Talk:Monsters/@comment-184.74.180.22-20151029184401/@comment-130.184.253.74-20151030012047

I've also heard a meta about it that goes like this. During the Flowey fight, you are repeatedly asked to "call for help", yeah? And Flowey repeatedly mocks you with the phrase "but no one came", even stating himself that, as Asriel, he called for help and no one came.

So the idea is that, having fallen into the underground, Frisk is calling for help. That's why the ! appears over their head, because they called for help and are startled when the monsters come.

It would also explain why, on no-mercy runs, the monsters stop coming. It specifically says "but no one came". That phrase has only ever been used in association with calling for help. Except now, the monsters don't WANT to come help because they know Frisk (Chara) will kill them. That also explains why the "!" bubble eventually changes to a ":)" bubble when an encounter occurs during no-mercy run. Frisk (Chara) is HAPPY to have lured the monsters into a trap.