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* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' loves this one. Any time Touga is alone with Anthy or Akio, it's pretty much Cryptic Conversation time. Then there's the "chick" speech that Touga says every time the Student Council has one of their meetings. Then there's that time in Episode 13 where Akio is talking at Dios. And then there's the Shadow Play girls.
** I think you mean that time in episode 13 when Akio is talking to ''Anthy''. ;) Seriously, try watching that episode over with that impression -- if the dialogue isn't enough to back it up, there's also the fact that you can see her figure silhouetted in the doorway with Akio as they walk out. And then when she walks back, Utena asks her where she was.

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* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' loves obfuscated allusions, and it is part of what makes [[RewatchBonus rewatches of this one. Any time Touga is alone with Anthy or Akio, it's pretty much Cryptic Conversation time. Then there's series so rewarding]].
** The GreekChorus shadow plays relate to
the "chick" speech that Touga says every time themes of the Student Council has one episode, but vary in how easy they are to parse. Some of them aren't straightforward in the slightest, and the viewer is always on their meetings. Then there's own about how to interpret them.
** Touga, Anthy, and Akio are primary vectors of this trope in the main action of the series, especially when they get together.
** The {{framing device}} of episode 13 is one long cryptic conversation; so cryptic
that time in Episode 13 where Akio there is doubt about who he is talking at Dios. And then there's the Shadow Play girls.
** I think you mean that time in episode 13 when Akio is
to. Is he talking to ''Anthy''. ;) Seriously, try watching that episode over with that impression -- if the dialogue isn't enough silent prince, [[spoiler:or to back it up, there's also the fact that you can see her Anthy? Her figure is silhouetted in the doorway with Akio as they walk out. And then when she walks back, Utena asks her where she was.he leaves. If the viewer assumes he's talking to Anthy,]] the scene is more even more sinister than it initially seems.
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** [[https://under-lore.tumblr.com/post/692476837791662080/what-are-the-demon-texts One update added]] a cryptic message from a certain entity to somebody unknown that can only be read by datamining the game's code. Version [=1.05A=] included an additional line reading "HE IS" before version 1.06 immediately removed it.

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** [[https://under-lore.tumblr.com/post/692476837791662080/what-are-the-demon-texts One update added]] a cryptic message from a certain entity to somebody unknown that can only be read by datamining the game's code. Version [=1.05A=] included an additional line reading "HE IS" before version 1.06 immediately removed it. The greeting and mannerisms suggest this is [[spoiler:Chara, the Fallen Child]] talking, but if so, just who is it that they of all people would show such deference to?
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--->''"I NEVER [[ArcWords FORGET]] SOMEONE I\\
[[ArcWords DON'T]] REMEMBER."''
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** A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] due to their strange remarks and [[BreakingTheFourthWall an acknowledgement]] of ''Deltarune'' itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"

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** A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's read (the file was replaced by [[NothingIsScarier a blank card]] shortly afterwards). It could be from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] due to their the letter's nature, the writer's strange remarks and [[BreakingTheFourthWall an acknowledgement]] of how they acknowledge]] ''Deltarune'' itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms.mannerisms -- particularly in the Japanese version of the card. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"
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** A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] due to [[BreakingTheFourthWall his acknowledgement]] of ''Deltarune'' itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"

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** A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] due to their strange remarks and [[BreakingTheFourthWall his an acknowledgement]] of ''Deltarune'' itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"
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** A Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with a typo: "GOOD BY!"

