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Handheld Portal Device

2011-12-19T00:32:50Z

Link6474: /* Overview */

{{Featured article tag}}

[[File:Portal PortalGun.png|right|thumb|The Handheld Portal Device model from ''[[Portal]]''.|250px]]
{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in <tt>'''Subject Hometown Here'''</tt>|sound=GLaDOS 07_part1_get_device_component-3.wav}}
The '''[[Aperture Science]] Handheld Portal Device''' (also known as the '''Portal Gun''' or '''ASHPD''') is the experimental tool designed to place two [[portals]] that objects can pass through. This is the primary tool players are equipped with to complete [[Test Chamber]]s.

== Overview ==
The Handheld Portal Device is designed to create and place portals on any white [[surface]] that is immobile, flat and large enough. When the device is fired, a colored projectile will be emitted from the barrel. If the projectile strikes a valid surface, a portal of the corresponding color will be formed. If a portal of the other color is already placed, these two portals will be linked. If a portal of the same color is already placed, it will be closed and the new one will be used instead, limiting the player to the use of only two portals at a time. Nothing will happen if a portal is shot at an enemy or other object. The glass chamber and a light on the top of the device will glow with the color of the previously placed portal.

The Handheld Portal Device also has the ability to pick up and manipulate objects directly in front of it in the same manner as the [[hl2:Gravity Gun|Gravity Gun]] from the ''Half-Life'' series. While holding an object, pressing the primary fire key will push the object forward ''very'' slightly, while the secondary fire key will drop the object.

== Portal 2 ==
The Handheld Portal Device in ''[[Portal 2]]'' behaves somewhat differently to its ''Portal'' counterpart. The key differences include new object handling sounds and animations, new sounds for firing portals and faster placement of portals by default. In addition, the Portal Device sports new animations and particle effects for moving portals and stretching objects<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaezAuXCcwE</ref>; while it is possible to enable free rotation of objects via the use of a [[List of useful console commands|console command]], the remaining functionality is only accessible through the use of a {{w|Sixense TrueMotion|Razer Hydra}} controller, which allows for the greater degree of control of objects. The Portal Device in ''Portal 2'' also lacks the ability to slightly launch/drop objects using the primary and secondary fire keys respectively.

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=3
|title=Handheld Portal Device
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Portal ASHPD 1st person.png|alt1=Handheld Portal Device|First person view in ''[[Portal]]''
|File:Atlas_Portal_Gun.png|alt2=[[Atlas|Atlas']] Portal Gun in ''[[Portal 2]]''|[[Atlas|Atlas']] Portal Gun in ''[[Portal 2]]''
|File:P-Body_Portal_Gun.png|alt3=[[P-body|P-body's]] Portal Gun in ''Portal 2''|[[P-body|P-body's]] Portal Gun in ''Portal 2''
|File:Old Handheld Portal Device.png|alt4=The Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device. The Portal Gun from the 1940s.|The Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device. The Portal Gun from the 1940s.
|File:Old Portal Gun.jpg|alt5=A pre-release form of the Portal Gun.|A pre-release form of the Portal Gun.
|File:Ashpd blueprint.jpg|alt6=Blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device|Blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device
|File:Ashpd_blueprint2.jpg|alt7=Another blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device|Another blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device
|File:Portal Gun Concept Art.png|alt8=Portal Gun concept art.|Portal Gun concept art.
|File:Project Beta Portal Gun.jpg|alt9=Beta version of the Portal Gun, with the label "F-22".|Beta version of the Portal Gun, with the label "F-22".
}}

== References ==
<references/>

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Handheld Portal Device

2011-12-19T00:31:39Z

Link6474: /* Overview */

{{Featured article tag}}

[[File:Portal PortalGun.png|right|thumb|The Handheld Portal Device model from ''[[Portal]]''.|250px]]
{{Quotation|'''GLaDOS'''|The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in <tt>'''Subject Hometown Here'''</tt>|sound=GLaDOS 07_part1_get_device_component-3.wav}}
The '''[[Aperture Science]] Handheld Portal Device''' (also known as the '''Portal Gun''' or '''ASHPD''') is the experimental tool designed to place two [[portals]] that objects can pass through. This is the primary tool players are equipped with to complete [[Test Chamber]]s.

