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  • Chara's little cameo after Gaster was pulled out of the void was a little eye-opening foreshadowing that shit may get real. Chara also makes a few incognito apperances throughout the first arc shortly after Gaster's release.
  • Chara possessed Sans and went on a rampage to try and force Frisk to give up their body willingly. This is Sans we're talking about. This is That One Boss who dunked a lot of genocide-runners in the main game. Imagine all that power going to someone who really wanted to do some damage.
  • Maverick's surprise appearance during the epilogue of the Sweet Dreams and Nice Creams arc. First impressions, you think you got some stranger breaking into someone else's home. You've got no idea what he can do, or what he's there for. And you can't wake a damn person up. Thankfully, that wasn't the case; he turned out to be Asriel from the future and was there to protect everyone.
  • The whole situation with Aidrian and Jason could've been an And I Must Scream situation for the askers had Maverick not been there. Imagine, someone you're just becoming friends with who later turned out to be a long-lost relative to a 10-year old you know, after barely fending off 3 monsters, you got one masked monster ready to unleash some serious whoopass on some humans. Both Aidrian and Jason would've been murdered and there would've been very little for the askers to do to help other than watch, just like the nightmare scenario that would've happened with Maverick. This cuts both ways, though. Flip this around to the perspective of Harlow's gang for a second. Instead of going for movie night as you planned, you and your friends decide to pay back the human who punched, of all people, Papyrus in the face. So you manage to lure the human into an alley, but things go south and the human cleaves off Braids' arm with a frying pan. The worst part? According to both Word of God and in-universe conversations, the arm's not coming back.
  • More Maverick-related stuff: whatever happened in his home universe was apparently so bad that Maverick was the Sole Survivor — and to achieve that status, he was forced to kill someone...or something.
  • Chara's backstory: their happy, peaceful life was cut short by pirates raiding their village, killing their mother, and taking them as a trophy and slave. Trapped on the ship for who knows how long, Chara could only find safety by murdering the pirates as they slept, leading them to adopt that terrible philosophy anyone who's played Undertale knows all too well.
  • There's something eerie about Chara digging up their own skeleton and possessing it in the pursuit of pretending to be a skeleton monster. Unlike Sans and Papyrus, Callallied is an actual walking dead body.
  • The state of Chara's mindscape post-amnesia. It's an ominous, foggy, black ocean with a blood moon hanging over it, and in the middle is an unconscious Chara, kept afloat only by an increasingly desperate Asriel.
  • There's the part where Frisk is 70 feet away from their emotionally abusive mother. They just wanted to come to Monster Land to have fun and help humans and monsters build peace together, but now their mom makes a surprise entrance. Imagine the fear that comes from knowing what will happen if their mother spots them and realizes they aren't dead.
    • And just when they seem to have escaped Susan, they end up inadvertently spilling their original identity to Janet, who deadnames and misgenders them in her shocked reaction and implies she'll reveal Frisk to Susan.
  • Callallied begins to regains their memories from when they were Chara, and what's the first thing they see? A hallucination of their murder of Toriel in the Genocide timeline. It doesn't help that this scene suddenly pops up on a panel that initially appears to be an ordinary, non-animated image.
  • The true cause of the apocalypse in Maverick's universe: Gaster tried to revive Aidrian by injecting her corpse with Determination, in the presence of Toriel and Frisk. A new evil rose and Gaster, Toriel, and Frisk were all killed and the creature absorbed Frisk's corpse into its new form....an abomination. It proceeded to hunt and consume its next victim, human or monster alike, and the next... and the next... and the next. and the next.....until the result became a massive nightmarish form made up of other bodies it absorbed. And from the sound of it, not just one abomination was created; more abominations were affected. Worse still, humans and monsters were still at odds because of Aidrian's murder causing human-monster relations to land in the dumpster. Neither side could put aside their animosity for the sake of their own mutual survival.
  • Someone put up a conspiracy theory board filled with polaroid pics and news articles. The polaroid pics have Papyrus talking with Undyne's parents, Aidrian being trained by Maverick, and Frisk meeting Aidrian. There's no indication that this person wanted to be seen snapping these shots because Aidrian and Maverick's training pic indicates that this one was taken in the bushes, not helped by there also being a picture of Frisk's house. The scary thing is, you have no clue who the "Mx. Polaroid" is. The only clue you have at the moment is interior decorating in their house.

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