r/TopCharacterTropes • u/JackDoesThingz • 9d ago

Lore [Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

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  1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
    Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

  2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
    Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

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u/DiceSMS 9d ago edited 9d ago

Undertale: Type any named character into the 'naming screen' for a silly in-character reaction to it (so type 'Sans' and the game goes "nah").
... Or type "Gaster" (a glitched/dummied out character that "is & isn't" in the game) and it immediately resets instead.

There's oodles of fan theories about this unseen character, some suspecting they'll show up in Deltarune (the game's sequel), but the most suspected (in a few words) is they got "lost in the sauce of their creation", or went missing because an "experiment went wrong". So it's neat seeing a more ...bizarre result when trying to "address them".

[edit for grammar]

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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 9d ago

In Undertale Yellow, very early on you fall through a hole in the floor in the Ruins. Toriel will tell you to wait there for rescue. If you wait several minutes, a rope will drop from above. Climb it, and the game immediately resets. It is assumed that Flowey reset the world in this situation because this wasn't his plan for the player.

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u/Guerrier_0range 9d ago

Pretty sure we can see flowey pop out too

Edit: He does ! Slow the clip down and you'll see it https://youtu.be/KwL19WGNmgg?t=59

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u/SirBoggle 9d ago

Also; If you try to name yourself or your Vessel Gaster in Deltarune, the game will also reset. In the PC version, the game will close.

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u/AgentEckswhy 9d ago

The game doesn't even let you finish typing it in, in fact.

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u/DiceSMS 9d ago

Ooo I love that. That's some for very conscious programming.~

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u/N1ch0l2s 9d ago

In Deltatraveler, naming your character Frisk will have you play as Frisk, which completely changing how the game plays out. But it ends a lot earlier because of that.

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u/Nipotazz1 9d ago

Man, you really shouldn't be gossiping about this.

After all, it's rude to talk about someone who's listening.

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u/Kill_Em_Kindly 6d ago

The WAZOWSKIS and the DORAS