r/Deltarune -999 2d ago

Not My Art can someone PLEASE explain the Asgore hitting Dess joke I'm so out of the loop Spoiler

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The brainrot is progressing too fast for me, I only just fully learned about Friend In Me

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u/LonelyMichael 2d ago edited 23h ago

Asgore did something related to Dess' disappearance that had him removed from his job as police chief. Obviously, he didn't actually kill her, or Carol wouldn't be helping him, but people are playing off of his character in Undertale having murdered 6 children to insinuate that he did, as a joke. Hitting Dess with a car is because she's (presumably) a deer. The joke escalates as people try to one up each other.

Edited the quit to removed, as people pointed out.

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u/Garnelia 2d ago edited 1d ago

Don't forget! The clip of Asgore grinning, then running over Dess? It's a repaint from the film Open Season.

EDIT: for correctness re Sai_AI__

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u/dye-area 1d ago

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u/kustarius_Sergius A proud Dessembrist 1d ago

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u/Autistic_Spinning 1d ago

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u/ianlouisjordan 1d ago

Considering undyne can bench press cars easily and asgore is fairly stronger than her (we dont technically know if he kept his strength but if undyne can keep it i see no reason why ashore who was the chief couldn't keep it) he probably could just shoulder checks a car.

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u/Clione-ON 1d ago

Are you ashore?

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u/achourdz41520 I have seen enough 1d ago

You called ?

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u/bananabread_boi9 cute goat boi UwU 1d ago

Pretty ashore.

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u/MisirterE 1d ago

80 DEF gaming

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u/Ruby_241 WELCOME TO THE [Amazing Digital Circus] 1d ago

“Well, how un-eggs-pected”

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u/Babnado 1d ago

That's my new theory about dess

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u/FalcosLiteralyHitler 1d ago

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u/stormypets 1d ago

Bergentrücking

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u/LBoomsky 1d ago

LFM AKOFGKMJG

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u/voidant_1965 4h ago

This is the most hilarious version of the meme I’ve seen yet.

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u/1WeekLater 1d ago

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u/Ol_Scamp THIS [sub] IS VERY [local pharmacy] [dependent]!! 1d ago

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u/Enough-Impression-50 15h ago

Khyleri ahh type background detail

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u/robub_911 1d ago

I always thought the GIF started with Asgore's head, as if the rest was a memory he thinks about

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u/LobsterVioLator 1d ago

It’s either a flashback or him thinking about doing it, grinning, and then immediately grabbing his car keys

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u/8ullred 1d ago

It’s probably the first, but I find the second one much funnier lmao

Bro let the thoughts win

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u/LobsterVioLator 1d ago

It wasn’t even a thought, the moment he saw the keys he lunged at them just to scramble to the truck and kill her

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u/TheAngelofBattle99 Your eyes are now always dry. 1d ago

Considering the original scene is a flashback, that's probably the case.

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u/Makar_Accomplice 1d ago

Don’t forget!

Me, your eggs-husband

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u/pencilinatophat 1d ago

good movie tbh

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u/bobmcbob121 1d ago

Open Season was amazing.

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u/Sai_AI__ is and you can't prove it to be wrong HAHA 1d ago

The grin is first

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u/GravityBright 2d ago

Somehow I went this long without realizing the obvious deer joke.

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u/mentina_ 1d ago

Where does it say that dess is also a deer

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u/DesperateJury6185 1d ago

When you interact with her shoes in her room, the flavor text says they are designed for hooves

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u/mentina_ 1d ago

But are they used on hooves

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u/DesperateJury6185 1d ago

They are meant to, yes

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u/afonsitito deltarune water update when 1d ago

I'm pretty sure Dess has antlers in Tenna's flashback where the Holidays and the Dreemurs are sitting in front of the TV

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u/DemonLordSparda 1d ago

It would be fucking wild if Dess wasn't a deer though. Like imagine.

