Game Theory: Portal's Companion Cube has a Dark Secret
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- Portal's Companion Cube is perhaps one of gaming's most memorable and lovable characters (items?). But is the Companion Cube another cruel test set up by GLaDOS? What sinister secret is hidden behind the Companion Cube's cute pink hearts? Like most other things in Portal, the cube may be more than meets the eye...
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“It will never threaten to stab you”.
That’s... specific.
Wait we have isn't glasos usually meaning the opposite of wait she says?
@@crusadertime6746 hmmmmm
as a Terraria player, i can't relate.
@@projectsanctuary7944 lava is more scary with that as a pet
Terraria companion cube stabs you
"Why does mat sound so weird?"
*realises it's from 2013*
Same
MATPAT IS MATPAT
Welcome to original Matpat closet quality
same
Why are we all finding matt’s 2013 videos now
When you reeeeeeeaaaaalllyy run out of things to watch for quarantine. Let's do this 2013 matpat.
Yea I'm just bored in 2020
@@Vertical_water 2021*
@@EnzoTeal Bro that reply was back in 2020, look at how long ago it was.
@@Pyrodiac i know, i just wanted to say that
oh god that mic
7 years later-
TH-cam: Now that it has ripened, it now ready to be recommended
So I wasn't the only poor blighter that the TH-cam recommendations washed up here.
No I searched portal because it 4 am and this showed up
mhm
Yeah, I understand
I had to search it up
In Terraria, if you drop the companion cube pet in lava it will scream.
Also stabs you in the darkness, right?
@@cambridge5770 I think it does, never had it.
@AnthonyLikesDinos yea it has a chance of dealing half a heart in pitch black.
It even has a special message if it kills you
Ya #Brick Theatre
It doesmstab you
Fun Fact of Science for the Day: In Lego Dimensions, if you break an Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube, it will have bones inside it. I just thought that was interesting.
interesting...
OMG
Very interesting
OH MY GOD
They know
This was my first Game Theory. I appreciate Matpat's service to youtube, happy to see him retire on such a high note
sounds like we're all going through the rewinds :')
@@TheNarwhalGasper I've made it my goal to go back and watch every theory video on every channel to honor the guy.
As an OG watcher, I feel it's my duty to add to this mans watch minutes 😂 I'm glad to see I'm not the only one 😁
This was also my first game theory
With the announcement of Matpat's retirement I couldn't resist coming back and re-watching the first *new* Game Theory episode I saw.
*When I was a kid I got so attached to a rock that when my mom said to go throw it outside I started crying*
Yo... I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE!
Eyy I was the same only mine was a snail shell
Tomato
Dang you guys were lonely
My mom let me keep the cooler or less normal looking rocks as long as I didn't make a mess or break something.
2013 was a very, *very* different time.
And I loved it
Ya
A simpler time...
Before Fnaf, a good time
@@siriusPuwu before YT drama. 2013 was so good.
>talks about how the cube gives him legitimate advice that saves him and chell's lives
>forgets that he's a schizophrenic and that these people with debilitating schizophrenia hear voices, some individuals may actually be able to talk to them and receive knowledgeable answers, and that rattmann is also a genius.
“Lonely people are much more likely to believe inanimate objects have emotions and feelings”
5 year old me: pain
I miss this style of animation with the simple, chibi-ish animations.
Rest in Peace, Ronnie
@@leetheyeen yeah it sucks :(
@Connor Jacob i think the old editor committed suicide....
@@scoonie6186 he did
It was Ronnie's editing style. God rest his soul
Any Portal fans still out there?
edit: i didn't realize this comment would get so popular a year after i posted it, here i am trying to watch an edit of the Veggietale's cover for "Walk Like an Egyptian" and i just see my notification bell ring and go
"oh no"
*"not again"*
me
yup
Yeeeee
Right here
rEEEEEE
The first theory video I ever watched back in 2013. Congrats on retirement Mattpatt.
Anyone else watching this after the newest Portal theory
Me
yup.
Yea
Me!!
Meeee
There's something oddly nostalgic about Matt's old microphone and absence of FNaF.
Yeah it really is
Hatless ? Ye
Theory time?
So I'm not the only one!
Neither me
the oracle turret seems more sentient than the others
"I'm different" ❤️
Ender Shadow10 Elaborate please
AKA
Profit Turret and
Wise Turret
(My bro told be this)
Not as much as the defective turrets though
It might really be sentient
It's NOT sentient,as it quite literally says each time you see it,it's simply just different,a defective turret yes,but it's one that lived since you hadn't messed with the turret redemption line yet for it to be properly scraped,so while NO it's not sentient it is,as it says indeed programmed differently than the REST of the normal turrets,instead this turret,ending up with a defective AI personality and it knows all this stuff,such as "Get Mad!" "Don't make lemonade" "Her name is Caroline" "The Answer is Beneath us" and the Prometheus proverb.And if you didn't believe this,then it's definitely sealed with the fact that if you let the turret talk 1 more time after speaking all its lines you'll notice it says "That's all I can say" meaning it can't say most things that a turret normally can but instead says all the stuff that it does,and since it doesn't shoot subjects it's considered defective just in a clearly different tube at the time we first see it)
This theory terrified me as a kid and I've literally never even played Portal. At the time I probably hadn't even watched it.
