Super Smash Bros.

No, but I have seen them hit tennis balls into each other's faces in Mario Tennis.

If you think about it, the Mario series is actually way more violent than it looks.

Don't forget Mario Kart. When you play Mario Kart, you win or you die.

Don't forget about the Blue Shells in Mario Kart, those spinning shells of hell and death.

Mario Party isn't exactly known for its cleanliness either.

Except Luigi. He's a clean contestant in Mario Party and the good karma shows.

Mario hits Yoshi in the head to make Yoshi eat enemies in Mario World.

Mario basically betrays Yoshi all the time despite Yoshi being the reason why Mario wasn't held prisoner as a baby in Yoshi's Island.

Alright so Mario ALWAYS beats up on his friends.

But in Smash he's not real.

Because if he was, then what's he doing with all those other guys.

I really wish that Smash 4 had a story mode. I'd love to see a plot with Master Core...and maybe using a Mii Fighter as an avatar.

Or... Put the Miis THEMSELVES in the cutscenes. Somehow, that'd be epic.

I'd recommend watching Smash King and other Smash Machinimas for some inpiration on doing things differently. And also because Smash King is good.

Speaking of dark Smash fics, look up Smashed Minds on Fanfiction.net by Word Master Of Fiction. It uses a setting of an insane asylum, and the characters are introduced as patients. I can't really do it justice with that type of summary, but it is good.

edited 2nd Mar '15 6:50:34 PM by TroPartner

x4,x3 We always knew [Stalin] would be Nintendo's chosen hero

edited 2nd Mar '15 6:57:35 PM by Demonfly

I don't really see the need for dark Smash fics, considering how Subspace Emissary had betrayal and oblivion and genocide in it.

My idea doesn't really have much darkness in it. Like death and maybe betrayal would be the worst things in it.

Right, stuff. I don't really have the energy to come up with a plot, as anything decent would take too much effort when I'm already brainstorming how to grimderp a children's show. But Smash is driven completely by its characters. If you want to make it dark you don't look at the plot first; you look at the characters. And you don't change them completely, like turning Luigi into a serial killer for the heck of it, tearing out the limbs of his brother and girlfriend. That's just gratuitous. You look at their themes and actions, and reinterpret them in a different light.

Kirby is easy. He's already known for eating innocent Waddle Dees, freeing ultimate evils, and going on rampages for cake. So focus more on his victims, the destruction he causes, and whether or not he really is a hero, or just some psycho that goes up against world destroying behemoths. Or Pit. Maybe all those deaths and years at tolling away for Palutena have finally gotten to him. Or take Olimar and have him callously sacrifice his Pikmin for his own selfish desires. Reinterpretation, not gratuitous death and mutilation, is how you darken something up. That's how I would approach it anyway.

Brawl In The Family did it kind of well.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:04:25 PM by Keybreak

@powerpuffbats: So, basically the story mode that Smash 4 could've had?

I'm mostly going for a Justice League-esque thing with Heroes teaming up to stop the badguys from destroying the Nintendo universe.

I said that the tone is lighthearted with some dark elements. I wouldn't completely change the characters as others would stop Mario from crossing the Despair Event Horizon. They'd tell him that Peach would not want him to become a bad guy. Lucina would have a little brother in the form of Morgan keeping her from crossing that line.

I'd also give funny moments. Some would be stuff like Falco and Magnus snarking at other characters, or Palutena being a troll, or Lucina being Comically Serious.

Speaking of Lucina, I would most likely give her a few quirks that would play up her adorkable-ness when not in battle. And for some bizarre reason, I'd probably have her not wearing shoes a lot. (Don't ask why I've imagined that...not even I know why my idea would have Lucina not wear shoes.)

Lucina doesn't even have feet. How is she going to wear shoes without any feet? Hm, that actually might have some potential.

I honestly don't get what you're saying? Are you joking, or is it something that happens in Awakening? you've got to be joking.

You poor thing, you obviously haven't played Super Mario World if you think Mario has any respect for Yoshi.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:14:49 PM by Anomalocaris20

*Texan accent* Justice League? Boy, don't you know that's what Smash IS?

Nintendo's equivalent to Justice League? (EDIT: I just fully read that, so ignore the previous sentence)

I meant more like the cartoon in terms of tone.

What I mean by having Lucina not like shoes:

I mean that she doesn't really like wearing anything on her feet.

In any event, I have Hades planned as my Big Bad, while Zelda, Rosalina, and Palutena each play the role of Big Good.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:18:28 PM by powerpuffbats

Nobody in Awakening has feet. It's pretty dark when you delve into the backstory. See, both gods Naga and Grima absolutely hated feet and demanded that at birth everyone's feet must be sacrificed in order to appease them. Otherwise one of them would come back to life and kill everyone on the planet. So both the Grimleal and Naga's follower enforced that doctrine everywhere, even on the royal families. Chrom's father courageously stood against that practice, and because of that the Grimleal realized that humans did not deserve to live and decided to revive Grima to end everyone's miserable existence. Not many people know that, but the clues all add up.

So I pulled out Maylay and Project M and I picked up Marth

Cause I like to hit people with swords

(But seriously Marth is so much fun to play in Melee/PM, utilt > utilt > SHFFL uair > SHFFL fair > Fsmash unf)

Ah. I'm still likely going to pretend that Lucina and Morgan have feet. Or I could hand wave it as Palutena giving them feet.

Marth and Fox are the characters I'm best with in Melee.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:20:18 PM by powerpuffbats