Personality Cores | Portal Lore

[@ThePkhoury10]

“Mr. cave Johnson you are standing here today because of missing astronauts, could you explain why “I sent them to space, in a sphere , a robotic sphere”

[@iamNHT]

if the space core has the broken mind of a human then it explains a lot

[@zigfaust]

I like to think that the Spider Core and the Supervillain Core fight an endless battle of good vs evil in the depths of AS.

[@Skyrionn]

Just imagine!

[@TravisaInc]

@@Skyrionn I like to think that the Ladybug Core and the Hawk Moth Core fight an endless battle of good vs evil in the depths of AS.

[@autotune1835]

@@TravisaInc YES!!! 😁😁😁👍

[@DangerDurians]

I don’t know if I would say Peabody and Atlas are specifically made to be feminine and masculine, but are rather just made from a turret and a personality core

[@brother_leonardous7950]

I was reading some of the wiki, and all it says is that P-Body was just designed to be a tad be more feminine compared to Atlas according to this "P-body is an orange eyed Core with a design similar to that of a Turret, and is portrayed to have somewhat less masculinity than in Atlas - if not a hint femininity." So far, from what I've seen from watching the trailers and playing the multiplayer, I'd say Atlas and P-Body have a brotherly relationship.

[@angela.luntian]

@@brother_leonardous7950 from what I saw, a designer outright states P-body and Atlas was meant to have feminine and masculine design respectively. Theyre probably the second and third designs to be humanized this way.

[@TheSpyFromTeamFortress2]

@Christopher Ferrari Jeez, no need to be a bitch about it.

[@banann_ducc]

@Christopher Ferrari ever heard of interpretation in art?

[@whotftookthuurs]

Femboy pbody!?!?! No wonder my friend liked it more

[@samuelhayden4710]

There is also a friendly core, known as Frank. There’s a deception core, and a business core. And one more core which name’s I do not know. These cored are from Aperture Hand Lab, also known as Portal VR.

[@superJK92]

Don't forget the Cave jonson core from lego dimensions portal

[@johnathanegbert9277]

names*

[@samuelhayden4710]

@@superJK92 Lego dimensions is not canon the the lore.

[@Teag_Brohman15]

what about Virgil?

[@gamma2581]

​@[ Xx_Cosmos_The_Cool_Kid_xX ] YES

[@Comaxwolf]

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODDE FOR A LONG TIME!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[@Skyrionn]

I hope it was worth the wait!

[@Comaxwolf]

@@Skyrionn It really was! Every portal lore episode is!

[@thebozo-m4j]

The words ‘work ethic’ in a video about Aperture Laboratories genuinely got me laughing out loud.

[@Skyrionn]

You're welcome :)

[@aurafox1]

I often find myself wondering... at what point does GLaDOS become corrupt? How does the system recognize a corrupt core? I often wonder if GLaDOS simply shut down this corrupt core recognition system and it happened to be one of the many things Wheatley accidentally turned back on. Hell, I wouldn't be shocked if Cave himself turned the system off because it "got in the way of perfectly reusable cores". Point is, it's possible that GLaDOS had been corrupt long before she's first recognized by the system in Portal 2. In hindsight, that's quite obvious given that she, well, killed everybody. This could explain why the Morality Core is completely silent. Maybe it became corrupted by being attached to a mainframe with a corrupt core? It could also explain why the emotional core became so aggressive. Maybe trying to remove this corrupt core is what set GLaDOS off in killing everyone?

[@Abu_Brandino]

She’s probably corrupt based on a template made by the scientists that contain GLaDOS and the necessary personality cores attached to her in Portal 1. I’d imagine without those personality cores, compared to the template, she’d be 80% corrupt.

[@emmajeanjones6552]

Omg this is an amazing theory!

