The Portal Iceberg: Explained

The Portal Iceberg is one of the more extensive icebergs, given the immense lore that Aperture Science has. In this video, I will do a deep dive into this iceberg and explain all of the entries. This one is quite interesting if I do say so myself.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:21 The Surface
13:55 The Shallow Waters
21:44 The Waters
28:49 The Deep Waters
35:41 The Abyss
Sources:
The Portal Iceberg Image - / every_copy_of_portal_i...
Mauricio Jara - • The Portal Iceberg: Ex...
Still Alive GameFAQs Thread - gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/...
The History of Portal - • The History of Portal
Exposure by LunchHouse Software - • Video
Portal 2: Creating a Sequel to a Game That Doesn't Need One - • Portal 2: Creating a S...
Greek Mythology Chart - / parallels_between_port...
Portal 2 Demo (Part 2) - E3 2010 - • Portal 2 Demo (Part 2)...
Aperturescience.com - • ApertureScience.com
Portal Beta GLaDOS Battle - • Portal Beta GLaDOS Battle
Animex 2012 - Karen Prell's "Animated Adventures in Portal 2" Part 3/6 - • Video
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[@accessiblefunky]

✔️ Thanks for watching! English Captions are now available! ✔️ NOTE: I forgot to narrate an entry so here it is, In Case of Flooding, Seek Air Pockets: This entry refers to the signs found throughout Portal 2’s Test Shaft 09, where one should seek air pockets in case of flooding. These signs could be warning personnel about the gels and their potential to flood the facility. Flooding had been a potential issue due to the sheer amount of pipes and pumps that were found in the underground facilities. The pipes can be easily destroyed with mines so any explosions and the gels are toxic to the human body, so flooding would be a disastrous event for Aperture Science.

[@lad6655]

Thank you for correcting your mistakes!

[@dededesgustingtkemylife4825]

objection, it may be a reference to how in most games, when theres an underwater part, there are air bubbles that let you breath

[@sulphurous2656]

Flooding in general seems to be a common theme going around the facility in the wake of GLaDOS taking over as far as one can tell. Whether or not all of that goo, water, or whatever it is was originally there, if its toxic beyond imagination on its own or not is left unclear.

[@nocturn9x]

what the hell is going on at 31:01? lol

[@CivilGun]

My question, What is canon on this iceberg.

[@robinzegerman]

23:31 the fact that GLaDOS names 2 rules and doesnt finish the third fits the "valve cant count to 3" meme quite well

[@iamalive1142]

That makes sense now

[@Ceblet]

I always thought the third rule was "Do not fire the portal device at the moon"

[@nnikitov57]

@@iamalive1142 Too early for that.

[@conic2721]

@@Ceblet Maybe it's "don't put a Portal up and one down on your feet, you will throw up"

[@EpicGamer-fl7fn]

@@conic2721 realistically speaking, i'd be more concerned about turning into a fuckin human smoothie if i'd fire one of the portals away so i would stop falling endlessly.

[@foxxy-3748]

There is a cut Wheatley line where he says “There’s a man with a briefcase who wanted to see you.” Which implies that G-Man was originally meant to have taken an interest in Chell.

[@hdew12354]

yoo, that's crazy! do you have a source? thanks!

[@foxxy-3748]

@@hdew12354 On page 331 of the Official Portal 2 Guide (made by Erik Wolpaw) he says, near the beginning of the game, Wheatley was meant to say a line something along the lines of “Nobody's been around for a while , but there's an old guy walking around with a briefcase looking for you.” While I can’t find an official source where you can read the guide yourself online, if you have the collector’s edition copy of the game it should’ve come with it.

[@UntalentedBrick]

@@foxxy-3748 if wheatley said that line _"Limitless Pontential"_ can happen with the story line.

[@royliber3824]

@@UntalentedBrick Would be a cool easter egg if Wheatley would have said something like: "Together you and me have Limitless Potential... Heard a guy with a suit somewhere saying that."

[@foxxy-3748]

@UCI9H2n6ITSoQDvZGt4LIoSw You got it all wrong unfortunately. Cave Johnson is who you’re thinking of, and he’s the now dead CEO of Aperture Science. The Desk Simulator is a prequel to the Portal games. G-Man is not someone we know about very firmly, but he is not Cave Johnson, as he looks nothing like him and sounds nothing like him.

[@ZombieCowTTV]

To be fair about the cake. When GLaDOS is no longer allowed to lie to you, she never said you would have cake. She said, "you will be baked, and then there will be cake." She never said the cake was for you.

[@arafe.1012]

She literally said U'LL be baked As in torched alive

[@nibulsheep8214]

Yeah i think her cores are forcing her to bake cakes, but she still manages to break through

[@maface2247]

and at the fire scene in chamber 19 before you start to escape is you being baked for the cake

[@hhhpestock951]

turns out chell was just a stoner

[@pixelatedsethtube1271]

Chell also has a nice booty so the cake was with us all along too

[@isaacsenior8836]

The third rule is actually in the files. It is "Most importantly, under no circumstances should you remove the device from the testing area"

[@meteorname9395]

Well that's boring...

[@QuirkyMator]

Foreshadowing for the part after chamber 19

[@MasterOfKnowledge.]

I'm surprised the old "Chell is Cave Johnson's/Caroline's daughter" theory wasn't in here

[@sud1881]

It’s a well known fac- oh that should be there

[@sulphurous2656]

Where would this favorite among fanfiction writers of old rank?

[@sud1881]

@@sulphurous2656 I see this theory being in the second layer

[@MasterOfKnowledge.]

@@sulphurous2656 I agree with sudwap for the most part. Though I could see it anywhere from the first to third layers in general, just given how tame and (seemingly) widespread it is/was (assuming the latter is a factor in what goes in which part of the iceberg)

[@ndricimhalili9793]

Well the song the turrets play in the end of Portal 2 is officially named "Cara mia addio!" which translates from Italian to "Goodbye my dear!". This semi-confirms that Chell is at least Caroline's daughter.

[@yourdoom9868]

The interdimensional contract part was actually about a cut Wheatley dialogue where he says 'there is a man with a briefcase who wanted to see you'

[@randomguythatlikeshorrorga9588]

When I hear briefcase I thought u talking about spy XD but anyway G-man exist in portal too and is canon I mean WHAT if wheatly talk about someone he really see?

[@memedude8303]

@@randomguythatlikeshorrorga9588 but every tf2 character can carry the briefcase

[@LostwaveGal]

@@randomguythatlikeshorrorga9588 1: Any TF2 class can hold the Intel Case 2: It's spelled two 3: I had a stroke reading this

[@dalek4463]

*O H*

[@Stitchu27]

Do you have a source for this?

[@realtechhacks]

"Maybe GLaDOS viewed human cloning unethical" Yeah, sure, GLaDOS cares about ethics soooooo much. Keeping humans in a vault is also sooo ethical.

[@shuheihisagi6689]

Yeah, its probably more likely that clones are just not as effective test as subjects.

[@autisticchopper]

It might just be that since clones are pretty much endlessly replaceable, watching them die stopped being entertainment for GLaDoS since the death doesn't last.

[@arafe.1012]

Or cloning wasn't fully developed. Seems like the most likely answer if cloning does exist

[@fluffy_knight]

Well she has a morality core... so anything she does must be testing.

