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** [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/805d/Earthbound546.jpg Poo doesn't take too kindly to certain people who have the audacity to annoy Ness to no end]].

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** [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/805d/Earthbound546.jpg Poo didn't take too kindly to Pokey slandering Ness' name on that sign in Summers]].

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** Poo didn't take too kindly to Pokey slandering Ness' name on that sign in Summers.

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* {{Bishōnen}}: [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 Ninten]]. No, seriously.]]

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* BerserkButton: Don't take Ness's hat.

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** As well as Poo (See Below)
* BerserkButton: Don't take Ness's hat. hat.
** Poo didn't take too kindly to Pokey slandering Ness' name on that sign in Summers.



* {{Bishounen}}: [[spoiler:Ninten. No, seriously.]]

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''The Chosen Four'' is a fancomic based on the Nintendo video game VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]] or on Darrow's DeviantArt page [[http://milliondollarham.deviantart.com/ here]]. Also, the [[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/1/ forum thread]] where the comic is originally posted by the author is quite entertaining in its own right.

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''The Chosen Four'' is a fancomic based on the Nintendo video game VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}.''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]] or on Darrow's DeviantArt page [[http://milliondollarham.deviantart.com/ here]]. Also, the [[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/1/ forum thread]] where the comic is originally posted by the author is quite entertaining in its own right.right.



* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:The comic [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the similarities between VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'s Ness, Paula, and Jeff and [[VideoGame/EarthboundZero EarthBound Zero]]'s Ninten, Ana, and Loid by having Giygas' mind so twisted and distorted, he mistakes the former three for the latter and takes his hatred of Ninten out on Ness.]]
** [[spoiler: Teddy is pretty much [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], complete with [[RousingSpeech motivational speaking]], HotBlooded [[TestosteronePoisoning epic manliness]] (and a side of LargeHam), and temporarily [[BadAss badassing]] [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow himself back to life]] [[BigDamnHeroes to help our heroes]]. He even has the [[TriangleShades epic sunglasses]].]]

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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:The comic [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] {{justifie|dTrope}}s the similarities between VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'s ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'''s Ness, Paula, and Jeff and [[VideoGame/EarthboundZero EarthBound Zero]]'s ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'''s Ninten, Ana, and Loid by having Giygas' mind so twisted and distorted, he mistakes the former three for the latter and takes his hatred of Ninten out on Ness.]]
** [[spoiler: Teddy is pretty much [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], complete with [[RousingSpeech motivational speaking]], HotBlooded [[TestosteronePoisoning epic manliness]] (and a side of LargeHam), and temporarily [[BadAss badassing]] [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow himself back to life]] [[BigDamnHeroes to help our heroes]]. He even has the [[TriangleShades epic sunglasses]].]]



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Darrow plays with the various examples of this trope from the games in his comics. For example when jokes are made in the comic related to Jeff's VideoGame/EarthboundZero [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] are made, the name is spelled Lloyd. But when Jeff and Ness encounter an illusion of [[spoiler:Teddy]] in Moonside, he spells the name Loid. Also, the name Giegue (the spelling from Earthbound Zero) is used to describe the physically and mentally intact version of the antagonist, while Giygas (the spelling from VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}) is used to describe him after [[spoiler:his body and mind broke apart]].

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Darrow plays with the various examples of this trope from the games in his comics. For example when jokes are made in the comic related to Jeff's VideoGame/EarthboundZero ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] are made, the name is spelled Lloyd. But when Jeff and Ness encounter an illusion of [[spoiler:Teddy]] in Moonside, he spells the name Loid. Also, the name Giegue (the spelling from Earthbound Zero) is used to describe the physically and mentally intact version of the antagonist, while Giygas (the spelling from VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}) ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'') is used to describe him after [[spoiler:his body and mind broke apart]].


* WebcomicsLongRunners: While not even close to LongRunner material (only 400 strips and about two years of existence), it deserves a mention for being the only EB-based comic that actually got past Onett, the first city.
** Now it's three years old and at the battle with the Kraken, at roughly 600 pages and only a little more than halfway done!

