Mother 3/Characters

Lucas

Cheer up!

The protagonist of the second half of the game. He starts as a crybaby, but after his adventure, he grows a lot more mature.

Voiced by Lani Minella in Super Smash Bros.

Angsty Surviving Twin: Claus goes missing early into the game, leaving Lucas to wallow in sadness for the years until he goes to find the Needles.
Badass Adorable: Once Character Development kicks in.
Big Damn Heroes/Moment of Awesome: Comes out of nowhere when Salsa, Kumatora and Wess are cornered by Pigmasks and calls the mother Drago to completely destroy the Pigmasks surrounding them.
Break the Cutie: The game really goes out of its way to do this to Lucas. If you listed all of the traumatic things that happen to him over the course of the story, you'd more or less have a summary of the plot of the game.
Character Development: It even gets mirrored in Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Combat Medic: Continues the series' trend of the main protagonist being the game's primary healer. Lucas has the largest arsenal of healing abilities of the four party members as well as the strongest physical attack.
Cosmic Plaything: His mother dies, his brother goes missing and turns up as an evil cyborg, and his father goes nearly insane with grief. Even the dog is upset about it.
Farm Boy: His father is a shepherd, even!
Good Is Old-Fashioned: Even as Tazmily changes, Lucas sticks to the old ways of the village, much to everyone's frustration.
Hair of Gold: Representing his innocent, pure-minded personality.
In the End You Are on Your Own: When you reach the Masked Man in front of the seventh needle, he knocks out everyone in your party except Lucas.
Kid Hero: Following the tradition of Ness and Ninten before him, he's implied to be around 12 by the time he picks up the role of Main Protagonist and fights the Pigmasks.
Lovable Coward: Until the Character Development kicks in.
Magic Knight: Has a great deal of healing, shield and buffering moves, but also deals that most damage in the party and can take quite a bit of damage.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He and Kumatora.
Missing Mom: She is found dead halfway through the first chapter, and not long after we meet her for the first time too.
Mushroom Samba: Complete with a large dose of Nightmare Fuel.
Parental Abandonment: His mother is killed by the Mecha Drago. Angst ensues. Later, his father spends years looking for his "missing" son out in the mountains, and it's implied he hasn't spoken to Lucas much in that time.
Plot Induced Stupidity/Gameplay and Story Segregation: Hey, look, the Pigmasks are arriving to pull the needle we just beat That One Boss for. Might as well stand here and let them set up!
Psychic Powers: As per tradition, Lucas is Psychic like the Main Protagonists before him, complete with his own unique Special PSI Attack, PK Love.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas is blue to Claus's red.
Shrinking Violet
Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable.
Simple Staff/Carry a Big Stick: His weapons of choice range from either yo-yos, sticks, staves or baseball bats.
Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
Unlikely Hero: Claus' shirt is blue and yellow—the same color as Ness's and Ninten's before him. He also acts like a Hot-Blooded hero, capable of ridiculously selfless and suicidal actions on behalf of the people he cares about. Everything about him is deliberately engineered to scream "hero!"... but it's timid Lucas who gets saddled with the position instead.

Claus

...make SURE you eat the core!

Anti-Villain: Type 4 as the masked man.
Back from the Dead: As the Masked Man, your main opposition in pulling the seven needles.
Badass Normal: 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!"
Brainwashed and Crazy: Porky states at the end of the game that the Masked Man is nothing but a puppet, and there isn't a shred of humanity left in him. This is supported earlier in the game when Phrygia can sense Lucas' heart after he pulls his share of Needles, but not the heart of Claus, even though he's been pulling Needles as well. It isn't until the end of the game that Claus regains his humanity, after his mother's voice pleads with him.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: And how! He goes from a hyperactive, cheery kid to a silent, emotionless Pigmask Army Commander.
Decoy Protagonist
Died in Your Arms Tonight: Poor Lucas...
The Dragon: For Chapters 7 and 8.
Dying as Yourself: It works.
Evil Redhead: Subverted Trope - he's just Brainwashed and Crazy.
Fiery Redhead
Keet: He even wears bright colors!
Logical Weakness: Doesn't register a heartbeat, which renders your combo system useless.
Long Lost Sibling: Claus is the Masked Man.
Lucas, I Am Your Brother: As the Masked Man.
Mask Power
Mismatched Eyes: The Masked Man is often depicted with these in fanart, even though it isn't actually in the game. This probably is based off the end of Chapter 7 when he leaps at you to engage in combat. The eye under the lens on his helmet glows red.
Never Found the Body: Well, Flint never did despite his greatest efforts. The Pigmasks though...
Redemption Equals Death
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lucas, blue, and Claus, red.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Lucas is timid and gentle, while Claus is more outgoing and excitable. This will prove to be Claus' downfall.
Suicide by Cop: Deflecting Thunder PK onto Lucas' Franklin Badge.
That Man Is Dead: King P gloats that this is the case.
Theme Twin Naming: Lucas and Claus are anagrams of each other.
Unwilling Roboticisation/We Can Rebuild Him: The Pigmasks found his fallen body and turned him into their cyborg commander.

