History Headscratchers / Mother3

** Read between the lines; dogs can smell anything at anytime in real life. Thus, it's more likely the message means "He couldn't smell anything ''important''". You know, smells that could be useful in battle. In that sense, he probably could smell Claus but there was no point in communicating that because it doesn't help beating him. As for Lucas remembering Claus' scent, there was an emotional response to it that Boney probably wouldn't comprehend because he's a dog (even if he's a smart one).

** Read between the lines; dogs can smell anything at anytime in real life. Thus, it's more likely the message means "He couldn't smell anything 'important'". You know, smells that could be useful in battle. In that sense, he probably could smell Claus but there was no point in communicating that. As for Lucas remembering Claus' scent, there was an emotional response to it that Boney probably wouldn't comprehend because he's a dog (even if he's a smart one).

* How is Dr. Andonuts still alive? I mean, does this mean that the events of Mother 3 really take place only a few years or so after ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}''? But Porky said he traveled through centuries to get to when Mother 3 takes place. I always assumed that Dr. Andonuts used a time machine because he's a scientist, but I can't ignore the possible InferredHolocaust of everyone and everything we know and love from ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}''.

** He definitely did not come of his own accord. Porky kidnapped him to make the chimeras and design the safety capsule, which he sabotaged in payback. As for the timeframe, while Andonuts indirectly references Earthbound's events and says "but that was a few years ago", it doesn't mean anything. Porky has been travelling for hundreds of years and the implied level of technology in Mother 3 seems at the very least decades ahead of Earthbound as well. It's quite likely that the events of Mother 3 did not happen until well beyond Ness and co's lifetimes.
** Last time we saw Porky was in the final sequence of Earthbound, which happens in the past, no? So he possibly took the long way home from then, and kidnapped Andonuts a while after the events of Earthbound.

* I've always wondered this ever since I found the FF.Net section for Earthbound. Why, oh WHY does everyone pair up Lucas with Ness?! They don't even EXIST WITHIN THE SAME TIME PERIOD! And, the only time they saw eachother was in Brawl, and on the movie screen at NPC. Now, you might be saying, "Oh! There was Ho Yay with them in the Ruined Zoo!", which I don't believe at all. They were friends, but not lovers, and besides, if a boy just randomly came to save your life, and when you saw him get shot down you ran like a coward, wouldn't you feel guilty and disappointed with yourself that you couldn't find him and repay his kindness?

** Same reason you could ask why didn't Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' use Phoenix Down to revive Aerith before she died. And like one of the answers above mentioned, in battle, your party members are only KO'ed when they've lost all their HP, and considering they can still walk around on the map with only a fatigue look on their faces and slouching body stance show that they're not dead at all (although in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' your party members are shown as ghosts) and the game over screens seem to be a dream-like sequence where your character is shown having collsaped, but press "yes" and they get back up, looking determined. When characters go down in battle, they are only wounded, but not mortally wounded unless all characters go down and no one can revive them. I like to think that PK Healing can heal physical wounds or scars, but not actually revive someone back from the dead. I think Phoenix Down works in much the same way. And like another answer mentioned, Claus was no longer human at that point, so he couldn't be brought back the way a completely biological human could, he was damaged like a machine that can no longer function or work properly.

* Why the fuck is [[spoiler: Saturn Valley]] here, considering [[spoiler:''Earthbound'' didn't take place on the Nowhere Islands]]? Come to think of it, why are [[spoiler: the Mr. Saturns]] here at all? Why couldn't [[spoiler: Dr. Andonuts]] make all the necessary stuff himself, or the other researchers?

** Grief is a hell of a thing.

* You would think that the Egg of Light would of made a good Deus Ex Machina with [[spoiler:Claus, but of course the Egg is never actually mentioned or used once the party gets it from a rubbish tip of all places.]] That said, it is possible that even if they remembered to use it, it probably wouldn't work under the assumption it can only return memories it has taken and not restored memories period.

** Given that she was raised by the Magypsies, and given that a few people mistake her for a man, it's entirely possible that she's trans, but there's no real indication one way or the other. She does at least seem to present as female, especially when working as Violet, but since she was raised by the Magysies it's reasonable to assume they taught her enough to let her present as whatever gender she wants (or neither.)

* You would think that the Egg of Light would of made a good Desu Ex Machina with[[spoiler:Claus, but of course the Egg is never actually mentioned or used once the party gets it from a rubbish tip of all places.]] That said, it is possible that even if they remembered to use it, it probably wouldn't work under the assumption it can only return memories it has taken and not restored memories period.

** Also, they're clearly living with a per-industrial-age level of technology, so a dead body would not last long ''at all'' with the stuff they got. They had no choice but to bury her immediately, just for the sake of sanitation and keeping her body recognizable. (And given the size of an adult Drago and the fact she died by being bitten by one, it's safe to say her body wouldn't be too easy to recognize as it was.

*** Girls have a habit of developing more extremely than boys within the same overall age range. And there's nothing saying that Kuma couldn't have just lied a bit about her age if the club had the limit for employment at say 15 ([[https://www.quora.com/How-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-work-as-a-hostess-in-Japan which is the minimum for Japanese law to be employed]]). Japnese hostess bars follow the rule of not allowing employment unless you're at least 18, but considering how NPC's shown as a Crapsack World (meaning the club might not have such a rule nor enforce it strongly) and Kumatora coming off as a Bratty Teenage Daughter to the Magypsies she can certainly be no older than 15 post-timeskip with Lucas 12/13.

