Undyne

Undyne (), is a major character and the third boss in Undertale. Undyne leads the Royal Guard, which protects Asgore and patrols the Underground to find humans. She pursues the protagonist throughout Waterfall, though she is inadvertently thwarted by Monster Kid.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
==== Normal ====
Undyne is a piscine, anthropomorphic monster. She has blue scales and a long red ponytail. She has red and blue fins on the sides of her head, and a pair of sharp, yellow, protruding teeth. She wears a red eyeshadow and has an eyepatch over her left eye. She also wears a black tank top and blue jeans, but debuts in armor varying in light and dark shades of gray. Her eyes have black vertical pupils and yellow sclera. Undyne has no nose.
==== Alphys Date ====
During the date with Alphys, Undyne wears a white turtleneck under a black leather jacket, a scarf around her neck, pants, lipstick, a light-colored eyepatch, and lets some of her hair down.
==== Undying ====
Whenever she persists through Determination after her HP reduces to zero, her pupils turn white, and her sclera turns black. She no longer has an eyepatch, and her newly revealed empty eye socket emits a flashing light in the shape of a spear. Her hair spikes at the ends like a trident and her fin rays become more rigid and pointy. She also appears to have donned a new set of darker colored armor with souls/hearts on her chestplate and new white gloves, which have spikes protruding from their backside, accompanied by boots with pointed toes.
=== Personality ===
Undyne is passionate about everything that she does. She acts quickly on her ideas and is steadfast in her beliefs. Though she wants to defeat the protagonist, she also tries to be fair and offers an explanation of how Green Mode works. Asgore taught her the value of pacifism, which is why Undyne sees the protagonist as "a wimpy loser with a big heart." When the protagonist first encounters her, she fights to further Asgore's plan of collecting seven human SOULs but, if the protagonist shows mercy, Undyne just as quickly defends them from Asgore.
She loves to help others and mentors Shyren and Papyrus in various skills. Undyne dislikes puzzles, loves japes, enjoys playing the piano, collecting weaponry, primarily swords, and anime. The latter she shares with her romantic interest, Alphys. Since Alphys told Undyne that anime is actually human history, Undyne regards human history as exciting and cool.
Out of all encountered monsters, Undyne possesses the most Determination. She melts before her death, implying that her body cannot handle the amount of Determination she has.
== Main Story ==
=== Neutral Route ===
The protagonist initially encounters Undyne after entering Waterfall, where Undyne stands on top of a ledge. If alive, Papyrus approaches her and delivers a report on the status of the human, and then attempts to convince her not to harm them. After Papyrus leaves, the protagonist can continue, but the grass rustling alerts Undyne to their presence. She scopes out the grass for a moment whilst the track Undyne plays, before retreating.
Undyne follows the protagonist throughout Waterfall and repeatedly attacks them, but the protagonist always evades capture by either dodging her attacks or due to Monster Kid's interference. Later on, Undyne approaches the protagonist as Monster Kid hangs on to the side of a bridge. If the protagonist saves the Monster Kid, they protect the protagonist from Undyne. If the protagonist does not help the Monster Kid, Undyne jumps down to save them instead. Undyne takes a small amount of damage after doing this, which is useful for killing Undyne on the Neutral Route.
After this, Undyne confronts the protagonist and stands atop a crag while giving a monologue that she has practiced many times before. However, she cuts the monologue short because she forgot the rest of it and launches head-on into battle. If Papyrus has been killed, Undyne is distraught and does not energetically shout at the protagonist before the battle.
After Undyne chases the protagonist into Hotland, she collapses due to dehydration. The protagonist can offer Undyne a glass of water, spill all the water in front of her, or continue into Hotland. If she receives water, Undyne stands up, looks around, and slowly returns to Waterfall. If the protagonist leaves this room before pouring the water, Undyne develops heatstroke and the protagonist cannot befriend her, thus preventing the True Pacifist Route requirements from being fulfilled.
