


Battle Boomerang: Although his main weapon type of choice is baseball bats, a savvy player will have him equipped with a boomerang instead for a large portion of the game.Batter Up!: Uses baseball bats as weapons.Power Shield blocks and reflects all damage back to the attacker. α and β halve all damage, the former targets one ally and the latter targets all allies. Barrier Warrior: He gets PSI Shield α and β, as well as Power Shield.Badass Adorable: Much like his fellow MOTHER-series playable characters, his adorableness hides the fact that he's skilled with bats and can beat you to death with them.An inhaler is a purchasable item to help remedy this. Asthma Peril: He suffers from asthma, and it becomes a health-draining status effect if he's hit by truck smog.All There in the Manual: According to Encyclopedia MOTHER, his favorite food is Prime Rib, loves penguins, and is a big fan of the San Francisco Giants.The All-American Boy: He's a bat-wielding Everyman boy from a small American town.It is sometimes argued that this is due to Ninten being intended as a placeholder for the player rather than an official name. Adaptation Name Change: He's known as "Ken" in the novelization.His one redeeming quality is that he genuinely loves his mother and sisters and wants to stop Giygas for their sake. Adaptational Jerkass: Good grief is his novel counterpart a brat! Unlike Ninten, who gets little characterization due to essentially being a mask worn by the player, his counterpart "Ken" is an overall rude, abrasive, and haughty little boy to the point where both of his companions, Ana especially, cannot stand him.In the Japanese live-action commercial for MOTHER, he has brown hair.It turns out that there was a reason for that later on. Saori Kumi's novel switches Ana and Ninten's hair colors.

Not much information is given about his personality, but he seems to be a kind, brave kid, with a bit of a temper. He sets out to find the Eight Melodies and possibly uncover secrets about his mysterious great-grandparents. He lives with his mother Carol, his younger twin sisters Mimmie and Minnie, and their pet dog Mick on the northern outskirts of the town of Podunk, which is known as Mother's Day in Japan.

A twelve-year-old American boy with a love of baseball.
