It is theorized that Wheatley was more than just an intelligence dampening sphere, but also programmed to make ideas that hinder Glados/the core in charge and prevent them, hence why he led Chell around before taking over the facility and then proceeded to hinder himself
My interpretation of Wheatley thinking he would die if he used his basic functions is as follows, the scientists/engineers didn't tell him that, the other cores did. Because they saw him as stupid, they bullied him. Maybe that's one of the reasons he wanted to leave
I think it was the scientists/engineers just because they didn't want that level of Idiot doing what he pleased, but i like the idea of the other cores bullying him its fitting
I tend to think about it like this: The engineers tell Wheatly that if he uses his flashlight or pops off his rail he will die, as in, his battery would eventually die, or, don't get off the rail if nobody is around. However, he mistook these warnings as "Never do these specific things or you will die instantly.", and never took the time to realize that would be impossible in the first place.
I’ve always wondered if her trying to kill them all was because she wasn’t a volunteer. That they had attached the additional cores to keep Carolyn suppressed until only glados remained
Seeing how she calm down after she remembered her memories she probably was a volunteer. I am guessing more likely it wasn’t taught morality and given a lot of power and probably confused then experimental on was what messed her up or it’s something to do with her subconscious
@@nil_system I’m pretty sure they found some unused audio files of Carolyn begging not to become apart of GLaDOS, I think she did what she did due to a psychotic break and uncontrollable anger
@@nil_system they only didn't because the voice actor of Cave Johnson refused to do the voice lines due to disagreement with the type of character he was.
@@Namelessstew to me not in the game.not indented to be used/found like in a arg then it's not cannon. Can u imagine every joke/scraped idle file developers leave in the game is cannon?
There's actually a full showing of how the personality core was developed to express as much as a metal ball on a management rail could. Handles, actuations, eyelids, they all were developed to approximate parts of the human face, like the brow, cheekbones, etc.
Caroline said she never wanted her personality to live forever I'd bet that she became angry and scared when she was forced into the AI scanner and that's why GlaDos is so different.
I would add that because she was going from an organic to a digital/logical brain, it was trying to reconcile the paradox of her existence. As a being, her goal is persistent existence. As Caroline though, there is a desire to not exist as an artificial life form, leading to a logical contradiction that drives her insane
A theory i have is that glados may ne hostile due to how caroline was feeling in her last moments when she was being uploaded.She was probably angry as hell
YES i had this exact thought!!! i think at first she remembered who she was as caroline and was angry at cave johnson, but as she slowly forgot who she was she just ended up taking out her anger on the scientists / chell
I would have made a “suit” that gave cores a portal gun and arms and legs and said to upload me to a core and plug me into the to the “suit” after that. Maybe I should rewrite that sentence.
@@xanderplayz3446 thats straight up just atlas and p-body its not confirmed but glados might have copied chells brain and used it for the coop testing bots
I really prefer the original voice, dunno if you've ever heard it, it's on youtube, it was what valve showed at e3 before release and they changed it to merchant at the last minute. Have a watch, see what you think!
@@grindelston5968 I wouldn't call Merchant's casting a last-minute thing, since Richard Lord was never intended to be the final voice for Wheatley to begin with; he emphasized that he was just a placeholder for the _Meet Wheatley_ video. It's possible that Merchant was already casted as Wheatley, since Lord wrote in his blog that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over teh moon with who it might be." (sic). It's just that they haven't recorded and/or edited anything in time for the video, hence the placeholder voice.
16:50 Imagine being a person and then you're uploaded to a little eyebot body and the guys who enslaved you like this say "this one makes other robots stupid. that's its purpose"
the cores don't have "genetic lifeforms" mentioned anywhere so its safe to assume they were born as an ai so being just born and having your "mother" say your purpose is to make the other robot stupid
Just finished Portal 2 for the first time today, immediately went and binge watched all of your previous Portal-related videos. This couldn't have come out at a better time for me! Thank you!
I do love the personality cores, I think valve did a lot to make them (and glados) feel very human. My favourite is the space core, I just can't help loving him. Which one's your favourite?
One very interesting thing is that there probably is a multiverse out there that never invented the cores because GLADOS never tried to kill anyone and she insisted functioned like the scientists intended. And so they would never have tried to make the cores. Another universe in which the scientists did find a combination of cores that succeeded in permanently making GLADOS safe and friendly is also interesting to think about.
@@tayhemsworth4219 Or another one where he is Glados but loves it and uses it for the exact original purpose he had for it and just run Aperture forever
Holding her for some time And She starts spoiling the story... Like when she says "Her name is Caroline". I realized it after I played whole portal for second time. *The one Turret on the line waiting for destruction.
The cores being human uploads / imprints sounds canon to me. How else would Aperture be able to create AI too advanced, even be able to experience emotions and talk so much more human-like than even GLaDOS ?
I like to think that Harry's Meet the Cores series is canon, since it really feels like it's a series that could have been made by Valve themselves. Also, of course, Virgil core from Portal Mel = best core.
I just realized... Valve intentionally gave Aperture an 'Apple'-like aesthetic. The Cores are portable pods based on the shape of an eye. They're eye-pods.
Do get the feeling that the central theme of Portal 2's story has to do with how Wheatley became even more of a disaster than GLaDOS ever was after he took over the facility. Maybe something about how power wielded by someone who doesn't have any real awareness of their own flaws and is thus unable to control them, is more dangerous than power wielded by someone with actual malice. Would explain why they still spent a good chunk of the runtime establishing GLaDOS's malicious nature before even letting Wheatley take over, even though most players would have already been well aware of what she is. Her behaviour is an important point of comparison in the story if the comparison is the story's most important point. :)
I think he _does_ know about his flaws, he's pretty self-aware and seems to have a low self-steem he just tried to boost his ego a little bit with small things like the "hacking" and such. And of course, giving this amount of power to an insecure person can be chaotic.
