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| Why did the Mall Mook only Kidnap Paula in fourside? He has like six arms, he could have easily grabbed them both. | ||
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he didn't kidnap them both because that wasn't the plan. giygas isn't going to take two of the people showing resistance and put them together. take paula away and what's she going to do? pray? maybe do a little psi? now take jeff away and he'll shoot you with a bazooka. much less taking them both at once. it would be a horrible disaster and be worthless to giygas. giygas is not stupid. he may have some stupid people working for him, but he will not make stupid plans. i suppose at first glance, it would be ideal. one weird space alien with like six arms against two kids with frying pans and toy guns. but giygas' goons must have seen what these little kids have done with their toys, and minds. seriously, these kids have been destroying anything thrown at them. think giygas is going to take his chances trying to kidnap two at once? also, wasn't the idea to get her with monotoli? i'm not trying to be sexist, but girls are generally more compassionate and willing to listen before they blow someone's head off. if jeff had been taken as well, or just him, he might have just blown monotoli and his goons up the first chance he got. i don't know how true this is, when one takes into consideration how shy and everything jeff is. "kidnapping is bad." -mr. t. |
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| You see, Mook had formerly been known as Mookey, Mokey, and Monkey. But that has no relevence to what you are asking me or why you kidnapped me and forced me to answer this question, so I'll move on. Basically I'm gonna keep on rambling until you get the idea that I know what I'm talking about. The mook was using 2 arms to grab paula, 2 arms to hold the rope, and 2 arms to engage in illegal activities. I am of course talking about window-shopping. With a brick. Of course, he will easily be caught. I mean, how do you forget something that looks like that? The hard part would have been the police defeating them... They already showed they were wusses at the beginning of the game by being defeated by a little kid. As far as they are concerned, the chosen four are now the theives because they took what Mook had on him when they defeated him. Unfortunately, They have no way of catching him. | ||
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| Well, you see, he only wanted Paula because he saw her weapons were frying pans, and decided she was a good cook. As an alien, he craved good Earth breakfast foods (as all aliens do). He then forced her into making him pancakes, bacon, and strudel. He didn't grab the rest of the crew, because Ness liked steak, and Jeff, well, Jeff didn't look like a morning person, or any kind of day person for that matter (seeing as how he is a nerd). | ||
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At that point in the game, only Ness, Paula, and Jeff are together so far. They wouldn't take Ness, because, as simple as it sounds, it would be just plain stupid. Ness would be strong enough to whip Mook into pieces. They wouldn't kidnap Jeff, because he's "just a friend". I believe that kidnapped Paula and Paula only for 2 reasons. The first reason is because, and I don't know if it's been established yet at this point in the game, but that Paula and Ness are interested in each other. So why not take the character who means more to Ness? The second reason is, and this is important: they're playing the "weak girl who can't defend herself" card. Keep in mind that the "weak girl who can't defend herself" is one of the stereotypical rules of videogaming: if she's not the lead character, you can pretty much bet she won't be independent or strong. This goes far beyond EarthBound. EB was made in 1994, still a few years before the whole "independent woman who doesn't need help from anyone" phase began going in full swing. |
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| The fact of the matter is, the Mall Mook captured only Paula because of his secret inner desire to have the same pretty pink dress. While Ness and Jeff were searching the mall for their dear friend Paula, the Maul Mook was examining the fabrics and frilly white collar of Paula's dress. He figures if he becomes all prettiful in a pink dress, Giygas will love him, and perhaps ask him to marry him, and he will be Queen of the Universe. | ||
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| The Mall Mook has several arms, but he needs all but two of them to balance his clumsy body and keep himself upright. The weak arms (or tenticles?) could only carry one person, so he had to choose well. His goal was to lure the party into he mall where he could weaken them enough for Giygas to capture them and use the three for his own purposes. Since he could only kidnap one person, he needed to choose well. Paula was the obvious choice. If the Mook captured Ness, Jeff and Paula would've been too busy together to think about rescuing Ness and the same type of thing would happen if he captured Jeff. | ||
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I believe that the Mook had only stolen Paula rather than everyone just for sheer fact Paula is a girl. Not only that, but usualy at that point in time she is the weakest in your party, and he can easily avoid much struggling if he only grabbed her. Then again, seeing as most onsters like to steal women (Like King Kong for example) it shows the male hero role being played out. Remember Link always saving Zelda? It's kinda like that. Besides, we all knew there was something going on between Ness and Paula that was behind the scenes, so it gave him more of an incentive to save her. I guess the Mook knew this cause he wanted to lure Ness to his death, which we all knew was just not going to happen.