Ditto. Game theory was THE go-to horror for me as a kid. The theories related to portal, mario, binding of isaac, etc. absolutely horrified me. He was my primary source of childhood horror trauma. It changed me. I stopped watching when he got to fnaf as I didn’t like the jumpscares he would include in his videos
@@ivy67767th-cam.com/users/sgaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f913.png
If you haven't, PLAY PORTAL. (And the Sequel)
4:05 they could just mean you "killed" something chell thought of as a sibling so loved it so much yet three it in fire.
NOTE.
The sound that contains 'help me' ACTUALLY comes from Portal 1, when you fizzle the radio.
And yes, I did that multiple times.
Sentient Radios
I know
Wait the radios are sentient?! This changes everything!!!!
Well, given the role of the radios in other things, that might have something to do with Ratman.
Ya know I never really realized how much the show has changed over the years until just now when I saw the graphics of the old intro and heard Matpat's not as energetic intro. So much improvement and change over the years and I still love it
Jane OathDragon and the mic quality
His personality has gone worse
@@qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755 😂 then leave
@@jostewart3192 I already did???
I hope by now he’s learned bisexuals exist. This video was SO cringe when he said Ratman can’t find both men and women attractive. Whut
Fun fact: terraria's companion cubes screams when we drop it into lava.
They also have a chance of stabbing you when in the dark :)
Why did you test this:(
This was the first ever game theory I watched. I'm rewatching it again before Mat's final theory video drops. Thank you Matpat for shaping my childhood and how I look at games
Same
"People who are seperated are most likely to believe inanimate objects have feelings."
*Looks at stuffed Lion*
Courage did you lie to me for ten whole years or is it because I lost part of my brain?
I have a lot of Stuffed Tigers :'D
i have lots of stuffed wolves...i realy realy love wolves
Homieman 2015 ILOVE WOLFS TO!!!
YAY!!!
@homieman 2015
I have loved wolves for so long not even my parents can remember when the obsession started!!! WOLF PACK BROS!!!
The companion cubes were indeed former employees of Aperture Science. However, the cubes did not contain any physical remains, just the former person's consciousness, or their "soul" if you'd prefer.
Part of the overall plot that seems to get overlooked and is IMHO one of the more important ideas to understanding the story, are Cave Johnson's later experiments. He had been working on a way to impart consciousness on non living creations, eventually succeeding and moving Caroline's mind into GLaDOS so that she could continue his work after his own untimely death.
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do you have a source for the second sentence?
@@clamdove3292 Cave literally states himself in portal 2 that they have been trying to move brains into machines
@@clamdove3292 No, sorry. Just speculation based upon evidence of everything else surrounding it.
If the cubes are conscious, which you can tell is more than simply a joke based upon their terrible screaming when destroyed, it stands to reason that the mind or 'soul' held in that cube would have been taken from a living person to which GLaDOS (or somebody else in the facility) would have had access.
The only candidates that seem to fit in this group would either be the former employees of Aperture, the former missing test subjects, or both...
So although the story doesn't explicitly state that its the case, there is strong evidence pointing in that direction.
Um... what are you all even saying... I clearly don't speak genius...
I've always loved this theory and I consider it canon. It sounds just like Aperture to recycle failed/dead test subjects into empty cubes. The cubes atleast weigh as much as chell, seeing as they are the only two things in the game that can depress a button. Why go through the effort of dumping dead test subjects in a fire pit and filling cubes with raw material to weigh them down when you can kill two birds with one stone and dump those bodies that weigh the right amount into cubes? At the end of the test the cube gets fried anyways, so it really solves the problem.
My headcannon is that the reason there are no dead bodies is that GLaDOS incinerated them all and turned them into cake
@@LEAKEDRECORDS hahaha that's pretty twisted. If that's true, glados is far more evil than I suspected. I sorta like that idea.
normal cubes weigh as much as chell too
I feel like the phycology of all this a way of saying I'm too attached to stuffed animals
I really am insane
I just realised that the start of Still Alive plays when you destroy a cube
Then the cube isn’t still alive
Really, in Portal 2 the companion cube in chamber... 17? Sings a song. Forgot what it was.
Floofer Jay I believe you can search up ‘companion cube song’, it’s a slowed down 8-bit version of Cara Mia.
(I know I’m late)
NOOO
My theory: The companion cube has cake inside.
Pepper Love yes
Lol you're awesome
Or stale cake
Cake = lie
Cake + companion cube = lie cube
@@Random_account444 no
When game theory was still scary.
Who knew that in about a year this channel would become extremely popular, more so that Matpat could imagine.
Wait, but the reason the achievement said "fratricide" could be because the box was your only friend. When you and someone are very close, they feel like a brother or sister to you, which could be what prompted the name of the achievement.
But hey, it's just a theory!
