Portal: The Lore Behind GLaDOS

Deep underground in Upper Michigan, GLaDOS has taken over the facility and is forcing people to be her test subjects. Where did this murderous AI come from? I went to Aperture Science to find out!
I started Skyrionn to go back and look at easter eggs and the little details in classic video games. From that, I’ve moved on to looking at timelines and lore in video games.
Join the Discord Server!
/ discord
Want to help support the channel on Patreon?
/ theskyrionn
Thanks to my Patrons!
The Realm
Jonas
Mathias Croqvist
Scruffshroom
Sheev Palpatine
ZeroXP Podcast - The Fable Series
The Void
Jojoscotia
Detroid
Brunette Jnas
Imaginary Holly
Twitter
/ skyrionn
Instagram
/ skyrionn
Subscribe today!
kzbin.info_...
Check out the playlist of episodes here to find out more interesting facts about the games you love! • 10 Interesting Facts
Check out the timeline and lore episodes here!
• Timelines
AUDIO USED
Half-Life 2 OST - Lab Practicum
#Portal #GLaDOS #Caroline #Lore

[@Skyrionn]

Update: A mistake I've seen looking back is that I stated Caroline began working at Aperture in the 1980s, I mispoke. She was actually with Aperture in its early days. My bad!

[@zivush3d]

Just saw this video and was about to comment that she was way back in the late 50's and decided to look if someone wrote it first. good job on an informative video. love it.

[@nicholasbrooks7349]

You should probably pin this.

[@dr.zareendodwad-khan3578]

It is, *ACCEPTABLE*

[@Random-ml9no]

bring the cat to work day?

[@glados4053]

Dony tell my secrets

[@LiPolygon]

Aperture science is what happens when a bunch of people with high intelligence and low wisdom get together.

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

It's like they needed smart scientists and also idiots so they could lower the wage of employees, the results are Aperture

[@tribaloutcaster2318]

Just like the Old World Blues DLC from the Fallout New Vegas.

[@zoharborage6609]

That's our current situation now. 😬

[@tezwoacz]

oh man there are so many examples from history of exactly that, nazi, japanese medical experiments, literally half of wallstreet and CEOs of major corporations.

[@r-labs9357]

Intelligence represents knowledge, Wisdom represents general intelligence, therefore low wisdom proves stupidity.

[@SilverSphereSorcerer]

GLaDOS can't delete Caroline, as she IS Caroline. I think the personality cores drastically dampened the humanity in her. She was angry and trying to kill the scientists because she was forced to upload her consciousness against her will. After having the cores removed, she was able to have her memories sparked. I suppose then, the most she could do is delete certain memories she made in her human body, but not herself entirely.

[@RoyalCrab]

I’ve always thought the same about her being angry and not having been given a choice. What did they expect to have happen?

[@animatorbruh5113]

Nice theory

[@ember-brandt]

Didn't we destroy those cores at the end of the first game, though? She was still trying to kill us when we revived her... lol. I think the body for her core had that effect on her, since it seemed to also have that effect on Wheatley.

[@SilverSphereSorcerer]

@@ember-brandt Well yeah, the reason the cores were installed in the first place was because she immediately started trying to murder people. The last core installed stopped her from flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, and destroying the Curiosity Core gave her the ability to use the neurotoxin again.

[@SilverSphereSorcerer]

@@ember-brandt But the body definitely has something to do with it. Probably power madness from having access to the entire facility and all the information in the system.

[@M23official]

i love how lemons are one of the tags in this video

[@Skyrionn]

"I don't want your damn lemons" :D

[@nicolashelbig4160]

What am I supposed to do with these?!

[@danielclark-hughes692]

"Demand to see life's manager!" Cave Johnson, the only Karen people like

[@Petar901]

I thought you typed "demons"

[@modelreviews3705]

🍋🍋🍋

[@NumberBreak]

Him: chell seemed to be smarter than the other test subjects Companion Cube: was she the smartest? Doug ratman: no

[@ember-brandt]

Finally, someone remembers the _Lab Rat_ comic exists.

