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** In the first half of the story characters casually discuss the telepathy of the vortigaunts in what seems like a simple tie in to the [[Half-Life]] universe. Later, Wheatley begins to communicate by wireless with Foxglove {{spoiler|and transmits himself to Aperture Laboratories.}}
** {{spoiler|Pretty much everything said by the [[Oracular Urchin|Oracle Turret(s).]] }}
** Wheatley at one point says "[[A Tale of Two Cities|It is a far, far better thing that I do now, than I have ever done]]." He [[Shout -Out|misattributes the quote,]] but {{spoiler|later he sacrifices himself for Chell and Eaden, much like Sydney Carton did for Lucie Manette.}}
* [[Forgotten First Meeting]]: As described in the flashbacks, {{spoiler|Wheatley and Chell had met many many years before the events of Portal 2 occurred.}} Neither remembers anything before said events because of their {{spoiler|[[Brain Uploading]] and [[Human Popsicle]] states, respectively.}}
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Garret Rickey.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}}: {{spoiler|Wheatley’s last moment in his hard-light body.}}
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Wheatley has a bad case of this toward Garret until about mid-way through the story.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Wheatley confidently insists that he can handle Garret's digital moonshine. The scene then cuts directly to [[Can't Hold His Liquor|a rambling, drunken monologue.]]
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* [[Human Popsicle]]: Chell is one, carried over from the games. {{spoiler|And so, at the end, is Wheatley.}}
* [[I Am What I Am]]: {{spoiler|Wheatley decides that he isn't human, isn't a program, he just ''is'' in Chapter 14.}}
** Cynically played with in the case of [[G La DOS]]- because of her inability to accept her humanity {{spoiler|as Wheatley eventually does, and her repeated, futile attempts to delete Caroline}}, it's heavily implied that she is {{spoiler|[[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|doomed to live a limited half-life]] [[Leave Me Alone|for all eternity]]}}. An extremely well-done [[Be Yourself]] aesop.
{{quote| {{spoiler|Wheatley didn't have much evidence to go on, besides that very bright, very charming, very frightening laugh, but if there was one thing he'd learned about the whole putting-a-human-mind-in-a-computer thing, it was that whatever you tried to do to it afterwards, the human bit sort of ''stuck''. There was no getting rid of it- it clung to all the shiny new programming you put in there like the glue of a [[Call Back|particularly stubborn sticker,]] and unless you were prepared to spend half your time attacking it with the coding equivalent of wire wool, you were lumbered with it for good.}}}}
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: GLaDOS manages to get {{spoiler|the whole town of Eaden}} imprisoned in Aperture to {{spoiler|force Chell back into testing}}, with the promise that {{spoiler|they won't die as long as she behaves.}}
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* [[White Collar Worker]]: {{spoiler|Wheatley, once upon a time.}}
* [[Wreathed in Flames]]: Wheatley the hard-light hologram has the ability to clean himself off by activating the Incalcination cycle, which burns any offending material away at 2000 degrees Kelvin. Surprisingly - especially considering that flour is as explosive as gunpowder - nothing else gets burned aside from Chell's kitchen floor.
* [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!]]: Wheatley says this when he realizes he needs administrative permission for his rockets.
* [[Your Worst Nightmare]]: Chell's comes true.