The Annoying Dog

The Annoying Dog is a dog figure that created Undertale & Deltarune. While he may appear as a harmless white dog, its soon shown that he has reality warping powers such as appearing anywhere at a moment's notice. He can even take artifacts that could help The Human greatly on their journey. He's mostly seen around Papyrus, possibly implying that's it's his favorite character. He returns in Deltarune.

Annoying Dog
“ I'm not snoring, I'm cheering you on in my sleep!! ... Oh, you're still here? Don't you have anything better to do? „ ~ The Annoying Dog
Origin
Origin	Undertale
Creator	Toby Fox
First Appearance	Undertale
Characteristics
Species	Dog
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Canine
Status	Alive
Alignment	True Neutral
Archetype	Comic Relief, Wildcard
Occupation	Seemingly Computer, Programmer
Time Period	201X
Language	Dog, English
Combat Style	Street Fighter
Homeworld	Unknown
Relationships
Affiliations	Papyrus
Enemies	N/A

General Information

Name: Annoying Dog

Origin: Undertale

First Appearance: Undertale

Latest Appearance: Deltarune Chapter 5

Creator: Toby Fox

Actor: N/A

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: Handless

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 201X

Timeline: Undertale & Deltarune Timeline

Homeworld: Unknown

Residence: Undeground & Hometown

Story Role: Author Avatar, Easter Egg

Legacy: Unknown Legacy

Influence: Event Influence (Prevents the human from getting the legendary artifact)

Language: Dog (Noted he barked in a text to speech and made Undertale) & English

Ethnicity: Canine

Religion: N/A

Classification: Creator of Undertale & Deltarune

Species: Dog

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Dog Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Toby Fox

Occupation: Seemingly Computer Programmer

Combat Style: Street Fighter

Affiliations: Papyrus (He's mostly seen around Papyrus, possibly implying that's it's his favorite character)

Enemies: N/A

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment: True Neutral (Annoying Dog has no true care for what happens in the world, whether or not the world is destroyed or peacefully has a happy ending, they will not interfere, unless it is to troll The Human at certain points)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Growth Potential
• Level of Potential: Growth
• Description: Was surrounded with "golden energy" during the year of the dog.
• Limitations: Is very lazy.

Archetype: Comic Relief / Wildcard

Codex Statistics

Grade: S+

Tier: Unknown-D

Cardinality: Unknown

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Legendary Artifact / Year of the Dog

Attack Potency: Unknown: True level physically (Implied that The Human would've been able to fight him, however he hasn't coded in his own fight)

Durability: Unknown: True level

Striking Strength: Unknown: True Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Unknown: True level

Attack Speed: Unknown: True level

Reaction Speed: Unknown: True level

Stamina: Possibly Limitless (As a god being predating all concepts he should not get tired, however he is seen sleeping)

Range: Standard Melee, Multi-Universal with Creation (Created the game of Undertale on accident and Deltarune)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence (Its intelligence is constantly questioned as it did many things accidentally)

Knowledge: Unknown level

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Powers and Techniques

• 4th Wall Awareness (Fully aware it's a game, as he's its creator)
• Creation (Created Undertale & Deltarune)
• Absorption (The Annoying Dog absorbed the Legendary Artifact)
• Reality Warping
• Absolute Access (Exists around all of Undertale & Deltarune)
• Reality Separation (Exists outside of reality in places such as the joystick config menu)
• Power Bestowal (Gave The Human infinite health)
• Sealing (Sealed the donation box and a room making the human unable to enter)
• Plot Manipulation
  • Story Manipulation & Narrative Manipulation
    • Author Authority: Accidentally created Undertale in form of a game, can create an entirely separate hard mode with various differences from the source game.

Energy Manipulation & Empowerment (Was surrounded with "golden energy" during the year of the dog)

• Information Manipulation & Data Manipulation (Coded the entirety of Undertale and it's alternate reality Deltarune. Made many holes in the code making The Human unable to fight him. Made it so that in Undertale Hard it's physically impossible to take more then 3 pieces of candy)
• Age Manipulation (Aged everything in the Dog Shrine)
• Willpower Manipulation (Can apparently make things lose the will to fight)
• Mind Manipulation (Can create songs that have a psychological effect on one's mind)
• Spatial Manipulation (Could make a pocket room inside of Papyrus's sink).

• Resistance to
  • Hacking (Even if The Anomaly re-writes the game and hack it, any events with the Annoying Dog will be unobtainable)

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Equipment

Legendary Artifact

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Other

Standard Tactics: As all the Annoying Dog has shown to do is mess with Papyrus and The Human along with sleep, they are a wild card.

Weaknesses: Sleeps often, very lazy.

