The Robot That Lied About Cake | GLaDOS | Full Portal Lore

Created by Aperture Science, the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System was developed to give Cave Johnson an extended life, but, with technology this advanced, something went extremely wrong.
What is GLaDOS' story? Was the cake really a lie, and did she really delete the innocent Caroline from her memory? In this lore episode, I explore the story and lore behind GLaDOS in Portal.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:59 Caroline
03:23 GLaDOS
08:14 The Fall of Aperture
13:37 A New Aperture
17:49 Many Years Later
25:04 A New Chapter for GLaDOS
28:11 Legacy
29:26 Closing Thoughts
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[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching this video! If you enjoyed it, I'd really appreciate a comment, like or even a share! What is your favourite GLaDOS quote?

[@Neometalll]

Look at you. Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.

[@Pedring]

"A real surprise, with tragic consequences." And "Look, metal ball, I CAN hear you"

[@LustfulDeath66]

Looks like this plate wasn't designed to handle someone of your generousness

[@logandouglass6174]

"I'm Afraid You’re About To Become The Immediate Past President Of The Being Alive Club. Ha Ha"

[@PharoahDaBeast]

Cave: "I'm the man thats going to burn your house down with lemons" GLaDOS: "I like this guy"

[@logandouglass6174]

"Because despite your violent behavior, the only thing you've managed to break so far is my heart."

[@cleverman383]

This isn't brave. It's murder. What did I ever do to you? You don't even care, do you?

[@Skyrionn]

Love this

[@amasirat]

This game is so quotable. I love it!

[@drewsdodger2]

@@Skyrionn you will be baked, then there will be cake

[@drawamations3689]

"Maybe you could settle for that and we'll just call it a day."

[@monkeeee]

“Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person.’”

[@slamsun6969]

"That's not me talking. It says it right here in your file. A horrible person."

[@somerand0mpers0n]

"We weren't even testing for that."

[@bitbreaker_creator]

“You somehow managed to pack on a few pounds”

[@Thatclownwalking]

“Science has just validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep”

[@cleverman383]

I feel like if I tried to explain the Portal lore to someone, they would get lost so quickly. "Okay, so imagine this giant R&D lab run entirely by... no, hold on, let's start from the beginning. Let's see.. There once was a shower curtain salesman who bought a salt mine..."

[@Skyrionn]

haha - the story is pretty complicated when you think about it. There are so many small, essential details that are important to explaining the smaller things.

[@psycholamborghini4828]

Things that involve black mesa, the moon, really sketchy stuff, needing test subjects, and so on

[@baddonkey75]

@@psycholamborghini4828 moons haunted

[@PatchworkRose567]

“It all started with J.K. Simmons being a successful shower curtain salesman…”

[@grubskies4221]

This is about how it was explaining it to my friends

[@saucevc8353]

Technically, Glados didn't lie about the cake. She said "You will be baked, and then there will be cake," which was true since she was going to burn Chell to death and then make cake.

[@notveryartificial4486]

I don't think she would make a cake with a dead person. It doesn't have any scientific application

[@saucevc8353]

@@notveryartificial4486 Maybe she's programmed to do it? One of her cores is always blabbering on about how to bake cake.

[@notveryartificial4486]

@@saucevc8353 *one of malfunctioned cores We have no idea if what it does is even remotely related to what it was supposed to do

[@alephorsmth9140]

the cake wasn't a lie it's just that if chell didn't have the portal gun she would've been burnt cake : D

[@Katie-ws7xp]

Mrs Lovett style

[@royliber3824]

19:30 "Unless you brought something stronger than a portal gun, im afraid you're about the become the past president of the Being Alive Club. Haha" GLaDOS' humor is what made her so unique. Being able to burn someone with the highest sophistication an AI can be lol.

[@Skyrionn]

Ikr - her insults are brilliant in single player. I'd say her manipulative side really comes out more in the Portal 2 co-op.

[@baddonkey75]

I literally just got passed that part. For them on switch. Such great games, need hand life in switch

[@Bulblorb]

HAND LIFE@@baddonkey75

[@MCAlexisYT]

@@baddonkey75 _HAND_ -Life?????????

[@C-F]

1:45 - "Young, bright and motivated, […]" *shows poorly lit picture of an aging woman looking like she only vaguely remembers what sleep even is*

[@Skyrionn]

I worked with what I had haha - she still looks great in that picture though!

[@KyllingThyme]

Tell me you've never touched a woman irl without telling me you've never touched a woman irl.

[@digicat0719]

"vaguely remembers what sleep even is" same

[@myrkrormr]

Thats what the love of science looks like!

