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* HateSink: Samara, the AlphaBitch bullying Maddie in the first episode. Thankfully, she gets put in her place.
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** Samara, the AlphaBitch bullying Maddie in the first episode. Thankfully, she gets put in her place.
** Renee also becomes this as the show goes on.[[spoiler:She is cold, manipulative, and abusive, pushing Cary to throw aside his morals for the project, threatening Hannah for faltering in her role(even calling her a slut), and manipulating Caspian's love for his "mother". Unlike Cary, she has no real care for her son as his own person, and is prepared to murder Caspian when he sees through the facade, even shooting Cary as well for confessing.]]
** Samara, the AlphaBitch bullying Maddie in the first episode. Thankfully, she gets put in her place.
** Renee also becomes this as the show goes on.[[spoiler:She is cold, manipulative, and abusive, pushing Cary to throw aside his morals for the project, threatening Hannah for faltering in her role(even calling her a slut), and manipulating Caspian's love for his "mother". Unlike Cary, she has no real care for her son as his own person, and is prepared to murder Caspian when he sees through the facade, even shooting Cary as well for confessing.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite what a horrible man Prasad is, he begs Chanda to spare his family when he goes out for blood. Chanda, apparently having fully embraced his inhumanity, [[KickTheDog refuses.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Upon seeing Samara threaten Maddie, [[MamaBear Ellen threatens to harm Samara and suffer the consequences for it.]]
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** Upon seeing Samara threaten Maddie, [[MamaBear Ellen threatens to harm Samara and suffer the consequences for it.]]]]
** Chanda not only sets out to kill Prasad, but torments him even further by massacring his family, including two teenage children, and ''forcing him to watch.'' Compare that to the humble humanitarian from episode 1.
** Upon seeing Samara threaten Maddie, [[MamaBear Ellen threatens to harm Samara and suffer the consequences for it.
** Chanda not only sets out to kill Prasad, but torments him even further by massacring his family, including two teenage children, and ''forcing him to watch.'' Compare that to the humble humanitarian from episode 1.
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Episode 4 reveals this is gradually happening to U.Is. They start out as their human personalities, but as their code breaks down they become more volatile and unstable.[[spoiler:Laurie fears this happening and wants to prevent it when she senses it coming, but Chanda seems to have gone over the deep end when he burns Mr. Prasad and ''his entire family'' alive in revenge.]]
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* NiceGuy: David Kim, a great dad and loving husband as well as an altruistic programmer.
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* BecomingTheMask: While he's in on the conspiracy surrounding his "son" Caspian, Cary grows to genuinely care for the boy and resents having to play the role of cold, abusive father. He eventually breaks down sobbing with remorse after Renee breaks her own arm to frame him and he takes a beating from an enraged Caspian.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Caspian's mother Renee. Despite posing as the timid, caring housewife, she actually cares only for her son as an assignment, has no remorse forcing him to live in a toxic, abusive home, and browbeats her "husband" for not going all in with his role.
* BecomingTheMask: While he's in on the conspiracy surrounding his "son" Caspian, Cary grows to genuinely care for the boy and resents having to play the role of cold, abusive father. He eventually breaks down sobbing with remorse after Renee breaks her own arm to frame him and he takes a beating from an enraged Caspian.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Caspian's mother Renee. Despite posing as the timid, caring housewife, she actually cares only for her son as an assignment, has no remorse forcing him to live in a toxic, abusive home, and browbeats her "husband" for not going all in with his role.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Ellen initially cannot accept or believe that the voice talking to her from Maddie's laptop is her late husband, claiming it's just a program based on David's brainwaves. Thanks to Maddie's favorite RPG, the couple meet each other via VR and she starts to warm up to his new form.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Ellen initially cannot accept or believe that the voice talking to her from Maddie's laptop is her late husband, claiming it's just a program based on David's brainwaves. Thanks to Maddie's favorite RPG, the couple meet each other via VR and she starts to warm up to his new form.form.
* WouldHurtAChild: Upon seeing Samara threaten Maddie, [[MamaBear Ellen threatens to harm Samara and suffer the consequences for it.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Upon seeing Samara threaten Maddie, [[MamaBear Ellen threatens to harm Samara and suffer the consequences for it.]]
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Maddie,Justine,and Caspian all suffer this in different ways. Maddie is cyberbullied by a cruel AlphaBitch and her posse who suicide bait and humiliate her, Caspian is thought of as a creepy loner by most of his peers, and Justine is ostracized and avoided because of her weight. Fortunately, Maddie and Justine become friends while Caspian starts to bond with the more outgoing and friendly Hannah.
* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:Heavily implied so far to be the case for UIs. Logorythims trapped David Kim and another subject in their databanks to use their minds as resources, and in turn given them every reason to rebel. And it only gets ''worse'' by episode 3, where Chanda discovers those who fail the process are trapped in the grid as amorphous, mute wraiths, yet fully remember their human lives.]]
* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:Heavily implied so far to be the case for UIs. Logorythims trapped David Kim and another subject in their databanks to use their minds as resources, and in turn given them every reason to rebel. And it only gets ''worse'' by episode 3, where Chanda discovers those who fail the process are trapped in the grid as amorphous, mute wraiths, yet fully remember their human lives.]]
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Maddie,Justine,and Maddie, Justine, and Caspian all suffer this in different ways. Maddie is cyberbullied by a cruel AlphaBitch and her posse who suicide bait and humiliate her, Caspian is thought of as a creepy loner by most of his peers, and Justine is ostracized and avoided because of her weight. Fortunately, Maddie and Justine become friends while Caspian starts to bond with the more outgoing and friendly Hannah.
* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:Heavily implied so far to be the case forUIs.U.I's. Logorythims trapped David Kim and another subject in their databanks to use their minds as resources, and in turn given them every reason to rebel. And it only gets ''worse'' by episode 3, where Chanda discovers those who fail the process are trapped in the grid as amorphous, mute wraiths, yet fully remember their human lives.]]
* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:Heavily implied so far to be the case for
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* DisposableVagrant:[[spoiler:Mr. Prasad casually reveals that before Chandra, he picked several guinea pigs from the slums of Mumbai to test the uploading process on. Chandra is horrified by this inhumanity while Prasad doesn't blink an eye at these lost lives.]]
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* TrumanShowPlot: Caspian's homelife is a dark twist on this.[[spoiler:His parents are agents of Logorhythms roleplaying a toxic, abusive relationship to mold their son into an asset for the company. His dad Cary is having regrets about this while his mother Renee is more focused.]]
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* TrumanShowPlot: Caspian's homelife is a dark twist on this.[[spoiler:His parents are agents of Logorhythms roleplaying a toxic, abusive relationship to mold their son into an asset for the company. His dad Cary is having regrets about this while his mother Renee is more focused.]]]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Ellen initially cannot accept or believe that the voice talking to her from Maddie's laptop is her late husband, claiming it's just a program based on David's brainwaves. Thanks to Maddie's favorite RPG, the couple meet each other via VR and she starts to warm up to his new form.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Ellen initially cannot accept or believe that the voice talking to her from Maddie's laptop is her late husband, claiming it's just a program based on David's brainwaves. Thanks to Maddie's favorite RPG, the couple meet each other via VR and she starts to warm up to his new form.
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* FatAndSkinny: Maddie and Justine after becoming each other's OnlyFriend.
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* LonersAreFreaks: Caspian. Due to being a brooding quiet teen, he's seen by most of his classmates as a creepy weirdo. One girl even infers that he'd be the type to shoot up the school.
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* TrumanShowPlot: Caspian's homelife is a dark twist on this.[[spoiler:His parents are agents of Logorhythms roleplaying a toxic, abusive relationship to mold their son into an asset for the company. His dad Cary is having regrets about this while his mother Renee is more focused.]]
* TrumanShowPlot: Caspian's homelife is a dark twist on this.[[spoiler:His parents are agents of Logorhythms roleplaying a toxic, abusive relationship to mold their son into an asset for the company. His dad Cary is having regrets about this while his mother Renee is more focused.]]
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* HonestCorporateExecutive: Chanda, who exposits to several investors how U.I will make the world a brighter place.[[spoiler:Unfortunately, his boss Mr. Prasad is ''not'' this and decides to punish Chanda for going against his plans.]]
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* HonestCorporateExecutive: Chanda, who exposits to several investors how U.I will make the world a brighter place.[[spoiler:Unfortunately, his boss Mr. Prasad is ''not'' this and decides to punish Chanda for going against his plans.]]]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Caspian. Due to being a brooding quiet teen, he's seen by most of his classmates as a creepy weirdo. One girl even infers that he'd be the type to shoot up the school.
* LonersAreFreaks: Caspian. Due to being a brooding quiet teen, he's seen by most of his classmates as a creepy weirdo. One girl even infers that he'd be the type to shoot up the school.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou:[[spoiler:When he's at the mercy of Prasad, Chandra begs his boss not to kill him. "Fortunately" Prasad feels Chandra's mind is still a valuable resource, but he didn't say that included his body....]]
