Game Theory: Portal's Companion Cube has a Dark Secret

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Portal's Companion Cube is perhaps one of gaming's most memorable and lovable characters (items?). But is the Companion Cube another cruel test set up by GLaDOS? What sinister secret is hidden behind the Companion Cube's cute pink hearts? Like most other things in Portal, the cube may be more than meets the eye...
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  • @oliviercanales3653
    @oliviercanales36533 жыл бұрын

    "Why does mat sound so weird?" *realises it's from 2013*

  • @stevenbebout6186

    @stevenbebout6186

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @remymeyer3108

    @remymeyer3108

    3 жыл бұрын

    MATPAT IS MATPAT

  • @iggi042

    @iggi042

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to original Matpat closet quality

  • @Fredrick_Turner

    @Fredrick_Turner

    3 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @AetherNotHere

    @AetherNotHere

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why are we all finding matt’s 2013 videos now

  • @brandelynnefreleng7597
    @brandelynnefreleng75974 жыл бұрын

    “It will never threaten to stab you”. That’s... specific.

  • @crusadertime6746

    @crusadertime6746

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait we have isn't glasos usually meaning the opposite of wait she says?

  • @jackdevine1878

    @jackdevine1878

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@crusadertime6746 hmmmmm

  • @projectsanctuary7944

    @projectsanctuary7944

    4 жыл бұрын

    as a Terraria player, i can't relate.

  • @johnpond4530

    @johnpond4530

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@projectsanctuary7944 lava is more scary with that as a pet

  • @froggygoblin6514

    @froggygoblin6514

    4 жыл бұрын

    Terraria companion cube stabs you

  • @FutureProp
    @FutureProp4 жыл бұрын

    When you reeeeeeeaaaaalllyy run out of things to watch for quarantine. Let's do this 2013 matpat.

  • @Vertical_water

    @Vertical_water

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea I'm just bored in 2020

  • @EnzoTeal

    @EnzoTeal

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Vertical_water 2021*

  • @Pyrodiac

    @Pyrodiac

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EnzoTeal Bro that reply was back in 2020, look at how long ago it was.

  • @EnzoTeal

    @EnzoTeal

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Pyrodiac i know, i just wanted to say that

  • @lisforloser1549

    @lisforloser1549

    3 жыл бұрын

    oh god that mic

  • @waterwolf982
    @waterwolf9823 жыл бұрын

    7 years later- KZread: Now that it has ripened, it now ready to be recommended

  • @ajaxengineco

    @ajaxengineco

    3 жыл бұрын

    So I wasn't the only poor blighter that the KZread recommendations washed up here.

  • @snovy_clover

    @snovy_clover

    3 жыл бұрын

    No I searched portal because it 4 am and this showed up

  • @thethreewoofskitteers8364

    @thethreewoofskitteers8364

    3 жыл бұрын

    mhm

  • @SSkat4069

    @SSkat4069

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I understand

  • @kotarojujo6233

    @kotarojujo6233

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had to search it up

  • @madmoblin
    @madmoblin7 жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact of Science for the Day: In Lego Dimensions, if you break an Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube, it will have bones inside it. I just thought that was interesting.

  • @ottokoit

    @ottokoit

    7 жыл бұрын

    interesting...

  • @Hextor26

    @Hextor26

    7 жыл бұрын

    OMG

  • @HaloODST-ej5sx

    @HaloODST-ej5sx

    7 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting

  • @Maru-ho5xt

    @Maru-ho5xt

    7 жыл бұрын

    OH MY GOD

  • @charajones2253

    @charajones2253

    7 жыл бұрын

    They know

  • @bricktron5351
    @bricktron53514 жыл бұрын

    In Terraria, if you drop the companion cube pet in lava it will scream.

  • @cambridge5770

    @cambridge5770

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also stabs you in the darkness, right?

  • @Tony-rh3pu

    @Tony-rh3pu

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cambridge5770 I think it does, never had it.

  • @mystickid5672

    @mystickid5672

    4 жыл бұрын

    @AnthonyLikesDinos yea it has a chance of dealing half a heart in pitch black. It even has a special message if it kills you

  • @hunterlepore5184

    @hunterlepore5184

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ya #Brick Theatre

  • @doraboysother7586

    @doraboysother7586

    4 жыл бұрын

    It doesmstab you

  • @spoobini
    @spoobini4 ай бұрын

    This was my first Game Theory. I appreciate Matpat's service to youtube, happy to see him retire on such a high note

  • @TheNarwhalGasper

    @TheNarwhalGasper

    4 ай бұрын

    sounds like we're all going through the rewinds :')

  • @williamklemp3764

    @williamklemp3764

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@TheNarwhalGasper I've made it my goal to go back and watch every theory video on every channel to honor the guy. As an OG watcher, I feel it's my duty to add to this mans watch minutes 😂 I'm glad to see I'm not the only one 😁

  • @rhananane

    @rhananane

    3 ай бұрын

    This was also my first game theory

  • @diddleysquin
    @diddleysquin4 ай бұрын

    With the announcement of Matpat's retirement I couldn't resist coming back and re-watching the first *new* Game Theory episode I saw.

  • @allusiondreams09
    @allusiondreams095 жыл бұрын

    2013 was a very, *very* different time.

  • @Error0101

    @Error0101

    5 жыл бұрын

    And I loved it

  • @geronimoose_3047

    @geronimoose_3047

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ya

  • @plumpo4047

    @plumpo4047

    5 жыл бұрын

    A simpler time...

  • @siriusPuwu

    @siriusPuwu

    5 жыл бұрын

    Before Fnaf, a good time

  • @dorithot3895

    @dorithot3895

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@siriusPuwu before YT drama. 2013 was so good.

  • @lsolasagna642
    @lsolasagna6424 жыл бұрын

    *When I was a kid I got so attached to a rock that when my mom said to go throw it outside I started crying*

  • @felobatirmoheb4884

    @felobatirmoheb4884

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yo... I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE!

  • @sneez6748

    @sneez6748

    4 жыл бұрын

    Eyy I was the same only mine was a snail shell

  • @tinyflyingdragons9432

    @tinyflyingdragons9432

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tomato

  • @rehehehehehe4525

    @rehehehehehe4525

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dang you guys were lonely

  • @shadow_shine3578

    @shadow_shine3578

    4 жыл бұрын

    My mom let me keep the cooler or less normal looking rocks as long as I didn't make a mess or break something.

  • @letterh9900
    @letterh99003 жыл бұрын

    “Lonely people are much more likely to believe inanimate objects have emotions and feelings” 5 year old me: pain

  • @cl570
    @cl5703 жыл бұрын

    >talks about how the cube gives him legitimate advice that saves him and chell's lives >forgets that he's a schizophrenic and that these people with debilitating schizophrenia hear voices, some individuals may actually be able to talk to them and receive knowledgeable answers, and that rattmann is also a genius.

  • @khilleor2613
    @khilleor26134 жыл бұрын

    I miss this style of animation with the simple, chibi-ish animations.

  • @leetheyeen

    @leetheyeen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rest in Peace, Ronnie

  • @GameyRaccoon

    @GameyRaccoon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@leetheyeen yeah it sucks :(

  • @scoonie6186

    @scoonie6186

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Connor Jacob i think the old editor committed suicide....

