He is a senseless “living” force of despair, wrecking apocalyptic havoc throughout out the cosmos.īut the fact is, he wasn’t always a incomprehensible entity of sin. Dwelling on a plane of existence we can’t even comprehend, Giygas lacks not only a body but a mind. You see, Gigyas is evil, not in the sense that he’s a dastardly character, but in that he is the literal embodiment of evil itself. But above all these fine specimens of virtual nefarity stands, or rather swirls, one inhuman monster: Giygas, the Universal Cosmic Destroyer, and main villain of Earthbound.

Characters like Kefka, The Doctor, Sander Cohen and Lavos are wholly and unrepentantly evil. In the pantheon of great videogame villains, there are quite a few truly sick bastards.

I love you all! My greatest challenge in writing this was to balance the concrete with the theoretical, and the factual with the dramatization, and to make sure it didn’t end up sounding like bad fanfiction XP Hopefully I succeeded on all of these fronts and you’ll at least get some enjoyment out of the wall of text that is to follow! Preface: First off, thanks to the countless people I harassed into proofreading this for me, and the awesome Joel for photoshopping my fabulous header. While like Porky and Pokey, either work, it makes for an easy way to distinguish between the two very diffrent froms of Giygas, and serves as a nice way to highlight the horrific change he undergoes. ) These both refer to the same character, and are merely two different romanizations of his name, each being used in the translation of their respective game. Note: Within in this post Giygas is called by two names Gieuge (as he is called during the events of Mother 1/Earthbound 0 ) and Giygas (as he is called during the events of Earthbound/Mother 2.

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