The exact thing I wished did not happen, happened. As I said before, I'm not interested in long-winded and very subjective debates over who "deserves" Smash Bros thank you very much, because to be brutally honest, none of them were needed and mandatory(not Bowser Jr, not Toad, and not even Rosalina), but their inclusions are very much justified. You just turned what was supposed to be a discussion about how each requested Mario rep is equally justified in their own way (like Rosalina!)into this debate over who is more deserving, which is entirely off-topic and had absolutely nothing to do with anything I was saying, in the end just moving the goal post . I'm not trying to argue who"better", I don't care who is "better", I don 't care what you have to say about who's "better" , because I welcome Rosalina and Bowser Jr and Toad equally with open arms to the Smashverse among other newcomers. You just seem very desperate to argue Rosalina's "needing" to be in the game and her "superiority" among other Mario characters, without actually hearing other people out. I could honestly have counter-arguments to every thing you just said~but why bother, the moment you stated WHO was more justified rather then stating WHY Rosalina is justified, all was lost.But Yoshi is it's own series with it's own wide variety of very defined mechanics that are separate from the Mario games, that, to be quite honest, fit into Smash like a glove. Plus, Yoshis have some really important connections and nuances in their games that help the player get more invested in caring about the Yoshis, and even have this quality in Super Mario World and Galaxy 2 (for example, in Yoshi's Story, your lives are represented by individual Yoshis - once one is captured, it's gone for good, and Yoshis are not infinite in it). So no, Yoshi was a very worthy addition, despite being a part of a race and not really being a single character.
And no, I am not undermining Toad to make Rosalina seem better or more important than she is (frankly, I don't need to), but Toads are to Mario what Flickies are to Sonic. Flickies even starred in their own game, which is something people ALWAYS overlook when I make the comparison between Flickies and Toads, and then they try to pretend Toad is more important in Mario than Flickies are in Sonic:
As for Chao, I didn't even bring them into this because they are EXTREMELY important in various Sonic games, both plot wise and otherwise. Even the latest mobile Sonic game from Hardlight, Sonic Jump Fever, which came out just yesterday, features Chao.
And Blaze has arguably more important roles than Rosalina has (saying this as someone who likes Rosalina more). She starred alongside Sonic in Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure, and was playable in Sonic '06, and had a very big role in that game's story (crap as it may be). She's appeared in various spin-offs too, and was also in Sonic Generations as one of the friends Sonic had to save, who were attending Sonic's birthday party. In terms of purpose, though, they are pretty similar characters, being ladies of authourity and power, who take action and have emotional instabilities and have a diverse amount of powers with no clear boundaries. Blaze also has a motherly side, as demonstrated by her relationship with Cream, Cheese, and Marine.
And I don't see how comparing Blaze to Rosalina is a bad thing or insulting either one, as they are both appealing and really well written and nuanced characters.
And sorry, but saying Yoshi and Toad are single characters that just so happen to name themselves after their species is nothing more than a flimsy headcanon.
And I didn't use personal reasons for Toad and BJ, I've went through them many times already.
BJ is a poorly handled character, end of story. His story in Sunshine doesn't get a true resolution with no sign of us ever getting a resolution to it (we still don't know who his mother is, and he only cared about kidnapping Peach because he believed her to be his mother. Getting to meet and spend time with his mother was his entire motivation for doing what he did in Sunshine, and he never got to even meet her, since Peach wasn't really his mother), he doesn't have anything particularly unique that he could do (the Paint Brush may seem like this at first, but in actuality, his paint powers in Sunshine only damaged things at a slow rate, and created two or three specific enemies. And transformed him into a Mario copy, which, well, we already had Dr. Mario for. None of these things are unique to Smash). And since Sunshine, he's played very replaceable roles (as in, it would not have made a difference if it was a generic Koopa Troopa piloting those mechs in Galaxy) and hardly even gets acknowledged by Bowser (except this isn't a plot point, they simply shoe horned Bowser. Jr into Galaxy and NSMB - his roles in those games were extremely unimportant to the point that they didn't even make scenes between him and Bowser, which is most jarring in Galaxy's case, as that game had a fairly strong focus on story and plot elements).
Do I hate Bowser. Jr? No. Do I think he's a character with a ton of untapped potential? Yes. Do I think Nintendo will ever tap into that potential? No, I have no reason to believe they will, nor does anybody else. And as a result, there is no reason for anyone to objectively accept that Bowser. Jr has a justified place in Smash, and certainly not over Rosalina, who was objectively written much better and has limitless potential moveset wise anyway, and I've actually been given consistent reasoning to care about and be charmed by the character. I don't care if Bowser. Jr came first. That means nothing. You don't like a character based on the fact they existed longer, anyone who uses that argument is grasping at straws for a character who has little actual merit.
As for Toad, again - Toads are extras. We have Captain Toad and Toadsworth, who are endearing characters, but they are completely unsuitable for fighting (One of Captain Toad's defining characteristics is that he CAN'T JUMP, which, needless to say, causes problems in Smash). Plus, Toads are born cowards, and fighting is against their nature (they often hide behind Peach - which makes Peach's neutral B very funny, as she is forcing them to stand guard in front of her, for once). Plus - Toad literally has done NOTHING that Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Rosalina don't already do. In NSMB, Blue Toad and Yellow Toad are exact clones of Mario and Luigi. And in SMB2 USA and 3D World, only Toad's properties differ from the other characters. The Toads don't have unique abilities in those games.
And to answer the thread again, no, she wasn't. Neither was any of the other newcomers.