Silly question, but how strongly do people feel that we should get the main character over side characters? I'm asking because smiling friends season 2 has me thinking. I'd be perfectly happy with Pim and Charlie being playable, but I'd much prefer either Mr Boss
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I'm not opposed to a side character getting in over a main character on principle, especially if the side characters are iconic in their own right, but it's also definitely a case by case basis thing for me.
For Smash, I love both Spring Man and Min Min, so Min Min getting in over Spring Man was fine by me (though I am hoping Spring Man gets to join her next time). On the other hand, Robin and Lucina getting in over Chrom in Smash 4, while I
understood it, did sting. But that's been rectified now anyway.
For NASB, I was 100% on board with Nigel getting in over Eliza. He's an absolute icon of the late 90s and early 00s. And while Arnold still remains my most wanted
newcomer for NASB, Helga and Gerald are basically just as much main characters, and Gertie was a fun surprise, so their inclusions are fine by me (though that more so speaks to how strong the character work is on Hey Arnold in general).
This game is much the same for me. Admittedly the absence of Scooby IS weird, but he's one of the most "we're clearly getting him eventually" characters in existence so I don't mind as much, especially since all of Mystery Inc are super beloved and iconic (my distaste for
how Shaggy's represented aside).
And some of the leaked examples follow this as well, and they're some of the leaked characters I'm most excited for. Both
Wicked Witch and
Beetlejuice are getting in over
Dorothy Gale and
Lydia Deetz, respectively, but they're both super iconic characters anyway, and have much more to work with than their films' protagonists.
Hell, my own most wanted character is Wilt lol. I hate the idea of Mac and Bloo getting in as a duo on principle, and I don't think Mac on his own would be a good idea: it
should be an imaginary friend that gets in...but Bloo is like the most boring choice possible for the show, in my eyes, especially since he's a purposely unlikeable character. So the best picks, in my eyes, are Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco, and of them Wilt is absolutely my favorite. It also helps that he's the third most recurring character on the show (missing only two episodes, and he's
mentioned in one of them) only behind Bloo and Mac,
and was the focus of one of their three TV movies.
Hell, I'd also be perfectly happy if Muscle Man was our first Regular Show character. But at the same time, there are limits...it would feel very weird to me if, say, we got anyone from The Sopranos who
wasn't Tony Soprano. At that point you'd just need to ask yourself why.