| “ | I'm Ness... It's been a long road getting here... Soon, I'll be... Soon, I'll be... What will happen to us? W... What's happening? My thoughts are being written out on the wall... Or are they? | „ |
| ~ Ness' thoughts about his adventure and wondering about his and his friends' fate being written on the wall of Lumine Hall. |
Ness is the main protagonist of Super Nintendo Entertainment System's 1994 science fantasy video game, EarthBound.
Ness is a psychic preadolescent boy who investigates the debris and finds a bug, Buzz Buzz, who sends Ness on a globe-trekking journey to recruit three friends into the "Chosen Four" and save the universe from Giygas, an "embodiment of evil" that exists outside of spacetime. Being gifted with PSI as his unique fighting ability and upon defeating his evil nightmare within him, Ness unleashes his full power and becomes the strongest member of his entire party.
Ness was voiced by Makiko Ohmoto in the Super Smash Bros. series, who also voices Kirby from his namesake franchise.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
In general[]
- Ness is a benevolent and kindhearted character who shows high care for all of his friends, especially Paula Jones.
- Ness is shown to be heavily close to his family members, more especially his mother. This is especially shown through his homesickness, where he occasionally loses motivation in battle and misses his family, and talking to his mother over the phone or in person is a traditional method to cure it.
- Although he is shown to be dismissive of his best friend turned arch-nemesis, Porky, and seemingly stopped hanging out with him, while not preventing other people (such as even his own mother) from belittling him, which led to his insecurities, it is strongly implied that he still cares for Porky, but does not have knowledge on how to have an interaction with him. When combined with Porky's appearance in Ness' Magicant, willing to spend time with the latter, it is likely that he is entertained with having him around deep down.
- Though Porky is upset when Ness is unresponsive to his apology in the original Japanese edition of EarthBound, it is not confirmed if Ness did it purposefully to shun him.
His actions[]
- Ness defeated Frank Fly and his gang, the Sharks. Upon defeating Frank, Ness also offers the latter (Frank) an indirect positive influence to redeem himself out of villainy.
- Rescued Paula from Mr. Carpainter's clutches, and after she was kidnapped by Monotoli.
- Ness spent the $10,000 that Mr. Everdred offered him to pay the Runaway Five/Tonzura Brothers' debt.
- Ness defeated the Boogey Tent, along with Jeff and Paula.
- Ness saves Threed from the zombie invasion using the zombie paper invented by Apple Kid, with the assistance of Jeff and Paula.
- Ness, along with Paula and Jeff, defeat Master Belch and free the inhabitants of Saturn Valley.
- Ness and his gang assist in digging for a treasure in a mine in the desert and repay the theater proprietor on behalf of the Runaway Five.
- After accessing Moonside, he and Jeff annihilate the Mani Mani Statue and eliminate the statue's corrupting influences for good.
- After he and his gang access Stonehenge, the group defeat numerous amounts of Starmen.
- Ness and his gang defeat Starman DX, setting Dr. Andonuts, Apple Kid and other kidnapped people free from imprisonment.
- When Dr. Andonuts tells him that his soul must be removed and be positioned into a robot's body to access the Phase Distorter, Ness and his friends agree without hesitation to the procedure.
- Ness saved the universe from Giygas.
- Ness fell into a deep sleep and in order to annihilate his heinous incarnation in Magicant, subverting whatever corrupting factors he potentially had (such as his possible ignorance that comes from his offensive disposition towards Aloysius Minch, or him declining Jeff's friendship).
Trivia[]
- Ironically, Ness' arch-nemesis is Porky Minch (who is considered Pure Evil), the opposite of Pure Good. This irony is shared with Lucas.
- Ness, Mario, Link, Kirby, Fox McCloud, Pikachu (Pokepark Only) and Luigi make up the 7 of the 12 fighters hailing from the original Super Smash Bros. who are considered Pure Good.
- Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo make up the Chosen Four, a group of humans prophesized to save the universe from Giygas' wrath. This makes the Chosen Four a seldom instance of a gang that has all of its members to be qualified as Pure Good.
External Links[]
- Ness on the Heroes Wiki
- Ness on the EarthBound Wiki
- Ness on the Super Smash Bros. Wiki
- Ness on the Nintendo Wiki
- Ness on the VS Battles Wiki
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