Question about Portal's Chell (spoilers!)

[zombiejoe]

Ok, so from we can tell about Chell
[spoiler/]She was a child brought into Aperture by her adopted parent(s) and glados sent out the nerotoxin, but Chell was able to survive in a pod for years until Ratman awoke her in Portal 1[/spoiler]

but wait, wouldn't that mean that Chell...

[spoiler/]has the intelligence of a little girl? If Chell was mostly alseep before portal 1 and at the end of portal 1, and she was trapped since she was a little girl, she should only have the mind of a little girl, and the body of a 20 something women. If this is true, how could she be able to solve those deadly traps with ease!?!?!?! Ratman says she wasn't the smartest of the people he could choose, so she isn't a hyper intelligent child.[/spoiler]

Can someone tell me if I'm not getting something?

 

[JWRosser]

Perhaps that is why she is so enticed by the prospect of cake?

 

[zombiejoe]

Perhaps that is why she is so enticed at the prospect of cake?

Of course! Glados had the perfect trap!

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

 

[zombiejoe]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

 

[Avaholic03]

Who said she was completely unconscious during hybernation? Maybe they had a sort of subconscious suggestion/teaching during her "sleep" (sort of like in Demolition Man, if you've seen that movie).

 

[zombiejoe]

Who said she was completely unconscious during hybernation? Maybe they had a sort of subconscious suggestion/teaching during her "sleep" (sort of like in Demolition Man, if you've seen that movie).

Actually, that could possibly work. Perhaps. Not sure, but it is a possibility.

 

[blood77]

Who said she was completely unconscious during hybernation? Maybe they had a sort of subconscious suggestion/teaching during her "sleep" (sort of like in Demolition Man, if you've seen that movie).

Yes and if what we learned from inception is true, then twenty years would be like a thousand. So maybe she actually has the mind of an immortal.

 

[Hamish Durie]

i've seen a four year old beat his old man at chess and mabye apeture had prepared for this and made the pod so that it would teach the test subject all it needed to know about testing while they where unconsious

 

[Tharwen]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

Wait... does it actually say which one was hers? I thought they were anonymous.

 

[zombiejoe]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

Wait... does it actually say which one was hers? I thought they were anonymous.

read this

[spoiler/]Players exploring the Aperture facility in Portal 2 can discover a presentation from the Bring Your Daughter to Work Day science fair signed with the name Chell. Several girls seem to have made potato batteries; none of them have rotted over the years, but Chell's potato has actually grown out of control, sprouting through the ceiling. One of the steps described in her experimental procedure is using a "special ingredient from Daddy's work." This strongly implies that Chell was the daughter of a male Aperture employee, was trapped in the facility during GLaDOS' takeover on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, and spent her entire adolescence as one of GLaDOS' prisoners. Assuming Chell was of grade school age during the 1998 science fair (as evidenced by her vernacular on the poster board), this would put Chell in her late teens or early 20's during the events of the first Portal.[/spoiler]

 

[Keava]

There are benefits to having a child's mind in such situations however. Adult person will generally try to think too much about the problem, overlooking the obvious solutions as years of (flawed) education system teach us that obvious equals bad and unworthy of self respecting mature person.

Might be one of reasons why Chell was never meant to be a test subject in first place.

 

[trebthegamer]

well. portal 1 was almost a complete tutorial in portal physics. so portal physics is all she learned and knows. so it's no wonder she's the best at it. there's probably more to it tough.

 

[Vkmies]

Maybe because you control her? Just a thought...

 

[Avaholic03]

One more thing I'd like to point out. Chell isn't actually solving the test chambers. The player is. And plenty of kids have played and beaten Portal and Portal 2. It doesn't necessarily take a mature mind to solve those test chambers. The only difference between a kid playing Portal and actually living out Chell's story in real life is the level of perceived danger. All you would really need in Chell's case is courage, or enough motivation to keep pushing forward.

 

[zombiejoe]

Maybe because you control her? Just a thought...

Dude...don't be a buzzkill...


lol

 

[FallenTraveler]

They say in portal 2 that she is incredibly, incredibly persistent. She will not give up on a problem. Ever. That is what makes her special. Who's to say the mentality of a grade schooler wouldn't be the cause of this? She would also only need to be 12 or so to fully understand the fat jokes. We don't even know if she understands though, as she never says anything

 

[Zhukov]

As much as I love 'em, the Portal games aren't exactly hard.

Kids can beat them.

Therefor if Chell has a child's mind, she could probably still get through.

 

[Tharwen]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

Wait... does it actually say which one was hers? I thought they were anonymous.

read this

[spoiler/]Players exploring the Aperture facility in Portal 2 can discover a presentation from the Bring Your Daughter to Work Day science fair signed with the name Chell. Several girls seem to have made potato batteries; none of them have rotted over the years, but Chell's potato has actually grown out of control, sprouting through the ceiling. One of the steps described in her experimental procedure is using a "special ingredient from Daddy's work." This strongly implies that Chell was the daughter of a male Aperture employee, was trapped in the facility during GLaDOS' takeover on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, and spent her entire adolescence as one of GLaDOS' prisoners. Assuming Chell was of grade school age during the 1998 science fair (as evidenced by her vernacular on the poster board), this would put Chell in her late teens or early 20's during the events of the first Portal.[/spoiler]

Well that's interesting... maybe it's a metaphor

 

[pretentiousname01]

How is that for intelligence at a young age? I'm 30 and can't solve one of those things.