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In possession of a feminine programming, {{Spoiler|she is the antagonist of ''[[Portal]]''}} and {{spoiler|the first half of the single-player campaign in ''[[Portal 2]]''.}} {{spoiler|During the later half, she becomes the game's {{W|tritagonist}}.}} In the game's cooperative campaign, GLaDOS is the testing supervisor of [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]].
In possession of a feminine programming, {{Spoiler|she is the antagonist of ''[[Portal]]''}} and {{spoiler|the first half of the single-player campaign in ''[[Portal 2]]''.}} {{spoiler|During the later half, she becomes the game's {{W|tritagonist}}.}} In the game's cooperative campaign, GLaDOS is the testing supervisor of [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]].
GLaDOS is voiced by opera singer and voice actress {{W|Ellen McLain}}.


== Background ==
== Background ==
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[[File:Central core prototype chassis.jpg|thumb|130px|left|{{spoiler|[[Cores#Central Core|GLaDOS]] prototype seen at the end of ''Art Therapy''.}}]]
[[File:Central core prototype chassis.jpg|thumb|130px|left|{{spoiler|[[Cores#Central Core|GLaDOS]] prototype seen at the end of ''Art Therapy''.}}]]


{{spoiler|When the bots are rebuilt again, she deploys the additional testing course; ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Art Therapy|Art Therapy]]''. As the bots begin testing, she treats the course as if it were an art museum despite the obvious malfunctioning environment such as her lack of control in putting the test chambers together properly, and a flood arising around a section of the facility during testing. Eventually, the reassembly machines have begin malfunctioning - causing her to wait three days before the robots could be reassembled to deliver the duo to their next test chamber. GLaDOS then gives in and confesses that she is in need of their help and that someone has been tampering with the facility via control of an old prototype chassis of the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]]. To resolve this, she trains the bots into becoming her "killing machines" by deploying them into more challenging tests during their course. GLaDOS then sends them closer to the chamber housing the chassis, and later jokingly calls them as her "Special Team Falling Into Acid Force". When the bots reach the chamber, they discover it was never a person, but even worse - a bird nesting above the keyboard on the machine. GLaDOS, already aware of it being a bird since the beginning, panics and instructs them abort the mission, before P-body closes a hatch that the bird flew out from. As the bots stare at the chassis, GLaDOS panics that the bird had been "gestating clones" on the keyboard and forces them to destroy the eggs. With the bots hesitant, she conjures a better idea and houses the birds in the [[Central AI Chamber]], where she could nurture them directly.}}
{{spoiler|When the bots are rebuilt again, she deploys the additional testing course; ''[[Cooperative Testing Initiative#Art Therapy|Art Therapy]]''. As the bots begin testing, she treats the course as if it were an art museum despite the obvious malfunctioning environment such as her lack of control in putting the test chambers together properly, and a flood arising around a section of the facility during testing. Eventually, the reassembly machines have begin malfunctioning - causing her to wait three days before the robots could be reassembled to deliver the duo to their next test chamber. GLaDOS then gives in and confesses that she is in need of their help and that someone has been tampering with the facility via control of an old prototype chassis of the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]]. To resolve this, she trains the bots into becoming her "killing machines" by deploying them into more challenging tests during their course. GLaDOS then sends them closer to the chamber housing the chassis, and later jokingly calls them as her "Special Team Falling Into Acid Force". When the bots reach the chamber, they discover it was never a person, but even worse - a bird nesting above the keyboard on the machine. GLaDOS, thanks to her ornitophobia back when she was a potato, panics and instructs them abort the mission, before P-body closes a hatch that the bird flew out from. As the bots stare at the chassis, GLaDOS panics that the bird had been "gestating clones" on the keyboard and forces them to destroy the eggs. With the bots hesitant, she conjures a better idea and houses the birds in the [[Central AI Chamber]], where she could nurture them directly.}}


