35:39 There's a detail about the "you'd be dead where you stand" scene that always intrigues me, that NOBODY seems to talk about. When he says that line, he deliberately turns *away* from both us and Frisk. He is not staring directly at anyone in intimidation. Something about that feels melancholy to me, I dunno. Like the fact that the child in front of him could have easily died by his hands scares him a bit.
It looked like a threat when I first heard it, but now? It sounds like he feels shameful even thinking about it. He may have grown attachment to Frisk. Idk.
46:14 Fun fact about Sans’ room: You don’t actually need to do multiple playthroughs to get here. All you need to do is save right before his judgement dialogue, and then close the game once it’s finished. Repeat this process a couple of times, and he’ll give you the key on a single playthrough.
A thing which I don't see discussed very often is actually Sans's most popular trait - his "cool eye", the cyan/yellow one. Both colours are present as types of Soul. Patience and Justice respectfully. And both fit Sans perfectly. Justice is rather self-explanatory with the whole "you will be judged" thing. And Patience could represent not only blue attacks but also Sans's own patience, required to watch his friends and brother die to attack you only at the end of your journey.
Hm, blue attacks are not related to the blue eye, though, since cyan represents patience, but dark blue used in rhe blue atack represents integrity, if I'm not mistaken
@@cuboembaralhado8294 "Blue attacks" as in "the ones where you don't move". Cyan bones, I mean. It's rather apparent that they are directly connected to patience with the whole not moving shtick. I understand where confusion comes from, should've used "cyan attacks"
About the debate on whether or not sans dies in genocide: Yes, he does. Not only does your lv tick up to twenty afterward, but you can litterally HEAR him dusting after he walks off screen.
And even if he didn't die somehow, the world gets erased like 20 minutes afterwards so he doesn't really have any reason to persist past this point unless he knew of a surefire get out of jail free card at the last possible second
idk where i am in this debate but in the sans is a darkner theory, it was pointed out that thats just the battle end sound in general and not a kill-specific sound and that berdly (a monster) is able to be tired and end the battle without dying. also, i dont remember if this is true but im pretty sure i saw somewhere thwt after sans dies, the sign in snowdin that says welcome changes or something but it might’ve been a bug
It’s not a dust sound effect it’s a battle end sound effect. I mean I think he dies there. But the sound doesn’t mean anything at all except that the battle is over.
i personally have a different interpretation of sans. sans is a character whom i believe a lot of people misattribute the ability to remember timelines. remember when the human dies or when the timeline resets. however i don’t think that’s the case because again why would sans continue playing his life out normally when something like a genocide route is happening. if sans had knowledge of previous timelines, why wouldn’t he prevent a genocide route? my personal interpretation is that sans only has an inkling of awareness of resets and deaths. when sans kills you repeatedly he counts not by specifically saying oh haha i killed you twice, no he always starts the sentence the same, “hmm. that expression... that's the expression of someone who's died x times in a row.” sans is saying the same sentence but adjusting his answer based on what your face is saying. i get the feeling that when sans “feels” a reset it’s more like he has a constant feeling of deja vu. sans being able to identify the human as human and the lamp could be explained by toriel describing the human to sans and he just makes the lamp in preparation for the joke to papyrus. idk it’s not a perfect interpretation but that’s how i see it
YES, the lamp is just a JOKE. Just because there is intention behind most things toby fox does, way more than an average developer, this does not mean EVERYTHING. That would be insane. Sometimes he just wants to make a joke. Out of all the characters possessing knowledge of their universe, sans has the least. It doesn't make any sense for his character if he were to have such definite knowledge of what you're doing at all times. Sans is just very smart, and understands the player and their motivations very well to the point he can accurately predict what you will do and why. He is guessing. This is painfully obvious from the tone of his dialogue, they're questions, not statements. He makes Hypotheses. He's a scientist. Another thing, the characters do not know they're in a "video game." They simply don't have any concept of video games. They all have vague ideas about the nature of their existence, but this does not reduce them or their world in any way from their perspective. To them things like Lv and Exp are not video game logic, but the laws of their universe. This is shown through the subversion the player experiences, expecting Lv and Exp to be level and experience. Nighthawk, unfortunately, needs to do some more analysis.
Yea, he knows more about the resets than almost anyone else, but he sees them exactly the same way as the other normal characters. Sometimes they feel deja vu, but they dont directly remember anything about previous timelines
people thinking sans can remember timelines has driven me crazy for years. i dont know where the hell that came from but hes not flowey, he never was. hes just a depressed space nerd with a scientific past.
@@Tulip_bip Indeed, he's aware of an anomaly affecting the timelines so he probably knows the cause of such déja vu feelings, unlike at least most of the other Monsters.
The Grillby's scene was always so fascinating to me because *talking flower* would never make you think of an echo flower ever, even if their existence had just been explained literally moments before in Waterfall before Sans' asks about it. He's obviously referring to Flowey, but then bails for some reason..
Plausible deniability, probably. Sans pretty consistently seems to like coming off as being way less on-the-ball than he actually he. Of course, he did this after seeming to freeze time everywhere except a small area around him and the one he was talking to... but who knows if that was supposed to be noticed or not.
I don’t super love the idea that Sans is literally a time traveler himself. There’s no direct evidence of this, and all of the information that he supposedly has from time traveling can be explained in other ways. Plus it’s implied that him and Alphys have studied the ‘timeline’ together which might be how he has so much information in general
With Sans' attempt to SPARE you, I think it was a genuine fig leaf. He wants you to do the right thing and RESET, and killing you is his way of nudging you in that direction.
The reason that sans is hit after dodging is not because you are still on the fight button- you don’t have to press the button again. I really like the interpretation that Chara hits sans after you do- even in order to kill everyone, you still need the power of friendship to beat undertale.
I never really understood the ketchup thing, doesn't Undertale tell you specifically that all monster food is special and turns into energy instantly? That's why all food in-game heals you immediately, it's not a video game thing it's literal.
yep, its explicitly said to be different than human food. human food works normally, as in you digest it and all that, but monster food isnt really _eaten._ thats why they dont have bathrooms.
@@user-biscut all things in the Underground is Monster food, including ketchup. If that weren't the case, we'd see see red stain on Sans coat or the front of his shirt.
