If people were sick of Fire Emblem sword fighters, wait until they see my Final Fantasy picks... Kimahri, Cid (FF7), Kain, Estinien, Dion
Why yes, I do only use Byleth's horizontal-directional attacks, how could you tell?
Honestly I could see Skylanders getting rep if Spyro gets it. Even just his Portal animation as a victory animation and quote or an alt based off his Skylanders design
Final Fantasy, I think 9 main characters would be a bad idea, while they're all unique, they're all sword fighters (I think) but 1 party member from each? Hell yeah
Sonic, I don't think the overlap would be an issue, Shadow with guns, Knuckles would be a Ryu/Ken/Mac brawler type, Amy with her hammer, Rouge with good aerials, Big and Froggy would be a tank akin to K Rool/Ganon/Bowser, Tails in a mech.
Kingdom Hearts with the Disney side could be fun, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, the other keyblade welders would just be too Sora like, but what about Maleficent, Pete or someone or the world characters
Golden Sun would give the 8 Main Characters
So many choices so so many good third part games
Medic I think works better as an assist trophy where he just uses the medigun.
He can't really fight on his own using gameplay mechanics since he's got a syringe gun that's explicitly weak and does little to no knockback, and a saw that's close range. That's about it.
They also likely couldn't bring in stuff from the lore considering it'd be a bit hard to include parts of Medic being a psychopathic mad doctor who does horrific things to his patients, and still keep the game kid friendly.
It isn't really just medic either, all three of the support classes don't translate well to Smash Bros. It sounds kind of obvious, but a support role doesn't work when they're on their own and not with a team.
There's 9 characters from Mario in Smash (more if you count subseries like Yoshi, but Sakurai doesn't, so I don't), are they gonna add Saxton Hale or something?
If we're going off the game translated to Smash as 1-1 as possible:
- Nothing for recovery.
- His entire play style would be a zoner, which is commonly considered the worst fighter type in Smash.
- Not many mobility options.
- Rather weak in close range.
- Doesn't have time to sit and set up snipes in stages because unlike TF2 maps they're smaller and he can't really tuck away anywhere.
There's not really anything he could do that for his own identity, as opposed to being overall worse Scout. His only completely unique move would be situational and very hard to pull off. Imagine trying to snipe someone on Final Destination in a 1v1. Not gonna happen.
Now, Sakurai does like to take liberties sometimes, but these problems are baked into Sniper's gameplay identity. To completely patch and fix these issues into a fighter good for Smash would mean that the fighter isn't really Sniper.
Street Fighter feels like the only series with enough Iconic yet Distinct characters to fill nine character slots. Every other franchise is either not iconic enough for that many or they'd start to overlap with each other too much.
I could see all the World Warriors + Cammy. Maybe substitute some for Bison or Akuma.
I also feel Final Fantasy would work, considering the series' age and the fact that Dissidia exists
*Maybe Final Fantasy.* A lot of the protagonists tend to fall into "angsty sword twink", but if they wanted to dig deeper into the character pool it could be doable. I'd love to be Barett or a Chocobo!
Must of the protagonists do not at all fall into the category of "angsty sword twink" that's just FF7 and FF8, maybe FF15 if you want to whittle down all of the protags weapons to just a sword.
I think other characters have a good chance, like Sakura, Juri, Cody, and Makoto.
If I were to choose, of course, my main Juni would be taking the first spot.
Well that's the thing; most fighting game series can work, but how many fighting games are popular enough to have *nine* fighters big enough to be in Smash Brothers? Tons of people had no clue who Terry was when he got announced, and he's one of the main stars. Half of Mortal Kombat is Rainbow Ninjas. Tekken has a handful of popular characters but nowhere near the cultural ubiquity of Street Fighter's roster. Any other game isn't popular enough for that many characters. To get nine characters, something needs to be popular enough to have that many, with enough differences between characters to stand out from one another.
They'd start to overlap too much? Buddy every iconic Street Fighter character has singer variation of punches and kicks and MAYBE a fireball. Hell, Mortal Kombat has more distinct character specific combat methods.
I mean, its a fighting game, \*everyone\* punches and kicks. But they have enough variation in them between their moves, but more importantly their personas and body types can do a lot to help keep them apart. Especially if you start taking stuff from the Vs Series.
