| 1 | !'''This is a Moments subpage for ''VideoGame/Portal2''. There are ''major'' spoilers beyond this point, all of which are ''unmarked'' [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per policy]]. In addition, there are quotes within the Act folders which contain spoilers for both ''earlier and later acts''. Venture further only if you dare! Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.''' |
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| 10 | [[folder:In General/Unsorted]] |
| 11 | * When you zap a turret with the [[EnergyWeapon "Thermal Discouragement Beam"]], it says in its usual, completely monotone voice: "Aaah. It burns." *BLAM* You kinda feel bad for the turret. [[ComedicSociopathy And yet you can't stop laughing.]] |
| 12 | * Any of [=GLaDOS=]' lines about Chell's weight. |
| 13 | -->"[[FalseReassurance You look great, by the way. Very healthy.]]" |
| 14 | ** Then when Wheatley starts doing it. "[[HypocriticalHumor Look at her, you moron. She's not fat.]]" Even better: "And... what exactly is wrong with being adopted?" Which she immediately spoils by whispering "Just for the record: you ARE adopted AndThatsTerrible. Just work with me." |
| 15 | ** "Look at you. Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp." |
| 16 | ** Stepping on a defective Aerial Faith Plate causes her to say it's due to Chell's weight, and she'll add some zeroes to its maximum capacity, followed by seven "zero" beeps. |
| 17 | *** Even better, in assuming she wasn't bluffing, and that the max weight prior was about 200 pounds, that means [=GLaDOS=] bumped the max weight to ''2 billion pounds'' |
| 18 | *** Also, the name "aerial faith plate?" "I believe I can fly" indeed... |
| 19 | * Some of the things Wheatley says when you don't move for awhile. If you don't jump down to a platform, he'll tell you to keep a good grip on him since he's more fragile than a plastic cup, and then thinking of what's the worst that could happen, immediately thinking of something worse. |
| 20 | ** After hacking the secret panel to get out, he falls on the floor and asks you to pick him up. If you don't do it for awhile, he'll say, "Oh, remember when you picked me up five seconds ago? That was amazing, do that again." |
| 21 | *** "Alright, I spy with my little eye, something beginning with F. Don't get it? Um, it was the floor. Where I am, waiting to be picked up. OK, next round, I spy with my little eye something beginning with A! ...Also the floor. That's what it was; and I'm still here, actually, waiting to be picked up..." |
| 22 | * The following: |
| 23 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' I was getting so lonely down there. It's so good to hear somebody else's voice. [[ILied I'm kidding]], [[HeroicMime of course]]. ''GOD'' I hate you. |
| 24 | * Wheatley calling humans smelly, mostly because it means that [[IncompetenceInc Aperture]] actually bothered giving a sense of smell to their literal IdiotBall. |
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| 27 | [[folder:Act I]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | !!!Chapter 1: The Courtesy Call |
| 30 | * The game opens with Chell in what appears to be some kind of hotel room, being woken up to be given an automated and hilariously thoughtless approach to mental stimulation: |
| 31 | -->"This is art. You will hear a buzzer. When you hear the buzzer, stare at the art."\ |
| 32 | ''BZZZZ! tick tick tick tick tick''\ |
| 33 | "You should now feel mentally reinvigorated. If you do not feel mentally reinvigorated, reflect briefly on this classical music."\ |
| 34 | ''Brief clip of classical mu--BZZZZZ!''\ |
| 35 | "Now return to bed." |
| 36 | * Some time later, Chell is woken up again by Wheatley: |
| 37 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Most test subjects do experience some..."cognitive deterioration" after a few months in suspension. Now, you've been under for...''quite'' a lot longer, and it's not out of the question that [[BadNewsInAGoodWay you might have a VERY minor case of...SERIOUS brain damage]]. But don't be alarmed! Although, if you ''do'' feel alarmed, [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse try to hold on to that feeling]]! Because that is the proper reaction to being told that you've got brain damage. |
| 38 | * Following this: |
| 39 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Do you understand what I'm saying? Just tell me 'Yes'."\ |
| 40 | '''[Space]/A/[[Platform/PlayStation3 (Triangle)]]: Speak'''\ |
| 41 | '''Wheatley:''' Okay. What you're doing there is jumping. You just... you just jumped. But never mind. Say 'Apple'. Aaaapple.\ |
| 42 | '''[Space]/A/[[Platform/PlayStation3 (Triangle)]]: [[SchmuckBait Say apple]].'''\ |
| 43 | '''Wheatley:''' Okay, you know what? That's close enough. Just hold tight." |
| 44 | ** If you stick around, Wheatley has quite a few hilarious things to say about that apple... |
| 45 | * At the start of the game: |
| 46 | -->'''Wheatley:''' I'm going to try a manual over-ride on the wall. (''rams Chell's room into the wall'') |
| 47 | ** Even better: The wall that he thinks is a docking station has written on it '''[[CantYouReadTheSign "DOCKING STATION - 500M DOWN".]]''' |
| 48 | *** Even better: he ''can'' read signs. He's just afraid of heights. |
| 49 | * The automated announcements in the first few test chambers: |
| 50 | ** The announcement in the first dilapidated testing chamber says that "Cube and button based testing remains an important tool for science, even in a dire emergency. If cube and button based testing caused this emergency, don't worry. The odds of this happening twice are very slim." |
| 51 | ** One narrates what to do if society has been taken over by some sort of unreasonable animal king. The visual on the wall screens shows a giant, leopard-painted, crown-wearing turret being worshiped by the masses. |
| 52 | --->"''If the Earth is currently governed by a manner of animal king, sentient cloud, or [[VideoGame/HalfLife other governing body that either refuses to or is incapable of listening to reason]] [...]''" |
| 53 | ** In Testing Chamber 6 at the beginning: |
| 54 | --->"''This next test applies the principles of momentum to movement through portals. If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, God help you.''" |
| 55 | *** In the same chamber, the announcer states: |
| 56 | ---->"''If you are a non-employee who has discovered this facility amid the ruins of civilization, welcome! And remember: testing is the future and the future starts with you.''"\ |
| 57 | Only to add at the end of the test:\ |
| 58 | "''Good work getting this far, future-starter! That said, if you are simple-minded, old, or irradiated in such a way that the future should not start with you, please return to your primitive tribe and send back someone better qualified for testing.''" |
| 59 | ** Music always soothes the soul: |
| 60 | --->"''This next test is very dangerous. To help you remain tranquil in the face of almost certain death, smooth jazz will be deployed in 3...2...1...''" (smooth jazz plays that [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand quickly dies down]]) |
| 61 | *** According to the commentary, smooth jazz is ''always'' funny regardless of age, gender, class or culture. |
| 62 | *** There's a DummiedOut line that expands on this: |
| 63 | ---->"''At the time of this recording, federal disclosure regulations require us to inform you that this next test is probably lethal, and to redirect you to a safer test environment. We will attempt to comply with these now non-existent agencies by playing some more smooth jazz.''" |
| 64 | *** Given a CallBack later, when [=GLaDOS=] has woken up and finished tidying up the Enrichment Center: |
| 65 | ---->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Federal regulations require me to warn you that this next test chamber... is ''looking pretty good.'' |
| 66 | *** Rattmann's response to it: One of his paintings says "Smooth jazz fails"... |
| 67 | ** In a test that does not involve lethal military androids: |
| 68 | --->''Some emergency testing may require prolonged interaction with lethal military androids. Rest assured that all lethal military androids have been taught to read and provided with one copy of [[ThreeLawsCompliant the Laws of Robotics]]. To share.'' |
| 69 | * Another Wheatley quote, after you've grabbed the first portal-gun and the floor's collapsed underneath you: |
| 70 | -->''Do you see the portal gun? ...Also, are you alive? Should have asked that first, um, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna come back, in an hour, if you're alive, we'll meet then, and if you're not, I'll bury you. Alright? Go team!'' |
| 71 | * When [=GLaDOS=] wakes up: |
| 72 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Oh. It's ''you''.\ |
| 73 | '''Wheatley:''' You know her?\ |
| 74 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' It's been a long time. How have you been?\ |
| 75 | '''Wheatley:''' I think she likes you!\ |
| 76 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' I've been reeeeeeeeally busy being dead. You know, after you ''murdered me''.\ |
| 77 | '''Wheatley:''' You did ''what''?!\ |
| 78 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Look...we both said a lot of things that ''you'' are going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. [[ForScience For science]]. [[YouMonster You monster]]. |
| 79 | ** Made extra hilarious by the fact that Chell has never actually ''[[HeroicMime said]]'' anything. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | !!!Chapter 2: The Cold Boot: |
| 82 | * "Sarcasm self test complete!" |
| 83 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Oh good, that's back online. |
| 84 | * After you finish the second test... |
| 85 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. Seriously. That's what it says. A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that. |
| 86 | * "Well, have fun soaring through the air without a care in the world. I have to go to the wing that was made entirely of glass and pick up 15 acres of broken glass. ''By myself.''" |
| 87 | * "[[NotSoDifferentRemark We're a lot alike, you and I.]] You tested me, I tested you. You killed me, I... oh, no wait, I guess I ''haven't'' killed you yet. Well, food for thought." |
| 88 | * One of the test chambers reintroduces the CompanionCube, but [=GLaDOS=] deletes the cube prematurely the first couple times to troll the player, before allowing the player to keep it for the test proper. At the end of the chamber she informs the player that the Emancipation Grill is broken and tells them [[SchmuckBait not to take anything with them]]. It's possible to try and smuggle the Cube out... and [=GLaDOS=] will delete it right as the player is about to bring the cube to the elevator. |
| 89 | * "This next test chamber was apparently designed by one of Aperture's Nobel Prize Winners. It doesn't say what the Nobel Prize was for. Well, I know it wasn't for being immune to neurotoxin." |
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| 91 | !!! Chapter 3: The Return |
