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| “ | IIIT'S!! T!! V!! TIIIIIME!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna's catchphrase and most famous quote, said when starting one of his challenges. |
| “ | We'll all do ONE MORE LITTLE GAME... One last ENCORE! And this time, we'll play until you LIKE IT. | „ |
| ~ Tenna revealing his villainy. |
| “ | The family's fighting again. | „ |
| ~ Tenna being reminded of the Dreemur family's breakup. |
| “ | I... I just wanted to be watched. I just wanted you to look at me... One last time... Since... since a little while ago... all that I've been broadcasting is the same reruns, over and over... I... I don't have anything that anyone wants to watch anymore... I'm irrelevant... I'm junk... I don't want to be thrown away... | „ |
| ~ Tenna's insecure breakdown. |
Mr. Ant Tenna, best known as just Tenna, is the main antagonist of Chapter 3: Late Night of the 2018 indie RPG Deltarune, as well as a minor character in Chapter 4: Prophecy.
The Darkner form of the Dreemurr family's old TV box, Tenna is the ruler of the TV World, a position with which he uses to entertain the masses. However, after years of no longer being used by his owners, he's become determined to try and keep an audience no matter what. He is the archenemy and former business partner of Spamton G. Spamton.
Appearance[]
Tenna takes appearance of a human-like figure with a TV as his head, possessing no facial features except for a large grinning mouth and a long nose. These features disappear when his screen is turned off. He wears a red suit with two, long coattails behind him, the word TV emblazoned on his suit lapel, a long yellow tie, black pants, puffy white gloves, and yellow pointy, heeled shoes. Tenna has numerous physical quirks that differentiate him from the previous Dark World rulers: he is much taller than anyone else, and is rendered as a simplistic 3D model, unlike the rest of the game's characters who are 2D pixel art sprites. Thus, this allows Tenna to be far more animated than any other character.
Tenna grows and shrinks in accordance to his mood, becoming smaller the less enthusiastic he feels. Although hard to tell, he can blush pink. Sometimes, when Tenna speaks, his dialogue appears as stylised fonts. When angered, Tenna will grow fangs and sharp points will emerge from his shoulders.
Personality[]
A charismatic and enthusiastic show host, Tenna is extremely energetic and peppy, seemingly wanting nothing more than to entertain his guests. This is for the most part, true as he provides to Kris and the Delta Warriors' every need, modifying games to be to their liking and doing his best to be accommodating. He also tends to make cheeky quips and commentary to keep audiences engaged. However, as noted by his shifty and nervous dialogue at certain points, Tenna is evidently secretive of his true motive, which is revealed to be his obsessive need for attention stemming from his insecurities.
Wanting nothing more than an audience to watch him, Tenna has no qualms with hurting anybody to ensure that he gets what he wants, kidnapping Toriel and tormenting Kris's party to try to force them to stay. His affable persona also begins to show cracks as he undergoes rapid mood swings from depressive to volatile. Furthermore, while mostly nice to his employees, Tenna begins showing more authoritative behaviour towards them, forcing them to do his bidding under the clauses of his contracts, though it appears that he already gives them subpar treatment thanks to their poor pay.
These insecurities all stem from Tenna's fear of becoming outdated, seeing as he wouldn't be able to entertain others if he was thrown away. Thus, despite all his shortcomings, Tenna truly does care for others and wants nothing more than to make Lightners smile. He shows much more of this caring side after he's encouraged by Susie of his own self-worth, allowing him to turn his back on the Knight and help the Delta Warriors out.
Biography[]
Background[]
The Darkner form of the Dreemurr household's TV, Tenna was once a proud entertainer who loved spending time with his owners, fondly recounting the days when he was used to watch films, shows and other forms of entertainment. As such, he is keenly familiar with the tastes of both the Dreemurr and Holiday households, as the two were very close. Tenna would even become good friends with an up-and-coming salesman named Spamton G. Spamton once the library's laptop was taken to the Dreemurr household, with the two helping each other bolster themselves to fame. Tenna would also receive a pipis from him, keeping the original as a treasure and being implied to use its self-replicating abilities to mass produce ingredients for certain food items.
However, as time went on and circumstances changed, namely December "Dess" Holiday's disappearance, the two families would spend less time together and sooner or later, Tenna would end up completely unused. Additionally, during a meeting with Spamton one day, Tenna would try to learn the salesman's secrets to gaining fame, only for Spamton to abandon him after receiving an unnerving phone call from a strange someone, plummeting from glory soon after. Tenna would assume Spamton was just ripping him off and would grow to hate him.
