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Have you ever stopped and really thought about Giygas and what he really is? I think that he/she at one point was some form of alien but he himself, much like Ness drew power from the earth to make his power grow. Pokey mentions something about how Giygas no long has a body and he is the embodyment of pure evil. I think about it like this, when Poo does his Mu training he has to sacrifice his body up to the Mu spirit guy to for his power to grow I believe that this isolates his mind and leaves his bodily limitations behind opening his mind to a new realm of power.

I think Giygas did something similiar to this, as we know he has no body so he's not so much a being anymore he is more of an entity of pure evil. I think the reason that the text "you could not grasp the true form of Giygus's attack" is because I don't think he physically reaches out and punches you in the face, I think he uses his evil influence to inflict damage upon you some how.

So to me it seems that Giygus like Poo sacrificed his body to leave bodily limitations behind so his power could grow beyond that of the most evil being, but actually evil itself.

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    The mind/spirit is capable of so much. Why limit yourself with a body?

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      Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (14) Psychic boy genius

        Giygas = Overmind from starcraft...nuff said...if you can imagine the overmind you can imagine giygas.

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          Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (17) dalaaminmind

            I believe Giygas has no gender, I mean he's not a "being", but a higher power. I don't think he did mu training but instead fead off power from the evil thoughts of people and then grew to embody that evil itself. It makes sense when you view it from the fact that the prayers for the wellbeing of the Choosen Four, gave off pure good energy, which being the converse of Giygas is thus his ultimate weakness. The whole you cannot grasp Giygas' attack I believe is stated above, he is a higher power he is beyond the world, basically he has metaphysical powers, I believe.

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              Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (20) Ventolin

                maybe giygas is just one huge acid trip the end of the game was really far out there

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                  Giygas, as described at the beginning of the game, is described as the 'Universal Cosmic Destroyer', which suggests he's destroyed planets, so he's probably alien in species. When you look at the games as a whole, this is correct, because Giygas was formerly Giegue, since I recall their Japanese names are actually the same.

                  When you look at EarthBound as a singular, separate game everything's up to you, but looking at the series as a whole, and seeing how they all relate, I've got this jive:

                  Giygas, even before you face him in EarthBound, has such powers that no human can comprehend, even the best of the psychics. His power is simply too much for our minds. No doubt this power has been the case since he was young, so his power's been growing for however long... over 80 years at least.

                  Why he suddenly lost his form and became, as Pokey put it, "The embodiment of evil itself" is unclear, but probably wasn't a conscious choice, but his overwhelming PSI and his cracking mind clashing. A mind, when it snaps, has little control, but when that mind is filled with so much capability it may as well already be pouring out his ears... His body couldn't take that strain.

                  A part of me, in some mild horriffic musing, wonders if perhaps within that life-machine that resembles organs so much, Giygas's body simply exploded, leaving the shower of blood and organs from which this twisted mind and its copious amounts of PSI could play with, creating forms and images as it so pleased with the dirty red its mind once relied on. Giegue, once before, would remain sheltered within that machine, probably unable to cope with the human atmosphere. So when the machine was turned off, something within that twisted mind probably noticed that it could go outside again now, since his body was no longer a hinderance.

                  Of course if the body's not there to get hit, the mind's already too broken to reason with, and what's left is a twist of PSI and rage, how else can you beat something like this?

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                    Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (37) Nothing Song

                      You got that from teh 4chons, didn't you?

                      They're normally obnoxious but their Giygas discussions are actually pleasant. Until Morphine is brought up, then all hell breaks loose typically.

                      Giygas loves me, he loves me a bunch,
                      ’Cause he always puts Skippy in my lunch.

