Well, okay, I apologize for jumping to conclusions regarding your supposed bias against Lucas. Though I will
-firmly- stand by my preference of Lucas over Mewtwo OR Ridley.
While I completely agree Metroid deserves an additional rep,(even though I still don't much care for the idea of Ridley being playable), I can't completely say the same about Mewtwo. I consider him/her highly overrated and unnecessary at this point, but I've already said my part about that in this thread. I'd rather have a Pokémon with more potential to really be unique, if we really do need more Pokémon.
I really just like Lucas better, or if necessary, any other character from Mother 3.
I don't think it just comes down to a clash between Metroid, Mew2 and Mother 3, however: I see no reason all three can't be in, as said before. (Unfortunately, I'm sure plenty of other character threads will disagree)
Yes, I still still consider Lucas a rightful contender for the SSB4 roster, if not the most likely one at the moment - the Mother series may not be big or important, or even globally well-known, but since it is finished, fans of the series have nothing (official) to look forward to except the inclusions in Smash Bros.
While the same can be said for F-Zero, it is a racing game, which would mean movesets have to be completely improvised and characters have very little personality within their series. I wouldn't usually say F-Zero should get more characters, but if that's necessary for Mother to hold on to its second one, then I'll be rooting for that, too.
(Just please make it an interesting character, not Black Shadow or something...)
Additionally, Lucas was very nearly completely unique in Brawl, and I think it would be a shame if EarthBound continues to be the only Mother game that gets the limelight.
Oh, and finally, if it wasn't clear:
I adored Mother 3. Any content from it is more than welcome.
Finally, @
spiderfreak1011
:They're being very strict about their no footage policy, but check this blog for a few short fragments and a bunch of info from players:
http://ssb4dojo.com/
(it should have been posted today/yesterday, and includes some explanations of gameplay mechanics, a few minute-long videos, and talk about the alts, mostly).