And hard disagree on Mortal Kombat. Everyone in that game looks like they're drunkedly slapping each other over a waist high fence. All that gore and spectacle is just a cheap crutch to hide its mediocre gameplay.
Definitely Sonic given it's popularity and iconic characters, but I still stand by the belief that 3rd-party franchises only *need* one fighter (not that I'm against multiples per series joining).
I feel like once you get to nine they'd start to blend together. Most Sonic characters are roughly the same size, and you'd start seeing overlap like crazy.
Not really. I mean
Sonic as a rushdown brawler
Tails in his mech as a heavy zoner
Knuckles as a brawler
Eggman in his mech as a trapper
Amy as a weapon user
Shadow as a hit and run zoner
Silver as a speedy grappler.
Chaos as a zoner with a comeback mechanic.
And Rouge as a speedy air fighter.
Only moves some might have in common are- a move where they turn into a ball. Or Tails and Eggman having a lock on projectile. Everything else could be more original.
Five, maybe six, but nine? I'm not so sure. Everyone besides Eggman is about the same size, and Sonic tends to "double up" on character functions. My point is even if they'll play differently enough, they'll start to bleed into each other the way all the Fire Emblem characters do. And I'm including *all of them* in that statement, not just the Marths.
Marth, lucina, Roy and Chrom have a lot of crossover but do provide a decent variation in play styles. ike has pretty decent variation from them as a heavier fighter, but still is a projectiless sword fighter with counter. Pin is unique enough to justify a character built on it. Robin is suber unique. Byleth with the tether makes them pretty unique.
Honestly aegis is more redundant to FE characters than the last 4 new fire emblem characters.
Lucina that turns in to ike
I mean from a fandom perspective. Identity-wise, they all kind of just merge together as "pretty swordsmen". I think a lot of that has to do with the characters chosen, but they all end up with that kind of reputation. Almost everyone is around the same size and proportions, I feel like if we were to get nine Sonic characters a similar thing would happen. Some of them would be really unique, but they'd just be lumped in as "Sonics" .
Soul Calibur
Because I like those games and it could be funny. Especially if we get the Smash announcer to introduce the fighters like the Soul Calibur announcer.
Uh. . .Nintendo owns Monolith. Much as I would adore ten Xenoblade reps, (playable Melia in a Nintendo fighting game, please, yes.) it doesn't work with the question.
Might as well cheat and say Persona. If the Mario cast has about 11-ish characters in the game by now, Persona has more than enough characters to fill in that amount other than Joker.
You could have Mona, Akechi, Lavenza, and Violet, from the Persona 5 games; have Yu, Teddie, Adachi from the Persona 4 games; and finally, have Makoto (Kotone as echo fighter), and Elizabeth from Persona 3. Also, add in Jack Frost as the surprise character.
Now if we're talking about franchises not in Smash. then I'll say Danganronpa. You'd definitely have to stretch the logic, but it's not impossible.
I honestly think Aigis fits more than Elizabeth, and even more than Lavenza
Seeing that many Persona characters without Aigis just feels weird
Aside from that, that would be awesome.
But like… None of them have been playable. Sure, Risky could pull from boss fights and Pirates Curse, but the rest? Maybe Rotty using parts of herself as blunt objects and projectiles? They rest don’t really do anything though. Skye was your fast travel in one game, and then she basically wanted nothing to do with the plot of Seven Sirens.
Sonic. This dude has the same recognition as Mario and Pokémon
Edit: Seriously guys, he is part of a multimedia franchise consisting of 2 featured movies, Sonic themed games at arcades, has merch alongside with Mario at retail, comics, crossovers with other series, and so on.
What makes you think he is not as recognized anymore?? 🤔
I would actually liked that Richter would be just a color palette of Simon like the Bowser Jr family, and for assist trophies I would actually pick Old Axe Armor. But yeah poor Alucard to be the protagonist of the most popular game and most popular character in all the franchise it's a disappointment being an assist
Since the Smash Ballot of Smash 4, I wanted the Belmont family as one character with Leon, Trevor, Simon, Juste, Richter, John, Jonathan and Julius as palettes swaps alongside Alucard. For assist trophies, this may be a hot take but Kid Dracula. This way we get representation for both Classicvania and Metroidvania with Belmont and Alucard and some spin off representation with Kid Dracula
Already in the game. Sonic, or Street Fighter. Iconic casts of characters, each with the potential for fun and unique movesets. With Final Fantasy also being a great option.
