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== The series consists of the following titles: ==
 
* '''''[[MOTHER 1 (Video Game)|MOTHER]]''''' (1989, [[Famicom]]): The series' debut, telling the story of Ninten as he works to uncover his family's connections to an impending alien invasion. [[No Export for You|Wasn't released outside Japan]], but a prototypical English version, widely called ''"EarthBound [[Sequel Number Snarl|Zero]]"'', was discovered in the late 1990s.
* '''''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'''''[[hottip:*:aka '''''MOTHER 2: [[Revenge of the Sequel|Gyigyg Strikes Back]]''''' (1994/1995, [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]): The series' only official international release and thus the one everyone knows. The star is Ness, one of the four chosen heroes to combat Giygas and his impending destruction of the universe.
* <small>'''''MOTHER 1+2''''' (2001, [[Game Boy Advance]]): A [[Compilation Rerelease]] of ''MOTHER'' and ''[[Earthbound]]'', notably incorporating all the modifications of the "''EarthBound Zero''" prototype. Also has a [[Fan Translation]] by the same translator who translated [[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]], however only [[MOTHER 1 (Video Game)|MOTHER]] was translated, as the translator found that translating [[Earthbound (Video Game)|MOTHER 2]] beyond a basic menu translation was too time-consuming, and, because of its [[Porting Disaster|lesser quality (mainly the sound)]], was not worth the effort. </small>
* '''''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''''' (2006, [[Game Boy Advance]]): The series' apparent [[Grand Finale]], featuring a wide [[Ensemble Cast]] headed by Lucas, a timid child promted to investigate the slow corruption of his home island. Again, [[No Export for You|only released in Japan]], but is the subject of a particularly famous and polished [[Fan Translation]].
 
 
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* [[Combined Energy Attack]]: The way to defeat Giygas.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: So, so many bosses. Teddy, Frank, Everdred, Carpainter, Monotoli, etc. Justified with a couple of them in that they were [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], and defeat snapped them out of it.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: A singing monkey gives you a part of a [[MacGuffin]] in ''MOTHER''. Later you get to go in a cave full of monkeys. A majority of them lie to you.
** Salsa, a chimpanzee, is a prominent character and [[Guest Star Party Member]] in ''MOTHER 3''.
* [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies]]: Zombie mooks pop up time to time. In ''MOTHER'', you see them the early graveyard section of the game and Rosemary Manor. ''EarthBound'''s Threed has been completely overwhelmed by zombies, trapping them in a perpetual George Romero movie.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Your first two enemies in ''MOTHER'' are a desk lamp and a doll. [[Up to Eleven|It just gets more off-the-wall from there]].
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]
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** Not to mention the name of your dog, the friends that you will make along the path of your journey, and the um... "flavor" of the text boxes.
** And you are able to give your own name as well as that of the main group. This can easily put the insanity of {{spoiler|Giygas}} into perspective should you name yourself or Ness after him.
* [[Magic Byby Any Other Name]]: PSI is pretty much the game's magic.
* [[Mayor Pain]]: Podunk's Mayor is a Type 1. Fourside's Mr. Monotoli is a malevolent Type 2. {{spoiler|Or so it seems at first.}}
* [[No Export for You]]: Only ''MOTHER 2'' was released in America, under the name ''[[Earthbound]]''. Europe got it even worse, as ''none of the three games'' were ever released there.
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** [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: PK Fire, PK Thunder and PK Freeze, the three core offensive PSI always available to [[The Chick]]
** [[Light'Em Up]] / [[Confusion Fu]]: PK Flash, exclusive to Ness and Lucas
** [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Teleport]]
** [[Mana Drain]]: PSI-Magnet, exclusive to [[The Chick]] (and Poo)
** [[White Mage]]: Lifeup, Healing and other assorted techniques, generally limited to [[The Hero]]
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