  • @ultimategotea

    @ultimategotea

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scoonie6186 he did

  • @ZombieGuy2401

    @ZombieGuy2401

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was Ronnie's editing style. God rest his soul

  • @simonedaishi5290
    @simonedaishi52905 жыл бұрын

    the oracle turret seems more sentient than the others "I'm different" ❤️

  • @NTR-dv5ut

    @NTR-dv5ut

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ender Shadow10 Elaborate please

  • @NexTheForgettable

    @NexTheForgettable

    5 жыл бұрын

    AKA Profit Turret and Wise Turret (My bro told be this)

  • @klein2042

    @klein2042

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not as much as the defective turrets though

  • @rockyprotector8815

    @rockyprotector8815

    5 жыл бұрын

    It might really be sentient

  • @SoulFoxie

    @SoulFoxie

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's NOT sentient,as it quite literally says each time you see it,it's simply just different,a defective turret yes,but it's one that lived since you hadn't messed with the turret redemption line yet for it to be properly scraped,so while NO it's not sentient it is,as it says indeed programmed differently than the REST of the normal turrets,instead this turret,ending up with a defective AI personality and it knows all this stuff,such as "Get Mad!" "Don't make lemonade" "Her name is Caroline" "The Answer is Beneath us" and the Prometheus proverb.And if you didn't believe this,then it's definitely sealed with the fact that if you let the turret talk 1 more time after speaking all its lines you'll notice it says "That's all I can say" meaning it can't say most things that a turret normally can but instead says all the stuff that it does,and since it doesn't shoot subjects it's considered defective just in a clearly different tube at the time we first see it)

  • @sfoliver
    @sfoliver3 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else watching this after the newest Portal theory

  • @brettcowgill3830

    @brettcowgill3830

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me

  • @Cyan37

    @Cyan37

    3 жыл бұрын

    yup.

  • @easilygears9447

    @easilygears9447

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea

  • @jiyeh31

    @jiyeh31

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me!!

  • @lebranjames8163

    @lebranjames8163

    3 жыл бұрын

    Meeee

  • @lindseydean3568
    @lindseydean35682 ай бұрын

    The first theory video I ever watched back in 2013. Congrats on retirement Mattpatt.

  • @maaliwilson7939
    @maaliwilson79397 жыл бұрын

    "People who are seperated are most likely to believe inanimate objects have feelings." *Looks at stuffed Lion* Courage did you lie to me for ten whole years or is it because I lost part of my brain?

  • @aliceliddell8413

    @aliceliddell8413

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have a lot of Stuffed Tigers :'D

  • @Homieman-nz6si

    @Homieman-nz6si

    7 жыл бұрын

    i have lots of stuffed wolves...i realy realy love wolves

  • @jodiwilleby7396

    @jodiwilleby7396

    7 жыл бұрын

    Homieman 2015 ILOVE WOLFS TO!!!

  • @Homieman-nz6si

    @Homieman-nz6si

    7 жыл бұрын

    YAY!!!

  • @zircobyte

    @zircobyte

    7 жыл бұрын

    @homieman 2015 I have loved wolves for so long not even my parents can remember when the obsession started!!! WOLF PACK BROS!!!

  • @WyoteCoyote
    @WyoteCoyote7 жыл бұрын

    There's something oddly nostalgic about Matt's old microphone and absence of FNaF.

  • @Khris_HeimdallDetachment

    @Khris_HeimdallDetachment

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it really is

  • @exoticpotatogenesisumbrella

    @exoticpotatogenesisumbrella

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hatless ? Ye

  • @mileshopkins2279

    @mileshopkins2279

    6 жыл бұрын

    Theory time?

  • @HG-mj9ow

    @HG-mj9ow

    6 жыл бұрын

    So I'm not the only one!

  • @joaogabrielemilianodasilva6917

    @joaogabrielemilianodasilva6917

    6 жыл бұрын

    Neither me

  • @FreeFilastin
    @FreeFilastin4 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: terraria's companion cubes screams when we drop it into lava.

  • @dream_walker9726

    @dream_walker9726

    2 жыл бұрын

    They also have a chance of stabbing you when in the dark :)

  • @iGoNorth

    @iGoNorth

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did you test this:(

  • @CristataArt
    @CristataArt2 жыл бұрын

    This theory terrified me as a kid and I've literally never even played Portal. At the time I probably hadn't even watched it.

  • @ivy67767

    @ivy67767

    Жыл бұрын

    Ditto. Game theory was THE go-to horror for me as a kid. The theories related to portal, mario, binding of isaac, etc. absolutely horrified me. He was my primary source of childhood horror trauma. It changed me. I stopped watching when he got to fnaf as I didn’t like the jumpscares he would include in his videos

  • @Aaron78871

    @Aaron78871

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@ivy67767kzread.infogaming/emoji/7ff574f2/emoji_u1f913.png

  • @mistercode3346

    @mistercode3346

    9 ай бұрын

    If you haven't, PLAY PORTAL. (And the Sequel)

  • @pixelizedsunset
    @pixelizedsunset6 жыл бұрын

    Any Portal fans still out there? edit: i didn't realize this comment would get so popular a year after i posted it, here i am trying to watch an edit of the Veggietale's cover for "Walk Like an Egyptian" and i just see my notification bell ring and go "oh no" *"not again"*

  • @Jack-dt7rw

    @Jack-dt7rw

    5 жыл бұрын

    me

  • @Imilmano

    @Imilmano

    5 жыл бұрын

    yup

  • @peterrusselcardinal14

    @peterrusselcardinal14

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeeeee

  • @madikat3909

    @madikat3909

    5 жыл бұрын

    Right here

  • @doomsdei4099

    @doomsdei4099

    5 жыл бұрын

    rEEEEEE

  • @hibilbo4755
    @hibilbo47555 жыл бұрын

    I just realised that the start of Still Alive plays when you destroy a cube

  • @inkfae9916

    @inkfae9916

    5 жыл бұрын

    Then the cube isn’t still alive

  • @flooferjay3245

    @flooferjay3245

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really, in Portal 2 the companion cube in chamber... 17? Sings a song. Forgot what it was.

  • @cosmicpotato3849

    @cosmicpotato3849

    4 жыл бұрын

    Floofer Jay I believe you can search up ‘companion cube song’, it’s a slowed down 8-bit version of Cara Mia. (I know I’m late)

  • @vallore.arcana

    @vallore.arcana

    4 жыл бұрын

    NOOO

  • @shadowdagger6546
    @shadowdagger65463 жыл бұрын

    4:05 they could just mean you "killed" something chell thought of as a sibling so loved it so much yet three it in fire.

  • @codaboi138
    @codaboi138 Жыл бұрын

    I've always loved this theory and I consider it canon. It sounds just like Aperture to recycle failed/dead test subjects into empty cubes. The cubes atleast weigh as much as chell, seeing as they are the only two things in the game that can depress a button. Why go through the effort of dumping dead test subjects in a fire pit and filling cubes with raw material to weigh them down when you can kill two birds with one stone and dump those bodies that weigh the right amount into cubes? At the end of the test the cube gets fried anyways, so it really solves the problem.

  • @LEAKEDRECORDS

    @LEAKEDRECORDS

    Жыл бұрын

    My headcannon is that the reason there are no dead bodies is that GLaDOS incinerated them all and turned them into cake

  • @codaboi138

    @codaboi138

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LEAKEDRECORDS hahaha that's pretty twisted. If that's true, glados is far more evil than I suspected. I sorta like that idea.

  • @cat-5761

    @cat-5761

    5 ай бұрын

    normal cubes weigh as much as chell too

  • @ZomifiedHam
    @ZomifiedHam9 жыл бұрын

    There is one massive problem with the theory this video presents. It claims near the end that the reason the companion cube is never put in a situation where it can be emancipated is because it is filled with bodies, and if it were emancipated, the body would drop to the floor. however, it is actually put through that situation, and body does not drop. now that i have gotten your attention, the real problem, and possibly more horrific theory. What if the cubes are just regular sentient? The noise when it is emancipated is clearly completely digital. I've seen some of the suggestions for what the cube says, and heard several different things. the beginning of the noise is part of the old aperture science theme, the end sounds like a stuttering glitch. in the middle, **I can hear "Get it out of me" not a human voice, but a digital one. **may not be correct, it is warbled. Completely changes the mindset. The Cube itself could be as sentient as Atlas or P-body. Atlas and P-body are the only two robots ever made to be able to pass the tests, and clearly are actually sentient. when one dies, it's memories are uploaded into a new one, but never more than one. Is Aperture science actually able to program robots with sentience? GLaDOS is an amazing example of their ability to do this, Oh wait, GLaDOS is actually the personality of Caroline. They are capable of transferring Human sentience into digital form. GLaDOS is removed from her body (the whole of aperture science) and placed into a potato. when this happens, the body is uninhabited. Why? because they cannot copy-paste her personality. they can't even actually delete it. this is remarkably similar to Atlas and P-Body. they only ever inhabit one of their (many) bodies. now, Atlas is made of an old Personality Core. those two words should have tipped you off if you got this far. Wheatly was able to take over Aperture in place of GLaDOS. if he were a simple bit of programming, he wouldn't have been able to even consider it. But he was able to, because Wheatly used to be a test subject. GLaDOS was human at one point, and as i said earlier, was uploaded into a potato. it's not just likely that Wheatly is a test subject, it's almost certain. Wheatly is sentient, and the dumbest Personality Core, Personality Cores are sentient, Atlas is a Core, P-body is as smart as Atlas, P-body is a Turret. now, I lead up to P-body being a turret, but I do not think that turrets are sentient. once again, GLaDOS was put in a potato. you can pretty much put a sentient being into anything with electrical charge, so Turrets aren't necessarily sentient. but Cubes are. the Cubes are where they put a test subject's sentience so that it can be tested on later, or in case the subject dies. there's a lot of dead subjects, so there's a lot of Companion Cubes.

