Gaming Mysteries: EarthBound; My Porky Minch theory explained. 

I'm still partial to the theory where Giygas isn't just Porky, but Porky some ludicrous time in the future after his mind (and perhaps body) has managed to breach the confines of the absolutely safe capsule.

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I dig your theory. I don’t necessarily need one of them to be correct. The idea of porky being a friend of Ness who was lured by giygas’ promise of power is intriguing and pretty simple. But the idea of him being giygas himself and trying to fight his own destiny, that’s so cool, and it makes so many things click into place. I’m almost always impressed by Mother fans being able to come up with connections and answers across these games.

25:19 This statement is quite brilliant when you consider the way Ness's mother and the sanctuary locations both provide free healing.

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This one is something truly special. A very well put unifying theory, it's a bit scary how nicely it feels it might fit.

Wow... This is honestly one of the most interesting, unique, and frankly believable theories I've ever heard. You make some genuinely believable and eye-opening evidence for this idea, which in concept would seem so bizarre and unbelievably insane, that it would rival the Sans is Ness theory. But unlike that theory, the evidence and information that makes the idea actually possible isn't some random details and thinly-veiled connections to make a half-assed theory, its things that aren't ever explained, are odd or peculiar additions to the story, and just, make so much genuine sense. Honestly its stuff like this that inspires me to want to make characters with such fascinating and lore-filled backstories, as so people can have such amazing and cool theories like these. Overall, you did fantastic, and you should feel proud of yourself for making this.

It would also be important to note that both Porky and Giygue's names are technically adjectives, as Giygue's name was created to describe something disturbing beyond comprehension. Porky describes Porky's round and plush form like that of a pig, and garners the polar opposite reaction to Giygue, a word and name invented to describe something unpleasant. That unpleasant something just also happened to be Porky, especially in Mother 3 as he had basically indulged in eating chimera abominations. So the idea that Porky is an incarnation of Giygas is not only believable, but severely depressing as he had not been this bad before as Giygas, and most likely wouldn't have turned this way if he had a loving mother and father as Porky, and a lack of motherly love basically stripped him of all PSI power. Dude reset the universe to be a kid's neighbor, patch over their differences, and maybe become friends, but the universe came back with the loudest smack in existence. No mom. No dad. No love. No PSI. No friends. Your psychically gifted neighbor is comin' to kill ya with his brain. And your abusive mother set everything into motion. Yeah, I'd be shitting my pants, scrambling for a solution only to go insane too.

Porky reminds me of Cartman when it comes to all the shenanigans and getting adults to listen to him, regardless of Giygas being an issue 😆

To go along with porky not having PSI because his mother doesnt care about him, jeff also has no PSI abilities, we never hear about his mother, his father left him in a boarding school and he was never shown what is crucial to developing PSI, a mothers love.

Trilogy is as i can tell a series truly about giygas. Goes from him. To him creating essentially a new avatar for himself. And then finally the avatar itself

This is the best Mother theory ever. There is no competition. I feel that some other theories actively damage the series main villain but this one adds a lot. Though Mother 2 being an universe reset from Mother 1 is far fetched of course.

This the type of shit I'd write when stoned out of my mind

This...this here was incredible. I've been a fan of this series for so long but...dayum...

Can We Be Friends Again Ness...

How do you only have 45 subs? This video ALONE could be from someone with 10k+ subs! The theory is very good, and I hope you get more subs!

I enjoyed every second of this video. Thank you so much, and the ending with donuts was great.

It was very cool !

Porky was never the same after that civil war field trip...

Fixed the audio up a bit on this one, hopefully it's good, sorry everyone.

What a facinating take!

Wow this is probably my favorite theory and I actually would want this to be true over all others. It’s just so deep. From ness realizing he lost his friend more and more as he continues his journey to Porky becoming more and more afraid of ness being his downfall. It’s perfect

>Ringabel’s theme song used in this video Hello based department?

Did not expect this video to be this long. Very well done though, nice job!

Great video, thank you 😊 I just recently got into Earthbound and idk how this series flew under my radar for so long, it’s an absolute masterpiece. The lore hits so much differently than any other game. Also I didn’t realize how much Pokémon “borrowed” from earth bound.. I’ve kind of been making a list in my mind as I’m playing but I’m up to about a dozen borrowed ideas. From the PP system(not sure if Mother was the first to utilize this system though), the item being called Dragonite(seriously?!) some of the items like the exit mouse or the Hawkeye remind me of a 1:1 for HM moves. I have more, and I plan on making a video on it(I searched and only found one video that talks about it). Feel free to use the idea, you seem to have more skills for that kind of thing. Anyways, subbed.

Great stuff, I wondered about how all Mother games could relate, but I thought of something that I find curious, if Porky was really the Giygas of his own Universe or timeline, then I wonder how he was not recognized but the Starman Jr. at beginning? Also Porky also never went to Winters from my understanding, but there was a whole Starmen base their apparently under his command.

Amazing theory!

This is extremely good this is mind blowimg actually

Incredible work here! Left you a sub🙂

The song at the end is so beautiful.

Wonderful video. Very evocative.

0:34 was not expecting to see rosenkreuzstilette footage here. sick game.

You have 225 Subs?!?!?!???!!? This is some amazing content!

Okay so one other thing ive had mulling around in my mind about Porky. We know pretty well how old he is in onett, twoson, and fourside. But once we see him having stolen the prototype phase distorter along with a mr saturn prior to the 8th sanctuary location, then we have an issue. We dont know how far back (or forwars for that matter) in time he went. By the time Ness catches up with h im when they travel back, he could he 1 or even 5 years older. By that time he could have orchestrated much of what happened in earthbound.