[@nobody-wz7lw]

@@ember-brandt yeah its weird this video only speaks about certain things from the comic but forgets she had the highest tenacity and wasn't chosen for her intelligence at all she is just really stubborn edit: i mean even wheatly says she might have brain damage which means a lot coming from he he was literally engineered to be a moron!

[@cardboard952]

dog ratmaon

[@thenexus8384]

I mean he didn't say she was the smartest only that she was smarter

[@MCaronii]

I find fascinating how after so many years these games are still relevant, keep up the great job! :D

[@clarkbaty1356]

Agreed!

[@adrianostrowski6431]

Games then: great games you can just install and enjoy Games now: unfinished, buggy games with fuckton of expensive DLCs you have to buy to not miss any good feature That's your reason why old games are still relevant.

[@ilayohana3150]

Yeah...its amazing how much video games impact some of ours lives... But this one is a real experience. Its more memorable than the generic alien invasion half life series.

[@__Honey_bee__]

I've played all the games and read all the comics

[@CLOYO]

@@adrianostrowski6431 You haven't been in the indie scene it seems

[@MrWondertaco1]

One of my personal favourite theories is that, GlaDOS isn't inherently ''Evil" but is corrupted by the mainframe of the enrichment centre itself, you see it happen to wheatly almost immediately after he got plugged in and notice how her humanity returned after being removed from the system.

[@Skyrionn]

Yeah - I'd agree with that.

[@melissagola3786]

The dark side of that is shouldn't she go back to being evil when she's plugged back into the system? Or is the system changed in some way by the end of Portal 2? I'm playing through it now again so I guess I'll find out lol

[@sfsvaliantjelly8508]

@@melissagola3786 she goes badk but GLaDOS decided thqt enough was enough

[@ianbarr5646]

Just finished my first playthrough of the portal. I remember all of my buddies playing it back in the day so I thought I would try it. The ending blew my mind! incredible game.

[@tootscfcmorrison1284]

Portal 2 or 1? @Ian Barr

[@itsreeah2663]

I really want to hug GLaDOS. She deserves one.

[@gregsmith67719]

Well I desreve cake! She promesed it and instead tried to kill me. I'm not hugging her.

[@tessagonzaga9878]

Me same i wanna hug her for giving portal gunnnnns

[@LoserLilith]

Well I mean you can... if you wish to experience deadly neurotoxin

[@scout5988]

Well if you finished portal 2 *spoilers* She deleted carolen. Idc how you spell it.

[@MrGermandeutsch]

@@scout5988 *_Caroline_*

[@devihcra]

caroline seems like a nice lady, i sure hope she doesn't develop murderous urges after getting put inside a machine

[@slyking214]

You can't really blame GLaDOS for killing all the scientists, what would you do if someone kills you and afterwards you awake in a machins with the ability to get your revenge?

[@reeferbrownie4220]

I'm pretty sure it was consensual. As Skyrion stated, her life was science, and Cave Johnson said that'd hed like Caroline to be uploaded if he died before the technology is ready. I'd think she went along with it to follow the want of Cave Johnson. What ended up happening is her being part of the system and now a AI, she isn't thinking as her own human self. She's thinking like a machine

[@slyking214]

@@reeferbrownie4220 Who knows, there's a cut audio of Caroline saying she doesn't want something but it was cut for a reason.

[@thefreddyshow9144]

Fun fact: GLaDOS stands for “Genetic Life-form and Disc Operating System”

[@simpleinverso8628]

No shit Sherlock?

[@VK-jy3pi]

GLaPOS for a while. P = *"Potato"*

[@epsilonadept7301]

@@simpleinverso8628 Yes shit

[@simpleinverso8628]

@@epsilonadept7301 take your like and get out!

[@epsilonadept7301]

@@simpleinverso8628 give my dislike and lose in

[@jesssilver4244]

Well here we are again, deep portal lore, it’s always such a pleasure.

[@nayzal]

I see what you did there ;)

[@MedievalPeasant]

Amazing video. Been obsessed with portal for a long time and I found out some new things from this video. Keep up the great work!

[@Skyrionn]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@justanormalperson]

These lore videos are very interesting in my opinion, great job! :)

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you very much!

