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== ''Portal'' ==
=== Chell ===
 
[[File:Portal Chell 6795.png|framethumb|250px]]
== Chell ==
{{quote|''"Subject is abnormally stubborn. She never gives up. '''[[The Determinator|Ever]]'''. [[Spanner in the Works|DO NOT TEST.]]"''|'''Aperture File''', on Chell}}
[[File:Portal Chell 6795.png|frame]]
{{quote|Modeled after Alésia Glidewell, voiced by Mary Kae Irvin}}
 
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{{quote|'''Proctor's note:''' Test subject is abnormally stubborn. She never gives up. '''Ever'''. Do NOT Test.}}
* [[Guile Hero]]
* [[Heroic Mime]]: GLaDOS even complains about her lack of response in the final chamber. {{smallcapssmall-caps|"Are you even listening to me?"}} In the sequel, Wheatley seems to think that overexposure to the stasis process left her unable to talk; when he asks her to, she just jumps. GLaDOS even calls her a "mute lunatic."
** [[Word of God]] from writer Erik Wolpaw: "She just chooses not to, what with the robots all being dicks. Why give them the satisfaction?".
** "Why should Aperture Science accept you as a research volunteer, and would anyone file a police report if you went missing? HR Note: Subject refused to answer."
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* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]
* [[Progressively Prettier]]: By the looks of her design in the second game, it seems to imply she found some moisturizer, make up, and a hair brush, and fixed those stray gray hairs of hers. Perhaps the Party Escort Bot fixed her up to look good for the party.
** [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110426214052/half-life/en/images/5/59/Chell_daydreamin.jpg Here] she is in Portal 1, and in Portal 2 she looks [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110426233759/half-life/en/images/5/58/Chell_infobox.jpg like this]{{Dead link}}. Wow!
* [[Required Secondary Powers|Required Secondary Gadgetry]]: Chell wears a pair of ankle-springs in order to ensure her legs aren't shattered when she comes flying out of a portal. [[Word of God|The commentary bubbles]] indicate early on that the reason was that playtesters complained that Chell could survive falls that would kill [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]]. Despite the fact that the springs are patently insufficient to protect her, [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|they stopped the complaints]], so mission accomplished!
** In ''Portal 2'', these have been updated to full shoes called the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg Aperture Science Long Fall Boot], a "foot-based suit of armor" that's implied to have some kind of balance system forcing the wearer to land on her feet no matter what. This makes their ability to protect her ''slightly'' more justifiable.
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=== Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS) ===
[[File:P2 GLaDOS 8772.jpg|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Ellen McLain]]}}
 
