Winter Stage:
ALTERNA
Series: Splatoon
The setting for Splatoon 3's story mode, Alterna is an icy landscape littered with Fuzzy Ooze and the site for the main antagonist of the story.
Alterna is a medium-sized stage taking place on one of several islands, ranging from 7 areas to pick from:
Future Utopia Island: Taking place on the shore of the island behind the large orange building in the center. Essentially Hollow Bastion with a larger top platform.
Cozy & Safe Factory: This part of Alterna takes place atop three of the large pillars scattered across the map, and there's a bottom blastline covered in Fuzzy Ooze. We will detail this later.
Cryogenic Hopetown: This is a flat walk-off stage, and the only part of the stage featuring ice mechanics like in Summit.
Landfill Dreamland: A Corneria-style stagewith strange geometry, this takes place on the submarine near the island. This is also the only part of the stage to feature swimming mechanics.
Eco-Forest Treehills: A decently-sized three-tier stage with planters that drop fruit when hit.
Happiness Research Lab: A
MUCH larger stage, this has some very distant platforms with some swimming mechanics, but they also have dash ramps that make it easier for you to jump between the islands.
Alterna Space Center: The final stage in the game's story, an FD-style stage taking place on the bridge towards the rocket, with Mr. Grizz in the background as a cameo.
Throughout the fight, there's a chance that 30 seconds before you go, Danger Zone-esque blobs of Furry Ooze will start morphing onto the stage. This is a very frightful substance that if above 100% you'll get instantly KO'd...but not before your character gets covered in more hair than Cousin It. That is, unless you have this little guy:
Meet
Smallfry, a friendly Salmonid with the unusual ability to devour Furry Ooze with no repercussions to its biology. If a fighter manages to find this tiny fishy friend (which can show up in random locations), it can be used as an item to clear up the Furry Ooze.
Alterna should be in Smash because we don't have a Splatoon 3 stage yet (We have Moray Heights and Deepsea Metro, that's pretty much it), and it also could represent the surprisingly existential and dark angles of Splatoon lore.