@@pascuala. yeah, I guess developing a willful ignorance of oneself isn't miles away from a lack of awareness :) He certainly seems more self-aware in the post credits which suggests the body itself might have something to do with suppressing it. Or maybe just the sheer amount of power.
This is just a theory of mine, but what if the cause of GLaDOS's murderous actions were of either her inner intrusive thoughts taking control and her not knowing, or maybe it was for revenge because of the other theory of Caroline being forced to become GLaDOS against her will. I mean think about it, maybe it was the other side of Caroline's happy go lucky personality from what I've observed from her voicelines with Cave Johnson during the near climax of Portal 2. This is just a small theory I had when I played Portal 2 after Portal 1 Update: So Caroline WAS forced to become GLaDOS
I'd like to think that maybe the process of uploading her didn't kill the original and when GLaDOS was fired up it realized it was a copy when faced with it's human self giving her orders and that's what made her so mad.
@@magentawool2556 Cave Johnson said he wanted her to be the one uploaded if he died. And he said to do it even if she didn’t want it and he knew she would refuse. Also there’s voice lines that didn’t make it into the game that are implied to be Caroline refusing the upload
Still cant believe this company formed before the 1960s outreached the combine in their technology so much that the combine need the borealis. I wonder if the combine know about caves multiverse jumping
don't forget the space sphere wasn't happy forever faced with the realization of just how big space is, it soon wanted to return to earth as furiously as it wanted to go to space
14:48 Considering Portal was in the Orange Box alongside Episode 2: I always thought they were an aperture equivalent of the Heli Mines from Half-Life 2/E1/E2 - It had never dawned on me that they were also cores! I thought it was just a cake trap!
I like the thought that cores are uploaded human brain engrams. It actually makes sense that Aperture techs would side step programming each core to bring it up to sentience, by just grabbing whatever it is that makes our brains work. It also explains the large number of defective cores. Since they're all connected by wifi, Aperture Labs could have developed one master sentience, with each core having just the personality & programming for their purpose. Equivalent to a human having multiple personalities, except, all at once.
I have never played Portal or half life and have no idea how the youtube algorithm led me here but I am obsessed with these videos mate. You have a great voice for these lore type of videos so I look forward to seeing what's next 😊
I remember Harry101UK had a series where they introduced different cores. Including the main ones like FactCore, Anger Core, Curiosity Core and Adventure Core. And one of the cores literally took brains of the employees and downloaded them into robots. They even stuck an employee who had a wheat allergy into a toaster. Also love the idea of Cave Johnson having a brain too big to fit into a robot body.
Pretty cool. I love the cores for howsimple they are yet mean so much to the game¿s lore and even make or a great character with the Whitley. And if I was a core, I think I'll be either the anger one or a curiosity one.
@@Skyrionn think valve still cares for the portal series, as they have made an aperture “tech demo” for both the steam deck (Aperture Desk Job) and steam vr (The Lab)
One possibility is that we play as one of the many Androids GLaDOS developed for testing. If that's what happens, then the possibilities are endless, from a puzzle chambers only game, to even straight up WAR between the AIs. Portal 3 can exist, it just doesn't need to be with Chel!
16:55 Crap, this actually makes sense if you think about it. When a person is uploaded into a sphere, it amplifies a part of their personality. Space core was an ambitious astronaut who dreamed of space. Rick/Adventure core was a daring, womanizing war hero. Fact core was an academic full of random facts. Whealtey was a moron they found lying around in England.
This guy so made me understand the lore behind Portal more than the majority of "Portal lore explained" videos I've seen. Also his voice is so soothing it could put me to sleep
Not only did wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core go into space but the adventure core also went into space expect he went a different direction that wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core went (also he was the first one to detach) and fact core stayed on
WOW! This video was certainly a roller coaster of mind blowing lore from the beloved story of the portal franchise! I would also love to see more portal games! And when you said a core was found in Elder Scrolls Skyrim?? THAT is amazing!
I really enjoy your videos, I really like the way you depict the video like it's a documentary going through aperture's building. Keep up the good work.
you know what I don't see many people (in fact basically no one) talking about? the fact that adventure core was ALSO sucked into space, so perhaps they are also orbiting Wheatly, just further away. also its said the reason why space core orbits Wheatly is because Wheatly is so dense (literally and figurately)
You know the question I have... why are the test chambers made as puzzles to begin with? Portal 2 makes it pretty clear that this was a deliberate decision by Aperture that they even built their AIs around, so that they can't tell the subjects how to solve the puzzles. But if this is just product testing for the portal gun and whatever other wacky inventions Aperture designs, wouldn't it be more efficient and effective if the subjects knew what they're supposed to do with what they're given? It could be a quirk of company philosophy chalked up to Cave Johnson's insanity, but most of his insanity is pretty well spelled out in Portal 2's story, where the whole puzzle aspect is only established to have been done on purpose, but without any hint as to why.
I don't think he was just trying to playtest product. I think he saw himself as a scientist discovering new things about the human condition. I think a lot of the products invented were meant to test human lab rats. To me the fact that he invented a backup so that tests can still be done by the ai cores even after an apocalypse scenario where all humans are wiped out shows that the science itself is more important to him than just it's selling value.
@@sardonicus1739 An interesting idea for sure. And clearly something was more important to Cave Johnson than selling value 'cause he hardly ever sold anything XD
I noticed something watching this The moon was visible in the sky at the end of Portal 2 when Chell shot a Portal on the moon which lead to Wheatley and her being pulled through a portal to space But after being brought back through the portal by GLaDOS it’s day when she gets to the surface Which means Chell was asleep for either 12-1 hour/hours
The personality cores are literally one of my favorite parts of the games. They add so many more questions and theories to explore with the story of Aperture (like the question of whether or not the cores personalities are derived from the uploaded/imprinted consciousnesses of the employees). Thanks for making this video; you did a wonderful job laying out the lore of these delightful constructs. ^v^ --If I were a scientist at Aperture in charge of personality construct creation, I think I'd request for a Music Composition Core to be made: their task would be to write music for the facility to boost productivity and morale. They could be named Pachelbel or something. :) That, or I'd want a Silly/Jester Core to be made, to lighten the stress and depressing mood, y'know?
