Giegue/Giygas (ギーグ, Gīgu^?) is the villain in the Famicom RPG game Mother, and the Super Famicom RPG Mother 2 (EarthBound in the U.S.). Known as both the "Embodiment of Evil" and the "Universal Cosmic Destroyer," Giygas is an evil alien that intends to sentence all of reality to the horror of infinite darkness. With an army of Starmen, UFOs, and other deadly war machines, Giygas also used his immense power to influence the evil parts of the Earth's beings to assist him. One popular concept of the villain, meant to mimic the purposely distinctive visage of villains, initially from the stage plays of the 1880s. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S., Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Mother ), often referred to as Earth Bound or NES Earth Bound outside of Japan, was a game released only in Japan for the Famicom (FC). ... This article should be merged with Super Nintendo Entertainment System The Super Famicom design differed from that of the American SNES, though the controllers are almost the same. ... EarthBound, released in Japan as MOTHER 2: Gyiyg no GyakushÅ« , lit. ...

The name "ギーグ" has received a variety of romanizations from the original Japanese, where it is roughly pronounced "Geeg." In the Japanese version of Mother 2, the game's subtitle is "Gyiyg Strikes Back!," which was removed prior to its release in the U.S. In the unreleased English version of Mother (Earth Bound), his name is spelled "Giegue", and in the English version of Mother 2 (EarthBound), he's renamed "Giygas". Nintendo of America even renamed "Gyiyg" to "The Geek" in certain issues of Nintendo Power magazine before finally changing it to "Giygas". In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system. ... Ness, the red-capped boy in this picture, experiences many humorous adventures in EarthBound. ... This article is about the Nintendo of America produced publication. ...

Mother

Giegue in Mother

In Mother, Giegue (renamed "Giygas" in EarthBound) was raised by Maria, a woman abducted along with her husband George by Giegue's alien race Earth in the early 1900's. Maria is also the great-grandmother of the main character, Ninten. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Mother is a Nintendo Entertainment System video game, and has a sequel titled Mother 2 (known in North America as EarthBound). ...

George studied the aliens' PSI powers without permission, and escaped back to Earth. Once he matured, Giegue was tasked by his people to make sure that PSI never spread onto Earth. However, Giegue didn't want to betray those who raised him, particularly his beloved Maria. In the end, he forced himself to detach from Maria, and began preparations for the aliens' invasion. Maria used her own formidable psychic abilities to create an imaginary realm called Magicant, where she remains youthful and is known as "Queen Mary."

Flash forward 80 years later to present day (when the game begins), strange things start happening on Earth. It seems as though nature itself has turned against humans. Ninten, encouraged by his family (including his great-grandparents, from whom Ninten recessively inherited PSI), investigates the disturbances with a new group of friends. They consist of PSI-null but inventive Lloyd, and shy but powerful psychic Ana. Temporary allies also join such as his neighbor Pippi, and teenage gang leader Teddy, as well as the extraterrestrial robot EVE (created by George to protect his descendants).

When the group arrives at Youngtown (originally Easter), they find it full of children with missing parents. At the end of the game, the adults are found in Mt. Itoi (originally Holy Roly Mountain), encased within glass capsules, observed by Giegue who is pulling the strings.

During their adventures, Ninten learns eight melodies comprising a song that Queen Mary of Magicant has forgotten. Upon returning to Magicant with all eight melodies, Queen Mary requests to hear them sing the completed song. She breaks down after remembering the tune, revealing herself as Ninten's ancestor, and explaining her connection to the mysterious alien threat. With Mary's memories restored - and her purpose now achieved - Magicant fades away forever and Mary goes to the afterlife with her husband George.

The children race to the peak of Mt. Itoi, confronting Giegue. He explains his motives to Ninten while attacking him with an "inexplicable" PSI power. Just as things seem hopeless, Ninten hears Maria's voice, telling him to sing. He does so, weakening Giegue with the loving memories he had tried so hard to suppress. Ninten, Ana, and Loid unite and Sing together, stronger than ever. Giegue eventually surrenders, but promises revenge upon Ninten someday, and flies away in his UFO.

Mother 2 / EarthBound

In EarthBound, Giygas (previously known as Giegue, and spelled as "Gyiyg" according to Mother 2's intro) is an unseen villain for most of the story. His evil possesses the minds of other humans who unknowingly do his bidding. According to Buzz Buzz (a bee from the future), ten years in the future Giygas has already conquered Earth and may very well destroy the universe, just before Buzz Buzz's departure to warn the past (which is, of course, the present during gameplay). At least one Starman from the future made it to the past to try to stop Buzz Buzz, but it was destroyed in combat. Starman as seen in his trophy in SSBM Starmen are Giegues shock troops in the Nintendo Famicom RPG Mother. ...

