Undertale
Video Game • 2015 Report
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ajwilmot2023
You can choose to kill a variety of dogs in the game, but it is not recommended as the good ending" of the game involves sparing every creature you run into
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JacksonRat
A horse-mermaid type monster can by killed by the player ingame, but it is optional and discouraged.
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NickShutter
There are monster characters resembling other animals - for example, one is a deer - that can be killed.
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Abryn5
Various animals can be killed.
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Boop
You are all extremely confused about what dog fighting is. Dog fighting is when humans force dogs to fight for amusement, not being attacked by dogs.
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Alrite_Stoodeos
You can kill animals like dogs, goats, spiders, frogs, deer, fish, turtles, horses and birds.
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EndogenyIsContented
There is a monster encounter where your adversary is a cat-like creature. Like all monster encounters in this game, it is possible (but not required or recommended) to kill her. Additionally, there is an anthropomorphic cat creature who acts as a shopkeeper and cannot be fought. In the worst possible ending, the entire world is destroyed, killing all remaining monsters including the cat shopkeeper.
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no but their are dogs down there which you can choose to kill if you select the genocide route
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EndogenyIsContented
There is a very difficult-to-find monster encounter which is very dragon-like (and described by his creator as a "butterdragon"). Like other monster encounters, it is possible but not required or recommended to kill him.
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EmilyMuscolina
There is a spider monster, Muffet, who bakes with spiders. In her battle, spider's aid her. If you spare her or eat one of her treats, she's friendly to you.
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Abryn5
A monster in the game's short Hard Mode has snakes on its body.
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Moominland
Froggit attacks include swarms of flies
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fandomsandmusicals
Never outright confirmed, but Chara was likely abused and is manipulative towards Asriel. The evidence for this is few and far between, and requires playing multiple routes.
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volpiaanicci
There are no graphic depictions of child abuse, but there are heavy implications of child abuse in some routes.
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YepItsLap
one of the characters becomes a parental figure of some sort to the player, and it's up to you whether you commit domestic violence or not
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PigDoodles
That’s not what gaslighting is.
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giwake
In several points of the game, the player can find cameras that are implied to be recording them. Additionally, after exiting the Ruins, there is a short sequence where a character stalks the player which may be triggering to some.
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EmilyMuscolina
There is a disabled dog named Doggo. He smokes dog biscuits.
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theradicalace
There is one NPC in Grillby's known as "Drunk Bun" who could be seen as an alcoholic.
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AspieBean
There’s a dog who “smokes dog biscuits,” but this is purely for comedic effect and it’s never listed as addiction.
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EntropyEmissary
In the game's Pacifist route, there is a scene near to the end where 6 characters are visibly restrained with thorns.
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RowanOakley
At one point, you, playing as a character that is presumably a child, can go on a 'date' with Papyrus, but Papyrus either doesn't understand the implications of what a date is or he does and has no actual romantic/sexual intent. Still, worth noting.
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DoesTheMonsterDie
The creation of the Amalgamates is assumed to be torture, but they and their families seem to be fine with being mixed with several other people.
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mossyrain9609
When sans is tired from fighting, I believe he is shown trying to catch his breath.
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Liatai
There is one character who wears an eyepatch, and a few monsters are based on eyes. No violence is done to eyes unless you perpetrate it, however.
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KamiSteele
Monsters canonically turn to dust when they die, so most of the game is pretty bloodless and non-graphic. There is body horror in some routes, but the type is less 'gore' and more 'bizarre surrealism.' The worst it gets is a visual in the No Mercy ending's final boss fight that depicts a character bleeding from the chest, but the context suggests it may be ketchup instead.
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TheLightestShadow
There's potential implications to both shaving and cutting, but nothing explicit
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Micaela
I... I mean... you can kill a skeleton...
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BluelsABitConfused
Addressing the one above
Mettaton does not have a tooth knocked out, he's biting his lip in order to keep his composure and not cry out
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blahbruhmah
There’s multiple people that fall from a large heights, but none of them die
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EmilyMuscolina
In the true pacifist route, Undyne's house burns down. The house is shaped like a fish so it comedically shows it; the windows of the house are eyes, so there are flames in it and "tears."
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EntropyEmissary
Offscreen, but a major character is able to have a heatstroke depending on the player's actions. Whether a seizure specifically took place is unclear, but may be implied as she "can barely move" according to another character.
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StrongFish91
Yes there's a coffin, but the person in it was not buried alive.
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aidensings
I suppose if you count decapitation, then yes.
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EndogenyIsContented
When on the "no mercy" path, after killing one boss his head becomes detached from his body while his body is reduced to dust. His head becomes dust separately. This is commonly interpreted (and regularly depicted in fan material) as being the result of the player crushing his head under their foot.