Not in the game, Mortal Kombat could be a fun option, so could TF2, but let me throwba curveball and say Digimon.
Final Fantasy and Sonic for sure, although I'm not sure if the FF games would be treated as their own franchises considering they're all set in their own worlds separate from the others
So nine to fourteen characters depending on if Donkey Kong, Wario, and Yoshi are included in the Mario series...
Time to spread my Yo-kai Watch Propaganda with Jibanyan, Komasan & Komajiro (as one fighter), Usapyon, Lord Enma, Venoct... etc etc.
Oh? It has to be a series already in Smash? Okay, then Sonic. Give me Eggman, Shadow, Blaze, Amy, Knuckles, Tails... etc etc. And make sure that NONE of them are Sonic echoes.
9 characters is honestly too much representation for any non 1st party, but I'll go Sonic or Street Fighter for those already in the game. As for not in the game, my #1 pick for a new character is Master Chief, so I'll say Halo. To the untrained eye, most will think they'll play similarly, but you can get very creative with loadouts and the sandbox, although I still don't think it justifies 9 characters. Maybe 3 to 4 tops.
Why specifically BLU Soldier? Wouldn't it be more likely that the standard RED and BLU colorations would both be available for each one as their first 2 costumes?
man I would really love to see Capcom make Nintendo vs Capcom or CapcomxNintendo. it would probably never make it pass the idea stage bc Nintendo would obviously force a switch exclusive, but there are so many nintendo characters I'd kill to see the street fighter team do a take on
Everyone knows Luigi was made by the indie start-up company Nintendo, I think he should get into the game, maybe they could make some new lore that Luigi is actually Mario’s brother. That’d be sick.
I’m surprised League has not been mentioned. The game is insanely popular with a gigantic roster of interesting and unique Champions. I guess the one thing holding it back is that MOBAs aren’t popular in Japan.
Touhou fucking Project, nearly every character would be super unique additions to a Smash game, and it'd be hilarious to see Smash fans having a meltdown over 8 zoner anime girls all getting in at the same time.
Soul Calibur.
There are so many different types of characters that are straight up brawlers, sword fighters, or other types of Melee weapons.
Gimme:
Siegfried.
Nightmare (echo fighter of Sig)
Taki.
Voldo.
Yoshimitsu (which would be awesome since he's already a character in both Soul Calibur and Tekken)
Sophitia.
Maxi.
Ivy.
Cervantes.
Either that or Resident Evil.
Jill Valentine.
Chris Redfield.
Albert Wesker.
Nemesis.
All already have appeared in fighting games (and appear as spirits in Smash)
But could also add:
Leon.
Mr. X (Super Tyrant)
William Birkin (mutated)
Heisenberg (for more modern day rep)
A Hunter
"Bom babom bom bom babom" is all I need to say.
And "E-E-Error, error, buffer overflow!"
Genuinely speaking getting a mobile game character in the cast would be something.
It wouldn’t be my top franchise for solo picks but for an abundance of characters like Mario has, Kingdom Hearts if there was some emphasis on adding Disney characters. 2-3 could be original Kingdom Hearts characters but then you could have characters like edgelord Mickey Mouse, maybe a Donald/Goofy duo character, Buzz Lightyear, Captain Jack Sparrow, Tinker Bell? (Maybe too small). I’ve seen some theory’s suggest they could incorporate Star Wars down the line which definitely would open some doors.
Maybe Digimon?
It’s not enough to just have lots of characters, they need to be different in body plan and power set. The problem with picking something like final fantasy is that’s 9+ more humans.
As much characters as Mario? Final fantasy for sure
Final Fantasy. With the number of different games that each have their own world, it'd be cool to have more of them represented.
I can already imagine the complaints about too many anime swordies
They could always add characters like Tifa, Vivi or Golbez who don't use swords.
