Lloyd

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• I may be a wimp, but now it's my turn to fight! Teddy! You can take it easy here.

“	A boy who, though mousy and always timid, is really a mechanical genius. He can use complex weaponry.	„
	~ Character Data on Lloyd

Background

Lloyd (alternatively Loid) is one of the main characters of MOTHER (localized as EarthBound Beginnings). He lives in Thanksgiving and goes to school at Twinkle Elementary School. Although he cannot use PSI, he is skilled at using various mechanical objects and explosives.

Lloyd is normally the second character to join Ninten's party, but he can be the third member to join if the player chooses to get to Ana first. Lloyd is the only character that must join Ninten in order to complete the game, as he is needed to make all the areas north of Thanksgiving accessible, as well as being needed to access EVE.

General Information

Name: Lloyd (Despite the discussion between where it's Lloyd or Loid, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate officially spells his name as Lloyd)

Origin: MOTHER

First Appearance: MOTHER 1

Latest Appearance: MOTHER 1 (Canonical latest appearance), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Non-Canonical; Appears as a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Company: Nintendo

Creator: Shigesato Itoi

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 11 (Officially listed as 11 years old in the MOTHER Encyclopedia)

Residence: Thanksgiving, America

Story Role: Party Member, Supporting Protagonist

Classification: Party Member, Smart Kid, Bullied Kid

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Ninten (Friend), Ana (Friend), Teddy (Friend, proves his courage to him after he's injured), Pippi (Helps them heal), Bla Bla Gang (After Teddy joins the party, the Bla Bla Gang are cool with Ninten and co), EVE (Robot made by George to protect Ninten)

Enemies: Giygas (The main enemy they're trying to stop), Starman (Member of Giygas' army), R-7037 (Member of Giygas' army), Teddy (Formerly, Teddy fought Ninten for beating up members of the Bla Bla Gang), Bla Bla Gang (Formerly)

Height: 149 cm (Officially listed as 149 centimeters in the MOTHER Encyclopedia)

Weight: 40 kg (Officially listed as 40 kilograms in the MOTHER Encyclopedia)

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Lloyd is a good natured boy that wants to save the world from Giygas. Helped an old lady with giving Ana back her missing cap. Agreed to help Rosemary remove the ghosts from her haunted mansion, with him doing this having her re-name her son after Ninten. Saved the entire world from Giygas, freeing all of the captured people, including Ana's mom, and the abducted grownups in Easter. Though Lloyd can do some mischevious things, such as taking money from a scam artist while he hides from the cops, and taking someone's tank and getting it destroyed though he will pay him the money back to fix it as an apology. If one says yes to the beer choice, Lloyd engages in underaged drinking of beer which has the police arrest him, though he will regret doing it)

Protection Level: Global Protector (Stood up against Giygas, who plans to destroy the Earth and all of its people, directly noted that the Earth is in danger, with Ninten himself stating that the Earth's crisis is finally over at the end of the game)

Codex Statistics

Key: Early Game | Mid Game | Late Game

Key Information (The levels are based off this PSI learn table)

• Early Game: Begins are the very start of the game and ends once Ninten recruits Lloyd. Lloyd is not in the party until the end of this but her levels reflect this key (~Level 1-20).
• Mid Game: Begins after Lloyd is recruited all the way to when they reach the Monkey Cave (~Level 20-40).
• Late Game: After going through the Monkey Cave to the Last Boss (~Level 40+).

Grade: B | B | A

Tier: 9-C to 9-A | 9-A to 8-C | At least 8-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Bone level (Party members start off at level 1 with Ninten needing to take them to Magicant in order to train them, where he ate a magic candy that gives strength and power to helpless child) to Room level (Potency) (After training he is comparable early game Ninten, who in turn can defeat Starman Jr., who could not only fight beginning of game Ness but also has PSI on the level of fire Beta, which is PSI above the level of post-Peaceful Rest Valley enemies, including the Territorial Oak, in damage, who is around 4.5 to 5 meters making its self-destruction which would be around this levels of energy, can fight a similar entity to the Territorial Oak known as Big Woodoh who also bursts into flames after being defeated) | Room level (Potency) to Buiding level (Potency) (Defeated enemies such as the SuperEnergy and could fight Last Starman, who is the strongest of all Starman) | At least Buiding level (Potency)

Durability: Bone level (No-selled an explosion that did this to the entire classroom) to Room level (Can tank the explosion of Maria's Big Woodoh), his reliance on the Universal System makes him difficult to kill | Room level to Building level, his reliance on the Universal System makes him difficult to kill | At least Building level. Protection from the Universal System makes him difficult to kill.

