| 1 | All characters from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' as they are depicted in the universe of ''Webcomic/InvertedFate''. |
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| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | !Main Characters |
| 5 | [[folder:Frisk]] |
| 6 | !! Frisk |
| 7 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/03416b56_1456_4a60_b67a_890f10dff13a.png]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:Art by Dorked]] |
| 9 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Riley |
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| 11 | The main protagonist. Frisk is the eighth human to fall into the Underground, and as such is a target of much ire from the monsters they find themselves surrounded by. Due to Flowey's reset, they are not guided by a "player/Anomaly", [[SuddenlyVoiced thus allowing their personality to shine through]]. |
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| 13 | '''For their canonical details, see [[Characters/UndertaleTheHumanChild here]].''' |
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| 15 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the Hotland section, they're noted to be quite good at acrobatics, something they picked up from being out on the streets most of the time. They're also capable of leaping twice their own height when the situation demands it. |
| 16 | * AdaptationExpansion: Frisk is given a proper character in this comic, compared to the mostly blank slate they were in the original game, due to no longer being controlled by the "Anomaly". |
| 17 | * AdaptationalGenderIdentity: Though Frisk's gender is ambiguous in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'', they're very much confirmed to be non-binary in Inverted Fate. |
| 18 | * ArtEvolution: In Rift 5, [[spoiler:after eating the Scientific Spaghetti, they become slightly taller (just like Papyrus said it would when he first gave it to them) and their skin tone changes to tan in their overworld sprites, though only the former is acknowledged in universe]]. |
| 19 | * TheArtifact: While they still have their yellow skin in their overworld sprites, they have a tan skin tone in later cutscenes due to yellow skin having "unfortunate implications." [[spoiler:They no longer have yellow skin in any of their sprites as of the aforementioned ArtEvolution in Rift 5]]. |
| 20 | * BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:During their date with Papyrus at the MTT Hotel, they admit that despite the hardships they have endured, it's thanks to Papyrus that their [[StepfordSmiler "nice kid" act]] feels more bearable compared to before.]] |
| 21 | -->'''Frisk:''' [[spoiler:Heh, it's funny, but when you're here, my nice kid routine doesn't feel that much like an act than before. The smiles, everything... I don't feel like I have to phone it in.]] |
| 22 | * BerserkButton: |
| 23 | ** ''Seriously'' unimpressed with anyone who disregards or harms their friends in any fashion, such as poor Papyrus's friendship with Undyne. |
| 24 | ** [[spoiler:Flowey post-betrayal becomes this for Frisk to the point where they ''never'' want to be his friend ever again, but can you really blame them?]] |
| 25 | * BigShutUp: [[spoiler:They don't take kindly to Flowey/Asriel taunting them with the Echo Flowers in null_2, prompting them to strangle the Echo Flower while shouting at it to "SHUT THE HELL UP."]] |
| 26 | * BlindWithoutEm: Downplayed; it's revealed that they're nearsighted without glasses, which they don't have on hand. They say it's because they'd look "dweeby" with glasses, [[spoiler:but they actually bring up bad memories of Lilac.]] Due to their consciousness being bound to Frisk, this affects Chara as well, [[spoiler:at least until Flowey permanently separates them]]. |
| 27 | * BroughtDownToNormal: They lose their SAVE ability once Flowey takes control over the timeline. Flowey then tricks Frisk into thinking they can still SAVE until [[spoiler:he reveals his true colors]]. [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, their "Check" ability was actually inherited from Chara's Soul being stuck to theirs. They lose it in Part 61 when Chara is permanently separated from them]]. |
| 28 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:As much as Asriel would like to get rid of Frisk after he gets all of the [=SOULs=] he's forced to keep them alive, since getting rid of Frisk would mean losing all chance of him and Chara being friends again]]. |
| 29 | * CovertPervert: They're rather intrigued when they learn about the... details of 'Heat Haze Volume 3' (much to Flowey and Chara's chagrin) and shamelessly reads it in front of Dohj to throw her off. |
| 30 | -->'''Frisk:''' Note to self: find this book ASAP.\ |
| 31 | '''Flowey:''' Note to self: burn this book before you get to it.\ |
| 32 | '''Frisk:''' Note to self: do dramatic reading as a bedtime story.\ |
| 33 | '''Chara:''' I refuse to narrate this. |
| 34 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: As revealed during their "date" with Papyrus, [[spoiler:they were an unloved orphan who wanted to go to Mount Ebott with a friend of theirs as a SuicidePact to be noticed, before accidentally crippling them during a fight when they refused to go, which only fueled their desire to go to Mount Ebott further and escape their loveless life in the orphanage]]. |
| 35 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the typical CheerfulChild protagonist seen in Pacifist run fanworks. [[spoiler:Them being cheerful and kindhearted is just an act they constructed after their disastrous falling out with their childhood friend. BeneathTheMask, they are bitter and loaded with trauma and conflict. Thankfully, with Papyrus sticking by their side and gradually becoming their LivingEmotionalCrutch, they grew to see this as more than just a mask, and found real joy in connecting with others.]] |
| 36 | * DeadpanSnarker: While the moments are less frequent than say, Chara, they still do have a bit of snark. Especially in the CORE Arc. |
| 37 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: Frisk is nearsighted, with their squinted eyes being due to them being unable to see their environment clearly. |
| 38 | * FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Despite being around twelve (as lampshaded in a joke comic) Frisk has let out a few [[PrecisionFStrike Precision F-Strikes]]. [[spoiler:The secret pages reveal that they've sworn ''much'' more often in the past despite being eleven years old at the time]]. |
| 39 | * TheGadfly: Essentially what their flirting behavior boils down to. This greatly annoys Flowey. |
| 40 | * GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:They reveal their name at the start of Waterfall, ''much'' earlier than in canon, much to Flowey's dismay.]] |
| 41 | * HeroicBSOD: |
| 42 | ** They have one during Waterfall after learning about an incident where [[spoiler:a human (specifically Integrity) killed and injured many monsters, causing them to become more prejudiced and distrustful towards any other human. They believe that they're a bad person, reminded of their crippling of their friend back on the Surface before they fell]]. |
| 43 | ** They have an even worse one at the end of the CORE after [[spoiler:attacking Undyne out of desperation when they're close to dying permanently, only for it to be fatal and cause her to melt; then Papyrus and Mettaton show up right after and the latter ends up being merged with her when trying to help her. They can't even reload properly until Sans, Papyrus, and Chara talk them down and remind them that it's not their fault]]. |
| 44 | * HeroicSafeMode: [[spoiler:After they accidentally caused Undyne and Mettaton to amalgamate in Part 48, they run away and collapse into this in the elevator bringing them to New Home. Their sprite even gains HiddenEyes. They respond to everyone with stoic seriousness, even shutting Chara out of their head. Fortunately, Papyrus and Sans snap them out of it.]] |
| 45 | * IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:Doesn't really see themselves as a good person. After accidentally crippling a friend of theirs in a fight over the friend's decision to back out of a SuicidePact, they see their actions in the Underground as initially just that. ''ACT''ing, [[StepfordSmiler and nothing else]]. It takes Papyrus for their "nice kid routine" to feel genuine.]] |
| 46 | * InTheHood: Frisk's disguise for the Fort Aquarius and Waterfall arcs includes Sans' old hoodie. |
| 47 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Your Theme", "Just an Act", "Bittersweet Victory", "Remembering The Sunshine", "[=ACTing=] Out", [[spoiler:"Everything is (Not) Fine"]], [[spoiler:"mus_mirror"]]. |
| 48 | * PaperThinDisguise: They wear a hoodie, mask, and a shirt with "COOL KID" labeled on it to pass as a skeleton. It somehow works with most monsters, but the more observant ones such as Dohj are able to see right through. They keep the "COOL KID" shirt after ditching the hoodie and mask in Hotland. |
| 49 | * ParentalAbandonment: They were abandoned by their birth parents at a young age, and grew up in a children's home where no one wanted to adopt them, which is part of their insecurities. |
| 50 | * PrecisionFStrike: While Frisk does try to control their language, Undyne's insensitive treatment of Papyrus pushes them over the edge… |
| 51 | -->'''Frisk:''' ...You know what? You're disgusting. Here he is, pouring his HEART out to you, and you CUT HIM OFF?! Bullshit! Keep this up, and you'll destroy EVERY friendship you’ve got. Papyrus deserves better than y-\ |
| 52 | '''Chara:''' That’s ENOUGH. |
| 53 | ** Later on, during [[spoiler:the fight with Undyne in the CORE]], they at one point say "Oh fu-" [[CurseCutShort before Chara cuts them off again]]. |
| 54 | ** They finally get to drop an F-bomb in the post "null_1" "specialhappytime" session in Discord: |
| 55 | --->'''Frisk:''' Do you know how ''painful'' it was? I THOUGHT [[spoiler:FLOWEY WAS MY FRIEND, BUT THAT BASTARD USED ME]]. FUCK THAT. |
| 56 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Their eyes glow red when they call Flowey a freak for doing horrible things "because it's fun."]] |
| 57 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: They remember everything that happened before their resets, though memories of the pre-''Inverted Fate'' timeline are limited to vague deja vu. |
| 58 | * RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:When Chara gets permanently separated from them thanks to Flowey tearing their SOUL in two combined with Mad Mew Mew's magic, their name doesn't replace Chara's, instead remaining completely blank, possibly symbolizing their self blame over assisting Flowey in his evil plan. It continues to remain blank until "null_4", which at that point they're feeling a lot more hopeful than before]]. |
| 59 | * ShipTease: [[spoiler:Has a lot of close moments with Chara. After Chara was brought back to life, they took part in hand holding as well as leaning on each other when sleeping on the couch at the skelebros' residence]]. |
| 60 | * StepfordSmiler: They act cheerful, optimistic, and are very snarky and flirtatious, [[spoiler:but as of part 21, it's clear that this is a front to hide their deep depression and self-loathing, represented by the "ACT" button]]. |
| 61 | * SuddenlySpeaking: Frisk's personality that was implied in the original pacifist run is fleshed out in Inverted Fate. They have arguably the most lines of dialogue in the comic so far. |
| 62 | * SupportingProtagonist: Initially {{averted}} as Frisk is TheHero [[spoiler:until "The Angel's Promise", where Chara becomes separated from them and put back in their own body soon after, leading to Chara taking the leading role due to the change in circumstances making them the only one who can convince Asriel to stop. {{Downplayed}} since Frisk still plays a large role in the story]]. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Flowey/Asriel]] |
| 66 | !! Flowey the Flower/Asriel Dreemurr |
| 67 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b915b985_4ba1_4a40_911a_0f85fc8a877d.png]] |
| 68 | [[caption-width-right:240:Art by Dorked]] |
| 69 | [[caption-width-right:240:[[labelnote:Click here to see Flowey's New Appearance]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inverted_fate_flowey_newtimeline.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 70 | [[caption-width-right:240:[[labelnote:Click here to see Asriel Dreemurr]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inverted_fate_asriel_hyperdeath.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 71 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=EmmyKat=] (Flowey), [=SlickSlack=] (Asriel) |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The reason all of this is happening in the first place is because of him. Once known as the Asriel Dreemurr, Prince of All Monsters, he's reborn as a misanthropic flower named Flowey. After claiming all Monster and Human [=SOULs=] in the Underground, his new found powers lands him in a new timeline without them. His friendly act is now a long con, to use the human and claim all six human [=SOULs=] yet again for an even greater scheme. |
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| 75 | '''For his canonical details, see [[Characters/UndertaleFlowey here]].''' |
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| 77 | * AGodAmI: [[spoiler: This aspect of Asriel's personality is on full display during Rift 2, with a cathedral littered with statues of him, religious scripture dedicated to him and Chara and followers who speak of him as if he's a holy god. The first miniboss of the Rift is even an embodiment of his self aggrandizing ego.]] |
| 78 | * ArtEvolution: Taking the [=SOULs=] caused his battle sprite appearance to change. [[spoiler:After gaining control over the timeline, he also changes the hairstyle of his "Hypergod of Death" form to be more "boyband-like"]]. |
| 79 | * TheBadGuyWins: The entire premise of Inverted Fate is based on him beating Frisk in Undertale's True Pacifist finale but [[SubvertedTrope not being able to use his new powers properly]]. [[spoiler:He gets the human Souls yet again at the end of part 51.]] [[spoiler:And the monster Souls in Part 61.]] |
| 80 | * BerserkButton: |
| 81 | ** Played for laughs when it comes to Frisk's flirting, which makes him uncomfortable on numerous occasions, and has to resist screaming after they flirt to him again after training with Papyrus. |
| 82 | --->'''Flowey:''' ''(after watching Frisk flirt with Asgore)'' Don't make me take that phone away. |
| 83 | ** [[spoiler:As Asriel, he doesn't take it too well whenever anyone sees through his grandstanding and forces him to acknowledge that he isn't as in control as he wants to believe. Lilac ends up being on the receiving end of Asriel's wrath several times because of this.]] |
| 84 | ** [[spoiler:Being reminded of how empty and unhappy he is inside. When the Entity of Emptiness is near defeat and talks back, it spitefully claims that Asriel wants to discard everything and that he'll always be empty inside and never happy, Asriel gets mad enough to intervene and kills the Figment himself.]] |
| 85 | * BigBad: Like in [[{{VideoGame/Undertale}} the previous adventure]], his goal is to get the human souls, although this time, he has much bigger plans... |
| 86 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Flowey's nice-guy act from Undertale's intro is a long-term thing here, and he uses this facade to get Frisk and Papyrus to do what he wants. |
| 87 | * BookBurning: During "Empty Inside", [[spoiler:Flowey has mentioned reading every book in the underground and also burning every book there as well.]] |
| 88 | * CompositeCharacter: Unlike most fan interpretations of Flowey and Asriel, Inverted Fate treats them as the same character at different stages in their life. [[spoiler:Naturally, this means when Flowey becomes Asriel, he doesn't suddenly regain his kindness and compassion like his canonical self, but instead becomes a character who is fond of Chara -desperate to win them over even-, while spitefully tormenting Frisk and keeping Lilac imprisoned just to hurt them further. If anything, the final arc makes it a point to showcase the nuance of their character who also making it clear that they're still the main antagonist of the story.]] |
| 89 | * TheCorrupter: Despite the facade being long term here, he still shows his manipulativeness when egging Frisk to steal more Monster Candy, and convinces them that their determination makes their adventures a game. He convinces Papyrus to keep secrets from Sans by appealing to his ego and desire to make everything right. |
| 90 | * DeathByOriginStory: After Chara's plan to have Asriel ascend to the surface and gather human souls to break the barrier goes wrong, [[spoiler:Asriel ends up dead. This ends up kickstarting a series of events involving his rebirth as Flowey and eventual descent into villainy. Frisk and Chara end up having to deal with the embodiment of Asriel's death trauma in Rift_4.]] |
| 91 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: |
| 92 | ** [[spoiler: Asriel's portrayal in Inverted Fate can be considered one to fan interpretations of Asriel that treat him and Flowey as [[JekyllAndHyde different characters.]] Inverted Fate really hammers it in that Flowey and Asriel are one and the same, with Asriel's acts being treated as cruel and heinous by Frisk and Chara, the former of whom absolutely hates them for their betrayal. During Rift 2, Asriel's attempts to paint himself as well intentioned and sympathetic are there to establish that his devotion to Chara is unhealthy and based on an idealized extreme. Rift 3 even has Chara admit that they spent a lot of time dissociating Flowey and Asriel from each other.]] |
| 93 | ** [[spoiler: Rift 3 deconstructs Flowey's character by having Frisk point out to Asriel that he could've easily just shattered the barrier in the underground and still keep Chara's (and by extension their) friendship instead of betraying them all. Or during the fight with Possessiveness, Frisk admits that they pity Asriel because he's stuck creating illusions because he backstabbed those who could've loved him and because he didn't know when to quit. Instead of the manipulative sociopath who outsmarts everyone with his cunning and sheer ruthlessness, Flowey is exposed as a pitiful, pathetic coward who only has himself to blame for his own loneliness.]] |
| 94 | ** [[spoiler: Rift 6 has Asriel realize that that creating puppets [[EmbodimentOfVice embodying his flaws]] tends to have limits. The Entity of Emptiness has enough of Flowey's personality to defy Asriel long to spitefully insult him before Asriel kills them. After that, Asriel realizes that he'll need to be more careful with how much of "himself" he puts in each Figment. After this, when he decides to give Lilac her soul back, she manages to predict Asriel's actions, showcasing that while Asriel may claim to know other people and views them as predictable, his own tendency to generalize people based on his own expectations ends up making him predictable enough that Lilac is able to read him like a book.]] |
| 95 | * DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:He gets caught very off guard when Frisk reveals their name.]] |
