History EarthBound / TropesNToS

* SpoiledBrat: Porky.
* SpoiledSweet: Paula. She is famous and her dad totally babies her, but she is very serious about saving the world no matter what it takes.

** "get hurt and collapse" (player characters

--> '''Dept. Store Spook:''' ''"This department store is gonna beyour grave! Gwaaagh. You will be gone, and you'll be burning in... Well, you'll go to heaven!"''

** PK Flash, when it hits, may inflict crying (blindness), numbness (paralysis), feeling strange (confusion), or unconsciousness.

** The eighth Your Sanctuary boss' second form, Diamond Dog, is likely a reference to Music/DavidBowie.

--> You will be gone, and you'll be burning in... Well, you'll go to heaven!

--> You strange unmasked fellow. Don't go the Heaven!

* RisingCostOfHealthInsurance: Practically the {{Trope Namer|s}} (though not [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts its supertrope]]).

* NotCompletelyUseless: Poo's Mirror ability is usually ignored by many players, as most monsters are rather weak, and few monsters have anything that you'd want. There is, however, at least one exception. The Fuel Bots in the underground base can be mirrored, ''and somehow Poo can heal your party members without PP cost by refuelling them as if they were robots''.

** Giygas's robots appear in the overworld as blue octahedrons (presumably they're inside; there's an unused capsule sprite that might have been originally used, same as the Starman capsules from ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 1}}'').

-->[[spoiler:'''Porky:''' ''"And here you stand, waiting to be burned up with all the rest of the garbage of this universe... Haaaaah! That's so sad. I can't help but shed a tear."'']]

* TheOverworld: The {{Eagleland}} overworld, which actually has roads, just like in RealLife! You sometimes get to ride in the tour bus with a local band down them, and you can pay to ride the regular bus to travel between Twoson, Threed and Fourside. Otherwise you walk like in other [=RPGs=].

* NonLethalKO: No enemies "die" in ''[=EarthBound=]''. Instead, they:

** "Say Your Name, Please," the character naming screen, includes a distorted sample of the theme song to ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' (which itself is John Philip Souza's "The Liberty Bell.")

-->'''Scarbara shop:''' Why don't you buy something? I've got a family to feed!

-->''Twoson department store tool shop:'' Are you here just to say hi? What a loser!
-->''Summers shop:'' This place isn't for looky loos. If you're not buying, get out!
-->''Scarbara shop:'' Why don't you buy something? I've got a family to feed!

-->[[spoiler:'''Porky:''' "''And here you stand, waiting to be burned up with all the rest of the garbage of this universe... Haaaaah! That's so sad. I can't help but shed a tear.''"]]

* PenultimateWeapon: The Legendary Bat for Ness.

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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:The game also reveals exactly how and why Porky went from a major nuisance to an outright sociopath.]]

* NewAgeRetroHippie: [=EarthBound=] is the TropeNamer, after one of the enemies with the same name.

* SpinningOutOfHere: Like in ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'', teleporting requires rapid, uninterrupted acceleration before zooming off to the destination, so areas with limited space to build speed require moving in circles to avoid crashing. One teleport ability requires the player to turn manually, the other one automatically makes the party move in a tight spiral.

* {{Retraux}}: Giygas and [[spoiler:Heavily Armed Pokey]]'s battle theme starts out with some {{N|intendoEntertainmentSystem}}ES {{chiptune}}-sounding music (ironically, nothing from ''MOTHER'', though, where Giygas actually just had an incessant screech as his "battle theme") before spontaneously jumping into [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic a progressive metal version of the same tune]].
* RisingCostOfHealthInsurance: Practically the TropeNamer (though not [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts its supertrope]]).

* SquishyWizard: Again, Paula. Her PK Freeze spells rip enemies into shreds, but her HP is so low that even two hits of PK Thunder obliterate her. Hell, often her HP during the endgame can be maxed out by Lifeup ''β''.