You keep saying he has OH so many pros, but you haven't even mentioned one!
All he has is two things for him:
One:He was mentioned in sakurai's journal twice (Jeff , Black shadow , And BF Were also...Those weren't the most "Popular" Suggestions when characters like Geno , Claus and Olimar have the upper hand with entries <_<.)
Two:He is popular ... But hardly and only to the casual crowd , Might i stress that sakurai's goal isn't to mostly go by popularity and Dr.lobe is popular to ?
So you end out with a big floating head who got two journal entries and has slight popularity who is a REAL LIFE PERSON..Do you have any clue how many people will not even buy this game because of that ? Or how many people will freak out ? I Can go on buto n the other hand Dr.lobe is less harder to impliment , Not a RL Person , Has quite a good ammount of popularity , And rep's a well part of nintendo.
Hmm i'm thinking lobe is more likely ? Honestly since Brawl isn't Melee 2.0 not every series with icons will get Reps so kawashima = Probably not even going to be in

So basically all i did for you was give xianfing something to eat on about claus arguements and gave him moar reasons for him NOT To be in

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