Zoroark
Popularity: Among the more popular Pokemon of course. Seems not to be as popular as Mewtwo or as popular as Lucario at his peak though.
Relevancy: Well, she's one of the pimped Pokemon, having her own movie.
Design: Here's where she gets an advantage over some other movie Pokemon or legendaries and such. She has a natural shape for fighting. She's not huge and she has long limbs and is bipedal. Now, some of the others still have possible move sets. We've seen quadrupedal fighters (Ivysaur) and ones with tiny limbs (Olimar, Pichu) and such. But Zoroark is definitely
easier to design. Genesect is also one that would have a fairly easy move set to design. I'm not familiar with her, but the appearance at least seems similar to Lucario. Making copies of herself with Illusion would be interesting, but given the problems they have with the 3DS I think they'd probably avoid adding unnecessary technical complications, which makes her design less interesting. It could work as a Final Smash though.
Roster and Competition: I don't think Pokemon are likely to get more than one new slot, and I think it's most likely to go to Mewtwo. Sakurai has said he's not made any cuts yet, so that would mean he'd have to be planning to add one or two and NOT replace Lucario or Pokemon Trainer (although he might put Lucario as lower priority and therefore more likely to get cut if time becomes an issue). But I don't see them planning on 6 Pokemon slots and 8 move sets. Which means Zoroark probably gets left out in favor of Mewtwo.
She is a female in the movie at least, to the extent that that's relevant. She's not obviously a female though as can be seen by the number of people calling her a he.
Zoroark chances: 12%
Zoroark want: 30%
I don't really care for most of the movie/legendary Pokemon. Pokemon are not bad-ass no matter how much they pimp them or give them angry eyes. I don't like Lucario all that much either, so it doesn't matter that much to me personally whether she gets in over him. I'd prefer Mewtwo to either.
Simon Belmont prediction: 3.9%
I'm kinda surprised at how high some of the predictions are. Not sure whether that means I should guess high or whether I should just go what I would've thought before... I would like to see him, but I don't have illusions that he's particularly likely. If they took out Snake and put in a different Konami rep, it's pretty much just him and Goemon as possibilities.
Nominations:
Well, now I have to nominate someone else. Hmmmm...
4x Mike Jones
1x Lucas
I myself never really bothered with it after Super Castlevania IV, so the series without Simon is completely alien to me.
Well, that's probably why
I love the old Castlevania games the most, because of their relation to Metroid in terms of gameplay 
Ummmmm... wut?
Castlevania 1, 3 and 4 are all linear games. There are secrets in some levels, but the emphasis is not on exploration. You don't have a large inventory or gain better defense or more health, etc. Simon's Quest is the only one that's similar, but it's also kinda like The Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. It's moving in the Metroid direction, but I'd call it more proto-Metroidvania. But overall... no. Castlevania 1-4 are not like Metroid.
The game where it truly becomes a Metroid-like game is Symphony of the Night, which is on the Playstation and is awesome. Like seriously, if you like 2-D Metroid games, you should play SotN. If you like Metroid games and stopped playing at Super Castlevania IV you stopped at
exactly the wrong time. After SotN pretty much all of the handheld games are Metroid-like they're all pretty good or better.
