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{{spoiler|GlaDOS was a creation of [[Aperture Science]], a [[Cores|personality core]] designed exactly to be fitted as a central computer mainframe. The project began under the oversight of [[Cave Johnson]] over the company, and was an attempt to create a fully functional, advanced artificial intelligence which was originally intended to be occupied by Johnson as one of his attempts to cheat death. After it became apparent to Johnson that he may die of moon rock poisoning before development on GLaDOS would be completed, Johnson motioned for the personality core to be based on [[Caroline]] instead, where she then ultimately became GLaDOS herself.}} | {{spoiler|GlaDOS was a creation of [[Aperture Science]], a [[Cores|personality core]] designed exactly to be fitted as a central computer mainframe. The project began under the oversight of [[Cave Johnson]] over the company, and was an attempt to create a fully functional, advanced artificial intelligence which was originally intended to be occupied by Johnson as one of his attempts to cheat death. After it became apparent to Johnson that he may die of moon rock poisoning before development on GLaDOS would be completed, Johnson motioned for the personality core to be based on [[Caroline]] instead, where she then ultimately became GLaDOS herself.}} | ||
After a decade's worth of hard work, GLaDOS was officially activated in 1998, as part of one of the many events during the company's "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day. Since she | After a decade's worth of hard work, GLaDOS was officially activated in 1998, as part of one of the many events during the company's "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day. Since she was able to take control of half of the facility's features, GLaDOS began killing most of its inhabitants by flooding the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]]. However, only few if not only one of the staff such as [[Doug Rattmann]] had survived her attacks. The destruction of the company also coincided with an invasion of Earth, which had occurred two days after at Aperture's rival company, [[Black Mesa]]. This ultimately led to the negligence of the outside world from realizing Aperture's fate, as all attention had been diverted to Black Mesa and the aforementioned invasion. | ||
{{spoiler| | Since the attack, she has managed the company to her limits. Her first test subject and the series' main protagonist, [[Chell]], was given a warning of GLaDOS' true colors with the help of Rattmann. She confronts GLaDOS in her chamber at the end of ''[[Portal]]'', which allowed GLaDOS to develop an even deeper hatred for her after she was awakened in the beginning of ''[[Portal 2]]''. {{spoiler|Just as she finished designing [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as her new test subjects, Chell and Wheatley worked together to sabotage her control over the Enrichment Center and decided to replace her rank as the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] with Wheatley in order to gain the only path of escaping via a lift to the surface.}} | ||
[[File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|thumb|left|170px|The scattered remains of GLaDOS.]] | |||
{{spoiler|Chell's escape backfired when Wheatley was taken over by an obsession with power, and even then, his bumbling behavior has caused the facility to degrade. It also became evident that GLaDOS' loyalty lies to her company Aperture Science (ironically not its staff), as Wheatley could easily change the company's title into "Wheatley Laboratories". As GLaDOS took over the central core once again with the aid of Chell, she reverted everything back to the way things were. She then realizes that she has become too involved with Caroline's emotions that she decided to delete it from her programming. Whether or not she did or not do it remains unknown. Nonetheless, GLaDOS still granted Chell her freedom, claiming that she is no longer able to handle her. From then on, she continues managing the two robot test subjects which she had designed on her own, known as [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]].}} | |||
{{spoiler|For the duration of ''Portal 2''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s cooperative campaign however, she slowly began to lose interest in having [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as her test subjects. She revealed that it was their lack of human fear that did not made their performances "real science". However, the two bots fulfilled her tasks in such a manner that they can be considered her personal minions.}} | |||
{{spoiler|As Atlas and P-body had installed several discs containing programs that allow GLaDOS to gain extensive control over the entire Enrichment Center, they also ultimately allowed her access to see every inch in the facility. This then led to GLaDOS sending the duo on a mission to retrieve thousands of human test subjects before her era, that are stored in a large cryogenic vault that she constantly referred to as the "human vault". During the cooperative campaign's monologue, it became clear that there was some truth to the constant mocking from GLaDOS regarding the bots and their intelligence levels, as the two felt some curiosity if not guilt after hearing her rather sinister joy from discovering the humans - moments before they began to feel a degree of excitement as they danced in triumph.}} | |||
