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** The choice to functionally replace the High Energy Pellet mechanic (a floating moving ball of energy that must be directed through portals into receptor devices) with Thermal Discouragement Beams (static lasers you do the same things with) removes the waiting and frustration that could come with timing portals with the High Energy Pellet, and removes more obtuse and easy-to-mess-up puzzle scenarios where you have to switch a portal setup at the right time while the energy is in motion to carry it further.
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** Despite the framing that she's made of the same pieces that haven't moved from the location where they were destroyed in the first game, the re-assembled [=GLaDOS=] has a more humanoid appearance to her silhouette, more closely resembling a hanging bound body, and she has a sleeker head with an eye light in a dark gap rather than a protruding camera lens.
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* ThoughtAversionFailure: Invoked in one of Cave Johnson's recorded messgaes, where he informs test subjects of the alarming news that they have had flourescent calcium put into their brains and that the calcium can vitrify if the test subject gets stressed out about the scenario--a very likely course of events for anybody abruptly told about a dangerous experiment done on them without consent, and creating a situation where subjects would be in less danger if they weren't informed of the experiment or how stress will exacerbate its hazards.
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** Wheatley comments that Aperture Laboratories is even bigger than the Enrichment Center would suggest, and that the lower levels go down for miles. Guess where you eventually end up exploring?
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** Near the beginning of the game there's a rather unmemorable line about "All personality constructs remain fully functional at 1.1 volts." A couple chapters later there are a few wrecked science fair displays featuring potato batteries. [[spoiler:A few rooms after the potato batteries, [=GLaDOS=] (a personality construct) is shoved into a potato.]] Which produces approximately 1.1 volts of electricity.
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** Near the beginning of the game there's a rather unmemorable line about "All personality constructs remain fully functional at 1.1 volts." A couple chapters later there are a few wrecked science fair displays featuring potato batteries. [[spoiler:A few rooms after the potato batteries, [=GLaDOS=] (a personality construct) is shoved into a potato.potato--Wheatley apparently got the idea after passing through the exhibit.]] Which And that produces approximately 1.1 volts of electricity.electricity, just enough to run the personality construct!
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** If you wait around for long enough without figuring out how to sabotage the Turret Supply Line, Wheatley will eventually offer the solution by suggesting you to grab a defective turret and using it to replace the regular one. A similar thing also occurs during [[spoiler: the beginning of the final chapter, where GLaDOS will point out the Conversion Gel in the background and tell you to use it if you stall for long enough in Wheatley's death trap.]]
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** A running gag throughout the game is Wheatley's horrible attempts at hacking, starting with him trying to brute force the system password while GLaDOS reactivates. [[spoiler: During the final boss fight, Wheatley manages to correctly guess the password, meaning he ''finally'' successfully hacks something.]]
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** You have no choice but to fall for GLaDOS's obvious trap in Chapter 5, as there's nowhere else you can place portals, and nothing happens until you try the door.
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* MistakenForToilet: One of Cave Johnson's prerecorded messages has him saying "That thing's called an elevator, not a bathroom!"
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** [[spoiler:The time between shooting at the Moon and seeing the glint is accurate for how long it takes for light to travel to Moon and back. The problem is that the projectile from the Portal Gun is slow enough that you can see it in mid-flight. At that velocity it would take it months to reach the Moon.]]
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->''[[AC:"Okay, look. We've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. [[ForScience For science]]. [[YouMonster You monster]]."]]''
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->''[[AC:"Okay, look. We've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. [[ForScience For science]]. science.]] [[YouMonster You monster]]."]]''monster.]]"]]''
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** At one point, Wheatley attempts to "hack" a door and claims he can't do it unless you turn around. However, with clever use of portals, you can actually see Wheatley physically smashing the door, and there's a chance he'll comment about how your trick "isn't fooling anybody", but it doesn't affect anything.
