List of minor Aperture Science employees and related people
This article lists the minor Aperture Science employees and related people who have no direct or a minor influence on the Portal story arc.
Test Subjects
Portal 2: Lab Rat list
Several Test Subjects appear in a testing order list consulted by Doug Rattmann in Portal 2: Lab Rat, in which he modifies Chell's position.
S.J. Nye
S. J. Nye was in spot 1 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Nye's spot to 2.
Lazarus Grey
Lazarus Grey was in spot 2 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Grey's spot to 3.
Leve Rage / Raged
Leve Rage was in spot 3 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Rage's spot to 4.
The name is a nod to "Leveraged", the nickname of a player who founded the Valve PotatoFoolsDay ARG Wiki. His Steam account was also "hacked" by GLaDOS during the PotatoFoolsDay ARG.[1]
Robert C. Knoll
Robert C. Knoll was in spot 4 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Knoll's spot to 5.
Charles Cardoze
Charles Cardoze was in spot 1489 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Cardoze's spot to 1490.
Phil Konig
Phil Konig was in spot 1490 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Konig's spot to 1491.
Christopher M. Pham
Christopher M. Pham was in spot 1491 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Pham's spot to 1492.
Arsenio Navarro was in spot 1492 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Navarro's spot to 1493.
William D. Kent
William D. Kent was in spot 1493 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Kent's spot to 1494.
Al Anderson
Al Anderson was in spot 1494 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Anderson's spot to 1495.
Emily Naransky
Emily Naransky was in spot 1495 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Naransky's spot to 1496.
David C. Self
David C. Self was in spot 1496 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Self's spot to 1497.
Doug Hopper
Doug Hopper was in spot 1497 of the Test Subject testing order until Rattmann moved Chell from spot 1498 to 1, changing Hopper's spot to 1498. Chell was listed in the spot after them.
Marc Meaux
Marc Meaux was in spot 1499 of the Test Subject testing order.
Brenda Bogenschutz
Brenda Bogenschutz was in spot 1500 of the Test Subject testing order.
James Murray
James Murray was in spot 1501 of the Test Subject testing order.
Gallery
The first part of the list seen in Lab Rat.
The second part.
Extended Relaxation Annex
When ATLAS and P-body open the Extended Relaxation Annex for GLaDOS, hundreds of Test Subjects in long-term relaxation are discovered, as seen in the outro video of Portal 2's co-op mode. Each Test Subject has their name on their Stasis Chamber, two of which able to be glimpsed. All Test Subjects are killed off by GLaDOS accidentally after she underestimated their fragility while attempting to transform them into killing machines.
John Applegate
Applegate is the first to been identified.
L.D. Turner
Turner is the second to been identified.
Gallery
John Applegate in his Stasis Chamber.
L.D. Turner in his Stasis Chamber.
Other
Subject ID #042
Test Subject #042 is featured on a clipboard found in the Enrichment Center in Portal. It appears to be a chicken that failed the tests it took. It is unknown if these tests involved the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, as they are never mentioned elsewhere, and no dead chicken(s) can be found across the Enrichment Center. Finding the clipboard in Portal: Still Alive will unlock the "Tests Like Chicken" Achievement. The clipboard is seen again in Portal 2 near an incinerator in the Turret Manufacturing.
Subject ID #234
Subject ID #234 is featured on a clipboard that can be found in the Enrichment Center in Portal, as well as near the Emergency Intelligence Incinerator within the facility turret production lines. It is heavily implied that Subject ID #234 is Chell, due to the bed Chell wakes up in at the start of Portal having the text "SUBJECT ID #234" on it.
Gallery
The clipboard about Subject ID #042.
The clipboard about Subject ID #042 in an Aperture Laboratories office.
"Tests Like Chicken" Achievement logo.
Aperture Science ad, showing "a clear picture of the future" with "tomorrow" and "Aperture" misspelled and featuring chickens, revealed during the PotatoFoolsDay ARG.
Chicken running through cubicles in the Enrichment Center, also revealed during the PotatoFoolsDay ARG.
