That's right. Chara wasn't evil, and didn't kill all those monsters. YOU did. The whole "With your guidance-" makes it clear that Chara was just learning from what the player did.

I think what people don’t get is that Chara wasn’t the best person they were flawed, BUT SO IS EVERY OTHER CHARACTER IN UNDERTALE. the whole point of the game is the look past all them and see the good people hidden within them, if Toby Fox just made Chara to be “oh yeah the super evil phyco girl” would literally be destroying the message of the game

2016 Undertale Fandom misCHARActerization starterpack: > Overly-sexualized anime-girl Frisk > Edgy as fuck Sans (will destroy the Universe if Papyrus gets a bruise) > Asgore = Satan > Chara = evil incarnate (also overly sexualized anime girl) > Alphys? Who the fuck is that?

A little fact is that the "Worn Dagger" is practically the "Real Knife", just changing form at LV 19, Both are Chara's, being the same weapon.

I find it kind of funny that the vast majority of us misunderstood the game calling us out and punishing us for our actions as “you didn’t do it, this child did”. I am definitely guilty of this and find it kind of funny how many of us got it wrong initially, and then realized a year or two later what was actually happening. Chara has actually become one of my favorite characters because of how interesting their story is for a character we only see once in the whole game.

Yeah, I hate humanity, NOT monsters. I also kinda hate myself.

SANS: megalo-- chara: strike back

FINALLY A PERSON WHO DOESNT BLAME THEM FOR OUR ACTIONS

I think Canon Chara has a mischievous streak and like Kris enjoys chocolates, and has interest in knives, is best friends with their brother, and likes to prank/tease others and their brother sometimes. And loves monsters but hates humanity. They were a little like Susie too. *But got corrupted do to our genocides.*

Undertale Players: Goes out of their way to kill every last monster they can find just to see what happens. Also Undertale Players: Why did Chara make me do this??

The undertale community has been working to undo all the old fanon stuff from 2015-2019-ish. Like we are getting rid of the old fanon sans stuff, and are starting to handle the lore more accurately. Chara is also a good example of this.

Chara: (Literally kills themselves to free all of monsterkind) The UT community: ,,Haha evil Chara go BRRR"

thank god someone finaly pointed out. in undertale, YOU are the villan, YOU killed everyone. Chara is more of a pacifist then frisk at this point. Chara in the genocide route only wants to finish what you started.

over-analysis on Chara, sign me up! Great video and totally agree with the narrative you put place for chara, still find it weird why we make Chara such a big bad guy when they’re just a kid lol.

I like to think that Chara ain't either evil or good they're just neutral they don't care about whatever you as a player do if it's good or bad or whatever they just don't care since they're soulless they don't care about anything or anyone they're neutral they're fine if you kill everyone and they're fine if you don't or whatever you do and that's the accurate representation of a human in UT. And frisk is the reincarnation of Chara as unlike Kris frisk/Chara won't care about whether the player controls them or not

Chara is also soulless,similar to Flowey. They lost their soul after Asriel died with it. Flowey literally says this,and he was WITH them when they both died. He of all people would know this. “You’re not human,are you?” “You’re empty inside,just like me.” “Infact.” “You’re Chara,aren’t you?” And then he wonders why the hell he’s cut down by “Chara” A bit hypocritical if you ask me,he should have figured since he’s in a similar situation. If you complete a genocide route twice,Chara will say “this SOUL resonates with a strange feeling.” “I cannot understand these feelings anymore.” What feeling do SOULS help you feel? Empathy. Compassion. The “Chara” you see at the end of genocide is just a soulless shell of the chara ASRIEL knew. Flowey would jump at the chance to erase the world,hell he DID with omega flowey. But would ASRIEL? No. Can’t we say the same for Chara?

As a Chara main in VRChat, I have to deal with a lot of Sans on a daily basis. "Is that a Chara? Lets kill it!" They say, every time... Got used to it but very annoying.

FINALLY someone else figured it out ive been saying this forever kris/and chara are alternate versions of each other for more similarities they both have a reoccurring theme of taking control from the player and both were most likely given up on by their human parents one way or another. If we get evidence that Kris has some distain for humanity its pretty much confirmed and nothing will sway me.

Chara is a normal kid (they arent the kindiest being but they can show that to other

Yes, chara is not evil. This is because she is actually a reincarnation of famous singer Glen Cambell trying to promote a new album from beyond the grave. I learned this after discovering a new route in undertale by killing exactly 7 monsters and going to Sans' lab, where it is revealed that Glen Campbell actually planned a secret last album collabing with famous musicians Toby Fox, Lena Raine, and the band Jamiroquai. You can trust me on this, i have at least 4 minutes of play time in undertale, as well as a doctorate in Deltarune Lore Analysis, so I'm pretty much an expert in this field.