A GAME THEORY!
THANKS FOR WATCHING!
+2besties you mean reading
Maybe if he hadn't presented loads of other arguments for his case this would disprove it
I actually got a proof that the theory is wrong... The theory is very well thought BUT in the ending of Portal 2 coop playthrough there is the credits scene where glados is scanning many persons in boxes and also turrets and cores. Every time organic material comes in it displays it on the screen and when something like wheatly or a normal cube comes in the is a question mark for "organic material not found" there was even the companion cube scanned and there wasn't a curled person in there. So there are 3 possibilitys now. First the cube is really empty and this one guy got mad and just thought it spoke. secondly the cube is somehow resistant against the scanner not reveiling it's inside OR there are also empty cubes not used yet
i think theres enough evidence for it to be true
"Basic Skills tests..."
Pythagorean theorem assaults the screen.
It's easy
Hey did you know they added that “in case of implosion look directly at implosion” sign because beta testers would walk away instantly after cutting the neurotoxin tubes instead of looking at the implosion
After watching the latest GT video, i'm all the way back where i started. This video and this video ALONE got me into (arguably) one of the best games to this day. I have nobody to thank but you.
Lol who’s watching this in 2019 and hoping Matpat makes a new portal theory (Edit: Yes, I saw he made a new one, I am subscribed to the channel also, and you are by no means the first to point this out to me.)
Me XD
Me
Me lol
A la verga
Me hahahaha
There is one massive problem with the theory this video presents.
It claims near the end that the reason the companion cube is never put in a situation where it can be emancipated is because it is filled with bodies, and if it were emancipated, the body would drop to the floor. however, it is actually put through that situation, and body does not drop.
now that i have gotten your attention, the real problem, and possibly more horrific theory.
What if the cubes are just regular sentient? The noise when it is emancipated is clearly completely digital.
I've seen some of the suggestions for what the cube says, and heard several different things.
the beginning of the noise is part of the old aperture science theme, the end sounds like a stuttering glitch.
in the middle, **I can hear "Get it out of me" not a human voice, but a digital one. **may not be correct, it is warbled.
Completely changes the mindset. The Cube itself could be as sentient as Atlas or P-body.
Atlas and P-body are the only two robots ever made to be able to pass the tests, and clearly are actually sentient.
when one dies, it's memories are uploaded into a new one, but never more than one.
Is Aperture science actually able to program robots with sentience? GLaDOS is an amazing example of their ability to do this, Oh wait, GLaDOS is actually the personality of Caroline. They are capable of transferring Human sentience into digital form.
GLaDOS is removed from her body (the whole of aperture science) and placed into a potato. when this happens, the body is uninhabited. Why? because they cannot copy-paste her personality. they can't even actually delete it. this is remarkably similar to Atlas and P-Body. they only ever inhabit one of their (many) bodies.
now, Atlas is made of an old Personality Core. those two words should have tipped you off if you got this far. Wheatly was able to take over Aperture in place of GLaDOS. if he were a simple bit of programming, he wouldn't have been able to even consider it. But he was able to, because Wheatly used to be a test subject. GLaDOS was human at one point, and as i said earlier, was uploaded into a potato. it's not just likely that Wheatly is a test subject, it's almost certain.
Wheatly is sentient, and the dumbest Personality Core, Personality Cores are sentient, Atlas is a Core, P-body is as smart as Atlas, P-body is a Turret. now, I lead up to P-body being a turret, but I do not think that turrets are sentient. once again, GLaDOS was put in a potato. you can pretty much put a sentient being into anything with electrical charge, so Turrets aren't necessarily sentient. but Cubes are.
the Cubes are where they put a test subject's sentience so that it can be tested on later, or in case the subject dies. there's a lot of dead subjects, so there's a lot of Companion Cubes.
I will probably elaborate if i get the time.
The only issue with this is that GLADoS specifically contradicts this. She says that Wheatley was the Morality Core that they attempted to use to make her stupid and keep her under control. She specifically states that Wheatley was /created/ to make her stupid. Granted, she isn't always the most trustworthy, but when she says this, it isn't being said to Chell, who receives a fair bit of deception. Instead, this is being said to Wheatley, and as this is some of the most emotion we see from GLADoS, we can tell it is /personal/, and therefore, most likely true.
I prefer the 'dead / dying / injured / failed' test subject in a cube theory. If you listen closely the cube does not say 'Get it out of me', it says 'Get me out of here'. The digital distortion can easily be explained as the human's voice being altered by the act of being fizzled as well as the voice being altered by the cube itself. Think of speaking in a wind tunnel-- your voice changes. In a cave? Voice changes. It could easily be a case of voice changing materials lining the box to trick listeners into thinking it's an AI should the subject speak, as well as the fact that the people in the box are being fizzled while they're crying out; those are two theories that are practical and possible. With the amount of waste and unpractical practices found in Aperture, trying to cover up the voices with a voice changer rather than just putting normal weight in the cube makes a lot of sense. (By unpractical, think of the scenes in Portal 2 where we meet the Different/Prometheus turret. There are boxes in which turrets are being assembled, boxed, then directly unboxed and disassembled. Not to mention the tubes that send everything flying-- everywhere-- without any specific destination. It's usually luck that you get anything sent anywhere at all when using them, and a lot of it seems to be worthless trash-- which doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're going to install expensive suction tubes like that, why not actually use it right?)