Striking Strength: Bone Class to Room Class (Potency) | Room Class (Potency) to Building Class (Potency) | Building Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Class 5 (Should be comparable to the mid game MOTHER 2 Cast, who are able to lift a submarine, which weigh around 4,750 tons) | Class 5

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can move 700 meters in about 13 seconds) | Superhuman (Traveled around entire towns, cities, and through mountains in a short amount of time) | Superhuman (Scaled across Mt. Itoi in a short timeframe)

Attack Speed: Superhuman, Higher with PSI (Learns Quick Up at level 14, a PSI technque that raises one party members speed) | Superhuman, Higher with PSI | At least Transonic (Can tag a Starman, who can tag the late game MOTHER 2 cast, who can fight similar enemies to the cast of MOTHER 3, who can dodge shouts from the Steel Mechorilla), Higher with PSI

Reaction Speed: Superhuman, Higher with PSI | Superhuman, Higher with PSI | At least Transonic, Higher with PSI

Stamina: Superhuman (Should be comparable to Ninten, Ana, and Teddy, who can take fatal wounds from enemies along with being shot by a cannon blast, and recuperating shortly after just fine)

Range: Standard Melee. Dozens of Meters with Boomerang & Slingshot (Boomerangs on average have a 20-40 meter range. Slingshots can hit around 90 yards), Hundreds of Meters with guns and other equips equivalent to PSI attacks.

Intelligence:

Genius Intelligence (At the age of 3 years old, Lloyd read Albert Einstein's theory of relativity book and fell so much in love with it that he believes himself to be the reincarnation of Albert Einstein)

Genius Intelligence (Made a bathroom tv at the age of four years old in dedication to Albert Einstein. Just from seeing the bottle rocket, Lloyd is able to make more of them. Able to use fuel from the rocket to mix with chemicals. Is noted to be a mechanical genius who can use complex weaponry. Able to fix a broken boat engine very quickly)

Gifted Intelligence (Can navigate an entire cave and find the exit where monkeys are constantly lying to Ninten and co. about how to progress)