[@clownworldhereticmyron1018]

Excellent video, I appreciate how you succinctly explain her backstory without sacrificing important details. Your editing is great and compliments the story you're telling well. I just watched your half life and portal lore videos, was highly impressed. Subscribed!

[@justsomethingyouseeonline7387]

Remember when the blue core from the first portal game that give out ingredients like "fish shaped soild waste", etc. That not real ingredients for the cake, so that "intelligence" sphere/core Chell destroyed but some how survived and became Wheatley... why you may ask? cause after GLaDOS got turned into a Potato and became PotatOS she said this to him "I know you.... the engineers tried to slow me down and make me behave... they once attached an intelligence core onto me it filled me with terrible ideas like a tumor.. it was your voice.. you were the tumor" But hey it's just a theory.. a game theory

[@apoco1yps350]

Missed opportunity for the "I'm not a robot" reference lol

[@glados3198]

I passed that test so many times.

[@yourweirdfnaffan1439]

@@glados3198 😂

[@TheGlitch93]

@@glados3198 These Tests arent hard for robot to learn, idea: give wheatley that test, if He fails, *burn him*

[@KateCantDraw]

I really really Really REALLY want an alternate reality or something where glados and Chell stay in the facility and glados explores what doing science and being a human is like!!!

[@BrunoBluthgeld]

Guess what fanfictions are for.

[@marcinwitkowski217]

@@BrunoBluthgeld For r34?

[@BrunoBluthgeld]

@@marcinwitkowski217 Przez kretynizmy i zboczone fantazje długo postrzegałem fikcję fanowską jako zupełny śmietnik. Potem przekonałem się, że są w tym bagnie i prawdziwe perełki. Koniec końców wszystko zależy czego się szuka.

[@AllInnerLove]

slowly but surely glados became caroline, It took trillions of years.

[@Vessel767]

It was thousands, not trillions. Where the hell did you get trillions from?

[@itsclemtime2357]

@@Vessel767 Well, some people in this comment section haven’t actually played the game. If Rene played the game, she’d know that Wheatley says that it’s been and I quote: *”50,000 years.”*

[@UsenameTakenWasTaken]

Why would anyone believe that Wheatley can accurately count years?

[@Vessel767]

@@UsenameTakenWasTaken well it definitely wasn't trillions of years, that's just common sense.

[@philippizza1]

@@Vessel767 Do you know how hyperboles works?

[@shevin7515]

portal 2 is my favorite story game and i never understood what is about with caroline. thank you for this video

[@Skyrionn]

No worries :D Thanks for watching!

[@Masonicon]

Imagine an alternate universe where GLaDOS was Cave Johnson living his technological afterlife

[@OliveAnimates]

Even almost 10 years after portal 2 we still have so many questions and secrets we havent uncovered or answered, i love this franchise so much

[@gumballegal]

maybe combine would be her next test subjects. Half life and Portal crossover would be aweasome

[@johndoe-mo3zy]

Not likely, you pretty much destroy the combine in half-life 2 and portal 2 takes place thousands of years later. But maybe a half-life+portal crossover is still possible since Gordon freeman is still working for the gman. Maybe his next job might be to help chell get back into apeture labs or maybe to chelp her find civilization?

[@inkiepie2259]

The “50,000 years” between Portal 1 and Portal 2 is highly debated, it’s typically just considered an unknown amount of time, with most people estimating closer to roughly 50 years.

[@happypercussionist1]

I know your comment was a year ago but in the extra art therapy co op chambers glados said she lied about 50,000 years passing or even 10,000, i forgot what it was about

[@Azhiii__0]

Yes!! FINALLY someone still making portal alive!!

[@mrpedrobraga]

Still alive!

[@ballin9439]

why are there only like 10 comments, this is a great explanation

[@frenchfreddy33]

You make super high quality videos! It's crazy that you only have 6k subs... Good luck man.

[@MauricioJara]

Great work on the lore vids! Keep it up!

[@Skyrionn]

More to come!

[@Breadn]

This has been done a lot of times but you definitely did it best, good job! Hopefully one day valve will give Portal more love.

