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The Chosen Four
Ness
The Main hero of this story, who one day goes on a quest to defeat Giygas… or was it Giegue?
- Bad Powers, Good People: Poo tells Ness that his PSI is unlike other forms of PSI, which come from the Earth. His PSI, however, is described as otherworldly and the same as the PSI used by Giygas' people."It is as if Master Ness' PSI was infected and replaced by a force of pure destruction."
- Berserk Button: Don't touch his hat and don't touch Paula.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As Giygas's minions commonly find out, while Ness is a very nice dude, do not mess with his friends or his family unless you want to have a bad time. Don't believe me? Just ask the Department Store Spook.
- Death Glare: Has a few of these, but none are as chilling as when he finds Paula half-diamondized.
- Heroic BSoD: Paula's kidnapping in Fourside puts him in such a funk that Jeff takes over as the leader until they find her.
- Kiai: Though not always needed, Ness first is able to use his PSI Rockin' by... yelling really loudly.
- The Leader: The first of the Four, and the one to whom the quest was given.
- Power Incontinence: It's stated in the Pyramid that his PSI's stability is directly correlated to his emotional stability. Again, against the Department Store Spook, his PSI reacts uncontrollably thanks to being enraged over Paula's kidnapping. The Spook dismisses Ness as a pushover because of this, but Ness delivers a horrifying Curb-Stomp Battle.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Subverted. He successfully hits the Titanic Ant by throwing his bat, but it only works once, since his bat is now out of his reach.
Paula
The first person to join Ness's party, not counting Reginald. Paula is an adorable young girl who can happily fry you (or freeze or shock) with the power of her mind.
- Berserk Button: Go ahead, flirt with Ness, see what happens.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Like Ness, Paula is generally a sweet person, but if you hurt her friends she will set you ablaze.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Let's just say she wasn't too happy about Ness eyeing the zombie woman in Threed... or getting a kiss from Venus...
- Determinator: Keeps fighting Starman Deluxe even when she's bloody and out of PSI.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Very sweet, but quickly resorts to violence over small annoyances.
- Kill It with Fire: Her preferred method for dealing with enemies. It's reached the point that Ness can easily tell her fires from any other.
- Official Couple: Becomes one with Ness during the group's first trip to Winters.
Jeff
A young inventor from Winters, Jeff is summoned in the middle of the night by a psychic missive from Paula.
- Adaptational Badass: While Jeff more than pulls his weight in the game, he's better able to use his genius in battle in this comic than he could in the game. Just watch him completely turn things around during the fight with Plague Rat of Doom.
- Badass Normal: He's the only one of the four without any psychic abilities.
- Cowardly Lion: The most timid of the group, but that doesn't stop him from fighting Giygas' forces.
- The Heart: Jeff is the one who most often tries to mediate or keep up the team morale.
- Weak, but Skilled: He's the least physically impressive of the Four, but his ability to fix anything and his knowledge of items and weapons make up for it.
Poo
The prince of the distant country of Dalaam. He joins our friends right after completing his rigorous Mu training.
- Adaptational Badass: Right from the get-go, he's treated as the strongest member of the party... despite being several levels beneath them.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Even more so than in the game.
- Big Damn Hero: Returns during the fight with Master Puke to Starstorm him into oblivion.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has the largest eyebrows of the group, and likely the entire cast.
- The Comically Serious: He is definitely at odds with some of the zany shenanigans that the four attract.
- The Determinator: Pulls through the horrific Mu Training out of absolute devotion to Dalaam.
- Forbidden Dangerous Technique: How the comic treats his Mirror command.
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Zig-zagged. In the Pyramid, he states that he has this attitude toward PSI in general, since in his native Dalaam, PSI knowledge was passed from master to student. He is genuinely surprised when Ness and Paula state that they were outliers for knowing PSI in a society largely removed from (or perhaps never acquainted with) PSI, and concludes that the knowledge of PSI died out outside of Dalaam as a result. Even so, in the same scene, he is intrigued at Ness's PSI since he knows none of the basic elemental PSI. He even states that Ness's PSI is otherworldly in nature.
