Even the fan wiki points out the irony in Wheatly claiming that Chell did nothing but boss him around when she hasn't spoken a single word to him (and might not even be capable of speaking due to brain damage). I can't think of a single mean thing Chell had done to Wheatly prior to the betrayal. In fact, everything Chell had done up to this point was to help Wheatly. This moment of Wheatly betraying Chell and saying that all she's done is boss him around is even more hurtful because Chell hasn't done anything to upset Wheatly. All of it is just Wheatly projecting his own insecurities onto his only friend and pushing her away.
Gets me every time. The emotion in her voice when she says that, powerful stuff. One of my absolute favorite lines if not just this game, all of gaming.
I like how Wheatley's go-to response is "oh, well, could a moron HIT you?" which is exactly what an actual idiot WOULD default to, because anyone could do it, and only the stupid ones don't think of the consequences.
@@Doc_Fun Who are you to dictate what can or cannot be stated in a You-Tube comment section? For what is a Comment section to this video, but a vehicle to make one's recognition of a scene into a written acknowledgment of a character's actions/traits and discuss them? I choose to be silent most of the time and that is my choice, if others want to discuss it I see no reason why they shouldn't be free to do so
@@oom-9803 I didn't say it "can't" be stated, I said it didn't "need" to be stated, and it doesn't. The joke is obvious, it should be easily understood.
To be fair, any living sentient being that doesn't have substantial control over their mind can completely lose it when given the power and authority to do pretty much anything. That being said, the writing was fantastic.
It's not the sheer knowledge of GLaDOS that made him insane it's the system that aperture made was almost designed to make you insane with the "itch" and the rest of it but not knowledge, knowledge doesn't make you insane the statement that says otherwise is just some insane Lovecraftian bullshit
@@spectralanomaly1683 Nah, the Lovrcraftian would point out that it isn’t the knowledge that drives you insane, but the inability to fully comprehend the knowledge that drives you insane. Cosmic bullshit at its finest.
I'm just going to say that the moment when Glados starts talking about how she remembers Wheatley, Wheatley physically exhibits the signs of someone who "Knows where this is going but would really rather it not happen". You can SEE him fidget. If he could be pacing he probably would be. Turning away slowly because he knows what she's going to say and he doesn't want to hear it. That's some astronomically fine detail on top of all of this acting. Wheatley knew he was the "idiot core" this entire time. If Glados had known before hand I can only imagine the lengths she would have gone to in order to stop Chell for both of their sake.
The fact that they were able to make a glorified sphere attached to a giant robotic "arm" so expressive just goes to show how well the character designers and animators did on this game (or really any Valve game for that matter)
Lemme just say, The sentence "You're not just a regular moron, you were *DESIGNED* to be a moron." Must've been the worst insult GLaDOS has ever said. And yes, even worse than the time GLaDOS made fun of Chells Parents.
Well that and also the system it is now hooked to basically compels the core in command to test. Almost like an artificial instinct for the artificial intelligence. Think they mention something about that later its kind of an addiction as well that cannot be satiated by robots like GlaDOS attempts. The non permanence of the consequences of their actions is just boring.
I absolutely adore how wheatleys core separates when he becomes angry (calling chell selfish, being called a moron) as if it represents a pupil dialating out of anger.
I love how Glados’ veneer of sarcasm and superiority gradually falls apart as she gradually realizes she’s been outplayed. She degrades herself to begging and bargaining to avoid getting defeated.
I love how Wheatley looked at the tapes of your previous fight with GLaDOS after he took power, and "prepared" himself for your encounter by giving you white gel in his room and bombs with which to hit him. When in this encounter, had you not broken all of the turrets AND shut off the neurotoxin AND had Wheatley show up, Chell has about a 0% chance of survival, GLaDOS made sure of it this time. No portal surfaces, no projectiles, just you in a glass box surrounded by turrets and given neurotoxin if that didn't do it
Despite all Wheatley's questionable preparation, though, he does come incredibly close to winning, and only loses because he inadvertently gave Chell access to information that he himself didn't know existed, in the bowels of Aperture. Chell got incredibly lucky by learning that Moon Dust is what portal conductors are made out of, and Wheatley's booby trapped stalemate button *worked. Perfectly.*
He was designed to literally do everything wrong. That means he would actually do something incredibly smart, when required, so long as the end goal was incredibly stupid. Getting stuck in space with another AI floating around him saying the same thing over and over again, like nails on a chalkboard, was the worst thing that could happen to him so he found a way to make it happen without even realising it.
6:44 That "actually, why do we have to leave right now" is when it really sinks in that you're in for a bad time I mean, besides the evil laugh of course
6:30 it starts off with seeing how everything else around him is so tiny and insignificant like an ant, he's laughing from how awesome it feels. then the transition of the music being like. "we finally did it!!" to this indescribable feeling of evil. and the way wheatley's laugh changes from normal to an evil laugh is voiced so well.... the red lighting effect under him is just so good and the panels turning red and watching you. as if they are connected to his consciousness. everything about this is 10/10
The mechanisms of the arms beneath him acting like a part of him, the panels moving as he laughs like you're in his voice box, and him using the panels to intimidate you always fascinated me. The mechanical parts of the game are so well-done - those panels are repurposed to seem like vibrating vocal cords, to seem like eyes, to simply be more things he uses, and they're just square pieces of metal on arms. The way the lighting shifts from a white, making everything bright and happy, to a darker grey as Wheatly shows his corruption from power, and the subsequent drop to complete darkness other than the red underglow of the machinery when he goes against you, it all works so well to switch the mood alongside the music.
