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Wham! Line/Video Games

Otacon: They're already dead, all twelve of them.
Snake: What? When did it happen?
Otacon: Well...a hundred years ago.
Snake: What the hell?

Snake: Change sides? I don't recall ever saying I was on yours.

Eve: Snake, listen to me, she didn't betray the United States [...] self-sacrifice, because that was her duty.

Ocelot: I will continue my activities as a contact for the new government. Yes, it appears that no one knew that I was ADAM. Of course. I'm always at the CIA's disposal... Mr. Director.

  • For being a relatively minor character, Higashizawa from The World Ends With You gets a big one. "You're dead. Didn't you know?"
    • Joshua's got to have the best, though. "It was me, Neku. I'm Shibuya's Composer." And let's not forget Kitaniji's "Your points have been tallied, and the Player to be reborn decided. Congratulations...Shiki Misaki." and, slightly later on, "This time, you’re playing for...Shiki Misaki.".
    • The Another Day Secret Report, obtained by reading all of the previous ones, and defeating the Bonus Boss. By reading the others, you'd discovered the existence of a Fallen Angel who had aided Minamimoto, and learned that the writer of the Reports was Hanekoma, who is an Angel who is looking to find and stop the Fallen Angel. However, when you read the Another Day report, he says that there's a reason he doesn't want to meet up with the alternate version of himself: "You see, I am the Fallen Angel who taught Minamimoto how to refine Taboo Noise. Minamimoto owes his successful rebirth to the corrections I made to his flawed Taboo refinery sigil. I must hide in Pork City for fear that my alternate self in this world may report me on sight."
  • BioShock, "Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'...powerful phrase...Familiar phrase?"
    • Swiftly followed by:

It's time to end this little masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid. Never was. Fella in my line of work takes on a variety of aliases. Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months. But, you've been a sport, so I guess I owe you a little honesty. The name's Frank Fontaine.

Sofia Lamb: ...But there is one detail of your mutual bond she failed to account for. Your body was designed to lapse into a coma when her heart ceases to beat. Eleanor..forgive me.

    • This from the "Minerva's Den" DLC.

The Thinker: Mainframe reactivated. Confirming user's identity: genetic identity confirmed. Alpha series: Subject Sigma. Former identity: Charles Milton Porter.

Voice in Akarana Corridor: The Ambassador has launched the ICBMs!

  • Persona 4: "Namatame's the one who put 'em all in!"
    • Perhaps even earlier on when you have to pick Adachi's name from the list.

Shadow Naoto: But a name doesn’t change the truth, it doesn’t let you cross the barrier between the sexes. How could you become an ideal man, when you were never male to begin with...?

  • F.E.A.R.: Paxton Fettel's words "You and I were born from the same mother."
    • Technically, it's not spoken, but toward the very end of the game, the camera pans down to show the name on the Origin project folder: Alma Wade. That one word changes the context of about 90% of the entire game.
    • After the credits, the very last words in the game. "There is some good news, however. The first prototype was a complete success." Spoken by Genevieve Aristide, the president of Armacham.
  • Mother 3:

Bronson: ...It's where I found the Drago Fang. It was...in your...It was pierced through your wife's heart...

  • Tales of Symphonia: "My daughter? Don't make me laugh. When I came down to play the role of guardian angel, you inferior beings just started calling me her father on your own."
    • "Mithos Yggdrasill, his older sister Martel, and their companions Kratos and Yuan."
    • Mithos: "Wow, that was an amazingly corny speech. Congratulations."
  • Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World:

Richter: (to Emil) This arte, this timing. So indeed...you are Ratatosk!

Jade: That's what I would say if I was an emperor, with a country and people to look after. As your friend... I feel compelled to stop you.[...] I'm sorry.

  • Heavy Rain: "Don't forget about me...Scottie."
  • Diablo II: "You haven't failed, old man. You've done exactly as you were meant to do. However, I am not the archangel Tyrael.
  • Diablo III:

Adria: Dear Leah...Deckard always suspected...your true father...was Diablo himself!

Diablo: Now, at last, to my true goal, the one that has always eluded me: the utter destruction of the High Heavens!

"Monsters? They looked like monsters to you?"

    • Granted, he later dismiss it as a joke after seeing Cheryl's reaction, but given the nature of the game and the town is not an easily dismissible observation.
  • Splinter Cell: Conviction gives us Grim telling Sam that his daughter is alive. His reaction nicely mirrors our own.
  • Neverwinter Nights:

Desther: No, Lady Aribeth, I have the cure.

