Mother 3/Characters

Lucas


The protagonist of the second half of the game. He starts as a crybaby, but after his adventure, he grows a lot more mature. "Voiced by Lani Minella in Super Smash Bros."


 * Badass Adorable: Once Character Development kicks in.
 * Big Damn Heroes/Moment of Awesome:.
 * Break the Cutie: The game really goes out of its way to do this to Lucas. If you listed all of the traumatic things that happen to him over the course of the story, you'd more or less have a summary of the plot of the game.
 * Character Development: It even gets mirrored in Super Smash Bros Brawl.
 * Combat Medic: Continues the series' trend of the main protagonist being the game's primary healer. Lucas has the largest arsenal of healing abilities of the four party members as well as the strongest physical attack.
 * Farm Boy: His father is a shepherd, even!
 * Hair of Gold: Representing his innocent, pure-minded personality.
 * Kid Hero: Following the tradition of Ness and Ninten before him, he's implied to be around 12 by the time he picks up the role of Main Protagonist and fights the Pigmasks.
 * Lovable Coward: Until the Character Development kicks in.
 * Magic Knight: Has a great deal of healing, shield and buffering moves, but also deals that most damage in the party and can take quite a bit of damage.
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He and Kumatora.
 * Mushroom Samba: Complete with a large dose of Nightmare Fuel.
 * Plot Induced Stupidity/Gameplay and Story Segregation: !
 * Psychic Powers: As per tradition, Lucas is Psychic like the Main Protagonists before him, complete with his own unique Special PSI Attack, PK Love.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas is blue to Claus's red.
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable.
 * Simple Staff/Carry a Big Stick: His weapons of choice range from either yo-yos, sticks, staves or baseball bats.
 * Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
 * Unlikely Hero: Claus' shirt is blue and yellow—the same color as Ness's and Ninten's before him. He also acts like a Hot-Blooded hero, capable of ridiculously selfless and suicidal actions on behalf of the people he cares about. Everything about him is deliberately engineered to scream "hero!"... but it's timid Lucas who gets saddled with the position instead.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas is blue to Claus's red.
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable.
 * Simple Staff/Carry a Big Stick: His weapons of choice range from either yo-yos, sticks, staves or baseball bats.
 * Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
 * Unlikely Hero: Claus' shirt is blue and yellow—the same color as Ness's and Ninten's before him. He also acts like a Hot-Blooded hero, capable of ridiculously selfless and suicidal actions on behalf of the people he cares about. Everything about him is deliberately engineered to scream "hero!"... but it's timid Lucas who gets saddled with the position instead.

Claus



 * Badass Normal:.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: "I'm gonna get stronger. ...I'm gonna get so strong even Dragos won't stand a chance against me!"
 * Decoy Protagonist
 * : It works.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Keet: He even wears bright colors!
 * Logical Weakness:, which renders your combo system useless.
 * : Well, Flint never did despite his greatest efforts. ...
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas, blue, and Claus, red.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable..
 * : Deflecting Thunder PK onto.
 * : King P gloats that this is the case.
 * Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
 * Logical Weakness:, which renders your combo system useless.
 * : Well, Flint never did despite his greatest efforts. ...
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas, blue, and Claus, red.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable..
 * : Deflecting Thunder PK onto.
 * : King P gloats that this is the case.
 * Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas, blue, and Claus, red.
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable..
 * : Deflecting Thunder PK onto.
 * : King P gloats that this is the case.
 * Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.

Flint



 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat: His design in the scrapped N64 version. This was most likely removed to make animations clearer.
 * Badass Normal: In a world where the Mooks wield rayguns and the heroes wield psychic powers, he's still more than capable of making his way on his quest with nothing more than a good block of wood.
 * Carry a Big Stick: Primarily uses sticks as weapons.
 * Deus Angst Machina: Chapter 1. . All of this within the space of a day or so.
 * Iron Woobie: Much of what applies to Lucas also applies to him.
 * Happily Married: To Hinawa.
 * Nice Hat: Flint wouldn't be Flint without his signature cowboy hat.
 * Papa Wolf: A deconstruction; he gets so torn up about Claus' disappearance that he spends most of the game neglecting his other son in his rampant search for him.
 * During the final battle between Lucas and the Masked Man, Flint will try and protect Lucas, taking two rounds of heavy damage for him.
 * Rancher
 * During the final battle between Lucas and the Masked Man, Flint will try and protect Lucas, taking two rounds of heavy damage for him.
 * Rancher
 * Rancher
 * Rancher

Hinawa



 * Happily Married: To Flint.
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Sunflowers are associated with her presence throughout the game..
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Sunflowers are associated with her presence throughout the game..
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Sunflowers are associated with her presence throughout the game..
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Sunflowers are associated with her presence throughout the game..

