History Characters / UndertaleMainCharacters

** Alphys is mostly a shy anime-loving geek who spends most of her time on social media posting goofy and embarrassing posts. While it's not as obvious with her as with other characters, [[spoiler:she created the amalgamates and even [[BigBad Flowey]], which proves that she can be dangerous when she isn't careful. Also, her "battle" when she's brainwashed by Asriel also implies that Mettaton learned his power from her]].

** Alphys is mostly a shy anime-loving geek who spends most of her time on social media posting goofy and embarrassing posts. While it's not as obvious with her as with other characters, [[spoiler:she created the amalgamates and even [[BigBad Flowey]], which proves that she can be dangerous when she isn't careful. Her "battle" when she's brainwashed by Asriel also implies she taught her powers to Mettaton]].

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Wears a robe, [[DoesNotLikeShoes but neither shoes nor socks,]] unlike most of the other monsters we meet. Yet she has a sock drawer in her room. Scandalous indeed!

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As mentioned in BarefootCartoonAnimal, she wears a robe, but no shoes or socks; despite having access — an entire drawer full of them, no less — to the latter.

* ForeignQueasine: A fantasy version with Toriel being a magic goat monster from an isolated, underground society of magic monsters the protagonist just fell into: first averted with Toriel's scrumptious-sounding signature butterscotch-cinnamon pie she likes to bake for human kids as a warm welcome to the Ruins and by the normal-sounding chocolate bar in her fridge (she [[{{Foreshadowing}} clearly knows]] what human kids like to eat), but played straight in the next breath of her casual mention of holding off on snail pie "for now", wanting to ease the Human Child into the unconventional Underground diet. In Hard Mode, she bakes a Snail Pie instead and the protagonist apparently blanches at the smell of it. The narration on the other hand still thinks [[BizarreTasteInFood it smells "nice"]] but diplomatically allows that it is "An acquired taste." If the narrator truly ''is'' [[spoiler:Chara, they might be speaking [[GoingNative from personal experience]].]] Toriel's fondness for snail pie and [[spoiler:Asgore's apparent liking of eating snails too]] seems to be a clear riff on the notion that goats will eat literally anything.

* ActionGirl: It's important to remember that beneath her gentle demeanor is a powerful fire mage.

* CoolOldLady:
** Certainly has the attitude of one. While her age is never even hinted at, she prefers to spend her time cooking and reading.
** Subverted in that physically, she [[spoiler:''and'' Asgore]] are ''both'' rather young. Boss Monsters are explicitly stated to only age beyond adulthood as their child grows, [[spoiler:so ever since Asriel's passing, she'll be where she is for keeps]].

* DeathGlare: Toriel can be surprisingly intimidating with her eyes, as the first Froggit can attest.

** She wants to become one for the player character. [[spoiler:She manages to do so if you choose to stay with her in the GoldenEnding.]]
** Both the [[http://undertaleqa.tumblr.com/post/150441869728/papyrus-whats-your-favourite-food Undertale Anniversary Q.&A.]] and the [[https://undertale.com/alarmclock/#characters Undertale Alarm Clock dialogue]] has Toriel also filling this role for Papyrus.

* SupremeChef: You know that slice of butterscotch-cinnamon pie you can get from her? it's one of the few items that can ''recover all hit points'' upon consumption. [[spoiler:You learn in Asgore's New Home that he has been trying to replicate that signature pie for years, but always failed. It hammers in just how much he needs her and misses her. If you save the pie for the fight against Asgore and eat it in front of him, he will be flooded by memories of her, further hampering the effectiveness of his ([[WillfullyWeak already much weaker than they could be]]) attacks.]]

* LovableLizard: She resembles a golden, crested lizard of some sort, and she is awkward in an endearing way. [[spoiler:This is heavily blurred and downplayed upon the revelation of [[MadScientist her culpability in the Determination experiments and all the resultant BodyHorror and AndIMustScream that ensues, but she remains chiefly a sympathetic character throughout]].

* LovableLizard: She resembles a golden, crested lizard of some sort, and she is awkward in an endearing way.