[[File:Glados arttherapy birds.jpg|thumb|150px|right|{{spoiler|GLaDOS and the birds.}}]]
[[File:Glados arttherapy birds.jpg|thumb|150px|right|{{spoiler|GLaDOS and the birds.}}]]
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{{spoiler|In addition to her being abolished, Cave's loyal assistant [[Caroline]] has been replaced with [[Greg]]. It is unexplained on exactly what did happen to Caroline, although serving as a hint that she may have merged with GLaDOS, thus explaining her absence from this era. In this same universe after she was abolished, Cave also tries pushing the scientists into making a Cave-Bot instead. In one universe Cave successfully becomes an AI (known as "CaveDOS") and it's unknown what happened to Caroline.}}
{{spoiler|In addition to her being abolished, Cave's loyal assistant [[Caroline]] has been replaced with [[Greg]]. It is unexplained on exactly what did happen to Caroline, although serving as a hint that she may have merged with GLaDOS, thus explaining her absence from this era. In this same universe after she was abolished, Cave also tries pushing the scientists into making a Cave-Bot instead. In one universe Cave successfully becomes an AI (known as "CaveDOS") and it's unknown what happened to Caroline.}}
==Aesthetics==
This [[Portal 2]] aesthetic theme is displayed after the player had awakened [[GLaDOS]] in the single-player campaign. Because GLaDOS drops the player deeper into the facility, there is no presence of vegetation nor animals; however the facility is still in disrepair and like the earlier [[Destroyed (Portal 2)|destroyed]] theme it is characterized by rusted, decayed areas filled with debris and broken glass.
This theme is also used in co-op Course 3.
===List of GLaDOS-themed Test Chambers===
'''Chapter 2'''
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 1|sp_a2_laser_intro.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 2|sp_a2_laser_stairs.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 3|sp_a2_dual_lasers.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 4|sp_a2_laser_over_goo.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 5|sp_a2_catapult_intro.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 6|sp_a2_tb_.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 7|sp_a2_stop_the_box.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 2 Test Chamber 8|sp_a2_laser_catapult.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 8 Test Chamber 12|sp_a4_laser_platform.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 8 Test Chamber 15|sp_a4_speed_tb_catch.bsp]]
*[[Portal 2 Chapter 8 Test Chamber 16|sp_a4_jump_polarity.bsp]]
Level transitions are usually placed in broken [[Elevator (Portal 2)|elevator rooms]] surrounded by malfunctioning screens and rubble. There might be objects flying through the elevator shaft prior to its arrival like [[Cube (Portal 2)|cubes]] and [[npc_portal_turret_floor|turrets]].  These rooms become cleaner as the game progresses.


== Abilities and traits ==
== Abilities and traits ==
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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* GLaDOS is voiced by opera singer and voice actress {{W|Ellen McLain}}.
* The acronym "GLaDOS" is a pun of the name "Gladdys" and the term DOS (Disc Operating System).
* The acronym "GLaDOS" is a pun of the name "Gladdys" and the term DOS (Disc Operating System).


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* On April 8th, 2015. John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen released a non official song simply called [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgiNKEXtx7I ''GLaDOS' Song''], it is intended to play on an easter egg in Portal 2 somewhere in the development, but was cut due to not fitting GLaDOS' dark tone.
* On April 8th, 2015. John Patrick Lowrie and Ellen released a non official song simply called [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgiNKEXtx7I ''GLaDOS' Song''], it is intended to play on an easter egg in Portal 2 somewhere in the development, but was cut due to not fitting GLaDOS' dark tone.


== List of appearances ==
== Appearances ==
* ''[[Portal]]''
* ''[[Portal]]''
* ''[[Portal: Still Alive]]''
* ''[[Portal: Still Alive]]''
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* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#GLaDOS|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#GLaDOS|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* {{Spoiler|[[Caroline]]}}
* {{Spoiler|[[Caroline]]}}
 
* [[Betty]] (GLAaDOS)
 
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