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Bah, you know what Ike's symbol is? The Falchion. aka Marth's sword. No way they continue to use the Falchion as an icon and then replace Marth. He's in.
Actually, Marth is not the most iconic Fire Emblem character, Sigurd is. Just because he was the first lord people assume he has more right that anyone, and is more iconic than any of the others, but that's false. Marth was not only pathetically weak in his game(s), but he's also lackluster as a character. All of his popularity came from SSBM. Sigurd, and even Ike have much more reason to be in Brawl than Marth, but Marth was a completely original character in SSBM, so why remove him? Roy has more reason to be removed, because he ws a clone (of Marth, of course), but there's no reason to remove an already complete, original character.
So they got lazy and used the same icon, I don't think that necessary proves either point
so why wasn't sigurd in melee? They could have had him instead of Marth or have him as a clone instead of Roy.
Sigurd might be the most iconic in Japan, but that's likely to change with the advent of Fire Emblem DS, which is a remake of Marth's games. So now, Marth isn't only the first lord, he's also the most recent, or rather will be. And again, Smash uses his sword for the series icon, not Ike's or someone elses.
I agree with the end of your quote (Roy being a Marth clone and there is no point in killing an original moveset) but as for Sigurd being more iconic... wasn't he a secondary lord in most of his game? Sort of like a Hector/Lyn character? I also don't think Marth's sword would have been used if he was not the most iconic.
Odd, considering what I've heard indicates Falchion (being the most overpowered weapon in FE history) made Marth incredible after he got it. And considering Marth was Japan's #11 most requested character for Melee, with only real big-name characters like Bowser and Wario being above him and some of our confirmed characters for Brawl (Diddy, Meta Knight, Pokèmon Trainer, etc) being below him, yet Sigurd made no appearance on that poll at all. And considering the requests from Sakurai's Brawl "poll" in his journal had only one mention of Sigurd but multiple characters from Marth's games, including two requests for Oguma, seems to indicate a greater interest in Marth's games than Sigurd's, at least with respect to SSB. Plus Marth has two games to his name, soon to be three (and really, why remake Marth's game rather than Sigurd's if Sigurd is so much above him in popularity or as a series icon?), while Sigurd has only part of one game.
... He's one of those characters you give to a noob and say, "press the C stick in the direction of the opponent and you win". I mean compare his smash attacks hit box to Mario or Mewtwo's...
Ness wasn't the original hero of Earthbound/Mother...
I'm glad someone pointed that out, the Ness argument doesn't work, as Ninten was the original's main character.
I'm assuming Nintendo figured they (Ninten and Ness) were literally one-in-the-same and went with the more worldwide incarnation.
I've heard that rumor as well. I've also heard claims its false. I've seen no evidence of it being correct, so I'm not inclined to assume it is.
But even if that's true it's not enough to topple Marth. It might be enough to get him in as an AT or a PC if there are enough slots (like 4 FE slots, which I don't see happening). He might just end up being an alternate costume (zomg, Ike has a white and blue costume)
Possibly.
Oh. I don't doubt that.But even if that's true it's not enough to topple Marth. It might be enough to get him in as an AT or a PC if there are enough slots (like 4 FE slots, which I don't see happening). He might just end up being an alternate costume (zomg, Ike has a white and blue costume)
Seriously though, the only people that don't want Marth are the ones who hated him for being high tier. Most people that play as him actually like his playstyle. They don't just play him because he's high tier, they play him because a fast swordsman is a good idea for a character.
Lucas WAS around for Melee, though. There was going to be MOTHER3 for N64, but it was cancelled. Then it was moved to the GBA a couple of years later.