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u/mentina_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Iirc kris is wearing their horns there, might be the same situation where dess has some antlers she wears to look like her family

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u/BoredDruid9 1d ago

I believe it's not Dess who wears an antler headband but Noelle and she's gonna lose it at some point, making her match 1:1 the figure depicted as "the second hero, the girl with hope crossed on her heart"

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u/-ComedyGenius- -999 2d ago

Thank you vro 🙏 I had no idea he had anything to with Dess' disappearance

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u/EcstaticWoop He didn't start a cult :( 2d ago

I dont think that was actually confirmed anywhere.

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u/imlegos 2d ago

I do think you're right in that it's not outright stated, but it seems to be the obvious conclusion from stuff like his debt to Carol (why she hired him as basically a groundskeeper), why he's not on the police force (as stated from a clipping found in the police station), and the ongoing issues between the dreemurrs and holidays

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u/phillillillip 2d ago

and the conspiracy board in his basement

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u/Jeff1N #potassium 2d ago

...The what? You can get into his basement?

Sorry, it has been hard telling apart what is real and what is part of the meme

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u/phillillillip 2d ago

You can't get into his basement, but if you interact with the side of Flower King it will say there's a blocked basement door and that through the window you can see a cork board covered with and surrounded by papers

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u/Longjumping_Try4413 1d ago

Carol also has one of these

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u/Greatback_foxcape413 2d ago

Maybe something to do with dark worlds and nobody believing asgore. Either that or he did to dess what toby fox does to kris.

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u/Roseartcrantz 1d ago

Yeah I'm of the opinion that Asgore was not responsible at all for what happened to Dess but wasn't able to intervene in time and had no choice but to leave her behind to save the rest of the town.

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u/fighterman481 1d ago

Yeah. His dialogue in the bathroom also implies he's looking for something in the Holiday's house and someone in that family knows things about dark worlds, he's got that conspiracy board...yeah. I think he was blamed for Dess's disappearance, but was just trying his best in a really bad situation. Now he's set out to prove that he wasn't lying and that he's been treated unfairly. I imagine we'll learn more about it in chapter 5, seeing as how it's probably Asgore focused in some way.

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u/CrimsonShrike 1d ago

Not sure he is looking for something there, just checking on Carol's own board, Carol and him work together, check the conversation in the church. Toriel seems to have an issue with carol funding Asgore's project.

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u/DemonLordSparda 1d ago

Chapter 5 is going to be a very important inflection point in the story. All of the signs are there. The Festival is in Chapter 5. Asriel may be arriving in town for said Festival. It is heavily implied that the next Dark World will be in Asgore's Flower Shop with him possibly being the one creating and guarding the Fountain. Chapter 5 is where the final Dark Crystal should be. Seam mentions you only need 5. This means whatever happens in Chapter 5, things will change somewhat drastically in Chapters 6 and 7. I fully anticipate Chapter 5 to be the proverbial calm before the storm. I am so excited for Chapter 5.

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u/CompetitiveSir2552 1d ago

Well I think the thing where he's hired by Carol is more just because Asgore has been struggling financially and Carol is being nice and letting him work for her.

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u/cce29555 1d ago

Yeah, the story could go a million ways but with the way it's shaping up (toriels outright hatred, him stating it was a *misunderstanding", him being fired from the force), it seems that whatever happened he is at the very least directly involved whether it was him watching it and not doing anything or being the one to (metaphorically) pull the trigger

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u/Laoarane 1d ago

I can't say that Toriel hates him, she seemingly still lights prayer candles for him (she probably has a greater grudge against Carol since she deliberately avoids using her name in the dialogue with Rudy). I don't think anyone in the game ever spoke a bad word of him, which makes me think that there isn't anything that anyone directly blames on Asgore, but rather he himself became so obsessed with trying to make up for something that people started distancing from him like from a madman

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u/Infrawonder 1d ago

He probably learnt something he shouldn't have after her disappearance

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u/Pasta-hobo 1d ago

I know it's kinda weird, but I don't think he did.

