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Yes, those two had a child. That is the sort of logic you have to deal with in Marissa's stories. (Artwork by ASBusinessMagnet)

ITS MY LIFE! is perhaps the most infamous Portal fanfic, and has been compared to My Immortal and the like. It begins by telling the story of Marrissa Roberts, a test subject in "Portal Labs" who is seemingly Chell's sister, has "speshul powers" and is somehow pregnant with Wheatly's "robot ball/human baby", putting her against the "goth emo" GLaDOS and the drugs-smoking and beer-drinking Atlas and P-Boy. And that's just the first chapter. Along its course it also involves copious British insults, time travel to a High School AU version of the past of Portal Labs with inexplicable appearances of the Team Fortress 2 characters, evil twins, evil clones and a fusion of Chell and GLaDOS.

While it was signed by "MarrissaTheWriter", its authorship was eventually claimed by Doombly, better known to the Troll Fic world as Sue Mary.

Due to its popularity, it has spawned a series, named ADVENTURES OFF MARRISSA ROBERTS, which ends up touching on many more fandoms than just Portal:

  • TEEN FORTRESS 2, the second fan fiction and a "seekwillspinoff" of ITS MY LIFE!, tells the story of Scot, Teen Fortress 2 and their problems in high school. (Not to be confused with this "TEEN FORTRESS 2".)
  • THE MARRISSA GAMES, the third story and a sequel to ITS MY LIFE!, was started on Sue Mary's Tumblr, in which Marrissa, Wheatly and Chell Junor are forced to leave Portal Labs and Marrissa must participate in The Hunger Games.
  • HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE, the fourth fic, is set during the same timespan as TEEN FORTRESS 2 and elaborates on Wheatly, who also is actually Harry Potter (don't ask). He participates in his own shenanigans, eventually meeting the "Lettuce" twins.
  • ITS MY LIFE!: THE FLAMES AWAKENS, the fifth fic, features Riley Andorsen as the main character. Not unlike Marrissa, she has "emoshun powers", allowing her to win the Hunger Games and genreally wreak havoc upon the shared universe.

There are also two stories by MarissaTheWriter that are not set in the ITS MY LIFE! continuity, Invader Zim: Born Again Christian and Real Beauty.

Links to the fan fictions:

Due to their notoriety, they have gained... various following. The many varieties of MarissaTheWriter fan content include, but are not limited to:

  • As usual with badfic, there are at least a dozen Dramatic Readings of the stories. The first reading of ITS MY LIFE! was made while the fanfic was still being written, and can be found at seaweedprincess's YouTube channel.
  • Several MSTs of one or more fan fictions can be found at various sites. Those include, but are not limited to (under cut):

    Links to MSTs 

Compare My Immortal, My Inner Life, Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Half-Life: Full Life Consequences, Quarter-Life: Halfway to Destruction, Marissa Picard. Not to be confused with a certain Bon Jovi song. Or any other song named "It's My Life". Nor is it related to the PBS Kids website.

The ITS MY LIFE! series provides examples of:

