Summary
Asriel Dreemurr is the main antagonist of UNDERTALE, who makes his first appearance at the Ruins, as Flowey the Flower attempting to kill Frisk to steal their SOUL. After failing due to Toriel protecting Frisk, Flowey starts to stalk them, until they reach Asgore and defeat him, where Flowey steals the 6 Human SOULs that Asgore has taken throught the years, and transforming in a Godlike Abomination, under the form of Photoshop Flowey. It's later revealed throught the Pacifist and Genocide Routes his true identity as Asriel, who died in the past along with Chara, due to the latter's plan about Asriel absorbing their SOUL, going in the surface and taking enough human SOULs to break the Barrier, failed due to Asriel not willing to kill innocent people, thus dying under the attacks of the human warriors. Later on, Asriel was revived from Alphys under the form of a flower, after that she injected in a flower his essence and some DETERMINATION. Asriel, now under the name of Flowey, while has lost his emotions, discovered that he gained the powers of SAVE points in time and was able to rewind time. Flowey decided to use this power to discover every possible interaction with the Underground and its inhabitants, however, the more he made RESETs, the more he got bored, while also finding killing people more interesting than helping them. At the end of the Pacifist Route, Flowey manages to not only take the Human SOULs, but also of all the monsters, gaining the power of 7 Human SOULs and returning to his original form. After a final fight against Frisk where the latter managed to SAVE him and make him regain all the lost emotions, Asriel, now repented for all his action as a flower, destroys the Barrier and frees all the SOULs he absorbed, dooming himself to return as a flower, to save everyone else.
Powers and Stats
Dimensionality: 3D
Threat Level: Wolf || Tiger+ || Wolf+ || Unknown || Mobius
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology (Type 1), Magic, Non-Physical Interaction, SOUL Manipulation, Absorption, Fusionism and Transformation (Monsters in UNDERTALE are made of magic like Humans are made of water, allowing them to use magic-based attacks even as physical ones. Said magic can be used to attack both the SOUL and body, and was shown to even be able to damage Mad Dummy, who is a non-physical spirit that couldn't be harmed from Frisk due to them lacking magic on their own. If a monster defeats a human, they can absorb the latter's SOUL, transforming in "a horrible beast with unfathomable power". Merged his SOUL with Chara's after absorbing it), Fire Manipulation (Should at least be able to use it like his parents), Immortality (Type 1: Like his father, he's Boss Monster, so he won't age as he never had a biological child), Energy Manipulation (Can give his SOUL power to his biological children to make them grow), Resistance to Heat Manipulation (Monsters could travel across the Underground to reach the New Home, meaning that they went through Hotland without being affected from the immense temperatures, which are high enough to evaporate water along with the cup containing it in a short time), Radiation Manipulation (The Gamerblood Energy Drink, which is made of radioactive waste, is considered a regular energy drink for the monsters in the Underground) and SOUL Manipulation (Can take SOUL Attacks as physical ones, due to their SOUL being strong as their material body), Possibly to Poison Manipulation (Comparable to other monsters who can stay indefinitely in the CORE, which is likely filled of Ozone) and Extreme Cold (Should be the same as his father)
Same as before, including also Pre-Death Chara's powers and Extra Senses (Was able to perceive the intentions of Chara's SOUL, which he absorbed, and was able to describe them), Unconventional Resistance to Mind Manipulation (The control of his body is split between him and Chara)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Non-Physical Interaction, SOUL Manipulation, Absorption and Transformation (Although is not a monster like his parents anymore, he still has shown to be able to directly target and destroy SOULs with his attacks like them. Can absorb SOULs of defeated beings, that can both be human and monster ones), Danmaku (Can attack using pellets as bullets, which can also be used as an unavoidable ring attack), Fourth Wall Awareness (Knows that UNDERTALE is just a game. Spoke to The Player), Statistics Amplification (The more they kill, the more their LOVE increases, raising their STATs), Plant Manipulation, Limited Shapeshifting (Can change his face and voice to match other people), Presence Concealment (Able to constantly follow Frisk without them noticing him. Constantly burrows underground), Small Size (Type 1), Social Influencing (While in some timelines he made Genocide Runs, in others he