History Characters / UndertaleFlowey

** The first phases of the fight against [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey is basically this — just try to survive until ACT appears]].

* AssimilationBackfire: Poor Asriel had no idea [[spoiler: what absorbing the SOUL of their beloved sibling, the Fallen Child, [[GrandTheftMe would result in]]. In fact, this happens to him again later as Photoshop Flowey, when the six Human SOULs he claimed turn on him. He's only able to finally [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne negate this drawback]] when he achieves godhood on the Pacifist Route, as The Absolute GOD of Hyperdeath, when all the assimilated monsters in the underground (bar Napstablook) act as one last required SOUL, in place of the Human Child's SOUL.]]

* ForcedTransformation: Alphys' experiments on monster souls and Determination led to him being inadvertently reincarnated as a soulless flower known as "[[Characters/UndertaleFlowey Flowey]]." In the Genocide route, Flowey recounts how horrifying it was when he awakened to find that he couldn't feel any of his limbs; in the True Pacifist route, when he regains his original form as Asriel, the first thing he does is test his newly-regained arms, silently laugh to himself, and mention how he was so tired of being a flower.

* BalefulPolymorph: Alphys' experiments on monster souls and Determination led to him being inadvertently reincarnated as a soulless flower known as "[[Characters/UndertaleFlowey Flowey]]." In the Genocide route, Flowey recounts how horrifying it was when he awakened to find that he couldn't feel any of his limbs; in the True Pacifist route, when he regains his original form as Asriel, the first thing he does is test his newly-regained arms, silently laugh to himself, and mention how he was so tired of being a flower.

** This is played with in both Neutral and Genocide. In Neutral, [[spoiler:[[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred he wants you to kill him]] after the Omega fight, and the player [[CruelMercy arguably gets more satisfaction if they choose to instead prove him wrong]]]]. In Genocide, while you can say he would initially have anything coming should the player get their hands on him, [[spoiler:when they finally do, he instead reverts to his original identity of Asriel, robbing some satisfaction out of the player's choice of killing him]].

* HostileShowTakeOver: In the neutral run when [[spoiler:Asgore dies and he becomes Omega Flowey]].

* ArchangelAzrael: Asriel is partly based on Azrael, right down to the name, and as such features numerous parallels with the archangel. Among others, his use of SAVE points as Flowey mimics Azrael's control over the book of men's names, his four-eyed, toothy-mouthed Omega Flowey form alludes to Azrael's design in the Islamic Book of Dead, and his OneWingedAngel form in the Pacifist Route's final battle is called the "God of Hyperdeath."

* SharingABody: The dark and writhing face in [[spoiler:Photoshop]] Flowey's TV screen does not appear to be Flowey himself.
** First, it looks nothing like any of Flowey's other shapeshifted faces, which still have the rim of petals, nor does it look like [[spoiler:Photoshop]] Flowey's deranged smiley face (which looks like Flowey's normal face pressed against the screen).
** During his ending speech, the face appears to warn the player that, "You're HOPELESS. Hopeless and alone...", a statement that Flowey *reacts* to with "Golly, that's right!"

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* TrueFinalBoss: Of the True Pacifist ending, which requires having gotten the Neutral-Pacifist ending. Interestingly, he's both a ClimaxBoss and a ZeroEffortBoss, since you can't lose.

* ZeroEffortBoss: While Asriel's attacks aren't easy to dodge, you automatically revive each time you die, and thus the battle keeps going until you win. While dying can prolong the battle, you ultimately can't lose. And his penultimate attack actively avoids harming you, being the exact same as Toriel's.

* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Invoked with his high-pitched VoiceGrunting sounds. As we quickly learn, he is cruel and sadistic. Justified in that [[spoiler:his true form is that of a Boss Monster child]].

-->'''Voiced by''': In English: Willard Scott in his SuddenlyVoiced moment. Japanese Voice: [[CreatorCameo Toby Fox]]

'''NOTE''': As a main character, this page has the potential to give away '''major''' spoilers. Proceed with caution if you have not finished the game.

* AbandonedCatchphrase: Flowey’s catchphrase, “In this world, it’s kill or be killed!” He says this multiple times during the game. However, after the fight with [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Asriel Dreemurr]],]] he changes to ”Don’t kill, and don’t be killed.” Even after [[spoiler: he turns back to Flowey again]], it’s implied that he’s changed and doesn’t believe this anymore.