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Done by having Ellen McLain imitate a text-to-speech program's inflections.
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: According to her, she {{spoiler|was forced to spend the hundreds of years in between the two games watching a recording the two minutes leading up to her destruction over and over and over again, due to her blackbox feature.}}. Of course, it's according to ''her'', [[Unreliable Narrator|a pathological liar.]]
* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: An interesting example. Although she's always been based on the human form (on Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," in fact), the original game's GLaDOS is far less relatable: her head is a grey semi-ellipsoid with a fixed yellow eye, and she doesn't have any body language to speak of. In the sequel she has a lot more emoting to do, so she was given a white, squared-off head (suggesting a certain sternness of jaw) with a much more expressive eye and vastly more human-like body language.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: If slaughtering the majority of Aperture Science on ''bring-your-daughter-to-work-day'' within less than a picosecond of activation is any indication.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: In ''Portal 2''.
* [[Bad Boss]]: GLaDOS treats her custom robots the same way she treats everyone:
{{quote|{{smallcapssmall-caps|"Don't disappoint me. Or I'll make you}} ''{{smallcapssmall-caps| wish}}'' {{smallcapssmall-caps| you could die."}}}}
* [[Bad Liar]]: GLaDOS is ''very'' surprised you successfully completed the test, and it shows.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|Wheatley downloads her into a potato battery.}} {{smallcapssmall-caps|So, how are you holding up?}} ''{{spoiler|{{smallcapssmall-caps|Because I'm a potato.}}}}''
* [[Big OMG]]: {{spoiler|''"Oh. My. God.'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It's the bird! Run! I have no plan for this! Abort! Forget your training! RUN!"]]}}
* [[Black Comedy]]: GLaDOS's sense of humor.
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* {{spoiler|[[Haunted Technology]]}}
* {{spoiler|1=[[Heel Face Turn]]: Arguably in the second half of ''Portal 2'' as soon as Wheatley betrays Chell, takes over GLaDOS, and puts her core into a potato. She and Chell [[Enemy Mine|reluctantly team up]], and once the facility is restored, she saves Chell's life and lets her go along with the original [[Companion Cube]] - although she claims it's just because killing Chell is too much trouble.}}
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The boss fight in Portal 1. "{{smallcapssmall-caps|Huh. That core may have had some ancillary responsibilities. I can't shut off the turret defenses. Oh well. If you want my advice, you should just lie down in front of a rocket...}}" *BOOM*
** In the sequel, {{spoiler|her taunting Wheatley after he becomes the central sphere enrages him so much that he puts her into a potato, barely able to function without using up the tiny amount of power it generates. She gets better.}}
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Sort of acknowledged in a cut line from ''Portal 2'':
{{quote|{{smallcapssmall-caps|Humans must have some purpose other than a place to store your neurotoxin -- something I failed to notice before; an intangible quality that makes their test results significant.}}}}
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: From ''Portal 2's'' ending:
{{quote|'''GLaDOS:''' {{spoiler|{{smallcapssmall-caps|You know, being Caroline taught me a valuable lesson. I thought you were my greatest enemy. When all along you were my best friend. The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: where Caroline lives in my brain.}}}}
'''Announcer''': {{spoiler|{{smallcapssmall-caps|CAROLINE DELETED.}}}}
'''GLaDOS:''' {{spoiler|{{smallcapssmall-caps|Goodbye, Caroline. You know, deleting Caroline just now taught me a valuable lesson. The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one. And I'll be honest. Killing you? Is hard. You know what my days used to be like? I just tested. Nobody murdered me. Or put me into a potato. Or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life. And then you showed up. You dangerous, mute lunatic. So you know what? You win. Just go.}} [laughs gently] {{smallcapssmall-caps|It's been fun. Don't come back.}}}} }}
* [[In Love with Your Carnage]]: Gets especially excited at Cave's maniacal [[When Life Gives You Lemons]] rant, particularly when he talks of burning houses down.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS:''' {{spoiler|{{smallcapssmall-caps|Burning people! He says what we're all thinking!}}}}}}
* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: When trying to boost the self-confidence of P-Body and Atlas, GLaDOS informs them that she was born with a crippling imperfection—too much sympathy toward human suffering. She proudly informs them that she overcame that weakness.
* [[Killer Game Master]]: GLaDOS acts similar to this, throwing difficult scenarios at you, lying in order to confuse and torment you, and live-ammo courses in place of the original courses. When you go [[Off the Rails]], she tries to lasso you back in with lies before resorting to overkill methods.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Wheatley in the sequel. GLaDOS is the Blue Oni.
** Their colors are inverted, with Wheatley being blue and GLaDOS being red (well, her optic is yellow, but close enough in the circumstances).
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Caroline really didn't want to be uploaded}}. As soon as she was turned on, GLaDOS proved completely uncontrollable for the Aperture scientists and had them all killed or placed in suspended animation.
* [[Sarcastic Clapping]]: GLaDOS has an entire processor ''devoted solely to this'', or so she claims.
* [[Self-Proclaimed Liar]]
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Her Logic/Intelligence/Knowledge Core, when describing cake garnishes:
{{quote|"Sediment-shaped sediment."}}
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** GLaDOS is more or less a female [[2001: A Space Odyssey|HAL 9000]] in the role of [[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|AM]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lVjxOTr-M Unused dialogue from co-op] involves her talking about a comic strip involving [[Garfield|a certain cat who loves lasagna]].
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* {{spoiler|[[Unwilling Roboticisation]]: See [[Was Once a Man]] below.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: When you try to invoke [[This Is My Side]] <ref>Refers to a [[Dummied Out]] line that still remains in the source files.</ref> ''during the final boss fight'' and spend most of said fighting making petty insults, you're broken. It probably doesn't help that Chell spent the fight ''ripping her mind to pieces and setting them on fire.''
{{quote|'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|Stop squirming and die like an adult or I'm going to delete your backup! STOP! Okay enough, I deleted it. No matter what happens now, you're ''dead.'' You're still shuffling around a little but believe me you're ''dead.'' The part of you that could have survived indefinitely is gone. I just struck you from the ''permanent record.'' Your entire life has been a mathematical error. ''A mathematical error I'M ABOUT TO CORRECT.''}}}}
* [[Villainous Rescue]]: {{spoiler|1=At the end of ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS [[Take My Hand|pulls you back]] out of the Moon portal.}}
* [[Visual Pun]] / [[Stealth Pun]]:
** As the effects of GLaDOS's morality core begin to wear off, her monitors display a small pile of screws. {{spoiler|She ''does'' have quite a few screws loose by this point. On top of that, she's about to screw you, and not in [[Cargo Ship|the fun way]].}}
** When she says "{{smallcapssmall-caps| Despite your vio-lent behavior...}}" the screen displays a violin.
* {{spoiler|[[Was Once a Man|Was Once A Woman]]: She was created to fulfill Cave Johnson's wish to leave Caroline eternally in control of the facility. This [[Gone Horribly Wrong|did not go well]].}}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Birds?]]: GLaDOS {{spoiler|as a potato}} quickly develops a massive fear of birds.
{{quote|{{spoiler|BIRD! BIRD! KILL IT! IT'S EVIL!}}}}
** Makes a return {{spoiler|1=in the Peer Review DLC for co-op mode. The facility is being "controlled" by the same bird that antagonized Wheatly and GLaDOS previously.}}
* [[Worth It]]: Says this about {{spoiler|tricking Wheatly into trying to give a hint about a test chamber, giving him a painful shock.}}
* [[You Are Fat]]: A good amount of her insults towards Chell in the sequel are about her weight. She helpfully informs ATLAS and P-Body that humans are very sensitive about weight variances.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|Did you know humans frown on weight variances? If you want to upset a human, just say their weight variance is above or below the norm.}}}}
* [[Your Mom]]: In the Peer Review DLC, GLaDOS attempts one of these to turn the robots into killing machines. However, she stops mid-sentence because she finds it too [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusting]].
 
