Portal theory: Wheatley is the intelligence core
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- In this vid I explain why I think Wheatley is the intelligence core.
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Intro: (0:00)
Part 1, resemblances: (0:15)
Subies: (0:53)
Part 1, resemblances: (0:57)
Part 2, solid proof: (1:35)
End: (3:20) - บันเทิง
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I feel like a lot of the visual differences can be marked up to the general overhaul that second game had. GLaDOS looks entirely different too :)
I like to think that the GlaDOS reconstruction scene was her rebuilding herself of whatever remained of her after the explosion
cake core is shown to only repeat recipes (from what we see). the "intelligence dampening core" is said to generate ideas, judged as terrible. Everyone around him calls him moronic, so this may be another case of that.
Cake core could just be a small joke by the devs, but if we take it seriously, they do not seem capable of learning, only to talk about cake. Wheatley on the other hand, learns, adapts, and usually has good ideas. They overcome glass by simply breaking it, although he is slightly self conscious, and still attempts to make it seem like he can hack things (he was, after all, labelled as a moron his entire life). He rewatches the portal 1 fight and learns, although fails to account for the pipe and glados helping chell. He even knows that in the event that you do get portals, he prepares again by bringing in bomb shields. He even hypes up a suprise happening, and then springs it earlier when you're not prepared for it to catch you off guard. even knows a bit of spanish. Wheatley is not dumb.
Actually the Spanish Wheatley says translates to "You are using the translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual." So that's not a point in favor of Wheatley being smart.
@@RadarLakeKoshI think he's referring to the beginning.
If you don't open the door for Wheatley, he mutters to himself that you might be Spanish, before saying "Hola amigo, abra lapuerta. Dondiesta..." (Likely misspelled all of that since I don't know spanish), so it's safe to assume he knows a small bit of Spanish.
After he speaks Spanish he says: I don’t even know what I just said but I can find out!
intelligence DAMPENING sphere.
i've said this so many times i've lost count.
yes, we just call the intelligence core a "core" because they didn't say their name in portal 1, besides the intelligence core just says a bunch of shit that kind of silences GLaDOS's voice inside her own mind
wheatley isn't exactly known for intelligence
"They all look alike"
-Robophobe
Every core in portal 2 has three dots
Wait, what? Oh no.
there's only 4 cores
and the reason is because they all share the same texture for the body
@@The_Real_Mini there is 7, 3 in the first game and 4 in the second
@@jadopachob what drugs you on he said in portal 2
wheatley is an old version of the "CAKE CORE" or intelligence core. He was not attached to GLaDOS when Chell is tested
Wheatley is the Intelligence Dampening Sphere attached to GLaDOS during Portal 1 before all the testing on the scientists and subjects began.
@kirito8720 Wheatley was removed before the Apature staff got killed.
Alright, time to debunk this.
Point 1: resemblance
Counterpoint: you noticed something I haven't, but somehow completely disregarded the central display (other than "its blue") if they're the same, then why do they have a different pattern? Do you think some guy went down there and changed the display for no reason?
Point 2: stupidity
Counterpoint: Maybe the cake core has more knowledge, but because the cake recipe wanted to be highlighted by the devs, because the cake is regularly mentioned throughout the game.
Point 3: companion cube also survived the incinerator
Counterpoint: none
"All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees kelvin," said GLaDOS in the first game. But on that point, don't you think his display would've been cracked in the beginning of "The Courtesy Call," or at least his shell dented?
Point 4: ? You just showed an image of the cake core when PotatOS said "intelegence dampening sphere."
Counterpoint: PotatOS said that it was Wheatley's voice. Wheatley is voice by Stephen Merchant. The cake core, as well as the other cores in Portal 1 (and GLaDOS, who is technically a core), are voiced by Ellen McLain.
You do not have a theory.
I see your point
@fruithead4850 thank you for acknowledging the other side and having mutual respect for an opposing opinion. Just remember, at the end of the day, I boosted your engagement.
