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Oracle Turret

2015-01-01T15:25:39Z

Beck0251:

[[File:Oracle Turret 1.png|thumb|right|300px|The Oracle Turret stuck in a Vital Apparatus Vent]]
{{Quotation|'''Oracle Turret'''|I'm different.|sound=Turret_turretstuckintube09.wav}}
The '''Oracle Turret''' is a friendly [[Sentry Turret]] that is encountered three times in ''[[Portal 2]]''. Although the Oracle Turret is never named in-game, the name was revealed in an interview with Valve writers.<ref>[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/27/valve-on-portal-2-spoiler-interview-part-one/ Valve On Portal 2: Spoiler Interview Part One], John Walker, [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ rockpapershotgun.com], April 27, 2011. Accessed April 30, 2011.</ref>

== Encounters ==
=== [[Story#Chapter 1|Chapter 1]] ===
[[File:Oracle Turret 2.png|thumb|right|300px|The Oracle Turret on its way to redemption]]
The player first encounters the Oracle Turret in [[Story#Chapter 1|Chapter 1]] of ''Portal 2'', where the Oracle Turret is stuck in a pneumatic transport tube. The Oracle Turret asks Chell to help it, and to take it with her; however the Oracle Turret is inaccessible and [[Wheatley]] advises Chell to move past and ignore it.

=== [[Story#Chapter 5|Chapter 5]] ===
The second encounter with the Oracle Turret is on the [[Turret Redemption Line]]. The player can pick the turret up from the Turret Redemption Line, at which point it says "Thank you" and an achievement is unlocked for saving it. {{spoiler text|After being saved, the Oracle Turret will say several cryptic messages, including "Her name is Caroline" and "Don't make lemonade".}}
If the player ignores it, the Oracle Turret will complete its journey along the Redemption Line and disappear, and will presumably be incinerated and destroyed.

=== [[Story#Chapter 5|Chapter 5 Oracle turret voice meaning]] ===

{{spoiler text| '''Get Mad''': Cave Johnson is angry over the Intercom between Chapter 6 and 7.}}

{{spoiler text| '''Don't make lemonade''': Same reference as "Get Mad."}}

{{spoiler text| '''Prometheus was punished by the gods by giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the earth and pecked by birds''': GLaDOS told Wheatley that he was designed to be a moron, which triggered Wheatley to send Chell and GLaDOS into Old Aperture unintentionally. After GLaDOS and Chell went down on the fall, GLaDOS was pecked by a bird and the bird flew away.}}

{{spoiler text| '''It won't be enough''': "When Ratmann observe the morality core it was intended for GLaDOS. This suggests that the Oracle Turret was one of the original sentry turrets seen behind Rattmann in the Aperture laboratory where he was working on the Portal Gun. Other sourses say its a refrence on how the paradox won't work on wheatly"}}

{{spoiler text| '''The answer is beneath us''': "GLaDOS's true identity is hidden among Johnson's Intercom messages, playing deep underneath Aperture or maybe referencing the Mobility Gels, being beneath you when the Oracle Turret is found, helping to defeat Wheatley (None of the Corrupted Cores would have been attached without the Conversion and Repulsion gels (and the Fact Sphere/Core would never have been usable as the finishing blow to cause the attempted core transfer without the Propulsion Gel))."}}

{{spoiler text| '''Her name is Caroline; Remember that''': Caroline, the assistant of Cave Johnson, is the person whose sentience resides in GLaDOS.}}

== Related achievements ==
=== Portal 2 ===
{{Show achievement|Portal 2|No Hard Feelings}}

== See also ==
* [[Turret]]
* [[Oracle Turret voice lines]]

== References ==
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Still Alive (song)

2014-12-30T15:06:38Z

Beck0251:

"'''Still Alive'''" is the song that plays alongside the ending credits of [[Portal]]. {{spoiler text|It is played after the player "kills" [[GLaDOS]] and subsequently causes the destruction of the [[Aperture Science|Enrichment Center]]}}.

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== Lyrics ==
{{spoiler text|
This was a triumph. 
I'm making a note here: 
HUGE SUCCESS. 
It's hard to overstate 
My satisfaction. 
Aperture Science 
We do what we must 
Because we can. 
For the good of all of us. 
Except the ones who are dead. 
But there's no sense crying 
Over every mistake. 
You just keep on trying 
Till you run out of cake. 
And the Science gets done. 
And you make a neat gun. 
For the people who are 
Still alive. 
I'm not even angry. 
I'm being so sincere right now. 
Even though you broke my heart. 
And killed me. 
And tore me to pieces. 
And threw every piece into a fire. 
As they burned it hurt because 
I was so happy for you! 
Now these points of data 
Make a beautiful line. 
And we're out of beta. 
We're releasing on time. 
So I'm GLaD. I got burned. 
Think of all the things we learned 
For the people who are 
Still alive. 
Go ahead and leave me. 
I think I prefer to stay inside. 
Maybe you'll find someone else 
To help you. 
Maybe Black Mesa... 
THAT WAS A JOKE, HA HA, FAT CHANCE. 
Anyway this cake is great 
It's so delicious and moist 
Look at me still talking when there's science to do 
When I look out there 
It makes me GLaD I'm not you 
I've experiments to run 
There is research to be done 
On the people who are 
Still alive. 
And believe me I am still alive 
I'm doing science and I'm still alive 
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive 
While you're dying I'll be still alive 
And when you're dead I will be still alive 
Still alive 
Still alive.
}}
== Connection to game/GLaDOS ==
* Still Alive - GLaDOS revealed to be alive at the end of the game.
* And you make a neat gun - The [[Handheld Portal Device]].
* Even though you broke my heart and killed me - [[Chell]] presumably killing GLaDOS.