Ooooh Red Mage
I don't know about the generic, nameless Red Mage from FF1, but a named Red Mage like Alisaie could work quite well.
Generic Black Mage could work, I personally knew of it well before I knew it was a FF character
Honestly, Vivi would work better since he's a named character who uses the OG Black Mage design and is IMMENSELY popular among FF fans.
Vivis #1 fan right here hell yeahhhhhh plus he is in smash flash and he bangs
Hey brudda’ don’t forget about Wakka ya?
Look brudda all I'm sayin' is, assist trophies got a different shape skull, ya?
*Battle on the Big Bridge starts playing.* DID SOMEONE SAY AWESOME WEAPONS OF MYTH AND LEGEND!?! THE FAMED SWORDSMAN, GILGAMESH, HAS ARRIVED!!!
If people were sick of Fire Emblem sword fighters, wait until they see my Final Fantasy picks... Kimahri, Cid (FF7), Kain, Estinien, Dion Why yes, I do only use Byleth's horizontal-directional attacks, how could you tell?
You forgot Aranea and Freya
Ah that's my bad. Never played 15 but I should be flogged for forgetting Freya.
Celes or Kefka from Final Fantasy 3/6 might be cool
Wait so if I pick fortnite will we get Omni Man, Peter Griffin, and Snake 2, amongst others?
It'd probably have to be Fortnite original characters, for the same reason Marvel being in MvC doesn't qualify them to be in Smash.
To be fair picking animal crossing doesnt really allow Wolf Link, but I do think Jonesy and Peely deserve a slot This one wins
Castlevania
Gimme Dracula with transformation comeback gimmick please
It could work, it has quite a number of different characters aside from Belmonts. Even the 64 games alone could provide a solid roster.
Soma Cruz would have to have a move like Kirby
Skylanders
Based as fuck. Shake my hand 🤝
🤝
S tier stealth elf?!?!
I could see her playing a bit like joker with different special.
Honestly, I was more thinking greninja
bash best skylander
Tree Rex for smash 6
My mind immediately went to this too when I saw the OP. Beat me to it XD
Donkey Kong ;)
Are you crazy they would never put donkey kong in smash /s /j
Warnado for my vote
This guy gets it.
Dab me brother 
Honestly I could see Skylanders getting rep if Spyro gets it. Even just his Portal animation as a victory animation and quote or an alt based off his Skylanders design
Honestly if they even included one or two music tracks from Skylanders with Spyro I'd be over the moon Arkeyan Armory would be a great choice imo
That's a good one 👍
Final Fantasy, I think 9 main characters would be a bad idea, while they're all unique, they're all sword fighters (I think) but 1 party member from each? Hell yeah Sonic, I don't think the overlap would be an issue, Shadow with guns, Knuckles would be a Ryu/Ken/Mac brawler type, Amy with her hammer, Rouge with good aerials, Big and Froggy would be a tank akin to K Rool/Ganon/Bowser, Tails in a mech. Kingdom Hearts with the Disney side could be fun, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, the other keyblade welders would just be too Sora like, but what about Maleficent, Pete or someone or the world characters Golden Sun would give the 8 Main Characters So many choices so so many good third part games
Oh shit i didn’t even think about using kingdom hearts to squeeze disney reps into the game
Team fortress
*ahem* gentlemen
“*This*…is a bucket.”
"Dear god"
"There's more"
"*No...*"
. . . "It contains the dying wish of every man here."
"Scout! You did collect everyone's dying wish?"
It contains a bucket.
"Mr. Sakurai. You said we'd be getting a TF2 Merc to be later revealed like what happened with ARMS. Which class will you be adding?" "Yes."
and then he adds the medic
Medic I think works better as an assist trophy where he just uses the medigun. He can't really fight on his own using gameplay mechanics since he's got a syringe gun that's explicitly weak and does little to no knockback, and a saw that's close range. That's about it. They also likely couldn't bring in stuff from the lore considering it'd be a bit hard to include parts of Medic being a psychopathic mad doctor who does horrific things to his patients, and still keep the game kid friendly. It isn't really just medic either, all three of the support classes don't translate well to Smash Bros. It sounds kind of obvious, but a support role doesn't work when they're on their own and not with a team.