Short answer: Chara and Frisk are basicly late Snowgrave Noelle

❤*Thanks for covering this topic.

the CDS(Chara Defense Squad) aproves of this video

Quick canon review of Chara in Undertale : as a human, they are a venegful child, whose wish is to take their revenge on humanity. "Chara" at the end of Genocide route is a soulless creature that looks up to Player's actions, whatever these are, and learns how to become powerful. So that's it. Yeah. That summs up the whole video. It is quite stupid to see Chara as a villain, but it is also stupid to not see "Chara" as not evil, since they have been taught to get power through evil deeds from the Player. You guys are no fun anymore.

finally someone understands. this is exactly what i say about chara also, just imagine getting to LV 20 and stabbing the ground to destroy the universe wait, stabbing the ground... just like Kris does to make the dark fountain. hold on, i just made a theory while typing this...

I just normally thought that Chara was a representation of the player in the events of Undertale, they share whatever you put the name as, as an example.

*knowing that I didn't do a genocide run... *it fills me with Justice.

Finally someone has some natural sense. Insted of just sain "cHaRa wHy DiD yoU kILL EveRyONe ". Looks like undertale community is slowly but sturdy {hopefully} healing. BTW nice vid.

The title reads like someone's about to reveal why a famous guy is actually suuuuper evil

i keep saying the same thing and get called a simp

About Kris and Frisk, I find a better way of seeing this by thinking they are both the same person from different universes, with Kris being a Frisk who has been raised similarly to Chara, although there is not much backing this theory up other than the skin colors and eating literally anything they find on their hands. And also, one misconception in the Fandom is that the Real Knife and Worn Dagger are two different items, while they are actually the same item. If one just thinks even lightly about it, a question should arise: "who replaced the Worn Dagger and the Heart Locket with the Real Knife and The Locket in the Genocide Route?" The answer being no one did, as they are the same items seen through the lenses of the Genocide Route. A rusty dagger for a random person will look like a rusty worn dagger, but to the eyes of a serial killer that looks like an actual weapon compared to the previous items (a plastic knife, a singular leather glove, a pair of ballet shoes, a notebook, a burnt pan and an empty gun). For their ATK stat being vastly different, if we follow the "Narrachara theory", it might be Chara just making up their stats to gaslight the player/Frisk to equip it right away instead of keeping their stupid burnt pan / empty gun (these are the weapons you most likely have at this point). As for The Locket, if we still follow the "Narrachara" theory, the name change would make sense due to Chara recognizing the item as their Old Locket. Albeit this last theory could be completely demolished by just saying "Flowey placed the items there and instead of picking up the Worn Dagger he picked up an actual kitchen knife", even though it might not be even true since it's not sure if ASGORE has any kitchen utensils left. tl;dr : Frisk and Kris might be the same person but raised differently and the Real Knife and The Locket are the same items as the Worn Dagger and Heart Locket just seen through the eyes of a serial killer.

One thing that i do find interesting (but don't think means anything) is that the face Chara makes whule laughing before killing you in Genocide is very similar to that of Gaster.

I always thought of chara as someone who was constantly at war with themself when they were still alive. I do believe a part of chara did want to do genuine good for monster but I also believe they were aware that it might also be an excuse to just get back at what humanity did to them. I think being considered “the hope of monster kind” by Asgore probably did not help what chara was feeling.

Also Chara at the end of geno does not have a soul since they are dead making them like Flowey so ofc LV 20 soulless Chara isn't the same as pre death Chara just like Flowey and Asriel aren't the same.

Chara isn't evil, they just do a little trolling, a couple shenanigans, a miniscule amount of tomfoolery.

in my honest opinion i headcanon that chara liked punk rock, specifically my chemical romance, and so does kris

I think Kris Deltarune are Frisk and Chara Undertale in a trenchcoat

Oh yay A new one Btw, there's one thing about LV logic in UT: It's either inconsistent or just has nothing to go with Chara's mental state

In my opinion, I portray Chara as a really nice person. The only reason they act evil is to get Frisk not to kill them, like Flowey/Asriel. After all, they were brothers for a while. And when Chara laughs, you’re just walking up to them in order to stab them, which is why all of the 999’s show up. But that’s just my prediction of the situation. Thanks for reading.