== Trivia ==
* "''Still Alive''" was also used in [[Wikipedia:Left 4 Dead 2|Left 4 Dead 2]] as an easter egg on a jukebox that can be found in the campaigns "The Parish" and "The Passing".
* An instrumental version of "Still Alive" can be heard on some radios in Portal.
* Black mesa- a rivial compony from half life
== Composition ==
"''Still Alive''" was written by Jonathan Coulton, who also wrote "''Want You Gone''", and was sung by Ellen McLain, [[Voice actor]] for [[GLaDOS]] and opera singer. {{spoiler text|She also sang "''[[Want You Gone]]''" during the end credits of [[Portal 2]]}}.

== See Also ==
* [[Portal Soundtrack]]
* [[Want You Gone]]
* [[Turret Opera]]

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Portal]]

Half-Life

2014-12-30T14:51:12Z

Beck0251: I added a page about half life because it takes place in the same universe as portal

half life is a game series made by valve that takes place
in the same universe as portal.
The player is a sientist named Georden Freemen
who works at a sience reserch center named black mesa
who are competiters with apature sience and they often steal there ideas.
the object of the games is to stop invading aliens
who are part of a group who wishes to take
over the world: THE COMBINE
Unlike portal recently a new installment of the series
may come up soon.

CONECTIONS
-glados mentions black mesa in here song still alive.
-dito with cave jhonson
-In half life they ofton talk about a apeture sience project called
the boliales

go to the half life wiki for more info!

GLaDOS

2014-12-29T17:21:47Z

Beck0251:

{{SpoilerHeavy}}

[[Image:GLaDOS P2.png|right|400px|GLaDOS in ''Portal 2'']]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Okay, look: We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret, but I think we can put our differences behind us; for science... you monster.|sound=GLaDOS chellgladoswakeup06.wav}}

'''GLaDOS''' ('''G'''enetic '''L'''ifeform '''a'''nd '''D'''isk '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem) is the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] designed to control, guide, and oversee the [[Aperture Science]] computer-aided Enrichment Center. With the ability to shift and move facilities and various chambers, GLaDOS is able to achieve a seamless and almost infinite testing design whilst residing in the [[Central AI Chamber]].

In possession of a feminine programming, she is the antagonist of ''[[Portal]]'' and {{spoiler|the first half of the single-player campaign in }}''[[Portal 2]]''. {{spoiler|During the later half, she becomes the game's {{W|tritagonist}}.}} In the game's cooperative campaign, GLaDOS is the testing supervisor of [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]].

GLaDOS is voiced by opera singer and voice actress {{W|Ellen McLain}}.

== Background ==
{{spoiler|GLaDOS was a creation of [[Aperture Science]], a [[Cores|personality core]] designed exactly to be fitted as a central computer mainframe. The project began under the oversight of [[Cave Johnson]] over the company, and was an attempt to create a fully functional, advanced artificial intelligence which was originally intended to be occupied by Johnson as one of his attempts to cheat death. After it became apparent to Johnson that he may die of moon rock poisoning before development on GLaDOS would be completed, Johnson motioned for the personality core to be based on [[Caroline]] instead.}}

After a decade's worth of hard work, GLaDOS was officially activated in 1998, as part of one of the many events during the company's "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day. Since she was able to take control of half of the facility's features, GLaDOS began killing most of its inhabitants by flooding the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]]. However, only few if not only one of the staff such as [[Doug Rattmann]] had survived her attacks along with the series' main protagonist, [[Chell]]. The destruction of the company also coincided with an invasion of Earth, which had occurred two days after at Aperture's rival company, [[Black Mesa]]. This ultimately led to the negligence of the outside world from realizing Aperture's fate, as all attention had been diverted to Black Mesa and the aforementioned invasion.

Since the attack, she has managed the company to her limits. {{spoiler|Her first test subject and the series' main protagonist, [[Chell]], was given a warning of GLaDOS' true colors with the help of Rattmann. She confronts GLaDOS in her chamber at the end of ''[[Portal]]'', which allowed GLaDOS to develop an even deeper hatred for her after she was awakened in the beginning of ''[[Portal 2]]''.}}

== Overview ==
=== ''Portal'' ===
{{See also|Portal}}

[[File:GLaDOS P1.png|thumb|120px|right|GLaDOS in ''[[Portal]]'', with [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] attached.]]

Prior to the events of ''Portal'', one of Aperture's technicians, [[Doug Rattmann]], successfully evaded GLaDOS' attempts to flood the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]]. He then took refuge in several departments throughout the facility and began tampering with the initial test subject roster, rearranging [[Chell]] to the top of the list as Test Subject #1 instead. Since GLaDOS initiated a lockdown, Rattmann was forced to live his whole life hiding between the backstages of [[Test Chambers]] in the Enrichment Center. He then left various warnings of GLaDOS through graffiti that could only be found behind several corrupted [[Panels|wall panel]]s in Test Chambers, in hopes that Chell would later stumble upon them. GLaDOS was able to operate the company all while residing in her Central AI Chamber, despite lacking full control over the facility.