Gifted Intelligence (Can operate a tank, know how to use guns, his wisdom increases at a far higher rate then the rest of the cast in battle. Can use items that the other party members do not know how to use in battle, such as a flamethrower)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Ninten, Ana, & Lloyd all showcase great singing and dancing skills, with even Teddy saying it was a great song), Vehicular Mastery (Land Vehicles; Lloyd is able to operate a tank one his own), Weapon Mastery (Uses guns as his primary weapon of choice, however he can also use boomerangs and slingshots, alongside a bunch of other equipment), Genius Intelligence (Is noted to be a mechanical genius who can use complex weaponry), Social Influencing (Social Status; After saving the world from Giygas, Lloyd returned to a hero's welcome at Twinkle Elementary School), Enhanced Senses (Still able to hit enemies even while blinded. Can sense when enemies are nearby through the check system), Extrasensory Perception (Can sense danger in places that people who normally can see ghost can’t), Sheer Will (Accepeted his fate to go on a journey to save the world, traveling into an abandoned factory, an abandoned town, rosemary's haunted mansion without much fear. After Teddy is out of commission, Lloyd notes that it's his turn to fight and he will use his courage), Regeneration (Mid-Low overtime; Able to take attacks such as zombie bites, animal bites, and explosions without being hindered and can heal from them with PSI and by eating food items. Can quickly recover from being dehydrated. Staying at a rest area overnight completely recovers Hp and Pp), Astral Projection (When party members are unconscious they are immediately transported to the hospital until they're picked up, where the cast will have ghost sprites that are acknowledged by characters, and characters directly feeling their presence, and acknowledging they are speaking to their "soul", showing the cast create an astral projection from their soul that observes the party while they are unconscious in the hospital), Reliance (Reliance [On Universal System], Partial Protection; Losing a battle causes the defeat to be unwritten, becoming a bad dream and allowing the Ninten and co. to wake up at their last save location), Fate Protection, Time Manipulation, & Dream Manipulation (Passive; Lloyd is among a chosen one apart of a universal system of destiny, along with being watched over by The Player. Just like in Ness’ game over that her dying is all merely a bad dream), Possible Divine Protection (prayers in the MOTHER series are directly noted to be God being with the person, with Paula being able to use prayers to have various supernatural effects to happen in the battle with her prayers being used to ultimately defeat Giygas where in the original translation, Paula was praying directly to God. In MOTHER 1 Ninten is told by Ana's father that they will be victorous on their journey and that his prayers will be heard), Information Analysis (Able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of an opponent along with their stats. At the end of the game Maria’s conscious is able to help Ninten and co. with the check stat), Accuracy Manipulation (Ninten’s increase of wisdom raises the chance of inflicting status ailments on an enemy, whether from items or certain PSI techniques. Increasing the fight stat increases the odds of the attack landing and of it being a critical hit), Statistics Boost & Rage Power (Capable of increasing his offense through screaming), Damage Boost (With smash attacks, can deal far more damage then he can regularly), Accelerated Development (Battle & Leveling; Physical Stats & Abilities; Naturally gets stronger as he progresses, naturally gaining resistances through leveling up. His wisdom increases at a far higher rate then the rest of the cast in battle. Grew to where the Starman became a regular random encounter when he was previously an entire boss), Healing (Fully singing the Eight Melodies fully heals the party, the light of the crystal representing Maria’s conscious will heal Ninten and co.), Non-Standard Interaction (Soul Interaction; Can kill and interact with ghosts. Abstract Interaction; Can physically interact and fight enemies from magicant who are abstract representations and feelings of one’s mind), Empathic Manipulation (Defeating enemies causes them to lose their bloodlust and calm down), Observation (Unconscious Manifestation; Comparable to Ninten who through ignoring the Forgotten Man, Ninten makes him disappear, it is noted by a resident of Magicant that he was once well known but everyone forgot him), Has the potential for: Subjective Reality, Creation, Illusion Creation (Standard Illusions), & Mind Manipulation (Magicant is a universe created entirely from the users own memories. It exists only within the mind of the user and is shaped entirely by their thoughts and desires. Magicant World's are shaped from the users perspective. Maria for example warped her own world to fit her views as a Queen. Ness's Magicant was shaped almost like a Town with stars and planets in the background. Along with that, users of Magicant can create weapons, equipments, healing items, and inhabitants that represent a certain side to their mind (A strong example would be the Flying Men which represents the users own courage). Some inhabitants act as enemies that will attack or serve as either a memory of the users own experience or simple civilians. It's unknown if there is a Sea of Eden in other variations of Magicant, however it is stated by Talah Rama that the Truth makes itself known to humanity with Magicant. Magicant only disappears once the goal of the user has been met. To provide some insight, Maria's goal was to recover from amnesia and remember the melody she sung to Giygas, and Ness's goal was to awaken his full potential by touching the Universal System. The journey has to be a momentous part of the person's life that culminates in an event that causes them to look inward and triggers the ability to access their magicant).

Resistance to Cold Temperatures (Can casually walk around in light clothing while walking around the snow-covered town of Snowman), Disease Manipulation & Zombification (Zombie bites do not affect him), Poison Manipulation (Resists the effects of the stinger), Mind Manipulation (Madness Manipulation; Can resist Giygas’s influence, even while he’s fighting him, whose black clouds appearing over the mountains caused all the townsfolk and its people to go crazy. Force decreases the chances of puzzled, confusion, or sleep working on Ninten), Sleep Manipulation (Force decreases the chances of puzzled, confusion, or sleep working on Ninten), Sense Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, & Paralysis (The more Ninten’s strength raises the less chance he has of being hit with Blindness, Poison and Paralysis), Information Analysis (If Ninten is put into a position where he checks Lloyd there will be no effect), Radiation Manipulation, Temperature Manipulation, Air Manipulation & Poison Manipulation (Can endure the Nuclear Reactor Robot’s explosion without suffering any adverse effects, which would include an intense pulse or wave of heat, light, air pressure, and radiation including a lack of oxygen and carbon monoxide poisoning)

