Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros is a side-scrolling 3D fighting game featuring characters from many Nintendo continua, from Mario to Pokemon. It is very family-friendly and generally is riotous fun for all. Although it is a 'noncanon' continua, there is no dialogue used and thus few canon instances of OOC (which is an alarming and scary concept to be sure, and we are happy there isn't much because we'd never be able to do anything about it) and generally any bending of characters is in the spirit of fun rather than badly.

Several characters, such as Fox McCloud from the Starfox franchise were first elaborated on and seen moving outside of a ship/other context in this game. Many Nintendo villains are usable or playable that would otherwise be bosses.

Super Smash Bros. is a strong gaming series and even older titles still enjoy competitive play. There seems to be a split among players between two schools of thought: players who are in it for the fun and enjoy the wacky and zany items, stages, and perhaps weaker characters, and more competitive players who restrict play to one simple stage, eliminate items, and perhaps use only one or two top-tier characters. The extremes of both parties are laughed at by sensible folk.

On mission, assume that all canon characters are in-character until rendered OOC. Just because they are all there for purpose of a fun game does not mean that the characters stop being themselves. In fact, in Brawl there is an adventure mode called Subspace Emissary which shows most if not all of the characters behaving very in-character for an otherwise would-be OOC game.

Releases
There is no timeline to Super Smash Bros. It is all just for fun. As of 2010, here is a list of releases:
 * Super Smash Bros. (1999)
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)

Crossover
As of the most recent installment, Super Smash Bros. has crossed over these popular Nintendo and guest franchises, not including many, many references made by assist trophies, battle stages, and other details:

Super Smash Bros. in Badfic
Super Smash Bros is a megacrossover. If you make it, the fangirls will come. Many fanfictions featuring characters seen in brawl have been written by people who have only played Super Smash Bros. and NOT the canon games the characters are from in the first place.

This is the source of much badfic, bad fanart, inter-dimensional crack pairings, and general weeping madness.

Aside from atrocious characterizations, often the setting is taken into a sort of sitcom-type interpretation with all of the characters participating living in one big 'smash mansion.' These stories range from genuinely funny accounts of what it is like to sleep in a bunk next to Bowser, to attempts at inter-cast Yaoi, all the way to stupidly whiny soap operas about Zelda pairing up with Marth and their beautiful babies in a kingdom that is not Archanea nor Hyrule.

The most common errors include: On the Mary Sue front, there are a lot of them. This is because it is a friendly game that a parent would reasonably buy for their 12 year old kid, and it's really cool to imagine that you could hang out with all your favorite characters at once. Hence, Mary Sue extreme overpopulation.
 * Marth, Roy, and Ike are all from Fire Emblem, but NOT from the same game or even the same world.
 * Furthermore, Marth is canonically married, Roy has several girlfriends to choose from, and Ike never shows much interest in romance to begin with.
 * No matter how many times her suit falls off, Samus is not a slut.
 * Fox, Falco, and Wolf are anthros, but they behave as humans do-- not as puppies or petboys.
 * Zelda and Sheik are the same person. Interpret Sheik's gender all you will, but they are not seperate people.
 * Ganondorf is evil, but has never been shown thus far to be a rapist.
 * Neither has Captain Falcon.
 * The Falcon Punch is less funny than most think it is.
 * The pikachu can never be buggered at all.Screenshot1.jpg

In addition, there is a pestilence of High School and other bad AU fic rotting in this game's section on the Pit-- often for sake of shallow romance at the hands of fanbrats.

Fire Emblem's Inclusion
"HAY Are Marth and Roy in this game?!" - Unknown Fan and many forum trolls thereafter.

Marth and Roy, from two different Fire Emblem titles debuted outside of Japan in Super Smash Bros. Melee. This is very particular to the Fire Emblem fandom because even now there are fangirls that only squee over the Super Smash Bros. appearances and pair them up wildly without researching the actual games they belong to. Or, even that they come from different games.

There is a lot of badfic surrounding this confusion.

It can be debated that most of Fire Emblem's publicity outside of Japan can be traced back to this first appearance. This is amazing, because the very first Fire Emblem game came out on the NES in 1990, nearly 11 years before Super Smash Bros. Melee came out.

Two more years would pass before any Fire Emblem game would be released outside of Japan, which gave fangirls plenty of time to speculate, squee, and not do any research. In fact, despite a relative wealth of readily-available information, there are fangirls that STILL behave this way.

This is probably because fangirls can be dumb.

Kirby the Mary Sue?
Super Smash Bros was developed primarily by HAL Laboratory, and more specifically Masahiro Sakurai who is famous for being the driving creative force behind the character Kirby. In many games the Kirby franchise gets among the most allotted characters (Kirby, Dedede, and Meta Knight in Brawl), which are usually in high to top tier. Also, the entirety of the Brawl mode Subspace Emissary is designed in a style similar to the Kirby games. The story of the Subspace Emissary mode also includes Kirby himself saving the plot from certain doom more than 10 times.

Count them. Make a drinking game, even, for every time Kirby saves the story. Characters such as Captain Falcon, Link, even Mario himself, do comparatively far less.

This does not make Kirby a Mary Sue, but it is possible to speculate a certain amount of favoritism.

Missions in this Continuum

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