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{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|I'll wait--I'll wait one hour. Then I'll come back and, assuming I can locate your dead body, I'll bury you. Alright? Brilliant! Go team! See you in an hour! Hopefully! If you're not... dead.|sound=Wheatley_sp_intro_03_afterfallalt09.wav}}
{{Quotation|'''Wheatley'''|I'll wait--I'll wait one hour. Then I'll come back and, assuming I can locate your dead body, I'll bury you. Alright? Brilliant! Go team! See you in an hour! Hopefully! If you're not... dead.|sound=Wheatley_sp_intro_03_afterfallalt09.wav}}


'''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|later revealed by [[GLaDOS]] as her '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere'''}}, is a raw [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality core]] of male programming and English West Country accent who appears in the single-player campaign of ''[[Portal 2]]''.
'''Wheatley''', {{spoiler|later revealed by [[GLaDOS]] as her '''Intelligence Dampening Sphere'''}}, is a raw [[Cores#Personality Cores|personality core]] of masculine programming and English West Country accent who appears in the single-player campaign of ''[[Portal 2]]''.


He is the {{W|deuteragonist}} in the first half of the game, guiding [[Chell]] through her efforts in escaping the [[Aperture Science]] Enrichment Center. {{spoiler|In the later half, he becomes the main antagonist as soon as he is attached to the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and ultimately replacing GLaDOS' control over the facility.}}
He serves as the game's {{W|deuteragonist}}, guiding [[Chell]] through her efforts in escaping the [[Aperture Science]] Enrichment Center. {{spoiler|Eventually, he immediately develops into the game's main antagonist as he is attached to the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] - ultimately taking over GLaDOS' body.}}


Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian {{W|Stephen Merchant}}.
Wheatley is voiced by British actor and comedian {{W|Stephen Merchant}}.
== Background ==
{{spoiler|Wheatley was designed to be an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, one of the [[Cores#Personality Cores|cores]] to be attached on GLaDOS; manipulating and controlling her unpredictable actions on the Enrichment Center. Although it was never explained, Wheatley was disconnected from her and given other jobs. Sometime before [[GLaDOS]] killed off the entire staff in the ''[[Portal 2: Lab Rat]]'' comic, Wheatley had worked alongside staffs before he was put into storage with other cores seen at the end of ''[[Portal]]''. Throughout the ''[[Portal 2]]'' chapter ''The Escape'', he reveals that he has a disliking for working with humans; accusing them of "nepotism" simply because the staff gave out the jobs he preferred to other humans. After a few years, though under unknown circumstances, he was put into deactivation along with many other personality cores and kept in storage.}}
{{spoiler|Thanks to [[Chell]]'s havoc on the Enrichment Center via the destruction of GLaDOS at the conclusion of ''Portal'', Wheatley and the rest of the cores were reactivated in order to maintain the facility. Ironically, this backfired as many cores (except Wheatley and the [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupted cores]] seen at the end of the game) appear to have been either killed off or ran low on power.}}
Prior to the events of ''Portal 2'', Wheatley took charge of maintaining the [[Extended Relaxation Center]] - which houses test subjects in long-term cryogenic stasis before and after they are put through the testing courses. However, what he has done to actually manage the entire wing remains unmentioned. It was only until many centuries later that Wheatley decided to escape the facility. To accomplish this, he attempted to gather help from any remaining test subject that managed to last centuries after running out of cryogenic supply. Luckily for him, Chell was one of them if not the only one that lasted.


== Overview ==
== Overview ==
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{{See also|Portal 2}}
{{See also|Portal 2}}


{{spoiler text|Wheatley is first seen early in the game by Chell, attached to a rail on the ceiling. After detaching himself from the rail, he accompanies Chell on a route through the ruined Enrichment Center chambers, using his compatibility with the Center's systems to allow passage through shortcuts. Eventually, they come to [[GLaDOS]]' ruined chamber, where she promptly awakens and appears to destroy Wheatley. However, he survives and meets up with Chell later on. During the course of the game, Wheatley aids Chell into escaping from [[GLaDOS]]' tests. The two eventually sabotage GLaDOS' turret production line and neurotoxin and later confront GLaDOS herself. A core transference occurs and Wheatley takes over the facility. When he is about to let Chell escape, Wheatley becomes corrupted with power and becomes the game's new main antagonist. Wheatley reconstructs GLaDOS' hardware on to a potato battery and knocks both her and Chell into [[Aperture Science|Aperture Science's]] old and forgotten test chambers by accident.}}
[[File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Wheatley's first appearance.]]
 
