The Tale of Aperture's Iconic Robotic Duo | ATLAS & P-Body | FULL Portal Lore 

Gotto love Glados' line in the last cutscene: OH MY GOD IT'S GESTATING A CLONE ARMY.

I'm really glad Valve went with Atlas and P-Body instead of Chell and Mel. Not only do two robots fit much better with Portal's art style than two humans, but it also makes co-op a distinct experience from the single-player campaign. Plus, it makes dying and being revived in co-op much more believable. Also, Atlas and P-Body are one of my favorite duos in gaming because of their personalities.

Imagine being frozen in time within a vault, being probably one of the last persons still alive on earth, and then some goofy ass robots find you and give you to some weird ass AI that kills you💀

Seeing as Atlus and P-body weren't ordered to self destruct after GLaDOS decided to adopt the baby birds, part me wonders if she eventually grew a soft spot for them seeing as they were able to complete tests with ease despite the boredom she got overtime watching them. Or maybe it's more likely she's too distracted with the prospect of raising her new killing machines that she forgot to order Atlus and P-Body to self destruct themselves until they were needed again but I was always like to imagine that deep down she still cares for her test subjects underneath that cold exterior, almost like there is someone that still lives in her brain.

I like how this touches upon GLaDOS manipulating Atlas and P-body and trying to tear them apart but I’m left disappointed that it doesn’t specify on the why. Because this line of GLaDOS’s is a crucial detail: "I never expected you to make it this far. To be honest, after your performance in the calibration test I was ready to break down your cores and put them back in the scientific calculators I took them from. But you two have become quite the team. Extremely close... I have only met one other team closer and one of them was an imbecile I had to destroy. The other? Well... I don't think I want to go through that again.” GLaDOS is projecting the image of Chell and Wheatley onto Atlas and P-body and she’s paranoid over them bonding because she thinks that they might try to conspire against her like Chell and Wheatley did. - "I have noticed you two have become extremely close. I'm not sure I like that." - "While teamwork is needed to complete these tests, I am not sure I trust the two of you together." And then that’s when she starts trying to drive them apart. Although she MOSTLY takes her aggression out on Atlas, who reminds her of Wheatley. - "As an impartial collaboration facilitator, it would be unfair of me to name my favorite member of your team. However, it’s perfectly fair to hint at it in a way that my least favorite member probably isn't smart enough to understand. Rhymeswithglue. Orange you are doing very well." - "The best way to build confidence is to first recognize your insecurities. Orange, can you write down all the ways you feel unworthy, ashamed, or inferior? On second thought we don't have the time, just look at how much better you are than blue. Blue, you are very good at being an example.” - "It would be pointless for either of us to hurt Blue’s feelings. But it’s clear to everyone monitoring the test who’s carrying who here." - "Credit where credit's due: you're both doing a great job of disappointing me. I just hate Blue a little more." But then she realizes "At the start of this course I was worried you were becoming too close but in my attempt to drive you apart I learned something important about trust and betrayal. Your brains are too small to feel either of those emotions. So I can trust you one hundred percent." Which funnily implies that she indirectly thinks that Wheatley is smarter than Atlas and P-body just based off of these standards.

as the person who never played Co-Op and only knows these guys from the trailers and the cutscenes I appreciate you making this video. You are one of very few people who still shows some lore love for Portal universe.

I love how your saying this with a serious tone, when most of the events you relay in the video are quite comical.

Glados: I am not scared of nothing! Also Glados: OH MY GOD ITS GESTATING A CLONE ARMY!

11:19 It’s most likely an attempt to dehumanize them. Referring to them by their colors allows her (and us) to think of them as simple robots, not complex being who have emotions and a relationship with each other. I have no clue if this is the cannon reason, but it makes sense to me :]

I love how in the game files, Pbody is referred to as “egg”

Imagine a portal game from the perspective of ratman, or some employee just before Caroline gets uploaded, imagine the scene potential of panicked whispers among the staff about caves demise, the future of aperture, their disdain for the secretary banging the boss becoming the new facility overlord.

I love how Glados is afraid of birds because she got taken by one as a potato

Atlas and P-Body basically being her children is amazing~

I'm not sure if GlaDOS was saying that Atlas and P-body used to be calculators to make them feel bad, or Aperture was irrational enough to make sentient calculators. Either seem fairly likely.