| 96 | ** [[spoiler:As Asriel, he's briefly stunned in Rift_6 when Lilac is able to predict how Asriel will act after she points out how he's actually really bad at reading people and that he's chosen to throw in the towel rather than give people a chance because he doesn't actually know how they'll act.]] |
| 97 | * DramaticIrony: No one except for Chara is aware that he stole everyone's [=SOULs=] and tried to take control of the timeline. Flowey uses this to his full advantage. |
| 98 | * {{Egopolis}}: [[spoiler:In his new reality, there are images of Asriel and Flowey everywhere throughout the Underground]]. |
| 99 | ** [[spoiler: Rift 2 showcases this in full display by having a golden cathedral dedicated to Asriel's godhood complete with cult members who worship him and Chara.]] |
| 100 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He is rather... displeased with Frisk taking interest in "Heat Haze Volume 3" (which is unsuitable for children to read), saying that he'd burn the book if he got to it before Frisk did. |
| 101 | * EvilOverlord: Upon transforming into [[spoiler: Asriel, his appearance fully invokes the trope with a cape and black gloves being additions to his wardrobe. He even goes as far as to create a final dungeon filled with various minibosses for Chara and Frisk to fight against before their final showdown. The post-credits scene of Rift_6 even has Lilac even call Asriel a supervillain who has a tendency to monologue.]] |
| 102 | * EyeTwitch: In the remade Prologue, his GameFace does this upon realizing he's back to being Flowey and no longer Asriel. |
| 103 | * FairPlayVillain: [[spoiler:During the Null Arc, he gives Chara and Frisk plenty of chances within the corrupted Underground to stock up on healing items in an attempt to appease to Chara. To further sweeten the deal, he later supplies them both with armor at Waterfall to give them more of a fighting chance.]] |
| 104 | * FalseFriend: Flowey decides to do a "friendly approach" to Frisk to regain the [=SOULs=], later extending this act to Papyrus. He always acts as a secret guider and ally for Frisk and Papyrus, motivating them and making sure they are okay but once [[spoiler:he regains the [=SOULs=] and has everyone ensnared, he starts to verbally abuse and torment Frisk and being indifferent to Papyrus, tossing away any pretense of friendship.]] |
| 105 | * {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler: The entirety of Rift 2 consists of Asriel trying to gaslight Frisk and Chara (and by extension, the viewer) into thinking that his goals are noble and sympathetic, that his new world was worth all of the [=SOULs=] used to build it and that he doesn't wish to put Chara on a pedestal. Frisk and Chara are able to see right through Asriel's holy facade.]] |
| 106 | * HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:After revealing his true colors, Flowey uses the power of all of the [=SOULs=] which he captured and becomes immune to damage and refuses to listen to anyone's reasoning. In the end, Frisk is forced to run after Flowey separates them from Chara and takes Papyrus' SOUL to take control of the timeline]]. |
| 107 | * {{Hypocrite}}: As Chara and Frisk conclude, Asriel is a massive hypocrite. [[spoiler: Despite portraying himself as a [[AllLovingHero kind, noble soul]] who only wants to [[WellIntentionedExtremist make the world a better place]] for Chara and is merciful and forgiving, it's nothing more than self-aggrandizement. Asriel has thus far manipulated Frisk and gleefully tormented them, makes it a point to kick them down at every turn and emotionally abuses them. He claims to honour the past by desecrating the present world in favour of an idealized view of himself and Chara, claims to view them as his equal despite putting them on a pedestal by portraying them as an angel and dedicating religious scripture to them, claims to understand their pain while completely failing to see that Chara never wanted any of Asriel's grandstanding idealization of them or the world built on the countless souls taken from the humans.]] |
| 108 | * IGaveMyWord: [[spoiler:Despite planning on eradicating humanity, Flowey honors Chara's request to spare Frisk even though he doesn't admire Chara's newfound sentimentality]]. |
| 109 | * IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler:Implied in the final arc, where whenever something happens that causes him to doubt what's he's doing (Lilac calling him out on his lonliness, Chara defeating the Fiend of Fatality peacefully by admitting they were wrong), he just dismisses it and continues with his plan. In playable segements during this arc, attempting to reset on the title screen will have him say "I worked too hard for this", further enforcing this idea]]. |
| 110 | * InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:By the time of Rift, he is so deep in denial and LovingAShadow that he comes up with more and more implausible rationalizations for the compassion that Chara shows.]] |
| 111 | * JerkassToOne: [[spoiler:In the Null Arc, while his signs are almost nothing but cordial toward Chara. The rare moments that his messages address Frisk has him viciously taunt them. Chara calls him out on this during the fight with Effigy of Ego.]] |
| 112 | * JustToyingWithThem: [[spoiler:He leaves Frisk at 1 HP for the entire fight in Part 61, just barely keeping his attacks out of range]]. |
| 113 | * KickTheDog: After [[spoiler:using the [=SOULS=] to become Asriel again]], he makes it a point to constantly kick [[spoiler:Frisk]] where it hurts at least once per episode. [[spoiler:Altering the world to plaster his face on everything along with demoralizing messages]] is just the start of it. |
| 114 | * KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:While he can't kill Frisk without permanently ruining his chance to be friends with Chara again, after reclaiming the [=SOULs=] and absorbing all of the monsters, he takes every opportunity he possibly can to make Frisk feel as miserable as possible]]. |
| 115 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: The comic doesn't try to hide Flowey's true identity, which was an endgame plot twist in ''Undertale''. |
| 116 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Back to Zero", "Here we go again," "The Seeds of Friendship", "According to Plan", [[spoiler:"Victory Lap"]], [[spoiler:"You're GARBAGE!"]], [[spoiler:"Checkmate"]], [[spoiler:"mus_reboot"]], [[spoiler:"mus_null"]]", [[spoiler:"mus_rift" and its variants]], [[spoiler:"mus_persist"]], [[spoiler:"mus_ascend"]], [[spoiler:"mus_monster"]]. |
| 117 | * LovingAShadow: [[spoiler: Asriel values Chara as his sibling and believes that they can do no wrong. Even though Chara sent him to his death, he never blamed Chara for their plan failing. He believes that Frisk has manipulated Chara into siding against him and is trying to make them see what they believes to be reason. In actuality, Asriel has become a PoisonousFriend who is effectively trying to gaslight Chara into siding with him and Frisk by proclaiming that they are nothing without him.]] |
| 118 | * MaliciousMisnaming: More defiant, but still, he refuses to call Frisk by their name after they reveal it — since he can't call them 'Chara' anymore, he opts to call them 'kid'. [[spoiler:It's only after he reveals his true motives that he calls them 'Frisk']]. |
| 119 | * ManipulativeBastard: Oh yes. He has Frisk and Papyrus playing to his whims by preying on their cluelessness towards his true nature. Even with Sans being suspicious of him, by the time they meet personally once again, [[spoiler:Flowey has fooled Frisk, Papyrus, ''and'' Toriel into believing he's harmless]]. Not even Chara can do much other than warn their partner, who finds it hard to believe that Flowey doesn't mean well, and eventually [[spoiler:even they are forced to concede]]. |
| 120 | * OnlyFriend: He considers Chara to be this to him. They're the only reason that [[spoiler:he doesn't kill Frisk after getting all the [=SOULs=] he needed, keeping them alive in hopes of eventually gaining Chara's "trust." When Asriel starts rewriting the world in his image, it's shown that his friendship with Chara is obsessive, even putting them on a pedestal. This is taken to it's logical conclusion in Rift 2 where Asriel puts Chara on a pedestal by portraying them as an angel and has religious scripture dedicated to Chara alongside himself.]] |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler: Rift 3 even has him give Chara an entire castle while Frisk gets stuck in a tiny room. While Chara can have anything they want within reason, Frisk is stuck with only a taunting sign, a poster of Asriel and a pot of flowers.]] |
| 122 | * PetTheDog: Despite going out of his way to make Frisk and Chara suffer, [[spoiler:he altered the Chara statue on the surface in null_7 so that it referred to Chara by their chosen name rather than their birth name.]] |
| 123 | * PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:It's shown that the Riverperson, Napstablook, and the Gaster Followers all escaped having their [=SOULs=] absorbed by him, but he doesn't care too much because he doesn't really see them as threats and already has enough power from the human [=SOULs=] he took from the surface. Also, while he could destroy the robots at any time, he doesn't see them as threats either, not even when Spamton ruins the fountain he had planned for Chara to see and later travels into the Rift to give them and Frisk items. When he finds that Papyrus somehow got free, Asriel decides to let him stay rather than reabsorb him because he thinks he could be better at convincing Chara to stay in the new world he's making. After Lilac calls him out on how predictable he is, he decides to spare Lilac and let her stay instead of ripping her SOUL out, intending to let her watch the next step of Frisk and their party's journey.]]. |
| 124 | * PsychopathicManchild: Once Flowey becomes [[spoiler:Asriel again, instead of gaining the ability to feel empathy and compassion, he evolves into this trope instead. This is because Flowey/Asriel [[RippleEffectProofMemory has all his memories]] from the previous timeline, and the two characters are [[CompositeCharacter considered one and the same]] instead of being a JekyllAndHyde situation. During the final arc, its shown that for all of his grandstanding and his need to show himself as superior and the one in control; it's clear that Asriel has deep seated issues (enough to form their own set of minibosses in the final dungeon) and underneath the grandeur acts like a jealous, petulant child who spitefully targets Frisk every chance he gets while constantly trying to get Chara to stay his friend. Lilac even calls him out as acting like a child throwing a temper tantrum.]] |
| 125 | * PutOnABus: He's forced to disappear for much of Hotland due to the camera and heat, only showing up once more after the trial, where Sans exposed his existence to the Underground. He shows up sporadically in the CORE, to tail Frisk and Chara. He makes a return in New Home, but stays behind at the barrier after claiming all six [=SOULs=] while Frisk and Papyrus gather everyone else. |
| 126 | * RealityWarper: [[spoiler:With his god-like power from the [=SOULs=], he's powerful enough to make Mad Mew Mew's splitting of Frisk and Chara's [=SOULs=] permanent, revive Chara's dead body, and put their SOUL back into it. It's shown soon after that he made many changes to the Underground]]. |
| 127 | ** [[spoiler:His god-like powers are shown to have created a Rift that shows that he can see into other universes and even has a golden cathedral dedicated to him, complete with cult followers that are just illusions but are somehow able to act independantly.]] |
| 128 | * RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:During the fight against him after he betrays everyone, Papyrus reminds him that now that he has [=SOULs=], he should be able to feel love. Flowey acknowledges this, but says that because of the countless timelines he's endured, he still feels as empty as ever]]. |
| 129 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Utterly convinced that Frisk is Chara. Frisk revealing their name baffles him. |
| 130 | ** Later becomes convinced that Toriel's treatment of the Mage was her replacing Asriel and Chara. |
| 131 | * RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:He believes that Frisk has stolen Chara from him due to the latter's refusal to talk to him for so long, so he takes Lilac's SOUL not too long after Frisk has reunited with her, controls her body to taunt them, and keeps holding her hostage. At one point, he asks Frisk through a sign how it feels to have their friend taken away from them]]. |
| 132 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: Being the one who caused the RESET that created the Inverted Fate timeline, Flowey retains his memories of the original ''Undertale'' timeline, and acts accordingly. |
| 133 | * SigilSpam: Subtlety is not [[spoiler: Asriel's forte. Upon becoming a god, he plasters imagery of his various forms everywhere Chara and Frisk go such as the corrupted Underground or the Rift.]] |
| 134 | * SinisterSilhouettes: [[spoiler:His current "Hypergod of Death" form after he regains control of the timeline is presented this way, though besides the hair and a few small design changes, it's not much different from the original one]]. |
| 135 | * TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Asriel's death and rebirth as Flowey puts him on a path that gradually causes him to become this. The trauma of his own death, combined with multiple playthroughs of Flowey using his SAVE power to avoid any real consequences ends up gradually warping him into someone who is empty inside, [[{{Dehumanization}}sees other people as predictable]] [[NonPlayableCharacter NPCs]] that he knows everything about, and has no problem with manipulating and eventually callously betraying and tormenting Frisk once he sees no further use for them.]] |
| 136 | * TaughtByExperience: The main reason why he doesn't become Photoshop Flowey again after taking the six [=SOULs=] is because it didn't work when he tried it before. He also decides not to repeat his original plan of resetting the world in favor of [[spoiler:leaving for the surface and creating a brand new one]] after the reset accidentally changed the timeline, wanting to see what sort of things he can do on purpose. |
| 137 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: [[spoiler:After claiming all six [=SOULs=], Flowey taunts Chara by having his Save File say "I WIN, CHARA" for a split second before disappearing.]] |
| 138 | * WolfInSheepsClothing: Flowey still wants those [=SOULs=], just like in canon, but unlike canon, he acts friendly to Frisk and helps them in order to get what he wants. |
| 139 | * WrongContextMagic: His friendliness pellets leave behind physical residue in the form of flower petals. [[spoiler:Sans uses this information in court to expose Flowey's existence.]] |
| 140 | * XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:When he finds out that Lilac came to the Underground, he decides to take her SOUL from her body when the humans reach the city, and then later control and speak through her body like a puppet, just to taunt Frisk as revenge for them "stealing" Chara from him. Later on, after the six human [=SOULs=] free Papyrus, Asriel decides not to reabsorb him since he believes Papyrus will like the idea of the new world he's making, and that Chara will be more likely to listen to him]]. |
| 141 | * YankTheDogsChain: During null_3, Frisk and Chara decide to stay in a house. [[spoiler:Frisk is overjoyed to see Sans and Papyrus only for it to be an illusion Asriel created just to hurt them.]] |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:"Captain Cryptic"/Chara]] |
| 145 | !! Chara Dreemur |
| 146 | [[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charaart.png]] |
| 147 | [[caption-width-right:170:Art by Dorked]] |
| 148 | ->'''Voiced by:''' wintermelon |
| 149 | |
| 150 | The narrator, also called Captain Cryptic by Frisk. Chara is near constantly narrating the story, giving insight that Frisk (and the reader) otherwise might not have. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | '''For their canonical details, see [[Characters/UndertaleTheFallenHuman here]].''' |
| 153 | ---- |
| 154 | * AbusiveParents: While not touched upon in the main comic, [[https://scinanigans.tumblr.com/post/173873713258 this ask]] implies that this was the case. |
| 155 | --> But I will say this: if every action has its consequences... Then I can think of two people who ought to be burning in hell’s pit. |
| 156 | ** Rift 5 has Chara tell Frisk that [[spoiler: their parents expected them to abide by their heteronormative standards, and that they only ever saw Chara as [[ItsAllAboutMe a means of free publicity]] while not caring about them otherwise.]] |
| 157 | * AdaptationExpansion: With the comic being explicit with Chara's status as narrator, they are allowed to have their character explored further. |
| 158 | * AdaptationalGenderIdentity: Chara's gender is ambiguous in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'', but is confirmed to be non-binary in Inverted Fate. |
| 159 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Chara in the original game was very enigmatic to be properly claimed to be "good" or "evil", even when Asriel claimed they weren't "the greatest person", or even when erasing the world at the end of a genocide route since it can be argued they were corrupted. Chara in this AU is shown to genuinely care for their adopted family, feel heavy remorse for their actions to the point of begging Mettaton to stop defending them, and eventually grows out of their misanthropy after seeing Frisk is genuinely a good person. |
| 160 | * AppropriatedAppellation: They eventually come to appreciate Frisk calling them "Captain Cryptic" or "Cap" for short, especially since [[spoiler:their actual name is seen by most of the Underground in a negative light, and being called a nickname helps to distance them from that fact]]. [[spoiler:As of "Empty (null_2)," they decide to take the lead to live up to their "Captain Cryptic" nickname in order to stop Asriel]]. |
| 161 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In Part 61, Flowey uses the power of the [=SOULs=] to permanently separate their SOUL from Frisk's, and then after absorbing those of the remaining monsters, he revives their body and puts their SOUL back into it]]. |
| 162 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: |
| 163 | ** Back when they were still alive, they wished that Asriel wasn't so soft, especially since that resulted in Asriel refusing to attack the humans who were killing them. Fast forward to the true pacifist final boss of the first timeline and they end up being horrified seeing that Asriel as Flowey became just like them, ''merciless''. |
| 164 | ** It's revealed from the ask blog and comments from the author that after getting to know Frisk, they've wished they could be alive again. [[spoiler:Then they get brought back to life by Asriel, but under horrific circumstances, and to make things worse they have to climb out of their own grave]]. |
| 165 | * BeyondRedemption: They see everything they did that led to destroying their adopted family and creating a monster to be inexcusable, and sees their fate as Frisk's guide to be their punishment. So much so that they're left in tears when they watch a movie created by Mettaton that actually defends their actions. |
