Captain Paranoia

Captain Paranoia is the tritagonist in The Magic Portal. He's a simple caricature of authority, and the most one dimensional of the cast (apart from the Monster - and even then, it's not so Monstrous in the end). He's pretty much just a stereotype. That eagle crest on his chest was simply the most authoritive logo I could find in the LEGO set. I think I wore out about three of them in the course of the production (as well as four or five L's and two or three P's) so I didn't go to the effort of making a custom front. In hindsight, I really should have. There have been a few people wondering if he was some kind of German/Nazi reference or something. Those critiques caught me completely off guard. Of course not, I say - but in the back of my mind is an filmmaker contemplating his mostly Anglo-Saxon British colonial education and thinking twice about it...

Biography
Captain Paranoia was taking a nap until L woke him up. L tries to explain what happened but Paranoia is mad at him for distrubing him. So he blasts L out of his office. After another nap, Paranoia realizes strange red bricks up ahead. After leaving his office to investigate, Paranoia finds the same portal L went through.

When he goes through, he's in a mysterious white void. He thinks he's alone until a shark fin appears. Once it comes closer to him, it disappears. It suddenly reappears and Paranoia tries to shoot it. When he gets a closer look, the fin tips over and turns out to be the Plasticine. When Paranoia tries to shoot her, the Plasticine becomes a big block of clay and falls on him. She then transformed into a taller orange figure and skates around. Paranoia tries to shoot her again but she becomes a cannon and fires clay at him. She then becomes a drain and flushes Paranoia away.

Captain Paranoia finds himself on the outside of the Lego Universe. He then finds the set of his ship and enters to return. After a discussion with L and P, all three of them go through the portal followed by the Plasticine. This time the portal lead to the outside of the Lego Universe, and in their creators house. Paranoia then realizes the Plasticine is there with him and the others. He tries to attack but P and L convince him to spare her.

When they resume exploring, Paranoia becomes triggered by a nearby sound and accidently shoots one of the Liquid Paper Daleks. When they move on, Paranoia assumes there's something on top of a nearby machine. But then thinks it was just his immagination. They're suddenly ambushed by the Liquid Paper Daleks. When the others flee, Paranoia stays trying to shoot the Liquid Paper Daleks. But his bullets bounce off of them making them fight back. He's then pulled away from them by the Plasticine's tentacle.

They escape through a risky emergency exit and when making it to the bottom enter a white sneaker. When the Daleks come, they take off, losing the Liquid Paper Daleks but then being chased by the monster. They make it into the backyard and hide from the monster behind a shrub. When it passes them, they leave their hiding spot thinking they've lost the monster. But suddenly they pass by the monster and are once again being chased by it.

After riding around the backyard, they make it to the garage and accidently crash into the set for their ship. Shortly after the monster crashed into a camera, Lindsay picks up the characters, rebuilds everything, and places everyone back where they belong.