[@bionic-tale4313]

@@Abu_Brandino I agree with your overall idea, since the Cores are meant to regulate GLaDOs' behavior to keep her mind more stable and to hinder her murderous tendencies. However I think the mainframe has something to do with corrupting AI that interface with it, like with GLaDOs or Wheatley when they connect to the mainframe. When they are removed from it, they become more passive and gentler. I also think that the mainframe body also contributed to the corruption of the 4 personality cores. Morality seems completely silent, Curious seems to have an short attention span, Logic seems obsessed with the Cake recipe(although most of the ingredients would mostly be considered inedible to most humans), and emotion only shows signs of anger. I think that cores that are most corrupt are logic and emotion, since they display bizzare behaviors that would hinder their functions, and seem to be less useful in their directives. Like the corrupted cores like Space, Adventure and Fact.

[@temkin9298]

@@bionic-tale4313 morality just can't function . It wanted to advise her but at the end Glados didn't care and did things that traumatized morality. Emotion core is more likely caused a lot of problems. Remember Caroline didn't want to become Glados. She was forced and probably why emotion core is so angry all the time. Logic core's obsession is pretty outlandish. Maybe it is because Glados doesn't need one. As mentioned before the reason why Glados is the way it is, is because of it's making. It is also possible that main frame and personality core are complementary, meaning that Caroline was copied to both systems to accommodate her person in. Much like Cave needed to have a giant head.

[@bionic-tale4313]

@@temkin9298 So the only personality core that was attached to GLaDOs that did its job properly is the Curiosity Core. Since it's supposed to add more inquisitiveness to GLaDOs' processing power. GLaDOs even states that the reason she kept Chell alive for so long because she was curious about her behavior. When it's destroyed, GLaDOs has no other reason to keep Chell alive.

[@whirvis]

If I could make a core to aid me in daily life, it'd a "Routine Core." It would follow me around, reminding me of tasks I need to do during the day and encouraging me to do them if it realized I was putting them off. It would also do things like wake me up in the morning, like an alarm clock! I'd personally make its eye similar to the Curiosity Core, but green. Id give it a voice like Wheatley, but different enough so its not Wheatley haha.

[@DucksDontQuack]

i would want the fruit punch core cause ya do be thirsty

[@fallen_vague28]

OC creation time

[@vanillabatcave5677]

So...a to-do list?

[@jaxonjoe4147]

I'd have a quadruple core then my family could live forever ♾️

[@jaxonjoe4147]

@ayden I LOVE your idea

[@zero.Identity]

the core in skyrim could be an implication that skyrim does in fact not play in the past but far far in the future. implying that the invasion did an even greater impact on humanity. not wiping it out, but sending it into a new middle age kind of world also, creating new races.

[@stevehurd6708]

For those of us who are Wheatley fans, there is a great fan fiction book called Blue Sky that is really well written, and very enjoyable. It continues the story with Wheatley and the Space Core orbiting the moon after the events of Portal 2. Check it out!

[@nobodyatall8451]

The poor Space Core dies unceremoniously in like the first Chapter

[@saucevc8353]

@@nobodyatall8451 That's true. But to be fair that's probably the best ending it could have gotten, I don't see how it would really fit into that story.

[@nobodyatall8451]

@@saucevc8353 I mean, I understand the reasoning behind the decision, but at the same time we could’ve just left him in space and had Wheatley just float towards Earth away from him, instead of just obliterating him and having Wheatley be like “oh no, the space core, it’s broken” and end it there. The story’s awesome though, don’t get me wrong.

[@saucevc8353]

@@nobodyatall8451 Considering there are some unused Space Core lines in game where it regrets going to space, I think just having it die painlessly in space before it regrets anything was the best option.

[@nobodyatall8451]

@@saucevc8353 That was not a painless death. Also, there’s been debate over whether those lines should be considered canon or not since those lines were never used. The Space core could’ve just as easily enjoyed space forever. But what’s done is done, I guess.

[@epicalworlds2775]

I feel like every core that’s seen in both games were used at least once on Glados as she said “The scientists tried everything to make me behave, to slow me down” and before the wheatley fight she said something along the lines of how the scientists had placed many and multiple cores. So by these two lines that means there’s been a lot of cores and being called personality as well would mean that the adventure sphere was used to be adventurous like a watered down curiosity core that Glados corrupted, fact core that was used to supply Glados with fake facts like a watered down Wheatley, space core which would try to keep Glados’s mind off murder by focusing on space, either that or some sort of guilty conscious from Cave’s death (moon rocks). Many other cores must’ve been used to slow her down or change her mind if the cores didn’t wok they would be given another job perhaps adventure spheres job was to help create test chambers since he knew about danger before he got corrupted.

