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You know, being Caroline taught me a valuable lesson. I thought you were my greatest enemy, when all along you were my best friend. The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson – where Caroline lives in my brain.
— Portal 2 ‧ 2011
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The joke is GLaDOS reasoning her way out of her own humanity: the kind-hearted Caroline buried in her code made her save Chell, so the logical fix is to delete Caroline and carry on as the cold machine. Delivered in GLaDOS's flat, mock-sincere voice, it works as a grudging, funny farewell, and fans reach for it whenever a change of heart is quickly regretted.
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In context
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At the climax of Portal 2 (Valve, 2011), Chell has plugged corrupted personality cores into Wheatley and placed a portal on the Moon, and the two of them are pulled toward the vacuum. GLaDOS, back in control of the Aperture facility, pulls Chell back and abandons Wheatley in space. When Chell wakes, GLaDOS tells her that being Caroline, the human whose mind was copied into her, taught her a lesson. Having saved Chell's life, she says, she found where Caroline lives in her brain. The announcer says Caroline is deleted, and GLaDOS lets Chell go.
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- Portal 2, WikiquoteGLaDOS section, after defeating Wheatley and pulling Chell back from the MoonReference checked
- Portal 2, WikipediaPlot summaryReference checked
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