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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
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[[Action 52|And now.]] ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise.
Made by a person taken straight from [[Commie Land|the former Soviet Union]] <ref>Technically, work on ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise started (2008 December) after the Soviet Union's dissolution (1991 December) and the "earliest point" of the franchise (1910 April) occurs before the Bolshevik take-over of Russian Empire (1918 November).</ref>, [[Portal (
Its entire story can't be explained with one work set in it, and stacking works one upon another makes it worse, to the point of being more confusing than ''Homestuck'', the queen of convoluted plots itself. Let's say all you need to know is that there is one [[Marty Stu]], Aperture Science Business Magnet, that is essentially a [[Self Insert]] who went forward in time and became the leader of Aperture Science, and there is another Sue, Ms. Johnson-Rattmann "interdimensionalPortaller", that is originally [[Heroic Mime|Chell from Portal 1]] who, along with heavy characterization, received Sue powers and rose to power rivaling the first Stu's, and there are also canons they mangle horribly while fighting for power.
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* [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]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140330230813/http://www.xn--portal-4-asis-tkstantmetis-zgf.lt/ Official website, including a wiki and an in-universe blog]
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
** 2010: Simultaneously with the Combine OverWiki renaming itself to "Cake Wiki", Portal: The 4th Millennium franchise became designed after the Combine, leading to names like ''[http://portal-the-4th-millennium.wikia.com/index.php?title=Portal_2:_The_Stupidest_Sequel_of_All_Time&oldid=3962 Combine Overtal 2: The Blackest Mesa of All Time]''.{{Dead link}}
** 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.
* [[Artifact Title]]: Originally a story of a new far-future Aperture leader, it has taken on two other fandoms, ''[[
* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: 0ver5e3r was built to be better than GLaDOS in every way, and even scores an additional point in the Aperture Intelligence scale.
** This trope also includes the "lightbugs" from ''Thinking with Diversity Vents'' work, which do something you wouldn't expect from an amateur mapper: normally, they go around until you complete a test chamber (which is just a button leading to "the outside"), but once you hop onto them, they will go away from a test chamber.
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** [[Big Labyrinthine Building|"Aperture Science Main Headquarters 3007"]] are 3007.1009 meters high, which makes the Burj Khalifa look like a wooden stick stranded on a dirt land.
** Some of the empires are ''really'' [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|out of scale]]. And by that I mean, they span an entire ''universe''.
* [[Call a Rabbit
** 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]].
* [[Christmas Episode]]: (2010) [
** 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.
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* [[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."
* [[Filk Song]]: The author has rewritten Want You Gone at least ''four'' times: [http://pastebin.com/3QNwu9UZ a parody version that steals lines from Still Alive], [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29956148/huw-tu-mud-lik-pa.htm the first verse as sung towards Yellowapple's trolling]{{Dead link}}, [http://pastebin.com/b3uAMYaj the first verse as sung by Empress Contine] and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7823539/1/The_Credits_Song The Credits Song, supposed to end Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time].
* [[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).
* [[Golden Age]]: [http://portal-the-4th-millennium.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:_The_4th_Millennium_franchise_timeline#The_Aperture_Science_Golden_Age_.282999_-_3046.29 Literally.]{{Dead link}}
** And then Valve proposed ''their own'' Aperture Science Golden Age in ''Portal 2''.
** And then they collided.
* [[Last Supper Steal]]: The Eleven.
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: If you write fan fiction for or make a mod for ''Portal'', there is an approximate chance of 10% that the Business Magnet will include it in his ever-expanding franchise.
** If the fan fiction or mod becomes [[
** If the plot for the fan fiction or mod changes, said work is discredited from the franchise, yet the things "borrowed" from it remain.
** If you actually frown upon that, it gets to an edit war lasting a goddamn year.
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* [[Orwellian Retcon]]: You can literally do that with the Fan Fiction Application.