[@evanmak7837]

Remember, for her to actually go ahead and start attacking Chell directly she needed her morality core to be destroyed. It was the only thing holding her back. She may be a dangerous phychopathic AI, but in the first game she was strictly programmed to do nothing but testing, no matter her emotions. I like to think of her as a depressed brain, locking everything, being passive aggresive and insulting and simply letting time pass doing nothing. I think the only time we get the "pure" version of Glados's emotions is the second game after the potato transfer. And of course how corrupted the AIs attached to central control can become.

[@fluffyloo9025]

For the cake core, it goes in 5 stages. The first stage is cake recipes like "1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips " The second stage is when it talks about the fish shaped items like " fish shaped crackers" and "fish shaped solid waste" The third stage is when he talks about random dangerous items like "unsaturated polyester resin" and "An entry on how to kill someone with your bare hands" The fourth stage is when he talks about rhubarb like "one tablespoon of all purpose rhubarb " The last stage is how to preserve a dead body.

[@randomtexanguy9563]

Stage 1: Cake Core Stage 2: Fish-Shaped Item Core Stage 3: Random Danger Core Stage 4: Rhubarb Core Stage 5: Corpse Preservation Core Seeing as it knows all of this, let's just call it by it's real name, the Intelligence Core.

[@craycraywolf6726]

Doesn't make it any less creepy...

[@hyun2094]

when the algorithm blessed you with a 40 minute portal video that’s fresh

[@ShadowSearcher31]

I honestly didn’t realize how early I was

[@LittleBlockyCube]

agreed

[@jawsplayz]

Golden Cheetah26 Same Here-

[@nocturn9x]

ikr?

[@miguelmalvina5200]

is there a way to get to know more content like this ?

[@dogwithcoke8370]

He turned himself Into a crab, funniest shit I’ve ever seen.

[@expendableindigo9639]

It wasn’t even Wheatley either, just a random core.

[@makinelimuhendis7367]

Hahahahaha Wheatly crab

[@venom6231]

Ha ha h- wait is this the part where I'm supposed to luagh?

[@AlexG32777]

@@expendableindigo9639 actually it's a beta Wheatley

[@Shadder2972]

Oh now i see, Pickle Rick joke borns there

[@amymanen5699]

21:40 All I know, is that 15 year old me was thrilled when she looked through the portal and saw someone that looked like her.

[@ct_tropical1451]

Wholesome Portal moment =]

[@kakorotskywalker]

38:35 In programming, counting usually starts with 0 instead of 1. So if you have an array of 20 numbers, it'd be 0, 1, 2,... 19. And considering GLaDOS is an AI and she made those chambers, that could be a very possible reason.

[@technicalsock2465]

Everyone's asking where is Chell But no one's asking how's Chell

[@siggeletut856]

cause it's kinda hard not knowing where she is

[@felinriflemendino8421]

Well, she still alive

[@TimoIvvie]

Pretty good chillin with her companion cube that experienced fratricide.

[@akaka6377]

@Old Acc She's selectively mute, maybe she'd answer if asked politely lol

[@sulphurous2656]

Some questions are perhaps best left to our imagination.

[@13Yeared]

When I was young, I interpreted the ending of Portal to be that you got turned into cake. When you were being led into the incinerator, Glados says "You will be baked, and then there will be cake." You escape the complex, get dragged back in, and then you're shown a cutscene with shelves full of cake, with one standing prominently in the center.

[@poweringaccounttermination4026]

Thats kinda messed up lol

[@SimonClarkstone]

Originally at the end of Portal 1, you weren't dragged back in. That was a later addition to allow for Portal 2 to contain Chell.

[@kappnk9821]

The shelves don't have cake?

[@simmy0019]

Don't the shelves show blank/offline personality cores?

[@13Yeared]

@@simmy0019 they do but my blind ass thought it was cake for some reason

[@mimicer6877]

The third portal rule may or may not be "do not shoot at the moon". Since I don't think aperture science went around telling everyone that the conductor for portals were moonrocks, so it would make a lot of sense for them to warn the testers. The only real plothole to this theory is the fact that there aren't many scenarios where a moon would be present, also the fact that Cave Johnson talks about moonrocks on the speakers.

[@SuperCakeKing]

moon rocks were used for the gel. and the third rule was do not take the gun outside the testing chambers. so your theory is right but off by a few hairs

[@theytuserknownassethinnit]

Or maybe do not shoot at the sun.

[@bradley6676]

Chell sleeping for 60,000 years would be such a dark theory. If it’s true, it means humanity could possibly have been wiped out and Chell being released after portal 2 would have just had her live in an even lonelier world.

[@sc3961]

Wouldn't it be cool if--, when combined with other theories (like the one where Wheatley has a bit of dialogue cut from the script of the game where he mentions "the man with the suitcase", maybe mixed with the entire "Main writer for Portal says he has a great starting point for Portal 3 if they ever decide to make it" news debacle last year) ... wouldntItBeCool iiif - Chell WERE actually noticed by GMan (when she's, of course, one of the only people alive after 60000 years) and the Portal/Half Life story continues to be told with Freeman/Chell working together to tell some crazy "Half Life 3 + Portal 3" story? Maybe even with time travel mixed in (that GMan (and his "Employers") can offer), with some great back-and-forth, contrasting and interwoven shots and scenes of the two protagonists. Ah man. Imagine the loose ends they could tie, the amount of lore they could dump, and the "cant count to 3" Valve myth to finally be GLORIOUSLY busted. The dream.

[@Noodelzmop]

The whole "they have to incinerate the companion cube instead of emancipating it because blah blah dead body" is stupid because GLaDOS emancipates the companion cube SEVERAL times in portal 2

[@BlownOutSpeakers]

I don't agree with the theory about the dead bodies, but those cubes are visibly different. Perhaps they didn't need to store bodies in them for weight, but still wanted companion cubes for testing.

[@jamesg6660]

The most blatant contradiction to the whole theory is that in the Ratman Comic, the companion cube tells Ratman to not take his medication because if he does, it won't be able to talk to him anymore, because his schizophrenic hallucinations will go away. Honestly, the whole theory is dumb, and just seems to be a matter of people not understanding the psychological aspect to the companion cubes, with how the test subjects go crazy & get emotionally attached to them due to their lonliness & isolation. People taking GLADoS's lines and the fratricide achievement literally is just dumb, it kills the interesting psychological implications of the companion cubes.

[@xweert711]

@@jamesg6660 Yeah, it's an incredibly stupid theory.

[@jamesg6660]

​@Matix 777 That whole "intelligence" thing is a real stretch. It's just part of the running gag in Portal that Aperture gives the stuff they make absurd names. If anything, it just affirms the idea that Aperture--and by extention GLADoS, is just purposefully screws with the subjects heads. They are psychologically testing the subjects, after all. There's a reason they called the cube the "companion cube" and purposefully taint subjects by making them think it might talk to them, and might be sentiant. The theory just annoys me, because the writers were very obviously trying to get across one thing (the psychological testing the subjects are endured to), whereas the theory just makes it seem like everyone either ignores it or doesn't get it. Instead people opt to pull the whole "let's come up with a way to interpret things in a way the writers clearly didn't intend" thing. I just don't like that. That's just me though. If you like the theory, more power to you.

[@kyaing9047]

@@xweert711 Matpat is known for braindead theories. He tries to show that Pyro is a gay man by comparing finger lengths. How is that related to sexuality, who knows.

[@RunnerEye]

“Portal is feminist propaganda” is the most chronically online take on a video game i’ve ever heard

[@Acheronpanda]

"It has women so it's feminist propaganda!!!" bruh

[@masicbemester]

can't tell if it's Reddit or 4Chan. Wait, it's both, isn't it?

