I felt worse for Wheatley than I did for Glados. (spoilers)

[Scaff]

Wheatley is a hard-working robot, he spends the first half of the game working with the player to get them out of the facility. He has the misfortune of being designed to be a complete and utter idiot, and later on he's unable to resist the corrupting power of being plugged into Aperture. That's understandable since even Glados went a bit crazy without having spheres attatched to her. In the end, Wheatley gets pulled into space... probably forever.

Glados on the other hand, speaks to the player in a detached manner. She only wants the player to test with her, and when you try escaping she tries to kill you again. She only joins with you during the second half of the game due to circumstances, and after defeating Wheatley she kicks you out of the facility.

[KyloX]

Welp...
From what It is seen, GLaDOS "kicked" out Chell from Aperture to protect her and give her freedom. If you still look at GLaDOS the same way as you did in Portal 1, than I am sorry, you didn't get the story right.

As for Wheatley... Valve did a great job to make him not return, and to feel bad and good about him.

[Scaff]

It's hard to say who's interests were in play when Glados kicked Chell out. Maybe Glados did it for herself, or Chell, or both of them.

[Khajiit]

GlaDOS totally kicked Chell out for herself. Not that this action didn't favor Chell, but if GlaDOS wanted to keep/kill her, she would have done it. I mean, after all, they're just programmed robots. I believe Wheatley is a huge success for Valve. He is my favorite -as you can tell- no matter what he did.He was silly - in a really funny way. I don't feel sorry for him, I'm just glad he got away from GlaDOS because I'd be more sorry if he was just killed. At least now he is going to warden in space until he hits on a planet/star and maybe gets destoryed or run out of power.

Now that I mentioned it, I want to ask you, guys a question. Where do cores get power from? I don't think this would come into my mind if the potato thing didn't happen, but since cores need power to work, doesn't that mean that Wheatley will eventually run out of power? If so, it'll be like he's dead, or at least asleep until someone finds him.
Also, where does he get power from during the whole campaign? Does he have a battery or something and gets charged? Or something else I can't think of?

[KyloX]

Now lets not get that deep into the game, on how long bettery lasts, that is a game for all sake, we aren't talking about spaceships in real life.

About GLaDOS, my thoughts - she acted in a motherly fashion. As the game has theories on GLaDOS (Caroline) being the mother of Chell ( which is still questionable), I say GLaDOS acted like a mother: set her children free from dangers of Aperture and herself, GLaDOS. This a bit comfirmed from the song that is sanged in the end. GLaDOS could had lied that she deleted Caroline to protect her, saying that she has nothing left for her in Aperture, that she could escape this "prison" and have her freedom.

Though the ending has both happy and sad feeling.

[Tomberry Blue]

GlaDos is shown Wiping out her "humanity". She definitely got rid of Chell because it was easier to let her go than go kill her.

I love Wheatley, I don't feel too sorry for him because he betrays you on no basis and tries to kill you for no reason at all. On the other hand I don't quite get how the "ultimate moron" manages to outsmart GlaDos multiple times over the course of the game and een Chell twice.

[Khajiit]

Originally posted by Mr. Crowley:

Now lets not get that deep into the game, on how long bettery lasts, that is a game for all sake, we aren't talking about spaceships in real life.

Why not? That's what the discussion feature is for

Originally posted by The Legendary Beast:

GlaDos is shown Wiping out her "humanity". She definitely got rid of Chell because it was easier to let her go than go kill her.

I love Wheatley, I don't feel too sorry for him because he betrays you on no basis and tries to kill you for no reason at all. On the other hand I don't quite get how the "ultimate moron" manages to outsmart GlaDos multiple times over the course of the game and een Chell twice.

He didn't "try to kill" her "for no reason. He became corrupt. At first all he wanted to do is testing subjects and then, he gradually stopped being satisfied and decided to kill the subject. Exactly what GlaDOS did in the first portal. It's important to keep in mind they are robots. It's not exactly "his fault", since they are meant to do that; their consious is controllable.

[Cereal Acid]

As Wheatley's true fangirl I keep blaming Aperture for his corruption. In the end, GlaDos' behavior changed to the best almost immediately when she was disconnected from her body, and even before she remembered Caroline. I don't think that potato prison could change her so much. It looks like that body also has a "domination" program wired into it (just like the "itch" was a feature of the body), maybe for the main core to control other attached cores. Poor Wheatley just couldn't control the amounts of itch, domination and every other signal he got from that body because he wasn't actually designed to ever become the main core.

And yeah, he escaped from GlaDos and that's good because she won't do to him anything she wants to do to avenge her laboratory... But I wish there was a way to bring him back. To Earth I mean, hot to Aperture!

[Cereal Acid]

Originally posted by TheCh0senOne™:

Where do cores get power from? I don't think this would come into my mind if the potato thing didn't happen, but since cores need power to work, doesn't that mean that Wheatley will eventually run out of power? If so, it'll be like he's dead, or at least asleep until someone finds him.
Also, where does he get power from during the whole campaign? Does he have a battery or something and gets charged? Or something else I can't think of?

I think he's having his accumulator charged while being attached to the rail or to the command node, and disattached he uses the power of his accumulator. In this case he can't die even without power, unless an asteroid hits him or he falls on some planet. Which I hope won't happen.

[Scaff]

I just assume that Wheatley's shell contains a tiny fusion core or something, but maybe he gets charged some other way. Glados' "chip" can't power itself which is why it needs a potato.

[Khajiit]

Originally posted by Scaff:

I just assume that Wheatley's shell contains a tiny fusion core or something, but maybe he gets charged some other way. Glados' "chip" can't power itself which is why it needs a potato.

Aha... that makes sense!

[Skelly Man]

Near the beginning of the game, the announcer who does the commentary during the tutorial chambers says the following quote when you finish Test Chamber 5:

"Well done! The Enrichment Center reminds you that although circumstances may appear bleak, you are not alone. All Aperture Science personality constructs will remain functional in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few as 1.1 volts."

Wheatley is an Intellegence Dampening Sphere, and as such, falls into the category of being an "Aperture Science personality construct". This also means that he and the Space Core are going to be stranded in space for a long time without a charge, as they will "remain functional in apocalyptic, low power environments of as few as 1.1 volts.". I have more evidence to back this up too. During the beginning of Chapter 6, he talks to the Turret Cubes and says this:

"Oh, that's funny, is it? Oh it's funny? Because we've been at this for twelve hours and you haven't solved it either, so I don't know why you're laughing."

My phone takes less than two hours to charge to 100%. If Wheatley needed to charge himself with a power source, he could done it in the twelve hours Chell and GLaDOS were down in the abandoned test chambers. So when he detached from the machine and sucked into space, he has a full charge and is prepared to float in space with the Space Core fore as long as his battery lasts.

LOL IDK. Just a dumb theory I came up with.

[MrManGuySir]

Originally posted by KyloX:

Welp...
From what It is seen, GLaDOS "kicked" out Chell from Aperture to protect her and give her freedom. If you still look at GLaDOS the same way as you did in Portal 1, than I am sorry, you didn't get the story right.

As for Wheatley... Valve did a great job to make him not return, and to feel bad and good about him.

I saw it more as a neglect to keep such a dangerous individual in the facility and risking being deactivated again. If she didn't note the dangers of keeping her around, then she wouldn't have deleted Caroline or called Chell a "Dangerous. Mute. LUNATIC."