Back from vacation, thanks for being patient everyone

My favourite part about Wheatley vs Glados is when she recites the paradox ‘This statement is false’ to him hoping it will overwhelm him but he is literally too stupid to understand it so it doesn’t work

You forgot the best GLaDOS roast: “science has now validated your mothers decision to leave you on a doorstep”

One of my favorite lines from Portal 2 is how GLaDOS describes Wheatley: "He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility."

52:16 I'VE JUST REALIZED THAT THE MACHINE SAYS CORE CORRUPTION AT 50% INSTEAD OF 25% BECAUSE WHEATLEY IS CONSIDERED A CORRUPTED CORE

"We both said alot of things that you're going to regret." is such a good line

Personally I really like the theory that the reason why the GLaDos body corrupts both Caroline and Wheatley is because it was originally designed to hold Cave Johnson’s personality

My interpretation of Caroline's consent in the matter is that she absolutely did not. Not only because of the cut voice lines, but also because of the fact that the first action she takes after being converted is killing literally everyone who had any part in the process.

"How are you holding up?" "Because I'm a POTATO" Is the best line in any form of media

“You are a horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that” is still my favorite line in both Portal games.

"And guess what! Ground up moon rocks are pure poison!" That line never fails to make me laugh lol

Seems like this could all be avoided if aperture didn’t have large quantities of neurotoxin hooked up to the general ventilation system

There’s a line she says to Chell during the final fight in the first game that… honestly? It’s chilling, knowing what we know now about her and Caroline. “Speaking of, I bet you’re curious about what happens after you die. Well, guess what: *I know.*”

“It is the throne that is corrupt, not the queen”. Brilliant observation and extremely well put.

I was in the Army from 1996 to 2004 and never saw a single shower curtain. That's how I knew Portal was a work of fiction.

Imagining Glados screaming during the Wheatly switch as Caroline screaming during her "upload" is haunting imagery.

Portal 2's GLaDOS re-design looks hauntingly humanoid. She looks like she's bound and hung upside down, to me, it feels like an intentional choice, to portray Caroline's unwillingness to become this thing. restricted and imprisoned within the machine itself

It still weirds me out seeing Cave Johnson's picture. The guy that Cave was modeled from is the dad of one of my friends from high school. We even got to use a copy of the 1970s Cave Johnson photo for a play with my local community theater. He's a great guy and has no plans on making lemons combustible.

"Say hi, Caroline" "Hi Caroline!" "She is a gem."

Is there anything sweeter than a song of genuine affection and apology from a former mortal enemy?

One little thing, valve’s job at animating the robots is incredible. There’s so much emotion with their movements.

GLaDOS's screams of pain in the transfer always make me feel bad.

There is a really horrifying line in Portal were Glados tells Chell that despite what she might think of Aperature the Surface is much worse. Which even she, Glados, has no idea what's truly going on out there. It's such a terrifying line about the Half Life Combine, that even a world class AI has no idea what going on beyond her walls

I love the quote GLaDOS recites at the end of Portal 2: "You know, being Caroline has taught me a valuable lesson; where Caroline lives in my brain! ..Goodbye, Caroline." In the final moment, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't; she does this throughout the game. When you think she changed, nope. Her personality flips on a dime.

It's really interesting to me how Wheatley's entire villain arc plays like an abusive relationship. He goes from kind and dolting, to initially questioning Chell's loyalty to him. When the euphoria of the tests begin to die down, he berates her and her performance in a way a dissatisfied partner would, begging her to "come back" when she metaphorically and literally leaves him.

the way she hangs is very reminescant of the women carved into the front of old ships, which is a really nice bit of imagery, she's steering the ship but also unwillingly strapped to it forever

42:22 My favorite is the one about sharks. "I was researching sharks for an upcoming test. Do you know who else murders people who are only trying to help them? Did you guess sharks? Because that's wrong. The correct answer is 'Nobody.' Nobody but you is so pointlessly cruel"

There's an interesting theory about Glados... During the early part of the alien occupation of Earth in Half-Life the occupying forces went after all of the top-secret/advanced research labs in an attempt to destroy them. They succeeded in destroying all of the labs except Aperture Science. It's believed that Glados is directly responsible for the lab's protection. Kind of gives some perspective on what both Glados and Chell are truly capable of.

