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Portal Stories: Mel

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{{Game infobox
| appid = 317400
| game-name-override = Portal Stories: Mel
| boxart-image = Portal Stories Header.jpg
| developer = Prism Studios
| engine = [[Source_Engine|Source Engine]]
| released = 25 Jun 2015
| modes = Singleplayer
| genre = First-person puzzle/platformer
| requirements = [[Portal 2]]
}}

'''Portal Stories: Mel''' is a modification and unofficial prequel to [[Portal 2]].

== Story ==
An [[Aperture Science]] test subject named [[Mel]] arrives at Aperture via train in 1952. [[Cave Johnson]] tells her that she will be testing the Short-Term [[Relaxation Vault]], and tells her she will be asleep for a few minutes, or at most an hour. After going into the vault, something goes wrong, and she is indefinitely put to sleep. Later, far into the future, she is waken up by a voice pretending to be Cave Johnson that is trying to convince her it is 1952. It tells her to pick up an [[ASHPD]] to participate in a "new test." After a few tests, he decides to stop the act, and reveals he isn't Cave Johnson, and they are in the future and stuck inside of Aperture. He is actually a core named Virgil, a 'maintenance core' who is stuck in the 'scrapyard' of Aperture, and needs your help. Later after reaching a seal, Mel takes the lift that comes down after opening the seal. Mel later reaches the scrapyard, and then the offices. After finding Virgil,
he tells Mel to turn on the power. After turning on the power the voice is heard again. Its name is 'AEGIS', short for 'Aperture Employee Guardian and Intrusion System'. AEGIS begins to flood Aperture with toxic goo. Mel and Virgil take an elevator up to Virgil's testing track, through which they can access the computer room for AEGIS. Mel uses turrets to destroy the computers, and shut down AEGIS. Before shutting down, AEGIS reveals that it was trying to eliminate three targets: Mel, Virgil and [[GLaDOS]]. Mel incinerates her portal device, and goes up to the surface, saying goodbye to Virgil. Shutting down AEGIS drained cryogenic reserve power, thus waking up [[Chell]] and starting the events of Portal 2.

== Mechanics ==
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Portal Stories: Mel's mechanics work similarly to [[Portal]] and Portal 2.
* New '70s portal gun model
* '50s mobster [[Turrets]] (Voices unused due to the Source Engine's programming)
* Advanced, high-difficulty tests
* Stylish '50s [[Long Fall Boots]]
* Deadly [[Material Emancipation Grill|Emancipation Grill]]

== Characters ==

==== '''Major Characters:''' ====

* '''[[Mel]]:''' Mel is the main protagonist of Portal Stories: Mel. She is a middle-aged brunette woman sporting a brown Aperture jumpsuit and spring based long fall boots. She also has minimal makeup such as red nail varnish and red lipstick. Little is known about her history as she is a silent protagonist similar to Chell from Portal and Portal 2, however Virgil does tell us about her struggles in Olympics, thus proving her Olympic status as an athlete in the 1936 Nuremberg Olympics. Her story starts in the old 1950s Aperture in a small train, akin to the beginning to the original Half-Life [[http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life]], and Cave Johnson gives us a quick synopsis of the facility, along with his usual antics (i.e. firing an employee for a simple spelling error). She soon walks through the brand new unnamed community founded by Aperture Science themselves, and going into the new yet faulty Aperture Science Short-Term Relaxation Vault (most likely an earlier version of the Aperture Science Long-Term Relaxation Vault). She falls asleep as Cave Johnson instructs her to do and then she soon falls into a long slumber. Once awoken "Cave Johnson" soon tells her she successfully completed her test and that she can complete another brand new test. As Mel looks around, it is clear that a long time has passed and Mel carries out her adventure inbetween Portal and Portal 2, and after the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day incident leaving all the scientists dead as well as GLaDOS deactivated and badly damaged by Chell. Mel is soon led by "Cave Johnson" to a vintage portal gun, in a smashed shelf filled with an array of comical rewards and trophies highlighting Aperture's achievements. She makes her way around the destroyed Aperture facility with technology well beyond Mel's time period, but "Cave" reassures it was simply an earthquake that brought things from the future with it. Now Mel needs to use her 'new test' to try and solve the Enrichment Spheres and finish the 'new' testing shaft. Throughout the rest of her testing adventure, Mel has a lack of a deep character and simply acts as a gateway for the player. Soon, through testing along with Cave Johnson acting increasingly suspicious, it is soon revealed that he is not Cave Johnson and in fact a [[Personality Core|Personality Construct]] named Virgil, who wants Mel to help him get out of the Aperture scrapyard that he fell into, off his management rail. If Mel is successful then Virgil will let her escape Aperture to go back to her 'normal' life.

After Virgil reveals himself, the relationship starts off shaky due to a lack of trust, Virgil himself even stating 'why would you trust someone who just lied to you' but as soon as Mel sees Virgil, Virgil seems very grateful when Mel picks him up stating "my motherboard was going critical". With Mel saving Virgil's life this seems to strengthen their bond.

With the introduction of AEGIS, the main antagonist of the game, Virgil seems rather quite alarmed about the 'flooding protocol' instigated by AEGIS, flooding the whole 1970s Lima Whiskey testing track, so Virgil tries to get Mel onto his testing track, which is soon hijacked by AEGIS, showing his power over the facility, and throughout the testing track Virgil tries to get Mel out, protect her and further encourage her. Soon, Virgil devises a plan to go to an overgrown testing track as the AEGIS scanners would be instantly overwhelmed by the amount of organic life (i.e. the overgrown plants and feral wildlife). Now in the overgrown testing track, Mel treks through it, still avoiding the imminent flood. Meanwhile, Virgil tries to gather as much information on AEGIS to shut down the autonomous core and then fully shut it down. Once devising a new plan to finish off AEGIS, Mel escapes and meets up with Virgil momentarily to then go to the AEGIS hub and systematically shut down his security, such as his thermal discouragement fields, and disabling his turrets. Finally, Virgil says he can't go in due to the lack of management rails. He wishes Mel good luck and she soon goes forward to shut his autonomy off.

Finally, using the defective turrets, Mel shuts down the AEGIS core leaving the AEGIS mainframe to a manual input. She shuts AGEIS down, but then soon finds out AEGIS's main goal was to completely flood the facility to fully destroy GLaDOS as its sole purpose was to protect all Aperture employees and accidentally seeing Mel and Virgil as murderers along with GLaDOS after she flooded the place herself with a deadly neurotoxin. Now Mel can finally escape, but first has to incinerate her old portal gun and have a final goodbye with Virgil and get to the surface and see the external ruins of the previous Aperture-founded community.

Then, a clear view of Mel shocked by her surroundings is shown and her adventure ends, we have very little information on Mel and seeing as Portal Stories: Mel is not canon, there is no acknowledgement to her in Portal 2, but it can be assumed she tries to live her life, but seeing the surrounding is completely overrun with wildlife, it seems that human life is scarce and society has probably collapsed, probably to the events of the Half-Life series.

[[File:2015-08-20 00002.jpg|thumb|An image of Mel in-game seeing herself through a portal]]

* '''[[Virgi]]l:''' Virgil is a personality construct, built by Aperture Science, probably in the late Cave Johnson - early Caroline era of the company as one of the first cores, due to his eye being the '70s logo of Aperture, as well as him having a great deal of knowledge on the older facility. He has a dark red skin with a tropical theme, and his orange eye cracked. Being a personality construct, he is a sentient AI and has a personality as the title implies. Throughout the game, he is shown to have much more intelligence then [[Wheatley]], but he is simply referred to as a maintenance core and does not possess a defined personality trait like the [[Space Sphere]], [[Adventure Sphere|Rick]] or the [[Fact Sphere]].

Virgil first appears as a fake Cave Johnson after the facility fell into disrepair and tries to guide Mel out to help him escape, only wanting to get out of his "technological nightmare", but as soon as Mel saves his motherboard from going critical, he starts to devise a plan to let both of them escape. However with the security system AEGIS flooding the place, Virgil tries to launch Mel onto his testing track for it to be hi-jacked a couple of tests in. He devised a second plan to go to the overrun facility to confuse AEGIS and use it as an distraction to find a way to destroy AEGIS and stop the flooding protocol. Finally once out of the overrun testing track, Virgil instructs Mel to shut down the AEGIS security and shut down the autonomy mainframe just to leave a manual input. Once Mel defeats AEGIS, Virgil and Mel depart and Virgil is left in Aperture Science, only with the other cores, Chell and GLaDOS once they wake up. Seeing that Portal Stories: Mel is non-canon it is unknown what truly happens to Virgil after the game or in the time period of Portal 2. Finally, it is also inferred that Virgil maybe be homosexual or bisexual as he shows some subtle attraction to the Rainbow Core, who is a male personality core.

:[[File:VirgilHacking.jpg|thumb|An image of Virgil trying to hack the mainframe, similar to Wheatley, with no avail.]]

* '''AEGIS:''' AEGIS (Aperture Employee Guardian and Intrusion System) is the main antagonist of the game. He can speak and make autonomous decisions, but they are based on protecting the scientists and does not show any self-awareness or sentience. He can only follow protocols and what will be safest for the scientists. He also seems to have great power over the facility, like GLaDOS, such as dispensing turrets, starting a flooding sequence or a asphyxiation program and even control testing tracks. He is first encountered in old Aperture when you have almost escaped the Lima Whiskey testing track as its radars can probably pick Mel up and immediately deems you as a threat, assuming you killed all the scientists in the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day incident.

:[[File:AGEIS.jpg|thumb|An image of AEGIS, in a similar position to GLaDOS]]

* '''Rainbow Core:''' The Rainbow Core appears as an Easter egg in a Test Chamber involving [[Excursion Funnel]]s, and speaks in a similar fashion to the Adventure Sphere. Virgil seems to be attracted to him, as evidenced by Virgil hoping Mel 'got his serial number'.

== Trivia ==
* The original Portal 2 was going to be a prequel and the main protagonist was also called Mel, but the two are mostly different characters and this beta Mel would go up against a southern Cave Johnson in the early days of Aperture, however it was changed to a sequel with Chell and GLaDOS because people missed Chell and GLaDOS' relationship, so Mel was scrapped.
* [[Doug Rattmann|Ratman]]'s dens can also be found in Portal Stories: Mel and one depicts AEGIS with millions of hands, depicting its control over the facility, when it is online.
* A hidden [[Weighted Companion Cube|companion cube]] can be found in Chapter 4, and is immediately fizzled on attempts to pick it up.
* The number "2056" appears many times during the game, in a mysterious way. It can be found at the beginning of the game on the train, and many other times, appearing also in an Easter egg and an achievement. This is a reference to developer LoneWolf2056's username.



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Cores

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[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|200px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise... I've never seen it before.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_spheredrop1-02.wav}}

'''Cores''' (also referred to as '''Spheres''', '''Personality Cores/Spheres''', or '''Aperture Science Artificial Personality Constructs''') are machines designed to house advanced artificial intelligence, mostly unique for their ability to express emotions. Cores generally come in two varieties: Spherical and Input. Spheres are the standard form, used for android bodies (such as Atlas) and other purposes. Input Cores are eliptical Cores such as are used in Turrets or P-Body.

Each unique core is either integrated into a robotic body or left in standalone sphere form. (these spheres are usually attached to management rails) in the [[Aperture Science]] computer-aided Enrichment Center, such as the [[Turrets#Sentry Turret|Turrets]], [[Atlas]], and [[P-body]].

{{spoiler|The raw spherical appearance of the cores are heavily featured throughout the finale events of both ''[[Portal]]'' and the single-player campaign in ''[[Portal 2]]''.}}

== Function ==
Developed by [[Aperture Science]] technicians, [[GLaDOS]] is the earliest known personality core - specifically designed for becoming the Enrichment Center's overseer. The next cores developed were given the purpose of counteracting GLaDOS' psychotic behavior (such as flooding test chambers and other vital parts of the facility with [[neurotoxin]]) by integrating with her (sub)concious and altering her personality.

Often present in the form of spherical shapes, these cores are a more simplistic design as their purpose had been more at hand instead. This contrasts with the majority of the designs of Aperture androids in the Enrichment Center that are personality core-based such as [[Atlas]] (enclosed core design), [[P-body]] (core inputs), and [[Turrets]] (also core inputs).

{{spoiler|After the events of ''Portal'', it became apparent that some of the unused (deactivated) cores kept in storage have been automatically reactivated by the facility to maintain the Enrichment Center. Under extreme circumstances/time, these cores have been unable to compensate, and have failed to do so. Some cores become corrupted (the cause of this is unknown).}}

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== Personality Cores ==
As the name implies, each core has its own unique personality and behavior, which can be incorporated into the central core when they are physically attached to it. However, most cores were unneeded and deactivated. {{spoiler|These were later reactivated after the destruction of GLaDOS in ''Portal''.}}

{{spoiler text|During the conflict with GLaDOS in ''Portal'', whenever [[Chell]] would drop a personality core into the [[Emergency Intelligence Incinerator|incinerator]], not only did GLaDOS experience pain when they are destroyed, she also began to lose some of her reinforced prominent personality traits. These include as her references to [[cake]], and her moral values, which resulted in a much stronger desire to kill Chell.}}

=== Central Core ===
{{Main|GLaDOS}}
[[Image:GLaDOS P2.png|right|170px|GLaDOS, a central core.]]

The '''Central Core''' is the highest rank of all Aperture Science Personality Cores in the Enrichment Center, given to the core hardwired into the enormous robotic body in the Central Control Chamber.

