Blind loyalty is unhealthy!

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CaptainExplosion said:

Hiku said:

First of all, there are plenty of darker skinned characters that would make just as much sense in Smash as the rest of the cast. If not more. Twintelle for example consistently ranks as the most popular character in ARMS, but that wasn't the character Nintendo chose to add.

Also, there's nothing wrong with asking for representation.
It's difficult to relate when 99.9% of games I've played in my life have starred characters that are white like myself.
But if 99.9% of main characters in games were black, I would very likely also ask for some representation once in a while.

But there is something wrong with telling others to fuck off for that.

This is why I'd rather it was Twintelle than Min Min.

At the same time, Min Min was a clearly Asian woman. How many of those are in Smash? None come to my mind right now, so both desperately needed representation.

I do agree that more representation in games would be great, but Smash is a pretty bad franchise for that: It celebrates basically games from many years past, and apart from a handful of characters, most have their IP rooted in the 80's or 90's where anything else than a talking animal or a testosterone-poisoned action hero lookalike was already pretty inclusive. Just remember how huge a surprise the original reveal was that Samus was actually a woman or how big of a deal it was at the time that you could play a badass girl in Tomb Raider instead of the usual Schwarzenegger rip-offs (speaking of which, Lara would make a nice entry in Smash, but probably misses a potentially usable moveset from her own games for a fighting game).