Spirit Forme

Spirit Forme
General information
Game
Pathway
Outcome	Failure

Spirit Forme is an option in Completing the Mission during the boss fight in the "Revenged" pathway. It leads to a fail.

When chosen, Henry Stickmin and the Right Hand Man, who are both cyborgs in this pathway, engage each other in a battle involving spirits. Henry summons the spirit Reference to aid him in his fight, but the Right Hand Man counters with his own spirit, Bottled Time, which allows him to slow down time enough to dodge Reference's punches.

Reference is unable to hit the Right Hand Man, but is able to distract him by missing punches while repeating "Failure! Failure! Failure!" so Henry can land a punch. It doesn't have much of an effect since Henry is not as strong as Reference, but unbeknownst to Right Hand Man, Reference uses his power to switch places with Henry, thus making him the one that punched the Right Hand Man. The punch sends Right Hand Man through time and space into an alternate timeline, where he never met Henry and never became a cyborg. He thus loses all of his upgrades and becomes a regular human again.

Believing the Right Hand Man to be powerless, Reference moves in for the final blow. Unfortunately, despite the loss of his cybernetics, Right Hand Man still has Bottled Time, since it was not linked to his cybernetics. Having kept it active, he has collected enough sands of time to completely freeze time. With Henry and Reference unable to move, Right Hand Man draws a gun and kills Henry.

Fail Message

That doesn't seem right, but I don't know enough about anime to dispute it.

Trivia

• The Alternate Timeline Right Hand Man is sent to can be a number of timelines explored within the Henry Stickmin Collection.
  • The Timeline can't be one where Henry and RHM met. That happens in the RPE/RBH paths and at the end of the GSPI path.
  • The Toppat Airship is still functional in this path, so it cannot be Pure Blooded Thief.
  • The timeline is likely some random fail Timeline from before Fleeing the Complex.
    • The Fails would be Any of them from the Government Supported Private Investigator route except Shut off the power or Banana Bomb where the Airship fell from the sky, and possibly the following: Knock, Timeout, and Ninja Star because Henry was captured by the Clan, Gravity Bubble because Henry would've been stuck, Charles because the Airship may have been damaged, or Gatling Gun, Remote Access, I don't need your help!, & Sleeping Gas because Henry's corpse was left there.
    • The timeline could not be most fails from Pure Blooded Thief except Elevator, Teleporter, Stretch Chewies, Magic Pencil, Retroglove, Clawpack, or Gravity Manipulator and possibly Expanding Foam because the Airship was blow up in the other fails and Ending.
    • Every Fail from BtB to StD could work since Henry wouldn't be involved in Infiltrating the Airship.
  • Depending of your definition of "meet" it could be Government Supported Private Investigator since RHM may have only seen Henry in that timeline.
    • All the CtM endings after GSPI work because he sits in the DDP and doesn't interact with Henry.
      • If you really want to stretch what "took control of the Toppats" means, it's likely Cleaned 'em Out since Henry either has the Toppats arrested or killed in the other routes.
• This segment is entirely narrated in Japanese, and the animation style switches to Anime.
• The battle is a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • The fail screen has the "To Be Continued" banner along with a brief segment from the music piece Roundabout. The arrangement is usually shown in episodic cliffhangers and has since became a meme.
  • Reference takes inspiration from two stands used by antagonists in the franchise - DIO's The World, and Funny Valentine's Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap. Its shout (Failure) is a reference to DIO's shout ("Muda", meaning Useless), while its temporal manipulations stem from D4C's timeline-related abilities.
  • Bottled Time and its ability are again inspired by DIO and his stand, The World, which can stop time.
  • The fail ending with Right Hand Man killing Henry echoes DIO's death - DIO attacks Jotaro with a steamroller and The World's ability to freeze time, but Jotaro, who made tactical use of Star Platinum, managed to avoid this entirely and counterattacked, defeating DIO instantly.
• The fail message is from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
• This choice has the longest fail scene, with a run time of 1 minute and 35.7 seconds, counting minimum time as Walkthrough's fail lasts 15 seconds at minimum before transitioning.
• The "Now you're just a feeble man" line is actually incorrect; when Reference is supposed to be saying "man" in Japanese, he is actually saying "human" in Japanese (人間, Ningen). The correct Japanese word for "man" is 男(Otoko).
• This is one of three fails that does not have the usual fail sound effect during the animation. The others are CorrupTick and Chance Time.
• This is the only option where bios of both Right Hand Man and Right Hand Man (Reborn) can be unlocked.
• According to the Developer Commentary stream, this fail scene took about two weeks to animate.

Gallery

Henry summoning Reference.

Henry summoning Reference. (Gif)

"Oh? I See you have a Spirit."

"You didn't think that I had a Spirit too?"

Right Hand Man explaining the Bottled Time.

Reference punching RHM into another timeline.

The Airship shown in a timeline where they never met.

RHM freezing time...

"You Utter Fool!"

...And killing Henry.

Fail screen