A central core has the power to control and regulate the entire Enrichment Center, including the camera feeds, Testing Chamber Assembly and Storage, and the Turret Production Lines.

{{spoiler|During the events of ''Portal 2'', it becomes apparent that any form of personality core would be more than qualified to be hardwired into the mainframe to become a central core. This is a feature preset by Aperture as a means of replacing corrupted central AI; and if the central core happens to disagree with their impeachment, a Stalemate Resolution Associate will have to force the replacement procedure.}}

[[GLaDOS]], whom was designed with the sole purpose of being the central core herself; does not possess a spherical shape like other personality cores.

=== Morality Core ===
{{Main|Morality Core}}
[[Image:MoralityCore.png|right|150px|Morality Core]]

The '''Morality Core''' is one of the more important cores attached on GLaDOS in ''Portal''. It is a core with a purple 'eye' and two dots just beneath it. {{Spoiler|It was installed onto GLaDOS some time before GLaDOS awakened Chell, in order to prevent her from filling the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]].}}

{{spoiler|It also seems to be what allows GLaDOS to keep her weapons under control, as she stated that she was unable to deactivate her [[Turrets#Rocket Turret|rocket turret]] once the core was incinerated.}}

{{spoiler|It is the first core collected and incinerated by Chell, which causes GLaDOS to begin losing her moral traits and once again start filling the room with Neurotoxin.}} Unlike other cores, the Morality Core is mute. {{Spoiler|The disposal of this core is reflected in GLaDOS' apathetic attitude and utter disregard for life in the end of ''Portal'' and prevalent in ''Portal 2'', though how much of this was under the core's control is uncertain due to the resurfacing of these emotions in GLaDOS after re-discovering her Genetic Lifeform component; [[Caroline]].}}
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=== Curiosity Core ===
{{Main|Curiosity Core}}
[[Image:CuriousityCore.png|right|150px|Curiousity Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Curiosity Core'''|Hey, look at THAT thing! No, that other thing.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_curiosity-07.wav}}

The second core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Curiosity Core'''. It is the core with an orange 'eye' and two dots beneath it. It has a tendency to constantly ask questions, ranging from its surroundings, to Chell, to where it is going.
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=== Cake Core ===
{{Main|Intelligence Core}}
[[Image:LogicCore.png|right|150px|Cake Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Cake Core'''|Fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_cakemix-15.wav}}

GLaDOS' third core, the '''Cake Core''', has a blue 'eye' with a huge pupil with six dots beneath it. It rambles on about an odd recipe for a rather unique kind of cake, {{Spoiler|which is the cake shown before the end credits of ''Portal''. GLaDOS does not make references to [[Cake]] in ''Portal 2'', and it is presumed that this is because the Core was destroyed in Portal.}}
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=== Anger Core ===
[[Image:AngerCore.png|right|150px|Anger Core]]
{{Main|Anger Core}}

{{Quotation|The '''Anger Core'''|*Snarl* *Snarl* *Growl*}}

The last core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Anger Core'''. It has a red 'eye' with eight dots beneath it. It is also referred to as the Emotion Core. Rather than speak, the Core snarls and growls ferociously at Chell. (These snarls and growls were later used in Valve's game 'Left 4 Dead', which featured the same actor, Mike Patton, as the infected.) {{Spoiler|Once Chell puts the Anger Core into the Incinerator, GLaDOS begins to implode. In ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS, due to the loss of this core, sounds very mellow, and barely expresses any emotional indications of hostility.}}
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=== Wheatley ===
{{Main|Wheatley}}
[[Image:Wheatley.png|right|170px|Wheatley]]

{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|One minute ago. Less than one minute ago you solved this puzzle. Now you're having problems.|sound=Wheatley_bw_a4_2nd_first_test_solve_nags04.wav}}

{{spoiler|The final antagonist of the single-player campaign in ''Portal 2'',}} '''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|also known as the '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''',}} is portrayed as bumbling, chatty, desperate when things did not catch up to his expectations, and often hesitant. He is the first character to have interacted with Chell in the game, and is one of many cores seen awakening at the end of ''Portal''.

{{spoiler|It was not long before it was revealed by GLaDOS that Wheatley was originally designed by the Aperture Science technicians with the express purpose of rendering GLaDOS less dangerous during her initial activations, via attaching Wheatley onto her to generate an infinite stream of flawed suggestions to distract her.}}

{{spoiler|It was thought that this would prevent her from killing the scientists when activated and improve the operations of the facility. According to GLaDOS, Wheatley is "the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived".}}
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=== Paranoia Core ===
{{Quotation|'''Paranoia Core'''|If you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, look outside for an unmarked white van. There's probably been a ship change.}}

The Paranoia Core is a bounty prize offered by GLaDOS in the game [[Poker Night 2]]. He speaks much like a stereotypical paranoid person, quickly and nervously. He is also identical in appearance to Wheatley.

=== Virgil ===
{{Main|Virgil}}

Virgil is a maintenance core who appears in [[Portal Stories: Mel]]. He {{spoiler|is a deuteragonist throughout the entire game.}} At the start, {{spoiler|he is stuck in a junkyard, pretending to be [[Cave Johnson]].}} Once he is rescued, {{spoiler|he helps you escape and defeat AEGIS.}}

== Corrupted Cores ==
Due to technical difficulties over time, a core may be detected as a '''Corrupted Core''' and would be subject to disposal. However, if the corrupted core is the central core, a substitute core must be present in a core receptacle in order to initiate a core transfer. Central Core Corruption will not be detected if another core is not present. This is because other cores would not usually be present, except for core transfer. Once a substitute core is found, both cores must agree or disagree to the core transfer procedure. If one agrees while the other disagrees, the transfer process cannot occur unless a Stalemate Resolution Associate is present in order to press the stalemate resolution button, which will initiate the core transfer process once the Associate has returned to the Central Chamber.

{{spoiler text|During the fight against Wheatley in ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS/PotatOS summons three corrupted cores to Chell for her to attach to Wheatley in order to make him corrupt enough to initiate another core transfer procedure.}}

All three Corrupted Cores are voiced by [[w:Nolan North|Nolan North]].

=== Space Sphere ===
{{main|Space Sphere}}
[[Image:SpaceCore.png|right|150px|Space Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Space Sphere'''|SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!|sound=Space_core_space21.wav}}
The '''Space Sphere''' is one of three active, corrupted cores. It speaks rapidly, and possesses an unhealthy obsession with space. Its key personality trait is its often-repeated desire to travel to outer space. {{spoiler text|It finally gets to live its dream of going to space when it is sucked through the portal that connects the remaining blot of Conversion Gel to the surface of the Moon.}} The Final Hours of Portal 2 reveal Valve's inspiration for the Space Core: an Oregon Coast Aquarium ad with a goldfish rapidly and repeatedly humming, blurting, and stating that he would like to go to the aquarium, much like the Space Core does.
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=== Adventure Sphere ===
{{main|Adventure Sphere}}
[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|150px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Adventure Sphere'''|Do you have a gun? 'Cause I should really have a gun. What is that thing you're holding?|sound=Adventure_core_babble16.wav}}
The second corrupted core, the '''Adventure Sphere''' (or as he calls himself, '''Rick''') speaks like a stereotypical soldier. {{spoiler text|Upon seeing Chell, he starts to swoon over her. He even tries (unsuccessfully) to convince Chell to take a "lady break" while he deals with Wheatley. After shooting a portal on the moon, an observant one can see Rick fly off of Wheatley.}}
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=== Fact Sphere ===
{{main|Fact Sphere}}
[[Image:FactCore.png|right|150px|Fact Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Fact Sphere'''|In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.|sound=Fact core fact47.wav}}
The '''Fact Sphere''' is the third corrupted core. It constantly states several random, twisted and not entirely true "facts" related to history, the current situation, as well as apparent facts about how amazing and handsome it is.
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== Other Cores ==
Cores that are neither corrupted nor personality cores, but cores that serve a different purpose altogether.

=== Party Escort Bot ===
{{main|Party Escort Bot}}
[[File:Party Escort Bot.png|right|300px|Party Escort Bot as it appears in ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]''.]]
{{Quotation|'''Party Escort Bot'''|"Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position."|}}
During the events of Portal, GLaDOS refers to the Party Associate after failing her attempt to kill Chell at the end of the final test chamber. As Chell did not follow GLaDOS as the latter instructed her to "place the device on the ground, then lie on [her] stomach with [her] arms at [her] sides" which was described as the "party escort submission position", it is presumed that the Party Escort Bot was required to travel to the surface in order to retrieve her and "escort her to the party".
Prior to the March 3, 2010 patch, Portal ended with Chell slowly regaining consciousness on the parking lot above the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Since the patch was added to bridge the gap between Portal and Portal 2, Chell is instead slowly and unwillingly dragged back towards the facility by the unseen Party Escort Bot as it thanks her for "assuming the party escort submission position".
The Party Escort Bot is seen briefly in the Portal 2: Lab Rat comic and was only partially depicted, revealed to be a core-based android with a pink eye.
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== Trivia ==
* The bomb model used in ''Portal 2'' is named 'personality_sphere_angry' within the game files, suggesting the Anger core was to make an appearance in the sequel.

:* The bomb model also possesses various typical personality core animations that can be viewed in the Model Viewer in the Authoring Tools. These include a stationary animation, a test animation where the core aimlessly looks around, and an angry animation where it twitches violently.

* In early screenshots released prior to the ''Portal 2'' E3 teaser trailer, the texture of personality cores were yet to receive detailing and minor scratches, as the textures of the plating were matte white. Since then the textures have been greatly improved, and compared to ''[[Portal]]'', the Cores from then to the retail version have a wider range of emotions.

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=2
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Portal 2 Bomb.png|alt1=Cores|The bomb model in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core.png|alt5=Beta core|An unnamed core as seen in ''[[Portal 2 - The Final Hours]]''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core 2.png|alt6=Beta core 2|A unused core in a dilapidated [[Portal Test Chamber 13|Test Chamber 13]].
|File:PPN2.png|The Paranoia Core in ''[[Poker Night 2]]''.
}}

== See also ==
* [[Core voice lines]]
* [[The Underground]], a Machinima series about corrupt cores

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Cores

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{{SpoilerHeavy}}

[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|200px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise... I've never seen it before.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_spheredrop1-02.wav}}

'''Cores''' (also referred to as '''Spheres''', '''Personality Cores/Spheres''', or '''Aperture Science Artificial Personality Constructs''') are machines designed to house advanced artificial intelligence, mostly unique for their ability to express emotions. Cores generally come in two varieties: Spherical and Input. Spheres are the standard form, used for android bodies (such as Atlas) and other purposes. Input Cores are eliptical Cores such as are used in Turrets or P-Body.

Each unique core is either integrated into a robotic body or left in standalone sphere form. (these spheres are usually attached to management rails) in the [[Aperture Science]] computer-aided Enrichment Center, such as the [[Turrets#Sentry Turret|Turrets]], [[Atlas]], and [[P-body]].

{{spoiler|The raw spherical appearance of the cores are heavily featured throughout the finale events of both ''[[Portal]]'' and the single-player campaign in ''[[Portal 2]]''.}}

== Function ==
Developed by [[Aperture Science]] technicians, [[GLaDOS]] is the earliest known personality core - specifically designed for becoming the Enrichment Center's overseer. The next cores developed were given the purpose of counteracting GLaDOS' psychotic behavior (such as flooding test chambers and other vital parts of the facility with [[neurotoxin]]) by integrating with her (sub)concious and altering her personality.

Often present in the form of spherical shapes, these cores are a more simplistic design as their purpose had been more at hand instead. This contrasts with the majority of the designs of Aperture androids in the Enrichment Center that are personality core-based such as [[Atlas]] (enclosed core design), [[P-body]] (core inputs), and [[Turrets]] (also core inputs).

{{spoiler|After the events of ''Portal'', it became apparent that some of the unused (deactivated) cores kept in storage have been automatically reactivated by the facility to maintain the Enrichment Center. Under extreme circumstances/time, these cores have been unable to compensate, and have failed to do so. Some cores become corrupted (the cause of this is unknown).}}

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== Personality Cores ==
As the name implies, each core has its own unique personality and behavior, which can be incorporated into the central core when they are physically attached to it. However, most cores were unneeded and deactivated. {{spoiler|These were later reactivated after the destruction of GLaDOS in ''Portal''.}}

{{spoiler text|During the conflict with GLaDOS in ''Portal'', whenever [[Chell]] would drop a personality core into the [[Emergency Intelligence Incinerator|incinerator]], not only did GLaDOS experience pain when they are destroyed, she also began to lose some of her reinforced prominent personality traits. These include as her references to [[cake]], and her moral values, which resulted in a much stronger desire to kill Chell.}}

=== Central Core ===
{{Main|GLaDOS}}
[[Image:GLaDOS P2.png|right|170px|GLaDOS, a central core.]]

The '''Central Core''' is the highest rank of all Aperture Science Personality Cores in the Enrichment Center, given to the core hardwired into the enormous robotic body in the Central Control Chamber.

A central core has the power to control and regulate the entire Enrichment Center, including the camera feeds, Testing Chamber Assembly and Storage, and the Turret Production Lines.

{{spoiler|During the events of ''Portal 2'', it becomes apparent that any form of personality core would be more than qualified to be hardwired into the mainframe to become a central core. This is a feature preset by Aperture as a means of replacing corrupted central AI; and if the central core happens to disagree with their impeachment, a Stalemate Resolution Associate will have to force the replacement procedure.}}

[[GLaDOS]], whom was designed with the sole purpose of being the central core herself; does not possess a spherical shape like other personality cores.