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* What the heck was Lucas doing those three past years up until the events of Chapter 4? Why didn't he, Flint or Wess try to do anything to stop Fassad before he could modernize Tazmily more than it had already become? And why did it take three years for someone to finally do something about it?

** Same reason you could ask why didn't Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' use Phoenix Down to revive Aerith before she died. And like one of the answers above mentioned, in battle, your party members are only KO'ed when they've lost all their HP, and considering they can still walk around on the map with only a fatigue look on their faces and slouching body stance show that they're not dead at all (although in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' your party members are shown as ghosts) and the game over screens seem to be a dream-like sequence where your character in shown having collsaped, but press "yes" and they get back up, looking determined. When characters go down in battle, they are only wounded, but not mortally wounded unless all characters go down and no one can revive them. I like to think that PK Healing can heal physical wounds or scars, but not actually revive someone back from the dead. I think Phoenix Down works in much the same way. And like another answer mentioned, Claus was no longer human at that point, so he couldn't be brought back the way a completely biological human could, he was damaged like a machine that can no longer function or work properly.

** Same reason you could ask why didn't Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' use Phoenix Down to revive Aerith before she died. And like one of the answers above mentioned, in battle, your party members are only KO'ed when they've lost all their HP, and considering they can still walk around on the map with only a fatigue look on their faces and slouching body show that they're not dead at all (although in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' your party members are shown as ghosts) and the game over screens seem to be a dream-like sequence where your character in shown having collsaped, but press "yes" and they get back up, looking determined. When characters go down in battle, they are only wounded, but not mortally wounded unless all characters go down and no one can revive them. I like to think that PK Healing can heal physical wounds or scars, but not actually revive someone back from the dead. I think Phoenix Down works in much the same way. And like another answer mentioned, Claus was no longer human at that point, so he couldn't be brought back the way a completely biological human could, he was damaged like a machine that can no longer function or work properly.

** Same reason you could ask why didn't Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' use Phoenix Down to revive Aerith before she died. And like one of the answers above mentioned, in battle, your party members are only KO'ed when they've lost all their HP, and considering they can still walk around on the map with only a fatigue look on their faces and slouching body show that they're not dead at all (and the game over screens seem to be a dream-like sequence rather than your character outright dying, considering they get back up and strike a determined pose. When characters go down in battle, they are only wounded, but not mortally wounded unless all characters go down and no one can revive them. I like to think that PK Healing can heal physical wounds or scars, but not actually revive someone back from the dead. I think Phoenix Down works in much the same way. And like another answer mentioned, Claus was no longer human at that point, so he couldn't be brought back the way a completely biological human could, he was damaged like a machine that can no longer function or work properly.

** Same reason you could ask why didn't Cloud from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' use Phoenix Down to revive Aerith before she died. And like one of the answers above me mentioned, in battle, your party members are only KO'ed when they've lost all their HP, and considering they can still walk around on the map with only a fatigue look on their faces and slouching body show that they're not dead at all (and the game over screens seem to be a dream-like sequence rather than your character outright dying, considering they get back up and strike a determined pose. When characters go down in battle, they are only wounded, but not mortally wounded unless all characters go down and no one can revive them. I like to think that PK Healing can heal physical wounds or scars, but not actually revive someone back from the dead. I think Phoenix Down works in much the same way. And like another answer mentioned, Claus was no longer human at that point, so he couldn't be brought back the way a completely biological human could, he was damaged like a machine that can no longer function or work properly.

* You would think that the Egg of Light would of made a good Desu Ex Machina with[[spoiler:Claus, but of course the Egg is never actually mentioned or used once the party gets it from a rubbish tip of all places.]] That said, it is possible that even if they remembered to use it, it probably wouldn't work under the assumption it can only return memories it has taken and not restored memories period.

** Maybe the Pigmasks created them? 90% of the enemies in the game are created by them after all (being mainly Chimeras). Even then, [[spoiler: Pokey]] certainly is around and [[spoiler: considering he actually worked with Giygas, maybe some of that evil energy is still around him. He definitely is still a giant douche who could care less what happens to others or even the entire world.]]

*** Girls have a habit of developing more extremely than boys within the same overall age range. And there's nothing saying that Kuma couldn't have just lied a bit about her age if the club had the limit for employment at say 15 ([[https://www.quora.com/How-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-work-as-a-hostess-in-Japan which is the minimum for Japanese law to be employed]]). Japnese hostess bars follow the rule of not allowing employment unless you're at least 18, but considering how NPC's shown as a Crapsack World (meaning the club might not have such a rule nor enforce it strongly and Kumatora coming off as a Bratty Teenage Daughter to the Magypsies she can certainly be no older than 15 post-timeskip with Lucas 12/13.

* How is Dr. Andonuts still alive? I mean, does this mean that the events of Mother 3 really take place only a few years or so after Videogame/EarthBound? But Porky said he traveled through centuries to get to when Mother 3 takes place. I always assumed that Dr. Andonuts used a time machine because he's a scientist, but I can't ignore the possible InferredHolocaust of everyone and everything we know and love from Videogame/EarthBound.

* Why the fuck is [[spoiler: Saturn Valley]] here, considering [[spoiler: EarthBound didn't take place on the Nowhere Islands]]? Come to think of it, why are [[spoiler: the Mr. Saturns]] here at all? Why couldn't [[spoiler: Dr. Andonuts]] make all the necessary stuff himself, or the other researchers?

* If Giegue/Giygas isn't around to plague humanity anymore, then how come there are still a bunch of AnthropomorphicObjects everywhere?