  • @ZomifiedHam

    @ZomifiedHam

    9 жыл бұрын

    I will probably elaborate if i get the time.

  • @aze4996

    @aze4996

    9 жыл бұрын

    The only issue with this is that GLADoS specifically contradicts this. She says that Wheatley was the Morality Core that they attempted to use to make her stupid and keep her under control. She specifically states that Wheatley was /created/ to make her stupid. Granted, she isn't always the most trustworthy, but when she says this, it isn't being said to Chell, who receives a fair bit of deception. Instead, this is being said to Wheatley, and as this is some of the most emotion we see from GLADoS, we can tell it is /personal/, and therefore, most likely true. I prefer the 'dead / dying / injured / failed' test subject in a cube theory. If you listen closely the cube does not say 'Get it out of me', it says 'Get me out of here'. The digital distortion can easily be explained as the human's voice being altered by the act of being fizzled as well as the voice being altered by the cube itself. Think of speaking in a wind tunnel-- your voice changes. In a cave? Voice changes. It could easily be a case of voice changing materials lining the box to trick listeners into thinking it's an AI should the subject speak, as well as the fact that the people in the box are being fizzled while they're crying out; those are two theories that are practical and possible. With the amount of waste and unpractical practices found in Aperture, trying to cover up the voices with a voice changer rather than just putting normal weight in the cube makes a lot of sense. (By unpractical, think of the scenes in Portal 2 where we meet the Different/Prometheus turret. There are boxes in which turrets are being assembled, boxed, then directly unboxed and disassembled. Not to mention the tubes that send everything flying-- everywhere-- without any specific destination. It's usually luck that you get anything sent anywhere at all when using them, and a lot of it seems to be worthless trash-- which doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're going to install expensive suction tubes like that, why not actually use it right?) The way that GLADoS taunts us in Portal 1 after incinerating our brother/sister test subject in a box and after she fizzles the others ("I think that one was about to say I love you," specifically) tells us a lot about them. As the video states, she implies that, as she is untrustworthy, they /can/ speak, /should/ be listened to... but if she says they /cannot/ speak and be ignored, /why/ would she /ever/ allude to one being about to say anything, let alone "I love you"? Sure, it could be a way to provide emotional torment, but I think it's something more. I think she fizzled it because she was afraid of Chell listening to, getting attached to, or coming close to figuring out what the Companion Cubes really are. This makes a lot of sense, especially when Doug Rattman survived so long by listening to his; his schizophrenia may have been mild / under control while there, and what he perceived as a manifestation of it could very well have simply been the person in his cube talking. If, at some point, they died, his schizophrenia could have taken over at that point. Or, as another comment mentioned, he (Rattman) did create what seems to have been the first one while in a room of dead people. GLADoS could very well have taken the hint from him "bringing back the dead" as a simple way to dispose of all the dead / dying / injured / unsuitable test subjects; no fuss, no muss. She would have seen him speaking to the cube and getting answers back (or seeming to) and gotten the idea to tell Chell (and any other subjects that may have encountered them) to ignore them because they can't talk. There's a lot of wiggle room for conspiracies and theories in this game. There are just too many unsettling, but well-hidden, little mentions. Certainly, Valve could have intended 'fratricide' to mean something as simple as the companion cube having been like a sibling to you due to the lack of human contact. An odd choice of words, but certainly nothing to really notice or think about, seemingly. While the game as a whole is PG, there are disturbing little secrets that we can easily pull out and examine. For instance, the companion cube hidden away as an achievement, plugged into the same kind of port that Wheatley attempted to access, and that allows control of the facility. Is it not possible that this was a last ditch attempt to have someone human access the mainframe and wrest control from GLADoS? There are a lot of theories that could crop up about that little tidbit so I'll leave that one alone, but all things considered, there are a lot of things about Companion Cubes that just don't add up. While it's all well and good to conspire about things, let's all keep in mind that it is in good fun. Granted, the next time I re-play Portal 1 and 2, I'm going to be keeping a closer eye on the companion cubes I encounter... I still wonder, you know, why, in Portal 2, chamber 7, I didn't bring my cube to the lift on the first playthrough. I instinctively knew that just because the grill was down it was unlikely that GLADoS would allow it. In fact, I felt paranoid that she would do /something/, so better that I leave my cube in a safe place, and hope to revisit it someday. I wonder what the significance of /that/ is, and whether I doomed a virtual person to die of dehydration and starvation in a tiny, cramped little cube.

  • @ZomifiedHam

    @ZomifiedHam

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** *GLaDOS I'm not sure you read all the way through. try it again, this time reading it, instead of skipping around. If there were bodies in the cubes, that would mean that the grids were capable of destroying bodies, which asks why GLaDOS would never use that to just kill Chell immediately when she wanted to. the bodies are still in the 'motel boxes' at the start of Portal 2. if not, then GLaDOS is really stupid. have you ever heard of splitting a personality? Red Vs. Blue covers that suprisingly well. if you do not get that reference, imagine all of the personality cores as different parts of a single brain.(which they are.) when you combine them, it makes one coherent person. one person that was split up into a bunch of cores. one of those cores was stupid enough to dull Caroline, but they couldn't just add a stupid person to it. they had to seperate the part of the mind that was ignorance. in the process, they made many more, like the Fact Core, and the Cake Recipe Core, and the Anger Core, and Space Core. there is no way they could program individual personalities, much less ones specifically driven by one part of the mind. that is what she meant by 'created'. not only that, Wheatley isn't a 'Morality' core. he is an Ignorance Core. If the cubes were filled with the bodies of subjects, why put living ones in? it's a waste of testing subject, and one part of the storyline (part of the main quest and the entire point behind multiplayer) is that they are running out of them. Portal 2 takes place specifically when literally every other testing subject has been dead for more than hundreds of years. Chell is the only survivor. Read the Rattman comic. if that is so, how could GLaDOS have had living subjects to put into cubes at the time we actually see one cry out for help? 'Practical'? no. 'Possible'? no. I prefer a theory that actually fits into the lore, has common sense, and doesn't contradict itself. PostScript: If you are trying to use _Italics_ , you are sadly mistaken.

  • @ZomifiedHam

    @ZomifiedHam

    9 жыл бұрын

    in case the last one was too long, heres the important bit; If the cubes were filled with the bodies of subjects, why put living ones in? it's a waste of testing subject, and one part of the storyline (part of the main quest and the entire point behind multiplayer) is that they are running out of them. Portal 2 takes place specifically when literally every other testing subject has been dead for more than hundreds of years. Chell is the only survivor. Read the Rattman comic. if that is so, how could GLaDOS have had living subjects to put into cubes at the time we actually see one cry out for help? 'Practical'? no. 'Possible'? no. _-Italics is sweet when you can use it-_

  • @AzureRoxe

    @AzureRoxe

    9 жыл бұрын

    ZomifiedHam Finally someone with brains.