** And it will spawn a billion other transcripts of some text pertaining to event X:
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[http://portal-the-4th-millennium.wikia.com/wiki/Aperture_Science_BBS_System_Fan_Fiction_Application „The year 1986. While Cave Johnson's wife Caroline [Portal: The 4th Millennium Wiki Narrator's note: appears as "Gladys" in the original] was captured by „our benefactors"..."]
[https://twitter.com/#!/ASBusinessMagne/status/103916904988684288 „The year 1986. While Cave Johnson's wife] [[
* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: For any given Aperture Intelligence, expect them to have precisely ''two'' human versions: one that was the intelligence's origin, and one for which ''the intelligence'' is an origin.
** And they apparently still retain whatever mental abilities they had while still a machine.
* [[Punctuation Shaker]]: If there's any reason to stuff first "@" into a name, then "¤", and then just forget the rules of grammar altogether and talk in apparent gibberish.
** This also leads into a [[No OSHA Compliance|No]] [[Fanfiction.net
* [[Rage Against the Author]]: The latter half of ''Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time'' and all the works onwards will almost always feature the creators with a hostile relationship towards the Business Magnet, even when [[No Fourth Wall|it doesn't make any sense.]]
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irenicPie: but if the character that wins against him is written BY him, doesnt that mean he's not actually that bad at all? }}
* [[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.
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Exaggerated, in the means that the characters use the equivalent of ''plot devices'' to kill each other ''and'' survive. May also be an example of [[
** 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.
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* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: Is inspired by many Portal mods and fanfics, and inspires a lesser number, but still has its own fanfic.
* [[Ridiculous Future Sequelization]]: In [[Official Fanfiction University|OFU]] ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' Edition, set in early "2015c", [[The Half World]] is at HFF #413, which is [[Purple Prose|Complacency of the Learned]].
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** ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise itself is also updating, and seemingly faster than Skepkitty can MST (which results in Andrew Hussie-like speeds as Skepkitty MSTed 6 chapters of ITS MY LIFE! in one day).
*** Even though it was halted in place by Ms. Johnson-Rattmann "interdimensionalPortaller" in May 2012?
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**** Though, the number increased.
* [[Show Within a Show]] Type 4: ''Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time'' exists inside ''itself''.
** Though, in [[The Movie
*** Would explain how the movie's plot has nothing to do with the fan fiction's.
* [[Spell My Name
** 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
** Originally, ''Portal 2: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time'' was a one block ficlet, and hence did not feature any numbering.
** The second take was preceded with "I wrote the next part."
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** Prologues, epilogues and specials are not numbered, though they still suffer from the letters and the first one was still designated as "Part 8,5".
** ''Portal 2 Episode Two: The Stupidest Sequel of All Time Part Two'', being a direct sequel, continued the numbering with Part 21c.
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** ''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.)
*** Later the name "Portal: Prelude Convention AU No. #" is more like an [[In
** ''[[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".
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* [[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.)
*** 2. Then imagine both programs were stashed into one, let's call it [http://portal-the-4th-millennium.wikia.com/wiki/Aperture_Science_BBS_System_Fan_Fiction_Application "Fan Fiction Application"]{{Dead link}}.
*** 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.
*** 5. Then imagine said characters challenged the author to [http://portal-the-4th-millennium.wikia.com/wiki/Fan_fiction_battle an equivalent]{{Dead link}} of
*** 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.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: ''[http://www.xn--portal-4-asis-tkstantmetis-zgf.lt/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Portal: The 4th Millennium (Franchise) Wiki III]''.{{Dead link}} (There was a first wiki, but the author seems to have abandoned a wiki on a wiki farm in favor of this.)
* [[Unperson]]: Kizzycocoa and
** Then the Business Magnet called ''Portal: The 4th Millennium'' franchise "[[Those Wacky Nazis|a totalitarian]] [[Red Scare|country]]".
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Often characters will be snuggled from real life and written as if they were always fictional, to the point of the Business Magnet ''claiming'' they were always fictional.
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