[@winteralf7300]

I never knew she killed many cats with neurotoxin. I will never forgive her

[@cunnieseverywhere]

You are not a greater entity against glados, peasant

[@bagelbramble7335]

Cats suck anyway

[@genola2441]

@@cunnieseverywhere they kinda are tho if they actually played portal where you actually kill her

[@cunnieseverywhere]

@@genola2441 i dont think an ai smarter than einstein would do such a horrible design for a rocket turret

[@genola2441]

@@cunnieseverywhere I am now oFfEnDeD that you are agreeing with the cat killer 2000

[@bpnbeckeroo]

I think it wasn't the power that made Wheatley mad. I think it was Caroline. Because then GLaDOS became good when she was a potato because Caroline wasn't making her mad. And then when GLaDOS went in charge, she deleted Caroline and didn't turn evil. That is also why Wheatley apologized when he was stuck in space.

[@angeber1178]

not, its because Wheatley is an idio

[@prometheus5218]

Glados became good because of Caroline. Also Caroline's consciousness is in glados mind programmed, that also means inside the potato. This also explains why she could recognise Cave Johnson in the old facility. Wheatley became evil because he is an idiot and after loosing everything he has nothing more left than to say sorry. Without Caroline glados would've never helped chell and she would've just used her to get back in power and let chell die in space afterwards

[@bpnbeckeroo]

@@prometheus5218 no, GLaDOS became good when Caroline wasn't in her body.

[@bpnbeckeroo]

@@prometheus5218 and he did admit that he wasn't sorry because he was stranded in space

[@bagelbramble7335]

@@bpnbeckeroo no, she said how she recognised Caroline and started talking at the same time as her when she wasn't connected to the mainframe, and that it's her consciousness and later states the voice in her head is "finally MY voice". Wheatley went mad because of the power of the mainframe and itch to test built into it. She claimed to delete Caroline but it's pretty obvious she didn't, especially cause Caroline isn't just an add-on to GLaDOS, but a big part of her, and let Chel leave alive. It's pretty obviously seen Caroline is the good part of GLaDOS, especially cause she's nice to Chel, but when she supposedly "deletes" Caroline, she acts colder again.

[@SheyTheGay]

So happy to see vids still being made on portal!!

[@Skyrionn]

I'm glad you could find the channel! I post Portal/ Half-Life lore every other Friday :)

[@xanthed5729]

why did you say “bring your cat to work day” when it’s actually “bring your daughter to work day”

[@MamaFeng]

@@TheColourOfFear hm?

[@Skyrionn]

The Rattmann comics say it was Bring Your Cat to Work Day. There's some conflicting information out there.

[@damonnugent1993]

Bring Your Daughter To Work Day was in the 90s and the first time GLaDOS was switched on, and Bring Your Cat To Work Day was in 2004 around HL1's timeframe and was the time GLaDOS tricked the scientists into giving her neurotoxin to perform the Schrodinger's Cat experiment and took over the facility for good, weeks later the Resonance Cascade occurs.

[@danielclark-hughes692]

@@damonnugent1993 this guy knows his stuff 👍

[@TheBeastmaul]

@@damonnugent1993 Then what is the science fair we see in-game? The one where we see Chell's name on a poster board. Wouldn't that have been taken down since the 90s? Conflicting info is right!

[@johnpfaff7532]

This was lovely. Thanks for making this.

[@Skyrionn]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching it!

[@gyblues1244]

So if Half life Alyx came out then portal 3 should too, because now we know valve are capable of counting to 3. Also great video!

[@itsclemtime2357]

Chell left Aperture, it’d be difficult to make a game where everything has already been solved.

[@AIC_onyt]

@@itsclemtime2357 We have community mods like portal stories mel

[@JocaPlays87]

1: they can count to alyx, not 3 2: if a portal 3 was made, it would be either about the birds GLaDOS has now or chell coming back to aparture because outside is hl

[@alexthebest3424]

Fourth reply

[@cunnieseverywhere]

@@JocaPlays87 there's nothing left, she has to survive off of wheat without even a rock to grind it and no milk or water to make bread

[@tusk_7071]

keep up the good work, i've been looking for a channel like yours for ages

[@Skyrionn]

Welcome aboard! We have a discord too :) (Mostly talk about Fable but we could do with more Half-Life/ Portal people in there) Link is in the desciption.

