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== Background ==
== Background ==
{{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.}}
 
[[File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|thumb|left|170px|The remains of GLaDOS after her conflict in ''[[Portal]]''.]]


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.
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.
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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]]''.
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]]''.


 
== Overview ==
== Appearances ==
=== ''Portal'' ===
=== ''Portal'' ===
{{See also|Portal}}
{{See also|Portal}}
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==== Reawakening era ====
==== Reawakening era ====
{{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.}}
[[File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|thumb|left|170px|The remains of GLaDOS after her conflict in ''Portal''.]]
 
{{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.}}
 
{{spoiler|No longer in need of Atlas and P-body, she conducted tests on the humans in an attempt to develop them into her cold minions. However, the plan had taken a wrong turn as she had given them intense training - with all of the humans ended up dying within a week. Since then, the facility has been malfunctioning and she notices that her prototype [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] chassis is being controlled. GLaDOS finally rebuilds the bots to resolve this problem and displays a great deal of panic throughout her new testing course that she had merely built halfway as she had little control. Nervous and afraid to die, she finally confesses to the robots the fate of the human test subjects and how the facility has been taken over by her old prototype currently being controlled. From doing this, she gains more confidence quickly throughout the rest of the tests and begins training them into becoming her "killing machines". As the bots are finally sent to resolve the problem with the prototype chassis, the duo discovers that a bird had been nesting above the machine's keyboards, and attempts to scare it away, with GLaDOS losing her confidence once again and panicking the moment she saw the bird through the bots' visions. When the bots did scare the bird away before shutting off the hatch entrance where it flew away to, GLaDOS congratulates the bots and dubs them as "kill machines" for the moment.}}
 
{{spoiler|However, GLaDOS was able to finally face her fear of birds when she gained possession over the bird's eggs retrieved to her. She despised the birds at first after they had hatched, but once she saw potential in their hostility, she develops a heartwarming motherly bond for the birds and treats them as her "kill machines" instead of the bots. She gives them time to rest before putting them through their "big day tomorrow", something she would never do with anyone else.}}


Beginning the major events of ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS is reactivated through the accidental efforts of both [[Wheatley]] and [[Chell]] having tried to access an escape lift to the surface in the Central AI Chamber, as both of them were previously trapped in the building following GLaDOS' destruction. {{spoiler|She immediately realizes the presence of Chell and Wheatley standing before her upon awakening. Despite her newly profound hatred for Chell having destroyed her, she uses Wheatley as an object for relieving her anger by crushing him.}}
Beginning the major events of ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS is reactivated through the accidental efforts of both [[Wheatley]] and [[Chell]] having tried to access an escape lift to the surface in the Central AI Chamber, as both of them were previously trapped in the building following GLaDOS' destruction. {{spoiler|She immediately realizes the presence of Chell and Wheatley standing before her upon awakening. Despite her newly profound hatred for Chell having destroyed her, she uses Wheatley as an object for relieving her anger by crushing him.}}
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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.
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.}}]]
[[File:GLaDOS P2 chamber.jpg|thumb|right|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|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.}}
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== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
{{Gallery
{{Gallery
|lines=4
|title = ''Portal''
|height=200
|lines = 4
|width=150
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS in the Central AI Chamber, as she appeared in ''[[Portal]]''.
|File:GLaDOS P1.png|alt1=GLaDOS|GLaDOS in the Central AI Chamber, as she appeared in ''[[Portal]]''.
|File:MoralityCore.png|alt2=Morality Core|GLaDOS' Morality core.
|File:CuriousityCore.png|alt3=Curiosity Core|GLaDOS' Curiosity core.
|File:LogicCore.png|alt4=Cake Mix Core|GLaDOS' Cake mix core.
|File:AngerCore.png|alt5=Anger Core|GLaDOS' Anger core.
}}
{{Gallery
|title = ''Portal 2''
|lines = 4
|height = 200
|width = 150
|File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|alt2=GLaDOS2|Scattered remains of GLaDOS, seen in ''[[Portal 2]]''.
|File:Sp a1 wakeup0061.jpg|alt2=GLaDOS2|Scattered remains of GLaDOS, seen in ''[[Portal 2]]''.
|File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt3=GLaDOS3|GLaDOS' remains in comparison to Chell.
|File:Chell and Dead GLaDOS Size Comparison.png|alt3=GLaDOS3|GLaDOS' remains in comparison to Chell.
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