Portal 2
Video Game • 2011
ReportMany years after "Portal," Chell reawakens at Aperture Science and tries to stop GLADoS once again with the help of Wheatley, who has his own plans for the historical facility.
This video game contains 29 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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cha0ticneutralsystem
ENDING SPOILERS
GLADOS kicks chell out of the facility after they defeat another villain together
GLADOS kicks chell out of the facility after they defeat another villain together
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Turki
Glados says you were but it's never shown or confirmed.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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AmateurProgrammer
There are no animals in the game.
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Abuse
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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SPOILERS
it’s left up to interpretation if Chell and GLADOS are somewhat mutually acquainted instead of enemies at the end
it’s left up to interpretation if Chell and GLADOS are somewhat mutually acquainted instead of enemies at the end
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Is someone stalked?
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Jadespade
Glados, and later another character, stalks the main character through cameras.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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LORE SPOILERS
we find out through tapes and images that GLADOS was a human woman who’s consciousness was uploaded into GLADOS against her will. Chell is also brutalised and put through testing and danger for the sake of GLADOS’s programmed need to test people
we find out through tapes and images that GLADOS was a human woman who’s consciousness was uploaded into GLADOS against her will. Chell is also brutalised and put through testing and danger for the sake of GLADOS’s programmed need to test people
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Turki
Caroline in a way, she was forced into being Glados and quickly became the malovelant AI we all know.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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tial
Wheatley tries to blame all of his faults on Chell or GLaDOS although neither of them clearly buy it.
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Addiction
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AmateurProgrammer
Cave Johnson is heard on a recording about halfway through Chapter 7 saying "Caroline, please bring me more pain pills."
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Is there addiction?
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HeadphonesCinderella
In the director’s cut of the game, the effects of the chassis are said to be similar to addiction, but you don’t see any drugs or paraphernalia, etc.
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Animal
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mildlyaardwolf
No, but a bird's eggs are almost destroyed.
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Are animals abused?
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AmateurProgrammer
Spoiler for the ending cutscene of the "Art Therapy" co-op campaign, which is chronologically the last bit of content in Portal 2.
GLaDOS sees that the villain the players have been chasing throughout the campaign is, in fact, a bird who has left a nest with three eggs. Atlas and P-Body (the player characters) quickly scare off the bird. She tells them to destroy the eggs, but then tells them to stop before they do. She is then shown watching over three newly hatched baby birds in an incubator and dotingly says she will raise them to be "killing machines".
GLaDOS sees that the villain the players have been chasing throughout the campaign is, in fact, a bird who has left a nest with three eggs. Atlas and P-Body (the player characters) quickly scare off the bird. She tells them to destroy the eggs, but then tells them to stop before they do. She is then shown watching over three newly hatched baby birds in an incubator and dotingly says she will raise them to be "killing machines".
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Does a cat die?
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HeadphonesCinderella
In the game’s prequel comic, glados is said to have performed the schroedinger’s box experiment on a few cats, and says that she will need a cat graveyard.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone restrained?
23 supporters
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Artsymess
At one point GLaDOS suspends Chell high above the ground with a manipulator claw. Before this a Turret called Oracle is seen trapped in a pipe and begs for help (but it isn’t as much restrained as it is jammed, if that makes any sense)
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Gochujang
Cave Johnson does make a sexual assault joke "I'm no psychiatrist, but coming from a bunch of eggheads who wouldn't recognize the thrill of danger if it walked up and snapped their little pink bras, that sounds like 'projection'."
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Artsymess
Though there is no sound effects to suggest an actual hard time breathing, the main character does get gassed with Neurotoxin so it can be assumed.
Edit: Almost forgot, Cave Johnson begins to cough aggressively in his last pre-recorded message due to suffering of moondust poisoning.
Edit: Almost forgot, Cave Johnson begins to cough aggressively in his last pre-recorded message due to suffering of moondust poisoning.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Possible way for the player to fail.
