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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline 191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning. Even the title of In At the Death is a reference to this series and its final book.
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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline 191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, [=McSweeney=], named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning. Even the title of In At the Death is a reference to this series and its final book.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a Genocide run, then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a Genocide run, then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." 927". After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, [[spoiler:Caleb]] had at most been a major supporting character.
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* ColonCancer: "Anomaly: Book One: Beyond Forgiveness" and "Anomaly: Book Two: In At the Death." "Anomaly: Reset 927" seems to have, sort of, escaped this disease.
* CrapsackWorld: "In At the Death," even at the beginning. [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans]] are dead, anti-monster sentiment is running high (and that's after the year and a half the monsters spent in a prison camp), and there's a bunch of neo-Nazis calling themselves Patriots running around stirring up hate against monsters.
* CrapsackWorld: "In At the Death," even at the beginning. [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans]] are dead, anti-monster sentiment is running high (and that's after the year and a half the monsters spent in a prison camp), and there's a bunch of neo-Nazis calling themselves Patriots running around stirring up hate against monsters.
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* ColonCancer: "Anomaly: Book One: Beyond Forgiveness" and "Anomaly: Book Two: In At the Death." Death". "Anomaly: Reset 927" seems to have, sort of, escaped this disease.
* CrapsackWorld: "In At theDeath," Death", even at the beginning. [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans]] are dead, anti-monster sentiment is running high (and that's after the year and a half the monsters spent in a prison camp), and there's a bunch of neo-Nazis calling themselves Patriots running around stirring up hate against monsters.
* CrapsackWorld: "In At the
* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, [[spoiler:Caleb]] had at most been a major supporting character.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Frisk definitely does this in "Beyond Forgiveness," but it doesn't seem to be worth it as soon as the surface is reached, considering that monsters are imprisoned for one and a half years. And that's before main characters start dying off...
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Frisk definitely does this in "Beyond Forgiveness," Forgiveness", but it doesn't seem to be worth it as soon as the surface is reached, considering that monsters are imprisoned for one and a half years. And that's before main characters start dying off...
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* {{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence [[spoiler:during his possession]], as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
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* {{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence [[spoiler:during his possession]], as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."place".
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To [=VolcanicPizza's=] earlier two-shot "Choices."
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To [=VolcanicPizza's=] earlier two-shot "Choices.""Choices".
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* TitleDrop: In "Beyond Forgiveness," during her [[spoiler:fight with Sans]], Frisk states that she knows what she's done is beyond forgiveness.
** Later, during "In At the Death," during Frisk and Asriel's fight with [[spoiler:the Anomaly]], they state that they are "the Anomaly."
** Later, during "In At the Death," during Frisk and Asriel's fight with [[spoiler:the Anomaly]], they state that they are "the Anomaly."
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* TitleDrop: In "Beyond Forgiveness," Forgiveness", during her [[spoiler:fight with Sans]], Frisk states that she knows what she's done is beyond forgiveness.
** Later, during "In At theDeath," Death", during Frisk and Asriel's fight with [[spoiler:the Anomaly]], they state that they are "the Anomaly."Anomaly".
** Later, during "In At the
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* WideEyedIdealist: Deconstructed with Caleb. At the beginning of "In At the Death," he seems to be a happy-go-lucky goofball, but as more of his past is revealed, he's shown to have a lot of self-resentment and general pent-up anger which he masks behind his cheerful facade, and it's implied that he was suicidal before meeting Frisk and Asriel.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Deconstructed with Caleb. At the beginning of "In At the Death," Death", he seems to be a happy-go-lucky goofball, but as more of his past is revealed, he's shown to have a lot of self-resentment and general pent-up anger which he masks behind his cheerful facade, and it's implied that he was suicidal before meeting Frisk and Asriel.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[KillEmAll Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[KillEmAll Genocide run]], run, then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Anomaly.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:The Seraph.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:The Seraph.]]
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[KillEmAll Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul]]. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident]]. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With [[spoiler:everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins]].
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With [[spoiler:everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins]].
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[KillEmAll Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul]].powers. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident]].life. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
Following In At the Death's[[spoiler:DownerEnding]], ending, the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With [[spoiler:everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins]].
released.
Following In At the Death's
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In At the Death ends with [[spoiler:everyone but Asriel dead and '''half of North America destroyed by a rage-induced magical blast''']]. It's easy to see why not many readers came back for The Hand That Mocked Them.
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** Caleb is ''not'' a fan of discrimination or bullying, especially against his friends.
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Dewicking per TRS decision.
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* BiTheWay: Caleb is casually bisexual, to the point where it required an in-character WordOfGod statement on the Tumblr to confirm this.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[Main/{{KillEmAll}} Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul.]] Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident.]] "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With [[spoiler: everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins.]]
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With [[spoiler: everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins.]]
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[Main/{{KillEmAll}} [[KillEmAll Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul.]] soul]]. Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident.]] accident]]. "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With[[spoiler: everyone [[spoiler:everyone except Asriel dead and half of North America destroyed, the survivors attempt to salvage what they can from the ruins.]]
ruins]].