[@markanthonypittaway1539]

@@myrkrormr And insomnia

[@psycholamborghini4828]

“Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out” -Glados

[@VestedUTuber]

So, it's kinda hinted that Caroline was forced to undergo the brain-mapping procedure. I'd say that her aggression wasn't entirely unjustified, and that the engineer's deaths are their own faults. Aperture's engineers and scientists had basically forced Caroline to undergo a drastically life-altering procedure and then _put her in charge of an entire facility full of dangerous and easily weaponizable equipment._ GLaDOS wasn't unstable, she was vengeful and high on a power trip.

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Okay, but she apparently doesn’t remember who Caroline is

[@VestedUTuber]

@@infiniteplanes5775 By the time of Portal 2, she didn't have any accessible memories. But she did have repressed ones buried deep within. But there's a significant time skip between the events of Portal 2 and when Caroline first became GLaDOS, and electronic data storage methods are far from perfect for storing data THAT long. GLaDOS's purge of Aperture happened shortly after her initial activation. At the very least she would have remembered her emotional state during the brain mapping process, and the general idea of why.

[@TrinityCore60]

I can see that, but I headcanon that, thanks in part to the trauma of the personality transfer, the fear and panic (and pain) of the transfer being the things that made it into GLaDOS (being what Caroline was feeling quite acutely at the time). Because of this, the result was a supercomputer with an instinctive loathing and desire to kill them painfully, to the point it was arguably a more dominant part of her base personality than her desire for science and passion for helping Aperture run. In hindsight, having a desire to kill as part of her base personality would explain why she’s so flippant at the idea of killing things.

[@adamH.1]

​@@TrinityCore60remember, Caroline herself wasn't a nice person, she let Cave do tests on homeless people and didnt seem to care about all those test subjects dying

[@TrinityCore60]

@@adamH.1 Thats fair. But you’d think GLaDOS’s love of Testing would cover that; it’s basically a continuation of Aperture’s bread and butter approach to science (minus the “kill test subject at the end”, as opposed to just putting them back into Extended Relaxation). GLaDOS did not need to kill most of the staff and test the rest, but she did anyway.

[@PatchworkRose567]

My theory is that GLaDOS deleted Caroline’s true subconscious, giving her the rest she wanted for so long, while keeping the morals and lessons Caroline had given her in order to keep herself from completely falling back into her cold hearted ways without losing her sarcastic, outwardly rude appearance that makes her, well her. It would explain why she still enjoyed testing humans and seeing their fear while also feeling a motherly urge to care for the birds and to help Chell escape.

[@danroyeliminating265]

i think she lied about the human tests

[@revolvingworld2676]

@@danroyeliminating265 Why would she lie to the loyal emotionless robots? They dont care either way about the humans

[@thatweirdgamer9214]

There’s something really funny about how seriously toned this video generally is then suddenly “he put GlaDos into a potato making her into PotaDos” without breaking stride

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks for watching!

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

PotaDos

[@markanthonypittaway1539]

@aperture science I don't think we're getting one...

[@flamingpaxtsc]

@@markanthonypittaway1539 no don’t worry we’ll get it when Silksong comes out

[@heisenburger531]

@@aperturescience3910we’ll get that once Gabe Newell learns to count to 3

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

What made me feel for GLaDOS was the main menu when she’s a potato, singing in French in an attempt to keep her sane while she was slowly being eaten by birds. She sounds terrified during that scene.

[@gaminglulunightmare6092]

Wait she was singing in French at some point? When was this!?!? Need this scene!!!

[@willjackson1955]

@@gaminglulunightmare6092 Nope! That was Italian, not French. At least, I could perceive something akin to words that translated to "Lament" and "Tearful" ("Lagrimosa" ,which by the way is the older, more elegant form of the more common "Lacrimosa") and similar. Hence, the name of that track is PotatOS' Lament. Also, I think that GLaDOS' scene is in fact some sort of glitch in her mind. Basically, she's singing because, having parts of her brain being pecked and damanged and her power source fading as it's being eaten, it's the only thing that she could muster as a cry of pain. It's akin to someone receiving a lobotomy and ending up with damaged speech/thinking functions I think. Ps: I say this is italian because a) I'm Italian and I listen to opera, and could recognize those words, even under the noise, the persistent echo and the botched pronunciation, and b) because the wiki says so, also.

[@NJP76]

@@gaminglulunightmare6092 I have played this campaign many times, and yet I have never heard GLaDOS (Potatos) singing. I feel like I have missed something.

