History Heartwarming / Portal

** The fact that her response was so automatic and instinctive; some of her small talk with Chell suggests that she doesn't completely remember Cave, but that response suggests that something inside her is still loyal to Cave.

* During the ending credits of ''2'', [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o sings about not needing anyone]] anymore (though she could easily be in denial), and that she might delete Chell from her memory.]] The lyrics for one line read "REDACTED," and the sound becomes a bit garbled, but the words are still easily audible: [[spoiler:"When I delete you maybe/I'll stop feeling so bad."]] Plus, the subtitles (if they're turned on) give the line away anyway. [=GLaDOS=], you big softy!

* The [[AwesomeMusic/Portal2 song]] "Love as a Construct" from ''Portal 2'' for the Companion Cube is very sweet and oddly touching, in its beepy electronic way.

** [[spoiler:And it's the ''same'' Companion Cube, charred from being in the incinerator.]]

** Which may turn into tragicomedy if you then accidentally [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential (or purposely)]] push it through an Emancipation Grill or drop it down the pit.

* [[spoiler:The little space-obsessed core]] at the end of 2 gets his fondest wish, and he sounds absolutely overjoyed.

** This is particularly poignant if you believe that [[spoiler:Caroline was Chell's mother and lives within [=GLaDOS=] (as mentioned in the credits song), and thus Chell is, in a sense, [=GLaDOS=]'s adoptive daughter. [[MyBelovedSmother in an overbearing kind of way]]]].

* During the ending credits of ''2'', [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o sings about not needing anyone]] anymore (though she could easily be in denial), and that she might delete Chell from her memory.]] The lyrics for one line read "REDACTED," and the sound becomes a bit garbled, but the words are still easily audible: [[spoiler:"When I delete you/Maybe I'll stop feeling so bad."]] Plus, the subtitles (if they're turned on) give the line away anyway. [=GLaDOS=], you big softy!

* During the ending credits of 2, [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o sings about not needing anyone]] anymore (though she could easily be in denial), and that she might delete Chell from her memory.]] The lyrics for one line read "REDACTED," and the sound becomes a bit garbled, but the words are still easily audible: [[spoiler:"When I delete you/Maybe I'll stop feeling so bad."]] Plus, the subtitles (if they're turned on) give the line away anyway. [=GLaDOS=], you big softy!

* Part of the ending to Portal 2 where [[spoiler:all the turrets stare at you as you rise to the surface, and they all sing the most gorgeous song. [=GLaDOS=] may claim she still hates you, but the other beings in Aperture Science Testing Facility make it very clear that they are grateful for everything you've done for them.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0&feature=related This live-action short film]]. At first, it just seems like it's about her having [=GLaDOS=] flashbacks and trying to survive, [[spoiler:but then she finds the cake book and sheds tears of joy. She spends the rest of the movie baking cake. Even better is what she writes on her wall.]]

* The [[http://youtu.be/B7Ax18kldUo ending]] of the new DLC "Art Therapy" co-op course, where [=GLaDOS=] [[spoiler:adopts the baby birds]]. Even though the scene is tinged with the same abrasiveness and fridge horror [=GLaDOS=] usually brings to social interaction, her [[spoiler:bending down over the incubator as a doting mother is very sweet]].

* [[spoiler:In the last moment of the ending to ''Portal 2'', [=GLaDOS=] sends up an old friend to join Chell as she leaves for the surface: the Weighted Companion Cube!]]

** Which could have been gut-wrenching instead if they had left in some DummiedOut lines.

*** [[TearJerker ... Oh god...]]
** [[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Alien}} In space, no one can hear you scream...]]]]

* The [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome song]] "Love as a Construct" from Portal 2 for the companion cube is very sweet and oddly touching, in its beepy electronic way.

