Deltarune/Characters

There are the characters of Deltarune.

This includes spoilers for Undertale.

Kris
The player character and apparent lone human inhabitant of the monster village of Hometown.


 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Close to Simpsons yellow in the light world, blue-skinned in the Dark World.
 * Ambiguous Gender: Similarly to Undertale's protagonist, Kris is referred to by 'they/them' pronouns.
 * Composite Character: Has aspects of both Frisk and the Fallen Child in their design and personality.
 * Contrasting Sequel Character: To Frisk. Both are Silent Protagonists controlled by the player, but Frisk is a child who finds themselves lost in the monsters' world, while Kris appears to have lived there for most of their life..
 * Silent Protagonist: Even in-universe, they don't speak one word.
 * Vague Age: Kris is at least a teenager, but their exact age is not stated.

Susie
A school bully that is teleported to the Dark World with Kris.


 * The Bully: Starts like this.
 * Face Heel Turn: Played with - Susie was already a menacing bully before joining Lancer, but he's so silly and ineffectual that her morality doesn't change much.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eventually develops into this.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Again, she starts off this trope.

Ralsei
A black goat-like monster who looks like Asriel. He is one of the main characters and helps guide Kris and Susie through the Dark World.


 * Adorkable: Just try resisting the urge to hug him.
 * Deconstruction: Of "Pacifist Route" players. His morality that people can always have good in them and can be reasoned with simply doesn't work here like it would in Undertale. At least, not at first...
 * Foil:
 * He has a similar role to Flowey, being the initial "guide" to the player, but has the personality of kid Asriel.
 * Also a foil to Susie, being the Nice Guy part of the group to her Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Thinks he's in an idealistic world where anyone can be redeemed à la Undertale. The King of Spades manipulates that belief to lower his guard.

Noelle
One of Kris's classmates. Finds herself in the Dark World during the events of Chapter 2.


 * An Ice Person: Noelle can use ice magic in battle.

The King of Spades
The tyrannical monarch of the Dark World and the Big Bad of the first chapter.


 * Abusive Dad: His Establishing Character Moment is threatening to kill his own son, and then trying to force said son to watch him kill his friends.
 * Bait the Dog: Seems to redeem himself after being defeated, but this turns out to just be manipulation on his part.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Asgore. Both are kings of the area the protagonist is trapped in, but Asgore was a tragic anti-villain, whereas the King of Spades is both abusive and manipulative.
 * Hate Sink: Has few if any redeemable qualities, with no Freudian Excuse that justifies his actions. He's just a sadistic and cowardly Jerkass.

The Queen
The Big Bad of the second chapter.


 * Adorkable: Queen's love of video games and general silliness makes it hard not to enjoy her appearances.
 * Establishing Character Moment: After caging several Darkners, she rises on-screen in a floating throne with a textbook Noblewoman's Laugh.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh: Oh does she ever love it.
 * Parental Substitute: She becomes.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas.

Spamton
Spamton is a Darkner that resembles a puppet, and is encountered in a dumpster within Cyber City. If on a Normal route, Spamton will express interest in Kris and try to offer them a deal.


 * Action Bomb:
 * Ambidextrous Sprite: The colors of Spamton's glasses noticeably swap whenever his head turns - though it's a moot point, since he can seemingly alternate the colors himself anyway (as indicated by the image above).
 * Anti-Villain:
 * Bizarre Darkner Biology: Spamton is capable of creating miniatures clones of himself, which he releases from his mouth, and can also produce Pipis, which appear to be egg-like objects as hinted by this off-hand tweet from Toby Fox..
 * Blatant Lies: The items Spamton sells are all straight up junk billed as powerful items, save for . Additionally, the "EXCLUSIVE OFFICIAL SPAMTON" Frayed Bowties.
 * Breakout Character: A weird puppet salesman that runs on online jargon, hyperspecific pop culture references and utterly manic behavior - of course he's beloved by the fandom and the Internet in general. He's definitely surpassed Jevil now!
 * Egopolis:
 * Equippable Ally: In the Normal Route, depending on how you defeat.
 * Establishing Character Moment: On a normal route, Spamton pops out of a dumpster and immediately tries to make a deal with Kris, very obviously projecting his squalor onto them. He's so off-putting that Kris actively takes a step back when Spamton punches the dumpster in a brief fit of rage - and they take another step back when.
 * Exact Words: Spamton describes "The Big One" he sells as "CUT ANYTHING 2 PIECES!", which combined with the inflated "stats" make it sound broken.
 * Foil:
 * To Mettaton and the Mad Dummy. The Japanese name for "BIG SHOT" is "Power of BIG ", a direct reference to Mettaton NEO's theme.
 * A goofy-looking guy with serious ambitions, a tendency towards hammy laughter, and dreams of a higher station in life, all the while being at the epicenter of some of the series's most dark and heart-rending moments. Who does this describe: Spamton, or Papyrus?
 * He's additionally a foil to.
 * And finally, to Kris.
 * A God Am I:
 * He Knows Too Much: Whatever you do, do not ask Spamton about the Knight. If you do,.
 * Implications of this are present towards the end of, especially considering his tendency towards projection:


