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Chell
'Subject is abnormally stubborn. She never gives up. Ever.DO NOT TEST.'
Modeled after Alésia Glidewell, voiced by Mary Kae Irvinnote
The silent main character of both games, Chell is an incredibly determined woman wearing an orange jumpsuit. Her exploits begin when GLaDOS awakens her from stasis to run a series of tests in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center for mysterious reasons.
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Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS)
Voiced by Ellen McLain
The artificial intelligence that seems to run Aperture Science. GLaDOS portrays herself as a helpful friend to Chell, but soon unveils a oddly sociopathic side to the testing protocols and a cruel side to her personality. As the game goes on, she becomes more and more sadistic, culminating in a violent confrontation as Chell attempts to escape the testing center. Chell apparently destroys GLaDOS, but at the end of the game she is revealed to have a backup memory and Chell is dragged back to Aperture Science. Years later, Chell and Wheatley unintentionally reboot her. Needless to say, she has a bone to pick with her murderer.
Oh, and she has her own page now, Just for Fun.
Voiced by no one as it, in fact, cannot speak.
A large, (apparently) inanimate cube with hearts printed on each face. That's it. GLaDOS tries to get Chell to form an emotional attachment to it, then forces her to incinerate it.
A mysterious person who left clues for Chell to find scrawled along the course of the testing center. His identity is never really touched upon in-game, but the promotional Alternate Reality Game to promote Portal 2, as well as the new comic to bridge the gap between the two games, gives us more about him.
Voiced by Ellen McLain
Small white machines placed throughout the tests to dispense product.
The Party Escort Bot, alternatively known as the Party Associate, is a robot appearing in the retconned PC version of Portal, as of the March 3, 2010 patch. Its only role in the game is to drag Chell back into the facility after she defeats GLaDOS, so that she can have new adventures in the sequel.
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Wheatley
Click here to see him after GLaDOS wakes up
An artificially intelligent 'personality core' reassigned to ensure the wellbeing of the test subjects. Practically a polar opposite to GLaDOS, Wheatley appears friendly and slightly scatterbrained. He helps Chell in her second run through Aperture Laboratories, but accidentally revives GLaDOS.
'You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son of a gun got blue paint. Ha ha ha! All joking aside, that did happen. Broke every bone in his legs. Tragic, but informative! Or, so I'm told.'
The founder of Aperture Science, originally a shower curtain manufacturer before he succumbed to mercury and/or moon rock poisoning. The company's more esoteric inventions came about following Johnson's descent into madness.
Atlas and P-body
Both voiced by Dee Bradley Baker
Two robots — one adapted from a personality sphere (Atlas), the other from a turret (P-body) — created by GLaDOS to run tests in the Enrichment Center. Atlas is assumed to be of masculine personality, and P-body to be feminine. See them in action here.
Voiced by Nolan North and Ellen McLain
Aperture Science's turret assembly lines are less than 100% efficient. These little guys have a few minor faults. Like having been assembled sideways. Or having been loaded with ammo still in the box. Or being completely insane.
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Frankenturrets
A hybrid of two turrets and a Weighted Storage Cube.
Space Sphere
Voiced by Nolan North
He likes space. His favorite thing about space is space. He's gonna go to space. He's the best at space.
Voiced by Nolan North
How to skip story mode on gta 5. Stand back, pretty lady. The Adventure Sphere is here to do the job.
Voiced by Nolan North
The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent and well-mannered of all of the 497,356 personality spheres in Aperture Science Industries. As a result, the Fact Sphere is well-respected by 99.99999% of the population and has many friends. The Fact Sphere would never lie to you.
An overly cheerful AI Construct that regulates the Aperture Science facility and conducts testing in the abscence of GLaDOS. Unlike GLaDOS or the personality cores, he does not appear to be sentient, meaning his lines are pre-recorded and automatically stitched together, like a computerised phone operator.
Voiced by Ellen McLain
Cave Johnson's personal assistant, described as the backbone of Aperture Science.
'Hold on. [unintelligible muttering] Alright, my assistant Greg tells me none of that's true. Got excited.
Greg is Cave Johnson's put-upon assistant, introduced in The Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC. He never directly appears or speaks, but most of the new test chamber dialogue involves Cave being corrected by Greg about various logical fallacies Cave believes in (such as confusing alternate universes with time travel). According to Cave, Greg was responsible for coming up with the idea for the Perpetual Testing Initiative.
Portal 2 Voice Actors Cayde
Betty or the Gyroscopic Liability Absolver and Disk Operating System, was a personality core who would appear at the beginning of each test chamber in the original Portal 2, which took place in the past, to rattle off legal jargon in regards to the dangers of testing. Her role was mostly replaced by that of the Announcer.
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As anyone who's been following Portal 2 will know though out the game will be joined by not only the constant hilarious yet threatening presence of GLaDOS, but a personality core know as Wheatley. Most of you will have seen his original video and fallen in love with his dialogue; whether you well in love with his voice actor is a different matter.
In these original clips Wheatley is not voiced by a professional but by one of ValvEs animators, the British born Richard Lord. System shock 2 monkey. It was made clear that Richard was only used as a stand in until a professional took over.
Time has passed and since then we have received new clips of Wheatley and news of his replacement. Creative destruction game review.
In this clip the voice work of Wheatley has been taking over by Stephen Merchant, all round funny bloke, comedian and actor often found working along side Ricky Gervais in shows such as the Office and Extras.
Since this change I've seen much strife upon the interwebs. Many people are refusing to except the new sounding Wheatley and have fought back in the useless ways nerds do (petitions). I just wondered if this is just isolated to the Portal 2 forums and a couple of other places.
Personally I haven't heard enough to give a definitive answer. I was impressed by Richard Lord when I heard he wasn't a voice actor by profession, but you can definitely hear it in his tone. Nice voice, bad acting. He speaks like a childrens tv presentor or primary school teacher, like he's talking to an idiot. I personally think Stephen Merchant did a better job up until the section with GLaDOS which is pretty poorly done, though this may be because the animations don't match his tone.
Either way I think it was a poor decision by ValvE to show any clips of Wheatley before the final cut was made.
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