  • @janeoathdragon5793
    @janeoathdragon57934 жыл бұрын

    Ya know I never really realized how much the show has changed over the years until just now when I saw the graphics of the old intro and heard Matpat's not as energetic intro. So much improvement and change over the years and I still love it

  • @Pat-3

    @Pat-3

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jane OathDragon and the mic quality

  • @qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755

    @qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755

    3 жыл бұрын

    His personality has gone worse

  • @jostewart3192

    @jostewart3192

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755 😂 then leave

  • @qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755

    @qwertyqqwweerrttyy9755

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jostewart3192 I already did???

  • @asmrtpop2676

    @asmrtpop2676

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope by now he’s learned bisexuals exist. This video was SO cringe when he said Ratman can’t find both men and women attractive. Whut

  • @brenna2939
    @brenna29392 ай бұрын

    This was the first ever game theory I watched. I'm rewatching it again before Mat's final theory video drops. Thank you Matpat for shaping my childhood and how I look at games

  • @rhofman1958

    @rhofman1958

    2 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @Dekko-chan
    @Dekko-chan3 жыл бұрын

    When game theory was still scary.

  • @HarpyPumpkin
    @HarpyPumpkin4 жыл бұрын

    My theory: The companion cube has cake inside.

  • @cookingclassforkids1742

    @cookingclassforkids1742

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pepper Love yes

  • @andrewmesser2203

    @andrewmesser2203

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol you're awesome

  • @mnint7779

    @mnint7779

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or stale cake

  • @not7170

    @not7170

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cake = lie Cake + companion cube = lie cube

  • @juliansweet6962

    @juliansweet6962

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Random_account444 no

  • @puretoast5625
    @puretoast56255 жыл бұрын

    Lol who’s watching this in 2019 and hoping Matpat makes a new portal theory (Edit: Yes, I saw he made a new one, I am subscribed to the channel also, and you are by no means the first to point this out to me.)

  • @saltyred5973

    @saltyred5973

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me XD

  • @nightfalcon8580

    @nightfalcon8580

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me

  • @papastalin5263

    @papastalin5263

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me lol

  • @totoret5197

    @totoret5197

    5 жыл бұрын

    A la verga

  • @Paul-oz5se

    @Paul-oz5se

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me hahahaha

  • @Cherry_Lane12
    @Cherry_Lane123 жыл бұрын

    I feel like the phycology of all this a way of saying I'm too attached to stuffed animals

  • @MyepicgamezOFFICAL

    @MyepicgamezOFFICAL

    3 жыл бұрын

    I really am insane

  • @Shawn-hk1ud
    @Shawn-hk1ud3 жыл бұрын

    7:15 MatPat you gotta update this theory, man. It’s 2020, Ratman might’ve been bisexual.

  • @prinxen1733

    @prinxen1733

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Agreed

  • @standardhuman8675

    @standardhuman8675

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought he meant that the cube would only be viewed as one gender. So the takeaway is that the cube is genderfluid

  • @aqz7603

    @aqz7603

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think he may be trying to say that objectum sexual individuals associate their inanimate object of affection with 1 gender. I am not sure as his wording is iffy at best and I could not find any substantial research on this nor do I feel like combing through pages upon pages of documents and studies.

  • @E.S.A.M

    @E.S.A.M

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even if he was bisexual he still going to prefer one gender.

  • @jackreaper1873

    @jackreaper1873

    Жыл бұрын

    Or you know not everything has to be bisexuell?

  • @Kennylotl
    @Kennylotl4 жыл бұрын

    this popped into my recommended for whatever reason, and baby matpat sounds so different

  • @cardiacwinner6655

    @cardiacwinner6655

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably because he didn't have the equitment he has today. also 9 HOURS AGO

  • @Artuchu

    @Artuchu

    3 жыл бұрын

    baby pat

  • @mehkook

    @mehkook

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably the mic quality

  • @evankuee5143

    @evankuee5143

    3 жыл бұрын

    Playing it in 1.25x speed helps

  • @fate5636

    @fate5636

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same lol

  • @amrumo8547
    @amrumo85477 жыл бұрын

    Wait, but the reason the achievement said "fratricide" could be because the box was your only friend. When you and someone are very close, they feel like a brother or sister to you, which could be what prompted the name of the achievement.

  • @amrumo8547

    @amrumo8547

    7 жыл бұрын

    But hey, it's just a theory! A GAME THEORY! THANKS FOR WATCHING!

  • @raphaelbenotman598

    @raphaelbenotman598

    7 жыл бұрын

    +2besties you mean reading

  • @oPureDeath

    @oPureDeath

    7 жыл бұрын

    Maybe if he hadn't presented loads of other arguments for his case this would disprove it

  • @schildiish

    @schildiish

    7 жыл бұрын

    I actually got a proof that the theory is wrong... The theory is very well thought BUT in the ending of Portal 2 coop playthrough there is the credits scene where glados is scanning many persons in boxes and also turrets and cores. Every time organic material comes in it displays it on the screen and when something like wheatly or a normal cube comes in the is a question mark for "organic material not found" there was even the companion cube scanned and there wasn't a curled person in there. So there are 3 possibilitys now. First the cube is really empty and this one guy got mad and just thought it spoke. secondly the cube is somehow resistant against the scanner not reveiling it's inside OR there are also empty cubes not used yet

  • @thatstasty3605

    @thatstasty3605

    7 жыл бұрын

    i think theres enough evidence for it to be true

  • @MarcymooNG
    @MarcymooNG4 ай бұрын

    coming back just to say this is what introduced me to you, love you Matpat, be safe in all your future endeavors

  • @pinata1kid
    @pinata1kid4 ай бұрын

    After watching the latest GT video, i'm all the way back where i started. This video and this video ALONE got me into (arguably) one of the best games to this day. I have nobody to thank but you.

  • @danielarcaris9195
    @danielarcaris91954 жыл бұрын

    "Basic Skills tests..." Pythagorean theorem assaults the screen.

  • @iGoNorth

    @iGoNorth

    Жыл бұрын

    It's easy

  • @danpavelko8414
    @danpavelko84144 жыл бұрын

    The companion cubes were indeed former employees of Aperture Science. However, the cubes did not contain any physical remains, just the former person's consciousness, or their "soul" if you'd prefer. Part of the overall plot that seems to get overlooked and is IMHO one of the more important ideas to understanding the story, are Cave Johnson's later experiments. He had been working on a way to impart consciousness on non living creations, eventually succeeding and moving Caroline's mind into GLaDOS so that she could continue his work after his own untimely death.

  • @NotAnAlternate1337

    @NotAnAlternate1337

    4 жыл бұрын

    +

  • @clamdove3292

    @clamdove3292

    3 жыл бұрын

    do you have a source for the second sentence?

  • @_TheGoodStuff_

    @_TheGoodStuff_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clamdove3292 Cave literally states himself in portal 2 that they have been trying to move brains into machines

  • @danpavelko8414

    @danpavelko8414

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clamdove3292 No, sorry. Just speculation based upon evidence of everything else surrounding it. If the cubes are conscious, which you can tell is more than simply a joke based upon their terrible screaming when destroyed, it stands to reason that the mind or 'soul' held in that cube would have been taken from a living person to which GLaDOS (or somebody else in the facility) would have had access. The only candidates that seem to fit in this group would either be the former employees of Aperture, the former missing test subjects, or both... So although the story doesn't explicitly state that its the case, there is strong evidence pointing in that direction.

  • @lolbitsmallground8951

    @lolbitsmallground8951

    3 жыл бұрын

    Um... what are you all even saying... I clearly don't speak genius...

  • @youtubesucks2112
    @youtubesucks21123 жыл бұрын

    Who knew that in about a year this channel would become extremely popular, more so that Matpat could imagine.

  • @Hanzoooo
    @Hanzoooo3 жыл бұрын

    9:24 "GET ME OUT OF THIS BOX!"

  • @TheSalemiLid
    @TheSalemiLid5 жыл бұрын

    NOTE. The sound that contains 'help me' ACTUALLY comes from Portal 1, when you fizzle the radio. And yes, I did that multiple times.