  • ALL CAPS - The author's notes are always written this way.
  • Anachronism Stew - Somehow in "the past" (for which the best guess is The '90s) mayonnaise doesn't exist yet, note  while Miley Cyrus and MySpace do, and the television of the time is black and white (which means the stuff that isn't black or white shows up as transparent). Not to mention Abraham Lincoln is the president. And it's The Great Depression as well.
    Skepkitty (in xyr MST): Apparently, MarissaTheWriter thinks that if it’s “the past”, just any old person from the past can be written into the story. Next she’s going to have Julius Caesar give everyone printing presses.
    • The present doesn't make that much sense either, as modern pop culture elements such as Justin Bieber, Whitney Houston (SHE DIDANT DIE OK) and Facebook and history facts (Britain still has a queen) are combined with the distant future timelines of Portal 2 and The Hunger Games.
    • Then there's the past in relation to "the past", in which, despite the fact that it's roughly supposed to be the Marauders' era, everyone's getting to and from Hogwarts by woolly mammoths.
  • Anyone Can Die - They will be resurrected in inane ways anyway.
    • Though, by the end of ITS MY LIFE! in the future everyone from Portal Labs save for Marrissa, Wheatley, Chell Junior and "Atbod and P-Las" (and possibly Rattmann) is dead for real.
      • And deaths of all of them were alluded to. note 
    • THE MARRISSA GAMES tops this when GLaDOS kills most good guys, Marrissa avenges this by killing GLaDOS, Wheatley makes a spell that brings all the good guys back to life, exploding in the process, and Rugged Ralf and Fixin Feelix fix Wheatley in the epilogue.
  • Artistic License – Biology - Wheatly, endlessly. Firstly, his identity concealing surgery somehow makes him taller, then, his robot ball form is the result of another surgery, involving a downright alchemy act of turning skin to metal, and not a case of Brain Uploading, and lastly, this robot ball form is somehow still fertile and can have a "robot ball/human" baby, despite nothing mentioning his DNA changing from that of pure human.
  • Author Appeal - Males showcasing their genitalia, Chell's butt (to the degree its treated almost as a separate entity), tirades against drugs, beer, abortion, and rape, disturbingly comedic gorn scenes, inexplicable cameos, characters "o-mouthing" and "lolling", enemies being defeated via kicks (of the "roundhose" and jump kick variety), and characters dying violently then being ressurected in increasingly nonsensical ways are all things Marrissa can't seem to write a story without.
  • Back from the Dead - Several times in various means. There are two main ways to become un-dead in ITS MY LIFE!: one is that when you die, you appear in "Andord Hell" and can escape from it (this is how GLaDOS and "Gabe" Jonson came back to life) and the other is that when you eat zombie taters and "dead" you will become "zomboy" (Chell's case, she later came over to Adroid Hell and turned into her "retorded normal" self because there are no zombies in Adroid Hell.)
    • More weirdly played with Marrissa herself. One of her special powers is that when she eats the zombie taters and dies (or vice versa), instead of becoming a zombie, she simply becomes alive again.
      • People are brought back several other ways as well. GLaDOS is brought back to life accidentally when Marrissa strikes her with lightning, and Wheatley comes back by Marrissa traveling back in time to bring his past self to the present to replace the dead Wheatley. The obvious and plentiful paradoxes that would cause are completely ignored.
  • Badass Family - Not only does Marrissa have speshul powers and Wheatly has the Power of Love (and is also Harry Potter, pretty powerful in his own canon), their child, who isn't even born yet, can survive an attack from Assirram.
    • Later it's hinted "Chell Junor" may have the same powers Marissa has.
    • A generation upwards, Gabe Jonson has roundhouse kicks that are able to kill other people, even those with speshul powers similar to Marrissa's, and not to mention is the inventor of the portal gun.
  • Marissa Can Fly To And Breathe In Space
  • Brain Uploading - Gabe Jonson turns Caroline into GLaDOS (named after her mother, Principal GLaDOS). While Cave turns Wheatly into a robo ball later on, it is actually a process based on his own body, rather than the creation of a new robot body.
  • Britain Is Only London - Invoked when Assirram is killing off "all the city of Englond", including the Queen.
    "Bloody no! There killin the queen!" Wheatly britished.
    • Thankfully averted with British England in HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE, where it's very clearly established that London and Hogwarts are two different places.
  • Butt-Monkey - Whichever characters Marrissa chose to be a Copycat Sue of are in for a very bad treat. Chell is a brain-damaged, Booty Quake-dancing test subject turned into a zombie turned into a fusion with GLaDOS, while Kantiss Evergreen has "feekal incontinence", rendering her unable to volunteer for her sister, and is sold as a "sexing slave".
    • It turns out, though, that due to her problem, Kantiss is unable to do even that.
  • Crossover Cameo:
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander - The author "Marrissa the Writer" seems to be one. Her responses to some of the negative reviews are just downright odd such as when stated her jokes about Chell being mentally retarded due to brain damage were Dude, Not Funny! she replied by saying its okay because "HELL IS JUST A PRETEND CARTOON!".