Following In At the Death's [[spoiler:DownerEnding]], the third story in the series, The Hand That Mocked Them, was released. With
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* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Some critics of Beyond Forgiveness in its early days stated that it's canonically impossible for Frisk to take Sans' soul, seeing as he isn't a boss monster and his soul wouldn't persist after death as such. Explained later when [[spoiler:the Anomaly outright states that they were the only reason Sans' soul could be taken because of their hacking of the code.]]
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* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Some critics of Beyond Forgiveness in its early days stated that it's canonically impossible for Frisk to take Sans' soul, seeing as he isn't a boss monster and his soul wouldn't persist after death as such. Explained later when [[spoiler:the Anomaly outright states that they were the only reason Sans' soul could be taken because of their hacking of the code.]]code]].
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, [[spoiler: Caleb]] had at most been a major supporting character.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, [[spoiler: Caleb]] [[spoiler:Caleb]] had at most been a major supporting character.
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** And then [[spoiler:John A. Pence and the Patriots actually win the election.]]
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** And then [[spoiler:John A. Pence and the Patriots actually win the election.]]election]].
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:John A. Pence]] after it's revealed that the Anomaly was using him as a puppet, and in reality he had far less extreme goals before [[spoiler: being hacked by the Anomaly to replace Frisk as the player character.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, Mettaton, Toriel, and, it's implied, Undyne and Alphys]] ''all die.''
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, Mettaton, Toriel, and, it's implied, Undyne and Alphys]] ''all die.''
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:John A. Pence]] after it's revealed that the Anomaly was using him as a puppet, and in reality he had far less extreme goals before [[spoiler: being [[spoiler:being hacked by the Anomaly to replace Frisk as the player character.]]
character]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At theDeath [[spoiler: Sans, Death, [[spoiler:Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, Mettaton, Toriel, and, it's implied, Undyne and Alphys]] ''all die.''
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the
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** [[spoiler: Every main or supporting character except maybe Asriel and Frisk dies.]]
*** Even the villains get this, as [[spoiler: Pence and Morrell die after DC is nuked.]]
*** Even the villains get this, as [[spoiler: Pence and Morrell die after DC is nuked.]]
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** [[spoiler: Every [[spoiler:Every main or supporting character except maybe Asriel and Frisk dies.]]
dies]].
*** Even the villains get this, as[[spoiler: Pence [[spoiler:Pence and Morrell die after DC is nuked.]]nuked]].
*** Even the villains get this, as
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In At the Death ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Asriel dead and '''half of North America destroyed by a rage-induced magical blast.''']] It's easy to see why not many readers came back for The Hand That Mocked Them.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: In At the Death ends with [[spoiler: everyone [[spoiler:everyone but Asriel dead and '''half of North America destroyed by a rage-induced magical blast.''']] blast''']]. It's easy to see why not many readers came back for The Hand That Mocked Them.
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* CallBack: After Frisk has a nightmare, Asriel gives her a hug to comfort her. Remember something similar happening towards the end of canon Undertale?
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* CallBack: After Frisk has a nightmare, Asriel gives her a hug to comfort her. Remember something similar happening towards the end of canon Undertale?''Undertale''?
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** Everyone was constantly saying that it would be impossible for the Patriots to win... [[spoiler:and then they did.]]
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** Everyone was constantly saying that it would be impossible for the Patriots to win... [[spoiler:and then they did.]]did]].
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** In a literal way, the revolver that Caleb finds in the Underground that once belonged to the soul of Justice... [[spoiler:whom he shares a trait with.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. At first he was just portrayed as a goofball whose sole notable characteristic was being a friend of Frisk and Asriel and one of the few monster supporters in the country, but then his character arc finally kicked in.
* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. At first he was just portrayed as a goofball whose sole notable characteristic was being a friend of Frisk and Asriel and one of the few monster supporters in the country, but then his character arc finally kicked in.
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** In a literal way, the revolver that Caleb finds in the Underground that once belonged to the soul of Justice... [[spoiler:whom he shares a trait with.]]
with]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. Atfirst first, he was just portrayed as a goofball whose sole notable characteristic was being a friend of Frisk and Asriel and one of the few monster supporters in the country, but then his character arc finally kicked in.
* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. At
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* DarkFic: In At the Death. It's more dark than the actual game at points, and considering that [[spoiler:pretty much all the main monsters are dead, the Patriots won the election AND held power despite Washington, DC being nuked and both Pence and his VP Morrell dying, and Frisk gave up her power to RESET in order to save Asriel]] it doesn't look like Frisk and Asriel will get a happy ending.
** This kind of thing was sorta implied given Beyond Forgiveness's... unconventional beginning and the fact that [[spoiler: Chara basically erased themself from existence to bring Asriel back.]]
** This kind of thing was sorta implied given Beyond Forgiveness's... unconventional beginning and the fact that [[spoiler: Chara basically erased themself from existence to bring Asriel back.]]
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* DarkFic: In At the Death. It's more dark than the actual game at points, and considering that [[spoiler:pretty much all the main monsters are dead, the Patriots won the election AND held power despite Washington, DC being nuked and both Pence and his VP Morrell dying, and Frisk gave up her power to RESET in order to save Asriel]] Asriel]], it doesn't look like Frisk and Asriel will get a happy ending.