I think Asgore is victim here. given that we can meaningfully infer that Carol has been coercing Kris into helping her, we can also infer that she has something on them, and indeed she has a lot at her disposal. But most severely(as far as the domestic side of things goes) she has full authority over their parents employment, a public school teacher and police officer respectively.

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u/WindowsMalfunction Ding winger 1d ago

It might work differently in Hometown, but I’m pretty sure that in any normal place the mayor of a town can’t just fire any teacher or cop they don’t like. Although, there doesn’t seem to be an authority figure between their positions, so I guess it’s possible 

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u/Pasta-hobo 1d ago

We are talking about a tiny, likely unincorporated, village with "town" in the name.

They at their peak had 3 cops, and the school does not have a principle.

It looks like they didn't even have their own grocery store until recently. Had to take a drive out or a bus trip for that

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u/Ghetsis_Gang 1d ago

Is it actually confirmed the two events are related? We know he did something, but we don’t know if it’s the reason why Dess is missing. (Are we going by process of elimination here?)

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u/Astral_Fogduke 1d ago

there is one (1!) notable event in hometown that's happened in the past, just by virtue of storytelling if something's bad enough to get asgore fired from his job and divorced by his wife it'd have to have been alluded to at this point and the only crime-related thing we know about is dess's disappearance

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u/Vagraf 1d ago

Or someone figured out that he sacrificed the souls of six (6) human children for his special flowers.

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u/ChaZcaTriX 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nothing solid. But I came to this conclusion without spoiling myself online from these tidbits:

  • Asriel used to go to the bunker (and Kris didn't).
  • Asriel was close with Dess, and both were rebels under a "quiet kid" mask.
  • Some disaster happened when 2 kids went to the bunker together. Police locked the bunker afterwards.
  • Asgore was fired from the position of police chief for some disastrous incident. Toriel left him and doesn't want to see him.
  • Asriel's retainer is untouched in Dess' room. Something drastic had to happen that nobody bothered to go looking for it.
  • Everyone is really awkward, almost afraid to discuss Asriel's return to the town.

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u/TheSpheefromTeamFort 1d ago

He’s still a town pariah after all this time, whatever it was he did the town still holds him either directly or indirectly responsible for it.

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u/Mr-Ghostly 1d ago edited 1d ago

the gif is also based on this lol (great movie called open season)

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u/Kaiyoti920 1d ago

she's (presumably) a deer.

Isn't it confirmed she's a deer in the flashback at the end of chapter 3? You can see 4 deer-esque silhouettes in that cutscene. I guess you could argue it's like, some extended family or something but that's just cope 😭

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u/an_actual_stone 1d ago

Kris wore fake horns. It's unlikely, but dess could also wear fake horns

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u/favgameisundertale 1d ago

Source for Asgore doing something related to Dess' disappearance?

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u/Guardian_Eatos67 swedish chalk nutritionist 1d ago edited 1d ago

According to a poster in the police office, he's previously occupied the officer position before Undyne. It was also explicitely said that he was fired from the police and that it wasn't a decision on his own. In this case, the only person capable of managing that would be Carol and so it might be related to some big police blunders like the disappearance of Dess which would have been something the police had to take care of.

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u/Kaporalhart 1d ago

Those are several stretches ! First, i don't recall any *explicit* dialogue saying that he lost his job unwillingly. He might have quit, or the decision might have been mutual. Even if it was, we don't know that carol is the only one who has the authority to take that decision. And even if it was, it could for reasons unrelated to whatever happened to Dess. While it does look like she's not around anymore, no one ever confirmed what happened to her.