19:34 what's interesting is it seems that having control of the facility is what causes the murderous tendencies. When Glados is removed from it, she becomes more docile, and more like Caroline. Partially because she didnt have the capability to harm anyone, but her personality generally mellowed out.
now , with the new "portal revolution" mod if we can combine the lore from those extraordinar mods, we know , that Caroline (GlaDOS) never agreed to be scanned and put inside a core , and most probably someone from aperture did it when she was unaware of this ; so most probably the scan wasn't complete and that why in portal 2 we can see her become Caroline when she's a potato , the proper GlaDOS was ruled by a set of protocols and "laws" when Caroline is actually a personality, when she was free of those protocols we can see that there is actually a human there after all , and about the part where she didn't agree for the neuroscan (portal revolution mod lore) , that's why she doesn't remember being named CEO and is not bringing up the part where she killed everyone in the facility. i think is an interesting theory and i had to share it.
On your point of how they would of needed more narrative to implement them... I have to disagree when I met the other cores during the end game I remember being so fascinated by them I spent about 2 hours trying to hear everything they had to say. My favourite obviously the Space core. However if they just dumped a Morgan Freeman Core mid game as temporary replacement to wheatly I would of done exactly the same with him even if it was only 1 level. I imagine it would not be that it is Morgan Freeman just completely obsessed by him. Probably trying to Turing test into being Morgan Freeman. That literally needs no introduction just a babbling core you need to carry from A to B without getting annoyed and ditching it or setting him free believing it is what remains of One of the most iconic actors of the 21st century.
As this has had a few likes I'd also like to add that if the Morgan Freeman Core was a thing and you did have this objective of carry it to A to B or listen to it and set it free... I honestly would leave either path completely ambiguous on whether it survived or not regardless the path... like if you put it in the trash compactor like your told the compactor fails and it laughs and states "I'm Morgan Freeman and I will not be defeated." Or gives a tear jerking speech about Freedom then just simply states... "Just leave me here i have Narration to provide..." then it'll proceed to describe the room you leave him in. Because how amazing would Portal 2 be if you can Narrate half the game with a core that thinks its Morgan Freeman! Like imagine if you got it into Wheatleys terrible puzzles and he struggles to define the room without giving away the solution and eventually breaks from Narration to argue with Wheatley.
i really would love an in depth video from you on the gman, even if it was just mostly speculation, hes the most fascinating part of the half life series in my opinion, that and all the other lore that proves theres forces way beyond our control at play, for us a life or death struggle, for the powers that be in the multiverse just tuesday.
Love your videos, you deserve way more than 70k with content as high quality as this. Always makes my day when a get a Notification saying: Skyrionn uploaded
Is it ever explained why/in what sense GLaDOS is "Genetic"? She was a robot, not a cyborg. And even if Carolin's actual body was somehow integrated (instead of her brain pattern being uploaded or something), she wasn't "genetically modified" or anything, so far as we know? It just never made sense to me, or did I miss something?
I really like ur appreciation towards half life/potral universe, It's nice to hear about same things from different perspective. Also ur voice is perfect for this kind of things. Keep it up, ur doing great work~
The theory that GLaDOS is Caroline’s angry existence is really compelling. Either she died being uploaded and those were her last moments or GLaDOS’S spiteful nature is her spiteful nature of being uploaded Things of note I’ve seen in theory comments, I do not believe she’s angry at cave, cave was one of Caroline’s favorite people and even as GLaDOS she holds much respect for him when she hears his voice. GLaDOS is angry at the staff and facility. She LOVES science, she admired cave. But she hates the people who did this to her. She hates humanity.
Man after finishing portal and portal 2, the lore for certain aspects are very interesting, like why the companion cubes and what they are to the cores. Still need to do the coop for portal 2!
was a great video! Just letting you know though that the space core is not in the Skyrim base game, it's only added through a mod that's seemingly made by Valve released in the creation kit.
I still find it really funny that this game takes place in Michigan. Like I live here, and there is this absurd nightmare science facility in my backyard xD
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons; what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!"
Wheatley is in TF2 as one of the tools for Spy, even though it's a Valve game, Wheatley in TF2 is called the AP-SAP, which is the item used for sapping Engineer buildings in TF2, and has Wheatley voice lines tied to the item whenever you pull it out or use it to sap things.
Ok, as cool as that is, doesn't having Wheatley talking during the sapping process defeat the point of the sapper being a stealth tool? The engi will likely hear it immediately.
@@DoctorTexwell you also have the loud alarm that starts playing when your sentry gets sapped,meaning that you’ll probably already know without Wheatley screaming about it.
space core appearing in skyrim could also be canon in some convoluted way the multiverse and its many apertures could've made their own experiments and there's a very high chance that this very core existed in multiple other universes and what's gonna stop the other laboratories from sending different objects to other dimensions perhaps one of the aperture labs accidentally (or on purpose) sent the space core to a different universe and the core happened to crash land near whiterun, right when the dragonborn happened to pass by the tower where their first dragon was defeated what happened next is unclear, either the dragonborn left the core where it was, the dragonborn took the core and had it accompany them on their journey, or they turned the space core into a worn item (iirc it was a helmet), destroying it in the process
I loved Wheatley and felt so betrayed when you got his god complex, but even after everything I would have forgiven him lol. Especially that apology at the end. A villain that you can't hate because he is such a joy to be around because of his great dialog.
