Wheatley



Wheatley, as known as the Intelligence Dampening Sphere, is a Personality Core of male programming and English West Country accent who first appears in Portal 2. He is Chell's guide through the first part of the game, and helps her to find away to escape the facility.

Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian Stephen Merchant.

Trivia

 * Video game-wise, Wheatley appears to be an upgraded version of GLaDOS' Intelligence Core (the one telling the cake recipe), with a blue "eye" and three dots, though Wheatley has dots only on his right side. From early screenshots and the Portal 2 E3 teaser trailer, the model also appears to have been greatly improved and more detailed, with a wider range of emotions.


 * Wheatley's heard in the "Meet Wheatley" video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by Valve animator Richard Lord. Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official. Later Lord himself emphasized that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - im over teh moon with who it might be." [sic], until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.