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{{quote|''[[Widget Series|Strange]]. [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]]. [[Tear Jerker|Heartrending]].''}}
{{quote|''"The more you think about it, [[Fridge Brilliance|the greater MOTHER 3 will become]]."''
|'''[[Shigesato Itoi]]'''}}
'''''MOTHER 3''''' is a Japanese [[RPG]] starring an [[Kid Hero|adolescent]] [[Heroic Mime]] [[Farm Boy]] from a [[Doomed Hometown]] and [[A Boy and His X|his dog]], who join forces with a [[Lovable Rogue]] and a [[Tomboy Princess]] [[Black Magician Girl]] to fight a [[World Domination|World-Conquering]] [[Evil Overlord]] and his [[Armies Are Evil|Army]] of [[Brainwashed]] soldiers in a race to trigger the [[Plot Coupons|Seven]] [[Cosmic Keystone]]s and [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Seal Away]] an [[Ultimate Evil]] which will bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
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* [[Badass Adorable]]: Lucas is probably the last sweet little boy you'd want to get in a fight with.
** His dog (Boney) also deserves special mention for being brave enough to stick with him until '''the''' literal end of the game...whereas [[Earthbound|Ness' dog (King)]] couldn't even stay with him until the end of ''his'' game's first level. The fact that Boney looks like (and also is) ''such'' a giant brown puppy certainly helps as well.
* [[Basilitrice]]: ''{{PAGENAME}}'' has the [https://wikibound.info/wiki/Slitherhen Slitherhen] - a [[Mix-and-Match Critters|Chimera with a snake's body and chicken's head]]. Though it visually resembles a cockatrice, it thankfully isn't very poisonous.
* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: The Honey Shower. It doesn't do too much damage, but it's [[Rule of Fun|still fun]].
** And sometimes, [[Everything Is Worse With Bears|a bear]] [[Exit, Pursued by a Bear|will follow suit.]]
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* [[Crapsack World]]: {{spoiler|New Pork City, and the Nowhere Islands when you leave them. Highways, concrete, steel and technology have dominated the island, practically all of the local animals have been changed into robots or hideous chimeras, Tazmily has been abandoned after it was formed into a modern suburban-style town, and the familiar townsfolk of Tazmily have become distant from each other. Some are now jerks to Lucas and his party when they once were kind to them. In New Pork City, Porky rules with an iron fist. Lights, noise, junk food, media propaganda and other artificial distractions are the way of life, and nature does not exist outside of a polluted trash dump}}.
* [[Crosshair Aware]]: The [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Natural Killer Cyborg's]] [[Wave Motion Gun|End of the Century Beam]] sets a crosshair over each characters' life meter. They're just for intimidation though.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Lucas' party vs. the King Statue in New Pork City. Due to how the fight was/is designed, one side will always end up curb-stomping the other; either the statue with its ludicrously powerful attacks, or Lucas' party with either PK Flash or a New Year's Eve bomb.
** Also, {{spoiler|[[Hopeless Boss Fight|Lucas vs. Claus]]}} at the end of the game...until {{spoiler|Hinawa}} intervenes, at least.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: On more than one occasion, {{spoiler|Lucas and his friends will find a Needle before the Masked Man and the Pigmasks - only for them to show up seconds later and spend elaborate several-minute-long sequences landing and setting things up, which is more than enough time for Lucas to ''pull the damn Needle''}}.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Almost all<ref>If one heads left after entering New Pork City, there's a person there who says some of the reconstructed are still tame.</ref> of the "reconstructed" animals are made violent and murderous by their "enhancements" (then again, so are the purely biological chimera). In addition, this isn't an unexpected side effect. The corker? {{spoiler|After the experiments, knowing ''full goddamn well'' what the effects would be, Porky ordered Andonuts to Reconstruct to a nearly-dead Claus, resulting in his transformation into a virtually soulless killing machine who Porky can use to pull the Needles}}.
* [[Cyborg]]: {{spoiler|New/Miracle Fassad}} and the Masked Man are particularly notable examples.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Considerably so compared to the first two games.