I really love Wheatley and Curiosity core. Cause I am so curious that I can be a moron at times. And *INHAILE* THE CAKE IS A LIE! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and at any time of the year.
I think the cores they needed to put on GLADOS would be a combination of: The Sweaty and Shameful Core, the Crippling Depression Core, the Celebrity Impersonator Core, and the "My Fursona is a Fennec Fox/Unicorn" Core.
I'd like to think the scientists were just fucking with Wheatley for shits and giggles when they told him certain actions would kill him. Imagine them turning around and snickering after they told him he'd die if he switched his flashlight on, LOL 😆
What core would you make if you worked at Aperture?
Badass core would be badass
The uM aCtUaLlY 🤓 core
The dumb core because I’m dumb
i'd just turn myself into one
@@NovaJR9 actually it already exists and its called the 'fact core'
It’s so perfect that one small ball with a blue eye and british voice managed to almost destroy an entire enrichment center
Natural talent.
The moron smashed the elevator that he called for h...
I AM NOT A MORON!!!!!!!!
British people do British stuff
True talent
Trial and error
It is theorized that Wheatley was more than just an intelligence dampening sphere, but also programmed to make ideas that hinder Glados/the core in charge and prevent them, hence why he led Chell around before taking over the facility and then proceeded to hinder himself
Maybe the idea behind weathly was to destroy the facility so that no one would have ever gotten close to the tecnology
@@craz2580 I feel like that isn’t something that Cave Johnson would want, though the scientists may have wanted to destroy what they’d created
That would explain why despite being a moron, he manages to disrupt her turrets and destroy her neurotoxin supply.
do he's more like a sabotage core?
I wonder was gladus rright he was made to be dumb cause he sure is
So basically humans created cores to control glados but they were so good that they made them into into workers and they became little society
basically yeah
They live in a society
Now i dont have to watch it a-
silly little guys
people made talking balls but they were so nice that they made a talking ball ecosystem where they all talk
My interpretation of Wheatley thinking he would die if he used his basic functions is as follows, the scientists/engineers didn't tell him that, the other cores did. Because they saw him as stupid, they bullied him. Maybe that's one of the reasons he wanted to leave
I think it's was just random kid who told him just for the lols
Nooope. The reactor was about to blow up.
Tbh I think with Wheatley being the "bad idea" core he would naturally come up with the idea to not use his basic functions all on his own
I think it was the scientists/engineers just because they didn't want that level of Idiot doing what he pleased, but i like the idea of the other cores bullying him its fitting
I tend to think about it like this:
The engineers tell Wheatly that if he uses his flashlight or pops off his rail he will die, as in, his battery would eventually die, or, don't get off the rail if nobody is around. However, he mistook these warnings as "Never do these specific things or you will die instantly.", and never took the time to realize that would be impossible in the first place.
I’ve always wondered if her trying to kill them all was because she wasn’t a volunteer. That they had attached the additional cores to keep Carolyn suppressed until only glados remained
Seeing how she calm down after she remembered her memories she probably was a volunteer. I am guessing more likely it wasn’t taught morality and given a lot of power and probably confused then experimental on was what messed her up or it’s something to do with her subconscious
@@nil_system I’m pretty sure they found some unused audio files of Carolyn begging not to become apart of GLaDOS, I think she did what she did due to a psychotic break and uncontrollable anger
@@Ryan-in6ls my original answer is based of the video and what I know.and seeing how it's unused they decided not to go with that
@@nil_system they only didn't because the voice actor of Cave Johnson refused to do the voice lines due to disagreement with the type of character he was.
@@Namelessstew to me not in the game.not indented to be used/found like in a arg then it's not cannon. Can u imagine every joke/scraped idle file developers leave in the game is cannon?
I love how so much emotion can be conveyed by a little round moving metal eye.
There's actually a full showing of how the personality core was developed to express as much as a metal ball on a management rail could. Handles, actuations, eyelids, they all were developed to approximate parts of the human face, like the brow, cheekbones, etc.
Probably the reason why the cores got redesigned compared to the Portal 1 versions.
friendly frank my beloved
Caroline said she never wanted her personality to live forever
I'd bet that she became angry and scared when she was forced into the AI scanner and that's why GlaDos is so different.
I would add that because she was going from an organic to a digital/logical brain, it was trying to reconcile the paradox of her existence. As a being, her goal is persistent existence. As Caroline though, there is a desire to not exist as an artificial life form, leading to a logical contradiction that drives her insane
I feel like anyone, human or not, would go completely insane given that much power and knowledge all at once
A theory i have is that glados may ne hostile due to how caroline was feeling in her last moments when she was being uploaded.She was probably angry as hell
I'd be angry too tbh
Not to mention that she was forced into the upload due to Cave Johnsons request
YES i had this exact thought!!! i think at first she remembered who she was as caroline and was angry at cave johnson, but as she slowly forgot who she was she just ended up taking out her anger on the scientists / chell
I would have made a “suit” that gave cores a portal gun and arms and legs and said to upload me to a core and plug me into the to the “suit” after that. Maybe I should rewrite that sentence.
@@xanderplayz3446 thats straight up just atlas and p-body its not confirmed but glados might have copied chells brain and used it for the coop testing bots
Not only is wheatly greatly written, but Stephen Merchant does great voicing him, really suits it
I really prefer the original voice, dunno if you've ever heard it, it's on youtube, it was what valve showed at e3 before release and they changed it to merchant at the last minute.
Have a watch, see what you think!
@@grindelston5968 I wouldn't call Merchant's casting a last-minute thing, since Richard Lord was never intended to be the final voice for Wheatley to begin with; he emphasized that he was just a placeholder for the _Meet Wheatley_ video. It's possible that Merchant was already casted as Wheatley, since Lord wrote in his blog that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over teh moon with who it might be." (sic). It's just that they haven't recorded and/or edited anything in time for the video, hence the placeholder voice.
