the_dengle on 24 November 2014
Violence has nothing to do with it. Plenty of Smash characters are violent. Samus exterminates entire species, murders armies of alien life forms, and then (just to be thorough) destroys the entire planet or space station on which she committed this act of genocide.
Also Pikmin is outrageously violent. Olimar literally throws semi-intelligent childlike creatures directly into the line of fire, often causing the deaths of dozens of them at a time. Almost always for relatively selfish reasons like self-preservation.
Then there's this