[@luv3rb0y]

Great video but you missed the chance to call this “Core Lore: Portal 2”

[@Core395]

Man i love the personalitycore: Their Design and each of their individuell characters... The only thing i dont like is that they run on 1,1 Volt...i mean come on, that little power for like an half-AI with so many additional robotic parts...seems a little bit off even for Aperture Science...

[@vendetta1429]

They can operate at 1.1 volts, but that doesn't mean they are fully operational.

[@zero.Identity]

look at the M1 chip and re consider your argument. if you would make them in the sime design philosophy, it could have very well been a system that runs on very low voltage.

[@d9gepro2]

Ngl it would be cool if personality cores existed, maybe we could make them as pets

[@ussbased-a7074]

Bending of space and time is fine, but a computer that runs on 1 volt is where you draw the line? Keep in mind lots of commercial microcontrollers can run on 5 volts

[@lam6786]

real life cpus sometimes run at under 1 volt, i'm not very surprised.

[@R0ya1l]

You notice that the morality core is a core that forces glados to follow a modified version of the laws of robotics. And the other cores were supposed to be Caroline's emotions

[@lunarelipse-c1l]

Honestly I thought the intelligence Corps and intelligence dampening core for the same course just asked her along while the corps decided to run its own stream of bad ideas in a GLaDOS, also if I have the choice to make a core from Portal 2 I would make a mixture of Rick, a companion cube, and the defective turret

[@beterbomen]

I have this crazy fan theory that the Personality Cores were actually the employees of Aperture; they had their brains scanned, and that information was then used to make the cores. That is why the cores act so human.

[@Skyrionn]

If that is too, it is a terrifying thought.

[@beterbomen]

@@Skyrionn I know.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

You forgot to mention at least two things: > the Wheatley Sapper from TF2 > how the bombs in _P0rtal 2_ are made from personality core casings

[@wasabithumbs6294]

You forgot about the core that drags you back into Aperture Science in the Portal ending annendum.

[@snailwt]

Not a core,its a “Party Escort Bot”

[@wasabithumbs6294]

@@snailwt It's a core with two big freaky hands.

[@Olimist]

Isn't that atlas?

[@agentburningbutters3655]

@@Olimist ATLAS DIDNT GET THOUGHT OF UNTIL PORTAL 2

[@redstone_orange]

the panels, crushers, and all other robot arms are sentient aswell, you can see in portal 2 mulitble panels looking at stuff with their blue eye and you see robot arms on the turret production line which sometimes look down at the panels. Glados also confirmes that the reconstruction and decontruction robot arms are all sentient. then there are also Nanites which repair the facility and those are sentient aswell since we see wheatly talking to one of them.

[@j.hawkins8779]

theres also the _door mainframe_ as well

[@jakdekayen]

If you pay attention, some of those same panels after you awake GLaDOS, will also watch you as you walk by. Some will only change to red, when you get near them too. I can't say if that's because GLaDOS is angry at you, or not, but that's what made the most sense to me lolol if I were here, I'd be pretty mad at the player too, tbh.

[@jakdekayen]

@@j.hawkins8779 no no, he doesn't count anymore because she made sure he wouldn't be.... living anymore.

[@j.hawkins8779]

@@jakdekayen ..well he used to

[@Teag_Brohman15]

I prefer the newer designs for the Cores over the older ones. they look much more rustic

[@littlebigdragon313]

HELL YEAH ONLY 1 DAY AGO THE TESTING C O N T I N U E S

[@Skyrionn]

There's always time for testing

[@thenexus8384]

"I asked test subject if you were to invent a core to aid you in life what would you construct" Me: "one to make me smart" Also the "snuggle core" and "adventurous core" sound like something we all wish was real

[@Pao19088]

3:58 I don't think she designed one to be feminine and one to be masculine. I think she just used modified personality cores for one and modified turret cores for the other. You can tell by how the shapes of the heads correlate.