 
=== The Weighted Companion Cube ===
[[File:cit weighted companion cube LIVES.jpg|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by no one as it, in fact, cannot speak.}}
A large, (apparently) inanimate cube with hearts printed on each face. That's it. GLaDOS tries to get Chell to form an emotional attachment to it, then forces her to incinerate it.
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=== Doug Rattmann, a.k.a. "The Rat Man" ===
[[File:Portal Rattmann 6491.png|framethumb|250px]]
 
A mysterious person who left clues for Chell to find scrawled along the course of the testing center. His identity is never really touched upon in-game, but the promotional [[Viral Marketing|Alternate Reality Game]] to promote ''Portal 2'', as well as the new comic to bridge the gap between the two games, gives us more about him.
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* [[The Atoner]]: Willingly went back into the facility after he'd gained his freedom, unable to live with knowing he'd used Chell to defeat GLaDOS and then let her be killed when he might have saved her.
* [[Badass Labcoat]]: As seen on [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/#15 Page 15] of the "Lab Rat" comic.
* [[Badass Normal]]: While dodging turrets, crawling through air vents, and matching [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarks]] with GLaDOS, ''without a portal gun or any other technology''.
* [[Companion Cube]]: He takes one with him wherever he goes. He's so crazy that it talks to him, and is surprisingly very helpful.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The [[Alternate Universe]] Doug Rattman that's CEO of Aperture Science.
* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: As literally as possible. He's clinically insane, so he lived.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When he's on his medication, he's a match for GLaDOS.
{{quote|'''[[G La DOSGLaDOS]]:''' Have you refilled your prescription lately?
'''Doug:''' '''''Bite me.''''' }}
* [[Disability Superpower]]: When Rattmann is on his schizophrenia meds, his Companion Cube doesn't appear. Without its advice, he seems to be a lot less effective, {{spoiler|eventually causing him to get wounded by a turret.}}
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** In ''Portal 2'', it would seem his obsession changed to being centered around Chell, with vivid detailed murals of her sprawled across walls.
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Inverted.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Oh my GOD.
 
