Well, I suppose it's time to break out the big post...
There are many things that point to Ness's deconffirmation in brawl, the most prominenent being his moveset and Sakurai's journal. Sakurai said himself in one of his journal entries (in this post
http://smashboards.com/showthread.ph...=samurai+panda) that there would be no more clones in Brawl. And looking at Lucas's moveset, I'm seeing a lot of similarities with Ness's moveset. Y'know 3 of the moves being exactly the same and the other being a minor alteration of the original? That. So unless Ness gets an entirely new moveset, which is about a .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance, he is as of now
DECONFIRMED.