=== Morality Core ===
{{Main|Morality Core}}
[[Image:MoralityCore.png|right|150px|Morality Core]]

The '''Morality Core''' is one of the more important cores attached on GLaDOS in ''Portal''. It is a core with a purple 'eye' and two dots just beneath it. {{Spoiler|It was installed onto GLaDOS some time before GLaDOS awakened Chell, in order to prevent her from filling the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]].}}

{{spoiler|It also seems to be what allows GLaDOS to keep her weapons under control, as she stated that she was unable to deactivate her [[Turrets#Rocket Turret|rocket turret]] once the core was incinerated.}}

{{spoiler|It is the first core collected and incinerated by Chell, which causes GLaDOS to begin losing her moral traits and once again start filling the room with Neurotoxin.}} Unlike other cores, the Morality Core is mute. {{Spoiler|The disposal of this core is reflected in GLaDOS' apathetic attitude and utter disregard for life in the end of ''Portal'' and prevalent in ''Portal 2'', though how much of this was under the core's control is uncertain due to the resurfacing of these emotions in GLaDOS after re-discovering her Genetic Lifeform component; [[Caroline]].}}
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=== Curiosity Core ===
{{Main|Curiosity Core}}
[[Image:CuriousityCore.png|right|150px|Curiousity Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Curiosity Core'''|Hey, look at THAT thing! No, that other thing.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_curiosity-07.wav}}

The second core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Curiosity Core'''. It is the core with an orange 'eye' and two dots beneath it. It has a tendency to constantly ask questions, ranging from its surroundings, to Chell, to where it is going.
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=== Cake Core ===
{{Main|Intelligence Core}}
[[Image:LogicCore.png|right|150px|Cake Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Cake Core'''|Fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_cakemix-15.wav}}

GLaDOS' third core, the '''Cake Core''', has a blue 'eye' with a huge pupil with six dots beneath it. It rambles on about an odd recipe for a rather unique kind of cake, {{Spoiler|which is the cake shown before the end credits of ''Portal''. GLaDOS does not make references to [[Cake]] in ''Portal 2'', and it is presumed that this is because the Core was destroyed in Portal.}}
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=== Anger Core ===
[[Image:AngerCore.png|right|150px|Anger Core]]
{{Main|Anger Core}}

{{Quotation|The '''Anger Core'''|*Snarl* *Snarl* *Growl*}}

The last core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Anger Core'''. It has a red 'eye' with eight dots beneath it. It is also referred to as the Emotion Core. Rather than speak, the Core snarls and growls ferociously at Chell. (These snarls and growls were later used in Valve's game 'Left 4 Dead', which featured the same actor, Mike Patton, as the infected.) {{Spoiler|Once Chell puts the Anger Core into the Incinerator, GLaDOS begins to implode. In ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS, due to the loss of this core, sounds very mellow, and barely expresses any emotional indications of hostility.}}
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=== Wheatley ===
{{Main|Wheatley}}
[[Image:Wheatley.png|right|170px|Wheatley]]

{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|One minute ago. Less than one minute ago you solved this puzzle. Now you're having problems.|sound=Wheatley_bw_a4_2nd_first_test_solve_nags04.wav}}

{{spoiler|The final antagonist of the single-player campaign in ''Portal 2'',}} '''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|also known as the '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''',}} is portrayed as bumbling, chatty, desperate when things did not catch up to his expectations, and often hesitant. He is the first character to have interacted with Chell in the game, and is one of many cores seen awakening at the end of ''Portal''.

{{spoiler|It was not long before it was revealed by GLaDOS that Wheatley was originally designed by the Aperture Science technicians with the express purpose of rendering GLaDOS less dangerous during her initial activations, via attaching Wheatley onto her to generate an infinite stream of flawed suggestions to distract her.}}

{{spoiler|It was thought that this would prevent her from killing the scientists when activated and improve the operations of the facility. According to GLaDOS, Wheatley is "the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived".}}
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=== Paranoia Core ===
{{Quotation|'''Paranoia Core'''|If you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, look outside for an unmarked white van. There's probably been a ship change.}}

The Paranoia Core is a bounty prize offered by GLaDOS in the game [[Poker Night 2]]. He speaks much like a stereotypical paranoid person, quickly and nervously. He is also identical in appearance to Wheatley.

=== Virgi l===
{{Main|Virgil}}

Virgil is a maintenance core who appears in [[Portal Stories: Mel]]. He {{spoiler|is a deuteragonist throughout the entire game.}} At the start, {{spoiler|he is stuck in a junkyard, pretending to be [[Cave Johnson]].}} Once he is rescued, {{spoiler|he helps you escape and defeat AEGIS.}}

== Corrupted Cores ==
Due to technical difficulties over time, a core may be detected as a '''Corrupted Core''' and would be subject to disposal. However, if the corrupted core is the central core, a substitute core must be present in a core receptacle in order to initiate a core transfer. Central Core Corruption will not be detected if another core is not present. This is because other cores would not usually be present, except for core transfer. Once a substitute core is found, both cores must agree or disagree to the core transfer procedure. If one agrees while the other disagrees, the transfer process cannot occur unless a Stalemate Resolution Associate is present in order to press the stalemate resolution button, which will initiate the core transfer process once the Associate has returned to the Central Chamber.

{{spoiler text|During the fight against Wheatley in ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS/PotatOS summons three corrupted cores to Chell for her to attach to Wheatley in order to make him corrupt enough to initiate another core transfer procedure.}}

All three Corrupted Cores are voiced by [[w:Nolan North|Nolan North]].

=== Space Sphere ===
{{main|Space Sphere}}
[[Image:SpaceCore.png|right|150px|Space Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Space Sphere'''|SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!|sound=Space_core_space21.wav}}
The '''Space Sphere''' is one of three active, corrupted cores. It speaks rapidly, and possesses an unhealthy obsession with space. Its key personality trait is its often-repeated desire to travel to outer space. {{spoiler text|It finally gets to live its dream of going to space when it is sucked through the portal that connects the remaining blot of Conversion Gel to the surface of the Moon.}} The Final Hours of Portal 2 reveal Valve's inspiration for the Space Core: an Oregon Coast Aquarium ad with a goldfish rapidly and repeatedly humming, blurting, and stating that he would like to go to the aquarium, much like the Space Core does.
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=== Adventure Sphere ===
{{main|Adventure Sphere}}
[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|150px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Adventure Sphere'''|Do you have a gun? 'Cause I should really have a gun. What is that thing you're holding?|sound=Adventure_core_babble16.wav}}
The second corrupted core, the '''Adventure Sphere''' (or as he calls himself, '''Rick''') speaks like a stereotypical soldier. {{spoiler text|Upon seeing Chell, he starts to swoon over her. He even tries (unsuccessfully) to convince Chell to take a "lady break" while he deals with Wheatley. After shooting a portal on the moon, an observant one can see Rick fly off of Wheatley.}}
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=== Fact Sphere ===
{{main|Fact Sphere}}
[[Image:FactCore.png|right|150px|Fact Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Fact Sphere'''|In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.|sound=Fact core fact47.wav}}
The '''Fact Sphere''' is the third corrupted core. It constantly states several random, twisted and not entirely true "facts" related to history, the current situation, as well as apparent facts about how amazing and handsome it is.
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== Other Cores ==
Cores that are neither corrupted nor personality cores, but cores that serve a different purpose altogether.

=== Party Escort Bot ===
{{main|Party Escort Bot}}
[[File:Party Escort Bot.png|right|300px|Party Escort Bot as it appears in ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]''.]]
{{Quotation|'''Party Escort Bot'''|"Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position."|}}
During the events of Portal, GLaDOS refers to the Party Associate after failing her attempt to kill Chell at the end of the final test chamber. As Chell did not follow GLaDOS as the latter instructed her to "place the device on the ground, then lie on [her] stomach with [her] arms at [her] sides" which was described as the "party escort submission position", it is presumed that the Party Escort Bot was required to travel to the surface in order to retrieve her and "escort her to the party".
Prior to the March 3, 2010 patch, Portal ended with Chell slowly regaining consciousness on the parking lot above the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Since the patch was added to bridge the gap between Portal and Portal 2, Chell is instead slowly and unwillingly dragged back towards the facility by the unseen Party Escort Bot as it thanks her for "assuming the party escort submission position".
The Party Escort Bot is seen briefly in the Portal 2: Lab Rat comic and was only partially depicted, revealed to be a core-based android with a pink eye.
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== Trivia ==
* The bomb model used in ''Portal 2'' is named 'personality_sphere_angry' within the game files, suggesting the Anger core was to make an appearance in the sequel.

:* The bomb model also possesses various typical personality core animations that can be viewed in the Model Viewer in the Authoring Tools. These include a stationary animation, a test animation where the core aimlessly looks around, and an angry animation where it twitches violently.

* In early screenshots released prior to the ''Portal 2'' E3 teaser trailer, the texture of personality cores were yet to receive detailing and minor scratches, as the textures of the plating were matte white. Since then the textures have been greatly improved, and compared to ''[[Portal]]'', the Cores from then to the retail version have a wider range of emotions.

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=2
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Portal 2 Bomb.png|alt1=Cores|The bomb model in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core.png|alt5=Beta core|An unnamed core as seen in ''[[Portal 2 - The Final Hours]]''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core 2.png|alt6=Beta core 2|A unused core in a dilapidated [[Portal Test Chamber 13|Test Chamber 13]].
|File:PPN2.png|The Paranoia Core in ''[[Poker Night 2]]''.
}}

== See also ==
* [[Core voice lines]]
* [[The Underground]], a Machinima series about corrupt cores

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Cores

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[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|200px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]

{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|Do you see that thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise... I've never seen it before.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_spheredrop1-02.wav}}

'''Cores''' (also referred to as '''Spheres''', '''Personality Cores/Spheres''', or '''Aperture Science Artificial Personality Constructs''') are machines designed to house advanced artificial intelligence, mostly unique for their ability to express emotions. Cores generally come in two varieties: Spherical and Input. Spheres are the standard form, used for android bodies (such as Atlas) and other purposes. Input Cores are eliptical Cores such as are used in Turrets or P-Body.

Each unique core is either integrated into a robotic body or left in standalone sphere form. (these spheres are usually attached to management rails) in the [[Aperture Science]] computer-aided Enrichment Center, such as the [[Turrets#Sentry Turret|Turrets]], [[Atlas]], and [[P-body]].

{{spoiler|The raw spherical appearance of the cores are heavily featured throughout the finale events of both ''[[Portal]]'' and the single-player campaign in ''[[Portal 2]]''.}}

== Function ==
Developed by [[Aperture Science]] technicians, [[GLaDOS]] is the earliest known personality core - specifically designed for becoming the Enrichment Center's overseer. The next cores developed were given the purpose of counteracting GLaDOS' psychotic behavior (such as flooding test chambers and other vital parts of the facility with [[neurotoxin]]) by integrating with her (sub)concious and altering her personality.

Often present in the form of spherical shapes, these cores are a more simplistic design as their purpose had been more at hand instead. This contrasts with the majority of the designs of Aperture androids in the Enrichment Center that are personality core-based such as [[Atlas]] (enclosed core design), [[P-body]] (core inputs), and [[Turrets]] (also core inputs).

{{spoiler|After the events of ''Portal'', it became apparent that some of the unused (deactivated) cores kept in storage have been automatically reactivated by the facility to maintain the Enrichment Center. Under extreme circumstances/time, these cores have been unable to compensate, and have failed to do so. Some cores become corrupted (the cause of this is unknown).}}

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== Personality Cores ==
As the name implies, each core has its own unique personality and behavior, which can be incorporated into the central core when they are physically attached to it. However, most cores were unneeded and deactivated. {{spoiler|These were later reactivated after the destruction of GLaDOS in ''Portal''.}}

{{spoiler text|During the conflict with GLaDOS in ''Portal'', whenever [[Chell]] would drop a personality core into the [[Emergency Intelligence Incinerator|incinerator]], not only did GLaDOS experience pain when they are destroyed, she also began to lose some of her reinforced prominent personality traits. These include as her references to [[cake]], and her moral values, which resulted in a much stronger desire to kill Chell.}}

=== Central Core ===
{{Main|GLaDOS}}
[[Image:GLaDOS P2.png|right|170px|GLaDOS, a central core.]]

The '''Central Core''' is the highest rank of all Aperture Science Personality Cores in the Enrichment Center, given to the core hardwired into the enormous robotic body in the Central Control Chamber.

A central core has the power to control and regulate the entire Enrichment Center, including the camera feeds, Testing Chamber Assembly and Storage, and the Turret Production Lines.

{{spoiler|During the events of ''Portal 2'', it becomes apparent that any form of personality core would be more than qualified to be hardwired into the mainframe to become a central core. This is a feature preset by Aperture as a means of replacing corrupted central AI; and if the central core happens to disagree with their impeachment, a Stalemate Resolution Associate will have to force the replacement procedure.}}

[[GLaDOS]], whom was designed with the sole purpose of being the central core herself; does not possess a spherical shape like other personality cores.