* AintTooProudToBeg: In the Genocide run, the player sees Flowey begging for mercy in the face of an evil far greater than himself. [[spoiler:Flowey will start to break down and pleads with Chara that he can help them before he is murdered himself, to the point where his VoiceGrunting will take the sound of his past self, Asriel.]]

* AxCrazy: Most of his personality is this, going from attempting to kill the player within five minutes of meeting them, to [[spoiler:literally killing his father]] when it would have been just as easy to let him live. [[spoiler: It turns out that this is at least partially because his lack of a soul makes him unable to feel either empathy or compassion for others.]]

* BadLiar: He tries to come off as friendly and helpful, but his smug, insincere tone and short temper means that he's not particularly convincing as far as the audience is concerned. It's a different story for the characters — some are taken in by his act. Others, not so much.
-->"Down here, LOVE is shared through... [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty Little white...]] "friendliness pellets."

** His actions after realizing [[spoiler:Chara wouldn't hesitate to kill him if it served them]] in the Genocide Route can basically be summed up as him giving them every reason to, from selling them out to {{Kill Steal}}ing to destroying their primary means of escape, all in an ([[WhatAnIdiot obviously poorly-planned]]) attempt to save his own stem.

** Both are [[PerpetualSmiler smiling]] and [[TheGadfly trolling]] [[StrawNihilist nihilists]] who've discovered that an unknown entity can rewind time and undo everything they did. [[spoiler:However, while Sans' knowledge on the matter is is implied to only be slightly better than most of the cast due to making inferences about the Human's actions and he hides his knowledge for the most part, Flowey used to be able to rewind time and took advantage of it to see everything himself, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou remembers everything you did in detail and won't hesitate to taunt you with it]].]]

** Flowey is one of the few characters to narrate the Game Over screen, alongside [[DiscOneFinalBoss Asgore]] and the [[SNKBoss Genocide Final Boss]]. [[spoiler:If you lose to him in the Photoshop Flowey fight, he'll tell you "[[FalseReassurance This is all a bad dream...]] and you're NEVER waking up!" before descending into [[LaughingMad mad laughter]] that covers the screen and crashes the game.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Genocide Route sees him ending up at the mercy of a being that's just as gung-ho about "kill or be killed" as him: the Fallen Child.]] It's still played completely horrifically, [[spoiler:especially as Flowey ''reverts to Asriel's features and mannerisms'' right before his brutal murder]].

--> '''[[spoiler:Photoshop!]]Flowey''': [[spoiler:Wh...where are my powers!? The souls...? What are they doing? '''NO!! NO!!!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!! STOP!!! STOP IT!!!!! STOOOOPPPP!!!!!''']]

--> ''"Hahaha... You're not really human, are you? No. You're empty inside. Just like me."''

* WalkingSpoiler: It's no secret that Flowey is antagonistic to the player, but there are way more details surrounding his character than it would initially appear. [[spoiler:Specifically, [[SaveScumming everything]] [[HopeCrusher about]] [[EldritchAbomination his]] [[FinalBoss Neutral Route Boss Fight]], his true identity of [[Characters/UndertaleSpoilerCharacters Asriel Dreemurr]], and is one of the two {{Fourth Wall Observer}}s.]]

-->"You really think you can stop ME? Hee hee hee... You really ARE an idiot."

* {{Animesque}}: In the final battle, he crosses the BishonenLine, gives himself an over-the-top [[LargeHamTitle Large Ham]] [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]], calls his attacks, and the attacks themselves are visually stunning and look like complete overkill. It's actually a kind of sad twist on this trope by reminding you that under that almost demonic looking exterior, he's just a little kid fighting like how he would have seen in a cartoon or read in a comic.

* BigBrotherWorship: We don't know if The Fallen was [[VagueAge any older than Asriel]], but [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ Toriel vaguely admitted]] that he greatly admired The Fallen and copied some of their habits.

-->'''Asriel''': I always was a crybaby, wasn't I, [[HelloInsertNameHere Chara]]?

-->'''Asriel''': It's me...your best friend...\\
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* VictoryIsBoring: After his reincarnation and acquiring the power to "save", he actually did a lot of good deeds throughout the Underground, achieving the "best ending" possible. But [[RuleOfEmpathy lacking his love and emotions]], he found it was all hollow and pointless. He started going down evil paths to see if that would give him any satisfaction — [[TheDreaded only to brick-wall against]] [[ThatOneBoss fighting Sans]].