** This kind of thing was sorta implied given Beyond Forgiveness's... unconventional beginning and the fact that[[spoiler: Chara [[spoiler:Chara basically erased themself from existence to bring Asriel back.]]back]].
** This kind of thing was sorta implied given Beyond Forgiveness's... unconventional beginning and the fact that
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* DecoyProtagonist: Caleb was set up like a typical SelfInsert fanfiction character, and as such he was expected to become the main character... [[spoiler:but Caleb died trying to kill Pence, leaving the floor to Frisk and Asriel.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Zigzagged with Caleb as the story progresses. Initially he's just hanging, until he [[spoiler:kills a Patriot supporter]] and goes into self-exile under Mount Ebbot, effectively getting PutOnABus for several chapters until inexplicably coming back with some light physical and psychological damage, leading to TheBusCameBack, but then he's [[spoiler:killed during his failed assassination. Now he's officially dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul, asides from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Zigzagged with Caleb as the story progresses. Initially he's just hanging, until he [[spoiler:kills a Patriot supporter]] and goes into self-exile under Mount Ebbot, effectively getting PutOnABus for several chapters until inexplicably coming back with some light physical and psychological damage, leading to TheBusCameBack, but then he's [[spoiler:killed during his failed assassination. Now he's officially dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul, asides from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: Caleb was set up like a typical SelfInsert fanfiction character, and as such he was expected to become the main character... [[spoiler:but Caleb died trying to kill Pence, leaving the floor to Frisk and Asriel.]]
Asriel]].
* DemotedToExtra: Zigzagged with Caleb as the story progresses.Initially Initially, he's just hanging, until he [[spoiler:kills a Patriot supporter]] and goes into self-exile under Mount Ebbot, effectively getting PutOnABus for several chapters until inexplicably coming back with some light physical and psychological damage, leading to TheBusCameBack, but then he's [[spoiler:killed during his failed assassination. Now he's officially dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul, asides aside from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]occasionally]].
* DemotedToExtra: Zigzagged with Caleb as the story progresses.
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* DeusExMachina: Asriel's power to suddenly freeze time for a few minutes is never explained and only used twice, once to help Caleb escape from being shot on sight by the police and once immediately after Caleb is shot so he can live long enough to exchange some [[{{LastWords}} last words]] with his friends. It may come off as an AssPull to some readers.
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* DeusExMachina: Asriel's power to suddenly freeze time for a few minutes is never explained and only used twice, once to help Caleb escape from being shot on sight by the police and once immediately after Caleb is shot so he can live long enough to exchange some [[{{LastWords}} [[LastWords last words]] with his friends. It may come off as an AssPull to some readers.
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** "Beyond Forgiveness" can refer to Frisk being beyond forgiveness for committing genocide out of frustration from 925 failed attempts to [[spoiler:save Asriel]] or for taking Sans's soul (or both) or it can refer to the fact that nobody is beyond forgiveness in this world.
** "Reset 927" would be this if [[Main/{{NeverTrustATitle}} Frisk had done 927 resets instead of 925]], but maybe this will be addressed later on. It may be a veiled reference to [[Literature/{{Fahrenheit451}} Fahrenheit 451]].
** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death, basically any of the deaths]], all of the above or a combination of some of them, or possibly the death of monster liberty from the formation of the Patriot party.
** "Reset 927" would be this if [[Main/{{NeverTrustATitle}} Frisk had done 927 resets instead of 925]], but maybe this will be addressed later on. It may be a veiled reference to [[Literature/{{Fahrenheit451}} Fahrenheit 451]].
** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death, basically any of the deaths]], all of the above or a combination of some of them, or possibly the death of monster liberty from the formation of the Patriot party.
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** "Beyond Forgiveness" can refer to Frisk being beyond forgiveness for committing genocide out of frustration from 925 failed attempts to [[spoiler:save Asriel]] or for taking Sans's soul (or both) both), or it can refer to the fact that nobody is beyond forgiveness in this world.
** "Reset 927" would be this if[[Main/{{NeverTrustATitle}} [[NeverTrustATitle Frisk had done 927 resets instead of 925]], but maybe this will be addressed later on. It may be a veiled reference to [[Literature/{{Fahrenheit451}} Fahrenheit 451]].
Literature/{{Fahrenheit 451}}.
** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death, basically any of the deaths]], all of theabove above. or a combination of some of them, or possibly the death of monster liberty from the formation of the Patriot party.
** "Reset 927" would be this if
** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death, basically any of the deaths]], all of the
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* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixed in, [[spoiler:though given later events it leads one to wonder if he's a Nazi apologist.]]
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* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: {{Expy}}: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixed in, [[spoiler:though given later events events, it leads one to wonder if he's a Nazi apologist.]]apologist]].
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** He didn't get the chance, [[spoiler:but President Alvar O'Brien, his successor, did, and he succeeded.]]
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** He didn't get the chance, [[spoiler:but President Alvar O'Brien, his successor, did, and he succeeded.]]succeeded]].
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* Main/{{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence [[spoiler:during his possession]], as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
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* Main/{{Foil}}: {{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence [[spoiler:during his possession]], as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
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* GoodGuyBar: Grillby's serves as this for Frisk, Asriel, and Caleb during In At the Death, or at least it did before [[spoiler:Caleb was killed.]]
