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Throughout the final battle she tries to passively-aggressively insult Chell and claims to have no knowledge of what she's done wrong. In the song GLaDOS emphasizes that Chell has done wrong, that she is not angry at Chell, that she is happy for Chell, that she is glad she was shut down, that Aperture Science's mission is continuing successfully, and that she is still alive.

Portal 2 is set a substantial amount of time after the first game, with the Aperture Science facility having fallen into disrepair and having become over-run with plant-life. The two manage to accidentally awaken GLaDOS, with her remembering the entirety of what Chell did to her in the first game.

She partially crushes Wheatley and throws him aside, but puts Chell straight back into testing. Throughout the testing she displays a considerable amount of resentment for Chell, attempting to hurt her feelings in various ways. She implies that Chell is lazy while she does all the work, reunites her with a Companion Cube only to disintegrate it, makes fun of Chell supposedly being adopted, and tries to taunt Chell over a non-existent weight problem.

He eventually manages to turn off the power in a section of the building, freeing Chell from one of the test chambers. They finally confront GLaDOS, who attempts to kill them using turrets and neurotoxin, only to find that these systems have been rendered unusable. It is at this point that GLaDOS recognises Wheatley as a personality core the Aperture engineers installed in her to generate an endless number of bad ideas, in an attempt to prevent her from harming them.

Chell and GLaDOS end up in the sealed off remains of an abandoned area of the complex, dating back decades. Here GLaDOS is carried off by a bird and Chell eventually finds her in a nest the bird has built in an old Aperture office, but having developed a new fear of birds.

The pre-recorded voice clips that automatically play in the test chambers of old Aperture are voiced by the insane former head of the company, Cave Johnson , who occasionally refers to his assistant Caroline , and GLaDOS ponders for some time over why these people seem so familiar to her.

It is eventually revealed that Johnson first conceived of the system that became GLaDOS after contracting the mercury poisoning that would eventually cause his mental deterioration and death.

Hoping to cheat death and live forever he demanded that his mind be uploaded to a computer, and also said that should he die before this could be done Caroline was to take over the facility, but that she was modest and should be forced to do so if she refused. After GLaDOS and Chell manage to return to the main facility, they find Wheatley fruitlessly attempting to test using poorly programmed robots he has built, and having let the facility fall into disarray to the point where the nuclear reactor within is on the edge of meltdown and primed to kill them all.

GLaDOS explains that despite the emotional temptations imposed by the system she always experimented out a desire to further science, but that in the hands of Wheatley the system was far more dangerous. Eventually GLaDOS and Chell manage to make their way back to Wheatley with minutes to go until the facility is destroyed by the reactor meltdown. Wheatley is almost successful in killing Chell, but she manages to create a portal from the facility to the moon through which she and Wheatley are pulled.

When Wheatley tries to pull himself back through the portal, insisting he can still prevent the core meltdown, GLaDOS manages to use a robotic arm to pull Chell back in and leaves Wheatley to be sucked out into the depths of space.

Back in charge of the facility, GLaDOS immediately prevents the meltdown and appears to take on a cold demeanour towards Chell again. No Cyberpunk? No Problem! Can Gamers Really Trust Facebook? Let's Face It Super Mario is Perfect! More Special Features Do you like video games more now or sometime in the past?

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After a short conversation, a piece of her falls out the Morality Core. GLaDOS claims she "has no clue what it is". I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin.

Immediately, she starts to flood the room with said neurotoxin and the boss battle begins. During the battle, the large screens in the room display a clock counting down six minutes until the room completely fills with neurotoxin.

Also, a rocket turret, which GLaDOS apparently cannot shut off because the Morality core apparently had some "ancillary responsibilities", appear on the floor and shoots laser-guided rockets at Chell. Chell can then drop the cores into the nearby and very convenient Emergency Intelligence Incinerator. She also loses some of her logic, stating that "two plus two is However, Chell is dragged away by a party associate robot back into the facility.

