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{{spoiler|As [[Doug Rattmann]] was able to evade her previous attacks, he sneaks into several departments and begin tampering with the test subject roster, rearranging [[Chell]] to the top of the list as Test Subject #1 instead. Since then, he has went into hiding as there was no possible escape from the Enrichment Center after the lockdown initiated by GLaDOS.}} | {{spoiler|As [[Doug Rattmann]] was able to evade her previous attacks, he sneaks into several departments and begin tampering with the test subject roster, rearranging [[Chell]] to the top of the list as Test Subject #1 instead. Since then, he has went into hiding as there was no possible escape from the Enrichment Center after the lockdown initiated by GLaDOS.}} | ||
Now beginning the events of ''[[Portal]]'', GLaDOS continues to operate the company and at some time-frame, awakens [[Chell]] for mandatory testing. After putting Chell through a number of tests with the [[Handheld Portal Device]], Chell was able to escape her attempt to incinerate her at the conclusion of Test Chamber 19. From there, Chell makes her way throughout the Enrichment Center to escape, only to find that the only way she could was to confront GLaDOS in her chamber, a conflict which Chell won. During the conflict, GLaDOS was heavily damaged, and remained in a dormant status for an unspecified amount of time, during which the facility degraded. | Now beginning the events of ''[[Portal]]'', GLaDOS continues to operate the company all while residing in the Central AI Chamber, and at some time-frame, awakens [[Chell]] for mandatory testing. After putting Chell through a number of tests with the [[Handheld Portal Device]], Chell was able to escape her attempt to incinerate her at the conclusion of Test Chamber 19. From there, Chell makes her way throughout the Enrichment Center to escape, only to find that the only way she could was to confront GLaDOS in her chamber, a conflict which Chell won. During the conflict, GLaDOS was heavily damaged, and remained in a dormant status for an unspecified amount of time, during which the facility degraded. | ||
[[File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|thumb|left|150px|{{Spoiler|GlaDOS, extracted into a potato battery.}}]] | [[File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|thumb|left|150px|{{Spoiler|GlaDOS, extracted into a potato battery.}}]] | ||
Beginning the major events of ''[[Portal 2]]'', she was eventually reactivated through the accidental efforts of [[Wheatley]] and Chell, | Beginning the major events of ''[[Portal 2]]'', she was eventually reactivated through the accidental efforts of [[Wheatley]] and [[Chell]] as they try to access an escape lift to the surface in the Central AI Chamber, as both of them were trapped in the building following GLaDOS' destruction. {{spoiler|She immediately realizes the presence of Chell and Wheatley standing before her. Despite her newly profound hatred for Chell having destroyed her, she uses Wheatley as an object for relieving her anger by crushing him.}} | ||
{{spoiler| | GLaDOS then decides to return Chell to the facility's science experiments to further her cause of science, but often makes various taunts in hopes to crush her morale. {{spoiler|However, [[Wheatley]] later resurfaces and was still alive despite the critical damage inflicted onto him by GLaDOS. With his help, Chell was able to escape from GLaDOS' [[Test Chambers|testing tracks]] and went through the facility to sabotage her vital strategy components, such as the production of [[neurotoxin]]. Finally reaching her newly rebuilt chamber, they were then able to defeat GLaDOS together, replacing her with Wheatley as the facility's overseer. Wheatley, intimidated by GLaDOS' response to how useless he is, traps GLaDOS in a potato battery and throws her into the depths of the Enrichment Center alongside Chell.}} | ||
{{spoiler|After Wheatley became corrupted by his new position and power, GLaDOS and Chell worked together, initially as unwilling partners, to restore control over the facility (which further degraded and corrupted under the influence of Wheatley, to the point where the facility's reactor core will undergo a meltdown). During this time, the duo try to find their way out of the depths of the Enrichment Center where they approach several vintage [[Test Chambers]] previously managed by Aperture CEO, [[Cave Johnson]] and his secretary [[Caroline]]. As Chell and GLaDOS continue to journey through the pasts of Aperture Science located in the salt mine deep beneath the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS slowly becomes familiar to Johnson and Caroline. As they are finally ready to leave the salt mine, GLaDOS has an epiphany on who Caroline is but remains silent on the matter.}} | |||
{{spoiler|The duo then have made their way back to the modern Enrichment Center, where Chell later escapes [[Wheatley]]'s [[Test Chambers|testing tracks]] and attempt to battle him in the Central AI Chamber. GLaDOS proposes that Chell is to attach her back into her body to resume her control over the facility. Their attempts were eventually successful, resulting in the exile of Wheatley to outer space and the reconciliation between Chell and GLaDOS.}} | |||
