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Lloyd
Articles About Lloyd
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Official Media | MOTHER - Novel |
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“ | 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
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[1])
Birthday:
Residence: Thanksgiving, Eagleland
Story Role: Party Member, Supporting Protagonist
Classification: Party Member, Smart Kid, Bullied Kid
Species: Human
State of Being: Regular
Physiology: Humanoid Physiology
Occupation:
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[2])
Weight: 40 kg (Officially listed as 40 kilograms in the MOTHER Encyclopedia[3])
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+).
Tier: 9-C to 9-A | 9-A to 8-C | At least 8-C
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
'Attack Potency: Peak Human 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 (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 to Building level (Defeated enemies such as the SuperEnergy and could fight Last Starman, who is the strongest of all Starman) | 'At least Building level
Durability: Peak Human level (No-selled an explosion that did this to the entire classroom) to Small Building level (Can tank the explosion of Maria's Big Woodoh), his reliance on the Universal System makes him difficult to kill | Small Building level to City Block level, his reliance on the Universal System makes him difficult to kill | City Block level. Protection from the Universal System makes him difficult to kill.
Striking Strength: Peak Human Class to Small Building Class | Small Building Class to City Block Class | City Block Class
Lifting Strength: Unknown | (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)
Combat Speed: Superhuman, Higher with PSI (Learns Quick Up at level 14, a PSI technque that raises one party members speed) | Superhuman, Higher with PSI | Supersonic (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 | Supersonic, 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.
Powers and Techniques
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)
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.
*Repel Ring: One look at this strange ring will drive away weak enemies.
Important Items
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.
Notable Techniques
- Maria's Song: Embodiment of Maria's love, is the only thing that can harm Giygas.
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. Cannot interact with anyone as a ghost.
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
Trivia
- Lloyd's blood type listed as AB MOTHER Encyclopedia[8].
- 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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In-Game Sprite
Battle Records
6-0-0
- Stray Dog - Fight
- Conditions: Ninten and Lloyd teamed up.
- Location: Outside Duncan's Factory
- 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.
- 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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References
- ↑ MOTHER Encyclopedia, Page 20
- ↑ MOTHER Encyclopedia, Page 20
- ↑ MOTHER Encyclopedia, Page 20
- ↑ Listen well, Ness. I am about to tell you something so important that you should probably write this down.
Ready? You are a chosen one. Your destiny is not yours alone… It is part of a universal “system”. - ↑ In MOTHER 2, Paula’s mom tells Ness not to worry about Paula, because “God is with her”. In EarthBound, this was localized to “She has a guardian angel, it seems.”
It’s not a big deal, and it’s pretty well-known that NOA didn’t want any religious stuff in their games back then, so the change is to be expected. I think the guardian angel line sounds better, anyway. But yeah, there’s no way NOA would’ve let a mention of the Christian God fly in their games back then.
But note that even though she mentions God in MOTHER 2, there are no real serious religious themes in the game. So don’t take this one change out of context and make a big deal out of it 😛 - ↑ In MOTHER 2, during part of Paula’s first prayer, she says something like, “Please, God, if you’re there…” or possibly even, “Please, God, if you’re real…”
In EarthBound, this religious reference got the smack-down and was trimmed to just, “Please…” - ↑ The truth of the universe travels the cosmos like a grain and like a wave and speaks to the universes known as man.
- ↑ MOTHER Encyclopedia, Page 20