Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33076309-20170821012614/@comment-25808412-20171227025710

Tough choice, but I'd have to say Porky Minch. Though he does have quite a tragic story in his defense (he was abused by his parents), it does not justify his actions. Major spoiler warnings for Mother 2/Earthbound and Mother 3! (Also trigger warnings for: mentions of child abuse, animal abuse, bullying, betrayals, body horror mentions, manipulation, kidnapping, lightning, suicide mention, and dehumanization mentions.)

In the beginning of Earthbound/Mother 2, he was just a gross bully, doing things such as using Ness as a shield. However, things got worse, to the point when he became entirely antagonistic, to the point where he used Giygas to try and kill Ness and his friends, going as far as to go back in time and cruelly mess up his own body in the process to do so, caling Giygas things like an "all-mighty idiot"... I have to say, it really surprised me, even if he was being controlled by Giygas. Then he traveled far into the future, and came Mother 3. Oh boy, Mother 3.

First of all, there are the Chimeras. The cruelly made abominations are made by fusing two or more animals together, sometimes making them cyborgs as well and even going as far as to presumably brainwash them to be mindless, violent killing machines. He even dragged a scientist from Ness' time with him to create these poor monsters. I do not believe he had any remorse for who he hurt doing this. He brainwashed many people as well, with the Happy Boxes, so that they would follow, be loyal, and always believe him. Those who didn't buy Happy Boxes had their houses struck by artificial lightning, which even destroyed some. Again- he showed no remorse for this. Now, let's go back to those Chimeras I mentioned. It wasn't just animals he targeted- he even kidnapped one young boy named Claus (if I had to make an estimation, he may have been nine at the time) and turned him into a Chimera as well, erasing his memory of his family and anything else which held no use to Porky himself. When his family tried to remind him of who he was, he seemed distressed and maybe even pained- and though this may have just been due to being overwhelmed by this, it is also possible Porky had literally programmed him to be not allowed to remember. When he finally did remember what happened, he commited suicide, and said to his brother, "I'm sorry it had to be like this", which, again, makes it possible he genuinely programmed Claus to die when he could not use him anymore. All this time, Porky dehumanizes Claus- laughing when Lucas says he is his brother, a person, and instead taking to calling him his "monster". When defeated in a boss battle, he does not accept it- he always hides without fail. At the end of Earthbound, he had fled to Lucas' time, and when Lucas and his friends defeated him near the end of the game, he chose the cowardly option yet again and hid in an Absolutely Safe Capsule, leaving him undamagable and alive forever.

Sorry for the rant. I just really hate Porky. He is truly irredeemable in my eyes.