[@botercreme0789]

Glados literally deleteds Caroline

[@fluffynator6222]

@@masicbemester Reddit isn't exactly anti-feminist.

[@largeboi4678]

I find it hilarious how she doesn’t even talk or anything, the ONLY way you can see her is through the portals!

[@null_00]

When I first saw Chell throught the portal i wasn't like "oh... I am a woman" but i was like "wow, i can see myself through the portal"

[@ytpakki]

I'm surprised this iceberg didn't contain the 'Chell is Cave Johnson's daughter' theory. If you didn't know, there's a really popular (or, as far as I know), theory that has to do with the 'Bring your daughter to work day' section in Portal 2. The one with the potato and portal has 'Chell' written on it, as well as something about using 'dad's technology' if I recall correctly. The theory goes that Chell is a test subject because of that Bring your daughter to work day, and that 'dad's technology' is referring to Cave Johnson's portal technology. (Yes, I am aware he didn't invent it.)

[@vegangummybearz.]

chell is confirmed to be brazillian and japaneese, it wouldn't make sense for cave to be her dad considering he's white

[@wojtekpolska1013]

2 things: - Mel was also considered to be in coop mode alongside Chell, but they were replaced by robots since valve couldn't figure out how to explain respawning (if one robot dies the map doesn't reset since the other one is still alive. he just comes out of the tube at spawn) ‐ there is cut voiceline of caroline screaming "no! no! no!" which relates to her being put into AI against her will, but it was cut due to being too disturbing

[@TeddyLeitner]

I believe that audio was cut because JK Simmons (Cave Johnson) refused to record his lines, saying they sounded too much like a rape scene.

[@quickdraw6591]

@@TeddyLeitner that's a rumot. It was denied numberus times

[@TeddyLeitner]

@@quickdraw6591 oh, thanks for letting me know

[@quickdraw6591]

@@TeddyLeitner No problem😁👍

[@wta1518]

@@TeddyLeitner The lines were recorded. If you dig into the files for Portal 2 you can find them.

[@popcornistorturedcorn]

11:12 The fire that Prometheus stole was a metaphor for knowledge actually.

[@krodmandoon3479]

Yeah, that was a real smooth-brained take on his part.

[@thephoenixsystem6765]

And the sky is the same colour as the sea. COINCIDENCE? I THINK THAT'S HOW YOU SPELL THAT

[@laurenoptified1701]

oh my god he's technoblade

[@HokeyBugle]

@Cameron Betton yes, that's what makes it a metaphor lol

[@lifeiscats1337]

Uhh no?! Zeus literally set upon an ice age and took away their fire privileges. 💀 Have you even read the original passages?

[@HoriaM29]

38:05 It's because GLaDOS is, at the end of the day, a computer. And computers start counting from 0 instead of 1. There are 20 chambers, as its supposed to; it's just that the numbering system GLaDOS uses is different from the one we humans would use.

[@moonkey2712]

At the end of the first one, when you are fighting her, she says "two plus two is ... Uh... 10... IN BASE FOUR!" which is correct.

[@MaverickJeyKidding]

27:38 - never have a thought about Aperture Science testing their portal gun ever crossed my mind. From the very first trailer to the very first minutes in the game i automatically assumed they are testing the test subjects themselves to see who is creative enough to pass all the chambers. Am i the only one to think this way?

[@gaborgalda5404]

That was surprising for me too. I have always thought that it was the test subjects that are put into test, not the gun, I think it is absolutely obvious. Like, the gun already works perfectly, and naturally as a technologically groundbreaking device that manipulates physics, it is tested how humans can use it, how humans can utilise it. The only thing to test on the portal gun is... if it can shoot portals correctly and if said portals can work correctly. There is no need for 19+ test chambers for such test. The chambers are designed to test human creativity, logic etc., with obstacles deadly to humans...

[@juiceoverflow]

The moron theory video touches on this positing that Cave Johnson was too stupid to realize how groundbreaking the technology was and just kept working to refine it to some impossible standard until it eventually got forgotten about along with the rest of aperture

[@boy_with_sleeveless_jacket7951]

I always did wondered what exactly aperture was trying to test on.

[@nibulsheep8214]

Portal 1 GLaDOS probably tests compusilvely, since she is shackled by her cores and it's hardwired into the system. But in portal 2 she probably just test the humans themselves

[@Resecupss]

Now THIS is a game that deserves an iceburg

[@CommissarChaotic]

The Borealis

[@bruhbruhbruh8905]

Iceburger

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

@@CommissarChaotic Hunt down the Borealis.

[@Cobalt985]

gotta ride a hearted comment here, the companion cube is more than "hinted" at being alive, GLaDOS in that P2 test chamber literally says "they are sentient of course, we just have a lot of them"

[@omegaotaku1342]

are you suggesting most other games don't deserve icebergs?

[@zkelethor1929]

It just occurred to me that the companion cube might actually not contain dead bodies, but since it helped Rattman escape GlaDOS, and GlaDOS might have heard Rattman taking advice from the CC (despite the fact that it is just a regular cube) thus successfully evading GlaDOS' traps, she urged Chell to ignore it as well in fear that it might somehow help her escape.

[@drake52]

That actually kinda makes sense

[@andycruzatx3387]

I saw it like , if you begin to hear voices , ignore them. You have gone crazy.

[@UrbanTheIntrovert]

That's exactly what I was thinking. It's the most logical theory IMO

[@Souphead.]

And the cube talking to him is just him going insane + him losing his pills, but I think the cube resembles his knowledge of the facility since he is a scientist and he has to know his way through the traps and the facility.

[@RandomGuy0400]

Well there's also the fact that you put the cube into something called an emergency intelligence incinerator... Implying that the cube is... Intelligent...

[@alterranlongbow5067]

4:20 a quick correction, AEGIS was attempting to destroy the enrichment center to kill GLaDOS before she could reactivate, as it had determined her to be the cause of death for all the employees it was created to protect. In the ending cutscene, after Mel had prevented this course of action in her escape, it awakens test subject 001, Chell starting the events of Portal 2 32:55 an alternate theory to this i prefer is the Moron Theory, which I found through a video by Leadhead. They describe that the incompetence of Cave Johnson unintentionally saved the human race by failing to market Aperture's inventions. The reason the Combine didn't simply wipe out the human race is because some were on the brink of inventing short range teleportation, a technology which the Combine planned to reverse engineer once they had succeeded, completely unaware this advancement had been made over 60 years ago in Aperture. Cave's insistence on testing the device instead of selling it meant that after the collapse of aperture, there wasn't really anyone left alive who even knew they had even tried to invent the portal gun.

[@nibulsheep8214]

Never have i made this connection, insane

[@agamerintheworld]

31:46 i can imagine ellen walking into the studio like "ok what are we recording today" and the devs saying "vanilla crazy cake"

[@busterbunny005]

23:48 Actually in Russian translation GLaDOS dialogue doesn't cut off and she just warns to not take portal gun outside of the facility

[@SK-by6qd]

This, as well as an unused subtitle that says a similar thing.

[@AELmattex]

Yeah, but that's unreasonable because even if you take the portal you out of the facility, you can't shoot to anything since anything in the surface is made with moon's rocks

[@ashurean]

Some part of me privately hoped it was "do not put any organic material through the portal"

[@ashurean]

or "do not take any bread through the portal" which would've been a funny nod to the tumor-bread teleporters from tf2

[@madkirk7431]

Nah imma do it anyways

[@Dangermad]

I believe that GLaDOS baked that cake purely out of spite.

[@atomicdreamz6035]

That's so in character that I choose to accept it as canon. She really _is_ just that petty.

