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.
Yeah, the evidence I've seen and heard doesn't seem to support Marth being anything but an icon of the series who is popular in Japan.
Anyway, regardless, at least we agree that he should be back.
Zevox