Portal: The Lore Behind GLaDOS 

Just saw this video and was about to comment that she was way back in the late 50's and decided to look if someone wrote it first. good job on an informative video. love it.

You should probably pin this.

It is, *ACCEPTABLE*

bring the cat to work day?

Dony tell my secrets

It's like they needed smart scientists and also idiots so they could lower the wage of employees, the results are Aperture

Just like the Old World Blues DLC from the Fallout New Vegas.

That's our current situation now. 😬

oh man there are so many examples from history of exactly that, nazi, japanese medical experiments, literally half of wallstreet and CEOs of major corporations.

Intelligence represents knowledge, Wisdom represents general intelligence, therefore low wisdom proves stupidity.

I’ve always thought the same about her being angry and not having been given a choice. What did they expect to have happen?

Nice theory

Didn't we destroy those cores at the end of the first game, though? She was still trying to kill us when we revived her... lol. I think the body for her core had that effect on her, since it seemed to also have that effect on Wheatley.

@@ember-brandt Well yeah, the reason the cores were installed in the first place was because she immediately started trying to murder people. The last core installed stopped her from flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, and destroying the Curiosity Core gave her the ability to use the neurotoxin again.

@@ember-brandt But the body definitely has something to do with it. Probably power madness from having access to the entire facility and all the information in the system.

Finally, someone remembers the _Lab Rat_ comic exists.

@@ember-brandt yeah its weird this video only speaks about certain things from the comic but forgets she had the highest tenacity and wasn't chosen for her intelligence at all she is just really stubborn edit: i mean even wheatly says she might have brain damage which means a lot coming from he he was literally engineered to be a moron!

dog ratmaon

I mean he didn't say she was the smartest only that she was smarter

Yeah - I'd agree with that.

The dark side of that is shouldn't she go back to being evil when she's plugged back into the system? Or is the system changed in some way by the end of Portal 2? I'm playing through it now again so I guess I'll find out lol

@@melissagola3786 she goes badk but GLaDOS decided thqt enough was enough

"I don't want your damn lemons" :D

What am I supposed to do with these?!

"Demand to see life's manager!" Cave Johnson, the only Karen people like

I thought you typed "demons"

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Agreed!

Games then: great games you can just install and enjoy Games now: unfinished, buggy games with fuckton of expensive DLCs you have to buy to not miss any good feature That's your reason why old games are still relevant.

Yeah...its amazing how much video games impact some of ours lives... But this one is a real experience. Its more memorable than the generic alien invasion half life series.

I've played all the games and read all the comics

@@adrianostrowski6431 You haven't been in the indie scene it seems

Portal 2 or 1? @Ian Barr

I'm pretty sure it was consensual. As Skyrion stated, her life was science, and Cave Johnson said that'd hed like Caroline to be uploaded if he died before the technology is ready. I'd think she went along with it to follow the want of Cave Johnson. What ended up happening is her being part of the system and now a AI, she isn't thinking as her own human self. She's thinking like a machine

@@reeferbrownie4220 Who knows, there's a cut audio of Caroline saying she doesn't want something but it was cut for a reason.

No shit Sherlock?

GLaPOS for a while. P = *"Potato"*

@@simpleinverso8628 Yes shit

@@epsilonadept7301 take your like and get out!

@@simpleinverso8628 give my dislike and lose in

Well I desreve cake! She promesed it and instead tried to kill me. I'm not hugging her.

Me same i wanna hug her for giving portal gunnnnns

Well I mean you can... if you wish to experience deadly neurotoxin

Well if you finished portal 2 *spoilers* She deleted carolen. Idc how you spell it.

@@scout5988 *_Caroline_*

I see what you did there ;)

Glad you enjoyed!

Guess what fanfictions are for.

@@BrunoBluthgeld For r34?

@@marcinwitkowski217 Przez kretynizmy i zboczone fantazje długo postrzegałem fikcję fanowską jako zupełny śmietnik. Potem przekonałem się, że są w tym bagnie i prawdziwe perełki. Koniec końców wszystko zależy czego się szuka.

Thank you very much!

I passed that test so many times.

@@glados3198 😂

@@glados3198 These Tests arent hard for robot to learn, idea: give wheatley that test, if He fails, *burn him*

I know your comment was a year ago but in the extra art therapy co op chambers glados said she lied about 50,000 years passing or even 10,000, i forgot what it was about

No worries :D Thanks for watching!

