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* [[The All American Boy]]: Ninten.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Not much about the character personalities are stated in-game, but in the Mother Encyclopedia it says many interesting things about Ninten, Ana, Loid and Teddy that you could never find out just by playing the game. It is in Japanese, but was [[Fan Translation|translated into English by a fan.]]
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: If you're not Japanese and have heard of this game, you probably know that {{spoiler|Giygas is the main villain. It actually isn't revealed ''at all'' until you get the final [[MacGuffin]] at the end of the [[Disc One Final Dungeon]], and most of the plot is just you going around the world to learn a song for an ailing queen who you met after a bunch of weird stuff started happening in your hometown. Even the game guides have no information on Giygas, and he has no official art.}}
* [[Award Bait Song]]:
** "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.
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* [[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.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: [[Overly Narrow Superlative|Probably]] the only RPG in existence in which you have to rescue [[Lawyer
* [[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.}}
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* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: ...sort of. The music that plays on the character naming screen? It's used as part of the vocal version of "Eight Melodies", the song that {{spoiler|you spend the game collecting, and use to defeat Giygas}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Aliens Love Their Mamas]]: It's Giygas's memories of his adoptive human mother, Maria, that end up defeating him.}}
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* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Your first three enemies are two desk lamps and a doll. It just gets better from there.
* [[Fan Translation]]: At the time of the discovery of the English prototype, a group of fans had been working on their own fan translation; eventually, they were the ones who obtained the prototype and released the ROM to the general public, and for a while there were those who saw that as somewhat suspicious. Full story [http://www.lostlevels.org/200407/200407-earthbound.shtml here].
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* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha]]: EVE
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: One of the monkeys in the Monkey Cave flirts with Ana.
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* [[Joke Item]]: The Swear Words and Words O' Love, both of which require a small sidequest, only display the words "I hate you!" and "I love you!" respectively, when used in battle. The Last Weapon [[Fridge Brilliance|tells you how to reset the game]]. As is the Last Weapon, the Real Rocket is expensively buyable in the Twinkle Elementary lab. From the name of it, it seems like it would be quite a cut above the Bottle Rocket item. But if you buy it... It never even goes into your inventory.
{{quote| '''Scientist''': "Oops! It's gone into orbit. A success... sort of."}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: The Katana is Teddy's [[Infinity
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|EVE. For players of the original Famicom version, Teddy also does this, but later versions of the game make it clear that Teddy lives.}}
* [[Level Grinding]]: The player is forced to do this after recruiting Lloyd and Ana. They come at a low level, and so one naturally goes to Magicant to train them.
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{{quote| '''Loid ([[Earthbound]] Zero Translation)''': "Shoot! I missed!"<br />
'''Loid (Mother 1+2 Fan Translation)''': "Oh no! I'm too late!" }}
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Queen Mary is actually Ninten's great-grandmother Maria, who was sealed into Magicant (with her memories removed) after Giygas seemingly killed her.}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Eight Melodies.
* [[Magical Mystery Doors]]: Rosemary Manor
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* [[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.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Lots and lots of [[Random Encounters]], generally unbalanced enemies, a huge proliferation of [[One
* [[No Ending]]: The original release ended with {{spoiler|the aliens, defeated, leaving in their spaceship, and the party just looks at the sky and the credits play in the sky. It didn't tie up any loose ends and left some [[Fridge Horror]] / [[No Endor Holocaust]]. The prototype English version and later the GBA re-release significantly extended the ending.}}
* [[Nostalgic Music Box]]: The ending tune starts and ends with a music box rendition of the Eight Melodies.
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** Ninten and Ana have a dance near the end of the game, to relax (and to show them growing fond of each other). The tune that plays, "Fallin' Love", is ''extremely'' melancholy.
** The 8-bit version of the song is, but the soundtrack version has a typical romantic adult contemporary feel to it, but with no lyrics.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]:
** Roid/Loid/Lloyd. The first was the official Romanization in Japan, the prototype used the second, and ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'' uses the third.
** Also shown by {{spoiler|the main villain - his name is written "giigu" in katakana, written as "Giegue" in the localization, and is finally shown to actually be "Gyiyg" in the sequel. Eventually, Nintendo just made up a new English name for him ("Giygas"). But before that, he was apparently going to be called ''Geek.''}}
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* [[Westminster Chimes]]: The basis for the background music of Twinkle Elementary.
* [[White Magician Girl]]: Ana, the only completely straight example in the series (Paula has a similar personality but absolutely no healing powers, and Kumatora is a straight-up [[Black Magician Girl]]).
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Giygas, now that you know his backstory.}}
* [[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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