23:50 This is pedantic but quantum physics isn’t mostly theoretical, there is a large body of experimental evidence, and it mostly describes subatomic particles, not the atomic scale really. And you do have a chance to pass through something whenever you touch it, but not just through quantum tunnelling but more likely through particles being arranged in such a way they don’t interact. (More likely does not mean likely though)
Thank you for explaining that. That part in the video made my eye twitch but I wasn't gonna take the time to say anything. I'm glad you did. Edit: this is not to criticize Nighthawk, the video is awesome and I love it and will be rewatching many times over the coming weeks to soothe my brainrot 😁
The fact 1:27 makes me think of Deltarune, and not just a silly Sans meme, makes me think I'm already far too deep into the rabbit hole to ever come out.
Your rebuttal to Sans' "blood" being ketchup, "gravity isn't situational", made me realize that yes, actually, it is. With Sans specifically, gravity is very, very situational, as he shows by slamming you around the screen down to 1hp. It could be that this ketchup is his ACTUAL last ditch effort. His initial plan is to make you abandon this through frustration, either by brutal defeat, betrayal, or sheer boredom. But if all that fails, maybe shocking you, making you think for a split second that maybe, just maybe, this wasn't just some monster, but another human being that you'd just murdered, maybe that could make you stop all this. If this is the gambit though, it's a tragically futile one. It requires that you, the actual player entity messing with time, a being that he couldn't possibly actually conceive of, see killing a human in a video game as so terrible an act that you would change your ways. But you've done that more times than you can count, haven't you?
I do still think Sans being able to control gravity while he is dying to move ketchup is kind of farfetched. Also if it is ketchup, it should be disappearing. At least the stuff in his mouth. Since that is how monster food works.
sans could have drunk ketchup shortly before the fight in some sort of final way to convince you to stop. The sight of him bleeding, asking papyrus if he wants anything, it's all to guilt trip you to do something else. Reset. Maybe one final pacifist route before you go, maybe not, but maybe you'll think twice before another geno route.
10:41 "If we're really friends, you won't come back." So I think it qualifies as the game/Sans offering one final chance. The 1st time he has a whole dramatic plea. He's trying everything to make you stop, including one last appeal to your humanity.
I was gonna say something about Sans not being a time traveller, but @ivy2850 's comment sums this up perfectly. Also, remember that characters get slight deja vu after the player loads a scene multiple times. For example, Papyrus gets deja vu if the player walks into the 2nd conversation with Papyrus (the one with the rock joke) another time, after quitting and loading.
@@Dragon_Aoi Fan consensus seems to be that he's from Deltarune. Which would be interesting, if totally inexplicable. Lots of clues pointing in that direction.
I really like this video but my only gripe is I really don't think Sans has memory of the other timelines. He's aware they happen, he knows something about the timeline stopping and starting over, but he doesn't know what happened. While Flowey calls out specific actions ("I know you killed her"), Sans just points out strange actions you make ("you turned around before i finished talking"), which is something various other characters do without any meta knowledge (Papyrus, Toriel, Asgore, etc). He can guess how many times he's killed you, but it seems to be the same way Asgore knows he's killed you/Toriel remembers your preference, he's just more aware of the anomaly and can call it out more specifically.
To be honest, I don't like the idea that Sans literally knows he's in a videogame. Undertale filters a lot of game mechanics through in-universe logic, why should Sans be any different? I'm also not sure about the idea of Sans as some calculating genius that knows exactly what will happen and secretly hates you no matter what. Sans is kind, and the friendship and vulnerability he shows to Frisk in the pacifist route is real, I think. Even in the Genocide route Sans talks about how he wondered if maybe the anomaly just needed friends. I think Sans would have given the human a chance, promise or not.
like it or not, the canon version of sans is one of the top 3 coolest characters imo. fanon sans is pretty cool as-well obviously but man.. gotta love the character either way.
I think the noises at 17:01 are more of a reference to Earthbound, considering Toby's appreciation for the series. Several "spooky" moments/areas in Earthbound play a track that has a similar droning under the main melody (which, granted, is usually just disparate notes that further unnerve the player). For all I know, though, either example could still be something like binaural tones? I'm not well versed in that half of the question. Edit: I made this post off the top of my head, but coming back to give the precise tracks I meant: look for "One Fateful Night" and "Alien Invasion 1" (and/or 2) to see what I mean. They're not *precisely* the same sound effects, but they carry the same vibe for sure.
Haven't finished the video yet, but 1) KR doesn't stand for karma; we don't know what it means 2) Sans doesn't have memories from other timelines (not even the deja-vu that other monsters get); he's just really good at reading expressions
@@victzegopterix2 He explicitly says "that's the expression of someone who's died twice in a row" and even comments on you looking pissed off after the SPARE fakeout
@@notpearl3590, seems more like he's just trolling ngl. We know he can read the save files even, that's how he does the judgment, since it's the only place were the LOVE and EXP can be found. He wouldn't know precisely what we did with just reading expressions, especially Frisk's.
@@victzegopterix2 We don't know that he can read save files. His ability to discern EXP and LOVE could have nothing to do with saves; in fact, saves just keep track of the EXP and LOVE stored in your body/soul
@@notpearl3590, EXP and LOVE isn't stored in the body. You pull that out of nothing, no proof, no evidence, nothing pointing in that direction in anyway. And given how Undertale is a game in its own diegesis, it wouldn't make much sense that the EXP, LOVE, and the state of the world in general wouldn't be only stored in file0 and file9. Also notice how the only three people (Flowey Sans Chara) who mention EXP and LOVE are ones knowing they're in a game (iirc ._.). And even if it was stored in Frisk's body, how does reading inexistant expressions allow him to know their value?
47:12 I still believe that Sans comes from Deltarune and somehow accidentally got teleported to Undertale, and the people in these photos are the main characters of Deltarune. And this room is San's attempts at going back to the Deltarune world
yeah that's what i believe most, too. in chapter 1 susie says "everybody bleeds, right?" which might imply that monster lightners have blood and would explain why sans bleeds. there's also the dialogue of "i gave up trying to go back a while ago, and the surface doesn't even appeal to me *either*". either. he's not talking about the surface here. just where is he trying to go back to? another world, perhaps?
@@bagaboo4746 Nah, that could just be another reason he seems to like Grillby's a lot in Undertale. No reason to think it's the exact same building that was transported.
19:21 Correct me if I'm wrong but. Sans is actually implied/Stated by 'TobyFox'(If I'm not mistaken) . To be the Older Brother. Not Papyrus. Just so you're aware and so you know. Again correct me if I'm wrong. Regardless of that I like this video 😊 keep it up!
