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* {{Metagame}}: Jeff does this during his chapter in Winters, intentionally going out of his way to fight tougher enemies to [[LevelGrinding increase his experience]] to equal Paula and Ness's when he meets up with them, and using the picnic lunches the Cave Boys drop [[HyperactiveMetabolism to be able to fight more of them]], [[{{Deconstruction}} leading to]]... [[BalloonBelly well]]...
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: {{Lampshaded}} in the description of page 136:
--> "How's Jeff going to maintain reader interest as a solo character?! Easy! Pick up a monkey that loves gum. Studies show that monkeys increase the chances of hilarity by 100%."
--> "How's Jeff going to maintain reader interest as a solo character?! Easy! Pick up a monkey that loves gum. Studies show that monkeys increase the chances of hilarity by 100%."
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* SlasherSmile: Giegue on Moonside, [[spoiler:right before he loses it and breaks apart into Giygas.]]
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* SlasherSmile: Giegue on Moonside, [[spoiler:right [[spoiler:Giegue right before he loses it and breaks apart Moonside turn into Giygas.]]
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** On the other end of the stick, [[EliteMook Starman Deluxe]] dishes out a pretty nightmarish one until Jeff uses the Neutralizer.
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* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler:The Mani Mani Statue, before Giygas emerges from it.]]
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** [[spoiler:Giegue issues one to Ness and Jeff after they break the Mani Mani Statue keeping him from regressing into Giygas. [[BodyHorror You can guess]] [[EldritchAbomination what comes next.]] ]]
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* SlasherSmile: Giegue on Moonside, [[spoiler:right before he loses it and breaks apart into Giygas.]]
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* NervesOfSteel: Jeff had Nerves Of ''TITANIUM'' reinforced with ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Alloy-Z]]'' and ''[[MarvelComics Adamantium]]''. They may be facing a frightening or hugely powerful enemy, his friends or his father may [[spoiler:have been kidnapped]]... but even if he is visibly upset, you can see he forces himself to remain calm and focused in solving the situation at hand.
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* NervesOfSteel: Jeff had Nerves Of ''TITANIUM'' reinforced with ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Alloy-Z]]'' and ''[[MarvelComics ''[[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Adamantium]]''. They may be facing a frightening or hugely powerful enemy, his friends or his father may [[spoiler:have been kidnapped]]... but even if he is visibly upset, you can see he forces himself to remain calm and focused in solving the situation at hand.
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* SanitySlippage: Giygas is undergoing one for the duration of the comic, as he appears fairly early in the story still in his [[VideoGame/{{EarthBoundBeginnings}} original, humanoid form]] but over the course of the story literally cracks and falls apart into the familiar, incomprehensible EldritchAbomination.
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** [[spoiler:Teddy is pretty much [[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]].]]
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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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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: A non-video game ([[WebcomicOfTheGame sorta]]) example, but it's still ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''. Everything from the crows to the road signs might be an enemy. In fact, 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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* FauxHorrific: The ghosts in the tunnel scare our heroes and the Runaway Five with ADVANCED CALCULUS and a [[SuckinessIsPainful COPY OF]] {{SUPERMAN 64}}! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
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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 Website/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}}''. It is posted at [[http://www.starmen.net Starmen.net]] by Darrow and is currently over 600 800 pages. The comic can be found and read [[http://starmen.net/comics/series/chosenfour here]] or on Darrow's Website/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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* {{Gorn}}: Poo's Mu training. Oh dear god, Poo's Mu training, ''despite'' being composed of...
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* {{Gorn}}: Poo's Mu training. Oh dear god, Poo's Mu training, ''despite'' being composed of...training.
* HatePlague: Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo go through this under Fourside Sewers, courtesy of the Plague Rat of Doom.
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* IgnoredEnemy: The worthless protoplasm was too worthless for Jeff to even notice
* ImplacableMan: The Guardian General, who just [[NoSell shrugs off the heroes' attacks]] and keeps coming. It takes [[spoiler:a pyramid collapsing on top of him]] to finally stop him, and even then he keeps trying to crawl after Ness & company until he completely falls apart.
* ImplacableMan: The Guardian General, who just [[NoSell shrugs off the heroes' attacks]] and keeps coming. It takes [[spoiler:a pyramid collapsing on top of him]] to finally stop him, and even then he keeps trying to crawl after Ness & company until he completely falls apart.