{{spoiler|After repairing the entire facility to its state prior to Wheatley's control, GLaDOS begins to become even more affected by her recently acquired morality and consciousness after discovering who [[Caroline]] was. She realizes that Chell was not an enemy, but a close friend. GLaDOS then states that a surge of emotion had vibrated through her body had taught her where Caroline resides in her programming, shortly before the [[Announcer]] and her claimed to have deleted her. She then expels Chell from the facility in order to avoid further trouble to her control as she claims. However, Chell is comforted through her elevated ride to the surface by a [[Turret Opera]] which remains unknown as to why the event occurred.}} | |||
{{spoiler|Before [[Chell]] could leave the Enrichment Center for good, GLaDOS decides to return Chell's [[Weighted Companion Cube|Companion Cube]] from her tests in ''[[Portal]]'' by ejecting it from the lift and onto her before the door to the Enrichment Center could shut itself.}} | |||
== Abilities and Traits == | |||
[[File:GLaDOS P1.png|thumb|150px|GLaDOS as seen in ''[[Portal]]''.]] | [[File:GLaDOS P1.png|thumb|150px|GLaDOS as seen in ''[[Portal]]''.]] | ||
As the overseer and operator of the facility, GLaDOS is seemingly omnipotent, able to reconfigure rooms and carry out actions at her will. She monitors the facility and its test chambers through cameras mounted on walls. {{spoiler|She also mentions that she cannot resist thinking of paradoxes if one would happen to be brought up.}} GLaDOS had displayed little to no emotion within her voice tone in the first half of ''Portal'', due to being bound by the consciousness of other [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] attached onto her for the sole purpose of restricting her control. She then becomes increasingly more agitated and is portrayed as intimidating near the end of the game. {{spoiler|In ''Portal 2'', she becomes extremely bitter after the events of ''Portal'', frequently insulting Chell until the very end - where she realizes that Chell was "all along [her] best friend".}} | As the overseer and operator of the facility, GLaDOS is seemingly omnipotent, able to reconfigure rooms and carry out actions at her will. She monitors the facility and its test chambers through cameras mounted on walls. {{spoiler|She also mentions that she cannot resist thinking of paradoxes if one would happen to be brought up.}} GLaDOS had displayed little to no emotion within her voice tone in the first half of ''Portal'', due to being bound by the consciousness of other [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] attached onto her for the sole purpose of restricting her control. She then becomes increasingly more agitated and is portrayed as intimidating near the end of the game. {{spoiler|In ''Portal 2'', she becomes extremely bitter after the events of ''Portal'', frequently insulting Chell until the very end - where she realizes that Chell was "all along [her] best friend".}} | ||
GLaDOS' consciousness had been controlled by [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] throughout the events of ''Portal''. {{Spoiler|If the cores are removed, the traits and morals which the cores contain would be permanently detached from GLaDOS as well, causing her to fall back to her | GLaDOS' consciousness had been controlled by [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]] throughout the events of ''Portal''. {{Spoiler|If the cores are removed, the traits and morals which the cores contain would be permanently detached from GLaDOS as well, causing her to fall back to her more human and intimidating voice tone, resembling to that of her Genetic Lifeform component [[Caroline]].}} | ||
{{spoiler|It was eventually revealed that GLaDOS was also able to reconstruct the components on her own body as well, now without the cores restricting her thoughts. She had replaced most of the broken and or missing components on her body since her awakening in the chapter, ''[[Portal 2 Chapter 1 Her Chamber|The Courtesy Call]]''. Her newer components are sleek and black, and is of little resemblance to the original ones from her body during the awakening and ''Portal''.}} | {{spoiler|It was eventually revealed that GLaDOS was also able to reconstruct the components on her own body as well, now without the cores restricting her thoughts. She had replaced most of the broken and or missing components on her body since her awakening in the chapter, ''[[Portal 2 Chapter 1 Her Chamber|The Courtesy Call]]''. Her newer components are sleek and black, and is of little resemblance to the original ones from her body during the awakening and ''Portal''.}} | ||
== Development and Acting == | == Development and Acting == | ||
GLaDOS is voiced by {{W|Ellen McLain}}. | GLaDOS is voiced by {{W|Ellen McLain}}. During Anime Midwest 2011, Ellen revealed that the concept of GLaDOS had always been a robotic voice that would pretentiously guide someone and often intimidates them. At this time, the developers had used copyrighted voice samples as a placeholder (temporary placement). As Ellen McLain had voiced the robotic the dispatcher of [[hl2:Combine Overwatch|Combine Overwatch]] radio transmissions throughout [[hl2:Half-Life 2|''Half-Life'']], the developers had chosen her for the role of GLaDOS. During this time, developers had kept the project a secret and had left Ellen unaware what game it is that she is voicing for. Ellen was later made aware of her work and success when ''[[Portal]]'' was finally released. | ||