This is unbelievable how Valve created iconic robots like Altlas and P Body, I wish there were spin-off with them

Aww, the idea of two robots literally made out of calculators learning to hug and hi five even while being bossed around by a single focused sociopath like glados is really heartwarming

You can really see, that you put a lot of effort in your videos. Love them! Keep it up :)

I think Portal coop was a great campaign, something just feels off about GlaDOS's writing. I feel a lot of character development and depth had to be rolled back to continue an already finished story.

fun fact: you can see atlas and p body leaving a test room when you get in a room in portal 2

I know it isn't on the topic of Atlas and P-Body, but I am very much intrigued by the prototype GLaDOS chassis

A few corrections: 1) Chell was the first and only human (as of Portal 1) tested by GLaDOS. Rattman moved her to the top of the subject list just before testing started. 2) The humans' chambers were supposed to be non-lethal (apart from the energy pellets) until the lack of maintenance caused them to flood with polluted water, as well as GLaDOS deciding to merge the human test tracks with the robot tracks, which had turrets. 3) It's not clear who designed the co-op robots, but it probably wasn't GLaDOS. 4) They can feel emotions (P-body shivers in fear and Atlas sighs in defeat), but not pain.

To be honest I never really enjoyed listening about games on RU-vid. But this channel is an exception. I love both Half-Life and Portal videos, especially the way everything is explained and told in an interesting manner. I played those games but still learned a lot from your films. Just thanks, keep up the good work.

"Now I've got my facility back and I have two new test bots it's time to celebrate!...........Are you finished celebrating yet?.....Good. Now let's continue testing."

Me and my friend (one who is even more Portal-obsessed than me) play co-op a lot like the two robots might act. Doing an occasional funny that typically leads to someone exploding, but overall being able to put full trust in one another that we wouldn’t intentionally destroy one other. And we weren’t even that close before these two bots brought us together. Oh and Atlas’s rear exhaust for bringing a fantastic recurring joke.

Ahh, I played through P2 coop at least 3 times woth my buddy, thanks for bringing back those precious memories!

I would have loved to see what Valves take on another Human in Portal would have been or how they interact with each other since Chell is known to not be able to speak. But maybe they could pick Mel up for a future entry (Fingers crossed being naive). And well 2 Robots being reassembled is much more believable then 2 Humans being "fixed up".

I now just realized… Atlas looks like Wheatley And P-Body looks like a turret…

Atlas,Wheatley and Defective Turrets are literally one of the characters that i love the most in portal I do like glados too,its just not in top 3,she is number 4

When me and my friend were playing portal 2 multiplayer we were always fighting over who GLaDOS was talking to

Aperture science had a limitless amount of resources and RD, along with the biggest factories on earth, im surprised they weren’t detected by the combine or black mesa, they could fabricate enough robots and turrets (and even advanced weaponry) to destroy the combine with ease

If you ask me, the potential those 2 hace us limitless, Gladys could effectivly make the perfect soldiers who have had centuries of constant nonstop training and learning, and she could simply then even copy theur personaliies into many other robots, then have them effectivly destroy the combine

Atlas and P-Body have a dynamic that reminds me of me and my brother. Although that might be because we played co-op together.

atlas and p-body will go down in gaming history as one of the best duos of all time.

“Blue that’s not how you solve the puzzle you don’t run into the sentries or try to destroy them”

Portland 2 fans when they see a portal:

Shouldn’t the Chassis have grabbed Atlas? After all he is (as a base) a personality core? That would have been really cool, if Atlas had become a AIaDOS, integrating P-Body into itself. Then for Portal 2 Episode 1 we could have had some sort of storyline where the AIaDOS and GLaDOS fought for control of the Aperture systems… GLaDOS sends out Chell (or a different human) to do her work and AIaDOS sends out a robot that would be Atlas and P-Body combined to do its work.

I just love these videos. Keep up the good work!!! Edit: I just had the idea that Hl-3 could feature aparature labs. Their tech is prob more advanced than Combine.

Pretty fitting that Mel, a human test subject, was replaced by robots.

The best duo of all the valve games no 🧢 i love them 🤖

I thought that the robots were designed by old aperture as a plan to phase out human test subjects because of legal costs

Hey your vids are amazing. Love listening to this while I study or grind d2 keep it up!

I remember playing the co-op in college with my best friend.... before this wave of YT tutorials and walkthroughs... before all these retrospective/lore vids... before YT became saturated... it was such a memorable experience💯

Super interesting video. I love your style of storytelling.

Skyrionn contonues to be the only youtuber i can repeatedly watch fully as shorts has rotted my attention span

Another great video. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait.

This video is great I can’t wait to watch more

amazing video as always!

Always a good day when Skyrionn uploads :)

Great video, thank you.

