Portal: The 4th Millennium Franchise: Difference between revisions

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[[File:P2_tSSoAT_II_2_6274.png|frame|link=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29956148/P2_tSSoAT_II.png|About how much [[Canon Defilement]] you can expect in this one? For one, Aperture facility is underground (and its height underground is actually ''bigger'' than this building's height), then "The Stupidest Sequel of All Time" is written in the same font as [[Homestuck|Sburb land names]], then there's the IV, which is purely meaning nothing.]]

 

[[Action 52|And now.]] ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2323369/ASBusinessMagnet Most of the stories written for Portal: The 4th Millennium franchise]

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3586649/interdimensionalPortaller Stories written in-character for the second Sue]

 

* [[Actionized Sequel]]: ''Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time'' is this to the ''Portal'' game, to the point that it doesn't really fit the atmosphere.

* [[Airstrip One]]: Let's just see how horrible the franchise has got it.

{{quote|[[Lithuania|Aperture Science 3007 Colony]], officially the Republic of Idiots (Idiotų Respublika) is a nickname for an Aperture Science colony in northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic colonies (the other ones, {{spoiler|[[Latvia]] and [[Estonia]]}}, being controlled by Black Mesa). Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with {{spoiler|Latvia}} to the north, {{spoiler|[[Belarus]]}} / White Russia to the southeast, {{spoiler|[[Poland]]}}, oops I mean Land of Life and No Death, and the {{spoiler|[[Russia|Russian]] exclave of Kaliningrad}} to the southwest. Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies [[Sweden|the country which claims it made]] [[Minecraft]] and [[Denmark|another one full of pigs.]] Its population is 3320 (99.9% of its original population emigrated). Its capital is [[Creator Provincialism|the Village Meškučiai]] and largest city is {{spoiler|Vilnius}}.}}

 

* [[Alternate Self]]: The Business Magnet and the Warweary Serket.

** As well as Chell from ''Portal 2'' and "Chell" from ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise.

* [[April Fools' Day]]: Annual.

** 2011: Not as elaborate, but the Soviet Union is returning and Portal: The 4th Millennium Wiki is a Soviet republic.

** 2012: There was a huge buildup that preceded this April Fools' Day by providing pictures of Vriska over the news, but on the day itself, the author went to play in a ''Minecraft Invader Zim'' server, because ''Minecraft'' is the TV show about Steve? trying to take over the Earth and Herobrine trying to stop him and ''Invader Zim'' is the video game where Dib landed on Zim's planet and forgot he was supposed to kill Zim.

** Though, at least three attempts were made to bring ''Portal 2'' story back.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Most notably for Chell Johnson, who from a [[Heroic Mime]] turned into the leader of the franchise's [[La Résistance]], and 0ver5e3r, who from "yet another GLaDOS" turned into a [[Blue Blood]] [[Ditzy Genius]].

** 2011: The Grand Relaunch, which is preceded with a recap that is as good as a [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]] minus [[An Aesop]] and a character to deliver it to.

*** Though it ''[[Subverted Trope|really]]'' is the third anniversary, which makes ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise ''[[Double Subversion|itself]]'' a huge Christmas Episode.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Names for technology given by Valve and names for technology in ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise are bound to deviate.

** Take one example: GLaDOS is named "ASCAIS", which stands for "Aperture Science Central Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer."

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: It is more of a rule and not exception for characters to transfer between epochs (and, by extension, timelines and galaxies).

** And then Valve proposed ''their own'' Aperture Science Golden Age in ''Portal 2''.

** And then they collided.

* [[Ragnarok Proofing]] / [[Modern Stasis]]: You'd expect a society in an unclear state after 1000 years after a major catastrophe to be completely different, but Black Mesa? Still here. GLaDOS? Just stuff her into a human and everything's fine. Modern-day countries? Just with [[Airstrip One|funny names]], but still here. Most of the main cast? Through one or another way, still here. Is this the 3000s or still the 2000s?!

** You have to look for ridiculous future skyline to identify between 2000s and 3000s: the Combine Citadels and their derivative buildings are scattered around the world in 3000s.

** Empress Contine, for one, has an indestructible server network telling her how she is going to die in alternate timelines, so that she can avoid it and continue living.

*** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Combine]] that with the fact that she aspires to take over the world and... well... this universe is doomed.

** Though, in [[The Movie]] it pops off the existence.

*** Would explain how the movie's plot has nothing to do with the fan fiction's.

** Also almost every work within ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise has a "the" stranded somewhere.

* [[Unusual Chapter Numbers]]: Being that the Business Magnet is [[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|another 15 year old crazy math nerd]], it is totally expectable. Detailed explanation:

{{quote|Or, these are CHAPTERS and the fan fictions are PARTS, which makes MUCH MORE SENSE.}}

** ''Portal: Prelude Convention'' uses an entirely different system. The first ficlet is named "The Original Convention" and subsequent additions are named "AUs No. 1, 2" and so on. (That is to say, if they were ever released.)

** ''[[Official Fanfiction University|OFU]] Portal: The 4th Millennium Edition'', [[Logic Bomb|when it's not being an OFU]], lists the names of characters appearing in each chapter. Mainly because there are twenty characters whose points of view we are dealing with and not two.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: ''Portal 2: The Stupidest Webcomic of All Time'' seemingly has a new way of insulting people, taking obscure words (or actually mashups of words) to insult, such as "driving-on-rails", "Pascal-programmers" and "the worst thing since the guy who banned sliced bread".

* [[MS Paint Adventures|Weird]] [[Fourth Wall]] [[Mind Screw|Shit]]: To correctly understand how fourth wall works in ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise, this analogy may help.

** 1. First consider that for a fan fiction to be "published" and "existent" you need two separate programs: a text editor (be it as simple as Notepad or as complex as MS Office Word) and a publisher (usually third-party, see [[Notable Fanfiction Archives]] for a list.)

*** 3. Then imagine the characters inside what the author was writing were given access to the Application. (Since they were modifying the Application, they were modifying the events around themselves.)

*** 4. Then imagine said characters eventually became Mary Sue-level.

*** 6. Then imagine said characters started writing and making up a new fictional franchise. Maybe it is still real life, maybe it is based on a [[Show Within a Show]], maybe it is fixing the past's mistakes.

*** 7. Repeat from step 3, only one fandom further.

* [[Unperson]]: Kizzycocoa and kizzsprite had any references to them [[Orwellian Retcon|removed from earlier works which weren't changed at any time]], and it seems to be a direct reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four since the guy who replaced Kizzycocoa was called "WinstonSmith".

** Then the Business Magnet called ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise "[[Those Wacky Nazis|a totalitarian]] [[Red Scare|country]]".

 

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