Bro they redesigned GLaDOS completely between portal 1 and 2, with no explanation other than the rule of cool and they wanted to update the graphics. So, they could've done the same with intelligence core and Wheatley.
id say eye changes are pretty much just graphics update in the game, GLaDOS dosnt look the same as she did, although she is similar.
@CodedKitty @Nothing_special01 Yes, there are inconsistencies, though, because of the inconsistencies, I'm just going to say Portal Revolution. And GLaDOS was pecked by birds.
Wheatley is the Intelligence Dampening Sphere, a “core” that was attached to GLaDOS during early testing of the GLaDOS system and project. The Lab Rat comic explained it (not it great detail but it is there). If it weren’t for the IDS Caroline would’ve been fine and would’ve not been buried in GLaDOS’s neural matrix. The Morality cores, yes those were a must to keep the system from crashing and or corrupting as they had their own responsibilities.
Okay, to back this off further, in one part of portal 2, Potato Glados have said the following "Once, they even attached an Intelligence Dampening Sphere on me. It clung to my brain like a tumor, generating an endless stream of terrible ideas." You know what else is a bad idea? A recipe for a cake made out of human!
Consider what happens to GLaDOS when you destroy the intelligence core; she starts throwing insults at you mindlessly. If it was really an intelligence dampening sphere, woudn't she act smarter when you burn it? Or maybe taunting Chell indirectly was a bad idea the whole time. I really like this theory though!
Thank you for covering this topic, great video, and great games!
Good theory! I like it!
I never really thought that anything could survive the Intelegence incinerator, especially after the effect it had on GLaDOS when the cores were thrown in there, but if the Companion Cube and The portal 1 duel portal gun survived the incinerator then it makes total sense that wheatly could survive
I think i heard somewhere else that wheatley was another core that was once attached to GLaDOS to change her personality but was removed, which too makes sense.
Still, i like this theory
GLaDOS once said "All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin."
I can tell you put a lot of thought and effort into this video, and that's very remarkable. Good work.
My main gripe with your theory is that you've already arrived at the conclusion and are working backwards to look for evidence to support it. That's fine, but you're also completely ignoring many aspects that go against it. And I don't even need to address any of your points to disprove your theory:
If Wheatley is the Intelligence Core, then how come he talked about working in different parts of the facility? And why was he in charge of the humans until you woke up? If he was always attached to GLaDOS until the end, he should have never even left the chamber. How could he fall down the hole, magically attach himself to those to management rails, and then get a different job?
Even more importantly, wouldn't he recognize Chell? Wouldn't he at least have the slightest idea that maybe the last human to enter GLaDOS' chamber before she died was the same human that brought her down? Then why is he surprised to learn that? Even if he fell down before that point, you'd think he could put two and two together.
But most importantly, I think the issue with the theory is that it adds nothing. What would it change, even if they were the same core? Nothing. It doesn't add depth to either character, it doesn't make you view anything in a new light. At best, you'd go: "Huh, that's neat."
Plus, I feel like this theory only hinges on the fact that both cores are blue. If either had been another color, I suspect you wouldn't have made this video.
But I can tell you had fun making this video, and like I said, I can see the effort and thought that went into it. You're engaging with one of your (seemingly) favorite games, and that's only admirable. Don't take my harsh words personally, I just wanted to approach your theory with the same scrutiny I'd approach any other theory with. I respect you and your work, and I hope you can come up with other theories in the future!
Thanks and you do have very interesting points
0:49 was that the aperture scientist core from Portal: Revolution? I can't think of a single other core in the entire Portal series that would look like that.
Yeah it was just a little joke it’s Amelia Conley from portal revolution yeah
It’s funny started thinking this recently as well
I should mention that Wheatley looks dirty because Glados "killed" Wheatley near the beginning of the game at the ending of the wake up sequence. If you look at where you first meet Wheatley he's way cleaner than Wheatley after glados threw him away. It's a small detail that is sorta hard to pick up on but it is there
i mean, the only real reason people say this is cuz wheatleys eye is blue but ill list all of the things i know that don't add up with this: wheatley is fine in the second game until he gets messed up by glados in the wakeup sequence, wheatley has an entirely different voice, he didn't even know you took glados out even though he was there, all portal 2 cores have 3 dots, and wheatley wasn't stupid in the beginning, (kinda) but he knew and remembered a whole ton of escape routes for you to go through.