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* IgnoredEnemy: The worthless protoplasm was too worthless for Jeff to even notice
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* ImplacableMan: The Guardian General, whojust [[NoSell shrugs off the heroes' attacks]] and keeps coming. It takes [[spoiler:a pyramid collapsing on top of him]] to finally stop him, and even then he keeps trying to crawl after Ness & company until he completely falls apart.
* ImplacableMan: The Guardian General, who
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->Ness, I have the feeling we're not fighting a completely stable enemy. Rather, we may be fighting fractions of a broken mind...
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->Ness, I have the feeling we're not fighting a completely stable enemy. Rather, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness we may be fighting fractions of a broken mind...]]
->[[spoiler: NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS]]
->[[spoiler: NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS]]
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* ShutUpHannibal: Ness to Pokey--FINALLY--when the latter gives his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from [[spoiler:Monotoli's helicopter]].
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* ShutUpHannibal: [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/76cd/Earthbound358.jpg Ness to Pokey--FINALLY--when Pokey]]--FINALLY--when the latter gives his [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/768f/Earthbound355.jpg latter]] [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/7690/Earthbound356.jpg gives]] [[http://files.fobby.net/0000/7691/Earthbound357.jpg his]] TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from [[spoiler:Monotoli's helicopter]].
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*** 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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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Parodied. [[spoiler: Paula's stuffed teddy bear]] regrets he did not even get to show off a photo of his kids before dying.
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** AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: He acts much more malevolent than the game he appears in]].
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* BloodKnight: Ness sometimes gets a ''little'' too excited about fighting enemies.
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* ColorFailure: Carpainter loses all his color (except his red blood) after being hit with PSI Rockin' beta.
** Reggie loses his color after being tied to the crows nest for the entire fight against the Kraken.
** Reggie loses his color after being tied to the crows nest for the entire fight against the Kraken.
* CreepyBlueEyes: A benign example, as it came after DefeatMeansFriendship, but Frank without his CoolShades is... not a pleasant sight.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: The aftermath of Frank vs Ness.
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* MindlinkMates: Ness and Paula's psychic powers let them know whenever the other is feeling a strong emotion, leading to awkwardness when another female character shows attention to Ness.
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* BreakingSpeech: Jeff gives one to Smilin' Sam, which is played for laughs.
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* BreakingSpeech: Jeff gives one to Smilin' Sam, which is played for laughs.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Ness succeeds in hitting Titanic Ant by throwing his bat clear across the room. [[DeconstructedTrope Unfortunately, it doesn't miraculously return to his hand afterwards, and as Titanic Ant points out, he has more than enough power to keep Ness away from where it landed anyway]].
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted; Frank nearly trounces Ness, but takes the time to give a BadassBoast, complete with his backstory. While he's doing this, Ness beats up some of his goons for EXP, granting him another level and allowing him to fight Frank on more even grounds.
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* RocketPunch: One of the Threed zombies uses the grisly, disgusting version: he rips his own hand off his arm and throws at Ness and Paula.
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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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''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}}''. 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 Website/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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*BadassAdorable: Paula, naturally. When she's not sporting fangs, anyway.
*IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Clumsy robot. ''So'' much. His arms can't hold the weight of his [[IncrediblyLamePun armaments]] and are constantly snapping off of him. His idea of repair is to repeatedly adhere them back onto his body with the aid of Mr. Saturn band aids. They are a temporary solution at best.
**Worthless Protoplasm. It's all there in the name.
**Worthless Protoplasm. It's all there in the name.
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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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* 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 the Kraken emerges out of the sea and the captain stares at it with a an OhCrap expression and mutters "That's "By the Goddess, that's no volcano".
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* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler: When the four defeat all of the Starman Supers attacking them, a present drops just in time for a cliffhanger. When the next comic finally came out, it turned out to be...a Super Bomb.]]
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** Master Barf is, in the original game, a relatively easy miniboss fought in Deep Darkness. Here, his nature as a BlobMonster makes him nigh-immortal, and [[spoiler:Poo arriving to obliterate him with PK Starstorm]] is treated more as a much-needed BigDamnHeroes moment than just a coup de grâce.