** [[Mushroom Samba|Tanehineri/Tanetane Island]].
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: This gem from the [[Disgusting Public Toilet|Dur-T Cafe]]'s object descriptions especially stands out:
{{quote|'''Narrator:''' It's dirty, but it's a jukebox. It's a jukebox, but it's dirty.}}
* [[Description Porn]]: Inverted with [[Disgusting Public Toilet|the Dur-T Cafe]].
{{quote|"A very filthy pool table." "[[Department of Redundancy Department|It's dirty, but it's a jukebox. It's a jukebox, but it's dirty]]. It's covered in cigarette stains and old ketchup. [[Nausea Fuel|Moldy, rotten, withered old anchovies are stuck to the record]], but it somehow managed to spin anyway." "Lots and lots of old chewed gum is stuck to the bottom of this table." "These chair cushions have huge springs sticking out of them." "Don't run inside. [[Festering Fungus|You'll kick up the mold spores.]]" "An old piece of paper. The letters are so dirty and faded that they are unreadable."}}
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: This game is full of it if you know where to look.
** The flowers {{spoiler|at Hinawa's grave}} change with every chapter.
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* [[Duel Boss]]: {{spoiler|The final battle with the Masked Man, though it's quite one-sided}}.
* [[Dug Too Deep]]: {{spoiler|Just before Lucas and the others reach the dark and incomprehensible final area, they have to trek though a mine deep underneath New Pork City}}.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: [[Kindhearted Simpleton|Flint]] and [[The Brute|the Fierce Pork Trooper]].
* [[Dummied Out]]: There are ungodly amounts of unused content in the game:
** In terms of enemies, we have a giant bear, a tree monster and the Alkaline Man, along with lots of unused entries that don't have any data to them.
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* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Saturn Valley, zoom!
* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: Sort of. The villain turns out to be {{spoiler|1=Porky from ''EarthBound''}}.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The Zombieshroom, if you try to fight it without eating the funky shrooms on Tanetane Island (despite the fact that this is necessary for players to do in order to complete the game's Battle Memory). The entire party has will have 1 HP and 0 PP each with no other way to heal themselves, effectively guaranteeing that they will be KO'd on said enemy's first turn. If you hack/cheat in order to beat it without using the funky shrooms, then you'll just standing in front of it again once the fight is over.
** Also, {{spoiler|Lucas vs. Claus}} at the end of the game...until {{spoiler|Hinawa}} intervenes, at least.
* [[HP to One]]: The New Year's Eve Bomb (which is required to defeat a certain [[Bonus Boss]] <ref>You can use PK Flash, but it will be harder unless you get lucky.</ref>) has this effect.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: In interviews, scriptwriter Shigesato Itoi has said that {{spoiler|Porky Minch}} is a representation of mankind. [[Hobbes Was Right|Ouch]].
* [[Hurting Hero]]: Flint and Lucas, who both not only got their families brutally torn apart ({{spoiler|by Porky}}) but also got their homeland utterly ruined ({{spoiler|by Porky}}). In fact, [[Sexophone|Flint's attacking instrument]] even reflects this by constantly playing [[Stealth Pun|the blues]].
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: If you try to activate the jukebox in [[Not So Abandoned Building|the Dur-T Cafe]] without actually having any money, said jukebox will bitterly yell "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT, YOU BROKE BUM" at you (inside your mind) despite living in a restaurant that "dump" is probably too good of a word for (and also almost being literally broken).▼
* [[Hypocrite]]: Both of the game's main villains (not counting the Masked Man):
** {{spoiler|Porky}} delivers his [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] about humanity while embodying nearly all of the worst things about humanity. He also calls the main protagonists "pathetic" while being a living ''corpse''.
** Fassad repeatedly punishes Salsa for "misbehaving", even though he is ''clearly'' the one who is being a total dick between the two of them. He also calls non-modernized things "un-civilized" while being even more brutish than [[Dumb Muscle|Flint]] and also being quite-nearly as utterly obnoxious and selfish as {{spoiler|Porky}} himself.