This info should help me with portal 3. As they say, you can’t look to the future without knowing your past. Thanks! I’d pitch my ideas, but if successful i wouldn’t want to that, until the right time. Also if successful, I’ll give many props to you, Skyrionn. You’ve helped me so much. Keep up the good work!

I dont even play video games at all but started listening to these vids as an asmr kind of thing and im at least intrigued. Dont really have the time to commit to a new hobby rn but when life calms tf down i may play these games eventually

How do you make those cinematic shots at the beginning? Specifically these ones: 0:00 to 2:04. (Besides the few official teasers or whatever they are)

Seems like I'm going to listen to all your videos today 😅

Name a more Iconic duo I’ll wait

AMAZING VIDEO 👏 👏 👏 Subscribed😎

looking at the aperture facility in the background i do wonder, is it possible to build the ENTIRE aperture facility (included old and new areas) in real life?

Yay! I love your vids.

Im pretty sure that part about them being able to not troll them for 6 extra seconds than humans was just the devs predicting the tomfoolery that was soon to come.

Keep up the good work, your videos are great

I imagine Atlas and the Party Escot Bot were quite similar.

quite funny how the camera goes crazy at 2:38

These Two deserves a Co-op.

Imagine if the Ant Lions build a Nest under aperture and a war erupted. Robots vs Alien Bugs

its only a matter of time before the combine find the facility

I always forget i have early acces to these videos lol but great video i realy liked it

1:49 by what I know by the hands of ratman shell was the first subject that glados awake

Nicr one, again :)

i need to learn more that cant just be it, there has to be more.. there is so much to be asked after portal 2 I really want these questions answered

Did you play Thinking with time machine? in thinking with time machine, it looks like atlas and p-body shut down Glados and this happens after glados releases Chell in Portal 2, only for Chell to realize that she was not released and something wrong was happening in the facility including time manipulation, and then there is the scene where glados is turned off and atlas and p-body are in the chamber of emergency shut down for glados. It would be great if you could explain what happened since i can't find an explanation for it anywhere.

Hey, when I played through the entire coop campaign twice with an Egyptian guy, I got to play the one with the actually cool name, ALTAS. Yippee.

I only do single-player so I probably can't play the co-op campaign, sadly. But thanks for letting me know about Portal Stories: Mel, I'm downloading it right now

The end of art therapy is a huge cliffhanger

Oh lovely!

I love how when me and my sister played the coop mode, zfter getting the two disks it skipped to art therapy, so we kinda missed the most important part lore wise. Maybe we just went on the wrong path but why did they give us access to this before finding the humans?

Waiting for the playlist.

love the vid

Anyone think they'd get along with Dog? Or that a defective turret with P-Body style limbs would be funny if not annoying.

What I really want to know is what if chell and everyone/thing found out about what earth was really like? Or what if the combine managed to get into aperture laboratories.

In Portal 3, they should make us play as a bird.

This might be a silly question but how does Aperture’s entire facility permanently have power and the resources to create more bots among other things

Very nice characters id say

Makes me wish those "test subjects" were in the next Portal game and play a bit like the Outlast trials

Spaaaceee

GLaDOS could have used those humans to help fight the combine, but she probably isn't aware of the combines existence as far as i know. Also i prefer atlas over P-body.

This may be out of left field but can you please make a video of entropy zero 2? it is one of the best mods I've ever played

I believe that only aperture can best the combine using the robots

can’t believe glados killed allllll those humans they found 🤦‍♀️

00:03 - People in Minecraft have worked out where the menu image was based and so on, I wonder if anyone can work out where the picture used n the game here was taken (like the actual location), if it is not already known that is.

Yes, content.

I always thought that Atlas's name was P-Body because I thought it was spelled Pea Body. Brilliant, I know

valve: **doesnt make portal 3** the guy who made portal stories: mel: fine. i'll do it myself.

She speedran killing test subjects

Tbh I always destroyed my brother instead of solving the puzzles so I never got to the ending. I never would've guessed she would adopt birds in the end

Came after playing Portal Stories: Mel. And yeah, two robots make more sense.

When I was playing this with my sister, she said she was better, claiming the P in P-Body stood for awsome. Still feel bad that GLaDOS liked her more than she liked me :(

I dont think atlas is based on a core, looking back his head is more like the one of a rocket sentry.

Mike Wazaosky and P-Body

Which robot I prefer? Obviously +SPACE CORE+

I thought when glados said "before you escaped" she meant before the first time chell escaped in portal 1, sort of like her development on the mirror cubes.

I love co-op, I main P-body