Starfy now has 5 games all to his own; which is a considerable number. Meanwhile, which Donkey Kong newcomers are relevant? King K. Rool is long forgotten; it'd be the equivalent of adding Vaati to the Zelda list. Their glory days are gone and they're no longer relevant to the modern series. If I was to add a Donkey Kong newcomer, it'd have been someone from Donkey Kong Country Returns. I don't really think there's anyone hugely relevant from DKCR. Cranky Kong, if you're pushing it?
Why? Again, Mewtwo is gone now. It would make no sense to have Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Mewtwo as the Pokemon representatives - that's 3 from Generation 1, which is just not representing the Pokemon series fully. Same goes for Roy. How many years has it been since a playable game with Roy was around? 10? I don't see him as relevant to modern Fire Emblem. The way I see it, Fire Emblem will probably always be represented by a combination of Marth and the most recent Lord. Once that was Roy, then it was Ike, now the title falls to Krom.
Ahh the old relevancy argument, this is gonna take a while but I vehemently disagree with all this and I'll explain why:
King K. Rool isn't "long forgotten", for one, lol, he was in Super Mario Sluggers which only came out a few years ago. And even though he wasn't in Returns, he's still the undisputed main villain of the DK series and one of its most popular characters; why do you think the game was criticized for not having Kremlings and having Tiki Tongs instead? Aside from that, he's also one of the most requested and agreed upon characters for Smash left
And no, we wouldn't get any DKCR reps because the only thing they have going for them is that they are new (which isn't a lot). Contrary to what you might think, being new doesn't guarantee at all that said new character will actually get in; Wolf getting in over Krystal in Brawl should have proved that. If this relevancy thing you're fixated on were actually somewhat true, then we also wouldn't have gotten the Kanto Pokemon Trainer, we would have gotten a Hoenn or Sinnoh PT. We also should have gotten a Twilight Princess character in Brawl based on relevancy, right? RIGHT?!
Yes, I know Mewtwo is gone now. So what? Are you trying to say he can't come back just because he got cut? No offense, but that would be pretty foolish of you to say because we don't even know for sure why Mewtwo got cut in the first place and also, he was seriously planned to be in Brawl. It's pretty safe to assume that he was cut relatively late in development for Brawl due to time constraints, since every Smash game has been faced with time constraints (in case you didn't know, Mewtwo was also planned for the original Smash game, but cut due to guess what? Time constraints). Sakurai himself even said before that there was stuff he wanted to include in Brawl, but couldn't due to time constraints. That could include but not be limited to Mewtwo.
Mewtwo is the only character with a unique moveset to ever be cut from a Smash game, so that should tell you something right there. And since you yourself think that Pokemon needs to be represented more fully, when you stop looking at things from the surface, you'll realize that Mewtwo would only help your cause rather than hinder it because he is currently the only legendary Pokemon to ever be playable in a Smash game. Legendary Pokemon are a significant part of the Pokemon games, and who would be better to represent them as a whole than Mewtwo? He's the most popular of them all, being the strongest Pokemon ever at one point until Arceus came along. We already have the mascot, Pokemon Trainer and starter Pokemon, and regular, wild Pokemon. We've even had baby Pokemon represented in Smash before with Pichu in Melee, so all that's really left to represent would be legendary Pokemon. I don't really need to prove why he's a great choice for Smash, but aside from his popularity, Mewtwo is one of the most requested characters for Smash 4, up there with Ridley and K. Rool and Mega Man in terms of requests, even.
Also, 3 Pokemon from one gen is too much? Do you realize how many Pokemon there are in the 1st gen, let alone overall? So how would that be overrepresenting it, even in terms of numbers? And again, why are you so hellbent on representing every Pokemon gen? It's not important to do at all because it's not like becoming playable is the only way to represent every Pokemon in Smash. We have Pokeballs as items, so even if every single gen doesn't get represented with playable characters, we'd still get a bunch of them as Pokeball Pokemon. They wouldn't be playable, but Pokeballs are arguably an even more accurate representation of Pokemon in Smash than becoming playable because they assist the person who summoned them in battle by attacking others in some way, just like in the games, a Trainer summons Pokemon to help them out in some way. Anyway, more to the point, do you really expect Sakurai to just sit there and try to pick a Pokemon from every single generation to put in Smash as a playable character, just so every gen can get a "piece of the pie", so to speak? If so, then I don't know what to tell you other than that isn't realistic or necessary at all.
As for Roy, even if he weren't DLC for the newest FE game (that came out this year), what would not being playable for in an FE game a while really do to hinder his chances? Sakurai himself requested Roy to be in Melee
before his game even came out (the only other known character he specifically requested to be in Smash was Captain Falcon for Smash 64, so that's saying something), and like Mewtwo, he was also planned to be in Brawl but likely cut due to time constraints. Also, just like with Mewtwo, he's one of the most requested characters for Smash, maybe not quite on the levels as say Ridley or even Mewtwo, but definitely up there in terms of how wanted he is.
Now for Zoroark and Krom... again, what exactly do you think they have going for them. They're newer yes, but they don't have anything else going for them besides that. Who even really wants them? They're only really brought up because a lot of people feel that Ike and Lucario will be replaced like "Mewtwo and Roy were" (which isn't really true, but that's what people out there think, so yeah) and that Zoroark and Krom would be the best replacements for them considering their similarities to Lucario and Ike respectively (well, Lucario and Zoroark aren't really all that similar aside from being canines, I guess, but again, that's what a lot of people think). Now, mind you, even if they do get in the game, there's nothing saying that they can't coexist with Mewtwo and Roy if THEY get in. I guess Brawl made people a lot more pessimistic about the roster than I originally thought, because apparently, it's just IMPOSSIBLE for Mewtwo, Lucario and Zoroark to be in the same game (same for Ike, Roy and Krom); it always has to be one or the other while the other one gets cut, I guess.
Anyway, this is just my 2 cents. I look forward to seeing whether you actually respond or not and how you respond if you do
Wouldn't mind either, though! We definitely need a Galaxy stage somewhere in there.