It was thousands, not trillions. Where the hell did you get trillions from?

@@Vessel767 Well, some people in this comment section haven’t actually played the game. If Rene played the game, she’d know that Wheatley says that it’s been and I quote: *”50,000 years.”*

Why would anyone believe that Wheatley can accurately count years?

@@UsenameTakenWasTaken well it definitely wasn't trillions of years, that's just common sense.

@@Vessel767 Do you know how hyperboles works?

Not likely, you pretty much destroy the combine in half-life 2 and portal 2 takes place thousands of years later. But maybe a half-life+portal crossover is still possible since Gordon freeman is still working for the gman. Maybe his next job might be to help chell get back into apeture labs or maybe to chelp her find civilization?

not, its because Wheatley is an idio

Glados became good because of Caroline. Also Caroline's consciousness is in glados mind programmed, that also means inside the potato. This also explains why she could recognise Cave Johnson in the old facility. Wheatley became evil because he is an idiot and after loosing everything he has nothing more left than to say sorry. Without Caroline glados would've never helped chell and she would've just used her to get back in power and let chell die in space afterwards

@@prometheus5218 no, GLaDOS became good when Caroline wasn't in her body.

@@prometheus5218 and he did admit that he wasn't sorry because he was stranded in space

@@bpnbeckeroo no, she said how she recognised Caroline and started talking at the same time as her when she wasn't connected to the mainframe, and that it's her consciousness and later states the voice in her head is "finally MY voice". Wheatley went mad because of the power of the mainframe and itch to test built into it. She claimed to delete Caroline but it's pretty obvious she didn't, especially cause Caroline isn't just an add-on to GLaDOS, but a big part of her, and let Chel leave alive. It's pretty obviously seen Caroline is the good part of GLaDOS, especially cause she's nice to Chel, but when she supposedly "deletes" Caroline, she acts colder again.

@@TheColourOfFear hm?

The Rattmann comics say it was Bring Your Cat to Work Day. There's some conflicting information out there.

Bring Your Daughter To Work Day was in the 90s and the first time GLaDOS was switched on, and Bring Your Cat To Work Day was in 2004 around HL1's timeframe and was the time GLaDOS tricked the scientists into giving her neurotoxin to perform the Schrodinger's Cat experiment and took over the facility for good, weeks later the Resonance Cascade occurs.

@@damonnugent1993 this guy knows his stuff 👍

@@damonnugent1993 Then what is the science fair we see in-game? The one where we see Chell's name on a poster board. Wouldn't that have been taken down since the 90s? Conflicting info is right!

You are not a greater entity against glados, peasant

Cats suck anyway

@@cunnieseverywhere they kinda are tho if they actually played portal where you actually kill her

@@genola2441 i dont think an ai smarter than einstein would do such a horrible design for a rocket turret

@@cunnieseverywhere I am now oFfEnDeD that you are agreeing with the cat killer 2000

More to come!

Still alive!

Welcome aboard! We have a discord too :) (Mostly talk about Fable but we could do with more Half-Life/ Portal people in there) Link is in the desciption.

I'm glad you could find the channel! I post Portal/ Half-Life lore every other Friday :)

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching it!

somewhere in portal 2, glados says that in the list of test subjects there was a man and a woman with chells last name. and chells full name is chell johnson. then theres cave johnson but idk who the mother is. tbh it probably is caroline because she was closest to cave. edit: its around the end of chapter 3.

That doesn’t explain why GLaDOS tries to constantly kill her. In both games literally straight up tries to throw her in the pit or suffocate her with the neurotoxin. You would think if Caroline was still in there , GLaDOS subconscious would tell her to stop don’t kill my daughter.

@@eden20111 but GLaDOS is completely insane, and the modifications made to her consciousness would have almost silenced the original caroline. plus if GLaDOS really wanted to kill Chel, she could have just not moved the elevators, or not given her the portal gun in the first place

