Portal (series)/Memes

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"The Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice." ^[1]
"You will be baked, and then there will be cake." ^[2]
- "Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an "unsatisfactory" mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck!"
- "Speedy thing goes in, speedy things comes out."
  - "Wheeeeeeeeeeeee..."
- "When the testing is over, you will be... 'missed'!"
- "Someday we'll remember this and laugh, and laugh, and laugh. O-oh-oh boy."
- "You're not smart. You're not a scientist. You're not a doctor. You're not even a full-time employee."
- "I think we can put our differences behind us. For Science!. You Monster!."
- "We're going to have fun... with Science!"
- "Don't disappoint me... or I'll make you wish you could die..."
"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction..." ^[3]
- "Look at me still [verb]ing when there's science to do"
- "...and when you're dead I will be Still Alive."
"Now You're [Verb]ing With Portals", "Now You're Thinking With [Noun]s." ^[4]
The Cake Is a Lie the cake is a lie the cake is a lie---- ^[5]
- "I wonder if the pancakes will be a lie too?" ^[6]
"Cave Johnson here/Cave Johnson, we're done here." ^[7]
- "That is not a panel. That's a crusher. We sell them too." ^[8]
- "That's 65 percent more bullet per bullet."
- When life gives you lemons, burn down life's house. WITH THE LEMONS. ^[9]
  - I don't want lemons, I want pictures of Spider-Man! ^[10]
- "The Solution? ROBOTS! Then... fire the guys who made those robots and build BETTER robots!"
  - "BAM! Robots gave us six extra seconds of co-operation. Good job, robots!"
- "Science isn't about "why?". It's about "why not?"!"
- "Chariots chariots." ^[11]
"How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato." ^[12]
"Space space go to space so much space gotta see it all." "SPAAAAAAAAAACE!" ^[13]
- "Dad, I'm in space." "I'm proud of you, son." "Dad, are you space?" "Yes. Now we are a family again."
  - "Space is boring. Gotta go back to earth."
- "Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey lady. Lady. Space."
"This should be its own holiday. EXPLOSION DAY!" ^[14]
- "Yeah, you know, I'm a black belt. In pretty much everything. Karate, Larate, Jiu Jitsu, Kick-punching, belt making, Taekwondo... Bedroom." ^[15]
- "DUNDUNDANDUNDUN PLAYING BY OUR OWN RULES NANANA HANGING BY OUR FINGERS FROM A MOUNTAIN DUNDANDANDANDAN" ^[16]
They told me, that if I ever [insert action here], I would DIE! ^[17]
"Well, this is the part where [insert action here]".^[18]
- "Hello, this is the part where [insert action here]!"
  - Ch. 9: The Part Where [insert action here].
  - Achievement Unlocked: The Part Where [insert action here].
  - Achievement Description: This is that part.
And I-AH! BIRD! BIRD! BIRD! BIRD! ^[19]
- AH! BIRD! KILL IT! It's evil...^[20]
Holmes vs Moriarty! Aristotle vs... MASHY SPIKE PLATE! ^[21]
"I! AM NOT! A MORON!" ^[22]
- "COULD A MORON DO [insert action here]?!"
Fact: everything said by the Fact Core is a meme. ^[23]
When drawing Wheatley as a human, he most often looks like Stephen Merchant (Wheatley's voice actor).

Back to Portal (series)

↑ In one level GLaDOS gives the player a Weighted Storage Cube that had to be carried through the level. Playtesters would often leave the cube behind and get stumped, so Valve gave the cube a Palette Swap and had GLaDOS talk about the cube constantly. As a result many players became incredibly attached to the cube and some even gave it a Memetic Badass status. Also a Trope Namer.
↑ GLaDOS, resident Ninja Butterfly/Mission Control/Big Bad, is an immensely popular Fountain of Memes for her dark, dark comedy, with nearly every single one of her lines repeated or mutated in some form. Some other examples are listed below. Note that this example is what shows up in the subtitles, but you hear the full line.
↑ The closing credits song of the first game, "Still Alive", is also immensely popular, with lines often taken out of context, most notably "This was a triumph" etcetera in response to anything good.
↑ From the advertising campaign, "Now you're thinking with portals". Often used when someone thinks of a weird but ultimately successful solution to a problem. The phrase may have originated from Nintendo slogan "Now you're playing with power!". One of GLaDOS' lines in Portal 2 co-op, when a robot dies, is "Now you're thinking with stupidity".
↑ Both GLaDOS and the escapee Doug Rattmann are a little cake obsessed, and later in the game there is a room where the phrase is written over and over again. Used when something is an obvious scam or whenever cake is mentioned. This one is definitely a Discredited Meme; using it in most Internet circles will get people seriously annoyed and in certain places probably get you banned.
↑ In the second Aperture Investment Opportunity video, "Bot Trust", the two robots are seen pancake-flipping. Cue Youtube comments like this. Unforunately, the pancakes were indeed a lie, as none appeared in the game in any fashion.
↑ Cave Johnson, resident Crazy Awesome Mad Corporate Executive, is a Fountain of Memes to challenge even GLaDOS, and though not all of his lines became memes it is damn close. This one is used at the beginning and end of all four of the Aperture Investment Opportunity videos.
↑ With snowclones: "That's not a <noun>. That's a <different noun>. We sell them, too."
↑ Cave's final pre-recorded message has him deliver an epic rant subverting the typical "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" idiom. It is widely believed he actually managed to do this.
↑ J.K. Simmons, the voice of Cave Johnson, also played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films, resulting in a lot of Hey, It's That Voice! moments and subsequent jokes such as these.
↑ From the over half hour of additional dialogue added with the Infinite Testing Initiative (read: user-designed test chambers). Cave first says that due to the multiversal nature of the program, he'll precede all of his messages with "chariots" so the tester knows it's Earth Prime Cave. When he realizes there's a universe where his counterpart for no discernible reason says "Chariots" before his sentences, he adds another one on for good measure.
↑ About halfway through Portal 2 GLaDOS gets attached to a potato, and says this. Also known as "PotatOS", taken from the developer commentary.
↑ One of the corrupted cores that have to be attached to the final boss of Portal 2, the "Space Sphere", is obsessed with space, and constantly streams lines like these.
↑ Another of the corrupted cores, the "Adventure Sphere", is not as popular, but has still managed to achieve Memetic Badass status, with jokes such as "Saxton Hale in sphere form".
↑ The sphere also openly flirts with Chell, managing to achieve minor Memetic Sex God status as a result as well.
↑ Rick the Adventure Core's "theme song".
↑ Wheatley was always told that if he performed just about any action, he would die.
↑ A parody of the infamous "This is the part where he kills you" scene in Portal 2, where the first two lines are spoken, then the chapter title appears, then the achievement is unlocked with its description, all saying variations of the same line. Upon the soundtrack's release, it was revealed that even the music track title was shown to follow this.
↑ Wheatley's line when he gets attacked by a bird.
↑ GLaDOS doesn't like birds either.
↑ Said by Wheatley when he tries desperately to make it look like he's your intellectual equal.
↑ Wheatley really doesn't like being called a "moron".
↑ The Fact Core's numerous inaccurate "facts" have become something of a meme.

