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Undyne's sportsmanship
- When Undyne chases you through the tunnel and Papyrus phones you, why does Undyne pause and wait for you to finish the conversation instead of, you know, just turn Frisk into a kebab?
- Same reason she doesn't kill you in her house, and why she gives you a spear to fight back. She may hate humans, but she does have a sense of honor.
- Or it could be Undertale's usual Rule of Funny humor.
- Undyne attempts to make every action towards you appear as dramatic and cool as possible, which is later revealed to be because she really likes anime and thinks it's all real human history. She didnt didn't interrupt your phone call during the chase for the same reason she skipped ahead of you in waterfall to record a creepy warning for you into an echo flower; she wants the situation to play out like a cool scene in an anime.
- Undyne may be violent, but she's a very moral person with a deeply ingrained sense of honor and fairplay (no doubt from all the anime she watches). She knows her duty is to kill you, but she doesn't seem to be really capable of justifying doing the deed to herself as long as she still sees her target as a person. Unless you go out of your way to kill every monster you can before you get to her, she can't fully overcome her natural resistance to the idea killing a kid in cold blood. She tries to work herself into a rage before her boss fight, but still can't help herself but to give Frisk a spear to defend themselves with. It's why Frisk fleeing the fight and giving her water after overheating completely removes her will to fight: she can't see them as an unthinking evil anymore so she can't square her duty of killing them with her moral code and leaves in shame.
Undyne's Echo Flower
- There's a dark hallway in Waterfall that's seemingly a dead end and the only examinable object when you first enter is an echo flower that says "B E H I N D Y O U", signaling Undyne's dramatic appearance. It's echoing her voice presumably, but again, this flower's in a dead end. Did she go there just before you for the sake of drama, then backtrack to sneak up on you, or..?
- It's entirely possible that it wasn't Undyne at all. Trolls might put that message in an echo flower at a dead end just to screw with others. Undyne may have decided to be a Troll by waiting. She is a monster, after all.
- It seems equally possible that the one who placed that message there was either Sans (who's been shown to be able to alter his voice text when appropriate, and who's been protecting you this whole time), or Flowey (whose ultimate intent really is to get you to the end).
- Well, as we find out later, Undyne does watch a lot of anime and does over-dramatic cool-looking things like suplexing boulders (or herself) just because she can...so setting up a cool dramatic moment like that just for the heck of it would not exactly be out of character for her.
- It was most definitely Undyne who set up the flower. Listen closely — the flower uses Undyne's voice sound.
- Objection! Do you not remember that both Sans and Flowey can imitate others' voices?
- Silence! Sans might be able to change his voice, but he has never shown the ability to imitate the voices of others like Flowey can. That only leaves Undyne and Flowey as our potential suspects, and Flowey lacks a motive to use Undyne's voice specifically.
- Another thing to note is that Undyne believes that anime is Human history. Is it too much of a stretch that she'd set up an ambush in this way?
- It's obvious! It was Burgerpants!
Undyne's eyepatch
- What happened to Undyne's eye? It doesn't seem to be that her eye was messed up/inoperable since birth. If that was the case, then she probably wouldn't feel the need to wear an eyepatch, if having one good eye was all she's ever known. It's not likely that anyone would make fun of her for having a messed-up eye since there are so many different kinds of monsters and they don't make fun of each other for their physical features. Maybe it's just for the effect of making her look more badass, which is fine. But it would be cool if there was a story behind it, like she accidentally speared herself while training OR the human with the gun shot her in the eye.
- Given the prominence of left eyes when situations are serious, and that other monsters (especially Sans), are shown to use them to channel their magic, it's possible Undyne isn't blind in that eye, but given her strength of character and determination, if it was uncovered her magic would be almost out of control, this may also be why she loses it as Undyne the Undying, she's breaking out all the stops so she's willing to let her eye show so she can go at you full force.
- Or, more simply, she just lost it at some point. She has a very dangerous profession and is extremely hotheaded, so she could have damaged it in any number of ways.
- Or, even more simply, she just wears it because it looks cool. As a huge anime fan, she knows that people with scars or eyepatches look cooler.
- No — the eyepatch comes off when she becomes Undyne the Undying, and there's nothing but a black pit underneath.
