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What a time we live in. If you said this back in the Brawl era, people would be utterly bewildered by your statement.
People may have believed Ryu Hayabusa back then, but definitely NOT Doom Slayer.
Given the similarities it has with my own moveset, mine desperately requires an update what with Doom Eternal incoming and whatnot.
So your moveset shows Glory Kills restoring health and the Chainsaw restoring ammo. I’m sure you know this, but in Doom Eternal, there’s a weapon called the Flame Belcher that sets enemies on fire, and shooting them while they’re ablaze makes them drop armor. In my moveset, that’s where I had my idea for the one-hit super armor: to represent the function.
Hell, Master Chief is being treated as a serious contender. Back in the Brawl days he was a meme pick, along with Cloud.
Not the video, but all of this info has already been passed around a bunch.
The 4 characters Forbes Magazine said were "datamined" were the same characters that were in the 5chan leak that got busted earlier this year.
I don't think this is particularly a hint towards any character, but Sakurai doesn't really care if a character is only requested and popular in the west.
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Nothing big, but one of the devs of Doom Eternal confirmed that we're getting a lot more Doomguy backstory in Doom Eternal. Some questions that they're apparently going to answer include: why he's called Doom Slayer, if he's human, and if he's the same Doomguy from 1993. That last question in particular has me very interested!
I believe they mean they're going to answer why he's called that in canon. As it didn't really have to much of an explanation. Even in the lore snippets you could read in Doom 2016, they called him "Doom Marine". Then later on when you hear the backstory from the testament, it says that the demons refer to him as "Doom Slayer". So i'm guessing there's possibly a more in-depth reason for the name, at least as far as Doom lore is concerned. I like that you're confident about Google Theory, that alone makes me have a little more hope.
I still have some doubts about his claim, mainly because he just joined SmashBoards on July 1st this year. Regardless of the validity of his claim, I still believe Doom Slayer has an excellent shot in being the Fighters' Pass.
I don’t believe Google Theory, but I could’ve sworn PapaGenos said that no one had tried the name “Hero”. Maybe I’m mistaken or he forgot about being PM’d.
PapaGenos did confirm that nobody on his Discord tested "Hero" because the name was very generic. He explained in this video:
Switch marketing is a good sign that Doom Guy maybe on his way to Smash Bros. It happened with Dragon Quest and it happened with Banjo Kazooie. Capcom also did this with Resident Evil by releasing 0, 1, 4, 5 and 6 for the Switch. They had a whole commercial for Nintendo's E3 entirely dedicated to those re-releases.
This is the parent headcanon that will rival even Bayo and Joker.
Add in the whole Futaba element and this thing dynamic gets all the more confusing.
Doom Guy was Sojiro this whole time!
Cool ideas, but lacking any elements from Doom Eternal, which feels like a certainty for Doom Slayer in Smash. After all, Joker got his grappling hook in Smash, and that isn't going to be a major element of his character until Persona 5 Royal.
Sakurai certainly wouldn't forget the Crucible.
Well, in Japan it's not legal to carry firearms, so Doomguy is just teaching them as a Western rep with such notable experience. The only other option would be Banjo, but the only firearm he knows how to use is Kazooie.
