Mother 3/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• At the end of MOTHER 3, you get another "The End?" before getting a definitive "The End". It strikes you then that the "The End" at the end of MOTHER and EarthBound wasn't referring to the game's end - but the franchise's end!
• In the same vein, it occurred to me (in part thanks to comments on this wiki) that the plot of the sequel, MOTHER 3, concerns a villain who refuses to lose his childhood innocence and lets it become twisted into a self-absorbed fantasy that he forces on the rest of the world. In the end, he's forced back into an artificial womb where he stays forever. --Filby
  • And that leads to another realization: it's hinted that he is, in fact, happy about being trapped in that capsule for eternity, all by himself. He's so childish that he chose to become an unborn infant again. Technically, you only begin to grow up after you're born, which he didn't want. So, he stays as childish as possible, both mentally and metaphorically.
    • Not to discredit the previous troper, but given that Porky sounds uneasy during the event and that he doesn't exactly think things out in the long-term, it's pretty clear that he's locked himself in a horrid little hell.
      • I've been reading quite a bit about this situation with Porky (never played the game, sorry), and being locked in an indestructible and inescapable capsule sounds agonizingly boring, but for the longest time, I thought that he could still keep contact and control of his army and/or servants. But then it occurred to me that for the Absolutely Safe Capsule to be absolutely safe, it must also be air and water tight. He can't even speak to anyone else, and can't hear anyone else. He will live in constant silence, and will see everything there is to see, and not be able to interact with it in any way. Forever. - Battery1320
        • The only person Porky actually tried to replace in his life was Lardna. Ness and company were enshrined, but there's an entire restaurant full of Lardnas-- which is in itself a testament to how screwed up Porky is, that he built a robot duplicate of his mother that only existed to take orders and serve food. But remember that Lardna was always self-absorbed and horribly, horribly negligent; the robot Lardnas were probably more motherly than the real one. Returning to the "womb" provided by the absolutely safe capsule may have made him happy just because it was the closest thing he's ever really had to a motherly influence.
• Another Porky one, but more related to gameplay. He constantly brags about his immortality during the battle with him. If you use cheats to fight him outside of when you're supposed to, he will never die, no matter how many times you use Pk Love Omega, Starstorm or Ground. The Dev Team Thinks of Everything, perhaps?
  • No. The scene with Porky escaping into the Absolutely Safe Capsule is a special event in the game. If you fight Porky when you're not supposed to, this event isn't triggered properly and Porky can't be defeated. This also happens with the second Masked Man battle.
• Not much of a brilliant observation, but I realized Claus and Lucas were anagrams of each other several months ago. -Candy Entrails
• The film in Porky's theater became one for me when I realized that nobody was following Ness and his friends with a camera! And since nobody even remembers them anymore, Porky must have personally sat down and created the entire script. That's... a powerful image -- Canonier.
  • Nobody following Ness with a camera??? Do the words "Fuzzy Pickles" mean anything to you?
  • That's a photo camera though.
    • Did it look animated?
      • None of the images in the movie were where the Photo Man took pictures though.
• After the final boss fight of MOTHER 3, Lucas talks to you, the player, and tells you that you can see him again whenever you like, which of course is meant to imply that you can see Lucas and company again whenever you feel like playing the game once more. However, this troper realized that this means pulling the final needle to destroy and recreate the world leads to a sort of reset on the entire universe of MOTHER 3. Claus and Hinawa and everyone else are all brought back to life, and when you play through the game a second (or third or fourth, etc.) time, the events repeat themselves, eventually culminating in yet another reset of the world of MOTHER 3. Each time you decide to play again, Hinawa is killed, and Claus dies and is reconstructed. Which, I suppose, could also qualify this as Fridge Horror. --Ethereal Zephyr
• In MOTHER 3, Duster's weapon list includes a Rope Snake and Wall Staples. It's just a pun on the boardgame, snake's and ladders!
• The song "A Railway In Our Village" seems to sound like "Mom's Hometown", but doesn't really. "Mom's Hometown" is also the Love Theme, making it "false love", and, therefore, false happiness. "A Railway In Our Village" plays in the corrupted Tazmily, where the villagers are being showered with false happiness. --Silver Moon Dance
• Here's some Fridge Horror for ya: EarthBound is obviously a direct sequel to MOTHER, having similar themes and carrying on the story of Giygas. EarthBound takes place only a few years after MOTHER. However, MOTHER 3 seems to be in a very different universe with different themes and styles and the only recurring element is Porky. However, doesn't MOTHER 3 take place After the End, when the world was reset and everyone's minds wiped?
• The Absolutely Safe Capsule that Porky hides in seems flawed at first, since it is inescapable. Then you realize how the name of the Capsule and think about how crazy Porky is, and realize. The Capsule isn't meant to protect Porky, it traps him inside, keeping everyone absolutely safe from HIM!
• Kumatora is a tomboy because she was raised by the Magypsies.

Fridge Horror

• In the end of MOTHER 3. When Claus dies, it is very emotional. Then it becomes a whole new level of disturbing when you realize it was child suicide....
• After the End, everyone seems alive and well, and they're all in the same place. All of them. Every NPC, every playable character (except the ones who were already dead), and, most likely, every one of the Chimeras. Every. One. Of. Them. The Pigtunias, the Cattlesnakes, the Kangasharks... and the Ultimate Chimera. Let me rephrase this: EVERYBODY IS IN THE SAME PLACE WITH THE ULTIMATE CHIMERA. Worrying about their safety yet?
  • Not really. I assume that the dragon "reset" all of the chimeras, breaking them down to their original beings. The only thing to be terrified of is whatever made the Ultimate Chimera that vicious in the first place, and even then, it may not even be mad after being separated.

Fridge Logic

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