Undertale’s Genocide If Toby Fox Didn’t Stop You

Summary

The video analyzes a hypothetical extension of Undertale’s Genocide Route: what if Muffet evacuated Hotland, leaving the way into Alphys’s True Laboratory open? The scenario comes from a fan-made story and gameplay concept discussed in the video. The narrator focuses not only on what happens, but also on how the scenario exposes the player’s choices.

How the route opens

In the usual Genocide Route, access to the elevator’s L1 floor is blocked, forcing the player toward the Core and Mettaton NEO. Muffet’s dialogue hints that she knows an escape route to the True Lab. In the hypothetical route, she leaves Hotland if the player has bought all her goods—an amount the video says totals 9,999 gold.

With Muffet gone, Flowey opens the route into the True Lab, where Alphys has hidden the monsters she evacuated. A save point indicates that 32 survivors remain. The central gameplay premise is that the player must gain enough EXP to get past an otherwise invulnerable Amalgamate. In practice, this means killing the civilians sheltering inside.

Key scenes and gameplay highlights

• The guards: The player kills RG03. RG04 panics after inhaling her partner’s dust. The narrator connects this scene to an early, discarded Undertale concept described by Toby Fox.
• The Amalgamate: The player’s attacks initially do nothing. The prompt “Become stronger” makes the need to gain EXP explicit.
• The shelter room: Eighteen monsters, including familiar shopkeepers and other civilians, are trapped together. The player kills them one by one. The room’s panic gives way to silence and an empty, gray space.
• The shower and baby: The player finds and kills a Snowdin hotel owner, after which a baby falls from her body. The narrator emphasizes that the player continues without hesitation.
• Fuku: The player cannot hit or push the fire girl, so tries to persuade her that the world will be empty. She refuses to accept this, imagining she will wake up back at school. The player leaves her alive and vents frustration by smashing another monster into a television.
• The refrigerator: A deer and a red demon hide in a refrigerator. When ordinary attacks fail, the player turns its temperature to the lowest setting, trapping them in the cold.
• The sleeping victim and the husband: The player kills one monster in their sleep, then kills the husband of an Amalgamate who cannot understand what is happening. The narrator initially misreads the Amalgamate as part of the kill counter, then corrects the error: she does not count toward it.
• The second fire girl: The player fetches water to extinguish her, but she jumps before the player can do so. Her final thoughts are about looking forward to ordinary routines like breakfast. The narrator sees her choice as one last act the player could not control.
• The deer and Monster Child: The deer pleads, “I won’t tell anyone,” apparently unaware that everyone else is gone. Monster Child tries to flee, and the screen goes white, obscuring the killing. The narrator interprets this as the player avoiding a death that feels personally painful.
• Alphys: Once the player has gained enough strength to defeat the Amalgamate blocking the elevator, they reach Alphys. She has tried to protect the survivors but realizes they have all been killed. After being struck, she uses determination to resist death. Repeated attacks leave her increasingly damaged, but the player ultimately stops short of delivering the blow that would end her suffering.

Main interpretation

The video argues that this route is darker than the standard Genocide Route because its victims are civilians who pose no real challenge. Instead of fighting powerful opponents, the player hunts frightened and helpless monsters, sometimes choosing especially cruel ways to kill them. The narrator sees this as removing the heroic framing that difficult boss battles can give genocide players: the violence is not a triumphant contest, but a massacre enabled by the player’s power.

The route also draws a parallel between Alphys and the player. Alphys hid her failed experiments in the True Lab, and her attempt to protect the evacuated monsters ultimately gathered them in one place where the player could reach them. The narrator interprets her renewed use of determination as a repetition of her past failures—and the player’s decision to leave her alive as a deliberate choice to prolong her suffering rather than show mercy.

The video concludes that the hypothetical route does not create a different kind of player or change the meaning of Genocide. Instead, it reveals what the player might do if the game’s usual barriers were removed. The narrator suggests that Toby Fox’s blocked access to the True Lab serves as a restraint, preventing the route from becoming a sequence of attacks on helpless civilians.

Sources and people featured

• frommi — video narrator and analyst
• JQR — creator of the hypothetical story and gameplay concept; also rendered as “JYR” and “JKR” in the subtitles
• Martian Dracula — commenter whose observation about the shower scene is discussed
• Toby Fox — quoted by the narrator regarding a discarded early concept for the Genocide Route