If Undyne's health reaches 0 in her battle with the protagonist during a Neutral Route, she manages to cling on to life with Determination and survives further attacks from the protagonist. The protagonist's SOUL returns to Green Mode, preventing the protagonist from fleeing. However, Undyne attacks slower each turn, and every time she attacks, more of her body begins to ripple and split apart. Eventually, after six turns, she reforms due to her Determination, causing her to have more Determination than her monster body can handle. Because of this, she melts (similar to the Amalgamates in the True Lab near the end of the True Pacifist Route) and begins to disintegrate. The protagonist is unable to end the battle by sparing her while this is happening, and whether or not they attack her has no effect on how quickly she dies.
After she dies, the dialogue of the NPCs of Waterfall will change, usually talking about the change of atmosphere in the area and generally feeling unsafe. Most of the Echo Flowers will also become silent as well.
=== True Pacifist Route ===
Papyrus calls the protagonist during Undyne's chase and suggests that they and Undyne should hang out at her house. If the protagonist gives Undyne water and has no EXP, they can backtrack to her house to meet Papyrus, and begin their hangout with her.
Undyne is initially hostile to the protagonist, but changes her attitude when Papyrus presents befriending the human as a challenge and then escapes. She realizes that becoming "besties" with the protagonist would be "the perfect revenge," and says that the protagonist will feel "enamored" with Undyne by the end of their hangout. Undyne discusses her training with Asgore over tea and suddenly realizes that Papyrus's cooking lesson usually occurs at this time. She insists that she and the protagonist bond over cooking, which ends in Undyne's house catching on fire. Humiliated and feeling that she failed at befriending the protagonist, Undyne battles the protagonist and offers them the first hit. Regardless on whether the protagonist deals a "fake hit" through the ACT button or a real hit through the FIGHT button, they only deal one HP of damage. Undyne realizes neither of them wants to harm one another.
Because her house was scorched, Undyne moves into Papyrus and Sans's House.
After the protagonist completes a Neutral Route, they can backtrack from the CORE into the MTT Resort, and Undyne will call them to ask for a favor. In Snowdin Town, Undyne gives them a letter that she asks them to take to Alphys in Hotland. The protagonist gives Alphys the letter, but she mistakes it as being a love letter from the protagonist because Undyne didn't sign it. Alphys reluctantly goes on a date to the Garbage Dump with the protagonist. Alphys hides behind a trash can upon seeing Undyne, who then arrives and sees the protagonist at the dump and asks for her letter back; she wants to give it to Alphys herself. After Undyne walks away, Alphys expresses regret about her lying to Undyne, and the protagonist suggests a roleplay to help Alphys express her feelings. Undyne interrupts the roleplay, and Alphys tells her about her romantic interest. Undyne reciprocates these feelings and tosses Alphys into the trashcan.
Undyne says that Alphys needs to work on her self-image, and Papyrus leaves with Alphys to help with her emotional transformation. After the two leave, Undyne asks the protagonist if anime is real or not and thanks them for helping with Alphys.
Later on, after Toriel's arrival, Undyne appears to interrupt Asgore's encounter with the protagonist and demands that they befriend one another. Prompted by Mettaton, Alphys and Undyne almost kiss before Flowey's ambush, but Toriel chastises them for kissing in front of a child. Flowey ensnares the protagonist's friends with a Photoshop Flowey vine, and Undyne protects them from incoming attacks from Flowey. He then absorbs the six human SOULs and most of the SOULs of the monsters in the Underground.
During the battle against Asriel, Undyne appears as one of the Lost Souls.
==== Epilogue ====
When the protagonist talks to Undyne in the epilogue, Undyne states that she is glad that she lost to the protagonist and then resolves to watch anime with Alphys. The Royal Guard is disbanded. Toriel also texts the protagonist that Undyne was able to lift Asgore, Sans, Papyrus, Alphys, and Toriel herself at once, but was uncertain as to how to put them down.
On the surface, Undyne pursues Papyrus after he runs off to meet more humans. In the True Pacifist Ending Credits, Undyne kisses Alphys on her left cheek and laughs when she faints in embarrassment. She then punches the sidewalk beside her while laughing, causing it to crack.
=== Genocide Route ===
Undyne chases the protagonist throughout Waterfall. Finally reaching them, Undyne demands that they give their soul or she will forcefully take the soul from their body. Monster Kid intervenes, not understanding who she is fighting with, and is dragged away from Undyne, who tells them off screen what the human has been doing and that they must stay away.
