List of Mother characters
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Mother (unofficially known as Earthbound Zero) is a Nintendo Entertainment System video game, and has a sequel titled Mother 2 (known in North America as EarthBound). While the game was translated and official English names for all of the following characters are available, it was never released in the United States. [1]
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[edit] Playable characters
[edit] Ninten
Ninten (ニンテン?) is the first controllable character in the Nintendo Famicom video game Mother. He has psychic abilities accompanied with a mysterious background. [2]
In the prologue sequence of Mother, Ninten must control the influences of a mischievous poltergeist on the ornaments within his house. Examples of such items under the control of the poltergeist include a lamp and a doll, both of which Ninten must battle. After that he is set to investigate the origin of these strange phenomena, which also occur in the rest of the world, that are actually caused by Giygas. [2]
Ness is said to be the equivalent of Ninten in the sequel Mother 2 (known as EarthBound in North America). Both Ness and Ninten share similar roles in their corresponding games, in addition to having similar appearances. [3] These similarities extend to both characters having names relating to Nintendo (Ninten being the first two syllables of the company name, and Ness an anagram of the acronym for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, SNES, and an alternate spelling of the acronym for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, NES). The most notable difference is that Ninten has asthma while Ness suffers from homesickness. One of the most curious connections between the two characters lie in Ness' Magicant, where he rediscovers his childhood. Ness makes his way towards the memories of his home, which in his mind looks similar to Ninten's.
[edit] Lloyd
Lloyd (ロイド Roido?) is one of the major characters of the NES game Mother. Lloyd is considered the weakling among Ninten's teammates (as well as Loid's own schoolmates) and usually uses guns to substitute for his weak physical strength.[4] His offense power increases little by little as the game progresses, rounding him out to be the second weakest character. Lloyd is unable to use any PSI powers, though his greater range of attack items helps to balance this out. He is the only character in the game who can use more powerful attack items, such as bottle rockets and bombs. In the beginning, Lloyd was considered a nerdy boy that no one was fond of and was picked on by the other children. Because of this, Lloyd usually hides within the garbage to avoid people from picking on him. He finally joins Ninten's team after Ninten shows him some bottle rockets. It should also be noted that Lloyd is the counterpart of the EarthBound/Mother 2 hero Jeff [3] in that both were very intelligent with glasses and skilled at building inventions.
[edit] Ana
Ana (アナ?) is one of the major characters of the Famicom game Mother and has a crush on the game's protagonist, Ninten (Mother's counterpart of EarthBound's Ness). Ana is considered (similar to Princess Peach from the Mario series) as a stereotypical heroine with weak physical strength.[4] She attacks using her frying pans along with many powerful PSI attacks. Before joining up with Ninten, Ana lived along with her father in Snowman where she was famous for her psychic powers. It should also be noted that Ana is the counterpart of the EarthBound heroine Paula[3] who also wore a pink dress and was considered a skilled psychic, though Ana also wears a hat, which is required to find in order to make her join Ninten's party. The choice for both names may be a pun on the word pollyanna.
[edit] Teddy
Teddy (テディ Tedi?) is one of the major characters of the NES game Mother.
Though he has no knowledge of PSI, he does have enormous physical strength[4], as well as an arsenal of swords and knives at his disposal.
In Mother, it is revealed that Teddy's parents were killed by mountain beasts, forcing Teddy to become self dependent. Later on, he became the leader of the Bla Bla Gang, a notorious gang in Valentine, though once he sees the power of Ninten, he decides to join Ninten's group to avenge his parents, replacing Lloyd. Later at the game, he is severely injured, which forces him to leave the party. His place is filled by Lloyd again.
[edit] Temporary party characters
[edit] Pippi
Pippi is a young girl who wandered from her home to the cemetery south of Mother's Day.[4] Ninten is requested by the town's mayor to rescue her. After Pippi is rescued, she asks Ninten two "yes or no" questions. If she doesn't consider them as rude, she will give him the Franklin Badge, an item that deflects the PK Beam r attack. Once she is brought to the mayor's office, she will leave the party and the mayor will give Ninten $100 and the zoo key. It was recently found out that, by using a save state hacker, it is possible to obtain the zoo key and keep Pippi through the whole game. This can be complicated, since the fourth character's name and stats can not be seen either in battle or out of battle. Also interesting is Pippi's phenomenal stat growth - she exponentially outgrows even Ninten in every area, save for PSI and Wisdom.
[edit] Flying Men
The Flying Men live together in a small house north of Magicant. If Ninten talks to one of them, he will join the party until his HP runs out. Once a Flying Man is gone, he cannot be revived and will be buried by his home. There are five in all, and only one can be in the party at a time. The Flying Men also appear in Earthbound/Mother 2.
[edit] EVE
EVE is a robot created by George[4], to assist Ninten and his friends at a certain point in the game. After being broken, EVE gives you the second-to-last melody.
[edit] Enemies
[edit] Giygas
Giygas (known as "Giegue" in the unreleased English prototype) is Mother's main antagonist. [2] He was originally raised by Ninten's great-grandparents, George and Maria. His weakness is the Eight Melodies found throughout the game. Once the special 'Sing' command is used on him enough times, he is defeated, and the game ends.
Giygas is the same villain who appears in Mother 2/EarthBound. In the original Japanese versions of the first two games, his name is Gyiyg.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Spotlight: EarthBound. Lost Levels Online.
- ^ a b c Mother/EarthBound Zero. Starmen.net.
- ^ a b c Mother 1. RPGamer.
- ^ a b c d e Mother Cast. Magicant.
[edit] External links
- Interviews with Shigesato Itoi, creator of Mother
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