Limited Resistance to Power Nullification (When Asriel was knocking away all of Frisk other item commands the SAVE prompt still remained), Resistance to Soul Manipulation & Essence Manipulation ( Type 3; Can survive attacks to their SOUL), Extreme Heats (Unaffected by heat from the MTT-Brand Oven that burned down Undyne's house)
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Frisk
Background
Frisk is the main protagonist of Undertale, who is controlled by The Anomaly. Throughout the game, Frisk will either make friends or kill everything in their path deciding on what you choose. In-game they're supposedly a mute, but they're capable of speaking on the phone with people.
This dropdown contains the synopsis of Frisk’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise! |
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Neutral Route
Frisk travels through the remaining puzzles in the Ruins and eventually arrives at Toriel's home. They ask Toriel "how to exit the RUINS," which prompts Toriel to destroy the Ruins's exit. Toriel then battles Frisk because she wants them to prove that they can survive outside of the Ruins. Then, Frisk meets Sans and Papyrus in Snowdin Forest. The brothers set up traps and puzzles in an attempt to capture Frisk. After passing through Snowdin, Papyrus battles Frisk. Undyne, the head of the Royal Guard, pursues Frisk throughout Waterfall. Monster Kid often saves Frisk from Undyne by accident because they are so excited to see Undyne in action. After a chase scene, Undyne destroys a bridge that Frisk is standing on, and Frisk falls into the Garbage Dump. Before they get up, they recall a memory from the first human. In the garbage dump, Mad Dummy battles Frisk after accusing them of mistreating their cousin, Dummy, in the Ruins. At the end of Waterfall, Undyne battles Frisk after she gives an abridged monologue atop a crag. After entering Hotland, Frisk enters a lab and meets Alphys and Mettaton. Alphys tells Frisk that she is not a bad guy, and Mettaton interrupts them with a quiz show. Alphys gives Frisk an upgraded cell phone after the quiz show concludes. She guides Frisk through Hotland and the CORE, helping them solve puzzles and evade Mettaton. Before his battle at the end of the CORE, Mettaton reveals that Alphys had created all of the traps in Hotland in an attempt to endear herself to Frisk. He then transforms into Mettaton EX and battles Frisk. While passing through New Home, the capital of the Underground, Frisk learns the story of Asgore and Toriel's children from passing monsters. Then, Sans judges Frisk in the Last Corridor and explains the meaning of LOVE and EXP. He also emphasizes Frisk's importance in the fate of the world. Frisk enters the Throne Room and finds Asgore, who tries to make small talk, only to realize their fated confrontation. The two walk to the Barrier and Asgore gives Frisk one last opportunity to leave before fighting. Just before the fight, Asgore shows the six collected human SOULs, preparing the containment process after the battle. Right before the fight starts, Asgore destroys the MERCY button with his trident, making it impossible to spare or flee. However, at the fight's conclusion, Frisk can explicitly choose whether to spare or kill Asgore. Regardless of the choice made, Flowey appears, destroys Asgore's SOUL and takes the human SOULs. The game then abruptly closes. After reopening the game, Frisk finds that Flowey has saved his own game over the SAVE file, having gained the power to do so with the stolen human SOULs. Loading Flowey's game, Frisk confronts a powered up Flowey and defiantly steps forward, entering an initially hopeless battle with him. After Frisk calls for help several times, the stolen SOULs begin to revolt: first, they heal Frisk, and then they weaken Flowey, leaving him vulnerable to destruction. After reducing his HP to 0 and listening to his monologue, the SOULs remove Flowey's ability to SAVE or LOAD. After this, the SOULs leave Frisk and Flowey alone. At this point, there is an option to kill or spare a weakened Flowey before leaving the Underground, return to the surface, and end their journey. After leaving the Underground, Frisk receives a call from Sans, who leaves a message about what happened to the Underground after Asgore died. This varies based on what monsters were killed and what friendships were completed. True Pacifist Route
