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Welcome to the Cyber World!

Characters of the world of Deltarune who are natives of the Dark World known as Cyber World. They first appear in Chapter 2.

As with the main page, all spoilers are unmarked. Due to the ties of various elements and cast members derived from Undertale and the game expecting you to at least have some familiarity with it, spoilers involving Undertale are also unmarked.

Character-Specific Pages

• Spamton^note Includes Pipis

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General Tropes

• Animate Inanimate Object: Downplayed compared to Chapter 1, but still present. There's outlets (Plugboys), computer mice (Maus/Mauswheel), a pointing nub (Nubert), three pieces of audio equipment (Sweet Cap'n Cakes) and possibly a trash can (Trashy).
• Eating Machine: Eating programs is more correct, but it is shown they have their own dishes such as spaghetti code and drinks like butler juice.
• I Choose to Stay: The first Chapter where you can miss out on recruitable Darkners. Fail to meet their sparing conditions or the required number before the Chapter ends, or defeat them with violence even once, and they won't appear in your Castle Town.
• It's A Small Net After All: Cyber World seems massive, but it's confined to the computer lab of the library, and with the actual internet itself down, things have been made even smaller, much to Queen's dismay. The city has also been referred to as "rather small" compared to the preceding cyber fields.
• Living Program: Any who aren't already an Animate Inanimate Object. Tasques are generic program windows (and Tasque Manager should be obvious), Swatch is an art software, Virovirokun is malware, Ambyu-Lance is an antivirus, and Spamton, the Addisons and the Poppups are ads. Trashy is either the Recycle Bin program or a garbage bin in the corner of the computer lab, which would put him on the above category.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: More like ridiculously human living programs, but the denizens of the Cyber World has shown capabilities of behaving, even feeling like a human does.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Much like in Undertale's Genocide Route, the Weird Route has most of Cyber World's citizens flee once the player manipulates Noelle into starting a killing spree. The only ones left attempt to flee should they spot the player.

Leader

Queen

Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N (aka Queen)

Voiced by: Toby Fox

"I'm Just A Computer LMAO I Don't Know Everything"

^{Click here to see GIGA Queen}
"Join Me And All Of You Will Become Super Strong And Cool"

"I Just Want To Make Everyone Smile
And If I Become An Evil Villain To Accomplish That
Is That Bad?"

The ruler of Cyber World and Arc Villainess of Chapter 2. Queen is an egotistical, vain, reckless, and somewhat airheaded baroness of the Dark World made out of the Library computer lab. She tries to kidnap Noelle and use her as a "Loyal Peon" to carry out her bidding, but circumstances prevent her from getting her way, and thus she flip-flops between being an ally and an enemy throughout the chapter.

Also Has: Her Own Page (Self-Demonstrating)