I just realized something. Sans is the one that judges you, and metes out justice when you do bad things. He does so in a corridor that looks an awful lot like a church hallway. (Crazy Theory) Sans is the archangel Michael and G_ster/The Player/Flowey/Chara can each be interpreted as the archangel Lucifer....
i thinks a sans who remembers resets like that is cooler by a character analysis standpoint, but it rly isn’t very supported thru actual in game characterization. n while i have had this opinion for a bit, the video “The Sans the Fandom Forgot” by Dorked summarizes jus abt every point i could make in a much better format, so jus watch that instead to get what im tryna say
@@rompevuevitos222 in what context? matpat theories? media theories? scientific theories? your reply is too vague for me to understand and respond, sorry.
i was looking up sans analysis and this was nice to see. did not expect some video essay to be made only 11 days ago but it's so much appreciated. nice work!
57:58 I'm not gonna lie, when you started talking about existentialist topics like nihilism, I was half expecting you to reach the conclusion that Sans isnt a _nihilist,_ but an *_Absurdist_* which would honestly make alot of sense given his light hearted nature.
I just thought of an explanation for the skelebros just showing up one day and I have to share it. What-if, unlike most types of monsters, skeletons don’t reproduce and are simply made by human skeletons being exposed to a lot of magic for a period of time? The magic slowly seeps into the bones and, eventually, a soul is born, bringing a new life out of the old. We could say something like Sans and Papyrus’ original human bodies were killed and dumped into the river that would bring them to the Underground, where they decomposed into skeletons and were reborn into the characters we know in game. As for why no one knows this fact: I imagine skeleton monsters weren’t common before the War, given humans tend to bury dead bodies, and the majority died, maybe were even targeted, during the War, leaving only Gaster. And when Gaster fell into the Core, the only monsters that would remember skeletons would be people like Toriel, Asgore, and Gerson, long living people who remember life before the Underground, and maybe some ‘monster biology’ document that was stashed in an archive never to see the light of day again.
love the idea that sans messes with the black out and cut to a another scene of the underground, also what if sans an dpapyrus and ghost monsters were the 6 humans
I don't get the whole idea of chara taking over the protagonists soul. Frisk and Chara don't have the power to influence the autonomy of one another, that's only the player's ability towards Frisk, which in turn, influences Chara as she learns their new world having their old one wiped from her. Chara is influenced by Frisk, (the player's decisions), not the other way around.
unfortunately, this has been a misconception for years. ive been here since like 2016 and ive never known where it came from, but back then literally _everybody_ thought chara "possessed" frisk in the genocide route and i guess theres still a lot of people that believe that. interesting idea for fan fiction, but it gets really annoying when people act like thats what actually happened.
Okay, this might be a funny idea, but I think we're not actually controlling Frisk. We're controlling Chara, who is hijacking Frisk's body. Basically, the player controls Chara, who in turn controls Frisk. In the genocide route, the connection between the player and Chara weakens while the bond between Chara and Frisk strengthens due to the increase in LV and EXP. This shift allows Chara to take control at certain points during the run, like the red dialogue, the step during Sans's judgment without player input, and the surprise attack that delivers the killing blow (the first attack is player-controlled, but the second, automatic one is Chara). The same thing happens after Sans dies: they kill Asgore immediately and, after a moment of hesitation, they slash Flowey until he's nothing but crushed petals-all without the player’s input.
@@imnotimportant6831 okay think of it like this: you have the power to influence the choices of Frisk, but because Frisk is still their own person, you can't decide every single one of them by yourself. Which is why the game doesn't allow you to make the morally correct or wrong decision after having murdered every single monster alive in the underground. Realistically, Frisk wouldn't show mercy and spare flowey after already committing the most absolute heinous actions. He's a cowardly defenseless flower that is spending the last few seconds of his life begging that you spare him in complete terror, flowey is rendered into a pathetic mess of a monster that in the eyes of a sociopath, serves no purpose to anyone at all and doesn't have a chance to. So they kill him.
17:03 it’s not the same, but it reminds me of the earthbound extra terrestrial hums. Similar to the hums used in the amalgamates battle theme. As that’s also based on earthbound.
Fun drinking challenge to try while watching this video if you don't value your life: take a shot every time you think to yourself "what is bro yapping about" 💀
I just realised that sans' act of sparing the human during the fight only to kill them can parallel the common practice of performing a true pacifist route before genocide.
It's worth noting that one of the books in the library or somewhere else in undertale states that when monsters consume food the food turns into Pure Energy meaning that it is physically impossible for the "blood" to be ketchup because if Sans were to consumed any it would have turned into Pure Energy.
Something that I forgot to check, (and I am NOT going to reset my happy ending), is to see if fighting Napastablook and "winning" can break the good ending and put you into neutral, and what Sans would have to say if you only, ever, fought ghosts. Who you can't actually hurt.
It actually is impossible for the red to be ketchup, due to monster food being described as made of magic, and instantly turning into energy when consumed, so even if he did consume ketchup it wouldn't leak out of him, unless it was human food, which does pass through the body.
1:56 intro memes end 4:33 is it gravity manipulation or just emulation on the soul 5:28 notably, he does not retain any information after Reset or Load, he's good at reading you ("that expression on your face") and likely hypothesizes you can time travel (see his secret code word) and has his timeline data.
Something to note: "A badge" can also be any sort of ID card, like the ones used in hospitals, etc, which is part of the evidence that fans have used for a long time to point to Sans being a scientist
Thank you so much for a wonderful video focused on my favorite character. I could listen to sans lore and speculation all day. This vid will be playing in the background over the coming weeks as I do chores and whatnot, like a slow drip IV keeping me from losing the last of my sanity before chapter 3 😂
One endlessly looping day. If I had a perfect memory, I'd eventually read all of wikipedia... being that I don't, I guess I'd eventually fall into a loop of reading one or two hundred books, as I forget the older ones I come back to them without memories of them. .. I'd be fine.
Im happy that you pointed out how sans could just know about gaster. People forget that gaster was around a very very long time ago, so he definitely never met alphys. and, unless sans is extremely old, he never met sans either
We don’t know long ago Gaster got shattered, we have no idea how old Sans is, Sans and Gaster do have connections which could include knowing each other.