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* FauxHorrific: The ghosts in the tunnel scare our heroes and the Runaway Five with ADVANCED CALCULUS and a [[SuckinessIsPainful COPY OF]] {{SUPERMAN 64}}! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
* FelonyMisdemeanor: A mini-UFO in #72 successfully strikes Ness with a ray... giving him a cold.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A mini-UFO in #72 successfully strikes Ness with a ray... giving him a cold.
** Later the ghosts in the tunnel scare our heroes and the Runaway Five with ADVANCED CALCULUS and a COPY OF {{SUPERMAN 64}}! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Monotoli describes Pokey like "such a nice boy, but a bit troubled". Seriously. It is not a wonder Pokey was able to exploit him.
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* YouAreAlreadyDead: Subverted in a very -of course- funny way, doing a ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' ShoutOut. Ness is lost inside Dungeon Man and getting angrier, more upset and more frustrated every second. A Gruffy Goat tries to harass him, and he replies telling "No. YOU listen. You are already dead", suddenly looking right like Kenshiro. It is subverted because Ness had not actually done anything -yet-, but the goat got so scared -wondering if he was dead and he was now a ghost- that he answered Ness' question.
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-->'''Paula''': Those cheeks are mine! They belong to me!
* CoolDownHug: Ness gets lost in [[HumongousMecha Dungeon Man]] and grows frustrated and angry to the point of he is bursting with psychic energy and he scares minions away with only glaring at them. Then his friends find him, Paula hugs him... and he suddenly feels completely cheered up. He even forgets what he was upset about.
** WordOfGod confirmed that is a hint of Giygas is trying influence him by fueling his negative emotions, but his friends are keeping him sane.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: A non-video game ([[WebcomicOfTheGame sorta]]) example, but several enemies and bosses are harmless at first, with the Happy-Happy cult members helping Ness up after he lands in the village from a Territorial Oak explosion, or the Trillonage Sprout mistaking Ness for Billy. Unfortunately, as soon as Ness tells them who he is, they immediately turn hostile.
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:The comic [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the similarities between {{EarthBound}}'s Ness, Paula, and Jeff and [[EarthboundZero EarthBound Zero]]'s Ninten, Ana, and Loid by having Giygas' mind so twisted and distorted, he mistakes the former three for the latter and takes his hatred of Ninten out on Ness.]]

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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:The comic [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the similarities between {{EarthBound}}'s VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}'s Ness, Paula, and Jeff and [[EarthboundZero [[VideoGame/EarthboundZero EarthBound Zero]]'s Ninten, Ana, and Loid by having Giygas' mind so twisted and distorted, he mistakes the former three for the latter and takes his hatred of Ninten out on Ness.]]



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Darrow plays with the various examples of this trope from the games in his comics. For example when jokes are made in the comic related to Jeff's EarthboundZero [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] are made, the name is spelled Lloyd. But when Jeff and Ness encounter an illusion of [[spoiler:Teddy]] in Moonside, he spells the name Loid. Also, the name Giegue (the spelling from EarthboundZero) is used to describe the physically and mentally intact version of the antagonist, while Giygas (the spelling from {{EarthBound}}) is used to describe him after [[spoiler:his body and mind broke apart]].

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Darrow plays with the various examples of this trope from the games in his comics. For example when jokes are made in the comic related to Jeff's EarthboundZero VideoGame/EarthboundZero [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] are made, the name is spelled Lloyd. But when Jeff and Ness encounter an illusion of [[spoiler:Teddy]] in Moonside, he spells the name Loid. Also, the name Giegue (the spelling from EarthboundZero) Earthbound Zero) is used to describe the physically and mentally intact version of the antagonist, while Giygas (the spelling from {{EarthBound}}) VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}) is used to describe him after [[spoiler:his body and mind broke apart]].
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* Cameo: Link seems to think of Ganondorf when he hears the word "pig" [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/8426/Earthbound600.jpg]]

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* Cameo: TheCameo: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link seems to think of Ganondorf when he hears the word "pig" "pig"]] [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/8426/Earthbound600.jpg]]
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** Another of the "Don't Care" options for "Rockin'" is "Gifts". This gets a TakeThat in the form of Ness wondering who would name an attack "Gifts".
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* PreAsskickingOneliner: Plenty of them.
-->'''Worthless Protoplasm''': Prepare for a spanking most legendary!!
*** This is, in fact, a subversion, since while he was throwing dramatic speeches and one-liners around and being so hammy as possible, Paula and Jeff were ignoring him completely. They did not even notice he was there.