The way that GLADoS taunts us in Portal 1 after incinerating our brother/sister test subject in a box and after she fizzles the others ("I think that one was about to say I love you," specifically) tells us a lot about them. As the video states, she implies that, as she is untrustworthy, they /can/ speak, /should/ be listened to... but if she says they /cannot/ speak and be ignored, /why/ would she /ever/ allude to one being about to say anything, let alone "I love you"? Sure, it could be a way to provide emotional torment, but I think it's something more. I think she fizzled it because she was afraid of Chell listening to, getting attached to, or coming close to figuring out what the Companion Cubes really are. This makes a lot of sense, especially when Doug Rattman survived so long by listening to his; his schizophrenia may have been mild / under control while there, and what he perceived as a manifestation of it could very well have simply been the person in his cube talking. If, at some point, they died, his schizophrenia could have taken over at that point.
Or, as another comment mentioned, he (Rattman) did create what seems to have been the first one while in a room of dead people. GLADoS could very well have taken the hint from him "bringing back the dead" as a simple way to dispose of all the dead / dying / injured / unsuitable test subjects; no fuss, no muss. She would have seen him speaking to the cube and getting answers back (or seeming to) and gotten the idea to tell Chell (and any other subjects that may have encountered them) to ignore them because they can't talk.
There's a lot of wiggle room for conspiracies and theories in this game. There are just too many unsettling, but well-hidden, little mentions. Certainly, Valve could have intended 'fratricide' to mean something as simple as the companion cube having been like a sibling to you due to the lack of human contact. An odd choice of words, but certainly nothing to really notice or think about, seemingly.
While the game as a whole is PG, there are disturbing little secrets that we can easily pull out and examine. For instance, the companion cube hidden away as an achievement, plugged into the same kind of port that Wheatley attempted to access, and that allows control of the facility.
Is it not possible that this was a last ditch attempt to have someone human access the mainframe and wrest control from GLADoS? There are a lot of theories that could crop up about that little tidbit so I'll leave that one alone, but all things considered, there are a lot of things about Companion Cubes that just don't add up.
While it's all well and good to conspire about things, let's all keep in mind that it is in good fun. Granted, the next time I re-play Portal 1 and 2, I'm going to be keeping a closer eye on the companion cubes I encounter... I still wonder, you know, why, in Portal 2, chamber 7, I didn't bring my cube to the lift on the first playthrough. I instinctively knew that just because the grill was down it was unlikely that GLADoS would allow it. In fact, I felt paranoid that she would do /something/, so better that I leave my cube in a safe place, and hope to revisit it someday.
I wonder what the significance of /that/ is, and whether I doomed a virtual person to die of dehydration and starvation in a tiny, cramped little cube.
*****
*GLaDOS
I'm not sure you read all the way through. try it again, this time reading it, instead of skipping around.
If there were bodies in the cubes, that would mean that the grids were capable of destroying bodies, which asks why GLaDOS would never use that to just kill Chell immediately when she wanted to. the bodies are still in the 'motel boxes' at the start of Portal 2. if not, then GLaDOS is really stupid.
have you ever heard of splitting a personality?
Red Vs. Blue covers that suprisingly well.
if you do not get that reference,
imagine all of the personality cores as different parts of a single brain.(which they are.) when you combine them, it makes one coherent person. one person that was split up into a bunch of cores. one of those cores was stupid enough to dull Caroline, but they couldn't just add a stupid person to it. they had to seperate the part of the mind that was ignorance. in the process, they made many more, like the Fact Core, and the Cake Recipe Core, and the Anger Core, and Space Core. there is no way they could program individual personalities, much less ones specifically driven by one part of the mind. that is what she meant by 'created'. not only that, Wheatley isn't a 'Morality' core.
he is an Ignorance Core.
If the cubes were filled with the bodies of subjects, why put living ones in? it's a waste of testing subject, and one part of the storyline (part of the main quest and the entire point behind multiplayer) is that they are running out of them.
Portal 2 takes place specifically when literally every other testing subject has been dead for more than hundreds of years. Chell is the only survivor. Read the Rattman comic. if that is so, how could GLaDOS have had living subjects to put into cubes at the time we actually see one cry out for help?
'Practical'? no. 'Possible'? no.
I prefer a theory that actually fits into the lore, has common sense, and doesn't contradict itself.
PostScript: If you are trying to use _Italics_ , you are sadly mistaken.
in case the last one was too long, heres the important bit;
If the cubes were filled with the bodies of subjects, why put living ones in? it's a waste of testing subject, and one part of the storyline (part of the main quest and the entire point behind multiplayer) is that they are running out of them.