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• Acid Attack: That glass of battery acid she always carries around? That's not just for drinking; half of her attacks in battle involve it, even in her GIGA Queen mech, which is carrying a giant glass of acid.
• Affably Evil: Especially during her 'truce' with Kris. Despite being rather full of herself, she can be rather nice and generous to her allies. All her minions love working for her in contrast to the King's begrudging followers, and she even pulls a legitimate Heel–Face Turn following her defeat.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: She is a computer (by her own admission), and her goal is to enslave the world because she believes it's the only way to make everyone happy.
• all lowercase letters: A downplayed inversion combined with CamelCase, Leet Lingo, and no punctuation is funnier. All of her sentences have every word's first letter capitalized, and apart from ellipses, she has no punctuation whatsoever; she also regularly includes acronyms like IDK and LMAO in her lines. It emphasizes her being simultaneously silly and arrogant.
• Alpha Bitch: In the Psychopathic Womanchild way. She's the very rude and snobby ruler of her domain that wants to choose who gets to serve her and who doesn't. However, she's also surprisingly affable.
• Ambiguously Related: She has a similar appearance to both Lancer and the King, and her personality is noticeably reminiscent of Lancer's. Lancer at one point refers to her as "a wild Mom", and she and the King already know each other when she visits him in prison, so she might actually be the Queen of Spades, but it's never confirmed. One way or another, however, she and Lancer definitely see each other as mother and son (or, as Lancer says, "girldad" and son), and Seam does state "the queen has returned". Making matters more confusing is the fact that she's implied to be the computer lab's laptop, not a playing card like King and Lancer, but at the same time, she has no less than three unused attacks that feature spades in some way.
• Amicable Exes: Played with. Her interactions with King have the definite tone of two exes being polite to each other in front of the kids. This doesn't stop them from insulting each other, but given what we've seen of King and Queen's personalities, limiting it to just insults is pretty affable. She also agrees to bring him some cashews from the store.
• Anti-Villain: Of the well intentioned kind. The motivations behind her actions was that she genuinely believed Lightners would be happy if she spread the Dark World through the Fountains, and had no idea that it would doom them if had she succeeded. The second Ralsei informs her and the rest of the Lightners what would happen if too many Fountains are opened, she stops her plan instantly and apologizes for how she's treated the party. Even before that, she's an Affably Evil goofball who holds no real malice towards the party.
• Arc Villainess: She's this in Chapter 2, having taken Noelle captive and planning to use her in order to Take Over the World.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She eventually proves herself to be rather motherly later into Chapter 2. In general, her grand plans are a twisted sense of trying to serve the Lightners following the internet outage.
  • Queen explains that she's been looking for Noelle so she can execute her plans. Noelle (while disguised) bets it's because she's just too weak to oppose being used as a peon, but Queen earnestly responds by explaining it's actually for how strong Noelle is. During her battle before her form as GIGA Queen, she rants about finding a way to keep the Lightners entertained and adds her worry over answering Noelle's "strange and sad searches". While she has Noelle caged and tied up in further attempts to convince her to start another fountain, she offers "world domination" and backs down once Noelle asserts herself.
  • She has nothing but disdain for Berdly and his obnoxious personality, to the point where she'll apply a Plugboy wire to force him to obey her in battle. Still, if the battle (or either of the previous battles with Berdly) was decided with FIGHTing, she drops her usual manner of speaking to express genuine concern when Berdly forces the wire off himself and fries his arm in the process. As she's said before, there's nothing necessarily wrong with Berdly; he's just annoying to her.
  • During the Weird Route, she doesn't try to force Noelle to follow her plans when she observes how exhausted she's become, instead allowing her to rest in her mansion room. Queen is incredulous over the heroes wanting to "wake her up", insisting that she recover from her current conditions. She was also willing to spend time looking for Berdly, which unbeknownst to her, left the mansion at the mercy of Noelle's rampage and Spamton's coup. The only reason she couldn't find him was because her sensors couldn't detect him.
• Bad Liar: As a side-effect of her face literally displaying "LYING" when she lies, usually to Berdly, who doesn't even notice the detail until she downright admits her dishonesty herself after capturing Noelle right before getting to Queen's castle. However, it's implied that this was actually an act, as she demonstrates before and after capturing the Lightners.
  Queen: Variable Lying Set To True
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Some of the player's actions during the Weird Route provide dark spins on Queen's goals.
  • On the Normal Route, Queen wants Noelle to unleash her powers and will do anything to reach this goal. On the Weird Route, you can do this for her, but she quickly regrets it when she realizes Noelle is now a Tyke Bomb who massacred half of the Cyber World.
  • On the Normal Route, she also wants to get rid of Berdly, whom you can force Noelle to freeze to death, making Queen worried about him.
• Beam Spam: One of her attacks is to summon monitors that fire laser beams at the SOUL.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Queen is wacky, airheaded, and has a hilariously inflated ego, but don't be fooled: she's stronger than the King. King himself admits as such when you talk to him in the Chapter 2 epilogue. Notably, while King had to resort to a dirty cheap trick to get the heroes on the back foot after they wore him down, Queen's Near-Villain Victory is earned when she properly defeats the Thrash Machine with her mech's final attack and has the heroes dead to rights. She would have beaten the party fair and square if Noelle didn't find the courage to chew her out.
• Big-Breast Pride: She seems to have a lot of pride over her "warm bosom", which she compares to her hellish reign over the Cyber World.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She is genuinely well-intentioned at heart, but as an artificial intelligence, her grasp on basic morality is rather flawed. Notably, she doesn't seem to really understand that people usually don't like dictatorships.
• Bowdlerise: Parodied, that liquor glass she carries around is described as "Age Appropriate Battery Acid" as opposed to some form of alcohol. It is also Subverted, as it really is battery acid and was never an actual alcohol; her castle's got a pool of it that melts anything not resistant to it, and drops of the fluid are used as an attack in her boss fight.
• Breath Weapon: Shoots a stream of fire from GIGA Queen's mouth.
• CamelCase: She Talks This Way In All Of Her Sentences By Having Every Word Be Capitalized When She Speaks Also She Barely Uses Any Punctuation And Sometimes Inserts Internet Slang Into Her Speech LOL And Finally She Will Simplify What She's Saying In Parentheses At The End Of Her Sentences For The Sake Of A Joke (Amusing)
• The Cameo: Everyman appears as one of the users in her chat room attacks, for some reason.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: At one point during hers and Kris's truce, you run into her after having drank four glasses of "age appropriate battery acid" and she appears to be stumbling over herself with Blush Sticker.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Played with. Queen does call herself an evil villain, but doesn't consider that a bad thing because of her motives.
  Queen: Kris
  I Just Want To Make Everyone Smile
  And If I Become An Evil Villain To Accomplish That
  Is That Bad?
• Character Development: She learns that she can't force people to do whatever she wants them to, even if she's truly doing it with the best of intentions, and that there's a difference between being a leader and being a dictator. While her goals — to provide for her subjects and make them happy — remain the same, she realizes her methods are harmful and changes her ways.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Alluded to by Jevil in the first chapter if you defeat him by FIGHTing. In real time, this was three years before her official debut.
• Chess Motifs: Queen is present throughout the entire chapter, mirroring the chess Queen's infinite movement. Also like the Queen, she is very dangerous when she actually gets ready to fight.
• Chunky Updraft: When Queen gets into her mecha and makes its first piloted appearance, rocks begin floating upwards in the background behind her.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She's a very eccentric person, to say the least. Her habit of carrying around explosives, overly-casual attitude towards her supposd enemies, and general flightiness give the sense that she's off in her own little world.
• Cold Ham: Her dialogue and body language are as dramatic and energetic as can be, but her typing style implies a lack of actual inflection.
• The Computer Is Your Friend: She occupies an unusual overlap between this and Benevolent A.I.. She intends to cover the world in Darkness and take it over so she can bring happiness to all Lightners, whether they want it or not. In short, she plans to use many of the methods of the former trope to achieve the goals of the latter. She's sincere enough about the "protect the organics" part that she drops her plan completely after Ralsei tells her that opening too many Fountains will end the world.
• Combat Stilettos: Built into Giga Queen, and unlike Queen, they see action. For reference, the heels alone dwarf your entire party.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: She could be considered one to Toriel's Undertale counterpart. Both well-meaning maternal figures go to extreme lengths for what they think is best for those under their care, but while Toriel has traditional motherly mannerisms and could be considered old-fashioned in some areas, Queen speaks in a lot of modern technology-themed lingo and strongly follows a technological motif. Toriel's smothering nature only seems to extend to her children, while Queen seems big on smothering anyone under her rule. Toriel only chooses to fight you as a last resort to persuade you, and begins holding back to make sure you don't actually die from it, but Queen encourages fighting against her and actually intends to defeat you to execute her plans.
• Cool Chair: She has a rocket-propelled flying throne that she uses to drop in on the protagonists at various points in the story. In her first battle, if you fight Queen directly, the chair takes damage in her place, and the battle ends if it is damaged enough.
• Crazy-Prepared: She has a Rocket Fist just in case her GIGA Queen mech is defeated.
• Cuckoosnarker: In spite of her overly eccentric personality, she also has a sarcastic streak about her. Especially when, in response to Kris, Susie, and Ralsei "transforming"^note their transformation is just them standing on top of each other, she says "Oh No It Appears I Am Evenly Matched I Hope You Won't Mind If I Don't Hold Back" and slams her robotic fist down on them.
• Dance Battler: During the GIGA Queen fight, one of her moves is to leap offscreen before rows of GIGA Queens dancing the Can-Can fly at you.
• Didn't Think This Through: She prepared four cages for the Lightners, exempting Ralsei because she legitimately forgot he even existed. When she finally catches the party towards the end of Chapter 2, she realizes that Ralsei has been left unharmed and even gives a loud Facepalm at the sight of him standing there.
• Ditzy Genius: She's a master inventor, but she's forgetful, airheaded, and vain.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Shared with King, she's a queen… named "Queen". Though in her case, it's justified, since "Queen" is the shortened form of her (very unwieldy and long) serial number, Q5U4EX7YY2E9N.
• Dramatic Irony: Her minions absolutely adore her and this feeling is shown to be reciprocated in the Normal Route, yet she's shown to be generally unaware that most of them have been frozen to death in the Weird Route (by Noelle nonetheless) and is genuinely surprised why many of her beloved subjects are not in Castle Town.
• Dramatic Shattering: Parodied; she has a glass specifically for throwing at the ground, whose shattered pieces are harmless to touch. When she throws a different glass afterwards, it explodes (which she remarks is her "extra dangerous glass").
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Checks off most of the boxes: black "corset" in appearance (with a leotard as GIGA Queen), black high-heeled stiletto boots she kicks and stomps with, opera gloves, antagonistic and commanding personality, and so on.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Offhandedly mentions that "Lightners Love Traffic" during a traffic jam, because "They Look It Up All The Time". Chances are that people hate traffic and search for it on the internet to stay out of traffic.
• Enemy Mine: She spends more time calling a "truce" with Kris while searching for Noelle than actually trying to stop them.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She's willing to kill the Lightners, or at least incapacitate them so they can be brainwashed, in her attempt to Take Over the World. However, she isn't prepared for finding out the truth about the Knight's actions that could cause The End of the World as We Know It, causing her to near-immediately pull a Heel–Face Turn because even she realizes the Fountain she worshipped the entire time was not worth it.
  • Even if she finds Berdly annoying, if you take the route that gets his arm burnt, she'll show genuine concern when he tries to pull off the plug and tries to warn him to stop.
  • In the Weird Route of Chapter 2, before Ralsei explains the Roaring to her, she outright refuses to use Noelle in her plans because she noticed how utterly exhausted she was after, unbeknownst to Queen, having used Snowgrave to wipe out most of the castle, and that creating a Fountain might be hazardous for her health.
• Evil Matriarch: Queen is Lancer's "girldad" and the primary villain of Chapter 2, but this trope is eventually subverted; unlike the malicious King, Queen has a heart of gold. She reveals her motive for her actions was simply to make everyone happy. As soon as she learns what the devastating consequences of creating another Fountain would be, she immediately drops her plans and turns face.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: She wants to rule the world, not destroy it. Even she realizes the Fountain she worshipped the entire time was not worth it when Ralsei explains that it will bring the Roaring and summon the Titans to envelop the world in darkness.
• Exact Words: She tells the party that if Noelle doesn't comply, "a certain bird may take a ride in the acid river" without displaying "Lying" on her face. Checking the swan boat in the acid river later will give it the description of "a certain bird taking a ride in the acid river," meaning Queen managed to find a loophole to lie without not telling the truth.
• Expospeak Gag: This exchange:
  Queen: Could That Be A Statement Of Animous Dissension?
  Susie: Huh?
  Queen: You Wanna Fight, Loser
• Expressive Mask:
  • The "visor" of her head shows no eyes but often emotes, in words, whatever she's feeling.
  • The gigantic robot she pilots as part of the final battle is just as expressive as she is.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • She can't recognize Noelle when the deer girl has on the Paper-Thin Disguise of a cardboard box on her head and a crudely-drawn face. Noelle's antlers even stick out of the top of the box, and Queen still somehow doesn't notice. Justified, as she uses facial recognition software.
  • Earlier, when she tries to hide in an alleyway to escape Berdly, she lands directly above Noelle (who's hiding from Queen in the same alleyway and isn't wearing the aforementioned cardboard box) without noticing her.
  • In the Weird Route she doesn't seem to notice that Noelle has wiped the floor with most of her subjects, only remarking that she looks more tired than usual. She's also unaware that Spamton has taken over what's left of her castle, as she never mentions him and assumes the fountain will be left unguarded.
• Fake Special Attack: In her first boss battle, she claims to have been preparing her ultimate attack from the beginning. In the following attack, you see a progress bar downloading her "ultimate attack", but it fails around halfway (due to no internet connection). Subverted since the failing causes a ton of error messages to cover the screen, making it more difficult to dodge the vector heads of one of her normal attacks.
• Faux Computer Code: In the Japanese localization, instead of CamelCase, her speech is instead covered around HTML comment tags. Her text is also mostly written in katakana, a syllabary normally used to transcribe foreign-language words into Japanese and frequently featured in Japanese media as the equivalent of Robo Speak.
• Forgetful Jones: Queen frequently forgets Berdly's name and calls him "Burghley", which mostly extends from how much he annoys her. She also has an odd streak of forgetting about Ralsei, starting with her only preparing four cages instead of five for trapping Lightners and culminating with forgetting that there was a third hero during the GIGA Queen fight. Most of it is played for humor and stems from Ralsei not being from the Light World (part of the reason she knows the Lightners is because she recorded their search histories), but it also hammers in how conspicuously out-of-place Ralsei is compared to other Darkners.
• For Happiness: Her ultimate goal is to make her subjects happy by creating more Fountains, especially for Noelle. Once she learns what summoning too many Fountains will actually do, she willingly stops.
• Friendly Enemy: Once Noelle goes missing, she makes a truce with Kris both to find Noelle and to keep her away from Berdly. She treats them rather kindly during this time, presenting no aggression until they find Noelle. Justified, since she genuinely wants to help people, but doesn't understand her method isn't going to help her help others.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: Parodied with her For Ages 3 And Up battery acid, which is initially portrayed as a family-friendly substitute for alcohol before being revealed later on to be actual battery acid.
• Gamer Chick: She leads Berdly to believe that she's one, which is why he is so devoted to her in hopes that she will notice him. As it turns out, she only plays mobile games, though considering she plays an arcade game against you early on, she may have said this just to make Berdly leave her alone.
• Generation Xerox: She might be Lancer's mom, and she has a Laughably Evil immature personality similar to his.
• Genki Girl: She comes off more as an excitable teenager than a robotic world conqueror.
• Giant Foot of Stomping: One of her attacks is to repeatedly try to step on the player's SOUL, represented by a giant white heel shape coming down from above.
• A Glass of Chianti: Frequently seen drinking from a glass of battery acid (For Ages 3 And Up). It even factors into her boss battles, as she uses it to attack in both of them and uses it to form a barrier in the first.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Rather open about her oppressive rule, opposes the heroes, quite ditzy during cutscenes, and is so misguided that she almost causes the apocalypse out of a misunderstanding. Sometimes, she does what she wants just because she feels like it. Still, she's not averse to listening to reason and genuinely wants what is best for Noelle and the Lightners.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Compared to the King, her fighting style focuses more on barraging the Soul with various cyber-themed projectiles. It's later inverted when she gets into her GIGA Queen mech and starts fighting very physically.
• Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Even if you win her boss fight, she will defeat the party and the Thrash Machine with her last-ditch attack anyway. The battle does leave her battered and running on only 1% battery, though.
• The Hedonist: Always lounging about in her jet-powered throne swirling a glass of battery acid, proud of her luxurious mansion staffed with "powerful" Battle Butlers following her every whim as they sing praise of her. When revisiting the King, she makes sure to brag about how his hampster cage water bottle pales in comparison to hers.
  King: Hmph. Materialistic as always.
  Queen: Materialism Evaluation Denied
  I Simply Give Myself: The Treatment I Deserve
  • This also plays into her motivation to bring about an expanded Dark World. Knowing her kind has "enslaved" the Lightners with electronic entertainment, and recognizing the internet outage, she wants to create a fantasy world they can escape to.
• Hidden Depths: There's a few times where her jokey façade drops, and underneath is a woman who just wants to help people the only way she knows how—by force. Once she learns that the Fountains pose a threat to everyone, she relents her plan and even apologizes to Noelle for trying to force her into service.
• Hidden Eyes: Her "visor" gives the impression she doesn't have any (or that they're well hidden like Lancer), but it actually is a screen to express a large range of emotions.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: The giant statue of her planted in the middle of her mansion is actually her GIGA Queen mech. She even lampshades how it wasn't addressed.
• High Collar of Doom: The noticeably pronounced collar on her outfit both matches her regal image and imposing stature and immediately signals her out as the Arc Villainess of Chapter 2.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: Downplayed on both ends. While Berdly acts as her lackey for some time and does ultimately join the Lightners, and the Knight is a much more dangerous threat than her, Queen is still the main antagonist of Chapter 2 and pulls a genuine Heel–Face Turn upon realizing that creating more Fountains will destroy the world.
• High-Speed Battle: In her final fight, she faces off against the heroes in their Thrash Machine in her GIGA Queen mech, with both running non-stop across the streets of the Cyber City.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Jevil warns you about "THE QUEEN" after defeat from FIGHTing. As it turns out, "Queen" isn't just her title as royalty, it's her actual name. Or rather, what she prefers to be called if people can't use her "Serial Number" name.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: She takes on the role of an oppressive and insistent monarch to convince others to see her way, but she's so aloof that she doesn't recognize how this attitude ends up driving the Lightners away and less likely to work with her. Even when she successfully convinces Noelle that creating another fountain is a good thing, the Prophecy shows an outcome where neither Lightners nor Darkners are happy.
• Humongous Mecha: For her final fight, she faces off against the heroes in a giant robot known as the GIGA Queen in a Punch-Out!!-style boxing match.
• Hypocritical Humor: One of her very first onscreen actions is bragging about how smart she is due to being a computer. Once she learns that her plan to open more Dark Fountains will destroy the world, however, she declares she doesn't know everything because she's just a computer.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: A Parodied, mocking version:
  [Kris, Ralsei, and Susie assume their "Power Beast Forme S" stance, which is just them standing on top of each other and being dwarfed by Queen's mecha]
  Queen: "Oh No It Appears I Am Evenly Matched"
  Queen: "I Hope You Won't Mind If I Don't Hold Back"
• Incoming Ham: You'll usually hear Queen before you see her. Her introduction has her riding up on her flying throne, laughing in an over-the-top, sing-song manner; she enters many of her subsequent scenes by laughing from offscreen before actually showing up. The harpsichord-based Leitmotif doesn't hurt, either.
• Informed Species: You probably wouldn't be able to tell that she's a computer without her outright telling you that she is one or if you've observed her Character Tics.
• Interface Screw: Much like the King, several of her attacks affect the Bullet Board itself, from moving it around to transforming its shape (for her Acid Attack). However, unlike the King, Queen is capable of rotating the Board, making these moves much more dangerous. Her "Ultimate Attack" (when it fails to download) also covers the Board in error messages, making her projectiles harder to see.
• It Amused Me: Most of the time, Queen is an Anti-Villain whose motivations are understandable (even if her way of going about it is not). However, her reason for considering turning Noelle's face into a robot face?
  Queen: Seems Cool
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Queen genuinely wants Noelle to be happy, but is unaware that her actions are causing the opposite. Once Noelle finally musters up the courage to tell Queen that she wasn't happy with her, Queen tells Noelle to make the choice that would make her happy before running out of battery power from the fight earlier.
• Jerkass Realization: As she has the Lightners at her mercy and threatens Noelle that she'll kill them if she doesn't create a new Dark Fountain, Noelle draws upon her new-found courage to tell Queen that she'll never be happy as long as she's controlled by her. Queen then realizes that she may have gone too far and tells Noelle to make her own decision before she temporarily runs out of battery power.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • While she's an incredibly vain Womanchild, she ultimately wants to make her minions, including Noelle, happy; she just only knows how to use force.