@@Dragon_Aoi we don't know how long ago exactly, but two of the gaster followers talk about how asgore took a long time to replace him. remember that asgore is a boss monster too, so he's been around for a very long time himself the state of the true lab and the CORE show that they're clearly very old, two places directly connected to him. i think the fact that he was the original royal scientist implies that he was around in the early era of the underground too there's also the fact that nobody talks about him anymore, he's been gone for long enough that he's been forgotten. the only person who definitely knew him was asgore, and that isn't saying much. alphys is a royal scientist herself, and she never mentions him either, which to me implies that he was long gone by the time that alphys was around
Is defence was actually The catcher powder was technically his defence secret inside his shirt or in his holy a kind of protected him if you think about ahhaa
17:00 I think that humming sound might be a sample from Earthbound. Undertale has other Earthbound samples as well (most famously, the guitar from megalovania)
I heard a theory that since Sans is hyperaware of the game and its systems he is able to manipulate where he is in the code and results in his teleportation and other various powers
Exactly what i was about to comment. He knows that different timelines exist and that he was a part of them, but he doesn't remember anything, he can only sense that something has happened before, like deja vu, except that unlike deja vu, he knows it did most likely happen in another timeline
ngl i feel like sans blood is not blood or ketchup but its determination since the only color we can ever see in fight mode are only the few colors that are the souls colors (and i feel lits its fair to exlude omega flowey fights since he have 6 humans souls so it makes sence he has the power to have colors)
I think a major thing you're choosing to not bring up here, maybe intentionally, is Sans connection to Deltarune, and the fact that his secret room is most likely a connection to it
Fun fact: the only true way to win against the player would be to make them bored. Sure, anger is a temporary way to stop them, but making it feel like there was no reason to do a Geno run would be great. Like imagine how much more effective it'd be if sans just said "make it quick" and then the whole 1-shot Asgore and Flowey thing happened. The player would be a lot more bored. You gave the player a fight, something new, and that's why some players did it at all. It's a sad thing, but at least in theory there'll be a world that survives right? Maybe not sans's, but there'll always be another world. All worlds are fictitious to another after all
I doubt papyrus was part of Sans' original home, if anything Papyrus can't hold a secret for his own life, He would eventually talk about travelling worlds with his brother. I think Papyrus was never a part of Sans old world and that's why he's not in the picture
A few things I disagree with a little bit: Sans is productive because of Papyrus pushing him to be such, if wasn't for his little brother, he'd sink into absolute sloth woth how lazy he already is. Sans and Papyrus are one hundred percent monster due to them both dusting (he literally dies, as that is the only way that allows the player to reach the absolute LV of 20). As for the human thing, it had been a number of decades since regular Monsters had seen a human (as many monsters barring a select few who are fans of human, or were around since before Monsters were imprisoned for close to a millennia). The promise to protect the human isn't foresight, he just agrees because of what you said regarding Sans agreeing regard Toriel. I also want to point out that he acts more vindictive if you kill Papyrus. He is also following the human as the Shyren battle shows. Sans is not able to remember Resets (he only gets deja vu like the other main characters), he DOES read expression, he's only aware to a degree due to the 'reports'.
Just gonna describe the exact thought process i just had at 12:02 in the video, i'll update this later with if it was accurate or not : "So, whats the end goal of explaining sans in such a manner and in such a specific order of attributes that he sounds like he could be a parallel of sorts to gaste-Oooohhh. Oohh thats why- thats the secret ok i get it. This is good."
I WAS COMPLETELY OFF THE MARK NOOO- Good video tho regardless lmao- (Though, all things considered, we kinda. Already knew this in a sense because its been established that sans does have some sort of relations with gaster so. i suppose im just updating my knowledge of sans to include the extra ties to gasteryness of "knowing about game mechanics" and a few other things that need more evidence first before i can start really applying it- brought by deltarune. Or its the sleep deprivation kickin in idk)
35:39 There's a detail about the "you'd be dead where you stand" scene that always intrigues me, that NOBODY seems to talk about. When he says that line, he deliberately turns *away* from both us and Frisk. He is not staring directly at anyone in intimidation. Something about that feels melancholy to me, I dunno. Like the fact that the child in front of him could have easily died by his hands scares him a bit.
Good point, players always focus more on the face icon when sans is speaking at that moment but forget about the body language.
It looked like a threat when I first heard it, but now? It sounds like he feels shameful even thinking about it. He may have grown attachment to Frisk. Idk.
46:14
Fun fact about Sans’ room: You don’t actually need to do multiple playthroughs to get here. All you need to do is save right before his judgement dialogue, and then close the game once it’s finished. Repeat this process a couple of times, and he’ll give you the key on a single playthrough.
Isnt this how its usually done?
@@amagicalbeing7427 Yup
A thing which I don't see discussed very often is actually Sans's most popular trait - his "cool eye", the cyan/yellow one. Both colours are present as types of Soul. Patience and Justice respectfully. And both fit Sans perfectly. Justice is rather self-explanatory with the whole "you will be judged" thing. And Patience could represent not only blue attacks but also Sans's own patience, required to watch his friends and brother die to attack you only at the end of your journey.
one of my favorite facts
Hm, blue attacks are not related to the blue eye, though, since cyan represents patience, but dark blue used in rhe blue atack represents integrity, if I'm not mistaken
@@cuboembaralhado8294 "Blue attacks" as in "the ones where you don't move". Cyan bones, I mean. It's rather apparent that they are directly connected to patience with the whole not moving shtick. I understand where confusion comes from, should've used "cyan attacks"
@gorn5264 oh ok then, good to know
@@cuboembaralhado8294 in the current version, blue attacks have a different shade for accessibility reasons. But originally they where identical.
"There is never an aligator seen within the underground."
Well, except for Bratty.
i think shes a crocodile, just analyzing the narrowness of her mouth where alligators have wider mouths
Deltarune calls her a "copy-gator" at one point
@@rompevuevitos222 OMG THE DELTARUNE PROPHECY MOCKS BRATTY CONFIRMED!!!111!!!1!!!
@@rompevuevitos222 THE LORE GOES SO DEEP..!!!1111!!!
I love when RUclips doesn't notify me of premieres, even though I specifically pressed the "Notify me" button
same!! same. 😢
Same. It’s *_so COOL_*
My fav feature fr
Sanne(s)
Same
About the debate on whether or not sans dies in genocide:
Yes, he does. Not only does your lv tick up to twenty afterward, but you can litterally HEAR him dusting after he walks off screen.
and i would JUST like to point out, it is completely in theme of the sans fight for him to try to guilt trip you one last time with fake blood.
And even if he didn't die somehow, the world gets erased like 20 minutes afterwards so he doesn't really have any reason to persist past this point unless he knew of a surefire get out of jail free card at the last possible second
did you know the dust sound effect is the same when you spare someone?
idk where i am in this debate but in the sans is a darkner theory, it was pointed out that thats just the battle end sound in general and not a kill-specific sound and that berdly (a monster) is able to be tired and end the battle without dying. also, i dont remember if this is true but im pretty sure i saw somewhere thwt after sans dies, the sign in snowdin that says welcome changes or something but it might’ve been a bug
It’s not a dust sound effect it’s a battle end sound effect. I mean I think he dies there. But the sound doesn’t mean anything at all except that the battle is over.
