Undertale/Unused Graphics

This is a sub-page of Undertale.

To do: Add all of THESE.

Completely Unused Characters/Objects

Monsters

Doge

A test monster that was also unused in the demo, by the name of "Doge". In the artbook for the game, Toby points out how this design went unused because it "didn't look crappy enough".

Lava Test Creature

This odd lava.... thing has "test" in its name. Presumably, it is a test NPC. It also has no consistency in its animations. ...Fun.

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  Idle (It's kind of cute)

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  Facing Away, Idle

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  Facing Left, Idle

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  Facing Right, Idle

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  Facing Forward, Talking

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  Facing Left, Talking

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  Facing Right, Talking

Crudely-drawn Test NPC

Another test NPC.

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Separate collision masks for their down/up and left/right sprites respectively. Likely before baking collision directly into sprites was decided.

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Monster Test #1

This... "nice" thing is a test.

Monster Test #2

This "nice" thing is also a test.

Monster Placeholder

An even "nice"r placeholder monster.

Robot NPC

An unused NPC who isn't a test NPC. It was to be used in Hotland with a lot of robots, but ultimately didn't fit in with Mettaton being there as well.

Tile Guy

A very generic-looking stick figure that goes by the name of 'tile guy'... despite not having anything in the slightest to do with tiles.

RG03 and RG04

Unique head and arm sprites for the unused RG03 and RG04 enemies. Most of their other assets are shared with RG01 and RG02.

An X-shaped bullet that RG03 and RG04 would've used.

Undyne Placeholders

Tile Spear Old

An ugly old version of the spear that pops out of the ground.

spr_bullet_testx

Circles with arrows on them. Their file name suggests they are early versions of Undyne's attacks, which are under spr_bullet_test and spr_bullet_testx_arrow.

Misc Unused Bullets

Regular Spear

A animation of Undyne's old spear sticking out of a wall.

Unused Graphics

Ballet Shoes

An overworld sprite for the ballet shoes. While the ballet shoes are obtainable items in-game, they are located in a pile of grass, leaving this sprite unused.

Candy Dish

This sprite actually does appear in the unused room room_ruins12B_old, in which it dispenses the otherwise unused item Rock Candy. It was likely replaced with the Spider Bake Sale or Hard Mode's Monster Candy.

Ruins Pillar Variants

Overgrown and crumbled variants of the pillars found in the Ruins.

Spider Table and Chairs

A table and two chairs. Based on the name, they were likely meant for Muffet's room.

Grillby's Chairs

Unused chairs meant to be used in Grillby's. The difference is that these chairs have legs.

Grillby's Stool

An isolated sprite of the stools found in Grillby's. In the final game, the stools are simply part of the background.

Lone Bone

A lone bone.

Pole

A pole that uses the same sprite as the body of the lava test creature above, only without the face.

Unused Hearts

spr_another_heart_placeholder

Exactly what it says on the tin. A heart placeholder that goes unused.

spr_creditsheart

A sloppy heart that was supposedly used for the credits, but even if it was, it definitely isn't used for them now.

spr_purpleheart

A purple heart placeholder.

spr_bluedontmove

Some light blue, sloppy text that says "DON'T MOVE". Probably an early version of explaining how light blue attacks work in-battle before Toby decided to have Sans explain it instead after Doggo's fight.

spr_flychara_placeholder

A placeholder sprite most likely used for Mettaton's cooking show, during the jetpack section.

Lightning meant to be used by Mettaton in the same scene.

spr_quiztouch

A crude drawing of the word "touch". Likely meant for the quiz, where the game would explicitly tell the player to touch an answer's box to answer a question. It was probably cut because it was pretty obvious what the player had to do anyways.

spr_quizanswer

Old letters used for Mettaton's quiz show.

spr_sanssteps

Steps drawn like Papyrus' steps.

spr_sanscheckback

An unused back wall to Sans' sentry station.

Sans & Papyrus House Pillars

The pillars that hold up the overhang above the door to Sans & Papyrus' house, isolated from the house itself. Their white backgrounds are still visible.

Papyrus Arrow

Arrow signs that, based on their file names, were related to Papyrus' date, or the True Pacifist ending screen where Papyrus rides a car on a street.

spr_wordtest_full

Mettaton's explosive vocabulary, fully assembled and marked as a test.

Chaos Bomb

This cluster of friendliness pellets was meant to be in the Photoshop Flowey fight. Judging from its file name, it probably would've functioned similarly to Asriel's star attack.

