i mean shulk is an alien, he gets by on that alone
that's not a spoiler, that's just common sense you piece together within the 1st 10 minutes of the game because literally everyone is.
****'s missing, that's all I see. It shouldn't be missing at all. We got tons of bosses that weren't in the final cut. Smash 4 bosses, even.
It's highly suspicious. I personally don't buy that Porky's invalid because he's not one of "the greats" that got added in. Sakurai never said "oh buy the fighters pass bro it's gonna be lit", no, he said "only buy it if you're sure enough you want to". That doesn't sound like a hypeman, it sounds like your friend about to warn you about if you should really buy that 1980s vintage garfield phone when you're drunk at 3 AM. None of the major Mother antagonists outside of Masked Man even got a Spirit. If he actually doesn't end up being playable or shows up in some form, then it's obvious to me that he was at least planned for something. But the fact that there are plenty of things missing that could be added, plus me expecting a first party of some kind in this pass, leads me to Porky Minch.
That's my game theory, and if I get it right, I'll be right. If I'm wrong, I'll be wrong. My disappointment is already immeasurable in this fighting pass, I have literally zero things to lose.
Shulk's not really an alien, he's just from a parallel dimension/spoilers
Sakurai is a strange guy, like I said, in Melee he had trophies for Dixie Kong and K. Rool, but Diddy Kong was absent from the game entirely aside from lines in Dixie's trophy and the DK Rap..sometimes he just doesn't include things that seem like they should be obvious, like the aforementioned Diddy Kong trophy and a Fire Mario colour in 64, Melee, and Ultimate.
Yeah, Sakurai doesn't ever try to hype something up though, that's not his style, there's also the point that Nintendo chose the DLC character options and gave them to Sakurai, I can't see them just arbitrarily picking Porky of all characters to be one.
I also just don't see any EarthBound or even 1st/2nd Party characters because each DLC Fighter comes with DLC Spirits and, well, all of Nintendo's 1st and 2nd Parties are pretty well covered..only a handful of characters are left to make Spirits off of. I am surprised to see no EarthBound Beginnings version of Giygas given how perfectly he'd work with having Mewtwo as the fighter for his Spirit Battle (EarthBound Giygas doesn't really have a 'form', just a background image..and, you know, you can not comprehend his true form..) whereas Porky's absence is curious..but likely either just a case of Sakurai not doing the obvious again, being saved for some DLC Update Boss (I could totally see more bosses added in, especially ones from Brawl and 3DS/Wii U), or Sakurai believing that the Absolutely Safe Capsule being Porky representation since, well, he IS inside of it during the battle against it.
Since Sakurai doesn't always include the obvious, I could totally see him or his team just not thinking of Porky when it came to Spirits to include or some reason..just having one of those absent minded moments where you forget something important despite it being..well..important. His Spirit missing doesn't mean anything was planned at all, it just wasn't included..that's possibly all it was. Its possible Sakurai wanted to include some of the quirkier elements of EarthBound while still the full party and a handful of important characters, so some human characters weren't included to make room for quirky ones like Master Blech and Ness' Father.
I'm shocked that anyone can say they are disappointed by the Fighters Pass. Even if you aren't interested in the characters, the ones they've chosen are huge for the series.