  • @rehehehehehe4525

    @rehehehehehe4525

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sentient Radios

  • @thespy5816

    @thespy5816

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know

  • @thespy5816

    @thespy5816

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait the radios are sentient?! This changes everything!!!!

  • @allenholloway5109

    @allenholloway5109

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, given the role of the radios in other things, that might have something to do with Ratman.

  • @maybeuchuu
    @maybeuchuu9 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the reason you get an achievement called "Fratricide" is because it was the only "family" Chell had. The only thing to hold onto. The only thing that wasn't trying to kill her. WAHHHH *crying* It's so sad... TT_TT

  • @1sonicthe

    @1sonicthe

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, i thinked the same thing

  • @maybeuchuu

    @maybeuchuu

    9 жыл бұрын

    1sonicthe Thought, lol.

  • @1sonicthe

    @1sonicthe

    9 жыл бұрын

    imah brazilian, lol

  • @maybeuchuu

    @maybeuchuu

    9 жыл бұрын

    1sonicthe Why does this matter?

  • @1sonicthe

    @1sonicthe

    9 жыл бұрын

    yes, peaple in brazil, speak portuguese

  • @mrfoxfam562
    @mrfoxfam5622 жыл бұрын

    oddly specific when GLaDOS said “the companion cube will never threaten to stab you”

  • @p0nop4nda65
    @p0nop4nda652 жыл бұрын

    Hey did you know they added that “in case of implosion look directly at implosion” sign because beta testers would walk away instantly after cutting the neurotoxin tubes instead of looking at the implosion

  • @ivirrel2043
    @ivirrel20437 жыл бұрын

    During the sound clip where G.L.A.D.O.S destroys the companion cube I heard "Wait!! No!! Get me out!!!! Help me!!!! Please!!!!!!"

  • @jacktarwater3050

    @jacktarwater3050

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Diamond Master same!

  • @brikoerner4153

    @brikoerner4153

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Diamond Master same

  • @oldchannellolz6086

    @oldchannellolz6086

    7 жыл бұрын

    The sound is of the radio being destroyed, not the cube.

  • @RennyKelvy

    @RennyKelvy

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Diamond Master same

  • @justaperson4656

    @justaperson4656

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Diamond Master I heard "Get me out of here!"

  • @mr._.mav792
    @mr._.mav7927 жыл бұрын

    why is it that every time Mattpat puts on the creepy static music I feel like the grudge and the babadook are gonna have a baby then send it after me?

  • @-ijplus-1223

    @-ijplus-1223

    7 жыл бұрын

    babadook was a good movie

  • @-ijplus-1223

    @-ijplus-1223

    7 жыл бұрын

    it was tho

  • @zac6548

    @zac6548

    7 жыл бұрын

    I

  • @charajones2253

    @charajones2253

    7 жыл бұрын

    Good point

  • @QueenOfZPlebsYay

    @QueenOfZPlebsYay

    7 жыл бұрын

    Eric Staley meh 2

  • @SilverGrouwlABYSS
    @SilverGrouwlABYSS4 ай бұрын

    Here along with everyone else to rewatch the first ever Game Theory I ever watched. 10 long years, I’ll miss you MatPat ❤️

  • @chef_dude
    @chef_dude2 жыл бұрын

    In portal 2, it shows that the cubes have stuff inside of them besides bodies when Wheatly opens them up to show circuits and stuff And everything inside of Aperature can be described as setinent, from the turrets to the cubes to even Atlas and P-body who share a brotherly bond that even Glados isn't able to control

  • @hekkensnatser
    @hekkensnatser8 жыл бұрын

    Anyone who says that something is not true and then says "in case it does" I distrust immediately.

  • @shaydes-

    @shaydes-

    8 жыл бұрын

    +It's a Llama 100% true thinking Llama

  • @That0therG

    @That0therG

    8 жыл бұрын

    +It's a Llama so what about the safety messages on airplanes

  • @hekkensnatser

    @hekkensnatser

    8 жыл бұрын

    GraemexIrwinator I've never been on an airplane, but i'm pretty sure they don't say "There is no possibility of a crash. But if it does happen..."

  • @TheNesSpire

    @TheNesSpire

    8 жыл бұрын

    +It's a Llama Lol they actually do say something like that

  • @musicmore9167

    @musicmore9167

    8 жыл бұрын

    no, one time i was in a plane with TURBULENCE so bad they said 'there is no possibility of a crash.' but then turbulence dropped us 30-35 ft yeah. it wasn't like slowly dropping 30-35 ft more like the floor going down.

  • @naranciaghirga4681
    @naranciaghirga46816 жыл бұрын

    before: its a cube 10:42:exactly after:its a cube

  • @roland3110

    @roland3110

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kainan Smith aop

  • @elijags2922

    @elijags2922

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alejandro Roche no the cake is a lie

  • @wruzzer

    @wruzzer

    5 жыл бұрын

    NO! I believe Glados! She told me in the end there will be cake! I want this cake! :(

  • @josiahhab1148
    @josiahhab11483 жыл бұрын

    Who else is here from the new Game theory episode also don’t you just love food theory

  • @jackindustriesrevamp
    @jackindustriesrevamp4 ай бұрын

    Man Matt patt has gotten WAAAAAY better in his research and his music choices. For example when he was talking about the "fizzle sound of the cube" it was actually the radio fizzle sound, Not the companion cube. Also the music in this video is weird. Glad he has gotten better!

  • @tomshere8388
    @tomshere83886 жыл бұрын

    When you look close, Portal's a pretty creepy game.

  • @Scumthecicada

    @Scumthecicada

    6 жыл бұрын

    TomsHere ya it is but not as much as fallout 😱😱😨😨

  • @devonmaple8522

    @devonmaple8522

    6 жыл бұрын

    Scumthecicada 1022 is there a theory for that?

  • @NNightmareWelcomeEnjoy

    @NNightmareWelcomeEnjoy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Every Valve game is if you look closely. Are they trying to say something?

  • @average7557

    @average7557

    5 жыл бұрын

    no... you only think its creepy game but this game is in video called ''TOP 10 GAMES YOU CAN PLAY WHEN YOU ARE SAD'' or something

  • @NNightmareWelcomeEnjoy

    @NNightmareWelcomeEnjoy

    5 жыл бұрын

    aida09, What are you talking about? He is definitely not the only one that thinks this game is creepy. Have you even played them before?

  • @HelloGeneric
    @HelloGeneric10 жыл бұрын

    That cry for help gave me chills....

  • @Watto22

    @Watto22

    10 жыл бұрын

    Damn me to, portal seems like a horror now

  • @NinjaGamerGurl

    @NinjaGamerGurl

    10 жыл бұрын

    Me too, the help me would have been enough to scare me, but then they had to add the metal clang sounds, and just like you said da ba, like a horror movie.

  • @cellardoor7609

    @cellardoor7609

    10 жыл бұрын

    da ba portal 2 is worse with rattman's ghost behind EVERY FREAKING WALL THAT HE WROTE ON

  • @hipstercatemz2383

    @hipstercatemz2383

    9 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't hear the cry for help...

  • @zakstamaj

    @zakstamaj

    9 жыл бұрын

    dude I heard it, its like a HELP! its faint, but its there.

  • @someone-vi1vy
    @someone-vi1vy3 жыл бұрын

    I'm almost 100% sure that in portal 2 there's no emancipation grid at the exit of the chamber with the companion cube because valve knows that a lot of people love the companion cube and they wanted to give you a false sense of accomplishment.

  • @modocrisma2
    @modocrisma23 жыл бұрын

    This video is giving me major nostalgia... Life used to be so simple... so enjoyable...

  • @roo.pzz4380

    @roo.pzz4380

    5 ай бұрын

    how’s it going

  • @zakash613
    @zakash6138 жыл бұрын

    The cubes are more than "MEATS" the eye! Ba Dam CHSHHH

  • @xxcutielabradorxx9136

    @xxcutielabradorxx9136

    8 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @AnthonyChannel13

    @AnthonyChannel13

    8 жыл бұрын

    That was so bad it´s hilarious

  • @CREeperSCRAFTerX10

    @CREeperSCRAFTerX10

    7 жыл бұрын

    I get it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!...I don't get it.

