Portal 2's Adoption Jokes Anger Adoptive Parent

After mentioning that Portal's protagonist, Chell, is adopted in the first game, that fact is acknowledged (and joked about) in Portal 2 a number of times. It seemed harmless enough to me, and I hadn't seen any complaints about them or the numerous fat jokes scattered through out the game. However, a North Carolina man, whose daughter is adopted, feels the adoption jokes are unacceptable. (There are some light Portal 2 spoilers ahead and in the video above.)

Neal Stapel's 10-year-old daughter, Marsha, was adopted from China. He was playing the game with her when one of the adoption jokes came up. During the sequence, which you can see here, Wheatley says, "Alright, fatty. Adopted fatty. Fatty, fatty, no parents," which GLaDOS follows up on by whispering to the player, "For the record, you are adopted, and that's terrible, but just stick with me."

Stapel found this to be bad -- really bad. "I didn't know what to do," he said in an interview with WBTV. "I still don't know what to do."

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