If Frisk has completed the Neutral Route without gaining any EXP or LV (i.e. without killing anyone), it is possible to backtrack in the existing SAVE file to complete any missing friendships, then achieve the True Pacifist ending. If Frisk acquires any EXP or LV, they have to reset the game to reach the True Pacifist Ending. While Frisk befriends many of the monsters in the Underground, only the Undyne, Papyrus, and Alphys friendships are required to achieve the True Pacifist Ending. Frisk gains Papyrus's friendship by visiting him at his home and hanging out or dating him. If Frisk chooses to give Undyne some water after being pursued, Undyne can be befriended (if they have not gained any EXP beforehand). Otherwise, a reset is needed to achieve Undyne's trust and friendship. Frisk visits Undyne with Papyrus's help, and Undyne gets "revenge" by trying to befriend Frisk and become "besties", setting her house on fire in the process. She tries to fight Frisk to regain honor but realizes that Frisk is a "wimpy loser with a big heart" just like Asgore and decides to be friends. Undyne, having been encouraged to send a love letter to Alphys, gives the letter to Frisk, who delivers it to Alphys. This results in a date sequence with Alphys in which she and Undyne realize their feelings for each other and Alphys begins to come to terms with her past mistakes. After befriending Alphys, Papyrus recommends traveling to Alphys's lab. In the lab, there is a letter on the floor that, when picked up, reads a monologue and the instructions needed to proceed to learn "the truth." Walking through the bathroom door reveals an elevator which goes down to the True Lab after a malfunction. Frisk proceeds to explore the True Lab and along the way learns of Alphys's failed experiments (amalgamates) with determination and also about the origin of Flowey. After exploring the True Lab and talking to Alphys, she gains the confidence to reveal the truth about her experiments to the rest of the Underground. While attempting to leave, Frisk receives a phone call in the elevator from an unknown voice. The elevator immediately and forcibly brings Frisk to New Home. After returning to the throne room and confronting Asgore again, the pre-fight dialogue is interrupted by Toriel, who stops Asgore from fighting Frisk. Toriel is immediately followed by the other main characters who encourage everyone to get along. However, in a surprise twist, Papyrus reveals that it was "a tiny flower" who told him to bring everyone there. Immediately after this reveal, Flowey appears, having again stolen the SOULs of the six other humans. He attempts to kill Frisk, but Undyne, Toriel, Alphys, Asgore, Sans, and Papyrus use their power to block Flowey's finishing blows. Directly after this, all of the Underground's monsters arrive to encourage Frisk in the fight against Flowey. However, Flowey reveals that this is what he wanted all along so that he could absorb the souls of all the monsters in the Underground along with the six human SOULs. Due to the immense power gained from the six human SOULs and all of the monster SOULs, Flowey can transform into his true form, and just before the fight begins it is revealed that he is actually Asriel Dreemurr. During this fight, Frisk is invincible, and any hit that would normally result in death instead causes the heart to split, but reform back together. The first time this happens, it is accompanied by the text "but it refused." After stalling for long enough, Asriel transforms again. At this point, Frisk can feel the souls of Toriel, Asgore, Alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, and Sans within Asriel and the ACT button changes to SAVE to represent the act of freeing everyone's souls. This is accomplished by completing a short sequence of ACT options to restore the memory of each lost soul after selecting the said lost soul of a chosen character. After saving each monster, Frisk realizes that there is still one more person to save. After choosing to save "someone else," Asriel's memories of the first human (who strongly resembled Frisk) begin to play in a slideshow style. It is then revealed this "someone else" is Asriel himself. After this, Asriel starts to feel the love the monsters feel for Frisk through the souls he has absorbed, and slowly loses the will to fight as he is overcome with his fear of dying alone. After reverting to his child form, Asriel learns Frisk's name. He apologizes for hurting everybody, and Frisk can choose to forgive or not forgive Asriel. Regardless of the choice made, Asriel destroys the barrier using the power of all of the SOULs before releasing them. Knowing that he will turn back to a flower without the power of the SOULs to sustain him, Asriel says one last goodbye to Frisk before leaving. At this point, there is a choice to hug Asriel or do nothing. After the scene with Asriel finishes, Frisk wakes up in front of Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys and Asgore. While the monsters remember little about Flowey and nothing about his incarnation as Asriel, they do know Frisk's name. At this point, Frisk can backtrack through the Underground and talk to the other monsters, before returning to the surface. If Frisk backtracks through the Ruins, they can find Asriel tending to the Golden Flowers. Asriel asks about Frisk's desire to travel up Mt. Ebott in the first place. Receiving no answer, Asriel lists off foolishness or fate as