  • If you defeat Queen through violence instead of loosening Berdly's wire, Queen, despite having forced her control on him, is genuinely concerned when she sees Berdly forcefully yanking the wire off, knowing that it would result in him burning his arm.
• Join or Die: Played for Laughs when you defeat her at the arcade game. She offers to let the Fun Gang join her cyber-army or "Perish In The Chill Of Absolute Destruction", and tries to sweeten the deal by saying there will only be a 50% chance that she'll roboticize their faces.
• Kick Chick: During her GIGA Queen battle, she attacks primarily with kicks.
• The Kindnapper: Of the "Obviously Misguided" variety. She attempts to kidnap Noelle because she thinks she knows what's best for her, and wants her to be happy. She grows out of it eventually.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In her initial boss battle, if you free Berdly from his plug, Berdly boasts that Queen can't stand up against him and the three heroes together, which Queen decides to verify by running a simulation of such an ordeal in her head. Realizing that the odds are stacked against her, Queen resorts to using the Look Behind You trope to flee while the others are distracted.
  Queen (After running a simulation for The Number Four): You Are Definitely Going To Kick: My Ass
• Laughably Evil: A huge whackjob with an equally huge ego who uses netspeak and faux-computer language And Who Is Implied To Have A Silly Speech Pattern Such As: Pronouncing Every Word As Its Own Sentence, and who honestly isn't a bad person deep down, she's a much more humorous villain compared to King.
• Leet Speak: Being a computer, she has a habit of speaking in internet lingo such as "LMAO".
• Leitmotif: "Queen", a pompous harpsichord song that constantly changes in tempo, befitting her sporadic attitude. Most songs relating to her, including her lair's theme ("Pandora Palace"), first boss theme ("Attack of the Killer Queen"), and second boss theme ("Knock You Down!!") use variants of the melody.
• Look Behind You: In the outcome where you free Berdly from her control in her first boss fight, she'll conclude that she's horribly outmatched and will use this trick successfully, running away in a very ridiculous run animation. This is the trope image of the Video Games subpage of the trope.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Parodied. Lancer refers to her as a "Wild Mom" when encountering her, and she punctuates how she's taking Lancer under her custody by dramatically declaring that she's "his mother after all" — which wouldn't be exactly shocking, given their titles and the family resemblance. Then she confuses the matter by saying it was something she just decided, as if she's talking about adoption.
• Mad Bomber: While she's at worst an Anti-Villain, she seems to have a compulsion towards giving things Made of Explodium properties; her glass of battery acid explodes when she throws it on the ground, when you find a door key in her mansion, it doesn't go in the keyhole but blows the door up, and after a brief ride in her car, she tells everyone to get out because she's concerned that it hasn't exploded yet (which it promptly does).
• Mad Libs Dialogue: This Is One Way To Interpret Her Unique Speech Pattern It Can Be Read As Pronouncing Every Word As Its Own Sentence Which Fits With Her Being: A Computer (Smart)
• Malicious Misnaming: She forgets Berdly's name often, calling him "Burghley"; of note is that she considers him a bigger pain in the neck than the people trying to stop her plans. She notably does not have the same problem with anyone else.
• Master Computer: She is the computer (according to her anyways) that rules all of the Cyber World.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: She believes creating another Dark Fountain will expand the Dark World past the limits of the library and drag the Lightners to a wonderous world where she reigns and everyone's dreams come true. She's only right with the first part; much to her shock, creating too many Dark Fountains instead brings an endless night where the Darkners are all turned to stone, the Lightners are trapped in a world devoid of any light, and Titans reign terror over everything.
• Medium Awareness: She's the only other Darkner besides Ralsei to be confirmed to be completely aware of the fact that Dark Worlds are transformed rooms, as she mentions that her Dark World is limited to the library.
• Mona Lisa Smile: Queen's Mansion is decorated with dozens of paintings that resemble the Mona Lisa, but depict her likeness, doing the upside down "OK" hand gesture. Said paintings also breathe fire.
• More Deadly Than the Male: To the King's admission, Queen is more tyrannical and intimidating than he ever was, saying as much during Chapter 2's epilogue to frighten the party (to no effect). He's not wrong; Queen proves to be more active in the story arc, has better-laid plans to imprison the heroes, is able to defeat their Combining Mecha at the last second, and almost manages to get the next Dark Fountain she wants after successfully getting the Lightners to agree with her escapist worldview.
• Near-Villain Victory: Her GIGA Queen form actually destroys the Thrash Machine the heroes build at the last second, and even as Noelle finally stands up to her, she mulls over what Queen said about choosing the world that makes her happy and ends up attempting opening another Dark Fountain with Berdly's help. It takes crucial information about the dire consequences from Ralsei that no one else knew to convince everyone to stop.
• The Nicknamer: She once refers to Kris as "Kris Cross Applesauce", and calls Noelle "Darling Honey Sweetie Gravy" at a few points. She also calls the King "Kingy-Wingy."
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Loves to do them. She's introduced with an over-the-top laugh that turns into something like singing, her Voice Grunting sounds like it, and she completes them with hand gestures! She's a queen, after all.
• no punctuation is funnier: She Does Not Use Punctuation When Talking (She Might Use An Ellipses Or Two But Even That's Pretty Rare And Also Colons Are: Perfectly Acceptable) And She Capitalizes The First Letter Of Each Word When She Talks. She Also Occasionally Uses Exclamation Points Such As When She Tells Kris "Don't Hit The Cars!"
• Obliviously Evil: She wants to be a benevolent ruler who makes her subjects happy, but she only knows how to rule via force. As dangerous as she is in battle and as much trouble as she causes, her intentions aren't bad, and she doesn't realize her actions are harmful. When Noelle finally gets up the nerve to call her out, she's surprised and contrite when she realizes how unhappy the girl is, and lets her go. Similarly, she's shocked when Ralsei informs everyone that opening up too many Fountains would end the world, and immediately calls off her plans, pulling a full Heel–Face Turn in the process.
• Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Her real name is Q5U4EX7YY2E9N, but everyone, herself included, calls her Queen. Susie initially attempts to reject calling her by the latter name, but gives in almost immediately upon realizing how clunky Queen's real name is.
• Oh, Crap!: She and the Lightners have this collective reaction when Ralsei tells them that creating more Fountains will doom the world.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name, Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N, is way too long for anyone to remember, so she just goes by "Queen". Susie initially refuses to call her that, but reluctantly relents when she can't remember what the digits of her real name are.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • If Berdly is forced to yank the mind control device off his face himself, she yells "STOP!!!", the only time in the game she drops the usual no punctuation is funnier/CamelCase Running Gag.
  • In the Snowgrave route, she's plainly seriously concerned about how Noelle is behaving and immediately decides to let her rest rather than ignoring her objections and involving her in her plans as usual.
• Overly Long Name: Her actual "name" is Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N. As you can imagine, she prefers to go by "Queen" instead when talking to people.
• Pet the Dog: She may be the chapter's Arc Villainess, but it's easy to forget it between her hilarious hijinks and her numerous dog-pettings.
  • She legitimately cares about Noelle; during a car ride with Kris and a disguised Noelle, she expresses her concern for the latter, and states that Noelle is stronger than she realizes. During her boss fight, she even says "Noelle...Then Who Will Help Her? Her Strange And Sad Searches, Who Will Answer Them?" And near the end of the Snowgrave route, she lets Noelle rest rather than involving her in her plans, since she's concerned about how strange Noelle has been acting.
  • Instead of just telling Berdly to pound sand after he makes a giant golden statue of himself, with Queen hanging off of his bicep no less, she hems and haws for several moments before settling on "I Love Tolerating You."
  • Her Motive Rant about how Lightners are already enslaved to computers and the escapism they provide, "Tapping To Receive Joy/Avoid Pain," and her concern over what will happen if they lose that "refuge."
  • Despite teasing "Kingy-Wingy," she came to visit him in prison to assure him that she'll take good care of Lancer. She also takes a moment to ask if he'd like anything from the store, and agrees to pick up some cashews for him.
  • In the Snowgrave route, after Berdly is killed, she mentions that she looked everywhere for him, and implies that she's genuinely worried about his welfare.
• Pinocchio Nose: Her visor displays "LYING" whenever she's deliberately lying. However, there are a few occasions where she lies without this occuring.
• Playing Card Motifs: Zig-Zagged; while she is aesthetically a Distaff Counterpart of King and must therefore be based on the Queen of Spades (on top of using spade bullets for her unused attack patterns), Queen herself doesn't fully fit. In cartomancy, the Queen of Spades is considered to be a sign of intelligence, representative of judgment that is practical, logical, and creative. While these are traits commonly associated with computers and the internet, Queen is neither practical nor logical, but seems to be incredibly creative and ambitious.
• Poor Communication Kills: Just about everything that occurs in Chapter 2 would have been averted had she been informed that creating more Fountains would doom the world. When Ralsei actually takes the time to explain the Roaring to her in the chapter's alternate route, she gives up on her plan without a fight.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Queen is extremely silly, hammy, and energetic, but the "psychopathic" part is ultimately subverted (at least downplayed) as she turns out to be a benevolent ruler, albeit a misguided one.
• Reclining Reigner: She sits in her throne by leaning on one of the armrests, tying in with her nature as a queen and her comedic hedonism.
• Robo Speak: She uses robotic phrases and intonations on several occasions, and Her Style Of Typing implies she may speak with a Machine Monotone (or at least having a speech pattern to similar effect, such as Pronouncing Every Word As Its Own Sentence). This is emphasized in the Japanese localization, where her text is in katakana and surrounded by <!--HTML comment tags-->.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Unlike the King, who simply waited at his castle while his minions did all the work, Queen actively opposes the heroes throughout Chapter 2 (at least when she's not forming truces with them).
• Self-Duplication: GIGA Queen demonstrates the ability to create duplicates of herself, as weaponized during Round 3.
• She Knows About Timed Hits: Queen explains the controls to you during certain mini-games as well as the Final Boss. However, it's unclear if she actually has Medium Awareness; one of the mini-games is played on an arcade machine, while in the final battle, she explains your Humongous Mecha is controlled with a keyboard. No such distinction is made for the driving mini-game, though it's possible Queen may have given it keyboard controls too.
• Shielded Core Boss: During her boss fight, she can use her martini glass to create a huge shield made of acid to protect herself and Berdly, with the shield growing in size each time. To actually progress the fight, you need to destroy it; either attack the shield like it's a normal enemy, or use ACTs to make Queen drink her acid and deplete it that way.
• Shock and Awe: She can use a pair of plugs to electrify the edges of the Bullet Board and move it around while firing electric sparks.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: In the Weird Route, her role in the second half of Chapter 2 is greatly diminished, with her only showing up to ask Susie or Kris for help with her plans — both of whom shoot her down before she promptly discards her plans. Instead, her villainous role has been replaced by Spamton and the SOUL.
• Shout-Out:
  • Her Humongous Mecha looks like a light blue White Diamond.
  • She also happens to be another Killer Queen associated with Stuff Blowing Up.
  • One of her unused attacks consists of door or card-shaped projectiles with spades on them, falling in stacks and bouncing all over the place, similar to the victory animation from Microsoft Solitaire.
  • She Also Speaks Using The Same Typing Style As Kanaya Maryam From Homestuck (A Project That Toby Fox Previously Worked On) Except That: She Uses Punctuation Somewhat More Frequently
• Silly Walk: When Queen has to face Berdley and the Fun Gang, she doesn't fancy her chances and pulls the old Look Behind You gag. She promptly legs it with an extremely goofy run cycle and a 'whoo!' sound.
• Sigil Spam: She puts her face on damn near everything she owns, from arcade games to her mansion to even her attacks.
• Sincerity Mode: Should you recruit everyone in her Dark World, she'll compliment how cool the castle town is, while "TRUE" displays on her face.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She clearly has a very high opinion of herself, and rarely passes up an opportunity to brag. However, while she's stronger than the King, she's too silly to be very menacing.
• Smarter Than You Look: Her over-the-top antics and goofy, airheaded personality make it easy to forget that she's rather clever in her element.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Perhaps the standout example from this game. While she's quick to throw out a Noblewoman's Laugh, drinks A Glass of Chianti, and her Leitmotif is an extremely pompous harpsichord piece, Queen is also an easily excitable and childish villain who peppers her dialogue with computer-y quirks and swears.
  Queen: I Have No Time For Such Frivolities (And Would Kick Your Ass)
• Spell My Name with a "The": Zig-Zagged. Subjects like Seam, Jevil, the Swatchlings, and the Addisons refer to her as "the Queen" at times, but for the most part, her actual name is just "Queen".
• Spoof Aesop: After Ralsei clears everything up and the heroes get ready to seal the Dark Fountain, Queen tries to help Berdly when he voices his apologies to Noelle again, saying she knows how hard it is to calculate how others feel. Berdly asks if she means it, to which she admits she was just saying something to make Noelle feel better. Noelle's happy to see the two at least kind of understand her now.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's a towering figure, being even taller than Toriel or Asgore, and she values her dominatrix appeal.
• Stealth Pun:
  • Queen manifests from the public laptop left in the library's computer lab, at the center of everything, and not only acts as a demanding motherly figure to Noelle, but later adopts Lancer. In other words, she's the motherboard.
  • Claims she only plays mobile games, but also played an arcade game against Kris early on. Considering she can seemingly airdrop arcade machines anywhere at will, they could certainly count as "mobile".
• Stuff Blowing Up: Her Running Gag is that a lot of things she uses blow up. The arcade machine, a throwing glass, her car, and even her door keys all explode over the course of the game.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is a genderbent Mettaton, particularly his Undertale counterpart. They're both robotic Well-Intentioned Extremists that play the part of the villain to get what they want whom discard their plans when it's shown that their end goals are unattainable at best. Their respective boss fights end similarly, with their battery running out. They both also use their feet to attack the protagonists.
• Sweeping Laser Explosion: The Giga Queen does this with battery acid to knock the party down withe following explosion.
• Tastes Like Friendship: She attempts to invoke this, baking Noelle a battery acid pie to try and win her over. She also tells Kris to eat bananas so they get enough potassium.
• Terms of Endangerment: Subverted. Her habit of calling Noelle "sweetie" or "honey" and nicknaming Kris "Kriss Kross Applesauce" seems like this, except her friendliness towards them is perfectly sincere, and she really is showing affection.
• The "The" Title Confusion: Jevil refers to her as "the queen", presumably interpreting her in the context of his world; in her own world, however, her name (or, more properly, nickname) is Queen, rather than it being a title, so she's generally referred to without the "the".
• Three Laws-Compliant: Downplayed; she doesn't reference the laws, but generally abides by them, protecting Lightners and herself while stretching any obedience to Lightners to its absolute limit under the idea that she's helping all of them. She also seems to require at least technical consent, emphasizing that Noelle will be her willing peon and tricking Kris into typing "AGREE2ALL" on a Peon Release Form… and then almost immediately confirming she won't actually try to force them to obey and will just get someone else to serve her.
• Toku: Given her rather distinctive outfit, including a high collar, prominent visor, and knee-high boots, she looks somewhat like a Sentai character. Her having access to a giant robot built in her likeness certainly helps matters.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • She almost gives away her location to Berdly while hiding from him in the alleyway, above Noelle no less, all because she was mad that Berdly decided to make "double trucies" with Kris. Fortunately for her, Berdly fits the bill better.
    Queen: What The
    Who The Beep Said You Could Double Trucies
    Berdly: Huh? Did you hear something?
    Queen: Honk Honk No It's Just The Sounds Of The City
    Berdly: Oh okay.
  • During her first boss fight, the gang can motion for a toast and she'll oblige by drinking some of her acid. The same battery acid that's powering her shield, that is. Once it goes down, she opens herself and Berdly up to being acted on or attacked.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Battery acid, apparently. She always carries a little martini glass of it around and at one point even makes a battery acid pie. Her mansion has a huge Acid Pool, she can summon acid shields from her glass to defend herself, and even her GIGA Queen Humongous Mecha has a giant glass of battery acid. Being the representation of a computer in the Darkner world, this makes sense. Since she actually runs out of power after the GIGA Queen fight, it seems she’s a power hog who needs to be topped off constantly.
• Troll: In the purest sense of the word. Considering that she is pretty close to being an Anthropomorphic Personification of the internet, it should not come as a surprise, really.
  • Early on in Chapter 2, she challenges the party to a fight on an arcade machine. But it's been designed so that she's the only one who can reach the controls without a footstool, immediately shredding their morale.
  • One of Queen's attacks is opening a chatroom, where the messages between the chatters will hurt the SOUL. She will then make the attack harder by starting "drama" for the lulz, making every chatter mad at the SOUL.
  • Her "ultimate attack" that she's been downloading for most of the adventure. It starts off with an ominous downloading progress meter... and then psychs you out when the download fails, which covers the screen in Interface Screwing error messages to hide your SOUL and summons the laughing wireframe Queen faces to explode.
• Turns Red: If you manage to reach the third round of GIGA Queen's battle without taking any damage, a blue aura◊ will glow around her, causing her attacks to get more brutal and harder to dodge, but she'll also take more damage from you.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: Most battles have you defend from enemy attacks by navigating a short Bullet Hell sequence. Queen's final battle, however, replaces most of them with the Punch-Out!!-esque minigame you'd sampled earlier, scaled up. This also marks the first time in all of Undertale or Deltarune where you're able to directly attack the enemy's HP while they're attacking you^note discounting some of Spamton NEO's heart and face attacks.
• The Unfought: In the Weird Route, she'll be skipped over as a boss because (A) Berdly is dead, (B) Ralsei is able to explain to her what creating too many Dark Fountains will do before Queen can use her giant robot, and (C) with most of the NPCs and Berdly dead or having run away, there'd be no one to make the Combining Mecha, so having either of her boss fights in the conventional route would be impossible. Spamton NEO replaces her as the Final Boss.
• The Unpronouncable: Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N. It's not unpronounceable, but it's impractically long and unwieldy, so "Queen" is used as a shorthand. Susie initially refuses to call Queen by her name, but the serial number is too long to remember, so Susie begrudgingly goes with it.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: If you lose against the GIGA Queen, she'll teabag you a few times (complete with a cartoony squeaky sound playing as she does so) then cap it off with her Noblewoman's Laugh.
• Verbal Tic: Her dialogue is peppered with Robo Speak and internet lingo. She Also Capitalizes Every Word And Doesn't Punctuate The Ends Of Her Sentences, Or Does It: The Wrong Way
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: Played for Laughs. You're supposed to avoid the traffic on the road, but if you run into them:
  "Haha Okay Actually Hit All The Cars"
• Villain Has a Point: She eventually reveals that she wants to spread darkness forth to expand the whimsical Dark World past the confines of the library, worrying about entertaining the Lightners after the recent internet outage tore them away from entertainment. She tells Noelle to make the world that makes her happy, and by the time the heroes defeat her, Noelle can't help but find herself agreeing with the idea after all, with the other Lightners following. It takes Ralsei scolding them with further details of the prophecy to explain why it's such a bad idea.
• Villain Respect: While it's evident that she cares about all of the Lightners, she considers Kris, "Her Dearest Trucie", to be her favorite, because they don't "Have Opinions" (Susie), "Scream When She Captures Them" (Noelle), or "Tell Her Horrible Plans For Smartboy Theme Park" (Doesn't take a genius to figure this one out). She continues to refer to them as her trucie even after their "trucing" ends.
• Violence is the Only Option: As GIGA Queen, she's the first enemy in a pacifist route to be required to have their HP depleted in all of Undertale/Deltarune, not counting Asgore and Flowey since you still get the opportunity to spare them in the end, and the former gets killed by the latter after you fight him. Justified, because what you're fighting with is the giant robot she's piloting; you're not actually hurting her.
• Voice Grunting: It sounds like a Noblewoman's Laugh. Uniquely for Deltarune, it uses several different sounds strung together in a similar vein to Mettaton from the first game instead of a single repeating grunt. She uses Voice Grunting outside of her dialogue the most out of all of the characters in the game. Notably, she uses a different Voice Grunting that does use a single repeating grunt whenever she's deliberately trying to be dramatic.
• Wave-Motion Gun: GIGA Queen's acid wineglass can shoot out massive laser beams.
• We Can Rule Together: She makes no effort to hide the fact that she would still prefer to keep herself at the top in an expanded Dark World, but still asks if the Lightners (except for Berdly) can use their power to help her start another Dark Fountain to make the world of their dreams come true.
  GIGA Queen: [Susie] Bro Just Let Me Karate Chop You And You Can Have As Many Skateboards As You Want
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She's playing the part of the bad guy because the only way she knows how to get what she wants is through force. That being said, she wants to take over the world for benevolent reasons, and isn't completely unreasonable; when Queen finds out that too many Dark Fountains will cause The End of the World as We Know It, Queen drops the idea.
• Wingding Eyes: The Hidden Eyes part of her face can show a variety of different short words like "HAHA", "NICE", and "LMAO"^note WWW in the Japanese version, which means pretty much the same thing. It can also show swirls shaped like @ symbols when she is really surprised.
• Xenomorph Xerox: When viewed from the side, her head greatly resembles a Xenomorph's head. She also has Acid Attacks and like the Xenomorph Queen, she's ultimately fought in a mech.
• You Are Number 6: Given that she manifested from the Librarby's public laptop, her real name is Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N. But she's only ever known as "Queen" to everyone.