[@angela.luntian]

Would be fitting tho, like adam and eve

[@emmajeanjones6552]

Spider-core Spider-core Does what ever a Spider-core does

[@thebirds4588]

SPIDER CORE, SPIDER CORE! DOES WHAT EVER A SPIDER A CORE DOES! CAN HE SWING FROM A WEB? MAYBE HE CAN! WATCH OUT, HERE COMES SPIDER CORE!

[@Skyrionn]

yes.

[@softingz893]

2:26 (the combine)

[@janitordroidjenkins7081]

No one ever seems to mention this, but sabotaging the turrets and nuerotoxin was wheatley's idea from the start, and the ideas worked, Glados couldn't do shit to the player during their confrontation. For a supposed moron he sure seems to have outplayed Glados this time.

[@labbit35]

And in the Aperture Desk Job there is another personality core which is basically one of the creators of the prototype of the sentry

[@jordancarter4426]

I would definitely build a common sense core.

[@suicidalbanananana]

2:31 - Wasnt there some Glados voiceline that hints at her keeping the combine ("them") out? so those also interact(ed) with the facility. 4:19 - Pretty sure those are not cores but bombs? 8:36 - I dont really agree with this, Wheatley transferred her consciousness/construct into some Aperture gizmo (prototype of a miniature core?!) that just happens to be able to draw enough power from a potato, there's still Aperture tech there, he did not transfer Glados into a potato but into hardware he attached to the potato. Semantics maybe, but still :P Keep up the entertaining videos! ❤

[@gammerenfireren8420]

the storage scene at 4:19 are idle cores as seen by the very end of portal 1, and one can assume they all got picked up to the job the moment glados was unable to provide for the facility during the events between portal 1 and 2, keeping the facility up and running, keeping the facility still alive, if you will

[@Sunnee526]

if i created a core to aid me, i would choose a "Know-it-all Core"

[@teagan5494]

10:20 homework core

[@tpsplatinum3562]

I'd want the Chore Core to help with my day-to-day

[@CyborusYT]

I would make the "easy to execute but financially fruitful ideas" core

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

The sigma core?

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

Invent a core? Ascension/"get me off this dumbass planet" core.

[@me67galaxylife]

That morgan freeman core is such a missed opportunity... i hope it makes a return somehow, though i doubt it

[@WallmartMf]

Also because you have good content im subbing

[@Core395]

Same...

[@happycube689]

Me too

[@theworldmachineos7247]

The Everything Core (a core that can litterally do anything) im smart

[@MysticWorldsStudios]

if I could make a core I'd make a jack of all trades core, well knowledged of everything, but masters none that means whatever you may need, It knows

[@lenynaise]

poem for fact core he protecc he atacc but most importantly, he speak *facc*

[@MINISCULE2]

Additionnal information that isnt found in the video: the personality constructs shell is made out of aluminum

[@gamerwolf7503]

Dan a.k.a builder core is an oc of mine Green stripes accompany the core as well as a detachable arm used to grab items. This core is supplied with apature's version of lego. He makes mini models of many things, but his prized creations are a one to one replica of another core, a model of glados, many test chambers old and new, and the apature logo.

[@StarSannu]

i'd like to listen to your spiel but do you hear that...? do you...? i hear crickets... three, no, atleast four... i think it's a sign of who the hell asked?

[@PokeyMinch1]

@@StarSannu 10:13

[@chrishei3111]

The Anger Core might be anger at black mesa?

[@Bazel_The_Bombardier]

I would make the hard decision core It analyzes you personality and what is happening in your life then it choses off of that

[@tonte1234]

I would create a core that has my personality or at least very similar to my personality so se could get along well

[@timteecvhn]

Oh, btw. Random thing. But it would seem that you missed the core from Aperture Tag and Virgil from Portal Stories Mel

[@kittycatdreamz]

i don't think those are canon

[@timteecvhn]

@@kittycatdreamz Aperture Tag is more debatable on if it's even canon or not. but... Portal Stories Mel I'd love to believe to be proper canon given that it would fit in best within the lore as to A: what happened while chell was asleep. B: what woke her up. and C: Why portions of the salt mines were inaccessible to us in Portal 2. Also sorry for a rather late msg. I only just now noticed your msg as youtube never notified me about it.

