Sans is Ness

Sans is Ness is a meme based on an infamous episode of the YouTube web series Game Theory, in which its host, MatPat, theorizes that Ness from EarthBound and Sans from Undertale are actually the same person. It quickly became a meme, including on SiIvaGunner.
== Overview ==
Game Theory is a YouTube web series created Matthew Patrick, MatPat for short, hosted on the YouTube channel The Game Theorists. In the series, he theorizes and analyzes various things about popular video games. The series was very successful at launch, and MatPat has since created similar series on different channels, such as Film Theory, focusing on films and TV shows. While the series is popular, it has also been the source of memes and mockery, due to some (or to some people, a majority) of MatPat's theorizes being very strange. 
On February 9, 2016, the episode "UNDERTALE - Sans's SECRET Identity!" was uploaded. In the video, MatPat talks about various "hints" within Undertale that led him to believe the major character Sans is actually Ness from EarthBound, more specifically the version of Ness from EarthBound Halloween Hack, an old ROM hack of EarthBound released by Toby Fox years before he released Undertale. Similarly to some of MatPat's previous content, the video was heavily criticized for a number of reasons, and quickly became a meme within the fanbases of the games the video focuses on. 
About a year later, MatPat released another Game Theory episode about Undertale, which was about the mysterious character W.D. Gaster's identity. In the beginning of the episode, MatPat discuses the Sans is Ness theory, and states how he just came up with it for fun and it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. MatPat also seems to be fine with the jokes about his old theory nowadays. 
== On SiIvaGunner ==
Seeing as Undertale already has large presense on the channel and this infamous video came out during the beginning of the GiIvaSunner channel, its no surprise that it become a common meme on the channel. This is usually through using or combining songs from EarthBound and Undertale together, mainly songs associated with Sans ("sans.", "Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans" and "MEGALOVANIA") and Ness (mostly "Onett") in rips alongside each other. The theme song to Game Theory and lines MatPat says in the original theory have also been used in rips. 
The first to be a Sans is Ness reference was "Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans - Undertale", which was uploaded on March 26, 2016. 
== As a character ==
Like most early channel memes, Sans is Ness is personified by a figment character, in this case being Sens, a combination of Sans and Ness. His appearance is basically just Sans with Ness' clothing. 
He appears in The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis as one of the figments The Voice automatically captured. He was previously in captivity alongside Felix the Cat, Donkey Kong and Tito Dick, until being freed by Smol Nozomi, Meta Knight and Santa Claus.
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