Amanda The Adventurer True Ending

[Prince Aboubakar]

Ibet you guys didn't see this coming, right? Basically, me and my friend had a discussion about Amanda the Adventurer herself and we both agreed that she should be discussed as NPE. The reason I'm bringing her up is because she has James Ironwood syndrome (since James was approved as IH on January 15 this year and stayed on that wiki for 6 months until he got approved to be on this wiki on July 7) since not all of Amanda's preventions are genuine or true. And I'll prove my point today.

Amanda the Adventurer is a 2023 indie horror video game that is some rip-off of the popular Nick Jr children's show Dora the Explorer. In the game, you play several video tapes and help Amanda and her friend Wooly the Sheep answer questions and put up with Amanda's evil nature.

Amanda the Adventurer is the titular main antagonist of the game. She is a fake cartoon mascot who was actually created due to being possessed by a demon back when she was a girl named Rebecca Colton. She is the archenemy of Wooly and the player.

Okay, so she got approved as IH in May due to having too many preventions to qualify as NPE, but I have some counterarguments that haven't been brought up by anyone else until now. So, please allow me to confirm which preventions are true and which ones are not genuine:

First of all, she's clearly insecure as she asks Riley if they think that everything rots, and just a minute before they are killed by Amanda's monster form, Amanda reveals her lack of confidence by saying, "I'm afraid it might be too late" and "That's what I was afraid of". This is also seen in the true ending of the game, where Amanda offers to tell Riley (who is deemed a genuine friend of Amanda) her biggest secret. If Riley refuses to hear it, Amanda will be disappointed, but she refuses to attack the player and instead leaves a flashcard that orders Riley to leave. However, considering how she is portrayed in the game, it doesn't get to the point where Amanda's insecurities are too sympathetic, so this is a pretty minor prevention.

Second of all, even though she doesn't care for Wooly and has zero care for anyone but herself, she does genuinely care about the stray kitten that she and Wooly met. Amanda basically asks Riley if they will help the lonely kitten, and she sheds tears if Riley refuses to do so, showing that she cares about animals to an extent.

And third of all, she ultimately has moral agency issues even if this is a very weak prevention. She read out the names of several demons and got unwillingly possessed by one of them, and this turned Amanda into a gestalt entity that is believed to be made up of Rebecca's tortured soul and the demon that Hameln had summoned. This leads to numerous instances where the two personalities would strongly conflict with each other. However, Amanda is mostly in her cartoon form and she spends most of the game being a villain who is sadistic, cruel and even petty in a way since she shows absolutely no remorse for bullying Wooly and is more than willing to put innocent people's lives in danger, so this is (again) a minor prevention and she goes too far to be considered IH-level amoral.

