Lab Ratt | A Portal Love Letter 

Except we already know Doug's story. He worked for Aperture, and was the only one to survive GLaDOS's neurotoxin when she was activated. He moved Chell to the top of the test subject list, and then just hid. That's the entirety of his story.

PokemonTom09 But what lead to that? We don't have all the answers yet

faissialoo He just worked for Aperture Science. Knowing a person's motivations for becoming a scientist isn't exactly exciting.

You could play as an employee when cave Johnson was around.

Wayne Berg I suppose. Maybe like one of the people who was involved in the GLaDOS accident?

lol, true

No, Caroline is just a part of GLaDOS's AI. And there is a différence between making an AI and making an AI with à consciousness. The cores were basically byproducts of the research made to create GLaDOS since they were initially made to regulate her. Other robots like turrets aren't conscious. I believe the coop robots are though,but they were made after GLaDOS. At least this is my opinion.

@@eclipses6605 In my opinion, the turrets are alive in some way.

@@MrHatman26 they have been displaying a remarkable amount of sentience

FOR SCIENCE

Why? For the glory of science of course.

Well they both fucked up. But Black Mesa fucked up more. Black Mesa spawned alien portals.

The question isn't why, it's why not!!!

Aperture science, we do what we must because we can

Ikr a thin pole

I like the companion cube as it is, as it gives it more of a phillosophical meaning, an also refers to the schizophrenia of Rattmann causing it to talk.

Quad0Gaming Fair enough

Weirdo bob Oh okay.

ratman is chells father he adopted her from cave johnson and caroline johnson (Glados) only 9 year differance glitch in machine hold your applause ladies and gentleman

mmmhhmm

this was actually a remake of the comic, and the comic was created by the devs of portal,so this is pretty nice

i know, i just love how accurate the short film is to the source material. These guys really should do more with the half life/portal universe, maybe a series on Black Mesa scientists with aperture being mentioned here and there. :)

Jordan Nozzle true

***** No one knows what is she,where is she and who he is.

***** Yea,Portal and Portal 2 free on Steam.

***** No,I said that could be good.I bought it last month.

***** Yea,but I prefer Portal 2.

It's all by Johnny Ripper

I wonder what genre this music is? I know it's techno of some kind, but it seems to be more of a "reflective" type of techno. Definitely makes me feel emotions that other kinds of techno do not.

ohhhhhh

Seems like you missed it at 11:18

What a load of garbage.

Thx, Fact Core!

didn't miss it. it's all the plot from entire portal. so,its just... common

Douglas Monsert honey have you even heard of Kingdom Hearts?

Treyarch's Call of Duty Zombies.

The BioShock and Dishonored series also have some pretty complex lore behind them. Portal is tied with them, though, in my opinion. ♥

Metal fucking Gear my dude.

Douglas Monsert not really

*****​ Yea that's what I meant lol. Just didn't know how to word it :)

This video is almost interely based on the Lab Rat comic, you should check it out. It gives a lot of backstory.

I have another question when chell defeated glados and was being dragged away by a party escort bot y couldn't he just snatch chell away and run away from the bot

:>

Guess what rhymes with half life... Apature science Illuminati confirmed?

MADNESSCOMBAT10 Guess what rhymes with half-life... I dunno, but it's definitely not 3.

Guess what rhymes with half-life traffic light... :D

bigchilljosh Graph Knife

bigchilljosh Pac Racer

Lol me too

Wings of freedom

chells...

Ba dum chhhh

Same

Is it a wet dream?

Yooo I thought I was the only one who came back

It's like this fight-or-flight signal going off. That means the channel did a great job at portraying how high the stakes are, making the audience feel anxiety.

well then they probably couldnt fit the weatly refrence in.

@@liquidred257 Wheatley voice ın top of the file on screen would just work too.

yeah i know :(

Rattman was a scientist, not a test subject. Also, I highly doubt GlaDoS would ever do experiements with HUMANS ever again.

rat man is dead if they made a portal 3 they should have doned a half life 3 first or i would kill every one

Sorry but portal 3 will not happen, they are not making another portal.