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* GroundHogDayLoop:[[spoiler:Chanda ends up imprisoned in one after his successful uploading, where he relives the same boring day over and over, completely unaware what's really happening. But he breaks out when the failed uploads show him the truth and he slips out of his virtual prison unnoticed.]]
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* BrokenBird: Maddie. Poor, poor Maddie.
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* BrokenBird: Maddie. Poor, poor Maddie. Maddie lost her father at a young age, has no friends, and is an outcast at her school, where her bullies e-mail messages telling her to kill herself. In the first episode, it’s clear that Maddie is depressed.
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''Pantheon'' is a 2022 ScienceFiction/Drama AnimatedSeries produced for Creator/AMC, based on the short stories of author Ken Liu.
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''Pantheon'' is a 2022 ScienceFiction/Drama ScienceFiction {{Drama}} AnimatedSeries produced for Creator/AMC, Creator/{{AMC}}, based on the short stories of author Ken Liu.
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The [[https://youtu.be/9rht4XTs2Sw first episode]] was uploaded on September 1, 2022.
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[[caption-width-right:183:What is your humanity worth?]]
[[caption-width-right:183:What is your humanity worth?]]
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* HateSink: Samara, the AlphaBitch bullying Maddie in the first episode. Thankfully, she gets put in her place.
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* DeadPanSnarker: Justine, Maddie's fellow student seems perpetually disinterested and blunt.
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* DeadPanSnarker: DeadpanSnarker: Justine, Maddie's fellow student seems perpetually disinterested and blunt.
* DigitizedHacker: A U.I is a digital copy of a human mind that can freely move through cyberspace and meddle in any computer system. Laurie Lowell wrecks havoc on Logorythms after her transformation and David hacks Maddie's school to dish out some justice on the teens tormenting his daughter.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Prasad, whose such a patient and rational man while [[spoiler:he's having a terrified Chanda's brain sliced open to be digitized, and telling him of the failed test subjects he went through behind his back.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Prasad, whose such a patient and rational man while [[spoiler:he's having a terrified Chanda's brain sliced open to be digitized, and telling him of the failed test subjects he went through behind his back.]]
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Chanda, who exposits to several investors how U.I will make the world a brighter place.[[spoiler:Unfortunately, his boss Mr. Prasad is ''not'' this and decides to punish Chanda for going against his plans.]]
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Chanda, who exposits to several investors how U.I will make the world a brighter place.[[spoiler:Unfortunately, his boss Mr. Prasad is ''not'' this and decides to punish Chanda for going against his plans.]]
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-->"I have to ask. If you get trafficked, it's on me."
-->"I have to ask. If you get trafficked, it's on me."
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Logorythms is led by people who are willing to do anything to see their late founders' dreams achieved, even if it means holding people prisoner as sentient programs and resources. Chandra's boss arguably outclasses them, as [[spoiler:he not only turns his pupil into a U.I through a horrifying and invasive procedure, but casually mentions he's done this to other people. [[LackOfEmpathy With less successful results.]]]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Logorythms is led by people who are willing to do anything to see their late founders' dreams achieved, even if it means holding people prisoner as sentient programs and resources. Chandra's boss arguably outclasses them, as [[spoiler:he not only turns his pupil into a U.I through a horrifying and invasive procedure, but casually mentions he's done this to other people. [[LackOfEmpathy With less successful results.]]]]]]]]
* EmoTeen: Caspian, and Maddie somewhat at first.
* DaddysGirl: In case you couldn't tell by the premise, Maddie. And David was a great dad, so justified.
* DisappearedDad: David Kim. His body is dead, but his mind is still on the grid, and Maddie is ready to take on an entire corporation to bring him home.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Prasad, whose such a patient and rational man while [[spoiler:he's having a terrified Chanda's brain sliced open to be digitized, and telling him of the failed test subjects he went through behind his back.]]
* EmoTeen: Caspian, and Maddie somewhat at first.
* DaddysGirl: In case you couldn't tell by the premise, Maddie. And David was a great dad, so justified.
* DisappearedDad: David Kim. His body is dead, but his mind is still on the grid, and Maddie is ready to take on an entire corporation to bring him home.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Prasad, whose such a patient and rational man while [[spoiler:he's having a terrified Chanda's brain sliced open to be digitized, and telling him of the failed test subjects he went through behind his back.]]
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* BrokenBird: Maddie. Poor, poor Maddie.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Maddie isn't tolerating her mom's attempts to dissuade her from finding out more about her dad's disappearance and accuses her of denying her dad can still be saved.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Maddie isn't tolerating her mom's attempts to dissuade her from finding out more about her dad's disappearance and accuses her of denying her dad can still be saved.
