How recognizable is each Smash Ultimate character?
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Published 2021-05-24
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Music used:
Super Smash Bros Brawl - Intro
Fogbeast Battle - Xenoblade Chronicles Future Connected OST
Battle! (Gladion) - SSBU OST
Sophia's Shop - Persona 5 Strikers
Chasing Drive (Kart) - Sonic Adventure 2 OST
Scamper Shores/SlipSkate Slope/Risky Whisker Island — Bowser's Fury Original Soundtrack OST
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Soundtrack: Like A Dragon (Chie Satonaka)
The Map Page / Bonus Level [Remix] | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Guile Stage | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Title Theme - The Legend of Zelda Smash Ultimate OST
Halland / Dalarna | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Wii Shop Channel Main Theme (HQ)
Main theme - Pokemon Red and Blue (Brawl)
Super Mario Bros Medley
Heartful Cry - Persona 3 (big money spoilers for this one, careful in the comments!!)
Kurikinton - Fatal Fury 2
Main Theme (E3 2018 Version) - SSBU
Outro: Beneath the Mask
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Credit to:
Jinzo for “Every Mario Game Ever (1981-2020)”
YairDude for “PK FIRE”
Gamersyde Official for “Bayonetta - Switch - Gameplay #1”
MegamanNG for “Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - Don Flamenco”
packattack04082 for “Banjo-Kazooie - Spiral Mountain 100% Speed Run - 1:37”
TheBitBlock for “The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD - Peaceful Sailing”
PKSparkxx DatHottneSS for “Star Fox Zero - Corneria w/ Secret Path | Gameplay Preview w/ Voices (Full Game Playthrough)”
NeoSlyfer for “Metroid Other M : Ridley Fight 60 FPS”
Samura1man for “Splatoon - 31 kills”
UltimateNinjaSensai for “This is Why Lucario is the Best: Pokémon Sword and Shield Wi-Fi Battle”
Toad Speedgaming for “Duck Hunt NES”
RetroArchive for “Meta Knight VS. Meta Knight - Kirby Star Allies”
Harry Type-C for “Interacting With Shiny Pichu - Pokémon Sword & Shield’
WhiteKhakis for “466. Chikorita - Fair Spirit Battle - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate”
fycRoman for “jigglypuff flying too close to the sun”
NintendoOnline for “Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Gameplay”
LaptopMedia for “🎮 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q - Minecraft gameplay benchmarks (1080p)”
Blaze for “Animal Crossing Isabelle Singing HD”
Mario Sluggers Fanclub for “PETEY IS A GOD - Mario Sluggers 2 Player Gameplay!”
CommunityGame for “All Piranha Plants Viridi Mentions in Palutena Guidance (Shorter Version) Super Smash Bros Ultimate”
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this vid took me incredibly long LOL, but was fun! i really enjoyed doing the research it entailed. lot of characters i thought were much less popular were actually huge without smash! no lie though smash has introduced so many characters that i either love playing or now love from their og games: Joker, shulk, toon link, dark samus, LUCINA, chrom, wolf, fox, isabelle, ike, king k rool, cloud, etc. etc.
let me know how many you didn't recognize before smash!
#smashbros #smashultimate #supersmashbros
All Comments (21)
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can we talk about how nick completely ommitted mega man
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Mega Man is a product of your imagination, he doesn't actually exist
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I wonder if you could revisit this idea by polling your community and asking them "did you recognize this character before seeing them in Smash?" Alongside an image
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23:35 Terry is one I did know before smash. From an arcade cabinet in a local pizza place, and he was my favorite from that game. I only knew how to do the fire projectile and spammed it but I knew of Terry before smash.
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when megaman is so forgettable that he's not forgettable.
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Who’s gonna tell him Ganon isn’t in every Zelda game...
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I don't know how to explain it but Meta Knight real name being George fits so well
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I think it would be fair to count Dragon Quest hero as a representative of every game in the series, at least the mainline ones. This measuring system in general kinda puts series like Fire Emblem at a disadvantage because every game in the series has a different cast of characters.
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Measuring Wario's popularity just by his solo outings is not at all accurate. Dude's far more popular outside his solo outings.
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R.O.B. was also an unlockable character in Mario Kart DS before any other out-of-series characters like Link were added.
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9:07 I refuse to believe that he just omitted phantom hourglass and spirit tracks from toon links sales the toon link series as a whole (not including re-releases) sold 12.15 million games
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it's genuinely amazing the reach smash bros has had in making some of these characters iconic, so many people that hadn't heard of them or their games have gone on to try them as a result. I didn't really know fire emblem, dragon quest, or castlevania before smash bros but I tried them because of their inclusion and now they're some of my absolute favorite game series.
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When mega man is so forgettable that you forgot him
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Rip all those Mega Man fans. Roy is apparently more memorable
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I've always though Mario is THE Ultra-SSS tier. Not a single video game character in human history matches him. He is a classic character from the 80s when video games were getting their hold, and he is, IMO, the undebatable FACE of video games around the world. If you ask most human beings to name a video game character, I believe most of them say Mario.
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Overall good list I had the same experience as him. Started playing video games with the n64 and smash was like my 4th game and didn't know anyone but mario, Pikachu, dk and jigglypuff. So good to know I wasn't alone in trying to figure out who these guys are.
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MegaMan: "Yeah I understand"
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I feel like judging by sales isn’t that accurate. Like people a lot of people know Rosalina and daisy from spin-offs even if they’re side characters in them and I feel like hero could be combined and young link is in majoras mask
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You're not the only one, Nick. When I see anime characters in Smash, I have no idea who they are or what game they are from. I know where most of the other characters are from. But when watching the releases and I see Byleth on the screen, my immediate thought is, "Who's this guy?" Which happens with a lot of other characters. Except Steve, that one genuinely made me happy as someone who plays Minecraft religiously 😅
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Copies sold is a good starting metric but I don't think it should be the only one for some characters. Like Bayo is definitely more well known than any FE character. I knew who she was before she was in Smash and Bayonetta 3 was recently in the public eye due to the drama with the VA. And Greninja is WAAAAAAAAAAAY more popular than Incineroar. You could ask moms and they'd be more likely to know who Greninja is