The biggest hole in this theory is that Wheatley is surprised when he finds out you killed GLaDOS since I think he would remember something like that
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i didn't buy it at first, but for a joke i was gonna say wheatley hit puberty then i listen to the IC voice lines and now a full believer, that thing is so stupid and i think personally changes where just the tone shift that portal 2 had from portal 1
Weatley is a name for intelligence dampening sphere
i think wheatley was one of the cores that woke up in the cake room at the end of portal 1
You know what, that’s actually pretty interesting
The voices are different in games tho but it’s interesting to think about
This is kinda cute as an idea I guess, but it really has no legs to stand on.
The dialogue of the second game implies that Wheatley was not a permanent addition, probably because they (correctly) realized having something that dumb so close to the system mainframe could've caused her to stop maintaining the power systems and allow the facility's reactor to meltdown. It's likely why he was put in such a low-urgency role as maintenance.
I also feel like Wheatley is such a chatterbox that would've mentioned that someone tried to incinerate him at some point while you're dragging him around the facility. He also probably would've noted how much you look like her.
Furthermore, he *definitely* wouldn't have been so afraid of GLaDOS's chambers in the first chapter of Portal 2 if he'd spent most of his life in it, stuck to her mainframe. He would've prattled on about how he used to work there, up until some human killed her. He instead talks about it like it was a legend that spread through the facility, and not like he was actually there for the Portal 1 boss fight. He also gets the gender of the human who killed her wrong, thinking she'd been a 'he' while recounting the story of GLaDOS's demise to Chell while they're on the way to the breaker room.
And on the flipside, if they were the same character I suspect CakeCore!Wheatley would've rambled on at you about whatever came to his mind while you tried to incinerate him if he were a core in the first game, rather than mindlessly reciting the world's worst cake recipe. The personality of these two personality cores just don't line up at all no matter how you look at them.
For that matter, about the Cake Core's obsession with cake has anything to do with outright stupidity; it is *solely* obsessed with cake, while Wheatley was designed to have as wide a range of stupid ideas as possible, to overwhelm GLaDOS with terrible ideas to keep her from acting on more dangerous ones. She clearly isn't dumb in the first one, easily able to psychologically manipulate Chell throughout the experiment and ultimately leading her to the incineration that she stubbornly escaped, showing that if he *was* connected to her during the first game he wasn't doing his job to make her dumb.
Also the Cake Core exists alongside Wheatley in the Portal segments of Lego Dimensions, which isn't *canon* but was officially licensed by Valve. They are treated there as separate entities, which really makes sense because the only thing they have in common is eye color.
...Speaking of which, your whole argument for them being the same character really just seems to boil down to 'they're both blue'. This is the same bad "x looks like y, so x=y" logic that a lot of conspiracy theories use to justify themselves, like Flat Earthers saying they can't see the earth's curve, or any conspiracy about the pyramids around the world being built by some advanced civilization because they're all shaped similarly (ignoring that they were built for vastly different purposes from civilization to civilization, and that different civilizations' pyramids look completely different to each other), or even how MatPat insisted that Sans is Ness basically just because they resemble each other, and because there were enough loose threads about the former that he could point at enough circumstantial similarities that it almost made sense if you didn't think about it.
This doesn't even really have that, though. This is just "They look similar, also things can survive being incinerated" and NOTHING to account for the lack of throughline with their respective personalities.