The animation on glados in this game was phenomenal. Valve magic can make literally just a moving yellow dot convey emotion better than a human in some games
There's a popular theory that its the mainframe which is corrupted, not Wheatley or GLaDOS themselves. Think about it. Wheatley was friendly towards Chell the entire time... until he was plugged into the mainframe. And then, as soon as he is unplugged, he goes back to being his old self and even felt sorry for what he did. GLaDOS, on the other hand, was evil the entire time, until she was unplugged from it. Then she started to act more and more like Caroline, aka her original self. But as soon as she's plugged back in, she "deletes" her. And while she does let Chell go, she goes right back to testing (as seen in the multiplayer campaign). And all these changes in their behaviour took place in the timespan of just a few minutes after they were plugged in/unplugged. So while I do believe that their personalities and the situations they were in did play a role in explaining their behaviour, this definitely strikes me as too much of a coincidence to be, well, just that.
The voice acting in this game is SO good. Glados’s voice actress does such a great job of being both genuinely menacing and funny. And Wheetly is just hilarious. Even the defective droids’ lines are delivered perfectly.
what’s even worse that wheatley directly slammed GLaDOS into the elevator before letting her go, basically his way of hitting her. He really is a moron
8:22 Right after GlaDOS yells "YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!" I feel like wheatley's response to it is more powerful. He just gained control of the entire underground aperture laboratories and yet he lost control of himself to glados whilst she was a fucking potato that WHEATLEY TURNED HER INTO. Not to mention the shear weight of her words. No amount of power gained will change this purpose. The only thing he can do is simply deny it. His response is terrifying and depressing at the same time. The final "uh oh" at the end when he realized he hit too hard on elevator was also really cute. Dude got owned but still wanted them around. Best scene in gaming honestly.
That's the point. Wheatley is so narcissistic that he either exaggerates or makes up things to make him seem much greater than everyone else, even if it makes no sense.
Glados said he was created as a total moron and she repeated that few times, so most likely it’s not just an insult. At the end of the game Glados, while being attached back to the body, releases us and she doesn’t seem corrupted at all. She once only said that the system forced her to make tests.
@@Filya-chan I believe GLaDOS was already used to the mainframe at that point, which is why I think her personality didn’t change at all, while out of the body she still has her same old personality, only allying with you out of desperation. I don’t believe the body has any effect on her; only Wheatley, if you follow
Wheatley does seem sincere when in space, and honestly it’s sad that he’s stuck there without chell as a friend. But at least he has the space core as a friend and company
Wheatley was designed to only make bad choices. or rather designed to fail and what better way to fail then giving motivation to the person who's already proven they can get through the entire complex a reason to get through the entire complex and stop you thereby giving Wheatley the opportunity to fail as epically and as repeatedly as possible.
The transition from good to evil with Wheatley still to this day gives me chills, everything about it is so well-written and the music plays and changes at the most impactful times. Even Wheatley's laugh along with the music before he even does anything evil makes you think "Ooohh nooo..." because you just KNOW what he is about to become. Absolutely brilliant writing by Valve, they never cease to amaze us.
Valve writers are the only people who know how to actually make a good plot twist to make people upset and shocked Edit: Valve isn’t the only company I play games from and like. There’s tons of games from many companies that I enjoy, some are Star Wars Battlefront 2, Battlefield 1, Minecraft, Just Shapes & Beats, and Ravenfield. What I said about Valve being the *only* people who are good at writing is quite obviously a lie. Some great writers also come from Naughty Dog and Rockstar, but also countless more companies than just those. I can see why some of you are getting mad, and I hope this can help you not get quite as mad.
Usually when someone is stupid, that just leads you to think of them as inoffensive, but stupidity can be extremely dangerous, especially paired up with a position of power.
Stephen Merchant was easily the best person they could've hired for the role of Wheatley. As a big fan of the old Ricky Gervais podcasts from the early 2000s, I was over the moon to hear Stephen's voice in this game.
The way it feels like you are participating in a film is just so great. The voice acting, the amount of detail in animation. Most of the time stuff like this is done in a seperate cutscene. But not here. Wouldn't work here at all. I may be wrong but honestly, even in today's time I can't find such a similar scene that is done so good. As I said its always the cutscenes, not something done through models ingame.
That's so true now you mention it. It felt so immersive playing through this in a way that made me really feel the danger, and then the triumph, and then the gut-punching shock of betrayal and fear and anger happening not to Chell but to ME. I think that's one of the reasons it hits so hard and is so incredibly iconic.
*Space core gets attached* "Core corruption at 50%" *Adventure core also gets attached* "Core corruption at 75%" *Fact core gets attached* "Core corruption is 100%" *Wheatley just walks past central core* "Core corruption at 80%"
The bit where Wheatley starts speaking in a foreign language and says: "I don't even know what I just said, but I can find out!" Makes me feel if it wasn't for GLaDOS provoking him, and the serotonin he's delivered after completing a test starts to drive him mad he might've actually used that opportunity to become a smarter person, which is a part of why Wheatley is so tragic to me, he doesn't want to be a moron, and on a deeper level than just not wanting to be mocked either, he's *genuinely* curious to learn what it was he said, he was excited at the opportunity to learn stuff, and it saddens me that things went in all the wrong ways.
I like to imagine at 8:35, Chell is looking up at Wheatley through that crack with either a really hurt face or maybe even tears, just for dramatic effect.