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This theory is so esoteric. I dig it.

Bro, this was the most interesting and likely take of Porky and Gigyas I've ever seen. My mind is actually blown. I never got to play Mother Beginnings, so I had no clue he wanted to be reincarnated as Ness's neighbor. All of this info is just great. It's a shame you don't have more subs. I'll be damned if I don't watch more content like this from you lmao

Hello fellow Canadian this video and theory is great love these games can I ask where you are from in canada?

underrated channel, gotta give the subscribe to ya!

About the high amount of ‘four’ we see in Earthbound, in Japan the number 4 is actually a very unlucky number, as it’s pronunciation is very similar to their word for ‘death.’

Interesting!!

With multiple playthroughs of this game and 20 years of writing experience behind me, I can safely and without a doubt say that while the story of Earthbound does make sense, I'm pretty sure somebody had to go back, edit and try to make sense of all the little crazy stories that were crammed into the cartridge, each event in Earthbound, if you take away the Giygas plot, all appear to be their own independent stories, even everything that happens in the past is its own independent thing when you look at it in hindsight. The final battle in particular is the biggest instance of this given it is completely separated from *everything* else in the game. There is no explanation in the game as to why the orb in the machine represents Ness and not something else other than creep factor that was added in last minute, and text in the final battle likewise just being reflective of a misunderstood meta-memory from the writer of the major plotline that also has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the game. It's just a big amalgamation of stuff that somebody tried to make sense of in the final revision and what we have is the best writing revision we got. As well written as Earthbound is, it really doesn't get any deeper than the fact that it was somebody trying to make sense of a lot of convoluted and disconnected ideas.

Wait so the theory is that the power used in the Mother series is dependent on a mother's love?

I literally named one of my videos ‘the new ninten’ before watching this video, an odd coincidence?

So glad i found this vid and channel W for sure

whie it would be nice for this to be the final end itori made a mistake by introducing space-time travel. its inclusion makes continuing the story possable, the capsule while powerful isnt retroactive by going back to its creation a flaw could be introduced into its construction to make it no longer absolutely safe andronuts maybe smart but he's not omniscent. annother way to short circut this fate is to make using the capsul not an option or otherwise stop portkey from getting in. this could be accomplished by slowing its construction down or stalling its transport making it unavalible during the battle a more darker twist to this would be to kidnap andronuts before he can complete it meaning construction flaws would be more likely to be not detected and may even arise natuarly due to annother working on unknown tech trying to complete it.

This guy needs more subs

I always thought giygas somehow found a way to merge consciousness with porky somehow. By use of the mani at first and then once the mani was broken porky had a strong drive to go directly to giygas to merge more fully. At the same time also needing to slow neas down. As giygas only real representative on earth to do his bidding and who had the most knowledge about ness. Porky is not himself at all by the time of the cave of the past. In fact id say porky has merged giygas genius into his mind while moving his idiocy ignorance and innocence into the devils machine. Giygas however wasnt able to merge his power into porky. Ness arrives too early for that. So porky takes a risk and opens the devils machine to try and overwhelm his friends in what is basically giygas magicant. But the power of love and espcially ness mothers encouragement pierces that reminding giygas twisted mind of the love he experie ced from maria. Porky skips to a different era. No linger just porky byt also part giygas. The form of giygas magicant fades away just like maria or ness magicant. Ness was able to beat his nightmare. But giygas failed to defeat his. And so when his magicant faded away, so did he and all that was left was ness. Porky now powerless but still a strategic genius finds other ways of manipulating people. But..... he still has a small corner of his mind who still misses his friend ness.

Porky might have a full link with Giygas In the Novelization Porky qoute "Harboring Giygas inside him" The Devil Machine has a really weird fleshy look too, some would say it's the birthcanal But, I'd say it's ACTUALLY a brain Porky's Brain Also, in one stage part of Giygas looks like an "Eye" like Porky is seeing Ness through his eye He even does have items in New Pork City that out right has a Certain Weapon that's labeled as being "Best Friend Bat" What does Ness primarily use as a weapon ? Why, a bat of course. Porky was and Is Giygas in a few ways Perhaps the Meteorite had an Alien virus that infected Porky and stated to Mutate him

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This is biggest reach of a theory I’ve ever heard

The absolutely safe capsule does seem rather familiar to Giygas's capsule.

This theory is nice, and I believe it has weight, but there's way too many weasel words and evidence-lacking assumptions. Very fun interpretation though!

I love this theory but I do have some issues. 1. Why couldn't Giygas prevent himself from reincarnating into an abused household? 2. If he is able to affect variables like Ninten's reincarnation being his next-door neighbor. Why couldn't he make it so that Maria was his mother? Unless I'm misunderstanding of course.

This theory should be taken as a fact and added to the wiki

what.

This idea sucks because porky isn't giygas porky had defrent ideas then giygas also the only psi ability porky had is pk block also porky din,t go folly evil untill we see him in forside before that he was under gigas but only wen he was apart of the happy happy cult but after that the statue just helped porky also he had giygas under his control wen he actually met giygas in the cave of the past

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Sorry i would just like to share my theory. Its posted on reddit titled. "I dont think thats the real giygas" i go into how time plays a big partnin the series and how the events of mother 3 might really play into the series. Gyigas has a physical body so he cant be an intangible entity. You are in the same ballpark as my theory id think youd like it.

Why do you have so few subs?????

hmmmm... porky porky porky... is it me or does it look like he is riding a metal gohma spider? Gohma spiders also have 1 eye. lol

what a fuckin long intro

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