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Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and Sora Ltd. head Masahiro Sakurai are friends. So when Hideo Kojima wanted one of his most famous characters, Solid Snake, put into Sakurai's fighting series, Super Smash Bros., all the two had to do was talk. "When I was developingSuper Smash Bros. Melee for GameCube, Hideo Kojima contacted me and practically begged me to put him in there, but at that time we were deep in dev and it was too late," Sakurai told Kotaku back in 2006. Snake didn't end up in Melee, but did appear in the Wii's iteration of Super Smash Bros.: Brawl.

So what drove Kojima to "practically beg" Sakurai to get Snake in the game? "My child likes Super Smash Bros., so we play it a lot together. And he told me that there's no character that you made in that game," Hideo Kojima told a group of interviewers late last week ahead of the Smithsonian's "The Art of Videogames" exhibit. Aside from his son's pleading, Kojima pointed to Metal Gear's low profile on Nintendo consoles as a second reason.

"As you know, we did make Twin Snakes, but generally speaking, there hasn't been a lot of Metal Gear on Nintendo platforms. So from that perspective, I thought it was a good way to expose younger people to this character, Snake," he said. It must be working, as Snake is one of Brawl's most popular characters

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/19/thank-kojimas-son-for-getting-snake-into-smash-bros-brawl/

''Thank Kojima's son for getting Snake into Smash Bros. Brawl''... Amen!

Should have pushed to make Snake a more... playable character though. Really has to be the second-worst character in the game after Olimar.

So, he is the one that gave my beloved Snake to those ungrateful Nintendo Goombas. I know who I must kill now.

Maybe they should repay Nintendo for even considering it. You know? Release some games instead of begging to get a character in a game.

Hmm, I would like to disagree with that comment... While not the best character I wouldnt say Olimar is the worst of all, actually I would give it to Snake or DK.

OT: I hope nintendo doesnt keep adding more 3rd party character to smash, sonic was ok, but snake?... Pls dont let it happen again. 

His special attack always kicked my ass, damn that helicopter.

And thank you Kojima-San

As far as my personal playstyle goes, Olimar, Snake, ROB, and Lucario are at the bottom of the barrel. I quite like Donkey Kong, actually. When i tested all of the characters out to see who my new mains would be (after i discovered how they had nerfed Marth and Ganondorf. My other old mains, Kirby and Mr. Game and Watch, were improved arguably) i found DK to be in the tier just under that of my new mains.

I think Snake was ok, hard to master but ive seen ''professional'' players do wonders with him. And DK... what the hell?! DK is awsome imo, I rly dont see what is wrong with him, he is strong, have good moves, easy to play and despite being heavy he still has a decent recover.

For me king dedede and ganondorf are by far the worst characters.

and for 3rd party characters, I like the idea of having more for the WiiU version but not to many. I wish they could manage to get only 1 representant for each big major game company...

• Sega: Sonic
• Konami: Snake
• Capcom: Megaman (or Ryu from street fighter)
• Ubisoft: Rayman
• Square-Enix: Sora from Kingdom Heart or some dude from Dragon Quest(I dont know the serie rly well)
• Namco: Some guy from Tekken or  Pac-Man (not so sure about having Pac-Man in ssb tho :S)
• Tecmo: Some chick from DoA or Ryu from Ninja Gaiden(seems possible now that Gaiden3 is coming to wiiu)

Thats all I can think of... Except maybe Activision and EA but I cant think of any major character for them (and I say screw those two, keep only the japanese publishers and Ubisoft and ignore these 2 giant heartless devilish companies :P)

If Nintendo manage to add something like 15 new nintendo character + some characters they toke out like Roy and Mewtwo, 5 new 3rd party characters seems reasonable. That would make a total of 55 characters, 48 1st party and 7 3rd party (or if you prefer 87%1st party), I have no problem with these numbers, would still totaly be a nintendo game but thats just me and I'm sure some ppl, would disagree :P But boy would I love seeing Mario clash with atleast Rayman and Megaman cause I admit that having the characters I mentioned from SE, Namco and Tecmo might be a stretch but dont forget that game will probably have DLC and i'm sure some companies would be interested in having a representant making an apearance in a game that could probably be a 10million+ seller (if we rely on ssbb sales)

 Actually I really like Marth even though is not as effective as it was on melee (at least for my taste), the same goes with Ganon. I tried most of the characters and I found Marth, Ike, toon link, bowser & Ganon to be my favorites, kind of the opposite... We should try to play online one of these days, it should be very interesting :)