Portal 2 takes place specifically when literally every other testing subject has been dead for more than hundreds of years. Chell is the only survivor. Read the Rattman comic. if that is so, how could GLaDOS have had living subjects to put into cubes at the time we actually see one cry out for help?
'Practical'? no. 'Possible'? no.
_-Italics is sweet when you can use it-_
ZomifiedHam
Finally someone with brains.
coming back just to say this is what introduced me to you, love you Matpat, be safe in all your future endeavors
oddly specific when GLaDOS said “the companion cube will never threaten to stab you”
Maybe the reason you get an achievement called "Fratricide" is because it was the only "family" Chell had. The only thing to hold onto. The only thing that wasn't trying to kill her. WAHHHH *crying* It's so sad... TT_TT
Yeah, i thinked the same thing
1sonicthe Thought, lol.
imah brazilian, lol
1sonicthe Why does this matter?
yes, peaple in brazil, speak portuguese
When you look close, Portal's a pretty creepy game.
TomsHere ya it is but not as much as fallout 😱😱😨😨
Scumthecicada 1022 is there a theory for that?
Every Valve game is if you look closely. Are they trying to say something?
no...
you only think its creepy game but this game is in video called ''TOP 10 GAMES YOU CAN PLAY WHEN YOU ARE SAD'' or something
aida09, What are you talking about? He is definitely not the only one that thinks this game is creepy. Have you even played them before?
9:24 "GET ME OUT OF THIS BOX!"
7:15 MatPat you gotta update this theory, man. It’s 2020, Ratman might’ve been bisexual.
*Agreed
I thought he meant that the cube would only be viewed as one gender. So the takeaway is that the cube is genderfluid
I think he may be trying to say that objectum sexual individuals associate their inanimate object of affection with 1 gender. I am not sure as his wording is iffy at best and I could not find any substantial research on this nor do I feel like combing through pages upon pages of documents and studies.
Even if he was bisexual he still going to prefer one gender.
Or you know not everything has to be bisexuell?
That cry for help gave me chills....
Damn me to, portal seems like a horror now
Me too, the help me would have been enough to scare me, but then they had to add the metal clang sounds, and just like you said da ba, like a horror movie.
da ba portal 2 is worse with rattman's ghost behind EVERY FREAKING WALL THAT HE WROTE ON
I couldn't hear the cry for help...
dude I heard it, its like a HELP! its faint, but its there.
The cubes are more than "MEATS" the eye! Ba Dam CHSHHH
LOL
That was so bad it´s hilarious
I get it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!...I don't get it.
Creeperscrafterx10 It´s made of bodies... meaat... inside cubes... it MEATS the eye.
It´s terribly good.
Ital Ital
Here along with everyone else to rewatch the first ever Game Theory I ever watched. 10 long years, I’ll miss you MatPat ❤️
In portal 2, it shows that the cubes have stuff inside of them besides bodies when Wheatly opens them up to show circuits and stuff
And everything inside of Aperature can be described as setinent, from the turrets to the cubes to even Atlas and P-body who share a brotherly bond that even Glados isn't able to control
During the sound clip where G.L.A.D.O.S destroys the companion cube I heard "Wait!! No!! Get me out!!!! Help me!!!! Please!!!!!!"
The Diamond Master same!
The Diamond Master same
The sound is of the radio being destroyed, not the cube.
The Diamond Master same
The Diamond Master I heard "Get me out of here!"
why is it that every time Mattpat puts on the creepy static music I feel like the grudge and the babadook are gonna have a baby then send it after me?
babadook was a good movie
it was tho
I
Good point
Eric Staley meh 2
This video is giving me major nostalgia... Life used to be so simple... so enjoyable...
how’s it going
Who else is here from the new Game theory episode also don’t you just love food theory
9:15
With the companion cube scream, I couldn't hear anything else, but right at the end of it's "speech", I heard: "Get me out of here."
Please reply and tell me if you heard that too, or deciphered the whole thing.
Me too
me to
i cant decipher much, but i did hear a woman scream "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
+Phoenix flame if it is verified a WOMAN, just like the video said, they are the ancestors of Chell.
All I heard was 'Help me' maybe this is all in there? Hmmmmm......
Anyone who says that something is not true and then says "in case it does" I distrust immediately.
+It's a Llama 100% true thinking Llama
+It's a Llama so what about the safety messages on airplanes
GraemexIrwinator I've never been on an airplane, but i'm pretty sure they don't say "There is no possibility of a crash. But if it does happen..."
+It's a Llama Lol they actually do say something like that
no, one time i was in a plane with TURBULENCE so bad they said 'there is no possibility of a crash.' but then turbulence dropped us 30-35 ft
yeah. it wasn't like slowly dropping 30-35 ft more like the floor going down.
0:09 TH-cam: DEMONETIZED!!!!
Demonetized its rill
2013 Matpat
He would never say something like that nowadays
coming back to all the old videos I used to watch is seriously nostalgic :( I'm gonna miss matpat he was my childhood
The companion cube literally makes no noise in Portal 1, and makes the default disintegration noise in Portal 2. The noise you heard was the radio fizzling.