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MisterBeret
Not of humans, but the spider treats are said to be made "by spiders, for spiders, of spiders"
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KamiSteele
One area that is necessary for the Pacifist Ending is the 'True Lab,' which features monsters fused with other monsters in a scientific experiment. The monsters in question have glitchy, surreal, and/or gruesome designs, with some battle text implying dark details about their emotional or physical pain (ex. "Welcome to my special hell"). The same area has logs describing their origins, including confirming that they were made from dead bodies. The final boss in the Neutral endings has a surreal plant/machine design that is a mixture of cartoon animation, the default art style, and photorealism (if you've seen Madoka Magica, it looks similar to the witch barriers for reference). Some of the monsters outside of the True Lab and the Neutral endings have surreal designs, such as extra eyes on another part of their body or a dog humorously stretching out its neck, but nothing that invokes gore or violent implications.
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KamiSteele
There are battle options and dialogue choices where you (a child) can 'flirt' with various characters, and two 'date' sequences with characters who are adults. However, all of these are tame; the character in the first date sequence doesn't seem to understand what a date even is, and the second is more wacky misunderstandings if anything. The player character themselves doesn't have anything sexualized.
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beatriz.caimi99
Is one of the plot points but is not graphically showed
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kklaw
Sorta, in the genocide route (the one where you eliminate every monster in the game) undyne takes a fatal blow blocking a child from the player, also, while accidental and not shown on screen, a major character dies trying to put his sibling in their requested resting place
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fandomsandmusicals
Though not shown, a major character is killed before the events of the story. Additionally, many monsters can be killed if you attack them.
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EmilyMuscolina
The parents of Asriel Dreamer, Toriel and Asgore, can be killed by the protagonist. When they are killed, they have slashes across themselves and turn into dust. However it is your choice if they die or not.
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WinterCoffin
When the playable child character is taken in by a motherly goat creature who intends to keep you as her own. She is disappointed when you leave, but understands that you are not her child.
Your character resembles the first human child that this motherly goat creature adopted. So implied kidnapping?
Additionally a silly skeleton creature “captures” you after he defeats you in battle. You are put into a room with dog supplies and a fence, but can easily escape through the bars to continue your journey.
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NickShutter
A figure can be seen behind a shower curtain, but pulling it back reveals that nothing was there.
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ajwilmot2023
Though there is a ghost name Napstablook, he is a comical character and does not attempt to be scary in any way throughout the game
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dimensionalMystery
After leaving the Ruins (all routes), a door clicks and Sans' shadow appears behind a tree
The elevator to the True Lab (Pacifist route) suddenly falls and a siren plays
Neither are exactly scary but they made me jump lmao
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Nepeta
Some of the characters are “dummies”
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dimensionalMystery
A ghost possesses a training dummy but I'm like 99% sure the dummy wasn't sentient before that?
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EndogenyIsContented
In the short Hard Mode, there is a special monster encounter with a clown face and described as a "messed-up clownbug".
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doesthedogdielogin
there is a slashing sound when a character is killed that resembles the sound of being slashed by a sword or blade
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callmesalticidae
There are whoopie cushions, however.
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KamiSteele
With a stretch, you could *maybe* count a scene on the Pacifist route, but it's more silly sitcom-esque antics if anything. Basically, one female character asks you to deliver what quickly turns out to be a love letter to her (also female) crush. However, the second character mistakes it as it being yours (gender ambiguous/implied nonbinary), which results in a humorous intentionally awkward sequence where both of you go on a date, during which she admits she favors the first character more. The first character eventually shows up while the two of you are discussing approaches to asking her out. Again, more ridiculous sitcom misunderstandings than any sort of cheating or deliberate dishonesty involved.
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AspieBean
No, although there’s a lab that could look like one.
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anonamus
Not on-screen, but there are references to injections in the lab notes of one character experimenting on other people.
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NickShutter
Portions of Alphys' lab are reminiscent of a hospital.
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DottyBlackheart26
Papyrus is definitely autism-coded as he has many typically autistic traits, but he is not abused or mistreated unless by the player on a Genocide run or a No Mercy run. Even then, it’s not autism-specific since it isn’t mentioned and Papyrus has not been canonically confirmed as autistic. Being autistic myself, I think he definitely is, but that’s beside the point.
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Someone404
Alphys has problems with anxiety
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fandomsandmusicals
Optional content reveals two ghost characters feel dysphoria about their incorporeal form.
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Yes
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Brittany Collins
There is one successful and two attempted suicides in the backstory. Furthermore, two characters can commit suicide during the game, one implied and the other on-screen (though non-graphic). Both of them survive in the pacifist route.
