# List of EarthBound characters

This is a list of characters from the 1994 game, EarthBound.

## Primary Protagonists
### Ness

Ness is a thirteen-year old boy who lives in the town of Onett and has an interest in baseball. He serves as the game’s main protagonist and is the character the player plays as when not in battle.

### Paula

Paula is a eleven-year old girl from Twoson. She is the second permanent member to join the party and the only female member.

### Jeff Andonuts

Jeff Andonuts is a thirteen-year old boy from Winters who lives at Snow Wood Boarding School and is the son of Dr. Andonuts. He is the only permanent member of the party who can not use PSI and instead uses primarily items.

### Poo

Poo is the Crown Prince of Daalam, a floating island in the east, and the last permanent member to join the party.

## Other supporting characters
### Ness's Father

Ness's Father is an NPC who gives money to the party members after a battle. This cash can then be withdrawn from an ATM.
The character is never seen in the game and can only be talked to by using the telephone.

### Dr. Andonuts

Dr. Andonuts is a scientist and father of Jeff Andonuts who helps him and the other party members by helping them reach the Cave of the Past, in which Giygas is located.

## Antagonists
### Pokey

Porky appears in EarthBound as one of its main antagonists, called Pokey in English. He is initially a neighbor to the protagonist, Ness, joining him temporarily while searching for his brother, Picky. He separates from the team when they return with Picky, getting physically punished by his father for going out at night. Porky later appears along Ness' journey, revealing that he was now a minion of Giygas', the main villain of the game. He appears multiple times throughout the game trying to prevent Ness and his friends from defeating Giygas. He finally appears in the fight against Giygas in the past, operating a spider robot and battling Ness. After Giygas is defeated, Porky flees, and later leaves a note taunting Ness and challenging him to come find him.

### Giygas

Giygas also appears in the Super NES sequel EarthBound. Giygas is an unseen villain for most of the story, although he possesses humans, animals, and objects who unknowingly do his bidding. According to a character from the future named Buzz Buzz, Giygas destroys the universe ten years in the future. One of his key minions is Pokey Minch, a boy who lived in Ness's neighborhood. At first, Dr. Andonuts (the father of playable character Jeff) believes that Giygas is residing deep within the Earth, and transports himself and the party there using a machine called the Phase Distorter. When they arrive, they find that Giygas is attacking from that exact location, but from innumerable years in the past. The only way the protagonists can get to Giygas' time period is to alter the Phase Distorter to transport them back in time. When the group finally reaches Giygas, he initially resembles Ness while in the device called the "Devil's Machine". Pokey reveals that Giygas' PSI power has grown so strong that it destroyed his mind and drove him mad. Pokey then turns the Devil's Machine off and releases Giygas, who now takes the form of a swirling red agonized face. At this point, Giygas' words and attacks are nondescript and nonsensical, more akin to a stream of consciousness than anything else. Giygas is eventually destroyed by Paula, who prays to the protagonists' friends and family for help. Her praying eventually reaches the player, and the combined prayers do enough damage to Giygas to kill him.