List of Core voice lines.
Portal
Cake recipe core
- "One 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix."
- "One can prepared coconut pecan frosting."
- "Three slash four cup vegetable oil."
- "Four large eggs. One cup semi-sweet chocolate chips."
- "Three slash four cups butter or margarine."
- "One and two third cups granulated sugar."
- "Two cups all purpose flour."
- "Don't forget garnishes such as:"
- "Fish shaped crackers."
- "Fish shaped candies."
- "Fish shaped solid waste."
- "Fish shaped dirt."
- "Fish shaped ethyl benzene."
- "Pull and peel licorice."
- "Fish shaped volatile organic compounds and sediment shaped sediment."
- "Candy coated peanut butter pieces. Shaped like fish."
- "One cup lemon juice."
- "Alpha resins."
- "Unsaturated polyester resin."
- "Fiberglass surface resins."
- "And volatile malted milk impoundments."
- "Nine large egg yolks."
- "Twelve medium geosynthetic membranes."
- "One cup granulated sugar."
- "An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands."
- "Two cups rhubarb, sliced."
- "Two slash three cups granulated rhubarb."
- "One tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb."
- "One teaspoon grated orange rhubarb."
- "Three tablespoons rhubarb, on fire."
- "One large rhubarb."
- "One cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb."
- "Two tablespoons rhubarb juice."
- "Adjustable aluminum head positioner."
- "Slaughter electric needle injector."
- "Cordless electric needle injector."
- "Injector needle driver."
- "Injector needle gun."
- "Cranial caps."
- "And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals."
- "That will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue."
Curiosity core
- "Who are you?"
- "What is that?"
- "Oh, what's that?"
- "What's that?"
- "What is THAT?"
- "Ooh, that thing has numbers on it!"
- "Hey, look at THAT thing! No, that other thing."
- "Ewww, what's wrong with your legs?"
- "Where are we going?"
- "Are you coming back?"
- "Oh hey, you're the lady from the test! Hi!"
- "What's that noise?"
- "Is that a gun?"
- "Do you smell something burning?"
- "Where are we going?"
- "Oh, what's in here?"
- Curiosity core death scream
Portal 2
Fact core lines
- "The situation you are in is very dangerous."
- "The likelihood of you dying within the next five minutes is eighty-seven point six one percent."
- "The likelihood of you dying violently within the next five minutes is eighty-seven point six one percent."
- "You are about to get me killed."
- "We will both die because of your negligence."
- "This is a bad plan. You will fail."
- "He will most likely kill you, violently."
- "He will most likely kill you."
- "You will be dead soon."
- "This situation is hopeless."
- "You are going to die in this room."
- "You could stand to lose a few pounds."
- "The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere."
- "The Fact Sphere is the most handsome sphere."
- "The Fact Sphere is incredibly handsome."
- "The Fact Sphere is always right."
- "The Adventure Sphere is a blowhard and a coward."
- "The Space Sphere will never go to space."
- "You will never go into space."
- "Fact: Space does not exist."
- "Spheres that insist on going into space are inferior to spheres that don't."
- "The Fact Sphere is a good person, whose insights are relevant."
- "The Fact Sphere is a good sphere, with many friends."
- "Whoever wins this battle is clearly superior, and will earn the allegiance of the Fact Sphere."
- "The Fact Sphere is not defective. Its facts are wholly accurate and very interesting."
- "Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. Twelve."
- "Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens. Pens."
- "Apples. Oranges. Pears. Plums. Kumquats. Tangerines. Lemons. Limes. Avocado. Tomato. Banana. Papaya. Guava."
- "Error. Error. Error. File not found."
- "Error. Error. Error. Fact not found."
- "Fact not found."
- "Corruption at 25%"
- "Corruption at 50%"
- "Warning, sphere corruption at twenty-- rats cannot throw up."
- "Dental floss has superb tensile strength."
- "The square root of rope is string."
- "While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation."
- "Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitis."
- "Pants were invented by sailors in the sixteenth century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god."
- "The atomic weight of Germanium is seven two point six four."
- "89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery."
- "An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain."
- "In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of Minotaurs would stop teasing him about it."
- "Humans can survive underwater. But not for very long."
- "Raseph, the Semitic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead."
- "The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general."
- "Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene."
- "Rats cannot throw up."