@@eden20111 GlaDOS having control over an entire underground facility would be extremely easy to kill a single human in there. For example, While Chell is inside a test chamber why couldn't GlaDOS just crush the test chamber along with Chell? Or just tricking Chell with giving her an exit at the end when in reality it was a huge room that simulated the outside all the while with trace amounts of neurotoxin. Or simply remove the White portal panels and only use black ones, then either crush her, poison her, shoot her or whatever. There are lots of ways GlaDOS could have killed Chell throughout the game, In portal 1 where you get nearly thrown into the incinerator, Why would she put white portal walls in the incinerator room? If not simply for the portal gun. Besides, In a few Canon and Semi-Canon music/songs from Portal, it sometimes hints at GlaDOS feeling bad about the stuff she did. Which is why she deleted Caroline because with Caroline GlaDOS could think on her actions with a more humane view. With GlaDOS deleting Caroline just proves she doesn't want to think about what she did and simply wants to keep to her robotically cold thinking. Even in Portal 2 when you are just at the part where you go back up to the normal test facilities with Wheatley, She says something along the lines: "This is the first time I am thinking for myself with a normal point of view and honestly... It scares me." I could go on for entire paragraphs but I got school in the morning and I don't want to be too late.

@tr3v0r I mean GlaDOS mocks Chell for being adopted so she could be Caroline’s biological daughter and Cave Johnson just forced someone to adopt her, like Rattman

Yeah but there’s no more story, Chell either dies to the wild head crabs or the combine and GLaDOS just does what she did before chell

@@troglodyte280 Chell meets up with Alyx and Glados takes over black mesa

Thank you! So kind!

Chell left Aperture, it’d be difficult to make a game where everything has already been solved.

@@itsclemtime2357 We have community mods like portal stories mel

1: they can count to alyx, not 3 2: if a portal 3 was made, it would be either about the birds GLaDOS has now or chell coming back to aparture because outside is hl

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@@JocaPlays87 there's nothing left, she has to survive off of wheat without even a rock to grind it and no milk or water to make bread

Genetic Life-form and Disc Operating System

@@stonedtaka6057 so yes?

@@shivertron yes!

@@stonedtaka6057 I see...

Sounds like a good day to me.. except for the whole murderous robot thing.

@@Skyrionn I mean yeah, that's a bit of a problem.

Wasn’t it “bring your KID to work day”?

Thank you so much!

Think about that, over 50,000 years reliving your extremely painful and horrifying death over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and over, AND over again till you have officially lost your mind, and gained a burning hatred of the pesky little human that fried you billions of times over.

It's implied that she was forced into it.

@@Skyrionn not implied, * directly stated *. *“No, no! I don’t want this. Do you hear me? I DON’T WANT THIS!”* -voice-recording of Caroline, During one of the Old Aperture levels, shortly before returning to New Aperture.

I thought that voiceline was taken out of the game?

@@Skyrionn maybe on PC, but my early Xbox 360 copy still has it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s still canon.

Eigenmishi in 3D it came from how long chell was asleep In portal 2

It is contested. Some say it isn’t. I personally believe it’s around 50~

@@nyarlathotep4889 i thought it was sooner, because when she escapes she’s in a wheat field, which means the combine have probably been kicked out of earth, since someone has planted all the wheat crop near aperture and let it grown. and portal one takes place just after the invasion (2003~) which means she would’ve been asleep for like 20

Thanks for watching!

Actually,i think that APERTURE SCIENCE made the gravity gun AND IT WAS STOLEN by black mesa

Thank you! The cake is absolutely not a lie.

What if it was? What if it was vanilla, not chocolate?

@@emithelastidiot1817 what if it was made of cotton *NO NOT COTTON CANDY-*

The Rattmann comic says its bring your cat to work day. Seems like there may be some conflicting information.

@@Skyrionn ah. i havent actually read the comic. my apologies

Oh you absolutely should! It's worth a read!

@@Skyrionn I have been meaning to get around to it, but it always happens to come up right before I end up fading from the fandom for a while

Portal 2 really is a great looking game!

Thanks, will do!

it's the ending

It's in the Portal 2 co-op DLC :D

I'm glad you keep coming back!

There were two events where she tried to kill everyone. The lore contradicts itself with the game, and the comics

@@Skyrionn oh ok

Yeah, I made that one. It's in the playlist somewhere :)

@@Skyrionn wow fast reply ill go watch thay now

Thanks

During her time in Aperture, the planet was invaded by an Alien force called The Combine. Its the same universe as Half-life.

@@Skyrionn yeah , but I mean the thing with the robot test subjects and vault of human test subjects and the crows, I don't remember that part

Ohhh, it's dlc for the Portal 2 co-op

@@Skyrionn oh ok , thanks a lot and good luck in your future videos ✌