Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26907577-20200112171702

Lemme take a page out of Ambassador's book.

And while we know Undyne was a normal monster who got power infusions both from human Determination,

Do we though? DO WE?

Maybe.

and channeling the power of all the remaining residents of the Underground when she became Undying,

I propose an alternate hypothesis: Undyne's speech was metaphorical.

I wonder which one is more probable: Undyne has found a way to channel everybody's emotion into raw combat strength, or she knows that everybody wants you dead, uses a metaphor, and uses the raw combat strength she already had?

Sans offers no explaination for his incredible powers that surpass even her. Sans must be getting his power from somewhere.. but it's a secret. This is why I think he must have a human soul, we have no other means in-universe to explain this.

"No other means in-universe"? Let's consider all of the options.
 * 1) Sans is Ness, the protagonist of an unrelated game franchise, who has not just researched but crossed timelines and also disguised himself as a monster.
 * Pretty complicated.
 * 1) Sans is another human who fell into the Underground, manipulated time, and disguised himself as a monster.
 * Simpler?
 * 1) Sans is a monster/Darkner from Deltarune, which are more powerful than any natives of Undertale (Remember, even at LV 1, Dark World Kris has 90 HP), who has not just researched but crossed timelines.
 * Hmm. Fair point. This is pretty complicated too.
 * 1) Sans has Determination from the True Lab.
 * Doesn't really fit the evidence.
 * 1) Sans, during his established research on timelines, figured out how to abuse the battle interface to succeed in combat despite his horrible hit points and damage output.
 * I'm with this one. Few assumptions, explains the evidence.

That technology several centuries ahead of Snowdin could exist only miles away.. but not yet spread to Snowdin itself except in small things like the Dimensional Boxes?, makes the compelling case that the infusion of future tech was recent and hasn't had time to spread.

Or it couldn't spread for other reasons. Let's look at those.
 * 1) Gaster is gone, and it takes a while to reverse-engineer his stuff.
 * 2) Everything in the CORE is bolted down, so they can't just take i- wait a minute.

Fair point. The Cell Phone upgrades aren't bolted down.

...then again, those gadgets aren't really useful at home. All the tech in the CORE is good for two things: Security and electricity. The CORE already powers the Underground electrical grid, and everybody else is pretty trusting. So there doesn't seem to be much motivation to get "a jetpack for every citizen".

but the surface humans never had Anime Super Tech like you see in the Core. That tech didn't just come from outside the Underground, it came from another world entirley.

Again, there are other options.
 * 1) The CORE tech was made by Gaster, who is Andonuts, who crossed timelines to get to Undertale and build the CORE.
 * 2) To gain his scientific knowledge, Andonuts made a pact with Giygas.
 * This is your take.
 * 1) Andonuts was just a genius.
 * 2) The CORE tech was made collaboratively, by many scientists over many years, then stolen by Gaster and taken to Undertale. And crossed timelines.
 * It's an option. And it removes the "Gaster is an inexplicable genius who can invent this technology over only a few years" issue.
 * 1) The CORE tech was made by Gaster, who was just a genius.
 * Simple.

So in my book, if the artist has deliberately made two different things sharply different from each other when compared, that's evidence every bit as strong as an alegra equation.

But we can put sharp differences into our algebra equations! See above.

...Hmm, what if we color-coded text by user? That might be fun. If complex. Aaaaand not really helpful. Oh well.