Tenna would be stuck keeping his business afloat with constant reruns and repetitive shows, something he grew tired of over time.
Chapter 2: A Cyber's World[]
As Chapter 2 comes to a close, the television is mysteriously plugged in once more after Susie is invited to have a sleepover, with the girl deciding to binge through an entire marathon of kaiju movies before suddenly falling asleep. With a plan perfectly set in motion, Kris waits until late into the night, yanks out their SOUL, powers on the television, and creates a Dark Fountain within their own living room, bringing the television, and much of the surrounding area, to life within a Dark World. As the chapter comes to a close, a single toothy grin can be seen emerging from the television static, symbolizing Tenna coming to life.
According to Tenna's own words next chapter, the Roaring Knight would approach him with an offer: in exchange in assisting in their schemes, he would be granted an audience for as long as he wanted. Tenna would agree to this proposition and as such, begin setting up his Dark World to host a show that runs forever. However, in his secret Shadow Mantle video game level, Tenna implies Kris had also approached him to make a deal in exchange for not being turned off again.
Chapter 3: Late Night[]
After Susie and Ralsei argue over how "real" Darkners are, the mood is unceremoniously ruined by a strange voice and a spotlight. When prompted with an identity, the voice reveals itself to be Tenna, host of the game show "Mr. (Ant) Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Board: TV Time". Although Susie objects at first, she would later join in after some convincing from Ralsei, who can't spend any time with his friends in the Light World. Overjoyed, Tenna would quickly start up his show.
The show went by simple enough, just a modified dungeon crawler filled with quizzes, fights, and side quests, capped off with a "Physical Challenge". That round simply had a cooking challenge, one based on the cooking shows that Toriel used to watch. After passing through that ordeal, the Delta Warriors win, getting judged based on their performance in all the games. However, what Tenna failed to mention, only bringing it up now, was that there was a second round to be had. With the heroes agreeing to play along, Tenna sends everyone back to his Green Room to prepare.
What they didn't know was that Tenna was in contact with someone who found something, later revealed to be Toriel, in the new Dark World, and is trying to buy time for an unknown reason. Before he can finish, Tenna notices that Susie had walked in. Despite the interruption, the two have a genuine heart-to-heart before being interrupted by a phone ringing.
The second round started off similarly to the first, using the same dungeon crawler as before. However, partway through the challenge, Tenna leaves to answer a signal he starts receiving, reappearing on set after a short while. This time, the round ended with a musical Physical Challenge, based on the (potentially scandalous) music channel family friend December Holiday loved watching. Still, the heroes were able to pass through (despite Susie's rough play with the drum set). Despite winning, however, Tenna decided to stall for even more time with a Bonus Round, with the gang only agreeing after Tenna breaks down upon the threat of them leaving.
Should the heroes try to start up the next round, however, they walk into yet another one of Tenna's phone calls, with him explicitly stating that if Susie were to find out the truth, everything would be over. Making her presence known, Susie would interrupt, but with her being incapable of getting any information,
The heroes would wander out and unlock the passage to the right of the Green Room, only to discover that the "grand prize" that was promised was Toriel, stuck sleeping in a capsule. Feeling the need to vent out his feelings to the sleeping woman, he suddenly goes manic and lifts up her capsule, revealing that the three heroes were hiding behind it. Tenna tries to start up the Bonus Round, but now that a life is being held on the line, the squad isn't having any of it, causing Tenna to fly into an insanity-fueled rampage as he forces the warriors to partake in various remixes of the previous minigames. The team only gets away thanks to using a Zapper to ACT and use the "OffButton", buying them time.
In a panic, Tenna would start spiraling further, mistreating his workers and forcing them to find the Lightners. However, his quickly souring demeanor starts pushing everyone, even his most trusted allies, away from him. In desperation, Tenna would appear before the Lightners to stop them from sealing the Dark Fountain, revealing his own backstory and desire for a never-ending show. In one last attempt to stop them, Tenna forces the team into one last "Physical Challenge", a boss fight up against him as they try to rack up a thousand points to win. Even reaching the threshold, Tenna is unwilling to give up until the gang forces him to, shooting at his head until the set starts glitching out.