made Pacifist Runs, befriending everyone like Frisk did until he got tired of it. Made so much RESETs that he's able to predict characters from just few hints on their personality, and thus is able to manipulate them in doing what he wants to), Possible Immortality (Type 1. Implied to have lived much more than Frisk and possibly shares the same immortality as his Asriel self, as he has implanted Asriel's essence in his new body), Resistance to Heat Manipulation (Can follow Frisk even at Hotland without being affected from the immense temperatures, which are high enough to evaporate water along with the cup containing it in a short time and Emphatic Manipulation (As he doesn't have a SOUL, he couldn't feel neither love nor compassion, though the fear of getting killed form Chara overpowered this, much at his own surprise), Possible Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Comparable to other monsters who can stay indefinitely in the CORE, which is likely filled of Ozone) and Extreme Cold (Can follow Frisk at Snowdin, where the ice can resist Hotland's temperatures without melting, with Undyne pointing out at how cold it is, though this can be just a background inconsistency, thus just a product of Game Mechanics), Immunity to SOUL Manipulation (Doesn't have a SOUL anymore, due to him losing it after combining it with Chara's, as even noted from Alphys. Described himself as empty before getting a SOUL inside him again)
Has access to First level of DETERMINATION, which grants them these powers: Time Manipulation and Causality Manipulation (DETERMINATION Users can create a SAVE FILE, which can be used to LOAD time back to the most recent SAVE POINT, making anything happened after the latest SAVE POINT never happened, thus allowing them to try again in case of death until they succeed, as long as they refuse to die. The LOAD can also be used in case both body and SOUL are destroyed. Users are also able to RESET said SAVE FILE, allowing them to revert everything to its original state, even before any SAVE POINT. LOAD and RESET revert the progresses they've done too, as for example the LOVE they've gained always gets reverted to its previous amount if they've increased it after the latest SAVE POINT), Self-Resurrection (Via LOADing back to the previous SAVE POINT at death), Acausality (Type 1: DETERMINATION Users can remember events happened before time was LOADed back or even RESETted), Dimensional Travel and limited Timeline Creation (Everytime a LOAD or RESET occurs, the DETERMINATION User gets back in time in a new timeline, which is the same as the previous one before time was LOADed), Reactive Evolution and Statistics Amplification (DETERMINATION Users can increase their own STATs and powers from just their own if needed to keep up with the opponent), Power Nullification (DETERMINATION Users can completely stop the ones with a lower amount of DETERMINATION from using the abilities related to such power from just having an higher amount of it)
Same as Flowey except Small Size and Immunity to SOUL Manipulation, but including Large Size (At least Type 1. Big as a whole room), Reality Warping, Creation, Existence Erasure, Data and Information Manipulation and Limited Plot Manipulation (DETERMINATION Users on this level can create, destroy and completely overwrite as they like the SAVE FILEs, other than being able to have multiple of them. Changed the game's name to "FLOWEYTALE", crashed the game and altered its intro, other than being able to change the Game Over screen), Enhanced Time Manipulation and Causality Manipulation (Other than being able to create multiple SAVE FILES, they can also create many SAVE POINTs and LOAD them at will, making them able to rewind time in even combat more times in a row), Flight (Type 3), Energy Projection and Enhanched Danmaku (Can attack using energy blasts and can appear pellets from nowhere, making them spread at any direction. Can also attack using multiple missiles), Enhanched Plant Manipulation (Can use its vines offensively), Fire Manipulation (Can grow flamethrowers from its own body. The Green SOUL can use fireballs), Animal Manipulation (Can attack using flies), Explosion Manipulation (Can generate tons of bombs from nowhere and drop them all on the opponent), Body Control, Weapon Mastery (Should be the same as Frisk, given the usage of knifes, gloves, pans, guns or even dancing shoes as efficient weapons), Sound Manipulation (The Purple SOUL can use sounds to attack), Light Manipulation and Absorption (Absorbed the whole of the Undeground's population using a light across all of it), Healing (The Human SOULs can generate Green Bullets, which heal instead of damaging what they hit), Extra Senses (Able to feel the SOULs he absorbed wriggling), Immortality (Type 1), Self-Sustenance (2, 3 and likely 1. Stated that he can fight Frisk infinitely in a totally black space, though is unknown if they're still in the Underground or in an actual void), Resistance to Existence Erasure, SOUL Manipulation, Reality Warping, Data and Information Manipulation (Superior to Peak DETERMINATION Neutral Frisk. Can take SOUL Attacks as physical ones, due to their SOUL being strong as their material body. Has 6 SOULs instead of just one)