In ''Portal'', GLaDOS' initial designs prior to the game's release vary greatly. The earliest known design of GLaDOS was a large disc with a red eyeball in the center, with the disc surrounding it and welded onto the eyeball. This concept of GLaDOS appears to be the most favorable version towards several community members and was then recreated for use by a new character entirely for the community-made machinima series,'' [http://www.youtube.com/user/22CaliburArmadillo The Underground]''. Later on in development, the design of the large eyeball was then scrapped into a robotic body hanging upsidedown from the ceiling, with four discs surrounding above it this time. This concept has since been kept for the release of ''Portal'', with minor adjustments such as the addition of [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality cores]]. | |||
The earliest known concept of GLaDOS in ''[[Portal 2]]'' demonstrates that her body's plating was completely torn and scrapped, leaving only her head the most intact - nearing the design of her spherical-cylinder shaped head in the game's release. She had also been given a red eye color in this concept rather than her trademark yellow that was given to her in ''Portal''. Not much else is known of her design changes for the sequel, except that the developers established that the current design of GLaDOS in ''Portal 2'' was to signify a more antagonistic appearance and shape. | |||
In addition, a reskin of GLaDOS' design from ''Portal'' can be found in the game files of ''Portal 2'', presenting rust stains and scratches possibly to be used for her components scattered around in her chamber. | |||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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|File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS in ''Portal'' | |File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS as she appeared in ''Portal''. | ||
|File:Glados.png|alt2={{Spoiler|GLaDOS, reawakened in ''Portal 2''}}|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS, reawakened in ''Portal 2''}}|spoiler2=yes | |File:Glados.png|alt2={{Spoiler|GLaDOS, reawakened in ''Portal 2''}}|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS, reawakened in ''Portal 2''}}.|spoiler2=yes | ||
|File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png| | |File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt3=GLaDOS' dead body in comparison to Chell.|GLaDOS' dead body in comparison to Chell. | ||
|File:Portal 2 Potato Viewmodel.png| | |File:Chell and GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt4=GLaDOS in comparison to Chell.|GLaDOS in comparison to Chell. | ||
|File:GLaDOS from Personality Test.jpg| | |File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|alt5={{Spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery by [[Wheatley]] in ''Portal 2''}}|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery by [[Wheatley]] in ''Portal 2''}}.|spoiler3=yes | ||
|File:GLaDOS Valentine.png| | |File:Portal 2 Potato Viewmodel.png|alt6={{Spoiler|GLaDOS after being attached to [[Chell]]'s [[Handheld Portal Device|Portal Gun]]}}|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS after being attached to [[Chell]]'s [[Handheld Portal Device|Portal Gun]]}}|spoiler4=yes | ||
|File:GLaDOS from Personality Test.jpg|alt7=GLaDOS' portrait from the official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test.|GLaDOS' portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test]. | |||
|File:GLaDOS Valentine.png|alt8=GLaDOS Valentine from Valve's official Portal 2 blog.|GLaDOS Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog]. | |||
|File:Portal_2_Soundtrack_Cover_-_Volume_1.jpg|alt9=GLaDOS on the cover of the Portal 2 soundtrack.|GLaDOS on the cover of the [[Portal 2 soundtrack]]. | |File:Portal_2_Soundtrack_Cover_-_Volume_1.jpg|alt9=GLaDOS on the cover of the Portal 2 soundtrack.|GLaDOS on the cover of the [[Portal 2 soundtrack]]. | ||
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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* Ellen McLain, the actress that | * The acronym "GLaDOS" is a pun of the name "Gladdys" and the term DOS (Disc Operating System). | ||
* During the development of [[Portal 2]], playtesters | |||
* Ellen McLain, the actress that voices GLaDOS, also provides the voice for the [[tf:Administrator|Administrator]] in [[tf:Team Fortress 2|''Team Fortress 2'']] and the [[hl2:Combine Overwatch|Combine Overwatch]] in the [[hl2:Half-Life 2|''Half-Life'']] series. This makes Ellen McLain the only voice present in every game included in the ''[[The Orange Box]]''. | |||
* The most favored character that Ellen McLain has voiced is none other than GLaDOS. She reveals that despite the hard effort in pulling off the voice of the [[tf:Administrator|Administrator]] from ''Team Fortress 2'' and her unique way of ordering things, GLaDOS' character had a greater impact on her through her popular passive-aggressive behavior and subtle insults. | |||
* During the development of ''[[Portal 2]]'', playtesters were uncomfortable with GLaDOS as she was far too vindictive in the single-player campaign, and the developers concluded that some of her dialogue was too extreme. Due to this, elements of her dialogue were reworked, which resulted in the creation of a more amicable, passive-aggressive personality for GLaDOS. | |||
* The acronym "GLaDOS" was never pronounced or spoken in full in the entire series. The only instances of her name are through in-game captions from both games and one of her disc generators from which the acronym was only present in ''[[Portal]]''. In ''[[Portal 2]]'' however, Wheatley would only refer to GLaDOS as "her" or "she". | |||
* {{spoiler|When GLaDOS was in potato battery form, she is commonly nicknamed by the community as "PotatOS".}} | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||