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Fridge Brilliance
- When Luigi is unlocked, the in-game message refers to him as "the man in green". Six years later, Super Paper Mario would use this exact same epithet in the Dark and Light Prognosticuses to refer to Luigi's dual destinies as himself and Mr. L.
- Thinking a little too hard about the Giant Kirby fight. Kirby is normally smaller than most characters. This fight, however, puts you closer to the size of Kirby's normal enemies in his world. Kind of makes you feel like a Waddle Dee in that stage.
- Sakurai officially says the reason for moveset clones is that the team develops and decides the roster of original characters, adding the clones later in development. It would explain the placement of the clone characters in the character selection screen, which don't occupy the question mark slots.
- There's an event where you play as Link, have Zelda as an AI partner, and have to defeat Ganondorf in the Temple stage. Ganondorf has two lives, while you and Zelda only have one. If this is based on Ocarina of Time like it seems to be, realize that if Link dies once in that game, it's a game over; and presumably, if Zelda died once, she'd be dead permanently. But in the final battle, you fight Ganondorf once... and then he comes back as Ganon and you fight him again. He has two lives.
- According to Sakurai, Roy was included as a clone due to I.S's description of him being "a young, inexperienced swordfighter with potential"
, alluding to his role as an average unit with balanced growths, who'd have to be played as the King in the Chess-game that is Fire Emblem 6. This however, led Roy to easily become a very mediocre unit in the experience of Western fanbase. The Japanese fanbase is shown to be more forgiving due to him being "inexperienced" and accepting the King-analogy on his average stats prior to his promotion that buffs him massively.- Not only is Roy average at best in his game, but his competitive performance in Melee's tier list is shown to be poor: he's ranked as the 20th character, being inferior to Marth's and hard-countered by most higher tier characters in the game. This is due to his lack of killing power (outside of the Awesome, but Impractical Flare Blade), while being easily suspectible to kills himself due to his fast falling speed.
