Your Weighted Companion Cube and You! Quiz

Answer: Heart

Your Weighted Companion Cube may be the only friend you get in Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Not appearing until much later in the experiment, GLaDOS will provide you with your new, cubic pal in hopes that you may (or may not) advance through the later stages of testing.

The heart on each face of the Weighted Companion Cube symbolize the love it has for you and its willingness to assist you in any way.

Answer: The Aperture Science Logo

Like your Weighted Companion Cube, these inanimate, six-sided objects can be used in many different situations. Although on the surface, the only difference between an Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube and the Weighted Companion Cube may be their respective logos, you may find yourself, in later levels, relying on the Weighted Companion Cube on more personal levels. After all, your long tenure with Aperture Science is a lonely, sterile, desolate job. It's probably for the best that you don't socialize amongst the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes.

Aperture Science is pleased to bring you these cubes for your testing needs. Please use them at your own discretion, however.

Answer: Level 17

Sadly, of the nineteen testing areas of Aperture Science Enrichment Center, Level 17 is the first in which you may fraternize with your new-found friend; the Weighted Companion Cube. Despite this, however, Aperture Science Enrichment Center will be pleased to inform you that you will be provided with numerous Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes that will be placed at your disposal in many of the preceding levels of testing.

As noted, the distinguishing trait between these different cubes is the logo placed upon them, so upon arriving at Level 17, you will most definitely notice a change in the overall appearance and demeanor of your cube...particularly in its companionship.

Answer: True

Due to the Gravity Gun apparatus located on the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, many items, from regular Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes to the Weighted Companion Cube to machinery and otherwise, will be lifted, thrown, moved, and tossed about in order to complete missions and objectives.

In doing this, you can utilize your various cubes for different errands such as pressing down switches. Often times, due to the fact that switches require constant pressure, you'll need to use the cubes to access doors that would normally close if you were to navigate the Enrichment Center alone.

Answer: Speak

Upon entering Level 17, GLaDOS will give you the all-important Weighted Companion Cube. In describing the numerous attributes of this supporting character, GLaDOS will state that it will accompany you through the remaining testing chambers, and that you must protect it as well as you can.

Despite this, however, you may find that it's better to be used as protection rather than your own body. GLaDOS also makes the astute observation that your Weighted Companion Cube, in fact, can not speak. If it does speak, she adds, you are warned to disregard its advice.

In addition, despite the fact that many symptoms of Aperture Science Enrichment Center test subjects involve hallucinations and perceiving inanimate objects as animated, the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you.

Answer: Yes

In later test chambers, when you come across sets of friendly, Aperture Science Security Sentry Turrets, the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube/Weighted Companion Cube will be a great way to cover enemy fire from these otherwise cooperative units.

Although the Sentry Turrets will speak in calm manners, they will not hesitate to fire at any, if not all moving objects in their range of sight. Using the Gravity Gun attachment, using large, loose objects and tossing them at Sentry Turrets may be the most convenient way to make a less dangerous path to the elevator and the next testing facility. If you feel that you don't need your Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube in this particular instance, you could always attempt to knock over a Sentry Turret with another Sentry Turret.

This will result in the 'Friendly Fire' achievement.

Answer: A Vital Apparatus Vent

GLaDOS will voluntarily give you the Weighted Companion Cube, and like the rest of the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes from around the Enrichment Center, they will be dispensed from large overhead tubes at the start of a test chamber. In Test Camber 17, the Weighted Companion Cube's Vital Apparatus Vent will be denoted by a floor tile depicting an unidentified person hugging a cube.
If you investigate an open wall panel later in Test Chamber 17, you'll discover cryptic words from a previous test subject. A small poem is scrawled on the wall:

Not in cruelty
Not in wrath
The REAPER came today;
An ANGEL visited
This gray path,
And took the cube away

What could these mean for your one and only companion?

Answer: Euthanasia

In completing the seventeenth test chamber of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, GLaDOS will state that you must toss your Companion Cube, using the Gravity Gun, into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator. Despite the fact that GLaDOS will initially support your friendship with the Weighted Companion Cube, she will further encourage you to kill off the beloved character, then enforce guilt, claiming that you have performed euthanasia on the only companion you've had throughout the entire experience- perhaps the only companion you've ever had. Nonetheless, what must be done must be done. Without the sacrifices made, you would not be able to advance to the eighteenth testing chamber.

Answer: Fratricide

Worth a mere 5 Gamerpoints, 'Fratricide' is one of many "Portal"-related achievements (there's fourteen in the entire game, totaling 175 Gamerpoints). As described by the achievement itself, the award is gained through doing 'whatever it takes to survive'.

In other words, performing the act of euthanasia on your beloved Weighted Companion Cube, an act that is relatively unavoidable in the game, will result in this achievement. Unfortunately, your Weighted Companion Cube is the only cube in the game to be 'killed'. None of the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cubes, in general, will require murderous acts be done on them to proceed with the testing.

Answer: True

Following the end credits and GLaDOS' rendition of the song "Still Alive", a camera will zoom through the bowels of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Upon arriving at a relatively dark, yet large room, the camera will in fact prove that the cake may not quite be a total, complete lie. With a black forest cake on a small table, surrounded by power cells, you can find your Weighted Companion Cube.
What's a party without your closest friends, right?