[1] In one level GLaDOS gives the player a Weighted Storage Cube that had to be carried through the level. Playtesters would often leave the cube behind and get stumped, so Valve gave the cube a Palette Swap and had GLaDOS talk about the cube constantly. As a result many players became incredibly attached to the cube and some even gave it a Memetic Badass status. Also a Trope Namer.

[2] GLaDOS, resident Ninja Butterfly/Mission Control/Big Bad, is an immensely popular Fountain of Memes for her dark, dark comedy, with nearly every single one of her lines repeated or mutated in some form. Some other examples are listed below. Note that this example is what shows up in the subtitles, but you hear the full line.

[3] The closing credits song of the first game, "Still Alive", is also immensely popular, with lines often taken out of context, most notably "This was a triumph" etcetera in response to anything good.

[4] From the advertising campaign, "Now you're thinking with portals". Often used when someone thinks of a weird but ultimately successful solution to a problem. The phrase may have originated from Nintendo slogan "Now you're playing with power!". One of GLaDOS' lines in Portal 2 co-op, when a robot dies, is "Now you're thinking with stupidity".

[5] Both GLaDOS and the escapee Doug Rattmann are a little cake obsessed, and later in the game there is a room where the phrase is written over and over again. Used when something is an obvious scam or whenever cake is mentioned. This one is definitely a Discredited Meme; using it in most Internet circles will get people seriously annoyed and in certain places probably get you banned.

[6] In the second Aperture Investment Opportunity video, "Bot Trust", the two robots are seen pancake-flipping. Cue Youtube comments like this. Unforunately, the pancakes were indeed a lie, as none appeared in the game in any fashion.

[7] Cave Johnson, resident Crazy Awesome Mad Corporate Executive, is a Fountain of Memes to challenge even GLaDOS, and though not all of his lines became memes it is damn close. This one is used at the beginning and end of all four of the Aperture Investment Opportunity videos.

[8] With snowclones: "That's not a <noun>. That's a <different noun>. We sell them, too."

[9] Cave's final pre-recorded message has him deliver an epic rant subverting the typical "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" idiom. It is widely believed he actually managed to do this.

[10] J.K. Simmons, the voice of Cave Johnson, also played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films, resulting in a lot of Hey, It's That Voice! moments and subsequent jokes such as these.

[11] From the over half hour of additional dialogue added with the Infinite Testing Initiative (read: user-designed test chambers). Cave first says that due to the multiversal nature of the program, he'll precede all of his messages with "chariots" so the tester knows it's Earth Prime Cave. When he realizes there's a universe where his counterpart for no discernible reason says "Chariots" before his sentences, he adds another one on for good measure.

[12] About halfway through Portal 2 GLaDOS gets attached to a potato, and says this. Also known as "PotatOS", taken from the developer commentary.

[13] One of the corrupted cores that have to be attached to the final boss of Portal 2, the "Space Sphere", is obsessed with space, and constantly streams lines like these.

[14] Another of the corrupted cores, the "Adventure Sphere", is not as popular, but has still managed to achieve Memetic Badass status, with jokes such as "Saxton Hale in sphere form".

[15] The sphere also openly flirts with Chell, managing to achieve minor Memetic Sex God status as a result as well.

[16] Rick the Adventure Core's "theme song".

[17] Wheatley was always told that if he performed just about any action, he would die.

[18] A parody of the infamous "This is the part where he kills you" scene in Portal 2, where the first two lines are spoken, then the chapter title appears, then the achievement is unlocked with its description, all saying variations of the same line. Upon the soundtrack's release, it was revealed that even the music track title was shown to follow this.

[19] Wheatley's line when he gets attacked by a bird.

[20] GLaDOS doesn't like birds either.

[21] Said by Wheatley when he tries desperately to make it look like he's your intellectual equal.

[22] Wheatley really doesn't like being called a "moron".

[23] The Fact Core's numerous inaccurate "facts" have become something of a meme.

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