YMMV / Inverted Fate

• Fan Nickname: The final arc has figment mini bosses with alliterate names. When it was confirmed that the fourth boss would be a flower head before its official debut, fans had dubbed the figment the "Flower of Fuck".
• Harsher in Hindsight: The non-canon Inverted Jape 2 ends with Frisk waking up in the Underground's first room, only the flowers are grey and Chara is somehow alive again, saying that Asriel has taken all the SOULs. This turns out to be foreshadowing the beginning of the Null arc, but with a few differences: there is a huge hole in the ground that Chara had to dig themself out of, and they are in such a panicked state that they ran off into the next room and left Frisk to wake up alone, and then when Frisk finds them they end up in a battle encounter as Chara tries to scare them away.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Frisk's interactions with "Captain Cryptic" and being friendly towards them despite only initially knowing them as a voice in their head become this as the comic goes on, such as when they find out that they are actually Chara, the human who most monsters have come to hate, yet Frisk doesn't end up hating them, and when Chara gets brought back to life, meaning the two can physically be around each other.
  • The scenes during "Null" and the first few chapters of "Rift" that remind us of Papyrus' absence and Frisk's despair over it become easier to watch with the knowledge that he will be freed by the six human SOULs about halfway through "Rift" and rejoin the party.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Deltarune consists of two upwards facing triangles and one downward facing triangle. The final arc symbol consists of two right side up human SOULs and one upside down monster SOUL. The symbol was conceptualized before Deltarune even came out.
• I Knew It!:
  • The end of Part 36 confirms the popular theories that Papyrus created Flowey instead of Undyne, Mettaton is not actually corporeal with his body, and Undyne has been injecting herself with Determination.
  • Several people correctly guessed that Part 47 would involve Undyne melting from too much Determination. However, the circumstances were a bit different. They also guessed that she would end up merging with another monster.
  • Some people thought that one of Flowey's plans was to bring Chara Back from the Dead. He does exactly that in Part 61.
  • There were guesses that there would be religious cultists or brainwashed monsters who worship Asriel as their god. Rift 2 takes place in a golden cathedral that represents Asriel's self aggrandizing god complex and overweening hypocrisy and idealization of Chara.
  • Some fans predicted that the miniboss of Rift 6 would be based off of Flowey in some capacity. This turns out to be correct due to the episode being about Asriel's rebirth as Flowey and his descent into villainy after resetting the timeline multiple times.
• Jerkass Woobie: As Chara says, "there's a five-letter word that's all too appropriate for [Dohj]." But given all the humiliation she's put through, from being disgraced both in the line of duty and online thanks to Sans, then on live-television thanks to Alphys's cosplay rules, and then in court thanks to Papyrus and Undyne derailing her testimony, causing her hair to burn off. It's not hard to feel sorry for her.
• Moral Event Horizon: Flowey/Asriel crossed it with his needlessly cruel treatment of Frisk in The Angel's Promise. He could've simply backstabbed them, absorbed the SOULs and left it at that, but he deliberately drew out the betrayal by beating the poor kid within an inch of their life and screaming in their face over how worthless they are. And he only continued to double down on this abuse, tormenting them out of petty spite even when it served no purpose in advancing his plans. And if that didn't push him past the MEH, he most certainly crossed it when he set his sights on Frisk's childhood friend Lilac, taking her SOUL and using her body as a puppet for yet more sadistic mind games.
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • During The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, Frisk and Chara enter a golden cathedral which seems far more benign than the horrors present during the last few arcs. However, the chapter is basically Asriel gaslighting the protagonists and the viewer into thinking he's this kind, noble, all-loving god whose goals are born from benevolence and self-sacrifice despite it being a front for his self aggrandizing ego and hypocrisy. If anything, Asriel's portrayal of himself is consistent with cult leaders who try to convert new members via emotional manipulation and gaslighting. And that's before you compare Asriel's portrayal with how some interpret the Abrahamic God as an abusive patriarch who gaslights people into reverent obedience and sees all of His actions as righteous and justified.
  • Rift 6 has Flowey's descent into villainy, causing him to become The Sociopath that he's best known as. While the time travel aspects are fantastical, Flowey's descent mirrors how years of bad experiences, derealization, dehumanization, isolation, and emotional numbness can do a number on the psyche of some people, causing them to gradually become more sociopathic. Asriel was a child when he first become Flowey, and he's done enough playthroughs to conclude that he's seen everything there is to see in the Underground. That's more than enough time for Flowey to go over the edge, snap and decide that he no longer cares because he's got nothing to lose, a mentality that has caused some people to actually go off and start killing people, much like how Flowey eventually decided to do a Genocide run through the Underground.
• Unexpected Character: While Susie, Berdly, Noelle, and Rudy from Deltarune having cameos wasn't out-of-the-blue given that they're Monsters, nobody was expecting Spamton to have a counterpart in Inverted Fate, albeit as a sentient adware program given a robot body by Papyrus instead of a Darkner.

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