=== Morality Core ===
{{Main|Morality Core}}
[[Image:MoralityCore.png|right|150px|Morality Core]]

The '''Morality Core''' is one of the more important cores attached on GLaDOS in ''Portal''. It is a core with a purple 'eye' and two dots just beneath it. {{Spoiler|It was installed onto GLaDOS some time before GLaDOS awakened Chell, in order to prevent her from filling the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]].}}

{{spoiler|It also seems to be what allows GLaDOS to keep her weapons under control, as she stated that she was unable to deactivate her [[Turrets#Rocket Turret|rocket turret]] once the core was incinerated.}}

{{spoiler|It is the first core collected and incinerated by Chell, which causes GLaDOS to begin losing her moral traits and once again start filling the room with Neurotoxin.}} Unlike other cores, the Morality Core is mute. {{Spoiler|The disposal of this core is reflected in GLaDOS' apathetic attitude and utter disregard for life in the end of ''Portal'' and prevalent in ''Portal 2'', though how much of this was under the core's control is uncertain due to the resurfacing of these emotions in GLaDOS after re-discovering her Genetic Lifeform component; [[Caroline]].}}
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=== Curiosity Core ===
{{Main|Curiosity Core}}
[[Image:CuriousityCore.png|right|150px|Curiousity Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Curiosity Core'''|Hey, look at THAT thing! No, that other thing.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_curiosity-07.wav}}

The second core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Curiosity Core'''. It is the core with an orange 'eye' and two dots beneath it. It has a tendency to constantly ask questions, ranging from its surroundings, to Chell, to where it is going.
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=== Cake Core ===
{{Main|Intelligence Core}}
[[Image:LogicCore.png|right|150px|Cake Core]]

{{Quotation|The '''Cake Core'''|Fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment.|sound=GLaDOS_escape_02_sphere_cakemix-15.wav}}

GLaDOS' third core, the '''Cake Core''', has a blue 'eye' with a huge pupil with six dots beneath it. It rambles on about an odd recipe for a rather unique kind of cake, {{Spoiler|which is the cake shown before the end credits of ''Portal''. GLaDOS does not make references to [[Cake]] in ''Portal 2'', and it is presumed that this is because the Core was destroyed in Portal.}}
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=== Anger Core ===
[[Image:AngerCore.png|right|150px|Anger Core]]
{{Main|Anger Core}}

{{Quotation|The '''Anger Core'''|*Snarl* *Snarl* *Growl*}}

The last core attached to GLaDOS is the '''Anger Core'''. It has a red 'eye' with eight dots beneath it. It is also referred to as the Emotion Core. Rather than speak, the Core snarls and growls ferociously at Chell. (These snarls and growls were later used in Valve's game 'Left 4 Dead', which featured the same actor, Mike Patton, as the infected.) {{Spoiler|Once Chell puts the Anger Core into the Incinerator, GLaDOS begins to implode. In ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS, due to the loss of this core, sounds very mellow, and barely expresses any emotional indications of hostility.}}
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=== Wheatley ===
{{Main|Wheatley}}
[[Image:Wheatley.png|right|170px|Wheatley]]

{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|One minute ago. Less than one minute ago you solved this puzzle. Now you're having problems.|sound=Wheatley_bw_a4_2nd_first_test_solve_nags04.wav}}

{{spoiler|The final antagonist of the single-player campaign in ''Portal 2'',}} '''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|also known as the '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''',}} is portrayed as bumbling, chatty, desperate when things did not catch up to his expectations, and often hesitant. He is the first character to have interacted with Chell in the game, and is one of many cores seen awakening at the end of ''Portal''.

{{spoiler|It was not long before it was revealed by GLaDOS that Wheatley was originally designed by the Aperture Science technicians with the express purpose of rendering GLaDOS less dangerous during her initial activations, via attaching Wheatley onto her to generate an infinite stream of flawed suggestions to distract her.}}

{{spoiler|It was thought that this would prevent her from killing the scientists when activated and improve the operations of the facility. According to GLaDOS, Wheatley is "the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived".}}
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=== Paranoia Core ===
{{Quotation|'''Paranoia Core'''|If you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, look outside for an unmarked white van. There's probably been a ship change.}}

The Paranoia Core is a bounty prize offered by GLaDOS in the game [[Poker Night 2]]. He speaks much like a stereotypical paranoid person, quickly and nervously. He is also identical in appearance to Wheatley.

==Virgil==
{{Main|Virgil}}

Virgil is a maintenance core who appears in [[Portal Stories: Mel]]. He {{spoiler|is a deuteragonist throughout the entire game.}} At the start, {{spoiler|he is stuck in a junkyard, pretending to be [[Cave Johnson]].}} Once he is rescued, {{spoiler|he helps you escape and defeat AEGIS.}}

== Corrupted Cores ==
Due to technical difficulties over time, a core may be detected as a '''Corrupted Core''' and would be subject to disposal. However, if the corrupted core is the central core, a substitute core must be present in a core receptacle in order to initiate a core transfer. Central Core Corruption will not be detected if another core is not present. This is because other cores would not usually be present, except for core transfer. Once a substitute core is found, both cores must agree or disagree to the core transfer procedure. If one agrees while the other disagrees, the transfer process cannot occur unless a Stalemate Resolution Associate is present in order to press the stalemate resolution button, which will initiate the core transfer process once the Associate has returned to the Central Chamber.

{{spoiler text|During the fight against Wheatley in ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS/PotatOS summons three corrupted cores to Chell for her to attach to Wheatley in order to make him corrupt enough to initiate another core transfer procedure.}}

All three Corrupted Cores are voiced by [[w:Nolan North|Nolan North]].

=== Space Sphere ===
{{main|Space Sphere}}
[[Image:SpaceCore.png|right|150px|Space Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Space Sphere'''|SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!|sound=Space_core_space21.wav}}
The '''Space Sphere''' is one of three active, corrupted cores. It speaks rapidly, and possesses an unhealthy obsession with space. Its key personality trait is its often-repeated desire to travel to outer space. {{spoiler text|It finally gets to live its dream of going to space when it is sucked through the portal that connects the remaining blot of Conversion Gel to the surface of the Moon.}} The Final Hours of Portal 2 reveal Valve's inspiration for the Space Core: an Oregon Coast Aquarium ad with a goldfish rapidly and repeatedly humming, blurting, and stating that he would like to go to the aquarium, much like the Space Core does.
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=== Adventure Sphere ===
{{main|Adventure Sphere}}
[[Image:AdventureCore.png|right|150px|Rick, the Adventure Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Adventure Sphere'''|Do you have a gun? 'Cause I should really have a gun. What is that thing you're holding?|sound=Adventure_core_babble16.wav}}
The second corrupted core, the '''Adventure Sphere''' (or as he calls himself, '''Rick''') speaks like a stereotypical soldier. {{spoiler text|Upon seeing Chell, he starts to swoon over her. He even tries (unsuccessfully) to convince Chell to take a "lady break" while he deals with Wheatley. After shooting a portal on the moon, an observant one can see Rick fly off of Wheatley.}}
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=== Fact Sphere ===
{{main|Fact Sphere}}
[[Image:FactCore.png|right|150px|Fact Sphere]]
{{Quotation|The '''Fact Sphere'''|In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning.|sound=Fact core fact47.wav}}
The '''Fact Sphere''' is the third corrupted core. It constantly states several random, twisted and not entirely true "facts" related to history, the current situation, as well as apparent facts about how amazing and handsome it is.
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== Other Cores ==
Cores that are neither corrupted nor personality cores, but cores that serve a different purpose altogether.

=== Party Escort Bot ===
{{main|Party Escort Bot}}
[[File:Party Escort Bot.png|right|300px|Party Escort Bot as it appears in ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]''.]]
{{Quotation|'''Party Escort Bot'''|"Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position."|}}
During the events of Portal, GLaDOS refers to the Party Associate after failing her attempt to kill Chell at the end of the final test chamber. As Chell did not follow GLaDOS as the latter instructed her to "place the device on the ground, then lie on [her] stomach with [her] arms at [her] sides" which was described as the "party escort submission position", it is presumed that the Party Escort Bot was required to travel to the surface in order to retrieve her and "escort her to the party".
Prior to the March 3, 2010 patch, Portal ended with Chell slowly regaining consciousness on the parking lot above the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Since the patch was added to bridge the gap between Portal and Portal 2, Chell is instead slowly and unwillingly dragged back towards the facility by the unseen Party Escort Bot as it thanks her for "assuming the party escort submission position".
The Party Escort Bot is seen briefly in the Portal 2: Lab Rat comic and was only partially depicted, revealed to be a core-based android with a pink eye.
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== Trivia ==
* The bomb model used in ''Portal 2'' is named 'personality_sphere_angry' within the game files, suggesting the Anger core was to make an appearance in the sequel.

:* The bomb model also possesses various typical personality core animations that can be viewed in the Model Viewer in the Authoring Tools. These include a stationary animation, a test animation where the core aimlessly looks around, and an angry animation where it twitches violently.

* In early screenshots released prior to the ''Portal 2'' E3 teaser trailer, the texture of personality cores were yet to receive detailing and minor scratches, as the textures of the plating were matte white. Since then the textures have been greatly improved, and compared to ''[[Portal]]'', the Cores from then to the retail version have a wider range of emotions.

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=2
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Portal 2 Bomb.png|alt1=Cores|The bomb model in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core.png|alt5=Beta core|An unnamed core as seen in ''[[Portal 2 - The Final Hours]]''.
|File:Portal 2 Unnamed Core 2.png|alt6=Beta core 2|A unused core in a dilapidated [[Portal Test Chamber 13|Test Chamber 13]].
|File:PPN2.png|The Paranoia Core in ''[[Poker Night 2]]''.
}}

== See also ==
* [[Core voice lines]]
* [[The Underground]], a Machinima series about corrupt cores

{{CharactersNav}}

Portal Stories: Mel

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{{Game infobox
| appid = 317400
| game-name-override = Portal Stories: Mel
| boxart-image = Portal Stories Header.jpg
| developer = Prism Studios
| engine = [[Source_Engine|Source Engine]]
| released = 25 Jun 2015
| modes = Singleplayer
| genre = First-person puzzle/platformer
| requirements = [[Portal 2]]
}}

'''Portal Stories: Mel''' is a modification and unofficial prequel to [[Portal 2]].

== Story ==
An [[Aperture Science]] test subject named [[Mel]] arrives at Aperture via train in 1952. [[Cave Johnson]] tells her that she will be testing the Short-Term [[Relaxation Vault]], and tells her she will be asleep for a few minutes, or at most an hour. After going into the vault, something goes wrong, and she is indefinitely put to sleep. Later, far into the future, she is waken up by a voice pretending to be Cave Johnson that is trying to convince her it is 1952. It tells her to pick up an [[ASHPD]] to participate in a "new test." After a few tests, he decides to stop the act, and reveals he isn't Cave Johnson, and they are in the future and stuck inside of Aperture. He is actually a core named Virgil, a 'maintenance core' who is stuck in the 'scrapyard' of Aperture, and needs your help. Later after reaching a seal, Mel takes the lift that comes down after opening the seal. Mel later reaches the scrapyard, and then the offices. After finding Virgil,
he tells Mel to turn on the power. After turning on the power the voice is heard again. Its name is 'AEGIS', short for 'Aperture Employee Guardian and Intrusion System'. AEGIS begins to flood Aperture with toxic goo. Mel and Virgil take an elevator up to Virgil's testing track, through which they can access the computer room for AEGIS. Mel uses turrets to destroy the computers, and shut down AEGIS. Before shutting down, AEGIS reveals that it was trying to eliminate three targets: Mel, Virgil and [[GLaDOS]]. Mel incinerates her portal device, and goes up to the surface, saying goodbye to Virgil. Shutting down AEGIS drained cryogenic reserve power, thus waking up [[Chell]] and starting the events of Portal 2.

== Mechanics ==
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Portal Stories: Mel's mechanics work similarly to [[Portal]] and Portal 2.
* New '70s portal gun model
* '50s Mobster turrets (Voices unused due to the Source Engine's programming.)
* Advanced, high-difficulty tests
* Stylish '50s long fall boots
* Deadly Emancipation Grill

== Characters ==

==== '''Major Characters:''' ====

* '''[[Mel]]:''' Mel is the main protagonist of Portal Stories: Mel. She is a middle-aged brunette woman sporting a brown Aperture jumpsuit and spring based long fall boots. She also has minimal makeup such as red nail varnish and red lipstick. Little is known about her history as she is a silent protagonist similar to Chell from Portal and Portal 2, however Virgil does tell us about her struggles in Olympics, thus proving her Olympic status as an athlete in the 1936 Nuremberg Olympics. Her story starts in the old 1950s Aperture in a small train, akin to the beginning to the original Half-Life [[http://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life]], and Cave Johnson gives us a quick synopsis of the facility, along with his usual antics (i.e. firing an employee for a simple spelling error). She soon walks through the brand new unnamed community founded by Aperture Science themselves, and going into the new yet faulty Aperture Science Short-Term Relaxation Vault (most likely an earlier version of the Aperture Science Long-Term Relaxation Vault). She falls asleep as Cave Johnson instructs her to do and then she soon falls into a long slumber. Once awoken "Cave Johnson" soon tells her she successfully completed her test and that she can complete another brand new test. As Mel looks around, it is clear that a long time has passed and Mel carries out her adventure inbetween Portal and Portal 2, and after the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day incident leaving all the scientists dead as well as GLaDOS deactivated and badly damaged by Chell. Mel is soon led by "Cave Johnson" to a vintage portal gun, in a smashed shelf filled with an array of comical rewards and trophies highlighting Aperture's achievements. She makes her way around the destroyed Aperture facility with technology well beyond Mel's time period, but "Cave" reassures it was simply an earthquake that brought things from the future with it. Now Mel needs to use her 'new test' to try and solve the Enrichment Spheres and finish the 'new' testing shaft. Throughout the rest of her testing adventure, Mel has a lack of a deep character and simply acts as a gateway for the player. Soon, through testing along with Cave Johnson acting increasingly suspicious, it is soon revealed that he is not Cave Johnson and in fact a [[Personality Core|Personality Construct]] named Virgil, who wants Mel to help him get out of the Aperture scrapyard that he fell into, off his management rail. If Mel is successful then Virgil will let her escape Aperture to go back to her 'normal' life.