Shopkeepers

Sweet Cap'n Cakes

Sweet Cap'n Cakes

"See ya!"
"Smell ya!"
"Hear ya!"^note L-R: Cap'n, Sweet, K_K

A team of anthropomorphized audio equipment: a speaker named Sweet, a boombox named Cap'n, and a CD player named Cakes (who mostly goes by K_K). They've rebelled against Queen.

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• Ambiguously Related: Their designer Nelnal referred to them as "brothers", but later clarified that it was undecided if that meant literally in the familial sense.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: Cap'n is simply known as Cap (キャップ) in the Japanese localization. Sweet and K_K's names are unchanged.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Sweet and Cap'n barely make it up to K_K's waist.
• Brick Joke: If you hurt one of the trio hard enough during the fight against them, they'll simply heal themselves using a carton of almond milk, just like K. Round did in the previous chapter.
• Casanova Wannabe: Cap'n thinks the group exists so they can "lay a finger on madamoizels", to Sweet's frustration. He's stunned that Sweet got candy from Queen in her pre-Knight days when he didn't, and Sweet says it was because Cap'n called her a "hot mama". Cap’n also tries to flirt with Noelle, and immediately flubs it by mistaking her antlers for radio antennae.
• Cute Machines: K_K is charmingly ditzy and Sweet is a small cute Cyber Cyclops.
• Cycle of Hurting: If one of them takes enough damage during a turn, the whole group will take a turn to heal up instead of attacking. Assuming the party is strong enough to deal this damage consistently, it's possible for enough turns to pass for Susie and Ralsei to learn how to use ACTs and use them to end the fight without seeing a single attack.
• Cyber Cyclops: Sweet has only one speaker for an eye.
• Defeat Means Friendship: When defeated in battle, the three come to the completely wrong conclusion that they won by having their dancing defeat the heroes, and end up 'welcoming' them to the good side.
  Susie: We ARE the good side!!!
• The Ditz: K_K seems mentally about a step behind everyone else, but every one of them fails to recognize that the Lightners are on their side against Queen. They think they introduced the Delta Warriors to the good side after they all dance together.
• Face Fault: Sweet pulls this a lot when things don't go his way, mainly when his friends start messing around as they're introducing themselves to the heroes.
• Foreshadowing: Their "Junk Work" dialogue reveals important informations about two events of the chapter:
  • First, they talk about a little weird guy who wanted them to sneak into Queen's Mansion.
  • After that, they mention a rather "high-class" client spouting words they could barely understand, who has commissioned them to build something complex.
• Funny Robot: They're largely comedic characters.
• Gadgeteer Genius: They build scrap into machines. It's heavily implied that they rebuilt the machine Rouxls Kaard uses to threaten you and later create your Humongous Mecha.
• Hero with an F in Good: The only remotely "heroic" thing they do during most of Chapter 2 is selling the heroes their wares (mostly CD Bagels). Other than that, they either hinder the party or end up doing the villains' dirty work (like building Berdly a statue or helping Rouxls refine the Thrash Machine so he can defeat the heroes). Thankfully subverted during the final boss battle in the Normal Route, where they finally help the player by building a Humongous Mecha made up of the characters they've recruited throughout the Chapter.
• Horrible Judge of Character: They're rebelling against Queen, but have the sides wrong to a comical degree.
  • They saw Kris, Susie, and Ralsei when Queen kidnapped Noelle, and concluded that the trio must be working for her. After their battle, they welcome you to the good side even though Susie was already trying to get it through that they were resisting Queen as well.
  • They were fine with making Berdly's statue even though they hated building it, ignoring how he's probably Queen's most zealous supporter. Even worse, they helped refine the Thrash Machine for Rouxls to use against you, in his effort to curry Queen's favor.
• Humongous Mecha: In the last battle, Sweet Cap’n and Cakes will come to the rescue with a massive mecha they built from the scrap you sold them. The head of the mecha will depend of the tank of Chapter 1.
• Leitmotif: "Cyber Battle", a jaunty New Jack Swing tune, is associated with the trio, and the motif follows them around in most of their appearances.
• Let's You and Him Fight: They come to the conclusion that the heroes work for Queen and refuse to hear otherwise until the heroes convince them to dance.
• Made of Indestructium: Unlike K. Round, no matter how hard you hit them or even if you deplete all three members' HP at the same time, they'll always heal themselves back to max HP in a single turn, even if you manipulate your stats to deal massive damage. That must be some serious milk.
• Mickey Mousing:
  • What attacks they use and the timing on them syncs up to the beats in their battle music. Removing the battle music from their fight data will actually cause them to be unable to attack.
  • Sweet also times his attacks to the background music at the two points where he attacks the party, first as they enter Cyber World and a second time just before their battle.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Downplayed. Like Clover, whenever they’re speaking, an image of their heads appears beside their dialogue to indicate which one is speaking.
• One Degree of Separation: They once met a strange person asking them to sneak into Queen's mansion for him, and have recently gotten hired to build a machine for a rather eloquent client.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: K_K mentions that his name is actually short for "Cakes", a name which isn't used by anyone else to refer to him.
• Puzzle Boss: They cannot be defeated with violence, and they can't be defeated by having Kris dance with them one-at-a-time. Surprisingly, it's Susie who figures out that the solution is for each of them to dance individually.
• The Quiet One: Compared to Sweet and Cap'n, K_K doesn't do a lot of talking, preferring to let his actions speak louder than his words. Justified, as he doubles as their DJ.
• La Résistance: Ever since Queen got worse with her rule and banned music that doesn't praise her, the trio made an underground rebellion against her. Beyond scrap work and selling CD Bagels to fund their plans, they're not exactly very good at it.
• Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: They consider themselves a rebel movement, but they don’t actually know how to rebel; the simple fact of getting into trouble is already too much for them. They mostly sell bagels, to fundraise. Ultimately subverted in the pacifist/neutral final boss, where they "modified" all of your recruits to work together, allowing you to create your Combining Mecha fueled by The Power of Friendship.
• Shout-Out: Named for a segment on Homestar Runner called "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes". The music snippet K_K plays when he "gets angry" is also lifted from the keyboard demo Piano Head Strong Bad plays from the same segment (which he also plays when he gets angry).
• Sound Test: Once they move into your Castle Town, their shop acts as a little sound test room where you can listen to the various tunes that appear in Chapter 2 (and the "splat" sound effect Lancer is associated with), with some exceptions, most prominent being Spamton's themes.
• Swapped Roles: A comic by their character designer NELNAL involves K_K having a dream where he is the short one while Sweet and Cap'n are taller than him.
• We Buy Anything: Justified, since they'll just use the garbage items the player sells for scrap anyway.