| 166 | -->'''Chara:''' It doesn't matter. It still happened. I still did it! Stop defending me. Stop defending- |
| 167 | * CassandraTruth: They are the only one who knows Flowey's true nature, but because of Flowey doing a good job at manipulating Frisk and Papyrus into believing he's innocent, Frisk doesn't heed their warnings, and neither does Papyrus when they possess Frisk to directly speak to him in Interlude A. When Flowey gets even Toriel to believe him in Part 51, Chara finally admits defeat. |
| 168 | --> "Very well. I concede, Asriel. That was... ingenious." |
| 169 | * ColdHam: Their snarky dialogue that's often filled with [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness rather complex words and phrases for someone their age]] can make them come off as this at times, especially in their narration during battles where they describe what the participants are doing. |
| 170 | * CooldownHug: [[spoiler:In "Null: Part 1," they're on the receiving end of this by Frisk after they're driven to tears from regretting causing Asriel to become corrupt and letting Frisk get fooled by him]]. |
| 171 | * DeadpanSnarker: See the narration. Chara is a goldmine of wit and sarcasm. |
| 172 | * DemonicPossession: They're capable of doing this as first shown during the first interlude, though Frisk doesn't remember anything during that time period, though they do find out about it when Chara does it again in Chapter 39, which they remained conscious that time around. Chara usually only uses the ability to help Frisk or to talk to people who aren't ghosts. |
| 173 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Is left practically speechless when the fountain in Mettaton's hotel is Asriel (with Chara's ripped off) instead of Mettaton himself, as it was in the original timeline. |
| 174 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:They use fire and plant magic against Frisk in "Null: Part 1." WordOfGod reveals they tried learning to use magic before their death]]. |
| 175 | * FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler: In "Null: Part 1", they are so overwhelmed by their emotions from Flowey's betrayal and resurrection of them, the fact that Frisk wouldn't listen to their warnings, their loss of hope and their self-blame over everything that lead to this that when Frisk finds them, they attempt to scare them off with their worn dagger and magic attacks]]. |
| 176 | * {{Foil}}: To Undyne. Both of them are intelligent and care deeply for the people close to them, but are also angry, impulsive, misanthropic, and generally ignorant of the way their actions hurt their loved ones. They also act as role models to Papyrus and Asriel, the former to Undyne and the latter to Chara. However, as a result of both being collateral to their role model's plans, they become disillusioned with them, though they never stop caring about them. |
| 177 | * GreenThumb: [[spoiler:They're able to use plant magic in their fight against Frisk in "Null: Part 1"]]. |
| 178 | * HatedByAll: All the monsters hate them in this timeline thanks to Undyne discovering and showing everyone the tapes that exposed Chara poisoning Asgore and their plans with Asriel. As such, this has only worsened monsters' opinions of humans. |
| 179 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffers from one in Part 53, as Frisk, Papyrus, and Mettaton watch an unpublished movie created by the latter that defends their actions. By the end, they are left distraught and in tears. |
| 180 | -->'''Chara:''' [[spoiler:(as Mettaton is gently comforting Frisk) Make it stop, make it stop, make it STOP...]] |
| 181 | ** They have another one in [[spoiler: "Null: Part 1" after Flowey has taken all the monster souls again and brought them back to life, believing that the situation is hopeless and that it's all their fault]]. |
| 182 | * HeroicSafeMode: Tries to do this in Rift 4, but Frisk calms them down midway through, gently reminding them how ''that'' went when Frisk tried doing the same thing [[spoiler: after the first Determinator battle]]. |
| 183 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In-universe, actually. Due to [[spoiler:Undyne releasing the True Lab tapes]], monsterkind has a much more negative view of Chara, and humanity in general. |
| 184 | * InSeriesNickname: As Chara doesn't reveal their name [[spoiler:until Undyne does during the Determinator fight]], Frisk occasionally refers to them as "Captain Cryptic" when addressing them, much to their chagrin, although they do eventually warm up to it. [[spoiler:Even afterwards, Frisk tends to call them "Cap" sometimes.]] |
| 185 | * ItsAllMyFault: Chara fully blames themself for the fate of their adopted family, knowing full well that their plan not only cost Asriel his life, but tore their family apart in at least two timelines. They consider their own fate as Frisk’s unseen partner to be their punishment, as evidenced by [[https://scinanigans.tumblr.com/post/166448889953 this ask.]] |
| 186 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Voice of Reason" (Inverted Fate does not treat MEGALOVANIA as a Chara motif), "Victim or Villain", [[spoiler:"mus_zzz_c"]], [[spoiler:"mus_mirror"]]. |
| 187 | * LemonyNarrator: Inverted Fate runs on the idea that Chara is the narrator, and they are extremely snarky and witty with their descriptions. |
| 188 | * InteractiveNarrator: Chara seems a bit more inclined to have at least small conversations with Frisk than in canon — this tendency grows as the story continues on. Napstablook can also hear them, similarly to canon, with Mettaton and Mad Dummy (and presumably any other ghosts) sharing this power. |
| 189 | ** Taken further when Chara possesses Frisk one night as the latter sleeps. |
| 190 | ** Taken up to 11 in the CORE arc. When Undyne forcefully separates Papyrus from Frisk, trapping them on their own inside the CORE and causing them to break down in tears, Chara, having grown fond of their partner, decides to assist Frisk on a more personal level, keeping them company as they make their way through the CORE and gradually bonding with them. |
| 191 | --->Because even though Papyrus isn't here... I am. |
| 192 | ** Even after [[spoiler:being brought back to life in their own body]], they still continue to narrate during battles and describing items, which is stated in side content to be done out of habit. |
| 193 | * MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:The secret pages reveal that "Chara" wasn't their original name. When first meeting Asriel and is asked for their name, they decide to be called "Chara" to disassociate themselves from the old toxic lifestyle their AbusiveParents from the surface gave them. Now being underground where monsters are more accepting, Chara had the opportunity to live under a new identity, but had difficulty in getting to work up the confidence to express themself]]. |
| 194 | * MyGreatestFailure: Sincerely regrets ever hatching the ill-advised plan that led to their and Asriel's deaths, and the splintering of their family. |
| 195 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Most of their reactions towards the silliness they encounter with Frisk is snarky or just plain confused, but sometimes they are amused by it and have been known to make jokes, such as when the Annoying Dog saves them from Mad Dummy in the CORE. There's also their narration in the boss battle against [[spoiler:Spamton, Robots 98 and 100, and Papybot]], which is a lot like their usual battle narration, [[spoiler:except this time they're in their own body and saying most of it out loud]]. |
| 196 | * OhCrap: In Rift 4, they have this reaction when they realize [[spoiler: what the next area entails: theirs and Asriel's deaths. [[WhamEpisode They were right to be anxious]].]] |
| 197 | * PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:They're able to use fire magic. They first use it in their fight against Frisk in "null_1". It's later used in the Spamton fight in "null_5" to make Robot 98 overheat in the form of "Burn" and "Firewall"]]. |
| 198 | * RedOniBlueOni: During much of the CORE arc, when Papyrus is forcibly separated from Frisk by Undyne, Chara plays the Blue to their Red, preventing them from acting recklessly from emotion. |
| 199 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: Like Frisk, they can remember the resets. They can also remember the original timeline before Asriel screwed everything up. |
| 200 | * RiseFromYourGrave: [[spoiler:Does this after Flowey/Asriel brings them back to life, having woken up with their SOUL back in their still-buried body]]. |
| 201 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:In the playable version of null_5, if Frisk is attacked by a killing blow, Chara will take damage instead once per turn (provided that they have enough health to tank the hit). Frisk will do the same for Chara if ''they're'' the one in critical condition]]. [[spoiler:They canonically do this in Rift 2 and 3 for Frisk due to the bosses only targeting Frisk]]. |
| 202 | * ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:They had renamed themself to Chara to escape from their old identity. In the [[FourthWallMailSlot noncanon "specialhappytime" Discord channel session]] that opened after "null_5", when Lilac wonders who "Chara" is, Chara reveals that is their name. Lilac was about to say what she thought was Chara's birth name before stopping herself after realizing that they had changed it, followed by her realizing that Chara changed their pronouns as well]]. |
| 203 | * TheAtoner: The final story arcs Null and Rift are as much about them and Frisk stopping [[spoiler: Asriel's apocalyptic plot to create a new world for Chara]] as it is about Chara atoning for their past sins which led to [[spoiler: Asriel's previous death.]] |
| 204 | * TheLeader: [[spoiler:Once they're permanently separated from Frisk, they always get the first move whenever they're in the party. In "null_2", both Frisk and Chara agree that the latter should take the leading role since the villain they're dealing with is Asriel, Chara's adoptive brother]]. |
| 205 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: As always, chocolate. Frisk wastes no time teasing them over it when they find out about it. |
| 206 | * {{Tsundere}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Frisk, who blatantly calls them this, much to their disdain. |
| 207 | * VoicesAreMental: Played with. When they possess Frisk for the first time in Interlude 1, a note says that [[VoicesAreNotMental they still speak with Frisk's voice]]. In playable segments and videos that make use of VoiceGrunting, their own sound plays whenever they speak through Frisk, likely to make it clearer to the audience who is talking. However, in fully voice-acted videos they speak with Frisk's voice instead. |
| 208 | * WrongGenreSavvy: It's revealed in a secret page that putting buttercups in a pie was actually Asriel's idea, and Chara went along with it [[ExtremeOmniGoat because of the stereotype of goats being able to eat anything]] making them believe it would just be a harmless prank. They were horrified when it turned out not to be the case. |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Papyrus]] |
| 212 | !! Papyrus |
| 213 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/079eb378_5768_48c2_85a8_61b5bd1336c5.png]] |
| 214 | [[caption-width-right:240:Art by Dorked]] |
| 215 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Audiospawn |
| 216 | |
| 217 | A VERY COOL SKELETON! Papyrus is Undyne's lab assistant/protégée, and he accompanies Frisk through the Underground after meeting them in Snowdin. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | '''For his canonical details, see [[Characters/UndertalePapyrus here]].''' |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:One of the videos in the True Lab shows that during the Determination experiments, he spoke to the six human Souls and read stories to them to keep them company. Because of this, they help to protect him from being fully absorbed by Asriel, and eventually manage to free him, at the cost of the six Souls themselves being fully assimilated]]. |
| 222 | * BreakTheCutie: Is hit with this hard at the end of Part 47, where he finally breaks through Undyne's defenses in the CORE, only to arrive too late and witness her melting from Determination. And then Mettatton gets too close and amalgamates with her. By the beginning of Part 48, he is driven to tears and believes that [[ItsAllMyFault it was because of his actions that all of this happened]]. |
| 223 | --> "NO! NO!!!! THIS IS ALL JUST A BAD DREAM. IT ISN'T REAL! IT CAN'T BE..." |
| 224 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Just as in canon, Papyrus often says weird, off-the cuff-things that don't always make sense and are good for a laugh. But he is genuinely smart, as evidenced by his many inventions, and has nothing but good intentions at heart. |
| 225 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Although he's still as loud and boisterous as ever, it's clear that Papyrus is greatly affected by the failure of the experiments. It's been hinted, and eventually confirmed in Part 48, that Papyrus does not dare to sleep because he suffers from nightmares of the Amalgamates. |
| 226 | -->'''Papyrus:''' ''(during Part 48)'' I CAN STILL SEE THEM DRIPPING. I CAN STILL HEAR THEIR CRIES! |
| 227 | * DespairEventHorizon: Upon [[spoiler:escaping from Asriel's screaming sea of souls in Rift 5, Papyrus returns to the world in a state of rumination and doesn't respond to Frisk and Chara until they realize that they need to help Papyrus remember his past experiences.]] |
| 228 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Has more presence in Frisk's adventure than anyone else (even Flowey!), to the point of becoming an actual party member. |
| 229 | * ExtremeDoormat: Frisk calls him this when it comes to his relationship with Undyne, his naivety when it comes to hoping Frisk and Undyne can become friends puts him in danger from her ''many'' times throughout Hotland. |
| 230 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Allows Flowey to claim his SOUL in part 61 so that he'll leave Frisk alone]]. |
| 231 | * HiddenDepths: He elaborates in the [[WhamEpisode Waterfall Arc]] that he keeps talking about his greatness in the hope that he himself believes it, and that he's not a naïve child in a grown-up body. |
| 232 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Frisk and Chara try this on Papyrus during [[spoiler: Rift 5. When it doesn't work, they go back to Spamton who clues them in that Papyrus needs something to help him remember. During the second attempt, Frisk uses various items Papyrus gave them to jog his memory and free him from his lost state.]] |
| 233 | * ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Holds deep guilt over having had a hand in the experiments with Determination which resulted in the Amalgamates and leaking the tapes.]] |
| 234 | -->'''Papyrus:''' ''(during Part 48)'' [[spoiler:EVERYTHING YOU'VE FACED. IT'S A RESULT OF OUR FAILURES. MY FAILURE!]] |
| 235 | ** And in present time, [[spoiler:Papyrus says this word-for-word in Part 48, after Undyne and Mettaton amalgamate, and tearfully wonders if he was responsible for resulting in Frisk having to fight the Determinator, which resulted in the amalgamation of both of them]]. |
| 236 | --->'''Papyrus:''' [[spoiler:I-I'M SORRY. I WAS TOO SLOW. I DIDN'T... TRY HARD ENOUGH. I JUST WANTED TO BELIEVE YOU COULD BECOME FRIENDS, IF YOU GAVE EACH OTHER A CHANCE. WAS I... NAIVE TO THINK SO? THIS IS ALL MY FAULT. JUST LIKE BEFORE, I... I FAILED YOU.]] |
| 237 | * LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: He constantly wears a white lab coat, and goggles on his head. He still wears his battle body underneath, though! |
| 238 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "PAPYRUS, THE VERY COOL SCIENTIST!", "THE GREAT PAPYRUS' INCREDIBLY COOL BATTLE SONG! (ALSO KNOWN AS BONETROUSLE!!!)", "A Marrow Path", "Heart to Heart", "Papprehension", "OBJECTION!!!!", "Presents in the Past", "Beyond Time", [[spoiler:"YOU'LL BE ALL RIGHT"]], [[spoiler:"mus_lost"]], [[spoiler:"mus_reach"]]. |
| 239 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Although not to this degree at the start, as the story goes on, he slowly becomes this to Frisk, by [[TrueCompanions being at their side at all times and providing a listener for Frisk when they need it]]. Frisk outright says during their date that [[spoiler:being around Papyrus is the only times their [[StepfordSmiler "nice kid" act]] feels genuine and not a front]]. |
| 240 | * MadScientist: He's Undyne's lab assistant. Merge that influence with his normal bombastic personality, and, well... you get the guy who built a working teleporter system, and also a laziness-sapping gun. The latter has yet to be properly tested. |
| 241 | * OminousVisualGlitch: In his [[spoiler: lost state, his face is covered with white pixels and the same effect applies to his attacks. The effect wears off once Frisk and Chara get through to him.]] |
| 242 | * PaperThinDisguise: {{Averted}}. Frisk doesn't fall for for his "human disguise" at all. |
| 243 | * PlayerParty: Early into Snowdin, he becomes a permanent companion of Frisk, helping them out in battles. |
| 244 | ** SupportPartyMember: Instead of a "Fight" option, he has "Spell," which applies various beneficial effects to make Frisk's job easier. (Not that a "Fight" option would ever be useful in a PacifistRun, anyway…) He also has his own Act options. |
| 245 | * SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:He learned about Undyne's ability to SAVE in the past. He doesn't tell Frisk that he knows about it until they use it to survive Undyne without mortally wounding her]]. |
| 246 | * ShipperOnDeck: ''Very much'' for Undyne x Alphys, so much that he's got preparations for a romantic date installed in Alphys's own house. |
| 247 | -->'''Papyrus:''' BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING MARRIED BY THE END OF THE YEAR OR SO HELP— |
| 248 | * StunnedSilence: Is left gobsmacked [[spoiler:after hearing Frisk's DarkAndTroubledPast during their "date"]]. |
| 249 | * TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:When Frisk, Papyrus, and Mettaton are cornered by Undyne in Part 49, Papyrus ends up taking a spear attack that was meant for Frisk. It doesn't kill him, and he's fine afterwards, but it does catch Undyne off guard, and it was also caught on a live broadcast to the entire Underground]]. |
| 250 | * TheBusCameBack: After being [[spoiler: absorbed by Flowey, Papyrus manages to escape from the sea of [=SOULs=] Asriel absorbed with the help of the 6 [=SOULs=] at the end of Rift_4.]] |
| 251 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Even worse so than in the original ''Undertale''. Here, he is strung along by Flowey's manipulations and marches on to the Barrier in hopes to break it, but as Sans puts it, not actually knowing how Flowey plans to accomplish that. [[spoiler:At the end of Part 36, it was revealed by a WhamShot that Papyrus was the one who ''created'' Flowey in this universe.]] |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | !Major Characters |
| 255 | [[folder:Asgore]] |
| 256 | !! Asgore Dreemurr |
| 257 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/27a018c4_7e4e_4089_814e_4a7058320b2a.png]] |
