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The Weighted Companion Cube as it appears in
Portal 2
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The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.
— GLaDOS
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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 Test Chamber 17. In order to progress through the exit at the end of the chamber, the cube was dropped into the 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 disregarded.
In Portal 2, GLaDOS briefly torments Chell by repeatedly destroying Companion Cubes in Test Chamber 7. It is at this point that GLaDOS claims that the Cubes are in fact 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 the her [1] .
The Companion Cube in Portal 2 hums an excerpt of Cara Mia, which can be heard when it is nearby.
The Truth
There is evidence that suggests that there might be dead or dying people shoved into the cubes. For example, the achievement Fratricide. Fratricide means the act of killing your brother or sister. Did you just really incinerate one of your fellow test subjects? Also, GLaDOS talks about the companion cubes the same way she talks about human life. Even more so, Rattmann has pictures of cubes over heads of his fellow co-workers. there is a condition that makes people become attached to inanimate objects. A woman got married to the Eiffel Tower. But Rattmann doesn't just put the cube pictures over the faces of men, but women too. Finally, the Companion Cubes are never faced with the threat of a Emancipation Grid First, in Portal, you use an Incinerator to get rid of it. Then in Portal 2, the stage has a broken Emancipation Grid.
Related Achievements
Portal
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Fratricide
Do whatever it takes to survive.
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Portal 2
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Party of Three
Find the hidden companion cube in co-op test chamber
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Preservation of Mass
Break the rules in Test Chamber 07
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Gallery
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| Weighted Companion Cube in Portal.
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| Companion Cube Pin promotional banner.
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| Companion Cube as seen in Audiosurf in the [as-portal] mode.
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| Companion Cube as seen in The Final Hours of Portal 2.
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| A turret disguised as the Companion Cube.
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Trivia
- Players who pre-purchased Portal 2 through Steam received the Companion Cube Pin item, a pin item depicting the Companion Cube within a portal, for Team Fortress 2. Players who played all games in the Potato Sack Pack were awarded the 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.
See Also
References
![Companion Cube as seen in Audiosurf in the [as-portal] mode.](/wiki/File:Audiosurf_Companion_Cube.png)
