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* YouWakeUpInARoom: The first two games give shades of this, with sterile white walls and strange machinery all around you. [[spoiler: ''Soul Core'' reveals these to be VR simulations you were put under.]]

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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: ''Cube Core'' has a tube that shrinks or enlarges you at the push of a button, allowing you to become small enough to explore inside the cube.

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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: ''Cube Core'' has a tube that shrinks or enlarges you at DataCrystal: The fourth game features crystal data discs.
* DilatingDoor: The entrance to
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* TheFuture: The fourth game reveals that you are in the year [[spoiler: 2733 Ad]]


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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: ''Cube Core'' has a tube that shrinks or enlarges you at the push of a button, allowing you to become small enough to explore inside the cube.


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* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: The Chronoporter in ''Soul Core'', which transports chunks of land depending on the date and coordinates. You largely use it to [[MundaneUtility retrieve mundane objects]] from the past.
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* FoxGrainChickenPuzzle: The final puzzle of the Tech tower is this, with five animals to be moved from one cell to another, without any of them eating each other.

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* FoxGrainChickenPuzzle: The FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: In the fifth game, the final puzzle of the Tech tower is this, with five animals this. Four alien creatures and a can of radioactive materials have to be moved from one cell to another, without any of them eating each other.dying.
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* FoxGrainChickenPuzzle: The final puzzle of the Tech tower is this, with five animals to be moved from one cell to another, without any of them eating each other.
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* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle: The giant prism in ''Prism Core'' can be rotated to varying colors, some of which are required for certain puzzles.
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* QueensPuzzle: The Tower of Spirit in ''Tower Core'' contains this, with five discs to be arranged in the N=6 format.
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* MeaningfulName: Your given name in the fourth game is Subject XY, relating to your male gender.

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* MeaningfulName: Your given name in the fourth game is [[spoiler: Subject XY, relating to your male gender.]]
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* GiveMeYourInventoryItem: In ''Tower Core'', to pass a gate, you have to [[spoiler: sacrifice your teleporter watch to a god. Luckily, you can fix it.]]


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* MatterReplicator: The TRANSMAT machine in the third and fifth game, capable of taking raw materials and building them into items, even from photographs and Info-Goggles.


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* NightVisionGoggles: A variant in ''Tower Core'' with the Info-Scan goggles, capable of analyzing various things in the environment.


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* SuperWristGadget: Your watch in the 5th game, which controls a [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]] between Earth and a distant planet.
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* OneHundredPercentCompletion: In ''Soul Core'', getting your companion's soul value to 100% nets you the [[SuperDeformed "Super Cute Ending"]].
* AlienInvasion: The plot of the final game, ''Tower Core'', revolves around charging a giant [[RayGun laser turret]] to destroy an alien scout ship.


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* MeaningfulName: Your given name in the fourth game is Subject XY, relating to your male gender.


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* SolveTheSoupCans:
** The first three games are relatively justified, being part of a training program to prove your worth. The fourth even requires creating a female companion to run through the same gauntlet.
** Played straighter with ''Tower Core'', given how much time it takes to solve puzzles to reach every energy source.
* ShoutOut: Your clothing and that of your companion's highly resemble [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker's outfit.]]
* TheReveal: ''Soul Core'' opens with [[spoiler: a holographic message explaining that you are Subject XY, an [[ArtificialHuman artificial human]] created to be immune to the radioactive dust caused by a passing meteor.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: You finally see your reflection in a mirror in ''Soul Core''. Your hair and eye color are also randomly different per play.
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* LegoGenetics: The second and third games include machines that can create life forms by injecting varying amounts of genetic materials into a petri dish.
* MultipleEndings: ''Prism Core'' gives you three unique items to pick at the beginning, which determine the type of puzzles you solve. [[spoiler: Two of them lead out into the sewers, but the final, most complex path leads to the start of ''Soul Core''.]]
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''Core'' is a series of five Flash games developed by John Feltham between 2007 and 2010, centering on a titular Power core in varying environments, usually with complex puzzles to solve in the process.

The episodes are:
* [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/405546?emulate=flash Sphere Core]]
* [[https://www.freewebarcade.com/game/cube-core/ Cube Core]]
* [[https://www.freewebarcade.com/game/prism-core/ Prism Core]]
* [[https://www.freewebarcade.com/game/soul-core/ Soul Core]]
* [[https://www.freewebarcade.com/game/tower-core/ Tower Core]]

!!The Core series contains examples of:

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: ''Cube Core'' has a tube that shrinks or enlarges you at the push of a button, allowing you to become small enough to explore inside the cube.
* OminousCube: ''Cube Core'', naturally, centers on a giant white cube that needs a power core to operate.
* YouWakeUpInARoom: The first two games give shades of this, with sterile white walls and strange machinery all around you. [[spoiler: ''Soul Core'' reveals these to be VR simulations you were put under.]]

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