After his defeat, Tenna breaks down even more, becoming more dejected than ever before. While Ralsei tries to comfort Tenna through his own nihilistic worldview on Darkners, Susie interrupts, having a genuine heart-to-heart before promising to find him a new home. Tenna, overjoyed, promises to return Toriel by lowering her to safety. Ecstatic, Tenna lets the heroes of light pass by, only to suddenly be interrupted by two slashes. As punishment for his betrayal, the Roaring Knight has arrived to make short work of Tenna, slicing off both of his arms and dealing massive damage to him, seemingly killing him off as it decides to take on the Lightners itself.
Chapter 4: Prophecy[]
Tenna's fate depends on how the player acted in Chapter 3. If they recruited every enemy and met the score threshold of his battle, Susie is able to successfully repair Tenna off-screen, albeit with his Light World counterpart sustaining noticeable damage. With Toriel seemingly wanting to throw it out, Susie and Kris take Tenna back to Castle Town for the time being, with Ralsei setting up his room there. Lancer will also hire Tenna as King's personal entertainer, whom he entertains with his oafish antics.
In Hometown, there is a self-proclaimed nobody who hides away in their home all day, implied to be the Deltarune equivalent for Mettaton. If the player has Kris agree to bring them entertainment in Chapter 2's epilogue and heads back in Chapter 4, they can bring Tenna over to the ghost, giving Tenna someone who'll be watching him for a good long while. The ghost will later watch one of Dess’s favourite music videos and remark that it’s “awakened something” in them, implying that they could assume a persona similar to Mettaton’s in the future, similarly to how certain returning characters are beginning to resemble their previous counterparts.
However, if the player didn't recruit everyone and/or didn't meet the score threshold, Susie is unable to repair Tenna, leaving his Light World form heavily damaged with a cracked screen; Susie says that he can't be brought into the Dark World, likely meaning that Tenna is dead in this scenario.
Quotes[]
Pre-Bonus Round[]
| “ | It's now time for our feature presentation... Feacher. Coming straight from your house. Coming straight from YOUR house. (Coming) He's the One (coming). The KING of ONLY! He's GROOVY and NEVER glooby! You can't get this from an EGG! The sensation of your screen, the show that makes you scream! Say it with him, folks! Mr. (Ant) Tenna's TV Time! | „ |
| ~ Tenna's introductory VHS. Notably, one of Spamton's "Pipis" is shown during the "You can't get this from an egg" line, which foreshadows the sour relationship between the two. |
| “ | What am I doing? You should be wondering what YOU'RE doing! You're about to play the greatest game of YOUR life! Answer CRAZY QUESTIONS!! Pass PHYSICAL CHALLENGES... And you'll all win some TV-Tastic PRIZES!!! FLORAL COWBOY BATH CURTAINS!!! A BRAND NEW FAMILY CAR!!! BIG BRO'S TALKER-BACKER!! KITCHEN SINK FUR-GUARD!! CHOCOLATE CHEWY ROLL-UM'S!!! A GENUINE RALSEI PLUSH!! (Ralsei: Hey I didn't agree to-) AND THAT'S! NOT! ALL! Hey Doctor Tennaville! What's today's prescription? Why, it looks like a prescription for... one GRAND PRIZE!? That's right! Today's GRAND PRIZE is this season's MOST popular item... Encased in our patented MYSTERY BALL... This Dark World's ONE AND GREATEST TREASURE! Hey, bet you wanna know what's INSIDE, don't ya, folks!? Well, great news, CADOOS and CADETTES! EVERYTHING can be YOURS! All you have to do is... *WIN! | „ |
| ~ Tenna introducing his game show, and foreshadowing his grand prize. |
| “ | It's normal for couples to fight sometimes! C'mon Kris, tell 'em! | „ |
| ~ Tenna after Lanino and Elnina start fighting, seemingly hinting at the Dreemurrs' divorce. |
| “ | STOP! STOP! STOP!!! It CAN'T be over already!! NO!! The FUN-O-METER's still only at 80%!! (Susie: Huh?) Ah, you see... That was just... ROUND 1! (Ralsei: There's... more than one round...?) Of course!! There's 2 ROUNDS!! 2!! You haven't ever heard of a game show with just ONE ROUND, have you!? | „ |
