LORE - Portal Lore in a Minute!

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LORE - Portal Lore in a Minute!

In the year 1947 Aperture Science Enrichment Center was created to make shower curtains for the US Military. The owner, Cave Johnson, fell ill thanks to his secret production of a Conversion Gel made from Lunar rocks prompting him to produce a three-tiered research program to ensure the longevity of his company. First, The Heimlich Counter-Maneuver. Second, The Take-A-Wish Foundation and third, The Portal Project which included the making of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The latter was endlessly funded by the Senate and Johnson went on to... well, die.

Fast forward many years later when an AI research assistant known as "Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System" - aka GLaDOS - is activated on the Enrichment Center's first Bring Your Daughter To Work day. After releasing a neuro-toxin, locking everyone inside and taking over the facility, GLaDOS is equipped with a morality core to keep her dickish impulses in line. The morality core is a failure, shock. and thus, the Aperture Test Chambers were created for GLaDOS's enjoyment.

The remaining employees were forced to further develop and test the Portal Project using the nifty portal guns. It's unknown how long those poor souls lasted in the nearly abandoned Enrichment Center but eventually GLaDOS finds herself with only one test subject left, Chell, who GLaDOS wakes up from her stasis bed. GLaDOS tells Chell she's trapped in the Enrichment Center and must make her way through the test chambers...and so, the adventure that is Portal BEGINS!

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All Comments (21)
  • @Spikes01k
    Chel was not the last remaining test subject, there was over 1000 other subjects, of which she was the least desired. Rat man changed her listing in hopes Chel would be able to defeat GLaDOS.
  • @Cerulean
    Wrong. Chell wasn't the last test subject. Doug Rattman an employee changed her rank in test subjects.
  • you forgot the person who was literally FRICKING TURNED INTO GLADOS in the most nightmarish ways
  • @bry-guy4177
    Um didn't the morality core WORK, until Chell blasted it off and incinerated it?
  • @qwer58j
    You made several mistakes. For example the portal gun was around LONG before Cave Johnson fell ill.
  • @X-SPONGED
    "Portal Lore in 9 minutes" This is what happens when you don't give people enough time to tell a story and when that person didn't understand lore very well It all gets messed up, and torn to pieces, and then every piece gets thrown into a fire
  • @Wolfrover
    Actually, the Morality Core worked just fine.  She could no longer do anything that was outside testing protocols. Of course, given that Aperture Science testing protocols routinely violate normal morality, this was a bit of a slap on the wrist -- she just had to reclassify everyone as test subjects and test them to death, rather than using neurotoxin again.  (After all, the neurotoxin wasn't experimental.)
  • @spiderlilyw
    There's so much more lore than this, though
  • @revelation4845
    she said chell was the last test subject but acctually doug ratman changed her to be number oneas he thought she was the one who could take down glados
  • @morganlewis885
    alright, what most people don't realize is that GLADOS flooded the labs with neurotoxin twice. The first time ended in the morality core being added, the second was on bring your daughter to work day. (during portal 2 you can find a potato battery project with chell's name on it, and writing suggesting that cave johnson may have still been alive during that event, the first incident is referenced in the lab rat comic, and her in game statement, the second time she tricked a researcher to giver her the neurotoxin for a demonstration of Schrodinger's Cat) According to the Lab Rat comics Chell wasn't even supposed to test at all, but doug ratman put her first on the list, so at the begining of the first portal there were still hundreds of living test subjects. However, with the shut down of glados at the end of the first portal the life support systems went offline, with doug ratman diverting just enough backup power to keep chell alive. Chell then spent a very long amount of time in stasis until being woken up by wheatley at the begining of the second game, and wheatley informing chell that she was the only remaining test subject, and that she may or may not be suffering from brain damage.
  • @xSkitZx
    The test chambers weren't created by Glados though, and certainly not FOR her. They were created a long time before and she was created for them, to monitor the tests, which went on for an unknown amount of time before the the neurotoxin attack that happened just prior to P1. That attack had literally just been cleared up when Chell woke up
  • "GET MAD!" "I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE? DEMAND TO SEE LIFES MANAGER!"
  • You got SO much wrong. I mean FFS, Chell is literally the FIRST test subject (because Rattman, who you didn't mention at all, moved her there. That's the point.)
  • @prestokrevlar
    You also forgot the part when Rattmann is about to run away with Chell, but sees the "party escort robot" and has to hide. And Chell wasn't even the last subject. While Rattmann was looking through the test subject's files, he found Chell's information: Very stubborn, never gives up. DO NOT TEST. She was perfect.
  • @Vulcano7965
    00:21 The portal device was already in developent since the 60s in the portal lore. In the old aperture test chambers they warn you not to enter the tests without it.
  • Portal 2 in a nutchell:(long gasp) Cave Johnson made Aperture Science and Aperture made the Portal gun. Portals works best on Moonrock, so they grind it up and use it as a portal surface. Cave gets Moonrock poisoning and tries to cheat death by uploading himself into a computer. Cave realized he'll die before the computer is finished, so he forces Caroline into it instead. Computer gets activated, goes nuts and kills everyone, computer tests person, person finds out computer is bad, person blows up computer. Person gets pulled back Ito Aperture, gets put to sleep for a long time, gets woken up b moron. Later computer gets activated, gets replaced by moron who puts her in potato. Person falls down pit with potato, potato goes through emotional arc and finds out it was Caroline, goes to surface with human, human beats moron, potato gets put back in computer, computer lets person go, the end.
  • this was wrong at so many times. 1. the test chambers were not for GLaDOS they were for the portal gun. 2. chell was not the only one left she was place first in the test subject order by Rattman who believed chill could take down GLaDOS
  • @GhostlyKatt_
    Are we not just going to mention how Cave Johnson never got to get his combustible lemons?
  • @Michael-eg3rs
    I'm honestly surprised there isn't more dislikes from how much they got wrong on this. They completely glanced over Portal 2 which had been out for almost a year when this video was released.
  • @cantorlok2815
    What about the salt mine? You missed a lot of stuff.