Till today, it astounds me how Valve achieved excellent acting that can only be expressed through the medium of video games and is saddening no one has really done it since. The whole dynamic of the robots having more emotion than Chell herself as a human with lines delivered like "I hate you so much" is just too good. This game's story and acting are better than what most of Hollywood puts out these days.
8:14 “I AM NOT! A! MORON! Well, how about now?! NOW WHO’S A MORON?!? Could a moron *PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT?!? HUH?!?! COULD A MORON DO THAT?!?!?*” Wheatley’s villainous breakdown
One thing I like about the voice acting here is how Glados manages to mix rage and contempt so perfectly in the "you're the moron they built to make me an idiot!" line.
I remember GLaDos got this Spanish glitch (6:19) at the beginning of Portal1 too. And this make me believe there’s something seriously wrong with the mainframe, not the cores. In other words, it might be corrupted by some technical error or even sabotaged by somebody (like Black Mesa, I guess).
Well, the mainframe isn't completed. When the scientifics made the mainframe they made sure glados behave. When they made the cores, it made glados be able to lie. Glados made a bring your daughter to work day as soon as she woke up and then flooded the center with neurotoxins. Scientifics didn't have the time to finish her mainframe. All the info can be found in the lab rat comic
I remember playing this part and I obviously knew how I had to portal on, but I saw a small gap between the plates that launch you and the curved plates on the side so I tried just walking through that, fully thinking I wouldn't ve able to get through that way. I got through. Ended up being a trend of my playthrough, solving things without portals either because I wanted to see if I could or because I was too stupid to see the right way to solve it.
I first saw this scene in a list of creepy moments in non horror games. It was funny as first, but then the way GLaDOS shrieked in agony as she was basically ripped apart from her consciousness gave me genuine chills. And the music didn't help.
I appreciated how the Portal series took rather disturbing material and made it lighthearted, but the tone of this confrontation and the pain GlaDOS experienced really took me off guard.
We aren't talking enough about "you didn't do anything. _she_ did all the work." When I first played this, that probably hit me even harder than Wheatley's U-turn. You're locked in this moment of despair and being more alone than you've been this whole game, you're reeling from being turned on by an ally, and then your (former?) worst enemy, a master of gutting insults, chooses specifically to show RESPECT for you as she lashes back at him. This AI who's never said a WORD in your favour. This is the moment that for the very first time, it actually FEELS like she's on your side, and because it happens before the alliance it fucking rocked me to my core to feel that in the wake of everything. I guess it makes sense - the absolute biggest highlight of Portal 2 for me wasn't experiencing Wheatley's betrayal (although it was great) but rather experiencing GLaDOS' grudging respect and the incredibly rich dynamic of her and Chell's alliance.
So like, Wheatley is an intelligence dampening sphere that makes horrible decisions, meaning he goes through every possible option and chooses the worst one for the situation. Wheatley betrayed Chell because that was literally the worst thing to do. It wasn't completely because the power went to his head. It's in his nature lol
I love how Wheatley's display of genius, where he speaks Spanish, is him saying "You are using the translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual."
I know that you were waiting for all the dialogue to play out, but waiting for you to finally press the button was like watching a fly that just keeps missing the window you open to let them out
"The sidekick betrays you" is a tired cliché in videogames, what makes Wheatley's betrayal original is that it isn't premeditated, he just instantly goes mad with power.
Wheatly: "All you've done is boss me around."
Chell: *hasn't said a word the entire game*
That's how you know he's and idiot, projecting his insecurities on his only friend like that.
is chell mute
@@sundalosketch4769 He's a moron. ✨
@@bruh8545 yes she got brain damage from being in suspended animation too long.
Even the fan wiki points out the irony in Wheatly claiming that Chell did nothing but boss him around when she hasn't spoken a single word to him (and might not even be capable of speaking due to brain damage).
I can't think of a single mean thing Chell had done to Wheatly prior to the betrayal. In fact, everything Chell had done up to this point was to help Wheatly. This moment of Wheatly betraying Chell and saying that all she's done is boss him around is even more hurtful because Chell hasn't done anything to upset Wheatly. All of it is just Wheatly projecting his own insecurities onto his only friend and pushing her away.
There's something so brilliant about the line "YOU'RE THE MORON THEY MADE TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!"
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Gets me every time. The emotion in her voice when she says that, powerful stuff. One of my absolute favorite lines if not just this game, all of gaming.
they made the wheatly core so GLaDOS would not know about the deadly nurotoxin
And Ellan McLain's delivery!! The emotion in her voice makes me so hyped
Its the truth
I like how Wheatley's go-to response is "oh, well, could a moron HIT you?" which is exactly what an actual idiot WOULD default to, because anyone could do it, and only the stupid ones don't think of the consequences.
That's the joke.
@@Doc_Fun I think he knows that bro
@@fumetsuthe1 My point is that it doesn't need to be stated.
@@Doc_Fun Who are you to dictate what can or cannot be stated in a You-Tube comment section? For what is a Comment section to this video, but a vehicle to make one's recognition of a scene into a written acknowledgment of a character's actions/traits and discuss them? I choose to be silent most of the time and that is my choice, if others want to discuss it I see no reason why they shouldn't be free to do so
@@oom-9803 I didn't say it "can't" be stated, I said it didn't "need" to be stated, and it doesn't. The joke is obvious, it should be easily understood.
I never took this as a betrayal. The sheer knowledge of glados drove him insane, just like it did to the actual human glados was made from.
