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Storyshift (Webcomic)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })WARNING: DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS COMIC, THERE ARE UNMARKED UNDERTALE SPOILERS AHEAD AND ON THE OTHER PAGES.Storyshift (Tumblr link) is a piece of Undertale fanfiction by voltrathelively that asks the question: What if the characters changed places? To answer this, it shifts the ten main characters (Asriel, Napstablook, Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton, Asgore, and Chara) into each other's roles, potentially going to go several times with different assignments to each role. note The characters here are referred to by the format X!Y, where Y is the character's name, and X is the character they're replacing. For example, Undyne!Toriel refers to the first loop's Toriel, who replaces Undyne.As of April 19th, 2017, Voltra has announced that Storyshift is under hiatus due to people leaking talk about a reboot. It was later confirmed/reiterated that the AU will eventually return with said reboot, revamping the story, character designs, and area layouts. The reboot is currently in progress, and the parts currently uploaded can be read via Google Docs (links can be found on the Tumblr blog) or on Archive of Our Own.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Suplex Finisher | |
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Suplex Finisher: In Shift 1, Asgore suplexes Undyne into a wall as punishment for fighting Shifty. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: More than both canon "Undertale" and the preboot. The more serious events that happened are given more explicit details. The documents outright suggest to not read the documents if the reader is under 13. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: In Shift 1, Mettaton!Undyne's manager intervenes during the Cooking Show and the piano recital, but stays off-screen. Until The Reveal in Undyne's hotel complex that he is in fact Shyren's agent. | |
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Alice Allusion | |
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Alice Allusion: The new Fallen Human, representing the Curiosity trait, is named Alice. Her Croquet Mallet and Bowed Band fit as references to various versions of the Alice in Wonderland story, and Word of God confirms the reference is intentional. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Subverted with Asgore!Sans At first, we only get Toriel's side of the story. From her perspective, it looked like Sans was all too willing to kill Chara, but we later hear Chara's side of the story and learn this was not the case. According to them, "there was hesitation" and there "wasn't any bloodlust". However, it remains ambiguous whether he would have killed Chara or not, because Toriel arrived just in time. Even more subverted when Shifty reaches New Home, where it's revealed that Sans declared war on humanity mostly because he was pressured by his subjects to do it, contrary to canon!Asgore who did it on his own in a moment of anger, even though he regretted it afterwards. | |
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Good Is Not Soft | |
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Good Is Not Soft: Though just as motherly and compassionate as her canon counterpart, Undyne!Toriel is not the hand-holding, overprotective Goatmom you remember. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The reboot puts more emphasis on the world, showing what differences resulted from the vastly different backstory. In addition, more time is spent showing what minor NPCs have to say. The fallen humans (aside from Frisk and Chara) are given considerably more focus than the original game or the preboot comic, with two of them presented as important Posthumous Characters by the end of Old Home. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Mettaton!Undyne gives a variation of her canon pre-battle dialogue in response to her manager at her piano recital complaining about the human appearing on stage. | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Undyne!Toriel never wears one, presumably to emphasize her stern yet motherly nature. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": The dialogue box drops one when Endogeny steals Papyrus!Asriel's special attack. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: While friendlier than their canon counterpart, Sans!Chara makes it clear that they still aren't fans of humanity. This is present when you call them from Waterfall's Wishing Area, where they insist "beings like them" don't belong in the hopes and wishes of monsters. Most monsters share this mindset, because of the death of Mettacrit. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
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While Toriel!Papyrus does seem to keep his optimistic canon demeanor, it becomes increasingly obvious that he's quite lonely down in the Ruins. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Alphys!Asgore is stated to be one for Mettaton!Undyne. | |
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Sssssnaketalk | |
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Sssssnake Talk: The description on the Winged Serpent is narrated this way. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The Solar Warriors want the last human soul as soon as possible, and don't seem to care who they get it from. | |
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A Child Shall Lead Them | |
