Name: Ness
Gender: Male
Good or Evil: Good
How do you look:
Strengths: PSI and PK Powers, Yo-Yo Skills
Weaknesess: Porky
Homeland: Onett, Eaagleland
History: Ness is a youth gifted with psychic abilities who plays the role of the main protagonist in
EarthBound. Born in the town of Onett, in the fictional country of Eagleland, Ness is a seemingly ordinary boy whose fate would be radically altered on the night of a meteor shower. Out of curiosity, he and his next-door neighbor, Pokey Minch, inspect the meteor landing site. There Ness learns from the time-traveling alien, Buzz-Buzz, that he has been chosen by the Apple of Enlightenment, a prophetic fruit, to destroy the evil alien, Giygas, who in the future destroys all of reality. To do this, he must travel to eight sanctuaries and absorb their psychic energies in order to unite his power with the Earth's. At each sanctuary, he records a fragment of a melody in his Sound Stone and experiences a personal sense memory. During the flashbacks experienced via the Sound Stone, it is revealed that Ness was born with psychokinetic abilities, and they manifested when he was an infant.
Ness has appeared in every game of the
Super Smash Bros. series to date. He first appeared in
Super Smash Bros. as a hidden character. In this game, Ness possesses none of the PSI powers that he possessed in
Mother 2, but instead, he possesses three powers that his partner Paula knew: PK Fire, PK Thunder, and PSI Magnet. It is notable that Ninten, Ness's predecessor, didn't know any of these moves either, and his female counterpart,
Ana, did. Ness appeared again in
Super Smash Bros. Melee as a starting character. This time, Ness's own PK Flash move was added to his arsenal. Most recently, Ness has appeared as a hidden character in
Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii, alongside Lucas, the protagonist of Mother 3. In Brawl, Ness and Lucas share a powerful move known by Prince Poo and Kumatora, PK Starstorm, which causes meteor-like stars to jet down on enemies. In the Subspace Emissary, Ness helps Lucas defeat Pokey (who is called by his japanese name, Porky), but sacrifices himself so Lucas can escape from Wario. Later on, he joins
Luigi and
King Dedede to stop Tabuu. Ness is voiced by female
seiyū Makiko Ohmoto in the
Super Smash Bros. series.
Ness makes a brief appearance in
Mother 3, a game wherein
Lucas is the protagonist. He, as well as
Paula,
Jeff, and
Poo, appears in a movie created by
King P (who is actually Pokey Minch from
Mother 2, though he has aged drastically due to his abuse of time-travel), that the protagonist views in a theatre in King P's amusment-park-like metropolis known as
New Pork City.