Chara should better call Saul

God i remember when i thought chara was evil the whole time but than later saw the details that they aren't evil but just misguided by Us

"destroying the entire universe"? Bro I thought that final scene at the end of the genocide run was a POV of a death screen I assumed Chara just kill the player the same way they killed all the monsters

Few years late but i appreciate the effort

Skin colour, expression, being controlled by the play, those things are all in common with Frisk. I think Kris is supposed to be a reflection of the relationship between Chara and Frisk in relation to the player; they're two people or one, it doesn't matter when it comes to being controlled.

Another great analysis of chara in this day and age of what sort of human they are

Glad to see more people have been noticing this about Chara. I’ve tried to tell a few friends of mine that Chara learns from YOU, not the other way around. But, I had to show them this video for them to actually believe me.

Yeah I understand this but here's a important question, why doesn't Chara act this way in a neutral run? You can still gather high LOVE and the route be canceled by leaving one enemy left to kill at the core, it doesn't make sense to me when leaving one enemy to live, that suddenly makes Chara "Yeah, I don't like it anymore" and we all know that they do enjoy killing by seeing them say "That was fun. Let's finished the job." in the demo. And why can we kill every boss (besides Undyne) in one hit in a genocide run and not in a neutral run? We can still get high LOVE and it doesn't matter, it's because of Chara is not there, only when they are, we are able to. Check the orange book in the library in Snowdin, it states: "The crueller the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us." They hate the monsters as well with humanity but I'm not saying they once did when they were alive but now once they're back? I believe so but I'll explain in the replies of this comment if you want me to explain further because this comment is already too long. And I like to say that I love this video regardless, it's very well made!

for the kris theory part, you also have to remember what happens when kris reads about other humans as well as their backstory, they used to wear monster horns a lot when they were young this makes the link a lot stronger between him and chara, but lets not avoid frisk's importance, since they also share their traits aside of a blank expression and skin colour, they also seem to share hobbies as well along with frisk's cheeky nature kris is a fusion between the 2

Give Chara hug

This is so true i actually have done a lot of reaserch about chara and would like to say my own theory, and it's even more in debt. showing that chara isn't evil! Chara fell in the underground and it is known thst they did it for not a happy reson like you said. Also one thing when you check the faided ribbon chara says. "If your cuter monsters might not hit you as hard!" Witch is actually such a disturbing answear- that basically already says something that happened too then in the surface bit if you need more of a nudge it basically intigates that chara was most likely abused by humans in the surface thus they're hate for humans there's also evidence of it for when you check the tools they're filed down sp they're safe and the knife's and anything sharp is hidden and we fully know that chara did not mean any harm too the dreamers and its actually that thry might have wanted too use it on themselves- so what we know chara was in a very bad state in the surface Nd climbed the mounten too commit suicide... but in instead of them dying they were taken in by the dreamers who showed them kindness and love for the first time!! And I've had some people argue that they were just "pretending" too be nice but that is complelty wrong actually!! In genoside you can find stuff chara made for them a sweather made for asgore with a writing sown on it "Mr. Dad Guy." Macarony art of a flower even and written on it is 'for king Dad!' They most literally pored they're hearts out and created stuff for them becuse they were the only people who actually showed them kindness... why wouldn't they do it? And now here's the other thing people yell at me on. "BUT THAT WAS JUST A SCEEM SO CHARA CAN GATHER THE HUMAN SOULS AND KILL EVRY HUMAN ALIVE!!" But that's far from truth!! We all know thst the plan started when chara and Asriel were making some pie for Asgore and acsidently mistook cups of butter for butter cups and don't start saying "NAH THRY DID THAT ON PURPISE" remember they're kids we did all sorts of stupid things as kids. So as we all know asgore gets sick and there is a quote of asriel saying that he should have laughed it off like chara did and NO chara did not enjoy asgores pain!! There are numurios of evidence even in real life that some people use laughter too cope with pain! I myself experienced it too!! And usually people with this problem most likely have gone trough abuse or truama witchbis another thing making it posseble that chara really was abused!! And so they're plan was done now fully knowing the butter cups are poisenes they used it too kill themselves for the plan. Witch is a terrible way too go symptoms of it is bloody dieria blistering of mouth extreme vometing and so on. And Chara didn't manipulate Asriel into going with the plan Asriel went with it without hesitation he only got sceared and worked once he notuced in how much pain chara was. But afther that asriel and chara went up and tried too do it though the humans attacked Asriel without mercy as us humans attack what we don't understand chara begged asriel too fight back becuse they were dying!! But asriel didn't Witch resolved in they're death... chara didn't wanna kill all humans they just needed the 7. And afther chara Is resurected by our determination they're confused sceared they don't understand why they're back. They're plan had failed. If you do genoside multiple time chara will say how disgusted they are by you!! And how much they actually hate you. You killed evryone they love and keep in mind they're a kod so you manipulated them into thinking this was right and chara still proped you too try a difrent ending then genoside if you don't listen and do it again they're disgusted by you and hate you for it. So that's my theory chara is in no way shape or form evil. Sure they made mistakes but they were just a kid! Also there's another thing I noticed chara goes complelty silent COMPLELTY trough genoside necuse they just keep on saying ". . ." So they were defiently not enjoying it either!