[@Tarmax94]

​@@NJP76I might test this tomorrow since I'm currently playing the game and I'm at the part where she is a potato, and I quote "What made me feel for GLaDOS was the *main menu* when she's a potato, singing in French" probably this happens not in game but just like stated, in the main menu instead

[@person3271]

The potatos lament was actually in Latin, although the same voice actor (Ellen Mclain) later sings the turret opera (cara Mia addio) which is in Italian

[@lx5323]

“Good news: I figured out what that thing that you just burned up did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters”

[@gaminglulunightmare6092]

That was one of my favorite quotes. XD

[@ReverendSyn]

*She didn't lie about the cake. The cake was shown at the end. What she lied about was the intent to let you have any of it.*

[@Skyrionn]

That was the lie I was refering to haha

[@invadergrim6198]

The ultimate, "if I can't have it, no one will" move

[@catches07]

I wish you would have mentioned how once the Moralty core was destroyed, her voice changed from a monotone, robotic voice into a seductive, murderous human-like voice. EDIT: Bruh, it literally describes her voice as "seductive" in the subtitles IN-GAME. Not my choice of words.

[@TheManinBlack9054]

Seductive? Glados is a mommy confirmed!

[@bxbgba]

I also wished he mentioned the silly "Aperture Fixtures"

[@Actually.C_J]

seductive? M O M M Y

[@cleverman383]

​ @The Man in Black ​ @Cam_X The subtitles do literally say "seductive" when describing the change in her voice

[@Actually.C_J]

@@cleverman383 mommy

[@KellyVergara]

8:05 they definitely have audio files in the game showing that Caroline did not go willingly

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Yes, but they were cut.

[@ryanjohnson5288]

I can't remember word for word, but, "Regardless, Caroline supported Cave Johnson's eccentric decisions," immediately reminded me of the part where PotatOS says after the lemon rant, "HE SAYS WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKING!" 😂 Also, they're are far too many quotable lines from GLaDOS to have just one favorite line, but one of my favorites is where she says, "I think we can set aside our differences... for science... you monster." It's contradictory, and I love it! 😂

[@drawamations3689]

I love how we at first viewed GLaDOS as a villain, but then through out portal 2 chapters 7-9, we started to view her as a friend. Even GLaDOS thought the same about you. Love it!

[@joshuajobe8165]

So true

[@Lowqualitybird]

There is a theory that Caroline is chells mother

[@markanthonypittaway1539]

@@Lowqualitybird If that was true , wouldn't Chell be dead , it had been centuries and Chell would be dead while GLaDOS would be alive , like she said in the ending song of portal one... This makes so much sense.......

[@Lowqualitybird]

@@markanthonypittaway1539 well she wouldn’t be dead because of the relaxation center she’s in and in the portal 2s song glados refers to her as her dear child in Italian

[@markanthonypittaway1539]

@@Lowqualitybird True but if it's been 50000 years , she had brain damage so being in a state of such controll and stress would/should cause a heart attack

[@AngelofGrace96]

The way Glados says 'yes sir... mr... Johnson...' gives me chills every time, such good writing and voice acting

[@kieferholster4900]

When you mentioned that she was raising the baby birds as murderous monsters I exploded in laughter. I can just imagine her saying my sweet children go peck that human to death.

[@realquadmoo]

A bit was left out, from some unused audio files, we hear Caroline was not willing to be uploaded, but they did anyway. Additionally, in Aperture Desk Job we see Cave Johnson really did make it into a machine.

[@BurningApple]

No, _a_ Cave Johnson made it into a machine. PETI (PErpetual Testing Initiative) tells us of a multiverse with lots of apertures, each with a Cave Johnson.

[@familiagaraguso]

Hi, on an alt here (and i refuse to mention my main here KEK) like what was said above, and wanted to add that I'm pretty sure Desk Job isn't canon to the main story, story az in the Portal & Portal 2 games' story(s)

[@Soandnb]

@@BurningApple I think Cave Prime is a different Cave than the one from Portal 2's story. I forget if it's prime or another alternate dimension Cave, but one of them cancels the GLaDOS initiative after seeing how another Cave that DID make it into a computer turned out

[@KaneyoriHK]

Last time I checked I think Desk Job wasn't canon. More like an art piece and comedy piece in source 2

[@KaneyoriHK]

Also those are cut voice lines, not meant to be part of the end product, so I think the implied happening of it rather than it being explicitly stated is better

[@Lolbama2012]

Portal being explained as "Robot lies about cake." Is infuriating because it's accurate.

[@SebasTian58323]

I really love GLaDOS as a villain and character.

[@Skyrionn]

She really was a brilliantly written character.

[@bitbreaker_creator]

At this point she is less of a villian and more of a neutral character

[@notveryartificial4486]

@@bitbreaker_creator this is what people call "chaotic neutral" :D

[@timehunter9467]

To be honest, in the portal 2 ending music, she says Carolyn is in there too, also the “maybe I’ll stop feeling so bad” makes me think she’s still there seeing is it’s redacted in the typed up report on screen.