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You see, he could only kidnap Paula for a very distinct reason. Two, actually. Jeff, being the stay-up-all-night-and-work type of guy, works up a nice sweat throughout the night. Also, he hasn't showered in lord knows how long, just that it has been longer than any other RPG character ever. This has formed a sort of...aura. Jeff doesn't have psychic powers, but this aura is made of pure stench and sweat. Fighting Master Belch only added to it. Sure, Jeff used some AXE to cleverly hide the stench, but it was way too strong to be hidden.
As for Ness...well, his breath stunk of re-used peanut cheese bars and piggy jelly after the encounter with Belch, along with the results of some of his more...explosive cases of homesickness. The Mook can't bear to be within more than a few feet of Ness for very long. |
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| Well to make a long story short. It all started when the Department Store Spook was just a Mook jr. Similar to that of the starman jr. but for whatever reason was never able to get a job as one of Giygas' hench men. Well time whent on and the mook jr. grew stronger and soon became stronger than any-one of Giygas' mooks. Soon the chosen four (three at that time) had just gained enterence to the Department store. This severely worried the Plague Rat of Doom who was in charge of the Forside area at that time. Having no one to turn to, because everyone in the Forside area either already had a very important job or were to weak to put up much of a fight. So the Mook finaly got noticed having no current position on Giygas' elite force and was also very strong. He got the proud position as the Department store spook. His job was to capture one of the party members and hold them capive until another one of Giygas' more trusted hench men took him or her of his hands to deliver to giygas. The only question now was who to take? Well they knew right off the bat that only it took quite a few zombies to capture Ness and Paula. But now they had another person and were nearly twice as strong as they were in threed. So that was out of the question. They figured that they would kidnap only one of the people. And since they had success in captureing paula in the past (Twoson) that they could do it again but this time they would'nt keep her in such an obvious and easy to get to place and they thought that Monotolie was a person to be trusted with the keeping of the Chosen one. once The department store Spook captured her. | ||
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The Mall Mook, with his six appendages not used for feet, indeed had the opportunity to nab Jeff, Paula, and Ness. However, he only grabbed Paula, and for a specific reason.
The Mall Mook existed at a time in which Mayor Monotoli was under the influence of the Mani Mani statue. During his frequent visitations to Jackie's Cafe, he heard messages involving Ness. However, the Mani Mani statue also held the deepest desires of each person, and knew much more about Ness. Ness' greatest desire was not to destroy Giygas, but to fall in love with Paula. Thus, the Mani Mani statue revealed to Monotoli that Paula was the source of Ness' resilient spirit. Monotoli then informed the Shopping Mall Mook to capture Paula only; capturing all three would make it easy for them to fight together in order to prevent the Mook from bringing him Paula. And, by seperating her from the others, Monotoli planned on voiding the prediction of the Four who would triumph over Giygas. He simply needed to stop one. Any of them. Without one, the others would falter. How ironic it was that he picked the only person capable of truly beating Giygas through prayer. |
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There's a sad reason behind all of this, really. In fact, it's so sad that I'll give you a moment to recollect yourself, grab a basket of tissues (yes, a basket), watch some soaps, do the dishes, eat some pie, sell some doughnuts, make lemonade, and eventually sit back down at the computer you feel like viewing this on before I share this very sad and horrifying story.