had a theory that frisk somehow died when they fell.no matter which optuon you pick at the end of a true pasifist run they go along.and since frisk is supposed to be a self insert it makes sense

In dusttale, chara is just the aftermath of your actions and this time, they decide to stop you from reseting.

You got the details of Chara 100% correct good job! Also I've kind of thought of Kris as a fusion of Chara and Frisk. You mentioned the obvious parallels between Kris and both Chara and Frisk but missed one comparison that Kris and Frisk have: they are the player character. Because of that alone that could mean Friks and Kris are parallels, but the details with Chara definitely make it feel like there is more then just one or the other to me

For a LOOOOONG while ive known that chara was not the villian

3:39 I think that’s more of Chara destroying the files of the game. I recall that Toby Fox said the original intent was to have the game delete itself, but he couldn’t get it to work.

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN WHEN YOU SAID "I'm talking abt Chara. Hear me out"

I always wondered why everyone draws, talks, etc., about the fact that Chara is bad and it is she/he/they who takes possession of Frisk? When “Chara” “took over” Frisk, they did not listen to Sans, walked past the puzzles, attacked him, Asgore and Flowey themselves, but what if it was not Chara who did this, but Frisk? The player has Determination, that is WE are Determination that controls Frisk, and Chara, according to Asriel, no longer exists. Determination and a sense of power have taken over Frisk and therefore she/he/they cannot attack THEMSELVES or spare. Yes, dialogues with Chara and texts can refute this, but what if Chara only writes the text, nothing more. Frisk is human, and humans don't like monsters. Maybe at first Frisk obeys US and only wants the monsters to be happy, but when Determination comes to Genocide, and Frisk is still a child, how can they not go crazy? Therefore, Frisk takes over Determination (the Player) and does everything as they wanting, killing Sans, Asgore and Flowey, for the vengeance of the 6 fallen humans. But what about Chara? Chara hates humans, but not monsters, most likely THEY wanted to destroy humans and free monsters, because they and Asriel came up with this plan and wanted to get 6 Souls. She/he/they doesn't kill monsters, WE do. Chara is only cunningly luring US so that they can gain control of Frisk (after genocide) and make her/his/their plan real by destroying humanity in a soulless pacifist. And blurring the faces of the monsters in the photograph is just a reminder of what WE did so that WE would not forget about the genocide.

Actually, the mentions of Kris and Chara being so similar gave me a good idea. Possibly, they are so similar because they ultimately share the burden of being at your will. Their future is in your hands. Each, fighting back or taking control away from you at some point as well. This makes me think with being so similar, both in personalization and in actions, ultimately that is Kris’s role in Deltarune. They are their own person, like Chara, and their role will be made by you. You can make Kris a kind and caring person, even helping them through what seems to be hard times before you arrived and surround them with friends to help them. Or make Kris wallow in Despair at abusing and manipulating his own friends and ultimately push in them further into the concept of strength until it’s all they know. Same as Chara did except with…. More freezing and less murder.

Quality content right here

Player being evil = Chara is evil. Player being neutral = Chara is neutral. Player being good = Chara is good.

Another great analysis of chara in this day and age of what sort of human they ate

Both Chara and Kris are influenced by the players actions, leading me to believe that if you kill enemies in Deltarune, Kris will go down that bad path just as Chara did. This will cause Kris to take back control as we see them attempt at the end of Deltarune Chapters 1 & 2, with that infamous "Since when were you the one in control?" line.

Well, she was possessed or something which major kill when is of monsters, but it’s not her fault she’s not evil she was possessed or something when she was a child. Anyways, Cara is just a child.

there being a villain in the undertale genocide route would undermine the entire point of the player being a terrible person

Chara isn’t a VILLAIN. YOU are. YOU killed them all. YOU did this. YOU influenced them.

