Child Abuse in MOTHER 2 and EarthBound

[AidGum]

thumbs up if you think child abuse is just wrong

[minifig2401]

Porkys dad most be a smash master in the japanese one.

It sounds like he's smashing glass on the english edition

[Poodleinacan]

Awwww... I really want to see the differences...But I don't want to replay the game...especially because I finished it in middle octobre...

[Pikafan2132]

Japanese parents:

Not giving a shit.

American parents:

Overprotective.

Now i've seen everything!

[Pikafan2132]

@dittogoop Just to ya know, Pokey deserved that plus he's a evil fatass, but Picky didn't deserve that.

[Pikafan2132]

@dittogoop Don't worry, he didn't kill then with a machine gun :P

[Pikafan2132]

What's up with Lardna's face? Did she get slapped in the face too?

[Jader7777]

Smacking your child as discipline is not abuse.

[TheNessEB]

@Jader7777 Except using a machine gun can be a little extreme...

[NessLover94]

Picky says that he doesn't wanna look at the meteroite again!

[nightslayer5]

mother 2 = machine gun

earthbound = baseball bat.

[Masterlink981]

@nightslayer5 Mah machine gun sounds cooler than an old baseball bat!

[Pikafan2132]

Earthbound one is worse! It's more like Pokey and Picky got a mug of beer smashed on their heads.

[hitokirimasamun]

lmao what did pokey's dad do give him a quick drumming lesson XD

[supermantahoo]

Lol it would be awesome if the SMMAAAAAASSH!!! Symbol appeared

[GeneralCane]

0:12 - C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKURRRRR

[Charmander876]

mother:seriously fast spanking

earthbound:sounds like them getting hit with a freaking baseball bat lol

[donns9]

it sounded like they got shot by a lazer 0_0

[nikopunksuperlink]

pokey's dad: hvat the fuck have you ben?

pokey and picky: wee have smoked some weed until wee are high

pokey's dad: WTF?!?!? MY WEED GEET THE FUCK UP STAIRS

pokey and picky: OH FUCK!

pokey's dad: steady steady SMMAAAAASSSSSHHHHHH

pokey and picky: OH MY GROIN!!

pokey's dad: sorry ness i just give them a groin shot

ness: uhuhuhuhu that was cool uhuhuhu (laughing like butthead from beavis and butthead)

[sveerzvsqubeez]

OMG Pokey's mom is scary 0_e

[funzo24]

The English one he doesn't beat them instead he grounds them from dessert for the rest of their lives or at least he grounds porky from dessert.

[thenewoblivion]

whats the sound effect on the earthbound version

[cloudstrife1256]

That's a very apprehensive title. Stupid fucks like you are the reason so many things like this are unnecessarily censored. Calling out this game is directly calling out art. Fuck you.

[alexandermadden1987]

Picky said "I don't want to look at the metorite anymore"

[BEL394]

umm O.O

Did that man just beat up his own Children? THAT"S HARSH!

[02Duderock]

Actually According to Mother 2 Pokey says he'll get spanked 100 times but due child abuse laws Nintendo of America instead has him say hes really gonna get it and they added a random sound effect

[MegaSonicKing]

@02Duderock the random sound effect in japan is a machine gun

[5247846]

He kicked Picky and Pockey's asses!!

[dave1sfx]

Baseball Bat > Machinegun

[mechanesthesia]

To me it sounds like he hits them over the head with a baseball bat or something LOL

[XXTheOutsider]

Pokeys mom scared me when i first saw her

[MrAnime2435]

I feel sorry for Picky.......... NOT FOR POKEY!

[LeeHitlerSaddamLaden]

fucking little shits need a beating sometimes. just like women. stupid fucking cunts

[chris78946]

as chagga said HES AFIRINHISLAZER 

[loneshewolf74]

When I played the English game I thought it kind of sounded like the dad hit one of them, but then I thought he just slams the door after sending the boys to their room.

[grands1am]

What about passive-aggressive verbal abuse?

"Yeah, you're cool. Whatever..."

[alexandermadden1987]

Mother 2: Maching Gun

EarthBound: Laser Zap

[MrYoGhost]

Why is there a fly on Ness

[loneshewolf74]

@MrYoGhost That's Buzz Buzz, an alien that looks like a bee that comes to warn Ness about Giygas and tells him he's one of the four legendary children who can stop him. Sadly, Pokey's mother smashes Buzz Buzz to death shortly after this scene, thinking he's a dung beetle, haha.

[DarkMar1ne]

@MrYoGhost play teh game to find out. (It's a bee that protected Ness and Porky on their trip back to their house from a mini Starman)

[MrYoGhost]

@DarkMar1ne oh ok

[lucarioluva448]

ness:*snickers*i gotta go..