Explanations

Monster Check Stats

Monster's check stats are quite dubious for a couple of reasons:

• Monsters like Glyde give off the implication that monsters are the ones listing their statistics.
• Mad Dummy has a defense stat listed of -40 but notes because they're a ghost physical attacks will fail. One could say the -40 comes from the fact that the dummy's body is that weak, however, the regular Dummy's check stats just has their DEF as 0, there's really no reason why the Mad Dummy should have far lower DEF stats especially during a pacifist route.
• Characters like Napstablook have a defense stat listed but you actually aren't lowering his HP he was just lowering it for you to be nice.
• Toriel's stats are listed at 80 ATK and 80 DEF, the same as Asgore's stats. Yet in one of the endings Unydne with her strength as stated by Sans literally threw Toriel out of the castle. Despite Undyne's stats being 7 ATK and 0 DEF. This would also imply characters like Papyrus are stronger then her as he has an 8 ATK and 2 DEF, and while she does admit Papyrus is pretty tough, it's never really implied to be that Papyrus is stronger then Undyne. Royal Guard members are also shown to have higher stats then her through this logic.
• Undyne the Undying has stats of 99 ATK and 99 DEF yet due to Mettaton's Invulnerable Body, they have a defense stat of 999.

On top of these, genocide route has the check stats differ too with confusing changes, while the human's killing intent is a reason behind this, some characters have their defense stats raise such as Papyrus'. There's also inconsistencies even in these routes, for example The Human at a level 3 killing intent one-shots Toriel yet The Human at level 13 can still only chip damage Asgore.

It should also be noted, the argument that Toriel sent Asgore flying with her fire, has an issue it was an off guard hit which it has been shown off-guard/betrayal kills can one-shot monsters as they lowered their guard.

Magic vs. Physicality

Monsters are mostly made of magic while human beings are mostly made of water making humans with their physical forms far stronger then them. However humans have lost the ability to use magic by proxy.

Monsters bodies being made of magic has their body physically attuned to their SOUL. Due to this, monsters that don't want to fight have their defenses weaken and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them. This is due to a monsters SOUL being made of love, hope, and compassion.

Monsters bodies being made of magic also makes it where they do not possess enough physical matter to take concentrations of determination.

In the Undertale 10th Anniversary Livestream Gerson reveals that humanity once had magic too but creating the barrier that separated humans and monsters caused them to use up all their magic.

Trivia

• The Annoying Dog represents Toby Fox himself; the Steam Greenlight trailer and the original Kickstarter video show the Annoying Dog stating this.
  • In the game files, some sprites of the Annoying Dog contain the word "tobydog."

• The Annoying Dog steals Toriel's phone if the protagonist waits for her in the hallway of the Ruins. While Toriel gets her phone back once the protagonist proceeds to the next room, the Annoying Dog apparently steals it again and eats it, as attempting to call her from the Artifact Room will result in ringing "coming from inside your inventory", where the Annoying Dog is. This is likely why Toriel does not pick up the phone until the epilogue.

• The sound effect used for the Annoying Dog first originated as a sound effect for Mario Paint.

• If Papyrus is called in the Artifact Room, he notes there is something annoying about the room but cannot identify what, referring to the Annoying Dog.

• The Annoying Dog flying through the wall by ignoring the collision may be a reference to the Steam Greenlight trailer which tells the viewer to not go into the Artifact Room because there is no collision yet.

• When talking to Bratty and Catty at the end of the True Pacifist Route, Catty mentions petting a "little white cat." Bratty then corrects Catty, saying it was a dog. It is most likely this dog was actually the Annoying Dog.

• The breed has been confirmed to be a Shiba Inu thanks to a part of the Spamton Sweepstakes that says "Best Inu" and a picture of the Annoying dog above it. This may have been a retcon though, since it is named "tinypom" in the game files for the Demo, its walking sprite is named "spr_tinypomwalk", and its bark "snd_pombark", for example. The Annoying Dog is most likely a White Teacup Pomeranian, and/or a small white Shiba Inu, because if you look up "Tiny White Pomeranian," then White Teacup Pomeranians pop up, and they look like the annoying dog.

• Originally, if the player beat the game fast enough, the Annoying Dog wearing a bikini would appear at the ending screen. However, it didn't make it into the final game. This references the Metroid series, where the main character, Samus Aran, wears a bikini if the game is completed fast enough.

• The Annoying Dog saying "Don't you have anything better to do?" during the end of Hard Mode is a line occasionally said by Flowey as well as his true form Asriel. It is also the name of a PlayStation Trophy in the PlayStation release of Undertale.

• The Annoying Dog might be a reference to Ruffini the dog from EarthBound, as both Annoying Dog and Ruffini are dogs based on the game designers.

• The Annoying Dog makes a cameo in the music video for "The Greatest Living Show," as it is a collaboration project between Toby Fox and Itoki Hana animated by Bani-Chan. In the end credits, a top hat-wearing and heavily stylized Annoying Dog jumps around a trash can (who in it can be seen an illustrated Bani-Chan) and a flower (most likely representing Itoki Hana) and then falls over, smiling and wagging its tail.

• On the Undertale Alarm Clock App, the Annoying Dog opens its mouth when you hover your cursor over it, but does not have any actual dialogue.

Misconceptions

Annoying Dog is not Toby Fox

This comes from a statement from a later livestream where the Annoying Dog is merely an avatar of Toby Fox, however things like the official kickstarter and Undertale 10th anniversary stream have Toby act as The Annoying Dog.

Codex Statistics Questions

Q: Shouldn't the annoying dog get a resistance to things it preadtes if it created Undertale?
A: The Annoying Dog created Undertale through coding the game, being more of a meta-fictional joke then anything. It's actual presence throughout the game is mainly a comedic relief that doesn't do much.

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