[@dumanblu625]

core lore

[@KrillCasabella]

Tbh I would have a homework core for obvious reasons

[@Obozo_Gaming]

I wonder if the "Super Heavy Core" is heavy?

[@Alperen236]

why the pink core in portal 2 looks so sus it looks like uhm you know xd

[@deadmau1958]

The "Ego Core".

[@lourdespachla6516]

Fact: if i could make a core i would do a companion core

[@deadchannel245]

I really want to meet the useful core

[@NanoFromNichijou]

if i would make a core for miself i would make a soldier coer

[@Skyrionn]

At least we know though now, There was so much speculation!

[@LoganDrawzz]

I would make a not lonely core

[@zero.Identity]

@@LoganDrawzz problem is, loneliness would probably get him corrupted. so leave him alone just once...

[@LoganDrawzz]

@@zero.Identity wdym

[@desmondevelops]

the cores shell seem to be some sort of plastic metal

[@swapertxking]

if we take the mod game Portal Stories: Mel, you have Vergil; then we have all the cores from Harry101UK

[@HartnellDev]

I'd build the "Fix the Facility Core" lol

[@saucelessbones5872]

I'd construct the political core

[@Skyrionn]

Interesting choice

[@reneablackheart9563]

no one ever talks about flashlight core

[@FabricioDePaulaIT]

gamer core : gaming

[@KittysInu]

Only constructive feedback I have is the first chunk of the video is just observations of their form with little to no actual information about the features. It might flow a bit better to put the observations in with the information (like mentioning the plugs on the back when you talk about how they move about the complex). Otherwise, great presentation, great video, and I do understand this videos 5 months old so you might've already changed the writing for your videos. Or you didn't, cause its your channel and ultimately how you make your videos is up to you. I'll be viewing either way lol

[@heavymcbeptol]

I loved the intro 😁

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you :D

[@HOTD108_]

What's the in-universe reason for the cores in Portal 1 not having eyelids?

[@Hw9a]

weren't invented yet

[@zero.Identity]

the design differences between portal one and two i guess

[@SolarialOSC]

There is none, and we are supposed to pretend that the Portal 1 cores looked like the portal 2 cores.

[@identocidal]

my favorite personality core has to be wheatley, he's just so hilarious to me.

[@MasonBetterThenRoxanneWolf]

The blue eye core in portal 1 is the cake core I have proof when you pick it up it starts talking how to make a cake and a lot of fish shaped stuff

[@mtndewv]

"Adjustable aluminum head positioner, slaughter electric needle injector, cordless electric needle injector, injector needle driver, injector needle gun, cranial caps, and it contains: proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemicals that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue."

[@maxter0842]

Is that for the cores, the test subjects, or the turrets?

[@mtndewv]

@@maxter0842 Yes

[@benstahlnecker8390]

"...an entry titled: 'How to kill someone with your bare hands'..."

[@holymacarony_8784]

Wheatley's core function is to funny xd

[@emilierekdal5118]

10:15 “If you were to invent a core to aid you in life, what would you construct?” *SUPPORTIVE BOYFRIEND CORE.*

[@Kunnoc]

You heard the news? It's spaceeeeeeeeeeeee!

[@badpiggies988]

The 57 dislikes are from test subjects "Climate change awareness core" would there even still be any climate change in a future 10,000 years from now where both humans and combines are most likely either endangered or extinct

[@pillowmoment]

If i could make one up, i can’t think of anything. I’ve never had ideas of my own. I love the cores, they’re funny, and very awesome. (Unsurprisingly, Wheatley is my favorite character.) But I guess what would be most useful is a support based one? Like emotional. I think every character in this game is emotionally supportive in some way, but you know. I’d really like it? Just bc i like company?

[@Skyrionn]

I'd be down for that too!

