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Chell is the player-character in both Portal games. She is a silent protagonist outside of small grunts during physical tasks. Very little truthful information is known about Chell; while GLaDOS makes many statements to Chell's background and history, GLaDOS herself admits she is unreliable.
The following are fictional characters appearing in the Portal series of computer and video games developed by Valve. Pages in category "Portal (series) characters" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.
At E3 2008, GLaDOS's voice was utilized to reveal the Portal expansion Portal: Still Alive. [60] She has also been used to show Portal 2 reveals; initially, a Blue screen of death image was used instead of a revelation of Portal 2, showing the typical text found in a blue screen of death, but with GLaDOS's name at the top. [59]
Portal was awarded the Game of the Year award in 2007 by Joystiq, [120] Good Game, [121] and Shacknews. [122] The Most Original Game award by X-Play. [123] In Official Xbox Magazine 's 2007 Game of the Year Awards, Portal won Best New Character (for GLaDOS), Best Original Song (for "Still Alive"), and Innovation of the Year. [124]
In Portal 2: Lab Rat, a tie-in comic for Portal 2, Chell is put in stasis by Doug Rattmann after the events of Portal. He is revealed to be responsible for Chell taking part in the tests. [10] Chell reappears in Portal 2 where she is reawakened by Wheatley. She and Wheatley attempt to escape the laboratory, and in the process accidentally ...
Initially serving as a comedic foil to the player-character Chell during the first half of Portal 2, Wheatley becomes the main antagonist of the second half as he takes GLaDOS's place and wreaks havoc on the facility before Chell and GLaDOS cooperate to stop him. In addition to Portal 2, Wheatley has appeared in Team Fortress 2 and Lego Dimensions.
The original context of "The cake is a lie" was to convey the message that a reward is being used to motivate Chell, the player character of Portal, without any intent of delivering. Early use of the phrase among Portal fans indicated a wry state of knowing; it represented a shared experience, and a way to flag down false sources of motivation. [1]