Ness

On climbing the hill behind his house in Onett to investigate a strange meteor strike, Ness and his then-friend Pokey were surprised to find out it was a small spaceship from the future. The bug-sized alien Buzz-Buzz warned Ness that he was the chosen one, and he would have to save the world from the evil alien Giygas, who was building power to gain revenge. Upon returning to Pokey's house, Pokey's mother, thinking Buzz-Buzz was a dung beetle, crushed him.

Coming to realize that he would need help to beat Giygas, Ness gathered three friends together over his travels who stood bravely with him against the evil alien, while Pokey, seduced by Giygas' promises of power, became Ness' rival and opposed him to the end. Ness encountered many strange things in his travels, including the strange but good-hearted Mr. Saturns and the evil Mani Mani idol, which challenged him many times. But using little more than his baseball bat and powerful psychic abilities, and the Soundstone imbued with the holy song of Magicant's dead queen Mary, Ness defeated the insane force the alien had become in a dramatic final battle in the past.

Super Smash Bros.

Ness was one of the special combatants summoned to defeat the Master Hand in the Super Smash Bros. competitions.