GLaDOS

“	Do you know the biggest lesson I learned from what you did? I discovered I have a sort of black-box quick-save feature. In the event of a catastrophic failure, the last two minutes of my life are preserved for analysis. I was able – well, forced, really – to relive you killing me. Again and again. Forever. You know, if you had done that to someone else, they might devote their existence to exacting… revenge.	„
	~ GLaDOS

Summary

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is an artificial intelligence created by Aperture Science.

The idea for GLaDOS came to Cave Johnson in 1982 during his final days. He wanted to "store a man's intelligence" into a computer in order to beat his rival Black Mesa and oversee his company after his death.

In 1986, construction of the first iteration of GLaDOS began in the Enrichment Center with the aim of accelerating the Portal project, and beating their rival company, Black Mesa. A prototype chassis for GLaDOS was constructed in 1989, but was subsequently abandoned. In 1996, after a decade spent bringing the Disk Operating System parts to a state of more or less basic functionality, work began on the Genetic Lifeform component.

GLaDOS is amoral and often sadistic. She possesses an extremely dry, bitter, and sarcastic sense of humor; her jokes are usually dark, morbid, or outright cruel. She seems to enjoy making manipulative comments that frighten the subject or undermine their self-esteem, but does not usually express open malice.

Powers and Stats

Tier: Unknown physically, 9-B with explosives, 9-A with lasers

Name: GLaDOS, possibly Caroline before the transfer

Origin: Portal

Gender: None, though referred to as Female

Age: 1 to 10 in Portal 1 (Activated several days prior to May 16 200-) | Over 50,000 in Portal 2

Classification: Artificial intelligence

Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Inorganic Physiology (Type 2), Technology Manipulation (Controls the entirety of the Aperture Science facility), Information Analysis, Data Manipulation, Portal Creation, Energy Projection (Can create lasers), Matter Manipulation (Can dissolve objects within the facility such as Storage Cubes), Immortality (Types 1 and 6), Poison Manipulation (Via neurotoxins), Large Size (At least Type 0, possibly Type 2 as she controls the entirety of the massive Aperture Science building), Summoning (Can spawn sentry turrets), Explosion Manipulation (Can spawn rocket sentries and bombs), Forcefield Creation (Can utilize "bomb-proof shields"), Electricity Manipulation, Physics Manipulation (Via Repulsion and Propulsion Gel), Self-Destruction, Light Manipulation (Can create hard light bridges), Clairvoyance (Has cameras all throughout the enrichment center), Enhanced Senses (All of the cameras have heat sensors attached), Gravity Manipulation (Via Excursion Funnel), Resistance to Morality Manipulation (Although the Morality Core stopped her from killing test subjects outright, she still maintained the desire to kill and managed to kill them in a roundabout way through constructing lethal tests), Heat Manipulation (Aperture Science technology is built to withstand temperatures of 4000 K), and Hacking (After an earlier build of GLaDOS was hacked, unspecified precautions were taken to prevent a repeat in the final version)

Attack Potency: Unknown physically (She never directly or physically attacks Chell directly), Wall level with explosives, Small Building level+ with lasers

Speed: Virtually Immobile movement speed, Supersonic to Speed of Light attack speed with rocket turrets and lasers, respectively. Massively FTL+ reactions (Took her 1/16 of a picosecond to try and kill all the employees in Aperture)

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Striking Strength: Unknown

Durability: Wall level for her physical form (Merely stunned by bombs which left Chell unable to walk), her ability to transfer her artificial intelligence to any computer makes her difficult to kill permanently.

Stamina: Infinite as an artificial intelligence

Range: Tens of Meters with weaponry, Hundreds of Meters with Technological Manipulation (Has control of the whole, massive Aperture Science Enrichment Center)

Standard Equipment: Sentry turrets, lasers, portals, bombs, deadly neurotoxin, among others (See a list of all known Aperture Science technology here)

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (She is a highly advanced artificial intelligence who can run the totality of an intricate experiment facility capable of producing state-of-the-art technology and can construct complex testing chambers)

Weaknesses: Psychotic and sadistic; if she hears a logical paradox she will get trapped in a seemingly never ending loop trying to figure it out.

Notable Matchups

Victories:

Neo (The Matrix) Neo's Profile (9-B forms were used, and speed was equalized)

Losses:

Bender (Futurama) Bender's Profile (Stock Bender and GLaDOS with explosives were used, and speed was equalized)

Inconclusive:

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