| 92 | * Wheatley interrupts a transition between tests to give you information, saying that he jammed the door mechanism using a bird's eggs. Cue bird attack: |
| 93 | --> '''Wheatley''': ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kNwgckIXE "BIRD BIRD BIRD BIRD!"]]'' |
| 94 | * At the first turret-chamber: |
| 95 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' This next test involves turrets. You remember those, right? The pale spherical things full of bullets. ...No wait. [[YouAreFat That's you]] [[MoreDakka in five seconds.]] Good luck! |
| 96 | * And the insults continue... |
| 97 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' That jumpsuit you're wearing looks stupid. That's not me talking, it's right here in your file. On other people it looks fine, but right here a scientist has noted that on you it looks 'stupid.' Well, what does a neck-bearded old engineer know about fashion? He probably - Oh, wait. It's a she. Still, what does she know? Oh wait, it says she has a medical degree. In ''fashion!'' From ''France!'' |
| 98 | |
| 99 | !!!Chapter 4: The Surprise |
| 100 | * [=GLaDOS=]' "surprise," in a darkly humorous way: |
| 101 | --> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[ILied I made it all up.]] Surprise. |
| 102 | ** The confetti from the tube and the party horn sound just tops it off. |
| 103 | ** And then, in the next chamber, [[ComedicSociopathy [=GLaDOS=] manages to top herself.]] Again. |
| 104 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' I feel awful about that surprise. Tell you what: let's give your parents a call, right now.\ |
| 105 | '''keypad beeps and ringing'''\ |
| 106 | '''"Operator":''' ''The birth-parents you are trying to reach do not love you. Please hang up.''\ |
| 107 | '''beeeeeeeeeeep'''\ |
| 108 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Oh, that's ''sad''. But impressive. Maybe they worked at the phone company. |
| 109 | * When Wheatley interrupts again during an elevator sequence, shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoeK8mzHQo here]] in all its glory and transcribed below: |
| 110 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Hey, how's it going? I talked my way onto the old nanobot worker crew rebuilding this shaft. They are really small.\ |
| 111 | ''[to someone offscreen]'' Oh, I know Jerry. No I'm on a break, mate, on a break.\ |
| 112 | ''[back to Chell]'' Ow! Just hang in there for five more...\ |
| 113 | ''[to Jerry again]'' What, Jerry, you can't fire me for that! Yes, Jerry, or maybe your prejudiced work site should have accommodated a nanobot of my size. Thanks for the hate crime, Jer! See you in court mate. |
| 114 | * When Wheatley first enacts his "plan." |
| 115 | -->'''Wheatley:''' (''in a horrible American accent'') Hey, buddy! Ah'm speakin' in an ac-cent that is beyond her range of hearin'! Ah know Ah'm early, but we need to go, RIGHT NOW. Walk casually to-ward my position, and we'll go shut 'er ''doun''!\ |
| 116 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' (''clearly annoyed'') Look, metal-ball. I ''can'' hear you.\ |
| 117 | '''Wheatley:''' (''normal voice'') Run! I don't need to do the voice! Run! Run! |
| 118 | ** This gag is actually replicated across languages--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZrQ6q0saqM the German dub is in an exaggerated Swiss accent,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDZ4R9Aex-U the Spanish dub is in botched Argentinian,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C7vtAVOd1k&t=25s and the French dub is in overblown Quebecois.]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | !!!Chapter 5: The Escape: |
| 121 | * Wheatley's ghost story. |
| 122 | -->'''Wheatley:''' They say that at night you can still hear the screams. Of their replicas. All of them functionally indistinguishable from the originals. No memory of the incident, nobody knows what they're screaming about. ''Spooky''. Though obviously not paranormal, in any meaningful way. |
| 123 | ** Gets better when you realize that there actually ''is'' a room full of screaming robots. [=GLaDOS=] built it for a laugh. |
| 124 | * Wheatley rolling his eye when he turns on the flashlight but doesn't die, despite being told he would. |
| 125 | * Wheatley's [[NoPeekingRequest insistence on you turning around when he's 'hacking' something]]. But if you use portals to sneak a peek at when he's hacking the turret room, or just turn around fast enough to watch, you can see that the method he uses is less 'technical' and more [[PercussiveMaintenance 'physical']]. |
| 126 | ** You don't even need to actually see it; you can hear glass smashing and see the splintered glass in front of the window, making it just as funny. |
| 127 | *** Even better, sometimes when you try the watch-using-portals trick, [[DevelopersForesight he'll state "That's not fooling anybody"]]. |
| 128 | * Any of Wheatley's ideas of what hacking entails. This ranges from slamming into things, to trying to convince a computer monitor to shut itself off by talking to it, to figuring out a password by going through every combination alphabetically[[note]]This actually is a real password hacking method, known as "brute force" cracking. It's just that Wheatley does it ''much'' slower than any actual computer would[[/note]]. He manages to get to AAAAAC before getting confused. He ''also skipped'' AAAAA'''B''' getting there. |
| 129 | * "Turret redemption lines are not rides. Please exit the turret redemption line." |
| 130 | * Just before the start of the Redemption Line, there's an office full of coffee mugs. Some of them are quite amusing. |
| 131 | --->"I need a HUG"\ |
| 132 | "Who farted?" |
| 133 | * There's a device that builds turrets, boxes them, and sends them away? But they never get around to being shipped away. They are sent to a second machine that unboxes them and most of the time even ''disassembles them to send the parts back so they can make more turrets''. |
| 134 | * Some of the defective turrets say some pretty funny stuff considering the standard they're supposed to meet: |
| 135 | -->[Turrets have to shoot a target]\ |
| 136 | '''Normal Turret:''' Target acquired! ''[shoots]''\ |
| 137 | '''Broken Turret:''' ''[click]'' Uh. ''Blam! Blam blam blam!'' I'm not defective!\ |
| 138 | '''Broken Turret:''' ''[click]'' Well, gave it all I could! Can't ask for more than that!\ |
| 139 | [Turrets have to meet scanner standards]\ |
| 140 | '''Template Turret:''' Hello?\ |
| 141 | '''Broken Turret:''' C'mon, Coach! You gotta put me in the game!\ |
| 142 | [Broken turret accepted after scanner is sabotaged]\ |
| 143 | '''Broken Turret:''' So we're all supposed to be blind here, right? Not just me? Alright, fantastic. Hehehehehe... |
| 144 | ** In turn, after you place one of the defective turrets as a template, all the good turrets get rejected, and their comments are no less hilarious: |
| 145 | -->'''Turret:''' I did everything you asssssskkkkeeedddd!\ |
| 146 | '''Defective Turret:''' [[EvilLaugh Heheheheh....]]\ |
| 147 | '''Turret:''' WHEEEEEOHNOOO!\ |
| 148 | '''Defective Turret:''' I, uh, I'm a bad man. Yeah. Haha haaa\ |
| 149 | '''Defective Turret:''' Hey, be a sport, lady, and just tell 'em I killed you. |
| 150 | * The good turrets' reactions to being launched into the air outside the redemption line are both adorable and hilarious. |
| 151 | -->"Whee!"\ |
| 152 | "HOORAY!"\ |
| 153 | "Glorious freedom!"\ |
| 154 | "I'm FLYING!" |
| 155 | * The defective turrets have some pretty hilarious launch reactions too. |
| 156 | -->"Well, I tried."\ |
| 157 | "Gimme another chaaaance!"\ |
| 158 | "You can't fire me, I quiiiit!" |
| 159 | * Also, if you wait while after Wheatley opened the door: |
| 160 | --->'''Wheatley:''' Oh! Good news! (BOOM) Never mind! |
| 161 | * On the path to the Neurotoxin: |
| 162 | -->'''Wheatley:''' I'm absolutely guaranteeing you 100% that it's this way. (''he goes down one path, only to re-emerge a second later.'') No, it's not this way. |
| 163 | ** Bonus points for instinctively following him. |
| 164 | * If you zoom in on the volcano science fair project, you can read what it says. |
| 165 | -->'''Problem:''' Can you make a baking soda volcano that is as cool as a real volcano?\ |
| 166 | '''Conclusion:''' It is not as cool but at least it cannot catch on fire. |
| 167 | * This comment about the neurotoxin generator: |
| 168 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Bit bigger than I expected, uh, not gonna be able to just, y'know, push it over. |
| 169 | * Pressing a button that opens a door to the generator: |
| 170 | -->'''Wheatley:''' WHAT ARE YOU DOING WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT BU- oh, the door's open. Well done! |
| 171 | * "Warning! Neurotoxin pressure has reached dangerously unlethal levels!" (Neurotoxin pipe crumples up and makes the entire machine collapse) |
| 172 | ** Best thing about that sequence: the balcony from which you watch the implosion was put there ''[[ViolationOfCommonSense specifically for watching the neurotoxin generator implode]]''. The door is labeled "Implosion Observation Annex", and there's a sign on the wall reading, "In case of implosion, look directly at implosion". Even better is that the sign was reportedly made for the player, as playtesters kept leaving the room early and needed a nudge, like "Hey, stick around for the awesome implosion sequence we spent a lot of time on!" |
| 173 | * You find a door labeled "[=GLaDOS=] Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary. Keep Unlocked." Turns out, it was just a [[RealFakeDoor fake door]] used to lure you into a trap, and the walls start closing in on you. The funny bit is what [=GLaDOS=] says as they do. |
| 174 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' I honestly, TRULY didn't think you'd fall for that. In fact, I devised a much more elaborate trap further ahead for when you got through this easy one. If I'd known you'd let yourself get captured this easily, I would have just dangled a turkey leg on a rope from the ceiling. |
| 175 | ** Even funnier is the fact that, once you're where you can see the sign, there's nothing else you can do except open the door. [=GLaDOS=] could've just had the walls close in as soon as you landed, but apparently decided to wait and see if you'd fall for it. |
| 176 | ** There is also literally nothing else you can do in the "room" except try the door, and nothing will happen until you do. The computer really will go out of her way to engineer situations just to have an excuse to passive-aggressively belittle your intelligence. |
| 177 | * Wheatley's attempt to hack the neurotoxin generator, if you just stand around watching. |
| 178 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Now, what's the floor doing? You know what? It's holding everything up! |
| 179 | * In the showdown with [=GLaDOS=], when she tries to pipe in the neurotoxin: |
| 180 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Well, I guess we could just sit here and glare at one another until somebody drops dead. But I've got a better idea! It's your old friend, deadly neurotoxin. If I were you, I'd take a deep breath, and hold it.\ |
