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Sans New Ability

Its pretty obvious, he should have "Perception Manipulation" in his page as sans had shown multiple times during the genocide run that he occasionally made the player's screen turn black whenever he teleports away in front of Frisk and made them feel their sins crawling on their back.
 
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It wouldn't be considered to be just visual effect if sans had been using it during combat for multiple times.
 
Visual effects happens on fights too multiple times, they don't stop being visual effects unless you bring proof they are something else, and again, it happens when he teleports the player, not everyone sees stuff when teleporting, especially when they aren't teleporting themselves.

You need proof that sans is causing this without it just being a visual effect or part of the teleport, or else it is too vague for a new power
 
Sans "making the player feel their sins crawling on their back" amounts to nothing but metaphorical mumbo jumbo.

I guess Air Manipulation is fine, though I don't think it'd be combat applicable.
 
no, but that doesn't mean it's inapplicable to combat. it just means he doesn't use it in-character. it would still apply to bloodlusted matches.
 
then why should it be air manipulation? we know sans can work with machines, it's possible that he just created it with technology

but sans is probably too lazy for that, i can see him just doing it with tk somehow
 
It's called a tornado and it sustains itself without Sans having to constantly control it with telekinesis. I guess since it could have been made by technology, maybe a "possibly" Air Manipulation would be better? Or no air manip at all?
 
i think a "possibly" rating would be fine. maybe "likely" considering that sans is probably too lazy to make a complex machine for such an unimportant task
 
A self-sustaining tornado would require some form of air manip, or technology that could replicate it, so I don't think it could be telekinesis.
 
Nothing points to him having just used Air Manip like that to do that when he doesn't use that power otherwise and could have done it via technological means or helped by it because of his background, and it does look like something he achieved rather than done for no reason.

What about the reports about the space-time continuum he knows about? That's Extracencioral Perception with prep too.
 
That's just, well, knownledge really, we have no idea how he knows it, he could've seen it on a monitor or something, I don't remember wr giving extrasensorial perception to scientists for detecting disturbances in reality like that
 
If he were to know it by himself it would be that power, therefore with a monitor or whatever it's the same. That power is the basic one and the one to go to when we know little, after it you have Cosmic Awareness, Clairvoyance, Info Analysis and Psychometry.
 
sans probably has info analysis for sensing your love and exp towards the end of the game. i've never understood how that gives him clairvoyance.
 
We have too many useless powers and people do mistakes while always trying to add in more new powers to the wiki. This is the short version.
 
"Extrasensory Perception with prep" is pretty nonsensical. Sans and whoever he was working with found a way to track anomalies in the space time continuum + did enough research on it to write reports on it. That doesn't give him a sixth sense or whatever.

Besides that, everything else in Sans' room seems to be done with minimal effort. Socks + letters lying about on the floor, bed sheets not made, clothes shoved into the drawers with no real care. It seems unlikely that Sans would go to the effort to make a machine to create a self-sustaining tornado when everything else in his room is so low effort. It could have been done via technology, and he's also never shown air manip before, so that's why I suggest "Possibly Air Manip".
 
"Extrasensory Perception with prep" is pretty nonsensical. Sans and whoever he was working with found a way to track anomalies in the space time continuum + did enough research on it to write reports on it. That doesn't give him a sixth sense or whatever.
He wouldn't have it himself, that's on whatever unknown means he had to track the anomaly. Knowing about it isn't Enhanced Senses because natural senses don't let anyone do that, therefore it's Extrasensory Perception. If a robot had the feat just like that walking and then knowing about the anomaly I bet there wouldn't be much of an issue with it having it, a machine is no different and we don't even know how Sans knew it.

Don't say "found a way to track anomalies in the space time continuum" as if that was no superpower.
Besides that, everything else in Sans' room seems to be done with minimal effort. Socks + letters lying about on the floor, bed sheets not made, clothes shoved into the drawers with no real care. It seems unlikely that Sans would go to the effort to make a machine to create a self-sustaining tornado when everything else in his room is so low effort. It could have been done via technology, and he's also never shown air manip before, so that's why I suggest "Possibly Air Manip".
Everything minus the tornado, the rest doesn't matter. You are the one to say that he would make a machine to create that, he could have already had the machine, he could had already worked on part of it or things that would make making it easy, he could have created the tornado somewhere else and moved it in his room. And the "machine" can be as simple as some small device, we don't know. As I see it it's not worth a Possibly.
 