Leave it to Toby Fox to make the world’s most hated font into the most badass boss battle of the 2010s.
With the most r34 too...
i personally have a different interpretation of sans. sans is a character whom i believe a lot of people misattribute the ability to remember timelines. remember when the human dies or when the timeline resets. however i don’t think that’s the case because again why would sans continue playing his life out normally when something like a genocide route is happening. if sans had knowledge of previous timelines, why wouldn’t he prevent a genocide route? my personal interpretation is that sans only has an inkling of awareness of resets and deaths. when sans kills you repeatedly he counts not by specifically saying oh haha i killed you twice, no he always starts the sentence the same, “hmm. that expression...
that's the expression of someone who's died x times in a row.” sans is saying the same sentence but adjusting his answer based on what your face is saying. i get the feeling that when sans “feels” a reset it’s more like he has a constant feeling of deja vu. sans being able to identify the human as human and the lamp could be explained by toriel describing the human to sans and he just makes the lamp in preparation for the joke to papyrus. idk it’s not a perfect interpretation but that’s how i see it
YES, the lamp is just a JOKE. Just because there is intention behind most things toby fox does, way more than an average developer, this does not mean EVERYTHING. That would be insane. Sometimes he just wants to make a joke. Out of all the characters possessing knowledge of their universe, sans has the least. It doesn't make any sense for his character if he were to have such definite knowledge of what you're doing at all times. Sans is just very smart, and understands the player and their motivations very well to the point he can accurately predict what you will do and why. He is guessing. This is painfully obvious from the tone of his dialogue, they're questions, not statements. He makes Hypotheses. He's a scientist. Another thing, the characters do not know they're in a "video game." They simply don't have any concept of video games. They all have vague ideas about the nature of their existence, but this does not reduce them or their world in any way from their perspective. To them things like Lv and Exp are not video game logic, but the laws of their universe. This is shown through the subversion the player experiences, expecting Lv and Exp to be level and experience. Nighthawk, unfortunately, needs to do some more analysis.
Yea, he knows more about the resets than almost anyone else, but he sees them exactly the same way as the other normal characters. Sometimes they feel deja vu, but they dont directly remember anything about previous timelines
people thinking sans can remember timelines has driven me crazy for years. i dont know where the hell that came from but hes not flowey, he never was. hes just a depressed space nerd with a scientific past.
@@Tulip_bip Indeed, he's aware of an anomaly affecting the timelines so he probably knows the cause of such déja vu feelings, unlike at least most of the other Monsters.
Its 2024 and people STILL think Sans' memory persists through timelines 😭
The Grillby's scene was always so fascinating to me because *talking flower* would never make you think of an echo flower ever, even if their existence had just been explained literally moments before in Waterfall before Sans' asks about it. He's obviously referring to Flowey, but then bails for some reason..
Plausible deniability, probably. Sans pretty consistently seems to like coming off as being way less on-the-ball than he actually he.
Of course, he did this after seeming to freeze time everywhere except a small area around him and the one he was talking to... but who knows if that was supposed to be noticed or not.
Because he's being careful.
He doesn't want that flower listening in on what they're talking about.
"Sans is a pretty simple character" - Nighthawk, 59:18 into the analysis
I don’t super love the idea that Sans is literally a time traveler himself. There’s no direct evidence of this, and all of the information that he supposedly has from time traveling can be explained in other ways. Plus it’s implied that him and Alphys have studied the ‘timeline’ together which might be how he has so much information in general
very very true. thanks for saying this
Not to mention the possibility of him being from Deltarune instead
He's more of a dimensional traveler than a time traveler.
With Sans' attempt to SPARE you, I think it was a genuine fig leaf. He wants you to do the right thing and RESET, and killing you is his way of nudging you in that direction.
The reason that sans is hit after dodging is not because you are still on the fight button- you don’t have to press the button again. I really like the interpretation that Chara hits sans after you do- even in order to kill everyone, you still need the power of friendship to beat undertale.
The power of friendship in both pacifist, genocide and neutral
@@INLIGHTOFHISTORTYANDOTHE-px7mf it's either the 6 human souls, the fallen child or THE WHOLE UNDERGROUND
wasn't the reason because since you attacked sans on sans's turn, you get put into YOUR OWN turn, therefore making it that you attack twice in a row
I never really understood the ketchup thing, doesn't Undertale tell you specifically that all monster food is special and turns into energy instantly? That's why all food in-game heals you immediately, it's not a video game thing it's literal.
yep, its explicitly said to be different than human food. human food works normally, as in you digest it and all that, but monster food isnt really _eaten._ thats why they dont have bathrooms.
Yeah, exactly, Sans regularly eats other condiments as well. We only see him down ketchup.
But what if it's a human made brand? Then it would count a human food.
@@user-biscut all things in the Underground is Monster food, including ketchup. If that weren't the case, we'd see see red stain on Sans coat or the front of his shirt.
@@Magma-Idiot-2001 Then what about the brand-named chocolate that the main character recognized? And all of the junk in the junk yard?
23:50
This is pedantic but quantum physics isn’t mostly theoretical, there is a large body of experimental evidence, and it mostly describes subatomic particles, not the atomic scale really. And you do have a chance to pass through something whenever you touch it, but not just through quantum tunnelling but more likely through particles being arranged in such a way they don’t interact. (More likely does not mean likely though)
Thank you for explaining that. That part in the video made my eye twitch but I wasn't gonna take the time to say anything. I'm glad you did.
Edit: this is not to criticize Nighthawk, the video is awesome and I love it and will be rewatching many times over the coming weeks to soothe my brainrot 😁
The fact 1:27 makes me think of Deltarune, and not just a silly Sans meme, makes me think I'm already far too deep into the rabbit hole to ever come out.
*F R I E N D I N S I D E M E*
Your rebuttal to Sans' "blood" being ketchup, "gravity isn't situational", made me realize that yes, actually, it is. With Sans specifically, gravity is very, very situational, as he shows by slamming you around the screen down to 1hp. It could be that this ketchup is his ACTUAL last ditch effort. His initial plan is to make you abandon this through frustration, either by brutal defeat, betrayal, or sheer boredom. But if all that fails, maybe shocking you, making you think for a split second that maybe, just maybe, this wasn't just some monster, but another human being that you'd just murdered, maybe that could make you stop all this.