At the start of the game, she is still "dead" after being destroyed at the end of the first game but later is accidentally reactivated by Wheatley , the personality sphere. The newly-reactivated GLaDOS seemingly crushes Wheatley possibly to avoid a core transfer or because he's Chell's accomplice , and proceeds to take revenge on Chell by dropping her further into the facility and making her endure further tests, all the while making contemptuous and snide comments about her weight and status as an orphan.

Eventually, Wheatley appears again and with his help, Chell escapes into the facility, shuts down the turret reproduction line, demolishes the neurotoxin generator, and reaches GLaDOS' chamber again, where she proceeds to use an override system to replace the sadistic AI with Wheatley as the head of the facility. During one portion of the game following this, Chell is guided by the voice of Cave Johnson, the founder of Aperture Science and, through these recordings, it is revealed that Johnson intended to copy his personality into a computer to gain immortality and continue watching over the experiments after his death, but died before this technology could be completed, due to exposure to poisonous moon rocks used to make compatible portals, and handed the responsibility of becoming the facility's computer to his personal assistant, Caroline, whose mind was used in creating GLaDOS.

Only Chell's appearance scares it off. Eventually, Chell reaches Wheatley and, with the assistance of GLaDOS, who has now become her friend after discovering her true self echoing the confrontation earlier in the game , attaches corrupted cores to Wheatley. When Wheatley's core corruption has reached one-hundred percent, Chell attempts to transfer GLaDOS back into her body, but Wheatley disrupts the core transfer by rigging the stalemate resolution button to explode.

As the facility crumbles, Chell shoots a portal underneath Wheatley and to the moon, with the escaping oxygen sucking Chell, the Space Sphere, and Wheatley out. Chell clings on to Wheatley until GLaDOS detaches him from her mainframe, and pulls her back into the portal and into the facility. However, after being reinstalled, GLaDOS abruptly deletes her program of Caroline's personality, becoming a cold, evil machine once again.

However, she did not delete Caroline herself because that is her genetic life-form component. Luckily, she still lets Chell go, because she has decided that Chell's presence has been the cause of all her troubles since the first Portal game. GLaDOS releases her into the deserted outside world and, as a final act of indifference, tosses up a charred Companion Cube, as well.

However, it soon becomes apparent to GLaDOS that testing with the robots is not the same as testing with humans, for the potential threat of death that hung over human heads does not concern the robots; thus, she is unable to get a sick and twisted kick out of the death of the test subjects.

During these tests, GLaDOS sends the robots outside of the testing tracks to accomplish tasks that will give her complete control over the whole facility. Once she gains control of everything, she sends the bots down into the bowels of the facility.

She then reveals why she had the robots go outside the test courses: she is after a massive amount of humans that have been preserved in a cryogenic vault since the 20th century this entire time.

Once the robots unlock the vault, GLaDOS begins processing all of the humans, but she only bothers to use the file of one person. She planned to take her testing even further by turning the humans into an army of soldiers. Unfortunately, the humans were unable to withstand her overly-stressful testing and all of them died within a week's time.

With the facility falling to pieces thanks due to a prototype version of her chassis being controlled by an unknown source and the total lack of test subjects, GLaDOS brought the robots back into the fray. Treating the tests as an art museum at first, GLaDOS tried to fool the robots into thinking that science was finished. However, when a flood occurs within the facility, it was made clear that the test chambers were thrown together haphazardly, GLaDOS admitted the truth.

She then began to train the robots even more excessively than before so that they could become killing machines. However, once the robots reached the room housing the prototype chassis, it was revealed that the "unknown source" was actually the bird from the bowels of the facility, which had made a nest on the keyboard of the device.

Though terrified of the bird and claiming that the robots were not ready for this, they managed to scare off the bird. The only thing that was leftover was a nest full of eggs. GLaDOS relocates the birds into the central AI chamber and, though she treats them as poorly as she treated Chell, when she sees the birds break the glass container that they were in, she has a change of heart and decides that the birds may be of use to her. She serves as the dealer for the poker tournaments, often giving banter to the contestants and even having to give up one of her personality cores as a bounty for the players.