Monster Kid, disobeying, confronts the protagonist on the bridge, but is attacked by them. Undyne leaps in to protect Monster Kid at the cost of her own life, lies that she is fine, and finally makes them listen and run away home.
Undyne is shocked that the human defeated her with just one hit. Blaming herself for letting everyone down, with her final dying thought being of her friends, she prevents herself turning to dust through sheer willpower, transforming instead into a new form the game calls Undyne the Undying. In this form, Undyne is empowered by the hopes and dreams of monsterkind and humanity, realising that if the human isn't stopped, their slaughter won't end with monsters. She feels that everyone's hearts are beating as one, all with one goal: to defeat the protagonist. She refers to them a final time as "human", but then amends herself to whatever the protagonist is, declaring "I, UNDYNE, will strike you down!". 
Undyne gains incredible strength and fully recovers with the help of her innate determination. Her attacks are harder and faster. However, the protagonist's ability to try the battle over and over guarantees their victory with enough patience and skill. Undyne, stricken down again, is surprised that even that power was not enough - but she refuses to lose hope, revealing that Alphys has been watching the fight and working to evacuate everyone if anything went wrong. She also claims that Asgore will be alerted to absorb the six human souls and fight the protagonist. Melting, but with a huge grin on her face, she dies in triumph, declaring "And with that power... This world will live on...!".
After this, Undyne dies and turns to dust, never having lost her faith.
== In Battle ==
== Relationships ==
=== Alphys ===
Alphys and Undyne love one another. Undyne first met Alphys in the Garbage Dump while searching for swords. She listened to Alphys's theories for hours on where the Garbage Dump's abyss led. The two became close friends soon after, with Alphys introducing her to anime at some point, although Alphys told her that they were history biopics about humans. They hang out often, and Alphys uses the seagrass throughout Waterfall to make a special frosty treat for Undyne. Alphys and Undyne also worked together to create some of the puzzles in Waterfall. At some point Undyne fell in love with Alphys due to her confidence in what she liked and her work, but didn't know how to express this. She apparently called her once just to ask her what the weather was like, even though the Underground has no weather. She would also constantly write letters expressing her feelings, but she'd always change her mind when she went to deliver them and go back to write another one.
She quit her job as head of the Royal Guard at the end of the Family Ending to be Alphys's lab assistant, where she apparently caused a lot of explosions.
In the True Pacifist Route, Undyne calls the protagonist to have them deliver one of her letters to Alphys, but quickly changes her mind after changing into some casual clothes. She discovers them in the dump, having a pretend date due to Alphys thinking the letter was from the protagonist, where she hears Alphys saying she loves her. This leads to a conversation where Alphys confesses everything to her, which she mostly accepts, but she starts freaking out after Alphys leaves due to being told that anime is not real. She asks the protagonist if it is true, and if they confirm that it is, she becomes devastated but decides to put up a brave face for Alphys's sake. If the protagonist says that anime is real, she is elated and raves about "gigantic swords" and "magical princesses". Undyne and Alphys nearly kiss while visiting the protagonist after the Asgore fight is interrupted, but Toriel interrupts them and tells them not to kiss in front of the protagonist. Undyne is seen kissing Alphys on the cheek on the beach during the credits and laughs when the latter faints.
=== Papyrus ===
Undyne thinks of Papyrus as a close friend. She is impressed by his persistence, but is concerned about his well-being and secretly does not want him to join the Royal Guard because she believes he is too kind to even fight. As a result, she teaches him how to cook in hopes for him to defer from joining. Undyne sometimes enjoys messing with Papyrus, but she often forgets that he usually takes things literally. She becomes heartbroken and infuriated if the protagonist kills Papyrus during a Neutral/Genocide Route.
=== The Protagonist ===
Undyne initially despises the protagonist and believes that they would be more useful dead than alive. If the protagonist spares her and offers her water in Hotland, she begrudgingly befriends them if they have earned no EXP. Though Papyrus tricks Undyne into befriending the protagonist, she genuinely cares about them at the end of their hangout. However, if the protagonist betrays her by killing monsters after her hangout, she ends up hating them more than she would if they did not hang out with her at all.
