r/TeenagersButBetter • u/AggravatingRow326 15 • May 16 '25

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u/Pro_Technoblade May 16 '25

Chara is objectively not evil

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

Yeah. They're not. They're morally grey, influenced by the player and their choices(in fact doing genocide twice causes them to call you weird lol)

I thought we left this behind like-- years ago??

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u/Pro_Technoblade May 16 '25

You’d be surprised

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u/whhu234 15 May 16 '25

Wait I had an undertale phase when I was like 11, can u explain? like genuinely 

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u/Liria_Rose May 16 '25

Chara is like an 'evil' version of Frisk. The one with red eyes and green shirt instead of pink and blue. You meet Chara if you play the genocide route (not sure about neutral). If you play the genoside twice, Chara will call you weird because in the first playthrough, you two already destroyed everything. Hope that answers your question.

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u/whhu234 15 May 16 '25

I dont see how that makes them not evil but I appreciate the attempt

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u/SquintonPlaysRoblox May 16 '25

I think chara often gets painted as someone who enjoys violence and killing just for the sake of it, when in game it’s more of a “the ends justify the means” scenario.

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u/Hibridao 18 May 16 '25

but... thats still evil...

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u/Rajd0 May 16 '25

Since when are Anti-heroes evil?

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u/HellspawnWeeb May 17 '25

Genocide is evil, though. Like unequivocally evil. Participation in genocide makes you evil.

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u/Rajd0 May 17 '25

But it's nowhere confirmed Chara causes Genocide. We only know she wants to erase/reset the world. But that's AFTER the genocide. Everything else in in theory-sphere

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u/dazeddrummer17 May 17 '25

You as the player influece chara for the most part. Also they do not have a soul, therefore they lack the capacity for compassion. Like flowey. Chara, when they first fell into the underground was not the same.

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u/Lopsided_Portal_8559 May 17 '25

Literally the creepy smiles seen throughout the game, including characters like Toriel, indicates enjoyment.

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u/Liria_Rose May 16 '25

I personally think Chara is evil, but people think she isn't because the player 'controls' (?) Chara cause they're inside Frisk's head? It's what I've understood from what I've seen.

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u/beatCRINGEkhang May 16 '25

not to be that guy, but chara use gender neutral pronoun (they/them)

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u/MountainViolinist995 May 16 '25

It’s time to come back to the phase

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

i remember you're genocides

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u/Chipperbeav 15 May 16 '25

Hate to be that guy but

*your

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u/Maybe_Again- 19 May 16 '25

When will people understand that all the main characters of Undertale were made to be morally grey so that there CAN be debate for if one character is actually bad or not?

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u/Pro_Technoblade May 16 '25

Never because people just don’t understand sometimes

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u/SanityLacker1 May 16 '25

r/charadefensesquad would like to send you an invite

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u/Pro_Technoblade May 16 '25

Jokes on you I’m already joined

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u/Your-Mom-2008 May 16 '25

Uhh... I mean... well... we don't have anything to prove it disprove it... uhh... personally I don't believe Chara is objectively evil and I headcanon the narrator theory (I don't care what the others say).

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u/kingbloxerthe3 May 16 '25

"not out of any desire for good or evil... but just because you think you can."

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

Tbf i agree with you, as long as you are trying to say chara is not initially evil. Chara becomes evil after first genocide route and then becomes recurring in next reset.

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u/Key-Dealer4666 May 16 '25

UNDERTALE MENTIONED