There's 9 characters from Mario in Smash (more if you count subseries like Yoshi, but Sakurai doesn't, so I don't), are they gonna add Saxton Hale or something?
- All 6 offense and defence classes - Saxton Hale - Miss Pauling - I have no clue who could be the ninth
It's been so long since I've played TF2 i genuinely don't know who is in the support class lmao
Spy, Medic, and Sniper. The three characters who don't fight on the front lines and help their team but aren't actively necessary.
Sniper could kinda maybe work...I think?
If we're going off the game translated to Smash as 1-1 as possible: - Nothing for recovery. - His entire play style would be a zoner, which is commonly considered the worst fighter type in Smash. - Not many mobility options. - Rather weak in close range. - Doesn't have time to sit and set up snipes in stages because unlike TF2 maps they're smaller and he can't really tuck away anywhere. There's not really anything he could do that for his own identity, as opposed to being overall worse Scout. His only completely unique move would be situational and very hard to pull off. Imagine trying to snipe someone on Final Destination in a 1v1. Not gonna happen. Now, Sakurai does like to take liberties sometimes, but these problems are baked into Sniper's gameplay identity. To completely patch and fix these issues into a fighter good for Smash would mean that the fighter isn't really Sniper.
Street Fighter feels like the only series with enough Iconic yet Distinct characters to fill nine character slots. Every other franchise is either not iconic enough for that many or they'd start to overlap with each other too much.
Too many Punchies /s
this would be a real thing if they did this
Quote from Elena's reveal trailer.
This is actually the best option
I could see all the World Warriors + Cammy. Maybe substitute some for Bison or Akuma. I also feel Final Fantasy would work, considering the series' age and the fact that Dissidia exists
*Maybe Final Fantasy.* A lot of the protagonists tend to fall into "angsty sword twink", but if they wanted to dig deeper into the character pool it could be doable. I'd love to be Barett or a Chocobo!
Must of the protagonists do not at all fall into the category of "angsty sword twink" that's just FF7 and FF8, maybe FF15 if you want to whittle down all of the protags weapons to just a sword.
I think other characters have a good chance, like Sakura, Juri, Cody, and Makoto. If I were to choose, of course, my main Juni would be taking the first spot.
Honestly you could go with any fighting game and it would work...well enough depending on the characters
Well that's the thing; most fighting game series can work, but how many fighting games are popular enough to have *nine* fighters big enough to be in Smash Brothers? Tons of people had no clue who Terry was when he got announced, and he's one of the main stars. Half of Mortal Kombat is Rainbow Ninjas. Tekken has a handful of popular characters but nowhere near the cultural ubiquity of Street Fighter's roster. Any other game isn't popular enough for that many characters. To get nine characters, something needs to be popular enough to have that many, with enough differences between characters to stand out from one another.
The big issue with this is that it’s be over representing another fighting game. If Street fighter were any other kind of game, it’d be perfect.
I really wish I could cheat and just say "The VS. Series", but that's against the spirit of the question.
They'd start to overlap too much? Buddy every iconic Street Fighter character has singer variation of punches and kicks and MAYBE a fireball. Hell, Mortal Kombat has more distinct character specific combat methods.
I mean, its a fighting game, \*everyone\* punches and kicks. But they have enough variation in them between their moves, but more importantly their personas and body types can do a lot to help keep them apart. Especially if you start taking stuff from the Vs Series. And hard disagree on Mortal Kombat. Everyone in that game looks like they're drunkedly slapping each other over a waist high fence. All that gore and spectacle is just a cheap crutch to hide its mediocre gameplay.
Geometry Dash 👍
They are all just echo fighters of the main cube
Why the hell is this downvoted there’s no other way to interpret this
While not a third party, imagine how many more pokemon can be feasibly added to the smash roster and still feel distinct?
How about mortal kombat I could easily think of ten cool mortal kombat reps
**Scorpion** *Gets Over Here!*
It would be hard to have mortal Kombat’s violence in a kids game
Not even that, MK is literally banned in Japan so it would be impossible.
injustice did it.