I also love how sincere he is when he tries to blow you up with the stalemate button idk why i always laugh so hard when he goes “ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!?! YOU ARE JOKING YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!?!!!”

ONE HOUR AND 10 MINUTES!?!? You spoil us.

29:45 I think because GLaDOS has been doing these experiments with test subject for so long she was essentially on "Auto Pilot" the entire time up until that point. Her stumbling and glitching at your escape was a result of something her AI hadn't anticipated. The uncertain way she begins "We are please you made it through this final challenge" sounds like an entirely new script she had just written for this completely new scenario. That's when the true GLaDOS goes online.

“Nobody tried to murder me, or put me in a potato.” Always makes me laugh. EXCELLENT VIDEO!

I swear I remember Cave Johnson audio where originally they were trying to make artificial instant pudding mix from moon rocks when they discovered it was a good portal surface, it was strongly implied Cave had been eating ground up moon rocks which lead to his poisoning.

Glados’ name having no official or consistent pronunciation is oddly fitting because a lot of text-to-speech are inconsistent with how they say names and words

44:34 - Actually, I see GLaDOS's design here as something vulnerable rather than powerful. Her silhouette reads almost like a person in a straight jacket being dangled from their ankles. And I think that's pretty fitting considering she never asked to be put into this body in the first place. It's as if she's been imprisoned, and now even her freedom to just move around as she pleases has been stripped from her. (Also, side note, but those claw arms she used to crush Wheatley earlier would have probably come in handy here to stop the core transfer lol.)

I always liked to think that Cave Johnson only ever really cared about shower curtains but just couldn't stay profitable and had to begrudgingly switch over to portal technology.

I've always thought GLaDOS simply stated she deleted Caroline to make more a clean break with Chell- if Chell thinks her friend Caroline is gone forever, it'll keep Chell from coming back and trying to be chummy with her. But I think a part of her really cherished the feelings she had grown to have, and didn't truly want to part from them. Hence the lie.

I’ve always enjoyed that, somewhat ironically, one of the first jokes about Cave’s willing negligence and malpractice, is almost exactly what does him in in the end; because moon dust is dangerous for a lot of the same reasons as Asbestos, which he’s all too happy to build entire testing tracks with, despite knowing it’s health hazards, just to keep the rats out.

Ok, I LOVE GladOS’s revival. It’s so cinematic, and Wheatley panicking is hilarious. My favorite parts have to be when glados says you murdered her, and wheatley responds “You WHAT??!!” as well as “We’ve both said some things that you’re going to regret.”

I always loved how angry Cave gets about dying. "How dare life give me lemons"! Its an amazing but of humour to me.

A difference between the old and new designs for glados I've noticed it the new design looks very "open", there are more visible servos and wires, almost as though a lot of pieces went missing. I like to think that rather than just getting a new design, they simply just couldn't find all the pieces when trying to rebuild her

I like to think that GlaDOS lets Chell go because she actually feels sympathy to her and knows that sooner or later she'll relapse to the sadistic scientist mode and might kill Chell, something she doesn't want to do, so she forces her out but snarky as always makes it look like she's still that mean robot cause she's too 'shy' to call her a friend and say that Edit: And that's why she sings in Italian, having the need to say it but without Chell understanding it

leaving this here just to tell you that i was *absolutely floored* at your observation about how the GLADoS could have been made for Cave Johnson and that's why it's so corruptive, to the point of actually going "HOLY SHIT"

One of my favorite parts is when the paradox fails to kill Wheatley because he's too stupid to understand it's a paradox, the walking cubes things he created all shortcircuit. They all understood and were destroyed by the paradox, and he wasn't. They couldn't do the one thing he designed them to do, but they were still smarter than him lol. I also love the robotic way GLaDOS speaks sometimes. She'll repeat words that don't really need repeating, and a human wouldn't repeat, but she does. Stuff like that. It just makes her feel a little less human

Chell couldn't be the daughter of Cave Johnson because bring your daughter to work day happened the same day GladOS was activated, so by that time Caroline would have already been part of GladOS and Cave Johnson would be dead by this point.