He wouldn't have it himself, that's on whatever unknown means he had to track the anomaly. Knowing about it isn't Enhanced Senses because natural senses don't let anyone do that, therefore it's Extrasensory Perception. If a robot had the feat just like that walking and then knowing about the anomaly I bet there wouldn't be much of an issue with it having it, a machine is no different and we don't even know how Sans knew it.
Extrasensory Perception is a 6th sense. Something like being able to detect energy, or some other characteristic of a character, like their fear or whatnot. And this isn't a profile for a random robot that can detect anomalies, it's for Sans who has presumably found a way to track anomalies, or at least has access to reports which show this. Saying that Sans should have Extrasensory Perception via preparation due to research he has done in the past is like saying every character who possesses a magnifying glass or a telescope should have Enhanced Senses via prep.

Don't say "found a way to track anomalies in the space time continuum" as if that was no superpower.
It's not. I'm not saying it's some everyday occurrence, mind, but in Undertale that's supposedly possible to figure out simply through research and science. It's an intelligence feat perhaps, but it's not a superpower.

Everything minus the tornado, the rest doesn't matter. You are the one to say that he would make a machine to create that, he could have already had the machine, he could had already worked on part of it or things that would make making it easy, he could have created the tornado somewhere else and moved it in his room. And the "machine" can be as simple as some small device, we don't know. As I see it it's not worth a Possibly.
The rest does matter, it gives us an idea of what Sans would do in-character, which is the way that requires the least effort. "Creating the tornado somewhere else" doesn't reduce the number of assumptions - the question is still how he created the tornado, but also raises the question of how he moved the tornado, which could also be explained by air manip potentially. A device being small doesn't make it more or less complex - the computers of today are far more complex than the computers we had decades ago, yet are also far smaller. And yeah, he maybe could have had a handy tornado-maker-3000 lying around, but bringing up differently worded assumptions of the tornado being created by technology ultimately doesn't change the arguments.
 
Extrasensory Perception is a 6th sense. Something like being able to detect energy, or some other characteristic of a character, like their fear or whatnot.
No, the page is just bad. Extrasensory Perception are any senses/perceptions beyond what can logically be sensed, hence the name, and hence all the vast uses Clairvyance has is done via Extrasensory Perception, as the former page points out by going against what the latter page claims. The even bigger Cosmic Awareness claims it to be associated with Clairvyance and Enhanced Senses.
And this isn't a profile for a random robot that can detect anomalies, it's for Sans who has presumably found a way to track anomalies, or at least has access to reports which show this. Saying that Sans should have Extrasensory Perception via preparation due to research he has done in the past is like saying every character who possesses a magnifying glass or a telescope should have Enhanced Senses via prep.
Cheap thing to say, if a human could look as good as they could with a magnifying glass or a telescope then yes, they should have Enhanced Senses. A normal human having Enhanced Senses via prep is therefore correct, but too redundant to matter and for us to list. Detect an anomaly (singular btw) is a big deal that should be listed.
It's not. I'm not saying it's some everyday occurrence, mind, but in Undertale that's supposedly possible to figure out simply through research and science. It's an intelligence feat perhaps, but it's not a superpower.
"In Undertale that's supposedly possible to figure out simply through research and science" isn't a fact, in any setting it inpartially means the same from Real Life to way more craxy verses where the feat's not very notable.
The rest does matter, it gives us an idea of what Sans would do in-character, which is the way that requires the least effort.
The rest does not matter, you are assuming that because he often doesn't put much effect then in this case he must also do the same, but this is not those other cases, those other cases don't built up any consistency of everything he does that should aply to other things we know about him as those other things exist and should be judged on their own, you don't know if he didn't put effort and it's entirely possible for him to have put some more effort. This guy whose lazy was also implied to have knowledge in science and knows about an anomaly in the timeline via some reports, therefore there are times he isn't lazy, therefore making look illogical that he always no put any effort into anything he does that we don't know the context of. Those things that would need some effort in turn have to do with science, and he doesn't show Air Manip on his own, let alone to make air move in a way and have that being self-sustained, so it would make perfect sense that he could have put some scientific effort into the tornado, even as small as to already having the means to create it and doing so. Or he could have created it with another monster while chilling in his room. Or the tornado could have been created over time, while maybe or maybe not the process that makes it so needs little effort to be done. We don't know, claiming what's more likely within what we don't know is speculation.
"Creating the tornado somewhere else" doesn't reduce the number of assumptions - the question is still how he created the tornado, but also raises the question of how he moved the tornado, which could also be explained by air manip potentially.
He teleported it because moving is for people who isn't lazy and that's within what he can do, we don't know. Him having Air Manip likewise raises the questions of how he has that power, why does he have that power when he already shows others and monsters don't have that many, why he never uses it, does his brother have it? All as irrelevant as to how he created the tornado if he did so somewhere else and how he moved it, and answered by the same; "he can do that/has it and it doesn't matter". If we don't need to know how he has the power then why would we need to know how he created the tornado if he did so somewhere else? They're both made up.
A device being small doesn't make it more or less complex - the computers of today are far more complex than the computers we had decades ago, yet are also far smaller. And yeah, he maybe could have had a handy tornado-maker-3000 lying around, but bringing up differently worded assumptions of the tornado being created by technology ultimately doesn't change the arguments.
He could have brought a TV remove-size thing, pushed a button and that's it. That's pretty low effort, but again it doesn't need to be low effort.
At best that would be info analysis via prep time and whatever thing reported it to him
Sure, it's the same. I would imagine that given the DT stuff monsters messed with the ability to detect that cosmic thing could be related to DT users' ability to feel things like Asriel. But Info Analysis is pretty much the same power but more specific, and more used machines wise.
 