    • Also when Chell and GLaDOS fuse, she becomes known as "CHELLGADOS", most reviewers believed it to be a simple misspelling of "CHELLGLADOS" only for Marrissa to explain "I NO THAT GLADOS IS SPELLED GLADOS I CALLED HER FUSION CHELLGADOS BECOS CHELL ALREADY HAS THE LS AN IT SOUNDED MORE COOLER!"
    • As well as this private message exchange:
      MarissaTheWriter: ...he named it that (refers to Scot naming his baseball bat Marrissa) as a shutout to ITS MY LIFE!
      ASBusinessMagnet: This is the past. He wouldn't know about ITS MY LIFE! because it wasn't invented yet!
      MarissaTheWriter: Thats why Scot dosent rember why he called his bat Marrissa!
  • Cluster F-Bomb - Logic dropped several of them with the introductory chapter of ITS MY LIFE!'s editing.
  • Crazy-Prepared - When Doug Rattmann appears he reveals that to become immune from groin attacks he replaced his balls with the Space and Adventure cores while remarking "I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL!".
  • Crossover - Mainly between Portal, Team Fortress 2 and The Hunger Games, there are also elements from Half-Life, Men in Black and Invader Zim, the zombies from Resident Evil and Dead Space have cameos, a super mutant briefly appears, and Marrissa cries that she has been Left 4 Dead.
  • Dead Guy Junior - All the characters have a ridiculous habit of naming people/animals/things after their dead relatives. GLaDOS, Cave Jonson, Chell Junior (a robot ball-human baby), Katty Smithereens (a koala) and Marrissa (a baseball bat) have all fell victim to this one.
  • Death Is Cheap - GLaDOS is resurrected by a lighting bolt after attempting "Sewiside".
  • Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Wheatley talks almost entirely in British swear-words. When reviews pointed out to Marrissa that these words are cusses in Britain instead of just insults like "darn" she said "(The Words) MEAN SOMETHING NOTTY? OMG!"
    • However when another review pointed out that technically they were insults too, she went back to using them misinterpreting that review to mean the others were untrue.
  • Disproportionate Retribution - So Chell is dancing... That makes it okay to shoot her in the head?
    Skepkitty (in xyr MST): Marissa has a very weird set of morals. Shooting your sister in the head because she’s brain-damaged = fine. Leaving your zombie sister who wants to eat your flesh in android hell, where she will presumably be fine since she’s not an android = WE MUST SAVE HER?!
    • Also, in THE MARRISSA GAMES, Louise Bomboms 2 (a stripper) has been attacked by Marissa... for doing nothing except her job.
  • Don't Explain the Joke - Every single time the author makes a pun, she feels the need to point it out.
  • Drugs Are Bad - Apparently "Altas" and "P-Boy" the robots drink and smoke drugs while they beat Marissa up.
    Wheatley: "He b*** wanna smoke some drugs/?" P-Body said an gave ne a drugs. "No." I answered becos drugs are bad I new from Marrissa.
  • Evil Twin - Cave Jonson is the evil twin of Gabe Jonson.
  • Flawed Prototip - In the end of the day, the prototip portal gun just shoots its portals wherever the hell it wants to.
  • Gorn - Marrissa can get really creative when writing how characters died. A select few death descriptions:
    The turrents screemed lick a screemin thing that screems an they died.
    My hole body glowed brite gold an there was a huge boom an Assirram becomed a skelton. Then the skelton died.
    An Atlas an P-Body lolled an shot me in head. "Marrissa!" Wheatly screamed an ever thing got really black an I died.
    • As well as how the Spy look's under his mask, how Wheatley became a personality core, and why Rattmann felt the need to replace his balls with the space and adventure cores.
  • Grand Finale - Chapter 16 of ITS MY LIFE!.
    • ...And then a credits song was also posted and TEEN FORTRESS 2 started.
    • The last chapter of THE MARRISSA GAMES also has some Grand Finale aspects.
  • High School AU - Portal High School in general. One still has to explain why everything in the future is not simply a continuation of the AU, but actually the worlds of the works of fiction Marissa is writing for.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal - "Why cant I jus be a normal girl going to high school an have a boyfriend that isn't space lost!"
    • And guess where the second fan fiction takes place in?
  • IKEA Erotica - Averted; whenever it comes to writing sex scenes Marrissa just says "an you pervs out there Im not riting what happened next! =P".
    • Though, french kissing is described and makes Wheatley go sparks, which only leaves you wondering how he even survives the real thing.
    • Weirdly enough, while Logic does present himself as a better editor, he actually did insert a terrible sex scene. Which only led to Marrissa saying that the story is T-rated and can't have sex scenes.
    • Also, one of the reviews of ITS MY LIFE! tried to explain to the author what "wank" means:
      WANK =
      Wank means to Masturbate.
      To Masturbate is to stimulate oneself (you're already confused, aren't you, illiterate trollfic writer?).
      To stimulate someone is to yank their pénis (or Willy/man parts/privates as you 7-year-olds put it) until they get an orgasm.
      An Orgasm is that feeling of intense pleasure you get in sex.
