Caroline is still alive! (spoilers) (duh.)

[Angel]

At the end of portal, you destroy the morality core, which makes GLaDOS super hostile. Yet, in the second game, she is given many opertunities to kill you, yet she doesn't. Then, it is recealed that the reason why is because caroline was made into GLaDOS, and she had some morality in her. Then, at the end of the game, she deletes caroline, killing her. Then, when you leave the facility, there are aproximately a metric buttload of turrets there. She could have killed chell in less than a sixtenth of a picosecond! yet she didn't. Why is that? in the credits song "want you gone" GLaDOS says, "go make some new disaster" like a "go get em, chell!". and if you translate the turret opera from italian to english, it refers to chell as, daughter, beloved, beutiful, darling, ect. so it is clear that she loves chell like a daughter. And, in an usused song (https://youtu.be/ihYVZFl-Ck0) called "Don't say goodbye", she says that she was always fond of chell, and even calles chell "sweet". So why does GLaDOS still love chell? When you delete a file off your computer, it isn't actually deleted. it is stored away, and can be recoved untill the "trash bin" of the computer is full. So that is why she doesn't kill chell. also, the "caroline deleted" thing could be a lie. she does do that alot.

Please discuss this theory, and if it could be true!

[Owiza]

Seems like a good theroy.

[Hopper]

What if glados held shift while clicking delete though?

[yisbar8032000]

Awesome theory

[¿wame]

My recycle bin automatically permanently erases files upon the deletion of them. I can't ever get them back no matter what. I just ruined half of your theory.

[Angel]

Originally posted by Doc Tornado:

My recycle bin automatically permanently erases files upon the deletion of them. I can't ever get them back no matter what. I just ruined half of your theory.

Your bin does that. GLaDOS's bin might not.

[DropsOfMars]

GLaDOS has lied to us before. She promised us cake, and while it *did* exist, she had no intention of giving it to us. In addition, GLaDOS likely cannot function without a human mind-- that's why it was made in the first place: to house someone's memories, thoughts, and feelings. It's the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, the Genetic Lifeform being a very necessary part.

And while unused songs are completely void evidence (being that it's not necessarily canon), chances are that Caroline's mind files were never altered because of the system's dependence on them anyway.

Now as for Caroline being "alive"? No. Her body's long since passed and decayed. Her and GLaDOS *are* technically seperate characters. If Caroline had lived through the initial transfer of her personality and such into GLaDOS, this would actually mean she existed at one point in two minds, but were seperate at that point. GLaDOS, while very much like Caroline, has experienced far different and more things since it became aware. Although, I am willing to believe the procedure was traumatic and Caroline's physical brain may not have survived.

[Angel]

Originally posted by Darrark:

GLaDOS has lied to us before. She promised us cake, and while it *did* exist, she had no intention of giving it to us. In addition, GLaDOS likely cannot function without a human mind-- that's why it was made in the first place: to house someone's memories, thoughts, and feelings. It's the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, the Genetic Lifeform being a very necessary part.

And while unused songs are completely void evidence (being that it's not necessarily canon), chances are that Caroline's mind files were never altered because of the system's dependence on them anyway.

Now as for Caroline being "alive"? No. Her body's long since passed and decayed. Her and GLaDOS *are* technically seperate characters. If Caroline had lived through the initial transfer of her personality and such into GLaDOS, this would actually mean she existed at one point in two minds, but were seperate at that point. GLaDOS, while very much like Caroline, has experienced far different and more things since it became aware. Although, I am willing to believe the procedure was traumatic and Caroline's physical brain may not have survived.

By "still alive" i meant that the way GLaDOS means it. A computer can't ever be alive, but it can be functioning, which is GLaDOS's definition of being alive. So, by saying she is still alive, i just meant that she is not 100% deleted.

[Poison Dart Frag]

I don't think she deleted Caroline. I think she just said that to try to convince Chell there was no reason to come back.

[TornPillow]

5 years lator anyways, I’ve heard of a theory that GLaDOS tries to delete and while it might work for a minute or seconds, Caroline would be redownloaded. Cause when she tried to kill Chell it was left over from Caroline’s anger but when GLaDOS deletes Caroline for how ever long she made a brand new choice of just letting the ‘issue’ go.

So I guess what I’m trying to say here is that when Caroline was deleted for a few units of time, [GLa]DOS let Chell leave. But I also assume because of the turret opera Caroline was only repressed.