Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Alisa Bosconovitch, Amy Rose, Battletoads (characters), Clank (Ratchet & Clank), Cortana, Crash Bandicoot (character), Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong (character), Falco Lombardi, Felicia (Darkstalkers), Fox McCloud, GLaDOS, HK-47, Knuckles the Echidna, KOS-MOS, List of Star Fox characters, Mega Man (character), Rouge the Bat, Shadow the Hedgehog, SHODAN, Slippy Toad, Sly Cooper (character), Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Tails (character), Toro Inoue, Wheatley (Portal), Zero (Mega Man). Excerpt: GLaDOS, short for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, is a fictional artificially intelligent computer system in Valve Software's Half-Life video game series and the main antagonist in the video game Portal. She was created by Erik Wolpaw and Kim Swift and is voiced by Ellen McLain. She is responsible for testing and maintenance in Aperture Science research facility in both video games. While she initially appears to simply be a voice to guide and aid the player, her words and actions become increasingly malicious until she makes her intentions clear. The game reveals that she is corrupted and used a neurotoxin to kill the scientists in the lab before the events of Portal. She is destroyed at the end of the first title by the player-character Chell but is revealed to have survived in the credits song "Still Alive." She appeared in the sequel, Portal 2, which takes place many years after the events of Portal and follows the exploits of GLaDOS, Chell, and other characters. The inspiration for her creation extends from Wolpaw's use of a text-to-speech program while writing lines for the video game Psychonauts. Other Psychonauts designers were finding the lines funnier as a result of the text-to-speech voice. GLaDOS was originally intended to be used in the first area of Portal; she was well-received by other designers and...