Harry Callaghan, also known as
Harry101UK
, is a musician, voice actor, and animator on
YouTube. His channel focuses on the
Portal series and the various
Personality Cores that inhabit Aperture Labs. He also runs a
Let's Play channel,
Harry101UK Gaming (formerly called Harry102UK). He also composed the soundtrack for the
Portal 2 mod Portal Stories: Mel and most of
Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative, as well as the
Machinima series
The Underground.
Tropes that appear in his videos:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: The Fact Core in the Meet the Cores series to some degree. His egotism and "know-it-all-ness" is toned down quite a bit from Portal 2, (if not completely absent) with 'Onathan the Ego Core taking on the role instead. He does however at least mention that he supposedly knows everything in Meet the Cores 2.
- Armor-Piercing Question: In "Meet the Cores 1", 'Onathan is asked what his purpose is. In "Meet the Cores 2" he decides that he's a role model. For what, you may ask? He's still not sure.
- Author Avatar: The Fact Core represents Harry's reactions to comments in the Reading Your Comments videos.
- Badass Adorable: The Turret Core. More badass but just as adorable as the regular turrets.
- Berserk Button:
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Tests with sharks! Tests with lasers! Tests with lasers on the sharks!
- The Cake Is a Lie: As in the source material, the promise of cake is used to motivate test subjects. Humorously, one of the comments featured in "Reading Your Comments" theorizes that the cake is actually a pie.
Fact Core: Woah. This changes everything...
- Canon Immigrant: 'Onathan and Virgil.
- Comedic Sociopathy: Anything referring to humans. The songs thrive on this.
- Continuity Nod: Spider-Man appears in his Homemade Suit in "Mission Importalable" because Aperture stole his StarkTech suit, as revealed in "Meet The Cores 3".
- Crapsack World: It's heavily implied the cores are all somewhat faulty copies of human brains for a start. Specifically the brains of test subjects who involuntarily donated them to science when they died and presumably scientists who wanted to continue their work after biological death.
- Cyberspace: The Omni Core predicts futures by simulating entire universes.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Glitchy.
- Disney Owns This Trope: Apparently, Aperture Science has a patent on lava.
- Dodgeball Is Hell: Any observant viewer would quickly notice that the ball with the mixed gels looks and sounds like a dodgeball, with the bounciness and destructive potential cranked up to eleven.
- Doughnut Mess With A Cop: Played with. Chuck the Police Core cannot eat doughnuts for obvious reasons, but he does like to look at them.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: The Drill-Sergeant Core trains turrets to become the ruthless killing machines they were designed to be. When one of the turrets says that it doesn't want to kill, the turret is taken away.
- Driven to Suicide: Robot Number 44note He couldn't take it anymore.
- Expy: The Narrator Core and St4nl3y are just their Stanley Parable counterparts as personality constructs.
- Fanboy: The Wave Core is really hyper and excited about underwater tests. Understandably, he's friends with the Space Core.
- A Fate Worse Than Death: Mostly directed at Wheatley; a popular option is an exile to Android Hell.
- Get Out!: How Omni Core reacts when asked if the cake is actually a lie.
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: The Construction Core's reaction when a bridge buckles under Atlas and P-Body's truck, causing the truck to fall into a pit.
- Hell Is That Noise: The gel ball in Meet the Cores 3 makes incredibly fast bouncing sounds. Whenever the sound is heard, something bad is about to happen.
- The Host: The Fact Core in Meet the Cores 2 and 3.
- Humans Are Morons: In Meet the Cores 3, the brains of some humans were made into intelligence-dampening spheres.
- Humiliation Conga: 'Onathan the Ego Core suffers one hell of a bad day in Meet the Cores 3. First, he gets Blown Across the Room when he uses an untested setting on his "Badge-Shiner". Then, a bouncing gel ball thing smacks him in the face (or, technically his body), damaging his chassis, ruining his paint job, and worst of all, causing his newly-shined badge to fall off a scaffold. Then, he experiences a Mushroom Samba, causing him to run afoul of Chuck the Police Core, who tasers him and causes him to fall for God knows how long.