To be fair, any living sentient being that doesn't have substantial control over their mind can completely lose it when given the power and authority to do pretty much anything. That being said, the writing was fantastic.
Also the whole "itch" thing
Yeah, actually I never feel betrayed at all, because I kinda expected that to happens.
It's not the sheer knowledge of GLaDOS that made him insane it's the system that aperture made was almost designed to make you insane with the "itch" and the rest of it but not knowledge, knowledge doesn't make you insane the statement that says otherwise is just some insane Lovecraftian bullshit
@@spectralanomaly1683 Nah, the Lovrcraftian would point out that it isn’t the knowledge that drives you insane, but the inability to fully comprehend the knowledge that drives you insane. Cosmic bullshit at its finest.
Oh good I've always wanted to be betrayed in 4k.
XD
lmao me 2
Almost as good as being betrayed at 672fps
Oh goody, oh joy!
Furry
6:18 he says "you are using this translation software wrong, please refer to the manual"
If you play the game in Spanish it says the same but in English.
@Brayan Diaz I don't even know what I just said but I can find out!
I can confirm
Gracias
@@facundopuente976 xd este weon
"YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE *ME* AN *I D I O T*"
Genuinely the most angry GLaDOS gets and I absolutely love the delivery.
"WELL, HOW ABOUT *NOW?* NOW WHO'S A MORON?! COULD A MORON *PUNCH. YOU. INTO. THIS. PIT?!* HUH?! COULD A MORON DO THAT?!"
"...Uh-oh."
@@OGrupxe It was at this moment Wheatly knew, he fucked up.
@@OGrupxe
“Oh hi. *pzsh* So? How are you holding up? Because I’m a POTATO!”
@@scrp6638 [clap clap clap]
@@randomaccount4950 oh good! My slow clapping system is still working. So we have that.
I'm just going to say that the moment when Glados starts talking about how she remembers Wheatley, Wheatley physically exhibits the signs of someone who "Knows where this is going but would really rather it not happen". You can SEE him fidget. If he could be pacing he probably would be. Turning away slowly because he knows what she's going to say and he doesn't want to hear it. That's some astronomically fine detail on top of all of this acting. Wheatley knew he was the "idiot core" this entire time. If Glados had known before hand I can only imagine the lengths she would have gone to in order to stop Chell for both of their sake.
Yeah he even say " NOPE NOT LISTENING LIYER LIYER" he at that point is just so desesperatly to not lyten but in the end he just... breakdown
I like small details like this
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@@87crowhat54 It's the little things that make Valve the best developer in the world.
The fact that they were able to make a glorified sphere attached to a giant robotic "arm" so expressive just goes to show how well the character designers and animators did on this game (or really any Valve game for that matter)
Lemme just say, The sentence "You're not just a regular moron, you were *DESIGNED* to be a moron." Must've been the worst insult GLaDOS has ever said. And yes, even worse than the time GLaDOS made fun of Chells Parents.
it's the worst one because it's almost certainly true. no wonder wheatley got pissed - thats a terrible purpose to be reminded of having
I want to use that insult: “You’re not just a moron, you are an intentional moron”
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@@akumaking1 same here
GLaDOS didn't make fun of Chell's parents. She made fun of Chell's (alleged) *LACK* of parents.
Most of the time it’s just villains being bad from the start and tricking you, but this is actually really cool, all the power goes to his head.
Literally goes to his head!
Well that and also the system it is now hooked to basically compels the core in command to test. Almost like an artificial instinct for the artificial intelligence. Think they mention something about that later its kind of an addiction as well that cannot be satiated by robots like GlaDOS attempts. The non permanence of the consequences of their actions is just boring.
@@mehmzay3022 oh yeah
Thing is the plot of good from the start are used a lot but yeah
@@mehmzay3022 And on top of all that, he is literally a fountain of *bad ideas*.
It's crazy how Valve managed to make a robot that only has a single eye and yet it can still convey so much emotion.
His best moment is “serious brain damage” but this is great too
5:32 Never thought a robot screaming in auto-tune would be so visceral and chilling.
5:32 POV:your going to Idaho.
This
@@dankRITZ. Boise
Bro glados became 20th fox century
Moral of the story:The chance of underdog being consumed by the power and new possibilities is extremely high, especially when he's a moron
The worst idea Wheatley ever made was take revenge on Chell.
HE IS NOT A MORON
@@maksim5708 COULD A MORON! PUSH YOU DOWN THIS PIT? HUH COULD A MORON DO THAT?
It's chance, not chanse
Idiot
@@africanamericanwargreymon6341COULD AN IDIOT PUNCH YOU DOWN INTO THIS PIT? Huh? Could an idiot do THAT?
Wheatley's casual "Hello!" after he literally just fell through a long tube and onto the floor is cracking me up
Steve Merchant should play the Doctor
@@SamuelBlack84 Dude. Dude. That would be *WILD*! Why have I never thought of that?!
@@KiriChan99 It takes a genius 😉
@@SamuelBlack84 Well dang, guess I'm not a genius yet! Better get on that.
For me that was kinda adorable
I absolutely adore how wheatleys core separates when he becomes angry (calling chell selfish, being called a moron) as if it represents a pupil dialating out of anger.
dont pupils get small when youre angry
@@GabRioBlu just looked it up, nope
@@crystalk5298 hm, interesting
He puffs himself up to look bigger but it just shows how insignificant he is the way there's just nothing inside
Fun fact when Wheatley speaks Spanish he’s really saying "You are using this translation software incorrectly. Please check the manual." 😂
Wow they really trolled the non Spanish people
And in german the English version of said line plays
I love how Glados’ veneer of sarcasm and superiority gradually falls apart as she gradually realizes she’s been outplayed. She degrades herself to begging and bargaining to avoid getting defeated.