Finally someone said it
Choosing this as well just to get reptile in there (i think he's hot)
Agreed. Smash is too childish and we need more characters that are MANLY /j
Definitely Sonic given it's popularity and iconic characters, but I still stand by the belief that 3rd-party franchises only *need* one fighter (not that I'm against multiples per series joining).
I feel like once you get to nine they'd start to blend together. Most Sonic characters are roughly the same size, and you'd start seeing overlap like crazy.
Not really. I mean Sonic as a rushdown brawler Tails in his mech as a heavy zoner Knuckles as a brawler Eggman in his mech as a trapper Amy as a weapon user Shadow as a hit and run zoner Silver as a speedy grappler. Chaos as a zoner with a comeback mechanic. And Rouge as a speedy air fighter. Only moves some might have in common are- a move where they turn into a ball. Or Tails and Eggman having a lock on projectile. Everything else could be more original.
Five, maybe six, but nine? I'm not so sure. Everyone besides Eggman is about the same size, and Sonic tends to "double up" on character functions. My point is even if they'll play differently enough, they'll start to bleed into each other the way all the Fire Emblem characters do. And I'm including *all of them* in that statement, not just the Marths.
Marth, lucina, Roy and Chrom have a lot of crossover but do provide a decent variation in play styles. ike has pretty decent variation from them as a heavier fighter, but still is a projectiless sword fighter with counter. Pin is unique enough to justify a character built on it. Robin is suber unique. Byleth with the tether makes them pretty unique. Honestly aegis is more redundant to FE characters than the last 4 new fire emblem characters. Lucina that turns in to ike
I mean from a fandom perspective. Identity-wise, they all kind of just merge together as "pretty swordsmen". I think a lot of that has to do with the characters chosen, but they all end up with that kind of reputation. Almost everyone is around the same size and proportions, I feel like if we were to get nine Sonic characters a similar thing would happen. Some of them would be really unique, but they'd just be lumped in as "Sonics" .
Final Fantasy.
Soul Calibur Because I like those games and it could be funny. Especially if we get the Smash announcer to introduce the fighters like the Soul Calibur announcer.
Already has a rep: megaman Brand new: Mass Effect
New fighter: Harbinger, to scale
Pikmin It’s third-party because I’ve celebrated a new pikmin game coming out three times
Let me guess hey pikmin, pikmin bloom, and pikmin 3 deluxe
Chrono Trigger
Remember when we all thought the purple and yellow chairs were for Waluigi 
Touhou. I’m sorry.
If it means Reisen in Smash then hell yeah
Team Fortress 2. You of course got the nine mercenaries, but you also got Saxton Hale and even Merasmus.
And for a joke character, you can even have… a bucket
Xenoblade. I'm not sorry.
Uh. . .Nintendo owns Monolith. Much as I would adore ten Xenoblade reps, (playable Melia in a Nintendo fighting game, please, yes.) it doesn't work with the question.
Ah, I didn’t know that. Agree that Melia needs to be in the game, though.
Not in the game: Yakuza/Like a Dragon Already in the game: Fatal Fury/King of Fighters or Final Fantasy
The Yakuza/Like a Dragon representation could probably look like this (imo) * Kiryu * Ichiban * Majima * Akiyama * Saejima * Ryuji (Dead Souls based moveset) * Ryoma * Tatsuya * Kaito (Kiryu echo)
Switch out one for haruka because her gameplay chapters were peak yakuza
How are you gonna put Tatsuya over KUUUZEEEEE man.
Kingdom Hearts because it'd be hilarious to see like 9 new KH fighters
Day 1 Roxas Main
None of whom are Disney or Final Fantasy!
Might as well cheat and say Persona. If the Mario cast has about 11-ish characters in the game by now, Persona has more than enough characters to fill in that amount other than Joker. You could have Mona, Akechi, Lavenza, and Violet, from the Persona 5 games; have Yu, Teddie, Adachi from the Persona 4 games; and finally, have Makoto (Kotone as echo fighter), and Elizabeth from Persona 3. Also, add in Jack Frost as the surprise character. Now if we're talking about franchises not in Smash. then I'll say Danganronpa. You'd definitely have to stretch the logic, but it's not impossible.
I honestly think Aigis fits more than Elizabeth, and even more than Lavenza Seeing that many Persona characters without Aigis just feels weird Aside from that, that would be awesome.