- Ironic Allergy: A man whose brain was uploaded into a toaster admits to having a wheat allergy.
- It's All About Me: 'Onathan, the Ego Core. He even sets up a presentation in Meet The Cores 1 called "385 Reasons Why I'm Better Than You"!.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The Humiliation Conga mentioned above? All of it was caused by Ego Core's impatience, as the mixed gel breached containment purely because his Badge-Shiner's turbo setting caused a short circuit in that wing.
- Last Note Nightmare: The Pit Song.
- Me's a Crowd: At the end of Meet the Cores 3, the Ego Core falls into a cloning machine. The clones start talking about how great all of them are.
- Musicalis Interruptus: In Meet the Cores 2, the Fact core interrupts the Music Core's parody of Hello.
- Mythology Gag: At one point in Meet the Cores 2, a trio of cores talk about GLaDOS. One of them says he heard that GLaDOS sent some cores to space. Not only the scene then cuts to Wheatley and Space Core as he says this, but when it cuts back to Aperture, Fact Core, who was one of the cores in the talk, confirms it (since Chell had to attach him to Wheatley).
- Narcissist: 'Onathan the Ego Core, again.
- Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer for Meet the Cores 3 mentions a segment in which the Fact Core says that the test subjects are basically vegetables. The Rainbow Core at the end of the trailer doesn't appear either.
- No OSHA Compliance: As seen in Meet The Cores 3 the facility doesn't have a backup power source for the shield keeping the gel ball from escaping should the main power fail.
- Only Sane Man: The Fact Core is probably the most "normal" core in the facility (or at least, the least insane).
- Planimal: Rose, the Botanical Core, injected praying mantis DNA into a potato. The potato grew legs and walked away.
- Police Brutality: Implied. Chuck tells the Ego Core that the latter's "lucky" that the former is wearing a chassis-cam and is rail-mounted.
- Precision F-Strike: Technically repeated multiple times due to being in the chorus of Wheatley's Rap, but the videos don't normally contain any swearing.
That little moron couldn't handle it. He gained some power and he lost his shit
- Refuge in Audacity: In Meet the Cores 3, it's revealed that Aperture Science has a patent on lava. Even the Legal Core doesn't seem to know how they got it but they did. Now what to do with it all...
- Running Gag: In every 'Reading Your Comments' video, there is always one comment that says "tat was mazing".
- Shout-Out:
- One core has a mask and is rather difficult to understand.
- Many songs are Portal-themed covers of songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- The Narrator Core, who even has the same voice actor as The Stanley Parable's narrator.
- Darth Vader was not happy to see the Adventure Core be brought to the Death Star.
- Some of the things brought through the multiverse portal are:
- The multiverse portal leads to Rapture. Fact Core ends up briefly encountering a Big Daddy.
- 'Onathan's clones have a "conversation" at one point consisting of the following:
- All Robot Number 62 ever saw was blue.
- Sleeping with the Boss: Not sleeping, but 'Onathan claims to have dated GLaDOS at one point. He ended up breaking up with her, as she "couldn't live up to [his] exacting standards".
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: Not human per say, but Glitchy, the white-eyed core first introduced at the end of Meet The Cores 1, catches on fire right as he's about to say what he thinks is the reason for his creation. In Meet The Cores 2 after being fixed by Virgil, he explodes.
Virgil: He does that a lot!
- Take That!: Codsworth Reviews Fallout 76 has
Codsworth warn the player about the many bugs and Scrappy Mechanics in Fallout 76, which he Hand Waves as effects of the nuclear war and radiation. - Tempting Fate: The bouncing gel ball is contained by a shield, and as long as the shield stays on, the gel ball won't be any trouble. The shield turns off moments later.
- 30-Second Blackout: But still long enough to cause problems throughout Meet the Cores 3.
- Too Dumb to Live: Many entries on Dumb Ways to Die certainly qualify.
