Elephant

The Elephant is an enemy found in the Desert. It is the first enemy encountered in the game and serves as the tutorial battle.

Appearance
The Elephant's appearance is that of an African Elephant skeleton: structured with a head, body, bones and with limbs. It is implied to have a skeletal-like material composing it (listed as bones in its check) and has visible spines.

Personality
As it has no dialogue, the Elephant's personality (or the personality of the ladybug possessing it) is unknown. However, the Mad Elephant reveals that she was "a shy sort," and his reaction to any of the protagonist's possible actions implies that he is sensitive.

Main Story
Toriel sets up a tutorial encounter with the Elephant to teach the protagonist the basics of ACTing. Toriel's comment after the encounter and the Mad Elephant's dialogue vary depending on what the protagonist does to the Elephant. Destroying the Elephant does not abort the attempt at the True Pacifist Route.
 * If the protagonist talks to the Elephant, Toriel congratulates her. Mad Elephant is infuriated about the "horrible" things the protagonist said.
 * If the protagonist fights the Elephant, Toriel gently admonishes her. Mad Elephant is infuriated that the protagonist took away the Elephant's future chance of becoming corporeal.
 * If the protagonist flees from the Elephant, Toriel acknowledges that fleeing can be a useful strategy, but points out that it was clearly unnecessary in this case, as the Elephant cannot attack, nor seek revenge. Mad Elephant is infuriated that the protagonist walked away from the Elephant, saying she was a "shy sort" and that the protagonist broke his little ethereal heart.
 * If the protagonist does nothing for 8 turns, it gets bored of the protagonist's aimless shenanigans and floats away. After this, Toriel stares in disbelief, then continues through the Desert as if nothing happened. Mad Elephant is disgusted by the protagonist's behavior and is glad the Elephant left like any self-respecting specter.

Mad Elephant
A spirit possesses the Elephant, the spirit who is Mad Elephant's cousin. As said above, Mad Elephant's dialogue leading up to his battle depends on the protagonist's actions toward the Elephant. As all actions the protagonist does Mad Elephant considers hostile and wrong, he engages the protagonist in combat, even becoming Glad Elephant due to his anger should the protagonist traverse a Genocide Route. The whole purpose of Mad Elephant's fight is because of his anger toward the protagonist due to her actions towards the Elephant, showing that Mad Elephant cares for his cousin.

Trivia

 * If the protagonist talks to Toriel twice before fighting the Elephant, she tells her that she can say anything to the Elephant, and she will not be bothered, contrary to what Mad Elephant says later if she choose to talk to him.
 * The Elephant has a skeletal look making it look the Dummy from Undertale but it is made of cotton instead of bones.
 * The Elephant does not have a voice due to that it cannot talk except for telling the story of Asriel Dreemurr.