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StrongFish91
Not explicitly, but you can make the argument that one character in particular does.
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Boop
You are all extremely confused about what body dysmorphia is. Body dysmorphia is not body horror. Body dysmorphia is not gender dysphoria. Body dysmorphia is when a person (usually anorexic) perceives their body to be different(usually larger) than it actually is.
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Micaela
Yes, someone slowly dies by poisoning themselves in the backstory.
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sevendollarsofbeans
A character says she had thoughts of “doing something cowardly” during the true pacifist route but she doesn’t go into more detail than that
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DoesTheMonsterDie
A monster dog amalgamate approaches you in a narrow hallway. They become placid after several pets.
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Nepeta
There are no characters with did
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StrongFish91
Technically no. A character who intends to do so is stopped before they can attempt though.
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Lucairo
While they are not explicitly said to have a mental illness , a character that is coded as mentally ill wanted to kill people in the backstory but is stopped from doing so
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dimensionalMystery
The elevators shake a little bit but I don't think it's enough to count?
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Jadespade
The last fight of a Neutral run and Pacifist run can have strobe effects.
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kklaw
A few characters use mild cussing from time to time (nothing above pg13) and one character is depicted to be (from what most can tell) bleeding, but both are very mild, and the latter is very difficult to trigger (if you get to the "unexpected really hard fight" it's that one)
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sevendollarsofbeans
The fourth wall is broken a lot the more you play the game, with some characters addressing you the player and not the character you play as
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ashlux
Two different characters watch your progress throughout the game, one of which you discover later on and another is occasionally shown following you in singular frames and may be difficult to catch.
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Ember360
Not in the game, but the fandom does have issues with infantilizing an autistic-coded character
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RobotBlue
Not in the game, but the fandom does contain people who are extremely Aphobic, although this was more prevalent in the older fandom.
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Brittany Collins
There are multiple LGBT characters who *can* die but they all survive in a pacifist playthrough.
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RowanOakley
No, but be wary; characters that use they/them pronouns in canon are often given a binary gender in fanworks, and this is a common point of contention.
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RowanOakley
No, overall no one ever comments on anyone else's weight. However, one of the secret bosses, So Sorry, is known for being a character designed by a fat fetish artist.
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DottyBlackheart26
Who said yes??
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RowanOakley
This game is known for being extremely LGBT-positive. There are two gay couples who are treated as normal by the narrative.
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probablyapineapple
it's more of a "rectangle in a dress" joke. also, in one of the endings, he gives his dress to a character that is implied to be transfeminine.
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kklaw
There's an implied relationship (commonly interpreted as romantic but has no direct confirmation) between a skeleton with no confirmed age and a goat monster implied to be over 100 years old (although not phisically aging past around early 30s), the skeleton by most is interpreted to be around late 20s, so technically it's ambiguous
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asdfghkl
Only in the fandom
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kklaw
Technically a character calls another his "favorite sexy rectangle" but it's implied to be a joking line, or at the very least not ill-intentioned
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KatanaNovaCat
Nothing stronger than a character being offhandedly described as "sexy".
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EntropyEmissary
In the final area of one of the game's main routes, you can learn a male child character was repeatedly manipulated by a family member using the phrase "big kids don't cry", a tactic they presumably used to invalidate his emotions so he would not resist them. The manipulator was of the same age as the child, and the scene can be easily avoided by not watching the cassette tapes, but the lasting consequence is still evident as he states he still views himself as a "crybaby" later on the route.
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kklaw
If you count mental illness some characters (2 in particular) are implied to have depression and anxiety, both end up with and/or already are surrounded by great support groups
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mistersandman
Undyne’s house burns down, but she goes to stay with Papyrus and Sans.
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Ember360
You can find a Santa costume in one character's room and a "thank you" letter addressed to Santa in another. These aren't directly spoiling it, tho
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blahbruhmah
It really only depends on what route you play, if you do a genocide Route then of cause there’s not a happy ending, there’s a fair amount of what one would call neutral endings though
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DoesTheMonsterDie
You have the option to kill a plane shaped enemy. Their death animation shows them crashing to the ground. This is more comical than anything and the only fatality is the plane monster.
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charcolor
there is eye gore shown toward the very end of the genocide route. there is another instance of possible blood in the genocide route, but considering the character it happens to, it could just be ketchup.
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MiloticMiku
In the final fight in the neutral route, one of the attacks is shaped like a nuclear bomb.
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AntiTerf
The main character can use an empty gun as a weapon but it isn't really shown as any different than using other weapons. There's also cartoonish guns in one fight
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