New Pork City

New Pork City
Universe	EarthBound
Appears in	SSBB
Located	EarthBound
Home stage to	Lucas Ness
Availability	Starter
Crate Type	Presents
Tournament legal (SSBB)
Singles	Banned
Doubles	Banned

New Pork City is a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, hailing from the game MOTHER 3. It is a massive stage, approximately the size of the Temple stage in both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl. It is comprised of dozens of buildings, giving the impression of a large city. However, the battle area consists of a series of platforms that seem to have no connection to the city itself.

Like the Temple stage, this stage is banned in many tournaments for being too large as well as the Ultimate Chimera hazard.

Ultimate Chimera

The Ultimate Chimera is a hazard in New Pork City. Appearing randomly in any part of the stage, it walks slowly and its bite attack results in a One-hit KO and deals 100% if you are by the edge of its mouth, and 200% if you get trapped inside. It is possible to tech the attack.

Chimera Facts

• It is possible to defeat the Ultimate Chimera when it is situated on the breakable platform on the bottom of the stage by breaking the platform. This can be done safely from a distance with the Motion-Sensor Bomb, C4, etc.
• It is possible to air dodge through the Chimera.
• When the Chimera appears the field becomes darker (like when a Smash Ball has been broken), and it will also make a *ching* sound--the same sound heard when it would notice Lucas in MOTHER 3.
• It is possible to survive the Ultimate Chimera's bite should you hit into a wall during the knockback and successfully wall tech.
• It's possible for Marth or Ike to use Counter and with correct timing, it deals higher than 100% (if the player is by the edge of its mouth), and higher than 200% (if Ultimate Chimera tires to trap player inside) on opponents when Ultimate Chimera tries to bite the player. And since because Counter does very high damage, the attack is able to OHKO anyone who gets hit by Counter.
• When the user is using Final Smash, Ultimate Chimera will not try to bite and usually ignore the Character, if the Final Smash was activited (With correct timing).

The Ultimate Chimera

• For some reason, when Giga Bowser walks over the Ultimate Chimera, the Chimera will not even try to bite; in fact it will completely ignore Giga Bowser. However, Giga Bowser still takes damage, if Chimera bites the opponent.
• If the player completes All-Star Mode with Ness, the congratulations screen will picture him in the mouth of the Ultimate Chimera.
• The sound effect used for its roar in Mother 3 can be heard after defeating Porky Minch in the Subspace Emissary.
• It actually is possible to walk into Ultimate Chimera and not get bitten. If your character is on a platform, and the Ultimate Chimera appears next to you, he won't attack the player until they drop off the platform.
• Unlike in Mother 3, the Ultimate Chimera cannot be turned off.
• In MOTHER 3, the Ultimate Chimera doesn't wander around the city; it was always found indoors.

Songs in My Music

• Porky's Theme
• Unfounded Revenge / Smashing Song of Praise
• Mother 3 Love Theme
• You Call This a Utopia?!
• Humoresque of a Little Dog
• Snowman

Songs in bold must be unlocked

Origin

New Pork City as it originally appeared in Mother 3.

New Pork City was a location in Mother 3. Porky Minch ruled this city and gathered various people from different timelines to live in it, and eventually managed to get all of the Nowhere Islanders to move here too, sometimes by force. Porky gathered various scientists from different timelines to work in a laboratory called the Chimera Lab, which is not located in New Pork City itself. He gave orders to create creatures called Chimeras, which were hybrids of multiple different animals or plants, or mechanized versions of animals. The Ultimate Chimera was one of these, and, fitting the name, was the most powerful one, and was feared even by its creators. The Ultimate Chimera was eventually moved here as well, and was discovered by Lucas and company in the bathrooms of the Empire Porky Building. If the Ultimate Chimera bites Lucas, it's an instant death resulting in a game over. Ultimate Chimera appears in this stage as a hazard. When the Ultimate Chimera bites a player, there is high possibility that the player will get knocked out. The background contains multiple sprites from Mother 3. Notably, the Empire Porky Building, a 100 story building, can be seen in the background, and it expands all the way up to the upper boundary line. Sprites of some of the Mother 3 characters can also be seen. However, the actual arrangement of platforms used here (disregarding the limousine) was never a part of the city in Mother 3, although their design is based on the parking lot. In Mother 3, the only way to get to New Pork City was by a flying limousine. The flying limousine would park in a parking lot in the west side of the city. In this stage, the limousine can be seen flying across the stage. The parking lot on the west side of the city has been retained. In Mother 3, Porky Minch built a statue of himself in the city. If Lucas were to observe the statue it would attack. The Porky Statue is retained and can be seen in the background.

Trivia

• In the background on the right side of the stage one can see the Porky Statue.
• The flying limo acts as a platform, but only when it appears at the bottom of the screen.
• The buildings in the background are not rendered in 3D. Instead, they are the original 2D sprites from MOTHER 3. The Super Smash Bros. DOJO!! describes them as being like billboards.
• On the American version, the stage selection screen refers to the stage as hailing from EarthBound, although it is not from said game. It is probable that if MOTHER 3 had been released outside of Japan and been given an official logo, then it probably would have been used to refer to the game from which the stage hails. It is also probable that it was referring to the series as a whole, which also makes sense considering the possibility that it might have been translated as "EarthBound 2."
• In MOTHER 3, The Empire Pork Building has 100 floors. This fact is stretched in Brawl, as the height of the building is unspecifyingly tall and in fact still goes off the top of the screen when Olimar uses End of Day.
• When Pokémon Trainer is selected, the trainer stands on the streets in the background.
• The Pigmask's logo appears stamped on all the platforms.
• Despite the presence of trophies for most stage elements, there is no trophy of the Ultimate Chimera.
• Since Fourside and Onett are also banned from tournaments, that means no stage from the EarthBound/Mother universe has regularly been seen in competitive play.
• The breakable platform when looked at from above has a building on it.

Gallery

Lucas looking towards the background.

The right side of the stage.

The Ultimate Chimera appears.

The Chimera's bite.

External Links

DOJO!! page