The Man That Hated Lemons | Cave Johnson | Full Portal Lore

this video contains spoilers for portal portal 2 aperture desk job half-life and half-life 2. within the vast multiverse planet earth has been home to many iconic figures that have made great advancements to the various fields of science einstein newton and darwin are but a few of these names but there was one more that had his hand in adapting the world within the portal universe with aperture science having been known across the planet as one of the most innovative successful and prosperous scientific companies its ceo seemed to be doing something right having brought the brightest minds together aperture aimed to quench that thirst to understand test and make use of as many scientific opportunities as possible but this company and its owner held many dark secrets that ultimately led to its downfall who created aperture science how did he feel about lemons and how did his story ultimately end here we explore in the law and story behind cave johnson during the late 1930s and early 40s a young cave johnson had a greater ambition to succeed in this world although cave did not understand the various functions of how to create and develop a product he did know people extremely well with his natural charisma cave could manage and read those he came across in order to get what he wanted with great ambition cave founded the company aperture fixtures in 1943 having brought in the brightest minds he could find over the next year aperture fixtures would become known for its development of high-tech shower curtains although the functionality of these curtains is unknown they sold extremely well and gained a positive reputation to the general public where aperture fixtures even managed to acquire contracts with the united states military using his father's theories of farming to create the backbone of aperture these being to do everything from scratch spare no expense and never cut corners cave's company would thrive with giant success in only a year aperture fixtures appear to be exactly what cave needed all he needed to do was make a few changes to make this already profitable company even better having now become a billionaire in such a short amount of time cave looked to expand his business and with this he searched for a new home for aperture in 1944 cave and his team discovered an expansive salt mine within upper michigan that had access to much needed space these mines expanded well over two miles below the surface and so after purchase construction began to create a new home for aperture over the next three years aperture expanded and their products continued to dominate the market with this wealth and success kay scouted and hired the finest scientist he could find to focus on experimental physics although cave had a brief understanding of physics those around him could make his ideas and vision a reality with this new direction for the company in motion in 1947 cave renamed his company to aperture science a simple science company with big dreams having formed the perfect team and with caves views in their first year aputure science won an award for being the best new science company moving into the 1950s everything that cave and aperture touched appeared to be successful his products dubbed aperture innovators reached the shelves for the general population to purchase as his team worked on new products and ideas in the aperture science enrichment center a place dedicated to testing aperture science products and the test subjects that use them cave took his role seriously to increase motivation and in turn productivity and results at this point with over a thousand tests being completed within the enrichment spheres of aperture every day cave understood that he could not oversee all of them and so he created pre-recorded messages to welcome and aid the flood of test subjects coming into the facility with the company having a reputation of greatness and with only the best in mind these subjects regularly consisted of astronauts olympians and even war heroes with the running of aperture becoming too much for one person to handle cave made the decision to bring on board an assistant carolyn as their working relationship developed carolyn became the backbone of aperture and a trusted confidant of cave she had an appreciation of science that cave admired even to the point where he joked that she was married to it despite the company having had incredible success since its formation there was also another side for each product that successfully landed on the shelves there was another that did not make it past the testing stage costing the company greatly cave wanted to test everything safe or dangerous despite the risk of injury or in some cases even death cave pushed his test subjects to continue with testing prototypes which after some time the disappearance of these test subjects would soon be noticed over time aperture began a new venture after discovering how to form and control a miniature black hole with this discovery the quantum tunneling device was developed a high-tech piece of equipment that could transport its user from one location to another using portals as this prototype continued its development more of the mines were built into when new test chambers were constructed deep underground this technology if successfully passed through the testing phase could cement aperture as the leading scientific company on the planet potentially surpassing even black mesa a rival company but with technology of this kind and many unethical practices being forced on the employees and test subjects of aperture behind the scenes cave's positive streak would soon come to an end moving into the 1960s cave and aperture's speedy momentum had begun to slow down and eventually it stopped completely although the company had boomed merely a decade earlier many of cave's demands behind the scenes of this once well respected company had come to light and under fire the many products he had proudly sent out into the world were now being pulled from the shelves for violating health and safety regulations which subsequently resulted in a giant hit to the profit and income of cave and aperture on top of this the products currently in the works also became stuck in the testing stage meaning that very few products were being sent out into the world aperture science was beginning to fail and it would only get worse from here trusting his gut cave made the brave decision to hide the most highly unethical experiments he had been working on within the facility if officials were to demand access to the facility he could stop them from entering the condemned areas with this he closed off the lower areas of test shaft zero nine the home of the tests that even he believed would be viewed on the more extreme side of the scale just a handful of these extreme tests have consisted of firing an invisible laser out of the test subjects with the aim to turn their blood into pure gasoline injecting praying mantis dna into the subjects to turn them into mantis men which while this would sound unbelievable appeared to have been successful as the experiment following this was to fight off an army of mantis men and the strange one being to point a superconductor at full power at the test subjects with no true goal to this experiment in mind cave essentially wanted to see what would happen to understand and forward the cause of science regardless of the consequences following his orders