Top 10 Saddest Undertale Deaths
I was surprised to see this wasn't already a list, so I figured I'd take action.
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Papyrus (Genocide Route)
That's definitely the saddest. He still believes in you and thinks you can change for the better, even when you're hunting everyone down.
It's horrible. He isn't totally naïve, but he does realize you have something up with you. "The way you shuffle about from place to place, the way your hands are always covered in dusty powder." He knows you have something wrong with you. He knows you are evil.
And even though he knows all of this, he still decides to spare you. To give you MERCY. He even wants to give you a HUG. A HUG to someone who's killed over 50 monsters. If you kill him, you are not human. And when you do slash him, right afterward, he says he still sees hope in you.
Now go away, you dirty brother killer.
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Toriel (Neutral and Genocide Routes)
I didn't feel anything at all in the genocide route. But... somehow I feel like I need to vote for this one because you are killing your own mother. Toriel only wanted the best for you, and you struck her down.
I feel like whenever someone is playing Undertale for the first time, this fight really decides what path you take. I know because I nearly killed her in my first run.
Toriel was the mother figure of the game, and to just kill her! What kind of monster are you if you do that? She even says, "Y-You really hate me that much? Now I see who I was protecting by keeping you here. Not you... But them. Be good... My... child..."
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Undyne (Neutral Route)
Jesus, if there's a character whose death is anywhere close to as sad as Undyne's, it's Papyrus. Sure, she is sort of a... let's say, jerkwad, just to keep it family-friendly, but she's only that way to protect her kingdom, family, and friends. I mean, if your family were in danger of dying, wouldn't you protect them, too? I would protect anyone I could from getting hurt.
In the end, she just wanted to protect her kind, and you went off and killed her without thinking twice. She tries to stay alive. She doesn't want to die. Nobody does. Neutral could be the worst you could do. Think about Alphys and how she has to suffer through life now, knowing that her best friend and the only one who really cared about her is dead. Jesus, dude.
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Sans (Genocide Route)
Sans is my favorite character because I was introduced to Undertale through him. Now, about six months later, I beat Undyne the Undying with relative ease, but Sans is like "Nope!" I saw about 600 different videos on his death, however. A fan-made animation stopped me on my first genocide run because it was so sad. (If you want to see it, search Close To You Undertale animation on YouTube). I am now trying not to cry at how guilty I feel for the Genocide run while also not dying after attacking Sans once.
Sans just wanted to be happy and to make Papyrus happy... It hurts that anyone would try to even hurt a guy like that. I love my own little bro, so I understand Sans, but not anyone who can kill him or Papy.
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Mettaton (Neutral and Genocide Routes)
My boy Mettaton should be so strong that trying to kill him will result in a GAME OVER.
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The Dogs (Neutral and Genocide Routes)
I hate killing Lesser Dog in Genocide. It breaks my heart.
The dogs are the happiest creatures ever. If you do genocide and have to kill them, at least throw them a stick to give them a good time and a quick death.
Killing dogs is messed up.
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Asriel Dreemurr (True Pacifist Route)
Condemned to live forever as a soulless golden flower from the same garden in which his sister took the flowers which she killed herself with.
"Someone has to keep looking after these flowers."
This line hit different. Those flowers, beneath them is Chara's corpse, still with the seeds of the golden flowers that became her end. I just wish that we could give Asriel seven human souls (six from the Barrier, one sourced from death row inmates (or D-Class)) and give Chara an injection of DETERMINATION. That would be a real happy ending.
The True Pacifist route is by far the most enjoyable way to play Undertale. You free all the monsters and give them their happy ending - that is, except for Asriel, who's doomed to be trapped in the body of a flower for what seems to be forever. As much as fans hope, there doesn't seem to be a lot of hope for poor Asriel.
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Temmie (Neutral and Genocide Routes)
They are so happy, then you kill them. That is why I never played UT again (I still like Pacifist though).
Why? They're happy, their song is happy, why did you ruin their life?
Why would you kill Temmie! Temmie helped make Undertale!
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Alphys (Certain Neutral Routes)
This is sad because Alphys is a character that many people can relate to. Also, to those who say she is a horrible person for creating the Amalgamates: Alphys didn't mean to. She was under pressure to find a way to strengthen monster souls and had no way of predicting what would happen.
To answer your question, she commits suicide off-screen. If you kill Mettaton or Undyne, she says this. "I was just worried I would be too afraid... To tell the truth... That I might run away, or do something... Cowardly." After that, she tells you to leave, and if you come back to the door, it would say that no one would answer it.
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Undyne (Genocide Route)
Undyne dies. And then she comes back, realizing that she has to protect all of humankind and monsterkind. Ironically, in being sliced in half by a human, she realizes their worth. But alas, she is struck down once more, and with a smile, she has hope for the world, even in her last dying moments.
