List of EarthBound characters

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This is a list of non-player characters from the Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound.

Giygas: The prime antagonist, and the final boss in the game. Giygas plans to destroy the entire universe, and does so through possessing the minds of the world's plants, animals, and people. For most of the game Giygas is never seen, and only referred to, as his backstory was covered in the first Mother game. In the end, Giygas is revealed to be a non-physical being with little control over its own evil power, resulting from his contact with human emotions in the previous game. A man in Threed states that Giygas may be female. However, Giygas' gender is never revealed.

Pokey Minch: Ness' neighbor. Pokey is swayed (but not controlled) by Giygas' power and does his bidding in hopes to gain such power for himself. He makes many appearances throughout the game, and is the bumbling middleman for Giygas. He still manages to be influential in the final battle, however.

Picky Minch: The younger brother of Pokey. He plays a small role during the beginning of the game when he is lost on the mountain behind Onett. He temporarily joins Ness' party after he finds him on the mountain, and Ness brings him home.

Buzz Buzz: A bee-like creature from ten years in the future. He arrives in Ness' time via the meteorite that crashed into the mountain behind Onett. He informs Ness of Giygas' plan, and gets him started on his adventure. Buzz Buzz fights alongside Ness on the journey down the mountain. He is somewhat powerful in battle, but he was defeated when Lardna Minch (Pokey and Picky's mother) swats him, mistaking him for a dung beetle. Before Buzz Buzz dies, he gives Ness the Sound Stone and tells him to seek the eight "sanctuaries."

Mom: Ness must call home regularly and speak to her or he will become homesick. She can also fix meals for Ness to recover his health. Ness' mom also covers for Ness on various occasions, such as when his teacher comes to find out where he is.

Dad: Ness' unseen father, a reference to the creator's plight in work-centered Japan, who only appears as a voice on the telephone. Even in the ending credits, a telephone appears in his place. To save the game, it is necessary to locate a phone and call dad. Dad also deposits all the money Ness earns into his bank account. At the end of the game, Ness' dad stops saving the game for you and states how he will be home in time for Ness' fourteenth birthday.

Tracy: Ness' sister, who started working for Escargo Express when his adventure began. Ness calls her to store and retrieve items when he's far from home. Tracy quits Escargo Express at the end of the game.

Frank Fly: The leader (later ex-leader) of the street gang called the Sharks. A misguided youth, Frank is adept with a switchblade, and only after being bested by Ness, changes his ways and starts working at the local fast-food shop.

Captain Strong: The police chief in Onett, he catches Ness after he had trespassed into the sealed-off Onett caves to reach Giant Step. In the game, Strong and his crew of policemen attack Ness to test his strength in an effort to see if he is in fact ready to move on to the next town or not. Captain Strong tells Ness that kids should be "at home playing Nintendo" when he captures him.

Tessie: A friendly, long-necked monster which lets Jeff ride on its back to cross the lake in Winters. No doubt inspired by Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster.

Dr. Andonuts: Jeff's estranged father, who Jeff rarely sees due to the Winters boarding school he attends and his father's secluded nature. During the course of the game Dr. Andonuts builds many useful inventions, such as the Sky Runner and the Phase Distorter. Dr. Andonuts has not seen Jeff in ten years (Assuming that Jeff was sent to the Snow Wood Boarding School at the age of three), and says that they should get together in ten more years.

Mr. Saturn: What all odd looking residents of Saturn Valley are named. They all speak broken English, and at one point are enslaved by the blob king Master Belch and forced to make Fly Honey. The Mr. Saturn appear to have an excellent medical history, as their local doctor, Dr. Saturn, can heal anybody of anything.

Master Belch: A large, animated pile of vomit. Master Belch is one of Giygas' most esteemed minions, is addicted to Fly Honey, and is lord over smaller piles of vomit. He enslaves the Mr. Saturns at one point to massively produce Fly Honey.

Starman DX: One of the strongest Starmen of them all. Next to Pokey, he's Giygas' top-ranking minion. Kidnaps many characters, including Apple Kid, and takes them to Stonehenge

Evil Mani Mani: A glorious, golden statue that brings out the evil in human beings. First found in possession of Lier X. Agerate, stolen by Carpainter, and then it was later found in Moonside, as a living entity that attacks Ness. Once defeated, it is broken forever. It looks exactly like Ness's Nightmare, which is fought in Magicant.

Brick Road: A self-proclaimed dungeon master, Brick Road is seen in two forms, first by Jeff in Winters as a normal human, and second by the whole party in the Scaraba desert as a walking dungeon tower.

Apple Kid: A fat, dirty slob, but extremely intelligent and useful to Ness' quest. His first contribution to the quest is the Pencil Eraser, which he makes in exchange for some food and $200.00. He later goes to Dr. Andonuts's lab in order to build the Phase Distorter, which he concluded is needed to defeat Giygas. Apple Kid also has a mouse assistant. However, since it has no name, it is called the No Name Mouse.

Orange Kid: A smart kid who truly believes himself to be a total genius, while he feels Apple Kid is a loser. Paying him to fund his inventing is worthless, as he never does anything worthwhile.

Carpainter: Carpainter is the leader of the Happy Happy cult, and has stolen the Evil Mani Mani statue. While under the influence of the statue he believed the key to happiness was to paint everything blue. He has kidnapped Paula and uses powerful lightning attacks.

Lier X. Agerate: He is an acquaintance of Ness, and has something to show him. When Ness has no one with him, if talked to, he'll show Ness the Evil Mani Mani Statue he has under his house. Eventually, it gets stolen, leading to subsequent trouble that lasts through part of the game.

Photo Man: A photographer that spins down from the sky at important times to take pictures of Ness & company. Before taking a picture he says "Say Fuzzy Pickles" as opposed to "say cheese". The photographs can be viewed in the game's ending credits.

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