[@vincentcampbell8314]

She would be that petty

[@meowhello1845]

i think it is true

[@largeboi4678]

@Matix 777 that would be an old cake, maybe it has a ton of preservatives packed into it! I mean, considering what Aperture was involved with, it would be way less problematic than what they’re used to

[@iamsemjaza]

GladOS doesn't want clones with no history. She wants human subjects that lived lives and who can grieve at losing those lives in her experiments. She wants them to feel maximum anguish.

[@austin_blair]

when Chell wakes up for the first time in Portal 2, the Announcer says “You have been in suspension for _50_ days,” using that logic for the second time she wakes up, then Chell had been asleep for 55 9s worth of days, or a whopping *0.27 vigintillion years*

[@dmitrysukhoy2119]

23:31 In the russian version of Portal the third rule is revealed: "Under no circumstances should the device be taken out of the laboratory". This may explain the final sequence of Portal Stories: Mel mod where Mel is forced to destroy the portal device before escaping

[@hooman1439]

This may explain why Glados didn't say this rule in english. Humans were not going to exit the facilities anyways.

[@manhvu4988]

basically glados doesn't want chell to leave the enrichment center

[@ohno3622]

I played portal as a kid. Now I’m 3 weeks away from an electrical engineering degree and I’m working full time in research (including robotics research). This game really changed my life.

[@yegorgribenuke6853]

i hope the game teached you to not embed human contiousness in ai

[@mrsubject1]

Just please don't give your robots access to neurotoxin

[@ruinenlust_]

I now have a bachelor in AI, lol

[@randomidoit9605]

Will you build robots that can give us 6 more seconds of cooperation than humans?

[@krungsoulpogger9875]

I hope don’t have ai that self aware

[@hyp3r177]

I'm surprised you didn't mention chell possibly being cave Johnson's and Caroline's daughter. since one of the potato science experiments from bring your kid to work day (which you can find when escaping with Wheatley in portal 2) has chell's name hidden on it. Also the potato in her experiment is the only one that grew possibly symbolizing that she grew up but all the other children didn't

[@SentientIrisu]

Wait really.

[@SentientIrisu]

HOLY SHIT, does that mean the reason why GLaDOS is so obsessed with her is because she sort of remembers Chell as her daughter?

[@hyp3r177]

@Blank[d] its possible. its definatly a little bit of assumption but its possible

[@03luigi14]

Maybe Chell is the adopted daughter of Cave and Caroline. Chell's last name was probably redacted because Cave and/or Caroline didn't want anyone to see the connection with last names. Also, both Wheatley and GLaDOS mention Chell being adopted Edit: Another, smaller detail is that Chell has darker skin than Caroline or Cave. Larger detail: in "Want You Gone", GLaDOS mentions Caroline being a lot like Chell, implying that Chell took after Caroline, which could be where Chell got her abnormal tenacity from, given that neither Cave nor Caroline ever gave up on doing science Edit 3: removed edit 2

[@Manxine14]

I don’t think this theory could work. The first thing that comes to mind, among other things, is GLaDOS’ voice line saying,” I found two people in cryogenic storage with your last name. A man and a woman. It really is a small world.” Cave might have been stored, but we know that Caroline wasn’t because she was forced into GLaDOS.

[@nohakoraii]

the part of prometheus being glados can also match the way that gldos had a black box that showed her her death repeatedly, the same way prometheus was repeatedly tortured by the bird every day

[@vizzysfizzys]

adding on the “everything is sentient” bit, in portal 2, there are some panels with a red light instead of blue, and seem to be *visibly* upset about not knowing how to fit into the hole they are meant to be in and seem to trash around at other panels.

[@bluetechno6056]

my favourite is the one panel thats playing around with a cube and another panel is getting super angry and telling the first panel to stop

[@kingofstrangeness7014]

@@bluetechno6056 where

[@Helios8170]

Oh they absolutely are. I don't remember where I heard it, but they put a personality construct in *everything*.

[@livingcorpse349]

Makes me wonder if it’s the same AI like Glados and that panel was a person or something, highly doubtful, but there’s a horrific idea for you

[@strongblade]

The Cake is Real: GLaDOS never specifically lies about giving you (Chell) cake. Her line is "First you will be baked, then there will be cake." She never suggests she is offering any cake to Chell. Just that there will be cake afterwards. It's only after you escape being baked that GLaDOS resorts to lies and bribery.

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

If you no burn, no cake for u. Basically

[@wta1518]

Another thing is that the fire may not necessarily be intended to kill you, it may just be a prank. Remember: all Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 Kelvin.

[@ali_m_]

@@wta1518 chell is not something created by aperture

[@juanausensi499]

@@wta1518 And if you don't scape the fire trap, you do die.

[@Acheronpanda]

@@ali_m_ Chell is theorised to be the daughter of Caroline and Cave Johnson, who work at Aperture, meaning she's created by Aperture and therefore is fireproof.

[@Boschitter]

the only franchise where cake has some sort of relevance to the lore. god bless.

[@ryanwillis2513]

I first played the Portal series when I was 11. I thought it was cool. As an adult though I realise how deep it is, how amazing the characters are, how lonely the map is, the cultural references. It’s amazing.

[@UnsightlyThinker]

God, this makes me happy. Portal content in 2021.

[@npc6817]

Have some better news: the pirtal reloaded mod (the one with time traveling portals) is releasing in a couple weeks

[@luisbravo5452]

​@@npc6817 i can´t wait

[@mantolinez]

Still my favourite game and universe. I've been choosing clothes today to make my kinda coplayish outfit, which I intent to wear in May. I listen to game sountracks' remixes and ambience everyday as a background music🧡💙

[@siliasporter4424]

@@npc6817 its released now!

[@npc6817]

@@siliasporter4424 !myes! I DON'T GET IT THO!

[@jamesg6660]

Honestly, the "companion cubes have dead bodies in them" theory always seemed dumb to me. It just seems like it's people who can't seem to grasp the actual point of of the game treating companion cubes like they're living objects that can talk, namely that they're a way of showing how the test subjects get so lonely during testing that they get emotionally attatched to their companion cube, and are taking everything that the games say about them overly literally. It's also directly contradicted by the Ratman comic, since the companion cube wants Ratman to not take his medicine specifically because he can only talk to it due to his schizophenia, and getting "better" will stop him being able to talk to it. Never understood why this theory is so popular to be honest, it's not only blatantly untrue, and contradicted by the Ratman comic, it just seems weird that people feel the need to make theories to explain away things that already have rational, canon explanations. People taking GLADoS's lines and the fratricide achievement literally is just dumb, it kills the entire point.

[@SnakeOcelot]

I think that these types of theories, that seem true at first glance but ultimately aren't, are liked just because they are entertaining. MatPat explained this when he talked about his theories, saying that what's important is not how credible one theory is, but how much interesting and entertaining can be, how much it can make you think "What if it's real?" and make you doing research by yourself. Well, obviously people who just defend crappy theories passing them off as unquestionably true exist too, but I don't think that they are part of the majority who talks about the "companions cube have dead bodies in them" theory or other ones like that.

[@jamesg6660]

@@SnakeOcelot Sure, there's nothing wrong with thinking about theories for the hell of it. The problem comes when the theory becomes so popular that people either take it as gospel, or it gets spread around so much that people, particularly non-fans who only know about the series casually, start mistaking it for canon. Or, alternatively, when the theories are actually detrimental, because they take away what makes the writing so ingenious in the first place, by sweeping away any deeper meaning that the writiers were clearly going for, with dumb alternative explanations that aren't anywhere near as interesting or clever. The last of those is what the companion cube theory does, which is why I have a problem with it. Majora's Mask, too, has all but been ruined, pop' culture wise, by that kind of thing. Majora's Mask is a great and dark game, because of what the developers put into it and the content in the game itself, not because of Ben Drowned, or the dumb "Link is dead" theories.