| 258 | [[caption-width-right:220:Art by Dorked]] |
| 259 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=TheNiftyTable=] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | The kind caretaker of the Ruins. |
| 262 | ---- |
| 263 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:[[SuicideByCop Wanted to die in battle]] to make up for his mistakes and to not force Frisk to kill Toriel for her soul and cross the barrier. [[SenselessSacrifice Not that it matters, as his SOUL shatters after dying]].]] |
| 264 | * ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:The initial point of divergence from the original timeline seems to be him departing for the Ruins after killing the first child.]] |
| 265 | * GreenThumb: Thanks to him, this version of the Ruins has a ''lot'' more flowers. |
| 266 | * InTheHood: Asgore wears a long purple robe, complete with a hood pulled up and buttoned around his horns. The only thing it really conceals is his hair, though. |
| 267 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Stay Determined!", "Regret", "Gefallener König", "A Desperate Plea + Righting Wrongs", "Atonement". |
| 268 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Exiled himself to the Ruins after killing the first human, no longer unable to commit to his plan.]] |
| 269 | * ParentalSubstitute: Acts as this for both Papyrus and Frisk, [[spoiler:neither of whom have had a paternal figure in their life before]]. Papyrus knows him as Santa Claus, [[spoiler:due to the nature of their first meeting]]. However, [[spoiler:Asgore and Frisk aren't close enough to actually want to form a father-child relationship, and Asgore himself says that Papyrus is more suitable for Frisk]]. |
| 270 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Pretty much all but said this [[spoiler:after killing the first human — unable to live with himself with having killed a human. Toriel was... ''very much displeased'']]. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Napstablook]] |
| 274 | !! Napstablook |
| 275 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/73c4bcd4_dac7_4592_b84d_7243a2843ff5.png]] |
| 276 | [[caption-width-right:240:Art by Dorked]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=UpradeMoon=] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | A musically-inclined ghost, and Mettaton's cousin. |
| 281 | ---- |
| 282 | * AscendedExtra: Downplayed. They appear in significantly more scenes than the original game, even having their own dialogue sprite (and unique "voice" in the playable segements and videos), but their role in the story is still rather passive and minor. |
| 283 | * BigDamnHeroes: Played more straight than in canon, as they straight-up defend Frisk and Papyrus from Muffet, popping in and requesting that she leave them alone. |
| 284 | * CharacterWitness: They act as this for Frisk in Mettaton's newscast, standing up for their new friend in spite of their species. |
| 285 | * InteractiveNarrator: Being a ghost, they can hear Chara. |
| 286 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Residence of Frighty Spooks", "Ain't Afraid", "The Story So Far (Part 3)". |
| 287 | * ShrinkingViolet: Bolder and somewhat more confident than they were in the original timeline, but still... |
| 288 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Just like in the previous timeline, they avoid having their SOUL absorbed by Flowey, as was confirmed by the author]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed that the Riverperson and the Gaster Followers escaped as well]]. |
| 289 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Telling their cousin Mettaton that Frisk is a good person was enough to convince him that he should help the human, not that he didn't want to do so beforehand. |
| 290 | * WarmUpBoss: They replace the Dummy in the Ruins, acting as a way to re-introduce Frisk to the battle system. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Sans]] |
| 294 | !! Sans |
| 295 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d8b71723_5138_4fe3_a24d_1b154efdc65a.png]] |
| 296 | [[caption-width-right:270:art by dorked.]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Mornal |
| 299 | |
| 300 | The Lieutenant of the Royal Guard. Despite his laziness, he runs Snowdin's Canine Unit. |
| 301 | ---- |
| 302 | * AdaptationalBadass: His stats are much higher than his 1 ATK 1 DEF in the original game — now he has 29 ATK and 21 DEF. This is credited to his royal guard training. That being said, Sans deliberately holds back during his boss fight (though not to the degree Papyrus did), so he never uses any of the all-out powerful attacks and dirty tricks he famously used in his boss fight in the original game. |
| 303 | * ArchEnemy: Flowey still hates his guts, even more so this time because Sans actually has the resources to put a wedge into his EvilPlan. [[spoiler:Come Part 51, however, Flowey finally gets the upper hand on him, and Sans is forced to concede.]] |
| 304 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: About as lazy and jovial as he was in the original timeline, but also just as powerful and intelligent — possibly even more so here, as he became lieutenant of the Royal Guard. |
| 305 | * DidntSeeThatComing: Was just as shocked as Frisk and Papyrus when his last puzzle turns out to be deadlier then anticipated, and is forced to use his powers just to stop it. Similarly, he is rendered completely silent when [[spoiler:Flowey outplays him with a combination of [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Armor-Piercing Questions]] and just outright deceiving everyone into believing that he's just an innocent little flower. He even gains WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises when shot at with said ArmorPiercingQuestion]]. |
| 306 | * GoldColoredSuperiority: As a member of the elite of the Royal Guard, Sans's actual uniform is a golden armor; though he prefers to ignore it in favor of the much less threatening battle body Papyrus made for him. |
| 307 | * HiddenDepths: He was the second Royal Scientist before he left and joined the Royal Guard. No one knows why he changed profession. [[spoiler:He reveals the reason in Interlude 3]]. |
| 308 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Although Sans has been very adamant with his suspicions about Flowey, [[spoiler:when the little weed proves at the end of Part 51 that he knows his cards much better than Sans had expected and has already acquired the upper hand, Sans gives up his pursuit, for now at least, and instead focuses on taking care of Toriel, lest he embarrasses himself even more and potentially strains others' trust of him]]. |
| 309 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "sans.", "MEGALOVANIA", "Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans", "It's Raining Somewhere Else". In the comic, there's "heya", "skeletwo", "Lazybones", "A Marrow Path", "Sans Date", "Ultimatum", and "Dreams Long Past". |
| 310 | * PromotionToParent: He ended up becoming Papyrus' guardian when he was still a teenager, after [[spoiler:Gaster was lost when one of his experiments was failing]]. |
| 311 | * PunchClockVillain: He may be an elite member of the group tasked with capturing Frisk for their SOUL, but he's still sympathetic towards them, and even lets them stay the night at his and Papyrus' place before their fight. |
| 312 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: Inverted. Sans wears a plain blue striped winter scarf that barely flaps in the wind. He's still a tough boss fight, though. |
| 313 | * TheSlacker: Sans is every bit as lazy as he is in canon ''Undertale'', even as vice-captain. His sock is still on the floor! |
| 314 | * ThatOneBoss: InUniverse. Frisk loses to him several times, only spared resets because preventing them from dying is the whole reason Sans is fighting them. |
| 315 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Tries to keep Frisk in Snowdin to keep them from getting killed by the monsters outside and just wants them to die of old age, allowing the monsters to escape with less blood on their hands. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Alphys]] |
| 319 | ! Alphys |
| 320 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e356df8f_2454_42d8_bd20_2d98d160f886.png]] |
| 321 | [[caption-width-right:270:Art by Dorked]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=HopefulLeaf=] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | The Captain of the Royal Guard. Is actually a total nerd for human anime underneath her terrifying armor, but is forced to bottle it all up for the sake of monsterkind. |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | * AdaptationalBadass: Where Alphys was more of a support role in canon ''Undertale'', she actually has her own boss fight in Inverted Fate. |
| 328 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama if you attack her in the LastSecondEndingChoice in the playable version her fight. She expresses disbelief that Frisk, a normally pacifist child, attacked her before falling to her death]]. |
| 329 | * GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:Becomes a party member for three of the battles in the True Lab arc as she accompanies Frisk when they go to look for Papyrus and Undyne.]] |
| 330 | * IntriguedByHumanity: As well as being an avid fan of anime, Alphys is deeply fascinated by humanity, from their media to their history. She bottles this up, as she feels the Captain of the Royal Guard must represent the many over the few. |
| 331 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Alphys" (not to be confused with the IF track of the same name). In the comic, [[https://soundcloud.com/megaflamehedge/captainsconflict?in=megaflamehedge/sets/inverted-fate-ost Captain’s Conflict]] is a recurring theme, representing her internal conflict. There's also "G-Get Back!", "Dutybound", "Wavering Spirit", and "Anxious Abode". |
| 332 | * ReluctantWarrior: Feels dutybound to go after Frisk, but she's not exactly eager to do so. |
| 333 | -->'''Gerson:''' And the reason she's a distance fighter? Well...It's harder to doubt if you don't have to look your enemies in the eye. |
| 334 | * ShipperOnDeck: Being every bit as nerdy as she was in the original timeline, Alphys has a shipping chart with a web of hundreds of monster names connected based on compatibility, with herself and Undyne at the top, and [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Jerry]] at the bottom surrounded by angry faces and squiggly lines. |
| 335 | * ShockAndAwe: Her boss fight consists of using electricity and lighting bolts to fight. |
| 336 | * ShrinkingViolet: She can fight humans just fine... unless they get close to her. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Mettaton]] |
| 340 | ! Mettaton/[[spoiler:Mettacrit]] |
| 341 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/16b62470_87ec_4378_887f_cdb891d814e0.png]] |
| 342 | [[caption-width-right:310:Art by Juddy/Orcrilio]] |
| 343 | [[caption-width-right:270:[[labelnote:Click here to see Mettaton SPIRAL]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ad7734e8_55f3_4c21_bd6a_fdb443596703.png]][[/labelnote]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=PrezProductions=] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | The Underground's robotic superstar and anti-human weapon. [[AdaptationalNiceGuy Nicer than he initially appears]]. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Quite a lot. First, the fact that monsters are more distrustful towards humans means that he can't be as open about liking humanity as much as his original self, and because his robot body has actual weapons built into it, he hasn't fused with it. Things get even worse at the end of the CORE arc when [[spoiler:his attempts to help a melting Undyne results in him merging with her, and then remembering it after Frisk undoes it with a reload]]. ''Then'' during the True Lab, [[spoiler:he gets possessed by the memoryheads, who show him memories of the previous timeline where he abandoned Napstablook to become famous, as well as the aforementioned amalgamate incident]]. |
| 350 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Thrice over. His first appearance in the comic is Napstablook talking about him in the middle of Ruins while one of his shows is on TV, then he appears on TV again during a news report in the middle of the Snowdin arc, and then Frisk meets him in person in Waterfall. |
| 351 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Because he knows that Frisk treated Napstablook well, Mettaton decides to help them from behind the scenes instead of attacking them for any reason. Further cemented when Mettaton makes a deal with Frisk: if they help bring Alphys to her senses and "stop tearing herself apart", Mettaton would bend the rules in their favour in Hotlands, secretly assisting them against Undyne. It's greatly implied that this niceness stems from the fact that unlike in ''Undertale'', he has no creative control and is forced to pander to the Underground's hate, making him feel trapped due to his secret love of human culture. |
| 352 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Undertale'', he left Napstablook behind to become a TV star, and while he feels remorse, he doesn't directly apologize to them for it, or even reveal that he is their long-lost cousin. Here, Undyne refused to let him do that, so he still visits Napstablook and lets them appear on some of his shows, and [[spoiler:helps Frisk because they were nice to them]]. |
| 353 | ** He also didn't replace the statue in his hotel with one of himself, instead leaving it as Asriel and Chara — or rather, just Asriel with Chara's statue having been taken away after the tapes were revealed. It's later revealed that after Chara's statue was removed and damaged by monsters angry at what the tapes showed, he recovered it and took it back to his house and repaired most of the damage. |
| 354 | ** Deconstructed later on when [[spoiler:an encounter with the memoryheads leads to him being shown visions of what he was like in the original timeline, making him easy for them to possess as well as leaving him in denial about if he would really do what his previous self did]]. |
| 355 | * ArmCannon: His left arm turns into one of these, complete with energy blasts. |
| 356 | * BadassCape: Has a ripped red cape that transforms into a pair of wings when he flies. |
| 357 | * CapeWings: Both of his forms have a cape that can also become wings. |
| 358 | * CoolSword: In his SPIRAL form, he wields a [[SinisterScimitar curved]], [[OddlyShapedSword flame-shaped]] sword that [[PowerGlows glows red]], capable of slicing through the battle box. |
| 359 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: He is canonically nearsighted, with his ghost form having glasses while his box and SPIRAL form's CoolShades double as glasses. WordOfGod confirms this also applies to his [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} original timeline]] self, with his EX form instead having built-in corrective lenses. While this does not contradict canon, it was notably not enstablished in the original game. |
| 360 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[spoiler:His SPIRAL form originally had rings around the upper legs, but his overworld sprites and cutscene appearances from Part 49 onwards lack them, as do his battle sprites in the True Lab and an updated version of the playable SPIRAL battle]]. |
| 361 | * ExpressiveAccessory: His shades change shape depending on the emotions he's conveying. [[spoiler:Averted with his SPIRAL form, where his eyes are visible behind his shades and he emotes with those instead]]. |
| 362 | * FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler:Undyne forces him (through unknown means) to turn against Frisk and treat them as an enemy on live TV, much to his anguish and Frisk’s outrage. This turns out to be a deliberate XanatosGambit on his part. See that entry for more details.]] |
| 363 | * HypocriticalHumour: |
| 364 | --> UNDYNE, YOUR HUMILITY IS TRULY SOMETHING TO BEHOLD. |
| 365 | * IncomingHam: Nearly all of his big entrances have been heralded by cheesy one-liners and [[https://soundcloud.com/pinewithsun/inverted-fate-dazzled-fans-and-shining-shades-the-star-is-here-v2?in=megaflamehedge/sets/inverted-fate-ost epic music]]. Once there was even confetti! |
| 366 | * JerkassRealization: While he's not quite as selfish as his original counterpart, he still mistreated Burgerpants and humiliated Undyne on TV on several occasions while trying to prove that she was going too far. When Mad Mew Mew directly confronts Mettaton about Undyne and Burgerpants finally speaks up about his mistreatment, Mettaton realizes that he had taken quite a few things too far [[https://scinanigans.tumblr.com/post/687995259875131392 and even resolves to give Burgerpants a chance when they get to the surface]] (too bad [[spoiler:Flowey had other plans]]). |
| 367 | * LargeHam: While a bit more humble than in canon, Mettaton is no less bombastic and flamboyant, much to Undyne’s annoyance. |
| 368 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "It's Showtime!", "Metal Crusher", "Death Report", "Oh! One True Love". In the comic, there's "The Story So Far" (Parts 1, 2, and 3), "Dazzled Fans And Shining Shades, The Star Is Here!", "Danger! The Killer Robot Descends!", "Moonlight Mettaton Appears!" the "Battle of the Ages" variants, "Another Gratuitous Courtroom Drama", "Paradise! The MTT Resort and Spa!", "Confrontation! The Killer Robot's Last Stand!", "Stars Collide! Rise, Mettaton SPIRAL!", "Cognitive Dissonance", "Backstage Blues", "MTT-Brand Performance!", [[spoiler:"DOWNWARD SPIRAL"]], "Season Finale". |
| 369 | * MadBomber: Launches bombs at Frisk during the chase scene after the Tournament. Said bombs come in square and circular variations, and all of them have [[TriangularShades Triangular Shades]]. Later uses them in his boss fight at the CORE. |
| 370 | * NighInvulnerability: Chara describes Mettaton’s basic form as invulnerable to attacks, just like in canon. WordOfGod states that all of Mettaton's forms have high defense, as Undyne is no slouch at designing anti-human weapons. He's also still incorporeal in this timeline, so he can't be killed anyway. |
| 371 | * OneWheeledWonder: Like in canon, Mettaton balances his body on a single wheel. Unlike in canon, the wheel has spikes. |
| 372 | * RecurringBoss: He is first encountered and fought in Waterfall, although he stops the fight as soon as Bratty and Catty leave, as the reason he showed up in the first place was to get them to leave Frisk alone. During his second show in Hotland, he is fought again alongside Undyne as the last battle opponents, and there's also his battle near the end of the CORE. [[spoiler:Then in the True Lab, he gets possessed by the memoryheads and attacks the party under their control.]] |
| 373 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: He can remember what happened before Frisk reloaded after the initial Determinator fight, as a side effect of being amalgamated with Undyne. Part 52 shows he's greatly traumatized by it, but is putting on a brave face for everyone else's sake. WordOfGod has also said that he'll be able to remember reloads from now on. |
