Characters that won't return to SSB4

Garlic Man

Garlic Man

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Discuss characters that you expect to/think should not return in the new Super Smash Bros.
 
not sure if ROB will return, i expect not.


Although i love his moveset.
 
The only ones I see have a good chance of getting cut is Toon Link and/or Lucario (For the same reasons Mewtwo was).

Ideally though, I'd love there to be absolutely no cuts from Brawl. Even if that meant less room for newcomers. Cause for the most part I think Brawl's roster was pretty good.

I don't know if Sakurai saying that the 3DS version has certain limits when he's asked if everyone's favorites from Melee or Brawl would return means that we're not getting every character that was in Brawl.

But I can't imagine they'd cut any character that had their own original moveset. The only time they did that was with Mewtwo, and arguably Lucario was basically just an improved Mewtwo anyway. I really think the characters that are too similar to another are more likely in the danger zone.
 
I won't be surprised if Lucario or Toon Link get cut. After that, I dunno.
 
My thoughts on who is returning and leaving from brawl:

Returning:
Mario
Link
Kirby
Pikachu
Fox
Samus
Zelda/Sheik
Bowser
Donkey Kong
Yoshi
Peach
Pit
Wario
Diddy Kong
Meta Knight
King Dedede
Ness
Marth
Luigi
Falco
Captain Falcon
Mr. Game & Watch
Jigglypuff

Leaving:
Zero Suit Samus
Ice Climbers
Ike (Replaced by Awakening Character)
Pokemon Trainer
Lucas
Olimar (Replaced by Pikmin 3 Character)
Lucario
R.O.B.
Ganondorf (Replaced by Skyward Sword villian)
Toon Link
Wolf
Snake
Sonic (Replaced by different third-party character)

Mostly the leaving ones are just ones I don't think are important enough to stay or have the chance of being replaced by a character from a newer game. Newer characters need a place and they can take theirs.
 
The only characters I think should really go are Toon Link and Wolf. The fact that TL shows up in the background of the 3DS Spirit Tracks stage makes me think he's out.

And I really think that Fire Emblem has gained enough popularity to the point where it's earned 3 reps. I see Marth as being the speedy/graceful character, Ike being the rough powerhouse, and Chrom being the middle ground type of character of the three.
 
id really hope they dont throw in another sword charracter for an fe rep.

gets kinda old. Would rather see hector(then again he can use a sword too) or some axe, spear, etc. user from awakening.

guess that's really not the topic at hand though.
 
Proto Man said:
The only characters I think should really go are Toon Link and Wolf.
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That just seems like wishful thinking to me, since they said they weren't going to expand the number of characters very much to make it more balanced. If they want more than 10 new characters they're going to have to ditch more than two IMO.