GLaDOS has a line during Portal 2 where she says the "dopamine rush" you refer to is something she got over pretty quickly and she honestly cared about the science.

,,Wheatley: This is the part where I kill you! Subtitles: *The part where he kills you*" Is my favorite part of the game

My favourite line is definetly "I've heard voices all my life, but now I hear the voice of conscious and it's terrifying because for the first time it's _my_ voice" This to me was the part where Caroline shone through most. GLaDOS here doesn't show compassion or help you in any way, but to me she does the most human thing she ever did. She felt fear. She has already been scared, I'll admit that, but this is a different situation, she wasn't in danger, for once Chell wasn't after her, but yet she was afraid anyway. To me, this is certainly the time she was most human as even after defeating Wheatley but prior to deleting Caroline, it's clear that she is already affected by the central core programming. She deletes Caroline without a thought and clearly has her whole speech planned, she's turning back into what she was and is becoming less human by the minute

Caroline's cut lines are consistent with what Cave said about her, so I'm inclined to agree that she was unwilling to be uploaded into an AI.

We do at least know Chell's dad worked at Aperature, seeing as she lists "special ingredient from Dad's work" on the board for her potato

"More toxic than my ex-girlfriend." Sounds like a hint at the next villainpedia

I have a feeling that if the test subject was allergic to chocolate, there would actually be a cake, and she would trick them into eating it.

GLaDOS: This is the part where he kills us Chapter title: This is the part where he kills you. Wheatley: This is the part where I kill you. Achievement: This is that part. Best joke in Portal 2.

JK Simmons refused point blank to record the proposed lines where Cave Johnson physically forces Caroline into downloading her brain into GLaDOS and killing her. Simmons believed that this was too much like gRape and didn't want to voice a character who would do something like that. This is why it was cut, but this was the original plan for the story in Portal 2. It's technically still canon, but never directly referenced.

I’d like to think that last interaction is just glados putting on an act when she realizes she’s let too much out, in that lens the whole scene become adorable to me

49:35 I love how GLaDOS is just agreeing with a dead person about lemons.

I love it when games get so meta about stuff that's required for certain types of play styles. The fact that they did the 'we're going to mention you're just a player avatar and don't speak' part cracks me up endlessly 'You dangerous, Mute, Lunatic' lmao

My favorite GLaDOS quote is - "This time he's bound to count to three"

So fun fact about the part escort submission position at 34:24 When I was a kid, I used to play portal a lot cause it was the only game I had, i'd play with cheats on spawning NPC's and killing them and putting them up against each other, it was so much fun And one day I decided "fuck it" and went to kill GLaDOS again, and I was just sitting there waiting for the ending sequence to play out What I didn't know is the game had updated by then, so when I heard the part escort submission position shit I fucking screamed and ran out of my room in panic thinking the computer was hacked

GLaDOS has to be one of my favorite characters. And The way she says: *Caroline CAROLINE… who is she? How do I know her?!* It’s just my favorite part and it’s just.. I love her voice. I just love portal so much! My favorite game ever. I was writing this while play portal lol

The portal 2 ending just gives such a sinking melancholic feeling, its supposed to be happy with all the turrets singing but man it just hurts and idk why

I like how she just admits defeat at the end of Portal 2

I could listen to someone retell the story of Portal & Portal 2 a thousand time and it’ll still incite that feeling it has for years. This video was fantastic, shortest hour and something mins i’ve had in a while

I think what Aperture should of done is to actually give her the dopamine hits for other things as well (like being good, nice, helpful) and not just for simply testing.

Listening back on GLaDOS' dialogue at 24 after over a decade of being blind to familial abuse, I am shook to the core how many behaviors of hers reflect a narcissistic parent refusing to let you move on from the pain of trauma.

there's something incredibly Sad(sad is the wrong word) or eerie about those songs, like something other worldly, a Robot or Artificial Intelligence that used to be human writing a song while stuck in an abandoned lab, programmed to conduct tests forever, there's just a feeling to it that I can't articulate with words.

GLaDos really deserved the hour you granted her, well done once again Ghost, another fantastic video!

I appreciate the concise but totally correct explanation of shroedingers cat. So many people get it wrong...

