- Without Smash 64, I don't think he would have been added in Smash. While he might have shown up in Melee, he would have been too old to be recent enough for Brawl onward, but too new to be a retro.
-Ultimate was dedicated to fan favorites being added and if Cloud wasn't a veteran, most people would use him as a character that would never appear in Smash.
- Dr. Mario wouldn't be a requested character, maybe an alternate skin, but Smash doesn't give characters alternative skins for the most part (exceptions are there. Mostly
and the gendered characters)
- Why Falco over the other two members of Team Star Fox? Peppy and Slippy feel like they are more important and/or more iconic to the series than Falco. Plus
and Krystal would probably be more requested than the three of them.
- Ganon would probably be added instead.
- Gen 6 would have been passed over with a playable character like Gen 3 and Gen 5.
- See Greninja but with replace Pokemon with Fire Emblem and Ike with Greninja, like how Ephraim was skipped over.
- Would have been out of the anime at the time.
- The Punch Out wii game wouldn't have been 10 years old, and his series would be too relavent to be retro, and too old to be recent.
- See Ike. Plus without echoes, I feel like Dark Pit would have decloned and echoes wouldn't have been a concept.
- With Ryu in the game, we would have still gotten a Ken echo. Probably not
himself, but has a chance to come in Ultimate.
- New legendary Pokemon and all. Still likely.
-Miis are no longer as important in the Switch as they were in the Wii and Wii U eras.
- They would have never added Pichu if he wasn't in Melee.
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- Uprising had come and gone, and without Dark Pit, I feel like the echo concept would have been dropped and they would have given Lucina something to different herself from both Marth and Roy.
- Transformation characters were impossible in Smash 4.
- See Ike.
- See Ike.
- See Ike.
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- Fans would have thought that Megaman was enough probably.
- If she wasn't orginally attached to Zelda, she would not have been in later Smash games.
- Did anybody think Snake was possible before he was in Brawl? Or 3rd Parties in general?
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- People would probably be okay with just the other younger version of Link.
- Isabelle would have been added as the only character for the series. She became the face of the franchise.
- Did literally anybody ever think she was going to be in? I assume that most people would pick the balance board if they suggested a character from Wii Fit specifically.
- Would she have been added if not already a transformation for Samus? Also, Smash 4 didn't have transformations.