Explosion Manipulation (With bombs and bottle rockets, causes explosion damage), Fire Manipulation (With flamethrower, shoots out and acts as his version of PK Fire), Light Manipulation, Laser Manipulation and Plasma Manipulation (With laser beam and plasma beam, shoots out and acts as his version of PK Beam), Statistics Amplification (With coins and rings, raises one's defense) or Statistics Reduction (With bullhorn, can accidentally raise ones stats if you fail to convince them or lower their stats, the Flea Bag can decrease an enemies offense and defense), Fear Manipulation (Passive; With Repel Ring drives away any weak enemies), Passive Attack Reflection (Passive; With the Franklin Badge capable of completely reflecting lightning based attacks back at the enemy. Shown in MOTHER 1 that it can also reflect PK Beam r. It can even reflect attacks from Giygas), Status Effect Inducement (With flashdark, can blind an opponent decreasing their accuracy), One Hit Kill (With Insecticide, and Super Spray, will instantly kill any arthropod-based enemies, the super bomb instantly kills all enemies in battle), Teleportation (With Onyx Hook, allows Lloyd and co. to teleport back to Magicant without the need of finding an entry point. With memory chip, can teleport back to Eve, even if he’s in magicant. This can also help get him out of BFR), Binding (Physical Restraint; With Rope, bounds an enemy making them unable to move or attack), Healing (With various food items, can restore health. With antidote, neutralizes poison quickly), Purification (Material Purification; With Mouthwash, cures Lloyd from colds. With Noble Seed, cures Lloyd of his confusion), The Last Weapon, tells one how to turn off their NES.

Resistance to Electricity Manipulation (With Earth Pendant), Ice Manipulation (With Fire Pendant), Fire Manipulation & Explosion Manipulation (With H20 Pendant), Statistics Reduction, Status Effect Inducement, Mind Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Power Nullification, and Power Absorption (With Sea Pendant, defends against all PSI attacks)

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Equipment

Guns

• Stun Gun: Lloyd's starting gun, the weakest one. Raises his offense by 15.
• Air Gun: The strongest gun Lloyd can get. Raises his offense by 46.

Other Equippable Weapons

• Boomerang: Weapon anyone can equip, raises offense by 32.
• Slingshot: Ranged weapon that raises offense by 7. Has a higher chance of missing then other weapons.

*Bomb: The Bomb is an item only usable by Lloyd, and does about 60-80 HP of PK Fire damage to all enemies. The PSI equivalent of PK Fire Beta.

Bottle Rockert: The Bottle Rocket, alternatively BottlRocket, is an item only usable by Lloyd, which deals about 20 HP of PK Fire damage to all enemies. The PSI equivalent of PK Fire Alpha.

Bullhorn: Amplifies one voice to possibly intimidate an enemy. It'll either decrease their statistics or raise them upon failing.

Flame Thrower: The Flame Thrower, alternatively Fl Thrower, is a reusable item, which only Lloyd is able to utilize, and deals about 100 HP of PK Fire damage to one enemy. The PSI equivalent of PK Fire Gamma.

Flashdark: Induces blindness on an enemy making them miss attacks more often.

Fleabag: Decreases an enemies offense and defense.

Rope: Makes the enemy unable to do anything until it escapes.

Insecticide: Instantly kills any arthropod-based enemies.

Laser Beam: The Laser Beam is a reusable item, which only can be utilized by Lloyd. It deals about 30-40 HP of PK Beam damage to one enemy. The PSI equivalent of PK Beam Alpha.

Plasma Beam: The Plasma Beam is a reusable item, which only can be utilized by Lloyd. It deals about 80 HP of PK Beam damage to one enemy. The PSI equivalent of PK Beam Beta.

Super Spray: Instantly kills any arthropod-based enemies. Has unlimited uses.

Super Bomb: The Super Bomb is an item only usable by Lloyd, it instantly kills all enemies during a battle. The PSI equivalent of PK Fire Omega.

*Repel Ring: One look at this strange ring will drive away weak enemies.

Brass Ring: Raises defense by 8.

Silver Ring: Raises defense by 14.

Gold Ring: Raisese defense by 28.

Peace Coin: Raises defense by 5.

ProtectCoin: Raises defense by 11.

Magic Coin: Raises defense by 20.

H2o Pendant: Defends against PK fire and explosion based attacks.

FirePendant: Defends against PK Freeze.

EarthPendnt: Defends against PK Thunder.

Sea Pendant: Defends against all PSI attacks.

Franklin Badge: Passively reflects against lightning and light based attacks.

Important Items

Onyx Hook: Allows Lloyd to warp back to magicant without finding entry points.

Foods

• Crumbs: Used to make it out of dungeons quickly.
• Big Bag: A bag filled with magic herbs, each healing 30 HP.
• Bread: Heals 20 HP.
• French Fries: Heals 20 HP.
• Hamburger: Heals 50 HP.
• Orange Juice: Heals 10 HP.
• SportsDrink: Heals 100 HP.

Medicine

• Antidote: Neutralizes poison.
• AsthmaSpray: Heals asthma.
• LifeUpCream: Used to heal wounds.
• Mouth Wash: Neutralizes colds.
• Noble Seed: Cancels wicked seed.

*Last Weapon: Tells the player how to turn off their NES when used.

