Core voice lines

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 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

• "QUICK: WHAT'S THE SITUATION? Oh, hey, hi pretty lady. My name's Rick. So, you out having a little adventure?"
• "What, are you fighting that guy? You got that under control? You know, because, looks like there's a lot of stuff on fire..."
• "Hey, a countdown clock! Man, that is trouble. Situation's looking pretty ugly. For such a beautiful woman. If you don't mind me saying."
• "I don't want to scare you, but, I'm an Adventure Sphere. Designed for danger. So, why don't you go ahead and have yourself a little lady break, and I'll just take it from here."
• "Here, stand behind me. Yeah, just like that. Just like you're doing. Things are about to get real messy."
• "Going for it yourself, huh? All right, angel. I'll do what I can to cover you."
• "Doesn't bother me. I gotta say, the view's mighty nice from right here."
• "Man, that clock is moving fast. And you are beautiful. Always time to compliment a pretty lady. All right, back to work. Let's do this."
• "Did you hear that? I think something just exploded. Man, we are in a lot of danger. This is like Christmas. No, it's better than Christmas. This should be its own holiday. Explosion Day!"
• "Happy Explosion Day, gorgeous."
• "I'll tell ya, it's times like this I wish I had a waist so I could wear all my black belts. Yeah, I'm a black belt. In pretty much everything. Karate. Larate. Jiu Jitsu. Kick punching. Belt making. Taekwondo... Bedroom."
• "I am a coiled spring right now. Tension and power. Just... I'm a muscle. Like a big arm muscle, punching through a brick wall, and it's hitting the wall so hard the arm is catching on fire. Oh yeah."
• "I probably wouldn't have let things get this far, but you go ahead and do things your way."
• "Tell ya what, why don't you put me down and I'll make a distraction."
• "All right. You create a distraction then, and I'll distract him from YOUR distraction."
• "All right, your funeral. Your beautiful-lady-corpse open casket funeral."
• "Do you have a gun? Because I should really have a gun. What is that thing you're holding?"
• "How about a knife, then? You keep the gun, I'll use a knife."
• "No knife? That's fine. I know all about pressure points."
• "So, when you kill that guy, do you have a cool line? You know, prepared? Tell you what: Lemme help you with that while you run around."
• "Okay, let's see. Cool line... He's... big. He's... just hangin' there. Okay. Yeah, all right, here we go: 'Hang around.' That might be too easy."
• "'Hang ten?' That might work if there were ten of him. Do you think there might be nine more of this guy somewhere?"
• "All right, you know what, it's gonna be best if you can get him to say something first. It's just better if I have a set-up."
• "Here's the plan: Get him to say, 'You two have been a thorn in my side long enough.' Then tell your pretty ears to stand back, because I am going to zing him into the stone age."
• "Here, let me put on some adventure music."
• "Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUN! DUN DUN! Dunna-dunna-na-dunna-na-DUN! DUN DUN! nananaDUNDUNDUN dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun..."
• "Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-action and adventure-dunna-dunna-na-dunna-na-playing by our own rules-nanana-hanging by our fingers from a mountain-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun..."
• "Get dirty with this robot! This robot owes you money! This robot owes! You! Money!"

"Thorn" Easter Egg

• "Don't forget! Thorn! Side!"
• "'Yeah? Well this thorn... is about to take you down.' Man, that sounded a whole lot better in my head."

Unused Dialog

• "QUICK: WHAT'S THE SITUATION? Oh, hello angel. I guess I must have died and gone to heaven. Name's Rick. So, you out having yourself a little adventure?"
• "Here's the plan: Get him to say, 'You two have been a thorn in my side long enough.' Then tell your pretty ears to stand back, because I am going to zing him into space."
• "'Yeah? Well this thorn... is about to take you down.' Oh yeah!"
• "Okay, have it your way. What, are you fighting that guy? You got that under control there? Cuz it looks like there's a lot of stuff on fire..."
• "Kick him! Or punch him. You're the boss, dimples."
• "Yeah! Nice!"
• "You messed with the wrong woman!"
• "Yeah! How'd you like that?"
• "How's that taste, pal?"
• "Keep it up, baby! You're creamin' him!"
• "Duck and weave, duck and weave! Ohh, the sweet science."
• "You're doing great!"
• "Come on, sweetie! He's got a glass jaw! He's got a glass everything! This guy's a china cabinet!"
• "This ain't Marquis of Queensberry Rules, sweetie! Pour on the mustard!"
• "Shake it off! Shake it off!"
• "Pfff. I guess."
• "Pff. Whatever."
• "Oh, shut up!"
• "Nobody cares, four eyes."
• "If you had underwear? And a butt? I would pull your underwear... right up your butt."
• "Tell it to the bad guy. Maybe you'll make him so bored his brain'll explode."
• "You know who found that interesting? Nobody. That didn't affect anybody's life in any way whatsoever. Life would be exactly the same if you hadn't said anything."
• "You ever notice how nobody stops what they're doing to listen? We don't care."
• "Say one useful thing. One. I dare you. I will give you a hundred dollars if you say one thing remotely applicable to anything at all."
• "Oh shut up!"
• "There's nothing in space! That's why it's space!"
• "Oh, really? Space? Really? You should have said something! We had no idea!"
• "You know what I hope's in space? Fire. I hope you go to space and catch on fire."
• "Dammit, we know! Everybody knows! Space! You! In it! We get it!"