Malak: Even the combined power of the Jedi Council couldn't completely destroy your former identity, could it?

  • Jade Empire: "Your abilities have grown immensely. But it also does my heart good to see that you have remembered the basics of what I taught. Even the flaws."
    • Early on in the game, after the attack on Two Rivers by the Lotus Assassins, Sagacious Zu will say "I... I was one" immediately after talking about them (the context varies based on your dialogue choice).
  • Mass Effect: There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.
  • Mass Effect 2

EDI: Only one race is known to have this genetic structure: the Protheans.

    • Later:

Geth: Shepard-Commander.

    • Proving it's never too late for a curveball:

EDI: Shepard... If My Calculations Are Correct, the super-structure... is a Reaper.
Shepard: Not just any Reaper. A human Reaper.

I am the Catalyst.

  • Dragon Age: Origins: "Sound the retreat."
    • Dragon Age II, at the end of the quest "Alone": "You said you never wanted those markings, but that's not true! You wanted them; competed for them!"
    • In Merrill's quest "A New Path", she notices that the Pride Demon who taught her Blood Magic is not present at Pride's End, and suggests that something must have happened to it. Keeper Marethari, now possessed by the demon, arrives and says "I happened."
  • Billy vs. SNAKEMAN: "You can do it, can't you? You can Loop."
    • Also, from before Cerebus Syndrome set in: "The power of a Reaper lies in… their Pants.", followed by "NO PANTS DAY."
  • Fire Emblem 7: "The ice dragon there...The beast slaughtered by your hand...That is Ninian. The girl you loved."
  • Modern Warfare 2:

Ghost: "Captain Price! The silo doors are opening on the sub! Price! Do you read me? THE SILO DOORS ARE OPEN!"
Price: "Good."

    • Additionally:

Makarov: "That was no message... *bang* This was the message."

    • Then...

General Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."

Makarov: "Yuri, my friend. You never should have come here."

Eli Vance: "Unforseen consequences...the last time I heard those words was back at Black Mesa...you had just stepped into the test chamber when he whispered them in my ear. You know who I'm talking about...our mutual friend."

The Lich King: "You have done well, Drakuru."

"You trained them well, Fordring. You delivered the greatest fighting force this world has ever known...right into my hands -- exactly as I intended."

The dragons' flame sealed my fate. The world of the living can no longer comfort me. Place the crown upon my head, Tirion. Forevermore - I will be the jailor of the damned.

      • Define reappears. He's visible in one of the portals you can go into while fighting Yogg, his voice is heard early in Icecrown Citadel, and his body is chained above the Frozen Throne all throughout your fight with the Lich King. All in all, that one had plenty of foreshadowing.
    • Loken has one final line to add insult to injury after capturing Thorim

As for your life, mortal. I will be generous. After all... why would I destroy my most useful servant? I waited for you for weeks inside that Hyldnir mine[1].

    • Toward the end of the Creepy Crate quest for Hallow's Eve, on the Alliance side (a similar series of events occurs for the Horde version) you have the option of turning it over to Anson Hastings, or to Hudson Barnes for safekeeping. If you choose Barnes, he will tell you this.

I know this will seem like betrayal, but Mr. Hastings has made an offer I simply cannot refuse. My apologies, (player).

    • Toward the end of Hour of Twilight, the Twilight Prophet reveals himself.

Archbishop Benedictus: And now, Shaman, you will give the Dragon Soul to ME.

    • One comes up in Cataclysm's ending

Alexstraza: But now we must see it... with mortal eyes.

Larxene: Since you entered this castle, you keep forgetting and remembering, because Namine has been tampering with your memories.

Tron: My master is the creator of this system. Ansem the Wise.
Axel: Way to fall right into their trap.

Xion: Tell me, Roxas...who do you see? If you see a new face, a boy's face, that means that I'm almost ready. This puppet will have to play her part. Roxas...this is him. It's Sora.

Terra: This heart belongs again to darkness. All hearts begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it. It grows, consumes it. In the end, all hearts return to the darkness whence it came.

Varin Omega: I am Colonel! Colonel Beck!
Argilla: No way! We . . . died?!

Dusknoir: This is goodbye... or is it?

    • Also,

Grovyle: Celebi, you remember...The last time...when I traveled back in time to prevent the planet's paralysis, I wasn't alone.