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Asriel is pretty well-spoken in his child form, probably due to how many times he's reset the world as Flowey; despite not much time actually passing for the world, Asriel[=/=]Flowey himself has had a very long time to learn about things beyond his age.

** Asriel is also a reference to Azrael, the name of the Archangel of Death. In one of his forms, Azrael has four faces and four thousand wings, and his whole body consists of eyes and tongues; the number thereof corresponds to the number of people inhabiting the Earth. [[Characters/UndertaleFlowey Sound familiar]]?. He will be the last to die, recording and erasing, constantly in a large book the names of men at birth and death, respectively, paralleling his control of the game overs as Flowey. His name is also an anagram that spells ''Serial Murderer''.

* PetTheDog: [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ Apparently, both at times when a self-neglecting, depressed Toriel would collapse on the ground in her days of isolation in the ruins and again when she ended up passed out drunk in the garage, Flowey moved Toriel to her bed and left a cup of water next to her.]] [[LackOfEmpathy He still laughed at and [[{{Jerkass}} mocked her as pathetic for this, however,]] but it's slightly difficult to take those words seriously when contrasted with his actions.

* {{Leitmotif}}: '''Memory''', which is further reprised in '''Undertale''' and '''His Theme'''. For his boss fight, he gets '''Hopes and Dreams''', '''Burn in Despair!''', and '''SAVE the World''', in that order.

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* BoringButPractical: His favoured attack pattern is an inescapable circle of bullets (he calls them "Friendliness Pellets") surrounding his target, which then closes in on them. Oddly, he never uses this while actually ''fighting'' you, which is your first hint that he's [[JustToyingWithThem just toying with you]]. [[spoiler:He actually uses them in his Photoshop form, but target circles outline where they'll appear, giving you a chance to move away. Again, he's probably playing with you. He also uses this attack to kill Asgore in both the Neutral and Genocide routes, and then uses it once again to destroy his Soul.]]

* BotanicalAbomination: He's a soulless [[spoiler: [[TranshumanAbomination Asriel Dreemurr]] who CameBackWrong after one of the plants where part of his dust lay was injecting with Determination]]. He can (or rather, could) save, load and reset all "life" underground, breaks the fourth wall repeatedly and is aware of the player. And all of this is ignoring his form as Photoshop Flowey...

* CreepyChild: Considering that he is [[spoiler:actually Asriel Dreemurr, who died when he was a child]], you could say that he is this- the only thing he seems to enjoy to any degree is causing pain to others.

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Subverted. When you defeat him as [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey]], he initially starts exploding... and then [[spoiler:instantly reloads a SAVE]]. [[spoiler:His proper defeat at the hands of the other human [=SOULs=] is quite a spectacle, but there's no explosion in sight.]]

* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Flowey's ultimate goal is [[spoiler:to take every SOUL that Asgore has gathered to become godlike, make the meaning of life as we know it "kill or be killed," and... not much beyond that, really. Even before that, however, he was stalking Frisk from afar along their journey primarily because, when Frisk gained the power to SAVE, they had ''stolen it from Flowey'' — and he wants it back]].

** This goes for the Genocide Route as a whole. Throughout the regular game, he'll encourage you to kill people to get you on it, and he'll become much friendlier to you if you do. And then, somewhere around New Home, he mentions that people like him and the player are the sort who would kill ''anyone'' they want to, [[spoiler:and then figures out that he's no exception...]]

--->'''Flowey''': What the hell is ''wrong'' with you?

** Both of them are [[ThePrankster pranksters]], have a talent for imitations and [[MysteriousWatcher watch for the protagonist in the shadows]]. [[spoiler:Sans frequently chats with them, plays childish pranks on them, offers them a dinner where he shows his talent by imitating Toriel, judges them before they meet the King and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck intervenes if they go too far]]. On the other hand, Flowey avoids contact, plays cruel pranks that consist of giving you a HopeSpot, makes imitations in the same vein [[note]]for example, the infamous Echo Flower's one in Waterfall where he mimics Toriel's voice before taunting you[[/note]] and gets into actions [[NiceJobBreakingItHero once you've fought Asgore yourself]] to take the Human Souls for his own benefit.]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In Genocide, Flowey explains that he was suddenly not able to [[spoiler:reset after the player fell into the Underground because the player's Determination exceeds his own, while lamenting about the possibilities of dying without a soul and that monsters like himself and the player wouldn't hesitate to kill each other... at which point he realizes the player can kill him for real and ''fully intends to'']].

