Character Discussion Thread

[josh bones]

Zelda:Impa.
DK:Tie beetween K.Rool or Dixie. I thing only one should make it.
Kirby:Bandana, but we don't need another that much.
Metroid:Ridley!
Yoshi:Ummm...pass. (They need another, but Kamek is next best, and that's like having a generic Mario enemy playable)
KI: Palutena.
F-Zero:Gorah.

That's all I find with chances. Not doing every series, just ones that I think should have another. (Kirby I'm neutral on.)

Gorah?

 

[Shotguner159]

Well, the respect gained from Lip just shot down immediately due to a non video game character.

It was a joke, since I don't really care about third parties.

 

[Luigi#1]

Gorah?

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[josh bones]

Mario- Waluigi
Zelda- Tingle
Kirby- Bandanna Dee
Pokemon- Seviper
Donkey Kong- Pauline
Metroid- Ridley
Kid Icarus- Viridi
Star Fox- Slippy
Fire Emblem- Roy
Mother- Jeff
F-Zero- Samurai GOroh
Yoshi- Kamek
Wario- Mona
Pikmin Alph
Animal Crossing- Tom Nook
Wii Fit- Balance board
Retro- COndor fox from egg
Third Party- Big, Roll, Otacon
Smash Original- Sandbag
Punch out!: Glass Joe

 

[Kenith]

Mario is already in the game.
Chilling out and relaxing?
Well, I thought this was rare.
He's my second choice, but ****ing kawaii but badass goo dragon.
I'll give you that. Go play EarthBound though.
A Yoshi's about seven or eight.
Laughing at Condor and Mrs. Game & Watch. Also the fact that you're still calling Punch Out retro.
Those third party choices gave me cancer though. So does Saturn.
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-air

Here's my Final answer:

Mario: Paper Mario (We have Toon Link)
DK: King K Rool
Zelda: Ghirahim / Midna
Metroid: Ridley
Kirby: Prince Fluff (because Game Grumps)
Starfox: Krystal (who else is there?)
Pokemon: Hawlucha (Saved my ass many a time in X)
Fire Emblem: Lucina
Yoshi: Stork (Ridley Semiclone)
F-Zero: Black Shadow (Takes Ganondorf's old moves so he gets sword)
Mother: Still Porky (Because SSB Crusade)
Wario: ASHLEY!
Kid Icarus: Palutena / Medusa
Pikmin: Louie
Animal Crossing: Tom Nook
Punch-Out!!: King Hippo
Ice Climber: Condor & Vegetables
Game & Watch: Mrs. Game & Watch
NES Peripherals: Controller
Wii Fit: Balance Board

I fixed Punch-Out you picky *******.

 

[Joe D.]

Get out

Knuckle Joe till I die, I would LOVE IT if he was. I don't hate Bandana Dee, but Knuckle Joe would be so much cooler.

 

[josh bones]

Knuckle Joe till I die, I would LOVE IT if he was. I don't Bandana Dee, but Knuckle Joe would be so much cooler.

Your Next!
......
Yeah, feels empty without the picture

 

[NickerBocker]

Mario: Paper Mario
Zelda: Vaati (Skull Kid if he was eligible)
Dk: K Rool
Pokemon: Sandslash (yes im serious, assuming Mewtwo gets in)
Yoshi: Kamek
Fire Emblem: Robin
Metroid: Ridley
Kid Icarus: Pyyrhon (after Palutena)
Kirby: Dark Matter
3rd party: Goemon

 

[Morbi]

After reading all of these answers... let us just say that I am glad that Sakurai is head of the project. I thought he was into crazy characters...

 

[Shorts]

Mario- Blue Toad
Zelda- Tingle
Kirby- Bandana Dee
Pokemon- Zoroark
DK- Dixie Kong
Metroid- Ridley
Kid Icarus- Palutena
Star Fox- Krystal
Fire Emblem- Tharja
Mother- Porky
F-Zero- Samurai Goroh
Yoshi- Kamek
Wario- Ashley

 

[RouffWestie]

Personal choices for different franchises?

Mario- Toadsworth
Zelda- Toon Zelda and Tetra
Kirby- Dark Matter
Pokemon- Kalos Trainer with Fennekin, Frogadier, and Chesnaught
DK- I’M GONNA BE A STAR Kong
Metroid- Ridley
Kid Icarus- Palutena
Star Fox- Andross
Fire Emblem- Lucina
F-Zero- Goroh
Wario- Captain Syrup
AC- Tortimer
Third parties- Clavat

 

[Joe D.]