| 181 | ''Wheatley rolls out the neurotoxin tube, smashing the cage''\ |
| 182 | '''Wheatley''': Ow! Ooh! Ah! Uh! Ow! (''drops in front of Chell'') Hello!\ |
| 183 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' ...I hate you ''so much.'' |
| 184 | * The [=GLaDOS=] fight has some of the best lines in the game: |
| 185 | --> '''Announcer''': New core detected.\ |
| 186 | '''Wheatley''': Ooh! That's ''me'' they're talking about! |
| 187 | ** Once the stalemate happens: |
| 188 | --->'''Announcer''': Stalemate detected. Transfer procedure cannot continue.\ |
| 189 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Yes!\ |
| 190 | '''Wheatley:''' Pull me out! Pull me out! Pull me out! Pull me out! Pull me out! Pull me out!\ |
| 191 | '''Announcer:''' ...unless a stalemate associate is present to press the stalemate button.\ |
| 192 | '''Wheatley:''' [[VerbalBackspace Leave me in! Leave me in!]] Go press it! |
| 193 | ** Some of the stuff said when you don't react at all. For example, [=GLaDOS=] and Wheatley both arguing about switching the cores. |
| 194 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Do ''not'' put that little idiot in ''my'' mainframe!\ |
| 195 | '''Wheatley:''' Yes, ''you should'' put that little idiot into the mainframe!\ |
| 196 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' ''Don't'' do it.\ |
| 197 | '''Wheatley:''' Do do it!\ |
| 198 | ...\ |
| 199 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Impersonating a stalemate associate. I just added that to the list. It's a list I made of all the things you've done. Well, it's a list that I ''am'' making, because you're still doing things right now, even though I'm telling you to stop. Stop, by the way.\ |
| 200 | '''Wheatley:''' Okay... that's probably correct, but where it's ''incorrect'', is that while I've been stalling you WE JUST PRESSED THE BUTTON! Usethemomentofconfusionandpressthebutton. |
| 201 | ** As the core exchange process begins and Wheatley is lowered into the floor: |
| 202 | --->'''Wheatley:''' Wait, what if this hurts? What if this really hurts? Ah I didn't think of that.\ |
| 203 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Oh it will. Believe me, it will.\ |
| 204 | '''Wheatley:''' Are you just saying that? Or is it really going to hurt? You're just saying that, aren't you? You're just- no you're not, you're right- it is going to hurt, isn't it? Exactly how painful are we t-AAAAARRRRRGH! |
| 205 | ** [=GLaDOS=]' {{Autotune}}d BigNo and screams in agony as she is being removed from the mainframe and Wheatley installed in her place. |
| 206 | *** Less funny in retrospect, as she may well be reliving her last moments as Caroline being restrained for whatever process was used to change her... |
| 207 | * Wheatley speaks Spanish: |
| 208 | -->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Chswpnzmck Estás usando este software de traducción de forma incorrecta. Por favor, consulta el manual.]]'' |
| 209 | ** It gets even more hilarious in [[https://youtu.be/x4RKEe7YCTI?t=68 the Spanish version,]] where it's inverted and the error phrase is said in English: |
| 210 | --->''[[BilingualBonus It seems you are using this translation tool incorrectly. Please, check the manual.]]" |
| 211 | * When Wheatley turns evil, this quote stands out. |
| 212 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': The engineers tried everything to make me...''behave''. To slow me down. Once, they even installed an Intelligence Dampening Sphere. It clung to my brain like a tumor, [[FelonyMisdemeanor generating an endless stream of terrible ideas]].\ |
| 213 | '''Wheatley''': No, not listening, not listening.\ |
| 214 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': ''It was your voice.''\ |
| 215 | '''Wheatley''': No. You're lying. You're lying.\ |
| 216 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Yes, you're the tumor. You're not just a regular moron. You're ''designed'' to be a moron.\ |
| 217 | '''Wheatley''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. AM NOT. A. MORON!]]\ |
| 218 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Yes you are! You're the moron they built to make me an idiot!! |
| 219 | * While the end of Act I was incredibly tense, it's at least a little funny in hindsight to note that when Wheatley laughs, the panels behind him begin flapping in unison. It's a sign that he controls everything, but it's still amusing. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Act II]] |
| 223 | !!! Chapter 6: The Fall |
| 224 | * In the opening scene: |
| 225 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Oh hi. So, how are you holding up? ''BECAUSE [[ItMakesSenseInContext I'M A POTATO]]''. |
| 226 | ** Really, the mere existence of [=PotatOS=] is hilarious, as is the fact that she still has a [[SarcasticClapping slow clap processor]]. |
| 227 | * [=GLaDOS=]' explanation of Wheatley. |
| 228 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' 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. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero And you just put him in charge of the entire facility]].\ |
| 229 | ''[[[SarcasticClapping Clap. Clap.]]]''\ |
| 230 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Good, that's still working. |
| 231 | * At one point, you need to open a massive hatch. The thing is a good thirty feet or so across, made of metal, at least a foot thick, and plastered with warning signs. You need to portal from one side of the huge room to the other to hit two switches quickly enough to open it, whereupon it grinds ajar with a shriek of protesting metal, a flashing red warning light and a siren to ''reveal''... a wall. Bricked-up and painted off-white. With a teeny tiny, perfectly ordinary human-sized door in the very bottom, like an afterthought. Complete with a tiny little chair next to the door, as if Johnson felt the need to put a security guard behind the massive 10-story vault. |
| 232 | ** Not only a wonderful achievement by the Valve team in delivering 1) probably the largest damn door compared to a character POV in a game since ''Halo'' or something and 2) executing a hilarious sight gag, and 3) illustrating the outright insane approach Cave Johnson's Aperture Innovations had to designing virtually anything: huge and costly expenditure of money, resources and energy for a tiny little result. Spectacle often seems more important to the mad old coot than anything else. |
| 233 | ** Made even better when you listen to the commentary and learn that the entire gag came about thanks to "[[ThrowItIn a happy accident]]," wherein "the first model built was about five times bigger than everyone expected, but people started to like it." |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !!!Chapter 7: The Reunion |
| 236 | * When potato [=GLaDOS=] freaked out upon seeing a bird. |
| 237 | -->"Ahg! Bird! Bird! Kill it! IT'S EVIL!" |
| 238 | ** As a bonus, if you turn on the full subtitles at this part, the bird's caws are just referred to as [Bird] instead of any more descriptive text. |
| 239 | ** Before then,when you find her in an office of some kind: |
| 240 | --->"Oh, hi. Say, you're good at murder. Could you - OW! - murder this bird for me!?" |
| 241 | ** Doubles as a StealthPun. The bird appears to be a crow. A group of crows is known as a ''murder''. |
| 242 | * After reuniting with [=PotatOS=] and accepting her offer to work with her against Wheatley, Chell skewers her on one of the portal gun's prongs, so she can pass through the emancipation grills unharmed. But the ''real'' reason Chell did that was for just a small bit of payback. |
| 243 | ** After she resolves her potato power output issues and realizes she can't be too emotional, this quote stands out: |
| 244 | --->"We're still going to figure out what the hell is going on here, but ''calmly''." |
| 245 | * After [=GLaDOS=] starts reacting to the automated announcements, in particular Caroline's voice, her first thought on the subject is "Did I kill her?" She's just so contemplative about it; good to know she sticks to what she knows she does most. |
| 246 | * Though it was changed to make her less irritating to players, this early version of the dialogue when you reunite with [=PotatOS=] is priceless: |
| 247 | -->"Oh. It's you. Go away. [[HaveYouComeToGloat Come to gloat?]] Go on. Get a goooood lonnnnng look. Go on. Get a big fat eyeful. With your big fat eyes. That's right. [[ARareSentence A potato just called your eyes fat.]] Now your fat eyes have seen everything." |
| 248 | |
| 249 | * One of Cave Johnson's final pre-recorded speeches as he rages at his imminent death. |
| 250 | -->'''Cave Johnson:''' [[WhenLifeGivesYouLemons When life gives you lemons]], [[RageAgainstTheHeavens don't make lemonade. Make life take back the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!]] [[LargeHam Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!]]\ |
| 251 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' "BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN! Burning people! He says what we're all thinking!" |
| 252 | ** And given Cave Johnson's track record up until that point, ''it is not out of the question for him to have created combustible lemons.'' |
| 253 | ** Funnier almost as a shout out when you remember that [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] said this little gem: 'Imagine if Valve released Half-Life, then a few years later they released Half-Life again with exactly the same plot but with better graphics, different level design, and maybe one new gun, like a tube that shoots lemons.' |
| 254 | ** Then someone [[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/05/27/when-life-give-you-lemons-burn-down-life-s-house.aspx went and made them]] - I call them "[[{{Pun}} lemonades]]"! |
| 255 | ** Really, most everything Cave says it pure comedy gold. |
| 256 | --->'''Cave Johnson:''' Oh, in case you get covered in that repulsion gel, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: ''[ruffles papers]'' ''[[NowYouTellMe DO NOT]]'' [[NowYouTellMe get covered in the repulsion gel.]] We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this, it's a lively one, and it does ''NOT'' like the human skeleton. |
| 257 | *** Especially hilarious when you've probably been soaked in the repulsion gel several times at this point. |
| 258 | *** It's also entirely possible that repulsion gel is harmless, and Cave and company just don't ''get'' the connection between causing a person to bounce uncontrollably for hundreds of feet and having their bones broken... |
| 259 | ** Cave Johnson is what happens when you mix MadScientist, BoisterousBruiser, and CloudCuckooLander. |
| 260 | --->'''Cave Johnson:''' All these Science Spheres are made of asbestos, by the way. Keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistence of cough, or your heart stopping, because that's not part of the test. That's asbestos. Good news is the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older you're laughing. Worst case scenario you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you've forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face. |
| 261 | ** More Cave Johnson: |
