaDOS usually brings to social interaction, her.
 * But what really makes the scene:
 * Speaking of the ending of "Art Therapy"...well, it's really more hopeful than heartwarming, but listen carefully
 * Chell running into her old science project. It might very well have been the last thing she actually got to do in her normal life. And now, all those years later, after being put through hell, Chell sees her little potato again - and it's well on its way to becoming its own ecosystem. There is no way that didn't cheer her up at least a little bit.
 * Non-canon, but the Fact Core's answer to this. Keep in mind that these two roleplayers spend most of their time arguing.