possible motives, but comes to the conclusion that "only you (Frisk) know the answer." After passing through the final door to the surface, Frisk leaves the Underground with their friends. Asgore offers Frisk the chance to be the monsters' ambassador to the humans. Most of the main monster cast then leave, except for Toriel, who asks about Frisk's plans. At this point, Frisk can choose to stay with Toriel or to go elsewhere. After choosing to stay with Toriel, the ending scene shows Frisk sleeping in a bed, and Toriel bringing a slice of pie to Frisk's bedroom. Otherwise, if Frisk has "places to go," Toriel ends their conversation with "Frisk. "See you around."" As Toriel leaves, Frisk turns north and does not watch her. The game ends with a group photo of the main monster cast with Frisk in the middle. Genocide Route
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General Information
Name: Frisk
Origin: Undertale
Sex: Unknown (Their Sex is left up to interpretation)
Age: Unknown, likely Pre-Teens (Referred to as a kid by Toriel and Sans)
Classification: Surface Dweller, Angel & Angel of Death (In Geron's story there's an angel noted in the prophecy, where an angel will descend from above and free the monsters, though this can be interpreted as either saving them or a harbinger of destruction waiting to 'free' them from the mortal realm, with pacifist and genocide route reflecting both)
Species: Human
State of Being: Regular
Occupation: Ambassador for Monsterkind (If Frisk says yes to Asgore Dreemurr in the true pacifist ending)
Affiliations: Underground (Pacifist Route and Some of Neutral Route), Spiders (In routes that they they donate to them), Humanity (In Pacifist and Neutral Routes)
Enemies: Humans & Underground (During genocide route. Directly noted by Undyne the Undying during a genocide route that Frisk is the enemy of both humans and monsters), Asriel Dreemurr (During True Pacifist Boss Fight), Flowey (During pacifist and neutral routes)
Status: Alive, Other after genocide route (After completing the genocide route, every ending shows that Frisk has been fully possessed by Chara)
Alignment: True Neutral (Frisk will choose any path that they want to see how the outcomes may go, regardless of their choices they will never truly feel any impact from them)
Codex Statistics
Key: Physical Form | SOUL Form | Full Determination
Grade: A | 'A' | S
Tier: At least 10-A, possibly Higher | At least 10-A, possibly Higher | At least 10-A, possibly Higher
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: At least Peak Human level, possibly Higher (As stated by the "librarby" books, humans in their physical forms are far stronger than monsters. This should scale Frisk to monsters. Can harm enemies that can harm them) | At least Peak Human level, possibly Higher (Defeated Asgore in combat, however, as stated by the librarby, monsters are weaker when they don't want to fight. Along with this, a human's SOUL form is made specifically for a way for monsters to fight humans outside of their physical forms) | At least Peak Human level, possibly Higher
Durability: At least Peak Human level, possibly Higher (Should be comparable to the likes of Chara, who survived a fall from the mountain top. As humans in their physical forms are far stronger than monsters, Frisk's durability by proxy should scale) | At least Peak Human level, possibly Higher | At least Peak Human level, his Determination and Resilience makes him incredibly difficult to kill (Despite the immense difference in power, Frisk is able to survive attacks Asriel throws at him, something not logically possible but due to their determination, they refuse to die to Asriel)
Striking Strength: Below Average Human punching force during Pacifist Route (Even punching at full force Frisk only knocks over a tomato, along with attacking Undyne seriously only dealing 1 damage, this is due to Pacifist Route Frisk having no capacity to harm people). At least Peak Human Class, possibly Higher | At least Peak Human Class, possibly Higher | At least Peak Human Class, possibly Higher
Lifting Strength: Average Human (Can casually lift the Annoying Dog along with other items on their person) | Average Human | Average Human
Travel Speed: Average Human (Could somewhat outrun Undyne for a bit) | Average Human, Higher with Sea Tea (Sea Tea increases Frisk's SPEED for the entire battle) | Average Human
Attack Speed: Transonic | Transonic | Transonic
Reaction Speed: Transonic (Shouldn't be any slower then their SOUL form) | Transonic (Can maneuver and dodge around the Greater Dog's barks, a sound based attack) | Transonic
Stamina: Average, Superhuman with Full Determination (Can repeatedly create dreams from nothing and withstand even the most powerful attacks)
Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with other weapons, likely Hundreds of Meters with Empty Gun, Universal to Multi-Universal with Reset (Causes Frisk to go to a new timeline with each reset), Multiversal with True Reset (Resets the entire Undertale multiverse)