      • Also, this line heard at the end of the game:

Darkrai: "You're late! I have been waiting!"
The Hero: "Why did you want us to come here?"
Darkrai: "I just wanted to have a talk with you."
Hero: "Talk with you? I don't even know you!"
Darkrai: "So you don't know me right? Well, I know you."
Hero: "Why do you know all about me? What did you do?"
Darkrai: "When you and Grovyle are both traveling to here together, there appears to be a little accident. This accident actually separated you from Grovyle and consequently turned you into a Pokémon. Remember the accident?"
Hero: "Why do you remember the accident? Who caused it?"
Darkrai: "Yes, I remember the accident. That accident was caused by...me..."

  • Pokémon Black and White has one about halfway through the game, with the wham furthered by how it's implied to be casually delivered:

N: "First, I must tell you... I am the king of Team Plasma."

Edgeworth: "Maybe it was I who killed my father!"

    • From the fifth case, Rise From The Ashes. An in universe example as it caused such an uproar that the trial had to be suspended for a day.

Lana: Drastic crimes require drastic measures... That's just the way it is. We did what we had to... in order for him to get the verdict he deserved. Even if it involved "forging" evidence.

    • From Justice for All:

"How do you do, Mr. Lawyer? I'm Matt Engarde."

    • From Trials & Tribulations:

Sister Bikini: I see. So I've been wrong all this time. Mystic Morgan had three daughters, not two.
Phoenix: Whaaa!? Th-Three?
Sister Bikini: Yes. Iris, her twin sister and Mystic Pearl.

    • From Ace Attorney Investigations, we have a wham laugh, when Shih-Nah laughs in the exact same highly-distinctive manner as Calisto Yew, sparking instant recognition from Edgeworth and Kay.
      • A bit later:

Badd: And third: the Yatagarasu never leaves a single shred of evidence behind, ever!

    • From Investigations 2:

Mikagami: The defendant... Bansai Ichiyanagi! I accuse you!

Hudson: "Reznov's been dead for five years, he died in the escape from Vorkuta!"

    • And later...

Mason: "You tried to make me kill my president!"
Dragovich: Tried?

      • There's also the third one from "Rebirth":

Hudson: "Viktor Reznov did not kill Friederich Steiner. Hudson saw what happened."

Altaïr: Speak sense, Templar, or not at all!
Robert: Nine men he sent you to kill, yes...the nine who guarded the treasure’s secret?
Altaïr: What of it?
Robert: It wasn't nine who found the treasure, Assassin. Not nine, but ten.
Altaïr: A tenth? None may live who carry the secret. Give me his name.
Robert: Oh, but you know him well...and I doubt very much you'd take his life...as willingly as you’ve taken mine.
Altaïr: Who?
Robert: It is your master: Al Mualim.

Minerva: (to Ezio) The rest is up to you...Desmond.

The Animus: Compiling subsystems. Infrastructure. Tendons. Heart. Voice.
Desmond: ...Subject 16?
Subject 16: Yes...Subject 17.
Desmond: You're dead...I saw your blood!

Tutorial: Use the gun to shoot Abbas.

Sephiroth(Actually Jenova): "...because you are a puppet."

The Marker: Thank you, Isaac. Now...time to die.

Admiral Harkov: "Enough of this charade; Gamma 1 is the Emperor's stool pigeon! Gamma 2 and 3 destroy Gamma 1 now!"
Admiral Zaarin's forces are attacking Imperial Star Destroy Garrett! The treachery is worse than we imagined; the Emperor is in danger."

Arcturus Mengsk:"Belay that order. We're moving out."
The Overmind: "Arise, my daughter. Arise...Kerrigan."
Tassadar: "I come to tell you of this creature's... courage."

Rozalin: Wait! I really can't tell you!!
Etna: Sure you can. You just don't want to.
Rozalin: ...No, you don't understand. The reason I cannot tell you is...I-I don't know where my father is! I have never even met him before!!

Ishi: "God...is...dead."

Cave Johnson: Caroline, are the compensation vouchers ready?
Caroline and GLaDOS: Yes sir, Mr Johnson.
GLaDOS: "Why did I just- Who is that? What the hell is going on- (Shorts out)

    • Not to mention:

GLaDOS: You know, being Caroline taught me a valuable lesson. I *thought* you were my greatest enemy, when all along you were my best friend. The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson - where Caroline lives in my brain.
Announcer: Caroline deleted.