If this is the gambit though, it's a tragically futile one. It requires that you, the actual player entity messing with time, a being that he couldn't possibly actually conceive of, see killing a human in a video game as so terrible an act that you would change your ways.
But you've done that more times than you can count, haven't you?
I do still think Sans being able to control gravity while he is dying to move ketchup is kind of farfetched.
Also if it is ketchup, it should be disappearing. At least the stuff in his mouth. Since that is how monster food works.
@@Dragon_Aoi Could be he pulled some human ketchup out of the dump. I doubt human diseases can infect him.
sans could have drunk ketchup shortly before the fight in some sort of final way to convince you to stop. The sight of him bleeding, asking papyrus if he wants anything, it's all to guilt trip you to do something else. Reset. Maybe one final pacifist route before you go, maybe not, but maybe you'll think twice before another geno route.
10:41 "If we're really friends, you won't come back."
So I think it qualifies as the game/Sans offering one final chance. The 1st time he has a whole dramatic plea. He's trying everything to make you stop, including one last appeal to your humanity.
I was gonna say something about Sans not being a time traveller, but @ivy2850 's comment sums this up perfectly.
Also, remember that characters get slight deja vu after the player loads a scene multiple times. For example, Papyrus gets deja vu if the player walks into the 2nd conversation with Papyrus (the one with the rock joke) another time, after quitting and loading.
I think he could maybe be from another timeline or something. We don’t really know for sure.
@@Dragon_Aoi Fan consensus seems to be that he's from Deltarune. Which would be interesting, if totally inexplicable. Lots of clues pointing in that direction.
I really like this video but my only gripe is I really don't think Sans has memory of the other timelines. He's aware they happen, he knows something about the timeline stopping and starting over, but he doesn't know what happened. While Flowey calls out specific actions ("I know you killed her"), Sans just points out strange actions you make ("you turned around before i finished talking"), which is something various other characters do without any meta knowledge (Papyrus, Toriel, Asgore, etc). He can guess how many times he's killed you, but it seems to be the same way Asgore knows he's killed you/Toriel remembers your preference, he's just more aware of the anomaly and can call it out more specifically.
To be honest, I don't like the idea that Sans literally knows he's in a videogame. Undertale filters a lot of game mechanics through in-universe logic, why should Sans be any different?
I'm also not sure about the idea of Sans as some calculating genius that knows exactly what will happen and secretly hates you no matter what. Sans is kind, and the friendship and vulnerability he shows to Frisk in the pacifist route is real, I think.
Even in the Genocide route Sans talks about how he wondered if maybe the anomaly just needed friends. I think Sans would have given the human a chance, promise or not.
when I say that last joke BROKE me, I mean it. great video per usual!
1:00 Didn't even include Joel Vargskelethor.
"sans is a simple character" says the man who did an hour long analysis on him
When you was talking about secret in intro i fucking expected "sans is ness" ...
like it or not, the canon version of sans is one of the top 3 coolest characters imo. fanon sans is pretty cool as-well obviously but man.. gotta love the character either way.
Excited for the premiere!
I think the noises at 17:01 are more of a reference to Earthbound, considering Toby's appreciation for the series. Several "spooky" moments/areas in Earthbound play a track that has a similar droning under the main melody (which, granted, is usually just disparate notes that further unnerve the player). For all I know, though, either example could still be something like binaural tones? I'm not well versed in that half of the question.
Edit: I made this post off the top of my head, but coming back to give the precise tracks I meant: look for "One Fateful Night" and "Alien Invasion 1" (and/or 2) to see what I mean. They're not *precisely* the same sound effects, but they carry the same vibe for sure.
Haven't finished the video yet, but
1) KR doesn't stand for karma; we don't know what it means
2) Sans doesn't have memories from other timelines (not even the deja-vu that other monsters get); he's just really good at reading expressions
Probably more reading the save files than reading inexistant expressions.
@@victzegopterix2
He explicitly says "that's the expression of someone who's died twice in a row" and even comments on you looking pissed off after the SPARE fakeout
@@notpearl3590, seems more like he's just trolling ngl. We know he can read the save files even, that's how he does the judgment, since it's the only place were the LOVE and EXP can be found. He wouldn't know precisely what we did with just reading expressions, especially Frisk's.
@@victzegopterix2
We don't know that he can read save files. His ability to discern EXP and LOVE could have nothing to do with saves; in fact, saves just keep track of the EXP and LOVE stored in your body/soul
@@notpearl3590, EXP and LOVE isn't stored in the body. You pull that out of nothing, no proof, no evidence, nothing pointing in that direction in anyway.
And given how Undertale is a game in its own diegesis, it wouldn't make much sense that the EXP, LOVE, and the state of the world in general wouldn't be only stored in file0 and file9. Also notice how the only three people (Flowey Sans Chara) who mention EXP and LOVE are ones knowing they're in a game (iirc ._.).
And even if it was stored in Frisk's body, how does reading inexistant expressions allow him to know their value?
47:12 I still believe that Sans comes from Deltarune and somehow accidentally got teleported to Undertale, and the people in these photos are the main characters of Deltarune. And this room is San's attempts at going back to the Deltarune world
Look at the shop in deltarune
Grillbies is removed from the sign and replaced with "sans"
It had to come FROM Undertale TO deltarune
@bagaboo4746 Maybe the building did but Sans didn't? Idk
yeah that's what i believe most, too. in chapter 1 susie says "everybody bleeds, right?" which might imply that monster lightners have blood and would explain why sans bleeds. there's also the dialogue of "i gave up trying to go back a while ago, and the surface doesn't even appeal to me *either*". either. he's not talking about the surface here. just where is he trying to go back to? another world, perhaps?
@@bagaboo4746 Nah, that could just be another reason he seems to like Grillby's a lot in Undertale. No reason to think it's the exact same building that was transported.
@@PhysicsGamer look at the sign, grillbies was removed porely and replaced with sans's
19:22 Papyrus is sans's younger brother not older. hes just taller than sans
True
19:21
Correct me if I'm wrong but. Sans is actually implied/Stated by 'TobyFox'(If I'm not mistaken) . To be the Older Brother. Not Papyrus. Just so you're aware and so you know. Again correct me if I'm wrong. Regardless of that I like this video 😊 keep it up!
i dont think toby fox ever directly stated that but the japanese version forced the specification that sans is the older brother
Deltarune specifies it as well.
That's a strange fumble, we've known Sans was the elder brother for years. Also the newsletters and Deltarune pretty much confirm it outright.