Wheatley is first seen during the very beginning of the game by [[Chell]] during the chapter ''The Courtesy Call'', while he is attached to a rail on the ceiling. He later detaches himself from the rail to accompany Chell on a route to the [[Central AI Chamber]], using his compatibility with the Enrichment Center's systems to allow passage through a testing chamber's backstage. {{spoiler|When they reach the ruined Central AI Chamber, he promptly attempts to access an escape hatch under the main breaker room, instead reactivates[[GLaDOS]] by accident. The duo are then grabbed away by one of GLaDOS' pincers on the railings, where GLaDOS crushes him before throwing him away from her chamber.}}


{{spoiler text|After returning from the old test chambers, Chell and GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown. After passing through more test chambers made by Wheatley, he attempts to kill Chell and GLaDOS. After escaping his traps, GLaDOS suggests causing a new core transfer by implanting corrupt Personality Cores into Wheatley.}}
{{spoiler|However, he survives and meets up with Chell later on when the latter is forced into being GLaDOS' lab rat once more. During the course of the game, Wheatley often sneaks behind GLaDOS' testing tracks, analyzing a way to break Chell free from her clutches. Later on in the chapter ''The Surprise'', he successfully rescues Chell before she is put through GLaDOS' death trap at the end of testing. During this time, Wheatley plots that before they could escape, GLaDOS' control over the facility would need to be sabotaged first. The duo starts off with sabotaging GLaDOS' turret production line and later her [[neurotoxin]] generator.}}


{{spoiler text|Chell enters Wheatley's lair to begin the final confrontation of the game. By shutting him down temporarily with bombs, Chell corrupts Wheatley enough to initiate a new core transference, saving the facility from destruction in the progress. However, a stalemate occurs when Wheatley does not agree to transfer himself, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives, and Chell is flung from the button. Chell survives and launches a portal onto the surface of the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space. GLaDOS then reacquires her old body and rescues Chell while letting Wheatley be launched into the vacuum of space.}}
[[File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|thumb|150px|left|{{spoiler|Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}]]


{{spoiler text|Wheatley is last seen in the epilogue after the end credits, with the [[Cores#Space Core|Space Core]] orbiting him, where he wishes he could say he was sorry for all he did to Chell.}}
{{spoiler|Once the sabotages were made, Chell and Wheatley head over to the Central AI Chamber to confront GLaDOS. Fortunately for them, the [[Announcer]] detects GLaDOS as a corrupted [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] and offers a core transference. To GLaDOS' dismay on the process, a stalemate resolution annex deploys itself into the chamber for Chell to press a stalemate resolution button. Once GLaDOS' control over the body was disabled, Wheatley is lowered into a hatch where the core transfer occurs where Wheatley then takes over the central core. When he is about to let Chell leave in an elevator lift, Wheatley grows corrupted with power and immediately becomes the game's antagonist. Wheatley extracts GLaDOS' core programming into a potato battery as an attempt to humiliate her, but as GLaDOS reveals to Chell that he was originally an Intelligence Dampening Sphere made to dumb down GLaDOS' decisions, he grows aggravated and accidentally knocks both her and Chell into the depths of the Enrichment Center.}}
 
{{spoiler|After returning from the 20th century remains of [[Aperture Science]] deep beneath the Enrichment Center, Chell and GLaDOS learn that Wheatley's moronic actions are causing the facility's reactor to approach a nuclear meltdown - which he insists on neglecting the persistent warnings. Wheatley then decides to put Chell and the potato battery-powered GLaDOS into his own testing tracks - some of which were just stolen from GLaDOS with the word "TEST" written on the testing chambers. As he digs into various Enrichment Center projects, he discovers that GLaDOS had built [[Atlas]] and [[P-body]] as two robotic cooperative test subjects to prevent "the itch" in the central core body from occurring when she intended to kill Chell. Wheatley makes use of these bots and slowly plots to kill Chell and GLaDOS, later plummeting the duo into a death trap at the beginning of a test chamber. After escaping his traps, GLaDOS suggests causing a new core transfer by implanting [[Cores#Corrupted Cores|corrupt personality cores]] onto Wheatley.}}
 