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*** This gets taken to the extreme with [[spoiler: Wheatley's BossBanter at the end of the game. He actually has almost ''ten minutes'' worth of dialogue that you would only hear if you deliberately allow him to continue ranting.]]
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*** This gets taken to the extreme with [[spoiler: Wheatley's BossBanter at the end of the game. He actually has almost ''ten minutes'' worth of dialogue that you would only hear if you deliberately allow him to continue ranting.]]
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** If you wait around for long enough without figuring out how to sabotage the Turret Supply Line, Wheatley will eventually offer the solution by suggesting you to grab a defective turret and using it to replace the regular one. A similar thing also occurs during [[spoiler: the beginning of the final chapter, where GlaDOS will point out the Conversion Gel in the background and tell you to use it to escape from Wheatley's death trap.]]
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** A running gag throughout the game is Wheatley's horrible attempts at hacking, starting with him trying to brute force the system password while GLaDOS reactivates. [[spoiler: During the final boss fight, Wheatley manages to correctly guess the password, meaning he ''finally'' successfully hacks something.]]
** You have no choice but to fall for GLaDOS's obvious trap in Chapter 5, as there's nowhere else you can place portals, and nothing happens until you try the door.
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** If you can't figure out how to sabotage the Turret Control Line, Wheatley will eventually tell you to go get a rejected turret.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* RemixedLevel: Following the chaotic opening sequence, the first actual puzzles of the game take place in the exact same starting test chambers as the first game, complete with having no Portal Gun. Even if you're already familiar with the first game and don't need the tutorial, the sequence is still important by showing [[SceneryGorn just how utterly wrecked the facility has become in the time since]].
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* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: In one of the universes in the Perpetual Testing Initiative, Cave Johnson sells Aperture Science's inventions to the public, which leads the company to be so successful that Cave buys out their main competitor Black Mesa and shuts down the anomalous materials experimentation that would cause the [[AlienInvasion resonance cascade]], preventing the events of the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' series from ever occurring.
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* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: In one of the universes in the Perpetual Testing Initiative, Cave Johnson sells Aperture Science's inventions to the public, which leads the company to be so successful that Cave buys out their main competitor Black Mesa and shuts down the anomalous materials experimentation that would cause have caused the [[AlienInvasion resonance cascade]], preventing the events of the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' series from ever occurring.
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** There's Chapter Five, [[spoiler:which includes the somewhat predictable but still-heavy wham of Wheatley losing it when plugged into the mainframe]], and then things get really heavy in Chapter Six, [[spoiler:wherein it's revealed that Aperture's super9science programs, including the portal device, are ''much'' older than everyone originally thought...]]
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** There's Chapter Five, [[spoiler:which includes the somewhat predictable but still-heavy wham of Wheatley losing it when plugged into the mainframe]], and then things get really heavy in Chapter Six, [[spoiler:wherein it's revealed that Aperture's super9science super-science programs, including the portal device, are ''much'' older than everyone originally thought...]]
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* ResurrectionDeathLoop: The [[spoiler: AI Chell killed in the first game, [=GLaDOS=], comes back to life and talks about her "black box quick save feature", which forced her to relive the last two minutes before her destruction.]] The time between the first game and the second game is never specified exactly but it is made clear that it is a very long time, so [[spoiler:GLaDOS could have been forced to relive her death from anywhere between decades to centuries.]]
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* ResurrectionDeathLoop: The [[spoiler: AI Chell killed in the first game, [=GLaDOS=], comes back to life and talks about her "black box quick save feature", which forced her to relive the last two minutes before her destruction.]] The time between the first game and the second game is never specified exactly but it is made clear that it is a very long time, so [[spoiler:GLaDOS [[spoiler: [=GLaDOS=] could have been forced to relive her death from anywhere between decades to centuries.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: [[ImpliedTrope It's never explicitly stated]], but dialogue from Wheatley and others suggests that Chell may be the last human alive. Not just in Aperture; she may well be the last human ''[[SoleSurvivor on earth!]]'' The final shot of the game [[labelnote:note(spoilers)]]A vast, overgrown field with absolutely ''no'' sign of humanity anywhere[[/labelnote]] does nothing to quell this theory.
