Earthbound Beginnings: Difference between revisions

* [[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''.

** It should be noted that Itoi was quite involved in the localization of this game and every [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] and [[Woolseyism]] that occurred had to have his approval.

* [[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]].

* [[Cherubic Choir]]: The vocal version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtM4onLQ1I The Eight Melodies]. Also used in the 1989 Japanese [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 commercial.]

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: {{spoiler|Giygas is defeated by singing Queen Mary's Lullabye to him, similar to how he's defeated in ''[[EarthBound]]''.}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Pippi may not have the typical personality of this trope, but she has the same level up growths as Teddy. Shame you can't keep her for long.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Though, the fight ends before there's actually a winner, Teddy joins you this way.

* [[Delinquent]]: Teddy, again.

* [[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.}}

*** However, in the novel adaption, his father is said to be in the swamp because he is looking for a special plant to cure a fatal illness Lloyd's mother has, and that appears to be another reason Lloyd joins Ninten.

* [[Poltergeist]]: At the start of the game one of these attack your house.

** 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?}}

* [[Random Encounters]]: Good ''grief'', there's a lot of them!

** Though technically 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.

* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: [[Mrs. Robinson|Mrs. Rosemary]] renames her son [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Buggerror]] after Ninten. Evidently she likes his namesake better than her own son.

* [[Westminster Chimes]]: The basis for the background music of Twinkle Elementary.

* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: {{spoiler|As true of Giygas' attacks in this one as in the sequel, though at least he has a physical body here.}}

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