"You Cannot Grasp The True Form Of Giygas' Attack!" is a line of text shown during the Giygas battle. "You Cannot Grasp The True Form Of Giygas' Attack!" The theory is discussed in a 2019 YouTube video by Press Start To Continue (shown below). However, this theory has been denounced by other fans, stressing the fact that he was an alien in Mother, who had his own race. A DeviantArt search for the term offers over 5,400 results for fan art (top-rated examples shown below).Ī once-common theory surrounding Giygas was that it was actually a deformed human fetus in EarthBound, with several videos and images pointing out a detail in his sprite that seem to resemble a child (shown below). The character is notable as its darkness starkly contrasts the rest of the game's bright atmosphere. In an interview with EarthBound Central, Shigesato Itoi, Mother's creator, said that Giygas' creepy dialogue and appearance in EarthBound was influenced by a traumatic moment in his childhood, where he accidentally walked into a theater showcasing the movie The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty, witnessing a scene which he interpreted as murder and rape (shown below).Īside from the main protagonists, Giygas is the most popular character in Earthbound. In both Mother and EarthBound, the player's party is incapable of defeating Giygas by fighting and must sing a lullaby in the former and pray in the latter game. In EarthBound, Giygas is incapable of speaking sanely, saying things such as, "It hurts …" and "Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness," (shown below, right). In Mother, Giygas is displayed as an alien with a human-like figure trapped inside of a shell (shown below, left). Although his EarthBound counterpart is most associated with the name, Giygas originally appeared as the final boss of Mother, which was only sold in Japan.
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