- Seeing that the only two Humans who made it past Undyne were the Green and Yellow Soul humans, and the Green Soul is shown in the Ball Game to be kind, gentle, and caring, the Yellow Human shooting Undyne's eye out wouldn't be too far fetched.
- It's doubtful she's ever actually fought a human before. She expresses incredulity at how durable you are as if she had no idea humans were this tough. If she had fought another human before and not had this difficulty, she would've assumed that it was just the player who was tough, not all humans. Just because those are the only items you find past her doesn't mean those humans actually went past her. She might not even have been a knight yet.
- Monsters ARE capable of hurting other monsters, with magic attacks literally called bullets (they mention bullet-pattern birthday cards at one point). Who's to say it was a human who shot out her eye?
Undyne's Weapon
- It's rather odd that someone who relies on throwing spears has an eye-patch, where then she lacks depth-perception. Spears would be incredibly ineffective...
- Depth perception affects these things a great deal less than people might think.
- To elaborate: her spears are made of magic, and even real spears travel in a (roughly) straight path after being thrown. A ball, not so much. This is why people with no depth perception (speaking from experience; I had a lazy eye and it never got corrected) can be great at archery but might never be able to throw a beanbag into a bucket...
Undyne and the Nice Neutral Endings (SPOILERS)
- Why is Undyne not angry with you in the "nice" neutral endings when all of the monsters think you've killed Asgore (out of necessity)? In every other neutral ending if she's alive, she's either upset about it or angry enough to start an insurrection or have an Anti-Human policy enacted. Why is it then that she is perfectly okay with you killing Asgore if you've killed no one else? To her, all monsters lives are valuable, and attacking one is like personally attacking her. So why is she okay with it?
- She's still very upset about his death regardless, but she only doesn't blame you for it if you befriend her. She's probably aware of the fact that Asgore forced you to fight him to the death.
- In the neutral endings where you befriended her and didn't kill anyone except Asgore, she specifically says that "You were just doing what you had to." Given how much she respects his abilities, it's also quite likely that she believes (correctly) that he wasn't fighting at full strength and that he wanted to be killed. (Depending on how it happened, he may even have committed suicide — she doesn't know that that's exactly what happened, but she's smart enough and knows Asgore well enough to put together the pieces and figure out that he decided to die, regardless.)
- Undyne, Asgore, and Toriel seem to be the few characters who genuinely have thought through and understood the implications of committing murder to free themselves from the Underground. Undyne was willing to kill you, full stop. She knows that Asgore was willing to kill you, full stop. She also knows how determined you are to stay alive and escape. She knew that that battle was not going to end without one of you dying without a frankly miraculous display of restraint from one or both of you. She probably had her hopes, but she's one of the few characters who would truly be able to face the idea that one of you was not getting out of there alive, and that she had really no control over which one of you that was going to be. To say she'd made her peace with it might be a bit of a stretch, but it was probably no surprise to her when it happened.
Undyne's Theme in Waterfall and... Ruins?
You can hear a melody from "Spear of Justice" in Waterfall and the Ruins' background music. Waterfall is obvious, but why would she be associated with the Ruins?
- Toriel is part of the royalty. Undyne is in the Royal Guard. Also, Home (the city in the Ruins) is one of two major epicenters of monster population, the other being in New Home; Undyne fights for all monsterkind.
- It could just simply be because Undyne represents the end of the first half of the game - a half that has the Ruins leitmotif in a lot of places (2 out of 3 of the areas). This is in a similar vein to how Mettaton's theme includes the themes of the Core and Hotlands - as well as how both of the motifs of "Undertale" note are used in both the True Pacfist and Neutral final boss themes. note
Undyne's House Fire
- When you take part in Undyne's cooking session, the house winds up catching on fire. I know this was meant to be played for humor, but what about the aftermath of the whole deal? Why does no one bother to put the fire out? And for that matter, why is it still on fire during the epilogue? Wouldn't it have burned to the ground by that point?
- Like you said, this was probably due to Rule of Funny on the most part. As to why nobody puts it out, Undyne obviously doesn't care much, Napstablook is afraid of Undyne and thus wouldn't go over to her house, and both of their houses is fairly out of the way. Additionally, the entirety of the game takes place in less than a day.
- Well, Grillby the bartender seems to be made totally of fire, so... maybe... Undyne was cooking with magic and the fire got infused with magic and... it turned into a monster and... look, I got nothin' here.