It sings very softly in portal 2
Besides, ain't the theory that it's supposed to be DEAD people in the cube?
Neither Portal nor Half-Life exactly have anything _confirming_ ghosts exist in their universe, last I checked, so it's probably safe to assume they don't.
It was a very distinct "help, get me out of here." I heard it in the first clip before he even said to listen to a voice. It was there, just buried very deep in static. you most likely just didn't hear it.
@@InfiniteThePhantomJackal True but he also said dying. NOT dead yet. They can still scream but for how much longer. MWAHAHAHA
@@InfiniteThePhantomJackal bit late, but at the start of half life 2 if you go up to a small play area with swings, you can hear children laughing, obviously in reference to how the combine had put a suppression field over earth to stop reproduction. Im not sure if that scenario counts as a ghost sighting, but its pretty damn creepy and sad.
This game just got even darker O_o
It can't get darker than hl2beta
true XD
It was dark to begin with!!
Who would've thought :l
***** Thank you x3
I'm almost 100% sure that in portal 2 there's no emancipation grid at the exit of the chamber with the companion cube because valve knows that a lot of people love the companion cube and they wanted to give you a false sense of accomplishment.
Man Matt patt has gotten WAAAAAY better in his research and his music choices. For example when he was talking about the "fizzle sound of the cube" it was actually the radio fizzle sound, Not the companion cube. Also the music in this video is weird. Glad he has gotten better!
If you actually read the Doug Ratman comic, the voice of the cube goes away when he took the pills, because they made him sane
While it’s not likely the cubes contained living people, if they were alive and able to give sound advice they would be more likely to be screaming to be released.
But it doesn’t mean that the cures are not filled with people, and a person of unsound mind who knew or suspected the truth may just hallucinate conversations with people that may be in that cube.
6 year old video, people still nitpick this stuff...
Let it be ffs.
Doug Rattman's character was created to make him appear more "insane" than he truly was
Dude the entire point is that he isnt really crazy, the world is.
Ratman was schizophrenic.
Plot Twist: The kids from FNaF are stuffed in the Companion Cube.
Plot twist: the Guy who made FNAF was in the cube
Plot Twist: You're in the cube.
+Ethan Wilson
Plot Twist: The cube is in you.
***** Oh no.
Nissi Awosanya But I'm a reptilian, not a cube!
The editing on this masterpiece is too good for 7 years ago
Wheatley says the turrets do feel pain. It’s simulated, but real to them.
before: its a cube
10:42:exactly
after:its a cube
Kainan Smith aop
Alejandro Roche no the cake is a lie
NO! I believe Glados! She told me in the end there will be cake! I want this cake! :(
9:29 it sounded like it said "get him out of here!c
Or maybe "let me out of here!"
I hear it too
Oh god
I love that my games I've played in the past have secret lore that i never knew.
jesus christ that mic is terrifying
You know what I realized. In the first Portal, GLaDoS said that there were two other test subjects with the same last name as the main character who were said to be her parents. The companion cubes are made out of people right? Well in the end of Portal 2, a companion cube was given to the main character. What if the the companion cube has the body of her parents? What if they failed in the test and GLaDoS gave her her "present" in the end of it all, which was mentioned in the first Portal now re-mentioned again in the last Portal 2.
i just realized something too, but it was a long time of remembering -even though i finished the game yesterday XD-
but the companion cube was beat up. what if wheatley tried to destroy the companion cube, that her parents were inside of, or he just took his anger out on it while she kept on passing through every test. that's also my theory for why the cube came out a little beaten up. but maybe GLaDos also did the same -or it was her who caused the damage the whole time-
I thought about portal theories for a long time too. If the cube did have people inside it, or body parts. Wouldn't the emancipation grill just disintegrate the cube and not the body therefore leaving the body on the ground? the grill only destroys objects that are not authorized to pass through it. Plus the player can pass through it as much as they want so wouldn't a body pass through it too? Does anybody else get what Im saying? Or do i sound crazy?
Mat, you should do a LOT more portal videos! Their is so much STUFF to theorize about and so much of the lore is shrouded in mysterey. A theoriser's HEAVEN!!
true, i have even come up with my own theory: one that hints at the fact that CHELL MAY BE DEAD! seriously
I have one about Chell to, but it's about her origins. Not her death
ah yes, i buy the one about her parents being caroline and cave johnson. i mean why else would there be a surge of emotion going through glados head when she saves her coming from caroline
And another good one is the boriales theory. I think it was stolen by black mesa, who wanted what was inside but that's a different theory ALLTOGETHER!!!
Love going back and watching oldgame theory. The science is still awesome. Sure the audio could be less rough but still amazing. And portal is a classic ^^
Since we're celebrating your 10 year anniversary, I'm re-watching the first theory I watched. Thanks for the past amazing 10 years, here's to at least 10 more!
