The Snatcher

Background

The Snatcher is a character in A Hat in Time that appears in Chapter 3. He is a mysterious shadow spirit who lives in the Subcon Forest, laying traps for unsuspecting "fools" to walk into. Hat Kid can only access areas of the forest that is his home if she signs a contract with him.

The Snatcher is a very mischievous and manipulative character who enjoys messing with people. He also seems to be a large ham. When Hat Kid falls into one of his traps, The Snatcher begins by yelling, "FOOOOOOL" in an attempt to scare her, but after falling into his traps again, he states that he can't yell all the time, expressing that Hat Kid shouldn’t fall into his traps so he can keep using them to scare his other victims.

Given his manipulative character, The Snatcher is quick to hamper his victims and barter with them with the use of his many contracts. These can entail doing simple grunt work such as delivering mail to exposing the player to intense danger like a mini-boss fight with an over-sized haunted toilet, which he openly admits is one of the easier ones to choose.

When The Snatcher doesn't get his way, he can get very mad. A fine example is Hat Kid refuses to sign his contracts (leading to her being killed instantly!) or when she turns the tables in Your Contract has Expired and forces him to relinquish her soul and the Time Pieces in order to never return to the forest again. Even when being conned in his own games, he is quick to grant minor praise to Hat Kid as "quite the character. And a tough negotiator".

General Information

Name: The Snatcher

Origin: A Hat in Time

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Ghost

Species: Unknown

Occupation: Ex-Prince, Contractual Obligator

Status: Undead (Snatcher is the undead ghost of the Prince)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (The Snatcher is a naturally evil and sadistic individual, having a book on how to kill kids, tasking Hat Kid with jobs of killing people, and then after she did all of her work for him he tried to kill her to close loose ends, noting he did the same thing to the previous person that worked for him before he. He goes around the forest stealing souls and forcing them to sign a contract and if they don't he will instantly kill them)

Codex Statistics

Key: Regular | EX Version | Ultra Snatcher

Tier: 9-B. Has a 2-C Power Source with Time Pieces | At least 9-B. Has a 2-C Power Source with Death Wish Time Pieces | At least 9-B. Has a 2-C Power Source with Death Wish Time Pieces

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Wall level (Potency) (In Seal the Deal shown to be capable of controlling all the past bosses and amping them, this includes even Mustache Girl with her time pieces. Can harm Hat Kid), Has a Universe level Power Source with Time Pieces (The time pieces can rewrite the timeline into an alternate reality. Mustache Girl with it's powers created a realm with stars and nebulae. He can create shadow versions of them. Can create explosives that negate the forcefields made by the time pieces powers) | At least Wall level (Potency) (Amplified by the Death Wish Time Pieces, which are stronger then the regular time pieces). Has a Universe level Power Source with Death Wish Time Pieces (Amped by the Death Wish Time Pieces which can create realms with countless stars like the Twilight Bell which is meant to be the Twilight Realm, an alternate universe) | At least Wall level (Potency) (Superior to every other boss in the game, outright stated to be Hat Kid's strongest foe). Has a Universe level Power Source with Death Wish Time Pieces

Durability: Wall level, Higher with shield (Mustache Girl used a forcefield that was created by the Time Pieces) | At least Wall level, Higher with shield | At least Wall level, Higher with shield

Striking Strength: Wall Class (Potency) | At least Wall Class (Potency) | At least Wall Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class | Unknown: True Class | Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: At least Supersonic (Can turn into a mini version of Hat Kid and run at the same speed as her) | At least Supersonic | At least Supersonic

Attack Speed: At least Supersonic (Can tag Hat Kid. Swiped Hat Kid's Hat off of her head before she could even react. Could tag Hat Kid's ship before it could take off. Amped by time pieces which serve as the fuel for Hat Kid's ship allowing it to move at a resting speed through space) | At least Supersonic | At least Supersonic

Reaction Speed: At least Supersonic | At least Supersonic | At least Supersonic

Stamina: Limitless (Was perfectly fine after a long battle with Hat Kid, never shown to tire, can go on fighting Hat Kid forever if need be, endlessly spamming attacks getting stronger and faster)