She then awakens Chell for her mandatory testing of the [[Handheld Portal Device]], which began the events of ''Portal''. During these time periods, she had constantly intimidated Chell during her performances and given bitter yet innocent sarcastic notions by simply acting out like conveniently placed pre-recorded messages. {{spoiler|Several tests later, Chell would later discover the various graffiti left behind by Rattmann and immediately became aware, but was forced to played along with GLaDOS' plans.}}

After Chell completed the final test chamber, {{spoiler|GLaDOS immediately revealed her true colors as she attempts to lower her into a pit of fire. Chell was able to escape her attempt to incinerate her and from there, Chell makes her way throughout the facility to escape. She later had no choice but to confront GLaDOS in [[Central AI Chamber|her chamber]] as there was no chance of escaping, a conflict which Chell won. At the conclusion of the conflict, GLaDOS was heavily damaged, and remained in a dormant status for an unspecified amount of time as the facility degraded over the years.}}

=== ''Portal 2'' ===
{{See also|Portal 2}}

==== Reawakening era ====
[[File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|thumb|right|170px|The remains of GLaDOS after her conflict in ''Portal''.]]

Beginning the major events of ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS is reactivated through the accidental efforts of both [[Wheatley]] and [[Chell]] having tried to access an escape lift to the surface in the [[Central AI Chamber]], as both of them were previously trapped in the building following GLaDOS' destruction. {{spoiler|She immediately realizes the presence of Chell and Wheatley standing before her upon awakening. Despite her newly profound hatred for Chell having destroyed her, she uses Wheatley as an object for relieving her anger by crushing him.}}

GLaDOS then decides to return Chell to the facility's science experiments to further her cause of science, but often makes various taunts in hopes to crush her morale.

[[File:Sp a2 core0476.jpg|thumb|150px|right|{{spoiler|GLaDOS lowering a neurotoxin tube, with [[Wheatley]] rolling inside.}}]]

{{spoiler|However, [[Wheatley]] later resurfaces and was still alive despite the critical damage inflicted onto him by GLaDOS. With his help, Chell was able to escape from GLaDOS' [[Test Chambers|testing tracks]] and went through the facility to sabotage her vital strategy components, such as the production of [[neurotoxin]]. Finally reaching her newly redesigned chamber, they were then able to defeat GLaDOS together, replacing her with Wheatley as the facility's overseer. Wheatley, intimidated by GLaDOS' response to how useless he is, traps GLaDOS in a potato battery and throws her into the depths of the Enrichment Center alongside Chell.}}

{{spoiler|After Wheatley became corrupted by his new position and power, GLaDOS and Chell worked together, initially as unwilling partners, to restore control over the facility (which further degraded and corrupted under the influence of Wheatley, to the point where the facility's reactor core will undergo a meltdown). During this time, the duo try to find their way out of the depths of the Enrichment Center where they approach several vintage [[Test Chambers]] previously managed by Aperture CEO, [[Cave Johnson]] and his secretary [[Caroline]].}}

{{spoiler|As Chell and GLaDOS continue to journey through the pasts of Aperture Science located in the salt mine deep beneath the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS slowly becomes familiar to Johnson and Caroline. As they are finally ready to leave the salt mine, GLaDOS has an epiphany on who Caroline is but remains silent on the matter.}}

[[File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|thumb|left|150px|{{spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery.}}]]

{{spoiler|The duo then have made their way back to the modern Enrichment Center, where Chell and GLaDOS were put through [[Wheatley]]'s [[Test Chambers|testing tracks]]. When Wheatley later realizes that GLaDOS had built two robot test subjects prior to Chell and Wheatley's sabotage over the facility early on in the game, he finally attempts to dispose both GLaDOS and Chell. When the duo manages to escape from his grasp, they head to the Central AI Chamber to confront him. GLaDOS proposes that Chell is to attach her back into her body to resume her control over the facility. The conflict was then resolved by their conjoint efforts, resulting in the exile of Wheatley to outer space and a reconciliation between each other.}}

[[File:Glados ending monologue.jpg|thumb|150px|right|{{spoiler|GLaDOS during the single-player ending monologue.}}]]

{{spoiler|After repairing the entire facility to its state prior to Wheatley's control, GLaDOS begins to become even more affected by her recently acquired morality, emotions and gained her own consciousness after discovering who [[Caroline]] was. She realizes that Chell was not an enemy, but could be considered a close friend. Part of her "rogue AI" nature disagreed with this change of heart. GLaDOS was then able to trace Caroline's consciousness in her system, moments before the [[Announcer]] reveals that GLaDOS has deleted Caroline from her system. She then expels Chell from the facility in order to avoid further trouble beyond her control. However, Chell is then comforted through her elevated ride to the surface by a [[Turret Opera]] which remains unknown as to why the event occurred.}}

{{spoiler|Before [[Chell]] could leave the Enrichment Center for good, GLaDOS decides to return Chell's [[Weighted Companion Cube|Companion Cube]] from her tests in ''[[Portal]]'' by ejecting it from the lift before the door to the Enrichment Center could shut itself.}}

From then on, she conducts tests on the two robot test subjects; [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]].