A stilled image of Giygas's inexplicable final form, which appears in the game as an undulating background.

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 "Chosen Four" (Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo) can get to Giygas's time period is to alter the Phase Distorter to transport them back in time. This is the point of no return for the game, as the Phase Distorter cannot return to the future. Image File history File linksMetadata BossGiygas. ... Image File history File linksMetadata BossGiygas. ... Jeff Jeff Andonuts ) is a fictional character in the video game EarthBound and is one of the four main characters. ... Ness ) is a fictional character and the hero of the EarthBound video game. ... Paula Polestar ) is a fictional character in the RPG EarthBound for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and is the only female party member. ... Jeff, as he appears in EarthBound. ... Clay model of Poo (as he appears in Mother 2). ... The point of no return, or the Rubicon, is the point beyond which someone, or some group of people, must continue on their current course of action. ...

When the group finally reaches the now-unrecognizable Giygas, Pokey Minch (Ness's rival) appears in a spider-like armored suit and declares that he was assisting the alien destroyer. During the first phase of the final battle, Giygas appears within a sphere with an image of Ness's head inside. This is the so-called "Devil's Machine"; Any and all attacks against Giygas are turned back on the attacker, and Giygas is even able to use Ness's unique PSI attack. Only attacks on Pokey are effective. Pokey Minch , Porky Minch) is Ness portly, cowardly next-door neighbor in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound. ...

Once Pokey has had enough, he reveals Giygas's true form by turning off the Devil's Machine, and explains it was a device used to contain Giygas's incredible evil power. With it turned off, all of Giygas's horrible power is released outward, and his form becomes unstable. In the bizarre dimension Pokey and Ness's team finds themselves in, Pokey reveals that Giygas's power is so unbelievably immense that it destroyed his mind and body, and that he is at this point incapable of rational thought (in Pokey's words, he is an "all-mighty idiot"). Giygas babbles cryptic nonsense during the final two stages of the fight. According to Pokey, Giygas became so powerful that he turned into the literal definition of evil; "He is the evil power." It is suggested that Giygas received this power when Buzz-buzz's race overcame him and banished him to his "Magicant", or his subconcious; Just as Ness overcame the evil in his Magicant, Giygas overcame the goodness of his, becoming the bodiless form of evil. In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious refers to that part of mental functioning of which subjects make themselves unaware. ...

In the final stage of the fight, Giygas becomes invulnerable against common attacks and his own attacks become incomprehensible (within the game, the attack is described, "You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack!" The actual attack is a mixture of different PSI techniques such as PSI Rockin, PSI Thunder, PSI Flash, etc.). In this form, Giygas can only be destroyed by using Paula's Pray command nine times in a row, which influences the various people of the EarthBound world to pray for Ness and his friends' safety, finally ending with the player ("You, the one holding the controller!") praying for the party's victory. The combined prayers reach Giygas and exploit his achilles heel: Human emotions. As he becomes damaged, Giygas starts multiplying until there are an infinite number of Giygases filling the screen. The final blow from the player deals over 45,000 HP damage to Giygas. When he is finally defeated, Giygas dissolves into television noise—alluding to the opening cutscene's glimpse of the bad future—and vanishes. In Greek mythology, Achilles is made invulnerable by being dipped in the river Styx by his mother, Thetis. ... For the Irish mythological figure, see Naoise. ...

Trivia

Giygas seconds before dissolving into static: the black space surrounding his "faces" appear to form the shape of a baby's head.

• Shigesato Itoi has revealed in interviews that Giygas' dialogue in Mother 2/EarthBound was inspired by a traumatic childhood experience where he mistakenly walked into an adult movie theatre and caught a glimpse of a sex/rape scene in the 1957 movie Kenpei and the Dismembered Beauty (憲兵とバラバラ死美人, Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin^?).^[1] The common misconception is that this film is a porno flick, but in fact is simply a dramatic take on the Rape of Nanking.^{[citation needed]}
• During the last playable moments of the battle with Giygas (directly before the player begins praying), if you listen closely to the "radio static" it sounds like someone is saying "Let me out of here". It is unclear if this was done on purpose or just a coincidence. At the same moment, the black space around Giygas' "faces" begin to form the distinct image of a human fetus.
• Itoi's admiration of The Beatles directly influences several parts of the game, the last of which appears during the closing seconds of the final battle. The music played as Giygas loses the last of his coherence is a simple looping tune, slowly drowned out by increasingly loud static. The tune is eventually overcome and the static lasts for ten seconds before cutting out very abruptly. This is most likely an allusion to the ending of I Want You (She's So Heavy), off the Abbey Road album.

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