== Overview ==
The Handheld Portal Device is designed to create and place portals on any white [[surface]] that is immobile, flat and large enough. When the device is fired, a colored projectile will be emitted from the barrel. If the projectile strikes a valid surface, a portal of the corresponding color will be formed. If a portal of the other color is already placed, these two portals will be linked. If a portal of the same color is already placed, it will be closed and the new one will be used instead, limiting the player to the use of only two portals at a time. Nothing will happen if a portalis shot at an enemy or other object. The glass chamber and a light on the top of the device will glow with the color of the previously placed portal.

The Handheld Portal Device also has the ability to pick up and manipulate objects directly in front of it in the same manner as the [[hl2:Gravity Gun|Gravity Gun]] from the ''Half-Life'' series. While holding an object, pressing the primary fire key will push the object forward ''very'' slightly, while the secondary fire key will drop the object.

== Portal 2 ==
The Handheld Portal Device in ''[[Portal 2]]'' behaves somewhat differently to its ''Portal'' counterpart. The key differences include new object handling sounds and animations, new sounds for firing portals and faster placement of portals by default. In addition, the Portal Device sports new animations and particle effects for moving portals and stretching objects<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaezAuXCcwE</ref>; while it is possible to enable free rotation of objects via the use of a [[List of useful console commands|console command]], the remaining functionality is only accessible through the use of a {{w|Sixense TrueMotion|Razer Hydra}} controller, which allows for the greater degree of control of objects. The Portal Device in ''Portal 2'' also lacks the ability to slightly launch/drop objects using the primary and secondary fire keys respectively.

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
|lines=3
|title=Handheld Portal Device
|height=150
|width=175
|File:Portal ASHPD 1st person.png|alt1=Handheld Portal Device|First person view in ''[[Portal]]''
|File:Atlas_Portal_Gun.png|alt2=[[Atlas|Atlas']] Portal Gun in ''[[Portal 2]]''|[[Atlas|Atlas']] Portal Gun in ''[[Portal 2]]''
|File:P-Body_Portal_Gun.png|alt3=[[P-body|P-body's]] Portal Gun in ''Portal 2''|[[P-body|P-body's]] Portal Gun in ''Portal 2''
|File:Old Handheld Portal Device.png|alt4=The Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device. The Portal Gun from the 1940s.|The Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device. The Portal Gun from the 1940s.
|File:Old Portal Gun.jpg|alt5=A pre-release form of the Portal Gun.|A pre-release form of the Portal Gun.
|File:Ashpd blueprint.jpg|alt6=Blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device|Blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device
|File:Ashpd_blueprint2.jpg|alt7=Another blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device|Another blueprint of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device
|File:Portal Gun Concept Art.png|alt8=Portal Gun concept art.|Portal Gun concept art.
|File:Project Beta Portal Gun.jpg|alt9=Beta version of the Portal Gun, with the label "F-22".|Beta version of the Portal Gun, with the label "F-22".
}}

== References ==
<references/>

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[[Category:Mechanics]]

Wheatley

2011-12-18T03:27:17Z

Link6474: /* Trivia */

{{SpoilerHeavy}}

[[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|once an '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''' attached on [[GLaDOS]]}}, is a raw [[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|Eventually, he immediately develops into the game's main antagonist as he is attached to the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] - ultimately taking over GLaDOS' body.}}

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; manipulating and controlling her unpredictable actions on the Enrichment Center. 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, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. Throughout the ''[[Portal 2]]'' chapter ''The Escape'', he reveals that he has a disliking for working with humans; accusing them of "nepotism" simply because the staff gave out the jobs he preferred to other humans. 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 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 by [[Chell]] during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', while he is attached to a rail on the ceiling. He later detaches himself from the rail to accompany Chell on a route to the [[Central AI Chamber]], using 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, he promptly attempts to access an escape hatch under the main breaker room, instead reactivates [[GLaDOS]] by accident. The duo are then grabbed away by one of GLaDOS' pincers on the railings, where GLaDOS crushes him before throwing him away from her chamber.}}