The clipboard about Test Subject #234.
Two clipboards in an office, one about Subject ID #234, the other about the Advanced Knee Replacement.
"SUBJECT ID #234" seen on the stasis bed in the Relaxation Vault at the start of Portal.
Other personnel
Bendy
Not a character per se, but rather a generic stick figure representing Aperture Science employees. It is present in the Portal and Portal 2 trailers, instructional videos, diagrams, etc. It is also the playable character of the Perpetual Testing Initiative part of Portal 2, and appears in the hub and the Longbow and Robot Repair mini-games in The Lab.
Janitor Bob
This character is not canon: When the Portal 2 development team had to come up with old-looking versions for all the important gameplay props, such as button panels, doors, cubes - basically everything the player could interact with in Test Shaft 09, they came up with the fictional character of "Janitor Bob". Without any scientific knowledge, he would be responsible for maintaining the old parts of the Enrichment Center, fixing everything with duct tape, a screwdriver, and everything he could get his hands on, resulting in something not particularly aesthetic, but at least that still works. Whenever the developers got stuck designing props for the Portal 2 chapter The Fall, they would ask themselves: "Well, how would Bob build it?".[2]
Jerry
Jerry is a nanobot (and is consequently unseen by the player) who temporarily employs Wheatley to help him and the rest of his nanobot work crew rebuild parts of the Enrichment Center. It is not known what he looks like due to his microscopic size, but his presence is indicated by a garbled, sped-up, vaguely mechanical voice. He apparently gets angry at Wheatley for knocking a girder out of position as he follows the lift that Chell is riding, and fires him. Wheatley then claims that he has a prejudiced work site.
When reversing and slowing down Jerry's voice, one will hear garbled, cryptic messages seeming to involve scheduled testing on Tuesday.[3]
Karla
Karla, nicknamed "the complainer", is a minor employee, featured on a poster in Test Shaft 09. She is displeased by the fact that her new boss is a robot. She is named after Jay Pinkerton's wife, Karla Pacheco.[4]
The "My new boss is a robot" poster.
"Bring your Daughter to Work Day" girls
When Chell visits the Employee Daycare Center on her way to the Neurotoxin Generator with Wheatley during Portal 2's chapter The Escape, she comes across the remains of a "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day" science fair during which several experiments were showcased by employees' daughters (including herself), mostly on potato batteries. The list follows the in-game order.
Jessica
Jessica experimented on providing power to a small calculator with three potatoes.
Jessica's experiment poster board.
Jessica's potatoes.
Beth
Beth experimented on providing power to a light bulb with one potato that went flat.
Beth's experiment poster board.
Beth's potato.
Alix
Alix experimented on providing power to a clock radio with one potato.
Alix's experiment poster board.
Alix's potato.
Laura
Laura compared power provided by a potato and a lemon.
Laura's experiment poster board.
Laura's potatoes.
Heather
Heather is the only one who did not make a potato battery but a "baking soda volcano" instead, with baking soda and vinegar (an actual experiment), to see if a baking soda volcano is as cool as a real one (she concludes it is not, the bright side being it cannot burn people). Wheatley comments: "Baking Soda Volcano. Well, at least it's not a potato battery, I'll give it that. Still not terrifically original, though. Not exactly primary research, even within the child sciences. I'm guessing this wasn't one of the scientist's children. I don't want to be snobby, but let's be honest: It's got manual laborer written all over it. I'm not saying they're not as good as the professionals. They're just a lot dumber."
Heather's experiment poster board.
Heather's volcano.
Katharine
Katharine experimented on providing power to a device resembling the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future movie trilogy.
Katharine's experiment poster board.
Katharine's potato.
References
- ↑ Glados hacking ARG player accounts, ominous messages emerge on PC Gamer
- ↑ Portal 2 commentary
- ↑
Portal 2 - Jerry (Nano-bot worker) - Hidden messages on YouTube
- ↑
ValveTime's tweet on X (July 20, 2017)