After Virgil reveals himself, the relationship starts off shaky due to a lack of trust, Virgil himself even stating 'why would you trust someone who just lied to you' but as soon as Mel sees Virgil, Virgil seems very grateful when Mel picks him up stating "my motherboard was going critical". With Mel saving Virgil's life this seems to strengthen their bond.

With the introduction of AEGIS, the main antagonist of the game, Virgil seems rather quite alarmed about the 'flooding protocol' instigated by AEGIS, flooding the whole 1970s Lima Whiskey testing track, so Virgil tries to get Mel onto his testing track, which is soon hijacked by AEGIS, showing his power over the facility, and throughout the testing track Virgil tries to get Mel out, protect her and further encourage her. Soon, Virgil devises a plan to go to an overgrown testing track as the AEGIS scanners would be instantly overwhelmed by the amount of organic life (i.e. the overgrown plants and feral wildlife). Now in the overgrown testing track, Mel treks through it, still avoiding the imminent flood. Meanwhile, Virgil tries to gather as much information on AEGIS to shut down the autonomous core and then fully shut it down. Once devising a new plan to finish off AEGIS, Mel escapes and meets up with Virgil momentarily to then go to the AEGIS hub and systematically shut down his security, such as his thermal discouragement fields, and disabling his turrets. Finally, Virgil says he can't go in due to the lack of management rails. He wishes Mel good luck and she soon goes forward to shut his autonomy off.

Finally, using the defective turrets, Mel shuts down the AEGIS core leaving the AEGIS mainframe to a manual input. She shuts AGEIS down, but then soon finds out AEGIS's main goal was to completely flood the facility to fully destroy GLaDOS as its sole purpose was to protect all Aperture employees and accidentally seeing Mel and Virgil as murderers along with GLaDOS after she flooded the place herself with a deadly neurotoxin. Now Mel can finally escape, but first has to incinerate her old portal gun and have a final goodbye with Virgil and get to the surface and see the external ruins of the previous Aperture-founded community.

Then, a clear view of Mel shocked by her surroundings is shown and her adventure ends, we have very little information on Mel and seeing as Portal Stories: Mel is not canon, there is no acknowledgement to her in Portal 2, but it can be assumed she tries to live her life, but seeing the surrounding is completely overrun with wildlife, it seems that human life is scarce and society has probably collapsed, probably to the events of the Half-Life series.

[[File:2015-08-20 00002.jpg|thumb|An image of Mel in-game seeing herself through a portal]]

* '''Virgil:''' Virgil is a personality construct, built by Aperture Science, probably in the late Cave Johnson - early Caroline era of the company as one of the first cores, due to his eye being the '70s logo of Aperture, as well as him having a great deal of knowledge on the older facility. He has a dark red skin with a tropical theme, and his orange eye cracked. Being a personality construct, he is a sentient AI and has a personality as the title implies. Throughout the game, he is shown to have much more intelligence then [[Wheatley]], but he is simply referred to as a maintenance core and does not possess a defined personality trait like the [[Space Sphere]], [[Adventure Sphere|Rick]] or the [[Fact Sphere]].

Virgil first appears as a fake Cave Johnson after the facility fell into disrepair and tries to guide Mel out to help him escape, only wanting to get out of his "technological nightmare", but as soon as Mel saves his motherboard from going critical, he starts to devise a plan to let both of them escape. However with the security system AEGIS flooding the place, Virgil tries to launch Mel onto his testing track for it to be hi-jacked a couple of tests in. He devised a second plan to go to the overrun facility to confuse AEGIS and use it as an distraction to find a way to destroy AEGIS and stop the flooding protocol. Finally once out of the overrun testing track, Virgil instructs Mel to shut down the AEGIS security and shut down the autonomy mainframe just to leave a manual input. Once Mel defeats AEGIS, Virgil and Mel depart and Virgil is left in Aperture Science, only with the other cores, Chell and GLaDOS once they wake up. Seeing that Portal Stories: Mel is non-canon it is unknown what truly happens to Virgil after the game or in the time period of Portal 2. Finally, it is also inferred that Virgil maybe be homosexual or bisexual as he shows some subtle attraction to the Rainbow Core, who is a male personality core.

:[[File:VirgilHacking.jpg|thumb|An image of Virgil trying to hack the mainframe, similar to Wheatley, with no avail.]]

* '''AEGIS:''' AEGIS (Aperture Employee Guardian and Intrusion System) is the main antagonist of the game. He can speak and make autonomous decisions, but they are based on protecting the scientists and does not show any self-awareness or sentience. He can only follow protocols and what will be safest for the scientists. He also seems to have great power over the facility, like GLaDOS, such as dispensing turrets, starting a flooding sequence or a asphyxiation program and even control testing tracks. He is first encountered in old Aperture when you have almost escaped the Lima Whiskey testing track as its radars can probably pick Mel up and immediately deems you as a threat, assuming you killed all the scientists in the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day incident.

:[[File:AGEIS.jpg|thumb|An image of AEGIS, in a similar position to GLaDOS]]

* '''Rainbow Core:''' The Rainbow Core appears as an Easter egg in a Test Chamber involving [[Excursion Funnel]]s, and speaks in a similar fashion to the Adventure Sphere. Virgil seems to be attracted to him, as evidenced by Virgil hoping Mel 'got his serial number'.

== Trivia ==
* The original Portal 2 was going to be a prequel and the main protagonist was also called Mel, but the two are mostly different characters and this beta Mel would go up against a southern Cave Johnson in the early days of Aperture, however it was changed to a sequel with Chell and GLaDOS because people missed Chell and GLaDOS' relationship, so Mel was scrapped.
* [[Doug Rattmann|Ratman]]'s dens can also be found in Portal Stories: Mel and one depicts AEGIS with millions of hands, depicting its control over the facility, when it is online.
* A hidden [[Weighted Companion Cube|companion cube]] can be found in Chapter 4, and is immediately fizzled on attempts to pick it up.
* The number "2056" appears many times during the game, in a mysterious way. It can be found at the beginning of the game on the train, and many other times, appearing also in an Easter egg and an achievement. This is a reference to developer LoneWolf2056's username.



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Wheatley

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[[Image:Wheatley.png|right|300px|Weatley]]

{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|I'll wait--I'll wait one hour. Then I'll come back and, assuming I can locate your dead body, I'll bury you. Alright? Brilliant! Go team! See you in an hour! Hopefully! If you're not... dead.|sound=Wheatley_sp_intro_03_afterfallalt09.wav}}

'''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|previously known as the '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere'''}}, is a [[Cores#Personality Cores|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 {{W|deuteragonist}}, guiding [[Chell]] through her efforts in escaping the [[Aperture Science]] Enrichment Center. {{spoiler|However, half-way through the game he and GLaDOS switch roles as she becomes Chell's deuteragonist and Wheatley becomes the game's main antagonist.}}

Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian {{W|Stephen Merchant}}.

== Background ==
{{spoiler|Wheatley was designed to be an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, one of the [[Cores#Personality Cores|cores]] to be attached on GLaDOS in order to "generate an endless stream of terrible ideas" and inhibit her mental abilities. Although it was never explained, Wheatley was disconnected from her and given other jobs. Sometime before [[GLaDOS]] killed off the entire staff in the ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]'' comic using neurotoxin, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. After a few years, though under unknown circumstances, he was put into deactivation along with many other personality cores and kept in storage.}}

{{spoiler|Thanks to [[Chell]]'s havoc on the Enrichment Center via the destruction of GLaDOS at the conclusion of ''Portal'', Wheatley and the rest of the cores were reactivated in order to maintain the facility. Ironically, this backfired as many cores (except Wheatley and the [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupted cores]] seen at the end of the game) appear to have been either killed off, gone insane, or ran low on power.}}

Prior to the events of ''Portal 2'', Wheatley took charge of maintaining the [[Extended Relaxation Center]] - which houses test subjects in long-term cryogenic stasis before and after they are put through the testing courses. However, what he has done to actually manage the entire wing remains unmentioned. It was only until many centuries later that Wheatley decided to escape the facility. To accomplish this, he attempted to gather help from any remaining test subject that managed to last centuries after running out of cryogenic supply. Luckily for him, Chell was one of them if not the only one that lasted.

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

[[File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Wheatley's first appearance.]]

Wheatley is first seen during the very beginning of the game during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', wherein he removes Chell from her Relaxation Vault and puts her into one of the old testing tracks, so she can find a [[Handheld Portal Device]] and help him escape. After she acquires the device, he meets up with her and detaches himself from his management rail to accompany her to the [[Central AI Chamber]] so they can access an escape pod to the surface. He uses his compatibility with the Enrichment Center's systems to allow passage through a testing chamber's backstage. {{spoiler|When they reach the ruined Central AI Chamber and he tries to activate the escape pod, he accidentally reactivates [[GLaDOS]] instead. Chell and Wheatley are both captured by her. Wheatley is crushed by GLaDOS' pincers and tossed to the side. Chell is placed back in GLaDOS' testing tracks. However, he somehow survives and is placed back on his management rail, due to an incident involving a bird (Wheatley attempts to explain the events of this incident to Chell, but never gets the chance).}}

{{spoiler|Throughout Chapters 2, 3, and 4, Wheatley observes Chell from behind the scenes of the test chambers, trying to figure out a way to break her out. Finally, at the end of Chapter 4, he is successful and they both escape into the manufacturing section of Aperture, just before GLaDOS is about to kill Chell. He hatches a plan to sabotage GLaDOS, then confront her, defeat her, and escape. They sabotage GLaDOS' [[turret]] production line, by replacing the template turret, and her [[neurotoxin]] generator, by cutting the neurotoxin hoses with a [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]].}}

[[File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|thumb|150px|left|{{spoiler|Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}]]

{{spoiler|Once this is done, Chell and Wheatley return to the Central AI Chamber through the [[Tubes]] to confront GLaDOS. The [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transfer. A stalemate is reached between Wheatley and GLaDOS, and Chell has to push the Stalemate Resolution Button. Once Chell does this, the core transfer commences. GLaDOS' head is removed from her body and Wheatley is put in its place, putting him in control of the facility. He summons an elevator for Chell to escape to the surface, but just as the elevator is starting to rise, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and lowers it back down. He says spitefully that all Chell does is boss him around (Ironically, Chell never says a word in either game), but now ''he'' is the boss and she is at his mercy. Wheatley transfers GLaDOS' core programming to a small computer chip powered by a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her. In her potato form, GLaDOS suddenly recognizes Wheatley's voice. She tells him that he was originally designed as an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, "producing an endless stream of terrible ideas", essentially "designed to be a moron". In a fit of rage, he accidentally knocks both her and Chell into the bottom of the elevator shaft leading to the depths of the Enrichment Center.}}

[[File:Wheatleys test chambers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|{{spoiler|The Enrichment Center during Wheatley's control.}}]]

{{spoiler|After returning from the bottom of the Enrichment Center, Chell and potato-GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown because he consistently neglects the urgent warnings from the [[Announcer]], instead preferring to think of ways to satisfy the testing addiction he gets from inhabiting GLaDOS' body, which he calls "the itch". One such (unsuccessful) endeavor is the creation of [[Weighted Storage Cube|Cube]]/[[Turret]] hybrids, or "[[Frankenturret|Frankenturrets]]" designed to autonomously walk onto [[Super Button|buttons]]. When Wheatley discovers Chell and GLaDOS, the latter attempts to overclock Wheatley's processors by forcing him to interpret a paradox, but it doesn't work because he isn't smart enough to even understand that it is a paradox at all. When this attempt fails, Wheatley puts Chell and GLaDOS into his own testing tracks (most of them stolen from GLaDOS). As they go through the testing tracks, he examines the rest of the Enrichment Center and discovers [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]]. Realizing he no longer needs Chell to continue testing, he sets a trap, with which he can [[Crushers|crush]] her to death. However, Chell evades his trap, escapes the testing area, and prepares for the final confrontation with him.}}

{{spoiler|When Chell arrives in Wheatley's chamber, Wheatley employs a four-part plan to destroy her: no portal surfaces, start the [[neurotoxin]] immediately, bomb-proof shields, and [[bomb]] launchers. This backfires, however, when Chell uses a bomb to shatter a pipe of [[Conversion Gel]], then uses this gel to redirect bombs at Wheatley. Each bomb stuns Wheatley for long enough to attach a [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupted core]] onto him. Once this is done three times, Wheatley is corrupt enough for the announcer to initiate a core transfer. A stalemate occurs once more between Wheatley and GLaDOS, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives before the fight, as the fifth part of his plan, and Chell is flung from the button. The explosion dislodges part of the ceiling, exposing the night sky and the Moon. Chell shoots a portal onto the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space, both of them holding onto the central core body in order to stay anchored on Earth. While they are suspended here, the core transfer is completed. GLaDOS returns to her original place as Central Core, knocks Wheatley off her body, and rescues Chell. Wheatley flies off into space, accompanied by the [[Space Sphere]].}}

{{spoiler|Wheatley is last seen in the epilogue after the end credits, with the [[Space Sphere|Space Core]] orbiting him, where he wishes he could say he was sorry for all he did to Chell.}}

