r/Portal 1d ago

Arts and crafts Portal X Backrooms Crossover Art

Due to the recent Portal leak, as well as the fact that Kane Parsons would like to make a Portal movie (and was inspired by Portal when creating the Backrooms movie), I wanted to draw everyone's attention to these Portal X Backrooms crossover art pieces I’ve found across various platforms, Sources for said art are in a reply below this.

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u/Gordon_Peteman 1d ago

Aperture science discovering the backrooms knowing they now have infinite space to build test chambers

https://giphy.com/gifs/0TPFvIW8vgduA8juNL

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u/Dancin_Angel 1d ago

borealis found in the back

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u/A_Bird_Man 1d ago

im imagining a universe where the Perpetual Testing Initiative takes place in the Backrooms rather than a bunch of different alternate universes

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u/Hi5studiofan 1d ago edited 1d ago

the multi-series Chell in the backrooms art is by pumqinjun on Instagram

Aperture Investment Opportunity is by u/mars_gorilla on reddit

The art with chell and weighted storage cube is by raybot.exe on instagram/twitter

The cake is a lie art is done by u/alex17gx on reddit

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u/Hi5studiofan 1d ago

Higher Quality image of the Aperture Investment Opportunity which is again by mars_gorilla

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u/mars_gorilla 1d ago

AAAAAA thank you for featuring me!!!

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u/Hi5studiofan 1d ago

np! you made some awesome art that deserves to be shared!

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u/Hi5studiofan 1d ago edited 22h ago

wheatley in the backrooms art is by girldawgcity on tumblr

the still life chell art is by pumqinjun on instagram

the frankenturret stuck half way inside the wall art is done by nehowke on tumblr

the glados still life gif is done by u/god_of_war on reddit I think

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u/Hi5studiofan 1d ago

I also found this cool Portal X Backrooms animation! https://www.reddit.com/r/Portal/s/TpEwI1s3XN

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u/LingonberryHoliday93 1d ago

Absolute Peak from the artists

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u/breadboi96 1d ago

Wild rosemary

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u/Usual_Database307 1d ago

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u/Witty-Forever-6985 14h ago

What is this 😭

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u/Usual_Database307 14h ago

I thought it was more personal than just telling people I liked stuff.

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u/Witty-Forever-6985 12h ago

It's very good

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u/Sh33pL0rd 1d ago

The wheat field Chell enters at the end of Portal 2 seems kind of liminal

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u/RageSquid12 1d ago

"Alright, so some of you might have heard that we are running out of space to build our Science Spheres. Apparently if we use any more explosives to make more, the whole thing might collapse on us. So, I had the lab boys cook something up. The "Backrooms" or something. Basically just an endless series of rooms, but I think we can make it work. Now we still don't know if it's entirely safe yet, the first test subjects we sent haven't returned, so keep your head on a swivel, and let's do some science!"

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u/Seltnytt 1d ago

Peak content posted on r/portal rejoice

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u/Poopsweats2026 1d ago

"... ... ... ... ...! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... !"

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u/syo 1d ago

The idea of infinite backroom testing chambers actually kind of gives me chills.

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u/Techny3000 1d ago

this is crazy good holy heck

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u/WarmKitty93 1d ago

Slide 2 she has no Aperture logo and 3 has it mirrored

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u/Cl1cher 21h ago

Honestly, I remember how I and my friend were discussing about this film, and I compared Async to Aperture Science

Like ... As for me, In scale of what they do - the transition from MRI machines to a whole separate dimension that permeates reality(?) looks very similar how Aperture gone from shower curtains to portals etc.

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u/AdhesivenessUsed9956 1d ago

Cave already has infinite universes to exploit... ... ...but yeah, he'd totally go for this too. Probably try to find the backrooms in the money universe to have double infinite money.

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u/Captain-Girpool23 1d ago

Damn Backrooms are so messed up and bad Chell would rather be back at actual Aperture Labs under GLaDOS’ surveillance

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u/Having_fun999 1d ago

This is a gem

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u/The_Viatorem 1d ago

Yeah, I would also take GLaDOS’ usual brand of shenanigans over the Backrooms

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u/ShowbizTinkering 20h ago

I love idea of the Backrooms not understanding the difference of a mechanical being and an organic one

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u/Lumpy_Assumption_939 1d ago

holy shit! awesome work

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u/spencer_world 1d ago

Last image would go hard as fuck for a portal x backrooms fan game.

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u/GammaDie345 1d ago

soooo f stop

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u/Unusual_Rooster6736 1d ago

Ok so if a surface is partially absorbed into a wall and you shoot a portal at it could you escape from one end or would the portal be cut in half?

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u/Samjb09 1d ago

Too much for my brain to process right now but I'm still amazed

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u/Signal_State_5686 16h ago

POV: Your portal closed as you passed through it

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u/Plane-Season-4127 12h ago

This is an amazing concept. I'd play something like this in a heartbeat.

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u/The_Maajkel77 22h ago

Awesome! Nice crossover!

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u/InsuranceFluid8272 Aperture Science Official Handheld Portal Device Taste Tester 18h ago

That GLaDOS spiked my heart rated. Holy fuck that’s good.

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u/Lordhedgehog53 16h ago

I never thought of it, but it makes complete sens

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u/Daybroken_ 14h ago

Literally just the best thing ever????

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u/BajaBlastimusPrime2 9h ago

Enter the testrooms

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u/SilverPolarity 9h ago

SO LIKE HEAR ME OUT ON THE STILL LIFE GLADOS, WHY IS SHE SO FAT AND CHUBBY

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u/SkinIsSoSilly 9h ago

I was sent here from the Portal modding Discord talking about how hot they thought GLaDOS was

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u/Aggravating-Eye9745 7h ago

I want this as a game

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u/JacksonSpike 4h ago

Jesus fucking christ that GLaDOS still life is horrifying

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u/Oofmedouble 4h ago

I would read a whole comic of this