10 Fan Theories That Make Your Favourite Video Games Super Depressing

The cult classic rpg EarthBounds ends with protagonist Ness and his friends travelling back in time to defeat the evil alien Giygas before he comes to power. However, some people have found a darker meaning to the game's final boss fight.

The theory is that Ness actually kills Giygas as a foetus, and stops him being born. It's a pretty out there theory, but has some strong visual evidence to back it up.

While Giygas himself seems a swirling mass of energy, if you trace the blackness surrounding him, it looks just like an ultrasound image of an unborn baby. Adding to that, to fight Giygas you have to enter the "Devil's Machine" which holds him, a machine which bears more than a passing resemblance to a woman's cervix.

It would be a dark addition to such a bright game, but not entirely out of place. The games creator Shigesato Itoi said in an interview that he based the final boss fight off a traumatic childhood experience, in which he snuck into a movie and thought he saw a rape scene. The theory suggests that this inspired him to include themes associating sex with evil and the loss of a child's innocence, embodied as an evil, corrupted unborn child.

It would also go a long way to explain why the game's Japanese name, is Mother.