Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-11139677-20160723210931

Oobooglunk wrote: PSI Seven wrote: Oobooglunk wrote: PSI Seven wrote: Another thing is that any TRUE EarthBound fan would know, is that there are multiple Franklin Badges. In EarthBound Beginnings/Mother/EarthBound 0, it is possible to have two Franklin Badges.

How is that relevant? Sans's badge could be a Franklin Badge, but not necessary Ness's badge. Would it make sense for Ninten or Lucas or whoever to be in the world of Undertale, though? Sans shares more aesthetic and narrative similarities with Ness from the Halloween Hack than with anyone else. I meant San's badge may not have belonged to anyone from the Mother series. Remember Occam's Razor: "When faced with competing hypotheses, select the one that makes the fewest assumptions. Do not multiply entities without necessity."

If the badge were the only item of evidence linking Sans to Ness, it wouldn't carry so much weight, but it's the combination of existing evidence that makes this theory work. The same goes for any other individual piece of evidence in this theory. The problem here is that there's nothing solid. The similar posture and basically everything else mentioned could be interpreted as simply coincidences, and there was multiple things used that were very clearly supposed to connect to Gaster, not Ness.