"By now, Alphys has called Asgore and told him to absorb the six human souls... And with that power, this world will live on!"
She's just trying to save her people from a genocidal maniac!
The way she smiles when you hit her, it's like she wants you to kill her. But the way she dies... HAVE YOU SEEN IT? SHE MELTS! Why does that only happen to her, but the others shatter into millions of pieces? This world will always live on...
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Mad Mew Mew (Neutral Route)
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Asgore Dreemurr (Genocide Route)
Asgore Dreemurr is a boss monster and the king of the monsters in the 2015 RPG Undertale, created by Toby Fox. Asgore is portrayed as the main antagonist, with a plan to collect seven human souls to break the barrier trapping the monsters underground. His character is slowly revealed through hints and... read more
He tried to spare you and give you a cup of tea, and you murder him with one strike. The same way you killed the last of the royal guard (in my opinion, Sans is part of the royal guard, but he keeps it a secret because he doesn't want to impose on Papyrus, even after he dies).
He didn't even get a chance to defend himself.
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Asgore Dreemurr (Neutral Routes)
"I remember the night after my son died..."
ASGORE is the most tragically misunderstood character in Undertale. It's a real shame that most of the fandom just says the same tired old "he killed six kids!" thing. Undyne wanted to kill you too, so did Mettaton. Flowey killed possibly millions for goodness' sake, and you're saying that Asgore deserves all the hate he gets because he wanted to free his people? Hell, given that the fallen humans' items are found at different parts of the game, it's likely they were all killed by the Royal Guard rather than Asgore himself.
By killing Flowey, then going back to Asgore to fight again, you can as usual spare him or kill him. Sparing him is the right thing to do (even though Flowey kills him anyway), but if you spare him after following the pattern I mentioned, he will give you his own soul, thus ending his life. In any route except True Pacifist, Asgore is tragically killed and thus causes devastation in the underground.
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Flowey (Genocide Route)
Maybe the genocidal weed deserves to be killed, but at the end of Genocide, he realizes he's Asriel and begs you not to kill him. Spoiler alert: you have no choice and must kill him in what may be the most brutal hits in the game.
Flowey - or I suppose I should say Asriel - still believes that Frisk, this genocidal maniac who sees murder as a game, is Chara, his best friend who took her own life trying to save monsterkind. Asriel is confused, he is terrified, and he is dead.
"I never betrayed you, see?! I- I can be helpful to you! I can help.. I can... I can... Please don't kill me..."
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Asgore Dreemurr (Neutral Routes)
I don't know if he dies in Pacifist, but Flowey takes his soul. That's kinda mean. I blame Flowey.
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Snowman (Genocide Route)
He just wanted to see the world but was eaten.
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Flowey (Neutral Route)
No, I'm not talking about Photoshop/Omega Flowey, I'm talking about right after you beat him, right after he turns into his regular flower form, and when you kill him instead of sparing him when you get the chance. Even though he wanted to die, and makes that face when he says "I knew you had it in you," it's still pretty sad if you think about it.
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So Sorry (Neutral Route)
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Muffet (Neutral and Genocide Routes)
The spider just comes to warn the player about the next attack, then sees their leader die.
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Mad Dummy (Genocide Route)
It was so happy that it finally got to feel alive... and then you just take that right away from it! Now that is just cruel. Also, I just want to say that this so deserves to be ABOVE a FAN-MADE character, not below.
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Papyrus (Neutral Route)
It's so sad because if you get his health low enough, Papyrus will spare you. It's impossible to do by accident.
If you kill him, you are a monster.
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Chara (All Routes)
Chara is a character in the game Undertale by Toby Fox and is one of the seven humans to fall into the Underground before the protagonist. The name Chara is chosen by the player at the start, though it is later revealed that this name actually belongs to the first fallen human. During the Genocide Route... read more
We never see Chara's death for ourselves, but look at the impact it had on the rest of the Underground! Asriel died fulfilling their final request, the whole kingdom despaired, Asgore and Toriel broke up, causing Asgore to wage war with humanity. This led to the deaths of six innocent humans.
From what we've seen in the tapes, Chara poisoned themselves in an attempt to help free the monsters from the Underground. However, the plan went wrong, and their sacrifice was all for naught when it only led to the death of Asriel and the devastation of all the monsters in the Underground. If this isn't tragic, I don't know what is.
Chara took her own life trying to save all of monsterkind. If that isn't at least a little bit tear-inducing, then I don't know what is. Chara was never evil. She hated humanity likely due to abuse (Faded Ribbon description) and fell into Mt. Ebott trying to commit suicide. Then, she found a new family who actually cared for her, and she poisoned herself in one of the worst ways possible just to try and save them. Then Asriel, in his infinite kindness, fails the plan, leaving two siblings dead in one night.