| 374 | * TheRockStar: Even more so than in canon; while a bit less self-absorbed, Mettaton’s noisy flamboyance and shonen-inspired design give him a more rock star-esque feel, cemented by his [[https://soundcloud.com/eddieburke2/inverted-fate-danger-the-killer-robot-descends?in=megaflamehedge/sets/inverted-fate-ost battle]] [[https://soundcloud.com/megaflamehedge/death-by-gratuitous-anime?in=megaflamehedge/sets/inverted-fate-ost music]]. |
| 375 | * RuleOfCool: The likely reason for many of Mettaton’s shonen-inspired design choices, from his spiked shoulder pads to his [[TriangularShades Triangular Shades]], not to mention all his over-the-top anime-esque attacks. Just ask his creator, Undyne. |
| 376 | * ShockAndAwe: Mettaton can shoot bolts of electricity down the bullet box as a basic anti-human attack. |
| 377 | * StepfordSmiler: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]: While Mettaton puts on his usual charismatic persona in public, pandering to his fans and their hatred of humanity for the sake of keeping his dream alive, he hates sacrificing his creative integrity and has grown rather bitter. Napstablook is worried that Mettaton may not be as happy as he seems. |
| 378 | -->'''Napstablook:''' and besides, he should be happy too, not... trapped. |
| 379 | * TinCanRobot: A big tin-can robot with [[TriangularShades Triangular Shades]], spiked shoulder pads, an arm canon and a cape. Of course, his body was built by Undyne. |
| 380 | * ThisIsADrill: One of his attacks involves shooting drills across the bullet box, leaving trails in a grid-like pattern. |
| 381 | * TriangleShades: Sports a pair which reference [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]]'s famous shades. |
| 382 | * XanatosGambit: His SPIRAL fight is actually this, according to WordOfGod. If the fight gets enough views, he can finally let all monsters see Frisk's kindness, and express his true views on humanity to everyone. On the other hand, he expects Undyne to snap and act rashly (say, the Determinator), which would out ''her'' as being too extreme in her actions. Either way, this would end in his favor. He does admit that he didn't put Undyne calling his bluff in the Determinator rematch into his plans, and rushes off to get Papyrus rather than fight Frisk when they warn him of the Determinator. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Undyne]] |
| 386 | !! Undyne |
| 387 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e1d76fce_0730_46df_94b5_f5e446231a03.png]] |
| 388 | [[caption-width-right:230:Art by Juddy/Orcrilio]] |
| 389 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see The Determinator]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3e202f85_486b_4ea2_ae1f_d9e592dc1889.jpeg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Cellochicita |
| 392 | |
| 393 | The Royal Scientist. Undyne is fierce and determined, and willing to do whatever it takes to do what she believes is right so that everyone can see the sun. Even if it means harming a child. |
| 394 | ---- |
| 395 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In canon, while she was still fiercely determined to take Frisk’s soul, Undyne seemed genuinely hopeful that she would free monsterkind. Here, the pressures of her self-imposed position as monsterkind’s heroine and saviour have gotten to her head, to the point of being a full-blown StepfordSmiler. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Undyne is far more burdened and desperate than she ever was in the original timeline. Her failures with the DT experiments certainly aren’t helping. [[spoiler:Her body has also been permanently damaged from having used too much DT on herself.]] |
| 396 | * AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:She has enough determination that she once had the ability to SAVE until Frisk unwittingly took it from her by being more determined than her. Even after losing that ability, [[RippleProofMemory she is still able to remember Frisk's resets]]]]. |
| 397 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Undyne in the original timeline[[note]]''Undertale''[[/note]] was merely doing her job and could be easily befriended after a stay in her house, and is even a HeroAntagonist during the Genocide route. Undyne in this AU is more hostile and will do anything to get Frisk's SOUL, is responsible for the increased misanthropy from the Underground and is willing to harm other monsters. {{Downplayed|Trope}} since she isn't exactly evil, just extremely antagonistic and don't have any option left, making her more desperate. |
| 398 | * AntiVillain: Undyne may be an antagonist, but she is by no means evil. Just... extreme. |
| 399 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: She straight up thinks that Frisk brainwashed Papyrus into helping them, ignoring anything that could disprove it otherwise. She's so adamant that Papyrus is "innocent", she turns on her own witness Dohj when her iron-clad testimony convicting Frisk also indites Papyrus for treason. |
| 400 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: She wears Tuxedo Mask cosplay during Mettaton's second show, and the suit she wears during Frisk's trial resemble's Miles Edgeworth. |
| 401 | * BigShutUp: Played straight when Mettaton pushes her too hard by insensitively responding to Napstablook’s question as to whether or not she really is happy. |
| 402 | * ClimaxBoss: WordOfGod has [[https://invertedfate.tumblr.com/post/184828654412/i-noticed-that-there-is-no-song-after-fallen stated]] that [[spoiler:The Determinator]] will be the closest thing IF has to a "Neutral Route Final Boss" (as there's no Photoshop Flowey equivalent). Reinforced by the fact that it's fully animated video. |
| 403 | * {{Cyborg}}: A disturbing variant. [[spoiler:It's been hinted throughout, and eventually revealed after her HumongousMecha explodes in the climax of Part 47, that the disaster that was the Determination experiments forced her to replace both of her arms and half of her face with messy cybernetic implements to even keep herself from falling apart. She clearly believes that [[AndIMustScream this state can hardly be considered as living]].]] |
| 404 | -->'''Undyne:''' ''(during Part 49)'' [[spoiler:I'm as good as dead already. Metal and wires can only do so much...]] |
| 405 | * {{Determinator}}: Undyne is willing to do anything to break the barrier... [[spoiler:including [[WouldHurtAChild taking Frisk out to steal their soul]]. So much that she even managed to create her own SAVE points across Hotland and the Core, and is even the name of her HumongousMecha]]. |
| 406 | -->[[spoiler:NOTHING is going to change my mind! NOTHING! I have to do this! I WILL do this, no matter the consequences! I've already come this far. It can't get worse than it already has! IT CAN'T! So I'll fix it! I'll fix EVERYTHING! '''[[ArcWords EVERYTHING IS FINE!!!!!!]]''']] |
| 407 | * DetrimentalDetermination: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Undyne is so dead set on being an enemy of humanity that even when she learns that she was effectively killed by Frisk before they reset to try to save her, she's so stubborn that she doesn't care if Frisk kills her ''again''. It takes the pleas of almost ''the entire Underground'' to get Undyne to ditch the fight]]. |
| 408 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Undyne injecting Determination regurlarly as a way to relieve her emotions is very similar to drug addiction: she knows this is dangerous for herself due to what happened with the Amalgamates, and she replaces parts of her own body with mechanical pieces to keep herself together but still continues to take it out of habit.]] |
| 409 | * DragonInChief: With Toriel being as withdrawn as she is, Undyne has effectively become the Underground's leader. It is worth noting that she doesn't like fully asserting herself in this role, as she wishes that Toriel would stop being so reclusive. |
| 410 | * EyeBeams: Her robot eye shoots laser beams, which she uses to attack Frisk in their fight. |
| 411 | --> * Of COURSE her eye shoots lasers. Of course. |
| 412 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:Frisk has to fatally injure Undyne so that they can reload their SAVE point and warn Mettaton about Undyne's plan in order to avoid killing her the second time around]]. |
| 413 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Happens to her in the initial Determinator fight, when Frisk fatally attacks her out of desperation, but instead of dying right away, she melts from too much DT, and becomes amalgamated with Mettaton when he tries to help her]]. |
| 414 | * FinalBattle: She, while inside [[spoiler:[[HumongousMecha the Determinator]]]], is the closest thing that will be to a Neutral Route boss fight. |
| 415 | * {{Foil}}: To Chara. Both are intelligent and care deeply for the people close to them, but are also angry, impulsive, misanthropic and blind to the ways their actions hurt the people they love. They also act as big sibling figures to their best friend. However, as a result of both being collateral to their role model's plans, they become disillusioned with them, though they never stop caring about them. |
| 416 | ** Also serves as one towards Frisk. While both care about Papyrus and the others, Undyne refuses to take anyone else's feelings into account — thus, their relationships wind up as collateral damage. By contrast, Frisk actively tries to live up to Papyrus' expectations and become better than they thought they were for the sake of their friendship. |
| 417 | * TheHeavy: Besides Flowey, Undyne is perhaps the greatest threat to Frisk, and unlike Flowey so far, Undyne is openly antagonistic towards them. Frisk is warned about her multiple times before they actually meet her, and much of the obstacles in their path were of Undyne's devising. Furthermore, Undyne takes a crack at them as early as Snowdin through one of Sans's puzzles. |
| 418 | * HighCollarOfDoom: Her lab coat features a very high collar, which emphasizes her antagonistic role. |
| 419 | * HumansAreBastards: Fully believes that humanity is evil, given the war and imprisonment, the Waterfall incident, and Chara, as she explains to Frisk upon first meeting her in person. |
| 420 | * HumongousMecha: [[spoiler:The Determinator: a giant robot designed in her likeness, fueled by Determination. Undyne uses it to try to take Frisk’s soul at the end of the CORE.]] |
| 421 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Seems to see her plan to kill Frisk (despite Papyrus's protectiveness and emotional attachment to them) as such, as in her eyes, the life of one human is nothing compared to the freedom of thousands. |
| 422 | * IveComeTooFar: Says this word for word in the climax of Part 49, [[spoiler:as she feels that she has burned way too many bridges to stop hunting after Frisk's SOUL]]. |
| 423 | * KnightOfCerebus: When she's onscreen, the tone tends to get considerably darker. It tends to be balanced out when she's not the only character besides Frisk and Papyrus present, however. |
| 424 | * LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: She now wears a white lab coat over her regular attire. One with a red, spiked collar. |
| 425 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Impending Dread", "Undyne's Denial", "NGAHHH!", "Scientific Justice", "Undyne's Lab", "Run For Your Life!", "Days Long Past", "OBJECTION!!! (Undyne Variation)", "Say Your Prayers, Punk!", "Defiant To Your End", "Just Forget Me". |
| 426 | * MadScientist: As the Royal Scientist, Undyne has created insanely powerful technological works, some of which are outright dangerous, that are meant to be used against humans. |
| 427 | * RecurringBoss: She starts a fight as soon as Frisk and Papyrus encounter her in the lab, and fights them again with Mettaton during his second show, before finally [[spoiler:using the Determinator in an attempt to claim Frisk's SOUL for good]]. |
| 428 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:She's completely aware of Frisk's reloads because she has enough Determination to have once had that ability herself, and almost completely regains it during her boss fight in the CORE]]. |
| 429 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Runs away, presumably to the True Lab, in the end of Part 49, after being talked down by the other monsters.]] |
| 430 | * SanitySlippage: It is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that her desperation to keep her promise and free her people has taken its toll on her sanity. Best exemplified in [[https://m.imgur.com/a/PC42j Interlude 2]]. |
| 431 | -->[[spoiler:[[ArcWords EVERYTHING IS FINE!!!!!!]]]] |
| 432 | * StepfordSmiler: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by Napstablook with an ArmorPiercingQuestion. |
| 433 | -->i know undyne's trying hard, too, but... are you really happy? |
| 434 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler:Is willing to be the "villain" everyone hates so long as everyone can be free, stating better her than Toriel or anyone else. Best shown during the Pacifist rematch.]] |
| 435 | -->'''Undyne:''' [[spoiler:HE CAN HATE ME ALL HE WANTS! THE WHOLE UNDERGROUND CAN HATE ME! AS LONG AS THEY SEE THE SUN AGAIN, IT'LL BE WORTH IT!]] |
| 436 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When she's saved from her mech's explosion, she rejects Frisk's kindness and snaps, trying to kill them permanently, forcing the latter to fatally wound her. After resetting, Undyne then attacks Frisk with a now overclocked Determinator, and it only gets worse when Papyrus and Mettaton swoop in to save them from her. After being saved from her mech ''again'', she once again rejects Frisk's kindness and nearly kills Papyrus and Frisk before being talked down by the entire Underground, forcing her to retreat to the True Lab.]] |
| 437 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: All Undyne wants is to break the barrier and free monsterkind. Unfortunately for our protagonists, she's ready to do some questionable things to achieve this. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Mad Dummy/Mew Mew]] |
| 441 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e6608e59_b12d_4026_96dd_cca961e45304.png]] |
| 442 | [[caption-width-right:240:Art by Dorked]] |
| 443 | [[caption-width-right:240:[[labelnote:Click here to see Mad Dummy’s ghost form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c048543f_fa81_4274_b5c0_c3b8e317b996.jpeg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 444 | [[caption-width-right:240:[[labelnote:Click here to see Mad Mew Mew]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9093f011_e1d5_4f68_b334_447169e876e2.jpeg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | A temperamental yet insecure ghost who happens to be Undyne's training unit. Known as the Mad Ghoul in their ghost form. Becomes the robotic [[CatGirl catgirl]] Mad Mew Mew after getting her new body from Undyne at the end of the CORE. |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | * AscendedExtra: Mad Dummy was only a minor side-character who appeared as a miniboss in the source material, and her Mad Mew Mew form was first added later as a OptionalBoss encounter in the form of VersionExclusiveContent, thus limiting the role she could play in that form, but ''IF'' vastly expands on her role in the plot, to the point where she is effectively a member of the main cast. [[AdaptationalLateAppearance Though they don't actually appear until Hotland]], they still have an active role in the CORE, and an even more important role as Mad Mew Mew where she is able to temporarily separate Chara from Frisk, [[spoiler:in addition to visiting the True Lab to help Undyne after she locked herself in there]]. She even becomes a member of the main cast, alongside Mettaton and the original six "Lost Souls". As a result, [[spoiler:she also appears among the main monsters who see Frisk at the barrier (and inevitably get captured by Flowey on screen)]]. |
| 449 | * ButtMonkey: Is subjected to many humiliations and interruptions on their crusade for revenge, usually whenever they’re confronting Frisk. These include being shooed off by RG 03 & RG 04, bowled over by Jerry's snowball, haggled by Muffet while Frisk and Pap sneak away, getting a hot lava shower in the CORE, and being blown away by the Annoying Dog’s anime laser. |
| 450 | * CatGirl: As of Chapter 45, Mad Mew Mew becomes one after receiving her dream body from Undyne. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], as unlike both the titular protagonist of the [[ShowWithinAShow "Mew Mew Kissy Cutie" anime]] and her "Undertale" counterpart, she has a more catlike face compared to the former two's [[LittleBitBeastly Little Bit Beastly]] designs. [[WordOfGod Word of God]] confirms this was a design choice by Undyne to make her appear less human-like. |
| 451 | * {{Determinator}}: They were relentless in their pursuit of vengeance, not letting ''anything'' stop them. Even Undyne didn't expect them to go so far as to make a total of eight attempts on Frisk’s life in the CORE alone. |
| 452 | * DisproportionateRetribution: The reason they're persistently chasing Frisk around and trying to kill them? Because they and their [[InteractiveNarrator friend]] both made a cheeky comment about Mad Dummy "pogoing around like a fool." |
| 453 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being a little... feisty, they genuinely care about Undyne and enjoys her companionship. During her fight against Frisk at the end of the CORE, she vows to take Frisk's SOUL in Undyne's place, to alleviate some of the burden she's shouldering. She also becomes very worried after Undyne runs off to elsewhere at the end of Part 49, with Part 52 revealing that she's been calling Undyne's cell phone ''20 times'', trying to enter her lab, and even went to her old home, all in hopes of finding her. |
| 454 | * HairTriggerTemper: See DisproportionateRetribution above. |
| 455 | * LargeHam: Their noise level rivals even that of Undyne. |
| 456 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Enough, enough, ENOUGH!!!", "Battle Of The Ages! The Dummy Strikes Back!", "Run, run, RUN!!! An Angry Automaton's Pursuit!", "The Genesis Of Determination: Seasonal Showdown (VS. Season Dudes)", "Yes. Yes! YES!!! THE MAD MANNEQUIN GETS THEIR REVENGE!!!!", "Debut of Mew", "Soul-Splitting Fury! Mad Mew Mew's Grand Debut!", "Mad Spittin'". |
| 457 | * NighInvulnerability: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that her dummy form is able to be damaged by the blaster, but as Mad Mew Mew she can shrug off Frisk's attacks without taking any damage. WordOfGod states that like Mettaton's forms, Undyne had designed the Mew Mew body with high defense. Either way, she's incorporeal, meaning only magic attacks can truly hurt her. |
| 458 | * OneWingedAngel: Undyne delivers her the Mad Mew Mew body when her dummy begins to break down. |
| 459 | * PsychologicalProjection: Insults [=RG04=] for wearing pink and being a cat while simultaneously harboring a love for both things that she's trying to keep hidden at this point. |
| 460 | * RecurringBoss: Becomes this throughout the CORE by possessing the season-themed robots before their boss fight as both Mad Dummy and Mad Mew Mew. |
| 461 | * SuddenlySHOUTING: Just in the original timeline, their speech pattern tends to start at a normal volume, before getting louder, and finally ALL IN CAPS. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Toriel]] |
| 465 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bb8e3264_d11f_4fe3_9cb4_560d2136a077.png]] |