*outside*

ness:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAAA!!!!*rofl*

[EvilResel]

Mother 2 and earthbound? THOSE ARE THE SAME GAME.

[princessZelda089]

In M2, Pokey says he'll be spanked 100 times before you fetch Picky. If you see him in his room after his dad spanks him, he says his butt hurts. Of course in EB, he says, "No dessert for a month!". I prefer EB over M2 in some cases, and verce visa in other cases.

[SirFakeName]

It just means that Americans beat their kids less than Japanese! LOL.

[trevizo25]

lol this is isn't what i'd consider child abuse. lol XD

[deadmau5suckz]

PSI child abuse :P

[breloom657]

wow, did Aloysius spank them, or shoot them with a machine gun in Mother 2?

[foxain]

Pokeys Father abusing him that night made him evil!

[7ruthie]

Mother 2: Rapid hits

Earthbound: One good, hard slap

[princessZelda089]

@7ruthie

It was supossed to be a yelling sound in EB.

[lucarioluva448]

and ness is watching it all go down!!!! lol like oh shit gotta run!*WHHOOOOSH!!*

[TidusAbes]

That fat kid deserves it, and everyone who played Mother 3 knows that :D

[spear9022]

@TidusAbes how did you play mother3 isn't that game only in japanese

[TidusAbes]

i can read japanese!

[spear9022]

@TidusAbes sorry that was an asumtion, i don't know if i spelled that wright

[WolfieZX]

@spear9022 There's been an unofficial English translation of it.

[KajackNeo]

Spankety spankety spankety!

[gunswordfist]

@KajackNeo Hahahahahahaha!

[nljuggalo]

More like punishment than child abuse.

[GameFreakDude]

i always wondered what was up with that sound effect in earthbound

[Tatsuyoujo]

He huts his kids with LASER BEAMS!

[Audioworm]

Flagged for child abuse lololololololol

[hyuky3]

earthbound ness was like, "damn,a baseball bat does wonders for children disciplining, at least i know what to do when i have misbehaving kids"

[1jim3bob]

Spankety, Spankety, Spankety...

[Aiballa]

So THAT'S why Porky's so fucked up o.O I think this game series shows you shouldn't hit your kids.

[Shadoboy]

The japanese version is like a turbospanking.

The american one sounds like he punched them in the head.

[Clockerstance]

That's the cutest ass whooping sound effect i have ever heard

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

in the version i heard it it was a lazer

[C0DESUB]

nobody knows that after thet scene the mother says:

my husband is so kindhearted!

O_o

[superawesom3]

@C0DESUB actually i wondered why the fuck she would say that lol

[freakadoshiz]

thats cuz parents in other countrys beat the SHIT outta there kids

in japan you either win or never come home

[VictoryIsDragonite]

The Game Is Called Mother...and You Get Beaten By Father

[evanfire30]

The times when child abuse could be in games and it not be M. i miss thoes times, now we have to deal with "VALUES and CENSORSHIP".

[Garrador]

@KoopaEaterMKII exactly, it was a innuendo, so you shouldn't call people perverts for interpreting that as something sexual. The scene was made in such a way, that it is not inapropirate for kids, but adults can understand there's something going on. like many jokes on the simpsons

[Garrador]

@KoopaEaterMKII excuse me for being nosy, but let me ask you, do you think itoi is so naive that he never thought the scene with lucas and the magypsy in the springs would be interpreted as something sexual? think about it.

[sonicfeet]

In the Japanese version of the game, it sounds less like Mr. Minch is spanking his children, and more like he's outright slapping the shit out of them.

[southparkyaoi101]

there may be child abuse in earthbound but lucas get's fucking raped in mother 3 by a trany

[Shonbi]

Smacks so damn fast. Damn ninja.

[dragonsword777]

I really couldnt tell the difference. I thought they got spanked in the english version too. And spanking is far from "child abuse."

[HammerMario2308]

Dad: You're not gonna get dessert for the rest of the decade

Pokey: NNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH­H,THE WORST PART IS....I'M GONNA LOSE WEIGHT

[RRRadish]

Spankety spankety spankety!

[mewtwosorigin]

Pokey's dad spanks

were absorbed by the fatness....

[layla12212]

@mewtwosorigin

So he used an aluminum bat instead.

[briarsauble]

Mtoher 2 sounds like they just got stabbed.

Earthbound sound like Pokeys dads rubbing there butt...

[Jelley0]

It's Super effetive! Woops, wrong game...

