Portal 2 - How The Idea Of Wheatley Came About

[@NotNotQueer]

So you could say that Wheatley was the core that was dropped on his head as a child 😂

[@Muho_is_me]

That explains alot

[@iamsparta7436]

😂😂

[@tumble-dry]

@@Muho_is_me"I AM NOT A MORON"

[@DitieBun]

that is so incredibly perfect oh my god

[@evildrporker]

@@tumble-dry “YES YOU ARE! You’re the moron they built to make me an idiot!”

[@My_Name_Is_Soup]

So Wheatley came out of the idea of the sphere being dropped down the stairs I love it

[@frankiereader9024]

Explains the whole "he's a f!cking idiot" thing. I mean falling down stairs causes Brain damage

[@vinx.909]

Most of the animation in this short was made by harry101uk

[@KIWITALKZ]

Yeah he’s the man!

[@graywesrl]

Hell ya

[@timehunter9467]

His “Meet the Cores” was the best, so well done! The songs are just the icing on the “cake” heh

[@jellycore1316]

​@@timehunter9467YESS True! XD And ayy, clever XD

[@Normal_Difficulty-z4i]

​@@KIWITALKZglad you're on the right side of history!

[@chisecrecy4974]

They made two perfect decisions as a result of this: - Creating a core character that would be with you for a good portion of the game - Casting Stephen Merchant as that character

[@ErdrickHero]

"We dont want a sphere, we want a companion that can come with you" You already had exactly that: the Companion Cube. It's not a sphere; IT'S CUBICAL!

[@youtub-fj8mu]

The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you.. and, in fact, cannot speak.

[@opao5629]

@@youtub-fj8mu this line answers it really well

[@bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766]

CUBICAL!!!!!!!!

[@michaelmaloskyjr]

Yea the CC is more like a stuffed teddy bear. Wheatley is more like Seth McFarland's "Ted" minus the smoking with a streak of narcissism.

[@jojogape]

I imagine this original idea kind of morphed into the coop campaign, where you have a central hub and the end of every course there's a CD you have to play.

[@dogman15]

DVD, but yeah.

[@Cpt_H00K911]

Wheatley Litterly was a mastake made by someone who dropped it down the stairs

[@MINDARSONIST]

seeing harry's animations used here really made me smile [:

[@redwiltshire1816]

“Son of a b” -Wheatley

[@whyjordie]

My first car was named Wheatley after Portal 2 because it’s my favorite game

[@shantaeisbae]

Funnily enough this exact same thing happened to me with the prophet turret, the one that you can save from certain doom for a certain while but you eventually have to let go of

[@CATel_]

Live the fact that wheatley was basically born by being dropped down the stairs. Amazing.

[@bestmanalive99]

That's probably where the grunts of pain came from after yelling "GRAB ME GRAB ME GRAB ME!"

[@winterclimber7520]

a successor to the companion cube

[@hortler]

The companion sphere :p

[@Uajd-hb1qs]

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[@NintendoRaptor]

Space? Space? Wanna go to space?

[@FargonNemeloc]

"They made you to make me an idiot!!!" -GLaDOS (maybe)

[@ByrdDoodlz]

(Correction [in a nice way]) “you’re the moron they built to make me an idiot!”

[@billnyetheramguy]

HARRY101UK REFERENCE SPOTTED

[@sylarclark3804]

The Cores used in this video mostly were harry101uk

[@Wheatly_Portal2]

To be honest, that idea could make for a good movie adaptation.

[@erkanerkan3643]

the core hub era

[@Gentle_Stick]

huh. very interesting. i’ll be watching the entire interview now

[@melody3741]

Its the second companion object that can talk to you!

[@Awesomefluffy]

Valve: 1... 2... uhhhh whats after 2?

[@tusky1075]

Alyx

[@samanthatongs3280]

Lol

[@plaguedevstuff]

2 episode 1

[@kaysrandomchannel4618]

I've said it once and I'll say it again, we don't need Portal 3.