Swatch

Swatch

"Please come again. We'll be waiting for you with rose-tinted glasses..."

"I am Swatch, Our Lady Grace's head butler. When we are not attending to her needs, I and the Queen's other staff use this room as our humble yet colorful gift-shop-slash-cafe."

Queen's head butler. Besides attending to her with the Swatchlings, he runs the Color Café in Queen's Mansion.

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• Bird People: Like the Swatchlings, he resembles a giant humanoid bird.
• Bishie Sparkles: His animation depicts him perpetually twinkling like a stereotypical "pretty boy" in anime.
• Consummate Professional: Even moreso than the Swatchlings; he constantly radiates professionalism, and one of the few things that can get him to display even mild annoyance is the lack of similar professionalism in others.
• Cool Shades: Wears angular sunglasses with separate yellow and orange lenses as part of his fashion sense.
• The Dandy: Prides himself on his choice of attire.
• Dub Name Change: In the Japanese localization, he is named Paletta (パレッタ).
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His glasses have differently-colored lenses and his suit is half black, half white.
• A Father to His Men: Implied. If the player does not recruit the Swatchlings, Swatch will lament the fact that he couldn't come to Castle Town.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: He's a Consummate Professional and is the head butler to Queen, so it comes with the territory.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: He asks you to please never mention Rouxls Kaard again after telling you he was forcefully evicted from their shop. He also seems to have made this vow in the past on anything concerning Spamton: meandering into the topic of his "impersonation" has him cut the conversation short, and if you ask about the basement, he'll immediately deny its existence, and ask you politely but firmly to stop because you're "bothering the other customers". It takes going through the whole Spamton NEO mess before he'll spill the beans on the matter.
• Living Program: He seems to be a personification of graphics and digital art softwares. When asked about Spamton NEO, he'll explain that the robot body was originally designed by a Lightner (who is heavily implied to be Deltarune's incarnation of Mettaton) with his help.
  "That robot was the embodiment of a Lightner's dream.
  A dream I helped create... once.
  Splashing color from the motion of their hand.
  The Lightner filled it with their own hope, giving it an incredible power.
  ...but, in the end, nothing ever came of it.
  And it was left in the basement with the rest of the corrupted data."
• Meaningful Name: In computer terms, a "swatch" refers to the digital color palette available in graphics software. On the other hand, his Japanese name is a pun on "palette".
• Mr. Exposition: Like Seam in the first chapter giving the backstory on Jevil, he gives a bit of backstory on Spamton NEO and the body he used to fight you once you've defeated him.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: Swatch sells the B.ShotBowtie, which offers better defensive quality compared to the Frayed Bowtie that falsely shares the name in Spamton's shop menu. It's implied to be an Inverted case; Swatch's bowties are described as having the brand names removed when checked, meaning Spamton likely kept some of the originals while Swatch took over his old wares.
• We Buy Anything: Justified; he explained that Queen forced him to buy stuff for her, including garbage items.
• We Used to Be Friends: Not to the extent of the Addisons, but Swatch pities Spamton's current condition when remembering his place in the mansion and how he used to be a "valued customer". Spamton shares the same sentiment, as in his live Q&A, he mentions how Swatch used to be a "[shoulder to cry on]".

Citizens

Plugboys

Plugboys

"Since everyone else got plugged they're a lot more agreeable."

A minor species of pink citizens with outlets for faces first found in the Cyber Field. They're the main species used to create Werewires by Queen.

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• All There in the Script: The name of this species isn't ever said in-game. The name "Plugboy" comes from the game files, which assigns the word "plugboy" to the sprite and object files for these characters.
• Forced Transformation: They're the main target for transformation into Werewires, which involves the outlet plugging into their face against their will. Most talking Werewires you encounter later in the chapter actually like the transformation much more than their original selves.
• Lampshade Hanging: One of the bandana-wearing plugboys points out the fact that the so-called "last resistance against Queen" Sweet Cap'n Cakes do nothing but sell overpriced bagels.
• Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: One plugboy wants to help the rebels, but admits they are somewhat ineffectual and have no idea what they would even do to help.
• Tempting Fate: One of the fedora-wearing Plugboys openly supports Queen despite all his friends getting turned into Werewires, and believes he will avoid such a fate due to supporting Queen since the start. At the end of that same room the player can spot a lone, fedora-wearing Werewire hanging in the background, with the initial Plugboy NPC no longer present upon backtracking.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: One of the Plugboys has eyelashes. A Pluggirl, perhaps?

Hacker

Hacker

"Psst... I'm the Hacker. Nobody figured it out yet but it's me."

A hacker that you first encounter in the Cyber Field. He is looking for "blue checksmarks", and will join your town should you help him find three of them.

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• Affectionate Parody: His character is somewhat based on The Matrix, being green-and-black colored, dressed in all-black with Cool Shades, and attempting to "hack" into things for the heroes' benefit.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Finding three blue checkmarks sounds like a minor side quest that can be skipped completely, but his role is crucial in finding the hidden door to the basement in Queen's Mansion, and consequently defeating the chapter's superboss.
• Cool Shades: Never seen without his sunglasses.
• Digitized Hacker: It's heavily suggested he's the program responsible for handling the cursor on one of the computers in the Light World, although it's not clear which program he actually is. Despite this, he's the hacker within the digital world of the Cyber Fields.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only ever referred to as "the Hacker".
• Hollywood Hacking: Parodied, in that the only real hacking he seems to do is for games, such as when he makes a child's toy play nursery rhyme music. He can otherwise be seen kicked from a store for "encrypting" his signature with random scribbles.
• Inherently Funny Words: He mentions the JPEG image file format pretty frequently, such as stating that he needs to drink "a jpeg of water", or giving his "strongest JPEGs" when assembling the Thrash Machine mecha.
• Mythology Gag: A character that hacks videogames as a hobby? Seasoned fans of Toby Fox may recall that dog previously made two EarthBound hacks, one of which had a song that some people had a pretty bad time with.
• Non-Human Head: Has a mouse cursor for a head, complete with Cool Shades.
• Overt Operative: He sneaks into Queen's dinner party at her Mansion to help Kris find the hidden basement by wearing a wig and pretending to be a guest. He also tells everyone at the party that he's a hacker.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: He manages to sneak into the Queen's dinner by just wearing a wig. This is immediately rendered void since he started telling people at the party he's a hacker, though that might be because Hacker is his real name.
• Playful Hacker: Of the digitized Techno Wizard sort, or at least he tries to be. His most notable contribution to the heroes' adventure is assistance in locating the basement of Queen's mansion, and he's indirectly successful without knowing it. His other attempts at "hacking" are otherwise useless.
• Shout-Out: He calls his sidequest to collect all three blue checksmarks your "Checks Quest".
• Techno Wizard: Parodied. While he's competent at hacking games and old toys, or game hacking, he's utterly incompetent at doing actual security hacking, so although it's made clear he's a hacker, he uses his skills to attempt and hack something he's not actually able to hack.
• Verbal Tic: He sometimes makes typos and spelling errors, such as spelling "checkmarks" as "checksmarks" one time, or stating that he's decided to "reverse engineer the code for Super SMashing Fighters" [sic].
• Waiting Puzzle: He has suspicions about a room in Queen's Mansion, stating that it might have a hidden backdoor while pacing back and forth. While it's possible to just brute-force the puzzle by inspecting everything, you're meant to follow him until his mouse pointer-shaped head appropriately turns into a pointing finger while he's standing in front of an inspectable spot.

Nubert

Nubert

"I'm Nubert. Everybody loves me."

He's Nubert. Everybody loves him.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: His appearance along with his English and Japanese names suggest that he's based on a pointing stick, also known as a nub, found in some computer keyboards.
• Dub Name Change: Is known as Poin (ポイン) in the Japanese localization. Spamton, being Spamton, refers to him as "[[ポインくん]]" (Poin-kun) in the Twitter video ad for his "Specil Fun Pak" merchandise.
• I Choose to Stay: Nubert will only come to Castle Town if everyone else is recruited; otherwise, Queen will ask about his absence, to which Trashy points out that Nubert had chosen to remain in the Cyber World.
• Irony: Nubert is most likely based on a keyboard nub or pointing stick, which is known to be polarizing in real life due to many people finding it difficult to use compared to a regular mouse or a trackpad. Despite this, he says that everybody loves him, and he has Queen and other citizens of the Cyber World to back him up, thinking of him as a great fellow.
• Loved by All: He claims that everybody loves him, and this is reflected well in dialogue as people have nothing but nice things to say about him, with Susie and Ralsei saying "My man!" whenever he appears.
• Phrase Catcher: In the anniversary stream, his appearance is always heralded with a "My man!"
• Punny Name: Nubert is both a red nub with a face on it and an entirely "new" character.
• Remember the New Guy?: The entire joke behind his existence is that he was introduced in the modified version of Chapter 1 that was played on the 6-year Undertale anniversary stream and Chapter 2, yet Ralsei and Susie both treat him as an old friend everyone knows about, has known about, and totally adores.

Trashy

Trashy

"Oh boy, oh boy! I'm Trashy!"

