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It's Showtime!, Metal Crusher, Live Report, Death Report, Oh! One True Love, Oh! Dungeon, Last Episode!, Death By Glamour, For The Fans
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MTT motif
It's Showtime!, Metal Crusher, Live Report, Death Report, Oh! One True Love, Oh! Dungeon, Last Episode!, Death By Glamour, For The Fans
ROUND 1: MATCH 20
Your Best Nightmare vs Death Report
Vote the track you want to move on!
79 - Your Best Nightmare
58 - Death Report
What an age of (mis)information we're living in, I have no clue whether OG Maco is alive or not, I hope he is alive though!
Round Six: Final Revivals (1/6)
The song with the highest total percentage between all of the polls will continue.
Which would you like revived?
Ruins
Death Report
Dummy!
Metal Crusher
Wrong Enemy?!
Here We Are
Asgore
Reunited
See Results
The Overworld Theme
(And the Men from Another World)
Well! Well well well well welly well well....
I know most people are sick of theories based solely on the OST. So I decided to annoy y'all with another one, anyway.
I've been playing these games for over 2 years and I'm still discovering new things about the OST's. I may even be the last UT fan to notice these, but here goes.
So, Waterfall, Another Medium, and The Core all have the same intro. Some time ago, I finally noticed this intro does appear in Ruins, just not as the intro- it's actually near the very end (starts at 1:20- listen to the bells in the background).
But it wasn't until this comment on YouTube:
...that I went back and checked Ruins against Another Medium and The Core. Listen to Ruins again, starting at 1:02. Compare it to Another Medium, from 0:07-0:51.
And to The Core.
The ending of Ruins gets remixed in all of them. Or Another Medium got remixed into the Ruins. Anyway, it's there. It's a little hard to tell if you're not looking for it- or it was for me, anyway- but it's there.
Now, we all know that every one of Undyne's themes on a Neutral Route is a remix of Ruins (Waterfall, Quiet Water, NGAHHH!!, Spear of Justice), BUT... even Battle Against a True Hero has a bit of Ruins. Listen to the bells in the background at 0:38- it's the beginning of the middle BAATH (1:36).
Now, then...
It makes sense to me that Undyne's themes all get remixes of Ruins, since I now know that Ruins is pretty much the Overworld theme. Undyne is the hero of the Underground.
So then, why does Mettaton have so many themes that are remixed from the Overworld theme?
Death By Glamour is, of course, just a remix of The Core. So that's one very obvious place where Mettaton reuses the Overworld theme for himself. BUT:
Starting at 0:26, we can hear the intro to Spear of Justice. This also gets remixed, much more softly, in "It's Showtime" and "Live Report."
For the longest time, I thought Alphys had just included a bit of Undyne's theme into Mettaton's coding. But now I realize the whole thing isn't specifically Undyne's theme but rather an Overworld theme. So as it turns out, then, Mettaton is just incorporating the Overworld theme into his own themes, just as Undyne does.
This makes sense when you think about it. Undyne is the Hero of the Underground. Everyone knows her. Why shouldn't she be allowed to use the Overworld theme? Mettaton is the Star of the Underground. Everyone knows him. Why shouldn't he be allowed to use the Overworld theme?
This, then, brings up one more question:
Why doesn't sans use the Overworld theme? We see him literally everywhere in the Underground from Snowdin to the MTT Resort. sans speaks with Toriel, so he has a connection to the Ruins. We don't see sans in The Core or New Home, but we do see him in the Judgment Hall in Asgore's castle. sans is EVERYWHERE, even more so than Undyne and Mettaton. Why doesn't he use the Overworld theme?
It could just be his style, his preference- he simply prefers that little jazzy theme of his. But... Papyrus doesn't use the Overworld theme, either. And he's almost as "everywhere" as sans is, through our phone calls, through chatting with Alphys via the Undernet, through knowing Undyne. Not to mention the fact that Papyrus is arguably the most important character in any run, since so many Neutral endings hinge on whether you killed Papyrus or not. (And then, of course, there's Papyrus' notable absence from Deltarune, but we're not talking about Deltarune today.)
"sans" appears anywhere that sans appears, whether it's Grillby's or one of sans' sentry stations or the MTT Resort (albeit remixed into "It's Raining Somewhere Else"). "sans" also permeates sans' entire house, EXCEPT for Papyrus' room, where no music plays at all.
But neither of the brothers uses the Overworld theme. In addition, "sans" doesn't appear outside of sans themes, except for "Bring it In, Guys". Same goes for "Bonetrousle"- "Bring It In, Guys" and STMPWYFS are the only non-Papyrus songs in which "Bonetrousle" appears (and, like, it's pretty obvious why we hear the trousle of bones in a song that might play you fight sans, amirite?).
The skelebros show up more often in the Underground than any other character. And yet they have no musical ties to the Underground whatsoever.
Could that be because they're not from the Underground at all?
"Beware the man who came from another world."
Thanks for the tip River Person- but which one?
Undertale really did music right. When I can put a single :47 second track on and listen to it on repeat for over 4 hours, AND it still gets me pumped. Damn.
Unpopular opinion: Death Report is the single most underrated song on the Undertale Soundtrack.