That ending song in Portal 2 still makes me cry... WHY AM I CRYING!? I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE! Shows how amazing Steam was at their games, I miss them.

Its really funny to me that even in Aperture Science's ultimate state of Infamy, having a rouge AI gas the entire workforce to death, they're overshaddowed by an even more infamous event over at Black Mesa. Also wow, I never remembered Glados' face looking like that in Portal 1. When I think of her I think of her 2nd game appearance every single time.

Personally I don't buy into the theory that Chell is Cave and Caroline's daughter. I did, at one point, but after thinking about it further it just feels a little unrealistic and convenient, and is a bit sub-par with the depth of storytelling Valve are known for. I think the hints towards it are intentional, but that they are also intentionally misleading. It could very well be a lore point that Chell herself was lead to believe it, hence the potential nods to it, but when analyzed further the evidence just doesn't hold up. Caroline was close to Cave, but not like that. His only love was science and experimentation, and although Caroline was undyingly loyal to him, he would just as quickly dispose of her as anyone else. His only reason for putting her in charge was probably because he saw her dedication to his cause, and wanted his research to continue after his death no matter what. The point being, I find it doubtful he ever would have gotten her pregnant. Another detail: Cave was already very dead by the time Bring your daughter to work day happened. He was an old man when he died, which means Caroline was also starting to get old. The potato battery Chell made suggests that she was a child when the event happened, and her childlike scribblings on the display itself further confirm this. Assuming Chell was around 8 years old at the time, and that this happens around the same time as Half-Life's Resonance Cascade, that would place Caroline's pregnancy to around 9 years ago, or in the early 90's. This is already after Cave's death, and 20 years after the 70's when she sounded youthful and energetic. She'd be at a bear minimum of 40 years old by then, which is definitely getting up there in age for surviving a pregnancy, let alone even having one to begin with. The entire relationship seems exceedingly unlikely, and would be very unusual given the age gap between her and Cave. We know that Chell was definitely the daughter of an Aperture employee, but we don't know who. Whoever it is, they haven't been outright revealed, which means it's probably not relevant. Chell probably isn't relevant. She is a vessel for the player to control, to insert their own immersive viewpoint onto. Chell doesn't have definitive parents, because you get to decide who they are and what they are like, and even what happened to them. Chell is a blank slate for you to write your own story and personality onto, much like Gordon Freeman before her.

I always interpreted PotatOS being kinder and "mellow-er" as opposed to GlaDOS as the potato not providing enough energy for her to be evil I really like the take of Carolyn being brought forth though

I always loved the line "I hope you brought something stronger than a portal gun this time", it just gives me creepy serotonin

When you called GLaDOS a "glorified gaming PC," I bursted into laughter.

To this day, the scene in Portal 2 where you inadvertently turn GLaDOS back on gives me the juiciest goosepimples

"How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato" is honestly an all-timer line. It's just so simple. I find GLaDOS so haunting, knowing about those unused voice recordings. They honestly make it sound a lot like a rape, which is probably part of why they didn't end up using those files.

The expanded lore in Aperture Desk Job gives a clearer picture of what Cave Johnson really wanted to achieve.

i'm a strong believer in the "Glados and Chell's relationship is based on a toxic romantic relationship" that a few of the writers mention a couple times

A suprisingly common pronounciatian of GLaDOS is gla doss, as in Disk Operating System or DOS. MS DOS? DOS box? Other examples like Boss or Big Hoss or what not. This is the pronounciatian I accept because of the full name of the acronym Genetic Life and Disk Operating System.

you can actually see GLadOS original 'body' on her revived form in 2. It's been shifted into a position behind her new one, almost as if to show she's 'grown' beyond that version of herself.

One thing about her design. I think that it’s really meant to symbolise her mask coming off. In the original she had this cross shaped plastic bit covering her eye, while in the second game it’s gone, completely exposing her emotional side to the world.

4:16 - "Now bear with me here. It sounds crazy; it's all gonna make a lot more sense soon." Lowkey the funniest joke in the entire video.

I love how the original fight is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Slowly shutting the AI down until it's factory reset and harmless

The fact GLaDOS is never called by name, only as “She” or “Her” by Wheatley a few times is genuinely unnerving, like their scared to say her name in case she might be there, listening.