| 466 | [[caption-width-right:250:Art by Dorked]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [=KitKat=] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | The queen of the underground. After the king left, Toriel has been forced to carry the hopes and dreams of monsterkind, [[TraumaCongaLine and now it's taken its toll]]. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Toriel is now depressed, reclusive, and is described on the character page as “[[DeathSeeker just wanting it all to end.]]” Sans says that he'd kill to see her smile again. |
| 473 | * AdaptationalUgliness: {{Downplayed}}. Toriel's fangs in her potrait and battle sprites are more pronounced and her eyes are more swollen, reflecting her dread and exaustion from meeting the population's expectations. |
| 474 | * BrokenBird: Very much seems like one, as every illustration of her shows her as disheveled and depressed, clearly hurt by what she has to do, but knows that there is no other choice. |
| 475 | * DespairEventHorizon: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by one of the Waterfall murals. |
| 476 | --> The queen may have given up hope, but we won’t! |
| 477 | * DeathFromAbove: One of her attacks is to summon massive meteors that turn into little fireballs upon crashing. |
| 478 | * DeathSeeker: The pain of losing Chara and Asriel has only worsened [[spoiler:due to learning what her children were planning thanks to Undyne showing everyone the True Lab tapes]], being forced to run the kingdom due to Asgore fleeing to the Ruins and being forced to kill five children for their [=SOULs=] for the good of monsterkind has made her more than a little tired. |
| 479 | -->'''Toriel:''' ''[Just before her LastDitchMove]'' If this is how it must be... Finish me! End this unyielding nightmare! [[IAmAMonster I deserve nothing less!]] |
| 480 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Fatal Fall", "A Hollow Sigh", "Heartbroken", "Fallen Crown", "Conflagration", "Break the Cycle". |
| 481 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: Is even less active than Asgore in canon, having secluded herself so far that only Sans, Papyrus and Alphys keep in contact with her. |
| 482 | * TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Having raised the child of Kindness/the Mage like her own child, she refuses to put their SOUL in a jar like the others when they died nor absorb it and cross the Barrier, which was their LastRequest for Toriel in their journal. Instead, she stores it in a small locket she wears at all times.]] |
| 483 | ** To a lesser extent, [[spoiler:the Mage's apron and pan are hung up in Toriel's house.]] |
| 484 | * TraumaCongaLine: While not everything is known yet, it's very apparent that Tori definitely got through one as evidenced by [[http://invertedfate.tumblr.com/post/166194879432/consider-this-a-belated-2000-follower-celebration this ask.]] |
| 485 | -->but tori's been through hell, and now it's taken its toll. |
| 486 | ** The secret pages and [[spoiler:The Mage's journal]] detail exactly what she went through after Asgore left the throne. [[spoiler:Despite having a glimmer of hope when she took in the child of Kindness, who would grow up to become the Mage, [[HopeSpot that did not last]]. The child of Bravery tried to kill her and had to be stopped; the child of Integrity went on a massacre, and she, the Mage, and Gerson had to work together to put an end to the killing spree; the child of Perseverance committed suicide out of guilt upon learning about the Waterfall Incident, and finally, the child of Justice, although conflicted, tried to fight her as well in an attempt to escape, and said battle ended with the child committing suicide too after being pushed over the edge.]] As if all of ''that'' was not enough tragedy poor Toriel had to endure, [[spoiler:Undyne inadvertly gave her ''another'' HopeSpot by making her promise of finding a way to shatter the Barrier without using the human souls, and we all know how ''that'' went. The final nail in the coffin was Undyne leaking the tapes and revealing Chara's plan, which pushed her past the DespairEventHorizon]]. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | !Other Characters |
| 490 | [[folder:Jerry]] |
| 491 | [[quoteright:360:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ed9996d6_9965_4e9c_b03e_b715acdf081d.jpeg]] |
| 492 | [[caption-width-right:360:Everyone knows Jerry. ...They wish they didn’t.]] |
| 493 | [[caption-width-right:360:[[labelnote:Click here to see Jerry’s second form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/430baed8_0dfd_4275_87ed_bb04aa730978.jpeg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * AdaptationalBadass: Has its own miniboss encounter, along with actual attacks. [[spoiler:It returns as an unexpected guest in Mettaton’s tournament.]] |
| 496 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Just like in the original game. When it ends up on Mettaton's second show in Hotland, Papyrus worries about how this will affect the show's ratings. |
| 497 | * JabbaTableManners: It smacks its lips slowly as he eats out of his packet of chez puffs, dropping crumbs all over the bullet box. |
| 498 | * ShapedLikeItself: |
| 499 | -->* Smells like Jerry. |
| 500 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Chara's reaction upon encountering them. |
| 501 | -->* This is going to be painful. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Bassiere Von Dohj III]] |
| 505 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/36feb6d8_2ad0_48ed_8f01_148fcae9a7e2.jpeg]] |
| 506 | |
| 507 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Dorked |
| 508 | |
| 509 | A hot-tempered, no-nonsense high-ranking Royal Guard in charge of Fort Aquarius. |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | * BurningWithAnger: Her breakdown during the trial has her literally ignite in rage in response to everyone's InsaneTrollLogic undermining her sound testimony, burning her hairdo off. |
| 512 | * ButtMonkey: Poor Dohj. Not only being given any respect by anyone despite her rank and having your most embarrassing moment uploaded onto the Undernet for all monster-kind to see is one thing, but getting your sound testimony being torn apart on all sides by InsaneTrollLogic and BlatantLies involving the RuleOfCool just for "drama" has her ''snap'', be set on fire by pure rage, and burn her hairdo right off. |
| 513 | * DrillSergeantNasty: Comes off as this to her subordinates due to her authoritative and barky demeanor. |
| 514 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: She makes it clear that Undyne and Alphys have feelings for each other. |
| 515 | -->'''Dohj:''' By Toriel's fluffy ears, you two need to get it over with already. |
| 516 | * EveryoneHasStandards: She may not like Papyrus, but when he takes a hit for Frisk from Undyne in part 49, she joins the Underground's calls so she can tell Undyne not to hurt him any further, lest she court-martials them. |
| 517 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: During the trial in part 36, she gets so angry that she ends up burning off her hair during her rant. |
| 518 | * EyepatchOfPower: She wears an eyepatch over her right eye, although it's just for show as part of Alphys making members of the Royal Guard wear anime-like outfits. When she changes into more appropriate armor for Frisk's trial, she doesn't wear one, showing both her eyes. |
| 519 | * JerkassHasAPoint: She might not have been pleasant at the trial, but Papyrus did assist the human in breaking into Fort Aquarius and has been unceasingly accompanying them throughout their journey, all while resisting arrest from every figure of authority they have encountered, including Captain Alphys. As such, Papyrus is undoubtedly committing treason. |
| 520 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Bassiere von Dohj III", "Warhound's Wrath", "Howling With Rage". |
| 521 | * MythologyGag: She is based on the DummiedOut character "Doge" from the original ''Undertale''. |
| 522 | * NoIndoorVoice: Although she prides herself to be a more disciplined soldier than the Snowdin Canine Unit, when she's angry, she ''really'' makes it show. The prime example is when she discovers Frisk in Part 19. And then there's her spectacular [[RageBreakingPoint breakdown]] at the end of her segment during the trial in Part 36. |
| 523 | * NotSoAboveItAll: As much as she disdains the Snowdin Canine Unit for the way their stereotypical doggy tendencies interfere with their Royal Guards duties, Dohj herself tries to suppress her own secret cravings for affection, notably in her battle when, after enough goading from Frisk and Papyrus, she eventually succumbs. Sans not-so-secretly takes an embarrassing photo of Dohj yelling “PLAY! PET! TAKE ME ON WALKSIES!!!!” and uploads it onto the Undernet, complete with sparkles and captions. |
| 524 | * OnlySaneMan: Becomes this during the second cross-examination of her testimony in the trial, as Papyrus is forced to use InsaneTrollLogic and BlatantLies involving the RuleOfCool to undermine her testimony. |
| 525 | * StealthPun: She's a female dog who is very angry around most of the people she works with, and Chara says there's a five letter word that is too appropriate for her.[[labelnote:*]]bitch[[/labelnote]] |
| 526 | * YaoiFangirl: Implied. She seems very interested in a series of romantic novels called “Heat Haze”. When Frisk starts reading Volume 3 out loud during her battle, Dohj gets ''very'' flustered. |
| 527 | -->'''Chara:''' You begin reciting Heat Haze Volume 3 out loud. Have you no shame?\ |
| 528 | '''Dohj:''' YIPE! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? T-that's not appropriate for children! Give it back! ...And no spoilers after page 63, please?\ |
| 529 | '''Papyrus:''' THIS BOOK IS... VERY CONFUSING. I'M INTRIGUED, BUT ALSO ALARMED? |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder:Burgerpants]] |
| 533 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a302ea70_f99f_4315_9a96_f04299ab5009.jpeg]] |
| 534 | [[caption-width-right:300:(I hate my life.)]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | The same cynical employee working at MTT Brand Burger Emporium. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * BadJobWorseUniform: There’s a new one every week. |
| 539 | --> Working with MTT is torture! Every day, it's a new MANDATORY hair color. I had to pierce my ears, pick up these TACKY clothes, and get this! The "theme" changes every week, so just when I get comfortable, surprise! Costume change! All this while he keeps blasting songs about how much I suck at my job. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Freaking. Day.]] |
| 540 | * BurgerFool: Needs no explanation. |
| 541 | * JerkassRealization: Realizes from talking to Frisk that Mettaton's poor treatment of him isn't a one-sided issue. |
| 542 | -->'''Frisk:''' Okay, but you stole from him. You keep badmouthing your own boss. Maaaaaybe this isn’t a one-sided issue, bub.\ |
| 543 | '''Burgerpants:''' ...Oh. |
| 544 | * OddFriendship: With ''Undyne'', of all people, as she understands his frustration at Mettaton, and provides a listening ear to his rants. |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:The Mage]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | One of the fallen humans to precede Frisk--the one who possessed a green SOUL. While they lived a long life under Toriel's care, it was by no means completely happy. |
| 550 | ---- |
| 551 | * AdaptationExpansion: Applies to all the fallen humans, but the Mage is the biggest example due to having a significant influence on the history of the Underground and of Toriel specifically, to the point of receiving a brief [[ADayInTheLimelight Day In The Limelight]] in chapter 50. |
| 552 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: They're revealed to be Inverted Fate's equivalent of the green SOUL human late in the story. |
| 553 | * HealingHands: A description of the Waterfall Incident implies the Mage's specialty in magic was healing, fitting the general effects of green magic in ''Undertale''. |
| 554 | * InTheHood: Took to wearing a hood 24/7 in the tail end of their life due to increasing hostility towards humans. |
| 555 | * OddFriendship: [[spoiler:Became acquainted with Gaster in the course of trying to study their time-travel abilities.]] |
| 556 | * PosthumousCharacter: Died several years before Frisk's fall. |
| 557 | * ResetButton: [[spoiler:Possessed the power to SAVE, which they were forced to use against the more violent fallen humans.]] |
| 558 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: [[spoiler:Plays straight enby to Gaster's eccentricities, as shown by their reaction to Gaster making [[ItMakesSenseInContext a sentient email client]].]] |
| 559 | * TokenHeroicOrc: From the perspective of the monsters--despite everything, the Mage was generally regarded as a hero to the kingdom, with the cognitive dissonance of this being largely ignored. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:Lilac]] |
| 563 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inverted_fate_lilac_battle.png]] |
| 564 | |
| 565 | A human friend of Frisk's from before they went to Mt. Ebott. Apparently, the last time they met each other didn't go well. |
| 566 | ---- |
| 567 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her and Frisk's relationship is fleshed out more in some of the secret pages. |
| 568 | * BaitAndSwitch: The flashbacks have shown Lilac to be a kind and cautious person, leading most fans to believe that she's an ExtremeDoormat like Noelle. [[spoiler:"null_5" shows this to be not the case: she's actually quite perpetually exasperated]]. |
| 569 | * CanonForeigner: She, as well as everything else of Frisk's backstory, is original to Inverted Fate. |
| 570 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:In the Rift arc, Asriel can't kill her because 1) She's basically his primary source of torturing Frisk and 2) Getting rid of her would decrease his chances of getting back with Chara even further due to her being important to Frisk, who is important to Chara]]. |
| 571 | * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Part 61 reveals that she's en route to the Underground, just as Frisk has hit the DarkestHour.]] |
| 572 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:When Asriel restores her SOUL in the post-credits scene of Rift 3, she points out the problems with what he's doing, acts smug when she realises that he's lonely and jealous, and even tells him that he's not really a god. This makes him angry enough to remove her SOUL again]]. |
| 573 | * EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:She got cold feet about Frisk's plan to "vanish" on Mt. Ebott, saying it wouldn't be right to make everyone worry.]] |
| 574 | * {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:She's basically the "Asriel" to Frisk's "Chara." Both were the OnlyFriend to someone with a DarkAndTroubledPast and ended up having a falling out due to a disagreement. However, besides the fact that Asriel is a monster and Lilac is human, the circumstances of the falling out were drastically different. Asriel was killed along with Chara and ended up internalizing his friend's negativity when he was revived as Flowey. Lilac, on the other hand, didn't die (though she was badly injured) and remains as a kind person. Also, while Chara's toxic nature rubbed off on Asriel, Lilac's kind nature (partially) rubbed off on Frisk]]. |
| 575 | * HappilyAdopted: Ended up getting adopted after falling out with Frisk, and seems relatively happy and safe. |
| 576 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[spoiler:"mus_hERROR"]], [[spoiler:"mus_reboot"]], [[spoiler:"mus_her"]], [[spoiler:"mus_puppet"]]. |
| 577 | * LogicalLatecomer: [[spoiler:Poor Lilac has no idea what's going on while Frisk and Chara are fighting Spamton with her as a hostage]]. |
| 578 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: {{Downplayed}}. Her dialogue portrait is angled right similarly to Alphys due to her hair, as opposed to Frisk and Chara's front-facing portraits. |
| 579 | * OnlyFriend: To Frisk before they ended up underground. |
| 580 | * PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler:During the Rift arc, Asriel controls her soulless body and speaks through it as another way to taunt Frisk]]. |
| 581 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:She unwittingly slips past Asriel as he leaves for the surface, allowing her to get to Mt. Ebbot safely.]] |
| 582 | * TakeThatAudience: [[spoiler:In Rift 6, when Asriel admits to her that she's nothing like what he expected, Lilac asks if he thought she was a ShrinkingViolet, something that pretty much every fan thought that Lilac would be]]. |
| 583 | * ThoughtTheyKnewAlready: In a noncanon meta example through [[FourthWallMailSlot the Discord's "specialhappytime" channel]], [[spoiler:when Frisk being nearsighted was brought up, Lilac was surprised that Frisk was partially blind and just assumed that they always squinted because they were always angry]]. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | [[folder:Robots 98 and 100]] |
| 587 | A pair of robots created by Undyne which are based on the DummiedOut robot sprites from Undertale. |
| 588 | ---- |
| 589 | * DisabilityImmunity: When 98 turns into Robot XP, it becomes [[DumbMuscle dumber]], making it immune to [[LogicBomb Logic Bombs]] due to not bothering to try processing the paradox. |
| 590 | * MadeOfIron: 100 cannot take damage if fought. |
| 591 | * YesMan: 98 loves authority, [[spoiler:which leads it to selling itself and 100 to Spamton, much to 100's chagrin. Even after 100 and Papybot are released, 98 still wants to work for Spamton]]. |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | [[folder:Spamton G. Spamton (True Lab and Final Arc spoilers)]] |
| 595 | [[quoteright:199:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inverted_fate_spamton_battle.png]] |
| 596 | [[caption-width-right:199:EVERYBUDDY [Level of Violence] A [=[Big Shot]=]]] |
| 597 | |
| 598 | A sentient email program which bothered Undyne and befriended Papyrus. He left after being given a body by Papyrus. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | * AscendedExtra: He's more than an OptionalBoss in this timeline, having [[spoiler:taken over MTT Resort in everyone's absence, resulting in him being the boss of "null_5."]] Later, when he discovers [[spoiler:Lilac's empty body in "Rift 1", he decides to leap into the Rift to help Chara and Frisk by selling them items]]. |
| 601 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Though it may seem like his relationship with Papyrus was one-sided on Papyrus' end, a painting he vandalized with his and Papyrus' heads edited onto them proves that he does, indeed, still respect his body's creator]]. |
| 602 | * BadBoss: [[spoiler:He's not exactly nice to the robots he hired. Pikebot in particular gets the shortest end of the stick]]. |
| 603 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He promises to stop sending Undyne and Papyrus junk mail once the latter builds a body for him so that he can escape. |
| 604 | * TheCameo: The first time he's been alluded to in the comics is through the archives in the True Lab. After his meeting with the heroes, he later makes another cameo in null_7 in a building labelled "Cyber City". |
| 605 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Huelixer that he gave Frisk in Rift 3? [[spoiler:It did, in fact, auto revive them when their HP dropped to 0 in the Rift 6 fight]]. |