 
=== The turrets ===
[[File:Portal Turret 8264.png|framethumb|250px]]
 
{{quote|Voiced by [[Ellen McLain]]}}
 
Small white machines placed throughout the facility to ''{{smallcapssmall-caps|[[Dummied Out|provide you with product.]]}}''
 
* [[Adorable Evil Minions]]: {{smallcapssmall-caps|Hi. Target acquired. Firing.}}
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: {{smallcapssmall-caps|I don't blame you. I don't hate you. No hard feelings.}}
* [[Cartridges in Flight]]: As pointed out and [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshaded]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPIQ72-2Vg this trailer].
{{quote|'''Cave Johnson:''' We fire the whole bullet! That's 65% more bullet per bullet! }}
* [[Cute Machines]]: Well, until they pepper you full of lead. That doesn't stop them from being so damn adorable.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|A mild version in 2, after Wheatley takes over the facility, the turrets seem just as eager to shoot at him (or at least his monitors) as they are at Chell.}}
* [[Flat Joy]]: {{smallcapssmall-caps|[[Squee|WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!]]}}
* [[Grotesque Cute]]: Such cute voices. Such infantile dialogue. So polite and apologetic while they [[Dummied Out|dispense product]]. So much [[More Dakka|dakka]]. {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzUT-99w88 AND THEY SING!]}}
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: {{smallcapssmall-caps|[[More Dakka|Dispensing product.]]}}
* [[King Mook]]: The Animal King turret, a massive, cheetah-patterned turret with a crown used to illustrate what to do in one of many apocalypse scenarios Aperture anticipated. It also plays bass, just because.
* [[Laser Sight]]
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=== Party Escort Bot ===
The Party Escort Bot, alternatively known as the Party Associate, is a robot appearing in the retconned PC version of Portal, as of the March 3, 2010 patch. It's only role in the game is to {{spoiler|drag Chell back into the facility after she defeats GLaDOS, so that she can have new adventures in the sequel.}}
 
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: When [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] first mentions him, it appears as if he does not exist at all. Then there is no mention of him for a long time, until {{spoiler|he suddenly turns up as a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] in the ending.}}
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|After Chell has survived hous of deadly testing, [[G La DOSGLaDOS]]' deathtrap, navigated the facilities, and then confronted [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] in her room and defeated her, she ends up semi-conscious on a parking lot, and this robot drags her back into the facility.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Apparently is this to [[G La DOSGLaDOS]]}}
* [[The Ghost]]: Was this before the March 3rd update.
* [[Palette Swap]]: The robot is seen on one panel in the ''Lab Rat'' comic, and it is apparently merely {{spoiler|a purple version of ATLAS, or possibly a personality core with arms (which Wheatley was planned to have, per the commentary, but were cut because they could not believably retract)}}
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* [[The Voice]]: {{spoiler|Although it is obviously very close to Chell in the ending, it is actually never seen as it drags her back in-game. No-clipping reveals merely a placeholder box with the text "beens" on it.}}
** Ironically, in the Lab Rat comic, the robot becomes {{spoiler|[[The Voiceless]], as it is revealed for the first time, but has no dialogue.}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"Thank you for assuming, the party escort submission position."}}
 
== ''Portal 2'' ==
 
=== Wheatley ===
 
[[File:Portal Wheatley 1943.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Stephen Merchant]]}}
 
An artificially intelligent "personality core" reassigned to ensure the well-being of the test subjects. Practically a polar opposite to GLaDOS, Wheatley appears friendly and [[Cloudcuckoolander|slightly scatterbrained]]. He helps Chell in her second run through Aperture Laboratories, but accidentally revives GLaDOS.
 
Oh, and he has [[Wheatley|his own page now]], [[Just for Fun]].
 
