The problem with Krystal is that she may be cut from the Starfox Universe altogether, or at least that's what i suspect. My gut feeling is that Nintendo is trying to reboot Starfox and that this process is starting with 64 DS, so they're retreating back to the core characters and going to ignore everything introduced from Adventures/Assault/Command

I'd say Sonic wouldn't be cut just because of the good report (French pronunciation, folks) between Nintendo and Sega over the sharing of Sonic. Konami-Nintendo relations are much less prominent, and i would feel Sakurai would be pressured to cut Snake if he had to cut someone, despite his personal friendship with Kojima.

Nooo! Don't they dare to cut Metaknight from the game!

I don't think Snake will be removed, especially after MGS makes it to the 3DS

Lucario is more or less going to be removed like Mewtwo, but has a great fighting style : (

Wolf is cool, but Star Fox final smash is severely overpowered, Zelda is a bit too stong as well as some others

Samus is cool but too hard to master, needs some improvement

Toad has to absolutely make it in, as he's one of the main Mario characters, awesome to play with in SMB Wii, and since they figured out how Peach and Yoshi can fight : P

I would love to see Waluigi, Bowser Jr. and Daisy, too

some more Samus characters, like Ridley

and last but not least, MII !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I personally LOVE wolf, my cuzin would get pissed cuz I kept using him. oh and that black kirby lookin thing with the cape...I forget his name

They should either give the clones their own movesets or cut them.

This time they will add much more Third Party characters.

The biggest thing I'm worried about being cut is gamecube controller support.

I agree with almost all of yours except for Snake, he was awesome. (He was also incredibly hard to kill with that whole fall, explode himself, recover, repeat move...which is why I loved playing as him)

Why do you think Snake will get the boot?

congratualtions! you are my new best friend for the next week

I want Professor Layton :(