She is the only boss in the entire game who sides with the main protagonists in the final battle against the game's main antagonist, Lord Vortech. GLaDOS' personality core defines her as being a clandestine, surreptitious, manipulative, and revenge-obsessed test master. She speaks in an extremely cold monotone and does not display any emotion, at least towards Chell, and remains incredibly calm throughout most of her appearances.

A rare example of when GLaDOS would display emotion was when she was removed from her body and replaced with Wheatley, which prompted her to scream out in pain. Another occasion is when she was left verbally frustrated when Wheatley gave an incorrect answer to her paradox. GLaDOS has many passions, such as singing opera which is a nod to the actress who plays her , baking cakes, and a love for science.

Her only purpose in "life" was to force people to complete her tests and then get results. GLaDOS promises to free the captive if they complete all of her tests; however, this took an estimate of sixty years, she either didn't realize or care that the captive would be dead when they were completed.

GLaDOS was an emotional sadist and a torturous psychological abuser, after imprisoning Chell in her tests she continues to mock her with cold, disturbing facts and dry cutting insults.

GLaDOS continuously insults Chell over being an orphan and friendless, and insinuates that she is fat. GLaDOS gives facts she describes as interesting, but uses to jab her captive, such as saying that Chell is breathing the same air the rest of her life or even just flatly saying, "I hate you. Although GLaDOS was only passionate and temperamental about completing her tests at first, as Chell began to defy her, GLaDOS's insane, deceiving, and narcissistic nature slowly began to develop, focusing all of her near-omnipotent control over the Aperture Science Enrichment Center to either torment or kill Chell.

GLaDOS had a tendency to frequently lie about her current emotional state, and she would never admit when she was frustrated or angry. However, when she was overthrown by Chell and the power-crazed Wheatley, her personality began to divert.

First, when Wheatley tried to give himself credit for deposing her, she immediately told him that he had done nothing to accomplish that which was false, as Wheatley had, in fact, performed some behind-the-scenes sabotage to help Chell defeat her , and that Chell had done all the work though in saying this, she unintentionally drove Wheatley into betraying Chell.

She then adds that these positive emotions have allowed her to realize something else important: where Caroline's personality remnant is located in her memory banks. She apparently deletes it immediately, seemingly reverting to her old psychopathic self. However, GLaDOS explains that while she intends to rid herself of Chell once and for all, she has concluded that the easiest way to do so is simply to release her; attempting to kill her, she says, has proven far too troublesome.

She places Chell on an elevator heading up to the surface, making sure to remind her never to return. As Chell steps out into a sunlit field, GLaDOS makes the unexplained decision to return her old Weighted Companion Cube from Portal which is charred but intact as well before slamming the door shut behind her.

With the Cooperative Testing Initiative readily prepared, she goes back to testing without having to worry about any form of escape or sabotage. Even as early as the first testing course, the robots already begin to show emotions and typical human gestures. As much as she is displeased with these acts, she still remains patient. At the end of the Team Building test course, she unexpectedly rebuilds ATLAS and P-body outside of the official testing tracks, simply briefing them that "This test is so outside the box, that I can't- I mean, won't even tell you what it's about".

The two would then proceed into a control room with a projector. After they find a large disc and install it into the computer, which secretly grants her further control over the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS reveals that the only way for her to bring the two back into the Hub , was to initiate their self-destruct sequence, before taunting them that they are unable to communicate with each other that they can feel pain.

Interestingly, if the robots decide to perform gestures rather than searching for their objective, she pretends to deduct their Science Collabaration Points by 50 to as far as if they persist in apparent rage. Eventually, she slowly expresses a form of boredom; that conducting tests on ATLAS and P-body were not as satisfying to her as testing humans that would usually show fear and can be killed. It later becomes apparent that at the end of each testing course, she would send them outside the testing tracks, serving as her minions without even knowing it.