* FallenHero: [[spoiler:As Asriel]], he was heroic enough to choose a violent death over harming the misguided human villagers who attacked him. And even after [[spoiler:losing his soul, he spent multiple timelines saving everyone]] before [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil bitterness and boredom took hold of him.]]

* GiverOfLameNames: It's implied he named himself Flowey [[spoiler:after being resurrected as a flower.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: In the Genocide ending. Once Flowey realizes you plan on murdering ''him'' once you're done with the rest of the Underground, [[HeelFaceTurn he tries to warn Asgore about you.]] Unfortunately, the kind-hearted king fails to recognize the threat you pose, prompting Flowey to try and get back into your good graces. This doesn't save him; the Child utterly destroys Flowey immediately afterwards.
* HeelFaceTurn: If you beat Flowey in the neutral path and then spare him, [[spoiler:he comes back and begins to realize that killing everything is unnecessary, and wishes for you to prove this to him by running a PacifistRun. By doing that and sparing him again, or by playing a Pacifist Run in the first place,[[note]]doing so on a first playthrough results in the same boss fight as the neutral run[[/note]] Flowey tells you how to obtain the best ending. However, all of this turns out to be a ploy to absorb everyone's souls and turn back into Asriel. It's only after this final battle that Flowey seems to honestly regret what he did, even begging the player to not set everyone back from their happy ending by replaying the game. In the dialogue for the special anniversary Q&A and the cancelled clock app, which are implied to be after the post-True Pacifist ending, Flowey is clearly more of a grumpy straight man to everyone else's shenanigans, but he's genuinely turned a new leaf]].

** If you dodge his "friendliness pellets" at the start of the game, he berates you for toying with him... which is exactly what he was doing to you mere seconds ago.
** During the finale of the Genocide Route, Flowey performs his TakeThatAudience to people who watch the genocide route instead of playing it, calling them "sickos" and "pathetic", which is rich when not 5 minutes later, once he realizes that his kill or be killed philosophy includes himself, he cowers in fear of you and runs off and tries to hide behind Asgore, the man he admitted to killing time and time again because he was bored. What makes this worse is that earlier he says he doesn't want anyone to pity him, but right before you kill him, he cries begging you to, of all things, pity him and spare his life... it doesn't work, sadly.

-->'''Flowey''': ''(displaying a SlasherSmile)'' I knew you had it in you!

* InterfaceScrew: As the first tutorial character, Flowey has some knowledge of the game's mechanics and uses this to his own advantage. [[spoiler:He says that he once had the power to Save and Load like the player, but lost that power when the player character arrived. However, he is still aware of yours. If you kill Toriel, reload, and replay the battle to save her (a common mistake among new players is to think you need to weaken her sufficiently before she accepts your Mercy, then kill her by accident), he will call you out on it, as well as various other possible save and reload scenarios. When he becomes Photoshop Flowey, his will supercedes the child's, allowing him to alter the very fabric of the game and to easily Load his way out of your attempts to kill him... at first.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Genocide Route sees him ending up at the mercy of a being that's just as gung-ho about "kill or be killed" as him: the Fallen Child.]] It's still played completely horrifically, [[spoiler:especially as Flowey ''reverts to Asriel's features and mannerisms'' right before his brutal murder.]]

* KillerRabbit: In ''Undertale'', you meet all kinds of monsters, from skeletons to fish knights. And yet the most utterly depraved of them all... '''is a cute smiling flower'''.

* MorphicResonance: His overworld sprite shares a color pallet with [[spoiler:his previous incarnation, Asriel Dreemurr.]] He can also replicate [[spoiler:Asriel's face and voice]], but only does so once in a moment of extreme panic and desperation at the end of the Genocide route.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Photoshop Flowey doesn't look like he belongs in the game at all. Every enemy in the game is animated as a stylistic black-and-white sprite, but when Flowey takes on this form, he changes to a photorealistic mash-up of technology and vines, attacking with [[spoiler:nuclear bombs that descend from the sky and fingers that shoot bullets. This enhances his unsettling character and makes clear that the player is fighting something that extends beyond the universe of the game.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He says this during the No Mercy run after you kill [[spoiler: Toriel]] in cold blood. [[YouBastard He's got a point]].

** Flowey has one at the end of the fight with him. [[spoiler:He starts to scream in defeat... only to reload File 3 with a "gotcha, bitch!" look on his face, and then proceed to gloat about how he'll kill you again and again and again. But then he later has a genuine OhCrap moment when the souls rally against him and disable his savestates.]]