I can’t believe Nighthawk was a bird the whole time. That disguise really had me fooled!
How tf is bro making a whole ass essay about sans while still believing he remember timelines 😭
This misconsception died in like.
2019/2020
I just realized something.
Sans is the one that judges you, and metes out justice when you do bad things.
He does so in a corridor that looks an awful lot like a church hallway.
(Crazy Theory)
Sans is the archangel Michael and G_ster/The Player/Flowey/Chara can each be interpreted as the archangel Lucifer....
i thinks a sans who remembers resets like that is cooler by a character analysis standpoint, but it rly isn’t very supported thru actual in game characterization. n while i have had this opinion for a bit, the video “The Sans the Fandom Forgot” by Dorked summarizes jus abt every point i could make in a much better format, so jus watch that instead to get what im tryna say
Sans basically has his universe's console commands as powers
tbh this is more like fanfiction than theorycrafting or anything similar, but it's cool to see what you think. its also an entertaining video.
More grounded than most theories.
@@rompevuevitos222 in what context? matpat theories? media theories? scientific theories? your reply is too vague for me to understand and respond, sorry.
i was looking up sans analysis and this was nice to see. did not expect some video essay to be made only 11 days ago but it's so much appreciated. nice work!
57:58
I'm not gonna lie, when you started talking about existentialist topics like nihilism, I was half expecting you to reach the conclusion that Sans isnt a _nihilist,_ but an *_Absurdist_*
which would honestly make alot of sense given his light hearted nature.
Absurdist doesn’t really fit Sans tbh though imo.
If someone asked Sans for an alligator, he would introduce them to Bratty. Lol. Or bring them a toy, probably an inflatable pool toy.
best video ive seen this month
I just thought of an explanation for the skelebros just showing up one day and I have to share it.
What-if, unlike most types of monsters, skeletons don’t reproduce and are simply made by human skeletons being exposed to a lot of magic for a period of time? The magic slowly seeps into the bones and, eventually, a soul is born, bringing a new life out of the old.
We could say something like Sans and Papyrus’ original human bodies were killed and dumped into the river that would bring them to the Underground, where they decomposed into skeletons and were reborn into the characters we know in game.
As for why no one knows this fact: I imagine skeleton monsters weren’t common before the War, given humans tend to bury dead bodies, and the majority died, maybe were even targeted, during the War, leaving only Gaster. And when Gaster fell into the Core, the only monsters that would remember skeletons would be people like Toriel, Asgore, and Gerson, long living people who remember life before the Underground, and maybe some ‘monster biology’ document that was stashed in an archive never to see the light of day again.
love the idea that sans messes with the black out and cut to a another scene of the underground, also what if sans an dpapyrus and ghost monsters were the 6 humans
I don't get the whole idea of chara taking over the protagonists soul. Frisk and Chara don't have the power to influence the autonomy of one another, that's only the player's ability towards Frisk, which in turn, influences Chara as she learns their new world having their old one wiped from her. Chara is influenced by Frisk, (the player's decisions), not the other way around.
unfortunately, this has been a misconception for years. ive been here since like 2016 and ive never known where it came from, but back then literally _everybody_ thought chara "possessed" frisk in the genocide route and i guess theres still a lot of people that believe that. interesting idea for fan fiction, but it gets really annoying when people act like thats what actually happened.
Okay, this might be a funny idea, but I think we're not actually controlling Frisk. We're controlling Chara, who is hijacking Frisk's body. Basically, the player controls Chara, who in turn controls Frisk. In the genocide route, the connection between the player and Chara weakens while the bond between Chara and Frisk strengthens due to the increase in LV and EXP. This shift allows Chara to take control at certain points during the run, like the red dialogue, the step during Sans's judgment without player input, and the surprise attack that delivers the killing blow (the first attack is player-controlled, but the second, automatic one is Chara). The same thing happens after Sans dies: they kill Asgore immediately and, after a moment of hesitation, they slash Flowey until he's nothing but crushed petals-all without the player’s input.
I'm pretty sure you gotta press a button to attack flowey
@@imnotimportant6831 okay think of it like this: you have the power to influence the choices of Frisk, but because Frisk is still their own person, you can't decide every single one of them by yourself. Which is why the game doesn't allow you to make the morally correct or wrong decision after having murdered every single monster alive in the underground. Realistically, Frisk wouldn't show mercy and spare flowey after already committing the most absolute heinous actions. He's a cowardly defenseless flower that is spending the last few seconds of his life begging that you spare him in complete terror, flowey is rendered into a pathetic mess of a monster that in the eyes of a sociopath, serves no purpose to anyone at all and doesn't have a chance to. So they kill him.
@@imnotimportant6831 which is why I said 'a moment of hesitation'. nice to know that I'm not the only one cursed with brain rot.
17:03 it’s not the same, but it reminds me of the earthbound extra terrestrial hums. Similar to the hums used in the amalgamates battle theme. As that’s also based on earthbound.
Fun drinking challenge to try while watching this video if you don't value your life: take a shot every time you think to yourself "what is bro yapping about" 💀
I made hot cocoa for this!!
all of this video was an insane misinterpretation, but I respect the hustle
I just realised that sans' act of sparing the human during the fight only to kill them can parallel the common practice of performing a true pacifist route before genocide.
It's worth noting that one of the books in the library or somewhere else in undertale states that when monsters consume food the food turns into Pure Energy meaning that it is physically impossible for the "blood" to be ketchup because if Sans were to consumed any it would have turned into Pure Energy.
Something that I forgot to check, (and I am NOT going to reset my happy ending), is to see if fighting Napastablook and "winning" can break the good ending and put you into neutral, and what Sans would have to say if you only, ever, fought ghosts. Who you can't actually hurt.
Cool vid :D
I think you could’ve mentioned his lost soul dialogue
I always think it’s sans is trapped in time and is trying to guess what his readings hint at
It actually is impossible for the red to be ketchup, due to monster food being described as made of magic, and instantly turning into energy when consumed, so even if he did consume ketchup it wouldn't leak out of him, unless it was human food, which does pass through the body.
1:56 intro memes end
4:33 is it gravity manipulation or just emulation on the soul
5:28 notably, he does not retain any information after Reset or Load, he's good at reading you ("that expression on your face") and likely hypothesizes you can time travel (see his secret code word) and has his timeline data.