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                        I do believe that after he was defeated in Mother 1, Giegue had his rank and honor stripped away from him. He took whatever remaining forces he had and went into exile. After years and years he finally achieved ultimate PSI, an unlimited power. But he surely knew that the power would destroy himself, so he built the Devil's Machine. Over time, he did away with his physical body and became Giygas, the Cosmic Destroyer. He returned to his home realm and wreaked vengeance on those who had cast him out and took their aries for himself. He then picked his next target, the site of his first defeat, Earth. He did not want to be stopped as he was last time, so rather than attack from a spaceship, he would attack where noone would find him: the past. He used advanced time travel technology he had developed to keep himself safely in the past and issue commands to his minions psychically, across time and space. He probably hid himself away very early in time; he probably had stonehenge built to cover up the Starman base, he buried the Mani Mani statue under where he knew Lier X. Agerate would find it and sell it to influential people, and he lay in wait within the devil's machine, deep within the Earth for right time to bring about Earth's ruination. He actually put his plan into action in 199X, when he saw that his preperations were complete. However, Buzz Buzz, once a great warrior, stole the soundstone and journeyed back in time to warn Ness. However the time travel he stole required him to undergo drastic changes to his form to journey back in time, or possibly, an insect was the final form of his life cycle, while it can be assumed that Starman Jr. was in 199X and recieved a psychic call from his master, or he was using a more advanced for of time travel.

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                          Sorry for the 2x post, but I left something out. Giygas, as I stated in another topic, IS evil. Not evil as in, like the ruler of bad stuff, but as the embodiment of every evil, selfish, or ruthless thought, action, or word. He is the combined force of all the evil in the long, sad history of the universe. I believe his powers vary depending on how much evil has been in people's minds throughout their history. Of course Giygas channels these thoughts into a psychic force, which he most often uses to to make the evil inside someone grow, until they beome his slaves under his unbreakable control. That's how he controls people: because he IS the embodiment of the evil in everyone's minds. Only those with very little evil or an incredibly strong 'good' side, or possibly strong PSI powers, have the power to resist his influence.
                          Of course, he went a little too far with Pokey, whose evil side became unprecedentally strong, causing him to go from a cowardly little boy, to a roving madman. His transformation can be seen throughout the game. This is why Giygas had him become his right-hand man (Aside form the fact that all his other lieutenants had been destroyed) Because Pokey had a very powerful evil inside of him.

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                            You say he's not evil, EvilHero (I'll assume you made that, and you're not just obnoxiously pointing at something someone else made in an attempt to make a point you don't care to elaborate on yourself), but there's no guarantee of that. We don't know if Giygas came from the beginning of time, where you see him, or whether he was able to time-travel and went back there himself. The 'fetus' may not have been a symbol of birth, but instead a symbol of REbirth, the insanity and adapting formless being acting as a new entity separate to that of Giegue.

                            But then, in the end, he still may not have been evil, however his actions, both coherent and not, were not in the best interests of mankind, his desire being to wipe it out. And, as a cosmic destroyer, he's not exactly GOOD, either. As far as humanity would see it, Giygas is evil. In his own mind (coherent mind), he might have been working in the interests of his species, so he'd percieve himself as 'good'.

                            That's the thing about wars, though. Everyone thinks they're the good guy but everyone's wasting ammo.

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                              Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (75) Evilhero

                                I'll start off by saying, no, I didn't make those images. As far as I know, they aren't from 4Chan either (a friend of mine showed me them, and he despises 4Chan.) I was almost sure that something like this would have been posted already, apparently I was wrong. I wasn't trying to come off as obnoxious either, so if it seemed that way, I apologize.

                                While I am a Mother fan and have went as far as purchasing Earthbound upon release and importing Mother 3; i'm not a big enough fan to discuss the series with others, I figured the images would prove to be interesting as they do somewhat make sense.

                                Honestly, I can't really elaborate too much on the topic, I didn't delve too deeply into the original Mother and the last time I played through Earthbound was years ago, so my knowledge on Giygas is limited at best.

                                What I can say is, that Giygas at the time was perceived as evil to Ninten/Ness and his companions. However, if they really did go back in time to the point where he was still a fetus, you can't really call him evil; thats like saying that Hitler was evil as a baby. Giygas, at the time had no perception of good and evil, his ego/super ego not yet fully developed, his id being the only part of the psyche. Of course, being attacked he'd still defend himself, good or not, somebody comes at you, your going to fight back. Naturally, even in his fetal stage, Giygas is still holds considerable power.

