Super Smash Bros. Character Predictions (2006)

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Introduction

Super Smash Bros. is a best-selling fighting game series produced by Nintendo featuring characters from several of their hit video games. The first game in the series, Super Smash Bros., was introduced in 1999 for the Nintendo 64 and was followed up by Super Smash Bros. Melee which was released on November of 2001 for the GameCube. When Melee came out, the character roster was doubled (which became crucial to the development of the Fake Roster meme). When Super Smash Bros. Brawl was announced to be in development in a pre-E3 2005 press conference, like a domino effect, it was expected by many fans that Brawl would have double the amount of Melee’s characters, so thus, the memes were born.

About

Super Smash Bros. Character Predictions are memes all about predicting Super Smash Bros. characters, be the characters logical or illogical to add in the game. The craze had sparked a YTMND fad and several Exploitable fads.

It is possible that this meme had died when Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s full real roster was revealed but the meme has been popping up now and then in the form of peoples’ wish lists for a fourth game, if said game ever comes out.

Origin

The meme had started some time after third-party characters such as Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog were introduced as characters in Brawl. The video game characters that people could think of as possible fighters didn’t have to center around the Nintendo franchise anymore.

Popular possible choice characters for Brawl that were not in the game include Megaman, Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Krystal from the Star Fox series, Phoenix Wright, Leon Kennedy from the Resident Evil series, Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series, and several others.

Memes

Newcomer Y.T.M.N.D. Fad

About

Newcomer, like Osaka Shoe Kick and WRONG!, is another YTMND fad. This fad parodies the Super Smash Bros. Brawl trailer wherein which Solid Snake is first introduced as a new character and the first third-party character. How this works is a character of the site maker’s choice is introduced as a new fighter by removing Snake and editing in the choice character.

Origin

The meme started on May 10, 2006 with a site called Super Smash Bros. Brawl Newcomer: John Madden! uploaded onto YTMND by Bendilin.

Examples

Soon after Bedilin’s YTMND site, many other sites came to follow it. Here are some examples:

Fake Super Smash Bros. Rosters

About

Due to several peoples’ beliefs that the roster would have doubled by the third game, they had created their own versions of character rosters of unbelievable proportions. These rosters were ranging from an acceptable number of just 30+ characters or so included to a whopping 100+ characters or even more.

Examples

Challenger Approaching! A new foe has appeared!

About

[[Do not confuse with A Challenger Appears]]

This meme basically parodies the “Challenger Approaching!” screen in Brawl wherein which, instead of featuring a real character’s silhouette inside the red circle, the silhouette of a character of the shooper’s choice is shown.

Examples

Brawl Character Bio Spoofs

About

In the official Brawl website, Smash Bros. DOJO!!, each character had their own bio page featuring the character, the character’s name, game logo, a small description about the character, screen shots of them in the game, and their special moves.

Spoofs of these bios started appearing around the internet while the DOJO!! was still being made featuring the peoples’ predicted characters with all the info and pictures needed.

Though, most of these pics only parody the Brawl promotional posters by only featuring the character and sometimes the header.

Examples

Videos

There are also numerous amounts of Super Smash Bros. Character Prediction videos on Youtube, some serious while some (like the first video) extremely absurd.

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29 Comments

Watcher
Nov 08, 2009 at 12:52AM UTC , Watcher wrote:

lol, I remember when this was happening.
Don’t know if I would call this a meme though.

Watcher
Nov 08, 2009 at 12:55AM UTC , Watcher wrote:

Then again, maybe I’m wrong. These were rather wide spread.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 12:56AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Read the article first before commenting please. The predictions aren’t the meme. The meme is all about several exploitable memes and the YTMND fad spawned by the idea.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 12:57AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

This article was HARD to make, btw.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 01:52AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Correction on my first comment:

The article is all about several exploitable memes and the YTMND fad spawned by the idea of predicting characters for Brawl.

Ben "Jammin" Proctor
Nov 08, 2009 at 03:29AM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

I like this, and I think that this is at least pretty close to meme status

Chris Menning
Nov 08, 2009 at 03:35AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Excellent work on this, Jostin.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 03:49AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Chris

Is this ready to be confirmed?

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 06:04AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Can an admin delete the duplicate and the non-working image plox? kthxbai.

Begin
Nov 08, 2009 at 07:42AM UTC , Begin wrote:

I’m pretty sure the origin of the meme had to do with the announcement of the release of SSBB, because that’s when I noticed most YouTube “scam” videos were being made (aka, fake picture as the thumbnail and some kind of Rickroll/screamer being the actul video). Coincidence? I think not. Especially if you look at the kind of fanbase this game has- it is a classic, but with its broad variety of characters, it’s going to attract everyone and anyone that enjoys the Nintendo franchise. With that kind of a fan base, you know that these kinds of videos/fads are bound to show up.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 08, 2009 at 09:56PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Begin

Is it possible for you to provide a few examples of this claim?