On the flipside at least, your presentation skills are quite developed for someone who sounds so young! Put a bit more logic and research into your next video and I'm sure you'll come up with something good! :)
This makes a lot of sense, and after all these comments, I realised that this theory would be false
i mean i still believe this theory is probably wrong but when you said Wheatley would've rambled on about being attached to GLaDOS, he could've lost all memory from being burned (like a memory chip being partially fried or something?) and then repaired. About him not talking about cake and rambling on about whatever if he was Wheatley, cake could've genuinley been on his mind at that point in the game, due to it being mentioned earlier several times, and so he tries to think of a recipe for a cake, which would be the worlds worst cake lol. and the lego dimensions isnt canon, again i still believe that this theory is most likely false but i also think there is kind of a chance its true.
there's actually unused dialogue that says that he DID work in glados's room, but only as an assistant to the guy in charge of the neurotoxin release button so if that line is still canon then it might actually also disprove this theory in general
That has also been my theory I shared it with my cousin
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This is the same thing that I chose to believe, but since a lot of people seem to hate this theory, I came up with the compromise theory that Wheatley was one of multiple "Intelligence dampening sphere" prototypes, him being to generate stupid ideas, with the cake core being the most successful one at slowing down GLaDOS by repeating a cake recipe... That would be why GLaDOS says that they tried everything to slow her down, Wheatley being one that didn't work...
The intelligence core also tells you how to preserve a dead body 😳
useful info
Wheatley is also the blue testing bot
Plus in portal 2 beta they were using the intelligence core to show how wheatley has to look.
Really? That’s cool but it could have been a coincidence
@@fruithead48 yea
Wheatley is intelligence dampening intelligence core is intelligence
Also, you forgot to mention the incinerator can’t make the intelligence core British
There's more than one companion cube in the Portal-Half-Life universe. And you're dead at the end of Portal 2 (at the wheat scene), sooooo...
What makes you say that? There isn't really any proof for a "chell is dead" theory, the story makes perfect sense without one.
@@aimfulRenegade Chell is sent to space for what, more than 10 secs? I know black mesa f-ed up earth, but did that alter nature laws as well? what i mean is, Chell should have burned, froze, suffocated while at the moon holding Wheatley.
Also, the turrets that Ellen voiced over for Cara Mia Addio dont open fire at Chell. There wasn't enough time ("enough time" I read this and an explanation from someone online a few times. I just dont remember what "enough time" really means, but I DO remember that it was a valid point. sorry) between when GLaDOS decided to reconsider her plans for Chell and the song, meaning the player must've already been dead before the song.
Note that there's more than one weighted companion cube in that video game universe
as well :)
@@l1m1nal2well yeah, but you only burn one companion cube so there is no other reason another one should be burned
Um how is Chell supposedly “dead at the wheat scene”?
@@DA_B0MB1 someone deleted my comment explaining why. I'm not typing it out again, sorry.
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Hear me out guys, I think that this theory is plausible.
Well, he did say to leave a comment if I didn't agree, so...
I like this theory a lot, and I do think it's interesting, but I also need to go out and say it: this theory is also completely impossible.
You're first point, was the dots, which were orginally included in the game so that the devs could remember which of the cores were supposed to fall off of GLaDOS when (1: Humility, 2: Curiousity, 3: Intelligence, 4: Rage, you get the idea.) The three dots on Wheatley are likely just spots of damage he's retained from his, well, *scientific endeavors,* if you will. The colour difference is also likely just because blue (Wheatley) contrasts orange (GLaDOS,) which is a kind of maneuver on the dev's part to make you think that Wheatley must be the good guy.
Secondly, you mentioned how the intelligence core wasn't really 'intelligent,' it just listed off cake ingredients, which is a fair point. However, this is completely unrelated to the service of Wheatley who, as we know, constantly produces a stream of terrible ideas. Cake is usually seen as quite a good idea, I might add. On the other hand, we have Wheatley not understanding the paradox. This would be a fair point, if it hadn't been for the fact that the previous point's invalidation in turn invalidates the second point.
Next up was the solid proof, which I can't argue. Wheatley does appear damaged, even before GLaDOS crushes him, and from observing the companion cube, the cores, as well as all of the other interactable objects in game, they do appear to be made from the same or similar metals. A pearly white exterior along with a black, wiry interior. However, then we get to the real kicker of my rebuttal, which is your final point.