Boney



 * Enemy Scan: His sniff ability. Some enemies either have no scent or one that Boney can't handle.
 * Evil-Detecting Dog: During the Mushroom Samba on Tanehineri/Tanetane Island, Boney's the only one that won't follow you into the hot spring. And for good reason...
 * Fragile Speedster: Can outright be upgraded to a Lightning Bruiser if you're skilled with the combo system.
 * Heroic Dog
 * Team Pet

Duster



 * Armed Legs: Duster attacks enemies by kicking with his crippled leg.
 * A clubbed foot, if I remember correctly.
 * Badass Beard/Badass Mustache: Yes, he has both.
 * Badass Normal: He doesn't need any PSI to take down Chimeras or otherwise, being a trained Thief.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Disability Superpower: He walks with a limp, and it's noted by several characters. Surprisingly, he incorporates it into his Secret Thief Arts combat style. Duster's weapons are shoes, and he kicks enemies in combat. He can make preemptive attacks at the start of random encounters, and he can even negate sneak attacks.
 * Handicapped Badass: That leg must REALLY have a lot of velocity in order to deal that much damage to enemies. He's even the second strongest Physical Attacker of the party, after Lucas.
 * Heavy Sleeper: He's even asleep on his naming screen! Boney has to drag him by the neck through the rain during most of his introduction scene. It's implied that he's a night owl, but still, it takes about three quarters of the cutscene for him to finally wake up.
 * Improbable Weapon User: His Thief Tools (wall staples, a scary mask, a siren beetle, a tickle stick, smoke bombs and a hypno-pendulum) are all things he can use in fights.
 * Master of None: He's a member of your party most of the game, and aside from his status effects, he's mostly just around to bash things.
 * Mushroom Samba: Along with quite a bit of Nightmare Fuel.
 * The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: After the mission in Osohe Castle that Wess sends him on, he's never shown stealing anything despite being classed as a thief.
 * Stepping Stone Sword: Wall staples, which can be driven into the wall.
 * The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: After the mission in Osohe Castle that Wess sends him on, he's never shown stealing anything despite being classed as a thief.
 * Stepping Stone Sword: Wall staples, which can be driven into the wall.

Wess
"Wess: I'd like to join the search, but they told me to stay here because I'm old. Seems nobody's aware of just how strong I really am."
 * Abusive Parents: He constantly belittles his son, Duster.
 * Badass Grandpa: He's in his 60's (or thereabouts), and he's so tough, the game nerfs him by making him attack rarely during the short time he's in your party. One of his rarer attacks is enough to one-shot anything you can encounter at the time.
 * Badass Normal
 * Blatant Lies: "I'm not going to stick my butt out or anything, though."
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:


 * Guest Star Party Member

Kumatora



 * Badass Adorable
 * Bifauxnen: A little kid mistakes her for a boy at some point in Chapter 2.
 * Black Magician Girl: Is this in contrast to Lucas's skillset.
 * Fire, Ice, Lightning: The only playable character that can use the elemental PSI attacks.
 * Standard Status Effects: Along with Duster.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses:.
 * Gameplay and Story Segregation: Kumatora is universally described as strong, tough and masculine, and off-screen, is capable of single-handedly smacking down two bodyguards that Lucas isn't even allowed to approach because they're too dangerous. Yet in actual combat, she's a Squishy Wizard who has the overall lowest physical damage ratio, even compared to a dog.
 * The Ladette: Kumatora has this sort of personality and attitude, though she does not exhibit any of the behavior commonly associated with it other than swearing.
 * Lady Swears-a-Lot: Although what profanity there is in the fan translation isn't very strong, most of it comes courtesy of Kumatora.
 * Mushroom Samba: With a bit of Nightmare Fuel mixed in.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Her name means bear-tiger.
 * Psychic Powers
 * Rebellious Princess:.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: In her normal attire, a little girl mistakes her for a guy. !
 * Squishy Wizard
 * Tomboy Princess
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair

The Magypsies

 * Ambiguous Gender: They are neither man nor woman, nor even human. They usually refer to themselves as female, but Kumatora refers to them as male..
 * Camp Gay
 * Cool Shades: Doria.
 * Funny Afro: Aeolia.
 * Heavy Sleeper: Phrygia.
 * Immortality: A Magypsy will only truly "die" if their Needle is pulled.
 * Musical Theme Naming: The Magypsies are named for the modes of the diatonic scale.
 * Meaningful Name:.
 * Nice Hat: Doria and Phrygia.
 * Say It with Hearts: Only in the Fan Translation. Clyde Mandelin admits that this was done to emphasize the "girly" diction they use in Japanese.
 * Sexophone: The Leitmotif of the Magypsies.
 * Wholesome Crossdressers: The Magypsies are all psychic guardians for good.
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair



Salsa

 * Apologetic Attacker: One of Salsa's skills is to "apologize profusely" to the enemy. This is a Continuity Nod to one of Porky's totally useless actions when he's a Guest Star Party Member in EarthBound.
 * Butt Monkey: Literally.
 * Electric Torture: Constantly on the wrong side of it, to the point that it REALLY stops being funny after the first few times.
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys
 * I Have Your Wife: The Pigmasks have his girlfriend.
 * Team Pet: Sort of fills the role in a couple places, most notably when teamed up with Kumatora.

Yokuba/Fassad/

 * Arab Oil Sheikh: Fassad looks like one, in any case.
 * It's also worth noting that 'Fassad' is an Arabic word that means 'corruption'. It's also a pun on Façade (no, not the game). And it's not even official.
 * Bad Boss: Towards Salsa the monkey.
 * The Corrupter: Serves as this to the entire population of Tazmily. And he enjoys his job very much.
 * Crutch Character: In Salsa's chapter, though Fassad only helpes out when he feels like it.
 * The Dragon:.
 * Evil Laugh: "Nwehehehehehehehehe!"
 * That's one "Nwe" and eight "he"s.
 * Fate Worse Than Death:.
 * Faux Affably Evil: He seems like a nice guy at first, but come Chapter 3, you realize that he's actually despicable.
 * Guest Star Party Member: A notable one, as it's likely that he'll be the one doing all the damage while Salsa is taking all the hits (and doing his best to disable enemies so he doesn't get hit).
 * Hate Sink: You'll learn to hate him throughout Chapter 3.
 * Jerkass: Fassad corrupts Tazmily village for his own profit while torturing an innocent monkey.
 * Kick the Dog: To Salsa. Over. And over. And over. It won't take you long to feel sorry for the poor monkey.
 * Make an Example of Them: Anyone who doesn't play ball and purchase a high quality Happy Box gets their house torched by lightning.
 * Meaningful Name: Fassad's name in the Japanese version was "Yokuba", which comes from . His name in the fan translation comes from the Arabic word and coincidentally, . Fassad could also be something of a reference to Lier X. Agerate, a minor character from EarthBound.
 * No One Could Have Survived That
 * Prophetic Name: The Locrian mode, the scale that is named after, is also known as the 'Diabolus in Musica', a Latin phrase meaning 'Devil in Music', in reference to its dissonant tone. This is likely the reason why the name "" was chosen for the traitorous.
 * The Reveal:.
 * Running Gag: Fassad isn't afraid to stop whatever he's doing to eat a banana then throw the peel on the floor..
 * Snake Oil Salesman: Wouldn't YOU be happier with a Happy Box?
 * Stockholm Syndrome: Fassad may be a chode, but he's an effective teammate (a lot more than Porky or Thomas), and a lot stronger than Salsa. Itoi intentionally wanted to provoke this feeling in players themselves.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Luxury Bananas. They even heal him for more than they heal your party members.
 * Turncoat: See The Reveal above.
 * The Reveal:.
 * Running Gag: Fassad isn't afraid to stop whatever he's doing to eat a banana then throw the peel on the floor..
 * Snake Oil Salesman: Wouldn't YOU be happier with a Happy Box?
 * Stockholm Syndrome: Fassad may be a chode, but he's an effective teammate (a lot more than Porky or Thomas), and a lot stronger than Salsa. Itoi intentionally wanted to provoke this feeling in players themselves.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Luxury Bananas. They even heal him for more than they heal your party members.
 * Turncoat: See The Reveal above.

King P

 * Actually a Doombot: When you first face him.
 * And I Must Scream:.
 * Animal Motifs: Pigs, for fairly obvious reasons.
 * Big Bad: Of the third game.
 * The Caligula
 * Climax Boss: And how!
 * Continuity Nod:.
 * Dragon Ascendant:.
 * A Fate Worse Than Death
 * For the Evulz:.
 * A God Am I
 * : Shigesato Itoi has confirmed that he will still be alive.
 * Omnicidal Maniac
 * Self-Disposing Villain: See above.
 * Time Is Dangerous:.
 * You Cannot Grasp the True Form: !
 * Omnicidal Maniac
 * Self-Disposing Villain: See above.
 * Time Is Dangerous:.
 * You Cannot Grasp the True Form: !
 * Time Is Dangerous:.
 * You Cannot Grasp the True Form: !
 * Time Is Dangerous:.
 * You Cannot Grasp the True Form: !
 * You Cannot Grasp the True Form: !