If the protagonist earned no EXP and befriended Undyne in a previous playthrough, she remembers them vaguely as a friend but brushes off the feeling before her battle.
=== Asgore ===
Even though Asgore is her boss, Undyne sees him as a friend and knows his favorite type of tea. When she was younger, Undyne challenged Asgore to a fight but could not land a single blow on him. She was humiliated because he did not fight back and only dodged her attacks. Asgore then offered to train Undyne and eventually promoted her to head of the Royal Guard.
After Toriel refuses to "be friends again" with Asgore in the True Pacifist Route, Undyne sympathizes with him.
=== Toriel ===
Undyne first meets Toriel at the end of the Pacifist route. They both treat each other in a friendly manner and immediately find something in common between them. On Neutral routes, in endings with Toriel, their relationship can be positive or negative. If Human killed monsters, Undyne will not accept the new policy about humans and will overthrow her by sending her back to the Ruins. If Human didn't kill any monsters, Undyne will agree with her new policy and work at Toriel's new school. At the end she says that she supports her.
=== Napstablook ===
Napstablook and Undyne live in the same neighborhood, and Napstablook is intimidated by her. She still tries to be a good neighbor to them. She seems concerned about them being alone after their cousin left and tells the protagonist to be nice to them.
=== Mettaton ===
Undyne does not know that Mettaton is Napstablook's cousin. She has a distaste for him, and she does not like his show. Though she does acknowledge that she "admires his lifestyle."
=== Shyren ===
Undyne used to give piano lessons to Shyren, but one day she stopped coming – presumably after her sister fell down.
=== Monster Kid ===
Undyne appears to care for Monster Kid's safety. This can be seen when Undyne saves them after they fall off a cliff. This aspect appears more prominently in Genocide Route, where Undyne takes a fatal blow in their place.
== Gallery ==
 Undyne overworld armor unused.png | An unused sprite of Undyne wearing her armor with her old spear design
 NGAHHH!! soundtrack.png | Undyne about to fight the protagonist
 Undyne artwork Steam card.jpg | Undyne's Steam Trading Card
 Undyne artwork concept.png | Concept art of Undyne by Temmie Chang
 Undyne artwork Little Buddy.png | Undyne Little Buddy figurine sold on Fangamer
 Undyne artwork plush.png | Undyne plush sold on Fangamer.
 Undyne artwork pin.png | Undyne pin sold on Fangamer
 Undyne tarot.png | Undyne's official tarot card as Major Arcana XI, "Justice."
 Undyne tarot Undying.png | Undyne the Undying's official tarot card as Major Arcana VII, "The Chariot." Art by Dogbomber
 Undyne artwork Nendoroid.png | Undyne Nendoroid sold on Good Smile Company.
 Undertale artwork postcard.png | Bonus group postcard made by Gigi D.G. for Fangamer.
 Famitsu screenshot Hotland.png | Artwork from Undertale's 5th anniversary.
== Trivia ==
* "Undyne" derives from "Undine," a womanly water nymph from Greek lore. It is also a play on "undying," referring her title in the Genocide route, as well as the fact she does not die immediately upon health depletion.
** Early mockups of Undertale shown in the Undertale Art Book spell Undyne's name as "UNDINE".Undertale Art Book, page 210, ISBN 9781945908781 Additionally, Undyne's name is spelled as "Undine" in the code of the Undertale Demo.
* When attempting to name the fallen human "Undyne," the response becomes "Get your OWN name!" and prevents the name from being used.
* As shown in Undyne's concept art by Temmie Chang, she was originally going to have a slimmer body and a mouth similar to prehistoric jawless fish.
* Undyne's username is "StrongFish91" on the UnderNet.
* Undyne is consistently shown to be right-handed. However, after scoping the protagonist after Papyrus's report, she handles her spear in her left hand.
* Undyne is the only determined monster who can control her determination, unlike the Amalgamates.
* Undyne's presence causes the sound of rushing water (stored in mus_ambientwater.ogg) to slow down by 10% in two cases:
** After the floating tile, before the spear throwing part starts. (the next time the water can be heard, it's back to normal)
** After the scene where Undyne drags the Monster Kid off-screen. (loading a save or re-entering the area reverts this to normal)
* When Undyne was younger, she followed Gerson around to watch him beat up bad guys, much like how Monster Kid follows Undyne. However, whenever Undyne tried to help Gerson fight bad guys, she ended up attacking "the mailman or something like that."