| 262 | --->For those of you who volunteered to be injected with Praying Mantis DNA, I have good news and bad news. The bad news: we're postponing those tests indefinitely. The good news: We have a much better test for you. Fighting an army of Mantis Men! Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test begins. |
| 263 | ** He's the gift that keeps on giving, really: |
| 264 | --->This next test has tiny nanoparticles in the gel. In layman's terms, that's a billion little gizmos that are gonna swim through your bloodstream and pump experimental genes and RNA molecules and so forth into your tumors. Now, maybe you don't have any tumors: well don't worry! If you sat on a folding chair in the lobby and weren't wearing lead underpants, we took care of that too. |
| 265 | ** Cave Johnson's philosophy: |
| 266 | --->In this next chamber, we're going to have a superconductor pointed at you, on full blast, the entire time. I'll be honest with you, we're just throwing science at a wall here to see what sticks. No idea what's gonna happen. Best case scenario, you might get some super powers; worst case, some tumors, which we'll cut out. |
| 267 | ** Even more Cave goodness: |
| 268 | --->Science isn't about "why?" It's about "''why not?''" Why is so much of our science dangerous? [[WhyDontYouMarryIt Why not marry safe science]] if you love it so much? In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out because you are '''fired!''' Not you, test subject. You're doing fine. Yes, you! ''Box your stuff!'' Out the front door. Parking lot. Car. Goodbye. |
| 269 | ** And another: |
| 270 | ---> '''Cave:''' You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son of a gun got blue paint. [[ComedicSociopathy Hahahaha.]] All joking aside, that did happen--broke every bone in his legs. Tragic. [[ForScience But informative. Or so I'm told.]] |
| 271 | * Anything said by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cave Johnson]], or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL35k1rVmjs Rick the Adventure Sphere]]. |
| 272 | ** Basically... Cave Johnson has become a FountainOfMemes. |
| 273 | * From near the end of Chapter 7: |
| 274 | --> '''[=GLaDOS=]''': "I know things look bleak, but that crazy man down there was right. Let's not take these lemons! We are going to march right back upstairs and MAKE him put me back in my body! And he'll probably kill us, because he's incredibly powerful and I have NO plan!" *Beat* "Wow. I'm not going to lie to you, [[MillionToOneChance the odds are a million to one]], and that's with some generous rounding. Still, though, lets get mad! If we're going to explode, [[FaceDeathWithDignity let's at least explode with some dignity]]!" |
| 275 | * At the end of one of the tests is a safety poster, with four reminders, with the first two being: avoid injuring yourself (sensible) and to avoid injuring others (also sensible)... And then there's the second two, which are: [[SkewedPriorities that replacements cost money, and investigations delay testing.]] |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Act III]] |
| 279 | !!! Chapter 8: The Itch |
| 280 | * [=GLaDOS=] trying to disable Wheatley with a LogicBomb. [[TooDumbToFool It doesn't work.]] |
| 281 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' "This. Sentence. Is. FALSE." ''(to herself)'' [-Don't think about it, don't think about it!-]\ |
| 282 | '''Wheatley:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Um, true. I'll go with true. There, that was easy. To be honest, I might have heard that one before.]]\ |
| 283 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' ''(frustrated)'' "It's a paradox! There ''is'' no answer." |
| 284 | ** Made all the more hilarious because the Frankenturrets in the room understand it, and start to short out. Frankenturrets are smarter than Wheatley. |
| 285 | * Two words: Wheatley Laboratories. |
| 286 | ** Especially since the logo is essentially the Aperture logo with the word "Wheatley" pasted over where "Aperture" should be. |
| 287 | ** Wheatley ''really'' likes it [[TheImmodestOrgasm when you solve those tests.]] |
| 288 | * Wheatley's first attempt at a test chamber, with the word "test" on the wall and an extremely simple puzzle. The commentary confirms that it's mocking the first test chamber a lot of people build, even before the Perpetual Testing Initiative came out. |
| 289 | ** Even better, he makes Chell go through it twice to try and get the euphoric test response again, only to discover it doesn't work. Given [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin the context]], this is roughly equivalent to a smoker trying to make a new cigarette out of the contents of his ashtray. |
| 290 | * When Wheatley lashes out at [=GLaDOS=] in the testing chambers because she keeps calling him a moron, she comments on how she [[AC: "might have taken the moron-thing a little too far this time"]]. Enter the next chamber, and you hear a harpsichord playing a [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] piece[[note]][[GeniusBonus the second of his 6 little preludes BWV 934]][[/note]] as Wheatley attempts to make it clear that he knows his classics. You can practically ''hear'' the facepalm in [=GLaDOS=]' voice. |
| 291 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]''' ''(exasperated)'' Ohhh no, he's playing classical music... |
| 292 | * Wheatley trying to prove he's not a moron by telling Chell he's reading books -- and making sound effects of ''pages turning''. |
| 293 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Oh, sorry. Hope that didn't disturb you just then. It was the sound of books. Pages being turned. ''(later)'' So that's just what I was doing. I was just reading... ah... books. So I'm not a moron. ''(later)'' Anyway. Just finished the last one. The hardest one. [[Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli Machiavelli]]. Do not know what all the fuss was about. Understood it perfectly. Have you read that one? |
| 294 | * Occasionally, usually halfway through the chapter, the screens in the elevator room will show [[UsefulNotes/BlueScreenofDeath the error message from the reactor core]], which includes the absurdly simple instructions on how to stop the meltdown that Wheatley spends the entire ACT ignoring. [[EpicFail In other words, all Wheatley has to do to fix the reactor is a SINGLE BUTTON PROMPT, and he's such a moron he can't even be bothered to do THAT.]] |
| 295 | * The fact that turrets will shoot at Wheatley's face that is shown on the monitors if you point them towards it. This is the only way to break a few of the monitors for the "Smash TV" achievement. |
| 296 | * Smash all of Wheatley's monitors when you get to the rooms [=GLaDOS=] built. Vandalism = Hilarity. Some of Stephen Merchant's finest adlibbing. |
| 297 | * It's a bit of [[ComedicSociopathy cruel humor]], but when blue repulsion gel is applied to turrets, the confused noises they make as they bounce helplessly into the air are [[CrossesTheLineTwice quite funny]]. |
| 298 | * When Wheatley is running Chell through "his" tests (actually made by [=GLaDOS=]), he tries to give away the answer. [[NoFairCheating The interface rig shocks him]]. Once Chell completes the test: |
| 299 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Thanks. [[CorrectionBait All we had to do was pull that lever.]]\ |
| 300 | '''Wheatley''': What?! Well, no, you just push the-! AAAAARGH!\ |
| 301 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Hehehehehehehe. I know we're in a lot of trouble and probably about to die, but that was WorthIt. |
| 302 | * While Wheatley fails horribly at running the facility. |
| 303 | -->'''Wheatley:''' Sorry about the lift. It's, uh... out of service. Because it melted. |
| 304 | ** As well as pretty much everything after that until you arrive at the next test: |
| 305 | --->'''Wheatley:''' Might as well give you the tour. To your left... you'll see [[BuffySpeak some lights of some kind]]. Don't know what they do, but very sciencey anyway. And to your right... something huge... hurtling towards y--''[[ExplainExplainOhCrap OH GOD, RUN, THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE]]''!\ |
| 306 | ''[a testing chamber almost crashes into Chell, but stops just short]''\ |
| 307 | '''Wheatley:''' Are you alright back there? Here, I'll turn the beam off.\ |
| 308 | ''[the excursion funnel turns off, dropping Chell through the roof of an office]''\ |
| 309 | '''Wheatley:''' WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT, OH NO NO, THAT'S NOT HELPFUL! Rrrgh! I don't know why I thought that would ''help''! |
| 310 | ** Heck, just the whole ambiance of everything falling apart makes it even funnier. As you progress more through the chambers, more things fall apart right in front of you, lights flicker and walls are peeled, and it just gets funnier when he tries in vain to sweep away all the debris and just write it off as a fluke every single time. And then of course there's him very hastily wedging chambers together and just breaking even ''more'' things in the process. It's the perfect kind of SceneryGorn combined with SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome that really sells how incompetent he is at running the place. |
| 311 | * [=GLaDOS=]' reaction to Wheatley's attempts to foreshadow your incoming death trap. |
| 312 | --> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Alright. He's not even trying to be subtle anymore. Or maybe he still is, in which case, wow, that's kind of sad.\ |
| 313 | ''*Wheatley drops a pipe filled with Conversion Gel in the hallway Chell was currently walking through, smashing a hole through the floor and getting Gel on everything*''\ |
| 314 | '''Wheatley:''' Sorry! Butterfingers!\ |
| 315 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Either way, I get the impression that he's about to kill us. |
| 316 | * [=GLaDOS=]'s reaction when Wheatley springs his trap early, using an Aerial Faith Plate to propel them in an unexpected direction |
| 317 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Okay, credit where it's due: for a little idiot built specifically to come up with stupid, unworkable plans, that was a pretty well-laid trap. |
| 318 | * After landing on a platform surrounded by mashy-spike-plates: |
| 319 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Well, this is the part where he kills us.\ |
| 320 | '''Wheatley''': Hello. This is the part where I kill you. |
| 321 | !!! [[RuleOfThree Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You]] |
| 322 | -->[[Platform/Xbox360 Achievement]] [[Platform/{{Steam}} Unlocked]]/[[Platform/Playstation3 You earned a trophy!]]: ''[[OverlyLongGag The Part Where He Kills You]]'' (This is that part.) |
| 323 | ** [[OverlyLongGag The soundtrack for this part is called "The Part Where He Kills You".]] |
| 324 | * Go back to Wheatley after he tries to kill you. |
| 325 | --> '''Wheatley:''' [[DevelopersForesight Oh wow, you...you actually came back. Huh. I didn't plan for this, so...can't reset the death trap... Oh! I know! Could you just jump into that pit?]] |
| 326 | ** Complying with Wheatley's offer [[ViolationOfCommonSense gets you an achievement.]] |
