History WMG / Mother3

** Kumatora also seems to recognize him instantly ("Is that..."), so there's that as well.
*** The problem with this is that there's no evidence Kumatora ever met Claus prior to him becoming the Masked Man. It's ''possible'' they met, and it's also ''possible'' she recognized him from Lucas' offscreen descriptions, but Kumatora doesn't seem to have interacted much with most of the villagers, so it's more likely she recognized him as the infamous Pigmask general and her "Is that..." was related to that instead.

[[WMG: The [=MOTHER=] series takes place in the ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' universe and this game takes place after the bad ending of ''VideoGame/Persona3'']]

Bear with me, okay? In the first Mother game, there were two Franklin badges that both were given to Ninten. In the second game, Ness has one of the two. I'm assuming that Ninten is Ness' father and that PSI runs in the family. But my next theory is that Flint was born after Earthbound, and he got the other Franklin badge, which became the Courage Badge. [[IncrediblyLamePun Frank]]ly, it's the only way to explain why he has a Franklin badge.

So, its implied that Hinawa [[spoiler: defended Claus and Lucas from the mecha drago, but lost her life in the process]]. But, consider how her [[spoiler: death]] was described by bronson: [[spoiler: drago fang pierced her heart, implying a biting attack]], something that almost no other playable character can get hit by and walk away without being crippled when facing that very [[spoiler: drago]]. But, she was able to [[spoiler: fend it off long enough]] for the twins to [[spoiler: escape]], which implies that either she was incredibly durable and [[spoiler: survived enough attacks]] to buy the twins time... or that she had PSI. Consider that [[spoiler: Claus]] and Lucas both can use [[spoiler: PK Love]]. Perhaps PSI just runs in the family, and is passed down through the [[IncrediblyLamePun mother]]?

** Tent Person = Boogie Tent perhaps? After all, why would the game show the battle of Ness, Paula, and Jeff against Boogie Tent in the theater in New Pork City? Besides, it was a weird thing set up by zombies in Threed back in VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}, so it could have continued on to meet and fight with Lucas and crew.

There's nothing to imply that it ''isn't'' Jeff's dad from ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', obviously, but Porky ''is'' a time-traveler. He could have kidnapped Jeff as an old man, seeing it as fitting revenge for Jeff's role in the war against Giygas.

He knows about the last, unknown person who prayed for the Chosen Four back in VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} -- and he knows it was you. He suspected you would return to guide Lucas through his journey and made a point to flaunt the fact that he went back and warped the timeline to make it all meaningless. ''That'' was the reason behind the Memory Boat Ride. Hey, look, player -- he has the Sky Runner, the Phase Distorter, the Helicopter, the Submarine... all unscathed. He has the Pencil Eraser -- an unique item that ''only Ness'' had. He has Ness's yo-yo. He has pretty much every plot-relevant item that Ness needed on his journey to defeat Giygas... meaning that he robbed Ness of the opportunity to use them.

We all know his appearance and purpose in ''Mother 3''. But what about the first two? In ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'', the dragon you fight is either a weaker form of the Dark Dragon or a dream version of him. [[spoiler:If it was a dream version, than it's possible Giygas told Maria about the Dark Dragon, a legendary god for his people.]] In ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', The Bags of Dragonite are bags of ground up rocks powered by the Dark Dragon's energy for thousands of years, kind of like the way sedimentary and ingeous rocks slowly become metamorphic rocks in RealLife, hence their rarity, [[spoiler:or because they were all harvested under orders of Giygas]]. It's also entirely possible that [[spoiler:Giygas got his power through feeding off the Dragon, or the Dragonite.]]

[[WMG: The Photograph Man from Videogame/{{Earthbound}} is a Chimera made by Porky.]]

As odd as this may sound, while in the West, it's partially a SacredCow among gamers, in Japan opinions of the game are a lot more...[[BrokenBase divided.]] This game has a ''very'' vocal {{Hatedom}} over there because of how wildly different it is to VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} / Mother 2, with some even using the game's story as an example of Itoi being washed up. Rumor has it this was also one of the main reasons Lucas was removed from Super Smash Bros. 3DS / Wii U. Because of all this, Nintendo may not see it worth it to port it over, despite everyone here considering it one of the greatest games of all time.

Nana, despite being a minor character with no real significance to the plot, shares a little bit of ShipTease with Lucas. While rambling, she tells him to smile because he has "a really cute smile". If you talk to her again directly afterwards, she says, "You know, I think I could start to like you..." The two are also outsiders in Tazmily: Lucas for not caving in to the Happy Box, and Nana for being too talkative. If that isn't enough, she's blonde and wears a pink dress with a red headband, bearing a strong resemblance to [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Paula]] (especially Nana's younger sprite before the three year time skip), while [[VideoGame/{{EarthBoundBeginnings}} Ana's]] name is one letter away from Nana. What's something that Paula and Ana have in common? Oh yes, they both have romantic ties to the main protagonist of their respective games. Nana also shows a keen insight with some of her early dialogue, such as [[spoiler: wondering how she knows the truth about Tanetane Island when no one else does, and noting how none of the family members in Tazmily look alike, foreshadowing the story that Leder tells at the end of the game.]] Given the above information, one wonders if she might also have some latent ability for PSI.

Seeing how [[BolivianArmyEnding deliberately ambiguous]] the ending is about the fate of the people of Nowhere, it's even more ambiguous as to what happened to the planet that was "destroyed" (though it's obvious that at the very least, the landscape was annihilated). Let's say for the purpose of this theory that the characters have all either a) [[KillEmAll died and are conversing in the afterlife at the end of the game]], or b) [[DeusExMachina been rescued by the Dragon/another "White Ship" to start anew on yet another world/planet/plane of existence/whatever.]]

This would probably explain why Lucas [[spoiler:and Claus]] can learn PSI powers -- perhaps the abilities are genetic, kind of like how Ness was able to use a tiny bit of psychic power even as a baby (and that in itself probably spawns a whole bunch of other theories.) On a more minor note, it ''could'' also explain why Lucas has blond hair, like Paula did, but this is probably the magic of Main/HairColors at work.
* Though I never played it, it's explained somehow or another.