Big Bob

Nothing is known about this image, aside from the fact that it's Big Bob. Jokes aside, Big Bob was used for testing bullet patterns. I swear he looks familiar...

Debug Sprites

The following sprites were used in Game Maker Studio's editor to make usually invisible objects, like collision visible for editing convenience. These are hidden in-game. Using the built-in debug mode can make some of these sprites visible again.

These mark where doors are located.

These mark where a player spawns in a room.

These mark events and interactables.

These mark collision.

This marks a fade in or out; it's just the event tile's graphic again with a white smudge at the top left.

Egg Carton

Sprites of an egg carton breaking, apparently to be used in battle. Likely related to Mettaton's cooking show.

Egg Bullet

An egg that presumably falls out of said carton when it's destroyed.

Up Box

A box meant for Mettaton EX's fight that would slowly float upward when you shot it with the yellow soul.

Mettfodder

Crudely drawn white and black smiley faces. Based on the name, they may have been placeholders for something in a Mettaton battle.

Tiny Mettatons

Early variations on the tiny Mettatons seen in Mettaton EX's fight. In the final fight they're only ever seen with a parasol spitting hearts at you. These Mettatons would've held their arms close, and if not destroyed fast enough, would flash and then unleash a flurry of sparkles and start dancing.

Tiny sparkles thrown by the cut dancing Mettaton bullet above.

Kiss Bullet

An early version of Mettaton's heart bullets, depicting kissing lips instead of a MT-branded heart.

Money Bullet

A money bullet that resembles a koban. Possibly related to Mettaton EX's fight based on its location in the files.

Stable

A crudely drawn stable likely related to this unused text.

Area Maps

Two maps that show the second area where Frisk is attacked by Undyne in Waterfall.

Rusted Fridge

A fridge that was meant to appear in the trash area of Waterfall.

Left Facing Trash Heap

The left side of the trash heaps found in Waterfall's trash area. In game, the right side is simply mirrored to create the whole pile.

Undyne Door

A regular looking (yet very purple) placeholder door meant to be seen in front of Undyne's house, in contrast to the jaws that open up in the final game.

spr_shyrenstrewn

A crude placeholder depicting an assortment of socks, tickets, and other items strewn across the floor. Meant to appear after your battle with Shyren becomes a concert.

Ground Torch

A crudely drawn torch that appears in the unused room_water7_older. It acts similarly to the mushrooms present in Waterfall. Interacting with it will light the torch and then interacting with it again will put it out.

Two rows of stars that light your path after you light the torch.

spr_darkhalo

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A cropped variant of the spotlight that forms around the player in the darkening lantern room. In the final sprite, the surrounding black is big enough to cover the whole screen.

Old Forcefield

Most likely a placeholder for the blue forcefields found around Hotland.

Unused Sprite Variations

Old Frisk

Frisk with black hair. Most have pink stripes instead of purple and the back sprite has grey skin instead of yellow.

Toriel Handhold Old

This uses the older Frisk sprite.

Toriel Walking with Phone

Toriel never walks while using the phone in-game.

Toriel Talking While Mad

This is never used, as Toriel is only seen facing up and to the right before her battle.

Temmie

Unused walking sprites for the Temmies. Like most NPCs in the game, they never move.

White-eyed Sans

An overworld sprite for Sans with white dots in his eyes. Labeled "Dangerous" in the files. The name suggests this could have been intended as a sort of inverse of how Sans' eyes disappear in his dialogue portraits.

Sans Nice Cream

An overworld sprite of Sans eating Nice Cream. Apparently, this was supposed to be a part of a gag where getting to the Judgment Hall fast enough would result in Sans remarking how quick you were, then proceeding to eat an ice cream cone for one excruciating minute, with these sprites being synced to a silly song. An official recreation of this can be seen here.

(Source: UNDERTALE / DELTARUNE NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 3 - Summer 2023)

Sans Laughing

An overworld sprite of Sans laughing.

Sans Sleeping

A sprite of Sans sleeping on his side meant to be used in the Start Menu, where Sans is only seen standing in the final game. A stray pixel is left off to the side for one frame.

Confused Papyrus

A date sprite of a confused Papyrus, drawn by Guzusuru. Like the unused Doge enemy, this animation was instead replaced with a simpler version because it looked "too good".

Water Ice

Early	Final

Likely a crude placeholder for the ice blocks thrown into the river by Jimmy Hotpants.

Happy Woshua

A battle sprite of Woshua with a happy expression, likely meant for asking him to clean you.