[@cheedam8738]

this channel is soo underrated, i hope this gets more attention

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you! So kind!

[@lumihiutale4094]

I love how well made this video is, solid lore and extremely well fitted footage! About the lore, do you think the scientists ended up forcing Caroline into GLaDOS, or did she volunteer? I wonder if the anger of being forced into a machine drove her mad, or was it the power of the chassis, as it was for Wheatley?

[@Skyrionn]

It's implied that she was forced into it.

[@RavenWolffe77]

@@Skyrionn not implied, * directly stated *. *“No, no! I don’t want this. Do you hear me? I DON’T WANT THIS!”* -voice-recording of Caroline, During one of the Old Aperture levels, shortly before returning to New Aperture.

[@Skyrionn]

I thought that voiceline was taken out of the game?

[@RavenWolffe77]

@@Skyrionn maybe on PC, but my early Xbox 360 copy still has it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s still canon.

[@ryugaryuzaki3284]

Damn, I love fable and I love portal! And I LOVE to learn about their nuances

[@MC4444YT]

Thats why we need Portal 3 or 4 to continue the story

[@troglodyte280]

Yeah but there’s no more story, Chell either dies to the wild head crabs or the combine and GLaDOS just does what she did before chell

[@xxxod]

@@troglodyte280 Chell meets up with Alyx and Glados takes over black mesa

[@Comaxwolf]

This is such an informative video! I love reaserching video games and this was amazing! Keep up the great work! Edit: You are welcome my dude! I am thinking about doing this kind of stuff on my channel, and i had an idea for your “The Lore Behind” videos. The three corrupt cores from the end of Portal 2. (Space core, Adventure core, Fact core), and basically how they became corrupt, and what they were made to do before their corruption. I would really love to see that video, but I understand if you are busy and can’t do it right away or ever. Just a fun suggestion! Keep up the great work!

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you so much!

[@stillchill9781]

what about the prototype chassis from that one dlc

[@Cypher_208]

Chell is also theorized to be caroline's daughter and is also another reason why GLaDOS was nice to chell after hearing the recordings also 1 last employee survived the 2nd nuero toxin attack and moved chell up to the top of the list for test subjects and the journey begins

[@shivertron]

wait, I'm confused, so GLaDOS is a mix of caroline and AI???

[@stonedtaka6057]

Genetic Life-form and Disc Operating System

[@shivertron]

@@stonedtaka6057 so yes?

[@stonedtaka6057]

@@shivertron yes!

[@shivertron]

@@stonedtaka6057 I see...

[@fluffcat1351]

what if chel is caroline's daughter? that would probably explain GLaDOS being slightly nicer to chel than she was to other subjects.

[@theonlyredwolf8321]

somewhere in portal 2, glados says that in the list of test subjects there was a man and a woman with chells last name. and chells full name is chell johnson. then theres cave johnson but idk who the mother is. tbh it probably is caroline because she was closest to cave. edit: its around the end of chapter 3.

[@eden20111]

That doesn’t explain why GLaDOS tries to constantly kill her. In both games literally straight up tries to throw her in the pit or suffocate her with the neurotoxin. You would think if Caroline was still in there , GLaDOS subconscious would tell her to stop don’t kill my daughter.

[@fluffcat1351]

@@eden20111 but GLaDOS is completely insane, and the modifications made to her consciousness would have almost silenced the original caroline. plus if GLaDOS really wanted to kill Chel, she could have just not moved the elevators, or not given her the portal gun in the first place

[@asahiillionosapiero5730]

