Fridge Brilliance
- Why was Mettaton NEO's voice more electric and robotic than Mettaton EX's? Simple. Because, while Mettaton EX is an entertainer robot, NEO is the human-killing form. You don't really expect the entertainer that does a lot of singing to have that same, garbled voice effect as the killing machine, do you? And if the NEO form had EX's form's voice, he wouldn't be as threatening.
- In Pacifist, they refer to Frisk as Human Child. But in Genocide, they're refered to more often as Child of Man after Undyne. Why? As "The Human Child", they're referred to fondly, as their own person. As "Child of Man", in embracing Genocide, they're no longer their own person in the monster's eyes, they're the walking personification of everything monsters fear about humanity; a callous, hate-filled murderer killing everyone in their path regardless of innocence or age.
- The first one to refer to them as "Child of Man" is Toriel in DeTermination, actually.
- So goodbye child of man/There is blood in your hands/You are no better than him. - Gaster says 'erase the past,' talks about changing fate, and drags the Fallen into the Void, where he's been since erased from existence. The only way to get rid of the effects of a Genocide Route is for the player to erase the file completely, allowing the player to change things back to a good end. Given this is at the end of the Genocide Route. And in the fatal blow is represented as the Fallen impaling themself...
- One of the first lines he says is "I can see you didn't miss me" after the Fallen Child cuts him in two. A rather decent pun. Looks like Sans (his son in the musical) got it from him.
- Similarly, why is this song's canon status to the rest of the Genocide Package left ambiguous? Because not every reset Genocide run is done by the player choosing to go that route.
- Why does Gaster show up at the end of the Genocide Package? Well, with the world destroyed, there's nothing left but a big empty void.
- Why doesn't Gaster appear in the actual Genocide package, thus calling the canonity of the events relating to him into question? Because Gaster lives in the void outside of time and space, thus he and the Fallen Child meet outside of time and space, outside of the musicial.
- Gaster tells the Fallen that they can't stop him because he's not begun. While the obvious meaning is he hasn't yet begun to truly fight, remember this: Gaster was erased from existence. He literally never begun because he doesn't exist. So the Fallen can't kill him because he was never born to begin with.
- Furthermore, the lines "You who look/But are blind to see/Stare into the abyss/There is only me/The abyss gazes back" is more than a Badass Boast. It invokes Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil ("If you gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"), but didn't the sentence before that mention something about monsters?
- There's some brilliance to having Mettaton be voiced by Alex himself. After all, it would be perfectly in-character for Mettaton to make a musical about Frisk's journey.
- During Alphys' eponymous song, she states that she built an "artificial killing machine", warning Mettaton's arrival. Seems redundant, until you realize that because Mettaton is simply a ghost possessing a metal body instead of something along the lines of artificial intelligence, he isn't exactly a robot.
Fridge Logic
- Why does Muffet team up with Flowey in the Pacifist run? She has nothing to gain from it. And you're telling me that she knows of Flowey's existence and never, ever tells anyone? Even if she only learned of him during the events of the musical, you'd think that, in the time it took Frisk to get everyone to the surface (and keeping in mind that the musical's length is not necessarily the same amount of time the human child spent in the underground), someone would somehow learn of this. Especially given that Alphys saw at least the tail end of the music number. Why do you think she was running so fast to catch up with the human?
- Flowey could easily have lied to Muffet and told her that the human hated spiders, as indicated in Muffet's speech before Spider Dance. His lyrics "give up and free the beast inside" suggest that he's using Muffet and the spiders to try and force the human child to kill or be killed. For why Muffet didn't tell anyone about Flowey - what would she have to gain by doing so? For all she knows Flowey is just another monster, and there's no reason for her to believe otherwise. Muffet is also rather money-hungry and is unlikely to give up information about Flowey to any interested parties for free. As for Alphys, once she runs into frame, Flowey is nowhere to be seen, and even then, what would one be more likely to focus on - the giant spider trying to kill the human you're supposed to be protecting, or the flower disappearing in the background?
- "Muffet is also rather money-hungry" - actually it's never even implied neither in the musical or in game. The whole "Muffet is extremely greedy and selfish" misconception among fandom was born from taking the peaceful ending of her boss fight completely out of context.
- She charges exorbitant prices for pastries that go for over 500 times cheaper in the Ruins, she comments that you're awfully stingy with your money (both in the game and in the musical) if you don't pay, listing it as the last/worst in a series of crimes against spiders that include brutal violence, and makes her attacks in-game easier to dodge if you bribe her. Plus outright says in game she was offered a lot of money for your soul. That's pretty strong implications of greed.
- At the time she was sure she is facing a dangerous murderer. Shopkeepers on Genocide refuse to sell us anything at all when in the same situation. Does it make them greedy? A cross-universe example: in Chrono Trigger, monster shoppers, who are afraid and vary of humans, also charge us much more than anyone else. Does it make them greedy? There is no indication that those ridiculously overpriced goods are always sold at such prices - it might be just a sort of "special price" just for the player. As for "listing stingyness as the worst crime" - it sounds more like out of all crimes listed she is the most sure about this one rather than considering it the worst of all.
- First of all you're incorrect about the shopkeepers in Genocide, Gerson still sells you things despite knowing you're a murderer (because he knows the longer you spend with him the more chance others have to leave), while Burgerpants also stays (albeit not fully grasping the situation). Those that don't do business do so because they have run away. Your point about them not doing business is unrelated and invalid. The fiends in Chrono Trigger overcharge because they are racist towards humans - greed there is questionable, yes, but Muffet has far more examples in-game pointing to a love of and need/want to have money. Second, the scared donut guy says he spent all his money after being intimidated by Muffet. This implies Muffet's prices remain overpriced regardless of customer. As for the list of crimes, it's a common trope to list the last crime, regardless of actual severity, as the one the list-lister (I'm good with words) cares most about - and Roxrezi, the voice actor, was instructed to deliver it that way. And I still love how you're trying to say, to the writer of the musical, that nowhere in the musical is it implied that Muffet is greedy based on picking and choosing parts of Muffet's character. - Man on the Internet
Fridge Horror
- Everybody in the musical refers to the events as a "tale" or "game." The only people who refer to it using terms related to actual stage plays are Photoshop Flowey, Asriel, and W.D. Gaster. For the first two, it makes sense. They've absorbed enough SOUL power that they might've gained mild meta-awareness. But how does Gaster know the truth? And if he knows it's all just a musical... does he know about US?
- If Deltarune is any indication, there is a possibility that he is. Jevil's song in Deltarune: A (Not) Musical (probably coincidentally) refers to this, with Jevil outright stating near the end that, "Can't you see, YOUR WORLD'S A FANTASY!"
- Furthermore, his claim as "The Hero Who Never Came" puts every single time "But nobody came" pops up into perspective. He was responding to every single occurrence, but as he says himself, couldn't physically do anything.