Illuari
Nov 10, 2009 at 02:29AM UTC , Illuari wrote:

When ever I see these I think “WHY? WHY TOON LINK AND SONIC INSTEAD OF ISSAC AND SOMEONE ELSE?”

Denny Wood
Nov 12, 2009 at 12:13AM UTC , Denny Wood wrote:

lol this SHOULD be a meme. can anyone upload the template for the character bio picture?

Wringer
Nov 26, 2009 at 08:13PM UTC , Wringer wrote:

Here is a video that involves the character predictions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zOQq2N3xA

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 28, 2009 at 11:35PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

This article isn’t too broad is it? I’ve gone through explaining all the different memes incorporated with the idea of character predicting for SSBB that I have found.

I also don’t think we’ll be able to find a definite origin for when and where this was first happening.

Thoughts, fellow researchers? Can you supply me with more info if possible as well? Much obliged.

Chris Menning
Dec 03, 2009 at 11:44PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

+1 confirm. Looking for another admin to concur.

xosuitehearts
Dec 04, 2009 at 03:55AM UTC , xosuitehearts wrote:

how did you find the 3D Geno pic?

Jostin Asuncion
Dec 04, 2009 at 04:35AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ xosuitehearts

There are lot of 3D versions of Geno used in Brawl poster parodies. Like I’ve mentioned under the Origin heading, Geno is one of the most popular choice characters that fans want for Brawl. Searching “Geno Brawl” on Google Images alone gives you 7 different versions of Brawl posters featuring Geno (one of them being a Kirby hat, even).

G1drake
Dec 04, 2009 at 11:36PM UTC , G1drake wrote:

+1 confirmed, also i used to believe that some characters could appear in brawl

Grillist
Dec 05, 2009 at 06:40PM UTC , Grillist wrote:

I’/m still upsert we didn’t get Megaman. :I

Grillist
Dec 05, 2009 at 06:40PM UTC , Grillist wrote:

I’m still upset we didn’t get Megaman. :I

Scott Evenson
Dec 06, 2009 at 11:09PM UTC , Scott Evenson wrote:

Some common character predictions:

Sora: With him mainly being in play station, would not have happened

Dark Samus: Nintendo sucks for not thinking about it

Walwigi: Nintendo just failed there.

Bowser Jr: eeeeeeeh

Skull kid: nothing really special, The mask though, eeeeeeh

Next game will include above because i’ll be making it >:D

Lanthus [Chicken Ace & Taking Names mode activated]
Dec 07, 2009 at 05:49AM UTC , Lanthus [Chicken Ace & Taking Names mode activated] wrote:

WALWIGI!!!
HE’D BE BETTER THAN WALUIGI!!!

ILuvMJ
Dec 26, 2009 at 08:47PM UTC , ILuvMJ wrote:

Ulala is’nt really on there is she?
…..is she?

also, sora would be quite kickass.

Enrique Fidel
Dec 29, 2009 at 08:53PM UTC , Enrique Fidel wrote:

+50 work.

Motto Motto
Jan 06, 2010 at 10:27PM UTC , Motto Motto wrote:

Definite meme. You should also mention the Super Smash Bros. Mojo website (unfortunately hacked), which I believe spawned many of these fake character pages and started the Super Cosby Bros. Brawl parody.

Greg
Mar 02, 2010 at 12:07AM UTC , Greg wrote:

Some of these are just plain awesome. If they put Edward Elric, Viewtiful Joe, Ryu Hayabusa, Kenny McCormick, Homer Simpson etc. in a Smash Bros. game, I’d probably explode. Never going to happen, but it’d be hilarious if someone did like a 2D flash game with like all these characters in it and stuff.

Tomberry
Mar 02, 2010 at 01:10AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:
but it’d be hilarious if someone did like a 2D flash game with like all these characters in it and stuff.

It exists already, actually. It’s called M.U.G.E.N

HollowRyo
Mar 08, 2010 at 05:19PM UTC , HollowRyo wrote:

@Greg:

It would be badass if Ed Elric was in brawl. Final smash: Opening the gate.
Everything gets owned.

I personally would like to see Shadow, Geno, Komato General Tor and Iji (from the Freeware game Iji), Quote and Curly (from the Freeware game CaveStory), and maybe even…SAXTON HAAAALE!
Nah. Just joking about Saxton Hale.
By the way.
If Chuck Norris was a secret character in Brawl, he would unlock himself.

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