Chell-- robot, cyborg, or human?

[luckypants]

I think portal 1 and 2's main character Chell, is a andriod or cyborg, because of a few reaons. For one, she shows no emotion, remorse, or the ability to speak, proven when she "Talks" to wheatly in the beginning of portal 2 and when she puts the companion cube in the inciorator without a second glance(Portal 1). also, in portal 1, when you go up to a corner and place a portal on either side so you see two "Reflectons" of yourself, the left reflecton (always the left) has eyes different from the other. it's eyes look mechanical. not like real eyes at all. Lastly, in the very end of portal 2, Chell is sicked into space after making a portal on the moon. of chell where a human, she would explode from the lack pressure, possibly even befor she suffocated, but she didn't, my last proof that she isn't human. please leave your opinion below. a last note, is, that there is a lot more mystery around the portal storyline that I am sure everyone cares not to admit.

[Hunter #357]

In Portal 1, she bleeds onto walls if shot by turrets.

Therefore, it is impossible for her to be a robot, as robots do not require blood to function.

[luckypants]

The definition of an andriod is "A robot with human apperences", therefore, an android as advanced as apurature science is, it would also have blood to apere as human as possible. also, I do not belive that you bleed in portal 2, although i could be wrong.

[MathieuLoco*+]

that's an interesting theory.. another proof would be that, if i remember correctly, she slept for a long time between portal 1 and 2, almost as if it were a coma. if she were to be a human in a coma, she would need to be monitered constantly but it doesn't seem as if there were any sort of equipement around her. maybe she was just turned off and on again.

[luckypants]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Thanks for the support. I apriciate all the support I get.

[Acorn]

The definition of Android is a robot with a human appearance. Chell bleeds when she is shot by sentries. Therefore she is not a robot.

[Tenenbaum]

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[AernPiler]

lol, people without space suit won't explode in space

[Church]

Not to be mean, but you are very wrong in your theory and here is my reversal. Let's start with an added theory in the comments, the relaxation vault at the begining of the game, it is explained in the portal comics and through some small details in-game that you are not in a coma but in animated suspenstion, this means that food and drink are unnessasary, the subject is unconsious, and does not age. The reason why in Portal 2 the relaxation vault has no equipment is because the entire room is put into stasis, think of a room within a bigger room, you can hear Wheatly move the small room out of the big room before he asks you to speak. Moving on to no emotion, empathy, or speaking voice. Also explained in the offical comics (mainly the Ratman one) is that Chell CAN speak, but chooses not to so she feels like she's in control of at least one thing in the facillity one thing she can witheld from GladOS. When it comes to the companion cube, she didn't have any superstion that the cube was a "companion" because it was just a cube with a heart slapped onto it. Now regarding Portal 1 and the eyes thing, Portal 1 was a proof of concept more than anything and the model for Chell was just a placeholder that stuck, which is why she is given a re-model in Portal 2. And lastly, being sucked into space, The portal showed that air from the facillity was rapidly exiting from the second portal, creating a small pocket of atmoshpere on the moon, (which is why she can hear anything in the first place), allthough she wouldn't have been able to breathe, which is why when she is pulled back in she immeditlly passes out. Or we could just say "video game logic" and leave it at that.

[Church]

Originally posted by The Doctor:

Originally posted by Dr. Whybother:

The definition of Android is a robot with a human appearance. Chell bleeds when she is shot by sentries. Therefore she is not a robot.

But there could be robots that are programmed to think that they are human, and she could be 'hallucinating' or it could be fake blood.
Plus, have you heard that her footfalls are quite heavy?!

Her footfalls are actually at correct sound according to velocity. plus remember that her boots are mainly metal materials

[Church]

Here's the comic I was talking about, it's a good read http://media.steampowered.com/apps/portal2/comic/Portal2_Lab_Rat.pdf

[Badgiewadgie917]

she cant talk cuz brain damage