Another issue is that ARMS is the rare chance for Nintendo to actually really promote female characters of color, and with Spring Man already in as an Assist Trophy and a Guess Who game, people are excited at the possibility to potentially see Nintendo promote more diverse icons for once. Min Min and Twintelle are consistently two most popular characters with regards to the ARMS franchise for their own unique attributes (and that goes well beyond waifu), but they also bring significant diversity that Smash is overall lacking to the table. Spring Man, again to be frank, is pretty much your average white guy protagonist type across the board, an archetype that is incredibly prevalent across tons of video games and thus something that already occupies a lot of the Smash roster by extension. It's rare for there to be many opportunities for characters of color in gaming to be front and center, let alone female characters of color who are even rarer, so there's another wrinkle to the ARMS situation that far too often goes overlooked of why going for a different character could also bring more to the table. It's not like Min Min or Twintelle are unpopular and would just be included for "quota" or whatever people are afraid of, but they're genuinely beloved as two of the most popular if not the absolute most popular characters in the game to begin with.
It's just an ideal opportunity for Nintendo to have a legitimate reason to include more diverse characters in not only Smash, but to have a bit more diversity at the forefront of the company as a whole with potentially either of these fighters highlighted. I mean, Nintendo really does not have a ton in the way of female leads, and that goes especially so for characters of color. I'm glad ARMS has been able to find some real success in this area, and for as much as I'll throw at ARMS, I'll applaud it showing an uncharacteristic diversity in a Nintendo game.