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** And the girl in the Topolla Theater was, most definitely, NOT a stalker. She will kill you if you call her one...
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* LargeHam: Out of ALL characters and enemies, the Worthless Protoplasm is, unexpectedly, one. Not that it makes him some good, but still...
-->'''[[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/172#post1860301 Worthless Protoplasm]]''': “Once upon a time, a lone worthless protoplasm looked upon his very soul and found what it means to become a master of supreme POWER! Power unlike any the world has seen before! Oh, yes, you will feel the burning hot fury that flows through my system, like a brewing cup of coffee too bitter for even the evilest of evil entities to sip upon!
-->Oh, may the furious nectar of life spring forth from this very body and pounce upon thee, rending body from soul! Never count your chickens before they’re hatched, otherwise said chicken will peck at your eyes, and this chicken has a beak that will show no mercy!
-->Shake, shake in fear of my many forms of martial arts, including the legendary Sleeping Monkey, Contemplating Giraffe!"
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''The Chosen Four'' is a fancomic based on the Nintendo video game VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]]. Also, the [[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/1/ forum thread]] where the comic is originally posted by the author is quite entertaining in its own right.

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''The Chosen Four'' is a fancomic based on the Nintendo video game VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]] or on Darrow's DeviantArt page [[http://milliondollarham.deviantart.com/ here]]. Also, the [[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/1/ forum thread]] where the comic is originally posted by the author is quite entertaining in its own right.

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* ShoutOut: Ness' [[KamenRider Rider Kick]] against the Happy-Happyists.
** Ness [[{{Superman}} doning a cape]] in the desert before Fourside and telling now he looks a superhero for real.
** One of the Threed zombies [[Anime/MazingerZ detach his hand off his wrist and throws it at Paula]].
** Apparently Poo knows legendary [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto Shinken martial art]].
** "[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42 is just a number]], [[UrbanLegendOfZelda and there is no secret to revive]] [[FinalFantasyVI General Leo]]."
** [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/758e/Earthbound337.jpg This page]] includes cameos by R.O.B., {{Wall-E}}, and [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]].
*** Plus the first robot's error screen includes the phrase [[Anime/TheBigO "Ye Not Guilty"]].
** Jeff wears ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan Mega Foppy]]'' underwear.

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* ShoutOut: Ness' [[KamenRider Rider Kick]] against the Happy-Happyists.
** Ness [[{{Superman}} doning a cape]] in the desert before Fourside and telling now he looks a superhero for real.
** One of the Threed zombies [[Anime/MazingerZ detach his hand off his wrist and throws it at Paula]].
** Apparently Poo knows legendary [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto Shinken martial art]].
** "[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42 is just a number]], [[UrbanLegendOfZelda and there is no secret to revive]] [[FinalFantasyVI General Leo]]."
** [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/758e/Earthbound337.jpg This page]] includes cameos by R.O.B., {{Wall-E}}, and [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]].
*** Plus the first robot's error screen includes the phrase [[Anime/TheBigO "Ye Not Guilty"]].
** Jeff wears ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan Mega Foppy]]'' underwear.
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* ThisIsUnforgivable: Ness can not forgive Pockey for insulting his family and friends. Paula can not forgive an octobot for stealing her diary AND read a particularly embarassing entry.
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* ThatsNoMoon: A variant. During the journey to Scaraba, a deafening rumble sounds when they are passing by an island and one of them wonders if it is the nearby volcano. Then Kraken emerges out of the sea and the captain stares at it with a OhCrap expression and mutters "That's no volcano".
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** Ness [[{{Superman}} doning a cape]] in the desert before Fourside and telling now he looks a superhero for real.
** One of the Threed zombies [[Anime/MazingerZ detach his hand off his wrist and throws it at Paula]].
** Apparently Poo knows legendary [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto Shinken martial art]].
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* NoSenseOfDirection: Several characters note Ness is awful at following directions.
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* {{Retirony}}: Parodied. [[spoiler:Paula's stuffed teddy bear]] regrets he did not even have a line about being several days away from retirement before dying.


