Some of the song’s lyrics are scribbled on the walls of the den. In one of those dens, The National's song ' Exile Vilify' can be heard from a radio. The dens in Portal 2 contain paintings of Doug Rattmann among the scribblings. Doug Rattmann has pasted pictures of companion cubes on their heads.

Among the scribblings there are also pictures of a family watching television in the 1950s, and pictures of portraits of Sam Rayburn, Theodore Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge. Auden's ' Funeral Blues', Emily Brontë's 'No Coward Soul Is Mine', Emily Dickinson's ' Because I could not stop for Death', and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'The Reaper and the Flowers'. The scribblings also include pastisches of several poems, including W. His fate by the events of Portal 2 is unclear, though more of the Ratman dens can be found.Īmong the wall scribblings in the Portal dens is the sentence ' The cake is a lie', which became an internet meme. In the last panel of the comic, Doug Rattmann places himself in cryogenic storage animation. After watching her defeat the computer, he managed to escape the facility, but returned to assure Chell would be put in indefinite cryogenic storage animation after she was dragged back inside, suffering a serious injury (a shot in the leg from a turret) to complete this. During events in Portal, he worked behind the scenes to scribble messages and warnings to Chell on the walls, leading her out of the testing chambers and towards GLaDOS. The Lab Rat comic reveals that, despite his madness, Doug Rattmann identified Chell as a rejected test subject due to her high tenacity, and moved her to the top of the queue for testing. Already skeptical of the computer, the man fled from the gas and kept himself hidden from GLaDOS' view, slowly becoming more insane over an unknown stretch of time. Prior to GLaDOS' rampancy and the neurotoxin release, Doug Rattmann was once an Aperture scientist. Ratman’s full appearance is only seen in the Portal 2: Lab Rat webcomic released by Valve prior to Portal 2 's release to tie the story of the two games together. In the two games there are various 'Ratman dens', where Doug Rattmann has left scribblings and paintings on walls in hidden rooms. He was a former scientist working at Aperture and one of the few who survived when GLaDOS flooded the facility with neurotoxin. Unknown (vocalizations in some music tracks)ĭoug Rattmann, often referred to as the ' Ratman' is a character in both Portal and Portal 2. Michael Avon Oeming (young appearance) ( Portal 2: Lab Rat)Īndrea Wicklund (older appearance) ( Portal 2: Lab Rat) Portal 2: Lab Rat (2011) (first full appearance)

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