As much as I want to believe this is true (I love it when games secretly add things from previous installments into sequels, kind of like pushing Freddy's nose in FNaF 2 and onwards,) your final point completely uproots the rest of your argument. It does so in two main ways. Firstly was your point, which was GLaDOS remembering Wheatley as the "tumour." Well, if she remembered him, why would she have him attached to herself after she had killed all the scientists. (I want to put a side note here that, while it may seem like a very rudamentary plan, GLaDOS used a foolproof trick to get her neurotoxin back, which wouldn't have been possible with Wheatley attached to her.) This leads into my final point, the humans. Wheatley himself says that he was put in charge of the wing containing "10,000 bloody test subjects." This couldn't have been before the scientists died, because he would still be attached to GLaDOS, paired with the fact that Wheatley also says that the "foreman chose a direct copy of himself" for a different job that Wheatley applied to. Saying that it was a direct copy, rather than a clone, would point towards it being a sentient android, rather than flesh and blood. If it had been after the scientists had died, then Wheatley would have been detached from GLaDOS, as she was now in charge and wouldn't have had him on her in the first place.
This came out as much more of an essay than I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry if it seems pointed in any way (I've been told my writings can get a little mean at some points.) If you would like to refute my statement I would be happy to know your thoughts.
Edit: I forgot to talk about how they have different voices, but I see someone else already has, so I'll leave that part to them
I really agree with your thoughts and I thank you for sharing them with me. Also I really appreciate that you made this comment clear and respectful.
First of all, in portal 2 Wheatley is British and seems to have no recollection of the death of glados but if we chalk that up memory loss then how to glados die after the cores went in the incinerator but not the intel core?
Hes the opposite of the intelligence core.
interesting theory ngl
He's a unintelligence core
Also this was made on my birthday ^_^
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It should be the first core because it is morality or well that's what I think
Bro You have potential I hope you are very famous
Thank you 😊
how do you explain their accents and voice being completely different between games
It could have changed in 4 years
Wheatley is the intelligence dampening core
But Wheatley and the Inteligence Core don't sound the same. GLaDOS tells wheatley "It was your voice." so if the two cores were the same, then they would have to have the same voice.
Well yeah, portal 1 was made in 2007 and portal 2 in 2011 so things have definitely changed in 4 years
Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete.
Brilliant video, mate! Please make more content like this! I love seeing others enjoy the world of Portal, and being so enthusiastic about it! ✨
idk i thought it was kind of obviously wheatley 💀
Yeah a lot of people say it’s not but a lot says it’s obvious
there's actually a lot of evidence that points to wheatley not being the cake core
source: look at the other comments on the video i don't feel like explaining
improving editing skills and you found good clips I have played those games enough to have the same idea but odds are we will never know for sure
I thought too
This is a very solid theory and a great video, but [SPOILERS]
wouldn't Wheatley recognize Chell when he meets her? The cores appear to be able to look at subjects. This is further supported by the adventure core constantly flirting with Chell in the Wheatley fight.
Glad0s said they put wheatly on her to give a stream of bad ideas so uhh
Best portal youtuber
i kinda agree with you : >
HE IS NOT A MORON
No NOT LISTENING NOT LISTENING!
I think wheatley is the intelligence core
Haha that’s what the theory was about
very underated. Nice Vid!
Thanks a lot 😁
Wheatley has the opposite purpose of the Intelligence Sphere
I don't want to be rude, but I can debunk this. The intelligence core was made specifically to be glados's intelligence, but it malfunctioned. However Wheatley (the intelligence dampening core) was made to make glados an idiot. Also it is made out very specifically that all of the portal 1 cores were incinerated.
Well yes, but like I said, the companion cube survived the incinerator so maybe the cores did too
@@fruithead48 Another point is that Wheatley was assigned to take care of the facility's test subjects after he failed. That couldn't have happened after Portal 1, because by then it was only chell ( who was asleep) and rattman ( who escaped.) so they have to be 2 different people
@@The_Super_Eevee very true
this is good. but they are not the same. there could be more blue ones and its been proven there not the same
Cool theory but in portal two all the cores have the same three dots
Ooh that’s a good point.