▲* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: If you try to activate the jukebox in [[Not
** Also, Fassad calling Tazmily Village "incredibly un-civilized" while being one ''hell'' of a [[Fat Bastard]] himself.
** Not to mention [[Hoist
{{quote|'''Fassad:''' You're the very ''definition'' of the phrase "like [[Does This Remind You of Anything|a moron flying]] into a flame", Lucas!}}
** Not to mention this line from one of the waitresses in [[Disgusting Public Toilet|the Dur-T Cafe]]:
{{quote|'''Lady:''' Please don't come back here. You'll kick up the ''[[Festering Fungus|mold]]'' spores.}}
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: {{spoiler|The final battle. Did we mention [[Tear Jerker]] yet}}?
* [[I Miss Mom]]
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** Since Boney only gets one relatively weak weapon at the very end of the game, one could argue that his ''collars'' are his weapons, since some of them increase offense.
** Duster's weapons are SHOES and he attacks by kicking. His disability is a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|club foot]], yet he is not hindered by his crippled leg because that is how god-tier [[Badass]] he is.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The English fan translation of the game features too many of them to count, most notably the Highway Parking restaurant near Thunder Tower being referred to as [[Meaningful Name|the Dur-T Cafe]].
* [[Info Dump]]: {{spoiler|Leder's final purpose}}.
* [[Informed Equipment]]: Somewhat justified, as most of the armor and equipment you'll find are badges, charms, rings, bracelets and other kinds of accessories which would be too small to be visible on the over-world sprites. Played straight with the much less common shirt and hat accessories.
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* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Lucas forges this with Kumatora and Duster (especially Duster, who appears to be in his thirties).
* [[In the Style Of]]: Oddly enough, this game is sort of ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' in the style of ''[[EarthBound]]''.
* [[Irony]]: Most of the members of Lucas's family ''will'' become playable in this game at some point in it...except for Hinawa herself, who is the '''mother''' in a game called '''Mother''' 3. However, at least she still is a major focal part of the story (as the game's title clearly suggests).
** The Dur-T Cafe is right next to an actual landfill that looks ''clean'' when compared to it.
** Fassad has [[Super Mario Bros|Mario]]'s mustache but also has [[Wario Land|Wario]]'s personality.
* [[It's All Upstairs From Here]]: [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], {{spoiler|the Empire Porky Building}}. Then you fall down a shaft/elevator for what seems like forever and descend a long staircase to get to {{spoiler|Porky, The Masked Man and the final Needle}}.
* [[Jail Bake]]: Flint is locked up in prison at one point, so his son Claus sneaks him a nail file disguised in... an apple.
* [[Jerkass]]: Fassad. Additionally, quite a few people from Tazmily become rude to Lucas and his friends as the town becomes more and more modernized and corrupted.
* [[Just a Machine]]: {{spoiler|Porky believes that the Masked Man is nothing more then his robot slave and has no humanity left in him}}.
* [[Karmic Death]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|Fassad. Due to his rather obnoxious habit of constantly littering banana peels all over the place, he eventually ends up [[Disney Villain Death|falling off of the top of Thunder Tower]] due to slipping on one of said peels. However, [[Not the Fall That Kills You|this doesn't actually kill him]], instead resulting in [[We Can Rebuild Him|him being reconstructed]] into his [[Cyborg|New/Miracle]] form.}}
* [[King Mook]]: The Fierce Pork Trooper.
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swears-a-Lot]]: Although what profanity there is in the fan translation isn't very strong, most of it comes courtesy of [[Tomboy Princess|Kumatora]]. Lighter qualifies too to some extent.
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* [[Musical Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|The Masked Man's attacks in Chapter 7 use the same "attack riff" as Claus's attacks from the prologue}}. There are many things foreshadowing that particular revelation, but only that one counts as a [[Musical Spoiler]]. Another one that's a bit less obscure is {{spoiler|when Fassad returns with his new "horns", and they're squeaking out the sax part of the Magypsy theme}}.
