In Ultimate he lacks any moves inspired by 's Super Mario Odyssey , despite the crossover title launching in Super Mario Odyssey broke sales records thanks to its unique hat-based moves, and these could make for some truly unique Smash Bros. While a sequel is not currently planned, Masahiro Sakurai will hopefully give Mario more modern moves in a potential Super Smash Bros. Thomas McNulty is an avid reader, writer, game player and movie watcher from New Jersey. Movies, TV shows, video games, books and pop culture are personal passions, and he is thrilled to be writing about those topics that are so near and dear.

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Meta categories: Rewrite and expansion requested Articles under construction Citation needed. In other languages Deutsch Italiano. This article is about the Super Smash Bros. For the first game in the series, see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate January 21, Nintendo The game features eight characters from the start, with four unlockable characters, all of them created by Nintendo or one of its second-party developers. November 21, Nintendo GameCube.

Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. It had a larger budget and development team than Super Smash Bros. Since its release, Super Smash Bros. Melee has sold more than 7 million copies and was the best-selling game on the GameCube. Melee features 26 characters, of which 15 are available initially, more than doubling the number of characters in its predecessor.

There are also 29 stages. January 31, Wii. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl is also the first game in the franchise to support online play, via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and offers the ability for players to construct their own original stages.

The game features a total of 39 playable characters and 41 stages. At E3 , it was confirmed that new Super Smash Bros. The games were shown for the first time at E3 December 7, Nintendo Switch. Ultimate is the sixth game in the series fifth if Super Smash Bros. A fairly big name from Nintendo, a stage debuting in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is based on it called Smashville. Regarding playable fighters, it is represented by Villager since Super Smash Bros.

A somewhat minor first-party series by Nintendo. Melee , and a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl also, in this game, the music for Balloon Trip could be played on the Summit stage. Banjo-Kazooie is a series of games by Rare Ltd. Ultimate , making them the first characters owned by a console competitor to Nintendo to be playable in the Super Smash Bros. Regarding playable characters, the Bayonetta series is represented by the titular character , who made her Super Smash Bros.

Castlevania is a series of games by Konami. In the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , making it and Street Fighter the first third-party series represented in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl , and King K. Rool in Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate [2]. It is represented by a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as DLC in the form of the Heroes from multiple Dragon Quest games, occupying a single slot and available through alternate costumes. The Duck Hunt series is represented by Duck Hunt - a dog and a duck comprising a single character - as playable fighters since Super Smash Bros. A small but very succesful series from Nintendo also developed by Ape Inc.

Lucas was originally intended to replace Ness in Super Smash Bros. Melee , but because of Mother 3' s cancellation at the time, Ness was put in instead. Although there are no playable characters in this series, the emblem is used for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' s Hanenbow stage. A massively successful role-playing game series by Square Enix. The series has something of a history with Nintendo's own franchises the Mario franchise in particular.

Cloud Strife appears as a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. Fire Emblem is a second-party series, developed by Intelligent Systems. Melee although the latter is absent in Super Smash Bros. Brawl , Ike has been playable since Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate , with the latter as DLC. A Nintendo first-party series represented by Captain Falcon. He has appeared as a playable character in all Super Smash Bros. One of the oldest gaming series, the previously unnamed character, Mr. The Ice Climber "series" technically not a series, due to the fact that there is only one Ice Climber game is represented by Popo and Nana, otherwise known as the Ice Climbers , as playable characters starting with Super Smash Bros.

Melee although they are absent as playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Regarding playable characters, it is represented by Pit since Super Smash Bros. King Dedede was intended to appear in Super Smash Bros. Melee , but were also removed. The first-billed aside from the Super Smash Bros. Characters from the Mario series have appeared in all released games. While the series is quite abundant in content from numerous sub-series of the Mario franchise, it has, primarily, a strong focus on the platforming Super Mario games, the kart racing Mario Kart games, and, to a lesser extent, the Luigi's Mansion games.

The Mario characters playable in the Super Smash Bros. Mario starting with Super Smash Bros. Melee , although Dr. Mario is not playable in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , the latter as DLC [1] [4]. Although the Mario series also includes such characters as Yoshi , Donkey Kong , and Wario , they are excluded from the list, due to having their own series and logos. Mega Man from his series of games of the same name is a playable character in the series starting with Super Smash Bros.

A major series, albeit third-party, and the first M-rated series to be represented in the Super Smash Bros. Solid Snake represents this series starting with Super Smash Bros. Brawl although he is absent in Super Smash Bros. Melee , however production of the game was too far for his inclusion.

Another of Nintendo's notable series. Brawl ; she is considered a separate character from Samus since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [1] [2]. A franchise that began with the sandbox game of the same name , Minecraft is represented in Super Smash Bros. Not actually a series, but a handheld gaming system, there are no playable characters representing this.

However, the emblem is used for Super Smash Bros. The emblem representing this series is a representation of the Nintendo DS. A virtual pet simulator series, the nintendogs series was represented in Super Smash Bros. Brawl through an Assist Trophy, a trophy, and multiple stickers. Ultimate , another Assist Trophy represents the series; this time a Toy Poodle. Pac-Man , Bandai Namco 's most well-known character, represents his series as a playable character in the Super Smash Bros.

In addition, Kurama defeated MkLeo at Frostbite in a fashion. These results have significantly improved Mario's reception among professionals to the point where most players consider him to be top-tier. Furthermore, some of his hardest matchups, such as Sonic, Marth, and Cloud, were considerably nerfed, and were less of a problem to deal with.

Due to his better reception, Mario's nerfs from Smash 4 did not affect him in the long run as players noted that all his strengths from the previous game, despite being nerfed, were mostly retained. His matchup spread is also great: Mario has positive matchups against meta-relevant characters like Pikachu, R.

Mario's Classic Mode consists of him battling with a group of fighters from various numerous universes on the home-stage of their universe. Mario's song in the credits is Super Mario Bros. Completing Mario's Classic Mode gives the player a chance to unlock Sonic. Mario first appears in the opening cut scene with the other fighters along the cliffside facing the army of Master Hands. When Galeem unleashes his beams of light, Mario is one of the many characters to be destroyed by them off-screen.

Mario later appears in a captured state and is used to demonstrate how the puppet fighters were created, with his particular fighter hosting the imprisoned spirit of Smoky Progg.

Mario can be found in the Light Realm on the starting path before the crossroads, making him the very first fighter to be fought and unlocked, and an unmissable character. Mario is later seen to be the first fighter to arrive at the final battle between Galeem and Dharkon, as well as makes an appearance in two of the story's endings if only one of the entities is defeated:.

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Mario Super Smash Bros. View source. History Talk 1. This article is about Mario's appearance in Super Smash Bros. For other uses, see Mario. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he shows up in his wedding tux and builder outfit, and Cappy even makes an appearance!

Mario grabbing on Onett. Mario taunting on 3D Land. Mario in his builder outfit on Wrecking Crew. Mario using F. Mario in both his builder and wedding outfits on Princess Peach's Castle. Mario with Peach in their wedding outfits on Skyworld. All of Mario's alternate costumes on 3D Land. Bowser with Mario and Peach on Rainbow Cruise.