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| “ | Hello! This is the part where I kill you. | „ |
| ~ Wheatley springing his death trap. |
| “ | Wheatley: I am NOT a MORON! GLaDOS: YES YOU ARE! YOU'RE THE MORON THEY BUILD TO MAKE ME AN IDIOT! Wheatley: WELL HOW ABOUT NOW! NOW WHOSE A MORON? COULD A MORON.. PUNT! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT! COULD A MORON DO THAT!!? Uh oh.. |
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| ~ Wheatley angrily denies that he is a moron and punts Chell and PotatOS into a deadly pit, his most famous quote |
The Intelligence Dampening Sphere, better known as Wheatley, is the secondary antagonist of Valve Corporation's Portal series.
He is an Intelligence Dampening Sphere, and as a result, was designed to be as dumb as possible as a way of getting GLaDOS to behave. He is also the second archenemy of Chell, although he starts out as her partner and friend, however was corrupted by GLaDOS' mainframe and became a villain as a result.
He was voiced by Stephen Merchant.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- Upon taking control over the facility, he betrays Chell and berates her for bossing him around and making no sacrifices unlike him, who had came up with the ideas to stop GLaDOS' turret and neurotoxin system.
- He installs GLaDOS on a potato battery when she claimed that Chell did all the work, even though Wheatley did pull off some stunts to make everything possible.
- He punched both Chell and GLaDOS down an elevator shaft out of anger of being called a moron.
- He would make turrets fuse with boxes in an attempts to have some test subjects do puzzles, given how some of these are shown to have a personality and sentience, this would make it indirect torture.
- He would put Chell into puzzles to satisfy his new built-in euphoric response to testing, getting increasingly angry at her as he began building a resistance to it.
- After finding ATLAS and P-body, he decided to try and kill Chell and GLaDOS seeing as he had no longer use for them.
- His incompetence led to the facility to begin breaking down and falling apart, which would've eventually led to it being destroyed had GLaDOS not fixed it in time.
- While it's true that this was unintentional, he did dismiss both GLaDOS's and the announcer's warnings about the dangers of the facility, and even tried to pin the blame on both GLaDOS and Chell for the state of the facility, meaning he is still partially responsible for the damage dealt.
- After being found by Chell and GLaDOS, he attempts to kill them one last time, however they take him down and send him to space.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- While he passes the baseline for nearly causing the destruction of the facility, which would've killed the hundreds of sentient AI there, this was unintentional on his part, and it was mainly because of his incompetence, as a result he fails the heinous standards to GLaDOS herself who killed many of Aperture Science's workers, and getting hundreds of test subjects killed.
- He is a extremely affable villain, considering he is mainly polite to Chell and GLaDOS, and even acts very polite to them even when he is about to kill them, and is polite about trying to convince Chell to literally kill herself.
- He is way too comedic and is played for laughs too much for NPE, as throughout his jounery to escape with Chell, he is constantly speaking alot and says alot of funny lines, even after he turns evil he is still played for laughs.
- He is ultimately a very tragic villain at the end of the day:
- He was literally made to be the dumbest robot who ever lived, and was forced to give GLaDOS' horrible ideas because of his programming, this led GLaDOS to have a massive grudge against him and all of the other personality cores.
- He generally wanted to work with Chell and stop GLaDOS, and literally risked his life just to make their journey to escape and defeat GLaDOS easier, as a result this even makes him pass the baseline.
- He only turned evil because of GLaDOS' mainframe corrupted him and made him become murderous and have an urge to do tests, it's extremely likely if he was never put in GLaDOS' mainframe and never awoke GLaDOS, he and Chell would've escaped.
- He is also ultimately a scapegoat for reasons above, not to mention he was even put in a fate worse then death by being forced to live in space with the Space Core rambling on forever, this is slightly played sympathetically aswell.
- He generally felt alot of remorse for his actions and hoped to eventually apologize to Chell, however wasn't able too considering he was trapped in space, there was no sign this wasn't genuine.
- This was likely due to the fact that he was out of GLaDOS' mainframe, and thus is no longer corrupted.
Trivia[]
- Wheatley was initially meant to be killed off early in the game, likely during the part where GLaDOS crushed him, he was only kept in due to fans loving his character and wishing they had saw more of him, leading to him surviving and getting a massive boost of screentime, if this cut was kept in, he would not be a villain atall since he would've never got corrupted.
External Links[]
- Wheatley on the Villains Wiki