Flint

I wonder what's under that hat? Nothing. He's bald as a bean!

Badass
Badass Longcoat: His design in the scrapped N64 version. This was most likely removed to make animations clearer.
Badass Normal: In a world where the Mooks wield rayguns and the heroes wield psychic powers, he's still more than capable of making his way on his quest with nothing more than a good block of wood.
Bald of Awesome: That's right: he's bald as a bean.
Carry a Big Stick: Primarily uses sticks as weapons.
Deus Angst Machina: Chapter 1. The forest gets set on fire, a friend of his is injured, his wife Hinawa is killed, he has a freakout that leads to him getting thrown in jail, and one of his sons tries to avenge Hinawa and is (presumably) killed. All of this within the space of a day or so.
- Iron Woobie: Much of what applies to Lucas also applies to him.
Happily Married: To Hinawa.
Heroic BSOD: After the news of Hinawa's Death is relayed to him.
Nice Hat: Flint wouldn't be Flint without his signature cowboy hat.
Papa Wolf: A deconstruction; he gets so torn up about Claus' disappearance that he spends most of the game neglecting his other son in his rampant search for him.
- During the final battle between Lucas and the Masked Man (who in reality is a brainwashed Claus), Flint will try and protect Lucas, taking two rounds of heavy damage for him.
Parental Neglect: To Lucas.
Please Keep Your Hat On: Not to say he doesn't look cool without it.
Rancher
Taking the Bullet: Flint takes a PK Love Omega for Lucas in the final battle - twice. Flint being taken out by the second one removes Lucas' unwillingness to attack.

Hinawa

...You must be exhausted.

Back from the Dead: As a ghost, seen once in the beginning of 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.
Heroic Sacrifice: Saves Lucas and Claus from the Mecha Drago at the cost of her own life.
Sacrificial Lamb
Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Sunflowers are associated with her presence throughout the game. In Chapter 6, Lucas even sees her ghost in a sunflower field.

Boney

Woof woof! (I can take you for a walk if you'd like, Lucas.)

Enemy Scan: His sniff ability. Some enemies either have no scent or one that Boney can't handle.
Evil-Detecting Dog: During the Mushroom Samba on Tanehineri/Tanetane Island, Boney's the only one that won't follow you into the hot spring. And for good reason...
Fragile Speedster: Can outright be upgraded to a Lightning Bruiser if you're skilled with the combo system.
Heroic Dog
Team Pet

Duster

Tonda gossa.

Armed Legs: Duster attacks enemies by kicking with his crippled leg.
- A clubbed foot, if I remember correctly.
Badass Beard/Badass Mustache: Yes, he has both.
Badass Normal: He doesn't need any PSI to take down Chimeras or otherwise, being a trained Thief.
Butt Monkey
Disability Superpower: He walks with a limp, and it's noted by several characters. Surprisingly, he incorporates it into his Secret Thief Arts combat style. Duster's weapons are shoes, and he kicks enemies in combat. He can make preemptive attacks at the start of random encounters, and he can even negate sneak attacks.
Dude in Distress: Is held captive in the siege of Saturn Valley in Chapter 7.
Handicapped Badass: That leg must REALLY have a lot of velocity in order to deal that much damage to enemies. He's even the second strongest Physical Attacker of the party, after Lucas.
Heavy Sleeper: He's even asleep on his naming screen! Boney has to drag him by the neck through the rain during most of his introduction scene. It's implied that he's a night owl, but still, it takes about three quarters of the cutscene for him to finally wake up.
Improbable Weapon User: His Thief Tools (wall staples, a scary mask, a siren beetle, a tickle stick, smoke bombs and a hypno-pendulum) are all things he can use in fights.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Chapter 4, the bassist of the DCMC, Lucky, is revealed to be Duster with amnesia.
Master of None: He's a member of your party most of the game, and aside from his status effects, he's mostly just around to bash things.
Mushroom Samba: Along with quite a bit of Nightmare Fuel.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: After the mission in Osohe Castle that Wess sends him on, he's never shown stealing anything despite being classed as a thief.
Stepping Stone Sword: Wall staples, which can be driven into the wall.

