People will ask why "Smash Clones" aren't more "original" as if Smash isn't a game where you can play as obvious pastiches of Ellen Ripley, Rocky Balboa, Astro Boy, Alan Tracy, King Kong, Muttley, and Snake Plisskin as well as literal French literary icon Arsène Lupin, and the most requested Smash characters don't include equally-as-obvious pastiches of the Tazmanian Devil, Boyacky, Chuck E. Cheese, and the webcomic Helvetica that only 7 people read.
Keep in mind, I do think summarising these characters as just "pastiches" is reductive, all of them are in some way an original concept (even Actual Arsène Lupin from Books) and don't have to be either, but that's the point I'm trying to make.