| ~ Tenna after winning the first round. |
| “ | ...located... in the purple cliffs? Perfect! Don't waste any time. You know what comes next. Assembly, air holes, soft, soothing music... Then we just need time. One more board, just ONE more board and then... | „ |
| ~ Tenna's interrupted transmission relating to Toriel's appearance. |
| “ | Tenna: S... SUSIE!!! SUSIE, sweetheart, my STAR contestant, hey, how can I help you!? Free toy ball voucher!? Refreshments!? Lifetime supply of NON-GLOOBY slime? Susie: Just, uh... Wanted to say the games were pretty fun, I guess. Tenna: They... they are? Susie: I mean, you SAW when you interrupted us, but... Ralsei... He was being kind of weird, earlier. I feel like this cheered him up. And... me too. It's just been taking my mind off... everything... I guess. Tenna: S... Susie? SUSIE!!!!!!! I've never wanted to hear ANYTHING more!!! I'VE LOVED putting on this SHOW! I haven't had this much fun in years! Seeing REAL LAUGHS! REAL SMILES! From an audience of MORE THAN ONE! It's a DREAM! I... can't lie. I've been a bit, alone, until recently. But hosting you and lil' Ralsei has been an HONOR! Even if you're a tad sassy! Susie: Um, hey, Kris was having fun, too. Tenna: Oh... yeah, Kris! Haha, Kris! Good old Kris! What a stinker! Susie: ...Don't you like Kris? Tenna: What the - are you kidding!? Of course I LOVE Kris! They were one of my original viewers! I'm just not sure if, heh, they... uhh, love TV. Susie: Huh? Why wouldn't they... (The phone rings.) Tenna: HEY would you look at that!! The NEXT BOARD's ready!!! It was GREAT talking to you, Susie!! Good luck out there!! Susie: Uhh, yeah! Later! |
„ |
| ~ Tenna and Susie's exchange before the second round. |
| “ | Oh, Kris! Remember DECEMBER? Oh, that little musical prodigy... Remember when she'd grab the remote and swap it from cartoons... to that WILD music video channel Toriel FORBID you to see? (Guess your mother's never been a fan of alligators in bikinis.) Dess, rocking her guitar and singing along with those nasty, nasty songs! Didn't you all think she was just so... COOL? HECK! Maybe you could get her to come back and watch again sometime!? Haha! Just kidding! Anyway, are you ready to rock? | „ |
| ~ Tenna before the second Physical Challenge, showing his knowledge on Dess. |
| “ | Phew! There you are, still sleeping like a little angel! Haha! Who the HECK knows what I'D do if you woke up! ...I'm sorry we gotta do this to you, Tori... You were the last one to really... give me a good look, back then. But hey, that's show business! Nothing... stays big forever. Without... a little HELP, that is. That's why you're gonna be our little TRUMP CARD... Heheheh... Hahahahahaha- | „ |
| ~ Tenna to an unconscious Toriel, indirectly revealing part of his plan to the three heroes. |
Bonus Round[]
| “ | No, haha! Ralsei, RALSEI! Buddy-BOY! It's fine! I GET IT! Look, I get it! CLASSIC TV... sometimes takes a little TIME to APPRECIATE! So how about this? We'll all do ONE MORE LITTLE GAME... One last ENCORE! And this time, we'll play until you LIKE IT. | „ |
| ~ Tenna right before the Bonus Round begins. |
| “ | I'm not broken! I don't have burn-in! I'm... fun!!! C'mon, say it!!! I'm!!! Fun!!! ...Fine. You don't wanna say it? Maybe a quiz will help you answer!!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna as he slowly goes mad |
| “ | PHEW! That battle was a WORKOUT!! Let's never fight again! We're a HAPPY family, aren't we, Kris!? ...Kris? | „ |
| ~ Tenna after the first fight in the bonus round. |
| “ | Ahhh... Kris, remember when your brother was here? You used to spend so, so, much time with him. With me. Watching cartoons. Playing games. Smiling. Laughing. Crying. Why? Why don't you two do that anymore...? What!? He went to COLLEGE? Well... why'd he have to go do THAT!? You. Can learn. ANYTHING! On TV! Ahahahah!!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna before the bonus cooking Physical Challenge, showing insecurity over Asriel going to college. |