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** A 2024 Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] due to [[BreakingTheFourthWall his acknowledgement]] of ''Deltarune'' itself but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with a an odd typo: "GOOD BY!"
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** A Valentine's Day newsletter to players came with a variety of postcards from various characters, including [[https://web.archive.org/web/20240214025909/https://email-files.fangamer.com/list_48/campaign_6/valentines/39-unknown-1-sssssssr-4ss77d74YEmXmQpCmFW5nCQg.png a mysterious "illegible" letter]] that is conveyed to the reader's heart in All Caps text and disappears after being read. You might think it's from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] but it doesn't match his usual mannerisms. The author mentions they need to help somebody that, ironically enough, they have forgotten about. Was it ''themself''? Well, peharps... Then they bid farewell with a typo: "GOOD BY!"
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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'':
** Many instances of ProductionForeshadowing in ''Undertale'' built up to an entity implied to be [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] hijacking the official Twitter account and inviting the audience for a "[[CharacterCatchphrase very, very interesting]]" experiment where they must [[ButThouMust accept everything that follows]] from that point on. The player's SOUL is introduced into the game as they help "The Voice" create a vessel in a ominous void of darkness. As soon as they're done, what seems like a second unknown Voice claims the player has no choice in the matter and uncerimoniously discards the vessel to force the SOUL into the role of Kris.
** When Jevil is defeated, he cryptically speaks about the Knight, Queen and the fountains of darkness. Talking to Seam after this will have him talk about their shared past, and imply it was [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]] who informed Jevil about the true nature of the world, making his views "darker yet darker".
** Spamton speaks in a bizarre self-censored language and appears to be constantly watched by someone who keeps him from explaining too much to Kris. At one point he confusingly speaks of somebody named "Mike" to Kris like the man's a villain, but the Spamton Sweepstakes clarifies Mike was a friend and somebody named "Tenna" is their shared enemy. Once you defeat Spamton, you can talk to the Addisons about him and one cryptically mentions Spamton hastily leaving a phone hanging with somebody still speaking on the other side. But when the Addison picked it up, there was nothing but "garbage noise" -- the same one Kris can hear on their own phone in the dark worlds. The same one from [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster's Entry #17]]...
** There are lines of "unused" dialogue in the game's code from somebody trapped in the darkness. In-game, they end up using Spamton as a medium at one point. The salesman pretends nothing happened, but then adds it looked like they were talking to "you".
** Onionsan tells Kris about investigating a mysterious song that comes from the sea. A strangely familiar song that is "not new", as in, the one mentioned by the River Person back in ''Undertale''.
** The Spamton Sweepstakes donation event ended with a disembodied voice attempting to convince the audience to kick Spamton out of the spotlight and silence him forever, saying he isn't any better than the rest of them.

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* ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': "Flesh. Loves. Enter." Those three words are the only clue a certain ghost can give to her lover. While it may sound like WordSaladHorror at first, it's actually [[spoiler: a set of codewords that work in a geocode app to show her soul remnant's location]].
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** The "River Person" is a hooded person on a boat that serves as FastTravel. They can randomly warn the protagonist about a "man who came from another world" (possibly Sans, considering his ramblings) and a "man who speaks in hands" (possibly [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster]], who speaks in uppercase Wingdings symbols that include hands). Sometimes they speak of an "old song coming from the sea", which is later mentioned by Onionsan in the setting of ''Deltarune''.
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** The hidden scenes regarding [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster involve GlitchEntity characters cyptically describing how his consciousness got split across time and space. A report from him to two unknown people about an expanding darkness is ''only'' viewable via hacking. A Sound Test screen features four melodies titled "Happy Town", "Meat Factory" and "Trouble Dingle" that are all overriden by "Gaster's Theme" before an entity thanks the player for their "feedback". Furthermore, the website for ''Deltarune'' was first launched shortly after the release of ''Undertale'' in secret with two ominous messages from Gaster to the players]].

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** The hidden scenes regarding [[spoiler:Dr. Gaster involve GlitchEntity characters cyptically describing how his consciousness got split across time and space. A report from him to two unknown people about an expanding darkness is ''only'' viewable via hacking. A Sound Test screen features four melodies titled "Happy Town", "Meat Factory" and "Trouble Dingle" that are all overriden by "Gaster's Theme" before an entity thanks the player for their "feedback". Furthermore, the website for ''Deltarune'' was first launched shortly after the release of ''Undertale'' in secret with two ominous messages from Gaster to the players]].



** [[https://under-lore.tumblr.com/post/692476837791662080/what-are-the-demon-texts One update added]] a cryptic message from a certain entity to somebody unknown that can only be read by datamining game's code. Version [=1.05A=] included an additional line reading "HE IS" before version 1.06 immediately removed it.

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** [[https://under-lore.tumblr.com/post/692476837791662080/what-are-the-demon-texts One update added]] a cryptic message from a certain entity to somebody unknown that can only be read by datamining the game's code. Version [=1.05A=] included an additional line reading "HE IS" before version 1.06 immediately removed it.
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--->''"''Greetings''. You have made yourself completely clear. Understood. I, your humble servant, will follow you to the utmost..."''

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--->''"''Greetings''.--->''"Greetings. You have made yourself completely clear. Understood. I, your humble servant, will follow you to the utmost..."''

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