Range: Extended Melee through size, Tens of Meters with shockwave attacks, Multi-Universal with other powers (He can perfectly replicate entire boss arenas and levels in his seal the deal contracts, and use his abilities on Hat Kid even while she's in a separate dimension or time rift), Universal with Time Pieces (Can manipulate, stop, and slow down time on a universal scale), Multi-Universal with Dimensional Travel (Hat Kid can use the time pieces to travel from out of time rifts back into the main reality)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Was originally a Prince who ruled over the entire forest with his Queen, has attended law school, and is well aware of how contractual obligations work, and how to trick someone into signing a contract)

Knowledge: Expert level (Has been alive for presumably hundreds of years using contracts on people)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses, Non-Corporeal (As a ghost), Large Size (Type 0), Burrowing & Vibration Manipulation (Burrows repeatedly in the ground during his boss fight. Causes Hat Kid to fall down upon coming back up messing with her movements and making it harder for her to dodge attacks), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, & 3. Can breathe in space. Lacks the need of sustenance due to already being dead), Genius Intelligence & Social Influencing (The Snatcher is extremely manipulative, as this is his most deceiving and cunning trait. Before Hat Kid, Snatcher manipulated many others into signing his contracts, stealing their souls and doing his dirty work before inevitably killing them once their use runs out for him. Tricked Hat Kid into thinking he was defeated after their battle. Can convince Hat Kid into doing contracts for boss fights with him where he's grown far stronger), Reality Warping (Warps the entire background in his fight with Hat Kid), Energy Projection (Can project giant beacons of energy which extend into shockwaves), Precognition (Type 1; Is aware of future battles before they've even happened), Ectoplasm Manipulation (Emits a ghostly aura, which afterwards surrounds the battlefield), Pocket Reality Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, & BFR (After someone falls in one of his traps, he sends them to his dimension. Re-created the various places Hat Kid's been to in Seal the Deal. Sent Hat Kid to an area of darkness upon his defeat), Weather Manipulation (His pocket realm has storms), Cosmic Awareness (He will be alerted and will immediately know when someone has finished his contracts. He will also know when someone has fallen into one of his traps, teleporting them into his pocket dimension soon after. He observes and spectates Hat Kid when she is in the process of a Death Wish contract), Elemental Manipulation & Darkness Manipulation, (He has been depicted as a dark shadow. Can corrode the area with darkness prior to his fight, makes the area into a dark 2D area limiting Hat Kid's movements and upon his defeat sends Hat Kid to an area of darkness), Plant Manipulation (Can trap with people with purple, thorny plants) and Electricity Manipulation (Via this. Death Wish mode, his beacons of energy can spew out sparks of electricity), Death Manipulation (Inflicted death on Hat Kid, can even do this from far away), Undead Physiology, Immortality (Type 1 and 7. Is already dead, not even Hat Kid could kill him), Illusion Creation (Makes a fake version of himself along with the real version and locks your movement into a two-dimensional plane while doing this), Shapeshifting & Duplication (Can shapeshift and duplicate into numerous renditions of Hat Kid), Explosion Manipulation (Can detonate countless explosions with his explosive flasks, Can create explosive fruits which can negate forcefields created by 2-C objects), Creation (Contracts, a seat, explosive fruit, and buzz saws), Summoning (Can summon his minions and explosive flasks), Teleportation, Power Nullification & Non-Standard Interaction (His explosive flasks are able to make contact with him, as well as negating his own intangibility), Rage Power (As Snatcher gets angered his attacks increase), Reactive Power Level (Gets faster and stronger as the fight progresses), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Removed the soul of Hat Kid. Stated in Mustache Girl's Castle that he has removed one hundred souls), Mimicry (Power Mimicry & Technique Mimicry; Copies all of the abilities used in the other boss fights in Seal the Deal contract. Copied the Time Pieces making the Death Wish Time Pieces which are far more powerful versions of the regular time pieces, example including the regular time pieces taking hundreds falling just to make a 2-C dimension while death wish merely takes one to do that), Conceptual Manipulation (Can collapse purple time rifts. These time rifts are non-linear temporal disturbances, that represents the thoughts and dreams of entire species or groups, with it's complexity is based off the species (an example being Mafia being simple so the rift is extremely simple and Twilight Goats are afterlife, enlightened beings so the rift is far more complicated). In addition, it has sub-layers showing the entirety of the species history), Size Manipulation (As shown here), Curtain Fire (Can bombard the area with explosive flasks. This is massively enhanced in his Death Wish boss fight), Telekinesis (Telekinetically moved a flask), Flight, Intangibility (Can phase through solid objects, as seen with him coming up from and diving into the ground. Hat Kid is not capable of hitting him prior turning him blue with his own attack. Unlike other NPCs within the game, when he's defeated, Hat Kid can't hit him), Shockwave Creation, Fourth Wall Awareness(Was aware of the pause screen and added contracts onto the menu), Power Bestowal (Gives Hat Kid the ability to heal to make a death wish easier for her, grants others and himself far more power in their EX varaitions and his own Ultra Snatcher form to a 2-C scale), Statistics Amplification (Amps his own strength in death wishes and the strength of others having him and others tank more hits, get new powers or stronger variations of their abilities, etcetera to a 2-C scale), Resurrection (Snatcher is the one resurrecting Hat Kid), Statistics Reduction (Can reduce Hat Kid's health to one hit point for certain contracts), Law Manipulation (Creates contracts that have rules preventing Hat Kid from doing certain actions, some of those include banning cheats or she'll take damage/die), Pain Manipulation (Attempting to cheat will have you take damage until you die), Resistance Negation (Can make challenges where abilities that the opponent originally resisted affects them, like making bypassing Hat Kid's resistance to heat in "Beat the Heat"), Durability Negation, Acausality (When Mustache Girl rewinded time, he was unaffected by it, remembering Hat Kid, and even calling it an alternate reality).

