Could Chell be in a ep 3? "minor spoiler"(from portal 2)

[someonehairy-ish]

But yeah, portal 2 is waaaaaay in the future.

When you're in the ancient facility depths in Act 2 you actually hear the dude saying something about being bankrupt due to those 'Black Mesa bastards' so the two definitely exist in the same time/universe. But we could have a reference to Portal one even if 2 is set way afterwards. A news report saying something about an explosion at an aperture facility? Perhaps some footage of a woman on the surface (chell) then that robotic thing dragging her back down, as an easter egg somewhere.

 

[razor343]

I'm just going to mention one point.
I highly doubt Chell has brain damage.
Why? Well, for starters. Wheatley does say that (more or less) Chell's brain damage would've been horribly severe after how long she spent in Cryo Sleep. That being said, she shows virtually no sign of even minor brain damage. (She behaves exactly like she has in Portal 1).
Second thing, Wheatley could've been talking a load of shit. He was designed to be the most Dumbest of Morons after all.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Na. At least I hope she isn't. I like the idea that Portal and Half Life are the same world but that doesn't nessassarily mean they are or should be the same story. References to each other? Great! Just don't go over board.

All that stuff Gabe talked about was years ago now. I doubt they even had the basics of Portal 2 down at that stage. Though we don't know how much time has gone on between Portal 1 and 2 it could be centuries.

Also some people who like Half Life don't like Portal and visa versa. Crossing over the 2 would leave a lot of players in the dark. Plus two non speaking characters; a recipe for awkardness.

...And another thing. How is Chell important once she's out of the facility? Why bring about transfering her hundreds of miles across the ocean to eastern euro? She's not the thing that makes Portal 1 & 2 special.

I think when Gordon and Alyx enter the Borialis there's a chance of a Cave Johnson recorning. Maybe. But most likely it will just be light references not a cross over.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

There's also the part in Portal 1 where

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Someone, possibly DOG dragged Chell's body away

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Even though Black Mesa and Aperture Science are separate entities, Breen and GLADos will be living in the same world in the future...

 

[Pearwood]

My guess is there'll be a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle hints about a crossover at some point in the future.

 

[JET1971]

HL universe in order...
1. HL1
2. Portal (sidestory caused by Black Mesa)
3. HL2 and episodes
4. Portal 2

The original portal happened after HL and the 7 hour war, thats why the facilities were so clean still and had an air of recently abandoned. chell goes into long term stasis and then HL2 and the episodes happened. then many many years after HL2 chell is reawakened by wheatly in Portal 2.

Portals side of the world was mentioned in half life 2 episode 2 at the end and apears to be where ep3 is heading. how can they get Chell into ep3? g-man or whatever is on the ship brings her back from the future. But i realy dont think we will have chell and gordon in ep3 together. maybe HL3.

 

[Redgethebat]

Portal 2 is set MILLIONS of years after Portal 1 (which is set somewhere after HL2 like GLaDOS said in P1 "the world has changed")
maybe the Borealis but not Chell
TLDR
no HA HA FAT CHANCE!
anyway this cake is great!

Okay, while Portal 2 DOES take place long after Portal 1, It does not take place anywhere CLOSE to millions of years after the first game. 100 years would be pushing it, telling by the damage to the facility. For example, in the room that you wake up in, look at all of the furniture and the like. with the amount of rot and decay, it couldn't of been much more than a few hundred years, not to mention the approximate amount of plant life, as well as how well things still function.

And as people have said, the whole 9999999 thing is probably just a computer malfunction.

 

[MysticToast]

There's also the part in Portal 1 where

Spoiler

Someone, possibly DOG dragged Chell's body away

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Even though Black Mesa and Aperture Science are separate entities, Breen and GLADos will be living in the same world in the future...

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I highly doubt it was D0G. She was taken back into Aperture Science and dog would have taken her away from there.

EDIT: I've said before that the 9999 thing was probably a glitch and I just want to add a bit of logic to that statement. If it really was 999999 or whatever years, the computers in Aperture Science are fully articulate when they speak, therefore we would have heard something like "9 million years" or something. Ya know?