At portal 2 when you send Weathley to space,glados will send you to the surface,and the corrupted companion cube
woah its not as if thats *how the game ends*
Thunder Slug106 LMAO
maybe portal 3 will explain all this
why?
r u kidding me then why is there real game play of it!?
just like half life... there will be portal 3...
told ya
to be frank i don't have a clue what he means by just like half life :/
Coming back to my first ever matpat video... cant believe its been so long. Thank you for always having such a profound impact on my life and many, many others. Please stay well and happy no matter what you do. We love you, we will never forget you ❤️
The first vid I watched from y’all❤️ game theory has come so far
if you play Lego Dimensions on the Portal 2 adventure map, hit one of the companion cubes, you find skeleton Lego pieces
I feel that a lot of the evidence you presented here is pretty superficial. Here's why.
GLaDOS *does* disintegrate the companion cube. During Portal 2's Companion cube section, GLaDOS disintegrates the cubes that you use throughout the test. As for the broken material emancipation grill, you actually can bring the cube with you past it. However, GLaDOS disintegrates it before you can get to the elevator. If there really was a body inside it, wouldn't it fall out when it gets disintegrated? Also, as for Ratman, I highly doubt that a person inside a sealed box could survive and give helpful tips for more that a few minutes, much less a few days. Ratman also takes what are supposedly anti-psychotic medication and loses his ability to speak with the cube, implying that it really is in his head. The evidence you put forth regarding the achievement you get for burning the cube also seems pretty forced. It could also be said that the player feels so close to the cube, that it's like a brother to them. Which would make the achievement name make sense.
Overall, good video, but try a bit harder on the evidence next time.
Maybe GLADOS can disintegrate humans
John Campbell that would raise the question why she uses Neurotoxin gas and turrets in her actual attempts to kill Chell or any other human.
I really like this theory, but there is not a lot of reliable proof to it.
You could say that in Portal 2 all Companion Cubes are fakes as Glados is just messing with you. Only the one you burned in Portal 1 is real and actually contains a familymember from Chell - which is why in the end of Portal 2 you get exactly that one given back to you on your way out.
But as I said. Not really a lot of good proof to be found - it would definetly fit in the dark and cruel ways of Aperture and the fact that you see not a single dead person or skelleton anywhere in the game - not even floating around in the deadly waters...
I keep pointing this out, but for some reason people accept everything in Game Theory as fact.
Batman
I had the same idea as MatPat when I was playing both portal's games, and I also though about it.
Since both game have not much of a story, especially the first one, there are not a lots of things to rely on, even with the graphic novel.
But, we do know that the technologie in the games are highly advance : they created mantis-men, velocity/jumping fluids, light bridge, just to name a few, and the most awsome of all : the portal gun. And some scientist in the dark area of the 20th century have succefully keep dogs head alive for a few moments. So a talking personne in a box that can contain it is not really that challenging.
And, for the novel part, how could the scientist know about all the tests hints and traps ? The only other possibility is that he forget about it and the cube was a portal (great joke here) to recover his memory.
And the idea of a cubed-sized human fits in the logic of the games. You have two humans but with only one being able to act,, but the other knowing already the tests. A kind of rally-cares coop mode, perfect for testing the technology of reducing size of human.
But why don't they speak when we play the game ? Well, facility is clearly decaying, and I think that the technologie inside the compagnon cube are enough to keep them alive (the scream when the cube is destroyed), but not enough to keep the body for decomposition, and that's why we don't see the body, or at least part of it, when the cube is desintegrated.
Batman
BUTT (pun intended), I agree that Glados just messing with us is also a good possibility. If the cube can give hints about traps (as seen in the novel), how do they know were they are ? They don't have eyes. So it must be some kind of sensors that tell them where they are in the facility (like, a GPS, but not with satellite of course (the facility is underground(#hipster))), so a program could give the same hints as effectively as an human, maybe more effectively.
And my compagnon-cube theory about the body decomposing is not that great if the cube scream. It could be a reccorded sream.
BUTT(S), I prefer to think that the compagnon cube was an human because it's more emotionnaly immersive, and makes me hate Glados more that entails portal 2 being even more dusturbingly enjoyable with its plot-twist.
"And no, it's not this guys pen|s." Matpat, 2013
The only problem is that the are no predecessors to Chell. She is the first and last test subject. We see this in the lab rat comic.
Doesn't GlaDos "fizzle" one and it doesn't contain a body.
Yes she does
yeah, the the grill itself of that level isn’t working. it’s played as a joke, that the player could maybe take the cube with them before glados destroys it, but the cube never goes through any grills
My take is that the grill wouldn’t have the intelligence to dissolve both the crate and body as humans count as authorised. But glados does have the ability to dissolve both.
Unless the grid was designed to fizzled DECAYING organic matter as well
gladOS could have vaporised both the cube and the body becuase MEG (material emancipation grill)
Would only let organic material or items that are meant for that specific test chamber all other things get vaporised.
Since gladOS controlled everything before wheatly took over gladOS could have easily vaporised both the cube and the body.
I've never gotten the hype around the companion cube. Wheatley has always been my favorite portal character.
