Editor’s Note: Work in progress. This entry contains spoilers for the game Undertale. Don’t confuse this entry with Super Cool Ski Instructor.
About
“You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Sans from the retro-stylish RPG video game Undertale, as ultimatum said to the players who had decided to take the Genocide Route (also known as No Mercy Route), a story branch of the game that can be achieved by killing every fightable monster.
The quote got popular on the internet throught the Sans’s battle theme Megalovania, various fanarts and in a joke manner, with inspiring poorly made recreations of it.
Origin
Undertale is a video game released in September 2015, where the players are able to win their battles without killing their opponents. However, if the player has killed every monster that can be fought before passing all the puzzles in the frozen town of Snowdin, Sans will warn the player to not fight the next boss; his brother Papyrus, and drops his friendly appearance while saying “You’re gonna have a bad time” to foreshadow story events and consequences caused by continuing to kill monsters and becoming over-leveled to the point of killing most characters in a single hit.
The quote will be repeated after the “Judge” scene near the end of the game if the player succeeds in killing every boss and random encounter monster preceding the scene, where afterwards the player must fight a boss battle against sans.
In the genocide route; the player can kill nearly every monsters effortlessly in one hit, but completely averts this in Sans’ boss battle by revealing him as an extremely powerful fighter able to dodge every attack from the player, creating a high difficulty spike and an all-out battle of endurance between the player and sans in what fans dub as the “True Final Boss” of the Genocide Ending.
Spread
The quote has seen spread in the Undertale fandom from players who have complete the genocide ending of the end, using it as a catchphrase for the game’s “genocide route.”
Megalovania
Sans’ theme is Megalovania (Shown bottom left,) a revamped version of a final boss theme that Undertale’s developer Toby Fox originally composed for his previous game; the EarthboundROM hack“[Radiation’s] Halloween Hack” [1] (Shown bottom middle.) Toby Fox also composed a remix of the original song (also known as MeGaLoVania) for the soundtrack of Homestuck.[2] (Shown bottom right.)
Other memorable moments
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Various Examples
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External References
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[1]Radiation – Earthbound Halloween Hack
[2]Homestuck Bandcamp – MeGaLoVania