Tsunderplane

Huh!? Y-you sicko!

Tsunderplane, if flirted to before being approached

Tsunderplane (JP: ツンデレひこうき) is an enemy that appears in Hotland.

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Appearance

Tsunderplane appears to be a regular real-world airplane, resembling an Airbus A340-300 and the Boeing 707. It sports a faint pink blush near its nose. It wears a pink mob cap with thin ribbons on it, based on that of Yukari Yakumo from the Touhou Project series, the final extra stage boss of Perfect Cherry Blossom, who also happens to be Toby Fox's favorite Touhou character (as of October 2018).

Personality

Tsunderplane is fixated on the protagonist in a manner unswervingly modeled off of the "tsundere" character archetype for which it is named. It has romantic feelings for the protagonist, but refuses to admit it, and wavers between acting flustered, defensive, or snubbing in turns, unless the protagonist gets Tsunderplane's guard down.

Etymology

Tsunderplane is a portmanteau of tsundere and plane. The name may also borrow from the term Thunder Plane.

Main story

Tsunderplane can be seen in Hotland after the completion of the True Pacifist Route. It explains to the protagonist how it did not love them but instead was enamored with the concept of love. However, at the end of the conversation, it still says "Y... y-you i-idiot", leaving ambiguity on whether what it just said was true or not.

In battle

Appears with

• Vulkin

Attacks

• Several planes fly horizontally straight from either side of the bullet board, dropping bombs. Once a bomb hits the bottom of the board, a vertical line of smoke appears that goes through the whole board.
• Large planes fly from the top to the bottom of the board, leaving a horizontal-moving smoke trail.
  • In a turn after approaching, the planes are surrounded by narrow green zones and the smoke trail does not move across the board.

Strategy

• If the protagonist uses the "Approach" ACT, its attack's airplanes are now surrounded by narrow green zones.
  • Touching the green zone (four times if by itself, or three times with Vulkin) allows Tsunderplane to be spared. However, unlike other Green Attacks, this does not heal the protagonist.
  • Touching the white part of the plane still causes damage.

Quotes

Tsunderplane/Tsunderplane (spare conditions met)

• Id... Idiot! [Neutral]
• B-but I never got to ...! [Defeat]

Tsunderplane

• No way! Why would I like YOU [Check]
• It's not like I LIKE you. [Neutral]
• Hmph! Don't get in my way. [Neutral]
• >_<... Human ... [Neutral]
• Eeeeh? H-human ...? [Approach]
• Huh!? Y-you sicko! [Flirt]

Tsunderplane (spare conditions met)

• Human, I... [Check/Approach]
• ... H-human ... ...? [Neutral]
• Ah... Is that true...? [Flirt]

Flavor text

• Seems mean, but does it secretly like you? [Check]
• Tsunderplane gets in the way! Not on purpose or anything. [Encounter]
• Tsunderplane attacks! Not because it's jealous Vulkin is paying attention to you! [Encounter with Vulkin]
• Tsunderplane looks over, then turns up its nose. [Neutral]
• Tsunderplane shakes its nose dimissively at you. [Neutral]
• Tsunderplane "accidentally" bumps you with its wing. [Neutral]
• Tsunderplane gives you a condescending barrel roll. [Neutral]
• Smells like an airport perfume counter. [Neutral]
• You tell Tsunderplane it has an impressive wingspan. [Flirt]
• You tell Tsunderplane it has nice turbines. [Flirt]
• You tell Tsunderplane it has a powerful rudder. [Flirt]
• You tell Tsunderplane that you like its taste in movies and books. [Flirt]
• You tell Tsunderplane that it has cute winglets. [Flirt]
• You get close to Tsunderplane. But not too close. [Approach]
• Tsunderplane's body is smoking. [Low HP]
• Tsunderplane is looking away shyly. [Spare conditions met]
• Vulkin reassures you the plane turning tiny is, like, completely intentional. [Spared with Vulkin also present]

Trivia

Tiny Tsunderplane in the upper-left corner after being spared.

• Killing Tsunderplane makes it crash and explode like a real airplane, instead of turning into dust as most monsters would.
  • As a possible consequence, when spared, Tsunderplane's sprite becomes smaller and hatless, and moves to the top-left corner of the screen, which the official website's FAQ claims is intentional. During the 10th Anniversary Stream, Toby admitted that this was originally a bug, but he kept it in due to it making him laugh.
• Tsunderplane is mentioned in Mettaton's news ticker, which reads "LOCAL PLANE CREATES HUGE LINE AT STORE BY SAYING "IT'S NOT LIKE I WANT TO BUY THESE PRODUCTS OR ANYTHING" CASHIER CONFUSED   ||"
• One of Tsunderplane's attacks encourages grazing (getting close to a bullet without touching it), a mechanic that is featured in many Touhou games and later used in Deltarune.