Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25958552-20160731160314/@comment-27701762-20160731163402

Okay, but that's not what Asgore did, nor how it works. Asgore needs the combined power of 7 human souls to destroy the barrier. The combination of one monster soul and one human soul allows a single person to cross the barrier. If he wanted to destroy the barrier, he would need to kill one human, absorb its soul, cross the barrier, then kill 6 more humans on the Surface so he could return. He didn't want to become God. He just wanted the monsters to have hope that they might one day escape, since they'd lost all hope once Chara and Asriel died. His own hope was that no human would ever fall into the Underground so that he would never have to hurt them.

Is he a good person? Not really. I wouldn't call him bad, either, though.