Same as Photoshop Flowey on an immensely higher extent aside from Large Size, including all the abilities of his Asriel Dreemurr key (As he's returned to his true self), Immortality (Type 4) and Regeneration (Mid-Godly: Same as Frisk, who can fully recreate both their SOUL and body from simply refusing to die if they can't LOAD), Type 1 Acausality Negation (DETERMINATION Users on this level can use the TRUE RESET, which brings all the multiverse and its timelines to their original state beyond any SAVE FILE and RESETs the memories of Users of a lower amount of DETERMINATION), Enhanced Time Manipulation and Causality Manipulation (His RESET should be able to work on characters with Immeasurable speed like him due to DETERMINATION negating similar time based abilities and resistances of characters with a lower amount of it), Self-Sustenance (All Types), Memory Manipulation (Erased the memories of the SOULs that he absorbed), Enhanced Extra Senses (Can feel the compassion of other monsters whose SOULs he absorbed. Could feel all of their hearts beating as one with the same desire), Weapon Creation (Can create energy cannons or swords from nowhere), Energy Manipulation (As a Boss Monster, he should be able to do the same as his parents), Electricity Manipulation (Shown here), Flight (Type 2), Afterimages, Transformation, Resistance to Time Manipulation (Same as Peak DETERMINATION Pacifist Frisk)
Same as his God of Hyperdeath form, including Power Nullification (Like his father, he can limit the actions from destroying the menu buttons, in this case destroying also the ITEMS and FIGHT buttons other than the MERCY button with his strongest attack), Passive Paralysis Inducement (As soon as he trasformed in this form, Frisk was totally unable to move their body, with them being able to only struggle)
As Asriel has shown to use the powers of the SOULs absorbed as his, including of the whole population of the Underground (except Napstablook), he should have access to these powers: Danmaku, Animal Manipulation (From Froggit, Whimsun, Muffet and others), Energy Manipulation (From Moldsmal, Ice Cap, Toriel Dreemurr, Undyne and others), Healing (From Parsnik, Toriel Dreemurr and many others), Energy Projection, Ice Manipulation (From Ice Cap), Body Control (From Lesser Dog and Temmie), Unconventional Intangibility (Type 4. From So Sorry and Asgore Dreemurr. His attacks can either be a Blue Attack, which doesn't damage the opponent if they stand still, or an Orange one, which doesn't damage the opponent if they move through it), Expert in Hand to Hand Combat, Weapon Mastery, Creation (From the likes of Gyftrot and Papyrus), Explosion Manipulation (From Glyde), Statistics Amplification (From Aaron, Undyne and others), Water Manipulation (From Aaron), Durability Negation (From Sans), Sound Manipulation (From Greater Dog and Shyren), Limited Toon Force (From Papyrus), Homing Attack, Technology Manipulation and Limited Magnetism Manipulation (From Alphys), Fire Manipulation, Weather Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Heat Manipulation and Statistics Reduction (From Vulkin and Madjick), Flight (Types 2 [From Mad Dummy and Endogeny] and 3 [From Astigmatism]), Absorption, Shapeshifting, Non-Corporeal and Limited Mind Manipulation (From the Amalgamates), Memory Manipulation (From Memoryhead), Size Manipulation (From Lemon Bread), Limited Presence Concealment (From Greater Dog), Invulnerability (From Snowdrake's Mother), Summoning and Explosion Manipulation (From Alphys, Sans, Mad Dummy and Glyde), Teleportation, Gravity Manipulation, Telekinesis, Information Analysis and Limited Law Manipulation (From Sans), Status Effect Inducement (From Undyne and Mad Mew Mew), Thread Manipulation (From Muffet), Electricity Manipulation and Time Manipulation (From Mettaton), Power Nullification (From Asgore Dreemurr) Possible Age Manipulation (From Mad Mew Mew), Resistance to Information Analysis (From Glyde and Reaper Bird), Unconventional Resistance to Biological Manipulation (From Temmie)
Physical Strength: Wall Level || City Block Level Striking Strenght with At least Class 10 Lifting Strenght || Varies via LOVE from Wall Level Striking Strength with Class 1 Lifting Strength with vines (Can move and lock an elevator) to Small Building Level Striking Strength with Class 10 Lifting Strength || Unknown Striking Strength with at least Class 50 Lifting Strength (Stronger than the combined efforts of Asgore, Toriel, Undyne, Papyrus, Sans and Alphys) || High Multiverse Level Striking Strength with at least Class 50, possibly Infinite Lifting Strength (His infinite ATK may be including this aspect as well), higher when using his True Power