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                                  Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (78) Sipex

                                    I've always believed that in the first game Giegue wasn't exactly evil or good, just angry in a way. George from earth had stolen his race's secrets of PSI and so he determined he must have revenge and additionally capture any person who might possess psychic powers to remove them. This can be seen in Earthbound as well at the Stonehenge base where Giegue's troops have captured seemingly random people instead of killing them or just influencing them with his mind (another theory could be that these people are too good to be influenced indirectly and need persuasion through other ways. A third theory, which just came to mind might be to Chimerize them into new, unthinkable horrors, which is where Pokey develops his Chimerization process from.)

                                    After Giegue is driven off by the song which was sung to him as a child he becomes enraged, I mean, he's an all powerful being and he was beaten by a stupid little song. During this rage Giegue vows to become stronger and get his revenge. He determines that his body is weak and fleshy (as seen in Mother 1, where he has to sit in a capsule to fight) and chooses to shed it by...some means to unleash his true potential. He probably realises that he may not be able to control the power though so he has the Devil's Machine built to allow him a sort of body which he can enter and exit at will.

                                    Giegue, still enraged and a bit unstable now missing his true body sits far in the past, deep in the planet where he was originally trounced so he may destroy it from within using the Devil's Machine to leech all the life away from the planet while influencing the civilians on the surface. I also believe he may have developed some sort of divination abilities similar to Paula in his infinite power and as such knows of the chosen four. For this reason he, first builds up his army made of anyone who will join and obliterating planets who refuse (which is why you can notice he carries quite a diverse troop from the first game).

                                    At this point, Buzz buzz arrives from the future where Giegue has conquered Earth and leeched all of it's resources away, making the planet a mere empty shell...heck, possibly consuming the planet and becoming a planetary being himself. Hungry for power and possibly bat****insane he continues to destroy more and more planets (one being Buzz Buzz's).

                                    At this point a fleet follows Buzz buzz through time, one being starman junior. Starman Jr's fate is known but the rest of the troop contact Giegue who has warned them this would happen, he probably just didn't know when. They let him know of the sighting of Ness and Giegue puts them in action, waking the eight guardians at the spots he has seen in his dreams, using the mani-mani statue to project his influence and pretty much setting the world at war with Ness. He works through Pokey, probably being able to see what he sees and recognises Paula and has her carried off immediately to be sacrificed.

                                    All the way through the journey Giegue continues to project his influence by sending his commanders in Ness and company's path to raise the dead, kidnap Paula (although Giovanni is a good man, much better than Giegue had anticipated and is able to resist the temptation to actually kill her) and all sorts of other things.

                                    If you notice all the things Giegue does usually relate to trying to stop Ness, he isn't just causing havoc for the sake of causing havoc. Threed is inhabited by Zombies with Ghosts in the tunnel in order to prevent Ness from passing and to eventually create an army of Zombies who would stand between Ness and the Sanctuary spot in Saturn Valley; after all, more dead people = more zombies.

                                    At the end of the game Dr. Adonuts is able to find Giegue by following Pokey who has gone to the past to help him to originally build the Devil's Machine. Nobody realises he is below the surface even as they speak so they go to the past to destroy him.

                                    This is probably best though, as his destruction undoes any drain the Devil's Machine has done to the earth over the years.

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                                      Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (81) adamgnome

                                        I have something to add. I think the reason Ness and everyone "could not grasp the true form of Giygus's attack" is becuase they're only kids. I think if they were much older they would've grasped Giygas' attack. Which would make sense considering where Itoi got the dialogue of Giygas from. Him walking into that violent graphic movie as a kid, he couldn't actually understand what he saw until later in his life.

                                        I think I have the plot synopsis of that movie.

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                                        he year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young prostitute is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...

                                        This is the first work in Shin-Toho's cult-hit "Military Policeman" series. The detective drama setup, combined with the sinister portrayals of corpses being chopped up and people being whipped while hung upside down, has a maniacal charm distinctive to Japanese cinema.

                                        This is NOT a porno movie. But it's clearly a movie children should not see. With Giygas' character and text, Itoi tried to bring the same feelings he felt as a kid to the player

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                                          Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (84) Husky_Washu

                                          A marching attack!

                                            I was talking with an acquaintance who also frequents the site, and he was saying how through the translation process us English-speaking folks missed out on some key dialog about Giygas and the Apple of Enlightenment. There's apparently some speculation that the jagged silver spire at the beginning of Giygas' lair is actually the Apple of Enlightenment, which allowed him (him, Giegue, whichever) to see into the future and also determine that Paula would be a threat to his plans (hence the kidnappage).