16:50 Imagine being a person and then you're uploaded to a little eyebot body and the guys who enslaved you like this say "this one makes other robots stupid. that's its purpose"
ikr. The worst kind of existance.
bomb cores
you should check out Blue Sky
the cores don't have "genetic lifeforms" mentioned anywhere so its safe to assume they were born as an ai
so being just born and having your "mother" say your purpose is to make the other robot stupid
Just finished Portal 2 for the first time today, immediately went and binge watched all of your previous Portal-related videos. This couldn't have come out at a better time for me! Thank you!
Welcome aboard! There are SO MANY videos too :D
Finished Portal 2 Today as well
Finished it Friday it was incredible!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! There was an ARG ran by Valve! Wish I could have been there while it all unfolded!
Do you remember how we laughed and laughed, except I wasn’t laughing?
I do love the personality cores, I think valve did a lot to make them (and glados) feel very human. My favourite is the space core, I just can't help loving him. Which one's your favourite?
Wheatley. The pain he expresses in the final Portal 2 fight as you let him talk really shows that there's likely more to the cores than mere AI.
The Curiousity Core. Its voice was so cute.
Wheatley and Curiosity core. I can be a moron because of how overwhelming curious I can get. (For others point of view.)
Strangely I like the anger core
@@boatfan1234 you are strange
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One very interesting thing is that there probably is a multiverse out there that never invented the cores because GLADOS never tried to kill anyone and she insisted functioned like the scientists intended. And so they would never have tried to make the cores.
Another universe in which the scientists did find a combination of cores that succeeded in permanently
making GLADOS safe and friendly is also interesting to think about.
U think there is a tech demo where cave becomes "GLaDOs" while he regrets it he doesn't become murderus and just wants to die
@@tayhemsworth4219
Or another one where he is Glados but loves it and uses it for the exact original purpose he had for it and just run Aperture forever
I think about the one turret in the tube that says “help me. I’m different” a lot.
Lowkey broke my heart.
Holding her for some time And She starts spoiling the story... Like when she says "Her name is Caroline". I realized it after I played whole portal for second time.
*The one Turret on the line waiting for destruction.
@@mayarlis they could possibly be the same turret?
@@Stonesplashed they are, they just can’t be grabbed at the beginning
@@burningsexuality1540 damn
The cores being human uploads / imprints sounds canon to me. How else would Aperture be able to create AI too advanced, even be able to experience emotions and talk so much more human-like than even GLaDOS ?
YEAH! Think about this: space core, astronauts that went missing after they visited aperture?
@@magentawool2556or someone who was looking forward to harvesting moon rock
Wheatly: Special Ed kid
chatgpt
I like to think that Harry's Meet the Cores series is canon, since it really feels like it's a series that could have been made by Valve themselves. Also, of course, Virgil core from Portal Mel = best core.
I just realized...
Valve intentionally gave Aperture an 'Apple'-like aesthetic. The Cores are portable pods based on the shape of an eye. They're eye-pods.
I was here late enough to appreciate this. Up top..
3:48 Ever notice that Wheatley's handles just disappeared when he was attached to GLADOS's body and were back again when he was torn off; weird...
yeah! that is odd
It's likely they were built to retract into the body for some unknown purpose.
Maybe they were hidden away like a transformer
I always used to think they flipped backwards
@@oghcuteanimationhq5121 They do , we see it when he detaches from the rail
Do get the feeling that the central theme of Portal 2's story has to do with how Wheatley became even more of a disaster than GLaDOS ever was after he took over the facility.
Maybe something about how power wielded by someone who doesn't have any real awareness of their own flaws and is thus unable to control them, is more dangerous than power wielded by someone with actual malice.
Would explain why they still spent a good chunk of the runtime establishing GLaDOS's malicious nature before even letting Wheatley take over, even though most players would have already been well aware of what she is. Her behaviour is an important point of comparison in the story if the comparison is the story's most important point. :)
GlaDOS: Lawful Evil
Post-Part 1 Core Transfer Wheatley: Chaotic Evil
@@prometheanrebel3838 pretty much!
I think he _does_ know about his flaws, he's pretty self-aware and seems to have a low self-steem he just tried to boost his ego a little bit with small things like the "hacking" and such.
And of course, giving this amount of power to an insecure person can be chaotic.
@@pascuala. yeah, I guess developing a willful ignorance of oneself isn't miles away from a lack of awareness :)
He certainly seems more self-aware in the post credits which suggests the body itself might have something to do with suppressing it. Or maybe just the sheer amount of power.
This is just a theory of mine, but what if the cause of GLaDOS's murderous actions were of either her inner intrusive thoughts taking control and her not knowing, or maybe it was for revenge because of the other theory of Caroline being forced to become GLaDOS against her will. I mean think about it, maybe it was the other side of Caroline's happy go lucky personality from what I've observed from her voicelines with Cave Johnson during the near climax of Portal 2. This is just a small theory I had when I played Portal 2 after Portal 1
Update: So Caroline WAS forced to become GLaDOS
I'd like to think that maybe the process of uploading her didn't kill the original and when GLaDOS was fired up it realized it was a copy when faced with it's human self giving her orders and that's what made her so mad.
nowhere in the game or canon does it say she was forcced to be uploaded.
@@magentawool2556 Cave Johnson said he wanted her to be the one uploaded if he died. And he said to do it even if she didn’t want it and he knew she would refuse. Also there’s voice lines that didn’t make it into the game that are implied to be Caroline refusing the upload
Still cant believe this company formed before the 1960s outreached the combine in their technology so much that the combine need the borealis. I wonder if the combine know about caves multiverse jumping
Yes! Been waiting for this one to be remastered. Given how I think the original holds up pretty well, I'm excited to watch this asap.
Thanks buddy! I hope you enjoy it!