* [[Main/{{Gorn}} Gorn]]: How Caleb [[spoiler:kills the Patriot]].
* [[Main/{{Gorn}} Gorn]]: How Caleb [[spoiler:kills the Patriot]].
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* GoodGuyBar: Grillby's serves as this for Frisk, Asriel, and Caleb during In At the Death, or at least it did before [[spoiler:Caleb was killed.]]
killed]].
*[[Main/{{Gorn}} Gorn]]: {{Gorn}}: How Caleb [[spoiler:kills the Patriot]].
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* ItsGoingDown: The Washington Monument, or at least half of it, on January 20th, [[spoiler:thanks to Papyrus during his brief terrorist phase.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
* LastRequest: Just before [[spoiler:he]] dies after being shot by one of the president's bodyguard, [[spoiler:Caleb begs Asriel to take his soul in a last-minute attempt to keep himself alive and make Asriel more powerful.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
* LastRequest: Just before [[spoiler:he]] dies after being shot by one of the president's bodyguard, [[spoiler:Caleb begs Asriel to take his soul in a last-minute attempt to keep himself alive and make Asriel more powerful.]]
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* ItsGoingDown: The Washington Monument, or at least half of it, on January 20th, [[spoiler:thanks to Papyrus during his brief terrorist phase.phase]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
* LastRequest: Just before [[spoiler:he]] dies after being shot by one of the president's bodyguard, bodyguards, [[spoiler:Caleb begs Asriel to take his soul in a last-minute last-ditch attempt to keep himself alive and make Asriel more powerful.]]powerful]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Frisk after killing Sans, once she comes to her senses. Sadly, it's too late for the skeleton, although Frisk does [[Main/{{FusionDance}} take his soul before resetting.]]
** Caleb after [[spoiler: killing the Patriot.]]
** Caleb after [[spoiler: killing the Patriot.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Frisk after killing Sans, once she comes to her senses. Sadly, it's too late for the skeleton, although Frisk does [[Main/{{FusionDance}} [[FusionDance take his soul soul]] before resetting.]]
resetting.
** Caleb after[[spoiler: killing [[spoiler:killing the Patriot.]]Patriot]].
** Caleb after
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* NukeEm: To appease the audience, [[spoiler:The Writer decides to send a terrorist by the name of Robert Bloom into DC to ''nuke half the city,'' killing both Pence and his VP Morrell and leaving the even more hardline Alvar O'Brien to come to power.]]
* TheOmniscient: [[spoiler: The Anomaly. The Seraph]] also appeared this way on their initial introduction.
* TheOmniscient: [[spoiler: The Anomaly. The Seraph]] also appeared this way on their initial introduction.
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* NukeEm: To appease the audience, [[spoiler:The Writer decides to send a terrorist by the name of Robert Bloom into DC to ''nuke half the city,'' killing both Pence and his VP Morrell and leaving the even more hardline Alvar O'Brien to come to power.]]
power]].
* TheOmniscient:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Anomaly. The Seraph]] also appeared this way on their initial introduction.
* TheOmniscient:
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** It is at this point that Frisk realizes things are serious, as Caleb has told her previously that he only swears when he's serious... and when [[Main/{{MyGodWhatHaveIDone}} he's about to do something he'll regret later on.]]
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** It is at this point that Frisk realizes things are serious, as Caleb has told her previously that he only swears when he's serious... and when [[Main/{{MyGodWhatHaveIDone}} [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's about to do something he'll regret later on.]]
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* PutOnABus: Both Caleb and Papyrus, the former for several chapters while he goes into hiding and the latter [[spoiler: for much longer after faking his suicide to become a terrorist, but he comes back to try to save everyone.]]
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* PutOnABus: Both Caleb and Papyrus, the former for several chapters while he goes into hiding and the latter [[spoiler: for [[spoiler:for much longer after faking his suicide to become a terrorist, but he comes back to try to save everyone.]] everyone]].
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** Later, when it's revealed that [[spoiler: not only is Papyrus still alive, but he temporarily resorted to terrorism out of anger at his brother's death.]]
* Main/{{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:The whole reason John A. Pence is pursuing the presidency at the head of a [[Main/{{ANaziByAnyOtherName}} Nazi By Any Other Name]] party is to get revenge for Chara, who was his sister.]]
* Main/{{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:The whole reason John A. Pence is pursuing the presidency at the head of a [[Main/{{ANaziByAnyOtherName}} Nazi By Any Other Name]] party is to get revenge for Chara, who was his sister.]]
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** Later, when it's revealed that [[spoiler: not [[spoiler:not only is Papyrus still alive, but he temporarily resorted to terrorism out of anger at his brother's death.]]
death]].
*Main/{{Revenge}}: {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:The whole reason John A. Pence is pursuing the presidency at the head of a [[Main/{{ANaziByAnyOtherName}} [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi By Any Other Name]] party is to get revenge for Chara, who was his sister.]]
*
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* Main/{{Satire}}: ''In At the Death'' seems to be a satire on racism, terrorism, and the Holocaust.
* SelfInsert: [[spoiler:The Anomaly]] is meant to be this for the reader, assuming that they've played through Undertale.
** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that in the opposite direction. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he's both a minor sociopath and was killed should tip you off.]]