    • The Perpetual Testing Initiative we have one given after the "Computer!Cave" "arc" that completely turns the notion of "Cave Prime" on its head:

Cave Prime: Whoa! Chariots chariots. For some reason, some of the audio was bleeding through in this universe. Don't know if you were catching the subtext there, but that computer Cave is crazy. So: Greg was right. As of now, we are cancelling the genetic lifeform disk operating system initiative.

    • From Portal, notable is that this was not in the original game and was patched in as part of an Alternate Reality Game addon more than two years after release.

Robot: Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position!

Kachi: Long ago, I wasn't called Kachi. I was known as...Achi.

  • Fate/stay night has several. Due to the nature of the narration, some hit the reader more than the characters, and vice-versa.

Archer: Trace, On.

Cole: What do you want me to tell Moya?
John: Who's Moya?

    • Later, there's another one:

Cole: Yet the thing that drove him forward...Kessler's sole link to the past, was a picture from his wedding day...
when he married Trish, with Zeke as his best man...

      • Actually, before that was Kessler's last words; "Trish, I love you. Forgive me."
  • Sly 2:

Jean Bison: I ain't like you boy, I ain't stew-pid. When y'all were unconscious me and my boys paid a visit to your hideout and found all them Clockwerk Parts. Lucky thing, too; Arpeggio was willing to plunk down a King's ransom for the whole lot. I even threw in the Talons.

Cortana: You don't know what this thing does, do you? Halo doesn't kill flood, it kills their food.

343 Guilty Spark: Why, The Ark, of course.
Arbiter: And where, Oracle, is that?

    • Before that:

Arbiter: When the Prophets learn of this, they'll take your head!
Tarturus: When they learn? Fool, they ordered me to do it.

  • In Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy, you unlock the Confession of The Creator scenario (Scenario 000) after completing Treachery of the Gods (Scenario 012) and Light to All (Scenario 013). Those latter two are numbered after the "cycle" of war in which it takes place. As per the story of the original game, the heroes break the cycle and go home after the 13th cycle. In Confessions of the Creator, which doesn't seem to take place anywhere in the ordinary story, the Mured Moogle (Cid of the Lufaine) tells you his story as you make your final approach to Chaos. In it, he casually mentions that in the 13th cycle, everyone on Cosmos's side, including the goddess herself, died and were purified. You may write this off as perhaps a misnumbering. Maybe there was a 0th cycle or something. And then he talks about an 18th cycle.
  • Final Fantasy IV looks like it sets one up when Cecil and company travel to the moon and meet FuSoYa, when he reveals that his brother, KluYa, was Cecil's father. But that's just to set up the real Wham Line:

Golbez: "My father? His name was...KluYa".

  • Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: Unfortunately, you're wrong. Actually, I'm Santa. This was in one of the previews, no less, but it does not mean what you may think it means.
    • From the Safe Ending: "No. You misunderstand. You haven't lost. I... have lost."
    • "The answer to that is easy. He knew because I knew." And the line itself is only part of the wham - it's said by the narration.
  • 999's sequel, Virtue's Last Reward, has some as well: for example, Quark casually drops this bombshell in Tenmyouji's route. As a bonus, it's not a wham unless you've played certain other routes or the first game... but if you have, it makes things about ten times more complicated.

Quark: (referring to a photo of young Akane from 999): "Oh, she was the old man's 'first love'."

  • The ending of Mega Man X 3: "Dr. Light's plan for him will finally be revealed. Unknown to X, his destiny has already been decided. To save mankind, he must destroy Zero."
  • In the endgame of Final Fantasy I, the Warriors of Light journey to the world of 2000 years in the past, to confront the demon Chaos. They descend deep into the then-pristine Chaos Shrine...and encounter a disturbingly familiar face:

Garland: Do you remember me? I was once known as a knight of Cornelia.

Kalas: It's me. I worked together with Melodia.

    • Origins gives us several throughout the game:

Pieda: How about Malpercio?
Milly: No, Father! This isn't what you promised!
Verus: Hee heh hah hah hah! Sagi, you've betrayed my hopes time and again, but I'm happy to say you've finally come through for me.

Tidus: "If guardians do their job well, summoners will be safe!" (Silence) "Right?" "RIGHT?"

Rikku: "Yunie will die, you know? ...You know, don't you?!"