{{spoiler|However, he survives and meets up with Chell later on when the latter is forced into being GLaDOS' lab rat once more. During the course of the game, Wheatley often sneaks behind GLaDOS' testing tracks, analyzing a way to break Chell free from her clutches. Later on in the chapter ''The Surprise'', he successfully rescues Chell before she is put through GLaDOS' death trap at the end of testing. During this time, Wheatley plots that before they could escape, GLaDOS' control over the facility would need to be sabotaged first. The duo starts off with sabotaging GLaDOS' turret production line and later her [[neurotoxin]] generator.}}

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

{{spoiler|Once the sabotages were made, Chell and Wheatley head over to the Central AI Chamber to confront GLaDOS. Fortunately for them, the [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transference. To GLaDOS' dismay on the process, a stalemate resolution annex deploys itself into the chamber for Chell to press a stalemate resolution button. Once GLaDOS' control over the body was disabled, Wheatley is lowered into a hatch where the core transfer occurs where Wheatley then takes over the central core. When he is about to let Chell leave in an elevator lift, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and immediately becomes the game's antagonist. Wheatley extracts GLaDOS' core programming into a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her, but as GLaDOS reveals to Chell that he was originally an Intelligence Dampening Sphere made to dumb down GLaDOS' decisions, he grows aggravated and accidentally knocks both her and Chell into 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 20th century remains of [[Aperture Science]] deep beneath the Enrichment Center, Chell and GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown - which he insists on neglecting the persistent warnings. Wheatley then decides to put Chell and the potato battery-powered GLaDOS into his own testing tracks - some of which were just stolen from GLaDOS with the word "TEST" written on the testing chambers. As he digs into various Enrichment Center projects, he discovers that GLaDOS had built [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as two robotic cooperative test subjects to prevent "the itch" in the central core body from occurring when she intended to kill Chell. Wheatley makes use of these bots and slowly plots to kill Chell and GLaDOS, later plummeting the duo into a death trap at the beginning of a test chamber. After escaping his traps, GLaDOS suggests causing a new core transfer by implanting [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupt personality cores]] onto Wheatley.}}

{{spoiler|Chell enters the Central AI Chamber to begin the confrontation with Wheatley. By shutting him down temporarily with bombs, Chell corrupts Wheatley enough to initiate a new core transference, saving the facility from destruction in the progress. However, a stalemate occurs when Wheatley does not agree to transfer himself, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives, and Chell is flung from the button. Chell survives and launches a portal onto the surface of the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space. GLaDOS then reacquires her old body and rescues Chell while letting Wheatley be launched into the vacuum of space.}}

{{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:Chell wheatley deathtrap.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Implementation of [[crusher]]s in the chapter ''The Part Where He Kills You''.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler20=yes
}}

{{gallery
|title = Media
|lines = 4
|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].
}}

== 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>

* In a test chamber,after he is crushed by GLaDOS, Wheatly comes out of a wall to check on Chell for a split-second. There is a fence structure between him and Chell so a portal must be placed to get to him. If a portal is placed while Wheatly appears he will go back into the wall before Chell reaches him. If a portal is placed before he appears Chell is able to remove him from the wall. He will not talk or react to her. Wheatly will just make a few slight motions like how he did in the wall except on a loop. Chell can bring him everywhere in the level even past the [[Material Emancipation Grill]]. If Chell brings him to the elevator he will not appear in the next chamber. (Must be tested)He may not appear in this spot again if taken if the wall.

== References ==
<references />

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

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Wheatley

2011-12-18T03:24:10Z

Link6474: /* Trivia */

{{SpoilerHeavy}}

[[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|once an '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''' attached on [[GLaDOS]]}}, is a raw [[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|Eventually, he immediately develops into the game's main antagonist as he is attached to the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] - ultimately taking over GLaDOS' body.}}

