Ness

Ness

Series	Mother
Age	12 (JP) 13 (US)
Birthday	N/A
Sex	Male
Species	Human
Height	N/A
Weight	N/A
Alignment	Neutral Good

Ness is a character from the Mother franchise, and the main protagonist of its second game; Earthbound.

Background[]

Ness is a thirteen year old boy from Eagleland, specifically Onett. One night after a meteorite crashes down and interrupts Ness and his family's sleep, he decides to go outside and check on what had just happened. After meeting up with Lier X. Agerate and Pokey Minch, he returns home and tries to get back to sleep. Soon thereafter, Pokey arrives and demands that Ness help him look for his little brother, who has gone missing during the calamity surrounding the impact. After talking with his mother, they go to the hillside to find Pokey's brother.

When they find Pokey's brother, Picky, it was revealed that it was actually Pokey who ran off in the first place. Before leaving, they also encounter Buzz-Buzz, an insectoid warrior who has returned from the future to warn Ness of the threat that Giygas poses to the universe. It is from Buzz-Buzz that Ness learns of the prophecy surrounding his future; that he, along with the help of two other boys and one girl, will stand against Giygas and save the universe from total annihilation.

Powers & Abilities[]

Paralysis: Will inflict enemies with paralysis and will become unable to move.
Lifeup: Heals Ness along with any allies near him.
PK Rockin: A powerful PSI move that assaults all enemies; special move to only Ness.
Healing: Removes any status ailments inflicted upon Ness.
Shield: Summons a barrier of light that reduces any damage inflicted upon Ness along with any allies near him by half. Some damage will be reflected back at the enemy.
PK Thunder: An electricity-based attack, it summons bolts of lightning to strike random targets, and more can be called down at higher stages. In Smash Bros., it can be used to launch Ness across the stage.
Teleport: Ness can teleport as a quick use of transportation to any area he has previously been to. However, Ness can only teleport after a running start. If he bumps into something before the, he cannot teleport to said area.
PSI Magnet: Forms a psychic field around Ness, it can absorb most energy-based attack, replenishing the character's health to double of the damage that attack would have dealt. It even slows down Ness if used in mid-air.
PK Fire: An offensive PSI ability that appears in every game in the Mother series. While Ness only has this power in Smash Bros., in the main Earthbound games, PK Fire works on a single row of enemies and has the possibility of decreasing one of the targets' PSI Shield strength by 1.
PK Flash: An incredibly powerful PSI move that causes instant death, makes enemies cry, makes them feel strange or become numb.
PK Starstorm: A powerful attack, only taught manually to those who have earned it, it works on all enemies, and is impossible to avoid and has the possibility of decreasing one of targets' Psychic Shield strength by 1.
Hypnosis: Will inflict enemies with sleep; cannot work if the victim is highly intelligent.
PK Freeze: An ice based PSI power attacking a target to do ice damage.

Weapons & Equipment[]

Baseball Bat: Ness, an avid baseball fan, usually has a baseball bat to use as a melee weapon. Ness has many baseball bats, ranging from the ranks of being worn out to having Legendary status.
Combat Yo-Yo: Ness can also use yo-yos as a melee weapon in combat as a substitute for his baseball bat.
Franklin Badge: A badge said to be used by Benjamin Franklin, this badge makes Ness able to reflect any and all Thunder-Attribute PSI offensive attacks.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Was able to hurt a dog made out of diamonds.
Has beaten enemies such as the Kraken and the Nuclear Reactor Robot.
Was able to damage Giygas in his early form.
Destroyed the Pig King with a single PK Flash.
Knocked over the Pig King Statue with one PK Thunder.
Scales to Paula and Poo who can freeze a Chomposaurus (25.6 Kilotons of TNT)
Carried a Submarine alongside his friends
Comparable to Poo, who can summon multiple meteors to the ground (75.5 Megatons of TNT)
Stronger than Thunder & Storm, which can make storms
Stronger than Ana, who generated an event compared to a Supernova or White Hole (Novel)
If he loses control of his powers, Ness is capable of accidentally bursting the sun, trembling the Earth and shattering the sky (Try to ignore the other stuff about disemboweling children and splatting them all into red paste) (Novel)
Absorbed all of Magicant into himself, increasing his physical attributes. Magicant is an entirely separate dimension
Calling upon the power of the Earth, completely destroyed Giygas as well as his entire dimension (Manga)
Calling upon the power of the Earth, defeated Giygas, who created a shockwave that affected the entire 4th dimensional time axis and threw it into chaos, which exists over infinite timelines (Manga) (Debatable)