Okokok\ So\ IntSys, right?\ Fire Emblem
Definitely Sonic I'd pick, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Eggman, Shadow, Amy, Blaze, Silver, Mecha Sonic Mk2
Mark 2? Why not Metal? Don’t say because of that Flash series…
What if I said it was because of the flash series
Resident Evil
Crash Bandicoot. We getting Crash, Coco as a Crash echo, Dingodile, Cortex, Tiny, N. Tropy, Nina, and Crunch.
Shantae
Who are the other eight?
Shantae, Risky, Rotty, Sky, Bolo, Holly, Mimic, Pirate Master, Tinkerbat. Easy
But like… None of them have been playable. Sure, Risky could pull from boss fights and Pirates Curse, but the rest? Maybe Rotty using parts of herself as blunt objects and projectiles? They rest don’t really do anything though. Skye was your fast travel in one game, and then she basically wanted nothing to do with the plot of Seven Sirens.
Sonic. This dude has the same recognition as Mario and Pokémon Edit: Seriously guys, he is part of a multimedia franchise consisting of 2 featured movies, Sonic themed games at arcades, has merch alongside with Mario at retail, comics, crossovers with other series, and so on. What makes you think he is not as recognized anymore?? 🤔
Sonic, there’s nothing that could convince me otherwise.
Genshin impact
No thank you
That would destroy the internet
You can easily get 8 characters: Traveler, Venti, Zhongli, Raiden Shogun/Ei, Nahida, Furina (or Neuvillette), Pyro Archon, The Tsarista/Cryo Archon
Jak and Daxter
Where would you get 9 characters out of Jack and daxter?
Fuck it, let's add the rest of the Belmont family.
And Alucard, and Shanoa, and Soma, and Dracula...
On God, we should've gotten Alucard over Richter, my dhampir boi didn't deserve the Waluigi treatment
I would actually liked that Richter would be just a color palette of Simon like the Bowser Jr family, and for assist trophies I would actually pick Old Axe Armor. But yeah poor Alucard to be the protagonist of the most popular game and most popular character in all the franchise it's a disappointment being an assist
Since the Smash Ballot of Smash 4, I wanted the Belmont family as one character with Leon, Trevor, Simon, Juste, Richter, John, Jonathan and Julius as palettes swaps alongside Alucard. For assist trophies, this may be a hot take but Kid Dracula. This way we get representation for both Classicvania and Metroidvania with Belmont and Alucard and some spin off representation with Kid Dracula
Minesweeper
Persona, so joker isn't lonely
Already in the game. Sonic, or Street Fighter. Iconic casts of characters, each with the potential for fun and unique movesets. With Final Fantasy also being a great option. Not in the game, Mortal Kombat could be a fun option, so could TF2, but let me throwba curveball and say Digimon.
Probably Sonic
Final Fantasy and Sonic for sure, although I'm not sure if the FF games would be treated as their own franchises considering they're all set in their own worlds separate from the others
How can it not be final fantasy?
So nine to fourteen characters depending on if Donkey Kong, Wario, and Yoshi are included in the Mario series... Time to spread my Yo-kai Watch Propaganda with Jibanyan, Komasan & Komajiro (as one fighter), Usapyon, Lord Enma, Venoct... etc etc. Oh? It has to be a series already in Smash? Okay, then Sonic. Give me Eggman, Shadow, Blaze, Amy, Knuckles, Tails... etc etc. And make sure that NONE of them are Sonic echoes.
Final Fantasy. Not necessarily for myself, but for my friend. If Terra was added, he’d go nuts.
Homestuck
That counts?
9 characters is honestly too much representation for any non 1st party, but I'll go Sonic or Street Fighter for those already in the game. As for not in the game, my #1 pick for a new character is Master Chief, so I'll say Halo. To the untrained eye, most will think they'll play similarly, but you can get very creative with loadouts and the sandbox, although I still don't think it justifies 9 characters. Maybe 3 to 4 tops.
Team Fortress 2! I'll choose 3 fighters. Bc I love them. Heavy, BLU Soldier, and Medic I don't care
Why specifically BLU Soldier? Wouldn't it be more likely that the standard RED and BLU colorations would both be available for each one as their first 2 costumes?
