In other news, water keeps you alive.???

Yes because let’s start randomly adding characters because of the melatonin levels in their skin instead of because solely on the fact the character is one that makes sense for Smash* and play identity politics all day every day. 

*I had to edit and bold that because I got banned by someone who can't read. In the message Hiku sent me, they claimed I was saying that a black character was not as deserving as a white skinned character. I did not. I said a character (as bolded) is deserving because they make sense for Smash. A character does NOT make sense for Smash based solely on their skin color, which is what my original comment was about. Who the hell made Hiku a mod?  

fuck off. * Had to bold this part too.

User was warned for this comment ~Hiku

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).

Did any Tomb Raider game ever release on a Nintendo console? Since that's a requirement.

Well then she's possible, theoretically.

Bold: Reminder that Shantae is from a niche indie franchise whereas Kazuya is iconic, well known and from one of the biggest fighting franchises.

They could ad Franklin from GTA V to Smash. The reactions would be funny.

Smash is not about ethnical representation, but about celebrating important and iconic franchises and characters. There just aren't all that many truly iconic dark skinned characters in general.