Rikku: (Moments after the previous line) "The pilgrimages have to stop!"

Computer: "Warning: There is a space-time anomaly forming. Two objects have emerged. Ship identification code cannot be processed for the large craft. The other is Vic Viper T-301."

  • Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody:

Tenshi: What are you talking about? I'm saying I was bored out of my mind! So I came down to the surface and watched you playing with all kinds of different youkai.
Reimu: I wouldn't exactly call it playing, though.
Tenshi: Seeing that made me think, "I want to play disaster resolution too." So I caused one. A disaster, I mean.

  • Etrian Odyssey. All this time you thought you were in a medieval world of sorts. Then comes the fifth Stratum, named Lost Shinjuku. And yes, it's referring to Shinjuku, Japan.
  • In The Reconstruction, everything looks like it'll be fine and the world will be saved, but this banks on the fact that the third Watcher hasn't messed anything up. But that's okay, you're still on schedule and know where he is...or do you?

"Third Watcher? You mean Donz? I thought he went down with you guys, Ma!"

  • Fahrenheit: "A Mayan sacrifice. That's what it was."
    • Also in the chapter, "Where is Jade?".

"The truth is, you are dead, Lucas."

  • Battlefield 3 "Solomon's one of ours."
  • Star Fox 64: "Don't ever give up, my son."
  • Do Don Pachi: Complete the game normally, and the Commander commends your efforts and tells you it's time to take a well-deserved rest. Fulfill the conditions for the 2nd loop, however, and...

"That was a good fight. You should be commended...Psych! You're dead meat!! Enemies you've been fighting against, supposedly 'Mechanized Aliens', were actually. our (sic) guys, the missing battlefleet you learned about in the academy. You were killing our guys without knowing it! But I planned that all along! And your death...would be a nice finishing touch to my whole scheme. My special forces are the best of the best and they will be welcoming you with fierce fier (sic) power. See You in Hell!"

    • In DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu, Colonel Longhena has two versions of the "welcome to 2nd loop" speech, depending on which version of the 2nd loop you unlock. Either way, he declares his intent to "build a new order"...
  • Prototype:

Alex: Who are you? Who sent you?
Cross: You should pick your friends more carefully, Mercer.

    • Later on:

Alex: I'm not human. The revelation...it freed me. It killed me. I'm not human. *uneasy chuckle* Alex is just the role I play. Part of me was relieved...and part of me died. Just another disguise, right? So ingrained...so real...even I believe it.

    • And also from Director McMullen

"Alex Mercer died. He died threatening to release the most deadly virus in history on the people of New York."

Wesker: I would expect you to be happier to see us.
Chris: Us?
Wesker: So slow to catch on.

"I want to go home! I want to go back to my house by the hill! I want to see my mother!" The girl was shouting now, her face wet with tears. "But I know she's not there! I knew all along that she wasn't out there in the sky! Because...because..."
"She's sleeping under the tree on the hill!"

Your wife's attorney has pictures of you and the German.

"At least someone in your chickenshit organization knows how to do business, isn't that right, Lance?"

"Niko Bellic? A gift from Dimitri Rascalov."

"There's something wrong with the TV!"

"Heheh... Yeah right."

Shinji Matou: "I'm only eight years old!"

Learn that you are my puppet. Now watch this!

    • If the sequel has one, it's in the end.

I love you, Jackie Estacado. No matter what happens, I always will. I'm so sorry.

Isabela: You... You must have gotten yourself infected somehow.

Terry Higgins: "You did good, boy scout."

  • Katawa Shoujo has a few, often accompanied by the music stopping.
    • In Emi's route

Hisao's Narration: "Emi's there, yes. But she's in a wheelchair"

    • Hisao finds a bottle in the shed, and the label tells him why Emi brought him there.

"Personal lubricant- lemon flavored."

    • In Lilly's route.

Akira: When our folks told me that when we were at their place, though, they also gave Lilly a summons to rejoin them in Inverness.

    • In Shizune's route

Misha: "Comfort me, Hicchan, just for today.

    • Later in Shizune's route

Misha: "I know you like her, Hicchan. I mean that I like Shicchan in the same way. I want her to be my girlfriend."

Hades: "Now wait just a second."

    • Then in Chapter 18:

Pit: (to Magnus) It feels like just yesterday we were fighting together.
Magnus: Yesterday? Try three years, buddy!