I feel bad for Chara, as it feels like the community always misjudges them.

You know what especially pisses me off about people who say Chara is evil or any essay about that is the absolute purposeful misinterpretation and twisting of known information about Chara in the worst possible ways that completely go against the core themes of the game.

but why she took over us after the pacifist (post genocide) she should be lvl 1 and not entirely evil no ?

i like this and its nice someone shares the same view

People still don’t know this In 2024? How?

Chara killed more people than the player due to erasing the world at the end of the genocide route killing an entire universe rather than the few hundred we killed

I thought this was common knowledge at this point. We had this convo years ago! Did people already forget??!!!!?

I actually don’t think Chara is evil, good nor even morally grey. Hell Chara has no concept of morality since the game leaves Chara's morality up to interpretation which is how people make evil, good and morally grey Chara headcanons. And the player/Frisk being evil is actually a misconception because we aren't committing genocide out of pure malice. We are doing it just to see what happens. There are many players who shed tears when watching their favorite characters die by their hands but continues the genocide run. Even Sans tells you that you are not doing it because you are evil but just because you think you can. Also unpopular opinion but Kris is way better than Chara.

for you guys that dont feel like watching, chara is NOT responsible for the genocide route.

It is funny how while Frisk is a rather generic kid anyone can associate with, Chara feels more relatable. At least, for me.

Chara is so adorable.~

Also in both True pacifist and geno, you are for filling the profecy by either freeing the underground by breaking the barrier or freeing the underground by killing presumably all monsters and free them from their prison.

I mean, the thing is that we got over this misinterpretation years ago

Amazing great video and great video about the best character in the game the original fallen human or known as the true name

I'm part of the Chara defense squad, she/they isn't evil or the villain in geno, WE are.

2:19 The difference is Frisk being the player’s character in the game has the ability to go back and undo previous mistakes, Chara doesn’t. For the hatred for humanity and climbing mountain for not happy reasons is the fact it’s heavily implied that Chara was abused on the surface, and climbed the mountain to take their own life.

Maybe the real chara was the genocides we made along the way

chara was probably an average evil child drawing on the walls and blaming asriel

The "your choices dont matter" thing in deltarune is being tooken to much at face value in chaper 2 there are a lot of things that change what happens like how the snowgrave route traumatizes noelle i feel like this is the same as the "kill or be killed" in undertale where you can prove flowey wrong or correct

Let’s be honest player was the one responsible for the genocide. And Chara who we don’t know practically anything about happened to be the perfect person to blame for the genocide.

This theory brings back memories. I still believe in it.

5:34 Look, Frisk is suposed to be Chara's reincarnation, and we know nothing about Frisk, just about Chara. So it makes more sense that Frisk is Chara, but i think Kris is THAT second reincarnation of Chara, wich is Frisk... while still being Chara, but not in the same "life time".

at some point or another i was working on a fangame that explores Chara as a person, showing that they aren't evil but definitely had a mischievous side. of course i suck ass at programming so it's getting turned into a fanfic instead. hopefully anyone who reads it learns the preconceived notion of Chara's supposed villainy is a fan-made fabrication

While this is an interesting theory it's just as likely as her being evil, both Chara being evil and just being missunderstood have proof to support them. In all reality it's more which one you personally support as both of them are just as likely to be canon.

I'd like to point out a dialogue you get by doing 3 or more genocides (I think it's 3) "a different path might be better suited." Chara actively suggests that you stop killing, and start on a better route. they're tired of it. they're tired of YOU killing. in the same dialogue they also insult you for recreating the world and destroying it over and over, stating you are "wracked with a perverted sentimentality", further showing that they don't want you to be doing this

Wasn't sure there were still people that thought Chara was the villain. Sure, I've seen people meme about it or use the idea in au's, but not actually take it as canon.

When I saw this video on my feed it was 666 views Very suspicious..

It all makes sense

chara doesnt destroy the entire universe, you just complete the game, thats all

I feel like one thing people neglect to realise is that, being literally dead, Chara lacks a soul, and as we should all know from Flowey a soulless being effectively lacks the ability to feel empathy, which adds to the explanation of how they’d be influenced by our actions

Hasent this been covered before?

Chara is the only character whom was able to stop the player's rampage. Too bad it took until the end of the no mercy run for them to re-appear.

Bro why does this look like a chara apology video?

They aren’t evil.. but from evidence I’ve gathered from the true lab tapes, I think they were abusive over asriel?

People still think that in 2024? I thought everyone got over that