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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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* [[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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* [[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]].
* [[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]]:
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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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* [[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]]}}.
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