Wheatley



known as Wheatley, is a personality core of masculine programming and English West Country accent who appears in the single-player campaign of Portal 2.

He serves as the game's, guiding Chell through her efforts in escaping the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.

Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian.

Portal 2








Trivia

 * Appearance-wise, Wheatley appears to be a variant 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 and possesses a white light as his iris instead.


 * 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 - i'm over the moon with who it might be." [sic], until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.


 * Portal 2 then won the award for "Best Performance by a Human Male" with Stephen Merchant's portrayal of Wheatley.


 * Wheatley makes a cameo appearance in an official plugin (Warning! May contain NSFW content), created by Bethesda and Valve, for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,


 * In the developer commentary of Portal 2, it is revealed that he was originally intended to have tried escaping with other subjects prior to waking Chell up.




 * Wheatley, alongside GLaDOS and Chell, appears in LEGO Dimensions;




 * Wheatley makes a guest appearance as a Spy weapon in Team Fortress 2 (as the Ap-Sap)