[@djoleluk]

It goes without saying. What masterpieces Portal and Half-Life games are.

[@Hiihtopipa]

They are ok. Decent.

[@joashrayfield]

It's just too bad Valve can't count to 3 😭 never will see a new full boar complete sequel entry to create the both of them as trilogies 🥺😢

[@djoleluk]

@@joashrayfield Maybe Half-Life 3 + Portal 3 hybrid game, that combines all the games and their stories + expansions. That would be very cool, to get the expanded hl/portal universe like that and most of the answers to the story. Except for G-Man, i want his to remain a mystery. Maybe we will get the trilogy if Valve creates some new groundbreaking hardware for gameplay, they're big on these innovations in video gaming technologies. I have a few ideas myself about what i would like to see as some new controller systems for video games.

[@Skyrionn]

They are pretty much perfect games in my eyes. The story and lore and brilliant and so many memorable characters!

[@djoleluk]

@@Skyrionn Absolutely, for me to. Half-Life is a piece of fiction that inspired so much great things in my life. Really special. Portal is a part of that universe, and just icing on the cake.

[@willnack5315]

I don’t think Glados actually deleted Caroline, and there are 2 bug reasons why: 1, if Caroline was really gone, Glados would’ve most certainly kept Chell locked up where she could testing her! Then again, Caroline would’ve also had her stay those in that instance it would be for companionship! Glados realized (thanks in part to Caroline) that Chell shouldn’t be locked up no matter how she felt about it! So she pretended to delete Caroline so Chell would leave without question! 2: if Caroline was really gone, then how come Glados was afraid of the dreaded bird? An AI shouldn’t be able to fell fear not matter how advanced she is, so that fact that she still felt fear meant that Caroline still had a hold on her! Then again, I could still be wrong about all that, I’m no expert in the lore!

[@sirjafferson2476]

The line "Maybe I'll stop feeling so bad" in "Want You Gone" being redacted in the lyrics makes this a very compelling argument. GLaDos still has morality despite the lack of a core and the most sensible way to explain that is via Caroline. Or just cuz she likes you now from all the old aperture adventures idk

[@nervinsshaunflotilde9167]

I really love Glados' character and also her voice. She sounds so good for asmr

[@Skyrionn]

YES THIS.

[@bitbreaker_creator]

An actual good asmr youtuber?

[@dhl-96]

"Murdering people with neurotoxin ASMR"

[@tophatserpent0189]

Not sure if this was said or mentioned already but I wonder how different things would have been if Cave lived long enough to be able to have his mind uploaded. Would make for an interesting what if/alternate timeline type story

[@Skyrionn]

You're in luck. My latest video on the Multiverse explores different versions of Aperture.

[@MysticUser]

"Exposure to the moon rocks made him gravely ill" Dude, he put them in a blender and drank that shit like a smoothie. LOL

[@ariesdemiurge]

I still like this theory someone made in the comments of an iceberg video, that GLaDOS baked the cake after Chell escaped the incinerator, just to spite her.

[@ebtea1229]

people always say Chell is the daughter of Cave and Caroline but i think GLaDOS is the true daughter of them. GLaDOS is her own “person” she isn’t Caroline, that’s why she cuts off Caroline or deletes her. She isn’t Caroline, she has her memories and need for science yeah but her ambitions and her goals are her own. She’s the combination of Cave and Caroline. That’s just my interpretation, GLaDOS was turning into Cave and Caroline and that’s why she let Chell go I believe. Cause she isn’t Caroline nor Cave. She is GLaDOS

[@Doodle128]

If there is gonna be a Portal 3 in the future it could link back to the idea that not all of Carolyn was deleted, deleting something from a hard drive only opens the space for it to be replaced by something else

[@spaceman022]

could actually happen in the next few years.The creator of portal recently posted somewhere that he`d like to work on portal 3 as hes not getting any younger

[@Doodle128]

He's been saying that he wants it for years

[@spaceman022]

@@Doodle128 ah.I dont have Twitter and saw it in a new article

[@JamesLorimor]

I'd love to see Portal 3 where the Combine break into Aperture and Chell goes in to rescue GLaDOS. I think that would be the SHIT!!!

[@Doodle128]

@@JamesLorimor Portal 2 takes place way after the combine because Portal 1 is in the middle of the combine rule and they would already be there in Portal 2 if they were still on earth

[@guymanuel4260]

So hyped for this. Been wanting a good video on her.