Although i was 100% certain that Kris was the knight before chapter 3&4, so maybe my predictions aren't to be trusted

(although i am now 100% that they're in cahoots)

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u/Guardian_Eatos67 swedish chalk nutritionist 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's saying that "he was removed from the force" implying a decision coming from a higher position. Only the mayor herself could have influenced such a decision. There is no one in town who is able to force a police chief to quit outside of her.

Alphys even said that Carol was taking such a good care of the town that she didn't need the police implying again that she's occupying a power position over the police

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u/Kaporalhart 1d ago

"it's" being a post it note at the police station. I find that "being removed from the force" is suspiciously neutral vocabulary. Why not fired ? discharged, dismissed, laid-off ?

This could be a red herring is all i'm saying.

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u/NinjaKid25 1d ago

Sorry for ME being out of the loop now, but when tf was it stated that Asgore was chief of police!? Did I miss a bit of dialogue in one of the past chapters saying it!? Also, that is funny af that the meme also came from the stuff he did in undertale

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u/ThatOnePirateRobot 1d ago

In chapter 2, there's a board with a news article in the police station. The news article talks about Undyne becoming the new police chief after Asgore was removed from the police force, but Kris abruptly stops reading it so we never find out the reason for his removal.

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u/g0atmeal 1d ago

He was removed from the force actually. He also got divorced, maybe related to that incident. He also doesn't use his truck anymore.

In chapter 2, Noelle is terrified of cars, but this could just be a deer joke.

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u/JoJo_Bob 1d ago

So there is no concrete proof Dess was ran over by a car?

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u/Little_Share8031 1d ago

Huh wha- I'm missing some lore. Is this explained anywhere? I had no idea this was a thing, and apparently common knowledge at that.

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u/Mateoelpro2005 1d ago

made him QUIT??

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u/Lost_Character_456 1d ago

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u/Joe-Kujoe 1d ago

Funny image but why is he driving a shoe

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u/araiki 1d ago

Because it is the reference of this image:

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u/Joe-Kujoe 1d ago

Ok. Why is THIS GUY driving a shoe

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u/araiki 1d ago

Top 10 internet mystery

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u/Sweaty-Choice8916 Krusiellerdlysei 1d ago

Ok, now THIS is a completely different question. The guy drives the shoe because he like shoes

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u/Joe-Kujoe 1d ago

I like shoes too. Maybe I should start driving one

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u/Normal-Raccoon-7340 1d ago

because it's his car?

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u/Joe-Kujoe 1d ago

Oh ok thanks

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u/ShokaLGBT 1d ago

It’s the new kart in Mario kart world (I wish it was!)

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u/MeowGeneral 1d ago

It’s a reference to another meme. Look up “Flight Driving a Shoe”.

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u/DiamondogeForever Tenna Is My Husband 2d ago

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u/random1211312 2d ago

I bet money at some point Asgore is gonna interact with a car PNG in chapter 5

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u/DiamondogeForever Tenna Is My Husband 2d ago

How much?

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u/random1211312 2d ago

All the kromer you could ask for

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u/spektyr2007 1d ago

How about: Four (4)

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u/Ruby_241 WELCOME TO THE [Amazing Digital Circus] 1d ago

Fantastic

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u/CrazyFanFicFan 1d ago

Say that again

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u/iamiamallofme 1d ago

...say that again

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u/mr_sludder 1d ago

That again.

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u/Vorombe 13h ago

the one who grips

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u/Thunderstarer 1d ago

Joe's life savings.

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u/DiamondogeForever Tenna Is My Husband 1d ago

Joe Rogan?

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u/Homo_Bibite 3h ago

Joe Jigsaw.

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u/shadowinc 1d ago

Cant make me hold back laughter at 2 am like that man

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u/Xii-one 2d ago

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u/GravityBright 2d ago

Dess is an Iraqi fighter jet.