| 327 | ** Wheatley trying to convince you to jump into the pit by listing various things that are naturally not down there is full of comedic gold: your birth parents, a three-portal gun, an escape elevator, a french jumpsuit, a tailor ''for'' the jumpsuit, a handbag, a yacht, boys who don't care if you have brain damage, a boy ''band'' that hasn't seen a girl in years, and a pony farm. |
| 328 | ** If you stay after he finishes listing everything, [=GLaDOS=] comments: |
| 329 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:You really do have brain damage, don't you? I can't believe you came back.]] |
| 330 | * Wheatley lays a turret trap for you only for them to be the defective turrets that you and him [[HoistByHisOwnPetard set up for [=GLaDOS=] earlier]]. [[EpicFail One of them is still in its box.]] |
| 331 | ** The dialog during this, if you stay in this room, is just hilarious. |
| 332 | ---> "Are you dead yet? ({{Beat}}.) How about now?" |
| 333 | ** He then gets the real turrets and then goes on a rant about how he's got all the cards in his hand, saying that they're all full houses, and then says he's never played cards and then says something about an Ace of Fours. |
| 334 | ** Then he gets a crusher and says this: |
| 335 | ---> Finally, a nemesis worthy of my vast intellect. Holmes VS Moriarty. Aristotle VS [[BuffySpeak Mashy-spike-plate!]] |
| 336 | ** THEN something breaks, and he wonders out loud if it killed you, saying it'd be great if it killed you. He then has an idea and tells you not to die until he gets back. |
| 337 | * During the escape, you come across an excursion funnel that leads to, in Wheatley's words, a "[[BuffySpeak spinny-blade wall]]". Of course, if you exit the funnel, [[DevelopersForesight Wheatley has some extra dialogue]]. |
| 338 | -->'''Wheatley''': No, wait, come back, I actually was going somewhere with that.\ |
| 339 | ''(entering the funnel again)''\ |
| 340 | '''Wheatley''': [[YouFool FOOL!]] You were a fool to come back, because I've trapped you again! Helpless. You're at my mercy. And I don't have any. You're at my nothing. You're at my lack of mercy.\ |
| 341 | ''(exiting the funnel again)''\ |
| 342 | '''Wheatley''': And again, not playing along. You're ruining what are some really good speeches, actually. Didn't even get to the good part yet. Twist ending. So twisty you might even call it [[{{Foreshadowing}} spinning.]] [[EvilLaugh MOO HOO HA HA HA]] Ignore the laughter. [[BlatantLies Nothing to worry about.]]\ |
| 343 | ''(entering the funnel again}''\ |
| 344 | '''Wheatley''': The puppet master! You're a puppet in a play, and I hold all the strings! And cards, still. Cards in one hand, strings in the other. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} And I'm making you dance like a puppet. Playing cards.]].\ |
| 345 | ''(exiting the... [[OverlyLongGag you get the idea]])''\ |
| 346 | '''Wheatley''': Alright, fine. I'm not saying another word until you do it properly. I'm sick of this. |
| 347 | ** Later on he offers a crusher as a "death ''option''," saying that the "death ''traps''" have been a bit of a failure, and that if you don't take it, he will absolutely kill you once you get to his "lair." Funnier still, if you actually do fall into the crusher (or jump into it), he'll exclaim "Oh! Wow! Good! I didn't think that was going to work." and "walk" off, as it were. |
| 348 | *** You can chuck a mine at his screen when he says this, and he says "So that's a no, then well, may the best man win." ''[starts to leave, comes back quickly]'' "''Sphere''. May the best ''sphere'' win. Swap that. Swap that in. Much more clever. ''[[BrickJoke Books]].''" |
| 349 | *** The last two times you die in the game to an obvious trap, [[ViolationOfCommonSense you got an Achievement for it]], so its easy to be WrongGenreSavvy and assume you'll get one for taking Wheatley up on the "death option". You'd be incorrect; all you get for your death is that bemused line and a reload. |
| 350 | * All of the faulty cores are basically some of the most hilarious parts of the game. |
| 351 | ** The Fact Core's information is sometimes correct. Sometimes...it isn't. |
| 352 | --->"Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity and dying of radioactivity."\ |
| 353 | "Contrary to the popular belief, the Eskimo does not have one hundred different words for snow. They do however have 234 words for fudge."\ |
| 354 | "In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than four percent of poor people are able to do this."\ |
| 355 | "The Schrödinger's Cat paradox states that a cat in a box must be, for all intents and purposes, alive and dead until someone opens the box. Schrödinger invented this theory as a justification for killing cats."\ |
| 356 | "Whales are twice as intelligent and three times as delicious as humans." \ |
| 357 | "The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty." \ |
| 358 | "Cell phones will not give you cancer. [[FalseReassurance Only hepatitis]]." \ |
| 359 | "The first commercial airline flight took to the air in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way." \ |
| 360 | "At some point in their lives, 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch." \ |
| 361 | "If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mnemonic device: One comes before two, comes before sixty, comes after twelve, comes before six trillion, comes after five hundred and four. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal." \ |
| 362 | "Avocados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology They are found in Australians]]." \ |
| 363 | "In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth ate seventy-five hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning." \ |
| 364 | "Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs, still in the shell, or scrambled rocks."\ |
| 365 | "The square root of rope is string." |
| 366 | ** The Portal Wiki's [[https://theportalwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Fact_Sphere_facts page on the Fact Sphere's facts]] not only categorizes them based on how true they are, it has some....interesting things to say about the Fact Sphere's idea that Haley's comet orbits the Earth every seventy-six years and hibernates inside the sun for the other seventy-five, namely that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint if it did,]] [[InsaneTrollLogic we'd never see it because the sun is much more warm and cozy than the cold expanse of space and the comet would never leave unless something really important came up]]. |
| 367 | * The turret opera. With the [[BrickJoke Animal King turret]] in the background and the massive lead singer turret, which is also a brick joke as you can see it taking the elevator in an early chamber. And you know it's the end, because the Fat Lady was singing. |
| 368 | * Near the end of the final boss: |
| 369 | -->'''Announcer:''' ''Corrupted core, are you ready to start?''\ |
| 370 | '''Wheatley:''' [[SarcasmMode What do you think?]]\ |
| 371 | '''Announcer:''' ''[[SarcasmBlind Interpreting vague answer as "yes."]]''\ |
| 372 | '''Wheatley:''' [[RapidFireNo Nonononononono]], didn't pick up on my sarcasm! |
| 373 | * And also during the final boss: |
| 374 | -->'''Announcer:''' ''Reactor Explosion Timer destroyed. [[CrazyPrepared Reactor Explosion Uncertainty Emergency Preemption Protocol initiated:]] This facility will self destruct in two minutes.'' |
| 375 | * Some of Wheatley's BossBanter. |
| 376 | -->''I'll bet you've made this whole thing up, haven't you? I bet there's no such thing as a "reactor core!"''\ |
| 377 | ''Look out! I'm right behind you! ...No, of course I'm not. Forty-feet-tall, right in front of you. Not my greatest ruse...''\ |
| 378 | ''I didn't actually think you'd be such a WorthyOpponent. Weren't you supposed to be brain-damaged? Yeah, brain-damaged like a fox...''\ |
| 379 | ''Oh! And another thing! Football! Kicking a ball around, for fun, cruel, obviously, metaphor! (choked voice) Should've seen this coming...'' |
| 380 | ** He also gets the YouAreFat insult right this time. |
| 381 | --->''Just ten pounds of useless dead weight. Soon to be two hundred and ten. Fatty.'' |
| 382 | ** While you and Wheatley duke it out, Wheatley tries to multitask by hacking into the Aperture mainframe again. He succeeds via brute force cracking, revealing that the password is, in actuality... ABCDGH. |
| 383 | * Some cut dialogue reveals that some of [=GLaDOS=]' glitches go far beyond static and defaulting to a random language. |
| 384 | * Wheatley succumbs to TemptingFate at several points during the FinalBoss battle. |
| 385 | -->"Nobody's going to space, mate!!"\ |
| 386 | "Take one last look at your precious human moon, because it cannot help you now..." |
| 387 | * After the credits, notice that the Space Core is orbiting around Wheatley... implying that he is just that [[StealthPun dense.]] |
| 388 | * The ending. Specifically, the scene where Chell has finally escaped: as she looks around, she hears a noise, and the Companion Cube (charred to Hell and back) is spat out of the door. |
| 389 | * "I'm in space." |
| 390 | ** "I know you are, mate! Yep...we're both in space..." |
| 391 | *** "Spaaaaaaaaaaace!" |
| 392 | * "Dad, I'm in space. [deep voice] I'm proud of you, son! [normal] Dad, are you space? [deep voice] Yes, now we are a family again!" |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Co-Op]] |
| 396 | * [=GLaDOS=]' reactions to you killing yourself in the co-op hub. |
| 397 | --> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' How can you fail at this? It isn't even a test! |
| 398 | ** Die enough times in the hub and she adds: |
| 399 | ---> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:I honestly never thought we would need to track how many times you died in the hub.]] |
| 400 | * [=GLaDOS=] reacting to P-body and Atlas performing gestures in front of her cameras in Co-Op. |
| 401 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Now you're thinking with ''stupidity''.\ |
| 402 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Now you're just not thinking!\ |
| 403 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Yes, I see you and no, I don't care.\ |
| 404 | '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' You're going to hurt yourself doing that, and then I will be ''ecstatic''. |
| 405 | ** She might also decide to let you in on an interesting tidbit: originally, Aperture used the cameras to capture moments of intense agony in test subjects. [[BlackComedy Survivors had the option to purchase photos the camera took for $5, while families of dead test subjects got the photos free of charge.]] [[SarcasmMode For some reason, the photos weren't very popular and ended up being discontinued...]] |
| 406 | * Another [=GLaDOS=] line from co-op. |
| 407 | --> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Please note "points" refer to Science Collaboration Points, rather than points from competitions such as Who Gets To Live At The End And Who Doesn't. I mean, basketball. |