                                            If anybody has any links (or er input?) to a discussion about this, I'd like to read them. It'd also be interesting to see a translated Japanese script to catch up on everything we didn't get in the English version.

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                                              Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (87) Jack of None

                                                I kind of like the idea of killing Giygas back before he was born. It seems to fit pretty well, and is suitably creepy. It's only a theory, of course Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (88) But I personally like it.

                                                Of course, even though the final area of Earthbound is extremely organic-looking (it kind of looks like intestines, honestly...really creepy), it's also mechanical, with rivets and things. It's really more like a mockery of human life -- a confused mess of tubes that don't go anywhere, all leading up to an aperture that opens up to show you your own face. That and the distorted face and the nonsense babbling always seemed to suggest to me that Giygas as he appeared in the ending of EB was really more an embodiment of madness than evil precisely. You were fighting an existence so alien and shattered that you couldn't possibly begin to understand it. The only thing he can say is your name and lines from a childhood nightmare that was scary precisely because you didn't understand what you were seeing. Nothing makes sense around him.

                                                He always reminded me of Azathoth from the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, if anyone's ever read those -- the most powerful being in the universe, who is utterly, utterly mad and dances about blindly to the music of some lesser deity's flute playing. He's referred to as the "blind idiot god", which sounds a lot like Pokey's comment about Giygas being an "all-mighty idiot". But I'm a Lovecraft fan, so I would think that Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (89)

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                                                  Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (92) viniciuskps

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                                                  Surely Giygas appears to be mad... those organic things, when I fisrt saw, it remembered me of a brain that was shattered because of his madness and his hard and obsessive thoughts on how to get a revenge/how could he destroy this planet... (I've never played Mother, but I know that he wanted a revenge)...

                                                  I don't seem to really comprehend what Giygas is... He ins't something solid, surely... anyway... it looks like he's a spirit: the spirit of all the evil in the world... but something is still strange: how could Ness bash him with his bat, if he is a spirit?

                                                  And one other thing that bugs me is: Giygas says things like: "I feel... g...o...o...d...", and "It hurts, Ness. It hurts.", or "I am... h...a...p...p...y...", or "I'm so sad, Ness", but how could a mad creature like that feel something?? Does he really have conscience of his feelings? That still confuses me... because Pokey says he isn't aware of anything anymore, not even of what he is doing, or what he is feeling... That's confusing...

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                                                          Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (111) DronePod

                                                            I personally think the Chamber leading up to giygas is the Mothership from EB0, but heavily modified in order to house the devil's machine, giving it a more organic appearance (think of how high charity looked in halo 3.)

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                                                              I dunno if I buy the theory about attacking Giygas when he was still weak/a fetus, since Dr. Andonuts explains to you that Giygas is attacking from the past. So he may have been vulnerable at that point, but I don't think it was a case of going back and eliminating him before he became a threat, since he already was. But maybe there's something else that I'm forgetting.

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                                                                ^ My own theory is something along the lines of Giegue finally finding a basic method of Time Travel, yet not knowing that organic beings cannot safely use it. Having traveled in any case, though, has stripped him of his body and mind, so all that's left is his hatred of the human race and mission to wipe the planet of life. (His armies being there are ok, though, as they're robotic and thus can withstand time travel)

                                                                However, Pokey found a different means of time travel, info perhaps found by Giegue himself and passed on through PSI, his army, or the Mani-Mani; a safer version that Buzz Buzz used as well that I assume would have emerged if the Mr. Saturns and Andonuts had more time and research to find.

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                                                                  Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (145) Evilhero

                                                                    CherrieGal wrote on Sun, 06 January 2008 00:21

                                                                    I dunno if I buy the theory about attacking Giygas when he was still weak/a fetus, since Dr. Andonuts explains to you that Giygas is attacking from the past. So he may have been vulnerable at that point, but I don't think it was a case of going back and eliminating him before he became a threat, since he already was. But maybe there's something else that I'm forgetting.