* PetTheDog: [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ Apparently, both at times when a self-neglecting, depressed Toriel would collapse on the ground in her days of isolation in the ruins and again when she ended up passed out drunk in the garage, Flowey moved Toriel to her bed and left a cup of water next to her.]] [[LackOfEmpathy He still laughed at and [[{{JerkAss mocked her as pathetic for this, however,]] but it's slightly difficult to take thos words seriously when contrasted with his actions.

* RealityWarper: After absorbing [[spoiler:the [=SOULs=] of the six other humans]], Flowey states that once he absorbs the protagonist's SOUL, he will become GOD. Not ''a'' God. ''The'' God. Until then, however, he turns into a terrifying Lovecraftian abomination and repeatedly warps reality, even [[spoiler:erasing your save file and overwriting it, ''trapping you in his boss battle forever.'' Until you figure out his weakness, that is...]]

* TheSociopath: His defining feature - being a soulless creature means Flowey lacks a natural capacity to empathize or 'feel love'. On a surface level he may appear as the typical cartoonish evil brand of this trope who cares and feels for no-one but himself, but development on certain routes like his monologue in the No Mercy run reflect a far more realistic and sympathetic portrayal than that. Flowey's LackOfEmpathy is something that caused him ''incredible'' amounts of distress as it became apparent to him, but spending ''however'' long living with a numbness to love in a predictable, dull world have pretty much withered away every shred of his detached sense of goodwill by the beginning of the game, allowing him to 'experiment' and commit cruel actions and plans without remorse to a point where [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he's no longer able to understand why someone would be kind to him with no benefit]]. Several pf his actions prove that like an 'actual' sociopath, Flowey isn't truly incapable or devoid of genuine goodwill or love[[note]]Among obvious in-game ones, he very clearly loves the fallen human he knew even as a soulless flower, and he genuinely pleads with them and the player to not reset the True Pacifist ending and let the others live in peace with zero benefit to himself[[/note]], but after becoming a flower he began to struggle immensely with forming connections to anyone, leading him to conclude otherwise.

* StarterVillainStays: Flowey is the very first person you meet in the Underground and the first enemy to battle you, and while he shows himself to be a murderous asshole he basically vanishes from the story after being quickly driven away by Toriel before he can do any serious harm. However he does stalk you, and [[spoiler:is revealed to be a central figure in the game's backstory and the real endgame villain for the Neutral Run]].

* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Flowey to the player [[spoiler:after you defeat him at the end of a Neutral Run]]. If you continue to spare him, he'll claim that he's learned nothing, that killing him is the only way to end it, and that if he's allowed to live, he'll come back and kill you and everyone you love. Continue to spare him despite this, and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood he'll become increasingly bewildered, asking why you're being so nice to him and exclaiming that he can't understand before running off.]] [[spoiler:If you kill him at any point during this scene, he'll give a SlasherSmile, comment "I knew you had it in you.", and fade to a normal flower.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's done anything and everything, good or evil, through [[spoiler:his save ability]], but now everything has become predictable, [[OmnicidalManiac so he wants your help to destroy it all.]]

-->"You really think you can stop ME? Hee hee hee... You really ARE an idiot.

A living flower who is the first creature the PlayerCharacter encounters. He's cutesy on the outside and has a knack for funny faces, but in truth [[BitchInSheepsClothing he is a sadistic little bastard]] who, due to being soulless, can't feel hope, compassion or love. [[NightmareFace He also likes making scary faces as much as he does funny ones.]] This evil little flower lives by one rule: [[TheSocialDarwinist "In this world, it's kill or be killed."]]

* PetTheDog: [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ Apparently, while Toriel was passed out drunk in the garage, he had moved Toriel to her bed after she had passed out on the floor and left a cup of water next to her.]] [[TheSociopath This doesn't stop him]] [[{{Jerkass}} from laughing at her loneliness, however.]]

* TheSociopath: His defining feature. He cares about no one but himself, exemplified by his philosophy of "kill or be killed." His monologue in the No Mercy run reflects a more sympathetic portrayal of TheSociopath than most. Flowey is legitimately upset at his LackOfEmpathy, but years of living without the capacity for love have driven him to his sociopathic nature by the beginning of the game. This still holds true [[spoiler:after his HeelFaceTurn, apparently]], as in [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ his alarm clock]], he says that the best part of winter is the white snow being indistinguishable from the dust of monsters with a SlasherSmile.

