Let and take
This formula is upward absolute between transitive models: if the smaller model contains such an , the assumed absoluteness of “function”, domain, range, and shows that the same witness works in the larger model.
The generic union is a total map , because the conditions deciding each input form a dense set. For every , the conditions putting somewhere in the range are also dense, so is surjective. Thus . But because regards as its first uncountable ordinal. Hence is not downward absolute between and .