| “ | They're coming out of the pipes. They're crawling out of the pipes. Where are they going...!? Hahaha... I... don't... KNOW!! Ahahahahahaha!!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna's bizarre "instructions" before the bonus cooking Physical Challenge. |
| “ | I'm sorry. I'm sorry about the pipes. I knew. I KNEW I shouldn't have done it. But you know, every pipe goes SOMEWHERE! They had to go SOMEWHERE!!! Wait, no. Not another battle. Please... The family's fighting again. | „ |
| ~ Tenna's apology for an already bizarre pipe situation, also making an allegory for the Dreemurr family falling apart. |
| “ | I know. I know what you need. To get your minds off of this. And your eyes back on me. A LITTLE MUSIC!!! That's right!! SHOW tunes!! KRIS on the PIANO!! You LOVE it, don't ya, folks!? That's right! A MUSICAL CHALLENGE! And this time, it's... Oh God. Oh God, it's coming. The music is coming. I can't stop it... | „ |
| ~ Tenna before the bonus music Physical Challenge. |
Pre-Battle[]
| “ | Where are you!? My contestants!? I'll give you funny goop that gets stuck on the carpet! A lifetime supply! Come baaaaack!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna after the heroes escape the Bonus Round. |
| “ | WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T FOUND THE LIGHTNERS YET!? Arrghhh!! You're all... FIRED!!! (All of Tenna's staff appear dejected.) I mean, uh... HIRED!!!! (Tenna's staff suddenly starts celebrating.) I mean, uh... No more POINTs until you CAPTURE them!! You like POINTs, right!? Okay, then we're CLEAR, right! You guys... (A single Shadowguy starts kicking up before the rest of the team starts cheering.) What do you MEAN you don't want to fight them!? Wh... What the!? Read the FINE PRINT in your CONTRACT, buddy! Now QUIT complaining and GO! | „ |
| ~ Tenna causing the relationship between him and his staff to deteriorate. |
| “ | WHAT!? She ROLLED OVER in her SLEEP!? You know she'll be in GRAVE DANGER if she's AWAKE for this, right!? ...what!? You QUIT!? You can't QUIT!!! RAMB!!! (Ramb hangs up the phone.) ARRRGH, I KNEW HE WAS A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING!!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna talking to Ramb about Toriel over the phone, hinting that he at least cares for Toriel's safety. |
| “ | L-look everyone!! It'll be fine!! I'm cutting-edge!! I'm new!! I'm TV!!! Three-colors, cathode raytube!! Make you laugh, make you cry!! Entertainment that never gets old!! (Two Shadowguys and a Zapper leave.) H-hey, stop!! Don't go...!! Darnit, this is all that spammy MAILMAN's fault!! He... he told me he was gonna teach me how to use technology!! H... How to plug in and make! It! BIG...! And where is HE!? Arrrgh, if I could get my hands on... (One by one, the rest of Tenna's crew leave.) Wait, where are you going!? Stop!! Help me!! Help!! Does anyone know what an e-mail is??? | „ |
| ~ Tenna breaking down near the end of the chapter, further pushing everyone away. |
| “ | Elnina!! Lanino!? You two!? C'mon, old friends, you can't leave...! (Lanino and Elnina slowly back away before leaving.) Fine!! Fine, you wanna go, GO!! We'll see how far the Lightners get... WITHOUT THE WEATHER CHANNEL!! HAHAHA! How can they know the Weather without TV !?!? Hahahaha!! What? Apps? What... What are those!? Everything's changing so fast... (A spotlight appears above Tenna, covering the rest of the world in a faint darkness.) M... Mike? Mike, you... you're leaving, too!? MIKE!! NO!! ANYONE BUT YOU!! ANYONE!! | „ |
| ~ Ditto, but with his closest friends. |
| “ | ...HOW DID THINGS TURN OUT LIKE THIS... KEEPING POOR TORIEL ALL LOCKED UP... IF ONLY HE HADN'T ABANDONED ME. MY OLD PARNTER... I WAS GONNA PUT HIM ON TV! MAKE HIM A STAR! I GAVE HIM EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING I HAD! MY LIFE ADVICE! ALL. HE HAD. TO DO. WAS TELL ME WHAT HIS LITTLE SECRET WAS. HIS SECRET TO BEING A BIG SHOT... IT TOOK A LITTLE SWEET TALK... BUT JUST WHEN I HAD, FINALLY, FINALLY? HA HA-- GOTTEN HIM TO SIGN THE DEAL. HE SUDDENLY HAD TO TAKE A PHONE CALL. BUT WHEN HE PICKED IT UP, HIS FACE TURNED PALE... AND HE RAN RIGHT OUT OF THE ROOM WITH THE RECEIVER HANGING! SO I WENT TO PICK IT UP... THINKING IT WAS FINALLY MY CHANCE TO BE A BIG SHOT. ...BUT THERE WAS NOBODY THERE! THAT LITTLE FREAK RIPPED ME OFF! ...I WISH THEY NEVER BROUGHT THAT LAPTOP HOME... K... KRIS! KRIS, I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE! I... I DID WHAT YOU SAID, KRIS! HA... JUST LIKE OUR DEAL! Y-YOU AREN'T GONNA TURN ME OFF AGAIN, ARE YOU...? | „ |