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* YouShallNotPass: Parodied. [[spoiler:Paula's stuffed teddy bear]] regrets he not even got to yell "you shall not pass" while charging in heroically before committing HeroicSacrifice.
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* EyeScream: Part and parcel of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Poo's meditation on Mu]].

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* EyeScream: Part and parcel of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Poo's meditation on Mu]].Mu.



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* {{Gorn}}: See the third example of HighOctaneNightmareFuel below.



* MoodWhiplash: Fourside is MADE of this. We go from the usual humorous plot development, to the minor {{Fanservice}} that is Venus, to a rather scary burst of UnstoppableRage from the main character, to the freaking [[NightmareFuel nightmare]] that is Moonside, to major revelations about Giygas, then crazy HotBlooded antics, and finally talking monkeys again. Whew!

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* MoodWhiplash: Fourside is MADE of this. We go from the usual humorous plot development, to the minor {{Fanservice}} that is Venus, to a rather scary burst of UnstoppableRage from the main character, to the freaking [[NightmareFuel nightmare]] nightmare that is Moonside, to major revelations about Giygas, then crazy HotBlooded antics, and finally talking monkeys again. Whew!
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-->''"If a man yells loud enough, he can do anything!"''

Straight from the mouth of a bee with big eyebrows comes a tale of courage, friendship, and the kind of silliness that will have you rolling on the floor! Will Giygas prevail or will the world's last hope band together and strike this intergalactic foe down? It all rests...upon ''the Chosen Four''!