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A Child Shall Lead Them: If Toriel, Asgore, Undyne and Sans are dead, Asriel becomes king of the underground. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "The world turns on and on without me. This I know well. And yet I wonder. Despite seeing the same places, the people are never in the same spot. The only thing that remains is how I fell." | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: After hanging out with Shifty, Toriel leaves, but not before promising to make amends, "starting with those who ran from [her]," namely her children. After the dinner date with Shifty, Chara makes it a point to reconcile with Asriel after blowing up on him earlier. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Some characters' text box head sprites look more touched up in this version, Asgore and Toriel's in particular (especially Toriel's). | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: According to the plaques in Waterfall, humans developed a lethal fear and hatred of magicians. | |
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Magic Knight | |
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Magic Knight: Undyne!Toriel is more mage than knight, but the overall imagery is there. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: One of the nastier Neutral Endings ends up with Chara falling into this. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: The Winged Serpent replaces the avatar of Toby Fox, the Annoying Dog to absorb the artifact. According to Word of God, the Annoying Dog is still around but in a different place. And sure enough, he shows up during the Toriel hang out in the drawer again. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Toriel!Papyrus is perfectly willing to show Shifty the exit to the Ruins and talks about the previous humans passing through on the way there. He wonders why they have never contacted him since then and puts two and two together, leading up to the fight. | |
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Through a Face Full of Fur | |
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Through a Face Full of Fur: Asriel blushes a bunch of times when interacting with Shifty. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Alphys!Asgore. After accidentally creating the Amalgamates and being apart from his family for so long, he's willing to let Shift take his SOUL. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: The narration in Shift 1 is no less quirky or charming than it is in canon, due to the narrator being Mettaton. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: At one point, during one of her shows, Mettaton!Undyne forces Shifty to race up with a jar of honey and a can of fish sauce, promising that the first one would be spared. (And that the rest would face her wrath.) When Shifty wins, she let them go. | |
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Adaptation Personality Change | |
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Adaptation Personality Change: The role exchanges between the characters have led to some subtle differences. For example, while Papyrus is still an exuberant, lovable goofball, he's also a good deal more mature, thanks to being apart from Sans for so long. Asriel!Napstablook after the ruins fix up is also different. They aren't depressed so much as extremely apathetic. A less dramatic change than Asriel to Flowey, but a change nonetheless. | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Mettaton!Undyne initiates a fight with Shifty in the Hotland lab before Alphys!Asgore shows up to discourage her. Endogeny appears in Snowdin (replacing Annoying Dog in stealing the second boss's attack), and Lemon Bread is encountered alongside Shyren in Waterfall. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Chara, compared to their preboot version, acts a lot grumpier and distrusful of Frisk. They constantly looks tired, and their clothes are disheveled and patched. Dogamy, who appears without Dogaressa, is downcast, self-deprecating, and is only cheered up slightly by Frisk petting him. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: Alphys!Asgore is more confident and assertive than his canon counterpart, stopping Mettaton!Undyne from killing Shifty with nothing but a stern talking to...and then punishes her by suplexing her through a wall! Toriel, due to taking Undyne's place as captain of the Royal Guard in Shift 1. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Asriel and Chara, although with the caveat that Napstablook and Mettaton become their equivalents in the first shift. | |
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Magical Girl Warrior | |
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Magical Girl Warrior: Mettaton!Undyne's Super Mode, Undyne Umbra, is this. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want of a Nail: Lampshaded by Goner Kid. This seems to imply that there may be some divergences from the plot to come. In-universe example with Some things stay true for all paths, which list things that are the same across all shifts. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to the Creepy Child tendencies of their canon counterpart (as well as their Omnicidal Maniac side, depending on how much of what's seen of them in the genocide route you think represents the real them), Sans!Chara is considerably more wholesome. However, a bonus entry where Papyrus!Asriel becomes king (bear in mind this involves you killing both their adoptive parents) starts to look a little familiar. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: While Toriel!Papyrus does seem to keep his optimistic canon demeanor, it becomes increasingly obvious that he's quite lonely down in the Ruins. Chara too, if their phone call outside the Ruins is anything go by. The Hotland hangout proves that they were suicidal before Papyrus reminded them of how much their family would miss them. When you first meet him, you wouldn't guess that Asgore is so haunted by what he did with the Amalgamates that he has become suicidal. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Undyne!Toriel reveals in her date that she used to be good friends with Asgore!Sans and blindly followed in his plan to break the barrier until she witnessed him almost killing a human child firsthand. She stepped in to take the child under her care but that incident had inspired her to work against his plan ever since. That child's name? Chara. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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The fallen humans (aside from Frisk and Chara) are given considerably more focus than the original game or the preboot comic, with two of them presented as important Posthumous Characters by the end of Old Home. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: "I've Been Here Before," in which we discover the Shift 1 version of the backstory. | |
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Ignored Epiphany | |
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Ignored Epiphany: Implied to be the case with Sans. After receiving a What the Hell, Hero? from Toriel while trying to kill Chara, he let the kid go with her. However, this didn't cause him to change his policies regarding humans, and he still wants the souls. Subverted later when it turns out that he's revealed to be as hesitant as canon!Asgore and is implied to have second-thoughts about his plan. | |
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Cyborg | |
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Cyborg: Mettaton!Undyne. | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: In Shift 1, the "Praise" action in the encounter with Whimsalot during Mettaton!Undyne's "game show" works like this. The first few uses give actual complements before quickly devolving into a "The Reason You Suck" Speech concerning Whimsalot bullying Astigmatism as a child. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: While still present with the Amalgamates, this is considerably lessened in Shift 1. As Alphys!Asgore is more confident and willing to own up to his mistakes, the Amalgamates are out in the open and living alongside their component's families. Except from Snowdrake's mother. | |
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Wrestler in All of Us | |
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Alphys!Asgore is more confident and assertive than his canon counterpart, stopping Mettaton!Undyne from killing Shifty with nothing but a stern talking to...and then punishes her by suplexing her through a wall! | |
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Death by Despair | |
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Death by Despair: Asriel!Napstablook dies this way, having lost all hope after finding out that their cousin had died of his injuries from the humans. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: A downplayed example - the Dreemurr family in Shift 1 is affected by the strain in Asgore's and Toriel's relationship, implied to be caused by occurrences in the lab (probably linked to the Amalgamates). Unable to forgive him for what he did, Toriel moved house from to Waterfall. Chara and Asriel however, quickly forgave Asgore and went to live by themselves in Snowdin. It's very telling that Asriel drops his cocksure facade and begins crying during the first meeting with his mother, and says that he wants the family back together. Although it should be noted that Asgore's and Toriel's relationship isn't as tainted as the one of their canon counterparts. In her date, Toriel calls herself an "old married woman" if Shifty flirts with her and she still uses his nickname (Gorey) when she refers to Asgore. | |
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Sweet Tooth | |
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Sweet Tooth: Chara. According to Toriel, they used "more sugar than powder" when making artificial lemonade. | |
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I've Come Too Far | |
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I've Come Too Far: The mindset of the King and most monsters in Shift 1, and one of the reasons why Asgore!Sans continues to enact his plan to harvest Shifty's SOUL to cross the Barrier. He thinks that now that the plan is almost over, and freedom is almost at reach, the monsters won't want him to give up at the last moment. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: Alphys!Asgore is the royal scientist, and strong enough to suplex Mettaton!Undyne through a wall. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: From Chara, and a low-key one, when they question Shifty about why they're so determined to go back up to the surface. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Chara takes it rather personally if somebody even implies that people who suffered should be treated with caution, lest they turn evil. | |
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Accidental Hero | |
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Accidental Hero: Mettaton!Undyne's manager in Shift 1. His intervention, during which he reminds Undyne that it's the scheduled time for her cooking show, momentarily stops her from chasing Shifty. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Doctor Asgore Dreemur. Royal scientist well versed in robotics, cybernetics, human history, biology, and botany... and big and strong enough to suplex a now cyborg Undyne through his lab wall! | |
