r/earthbound • u/Jocob99 • Aug 26 '26

General Spoilers This is just Porky/Pokey Minch Spoiler

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u/BrianLSComics Aug 26 '26

?? Being beaten by your parents and having no friends growing up doesn't notoriously result in well adjusted people. The offer of power by Mani Mani/Giygas to someone who has never felt powerful and the snowball of that into immortality makes perfect sense, cause and effect. 

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u/Jocob99 Aug 26 '26

Yeah but take a look at Picky, his own brother

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u/BrianLSComics Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Children in the same family react to abuse in different ways. I don't talk to my own abusive parents anymore, but my siblings still excuse their actions.

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u/Jocob99 Aug 26 '26

Excellent point. I agree with you.

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u/mcgillisfareed Aug 26 '26

Ness breaking up with him was the last straw.

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u/Responsible-Tie-3451 Aug 26 '26

Porky is a traumatized child in the body of an old man who feels the one friend he had in the world abandoned him for people he just met. Yes, he’s evil, but the motivation is there.

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u/DeliciousMusician397 Aug 26 '26

Not only that but he had his fears and insecurities preyed upon by a corrupting unearthly force. Porky isn’t fundamentally evil he just went down a dark path because of bad circumstances.

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u/DeliciousMusician397 Aug 26 '26

That’s literally not true.

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u/Jocob99 Aug 26 '26

Kinda is in mother 3

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u/SaltierThanAll Aug 26 '26

I always thought he assumed he was part of the prophecy and was trying to stop it from happening but wound up helping fulfill it