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Revision as of 09:36, 31 July 2018
Ness is the silent main protagonist of EarthBound. He is the leader of his team, known as the Chosen Four. He lives the life of a typical 13-year old boy until a meteor crashes in his hometown Onett, and he finds a bug named Buzz Buzz, who gives him a quest to save his planet from Giygas with three other friends.
Appearance
Ness strangely resembles Ninten, the main character from MOTHER. Both of their caps, their clothes, and shoes are the same. Their eyes are also the same color, but the styles are different. While Ninten has Pac-Man eyes, Ness just has circle eyes, that are purple-blueish in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The only differences are that the blue flap on his red cap is on the right side instead of the left side, he wears white socks instead of red, he carries a brown backpack with him, and he wears red shoes with white heels.
Biography
EarthBound
Ness awakes from a sound sleep by a crashed meteorite north of his house in Onett. His mother and sister are agitated, but Ness leaves to find out what happened. After meeting up with Liar X. Agerate and Porky Minch, he returns home and tries to get back to sleep. Soon thereafter, Pokey arrives and demands that Ness help him look for his little brother, who has gone missing during the calamity surrounding the impact.
After a pep-talk from his mother, Ness, Porky and King return to the hillside, where they find Picky (who reveals it was Porky who actually ran away). They also encounter Buzz Buzz, an insectoid warrior who has returned from the future to warn Ness of the threat that Giygas poses to the universe. It is from Buzz Buzz that Ness learns of the prophecy surrounding his future; that he, two other boys, and one girl will stand against Giygas and save the universe from total annihilation.
Vested with this knowledge, Ness escorts Porky and Picky home before launching his quest, but is assaulted by a Starman Jr. The alien confirms the prophecy before attacking the group, but Buzz Buzz and Ness subdue it. Upon arriving at Pokey's house, Lardna Minch unceremoniously kills Buzz Buzz for his resemblance to a dung beetle. Before expiring, Buzz Buzz passes the Sound Stone to Ness, and starts him on his journey to save the world.
Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary
Ness arrived at the Ruined Zoo and saved Lucas from the King Statue with his psychic powers. He and Lucas subsequently defeated Porky Minch in an electromechanical spider, but found Wario plotting to capture them with a Dark Cannon. Ness evaded every shot Wario fired, but pushed his blond-haired companion out of the way and became a trophy after Wario pivoted his Dark Cannon towards Lucas.
King Dedede eventually stole the Ness trophy from Wario and attached a trophy revival brooch to his chest.
After Tabuu decimated all surviving fighters with Off Waves, Ness's brooch activated, and he promptly returned to being and found himself in Subspace. He took a similar brooch off Luigi's nose and deduced that King Dedede had warranted their revival, and they activate King Dedede's trophy in turn. Ness eventually joined Luigi and King Dedede in revitalizing the trophies of all other fighters that Tabuu turned into trophies and defeating Tabuu himself.
Ness in The Subspace Emissary
Trivia
- Ness is the only main protagonist in the Mother series who is unable to run normally. He can temporarily run with a speed boost from a Skip Sandwich or Skip Sandwich DX, however.
- Ness is analogous to Ninten and Lucas in their respective games.
- Ness was originally planned to be replaced by Lucas as the character representative of the Mother series in Super Smash Bros. Melee; however, Ness reprised his role due to the original cancellation of EarthBound 64.
- Using the Don't Care naming option, possible names for Ness are "Ness", "Alec", "Roger", "Will", "Brian", "Tyler", and "Lane".
- In an early video of EarthBound 64, footage was shown of what appears to be Ness riding a Pork Bean and walking in the forest. It is speculated by fans that he would have been playable, as a 3D model of Onett was also shown.
- When Ness enters Magicant in the Japanese version of EarthBound — MOTHER 2 — he appears naked (sprite seen above) instead of appearing in his pajamas. This is explained by nudity being a sign of purity in Japanese culture.
- Ness's name is likely a homophone of NES and an anagram of SNES, two Nintendo consoles that were out at the time.
- EarthBound fans have theorized that Ness is Ninten's son.
- Ness is similar to Junior from VeggieTales; they both are kids, they both wear striped clothes, (though Junior wears them in common episodes) they both wear caps, and they both embark on successful quests.
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