[@Skyrionn]

I hope it was worth the wait :D

[@cameronsullins9880]

With how well you tell these stories and the quality your videos always are you deserve so many more subscribers 👌🏼keep up the good work my man

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks my dude. A lot of time goes into them but telling the stories is so worth it. Thanks for watching.

[@ReverendSyn]

*Seems extremely hypocritical to slaughter everyone with a neurotoxin, then have the nerve to get indignant about you having to kill her in self defense when she was trying to do her damndest to kill YOU.*

[@omegawilliam95s36]

I like how she wasn’t actually lying about the Party Escort Bot.

[@tricursor2481]

One of my favorite things Valve ever did was the ARG around portal 2. I believe it ended with a surprise update to portal 1, which hadn't been updated for years, to modify the ending to show Chell being dragged back into the facility. Why do no other developers put as much care and love into their games as Valve? And why must Valve be so bad at actually releasing things? It makes me genuinely sad the stuff we missed out on because of that nearly decade long drought. Alyx and Desk Job show they've still got that in them, but man it makes me sad.

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Valve takes so long because they actually care about quality

[@m.a.ddragon939]

The song at the end of portal 2, Cara Mia wasn’t brought up. The lyrics of the song seem to suggest Carolin is Chel’s mother but the song seems to be the only evidence to that theory. That and that the giant potato battery that has Chel’s name on it at the bring your daughter to work day bit. Gotta love those secret parent twists just like Spy and Scouts from tf2

[@AlexandruCarjan]

The song during the credits confirms GLaDOS didn't delete Caroline, in that song she said Caroline is with her

[@unknownfallout]

I think her "deleting" Caroline is showing that even if she in the story had a little growth she will never change, and it shows when she kills everyone in the human vault in a week. Also if you think about it chill didn't save a single person in the whole story besides herself

[@solaronyou8610]

I wouldn't either. :/

[@CertifiedGrimlockFan]

Would you rather free everyone which would take a thousand years, or run away with the chance your “Friend” is giving you.

[@profess_re]

I think it makes perfectly sense that she doesnt save anyone (besides meeting a human would have ruined the games feeling). she was just a lab rat trapped in a vast, self-aware, shape-shifting, murderous facility. she was barely able to keep herself alive, despite having one of the most convinient and powerful weapons of all time. and in the end GLaDOS also took back that. her only chance to survive was to accept this once-in-a-lifetime moment of GLaDOS' mercy and leave immediately

[@anteraska8588]

I'd absolutely love to see one of these covering AEGIS from Portal Stories : Mel, but I've never been able to find any background on it other than what's covered in the game.

[@Skyrionn]

He's been added to this list. I literally now replaying the game again.

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: Huge success! It's hard to overstate My satisfaction. Aperture Science: We do what we must Because we can For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying Over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'Til you run out of cake. And the science gets done. And you make a neat gun For the people who are Still alive. I'm not even angry... I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart, And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you! Now, these points of data Make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time! So I'm GLaD I got burned! Think of all the things we learned! For the people who are Still alive. Go ahead and leave me... I think I'd prefer to stay inside... Maybe you'll find someone else To help you. Maybe Black Mesa? That was a joke. Ha Ha. Fat Chance! Anyway this cake is great! It's so delicious and moist! Look at me: still talking When there's science to do! When I look out there, It makes me glad I'm not you. I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are Still alive. And believe me I am Still alive. I'm doing science and I'm Still alive. I feel fantastic and I'm Still alive. While you're dying I'll be Still alive. And when you're dead I will be Still alive Still alive. Still alive.

[@gabbylipherps7454]

Glados never lied about cake. You were explicitly told you would only get cake if you behaved. You did not behave.

[@Skyrionn]

GLaDOS sympathiser. I like it

[@dhl-96]

Well I kinda didn't want to behave when she said "You will be baked and then there will be cake"

[@Atratvs]

Amazing job! I think it's impressive how they added so much depth to a puzzle game.

[@csmarkham]

Thanks for this. These are my favorite all-time games, and this fills out the backstory adding deeper involvement to the progression. I’ll forever remember the first time I saw the scrawls on the walls behind the panels, of how the cake could be such a motivator, but at some cost if you were not worthy…..

[@henryh2086]

This earned a sub from me dog, wanted chronological history of the portal series and this definitely delivered. Keep up the good work man.

[@Skyrionn]

Awesome, thank you! I have a ton of content in the playlists at this point. Enjoy!

[@henryh2086]

@@Skyrionn Your content also completely got me into the HL universe, much love

[@Ogaitnas900]

Your understanding of the lore is wonderful, but I want to emphasize how good the channel looks, great editing, footage, design.

[@isaac7343]

This cleared so many questions I had. A truly amazing video!

