Logo Love

    We all know the Mother logo, you know, this one:

And that little Earth on there is basically the symbol of the Mother series (well, in Smash Bros. anyways). Back a while ago, there was a post on EarthBound Central that showed that the earth is actually based off the famous picture of the Earth, Blue Marble, upside down: http://earthboundcentral.com/2010/08/the-world-is-mother/

Although they don't match exactly (the Mother version is just a bit more simplified) they still match up pretty well. So why am I talking about this? Well, before I knew about the whole Blue Marble thing, I thought that the Earth in the logo was deliberately made to have certain things in it. What things? Well, I'll show you.

This all started when I got too close to my TV while playing Brawl and started inspecting the little logo. Firstly, I saw an M on the Earth and I was all like "Oh cool, M for Mother!" 

Looks an awful lot like an M, doesn't it? And then I saw something else, and you may have to keep an open mind for this, but I saw what looks like an alien's head, Giygas' (not his Mewtwo-like form) head to be specific. 

Still don't see it? Here: 

I admit that it might just be me seeing this, but for some reason it reminds me of Giygas. Let's compare:

Hmm, it actually looks more plausible than I thought it would side-by-side. Juxtaposing these pictures made me wonder; is the some insane weird chance that maybe that little "face" in the logo inspired Giygas' design? Probably not, but hey, this isn't Over Analyzations of EarthBound for nothing.

Family Trees

    All three of the Mother games star different protagonists, so you may be wondering "are these people related?" Well, it's more likely than you think!

  

Let's start with a pretty well known theory. In the first two games in the series, the main characters, Ninten and Ness, both look pretty similar. They also both have fathers who aren't really around and are only reachable by phone. Because Mother happens before EarthBound, you may think that Ninten is Ness's father. It all fits together pretty well; Ninten's girlfriend, Ana, even bears a strong resemblance to Ness's mother. On top of that, Loid is a pretty close match to Jeff's father, Dr. Andonuts. In Mother 3, Dr. Andonuts even appears in a trashcan much like Loid did in Mother. Unfortunately, although everything fits together rather perfectly, there's one major flaw in this theory; the dates of the two games. You see, Mother takes place in the 1980's, 1988 specifically. EarthBound takes place in the '90's. It would be pretty impossible for the characters from Mother to have grown up and have thirteen-year-old kids by that time. Well, who knows, maybe there was some crazy time warp or something. Of course, we can always guess that Ninten and Ness are cousins or something. 

(family resemblance?)

   And then there's Lucas and Claus. Evidence from the game (both used and unused) suggests that They are descendants of Ness since (spoiler alert!) Mother 3 takes place a very long time after EarthBound. The most compelling piece of evidence is Lucas's Franklin Badge which very well could be the same one that Ness owned. This would mean that they are related to Ness from Flint's side of the family since he was the one who gave the Franklin Badge to Lucas.

  

    And because I look way too far into these kinds of things, have you noticed that both Poo and Kumatora are royalty and know PK Starstorm? Maybe Kumatora is a descendant of Poo or maybe I'm just crazy, who knows.

   Makes you kind of look at things a bit differently, huh?