== Overview == | |||
=== ''Portal'' === | |||
[[File:GLaDOS P1.png|thumb|150px|right|GLaDOS as seen in ''[[Portal]]''.]] | |||
Prior to the events of ''Portal'', one of Aperture's technicians, [[Doug Rattmann]], successfully evaded her attempts to flood the Enrichment Center with [[neurotoxin]]. He then took refuge in several departments throughout the facility and began tampering with the initial test subject roster, rearranging [[Chell]] to the top of the list as Test Subject #1 instead. Since GLaDOS initiated a lockdown, Rattmann was forced to live his whole life in hiding between the backstages of [[Test Chambers]] in the Enrichment Center. He then left various warnings of GLaDOS through graffiti that could only be found behind several corrupted [[Panels|wall panel]]s in Test Chambers, in hopes that Chell would later stumble upon them. GLaDOS was able to operate the company all while residing in her Central AI Chamber, despite lacking full control over the facility. | |||
{{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]] | She then awakens Chell for her mandatory testing of the [[Handheld Portal Device]], which began the events of ''Portal''. During these time periods, she had constantly intimidated Chell during her performances and given bitter yet innocent sarcastic notions by simply acting out like conveniently placed pre-recorded messages. Several tests later where the [[Turrets]] are finally introduced for testing, Chell would later discover the various graffiti left behind by Rattmann and immediately became aware, but was forced to played along with GLaDOS' plans. | ||
After Chell completed the final Test Chamber, GLaDOS immediately revealed her true colors as she attempts to lower her into a pit of fire. Chell was able to escape her attempt to incinerate her and from there, Chell makes her way throughout the facility to escape. She later had no choice but to confront GLaDOS in her chamber as there was no chance of escaping, a conflict which Chell won. At the conclusion of the conflict, GLaDOS was heavily damaged, and remained in a dormant status for an unspecified amount of time as the facility degraded over the years. | |||
=== ''Portal 2'' === | |||
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.}} | |||
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. | |||
[[File:GLaDOS P2 chamber.jpg|thumb|left|170px|{{spoiler|GLaDOS as seen in her redesigned Central AI Chamber.}}]] | |||
{{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 redesigned 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]].}} | |||
{{spoiler|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.}} | |||
[[File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|thumb|right|150px|{{spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery.}}]] | |||
{{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.}} | {{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 == | == Abilities and Traits == | ||
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 more human and intimidating voice tone, resembling to that of her Genetic Lifeform component [[Caroline]].}} | 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 in ''Portal 2'' 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 == | ||
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|File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS as she appeared in ''Portal''. | |File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS as she appeared in ''[[Portal]]''. | ||
|File: | |File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|alt2=GLaDOS2|The scattered remains of GLaDOS as seen in ''[[Portal 2]]''. | ||
|File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt3=GLaDOS' | |File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt3=GLaDOS3|GLaDOS' remains in comparison to Chell. | ||
|File:Chell and GLaDOS Size Comparison.png| | |File:Glados.png|alt4=GLaDOS4|GLaDOS, shortly after her reawakening. | ||
|File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png| | |File:Chell and GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt5=GLaDOS5|{{spoiler|GLaDOS in comparison to Chell.}}|spoiler5=yes | ||
|File:Portal 2 Potato Viewmodel.png| | |File:GLaDOS P2 chamber.jpg|alt6=GLaDOS6|{{spoiler|In her redesigned Central AI Chamber.}}|spoiler6=yes | ||
|File:GLaDOS from Personality Test.jpg| | |File:Portal2 GLaDOS Potato.png|alt7=GLaDOS7|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS, uploaded to a potato battery by [[Wheatley]] in ''Portal 2''}}.|spoiler7=yes | ||
|File:GLaDOS Valentine.png| | |File:Portal 2 Potato Viewmodel.png|alt8=GLaDOS8|{{Spoiler|GLaDOS after being attached to [[Chell]]'s [[Handheld Portal Device|Portal Gun]]}}|spoiler8=yes | ||
|File:Portal_2_Soundtrack_Cover_-_Volume_1.jpg| | |File:GLaDOS from Personality Test.jpg|alt9=GLaDOS9|GLaDOS' portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test]. | ||
|File:GLaDOS Valentine.png|alt10=GLaDOS10|GLaDOS Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog]. | |||
|File:Portal_2_Soundtrack_Cover_-_Volume_1.jpg|alt11=GLaDOS11|GLaDOS on the cover of the [[Portal 2 soundtrack|''Portal 2'' Soundtrack]]. | |||
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