[@mrdee2454]

This is awesome thank you so much. I completed both games yet had no idea the plot was so complex

[@berylsoc]

wonderful video! this is a very high quality video essay hope you continue

[@PeBoVision]

Best GLaDOS quote (thanks to Ellen McClain's brilliant voice over) is: "oh. it's you." #2: "We both said things you're going to regret" Great video! As a huge fan of the games, i had figured out most of it through the Cave Johnson's automated recordings, but you're right, this was within the narrative to the game, and the full picture is never explored. You've have successfully filled in that blank. Thanks also to the STEAM community, who have kept this game alive (it's 16 years old!) with a flow of insanely entertaining levels.

[@KittyKatz547]

Love your channel man, all the Half-Life and Portal videos are so informative! Portal 2 was the very first Valve game I ever played and it is what got me into Steam (via the free code I stole from my sister's PS3 copy lol). Since then I have loved all the Portal and Half-Life games, I love how they take place in the same universe and have such fantastic storytelling throughout. Thanks so much for making this video about GlaDOS!

[@Skyrionn]

Glad you enjoyed it! I agree, the stories told within this universe are incredible and I am happy to deep dive and tell their stories in my own way. I appreciate you watching the videos and supportining the channel. It means a lot!

[@slepey_]

Few questions: 1. Where did they dispose of Caroline's body? 2. Why didn't the scientists just try to datamine Caroline's conscience back?

[@Skyrionn]

Questions I cannot answer I'm afraid. Maybe if we get another game set in Aperture, we may find out

[@rafal.qwerty]

I think it was the body of GLaDOS that was corrupting the attached main cores. When Wheatley was plugged in he corrupted very quickly and became evil. At the same time, when GLaDOS was converted into PotatOS, her lust for murder subsided and she discovered Caroline within herself and when she was attached again her evil nature come back. Perhaps the scientists did datamining and everything was alright and the problem was with the GLaDOS body, which they had not thought of.

[@ManuelLopezAteaga]

Portal and Portal 2 are AMAZING. I've played these games soooo many times and I always enjoy them. Kudos, Skyrionn!!

[@notveryartificial4486]

My favourite "villain" type character of all the video games, especially in the Portal 2 where she actually gets to have a personality. Witty, cunning, sarcastic. That might sound like bad qualities, but it's what actually attracts me in other people. If I had a girlfriend who vibes and resonates well with me - she would have those personal qualities. This character is incredible :D

[@NoName-ef3jq]

1:45 - "Young, bright and motivated" Cave Jhonson: Say goobye, Caroline. Caroline: Goodbye, Caroline.

[@jacobbrink6059]

I love your lore videos! Great narration, great pacing, and well thought out!

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks Jacob. There's more to come.

[@gbilo24]

Seriously, this is really amazing! I love your content! Maybe you could talk about what happens to Cave in Aperture Desk Job?

[@SirGingerOfKnight]

Yours and LeadHead's Black Mesa/Aperture content & breakdowns are a marvellous binge!

[@Skyrionn]

That's a very high compliment. I love Leadhead's content.

[@markr1721]

This game is a classic, enjoyed many hours of dying, turret talk, and tests.

[@amirshayanarmaghan4745]

Great editing!

[@L337M4573RK]

Some say that Caroline was actually Chell's Mother or Grandmother, which would explain some of the similar genetic features that Chell appears to share with Caroline. As for who Chell's Father or Grandfather was...it's possible that Cave Johnson may have had some of his sperm cryogenically stored away during his last few years alive in an attempt to further continue his legacy down the line. After Cave Johnson's passing and upon becoming CEO of Aperature Laboratories, Caroline may have ordered some of the remaining Scientists create a child (i.e. a "test tube baby") for her using some of her last egg cells and Cave Johnson's preserved sperm, thus creating Chell. After Caroline was uploaded to GLaDOS and after GLaDOS started attacking anyone who brought her back online, the Scientists likely put Chell into one of the relaxation pods as a precaution for her safety...in case GLaDOS ever succeeded in murdering off the remaining inhabitants of the facility.

[@vokuar]

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[@challacustica9049]

Chell had a father at aperture though. We can see her name on the giant potato at Bring Your Daughter to Work Day

[@L337M4573RK]

@@challacustica9049 Fathers aren't the only ones who can bring their daughter to work...

