Mr. Game & Watch's character design is taken from the random victims in Parachute and Fire, and he's presumably meant to be The Everyman character from all the games without a previous established lead. Granted, he still uses items from some of the Mario G&W entries, but hey.
Speaking of Mr. Game & Watch, I'd love to see a new Up Smash for him- My vote goes to stabbing things with the Magic Sword from the Zelda G&W.
I sure said that!R.O.B. isn't a true Original Generation character, no, but the Subspace Emissary established him with a kind of backstory usually reserved for such characters, to the point where his personal icon is both a Gyro and the SSE logo.
I sure said that!R.O.B. is no Original Generation character. He's an Alternate Character Interpretation.
However, Ancient Minister is an Original Generation character. They just happen to be the same person, that's all.
Much like Bowser is the same person as Giga Bowser in Smash's storyline(at least in Melee), but they definitely are distinctive characters.
Shadow?
Slightly different, as they're not treated as the same person or character in Smash.
Person =/= Character, keep in mind. Anybody can share multiple forms, but they're treated as unique characters entirely, especially in fighting games. And by Word of God here. Zero Suit Samus and Samus are both treated as separate characters, notably. Ancient Minister is hardly different in this case. His Trophy even has a different symbol to show this.
Shadow?ROB was part of the NES experience, and a character even though he was not on-screen in his main game, Gyromite. His move-set is entirely original, but he would hardly be the first Smash Bro to get one, since all of Fox's moves except Blaster had no precedent in any game (only the on-foot secret mode of 64 multiplayer counts. Barely, hence Blaster) when the original game came out. Captain Falcon yet more so.
Only SSE had original generation characters (and aside from Tabuu, i'd rather they didn't. Those robots were just annoying and could have been better served by having two more bosses from Nintendo fame. Why, there were no Zelda bosses in SSE at all...)
The SSE did a pretty poor job at repping Nintendo itself. It was nice that underrepped series like Metroid got two bosses, though. But F-Zero got almost nothing besides a kickass introduction for Captain Falcon, who did a similar action to his Falcon Punch in the Anime specifically.(they're not the same, but the idea is there. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a coincidence, though)
We did get a lot of Zelda enemies in Melee, but no DK or Metroid ones. Kirby ones were nonexistent. Albeit, a lot of the enemies are pretty much carbon copies of Kirby characters, so it's not that big of a deal in that case. Mother got a full stage related to it, with a "boss" of Porky's Statue, and a regular boss too.
I felt it kind of went half-and-half on the Nintendo parts. Maybe more Original than Nintendo? It's hard to say without looking at the exact data. Notably, all the unique R.O.B.'s besides the playable one were specific to Brawl as well. At least, I think they are. Trophy-wise, they originated in it, but that's not the best source since Sakurai has screwed up before on it... I mean, Zelda's Light Arrow didn't originate in Twilight Princess?
They did it fine in Melee by having the cars there. You could even destroy them if you were lucky during Adventure Mode, and they're destroyable on the Mute City stage.
Also, Black Shadow and others could have a moveset. Hell, just having an exact replica of Blood Falcon there would make enough sense. He's evil, could work with the bad guys. It was very doable. And he has a costume in-series, although they could just edit the Adventure Mode version to look exactly like him, fangs and all.
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They have similarities, being round. I'm not sure they were similar to any Kirby enemy. But Pokemon got a boss, so who cares?
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Shadow?I'd say R.O.B. is the closest to an OG character, considering almost all of his moves were made up... but then we could say that for people like Samus as well...
...anyways, if there IS an Original Generation character I'd prefer it to be someone who already exists within the Smash Bros. series, so that Smash Bros. is recursively represented in Smash Bros. My vote goes to either a Primid or Tabuu (boss characters have been nerfed when becoming playable before, don't look at me like that).
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaI'd rather not have an OG character, though the idea of Smash Bros. recursively representing itself is amusing. It IS its own Nintendo franchise after all.
ROB is somewhat close to being OG since all its moves are original, but I wouldn't really consider it to be an OG character, just one with an OG moveset.
I wonder if ROB will return or not. I'd hope so.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Oh, I certainly agree that an Original Generation character would be difficult to do well. There's one outside method I could see of doing it well (if they had another Subspace Emissary-style mode, and they really nailed the story that happened to feature the newbie), but I admit that the likelihood of pulling it off is slim (the flip side is, if they did succeed, it'd probably be the sign that we'd be looking at a nigh legendary game). But regardless of whether it would be a good idea or not, I just have a gut feeling that they will do it.
If it makes folks feel better, my track record for gut feeling random guesses like that has been pretty spotty ever since I nailed a prediction about what a second Valkyrie Profile game would be. So, that's 7 years of bad guessing for those curious to keep score.
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