[HotelMetaKnight]

Mother 2 version sounds like he might be throwing things at them, but Earthbound version could be anything. It sounds like he's hitting them with a Pikachu or something...

[RavenUmbreon]

In EB it sounds like he shot then with a laser gun

[martooxxx]

Pokeys dad used PK Abuse!

[Nintendavin]

If anyone's worried about Pokey, don't be.

His fat can absorb all of the abuse.

[Morbidcrab]

@Nintendavin but what aboun if his dad punched through the fat?

[Nintendavin]

That'd only be possible if his dad was Chuck Norris... Or Flint.

[Pooper2471]

@Morbidcrab Pokey's stomach cannot grasp the true form of Dad's attack!

[TBustah]

How stupid.

It sounds even more like Pokey & Picky are getting spanked in EB. I certainly thought they were getting spanked the first time I played through

What's more, why did they feel the need to do this in the first place? I can understand changing the bar into a cafe, and the reasoning that the game MIGHT encourage minors to go into bars, but if anything, this part of the game has a moral: don't sneak out of the house after dark!

It's not abuse: spare the rod, spoil the child

[megaawsomeaustin]

@TBustah spare the rod and spoil the child means you like to spak

[grey11226]

i sucks balls. XD -

[RobUtubebeast]

this is why Porky turned out the way he is, & y hes jealous of Ness lol

[relentlessneurotoxin]

typical english censoring xDD

[fattyvid]

LOL, did he just rape his kids?

[TyeNee]

Mother 2- Machine gun

EarthBound- Aluminum baseball bat.

[GoldenPickaxe]

@TyeNee Ouch.

[DoomsdayOdd]

@TyeNee

idf its a machinegun, then how do they show up later in the game?

[hyru913]

@TyeNee Baseball bat owns machine gun.

[BlackBirdZGTR]

Mother 2 sounds like Pokeys father is some quick handed martial artist

Earthbound sounds like he went into Pokeys room and charged his laser.

[PHILRYABKIN]

Their was no reason for Nintendo to censor this.Child abuse is normal in some parts of America and even in the UK.

[PurpleYorshee]

@PHILRYABKIN

I live in the UK and it's not normal. 0_o

[ultm8ninja]

kid deserved it

[bazboyd44]

what if it said this: oh crap that hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh no! pokey he has the laser!

[rubino83]

Sounds like he wanged them with a metal bat. Non-violent indeed.

[Nickj109]

Mother 2 sounds like somebody got shot with a machine gun!

Earthbound sounds like somebody got hit with a freeze ray!

From the description, I'd rather go with the spanking than not getting ice cream for 10 years. I could never live with that! XD

[mattyl46]

sometimes its ever pain or no treat when that happens i pick pain

[rypmjiuytr]

earthbound 5 foi o melhor

[nenhm]

earthbound 5?

[GodzillahGodzilla]

not as bad as the rape scene in mother 3

[Morbidcrab]

@GodzillahGodzilla it's not a rape scene the magipsie just gave ness a BJ

[Pikafan2132]

@Morbidcrab BJ? What do you mean with that? Blowjob?

[Morbidcrab]

@Pikafan2132 Whoops I meant Lucas and yeah the magispy sucked it!

[Pikafan2132]

@Morbidcrab O_O

[SavedByGODsGrace777]

those Japanese sure do know how to keep their kids in line!

XD

[beebnegron]

picky didnt deserve to be hit. pokey did

[Imagemaster23]

Pokey: *shhhhh, ahhhhhhh, shhh, ahhhhhhhh*

[JakkHack]

Have any of you actually played this game?

[BizzarreProductions]

I haven't.

:( But I want to...

[MistoffeIees]

If you want to you should download SNES9x (Search SNES9x emulator on google)

Then search Mother 2 or Earthbound rom and play away.

[BizzarreProductions]

Fft, but I don't believe in emulators if you can buy the game! I need an excuse to get a SNES anyway... too many good games... that was my first game console. But it was my brothers'... :(

[UberUberLeet91]

I would go for the emulator myself. This game is no longer being made, so the creators are not losing any profit. Not only that, but SNES cartridges' save batteries are unreliable.

[BizzarreProductions]

I find it funny you should say that, because my brothers got their SNES when I was little, and I was still able to play it well over 10 years later, with all their save files on all their games intact.

[UberUberLeet91]

That's good. I've always had horrible luck with save files, even when the games I bought were new. Super Mario All Stars was the worst, though.

[BizzarreProductions]

O.O

The Japanese version sounds like a spanking or a slap.

The American version sounds like he shot a laser gun at him!

[MrSuzyF]

I think the fly's called Buzz Buzz. He came from 10 years into the future to tell Ness that he's going to save the world with the help of two other boys ad a girl.