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Witch Hunt | |
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Witch Hunt: According to a new addition to the plaques in Waterfall in Shift 1, the humans went on one of these. It's hinted to be the backstory of Sans!Chara given that they call themselves a demon in Undertale. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Mettaton!Undyne One-Winged Angel form in the Core brings Sailor Moon in mind. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Canon!Undyne chased you across several wooden platforms/docks, throwing spears at you. Undyne!Toriel... uses her fire magic to illuminate the area, hanging back to watch your every movement instead. Monster Kid tells Shifty that she doesn't do that unless she's really intent on cornering her target. Played With, as she never intended to hurt Shifty but wanted to save them. | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: In a way. In Shift 1, Asgore!Sans declared war on humanity and enacted his plan to use the Human SOULs because his subjects, desperate and angry after Mettacrit's death at the hands of humans, pressured him to do it. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: In Shift 1, Asgore!Sans only declared war to humanity because his subjects, angry and vengeful after the deaths of Mettacrit and Mira, pressured him to do it. | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food: Sans apparently drinks ketchup soda. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
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In Spite of a Nail: For now played straight. Even if the characters switch places, the basic plot remains the same. The war between monsters and humans had the exact same outcome, Shifty is still trapped underground and tries to leave it, Chara and six other humans have already fallen before them, the king still has the same plan to use the human souls to cross the barrier, the Amalgamates still exist, there are still a captain of the guards, a royal scientist, a caretaker of the ruins... Divergences from the plot do happen though. The character who makes that implication also hints that there is one character whose role will never, ever change: W.D. Gaster. Killing Toriel, Asgore, and Undyne in Shift 1 will lead to Sans!Chara enacting the buttercup plan . | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Toriel gave Sans a good tongue-lashing on seeing him try to kill Chara. | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
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Dreadful Musician: Zigzagged with Mettaton!Undyne. You accidentally crash her piano concert (which replaces "Undertale: The Musical" with OTL!Mettaton), and in her rage, she starts slinging her piano at you. One of the screencaps shows a metallic drum inside in place of the strings and hammers of a typical piano. Undyne was "playing" a player piano. | |
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Carnival of Killers | |
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Carnival of Killers: Mettaton!Undyne decides to make a game show out of hunting Shifty and inviting some very skilled mercenaries to participate. These mercenaries include Final Froggit, Astigmatism, Whimsalot, Madjick, and Knight Knight. | |
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Thanatos Gambit | |
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Killing Toriel, Asgore, and Undyne in Shift 1 will lead to Sans!Chara enacting the buttercup plan . | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: In Shift 1. Unlike canon Papyrus, Asriel is still willing to date you, but wants to hold off on it until they reach the surface. Some of Chara's comments also give off this vibe. Chara's reaction to being called cute by Asriel. | |
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Piano Drop | |
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Piano Drop: At one point in Shift 1, Mettaton!Undyne attacks Shifty during her recital by throwing her player piano at them. | |
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Turns Red | |
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Turns Red: Unlike canon Papyrus, the Papyrus!Asriel fight's projectiles completely change after a certain point, rather than saddling you with the need to jump. In addition, the fight is actually challenging before the switchover. | |
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LARP | |
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LARP: Sans!Chara invites you to join them in "Humans and Monsters" against Papyrus!Asriel, who calls himself the "Absolute God Of Hyperdeath". However, it is cut short when Asriel loses his cool over Chara's teasing and the ineffectiveness of his puzzles. | |
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Suddenly Speaking | |
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Suddenly Speaking: Frisk starts to speak with their own text box and faceplates at the end of the Papyrus fight. | |
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BigSisterInstinct | |
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Big Sister Instinct: In Shift 1, Lemon Bread angrily admonishes Shifty not to harm Shyren during their battle. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: The X!Y format for referring to characters extends to fan-made music selections as well. For example: "Histrousle" uses the beat of "Nyeh Heh Heh!"/"Bonetrousle" backing up the melody of "His Theme". | |
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