Gyftrot Presents

Older versions of the presents used in Gyftrot's attack.

Music Bullet

A second variation of the music note bullet used in Shyren's battle.

Undyne Holding Phone

Undyne fading up and holding a phone. Meant for an early version of her introductory cutscene where Papyrus calls her instead of approaching her.

Undyne "Stark" Test Animation

Early	Final

A test animation for Undyne's armoured form. The shading is different from the final and it uses the old pants from below.

Undyne Pants Test

Early	Final

An old test animation for Undyne. Involving pants!

Unshaded Undyne

Some more Undyne, this time without the shading and still with her old spear and pants.

Unused Snowman

A snowman wearing a hat, scarf, and mittens, and another wearing just a hat. Interestingly, the snowman on the left would later be translated into cross stitch form for the Undertale Cross Stitch Book.

Napstablook Adjust

An overworld sprite of Napstablook adjusting a snail.

Broken SOUL

Mettaton EX's broken SOUL.

spr_astigmatism_anim

Sprites for Astigmatism that have a red background and lack an outline like the final sprites have. The red background indicates this sprite is very old, as the only sprites which use colored backgrounds are all from early development.

spr_torielboss_suicide

Another face of Toriel's "hurt" image with a... spooky file name. It's extremely similar to the used sprite, except Toriel is smiling instead of grimacing. This file was present in the demo as well. While Toriel never commits suicide in any version of the game, the concept was ultimately recycled for Asgore if the player attempts to spare him after "killing" Flowey in a previous playthrough.

Unused Monster Dialogue Portraits

Sans (Tired)	Asriel (Serious)	Alphys (Flustered)	Undyne (Flustered)	Undyne (Sincere)	Flowey (Uh.... 1)	Flowey (Uh.... 2)	Flowey (Congrats!)	Flowey (Maniacal)	Toriel (Unimpressed)	Toriel (Informative)

Toriel (Ecstatic)	Mettaton Ex (Death 1)	Mettaton Ex (Death 2)	Mettaton Ex (Death 3)	Mettaton Ex (Death 4)

Unused portraits of the main characters with various emotions. The set of confused-looking Flowey faces are probably leftovers from a joke ending idea where Flowey would be left flabbergasted if the protagonist somehow killed Asgore in one hit, as seen in this concept art.

Blushing Papyrus

An alternate version of Papyrus blushing during his date/hangout.

Assembled Monsters

Final Froggit	Final Knight	Whimsalot	Madjick	Asriel Dreemurr	Undyne the Undying	Temmie

Fully assembled sprites for Final Froggit, Knight Knight, Whimsalot, Madjick, Asriel's final form, and the Temmie shopkeeper. Sprites in Undertale are split into several parts to be able to move, rendering these sprites unused. Notably, Madjick has 3 unused hands, Whimsalot is missing a wing, and the Temmie has blue ears and no shading on its hair. While Undyne the Undying and Asriel's first form have fully-assembled sprites, they are used.

Asriel's sprite is meant as a reference sheet, and Temmie's is a example of the sprites put together, judging by their file names.

Asriel Dreemurr (God of Hyperdeath)

Asriel's Sword

Older versions of Asriel's sword. Asriel's arm also seems to be slightly different.

Asriel's Gun

Just like above, but for Asriel's gun. There are also sprites for the gun shooting.

Asriel's Gun's Charge Meter

spr_heartaqua

An aqua-colored version of the soul used in battle. This is not the sprite used in the Photoshop Flowey battle, as that sprite is known as the first frame of spr_allsoul in the game's files.

spr_heartorange

Same as above, but it's in orange this time and has two sprites. This is also not the sprite used in the Photoshop Flowey battle. The sprite used is the second frame of spr_allsoul.

Lab Concept Art

This mockup of the Lab's layout is made of two sprites in the game's files. Amusingly enough, the bed with the laptop on it was replaced with an "easy-to-draw" cube in the final version.

Undyne's House Concept Art

Concept Art	Final

This concept art sprite for Undyne's house shows some graphical elements that were never added:

• A pet fish (in a bowl, duh) on a table in the bottom-right corner.
• A window in the bottom-right corner.
• A second chair behind the main table.
• A drawer to the left of the sink.
• Cabinets above the sink.
• Cabinets above the cutting board.
• An unknown object to the right of the cutting board.

The used version does have a couple of aspects that the concept art is missing, however: there's no drawer below the cutting board in the concept art, and the oversized sword is missing.