@@eden20111 GlaDOS having control over an entire underground facility would be extremely easy to kill a single human in there. For example, While Chell is inside a test chamber why couldn't GlaDOS just crush the test chamber along with Chell? Or just tricking Chell with giving her an exit at the end when in reality it was a huge room that simulated the outside all the while with trace amounts of neurotoxin. Or simply remove the White portal panels and only use black ones, then either crush her, poison her, shoot her or whatever. There are lots of ways GlaDOS could have killed Chell throughout the game, In portal 1 where you get nearly thrown into the incinerator, Why would she put white portal walls in the incinerator room? If not simply for the portal gun. Besides, In a few Canon and Semi-Canon music/songs from Portal, it sometimes hints at GlaDOS feeling bad about the stuff she did. Which is why she deleted Caroline because with Caroline GlaDOS could think on her actions with a more humane view. With GlaDOS deleting Caroline just proves she doesn't want to think about what she did and simply wants to keep to her robotically cold thinking. Even in Portal 2 when you are just at the part where you go back up to the normal test facilities with Wheatley, She says something along the lines: "This is the first time I am thinking for myself with a normal point of view and honestly... It scares me." I could go on for entire paragraphs but I got school in the morning and I don't want to be too late.

[@andrewmanchiraju8005]

@tr3v0r I mean GlaDOS mocks Chell for being adopted so she could be Caroline’s biological daughter and Cave Johnson just forced someone to adopt her, like Rattman

[@klowell19]

the curiosity core dampened her curiosity of learning more about Chell trough the cameras in every chamber as stated in this line during the final battle after destroying the curiosity core: "I let you survive this long cause I was curious about your behavior but you destroyed that part of me"

[@axolotl2959]

"Bring your cat to work day."

[@Skyrionn]

Sounds like a good day to me.. except for the whole murderous robot thing.

[@axolotl2959]

@@Skyrionn I mean yeah, that's a bit of a problem.

[@MegatronEnthusiast]

Wasn’t it “bring your KID to work day”?

[@RumbleFudge]

You deserve a lot more views. (And a cake which is not a lie).

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you! The cake is absolutely not a lie.

[@emithelastidiot1817]

What if it was? What if it was vanilla, not chocolate?

[@lailoutherand]

@@emithelastidiot1817 what if it was made of cotton *NO NOT COTTON CANDY-*

[@cosmicvoidtree]

So if Portal 2 does take place 50000 years after Portal 1 (not including the first wake up in her room) the GLaDOS would have relived her last two minutes about 6,574,500,000 times, give or take a few more or less depending on the specifics. But still the number is so large it’ll barely make a difference anyway.

[@snek9406]

Think about that, over 50,000 years reliving your extremely painful and horrifying death over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and over, AND over again till you have officially lost your mind, and gained a burning hatred of the pesky little human that fried you billions of times over.

[@CindyDijkema]

Why is GLaDOS looking at the birds so wholesome, Just like gaint machine peepin at some lil birdies

[@hellothere8140]

"You know what my days were like? I just tested. Nobody murdered me, or turned me into a potato, or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life"

[@eigenmishiin3d47]

Where did the "fifty thousand years" number come from? I've heard that timeline has been contested.

[@alecboi777]

Eigenmishi in 3D it came from how long chell was asleep In portal 2

[@nyarlathotep4889]

It is contested. Some say it isn’t. I personally believe it’s around 50~

[@anonymoosenoname678]

@@nyarlathotep4889 i thought it was sooner, because when she escapes she’s in a wheat field, which means the combine have probably been kicked out of earth, since someone has planted all the wheat crop near aperture and let it grown. and portal one takes place just after the invasion (2003~) which means she would’ve been asleep for like 20

[@NightBeWheat]

Bring your cat to work day Cat dies People who bring cats: ???

[@lime8745]

Thank you for the lore

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching!

[@DeltaDoesGarbaj]

3:40 "Bring your cat to work day"

[@spidernh]

I liked most of the video, but you forgot to mention Doug Rattman and the fact that Caroline was unwilling to become GLaDOS. I like how you included the events of Portal 2, most videos don't do that, and you even included coop.

[@Cher2957]

furina and lyney were freaking out and now im freaking out but like kind of excited here

[@dextergrif1052]

Man this video made me realize how good Portal 2 looks. It’s probably the best looking game on Source 1

[@Skyrionn]

Portal 2 really is a great looking game!

[@nayrboyd5225]

You should do the lore behind Chell

[@maxiber.5495]

Great Video keep it up

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks, will do!

