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* [[Actor Allusion]]:

** Stephen Merchant, co-creator of ''[[The Office]]'', voices Wheatley the Personality Sphere. The post-credits [[The Stinger|Stinger]] {{spoiler|where Wheatley is drifting in space and confessing his remorse}} resembles a confession cam sequence from his show. Similarly, although Merchant didn't play the specific character being referenced, fans of ''[[The Office]]'' might find Wheatley's later characterisation -- {{spoiler|an inept and incompetent boss whose vast delusion about his abilities is vastly undermined by the reality}} -- somewhat familiar.

** A [[Dummied Out]] voice clip has Cave Johnson talking about a test that might give you the ability to excrete spider silk from your fingers -- [[Spider-Man (film)|something J.K. Simmons is quite familiar with]].

* [[Artifact Title]]: [http://gematsu.com/2011/04/portal-2-was-originally-a-game-without-portals almost happened.]

* [[Fan Nickname]]:

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyOzzd53ssY Portal Kombat]": The release date coincided with that of ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'''s; the temptation to switch out the "M" in "Mortal" for a "P" proved to be too great. It doesn't help matters that both Noob Saibot and Scorpion have [[Finishing Move|fatalities]] involving creative use of portals, and the former's babality even involves portals.

** Before their names were confirmed, Atlas and P-body were known by their color schemes as Blue (Atlas) and Orange (P-body). They're still referred to in this way fairly often. GLaDOS also refers to them this way.

** Some of the fanbase has taken to calling the Fact Sphere "Craig", due to him stating that the world's best name is Craig.

** For those wondering, {{spoiler|there is more evidence to imply that Caroline is ''not'' Chell's biological mother, as Caroline would've hit menopause long before Chell was born. Whether or not Caroline is really deleted, though, is still up in the air.}}

** Both GLaDOS and the proper Turrets (as well as {{spoiler|Caroline}}) are voiced by [[Ellen McLain|the same person]] as in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''.

** Stephen Merchant (writer of the original ''[[The Office]]'') is Wheatley.

*** He's also in [[Hot Fuzz]] briefly as P.I. Staker...[[Hilarious in Hindsight|having problems with birds]].

*** He's also the professor in the Farmers Insurance commercials ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U1caNuhgnI Bum-ba-dum ba bum-bum-bum!])

** [[Dee Bradley Baker]] voices the co-op bots.

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** A very early version of the game, based on an internal prototype called F-Stop, was supposed to be a full prequel to ''Portal'', taking place decades before the main game and focusing on Aperture's origins, with a brand-new game mechanic that Valve absolutely loved - and without a single ''portal'' in sight. Testers, on the other hand, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|weren't so happy about the concept]], insisting on having Chell, GlaDOS and the Portal Gun in the sequel.

** Originally there were meant to be more personality cores the player would interact with apart from Wheatley. The audio commentary explains they scrapped them because there were too many, and there wasn't enough time to give each one a decent amount of characterization. Some of the cores got recycled as {{spoiler|the cores you use to corrupt Wheatley during the final battle - notably, the Space Core, the Adventure Core, and the Fact Core.}}

** [http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2029013 Some unused dialogue] found in the Portal 2 files suggests that Cave Johnson {{spoiler|didn't die before being uploaded into a computer}} much like his [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100306014536/half-life/en/images/c/cd/02622055.965.png Memo] suggests. In fact he {{spoiler|would have been stored in a cube}} similar to the companion cube and would be plugged into a wall. In order to get through to the next chamber you would need to disconnect and kill this cube {{spoiler|In fact Cave begs for death saying "My life is torture, please kill me." You would also have to climb upon his dead/dying corpse to get to the next chamber}}.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eaeZ3pzpQ One player] found that the Peer Review DLC secretly replaced the unused fourth gel with a new "Reflection Gel", which would reflect any lasers directed on to them similarly to a Redirection Cube. It was most likely cut because the cubes are far more versatile and flexible than the gel when it comes to devising puzzle solutions.

** Cut sound clips seem to indicate that the original plan was not to have a separate announcer narrate the tests before GLaDOS's revival, but recordings of GLaDOS with the exact same lines. Notably, these lines bear a stronger resemblance to her lines from early on in the first game (i.e. more cold and robotic) than the rest of her lines, suggesting a sort of audio continuity.

** [http://gematsu.com/2011/04/portal-2-was-originally-a-game-without-portals Portal 2 was going to be a game without portals.]

** In the script files for the game, there is a lot of unused dialogue, some of it pretty funny.

** Greg was originally going to appear in the main single player campaign, but was scrapped when they didn't want to waste money to hire a new voice actor for only a couple lines, and instead had Ellen McLain voice Caroline.

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