** By assisting the player if they've murdered enough monsters to drive the survivors into anger and/or despair. Depending on the player's actions, Alphys may even be DrivenToSuicide by the game's end.

* WakeupCallBoss: Her blocking the exit from the Ruins seeks to teach you about the game's boss battles. First of all, her attacks are much harder to dodge and the battle is much longer than any previous battle. But equally important, she's the first opponent where sparing requires more thought than just "try everything in the ACT menu once", and the first battle where sparing takes significantly more turns (and effort) than fighting.

* WillfullyWeak: Comparing the Attack and Defense stated by the Check options (80 for both) to the damage Toriel deals and takes makes it obvious she's holding back in your boss battle with her, since she has no desire to kill you. You later learn that Toriel is actually [[spoiler:the former queen of the Underground]], but while Toriel is a WakeupCallBoss as described above, she's not nearly as hard as Papyrus, Undyne, or Mettaton are later on.

* HiddenDepths: Toriel is incredibly powerful, eclipsing most other characters with her CHECK stats and tying with [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Asgore]] in terms of ATK and DEF, [[GlassCannon if not in health]]. She can send Flowey and even Asgore BlownAcrossTheRoom with a single fireball, annihilate enemy bullets, and perform powerful healing magic casually, but you will never see her go all-out in battle against you, because she loves you too much.

* HiddenDepths: Toriel is incredibly powerful, eclipsing most other characters with her CHECK stats and tying with [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Asgore]] in terms of ATK and DEF, [[GlassCannon if not in health]]. She can send Flowey and even Asgore BlownAcrossTheRoom with a single fireball, annihilate enemy bullets, and perform powerful healing magic casually, but you will never see her go all-out in battle against you, because she loves you too much.

* JerkassToOne: She's nice to anyone who isn't [[spoiler:Asgore]]. There are hints she doesn't completely hate them, though.

* DoubleMeaning: If you spare her enough times to convince her to let you leave the ruins, she will laugh bitterly at how she "cannot save even a single child," a reference to how this exact same event has happened six times before.

* LaughingMad: [[ShutUpKirk If you kill her when she has begun her speech and stopped attacking you]] or if you are on the No Mercy route, her last moments will be a painful smile about how much she misunderstood you before laughing and dissolving.

** Sans is a lazy skeleton who loves bad puns and pranks and always messes with his brother. He also has 1 DF and 1 ATK and is described as "The easiest enemy". However, once you get to the end of [[spoiler:the Genocide Run]], well… let's hope you are patient and have enough healing items, because you're definitely going to have a bad time: [[spoiler:while his attacks each technically only do 1 point of damage, they're unique in that they don't give you any invincibility frames when you get hit ''and'' have a poisoning effect that drains your health for an additional amount of damage to what you took from his attacks. Oh, and he dodges when you attack him, so that 1 DF doesn't actually mean anything]].

** Undyne is one letter off from "undine". Undines are mythical creatures that live in water, which explains why Undyne looks like a fish and lives in Waterfall. Also, some undines seek human souls, though for different reasons than Undyne. Also, her name kind of sounds like "undying," and she is determined not to die, [[spoiler:especially on Genocide Run, where you try to kill her and she ''generates human determination'' in order to turn into "Undyne the Undying"]].

** "Dreemurr", Asgore's second name, is an anagram for "murderer" and he needs to take human [=SOUL=]s to escape the Underground, which means that he has to kill some humans. "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Asgore]]" alone should tell you thing or two about his goal. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he doesn't actually want to kill anybody.]] And if taken into its other meaning, "dreamer", it reflects the king's dream to free monsterkind.

** While Toriel and Asgore both look middle-aged, it's explained later in the game that Boss Monsters become old only when they give birth to a child[[spoiler:: because their son died, they probably kept this form for decades and could even keep it forever]]. It's also implied that the goat-like child monster who apparently becomes their leader in war in the intro actually is Asgore [[BeenThereShapedHistory in his younger years]].