==== Cooperative testing era ====
{{spoiler|Sometime after Chell is freed from the Enrichment Center,}} GLaDOS has been primarily focusing on her two new android test subjects [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]], as part of the [[Cooperative Testing Initiative]]. Typical to her nature, she would constantly find a way to crush their spirits via sarcasm and expressing herself to be having little hope for them.

{{spoiler|At the end of the first testing course, ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Course One: Team Building|Team Building]]'', she deploys the bots outside the official testing track, announcing that "this next test is so outside the box that I can't- I mean WON'T even tell you what you're looking for". She leaves the bots to use common sense to figure out what they should be looking for by themselves, as they find a large disc and bring it into a projector room. Despite the clear warning "DO NOT TRUST HER" written on a whiteboard in the room, the bots place the disc into the projector - in which she begins scanning for files and documents she refuses to disclose. After she was done, she initiated a self-destruct on the bots and reassembled them back at the [[Hub]].}}

{{spoiler|This topic remains untouched through the entirety of their second testing track, ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Course Two: Mass and Velocity|Mass and Velocity]]''. However, at the end of this course, it became clear that she would continually send them outside the testing tracks again to handle her secret full takeover on the facility. As Atlas and P-body work together to get each other past the air circulation maintenance section, they find another disc and installs it into the projector. GLaDOS again scans through and proceeds to tells them that she did not really need them to do this, and pretends their mission did not matter after self-destructing them again.}}

{{spoiler|When the bots reach the third course, ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Course Three: Hard-Light Surfaces|Hard-Light Surfaces]]'', GLaDOS' utter disappointment in the duo becomes more clear. With their "deaths" never bringing the satisfaction she had with the death of humans, as the bots can just easily be rebuilt again each time they are destroyed. Meanwhile, she is secretly working on an attempt to replace Atlas and P-body. At the end of this course, the bots install a disc which contains the Enrichment Center's current overall security code, which she tries to block out from their range of hearing by uttering "blah blah blah" repeatedly as the [[Announcer]] relays the codes.}}

{{spoiler|In the fourth course, ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Course Four: Excursion Funnels|Excursion Funnels]]'', GLaDOS builds slight hope in keeping Atlas and P-body still as predicted by her sudden change of mood from the previous course. She now wants the bots to feel conflicted against each other - hoping to enhance a more "competitive" and bitter testing run, simply by manipulating them into thinking that one of them has been "reporting" to her behind the others' back, or how P-body is "not [Atlas'] first cooperative testing partner". The bots still carry on regardless, where GLaDOS' disappointment in the two reprises in her tone of voice. On the last test, she gets them to install the final disc to her full control over the facility - assuring them it was a clerical error by humans on how it was not done any earlier before they died. As the bots install it, overview maps of every section of the facility begins projecting onto the screen, followed by her mischievous yet anticipated tone of voice when revealing that "[she] can see everything now".}}

[[File:Coop human vault door.jpg|thumb|170px|right|{{spoiler|[[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] upon reaching the Human Vault.}}]]

{{spoiler|Reassembled back at the hub, GLaDOS tells the bots that they have just one more testing course to complete - ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Course Five: Mobility Gels|Mobility Gels]]''. She deploys the entrance to this course into the hub, and sends them deep beneath the Enrichment Center to the Aperture Science Innovators era, a bottom section of the salt mine. GLaDOS convinces them to rescue the "dying, trapped, crying" live human test subjects preserved in a cryogenic vault that were preserved since the 20th century. Once they finally reach to this vault at the end of the course, GLaDOS reveals a great deal of anticipation and obsession over "rescuing" them. In attempt to unlock the vault, the bots had to perform gestures like any human would - as the vault was an anti-robot section. Despite how sinister she sounded after the bots observed the hundreds of humans in cryogenic stasis, they disregarded it and began dancing in triumph. Now extracting all of the human test subjects, she begins processing their files - which apparently turned out to be only one person's file.}}

{{spoiler|As she no longer needs Atlas and P-body as her test subjects, she began testing the humans in an attempt to develop them into her cold minions. Her plan fails as the humans are unable to withstand her extreme testing courses and all of the hundreds of test subjects that were found began dying within just a week of testing. It became apparent that she absolutely needed Atlas and P-body back as her facility began to malfunction all of a sudden, in addition to her lack of test subjects.}}

[[File:Central core prototype chassis.jpg|thumb|130px|left|{{spoiler|[[Cores#Central Core|Central core]] prototype seen at the end of ''Art Therapy''.}}]]

{{spoiler|When the bots are rebuilt again, she deploys the additional testing course; ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Art Therapy|Art Therapy]]''. As the bots begin testing, she treats the course as if it were an art museum despite the obvious malfunctioning environment such as her lack of control in putting the test chambers together properly, and a flood arising around a section of the facility during testing. Eventually, the reassembly machines have begin malfunctioning - causing her to wait three days before the robots could be reassembled to deliver the duo to their next test chamber. GLaDOS then gives in and confesses that she is in need of their help and that someone has been tampering with the facility via control of an old prototype chassis of the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]]. To resolve this, she trains the bots into becoming her "killing machines" by deploying them into more challenging tests during their course. GLaDOS then sends them closer to the chamber housing the chassis, and later jokingly calls them as her "Special Team Falling Into Acid Force". When the bots reach the chamber, they discover it was never a person, but even worse - a bird nesting above the keyboard on the machine. GLaDOS, already aware of it being a bird since the beginning, panics and instructs them abort the mission, before P-body closes a hatch that the bird flew out from. As the bots stare at the chassis, GLaDOS panics that the bird had been "gestating clones" on the keyboard and forces them to destroy the eggs. With the bots hesitant, she conjures a better idea and houses the birds in the [[Central AI Chamber]], where she could nurture them directly.}}

