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** Tiptoeing into WildMassGuessing territory here, but GLaDOS happens to have the same voice as her human counterpart. Maybe Wheatley is based off a human who happened to have a British accent? The only established method in this universe to make an AI as sophisticated as Wheatley is to start with a human, and the scientists can't have had a great deal of time on their hands.
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*** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo_IB5145EVNcf8hw1Kku7w Game Theory]] actually did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5w6ieaTxGA video on this]].
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*** Or [[http://still-in-aperture.tumblr.com/post/74723410989/idontfeelcorrupt-sir-adamus-so-i-just-had alternatively...]]
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* Obviously "Wheatley" is a nicer-sounding, less spoiler-y name, but I digress. Why isn't he referred to as the ID Core, like the Fact Core or the Space Core? I know (and readily accept) the Blue Sky take on this, but I'm curious as to whether there's a canon explanation.
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* Obviously "Wheatley" 'Wheatley' is a nicer-sounding, less spoiler-y name, but I digress. Why isn't doesn't he referred to as call himself the ID Core, like the Fact Core or the Space Core? The Adventure Core refers to himself as Rick, so it's a possibility that some cores just choose human-sounding names for themselves, but Wheatley is a fairly uncommon ''last'' name. I know (and readily accept) the Blue Sky take on this, but I'm curious as to whether there's a canon explanation.
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*** Or [[http://still-in-aperture.tumblr.com/post/74723410989/idontfeelcorrupt-sir-adamus-so-i-just-had alternatively...]]
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** It was probably supposed to be a bit of fridge brilliance - Americans typically associate intelligence with 'British' accents (when they're really thinking of an English accent, not a Scottish or Welsh one, which also fall under the heading of British, but moving on), but Wheatley's accent is one typical of someone from the West Country region of England, and stereotyped as not being particularly bright.
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*** I don't know if this information is helpful at this point, but in Portal 2 [[spoiler: one of the ways GLaDOS plans to torture Wheatley is by forcing him to spend a year in the incinerator]]. I'm pretty sure none of the incinerators are capable of actually destroying Aperture tech. [[NightmareFuel God knows what that means for the cores you incinerated in the first Portal.]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You monster.]]
**** Holy shit...does that mean [[FridgeBrilliance the Incinerator is Android Hell?]]
**** Holy shit...does that mean [[FridgeBrilliance the Incinerator is Android Hell?]]
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** Assuming that the ASPHD is an improvement of the Aperture Science Quantum Tunneling Device, it uses quantum tunneling, not entanglement. However, according to Judith Mossman in Half Life 2, the resistance teleporters work using quantum entanglement. Basically, Aperture Science-quantum tunneling;Black Mesa-quantum entanglement. Combine- String based.
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*** If we expanded on this it could be said that it would be harder in general for [=GLaDOS=] to ignore him. He's speaking fast and in an accent that you wouldn't normally hear in Idaho making him harder to tune out or turn into just general background noise.
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*** Did you honestly just forget that you spent the entire game ''in a facility that could restructure itself at will''?
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**Well, then I guess we can assume that GlaDOS moved Chell out of that room before letting her go. [[WildMadGuessing I wonder why...]].
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** Maybe it's because it's even funnier that actually only [=GLaDOS=] said a lot of things that only Chell is going to regret?
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* However, the end of Portal 2 made me scratch my head about this exact question: The roof of Wheatley's vault falls off and you see the moon. Which means that the roof must be on surface level. After [=GLaDOS=] has taken over again, she releases you and sends you on a loooooooooong elevator ride straight upwards, after which you finally reach the surface. The ride is much longer than it would take to reach the roof of [=GLaDOS=]' chamber. There's a wide field of wheat around you. No trace of a hole in the ground through which you could have seen the moon before. And although [=GLaDOS=] has certainly repaired the walls and roof of her chamber, she couldn't possible have filled a hole in the field on the surface and have grown wheat on it. The topology of the game definitely doesn't add up here.
* However, the end of Portal 2 made me scratch my head about this exact question: The roof of Wheatley's vault falls off and you see the moon. Which means that the roof must be on surface level. After [=GLaDOS=] has taken over again, she releases you and sends you on a loooooooooong elevator ride straight upwards, after which you finally reach the surface. The ride is much longer than it would take to reach the roof of [=GLaDOS=]' chamber. There's a wide field of wheat around you. No trace of a hole in the ground through which you could have seen the moon before. And although [=GLaDOS=] has certainly repaired the walls and roof of her chamber, she couldn't possible have filled a hole in the field on the surface and have grown wheat on it. The topology of the game definitely doesn't add up here.
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* Perhaps this is just GLaDOS being GLaDOS, but during the "You Monster!" scene in the beginning of Portal 2, why does she tell Chell "We both said a lot of things you're going to regret"? Chell doesn't talk!
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***That's actually pretty likely, as in Portal 2, [[spoiler: at the beginning of the fight with Wheatley,]] the Announcer says "Neurotoxin level at capacity in five minutes." That wording suggests that the neurotoxin does, in fact, take a few minutes to fill the room.
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** Alternatively, there are alarms, but they're maintained by GLaDOS like everything else in the facility. She just saw no reason to activate them, since there was nobody around to alert after she killed all the staff.
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** [[DontExplainTheJoke That's the joke.]] The idea is that GLaDOS is hilariously bad at understanding human beings, and so believes she could make you feel a deep sense of companionship with an inanimate object by just telling you it's you're friend. It's similar to how she expects to motivate you by promising cake.
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* Something that's bugged me for a little bit: given that you die instantly the moment you touch the "water" and there are signs telling you not to drink it (why Aperture Science thinks their test subjects would want to drink water off a floor is something of a mystery, but anyways), this troper has always assumed it was some kind of corrosive acid. But when you jump onto the platforms in chamber 14 (the one with the complimentary victory lift), the platforms that have been submerged in this acid stuff, the soles of your bare feet are fine. No pain whatsoever. Do the platforms just dry off really fast? Is it something with the heel springs? What ''is'' the "water" anyways?
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** Though personally, this troper is of the opinion that considering [[MadScientist who]] ''made'' GlaDOS, she would be equal parts genius-level brilliance and sociopathic insanity. From a meta perspective, it's fun for the audience to keep guessing, and it generates a lot of word-of-mouth buzz about the game.
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** Though personally, this troper is of the opinion I think that considering [[MadScientist who]] ''made'' GlaDOS, she would be equal parts genius-level brilliance and sociopathic insanity. From a meta perspective, it's fun for the audience to keep guessing, and it generates a lot of word-of-mouth buzz about the game.
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** Especially since the Rattmann was practically in love with his cube. Personally, my first reaction to being told you have to kill the cube was to try to find some way to save it, because [=GLaDOS=] is the one telling you to burn it. When I couldn't, there was a sense of me failing the cube in some way, even though there was no way to save it.
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