User:NamelessRumia/No Mercy Route

http://i.imgur.com/CMT6VAM.png No Mercy Route is the alternative, politically correct term used to refer to the Genocide Route of Undertale where you systematically kill monsters of the Underground for being monsters. You may be on this page because you've heard somewhere that Toby Fox prefers if people use "No Mercy Route" instead of "Genocide Route", this is a lie spread by Tumblr's lack of fact-checking and inability to read.

History
No Mercy Route stems from a post where "curiomode" urged the Undertale fanbase to use an alternative name for the Genocide Route since "nyanface" allegedly claimed that the term was coined by a known griefer named "fockboxx" who attempted to stream the Genocide Route on the day Undertale was released.

The failed attempt and well as the attempt that occurred the day after were uploaded to YouTube, but doesn't include the chatroom for the stream which reportedly poked fun at the Holocaust according to the post.

The claim that "Toby Fox told people to stop using the Genocide Route" stems from people reading the original post incorrectly since the "(who has talked to Toby personally)" misguides people into believing Toby Fox has spoken to "nyanface" personally. The user "curiomode" later attempts to backtrack and say that her sister only told her not to use the term and not "Toby Fox", which makes the post redundant.

The term, No Mercy Route, can be traced back to the failed attempt mentioned earlier. It was suggested as an alternative by "wormcreepy", now known as "wormcreepy", alongside "Having a Bad Time".

Undertale Wiki
The first discussion on the wiki regarding if "Genocide Route" and "Pacifist Route" should be changed was originally a blog post by Velocity Chicken. The early administration team seem to both agree on keeping the term in a public thread on the forums attached to the "Genocide Route" page.

Personal Stance
I was an administrator at the time the "name changes" were being discussed, and I initially dismissed the entire argument as "Tumblr being Dumblr" while supporting the idea that it should be kept as "Genocide Route" instead of "No Mercy Route". A couple months later, I revisited the later post and got incredibly frustrated that the whole argument was entirely from lack of comprehension.

As of today, I still support "Genocide Route", but don't particularly care about Undertale since the game itself and everything surrounding it has generally deteriorated from my viewpoint. I've decided to bring back the "Origins of No Mercy Route" post back into the public for archiving, accessibility, and since all unfounded claims of Toby Fox telling fans not to use "Genocide Route" generally kinda ticks me off.

I wrote this article with a neutral point of view in mind, without ridiculing Tumblr as much as a I could have, but Toby Fox did use "Genocide Run" at one point on his Twitter account. I took note that he deleted that tweet, as well as a number of old posts that I've linked and his old website on Fobby, sometime in late October 2015.