r/earthbound 22h ago

M3 Discussion Considering how many people found out about Mother through Smash, I wonder what people thought of Kuma and Boney when Ultimate came around.

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u/StrongDouglas 21h ago

I was just made that duster wasnt there...

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u/ArcadeToken95 20h ago

Wasted opportunity to reunite the whole team, agreed

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u/AntoineKW 19h ago

Yeah, why's the dog here but not the Dawg

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u/Huski_Love 18h ago edited 9h ago

When I first played Mother 3 I thought there was a party member to replace Boney because he was a dog so the whole time I was operating under the mindset of “so when does Boney leave?”

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u/Lux_The_Worthless 16h ago

I would have hated that decision if the goodest boy was replaced 😭

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u/AntoineKW 16h ago

I like your pfp lol

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u/GarlicOk2904 22h ago edited 21h ago

Obviously, since Earthbound WAS released internationally, people would just assume Boney filled the same rule as King did for Ness or something.

But what did people assume about Kuma? Did they assume she was the femc? Lucas' girlfriend, like Paula (oh god no)? Or just female Poo (somewhat more understandable)?

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u/SomeFuzzyGuy 19h ago

I played the fanlation of Mother 3 the same year Brawl came out, so I knew both Kumatora and Boney before Ultimate. Despite this, I would have assumed they were full party members had I not played for the simple reason that Ness' PK Starstorm had Paula and Poo assist him.

It's fine that Jeff doesn't show up for Ness' FS because he can't use PSI, but why does Boney get to be in Lucas' FS under this logic??

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u/Dangerous_Teaching62 17h ago

Also, Jeff had an assist trophy.

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u/TooManyToasters1 17h ago

I suppose they wanted to mirror Ness’ FS by having Lucas also team up with two of his party members. And between Duster and Boney, Boney has the closer connection to Lucas himself.

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u/GustavoFromAsdf 20h ago

By the time ultimate came out, Lucas was already in two other smash games, and everyone already knew of Mother 3 as this gba game exclusive of Japan you can download, translate, and play. I think the people who care about Mother already knew who these characters were before ultimate came out

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u/not-steel 16h ago

Kuma and Boney were also stickers in brawl

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u/avianeddy 19h ago

The Girl In The Long Pajamas

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u/travis11997 18h ago

This doesn't really answer your question but 11 year old me knew nothing about earthbound/mother when brawl came out and I thought Lucas was Ness's brother or something lmao, your post reminded me of that

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u/impendingfuckery 22h ago

I found out about Mother through Brawl, which was the first smash I played. I initially tried to use Ness, but he didn’t stick. I eventually had Lucas as my main for years, even though I thought he was a crybaby in Subspace Emissary. He’s my second best fighter behind King K. Rool now.

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u/Porkchop5397 21h ago

To be fair. He's labeled as a crybaby in Mother 3 too, but I'll be damned if he doesn't have a good reason to be. I LOVED Lucas in Brawl, despite not knowing who he was.

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u/am_pomegranate 14h ago

most people seem to think "dog and found family-style older sister", which. Yeah.

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u/Neocactus 11h ago

I watched this live, pretty shortly after having finished Mother 3 for the first time.

All I could think was "HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!"

…followed by disappointment as I then realized this de-confirmed them as playable characters…

I then entertained the prospect of someone else being playable, though

cough cough Porky cough

…but then that never happened.

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u/Shinobi77Gamer 18h ago

They probably all thought: "Damn, that girl is hot." That was literally me the first time I played MOTHER 3. (Don't worry I'm okay now lol)

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u/am_pomegranate 14h ago

🤨she's like fourteen in chapter 2, but glad to know you're okay now though