Wheatley

Wheatley in Portal 2 after being flung into space

Photo of Wheatley in Meet The Cores

### Occupation

Intelligence Dampening Sphere, Relaxation Center Supervisor, Central Core, Space Debris

### Affiliation

Aperture Science

> "*He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived.*"
> ― GLaDOS
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**Wheatley** is a character originating from *Portal 2*. In the game, he acts as a guide and helps you around a decrepit and broken down Aperture Science facility. He was supposedly "designed to be a moron" according to GLaDOS. Halfway through the game, you have to swap out GLaDOS with Wheatley by initiating a core transfer. Wheatley is then driven mad with power as he gains an inflated ego as compensation for his low self esteem and turns against Chell after GLaDOS discredits his efforts and gives all of the credit to Chell. This causes Wheatley to immediately jump to conclusions and assume that Chell is siding with GLaDOS in devaluing him, to which he then calls Chell selfish. GLaDOS further provokes Wheatley by speaking openly about his past as an intelligence dampening sphere which causes him to smash both her and Chell down a pit in a blind fit of rage. During the boss battle, Wheatley places bombs in the stalemate resolution annex as a boobytrap to kill Chell, resulting in an explosion. Due to Wheatley persistently ignoring the threat of the nuclear core meltdown, a portion of the ceiling crumbles to reveal the moon. Chell uses this opportunity to shoot a portal on the moon, thus creating a vacuum to space where Wheatley is then exiled to, defeating him and leaving him stranded.

Wheatley tends to be very talkative, as if you don't continue solving a puzzle or advancing in the game, he'll keep talking until you do. He also is endearingly hopeless and hesitant. His inexperience and clumsy nature shine through when he accidentally wakes up GLaDOS, and tries to hack the control board using weak repeated-letter passwords. This method of his actually does work during the boss battle as he is able to crack the password to access the Reactor Core heat Venting protocols only to impulsively 'delete' it as he doesn't know what he's doing and is under a lot of stress.

In Meet The Cores 1, however, he is not in space. Neither is Space Core. They are both happily on the ground, in the facility. In the first episode, Wheatley is seen on his management rail humming Still Alive, the song that plays at the end of Portal 1. It then cuts to him talking to a dead test subject by the name 'Mister Hughes.' After that he's now sitting in a chair explaining how he thought it was madness that he had to take care of 30k humans.

The first episode is the only Meet The Cores video we see Wheatley in action because by the time the second episode rolls around, Wheatley has already been sent to space. This is not a theory of the sort in case you're wondering. It's confirmed in the second episode at the timestamp 14:10.

The green-eyed core says that he once heard that GLaDOS sent two robots to space. Then it cuts to the scene of Wheatley and Space Core floating in space. The Fact core confirms this because he is one of the corrupted cores that didn't get sent to space along with Adventure Core.

Wheatley is voiced by Stephen Merchant in game but in Meet The Cores he's voiced by Harry Callagan (Harry101UK).

In Portal 2, he serves as the game's deuteragonist before becoming the main antagonist half-way through the game.

## Trivia

1. Wheatley is an I.D.A (Intelligence Dampening Sphere) used to slow down GLaDOS.
2. In *Portal 2,* each time you break a screen with Wheatley on it, he will say something different depending on how many you've already broken.
3. Wheatley is seen singing in many of the videos made by Harry101UK, implying this may be a hobby of his.
4. Wheatley was in one of the photos when *Portal 2* was being hinted at by decoding Morse code in the radios in