Even before he got confirmed, I was kinda baffled as to why nobody took the idea of Hugh in NASB seriously from a speculation standpoint - characters being added to games because of memes is not an uncommon occurance at all, and if Smash was developed in the West or otherwise had better communication with that audience we probably would've got an actual meme character like Dunsparce (does anyone else remember that from the Brawl days?) or a literal Hat Goomba by now.