* SelfInsert: [[spoiler:The Anomaly]] is meant to be this for the reader, assuming that they've played through Undertale.
** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that in the opposite direction. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he's both a minor sociopath and was killed should tip you off.]]
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* Main/{{Satire}}: {{Satire}}: ''In At the Death'' seems to be a satire on racism, terrorism, and the Holocaust.
* SelfInsert: [[spoiler:The Anomaly]] is meant to be this for the reader, assuming that they've played throughUndertale.
''Undertale''.
** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that in the opposite direction. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he's both a minor sociopath and was killed should tip youoff.]]off]].
* SelfInsert: [[spoiler:The Anomaly]] is meant to be this for the reader, assuming that they've played through
** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that in the opposite direction. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he's both a minor sociopath and was killed should tip you
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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning. Even the title of In At the Death is a reference to this series and its final book.
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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline191}}, Literature/{{Timeline 191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning. Even the title of In At the Death is a reference to this series and its final book.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, outright stated that we should take what we see at the end of Undertale for granted and that monsters would be accepted, albeit there being some FantasticRacism. The author, [=VolcanicPizza=], doesn't seem to think this is quite accurate and has since done just about everything possible to deconstruct Fox's statement.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, ''Undertale'', outright stated that we should take what we see at the end of Undertale ''Undertale'' for granted and that monsters would be accepted, albeit there being some FantasticRacism. The author, [=VolcanicPizza=], doesn't seem to think this is quite accurate and has since done just about everything possible to deconstruct Fox's statement.
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** One can infer that the only reason "Choices" isn't canon to the Anomalyverse of Undertale is that the two-shot contains a male Frisk.
*** But didn't [=VolcanicPizza=] explicitly state that the two Frisks have different genders to emphasize the differences between the parallel Undertale [[Main/{{AlternateUniverse}} alternate universes?]]
*** But didn't [=VolcanicPizza=] explicitly state that the two Frisks have different genders to emphasize the differences between the parallel Undertale [[Main/{{AlternateUniverse}} alternate universes?]]
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** One can infer that the only reason "Choices" isn't canon to the Anomalyverse of Undertale ''Undertale'' is that the two-shot contains a male Frisk.
*** But didn't [=VolcanicPizza=] explicitly state that the two Frisks have different genders to emphasize the differences between the parallelUndertale [[Main/{{AlternateUniverse}} ''Undertale'' [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes?]]
*** But didn't [=VolcanicPizza=] explicitly state that the two Frisks have different genders to emphasize the differences between the parallel
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Frisk leaps into a soldier's bullet that was intended to execute Asriel]]
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Frisk [[spoiler:Frisk leaps into a soldier's bullet that was intended to execute Asriel]]Asriel.]]
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** Later, during "In At the Death," during Frisk and Asriel's fight with [[spoiler: the Anomaly]], they state that they are "the Anomaly."
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** Later, during "In At the Death," during Frisk and Asriel's fight with [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the Anomaly]], they state that they are "the Anomaly."
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* WideEyedIdealist: Deconstructed with Caleb. At the beginning of "In At the Death," he seems to be a happy-go-lucky goofball, but as more of his past is revealed he's shown to have a lot of self-resentment and general pent-up anger which he masks behind his cheerful facade, and it's implied that he was suicidal before meeting Frisk and Asriel.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Deconstructed with Caleb. At the beginning of "In At the Death," he seems to be a happy-go-lucky goofball, but as more of his past is revealed revealed, he's shown to have a lot of self-resentment and general pent-up anger which he masks behind his cheerful facade, and it's implied that he was suicidal before meeting Frisk and Asriel.
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* XanatosGambit: On closer examination, Caleb's plan to [[spoiler: kill Pence]] is this. If he succeeds, [[spoiler:Pence is dead, and if he fails, he gives his soul to Asriel to allow himself to live on and for Asriel to become far more powerful.]]
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* XanatosGambit: On closer examination, Caleb's plan to [[spoiler: kill [[spoiler:kill Pence]] is this. If he succeeds, [[spoiler:Pence is dead, and if he fails, he gives his soul to Asriel to allow himself to live on and for Asriel to become far more powerful.]]powerful]].
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* CallBack: After Frisk has a nightmare, Asriel gives her a hug to comfort her. Remember something similar [[Main/{{CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming}} happening towards the end of canon Undertale?]]
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* CallBack: After Frisk has a nightmare, Asriel gives her a hug to comfort her. Remember something similar [[Main/{{CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming}} happening towards the end of canon Undertale?]]Undertale?
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The ''Anomaly'' series is an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fanfiction which consists of, so far, a set of novels posted on Website/FanFictionDotNet, located at the following two links, by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7317258/ [=VolcanicPizza=]]] There is also a Website/{{Tumblr}} [[https://www.anomalycycle.tumblr.com here]]. The author also claims to be working on an animated version of the first installment, but so far it is not forthcoming.
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The ''Anomaly'' series is an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fanfiction which consists of, so far, a set of novels posted on Website/FanFictionDotNet, located at the following two three links, by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7317258/ [=VolcanicPizza=]]] There is also a Website/{{Tumblr}} [[https://www.anomalycycle.tumblr.com here]]. The author also claims to be working on an animated version of the first installment, but so far it is not forthcoming.