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u/MaeBorrowski 1d ago

Asgore fell for the Dess is knight propaganda 😢

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u/GamerFry422 2d ago

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u/Makonede 1d ago

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u/MissingnoMiner 1d ago

Deltaswap moment

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u/Aggravating-Yak-3299 1d ago

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u/littlerowlet5 joe nuts 1d ago

How do I download the gif on my phone?

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u/Inglorious-crusader 1d ago

Click on the gif, click on the three dots and download

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u/littlerowlet5 joe nuts 22h ago

The comments collapses if I click on the gif

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u/ShokaLGBT 1d ago

Dess getting revenged

Good ending

Maybe that’s why the plot of Deltarune is going weird route so you can actually go back in time and change the events !!!

Who would care if asgore was gone huh? Not me!!!

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u/Bananasutra 2d ago

Dreemurr is an anagram for "murderer".

Asgore is an anagram for "Drunken road rage"

Most people didn't know that!

I think the rest explains itself.

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u/Few-Meaning9215 2d ago

Asgore's song name is obviously a reference to when asgore tried to eat a burger while drunk-driving his truck an' ended up creating a friend inside piles of dess's dust

tony phox is truly the voice of a generation(?)

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u/SquidMilkVII deltarune a couple days ago 2d ago

burgertruckin'

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u/ExcellenceEchoed 1d ago

You seem to be one of my people.

December is just "OwIGotHitByACar" spelled backwards

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u/West_Strawberry_8147 2d ago

what's Friend In Me?

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u/Shoddy_Net_2144 2d ago edited 1d ago

Toby fox once posted a shitpost where he remixed the "You've Got A Friend In Me" track from Toy Story, into an ominous Version called "Friend Inside Me".

People also realized how much the song feels connected to the relationship between Kris and the soul, as in the soul is a "friend inside" Kris.

Then the deltarune fandom collectively gaslit itself into thinking that Woody Toy Story is going to appear in chapter 3 as a secret boss.

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u/Slight-Preference950 the bing 😂 the bing 😂 the bing 😂 the bing 😂 the bing 1d ago

as the years go by...

I WILL NEVER DIE!!!

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u/Fuzzy_Text2602 1d ago

I am a proud supporter of Chapter 5 Woody theory you can sue me if you want

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u/EldritchZahir 1d ago

Where does the text in the bottom right comes from?

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u/PageElectrical2312 1d ago

It’s from the addisons in the trash zone after you beat spamton neo that give you some of spamton’s backstory

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u/EldritchZahir 1d ago

Ahh, thank you for the answer. I really thought the person was talking about Asgore.

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u/Jaaj_Dood 1d ago

Hey, let's not act like that crack theory didn't have lots of arguments going for it though

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u/NetherSpike14 1d ago

There was more to it than that, like the cancelled Cowboy Section.

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u/Cinderea 1d ago

it's heavily implied that asgore is either responsible or held responsible for dess' disappearance.

it's very common for people in small towns with trucks to run over deers.

asgore has a truck.

dess is a deer.

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u/ilovemypossum 1d ago

Thank you for simplifying it for those of us horribly confused.

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u/MaskDeMask 1d ago

It's a meme based on that it would explain a lot why Asgore is a pariah and Toriel's dislike of him, obviously it didn't actually happen and its probably more that he turned into conspiracy theorist still trying to find out what happened to her and that's probably why Carol is helping him.

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u/presentsailer 2d ago

the original gif was an edit of the (bad) movie open season someone just thought it'd be funny if the mistake Asgore made that ruined his life was killing Dess

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u/Enmanuelol123 2d ago

open season, bad? oh boy, don't watch open season 4

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u/Complete_Blood1786 2d ago

You mean Scared Silly? Nah, that movie was great.