I think one of my favourite GLaDOS lines is “You know I can’t wave back, right?” A little unconventional, but I have my reasons. This is spoken during the Co-Op game, in response to Atlas and P-Boxy’s antics. I don’t know, there’s just something so profoundly tragic about how, despite all her power and seeming omnipresence, she admits to having this one weakness. Of course, most of her comments are purely comedic, but perhaps there’s a layer of irony in the fact that these two insignificant little robots can do something as simple and as *human* as waving, and well, she *can’t.* I sympathise with her a lot.

GLaDOS is one of, if not the, favorite villain of mine as well. I don't really have anything to add to the critical thinking crowd, or fan lore, anything like that. I just want to comment and say I appreciate the video, Portal is one of my favorite games lore wise and it has a special place in my heart. Thanks.

I heard that with the storyline about Caroline being uploaded against her will that J.K. Simmons refused to do his lines because he was uncomofrtable about it.

Oh god, I had forgotten how much this game shaped me growing up. I'm literally crying :')

GladOs is a rollercoaster and a half with her character. From villain to reluctant companion to something of an old friend who had mutual respect of their nemesis. What an absolutely amazing character and what must give portal and portal 2 life and something to focus on. Magnificent writing and I’d want to play more games in which these characters exist.

This video was a triumph! I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

I think an NPCpedia entry for Wheatley from Portal would be awesome since you did GLaDOS.

And I just realized that in the scene where you wake her up, she drops you into the incinerator hole. Tho yes, this is just to retrieve the (two portal) portal gun, but the irony of after beating her by dropping her personality core into the incinerator now she's the one dropping you into the incinerator

When the turrets at the end of Portal 2 focused on my character, my first thought was “Oh, you *bitch*”, thinking she was going to kill Chell. Now, I really want to see what happens to Chell in the world of the Combine.

This video was very good, I learned a bunch of stuff I never knew about glados and I've watched a bunch of your videos and never commented so I thought I'd let you know you're making great stuff!

I have seen a fair few theories and ideas of Chell being the daugter of Caroline and Johnson. A lot of it circles back to that ending song, but I can't help but wonder if that isn't perhaps a way of GLaDOS hinting that she now views Chell as similar to herself, or even a successor. Think of it this way: Both have a couple of notable similarities: Determination, Cunning and Resilience. These aspects were "forged" in the first game when Chell breaks free and beats GLaDOS at her own game. Their relationship also seem to have some parallels with that of a parent and child. In the beginning GLaDOS first "nurtures" Chell by introducing her to the Test Facility and gives her a few safe tests to conduct. As testing progresses, she makes it more and more difficult, similar to how a child is given more and more difficult tasks as they grow. Eventually Chell reaches the "Teen/Rebellious" phase, seen in her escaping and attempting to kill GLaDOS. Finally the "maturity phase", this is most of the latter part of Portal 2 (PotaOS bit in general) where both Chell and GLaDOS realize the "Value" and "Flaws" in each other and develop a mutual respect for each other. The final song and release of Chell can be seen as that stage where the parrent must let go of the child and allow them to head out in the world. Now while this idea is a stretch, I do feel that it fits a bit better than the narrative of Chell being the daughter of Caroline. Now I also should state that the two don't necessarily view each other as such, but I can't help but get the sense that some sort of sub-concious process is at play. Then again I might just be mad. TLDR: GLaDOS might be viewing Chell as her "daughter" in a very demented way

GladOS turning on again at the beginning of Portal 2 is one of the most terrifying and genuinely intimidating returns of a villain in gaming, imo. The way she imposes upon Chell, the music, the fear from wheatly. Very well done.

45:40 is literally the single most terrifying sound i've heard in any game ever

The parents bit was so freaking cruel and hilarious.

I mean… video games like this are testimonies to the power of good writers. The surface story is entertaining enough, but the more you dig, the more powerful it becomes. This story and its characters appeal to everyone without dumbing anything down. HOLLYWOOD LISTEN TO THIS AI SHE HAS THINGS TO TEACH YOU

4:35 "And we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet, per bullet."