Attack Potency: Wall (Should be the same as Pre-Death Chara due to being a child like them) || City Block (A Monster who has absorbed a Human SOUL is strong as the whole of the Underground's population. Stated from both the monsters and Asriel himself that he could easily exterminate an entire human village if he wanted to) || Varies via LOVE (Can increase his STATs like Frisk and Chara do from gaining LV) from Wall (At LV 1. Easily dropped LV 1 Base DETERMINATION Frisk's HPs to 1 in a single attack, thought they were off-guard and didn't thought that it was an attack. Should scale to the Amalgamates, as he was created in a similar manner as them from Alphys) to Small Building (At higher amounts of LV. Like Chara, he was able to complete his own Genocide runs, thought even while at LV 20 he should be slightly weaker, as he has lesser DETERMINATION than them) || Unknown (After getting the power of 6 SOULs, he could easily overpower the combined strength of Asgore, Toriel, Undyne, Papyrus, Sans and Alphys. Casually destroyed Frisk's SAVE FILE and wiped out of existence both humans and monsters, leaving just a black space, althought the ways are unknown, given that the Barrier was still intact and Flowey himself needed the power of 7 Human SOULs in order to break it. The extent of his true power is also unknown, given that the power given from the amount of SOULs absorbed is exponential, as with 7 of them he got the power to destroy the whole of the UNDERTALE world) || High Multiverse (Implied to be able to destroy the world if he didn't just want to reset everything with a TRUE RESET, with world in context being reffered to the game itself, which can contain countless timelines. Casually erased a timeline. His ATK is rated as "∞", making him the strongest monster in all the game), higher when using his True Power (The previous form was nothing but a mere fraction of his true power. From just transforming in this form, the world was slowly ending)
Durability: Wall || City Block (Has the power of the whole of the Underground. Even after being weakened from his SOUL colliding with Chara's, he survived after that a whole human village attacked him, dying only after reaching his home) || Varies via LOVE from Wall to Small Building (Should be the same as his ATK, giving his DETERMINATION) || Unknown (Has the power of 6 Human SOULs. Immensely above Peak DETERMINATION Neutral Frisk, to the point of getting minimally damaged from them normally) || High Multiverse (Equal to his ATK as his DEF is rated as "∞" as well), higher when using his True Power
Speed: Human travel speed with likely Transonic combat speed and reactions (Should be the same as LV 1 Frisk) || At least FTE travel speed with Massively Hypersonic+ combat speed and reactions, likely far higher (Immensely beyond the likes of Undyne the Undying) || Unknown travel speed (Can travel across the Underground faster than any other character, though the exact degree is unknown) with at least Massively Hypersonic combat speed and reactions (Was able to kill Asgore before him and Frisk could react) || Unknown travel speed with Massively Hypersonic+ combat speed and reactions, likely far higher (Stronger than Peak DETERMINATION Neutral Frisk) || Immeasurable (Can fight Peak DETERMINATION Pacifist Frisk, who could outrun his own Hyper Goner, which destroyed the entirety of the timeline from devouring and shattering it)
Intelligence: Average || High (Has Chara's SOUL) || Genius (Flowey performed enough RESETs to know every single possible outcome in the Underground from making every single interaction, which includes playing every game, killing or helping everyone or reading ever book, making him able to predict the future actions and words of the characters around him, including even Sans, from just few hints about their personality, other than manipulating them in doing exactly what he wants. Was able to plot the reunion of the whole Underground in the Throne Room without any suspect on him, and when he appeared to absorb the SOULs, he only pretended to getting defeated, as he instead did so to have a higher chance of absorbing the whole Underground) || Genius || Super Genius (As before. Has also the SOULs of Alphys and Sans, gaining also their intelligence as well)
Stamina: Average || Superhuman (Was able to return home from a human village even after being weakened and wounded to death, which requires to climb the Mt. Eboot) || Superhuman (Was able to consistently follow Frisk during their journey) || Limitless (Stated to be able to fight against Frisk endlessly) || Limitless
