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?
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