Giygas

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== Background ==
Giygas was raised by George and Maria as a child when they were abducted by aliens in the early 1900s. Giygas loved his adoptive parents, growing especially close to Maria, while Maria loved him as her own son. Every night Maria would sing to Giygas a special lullaby. George, however, was unwilling to remain there, and two years later escaped back to Earth, sabotaging his captors by stealing vital information to impede their plans to attack the Earth. Upon George's return, he engrossed himself in the study of PSI and created EVE. When Giygas matured, he was tasked to invade the Earth once again. Even so, he retained an affection for Maria, despite unclear circumstances leading to her being entrapped in Magicant.
== In EarthBound Beginnings ==
In EarthBound Beginnings, Giegue leads an army of aliens and robots in an invasion of planet Earth, starting eighty years after George's escape from captivity at the hands of Giegue's people. The influence of Giegue throughout America causes inanimate objects and dead creatures to come to life, animals and people to become hostile, and alien forces to appear across the land. Giegue's forces began abducting and harrying the citizens of America, often under the guise of poltergeists haunting homes.
When Ninten confronts Giegue at his Mother Ship on the summit of Mt. Itoi, he attacks the party. Giegue only has one attack, the form of which is stated to be inexplicable. This attack deals high-level non-elemental damage to all members of the party.
At the start of the battle, Giegue expresses his debt of gratitude to Ninten's family for raising him, but mentions that George stole vital information from his kind to impede his people's plans. He also indicates that he harbors a deep hatred towards humans and wants them to perish. Giegue offers to spare Ninten's life and allow him to board the Mother Ship, presumably out of respect for Ninten's great-grandmother Maria for raising him. Ninten declines his offer, and Giegue continues to attack him. In battle, Giegue is immune to all forms of attack; while he appears to take damage, his HP is effectively limitless. Instead, after Giegue finishes talking, Ninten and his friends must repeatedly attempt to sing the Eight Melodies, reminding Giegue of his memories of Maria. The song fills Giegue with guilt and memories of his past with her, and he repeatedly attempts to cut their singing short. Eventually, as Ninten and his party manage to finish the song, the emotional stress becomes too much for Giegue to handle and he retreats, calling off his forces but promising that he and Ninten will meet again.
For clarity, the player cannot name a character Giegue.
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== In EarthBound ==
What happened to Giygas between the events of EarthBound Beginnings and EarthBound is largely unspecified. However, at some point he consulted the Apple of Enlightenment, which predicted his defeat would come to pass at the hands of four children. In a future 10 years after the time period of EarthBound, Giygas successfully conquers the universe, and has destroyed much of it. Buzz Buzz, a survivor of this destruction who continued to resist the future Giygas's rule travels back in time to inform Ness of Giygas' threat and create a new future, based on a legend that Giygas can be defeated by three boys and a girl. Why the defeat the Apple foretold does not seem to have happened in the future Buzz Buzz came from is unclear.
During EarthBound, Giygas influences people, animals, and inanimate objects on Earth. Ness and his friends encounter his presence via wild animals, sentient plants, people with evil thoughts, his alien minions such as Master Belch, and otherworldly creatures. The Mani-Mani Statue also assists in spreading Giygas' domination by inducing control over people such as Mr. Carpainter and Geldegarde Monotoli. Spiteful of Ness as well, Pokey Minch eventually allies with Giygas, though it is not clear how aware Pokey is of his presence until near the end of the game.
As Ness gains the power of all eight Your Sanctuary locations, Giygas invades the Eagleland city of Onett. It is discovered that Giygas is attacking the Earth in the present from a location in the past. In order to follow and defeat him, Ness (along with Paula, Jeff, and Poo) travels back in time using the Phase Distorter to face Giygas in the Cave of the Past. Enclosed within the Devil's Machine, Pokey Minch states that Giygas' unfathomable power destroyed his body and mind, leaving him as he is seen in the final battle when the Devil's Machine is shut off. In this form, Giygas remains undefeatable by physical attacks. Rather, he is destroyed by the prayers Paula sends to the people of the Earth and receives in turn across time, as well as some that reach the Player themself. Giygas is destroyed once and for all, ending his evil influence over the world.