* If Undyne jumps off the cliff to save Monster Kid, her HP is lowered in the following battle.
** According to Toby, he wanted her armor to be cracked too, but he forgot to add it.
* There is a glitch where if the protagonist is standing as far to the left as possible while initiating Undyne's monologue, they can be shot very high up. The protagonist can then enter the cave, effectively postponing the first fight. 
** If the battle is initiated normally at this point, the protagonist is still able to move in the air, but Undyne pursues them on a glass bridge similar to the one utilized for the Art Club Room in Hotland.
* If either Snowdrake, Shyren, or any or all of the members of the Snowdin Canine Unit are killed, Undyne comments on it on her pre-battle monologue.
** Papyrus's death supersedes all other pre-battle dialogue and changes her speech the most.
* If Papyrus is killed, Undyne's face appears in the dialogue box before her battle despite never taking off her helmet. If the protagonist approaches to fight Undyne, she appears without her helmet.
* Undyne and Toriel are the only bosses that the protagonist can flee from during a battle on a Neutral Route.
** However, Undyne's battle can only be fled from if the protagonist's SOUL is red.
* Despite having an eye patch in her left eye, it is absent in Undyne's west-facing sprites.
* When Undyne says "En Guarde!" before her fight with the protagonist begins, the sentence is misspelled. The right spelling is "en garde," as the sentence is in French. This could also be a combination of the French and English spelling, Garde, and Guard, giving Guarde.
* Undyne and Mettaton are the only characters to use attacks whose colors correspond to how they move instead of how they do damage. (They all do damage as if they were white.) All of her Green Mode spears are either white and blue or yellow. Also, her spear she throws when doing a green to red switch is white and blue and has a shadow.
* While in Undyne's house for the befriending scene, the table that the protagonist sits at is decorated with a doily. The doily cracks along with the table after Undyne throws a spear at it.
* When the protagonist tries to interact with the door to Undyne's room, she tells them that no nerds are allowed. Then, she says that some nerds are, possibly referring to Alphys.
* Undyne dislikes cold food, and has a "Hot Fridge" created by Alphys in her house.
* Despite not liking soda, Undyne owns a bottle of it herself. This is most likely kept for Alphys when she comes over, as Alphys owns a cup with some soda in it.
* In Undyne's faux battle, she has one more DF than in her actual battle, despite being unarmored.
* Due to her "research," she references a lot of anime and anime cliches without realizing it.
** When in battle her armor is very similar to the Battle Armor from the Dragon Ball series.
** She has a giant sword in her house, stating that the humans she researched had swords up to ten times their size. This is a reference to anime sometimes having characters with impractically large swords, such as Bleach and Berserk.
** When calling Undyne in front of the Royal Guards blocking the way to the elevator, she admits that she is unable to help, because she already told them to disregard her orders if they involved helping a human. She explains that, after "researching" with a specific animation, she found out that humans could supposedly control minds during wartime. Undyne also mentions the animation is 'really good', making the talk a possible reference to Code Geass for its similar premise and critical acclaim.
* Undyne has the most crude vocabulary of any character in the game due to her hot-blooded and aggressive personality. While she is capable of using polite replacements like "darnit", most of the actual mild expletives said in the game come from her.
** When the protagonist calls Undyne in the grass room where she almost grabbed them, Undyne comes close to using stronger language during the call.
* Out of the protagonist's six friends trapped by Flowey's vines during the True Pacifist ending, Undyne is notably the only one who tries to break free. She keeps it up even after smiling as she protects the protagonist from Flowey's attacks and as Flowey starts absorbing SOULs.
* Undyne the Undying is the only major boss in the Genocide Route that cannot be defeated in one hit.
* Undyne's text sound is a very short, pitched down cut of Venus singing from the Runaway Five's musical performance in EarthBound.
* Undyne loves greasy food.
** She is particularly fond of the cheese fries served at Grillby's. 
* Undyne likes eating limes whole. 
== See Also ==
* Undyne article on the Deltarune Wiki
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