- "Iguanas can stay underwater for twenty-eight point seven minutes."
- "Human tapeworms can grow up to twenty-two point nine meters."
- "The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats."
- "Every square inch of the human body has 32 million bacteria on it."
- "The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth."
- "The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is 15 years."
- "Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes."
- "Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit."
- "Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians."
- "The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days."
- "The billionth digit of Pi is 9."
- "If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: one comes before two comes before 60 comes after 12 comes before six trillion comes after 504. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal."
- "A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds"
- "Hot water freezes quicker than cold water."
- "Honey does not spoil."
- "The average adult body contains half a pound of salt."
- "A nanosecond lasts one billionth of a second."
- "According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats."
- "China produces the world's second largest crop of soybeans."
- "Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius."
- "Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath."
- "Roman toothpaste was made with human urine. Urine as an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century."
- "The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government."
- "The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space."
- "The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo."
- "In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute."
- "Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity."
- "At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself."
- "Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimo does not have one hundred different words for snow. They do, however, have two hundred and thirty-four words for fudge."
- "In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this."
- "In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event."
- "In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning."
- "William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave play-writing ghosts."
- "It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented 'push-ups' in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name 'Tesla-cize.'"
- "Whales are twice as intelligent, and three times as delicious, as humans."
- "The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this, someone had to remain in the car at all times, driving in circles until passengers returned from their errands."
- "Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, did so accidentally while chasing a bird."
- "Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellets, commonly used today as packing material."
- "The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything but its eyes are made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful, deadly poison."
- "The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering."
- "Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the sun, where it hibernates undisturbed."
- "The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way."
- "In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself."
- "The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty."
- "Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium."
- "Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell or scrambled rocks."
- "During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice."
- "At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch."
- "According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig."
- "To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror."
- "Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out."
Space core lines
- "What's your favorite thing about space? Mine is space."
- "Space going to space can't wait."
- "Space..."
- "Space. Trial. Puttin' the system on trial. In space. Space system. On trial. Guilty. Of being in space! Going to space jail!"
- "Dad! I'm in space! [low-pitched 'space' voice] I'm proud of you, son. [normal voice] Dad, are you space? [low-pitched 'space' voice] Yes. Now we are a family again."
- "Space space wanna go to space yes please space. Space space. Go to space."
- "Space space wanna go to space"
- "Space space going to space oh boy"
- "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space! Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba!"
- "Oh. Play it cool. Play it cool. Here come the space cops."
- "Help me, space cops. Space cops, help."
- "Going to space going there can't wait gotta go. Space. Going."
- "Better buy a telescope. Wanna see me. Buy a telescope. Gonna be in space."
- "Space. Space."
- "I'm going to space."
- "Oh boy."
- "Yeah yeah yeah okay okay."
- "Space. Space. Gonna go to space."
- "Space. Space. Go to space."
- "Yes. Please. Space."
- "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space!"
- "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space!"
- "Gonna be in space."
- "Space."
- "Space."
- "Ohhhh, space."
- "Wanna go to space. Space."
- "[humming]"
- "Let's go - let's go to space. Let's go to space."
- "I love space. Love space."
- "Atmosphere. Black holes. Astronauts. Nebulas. Jupiter. The Big Dipper."
- "Orbit. Space orbit. In my spacesuit."
- "Space..."
- "Ohhh, the Sun. I'm gonna meet the Sun. Oh no! What'll I say? 'Hi! Hi, Sun!' Oh, boy!"
- "Look, an eclipse! No. Don't look."
- "Come here, space. I have a secret for you. No, come closer."
- "Space space wanna go to space"
- "Wanna go to -- wanna go to space"
- "Space wanna go wanna go to space wanna go to space"
- "I'm going to space."
- "Space!"
- "Space!"
- "Hey hey hey hey hey!"
- "Hey."
- "Hey."
- "Hey."
- "Hey."
- "Hey."
- "Hey lady."
- "Lady."
- "Space!"
- "Lady."
- "Space."
- "Gotta go to space. Lady. Lady."
- "Oo. Oo. Oo. Lady. Oo. Lady. Oo. Let's go to space."
- "Oh I know! I know I know I know I know I know - let's go to space!"
- "Oooh! Ooh! Hi hi hi hi hi. Where we going? Where we going? Hey. Lady. Where we going? Where we going? Let's go to space!"