Real Rocket: Immediately after purchase the Mysterious Teacher accidentally launches the Real Rocket into orbit, thus losing it.

Ruler: Measures things in battle with no real purpose.

Swear Words: When used in battle the words "I hate you." are displayed. Nothing happens as a result.

WordsO'Love: When used in battle the words "I love you." are displayed. Nothing happens as a result.

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Notable Techniques

• Maria's Song: Embodiment of Maria's love, is the only thing that can harm Giygas.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Lloyd utilizes weapon based attacks mainly due to his physical strength not being on par with Ninten's.

Weaknesses: One of the 2 party members that cannot perform PSI. Also naturally weaker then the rest of the party, asides from Ana in terms of strikes. Can contract colds just from people simply coughing near him or sneezing near him. Their astral forms are unable to interact with anything, where it's shown characters like Jeff being unconscious makes him unable to fix broken items as his conscious physical body is not there.

Note

• There is some conflict over whether or not MOTHER cast actually become genuine ghost or not, as the games at time makes mention that the characters are just unconscious along with the resurrection system in the game requires going to the hospital where they note the person has been unconscious in there, and thus some write it off as the ghost are not actually there but sprite place ins. However, the ghost sprites are acknowledged by NPCs, with the mouse in the department store noting he has an eerie feeling that a ghost is walking with the party whenever unconscious party members are around, Paula's dad can sense her presence in the room when she's unconscious, and Poo directly notes he's communicating with Ness' soul if he comes to the party while Ness is unconscious. With this in mind, it is accepted the characters create an astral projection to keep observing the party on their journey while they are unconscious in the hospital. This is further supported with the MOTHER 2 cast being able to have their souls leave their bodies. In MOTHER 3 this does not exist as there's rarely hospitals around so they are just unconscious on the floor with the head party member dragging them around.

Explanations

• A good chunk of the scans used on this profile are from the MOTHER 1+2 fan translation, translated by Clyde Mandelin (Tomato), he is a professional translator, widely known for his legendsoflocalization post on EarthBound or MOTHER 2.

Miscellaneous Feats

• Can fight and defeat silver wolves.
• Can fight and defeat polar bears.
• Can fight and defeat Devil Car.
• Can fight and defeat Devil Truck.
• Can fight and defeat Armor.

• Can tank a point blank landmine explosion, land mines used in the war before last.
• Can tank the explosion of the dust ghost where he bursts into flames.

Trivia

• Lloyd's blood type listed as AB MOTHER Encyclopedia.
• Lloyd (excluding Pippi) is the only party member in the game required to join Ninten in order to complete EarthBound Beginnings, being essential in clearing the path to the Thanksgiving train station and reaching EVE.
• His Japanese name is Roido, which is a pun on roidomegane, meaning "round glasses with plastic rims", the kind of glasses he wears. His name may have been localized as Lloyd, and ultimately Lloyd because in Japanese, R and L are pronounced interchangeably, and Lloyd sounds like the name Lloyd. As a further coincidence, Lloyd means 'grey' in Welsh, which happens to be the color of his hair.
• Lloyd has the second-fewest primary weapons in the entire Mother series, only having two; the Stun Gun and the Air Gun. For comparison, Poo only has one.
• Some people theorize that Lloyd was Dr. Andonuts as a child, as they look similar, and are shown to hide in garbage cans. However, this is unlikely due to Dr. Andonuts being far older than Lloyd, and EarthBound taking place in 199X, only around a decade after Beginnings, which takes place in 1988.

Gallery

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Battle Records

6-0-0

• Stray Dog - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten and Lloyd teamed up.
  • Location: Outside Duncan's Factory

• Starman - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana all teamed up.
  • Location: Halloween Hotel

• R-7037 - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana were all within a tank and teamed up.
  • Location: Yuca Desert
  • Note: Ninten and co. solely won due to being in a tank, if one tries to fight it outside of the tank, it will easily one-shot them.

• Dragon - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana all teamed up.
  • Location: Halloween Hotel

• R-7038XX - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana were helped by EVE.
  • Location: Mt. Itoi
  • Note: Not even EVE was strong enough to harm R-7038XX, needing to explode in order to take out R-7038XX.

• Giygas - Fight
  • Conditions: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana all teamed up, needing to sing to defeat Giygas.
  • Location: Top of Mt. Itoi
  • Note: Ninten, Lloyd, & Ana could only defeat Giygas through singing Maria's melody, filling Giygas with guilt and causing him to run away, without this, they would've had no chance to win.

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