Limited Resistance to Time Stop (Still able to use telepathy to speak with Hat Kid and use all his mind based abilities while in time stop), Resistance to Cosmic Radiation (Was with the others in the ending out of space feeling nothing from it), Acid Manipulation (Unaffected by the acid he sits in), Death Manipulation (Due to already being dead), Biological Manipulation, Blood Manipulation, & Bone Manipulation (Lacks a physical body and skeletal structure making him essentially immune to affects on one's biological, blood, and skeletal system), Pain Manipulation (Feels no pain whatsoever, even when he's defeated by Hat Kid when she gave him a weakness, he shows he wasn't truly even harmed during the battle), Disease Manipulation (Has no proper organic bodily functions for common diseases to affect him), Time Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Reality Warping, Memory Manipulation (Unaffected by Mustache Girl rewriting the timeline acknowledging he was in an alternate reality), Non-Standard Interaction (The Dweller's Mask doesn't affect him)

Reality Warping, Teleportation (Teleports around during her boss fight), Spatial Manipulation, Burrowing (Burrows underground during her boss fight), Time Manipulation (Can stop and reverse time), Time Travel (The Conductor states how he was going to use the time pieces to return back to the one year he lost a movie trophy and reclaim it), Energy Manipulation & Technological Manipulation (Time Pieces are the fuel for Hat Kid's ship, it also restores power to deactivated parts of the ship), Conceptual Manipulation, Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Can make time rifts based off the memories and backstory of characters, the Mafia Goon even notes it as a place of "thoughts and dreams". These time rifts are non-linear temporal disturbances, that represents the thoughts and dreams of entire species or groups, with it's complexity is based off the species (an example being Mafia being simple so the rift is extremely simple and Twilight Goats are afterlife, enlightened beings so the rift is far more complicated). In addition, it has sub-layers showing the entirety of the species history), Law Manipulation (Time Rifts made by time pieces have their own sets of rules), Pocket Reality Manipulation, Dimensional Travel (Can get out of the time rifts via the time piece), Space-Time Manipulation, & BFR (Time pieces can create rifts in space-time which are outside of the reality), Shockwave Generation (Creates shockwaves upon landing), Darkness Manipulation (Throws time pieces that cause black shadow lines), Explosion Manipulation, Power Bestowal, Forcefield Creation (Created a forcefield that made Hat Kid unable to harm her), Energy Projection (Shoots purple beams), Light Manipulation (The time piece completely lightened up Snatcher's dark realm)

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Equipment

Various contracts, Explosive Flask, and Death Wish Time Pieces.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Snatcher will shoot out various energy blast while also summoning his minions while in a fight. He has other attacks too such as making a fake clone of himself while trying to attack you with his real self. Outside of battles he has shown to instantly inflict death on a target, remove their soul, or force them into contracts.

Weaknesses: His own flask make him hittable.

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