* [[Adorkable]]
* {{spoiler|[[Affably Evil]]: For an AI-turned-psychotic-junkie trying to murder you, he sure is likeable.}}
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: His sole reason of existing {{spoiler|is to consistently give [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] stupid ideas and take bad decisions.}}
* {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]: Becomes this in the final scene of ''Portal 2''. He's a little too late for that, however.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|1="[[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|I am NOT! A! MORON!]]" [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Gee, thanks a lot, GLaDOS.]] The irony is just astounding.}}
* [[Big Stupid Doodoo Head]]: When he tries to imitate GLaDOS's style of insults, the best he can do is "fatty fatty no-parents."
* [[Blue Eyes|Blue Eye]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Drunk with Power]]}}: {{spoiler|And then he starts suffering withdrawal symptoms.}}
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Go to any YouTube video about Wheatley's quotes, and drink a glass of water at every comment that says something like "Wheatley's voice is so hot"/"I <3 you Wheatley" and etc. You will be in the bathroom for a LONG time.
** What have we learned today? [https://web.archive.org/web/20121119005624/http://www.coolape.org/comic-eless-its-the-accent.html Bitches love British accents. No matter what it comes out of.]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]}}: {{spoiler|After his [[Face Heel Turn]].}}
* [[Exact Words]]/[[Stealth Pun]]: Valve said that the voice of Wheatley would be provided by, in their words, "Some guy from the office". Originally it really was: the placeholder voice was provided by Valve animator Richard Lord. Then they chose Stephen Merchant, most well known for co-writing and appearing in the UK sitcom ''[[The Office]]''.
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* {{spoiler|1=[[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: He started out as an [[Idiot Ball|intelligence-inhibitor]]. Then he gets plugged into GLaDOS's mainframe, and becomes even more unstable and destructive than she ever was.}}
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Even GLaDOS is forced to admit it at one point {{spoiler|1=as he's bringing Chell and GLaDOS to the "surprise"}}.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS:''' {{smallcapssmall-caps|For a little idiot {{spoiler|[[Idiot Ball|built specifically to come up with stupid, unworkable plans]], that was a pretty well laid trap.}}}}}}
* {{spoiler|[[A God Am I]]}}: Becomes this after {{spoiler|1=being plugged into GLaDOS's mainframe}}.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Heel Face Turn]]: After Wheatley is removed from GLaDOS's body, he feels genuinely sorry. Too bad he's stranded in space now.}}
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* [[Motor Mouth]]: His utter inability to shut up is one of the highlights of this game. So much so that even if you just sit there for a few minutes, he'll ''still keep talking''.
* [[Oh Crap]]: When he learns of GLaDOS and Chell's history.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|Oh, it's ''you''.}}
'''Wheatley''': You know her?
'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|It's been a long time. How have you been?}}
'''Wheatley''': I think she likes you.
'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|I've been really busy being dead. You know, after you ''murdered me?''}}
'''Wheatley''': You did '''WHAT!?'''
'''GLaDOS''': {{smallcapssmall-caps|*sigh* OK, look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret...}} }}
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Uses this approach to hacking a few times, such as when he attempts a "manual override" of a "docking gate" by slamming Chell's relaxation chamber into it.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Psychopathic Manchild]]: When he starts ranting at GLaDOS and Chell he sounds distinctly like a child throwing a tantrum at an elder.}}
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* {{spoiler|1=[[Stupidity-Inducing Attack]]: Literally. As a personality core, he's spherical and he was built to make GLaDOS dumber. He also grabs onto one after going insane; he informs you that he won't make the mistakes GLaDOS did, having made all surfaces in his lair unsuitable for applying portals. He has also rerouted three gel tubes into his room, including one that supplies Conversion Gel allowing you to apply portals in his room. This alone wouldn't be so bad, but he also doesn't bother to wait for the neurotoxin to kill you -- he throws bombs too, breaking the tube and providing you access to the Gels.}}
** {{spoiler|1=What's more, he rerouted the conversion gel pipe through the room ''even though he had previously seen you use it right in front of him'' to escape from his anti-portal trap at the beginning of the chapter. If you wait long enough at said trap, GLaDOS even tells Wheatley ''to his face'' exactly what the conversion gel does!}}
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: His reaction upon awakening GLaDOS, only compounded when GLaDOS says to Chell "{{smallcapssmall-caps|...After you}} ''{{smallcapssmall-caps|murdered}} {{smallcapssmall-caps|me?}}''"
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|His idea of dealing with an imminent reactor core meltdown caused by his own incompetence is to ''yell at the alarm to shut up.''}}
** [[Too Dumb to Fool]]: {{spoiler|1=AI brains as simple as those of the Frankenturrets short out in response to hearing a simple logical paradox. Wheatley's idiocy prevents him from even noticing it.}}
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=== Cave Johnson ===
 
[[File:Portal Cave Johnson 2626.png|framethumb|250px]]
 