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* AbusiveParents: Caspian's father is a different kind, he's emotionally condescending and constantly challenges his son with complicated equations to gouge his intelligence, clearly never satisfied and smug.[[spoiler:Turns out both he and his wife are acting this way to monitor an emotional response on their prodigy son. It doesn't make them any better.]]
* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:Heavily implied so far to be the case for UIs. Logorythims trapped David Kim and another subject in their databanks to use their minds as resources, and in turn given them every reason to rebel.]]
* BrainUploading: The whole premise is based around humans scanning their brains into the Cloud as new thinking, feeling programs, as well as the ethical implications that carries.
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Madison "Maddie" Kim is not a happy kid. Her father, brilliant programmer Daniel Kim is presumed dead. Kim was a lead designer of the "UI"(Uploaded Intelligence) project, a brilliant advancement to [[BrainUploading scan human minds into the cloud]] [[{{Transhuman}} and become more than human.]] When Daniel was stricken by illness, he volunteered as a test subject and was believed dead when the process went haywire. She faces intense abuse and bullying at school and hasn't any friends. One rainy day, she receives messages from a mysterious stranger who seems to be interested in helping her navigate her issues. This strange new friend soon launches digital vengeance against Maddie's bullies and Madison's mother Ellen is alarmed-especially when Maddie's "friend" begins communicating in ways only her late husband would. Maddie soon hooks up via Chatroom with Caspian, a sullen yet intelligent teenager whose parents have been keeping secrets from him involving [[MegaCorp Logorythims]]
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Madison "Maddie" Kim is not a happy kid. Her father, brilliant programmer Daniel Kim is presumed dead. Kim was a lead designer of the "UI"(Uploaded Intelligence) project, project for tech corporation Logorythims, a brilliant advancement to [[BrainUploading scan human minds into the cloud]] [[{{Transhuman}} and become more than human.]] When Daniel was stricken by illness, he volunteered as a test subject and was believed dead when the process went haywire. She faces intense abuse and bullying at school and hasn't any friends. One rainy day, she receives messages from a mysterious stranger who seems to be interested in helping her navigate her issues. This strange new friend soon launches digital vengeance against Maddie's bullies and Madison's mother Ellen is alarmed-especially when Maddie's "friend" begins communicating in ways only her late husband would. Maddie soon hooks up via Chatroom with Caspian, a sullen yet intelligent teenager whose parents have been keeping secrets from him involving [[MegaCorp Logorythims]]Logorythims]]. Maddie suspects Logorythims has faked her dad's death and is keeping him prisoner, and the two begin a small-scale investigation into the company. Meanwhile, idealistic businessman Chandra hopes to use the "U.I" technology to usher in utopia, but his employers have far more sinister plans and target him as the latest test subject.
A new kind of war is brewing, a battle for humanity between corporate ambition and the souls they victimize, and Maddie and Caspian are caught in the middle of it.
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Madison "Maddie" Kim is not a happy kid. Her father, brilliant programmer Daniel Kim is presumed dead. Kim was a lead designer of the "UI"(Uploaded Intelligence) project, a brilliant advancement to [[BrainUploading scan human minds into the cloud]] [[{{Transhuman}} and become more than human.]] When Daniel was stricken by illness, he volunteered as a test subject and was believed dead when the process went haywire. She faces intense abuse and bullying at school and hasn't any friends. One rainy day, she receives messages from a mysterious stranger who seems to be interested in helping her navigate her issues. This strange new friend soon launches digital vengeance against Maddie's bullies and Madison's mother Ellen is alarmed-especially when Maddie's "friend" begins communicating in ways only her late husband would. Maddie soon hooks up via Chatroom with Caspian, a sullen yet intelligent teenager whose parents have been keeping secrets from him involving [[MegaCorp Logorythims]]
Madison "Maddie" Kim is not a happy kid. Her father, brilliant programmer Daniel Kim is presumed dead. Kim was a lead designer of the "UI"(Uploaded Intelligence) project, a brilliant advancement to [[BrainUploading scan human minds into the cloud]] [[{{Transhuman}} and become more than human.]] When Daniel was stricken by illness, he volunteered as a test subject and was believed dead when the process went haywire. She faces intense abuse and bullying at school and hasn't any friends. One rainy day, she receives messages from a mysterious stranger who seems to be interested in helping her navigate her issues. This strange new friend soon launches digital vengeance against Maddie's bullies and Madison's mother Ellen is alarmed-especially when Maddie's "friend" begins communicating in ways only her late husband would. Maddie soon hooks up via Chatroom with Caspian, a sullen yet intelligent teenager whose parents have been keeping secrets from him involving [[MegaCorp Logorythims]]