these experiments were stopped and the test chambers sealed off but even still over the years aperture would continue to decline and cave would fall under further fire in 1968 aperture science was called into question by the u.s senate due to the number of missing test subjects that had entered the facility and had never left later that year cave made the tough decision to declare bankruptcy for aperture with him now having to answer for his unethical practices his once positive can-do and optimistic attitude slowly degraded although cave's world continued to fall around him and his company declined further cave found solace in caroline who did her best to help him through these tough times which made their bond even stronger still attempting to find that one thing that could bring aperture back from collapse cave had to make further adjustments to his company without the financial means or even the trust he had once had cave had to lower his personal standards on who aperture could hire as test subjects now hiring the homeless aperture could save on the fee that the test subjects had once received by reducing this to a mere 60 dollars for the same extremely dangerous tests in addition to this aperture also offered an extra 60 if the participants agreed to have the company disassemble put some science stuff in and then reassemble them although these new subjects essentially allowed aperture to function just as well as before cave hated that he had to lower his standards even if it meant he could still study science with his ego bruised caves want positive and energetic pre-recorded voice announcements declined into aggressive frustrated rants where he would ridicule the new test subjects in the facility with many products still being created and tests still being performed throughout the facility cave attempted to get out of the hole that aperture had fallen into but cave's attitude would continue to fight and blame those around him for his situation adding to cave's paranoia he would receive regular updates on the success of black mesa a rival company located way out in the new mexico desert as time passed cave began to believe that black mesa was stealing all of his ideas and thus success in anger and mental decline cave would record more voice recordings to be played across aperture blaming black mesa for all of aputure's monetary issues although cave could not gather any evidence to support his accusations of theft at this time many years later after the fall of humanity evidence would be discovered that would suggest this to be true with aperture continuing to struggle financially cave once again made the decision to widen his search criteria for test subjects this time allowing orphans psychiatric patients and the elderly without test subjects there would be no glorious contribution to science cave's silver tongue that had allowed him to grow this company was not able to save him from his inevitable fall but he still had some projects that could either save aperture or bury it only time would tell moving into the 1980s aputure had decided to take a greater focus on mobility gel development gels that when applied would have astounding effects some planned would offer increased speed and even increased height after jumping if this product could be successful and past the testing stage maybe aperture's luck could turn around in desperation to further this plan in 1981 cave went against his financial advisor's advice and purchased 70 million dollars worth of moon rock which he believed would advance the development of the mobility gels working with these rocks cave and his team discovered that when ground up and converted into a gel form it allowed the surface it covered to act as a stable portal conductor previously many test subjects had died or been extremely injured due to unstable portals formed by the aperture handheld portal device but now this discovery had given aperture an additional direction to focus on in a combination of passion and desperation cave personally oversawed the conversion of the moon rocks into conversion gel although his passion could be commended his constant exposure to the moon dust over time started to damage his kidneys and lungs until a point where they began to fail to moon rock poisoning he hoped that with the discovery of these new gels being able to conduct portals that they would also somehow cure his illness brought on by the moon rocks and with this he asked his test subjects to test faster in a hope to test his theory and save his life as his life and career went from bad to worse his inability to acquire new test subjects led him to make an extremely controversial decision where testing would be mandatory for all employees of the facility while this gave cave ample supply of new candidates to contribute to science this also meant that he lost many of his employees due to their refusal to participate or even worse to the dangerous experiments themselves as quickly as it had begun he made the decision to phase out human testing entirely in 1982 cave understood that his condition had worsened and now he lived on borrowed time he thought that if humanity had discovered a way to store music on a compact disc then why couldn't they store a man's intelligence and personality too to this and in an attempt to cheat death he ordered his brightest scientists to research artificial intelligence something he himself believed he should have looked into 30 years before with the scope of such a project cave understood there to be a possibility that it would not be complete by the time of his death and so he left two orders to be completed upon his death if this situation were to occur the first that carolyn be named as his successor and run aperture and the second that her consciousness be uploaded into the developing ai systems regardless of whether she wanted to or not with this his company would be in safe hands under the only person he ever trusted caves want positive outlook and need to contribute to science declined over the years he had once seen the proverbial phrase of when life gives you lemons make lemonade as an optimistic way to view life but now having thought about it and in his bitter state the thought of this simple phrase only angered him where he would demand to see life's manager for offering him lemons a rant that would be projected throughout the aperture facility for his employees to hear over time cave's moon rock poisoning worsened and although research had begun years before on artificial technology it was not even close to being finished and so in the late 1980s cave finally succumbed to his moon rock poisoning leaving caroline as his successor where a new chapter in aputure's history would begin this smart quick-witted and eccentric man had made great changes to the world but at his end he died an angry bitter old man the death of cave and the later fall of aperture would be woven into the history of this universe but there are other universes out there within the vast multiverse that have a different story to tell in another universe on a different earth earth prime in the late 1960s cave had managed to make great financial savings thanks to his assistant greg greg had suggested they explore the multiverse theory through an unknown method they discovered an infinite number of universes out there each with their own aperture science taking advantage of this he tricked the more financially stable aperture science facilities into creating test