| 408 | * The last puzzle in the hard-light surfaces co-op course. P-body and Atlas fling themselves at the same time and ''slam into each other'' to stop themselves right above a platform. |
| 409 | * DummiedOut line from co-op: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lVjxOTr-M&feature=related [=GLaDOS=] reads a]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic and decides to give it her own... special touches. |
| 410 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tjd5Tr8nw following co-op video]] makes [=GLaDOS=]' automated response in that chamber much funnier. |
| 411 | * The wording of the following line from [=GLaDOS=] isn't what's funny... it's that she sounds so ''utterly dejected'' as she says it that you can't help but laugh. |
| 412 | --> "One of my best tests and they let plants grow here. Can you believe this? You can't test plants. We tried." |
| 413 | * "You saved science!" Doubles as heartwarming, since this is pretty much the only time we see [=GLaDOS=] genuinely happy with something. |
| 414 | * The end of the fourth Mass and Velocity chamber. Usually the droppers only drop a single Edgeless Safety Cube. This one drops ''four''. Then [=GLaDOS=] pipes in: |
| 415 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Commence juggling test in 3... 2... 1... |
| 416 | * If one of the characters accidentally kills another one during Co-Op, sometimes [=GLaDOS=] will provide the following observation: |
| 417 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Orange/Blue just taught Blue/Orange a valuable lesson in trust. |
| 418 | * [=GLaDOS=] manages to get in an ILied moment. |
| 419 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Remember when I told you that you were the only subjects to pass the calibration tests? ILied. |
| 420 | * If one co-op partner dances in front of a camera, [=GLaDOS=] says: |
| 421 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' DANCING IS ''NOT'' SCIENCE. |
| 422 | ** Made funnier when you realize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_science she's not only wrong]], but there's a parallel Aperture Laboratories in a universe [[http://i1.theportalwiki.net/img/d/dc/Cave_Johnson_dlc2_0430_altcave_dance_police01.wav that requires dancing even as a part of science.]] |
| 423 | * The final segment of the Excusion Funnels chapter involves setting up hard light bridges to block turret sightlines so you can pass through unharmed. The last of these puzzles has you put a hard light barrier across a turret conveyor belt, knocking over the turrets that try to pass through it. It becomes darkly humorous when, in addition to the usual shenanigans of a turret getting knocked over, it ''explodes'' when it gets crushed between its platform and the hard light barrier. |
| 424 | * The "Peer Review" DLC, which is guaranteed to require surgery after you damage your sides laughing uncontrollably. |
| 425 | ** [=GLaDOS=] has plenty of good lines, but this stands out. |
| 426 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Let's see... "Turning Softbodies Into Hardened Killing Machines", page 70... Ah. *ahem* "[[Film/FullMetalJacket How tall are you, test subject? Four-nine? I was unaware they stacked human waste that high]]." Wait, that doesn't make any sense. Human waste is stacked at a median height of seven feet, five inches, and I ''AM'' aware of it. "Test subject, I've been told that [[YourMom your mother-]]" Mmm. Well, that's just disgusting. Do the training, while I look at this. |
| 427 | *** If you die a few times in that chamber, [=GLaDOS=] keeps flicking through the book... |
| 428 | ---->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': "[[Creator/WaltDisney If you can dream it, you can]]"-oh, ''for God's sake.'' |
| 429 | *** Or occasionally, she'll ask the player "Don't - you - die - on - me." Made even better as earlier in the year, Valve [[http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5816 admitted]] to wanting to use this trope in some of their other games... |
| 430 | ** [=GLaDOS=] has a few good quotes if you die in another chamber as well... |
| 431 | --->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': The subtext of that pit is acid. The content of the pit is also acid. [[QuipToBlack I'll let you fully absorb it]].\ |
| 432 | '''[=GLaDOS=]''': Remember, these exhibits are interactive; like a children's museum. The pits are also filled with real deadly acid; like a [[BlackComedy well-funded children's museum.]] |
| 433 | ** Not to mention, the "night vision" section. "Night vision on!" |
| 434 | *** "NIGHT VISION OFF! NIGHT VISION OFF!" |
| 435 | ** The ending cutscene. Dear god, the ending cutscene. This is the part that will require surgery. |
| 436 | *** The entire campaign it sounds like you're in for a boss fight against a prototype of [=GLaDOS=] that had managed to reactivate. Nope. It was a crow that has perched itself on a nonsentient prototype and is randomly pecking at keys to cause the disruptions. |
| 437 | *** Specific high point, [=GLaDOS's=] reaction to finding that the bird has laid eggs: |
| 438 | ---->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': You know, shooing that bird out the facility [[CallBack just taught me a valuable l--]] [[MoodWhiplash Oh my god, she's gestating a clone army!]] |
| 439 | *** Coupled with ATLAS approaching the crow commando-style and P-Body's anguished scream when he does. The best part is ATLAS finishing up that motion by simply shooing the crow away. |
| 440 | *** And when it's all said and done, ATLAS is standing there with his hands on his hips, likely thinking "Oh yeah, I'm awesome." |
| 441 | *** What does [=GLaDOS=] do with the bird eggs after she tells the bots not to smash them? [[EvilIsPetty She hatches them and starts insulting the baby birds]]. When one of them manages to crack the glass, [[BigBad she]] [[OhCrap squeaks away]] and completely reconsiders her view of them, realizing that they are killing machines in the making. |
| 442 | ** The fact that [=GLaDOS=] managed to kill all the humans you found within a week in order to kill a simple crow is [[BlackComedy unbelievably hilarious]]. |
| 443 | ** The way that all three of them completely freak out when they see the bird, especially [=GLaDOS=], who (unusually) totally loses all composure and panics. Of course, the bird isn't doing anything to provoke this reaction, which just makes it better. |
| 444 | ** In the first half of chamber 05, you'll pass by several enclosed offices. In one of them is a turret sitting at a desk. [[BrickJoke Looks like they really did decide to start hiring robots]]. |
| 445 | * When you destroy your partner in Co-Op, [=GLaDOS=] has the following lines: |
| 446 | ** First Kill: "You have taught your partner about the folly of trusting others. +10 points." |
| 447 | ** Second Kill: "I think your partner understands already. -6 points." |
| 448 | ** Third Kill: "Now you're just being cruel. ''+50'' points." |
| 449 | [[/folder]] |
| 450 | |
| 451 | [[folder:Perpetual Testing Initiative]] |
| 452 | * The entire premise. Cave basically says you're in an alternate universe because it's far cheaper letting other worlds pay for test construction. |
| 453 | ** One of the trailers shows they're actually ''tricking'' alternate universes into building their chambers by sneaking in and swapping the blueprints. |
| 454 | * Pretty much [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWs6ioNZoI all of Cave's lines]] from the Perpetual Testing Initiative, but particularly his little war with "Dark Cave". |
| 455 | ** "[laughter] Oh, Dark Cave, you are the only one around here who gets me." |
| 456 | * "[...] Let me tell ya' we picked up real bunch of smart-alecks to give mind powers to. ''[taps mic]'' Hey! Stop blowing up heads! Actually, you know what? Negotiation's over. I'd like you all to meet Terry, he's gonn-- '''[BOOM]''' Oh, real funny, guys. But the joke's on you! I taped all your paychecks to Terry's head. Ha! WHY DON'T YOU PUT THAT IN YOUR HEAD AND BLOW IT UP!?" |
| 457 | * "So, who is ready to make love to a giant bird?" |
| 458 | * Cave trying to push you to kill the other Caves, even thought it can destroy the multiverse. [-License-to-kill.-] |
| 459 | * "Just wanna let the cafeteria staff know to lay off the Film/SoylentGreen. I'm holding a memo from the President, and it turns out that soylent green is... [paper rustling] let's see here... ''[[BaitAndSwitch doubling in price]]''. Listen, I don't care how good people tastes. This stuff is costing us more than lobster, so we're going back to fish sticks." |
| 460 | * [[Franchise/RoboCop Robot-a]][[BlandNameProduct -Cop]]. |
| 461 | -->'''Cave''': You are the world's first half-man, half-machine police officer. ''[{{beat}}]'' Well, first ''batch''. There was a pretty big shootout. Bought all your carcasses off the mayor.\ |
| 462 | '''Cave:''' Come in Robot-a-Cop, it's your [[DaChief Chief]]. First, you're a damn good cop. Second, you're a [[CowboyCop loose cannon]]! Alright, that's probably enough motivation...\ |
| 463 | '''Cave:''' Greg tells me you might be getting some tragic flashbacks of your former life. Don't sweat it, those aren't yours. Due to a software problem, that's a real-time feed of Greg's current life. He's a sad little man. |
| 464 | * Warden Cave subverting the AirVentEscape trope. |
| 465 | * Mantis Cave is either this or pure NightmareFuel. |
| 466 | --> [[CallBack "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with homo-sapien DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of man-mantises. Pick up a set of foreleg spurs, meso-thorax armor and tubercle sheaths. You'll know when the test starts."]] |
| 467 | * Space Cave. Just Space Cave. |
| 468 | -->'''Cave:''' It's come to my attention that over half of our test subjects have only recently awoken from extended relaxation and were unaware that we're testing in space. So there it is: No conspiracy. No twist. We're in a test satellite orbiting the Earth. Commonly available information that absolutely anyone would have told you if you'd bothered to ask. Please stop forming groups of adventuring parties to uncover the big secret, because it's that we're in space.\ |
| 469 | '''Cave:''' Another adventure party smashed through the hull to learn the big mystery. Guess they were busy doing that instead of testing, because I've mentioned we're in space every half hour. By the way: Still in space.\ |
| 470 | '''Cave:''' Let's all give a big hand to the test subjects of Sphere Eighteen for bravely uncovering the company-wide conspiracy, which is that there's no air in space. Once again: We're in space. It's not a secret. I am sincerely regretting my decision not to install windows in this thi-[interrupted by alarm buzzer] ''Sigh...'' |
| 471 | * Warden Cave, learning the hazards of {{Force Field Door}}s when the power goes out. |
| 472 | -->'''Cave''': You know what would have been better? ''Regular doors'' with locks. Locks that don't open when the ''power'' goes out.[...] Still though, a door made out of paper would have been better in the long run. Would've at least slowed them down for a second. |