  • @AnthonyChannel13

    @AnthonyChannel13

    7 жыл бұрын

    Creeperscrafterx10 It´s made of bodies... meaat... inside cubes... it MEATS the eye. It´s terribly good.

  • @CREeperSCRAFTerX10

    @CREeperSCRAFTerX10

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ital Ital

  • @casevanhouwelingen9172
    @casevanhouwelingen91725 жыл бұрын

    If you actually read the Doug Ratman comic, the voice of the cube goes away when he took the pills, because they made him sane

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    4 жыл бұрын

    While it’s not likely the cubes contained living people, if they were alive and able to give sound advice they would be more likely to be screaming to be released. But it doesn’t mean that the cures are not filled with people, and a person of unsound mind who knew or suspected the truth may just hallucinate conversations with people that may be in that cube.

  • @mmopronick7443

    @mmopronick7443

    4 жыл бұрын

    6 year old video, people still nitpick this stuff... Let it be ffs.

  • @danpavelko8414

    @danpavelko8414

    4 жыл бұрын

    Doug Rattman's character was created to make him appear more "insane" than he truly was

  • @PurpleColonel

    @PurpleColonel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dude the entire point is that he isnt really crazy, the world is.

  • @rabbitsurvivor1896

    @rabbitsurvivor1896

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ratman was schizophrenic.

  • @mrblahbah2522
    @mrblahbah25223 жыл бұрын

    jesus christ that mic is terrifying

  • @camdenguenther9344
    @camdenguenther93443 жыл бұрын

    0:09 KZread: DEMONETIZED!!!!

  • @mobilelegend2979

    @mobilelegend2979

    Жыл бұрын

    Demonetized its rill

  • @unspeaky

    @unspeaky

    9 ай бұрын

    2013 Matpat

  • @merucrypoison296

    @merucrypoison296

    8 ай бұрын

    He would never say something like that nowadays

  • @alyciaward3316
    @alyciaward33168 жыл бұрын

    This game just got even darker O_o

  • @lefleiner3408

    @lefleiner3408

    8 жыл бұрын

    It can't get darker than hl2beta

  • @alyciaward3316

    @alyciaward3316

    8 жыл бұрын

    true XD

  • @purplepixelsloves473

    @purplepixelsloves473

    8 жыл бұрын

    It was dark to begin with!!

  • @wasteprocyonid5168

    @wasteprocyonid5168

    8 жыл бұрын

    Who would've thought :l

  • @wasteprocyonid5168

    @wasteprocyonid5168

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Thank you x3

  • @casualsleepingdragon8501
    @casualsleepingdragon85014 жыл бұрын

    9:29 it sounded like it said "get him out of here!c Or maybe "let me out of here!"

  • @juliansweet6962

    @juliansweet6962

    4 жыл бұрын

    I hear it too

  • @themindboggler8055

    @themindboggler8055

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh god

  • @Asdf-wf6en
    @Asdf-wf6en3 жыл бұрын

    Wheatley says the turrets do feel pain. It’s simulated, but real to them.

  • @khakisohn9710
    @khakisohn97104 ай бұрын

    Coming back to my first ever matpat video... cant believe its been so long. Thank you for always having such a profound impact on my life and many, many others. Please stay well and happy no matter what you do. We love you, we will never forget you ❤️

  • @intelismynameandregretismy5541
    @intelismynameandregretismy55414 жыл бұрын

    The companion cube literally makes no noise in Portal 1, and makes the default disintegration noise in Portal 2. The noise you heard was the radio fizzling.

  • @queenfopsie5442

    @queenfopsie5442

    4 жыл бұрын

    It sings very softly in portal 2

  • @InfiniteThePhantomJackal

    @InfiniteThePhantomJackal

    3 жыл бұрын

    Besides, ain't the theory that it's supposed to be DEAD people in the cube? Neither Portal nor Half-Life exactly have anything _confirming_ ghosts exist in their universe, last I checked, so it's probably safe to assume they don't.

  • @benj5583

    @benj5583

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was a very distinct "help, get me out of here." I heard it in the first clip before he even said to listen to a voice. It was there, just buried very deep in static. you most likely just didn't hear it.

  • @kaibaby6335

    @kaibaby6335

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@InfiniteThePhantomJackal True but he also said dying. NOT dead yet. They can still scream but for how much longer. MWAHAHAHA

  • @Da-PaNtz-GuY

    @Da-PaNtz-GuY

    Жыл бұрын

    @@InfiniteThePhantomJackal bit late, but at the start of half life 2 if you go up to a small play area with swings, you can hear children laughing, obviously in reference to how the combine had put a suppression field over earth to stop reproduction. Im not sure if that scenario counts as a ghost sighting, but its pretty damn creepy and sad.

  • @ethanwilson7445
    @ethanwilson74458 жыл бұрын

    Plot Twist: The kids from FNaF are stuffed in the Companion Cube.

  • @megatiger78rules

    @megatiger78rules

    8 жыл бұрын

    Plot twist: the Guy who made FNAF was in the cube

  • @ethanwilson7445

    @ethanwilson7445

    8 жыл бұрын

    Plot Twist: You're in the cube.

  • @DouchebagDex

    @DouchebagDex

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ethan Wilson Plot Twist: The cube is in you.

  • @ethanwilson7445

    @ethanwilson7445

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Oh no.

  • @DouchebagDex

    @DouchebagDex

    8 жыл бұрын

    Nissi Awosanya But I'm a reptilian, not a cube!

  • @julioproductions8847
    @julioproductions88474 жыл бұрын

    "You can't fizzle companion cubes in Portal 2" *laughs in community test chambers*

  • @InfiniteThePhantomJackal

    @InfiniteThePhantomJackal

    3 жыл бұрын

    Two will always get Fizzled and you can get the third one Fizzled sooo

  • @South1229

    @South1229

    Жыл бұрын

    Laughs in sv_cheats 1

  • @thenetherdiamond3839
    @thenetherdiamond38393 жыл бұрын

    I love that my games I've played in the past have secret lore that i never knew.

  • @EpicTeachingOfHistory
    @EpicTeachingOfHistory7 жыл бұрын

    I'm scared now .___.

  • @EliotWearden

    @EliotWearden

    7 жыл бұрын

    me too .___.

  • @dylanlammerse4790

    @dylanlammerse4790

    7 жыл бұрын

    ._________.

  • @nlsluckyegg8771

    @nlsluckyegg8771

    7 жыл бұрын

    ._________________.

  • @kaitlynullmann2736

    @kaitlynullmann2736

    7 жыл бұрын

    ._______________________________________________.

  • @schildiish

    @schildiish

    7 жыл бұрын

    I actually got a proof that the theory is wrong... The theory is very well thought BUT in the ending of Portal 2 coop playthrough there is the credits scene where glados is scanning many persons in boxes and also turrets and cores. Every time organic material comes in it displays it on the screen and when something like wheatly or a normal cube comes in the is a question mark for "organic material not found" there was even the companion cube scanned and there wasn't a curled person in there. So there are 3 possibilitys now. First the cube is really empty and this one guy got mad and just thought it spoke. secondly the cube is somehow resistant against the scanner not reveiling it's inside OR there are also empty cubes not used yet

  • @matneptune
    @matneptune8 жыл бұрын

    9:15 With the companion cube scream, I couldn't hear anything else, but right at the end of it's "speech", I heard: "Get me out of here." Please reply and tell me if you heard that too, or deciphered the whole thing.

  • @jonaszilinskas7971

    @jonaszilinskas7971

    8 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @thez0mbiebooger244

    @thez0mbiebooger244

    8 жыл бұрын

    me to

  • @mipha8795

    @mipha8795

    8 жыл бұрын

    i cant decipher much, but i did hear a woman scream "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

  • @waynedodge9076

    @waynedodge9076

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Phoenix flame if it is verified a WOMAN, just like the video said, they are the ancestors of Chell.

