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Kileymeister wrote:

I always thought that was the whole point, not a secret message.  It's not really subliminal at all.  At least the first part about the morality cores.

She even says "Do you think I'm trying to trick you with reverse psychology?  No chance."

But did Valve ever think of the perfect killing machine part? Not to mention, this if for the people who don't know. 

Last edited by agscratcher (2011-02-28 21:52:46)

Hm.

That's a pretty interesting theory. However, like Kileymeister said, it was probably the whole point of it, but still, I can consider it a creepypasta--it might belong in the category "Subliminal Theories" or something like that, alongside the Ash In A Coma one about the Pokemon anime.

What seems to make your theory a little more likely is all the other "test subjects" we see along the way who died trying to escape, or holed up somewhere behind a wall. Why does GLaDOS seems so surprised at your escape from the incinerator if so many other people had managed to do so as well? It almost seems, as you said, that she's just waiting for someone to succeed and get to her. Of course, that takes the fun out of listening to her beg you to "assume the party escort submission position." 

agscratcher wrote:

Harakou wrote:

What seems to make your theory a little more likely is all the other "test subjects" we see along the way who died trying to escape, or holed up somewhere behind a wall. Why does GLaDOS seems so surprised at your escape from the incinerator if so many other people had managed to do so as well? It almost seems, as you said, that she's just waiting for someone to succeed and get to her. Of course, that takes the fun out of listening to her beg you to "assume the party escort submission position." 

Not to mention, in the Portal TFV mappack, there's a secret area containing tubes with people that look exactly like Chell, and are said to be Chell clones. This means Abby from Portal: Prelude is another Chell. Or, to be more precise, Chell is another Abby. GLaDOS DID say that she had Chell's brain permenately backed up and scanned. DUN DUN DUUUUNNNN

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH. Yeah, and in my opinion, I wasn't very convinced that GLaDOS didn't know what that personality core did. Why did she suddenly remember its purpose after it was incinerated? Also rather convenient that the rocket turret turned off when you knocked a core off and reactivated after you incinerated it. Not to mention there was only one.

P.S. What is Portal: Prelude?

agscratcher wrote:

Harakou wrote:

P.S. What is Portal: Prelude?

Portal: Prelude is a fanmade Portal game that tells the events of what happened before Portal. It's really hard! Try searching for it, along with the Portal TFV mappack.

Ah, thanks. Hopefully it will be a challenge. The regular campaign is a little too easy. 

Different Theory:

GLaDOS has twisted programming. But she was orginally created to help with the testing, and no matter how twisted the code becomes, the intention remains. So she helps with the testing, but she makes it extraordinarily hard. Of course, she can't outright kill the subjects, because that would defeat the purpose of the programming, and all computers, even insane ones, have to adhere to that. She can, however, trick the subjects into situations where they might die, such as altering the last test such that Chell will go into the incinerator. When Chell gets to her, she intentionally drops the morality core in an attempt to trick Chell into burning it. Not sure if the Companion Cube was part of this elaborate plan. Anyway, when Chell burns it, she is now free of the programming that originally stops her from killing Chell. So she wrecks havoc. Chell stops GLaDOS by using portals, and all her cores fall off.

That's what it is, at first glance.

But GLaDOS was smart enough to recgonize Chell's portal tactics. So why didn't she stop Chell? My theory is that she was hoping for Chell to destroy her. As mentioned already, the Borealis has crates of cores. Crates. GLaDOS was dangerous with 4 cores. Imagine hundreds of them. That would be pure power.

So it all boils down to-GLaDOS tries to eliminate Chell like she would any other normal subject, but after a while, she realizes this won't work and switches tactics, trying to lure Chell into a situation where the cores would be inserted into GLaDOS, and she would get a lot of power. But somehow, with the mutilation of the Emotion Core perhaps, GLaDOS changed her mind again. She wants power still, but not for her own advantage. She is obsessesed with killing Chell, and those cores might just do the job.

agscratcher wrote:

helltank wrote:

As mentioned already, the Borealis has crates of cores. Crates. GLaDOS was dangerous with 4 cores. Imagine hundreds of them. That would be pure power.

They're only dangerous when connected to GLaDOS. Otherwise, they're quite adorable. 

I dunno, the emotion one when disconnected was still too evil for me.

What's the subliminal message?

EmperorEvil wrote:

What's the subliminal message?

It's more of a subliminal theory, but I accidentally made this the title.