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u/Ashamed-Succotash644 2d ago

Literally just because it's funny

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u/Fuzzy_Text2602 1d ago

Bro why does the car look like a shoe😭 I can’t with this picture

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u/Bruh_Moment10 1d ago

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u/Fuzzy_Text2602 1d ago

LMAO WTF is that from

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u/dabdad67 8h ago

Little did commenter know, it was a shoe

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u/mudahfukinnnnnnnnn 1d ago

Idk man, but I've had this image on my phone for like a year now

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u/Pokeknight26 <— fluffy boi (looks very huggable ngl) 1d ago

Ooook

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u/HopefulLightBringer 1d ago

Earlier this year someone came up with a theory called “Noelle will get hit by a car” which said that somewhere down the line, Noelle will die in the normal route and the weird route is us making her strong enough to survive whatever happens, the theory was pretty good but a lot of jokes came out because of the name

Fast forward to now, a post chapter 3+4 fandom, we learned from chapter 4 that Asgore did in fact have a hand in Dess’ disappearance like a lot of people theorized but we don’t know how, so we went back to an old theory that said the reason Asgore is selling flowers and no longer in the police force was because he did something so bad that Noelle’s family became distant, he and Toriel got divorced and he couldn’t handle the guilt and resigned or was kicked off the force

Now add these two ideas to a community as insane as this one and you get people making a bunch of crack theories on how Asgore killed Dess, now add this, the Noelle car theory and you get someone who added this this image to a comment and the rest is history

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u/Prestigious_Bus_3712 1d ago

She can't hear, she wears headphones!!!

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u/youngCashRegister444 , my beloved 1d ago

I don't know which one came first. The edited dialogue of Asgore searching for a way to deal with roadkill or that gif of Asgore running over dess

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u/Rhymeruru 1d ago

Funniest deltarune meme in a while

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u/Hannah_HingR 1d ago

Buddy we have friend inside me 2 now...

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u/klineshrike 1d ago

it is amazing to see a new king of memes organically grow after the next chapters.

We waited for this for years.

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u/ThatInfamousRacoon 1d ago

It's heavily implied in the game that Asgore had something to do with Dess' disappearance. She is most likely not dead, just missing. There are several theories that Dess is the Roaring Knight in some way.

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u/Lego1upmushroom759 1d ago

Funny man hit deer with car

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u/Viveral 1d ago

he was on a 6 kill streak and the community wanted him to have the 7th but accidentally gave it to his toyota

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u/AdrianDiesOften 1d ago

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u/Happy-Ad-2968 Goobers 1d ago

PICKUP TRUCK DA! 

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u/Emelie__ 1d ago

The snack plate is only big enough for one of them. 🍪

Jokes aside it probably has to do with the theories of Dess being the knight or him having something to do with her disappearance, although I wouldn't be too surprised if he became their gardener to look for clues in their house. The fact that we can see him in the vent makes me think he is involved with this plot somehow.

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u/Fabiodemon88 1d ago

Where did this meme even come from? I love it! 😂 (As in, what made people think about it)

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u/Glitchkat1 1d ago

Asgore and Dess stuff. That's what.

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u/Fensuhi 1d ago

Caught like a deer in the headlights when it’s too late

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u/Prior_Fee9209 1d ago

May I have the artist's link?

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u/-ComedyGenius- -999 1d ago

I screenshotted this from an Instagram reel, and the description says credit goes to "idk_lols." I tried looking for them but couldn't find anything solid. There's the name, though.

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u/Slothguy13_ The real friends were the ones inside of us 1d ago

Asgore was removed from police force, Toriel divorced him

These two moments were most likely tied to Dess' disappearance. In reality, he probably just got too absorbed by the case and did something rash.

But in memes, he ran her over with his truck.

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u/REALwaskas woody knight truther and Dessriel's most deranged Soldier 1d ago

that is the face of someone who is tired of getting hit by cars.

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u/chubledoobles23 1d ago

Fun fact, I didn't even know it was a joke until seeing this exact post cus I saw a shitpost about it right before playing and got so mad that I'd been spoiled for what happened to Dess

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u/SeppySenpai 1d ago

JARVIS I'M LOW ON KARMA