  • @ggmrgameanddraw

    @ggmrgameanddraw

    7 жыл бұрын

    All I heard was 'Help me' maybe this is all in there? Hmmmmm......

  • @laethenglish1299
    @laethenglish12993 жыл бұрын

    The only problem is that the are no predecessors to Chell. She is the first and last test subject. We see this in the lab rat comic.

  • @Zylops
    @Zylops3 жыл бұрын

    The editing on this masterpiece is too good for 7 years ago

  • @demirb5179
    @demirb51797 жыл бұрын

    When I got my companion cube, I called it Chester the Molester.

  • @pestilenssi8979

    @pestilenssi8979

    7 жыл бұрын

    😅perfect name

  • @demirb5179

    @demirb5179

    7 жыл бұрын

    indeed XD

  • @wyvern5890

    @wyvern5890

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chester The Molester and Creepy Uncle Lester

  • @blakefinlay818

    @blakefinlay818

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rocket Alex XD

  • @demirb5179

    @demirb5179

    7 жыл бұрын

    puyfect

  • @sansgaming222
    @sansgaming2224 жыл бұрын

    At portal 2 when you send Weathley to space,glados will send you to the surface,and the corrupted companion cube

  • @thunderslug1066

    @thunderslug1066

    4 жыл бұрын

    woah its not as if thats *how the game ends*

  • @macabre_mess

    @macabre_mess

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thunder Slug106 LMAO

  • @Petah_Griffin
    @Petah_Griffin3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the reason why Doug ratmen said the cube was talking was because a human got very far in the test chambers but he almost died so Glados thought he was dead so she stored him in a cube and Doug came along and the man in the cube told him advice about the tests to help Doug survive

  • @dannyg9980
    @dannyg99803 жыл бұрын

    Intro: press start People on the 3ds: allow us to introduce ourselves

  • @localartisanal1623
    @localartisanal16239 жыл бұрын

    You know what I realized. In the first Portal, GLaDoS said that there were two other test subjects with the same last name as the main character who were said to be her parents. The companion cubes are made out of people right? Well in the end of Portal 2, a companion cube was given to the main character. What if the the companion cube has the body of her parents? What if they failed in the test and GLaDoS gave her her "present" in the end of it all, which was mentioned in the first Portal now re-mentioned again in the last Portal 2.

  • @dirkbot988

    @dirkbot988

    9 жыл бұрын

    i just realized something too, but it was a long time of remembering -even though i finished the game yesterday XD- but the companion cube was beat up. what if wheatley tried to destroy the companion cube, that her parents were inside of, or he just took his anger out on it while she kept on passing through every test. that's also my theory for why the cube came out a little beaten up. but maybe GLaDos also did the same -or it was her who caused the damage the whole time-

  • @Robert-pt6eb

    @Robert-pt6eb

    9 жыл бұрын

    I thought about portal theories for a long time too. If the cube did have people inside it, or body parts. Wouldn't the emancipation grill just disintegrate the cube and not the body therefore leaving the body on the ground? the grill only destroys objects that are not authorized to pass through it. Plus the player can pass through it as much as they want so wouldn't a body pass through it too? Does anybody else get what Im saying? Or do i sound crazy?

  • @max5pop708
    @max5pop7084 жыл бұрын

    Just came here cause jack started playing portal

  • @lb_anth0ny240

    @lb_anth0ny240

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too lol

  • @smolpotatoe

    @smolpotatoe

    4 жыл бұрын

    I see you too are like me

  • @dulguuntengisbatzorig4596

    @dulguuntengisbatzorig4596

    4 жыл бұрын

    me too

  • @clearlyethan978

    @clearlyethan978

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @EeveeTsusaky

    @EeveeTsusaky

    4 жыл бұрын

    We all came here for that reason xD

  • @pharohwraith
    @pharohwraith8 ай бұрын

    Old matpat: Hello, internet. Welcome to my channel. New matpat: HELLOOO, INTERNET. WELCOME TO GAME THEORYYYYYYY!

  • @BloodyFang5507
    @BloodyFang55073 жыл бұрын

    Since we're celebrating your 10 year anniversary, I'm re-watching the first theory I watched. Thanks for the past amazing 10 years, here's to at least 10 more!

  • @janNowa
    @janNowa7 жыл бұрын

    I've never gotten the hype around the companion cube. Wheatley has always been my favorite portal character.

  • @thames1880

    @thames1880

    7 жыл бұрын

    Milla Saunders ikr

  • @thames1880

    @thames1880

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wheatley is awesome

  • @thetroodon9482

    @thetroodon9482

    7 жыл бұрын

    wetly* y are you so mean glados my man cube has all of this

  • @sophiachen1377

    @sophiachen1377

    7 жыл бұрын

    I like GLaDOS :D

  • @draxez5139

    @draxez5139

    7 жыл бұрын

    gold the wolf wetly? lololol its Wheatley

  • @legomybacon8834
    @legomybacon88347 жыл бұрын

    if you play Lego Dimensions on the Portal 2 adventure map, hit one of the companion cubes, you find skeleton Lego pieces

  • @mosscap
    @mosscap Жыл бұрын

    congratulations, matpat. you are singlehandedly the reason i have childhood trauma of companion cubes xD

  • @seeyouinhaven601
    @seeyouinhaven6013 жыл бұрын

    dude 7 years ago memories

  • @DinoGoofHybridHero7531
    @DinoGoofHybridHero75319 жыл бұрын

    maybe portal 3 will explain all this

  • @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    9 жыл бұрын

    why?

  • @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    9 жыл бұрын

    r u kidding me then why is there real game play of it!?

  • @skyeXmist

    @skyeXmist

    9 жыл бұрын

    just like half life... there will be portal 3...

  • @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    9 жыл бұрын

    told ya

  • @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    @DinoGoofHybridHero7531

    9 жыл бұрын

    to be frank i don't have a clue what he means by just like half life :/

  • @johannestruppel7639
    @johannestruppel76397 жыл бұрын

    The voice of the cube is a psychological effect. Glados uses reversed psychology, to encourage hallucinations and watch the effects to you. You kow how Inane people tell you they are normal and maybe EVERYBODY else is insane? Thats it, when ratman writes "I´m not hallucinating. And finally, if you were crushed into a box and still be able to talk, wouldnt the first thing you say be "help, I was crushed into this box!"

  • @viewer9068

    @viewer9068

    6 жыл бұрын

    420

  • @jrutang3392

    @jrutang3392

    6 жыл бұрын

    I didn't understand anything both of you are saying but I still liked

  • @MamaCroc
    @MamaCroc3 жыл бұрын

    Love going back and watching oldgame theory. The science is still awesome. Sure the audio could be less rough but still amazing. And portal is a classic ^^

  • @baalrog887
    @baalrog8873 жыл бұрын

    Gosh, I remember these really old videos and poor audio quality, you don't notice it till you compare them to the new ones, long live theory

  • @notben8360
    @notben83604 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't GlaDos "fizzle" one and it doesn't contain a body.

  • @commenturthegreat2915

    @commenturthegreat2915

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes she does

  • @acherowyo7555

    @acherowyo7555

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah, the the grill itself of that level isn’t working. it’s played as a joke, that the player could maybe take the cube with them before glados destroys it, but the cube never goes through any grills

  • @joelcoates9985

    @joelcoates9985

    4 жыл бұрын

    My take is that the grill wouldn’t have the intelligence to dissolve both the crate and body as humans count as authorised. But glados does have the ability to dissolve both.

  • @timeddolphin3974

    @timeddolphin3974

    4 жыл бұрын

    Unless the grid was designed to fizzled DECAYING organic matter as well

  • @atomicmuffins6278

    @atomicmuffins6278

    4 жыл бұрын

    gladOS could have vaporised both the cube and the body becuase MEG (material emancipation grill) Would only let organic material or items that are meant for that specific test chamber all other things get vaporised. Since gladOS controlled everything before wheatly took over gladOS could have easily vaporised both the cube and the body.

  • @peterdietrich8810
    @peterdietrich88108 жыл бұрын

    NO! The turrets are sentient! And they all need hugs!