Range: Melee, higher with Fire Manipulation || Melee. At least Tens of meters, possibly Hundreds of meters or far higher with attacks || Melee, Several meters with attacks, Universal+ with DETERMINATION Powers || Unknown (But higher), Kilometers with Absorption (Was able to absorb the whole Underground's population instantly), Universal+ with DETERMINATION Powers || High Multiversal
Weakness: Is too innocent and naive, other than being just a child and lacks actual combat experience. If a monster faces a being with an extremely high murderous intent, and the monster doesn't want to fight back, it will extremely weaken. || As before, if Asriel and Chara disagree on a decision, the body would extremely weaken as well. || Is insane, other than still having a child-like personality, which leads to him to play with the opponent instead of getting fully serious if he finds them a non threat due to loneliness. He won't be able to LOAD if there's another DETERMINATION User with the same amount of it. Failing enough times will lead him to give up and not LOAD anymore, even though this is extremely unlikely to happen as long as there's an actual possibility to win. Needs to be conscious in order to LOAD. || As before, he doesn't have full control over his SOULs, as if they rebel against him, he'll drastically weaken in all the aspects || As before, but he gained full control of his SOULs as he was able to erase their memories. However, due to the amount of SOULs he absorbed, his homicidal and crazy personality got milded down, returning a bit to his original innocent self, though it was needed Frisk's intervention in order to make him return as how he was before his death with Chara.
Key: Asriel Dreemurr || Merged with Chara || Flowey || Photoshop Flowey || The Angel
Arsenal
Standard Equipment: None notable || None notable || None notable || The 6 Human SOULs || All the Underground's SOULs (except Napstablook's). Can also create weapons from himself
Noteworthy Techniques and Abilities
- DETERMINATION: The source of their power and abilities. The user is empowered by the feeling of determination, allowing it to strengthen their capabilities and use certain new powers. In Flowey's case, being infused with DETERMINATION turned him from a regular flowey where the dust of Asriel fell into what he is now.
- SAVE: When particularly determined, the user can "SAVE" the current moment in time, filling a file inside the game with information about their current process, LV, etc. A user may create a SAVE when really wanting to anywhere, finding the yellow flash shown in-game isn't necessary. Someone else with the same use of DETERMINATION and higher determination will result in this ability to SAVE being disabled from Flowey.
- LOAD: Turns back time to the last SAVE made. This can even be used after dying, which usually results in having one's SOUL shattering into pieces. Another user of DETERMINATION, Flowey, could LOAD after dying despite lacking a SOUL altogether. Someone with the same use of DETERMINATION and higher determination will result in this ability to LOAD being disabled from Flowey.
- RESET: Turns back time to the beginning of the game.
- Friendliness Pellets: Flowey's signature attack, the ability to shoot seed based bullets in multiple ways. In base Flowey can send either homing pellets, use them as moving walls of terror, or his favorite, circle his opponents in a ring of pellets, giving no room to escape.
Quotes
| — Flowey's iconic quote, which reflects his current viewpoint on the world |
| — Flowey observing Frisk after they didn't kill anyone at the Ruins |
| — Flowey to Frisk after getting the 6 Human SOULs |
| — Flowey revealing his plans about returning to his true self |
| — Flowey, finally becoming his true self, introducing himself to who he believes to be Chara |
| — Asriel explaining why he wants to RESET everything |
| — Asriel, returned as his true self, showing his change to Frisk |
Gallery
Notable Matches
Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) Bill's Profile (Fight happened at Gravity Falls during the Weirdmageggon, speed was equalized, Bill started at his standard size, Photoshop Flowey and Physical Form Bill were used)
Notes
- Note 1: Statistics scaling is canon to UNDERTALE due to it being acknowledged in lore, and thus can be used to determine the actual ratings of the characters. However, it should be noted that due to it being not linear in nature given the various feats attributed to the values, Moldsmal not being one-shotted from a LV 2 Chara despite having 0 as DEF and Snowdrake's Mother dealing regular damage despite her having literally negative ATK, the scaling shouldn't be taken linearly, but just used to determine who is stronger between the characters.
- Note 2: The reason why Asriel's second key lacks DETERMINATION powers is because he wasn't aware of them at the time.