Who is Chell based on?

Chell's face and body model were derived from those of the director, producer and voice actress Alésia Glidewell. When making Portal 2

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Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts.

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, developers considered not bringing back the character. However, this was changed as playtesters wanted GLaDOS to recognize them as the person who had killed her in the first game.

Who is Chell model?

Alésia Toyoko Glidewell (born December 8, 1978) is an American video game actress, voice actress, model, and director who served as the base for Chell's face and body.

What ethnicity is Chell?

Her ethnic background is somewhat ambiguous; she appears to be of Latin or multiracial descent, and Valve concept artist Matt Charlesworth described her as having "a hint of Japanese ethnicity." (Chell's face and body model, Alésia Glidewell, has a Brazilian-American father and a Japanese mother.)

Is Chell canonically mute?

As with all the playable characters in the Half-Life universe, with the exception of Alyx Vance, Chell is silent.

Is Chell Caroline's daughter?

TL;DR: Chell had been living since she was very young at Aperture Laboratories, her parents are Cave Johnson and Caroline, and when GLaDOS realizes she is Chell's mother she decides that testing is unsafe for her daughter so she sends her to the surface.

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Why is Chell mute?

Chet Faliszek noted that Chell was the female version of Gordon Freeman's role as a silent protagonist (in the Half-Life video games). Wolpaw explained it served the game's humour better if she did not talk, and that if the "straight man in a world gone mad" did talk, referring to Chell, "it would suck".

Is GLaDOS not Chell's mother?

In the events of the second game, Glados discovers she is Caroline (basically) and that Chell was her daughter. She becomes more protective and loving torwards Chell. At the end of the game, she says that she deletes Caroline.

What is Chell short for?

Chell is a girl's name of Hebrew and French origin. It's a shortened form of Michelle, the feminine version of Michel, which ultimately derives from the Hebrew name Michael, meaning “who is like God?” Michel is the French translation of this classic name.

Is GLaDOS Half-Life?

Game information

She is the main antagonist throughout Portal and the first half of Portal 2's single-player campaign. As the overseer and highest of authorities of the Enrichment Center, GLaDOS resides in the Central AI Chamber.

How far did Chell fall?

They are capable of surviving truly long falls, up to and possibly beyond the subject's terminal velocity, as it appears when Chell falls four kilometers down to old Aperture Science and falling into a portal until reaching terminal velocity.

Was Chell homeless?

Chell was born to homeless war veteran and his wife, who abandoned her as an infant after they were both critically injured in the Aperture Science testing courses. One of Aperture's scientists took pity on the young child and took her home to raise as her own.

Is Chell the last human?

Yes there ARE people left on the surface. At the end of Portal 2 you leave the elevator and are confronted with fields of wheat.

Will there be a Portal 3?

The game's writers do have an idea for a potential threequel. Portal 3 isn't happening (yet), but in a recent interview the series' writer Erik Wolpaw did say he knows how it would start.

Who dragged Chell back into aperture?

Now, instead of the original direct fadeout, Chell is dragged away by the Party Escort Bot, thanking her for assuming the party escort submission position. This, "re-energizing" Portal, and bridging the gap between it and Portal 2, since Chell awakens back inside Aperture Laboratories in Portal 2.

Is Doug Rattmann alive?

Rattmann is said to be still alive during the Portal events, and to have died some time after GLaDOS's partial destruction. Additional scribblings are slated to be seen in Portal 2, indicating he survived some time after GLaDOS's partial destruction.

Is P body from Portal a girl?

Gender-wise, the robots have their own genders, as stated by Chet Faliszek in an interview (ATLAS as male, P-body as female). Each robot has its own Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device that bears the color of its user (blue for ATLAS, orange for P-body), as two lines running along the barrel.

Why is GLaDOS afraid of birds?

Overview. The bird attacks Wheatley after he uses her eggs to break a door. Later, the bird kidnapped GLaDOS while she was a potato. After this, GLaDOS developed an incredibly large fear of birds, telling Chell to kill them.

How long did Chell sleep?

When you first wake up, he says you've been in suspenion for 50 days, basically the equivilant of nearly 2 months. This is the amount of time that has passed since Chell defeated GLaDOS. After taking her physical exam and going back to sleep, she finds when that at least 99,999 days has passed since she last woke up.

WHO adopted Chell?

Sounds correct, but Caroline adopted Chell. During the same scene you referred to where Glados becomes defensive of Chell, after Wheatly says she is adopted and Glados says "What's wrong with be adopted," Glados actually tells Chell that she really is adopted.

Does GLaDOS ever say her name?

No one ever says GLaDOS' name either. We've turned that into a thing with the game. Nobody ever mentions anyone's name in the game. It's to such a point people imprint themselves onto the character Chell.

Was Wheatley attached to GLaDOS?

Game information

Wheatley, formerly an Intelligence Dampening Sphere attached onto GLaDOS, is a loose Personality Construct and was the deuteragonist for the first half of the single-player campaign of Portal 2.

Who is Chell's father?

Closed 10 years ago. About around the time of the Portal 2 Announcement ARG, to the best of my knowledge it had become well established that Cave Johnson was Chell's father (with the latter being abducted by GLaDOS on Bring your Daughter to Work Day).

Why did Caroline become GLaDOS?

Johnson later appointed her as his successor as one of his dying wishes. Although the length of her tenure as CEO is unknown, it is clear that Johnson prized her enough to have her essence extracted into a core to oversee the Facility's operations, the core of which became GLaDOS. Caroline is voiced by Ellen McLain.