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** [[spoiler:At one point, Wheatley offers you a "Death Option"--ride a conveyor belt into a crusher [[BetterToDieThanToBeKilled of your own volition]] before you get to his lair and he'll have to kill you himself. Since falling for obvious traps twice before each got you an achievement, you might think RuleOfThree applies and you'll get one for taking the death option. Nope, all you get is bemused dialogue from Wheatley because he didn't really expect that to work.]]
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** [[spoiler:At one point, Wheatley offers you a "Death Option"--ride a conveyor belt into a crusher [[BetterToDieThanToBeKilled [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled of your own volition]] before you get to his lair and he'll have to kill you himself. Since falling for obvious traps twice before each got you an achievement, you might think RuleOfThree applies and you'll get one for taking the death option. Nope, all you get is bemused dialogue from Wheatley because he didn't really expect that to work.]]
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** One Cave Johnson message has him tell people who were supposed to be injected with praying mantis DNA that he has good news and bad news for them. The bad news is that the injection tests have been indefinitely postponed. The good news is that the replacement is much more exciting: fighting a [[GoneHorriblyWrong mantis-man army]].
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** One Cave Johnson message has him tell people who were supposed to be injected with praying mantis DNA that he has good news and bad news for them. The bad news is that the injection tests have been indefinitely postponed. postponed indefinitely. The good news is that the replacement is much more exciting: fighting a [[GoneHorriblyWrong mantis-man mantis-men army]].
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* AfterTheEnd: [[ImpliedTrope It's never explicitly stated]], but dialogue from Wheatley and others suggests that Chell may be the last human alive. Not just in Aperture; she may well be the last human ''[[SoleSurvivor on earth!]]'' The final shot of the game [[labelnote:note(spoilers)]]A vast, overgrown field with absolutely ''no'' sign of humanity anywhere[[/labelnote]] does nothing to quell this theory.
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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: One quick detail that explains how Aperture manages to be both incredibly innovative yet also [[IncompetenceInc comically byzantine and inefficient]] is an ethos established by founder Cave Johnson: "We do all our science from scratch." This implies that Aperture spent its three or so decades of activity testing and relearning ''all'' known scientific principles from the ground-up (from fire, to electricity, to nuclear physics and beyond), and in-house approach somehow enabled them to create guns that create portals and super-[=AI=]s that can run on as little volts as it takes to power a lightbulb.
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** "The world being taken over by an animal king" is given as a possible apocalypse scenario, which the elevator screens illustrate with an animation of a giant leopard-skinned turret with a golden crown. [[spoiler:This turret makes an appearance with the turret choir at the end... playing bass]].
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** "The world being taken over by an animal king" is given as a possible apocalypse scenario, which the elevator screens illustrate with an animation of a giant leopard-skinned leopard-print turret with a golden crown. [[spoiler:This turret makes an appearance with the turret choir at the end... playing bass]].
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* CutscenePowerToTheMax: In the trailer faux-advert demonstrating the shock absorbing boots, Chell engages in acrobatic awesomeness, leaping, diving and somersaulting through portals. In game, her jump animation is fewer than 10 frames long.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Wheatley]] is defeated by [[spoiler:corrupting him with other personality cores, which is exactly what Wheatley did to take over [=GLaDOS=]' body in the first place.]] Also ironic to the player in that [[spoiler:it's the exact opposite of what ''you'' did to defeat [=GLaDOS=] in the first game.]] Even more so when you consider that [[spoiler:according to [=GLaDOS=], Wheatley himself is a core whose primary purpose was to sabotage [=GLaDOS=].]]
