The Core

> We're not Marcy, not anymore. We are a collection of Amphibia's greatest minds, uploaded into a unified consciousness.
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> The Core revealing its identity to Anne and Sasha.

> Andrias, stand up and fight, **YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A KING**! We are all you need! **WE** are all you will ever HAVE!
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> The Core/Darcy ordering King Andrias to keep fighting.

> FOOLS! You cannot stop... **A GOD!**
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> The Core to the Calamity Trio as it tries to crash itself into Amphibia.

**The Core**, also known as **Darcy** while possessing Marcy Wu, is the overarching antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series *Template:W*.

It is a mechanical amalgamation of Amphibia's greatest minds and previous rulers that intends to rule over the multiverse. It was the master of King Andrias and the archenemy of the Calamity Trio.

Its main voice was portrayed by Template:W. While possessing Marcy Wu, it was voiced by Template:W.

### What Makes it Pure Evil

* The Core is an assimilation of Amphibia's greatest minds and past rulers, including King Aldrich, who conquer other worlds for their resources and abuse their families, making it incredibly likely no one in the Core can be called a good person.
* For generations, the Core has attempted to conquer the entire multiverse with the use of the Calamity Box, and had each generation eradicate and colonize planets for their resources. If King Aldrich's practices are anything to go by, his ancestors most likely wiped out all life on the planets they conquered.
* The Core is so unwilling to lose control of Amphibia that it robotized the planet's blood moon and made a plan that, if it ever lost a war and Amphibia was liberated from it, it would take control of the moon to crash it into Amphibia's surface, destroying everything and wiping out all life out of spite.
* Mentally and emotionally abused King Andrias for thousands of years in order to make him continue with their goals. It’s implied they’ve been doing this with other rulers for generations, including King Aldrich.
* When Marcy, Olivia and Yunan attempted to escape the palace, the Core uses illusions of their worst fears to torture them.
* In a incredibly painful process, it possesses Marcy Wu to become “Darcy” and locked her away in a chamber in her own mind, with plans to assimilate her fully.
	+ It is later revealed that it kept Marcy in a fantasy land while wiping her memories and when she regains them, on behalf of the Core, King Aldrich later destroys the fantasy land and keeps her in darkness in the hope of erasing her entire personality.
* It continuously mocks Andrias after his failures, taunting him by claiming he was a pathetic excuse for a king.
* Has Andrias lead against and start harvesting resources in Amphibia in order to invade Earth. This results in Wartwood and numerous other towns being destroyed, the natural environment becoming polluted and reduced to a nearly inhospitable wasteland, and many monsters and creatures being enslaved with mind control collars to increase its army.
* Captured Anne, Sasha, the Plantars, Grime, Frobo, Yunan, Olivia, Domino 2 and Joe Sparrow when they tried to get the Calamity Box and planned to kill Anne in order to take back the magic she possessed. It only stopped when Anne points out it wouldn’t know if it would kill the magic and decided to keep her alive just in case, and planned to brainwash them anyway.
	+ Yet, even after deciding to keep Anne alive and held prisoner, the Core informed her it wanted her to watch it destroy her home world before it eventually kills her.
* Invaded Los Angeles and sent robots and mind controlled creatures out to attack and attempt to kill everyone, and then eventually destroy Earth for its resources, which in the havoc might have hurt or even killed people.
	+ To make matters worse, the Core itself is shown destroying a few tanks that no doubt killed several soldiers.
* Threatened Andrias to forbid him from joining it with his father and ancestors if he failed again.
* Berated Andrias who was going through a breakdown and attempted to painfully brainwash him and force him to kill Anne and Sprig once more, even being angry at Aldrich, one of its collectives, for Andrias' failures.
* During the battle with Sasha and Grime, it sliced Sasha across the back and almost killed her, leading to Grime pushing her out of the way and getting his arm sliced off, which the Core made a sick joke about.
* Creating an illusions of Anne and Marcy to trick Sasha into lowering her guard and injures her back by slicing it with its scythe.
* After getting its connection to Marcy's body severed by Sasha and the invasion on Earth was stopped, the Core’s helmet hacked Amphibia's blood moon and took control of it, attempting to crash itself into Amphibia to kill everyone and everything out of sheer spite and inability to accept its failure.
* It attempts to use robotic creatures to try and kill Anne, Sasha and Marcy to stop them from destroying it and when it fails, has Aldrich cowardly beg Andrias to save them.
* Its last attack had caused Anne to temporarily get killed, as she uses the entire power of the three stones in order to completely destroy the Core. Although Anne does get resurrected by the Guardian, it's left ambiguous if the resurrected Anne is the real deal in a new body or just a clone; it's even implied Anne will suffer existential trauma later on in life.
* While it is said they are afraid of dying and becoming irrelevant and forgotten, it is a petty and laughable excuse and is called out pretty quickly, as Sasha claims it to be a “sore loser", to which Andrias even responds, "more or less".
* Its actions still have somewhat irreversible damage, as it causes a strain and possible trauma to Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, and it caused the Stones to be destroyed, preventing the trio from ever visiting Amphibia again.
* While it does have a few comedic moments as Darcy, they aren't really detracting from the Core's evil nature as it is still played mostly seriously and the few comedic moments were incredibly brief. If anything, they show how sadistic they are, such as their infamous "dis-armed" joke as mentioned above. Not to mention that by the time of the finale, the Core is taken completely seriously and becomes purely loathsome.
* While it was originally considered an organization, the Core is shown to be more of a unified consciousness, with it merely being *influenced* by those inside of it rather than *being* the minds inside of it. Thus, it is its own individual than a group of people. Furthermore, other characters (including the Core itself on occasion) constantly refer to it as a single person, further proving it doesn't count as an organization or group.
* Unlike other villains such as King Andrias, it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

The Core is, alongside King Aldrich, one of the two *Amphibia* characters to be Pure Evil.
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