      Sex is something that you do to make babies (as you babies put it) or have fun.
      You have sex by a man putting his parts into the lady's parts and moving them in and out and kissing each other and sucking each other's necks.
  • Insane Troll Logic:
    The evil Teen Fortes 2 was watchin the hole thing on there tv camra (but it was black an wite becos its the past so they coldnt see the nerotoksin becos it was green an not black or white so it didant show up)."
  • Insistent Terminology - Whenever a character is shocked they "o-mouth", even the ones who don't have mouths...
  • Leet Speak - The characters will regularly say "OMG" and "LOL" in regular conversation. Whenever a character laughs Marrissa says that they "lolled" or "were lolling".
  • Lightning Can Do Anything
  • Meanwhile In The Past - Chapter 13 of ITS MY LIFE! uses it.
  • Medium Awareness: "Bad musik started to play so I new there was gonna be a fight."
  • My Own Grampa - Skepness Man is the kid of Business Man and Skepkitty, who is the kid of Skepness Man and Jenny Weasley.
  • Naked on Arrival - Cave Jonson. (And I mean Gabe Jonson who renamed himself to Cave because his evil twin (who was also named Cave) died.)
  • Neologism: "Dramakshun".
  • Never Trust a Title - HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE. Snape does die, but the big bad is actually Gobo Fraggle.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands
  • Non-Indicative Name - "Chapter 12: The Final Battle", while it does end with Marrissa dying there are four more chapters afterwards. (Five if you count the "Credits Song").
  • Non-Jerks Avoid Abortion: "Just lick I ekspected those two JERK ROBOTS were smokin drugs an drinkin beer (P-Body had a abortion becos shes a jerk an isnt pro-life the b***)." Naturally, her kids show up in the sequel.
  • Our Zombies Are Different - Even though Chell was shot in the head, she became a zombie. And can speak.
  • The Power of Love - Between Marrissa and Wheatley, and occasionally foreshadowed.
    Little Wheatly is a powerful bad arse now becos I have THE POWAR OF LOVE!
  • Purely Aesthetic Era - See Anachronism Stew above. It's not clear what era MarissaTheWriter was trying to emulate while writing "the past" (or "the present"), but it's pretty much obvious she failed.
  • Rape as Drama: The "rap" of the naked gurls by the football dudes in TEEN FORTRESS 2, they also raped Heavy's gun "Sasa".
  • Recursive Fanfiction - Various; see above.
  • Retcon - Whenever its pointed out that Marrissa got a character's name (or gender) wrong she makes up a story about how the character was originally named her misspelled name before they changed it to the canon version for some incredibly convoluted reason.
    • Or, in case of Jenny Weasley, how she changed it to Marrissa's version.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin - Many, many of them. Particularly, "feces" instead of "faces". Every. Single. Time
  • Save the Villain - When Chell and ATLAS end up in Android Hell. Despite ATLAS's harassing, Marissa attempts to rescue him and Chell from Android Hell.
  • Science Fair - While one proper never happens, Caroline brings Wheatley to Portal High School and he has to pretend he is a science fair project.
    Skepkitty (in xyr MST): “Since, you know, high school students often invent sentient A.I.s.”
    • However, in MarissaTheWriter's world, they actually do: Gabe Jonson later made a robotic body for Caroline, his Evil Twin made one for Wheatley and the Medic resurrected the Spy's head.
      • And the Engineer also made a time machine. Artificial Intelligence and Time Travel are probably this universe's equivalents of baking soda volcanoes and potato batteries.
  • Sdrawkcab Name - Assirram Strebor.
  • Self-Insert - The author's Pen Name is "Marissa the Writer" after all...
  • Sequel Hook - The credits song of ITS MY LIFE! hints at the possibility of one, and that Ratman was not really dead and would play a role, and the prologue to THE MARRISSA GAMES repeats that.
  • Shout-Out - Marrissa quite frequently will make puns based on movies and video game names and makes sure the reader is aware of them.
    • From chapter one: "Atlas shrugged (GET IT IT'S A MOVIE!)." note 
    • Chapter two had "MISERY (GET IT ITS A MOVIE)"
      • "Put him out of his misery" is also a quote from Inception, though, as it is a given Sue Mary is a huge movie buff, she could have referenced either.
    • In chapter four, the characters are Left 4 Dead
      • The biggest shout out in the story comes when Rattmann replaces his testicles with the Space and Adventure Cores so he can have "Balls of Steel", Marrissa explains "Thats from a game called Duke Nukum Forever its funny".
    • Perhaps a more subtle one in Chapter 7 of TEEN FORTRESS 2 where Mr. Pursell is "drawin pictures of a dog an rabbit solvin criem." It is also reprised in THE KILL OF SNAPE.
    • Chapter 9 of TEEN FORTRESS 2 is named Dead Risin.
  • Sibling Triangle - In ITS MY LIFE!, Wheatly likes both Marissa and Chell. It is only really resolved when Chell dies.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot - Try and guess what Sweary Guy's defining trait is.
    • Assirram also delivers a line almost entirely in swear words.
      (she seys a lot of cusses becos shes really evil)
    • Actually, the villains of Marrissa stories do that frequently.
  • Smurfing - All the "<nationality>-ing" (i.e. "britishing") words and "happying".