  • @sirblockepicmcswaggins5248

    @sirblockepicmcswaggins5248

    8 жыл бұрын

    Pete Detrick #HUGZ4TURRETZ

  • @yourlocalboatbuilder3574

    @yourlocalboatbuilder3574

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Pete Detrick yes

  • @ianpoytress446

    @ianpoytress446

    8 жыл бұрын

    true so true

  • @Flashyfox2001

    @Flashyfox2001

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Pete Detrick Remember to wear bullet proof armour when you hug them! QwQ I just want to protect to innocent little darlings. They are just misunderstood and should be loved! TwT

  • @peterdietrich8810

    @peterdietrich8810

    8 жыл бұрын

    FlashyFox2001 Just take the ammo out!

  • @zaknorris2653
    @zaknorris265310 ай бұрын

    I think the most interesting thing is that if the cubes ARE sentient then who is in the cube at the end of portal 2? Someone GLaDOS knows Chell cares about - maybe Caroline?

  • @Meepmorpthe3rd
    @Meepmorpthe3rd2 ай бұрын

    coming back to all the old videos I used to watch is seriously nostalgic :( I'm gonna miss matpat he was my childhood

  • @very_much
    @very_much9 жыл бұрын

    I feel that a lot of the evidence you presented here is pretty superficial. Here's why. GLaDOS *does* disintegrate the companion cube. During Portal 2's Companion cube section, GLaDOS disintegrates the cubes that you use throughout the test. As for the broken material emancipation grill, you actually can bring the cube with you past it. However, GLaDOS disintegrates it before you can get to the elevator. If there really was a body inside it, wouldn't it fall out when it gets disintegrated? Also, as for Ratman, I highly doubt that a person inside a sealed box could survive and give helpful tips for more that a few minutes, much less a few days. Ratman also takes what are supposedly anti-psychotic medication and loses his ability to speak with the cube, implying that it really is in his head. The evidence you put forth regarding the achievement you get for burning the cube also seems pretty forced. It could also be said that the player feels so close to the cube, that it's like a brother to them. Which would make the achievement name make sense. Overall, good video, but try a bit harder on the evidence next time.

  • @MrSoup-zs4rd

    @MrSoup-zs4rd

    9 жыл бұрын

    Maybe GLADOS can disintegrate humans

  • @Ookler

    @Ookler

    9 жыл бұрын

    John Campbell that would raise the question why she uses Neurotoxin gas and turrets in her actual attempts to kill Chell or any other human. I really like this theory, but there is not a lot of reliable proof to it. You could say that in Portal 2 all Companion Cubes are fakes as Glados is just messing with you. Only the one you burned in Portal 1 is real and actually contains a familymember from Chell - which is why in the end of Portal 2 you get exactly that one given back to you on your way out. But as I said. Not really a lot of good proof to be found - it would definetly fit in the dark and cruel ways of Aperture and the fact that you see not a single dead person or skelleton anywhere in the game - not even floating around in the deadly waters...

  • @americawashington2700

    @americawashington2700

    9 жыл бұрын

    I keep pointing this out, but for some reason people accept everything in Game Theory as fact.

  • @adrienturmo1964

    @adrienturmo1964

    9 жыл бұрын

    Batman I had the same idea as MatPat when I was playing both portal's games, and I also though about it. Since both game have not much of a story, especially the first one, there are not a lots of things to rely on, even with the graphic novel. But, we do know that the technologie in the games are highly advance : they created mantis-men, velocity/jumping fluids, light bridge, just to name a few, and the most awsome of all : the portal gun. And some scientist in the dark area of the 20th century have succefully keep dogs head alive for a few moments. So a talking personne in a box that can contain it is not really that challenging. And, for the novel part, how could the scientist know about all the tests hints and traps ? The only other possibility is that he forget about it and the cube was a portal (great joke here) to recover his memory. And the idea of a cubed-sized human fits in the logic of the games. You have two humans but with only one being able to act,, but the other knowing already the tests. A kind of rally-cares coop mode, perfect for testing the technology of reducing size of human. But why don't they speak when we play the game ? Well, facility is clearly decaying, and I think that the technologie inside the compagnon cube are enough to keep them alive (the scream when the cube is destroyed), but not enough to keep the body for decomposition, and that's why we don't see the body, or at least part of it, when the cube is desintegrated.

  • @adrienturmo1964

    @adrienturmo1964

    9 жыл бұрын

    Batman BUTT (pun intended), I agree that Glados just messing with us is also a good possibility. If the cube can give hints about traps (as seen in the novel), how do they know were they are ? They don't have eyes. So it must be some kind of sensors that tell them where they are in the facility (like, a GPS, but not with satellite of course (the facility is underground(#hipster))), so a program could give the same hints as effectively as an human, maybe more effectively. And my compagnon-cube theory about the body decomposing is not that great if the cube scream. It could be a reccorded sream. BUTT(S), I prefer to think that the compagnon cube was an human because it's more emotionnaly immersive, and makes me hate Glados more that entails portal 2 being even more dusturbingly enjoyable with its plot-twist.

  • @nuxx1876
    @nuxx18767 жыл бұрын

    room filling up with annoying dogs getting hit in the arm with friendliness pellets

  • @bongocatstudios7348

    @bongocatstudios7348

    7 жыл бұрын

    mneos1876 OML XD YES

  • @thames1880

    @thames1880

    7 жыл бұрын

    mneos1876 lol

  • @nuxx1876

    @nuxx1876

    7 жыл бұрын

    ikr

  • @nuxx1876

    @nuxx1876

    7 жыл бұрын

    *dogsong intensifies*

  • @ravenflur2455

    @ravenflur2455

    7 жыл бұрын

    Your profile picture looked like it came from that sand website

  • @tagreedibrahim9978
    @tagreedibrahim99783 жыл бұрын

    Matpat: GLaDOS can't be trusted Also Matpat: uses GLaDOS quotes to confirm his theory I like how he mentions that everyone in the cubes is dead then states that they're speaking

  • @aguywholovekfc
    @aguywholovekfcАй бұрын

    "And no, it's not this guys pen|s." Matpat, 2013

  • @ezrarhoads8682
    @ezrarhoads868210 жыл бұрын

    Mat, you should do a LOT more portal videos! Their is so much STUFF to theorize about and so much of the lore is shrouded in mysterey. A theoriser's HEAVEN!!

  • @ianciti

    @ianciti

    10 жыл бұрын

    true, i have even come up with my own theory: one that hints at the fact that CHELL MAY BE DEAD! seriously

  • @ezrarhoads8682

    @ezrarhoads8682

    10 жыл бұрын

    I have one about Chell to, but it's about her origins. Not her death

  • @ianciti

    @ianciti

    10 жыл бұрын

    ah yes, i buy the one about her parents being caroline and cave johnson. i mean why else would there be a surge of emotion going through glados head when she saves her coming from caroline

  • @ezrarhoads8682

    @ezrarhoads8682

    10 жыл бұрын

    And another good one is the boriales theory. I think it was stolen by black mesa, who wanted what was inside but that's a different theory ALLTOGETHER!!!

  • @degen83
    @degen836 жыл бұрын

    The companion cube will never stab us, which is more than I can say for Gladus.

  • @lucan_t4934

    @lucan_t4934

    6 жыл бұрын

    ??? It's GlaDos!

  • @danhtran375

    @danhtran375

    6 жыл бұрын

    Good joke 😂😂🤣🤣

  • @HunterTracks

    @HunterTracks

    6 жыл бұрын

    *gladius

  • @bananabus.

    @bananabus.

    5 жыл бұрын

    no..... glados.

  • @justbear9641

    @justbear9641

    5 жыл бұрын

    Or wheatley

  • @user-te2gb1hy9y
    @user-te2gb1hy9y2 жыл бұрын

    Now that I'm a MOTHER fan, I now recognize the music at 3:40. Battle Against the Masked Man. Magus' Castle.

  • @why_does_this_matter370
    @why_does_this_matter3703 жыл бұрын

    THIS WAS 7 YEARS AGO, WOW, FELT LIKE THIS VID WAS POSTED YESTERDAY

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