=== In Battle ===
==== Devil's Machine ====
:See also: Heavily Armed Pokey
Giygas' first phase is from within the Devil's Machine: the main threat is the now Heavily Armed Pokey, who uses a variety of attacks against Ness and his party. Giygas is capable of using PSI Rockin: a PSI ability previously only available to Ness and Ness's Nightmare. Giygas has a shield that reflects all attacks: physical, psychic, and any moves that could change an enemy's stats or could cause status ailments. It is impossible to remove this shield, making him invincible to any attacks. Only PSI Shield α and Σ that Ness' party places will work; if β or Ω are used, Giygas' attacks will reflect off the player's shield and back from his own shield, hitting Ness and his party in the progress. If a psychic attack is used while any PSI Shield is in place, the attack will still reflect and hit Ness' party. According to Jeff's Spy command, he is vulnerable to Brainshock despite being able to reflect any attacks done to him.
Meanwhile, Porky's attacks range from a very stinky gas that lowers Offense and one damage-dealing attack. Porky is also vulnerable to Brainshock, but has a chance to be affected by Paralysis, allowing the player to deal damage with Bashing, PSI moves, and bottle rockets. Porky has 2000 HP: Once his health is depleted, he will taunt the party and turn off the Devil's Machine, revealing Giygas' true form.
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==== First form ====
When the Devil's Machine is turned off, Ness and his friends are trapped in a strange dimension, where Giygas is now susceptible to physical and psychic attacks of all kinds. Starting from this form onwards, Giygas is now susceptible to Brainshock. Giygas himself, crippled mentally by his power, communicates via mysterious calls to Ness, statements of sadness, and vocalizations of pleasure. Much like in the prequel, all of his attacks are inexplicable and prefaced by "You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!".
In this form, Giygas, having 2000 HP, must be hit with the player's best attacks, while keeping health high enough to avoid death.
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==== Second form ====
Once enough damage has been dealt to Giygas, Pokey will return to taunt the Chosen Four again and will then leave the party with Giygas once more. This time, Giygas, while barely wounded, remains invincible: Although attacks can successfully hit him, Giygas will never run out of health. The only way to destroy Giygas is to have Paula's Pray. The prayer is the only thing effective against Giygas, and as Paula continuously prays, other people from the adventure (including the player) send prayers for the safety of the Chosen Four. The prayers become too much for Giygas to handle, and after 9 prayers, Giygas starts to vanish. This causes Pokey to appear again, stating his shock at how Ness and his party were able to defeat Giygas, but plans to run away in another era to think of his next plan, hoping he would see Ness again before taunting him once more as he leaves. Afterwards, Giygas then disintegrates and is finally defeated, ending the war against Giygas.
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==Trivia==
*Some fans have noted that Giygas's sprite in EarthBound Beginnings strongly resembles from the series, and how both are beings with powerful psychic abilities.
*Giygas's dialog in EarthBound was inspired by a traumatic event Shigesato Itoi had experienced around the age of five, where he mistakenly walked into a theater playing and witnessed a murder scene he initially mistook for sexual assault. Itoi wanted to use Giygas's dialog, being a combination of pleasure and pain, to recreate the same kind of fear he experienced. Contrary to popular belief, Itoi did not use dialog, music or imagery from the movie during the fight against Giygas.https://legendsoflocalization.com/earthbound/giygas/
*Early previews of EarthBound reveal that Giygas was originally going to be named "The Geek" in English.
*Giygas is one of the only 3 characters in the EarthBound series that can use PSI Rockin, the others being Ness and Ness's Nightmare.
*In EarthBound, if one turns an image of Giygas upside-down when his "face" is visible, his face will resemble his appearance in EarthBound Beginnings.
*During the last phase of Giygas in EarthBound, the outline of Giygas appears to resemble a human fetus. This started a popular fan theory that the heroes are traveling to the past to fight Giygas before he was born. This is confirmed false within the game itself. However, whether this imagery was intentional or not has never been commented on by Shigesato Itoi.
*In EarthBound Beginnings, it is possible to defeat Giygas without using the Sing command. If a battle goes on for longer than 255 turns, the text "The battle lingers on..." displays and the battle ends automatically. If the player does this, the battle will immediately end and the ending will proceed as normal.
**A similar glitch is possible in the Japan-only port Mother 1+2, in which Giygas can be defeated without using Pray. In the first phase after the Devil's Machine is shut off, if the player uses the Viper to poison Giygas and lets his HP drop to 0 through poison damage, the battle ends as if it were a normal battle while receiving 0 experience points. Aside from minor graphical glitches, the ending plays as normal.
==References==
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