* FallenPrincess: Gender-flipped. As shown to Flowey's entry, a bad combination of brutal death, botched up resurrection, boredom, and grief eventually twisted this poor monster.

* ArtShift: [[spoiler:Played to utterly horrifying effect during the Photoshop Flowey boss fight. He looks like a collage of actual images of human and plant body parts jumbled together with a screen showing a human face in 2-bit color that is constantly laughing, screaming, or making creepy faces.]]

* AxCrazy: Most of his personality is this, going from attempting to kill the player to [[spoiler:literally killing his father]].

* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Flowey wasn't exactly pretty to begin with, but after [[spoiler:absorbing the six human souls Asgore's harvested]], he becomes downright ''eldritch''.

* RealityWarper: After absorbing [[spoiler:the [=SOULs=] of the six other humans]], Flowey states that once he absorbs the protagonist's SOUL, he will become GOD. Not ''a'' God. ''The'' God. Until then, however, he turns into a terrifying Lovecraftian abomination and repeatedly warps reality, even [[spoiler:erasing your save file and overwriting it, ''trapping you in his boss battle forever.'' Until you figure out his weakness, that is…]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Flowey is the {{Sadist}}ic and [[TheGadfly teasing]] Red oni to the Human Child's [[TheComicallySerious aloof]] Blue.

* AllergicToRoutine: Before the player character arrived in the Underground, [[spoiler:Flowey alone possessed the power to LOAD and SAVE. After being brought to life, he used this power an untold number of times — to save everyone, to kill everyone, to explore every action and reaction he could]]... until there was nothing new left for him to do. He was left with the doldrums of omniscient knowledge and [[spoiler:no capacity for love]], driving him further and further into his single-minded sociopathy until something new finally happened: the player arrived.

** [[spoiler: In the Neutral ending, Flowey threatens to kill everyone the human loves if they spare him.]]
** [[spoiler: Flowey captures the souls of everyone in the Underground (except for Napstablook) to restore his true form as Asriel Dreemurr to fight you.]]

* PetTheDog: [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/ Apparently while Toriel was passed out drunk in the garage, he had moved Toriel to her bed after she had passed out on the floor and left a cup of water next to her]]. [[TheSociopath This doesn't stop him]] [[{{Jerkass}} from laughing at her loneliness, however]].

* RealityWarper: After absorbing [[spoiler:the [=SOULs=] of the six other humans]], Flowey states that once he absorbs the protagonist's SOUL, he will become GOD. Not ''a'' God. ''The'' God. Until then, however, he turns into a terrifying Lovecraftian abomination and repeatedly warps reality, even [[spoiler:erasing your save file and overwriting it, ''trapping you in his boss battle forever.'' Until you figure out his weakness, that is...]]

* {{Retconjuration}}: Prior to the player character's arrival to the Underground, Flowey had the ability to [[spoiler: SAVE and LOAD, thus being able to create and erase different timelines. He regains it momentarily during his FinalBoss fight.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: At the end of the No Mercy route, Flowey realizes [[spoiler:the sociopathic Child has no qualms about killing him]] and tries to warn King Asgore. [[spoiler:When the Child knocks Asgore away, Flowey attacks him in order to prove his loyalty and then outright pleads for his life, but is brutally hacked to pieces by the Child]].

* SaveScumming: A battle tactic as [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey. He'll save the game before launching an attack, and then load if the player dodges it.]]

** Given that he claims to have [[spoiler:killed everybody multiple times, it's all but certain that Toriel and Asgore have fallen to him at some point. On a less ambiguous note, should the Child spare Asgore in most neutral routes, Flowey will show up, slay him, and destroy his SOUL, albeit only doing the latter if Asgore commits suicide or is killed by the Child.]]
** In the Genocide route, [[spoiler: Flowey kills Asgore as a last-ditch effort to convince the Child he's worth keeping alive. It doesn't work]].

* SociopathicHero: What he claims he was [[spoiler: on the Genocide Route. He helped people for the longest time, despite not really caring about them or their plight before [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil he got a little too curious]].]]