 

[major28]

as much as i dont want that to happen yeah it mite

 

[Wintermoot]

Portal 2 is set MILLIONS of years after Portal 1 (which is set somewhere after HL2 like GLaDOS said in P1 "the world has changed")
maybe the Borealis but not Chell
TLDR
no HA HA FAT CHANCE!
anyway this cake is great!

9 Years, actually.

I am pretty sure at least 100 years after Portal 1 (if it,s not more)

 

[Wintermoot]

Portal 2 is set MILLIONS of years after Portal 1 (which is set somewhere after HL2 like GLaDOS said in P1 "the world has changed")
maybe the Borealis but not Chell

They actually never state how much time has passed since Portal. Were it millions of years there'd have been nothing left of the Aperture facility. I'm not saying that alot of time didn't end up passing but I would reckon it's more on the order of hundreds rather than millions.

@OP, Chell doesn't have brain damage; Wheatley only says it was a possibility she could have brain damage. She's also always been a mute; that didn't just start with Portal 2. It's just actually acknowledge by the characters around her.

she can,t talked due to brain damage in Portal 2 and in portal 1 she doesn't want to satisfy GLaDOS with a reaction.

 

[RA92]

There's also the part in Portal 1 where

Spoiler

Someone, possibly DOG dragged Chell's body away

That was the <url=http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Party_Escort_Bot>Party Escort Bot.

 

[PixelKing]

If you go hunting in portal 2 you can find where the borialis is docked. Its not there.

 

[Tax_Document]

It would be impossible for Chell to be in Episode 3. Remember, Portal takes place far into the future, way after the events in Half Life.

BEFORE HALF - LIFE 2

How would Apeture operate within a world ruled by the COMBINE?

 

[Dana22]

Portal 1 takes place around the same time as the first Half Life.

Nope. After first Half Life, but before the second.

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Half-Life_universe#After_May_200-

I'd consider this much more "around Half Life 1" and much less "between the two." Portal 1 takes place shortly after the Combine invasion, as it states on the Overwiki. This would only be within a couple years after the first Half Life, but would be around 20 years before HL2.

I dont get where people get "shortly after the invasion" from. Funny enough, none of the references for: "It occurs a short amount of time after the Combine invasion of Earth.[19][20]" says that either.

 

[KeyMaster45]

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she can't talk due to brain damage in Portal 2 and in portal 1 she doesn't want to satisfy GLaDOS with a reaction.

Show me a statement from Gabe Newell where he says explicitly that Chell has brain damage in Portal 2 and I'll agree with you. Until then it's fans making assumptions based on Wheatley only saying that it was possible she might have brain damage. A possibility of brain damage does not equal proof of brain damage. Nor do other characters acknowledging that she does not talk equate to proof of brain damage.

 

[TilMorrow]

I wonder has anyone theorised that the Borealis might be a TIME BOAT?!?!?

Seriously, I think time is going to be a messed up factor around EP3 what with Gman and his time jumping skills carting Gordon to the future in a sense or does he put him into statis? Hmm I'm having some new thoughts about Gman now relating to Aperture in some way...

On a side note, Captchas' attempting 3D noaw? Captcha: trialr Verkehr

 

[namewon'tfitin]

She isn't mute.
Valve stated that she can talk. But she is frustrated and doesn't want to give glados the satisfaction of making her crack

 

[Tharwen]

I doubt they will ever mix.

The simple reason is that Chell is meant to be the player. She is characterised and defined by the player, to some extent, which means that making her a NPC in Ep.3 will break this characterisation.

The only way I can think of it working is in the multiplayer that Valve is hinting at. Maybe one person plays as Chell and one as Gordon?

 

[rekabdarb]

where the fuck is everyone getting these dates from?

PORTAL 2 IS 100 YEARS LATER.

PORTAL 2 IS 20 YEARS LATER

PORTAL 2 IS ONLY A COUPLE DAYS LATER.

plus. WHO GIVES A SHIT. when valve releases episode 3 then we can figure it out. Why speculate they have been pretty vague so far. Plus didn't portals 1 and 2 come out before anything on HL has come out? disam