** Similarly, if there's any doubt that {{spoiler|Lucky, DCMC's bassist}} is actually {{spoiler|Duster}}, you may recall that {{spoiler|his attack riff is a bassline}}.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Fassad
** Let's not forget to mention the ''[[The Terminator|Natural Killer Cyborg]]'' while we're at it...
* [[Narm]]: [[In-Universe]] example. "The Frightbot told a story so scary you couldn't help but laugh."
** From the fan translation, "Lucas... remembered Claus's smell."
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: [[But Thou Must!|You have to]] leave the Osohe Castle gate open when you leave it. This allows the Pigmask Army to go right on in.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: The fight against Porky would be a hopeless fight {{spoiler|if he didn't decide to switch on the Absolutely Safe Capsule}}.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Skinhead is rather-heavily implied to be one of these by this rather disturbing pair of lines that he delivers whenever you talk to him in [[Disgusting Public Toilet|the Dur-T Cafe]] during Chapter 5 (read these lines in [[Peter Lorre]]'s voice for maximum creepiness effect):
{{quote|'''Skinhead:''' I could really get used to this place's [[Festering Fungus|uniquely disgusting]] feeling. In fact, I love it even more than [[Coolest Club Ever|Club Titiboo]]!}}
* [[Ninja Maid]]: Lil' Miss Marshmallow, the robot maid who works for "King P.", will get very, very angry indeed if you try to take her master's precious "Friend's Yoyo".
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: One of the few works to ''[[Deconstructed Trope]]'' this trope. One of the music tracks is called "Tragic Reconstruction" for a reason.
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* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]/[[Sealed Good in a Can|Good in a Can]]: {{spoiler|The Dark Dragon, though ''which'' he is depends on who pulls the [[Cosmic Keystone|Seven Needles]]}}.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: {{spoiler|Subverted; you can go after the Needles after Aeolia's has been pulled and before Ionia's has been pulled in any order, which may make things a hell of a lot easier since you will have a full party by the time you get the needles other than the Chimera Lab, you need to clear that to get Kumatora back on your team though. Only real problem is trekking back to Saturn Valley because the Coffee Table that you use to ride will be gone when you go there the first time if you plan on getting Duster right after Aeolia's needle}}.
* [[Sexophone]]: Serves as both Flint's attacking instrument and the theme song of the Magypsies.
** [[Fan Disservice|Rather disturbingly]], it also plays in {{spoiler|Porky's}} fan room.
* [[Shall I Repeat That?]]: When {{spoiler|Leder gives the surprisingly long explanation of the history of Nowhere Islands; he'll confirm that you understand each part before continuing to the next}}.
* [[Sheathe Your Sword]]: {{spoiler|The final battle}}.
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* [[Stone Wall]]: {{spoiler|[[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] with the "Absolutely Safe Capsule"; nothing can hurt the person inside, yet the one inside can't hurt anything outside. Porky encasing himself in it results in the battle ending prematurely, as he's unable to hold back the heroes any longer while trapped in the capsule}}.
* [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse]]
* [[Stout Strength]]: Despite being as much of a downright-insultingly blatant [[Fat Bastard]] as he is, Fassad deals rather large amounts of damage as Salsa's temporary combat partner and {{spoiler|is easily not one but ''two'' of ''the'' [[That One Boss|most powerful bosses in the entire game]]}}.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The ''[https://youtu.be/gd1vHeVwREA "music"]'' that plays in [[Disgusting Public Toilet|the Dur-T Cafe]] sounds ''[[Up to Eleven|astonishingly]]'' [[Surprise Creepy|deformed]] and [[Most Annoying Sound|vibrato-overloaded]], in order to reflect how much said restaurant [[Meaningful Name|lives up to its name]].
* [[Sudden Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|...But [[Take Our Word for It|it gets better]]}}.
* [[Super-Persistent Predator]]: The Ultimate Chimera.
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