Buzz Buzz

Buzz Buzz is the main protagonist of the short form horror series Buzzbound. Buzz Buzz travels back from the future to locate Ness shortly before the events of the main story. In BuzzBound, he initially arrives a few weeks late, witnessing firsthand the full devastation caused by Giygas.

The fan-made follow-up, Shadows of Giygas by BigSharkZ, released on August 4th, 2024, explores an alternate scenario in which Buzz fails.

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Buzz Buzz
Origin
Origin	BuzzBound
Creator	Lumpy Touch, BigSharkZ
First Appearance	Buzzbound: Cursed Earthbound Prequel
Characteristics
Species	Unknown
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Unknown
Status	Alive (First Timeline), Deceased (Second Timeline)
Alignment	Lawful Good
Archetype	Mentor
Occupation	None
Time Period	Modern Time
Language	Common Language
Combat Style	Street Fighter
Homeworld	Unknown
Relationships
Affiliations	Picky, Paula
Enemies	Giygas, Shadow Ness

Appearance

General Description: Buzz Buzz is a small, cartoonish insect with a rounded, segmented body and a cheerful expression.

Facial Features: He has large, round eyes that give him a friendly and energetic look. His smile is wide and simple, emphasizing his playful demeanor.

Clothing/Outfit: Buzz Buzz does not wear traditional clothing, but he has distinctive features including a star-shaped antenna on his head and small purple gloves on each of his four limbs.

Special Features: He has two pairs of wings for flight and small limbs tipped with pointed ends. The combination of his star-shaped antenna, winged design, and expressive face makes him easily recognizable.

Personality

• Hopeful: In spite of a speech from Starman Prime about how he was the universe’s last thread of hope and was now going to die, and Buzz Buzz even accepting this, he still uses his last moment to send a sound stone to search for anyone who can possibly save the universe and undo the damage Giygas and his minions have caused.

Goals

• Stop the horrible future of Giygas (Ongoing in Cursed Earthbound Prequel. Failed in Shadows of Giygas)

General Information

Name: Buzz Buzz

Origin: BuzzBound

Overall Series: MOTHER

First Appearance: Buzzbound: Cursed Earthbound Prequel

Latest Appearance: BUZZBOUND - Shadows of Giygas (EarthBound's Bad Ending)

Creator: Lumpy Touch (Cursed Earthbound Prequel) and BigSharkZ (EarthBound's Bad Ending)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: N/A

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: Modern Time

Timeline: First Timeline (Cursed Earthbound Prequel) & Second Timeline (Shadows of Giygas (EarthBound's Bad Ending)

Homeworld: Unknown

Residence: Ship

Story Role: Failed Time Traveler, Main Protagonist

Legacy: Unknown Legacy in Buzzbound, Global Legacy in ruined Future (Buzz Buzz is known in the future as a freedom fighter that successfully foils Giygas' plans)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Common Language

Ethnicity: Unknown

Religion: N/A

Classification: Time Traveler

Species: Unknown

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Alien Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: N/A

Combat Style: Street Fighter

Affiliations: Picky, Paula

Enemies: Giygas, Shadow Ness,

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status

• First Timeline: Alive
• Second Timeline: Deceased

Date of Death: BUZZBOUND - Shadows of Giygas (EarthBound's Bad Ending)

Alignment: Lawful Good (Wishes to protect the universe from Giygas, going as far as to try to go back in time and save Ness before the bad future happens, even when all hope is gone he still keeps fighting, apologizing to Ness for not making it in time)

Protection Level: Cosmic Protector

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Growth Potential
• Level of Potential: Growth
• Description: Buzz Buzz can level up in battle, learning new levels of PSI and getting stronger.
• Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetypal Tiering: Mentor

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: At least 9-A, Higher with Code Newton & Devil's Machine gun

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: PSI

Attack Potency: At least Room level (Potency) (Stronger than his canon counterpart, as he defeated a far more powerful version of the Starman encountered called Starman Prime, who has PSI superior to Territorial Oak who is around 4.5 to 5 meters making its self-destruction which would be around this levels of energy), Higher with Code Newton (In last ditch efforts Buzz Buzz can issue a Code Newton to the Apple of Enlightenment, calling it to slam at full force on an enemy, being powerful enough to defeat the corrupted Ness, who he noted earlier was too strong for him) & Devil's Machine gun (Knowing he is in a losing battle, Buzz Buzz finally decides to use the Devil’s Machine Gun, which deals a significant amount of damage to Dark Ness)

Durability: At least Room level

Striking Strength: At least Room Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Should be comparable to his canon counterpart, who could keep up with Ness, who should be comparable to Ninten who can travel 700 meters in about 13 seconds)

Attack Speed: Superhuman. Speed of Light with PSI Flash (With PSI Flash a, emits glorious rays of light that can inflict several status effects)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman

Stamina: Superhuman (Buzz Buzz encountered a fake instant revitalizing device designed to crush someone’s will through illusions and trick them into getting inside causes Buzz Buzz to himself as dead with his stats as 0, all of his gear as undefined, all of his items being undefined aside from one that is called “Null” which caused him to see a fake game over screen, despite being in this illusion, he fought off two of Giygas's followers)

Range: Below Standard Melee, up to Hundreds of Meters with PSI (Comparable to PSI users who can use PK Thunder, which has been demonstrated by several enemies to behave similar to natural lightning)

Intelligence: At least Gifted Intelligence (Buzz Buzz is able to utilize PSI, where the natural PSI users consciousness is already matured and able to defend against other mental attacks at an infant age)

Knowledge: Master level

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Powers and Techniques

By HimselfWith PSIWith Equipment

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Sheer Will (Buzz Buzz encountered a fake instant revitalizing device designed to crush someone’s will through illusions and trick them into getting inside causes Buzz Buzz to himself as dead with his stats as 0, all of his gear as undefined, all of his items being undefined aside from one that is called “Null” which caused him to see a fake game over screen, despite being in this illusion, he fought off two of Giygas's followers. In spite of a speech from Starman Prime about how he was the universe’s last thread of hope and was now going to die, and Buzz Buzz even accepting this, he still uses his last moment to send a sound stone to search for anyone who can possibly save the universe and undo the damage Giygas and his minions have caused)
• Restoration (Can recover after a while from certain status effects, such as feeling strange)
• Accelerated Development (Buzz Buzz can level up in battle, learning new levels of PSI and getting stronger)
• Empowerment (Buzz Buzz focuses all of his energy and draws on the hopes of his friends from the future to deal a massive attack against the corrupted Ness).
• Damage Boost and Forcefield Destruction (Can hit off smash attacks With smash hits, deals far more damage then normal, along with this smash hits completely disperse shields)

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Heats (Takes a beating from a burning hot pan)
  • Radiation Manipulation (Can stand close to a highly radioactive substance with no real effects)
  • Disease Manipulation (Buzz is able to take an infected bite from a mutated dog)
  • Illusion Manipulation (Buzz uses Psi to defeat the illusion of Ness’s mother and stop himself from collapsing)
  • Poison Manipulation (Buzz Buzz withstands a poisonous bite from a mutated snake)
  • Corruption (Buzz is able to stave off a corrupting force trying to take over him for some time)
  • Willpower Manipulation (Buzz Buzz fights off the effects of the illusions trying to leverage his exhaustion and past loses against him, with this being a fake instant revitalizing device designed to crush someone’s will through illusions and trick them into getting inside causes Buzz Buzz to himself as dead with his stats as 0, all of his gear as undefined, all of his items being undefined aside from one that is called “Null” which caused him to see a fake game over screen)
  • Petrification (Those with PSI can resist Giygas's power to petrify all those that were not adept with PSI)

Innate PSI AbilitiesUnique PSI Abilities

• Psionics & Energy Manipulation (PSI is the manipulation of psionic energy, being described as a mysterious and useful power)
• Telekinesis (PSI Users such as Ninten can use their psi to telekinetically unbend a spoon, along with Ness as an infant being able to telekinetically move his baby bottle)
• Telepathy (PSI users all naturally share PSI Telepathy, Ninten uses this to be able to read minds and speak to animals, Paula uses it to telepathically call to Ness in her dreams, along with telepathically speak to other members of the Chosen Four from across towns or even continents. The ability seems to be universal to all PSI users as their consciousness no matter their age is fully aware and can speak with people)
• Power Bestowal (Limited; PSI users can give PSI abilities to other PSI users, such as when an infant used their mind to give Ninten PSI Teleport, or when the Chosen Four taught a monkey how to use PSI Teleport).

• Resistance to
  • Mind Manipulation (The natural PSI users consciousness is already matured and able to defend against other mental attacks)

• Telekinesis (Uses telekinesis to answer the phone in someone else's house)
• Healing (Buzz Buzz has access to PSI Lifeup and uses it to restore his health)
• Purification (With PSI Healing a and PSI Healing B, can cure poisons)
• Nullification
  • Power Nullification: Dispelled the illusion Ness was casting to make his house look normal.
• Paralysis Inducement (With Paralysis Ω, paralyzes the opponent)
• Light Manipulation and Status Effect Inducement (With PSI Flash a, emits glorious rays of light that can inflict several status effects)
• Sound Manipulation (With PSI Sound A & PSI Sound B, an area of effet sound based PSI attack)
• Forcefield Manipulation (With PSI Shield B, which sets up a psychic shield that reflects all PSI attacks back at the opponent)
• Fire Manipulation (With PSI Fire a, shoots out a fire attack that effects a row of enemies)
• Sleep Manipulation (With Hypnosis Ω, puts a target to sleep)