''The Chosen Four'' is a fancomic based on the Nintendo video game VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]]. Also, the [[http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Fan/Forum/48624/page/1/ forum thread]] where the comic is originally posted by the author is quite entertaining in its own right.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Subverted by Ness, who works up the courage after a while, but he then stutters and Paula loudly interrupts him and plays it straight.]]
* AntiVillain: Shrooom!, an {{adorkable}} ShrinkingViolet. He even pulls a HeelFaceTurn when he's defeated, and is left alive as a result.
** Thunder and Storm. They only wanted to make people laugh, a desire that was twisted and warped by Giygas. They're also left alive, albeit heavily injured.
* ArcWords: "If a man yells loud enough, he can do anything!"
** Parodied later with, "If a man dances hard enough, he can disco anywhere!"
* ArtEvolution: [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/54ce/Earthbound2.jpg This]] is what it used to look like. [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/7632/Earthbound349.jpg This]] is what it looks like now.
* BattleAura: Ness sometimes gets one of these. At least once, he triggers it just to scare monkeys. No, seriously.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Paula. Learned the hard way by Pokey and the {{Jerkass}} delivery man in Threed, among others (including, of course, Giygas' minions).
* BerserkButton: Don't take Ness's hat.
* BishieSparkle: Venus. A lighting effect, or maybe she's just that good.
** Gorgeous later shows off some of those sparkles. Lucky tells the heroes he got them from Venus.
* {{Bishounen}}: [[spoiler:Ninten. No, seriously.]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Thunder and Storm.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Heck, there's practically ''[[NoFourthWall no]]'' [[NoFourthWall fourth wall]]! One of the funniest examples of this is when Paula steals a baby picture of Ness from his second Your Sanctuary.
--->'''Ness''': ''With the melody recorded I guess we should move on, then! It's a good thing the inner images only appear to me, though, otherwise... Hey! You're not supposed to see this! [[LampshadeHanging How did you even do that??]]''
--->'''Paula''': ''Why bother worrying about logic at this point of the story? Help me carry this home so I can hang it in my room!''
** Pages [[http://local-static2.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0022/6567/Earthbound405.jpg 405]] and [[http://local-static0.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0022/6570/Earthbound406.jpg 406]] are full of this.
* BrickJoke: During the fight with the Trillionage Sprout, the senile boss calls Ness "Billy". [[spoiler:We later find out Trillionage Sprout was actually mistaking Ness for Shroom!, whom he had a close father-son relationship with.]]
* Cameo: Link seems to think of Ganondorf when he hears the word "pig" [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/8426/Earthbound600.jpg]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Paula to Ness. Especially when they meet Venus.
* CrutchCharacter: Invoked by Paula's father, who claims to be of too high a level to keep things dramatic.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Once the whole team is brought back]], the battle with the Plague Rat becomes this.
* DungeonBypass: Jeff and his Bubble Monkey do this in the maze by leaping over the rock barriers.
* DynamicEntry: The Photographer.
* ExcitedEpisodeTitle
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:The comic [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] the similarities between {{EarthBound}}'s Ness, Paula, and Jeff and [[EarthboundZero EarthBound Zero]]'s Ninten, Ana, and Loid by having Giygas' mind so twisted and distorted, he mistakes the former three for the latter and takes his hatred of Ninten out on Ness.]]
** [[spoiler: Teddy is pretty much [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], complete with [[RousingSpeech motivational speaking]], HotBlooded [[TestosteronePoisoning epic manliness]] (and a side of LargeHam), and temporarily [[BadAss badassing]] [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow himself back to life]] [[BigDamnHeroes to help our heroes]]. He even has the [[TriangleShades epic sunglasses]].]]
* EyeScream: Part and parcel of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Poo's meditation on Mu]].
* FanWebComics.
* FinalBossPreview: One appears in Moonside. For those familiar with Earthbound, you know by now [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what we're dealing with.]]
* ForScience: Apple Kid's excuse for having a nuclear-powered doomsday microwave.
* GagBoobs: The zombie lady in Threed.
* {{Gorn}}: See the third example of HighOctaneNightmareFuel below.
* GiantMook: The cultists have a VERY big one.
* HeroicSacrifice: Played with when Paula throws her teddy bear to divert Mondo Mole's attack; she'd been manipulating him [[MediumAwareness off-panel]] to give it the illusion of sentience, so this part was played out as the bear sacrificing his "life" for hers.
* HotBlooded: Ness, while fighting the Dept. Store Spook. Also see the page quote.
** Ness invoked this trope to achieve the PK Rocking attack.
* IgnoredEnemy: The worthless protoplasm was too worthless for Jeff to even notice
* IncrediblyLamePun: All over the place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom The Plague Rat Of Doom]], PlayedForLaughs.
* LoveBubbles: These appear when Paula kisses Ness.
** They return when Tony calls Jeff.
--->'''Jeff''': ''Well, I should probably go before [[BreakingTheFourthWall you flood this panel with bubbles.]]''
* MindScrew: Moonside. Just... Moonside. Holy CRAP.
* MonsterSobStory: Starman Jr. gives one upon his defeat. PlayedForLaughs.