Portal 1 ending: you remove balls
Portal 2 ending: you add more balls
Portal 3 ending: you make balls?
@@almessasorrow4950No, you _are_ the ball
@@sir_pancakezBALLS
Actually in portal 3 there are no balls because there is no portal 3
@@LizaMargaretL.Albarico because they can't "count to 3"...... I'll leave.
don't forget the space sphere wasn't happy forever
faced with the realization of just how big space is, it soon wanted to return to earth as furiously as it wanted to go to space
14:48 Considering Portal was in the Orange Box alongside Episode 2:
I always thought they were an aperture equivalent of the Heli Mines from Half-Life 2/E1/E2 - It had never dawned on me that they were also cores! I thought it was just a cake trap!
Watched this in my break of coding (Gamedesign student here).. the space core is floating around as an easter egg in my game now as well! :D
I like the thought that cores are uploaded human brain engrams. It actually makes sense that Aperture techs would side step programming each core to bring it up to sentience, by just grabbing whatever it is that makes our brains work. It also explains the large number of defective cores. Since they're all connected by wifi, Aperture Labs could have developed one master sentience, with each core having just the personality & programming for their purpose. Equivalent to a human having multiple personalities, except, all at once.
Now I want more portal games just to have a Morgan Freeman core in them.
same!
I have never played Portal or half life and have no idea how the youtube algorithm led me here but I am obsessed with these videos mate. You have a great voice for these lore type of videos so I look forward to seeing what's next 😊
Perhaps you are interested in some further testing?
i literally played both portal games for the first time BLIND this week and its so good am glad the community is still kicking
love the part where u listed all of those cores, it registered in my brain as a bunch of new aesthetics dropping lmao
My favorite aesthetic is Useful Core That Is Definitely Not A Portal To Hell Core
Ah yes, stupid core 🧠🚫🤪✨
I remember Harry101UK had a series where they introduced different cores. Including the main ones like FactCore, Anger Core, Curiosity Core and Adventure Core. And one of the cores literally took brains of the employees and downloaded them into robots. They even stuck an employee who had a wheat allergy into a toaster.
Also love the idea of Cave Johnson having a brain too big to fit into a robot body.
Pretty cool. I love the cores for howsimple they are yet mean so much to the game¿s lore and even make or a great character with the Whitley. And if I was a core, I think I'll be either the anger one or a curiosity one.
Curiosity is a good one!
Id be spaece
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@@josephleebob3828 my friend made it.
Love how there's still new Portal content videos even over a decade after the game's release.
I’d love to see your theories on what possible portal 3 could look like
Let's keep them theories going until we actually get another game!
@@Skyrionn think valve still cares for the portal series, as they have made an aperture “tech demo” for both the steam deck (Aperture Desk Job) and steam vr (The Lab)
One possibility is that we play as one of the many Androids GLaDOS developed for testing. If that's what happens, then the possibilities are endless, from a puzzle chambers only game, to even straight up WAR between the AIs.
Portal 3 can exist, it just doesn't need to be with Chel!
@@davisdf3064 you mean like the co-op? Or something else? I'm not to feel in the lore side 😅
@@angelface925
Yes, except we might not be Atlas or P-body, just another random Droid that GLaDOS uses for testing.
16:55 Crap, this actually makes sense if you think about it. When a person is uploaded into a sphere, it amplifies a part of their personality. Space core was an ambitious astronaut who dreamed of space. Rick/Adventure core was a daring, womanizing war hero. Fact core was an academic full of random facts. Whealtey was a moron they found lying around in England.
England has a ton of morons haha. I like the theory anyway! Thanks for watching man
I love how high quality these videos are
That's high praise. There's more to come too :)
I really appreciate these videos getting me back into Valve’s titles, thank you Skyrionn 🙏🏽
Glad you like them! It appears more people are coming to Valve's older games which is great!
@@Skyrionn valves older games aka: all of them except half life alyx
ayo the FBI found out about the test subjects underground
This guy so made me understand the lore behind Portal more than the majority of "Portal lore explained" videos I've seen. Also his voice is so soothing it could put me to sleep
Not only did wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core go into space but the adventure core also went into space expect he went a different direction that wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core went (also he was the first one to detach) and fact core stayed on
WOW! This video was certainly a roller coaster of mind blowing lore from the beloved story of the portal franchise!
I would also love to see more portal games! And when you said a core was found in Elder Scrolls Skyrim?? THAT is amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really enjoy your videos, I really like the way you depict the video like it's a documentary going through aperture's building. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much! There's more to come too!
I like how the title is the "Darker" side of Aperture, cause we all already know Aperture's dark side, so this is the dark-er side.
you know what I don't see many people (in fact basically no one) talking about? the fact that adventure core was ALSO sucked into space, so perhaps they are also orbiting Wheatly, just further away. also its said the reason why space core orbits Wheatly is because Wheatly is so dense (literally and figurately)
You know the question I have... why are the test chambers made as puzzles to begin with? Portal 2 makes it pretty clear that this was a deliberate decision by Aperture that they even built their AIs around, so that they can't tell the subjects how to solve the puzzles. But if this is just product testing for the portal gun and whatever other wacky inventions Aperture designs, wouldn't it be more efficient and effective if the subjects knew what they're supposed to do with what they're given?
It could be a quirk of company philosophy chalked up to Cave Johnson's insanity, but most of his insanity is pretty well spelled out in Portal 2's story, where the whole puzzle aspect is only established to have been done on purpose, but without any hint as to why.
I don't think he was just trying to playtest product. I think he saw himself as a scientist discovering new things about the human condition. I think a lot of the products invented were meant to test human lab rats.
To me the fact that he invented a backup so that tests can still be done by the ai cores even after an apocalypse scenario where all humans are wiped out shows that the science itself is more important to him than just it's selling value.
@@sardonicus1739 An interesting idea for sure.