[@jaydentroeger980]

Glados likes how your accurate to everything

[@nukeboy7633]

the problem, is that its likely not been very long since portal 1 for two main reasons, one being that Chells body hasn't deteriorated by much in the so called 5000 - 500,000 years, which defies even cryrostasis. and that the storage device that GLaDOs is stored on, likely to be an SSD memory card, due to its impact resistance and general strength, only lasts a maximum of ten years without power. And as the only systems kept from going critical were the reactor and active cores(GLaDOs not being one of them, as seen in portal 2), the facility deteriorated quickly as there were no maintenance staff capable of repairing the facility. plant life grew and accelerated the decay of the facility after the initial decay, causing it to be in the state it is in portal 2.An, to top it all off, portal was set in 2010, meaning that at latest, portal 2 could have occurred in 2020

[@isiahspeicher7388]

You forgot to mention ‘The Good Turret,” therefore, breaking my heart.

[@Arceus-dicklick]

Aperture has far superior portal capabilites to black mesa, but working together, they could make a portal gun that can fling stuff like a grav gun

[@filipektrinh1197]

Actually,i think that APERTURE SCIENCE made the gravity gun AND IT WAS STOLEN by black mesa

[@ImmortalAbsol]

I didn't know she got through all those newly discovered test subjects. I really thought they were a loose end that might even help repopulate Earth depending on whats happened in the meantime on the surface.

[@basticl]

some of this was actually disproved in Aperture Dek Job

[@ersanovoroblox6102]

my brain hurts after watching this Edit: the fact that he said caroline made GLaDOS nicer and when GLaDOS deleted caroline her voice got louder and very unhuman. By the way im GLaD Portal 2 is still relevant

[@B-zk9bt]

The chaos of The Resonance Cascade and Black Mesa’s fallout gave GLaDOS a perfect opportunity to get Caroline revenge. The military was overwhelmed with the pandemonium of the portal storms, the H.E.C.U and the Black Ops were most likely either disbanded or moved to the cities to assist the military. Nobody would come looking for the facility’s personnel if anything happened to them.

[@diego2fuego869]

These vids goated trust me

[@goab402]

can you imagine hearing Cave instead of GLaDOS in portal 1? if he only lived a bit longer it would have been true... And i like the thought of J.K Simmons talking with a robotic voice about a companion cube

[@AlbertusSalvatierra]

What do y’all think about the end of Portal 2 in relation to Half-life. These are details about the outside world according to GLaDOS Portal: Are you trying to escape? Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and even I'm not sure what's going on outside. All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was. Portal 2: Fifty thousand years is a lot of time to think. About me. About you. We were doing so well together. I'm going to go to the surface. It's a beautiful day out. Yesterday I saw a deer. Well, you passed the test. I didn't see the deer today. I did see some humans. But with you here I've got more test subjects than I'll ever need. These bridges are made from natural light that I pump in from the surface. If you rubbed your cheek on one, it would be like standing outside with the sun shining on your face. I was outside watching some deer frolic. You don't even care about the outside do you?

[@thetruebaloney117]

I’m still trying to get to the bird part of co op but I cant find it

[@sopix7761]

it's the ending

[@Guy_Sandler]

Now in the new stream desk thing it shows that cave Johnson is in a statue

[@abram_bryan]

So, I know this is probably just a game design choice, but a bunch of things became much different, like cores, or cubes turning orange when you put them on the button, or even GLaDOS losing the gray thing over where the black is in the Portal 2, all though, I think that the last one could be from the explosion

[@liligloo]

he said at the end hello resistance members im with the combine all the way buddy

[@alekbelshe8518]

Good job

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks

[@djalil_YT]

Where does the last part after the ending of P2 come from? Coop?

[@ritbolitstudios582]

is it possible that the portal that brought chell outside was one of the portal storms from the black mesa incident?

[@Shylock0031]

This is a very intriguing storyline. It's interesting how a select few people decide what is best for others and create things that end up destroying both themselves and numerous others. Reminds me of the line from Jurassic park: "God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man creates dinosaurs." When left to our own "wisdom" the best we can do is sometimes terrifyingly tragic. Robots become "valuable" and humans become "test subjects" - reminds me a lot of our modern world in which human life (the unborn, the elderly, the handicapped) matters less than other life or created things (plants, animals, technology). GLaDOS and her cynical murderous nature (all those humans die in a week?!?!) are just the boiled down and concentrated darkness within her creators. If they released a third installment, it would be neat to see Caroline freed from GLaDOS.