** In fact, [[RunningGag every enemy of significance has one]]. Played for laughs again. Shrooom!'s is the only one that isn't treated like a ''complete'' joke.
*** Subverted by the Plague Rat, whose attempt at invoking this only serves to show [[{{Jerkass}} how ]]''[[{{Jerkass}} un]]''[[{{Jerkass}} sympathetic]] he is.
* MoodWhiplash: Fourside is MADE of this. We go from the usual humorous plot development, to the minor {{Fanservice}} that is Venus, to a rather scary burst of UnstoppableRage from the main character, to the freaking [[NightmareFuel nightmare]] that is Moonside, to major revelations about Giygas, then crazy HotBlooded antics, and finally talking monkeys again. Whew!
* MushroomSamba: A mushroom monster in #66 puts Ness in a musical version by placing an actual mushroom on his head (utilizing a song from the original ''Mother'' soundtrack, no less). It continues for another page even when the mushroom was removed!
* MythologyGag: The second time the above-mentioned ArcWords are said is when Ness first uses PSI Rockin'; the first "default" option for "Favorite Thing" in ''Mother 2'' (which "Rockin'" replaced) is {{Kiai}}. Similarly, Ness remarks that the only way the pencil statue could be weirder is if it were an octopus.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Ness's little outburst at the top of the Monotoli building is what eventually causes the events of VideoGame/{{MOTHER3}}.]]
** [[spoiler:To be completely fair, [[FatBastard Pokey]] had it coming.]]
* NewAgeRetroHippie: He can measure the universe!
* OhCrap: Ness's reaction to the effects of the Magic Cake.
** Don't forget The Plague Rat of Doom's face when he's [[http://local-static4.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0025/3374/Earthbound500.jpg about to get hit by Ness who has his Guts stat maxed out]].
* OnlySaneMan: Poo
* PungeonMaster: Mondo Mole.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Carpenter's {{BlueBlue}} Rangers, who are really regular Happy-Happy cultists with gimmicks.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Pokey hands out a truly frightening example, made all the more frightening by the knowledge that he ''will'' [[VideoGame/{{Mother3}} win his twisted game]]. The CallForward just hammers it home.
** Although Ness gives one straight back to him.
* RelaxoVision: Used when Paula and the bears are beating up Mondo Mole.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Jeff is prone to this.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Reggie the mouse is ignored during boss battles, and Chicken shows up even less than Reggie.
* ShoutOut: Ness' [[KamenRider Rider Kick]] against the Happy-Happyists.
** "[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42 is just a number]], [[UrbanLegendOfZelda and there is no secret to revive]] [[FinalFantasyVI General Leo]]."
** [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/758e/Earthbound337.jpg This page]] includes cameos by R.O.B., {{Wall-E}}, and [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]].
*** Plus the first robot's error screen includes the phrase [[Anime/TheBigO "Ye Not Guilty"]].
* ShutUpHannibal: Ness to Pokey--FINALLY--when the latter gives his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from [[spoiler:Monotoli's helicopter]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Darrow plays with the various examples of this trope from the games in his comics. For example when jokes are made in the comic related to Jeff's EarthboundZero [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] are made, the name is spelled Lloyd. But when Jeff and Ness encounter an illusion of [[spoiler:Teddy]] in Moonside, he spells the name Loid. Also, the name Giegue (the spelling from EarthboundZero) is used to describe the physically and mentally intact version of the antagonist, while Giygas (the spelling from {{EarthBound}}) is used to describe him after [[spoiler:his body and mind broke apart]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: {{Everdred}} "Don't mind all the money laying around, it's definitely not stolen."
* StalkerWithACrush: Mr. Spoon. HE LOVES VENUS EVEN MORE THAN HE LOVES HIS BACON COLLECTION!!! HE'S TOTALLY NOT CREEPY!!!!
** And Tony for Jeff. Poor, Poor Jeff.
* StealthPun: "[[http://starmen.net/vote/vote.php?id=28153 I bet your one of those types that always wants to be number one. Well, I'll beat the number one out of you, and maybe even the number two while I'm at it!]]"
* TrainingFromHell: Mu training, full stop.
* UnstoppableRage: Ness, after Paula is kidnapped.
* UnusualWeaponMounting: The Clumsy Robot has a rocket (and bologna sandwich) launcher mounted in its butt.
* {{Unwinnable}}: Threatened (to the point of nearly restarting the comic), but miraculously averted...in just the way it happens in-game. How Paula managed is an open question.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Giygas. He's ''introduced'' telling Master Belch to outright kill Ness and friends, while his face is clearly cracking apart, and he only gets much [[SanitySlippage much]], ''[[EldritchAbomination much]]'' worse from there.
* WebcomicsLongRunners: While not even close to LongRunner material (only 400 strips and about two years of existence), it deserves a mention for being the only EB-based comic that actually got past Onett, the first city.
** Now it's three years old and at the battle with the Kraken, at roughly 600 pages and only a little more than halfway done!
* WebcomicOfTheGame
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Paula suddenly gains these when she meets Ness in the Monotoli building.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A mini-UFO in #72 successfully strikes Ness with a ray... giving him a cold.
** Later the ghosts in the tunnel scare our heroes and the Runaway Five with ADVANCED CALCULUS and a COPY OF {{SUPERMAN 64}}! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
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