** Cave Johnson's death is a subtle example: moon dust is in fact hazardous to humans in real life due to the lack of erosion from being in a vacuum causing moon dust particles to be razor sharp and capable of wreaking havoc on the respiratory system when inhaled. What other Earth material is dangerous for similar reasons? Asbestos, which Cave built the old Aperture testing chambers out of, not only ignoring the obvious health hazard but also ''trademarking'' the slogan "[[BlatantLies Asbestos is harmless!]]"
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Wheatley]] is defeated by [[spoiler:corrupting him with other personality cores, which is exactly what Wheatley did to take over [=GLaDOS=]' body in the first place.]] Also ironic to the player in that [[spoiler:it's the exact opposite of what ''you'' did to defeat [=GLaDOS=] in the first game.]] Even more so when you consider that [[spoiler:according to [=GLaDOS=], Wheatley himself is a core whose primary purpose was to sabotage [=GLaDOS=].]]
** Cave Johnson's death is a subtle example: moon dust is in fact hazardous to humans in real life due to the lack of erosion from being in a vacuum causing moon dust particles to be razor sharp and capable of wreaking havoc on the respiratory system when inhaled. What other Earth material is dangerous for similar reasons? Asbestos, which Cave built the old Aperture testing chambers out of, not only ignoring the obvious health hazard but also ''trademarking'' the slogan "[[BlatantLies Asbestos is harmless!]]"
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** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9wv4DXC2N8&t=2m38s comments]] Wheatley makes while watching [[spoiler:you and [=GLaDOS=] get through the tests]] makes it sound like he's enjoying it [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin a bit too much]]. [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] confirms it, stating that the system gives the AI a euphoric response for concluding every test, that gets smaller as you gets used to it, and [[spoiler:Wheatley doesn't have the intellectual capacity to overcome its withdrawal symptoms.]] To drive the point home, that chapter ("The Itch") is titled "Addiction" in the French version.
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** At the end of the ''Perpetual Testing Initiative'', [[spoiler:Cave Prime and Dark Cave strike a deal which ends with both of them finding universes made out of money and after giving both control of one, both have their financial difficulties eradicated. Plus, as Cave Prime apparently didn't go ahead with his moon rocks idea or has yet to do so, but having shut down the development of [=GLaDOS=] thanks to an alternate Cave's outcome, the company won't encounter the Bring Your Daughter to Work Day tragedy, enabling a longer-lasting lifetime for this universe's Aperture Science and possibly a better outcome for Chell.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Perpetual Testing Initiative", this is what makes one of the alternate Cave Johnsons stop the experiment that would lead to [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 the resonance cascade]].
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-->'''Cave Johnson:''' Those of you helping us test the repulsion gel today, follow the blue line on the floor. Those of you who volunteered to be injected with [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke praying mantis DNA]], I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. The good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of [[GoneHorriblyRight mantis men]]! Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.\\
'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:Okay, so the bad news is that the tests are ''my'' tests now. So they can kill us. The good news is... well, none so far, to be honest. I'll get back to you on that.]]
'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:Okay, so the bad news is that the tests are ''my'' tests now. So they can kill us. The good news is... well, none so far, to be honest. I'll get back to you on that.]]
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* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Deconstructed. [[spoiler: After being diagnosed with moon-rock poisoning, Cave Johnson reacts somberly by trying to be positive with his science experiences by trying to use portal experiments to cure himself. However, he eventually changes his tone to anger towards the gods and decides to increase the experiments so he can make a legacy for himself and transfer his consciousness to artificial intelligence so he can survive his illness even if he can't cure himself. However, his determination to survive leads to the creation of [=GLaDOS=], the destruction of Aperture Science, and he even dies of moon-rock poisoning before he even got the chance to achieve immortality through technology.]]
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* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Deconstructed. [[spoiler: After being diagnosed with moon-rock poisoning, Cave Johnson reacts somberly by trying to be positive with his science experiences by trying to use portal experiments to cure himself. However, he eventually changes his tone to anger towards the gods and decides to increase the experiments so he can make a legacy for himself and transfer his consciousness to artificial intelligence so he can survive his illness even if he can't cure himself. However, his determination to survive leads to the creation of [=GLaDOS=], the destruction of Aperture Science, and he even dies of moon-rock poisoning before he even got ever getting the chance to achieve immortality through technology.]]