| ~ Tenna in the secret third level of the Shadow Mantle video game, explaining his history with Spamton and potentially Kris. |
| “ | Tenna: No!! NO!! NO!!!! WHAT are you doing!? WHERE are you going!? Ahaha!! There are still GAMES to play!! SHOWS to watch!! Laughs and SCREAMS!! Smiles and TEARS!! Just wander back to your seats and we can... Susie: ENOUGH of your dumb games!! Why the hell do you want us to play so bad anyways!? |
„ |
| ~ Tenna and Susie as the heroes reach the Cold Place one final time. |
| “ | Do you remember it, Kris? When everyone came over for the holidays? Back when I was just a little old TV. Everyone used to gather around my glow to watch the specials, smiling. Laughing. Eating butterscotch pie. Wasn't that just so much... fun? To watch me. I... was so happy. Then... people stopped coming. Everyone disappeared... one by one... No one wanted to watch TV anymore. No one wanted to play games anymore. I've been all alone... Until now. When the KNIGHT appeared... The ROARING KNIGHT. And I was told that if I keep you three busy, I can have ALL the people watch me that I want. And, I've been having SO much fun playing with you all, I... just don't want it to end! | „ |
| ~ Tenna explaining his backstory and motives. |
Battle[]
| “ | That's right folks! One last challenge! 1000 points or bust! Can you do it!? | „ |
| ~ Tenna as his battle begins. |
| “ | 1000 POINTS, JUST 1000 POINTS AND I'LL GIVE IT UP! BUT DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE EASY!! BECAUSE TODAY... WE'VE GOT AN ALL-STAR CAST!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna firing his first attack. |
| “ | So our STAR contestants have contested our STARs! But can they survive... Another PHYSICAL CHALLENGE? | „ |
| ~ Tenna before using one of his minigames. |
| “ | Ratings!? HA! I'll show you CHARISMA! HD's nothing when you've got NOSTALGIA! | „ |
| ~ Tenna. |
| “ | Mike, if you're still there, ban EVERYONE from the gift shop! | „ |
| ~ Tenna. |
| “ | ...WHERE... WHERE'S THE AUDIENCE? WHERE'D THEY GO...? WHERE ARE THEY!? | „ |
| ~ One of Tenna's neutral flavor texts, reflecting one of Spamton's flavor texts. |
| “ | That's it! It's time for the FINAL EPISODE! What will happen to our HEROES... When they REALIZE this show is NEVER gonna end!? | „ |
| ~ Tenna before his final attack. |
Post-Battle[]
| “ | You... you'll help me!? SUSIE!!! You... You're INCREDIBLE! You're AMAZING! No... you're MARVELOUS!! I feel electric!! I feel like a million bucks!! This... this must be what HOPE feels like!! We're inventing a Hall of Fame just for you!!! (Susie: But... you gotta give back Toriel. She's got people that need her, too.) I... I understand! I know it's not what the KNIGHT wants, but... Kris!! Susie!! Good contestants like you deserve a good prize!! This way!! | „ |
| ~ Tenna after Susie promises to find him a new home. |
| “ | Audience, would you please stand up and clap for our winners!! For outstanding kindness and bravery, the Lightners have won... THE GRAND PRIZE!!! Here you go!! She's all yours, folks!! How wonderful!! The family's all together again!! Now you can all finally- | „ |
| ~ Tenna after his redemption, and his last words before being brutally attacked and optionally killed by the Knight. |
Gallery[]
Animations[]
Trivia[]
- His name is an obvious pun on the word "antenna" and "ant".
- Thanks to his close relationship with Spamton in the past, Tenna frequently references him in-game:
- In Tenna's introductory VHS, he's depicted shooting a blue orb he calls an "egg". Not only does this orb resemble a pipis, Spamton claims "egg" is a slur for them, reflecting their mutual disdain.
