The Underground

The logo of the series

The Underground is a Machinima series that is featured on YouTube. In it, there is a core called the Interview Core who started a talk-show where "the rejected are respected and the best-case has no place." It takes place in two forgotten locations within Aperture Science. Currently, there are 5 released episodes, and features a cast consisting of new cores, a turret band, the Mainframe and the Party Escort Bot.

The Cast

Character	Gender	Voiced by
Interview Core	Male	Andrew Walker
Anthony	Male	Mitchell McLeod
Paranoia Core	Female	Jennifer Tonna
Protocol Core	Male	Mitchell McLeod
Elite Core	Male	Peter Bird
Ambition Core	Male	Michael Ferretti
Ego Core	Male	Sean Oxspring
The Mainframe	Male	Harry Callaghan
Party Escort Bot	#UNKNOWN#	Sound Files used from Portal

The Interview Core

Interview Core

“

Don't flatter yourself, you never were a functioning part of anything. — Ego Core describing the Interview Core

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The Interview Core is a corrupted personality core who appears in all episodes of the series. He escaped incineration by GLaDOS and somehow found himself on a table, setting the literal stage for the talk-show. As the host of The Underground, the Interview Core is responsible for interviewing his guests and giving answers to his (possibly empty) audience.

Anthony (and The Band)

The Paranoia Core

Paranoia Core

“

I know there's a hidden chamber full of mantis men! — Paranoia Core

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The Paranoia Core is a corrupted personality core who appears in the first episode of the series. She is suspicious of all things, and speaks like the stereotypical conspiracy theorist, saying that it knows of "secret walls [being built] in the dead of night in secret to house all the secret boxes that contain files of all the secret rooms where all the real secrets are being kept."

Some time after the first episode, the Paranoia Core is fitted to a new frame and, in effect, "becomes" the Party Escort Bot from Portal.

The Protocol Core

Protocol Core

“

I'm not defective, I'm special. — Protocol Core

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The Protocol Core is a corrupted personality core who appears in the second episode of the series. He is very knowledgeable about all Enrichment Center policies and was "hand"-picked by GLaDOS to enforce "all of her wonderful regulations." The Protocol Core is under the idea that it was created to be perfect, and as such, denies being corrupted despite being in placed into an Emergency Intelligence Incinerator prior to the episode.

After the interview, he is brought before the Mainframe and disappears into a shaft underneath it.

The Ambition Core

Ambition Core

“

Just your typical everyday difficulties when dozens of human skulls get in the vents, you know, it happens all the time. — Ambition Core

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The Ambition Core is a corrupted personality core who appears in the fourth episode of the series.

After the interview, he is attached to The Mainframe.

The Ego Core

Ego Core

“

Its not every day Aperture builds a core like me. Perfect! Inside and out. — Ego Core

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The Ego Core, or Onathan, is a corrupted personality core who appears in the fifth episode of the series. Before the events of The Underground, he worked with the Interview Core processing test subjects. Onathan describes himself as more intelligent and superior to the other cores, but is quite narcissistic.After the interview, he was attached to the Mainframe, as the Mainframe "could use an ego boost".

Gallery

The Interview Core and the Paranoia Core   The Paranoia Core as the Party Escort Bot   The Mainframe, based on the old GLaDOS concept art   Anthony (right) and The Band   The Ego Core and the Interview Core   The Elite Core, who appears in the third episode.