I doubt Toby intended for the small tornado to actually be anything. Apart of his mysterious nature is Sans having special powers and also occasionally using them in comedic ways. Him being able to manipulate the air in his house and create a miniature tornado for the minor purpose of collecting garbage like an unnecessarily complex trashcan isn't intended to be anything more than a gag. Not to mention that it's completely irrelevant for combat purposes as we don't know the methods of him doing this, nor if he can even make it stronger than what it is (which is so weak that apart from characters he'd stomp anyways it would be completely worthless, not to mention that it's obviously completely OOC for him to use). I don't know if even mentioning it on his page is worthwhile, let alone worth a long and drawn out argument over it.

If we absolutely had to though, I'd just go with "minor Air Manipulation (Can create a self-sustaining tornado, though the methods used to do this are unknown)"

As for the more relevant topic of his awareness about other timelines:

"our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting..."

"until suddenly, everything ends."

"heh heh heh... that's your fault, isn't it?"


"you can't understand how this feels."

"knowing that one day, without any warning... it's all going to be reset."

"look. i gave up trying to go back a long time ago."

"and getting to the surface doesn't really appeal anymore, either."

"cause even if we do... we'll just end up right back here, without any memory of it, right?"

"to be blunt... it makes it kind of hard to give it my all."


Bit more afterwards but that's enough.

"our reports" Means that he works within a group of Monster's who studied the time-space continuum, and they eventually learned about the time manipulation going on. The time manipulation is obviously what made Sans develop his pessimistic view of the world, as well. This implies that he only knows about all of this because him and other people understand the time-space continuum and eventually learned about what was going on with the anomaly, not because he just has a natural awareness of other timelines and when someone uses time manipulation. We also have implications that Sans in Undertale and Sans in Deltarune are connected, aware of each other, and may even be capable of entering each other's worlds, among other theories of similar nature, but getting into that would be diving into theoretical territory, which isn't suited for this type of thread.

Back to the point, it definitely does not seem to be some form of cosmic awareness, but simply something linked to his intelligence, that being the fact that he worked with intelligent scientists who could understand and monitor the time-space continuum to such a degree that they detected the use of time manipulation, implying that Sans has intelligence at least on a similar level to them (which is heavily supported by other things in the game, of course).
 
Also, has the whole sequence where you enter his room and have to walk in the dark for a period of time (the direction you go in being irrelevant) before Papyrus enters ever been addressed? He also says that Sans is pranking Frisk across time and space "again" and that he hates it when Sans does it, implying that he does things like that very commonly.
 
That's definitely info analysis, I agree. Pretty much perfectly fits the literal site definition of the power. I was also confused about it being "clairvoyance" but never addressed it.
 
No, the page is just bad. Extrasensory Perception are any senses/perceptions beyond what can logically be sensed, hence the name, and hence all the vast uses Clairvyance has is done via Extrasensory Perception, as the former page points out by going against what the latter page claims. The even bigger Cosmic Awareness claims it to be associated with Clairvyance and Enhanced Senses.
It's... literally in the name? Extrasensory Perception. Being able to perceive beyond the standard 5 senses. And just like how each of the 5 senses allow us to perceive some given characteristic of something (e.g. the sound energy it emits, how light is reflected/absorbed by it), an extra, or "sixth" sense would allow something similar. And honestly, our Clairvoyance page is the one that needs fixing. The definition you gave is pretty much copy and pasted from wikipedia, and it lists enhanced sight as a form of Clairvoyance which is just wrong.