Intelligence: Above Average (Can solve many puzzles to progress within the Underground)
Powers and Techniques
Resistance to Memory Manipulation, Reality Warping, & Time Manipulation (Unaffected by standard resets)
Equipment
Item | Description | Effects | Location and Cost |
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Bandage | It has already been used several times. | 10 HP |
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Monster Candy | Has a distinct, non-licorice flavor. | 10 HP |
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Spider Donut | A donut made with Spider Cider in the batter. | 12 HP |
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Spider Cider | Made with whole spiders, not just the juice. | 24 HP |
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Butterscotch Pie | Butterscotch-cinnamon pie, one slice. | ALL HP |
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Snail Pie | Heals Some HP. An acquired taste. | Restores HP up to one less than maximum HP |
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Snowman Piece | Please take this to the ends of the earth. | 45 HP |
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Nice Cream | Instead of a joke, the wrapper says something nice. | 15 HP |
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Bisicle | It's a two-pronged popsicle, so you can eat it twice. | 11 HP | Snowdin Shopkeeper |
Unisicle | It's a SINGLE-pronged popsicle. Wait, that's just normal... | 11 HP | Bisicle Consumption, Free. |
Cinnamon Bunny | A cinnamon roll in the shape of a bunny. | 22 HP |
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Astronaut Food | For feeding a pet astronaut. | 21 HP |
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Crab Apple | An aquatic fruit that resembles a crustacean. | 18 HP | Gerson, 25G. |
Sea Tea | Made from glowing marsh water. Increases SPEED for one battle. | 10 HP | Gerson, 18G. |
Abandoned Quiche | A psychologically damaged spinach egg pie. | 34 HP |
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Temmie Flakes | It's just torn up pieces of colored construction paper. | 2 HP | Tem Shop
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Dog Salad | Recovers HP (Hit Poodles) | 2/10/30/ALL HP (random chance) | Chance of spawning when Dog Residue is used, Free. |
Instant Noodles | Comes with everything you need for a quick meal! |
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Hot Dog...? | The "meat" is made of something called a "water sausage." | 20 HP |
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Hot Cat | Like a hot dog, but with little cat ears on the end. | 21 HP |
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Junk Food | Food that was probably once thrown away. | 17 HP |
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Hush Puppy | This wonderful spell will stop a dog from casting magic. | 65 HP |
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Starfait | A sweet treat made of sparkling stars. | 14 HP |
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Glamburger | A hamburger made of edible glitter and sequins. | 27 HP |
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Legendary Hero | Sandwich shaped like a sword. Increases ATTACK when eaten. | 40 HP |
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Steak in the Shape of Mettaton's Face | Huge steak in the shape of Mettaton's face. You don't feel like it's made of real meat... | 60 HP |
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Popato Chisps | Regular old popato chisps. | 13 HP | Vending Machine in the True Lab, 25G. |
Bad Memory | ????? |
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Fight against the Memoryheads, Free. |
Last Dream | The goal of "Determination." |
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Weapons
Item | Description | Effects | Pattern | Location and Cost |
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Stick | Its bark is worse than its bite. | 0ATK | Single hit |
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Toy Knife | Made of plastic. A rarity nowadays. | 3ATK | Single hit |
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Tough Glove | A worn pink leather glove. For five-fingered folk. | 5ATK | Single hit, then mash |
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Ballet Shoes | These used shoes make you feel incredibly dangerous. | 7ATK | 3 hits |
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Torn Notebook | Contains illegible scrawls. Increases INV by 6. | 2ATK | 2 hits | Gerson, 55G. |
Burnt Pan | Damage is rather consistent. Consumable items heal four more HP. | 10ATK | 4 hits |
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Empty Gun | An antique revolver. It has no ammo. Must be used precisely, or damage will be low. | 12ATK | 4 hits, very fast |
