Bowser Jr and Rosalina have played bigger roles than Daisy in the Mario titles the majority of the notable content in Smash comes from. As have the Koopalings, especially in recent times. Plus, like Daisy, they all show up in spin-off titles as well.
Prior to Rosalina being planned for Smash (as in, before she was even part of 3D World, which isn't even given representation in Smash), this wasn't exactly the case.
Her only "major" role was in Galaxy.
Galaxy 2? Merely makes cameos.
Other roles? Unlockable kart racer in Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7.
It wasn't until later in Smash's development that Rosalina would branch out more and become more prominent/important, by which time she was
already part of Smash from a time she barely had a leg to stand on.
Just saying; it wasn't really prominence/importance that got her in in the first place. Those qualities came after the fact.
They have more in their favour, so them having larger roles makes sense. Why should her role equal any of theirs? Simply because she's part of the Mario "family"? That's the rather poor excuse imo. Might as well include Toadette and Birdo then too.
Wouldn't really count
Birdo like I wouldn't count the other mooks by the dozen of Bowser's, but I forgot about Toadette. That does raise a bit of a hole in my logic, especially since Toadette has now branched into a co-starring role with Toad (well,
Captain Toad specifically, but he's still a Toad) recently.
It's not your bias, it's fact. Waluigi generally gets about triple to quadruple the votes on polls that Daisy does, that's more than a slight difference. The only reason they seem close now is because fewer people vote for characters who are already ATs.
Plus the casuals love Waluigi.
That's talking in Smash terms.
If we're going by
that, Geno was the MOST popular Mario character that wasn't yet in Smash in the Brawl days.
It's pretty much a given that while he may have been the biggest request for Brawl (for some unfathomable reason) among the Mario cast, he most certainly was not the most popular Mario character
in general.
Waluigi may have the edge in Smash requests (though that I'm sure is
because he was an Assist in Brawl, even if him being an Assist again is making his requests drop), but that doesn't necessarily mean Waluigi has a clear edge in overall popularity.
Birdo was in the Golf game last year, and she still has cameos here and there in the other spin-offs. My point was just if the argument is made on the basis of including the Mario "family" you can't really stop at Daisy, can you? I'm not saying those two have more in their favour than her.
And don't freak, I don't regularly stop by threads of characters I don't support, I just disagreed with something I saw. For the record I'm not against Daisy being an AT or an alt, I just think the arguments I responded to were faulty, which is why I responded to them.
....I wasn't even arguing that Daisy should be in on those grounds in the first place.
It was only the reasoning on why I
personally would find her acceptable (albeit begrudgingly because Waluigi) instead of outright detestable (again, because Waluigi)
should it actually happen.
For the matter of "should", I don't think there should be
any Mario DLC characters. We've got enough as is.