Mario- Toadsworth
Zelda- Toon Zelda and Tetra
Kirby- Dark Matter
Pokemon- Kalos Trainer with Fennekin, Frogadier, and Chesnaught
DK- I’M GONNA BE A STAR Kong
Metroid- Ridley
Kid Icarus- Palutena
Star Fox- Andross
Fire Emblem- Lucina
F-Zero- Goroh
Wario- Captain Syrup
AC- Tortimer
Third parties- Clavat

Andross? ANDROSS? AAAAANNNNDDDDDRRRROOOOOSSSS??!?!?

 

[JamesDNaux]

After reading all of these answers... let us just say that I am glad that Sakurai is head of the project. I thought he was into crazy characters...

You're one to talk.

I'm quite disturbed by how you feel about Mr. Game & Watch.

 

[Kenith]

You're one to talk.

I'm quite disturbed by how you feel about Mr. Game & Watch.

Heed these words, Morbid!

 

[Gune]

To be honest I never pegged morbid as the one to dislike GnW and R.O.B. not that it changes my opinion on you just really caught me off guard.

 

[josh bones]

After reading all of these answers... let us just say that I am glad that Sakurai is head of the project. I thought he was into crazy characters...

I know, like those people who want KNUCKLE JOE and not BANDANNA DEE,

 

[Morbi]

You're one to talk.

I'm quite disturbed by how you feel about Mr. Game & Watch.

Hey, I didn't exclude myself from that assertion.

I would honestly, like many, put my personal preferences aside. Obviously you must retain some element of surprise, but I would mostly include the characters with high-fan demand and move-set potential that I could actualize.

Heed these words, Morbid!

Game and Watch is repugnant. Honestly, R.O.B., my second to least favorite character is much more entertaining, unique, deserving, and fun than the pixel with the incoherent move-set. I pray he doesn't return every night (knowing that it will never happen).

Chalk outline... make it happen, Sakurai.

 

[Kenith]

Hey, I didn't exclude myself from that assertion.
I would honestly, like many, put my personal preferences aside. Obviously you must retain some element of surprise, but I would mostly include the characters with high-fan demand and move-set potential that I could actualize.
Game and Watch is repugnant. Honestly, R.O.B., my second to least favorite character is much more entertaining, unique, deserving, and fun than the pixel with the incoherent move-set. I pray he doesn't return every night (knowing that it will never happen).
Chalk outline... make it happen, Sakurai.

This...this changes everything. You are not welcome here!! Don't make me use Judgement on you!!
*Uses Judge, gets a 1*

 

[Joe D.]

You know, I would like to initiate a new conversation on something that's really been bugging me, if the staff and higher powers of smashboards don't mind.

I just don't see how K. Rool really has a good shot at this game. The only thing he has going for him in regard to relevance is if he is even included in tropical freeze. Don't get me wrong, he's a great character, and i'd like to see him myself, but it seems that he's too far in the past of his franchise to be included in the next installment. I mean, I root for certain characters we haven't seen for awhile, but in their last few installments of their franchises, they still played a huge role. K. Roll just doesn't have a good chance imo.

Please understand that i'm just stating my opinion, and feel free to prove me wrong!

 

[Sehnsucht]

Game and Watch is repugnant. Honestly, R.O.B., my second to least favorite character is much more entertaining, unique, deserving, and fun than the pixel with the incoherent move-set. I pray he doesn't return every night (knowing that it will never happen).

Chalk outline... make it happen, Sakurai.

How dare you talk smack about Game & Swagger.

Also, I enjoy the character, though he isn't among my mains/secondaries.

 

[Kenith]

You know, I would like to initiate a new conversation on something that's really been bugging me, if the staff and higher powers of smashboards don't mind.
I just don't see how K. Rool really has a good shot at this game. The only thing he has going for him in regard to relevance is if he is even included in tropical freeze. Don't get me wrong, he's a great character, and i'd like to see him myself, but it seems that he's too far in the past of his franchise to be included in the next installment. I mean, I root for certain characters we haven't seen for awhile, but in their last few installments of their franchises, they still played a huge role. K. Roll just doesn't have a good chance imo.
Please understand that i'm just stating my opinion, and feel free to prove me wrong!

Well, he's still the main antagonist overall of the DKC series. He's also got extreme popularity and uniqueness going for him.

 

[Morbi]

I had no idea that Game and Watch was so well-loved... it is probably his back-air.