- No-Sell: Poo is the only one in the party unaffected by the Plague Rat's Hate Plague.
The Friends and Family
Reginald the Exit Mouse
An exit mouse Ness is persuaded to take with him shortly after leaving Onett. He's... not particularly helpful...
- Ascended Extra: Ingame, an Exit Mouse is a single-use item that lets you escape from a dungeon or cave. In the webcomic, he's given a name and has been on the team longer than Paula has.
- Cool Shades: Sports a pair of them. Paula has occasionally borrowed them without asking.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Reginald is often seen as an annoyance, rather than a useful companion.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Definitely heckles his teammates and often exploits them for money, but he does care about them, deep down.
- Talking Animal: While most non-enemy animals speak in their respective noises, Reginald can talk to anyone, PSI or not.
Chicken
Ness' Mom
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: She loves to tease her son when his friends are around.
Tracy
Ness's little sister
- Adorably Precocious Child: Not particularly noticeable, except for the fact that she has a job with the Escargo Express.
Picky Minch
Younger brother of Pokey and a friend of Ness and Tracy.
- Abusive Parents: His father physically disciplines him and Pokey, and his mother says he's being lenient.
- One-Liner Echo: Picky is the source of the Arc Words that Ness adopts — "If a man yells loud enough, he can do anything!"
- The Unfavorite: His father completely forgets he even has a son named Picky because he's too busy making money from Pokey.
- White Sheep: The only decent member of the Minch family.
Ninten
Ninten
The previous hero who stopped Giygas' first attempt to take Earth ten years ago.
- Ambiguous Situation: Ninten became trapped within Giygas himself shortly after fending off Giegue. It is unknown how exactly this happened, or if he is actually dead or not.
- Backup from Otherworld: He steps in to assist Ness and Jeff while they are fighting the Mani-Mani Statue in Moonside. He uses the last of his strength to attempt to distract Giygas so the other two can escape.
- Barred from the Afterlife: If Ninten really is dead, then it seems he cannot pass on until Giygas is brought to a permanent end.
- Narrator All Along: Downplayed, but it's revealed that he's the voice speaking to the group during the coffee and tea segments.
The Bad Guys
Giegue/Giygas
M... MY REVENGE... W... WON'T FORGET...
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Giygas is an alien who's invaded Earth as revenge for an unknown prior event. Though as the answers unravel themselves to The Chosen Four in time, so does Giygas' sanity.
- Almighty Idiot: Of course, his video game counterpart is the Trope Namer. Giygas eventually breaks down to the point where he's reduced to a babbling Eldritch Abomination with very little reason.
- Antagonist Abilities: Omniscience, devastating psychic attacks, induction of madness, etc.
- Best Served Cold: Originally waited a lengthy 80 years before his first attack. He only waited 10 for his retaliation.
- Big Bad: He serves as the main antagonist of the comic.
- Body Horror:
- When he first shows up, he looked like how he appeared in the first MOTHER. The difference is that his body has begun to crack apart like rock.
- The entirety of his appearance as projected through the Mani Mani Statue is this — he first crawls out of the Mani Mani Devil with gigantic arms sprouting from his back, and when he finally loses it and goes Almighty Idiot mode, he turns into a mass of something that continuously grows and expands.
- Determinator: Even going insane won't stop him from achieving his revenge against Earth.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's always had a soft spot for his adoptive human mother, Maria, much to his frustration and eventual insanity.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: After the loss of his human mother Maria, he was never loved the same way. Word of God confirms he wants to be held in Maria's arms again, although due to his breakdown into Giygas, he may not even care who it is anymore.
- Galactic Conquerer: The title of Universal Cosmic Destroyer implies he becomes this in the future Buzz Buzz hails from.
- Knight of Cerebus: He might as well be Cerebus himself!
- Madness Mantra: "NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS NESS"
- A lot of the things he spouts out can be traced back to the flashback where he fought Ninten if you pay enough attention.