[@SnakeOcelot]

@@jamesg6660 Well, while I agree on the first point you made (taking some theories as absolutely true even if they aren't), I have to disagree on your second point. In my opinion, if a theory is made just for fun (like most of MatPat's theories) or for the purpose of telling a story (like creepypastas), it doesn't matter if it does not cover the real message of the game and his poetry. That's wrong if it's an interpretation, an analysis or a review of said game, but if we are talking about speculating, I think everyone should be allowed to come up with everything they'd like and then it's up to you to choose if you want to believe it. Also I don't think this could ruin a game, because it's more likely that there are more people who understand the game's hidden meaning than those who don't.

[@heronnasser6869]

I agree. When I first saw the theory on Matpat's channel I've felt weirdly annoyed as I usually don't care about stuff like this. But the arguments were so dumb that I couldn't believe people were taking it seriously.

[@chloekoalabear1412]

I'm not as familiar with the timeline as I used to be but I remember thinking that it would be more likely that the cubes were sentient as a result of testing. We know that cave wanted to put someone in an AI, what's the chances that he practiced by putting consciousness into the cubes. To me that makes more sense to me than them being made of dead people

[@talonkaine7121]

If it ever happens, a massive half life 3 game with Chell, Adrian Shepard and Gordon would be epic

[@Omega-jg4oq]

Barney : You Dare forget about me?! then I will not give you that beer I owed you 🍾

[@Slash11512]

Kleiner: Are you insane? The probability of a new Half-Life event are extremely unlikely!

[@Omega-jg4oq]

@@Slash11512 Gman : Ah.. that would be considerably large nudge.. too large given the interest of my Valve employers

[@ronansmith2566]

34:33 with the new tech demo, this has never been more relevant lol.

[@Soundwave11037]

"I've turned myself into a crab, Chell, I'm crab Wheatley"

[@defectivetoaster]

*Wheatley crab

[@harioschtroliki]

I kid you not. He turns himself into a crab, funniest shit I've ever seen

[@BriefAnger]

Ah, ah, Wheatley, WHEATley chrahb, Wheatley chrahb, ha ha ha ha ha ha, Wheatley chrav

[@gordonfreeman6014]

…

[@JakeWolven]

Pickle rickkk

[@jolo8224]

Does anyone else find it creepy knowing that canonically, there’s a guy behind the scenes watching you for the duration of Portal? Even if he’s a good guy, the feeling of being watched is haunting.

[@conic2721]

I mean. Cameras.

[@jolo8224]

@@conic2721 Yeah, but GLaDOS isn’t human, and it’s made obvious that she’s observing your performance for test results. Rattmann is a creepy stalker guy who hides in the shadows and never reveals himself

[@jolo8224]

@@conic2721 If the test chambers weren’t falling apart, we wouldn’t have even known he was watching us, haha

[@silent-hills]

Yeah, now that you mention it, it’s actually really creepy. I especially felt creeped out when you can hear his rambling if you’re near a wall in one of his dens in the second game... I was 8 and I RAN out of that room lmao

[@TheAmazingHerosquad]

I think that's the point

[@DeutscheDemokratischeRepublik]

i'd say its been within the timespan of 10-20 years, judging by how the potatoes developed, how some things rusted in a salt mine (keep in mind that it'd be quite moist and salty in the mines, leaving quite a corrosive environment for metal), how insects haven't completely chewed up the bedsheets and other textiles, how the wooden furniture doesn't sustain much degradation in the wet climate of mines, especially in a region like michigan

[@octanproductions6492]

There is one big thing this iceberg missed: A little crossover game which has a - Portal Level in Main Story - Portal Level Pack - A new end credits song sung by GLaDOS This iceberg is missing... *Lego Dimensions*

[@willymcfresh8937]

At this point I’m convinced that women can’t be in videogames at any capacity without someone calling it feminist propoganda

[@rileydacosta3701]

Unfortunately true...

[@AAAlpherior]

and also someone calling it pro-feminist because a woman is in the game and is not absolutely useless

[@bim_buswick]

While true, I notice that most people seem to not share this opinion, just loudmouths on the internet

[@pixlbit9167]

In the first game, GLaDOS says you can donate organs to the self esteem program for GIRLS, and did you ever notice it's "Bring your DAUGHTER to work day"?

[@reznovvazileski3193]

​@@bim_buswick I think it's just a group of degens that doesn't understand the difference between shameless plugs and casual appearance. Both things do happen in the gaming industry it's just that the one is unacceptable as it compromises game quality to make a political statement which is what every other part of the internet is already hijacked for. The other is just a design choice and idk why that'd be a problem really... I don't care if my characters are female or male I just want them to be good characters in a well thought out story that actually revolves around the events the game is essentially about. Long story short; portal and tomb raider and stuff is fine. TLOU2 levels of turning a wonderful story with deep emotional connection to the characters into a social justice plug at cost of a large part of the actual storyline, not so much ok. Could've even been forgiven had they just put a second of thought to the order of events but they just didn't care, their statement was out that's all that mattered to them. Not the actual quality and perceived experience of the game.

[@amalayperson7208]

I heard somewhere that the reason why the announcer glitches when Chell wakes up the second time is because the announcer is always tracking how long she had slept and since she had slept for so long, the track number had maxed out causing the announcer to glitch.

[@jeebus9118]

I like to think that the counter maxes out at 50 because they’re only required to be woken up every 50 days

[@generalcodsworth4417]

it is very likely an overflow error. It was all prerecorded, so if it doesn't have, say, "ninety" as a voice file, then it would need to say "nine. zero." instead, and ninehundred ninety nine would become "nine. nine. nine." and so on

[@ElysiumGD]

Well I believe that Chell had outlived humanity itself in that sleep, given the dilapidation of the facility, and also given that the announcer kept repeating 'NINE' about 7 times already before glitching out...

[@MarioChamuty]

@@ElysiumGD 55times*

[@ElysiumGD]

@@MarioChamuty Yes but 7 times BEFORE the audio glitches out...

[@v.v365]

I do believe Aperture had cloning technology, but like Glados said, “It has to be *humans* for it to be science.” Clones of humans would be an entirely different experiment, as would testing on said clones. Then you can gather data on how natural born humans are able to survive in psychological and physical testing parameters, and how clones of humans, artificial life, are able to survive in psychological and physical testing parameters.

[@limalepakko6074]

Clones are literally just humans that have the exact same genome with some other people, identical twins are each other's clones too

[@v.v365]

@@limalepakko6074 but there in an inherent difference between Dolly the Sheep and a random sheep you’d find on a farm or in the wild, and that difference is how they were born, artificial vs natural.

[@craycraywolf6726]

It's also said that the clones don't have souls, so... 🤔

[@theonlyeye1170]

I’m pretty sure that there was also animal testing, because there is an achievement in portal where you pick up a clipboard. The achievements description is “The chickens test results”

[@wojtekpolska1013]

37:25 yes the person in red bikini is Cave Johnson 100%

[@wta1518]

Hey, you don't know about Cave's clothing choices you bigot. (disclaimer: this is a joke)

[@profdracko]

Re: the cubes having dead bodies inside, in Lego Dimensions Portal pack, sometimes breaking cubes has a chance for bones to fall out.

