The Chosen Four | Allies | Antagonists | Recurring Characters
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Aloysius and Lardna Minch
Aloysus (left) and Lardna (right)
The parents of the Minch boys. They punish their sons after Ness escorts them home after a series of misunderstandings.- Abhorrent Admirer: Lardna dates "Mr. Prettyman" prior to Porky's absence.
- Abusive Parents: Applies to both of them. In Lardna's case, she may actually treat her sons worse than her husband does. If Ness talks to her before talking to Aloysius, she tells him that she wonders how she'll punish them afterwards.
- Adaptational Villainy: Aloysius Minch was already a despicable Abusive Parent in the game, but the novel manages to make him the most loathsome character in the entire story short of Giygas himself. He cons Ness’ dad and forces him on a business trip to try and break him so that Aloysius can claim the secret formula for his burgers and get his wife. He is also more aware of Giygas’ influence and encourages his son Pokey to pursue serving him just for material gain.
- Adults Are Useless: They do a terrible job of raising their sons, and social services never lifts a finger to help. It's a miracle that Picky turned out as well as he did.
- Alcoholic Parent: Aloysius is seen in Jackie's Cafe/Borges' Bar after Giygas's defeat.
- Anti-Role Model: Given how Porky turned out, not surprisingly.
- Asshole Victim: In the Mother 2 novelization, Aloysius Minch scams the father of Ness until the latter parent had to take a business trip as part of the former's breaking game in hopes of stealing his secret burger recipes and wife along with encouraging Porky, Aloysius's son, to continue being a pawn for Giygas while having aware of the entity's influence on him all to enrich himself. He ends up starving to death in the Deep Darkness with Porky marking a message to see him in hell thanks to him having been a "scrawny greedy" scumbag. Granted, Mr. Minch's fate gets undone, but he still gets busted thanks to him stealing money.
- Death by Adaptation: Aloysius dies of starvation in Deep Darkness. Subverted when he gets revived after Giygas's defeat, but he still does not get off the hook for embezzling money.
- Disproportionate Retribution: They severely punish (whip in the Japanese version) their two sons just for staying out too late.
- Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: In the Japanese version.
- Evil Counterpart: To Ness's parents. Aloysius makes a point of reminding Ness that his dad owes him money (or so he claims) and threatens to get them evicted and such if they don't pay up.
- Greed: Aloysius is accompanied by Porky into working for Geldegarde Monotoli, residing in rooms embroidered in gold.
- Hate Sink: Both of them are really terrible people and parents.
- Hero Killer: Lardna kills Buzz Buzz by swatting him.
- Jerkass: Likely the biggest examples in the game, not counting their older son.
- Kick the Dog: Lardna casually smashes Buzz Buzz, fatally wounding him.
- Parental Neglect: They barely seem bothered at all by Porky's disappearance and hardly pay attention to Picky.
- Resentful Guardian: Aloysius is implied to be this due to the way he treats their sons on a daily basis.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Porky's parents don't appear very often, but they are largely responsible for Porky being such a miserable prick. Perhaps if they had treated him better he wouldn't have teamed up with Giygas and he wouldn't be responsible for many of the events of Mother 3.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: "Ayaaaeee! I think it's a dung beetle! I'll smash your guts out!"
Lier X. Agerate
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Partially. He found the Mani Mani Statue to begin with.
- Dub Name Change: He is called "Lier Horando" in the original Japanese version. "Hora" is a Japanese term meaning "exaggeration".
- The Hermit: A neighborly example.
- Punny Name: Lier X. Agerate...Liar exaggerate, get it?
- Small Role, Big Impact: His only real role was to unearth the Mani Mani Statue and, later, sell it to Mr. Carpainter. Though he's out of the picture by then, this inadvertently causes a big problem for Ness' party later on.
Orange Kid
- The Ace: Subverted. He and his fangirls definitely think he's this, but his inventions are either useless or don't work at all.
- Blatant Lies: He claims to have found a problem with Einstein's theories. This claim is...dubious, at best.
- Bungling Inventor: His only real invention is the "Suporma", which plays a song titled "Ode to Orange Kid" before promptly breaking down. He later tries to make a machine that can turn boiled eggs back into raw eggs...but not only is this pretty much useless even for the Earthbound world, he can't even get it to work.
- Chick Magnet: The girls love him.
- Foil: To Apple Kid. Orange Kid is a clean chick magnet of a man whose inventions don't actually work or do anything useful. Apple Kid is a gross, tubby kid whose inventions do exactly what they are supposed to, and are vital on your quest.
- Hidden Depths: When talking to Ness, he mentions wanting to borrow a book on how to overcome shyness from Apple Kid as he has difficulty talking to people.
- It's All About Me: The only invention of his that actually works just plays a ode to him before breaking. He's also very dismissive of Apple Kid, who is actually the smarter of the two.
- KidAnova: Widely adored by his fangirls, despite not realizing the obvious.
- Red Herring: Players new to the game might invest in his inventions since he's extremely confident and adored. Wrong, you're supposed to invest in his slob of a neighbor who nobody seems to like.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: With Apple Kid.
- Small Name, Big Ego: You have no idea. Unlike Apple Kid, who actually makes inventions that work (albeit for very specific purposes), Orange Kid considers a machine that can turn a boiled egg back into a raw egg to be a worthy project.