Ready? Good. You see, it all has to do with our lovely friends down the road: The Mafia. No, not your italian neighbor who likes to sing opera at 3 am because he's drunk. I'm talking about your friendly neighborhood mafia on the other side of town. Ya know, the ones that talk like they've got cotton balls stuck in their mouths. Yeah, those. So, it all began at a time when the Mafia was living peacefully. The time during their day was most often spent chopping off horse heads and hiding them in beds as pranks, or finding fun gunning down ex-allies who have stopped at a toll booth. In any case, the days had suddenly stopped and the Mafia decided to find a new interest. Unfortunately, Giygas had stepped in and ordered the head honcho at the time out, and replaced him with a Stuffed Mighty Bear. Mr. Monitoli didn't like the idea too much, so he decided to build a new shopping center because his two overly rich daughters decided to love shopping at age 6. But, since shopping malls attracted customers, and Giygas didn't like to be photographed for certain reasons beyond this time zone, he had to have a spokesperson do all the media coverage for him. And that was a problem that no horse head prank could solve. Nor would dancing in the street with a broken fire hydrant, either. So what is to be done? Enter Shady Arms Dealers Located In Closets of Department Stores, Ltd. These guys love to sell all sorts of weapons and arms, so Mr. Monitoli's brother's step-mother's aunt's uncle's cousin's neice's former inlaw's 4th cousin twice removed decided to buy 4 more of them in order to keep his job as a janitor at the department store of his... distant relative. So, in a moment to recollect, we now see the downfall of the Roman Empire while they fought off the Tusken Horde while eating balogna sandwhiches and a couple of Skip Sandwhich DX's, which in turn lead to us witnessing the turn of the century and the dish ran away with the spoon. To make my point clear enough, the janitor then decided to become part of the hit new show Extreme Makeover and soon discovered to his happy surprise that they had completely messed up and made him look like a Mook, which was supposedly his idol. Ratings for the show went down, and so they never aired the episode, but Randy McNally got to keep his look. And this all then in a large turn around the 4th sun in the galaxy, we now find ourselves at the base of our problem. Since mobbing up local toll booths and banks was out of the question, our new Mook had to find entertainment on his break shifts. These entailed clicking the lights on and off until a fuse blew, as well as stealing teenage girls from the first floor to make them play a game of checkers with his... relative in the building next door. Not brainy geeks, though, because they always win. And there you have it, children. But always remember: Don't eat strangers' fuel supplies, as they may cause gas. |
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Well, you see, the Mook is indeed an obsurd creature. It has six arms, easily allowing him to grab up to SIX people. So, why DID he choose Paula? I have many theories on that one.
One, Paula tends to get into a lot of trouble. First, you have to save her from the Happy Happiests. Then, you have to call Jeff to help because you get trapped by the Zombies in Threed. I mean, this girl already has a lot of people after her. Another event, which happens after this one, is that she gets captured by the Montoli people. Second, she is naturally weaker. She is the healer and basically the overall caster of the group. Jeff is the brains, even though he is weak, like Paula, physically; he is packing some serious heat with his guns and bottle rockets. Ness is armed with a baseball bat, a threat to ANY being that crosses his path. It is easy to see why he would chose her over the other two, she would fight back a bit less. Last, but not least. There is the obvious reason, she is a lady. Ladies are usually the one and only gender to become captured and in need of rescue in almost ANY videogame of any kind. I mean, in Final Fantasy there was Aeris, Rosa, Terra, Celes, and countless other female characters that got into trouble. So, Earthbound HAD to go with the trend to stay on top. So, no matter what reasons the mook had. It is reguardless, Paula is, and always will be, the one to be attacked by any rogue mooks in malls. |
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| Bring back easy trivia so people will send joke answers to it and not this. | ||
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This is easy. Consider this: You're roughly 5-6 feet tall, green, have tenticles instead of arms and hands, live in the mall manager's office, you scensor your own speech, and you have the word "Moo" in your name. Let's think real hard on this one. He's weak and must be VERY fast to have gotten Paula out of the Mall (and to Monotoli) and gotten back to the top floor in time for Ness & Jeff to come along. What does this say to females? "Dork".
He's lonely. How many other mooks are there in this game? Technically, only one other-- the pink version who lives several miles north in the artic. So, with no other mooks around he's lonely, especially for hanging around females. So, he ditches the guy who can nuke stuff with his mind and the guy who can make an atomic bomb out of a drinking straw and a cd player, and nabs the little "Ms. cutie pie". Monotoli, however, takes Paula from him because he could use her as bait to send Jeff & Ness on (arguably) the most annoying section of the game since the FIRST time Ness had to save her. So, once again the Mook was very lonely. Then, Ness and Jeff showed up and blew him up. The End. Thank you. |
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| My theory is that Gigas just hired the mook because he was available. In truth, he's just a teenage slacker alien from outer space who's watched too much Mystery Science Theater. We all know that the monster always loses to the hero, and Mook knew he was no exception. In addition, he's a bit lazy, and rather than grab the nerd with all the bulky gear, he just took the girl. I imagine Mook probably got smacked on the head with Paula's frying pan as he made his way up before informing Paula that she'd probably re-join Ness in a few days, at worst, and that he intended to throw the fight. Having been paid in advance by Pokey (a mistake made is a lesson learned), Mook saw no reason to go all-out in a fight he was certain to lose, and in fact would have preffered not to fight Ness at all, but chose to only so that Pokey wouldn't come after him later. So that's why he only kidnaps Paula: Because he's lazy, weak, and doesn't want to get killed. | ||
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