Overanalyzing some Freudian Symbolism

(I forgot to add the Skyrunner, and possibly the Hummingbird Egg.)

 Put the word symbolic before the word penis, vagina and womb. It's not literal.

Porky is symbolically returning to his Mother's womb, the true "abslutely safe capsule." There were robot duplicates of his Mother in New Pork City. His symbolic womb was also mechanical. Porky's theme song in M3 is a lullaby. Porky has a play room that looks like a nursery. It's in the center of the Tower of Peace and Love, which shares similarities with the Abslutely Safe Capsule and a womb. This is one of the reason's why the metal sphere appears in the Mother Logo.

Geigue has always been a symbolic vagina and/or womb. Mother 2 did not introduce this concept.Geigue's Devil Machine is an homage to H.R. Geiger's work, or at least bares some striking similarities. It's not likely that this is a coincidense. M2 is filled with scifi homages. The opening scene of the game is an homage t War of the World's for example. Giger's work was filled with Freudian symbolism, phallic ojbects, and vaginas. Giger designed the alien from the series of the same name. The alien is intentionally phallic. The Face Huggers intentionally resemble vaginas, and the chest bursters intentioally resemble phallic objects. He created the concept of Freudian aliens. Therefor we can assume that Gieuge intentionally resembles a vagina. You don't make an homage to Giger's work without this. It's impossible for it to be a Giger homage without it.

Mewtwo is based on Geigue from Mother 1, but he lst most of the symbolism present in Mother.

In Mother 2, with the power of the dragons they reset the Earth to its natural state. Mother 3 is about returning to Mother Earth. Compare this with the villian, who symbolically returned to the womb via technology. Also, Giegue, who abandoned Maria, his Mother.

If the Earth is Mother Earth, then perhaps the entity that stopped Porky from traveling to all other time peroids was Father Time. It would make sense with the themes of duality throughout the game.

Honkey Tonk = Club Titiboo, and some Lynch trivia

I'm surprised I never saw this one mentioned. The Club Titiboo theme is actually Bill Dogget's Honkey Tonk Part 1, from 1956.

Here's the original:


Club Titiboo:


It also shows up in Animal Crossing, as K.K. Blues:


(As a side note, this is the second classic song that both Animal Crossing and Mother has used. The first was Johnny B Good which became the Hippy battle theme and K.K. Rockin')

Here's some random trivia, that may not be so random. David Lynch used the song Honkey Tonk Part 1 for his movie, Blue Velvet. Actually, that's how I first found this song. (It was already a weird movie but realizing I heard a song from Mother 3 halfway through just made it weirder.)

I may be grasping at straws, but I think Mother 3's 'Beach Combing', used appropriate for the beach area, is similar to the song titled 'Dance of Dream Man'






Lynch's films and the Mother series share the same basic concept. Basically, an idealized suburban American town, has deep dark secrets, strange occurrences, and disturbing examples human nature hidden underneath the surface. For example, Laura Palmer from the TV series Twin Peaks seemed like a normal highschool sweetheart. She was into heavy drugs, BDSM prostitution, because she was haunted by a demon. In Earthbound/Mother 2 it's a little more light hearted, but still, early on in the game you are attacked by a bunch of policemen. You have to rescue Paula from a bunch of cult members. You befriend a possible mob boss, Everest, who ends up jumping off of a building. And there's the whole Giygas thing.

Another strange, and probably coincidental, similarity is that there a strange giant character in Mother 3 and Twin Peaks. In Mother 3 we have Leder. He is mute giant, who rings the bell tower outside of Tazmily village. In Chapter 8 he is kidnapped, and the main characters discover the history of humanity before the game took place.

In Twin Peaks a giant appears to Cooper to give him many subtle clues. He's some sort of spirit that belongs another dimension, the Black and White Lodge. At one point, The Giant appears to Cooper a stage with red curtains. The Black and White lodge is full of red curtains. One of Lynch's trademarks are surreal scenes that take place in these dimensions with red drapes. For some reason, during Leder's speech in Mother 3, the room is red with red drapes on each side. The rest of the hotel where this takes place has dull, mute, neutral colours.

Giant appears to Cooper:


Leder in the red room:

The Black and White Lodge:

Red curtains are sort of common though, and the music connections aren't enough for me to be as certain as the Evangelion references in the previous post. It's worth posting at least.

Let's not forget the whole Tanetane island. I didn't notice anything visually similar. It's just Tanetane island is a total mindfuck on the level of a Lynch movie.

Alright this is my first post! It's well known that Mother 2, or Earthbound in the US, had many song sampled throughout their soundtrack. (I'll probably make a few blog posts about those.) But, Mother 3 probably has a lot more. I found this on Earthbound Central awhile ago. This lists a lot of the common ones, but there are many more people either haven't posted videos of , or haven't realized yet. (Or maybe I missed them.)

It's common knowledge that the Itoi, the creator of Mother is a huge Beatle fans. Also I believe the people who do Mother's music are as well. I was surprised to not see this listened in the above video at least. It's from the shop bazaar early in the game.



At about 11 seconds you can hear a sample from the Beatles' Back in the U.S.S.R. from the White album. It repeats a few times throughout the song.



"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind"

I haven't seen this one mentioned anywhere, even though it is a Beatles song. At one point in Mother 3, you end up in a dilapted, musty and moldy bar. It's one of the best places in the game. There is a Jukebox that plays a few songs, including Blessing. (Baldy's recommendation.)




This is a sample from the chorus of Here, There and Everywhere from the Revolver album. It starts about 30 seconds in.



"There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but she doesn't know he's there"

It's so nice when you can sing the Beatles lyrics along to some of these songs in Mother 3. I have a feeling they wrote lyrics for all the songs, if Smiles and Tears and Theme of Love is any indication. That might be wishful thinking though. :)