Does Porky Deserve His Worse Than Hell Fate? (EarthBound + MOTHER 3 Analysis)

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  @ThaneGaming · 1 year ago · pinned

  Correction at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCkrZj2ZCg&amp;t=332">05:32</a> - This official MOTHER 2 manga was translated into English by kenisu3000, with scans by Satsy (who is currently on a long hiatus). The manga has commonly been called &quot;Ness&apos;s Great Adventure&quot; likely because of an old Starmen forum post, but &quot;Ness&apos;s Adventure Memoirs/Log&quot; is a more correct translation of the title.

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  @marcoar1006 · 1 year ago

  When talking about Porky embracing a pig identity, I lean towards the idea that, yes, it was inspired by her mother calling him a pig, but if you notice, Porky himself never associates himself with pigs. True, his Pig Army&apos;s attire are pig uniforms but this is more likely Porky responding to his mother&apos;s cruelty by inflincting cruelty of his own, this is done dresssing up the people he deems inferior as pigs. In Porky&apos;s eyes, turning the tables, in his twisted mind. Yes, he does plaster a pig&apos;s snout in both his battle machine and the Absolutely Safe Capsule, but that&apos;s just the iconography he uses to announce that he is the leader the Pig Army, to intimidate. He&apos;s only referred as the Pig King or associated with pigs by people that are not loyal to him.

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  @michaelcarlton1484 · 1 year ago

  The fact that Porky is still so infantile and regresses to create robots of his mother among other things, the Absolutely Safe Capsule is basically him regressing so far that he retreats back into a womb where he can&apos;t be hurt by the outside world ever again...

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  @CozyBoat275 · 1 year ago

  Honestly, a dad who at leasts calls and checks in is leagues better than an abusive one.<br>I love my dad, even if he’s halfway across the states from me.

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  @Zorothegallade-rpg · 1 year ago (edited)

  Porky is an almost perfect mirror foil to Ness. Ness&apos;s journey is about realizing his own power and learning to rely on others. Porky meanwhile spends the entire game sucking up to those more powerful than himself and betraying them when he cant&apos; mooch off them anymore. And where Ness and later Lucas manage to succeed by virtue of everyone they helped on their journey coming to their aid, Porky&apos;s idea of &quot;winning&quot; is isolating himself forever so that nobody can make contact with him anymore, for all eternity.

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  @vozaxhi · 1 year ago

  discovering mother 3 as a kid and learning what happened to porky was probably one of the first times I&apos;d ever felt real existential dread it still freaks me out

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  @mechamanw668 · 1 year ago

  I like the idea that Porky&apos;s apology was genuine, but when Ness didn&apos;t respond, that&apos;s when he went scorched Earth.

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  @FredBloxworth · 1 year ago

  I believe that to an extent Porky probably made everything in New Pork City and the Empire Porky Building as a mocking obstacle for Ness to overcome, but because he never showed up, Lucas became the next best thing. First, when you enter the Beauty and Tasty restaurant, it has all the foods you’d expect Porky to like, but the meal that stands out the most is the beefsteak. It’s the most expensive item on the menu and if you remember, Ness loved steak, but Ness’s mom said that Porky hated it. It’s like Porky knew Ness wouldn’t have the money to buy it if he got to New Pork City. However, with Lucas, beefsteak isn’t his favorite food, so it wouldn’t mean anything to him. <br><br>Porky didn’t build his crazy rooms (toilet dungeon, fan room, hippo pool, etc.) in the Empire Porky Building because he loved them. He built them to show off all the cool stuff he had to Ness so that if he ever arrived, he could mock him over the intercom like he does with Lucas. The fan room was his way of showing a lot of girls like him, the toilet dungeon was to show off his golden toilet, and the hall of memories would’ve been Porky’s way of saying “Hey Ness! Remember all of this stuff? Well, it’s mine now!” But since it’s Lucas journeying through the building, Lucas wouldn’t have any vehement reaction because it would have no meaning to him. What really makes me think this is true is that in the rooms just before the 100th floor, Porky makes Lucas play silly mini-games against a tiny robot copy of himself. However Lucas needs to lose to the Porky-bot intentionally by a hair, or he won’t be able to proceed. Porky could’ve set up this exact scenario for Ness just so he could glee at the fact that he’s beating Ness.<br><br>Once you finally fight Porky, one of very the last lines he says before the fight ends is, “Thank you for playing along with me all the way to the end like this. I’m actually a pretty nice guy, wouldn’t you say? Porky’s messed up, but he’s kind of thanking Lucas and the player for playing his twisted games because Ness wasn’t there. This is likely the most fun Porky’s probably had in years and from a boy who likely reminds him of his long gone next-door neighbor. If you look at it a certain way, Lucas is probably the only other kid besides Ness that Porky’s ever “played” with in his life and it’s basically boils down to who can pull the world-altering needles first.<br><br>You did a really amazing job with this video analyzing Porky, along with your previous one on Picky. Porky’s a very tragic and yet despicable Nintendo villain and I wish he got a little more recognition among the other great Nintendo villains. I also wish he was a playable character in Smash Ultimate (or at the very least return as a boss) cause he’s got a lot of potential for a creative move set if his boss fight in Brawl was any sign. I know there aren’t many videos on Porky or the Mother series, so it’s always great to see new perspective videos on those subjects pop out of the blue

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  @freddywilliams9837 · 1 year ago

  I think it&apos;s the best option for everyone that Porky is sealed away. Porky is so misanthropic that he would consider it paradise because no one else can bother him, while the world is free from Porky&apos;s entire existence.

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  @MumboMod · 1 year ago

  I firmly believe that, when Itoi was consulted about Mother characters to include Smash Ultimate, he decided to only include Porky as the Absolutely Safe Capsule, as, like he said, he&apos;ll be in there forever.

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  @Wizardrex-g1b · 1 year ago

  Despite this being one of the worst fates in fiction, Porky is one of if not the only character to possibly enjoy this. Nothing can hurt him, which is what he wanted, everyone in his own little world loves him. I think one of the developers admitted in a forum post that he probably doesn&apos;t care.

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  @tamar7065 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m still salty that they censored the spanking. The fact that Porky was being physically abused--and the fact that the narrative implicitly condemns it--seems like a pretty major element to this particular character arc.

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