What exactly happened to GLaDOS after Portal?

Question

The different games and additional material seem to have conflicting evidence:

In Portal,

she seems totally destroyed but then Still Alive is played.

In Portal 2,

it seems that she was merely shut down but she continuously says that Chell killed her.

Also, in Lab Rats,

Doug says that GLaDOS died.

So did she

die or not?

Is GLaDOS really alive? If so, and a backup can be made / restored - is that backup also alive? Finally, is the backup really the same as the original? — Elliott Frisch, Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 0:04

Yasskier · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-08 00:18:23Z

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She was shut down and disconnected from the world (hence she keeps claiming that Chell "murdered her"), but she wasn't completely offline

She had a Black box memory that was replaying the last 2 minutes of her life. Again. And again. And again...

So in other words - no, she wasn't dead. It was much, much worse...

answered Oct 8, 2015 at 0:18

Yasskier

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How did Rattmann know this?
– Rogue Jedi
Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 0:22
So, she was dead in the sense which an organism without life signs which is subsequently revived is dead.
– Politank-Z
Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 0:33
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@RogueJedi It seems he doesn't - he thinks that GLaDOS is dead. Or he simply means that she is offline.
– Yasskier
Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 0:33
@Politank-Z I'd say that it was akin to clinical death, when heart stops beating but unconscious brain still lives on for a short time.
– Yasskier
Commented Oct 8, 2015 at 0:35

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