chambers with plans from earth prime using the resources from these other universes after completion cave prime would bring them back to the prime verse so that testing could commerce not only did having access to the multiverse gave cave access to free labor but he could also see where other universes had gone wrong and so he could steer clear from certain endeavors in another universe cave survived long enough to willingly be uploaded to glados but with all of this power he went mad viewing this cave prime decided to cancel the glados project to avoid the same fate there's even said to be a money verse a planet earth formed of pure american dollars at this point of exploring the multiverse some of the caves did interact with one another to the point where cave prime and a dark cave came to blows with one another in an attempt to take over the money verse to each variance look some of dark caves test subjects discovered a second money verse allowing both cave johnsons to have one each in another universe a version of cave and aperture had avoided bankruptcy and managed to buy out the black mesa research corporation essentially becoming a titan in the scientific field in this universe he renamed the facility to blappucher mesa and put a stop to the study of anomalous materials completely aware of the possibility of a resonance cascade occurring going forward in this universe the people of planet earth would not suffer the wrath of the combine empire in a newly discovered universe it appears that cave successfully transferred his consciousness into a computer with this he ordered his scientists to build him a robot body so that he could wander around unfortunately the standard head of the robot could not fit the size of his brain and so as the scientists constructed larger and larger frames to fit all of caves data the head grew so large that upon final completion the initial robot body crumbled under the weight of the head despite this these scientists turned cave on upon activation cave panicked and accidentally killed the scientists around him in response to this he locked himself in his office after having had some time to adapt to his new form under giant head cave called for his scientists to come back but no one came for four years he waited alone with his thoughts trapped in a prison of his own construction to his luck a product tester had been working with one of the many personality cores of the facility grady hoping to showcave a new invention they discover him at his most desperate state where cave begs them to end his life agreeing to cut the power to cave they watch as robot cave slowly shuts down but with aperture having been too good at their job with constructing this head the back of power kicks in bringing cave back online following this the personality call and product tester watch as the floor finally gives in to the weight of cave's giant head crashing cave down into the depths below to continue his existence with the lost toilet turrets of aperture a sad existence for this cave that would never seem to end although the cave of our universe died slightly different variations of him still exist across the vast multiverse each attempting to further humanity's scientific endeavors of testing science aperture products and even the subjects testing them from a bright-minded strongly opinionated and big personality this man had left his impact on the world and now many years later his technologies may be the only thing to save it from the dominating alien empire of the combine cave johnson is one of my favorite characters from a video game series and we never actually get to meet him during aperture desk job but this was a different variant of cave in a new form i have always thought to myself when playing the portal games is cave a villain or an anti-hero i guess he had the best intentions he is simply passionate about science but despises the red tape that comes with it he also has this quirky hatred for witchcraft which is odd he is a great well-written character which as we know at this point valve writes pretty well jk simmons voicing him is also incredible now some of my older viewers may have noticed that this is my second version of this episode this is simply because of three reasons the first new information has come out since my first video the second i like to think that i've improved my video making skills since then and finally i have had a few comments lately from you guys asking me to remake them with the new information so i am cave is a dominating presence within aperture even though you never actually meet him in our main timeline games his mad ramblings over the intercoms along with his portraits make the testing labs and hallways feel almost haunted by his presence this place had been his child and he had died before everything had gone awfully bad i have done my best here to use the most accurate dates possible that makes sense but with retconning and dates moving around i'm sure there will be some sort of discrepancy there in a sense i feel bad for cave he worked so hard to build up his company but it slipped through his fingers i really wanted to make this cave story and not the story of aperture or portal although these stories are almost one in the same i have done my best to cut out events that do not include or are not affected by cave one thing i did want to bring up was that there is a common fan theory that cave and caroline are chell's parents i guess there is some logic to it and i may have to dedicate a video to it in the future what do you think is that something you'd like to see closing off this section i would like to leave you with my favorite quote from the entire valve universe all right i've been thinking when life gives you lemons don't make lemonade make life take the lemons back get mad i don't want your damn lemons what am i supposed to do with these demand to see life's manager make life rue the day and thought it could give cave johnson lemons do you know who i am i'm the man who's gonna burn your house down with the lemons i'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down that was the law and story behind the magnificent cave johnson as always if you enjoyed this episode i would really appreciate it if you could leave a like and a comment on your thoughts the algorithm hasn't been too kind to these videos lately so any interaction would be appreciated finally i would like to thank my patrons who are helping to support the channel i really appreciate you thank you to the old gods talus detroit avi wv brunetti jojo scotia imaginary holly ruber mendoza and pottapur i would also like to give an extra special thank you to the elder ones tier jonas lewis and queen arby thank you guys so much for the continued support what did you think of this law for me for a character that we never actually meet cave's presence is absolutely felt throughout aperture he's extremely quotable and memorable what did you think of cave johnson do you think that he would have or will make a difference to the half-life universe in a possible upcoming installment and would you like to see a prequel game in which we meet cave johnson in person and witness the lemon debacle as it happens that was everything i wanted to cover in this episode now test subject enjoy your day and continue your tests bye [Music] so [Music] you

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Length: 28min 33sec (1713 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 22 2022