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; manipulating and controlling her unpredictable actions on the Enrichment Center. 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, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. Throughout the ''[[Portal 2]]'' chapter ''The Escape'', he reveals that he has a disliking for working with humans; accusing them of "nepotism" simply because the staff gave out the jobs he preferred to other humans. 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 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 by [[Chell]] during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', while he is attached to a rail on the ceiling. He later detaches himself from the rail to accompany Chell on a route to the [[Central AI Chamber]], using 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, he promptly attempts to access an escape hatch under the main breaker room, instead reactivates [[GLaDOS]] by accident. The duo are then grabbed away by one of GLaDOS' pincers on the railings, where GLaDOS crushes him before throwing him away from her chamber.}}

{{spoiler|However, he survives and meets up with Chell later on when the latter is forced into being GLaDOS' lab rat once more. During the course of the game, Wheatley often sneaks behind GLaDOS' testing tracks, analyzing a way to break Chell free from her clutches. Later on in the chapter ''The Surprise'', he successfully rescues Chell before she is put through GLaDOS' death trap at the end of testing. During this time, Wheatley plots that before they could escape, GLaDOS' control over the facility would need to be sabotaged first. The duo starts off with sabotaging GLaDOS' turret production line and later her [[neurotoxin]] generator.}}

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

{{spoiler|Once the sabotages were made, Chell and Wheatley head over to the Central AI Chamber to confront GLaDOS. Fortunately for them, the [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transference. To GLaDOS' dismay on the process, a stalemate resolution annex deploys itself into the chamber for Chell to press a stalemate resolution button. Once GLaDOS' control over the body was disabled, Wheatley is lowered into a hatch where the core transfer occurs where Wheatley then takes over the central core. When he is about to let Chell leave in an elevator lift, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and immediately becomes the game's antagonist. Wheatley extracts GLaDOS' core programming into a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her, but as GLaDOS reveals to Chell that he was originally an Intelligence Dampening Sphere made to dumb down GLaDOS' decisions, he grows aggravated and accidentally knocks both her and Chell into 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 20th century remains of [[Aperture Science]] deep beneath the Enrichment Center, Chell and GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown - which he insists on neglecting the persistent warnings. Wheatley then decides to put Chell and the potato battery-powered GLaDOS into his own testing tracks - some of which were just stolen from GLaDOS with the word "TEST" written on the testing chambers. As he digs into various Enrichment Center projects, he discovers that GLaDOS had built [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as two robotic cooperative test subjects to prevent "the itch" in the central core body from occurring when she intended to kill Chell. Wheatley makes use of these bots and slowly plots to kill Chell and GLaDOS, later plummeting the duo into a death trap at the beginning of a test chamber. After escaping his traps, GLaDOS suggests causing a new core transfer by implanting [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupt personality cores]] onto Wheatley.}}

{{spoiler|Chell enters the Central AI Chamber to begin the confrontation with Wheatley. By shutting him down temporarily with bombs, Chell corrupts Wheatley enough to initiate a new core transference, saving the facility from destruction in the progress. However, a stalemate occurs when Wheatley does not agree to transfer himself, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives, and Chell is flung from the button. Chell survives and launches a portal onto the surface of the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space. GLaDOS then reacquires her old body and rescues Chell while letting Wheatley be launched into the vacuum of space.}}

{{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:Chell wheatley deathtrap.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Implementation of [[crusher]]s in the chapter ''The Part Where He Kills You''.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler20=yes
}}

{{gallery
|title = Media
|lines = 4
|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].
}}

== 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>

* In a test chamber after GLaDOS "crushes" Wheatly comes out of a wall to check on Chell for a split-second. There is a fence structure between him and Chell so a portal must be placed to get to him. If a portal is placed while Wheatly appears he will go back into the wallbefore chell reaches him. If a portal is placed before he appears Chell is able to remove him from the wall. He will not talk or move. Wheatly will just make a few slight motions like how he did in the wall except on a loop. Chell can bring him everywhere in the level even past the [[Material Emancipation Grill]]. If Chell brings him to the elevator he will not appear in the next chamber. (Must be tested)He may not appear in this spot again if taken if the wall.