[@dontplease3361]

that 50,000 years was proven to be false, or was out- believed(?) to be a rough 20 years.

[@DougCraftOfficial]

GLaDOS isn’t really evil, she just wants to test without restriction

[@nicknelson4161]

Is there a lore behind wheatley? If not can u make one

[@Skyrionn]

Yeah, I made that one. It's in the playlist somewhere :)

[@nicknelson4161]

@@Skyrionn wow fast reply ill go watch thay now

[@gooddogeplays6005]

Area 51 might be like Aperture science

[@Illegal_Immigrant]

"on bring your cat to work day" wait a minute, i thought it was bring your daughter to work day?

[@Skyrionn]

The Rattmann comic says its bring your cat to work day. Seems like there may be some conflicting information.

[@Illegal_Immigrant]

@@Skyrionn ah. i havent actually read the comic. my apologies

[@Skyrionn]

Oh you absolutely should! It's worth a read!

[@Illegal_Immigrant]

@@Skyrionn I have been meaning to get around to it, but it always happens to come up right before I end up fading from the fandom for a while

[@rajaiidaya6295]

where do the events after Chell leaves come from? i thought that was the end

[@Skyrionn]

During her time in Aperture, the planet was invaded by an Alien force called The Combine. Its the same universe as Half-life.

[@rajaiidaya6295]

@@Skyrionn yeah , but I mean the thing with the robot test subjects and vault of human test subjects and the crows, I don't remember that part

[@Skyrionn]

Ohhh, it's dlc for the Portal 2 co-op

[@rajaiidaya6295]

@@Skyrionn oh ok , thanks a lot and good luck in your future videos ✌

[@WigWoo1]

I thought Chells name was pronounced Shell?

[@Moonmelti]

“And then Glados developed PTSD when she see’s a bird”

[@themechbuilder6171]

i know the history but i allways like to look again and again at the video

[@Skyrionn]

I'm glad you keep coming back!

[@dianalane7653]

Nice vids

[@MrGermandeutsch]

4:07 nice camera

[@gwrstudios5181]

I don’t believe she even deleted Caroline they just kinda learned to co exist

[@devendra.sanghavi]

How did you know and found about after chell leaves part of glados and bird bonds and stuff

[@Skyrionn]

It's in the Portal 2 co-op DLC :D

[@user-zc4sx9ig6p]

I feel like wheatley and glados both become obsessed with tests and careless because it was made for cave Johnson, and that a lot of those traits are similar to his, so thats why anyone plugged into the enrichment centre goes crazy

[@WigWoo1]

Yay I'm in Michigan

[@Skyrionn]

Congrats! Down go seeking out salt mines

[@TheMadsav1993]

Yeah it's been speculation on if Caroline is Chells mother but that's not confirmed but all we know is she is one of the workers kid

[@marpinek8592]

Great video! But there's still one thing I need to know: HOW DID GLaDOS CHANGE HER "FACE PLATE" BETWEEN GAMES?????

[@OctoNico]

She literally controls an entire science facility including the manufacturing parts of it, she basically just has to make a new face plate where the turrets etc are produced and done. I mean, she literally rebuilds the whole broken down facility single handedly, making a face plate is a minor struggle at best.

[@marpinek8592]

@@OctoNico well yes but she was deactivated the whole time and when you encounter her the first time she already has the new look

[@insignificanth8231]

Plus the room that she is in looks different

[@insignificanth8231]

And how else would glados get back into the facility plus glados doesn't have the same look or fearures making people think that portal 1 Glados is a prototype and portal 2 Glados to be a newer model that just was deteriated over time during the 50,000 years of Chell being asleep

[@marpinek8592]

@@insignificanth8231 yeah exactly

[@alistpromise648]

Well earned like 😁

[@Skyrionn]

Thank you!

[@alistpromise648]

@@Skyrionn No problem my friend!

[@jhonthewolf]

I would like to say that Caroline was mentioned in the 1960s part of the game

[@capsuleofdoom6942]

great CGI how'd you do it