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Worn Dagger | Perfect for cutting plants and vines. | 15ATK | Single hit |
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Real Knife | Here we are! | 99ATK | Single hit |
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Armors
Item | Description | Effects | Location and Cost |
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Bandage | It has already been used several times. | 0DEF |
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Faded Ribbon | If you're cuter, monsters won't hit you as hard. | 3DEF |
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Manly Bandanna | It has seen some wear. It has abs drawn on it. | 7DEF |
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Old Tutu | Finally, a protective piece of armor. | 10DEF |
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Cloudy Glasses | Glasses marred with wear. Increases INV by 9. | 5DEF | Gerson, 35G. |
Temmie Armor | The things you can do with a college education! Raises ATTACK when worn. Recovers HP every other turn. INV up slightly. | 20DEF |
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Stained Apron | Heals 1 HP every other turn. | 11DEF |
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Cowboy Hat | This battle-worn hat makes you want to grow a beard. It also raises ATTACK by 5. | 12DEF |
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Heart Locket | It says "Best Friends Forever." | 15DEF |
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The Locket | You can feel it beating. | 99DEF |
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Item | Description | Effects | Location and Cost |
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Punch Card | Use to make punching attacks stronger in one battle. Use outside of battle to look at the card. | Increase ATK when in battle. Three can be traded in for a free Nice Cream. |
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The Annoying Dog | A little white dog. It's fast asleep... | Absorbs the legendary artifact when used or dropped. Also gives the protagonist Dog Residue. |
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Dog Residue | The Dog Residue has different random descriptions, such as being a jigsaw puzzle left unfinished by the Annoying Dog as well as other oddities. | Fills the inventory with more Dog Residue, with a possibility of giving Dog Salad. | Legendary Artifact Room in Waterfall, Free. |
Mystery Key | It is too bent to fit on your keychain. | Unlocks the front door of the house next to Napstablook's. |
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Silver Key | (not an inventory item) | Unlocks Sans's workshop. |
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Undyne's Letter | Letter written for Dr. Alphys. | Used to regain access to Dr. Alphys's lab. | |
Undyne's Letter EX | It has DON'T DROP IT written on it. | Used to regain access to Dr. Alphys's lab. |
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0 | If you are reading this, I messed up somehow. | Dropping this item or viewing it in battle crashes the game | Unobtainable without glitches.[1] |
Notable Techniques
FIGHT: Frisk is prompted to pick an enemy to attack. Frisk can attack one enemy each turn.
ACT: Frisk is prompted to select an enemy, and is then given one or more ACT options which are specific to that enemy.
ITEM: Using consumable items regains health. Some consumable items are capable of increasing stats. Using equipment items other than the Bandage or Stick equips them.
MERCY: Sparing means that Frisk does not want to fight. Frisk is encouraged on multiple occasions on their journey to show mercy to the opponents they fight.
Other
Standard Tactics: Frisk tactics depends on the route Frisk is on. If neutral, Frisk's tactic normally will be to attack if necessary and use the ACT command to find out things about their enemy and find potential alternatives to the fight. If the pacifist route Frisk will never use the FIGHT command, unless absolutely necessary, going for ACT and MERCY tactics. Genocide route Frisk will go striaght for the FIGHT command, always attempting to slaughter all the opponents in their way. Even with these routes in mind, Frisk is still technically a wild card as they could switch at any moment, such as they could be on their pacifist route and suddenly opt to murder enemies and vice versa with the genocide route.
Weaknesses: Can be forced into soul combat, otherwise nothing notable.
Gallery
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Frisk's eye being stained by Sans' telescope prank.
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Frisk covered in fruit and vegetables, during the hangout with Undyne.
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Frisk hugging Asriel at the end of a True Pacifist Route.
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The Human Little Buddy sold on Fangamer.