- Mind Rape: Of the self-inflicted variety. Of course, he can also do this to others.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Giygas' title: the Universal Cosmic Destroyer.
- Organic Technology: The Devil's Machine containing him appears to be made of this.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Started out Type C. As his sanity began to lessen, Giygas eventually devolved into Type B.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Taken horrifyingly literally.
- Sanity Slippage: Over the course of the comic, Giygas literally breaks apart until he's forced to contain himself in The Devil's Machine. It doesn't work.
- Satanic Archetype: Aside from the aforementioned Mani Mani Devil, and the Devil's Machine, many characters refer to Giygas as either a devil or the devil.
- Telepathic Spacemen: Has the ability of telepathy, among other powers.
- The Greys: His original form had an appearance similar to this, combined with some cat-like features.
- The Power of Hate: He seems to run on this stuff.
- The Scream: Just like in the games.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: At first it was just his PSI, but eventually this extended to everything about him. Then again, he is the Trope Namer...
Pokey
Things have changed, Ness.
Ness' annoying next-door-neighbor, and the eventual dragon to the evil invader Giygas. Giygas' influence on him grows further and further throughout the comic, turning him From Nobody to Nightmare.
- Abusive Parents: As noted in Picky's bio above, Pokey's father is physically disciplinary towards him.
- The Dragon: As in the game, he becomes Giygas' chief agent on Earth, and the one the conqueror has the most personal connection to.
- Driven by Envy: He's jealous of Ness being treated so well, and Giygas' invasion drives him to start expressing it.
- Evil Former Friend: To Ness. Well, if they were friends to begin with...
- Fat Bastard: Boy, is he ever.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Downplayed. Giygas ends up giving him mental blueprints for his spider-mech, but other than that his intelligence is mostly average.
- Laughing Mad: His laughing fits aren't necessarily due to his sick amusement alone — given his fear when talking to Giygas, it's implied he's only barely keeping it together.
- Mouth of Sauron: He acts out all of Giygas' bidding in his place.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He starts showing shades of this after Ness' "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, foreshadowing his MOTHER 3 characterization.
- Opportunistic Bastard: Trips up Ness several times throughout his travels right where it's the most inconvenient.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Presumably around the same age as Ness (12 to 14)? Check. Thinks life is one big game that he intends to win? Check.
- The Bully: He's had this role established for roughly the entire comic.
- The Chessmaster: Demonstrated with the picture above. He thinks everything's a game, and he intends to manipulate whoever he needs to in order to win.
- The Sociopath: Assists an alien conqueror just because he's jealous of his neighbor.
- The Starscream: To just about everybody he meets.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: He eventually sports a suit with red-black stripes.
Starman Deluxe
The boss of Stonehenge Base.
- Determinator: It notes this about the Chosen Four when they continue to throw everything they have at it despite the battle being heavily skewed in its favor, however it proves to be just as much an example of this when it refuses to back down even as the scales tip in their favor.
- Godzilla Threshold: Activation of the Deluxe model as considered a last resort, as the Starmen had underestimated the Chosen Four and did not expect them to advance as far as they did.
- Good Powers, Bad People: PSI Starstorm is, in the context of the comic, considered a sacred PSI power of the Earth granted to warriors who fight to protect it. Starman Deluxe, however, has managed to steal knowledge of Starstorm and use the ability ironically towards the invasion of Earth. Poo, who holds Dalaam's teaching's in high regards, is furious when he sees.
- I Have Your Wife: The reason the Chosen Four infiltrate Stonehenge Base is because they have abducted and are holding captive several hostages including Dr. Andonuts, Tony, and Apple Kid.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The final fate of the Starman Deluxe, courtesy of Poo with the Sword of Kings.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike a majority of the comic's enemies, Starman Deluxe is dead serious about killing the protagonists to undo the Apple of Enlightenment's prophecy when they infiltrate Stonehenge Base.
- Royal "We": Starman Deluxe constantly speaks this way, and it's when it starts slipping into singular pronouns that it realizes its systems are beginning to fail.