{{spoiler|Chell enters Wheatley's lair to begin the final confrontation of the game. By shutting him down temporarily with bombs, Chell corrupts Wheatley enough to initiate a new core transference, saving the facility from destruction in the progress. However, a stalemate occurs when Wheatley does not agree to transfer himself, and Chell must press the stalemate resolution button to finalize the transfer. However, Wheatley had booby trapped it with explosives, and Chell is flung from the button. Chell survives and launches a portal onto the surface of the Moon, causing both her and Wheatley to be sucked into space. GLaDOS then reacquires her old body and rescues Chell while letting Wheatley be launched into the vacuum of space.}}
 
{{spoiler|Wheatley is last seen in the epilogue after the end credits, with the [[Space Sphere|Space Core]] orbiting him, where he wishes he could say he was sorry for all he did to Chell.}}


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
{{gallery
{{gallery
|title=Wheatley
|title = Screenshots
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|lines=3
|width = 150
|File:Portal2 Wheatley E3.jpg|alt1=Wheatley, as he appeared in the E3 2010 trailer.|Wheatley, as he appeared in the E3 2010 trailer.
|File:Wheatley intro door.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley as he first appeared in the chapter ''The Courtesy Call''.
|File:Wheatley rail.png|alt2=Wheatley attached to his rail.|Wheatley attached to his rail.
|File:Wheatley intro rail.jpg|alt1=W|Attached to the ceiling rail in [[Chell]]'s Relaxation Chamber.
|File:Portal2 Wheatley Boss.png|alt3=Wheatley after taking control of the facility.|{{spoiler|Wheatley after taking control of the facility.}}|spoiler3=yes
|File:Wheatley intro testchamber bust.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley busting Chell's Relaxation Chamber into a testing track.
|File:Wheatley corrupted.png|alt4=Wheatley in a dirty state, after being crushed by GLaDOS (but somehow surviving). |{{spoiler|Wheatley in a dirty state, after being crushed by GLaDOS (but somehow surviving.) Note what appears to be a cracked lens on his eye.}}|spoiler4=yes
|File:Wheatley rail.png|alt1=W|Attached to a panel arm on management rail.
|File:Wheatley from Personality Test.jpg|alt5=Wheatley image from the official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test.|Wheatley image from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Chell and Wheatley Size Comparison.png|alt1=W|Wheatley compared in size to [[Chell]].
|File:Wheatley Valentine.png|alt6=Wheatley Valentine from Valve's official Portal 2 blog.|Wheatley Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Wheatley breaker room.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Attached to a core receptacle in the main breaker room.}}|spoiler6=yes
|File:Chell and Wheatley Size Comparison.png|alt7=Wheatley compared in size to Chell.|Wheatley compared in size to Chell.
|File:Wheatley glados awakening panic.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Panicking during [[GLaDOS]]' reawakening.}}|spoiler7=yes
|File:Wheatley Icon.jpg|alt8=Wheatley icon from the official Steam Portal 2 group.|Wheatley icon from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam Portal 2 group].
|File:Glados awakening grabbing wheatley.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|GLaDOS killing off Wheatley with her pincers.}}|spoiler8=yes
|File:Wheatley corrupted.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after being crushed by GLaDOS (but somehow surviving).}}|spoiler9=yes
|File:Wheatley tube ride.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley and Chell traveling in the tubes.}}|spoiler10=yes
|File:Sp a2 core0476.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley rolling inside a neurotoxin tube in the [[Central AI Chamber]].}}|spoiler11=yes
|File:Wheatley core transfer.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|A panicking Wheatley moments before the [[Cores#Central Core|central core]] transfer.}}|spoiler12=yes
|File:Portal2 Wheatley Boss.png|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley after taking control of the facility.}}|spoiler13=yes
|File:Wheatley body excited.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|An excited Wheatley after taking over.}}|spoiler14=yes
|File:Wheatley extract potatos.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Power-mad Wheatley having extracted GLaDOS into a potato battery.}}|spoiler15=yes
|File:Chell wheatley deathtrap.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Implementation of [[crusher]]s in the chapter ''The Part Where He Kills You''.}}|spoiler16=yes
|File:Wheatley monitor finale.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Using TV screens to communicate with Chell after her escape.}}|spoiler17=yes
|File:Wheatley finale shields.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley preparing to fight Chell while using [[panels]] as shields.}}|spoiler18=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum suck.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Wheatley sucked by the vacuum of space in Chell's [[Portals|portal]] to the moon.}}|spoiler19=yes
|File:Wheatley vacuum moon.jpg|alt1=W|{{spoiler|Chell grabbing onto Wheatley on the moon's surface.}}|spoiler20=yes
}}
 