                                                                    My theory is that Gigyas went back in time knowing that he would regress into a fetal form (and would eventually develop into the form he is today.) Thats why he brought his army with him to do his bidding. He may be too small to attack humanity himself, but his henchmen could still do his work for him.

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                                                                      Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (148) Action 52

                                                                        Talking about evil/good, I was thinking that there is only one villian in the series:

                                                                        George.

                                                                        It's a chain relation.
                                                                        If George never studied PSI, Giegue would never had tried to destroy the human race (he did this to protect his world, which he thinked was in danger because of Humans ), and they would never had come back as Giygas and make Pokey join him, and they he would never had created the Pig Mask Army and blablabla.

                                                                        Also, yes, Giygas obviously tells you to stop.

                                                                        He's calling you to see if you're alright (NESS NESS, just like if he was asking if you were there), and then telling you 'IT HURTS' as if he wanted you to stop praying and to, obviously, stop fighting. Of course, you keep, and If you don't attack too much, it could be understood his 'I feel happy', since you didn't hurt him during a turn, but you'll rebegin,
                                                                        and the 'WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' at the end of the fight when he dies sounds to my some cry like he was terribly sad you didn't stopped and keeped up the war.
                                                                        'The form of Giygas' attack was inexplicable'. Well, since the PSI comes from his species, they probably have higher than Omega or other PSI attacks.

                                                                        Now, let's take the ad for Mother 1+2 in japan. Everytime, the characters showed changes, except one, ' An evil heart ' and is unnamed, and obviously is Giygas.

                                                                        Why 'heart' ? Why not 'spirit' ? 'Alien' ?

                                                                        Because they wanted to show Giygas was not evil, since the heart is the symbol of good.

                                                                        He is simply scared of humans, and wants to be friends with them so both worlds could live in Peace.

                                                                        His fear is so great, it makes him do insanely evil things.

                                                                        Mmmmkay, I think I am done for this. I'll let you think about it.

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                                                                          EvilHero: Why would he regress to a foetal form though? Surely if he's travelling that far back, then he'd lose his form completely? He was still a baby when George and Maria were abducted, and that was only in the early 1900s.

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                                                                            Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (162) Vengeance

                                                                              Action 52 wrote on Tue, 08 January 2008 14:25

                                                                              Talking about evil/good, I was thinking that there is only one villian in the series:

                                                                              George.

                                                                              It's a chain relation.
                                                                              If George never studied PSI, Giegue would never had tried to destroy the human race (he did this to protect his world, which he thinked was in danger because of Humans ), and they would never had come back as Giygas and make Pokey join him, and they he would never had created the Pig Mask Army and blablabla.

                                                                              Also, yes, Giygas obviously tells you to stop.

                                                                              He's calling you to see if you're alright (NESS NESS, just like if he was asking if you were there), and then telling you 'IT HURTS' as if he wanted you to stop praying and to, obviously, stop fighting. Of course, you keep, and If you don't attack too much, it could be understood his 'I feel happy', since you didn't hurt him during a turn, but you'll rebegin,
                                                                              and the 'WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' at the end of the fight when he dies sounds to my some cry like he was terribly sad you didn't stopped and keeped up the war.
                                                                              'The form of Giygas' attack was inexplicable'. Well, since the PSI comes from his species, they probably have higher than Omega or other PSI attacks.

                                                                              Now, let's take the ad for Mother 1+2 in japan. Everytime, the characters showed changes, except one, ' An evil heart ' and is unnamed, and obviously is Giygas.

                                                                              Why 'heart' ? Why not 'spirit' ? 'Alien' ?

                                                                              Because they wanted to show Giygas was not evil, since the heart is the symbol of good.

                                                                              He is simply scared of humans, and wants to be friends with them so both worlds could live in Peace.

                                                                              His fear is so great, it makes him do insanely evil things.

                                                                              Mmmmkay, I think I am done for this. I'll let you think about it.

                                                                              hey Action 52 I would do an M3 spoiler in your post there

                                                                              Posted over 16 years ago

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                                                                                Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (165) Evilhero

                                                                                  SaturnStorm wrote on Wed, 09 January 2008 06:54

                                                                                  EvilHero: Why would he regress to a foetal form though? Surely if he's travelling that far back, then he'd lose his form completely? He was still a baby when George and Maria were abducted, and that was only in the early 1900s.

