Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-31536324-20190114043604

"--A Message to Malice--

Actually, Malice, OK:KO is canonically a cartoon. (S2E7:Your World is An Illusion) Then again, this was also revealed in S1E42:Let's Watch The Pilot, and everybody seemed to just forget it, as KO had to learn his world was an illusion, when he SHOULD already know this from S1E42, and has no reason to be surprised, so maybe the show just isn't very consistent. Either way, it's a bad example. We need a better one."

Actually, that episode (Let's watch the pilot) was officially stated to be a non-canon Actor AU by the creators. Where the canon events we know is a show.

The episode, Your World is an Illusion, canonizes that the world itself is a cartoon and not real in the sense that we know it. But my original point of the world working the way it does because that's how it naturally works still holds up even with this.

Therefore the example still works since the concepts of leveling up, gaining exp, stats, and power ups are still canon elements of the world that everyone and everything live by. After all, the episode ends with the lesson that just because the world isn't real, doesn't make what happens in it any less real.

Both Ok KO and Undertale are no different to this than, say, Futurama. A show where the main characters are very aware that they are a cartoon, but still live and follow the rules of their world because that's how their world operates.