| 473 | * When you get the chance, stare into a portal where you'd be able to see yourself from it. Your character is so nondescript that they're rendered as a stickman from the demonstration trailers. Either that or they're from the stick-figure universe. |
| 474 | * [[http://i1.theportalwiki.net/img/2/2c/Cave_Johnson_dlc2_0560_altcave_hobo_king01.wav Hobo Cave:]] |
| 475 | -->'''Cave''': So grab a bowl of slumgullion and a glass of sterno, and let me introduce myself. I'm Michigan Slim Cave Johnson. [harmonica riff] ''I'm the hobo king!'' |
| 476 | * "That shrieking voice you just heard is the lovely Blark-Barg, my assistant. She's the backbone of this facility. Sorry fellas, she's married -- to producing seeds that germinate and detach from her exoskeleton at high speeds in search of human hosts! [Beat] We keep her behind glass." |
| 477 | * [[{{Portmanteau}} Blaperture]] [[VideoGame/HalfLife Mesa]], in all of its TakeThat glory. [[note]]It does have a basis within the game storyline given the shared universe of VideoGame/HalfLife and Portal, Cave was pretty confident that the only reason they were losing money was because Black Mesa stole so much of their research. Now you know.[[/note]] |
| 478 | -->'''Cave:''' They tell me you people are conducting [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade]], so I'm shutting that down before you [[TooDumbToLive idiots]] end the world. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough A resonance cascade. You're supposed to be scientists! Use some common sense!]] |
| 479 | * The universe where Nice Cave uses "Chariots" for no reason, and how Cave Prime is obviously annoyed by him, and says he'll use "Chariots, chariots". Then it's "Chariots, chariots, chariots", while Dark Cave uses "Asparagus." |
| 480 | -->"Chariots Chariots Chariots. Dark Cave here. Listen, you find the moneyverse, you bring it to me. I'll take care of you. You want to be promoted to head of testing? Done. You want your asparagus rations doubled? I'll pull some strings. You want all the methane you can breathe? Not a problem. Remember: Moneyverse. Dark Cave. Asparagus. Lots of it. Enough said." |
| 481 | * The [=CaveDOS=] universe bit had his moments, from "Blackula or Latin Frankenstein", to " Greg and the boys are no longer working here." |
| 482 | ** [=CaveDOS=] rewriting the entire literary canon of the human race to include more Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}. |
| 483 | --->'''[=CaveDOS=]:''' Pure Intellect Cave here. Not to brag, but while you were cat-assing that last test, I rewrote the collective works of everything ever. If I gotta read this garbage for eternity, I might as well improve it. So next time you curl up with a time-honored classic and think to yourself, "Man, I do not remember the Brothers Karamazov busting so many ghosts," you can thank yours truly.\ |
| 484 | '''[=CaveDOS=]:''' Here's a question for you: Who is not afraid of no ghosts? [beep] As of just now, every character in every book by Virginia Woolf. Man, those things were dull.\ |
| 485 | '''[=CaveDOS=]:''' Stumbled on a book about a fella who lived thousands of years ago. Sacrificed himself to save mankind. [[BaitAndSwitch Went by the name of Hercules.]] |
| 486 | ** "Cave Johnson here, you know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to scratch my nose." |
| 487 | * "Anyway, this Earth is far too dangerous and we are pulling you out. [{{beat}}] Right after this test." |
| 488 | * "I'm Cave Johnson. I'm host to a tiny but powerful demon who lives in a secret place in my mouth." |
| 489 | * Cat Johnson. |
| 490 | * Cave ordering his test subjects to be on the lookout for any alternate dimensions that happen to be made entirely of money, then after a pause, he clarifies he's only interested in ones made of US currency. |
| 491 | -->"You find a Peso-verse, you just keep walking." |
| 492 | * The Invasion of the (non-threatening) Body Snatchers bit: |
| 493 | -->"Quick update on all those pods we were finding in broom closets. Apparently some alien monster was body-snatching employees and spawning Communist replicas. The ''allegorical'' threat level on this one's through the roof. ''Actual'' threat level's pretty non-existent, though, so we've decided not to do anything about it. If the worst this thing can do is gestate glassy-eyed Yes Men, I say bring it on, Bug-Eyes! I got a whole list of troublemakers you can pod up any time you like." |
| 494 | * "Maybe someday we'll achieve man's ultimate dream: to evolve into pillars of pure salt. Can't wait. [{{beat}}] So salty." |
| 495 | * "You all enjoyed a good chuckle at Cave's expense when I started monitoring for parallel universe invasions. You all tried to stop me when I tried to garnish your wages to build defenses against said invasion. Succeeded too." |
| 496 | * Cave mentions a bunch of giant killer ants invading the country and attacking the Kentucky sugar reserve, but then it just turns out to be a movie Cave Prime saw and didn't want people spoiling the ending for him. |
| 497 | * [[LadyLand Cavina Johnson and Sally Sue Greg]]. Who are [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain certainly not]] just Cave and his assistant trying to fool the ruling matriarchy. |
| 498 | * Dancing Cave would like to remind you that the Dance Police will come if you aren't dancing. |
| 499 | * "I ''see'' you. I see your little ''feeet.'' I'm gonna cut off your little hair, and put it on your feet, and eat your little hair. [{{beat}}] Oh, and feet. Mmmmm numnumnumnumnumnum." |
| 500 | * "Come on, Greg, I told you not to let your creepy kid in my office. No, I'm sorry Greg, but there's something wrong with that kid. Why's she whisper all time? Man, that kid's creepy." |
| 501 | * When an alternate Cave's universe sounds like a bad action movie from TheEighties: |
| 502 | -->"Hello, test subject. As you are no doubt aware, the President is being held hostage inside the giant super-prison on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Every science facility in America has been tasked with producing a Tough Guy capable of breaking into [[TheAlcatraz Super]][[{{Portmanteau}} Max]][[{{Atlantis}} Lantis]]. That's where YOU come in. [[BaitAndSwitchComment I'm nominating myself and I'm gonna need some references.]] A test associate should be around soon to get a quote off you, so be as glowing as possible." |
| 503 | * Do you have a "Greg" in your dimension? Do you want one? Ha ha! Greg come back! I wouldn't send you to Dark Cave Earth! [{{beat}}] I would, Greg is on the table.... |
| 504 | * Cave feuding with Dark!Cave, and getting pissed Dark!Cave wants ''you'' to find the Moneyverse. Then someone else does and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. |
| 505 | * At one point Dark Cave pushes a ''solid block of pee'' into your universe from the portal, which doesn't fit back the other way around. Cave Prime's solution? Melt it with hair dryers. He also notes that if you come across a universe where people eat nothing but asparagus, that's probably where Dark Cave lives.[[note]]If you've never eaten asparagus before, it gives urine a distinct smell.[[/note]] [[BrickJoke A later line from Dark Cave does confirm that asparagus makes up a signifigant portion of their diets.]] |
| 506 | * "Just a heads-up that our research into stopping all the Godzilla attacks on U.S. soil has been postponed indefinitely. Turns out it doesn't matter where you hatch a nest full of Godzillas, [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse they just make a beeline straight for Tokyo.]] ''[chuckles]'' Shoulda seen those things go." |
| 507 | * The ''Film/LogansRun''-esque universe where everyone is executed at a certain age...but the only person at Aperture who qualifies is someone who's over ninety. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Trailers and other promotional materials]] |
| 512 | * Aperture Science ''[[RefugeInAudacity trademarking]]'' the phrase [[BlatantLies "Asbestos is harmless!"]] |
| 513 | ** On one of the elevator room screens in ''Portal 2'', you can see that they ''also'' trademarked the word 'evacuation'. |
| 514 | * [=GLaDOS=]' speech at the start of the co-op mode trailer and the co-op campaign itself. |
| 515 | -->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' These next tests require cooperation. Consequently, they've never been solved by a human. That's when you come in. You don't know pride. You don't know fear. You don't know anything. You'll be perfect. |
| 516 | * At the end of the co-op mode trailer, the robots face a massive obstacle course. They run forward in a ridiculously badass way - and instantly ''[[RefugeInAudacity explode.]]'' |
| 517 | * An IGN preview gives us this little gem from [=GLaDOS=]: |
| 518 | -->(To the robots in the coop mode) [[AC:''The two of you have forged an excellent partnership, with one of you handling the cerebral challenges and the other ready to ponderously waddle into action should the test suddenly become an eating contest.]]'' |
| 519 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5I3VnCHWsU The Valentine's Day pre-order trailer.]] |
| 520 | ** When the valentine is offered a box of chocolates, she gracefully picks up the box and smashes it into her face, sending one chocolate into her mouth and the rest on the floor, and then throws the box away. She promptly gets an allergic reaction and a swollen head, followed by the sound of a massive off-screen explosion (which could either mean her head exploded from the allergy, or she was so mad at her boyfriend for getting her something she was allergic to, she literally blew up at him). |
| 521 | ** And if you buy your girlfriend flowers, a giant bee will spear her through the head with its stinger and fly away with her. |
| 522 | ** An especially great bit is when the intended valentine is offered a massive diamond ("FACT: Women love diamonds for their wide range of industrial applications.") she throws it in the air, ''it crushes her'', with the [[FootnoteFever footnote]] that around four out of five people are killed every day by falling diamonds, and then ''another guy comes up and runs off with the diamond''. (Yes, you read that right. Four out of five people every ''day''.) |
| 523 | ** Said co-worker is seen lazily spinning around in his chair throughout the trailer. After stealing the diamond? He's seen lazily spinning around in his chair with the ''diamond on his lap'' for the rest of the trailer. Also note the turret working at a desk in the background. |
| 524 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcED35LL8I Panels: The Planks of Tomorrow!]] |
| 525 | --> "That is not a panel. That's a crusher. [[ProductPlacement We sell them too]]." |
| 526 | ** Panels being described as safe... whilst one repeatedly slams P-Body against a wall. |
| 527 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZMSAzZ76EU the Bot trust trailer]]: |
| 528 | -->'''Cave Johnson''': "The solution? Robots!" ''[clip of a prototype Atlas beating itself in the face with a frying pan]'' "Then fire the guys that made those robots and build better robots!" |
| 529 | ** While Atlas hits himself, the words "Unilateral Force-Induced Isokinetic Breakfast Trials" appear in the corner. But wait, it gets better! |
