I think I'll submit a character who fits VERY well with our last Spirit event.
We've got a ton of consoles repped in Smash Infinite. Pretty much every Nintendo, tons of arcade machines, some Sega consoles, Xbox consoles (if you count Steve and Banjo as Xbox characters), and most surprisingly, Sony's PlayStation line of hardware. However, there is one manufacturer that has been seriously neglected. One who is invaluable to all of gaming history. And I think we all know who...
Yup. We still lack an Atari fighter!
However, it's understandable why. Who would you even add? Atari's graphics are very limited by today's standards, which might make you think we'd have to either get really creative or base a fighter off of their game's box art, like adding the prisoner from Breakout. However, I can think of one character who absolutely takes the cake as a rep for the landmark gaming system, the Atari 2600. A character who transcends time, popularity, marketability, you name it.
That character is none other than...
Adventurer
A yellow square. Not only that - the second most popular yellow square in all of media! The Adventurer is the single-pixel protagonist of Atari's hit title, Adventure. I'm sure the first thing you're wondering about this guy is - what the hell is a yellow square going to do in Smash Bros?
I imagine Adventurer would have a moveset not unlike Mr. Game and Watch's, acting as a representative for other popular outings of the Atari consoles. Like, imagine a projectile based on Missile Command, an Up B having the little guy bounce off of the little bar thing from Breakout, maybe a tether grab where he gets help from the Centipede? The potential is endless with how many games Atari has developed, and how many of them would work super well for the purposes of the Adventurer's moveset.
Now, why should he have such a moveset? Reason being he's the perfect blank slate - just a square. If this was a character like Paperboy, it would be harder to work in references to other Atari things becasue there's so much to work with in the character alone, and they don't lend themselves as well to a "kitchen sink" type of moveset as Adventurer does. That doesn't mean the Adventurer would just be Atari References, The Character though. He would have the Key and Sword as his main weapons, the Magnet for a few attacks, and perhaps call in the three dragons for his three smashes.
But WHY? Why this yellow square in Smash Bros? And why as the final fighter?
For the simple reason that it's necessary. We still lack an Atari rep. Y'know. Videogames, the company? This is a choice not made out of want, but of reverence for what this little dot has done for the gaming industry. Giving us the open-world format as well as easter eggs, and acted as basically the oft-forgotten mascot of the well-known line of consoles. Ending on Adventurer would just be...right, y'know? The perfect swan song to the most ridiculous and impossible community-created game that ever didn't exist.