Puzzleman

**The Puzzleman (Endsman)** is a character in the game *Underhero* and serves as the game's true main antagonist and final boss. Originally coming off as a trickster-like character, hosting game shows for the Masked Kid and Elizabeth IV. His true nature is revealed as he was the one that created the "Hero Cycle" in order to stay in control. He manipulated Mr. Stitches into thinking that if the cycle were to break, the world would end, which would later be considered as a threat.

## Overview (SPOILERS)

The Puzzleman is a character that the protagonist will meet a few times throughout their journey. He will give the player quizzes and with each right answer, their reward will be higher. After the battle with Mr. Stitches, it is revealed that he was behind the hero cycles and that he was the voice in Stiches's head.

## Appearance

The Puzzleman has a white head resembling a dice, two gloves that serve for hands and no legs. He has a top hat on his head. He also appears to have a purple suit with a yellow shirt underneath, alongside with a red tie to go along with it.

In his boss fight/Endsman, his appearance dramatically changes, as his body completely disappears and the only thing that is left of him is his head and hands. His hat remains, albeit bigger and floating above his head.

## Personality

At first glance, Puzzleman acts as a hammy show host of sorts, being over the top and even rooting for the heroes to go and stop the villains. He originally made the chosen heroes do puzzles, but when he appears to make the Masked Kid do the same, Elizabeth says that it would be too easy since she's already seen them and could therefore give away the solutions, so he decides to make them take part in a quiz instead. Puzzleman would also appear at bad times for quizes, such as when El Salserissimo's volcano is about to erupt, he shows up last-minute to host a quiz show, though thankfully getting the Masked Kid and Elizabeth out of harm's way. He tends to talk very loudly as well, to add more to his over-the-top game show host personality. He possesses enormous knowledge of the world and its inhabitants, especially of the bosses and their pasts. He usually demonstrates this information in the Puzzle Zone Quizzes, although he has come to lie about Stitches, mostly in question #3 "What made Stitches King?" where if the player answers that he did it to save his friends (the correct answer) he say that it is wrong and that Stitches is just a merciless evil being.

However, as time would go on near the end of the game, his true colors would eventually shine through when the Masked Kid refused to kill Mr. Stitches. Puzzleman turns out to be very manipulative and a liar, being the main reason of creating the "Hero's Cycle" in the first place, just so he can play out the stories how he wants them to, alongside with manipulating Mr. Stitches to continue the cycles or else the world would end. This turns out to me more of a lie and a threat, indicating that Puzzleman himself would end the world if the cycles didn't continue. Puzzleman eventually begins to have a breakdown, saying how it was the Masked Kid's fault for breaking the cycle and "ruining everything" according to his script, even though he was the one who made the "Hero's Cycle" in the first place.

## Trivia:

* It seems that Puzzleman/Endsman a being whose sole purpose is to guide/orient both Heroes and Villains so that they comply with the established history of the "Hero's Cycle". As this cycle is broken, his purpose is also broken, so the meaning of his existence is broken and its code begins to collapse.
* Due to the actions of Masked Kid (745) and the decisions of Sitches, Puzzleman's plan had to change to adapt to the new cycle of Stitches, so he decided that the story should end with Masked Kid defeating Stitches and becoming the new king. evil. However, Masked Kid refused to continue fighting, breaking Puzzleman's schemes.
* It is unknown if he was the one who directed Queen Rena to be evil or she was always evil herself.
* Puzzleman is a being from another dimension, so it is not able to physically interact like the characters of the Chesnut Kingdom except for a limited teleportation, being able to take Maked Kid, Elizabeth, Bella and Handy to the "Puzzle Zone" and back. The furthest he's been seen to use this ability is Breaking the Dimensional Wall by bringing Masked Kid and Elizabeth to their dimension.
* His dimension consists of an empty area with three-dimensional objects, where you can see the programming codes and a "portal" that leads to a violet space filled with a star in the sky, resembling the night.
* Upon investigation on the passwords in the Factory, by decoding the passwords in T. Bur's logs, they turn out to be words in reverse "D-N-I-M", "S-I-H", "N-I", and "R-E-P-O-L-R-E-T-N-I", which if spelt out, it reads "interloper in his mind", indicating that T. Bur is suspicious of what is plaguing Mr. Stitches's mind. Puzzleman is revealed to be said interloper, proving T. Bur's theory correct.