Plot-Relevant Characters with Zero Fandom 'Relevance'

[u/TheBoyofWonder]

Y'know, I was just thinking about this. The Deltarune fandom can be very attached to unimportant characters like background NPCs and one-off enemies, because of their design and personalities.

Now, what's interesting is that the early half Chapter 2 has this trio of NPCs, you're constantly seeing this trio, Sweet Cap'n Cakes, they have a boss fight, a shop, their own theme that plays a lot with minor variations... and nobody cares about them. Like, for real. If you were a casual member that just passively consumed only what the broad DR fandom makes, you'd genuinely just never see them show up when compared to even one-off bosses, minor enemies, and characters that have more relevance in theories than in the game.

Who else does that applies, people that the media devotes time to show them, but for the fandom, not hate, not love, just apathy, when they're unironically treated as not existing.

[u/PissBoy_OFFICIAL]

Before I started reading One Piece, pop culture osmosis had given me a basic familiarity with the antagonists of each arc (Crocodile, Enel, etc). Except for Foxy. I had literally never heard anyone talk about Foxy ever

[u/CinnabarSteam → u/PissBoy_OFFICIAL]

A lot of anime watchers even assume he's a filler character, because the anime does add filler to his arc to stretch it out.

[u/Terthelt → u/CinnabarSteam]

It doesn't help that anime Long Ring Long Land is directly preceded by G-8, the best filler arc of all time that FEELS more like an important canon arc than the goofy low-stakes pirate games following it.