| 606 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:He has the audacity to tell the (non-existent) audience to "FORGET [invasive weeds]" complete with a picture of Flowey with a "no" sign over him, and he even replaced the fountain statue with himself with a Ms. Pipis. It's a wonder that Asriel hasn't decided to short circuit him yet]]. |
| 607 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: After almost all the monsters in the Underground are absorbed, Spamton uses this as an opportunity to take over Hotland and get all the other robots to work for him now that Mettaton and Undyne aren't around to stop him. Except he forgot that since the Underground is almost entirely empty and the robots are now his employees, he doesn't have anyone who can be his customers until the [[spoiler:three]] humans show up. |
| 608 | * TheGhost: His previous dialogue with Undyne and Papyrus was found in the archives in the True Lab and there's a story dedicated to his creation in the Secret Pages, though he implied to have [[spoiler: taken over MTT Resort and doesn't show up in person until until null_5.]] |
| 609 | * HiddenDepths: In spite of his self serving personality, [[spoiler:he genuinely cares for his customers and is angered when he discovers that Asriel took Lilac's SOUL in "Rift 1", motivating him to enter the Rift to avenge her in some way]]. |
| 610 | ** [[spoiler:He's also genuinely appreciative of Papyrus for making his body, and expresses joy over his appearance in the Rift and concern over his condition.]] |
| 611 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "mus_uprising", "mus_specil", "mus_bigdeal". |
| 612 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Similar his creator, Papyrus, Spamton can suddenly sprout eyeballs over his shades when shocked. |
| 613 | ** [[spoiler:His speech patterns when suppressing his ElectronicSpeechImpediment (all caps, liberal use of PunctuatedForEmphasis) are extremely similar to Gaster's.]] |
| 614 | * MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Attempting to attack him in his fight results in him taking no damage]]. |
| 615 | * MistakenForRomance: [[spoiler:He's on the giving end of the trope, assuming that Lilac is Frisk's [="[[Hochi Mama]]"=]]]. |
| 616 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Him taking over the MTT Resort and reshaping it in his own image is more or less exactly what he does to Queen's Castle during ''Deltarune'''s Weird Route.]] |
| 617 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 618 | ** [[spoiler:His appearance in Rift 1's post-credits is played completely seriously, showing that he is visibly saddened/angered that his customer's [[=HeartShapedObject=]] was stolen, motivating him to leap into the Rift with currently unknown intentions]]. |
| 619 | ** [[spoiler:He's quite disturbed by the corrupted Snowdin area that appears in Rift 5, knowing that its creation was very likely a result of Asriel's PowerIncontinence. It's apparently serious enough that he forces himself to suppress his ElectronicSpeechImpedement so that he could spell to Frisk that Asriel's an immature kid who has no idea what he's doing. Afterwards, he gives the humans a free heal without requesting payment]]. |
| 620 | * PrankGoneTooFar: What he ''would've'' been. Gaster created him to prank humanity for his amusement/revenge. The Mage thought the fact that he says [[Hochi Mama]] would be too much and discarded Spamton's disk without Gaster's knowledge. |
| 621 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobot: He has the most lifelike A.I. out of all of the non-possessed robots, having "human" levels of intelligence. The body that Papyrus built for him is so well built that you probably couldn't tell that he was a robot unless it was pointed out. |
| 622 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Dying to him in his fight reveals that he retains memory across reloads, and at one point he casually tells Lilac that he's been killing Frisk and Chara. WordOfGod explains that he was exposed to a ton of DT in the True Lab]]. |
| 623 | * TriangleShades: Just like Mettaton, he has a red pair of triangle shades as opposed to the yellow and pink-lenses glasses he has in canon. |
| 624 | * WhamLine: A station in Snowdin warns that there has been a security breach in Hotland before it is [[spoiler:overridden with dialogue with Spamton's text sound, as the garbage salesman robot has taken over the MTT Resort in everyone's absence and made it his own]]. |
| 625 | * WolfpackBoss: [[spoiler:He's fought alongside Robots 100 and 98, and he brings in Papybot once the latter is out of commission.]] |
| 626 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:When you force Robot 98 to exit its [=XPipis=] form, Spamton doesn't care what happens to it. However, he puts it back into employment once its cooldown ends]]. |
| 627 | [[/folder]] |
| 628 | |
| 629 | ! The Figments (MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL ARC) |
| 630 | [[folder: General]] |
| 631 | !!The Figments |
| 632 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rift_puppets_4.png]] |
| 633 | [[caption-width-right:350:"ASRIEL will let us go. ASRIEL will save us all. ASRIEL will give us hope, overwriting right and wrong."]] |
| 634 | The minibosses fought in the final arc. Each of them have control over a specific sub-area of The Rift with a different theme, and all of them represent various facets of Asriel's personality. |
| 635 | ---- |
| 636 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Although each of the figments appear early on in the episodes, it's not immediately obvious because they start in a different shape, which eventually deteriorates after a certain point: |
| 637 | ** Effigy of Ego took the form of a statue of Asriel's Rift form before Frisk and Chara's refusal to leave an offering causes it to break free. |
| 638 | ** Pawn of Possessiveness took the shape of a younger Asriel in an attempt to appease Chara after they were seperated from Frisk, only to start exposing bits of its true form as Chara is escaping before fully revealing itself when Chara and Frisk are about to reunite. |
| 639 | ** Fiend of Fatality took the form of Asriel when he had Chara's SOUL. It remained that way until it reenacted Asriel's death and dusted, unveiling its real form from underneath. |
| 640 | ** Entity of Emptiness took the form of Flowey from the original timeline. It remained that way until it decided to take its real form to battle Chara, Frisk and Papyrus at the end of "Empty Inside". |
| 641 | * AlliterativeName: All of them have an "(X) of (Y)" naming format, with the letters of what they are and what they represent being the same. According to side material, Chara is the one who names them and decided to make them alliterative. |
| 642 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Each of the minibosses are Asriel's flaws taken form in his puppets. |
| 643 | * ArtShift: Each of them are depicted using a fusion of Photoshop Flowey's photorealistic artstyle with a different one depending on the boss. |
| 644 | * BattleThemeMusic: All of them share a common theme with differences in instrumentation. Ego's for instance has lyrics befitting of a religious messiah, while Possessiveness's lyrics are constantly begging Chara to stay. After Papyrus rejoins the party, the "Bonetrousle" leitmotif is added to the themes. |
| 645 | * EmbodimentOfVice: All of the RIFT minibosses embody Asriel's deep seated issues, such as his god complex (Effigy of Ego), his codependency (Pawn of Possessiveness), his self-loathing (Fiend of Fatality) and his sociopathy (Entity of Emptiness). |
| 646 | * FiveStagesOfGrief: Despite there being 6 figments, they fit the trope all the same. Effigy of Ego represents denial, Pawn of Possessiveness represents bargaining, Fiend of Fatality represents anger/depression and Entity of Emptiness represents denial/anger. |
| 647 | * OminousVisualGlitch: For the most part, when each of the Figments is in critical condition, their bodies begin to start glitching out, and in the cases of Ego and Emptiness, their attacks stop functioning properly. |
| 648 | * RecurringElement: They each speak with the same large, scribbly font once their natures are revealed. |
| 649 | * SevenDeadlySins: Though only 6 figments are seen during the final chapter, all of them seen thus far seem to fit a specific sin: Pride (Effigy of Ego), Envy (Pawn of Possessiveness), Sloth/Despair (Fiend of Fatality), Wrath (Entity of Emptiness) |
| 650 | * ThemeNaming: All of them are named X of Y (i.e something of personal trait) with alliterative names. |
| 651 | * WalkingSpoiler: All of them spoil important details from their chapters due to being bosses fought in the final chapter. |
| 652 | [[/folder]] |
| 653 | [[folder: Effigy of Ego]] |
| 654 | !!Effigy of Ego |
| 655 | [[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rift_ego.png]] |
| 656 | [[caption-width-right:171:Effigy of EGO - Asriel's god complex given form.]] |
| 657 | The first of the Figments, an angelic effigy that serves as an embodiment of Asriel's self-aggrandizing ego. |
| 658 | ---- |
| 659 | * AGodAmI: The CHECK description describes it thusly: |
| 660 | --> Asriel's god complex given form. |
| 661 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: For Asriel's hubris and god complex. |
| 662 | * ArtShift: Unlike the other bosses (except Flowey) prior, the Effigy of Ego's sprites are designed to look more realistic, akin to Photoshop Flowey. |
| 663 | * BlackEyesofEvil: The Ego of Effigy has black eyes with visible irises. They go blank once Frisk and Chara anger it enough by rejecting them. |
| 664 | * EmbodimentOfVice: It embodies Asriel's inflated egotism, his entitlement and his self-aggrandizing god complex. |
| 665 | * FantasticRacism: It views the humans that Asriel killed as worthless and their souls as being put to good use as the brick and mortar of his new world. |
| 666 | * {{Foil}}: Serves as one to Undyne. Both of them hate Frisk, feeling that they've turned someone they care about against them, but whereas Undyne genuinely wants to help monsterkind escape the Underground and eventually relents once Papyrus stands up to her, the Effigy of Ego exists to prop up Asriel's selfishness and takes it badly when Chara calls it out for its hypocrisy and abusive behavior. |
| 667 | * {{Hypocrite}}: It claims that Frisk is manipulating Chara despite Asriel tricking Frisk into thinking they were friends and using them to obtain the 6 [=SOULs=] in addition to manipulating everyone so he could become god. Frisk ends up calling it out on this. |
| 668 | * IRejectYourReality: Chara makes it very clear that they don't want Asriel to put them on a pedestal and that they cannot accept the world he has built on the deaths of countless innocents. The effigy will hear none of it. |
| 669 | * LightIsNotGood: The Effigy of Ego is a white robed angel who attacks by sending swarms of smaller angels, lightning bolts and bells. |
| 670 | * NeverMyFault: When Frisk points out to the effigy that Asriel used them by tricking them into thinking they were friends, the Ego of Effigy puts it back on Frisk by claiming it was their own mistake. |
| 671 | * NotGoodWithRejection: Chara repeatedly rejects the effigy, having finally accepted that what Asriel wants is an abusive friendship that puts them on a pedestal. The effigy's response is to become gradually angrier until eventually, its body begins to glitch out and the background starts to crack. |
| 672 | * NoSell: Early on, Frisk tries to attack the Effigy of Ego only to have their attack cancelled out by a dark thunderbolt. |
| 673 | * OminousVisualGlitch: As the fight wears on, its body begins to glitch out as Chara continues to reject it. After screaming at Chara to quit forsaking them, their final use of their angel swarm and their thunderbolt start glitching out. |
| 674 | * PsychopathicManchild: Natch, being the embodiment of Asriel's god complex. While they try to intimidate Frisk and Chara with grandiose speech that presents themselves as a deity, as the humans keep rejecting their claims and pointing out all the hypocrisy in them, the effigy starts screaming and throwing a massive tantrum, with their VoiceGrunting turning back to Asriel's to hammer it in that this is Asriel still being unable to accept that Chara has changed. |
| 675 | * SlasherSmile: Sports one throughout the fight until Chara makes it very clear that Frisk is important to them and that none of their actions are a game. |
| 676 | * UnconventionalFormatting: The effigy speaks in a different font that sits outside of the text box. Only during its defeat does its speech stay in the textbox. |
| 677 | * VillainousBreakdown: As the effigy is refuted over and over, it becomes angrier and tries to force Chara to reconsider and repent before eventually pleading with them to stop fighting. Its final line wraps the whole thing up: |
| 678 | -->"If I'm not a God, if none of this is real, then what is real?!" |
| 679 | * WhiteAndGoldAreDivine: Is a mostly white robed angel with golden shoulder pads and a HolyHalo. |
| 680 | [[/folder]] |
| 681 | [[folder: Pawn of Possessiveness]] |
| 682 | !!Pawn of Possessiveness |
| 683 | [[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rift_possessiveness.png]] |
| 684 | [[caption-width-right:190:Pawn of POSSESSIVENESS - A manifestation of Asriel's selfish desires.]] |
| 685 | The second of the Figments, a flower-infested copy of Asriel's young self that serves as an embodiment of Asriel's selfish, desperate desire to have Chara as a friend again. |
| 686 | ---- |
| 687 | * ArtShift: The Pawn of Possessiveness is depicted with a mixture of a rough sketches and a realistic style akin to Photoshop Flowey. If anything, it wouldn't look at all out of place with the Witches from Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica. |
| 688 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Asriel's co-dependency, jealously, control issues and loneliness. |
| 689 | * BodyHorror: Resembles a plant monster growing out of young Asriel's corpse, covered in flowers and thorns, a hand emerging out of the corpses mouth with an eye embedded in said hand. |
| 690 | * CantLiveWithoutYou: As one of Asriel's puppets, it represents Asriel's need to make Chara happy and dependence on Chara, because his entire plan revolves around winning back their goodwill. |
| 691 | * DecadeThemedFilter: Its illusion Asriel form has a sepia colour scheme, consistent with how in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'', Asriel's younger self was mostly depicted in cutscenes with the same colour. |
| 692 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Frisk points that it's Asriel's own fault that he's all alone. Flowey's [[TheSociopath sociopathy]], [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder scheming and betrayal]] may've allowed him to ascend to godhood but it came at the cost of ruining their bonds with Chara and forcing them to create illusions, because none of the real people in his life want anything to do with him. If anything, the Pawn of Possessiveness shows that Flowey/Asriel's sociopathic manipulations don't make him cool and powerful, but in actuality expose how much of a sad, pathetic loser he really is. |
| 693 | * DirtyCoward: Frisk calls Asriel out for having to hide behind his puppets because they're too scared to actually listen to Chara and realize that there was another way. |
| 694 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the Pawn's attacks is to send a rain of presents down, which can be considered a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing lovebombing]], an abuse tactic which uses lavish gifts and obsessive displays of love to manipulate people. |
| 695 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Rather than kill them, Frisk and Chara decide to stop fighting and leave Possessiveness alone. This ends up being key to defeating them because as Frisk notes early on, it's powers only work if they are looking at it. |
| 696 | * EmbodimentOfVice: The Pawn of Possessiveness is an embodiment of Asriel's unhealthy co-dependent obsession with Chara, his jealously of Chara's bonds with Frisk and his need to isolate and control Chara to maintain their friendship, that has long since become toxic. |
| 697 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: For starters, its main eye emerges from the illusion Asriel's mouth and its arms have an eyeball embedded in them. |
| 698 | * {{Foil}}: The Pawn serves as one for Papyrus. Both the Pawn of Possessiveness and Papyrus are friends with someone, have gone to great lengths to make them feel happy and safe, and use orange as a color of choice. While Papyrus has a healthy set of boundaries and a life outside of Frisk, even understanding that they need time alone, the Pawn of Possessive is controlling, keeping Chara as his prisoner and forcing them to spend time with him constantly, because he has nothing outside of them and cannot exist without them. |
| 699 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Frisk and Chara reunite inside the castle, "Asriel" is gone, and there is a large present that shakes while the others remain still. A few seconds later, "Asriel"'s corpse emerges and transforms into the Pawn of Possessiveness. |
| 700 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The first instance that something is off with "Asriel" is when Chara jumps off the balcony, "Asriel"'s font changes to the same one used for the Effigy of Ego. This font is used when "Asriel" starts to become more warped due to being ignored. |
| 701 | ** Before the fight begins, "Asriel" gradually becomes weaker and weaker as Chara ignores him. The first options seen when Frisk selects ACT are all Flee. Frisk defeats the Pawn of Possessiveness by running away with Chara and refusing to waste anymore time on their enemy. |
| 702 | * GlamourFailure: As Chara gets further and further away from their GildedCage, the Asriel illusion starts to gradually break down, eventually causing flowers to sprout from its body and a hand to emerge from the mouth before it has no choice but to drop the facade entirely. |
| 703 | * GreenEyedMonster: The Pawn of Possessiveness is jealous of Chara's friendship with Frisk, even keeping Chara tied up in thorns for most of the fight so they can't leave them. Most of their attacks are even green (though they don't heal), with Frisk having to make use of the same mechanic seen in Undyne's fights. The green attacks that ''do'' heal are aimed at Chara, but Chara avoids them all as a way of denying the figment's efforts to make them "happy." |
| 704 | * InterfaceScrew: Between attacks, the Pawn is seen holding the menu boxes in it's hands and starts the fight by wrapping Chara's FIGHT, ITEM and MERCY boxes in vines. When Frisk checks their options, all of them are Flee with several of the options overflowing. Its white eye attacks allow it to obscure Frisk's viewpoint. |
| 705 | * LovingAShadow: Frisk outright calls the Pawn out on not actually caring about Chara as a person and only keeping them as a prisoner in order to maintain their idea of Chara. |
| 706 | * NeverMyFault: They accuse Frisk of stealing Chara from them, despite it being Asriel's own actions that have made things worse for himself. |