[@challacustica9049]

@@L337M4573RK the reason i bring it up is because Chell's board says "chemicals from daddy's work"

[@L337M4573RK]

@@challacustica9049 If Chell is the genetic offspring of Caroline and Cave Johnson, who's to say if Caroline did or did not lie to Chell about who her actual Father was? Also, Cave Johnson worked at and ran Aperture Laboratories before he died, so either way...those chemicals would've come from Aperture. In Portal 2, there's a part where GlaDOS mentions finding 2 preserved, dead bodies sharing the same last name as Chell in the storage area (though the last name itself is never uttered). Aperture and GlaDOS used LIVING PEOPLE for their experiments, and preserved living future test subjects in Stasis Pods, Relaxing Chambers, etc, so WHY would they keep TWO DEAD BODIES preserved in the storage area? The only dead bodies that Aperture would possibly want to keep would be the bodies of Cave Johnson (their founder and visionary) and Caroline (Cave's successor, "wife", and whom GlaDOS originated from). From the lore given in Portal 2, we know that Caroline was not only close to Cave Johnson, but may have also loved him (based upon how GlaDOS responds at the end of Cave's final voice recording). Why wouldn't Caroline try to preserve Cave's legacy through a potential offspring? Chell shares a lot of the same genetic features as Caroline and Cave, and although we never hear a kids voice in Cave's recordings, it doesn't mean that a kid couldn't have been around somewhere. Unfortunately, without a Portal 3 to clarify anything, all we're stuck with is what we can surmise from Portal 1, Portal 2, and the Ratman Comics.

[@burnouttx2415]

There was a reality game show made a long time ago called Solitary. It had 9 contestants locked into solitary confinement whose only connection is through a computer named VAL. Val threw all sorts of tests at them until all but one were eliminated. The last person walked out with $50K. Val sounded very close to GLADOS.

[@RENsorys]

Wow That was amazing and really interesting Looking forward to playing these two parts

[@captainboreale7632]

The complexity and immersiveness of the lore Portal&HL series always give me goosebumps along with tremendous excitement. Watching any narrative related to this is a pure enjoyment to me.

[@JustAWildSkullKid]

Man, what a roller coaster this game was! I got it a month ago, when it came out on Switch. I heard about it and was curious, but I honestly thought it was just a game about solving puzzles. So the game turns on and I'm welcomed by this voice and I thought "ah, they put this here to give a little bit of atmosphere to the puzzles, nice!". I loved how it slowly turned from funny voice recording that makes dark jokes to android that's actually trying to kill me, and I wasn't surely expecting to be insulted during a boss fight. Then Portal 2 took it to the next level. I loved how throughout the game there hasn't been a single moment where I was able to trust her. Even until the very end, I thought she was going to kill me. Actually made me a bit sad when I had to go, I was getting kind of used to this symbiotic relationship where she makes tests, I complete them, but we also hate each other.

[@TheDarkeningDay]

Bro I’m so glad on how many subscribers you have now. I’ve loved seeing you grow. Been with you since the beginning my guy.

[@Skyrionn]

You're the best! I remember your name too! Thanks for continuing on this journey with me.

[@Steve-wx1gk]

Glados is but far my absolute favorite character. I've played through both games so may times and the second game like 40 times and I would be ecstatic to see another game with her in it. Also Excellent video👍

[@Dusky_Mqn]

Hell yeah, finally a full vid on glados.

[@Skyrionn]

I hope it was worth the wait

[@LostSoulsParadoxicalDoctrine]

What if Glados deleted "caroline's memories", as in the actual memory of her... so caroline is gone, but the essence remains. Glados probably doesn't want to remove whatever makes her unique, but also has a problem with caroline's past. Possible because of the forced into a robot thing... Also, how cool would it be if Glados recreates dinosaurs from birds to fight the combine and help humanity...

[@jstarrett0193]

In the Want You Gone end song. It mentions that "caroline is in here, too." I dont know if that gurantees that GlaDoS never deleted her.

[@jodyjohnson265]

thank you for explaining the portal time line in depth no I know a little bit of history of Apature lavatorys and Cave Johnson.

[@aspen4786]

I’m watching this as I draw Glados rn. I absolutely adore her sm, thank u for making this video!

[@Skyrionn]

I'm so glad!

[@snoipergaming]

I've always considered GLaDOS in the first game to be way more intimidating than in the second, mainly because of how she writhes and thrashes instead of fluently turning.

[@MystChannel1]

this was fun to watch - thank you it ties it all together to bad there will not be a 3rd one.... and yes I did believe there would be cake damn it...

[@miguelantonioguerra9297]

The air pressure on the moon is equal de 0.000000000000003atm and the air pressure on earth is 1atm. When she opened the portal on the moon it was like turning on a human-size vacuum cleaner since the difference in pressure created the suction in the moon's direction (through the portal of course). Me being kind of a nerd when this happened I had a nerdgasm. Attention to detail in these games are amazing

[@Skyrionn]

You're right. The attention to detail is absolutely amazing. It was a great scene and perfect ending to another fantastic Valve game too

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome Video Bro!