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The Human Nendoroid sold on Fangamer.
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Frisk's official tarot card, renamed to "the human" in the official merchandise page, as Major Arcana 0, "The Fool."[2]
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Frisk latching onto Doggo's back on his tarot card.
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Frisk sitting with the Small Bird roosting on their head.
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Frisk as seen in the reflection on Sans's tarot card.
Trivia
- The word "frisk" can mean several things:
- To "frisk" means to skip or leap playfully, or to pat down on someone, looking for a hidden item.
- "Frisk" is the Swedish and Norwegian word for "healthy," and the Danish word for "fresh."
- "Frisky" means "playful and full of energy."
- Naming the fallen human "Frisk" initiates Hard Mode.
- When just tapping right, Frisk does not put their foot up. This is not true for the other directions.
- When holding up and down on the north wall of any room, Frisk will appear to flash quickly between their two north and south sprites.
- This is informally called as the Frisk dance by players such as Merg.
- When in the room overlooking the castle with the Monster Kid and going either left or right while holding up and down, Frisk walks twice as fast.
- Frisk appears to be left-handed. Evidence includes:
- Holding the umbrella and glass of water using their left hand.
- The slicing attack animation curving to the right, implying that force was carried from the left to the right during the attack.
- Most fatality battle sprites display steep slashes from top left to bottom right, a pattern not commonly made by someone who is right-handed.
- While Frisk is allergic to Temmie,[3] this is not true of the other furry residents of the Underground.
- When hugging Asriel, other purple stripes appear on Frisk's shirt sleeves.
- At the end of the True Pacifist Route, Napstablook was the only monster who did not know Frisk's name until they mention it.[4]
- Frisk is the last of the eight humans to fall into the Underground after traveling to Mount Ebott. Out of all the humans that fell, Frisk is the only human to survive the adventure in any ending.
- Frisk is only alluded to in Flowey's UNDERTALE Alarm Clock App dialogue, where one of his talksprites mimics their blank expression.
- Toby Fox was asked two interview questions regarding Frisk. One was whether Frisk's pronoun is a design choice, and in regards to Frisk's parents not being mentioned in-game. However, Toby responded with "Skip" to both questions, as he was offered to skip any questions he did not want to answer.[5]
- In a joke thread on Starmen.net, Toby Fox posted early files from Undertale saying they were from an EarthBound hack called "UnderBound 2."[6]
- It was said that Frisk was a young androgynous child who was the step-cousin of "Squeezo" from the non-existent EarthBound hack, "UnderBound."
- Frisk was also shown to have black outlines with black hair and shoes compared to the lighter brown seen in the final version of the game. The artbook reveals this was changed because the sprite did not show up on the game's dark backgrounds that well.
- It was also jokingly mentioned that Frisk's love interest was a female Cuban cigar,[7] concerning a question of whether the "love" in the game was romantic or like love of a fine cigar.
- Frisk's striped clothing is most likely a reference to the "Mother" franchise, which was Toby Fox's major inspiration for Undertale. The main protagonists of each installment also wore striped clothing.
Battle Records
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References
- ↑ All textboxes just got even cooler - @Shayy_TV on Twitter, February 11, 2021.
- ↑ 00 - The Fool: Frisk - dogbomber on Tumblr, November 01, 2015.
- ↑ But you're allergic! - Temmie's Check Text
- ↑ "uh......... also...... this is awkward... but | what's.... your name | everyone seems to know it now, except me..... | seems like i've been missing out lately | i was just sitting at home listening to tunes | there was a flash of light outside my window | i saw the snails on the farm disappear | then i heard a knock at the door | the flash of light wanted to come in... i closed the blinds... | now everyone knows your name except for me | "frisk..." ok, i wont forget it" - Napstablook
- ↑ Skip - INTERVIEW: TOBY FOX OF UNDERTALE (Feeld, Julian, September 10, 2015.) Existential Gamer (defunct/archived).
- ↑ Toby Fox (4 February 2013). "UnderBound" Archived on 15 December 2015.
- ↑ "The main character’s love interest is actually a female Cuban cigar" - Toby Fox. February 4, 2013. Starmen.Net Archived on 15 December 2015.