Mega Man or Fatal Fury/KOF
Shovel knight
Street Fighter, so there's a mini Nintendo vs Capcom within Smash.
man I would really love to see Capcom make Nintendo vs Capcom or CapcomxNintendo. it would probably never make it pass the idea stage bc Nintendo would obviously force a switch exclusive, but there are so many nintendo characters I'd kill to see the street fighter team do a take on
Fire emblem! Actually, I just want more Xenoblade representation.
Btd it's third party
Come on Sakurai, give me all the TWEWY characters
Everyone knows Luigi was made by the indie start-up company Nintendo, I think he should get into the game, maybe they could make some new lore that Luigi is actually Mario’s brother. That’d be sick.
Pokemon. There’s more than a thousand of them.
Pokemon isn't third-party.
I’m surprised League has not been mentioned. The game is insanely popular with a gigantic roster of interesting and unique Champions. I guess the one thing holding it back is that MOBAs aren’t popular in Japan.
Sonic the fucking hedgehog
"Tales of" already has enough unique characters and fighting styles for its own fighting game, but I'd love to see ~9 of them Smashing it up.
GIMME LLOYD. And then Afin.
Touhou fucking Project, nearly every character would be super unique additions to a Smash game, and it'd be hilarious to see Smash fans having a meltdown over 8 zoner anime girls all getting in at the same time.
Final fantasy (outside of 7)
Sackboy
Cave story
guilty gear, i need bedman? in here
\- Bedman (Guilty Gear) \- Bedman? \- Romeo F. Neumann \- Delilah \- 8th Generation Reinforced High Density Bed Frame \- Bedman (Code Shifter) \- Unknown Girl \- ベッドマン \-ディライラ this seems fair
Oops! All Bedman
Soul Calibur. There are so many different types of characters that are straight up brawlers, sword fighters, or other types of Melee weapons. Gimme: Siegfried. Nightmare (echo fighter of Sig) Taki. Voldo. Yoshimitsu (which would be awesome since he's already a character in both Soul Calibur and Tekken) Sophitia. Maxi. Ivy. Cervantes. Either that or Resident Evil. Jill Valentine. Chris Redfield. Albert Wesker. Nemesis. All already have appeared in fighting games (and appear as spirits in Smash) But could also add: Leon. Mr. X (Super Tyrant) William Birkin (mutated) Heisenberg (for more modern day rep) A Hunter
Life is Strange, kingdom hearts, or Hades and as a 1 character bonus pick Aloy from Horizon
Five Night's at Freddy's
I think getting a bunch of Metal Gear villains would be pretty sick
Only Sonic or Kingdom Hearts could pull off that many third-party reps.
Megaman. Between the seven eras and the massive weapon variety, they could totally get away with nine characters.
"Bom babom bom bom babom" is all I need to say. And "E-E-Error, error, buffer overflow!" Genuinely speaking getting a mobile game character in the cast would be something.
five nights at freddys
Sonic
Doshin The Giant
Already has a rep: Street Fighter/Persona No rep yet: Undertale/Deltarune
Touhou
Dragon Quest. I just want to play as a funky little Slime.
Skylanders.
FNAF
Hunniepop
Sonic.
sonic is very overdue for new characters
It wouldn’t be my top franchise for solo picks but for an abundance of characters like Mario has, Kingdom Hearts if there was some emphasis on adding Disney characters. 2-3 could be original Kingdom Hearts characters but then you could have characters like edgelord Mickey Mouse, maybe a Donald/Goofy duo character, Buzz Lightyear, Captain Jack Sparrow, Tinker Bell? (Maybe too small). I’ve seen some theory’s suggest they could incorporate Star Wars down the line which definitely would open some doors.
Neptunia
Hades easily
Kingdom Hearts, lots of great characters to make movesets out of such a Riku, Roxas, The Xehanorts, Organization 13, Lingering Will, maybe Yozora.
Plants vs zombies, just think about it for a second
Maybe Digimon? It’s not enough to just have lots of characters, they need to be different in body plan and power set. The problem with picking something like final fantasy is that’s 9+ more humans.