I was looking through the Smash Bros. Brawl chronicle and noticed that Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Donald Duck and Popeye had their games mentioned in the Game & Watch section. I found that very odd (and kind of cool), considering they are properties of Disney (Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck), Turner Entertainment (Popeye), and Peanuts LLC (Snoopy). Does Nintendo own the rights to those Game&Watch games, or were they just paying tribute to the most popular G&W games of that year (1983)? The SSBB chronicle does not include other popular games such as Super Mario Bros. and Zelda, so why have those games? 31 Game & Watch games are in the Chronicle, and there are 60 Game & Watch games in total from 1980 to 1991, and of those 31 games, 5 of them contain those 4 characters.

What do you think?

I think they're not going to be in it.

Call it a hunch.

Nope, we dont need Disney of all things infecting Nintendo's games

We already have that shit in KH and boy, some of the Disney moments are just so terrible

No, they won't be in the game.

And the reason, if nothing else, is because Sakurai doesn't want to include characters that aren't from videogames. That's why Son Goku isn't there despite Namco developing the game.

Mickey would be a fucking amazing addition

Popeye would be too OP.

Fun fact: Mario was originally Popeye, but for some reason was changed to a generic working-class hero character (a plumber rather than a sailor). Olive Oyl was changed to Pauline and Bluto became Donkey Kong and the rest was history.

I really doubt characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck would fit in a Smash game!