== References ==
<references />

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

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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|once an '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere''' attached on [[GLaDOS]]}}, is a raw [[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|Eventually, he immediately develops into the game's main antagonist as he is attached to the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] - ultimately taking over GLaDOS' body.}}

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; manipulating and controlling her unpredictable actions on the Enrichment Center. 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, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. Throughout the ''[[Portal 2]]'' chapter ''The Escape'', he reveals that he has a disliking for working with humans; accusing them of "nepotism" simply because the staff gave out the jobs he preferred to other humans. 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 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 by [[Chell]] during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', while he is attached to a rail on the ceiling. He later detaches himself from the rail to accompany Chell on a route to the [[Central AI Chamber]], using 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, he promptly attempts to access an escape hatch under the main breaker room, instead reactivates [[GLaDOS]] by accident. The duo are then grabbed away by one of GLaDOS' pincers on the railings, where GLaDOS crushes him before throwing him away from her chamber.}}

{{spoiler|However, he survives and meets up with Chell later on when the latter is forced into being GLaDOS' lab rat once more. During the course of the game, Wheatley often sneaks behind GLaDOS' testing tracks, analyzing a way to break Chell free from her clutches. Later on in the chapter ''The Surprise'', he successfully rescues Chell before she is put through GLaDOS' death trap at the end of testing. During this time, Wheatley plots that before they could escape, GLaDOS' control over the facility would need to be sabotaged first. The duo starts off with sabotaging GLaDOS' turret production line and later her [[neurotoxin]] generator.}}

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

{{spoiler|Once the sabotages were made, Chell and Wheatley head over to the Central AI Chamber to confront GLaDOS. Fortunately for them, the [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transference. To GLaDOS' dismay on the process, a stalemate resolution annex deploys itself into the chamber for Chell to press a stalemate resolution button. Once GLaDOS' control over the body was disabled, Wheatley is lowered into a hatch where the core transfer occurs where Wheatley then takes over the central core. When he is about to let Chell leave in an elevator lift, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and immediately becomes the game's antagonist. Wheatley extracts GLaDOS' core programming into a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her, but as GLaDOS reveals to Chell that he was originally an Intelligence Dampening Sphere made to dumb down GLaDOS' decisions, he grows aggravated and accidentally knocks both her and Chell into 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 20th century remains of [[Aperture Science]] deep beneath the Enrichment Center, Chell and GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown - which he insists on neglecting the persistent warnings. Wheatley then decides to put Chell and the potato battery-powered GLaDOS into his own testing tracks - some of which were just stolen from GLaDOS with the word "TEST" written on the testing chambers. As he digs into various Enrichment Center projects, he discovers that GLaDOS had built [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as two robotic cooperative test subjects to prevent "the itch" in the central core body from occurring when she intended to kill Chell. Wheatley makes use of these bots and slowly plots to kill Chell and GLaDOS, later plummeting the duo into a death trap at the beginning of a test chamber. After escaping his traps, GLaDOS suggests causing a new core transfer by implanting [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupt personality cores]] onto Wheatley.}}

{{spoiler|Chell enters the Central AI Chamber to begin the confrontation with Wheatley. By shutting him down temporarily with bombs, Chell corrupts Wheatley enough to initiate a new core transference, saving the facility from destruction in the progress. However, a stalemate occurs when Wheatley does not agree to transfer himself, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives, and Chell is flung from the button. Chell survives and launches a portal onto the surface of the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space. GLaDOS then reacquires her old body and rescues Chell while letting Wheatley be launched into the vacuum of space.}}

{{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:Chell wheatley deathtrap.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Implementation of [[crusher]]s in the chapter ''The Part Where He Kills You''.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler20=yes
}}

{{gallery
|title = Media
|lines = 4
|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].
}}

== 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>

In a test chamber after GLaDOS "crushes" Wheatly comes out of a wall to check on Chell for a split-second. There is a fence structure between him and Chell so a portal must be placed to get to him. If a portal is placed while Wheatly appears he will go back into the wallbefore chell reaches him. If a portal is placed before he appears Chell is able to remove him from the wall. He will not talk or move. Wheatly will just make a few slight motions like how he did in the wall except on a loop. Chell can bring him everywhere in the level even past the [[Material Emancipation Grill]]. If Chell brings him to the elevator he will not appear in the next chamber. (Must be tested)He may not appear in this spot again if taken if the wall.

== References ==
<references />

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

{{CharactersNav}}