- "It there any way to defeat him?"
- — In-game description
R•7038 (spelled R7038 in the English prototype) is a boss in Mother, usually encountered between R•7037 and R•7038XX. The massive robot will be encountered if Ninten and co. stay at a healer's house on Holy Loly Mountain. After a cutscene in which Ninten and Ana confess their feelings and dance, Teddy walks in and tells them that there are loud noises coming from outside, which initiates a battle with R•7038.
R•7038 cannot be defeated, and battling it will certainly guarantee death for all party members. However, after the party is defeated, Lloyd will show up and destroy the robot with a tank (though he states that he missed) and rescues his friends. After the cutscene is over, Teddy is shown to be unable to help Ninten and his friends due to his injuries received during the battle, at which point Lloyd rejoins the party.
Though it seems necessary, this boss can be avoided entirely, simply by bringing Lloyd up the mountain before recruiting Teddy and obtaining Eve.
Trivia
- There is a typo in the English prototype that can appear during the battle against R•7038. If the check command is used during the battle, the statement about R•7038 will say "It there any way to defeat him?" rather than "Is there any way to defeat him?".
- In Mother 1 + 2, the Flea Bag has no effect on R•7038, meaning that this was most likely a bug in the original version.