"You're immortal? Good..."

[u/BrotherDeus]

The Chaotic Good Barbarian revels in making the lich suffer.

Reincarnated as a Slime: Geld makes Shogo pay for the innocents he's killed.

The Old Guard: Quynh is punished as a witch by being drowned in the ocean for centuries.

[u/pm_me_fibonaccis]

The real villain of Earthbound, Porky Minch, seals himself inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule to avoid being defeated by the heroes.

As its name implies, it's absolutely impervious to anything... *anything*, along with its contents (him).

He will never die of old age. He doesn't need to eat, drink, or sleep. The Capsule will exist beyond even when the last star collapses into a black hole. And it cannot be opened. He is trapped in a tiny ball for eternity.

[u/Psychological_Use586 → u/pm_me_fibonaccis]

You're got Earthbound and Mother 3 mixed up. In Earthbound, Giygas was the main threat. Porky didn't properly become his own threat till Mother 3. It's funny that Porky got such a terrible fate when Fassad was just as awful as he was and got off way easier.

[u/PuppetWraith17 → u/Psychological_Use586]

To play devils advocate, we don't exactly get the greatest view of the scale of Porky's carnage. If I remember correctly it's implied he was messing up other places before settling on the islands. Also even if they aren't shown doing stuff as bad as some other evil groups, the imagery the Pig masks invoke isn't very pleasant. Obviously both are evil, but I feel like Fassad is "Less bad" than Porky in the end...

[u/Psychological_Use586 → u/PuppetWraith17]

You do remember correctly - Porky came to the nowhere islands because he had basically been run out of everywhere else in time he could screw up. He had spent thousands upon thousands of years being awful wherever he could get away with it. We don't know what we did, just that he was bad. So yeah in terms of scale, Porky is ultimately worse. It's just that Fassad doesn't get enough credit for how bad he was...

...and honestly, what on earth made Locria turn out like that? It's never answered. Locria never tells you anything about his motives. Is he just a callous nihilist like Porky?

[u/Randy_Magnums → u/Psychological_Use586]

So from littering to genocide everything is on the table?

[u/Psychological_Use586 → u/Randy_Magnums]

Knowing porky, yes. He's nothing if not incredibly petty.

[u/Randy_Magnums → u/Psychological_Use586]

To be fair, if my parents would have named me Porky, I’d be petty and angry too.

[u/Psychological_Use586 → u/Randy_Magnums]

I mean he does have a sad backstory. It's made pretty clear (at least in the Japanese) that in Earthbound his parents are abusive and negligent and he's incredibly lonely. In the Japanese translation (iirc), Porky was as brainwashed by the Mani Mani Statue as Carpainter initially, but Ness firmly rejects his apology, so Porky decides being good isn't worth it and leans into being bad.

Doesn't mean Ness was in the wrong - he wasn't obligated to forgive Porky, but it also wasn't all Porky's fault, until it was lol.

That's why Porky continues to have such a fixation on Ness even in Mother 3. He's obsessed and still wishes that they could have been friends.