  • Space Is Noisy - She attempts to avert this, but ends up playing it straight anyway:
    Then I rembered, in space noone can here you scream! So I couldn't here them, unless maybe I have another special power! I thot hard to try an listen when I heard something it was….. WHEETLY!
  • Speaks Fluent Animal - Snipper can communicate with koalas, because he's Australian.
  • Spinoff Babies - Sort of; when Marrissa travels to the past she meets "TEEN FORTRESS 2", the teenage versions of the characters from Team Fortress 2. She has started writing a Spin-Off about their adventures in "Portal High School" for your enjoyment.
  • Take That! - Towards the MSTers. In the last chapter they get eaten by Scot's brothers and the "liter" get punched in the face.
  • Tangled Family Tree - While not too tangled, most of the main characters are related to each other with family relationships, and identical names make it worse.
    • To be specific, Principal GLaDOS is the mother of Caroline. Cave and Gabe Jonsons are twins, one evil and one good. Gabe and Caroline (turned into GLaDOS the A.I.) have two children, Marrissa "Roberts" and Chell, through artificial insemination, but the DNA is a mixup and Rattmann turns out to be Chell's biological parent. Marrissa and Wheatley (who is actually Harry Potter) marry each other and have one child, Chell Junior.
      • Scot's family is an entirely different story: Scot's father is a dog and mother is a human. His eight brothers are mad dogs (only one has been given a name, Wulf (deceased)), and Scot himself is a dog-human hybrid. Scot and Pyro are involved in a romantic relationship, as (unsucessfully) are Spy and Caroline.
      • Cave cloned the good TEEN/TEAM FORTRESS 2 to make evil TEEN FORTRESS 2; the evil version then cloned Marrissa Roberts to make Assirram Strebor.
  • Teleportation Misfire - The prototip portal gun, originally taking people strictly to Android Hell, by Chapter 16 also took Marrissa and Assirram to the land of dinosaurs, The Death Star and Portal High School.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: The later chapters feature heavy amounts of Time Travel. Several plot holes are subsequently created by the author losing track of when in time characters are, such as Marrissa bringing a past version of Wheatley to her present after the present Wheatley dies, only for the past Wheatley to remember events he hasn't experienced yet. Additionally, various characters worry about messing up the "time streem", but Marissa bringing the past Wheatley forward in time should have messed it up via that Wheatley not being present to meet her for the first time (from her perspective) later on. Further muddling things, the past Wheatley shows affection for Marrissa before even meeting her.
  • Title Drop - The last line of the last chapter (not counting the credits song).
    • As well as Chapter 5 of TEEN FORTRESS 2, "ITS HIS LIFE!"
  • Training Montage: One occurs in THE MARRISSA GAMES, which is referred to a such in the fist person narrative, complete with Wheatley saying what song was playing.
    I pot Chell Junor in her krib an me an Gale did a trainin monstashe. The song was "Eyes on the Tiger" by the guys.
  • Troll Fic - Was confirmed to be such. Doombly (also known as Sue Mary) mentioned he wrote ITS MY LIFE! because he wanted Portal to have its own My Immortal.
    • For what this guy does when he's not trolling, see Being Human.
  • TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life- Invoked (by the real creator). The fact is that Marrissa knows of TV Tropes:
    I GOT A REVIEW SAYIN I WAS JUMPIN THE SHARK (ITS A TV WORD) AN I AM KINNA RUNNIN OUT OF IDEAS SO I THINK ONSE MARRISSA FIGHTS ASSIRRAM ILL END THE STORY BUT IT WILL BE THE MOST EPIC AN ENTENSE END YET SO MAYBE THE LAST ONE WILL BE CHAPTER 20? FIND OUT!
  • T-Word Euphemism - Marrissa can spell a curseword covered in asterisks wrong. (Example: "b*****" (6 letters), to which closest examples are "bitch" (5 letters) and "bastard" (7 letters).)
  • Unusual Chapter Numbers - ITS MY LIFE! has two chapter threes, then goes to chapter five. There is no chapter four.
    • While TEEN FORTRESS 2 actually does have a chapter four, chapter three is called "threen".
    • The chapter numbers of THE MARRISSA GAMES are, in order: "Pro-log", one, "too", 2, 3, "fore", "4five", "sicks", "(surry I forgoat which one)", 2, "se7en", "nein" and "final".
      Doombly: "Chaptar 2" is up, which is actually chapter 3, which is actually chapter 4. Marrissa is not good with counting.
      • Interestingly enough, in ITS MY LIFE!, not counting the above mistake, the author managed to count to 16 correctly.
  • Villain Ball - Why are "Altas" and "P-Boy" (and, later in the road, GLaDOS) so evil? Who knows!
    • Both are Hand Waved: it's stated that GLaDOS became a villain because Assirram Strebor installed a virus in her and Altas and P-Boy became villains after Marrissa accidentally left drugs and beer with them (from Wheatly's corpse, which had the drugs and beer only because Altas and P-Boy intoxicated him), they then smoked the drugs and drank the beer which turned them into "jersk".
  • Villain Song - Skepkitty sings one in THE MARRISSA GAMES.
  • Word Salad Title - The credits song "Im Still Want You Gone". One reviewer commented "My brain kind of tried to process that sentence and add in letters where I thought it might be plausible you were misspelling something, but this still manes no sense."