{{quote|Voiced by J.K. Simmons}}
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* [[Brain Uploading]]: Prior to his death, he had his scientists working on this. The jury's out on whether he managed to live that long, {{spoiler|but his assistant Caroline certainly got the treatment}}.
** Perpetual Testing features a Cave who did indeed upload himself into a computer. He takes *slightly* longer to go murderously insane than GLaDOS, {{spoiler|although we never learn what exactly he did to Greg and the boys.}}
* [[Bungling Inventor]]: Literally nothing his company invented fulfilled the purpose it was intended for, and some of the leaps of logic between what the inventions were supposed to do and what they ''actually'' do are achievements all by themselves. Most of them have obvious practical applications that would be incredibly useful, but Aperture would always insist on marketing them for some other purpose for which they were completely unsuited. It seems he would order his scientists to invent a thing and then they'd do it, even if it took bending the laws of space and time into a pretzel.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: [Beginning of video] "Cave Johnson here..."
** "Good job, [x]."
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** "Chariots chariots."
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: His understanding of science is a little off, and the Conversion Gel poisoning certainly didn't help.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: It's said that a corporate culture is shaped by its leader. If that leader is completely out of his tree, then you get Aperture Science.
* [[For Science!]]: His motivation.
{{quote|'''Johnson''': Good enough for science...but not ''Aperture'' Science!}}
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: His employees followed his every word, no matter how crazy. Anyone else acting like this would have been thrown in jail, possibly murdered.
** Even {{spoiler|Caroline}} seems to have some of this—even after {{spoiler|1=he inflicted involuntary [[Brain Uploading]] on her, she still seems to hold some affection for him, if GLaDOS's response to his final prerecorded message is anything to go by}}.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS''': {{spoiler|(sadly) {{smallcapssmall-caps|Goodbye, sir.}}}}}}
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]/[[Retcon]]: The "official" timeline of Aperture Science on the website when the first game was released doesn't quite jive with Cave's speeches.
** Among other things, his illness wasn't apparently due to mercury poisoning, but an allergic reaction to ground-up moonrock gel used to make stable portal-surfaces. He appears to have lived at least until early 1980's. The Portal Gun appears to have been one of Cave's ''first'' inventions at Aperture (since all of his Enrichment Spheres basically require its use, and a poster in the 50s era test chambers depicts a test subject with an enormous early version of the portal gun), rather than an idea he imparted while on his deathbed... although since he was, according to the 'old' timeline, convinced time was going backwards, it could be both.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Listening to his prerecorded messages in order, you can hear his voice getting steadily more angry and deranged over the decades.
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=== Atlas and P-body ===
 
[[File:Portal Atlas and P-body 7012.png|framethumb|250px]]
 
{{quote|Both voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]]}}
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* [[Cute Machines]]: Again, like the turrets and Wheatley, they are cute and silly.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: The two robots are uploaded into a new body whenever they die, as illustrated by the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkATYz_tF-U trailer.] P-body dismisses its destruction (and Atlas's role in it) with a wave of its hand. Then gets him back [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvx5XBS3cwY later]. In fact, they are transported to other test chambers by being disassembled and later reassembled.
{{quote|'''GLaDOS:''' {{smallcapssmall-caps|Don't disappoint me -- or I'll make you ''wish'' you could die.}}}}
** The ''Portal 2'' team say this is a major reason for using robots as the co-op mode characters. They wanted [[The Many Deaths of You|your (many) deaths]] at the hands of badly-planned maneuvers, incompetent or jerky co-players, and just larking about, to be funny and more consequence-free than showing humans being crushed, shot, or falling in acid and so forth.
* [[Electronic Speech Impediment]]: Although their general dialogue is mostly unintelligible, if you listen hard enough you can make out specific word-analogues, such as them saying "Hello" to each other in the intro cinematic.
* [[Fat and Skinny]]
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Atlas tends to be the more reserved one in everything he does - except for when either initiates a hug.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Orange Oni Blue Oni]]: [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]].
** Also illustrated during the introductory cutscene where the two are assembled for the first time. P-body is happy enough to let the robotic arms weld it together, while Atlas is shown anxiously trying to dodge them and escape from the construction area.
{{quote|'''P-body:''' ''[cheerfully waving to Atlas]'' {{smallcapssmall-caps|Hello!}}
'''Atlas:''' ''[nervous]'' {{smallcapssmall-caps|...Hi?}} }}
** Depending on how you view their personalities in gender terms, it can also be an example of either [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] or [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]. The fact still stands that P-Body is far more feminine-looking than Atlas, while the trailer mentioned above puts their personalities in a far different manner.
* [[True Companions]]: GLaDOS learns that as much as she tries, she cannot drive them apart and pit them against each other.
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=== Defective Turrets ===
[[File:Portal Defective Turret 5389.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Nolan North]] and [[Ellen McLain]]}}
 
