Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-33237367-20191224213440/@comment-38782542-20191229080952

72.71.196.125 wrote: Also why haven't we gotten a fusion rip of Giygas' Theme yet?

Would make an amazing(ly terrifying) Men in Black x MissingNo. rip since it fits perfectly into both lists the MiB already have a lot of EarthBound stuff due to him, and Giygas' Theme IS actually unused it was cut from MOTHER 3 for being "too scary", along with a LOT of vaguely disturbing backgrounds for the final boss fight with the Masked Man that would have HEAVILY increased the  "Despair" of the fight for m a n y reasons as anyone who knows the nature of that extremely spoiler heavy fight knows. Here's a spoiler-free version of displaying them via unused spriteless enemies. Even without context and WITH the goofy regular battle music it's kinda clear why these weren't used, still retaining their demeanor.

The game has a LOT of unused sprites, cutscenes and content like this due to heavy reworking of the game from it's extra dark original plotline that hasn't been revealed. Pretty justifiable too as MOTHER 3 is easily PLENTY dark and especially depressing already enough as it is, and this is coming from a series where the previous game had Giygas turning into his now iconic by being driven to insanity and loosing his mind completely to grief, anger and despair, (which people speculate is the reason why the player and Ness's party can't grasp the concept of both him and his attacks since those things are literally all that he's made of at that point, negative emotions) a scene very obviously referencing police brutality and a cult very obviously paroding both the K times 3 (don't know if it will get censored and my comment will get deleted) AND a cult of real Japanese murderers from only a decade ago at time of release. Good grief, the Mother series is dark.

One good example of this unused much darker plot is a sprite that still exists in the game files of Porky's death, a concept scene of which is reconstructed in the picture using the unused sprite and some other ingame sprites by a DeviantArt user. From what we can guess from the animation (some sprites of him reaching his hand out of it grasping for something... someone... anything.....) he was apparently originally going to die by his machine (or an earlier and thus inaccurate to ingame version anyway) being broken and then shattered somehow (this is all guesswork, fans suspect an explosion) and he would have died in front of everyone of I guess advanced old age/his life support being broken, instead of his canonical fate where he never actually has the ability to die of old age due to all his messing with time travel offscreen in EarthBound, instead getting permanently sealed up in an entirely indestructable but also unopenable capsule until...... well..... to quote Itoi himself in an interview:

Interviewer: "...even when the world crumbles away, Porky will never die."

Itoi  "So 5.5 billion years from now, Porky will still be alive."

That's when the sun is scheduled to go red giant btw, and he'll live through that too. "The grief of that is incredibly depressing. It's amazing... [he] truely is a poem in himself." - Shigesato Itoi

And remember this was considered a BETTER ending. Truely makes you wonder about the original plotline. '>_> MiB deserved better