Photoshop Flowey (Omega Flowey)

Photoshop Flowey's Red Edges

Photoshop Flowey's fight room has invisible background layers that would spawn red edge sprites on the edges of the screen, which would be animated by obj_flowey_bgdraw. The screenshot above was made by modifying the game to show how the fight's background would look in-game if the layers were made visible.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Photoshop Flowey Concept Art

The original concept art/mock-up of Photoshop Flowey that was given to Everdraed remains as an unnamed sprite in the game's files. Oddly, one of the 4 souls that appears in the canisters is colored pink, which isn't found in the final version. In fact, a pink soul never appears anywhere in the game.

(Source: varkarrus from r/Undertale/)

Photoshop Flowey Finger Gun

Two unused frames of Photoshop Flowey's "Finger Gun" attack still have the hand connected to an arm, as opposed to being photoshopped together with vines. The second frame's flowers lack the Flowey-esque faces on them.

Photoshop Flowey Dentata

Some unused alternate versions of the mouth sprites from Photoshop Flowey's "Mouthball" attack, featuring fuller lips, reduced or absent teeth, and (in the case of the non-"old" sprites) an odd greenish color.

Photoshop Flowey Frying Pan

The frying pan attack from the green soul's segment of the Photoshop Flowey battle has an unused second frame where it's been flipped upwards. Even though this was removed, the hitboxes corresponding to where it would've been are still present during the battle in the final game!

spr_floweyx_flame

Presumably an earlier version of Photoshop Flowey's flames.

Splash Image

This splash image was used in the demo while the game was loading, but wasn't used in 1.00. This was brought back in 1.001, however. This file used to only be in the Mac OS X version of 1.00, and is now in all versions of 1.001.

(Source: Dr. Yay)

Flowey's Message

spr_19_2, spr_19_3, and spr_19_4

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In the demo, Flowey had the ability to edit the instruction manual depending on your progress in the game. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), when the project was ported to GameMaker: Studio, this became impossible due to the file system "sandbox". These sprite files are still left over from the demo.

Spell

Two placeholder icons for a "Spell" command, which can be seen in an early screenshot of the game. Although these types of commands would later make their way into Deltarune, they were renamed to Magic, and the icon was changed to depict fire similar to the bullets Toriel and Asgore use instead of what appears to be either a cane or wand.

Asriel Fight Background

This is the background used for when you fight Asriel. It is not seen in-game because it rotates colors.

Unused Character Walking Cycle

In Waterfall, if debug mode is on, you can see the flipped version in your reflection. This sprite bears a strong resemblance to Kris’ overworld sprite in the later released Deltarune. Hmm...

Crying Bird

An animation of the small yellow bird from Waterfall crying. Was set to be used near an echo flower where you would hear its wish to leave the underground so it can fly in the big blue sky.

Faceless Gaster Blaster

A Gaster Blaster with no face that was possibly meant to be used as an NPC.

Unused Target Choices

Alternative versions of the "spr_targetchoice" sprite used in the battle menu.

Unfinished Scene

Mettaton's News Show

spr_scaffoldingplaceholder

Mettaton's News Show has a partially-obscured placeholder sprite visible during the MTT News Segment.

spr_mettnewslogo

Underneath the top paneling is an overlapped logo of MTT News, likely erroneously given the unfinished nature of the scene. The letter 'M' can be briefly seen during the stage collapse. As of v1.08, the logo isn't unused anymore.

Unused Tilesets

As most of the tilesets in the game were drawn by other people, many of them have elements in them that aren't present in the final game.

Evolution of the Ruins Tileset

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  Original Ruins tiles.

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  Original Ruins tileset, as seen in early screenshots.

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  Slightly different Ruins tileset made by Merrigo.

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  First version of the final Ruins tileset.

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  Nearly final version of the Ruins tileset, adding the shutters.

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  Final version of the Ruins tileset, adding cracks, shaded walls, golden flowers, leaves, and vines.

Early Lab Entrance and Exit Tileset

An unused tileset for the entrance and exit of Alphys's Lab. The final game uses one image each for the entrance and exit, and the final exit has some remnants of this in its sprite. This early lab can be seen if you remove the final lab sprite.

Placeholder New Home Tileset

An early version of the New Home Ruins tileset that's a gray version of the early Ruins tileset.

Hidden Alpha Pixels

Some sprites have hidden pixels that have an alpha value of 0, making them not normally visible.

Omega Flowey Vines

The vines from the Omega Flowey boss fight have hidden pixels that show more of the original image used for them.