History EarthBound / TropesAToG

** Special mention goes to Fourside, which is obviously based on major big cities and as such has skyscrapers, a massive department store, several restaurants, a museum, and a theatre. Everything ''seems'' fine except one person controls everything including the police, the manager of the theater scams the Runway Five and tricks them into crippling debt, the department store loses power and suddenly becomes infested with monsters while Paula gets kidnapped at the same time and finally, [[ArtifactOfDoom the Mani Mani statue]] is located in the storage area of a ''random Cafe''. All that on top of the fact that taxis, roadway signs, and even random people will suddenly come out of nowhere to fight you.

*** All phone calls result in unique conversations since the player no longer needs their services: Dad starts to tell you about the experience needed for the next level, only to laugh and say you don't need to hear that or save your game; Mom looks forward to you coming home soon; Escargo Express informs you that Tracy no longer works there and they are currently unable to make any deliveries or pickups; Mach Pizza's only deliveryman quit, so they're closed; and Stoic Club is shut down and replaced with the Lazy Cowpoke Stop'n Go truck stop.

*** If you take said bike into the rain forest and ride it through the puddles, it gets its own unique sound effect that never plays at any other point in the game.

* EpilepticFlashingLights: The game will be one of the many that Nintendo has edited to take these out in its UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole release. Mainly, some of the stronger PSI attacks put out one hell of a seizure-inducing light show.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Giygas apparently does. [[spoiler:Considering [[{{VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings}} his backstory]], it makes sense.]] Another theory is both the protagonist and antagonist have psychic powers, so they would be able to communicate with each other that way.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: While Ness is naked in Magicant, in the Japanese version only. He's wearing pajamas in the English version.

* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Dr. Andonuts has several beakers and flasks on both of the desks in his lab, despite only shown working with machines.

* GoshDarnItToHeck: In accordance with the game's childlike tone, a number of characters go out of their way to not swear. One of the funnier examples being an enemy battle cry being, "Don't go to Heaven!"