- "Lady. I love space. I know! Spell it! S P... AACE. Space. Space."
- "I love space."
- "Hey lady. Lady. I'm the best. I'm the best at space."
- "Oh oh oh oh. Wait wait. Wait I know. I know. I know wait. Space."
- "Wait wait wait wait. I know I know I know. Lady wait. Wait. I know. Wait. Space."
- "Gotta go to space."
- "Gonna be in space."
- "Oh oh oh ohohohoh oh. Gotta go to space."
- "Space. Space. Space. Space. Comets. Stars. Galaxies. Orion."
- "Are we in space yet? What's the hold-up? Gotta go to space. Gotta go to SPACE."
- "Going to space."
- "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going. Going to space."
- "Love space. Need to go to space."
- "Space space space. Going. Going there. Okay. I love you, space."
- "Space."
- "So much space. Need to see it all."
- "You are the farthest ever in space. Why me, space? Because you are the best. I'm the best at space? Yes."
- "Space Court. For people in space. Judge space sun presiding. Bam. Guilty. Of being in space. I'm in space."
- "Please go to space."
- "Space."
- "Wanna go to space."
- "(excited gasps)"
- "Gotta go to space. Yeah. Gotta go to space."
- "Hmmm. Hmmmmmm. Hmm. Hmmmmm. Space!"
- "Hey lady."
- "Hey."
- "Lady."
- "Hey lady. Lady."
- "Hey."
- "Lady."
- "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! I'm in space!"
- "Space? SPACE!"
- "I'm in space."
- "I'm in space."
- "Where am I? Guess. Guess guess guess. I'm in space."
- "There's a star. There's another one. Star. Star star star. Star."
- "Getting bored of space."
- "Bam! Bam bam bam! Take that, space."
- "Are we in space?"
- "We are?"
- "Oh oh oh. This is space! I'm in space!"
- "We made it we made it we made it. Space!"
- "Earth."
- "Wanna go to earth."
- "Wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth. Wanna go to earth."
- "Wanna go home."
- "Wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home."
- "Earth earth earth."
- "Don't like space. Don't like space."
- "It's too big. Too big. Wanna go home. Wanna go to earth."
- "SPAAACCCCCE!"
- "SPAAACE!"
- "YEEEHAAAAAW!"
- "Ah!"
Adventure core lines
- "¡RÁPIDO! ¿CUÁL ES LA SITUACIÓN? Hey, qué tal bombón. Me llamo Rick. ¿Te gustan las aventuras?"
- "¡RÁPIDO! ¿CUÁL ES LA SITUACIÓN? Hey, hola. Debo estar en el cielo, porque veo un ángel. Me llamo Rick. ¿Te gustan las aventuras?"
- "¿Qué, estás luchando contra ese tipo? ¿Lo tienes controlado? Porque yo veo demasiadas cosas ardiendo, ¿sabes?"
- "¡Una cuenta atrás! Eso significa problemas. La cosa se ha puesto fea... para una mujer tan hermosa, si me permites decirlo."
- "No quisiera asustarte, pero soy una esfera aventurera. Diseñada para el peligro. ¿Por qué no te tomas un respiro, señorita? Yo me encargaré de todo ahora."
- "Quédate detrás de mí. Sí, así, tal como estás. La cosa está a punto de ponerse al rojo vivo."
- "¿Quieres hacerlo sola? Vale, cariño, haré lo que pueda para cubrirte."
- "No me molesta. A decir verdad, las vistas son espectaculares aquí."
- "Ese reloj va a toda velocidad. Y eres preciosa. Nunca es mal momento para piropear a una chica bonita. Bueno: al tajo."
- "En ocasiones como esta, desearía tener cintura para poder llevar todos mis cinturones negros. Los tengo prácticamente en todo. Karate, larate, jiu jitsu, confección de cinturones, lucha de almohadas..."
- "Me siento como un muelle encogido, repleto de tensión y energía. Soy... un músculo. Como un brazo de culturista, atravesando una pared de ladrillo, golpeando con tanta fuerta que ardo. Sí."
- "Yo, probablemente no habría dejado que la cosa llegara tan lejos, pero tú sigue a tu aire."
- "Mira, mejor me dejas en el suelo y yo le distraeré."
