Mother May I

She even made you pie. What is wrong with you?

110 thoughts on “Mother May I

  1. Semi spoilers here, this was a HUGE scene

    I still cry

    1. omg same

      1. he ACCIDENTALY killed toriel. not intentianal, that and how do you one-shot her in any mode other than genocide cause if he playing genocide then that is his fault

        1. i know it’s a bit late, but… you’re told at the beginning that you can whittle monsters down to low health to make them more likely to surrender. But for Toriel, slightly below 2/3 health, her stats modify to give her an armour value of, like, minus a million – so you can accidentally kill her in one hit when you think you’ve still plenty of room to go. It’s one of the clever, weird ways the game both fucks with you and teaches you about the game and the world.

        2. I hate how if you kill her, go back and spare her flowey acts like an ass

      2. Um ok. I have never played UnderTale. You people are freaking out!

        1. Same. Undertale is not of my knodlege

      3. OMG it was so tragic!!

    2. When I accidentally killed Toriel I cried for a whole day while doing neutral from that then I went to the true reset button, reset, named myself Frisk, and then spared Toriel even though when you are named Frisk the ENTIRE ruins are in hard mode which means it’s hard to spare goat mom but when I spared her and did pacifist it made me feel GREAT!! I think that the best character is no doubt Sans and papyrus… but the Sans X Frisk thing is out of hand… SANS AND PAPYRUS DONT HAVE A ‘ PERSONAL JOYSTICK ‘ IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN… BUT FRISK IS HUMAN AND THAT MEANS THEY CANT DATE A MINSTER ALSO FRISK IS GENDERLESS SO THEY HAVE NEITHER OF THE GENDER AREAS!!! SO STOP WITH THE F–KED UP SHIPS THAT INVOLVE FRISK!!! But I agreee Toriel’s death is tragic ?

      1. like how Soap died in MW3? T^T

        1. i cryed when playing a vido game to your not alon gamercat

        2. OMG! It was so tragic!

      2. You cannot run from consequences forever. The guilt stills lies in your mind. You killed her. Even after she did so much to protect and care for you.. you didn’t have to FIGHT.

      3. And that’s why I always do pacifist runs

        1. OasisGamer you have failed to respect another’s opinion. Shame.

        2. She was just a video game character. No need to go craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy

      4. How did you that reply change from you saying you cried to how bad frans is?

        1. Reply to OasisGamer BTW

  2. GOAT MOM!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    1. WWWWHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

    2. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

  3. Yeah… was my reaction aswell… restarted game to fix this one… *sob**sob*

    1. ***SPOILER***

      Same here! But then when Flowey is like “Hey… I know you restarted” I got SO CREEPED OUT.

      1. Yeah! Like, feeling bad for killing poor Toriel, you bastard? I know your dirty secrets, im watching over you, you can’t hide from me!
        And that moment when you fight here again and when you got this line about seeing a ghost.

        And this is moments when i realize over and over again how awesome this game is.

      2. They Broke The Fourth Wall…

        1. They didn’t break it, they BLEW IT UP THEN STOMPED ON IT.

        2. And then they locked the pieces in a box which they threw into the sun and then… THREW THAT SUN INTO A BLACK HOLE!

        3. NERP! they didn’t blow it up. He straight up ‘SPLODED da motherfuckin’ thing!

    2. I restarted when i killed the dog-guards ;-; it was worth it to restart

  4. *gasps* TORIEL!!!

  5. Wow, from what I see here, this game is really weird….

    1. thing is what the game allows you to end it by violent or pacific means, if you take violent ones… well, you kill people, if you take a peacefull one you can become friends whit some of them

  6. Undertale is by far the only game I’ve played that makes you feel like a total dick for taking the evil route

    1. Fallout 3 did this to me too. After I killed ThreeDog I couldn’t play much longer.

  7. THAT WAS COOL! DO IT AGAIN!

    1. Evil,evil,evil,evil,evil,evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil

  8. You should probably animate that Spoiler Warning to make it more noticeable. Even flashing black and red or something would work. I already played so I’m good, but I read the comic and didn’t notice the spoiler warning until the comments pointed it out.

    That being said, holy crap this is accurate.

  9. I missed the spoiler warning too. Not that I mind since I don’t play Undertale.

    So holy heck, what a great scene.

  10. You can actually use ACT all the way in the game (exept this one place but nobody dies then)
    Man this game is fantastic

  11. Holy crap, GaMERCaT’s face on the last panel is so genuine.

  12. Funny thing is, killing Toriel (and then resetting) is actually a way to get a much fuller game experience than just playing pacifist straight away.

    1. Yeah. I think it was definitely intentional, since the game kinda messes with you. Her sparing-challenge is the hardest so far, and really the hardest in a while.. plus she’s special, so it’s easy for someone to think maybe they have no choice, or their only choice is to whittle her down.. then it tricks you when you get her down far enough. It was the best way for the game to teach you about mistakes, resetting mistakes, and that they will always be remembered.

