Updike

== Gabriel Updike ==
* Normal													
* Dark/Inverted													
=== Aliases ===
Updyke (old name)
=== Relationships ===
Whitty (Target and Enemy)
"Monsters" (Targets, Enemies and Victims)
=== Occupation ===
Weatherman (formerly)
Leader of a highly specialized taskforce "The Greater Good"
== Biographical information ==
=== Age ===
24
=== Place of birth ===
Unknown
=== Date of death ===
Unknown
=== Status ===
Alive (at least we knew that)
== Physical description ==
=== Species ===
Cloud Humanoid
=== Gender ===
Male
=== Height ===
5'10''
=== Weight ===
Unknown
=== Eye color ===
Black
== Appearances ==
=== Appears in ===
Friday Night Funkin' V.S. Whitty
=== Debut ===
Friday Night Funkin'/Vs Whitty’s secret ending
“It's for the greater good.”
― Updike
Gabriel Updike, or just simply Updike, is a secret character in the Vs. Whitty mod.
== Appearance ==
Updike is a very hairy humanoid creature, with white curly hair resembling the shape of cloud. He has prominent curled-up bangs which resemble a unibrow to some extent. He wears a white long-sleeved button-up shirt, a white partially buttoned-up jacket with four dark grey buttons on the front, white long-legged pants, a dark grey tie, and white shoes. He also wears a black glove and holds a microphone in his right hand, while his left hand is on his back. In his dark form, he is shown with mostly inverted colours, and his eyes disappear.
== Backstory ==
It is unknown how Updike was born or how he came to existence.
Updike was originally a wealthy weatherman, but he would later become a leader of a highly specialized taskforce that would hunt down various monsters. Due to Whitty - a science experiment - being a doomsday machine that could blow up an entire city, Updike and the taskforce consider him as a monster, too; as a result, they would try to track him down and kill him (much to Whitty's anxiety). Despite these intentions, he isn't a cold-hearted killer, and would feel sad about some problems of his own.
== Trivia ==
* Updike is one of few mod characters you have to enter a secret code to access, one other being Vase.
** The password that is required to unlock Updike's song is its title, "remorse".
* He was supposed to come out with the original release of the Vs. Whitty week, but due to time constraints, it couldn't happen. Months later, he was added in update v6.9.0.
* It is likely that Girlfriend is handcuffed because Updike knows she's a demon.
** However, it seems she can use her powers without using her hands, so this might be useless, unknown to Updike.
* When the lights turn off, all three characters' (Boyfriend, Girlfriend and Updike) eyes disappear and they have a literal black-and-white color scheme. It's unknown if this is a power that Updike has, or if it's a stylistic choice.
* Contrary to his appearance, Updike is not a cloud.
* When Updike is sad, the pigment of his hair/fur darkens.
* Regarding his name:
** Updike is the first Friday Night Funkin' mod character to have a name that starts with a "U". With his being of Dutch origin, it means someone who has lived on a dike. (which doesn't apply to him, of course...)
** His full name is “Gabriel Updike”, he's just always referred to by a surname basis.
** His name used to be "Updyke", until it was changed, due to it containing an offensive slur. (The name in general used to have that considered as an alternate spelling.)
* There are no plans for Updike to have a full week at the moment.
* When you try to play Whitty's week in v6.9.0, the game crashes (this also goes for all his songs in Freeplay Mode). While this could just be a bug, this could also mean that this is a timeline where Updike has succeeded in killing Whitty.
* In the game files, all of Updike's assets are hidden (which means you have to enable "Show hidden items" in your file explorer to view them), except for his icons in the "shared/images" folder, for some reason.
* Updike is surprisingly good at ballet.
* Even though Updike is out to kill Whitty, he felt sympathy for him at one point.
* Updike's blood, similar to an octopus, is blue.
== Cameos in other mods ==
Note: All of these cameos are not canon to Updike's story.
* In Vs. Adam, He appears in the crowd of Phase 3.
* In The Date Week, he appears in the background during Heartbass before the beat drop. He walks to the left side of the screen, pauses and looks around before trying to assassinate Whitty, only to be suddenly thwarted by a large crowd.
== Music ==
Remorse
Menu
0:00
BPM: 120
Scroll Speed: 1.9 (All Difficulties)
Maximum Score: 92050
== Gallery ==
File:UpdikeAnim.gif|Static idle
File:UDLeft.gif|Left Pose
File:UDDown.gif|Down pose
File:UDUp.gif|Up pose
File:UDRight.gif|Right pose
File:UpdikeEdgyAnim.gif|Static dark idle
File:USDleft.gif|Dark left pose
File:UDSdown.gif|Dark down pose
File:UDSup.gif|Dark up pose
File:UDSright.gif|Dark right pose
File:Static-assets-upload16041844105343198176.gif|Boyfriend in the dark (gif)
File:UpdikeGF.png|Girlfriend in Updike's week
File:UpdikeGFCry.png|Girlfriend crying in Updike's week
File:UpdikeGFDark.png|Girlfriend in the dark
File:UpdikeBGs.png|Updike's week backgrounds
File:Oie 2633044QbskVGrCk.png|An (outdated) drawing of Updike and Whitty's relationship
File:UpdikeIcons.png|Updike's icons
File:UpdikeAngy.jpg|Updike angry