Reminds me of Hal in 2001 space odyssey.
@@imyourmaster77 "Take a chill pill, Dave"
I think she badgered Wheatley to get him to mess something up then controlled Chell so she could gain control back.
@@EPrimeify that potato wouldn’t provide nearly enough power for that level of calculation
@@bry-guy4177 GlaDos is extremely intelligent and calculated.
6:29 I loved how when the music starts going here it starts off upbeat but slowly turns into evil showing how the power has corrupted Wheatley
Yes.
Even years later I remember
That turn gives me chills.
Hi 👋
And how the lights changed from lighten to darken and the red light from beneath just reflect Wheatly, this game is a masterpiece.
I love how Wheatley looked at the tapes of your previous fight with GLaDOS after he took power, and "prepared" himself for your encounter by giving you white gel in his room and bombs with which to hit him.
When in this encounter, had you not broken all of the turrets AND shut off the neurotoxin AND had Wheatley show up, Chell has about a 0% chance of survival, GLaDOS made sure of it this time. No portal surfaces, no projectiles, just you in a glass box surrounded by turrets and given neurotoxin if that didn't do it
Despite all Wheatley's questionable preparation, though, he does come incredibly close to winning, and only loses because he inadvertently gave Chell access to information that he himself didn't know existed, in the bowels of Aperture. Chell got incredibly lucky by learning that Moon Dust is what portal conductors are made out of, and Wheatley's booby trapped stalemate button *worked. Perfectly.*
He was designed to literally do everything wrong. That means he would actually do something incredibly smart, when required, so long as the end goal was incredibly stupid. Getting stuck in space with another AI floating around him saying the same thing over and over again, like nails on a chalkboard, was the worst thing that could happen to him so he found a way to make it happen without even realising it.
GLaDOS's scream is genuinely kind of terrifying, it's hard not to feel bad for her even if she is completely evil
Facts it kind of scares me when we hear her scream
Scream on an autotune
Especially when you consider her first being put into the machine was against her will... Yeah, I kind of felt bad for her.
They copied the scream from a travis scott album
@@secondholocaust8557 "Wait what if this hurts?? What if it really hurts???"
"Oh it will. BELIVE BELIEVE me it will."
This scene really chocked me when I played for first time this awesome game. Never seen that coming.
I understood that after I realized that the defeat of GLaDOS was too easy and it was chapter 5 only
It CHOKED you?!
*DAMN wheatly chill!*
Same. I only played a month back, but I was so happy I didn't have any spoilers.
Sadly I was spoiled because couldn't play on release. I wish I could forgot.
No I think that was the deadly neurotoxin
7:48 Can we talk about how awesome is Glados answer to him making her a Potato? She literally calls him a Cancer, incredible.
@Callum I agree, i would be literally so pissed off if i know that i was born, designed and programmed to be a moron for the rest of my life.
6:44 That "actually, why do we have to leave right now" is when it really sinks in that you're in for a bad time
I mean, besides the evil laugh of course
That line spooked me!
I like how Wheatley seems genuinely concerned when you fall
It’s like when you push your younger sibling but then they start crying and you’re like “oh shit”
@@DeathnoteBB lmao
@@DeathnoteBB yes
I feel bad for my friend
@@TheChamp820 wait werent you a space core?
6:30
it starts off with seeing how everything else around him is so tiny and insignificant like an ant, he's laughing from how awesome it feels.
then the transition of the music being like. "we finally did it!!" to this indescribable feeling of evil.
and the way wheatley's laugh changes from normal to an evil laugh is voiced so well....
the red lighting effect under him is just so good
and the panels turning red and watching you. as if they are connected to his consciousness.
everything about this is 10/10
The mechanisms of the arms beneath him acting like a part of him, the panels moving as he laughs like you're in his voice box, and him using the panels to intimidate you always fascinated me. The mechanical parts of the game are so well-done - those panels are repurposed to seem like vibrating vocal cords, to seem like eyes, to simply be more things he uses, and they're just square pieces of metal on arms. The way the lighting shifts from a white, making everything bright and happy, to a darker grey as Wheatly shows his corruption from power, and the subsequent drop to complete darkness other than the red underglow of the machinery when he goes against you, it all works so well to switch the mood alongside the music.
Who wouldn't become evil given everything they want?
Also the ambient lighting going to a brightish white when he first takes control to a dark grey after his laughter
I think it’s because of when he was plugged into the machine.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
when GLaDOS screams, it's one of the most realistic screams, because it begins with anger, then grief, then fear, then pure, unadulterated pain
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Honestly was really hard to take it seriously with the autotune
The animation on glados in this game was phenomenal. Valve magic can make literally just a moving yellow dot convey emotion better than a human in some games
They can make a metal ball with an eye convey emotions like fear without even talking (if you just ignore Wheatley's speech)
Wheatley's betrayal got me GOOD on my first playthrough.
Him: "Actually . . . Why do we have to go right now?"
Me: "No. NO. Don't you DARE."
With the evil music swell too, it’s 10/10
Same I was so upset!! 😭
Personally, I was just happy to find out that the game wasn't over yet.