[[File:Glados arttherapy birds.jpg|thumb|150px|right|{{spoiler|GLaDOS and the birds.}}]]

{{spoiler|GLaDOS begins to show compassion toward the birds as she realizes their ability to use their beaks and considers them as test subjects, also revealing a more motherly bonding with the birds than she ever did with the "mushroom" bots. The fate of these birds remain unknown until further test courses are added.}}

==== Perpetual testing era ====
{{spoiler|As the Perpetual Testing Initiative offers a wide range of alternate universes for the player that is going through community test chambers - dubbed the "multiverse", Aperture CEO [[Cave Johnson]] still lives and is as healthy as he was before being struck by exposure to moon rock poisoning in the main reality. However, all of the universes which form multiverse have the same outcome in which all development on GLaDOS has been abolished after her first activation when she went rogue.}}

{{spoiler|In addition to her being abolished, Cave's loyal assistant [[Caroline]] has been replaced with [[Greg]]. It is unexplained on exactly what did happen to Caroline, although serving as a hint that she may have merged with GLaDOS, thus explaining her absence from this era. In this same universe after she was abolished, Cave also tries pushing the scientists into making a Cave-Bot instead. In one universe Cave successfully becomes an AI (known as "CaveDOS") and it's unknown what happened to Caroline.}}

== Abilities and traits ==
As the overseer and operator of the facility, GLaDOS is seemingly omnipotent, able to reconfigure rooms and carry out actions at her will. She monitors the facility and its test chambers through cameras mounted on walls. {{spoiler|She also mentions that she cannot resist thinking of paradoxes if one would happen to be brought up.}} GLaDOS had displayed little to no emotion within her voice tone in the first half of ''Portal'', due to being bound by the consciousness of other [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] attached onto her for the sole purpose of restricting her true thoughts. She then becomes increasingly more agitated and is portrayed as a narcissist during Chell's escape attempts. {{spoiler|In ''Portal 2'', she grows bitter after the events of ''Portal'', frequently insulting Chell until the very end - until she briefly realizes that Chell was "all along [her] best friend".}}

GLaDOS' consciousness had been controlled by [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] throughout the events of ''Portal''. {{Spoiler|If the cores are removed, the traits and morals which the cores contain would be permanently detached from GLaDOS as well, causing her to fall back to her more human and intimidating voice tone, resembling to that of her Genetic Lifeform component [[Caroline]].}}

GLaDOS' status as the central core allows her to have various controls over the Enrichment Center. Apart from being able to build, reconstruct or deface test chambers, GLaDOS is able to provide the pneumatic pressures serving as the vacuum inside the [[Tubes|tube networks]] across the facility - a power which the Announcer could only handle the elevator tube shafts in the [[chamberlock]]s. In ''Portal'', GLaDOS was able to steer away the vacuum directions inside the tubes and managed to pull Chell back into [[Portal Test Chamber 09|Test Chamber 09]] after the latter attempted to travel inside a burst tube.

{{spoiler|It was eventually revealed in ''Portal 2'' that GLaDOS was also able to reconstruct the components on her own body as well, now without the cores restricting her thoughts. She had replaced most of the broken and or missing components on her body since her reawakening in the chapter, ''[[Portal 2 Chapter 1 Her Chamber|The Courtesy Call]]''. Her newer components spotted on her body since the chapter ''[[Portal 2 Chapter 5 GLaDOS' Lair|The Escape]]'' are sleek and black, and is of little resemblance to the original ones from her body during the reawakening and ''Portal''.}}

== Development and acting ==
[[File:GLaDOS concept art.jpg|thumb|130px|right|Earliest known concept art of GLaDOS.]]

During Anime Midwest 2011, voice actress {{W|Ellen McLain}} revealed that the premise of GLaDOS had always been a robotic voice that would guide the protagonist and often intimidates them. Early on development, [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] had used copyrighted voice samples as a {{W|placeholder}} for GLaDOS. As Ellen McLain previously voiced the radio communications dispatcher of the [[hl2:Combine Overwatch|Combine Overwatch]] throughout the [[hl2:Half-Life 2|''Half-Life 2'']] saga, the developers had chosen her for the role of GLaDOS. During this time, developers had kept the development quiet, leaving Ellen unaware what game it is that she is doing voice work for. Ellen was later made aware of her work and success when ''[[Portal]]'' was finally released.

In ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS' dialogue shortly after her awakening were originally much more insulting. As playtesters grew uncomfortable with her insults, it was then decided that GLaDOS continues her passive-aggressive behavior which she began from the ''Portal'' credits song, [[Still Alive]]. {{spoiler|When it was decided that GLaDOS and Chell needed to work together to face [[Wheatley]], Valve opts for GLaDOS to be uploaded into a potato battery. Writer Jay Pinkerton describes the transformation as "a very stark difference between this imperious, all-powerful GLaDOS talking to you, and this powerless GLaDOS talking to you on your gun", and that potato GLaDOS was initially needling towards playtesters. To counteract this, she was made into a more sidekick type of character.<ref>[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/27/valve-on-portal-2-spoiler-interview-part-one/ Valve On Portal 2: Spoiler Interview] on Rock, Paper, Shotgun</ref>}}

Appearance-wise in ''Portal'', GLaDOS' initial designs prior to the game's release varied greatly. The earliest known design of GLaDOS was a large disc with a red eyeball in the center, with the disc surrounding it and welded onto the eyeball. This concept of GLaDOS appears to be the most favorable version towards several community members and was then recreated for use on a character entirely for the community-made machinima series,'' [http://www.youtube.com/user/22CaliburArmadillo The Underground]''. Later on in development, the design of the large eyeball was then scrapped into a robotic body hanging upsidedown from the ceiling, with four discs surrounding above it this time. This concept has since been kept for the release of ''Portal'', with minor adjustments such as the addition of [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]].

In the game's commentary mode, Jeremy Bennett (art director) describes GLaDOS's design: "[...] we settled on a huge mechanical device with a delicate robotic figure dangling out of it, which successfully conveys both [her] raw power and her femininity." Originally, according to Bennett, she resembled an upside-down version of [[w:The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|Botticelli's "Rise of Venus"]].

The earliest known concept art of GLaDOS' design for ''[[Portal 2]]'' was through one of the many concept box arts; demonstrating that her body's plating was completely torn and scrapped, leaving only her head the most intact - nearing the design of her spherical-cylinder shaped head in the game's release. She had also been given a red eye color in this concept rather than her trademark yellow that was given to her in ''Portal''. Not much else is known of her design changes during the sequel, except that the developers established that the current design of GLaDOS in ''Portal 2'' was to signify a more antagonistic appearance and shape.

In addition, an unused reskin of GLaDOS' design from ''Portal'' can be found in the game files of ''Portal 2'', presenting rust stains and scratches possibly to be used for her components scattered around in her chamber.

== Gallery ==
=== ''Portal'' ===
{{Gallery
|title = Screenshots
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS in the Central AI Chamber, as she appeared in ''[[Portal]]''
|File:Still_Alive_ASCII_GLaDOS.jpg|alt1=G|GLaDOS ASCII image from the Portal credits
|File:MoralityCore.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' Morality core
|File:CuriousityCore.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' Curiosity core
|File:LogicCore.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' Cake mix core
|File:AngerCore.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' Anger core
}}

{{Gallery
|title = Media
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:GLaDOS concept art.jpg|alt1=G|Earliest known concept art of GLaDOS
|File:GLaDOS Lithograph.jpg|Lithograph of GLaDOS
|File:GLaDOS and Anger Core Shirt.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS and the Anger core on a shirt
|File:Curiosity Core from GLaDOS Shirt.png|alt1=G|The Curiosity core on a shirt
|File:GLaDOS Mousepad.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS on a mousepad
}}

=== ''Portal 2'' ===
{{Gallery
|title = Screenshots
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' remains in comparison to Chell.
|File:Sp a1 wakeup0027.jpg|alt1=G|Reawakened by [[Wheatley]].
|File:Glados.png|alt1=G|After her reawakening.
|File:P2 glados body intro.jpg|alt1=G|GLaDOS' body after her awakening, slightly resembling her ''Portal'' model.
|File:P2 glados body.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS, redesigned with newer components and losing ''Portal'' resemblance.}}|spoiler5=yes
|File:Chell and GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS in comparison to Chell.}}|spoiler6=yes
|File:GLaDOS P2 chamber.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS in her redesigned Central AI Chamber.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:Sp a2 core0008.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|Another view of GLaDOS in her redesigned AI chamber.}}|spoiler8=yes
|File:Glados side awakening.jpg|alt1=G|Side view of GLaDOS after her reawakening.
|File:Glados P2 sideview.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|Side view of GLaDOS in her upgraded body.}}|spoiler10=yes
|File:Sp a2 core0476.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS lowering a neurotoxin tube, with [[Wheatley]] rolling inside.}}|spoiler11=yes
|File:Glados core transfer.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS during her forced core transfer.}}|spoiler12=yes
|File:Core transfer inside.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|Centered view of GLaDOS during her core transfer.}}|spoiler13=yes
|File:Glados head dragged.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS, dragged by [[Wheatley]] for an extraction process.}}|spoiler14=yes
|File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|Power-mad Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}|spoiler15=yes
|File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|alt1=G|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery by Wheatley.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:Portal 2 Potato Viewmodel.png|alt1=G|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS after being attached to [[Chell]]'s [[Handheld Portal Device|Portal Gun]].}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Glados core retransfer.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS regains her head while being dragged back into the central core.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:Glados ending monologue.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS during the single-player ending monologue.}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Glados arttherapy birds.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|GLaDOS and the baby birds in the co-op course, ''Art Therapy''.}}|spoiler20=yes
}}

{{Gallery
|title = Media
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:GLaDOS from Personality Test.jpg|alt1=G|GLaDOS' portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:GLaDOS Valentine.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS' [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valentine card] from Valve's official ''Portal 2'' blog.
|File:Portal 2 Soundtrack Cover - Volume 1.jpg|alt1=G|The [[Portal 2 soundtrack|''Portal 2'' Soundtrack]] cover.
|File:GLaDOS Lithograph Aperture's Requiem.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS and [[Chell]] on the "Aperture's Requiem" lithograph.
|File:GLaDOSConcept.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS Concept Art.
|File:DestrGladdyConcept.png|Destroyed GLaDOS Concept Art.
|File:Destroyed GLaDOS Lithograph.png|alt1=G|The "Destroyed GLaDOS" lithograph.
|File:Chell and GLaDOS Gelaskin.png|alt1=G|GLaDOS and Chell on an iPad gelaskin.
|File:CoreTransferConcept.jpg|alt1=G|{{spoiler|Concept art of GLaDOS' core transfer.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:Red-Nosed_P03.jpg|alt1=G|GLaDOS and Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret.
}}

== Trivia ==
* The acronym "GLaDOS" is a pun of the name "Gladdys" and the term DOS (Disc Operating System).

