Portal Tropes (2024)

1. Portal (Video Game) - TV Tropes

  • Characters · Portal 2 · Portal · YMMV / Portal

  • This page is for the Portal series as a whole. If you're looking for the first video game in the series with the same name, please click here. Portal is a First Person Puzzle Platformer video game series created by Valve that takes place in the …

2. Characters in Portal - TV Tropes

  • Aperture Desk Job · Benevolent Boss · Bungling Inventor · Didn't Think This Through · Nice Guy · Nice Job Breaking It, Hero · Red Eyes, Take Warning · Talkative ...

  • Individual Games Portal Portal 2 Aperture Desk Job A blue personality core who provides the tutorial and converses with the player in Aperture Desk Job. Grady works as a manager/supervisor for the product testing department. Benevolent Boss: He's …

3. Portal (series) - All The Tropes

4. Five Tropes About EDI - Royal Holloway Research Portal

  • Five Tropes About EDI ; English · Power Relations in Higher Music Education · Erasmus · Accepted/In press - 13 May 2024 ...

  • Tan, S. (Accepted/In press). Five Tropes About EDI. In Power Relations in Higher Music Education Erasmus.

5. 5 Cliches in Portal Fantasy that Need to Stop - Pro Story Builders

  • Mar 21, 2022 · In this post, we're going to talk about the top five cliches in portal fantasy fiction, as well as some ideas on how to avoid them.

  • In this post, we're going to talk about the top five cliches in portal fantasy fiction, as well as some ideas on how to avoid them.

6. The Fantasy Trope of the 'Magic Portal' Feels Very Appropriate Right Now

  • Jul 3, 2020 · The 'magic portal' trope reveals the awe, fear and transformative power of traveling to another world — one that might be appealing in our ...

  • So-called ‘portal fantasy’ reveals the awe, fear and transformative power of traveling to another world — one that might be appealing in our present dystopia.

7. Portal 2 - All The Tropes

  • Jun 1, 2024 · That was a metaphor. I was talking about you. Wheatley: You two are going to LOVE this big surprise. In fact, you might say you're going to love ...

  • Portal 2 is a sequel to the game Portal, released on April 19, 2011.[1] It picks up the story of Chell an unspecified number of years after the events of the first game. The Aperture Science Enrichment Center has fallen into ruin, and Chell is awakened from cryogenic sleep by Wheatley, a talkative Personality Core who needs her help to escape the lab. While roaming the remains of the facility, the two accidentally repower GLaDOS—who is, needless to say, not too happy to see Chell again. GLaDOS puts Chell right back into a series of test chambers while she works on getting the Enrichment Center to rebuild itself, while Wheatley continues to attempt to engineer an escape.

8. How to Recognize Antisemitic Tropes and Why They Matter

  • The Jewish Educator Portal · Home. Resources · Professional Development ... How to Recognize Antisemitic Tropes and Why They Matter. Viewed. 7. Saved. 0.

  • This video, part of The Lookstein Center's series about how to talk to students about antisemitism, explores common antisemitic tropes and how to recognize them.

9. Fandom TV Tropes and Wikis | Janet Edwards Author Site

  • There are a currently an evergrowing set of fascinating TV Tropes pages for my books as well as two active wikis ... The Portal Future Wiki covers all series in ...

  • There are a currently an evergrowing set of fascinating TV Tropes pages for my books as well as  two active wikis. I have to give a spoiler warning for clicking on the following links. These are ex…

Portal Tropes (2024)

FAQs

Who is the main character in the portal series? ›

Chell. Chell is the player-character in both Portal games. She is a silent protagonist outside of small grunts during physical tasks.

What is the misunderstanding trope? ›

The miscommunication trope, for those who may be unfamiliar with the term, describes when characters interact with each other in some way, but miss saying something which would very likely — and often, very easily — solve whatever misunderstanding they're now facing.

Why is Chell mute? ›

Chet Faliszek noted that Chell was the female version of Gordon Freeman's role as a silent protagonist (in the Half-Life video games). Wolpaw explained it served the game's humour better if she did not talk, and that if the "straight man in a world gone mad" did talk, referring to Chell, "it would suck".

Why is Chell's last name redacted? ›

In the Lab Rat comic, Chell's surname is redacted on the list of test subjects, while no other information is missing; this may indicate some sort of secret concerning her family background.

What are the 4 tropes? ›

The four master tropes are metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. These figures or tropes play a central role in the organization of both literary works and systems of thought. Every figure of speech can be divided into two parts corresponding to what is literally said and what is meant.

What are some bad tropes? ›

We are realizing that a lot of stories we've loved are problematic and some tropes that used to be common have become unacceptable: The damsel in distress who needs the big suave man to come and save her because she's incapable of helping herself. The evil villain with no backstory and no depth.

Is GLaDOS Chell's mom? ›

In the events of the second game, Glados discovers she is Caroline (basically) and that Chell was her daughter. She becomes more protective and loving torwards Chell. At the end of the game, she says that she deletes Caroline.

Is Wheatley in Portal 1? ›

The Intelligence Dampening Sphere, otherwise known as Wheatley, is a fictional artificial intelligence from the Portal franchise, first introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. He is voiced by British comedian and writer Stephen Merchant, and created in part by Portal 2's designer Erik Wolpaw.

Is Wheatley evil in Portal? ›

Type of Villain

Wheatley is the deuteragonist and later the big bad of Portal 2. He is one of the many cores seen awakening at the end of Portal.

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