Come join the fun.

Memoryhead

Memoryheads are the first type of Amalgamate that appears in Undertale. Before their spare conditions are met, Memoryheads are known as "     " (five blank spaces, except in their initial encounter text: "*        drew near!" where six are used, not including the space after * and before drew (likely as an actual space - not a part of the name, same way there's be a space if it wasn't called " ").).

In the True Lab, a trio of Memoryheads attack the protagonist when they turn on three sinks. In battle, Memoryhead can put a Bad Memory in the inventory if the ITEM ACT is selected.

In Battle

Attacks

• Dots appear on the screen, which soon balloon into wiggling faces. The placement of these dots is random, sometimes even outside of the Bullet Board. According to the textures's names, the heads are called "Freak bullets."

Strategy

• Memoryhead can be spared by using CELL from the ACT menu, then refusing one of them.

Quotes

Before using CELL in the ACT menu, Memoryheads "play" dial-up noises as dialogue before attacking. The following text is only used after the CELL action is used.

• Come join the fun. [Neutral]
• It's a real get together [Neutral]
• Lorem ipsum docet [Neutral]
• Become one of us! [Neutral]
• Then, hold still. [Join]
• Just a moment. [Join]
• You'll be with us shortly. [Join]
• That's a shame. [Refuse]
• Oh well. [Refuse]
• Be seeing you. [Refuse]

Flavor Text

• No data available. [Check before CELL]
•         drew near! [Encounter]
• But nobody came. [Neutral]
• Smells like batteries. [Neutral]
• The enemy put a piece of itself in your inventory. [ITEM]
  • But your inventory was full. [Full inventory]
• AT - <protagonist's total AT + 10> DF - <protagonist's total DF + 10> [STAT]
• You take out your CELL PHONE. You can hear voices through the receiver...! [CELL]
• Monster has low HP. [Low HP; unused]
• Seems like it doesn't care anymore. [Spare conditions met]

Trivia

• Memoryhead's overall shape and distortion resembles Giygas, the final boss in EarthBound.
  • The overall music theme for all Amalgamates, Amalgam, also exclusively uses EarthBound instruments, two of which include sampled songs that are near the end of EarthBound, including Giygas's Lair.
• Their composition (six faces in an oval, a bone, and a nondescript wisp) resembles a human brain in shape.
• Unlike the other Amalgamates, Memoryheads do not appear to be composed of any known monster seen throughout the game.
  • Its odd manner of continuously glitching and speaking in errors, the flavor text "Smells like batteries," how it normally talks only when using the CELL option, and how it produces Dial-Up sounds may suggest that it lives in or is connected in some way to an electronic device.
• Memoryhead's ACT options match the options in the overworld menu.
• When attacked, it absorbs the blow, gaining a significant, overflowing amount of HP that actually stretches the health bar off the screen.
• When attacking the protagonist, Memoryheads use bullets that resemble the grin of a mysterious man that the protagonist can encounter.
  • The bullets also resemble the faces on the Memoryheads's overworld sprites.
• The flavor text, "But nobody came." is a reoccurring line in Undertale. Examples include:
  • This line can appear twice in Lemon Bread's encounter, including the Call ACT.
  • The text appears as an encounter flavor text when the kill counter for any Undertale location is exhausted.
  • Flowey states this line twice during his monologues. Once as Photoshop Flowey in the Neutral Route,^[1] and in New Home near the end of the Genocide Route.^[2]
• The flavor text "lorem ipsum docet" comes from Latin, but has no meaning since "lorem" is not a word. However, it does have a few possible origins:
  • The term "Lorem Ipsum" refers to placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content. If the text is referring to that, it would translate to "Lorem ipsum teaches."
  • Alternatively, it could reference the origin of the term, which is the work of the Ancient Roman philosopher Cicero called De finibus bonorum et malorum where the sentence Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet (...) was split between two pages and the second page contains "lorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet (...)". Dolorem ipsum means "the pain" or "pain itself," which would make the dialogue mean "The pain teaches."
• Memoryhead, along with Reaper Bird and Everyman, does not appear in the True Pacifist Route epilogue.
• Memoryhead appears briefly in the debug room "room_monsteralign_test."

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