* Ellen McLain, the actress that voices GLaDOS, also provides the voice for the [[tf:Administrator|Administrator]] in [[tf:Team Fortress 2|''Team Fortress 2'']] and the [[hl2:Combine Overwatch|Combine Overwatch]] in the [[hl2:Half-Life 2|''Half-Life'']] series. This makes Ellen McLain the only voice present in every game included in the ''[[The Orange Box]]''.

* The most favored character that Ellen McLain has voiced is none other than GLaDOS. She reveals that despite the hard effort in pulling off the voice of the [[tf:Administrator|Administrator]] from ''Team Fortress 2'' and her unique way of ordering things, GLaDOS' character had a greater impact on her through her popular passive-aggressive behavior and subtle insults.

* During the development of ''[[Portal 2]]'', playtesters were uncomfortable with GLaDOS as she was far too vindictive in the single-player campaign, and the developers concluded that some of her dialogue was too extreme. Due to this, elements of her dialogue were reworked, which resulted in the creation of a more amicable, passive-aggressive personality for GLaDOS.

* In the single-player campaign of ''Portal 2'', Wheatley would only refer to GLaDOS as "her" or "she".

* {{spoiler|When in her potato battery form, she is commonly referred to by the community as "PotatOS;" this nickname is derived from the word "potato" and her name, GLaDOS. Valve favored this nickname and placed it as her official name when in her potato battery form, as shown in the Portal 2 Soundtrack "PotatOS Lament". There is another popular, but unoffical name: GLatados}}

* On the 2011 Video Game Awards, ''Portal 2'' had won the award for "Best Performance by a Human Female" for Ellen McLain's role as GLaDOS.<ref>[http://www.spike.com/events/video-game-awards-2011-nominees/voting/best-performance-by-a-human-female Best Performance by a Human Female] on Spike</ref>

== List of appearances ==
* ''[[Portal]]''
* ''[[Portal: Still Alive]]''
* ''[[Portal: The First Slice]]''
* ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]''
* ''[[Portal 2]]''
* ''[[Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret]]''

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[GLaDOS voice lines]]
* [[Chell]]
* [[Aperture Science]]
* [[Wheatley]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#GLaDOS|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* {{Spoiler|[[Caroline]]}}

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P-body

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[[Image:P-body.png|right|200px|P-body]]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Blue! Orange has always been my favorite.|sound=GLaDOS_mp_coop_rat_mazedeath02.wav}}
'''P-body''' (referred to as '''Orange''' by [[GLaDOS]]), is [[Atlas]]' tall and wiry partner in testing, and is one of the two playable android Test Subjects built by GLaDOS for the [[Co-op|Cooperative Testing Initiative]] in ''Portal 2'', which was devised to phase out human testing.

Gameplay-wise, P-body is played by the guest of the Co-op session; the player that receives an invitation, or the second player on a home console in split-screen mode.

== Biography ==
P-body is an orange eyed [[Cores|Core]] with a design similar to that of a [[Turrets|Turret]], and is portrayed to have somewhat less masculinity than in Atlas - if not a hint femininity. {{spoiler|GLaDOS had created the Cooperative Testing Initiative after her awakening in ''Portal 2'', as a means of replacing [[Chell]] as her only Test Subject.}} Along with Atlas, the two bots are pitted against a series of tests built by GLaDOS herself, utilizing the many different [[mechanics]] previously encountered by Chell from the game's single-player campaign.

{{spoiler|It was later revealed by GLaDOS that Atlas and P-body's Cores are programmed specifically to do nothing more but tests.}}

{{spoiler text|During the final phases of testing, GLaDOS reveals that, while the Cooperative Testing Initiative has its uses, she needs human testing for science, not robots. GLaDOS reveals that there are humans locked away, deep within the ancient Aperture facilities. There the bots will be tasked with navigating the old test chambers and unlock the massive vault containing the humans, seemingly kept in place by some form of cryogenic storage. By doing this, they 'save science. During the credits p-body plays on a convayer belt while atlas watches him.'}}
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== Development and Acting ==
Both P-body and Atlas are voiced by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048389/ Dee Bradley Baker].