@@DasFlashyMan it wasn’t a big surprise since the game was way too short to end like this, I suspected something would happen to him or to us
Same I felt so sad..
I am convinced that they voice acted Wheatley before they animated the game. Wheatley’s screenplay is amazing.
well yeah, that's generally how voice acting works
@@Oreli 🤣🤣
That's how it works in 99% of cases, because otherwise it would appear out of sync and the timing would be off.
Better made the story first before the actual gameplay! Graphics does not matter. What does matter is the actual effort the developer put.
@@-Poka- R-REGGIE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE...
There's a popular theory that its the mainframe which is corrupted, not Wheatley or GLaDOS themselves. Think about it. Wheatley was friendly towards Chell the entire time... until he was plugged into the mainframe. And then, as soon as he is unplugged, he goes back to being his old self and even felt sorry for what he did. GLaDOS, on the other hand, was evil the entire time, until she was unplugged from it. Then she started to act more and more like Caroline, aka her original self. But as soon as she's plugged back in, she "deletes" her. And while she does let Chell go, she goes right back to testing (as seen in the multiplayer campaign). And all these changes in their behaviour took place in the timespan of just a few minutes after they were plugged in/unplugged.
So while I do believe that their personalities and the situations they were in did play a role in explaining their behaviour, this definitely strikes me as too much of a coincidence to be, well, just that.
This sounds like the sort of thing that could be explored in a potential Portal 3, should such a thing ever come to pass
That hypothesis is crap. it's simple, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
They were pieces of shit the entire time.
@@mothichorror446
You: Mentions the number "3"
Valve: We don't do that here...
@@mothichorror446 3? What are you on about mate? Everyone knows the number after 2 is Alyx!
@@sirpixel7945 honestly Portalyx sounds kinda rad
The voice acting in this game is SO good. Glados’s voice actress does such a great job of being both genuinely menacing and funny. And Wheetly is just hilarious. Even the defective droids’ lines are delivered perfectly.
Best part: the dramatic part of Wheatley literally punching GLaDOS and Chell into the floor using the elevator.
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what’s even worse that wheatley directly slammed GLaDOS into the elevator before letting her go, basically his way of hitting her. He really is a moron
I've never even played this game and I feel like I've just been properly and thoroughly betrayed by a close friend
You really should try it sometime. It's really fun, and only 15$ on steam
Or if you have a switch, then it's releasing there very soon
Also it's very short. You can beat it in one day.
Portal 1 and 2 are on Switch for like 15 quid
@@Nightylion if you’re smart
Why would you watch this video
8:22 Right after GlaDOS yells "YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!" I feel like wheatley's response to it is more powerful. He just gained control of the entire underground aperture laboratories and yet he lost control of himself to glados whilst she was a fucking potato that WHEATLEY TURNED HER INTO. Not to mention the shear weight of her words. No amount of power gained will change this purpose. The only thing he can do is simply deny it. His response is terrifying and depressing at the same time. The final "uh oh" at the end when he realized he hit too hard on elevator was also really cute. Dude got owned but still wanted them around. Best scene in gaming honestly.
8:08 the intense music plus the anger in their voice makes scenes like this the best
She didn’t even boss him around lol.
Kinda lol
That's the point. Wheatley is so narcissistic that he either exaggerates or makes up things to make him seem much greater than everyone else, even if it makes no sense.
@@firebug69 ...Kinda?
Nope. Instead, Wheatley is the one to tell her for saying Apple.
@@migaloo364 the power corrupted him
he wasn’t evil all along, it’s the glados body that made him evil
@@firebug69 She literally doesn't speak a word the entire game lmao
I’m not sure it’s his fault though. The body corrupted his mind Wheatley couldn’t control himself it’s like he lost his memory for his “friend”
Glados said he was created as a total moron and she repeated that few times, so most likely it’s not just an insult.
At the end of the game Glados, while being attached back to the body, releases us and she doesn’t seem corrupted at all. She once only said that the system forced her to make tests.
@@Filya-chan He sounded like he was regretting it when he started to detach from the body at the end tho.
@@Filya-chan I believe GLaDOS was already used to the mainframe at that point, which is why I think her personality didn’t change at all, while out of the body she still has her same old personality, only allying with you out of desperation. I don’t believe the body has any effect on her; only Wheatley, if you follow
Wheatley does seem sincere when in space, and honestly it’s sad that he’s stuck there without chell as a friend. But at least he has the space core as a friend and company
Wheatley was designed to only make bad choices. or rather designed to fail and what better way to fail then giving motivation to the person who's already proven they can get through the entire complex a reason to get through the entire complex and stop you thereby giving Wheatley the opportunity to fail as epically and as repeatedly as possible.
The transition from good to evil with Wheatley still to this day gives me chills, everything about it is so well-written and the music plays and changes at the most impactful times. Even Wheatley's laugh along with the music before he even does anything evil makes you think "Ooohh nooo..." because you just KNOW what he is about to become. Absolutely brilliant writing by Valve, they never cease to amaze us.
“YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILT TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT!”
Best line
WELL, HOW ABOUT *NOW?* NOW WHO’S A MORON?!
COULD A MORON *PUNCH. YOU. INTO. THIS. PIT?!*
*HUH?! COULD A MORON DO THAT?!*
Valve writers are the only people who know how to actually make a good plot twist to make people upset and shocked
Edit: Valve isn’t the only company I play games from and like. There’s tons of games from many companies that I enjoy, some are Star Wars Battlefront 2, Battlefield 1, Minecraft, Just Shapes & Beats, and Ravenfield. What I said about Valve being the *only* people who are good at writing is quite obviously a lie. Some great writers also come from Naughty Dog and Rockstar, but also countless more companies than just those. I can see why some of you are getting mad, and I hope this can help you not get quite as mad.
it's a shame most got fired/quit/retired.