 

[JamesDNaux]

Heed these words, Morbid!

I'm going to clean your clock mate, bloody ****er. Oh you.

Game and Watch is repugnant. Honestly, R.O.B., my second to least favorite character is much more entertaining, unique, deserving, and fun than the pixel with the incoherent move-set. I pray he doesn't return every night (knowing that it will never happen).

Chalk outline... make it happen, Sakurai.

That... That's just low. Game & Watch is amazing in his simplicity, the reason I picked him up is because of how amazingly neutral he appears. His retro flair is great too, completely flat and nothing but beeping noises, dat frame-by-frame movement (Wario needs to back off his turf), he's the embodiment of old-school. Plus it's pretty amazing how he represents an entire line of handhelds by himself, and no two moves are from the same game (bar his final smash and up smash), his moveset just really works for me too. And even then, the Game & Watch games were the very first Nintendo games ever, he's the true grandfather of gaming.

 

[Sehnsucht]

I had no idea that Game and Watch was so well-loved... it is probably his back-air.

He gots the game. It's in his name.

 

[Gunla]

I had no idea that Game and Watch was so well-loved... it is probably his back-air.

Fun Fact: I don't like G+W much either.

I understand him being in the game, but I don't like him. That being said, I don't like cuts.

 

[NickerBocker]

You know, I would like to initiate a new conversation on something that's really been bugging me, if the staff and higher powers of smashboards don't mind.

I just don't see how K. Rool really has a good shot at this game. The only thing he has going for him in regard to relevance is if he is even included in tropical freeze. Don't get me wrong, he's a great character, and i'd like to see him myself, but it seems that he's too far in the past of his franchise to be included in the next installment. I mean, I root for certain characters we haven't seen for awhile, but in their last few installments of their franchises, they still played a huge role. K. Roll just doesn't have a good chance imo.

Please understand that i'm just stating my opinion, and feel free to prove me wrong!

Not being relevant is the ONLY thing against him, which isnt a strong argument unless youre talking FE or Pokemon.

Muh relevance

 

[Joe D.]

Well, he's still the main antagonist overall of the DKC series. He's also got extreme popularity and uniqueness going for him.

But don't you think that with a new title that doesn't involve him, being released in this gen with smash, make him somewhat irrelevant? Believe me, I know he's considered adeity in this community, but I don't know if Sakurai will be up to include a boss who was last seen in a baseball game.

 

[Morbi]

I'm going to clean your clock mate, bloody ******. Oh you.



That... That's just low. Game & Watch is amazing in his simplicity, the reason I picked him up is because of how amazingly neutral he appears. His retro flair is great too, completely flat and nothing but beeping noises, dat frame-by-frame movement (Wario needs to back off his turf), he's the embodiment of old-school. Plus it's pretty amazing how he represents an entire line of handhelds by himself, and no two moves are from the same game (bar his final smash and up smash), his moveset just really works for me too. And even then, the Game & Watch games were the very first Nintendo games ever, he's the true grandfather of gaming.

I already comprehend that he is important to Nintendo, and I understand the reason he is on the roster, and I can see what he offers. I just don't like him, maybe if his move-set was coherent I would enjoy playing as him more. I wouldn't remove him if I was the creative director, I just don't find him to be interesting. I will give him points in uniqueness. But again, I would honestly prefer Paper Mario.

I do agree though, Wario needs to check himself.

 

[josh bones]

But don't you think that with a new title that doesn't involve him, being released in this gen with smash, make him somewhat irrelevant? Believe me, I know he's considered adeity in this community, but I don't know if Sakurai will be up to include a boss who was last seen in a baseball game.

By that logic, we shouldn't have got megaman because Capcom stopped caring.

 

[Kenith]

But don't you think that with a new title that doesn't involve him, being released in this gen with smash, make him somewhat irrelevant? Believe me, I know he's considered adeity in this community, but I don't know if Sakurai will be up to include a boss who was last seen in a baseball game.

It isn't just Smashboards. Everyone wants a DK newcomer, and it's between King K Rool or Dixie Kong, and despite his lack of appearances, he also is distinctly unique, something Dixie Kong lacks, and that, along with popularity, is something Sakurai is focusing on this time around.

 

[Joe D.]

By that logic, we shouldn't have got megaman because Capcom stopped caring.

But like I said, at least he was still the central focus in his franchise when it stopped. Donkey Kong kept moving with out the reptilian king.

