Lucas

Lucas is a character from the EarthBound/Mother series, who debuted in the Japan-only game, Mother 3. He appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a playable character, representing the EarthBound series. Lucas's special moveset is almost exactly like Ness's from the previous games, but with a few minor tweaks. All his normal moves, and Smash Attacks, however, are completely different. He also uses the Rope Snake as his Grab move, as well as his Tether Recovery move. Lucas is seen with a common stick for his forward smash attack, in contrast to Ness' baseball bat. Lucas's home stage is New Pork City.

Lucas was originally meant to replace Ness in Super Smash Bros. Melee. However, Mother 3 (at that time, known as EarthBound 64), was delayed for 2006 for release on the Game Boy Advance. As such, Ness was kept in Super Smash Bros. Melee to avoid confusion.

Role in the Subspace Emissary


Lucas first appears alone in the Ruined Zoo. He is attacked by The Pig King Statue, but Ness arrives to save him. They proceed to fight Porky Minch, but then Wario then arrives with his Dark Cannon and attempts to hit Ness with it. Ness dodges his attacks, so Wario tries to attack Lucas instead. Lucas doesn't move out of the way, so Ness ends up taking the hit himself. Lucas, scared, runs away and meets the Pokémon Trainer, and they join to fight the Subspace Army, as Lucas cannot forget what Wario had done to Ness.

Outside the Ruins, the Pokémon Trainer decides to capture a Charizard that flew by. Before entering them, however, they are ambushed by Wario. They defeat him, but Lucas becomes disappointed that Wario doesn't have Ness with him anymore. After capturing Charizard and an Ivysaur inside the Ruins, Lucas and the Pokémon Trainer reach the Ruined Hall, where they are attacked by Galleom. After defeating him, Galleom takes them and starts flying into the air, with a Subspace Bomb in his head about to go off. Lucas frees himself and the Pokémon Trainer, and they are then saved by Meta Knight, whose team they then join.

At the Glacial Peak, Meta Knight leaves them, but they are then joined by the Ice Climbers as the Subspace Army is sent out to attack them. Mario, Link, Yoshi, Kirby and Pit then appear and defeated the enemies. Soon, the other remaining heroes show up and they enter Subspace together. Unfortunately, Lucas and the others were defeated by Tabuu. But then Lucas is saved by King Dedede, who had revived Ness and Luigi with badges. All of the revived heroes then fight and defeat Tabuu.

Solid Snake Codec Conversation

 * Mei Ling: I see you're fighting Lucas, Snake.
 * Snake: Lucas?
 * Mei Ling: That boy has PSI powers, which he can use for different kinds of attacks. But the poor little guy's had such a hard life. His mother was killed when he was young, and he was separated from his brother. After that, he faced all kinds of senseless hardships, and he slowly grew stronger.
 * Snake: Senseless hardships--yeah, I had a lot of those, too. The question is how you translate those hardships into a better future.
 * Mei Ling: ...Mmm. Well, I hope things turn out OK for him.

Trivia

 * One of Lucas' alternate colors makes him look like his twin brother, Claus. Also, the name Claus and the name Lucas are anagrams of each other.
 * Lucas and Ness's victory theme is the title theme for the first mother game.