The Final Character

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We've reached the final stage of Smash speculation, and it's been an interesting one. How do you cap off Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with one last character, and who could it be?

While it could just be another Fire Emblem character, I think the last one could have more significance than meets the eye. In the Kazuya presentation, Sakurai mentioned how a passion project of his ten years in the making is coming to its close, and he called Ultimate "his life's work". With the strong possibility of this being Sakurai's last Smash game, is it possible that he'd want to end it with a bang, or a character that's important to him? There's no clear answer to this, but I think it's worth bearing in mind.

Here's a few picks for who I hope the final fighter will be:
Master Hand - If the final character goes the route of "celebrating the legacy of Smash and Sakurai's life work", there is no better option than to make Master Hand playable. He's been a boss in the series since the beginning, but on a more metaphorical level, the intro of N64 implies that Master Hand represents the creator of the world of Smash, or the child who imagines it. Sakurai, alongside his studio, have created the world of Smash for many years now, so if Master Hand were added, it could symbolically represent Sakurai and his team. Is that a bit tongue-in-cheek, over the top analysis? Probably, but I cannot a better character to finish Sakurai's work in Smash than the character who creates Smash himself
Tabuu - I'm tossing him a bone for being another Smash original character, and I do think Tabuu would be cool to play, but I think Master Hand is a far stronger choice for a Smash original. Still, I'd appreciate his inclusion
A character representing the future of Nintendo - I'm keeping this one intentionally vague. Recently, Street Fighter V had its final DLC character revealed, and he's meant to represent where Street Fighter is going in the future. I think it would be pretty neat if Ultimate ended in a similar way. After all, Ultimate has to end, but Nintendo will continue to make games into the future, so why not celebrate it? This could mean a BotW2 character, a Metroid Dread character, a character from a new IP, or any other characters demonstrating where Nintendo is moving forward to, but no matter who, I think it'd be neat to see

Past those picks that I've chosen specifically because they're the final slot, I'd still like to see
-Phoenix Wright
-Dr. Eggman
-Chun Li
-Madeline
Any of those four make it in, but I feel like their chances are diminished at this point.
My most wanted character remains Phoenix, but with the perspective in mind, Master Hand is a very close second

What are your thoughts? Do you think we'll get a character that serves as a celebration of Smash, or do you think we're inevitably getting Cinderace?
 
I actually quite like the idea of Master Hand or someone else to represent the Smash series itself, and I've actually thought about it a few times. If it was to happen I would be fairly happy, not excited or anything like that, but definitely an "ah, that's neat" before I turn the presentation off and invetably cry about the fact Eggman isn't in the game.

Speaking of hands, can I make my pitch for the Hand from Mario Paint & Maker? It has artistic and musical skills, can summon items, enemies, and object from the Mario series, and is also a hand. That should be more then enough moveset potential and appeal in of itself. If most of that seems gimmicky then I partially agree, and feel that it's more... handy traits would make sense for a majority of it's normals, with the rest only being used for taunts, specials, and maybe smash attacks and grabs.
This isn't actually that relevant, and I don't think they'll be, or even want them as the final character that much, I just remembered this idea and I'm making sure everyone knows about how cool I think it is.

Anyway, that Eggman idea of yours sounds pretty cool if you ask me, and I personally wouldn't mind seeing it.
 
you know what!!!!! it ending on a smash original would kick SO much ass. symbolically . it works very well
if thats not what we get though then i know its not gonna be anyone i care about, still
 
Bruh they should just add mario in

In all seriousness, I don't think it would be master hand, mostly because he's playable at the end of world of light, second because his moveset might be too broken and would piss competitive players off.

Taboo might be possible, although I would say the same thing about him, also because he's a spirit at the end of world of light, kind of representing a hard battle and stuff.

For the fighter it could be whoever you might think of, Who even knows if Sakurai will add himself to the game. I feel like the fighter could most likely be anyone that a lot of people expect and that's all I'm gonna say about it.