As the videos are designed to be watched together, all spoilers up to the second half of "Deicide" will be unmarked. Please proceed with caution.
Path to Deicide is a series of songs based on Friday Night Funkin' and Sonic.exe released by GasGrass. In it, SL4SH and Fatal Error decide to team up and recruit other EXEs with the purpose of taking down Sonic.exe himself.
Song List:
- "Tetrabrachial"
(SL4SH vs. Fatal Error) - "Placation" (Requital vs. SL4SH and Fatal Error)
- "Apochronal" (Majin Sonic vs. SL4SH and Fatal Error)
- "Deicide" (X vs. SL4SH, Fatal Error, Requital and Majin Sonic)
This series contains examples of:
- A God Am I: The reason for which Fatal Error and SL4SH seem to want to take down Sonic.exe.
- A God I Am Not: How Fatal Error and SL4SH describe themselves, which gets them working together after their initial conflict.
- Call-Back: When Fatal Error and SL4SH manage to finish Majin's game and express their desires, Majin curiously lists off Lord X (the Lord), Needlem0use and Rewrite as potential candidates, before figuring out that it's none other than the original X. There are also a couple of these during "Deicide":
- In the intro to SL4SH and Majin's Dual Boss section, Majin mentions that the encounter isn't his first "showdown-hoedown" with X's type, a nod to when he made an unexpected appearance back in "Four-Way Fracture".
- Likewise, in Fatal and Requital's shared section, Fatal cites X as an "invader", referencing the "Invasion Mix" of "Fatality" and how Xenophanes invaded the song midway through. X, of course, calls out Fatal's hypocrisy, due to him being the invader this time around.
- Composite Character: X takes after multiple canon iterations of himself; the crystal quills from Xenophanes and the grey shoes of 2011 X.
- Enemy Mine: What Fatal Error and SL4SH try to get Requital to understand during their attempt to recruit him.
- Gratuitous Japanese: Majin Sonic naturally has this in spades for himself.
- Kill the God: As the series' title suggests, this is the overall goal of the quartet, and at the end of "Deicide", they all succeed in this goal.
- Last Episode, New Character: The one who brought upon Fatal, SL4SH, Requital, and Majin to work together to take down X is revealed in the epilogue, "The Adieu", only by a hand covering a viewing glass that leads to the initial epilogue setting. It's Silver the Hedgehog.
- Marathon Level: "Deicide" is one to the very end, being longer than the other songs and being just over 11 minutes long.
- "Not So Different" Remark:
- When seeing that Fatal Error seems to reign with fear, SL4SH immediately cites him as no different to the rest of his kind.
- Likewise, when Requital is faced, he proclaims both hedgehog monsters to look just like Sonic, which serves as enough motive for him to attack them.
- Reference Overdosed: "Deicide" is chock full of these, including references to two prior songs, "Tetrabrachial" and "Placation", leitmotifs harkening back to the characters from Vs Sonic.exe ("B4CKSL4SH" for SL4SH, "Endless" for Majin Sonic, "Forestall Desire" for Requital (indirectly from the "Placation" call-back) and "Fatality" for Fatal Error), and leitmotifs from Xenophanes' original songs, "Final Escape" and "Triple Trouble". Nods to other content outside of FNF are also sprinkled in places, including "Chiller" having an indirect nod in the instrumental. The full list can be found here.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Though Fatal shows faith that Majin can prove his worth against X, SL4SH and Requital are less enamoured with him and only see him as a liability.
- Title Drop: Mixed with being a Pre-Mortem One-Liner, at the very end of "Deicide", SL4SH, followed by his allies, proclaims that they have walked the Path to Deicide, before finishing X off.
- This Is Gonna Suck: SL4SH has this reaction when he realises just who the opponent of "Apochronal" is going to be."Oh no, not the jester-!"
- Villainous Breakdown: At the end of "Deicide", X undergoes this, trying to maintain his foothold but failing thanks to the quartet, who all manage to get rid of him.
