Bird

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Agh! Bird! Bird! Kill it! It's evil! Click to listen — GLaDOS

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The Bird, also known as the Crow, is a miscellaneous character throughout many Valve titles and parent of three unnamed chicks.

The Bird plays a minor role during the single player campaign, after Wheatley's takeover of Aperture Science, and returns later during the additional cooperative testing course, Art Therapy as the main antagonist.

Overview

Portal 2

Reawakening era

Some time into the game's singleplayer campaign, protagonist Chell and tritagonist GLaDOS become separated from each other. In a strange plot to absorb GLaDOS' intellect into it's own form, the Bird abducts the AI and takes her to it's nest. However, this plan is foiled by the efforts of Chell, who rescues GLaDOS.

Cooperative testing era

The Bird, in a final attempt to shift control of the Enrichment Center over to it's side, somehow finds, activates, and uses a prototype chassis of the central core. GLaDOS, now in full control of the facility, dispatches the robots Atlas and P-Body to kill the Bird. The robots stumble across the Bird's nest, placed above the central core's keyboard, and as GLaDOS observes it, she panics and yells at them to abort their mission. Startled, the Bird is forced to flee it's home. P-body then closes the hatch that the Bird flew out from, making it impossible for it to return.

Other games

The bird also appears in Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, but it plays even smaller role there.

Abilities and traits

The Bird is capable of many astounding abilities, such as asexual reproduction and ability to manipulate a keyboard.

Gallery

GLaDOS and the Bird's chicks.

List of appearances

• Half-Life 2
• Portal 2
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2