Mettaton (undertale)

appearance

Mettaton EX After activating the switch on his back in either the Neutral or Pacifist Route, Mettaton will transform into Mettaton EX, a new body that Alphys created for him at his special request. In this humanoid form, he features dark hair with bangs covering his right eye, pale "skin", and visible metallic parts above and below his left eye. His pink, metallic chest has a dial on one side and a speaker on the other. On his waist he carries a case that contains his soul (or what he describes as a heart). He has black shoulder pads over arms that end in gloves. His long, airy black legs end in pink high-heeled boots. The music during their battle is titled "Death by Glamour".

personality

Mettaton is a confident and engaging TV host, who loves drama, action, glamour and violence; he lives for his ratings and loves acting. He sometimes displays a faint appreciation for existence, as mentioned in several neutral endings.

Upon meeting Alphys in the lab, she tells him about a machine she built, Mettaton. Alphys describes him as a robot that was created to be a TV star, but over time she added anti-human combat enhancements (possibly to attract the attention of Asgore, with whom she had a crush). After saying this, Mettaton bursts in, smashing through the wall (it's clear he was standing very close, indicating he was waiting for the human to arrive) and forces the human to participate in a deadly quiz show. Mettaton asks a series of multiple choice questions that must be answered correctly within a few seconds (it's stated as 30 seconds, but two numbers are subtracted every second, so it's actually only 15 seconds). If an incorrect answer is given or not answered in time, Mettaton will unleash an inescapable shock that takes away half of the human's HP. At the top right, Alphys will give the correct answer by making shapes with her hands; upon noticing this, Mettaton embarrasses her by asking the human about the identity of her romantic interest. Finally, Mettaton will leave, concluding that the contest has lost all dramatic tension, but adding that it was the "pilot episode." As the protagonist progresses through Hotland, Mettaton corners him in numerous hallways that mimic TV shows. The first is a cooking show. In it, Mettaton is making a cake, with a human soul as the main ingredient. In an attempt to stop Mettaton from using the human's soul as an ingredient, Alphys makes a call indicating that there may be vegetarian viewers, so Mettaton points out a substitute in a cupboard a little ways away.

This cupboard begins to rise from the ground at a rapid speed, so the protagonist is forced to use the jetpack that Alphys installed in his phone to fly to the top and retrieve the substitute within a time limit given by Mettaton. If he fails to reach the top before the time runs out, Mettaton will exclaim that the program is currently in a commercial break, so, since there are no viewers, he will refuse to kill the human.

Second, a breaking news slot appears, asking the protagonist to report on one of several objects in the room, all of which Mettaton eventually reveals to be camouflaged bombs. The robot then scatters the objects throughout the room, and the protagonist must defuse them all with an app on Alphys' phone before a larger bomb in the center of the room explodes. If the protagonist fails in this attempt, Alphys will hack the larger bomb. Third and last, Mettaton traps the protagonist in a Broadway-style musical, in which he will sing about a forbidden love between himself, a monster, and the protagonist, a human. He will mention how sad it is that he has to send the human to the dungeon, just before opening a trapdoor at the human's feet, which will lead him to a room with a puzzle of colored tiles. Mettaton announces that he must complete this puzzle within a time limit to avoid a line of flames coming out from both sides and burning him. If the protagonist fails the challenge, Alphys will deactivate the flames and Mettaton will constantly repeat "good" and then admit that the protagonist, by not stepping on a green tile at any time, must die. If it is completed (or a green tile is stepped on), Mettaton will say that the protagonist must fight him, then a battle will be entered in which the protagonist must dodge until he can damage Mettaton with the yellow mode, then he will pretend to have been defeated in a bad way.