The various fanworks of ITS MY LIFE! (excluding those by ASBusinessMagnet, which have their own page) provide examples of:

  • Big "NO!" - From The Half-World MST:
    OH GOD NO
    PLEASE NO
    NOT A High School AU FIC
    NOOOOOOOOO
  • Driven to Suicide - In The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts, both Space Core and Wheatley attempt to escape the story by jumping into a bottomless pit.
  • Driving Question - From The Half-World MST:
    By Chapter 9 of ITS MY LIFE!, when the TF2 characters are first met: Also, is this the BLU team or the RED team?
    By Chapter 10, when the evil clones are met: So is this the RED team or the BLU team?
    By Chapter 2 of TEEN FORTRESS 2: "He waved an we got red for school." So I guess they’re the RED team, then?
    • It is revealed, however, that they became the BLU team, and then "Redman" cloned said team and made the RED team a.k.a. "Team Fortress 2". (The BLU team also called themselves "Team Fortress 2".)
      I suppose this settles the question as to whether this is the RED team or the BLU team.
  • The Dog Bites Back - In The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts, Wheatley, treated as the local Butt-Monkey, after reading "time streem paradoks" almost rattles of the "This sentence is false" paradox. It is possible that he attempted this on purpose.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall - In The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts, the characters make several vague references to other Portal fanfics and even the story itself.
  • Missing Steps Plan - From Library Of The Damned MST:
    So GLaDOS’ super-effective plan was;
    1. Give Chell a brain damage relapse so she would Booty Quake
    2. Force Wheatley to watch Chell Booty Quake without him knowing he was being forced to do so.
    3. Tell Marissa about the zombie-making potatoes curing brain damage.
    4. ???
    5. Profit! Marissa’s Emo-Gothification and the death of everyone!
  • Porky Pig Pronunciation - From Library Of The Damned MST:
    Marissa laughs at GLaDOS, reminding her that she is immune to the nero …. nerdro … neuro … icky green farts.
  • Running Gag: If we believe the LotD interpretation of ITS MY LIFE!, Marrissa has never dropped anything that she picked up, and therefore always has a whole bunch of stuff in her hands. This, of course, is persistently brought up.
    Marissa shows up out of nowhere, carrying all manner of futuristic crap including her portal gun, Companion Boob Cube, and Wheetly’s robocorpse, and no one reacts to it?

Alternative Title(s): Teen Fortress 2

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