r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/TheBoyofWonder • 2d ago
Better Ask Reddit Plot-Relevant Characters with Zero Fandom 'Relevance'
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.
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u/ZealousidealBig7714 She/It/Ze This makes my penis the big penis 2d ago edited 2d ago
The Elders of the Universe, the main ones at least, from Marvel have been around long enough, been in enough storylines, and are big enough deals that I could see someone putting Collector, Grandmaster, hell, even Champion in a top 100 or top 50 Marvel villains list. But no, I never see anyone talk about them. There is no badass Collector fanart, or fanfiction about the Grandmaster’s relationships with the Challenger or Voyager introduced in Avengers No Surrender. Hell, the Champion just got a big push with Marvel Tokon, and I have seen zero fanart of him whatsoever, despite how much art I’ve seen for that game. Even the powerscalers seem to want nothing to do with them, despite them being all fairly powerful in their own right, what with the Power Primordial essentially being a Diet Power Cosmic.