WMG / Anomaly (Series)

Warning: Unmarked spoilers ahead.

Caleb is one of the Anomalies.

There's actually quite a bit of evidence for this. His shark-tooth necklace seems to be an important plot point when it is mentioned. He murders a Patriot supporter seemingly effortlessly and possibly has a connection to the Seraph, as they contact him first to set right the wrongs that the Anomaly created. He's been implied to be incredibly powerful and certainly more than just an ordinary fourteen-year-old male.

• Jossed by Word of God. Caleb is actually a deconstruction of typical Self-Insert protagonists.

The Anomaly and the Seraph are meant to represent, respectively, Lucifer and Jehovah, if they aren't them outright.

The Anomaly seems to destroy wantonly only for pleasure and is the arc's Big Bad, where the Seraph is undoubtedly supposed to be the Big Good. There isn't much evidence asides from this and the fact that the Seraph's name refers to one of the highest and purest orders of angels.

• Possibly. Word of God says that this is interesting and might be the case.

This isn't just a game-like universe... this is actually all occurring in a hacked, warped version of the game of Undertale.

The Anomaly refers to itself as "the Player" occasionally and states that it used to control Frisk, implying that it may be meant to be a Self-Insert of the reader. It also states that Frisk would never have been able to take Sans' soul without their hacking the game, which fits in with the canon that only boss monsters can have their souls taken. Both the Anomaly and the Seraph refer to the world as a "game" and use examples of computer-code-like hacking to change things within the world, going to the extreme of the Seraph deleting files to erase Frisk and Asriel's memories. Word of God may have already confirmed this, judging by some of their author's notes.

• Confirmed by Word of God. He stated that he can't believe that he hadn't been implying this obviously enough for people to realize it.

In At the Death is going to conclude with a Downer Ending.

There's a lot of evidence for this. Sans, Papyrus, and Asgore are all dead, and it's implied that more are to follow. John A. Pence won the election and is implied to be considering a genocidal solution to the monster problem. Caleb has been outright stated by the Seraph to be the last hope for this world, and judging by his previous performance, if he is some kind of god-in-training or anomaly as stated in an above WMG he's not very good at his job, and there's a lot of stuff he could have prevented if he was one. Anti-monster racism runs rampant (seriously, Pence carried California in the elections), and Frisk and Asriel both got put in detention for mundane offences just because of who, and in Asriel's case what, they are. It's a Foregone Conclusion at this point.

• Confirmed. In fact, it's even worse than all that.

Leading off the above WMG, Frisk is going to regain her RESET powers.

Realistically, the author doesn't seem like the kind of guy to give us an unfixable Downer Ending. (Although he might be.) The Seraph has all but outright stated that they have the ability to restore Frisk's abilities to RESET and will if necessary, but consider this the final solution (not that kind of Final Solution) and want to see if Caleb can set things right for whatever reason first. Frisk has at multiple times lamented that she can't reset and never will be able to again, and if she never gets back her power that means that the author is just leaving a smoking Chekhov's Gun in the corner, and again, he doesn't seem to be the kind of person to do that.

• Jossed. Frisk is dead and there's seemingly no potential for a reset.

The Seraph is related to Sans.

Think about the name, Seraph. Sans Seraph. Sans Serif. Need I say much more than this?

• Jossed. The Seraph is human, as is his brother, the Anomaly.

The Seraph and The Anomaly are Time Lords.

Look at the naming conventions used. VolcanicPizza has repeatedly affirmed that their proper names are the Seraph and the Anomaly. The keyboard with which the Anomaly has been noted to be altering the fabric of the world with could be inside of a TARDIS, with the two of them attempting to destroy/hold together the Undertale world, respectively, from their TARDISes.

Caleb will try to assassinate Pence... and he'll fail.

Caleb's plan to assassinate John A. Pence looks good on the computer screen and has the reviewers partying in the reviews, but think logically: VolcanicPizza has spent twenty-two chapters to work up to this. Do you really think he'll throw that away, notwithstanding that the sequel has been confirmed to be called "After the Downfall?"

• Sadly, confirmed.

Caleb will shoot a double/cardboard decoy instead of the real Pence.

When Pence approached, he was noted to have a strange expression on his face and that his hair was wild. Granted, this might be because the president-elect was out partying too hard, but it could also be because it was a decoy.

• Jossed. That was explicitly the real Pence, although the attempt failed for other reasons.

Edwin Morrell will have a Heel–Face Turn.

• His name is an Anglicized alteration of the name of Irwin Rommel, a leading Nazi general who turned against Hitler and was part of an assassination plot against him. Judging by this, Morrell may still have hope yet.

• Jossed, he was killed in the DC nuke.

Caleb's Alternate History obsession will end up as a Chekhov's Hobby.

• Caleb's fascination with history and alternate history was a little bit of characterization that was put in at the beginning and later seemed to be dropped as the plot advanced. But what nobody seems to notice is that it could come in handy in the future, possibly during After the Downfall. Picture this: they've reset, somehow, and they need to stop Pence from coming to power. How do they do this? Caleb's been trying to predict alternate histories for so long, the inverse of this also ends up working: he figures out what needs to change to stop Pence from winning, or the Patriots from even forming, and implements his plan.