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Giygas (Gīgu?, Gyiyg in the Japanese version) is once again the main antagonist from Mother. Known as both the "Embodiment of Evil" and the "Universal Cosmic Destroyer," Giygas is an evil alien that intends to sentence all of reality to the horror of infinite darkness. With an army of Starmen, UFOs, and other deadly war machines, Giygas also used his immense power to influence the evil parts of the Earth's beings to assist him.

In Mother, Giygas is raised by Maria, a woman abducted along with her husband George from Earth by Giygas' alien race in the early 1900's. George studied the aliens' PSI powers without permission, and escaped back to Earth. Once he matured, Giygas was tasked by his people to make sure that PSI never spread onto Earth. However, Giygas didn't want to betray those who raised him, particularly his beloved Maria. In the end, he forced himself to detach from Maria, and began preparations for the aliens' invasion. Eighty years later, he starts the invasion, and is eventually confronted by the great-grandson of Maria and George, Ninten, and his companions. By singing a song once known by Maria and Giygas, the loving memories he had tried so hard to suppress weaken him. Giygas eventually surrenders, but promises revenge upon Ninten someday, and flies away in his UFO.

In Earthbound, Giygas has returned and has fully taken over the world ten years in the future. Once he starts to take over the current time line of the game, Ness and his companions learn that he is attacking from the center of the Earth from "innumerable years in the past." They finally reach him, and he is much different than in Mother. By this time, Giygas had gained such tremendous evil power that his mind and body were completely destroyed by it, leaving behind only his consciousness which manifests itself as what can only be described as pure evil; in Pokey Minch's words, "he is THE evil power" (Pokey also calls him an "all-mighty idiot" during the battle, which can also be considered an accurate, yet crude description). This is due to being banished to his own subconscious by Buzz-buzz's race, allowing him to overcome his goodness, and become true evil, thus losing his form. Pokey helped Giygas by creating the Devil's Machine (an eyeball-like sphere with an image of Ness's face inside) to contain Giygas' tremendous power, but it is eventually shut off, causing all his power to be unleashed; an event that creates a chaotic, bizarre dimension all around them in which only Giygas and the five children remained trapped in darkness. His attacks are random and incomprehensible, and his speech is also erratic and mindless. He is eventually defeated after Paula calls out to the people of the Earth to pray, and the combined prayers reach Giygas and exploit his weakness, which turns out to be human emotions (possibly due to his loss of Maria). He fades out into nothing, and his future is erased.

Shigesato Itoi stated that his inspiration for Giygas' speech came from a traumatic childhood experience where he mistakenly walked into an adult movie theatre and caught a glimpse of a rape scene in the 1957 movie Kenpei and the Dismembered Beauty (憲兵とバラバラ死美人, Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin).

He has to be one of the most powerful Nintendo villains.