 

[Sehnsucht]

But don't you think that with a new title that doesn't involve him, being released in this gen with smash, make him somewhat irrelevant? Believe me, I know he's considered adeity in this community, but I don't know if Sakurai will be up to include a boss who was last seen in a baseball game.

He may not have much for recency, but across all DK titles, King K Rool is the most recurring antagonist. Among all the villains in the series, he has a seniority that makes him a prime candidate for potential Smash inclusion.

At this point, the only other feasible DK characters would be Dixie, K Rool, and perhaps a lesser Kong (Cranky, Junior, etc.).

What's more, most of the other major franchises in Smash have their main villains/rivals/antagonists represented (Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Star Fox, etc.). The DK section of any Smash roster can never be considered fully complete until K Rool (and Dixie, I guess) is present.

It should be noted that all of these arguments could also be applied for Ridley when it comes to the Metroid series (recurrence, seniority, franchise All-Star completion, antagonists, etc.).

 

[Fire Emblemier]

Fun Fact: I don't like G+W much either.

I understand him being in the game, but I don't like him. That being said, I don't like cuts.

Same...

Now I'm afraid of being threatened for not liking MG&W

I'm starting to be afraid of K. Rool's chances, yet I'm still pushing for him, I like that Crock

 

[Morbi]

It isn't just Smashboards. Everyone wants a DK newcomer, and it's between King K Rool or Dixie Kong, and despite his lack of appearances, he also is distinctly unique, something Dixie Kong lacks, and that, along with popularity, is something Sakurai is focusing on this time around.

You forgot about Cranky Kong!

 

[josh bones]

You forgot about Cranky Kong!

And Pauline!

 

[YoshiandToad]

You know, I would like to initiate a new conversation on something that's really been bugging me, if the staff and higher powers of smashboards don't mind.

I just don't see how K. Rool really has a good shot at this game. The only thing he has going for him in regard to relevance is if he is even included in tropical freeze. Don't get me wrong, he's a great character, and i'd like to see him myself, but it seems that he's too far in the past of his franchise to be included in the next installment. I mean, I root for certain characters we haven't seen for awhile, but in their last few installments of their franchises, they still played a huge role. K. Roll just doesn't have a good chance imo.

Please understand that i'm just stating my opinion, and feel free to prove me wrong!

Go, now. Before the Kremling Krew catch wind of this. Tis for your own safety.

Now at the risk of being forever spurred, despite K. Rool being the third most requested character(after Mewtwo and Megaman) worldwide, I don't see him quite as likely as others do, and by no means a lock. I also think Dixie is more likely overall.

Not that her getting in necessarily Rool's out his chances.

 

[Kenith]

You forgot about Cranky Kong!

No thank you.

 

[Morbi]

Go, now. Before the Kremling Krew catch wind of this. Tis for your own safety.

Now at the risk of being forever spurred, despite K. Rool being the third most requested character(after Mewtwo and Megaman) worldwide, I don't see him quite as likely as others do, and by no means a lock. I also think Dixie is more likely overall.

Not that her getting in necessarily Rool's out his chances.

I see what you did there!

I agree with this sentiment. King K. Rool's chances are certainly over-rated. He is a prominent character from Donkey Kong, yes. However, that doesn't necessarily entail that he is to be included. Dixie Kong is the more practical character in terms of relevance, recency, and most probably ease of development. Cranky Kong would be the character chosen if only to promote Tropical Freeze. Dixie Kong has more going for her than a recent playable appearance. King K. Rool still has a decent chance, but if the Donkey Kong developers don't intend on using him, what is the point in including him? He is the 3rd most requested character empirically. That doesn't necessarily mean much, his international popularity is the better argument in my opinion.

 

[josh bones]

No thank you.

Yeah, Pauline is much kewler.

 

[SuperBrawler]

I see what you did there!

I agree with this sentiment. King K. Rool's chances are certainly over-rated. He is a prominent character from Donkey Kong, yes. However, that doesn't necessarily entail that he is to be included. Dixie Kong is the more practical character in terms of relevance, recency, and most probably ease of development. Cranky Kong would be the character chosen if only to promote Tropical Freeze. Dixie Kong has more going for her than a recent playable appearance. King K. Rool still has a decent chance, but if the Donkey Kong developers don't intend on using him, what is the point in including him? He is the 3rd most requested character empirically. That doesn't necessarily mean much, his international popularity is the better argument in my opinion.

Yes but I think uniqueness is also a key factor, which is why I expect Cranky.