[@bokankanm4817]

maybe just a joke

[@sunbirth4795]

that pack also has Cave Johnson trapped in a core!

[@buster5661]

Oh, and now you have to add the giant cave Johnson head

[@spacemoon56]

It's 2022 and aperture desk job confirmed cave johnson is still alive. well, stuck in a giant head

[@blitzkriiegi1005]

The thought of Rattman being there with you watching as you do these tests is both scary but also comforting. Like, the felling of being watched when seemingly no one else is there, but at the same time, its comforting knowing theres another human there too, and youre not alone with GladOS

[@ryanwillis2513]

Playing the game and looking up at the empty offices expecting to see someone staring at you is very scary.

[@mclijah6472]

@@ryanwillis2513 omg yes, especially since half-life has g-man following you around in chambers that look similar to portal. as a kid, let's plays were the only exposure I had to Valve's games, but g-man following you around scared me so bad

[@wastingsun]

This...this is just Bruno Madrigal from Encanto. Huh. Weirdly lines up perfect.

[@mrsquid_]

@@ryanwillis2513 yeah

[@marsmurderer9868]

"The cake is real" I thought it was pretty obvious that the cake was real, and made of humans. "You will be baked, and then there will be cake." And at the end of the game GLaDOS tries to burn you to death. Mel says the cake is a lie because you won't be getting it

[@theneoreformationist]

That doesn't mean you are the cake. You will be baked. And then there will be cake.

[@danielthecake8617]

Baked. Cake. This person is genius

[@scientificthesis]

This ties everything up. Best theory

[@justinturner653]

GLaDOS can't technically lie outright about anything directly related to the tests. That was her clever way of not lying about the cake. If the cake exists somewhere in the facility, then "you will be baked, and there will be cake" is a completely true statement.

[@kat8270]

I'm interested in how Desk Job impacts the timeline! I always assumed that GladOS was created before Cave's death, but...

[@noahgalvin8772]

Desk Job contradicts already established canon, and Eric Wolpaw (Head story writer for Portal) confirmed to a fan that Desk Job was not canon to the Portal universe. (It most likely takes place in one of the infinite multiverses introduced in the Perpetual Testing Initiative)

[@Otacanthus]

@@noahgalvin8772 What does desk job contradict?

[@noahgalvin8772]

@@Otacanthus in portal II we learn Cave didn't preserve himself because he died before his scientists could invent the AI to store his brain in.

[@mel0dymak3r]

it's kind of horrifying to think that it may be the companion cube started out as a normal cube but then GLaDOS noticed how test subjects treated it and may have modified it during further testing...

[@fulcrum2867]

The Portal expansion for Lego Dimensions can be considered loosely canon, in which there is a early version of a Core that Cave put himself into, along with a room full of black mesa boxes

[@expendableindigo9639]

Damn really? Lego gotta be hiding the good stuff in defunct toys-to-life games.

[@wta1518]

No, the Lego Dimensions part is non-canon. Perhaps it IS canon in the multiverse though....

[@mooncherrie]

Ratman also appears on the game but hides when you to his direction or runs

[@expendableindigo9639]

@@mooncherrie source? Never heard of that?

[@expendableindigo9639]

@@mooncherrie oh you mean in Lego Dimensions?

[@quaze_tf9921]

I'm surprised that Gman still hadn't hired Chell

[@Frostbyte501]

Portal 3 confirmed?

[@sulphurous2656]

She'd probably just wave him to piss off and leave her alone, to be honest. That is assuming in the Combine garrison has been driven out and any dimensional rifts have been sealed up in her absence from the surface. Or that nobody needs to hire another master-class exterminator to deal with the stray Xen fauna infestations ravaging the planets ecosystem. And besides, the man with the briefcase already likely had enough matters of extradimensional nature that required his attention in the last 20-40 or so years.

[@jonathanmckarlison1203]

I think the reason Chell hadn't been hired because you need to gain a worthy skill to fight example Gordon literally fight a god in half life or Directly see gman like Alyx in HLA

[@quaze_tf9921]

@@sulphurous2656 you know, there's more stuff in the universe than our earth so Gman still has business somewhere else

[@quaze_tf9921]

@@jonathanmckarlison1203 well Chell beaten an AI smarter than humans, escaped Aperture, then replaced that AI with another robot, escaped Old Aperture hundreds kilometers underground, and killed the second robot so idk

[@medi7887]

The Borealis was made in portal 2’s salt mines you can find the dock in a hidden area. Since it’s so deep underground the running theory is that it could teleport out

[@thepyroUwU]

34:54 aperture desk job directly refers to this

[@UnsightlyThinker]

The Abyss: GLaDOS was just lonely.

[@SinfulCreature]

14:48 "She was a lot like you, maybe not quite as heavy; now little Caroline is in here, too." This line implies either GLaDOS separates their identity from Caroline's own, that GLaDOS is more than one consciousness that share their metal frame, or that this line is being spoken from another perspective that is not GLaDOS's own.

[@flithmpf8013]

34:39 well wouldnt you know it, aperture desk job just confirmed this theory!

[@oneinsomebillions3264]

Had to dawn the cape and cowl to find this comment

[@eddyheaddrascal1858]

39:25 Even with considering it in days, the number said by the computer would have been approx. 270 sexdecillion YEARS. This makes the level of visible decay actually unrealistic for both the high of 9e+55 days or 9 days/months/years. I think considering whatever the number may be in days makes the most sense, since it is modeled after a motel room, which is typically not stayed in for longer than a couple weeks. Perhaps the coding for the number experienced a stack overflow, or other similar bug, where the actual number ends up concealed to an observer unless they know how it works internally. Either way, we all know its 9e+55 [unit here] because VALVe wants it to be unknown and mysterious.

[@hola_my_name_is_Paans]

That’s not Science. *THATS APATURE SCIENCE*

[@SimonClarkstone]

This iceberg is missing "I don't want this mister Johnson", the cut voice lines of Caroline being turned into GLaDOS against her will. Those lines later appeared in the unofficial Portal Musical.

[@user-iz4tg4fz8b]

I am very surprised this chart did not cover the cut voicelines at all. I heard they kept those cut because Cave Johnson's VA (JK Simmons) did not want to portray such a dark story, and even go as far as a form of 'rape,' or assault or molestation, on what level I don't really know, if physical or the taking of a living humans consciousness is that, or maybe have it sound like those things. So hes lines cannot be found in response. Though, I think some pointed out in places discussing this, ironically JK Simmons has done 'rapey' deeply uncomfortable characters before in the show Oz. Maybe he didn't want to do that before the show and have that association, maybe he didn't think it worked for the character or story line changes occurred before his own recordings and Caroline's voice work was just some basis. speculation though.

[@largeboi4678]

@@user-iz4tg4fz8b wait, JK Simmons was Cave Johnson?! Isn’t JK Simmons the guy played Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man Raimi Trilogy?!

[@chumbucket3475]

@Large Boi Yep!

[@largeboi4678]

@@chumbucket3475 jeez, All the media I like has something to do with JK Simmons

[@ThePowerofCutleries]

@@largeboi4678 Ah, good ol' Aperture, merchants of shower curtains, creators of incredible state-of-the-art scientific devices, and avid hunters of pictures of Spider-Man.

[@lepidusflos]

As someone who's still VERY much into Portal, seeing a fresh video from a few months ago brings me alot of joy knowing people are still interested in the franchise.