      1. That’s why it saddens me when I saw and see the best letsplayers aggressively coaxed by their audience into playing full pacifist right away as their first blind playthrough.

        1. Yeah it’s unfortunate, on one hand nothing beats a true blind experience in a game, but on the other hand who wants to waste hours of their life playing something less efficiently?

        2. I made the same run. I kept trying to talk her down but it said “unfortunately, talking does not seem to be the option here” so I fought….its ahard fight, for your first real boss. I thought she’d give up if I got her low enough, but after flowey I was leery of Papyrus, but spared him….I felt so bad about Toriel I reset, and she says…

          “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.what do you know?….no…that’s impossible”

    2. Followup comic with what flowey says about reseting

    3. I don’t know how you could ever bring yourself to attack her.

  13. I’m not sure how I feel about this one. This happens to pretty much everyone (reaction and all), so… does it still count as a joke in that case? It seems like it would get the most reaction out of people who haven’t played yet… and that would be spoilers for them!

    1. A lot of people requested I do Gamercat’s reaction to this event :3 So I went with it.

      1. U forgot to put in the little crying sounds.

  14. I love his face in the 5th panel. That moment of: “Wait, no.” That’s the face of someone who realizes that they just made a huge mistake.

  15. ALL DAY EVERY DAY

    GENOCIDE ROUTE ALL DAY EVERY DAY

  16. Honestly I never got the back story of gamercat.

  17. I just bought the game today, and if you think about it, this part is really mind bending. Earlier in the game, a frog tells you that some characters you can spare, even when their name isn’t yellow. This just makes you think “what if I hit spare? What’s the critical strike scripted? WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THIS, GAME?!”

  18. ChaosSorceror_Davidicus

    I’ve had…. limited exposure to this game. Limited in the sense that to preserve spoilers I have had to essentially hide from the internet to not have it spoiled for me until I can properly watch the game be played. The most of I’ve seen so far is what Markiplier has played. But that hasn’t stopped… well… everyone from becoming raving rabid fanboys about it… which slightly puts me off of the game. I already know I’m very anti-hype, and my interest in a thing could potentially be represented in an inverse exponential equation. I’ve seen clips where she dies, but perhaps I have no heart, but I didn’t really feel too bad. I’ve killed good characters, I’ve killed bad characters, I’ve killed characters who had nothing to do with my struggle whatsoever. So really, you kill one loving motherly character, you’ve killed em all. That and it is hard to take anything seriously, especially an emotional death scene when you’ve seen the character naked or doing dirty things all over the internet. The moment this game came out, a near-literal, unavoidable tidal wave of Toriel porn everywhere. |:/

    1. I understand where you’re coming from, man, I too had to hide from everything Undertale for a while until I was able to experience it. Although if I may recommend without being too pushy, the Game Grumps’ series is worth a watch if you’re looking for a good playthrough.

      1. ChaosSorceror_Davidicus

        Possibly. Game grumps are pretty fun from time to time. Not a near-constant exposure, of course, but worth a laugh every now and then. (Currently watching their A Link Between Worlds playthrough.)

  19. That actually sums up the game pretty well. Although, I didn’t see that scene until like my fifth run (first pacifist, second failed attempt at no mercy, third pacifist, fourth no mercy turned neutral because of my inability to kill Undyne, fifth straight up Neutral, with focus on making Papyrus king of the Underground.)

    Her Neutral death was probably in my top twenty most painful events in the game. Number one was a tie between Sans calling me a “dirty brother killer” and him telling me to go to hell during the ending phone call of the same run.

  20. Honestly, I think this is the best way to go. Kill her, then realize you could have done it different, and go back to the last save and spare her. Then a “friendly” little character will show up, giving you a hint as to what level this game works on and that you should just throw what you know about games out the window.

  21. I feel like im the only one who didnt kill her on my first playthrough

  22. Ya, if you want to truly reset Undertale, you need to delete the save, the game and any files hiding in AppData folder to refresh the game completely. Only a true computer cleansing can fix that mistake.

  23. Maybe you should put the comic MUCH MORE under the spoiler tag. I came from my feed and saw the spoiler tag while also seeing the first line of the comic strip (not really read, but now I got spoilered anyway, since it’s clear what’s happening…)

    Putting a spoiler tag while making impossible to avoid the spoiler is useless. Please think this better next time.

  24. Since we’re all spoiled at this point…

    They don’t make the path to sparing her obvious the first time around. I worked through the ACTs, tried to SPARE, and the first Spare or two don’t change. They give all the signs that all the other options except FIGHT are disabled, leading me to believe that I need to do enough damage to provoke the next ‘stage’ of the fight. And then out of nowhere, you critical kill her… I think this comic captures the “WHAT?” reaction to that very well!

  25. No worries, you’ll get over it in a good….five weeks Gamercat.

    Just reboot your game. *flowey icon*

  26. Once I knew about mercy I made sure to not hurt anything as best as I could. And watching my older brother play it in his free time made me quite happy. This game has earned it’s place as one of the greats. TLDR; I didn’t have it in me to hurt anybody in this game.