Wess

Abusive Parents: He constantly belittles his son, Duster.
Badass Grandpa: He's in his 60's (or thereabouts), and he's so tough, the game nerfs him by making him attack rarely during the short time he's in your party. One of his rarer attacks is enough to one-shot anything you can encounter at the time.
Badass Normal
Blatant Lies: "I'm not going to stick my butt out or anything, though."
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:

Wess: I'd like to join the search, but they told me to stay here because I'm old. Seems nobody's aware of just how strong I really am.

Guest Star Party Member

Kumatora

Outta my way, dammit!

Badass Adorable
Bifauxnen: A little kid mistakes her for a boy at some point in Chapter 2.
Black Magician Girl: Is this in contrast to Lucas's skillset.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: The only playable character that can use the elemental PSI attacks.
- Standard Status Effects: Along with Duster.
Everything's Better with Princesses: She's a princess in name only.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Kumatora is universally described as strong, tough and masculine, and off-screen, is capable of single-handedly smacking down two bodyguards that Lucas isn't even allowed to approach because they're too dangerous. Yet in actual combat, she's a Squishy Wizard who has the overall lowest physical damage ratio, even compared to a dog.
Happily Adopted: As she lost both her parents as a baby before being taken away on the "white ship"; the Magypsies agreed to raise her as their own.
The Ladette: Kumatora has this sort of personality and attitude, though she does not exhibit any of the behavior commonly associated with it other than swearing.
Lady Swears-a-Lot: Although what profanity there is in the fan translation isn't very strong, most of it comes courtesy of Kumatora.
Mushroom Samba: With a bit of Nightmare Fuel mixed in.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Her name means bear-tiger.
Psychic Powers
Rebellious Princess: Though she turns out not to really be the princess of anything.
Royals Who Actually Do Something
She Cleans Up Nicely: In her normal attire, a little girl mistakes her for a guy. In Chapter 4, however, she has to disguise as a waitress to get behind-the-scenes at Club Titiboo in order to convince an amnesiac Duster who he really is. Suddenly, many of the men find her attractive. She even tells Lucas to stop changing his expression!
Squishy Wizard
Tomboy Princess
You Gotta Have Pink Hair

The Magypsies

Ambiguous Gender: They are neither man nor woman, nor even human. They usually refer to themselves as female, but Kumatora refers to them as male. Locria seems pretty clearly male.
Camp Gay
Cool Shades: Doria.
Funny Afro: Aeolia.
Heavy Sleeper: Phrygia.
Immortality: A Magypsy will only truly "die" if their Needle is pulled.
Musical Theme Naming: The Magypsies are named for the modes of the diatonic scale.
- Meaningful Name: The locrian mode is considered to be a dissonant mode. Guess what Locria did.
Nice Hat: Doria and Phrygia.
Parental Substitute: All of them, but especially Ionia, to Kumatora.
Say It with Hearts: Only in the Fan Translation. Clyde Mandelin admits that this was done to emphasize the "girly" diction they use in Japanese.
Sexophone: The Leitmotif of the Magypsies.
Wholesome Crossdressers: The Magypsies are all psychic guardians for good except Locria/Fassad.
You Gotta Have Pink Hair

"Salsa apologized profusely!"

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 EarthBound.
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.
Everything's Better with Monkeys
I Have Your Wife: The Pigmasks have his girlfriend.
Team Pet: Sort of fills the role in a couple places, most notably when teamed up with Kumatora.