Throughout the rest of the three testing courses, she has trained ATLAS and P-body to expertly maneuver their surroundings during the tests, which would be then put to use on her real objectives. After the bots have installed the remaining three discs into their respective inputs, GLaDOS finally shows that "[she] can see everything now", before initiating a self-destruct on the bots. From there, they are rebuilt into the Hub once again where they are now briefed on a new testing course, as she moves the entrance to the course into the Hub.

She briefs them, telling them to make their way to a human vault at the end of the test. GLaDOS finally reveals that, despite being more loyal to her than any other Test Subjects, she is unable to feel any satisfaction throughout their testing - hence the humans are needed, as it gives her relentless satisfaction from their fears.

On their path to the vault, a reprogrammed Defective Turret can be seen trying to defend the humans, showing that the survivors of her original attack many years ago have crawled their way down there.

Finally the two reach the vault; however, to GLaDOS' chagrin, the vault can only be unlocked via human gestures. In extreme anticipation, she forces them to do it. The vault successfully unlocks, and ATLAS and P-body now venture inside it to discover hundreds if not thousands of human Test Subjects put into an extremely long-term relaxation in their respective Stasis Chambers.

Even though these subjects are more prone to actual brain damage from decades of stasis longer than Chell 's, she gladly extracts them from the vault and begins to examine their profiles before they are prepped for testing as the cooperative campaign's ending credits. She then sends the robots through some art therapy, consisting of more test chambers, which they will "appreciate" by solving. However, near the end of the fourth test chamber, the disassembly machines fails, and she is forced to let the robots into the depths of the facility.

She now admits that she has lied, and reveals that only a week has passed and that all the humans are dead. She then states that an unknown intruder has hacked itself into an old prototype chassis of GLaDOS deep in the facility, and is slowly taking over the labs, which is also the reason why the disassembly machines have failed.

GLaDOS also explains that she attempted to drive out the intruder using the human test subjects, but that they were killed while she tried to turn them into killing machines.

She then sends the robots through tests to prepare them, and also attempts to turn them into killing machines by insulting them. Eventually, the robots reach the chassis, to find that the intruder is merely the bird that abducted GLaDOS in the single player campaign, which is nesting in the chassis. However, suffering from a phobia for birds due to the aforementioned encounter, GLaDOS exaggerates the bird's abilities, and advises the robots to retreat.

GLaDOS then panics at the sight of her eggs, and orders the robots to destroy them, but she changes her mind in time, and instead incubates the eggs herself in a modified Relaxation Vault. Chubby Beak. One day, while she is insulting them about their large beaks, one of them smashes the glass of the Vault, and she realizes that they are perfect killing machines. She then asks them to go to sleep, stating she has got a big plan for tomorrow.

GLaDOS is amoral and often sadistic. She possesses an extremely dry, bitter, and sarcastic sense of humor; her jokes are usually dark, morbid, or outright cruel. She seems to enjoy making manipulative comments that frighten the subject or undermine their self-esteem, but does not usually express open malice.

Instead, she makes snide insinuations, or disingenuously presents her insults as mere statements of objective fact; both Ellen McLain and Jonathan Coulton have described her personality as "passive-aggressive. She usually portrays herself as an innocent victim, no matter how obviously cruel her own actions have been.

Although it is often unclear whether there is any real point to her experiments, she seems to be motivated by a sincere passion for science, which she regards as her fundamental goal in life. Since the time of Chell's unexpected escape from Test Chamber 19, GLaDOS has shown signs of intense and complicated emotions toward her, seeming to combine hatred with a kind of twisted affection.

Near the end of Portal 2 , shortly before claiming to delete Caroline, she tells Chell, "I thought you were my greatest enemy, but all along you were my best friend. For most of the game, GLaDOS plays the part of an emotionless voice that seems to be reciting pre-recorded scripted remarks. However, it quickly becomes clear that something strange and possibly sinister is going on.