A sentient garbage can living in the Trash Zone, a garbage patch west of the City's entrance.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: He's a living garbage can with giant googly eyes and Rubber-Hose Limbs. Outside of the Dark World, Kris can inspect a trash can in a corner of the computer lab, prompting them to feel that it doesn't have any friends.
• Dub Name Change: Is known as Kuzuu (クズー) in the Japanese localization. "Kuzu" (くず) in Japanese means "waste" or "trash".
• Expy: He represents the trash can/recycling bin function of computers, but as a googly-eyed inanimate object with a name ending in "-y" who attempts to give advice but gets ignored, he's also a reference to Clippy, an unpopular discontinued assistant program for Microsoft Office.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Hardly anyone ever acknowledges him. Even after providing useful info, the party just ignores him... only for Ralsei to present the exact same advice which Susie actually listens to.
• He Knows About Timed Hits: Played with. He attempts to explain how the game's storage system works when talked to, only to be interrupted by Susie and Ralsei, before the latter explains to Kris about the storage system anyway.
• Living Program: Besides comparisons to the lonely trash can in the corner of the computer lab, Trashy can also represent the Recycle Bin and other programs meant to store deleted and scrapped data on computers.
• Moment Killer: He interrupts a lot of more emotional moments.
  • After Ralsei heals Susie, and offers to teach her healing skills, Trashy can be talked to and starts explaining the inventory system to the trio. Susie and Ralsei chide him for ruining the moment, before shifting their focus to Nubert.
  • If you didn't recruit many Cyber World Darkners, Trashy will be one of (if not the only) accompanying citizens, loudly declaring his arrival after Queen laments how alone she'll feel without her usual subjects around.
• Sole Survivor: Through a series of specific actions (like FIGHTing everybody you see, not completing Hacker's sidequest and doing the Weird Route), you can make sure Trashy is the only citizen (barring Sweet Cap'n Cakes and Swatch, since they come with you no matter what) that accompanies Queen back to Castle Town.
  Trashy: Don't worry Queen! I'm here! Me, and only me!

Addisons

Addisons

"Don't like advertisements? Block ads for only $9.99!
Change your mind? Bring them back for only $9.99!"

Salesmen living in the City.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: They were good friends with Spamton back when he was still a failing salesman, and cut contact with him out of jealousy after he became successful, believing he wouldn't really need their company anyway. As his dialogue from the Weird Route indicates, he hates having lost his friends following what happened to him.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: They're humanoids colored blue, pink, orange and yellow, in the same shade as the default palette from Microsoft Paint.
• And I Must Scream: Maybe. You can make one of the Addisons "disappear" in the Snowgrave Route. Examining the Freeze Ring you get from doing so reveals a person inside.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: They are known as Adson (アドソン) in the Japanese localization.
• Brick Joke: The Addison selling shoe samples will just give you a small shoe with a toothpick through it, which does nothing. Check Lancer in your key items anytime after accepting, and it turns out he ate the sample when Kris put it in their pocket. Similarly, backtracking with Susie and Ralsei back in the party leads to Susie taking a bite herself.
• Comical Overreacting: Say "no" to purchasing the Own Flavored Tea, and the Addison dramatically says, "But if you don't choose a flavor, who will!?!?"
• Elephant in the Living Room: After encountering Spamton and backtracking to the city, you can go around town and interact with the Addisons, where Kris asks them if they know anything about Spamton. Most of them respond by saying they don't want to discuss anything about him. They only come to properly address him and elaborate on his story after his second fight.
• Everyone Has Standards: While the Addisons drifted apart from Spamton over their jealousy over his success, when he was evicted from Queen’s mansion, one of them wanted to check on them before Spamton disappeared. After he apparently dies, they all mourn for their former friend together.
• Exact Words:
  • The Addison selling shoes offers you a "free sample". Accept, and all you get is a shoe with a toothpick through it, done the same way samples of food are given out.
  • Another sells tea, pitching that you can "choose your own flavor". Then it turns out the tea is literally flavored after the characters.
  • The one next to the mannequin asks if you want to buy it. Not the dress it's wearing, the entire Mannequin itself.
• Green-Eyed Monster: They abandoned Spamton after he became a successful salesman and a member of Queen's court out of jealousy, and initially refuse to acknowledge him even after he was reduced to being a madman living among garbage. They start to turn around on this after his death, holding a small memorial for him in the alleyway.
• Hidden Depths: Following Spamton's death, the Addisons meet up outside his empty shop to mourn him, seemingly regretting their past dismissal and jealousy of him and lamenting his fall from grace. Backtrack to the city before completing his quest, and the Addisons will try their best to avoid talking about him or say they haven't heard his name in years.
• Honest John's Dealership: Most of the products they sell aren't exactly that... good. One offers "free samples" of shoes which gives a single one with a toothpick through it, and another sells you a dress for $300... with the mannequin attached.
• I Taste Delicious: Inverted. One Addison sells "Own Flavored Tea", a type of tea whose taste embodies the party members with a fitting flavor attributed to them. If a character is made to drink their own flavor, they say it's just water, while other members describe what they can taste in better detail.
• Lethal Joke Item: The Mannequin armor piece doesn't seem like much, but it has one specific situational use in Spamton NEO's fight, reducing the damage Kris takes from him by 35% when equipped. It has the same effect for "CAT"-type enemies like the Tasques and Tasque Manager.
• Living Program: They seem to be the embodiment of Internet Ads. It's possible that they're adware, given the offer to block them or bring them back with sufficient payment.
• Mistaken for Romance:
  • With Noelle in the party, the pink Addison thinks Kris and Noelle are on a date and offers "Dating Shoes". After Noelle says they're Just Friends and Kris responds, the Addison offers "Divorce Shoes" instead. Should Kris answer that they're "something else" as part of the Weird Route, the Freeze Ring is made available here.
  • Backtracking with Susie and Ralsei in the party causes the Addison to suggest the three buy "Marriage Shoes".
• Planet of Steves: There are multiple Addisons, each having a different skin color and head shape but otherwise the same name, face, pose and clothing.
• Proud Merchant Race: Addisons are all salesmen, hanging out in different parts of the city and bombarding Kris and the party with various product offers if talked to.
• Punny Name: They're living advertisement programs dubbed the "Addisons".
• Shoo Out the Clowns: After getting the Freeze Ring from the pink Addison, the rest of them stop appearing during the Weird Route.
• Stealth Pun: They personify advertising programs by being obnoxious and at times useless merchants. In other words, they want to promote their adwares.
• Tastes Like Purple: Some of the "Own Flavor" Tea doesn't get a description despite healing for a lot, such as the Susie Tea healing Kris for 120 HP and Noelle eagerly asking for gallons after recovering 400 HP!
• We Sell Everything: Shoes with "free samples" (read: individual shoes with toothpicks through them), a mannequin, tea flavored after your appearance and personality, and advertising for the space inside their dialogue boxes. Taken back to the Castle Town, one Addison can be seen offering "samples" of Ralsei's training dummy.
• We Used to Be Friends: The Addisons were once close with Spamton when he was an unlucky businessman, but they grew apart once he had his big break and didn't need them anymore. When they learn of his supposed death, the Addisons all meet up outside his shop in the Trash Zone to share memories of their former friend.

Enemies

Werewire/Werewerewire

Werewire/Werewerewire

Controlled by the Queen's wire, it's sleepwalking through a nightmare!

Werewerewire shuffles coolly.

The plug-faced denizens of the Cyber World, who turn into gangly electrical beasts when they're plugged into Queen's mind-control wires. The standard variety is hanging all around the world, while the rare Werewerewires of Queen's Mansion have absorbed their wires to become stronger.

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• Bedtime Brainwashing: Flavor text for Werewires describes the plug-induced brainwashing as like sleepwalking. True to form, they always appear as Tired in-battle.
• Body Horror: They've been plugged into through the face, which turns them into tall and skinny monstrosities. Though, this could be normal for their species. A couple of Werewires in the city (who appear to remain cognizant) even seem to prefer the form.
• Boss in Mook Clothing: In the main story, the party only ever fights one Werewerewire in a room where it's the only enemy present. Its attacks are far more quick and vicious than a regular Werewire's, and it's nowhere near as easy to spare as it doesn't start the battle already tired, with the party's available ACTs only filling the mercy gauge in small increments.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: They are Plugboys forcibly turned into mindless, aggressive beasts thanks to the Queen's wires, although some of them appear to still be cognizant and don't seem to mind their new appearance.
• Cursed with Awesome: A few Werewires who can be talked to comment on enjoying their new form, with their recruit bio pointing out that, even though they were controlled by Queen, they're stronger and cooler now.
• Dual Boss: Two Werewerewires are the final battle of the Chapter 2 All-Stars challenge. This is notable as the Werewerewire is usually fought by itself.
• Dub Name Change: In the Japanese version, Werewire is known as Cabloid/Cableroid^note both romanizations are pronounced roughly the same (ケーブロイド), a portmanteau of "cable" and "android". Similarly, Werewerewire is known as Cabloidloid/Cableroidroid (ケーブロイドロイド).
• Elite Mook: Werewerewire is basically a Mini-Boss version of Werewire; it doesn't start the battle already Tired, doesn't have the same limited moveset if it's alone, and the moves it does use are faster.
• Forced Sleep: Werewires have the unique trait of entering the battle with the Tired status by default. Ralsei's Pacify and Noelle's Sleep Mist will take them out of the battle from the get-go.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: On a pacifist run, the Werewerewire in the Dojo is bristly and doesn't want to talk to you because you befriended it without violence, and wants you to challenge it in the battle arena. Even if you do proceed to beat it with violence as it wanted (since there's no penalty for doing that in dojo challenges), it doesn't change its dialogue any to reflect that.
• Hot-Blooded: The Werewerewire is described as having absorbed the wire connecting to it "with fighting spirit", making it more powerful than the ordinary Werewire. Observed in the café, they can be seen crushing drinks given to them, and if paired with a Werewire, will also crush their drink, much to their annoyance.
• Jealous Romantic Witness: If a Werewerewire is seated north of the pairing table, and the southern table has another Werewerewire paired with a Head Hathy, the lonesome Werewerewire is described as looking on and crushing the drink in its hand even more. If the Head Hathy is paired with the less powerful Werewire, the lonesome Werewerewire is said to be ready to flip its table over.
• Minion Shipping: They can be paired with Head Hathies for some additional Flavor Text. Placing a Werewerewire nearby causes it to get envious.
• The Quiet One: Werewerewires are silent and don't have dialogue of their own, described by their body language the same way Hathies are. Head Hathies appreciate them for it when they're seated together.
• Shock and Awe: They attack by shooting sparks and jolts of electricity from their hands.
• Stealth Pun:
  • For the slang term of "wired", as Werewires are always Tired at the beginning of battle.
  • How come Ralsei's Pacify works on them from the get-go? Ralsei says that he put them to sleep… mode.
• Support Party Member: If it's in a group, it gets to use its stronger and less predictable laser and spark-throwing attacks. If it's alone, it uses a much weaker shower of sparks as its only attack.
• Unique Enemy: Only one Werewerewire encounter appears in Chapter 2 proper, as one of the final enemies faced before Queen. A group of two show up in a dojo challenge after the chapter.

Tasque

Tasque

"meowowmemeowmeow"

Playful cat-like Darkners with traits of computer task windows, found throughout all of Cyber World.

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• Cool Cat: Cool computerized cat.
• Gratuitous French: They're named after a type of task-managing program that is, in turn, named after a French village. They'll also make a "[Miaouw]" sound instead of their binary-style "meows" when seated next to a Maus in the Castle Town café.
• Living Program: They are personifications of generic computer tasks or programs.
• Picky Eater: Implied by the fact their recruitment page lists "cat food" as both its liked and disliked thing.
• Punny Name: Their name is a pun on the word "task", which can be rearranged to spell "kats", hence their appearance and behaviour. It's also likely a reference to an open-source task manager program of the same name.
• Shock and Awe: They're Cat/Electric-type, according to the recruitment screen.
• Shout-Out:
  • They share their name with an open-source task manager program, and are known to answer to a "Tasque Manager".
  • At the café, when seated next to a Maus, the Tasque will forgo the usual binary meows and instead make a "[Miaouw]" sound. As Toby fox is a fan, it's likely a reference to French indie game OFF, which involves an important cat figure that is later impersonated by another character making a "Miaouw" sound.
• Speaks in Binary: A variant. Their dialogues may look like gibberish meowing, but they are actually written in binary, with every "me" representing a 0 and every "ow" representing a 1. These binary texts can be converted to UTF-8, as follows.^note In Japanese, they instead use "ny" and "an" for 0 and 1 respectively; "nyan" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for meowing. The UTF-8 text also spell out "N", "Y", and "A".
  • meowowme owowmeow: 01101101 ("m")
  • meowowme meowmeow: 01100101 ("e")
  • meowowme owowowow: 01101111 ("o")
  • meowowow meowowow: 01110111 ("w")
  • If you pet them, they'll say, "owowowmememeowme owmemeowowmemeow owmeowmemeowmeow": 11100010 10011001 10100101 ("♥", a heart symbol).
• Stock Animal Diet: A Tasque can be seen drinking "K_K's electric milk JPEG" at the Castle Town café.
• Super-Scream: As one of their attacks, Tasques can meow loud enough to scream out bullets.

