I recall hearing that the "genocide run" term for the no-mercy run in Undertale was coined by someone making anti-semetic jokes in their playthrough? also it's somewhat disrespectful re: actual genocides, so I think the term "no mercy" is better
Alright, Iāve never heard that before. I simply used what the Wikia titled its section on that play type. It doesnāt mention why it was called that originally, and also brings up that other names are the āKill-Everything Routeā and āBad Time Route.ā (If someone could verify this tidbit about the name and let me know please do)
In my personal opinion, I kind of think that āKill-Everythingā fits a bit better than āNo-Mercyā does. You can at no point use mercy and still end up with the neutral ending. You have to go out of your way to do it which I feel the name āNo-Mercyā just doesnāt cover. I will concede that āGenocideā has a lot of negative stigma to it though.