@@MazaAzi i think laidlaw just quit ed
Indeed, by the first time playing this, I was amazed at the twist
i think this twist was very good but i think better ones have happened
They still don’t know how to count to 3
6:35 this part gives me chills to this day. I'm so ready to replay this on the Switch.
Me too
Akshually...
Switch? Get a steam deck, looser
@@timewarpdrive77 shut up :)
@@timewarpdrive77 shut up :)
Ok but like, GLaDOS’s entrance was stellar. The hint of sarcasm with the slow move to the inevitable being HER is just incredible
I feel bad for Wheatley. He couldn't handle the power, and he had felt pain from what happened to him. He even apologized to us.
Yeah, me too
The scene you came here for.
6:32
Thanks.
thanks, this dude took forever
I came for "could a moron PUNCH YOU INTO THIS PIT?" but thanks anyways
I came for the entire video
@@butternut7657 more like 6 mins and 32 seconds lol
"COULD A MORON PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT!?"
yes.
Wheatley: uh oh.
I love how the core transfer is played like borderline body horror. It’s not just a data transfer, they RIP GLADOS’ HEAD OFF. AND IT HURTS
Stephen Merchant did an amazing job as Wheatley's VA, such an underrated actor
Usually when someone is stupid, that just leads you to think of them as inoffensive, but stupidity can be extremely dangerous, especially paired up with a position of power.
@@Jukestar emotional damage
Very accurate statement
America
When I first played this game I shot my Portal gun at him at 7:29 at the exact time he said "Ahhhh" and I thought I did some damage to him at first XD
Stephen Merchant was easily the best person they could've hired for the role of Wheatley. As a big fan of the old Ricky Gervais podcasts from the early 2000s, I was over the moon to hear Stephen's voice in this game.
Agree he is totally underrated. His delivery of the punching into the pit line conveys pure unfiltered rage so well
i know right! absolutely perfect casting. whoever thought to hire Stephen for Wheatley deserved the largest raise feasibly possible
I read he was scared of messing up the entire time
Eyes that pop out their head... Steve
It says a lot about directing, context, and sound design that a boss fight that is literally, "push button to win" seem so dramatic and tense.
glados just really hits the high notes with autotune when she's in pain.
I mean she is voiced by an opera singer
I appreciate you letting some dialogue play out
2:35 such a funny seen, the player is so confused lmao
The way it feels like you are participating in a film is just so great. The voice acting, the amount of detail in animation. Most of the time stuff like this is done in a seperate cutscene. But not here. Wouldn't work here at all. I may be wrong but honestly, even in today's time I can't find such a similar scene that is done so good. As I said its always the cutscenes, not something done through models ingame.
That's so true now you mention it. It felt so immersive playing through this in a way that made me really feel the danger, and then the triumph, and then the gut-punching shock of betrayal and fear and anger happening not to Chell but to ME. I think that's one of the reasons it hits so hard and is so incredibly iconic.
OH GOD! Glados can roast any physical being even though she is a potato
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@@-Poka- YOU MONSTER!
@@theturkish1373 Oh, Sorry.
That's exactly what i was thinking. Glados eloquence [ability of speech] is incredible.
5:35 Okay but this scene right here-
GlaDOS’ scream makes me so sad for some reason. didn’t know a robots voice could hurt that hard 😖😭
Idk why, but hearing it makes me chuckle a bit on the fact that it kinda sounds like she enabled auto tune
@@dougdimmadome3694 but autotune makes me funny
"🎸🎸🎸"
It's especially impactful when you realize it's the second time she's been forcefully torn from her own body.
@@dougdimmadome3694 GLaDOS' voice is actually 100% autotune anyway.
Just remember - Wheatley wasn't always going to betray you. The big ol' GLaDOS robot had code that made the core act like this.
8:35
*realises he just broke the lift*
*uh oh*
He just excited and accidentally terminated the whole lift!
5:38 Welp, RIP my poor bleeding ears. I'm wearing headphones, and that just ripped right through me!
Rip
Best singing before death's in history
7:41 my favorite scene
*Space core gets attached*
"Core corruption at 50%"
*Adventure core also gets attached*
"Core corruption at 75%"
*Fact core gets attached*
"Core corruption is 100%"
*Wheatley just walks past central core*
"Core corruption at 80%"
The robotic arm body language at 0:33 and 7:24 is perfect
I Love how right away wheatly is intoxicated with the power, he starts remarking on how much bigger and smarter he is now
"You will know somebody's true colors when you give them power."
- unknown
Even now, years after the first time I played this, GLaDOS' scream still gives me chills!
The bit where Wheatley starts speaking in a foreign language and says: "I don't even know what I just said, but I can find out!" Makes me feel if it wasn't for GLaDOS provoking him, and the serotonin he's delivered after completing a test starts to drive him mad he might've actually used that opportunity to become a smarter person, which is a part of why Wheatley is so tragic to me, he doesn't want to be a moron, and on a deeper level than just not wanting to be mocked either, he's *genuinely* curious to learn what it was he said, he was excited at the opportunity to learn stuff, and it saddens me that things went in all the wrong ways.