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Is someone burned alive?
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sushi
While no one is actually burned alive, there is repeated discussion of the villain of the previous game being thrown into an incinerator (which she survived, because she's a robot.)
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Does a head get squashed?
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Nodspine
If you count personality cores as heads, then yes, one does get squashed.
He survives though
He survives though
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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The player can be killed with neurotoxin in one scenario.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Turki
Your character is forced into stasis for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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Is someone tortured?
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Micaela
Yes, it’s debated that Caroline didn't want to become GLaDOS and that it was pretty painful. Also Wheatley is in pain during his transformation into GLaDOS. Chell hasn’t eaten a lot of food and is put through tests but she’s not exactly “tortured”.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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HeadphonesCinderella
The player can get an achievement for making the player character fall to their death.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Anonymous
A robot's glass optic lens is cracked and remains that way for the rest of the game. No human eye trauma
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Is there excessive gore?
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Jade37
Nothing visible to the player. In later levels there are recordings that describe extreme science experiments, including human body modifications and transformations, but that’s as far as it goes.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Anonymous
Children are implied to have died during the events of Bring Your Daughter To Work Day
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Ioheo
Kind of. Spoilers! At the end of the game, the GLADOS "deletes Caroline" after everything they have been through and mentions "her little scared voice inside of her".
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Does someone die?
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SiRenfield
Not on-screen anyway
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Is the r-slur used?
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Jade37
There is talk of a core that is designed to be stupid. They are often referred to as a “moron.” A human character is said to have brain damage and there are some jokes about it, but this slur is not used.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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Nodspine
The main character's parents are implied to be dead
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Jade37
A potato battery, which was created by a child and is described as a toy, is used and later discarded.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Jadespade
The main character is trapped in Aperture because she was kidnapped.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Nodspine
You can still hear the screams of their replicas, all functionally identical to the originals, no one knows what they are screaming about. Spooky
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Are there jump scares?
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Jadespade
At one moment Glados starts talking when she plays a loud truck honking sound, intentionally to startle the player. It is not extremely loud, though.
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Is someone possessed?
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mad_melody
No, but it's worth mentioning that a robot is trapped in a potato form.
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Gross
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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AmateurProgrammer
At one point in the story, the player character is briefly put in a room with a toilet while she is transported to the antagonist's lair. There is no option to use it.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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thriceinarow
There is no law enforcement to make incarceration happen, but the main character is put in a box/cell kind of room briefly by the antagonist.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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mildlyaardwolf
No, but an object that is described as being comforting to the player character is destroyed.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Artsymess
Controlled shocks are used to keep the current Central Core from giving hints for tests, though this only happens twice.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Artsymess
The entire game takes place in a lab-setting, but it is very far from a hospital.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Jadespade
No one in-game has cancer, but references to people with tumors are made in audio recordings overheard throughout the game.
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Mental Health
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The player is given an option to kill themselves late-game. They don't canonically die.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Ioheo
Yes if you know the lore between opening the multiverses. Its explored more in the map downloader.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Jade37
GLaDOS has an unpleasant experience at the hands of a bird and panics whenever she sees them from there on.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Artsymess
No, but Wheatley says, and I quote “I’ll give you a chance to kill yourself.. now!”
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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sushi
The player character is repeatedly insulted for her weight and called fat, despite not being even slightly overweight. While there is no indication this actually bothers her, and the comedy is mostly derived from how cheap of a bully the offending party is, it might be triggering to players who struggle with body dysmorphia.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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leylo
The elevators are an aspect, and in general huge parts of the game are spent in enclosed areas.
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punykirby
Player's choice if they want to kill themselves
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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thriceinarow
You can end up underwater in brackish water/liquid if you fail a level, but this will be considered a game over and the level will reload
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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AmateurProgrammer
Several.
At the beginning of test chamber 7 in Chapter 2, GLaDOS will play a train horn sound over the PA system to try to startle the player.