* SoulJar: Flowey manages to combine this with TheSoulless due to the unique nature of his birth. [[spoiler:Alphys ''created'' him to become this as a vessel for all the monster [=SOULs=] they had — Flowey was meant to be the weapon that would destroy the barrier; chosen so because a monster cannot absorb monster souls. Flowey is fully aware of this, and when Frisk arrives, he decides to finally live up to it... in the most destructive way possible.]]
* StarterVillainStays: Flowey is the very first person you meet in the Underground and the first enemy to battle you, and while he shows himself to be a murderous asshole he basically vanishes from the story after being quickly driven away by Toriel before he can do any serious harm. However he does stalk you, and [[spoiler: is revealed to be a central figure in the game's backstory and the real endgame villain for the Neutral Run]].

* StoryBreakerPower: Unlike the player, Flowey's [[spoiler:LOAD and SAVE]] abilities aren't limited to singular points throughout the game; he has [[spoiler:''save states'']]. In other words, he can [[spoiler:SAVE at any time, and LOAD at any time, effectively giving him absolute control over the timeline... which he lost when Frisk, who possesses an even greater determination than he, entered the Underground and unwittingly usurped this power from him. When Flowey becomes Photoshop Flowey and gets this power back for the final boss fight, he abuses it ''liberally'', and the only way to win is to strip him of it again]].

* TacticalSuicideBoss: [[spoiler:Photoshop]] Flowey uses an array of deadly weapons, as well as directly harnessing the power of [[spoiler:each human SOUL]] to use special moves. The problem? The fact that each special move eventually fires an "act" command that, when selected, will allow you to call for help, eventually freeing [[spoiler: the [=SOULs=]]] from out of Photoshop Flowey's control.

* ThisCannotBe: In both the neutral and pacifist endings, he says something of this sort... [[spoiler:right before he springs back to full power, laughs, and calls you an idiot.]] Shortly afterwards, however, [[spoiler:he has a similar reaction, but for real, when the human SOULS turn on him and disable his powers]].

* TragicMonster: As revealed throughout the final moments of the No Mercy and Pacfist runs. The reason why he is so utterly evil is because, despite being sapient and sentient, he lacks a soul and a heart. He is literally '''unable''' to feel empathy for anybody or understand why anyone would feel empathy for him. On top of that, he has lines that reveal he regrets his actions as a [[spoiler:human soul-empowered Asriel when he refused to unleash his power on the human village at Chara's behest, as this led to nothing but pain and misery for everyone. Coupled with the above issues, the experience of making a decision out of love and empathy that seemingly backfired, while refusing to accept the fact that his beloved Chara was not really a good person and is actually at fault, has severely jaded him.]]

* {{Troll}}: Enjoys messing with you; near the end of the fight, once you lower his health to zero, and he appears to experience a TechnicolorDeath... only for him to resort to SaveScumming and take you back to the beginning of the fight, so he can repeatedly kill you, complete with [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/undertale/images/2/27/Photoshop_Flowey_screenshot_trollface.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20161226024437 this]] expression.

* UniqueEnemy: Of a sort. [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey]] is fought only once at the end of the Neutral route and refuses to fight you again in any subsequent playthroughs because, [[spoiler:due to him [[RippleEffectProofMemory retaining all his memories across the resets]], he knows how it will end.]] The sole exception is if you do a True Reset, which erases his memory of your journey through the underground, including his boss fight.

** He does get some genuine breakdowns, though. The first is [[spoiler: when his powers fail him in the final boss fight of a Neutral playthrough]], leaving him screaming in impotent rage. The second is immediately after if the player chooses to spare him, since he's unable to understand why the player would grant mercy to someone like him.
** Near the end of a No Mercy playthough when Flowey realizes [[spoiler:that the Fallen Child can not only permanently kill him, but fully intends to do so]], he begins to stammer in fear and yells at them to stay away from him before fleeing in terror.
* VillainousFriendship: During a No Mercy run. Flowey is much less condescending and much more genuinely kind in this route, treating the Human Child like an old friend, which may not be far from the truth. Unfortunately, this comes back to haunt him when he realizes just how horrible the Child really is...

* WalkingSpoiler: It's no secret that Flowey is antagonistic to the player, but there are way more details surrounding his character than it would initially appear. [[spoiler: Specifically, [[SaveScumming everything]] [[HopeCrusher about]] [[EldritchAbomination his]] [[FinalBoss Neutral Route Boss Fight]], his true identity of [[Characters/UndertaleSpoilerCharacters Asriel Dreemurr]], and is one of the two {{Fourth Wall Observer}}s.]]

* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Quite a fan of this, and taunts the player in this fashion when you defy him even after he's [[spoiler: absorbed the human [=SOULs=] and gained godlike power]].