Milla Saunders ikr
Wheatley is awesome
wetly* y are you so mean glados my man cube has all of this
I like GLaDOS :D
gold the wolf wetly? lololol its Wheatley
Gosh, I remember these really old videos and poor audio quality, you don't notice it till you compare them to the new ones, long live theory
dude 7 years ago memories
When I got my companion cube, I called it Chester the Molester.
😅perfect name
indeed XD
Chester The Molester and Creepy Uncle Lester
Rocket Alex XD
puyfect
NO! The turrets are sentient! And they all need hugs!
Pete Detrick #HUGZ4TURRETZ
+Pete Detrick yes
true so true
+Pete Detrick Remember to wear bullet proof armour when you hug them! QwQ I just want to protect to innocent little darlings. They are just misunderstood and should be loved! TwT
FlashyFox2001 Just take the ammo out!
"You can't fizzle companion cubes in Portal 2"
*laughs in community test chambers*
Two will always get Fizzled and you can get the third one Fizzled sooo
Laughs in sv_cheats 1
Matpat: GLaDOS can't be trusted
Also Matpat: uses GLaDOS quotes to confirm his theory
I like how he mentions that everyone in the cubes is dead then states that they're speaking
The companion cube will never stab us, which is more than I can say for Gladus.
??? It's GlaDos!
Good joke 😂😂🤣🤣
*gladius
no..... glados.
Or wheatley
Just came here cause jack started playing portal
Me too lol
I see you too are like me
me too
Same
We all came here for that reason xD
I’ve been trying to figure out this lore for YEARS. Thank you TH-cam for putting this video in my recommended. Never occurred to me to look it up!
For the study done on sensory deprivation, I wonder how the results would change if the test subjects were adept lucid dreamers. I bet they could go longer
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I actually got a proof that the theory is wrong... The theory is very well thought BUT in the ending of Portal 2 coop playthrough there is the credits scene where glados is scanning many persons in boxes and also turrets and cores. Every time organic material comes in it displays it on the screen and when something like wheatly or a normal cube comes in the is a question mark for "organic material not found" there was even the companion cube scanned and there wasn't a curled person in there. So there are 3 possibilitys now. First the cube is really empty and this one guy got mad and just thought it spoke. secondly the cube is somehow resistant against the scanner not reveiling it's inside OR there are also empty cubes not used yet
Right so apparently in LEGO Dimensions breaking the Companion Cubes in the Aperture Science World causes skeletons to pop out
just...no....
Y'know, for kids!
I still love that Matt patt wasn’t completely family friendly but they still got the videos up
THIS WAS 7 YEARS AGO, WOW, FELT LIKE THIS VID WAS POSTED YESTERDAY
3:06 I think that GLaDOS talking to Chell would act as a sort of "companionship".
I.M. Rowse Glados talks to you just at the beginning and end of each test chamber if you're a regular test subject
Here is a random theory I just came up with. What if the companion cube contains a sentient A.I. What if Carolin was deleted but only after she was transfered to a companion cube. Then GLaDOS sent her with Chell when Chell left Aperture. Carolin probably was Chell's best friend and she did save her.
I love how no-one talks about the fact that in portal 1 you burn a companion cube, and at the end of portal 2 a burnt looking companion cube is chucked at you when you leave the elevator. And this cube doesnt look like it was thrown by a machine because 2 reasons:
1) the door behind you closes, the cube is thrown and it imdetiely shuts again, obviously someone didn't want you to see them throw the companion cube at you.
2) a machine throw would be more powerful + GLaDOS can't control insdie the elevators, she can only control the outside of them.
So me and my friends were talking about this and we think it could possibly be Rattmann?? Because he was the one that basically saved Chell in portal 2 and mst likely followed her, because at the end of portal 1 he felt guilty that she was dragged back into aperture science, then techincally 'gave' her his trust companion cube.
We're not really sure about this theory but it was something we thought of...
Nice theory :)
There is an unofficial alternate ending for Portal 2. Chell walks around the wheat field, only to find a portal gun. She uses it to hold the companion cube, and finds a button. She presses it using the cube, and the sky literally falls down, revealing that she's still in Aperture.
Portal 3 confirmed?
+Elliott Belardo (ElliottBelardo2) not being mean but thats a mod
The beginning of TWTM is not the same as the alternate ending I put out.
me:(about to say spoilers, realizes i shouldn't have read the comments)
Now that I'm a MOTHER fan, I now recognize the music at 3:40. Battle Against the Masked Man. Magus' Castle.
10:27 Note how there is a portal surface in that shot. You can easily place a portal there, nab the cube, place another portal on another surface, and walk through with the cube. However right before you get into the elevator, the GLaDOS fizzes the cube. And nothing falls out of it. Meaning in all likelyhood, GLaDOS isn't hiding a body; she's just trying to screw with us by taking away the one thing we can imprint on.
Exactly
But GLaDOS can telepot the corpse,because we din't know if the surface inside the companion cube is with moon rocks,she can teleport the corpse to another incinerator and burn it
What is this, Twilight?
Maybe its the only cube without content, so GLaDOS is trying to conceal it without any suspicion.