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[[Shigesato Itoi]]'s cult [[RPG]] [[MOTHER 1|tri]][[EarthboundEarthBound|lo]][[Mother 3|gy]] has a cast as [[Loads and Loads of Characters|large]] as it is [[Widget Series|whimsical]] and charming.
 
== MOTHER ==
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* [[Humans Are Ugly]]
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]:
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Depending on the translation, his name came up as: Giegue in the original [[Video Game]]/Mother1 prototype, Gyiyg in [[EarthboundEarthBound|Mother 2]] and in [[EarthboundEarthBound]] as Giygas.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: His role here lay the foundation for what he became in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]''.
* [[Talking the Monster to Death|Singing the Alien to Death]]
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Especially once you learn what happens to him later...
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* [[Heroic Mime]]: {{spoiler|You do get a chance to hear his thoughts late in the game, though.}}
** Lampshaded by a couple [[NPCs]], one of which being Franky.
* [[I Miss Mom]]: He can get ''homesickness'' as a status effect. It's remedied by calling home, of course. [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|D'aww!]]
* [[Kid Hero]]
* [[Light'Em Up]]: PSI Flash, which creates a bright flash of light that may [[One Hit KO]] enemies.
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* [[Pure Energy]]: This is what PSI Rockin' is.
* [[The Chosen One]]: ''Ness, it is my opinion you are that boy. This I believe...''
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: {{spoiler|After defeating the darkness in his heart in Magicant, gaining several levels and strong boosts to his statistics.}}
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Steak, or whatever you [[Hello, Insert Name Here|put as the favorite food]] at the start of the game.
 
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* [[Spoony Bard]]: Oh, boy...his PP is low, but he can restore it by drinking cheap bottles of water. He isn't used to Western food and gains minimal HP restoration from it. He can only use certain pieces of equipment, and any others will lower his stats—he has exactly ONE weapon, and it's an [[Randomly Drops|incredibly rare]] drop from an enemy in a one-time-only area. It's also extremely difficult for him to [[Can't Catch Up|catch up level-wise]] because he requires the ''most'' EXP for each individual level up.
* [[Toy Ship]]: With...[[Kidanova|all the ladies of Dalaam]], [[Chick Magnet|really]].
* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: His Mu training, at the end of which he {{spoiler|is ritually, symbolically killed by the spirits of his ancestors}}.
* [[Unfortunate Name]]: It isn't as unfortunate in Japan, as his name is read as "Puu" there. It's intended to be Asian-sounding, but the North American release Romanized it differently... and unfortunately. Prerelease images indicate it was almost Romanized as "Pu"; you have to wonder whether the change had anything to do with [[Toilet Humor|the game's unfortunate advertising campaign]].
* [[Warrior Prince]]
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Ness's next-door neighbor. A selfish, spoiled brat who loves to cause trouble and {{spoiler|is Giygas's [[The Dragon|right-hand man]], pulling strings behind the scenes.}}
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: In the Japanese version of ''Mother 2'', Pokey glumly says that if his parents find out he and Picky were out late, he gets spanked 100 times; this had to be changed because of Nintendo's rules of content. Thus, in the American version of [[EarthboundEarthBound]], he gets no dessert for the rest of the decade.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: {{spoiler|Turns sickly blue as a side-effect of abusing time travel}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Friend]]}}: Or at least ''he'' thought of Ness as a friend.
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* [[Dirty Coward]]
* [[The Drag Along]]: "[[The Chosen One|Three boys]], he said? ...Uhhh...I'm not one of those three, am I?...'Cause... I'm not into this kind of thing at all..."
* {{spoiler|[[Dragon-in-Chief]]}}: With {{spoiler|Giygas}} in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'', as by the time you fight them Giygas is barely sentient and clearly incapable of acting of his own accord. This could make Porky {{spoiler|[[The Dragon]], part a [[Big Bad Duumvirate]], or the outright [[Big Bad]]}}; it's very open to interpretation, like most things in ''MOTHER''.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: As he becomes {{spoiler|more and more evil}}, his speech is more erudite, as well.
* [[Enfante Terrible]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type]] [[Pelagian Villain|4]] as the masked man}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: As the Masked Man, your main opposition in pulling the seven needles.}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: {{spoiler|Attempts to take on the Mecha Drago with a ''knife''.}}
* [[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!"
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* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: As a ghost, seen once in the beginning of [[Tear Jerker|chapter 6]], and again at the end to bring Claus back to his senses. Implied to be helping Lucas and friends out several more times during the story.}}
* [[Happily Married]]: To Flint.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Saves Lucas and Claus from the Mecha Drago at the cost of her own life.}}
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== 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 ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]''.
* [[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.
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* [[Arab Oil Sheikh]]: Fassad ''looks'' like one, in any case.
** It's also worth noting that 'Fassad' is an Arabic word that means [[Meaningful Name|'corruption']]. It's also a pun on Façade (no, not the game.). And it's not even official.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] and [[Killed Off for Real]]: After falling from Thunder Tower, he's brought back to life with two musical horns attached. Much later, after the third encounter, he plummets into the sewers and either dies from drowning or disappearing when his Needle is pulled.}}
* [[Bad Boss]]: He ''will'' make you want to choke him to death before Salsa's chapter is over.
* {{spoiler|[[Black Sheep]]: Of the Magypsies.}}
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