Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26907577-20190926190929

I believe you said yourself there were several contradictions in the ending. Let me try to find/remember them.

Ah, yes. Toriel stands back up.

So now, instead of an argument about Sparing being non-canon... we have an argument about FIGHTing being non-canon.

Your previous reason against this was that the dog was unaware of it. In less formalized circumstances, I would just say "that's ridiculous!"

Alas, we must find evidence to prove that every single Genocide Route kill is not just caused by the monsters acting out a script for the game's purposes.

"Yes, the Hard Mode conspiracy also violates Occam's Razor immensely." -you

So we now have these options:
 * 1) Boss Monsters, if not other monsters, only die by choice.
 * 2) Hard Mode is not canonical.

The only explanation for #1 is the conspiracy, seeing some dialogue from both adults which clearly indicates they would rather not die.

...But I think that #2 is certainly more probable by the Razor. Other thoughts?