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* ArtEvolution: The Rat Man sure got a lot better at drawing on walls between games.
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* ArtEvolution: ArtEvolution:
** The RatMan Man's wall drawings sure got a lot better at drawing on walls between games.
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** Early on in the game, Wheatley mentions that he jammed up the door mechanism by dropping some bird eggs on it, and freaks out when the bird in question starts flapping around him. [[spoiler:Later the same happens to [=GLaDOS=].]]
** One of the possible apocalypse scenarios is "The world being taken over by an animal king", illustrated by a giant leopard-skinned turret with a golden crown. [[spoiler:The same turret makes an appearance in the ending video... playing bass]].
** One of the possible apocalypse scenarios is "The world being taken over by an animal king", illustrated by a giant leopard-skinned turret with a golden crown. [[spoiler:The same turret makes an appearance in the ending video... playing bass]].
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** Early on in the game, Wheatley mentions that he jammed up the door mechanism by dropping some bird eggs on it, and freaks out when the bird in question starts flapping around him. [[spoiler:Later [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] gets stolen by a bird at the same happens beginning of the Old Aperture section thanks to [=GLaDOS=].being a potato, and she panics when she hears the bird later on.]]
**One of the possible apocalypse scenarios is "The world being taken over by an animal king", illustrated by king" is given as a possible apocalypse scenario, which the elevator screens illustrate with an animation of a giant leopard-skinned turret with a golden crown. [[spoiler:The same [[spoiler:This turret makes an appearance in with the ending video...turret choir at the end... playing bass]].
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*** One of the Caves is also a mantis, injecting people with human DNA.
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** Discussing that incident... you '''cannot''' catch Wheatley when he pops off the rail. The button prompt to grab him doesn't activate until he hits the ground; even if you stand underneath him, he'll just land on your face and stay there until you move and let him fall. [[spoiler:You not catching him becomes part of the motivation for his later betrayal, so they had to make sure it happened.]]
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** Discussing that incident... you '''cannot''' It's impossible to catch Wheatley when he pops off the rail.Management Rail. The button prompt to grab him doesn't activate until he hits the ground; even if you stand underneath him, he'll just land on your face and stay there until you move and let him fall. [[spoiler:You not catching him becomes part of the motivation for his later betrayal, so they had to make sure it happened.]]
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** Very near the start of the game, it is said that all Aperture Science personality constructs keep working with as little as 1.1 volts, the same amount a potato battery provides, [[spoiler:which explains why [=GLaDOS=] is able to keep working when she gets installed in a potato.]]
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** Very near The backup test recordings at the start of the game, it is said game say that all Aperture Science personality constructs keep working with can run on as little as 1.1 volts, volts of power, the same amount a potato battery provides, [[spoiler:which explains why [=GLaDOS=] is able to keep working when she gets installed in a potato.]]
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** [[spoiler:During the final battle against Wheatley, he says that "This place would have been a triumph!" but for you.]]
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** [[spoiler:During the final battle against Wheatley, he says that "This place would have been a triumph!" but for you.]]]] The first line of the first game's credits song is "This was a triumph".
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** Within the [=PeTI=] DLC, there's a few parallel universe Cave Johnsons who do a reworked version of his introductory speech from the main single player campaign, these consist of Cave as head of a "mating ritual to forestall the end of days", the Aperture Holo-Science Jungle (where he is the Hobo King), Aperture Paranormal (for "wizards, witches [and] crystal healing doctors") and a prison for intergalactic criminals.