== Gallery ==
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|File:Wheatley intro door.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley as he first appeared in the chapter ''The Courtesy Call''.
|File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|alt1=W|Attached to the ceiling rail in [[Chell]]'s Relaxation Chamber.
|File:Wheatley intro testchamber bust.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley busting Chell's Relaxation Chamber into a testing track.
|File:Wheatley rail.png|alt1=W|Attached to a panel arm on management rail.
|File:Chell and Wheatley Size Comparison.png|alt1=W|Wheatley compared in size to [[Chell]].
|File:Wheatley breaker room.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Attached to a core receptacle in the main breaker room.}}|spoiler6=yes
|File:Wheatley glados awakening panic.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Panicking during [[GLaDOS]]' reawakening.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:Glados awakening grabbing wheatley.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|GLaDOS killing off Wheatley with her pincers.}}|spoiler8=yes
|File:Wheatley corrupted.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after being crushed by GLaDOS (but somehow surviving).}}|spoiler9=yes
|File:Wheatley tube ride.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley and Chell traveling in the tubes.}}|spoiler10=yes
|File:Sp a2 core0476.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley rolling inside a neurotoxin tube in the [[Central AI Chamber]].}}|spoiler11=yes
|File:Wheatley core transfer.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|A panicking Wheatley moments before the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] transfer.}}|spoiler12=yes
|File:Portal2 Wheatley Boss.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after taking control of the facility.}}|spoiler13=yes
|File:Wheatley body excited.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|An excited Wheatley after taking over.}}|spoiler14=yes
|File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Power-mad Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}|spoiler15=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:BetaBoss.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Concept art of the final boss battle}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:bomb wheatley.png|alt1=W|{{Spoiler text|[[Wheatley]] throwing bombs at you}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler20=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler21=yes
|File:Spacemod.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|The Space core in Skyrim. A mod made by The Portal 2 Team.}}|spoiler22=yes
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|File:Portal2 Wheatley E3.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley, as he appeared in the E3 2010 teaser trailer.
|File:Wheatley from Personality Test.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley's portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Wheatley Valentine.png|alt1=W|Wheatley Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Wheatley Icon.jpg|alt1=W|Avatar of Wheatley from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam ''Portal 2'' group].
|File:Steam Sale Winter 2011 Snow Wheatley.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley being used as the head of a snowman during the Steam Sale in Winter 2011.
}}

== 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 {{W|Cockney#Cockney_speech|Cockney accent}} heard in the [[Meet Wheatley (video)]] video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by [[Valve]] animator [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,55298/ Richard Lord].<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/ ''Portal 2'' Gains a Talkative Companion] on Wired.com</ref> Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21890104&postcount=83 ''Portal 2'' E3 gameplay video (single post)] on the NeoGAF forums</ref> 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],<ref>[http://lastoutpostofsanity.com/2010/06/tempvoice/ "Temp voice!"] on Last Outpost of Sanity, Richard Lord's official blog</ref> until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.<ref>[http://pc.ign.com/articles/109/1095842p1.html Gamescom: ''Portal 2'' gets Stephen Merchant] on ComputerAndVideoGames.com</ref>

* {{spoiler|During the 2011 Video Game Awards, Wheatley was nominated for "Character of the Year". He then made an appearance on the event which depicted him in space as he states that he would be even more honored for a space shuttle rescue.<ref>[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-2011-spike-vgas/724835 Wheatley footage at VGA 2011] on GameTrailers</ref>}} ''Portal 2'' then won the award for "Best Performance by a Human Male" with Stephen Merchant's portrayal of Wheatley.<ref>[http://www.spike.com/events/video-game-awards-2011-nominees/voting/best-performance-by-a-human-male Best Performance by a Human Male] on Spike</ref>

* Wheatley makes a cameo appearance in an official [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=7375 plugin], created by Bethesda and Valve, for ''The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'', entitled {{spoiler|'''Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1'''. In it, he can be seen floating around the Skills menu}}

* 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. This still remains in the game, as during the final boss battle, he says that he tried escaping with 6 people prior. However, due to his nature and the heat of the battle, it is unknown if he was lying or not.
* {{spoiler|When Wheatley speaks Spanish it translates to "You are using this translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual."}}

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[GLaDOS]]
* [[Chell]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Wheatley|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* [[Cores]]

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Aperture Science

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[[File:Logo aperture.png|right|256px]]
'''Aperture Science''' is a scientific research company founded by [[Cave Johnson]]. ''Portal'' and ''Portal 2'' take place in Aperture Science's Enrichment Center, which is dedicated to endlessly testing the Aperture Science products and the humans that use them. Their logo is essentially just a picture of a camera lens with the ƒ-number (aperture) 2.8.

== History ==
{{see also|Story}}
[[File:Underground trophycase newspaper.png|right|150px|thumb|Newspaper reporting the purchase of the salt mine]]
Aperture Science was founded as Aperture Fixtures in the early 1940s by Cave Johnson. Aperture Fixtures was primarily dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of shower curtains {{N}} a low-tech portal between the inside and outside of a shower {{N}} with Cave Johnson winning the "Shower Curtain Salesman of 1943" award. Some time between 1943 and 1947 the company's name was changed to "Aperture Science Innovators". While this was initially done to make their shower curtains sound more hygienic, the company's focus would indeed soon shift to actual science. Cave Johnson purchased a large, abandoned salt mine in Upper Michigan in which Aperture Science's Enrichment Center would be built; however, there was at least one alternate location in Cleveland, Ohio.

Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, Aperture Science would begin its comprehensive testing and research practices. The best possible test subjects, the likes of Olympians, astronauts and war heroes were first chosen. They were also the second largest contractor after [[hl2:Black Mesa|Black Mesa]] for the Department of Defense from 1952 to 1954. Aperture's developments in this period included [[Gels#Repulsion Gel|Repulsion Gel]], the [[Weighted Storage Cube]], the [[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|1500 Megawatt Super Colliding Super Button]] and the [[Handheld Portal Device|Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device]], an early and significantly larger version of the modern Portal Gun.

In 1968, Cave Johnson attending court hearings regarding Aperture Science's involvement with the disappearances of astronauts, likely due to many of them not returning from testing.

By the 1970s, Aperture Science was financially unstable. The Olympians, astronauts and war heroes that were used as test subjects were replaced with vagrants who were paid $60 for their time. Aperture Science would continue its research and created [[Gels#Propulsion Gel|Propulsion Gel]].

In the 1980s, test participation became mandatory for all staff, raising the quality of the test subjects, but diminishing employee retention. Aperture's financial problems were severe at this time, but development continued. Moon rocks were used to create [[Gels#Conversion Gel|Conversion Gel]], an efficient portal conductor. {{Spoiler text|Cave Johnson would also be poisoned by his experiments with moon rocks and become deathly ill. As his health degraded he delegated his leadership to his assistant [[Caroline]], asking that her consciousness be placed in a computer. Testing continued with the hope that passing through portals repeatedly might somehow cure Cave Johnson of his illness}}. Aperture Science also began development of its [[GLaDOS|Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System]], an artificial intelligence which would be used to oversee scientific testing.

In 1998, GLaDOS was brought online for the first time during Aperture Science's annual bring-your-daughter-to-work-day. GLaDOS instantly became self-aware and homicidal. GLaDOS flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, killing most of the scientists. Aperture Science was effectively shut down and placed into a permanent testing cycle by GLaDOS.

== Products ==
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|File:Portal PortalGun.png|alt1=Handheld Portal Device|[[Handheld Portal Device]].
|File:GLaDOS P2.png|alt2=GLaDOS seen in ''Portal 2''|[[GLaDOS]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal 2 Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button.png|alt1=1500 Megawatt Super-Colliding Super Button|[[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|1500 Megawatt Super-Colliding Super Button]]
|File:Portal2 Turret Standard.png|alt1=Turret|[[Turrets|Turret]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal2 StorageCube.png|alt1=Weighted Storage Cube seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Cube#Weighted Storage Cube|Weighted Storage Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Companion Cube.png|alt1=Weighted Companion Cube seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Weighted Companion Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal2 ReflectionCube.png|alt1=Discouragement Redirection Cube as seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Cube#Discouragement Redirection Cube|Discouragement Redirection Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Thermal Discouragement Beam.png|alt1=Thermal Discouragement Beam as seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Excursion Funnel Forward.png|alt1=Excursion Funnel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Excursion Funnel]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Panel.png|alt1=Panel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Panels|Panel]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Crusher.png|alt1=Crushers seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Crushers]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Faith plate.png|alt1=Aerial Faith Plate seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Aerial Faith Plate]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Repulsion Gel.png|alt1=Repulsion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel#Repulsion Gel|Repulsion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Propulsion Gel.png|alt1=Propulsion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel#Propulsion Gel|Propulsion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Conversion Gel.png|alt1=Conversion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel#Conversion Gel|Conversion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''.
}}

== Staff members and associates ==
{{main|Characters}}
* [[Cave Johnson]]
* [[Caroline]]
* [[Doug Rattmann]]
* [[Greg]]

==Trivia==
* The image shown in the newspaper clipping of the salt mine is a combination of [http://ech.cwru.edu/Resource/Image/A03.jpg this] and [http://www.americaeconomia.com/sites/default/files/mineria_tunel_11.jpg this] image. {{Citation needed}}
* Aperture made a boat called the Borealis, which used a long range portal gun. The Borealis is mentioned several times in the Half-Life series, and the dock it was held at can be found in Portal 2, upon which you get an achievement.

== External links ==
* {{hl2wiki|Aperture Science}}
* [http://www.aperturescience.com Aperture Science website]
* [http://postcardintellect.com/tutorials/aperture-a-practical-description-for-beginning-photographers/ Diagrams of different F-numbers]

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Discouragement Redirection Cube

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[[Image:Portal2_ReflectionCube.png|right|250px]]
{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|This next test involves discouragement redirection cubes. I'd just finished building them before you had your, well, episode. So now we'll both get to see how they work.|sound=GLaDOS sp_a2_laser_stairs_intro02.wav}}

'''Discouragement Redirection Cubes''' are a new type of cube introduced in ''Portal 2''. Like all cubes, they can be used to hold down [[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|buttons]]. They also have the unique ability to focus a [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] and redirect it through their lens. Each side of the Redirection Cube has a large, round piece of glass in the center. One of the glass sides is more curved than the others, being the lens that the Thermal Discouragement Beam is focused out of when coming into contact with any of the other sides.

In [[co-op]] mode, when redirecting a beam into receptacles, the beam will auto-aim into the center of the receptacle when the beam is close enough, making beam redirection slightly easier.

== See also ==
* [[Mechanics]]
* [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]]s
* [[Weighted Storage Cube]]s

== Trivia ==
* Discouragement Redirection Cubes are replacements for Reflection Gel, a gel that was meant to reflect the [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] but scrapped for unknown reasons.

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Discouragement Redirection Cube

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{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|This next test involves discouragement redirection cubes. I'd just finished building them before you had your, well, episode. So now we'll both get to see how they work.|sound=GLaDOS sp_a2_laser_stairs_intro02.wav}}

'''Discouragement Redirection Cubes''' are a new type of cube introduced in ''Portal 2''. Like all cubes, they can be used to hold down [[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|buttons]]. They also have the unique ability to focus a [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] and redirect it through their lens. Each side of the Redirection Cube has a large, round piece of glass in the center. One of the glass sides is more curved than the others, being the lens that the Thermal Discouragement Beam is focused out of when coming into contact with any of the other sides.

In [[co-op]] mode, when redirecting a beam into receptacles, the beam will auto-aim into the center of the receptacle when the beam is close enough, making beam redirection slightly easier.

== See also ==
* [[Mechanics]]
* [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]]s
* [[Weighted Storage Cube]]s

== Trivia ==
* Discouragement Redirection Cubes are replacements for Reflection Gel, a gel that was meant to reflect the [[Thermal Discouragment Beam]] but scrapped for unknown reasons.

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Weighted Companion Cube

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[[File:Portal2_CompanionCube.png|thumb|right|The Weighted Companion Cube as it appears in ''Portal 2'']]
{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.|sound=GLaDOS_13_part1_middle-2.wav}}
{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|I think that one was about to say 'I love you.' They ARE sentient, of course. We just have a LOT of them.|sound=GLaDOS_sp_a2_pit_flings06.wav}}
The '''Weighted Companion Cube''' (often referred to as the '''Companion Cube''') is a recurring object in the ''Portal'' universe. It appears almost identical to the [[Weighted Storage Cube]] but with a pink heart replacing the [[Aperture Science]] logo.

In ''[[Portal]]'', the Companion Cube was given to [[Chell]] in order to aid her in completing [[Portal Test Chamber 17|Test Chamber 17]]. {{Spoiler text|In order to progress through the exit at the end of the chamber, the cube was dropped into the [[Emergency Intelligence Incinerator|incinerator]] to be "euthanized". [[GLaDOS]] used this moment to taunt Chell during their confrontation. However, the Companion Cube can be seen prior to the end credits next to the [[Cake]], suggesting that it survived.}}

The Companion Cube makes a prominent appearance in the ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]'' comic, in which it speaks with protagonist [[Doug Rattmann]]. This appears to reference ''Portal'', in which GLaDOS states that the Companion Cube cannot speak and, if it does, its advice should be [[Media:GLaDOS_13_part1_middle-2b-2.wav|disregarded]].

