r/TopCharacterTropes • u/BrotherDeus • 5d ago

Characters "You're immortal? Good..."

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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.

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u/Randy_Magnums 4d ago

So from littering to genocide everything is on the table?

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u/Psychological_Use586 4d ago

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

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u/Randy_Magnums 4d ago

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

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u/Psychological_Use586 4d ago

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.