{{gallery
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|File:Portal2 Wheatley E3.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley, as he appeared in the E3 2010 teaser trailer.
|File:Wheatley from Personality Test.jpg|alt1=W|Wheatley's portrait from the [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php official Aperture Science Collaborative Disposition Test].
|File:Wheatley Valentine.png|alt1=W|Wheatley Valentine from [http://tinyurl.com/3pt4d34 Valve's official Portal 2 blog].
|File:Wheatley Icon.jpg|alt1=W|Avatar of Wheatley from the [http://steamcommunity.com/games/portal2/Avatar/List official Steam ''Portal 2'' group].
}}
}}


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* {{Spoiler|Appearance-wise, Wheatley appears to be a variant of [[GLaDOS]]' Intelligence Core (the one telling the [[cake]] recipe), with a blue "eye" and three dots, though Wheatley has dots only on his right side and possesses a white light as his iris instead.}}
* {{Spoiler|Appearance-wise, Wheatley appears to be a variant of [[GLaDOS]]' Intelligence Core (the one telling the [[cake]] recipe), with a blue "eye" and three dots, though Wheatley has dots only on his right side and possesses a white light as his iris instead.}}


* Wheatley's {{W|Cockney#Cockney_speech|Cockney accent}} heard in the [[Meet Wheatley (video)]] video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by [[Valve]] animator [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,55298/ Richard Lord].<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/ ''Portal 2'' Gains a Talkative Companion] on Wired.com</ref> Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21890104&postcount=83 ''Portal 2'' E3 gameplay video (single post)] on the NeoGAF forums</ref> Later Lord himself emphasized that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over the moon with who it might be." [sic],<ref>[http://lastoutpostofsanity.com/2010/06/tempvoice/ "Temp voice!"] on Last Outpost of Sanity, Richard Lord's official blog</ref> until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.<ref>[http://pc.ign.com/articles/109/1095842p1.html Gamescom: ''Portal 2'' gets Stephen Merchant] on ComputerAndVideoGames.com</ref>
* Wheatley's {{W|Cockney#Cockney_speech|Cockney accent}} heard in the [[Meet Wheatley (video)]] video shown at E3 2010 uses a placeholder voice provided by [[Valve]] animator [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,55298/ Richard Lord].<ref>[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/portal-2-wheatley/ ''Portal 2'' Gains a Talkative Companion] on Wired.com</ref> Due to very positive feedback, Valve considered at some point making the voice official.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=21890104&postcount=83 ''Portal 2'' E3 gameplay video (single post)] on the NeoGAF forums</ref> Later Lord himself emphasized that his voice was temporary, saying that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over the moon with who it might be." [sic],<ref>[http://lastoutpostofsanity.com/2010/06/tempvoice/ "Temp voice!"] on Last Outpost of Sanity, Richard Lord's official blog</ref> until it was announced that Stephen Merchant would provide the final voice.<ref>[http://pc.ign.com/articles/109/1095842p1.html Gamescom: ''Portal 2'' gets Stephen Merchant] on ComputerAndVideoGames.com</ref>


== See Also ==
== See also ==
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Wheatley|Collaborative Disposition Test]]
* [[Collaborative Disposition Test#Wheatley|Collaborative Disposition Test]]


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