[@Skyrionn]

Thanks!

[@fatalwaffle1715]

No problem. And I just subscribed to you.

[@Jonas-km4qx]

Your hl-lore rock dude!

[@mop_bo]

I love how well my childhood game was explained, this deserves a sub and a like. Now I can finally explain to my freinds why portal is just this good. 👍👍

[@factandsuspicionpodcast2727]

Watching this video today taught me a valuable lesson.

[@UndeadGhostGirl]

Have you considered doing any videos on TF2 lore? I think you should, if only to complete the Orange Box trilogy. Plus, I'd really like to see how your quiet, melodic style would mix with the utter absurdity of the Team Fortress lore.

[@Skyrionn]

I'm open to it. Are there any topics you'd recommend?

[@UndeadGhostGirl]

@@Skyrionn The history of the Mann family would probably give the best mileage, honestly. There's also Australium. As far as the mercenaries themselves go, Scout gets the majority of the lore development, though Engineer and his family are pretty important to the story. The most interesting character, in my opinion, is the Administrator, but information about her is pretty limited as she's meant to be enigmatic.

[@somatic77]

this is great. i need to rewatch this a few times

[@Skyrionn]

Rewatch it as many times as you want :) There are a ton of other lore videos too!

[@somatic77]

@@Skyrionn def

[@cpt.rogers1396]

Remember when Wheatley was assuming control and GLaDOS reacts and almost pleads before she screams as she's disconnected? I suspect the scream wasn't so much a trauma from being disconnected so much as Caroline's memory of being forced into becoming an AI. Makes you wonder just how horrific that event was...

[@identocidal]

there's a lot of backstory behind this character, i like that.

[@lexxdrakkanov4987]

Thanks for the nostalgia ☺️

[@highonfire885]

These games where brilliant! Can’t wait to play them again soon

[@TemptedsX]

Yo this is amazing. Didn't know I needed this in my life. I loved playing Portal 1 and 2. I might go rebuy them after watching this. Also didn't know it was set in the Half Life universe as i've never played them so might also get those

[@bigsmungo2204]

"PULL ME OUT PULL ME OUT PULL ME OUT, GRAB ME GRAB ME GRAB ME-"

[@gamingboi_7730]

It was worth watching this video. I've bought both portal games and i really enjoyed them.

[@ThatPawikBoy]

Great material! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a great explanation of the subject.

[@Shihir0]

thank you... you made it possible to explain portal to nonplayers. this is amazing .

[@Dyrawp]

Fun fact, whrn you are in the chamber with GLaDOS before reactivation in portal 2. A great detail is that the facility is gaping open to the surface above The decrepit chamber.

[@Campion1201]

You are a great story teller

[@shrederman9838]

Headcanon: GLaDOS is only a violent murderer because Caroline was crazy

[@tactial_bonkz3711]

I got a small feeling that after the CMB invasion, soldiers took GLaDOS’s database and transferred her into the citadel to make her the Overwatch, tbh I have this feeling because both are IA systems.

[@Skyrionn]

I believe they're voiced by the same person but not the same person.

[@shawermus]

Definitely no. They _already_ had an ai. Whole citadel it's one biomechanical sentient being

[@dhl-96]

I personally think they just got the technology from the GLaDOS system and then programmed a new AI. (Or already had one) Would explain the similar voice as thats probably a vocal synth attached to a speaker somewhere and is preprogrammed with a sorta baseline of GLaDOS's voice.

[@TheTroupeMasterGrimm]

What part of “a little neurotoxin” caused Aperture to build an entire fucking SKYSCRAPER sized container to keep an infinite supply of neurotoxin.

[@mokeymokey1035]

It’s worth noting that Aperture Desk Job (probably) isn’t cannon.

[@oswiniarty4586]

"oh great, this is the part where he kills us."

[@Skyrionn]

Love it

[@naireland]

I hope beyond hope that the final HL somehow manages to bridge Aperture and Gordons timine into one cohesive game where the resistance weaponize Gladdos to assist in the fight against the Combine (for testing sake). Could just imagine her factories go into war mode and dispatch fleets of turrets and lemon powered lasers to 7 hour war the hell out of them.

[@indorfan]

Problem is portal 2 takes place at most 50,000 years after the combine is defeated

[@dhl-96]

@@indorfan maybe half life 4 takes place 50,001 years in the future?

[@indorfan]

@@dhl-96 shit you got a point

[@michaelhamilton5484]

good vid!

[@waffl_798]

im really glad no one talks about the caroline part, when i first played portal 2 i was guenuinley suprised by a plot twist for once