After the protagonist enters the CORE and reaches the room before the New Home, Mettaton will challenge him once more. However, this time the robot reveals that he sent enemies to the CORE in his current form in an attempt to kill the protagonist. He declares that Alphys had hatched a whole plan to interfere in the story, since she liked the protagonist and wanted to feel important by helping him. Everything that happened before would have been a farce that Alphys used to pretend to help the protagonist; her plan would be to intervene at that moment in the battle and "deactivate" Mettaton, making herself the hero in front of the human. However, this time Mettaton plans everything to avoid Alphys' intervention, so that he can have a real confrontation with the human, so he blocks the door so that Alphys does not enter. He explains that he wants to get his soul to leave the Underground and become a superstar on the surface. This way, Asgore would not be able to destroy the barrier and restart the war between humans and monsters, which would affect his plans.

Mettaton attacks the protagonist in his original form, but on Alphys's (this time serious) advice, he tricks Mettaton into turning around and hits the switch on his back, transforming him into Mettaton EX, and the real "show" begins. Viewership will increase by taking damage, using popular branded items, or through certain acts. If viewership numbers are above 10,000 (12,000 if he still has limbs), Mettaton will stop the battle. To his surprise, this is the highest rating he has ever gotten, and he begins taking calls from viewers. Several callers, the first of whom is Napstablook, convince Mettaton of how much he is valued in the Underground and that he is the main entertainment for many of its inhabitants. Driven by his passion for the show, he decides that he no longer wishes to leave the Underground, while explaining that the protagonist is strong enough to defeat Asgore. After this, he is deactivated, with no arms (whether they fell off during battle or not), and his battery life running out. His body can later be found in the lab, where he will be found repairing himself and having a pacifist ending with Napstablook near his home. Mysterious key When the protagonist buys the mysterious key from Catty and Bratty, he will be able to enter the house next to Napstablook's. Inside it are some journals that explain that it belongs to another ghost known in-game as "Napstablook's cousin" (although Papyrus states that his name was Happstablook, which is not wrong, he believes). He was an insignificant ghost who met Alphys, which would benefit both of them, with Mettaton becoming a star and gaining fame, and Alphys becoming the royal scientist and thus getting closer to Asgore, in the hopes of starting a relationship with him.

True Pacifist Route In the real lab, there is an entry where Alphys states that she is afraid that Mettaton will never speak to her again after receiving his new body. At the end of the game, when all the boss monsters are gathered before Flowey intervenes, Mettaton EX sticks a leg out from the side of the screen and tells Alphys and Undyne to kiss already, that everyone is looking forward to it. If the protagonist returns to the waterfalls after defeating Asriel, Mettaton will stand in front of Napstablook's cousin's house, where he explains that he has hired Napstablook as a sound mixer and Shyren as his backing singer. During the credits, he is shown to be on tour and is able to combine his original cubic form with the legs of his new body.

Relations The protagonist At first, Mettaton is shown to be an antagonist under the pretext that a managerial error leads him to an intense hatred for humans and a need to wipe them out. It is later proven that he is only acting, as Mettaton mentions that he loves humans, but continues to oppose the protagonist when he stops acting to take his SOUL and prevent Asgore from starting a possible war. However, after the battle against him he becomes convinced that the protagonist is strong enough to prevent it on his own. Alphys Alphys and Mettaton's common interests in human culture initially bring them together, and he is very grateful to her for creating his physical body. Though soon after receiving his first body, he often looks down on Alphys and her tastes. However, he owed Alphys enough to go along with her genocidal robot plan before taking matters into his own hands with the protagonist. Despite this, in the ending where he is named king, he mentions that he regrets being so cruel to her before she disappeared. Napstablook Before receiving his body, he was Napstablook's cousin who helped him with his snail farm and lived next door to his house. They seemed to be very close, so much so that Mettaton initially stated that he would never leave him. He used to call him Blooky (which he still does). Although he left him for stardom, it was obvious how much he cared for him when he seemed remorseful when he answered Napstablook's call, thanking him for his show even after he had left. After receiving his new permanent body, he immediately went to hire his cousin for his tour so that they could be together.