[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12616050/1/ Anomaly: Book Three: The Hand That Mocked Them]]
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It has been announced that there will be a sequel to In At the Death called After the Downfall, but little to nothing is known about the title.
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*AudienceAlienatingPremise: In At the Death ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Asriel dead and '''half of North America destroyed by a rage-induced magical blast.''']] It's easy to see why not many readers came back for The Hand That Mocked Them.
*DownerEnding: In At the Death's ending. Just... damn.
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** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he was killed off should tip you off.]]
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** Systematically deconstructed with Caleb, as he's set up like a typical self-insert and then his character is developed far past that. that in the opposite direction. And if there was any doubt still left in your mind, [[spoiler:the fact that he he's both a minor sociopath and was killed off should tip you off.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Two prominent examples stand out.
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* WhamEpisode: Two prominent examples stand out. WhamEpisode:
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** Chapter 37 even manages to top that when Asriel goes berserk and destroys half of North America.
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* NoodleIncident: Frisk and Sans never talk about what happened in Canada. Or in Helsinki, for that matter.
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* NonIndicativeName: You'd think that the Patriot party would be the kind of people who promote equality, freedom, liberty and justice for all, and the American Way, right? Dead wrong. The Patriots are a bunch of half-mad fascistic anti-monster racists led by a blatant Hitler expy.
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* NonIndicativeName: NonIndicativeName:
** You'd think that the Patriot party would be the kind of people who promote equality, freedom, liberty and justice for all, and the American Way, right? Dead wrong. The Patriots are a bunch of half-mad fascistic anti-monster racists led by a blatant Hitler expy.
** You'd think that the Patriot party would be the kind of people who promote equality, freedom, liberty and justice for all, and the American Way, right? Dead wrong. The Patriots are a bunch of half-mad fascistic anti-monster racists led by a blatant Hitler expy.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, Caleb had at most been a major supporting character.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, Caleb [[spoiler: Caleb]] had at most been a major supporting character.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[Main/{{KillEmAll}} Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul.]] Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident.]] "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers.
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"Beyond Forgiveness" postulates that Frisk somehow manages to take Sans's soul after defeating the latter in a [[Main/{{KillEmAll}} Genocide run]], then somehow manages to retain it, along with Sans's powers, after a reset. She then goes on to get through the Underground in record time with her newfound powers and [[spoiler:even manages to save Asriel along the way, although this is at the cost of Chara's soul.]] Once she arrives on the surface, however, the monsters are trapped in a prison camp for nearly a year and a half, which is elaborated on in the ongoing one-shot collection "Reset 927." After they are released, they try to settle into a normal life, despite the deaths of [[spoiler:Asgore and Sans, the former's an assassination and the latter's an accident.]] "In At the Death" is set between four and six months after monsters are freed from the camp, set against the backdrop of a presidential election which includes the Patriot party, a group of anti-monster racists with Nazistic tendencies. Frisk and Asriel's new friend, an OC named Caleb Conrad, is introduced as a stark contrast to his largely-anti-monster peers.peers and a deconstruction of typical SelfInsert protagonists.
It has been announced that there will be a sequel to In At the Death called After the Downfall, but little to nothing is known about the title.
It has been announced that there will be a sequel to In At the Death called After the Downfall, but little to nothing is known about the title.
*ADeathInTheLimelight: Before [[spoiler:his]] death, Caleb had at most been a major supporting character.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:John A. Pence]] after it's revealed that the Anomaly was using him as a puppet, and in reality he had far less extreme goals.
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, and Mettaton]] ''all die.''
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, and Mettaton]] ''all die.''
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:John A. Pence]] after it's revealed that the Anomaly was using him as a puppet, and in reality he had far less extreme goals.
goals before [[spoiler: being hacked by the Anomaly to replace Frisk as the player character.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, Mettaton, Toriel, and, it's implied, Undyne andMettaton]] Alphys]] ''all die.''
* AnyoneCanDie: Yes. During or even before In At the Death [[spoiler: Sans, Asgore, Papyrus, Napstablook, Mettaton, Toriel, and, it's implied, Undyne and
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** [[spoiler: Every main character except maybe Asriel dies.]]
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** [[spoiler: Every main or supporting character except maybe Asriel and Frisk dies.]]
***Even the villains get this, as [[spoiler: Pence and Morrell die after DC is nuked.]]
***Even the villains get this, as [[spoiler: Pence and Morrell die after DC is nuked.]]
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** Caleb is ''not'' a fan of discrimination.
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** Caleb is ''not'' a fan of discrimination.discrimination or bullying, especially against his friends.
*BiTheWay: Caleb is casually bisexual, to the point where it required an in-character WordOfGod statement on the Tumblr to confirm this.
*TheBusCameBack: After Caleb gets PutOnABus for several chapters, he suddenly comes back from Mount Ebbot and requests asylum with Frisk's family.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. At first he was just portrayed as a goofball whose sole notable characteristic was being a friend of Frisk and Asriel and one of the few monster supporters in the country, but then his character arc kicked in.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Caleb. At first he was just portrayed as a goofball whose sole notable characteristic was being a friend of Frisk and Asriel and one of the few monster supporters in the country, but then his character arc finally kicked in.