Speed[]

Can dodge PK Thunder.
Can dodge laser stars from Starmna, which is made of plasma.
Is technically semi-omnipresent after having his psychic consciousness become one with the universe.
Comparable to Lucas, who dodged a train (Best speed feat tbh)
Has dodged electricity (Manga)
Comparable to Poo, who can pull in meteors to Earth (Mach 3820)
With Teleport, can accelerate himself fast enough to move across continents in seconds (Mach 6262) (Debatable)
Comparable if not superior to the Mother 3 cast, who can dodge light (7% SoL)
Can dodge beams
Is capable of causing the sun to explode at this speed (0.92c-99c) (Novel)
Created an attack that collapsed Giygas’s entire home universe inward, and reacted to it (146.642 Quadrillion c) (Debatable) (Manga)
Summoned the energy of the Power of Earth to him from another universe in an incredibly short timeframe (586 Quadrillion c) (Manga)
Comparable to Poo, who can perceive every living organism from all of time (18 Million c) (Novel)
Can dodge an attack from the Dali’s Clock while time is frozen (Immeasurable) (Debatable)
- Note, it can be found and fought rarely inside Dungeon Man which takes places in the real world. In addition, the “dodged quickly” response is unique to avoiding moves via having a high enough speed stat.
Can avoid attacks from and tag Giygas, who can attack through time and send shockwaves through the 4th dimension, an axis of time (Immeasurable) (Debatable)

Durability[]

Can take an explosion from a nuclear reactor robot.
Regularly endure hits ranging from psychic assaults to lasers.
Survived multiple attacks from the "Universal Cosmic Destroyer" Giygas.
Can tank Territorial Oak exploding into a burst of flames (0.000029472 Tons of TNT)
Can tank the explosion of the Sky Runner (1.1 Tons of TNT)
Can survive multiple stomps from giant dinosaurs like the Wetnosaur.
Multiple blows from a massive Kraken aren’t enough to put him down.
Can survive multiple attacks from a prolonged battle with Giygas, who candestroy entireuniverses
- While endured in a robot body, it should not be more durable than Ness’ own body
Survived the collapse of Giygas’s entire universe (Manga)

Skills[]

Has taken down huge monsters such as Kraken.
Defeated a dog made out of solid diamond.
Was able to combat against the universal threat Giygas.
His psychic consciousness became one with the universe.
Created his own Magicant.
Conquered Nightmare Ness, which is a manifestation of evil inside his own mind.
Helped defeated Giygas... not on his own of course.
Mastered PSI fairly quickly after learning it even existed
Defeated Giygas and many of his minions, such as Mr. Carpainter, Master Belch, Starman Deluxe, the Mani-Mani Statue and Porky.
Reached the Eight Your Sanctuaries and collected their melodies.
Traversed through an alternate dimension of Fourside unharmed
Survived his soul being transferred to a robot body

Faults[]

Is still a child
Homesickness: Ness from time to time can get homesick, which hinders his ability to fight and perform in battle. He can resolve this by calling family or visiting his home at intermittent periods of time.
Pacifism: Ness, being a pacifist, prefers to stay out of combat if possible.
Vulnerable to Hypnosis and Paralysis
Poor approach on the ground
- Thanks to significant range issues in most of his attacks.
Recovery is easy to intercept.
Usually had help from friends in battle.
Has significant trouble with KOing opponents.
- Due to his surprisingly weak KO power and his poor range.

Fun Facts[]

Ness is an anagram of the acronym for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES.
It's speculated that Ness' parents are actually two of the protagonists in the first Mother, Ninten and Ana.
In the Super Smash Bros. series, Ness was going to be replaced in the second game of the series, Super Smash Bros. Melee, with Lucas due to an upcoming Mother title on the Nintendo 64. However, it was cancelled and Ness was still in Melee while Lucas made an appearance ever since Super Smash Bros. Brawl and so on.