* The [[http://youtu.be/B7Ax18kldUo ending]] of the new DLC "Art Therapy" co-op course, where GLaDOS [[spoiler:adopts the baby birds]]. Even though the scene is tinged with the same abrasiveness and fridge horror GlaDOS usually brings to social interaction, her [[spoiler:bending down over the incubator as a doting mother is very sweet]].

** Before that, GLaDOS congratulating Atlas and P-Body [[spoiler: for shooing the bird out of the facility]]. She seems genuinely proud of them.
--> ''[[AC: Nice hustle... [[spoiler: kill machines]].]]''

* The credits song in 'Portal 2' has [=GLaDOS=] sing that [[spoiler:She no longer wants to kill Chell and lets her leave, even though she calls her fat... [[RunningGag again]].]]

**** It's a ''turret''. Being immobile and alone is basically its function in life. I remain convinced it's happy right where it is.
**** The turret says, "I'm different". It's ''different''. It may not ''want'' to be immobile and alone for its entire functioning life (which might spill over into FridgeHorror if that is indeed the reason ''why'' it's considered "defective", and you find it where you do. Not because it's actually defective, but because it may very well have stated that it didn't ''want'' to exist solely to shoot designated targets, and so it was immediately sent to be scrapped).

* Earning the "No Hard Feelings" achievement. The defective turret's quiet, desperate plea of "I'm different" and its subsequent thankfulness upon being rescued really make the moment.
** Which may turn into tragicomedy if you then accidentally push it through an Emancipation Grill.
*** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential "Accidentally"]]?
**** The test results were right. You ''are'' a terrible person.
*** It's right behind a corner! You can do it before you even realize it!
*** The alternative is leaving it behind, [[AndIMustScream immobile and alone]]. And it's unlikely that it would be called for [[spoiler:the turret opera]] because where you found it is the last place [=GLaDOS=] would look for functioning turrets. Fizzling it is arguably sparing it a FateWorseThanDeath.

*** [[spoiler:1. "[=GLaDOS=] is Caroline" is 100% canon. and 2. Even though I ship Caveline just as hard as you, that fantheory is impossible. It is also FlameBait.]]

*** [[spoiler: Even though Cave and Caroline are my OTP, Chell is definitely not their kid. Just look at the timeline.]]

* Debatably, [=GLaDOS=] [[spoiler:defending Chell against Wheatley's insults - the exact same insults she herself used earlier. "Look at her. She's not fat."]]

** [[spoiler: "You did it. All that testing was worth it. Look at all those test subjects! Think of all the testing!" [=GLaDOS=] might be a poor little passive-aggressive A.I. with psychotic tendencies, but ''damn'' if that line doesn't sound like she's ready to ''cry'' from pure happiness.]]

* During the ending credits of 2, [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o sings about not needing anyone]] anymore (though she could easily be in denial), and that she might delete Chell from her memory.]] The lyrics for one line read "REDACTED," and the sound becomes a bit garbled, but the words are still easily audible: [[spoiler:"When I delete you/Maybe I'll stop feeling so bad."]] [=GLaDOS=], you big softy!

* Another point about the ending song: In the second verse, [=GLaDOS=] sings, "Now little Caroline is in here too". The next two lines, on the other hand, are "One day they woke me up/So I could live forever". Those two lines [[spoiler: aren't sung by [=GLaDOS=]... it's ''Caroline'' whose singing those. Not only did [=GLaDOS=] let Chell's human mother sing parts in a duet with her, she ''gave Caroline her own solo part to tell what happened to her - being woken up within [=GLaDOS=] so that she could live forever''.]] Not only that, but the next line is "It's such a shame the same will never happen to you", which might in fact be [[spoiler: light sarcasm from [=GLaDOS=]]]. Basically that whole part is telling Chell: [[spoiler: "We're stuck together because of that failed BrainUploading, and we don't want that kind of thing to happen to you, so go and live your life freely"]]. Heartwarming and a TearJerker when you really think about it.

** That is, assuming it is her potato. Many people in the world have the same first name.

* That is, assuming it is her potato. Many people in the world have the same first name.