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* CrapsackWorld: "In At the Death," sort of. Sans, [[spoiler:Asgore and Papyrus]] are all dead, anti-monster sentiment is running high (and that's after the year and a half the monsters spent in a prison camp), and there's a bunch of neo-Nazis calling themselves Patriots running around stirring up hate against monsters.
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* CrapsackWorld: "In At the Death," sort of. Sans, even at the beginning. [[spoiler:Asgore and Papyrus]] Sans]] are all dead, anti-monster sentiment is running high (and that's after the year and a half the monsters spent in a prison camp), and there's a bunch of neo-Nazis calling themselves Patriots running around stirring up hate against monsters.
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* DarkFic: In At the Death. It's more dark than the actual game at points, and considering that [[spoiler:Sans, Papyrus, and Asgore are dead, the Patriots won the election and Frisk gave up her power to RESET in order to save Asriel]] it doesn't look like Frisk and Asriel will get a happy ending.
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* DarkFic: In At the Death. It's more dark than the actual game at points, and considering that [[spoiler:Sans, Papyrus, and Asgore [[spoiler:pretty much all the main monsters are dead, the Patriots won the election AND held power despite Washington, DC being nuked and both Pence and his VP Morrell dying, and Frisk gave up her power to RESET in order to save Asriel]] it doesn't look like Frisk and Asriel will get a happy ending.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Caleb was set up like a typical SelfInsert fanfiction character, and as such this is what was expected... [[spoiler:but Caleb died trying to kill Pence, leaving the floor to Frisk and Asriel.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Subverted and justified with Caleb as the story progresses, since [[spoiler:he's dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul asides from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Subverted and justified with Caleb as the story progresses, since [[spoiler:he's dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul asides from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: Caleb was set up like a typical SelfInsert fanfiction character, and as such this is what he was expected...expected to become the main character... [[spoiler:but Caleb died trying to kill Pence, leaving the floor to Frisk and Asriel.]]
* DemotedToExtra:Subverted and justified Zigzagged with Caleb as the story progresses, since [[spoiler:he's progresses. Initially he's just hanging, until he [[spoiler:kills a Patriot supporter]] and goes into self-exile under Mount Ebbot, effectively getting PutOnABus for several chapters until inexplicably coming back with some light physical and psychological damage, leading to TheBusCameBack, but then he's [[spoiler:killed during his failed assassination. Now he's officially dead and can't really do much since Asriel absorbed his soul soul, asides from talk to Asriel occasionally.]]
* DemotedToExtra:
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** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death]], all of the above or a combination of two of them, or possibly the death of monster liberty from the formation of the Patriot party.
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** "In At the Death" could refer to [[spoiler:Sans's death, Asgore's death, Papyrus's death]], death, basically any of the deaths]], all of the above or a combination of two some of them, or possibly the death of monster liberty from the formation of the Patriot party.
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* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Asriel after absorbing Caleb's soul.]]
* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixed in.
* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixed in.
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* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Asriel after absorbing Caleb's soul.]]
soul,]] though beforehand he was still a subverted BadassNormal.
*ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In At the Death.
* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixedin.in, [[spoiler:though given later events it leads one to wonder if he's a Nazi apologist.]]
*ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: In At the Death.
* [[Main/{{Expy}} Expy]]: John A. Pence is outright stated by the author to be a blatant Adolf Hitler expy, with a bit of Strom Thurmond mixed
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* FlatWhat: Papyrus to Sans, when the latter fails to get him some oatmeal with dinosaur eggs and claims that he collapsed after taking a few steps.
* Main/{{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence, as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
* FusionDance: Frisk does this with Sans after killing him and takes his soul.
* Main/{{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A. Pence, as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
* FusionDance: Frisk does this with Sans after killing him and takes his soul.
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**He didn't get the chance, [[spoiler:but President Alvar O'Brien, his successor, did, and he succeeded.]]
* FlatWhat: Papyrus toSans, Sans during the now noncanon Reset 927, when the latter fails to get him some oatmeal with dinosaur eggs and claims that he collapsed after taking a few steps.
* Main/{{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A.Pence, Pence [[spoiler:during his possession]], as Morrel is milder and calmer, and seems to be less hell-bent on shoving monsters back "into their proper place."
**Alvar O'Brien seems to be one to Asgore during his revanchist phase, as both wish (or wished, in Asgore's place) to enact genocide on the other as revenge for perceived slights, but Asgore turned away from this action where O'Brien did not.
* FusionDance: Frisk does this with Sans after killing him andtakes taking his soul.soul, and it's the catalyst for the series.
* FlatWhat: Papyrus to
* Main/{{Foil}}: Edwin Morrel seems to be this to John A.
**Alvar O'Brien seems to be one to Asgore during his revanchist phase, as both wish (or wished, in Asgore's place) to enact genocide on the other as revenge for perceived slights, but Asgore turned away from this action where O'Brien did not.
* FusionDance: Frisk does this with Sans after killing him and
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* GoodGuyBar: Grillby's serves as this for Frisk, Asriel, and Caleb during In At the Death.
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* GoodGuyBar: Grillby's serves as this for Frisk, Asriel, and Caleb during In At the Death.Death, or at least it did before [[spoiler:Caleb was killed.]]
