Ridley would have made the fans happy.
Decloned Ganondrof would have made the fans happy.
He tries, but not all the time.
It is flimsy logic because it is so easily casted off or debated. 'japan-only' is not a factor. World matters. 'Makes the fans happy' is silly. throwing in Lineback would make fans happy.
It needs stronger, more concrete support.
As for the characters. To be quite honest, the poll is nothing more then a tool. All the characters we have are either the heads of their series or were so popular that the poll told them nothing new. Now that we have most of the expected characters, we are now moving into were he polls would matter more.
Ridley still got the shaft.
Ridley would make the fans happy? Really? Which fans? The Metroid fans in general or the Ridley fanboys? The Ridley fanboys use the "Metroid needs more representation" argument as a reason why Ridley should be playable. Well, the Metroid franchise have the following:
- Samus as a playable character
- Zero Suit Samus as a playable character
- Norfair as a stage
- Frigate Orpheon as a stage
- Brinstar as a stage
- Metroid as an Assist Trophy
- Ridley as a boss
- Meta Ridley as a boss
- Super Metroid as a Masterpiece
- tons of trophies, stickers, and music
- and even a Samus vs. Ridley scene in the Adventure Mode
I'd say the Metroid franchise is getting plenty of representation. Really, it seems to me that Ridley fanboys use the "Metroid needs more representation" as a smokescreen to hide their true reason why Ridley should be playable in Smash... they just want Ridley to be on the roster. I mean, it looks like Sakurai tried to make the Metroid fans in general happy and to showcase the mainstream audience what the Metroid series is all about... only the Ridley fanboys aren't happy about it and claim that Sakurai is not representing the Metroid franchise properly.