Something to note: "A badge" can also be any sort of ID card, like the ones used in hospitals, etc, which is part of the evidence that fans have used for a long time to point to Sans being a scientist
Thank you so much for a wonderful video focused on my favorite character. I could listen to sans lore and speculation all day. This vid will be playing in the background over the coming weeks as I do chores and whatnot, like a slow drip IV keeping me from losing the last of my sanity before chapter 3 😂
One endlessly looping day. If I had a perfect memory, I'd eventually read all of wikipedia... being that I don't, I guess I'd eventually fall into a loop of reading one or two hundred books, as I forget the older ones I come back to them without memories of them. .. I'd be fine.
Im happy that you pointed out how sans could just know about gaster. People forget that gaster was around a very very long time ago, so he definitely never met alphys. and, unless sans is extremely old, he never met sans either
We don’t know long ago Gaster got shattered, we have no idea how old Sans is, Sans and Gaster do have connections which could include knowing each other.
@@Dragon_Aoi
we don't know how long ago exactly, but two of the gaster followers talk about how asgore took a long time to replace him. remember that asgore is a boss monster too, so he's been around for a very long time himself
the state of the true lab and the CORE show that they're clearly very old, two places directly connected to him. i think the fact that he was the original royal scientist implies that he was around in the early era of the underground too
there's also the fact that nobody talks about him anymore, he's been gone for long enough that he's been forgotten. the only person who definitely knew him was asgore, and that isn't saying much. alphys is a royal scientist herself, and she never mentions him either, which to me implies that he was long gone by the time that alphys was around
Everyone: It's SANS!
Matpad: ness...
46:59 dude i had no idea music played there wtff
i always wanted to ask, why does the floor of sans's lab have an uncanny resemblence to mincraft purpur blocks?
Is defence was actually The catcher powder was technically his defence secret inside his shirt or in his holy a kind of protected him if you think about ahhaa
The song in the inn with sans is called “it’s raining somewhere else”.
17:00 I think that humming sound might be a sample from Earthbound. Undertale has other Earthbound samples as well (most famously, the guitar from megalovania)
Love your analysis videos
Wait...YOUR A BIRD???????????
WHO TOLD YOU! ow yeah that's right... ooops.
I heard a theory that since Sans is hyperaware of the game and its systems he is able to manipulate where he is in the code and results in his teleportation and other various powers
he truly is an enigma
i think the sound at 17:00 is an audacity generated tone
sans doesn't remember different saves. If he did, then he'd certainly know about Flowey.
Exactly what i was about to comment. He knows that different timelines exist and that he was a part of them, but he doesn't remember anything, he can only sense that something has happened before, like deja vu, except that unlike deja vu, he knows it did most likely happen in another timeline
That opening hit me with hella 2016-2018 undetale memes omg
"Hey it's... Ness."
“What are we, some kind of Sans Undertale?”
1:45 i would fall from the chair if here would be the end of the video
I wish it was out right now 😔
ngl i feel like sans blood is not blood or ketchup but its determination since the only color we can ever see in fight mode are only the few colors that are the souls colors
(and i feel lits its fair to exlude omega flowey fights since he have 6 humans souls so it makes sence he has the power to have colors)
Awesome intro XD
I think a major thing you're choosing to not bring up here, maybe intentionally, is Sans connection to Deltarune, and the fact that his secret room is most likely a connection to it
4:10 everyone SANS
can RIZZ oh yes sense is many abilities
1:29 friend inside me
54:53 he said it
35:23 Wouldn't it be possible that Toriel had told this to Sans when we go to sleep in her house in the ruins?
17:16 the sound is from earthbound, bowowo is the name in the .brr dump I have
The World of Sans
Sans` World
Za Warudo
Yep, he can stop time, the video title confirms it
Amazing video
I really liked this video! Though I'm surprised you didn't touch on the speculative/implied Gaster connections. :0
Fun fact: the only true way to win against the player would be to make them bored. Sure, anger is a temporary way to stop them, but making it feel like there was no reason to do a Geno run would be great. Like imagine how much more effective it'd be if sans just said "make it quick" and then the whole 1-shot Asgore and Flowey thing happened. The player would be a lot more bored. You gave the player a fight, something new, and that's why some players did it at all. It's a sad thing, but at least in theory there'll be a world that survives right? Maybe not sans's, but there'll always be another world. All worlds are fictitious to another after all
funny thing/theory (no I do not say that it`s likely)
Sans is a human infused with magic just like flowey is a flower infused with determination
Claiming my spot as an og fan before your shi blows up
ENIGMATIC ENCOUNTER
When you said “actor playing the same play over and over again” I said “hi siffrin”
Could have explained that better
WAIT YOU WERE A BIRD THIS WHOLE TIME? I JUST SAW THE HAT AND ASSUMED HUMAN, THIS DISGUISE GOES BRAZY
Of course he's a human‚ he has a hat. Only humans wear hats.
I doubt papyrus was part of Sans' original home, if anything Papyrus can't hold a secret for his own life, He would eventually talk about travelling worlds with his brother. I think Papyrus was never a part of Sans old world and that's why he's not in the picture
this video is so good
A few things I disagree with a little bit:
Sans is productive because of Papyrus pushing him to be such, if wasn't for his little brother, he'd sink into absolute sloth woth how lazy he already is.
Sans and Papyrus are one hundred percent monster due to them both dusting (he literally dies, as that is the only way that allows the player to reach the absolute LV of 20).
As for the human thing, it had been a number of decades since regular Monsters had seen a human (as many monsters barring a select few who are fans of human, or were around since before Monsters were imprisoned for close to a millennia).
The promise to protect the human isn't foresight, he just agrees because of what you said regarding Sans agreeing regard Toriel.
I also want to point out that he acts more vindictive if you kill Papyrus. He is also following the human as the Shyren battle shows.
Sans is not able to remember Resets (he only gets deja vu like the other main characters), he DOES read expression, he's only aware to a degree due to the 'reports'.
Monsters are supposed to have determination, but they have much less than humans
Just gonna describe the exact thought process i just had at 12:02 in the video, i'll update this later with if it was accurate or not :
"So, whats the end goal of explaining sans in such a manner and in such a specific order of attributes that he sounds like he could be a parallel of sorts to gaste-Oooohhh. Oohh thats why- thats the secret ok i get it. This is good."
I WAS COMPLETELY OFF THE MARK NOOO-
Good video tho regardless lmao-
(Though, all things considered, we kinda. Already knew this in a sense because its been established that sans does have some sort of relations with gaster so. i suppose im just updating my knowledge of sans to include the extra ties to gasteryness of "knowing about game mechanics" and a few other things that need more evidence first before i can start really applying it- brought by deltarune.
Or its the sleep deprivation kickin in idk)
i don't think sans has the ability to see resets or even freaking true resets like what