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** Within the [=PeTI=] DLC, there's a few parallel universe Cave Johnsons who do a reworked version of his introductory speech from the main single player campaign, these campaign. These consist of Cave as head of a "mating ritual to forestall the end of days", the Aperture Holo-Science Jungle (where he is the Hobo King), Aperture Paranormal (for "wizards, witches [and] crystal healing doctors") and a prison for intergalactic criminals.
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** Another parallel Cave does the Mantis-man speech, except that it's mantis beings being injected with human DNA rather than the other way around, complete with [[BuffySpeak insect-y]] voice filter.
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** Another parallel Cave does gives the Mantis-man speech, except that it's mantis beings being injected with human DNA rather than the other way around, complete with [[BuffySpeak insect-y]] voice filter.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Cave Johnson.
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* CreepyChild: In one of Perpetual Testing clips, Cave views Greg's daughter as one of these.
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* CreepyChild: In one of Perpetual Testing clips, Cave views Greg's daughter as one of these.unnerving because she keeps whispering to the test subjects that they're going to test "forever and ever".
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* SuperSliding: Propulsion Gel is a frictionless orange goop that makes things slide at high speed over surfaces on which it's applied. Several puzzles depend on slathering it around to build enough velocity to hurl the player over gaps and heights.
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* WeaponRunningTime: The portal gun works at the speed of light. In all of the test, chambers save the finale [[spoiler: where you have to put a portal on the surface of the Moon]], the delay between the trigger and the portal opening is negligible.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhatwLeYoKo "Prometheus"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkKqhkT7aI "I'm A Potato"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMEMny8tcQ PotatOS song]] (warning: spoilers)
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--> '''Cave Johnson:''' As of now, we are cancelling the [[SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS genetic lifeform disk operating system]] initiative. Boy, that could have backfired.
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--> '''Cave Johnson''': "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take 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! 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!"
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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together to create the dumbest moron that ever lived.]]
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---> [[spoiler:Goodbye my only friend]]\\
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--> '''Cave Johnson:''' 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.
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-->'''Cave Johnson:''' Space-criminals, political prisoners, exiled planetary leaders; you're here because the galaxy needed a place to put you, and this is it. So, [[BlackComedy who's ready to stay here until they die?]] I assume you already met each other on the hyperdrive over...
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-->'''Cave Johnson:''' Black Mesa can eat my bankrupt--
-->'''Caroline:''' Sir, the testing?
-->'''Caroline:''' Sir, the testing?
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-->'''Cave Johnson:''' Black Mesa can eat my bankrupt--
-->'''Caroline:'''bankrupt--\\
'''Caroline:''' Sir, the testing?
-->'''Caroline:'''
'''Caroline:''' Sir, the testing?
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--> '''Wheatley:''' "Oh for... They told me if I ever turn this flashlight on, I would DIE. They told me that about everything! I don't know why they even bothered to give me this stuff if they didn't want me using it. It's pointless. Mad."
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--> ''Muhahahaha! [=HAHAHAHAHAhaha…=] haaa, this is tiring.''
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-->'''[[spoiler:Wheatley]]:''' Actually, why do we have to leave right ''now?''
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--->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[spoiler:[[AC:For the record, you ]]''[[AC:are]]''[[AC: adopted. AndThatsTerrible. But just work with me.]]]]
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---> '''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:For the record, you ]]''[[AC:are]]''[[AC: adopted, and that's terrible. But just work with me.]]
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--> '''Cave Johnson:''' ''We're just throwing science at the wall and seeing what sticks.''
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--->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:Warning devices are required on all mobile equipment. However, alarms and flashing hazard lights have been found to agitate the High Energy Pellet, and have therefore been disabled for your safety.]]
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-->Science isn't about "Why?", it's about ''"Why not?!"''. You ask: "Why is so much of our science dangerous?" I say 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 in the butt on the way out ''because you are fired!''
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-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' You're not just a regular moron. You were DESIGNED to be a moron.
-->'''Wheatley:''' I am NOT! A MORON!
-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!