Cheap thing to say, if a human could look as good as they could with a magnifying glass or a telescope then yes, they should have Enhanced Senses. A normal human having Enhanced Senses via prep is therefore correct, but too redundant to matter and for us to list. Detect an anomaly (singular btw) is a big deal that should be listed.
Worded weirdly, but seems that you agree that if they need the magnifying glass/telescope to see things they otherwise wouldn't be able to, then they shouldn't have Enhanced Senses? It doesn't follow then that Enhanced Senses via prep would be correct, nor that it would be "redundant" to list if it were. We should index all powers regardless of "importance", so if you agree that Enhanced Senses shouldn't be listed in this case, neither should ESP or whatever ability detecting the anomaly actually is.


The rest does not matter, you are assuming that because he often doesn't put much effect then in this case he must also do the same, but this is not those other cases, those other cases don't built up any consistency of everything he does that should aply to other things we know about him as those other things exist and should be judged on their own, you don't know if he didn't put effort and it's entirely possible for him to have put some more effort. This guy whose lazy was also implied to have knowledge in science and knows about an anomaly in the timeline via some reports, therefore there are times he isn't lazy, therefore making look illogical that he always no put any effort into anything he does that we don't know the context of. Those things that would need some effort in turn have to do with science, and he doesn't show Air Manip on his own, let alone to make air move in a way and have that being self-sustained, so it would make perfect sense that he could have put some scientific effort into the tornado, even as small as to already having the means to create it and doing so. Or he could have created it with another monster while chilling in his room. Or the tornado could have been created over time, while maybe or maybe not the process that makes it so needs little effort to be done. We don't know, claiming what's more likely within what we don't know is speculation.
Like I have already said, the rest does matter. When a creator, like Toby Fox, designs something they want to give off a certain impression, especially when it's something as personal as a room or a house. For Sans, everything in his room follows his usual demeanour - he's lazy (socks, clothes drawer, bed sheets). It would be illogical for something in this room to not follow this same pattern, as that would contradict the impression Toby would otherwise be trying to give. This is common sense. When you get into Sans' secret room behind the house, that's when you see stuff that would take effort - blueprints, some sort of large machine, which is where he's actually shown to have put effort into stuff. THAT correlates with the anomaly stuff he talks about - this is a hidden side to Sans that isn't otherwise known about by any of the other monsters you interact with. Ultimately, it IS entirely possible to claim what is more likely when we don't know for sure by examining the context and making assumptions which fit the logic provided to us.

He could have brought a TV remove-size thing, pushed a button and that's it. That's pretty low effort, but again it doesn't need to be low effort.
Occam's Razor would like to have a word with you.
 
i'm just gonna bring this up again. why doesn't sans have info analysis
He should.
It's... literally in the name? Extrasensory Perception. Being able to perceive beyond the standard 5 senses. And just like how each of the 5 senses allow us to perceive some given characteristic of something (e.g. the sound energy it emits, how light is reflected/absorbed by it), an extra, or "sixth" sense would allow something similar. And honestly, our Clairvoyance page is the one that needs fixing. The definition you gave is pretty much copy and pasted from wikipedia, and it lists enhanced sight as a form of Clairvoyance which is just wrong.
You're making up the idea that since it's beyond the standard 5 senses then it should limit itself to a 6°-like sense that sense thing alike the other senses, but being beyond those senses sets no limit to what can be sensed and so any amount of senses doing anything would just as be beyond normal perceptions. Likewise as it fits the name the Clairvoyance doesn't lie, another definition I got goes over it can perceive the future (Precog) or things beyond normal sensory contract, not talking of the latter for what it is, Extrasensory Perception, is just being overcomplicated for no reason.
Worded weirdly, but seems that you agree that if they need the magnifying glass/telescope to see things they otherwise wouldn't be able to, then they shouldn't have Enhanced Senses? It doesn't follow then that Enhanced Senses via prep would be correct, nor that it would be "redundant" to list if it were. We should index all powers regardless of "importance", so if you agree that Enhanced Senses shouldn't be listed in this case, neither should ESP or whatever ability detecting the anomaly actually is.
They would have it but it would be redundant to list. Enhanced Senses via prep is correct but too redundant to list.
Like I have already said, the rest does matter. When a creator, like Toby Fox, designs something they want to give off a certain impression, especially when it's something as personal as a room or a house. For Sans, everything in his room follows his usual demeanour - he's lazy (socks, clothes drawer, bed sheets). It would be illogical for something in this room to not follow this same pattern, as that would contradict the impression Toby would otherwise be trying to give. This is common sense. When you get into Sans' secret room behind the house, that's when you see stuff that would take effort - blueprints, some sort of large machine, which is where he's actually shown to have put effort into stuff. THAT correlates with the anomaly stuff he talks about -
The tornado could very well be an outlier to what the rest would showcase, everything being disordered because Sans was lazy and that tornado being there for unknown reasons, that is objective and therefore doesn't fall into it being there due to Sans being lazy, nor is he 1-Dimensional and could have only done it via being lazy (Not even a 1-Dimensional character would be that simple). We could speculate how he could have had that there possible things like "He created the tornado just like that" and "He created it some minor technology he already had", and but just because the former makes more sense than the latter doesn't mean it should be dismissed as if it was impossible, it is possible because we don't know what made that tornado. If he did make the tornado via technology then that also fits his backgroud, only going against the made-up idea that he doesn't show things about it, and not even that as seeing a tornado like that doesn't inhereditaty mean science.
this is a hidden side to Sans that isn't otherwise known about by any of the other monsters you interact with.
He does show teleporting when his brother can't and can prank across time and space or whatever the quote was via calls.
Occam's Razor would like to have a word with you.
That was the example I could think of with the least effort, "it was helped by science" is more vague. What that implies can be whatever because we don't know.
 