* TheAgeless: Toriel is a Boss Monster, which is a species of monster that does not age unless she has a child. [[spoiler:So, like her husband, she hasn't aged since her son died, which may have been at least decades to centuries ago (the year 201X).]]
* TheAlcoholic: Going by Flowey's alarm clock dialogue, Toriel during her loneliest and darkest days indulged in “merrymaking” during parties up to passing out, and even neglecting eating and sleeping on some days. [[spoiler: After [[OutlivingOnesOffspring what she went through]] it’s understandable.]]

* AntiVillain: Of the “In Name Only” variant. She attempts to keep you in the ruins by force and attempts to trap you there for the rest of your life but only because she believes that you leaving is certain death. It being heavily implied that she witnessed this happen [[spoiler:to the last 6 children who fell into the underground]] and her [[spoiler:losing both of her children in one day]] makes her actions much more sympathetic and understandable. She, like Papyrus, is the one of the only bosses who refuse to mortally injure you in battle, and starts missing attacks intentionally when you reach critical health (and if you still somehow die she looks absolutely mortified).

* TheBusCameBack: You don't see her again after you leave the Ruins for the majority of the game during a pacifist run, until you [[spoiler:reach Asgore in the True Pacifist route, when she intervenes just in time and reveals she couldn't stop worrying about you all this time.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Although she does little to stop Asgore for so long, in a Pacifist Route she will [[spoiler:finally return to interrupt his battle with Frisk]], which puts her in a somewhat better position to call him out for his double-minded inaction.

** Subverted in that physically, she [[spoiler:''and'' Asgore]] are ''both'' physically rather young. Boss Monsters are explicitly stated to only age beyond adulthood as their child grows, [[spoiler:so ever since Asriel's passing, she'll be where she is for keeps]].

* DeathSeeker: Downplayed — Toriel is not actively suicidal, but goads you into a battle at the exit to the Ruins where you might end up killing her, and accepts that outcome if it happens, even using her last words to warn you about Asgore. She is implied to be more powerful than you, but holding back her true strength and making herself easy to defeat (or kill) for your sake; the CHECK text says her DF (defense) is 80, but internal data reveals that it’s actually 1, even on a neutral or pacifist run. [[spoiler:The emotional burden of losing both of her children, separating from her husband, living alone in the Ruins and trying and failing to protect every human child that has fallen into the underground has taken its toll on her.]]

* HiddenDepths: Toriel is incredibly powerful, eclipsing most other characters with her CHECK stats and tying with [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Asgore]] in terms of ATK and DEF, [[GlassCannon if not in health.]] She can send Flowey and even Asgore BlownAcrossTheRoom with a single fireball, annihilate enemy bullets, and perform powerful healing magic casually, but you will never see her go all-out in battle against you, because she loves you too much.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Downplayed. She accuses Asgore of double-mindedness and guilt about his actions, pointing out that he could have bypassed the seal with only one human soul, killed (or at least, taken from the dying) six more, and broken the Barrier. [[spoiler:However, even after Asgore started killing people (children), she doesn't intervene to try and stop him.]] It is implied, however, that she does her best to convince the people who fall underground to stay with her in the ruins, which fails repeatedly. When Frisk, the seventh human, falls underground, she [[WellIntentionedExtremist even goes as far as to try to destroy the exit to keep them from leaving]], though once they do leave (with or without killing her) she won't intervene again until the True Pacifist route.

* InterspeciesAdoption: She tries to adopt you, a human child, and does so at the end of the True Pacifist run if you decide to stay with her. [[spoiler:In the past, she did the same for the Fallen Child--and after tragically outliving them, tried to do the same with six other children who fell into the Ruins.]]

* JustFriends: Subverted. She won't even allow this for [[spoiler:Asgore]]. Though it’s implied in the true Pacifist end they reconcile during the credits scene.
* LaughingMad: [[ShutUpKirk If you kill her when she has begun her speech and stopped attacking you]] or if you are on the No mercy route, her last moments will be a painful smile about how much she misunderstood you before laughing and dissolving.