In ''[[Portal 2]]'', {{Spoiler|GLaDOS briefly torments Chell by repeatedly destroying Companion Cubes in [[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 7|Test Chamber 7]]. It is at this point that GLaDOS claims that the Cubes are in fact [[Media:GLaDOS_sp_a2_pit_flings06.wav|sentient]], which suggests that they possess some level or rudimentary intelligence similarly to [[Turrets]]. The Cube also makes an appearance in the [[Co-op]] campaign but is inaccessible, preventing the player from interacting with it. After Chell leaves the facility upon completing Portal 2, a scorched Companion Cube is ejected after her. This Cube is not the newly-designed Portal 2 Companion Cube, but is the same as the cube from ''Portal''. Valve said that it's the exact same cube the player euthanized in the first ''Portal'', that is given back to her <ref>[http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/27/valve-on-portal-2-spoiler-interview-part-one/ Valve On Portal 2: Spoiler Interview Part One] on [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ Rock Paper Shotgun]</ref> .<br> The Companion Cube in ''Portal 2'' hums an excerpt of [[Turret Opera|Cara Mia]], which can be heard when it is nearby.}}

== Related Achievements ==
=== Portal ===
{{Achievement table
| 1 = {{Show achievement|Portal|Fratricide}}
}}

=== Portal 2 ===
{{Achievement table
| 1 = {{Show achievement|Portal 2|Party of Three}}
| 2 = {{Show achievement|Portal 2|Preservation of Mass}}
}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
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|width=175
|File:Portal Companion Cube.png|alt1=Weighted Companion Cube|Weighted Companion Cube in [[Portal]].
|File:CompanionCube.jpg|alt2=Companion Cube|Companion Cube Pin promotional banner.
|File:RED_Resurrection_Associate_Pin.png|alt3=Companion Cube Pin|The Companion Cube Pin backpack icon from [[Team Fortress 2]].
|File:Companion Cube from Personality Test.jpg|alt4=Companion Cube image from the official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test.|Companion Cube image from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Companion Cube Valentine.png|alt5=Companion Cube Valentine from Valve's official Portal 2 blog.|Companion Cube Valentine from [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/blog.php Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Companion Cube Icon.jpg|alt6=Companion Cube icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|Companion Cube icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:Audiosurf Companion Cube.png|alt7=Companion Cube as seen in Audiosurf in the [as-portal] mode.|Companion Cube as seen in Audiosurf in the [as-portal] mode.
|File:The Final Hours of Portal 2 - Companion Cube.jpg|alt8=Companion Cube as seen in ''The Final Hours of Portal 2''.|Companion Cube as seen in ''The Final Hours of Portal 2''.
|File:Companion Cube Mousepad.png|alt9=Doug Rattmann's drawing of Companion Cube on a mousepad.|[[Doug Rattmann]]'s drawing of Companion Cube on a mousepad.
|File:Companion Trap.jpg|alt10=A turret disguised as the Companion Cube.|A turret disguised as the Companion Cube.
|File:Red-Nosed P02.jpg|alt11=Companion Cube in the "Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret" comic.|Companion Cube in the "[[Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret]]" comic.
}}

== Trivia ==
* Players who pre-purchased ''Portal 2'' through Steam received the [[tf2:Companion Cube Pin|Companion Cube Pin]] item, a pin item depicting the Companion Cube within a [[portals|portal]], for ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. Players who played all games in the [[Potato Sack]] Pack were awarded the [[tf2:Resurrection Associate Pin|Resurrection Associate Pin]], which shares the same model.
** Additionally, one of the possible names for the AI bots in Offline Practice or enabled by a server is Companion Cube.\
* When you incinerate a Companion Cube in Portal, a faint screaming noise can be heard.
** This has led fans to believe that Companion Cubes contain the bodies of dead and dying failed test subjects.

== See Also ==
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* [[WCC Flag]]
* [[WCC Skins]]
* [[Cube N Skull Flags]]

== References ==
<references />

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Wheatley

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[[Image:Wheatley.png|right|300px|Weatley]]

{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|I'll wait--I'll wait one hour. Then I'll come back and, assuming I can locate your dead body, I'll bury you. Alright? Brilliant! Go team! See you in an hour! Hopefully! If you're not... dead.|sound=Wheatley_sp_intro_03_afterfallalt09.wav}}

'''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|previously known as the '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere'''}}, is a [[Cores#Personality Cores|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 {{W|deuteragonist}}, guiding [[Chell]] through her efforts in escaping the [[Aperture Science]] Enrichment Center. {{spoiler|However, half-way through the game he and GLaDOS switch roles as she becomes Chell's deuteragonist and Wheatley becomes the game's main antagonist.}}

Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian {{W|Stephen Merchant}}.

== Background ==
{{spoiler|Wheatley was designed to be an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, one of the [[Cores#Personality Cores|cores]] to be attached on GLaDOS in order to "generate an endless stream of terrible ideas" and inhibit her mental abilities. Although it was never explained, Wheatley was disconnected from her and given other jobs. Sometime before [[GLaDOS]] killed off the entire staff in the ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]'' comic using neurotoxin, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. After a few years, though under unknown circumstances, he was put into deactivation along with many other personality cores and kept in storage.}}

{{spoiler|Thanks to [[Chell]]'s havoc on the Enrichment Center via the destruction of GLaDOS at the conclusion of ''Portal'', Wheatley and the rest of the cores were reactivated in order to maintain the facility. Ironically, this backfired as many cores (except Wheatley and the [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupted cores]] seen at the end of the game) appear to have been either killed off, gone insane, or ran low on power.}}

Prior to the events of ''Portal 2'', Wheatley took charge of maintaining the [[Extended Relaxation Center]] - which houses test subjects in long-term cryogenic stasis before and after they are put through the testing courses. However, what he has done to actually manage the entire wing remains unmentioned. It was only until many centuries later that Wheatley decided to escape the facility. To accomplish this, he attempted to gather help from any remaining test subject that managed to last centuries after running out of cryogenic supply. Luckily for him, Chell was one of them if not the only one that lasted.

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

[[File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Wheatley's first appearance.]]

Wheatley is first seen during the very beginning of the game during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', wherein he removes Chell from her Relaxation Vault and puts her into one of the old testing tracks, so she can find a [[Handheld Portal Device]] and help him escape. After she acquires the device, he meets up with her and detaches himself from his management rail to accompany her to the [[Central AI Chamber]] so they can access an escape pod to the surface. He uses his compatibility with the Enrichment Center's systems to allow passage through a testing chamber's backstage. {{spoiler|When they reach the ruined Central AI Chamber and he tries to activate the escape pod, he accidentally reactivates [[GLaDOS]] instead. Chell and Wheatley are both captured by her. Wheatley is crushed by GLaDOS' pincers and tossed to the side. Chell is placed back in GLaDOS' testing tracks. However, he somehow survives and is placed back on his management rail, due to an incident involving a bird (Wheatley attempts to explain the events of this incident to Chell, but never gets the chance).}}

{{spoiler|Throughout Chapters 2, 3, and 4, Wheatley observes Chell from behind the scenes of the test chambers, trying to figure out a way to break her out. Finally, at the end of Chapter 4, he is successful and they both escape into the manufacturing section of Aperture, just before GLaDOS is about to kill Chell. He hatches a plan to sabotage GLaDOS, then confront her, defeat her, and escape. They sabotage GLaDOS' [[turret]] production line, by replacing the template turret, and her [[neurotoxin]] generator, by cutting the neurotoxin hoses with a [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]].}}

[[File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|thumb|150px|left|{{spoiler|Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}]]

{{spoiler|Once this is done, Chell and Wheatley return to the Central AI Chamber through the [[Tubes]] to confront GLaDOS. The [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transfer. A stalemate is reached between Wheatley and GLaDOS, and Chell has to push the Stalemate Resolution Button. Once Chell does this, the core transfer commences. GLaDOS' head is removed from her body and Wheatley is put in its place, putting him in control of the facility. He summons an elevator for Chell to escape to the surface, but just as the elevator is starting to rise, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and lowers it back down. He says spitefully that all Chell does is boss him around (Ironically, Chell never says a word in either game), but now ''he'' is the boss and she is at his mercy. Wheatley transfers GLaDOS' core programming to a small computer chip powered by a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her. In her potato form, GLaDOS suddenly recognizes Wheatley's voice. She tells him that he was originally designed as an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, "producing an endless stream of terrible ideas", essentially "designed to be a moron". In a fit of rage, he accidentally knocks both her and Chell into the bottom of the elevator shaft leading to the depths of the Enrichment Center.}}

[[File:Wheatleys test chambers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|{{spoiler|The Enrichment Center during Wheatley's control.}}]]

{{spoiler|After returning from the bottom of the Enrichment Center, Chell and potato-GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown because he consistently neglects the urgent warnings from the [[Announcer]], instead preferring to think of ways to satisfy the testing addiction he gets from inhabiting GLaDOS' body, which he calls "the itch". One such (unsuccessful) endeavor is the creation of [[Weighted Storage Cube|Cube]]/[[Turret]] hybrids, or "[[Frankenturret|Frankenturrets]]" designed to autonomously walk onto [[Super Button|buttons]]. When Wheatley discovers Chell and GLaDOS, the latter attempts to overclock Wheatley's processors by forcing him to interpret a paradox, but it doesn't work because he isn't smart enough to even understand that it is a paradox at all. When this attempt fails, Wheatley puts Chell and GLaDOS into his own testing tracks (most of them stolen from GLaDOS). As they go through the testing tracks, he examines the rest of the Enrichment Center and discovers [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]]. Realizing he no longer needs Chell to continue testing, he sets a trap, with which he can [[Crushers|crush]] her to death. However, Chell evades his trap, escapes the testing area, and prepares for the final confrontation with him.}}

{{spoiler|When Chell arrives in Wheatley's chamber, Wheatley employs a four-part plan to destroy her: no portal surfaces, start the [[neurotoxin]] immediately, bomb-proof shields, and [[bomb]] launchers. This backfires, however, when Chell uses a bomb to shatter a pipe of [[Conversion Gel]], then uses this gel to redirect bombs at Wheatley. Each bomb stuns Wheatley for long enough to attach a [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupted core]] onto him. Once this is done three times, Wheatley is corrupt enough for the announcer to initiate a core transfer. A stalemate occurs once more between Wheatley and GLaDOS, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives before the fight, as the fifth part of his plan, and Chell is flung from the button. The explosion dislodges part of the ceiling, exposing the night sky and the Moon. Chell shoots a portal onto the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space, both of them holding onto the central core body in order to stay anchored on Earth. While they are suspended here, the core transfer is completed. GLaDOS returns to her original place as Central Core, knocks Wheatley off her body, and rescues Chell. Wheatley flies off into space, accompanied by the [[Space Sphere]].}}

{{spoiler|Wheatley is last seen in the epilogue after the end credits, with the [[Space Sphere|Space Core]] orbiting him, where he wishes he could say he was sorry for all he did to Chell.}}

== Gallery ==
{{gallery
|title = Screenshots
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:Wheatley intro door.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley as he first appeared in the chapter ''The Courtesy Call''.
|File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|alt1=W|Attached to the ceiling rail in [[Chell]]'s Relaxation Chamber.
|File:Wheatley intro testchamber bust.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley busting Chell's Relaxation Chamber into a testing track.
|File:Wheatley rail.png|alt1=W|Attached to a panel arm on management rail.
|File:Chell and Wheatley Size Comparison.png|alt1=W|Wheatley compared in size to [[Chell]].
|File:Wheatley breaker room.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Attached to a core receptacle in the main breaker room.}}|spoiler6=yes
|File:Wheatley glados awakening panic.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Panicking during [[GLaDOS]]' reawakening.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:Glados awakening grabbing wheatley.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|GLaDOS killing off Wheatley with her pincers.}}|spoiler8=yes
|File:Wheatley corrupted.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after being crushed by GLaDOS (but somehow surviving).}}|spoiler9=yes
|File:Wheatley tube ride.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley and Chell traveling in the tubes.}}|spoiler10=yes
|File:Sp a2 core0476.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley rolling inside a neurotoxin tube in the [[Central AI Chamber]].}}|spoiler11=yes
|File:Wheatley core transfer.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|A panicking Wheatley moments before the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] transfer.}}|spoiler12=yes
|File:Portal2 Wheatley Boss.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after taking control of the facility.}}|spoiler13=yes
|File:Wheatley body excited.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|An excited Wheatley after taking over.}}|spoiler14=yes
|File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Power-mad Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}|spoiler15=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:BetaBoss.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Concept art of the final boss battle}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:bomb wheatley.png|alt1=W|{{Spoiler text|[[Wheatley]] throwing bombs at you}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler20=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler21=yes
|File:Spacemod.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|The Space core in Skyrim. A mod made by The Portal 2 Team.}}|spoiler22=yes
}}

{{gallery
|title = Media
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|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:Portal2 Wheatley E3.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley, as he appeared in the E3 2010 teaser trailer.
|File:Wheatley from Personality Test.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley's portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Wheatley Valentine.png|alt1=W|Wheatley Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Wheatley Icon.jpg|alt1=W|Avatar of Wheatley from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam ''Portal 2'' group].
|File:Steam Sale Winter 2011 Snow Wheatley.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley being used as the head of a snowman during the Steam Sale in Winter 2011.
}}

== 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 {{W|Cockney#Cockney_speech|Cockney accent}} heard in the [[Meet Wheatley (video)]] video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by [[Valve]] animator [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,55298/ Richard Lord].<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/ ''Portal 2'' Gains a Talkative Companion] on Wired.com</ref> Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21890104&postcount=83 ''Portal 2'' E3 gameplay video (single post)] on the NeoGAF forums</ref> 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],<ref>[http://lastoutpostofsanity.com/2010/06/tempvoice/ "Temp voice!"] on Last Outpost of Sanity, Richard Lord's official blog</ref> until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.<ref>[http://pc.ign.com/articles/109/1095842p1.html Gamescom: ''Portal 2'' gets Stephen Merchant] on ComputerAndVideoGames.com</ref>

* {{spoiler|During the 2011 Video Game Awards, Wheatley was nominated for "Character of the Year". He then made an appearance on the event which depicted him in space as he states that he would be even more honored for a space shuttle rescue.<ref>[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-2011-spike-vgas/724835 Wheatley footage at VGA 2011] on GameTrailers</ref>}} ''Portal 2'' then won the award for "Best Performance by a Human Male" with Stephen Merchant's portrayal of Wheatley.<ref>[http://www.spike.com/events/video-game-awards-2011-nominees/voting/best-performance-by-a-human-male Best Performance by a Human Male] on Spike</ref>

* Wheatley makes a cameo appearance in an official [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=7375 plugin], created by Bethesda and Valve, for ''The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'', entitled {{spoiler|'''Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1'''. In it, he can be seen floating around the Skills menu}}

* In the developer commentary of Portal 2, it is revealed that he was originally intended to have tried escaping with other subject prior to waking Chell up. This still remains in the game, as during the final boss battle, he says that he tried escaping with 6 people prior. However, due to his nature and the heat of the battle, it is unknown if he was lying or not.