[@literallymemoviesenjoyer]

source games will never die

[@hanieldoops3551]

same man

[@AwesomenessViolet]

Same

[@skye.illustrates]

Got the opportunity to finally play Portal 1 and 2 this past week, and it’s so cool to see the fandom is still alive despite the first game being almost 16 years old.

[@malarialemon7478]

I just bought the games last weekend and beat the games over this last week and I'm also happy there's still people talking about portal, i was really late to the party but at least the fan base is still active

[@nanapoohsmom4927]

That radio emancipation noise still scares me to this very day…that’s nightmare fuel right there-

[@MrJibbajabbawocky]

Many of the Prometheus allusions can also apply to Cave, himself. He's seeking to enlighten the world and is constantly punished by fate. Also, many of these seem to be people taking GlaDOS at her word at all times. Portal 2 pretty explicitly states that she has a "sarcasm subroutine" as well as constantly insulting Chell about her weight and such, which are clearly lies meant to discourage the player/Chell.

[@fieratheproud]

Yeah, all of GLaDOS's dialogue should be taken with several grains of salt. It's incredibly hard to tell when she's being genuine about something and when she's lying. Even in Portal 1 when she says she'll stop lying and counts down, she never finishes the Countdown so... I feel like we can't trust most of what she says. Maybe she's serious when she says she found two people with Chell's last name in the records. Maybe she just made it up to get a reaction. We may never know for sure.

[@carljones4179]

Also on the Prometheus side of things, he relived being eaten every day, and Glados talks about reliving the moment she was killed over and over again after you kill her, so it seems to have more to it

[@cheesegreater5739]

Never noticed that

[@bradders6591]

Yo what about Chell’s science project from bring your daughter to work day?

[@UntalentedBrick]

better yet who the hell was chells father?

[@bradders6591]

@@UntalentedBrick It's never said, but I always thought Chell was it was Cave and Caroline's

[@crptic9925]

I actually made a joke to a friend while playing portal(we were talking in an Xbox party) I joked that a chell was brought to the bring your daughter to work day and was captured and never returned to her parents, before I was unexpectedly surprised to be told by him that the joke I made was an actually standing theory😂

[@royliber3824]

@@crptic9925 Yeah! Im sure you're aware of the the potato science project in Portal 2 that is signed by Chell. Implying she took part of the "Bring your kids to work day" where they had a science fair. I think in Portal: Lab Rat its also mentioned that GLaDOS killed everyone during that day (highest population around the facility probably was an endorsement for her to do so) and that it was her idea to do this kind of day at work. Also just thought how really cruel GLaDOS were to Chell, bullying her for being an orpha especially when thinking about she probably made her that way :C This Half Life/Portal universe still got a lot to cover imo, I would also dare and say that the VR games Valve did including the Aperture Hand Lab has easter eggs and nods to the other Portal games we can cover.

[@burritoboyee]

Well now we know Johnson was still alive as a robot head 😂

[@antprzy]

Well now we know. Cave johanson is alive. Now we wait for Portal 3

[@Vegedow]

F

[@ghostgirl7089]

Portal is one of those games where there’s so much to go through but you can never get enough of And that we need a portal 3 - would love to see more of the 1950-1970’s abandoned test chambers and old aperture again

[@largeboi4678]

I’d settle for a remaster or remake of portal 1 and 2 for consoles

[@kingtastytv]

would be cool to have it set in old aperture era where you play one of the missing astronauts and cave is still alive watching you like g-man

[@garfieldblessesyouwithadri3944]

@@largeboi4678 or just a remaster in general of both games mashed together in some way that would be sick

[@largeboi4678]

@@garfieldblessesyouwithadri3944 yeah, with added context for what exactly happens between portal 1 and 2

[@swandive46]

@@largeboi4678 For PS5.

[@wojtekpolska1013]

Interesting: If at the end of Portal 1 before the boss fight you noclip (or glith with portals) into the room with cake, you can put the nearby cube on the cake, so when you end the game the arm won't be able to extinguish the cake, and you'll see the arm stuck on the cube untill u leave the game

[@Joshboi]

34:33 "Cave Johnson is still alive" might be a real thing. A few months ago Valve released "Aperture Desk Job" and in the ending you encounter a huge Cave Johnson statue that's actually a computer that holds Cave's mind. He then tells the player to destroy the statue to free him from the suffering. I'm not exactly sure whether or not the game is canon, but thought it was interesting.

[@kolldee3006]

24:40 is honestly terrifying once you move on from the recipe for the cake.

[@QrazyQuarian]

I listened to a panel discussion once, where the creators talked about a Morgan Freeman core. In a test chamber, you would discover a room where this core was sitting on a pedestal. He had spent all of that time creating a philosophy about the room which he was in. As the player picks this core up and he sees the room from a different angle, he begins to challenge his assertions about the philosophy of the room. And then, when the player takes the core out of the room, is notions about reality are completely shattered and he becomes extremely depressed. It sounded like a hilarious idea, and I'm kind of sad that they cut it.

[@valhatan3907]

Sounds like the cave allegory. It was really an interesting idea, I wonder why they cut it

[@mrmporter17]

I can’t believe the “humans inside companion cubes” theory because they get fizzled in front of you in portal 2 multiple times.

[@ruttama]

yeah but in portal 2 we have new companion cubes, the ones that were in Portal are different in cannon (Seen at the end when Chell gets her's from Portal after exiting the facility)

[@Breached18]

The organic material is destroyed with the cube. They scream in pain and they'll sing to you in portal 2

[@AELmattex]

Yeah but if the "wireless" destruction of things can delete "wireless", may it can delete even organic objects.

[@jeebus9118]

The emancipation grill and emancipation in portal in general is capable of fizzling organic materials. There is a line in the game that confirms this by saying if you have a headache, you need to apply pressure to your temples because something in your ear got fizzled

[@commenturthegreat2915]

This theory is insanely stupid in general. Apart from being filled with holes like this one, the entire theory is based on someone not getting the joke about the companion cube. The whole point of the sequence was GLaDOS mocking you for being attached to an inanimate object.

[@ryssalsief2941]

34:32 as of the release of Apeture Desk Job it has been confirmed Cave Johnson is still alive as a giant head surrounded by toilets :D

[@editoranimatoralexcod]

1:52 THIS. EXPLAINS. EVERYTHING. At the start of Portal 2, Chell wakes up in her bed, with the narrator saying that she slept for 999999...well, that's because Doug Rattman left her there for a long time.

[@sulphursock6229]

im laughing so hard at 37:53 why does the guy in the clip say "wheatley crab" like that. he sounds like hes crying. what the fuck please help me.

[@atomicdreamz6035]

You'd cry too if you'd just seen the true form of God

[@istoleurfaceha3527]

@@atomicdreamz6035 hahaha

[@scarlett-moriko1543]

“Hauahahah wheatlee crahbuhh”

[@silent-hills]

Omg yeah lmao I was crying too from that

[@vamp97]

Hahaha wheatley crab

[@jorpisdead9798]

In an attempt to back up how long Chell slept, there is an unused voiceline said by GlaDOS, where she says "50,000 years is a lot of time to think." This suggests Chell slept for 50,000 years. (I believe It's on the portal wiki.) Edit: To further elaborate: In the final hours of Portal 2, a digital e-book on Steam about the development of Portal 2, a developer explains (I believe it to be Eric Wolpaw) that in order to separate Portal from Half-Life it would have to be set in the very distant future, a la 50k years, I'm not sure why they decided on such a massive time gap, but it is possible that Valve has an already planned Hl sequel that requires a large chunk of time to be set in order for Portal 2 to not interfere.