- "Vale. Entonces distráelo tú y yo lo distraeré de la distracción que estés creando."
- "De acuerdo, es tu funeral. Enterrarán tu escultural cadáver en un ataúd."
- "¿Llevas pistola? Porque yo debería llevarla. ¿Qué es eso que estás llevando?"
- "¿Y un cuchillo, entonces? Tú te quedas la pistola, yo el cuchillo."
- "¿No tienes cuchillo? Bueno, soy experto en puntos de presión."
- "Cuando acabes con ese tipo, ¿vas a soltar una frase molona? ¿La tienes preparada? Mira: yo te ayudaré con eso mientras tú te lo cargas."
- "Vale, veamos. Una frase chula. Es un ordenador y está colgando. Vale, allá vamos: “No te quedes colgado”. No, es muy facilona."
- "“¡El nudo de la horca te espera!” Eso funcionaría si tuviese cuello. ¿Podrías decirle que se fabricase un cuello?"
- "¿Sabes qué? Será mejor que le obligues a decir algo primero, para inspirarme adecuadamente."
- "Lo tengo: haz que diga “Habéis sido una molestia durante demasiado tiempo”. Entonces será mejor que te tapes los oídos y te protejas, porque le mandaré a criar malvas."
- "Lo tengo: haz que diga “Habéis sido una molestia durante demasiado tiempo”. Entonces será mejor que te tapes los oídos y te protejas, porque le mandaré a criar malvas."
- "¡No lo olvides! ¡Molestia!"
- "Pues esta molestia... está a punto de derrotarte. Jo, sonaba mucho mejor en mi cabeza."
- "Pues esta molestia... está a punto de derrotarte. ¡Chúpate esa!"
- "Vale, como quieras. Espera, ¿estás combatiendo a ese tipo? ¿Lo tienes controlado? Porque, me parece que hay un montón de cosas ardiendo."
- "¿Has oído eso? Parece que algo acaba de estallar. Estamos en un buen lío. Parecen las fallas. Es aún más ruidoso: debería tener su propia fiesta. El Día de las Explosiones."
- "Feliz Día de las Explosiones, nena."
- "¡Dale una patada! O un puñetazo. Tú mandas, bombón."
- "¡Sí, así!"
- "¡Te has metido con quien no debías!"
- "¡Sí! ¿Qué te ha parecido?"
- "¿Cómo te ha sentado?"
- "¡No pares, lo tienes dominado!"
- "Practica ese juego de cintura. Boxeo, el deporte más noble."
- "¡De lujo!"
- "¡Vamos, cariño! ¡Tiene la mandíbula de cristal! ¡Tiene todo de cristal! ¡Es de porcelana!"
- "¡Que no combatimos con reglas decimonónicas! ¡Hazle una cara nueva!"
- "¡Dale pal pelo al robot! ¡Imagina que este robot te debe dinero! ¡Mucho dinero!"
- "¡Quítatelo de encima!"
- "Deja que te ponga música de aventuras."
- "Pff. Supongo."
- "Pff. Vale."
- "¡Cállate!"
- "Nos aburres, cuatro ojos."
- "Si llevaras calzoncillos, te los pondría de sombrero sin quitártelos de las piernas."
- "Díselo al malo. Puede que le aburras tanto que le explote el cerebro."
- "¿Sabes a quién le interesa eso? A nadie. No has cambiado la vida de nadie ni un ápice con tus datos. Si no hubieses dicho nada, el universo no se habría dado ni cuenta."
- "¿No ves que nadie se para a escuchar lo que dices? Nos da igual."
- "Di algo interesante. Algo. Te reto. Te daría mil dólares si dijeses algo que tuviese la más mínima utilidad para algo."
- "[Tararea una melodía típica de película de acción]"
- "[Tararea una melodía de película de acción]... vivimos según nuestras propias reglas, al borde del abismo... [sigue tarareando]."
- "Ah, ¡cállate!"
- "¡No hay nada en el espacio! ¡Por eso es el espacio!"
- "¡Ah, ¿sí? ¿El espacio? ¿De verdad? Haberlo dicho antes, ¡no tenía ni idea!"
- "¿ Sabes lo que espero que haya en el espacio? Fuego. Para que salgas ardiendo."
- "Jolín... ¡que sí! ¡Que ya lo sabemos! ¡El espacio! ¡Lo hemos pillado!"