• Remote Communication (Buzz Buzz can communicate with his ship, the Apple of Enlightenment with a wristwatch, which pinpoints Ness’s location based on a PSI reading)
  • Radar Sensing (The wristwatch pinpoints Ness' location based on PSI reading and also scans a petrified human for signs of life)
  • Extrasensory Perception (The ship was able to call a phone in Buzz Buzz's location and send an automated message despite just landing in the timeline, noting the massive PSI reading at Buzz Buzz’s location. Ness's PSI is read inside the house as being everywhere. On the second prototype cartridge that was discarded, the humans petrified by Giygas’s power that are scanned by the Apple of Enlightenment are found with radiation in their cranial regions, and the ship also tracks the exact coordinates that their life force was extracted to)
  • Information Analysis (The ship detects that the pink slime coating the ground in Onett is alien in origin and likely unsafe to eat)
  • Camouflage (Buzz Buzz issues Code Nebula to the Apple before he leaves, which causes it to start cloaking itself to avoid detection by Giygas’s underlings and any other monsters)
• Time Travel & Dimensional Travel (Buzz Buzz’s ship is a time machine that travels between timelines in an attempt to find a possibility of defeating Giygas)
• Nullification
  • Forcefield Nullification: With the Neutralizer, removes psychic shields.
• Statistics Amplification (With the supernova chip, increases Buzz Buzz's defense from 26 to 101. With Wings of Gaia, increases Buzz Buzz's defense from 95 to 154. With Chaos Horn, increases Buzz Buzz's offense from 33 to 109)
• Hell Manipulation (The Devil’s Machine gun is a massive firearm concentrated with tremendous amounts of pure evil energy, but can only be used once if the wielder has not succumbed to Giygas’s corruption)

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Equipment

First TimelineSecond Timeline

• Big City Cola
• Quantum Horn
• Blaster Chip
• a spoiled bread he picked up from an enemy
• Luxury Banana
• Proto-Wings
• Sound Stone
• Slimy Steak

• Quantum Horn
• Proto Wings
• Blaster Chip
• Sound Stone
• Big City Cola
• Shield Destroyer
• Chaos Horn
• Essence of Life
• Moonlight Croissant
• Devil's Machine gun
• Supernova Chip
• Psycho's Lunch
• Wings of Gaia

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Notable Techniques

Cursed Earthbound PrequelBUZZBOUND - Shadows of Giygas (EarthBound's Bad Ending)

PSI Telekinesis

Allows Buzz Buzz to manipulate objects remotely with his mind. Notably, he can pick up and interact with items from a distance, such as answering a phone in another character's house without physically being there.

PSI Healing

Restores life force and heals injuries. Buzz Buzz can use this ability on himself or others, quickly recovering from damage sustained in battle.

PSI Healing A / PSI Healing B

Used to purify poisons and harmful conditions. These techniques allow Buzz Buzz to remove toxins or negative effects from targets, making them fully functional again .

PSI Neutral

Dispels active PSI effects or illusions. For example, Buzz Buzz can negate illusions that attempt to alter reality around him, such as illusions changing the appearance of a house to fool its occupants.

PSI Flash A

Emits a concentrated burst of light that can blind or disrupt opponents while potentially inflicting status effects. The light can also serve as a tactical distraction during combat .

PSI Sound A / PSI Sound B

Generates sound-based attacks that affect a wide area. These attacks can disorient, damage, or overwhelm enemies using sonic energy, making them effective for crowd control.

Paralysis Ω

Induces paralysis in opponents, temporarily immobilizing them. This ability can halt even active or defensive characters, giving Buzz Buzz a strategic advantage in battle.

PSI Shield B

Creates a reflective barrier of psychic energy that can block or return incoming PSI attacks. This defensive ability provides strong protection against magical or psychic assaults.

PSI Fire A

Launches a stream of fire at targets, typically affecting multiple enemies in a row. This offensive PSI attack is useful for dealing widespread damage efficiently.

Hypnosis Ω

Induces sleep in targets, rendering them temporarily incapacitated. This allows Buzz Buzz to control the battlefield by neutralizing enemies without direct combat.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Buzz Buzz will use various PSI techniques and items he has on him.

Weaknesses

• PSI Weaknesses: PSI users need to concentrate in order to use their PSI.
• Unique Weaknesses: Despite his immense PSI, he can die from attacks from a housewife, noting that he was much weaker then he thought.
• Ship Weaknesses: In last ditch efforts Buzz Buzz can issue a Code Newton to the Apple of Enlightenment, calling it to slam at full force on an enemy, though this damaged his ship beyond repair and he was barely able to move further back in time to reach the actual Earthbound timelineh.

Explanations

Before the infamous marketing campaign for EarthBound in North America, Nintendo of America experimented with a different strategy to attract an audience. They commissioned a darker, more mature prequel minisode intended to appeal to a wider range of tastes. The cartridge containing a complete build of this story was eventually lost and forgotten—until its recent rediscovery.

The plot of the game centers on Buzz Buzz shortly before the main story, as he travels back in time from the future to locate Ness. In BuzzBound, however, he initially arrives a few weeks late, witnessing firsthand the full scope of Giygas's terrifying invasion.

Note

• Not to be confused with the canon counterpart.

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