[@nadarith1044]

That must also mean all aperture paper and wood furniture is synthetic considering it lasted so long somehow aperture science scoffing at the idea of biodegradable material and making everything last as long as possible seems entirely in character

[@unavailabIe_]

We never got the exact time but in a portal comic it was mentioned that she slept for 20,000 years but as you said GlaDOS mentioned it twice in the beginning of the game he said that she was asleep for 99999999 days or 25,000 years also through out the game he mentioned that she slept for 50,000 years in conclusion portal 2 is set 20,000-50,000 years after portal 1

[@fausthanos08]

This 50.000 years stuff is the amount of time that passed between portal 2 single player and portal 2 coop

[@whentho6303]

@@fausthanos08 nah Glados then says she’s jk and it’s only been a week

[@EpicGamer-fl7fn]

i geniuenly dislike this "50 thousand years" theory. Honestly im a lot more keen on thinking that Portal 1 took place somewhere around Half Life 1 and Portal 2 somewhere around Half Life 2. Either slightly before or after these games. No matter what i just don't see anything in that facility survive for THAT LONG. The damage would be far greater than just a bunch of vines and mold everywhere. Not to mention a lot of areas still look fairly "new" so to speak, like the parts outside of test chambers when you escape with Wheatley. And where does all the electricity to power all of this would come from by that time? Its just very unlikely and thats coming from someone who used to believe this theory. It would also parallel nicely to the Half Life games, on top of the fact that we know for sure Gordon was supposed to find Borealis at one point in Episode 3, and the whole AS focus was really starting to become bigger in EP2.

[@SkylightCiel]

I’ve been getting a lot of Portal content recommended to me recently. Videos like this really make me itch for a return into the franchise

[@maissikeskus9126]

i think the third portal gun rule is "most importantly, under no sircumstances do not take the device outside the testing area"

[@xhag1x]

I think the thing i find most fascinating about portal is the entire facility is completely modular. Making new rooms at a whim for any purpose needed

[@monadoboiz9778]

Man, we need another game like portal and portal 2 man. They we're so much fun. I literally held my breath for the whole sequence when Chell opened a portal on the moon. It's been a while since a game has made me do that.

[@JakeWolven]

Check out Little Nightmares I and II!

[@jamesflanagan7272]

Portal Stories: Mel Is a worthy successor to P2. It is available on Steam.

[@maurosgardelis8085]

Talos principle my man

[@maurosgardelis8085]

The witness

[@Galaxy-oy4nj]

​@@jamesflanagan7272 it is a prequel to Portal 2 and a sequel to Portal

[@141414]

34:32 that aged like wine

[@sirspamalot4014]

There's so much I want to say on this, but the Borealis Dry dock being in the 60's or 70's test chambers implys that Aperture were still using that section of the facility up until the events before Portal 1, which is a wild thing to think about. Walking Turret, terrifying.

[@sirspamalot4014]

With all of the maintenance systems unused, and considering it was a salt mine, it's not at all surprising that all that damage was done, what I don't get is where the plants came from, there's no sunlight in the facility, there's implied sunlight in some shots, but I always assumed it must've been UV flood lights, which makes sense, otherwise your employees would get Vitamin D deficiencies. Nature takes over pretty fast once things stop moving though, I've watched a car go from drive-able but damaged one day, parked, to 10-15 years later being so rusted out you can pull the door off the body. 10 years is entirely possible, probably more like 20 but.

[@sirspamalot4014]

And, aperture may have gone bankrupt, but apparently that didn't stop them from building a facility so large and advanced it appears to run forever in all directions, and is all entirely controlled by one computer.

[@destinyhntr]

@@sirspamalot4014 I'm guessing Cave Johnson's concept of "bankrupt" means "we're going to cut corners by putting people's lives at risk while investing all our remaining money into this cool AI idea I had."

[@OssyFlawol]

Hi! i’m the original creator of this iceberg and I’m glad to see after many people shoved this video at me that it was actually covered! I’ve noticed a few bits that you’ve gotten wrong (e.g. “Aperture invented Lasers” comes from how Cave Johnson mentions pointing a super conductor laser at you in the 50s yet they were invented in the 60s, the "Borealis Boarding in the Flash Version" comes from the VERY original Flash game which features a sign with a boat as the exit sign in the cake room), I’d be glad to talk with you though in some way :)

[@hyperblue3137]

Pretty good, man

[@jackpouroo5877]

Furry creators uwu

[@expendableindigo9639]

What original flash version?

[@OssyFlawol]

@@expendableindigo9639 Referring to a fangame created before Portal 1 was released, it was well known for being the first and was a flash game. It got eventually made into a mappack (which is referred to in the video) and even after that the maps got officially remade for the Xbox 360 “Still Alive” port. So the original Flash Version refers to that early flash fangame.

[@expendableindigo9639]

@@OssyFlawol right. But the map pack was before the official version? On PC or something?

[@sniper9395]

For the Greek mythology part, Glados, when killed was forced to re-live being killed by chell over and over again over the course of 50,000 years taking place between p1 and p2, as part of aperture's backup survallence protocols. This could be a reference to the fact that Prometheus was forced to experience getting his liver ripped out of his chest over and over again forever.

[@elenabrusturan]

I don't think that the liver is in the chest......

[@ur_mom_is_so_fat]

@@elenabrusturan xdddd

[@SuperCakeKing]

the turret saying gift of knowledge is a metaphor for the fire yet mr youtuber man didnt pick up on it

[@nibulsheep8214]

​​@@elenabrusturan bro was chained to a moutain by magic iron, and forced to regrow his liver every night so that the eagle could eat it again, i don't think the greeks really cared

[@elenabrusturan]

@@nibulsheep8214 you've got a point, but still.....

[@Mordantine]

Well, we have proof that Cave had his consciousness transferred into a computer and that computer now having an infinite power source and is trapped deep inside their facility with the latest game released by Valve for the Steam Deck

[@loli_cvnt5622]

I like to believe the Cake cutscene is Chell's passed out, hit in the head dream Glados did talk about it a whole lot and it would make sense subconscious wise

[@munanchoinc]

The "headcrab" that was in the elevators never existed due to the fact that there is no headcrab model or textures in the files (i am source engine modder)

[@colesteinmetz]

I'm surprised no one searched for it lol

[@Str4ngerr]

Could it be something that only happens when you have both games installed?

[@munanchoinc]

@@Str4ngerr no, unless valve put in the effort to program it to extract files from other source games like gmod

[@IsLiterallyMe]

I just realized how badly I want a half life and portal crossover

[@placeintheworldfadesaway5800]

They are in the same universe, so I don't think "crossover" would be the right word to use.

[@spartanshadow90oficial]

Little cursed , but i fully agree

[@ki_mi9867]

They kind of are the same universe

[@Fenrize]

@@placeintheworldfadesaway5800 They are in the same universe but you know what he meant. It would be amazing to see

[@nadarith1044]

@@placeintheworldfadesaway5800 Crossover never meant different universes crossing together but different series, for example in comics two series would be said to cross over even if the characters existed in the same city, like a daredevil and spiderman team-up for example would be a crossover

[@mr_globe]

37:18 As a Green Day fan, I immediately thought of their fifth studio album from 1997: Nimrod. The cover and the lyricbook contains black and white stock images of people in suits with their faces covered with yellow stickers with the album's title written on it. It can also reference cold war era newspapers, because people used to cover the faces of the leaders as a symbol of protest. But the layout of those photos in Portal rather resemble Green Day instead of the real life movement. If you search it up, you can see what I'm talking about.