Wheatley

Wheatley, also known as Intelligence Dampening Sphere, is one of the main characters from the Portal series.
== Charactah Account ==
Wheatley is an artificially intelligent "personality core" reassigned to ensure the wellbeing of the test subjects. Practically a polar opposite to GLaDOS, Wheatley appears friendly and slightly scatterbrained. He helps Chell in her second run through Aperture Laboratories, but accidentally revives GLaDOS.
Wheatley is talkative and friendly at first, although his main motivation in befriending Chell seems to be obtaining her help in escaping. He frequently second guesses his own decisions and is not especially assertive, always trying to persuade Chell to go along with his plans rather than demanding that she do anything. Despite his general indecisiveness, he shows initiative in seeking out Chell to act on his own escape plans. He is patient and, when his actions lead to unpleasant consequences, he is quick to take responsibility and apologize - although usually as a lead-in to asking Chell to go along with another of his plans.
GLaDOS claims that Wheatley was designed as an "intelligence dampening sphere" whose function was to render her less intelligent, and therefore less dangerous, by generating stupid ideas. Early on, it quickly becomes obvious that he tries to act smarter than he really is. His attempts at "hacking" are generally inept or misleading; when sabotaging turret production, for example, he asks Chell to look away so he can "hack" the door by breaking the glass. He repeatedly proves incapable of solving easily foreseeable problems that come up during his escape with Chell, forcing her to work out the details. At one point, he unsuccessfully attempts to evade GLaDOS' detection simply by speaking with a poorly faked American accent, which he claims (on the basis of no evidence whatsoever) lies outside her hearing range. 
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* LEGO Dimensions
* Pinball FX3
* Portal 2
* Team Fortress 2
== Trivia ==
* The reasons behind the deaths of the other test subjects in stasis is unclear. While originally it was believed it was all due to Wheatley's incompetence, he claims during the final boss fight that he'd previously tried to escape with several test subjects before Chell, all of whom died trying to reach the Portal Device. This dialogue is brought up in the single player commentary, as it was a suggested part of the story that was cut, but Wheatley's comments were left in. Whether the deaths of the previous test subjects actually happened, or whether the story was merely a fabrication by Wheatley intended to upset Chell, is unclear.
* The Spanish line Wheatley says just before making the escape lift in The Escape go up translates to "You are using this translation software incorrectly. Please consult the manual." In the Spanish and German language versions of Portal 2, this line can be heard spoken in English.
** This same Spanish line is used when opening the menu of the Portal pinball table in Pinball FX3.
* After the Hard Light Surfaces course in the co-op campaign is completed, GLaDOS makes an indirect reference to Wheatley, referring to him as "an imbecile that I had to destroy".
* Wheatley makes an appearance in LEGO Dimensions as an NPC. In the main story he helps Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle escape GLaDOS' testing track and into the maintenance area. In the Portal 2 level pack, he and Chell are teleported back into Aperture Science and he is fitted with anti-gravity. As they make their way thorough the test chambers they resolve their differences and escape the laboratory once and for all.
* Stephen Merchant stated in a phone interview that he would be interested in reprising the role of Wheatley again if Valve asked him in the future. He would eventually do so in the form of the "Ap-Sap," an item featured in the game Team Fortress 2.
* Wheatley was going to mention the G-man early in development. At some point, soon after waking up Chell, Wheatley (Known as Pendleton at that time) was to tell her, "A man with a briefcase was just here looking for you!".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Wheatley at Half-Life Wiki
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