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* [[All That Glitters]]: Done sarcastically by GLaDOS at one point near the end of the Co-Op campaign. Where she claims that even though {{spoiler|she'll get all the credit for rescuing the humans}} the bots still have the trust they formed throughout the test.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The ''Lab Rat'' tie-in comic bridges the gap between the two games, as well as resolving the fate of the mysterious "Ratman" who scribbled on the walls. It also provides a lot of backstory, if you read between the lines, offering a possibility for where GLaDOS got the neurotoxin to begin with and explaining why Ratman drew cats on the walls in the sequel. {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS claimed to be experimenting with Schrodinger's Cat.}}
* [[Alternate Reality Game]]: Continuing from the changes to ''Portal'', on [[April Fools' Day]] 2011, the plot thickened with "[http://valvearg.com/wiki/Valve_ARG_Wiki PotatoFoolsDay]", in which 13 indie games on Steam (the Potato Sack Pack, including ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'', ''[[Audiosurf]]'', ''[[Bit.Trip|BIT.TRIP BEAT]]'', ''[[Defense Grid the Awakening]]'', ''[[Killing Floor]]'', ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]'' and ''[[AaaaaAaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! a- Aaaa AA Aaa AAA Aa AAAAAAA Reckless Disregard Forfor Gravity]]'') saw the in-game appearance of cryptic messages and/or graphics, eventually culminating in a hostile takeover of the games' universes by GLaDOS herself, using their powers to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110424105558/http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/ initiate a boot sequence]. However, she required additional CPU power to do so. If players could generate that power by playing the games, the Steam release date would be bumped up. They succeeded in knocking off about ten hours from the original time.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The [[Excuse Plot]] for the PeTI DLC is that Aperture is nearly bankrupt, so to save on test chamber construction costs, they sneak the designs into an Aperture in an [[Alternate Universe]], let ''them'' build it, then steal it back. In nearly every one of these alternate universes, Cave Johnson is still CEO/Prison Warden/Matriarch/Whatever of Aperture (except for one where it's Doug Rattman).
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Apparently, the moon rock poisoning Cave Johnson was afflicted with is a real hazard. Lunar dust is just as destructive to human lungs as [[Irony|asbestos]], which means like Cave, you will suffer a slow, horrible death if you breathe too much of the stuff in. The effects are similar to silicosis, symptoms of which are displayed by Cave.