** During the PacifistRun ending, to [[spoiler:Asgore]]. The minute she appears, saves you from fighting, and [[spoiler:calls out Asgore for being a "cowardly whelp," he abandons the fight as well]].

* NiceGirl: Grudge toward Asgore aside, Toriel is shown to be a kindhearted, motherly woman who looks out for the child’s well-being and actively protects them from the monsters outside of her house. She is so gentle and loving that she’s unable to muster any killing instinct toward the child when they challenge her, and if they still somehow die she looks absolutely mortified.

** While Toriel and Asgore both look middle-aged, it's explained later in the game that monsters become old only when they give birth to a child[[spoiler:: because their son died, they probably kept this form for decades and could even keep it forever]]. It's also implied that the goat-like child monster who apparently becomes their leader in war in the intro actually is Asgore [[BeenThereShapedHistory in his younger years]].

** The Human Child is a little kid with [[TheComicallySerious comically serious face]] who is able to both [[PacifistRun salvage]] and [[KillEmAll destroy]] the entire Underground.

* LaughingMad: [[ShutUpKirk If you kill her when she has begun her speech and stopped attacking you]] or if you are on the KillEmAll route, her last moments will be a painful smile about how much she misunderstood you before laughing and dissolving.

* TheAlcoholic: Going by Flowey's alarm clock dialogue, Toriel during her loneliest and darkest days indulged in “merrymaking” during parties up to passing out, and even neglecting eating and sleeping on some days.

* AntiVillain: Of the “In name only” variant. She attempts to keep you in the ruins by force and attempts to trap you there for the rest of your life but only because she believes that you leaving is certain death. It being heavily implied that she witnessed this happen [[spoilers:to the last 6 children who fell into the underground]] and her [[spoiler:losing both of her children in one day]] makes her actions much more sympathetic and understandable. She, like Papyrus, is the only boss who refuses to mortally injure you in battle, and starts missing attacks intentionally when you reach critical health (and if you still somehow die she looks absolutely mortified).

* NiceGirl: Grudge toward Asgore aside, Toriel is shown to be a kindhearted, motherly woman who looks out for the child’s well-being and actively protects them from the monsters outside of her house. She is so gentle and loving that she’s unable to muster any killing instinct toward the child when they challenge her.

* EngineeredHeroics: On a Neutral or Pacifist route, [[spoiler:Alphys reactivates traps and puzzles that had been shut down, and convinces Mettaton to play the role of a human-killing robot so she can help the player character overcome them and feel good about herself for a change. It [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when Mettaton tires of the charade and decides to fight the player for real]].

* DeathSeeker: Downplayed — Toriel is not actively suicidal, but goads you into a battle at the exit to the Ruins where you might end up killing her, and accepts that outcome if it happens, even using her last words to warn you about Asgore. She is implied to be more powerful than you, but holding back her true strength and making herself easy to defeat (or kill) for your sake; the CHECK text says her DF (defense) is 80, but internal data reveals that -- even on a neutral or pacifist run -- it’s actually 1. [[spoiler:The emotional burden of losing both of her children, separating from her husband, living alone in the Ruins and trying and failing to protect every human child that has fallen into the underground has taken its toll on her.]]

* ArtReflectsPersonality: [[{{Nerd}} Alphys]] has fanfiction shipping [[AmazonChaser herself]] with [[ActionGirl Undyne]] and Asgore with [[spoiler:Toriel]]. This shows her desire to find love and her hopeless romanticism, as well as her ShipperOnDeck tendencies.

* StunnedSilence: If the player bores the Training Dummy so its spirit [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]], Toriel has this reaction before [[BigLippedAligatorMoment continuing like normal]].

* NiceGirl: Despite her constant lying, Alphys’s kindness and unwillingness to hurt others are both genuine. [[spoiler:She makes sure that you aren’t killed by any of Mettaton’s shows and is genuinely worried if you nearly die to the lasers]]

* NiceGirl: She’s genuinely very kind and caring, despite her shyness and [[spoiler:insecurities and self-hatred.]]