Yokuba/Fassad/Locria

Arab Oil Sheikh: Fassad looks like one, in any case.
- It's also worth noting that 'Fassad' is an Arabic word that means 'corruption'. It's also a pun on Façade (no, not the game). And it's not even official.
Back from the Dead/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: Towards Salsa the monkey.
Black Sheep: Of the Magypsies.
The Corrupter: Serves as this to the entire population of Tazmily. And he enjoys his job very much.
Crutch Character: In Salsa's chapter, though Fassad only helpes out when he feels like it.
The Dragon: At least until the Masked Man shows up.
Evil Laugh: "Nwehehehehehehehehe!"
- That's one "Nwe" and eight "he"s.
Face Heel Turn: He's one of the Magypsies.
Fate Worse Than Death: After you defeat Miracle Fassad for the last time, he falls into a sewer, too wounded to so much as move. Assuming his immortality keeps him alive, he's trapped down there until his needle is pulled.
Faux Affably Evil: He seems like a nice guy at first, but come Chapter 3, you realize that he's actually despicable.
Guest Star Party Member: A notable one, as it's likely that he'll be the one doing all the damage while Salsa is taking all the hits (and doing his best to disable enemies so he doesn't get hit).
Hate Sink: You'll learn to hate him throughout Chapter 3.
Jerkass: Fassad corrupts Tazmily village for his own profit while torturing an innocent monkey.
Kick the Dog: To Salsa. Over. And over. And over. It won't take you long to feel sorry for the poor monkey.
Make an Example of Them: Anyone who doesn't play ball and purchase a high quality Happy Box gets their house torched by lightning.
Meaningful Name: Fassad's name in the Japanese version was "Yokuba", which comes from the Japanese word for "greed". His name in the fan translation comes from the Arabic word for "corruption" and coincidentally, it sounds like the word "façade". Fassad could also be something of a reference to Lier X. Agerate, a minor character from EarthBound.
Musical Spoiler: His horns the second and third time around play a somewhat messy version of the Magypsy's theme whenever he talks.
No One Could Have Survived That
Pet the Dog: His pet rat.
Prophetic Name: The Locrian mode, the scale that Locria is named after, is also known as the 'Diabolus in Musica', a Latin phrase meaning 'Devil in Music', in reference to its dissonant tone. This is likely the reason why the name "Locria" was chosen for the traitorous Magypsy.
Recurring Boss
The Reveal: While you're heading through the Empire Porky Building, you come across a Magypsy's shell home. Inside, you find several banana peels, a pair of musical horns and Fassad's clothing.
Running Gag: Fassad isn't afraid to stop whatever he's doing to eat a banana then throw the peel on the floor. This turns out to be his downfall at the top of Thunder Tower.
Snake Oil Salesman: Wouldn't YOU be happier with a Happy Box?
Stockholm Syndrome: Fassad may be a chode, but he's an effective teammate (a lot more than Porky or Thomas), and a lot stronger than Salsa. Itoi intentionally wanted to provoke this feeling in players themselves.
Trademark Favorite Food: Luxury Bananas. They even heal him for more than they heal your party members.
Turncoat: See The Reveal above.
Villainous Crossdresser: Inverted -- the rest of the Magypsies are all psychic crossdressing guardians for good, except the comparatively conservatively-dressed Locria/Fassad.
We Can Rebuild Him: After he falls of Thunder Tower, the Pigmasks rebuild him into a cyborg who has horns sticking out of his nose.

King Porky Minch

Actually a Doombot: When you first face him.
Adult Child
And I Must Scream: Porky's fate at the end... though (as someone says in-game) it may be exactly what he wanted. Notice that he's still sticking his tongue out at you even after it's revealed that he's trapped forever.
Animal Motifs: Pigs, for fairly obvious reasons.
Big Bad: Of the third game.
Blinding Bangs: Continuing the tradition of being mildly creepy.
The Caligula
Climax Boss: And how!
Continuity Nod: His playroom is full of small nods to EarthBound, and his first battle theme is an 8-bit throwback, just like in the previous game. This hints that he was Ness's friend.
Dragon Ascendant: The Dragon to Giygas in the previous game until he's taken out, he then eventually makes it to the Nowhere Islands where the events of the game take place, and becomes the Big Bad there.
Enfante Terrible: Mentally.
Fat Bastard: You have to appreciate his audacity in theming his entire empire and army around his porcine build.
A Fate Worse Than Death
For the Evulz: Everything Porky did was because he was bored and wanted a quick laugh.
A God Am I
Immortality Hurts: Shigesato Itoi has confirmed that he will still be alive 5.5 billion years from now.
Omnicidal Maniac
Psychopathic Manchild: He tries to destroy the world just for the adrenaline rush, and that's after he raped and corrupted Nowhere Island.
Sealed Evil in a Capsule: The Absolutely Safe/Absolute Safety Capsule, in which the user is indeed Absolutely Safe, but can never leave.
Self-Disposing Villain: See above.
Spider Tank: As with before, his preferred means of combat.
Time Abyss: Porky is between 1,000 and 10,000 years old when you finally meet him. Maybe...
Time Is Dangerous: The body of an invalid old man, with the mind of a deranged child.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Even after the heat death of the solar system, Porky will still be alive.
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: What did Porky do?! Porky sprayed something! Porky sucked something!

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