Ego Core

Onathan from where he first appears in Meet The Cores.

Onathan as he appears in the second episode.

> "*Some people say that I have an ego. That I'm a nepotistic, self-indulgent and overly-narcissistic core. They're all just jealous of my perfection.*"
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Onathan is an Aperture Science Personality Construct who was built to be an "Ego Core", meaning he is (at almost all times) overly narcissistic and full of himself, believing himself to be better than all other cores in the facility.

He was first introduced as part of the series The Underground, but has gained more popularity recently after appearing as a recurring character on the series Meet The Cores.

In his introduction in The Underground, he remarked that he didn't like to be called Jonathan because he disliked having to pronounce the 'J' sound.

According to a story he told in Meet The Cores 2, Onathan dated GLaDOS for a time, but decided that she just wasn't good enough for him.

## 385 Reasons Why I'm Better Than You

When he first appears in Episode 1 of Meet the Cores, a slideshow is playing behind Onathan. This slideshow is called "385 Reasons why I'm better than you", and plays in the background.

### List of Reasons

1. I'm just better than you.
2. My cervo [sic]-motor is bigger than yours.
3. I was built to be perfect in every way (and you weren't).
4. My intelligence chip is more intelligent (than yours).
5. 'Onathan is a better name than your name.
6. My job is far more important than yours.
7. I own more trophies than you. (you don't own any) (probably).
8. My optic is more HD than yours.
The camera cuts away to Rusty, and when it returns the slides are already quite far ahead.

174. I can pronounce "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliconvolcaniconiosis" perfectly. (and you can't)
175. I own a significantly higher amount of hats than you.

## Meet The Cores 3

Onathan is first seen watching TV when he sees an ad for the Aperture Science Badge Buffer. Deciding his badge could do with a bit of buffing, he buys 7. However, while having one buff his badge, he decides it's taking too long and turns on Turbo Mode, an experimental feature. The buffer malfunctions and zaps Onathan, knocking him off his Management Rail and out of consciousness, which also causes a power failure in that section of the facility. Unfortunately, the outage causes a hyperactive gel ball to escape its' containment chamber, injuring Fergus and the Fact Core who were observing it.

Later Onathan is seeing singing to himself while traveling on his Management Rail along a catwalk, apparently having recovered from the Badge Buffer knocking him out. He encounters the rogue gel ball from earlier, which strikes him hard, splitting his handles in two, causing his left side panel to come loose, covering him with red gel, and knocking his badge off, which falls from the catwalk. Understandably Onathan is distraught over losing his badge.

The video later cuts to Onathan at the bar of The Encore Club. He asks for the strongest thing they've got from Bar Atlas, in an attempt to cope with the loss of his badge. He has it administered via a cable and as a result hallucinates Loose-Screws Louis as his badge telling him that he's the best core. Eventually though Onathan's hallucinations wear off and he is confronted by Chuck. Unfortunately Onathan can't form an intelligible sentence thanks to still being intoxicated and he is eventually tased by Chuck. Even worse, Chuck tases him for so long he falls off his Management Rail and down a long shaft. Onathan ends up landing in the R&D lab's unknown machine, which turns out to have the ability to clone things put in it. As a result of Onathan landing in the machine, clones of him start to be made, which all start to converse with each other as they're produced.

## Notes

* Onathan is voiced by Sean Oxspring.
* Onathan's name used to be Jonathan, but he changed it out of a dislike for the letter J.
* Onathan is sometimes spelt as 'Onathan, using an apostrophe to imply that a letter has been dropped.
* Onathan's badge was different in Meet The Cores 1. It still had '#1 CORE' on it, but it had purple and yellow stripes as well as being smaller than his current one. It is possible that Onathan had already had his purple-and-yellow badge for several years by the time of Meet The Cores 1, and that prior to the events of Meet The Cores 3 he had decided to replace it with a new version.

## Trivia

* An image is shown in Meet The Cores 1 which depicts Onathan next to a trophy engraved with "BEST CORE 1992", which he presumably won. Of note is that he is without his badge in the picture, though it could have been taken before he acquired one. Also of note is the reflection in the trophy next to him being just an empty white room.