A timid anthropomorphic sheep, and Amanda's friend in the tapes. His shyness seems like a cute factor at first, but there's a good reason, as he seems to know something that the player doesn't know, but should. All for Nothing: In Pilot Episode, he openly defies Amanda in the secret tape and is implied to get killed for it, just so he can tell the player to destroy the tapes. The player does try to destroy them, but Amanda's influence is already too strong and they end up not going through with it, rendering Wooly's courage and sacrifice senseless in the end. Ambiguous Innocence: On the surface, Wooly simply appears to be Amanda's timid and cautious "friend" who regularly gets abused by her for no reason. However, some scenes in the game that at least seem to show him acting as Amanda's minder and trying to keep her calm, could also imply that Wooly may actually be in control of Amanda in some way, especially in the alternate version of Episode 2. In the episode, Amanda wants to give her friend, which she openly states in the original episode that it ISN'T Wooly, a gift. When they're at the store to buy a card, Amanda suddenly has an OOC moment and acts dejected. Wooly claims this is her being "confused", and tries to tell the audience that it is his birthday. If the player chooses any of the shelves besides the one with birthday cards on it, the choices will be blocked out, and Wooly will continually insist you choose that shelf. Afterwards, Amanda will question the choice, and Wooly interrupts her assuring it's the right one. He also seems to put "friend" in quotes when he mentions them. A dejected Amanda at first has trouble saying that today is their friend's birthday. When she does, Wooly can visibly be seen winking. At the end of the altered episode, the player will have no choice but to list Wooly as Amanda's "friend". He will sometimes state that the present belongs to someone "cute" if they don't put that name in. Afterwards, Amanda will state that she remembered that it was Wooly's birthday, and give him the present. However, the same episode also has Wooly being just as hesitant as Amanda when the tape forces them to go to the butcher shop, and is unnerved when the gift that's supposed to go to him is meat from there. All of this gives a whole new meaning to the original episode, where Amanda gives the gift to Kate instead of Wooly, and Wooly trying to come up with excuses to prevent her from doing so. The musical code behind Amanda in the alternate episodes spells "Facade". But is it referring to Amanda or Wooly? More importantly, in the scenes where Wooly is absent, Amanda appears to be able to vent out her true feelings more easily, best shown when she encounters the Lonely Kitten, and in the true ending, where it is implied that she killed Wooly and turned him into meat. There's also a coded message reading, "Who is Wooly?" in one of the books. Which is very strange, because there are mentions of Wooly being a proper character in the show and not just part of the haunted tapes Riley owns. Wooly saying "Nothing is rotten here!" in everything rots...after Amanda spends the whole episode showing Riley rotten things. Special mention to the fact he becomes particularly outspoken after Amanda brings up being able to feel herself rotting. While Wooly constantly acts like Amanda's presence is keeping him from saying what he wants, his very own secret tape has him just sitting there and doing nothing instead of taking the opportunity to speak freely. However, the secret tapes are not interactive, so it might have been just a regular, non-haunted recording where he cannot communicate with the player anyway. On the other hand, Wooly ultimately seems powerless in his situation, and those suspicious events simply might be him trying to keep Amanda calm, unfortunately, he is still murdered by her anyway. If he had any real power over Amanda or the tapes, he could have prevented that, or his unwilling regression into a regular sheep, or anything bad that happens to him (which is not a trivial amount of bad things). Cowardly Lion: Wooly is very obviously terrified of Amanda. Nevertheless, in Pilot Episode, he puts his life on the line to warn you away from her at the start of episode 2 and in the secret tape. In episode 2 he gets killed for his troubles. In the new secret tape, however, he snaps after enough provoking and angrily shouts at Amanda, talking to you one last time to destroy the tapes and not let anyone else fall victim to them. However, Amanda still kills him for rebelling.Wooly: Okay, that's enough! BAA! No! I can't let you do this anymore! I don't care what you do to me! (drags the camera down to his height) You! Take the tape out now, and destroy them! Burn them! Whatever! Just get rid of these other tapes! Do you hear me?! You can't let anyone else watch these-! (Amanda begins transforming behind him) O-Oh... BAA-! Dying as Yourself: A rather screwed up example. It's easy to miss, but as Amanda goes off the deep end when Riley (and the player) refuse to "help the lonely kitten" in the "What's a Family" tape, Wooly, who got forcefully regressed into acting like a regular sheep, regains his mind just long enough to watch Amanda and the world they're in fall apart right as he gets deleted too. Expy: Of Boots the Monkey as the anthropomorphic animal companion of a kids' show host. Extreme Doormat: As the sidekick character, Wooly pretty much does whatever Amanda wants, with only some mild protest here and there. Downplayed in the "Everything Rots!" video, where he does try to reign Amanda in once she goes too off the rails and at one point even loses his patience with her when she won't stop asking Riley extremely inappropriate questions about rotting. Furry Reminder: He occasionally bleats while talking. In fact, the Petting Zoo tape has him actually slowly revert to a fully-animal sheep. Killed Off for Real: After ambiguity surrounding his status at the ends of the butcher and treasure hunt episodes in Pilot Episode, he unequivocally meets his demise when Amanda kills him in the penultimate episode. To really hammer the point home, Wooly is very conspicuously erased from the logo in the next episode's opening. In fact, in the full game, there are three ways he can die. The first is when you refuse to answer Amanda's question whether "everything rots" enough times in "Everything Rots"; she erases Wooly from existence. The second time is in the "What's a Family" tape, where he slowly regresses into becoming a mindless, regular sheep; he gets erased if you cause Amanda to have a breakdown if you refuse to "help the lonely kitten". The third time is in the 2nd "Accidents" tape, when she's about to perform surgery on him; he dies when she uses the bone saw on him, regardless on who you choose to help during the struggle between them. Oh, Crap!: In Pilot Episode, right after Wooly rebels against Amanda and begs the viewer to destroy the cursed tapes, his bravery disappears as Amanda transforms into her demonic form behind him. Wooly even sounds like he's saying "Oh, crap" as the tape distorts. In th alternate "Uh Oh! Accidents" tape, he flinches and looks terrified when his attempt to talk to Riley alone is almost immediately interrupted by Amanda calling him. A Pig Named "Porkchop": He's a sheep named Wooly. Sacrificial Lamb: Literally. In Pilot Episode, Amanda has him killed as punishment for trying to warn the player about her. In the full game, he's almost constantly victimized by her and finally murdered in the alternate version of the accidents episode. Sweet Sheep: An anthropomorphic sheep originally intended to be a loyal companion to Amanda. And possibly the closest thing to a Big Good the game has. In the demos, episode 2 and the secret tape have him trying to protect the player from Amanda's influence. In the full game he does his best to reign Amanda in when she starts talking about not-kid friendly topics. This Is Gonna Suck: In Pilot Episode, as Amanda transforms into her demonic form behind him in the secret tape, Wooly's courage slowly vanishes, realizing that she's going to kill him for trying to fight back against her. Unanthropomorphic Transformation: Whilst he is normally a Funny Animal Sheep, the "What's a Family" tape has him slowly turn into a regular sheep after Amanda tells him that animals don't talk.

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