Talk:Asgore Dreemurr/@comment-72.198.110.225-20151010083319/@comment-85.171.113.178-20151010163505

He could have crossed it, but I came up with an explanation that may make sense.

First of all, it's shown during the True Pacifist ending that the game's humans live in a modern, developped world like ours - which would mean advanced weaponry, which would most likely overpower monsters' outdated weapons (and probably their magic as well).

Keep in mind that a determined child managed to defeat 2 monsters that had 6 souls each, so imagine what all of mankind could do.

Now, if Asgore had taken a soul and crossed the barrier, he would have either been: a) killed on sight once he reached the humans, since, you know, he's a monster ; or b) able to gather one more soul and release all monsters before they all get decimated by human forces.

As for why he killed those 6 people, it's stated in the game that he was scared to cross the barrier - and he was right to be. Mankind defeated them once, they could do it again. Even if he stood a chance, Asgore, being the kind-hearted monster that he is, wouldn't want to mass-murder humans anyway.

He was hoping a more peaceful solution would eventually show up, and it did - allowing monsters and humans to coexist once more thanks to Frisk acting as an ambassador.

So in the end, his cowardly actions worked - at a price.