You're making up the idea that since it's beyond the standard 5 senses then it should limit itself to a 6°-like sense that sense thing alike the other senses, but being beyond those senses sets no limit to what can be sensed and so any amount of senses doing anything would just as be beyond normal perceptions. Likewise as it fits the name the Clairvoyance doesn't lie, another definition I got goes over it can perceive the future (Precog) or things beyond normal sensory contract, not talking of the latter for what it is, Extrasensory Perception, is just being overcomplicated for no reason.
Definition of a sense: "Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium". An extra sense would still fit the definition of a sense, but it would perceive some other stimulus separate from those five (six?).

They would have it but it would be redundant to list. Enhanced Senses via prep is correct but too redundant to list.
Redundant with what?? Again, in the example, we've established that the person in question does not have Enhanced Senses otherwise. There's no redundancy to be had.

The tornado could very well be an outlier to what the rest would showcase, everything being disordered because Sans was lazy and that tornado being there for unknown reasons, that is objective and therefore doesn't fall into it being there due to Sans being lazy, nor is he 1-Dimensional and could have only done it via being lazy (Not even a 1-Dimensional character would be that simple). We could speculate how he could have had that there possible things like "He created the tornado just like that" and "He created it some minor technology he already had", and but just because the former makes more sense than the latter doesn't mean it should be dismissed as if it was impossible, it is possible because we don't know what made that tornado. If he did make the tornado via technology then that also fits his backgroud, only going against the made-up idea that he doesn't show things about it, and not even that as seeing a tornado like that doesn't inhereditaty mean science.
I've already explained why there's no logical reason for Toby to imply that Sans spent much effort on anything in his room, as he otherwise wouldn't give the intended impression that Sans is lazy. That's not being one-dimensional, that's being consistent with theming. I'm not saying it's impossible that Sans made the self-sustaining tornado through some sort of technology he had on hand or whatever, but that assumption is less likely than him simply creating it. The other half of your argument doesn't make any sense really, the only other times where Sans reveals his knowledge of science and technology is in a secret locked room behind the house and in the Genocide route. Every character when talking about Sans simply says how lazy he is, and if there's a clear instance otherwise then show me. Also, creating a self-sustaining tornado with technology definitely comes under science.

He does show teleporting when his brother can't and can prank across time and space or whatever the quote was via calls.
Sans' shortcuts are completely unrelated, what?

That was the example I could think of with the least effort, "it was helped by science" is more vague. What that implies can be whatever because we don't know.
That assumes he has technology on hand which can do that, that it works simply with the press of a button and that it was done via technology in the first place. Claiming that Sans using technology is low effort also requires more assumptions, which would make air manip the more likely choice. Again, I think "possibly Air Manip" which isn't combat-applicable is more than fine.
 
I haven't really had a chance to read all the responses but it's likely that the person/people sans is working with are Gaster and Alphys, as his weapons are called Gaster blasters in the game files, and at one point Alphys mentions doing research with sans. Sans definitely has a way to scan the timelines, but I personally think that the power is scientific in nature and after enough resets he learned to read people's faces and tell if they have been in a reset before. But thats just my thoughts on things
 
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