User blog comment:Samuelnoah/Ness? or even Lucas?/@comment-4696205-20140207031753

Ness may have his possibilities to return since he's not just a regular/veteran character throughout the series, but since Earthbound has also released for Wii U's Virtual Console, there may be chances that he'll return. Unfortunately, since MOTHER 3 wasn't really mentioned a lot in the US because it was never released at all, I guess Lucas will be rejected. Not as Ness' clone (or whatever you people/haters say), but as a non mentioned character in the foreign except Japan.(Plus Earthbound/MOTHER 2 is more popular than MOTHER 3 in Japan) However, it is true that MOTHER series has been completely finished since the third, so there may be difficulties. But we'll see in the near future.