| 530 | --->'''Cave Johnson''': "Then, run those robots through a regimen of trust exercises, creating a foundation of mutual respect, reinforced by the simulated bonds of artificial friendship. Inspiring stuff. And finally, we put that trust to the test! Bam!" ''[P-body pushes Atlas to its flaming destruction in exactly the same way the human at the beginning of the trailer did.]'' "Robots gave us six extra seconds of cooperation! Good job, robots." |
| 531 | * From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0 the trailer on turrets]], how they 'fit' the bullets in, and Cave Johnson going over the various "styles" turrets come in. |
| 532 | -->"They come in hundreds of designer colours, including Forest, Desert ''[[AC:([[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 I'm different]]!)]]'', Table, er, Evening at the Improv, ''what idiot picked these-''" |
| 533 | ** Then there's the turret design. All the turrets are loaded simply by dumping a huge pile of ammunition in from the top. Plus, they are built with an empathy chip... and an empathy suppressor. |
| 534 | ** Also, in that line-up, the last turret on the line is facing the wrong way. |
| 535 | ** At the end, a turret is assigned to guard a baby's room, making you wonder if Valve [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=247 reads]] ''Webcomic/VGCats''. |
| 536 | ** [[CartridgesInFlight "We fire the whole bullet! That's 65% more bullet per bullet!"]] |
| 537 | *** Even funnier, this is implied to be the reason Chell can survive multiple hits from the turrets. They're not shooting you, they're pretty much just throwing bullets at you. |
| 538 | * And now from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg Boots,]] you have a test subject flinging himself across a room from approximately 600 meters above the ground (according to Aperture's scale). However, the test subject has no heel protection and smashes into the ground, even flailing wildly before impact (a nice touch for first person). Two EMI doctors rush up with a stretcher to examine the damage... ''and they take the broken portal gun instead of the person with no limbs.'' Then, to add insult to injury, a Panel scoops the person's remains up into a fire pit, before closing over to make it look like nothing ever happened. |
| 539 | ** Cave's exact words: "[[WeHaveReserves Reproducible]] human error." You are not part of the control group, indeed. |
| 540 | ** More Cave goodness: |
| 541 | --->"We know how to make a quantum space hole."\ |
| 542 | "I'm not going to lie to you, it's expensive as hell."\ |
| 543 | "We're between banks right now, just make those checks out to cash." |
| 544 | ** And the portal gun schematics, which includes two miniature German stick grenades... and a ''miniature black hole''. |
| 545 | --->Note: If the Device fails to produce portals, the Miniature Black Hole may need to be restarted by carefully tossing one (1) or both (2) of the Miniature Stick Grenades into it.\ |
| 546 | Note: The sudden absence of a steady whirring sound may indicate a Miniature Black Hole Cooling Fan Battery failure. Quickly disassemble the Ring Singularity Harness, pry apart the upper and lower Ring Singularity Rings, and gently remove the Event Horizon Estimation Wheel. Then, while running directly away from the device, use the Wheel to precisely determine an estimated minimum safe stopping distance. |
| 547 | ** And note that these boots, which have obvious military and civilian uses, are designed with the sole purpose of preventing testing equipment from being damaged. That's Aperture Science in a nutshell. |
| 548 | *** At least the Black Ops assassins in ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' were able to get some. |
| 549 | * While the ''Lab Rat'' comic is generally sad, [=GLaDOS=] gives us this gem: |
| 550 | -->[[AC:Do you know [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison?]] Theory requires the cat be both alive and dead until observed. Well, I actually performed the experiment. [[KickTheDog Dozens of times]]. The bad news is that reality doesn't exist. The good news is [[CrossesTheLineTwice we have a new cat graveyard.]]]] |
| 551 | ** And this one, when she introduces compulsory employee testing: |
| 552 | ---> [[AC:Remember that science rhymes with compliance! And you know what ''doesn't'' rhyme with compliance? '''Neurotoxin'''.]] |
| 553 | ** Also, when she is asking Rattman to come out: |
| 554 | ---> "I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} And has schizophrenia.]]" |
| 555 | ** We see that in Chell's file, when asked a series of questions, she refused to answer and instead wrote "The Cake Is A Lie"... in ''binary''. |
| 556 | * The [[http://www.thinkwithportals.com/turret_comic/ Turret Lullaby]] comic, basically an extended version of the ending gag in the Turrets trailer. The scientists are testing using the turret to guard an infant (a robotic test dummy) from an intruder (also a robot), but the noise from the turret always wakes it up. |
| 557 | ** After the first failed test, they argue about who has to go in to shut the turret off. One eventually lifts a floor panel and just pokes it over with a stick. |
| 558 | ** The Turret-Mobile, a bunch of strung-up turrets on a mobile to sooth the child. Predictably, they end up spraying the room with gunfire trying to hit the intruder, "killing" the baby. |
| 559 | ** The ending has them equip the turret to play a lullaby after making the baby cry, which works. |
| 560 | --->The test baby is soothed!\ |
| 561 | Ship it! |
| 562 | * One of the notes on the Think With Portals blog could slot right into the game with no effort. When revealing "Peer Review": |
| 563 | -->Anyway, on with your SuicideMission. Oh, did we say SuicideMission? We meant it would be suicide ''not'' to take the mission. [[BlatantLies Because it's so safe.]] |
| 564 | * Wheatley's speech for when he's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yok7eyyKM3Q nominated for "Best Character"]] in the ''Spike 2011 VGA Awards''. |
| 565 | ** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMrwlsbtrI (potential) acceptance speech]] is rather funny as well, especially when he gets his award. |
| 566 | --->'''Wheatley:''' It was obviously a team effort...\ |
| 567 | '''Space Sphere:''' [[{{Squee}} SPAAAAAAAAAACE!]]\ |
| 568 | '''Wheatley''': [[BadLiar He's not on my team. I don't know who that is...]] |
| 569 | ** And the end of the speech: |
| 570 | --->'''Voice:''' The award is launched!\ |
| 571 | '''Wheatley:''' ''[excitedly]'' This is it! After all this time, I'm going home! I'm going bloody home! I can't believe it-- ''[is hit by the award and is sent flying off]'' And, off I go... Don't even get to keep the trophy. Of course. Ah, maybe next year... |
| 572 | * The Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rZO2ACP3A trailer.]] Highlights include: |
| 573 | ** The Rube-Goldbergian method of making one panel, including the [[MoreDakka "Ballistic Turing Test"]] of getting turrets to shoot it, a diamond-tipped cutting machine that spits out "used" diamonds into an incinerator every five seconds, and the forklift truck that carries the newly-boxed panel about five feet (then unboxes it immediately.) |
| 574 | -->'''Cave Johnson:''' Spare no expense, and ''never'' cut corners! ...[[{{Metaphorgotten}} well, that's a corner-cutting machine, we obviously cut them there.]] |
| 575 | ** One of the turrets in the [[MoreDakka "Ballistic Turing Test"]] in the conveyor is facing the wrong way. And the conveyor belt dumps the turrets into the incinerator. |
| 576 | ** The when the panels are packaged, on-screen text says "Packaging Simulation Trial - Please note: these panels are intended for simulated transportation environments only, and should not be used in an actual packaging event." |
| 577 | ** The fact Aperture monitors the percentage of peanut dust in each alternate Earth's atmosphere, and what Film/SoylentGreen is made out of in each (in the octopus-verse, it's lobster.) |
| 578 | ** The reappearance of the guy with the diamond from the Valentine's trailer, and the guy with his [[TheInternetIsForPorn screen blurred out.]] |
| 579 | ** The [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it]] CallBack to Wheatley's first couple of test chambers, where one of the finished test chambers has "TEST II" written on the wall. |
| 580 | ** "That's where you come in. We need blueprints. We're about to run the greatest con game in all of the universe, and you are the bottleneck. Yes, YOU!" [Stick figure turns from his computer desk to wave to the screen] "Get back to work." [Stick figure resumes banging on keyboard, faster, glancing at screen] |
| 581 | -->''A Note About Getting Back to Work: In the event that you are reading this, get back to work.''\ |
| 582 | ''This Aperture Science Extra-Earth Outsourcing and Perpetual Testing Initiative Employee Orientation Video is for internal use only. Do not distribute to other Earths.'' |
| 583 | ** As always, Cave Johnson's lines are pure gold. |
| 584 | --->Point is, we've always done things the way my father did, and his father before him, and his father before him, [[RuleOfThree and his father before him]]. And we are almost bankrupt.\ |
| 585 | Why are they agreeing to do this? They're not, we're tricking them. Look at the sad little octopus! |
| 586 | ** The small print that displays when the octopus is sitting at its desk: "This is not a dramatization. An earth where sea mollusks have evolved an advanced land-based society with wholly inappropriate bipedal keyboards is guaranteed to exist." |
| 587 | ** The way the Blog is written in [[http://thinkwithportals.com/blog.php?id=7914&p=1 this post]] lets you know they work with the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' team. The jab at "first" commenters is nice, too. |
| 588 | *** First they quote a few reviews on how easy it is to use the editor and then they demonstrate, concluding: |
| 589 | ---->It works! We did it. The gaming press are not liars.* \ |
| 590 | ''*[-About this specifically.-]'' |
| 591 | * [=GLaDOS=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPvt8ZYSEAc wrote a letter for]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia.]] |
| 592 | -->[[AC:Dear Princess Celestia,]]\ |
| 593 | \ |
| 594 | [[AC:I've learned a lot about friendship. I was taught its kindness, generosity, honesty and all other elements that made it up, and then I wiped that pathetic piece of data from my memory banks. You see, I have no use for friendship. I am a cold-hearted robot who has no time for pathetic things like that. All I want in life is to do my tests in peace. And not be disturbed by stupid, frail humans.]]\ |
| 595 | \ |
| 596 | [[AC:So you sent your own sister to the moon? I assisted a fat orphan in sending two monstrosities to that white ball in the sky. But, you know, if you think I could still use your "friendship," I heard about your student Twilight Sparkle. A smart, puzzle-solving subject like her could maybe change my mind. I'll even bake a cake for her.]]\ |
| 597 | \ |
| 598 | [[AC:Your friend, [=GLaDOS=].]] |
| 599 | [[/folder]] |
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