* BishonenLine: His final boss form is far more powerful than the boss form he assumed as Flowey in the Neutral run, and is also much more anthropomorphic, simply being a grown up version of himself with slightly demonic features. This ends up getting played with a bit upon his transformation into his final form, which is strange and mechanical-looking, but is still ''nowhere near'' the abomination Flowey became.

* BlastingTime: Both of Asriel's FinalBoss forms have attacks that involve raising his arms above his head first [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Asriel is still at the maturity level of a child, and is probably copying shows he watched where the characters did this, making it an InUniverse example of RuleOfCool.

-->'''Asriel''': Ha... ha... I don't want to let go.

-->'''Asriel''': Let's be honest. [[{{Understatement}} I did some weird stuff as a flower.]]

* VictoryIsBoring: After his reincarnation and acquiring the power to "save", he actually did a lot of good deeds throughout the Underground, achieving the "best ending" possible. But [[RuleOfEmpathy lacking his love and emotions]], found it was all hollow and pointless. He started going down evil paths to see if that would give him any satisfaction — [[TheDreaded only to brick-wall against]] [[ThatOneBoss fighting Sans]].

* WishfulProjection: Like he did during his time as Flowey, Asriel believes Frisk is the Fallen Child reborn, the difference is he finally loses the delusion upon his final defeat. Whether he's mistaken or not depends on if you did the Genocide route before the Pacifist route — if you did, the Fallen ''really is'' along for the ride, but Asriel doesn't really know this... which might be for the better, since ''that'' Fallen Child has [[HumanoidAbomination long since stopped being the human Asriel knew]].

[[Characters/UndertaleMainCharacters Major]] ([[Characters/UndertaleTheHumanChild The Human Child]], ''Flowey'', [[Characters/UndertaleTorielAndAsgore Toriel]], [[Characters/UndertaleSans Sans]], [[Characters/UndertalePapyrus Papyrus]], [[Characters/UndertaleUndyne Undyne]], [[Characters/UndertaleAlphysAndMettaton Alphys]], [[Characters/UndertaleMettaton Mettaton]], [[Characters/UndertaleAsgoreDreemurr Asgore Dreemurr]])\\

[[Characters/UndertaleMainCharacters Major]] ([[Characters/UndertaleTheHumanChild The Human Child]], '''Flowey''', [[Characters/UndertaleTorielAndAsgore Toriel and Asgore]], [[Characters/UndertaleSans Sans]], [[Characters/UndertalePapyrus Papyrus]], [[Characters/UndertaleUndyne Undyne]], [[Characters/UndertaleAlphysAndMettaton Alphys and Mettaton]])\\

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: During the New Home segment in the Genocide Run, he describes how he started off doing the right thing and even felt bad when he killed someone for the first time. By the time the player encounters him, however, [[spoiler:he'd already done multiple Genocide Runs of his own]].

* BreakTheCutie: His circumstances really break him so much. Part of the reason why Flowey is so awful is because he represents Asriel's guilt and despair of being helpless to descalate the conflict that lead to his and the Fallen Child's deaths.

* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Asriel Dreemurr has "Hyper Goner" for the ultimate attack of his powered-up form, where the dodging space expands to cover the entire screen (including the status bar). He forms a black hole that sucks you and several damaging diamond shaped projectiles in towards it. Despite the incredible animation, [[HPToOne it can only leave you at 1 HP]]. After that, he transforms into his final form, where you're unable to use items at first and you're forced to dodge several tricky volleys of projectiles.

[[Characters/UndertaleMainCharacters Major]] ([[Characters/UndertaleTheHumanChild The Human Child]], '''Flowey''', [[Characters/UndertaleAsgoreDreemurr Toriel and Asgore]], [[Characters/UndertaleSans Sans]], [[Characters/UndertalePapyrus Papyrus]], [[Characters/UndertaleUndyne Undyne]], [[Characters/UndertaleMettaton Alphys and Mettaton]])\\

[[Characters/UndertaleMainCharacters Major]] ([[Characters/UndertaleTheHumanChild The Human Child]], '''Flowey''', [[Characters/UndertaleSans Sans]], [[Characters/UndertalePapyrus Papyrus]], [[Characters/UndertaleUndyne Undyne]], [[Characters/UndertaleMettaton Mettaton]], [[Characters/UndertaleAsgoreDreemurr Asgore Dreemurr]])\\