Wheatley

The Intelligence Dampening Sphere, commonly known as Wheatley, is a character from the Portal franchise, introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. He is a spherical robot housing an artificial intelligence that is referred to in-universe as a "personality core".
== Basic Information ==
Wheatley is the deuteragonist for the first half and the primary antagonist for the second half of Portal 2's single player campaign. He was developed by the scientists of Aperture Laboratories, the setting of the Portal series, as the Intelligence Dampening Sphere, an artificial intelligence module intended to rein in GLaDOS's homicidal tendencies by overloading her processes with completely inane ideas. He is initially helpful to the protagonist, Chell, outside of being an arrogant british dumbass, but goes on to replace GLaDOS as the antagonist of the story when he is driven mad with power through gaining control of the entire facility.
More information about his character can be found on the Portal Wiki.
== Archetypes ==
=== Distinctive Voice ===
Stephen Merchant is always memorable. Why are there so many especially memorable video game voice actors named Stephen?
=== Mad Scientist ===
Though not an accomplished scientist on his own, Wheatley takes this role after becoming the controller of Aperture, using his newfound agency to put GLaDOS in a potato battery and create dangerous test chambers for Chell to navigate.
=== Quotable Catchphrase(s) ===
* "I! AM! NOT! A! MORON!"
* "They told me, if I ever turned this flashlight on, I would DIE."
* "Do you understand what I'm saying? At all? Does any of this make any sense? Just tell me, just say 'Yes'."
* "Okay. What you're doing there is jumping. You just... you just jumped. But n-nevermind. Say 'Apple'. 'Aaaapple.'"
=== Robot===
He is an orb-shaped robot.
== Fanon Tropes ==
=== Humanization ===
Wheatley is arguably the godfather of Tumblr-originated white twink humanizations. He is most commonly depicted by fans as a lanky, blonde, blue-eyed white man with glasses; many of his fans claim direct inspiration for this from the appearance of his voice actor. Another potential source is the extremely popular fanfiction Blue Sky by Waffles on fanfiction.net. It was written in the fall of 2011, just a few months after the game was released, and it literally turned him into a human with glasses, blonde hair, blue eyes, a tie... all the trappings that are now commonly associated with humanized Wheatley, though this fanfiction was not the first to do so.
=== Spectacles ===
As his most common humanizations are similar to his voice actor, humanized Wheatley usually wears glasses.
== External Links ==
Wheatley on the Sexypedia Wiki.
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