[@puppypuppybobbin]

I think spheres have names and cores don’t

[@gscheidleiwondoida5868]

I wonder what would happened if the Space Core took over the Facility. :D

[@rooploverence]

"Every core and robots, build rockets so we can go to SPAAACeEEEeeeEeEE

[@oogadaboogle]

See the portal pack in lego dimensions to find out 👀

[@jonnyb.animationstutorials7119]

In the Portal pack for Lego Dimensions, Space Core did.

[@buffalocrackerdong6978]

Multigalactic domination

[@admiralcat3809]

They're Forerunner artifacts made to facilitate the 7 Halo Installations.

[@TravisaInc]

i would make a Chat Noir Core and Hawk Moth Core including a Ladybug Core Coreculous: tales of Chat Core and LadyCore

[@TravisaInc]

if u animate it credit me.

[@ScarOne314]

You are a great Portal KZbinr!

[@familytondre3415]

i would invent the interchangeable core

[@imadrifter]

Climate change awareness core and Wheatley seem to be almost identical

[@InventorZahran]

Are you suggesting that people who care about climate change are morons?

[@fabrikator-generalakhilley6896]

AL core.

[@j.hawkins8779]

Id make a gaming core

[@shint9319]

The lore behind goose 7 maybe? Goose 7 has an interesting backstory

[@littlebigdragon313]

What

[@shint9319]

@@littlebigdragon313 goose 7 half life

[@CaptainSam666]

There was a Fallout 76 ad on this video, run Skyrionn

[@Skyrionn]

whoops. *runs*

[@IshijimaKairo]

Probably a worse-than-Hitler Core according to some Reddit guy.

[@josiahpowick7552]

5:20 your wrong about the morality core. It was designed to stop GLaDoS from flooding the facility. they attached it to her when she was flooding it. thats why in the portal bossfight she only starts flooding the place with neurotoxin after you destroy thr morality core. the same goes for the other cores. The cores make up GLaDoS's personality and keeps her running GLaDoS would barely be an ai without them. thats why she breaks after the last core (anger) was removed, she didnt know what to do.

[@aRustyWaffle]

Turret I would want a turret to help aid me in life

[@Virgilboy36026]

Its pretty good but there is a different type of portal Wiki That I look at it has all my favourite games My favourite portal games There are some person cores in aperture tag and portal stories Mel And maybe I would like to hear the logic behind those cores please, :) Sorry for the incorrect spelling

[@Gxaps]

they're not canonical

[@leolaus]

the mods aren't canon

[@EmeraldKnight4611]

Don’t the bombs that Wheatley uses in his boss fight have eyes?

[@19kp.]

Suicide bomber cores

[@catswork]

i'm happy to have a british narrator

[@Cyberbreeze]

I would invent the girlfriend core because I cant get one my self :(

[@tankgaming1A2]

i would create a core named "calmer" to calm as much can (GLaDOS)

[@LazyP0tat05]

Sandwich making core I would like that

[@WorldNetExplorer]

How many takes did you need before you got through that opening without laughing?

[@thepoorliestdrawn]

"if you were to invent a core to aid you, what would it be?" ad: BAGGUETES

[@yeet_heet2866]

0:55 ITS UPSIDE DOWNNNNNNNN

[@nyachoss]

okay but why is there black mesa scientists in aperture science? did black mesa steal the uniforms from aperture science too?

[@zero.Identity]

because there are no scientists in the game so he takes them out of that game with a mod to create cinematics. obviously

[@michaelsamir3611]

When is lore of Wheatley crab coming out

[@Child-that-can-bend-reailty]

I'm going to actually try to be a core one day

[@TeamRocket8122]

Wheatley is the intelligence core

[@RainbowsClone]

friend core

[@DanielWindows]

personality core

[@thegod9539]

4:14 Wait wait wait, one of them is supposed to be a woman??

[@generalcodsworth4417]

Well, they're calculators, so they aren't really men or women. But Atlas was designed to be more masculine while P-pody was designed to be more feminine. This is likely a part of the cooperative test, to see how different personalities interact.

[@zero.Identity]

no