Ultinarok
Smash Lord
Regardless of what we discuss, Dixie has a superior resume to all the other Echo Fighters revealed so far, and that's a fact.
The only character who can come close is
, and his situation is unique, as he's a 3rd party who partially inspired the moveset of his home character and so basically got in out of respect.
was Uprising advertising and the simplest character of all time to create for Smash, with differences so subtle he's about one hair short of an alt costume. He's literally born from Pit in the game, so emulating his source character is expected. Plus Sakurai made him, so "why not?". Now Everyone Is Here means he returns. His resume? Minor antagonist in one game with a few hours of screen time.
come from one game which already has an appropriate representative. The game's incredible success, Chrom's big Smash 4 push, and the ability to clone them easily from existing fighters with minimal changes earned them a spot. They even share a sword with each other.
is debatable, but she's a genetic copy of Samus twisted by the Metroid Prime and Phazon. Making her a clone, when she is canonically, in fact, a clone, makes sense. Her lack of unique abilities hurts her, but the majority of her character is captured by tweaking her animations, so Echo is decent enough to do the job. Her resume? An antagonist in two games, but with limited screen time in the Dark Samus form. Not farfetched to be Echo.
Edit: I forgot Daisy in this description. Daisy is all show but very little substance. She's been in more games than most of the Echoes we have combined, but does very little in said games to distinguish herself in any meaningful way as a potential fighter. She's always been more or less "Peach, with a flower theme and a tomboy twist" and little more. Her only main series role was just being a 3rd Pauline who spent most of her screentime turned into a monster. She's an Echo because being a Peach alt undersells the personality she's built up in the side games, but as a fighter, you'd be hard pressed to make her distinguished without forcing it. So Echo she is.
Hell, if you want to consider Ken a lock, he was literally created to be a Ryu copy. He is Echo Fighter incarnate. He has a big resume, but being a clone is what Ken is about. Thus, Echo.
wasn't an echo not only because she doesn't share enough traits with Villager, but also because her resume is too impressive to be relegated to such a role. More than the AC games, she's a new Nintendo mascot who's been appearing in crossovers. Plus AC deserves 2 unique fighters anyway.
We should stop focusing on body type and start focusing on things like this. Its a celebration of gaming history with Nintendo. The bigger your Nintendo/gaming resume, the more justice you earn. You can bet that a "Fire Emblem Awakening 2" could justify a semi clone Chromcina. Or "Kid Icarus: Dark Uprising" with Dark Pit in a starring role, ditto. Character resumes are important.
And Dixie has a great one. If she got in as an Echo, she'd be the most significant Echo BY FAR, to the point where, while you could say the others probably wouldn't have had enough punch to make it in at all without Echo status, Dixie would be the only one you could legitimately say is being undersold in this role.
Dark Samus, maybe, but again, she's a Samus copy in her home game and her abilities are not wildly different from Samus outside of Phazon effects/attacks (has em), floating (got it), otherworldly animations (yep) and an ice and warp attack (only things not included).
Our current Echoes got in because it was probably their only shot at this point. Dixie doesn't have this problem.
The only character who can come close is
, and his situation is unique, as he's a 3rd party who partially inspired the moveset of his home character and so basically got in out of respect. was Uprising advertising and the simplest character of all time to create for Smash, with differences so subtle he's about one hair short of an alt costume. He's literally born from Pit in the game, so emulating his source character is expected. Plus Sakurai made him, so "why not?". Now Everyone Is Here means he returns. His resume? Minor antagonist in one game with a few hours of screen time. come from one game which already has an appropriate representative. The game's incredible success, Chrom's big Smash 4 push, and the ability to clone them easily from existing fighters with minimal changes earned them a spot. They even share a sword with each other. is debatable, but she's a genetic copy of Samus twisted by the Metroid Prime and Phazon. Making her a clone, when she is canonically, in fact, a clone, makes sense. Her lack of unique abilities hurts her, but the majority of her character is captured by tweaking her animations, so Echo is decent enough to do the job. Her resume? An antagonist in two games, but with limited screen time in the Dark Samus form. Not farfetched to be Echo. Edit: I forgot Daisy in this description. Daisy is all show but very little substance. She's been in more games than most of the Echoes we have combined, but does very little in said games to distinguish herself in any meaningful way as a potential fighter. She's always been more or less "Peach, with a flower theme and a tomboy twist" and little more. Her only main series role was just being a 3rd Pauline who spent most of her screentime turned into a monster. She's an Echo because being a Peach alt undersells the personality she's built up in the side games, but as a fighter, you'd be hard pressed to make her distinguished without forcing it. So Echo she is.Hell, if you want to consider Ken a lock, he was literally created to be a Ryu copy. He is Echo Fighter incarnate. He has a big resume, but being a clone is what Ken is about. Thus, Echo.
wasn't an echo not only because she doesn't share enough traits with Villager, but also because her resume is too impressive to be relegated to such a role. More than the AC games, she's a new Nintendo mascot who's been appearing in crossovers. Plus AC deserves 2 unique fighters anyway.We should stop focusing on body type and start focusing on things like this. Its a celebration of gaming history with Nintendo. The bigger your Nintendo/gaming resume, the more justice you earn. You can bet that a "Fire Emblem Awakening 2" could justify a semi clone Chromcina. Or "Kid Icarus: Dark Uprising" with Dark Pit in a starring role, ditto. Character resumes are important.
And Dixie has a great one. If she got in as an Echo, she'd be the most significant Echo BY FAR, to the point where, while you could say the others probably wouldn't have had enough punch to make it in at all without Echo status, Dixie would be the only one you could legitimately say is being undersold in this role.
Dark Samus, maybe, but again, she's a Samus copy in her home game and her abilities are not wildly different from Samus outside of Phazon effects/attacks (has em), floating (got it), otherworldly animations (yep) and an ice and warp attack (only things not included).
Our current Echoes got in because it was probably their only shot at this point. Dixie doesn't have this problem.
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