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* ItsGoingDown: The Washington Monument, or at least half of it, on January 20th.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sans.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sans.]]
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* ItsGoingDown: The Washington Monument, or at least half of it, on January 20th.
20th, [[spoiler:thanks to Papyrus during his brief terrorist phase.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Sans.Sans, Asgore, basically everyone who dies.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:
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* MonumentalDamage: During [[spoiler:Pence's inauguration]], a terrorist who's implied to be a resurrected Sans blows the top half off the Washington Monument.
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* MonumentalDamage: During [[spoiler:Pence's inauguration]], a terrorist who's implied [[spoiler:who's revealed to be a resurrected Sans Papyrus]] blows the top half off the Washington Monument.
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* NukeEm: To appease the audience, [[spoiler:The Writer decides to send a terrorist by the name of Robert Bloom into DC to ''nuke the city,'' killing both Pence and his VP Morrell.]]
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**Far from what its title might suggest, Beyond Forgiveness is actually about Frisk seeking forgiveness for her actions and trying to set things right one last time.
**Inverted with In At the Death, as it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* NukeEm: To appease the audience, [[spoiler:The Writer decides to send a terrorist by the name of Robert Bloom into DC to ''nuke half the city,'' killing both Pence and his VPMorrell.Morrell and leaving the even more hardline Alvar O'Brien to come to power.]]
**Inverted with In At the Death, as it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* NukeEm: To appease the audience, [[spoiler:The Writer decides to send a terrorist by the name of Robert Bloom into DC to ''nuke half the city,'' killing both Pence and his VP
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* PurpleIsPowerful: The Writer seems to identify heavily with the color purple.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: The Writer seems to identify heavily with the color purple.purple, and he does control literally everything that happens.
*PutOnABus: Both Caleb and Papyrus, the former for several chapters while he goes into hiding and the latter [[spoiler: for much longer after faking his suicide to become a terrorist, but he comes back to try to save everyone.]]
*PutOnABus: Both Caleb and Papyrus, the former for several chapters while he goes into hiding and the latter [[spoiler: for much longer after faking his suicide to become a terrorist, but he comes back to try to save everyone.]]
**Later, when it's revealed that [[spoiler: not only is Papyrus still alive, but he temporarily resorted to terrorism out of anger at his brother's death.]]
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** May also have been the case with Papyrus after [[spoiler:Sans' death]], as it's implied he may have committed suicide.
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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning.
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** Multiple characters have names which are references to Literature/{{Timeline191}}, including Vice-President Edwin Morrell (Irving Morrell), Senator Jake Featherston (named for the genocidal Confederate dictator), Senator Gordon McSweeney, named for the US soldier whom fanon believes would have become the dictator of the US had the North lost the First Great War... and that's just the beginning. Even the title of In At the Death is a reference to this series and its final book.
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** The formatting for the names of the three god-like controllers of the world of the story, the Anomaly, the Seraph, and [[spoiler:the Writer,]] are similar to that of some Time Lords in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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** That should count as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the author, considering that he's taking on Toby Fox's canon statement and making as much of a CrapsackWorld for monsters as possible.
*** Or possibly a Crowning Moment of Assholeitude. Give the poor kids back their happy ending!
*** That's not even a trope...
** Seriously, though, Sans [[spoiler:gets his soul back, Asriel is saved,]] it's a happy ending, everyone walks off into the sunset... and then the author opens up the first chapter of the next book with [[spoiler: Sans dying for good this time.]] And it gets worse...
* SmashTheSymbol: Probably the reasoning behind the destruction of the Washington Monument, [[spoiler:and later, Washington DC.]]
*** Or possibly a Crowning Moment of Assholeitude. Give the poor kids back their happy ending!
*** That's not even a trope...
** Seriously, though, Sans [[spoiler:gets his soul back, Asriel is saved,]] it's a happy ending, everyone walks off into the sunset... and then the author opens up the first chapter of the next book with [[spoiler: Sans dying for good this time.]] And it gets worse...
* SmashTheSymbol: Probably the reasoning behind the destruction of the Washington Monument, [[spoiler:and later, Washington DC.]]
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*** Or possibly a Crowning Moment of Assholeitude. Give the poor kids back their happy ending!
*** That's not even a trope...
** Seriously, though, Sans [[spoiler:gets his soul back, Asriel is saved,]] it's a happy ending, everyone walks off into the sunset... and then the author opens up the first chapter of the next book with [[spoiler: Sans dying for good this time.]] And it gets worse...
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* TookALevelInCynic: Caleb after his father died.
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* TookALevelInCynic: Caleb after his father died.died many years ago.
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*WhamEpisode: Two prominent examples stand out.
**The first chapter of In At the Death, where Sans is unambiguously dead.
**Chapter 36 of In At the Death, where O'Brien's holocaust is carried out and literally everyone except Asriel (and even that's uncertain) and Frisk is killed.
**The first chapter of In At the Death, where Sans is unambiguously dead.
**Chapter 36 of In At the Death, where O'Brien's holocaust is carried out and literally everyone except Asriel (and even that's uncertain) and Frisk is killed.
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** [[spoiler: Every main character except maybe Asriel dies.
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** [[spoiler: Every main character except maybe Asriel dies.]]
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** [[spoiler: Every main character except maybe Asriel dies.