 * Honest John's Dealership: Spamton and his mannerisms wouldn't be out of place in one..
 * Joke Item: Spamton's wares minus are all this, though he advertises otherwise in typical spammy fashion.
 * Laughing Mad: Especially in his shop dialogue - both this and a couple of overworld animations have him glitching as he laughs. His attacks also seem to feature constant laughing, and
 * Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When he isn't breaking it outright.
 * Leitmotif: "Spamton", "Deal Gone Wrong", "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A", and of course "BIG SHOT".
 * Broken Record/Madness Mantra: Spamton ends up repeating phrases occasionally, to quite concerning effect.
 * Meaningful Name: A salesman named Spamton. Bit on the nose, eh?.
 * Mechanical Abomination:
 * Me's a Crowd: One of his miniboss attacks spawns several clones from his enlarged mouth.
 * Mondegreen: One of his motifs ("BIG SHOT") is an incredible exercise in messing with people's ears - various efforts have been made to unscramble and make sense of the lyrics that occur during the middle segment and what they could possibly mean. One popular (spoilered) interpretation is below:

"WHY BE THE WHO HATES ITS   LIFE WHEN YOU CAN BE A"
 * No Fair Cheating: In response to the discovery that, version 1.05 introduces a "funnycheat" variable that tracks how many times you do this.
 * No Indoor Voice: Spamton's text is rendered in ALLCAPS, giving the impression of constant yelling like a stereotypical salesman. It's telling that he seems to be at his most "lucid" whenever his dialogue comes out normal.
 * Noodle Incident: Spamton makes some very odd references to boiling and the like, which are usually out of place even by the standard.
 * One-Winged Angel:.
 * Perverse Puppet: A sleazy puppet-like scammer of a Darkner who's obsessed with dealmaking and sales.
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: Has a beautiful one as }
 * Precision F-Strike: His dialogue provides two examples - it's subverted in both instances, due to his Verbal Tic substituting sales jargon.


 * The latter example is particularly memorable, considering it only occurs if your inventory is full after :

"YOU FILLED YOUR [Inventorium] WITH [Half-Pr1ce Sallamy] JUST TO KEEP ME OUT!? WHAT! THE! '''[F!?"


 * Shout-Out:
 * His theme samples sound effects from Mega Man X and a very particular clip from EarthBound. Defeating Spamton by fighting on a normal route has him quote Captain Strong from the latter game.
 * A significant amount of Spamton's character is based on old advertisements for the New Orleans-based Big Shot soda brand - he even vaguely resembles the mascot shown at the end. He also makes references to a "Mike" he once knew . The name is derived from former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, who appears in some of the commercials.
 * Symbol Swearing: Does this occasionally, though it's unclear if he's being "censored" somehow, or actually "pronouncing" the symbols. Subverted in that it's also inconsistent , making it unclear what words it replaces.
 * Terms of Endangerment:  seems to be a favorite of his with Kris. It's particularly striking when you notice that https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=Deltarune/Characters
 * Turns Red: Does this in the PC version if you.
 * Unexpected Gameplay Change:
 * Unusual Euphemism: Occurs as part of the Verbal Tic described below - several words are replaced with phrases that are either total non-sequiturs (if they're even words) and/or various voice glitches. And just what the hell does  mean anyway??  This becomes a lot more noticeable in
 * Verbal Tic: Spamton almost always talks in ALLCAPS, with his dialogue resembling obfuscated spam emails - it's peppered with constant sales jargon among other words, and many are replaced with non-sequitur words and phrases that usually don't form proper sentences.
 * Insistent Terminology: He always spells "generosity" as "genorisity," "guarantee" as "guaranttee," and "special" as "specil".
 * The Voice: Applies only in.
 * Walking Spoiler: Is he ever..
 * Why Did It Have to Be Clowns?: Various dialogues indicate he really doesn't like clowns, especially - based on the words of an NPC in the city, this was the case long before he became what he is now.
 * Word Salad Humor: His bizarre dialogue is pretty entertaining.
 * Yank the Dog's Chain:
 * Practically everything Spamton does and says oozes with an underlying desperation to regain his lost fame and fortune - so much so that he apparently plotted for a long while to trick someone like Kris into doing his dirty work for him. In the Normal Route:


 * This immediately leads into


 * ...and then there's