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** "Pollyanna" in its full version (not the 8-bit theme, obviously), which later went on to become the [[Bootstrapped Theme]] for the entire ''MOTHER'' series.
** The Eight Melodies. "[[The Power of Love|Take a melody, simple as can be, give it some words, and sweet harmony. Raise your voices, all day long now love grows strong now, sing a melody of love, ah love.]]" The vocal version even has a [[Cherubic Choir]]!
** The entire soundtrack album for ''MOTHER'' is made of these.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Let's just sum up the three main characters as this. Okay, Loid [[Took a Level in Badass|took a while for it to shine through]], but still.
* [[Beef Gate]]: The train tracks that lead from Merrysville to Reindeer, and from Reindeer to Snowman. Especially the tunnels.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: After a robot nearly defeats the party (and severely injures {{spoiler|Teddy}}), Lloyd shows up and destroys it. With a ''tank''.
* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: As in all of the ''MOTHER'' games, though here it can come across as mere technical pragmatism as opposed to a deliberate stylistic choice.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The English translation got quite a few changes as a result of Nintendo's censorship policies at the time. Infamously, blood was edited out of sprites and cigars and knives were removed from the battle sprites of the Crow and Teddy. Crosses and religious text were removed. Holy Loly Mountain had a [[Dub Name Change]] to Mt. Itoi, probably half because of the religious reference and half because, [[Woolseyism|well]], it is a major [[Difficulty Spike]] as well as [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] (also, to avoid lawsuits, a mention of ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' was changed to ''Super Mario Bros.''). Some stuff got past the radar, like the strip club in Merrysville and doctors saying "go off and ''die'' then" if you refuse their services, though the strip club instance was changed in ''MOTHER 1+2''. The ''Dragon Quest'' reference was also changed to "that game" as opposed to a ''Mario'' reference. All of the sprite changes were also in ''MOTHER 1+2''. Itoi was quite involved in the localization of this game and every [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] and [[Woolseyism]] that occurred had to have his approval.
* [[Girl of My Dreams|Boy of My Dreams]]: Ana fell in love with Ninten when she started seeing him in her dreams.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: There's a war veteran with a tank in Yucca Desert. If you do a sidequest, you get to ride it, and he warns you to be careful with it because it's his most prized possession. [[Trope Telegraphing|Inevitably]], it breaks, and when you get to Ellay you have to pay him to replace it. Also, in a sidequest that you can do later, Lloyd gets a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment with a tank. What other tank could he possibly get access to? If you do both those sidequests, in order, it's [[Chekhov's Boomerang]].
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* [[Delinquent]]: Teddy, again.
* [[Demonic Dummy]]: The possessed doll in your sister's room.
* [[Difficulty Spike]]: Yucca Desert, and later Mt. Itoi, the latter of which is almost completely filled with [[Demonic Spiders]]. The Yucca Desert enemies can be found even earlier in the game... in the train tunnels. This is to probably attempt to prevent you from going out to get Ana before Loid, but with luck and (more) grinding, players can pass the tunnel alone, though this is very tough and time consuming.
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: The doctors that restore your negative statuses... for a price.
{{quote|'''Doctor (if you don't have enough money for his services)''': Fine, die all on your own. I'll phone a mortician.}}
* [[Dummied Out]]:
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** IC-Chip may possibly have been the item Memory Chip which can be found in ''Mother 1+2'' only which is obtained after {{spoiler|EVE gets killed off}}. The item is like a second Onyx Hook, except that it transports you to that same spot that {{spoiler|EVE died}}.
* [[Dungeon Crawling]]: Duncan's Factory is an annoying large version of this that you are required to go in to continue the plot and if you're lucky enough to find the right room a second Franklin Badge can be found.
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* [[Market-Based Title]]: ''Earthbound Beginnings'' in the long-overdue English release.
* [[The Maze]]: There are a quite few.
* [[Mental World]]: {{spoiler|Actually Maria's, not Ninten's}}.
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: The boxart is just the logo over a plain red background.
* [[Moment Killer]]: Right after Ninten and Ana confess their love for each other, Teddy barges in the room and asks the pair why they are blushing. To be fair, he does apologize for interrupting, but did so because he was hearing odd noises outside, [[It Got Worse|and then a giant robot attacks them]], severely injuring/killing Teddy. Real moodkiller there.
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Mrs. Rosemary. Somehow this stayed in the English prototype in the middle of Nintendo's bowdlerization days.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Similar to the sequel, enemies "become quiet", "don't move anymore", etc. [[Justified Trope]] because you're not using real weapons (for the most part) and you're fighting possessed animals and humans, as well as supernatural beings.
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** {{spoiler|Singing Maria's lullaby to Giygas is what defeats him. And it doesn't just defeat him: in ''[[EarthBound]]'', it is found that it drove him absolutely insane}}.
** After reading a bit of description, it seems there's a bit more to it than that. {{spoiler|Giygas apparently still harbored affection toward Maria, but was basically forced to detach from her and invade the Earth as per his people's orders. Considering Maria basically raised the poor little guy since he was a baby, any reminders of her would create something of a conflict of interest, and make attacking her people (or more specifically, one of her descendants) quite a bit harder, don't you think}}?
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▲** This gets less aggravating once you get access to Magicant (and more importantly, Repel Rings which prevent fights against weaker enemies).
* [[Recurring Riff]]: Several, including "Pollyanna (I Believe In You)", the battle theme for the [[New Age Retro Hippie]], and "Eight Melodies (Queen Mary's Lullabye)", occur frequently and are used in the later games.
* [[Red Shirt]]: The Flying Man.
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* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The English version, and consequently ''[[Compilation Rerelease|MOTHER 1+2]]''. Only the latter was actually released.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Dear god, the Flying Men. Seeing the cemetery next to their former home is just heartbreaking when you realize that if you hadn't come along they would still be alive.
* [[Wackyland]]: Former [[Trope Namer]], though the sequel's Magicant is most likely what was envisioned when it was named. They're not the same place: in this game, it was {{spoiler|a manifestation of Maria's mind trying to regain her memories}}, while the one in ''[[EarthBound]]'' was a representation of Ness's mind.
* [[Weapons Grade Vocabulary]]: Enemies can "attack" with Threatening Words and Swear Words, both of which decrease someone's Fight stat. Your party can get some words of their own to "attack" with, but they do nothing.
* {{spoiler|[[We Can Rule Together]]: Giegue gives Ninten alone a chance to board his mothership}}.
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