Okay but fr this broke me, Wheatley was my favorite and became a comfort character (almost like a chosen family) to me before the betrayal :(
That’s why it’s such a cool twist imo
Jesus loves you
@@scrubbingdoubles8585 Tf???
@Imperalist Yeah
5:17 ost is I AM NOT A MORON!
I like to imagine at 8:35, Chell is looking up at Wheatley through that crack with either a really hurt face or maybe even tears, just for dramatic effect.
Till today, it astounds me how Valve achieved excellent acting that can only be expressed through the medium of video games and is saddening no one has really done it since. The whole dynamic of the robots having more emotion than Chell herself as a human with lines delivered like "I hate you so much" is just too good. This game's story and acting are better than what most of Hollywood puts out these days.
i cannot stop watching this its so cool to me
fave scene in Portal 2
8:14 “I AM NOT! A! MORON! Well, how about now?! NOW WHO’S A MORON?!? Could a moron *PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT?!? HUH?!?! COULD A MORON DO THAT?!?!?*” Wheatley’s villainous breakdown
0:32
That moment, when we finally see her...
Give me chills...
One thing I like about the voice acting here is how Glados manages to mix rage and contempt so perfectly in the "you're the moron they built to make me an idiot!" line.
Jeez I forgot how amazing Portal 2's story is. The banter between the two, the change of character, the music ...wow it's all incredible.
"There we go, lift called."
Thanks Wheatley!
"You're so tiny!"
Ok sure, I guess I am but...
"So tiny and insignificant!"
...Wheatley, NO
I remember GLaDos got this Spanish glitch (6:19) at the beginning of Portal1 too. And this make me believe there’s something seriously wrong with the mainframe, not the cores. In other words, it might be corrupted by some technical error or even sabotaged by somebody (like Black Mesa, I guess).
Underrated comment.
Well, the mainframe isn't completed. When the scientifics made the mainframe they made sure glados behave. When they made the cores, it made glados be able to lie. Glados made a bring your daughter to work day as soon as she woke up and then flooded the center with neurotoxins. Scientifics didn't have the time to finish her mainframe. All the info can be found in the lab rat comic
Lol I think black mesa had other things to worry about at the time
“All you’ve done is BOSS ME AROUND!”
Chel: 😐
I remember playing this part and I obviously knew how I had to portal on, but I saw a small gap between the plates that launch you and the curved plates on the side so I tried just walking through that, fully thinking I wouldn't ve able to get through that way. I got through. Ended up being a trend of my playthrough, solving things without portals either because I wanted to see if I could or because I was too stupid to see the right way to solve it.
“You’re about to become the immediate past president of the being alive club. Ha ha.”
"Seriously though, goodbye"
2:20 This dialogue is just too good 😂
its pretty... interesting
Sooo smooth
I first saw this scene in a list of creepy moments in non horror games. It was funny as first, but then the way GLaDOS shrieked in agony as she was basically ripped apart from her consciousness gave me genuine chills. And the music didn't help.
the vibe and athmosphere this game has is so awkwardly "warming" and nostalgic. god i love half life universe
Aperture existed before black mesa so it's technically the portal universe
I love the little "uh oh" at the end
Glados: think about this, do you really want that moron in control of the whole facility?
I appreciated how the Portal series took rather disturbing material and made it lighthearted, but the tone of this confrontation and the pain GlaDOS experienced really took me off guard.
"all you've done is boss me around"
Her mind: I haven't said a single word this whole time
1:25
Haha the polite British hello
I also do the the polite British hello
We aren't talking enough about "you didn't do anything. _she_ did all the work."
When I first played this, that probably hit me even harder than Wheatley's U-turn. You're locked in this moment of despair and being more alone than you've been this whole game, you're reeling from being turned on by an ally, and then your (former?) worst enemy, a master of gutting insults, chooses specifically to show RESPECT for you as she lashes back at him. This AI who's never said a WORD in your favour. This is the moment that for the very first time, it actually FEELS like she's on your side, and because it happens before the alliance it fucking rocked me to my core to feel that in the wake of everything. I guess it makes sense - the absolute biggest highlight of Portal 2 for me wasn't experiencing Wheatley's betrayal (although it was great) but rather experiencing GLaDOS' grudging respect and the incredibly rich dynamic of her and Chell's alliance.
So like, Wheatley is an intelligence dampening sphere that makes horrible decisions, meaning he goes through every possible option and chooses the worst one for the situation. Wheatley betrayed Chell because that was literally the worst thing to do. It wasn't completely because the power went to his head. It's in his nature lol
He approached to betray Chell from the beginning. I remember there was a line that said the six people he used earlier died.
@@user-nd7iy8gf5f i dont think it was that he planned to betray her necessarily, it's just that he was a bit more apathetic than he lead on
One of the best scenes in gaming history
True
Yeees sirrrt
I absolutely loved Wheatley through the game and it was honestly really sad when this happened
Plot Twist: Jerry (The NanoBot thingies) was inside Wheatley's head all along, acting like Wheatley until he got in Glados' body.
I love how Wheatley's display of genius, where he speaks Spanish, is him saying "You are using the translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual."
For anyone curious to what Wheatley said at 6:19:
"You are using this translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual."
I know that you were waiting for all the dialogue to play out, but waiting for you to finally press the button was like watching a fly that just keeps missing the window you open to let them out
Wheatley was literally caught in 4k
"The sidekick betrays you" is a tired cliché in videogames, what makes Wheatley's betrayal original is that it isn't premeditated, he just instantly goes mad with power.