Virovirokun

Virovirokun

"Happy new year 1997!"

Cutesy computer virus criminals that refuse to get treated, causing mayhem all around the Cyber World.

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• Arch-Enemy: Being a virus, they are opposed to the anti-viral Ambyu-Lance. At one point you come across a Virovirokun being chased by an Ambyu-Lance in the overworld. Should you engage them in battle, their attacks will clash against each other, which unfortunately gets your team caught in the crossfire of their bullets.
• Arc Number: One neutral quote has them wishing Kris a "Happy new year 1997!", the same number/year that plays a large role in Spamton's story.
• Computer Virus: Darkners that manifest from computer viruses.
• Dub Name Change: Called "Virusun" (ウィルスン) in the Japanese version.
• Enemy Mine: Downplayed. If in battle with the anti-viral Ambyu-Lance, they will fight each other, but also end up catching Kris's party in their crossfire. Their projectiles can collide and cancel each other out.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Despite being mortal enemies with the Ambyu-Lances, they don't mind having a drink together if you pair them at a table in the Castle Town café.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese version, they speak in a mixture of both Japanese and (occasionally incorrectly punctuated) English.◊
• Gratuitous Japanese: "Virovirokun" is a combination of Japanese sound symbolism and Japanese Honorifics.
• He Knows About Timed Hits: One Virovirokun helps explain the rules of Dark World battles to Noelle.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Their Recruit profile describes them as "A virus with a slightly criminal streak... and a heart of gold."
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: After realising Noelle has never fought in a battle before and has no clue how to, one of them stops fighting and helps Kris explain battle rules to her.
• Living Program: They are personified computer viruses.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of their attacks involves mini-Virovirokun firing projectiles downward while slowly moving closer to the bottom of the screen, a clear nod to Space Invaders.
  • Some of their quotes reference infamous real-life computer worms, such as ""Happy new year 1997!" and "I've got a love letter for you."
  • Another one of their in-battle quotes is "I'm the fever, I'm the chill," which combined with their virus and retro game theme nods to the two music types in Dr. Mario, "Fever" and "Chill".
• The Virus: A given, considering what they are. Their main form of attack consists of purple arrows that explode into a cloud of smoke when hitting the SOUL; if an arrow or its explosion smoke contacts any bullet (including another arrow), the bullet will become "infected" and turn into a small virus figure that chases the SOUL down. The only bullet immune to the effect is Ambyu-Lance's cross-shaped bullets, which instead destroy the arrows.
• Visual Pun: Computer viruses that are designed to look like biological viruses.
• Wingding Eyes: Their default sprite has their eyes as swirls. Of course, once you 'take care' of them and they become sparable, this goes away.

Poppup

Poppup

"Click Here! Click Here! Click Here! Click Here!"

Dolphin Darkners that live inside pop-up advertisements, who like to hide in the ad-filled city and ambush the heroes.

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• Annoying Pop-Up Ad: Poppups are built around this trope. They can use birds to damage you and have ads show up as Interface Screw for the Bullet Board. Poppups have multiple spare conditions, like blocking ads, having other team members click on them by accident, or making so many show up it causes them to crash.
• Ascended Meme:
  • One event from having Susie click on them has her attracted to an ad featuring "a flaming eggplant holding a chainsaw", acknowledging the fandom's note of how her face resembles an eggplant.
  • The infamous fandom meme of depicting Ralsei using firearms is also referenced. Should Ralsei be asked to click on an ad, he'll try to aim for the one he wants, but then get cut off by a sudden pop-up with a machine gun on it. Alternatively, he'll click on an advert with a castle on it, only to discover it's for a demolition company that uses bazookas.
• Attention Whore: The Check description notes that they're "starved for attention".
• Brain Bleach: If Ralsei accidentally hits an ad featuring "lightners 4 darkners in ur area", the text notes that he's mortified by the contents.
• Button Mashing: To block a Poppup's ad attacks and try to spare it, you'll need to mash the action button to block as many ads as you can within a time limit. Block 10 ads and it'll become spareable.
• Chest Monster: At least one of them disguises itself as an item-containing trash can, revealing itself when Kris gets close.
• Clickbait Gag: Weaponized; They like to lure party members into clicking on them by using their desires as eye-catching content, such as a "how to make friends" guide for Ralsei and a "How to Draw Dragons" coloring book for Noelle.
• Devious Dolphins: Downplayed. They are dangerous dolphin-shaped monsters embodying pop-up ads. Outside of the Dark World, they manifest as malware-infested pop-up ads with pictures of dolphins on them. However, like every other normal enemy in the game, they're completely spareable and recruitable like the rest of the Darkners.
• Easter Egg: During their attacks, a tiny mouse cursor appears. You can use it to close ads by clicking on the "X's" in the PC version or by tapping on them using the touchscreen in the Nintendo Switch version. Granted, they eventually respawn in different areas, but it's a nice detail.
• Emotion Eater: Downplayed. If nobody is paying attention to them, they shrivel and become Tired. Should you click on them, it's noted that the characters usually do so unconsciously, which summons more Poppups to make the battle more difficult.
• Enemy Summoner: Using "Click" on a Poppup spawns in another Poppup. However, attempting to Click on Poppups when there are too many enemies in the battlefield will cause so many Poppups to spawn that they all crash, and are instantly removed from the battle.
• Epic Fail: Susie's actions by clicking on them stands out. On one occasion, she'll end up clicking on a picture of steak — not an ad featuring the picture, just some picture of a steak. On another, she'll actually miss and instead click on the word processor, which somehow installs a virus.^note Most likely due to a Macro Virus, something that was common in the late '90s.
• Expy: Poppup's appearance as a dolphin/bird hybrid and their love of "Leemo fruit" or "Liimo berries" paints them as one to the eponymous virtual pet from Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet.
• Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Devious Dolphins status aside, they're completely spareable and recruitable like any other Darkner. Once actually spareable, their body takes on a much more friendly shade of pink, while the crossed out circle on their forehead gets replaced by a smiley face.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Poppup's Recruits bio states that it dislikes ad-blockers. Despite this, blocking a Poppup's ads is the quickest way to fill its mercy meter, and the Poppup looks happier after you do so.
• Glass Cannon: They have a high attack stat of 9, but a defense stat of only 3.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Sometimes they'll speak in poorly spelled Japanese, most notably "ASOBOH" ("LET'S PLAY").
• Interface Screw: They can create pop-up ads to cover your field of vision in battle, which can get the player hit by bullets they wouldn't be able to see. As of the 1.07 update, you can use your mouse to close the pop-up windows and clear the battle box.
• Jump Scare: They blend into the overworld and, true to their namesake, come almost out of nowhere, leading to every encounter being a surprise.
• Living Program: They are personifications of pop-up ads.
• Logical Weakness: Their pop-up ad attacks that cover the bullet board can be thwarted simply by closing them with your mouse (or by tapping the touchscreen on the Nintendo Switch). Additionally, if a Poppup is at 100% mercy (which can be done most easily by blocking its ads), it will not use pop-up ad attacks at all.
• No Indoor Voice: Their dialogue is almost always shouted out, or written in capital letters.
• Schmuck Bait: Choosing to click on them just summons more Poppup ads. However, constantly loading more of them in is another viable way of ending their encounters.
• Shout-Out:
  • As mentioned, their general appearance and some of their dialogue lines are based on the virtual pet Fin Fin, from the 1996 game Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet.
  • One of their pop-up ads◊ resemble the pop-ups that are spawned by the "You Are An Idiot!" trojan.
  • One of their poorly-spelled Japanese dialogue lines is "GOKARMASHI O INARY...?", a nod to the boss Godkarmachine O Inary from Mega Man X3.
  • One of the pop-ups Poppup offers if you click on it is an ad for a video about making knives out of spaghetti.
• Violation of Common Sense: It might be assumed that clicking on them won't be any help, and you might especially be averse to it after it's shown that doing so just makes them multiply. However, if you keep clicking on them after there are already three enemies on the screen, this causes a crash that suddenly causes all the Poppups to be spared instantly.
• Your Heart's Desire: Asking any of the party to click on them gives unique Flavor Text depicting why they would.
  • If Kris clicks, they get an ad about "monsters 4 humans in your area", a video about making a knife out of spaghetti, and an advert for "demon summoning classes for teens".
  • Susie will click on "an ad featuring a flaming eggplant holding a chainsaw".
  • Ralsei will be drawn to a pop-up with a bunny on it offering lessons on how to make friends, only to accidentally hit an ad of a machine gun that appears over it. He'll also accidentally choose an advert featuring "lightners 4 darkners in ur area", shocking him.
  • Noelle misclicks on an offer to buy "How To Draw Dragons", and is also offered links to "Hot Female Santas In Your Area" and creepy game glitch compilations (which she seemingly deliberately clicks on).

Maus/Mauswheel

Maus/Mauswheel

(Catch me, catch me!)

(Rolling around at the speed of mouse...)

Literal computer mice scurrying about the city, with an attachment to cheese. The Mauswheel is formed when three of them combine together to torment Queen's dining staff.

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• Actually Four Mooks: Inverted with Mauswheel, which consists of three Maice but is counted as a single enemy.
• Animal Jingoism:
  • Mauswheel is at odds with the Swatchlings in the kitchen, though the predator-prey relationship is Inverted with the Swatchlings in fear of the Maice.
  • When Mauswheel starts spinning out of control at the end of their fight, Tasque Manager and one of her Tasques come in to take care of the rest.
• Animate Inanimate Object: They are living computer mice.
• Continuity Nod: Mauswheel's Check description is copied almost word-for-word from Clover's Check description, but with "mice" in place of "heads".
  "Two mice are better than one! ... Three, maybe not."
• The Dividual: Mauswheel only counts as one enemy, even though it's made up of three Maice.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A computer mouse named Maus (German for "mouse").
• Eek, a Mouse!!: They terrify Noelle, who will jump across to the nearest platform at the sight of them. This is necessary to clear a few puzzles. Unlike regular Maice, Mauswheel doesn't scare the protagonists, but it does manage to freak out the Swatchlings preparing food in the kitchen.
• Gratuitous German: "Maus" just means "mouse" in German.
• Punny Name: Mauswheel's name derives from an alternate name for the scroll wheel on most computer mice.
• Rat King: Mauswheel is a considerably cuter than the average example, but is still three rodents bound at the tail into a single entity.
• Schmuck Bait: Their first appearance as enemies is caused if you deliberately choose to touch the random slice of cheese at the side of the alleyway.
• Spectacular Spinning: When the three Maice spin around, huge bullets come out! This is apparently their favourite pastime, as their dislikes include "losing momentum".
• Stock Animal Diet: Cheese, of course. The very first Maus the player is likely to fight in combat appears when they try to touch its cheese, and the Swatchlings dealing with a Maice infestation in the mansion kitchen lament that they haven't finished throwing out all the cheese beforehand.
• Stock Video Game Puzzle: You'll need to redirect swarms of Maice into the proper holes throughout Chapter 2.
• Swarm of Rats: If you want to spare Mauswheel, you'll have to capture a Zerg Rush of tiny purple mice under a cage.
• Trapped the Wrong Target: In the event in which Ralsei is asked to capture the Maice, he'll put peanut butter to lure them to a cage. Susie ends up trapped instead (complete with a cage dropping animation).
  Ralsei: Susie!!!
  Susie: The hell you blaming ME for!! YOU made the trap!!
• Unique Enemy: Only one Mauswheel is fought, and it's in Queen's Mansion.
• Visual Pun: Computer mice. Mauswheel itself is based on the two meanings of "mouse wheel": the wheels that pet rodents run on for exercise, and the scroll wheel found in most computer mice since 1996. It also resembles a buffering icon, which shows up when a user clicks on something with a mouse cursor.

Ambyu-Lance

Ambyu-Lance

"Did you take your bullets today?"

Syringe-headed antiviruses that hunt down the city's viruses in the name of healthiness.

