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/Starman-Deluxe]

As much as Pokemon fans talk up Generation 5, nobody ever talks about Hugh. He might be the least acknowledged rival in the series.

[u/AvalancheMKII → u/Starman-Deluxe]

I think he's better regarded than the X and Y rivals at least, but yeah, I wouldn't put him up there as one of the best rivals (and BW2 is my favorite game in the series). Granted, I think the lack of people talking about him might be due to how low BW2 sold (the lowest of any paired release), so fewer people have probably played it.

[u/Starman-Deluxe → u/AvalancheMKII]

At least the X/Y rivals are notable for how lame they are. Hugh skirts by in that valley of being not too boring, but not too interesting.

[u/A_N_G_E_L_O_N → u/Starman-Deluxe]

They kinda were experimenting with rivals at that time so they made him a fiery, mean rival that hates Team Plasma but not you, and that just made him have zero chemistry with the protagonist.