At the beginning of Chapter 6, the player must solve a short puzzle in order to open the giant vault door to the sealed-off Old Aperture facility. Upon completing this puzzle, a loud klaxon will sound repeatedly until the door is fully open (this takes ~30 seconds).
Just before the first test chamber in Chapter 6, there is a short (~5 second) cutscene where a bunch of lights turn on. There's a loud *thunk* as the power kicks on, and the lights briefly turn the whole screen white.
At the beginning of test chamber 7 in Chapter 2, GLaDOS will play a train horn sound over the PA system to try to startle the player.
At the beginning of Chapter 6, the player must solve a short puzzle in order to open the giant vault door to the sealed-off Old Aperture facility. Upon completing this puzzle, a loud klaxon will sound repeatedly until the door is fully open (this takes ~30 seconds).
Just before the first test chamber in Chapter 6, there is a short (~5 second) cutscene where a bunch of lights turn on. There's a loud *thunk* as the power kicks on, and the lights briefly turn the whole screen white.
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Is there shakey cam?
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schadd
maybe the most so out of any fps
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Is there screaming?
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thriceinarow
Spoilers: during a scene where Wheatley tries to overtake control of the facilities from Glados, Glados will scream (very autotuned though, it does not sound very human)
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Sibelos
Only occasional mild language, such as "damn, hell, crap".
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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ZeroesOnes
Although there aren't flashing lights or strobing, when you pass through portals rapidly, say when gaining momentum it can make the environmental lights flash by quickly which may be difficult for some.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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thesoupisburning
well, the player character is watched all the time. but the cameras, and the ones speaking to her make it known that she is being watched. still could be disquieting for some, though?
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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ogusokumushi
YURI!!!
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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snlug
Founder of Aperture Science says he fired an employee for the sole reason of being in a wheelchair. He didn't want to pay for ramps.
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Artsymess
At the beginning of the game while Wheatley explains to Chell that GLaDOS was destroyed by a human he misgenders her. However he had no clue Chell was the one who did the deed.
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Are there fat jokes?
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leylo
The player character gets called fat multiple times with malicious intent. The character in question is not overweight, so the jokes are mocking the very concept of fat people in general.
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Is there hate speech?
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Jade37
Hate speech toward disabled people, shown in one of Cave Johnson's recordings where he fired a man for being in a wheelchair. Also recurring fatphobia from GLaDOS.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
52 supporters
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Gochujang
Chapter 8 can be interpreted differently for some. Although they do explicitly say it's like a drug in the Dev Commentary, some players might find his exclamations to be. Something else.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
19 supporters
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cha0ticneutralsystem
Cave Johnson becomes terminally ill and we hear tapes of him talking about his illness and what caused it as well as tapes of him coughing and becoming more and more sick
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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0
Joked about a couple times in dialogue, but is unconfirmed.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Jade37
In audio recordings you’ll hear that many of Aperture’s tests subjects during its development were homeless people.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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HeadphonesCinderella
One character is stranded in space, regretful of their actions. Another character is implied to have been uploaded into a computer. We listen to a third character’s health fail, and it’s implied that they die from their illness.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Artsymess
At one point GLaDOS will jumpscare the player with a train whistle
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Does a car crash?
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greenteadragon
There is a scene in which the player travels in a large, decaying metal cube that smashes violently into walls. No one is injured as a result.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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mordantkitten
There are levels with water where you die if you fall in.
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Is there blood/gore?
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windiix
In the first game, blood will be put behind you on a wall if you get shot by a turret. This is removed in the second game.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Artsymess
If you don’t disconnect Wheatley in time, a nuclear explosion destroys the entire facility. It is a huge facility which travel miles underground, and Announcer makes reference to a reactor core, so it’s presumably nuclear or on a nuclear scale.
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Is there gun violence?
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leylo
No actual guns are used, however you WILL get shot at by robots repeatedly throughout the game.
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