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=4
|height=150
|width=150
|File:P-body first person.png|alt1=P-body first-person view.|P-body first-person view.
|File:P-body_lmb_portal.png|alt2=P-body's Primary-fire portal|P-body's Primary-fire portal.
|File:P-body_rmb_portal.png|alt3=P-body's Secondary-fire portal|P-body's Secondary-fire portal.
|File:P-body_both_portal.png|alt4=Both of P-body's portals|Both of P-body's portals.
|File:P-Body_from_Personality_Test.jpg|alt5=P-body image from the official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test.|P-body image from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:P-Body Icon.jpg|alt6=P-body icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|P-body icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:P-Body Eye Icon.jpg|alt7=P-body eye icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|P-body eye icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:P-Body Blueprint Shirt.png|alt8=Blueprint of P-body on a shirt.|Blueprint of P-body on a shirt.
|File:Co-op Bot Poster.png|alt9=P-body on a poster with Atlas.|P-body on a poster with [[Atlas]].
|File:Early models with red eyes.jpg|alt10=Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.|Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.
|File:Portal 2 PC Gamer 01.png|alt11=Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.|Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.
}}

==Videos==
{{see also|Videos}}
{{Video gallery
|video1=rmiK2HfDKEs
}}

== Trivia ==
* P-body appears momentarily in the single-player campaign. {{Spoiler text|Upon arriving in [[Wheatley|Wheatley's]] Test Chamber where he "makes the exit", P-body can be seen in the newly created area watching the player, before panicking and running through the exit.}}

== See also ==
* [[Co-op]]
* [[Atlas]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#P-Body|Collaborative Disposition Test]]

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Atlas

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[[Image:Atlas.png|right|300px|Atlas]]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Blue, you go first.|sound=GLaDOS_coop_teamwork_exercise_alt05.wav}}
'''Atlas''' (referred to as '''Blue''' by [[GLaDOS]]), is [[P-body]]'s short and stout companion, and is one of two playable android Test Subjects built by GLaDOS for her [[Co-op|Cooperative Testing Initiative]], which was devised to phase out human testing.

Gameplay-wise, Atlas is played by the host of the Co-op session; the player that sends an invitation.

== Biography ==
Atlas is a blue eyed [[Cores|Core]] with a basic design as a typical rounded Core, and is portrayed to have somewhat more masculinity in its programming than in P-body. {{spoiler|GLaDOS had created the Cooperative Testing Initiative after her awakening in ''Portal 2'', as a means of replacing [[Chell]] as her only Test Subject.}} Along with [[P-body]], the two bots are pitted against a series of tests built by GLaDOS herself, utilizing the many different [[mechanics]] previously encountered by Chell from the game's single-player campaign.

{{spoiler|It was later revealed by GLaDOS that Atlas and P-body's Cores are programmed specifically to do nothing more but tests.}}

{{spoiler text|During the final phases of testing, GLaDOS reveals that, while the Cooperative Testing Initiative has its uses, she needs human testing for science, not robots. GLaDOS reveals that there are humans locked away, deep within the ancient Aperture facilities. There the bots will be tasked with navigating the old test chambers and unlock the massive vault containing the humans, seemingly kept in place by some form of cryogenic storage. By doing this, they 'save science.' However, almost immediately after the robots unlock the room containing the test subjects, they are destroyed. they are edvendtuly rebuilt and during the credits atlas sits at a computer desk and watches p- body playing on a convayer belt.}}
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== Development and Acting ==
Both Atlas and P-body are voiced by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048389/ Dee Bradley Baker].

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=3
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Atlas first person.png|alt1=Atlas first-person view.|Atlas' first-person view.
|File:Atlas_lmb_portal.png|alt2=Atlas' Primary-fire portal|Atlas' Primary-fire portal.
|File:Atlas_rmb_portal.png|alt3=Atlas' Secondary-fire portal|Atlas' Secondary-fire portal.
|File:Atlas_both_portal.png|alt4=Both of Atlas' portals|Both of Atlas' portals.
|File:Bots_Screenshot.png|alt5=Atlas in Roll Cage|Atlas prototype, with a [[Roll Cage]].
|File:Atlas_from_Personality_Test.jpg|alt6=Atlas image from the official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test.|Atlas image from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Atlas_Icon.jpg|alt7=Atlas icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|Atlas icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:Atlas Eye Icon.jpg|alt8=Atlas eye icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|Atlas eye icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:Atlas Blueprint Shirt.png|alt9=Blueprint of Atlas on a shirt.|Blueprint of Atlas on a shirt.
|File:Co-op Bot Poster.png|alt10=Atlas on a poster with P-body.|Atlas on a poster with [[P-body]].
|File:Early models with red eyes.jpg|alt10=Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.|Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.
|File:Portal 2 PC Gamer 01.png|alt11=Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.|Prerelease screenshot of Atlas and P-Body.
}}

== Trivia ==
* In the pre-release [[videos|video]] "[[Bot Trust]]", the prototype Atlas in the "Unilateral Force-Induced Isokinetic Breakfast Trials" wields a frying pan similiar to the ones found in ''[[wikipedia:Left 4 Dead 2|Left 4 Dead 2]]'', the frying pan is also featured in ''[[wikipedia:Team Fortress 2|Team Fortress 2]]'' as an all-class melee weapon, and in other ''[[wikipedia:Valve Corporation|Valve]]'' games (but as unusable physics props).
* In [[Portal 2]] and it's [[Videos|promotional videos]], Atlas' name can be seen written both as "Atlas" and "ATLAS", showing inconsistencies from Valve as far as the bot's name is concerned.
* In the early days of Portal 2, the player used to play as a different character, named [[Mel]]. She was later replaced by Atlas, with Chell being replaced by P-Body.

== See also ==
* [[Co-op]]
* [[P-body]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Atlas|Collaborative Disposition Test]]

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