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Not true at all.
First off, their appearance means nothing. Second, their clothes are very, very far from the same. Ike is wearing mercenary-style, lower-class clothes with a little leather armor and a traveler's cloak thrown on, while Marth is wearing more regal, cloth clothing and cape and has a metal breastplate for armor. Honestly, how much more blatant do the differences need to be, or does every human wearing older-style clothing look the same to you? The only similarity between the two is their hair color, which doesn't matter a lick (how many other characters in the game have the same hair color? I lost count of all the brown haired ones).
No, hes chosen a new character from the series who happens to be one of the most popular of its characters and one of the only two recurring stars in the series. Marth fits that bill as well, and has more importance to the series and reasons to be in that Ike does to boot - theres no reason he'd be removed for Ike, nor any reason they both couldn't be in.EricShiznit said:
And this matters why? Neither Isaac nor Link are related to Fire Emblem, Ike, or Marth at all.EricShiznit said:
Please, think before you post such things. The characters' in-game abilities are irrelevent - they just facilitate the characters' presence, they're not the reason they're put in. Its whether they make good reps for their series that matters, and in that Marth has everything going for him. So there is a growing number of sword-users in the game - big deal. Theres also a much larger number of fist fighters, but that doesn't mean there won't be a lot more of those. Its just as easy to make sword-wielders unique from one another as it is to make anyone else such. Marth is easily the best possible representative for Fire Emblem in SSB, and thats what will allow him to return.ErcShiznit said:
Yes, but such characters would be the likes of Young Link and Link, or Doctor or Paper Mario and Mario, not Marth and Ike, who are very distinct from each other.EricShiznit said:
Peach and Zelda in Melee were blonde-haired princesses in dresses with projectile-reflecting and explosive specials and fist-and-foot-fighting combat. Again, physical appearance means nothing, and in-game abilities are irrelevant. (And Ike doesn't have a chargeable sword swing special, just Eruption and smash attacks.) Marth is probable for good reason - being one of the series' three most popular characters, a much-beloved veteran of Melee, the single most recurring main character in the Fire Emblem series, and the single biggest icon of the series overall (he was even the star of the brief Fire Emblem animated series).EricShiznit said:
Heck, Ike has more similarities to Link than Marth (his Dair is the same as Link's sword plant, his Fsmash is Link's from SSB 64, their d-tilts and d-smashes are nearly identical, and their dash attacks are quite similar). Thats a pretty clear indication he isn't meant to be anything like Marth if you ask me.
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Only if he wasn't wearing pants... :shudder:
A little Biased much? This isn't Melee.
its pretty obvious that we can't predict what Sakurai's gonna keep and gonna take out of brawl, and the more characters the better so, heres to hoping marth is still in with his annoyingly overpowered uniqueness in melee .That's an ingenious idea. That might just work out...
Agreed. The costume does not mean their cut. OMG, MARIO HAZ T3h gr33n custom. LUIGI IS T3h Rem0ved.
You mean you don't have a time machine? Me neither. Lot's of people here seems to have them.
Well, I pretty much said that this thread proved nothing.I hate it when people make random posts expressing opinion without adding to the topic or supporting their opinion at all
Its precisely because Fire Emblem is an ever-changing, diverse series that Marth is a likely addition. Unlike most other Nintendo series, it simply can't be properly represented by drawing its characters from just one part of the series, because those characters aren't constants throughout it. Ergo why Melee had Marth (from the first and third games) and Roy (from the sixth, then the most recent), and why it makes perfect sense for Brawl to have Marth (from the first, third, and upcoming eleventh game) and Ike (from the ninth and tenth, now most recent games), plus perhaps a third from somewhere else in the series. The fact that Marth and Ike are two of the three most popular Lords of the series and the only two recurring Lords sets them apart from the others, and the fact that Marth is pretty well the series' biggest icon (being the star of the animated series as well as the more popular of the FE veterans in SSB) just makes him all the more likely. Marth has more going for him than Ike, really.
Ah, this explains it - you're thinking from an American-centric viewpoint. Remember, over half of the Fire Emblem series is Japan-only - they're not going to exclude such a sizeable portion of the saga just because it isn't international (if they were being that strict about Japan-only characters, Lucas wouldn't be in, since hes not only Japan-only, but from a series which is quite small and sports only one international game). What makes Marth so special is what I stated above. And besides, Marth is already an international character - or have you forgotten Melee so soon? The rest of the world has been introduced to him via that, and soon will have a true Fire Emblem game featuring him to boot (which his presence in Brawl would do wonders to advertise I may add).tstumo said:
What the crap are you smoking? A runesword looks nothing like that, and the runesword changes in every game! The Falchion is the only sword in ANY Fire Emblem game that looks remotely like that NOTICE THE BIG MORTHIN****ING JEWEL IN THE CENTER OF THE SWORD! No runesword has that! Only the Falchion!
