Actually, I take it all back. If there's anything that Sakurai and Nintendo hate. It's fire. It MUST be fire.
-Roy had fire and was much worse than Marth in melee. He's also quite possibly the worst lord of the series and his only saving grace is the Sword of Seals...which matters very little because of his late promotion. Roy didn't make it into brawl as a playable character.
-Kirby was a great character in 64 and is decent in brawl. However, in melee he's a good contender for bottom tier. Do you all remember what his melee dash attack was? Yes, the burning kirby ability. Coincidence? I think not.
-Mario and Luigi have among the crappiest projectitles in the whole game. What are they? Fireballs. Bowser uses fire too, doesn't he? All three of those characters aren't all that good in brawl or melee. (Dr. Mario>Mario and he doesn't use fire). In fact, the only rep from the Mario series who can actually be called good doesn't use fire at all. And she manages to better than them in not only brawl and melee, but brawl+ too! Mario's final smash is also fairly lame and its just one big dodgeable fireball.
Did Zelda players even bother using Din's Fire in melee for serious edgeguarding? Was Din's fire a good move? It may have been buffed in brawl, but this mattered very little when you noticed that airdodges were buffed even more. This mattered even less when a majority of characters could simply attack through the Din's Fire, allowing Zelda to accomplish nothing.
-Young Link used Fire Arrows. Is Young Link a playable character in brawl?
-Both Venusaur and Blastoise were better pokeball pokemon than Charizard in melee. A Squirtle is better than Charizard in brawl. It also makes no sense how Squirtle is resistant to a nice number of attacks in the game and yet Charizard only resists Ivysuar.
-3/5 characters that King Dedede can infinite without a wall use fire attacks.
-Ness has gotten progressively worse every smash game. Ironically enough, the fire attack he uses doesn't even belong to him. Also, in the mother games, PK Fire is the weakest PSI attack you'll ever use.
-Lugia>Ho-oh in melee, brawl, and in the actual pokemon game. Ho-oh DOES have the better battle theme though. >_>
Jiggs, Fox, and Falco escaped the hate by being furries. This didn't save Jigglypuff in brawl and she had her fire stripped. Captain Falcon finally succumbed to the tyranny in brawl where even his incredible manliness had taken a nerf.
In Ocarina of Time, Koume, the fire witch is overall less harmful than Kotake, the ice witch. Same applies to the oracle games when you fight them. In Link to the Past, Trinexx' ice head is more dangerous due to it freezing the floor permanantly.
-The existence of Stealth Rock in pokemon. Entei is the worst of his trio and doesn't learn flare blitz despite his superior attack power. Moltres doesn't learn any decent physical attacks either and looks like a rubber chicken. Flareon is the worst eveelution and also doesn't learn Flare Blitz despite having better attack power. Out of 493 pokemon, there are two fire pokemon that are actually used in the metagame. Fire Pokemon have no abilities to give them bonuses during sunny day while water pokemon actually do. The only pokemon to own the drought ability is a ground type (wtf?). Drizzle is owned by a water type.
-You know you will never gain back the time in your life you spent reading this.
though, especially SR (Pokemon), Squirtle resisting an already sucky element and Jiggly's vBrawl Rest.
