The idea was removed as it supposedly made the game feel too cluttered and the player never got to really learn about the multiple robots, so several were combined into the character of Wheatley. Wheatley came from combining several ideas from multiple "personality cores" that the player would meet throughout the game. Wheatley was first revealed in an alternate reality game released by Valve, the developer of the Portal series, in a screenshot of Portal 2 before its release, showing the player-character Chell holding him. Wheatley has also been described as a contrast to GLaDOS's "slower-speaking and more deliberate" personality. Merchant has been praised for his portrayal by critics who cited his fast-talking dialogue. Since his appearance in Portal 2, Wheatley has received overwhelmingly positive reception from critics. In addition to Portal 2, Wheatley has appeared in Team Fortress 2 and Lego Dimensions. Initially serving as a comedic foil to the player-character Chell during the first half of Portal 2, Wheatley becomes the main antagonist of the second half as he takes GLaDOS's place and wreaks havoc on the facility before Chell and GLaDOS cooperate to stop him. In the Portal narrative, Wheatley is one of several spherical "personality cores" developed to restrain GLaDOS, the main artificial intelligence that operates the Aperture Science facility, from becoming rampant, though Wheatley is later revealed to have been built to act as an "intelligence dampener" towards GLaDOS to hampering her capability for thought. He is voiced by British comedian and writer Stephen Merchant, and created in part by Portal 2 's designer Erik Wolpaw. Merchant said that once Wheatley’s recordings were wrapped, he was so tired and exhausted that he thought: “I can never do this again.” Still, he’s surprised and happy with the response to the game, noting that videogames are a “really legitimate, creative art form now,” ranking right alongside movies and “whatever else people really take to their hearts.Wheatley is a fictional artificial intelligence from the Portal franchise, first introduced in the 2011 video game Portal 2. So that was a little worrying, would that work.” “I was actually a little intimidated by that, it’s not something I feel naturally comfortable with, being villainous … I wasn’t really expecting that, because I hadn’t read the whole script up front. “The thing which alarmed me was the fact that I have to shift from being lovably hopeless to being hopelessly evil,” he added. The mental stress of the role only got harder when Merchant had to act out Wheatley’s evil side, after the AI core goes mad with power.
“More than anything I’ve ever done before because I’m in this little recording booth, shouting down these imaginary corridors, imaginary gantries, pretending to fall off things and really trying to move around and live it as best I could … I was really working hard to try and put myself in that environment, I guess, which is not something I normally do as a performer.” “I have to say, I found the entire thing really exhausting,” he revealed. “Suddenly I realized, this is quite a big deal and what I thought was an easy gig, I suddenly felt this responsibility to try and do a good job,” Merchant said. When fans became more excited for it than “anything he’s done before,” it was weird for him.
In an interview with MTV, Merchant revealed that videogames had slipped off of his radar since college, so he didn’t know exactly what he was getting into with Portal 2. Merchant says that the breadth of the role, in addition to the amount of work required, was absolutely exhausting. While first appearing to be a one-dimensional character, Wheatley progresses from a good-natured sidekick to a mildly devious, bumbling villain. Thank you.Īnyone that’s played their way through Portal 2 already knows how great Stephen Merchant was in the role of personality core Wheatley. In anticipation of reader rage, please know that this post will spoil very important portions of Portal 2 that you may not want spoiled. Stephen Merchant made the role of Wheatley in Portal 2 look easy, but it was one of his most mentally taxing projects ever.
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