I think that’s just newer designs due to them changing the cores sorting method
yeah maybe
Mat pat?
here's why i believe this is false first of all if you didn't notice on the start of portal 2 Wheatley is completely clean and after GLaDOS tosses him off he becomes dirty and broken second of all we never saw the true intelligence of the *intelligence core* since it was just a quick battle against GLaDOS and it was meant to be a joke, unless you put needle's in your cake Third of all Wheatley was made to be stupid to make GLaDOS not be able to think about murdering all people in aperture with deadly neurotoxin but after a while he was discontinued and then he was shut off until GLaDOS died and all the cores woke up in the end of portal (fun fact All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin.) oh right GLaDOS meant when the scientists were still alive they tried to do everything to make GLaDOS behave but she never said that she had it after she killed everyone in there cuz that would have been stupid to keep it after that and she has claws that hang from the ceiling couln't she just take him out if it really was Wheatley and they do not have the same voice. But hey that's just a theory a Portal Theory
But hey you do have so good points
Haha but why did you say “needles in your cake?”
@@fruithead48 if you listen to the intelligence core enough it will start listing off something about needles and other bad stuff
@@ZazzuX ah I see
@@fruithead48 I'm amused by the fact you even read that trough
hmm
I feel like this kid never played portal
What makes you say that?
The intelligence core in portal 1 is not British.
It could have changed, look at the difference between portal 1 glados and portal 2 glados
@@fruithead48 but she didn’t change voice.
@@Random_guy788 yeah but her design changed a lot
@@fruithead48 ok, but how does Wheatley instantly become the intelligence core, if he was the intelligence core he would still be listing the cake recipe ingredients.
YOU ARE WRONG, there are multible cores, the original cores actually were meant to be an easter egg in the second game near the endm where the dammaged cores are, so if you are correct, their are 2 whaetleys
P.S there are multible companion cubes, its liek saying theirs only one button.
P.S.S 3:55, just disproved yourself
3:25, LOL
Yeah I don’t know why I said that last part.
The Intelligence Core, but instead reversing the functions from smart to moron. Oh yeah and the Intelligence Core was providing cake recipes because both Portals are filled with comedy. It's still an intelligence core designed to make GLaDOS smarter. And to back me up even further, GLaDOS' roasts in he boss fight deliberately become some much worse because she has no intelligence behind it. Also Wheatley's British, is the intelligence core British, NO. Still a pretty cool video though, make some more wacky MatPat level theories please.
Thanks, but the intelligence core was SUPPOSED to make her smarter, but it just made her worse (generating an endless stream of terrible ideas)
You really are up the next MatPat, please make a theory saying that GLaDOS was a Companion Cube.
@@HarrisonDoyle-vt5bp thanks a lot but could you give me some evidence so I can start with?
I dunno find something I guess. Maybe because Caroline was a nice person, and a Companion Cube has hearts on it.
@@HarrisonDoyle-vt5bp I’ll try
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@@a20047 hello a-200
ofc he is .GLaDOS said it in Chapter 5: The Escape in GLaDOS' Chamber "Once, they even attached an Intelligence Dampening Sphere on me. It clung to my brain like a tumor, generating an endless stream of terrible ideas." , It was YOUR voice." "Yes. You're the tumor." , "You're not just a regular moron. You were DESIGNED to be a moron." , YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!" this is not a theory this is a fact. And there no need for this "theory" any one who play this game will know. I didn't even need to waste my time watching this video that the algorithm give me.
Hmm okay. I know this theory is kinda dumb but I was just testing my video skills sooo also what did I do?
@@fruithead48 you can cut the breathing part out.
@@guypo1930 what breathing part
Also there is proof proving otherwise, how would Wheatley have had a job if he was connected to glados? You can’t be sure of a theory if it was never officially explained.
Not this again...
Wdym
Debunking this theory with one reason:
Wheatley british
intelligence core not British
Done.
You gave as much evidence to disprove this theory that I gave evidence to prove this theory
@@fruithead48 Just felt like something you left out.
@@VolcanoHarry I’m pretty sure things change in 4 years like GLaDOS’ redesign
They are the opposite
And how?
he's not
Ok