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* [[Body Horror]]: Well, look at it from their point of view. Some of them have no casing. Some of them were put together ''sideways''.
** They're fairly upbeat about it though.
{{quote|"Oh no, I'm one of the bad ones aren't I?"
"Shootin' blanks, [[Radio|every time, all the time]]."<br />
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=== Frankenturrets ===
[[File:Portal Frankenturret 9069.png|framethumb|250px]]
 
A hybrid of two turrets and a Weighted Storage Cube.
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* [[Body Horror]]: Yes, even purely mechanical robots can apply for this; the merging is crude, and the Frankenturrets' pitiful chirping and terrified reactions when picked up make their miserable state clear. The commentary notes their withdrawing into a cube was initially just to make them be cubical when picked up, but it was so cute they added shaking animations and wide-eyed reactions to the turret to make the player sympathize with their plight.
* [[Cute Machines]]: They're hastily put-together hybrids that {{spoiler|exist primarily to satisfy Wheatley's addiction to testing}}...but ''they're so darn adorable!''
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Put them anywhere near an Emancipation Grill and the poor bastards will slowly lurch their way into it of their own volition.
** Near the [[Bottomless Pits]], also, although it might have been a coincidence (they generally default to just lurching straight forward).
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Several of them are fried when a paradox is spoken in their presence. [[Mercy Kill|They probably welcomed it.]] {{spoiler|Note that this implies that they're not only sentient but actually ''smarter than Wheatley'', although that isn't saying much.}}
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=== Space Sphere ===
[[File:Portal Space Core 565.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Nolan North]]}}
 
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=== Rick the Adventure Sphere ===
[[File:Portal Adventure Core 3679.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Nolan North]]}}
 
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=== Fact Sphere ===
[[File:Portal Fact Core 3855.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Nolan North]]}}
 
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: One of the false facts is about where one of the spheres will end up.
* [[Good News, Bad News]]: "Cellular phones will ''not'' give you cancer, only hepatitis."
* [[Jerkass]]:
{{quote|''The Space Sphere will never go into space. You will never go into space.''
''The likelihood of you dying violently within the next 5 minutes is 87.61%.''
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=== The Announcer ===
{{quote|Voiced by Joe Michaels}}
 
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* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: ''Interpreting vague answer as "yes"''.
* [[False Reassurance]]
* [[For Inconvenience Press One]]:
{{quote|''If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, or require a Spanish version of this message, feel free to take a complimentary piece of stationary, and write us a letter''.}}
* [[For Science!]]: Utterly dedicated to making sure Science gets done, even in the face of [[After the End|"potentially apocalyptic circumstances"]].
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=== Caroline ===
[[File:Portal Caroline 3563.png|framethumb|250px]]
{{quote|Voiced by [[Ellen McLain]]}}
 
