Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37313691-20181228000906/@comment-34834253-20190615060005

Rainbowbirdie wrote: 3aday wrote: I think that if an undertale movie was made from the pacifist route it wouldn't be good. Here are my reasons:

- Frisk has no gender so by casting frisk it ruins the fact that they should be a relatable character with a gender that you can choose

- Frisk is supposed to represent anyone. They have lines for eyes, which toby fox intentionally designed them as so anyone could reflect themself on them due to the simple face. by casting frisk this takes away that aspect

-Undertale has a genocide and neutral route as well, so only having pacifist would feel odd, because some players have played neutral and genocide so they wouldn't feel good watching the movie because it'd make them feel like they played the game wrong.

- The movie would only be enjoyable for people who haven't played the game and know everything about it already

- It would be difficult to adapt it into a movie since, like someone said earlier, you can't adapt interactivity into a story. Undertale has so much interactivity in it and so much gameplay that it wouldn't be able to be a movie.

The only ocassion where an undertale movie would work would be if it was about chara and asriel, before the events of undertale and after the war. Now there is a high chance this could still flop as a movie, but it would be better because pretty much everyone agrees that chara is a girl, and there isn't a story to go by since it was before undertale. Chara also doesn't have to be related to by an audience. If they were to adapt undertale as a movie as the pacifist route, than they would have to make brand new fresh ideas to make the movie awesome. Fresh ideas can make any adaptation from a thing work, for example, the lego movie sounded stupid when everyone first heard of it, because people were confused on how a movie about legos would be like, but they used fresh awesome ideas and made the movie super cool. Same for undertale. I disagree, mainly because the pacifist route has more story to it, and it would have to be animated. And here in the west, there is the dumb logic that anything animated equals kids material. I know it’s stupid but that’s just the way it is. Why? Because animated films need ALOOOOOOOOOT of money. In order to get that money back, they need to make it appeal to the widest audience possible. And I know there are a few ecpections to this, however that’s mostly the tea down in the Western Hemisphere. Therefore, if it is genocide, it would probably rated at least a PG-13 (12 if your not American), which would be the equivalent to a death sentence for an animated film. Also, you are forgetting the fact that Frisk remains genderless in all routes, and the fact that I have played undertale, and I’d love to see an animated film based on the pacifist route. Also they could just give Frisk an official gender OR personality (I know that might get fans upset, but still).

Response: If the movie was done that way, I repeat, it would be bad. The pacifist route would be the easiest route to go for for money, but it would still be bad. I was arguing that the movie shouldn't exist, but you just said why my reasons for the movie not existing could be changed in order to make the movie exist. Point is, the movie would be bad regardless, and making an undertale movie would be a bad idea. Also, if the movie was to go by the pacifist route and be exactly the same as the game, it woulld just be undertale but in the movie version. The onlly way for the undertale movie to have a chance of working would be if the movie went off it's own canon with the story, if they made up their own new story with the undertale characters.