  27. Yeah even the simple fact that you can kill characters but you don’t have to is kind of a spoiler, really almost any simple detail like that seems to spoil Undertale… It’s actually pretty fascinating, it’s a very well-designed game. A lot of thought went into it.

  28. RIP Goat Mom: That Pie was delicious

  29. I was gonna get and play Undertale but now this comic makes me anxious… xP

    1. Actually, no. Get it, it is the experience of a lifetime. Just inside battles DO NOT press the FIGHT button, only the ACT for your first play-through. All the monsters you attack and/or kill (even just random encounter monsters) WILL affect the path you take. For the first time DON’T KILL ANYTHING, JUST ACT. Only use the FIGHT button on the FINAL boss. Thank you.

      1. Seriously? If you played the game then you know how awesome an experience it is. How can you sit there and tell someone how to experience it? So what if they don’t get a pacifist run their first time? If they love the game then they are likely to play again to get it. Let people have that blind experience that makes the game so much more impactful.

  30. Dammit, don’t press the FIGHT button until the final boss

  31. FUCK. I totally missed the spoiler warning at the top. :/

  32. Dude please let gamer cat react to the ”bad time” fight

    1. He’d have several breakdowns long before he could get to that fight. Fighting Toriel and Papyrus, at the very least.

  33. You done with this Undertale shit yet?

    1. Jim Vincent please keep your negative thoughts to yourself, cursing and insulting games that people think is amazing is not a good idea and very immature.

  34. 0_0 what if he’s having a nervous breakdown because it reminds him of his real mother?! *mindblown*

  35. Exactly the same way I felt when I first played this game…

  36. o.o……..that was…..unexpected…..

  37. Spoiler alert is not spaced enough to avoid spoiler indeed…

  38. TORIELLLLLL!!! Nonononononononononononononno Why…Goat Mom…why…

  39. Can I ask what font did you used? Thanks

  40. Is it just me, or is that bastard cat acting like he’s bewildered over GamerCat’s reaction to accidentally killing Toriel when he’s the one that egged him on with being guilty over it?

  41. luna The #1 Pokefan

    My reaction in animal crossing when my favorite animal moves away is the same as Gamercat’s in panel 6

  42. YES. This. My fried was so adamant that I restart the game. I had no idea.
    Drat you Flowey for making it worse.

  43. NOOOOOOOOO TORIEL I LOVE YOUUUUU WHYYYYYYY WHY! WHY WOULD U DO THAT GAMERCAT YOUR A MONSTERRR /(>.<)/

    1. Luma… Ya know , not everyone spoils the game by seeing videos… and sometimes just like i did… YOU CAN ACCIDENTALLY KILL HER T_T (Just wanted to make her HP go low so i could spare her)

  44. my reaction playing under tale :'(

  45. That is EXACTLY how it felt to kill Toriel that very first time when I didn’t know any better. I reset like seven times before I just kept mashing Spare despite everything until it worked.

  46. This is punishment for giving up, and not listening. You all know that right? The frog said you can spare even if it isn’t yellow. That sparing just means you don’t want to fight. On top of that, if you really cared, you would have at LEAST tried sparing a few times, and seeing what would happen.

  47. Have Mercy Gamercat!!! although I DID accidentally kill Toriel on my first run. So I reset later in snowdin.
    Either Papyrus or Sans said ‘hey!, I recognise you somehow’ or something like that.
    SOOOOOOO CREEEPY!!!!!!!

  48. You know… i killed her accidentally too… i just wanted to hurt her so i could spare her when she got low HP but… BUT… she died and…
    I Still cry for that… (SPOILERS AHEAD PLEASE DON’T READ IF YOU DIDN’T PLAYED)

    If you reset game and try to spare her , flowey will know… and you will (Just like i do) WANT TO KILL THIS BASTARD FOR REMEMBERING YOU KILLED TORIEL AND CAME BACK IN TIME T.T (JUST LIKE MY FRIENDS DO ALL THE TIME , REMEMBERING ME LIKE: — OH MY GAWSH YOU KILLED HER , YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON — )

  49. I feel Gamercats pain, I went through the same thing he went though.

  50. My name is GaMERCat
    I killed my goat mom
    Prepare to die

  51. you may of reseted, but we know what you did.

  52. Eh, I never liked her anyway. Goat Dad all the way.

    1. Monster!!! I love toriel!

  53. She even made you pie?

  54. YOU UTTER MONSTER
    -Qualna, Diviner of the Governance de Magi.
    Mardek is awesome.

  55. Happy spoilers (TT)

  56. Shor, Mara, Dibella, Kynareth, Akatosh, Divines, please help me! I don’t want to go to Sovngarde yet! I’m too young to die!

  57. My experience with this game was killing everyone without a second thought

  58. Glitch’s face in the sixth, then seventh panel is beyond hilarious

  59. just hit esc and then reopen the game and then reset

  60. Poor, poor Toriel…Alas…

  61. NEVER PLAY UNDERTALE I’VE NEVER PLAYED IT AND I NEVER WILL!!!

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