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Characters

Known
These have already been displayed in the Video Clips or in a profile form and are assumed already to be finished, short some touches.


Bowser / Giga Bowser (oh yes they did)
Diddy Kong
Donkey Kong
Fox McCloud (ala namco version)
Ice Climbers
Ike ( A Heavier Fire Emblem character )
King DeDeDe
Kirby (no significant change to look lol)
Link (Twilight Princess Rework)
Lucas (New Earthbound Character)
Mario
Meta-Knight
Pikachu
Pit
Pokemon Trainer (Ash basically trotting out Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard)
Princess Peach (oh yes she was!!!!)
Samus Aran / Zero Suit Samus
Snake
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
Wario (Wario Ware Style)
Yoshi
Zelda



Very Likely Melee Returns

Story: Remember how Luigi was still a hidden character in Melee?
I'm Pretty sure these characters will be secret until the end. As Unlockables.

Capt. Falcon
Dr. Mario
Falco
Ganondorf
Jigglypuff
Luigi
Mewtwo
Mr. Game & Watch
Ness
Pichu
Sheik ( I finally have info to suggest that she will be in... as well as ganondorf)

Suspects
This is the hard work from deciphering as much as I could from
the translations of the japanese site that we weren't allowed to read
the information from, the stupid sites that collect information from
non-credible sources and whatnot.

The rumor mill says that a whole bunch of people requested Geno.
Geno is not owned only by Square Enix, as his doll shows up
in superstar Saga... not bad odds I guess.

Baby Bowser / Shadow Mario (though it was not found on a credible source, 1up says there is good odds, and possibly wind waker link and/or meta ridley, to which I laugh and say, maybe baby bowser / shadow mario)

These are some characters that were either mentioned on the japanese site or that a lot of people are still begging for.

Ray MK01 (Custom Robo made it to the US right? He'll at very least be an assist trophy this time)
Crystal (from Starfox Adventures)




Further Speculations & Suggestions
I'm honestly hoping that the following get in, might have seen a window of opertunity.

Mallow
Because he is a sissy, whiner, he uses abilities that have not been used yet
I would love to see someone freak that he got in and not geno.

Crono
Holy Crap right? Could you imagine? Ultimately, I think that there is a good likelyhood of this happening. Chronotrigger was extremely sucessful on SNES. There is a tricky thing I did. If you look at the composers, most of them put out RPG's that were NOT with nintendo, although it's a shame, the maker of a lot of the music for Chronotrigger is in there.
Awesome factor of... well it can't be measured.
Guaranteed not to be released as a character until the last possible moment.


Waluigi
Cause he's evil... and underdeloped it's a free moveset. He keeps
popping up in every game now as luigi did back in the day.
Surely he's seen almost as much use in games as peach.
What the heck was with gving him the non-chalant rose in mario party 8? WTF!

Lloyd (tales of symphonia)
Because his moves were fluent and has a full range of motion
condusive to smash bros., easily reworked animations,
awesome factor of near obliteration
and it would be good to see him carry on.
Lloyd is appearing in another tales game possibly next year.


Edgar (final fantasy 6)
Chainsaw. Crossbow. Halberd. End story.

Megaman / X /.exe
Nintendo basic staple I think, though made by capcom. Neverending supply of games. Even a soccer one.

Bass / Bass.exe (megaman battle network / megaman 7,8, & Bass)
Well, to best megaman

Zero (Megaman X1-X8 )
He has a high awesome factor

Captain N
Because it would be damned hilarious... "Losing with... outdated technology..." aaaand shoot him with the super scope.

Princess Daisy
Anything peach can do, she can do better. Just ask Luigi.

Simon Belmont
Because he sort of was a nintendo only character.

Lololo & Lalala (adventures of lolo 1-3, kirby)
If for some unforseeable reason, the Ice Climbers stay.

Jeff (earthbound)
Many odd gadgets that can show up that crap
e-gadd makes. Also I think that Earthbound was
waaay underrated.

EXPECTED NPCS & BOSSES & Hopefull Bosses
Culex (Super Mario RPG, for the cool factor)
King Boo (cause someone asked and they have trotted out boos everywhere... see double dash... mario tennis, golf and party 7& cool
Sandbag
Master / Crazy Hand
Giga Bowser is now a transformation of bowser!!!
Evil inanimate doll thing
Wart (Super Mario 2, for great revenge)
Axem Rangers (mario RPG, Amazing team fight)
Prince Pine (Yoshi's Safari, is princess peach's husband ********! OH NO LOL)

The main thing I want in Brawl is an Adventure Mode that's different for each character and actually give it a story. For instance if I'm playing Mario, I'll run through The Mushroom Kingdom fighting mario villains and take out Bowzer at the end. If I'm playing Link, I'd want to run through Hyrule inspired levels, killing Zelda enemies and fight Ganondorf at the end, and etc.

It seems so odd that everything is so hush hush.
If this time they hired an entire team to work forever on it, I think it is safe to say that they are still in development of the entire game.

I would think that they haven't finished the character list or the levels, however I am sure that this is a pretty good representation of what we will be looking at.

It may very well be that they DO make some sort of themed Classic mode. But as for the entire adventure mode being different for each, that I can be sure that they really couldnt do and make the game balanced.

The original intent was to do some sort of crossing over into other game worlds and owning the place, and to that end, I suspect that there will not be a huge change to the story/adventure/classic/all-star mode systems.

Maybe they can throw in a bunch more event modes?
I was always hoping on a multiplayer adventure.
Saddly, I know that is an insane request and they aren't like to do it.

After Pac-Man Jr. on the PSP? Still probably not xd Some people have the crazies just like you and happen to be in this guild. domokun Nemesis would be an awesome Brawl Character. But he's a bit dark for Smash.

I haven't found much so far on this game, I have found a lot of awesome screenshots however although it only has the characters we already know about.

Has anyone seen the new video footage with Fox? confused

Yeah, he really looks Tae-kwon do-ish to me.

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