                                                                                  Thats a pretty good point (this is where my lack of knowledge is exposed.) Really, thats entirely up to debate, Giygas IS an alien afterall, who knows how long the birth cycle can take?

                                                                                  This is a shaky theory at best. At this point, nearly anything is possible given the lack of information. I could think of dozens of different explanations, all of which could not be proven or denied.

                                                                                  Unless another Mother game is released, we'll probably never know.

                                                                                  Posted over 16 years ago

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                                                                                    Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (168) TheRictus

                                                                                      Perhaps Giygas failed destroying his ultimate nightmare at his own magicant. In EB0 Giygas (from what I recall) came down to earth in order to stop humans from gaining psychic powers. The reason itself might be altruistic (even if the actions leave something to be desired). So, let's say he thinks about Maria and has a change of heart. Then he goes into his own magicant in order to conquer the evil in him. Then he fails spectacularly and we all see the results.

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                                                                                        Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (171) tobias26

                                                                                          Artemis251 wrote on Tue, 08 January 2008 08:50

                                                                                          However, Pokey found a different means of time travel, info perhaps found by Giegue himself and passed on through PSI, his army, or the Mani-Mani; a safer version that Buzz Buzz used as well that I assume would have emerged if the Mr. Saturns and Andonuts had more time and research to find.

                                                                                          But neither Pokey or Buzz Buzz kept their bodies intact. I think that Buzz Buzz deposited his soul, much like Ness and co. did, except into the body of a robotic insect. Also, if you remember,

                                                                                          MOTHER 3 ENDING SPOILER DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED!!

                                                                                          As far as Giygas goes, I think that the idea of him trying to travel through time and failing is an accurate description. I think he is called the Universal Cosmic Destroyer because he goes to planets and studies them. I think that this study period would be followed by an abduction period and deposit people in zoos, especially if you take the Zoo in EB0 as a metaphor. The Zoo outside of Podunk was the first direct appearance of aliens (Starman Jr.) in the series, and there is obviously some significance in that.

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                                                                                            Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (174) TheRictus

                                                                                              Z.Mortimer wrote on Tue, 22 January 2008 11:50

                                                                                              Artemis251 wrote on Tue, 08 January 2008 08:50

                                                                                              However, Pokey found a different means of time travel, info perhaps found by Giegue himself and passed on through PSI, his army, or the Mani-Mani; a safer version that Buzz Buzz used as well that I assume would have emerged if the Mr. Saturns and Andonuts had more time and research to find.

                                                                                              But neither Pokey or Buzz Buzz kept their bodies intact. I think that Buzz Buzz deposited his soul, much like Ness and co. did, except into the body of a robotic insect. Also, if you remember,

                                                                                              MOTHER 3 ENDING SPOILER DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED!!

                                                                                              As far as Giygas goes, I think that the idea of him trying to travel through time and failing is an accurate description. I think he is called the Universal Cosmic Destroyer because he goes to planets and studies them. I think that this study period would be followed by an abduction period and deposit people in zoos, especially if you take the Zoo in EB0 as a metaphor. The Zoo outside of Podunk was the first direct appearance of aliens (Starman Jr.) in the series, and there is obviously some significance in that.

                                                                                              More mother 3 ending stuff

                                                                                              I personally think that time travel has different effects on different people in the Earthbound universe.

                                                                                              Posted over 16 years ago

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                                                                                                Giygas (food for thought) « EarthBound (2024)

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                                                                                                What level should I be to fight Giygas in EarthBound? ›

                                                                                                Before fighting Giygas, level 85-90 for Ness is outstanding (Some people here in starmen.net have goe all the way up to level 99 with all 4 characters!), level 70-75 for Paula and Jeff, and level 68-70 for Poo. While these levels may take a long time to obtain, it is better to build levels than die by Giygas.

                                                                                                What is Giygas supposed to represent? ›

                                                                                                Music composer Hirokazu Tanaka described Giygas as the "embodiment of evil". As a result, he composed the music in a certain way based on the player's proximity to him. For example, in battles where Ness and company encounter someone or something under Giygas' control, the music and sound effects reflect this.

