Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29936979-20170521221313/@comment-37931956-20181226060813

Galleigo wrote: Cheeseskates wrote: Make3.0Shine wrote: I don't think it's that he was weak, I think it's that Chara/Frisk were too strong. Saitama vs. Chara. i'm just imagining chara with a real knife and having the creepiest smile in the universe, about to attack him...

then he blocks the knife with his hands

about mettaton - his human eradication functions were "never completely removed", implying they were at least partially removed. in other words now he's probably trash at human eradication in NEO mode, especially because NEO mode isn't used much.

he probably would have easily stopped frisk in normal mode, which is actually kinda sad. this is the most sensible explanation in my opinion.. And yet, it's also the saddest. But genocide route is meant to be sad, not meant to be enjoyable in any way whatsoever. Turns out, Mettaton wasn't some killer robot that could completely destroy you within minutes. On genocide, he was just another citizen of the Underground. Not a boss monster this time. Just an innocent, trying to protect his friends, yet unable to because of his partially-dismantled third body. Say, he could've been counting on himself to obliterate the dangerous human.

Speaking of this, I sort of want to add a couple of theories of my own...

So, when he's killed on a genocide route, he says 'Alphys should have worked on the defenses a little more'.

Maybe she was slowly destroying Neo while Mettaton was turned off, or whenever he ran out of batteries? After all, she wanted to be a part of Chara/Frisk's journey, not end it (or have it ended by someone else). Maybe, even, she could stop Mettaton, one of the bosses.

My second theory is similar to the one just stated.

Mettaton was only told of this ability, and never really monitored what was done to it; or he hadn't even tried the form out at all before, and was completely new to it. Alphys added the form early on, but had slowly begun dismantling the form once she knew a human was in the Underground. Maybe, even, Alphys only added the form because she was told to, and she didn't actually want to.