Rhyme
Smash Lord
Maybe, it depends on whether or not I like children, am I a rodent lover, and does the squid provide enough resistance as a physical attack. You are extending the circumstances of this argument. If it were an attack like Peach's Dsmash, which doesn't make sense, I would still play her. If they gave Mario a cape with which to convert items or Falcon the ability to comand fire, I would still use them. It's not really the moves that bothers me. Lets say I played Starfox and found Falco's show-offy attitude to be a trey annoying. Because I didn't like Falco in the game he was origionally from, I wouldn't bother considering selecting him in another game he is portreyed in. Now lets say I was bonzo over Falco in Starfox but hated his moves, for whatever reason. If I really liked the character, I would still play him. The extent to which I hate his fighting style or outlandish moves(as you suggested) would determine whether I would be a trooper and main him.you didn't kill nutin'!
Smash is a fighting game. theoreticaly, the main factor of the characters would be how they fight.
let me give you an example:
to my knowledge, you main Samus right? now. by your logic, you (and others who main her) main Samus because you like her backstory, or mission (seeing as she has hardly no personality, it's not a factor). now. lets say they give Samus moves that don't realate to her at all. things such as hitting people with a squid, truning into a muscrat, and eating babies for her super attack. her moves are now complate crap, and are untrue to her games, or her character. your saying that if this happend, you and every one else who uses her, would still main Samus regarless of this?
Back to my other argument, where I said I wasn't going. If I played Roy in FE and didn't like his personality as it pertains to Fire Emblem, I wouldn't bother choosing him in Melee, regardless of his moves and personality within Melee.
I thought I made this point evident several posts ago yet still struggle to prove it...urgh.