Mal'Ganis: You hear the voice of the Dark Lord. He whispers to you through the blade you wield. What does he say, young human? What dose the Dark Lord of the Dead tell you now?
Arthas: He tells me that the time for my vengeance has come.

"There is no universal vaccine."
"How long has Rhoemer been working for you, Markinson?"

McNeal: Where's the spaceship? The one that Kane stole?
Vega: He didn't steal it. He built it.

    • Tiberium Wars

"The destruction of the Philadelphia was no accident."
"We just got word. JPL Deep Space Net is picking up 6 unidentified objects heading towards Earth..."

"This being already exists in the datacore. Genetic derivations unknown."

Tatsumaru: Who is Tatsumaru? I am Seiryu the Blue Dragon, one of the Four Lords of the Burning Dawn!

"Victoria, are you ready to give Mr. Garrett his compensation?"

  • Legacy of Kain
    • Blood Omen: He is the last! [Moebius points at Kain and swords are drawn.] Destroy him!
    • Soul Reaver: The blade is vanquished. So it unfolds...and we are a step closer to our destinies.
    • Soul Reaver 2: My god...the Hylden...we walked right into their trap. Raziel! Janos must stay dead!
    • Defiance: The Soul Reaver, pure of all corruption... this is what it is for. This is what I am for. The two become one... both Soul Reavers... together... and the Scion of Balance is healed... And I am not your enemy... not your destroyer... I am, as before, your right hand... your sword.
  • Nie R

Emil: "So then humans...I mean, the true humans...they're extinct?"
Weiss: "No. They still live on. You know them as Shades."

  • Ghost Trick: At the end of Chapter 14, after a number of revelations, Sissel sums up the result of it all:

Sissel: Who. Am. I? I'm even further from the truth than when I started.

  • Undertale is filled with an staggering amount of these. Here are some of the most significant:
    • Everything Flowey says after the battle with Toriel, but the scariest version is the one he says if you actually kill her, reload, and then spares her.

Flowey: But don't act so cocky. I know what you did. You murdered her. And then you went back, because you regretted it. Ha ha ha ha... You naive idiot. Do you think you are the only one with that power? The power to reshape the world... Purely by your own determination. The ability to play God! The ability to "SAVE."

    • For that matter, what Toriel says if you confront her after resetting a game just after you murdered her

Toriel:...wait ...why are you looking at me like that? Like you have seen a ghost. Do you know something that I do not?

    • One character reveals that they know about Flowey.

"have you ever heard of a talking flower?"

    • If you played Undertale as a typical RPG but hadn't go full genocidal, you will receive an very special lesson that will change everything you knew about the game on its head

Sans: What's EXP? It's an acronym. It stands for "execution points". A way of quantifying the pain you have inflicted on others. When you kill someone, your EXP increases. When you have enough EXP, your LOVE increases. LOVE, too, is an acronym. It stands for "Level of Violence". A way of measuring someone's capacity to hurt.

    • So you are having a nice dinner with Sans, and he tells you about a promise he made to some woman. Everything is so funny and lighthearted, and then he drops this gem:

Do you get what I'm saying? That promise I made to her... you know what would've happened if she hadn't said anything? Buddy... you'd be dead where you stand.

Alphys: I... I can't take this anymore. I... lied to you. A human Soul isn't strong enough to cross the barrier alone. It takes at least a human Soul... and a monster Soul. If you want to go home... you'll have to take his Soul. You'll have to kill Asgore.

    • In the True Pacifist route, you are examining some tapes with a lot of clues about the past of Toriel, Asgore, and their son Asriel. The whole tape set is Whamtastic, but this particular line stands above the others because it's the very first clue that the name you introduced in the opening screen is more that it appeared.

Asriel: Okay [name you introduced in the opening screen], are you ready?

    • All of Alphys records in the True Lab. All of them.
    • The line that stopped a myriad of attempted Genocide runs, as it demolish the "killing in self-defense" excuse many players have when attempting such a run.

Papyrus is sparing you.

    • The first sign you are in a No Mercy route is this delightful gem that appears while examining Toriel's kitchen drawers. Note that red text is not among the colors used for emphasis in the player character narrating box in the other runs.

Where are the knives

  1. ↑ He is referring to the questgiver that set you on the entire chain in the first place, thereby leading you to bring Thorim to him
  2. ↑ Only applies if you've played the first Sin and Punishment
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