Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160412010659/@comment-27907368-20160420211902

Hey, you look bored. Let’s get this over with.

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 Little things that don’t really fit in a Mettaton category!

At the end of a true pacifist run, re-checking Alphys’ trash can will lead to the discovery of a note that reads “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID.”.

The full quote of Alphys talking about alternative universes occurs when answering “Don’t know” in the quiz show. It reads: “H-hey, I've done research about this! There are alternate universes out there! S-someday, maybe, I could meet them...” She’s done research. c:

Mettaton is my least favorite character in the game! That’s canon.

There are multiple references to food not going bad Underground! The first is in Grillby’s with the chompy flower monsters saying that he can’t wait to try human food. There’s also reference to this when we learn that Undyne’s fridge heats food up and we see it again in Mettaton’s cooking segment when he scoffs at us looking in the fridge for milk and eggs.

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Mettaton! (Meta-ton fourth wall breakdown)

Many characters in Undertale break or lean on the fourth wall. However,  Mettaton in particular may be the character that breaks the fourth wall the most. “”I won’t be going in depth with encounters that are blatantly obvious in a neutral or pacifist run.”” <3

During the news segment, Happstablook’s in-game text turns to bombs and the newscast in aimed at an audience and not the playable character.

At the end of a pacifist run, you can see Blooky and Blocky outside of their respective houses. If you talk to Mettaton a second time, he will discuss types of merchandise that he wants to sell on the Surface – one of these is a plushie of Toriel with his face instead of hers. Toriel plushies are official Undertale merchandise.

One of the headlines for the newscast is “SCIENTIST DISCOVERS HEALTH BENEFITS OF USING COMPUTER (JUST KIDDING LOL)”.

Mettaton is the only character other than sans that allows the player to skip through dialogue (here’s looking at the scene parodying Final Fantasy).

In this same scene, the .exe is changed to UNDERTALE the Musical. The only other character that changes the .exe is Photoshop Flowey.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Quiz show segment!

<p class="MsoNormal">Honestly, I found very little of note in this part of the game. I mean, you can’t die and Alphys feeds you the answers.

<p class="MsoNormal">The counter goes up instead of down during the “Would you smooch a ghost?” question and the counter stays at 30 during the question about who Alphys has a crush on.

<p class="MsoNormal">http://i.imgur.com/V0Gx4m9.gif

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Cooking show segment!

<p class="MsoNormal">If you go to the sink when you’re meant to be fetching ingredients for the cake, Mettaton will tell you that this isn’t the show about washing your hands! … That’s on Wednesdays! So, one less day of the week that Undertale could have occurred on.

<p class="MsoNormal">When absolutely failing (I mean, uh, not trying) at the artificial human SOUL minigame, Mettaton will bail Alphys out. When Alphys realizes that the Box Ghost is doing her a favor, she smiles. It’s only for a few frames, so I took a picture of it in another video.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Bomb defusal / Newscast segment!

<p class="MsoNormal">All of the flavor text for the objects here is in the wikia, if you were curious.

<p class="MsoNormal">The headlines at the bottom of the screen read (they are in all capital letters but that looked hideous, so… I made them propercase. In the spirit of sans, I didn’t bother with grammar, though.):

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          MTT-Brand still top-rated

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          School cancelled over reactivated puzzles

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Local Mettaton very rich famous and gorgeous

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Tiny volcano monster tries its best, receives tiny applause

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Pyrope ironically misses invitation to this scenario “would have loved it”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Local plane creates huge line at store by saying “it’s not like I want to buy these products or anything” cashier confused

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Hotland technical functions accede and recede in linear progression throughout area

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Woshua cleans up local crime, literally finds criminals and douses them in soap, crime doesn’t go down but it smells amazing

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"> ·          Historic news ticker headline shortage

<p class="MsoNormal">The timer slows down considerably when it’s down to the last 10 seconds.

<p class="MsoNormal">You can’t lose, of course. However, Alphys does hint that she’d turn Mettaton off if she had to. Or, perhaps she’d turn Mettaton around so that he’s vulnerable to attack.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Musical/Colored Sadist Maze segment!

<p class="MsoNormal">A weird reference to humor can be seen here. Mettaton says “YOU'LL BE INCINERATED BY THESE JETS OF FIRE!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHA... HA... HA! MY POOR LOVE! I'M SO FILLED WITH GRIEF, I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!” ... This reminded me of the bad time with Snowdrake’s mom. I will have to make a post about the commentary on humor in Undertale at some point…

<p class="MsoNormal">In the colored tile puzzle segment, Mettaton says “ACTUALLY, WAIT A SECOND. DIDN'T WE SEE THIS PUZZLE ABOUT A HUNDRED ROOMS AGO?” This may be a nod to him being used as the console for this puzzle in Snowdin.

<p class="MsoNormal">Whenever you step on a green tile, the box ghost’s voice clip “oh yeah” can be heard. Or you can just stand there and not do the puzzle, to which Mettaton’s dialogue changes to well well welly well well well (etc.). He still has to justify attacking you, I suppose.

<p class="MsoNormal">Even if you beat the maze, Mettaton will improvise and fight you anyway.

<p class="MsoNormal">After Alphys gives you the shooting ability, Mettaton fakes getting hurt and says “Whatever” as he strolls away. Rude.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Battle with EX!

<p class="MsoNormal">Once Count Box-ula turns into his more human form, you can hurt him. A lot of things from this battle are common knowledge, so I’m going to limit it to a few things:

<p class="MsoNormal">You can up your ratings at a pretty decent speed (+1500 each time) if you equip clothing during the fight.

<p class="MsoNormal">Mettaton catches the stick in his mouth just like PAPYRUS does. This gives more points when Mettaton’s arms and legs have been detached.

<p class="MsoNormal">He ignores the mystery key. There is a lot of evidence that this is the key to his house.