1. That banner is already pretty full with the newcomers and franchise faces (you know, the characters you want to advertise). Any more characters would risk overcrowding it.
2. StephenSquareHeaded's "leak" isn't even a leak at all; frankly I'd argue it's more of a meme than anything else. Maybe a hint, but there's no screencaps or anything. Until we see those characters in-game as NPCs, this is a hint at best. And frankly, the dude is a massive troll in the first place.
3. Alright, that one works... for Hugh and Hugh alone. That's all our reputable public-facing leaker has said.
4. A single move has been repurposed into a veteran from the same series. Yes, this implies that PTM may have got the axe but it doesn't confirm it directly. Both characters could have the move, or just PTM could hace been axed. It says nothing about the other characters.
The inferences we can now make from these last two days are as follows:
- Hugh is most likely a story-mode exclusive NPC.
- Gaz is likely a story-mode exclusive NPC or potentially a background character.
- Gir is a story-mode NPC, but could still be part of Zim's kit as well.
- Powdered Toast Man was likely axed.
Thats it. PTM and Hugh are our only characters with evidemce directly pointing to being cut. Everything else is baseless conjecture based on circumstantial, inconclusive elements.
Take every leak with a grain of salt. Until you see them not in the game, they remain Schrodinger's veterans.