[@tusky1075]

@@kaysrandomchannel4618 no portal seriese definatelly deserves another game, we didnt needed half life alyx too but it came and added more to half life universe same can be done with portal portal is a great series that definately deserves another game set in its universe

[@geckobread]

WHEATLEY THE COMPANION SPHERE...!

[@MajorOSC]

..."I'm-in-space..."

[@gingamble1]

I think it’s kind of funny that the entire reason Wheatley exists is because some poor core got dropped down the stairs😂

[@Taliikitsunee]

It’s funny to think because a player had butterfingers and dropped the core, they made Wheatly

[@lithiumsourdong]

Stephen Merchant was a brilliant voice actor for Wheatley

[@tommykarrick9130]

You know that behind the scenes someone fought to let you drop Wheatley

[@AshofApocalypse]

Oh my god all of the songs are parodies. I kinda love it

[@BillKrayer12thMan]

"I AM NOT AN IDIOT ‼️"🤣

[@DeadGamerChillin]

I'd love a game that is based on portal and Diversity (minecraft map) where you need to retrieve the cores in harry101uk

[@lucaschannel726]

I want an answer what made them decide to do the plot twist? It’s my favorite plot twist in gaming history and gave birth to the second half of the game which gave us a huge lore reveal of aperture and glados

[@jimmypeeps8471]

Portal Reloaded had such a better character. Some Australian voice actress, she was adorable.

[@MsPhantom-yt]

Companion spheres

[@wiki_you1234]

Where are you harry101uk

[@Spartan_Tanner]

Best part about that is: playtesters didn't drop Wheatley down the stairs

[@gustavgnoettgen]

The human urge to breed companions like we did with dogs, plus whatever we are brewing up now. I'm afraid that we will create artificial suffering without understanding our own psyche yet.

[@GNARPY-2485]

Whens portal 3? 😢

[@SireDragonChester]

To bad will prob never get another portal game. Cus Valve can’t count to 3 lol.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

Well, the main story is told and closed. But there is indeed so much more that can be explored. Valve is amazing at creating this world were you feel so much more is happening besides what you are dealing with, but they don’t use it. Its kind of crazy given the potential and their incredible creativity.

[@SireDragonChester]

@Daniel__Nobre Yeah it is sad. Love both HL series and Portal series. But who knows. Maybe will get something soon. There been more few rumours Valve is working on something. Maybe HL game, maybe will get some info for portal or Chell. I’d would love see a cross over maybe with Freeman meeting Chell. They also rumours on console like box which could also launch with steam os. Steam os is huge, (Gamers could finally ditch bloated windows 10/11). Its also huge opportunity for Valve launch HL or Portal games with steam os. So here’s hoping we get something from Valve. Steam Os for desktop PCs and HL3 soon after is my prediction 2025/26? Hah

[@Daniel__Nobre]

@@SireDragonChester all of those would be awesome! :) And I mean the worlds of HL and Portal are connected so it would be awesome to get more depth into those connections and events.

[@Gravyman8]

omg spoilers

[@gmont28]

I felt Wheatley should have turned red on betrayal, the blue didnt suit him after

[@not_umbre]

Wheatley doesn't even feel evil, he just feels like GLaDOS but kind of dumb.

[@Artificer_]

@@not_umbre I don’t think his intention was ever to actually be evil, he’s just very stupid and is programmed to make idiotic choices. What could be more idiotic than betraying your friend as soon as you get into power?

[@reillywadsworth5633]

Too obvious of a character design. Evil doesn’t have to always be Red.

[@gmont28]

@ i mean it would should have started blue then turned red in betrayal especially for the subtitles after

[@potatofuryy]

Yeah no

[@sunsinger970]

we need a portal3 with more spheres of personality and no gladios.

[@Vitalityyy881]

We need Portal 3 with more GLaDOS and no personality cores

[@g0dzilla_au]

Portal is not portal without glados

[@Claire-hz7ic]

glados is the best part of the portal games

[@Vitalityyy881]

​@@g0dzilla_au Agreed, she has always been my favourite character.