And clearly something was more important to Cave Johnson than selling value 'cause he hardly ever sold anything XD
I noticed something watching this
The moon was visible in the sky at the end of Portal 2 when Chell shot a Portal on the moon which lead to Wheatley and her being pulled through a portal to space
But after being brought back through the portal by GLaDOS it’s day when she gets to the surface
Which means Chell was asleep for either 12-1 hour/hours
Chell was exhausted
The personality cores are literally one of my favorite parts of the games. They add so many more questions and theories to explore with the story of Aperture (like the question of whether or not the cores personalities are derived from the uploaded/imprinted consciousnesses of the employees). Thanks for making this video; you did a wonderful job laying out the lore of these delightful constructs. ^v^
--If I were a scientist at Aperture in charge of personality construct creation, I think I'd request for a Music Composition Core to be made: their task would be to write music for the facility to boost productivity and morale. They could be named Pachelbel or something. :) That, or I'd want a Silly/Jester Core to be made, to lighten the stress and depressing mood, y'know?
19:34 what's interesting is it seems that having control of the facility is what causes the murderous tendencies. When Glados is removed from it, she becomes more docile, and more like Caroline.
Partially because she didnt have the capability to harm anyone, but her personality generally mellowed out.
Power causes corruption
@@SuperBootsTheDog Yes but I have to wonder if for the cores, its in a more literal sense.
@@Yipper64 definitely
I would like to see the hard core, a core that just throws raves
Sounds like a good core
@@Skyrionn
No, the good core is the core who is good in the bed
Edit: good in the FLOWER bed, they are a gardener.
This channel deserves so much more attention! Great content 👍
now , with the new "portal revolution" mod if we can combine the lore from those extraordinar mods, we know , that Caroline (GlaDOS) never agreed to be scanned and put inside a core , and most probably someone from aperture did it when she was unaware of this ; so most probably the scan wasn't complete and that why in portal 2 we can see her become Caroline when she's a potato , the proper GlaDOS was ruled by a set of protocols and "laws" when Caroline is actually a personality, when she was free of those protocols we can see that there is actually a human there after all , and about the part where she didn't agree for the neuroscan (portal revolution mod lore) , that's why she doesn't remember being named CEO and is not bringing up the part where she killed everyone in the facility.
i think is an interesting theory and i had to share it.
On your point of how they would of needed more narrative to implement them... I have to disagree when I met the other cores during the end game I remember being so fascinated by them I spent about 2 hours trying to hear everything they had to say. My favourite obviously the Space core. However if they just dumped a Morgan Freeman Core mid game as temporary replacement to wheatly I would of done exactly the same with him even if it was only 1 level. I imagine it would not be that it is Morgan Freeman just completely obsessed by him. Probably trying to Turing test into being Morgan Freeman. That literally needs no introduction just a babbling core you need to carry from A to B without getting annoyed and ditching it or setting him free believing it is what remains of One of the most iconic actors of the 21st century.
As this has had a few likes I'd also like to add that if the Morgan Freeman Core was a thing and you did have this objective of carry it to A to B or listen to it and set it free... I honestly would leave either path completely ambiguous on whether it survived or not regardless the path... like if you put it in the trash compactor like your told the compactor fails and it laughs and states "I'm Morgan Freeman and I will not be defeated." Or gives a tear jerking speech about Freedom then just simply states... "Just leave me here i have Narration to provide..." then it'll proceed to describe the room you leave him in. Because how amazing would Portal 2 be if you can Narrate half the game with a core that thinks its Morgan Freeman! Like imagine if you got it into Wheatleys terrible puzzles and he struggles to define the room without giving away the solution and eventually breaks from Narration to argue with Wheatley.
I love these lore and story videos you make of titles like the Half life 2 games and the Portal games.
Keep it up with the good quality videos :)
👍
Glad you like them!
I would love to see you make a video about Aperture's nanotechnology that maintain the foundations of the facility
I'd like to but there's barely any information except for the fact they exist and a few names
@@SkyrionnOh come on! Jerry the Nanobot has had more impact on the Portal/Half-Life lore than anyone else!
Your forgot add that glados tried to murder the people in the facility upon first activation in a pico second which is a millionth of a second
"A destructive force few objects could survive..." I threw a chair into the emergency intelligence incinerator and I beg to differ.
Those chairs are indestructable!
i really would love an in depth video from you on the gman, even if it was just mostly speculation, hes the most fascinating part of the half life series in my opinion, that and all the other lore that proves theres forces way beyond our control at play, for us a life or death struggle, for the powers that be in the multiverse just tuesday.
Love your videos, you deserve way more than 70k with content as high quality as this. Always makes my day when a get a Notification saying: Skyrionn uploaded
Thanks very kind of you to say! I hope you enjoy this one too!
Thank you for going in depth no one else ever would do this and it irritated me cause more was so hard to find
Thanks buddy! I do my best to get all of the information available.
I hope the fruit punch core is exactly like the space core just all about fruit punch instead. Just completely stoked about fruit punch 24/7.
I imagine Glados getting a black widow on her eye and asking for Spider Core to be plugged in because she honestly doesnt know what it does.
Is it ever explained why/in what sense GLaDOS is "Genetic"? She was a robot, not a cyborg. And even if Carolin's actual body was somehow integrated (instead of her brain pattern being uploaded or something), she wasn't "genetically modified" or anything, so far as we know? It just never made sense to me, or did I miss something?
Your videos always make me smile, Great video btw, keep it up!
Happy to hear that! There's always more to come :)
my favourite part of your Portal lore videos is the way you explain the ridiculous comedic lore of Portal in your serious dramatic lore voice lol
Part of my brand at this point
I really like ur appreciation towards half life/potral universe, It's nice to hear about same things from different perspective. Also ur voice is perfect for this kind of things. Keep it up, ur doing great work~
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Glad you enjoyed it! There's more to come!