- He often references their past together, lamenting that Spamton promised to teach him about the internet before disappearing.
- His battle themes heavily utilise leitmotifs used by Spamton. More accurately, Spamton heavily utilises Tenna's motifs, seeing as the ads and background tracks in the TV World imply that these motifs were Tenna's before Spamton stole them.
- His outfit heavily resembles the outfit Spamton wore in the past.
- During one of his minigames modelled after the "Susiezilla" minigame, his statue will be replaced by Ralsei and several explosives strapped to a statue of Spamton in his early years making a "pog" face. Said statue has its eyes censored.
- When entering the Bonus Room and going to its rightmost passage, a special cutscene will play if Spamton Neo was spared earlier: the Delta Warriors find a cupboard with a pipis inside, catching Tenna's attention and forcing them to hide. Tenna laments that his "secret" is out and that he'd take anyone to comfort him, even Spamton. Spamton will emerge from Kris's pocket to try and reconcile with Tenna, only for him to freak out and, mistaking him for some creature after the pipis, would spray Spamton with foam before placing the pipis in a safe location.
- Tenna is the only Darkner to explicitly reference Noelle's missing sister, Dess, by name, seeing as she used to come over to the Dreemurr household very often.
- At least some of Tenna's animations come from Mixamo, a 3D animation software and library. Two animations that he uses in particular are "Silly Dancing" and "Swing Dancing".
- During the first round, one of Tenna's sentences consists of the word "STOP". This is stylized as a stop-sign, albeit one that's blue, which is a reference to Sans' explanation of how blue attacks work in Undertale.
- Despite not being a secret boss, Tenna shares many similarities with the secret bosses of previous chapters:
- Like Spamton and Jevil, Tenna's Light World form is an object that's considered useless or obsolete: joker cards are often discarded during poker games, spam emails are typically ignored, while cathode ray TVs are considered old-fashioned and out of vogue. This is reflected in Tenna's fear of being ignored.
- Additionally, he, like the secret bosses, was very successful until his fall from grace, being watched every day until the Dreemurr and Holiday households drifted apart.
- He has a quirk with his manner of speaking, having coloured special effects for certain words in his text boxes.
- He has voiced dialogue (mainly his catchphrase), and lacks a text box portrait in his overworld dialogue. However, he does have a portrait of sorts which appears in his text box during certain game show battles (such as the first fight against Lanino and Elnina), as well as his boss fight.
- He is clearly mentally unstable, snapping violently when Kris refuses to keep playing along and exhibiting rapid mood swings.
- His boss theme uses leitmotifs from previous secret bosses, mainly Spamton's, with a portion of it at around 25 seconds in possibly being a short section of the "freedom" leitmotif used by most other secret bosses.
- He appears to be based off a stage of grief, his being bargaining as he tries to ensure his own popularity by kidnapping Toriel and forcing the Lightners to follow his show.
- Like Spamton and Jevil, Tenna's Light World form is an object that's considered useless or obsolete: joker cards are often discarded during poker games, spam emails are typically ignored, while cathode ray TVs are considered old-fashioned and out of vogue. This is reflected in Tenna's fear of being ignored.
- Similarly to Queen, Tenna appears to be a caricature of one of the parents of the Lightner he's most close to. In this case, he appears to be an exaggerated version of Kris's father, Asgore:
- The two are both pariahs to their original families, with Asgore getting divorced by Toriel and Tenna being an unused television.
- They both try their best to appeal to Kris and appear "fun", with Tenna setting up his games and Asgore trying to show as much affection as possible to them.
- They are both evidently struggling with their abandonments, with Tenna trying to assure himself that he's still relevant while Asgore seemingly wants to show Toriel "what really happened" to make her forgive him.
- They both seem to be hiding more than they let off: Tenna evidently has his own schemes, which are revealed during Chapter 3's climax, while Asgore seems rather suspicious with his Black Shard.
- The song that plays before Tenna's untimely demise "Hall of Fame" not only harkens back to Spamton Neo's defeat with its HEY! EVERY leitmotifs, but also seems to have a short leitmotif section from the Tera Raid Battle theme of Pokémon: Scarlet and Violet, another piece of music Toby Fox composed.
External Links[]
- Tenna on the Deltarune Wiki
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