A Trusted Friend In Science™ well there is gonna be another portal but under a different name. It will show what happened between the 2 parts of portal and supposedly it will be a F2P

It's actually ziprsidone without the a. In the comic, it is a medical test that they lab boys put together without doug knowing...

Scizophrantic Surviver Basically, yes

Agree all in favor !! ✋✋

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Jammy James I

Weird. It's almost as if it was supposed to look handmade. Like, if Doug had made it from a box out of loneliness and painted it. He even strung a rope through it to carry on his back at one point. And we thought we could fool you all. If only it were an deliberate choice of artistic license as if to make somebody say 'It's painfully obvious that it was made out of cardboard.' Better luck next time, I suppose.

+Synthetic PictureHaus I love that! Thats exactly how I felt.

Alasdair Husk o.0

+Synthetic PictureHaus you're right, it's a handmade cube

+0MindSwept0 Maybe it wanted to recreate the frantic sketchy nature of the comic.

@Thomas Shaw Yeah it’s my cosplay of her :)

everything here was made by the people who made this video

Ya

Because this is not some typical RU-vid short film production. Haha

Exactly. Plenty of evidence, that would explain why he's so determined to save Chell only.

But i also believe that she was adopted by Ratman and her first parents were cave johnson and caroline think about it the turret song talks about chell being caroline's baby and before you say "Thats impossible chell would be dead" remember chell was in stasis "She will be dead and alive untill someone opens the box"

Both of those theories are really farfetched. Doug wasn't really intent on keeping Chell alive, in fact, at the end of the first Portal game, Doug almost abandoned Chell. He just decided to move her to the top of the list because her profile said she was extremely resilient, so Doug figured that Chell was the best chance at defeating GLaDOS. As for the theory that she is Cave and Caroline's son: Cave died before Chell was born, or she was really young when Cave died. Cave died sometime in the 80's, and Chell was presumably less than 10 during the Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, which occurred sometime in the 90's. Which means when Chell was born, Cave was either already dead, or somewhere older than 60 and about to die.

What Dat Person Said

Effort and. Time

***** I'm not a expert on it myself but I believe that it does make you a bit mad but also creates people that aren't actually there.

***** xD

+xX5h3D0wD3m0nXx Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis in which the brain has difficulty discerning reality from fiction. Symptoms include delirium, visual and auditory hallucinations, as well as hearing voices in your head. One might believe that they are something they're not, such as the reincarnation of a celebrity, or just see/hear things constantly. Symptoms vary from person to person, but yes, it can be credited with madness.

LunarLunacy thanks, that's a better explanation.

ethanhenare1 No problem!

Or a paranoid schizophrenic suffering long-term trauma.

Well he made the companion cube. After it got incinerated

(But hey, that's just a theory. a DRISCONATOR theory!)

Or it just might look like that to him because he's ineane

Drisconator T.V. is this a fellow game theorist I see?

Chris is in hd City 17 is in Europe so its impossible for the citadel to be in america.

xXtherealchaosXx just a fun Easter egg ^^

BUT I GOTTA SAY, THAT WAS AMAZING

Evan Homestuck DON'T SPAM

Liam Benjamin i wasnt fucking spaming i posted 2 fucking comments

I've seen a lot of videos with "flashing lights" and never seen any warning (not saying there shouldn't be, I've just never seen one).

***** Which is why there should be. I think so, at least. Video games have them. Some movies do too, I believe. I think RU-vid should require to make people put in information like that, actually :) Though, I don't see as many flashing lights as Evan did. But I did see all fast cuts. That must be what he was talking about.

Since you could hear him rambling when you go in one of his dens in Portal 2 i would say so.

getwilly1 I actually doubt it. I think he died BUT you hear his ghost in that den. I say this because The audio track that plays in that room is called "Ghost of Rattman" And the voices are part of the track so... It possibly could be Rattman's ghost... (Plus he isnt behind any walls in the room, i made sure by noclipping...)

Calloffish15 First of all I highly doubt that valve would do something as stupid as saying that Rattman died and became a ghost. Second of all OBVIOUSLY you didnt see him by nocliping you're not meant to see him.

getwilly1 It was just a theory since no one actually knows. It has facts supporting it SO i just said that so i could share my idea/theory. You could be right also. ;)

I think just the fact that you can hear him speaking is proof enough o_O