== References ==
<references />

== See also ==
* [[GLaDOS]]
* [[Chell]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Wheatley|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* [[Cores]]

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Turrets

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[[File:Turret Boxed.png|right|thumb|Sentry Turret packaging|200px]]
{{Quotation|'''Sentry Turret'''|Hello friend.|sound=Turret_turret_active_5.wav}}

'''Turrets''' serve as one of the main testing obstacles in the ''Portal'' series. Armed with almost unlimited ammunition and deadly accuracy, they will attempt to kill test subjects on sight.

Turrets are voiced by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1655889/ Ellen McLain].
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== General ==
=== Sentry Turret ===
{{main|Sentry Turret}}
[[File:Portal2 Turret Standard.png|right|100px|The Sentry Turret]]

'''Sentry Turrets''' are miniature tripod robots that appear in every game in the ''Portal'' series. They are seen as incapable of independent movement, but can open each side of their chassis (their 'arms') horizontally in order to reveal twin double-barreled machine guns. The central part of the chassis holds their red eye, which emits a targeting laser. Almost all of the space within the Turret is devoted to storing the ridiculously stacked ammo, explaining the nearly infinite supply of ammo when firing. According to the ''Portal 2'' Turrets trailer, the turrets use spring mechanisms to accelerate the whole bullet, including the casing, which may explain how the player can survive getting shot by the Turret so many times.

When test subjects are out of sight from the Turret's presence, they will maintain a standby state and will remain motionless with their guns retracted. Moving into their angle of sight however, will cause Turrets to deploy their guns shortly after greeting the unlucky individual before opening fire. They will continue to fire until the target is dead or moves out of sight. If the latter occurs, Turrets will briefly search for the test subject (as indicated by the movement of the targeting laser), after which they will revert to a standby state.

Turrets can be avoided, disabled or destroyed in a number of ways. The most common method is knocking them over, causing them to flail and fire wildly before deactivating. This can be done by picking them up and dropping them, or using any object to tip them over. Additionally, the [[Thermal Discouragement Beam|Discouragement Beams]] or [[Material Emancipation Grill|Emancipation Grill]]s can be used to completely destroy them. They also emit a long "ooowowowowow" noise if thrown into a fizzler grill.

In Portal, Turrets will shoot the bulletproof glass when the player is on the other side. In Portal 2, however, Turrets will only follow the player behind glass.

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=== Rocket Turret ===
[[File:Portal Rocket Turret.png|left|80px|The Rocket Turret]]

The '''Rocket Turret''' is a unique enemy seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. It appears as a raw [[Cores|personality core]] outfitted with a rocket launcher. Upon activation, it will slowly lock onto [[Chell]] and emit a sound before firing a rocket. Unlike Sentry turrets, it cannot be disabled or destroyed by the player. {{Spoiler|It plays a vital role in the battle with [[GLaDOS]], as rockets need to be sent through [[portals]] in order to hit her, causing [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] to detach from her.}}

Rockets can also be redirected by Chell to shatter the observation windows throughout the offices of the Enrichment Center.

Rocket Turrets used to play a major role in [[Portal 2]]{{Citation needed}}, but were later cut.
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=== Defective Turret ===
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[[File:Portal2 Turret Defective.png|right|100px|The Defective Turret]]

'''Defective Turrets''', referred to as "Crap Turrets" by [[Wheatley]], are incomplete, sometimes ammo-less versions of the Sentry Turrets introduced in ''[[Portal 2]]''. Unlike normal Sentry Turrets, Defective Turrets have a more humorous and sarcastic dialogue, and speak in a masculine, less robotic voice with a Texas-like accent.

They are harmless to [[Chell]], many times making comments such as "If anyone asks, I killed you". Their voice lines seem to imply they are blind, but they are still aware of Chell's presence. {{spoiler|They are first encountered in chapter 5, ''The Escape''.}}

In the game's [[co-op]] campaign, the Defective Turrets appear as obstacles for [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] throughout the ''Mobility Gels'' testing course. These Turrets appear to be as fully functional as regular Sentry Turrets and possesses the innocent and feminine voice tones as they should. The only difference from regular Turrets is that they have been defaced. {{spoiler|One Defective Turret in the final test chamber of this test course has been evidently reconfigured by someone, as instead of serving as a typical testing obstacle, before dying it reveals that it "needs to protect the humans".}}
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=== Frankenturret ===
[[File:Portal2 MonsterTurret b.png|left|115px|The Frankenturret]]
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'''Frankenturrets''' are bizarre Sentry Turret-[[Weighted Storage Cube]] hybrids in the single-player campaign of ''Portal 2''. {{spoiler|Created by [[Wheatley]] in order to complete test chambers when he had no available test subjects, they are first introduced in the chapter, ''The Itch''.}}

Frankenturrets do not speak, and instead emit incomprehensible chirping sounds. They generally serve as {{spoiler|Wheatley's}} replacement for Storage Cubes {{spoiler|once [[Chell]] is available as his test subject}}. Their only difference from normal cubes being that Frankenturrets will hop around aimlessly when not placed on a [[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|button]]. When picked up by Chell, they retract their legs inside the cube. If they fall over on their sides or upside down, they will wave their legs trying to get up.
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=== Prima Donna Turret ===
[[File:Portal2 Turret Wife.png|right|100px|{{spoiler|The Turret Wife}}]]

The '''Prima Donna Turret''' (meaning ''First Woman'' in Italian, a title given to the lead singer, the diva, in an opera), referred by the game files as the '''Turret Wife''', is a bigger and wider Turret {{spoiler|featured at the end of ''Portal 2''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s single-player campaign during the [[Turret Opera]], after [[GLaDOS]] finally allows [[Chell]] her freedom of leaving the Enrichment Center. As its name implies, the Prima Donna Turret provides the lead vocals for the Turret Opera.}}

{{spoiler|Apart from the ending,}} a Prima Donna Turret can also be found in the chapter ''The Return'', at the end of Test Chamber 11; briefly seen in an elevator just as [[Chell]] enters the [[Chamberlock]]. It can also be found below the [[Doug Rattmann|Rattmann]]'s den in the same chapter during Test Chamber 16, where it is observing a turret quartet.
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=== Animal King Turret ===
[[File:Animal king.jpg|left|100px|The Animal King Turret]]
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The '''Animal King Turret''' is a unique type of turret in the single-player campaign of ''Portal 2'' that is only used in an [[Aperture Science]] slideshow to represent an "Animal King Takeover" in the chapter, ''The Courtesy Call''. The Turret is considerably colossal in comparison to its Sentry Turret brethren, and appears to operate the 'arms' on its side in exactly the same way.

It can be distinguished from ordinary Turrets by its immense size, crown and leopard skin-detailed chassis. In the context of the slideshow, the Animal King Turret is used as an example of an entity or a form of organism capable of taking control of Earth which "[[Media:Announcer prehub46.wav|...refuses to, or is incapable of listening to reason]]".

The Animal King Turret appears only once in the entire game, {{spoiler|during the single-player ending sequence when [[Chell]] is being brought up to the surface by GLaDOS after defeating Wheatley}}. It appears to be producing the lower bass tones of the [[Turret Opera]].

=== Hover Turret ===
[[File:Portal 2 Hover Turret.png|right|100px|The Hover Turret in-game]]

The '''Hover Turret''' is an unused Turret found within the game files of ''Portal 2''. It uses the model of the [[Curiosity Core]]. It emits a laser, similar to the other types of Turrets, that is coloured light-blue and able to burn the player similar to the burn of the [[Thermal Discouragement Beam]], however unlike the Thermal Discouragement Beam it's laser does not provide a barrier for the player's movement, nor does it interact with game mechanics. The Hover Turret can be spawned within ''Portal 2'' via the cheat command <code>ent_create npc_hover_turret</code>. It can also be found in Chapter 8 Test Chamber 1 in Portal 2 by using the <code>noclip</code> command and going throught the wall behind the Level Screen (it should say 1/19) and looking to the left. If you go near it it will make a blue effect and if you have subtitles enabled they will move to the left.
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== Appearances ==
=== ''Portal'' ===
{{See also|Portal}}
Turrets are introduced as testing hazards to [[Chell]] during the entirety of [[Portal Test Chamber 16|Test Chamber 16]]. Following this, they continue to appear throughout the remaining test chambers and eventually, during Chell's escape.

=== ''Portal: Still Alive'' ===
{{See also|Portal: Still Alive}}

=== ''Portal 2'' ===
{{See also|Portal 2}}
Turrets reprise their role as testing hazards to [[Chell]] and to [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] for the game's [[co-op]] campaign, and they appear fairly early in the game. Distinct versions of the Turrets are introduced, including the Defective Turrets and Animal King Turret.

== Gallery ==
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|File:Portal Turret.png|alt1=Turrets|Sentry Turret as it appears in ''[[Portal]]''.
|File:Portal2 Turret Standard.png|alt2=Turret from ''Portal 2''|Sentry Turret as it appears in ''[[Portal 2]]''.
|File:Portal2 Turret Defective.png|alt3=Defective Turret from ''Portal 2''|Defective Turret from ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal2 Turret Wife.png|alt4=Prima Donna Turret from ''Portal 2''|Prima Donna Turret from ''Portal 2''.
|File:Portal Rocket Turret.png|alt5=Rocket Turret from ''Portal''|Rocket Turret from ''Portal''.
|File:Portal2 MonsterTurret a.png|alt6={{Spoiler|Frankenturret from ''Portal 2''}}|{{Spoiler|The Frankenturret from ''Portal 2''.}}|spoiler6=yes
|File:Portal2 MonsterTurret b.png|alt7={{Spoiler|Frankenturret with outer cover}}|{{Spoiler|Ditto, with outer cover.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:P2 AnimalKing Slideshow.png|alt8=Animal King Takeover slide from ''Portal 2''|"Animal King Takeover" slideshow with the Animal King Turret used as an example in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Animal king.jpg|Very high-resolution portion of the Animal King Takeover slide
|File:Turret_from_Personality_Test.jpg|Turret image from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Turret Valentine 01.png|Turret Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Turret Valentine 02.png|Turret Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Turret Icon.jpg|Turret avatar from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List ''Portal 2'' Steam group].
|File:2011-08-05_00002.jpg|Another type of Defective Turret in ''Portal 2''.
|File:Screenshoot of turret sitting on a chair.jpg|A Turret sitting on a chair in the [[co-op]] testing course, ''Art Therapy''.
|File:Three Turret Moon Shirt.png|The Three Turret Moon shirt.
|File:Turret Schematic Shirt.png|Turret schematic shirt.
|File:Randolph_Thumbnail.jpg|[[Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret|Randolph, the Red-Nosed Turret]].
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== Videos ==
{{see also|Videos}}
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The Turrets and Animal King Turret as they appear in [[Chamberlock#Videos|Chamberlock informational videos]].

== Trivia ==
* {{spoiler|When GLaDOS attempts to kill Wheatley with a paradox in the beginning of Chapter 8: The Itch, every Frankenturret is fried, humorously implying that they are smarter than Wheatley.}}
* The shipping box for the Turrets states that one of the blue painted Turrets was bought on January 25, 2010 by a person with an unreadable name. The reference to Michael Jackson can be seen on the box.{{Citation needed}}
* The Rocket Core from Portal was originally intended to fire lasers instead of rockets, but playtesters thought that a rocket would be more dramatic than a laser slowly melting the glass.

== Related achievements ==
=== ''Portal'' ===
{{Achievement table
| 1 = {{Show achievement|Portal|Friendly Fire}}
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=== ''Portal: Still Alive'' ===
{{Achievement table
| 1 = {{Show achievement|Portal: Still Alive|A Feeling Like Floating}}
{{Show achievement|Portal: Still Alive|Is Anyone There}}
| 2 = {{Show achievement|Portal: Still Alive|Saw That One Coming}}
{{Show achievement|Portal: Still Alive|The Camera Adds 10 Pounds}}
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=== ''Portal 2'' ===
{{Achievement table
| 1 = {{Show achievement|Portal 2|No Hard Feelings}}
{{Show achievement|Portal 2|Pturretdactyl}}
| 2 = {{Show achievement|Portal 2|Scanned Alone}}
{{Show achievement|Portal 2|Can't Touch This}}
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== See also ==
*[[Oracle Turret]]
*[[Defective Turret]]
*[[Turret voice lines]]
*[[Defective Turret voice lines]]
*[[Turret Opera]]
*[[Collaborative Disposition Test#The Aperture Science Sentry Turret|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
*[[Turret Lullaby]]
*[[Randolph the Red-Nosed Turret]]

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