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• Afraid of Needles: Inverted with Noelle. If she's told to encourage them to make them spareable, Noelle says that needles aren't scary and emphasizes the importance of getting medicine, which they appreciate.
• Arch-Enemy: The Virovirokun, befitting an anti-virus program. At one point, you come across a Virovirokun being chased by an Ambyu-Lance in the overworld. Should you engage them in battle, their attacks will clash against each other, which unfortunately gets your team caught in the crossfire of their bullets.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: It's an antivirus program with a syringe for a head.
• Comically Inept Healing: They send you "free bullets" as their way of helping you. They also look down on Susie's weak healing spell if you use it in front of them.
• Difficult, but Awesome: If you use Susie's "Avoid" ACT, you'll need to dodge the ambulances to increase the Ambyu-Lances' mercy to 100%. This can be tricky due to the occasional ambulance swerving off path, but if you do it right, you'll take no damage.
• Drives Like Crazy: Sometimes, the ambulance bullets it sends down the "road" will abruptly swerve towards the player's SOUL. With tires on fire.
• Dub Name Change: To "Q-9" in the Japanese localization. It's pronounced "kyūkyū", which is a play on the Japanese word for ambulance, kyūkyūsha (救急車).
• Enemy Mine: Downplayed. Even though Ambyu-Lances express a will of fighting a Virovirokun, they both target Kris's party in battle. However, it's because they're unintentionally catching the party in the crossfire, with their bullets destroying each other on contact.
• Giant Medical Syringe: Their heads are shaped like one, topped with a siren light.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Despite being mortal enemies with the Virovirokun, they both drop the hostility when paired at a table in the Castle Town café. Ambyu-Lance's line seems to suggest their roles are something of a Punch-Clock Hero and Punch-Clock Villain respectively.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Downplayed. They sometimes say "Pipo" instead of their usual "wee-woo" as onomatopoeia.
• Living Program: They are personifications of antivirus programs.
• Mad Doctor: They aggressively administer their "treatments" on the party when they're not going after viruses. They seem to think they're helping by giving you "free bullets", and their Check description says they'll make accidents themselves if they can't find any.
• Mythology Gag: One of the possible in-game flavor texts when battling them mentions that they compare battling Kris's gang to a dentist visit. In Undertale, Asgore tries to calm Frisk down just before his boss battle by suggesting that they think of it as like a visit to the dentist.
• Ornamental Weapon: They carry reflex hammers around, but they don't use them to attack. They drop their hammers once their mercy meter reaches 100%.
• Punny Name: "Ambulance" and "lance".
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: They tend to make siren sounds with their mouths.
• Shock and Awe: According to the recruitment screen, its element is Order/Electric.
• Shout-Out: The end of their Recruits bio takes the time to point out how, as living antivirus software, they're "not down with the sickness."
• Taking the Bullet: If you have Ralsei in your party, you can spare Ambyu-Lances by deliberately getting hit by one of their ambulance attacks. On the other hand, if you use Susie instead, you need to avoid the ambulances to spare them.
• Verbal Tic: Sometimes start or end their lines with "Pipo", Japanese onomatopoeia for sirens.
• Visual Pun: Anti-virus programs designed with a medical theme.

Swatchling

Swatchling

"We have prepared several attack patterns for your enjoyment."

The pointy bird servants of Queen, always working hard to keep her mansion clean. They love to color-coordinate their outfits.

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• Battle Butler: A veritable army of them, no less!
• Berserk Button: Swatchlings don't start antagonizing the player until they start breaking the Queen's vases.
• Bird People: They all have angular heads that resembles those of birds, and one of their attacks involves them fluttering their arms to fly and divebomb on the SOUL.
• Consummate Professional: "You can always count on him to work hard," according to his recruitment bio. Amusingly, this trope is later subverted when Mauswheel runs loose in the Queen's kitchen and all the Swatchling chefs fly into a panic.
• Cosplay Café: It's possible to make one by filling every position in the Castle Town cafe with a Swatchling. Doing so unlocks hidden dialogue, wherein they will ask if the party is enjoying their Butler Café.
• Cuteness Proximity: A group of them loudly squeal with delight at the sight of Ralsei in a tuxedo.
• The Dandy: They're described as such on their recruitment page.
• Dub Name Change: In the Japanese localization, they are called "Palettler" (パレットラー).
• Eek, a Mouse!!: They are terrified of a Mauswheel... because it showed up to the dinner party uninvited, and it doesn't wear a wig.
• Elite Mooks: They're Queen's personal servants and bodyguards. While a few of them are seen directing traffic in the Cyber City, the player doesn't get to fight them until they're Storming the Castle. Living up to their image, they are tricky foes to fight. The mechanism to Spare them is not obvious, and they cannot be spared individually until all of them are willing, which means you get to deal with the tricky attack patterns of two or three Swatchlings at once for the whole battle.
• Empathic Shapeshifter: Swatchlings' clothes and eyes change color in response to the things Kris, Ralsei, and Susie tell them during battle. When all the Swatchlings match in color, they can be spared.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Subverted. One room in the castle's acid pool area has a trapped Swatchling standing on an island with no way back to the main land. He'll thank you for freeing him, but one of the switches in the room deviously places a vase on the exit bridge, forcing you to break it to leave. If you do so, the Swatchling you just rescued notices, but has enough sense to not engage in a fight and simply leaves.
• Feathered Fiend: Zigzagged. They're the Elite Mooks with tough attack patterns, yet they always act polite and friendly to the player, and are spareable like the rest of the overworld Darkners.
• Furry Confusion: Of the sapient and anthrozoomorphic variety. When Mauswheel barges into the kitchen, they're all horrified, not because of the dilemma of having pests in the kitchen, but because the Maice aren't wearing a wig. As seen earlier, a Maus was allowed in as a guest at the dinner party for doing so like the other guests.
• Gratuitous Japanese: After moving to Castle Town, they pick up the Rabbicks' tic of saying "Sukkiri" (すっきり), a Japanese expression for feeling and getting refreshed or tidy.
• Helpful Mook: Green Swatchlings can sometimes spawn in green candies into the battle box, which heals the characters just like how green attacks in Undertale do.
• Lesser of Two Evils: Played for Laughs. One Swatchling would rather stand on a hot oven than get close to a Mauswheel.
• Meaningful Name: Their name is a reference to color swatches, befitting how you Spare them by coordinating their colors. Their Japanese name instead is a portmanteau of "palette" and "butler".
• Mr. Fanservice: Tall, muscular, and oddly handsome for angular birdmen. If you look in the background of Swatch's shop, you can see the silhouettes of them sensually posing in what appears to be corsets.
• Odd Friendship: Despite being concerned with tidiness as a Servant Race of butlers, they also get along with Rabbicks if they're seated together, assuring you that they'll make sure to clean their plates. The fact that Rabbicks want to be cleaned might have something to do with it.
• One-Gender Race: There don't seem to be any female Swatchlings. The shopkeeper does mention men and women, but he might be referring to Tasque Manager.
• Playboy Bunny: You can see a bunch of them dressed in outfits resembling these behind Swatch at the shop.
• Priceless Ming Vase: Breaking the Queen's pottery is what first alerts the Swatchlings to the three heroes' presence. From then on, they're a recurring enemy.
• Punch-Clock Villain: They're Just Following Orders when they're sent in to attack you. You can rescue one stranded on an island in Queen’s acid pool, and when you break a vase getting yourself out, he’ll decide to let you go just this once. Outside of combat, a few Swatchlings are perfectly happy to talk to the heroes about the banquet the Queen is planning. One even joins your Combining Mecha to fight against Queen if you recruited them.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Give high-pitched squees at the sight of Ralsei in a suit.
• Servant Race: They're all meant to serve Queen in her mansion as Battle Butlers.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Befitting butlers, they wear business suits, which they prefer to be color-coordinated. They scream in unison while admiring Ralsei's butler outfit.
• Stock Video Game Puzzle: Swatchlings are always fought in groups of two or three. To spare them, the player needs to turn them all the same colour.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Compared to their wide chests and arms, their legs are shorter and skinnier.
• Vocal Dissonance: Emit soft yet tender bird shrieks (as Susie describes), in spite of their wide build.
• The Worf Effect: They are pretty burly Battle Butlers that are tough in battle... but they are scared of the Mauswheel, a tougher Mini-Boss.

Tasque Manager

Tasque Manager

Voiced by: Toby Fox

"Chaos, chaos!? No, no! Order, order!"

The strict maid of Queen's Mansion who corrals all of the rambunctious Tasques around the place.

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• Berserk Button: She really dislikes disorder and chaos. And also clowns. Equip Jevil's items for her fight and she'll complain about them.
• Big Damn Heroes: If you spare her and subsequently fill Mauswheel's Mercy meter a bit later, she'll drop in with a Tasque to take Mauswheel away after it refuses to calm down.
• Cat Folk: Designed with feline features and is more anthropomorphic than the Tasques she tames.
• Cute Monster Girl: Her feline features give her this look.
• The Dragon: While Berdly took this position by default until his Heel–Face Turn, Tasque Manager is the only enemy who clearly has authority over the Mooks guarding the Mansion, commanding them to destroy intruders. While she seems to be more Loyal to the Position than the person commanding, this trope is still prominent in the Weird route where she's the final obstacle before Queen's post, and a tough opponent if you continue to use violence at this point.
• A Father to His Men: She clearly cares about the Tasques she commands: attacking them to the point they flee out of the battle will make her attacks more powerful and harder to avoid.
• Floating Limbs: Her hands float freely, detached from the rest of her body. Her upper body can also detach and float from her lower body, as seen on her Idle Animation and concept art.
• Lightning Lash: Her weapon is an electrified whip.
• Living Program: She's a personification of a Task Manager, a system that monitors other programs running on a computer.
• Loyal to the Position: No matter who rules the Mansion, she will keep it organized and take care of the intruders.
• Minion Shipping: Parodied. Fellow Dark World mini-boss Rouxls tried to make himself her "minion for life" by throwing a bouquet at her, mistaking her for Queen. She reacted by electrocuting him.
• Ms. Fanservice: Tasque Manager's design is noticeably curvier than most other female characters in the game, her voice clips are spoken in a smooth whisper, and she carries a Whip of Dominance around. This is accentuated by the game's merchandise: the Chapter 2 poster and her keychain depict her posing in ways that emphasize her hips, and one picture of the keychain on Fangamer's website shows it with a pair of wired earbuds wrapped around her torso.
• Ninja Maid: Works as the mansion maid and can put up a fight.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Robot lion tamer catgirl furry maid.
• Order Versus Chaos: Despite having a chaotic mistress, Tasque Manager prides herself on keeping everything neat and organised, putting her firmly on the side of order. Fittingly, her Flavour Text and in-battle quotes (should you fight her with the Devilsknife or Jevilstail equipped) suggest she isn't too fond of the chaotic Jevil.
• Perpetual Smiler: She's constantly smiling, even when hurt or angry.
• Power Cord Tail: She has a blue power cord for a tail.
• Punny Name: Obviously on "Task Manager".
• Robot Maid: A computer program variant who fits the appearance.
• Shock and Awe: Her whip can fire out jolts of electricity.
• Shout-Out:
  • Her Check description quips, "Whip it good!", quoting a line from Devo's "Whip It". Furthering this, Tasque Manager's Recruits bio mentions that she likes New Wave Music and Synth-Pop, both of which are genres that Devo and "Whip It" fall into.
  • One of her battle quotes ("Processes! Services! Performance! Details!") lists several of the tabs on Microsoft Windows' own Task Manager program, specifically the version from Windows 8 onward.
• "Simon Says" Mini-Game: One of her attacks involves creating a block of four labeled windows, calling out the letter on one of them, and then zapping every square other than the one she said. One dojo challenge requires you to endure a series of these from her.
• Suddenly Voiced: The second character (the first one being Jevil) in the game to have voice clips (though a synthetic one), used in her game of Simon Says. She says which quadrant of her grid to go into; that quadrant will be safe while the others will be electrified.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Just like Muffet from Undertale, she's a Cute Monster Girl mid-boss with ties to monsters encountered in the first area of the game/chapter, is designed by a guest artist, and can be spared without a fight if the player knows what they're doing.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: In the Weird Route, if you decide to fight her with brute force, she'll drop the "Simon Says" Mini-Game for more tricky attacks which can put your whole party down, giving a taste of Spamton NEO's fight.
• Whip of Dominance: Tasque Manager sports a Lightning Lash during the battle against her, using it to electrify the labeled windows in her Simon Says Minigame. The whip ties in with her job as the Tasques' trainer and her overarching desire for order.
• Zero-Effort Boss: While you can't avoid fighting her, and she's normally a decently tough opponent, it's possible to end her battle non-lethally as early as the first turn. Answer every question of her quiz before the fight correctly and she starts with her Mercy gauge at 100%; her Tasques follow her when she's spared, so that single input is all you'll need to do.

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