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: When Cave gets hot-headed (which is often), Caroline puts him back on task.
* [[Dummied Out]]: The actual {{spoiler|[[Brain Uploading]] scene, mentioned above}}. GLaDOS's dialogue makes it clear enough that it did happen, though; we just don't know for sure ''how'' it happened or how Caroline reacted to it.
* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]]: She did not want to be uploaded into an A.I. from the start. And now she's not only stuck in there, she's -- in a sense -- [[And I Must Scream|immortal]].}}
* [[For Science!]]: Well, Cave at least said she was passionate about science, and GLaDOS's attitude seems to support the idea that he was right.
* {{spoiler|1=[[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The plan was to upload Caroline into GLaDOS so that she could run the facility forever. The resulting A.I. personality was considerably less pleasant than human Caroline.}}
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* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Cave [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are|thought Caroline suffered from this]], which is why he felt justified in {{spoiler|having her mind forcibly uploaded against her will -- obviously she was only refusing because she didn't realize how good she'd be at running Aperture forever.}}
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]/[[Puss in Boots]]: Cave, at least, believed she was fully capable of doing his job, but she seemed to be perfectly happy as a secretary, which he attributed to extreme modesty.
* [[Married to the Job]]: According to Cave Johnson.
{{quote|'''Johnson''': "Sorry fellas, she's married... to science!"}}
* [[Morality Pet]]: Cave is generally pleasant to her and holds her in very high esteem, which helps balance the attitude of [[Comedic Sociopathy]] he tends to display otherwise. {{spoiler|In a well-intentioned yet horrifically misplaced show of his appreciation, he orders his scientists to upload her consciousness into an immortal A.I. against her will so that she can take over Aperture after his death}}.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Since {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS experiences her persona as a sort of conscience}}, she presumably wasn't a complete sociopath, but she didn't seem to object to the constant stream of blatant ethical violations that characterized Cave's policies for running Aperture.
** {{spoiler|1=On the other hand, if GLaDOS's [[In Love with Your Carnage|reaction to Cave's lemon rant]] is anything to go by, Cave's aggressiveness and willingness to openly express it may have been something she actively liked about him. Of course, it's impossible to tell whether that's just GLaDOS's insanity talking.}}
* [[Number Two]]: Cave Johnson's right hand woman.
* [[Origin Story]]: {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS's origin -- she was created in an attempt to achieve immortality through [[Brain Uploading]] for Cave Johnson, but when he died before the project was ready, Caroline was uploaded in his place so that she could run Aperture forever. This [[Gone Horribly Wrong|did not work out well]].}}
* [[Perky Female Minion]]: ''Yes, Sir!''
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* {{spoiler|1=[[Virtual Ghost]]: Some remnant of Caroline's personality still exists within GLaDOS. While GLaDOS claims to delete her, there are some hints that she's still around.}}
 
== Downloadable Content ==
 
=== The Monster ===
The chief antagonist of the ''Peer-Review'' co-op DLC, who has taken over an older version of GLaDOS's body and is using it wreak havoc.
* {{spoiler|1=[[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: The antagonist taking over the facility, causing chaos and ruffling GLaDOS's cool is... the bird who bothered her and Wheatley before, inadvertently building her nest on a crucial keyboard.}}
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: {{spoiler|Literally. It's the Bird.}}
* [[Interface Screw]]: Turns the lights off at one point, requiring Atlas and P-Body to use night vision. {{spoiler|Immediately turns the lights back on, blinding them.}}
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=== Greg ===
{{quote|''"Hold on. (Unintelligible Muttering) Alright, my assistant Greg tells me none of that's true. Got excited.''|'''Cave Johnson''', on Greg}}
 
Greg is Cave Johnson's put-upon assistant, introduced in ''The Perpetual Testing Initiative'' DLC. He never directly appears or speaks, but most of the new test chamber dialogue involves Cave being corrected by Greg about various logical fallacies Cave believes in (such as confusing alternate universes with time travel). According to Cave, Greg was responsible for coming up with the idea for the Perpetual Testing Initiative.
 
* [[Creepy Child]]: Greg has a daughter who likes to sneak into Cave's office and talk to the test subjects. Cave calls her "Greg's Creepy Daughter".
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=== Alternate Cave Johnsons ===
Introduced in the ''The Perpetual Testing Initiative'', there are alternate universe versions of Cave Johnson who will talk to you, which forces the real Cave Johnson to use a [[Catch Phrase]] ("Chariots," later "chariots, chariots") to differentiate from the others.
 
* [[Ancient Tradition]]: Cave of Aperture Rituals is presiding over one of these in order to prevent the end of the world. It involves hiring astronauts, war heroes and olympians to make love to a giant bird.
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== Cut Characters ==
'''Mel''' was originally supposed to be the main character of Portal 2, then the co-op player 2 character alongside Chell. She was discarded when the creators decided robots would suit the chaotic, often death-filled nature of co-op mode better.
 
'''Betty''' or the '''Gyroscopic Liability Absolver and Disk Operating System''', was a personality core who would appear at the beginning of each test chamber in the original Portal 2, which took place in the past, to rattle off legal jargon in regards to the dangers of testing. Her role was mostly replaced by that of the Announcer.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]
 
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