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Smash has 70+ characters but not 1 black or brown fighter
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While some people are joking, realize that in 2018, out of 70 characters, NONE are black or brown. It's not funny it's very unfortunate.
To be fair blonde hair and blue eyes is usually short hand for white in anime.
That's the point that is being made. No one is saying Smash is at fault, they're saying Smash highlights the issue.
Cool, care to respoind to anything else in my post? because adding Rodin or Dahlsim as main fighters doesn't make much sense.
As long black characters aren't the main protagonist or at least playing second fiddle they won't appear in Smash.
People have already resorted to bringing up Banjo, who isn't even in the GAME...
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Do we give Funky Kong a pass tho
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Yeah, black Inklings lives don't matter, I guess ?
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Isnt Little Mac brownish and the villager caucassian?
Also Inlking were orangeish? unless splatton 2 white wasshed them
Also Inlking were orangeish? unless splatton 2 white wasshed them
There's this villager alt they showed today which is cool to see.
But I agree. Put my boy Rodin in there
But I agree. Put my boy Rodin in there
Other characters have been floated ITT. Also we literally just got a Piranha Plant as a fighter.
Not always, unless you are willing to tell me Naruto and Bakugo are white.To be fair blonde hair and blue eyes is usually short hand for white in anime.
Somebody already said banjo who need be banned and he aint even in.
It does suck tho OP. Closest we got is a mixed inkling.
This is less of a problem with Smash and more of a problem with the gaming industry in general. How many black or brown characters are there in games that are actually important, and not just side characters? I can't think of too many.
Bless Chad Warden. He said no one wanted to play a Zelda game with a dildo controller and look what Nintendo isn't selling anymore.
Dude saw the future of gaming.
Bless Chad Warden. He said no one wanted to play a Zelda game with a dildo controller and look what Nintendo isn't selling anymore.
Dude saw the future of gaming.
And I hope they catch a ban too. They know exactly what the OP means.
For the person who said Black Baron, that would not work because Black Baron is not actually black. Yep. Now Anarchy Reigns' Blacker Baron, that would work because he is actually black, hence his name. Also yup.
I have, and most anime characters have white/European features.
Probably not. I don't know what that has to do with Shulk though.
Possessed by, more like.
Most of Smash's roster isn't even humanoid to have race. The biggest non white in Nintendo's roster is Ganondorf and he's in (but doesn't count for some reason).
It's hard to be upset with Sakurai and his team when there simply aren't that many relevant Nintendo characters that are minorities AND big enough for Smash. If there was a sea of characters to pick from and Sakurai and his team was choosing them I'd get it. When the best choices people can give are minor characters in their own series (often with bigger characters also missing) it's hard to be mad they weren't chosen.
The finger needs to be pointed at nintendo, capcom, square-enix, sega, konami, and namco-bandai for simply not having enough minority characters in major roles over the past 30 years. Course then you get into the vicious cycle that if their games aren't big they don't get into smash.
It's hard to be upset with Sakurai and his team when there simply aren't that many relevant Nintendo characters that are minorities AND big enough for Smash. If there was a sea of characters to pick from and Sakurai and his team was choosing them I'd get it. When the best choices people can give are minor characters in their own series (often with bigger characters also missing) it's hard to be mad they weren't chosen.
The finger needs to be pointed at nintendo, capcom, square-enix, sega, konami, and namco-bandai for simply not having enough minority characters in major roles over the past 30 years. Course then you get into the vicious cycle that if their games aren't big they don't get into smash.
These threads always got people rushing in to give snarky answers lol
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I think there being practically no minority characters in Smash speaks more to the history of Nintendo, its Japanese origins, and most of its iconic franchises being born out of the 80s and 90s.
I'm not saying that's an acceptable or excusable thing, but when you're making a fighting game celebrating the history of a company it's generally going to reflect the diversity or lack thereof that it has.
I also think the easier solution going forward would be to press Nintendo to create games series' with more diverse casts and protagonists that Smash can then draw from.
I'm not saying that's an acceptable or excusable thing, but when you're making a fighting game celebrating the history of a company it's generally going to reflect the diversity or lack thereof that it has.
I also think the easier solution going forward would be to press Nintendo to create games series' with more diverse casts and protagonists that Smash can then draw from.
Their default skin are white.Yeah, black Inklings lives don't matter, I guess ?
Pirana plant was added
1st party franchises get 2ndary characters
What in the world made you think this was an appropriate response?
Piranha Plant is a design that's been around for so long it can easily be called iconic. Just like mushrooms or question mark blocks.
We just need more black main protagonists in popular games and this Smash-issue will solve itself. Considering Nintendo mostly includes their own characters in Smash if it's not some 3rd party character who has been around for 20+ years it's up to Nintendo to develop some game where that's the case.
Including second/third fiddle charcters as fighters because they are black isn't something I'd want. I'd like black main protagonists in good games that then get includied in Smash because they deserved it.
Ganondorf should somewhat count as he's gerudo and Gerudo are very clearly dark skinned and not just Fantasy Dark.
Still doesn't help though when he's one of the evilest characters in the roster.
I still say Id want Springman over Twintelle because he's incredibly sexually attractive to me, but Twintelle is equally deserving of a spot.
Also the "Theyre Japanese" isnt an excuse.
Still doesn't help though when he's one of the evilest characters in the roster.
I still say Id want Springman over Twintelle because he's incredibly sexually attractive to me, but Twintelle is equally deserving of a spot.
Also the "Theyre Japanese" isnt an excuse.
There are 45 human-ish characters in the game and three of them have darker skins as alts. Which really isn't great.
Nintendo needs more variety in their characters for sure. And they did a decent job actually with ARMS. It would just be nice if some of those characters made it into Smash.
Nintendo needs more variety in their characters for sure. And they did a decent job actually with ARMS. It would just be nice if some of those characters made it into Smash.
Yea there is them a well plus Niles, Gray and Flavia but only Basilio and Flavia have actual story importance(Gray may as well but i haven't played Echoes long enough to see if he still matters after the start) where i could see Sakurai picking one of them. I just went with Basilio cause the last thing a new FE reps needs is a sword and i guess Claude from 3 Houses would be possible.
Well their are like arms and breath of the wild but the cast is being ignored
Does that mean Aigis is a white robot?To be fair blonde hair and blue eyes is usually short hand for white in anime.
Including the characters that are obviously intended to be Japanese.
Isn't this less of an issue with Smash, and more of an issue with Games in general? I mean Smash is taking the most iconic and popular characters from the entire industry and bringing them together and there isn't an egregious omission in my opinion (arguments can be made, but I don't think any are obvious).
Games in general need more variety among the main characters, which would also help in Smash. Until then, I do think they should try and get some of the ones mentioned in this thread.
Games in general need more variety among the main characters, which would also help in Smash. Until then, I do think they should try and get some of the ones mentioned in this thread.
what this got to do with black or brown human representation?
This is a featureless shadow basically.
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