@@pikieusz what who
Loving your Portal lore videos!
Glad you like them!
The theory that GLaDOS is Caroline’s angry existence is really compelling.
Either she died being uploaded and those were her last moments or GLaDOS’S spiteful nature is her spiteful nature of being uploaded
Things of note I’ve seen in theory comments, I do not believe she’s angry at cave, cave was one of Caroline’s favorite people and even as GLaDOS she holds much respect for him when she hears his voice. GLaDOS is angry at the staff and facility. She LOVES science, she admired cave.
But she hates the people who did this to her. She hates humanity.
We need personality cores for politicians.
I'd prefer them tbh. UK's going through a rough patch with politicians atm
That would be nice
love the visuals you made for this. Really engaging and enjoyable vid :)
Dude I've been so addicted to your vids keep it up.
Glad you like them! There's more to come!
Wheatley is awesome. A well-intended fool, who quickly succumbed to sheer power and anger that Glados left behind.
Great video the lore is very fascinating. Portal 2 is such a great game, I wish Valve would make more games.
Thanks for watching! Hopefully one day we'll get one!
Man after finishing portal and portal 2, the lore for certain aspects are very interesting, like why the companion cubes and what they are to the cores. Still need to do the coop for portal 2!
was a great video! Just letting you know though that the space core is not in the Skyrim base game, it's only added through a mod that's seemingly made by Valve released in the creation kit.
Do you know what it's called?
something about this guys voice makes this video 100x better than any other lore video in existence
I still find it really funny that this game takes place in Michigan. Like I live here, and there is this absurd nightmare science facility in my backyard xD
ikr
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons; what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!"
Great content as always
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Im listening to ur portal lore while doing homework. Its relaxinng and really fun
Wheatley is in TF2 as one of the tools for Spy, even though it's a Valve game, Wheatley in TF2 is called the AP-SAP, which is the item used for sapping Engineer buildings in TF2, and has Wheatley voice lines tied to the item whenever you pull it out or use it to sap things.
I forgot about that 💀
Ok, as cool as that is, doesn't having Wheatley talking during the sapping process defeat the point of the sapper being a stealth tool? The engi will likely hear it immediately.
@@DoctorTexwell you also have the loud alarm that starts playing when your sentry gets sapped,meaning that you’ll probably already know without Wheatley screaming about it.
@@Stanfordscienceman"Spy sapped my sentry!"
_BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEP_ *sentry destroyed*
@DoctorTex The sapper is less of a stealth tool and more of a way for spy to actually fight buildings, since without it, he's super useless.
10:16 companion cube: laughs maniacally
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What ?! How was I fan of portal for 2-3 years and had no idea of the multiverse stuff ?!?!
It's mostly because of the DLC. It appears that not a lot of people were aware of it tbh
What could go wrong if you give a unstable murderous AI just "a little neurotoxin"....
exactly
GLaDOS may have a little neurotoxin, as a treat
space core appearing in skyrim could also be canon in some convoluted way
the multiverse and its many apertures could've made their own experiments and there's a very high chance that this very core existed in multiple other universes
and what's gonna stop the other laboratories from sending different objects to other dimensions
perhaps one of the aperture labs accidentally (or on purpose) sent the space core to a different universe
and the core happened to crash land near whiterun, right when the dragonborn happened to pass by the tower where their first dragon was defeated
what happened next is unclear, either the dragonborn left the core where it was, the dragonborn took the core and had it accompany them on their journey, or they turned the space core into a worn item (iirc it was a helmet), destroying it in the process
Always wondered what happened to the bodys
I'm gonna assume GLaDOS used the Party Escort bot to get rid of them.
Can u do a video on the lore behind the whole history of aperture science? When it comes to half life videos nobody does them better like you do man🙏
Something is coming in the next week that'll explain it pretty well :)
if I was Carolyn I would act exactly the same way upon activation
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Probably the best core
@@Skyrionn indeed
I loved Wheatley and felt so betrayed when you got his god complex, but even after everything I would have forgiven him lol. Especially that apology at the end. A villain that you can't hate because he is such a joy to be around because of his great dialog.
What if Carolyn wasn't a willing participate in her becoming an AI and that's why she wanted to kill everyone... for revenge
It's 110% canon that Caroline didn't want to become GLaDOS, but whether or not that's why GLaDOS is malicious is up for debate
Chel couldnt have been the first since there were messages given by previous test takers written on the walls.
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I really love Wheatley and Curiosity core. Cause I am so curious that I can be a moron at times. And *INHAILE* THE CAKE IS A LIE! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and at any time of the year.
I love this Skyrionn guy!
I love you for watching the videos
It would be interesting to see an update to this video with the cores from Portal: Revolution
I think the cores they needed to put on GLADOS would be a combination of: The Sweaty and Shameful Core, the Crippling Depression Core, the Celebrity Impersonator Core, and the "My Fursona is a Fennec Fox/Unicorn" Core.
I hate this idea with the fullness of my being.
@@GlaDOS.CAROLCORE That's just the sweaty and shameful cores influence taking effect Glados... 🤣
You could probably make all those from just one Aperture Science programmer.
I'd like to think the scientists were just fucking with Wheatley for shits and giggles when they told him certain actions would kill him. Imagine them turning around and snickering after they told him he'd die if he switched his flashlight on, LOL 😆
With the way that Aperture functioned, I could believe that.
Maybe they were just testing if he functions properly. If he doubts them, he's too smart and needs to be modified.
have you made a portal lore video explaining the rivalry of aperature and black mesa? if not then it would be cool if you made one
I could take a look into it a little deeper? I do explore it quite a bit in the video I'm working on for next week though!
@@Skyrionn dont forget to talk about the aperture desk job "game"
@@Skyrionn it has perhaps some more development about aperture itself