[linkhamtaro]

Why was there a fly buzzing around Ness's head? 8D;

[tehgewmbah]

they were fapping

[dumbasspauldentonkin]

I wonder if that sound effect is still in the game, you could use it in a hack

[fireluigi12]

they say, every hard spank on a child's butt, lowers its IQ a bit...

[GameMiestro]

Ouch. :-P

[jammerjaw]

Kinda wish my spankings were over that quick. I was usually spanked for about a minute or so. There's lasted half a second!

Child abuse my ass.

[acidjoker21]

damn urs where short my mom gave them untill i bleed

[Garrador]

@jammerjaw well... you'll probably become even more powerful than king p

[hyuky3]

@jammerjaw lol with a machine gun though?

[angelvi]

Nothing's wrong with spanking kids for being bad... especially if it's Pokey. He could use a firm hand every now and then. :P

[macjsus]

WTF!

[PorkStatue]

Rofl the first one sounds like a naruto hand technique and then the other one sounds like a steel bat hit pokey in the head and yes it is POKEY

[dragon1130]

Actually it was supposed ot be Porkey but due to copyright laws in america (Because apparently the name Porkey is copyrighted period) they had to change the name to Pokey. That or it was a mistake in translating or somehting.

[Link66627]

It can't be copyright cause they called him Porky in SSBB.

[jooshiscrazy]

It definitely was a translation error. You, see in Japanese, Porky is pronounced like Pokii.

[kryptonitebullet179]

LMAO

Was that a machine gun spanking? lol

I think Earthbound central (website) said that when you talk to Pokey/Porky after he is punished, his original dialogue (from japanese) is "My butt hurts so bad!" After hearing the audio from this video, I can see why! :-) XD

[therealmetroidmaniac]

must...see...scenes...like...t­his. but i need to wait for m1+2

[genowhril809]

M2 is like shooting them and Earthbound is like firing a LAZOR

pokey had a messed up life and eventually took it out on *avoids spoiling epic mother 3 storyline*

[kryptonitebullet179]

MOTHER 3 ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[poopybooyah]

Pokey and Picky get in trouble for being out so late, so their father punishes them. The sound made to signify this is different between MOTHER 2 and EarthBound. MOTHER 2s version sounds like some kind of crazy beating sound effect, while EarthBound uses the angry yelling sound effect there.

[TweedProductions]

It's games like this that made my parents beat me when I was a kid! Video game character child abuse is shocking and appalling and Porky's dad should be thrown in video game character jail for giving his video game child a degrading name and beating him and his little brother for staying out late in their video game world. I know I'd rest a lot better at night if this vile video game character was brought to video game justice!

[SuperStefferz]

PK spanking! lol

[mmb101]

oh god lol

[Dannynelsonstinks]

Hitting your kids is not really child abuse.

[DaVince21]

Sure it is. Because it's hitting kids.

[pluck101]

its called discipline!!! yeah!

[MaxPayne5150]

In the Mother 2 version it sounds like he's shooting them with a machine gun lolz then in the EarthBound version he fires like a laser at them WTF? lolz Now that's what I call child abuse

[SartoriusSeven]

It was obvious what happened even with the "censorship."

[mobydick187]

10 years ago it was okay to spank your kids, now days... damn liberals have their noses in everyones asses you can't even raise kids anymore.

[Copper20]

Actually more like 25 years ago probably.

[DaVince21]

That's not necessarily the right way to raise kids. I should know I was never hit as a kid. And look what good that's done me.

[Dannynelsonstinks]

That's anecdotal evidence. Sometimes hitting a child is good. But you shouldn't make them scared of you all of the time.

[kryptonitebullet179]

Yeah, cuz they might end up running away from home, kidnap psychic girls, and then team with an evil alien being bent on destroying the world...sound familar? :-)

[dragon1130]

.....*thinks*....nope, dosent ring a bell. lol.

Though you forgot Joining a religious cult who worships the color blue in there and crashing a helicopter in a swamp.

[Sagemaster00]

He used something like Pk lightning. in mother version

[SMRPGFAN101]

Thanks alot Jack Thompson and parents who don't raise their children right. We get dumbed down works of art. How would the artist (don't know the name of the statue or artist) feel if they took the genitilia off the statue? Video games are works of art and should be treated as such. Censorship is the easy way out. I would have fought them on this. If we had done this more back then, perhaps people would understand.

[Cragbones]

Oh yes, drama on youtube makes you soooo cool.

[SciontheDark]

I don't now what's worse: that you go out of your way to act like, and worship a video game character, or the phrase "even though I'm forgive."