-->'''Wheatley:''' ''(shoving [=GLaDOS=] into an elevator with Chell)'' Well, how about now? NOW WHO'S A MORON? Could a MORON [[PunctuatedPounding PUNCH!]] ''(crash)'' YOU! ''(crash)'' INTO! ''(crash)'' THIS! ''(crash)'' PIT? Huh? Could a moron do THAT? ''(realizing that he sent Chell into a pit as well)'' Uh oh.
-->'''Wheatley:''' I am NOT! A MORON!
-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!
-->'''Wheatley:''' ''(shoving [=GLaDOS=] into an elevator with Chell)'' Well, how about now? NOW WHO'S A MORON? Could a MORON [[PunctuatedPounding PUNCH!]] ''(crash)'' YOU! ''(crash)'' INTO! ''(crash)'' THIS! ''(crash)'' PIT? Huh? Could a moron do THAT? ''(realizing that he sent Chell into a pit as well)'' Uh oh.
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-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' You're not just a regular moron. You were DESIGNED to be a moron.
-->'''Wheatley:'''moron.\\
'''Wheatley:''' I am NOT! AMORON!
-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]'''MORON!\\
'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME ANIDIOT!
-->'''Wheatley:'''IDIOT!\\
'''Wheatley:''' ''(shoving [=GLaDOS=] into an elevator with Chell)'' Well, how about now? NOW WHO'S A MORON? Could a MORON [[PunctuatedPounding PUNCH!]] ''(crash)'' YOU! ''(crash)'' INTO! ''(crash)'' THIS! ''(crash)'' PIT? Huh? Could a moron do THAT? ''(realizing that he sent Chell into a pit as well)'' Uh oh.
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'''Wheatley:''' I am NOT! A
-->'''[=GLaDOS:=]'''
'''[=GLaDOS:=]''' YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN
-->'''Wheatley:'''
'''Wheatley:''' ''(shoving [=GLaDOS=] into an elevator with Chell)'' Well, how about now? NOW WHO'S A MORON? Could a MORON [[PunctuatedPounding PUNCH!]] ''(crash)'' YOU! ''(crash)'' INTO! ''(crash)'' THIS! ''(crash)'' PIT? Huh? Could a moron do THAT? ''(realizing that he sent Chell into a pit as well)'' Uh oh.
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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' (''to [[spoiler:Wheatley]]'') [[AC:I ]]''[[AC:know]]''[[AC: you...]]\\
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--> '''Cave:''' The lab boys just informed me that I should not have mentioned the control group. They're telling me I oughtta stop making these pre-recorded messages. That gave me an idea: Make more pre-recorded messages. I pay the bills here, I can talk about the control group all damn day.\\\
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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:Look at you, soaring majestically through the air. Like an eagle. [[YouAreFat Piloting a blimp.]]]]
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-->'''Fact Sphere:''' William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter play-writing ghosts.]]
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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' [[AC:Okay, yes, it's a trap. But it's the only way through. Let's just do it.]]
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-->'''Wheatley:''' I mean, listen: we should get our stories straight, alright? If anyone asks -- and ''no-one's'' going to ask, don't worry -- but if anyone asks, tell them as far as you know, the last time you checked everyone looked pretty much alive.
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--> '''Announncer:''' Nuclear core overheating!\\
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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' ''(to Wheatley)'' [[spoiler:[[AC:''I know you''. The engineers tried everything to make me ''behave''...to slow me down. Once, they even attached an intelligence dampening sphere on me...it clung to my brain like a tumor, generating an endless stream of terrible ideas. ...It was ''your'' voice.]]]]
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-->"Maybe you should ''marry'' that thing since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? WELL I WON'T LET YOU. [[YankTheDogsChain How does THAT feel?]]"
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-->[[AC:"Hmm. This Plate must not be calibrated to someone of your... generous... ness. I'll add a few zeros to the maximum weight."]] Cue a few beeps...followed by a few more...[[OverlyLongGag followed by another dozen or so]].
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