Deadline

## Deadline Simon

**Deadline** is the upgraded form of Fractured Simon and the final boss of POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest.

## Description

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## Appearance

Deadline is a gigantic robotic skeleton, built off Simon's original body. Deadline's head resembles a large white deer skull, with large black antlers and sharp black teeth. Deadline keeps Simon's fractured head inside the mask, and his original torso, both almost unchanged. Simon's heart rate monitor is bigger and has five heart rates of different colors; one green, one yellow, one blue, one pink, and one red. His limbs are enlarged, with gigantic hands with big claws and large two jointed legs that end in black hooves. The limbs are white but fade into black near the lower parts of the extremities.

## Story

The Deadline upgrade would be worked on by Simon during each night of POPGOES 2, basing it off many of his beliefs and his knowledge of various animals and legends. Simon was planning on upgrading himself eventually, and he started work on it after Epitome Popgoes' disastrous activation. It's revealed that Deadline/Simon feels trapped, no matter what he does. He wants to interrogate and torture anyone who could answer his questions to know everything that there is to know, and become the most free being in the world. However, he can't achieve true freedom due to not having a soul. Deadline would be literally unbeatable, jumpscaring the player again and again until being directly told that they cannot beat him. However, if you achieved the Secret Ending you would be able to shut down WeasleWare and stop Deadline once and for all.

## Behaviour

Deadline would be the only active enemy in POPGOES 2's Night 6. He would crawl around the Warehouse due to his immense height. In the game, he'd be literally unbeatable, jumpscaring the player three times until being directly told that they cannot beat him.

However, by following steps implied by the minigames, Frayed Strings would be able to shut off WeaselWare, shutting himself, the Epitomes and Deadline down once and for all.

## Trivia

* Deadline is 12ft tall, being the largest antagonist in the series.
* Deadline's design is based off of the mythical creatures known as "Wendigo."
	+ It was chosen due to it being the "leader of the forest."
* Deadline is the only alternate form of Simon not primarily purple in design. This is most likely to fit in with Simon's obsession with light and freedom.
* Deadline's antlers were originally cracked and used to control The Epitomes through some kind of unspecified magic. But the concept was replaced with the Heart Monitors on his chest being what controls them.

## Gallery

### POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest

First Memory CardSecond Memory CardThird Memory CardFourth Memory CardThe second Memories' renderThe third Memories' renderThe fourth Memories' renderDeadline in the left corridor.
### Concept Art

Deadline's t-poseAn old version of Deadline's model, with a fully purple bodyDeadline Model with Bloodstained HandsThe penultimate version of Deadline, and the last that used Simon's pre-Reprinted body as a base.Deadline's Original Head ModelOne of the first pieces of Concept Art for DeadlineAn old design of Deadline, when the upgrade was going to be that of a Shadow Freddy-esque armor. This design is known as Lux Simon.Another "Lux Simon" sketch.Another "Lux Simon" sketch.an old sketch called *spider simon*Another old design for Deadline, where Simon used parts of Fritz' skeleton to upgrade himself.Another sketch of the Deadline design that used Fritz' bones.The head of another design, one where Simon used Fritz' skin to make himself more human.Another scrapped version of Deadline, resembling an Epitome version of Spring Bonnie.Concept Art of Deadline being a "Sun God"One of the first pieces of concept art for Deadline's Wendigo inspired design.DittoDeadline's Antlers Concept ArtDeadline's Original Antlers Concept ArtDeadline Deer Skull Concept ArtDeadline's Body Concept ArtUnfinished Artwork of Deadline