                                                                                                Is Giygas difficult? ›

                                                                                                The battle against Giygas is very long and difficult. He uses random and unintelligible attacks, which the party cannot grasp, while babbling incoherent, meaningless speeches. His repeating Ness' name and "I'm happy" being a creepy echo to his offer of friendship to Ninten in the first game.

                                                                                                Is Giygas pure evil? ›

                                                                                                While he's an anti-villain in the first game, after making contact with the Apple of Enlightment, he has become corrupted by his own mind in the second game and can not think straight, being nothing more then an embodiment of evil who seeks pure destruction.

                                                                                                What is the rarest enemy in EarthBound? ›

                                                                                                Criminal Caterpillars are an extremely rare enemy in EarthBound. These are green, plump caterpillars with small arms and hands. It gives an extremely high amount of EXP (30384), and they have quite a high amount of HP and PP. These are first found by Ness and co.

                                                                                                What is Giygas's weakness? ›

                                                                                                Giygas remains undefeatable by physical attacks; rather, he is destroyed by Paula's prayers to the people of Earth and to the player themself, exposing his weakness to emotion. Giygas disintegrates and ceases to exist, ending his evil influence over the world.

                                                                                                Can you beat Giygas without praying? ›

                                                                                                No, not really, sorry. The game is coded so that you have to pray. There might be a way to poison him and do some stuff to glitch it, but that requires preparation that you don't have.

                                                                                                Why is Giygas so powerful? ›

                                                                                                In the time between invasions, Giygas, still trying to defy fate, brainwashes Ness's neighbor, Pokey Minch into becoming his right hand man so that he would be victorious. Giygas gains such tremendous evil power that it destroys his entire being, including his mind, causing him to become undefinable by human standards.

                                                                                                How much HP does Giygas have in Earthbound? ›

                                                                                                the prayers of the entire earthbound universe amassed did nothing to hurt Giygas. he has 9999 HP, regenerates it fully every turn, takes 0 damage from any attack that inflicts normal damage, and is immune to dying. The only person canonically able to defeat Giygas is the person playing the game.

                                                                                                Why does Giygas hate humanity? ›

                                                                                                In EarthBound Beginnings

                                                                                                However, due to George's betrayal, when he matured Giygas was tasked by his people to ensure that PSI could not be used against them by humans. Giygas did not want to betray those who raised him, particularly Maria, but was forced to attack Earth regardless to claim this knowledge back.

                                                                                                Why is Giygas scary? ›

                                                                                                Because Giygas is based off a traumatic event in the creator's childhood. Because the music switches from normal SNES beeps and boops to an intense metal song. Because you cannot comprehend the true form of Giygas' attack.

                                                                                                Was Giygas supposed to be in Mother 3? ›

                                                                                                Addition to that, it's very impossible for Giygas to return in Mother 3 due to the fact he was fatally wounded by human emotions from the event of Earthbound which probably damaged his time-traveling technique.

                                                                                                Do you have to pray to beat Giygas? ›

                                                                                                The Battle Against Giygas. During the final battle, Paula must pray nine times to kill Giygas to defeat him for good. However, this can only be done during the third phase of the Giygas battle.

                                                                                                How much HP does Giygas have in EarthBound? ›

                                                                                                the prayers of the entire earthbound universe amassed did nothing to hurt Giygas. he has 9999 HP, regenerates it fully every turn, takes 0 damage from any attack that inflicts normal damage, and is immune to dying. The only person canonically able to defeat Giygas is the person playing the game.

                                                                                                What level should I be for Titanic Ant EarthBound? ›

                                                                                                The Titanic Ant can also create a PSI Shield Alpha, which is the one Ness uses (it cuts damage of an enemy by 50%). The Titanic Ant can also call for help (though he rarely does this), and he can even steal Ness's PP. It is recommended that Ness be at a Level of 11 or 12 when he fights the Titanic Ant.

                                                                                                Who can defeat Giygas? ›

                                                                                                To best this form of Giygas, the key is to focus on Pokey. Have Jeff use any remaining Multi Bottle Rockets on Pokey, and the Heavy bazooka if you don't have any. Paula and Poo should dish out their best Freeze attacks, and Ness should try paralysis, which occasionally will work on him.

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