| 707 | * NoListeningSkills: Whenever the Pawn speaks, it never actually engages with anything Frisk or Chara say. Frisk even calls them out on their unwillingness to listen to anything outside of their own self denial and obsession with Chara. |
| 708 | * NoSell: Early on, Frisk tries to attack the Pawn of Possessiveness only for their attacks to be scored as a miss. However, this ''does'' serve to help the humans figure out that it can only turn the human it's currently looking at green. |
| 709 | * OminousVisualGlitch: As the fight progresses on, the background begins to glitch out, the Pawn's eye starts to glow irregularly and when it's time for the fight to end, the Pawn of Possessiveness itself starts to glitch out. |
| 710 | * OutsideTheBoxTactic: Frisk and Chara defeat them by running away, because the Pawn needs Frisk and Chara to stay to facilitate its existence. When Frisk and Chara decide to leave the Pawn alone, they take it rather poorly. |
| 711 | * PsychopathicManchild: When confronted on their cowardice or how they refuse to engage with anything, they resort to denial, screaming at Frisk to stop talking. When Frisk and Chara start running away, the Pawn starts crying and begging for Chara not to leave them. When Chara and Frisk get far enough away, they outright scream that they don't want to say goodbye. |
| 712 | * UnconventionalFormatting: All of their text uses a different font and is spoken outside of the textboxes. |
| 713 | * VillainousBreakdown: Once Frisk decides to run away, the Pawn starts crying. When Frisk calls Asriel out on how they've effectively screwed themselves out of any healthy relationships with others, the Pawn engages in self-pity and exposes how deep in denial they are, their dependency on Chara and their inability to let go of the past. |
| 714 | [[/folder]] |
| 715 | [[folder: Fiend of Fatality]] |
| 716 | !!Fiend of Fatality |
| 717 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rift_fatality.png]] |
| 718 | [[caption-width-right:195:Fiend of Fatality - The manifestation of Asriel's death. All it knows is anguish.]] |
| 719 | The third Figment that Chara and Frisk must engage with. At first it takes the form of Asriel after absorbing Chara's soul before revealing it's true form. |
| 720 | ---- |
| 721 | * ArtShift: The Fiend of Fatality is depicted as a watercolour painting with all of the photorealistic elements limited to their attacks. |
| 722 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Asriel's death and the personal trauma associated with the events that caused it. |
| 723 | * BladeEnthusiast: The Fiend of Fatality uses pinkish-red knifes as an obstacle during several of their attacks, though the knives can also be thrown across the battlefield. |
| 724 | * BodyHorror: The Fiend of Fatality has several bullets lodged into their blood red back. |
| 725 | * BoomHeadshot: One of the fiend's attacks is them being shot in the head, causing white tears to fall from their eyes and split into shrapnel. |
| 726 | * BulletHell: A more literal example than most. The Fiend of Fatality attacks Frisk and Chara by firing bullets at them and even combining them with other attacks later on. |
| 727 | * CooldownHug: Receives one from Chara at the end of the battle, allowing it to be pacified. |
| 728 | * CrosshairAware: Whenever the Fiend of Fatality shoots either Frisk or Chara, the bullets location is shown with a red crosshair before firing. |
| 729 | * {{Dracolich}}: The Fiend of Fatality has a dragon-like skull for a head but is more ghostly otherwise. |
| 730 | * EmbodimentOfVice: The Fiend of Fatality embodies Asriel's self-loathing, guilt and grief over his own death. |
| 731 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Where do we begin? Due to Asriel [[LovingAShadow idolizing a past, more toxic version of Chara]], without realizing that their bond was not a healthy one, the Fiend fully believes that the tragedy that led to both of their deaths was ''a wake-up call for his innocent self'', and not exactly that - a horrific tragedy. As such, when Chara sincerely apologizes for their past callousness and how they have left their mark on their best friend, the Fiend doesn't know what to say. This is reflected in Asriel, who similarly doesn't understand the contradiction before rationalizing it with InsaneTrollLogic. |
| 732 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: Fatality has a white angel wing at their right and a black demon wing at their left. Further still, the wings subtly reinforces Asriel's own perceptions of Chara and himself due to the two shadows besides the fiend themselves. |
| 733 | * GracefulLoser: Their final words are that they feel fulfilled and thank Chara for finally assuring them that the barrier is gone and that Asriel's death wasn't in vain. |
| 734 | * InnocenceLost: The Fiend represents the moment of Asriel's death, where his innocence was shattered and he adopted the "kill or be killed" mindset. |
| 735 | * ItIsDehumanizing: On the receiving end of this by the human attackers. |
| 736 | * ItsAllMyFault: A twisted version. The Fiend represents Asriel's immense guilt and regret over not going through with Chara's ill-advised plan and leading to both of their deaths, accomplishing nothing they wanted. There's just one problem: Chara was a genuine PoisonousFriend at the time, but Asriel idolized them so much that he failed to see that the tragedy ''wasn't'' his fault at all, and thus he'd rather pile all the blame on himself than to even insinuate that Chara was not the best person at the time. |
| 737 | -->You poisoned yourself so that I could set things RIGHT! I ruined your life. I KILLED YOU, '''CHARA'''! |
| 738 | * IveComeTooFar: Implied, by their dialogue after receiving the CooldownHug from Chara. Deep down, some part of Asriel would have been perfectly content to use his powers to free monsterkind, revive his best friend and leave it as that, but after living through [[TimeAbyss possibly centuries of reloading and doing everything possible]], he just cannot resist experimenting with the new possibilities that his new godhood brings into this "game", so he presses on with his plan to build a new world, even if that means having to be fueled by his pain and trauma. |
| 739 | -->'''Fiend of Fatality:''' It could all end here... It could all end ''now''... |
| 740 | * KickTheDog: Shadow Chara, who curses Shadow Asriel with their final breaths. |
| 741 | * MisanthropeSupreme: Shadow Chara hated humanity for the way their parents treated them, which is symbolized by them speaking with red text and how most of their dialogue is them criticising Asriel for not fighting back. |
| 742 | * NeverMyFault: Shadow Chara pushes Shadow Asriel into fighting and violence and blames them when things go pear shaped and Asriel winds up dead due to their own ill advised plan. |
| 743 | * NonHumanNonBinary: Due to the Fiend of Fatality being an symbolic gestalt of Chara and Asriel, they can be considered non-binary due to past Chara being non-binary themselves. |
| 744 | * PaintingTheMedium: In the overworld, Shadow Chara and Shadow Asriel use the standard font but during battle uses the same one as the previous Rifters. In both cases, past Chara's text is red and past Asriel's is white. |
| 745 | * RedRightHand: One of the fiend's attacks is to summon blood red photorealistic hands to crush both Chara and Frisk. They are later used as pillars during an attack combining knives and bullets. |
| 746 | * ShutUpHannibal: Chara tries this against them, refuting their twisted guilt over "causing" Chara's death, but [[DeconstructedTrope it only causes the Fiend to double down]], pushing Frisk to nudge Chara into another method to pacify the Fiend. |
| 747 | * SwordAndGun: Due to being Chara being associated with knives and Asriel being killed by gunfire, the Fiend of Fatality incorporates both knives and guns into their movepool. |
| 748 | * TragicVillain: Unlike the previous two Figments, the Fiend of Fatality is treated far more sympathetically. Whereas the Effigy of Ego and Pawn of Possessiveness were called out extensively by Chara and Frisk, here the Fiend is laid to rest by Chara admitting to their faults and comforting the Fiend so they can finally move on. |
| 749 | * TwoBeingsOneBody: The Fiend of Fatality is a ghost-like monster that has two shadows representing Chara and Asriel's past selves. The Chara shadow is vicious and insulting towards Asriel at every turn, blaming them for everything that goes wrong. The Asriel shadow is self loathing, viewing themselves as weak for being unable to break the barrier and getting them and Chara killed. |
| 750 | * UnconventionalFormatting: Unlike the previous Rifters, Fatality speaks with alternating white and red texts representing the shadows of Asriel and Chara's past selves respectively. |
| 751 | * VirtueIsWeakness: |
| 752 | -->'''Fiend Of Fatality:''' Kindness is a curse... Love only gets you hurt... |
| 753 | * WalkingSpoiler: Due to them being the third miniboss in the Rift chapter, any mentions of them tend to spoil parts of the final chapter. |
| 754 | * YoungGun: Chara and Asriel were children at the time of their deaths and the fiend is a gestalt of both that uses their voices and shoots both Frisk and the real Chara with bullets. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | [[folder:Entity of Emptiness]] |
| 758 | !! Entity of Emptiness |
| 759 | [[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oqdwwph.png]] |
| 760 | [[caption-width-right:100:Entity of Emptiness - A hollow husk devoid of love. It laughs at our misfortune.]] |
| 761 | The fourth Figment that Frisk, Chara and Papyrus must deal with. It takes the form of Flowey before revealing it's true form. |
| 762 | ---- |
| 763 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of Asriel's feeling of emptiness and beliefs that other people are predictable because he believes he knows everything he could possibly know about them. |
| 764 | * ArtShift: The Entity of Emptiness is depicted as a photorealistic figure which resembles a plushie with Asriel's body and Flowey's head with a grey beating heart in the middle. |
| 765 | * BerserkButton: It does not like being ignored. Once the heroes figure this out, they make it a point to press the Entity's berserk button every chance they get, eventually leading to it's defeat. |
| 766 | * TheBully: At it's core, it's nothing more than a bully who engages in hurtful behavior just to get a reaction, having used most of it's previous resets to simply ruin the lives of the Underground for it's own amusement. It takes things badly when after spending time acting high and mighty towards the heroes and getting clocked twice, the heroes decide to simply ignore it, depriving them of a reaction. |
| 767 | * CharacterCheck: Serves as one for Asriel as a reminder that while Asriel may have sympathetic traits, he's still a cruel, manipulative sociopath who ''chose'' to hurt others of his own volition. |
| 768 | * {{Chiptune}}: Once Chara attacks the entity, the battle music changes from an empty ambience to an 8-bit rendition of the battle theme used for the other figments. |
| 769 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 770 | ** The method the heroes use to defeat the Entity of Emptiness is the exact same method used to spare Toriel in VideoGame/{{Undertale}}: Spare them until they give up and cease their attack. |
| 771 | ** In addition, it references how sparing Flowey during a Neutral run requires you to spare him repeatedly until he breaks down and runs away. |
| 772 | * CopycatMockery: After getting sick of Papyrus's empathetic approach, it chooses to change it's face and voice to one resembling Papyrus and finishes what it thinks he would say just to shut him down. |
| 773 | * EmbodimentOfVice: It embodies Asriel's presumptuous beliefs that other people are predictable, and also his feelings of emptiness and sociopathic mindset. |
| 774 | * EvilIsVisceral: One of the most notable aspects of it's design is the visible grey, beating human heart. It's heartbeat even changes as the battle goes on, beating faster as the Entity becomes more agitated and fearful. |
| 775 | * FliesEqualsEvil: One of it's attacks is a swarm of flies appearing from it's shrivelled, grey heart. |
| 776 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Entity of Emptiness has already made up it's mind about the heroes and expects them to give up and fall into despair because it thinks they knows everything there is to know about them. When Chara decides to attack them, it's face ''lights up'' with malicious glee because it believes that Chara is the same vicious misanthrope they once knew, and therefore it must be right. |
| 777 | * HeroKiller: |
| 778 | ** As memory of Flowey, it shows how he ended up killing everyone he could. It's implied he was even able to defeat Sans in a serious fight (as opposed to taking him by surprise). |
| 779 | ** During it's breakdown, it's attacks briefly cause Frisk to lose all their HP. This would've killed Frisk if they hadn't been revived by the rainbow water Spamton [[ChekhovsGift had given them a few episodes back.]] |
| 780 | * HumansAreBastards: Due to Asriel's death at human hands and his resurrection in the original timeline, Emptiness still holds this sentiment, expressing it once Frisk attacks them after the fight truly begins: |
| 781 | -->'''Entity of Emptiness''': People often get... aggressive when they can't get their way. They claw and bite, even when there's no escape. |
| 782 | * KickTheDog: As memory Flowey, after helping and befriending everyone and giving them a "happy ending" (to the extent possible without breaking the barrier), decides to reset and be a jerk instead. Eventually, he decides to kill everyone, just to see what happens. |
| 783 | ** As expected of Asriel and his Figments, the Entity of Emptiness makes it a point to kick Frisk where it hurts at least once, responding cruelly when Frisk chooses to accept that Flowey was actually good once. |
| 784 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Despite it's claims that it knows everything about the heroes and claiming them to be predictable, Frisk points out that all the residents of the underground lead new lives due to them being in a new timeline. The entity dismisses them all as the same people with a new coat of paint. When Papyrus points out that there is more to the world than the Underground, the Entity claims that the world replaced Asriel, didn't want him and that it could never satisfy him. |
| 785 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: One of it's faces has rows of short but sharp, needle-like teeth. |
| 786 | * NightmareFace: True to form, the Entity of Emptiness boasts a variety of these, one of which it uses whenever it gets sick of Papyrus and wants to shut him down by predicting what it thinks Papyrus will say. |
| 787 | * NotSoStoic: Despite it's emotionless demeanour, it becomes progressively more pissed off when Frisk, Chara and Papyrus deliberately spare them every turn, causing it to become more aggressive and eventually break down. |
| 788 | * OminousVisualGlitch: Before the battle begins proper, the scene glitches out as if the video has briefly stopped working properly. Later on, the Entity becomes more agitated at the heroes and their decision to ignore it causing it's body to start glitching out and their attacks start moving back and forth. Notably, the content warning at the beginning of the episode even warns about this due to potential concerns about them causing epilepsy. |
| 789 | * OutsideTheBoxTactic: The heroes defeat the entity by choosing not to do anything by using the Spare button to annoy the Entity of Emptiness, gradually forcing it to drop it's high and mighty facade to expose that it can still feel emotions. |
| 790 | * PsychoKnifeNut: One of the Entity of Emptiness's attacks to use giant knives to stab their enemies. |
| 791 | * PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: After Frisk points out they've could've let the Underground have their happy ending and wait to see what happens afterwards, the Entity disagrees because it feels that a world where only others get to be happy isn't a world worth living in. It's also possible that this may've been an underlying motivation for Flowey as a whole, considering that Flowey eventually starting killing everyone after realizing that he felt nothing for all the lives he touched in the previous timelines. |
| 792 | * RedemptionRejection: Refuses to accept that the heroes have no ill will towards them. When Frisk decides to accept that Flowey actually had some good in him once, the Entity tells Frisk that it doesn't care and calls them worthless and that the only reason they're still here is because they are Chara's favourite toy. |
| 793 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: After being attacked by Chara and then Frisk, one of their faces is an angry face with red eyes. This face shows up again when the Entity threatens to kill the heroes if they won't listen to it and stand down. |
| 794 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: This gets deconstructed by showcasing what happens when the heroes try to talk to an enemy who has already made up their minds about them and refuses to change their mind. After Chara and Frisk resort to attacking the Entity of Emptiness to get a reaction from it, the heroes then decide to simply ignore the entity by sparing it repeatedly, causing it to become annoyed and eventually infuriated. |
| 795 | * TheSociopath: Due to it being the boss of an OriginsEpisode showcasing Asriel's rebirth as Flowey and his eventual descent in villainy, the Entity is effectively the end result of Flowey becoming a sociopath due to his own decisions.[[note]]Psychopathy is born, Sociopathy is made. Asriel wasn't born as a psychopath and ended up becoming a sociopath due to losing his ability to feel empathy and his own decisions to hurt others.[[/note]] |
| 796 | * SpreadShot: The Entity has two types of this: The first is a large series of bullets that surround the heroes but never actually hits them and a second smaller version that moves rapidly. |
| 797 | * StandardBleedingSpots: A small patch of blood can be seen at the top of it's head between it's topmost petals. |
| 798 | * VillainousBreakdown: After being continuously spared, the Entity of Emptiness becomes angry, eventually becomes fearful and then starts pleading to Asriel before becoming scared that it's master is going to get rid of them for their failure. |
| 799 | * VirtueIsWeakness: It considers Chara to be soft and sentimental and states that they used to be so unpredictable. It's quote after Chara apologizes to Asriel early on cements how nothing can change how they feel: |
| 800 | -->'''Entity of Emptiness''': "Sorry" won't change anything. It's all sentimental NOISE. |
| 801 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Unlike the other Figments, the Entity has just enough self-awareness to realize that Asriel will dispose of it once they're no longer useful. It's last set of dialogue is pleading with Asriel that it can still turn things around and make the heroes suffer. When that fails, it realizes that Asriel doesn't want and will not accept them, before spitefully implying that it's master is leading a doomed venture and that he's still empty inside. Unfortunately for it, it's last remark causes Asriel to decide that the puppet has lived long enough and kills them. |
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