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Midna Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they) from way down south in the land of the traitors (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they)
#25601: Oct 8th 2013 at 1:25:42 PM

Sonic's about Mario's size, maybe a bit taller, and in this picture Bowser looks to stand about a head taller than Mario... so yeah, maybe it is just perspective.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#25602: Oct 8th 2013 at 1:28:12 PM

I get the impression they made Bowser smaller to compensate for his more upright stance in this game making him taller than he used to be.

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#25603: Oct 8th 2013 at 1:30:04 PM

He's probably slightly smaller, but not by much.

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Midna Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they) from way down south in the land of the traitors (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Blorbonmyoji (he/she/they)
#25604: Oct 8th 2013 at 1:36:14 PM

More arguments against Ridley?

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#25605: Oct 8th 2013 at 3:55:02 PM

More arguments for Ridley. They made Bowser smaller so Ridley could be biggest without being too big :-P

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#25606: Oct 8th 2013 at 4:17:53 PM

[up]In the first Metroid Samus was roughly the same size as Ridley so they can make him smaller maybe be the same size as Bowser.

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Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#25607: Oct 8th 2013 at 4:20:33 PM

Metroid got retcon'd out by Zero Mission, though- Ridley's smallest canon appearance right now is Super Metroid, though Meta Ridley and Omega Ridley aren't huge, either.

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#25608: Oct 8th 2013 at 4:42:02 PM

Bowser is apparently now only 3 ft tall and Mario is even shorter.

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#25609: Oct 8th 2013 at 4:47:41 PM

Three feet on Mobius/Chaos Emerald Earth is apparently not the same as it is in our reality.

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#25610: Oct 8th 2013 at 5:53:59 PM

You know who might be an interesting Zelda character? Toon Ganondorf. He could use the swords-and-sorcery routine we've wanted from Original Recipe Ganondorf for a while.

That being said, I'd raher a villain other than another Ganondorf. Zant or Vaati or Ghirahim come to mind.

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Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Fool
#25611: Oct 8th 2013 at 5:59:28 PM

I personally vote for Vaati, but I doubt we'll see him.

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Customer Since: Sep, 2009
#25612: Oct 8th 2013 at 6:03:15 PM

I prefer Vaati as well. He's at least appeared in a couple more games than the others, though Ghirahim would be an interesting choice as well.

edited 8th Oct '13 6:03:34 PM by Customer

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The Fool
#25613: Oct 8th 2013 at 6:05:11 PM

Ghirahim is awesome, but he's pretty clearly a one-shot villain in a multipart series. I don't think one-shoters should be included over recurring characters, even if they are pretty awesome.

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TheSpaceJawa Since: Jun, 2013
#25614: Oct 8th 2013 at 9:24:18 PM

We already have a clone Toon Lo Z character, which is 1 more than necessary.

Better to get the swords-and-sorcery routine that Ganondorf is supposed to get attached to the actual Ganondorf than to necessitate a second one of him, too.

I mean, really? A repeat of a clone? What madness would we have to brace ourselves for next?

Customer Since: Sep, 2009
#25615: Oct 9th 2013 at 5:38:38 AM

"If it's just a missile, a sword can slice it right up. Of course, you could also just use your bare hands."

I guess he's saying that Samus's missiles can be caught and thrown at her, or he's just referring to the Villager's projectile grab ability. I don't remember if this was possible in Brawl (the catching, not the slicing).

[down]Ah yes, because most of the other characters don't carry weapons around for normal attacks. Makes sense.

edited 9th Oct '13 5:58:13 AM by Customer

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#25616: Oct 9th 2013 at 5:52:31 AM

I think it means "physical projectiles can be interrupted somehow with regular attacks".

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Nap1100 Since: Mar, 2012
#25617: Oct 9th 2013 at 7:08:28 AM

Yeah that's always been a thing. Certain attacks collide and negate each other, especially with weapon users like Pit and Marth when the blades connect.

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#25618: Oct 9th 2013 at 7:15:27 AM

Man, never any love for Kraid...

Seriously, regarding Ridley, I'm fairly certain that it's canon that the Space Pirates keep making clones that turn out a bit different every time. If they did make him playable, I wouldn't be too concerned if he didn't quite match up with any previous Ridley in terms of size. He's getting remade constantly by the Space Pirates' Science Team. And as we all know, they have vapor for brains.

Also, heights have always been highly variable. Olimar shouldn't even be coming up to Mario's boot laces if they kept everything at the same scale, and either Bowser regularly takes growth and shrink potions, or he doesn't even stay a consistent size in his home series.

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#25619: Oct 9th 2013 at 7:48:37 AM

wild mass guessThe reason why the stages seem so small in Wii U/3DS is so that they can contain Ridley.wild mass guesstongue

[up]It wouldn't set a precedent, that's for sure. Donkey Kong was a stage hazard in the 75m stage in Brawl, and the Blue Falcon appears three times throughout the series in the F-Zero stages.

Ironically speaking, I actually think that Ridley's size could make an already unique fighter even more different from the other characters. I've said this before, but if he ever becomes a playable character, then he should usurp Bowser's position as the largest character on the roster, being somewhere around eye range with Ganondorf and as wide as Bowser.

edited 9th Oct '13 7:54:09 AM by Mistermister

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#25620: Oct 9th 2013 at 9:32:10 AM

We don't know any actual case of the pirates cloning Ridley. The one seen in Metroid, the Prime Trilogy, and Super are all the same Ridley. The one in Other M is a GFed clone, and the one in Fusion is an X Parasite clone of the clone.

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#25621: Oct 9th 2013 at 9:42:26 AM

Okay, fine, maybe I misremembered who is doing all the cloning, but the fact is that Ridley has been cloned multiple times. (Also, it's not outrageous to assume that the Spice Pirates would at least try to clone Ridley... if anything, that might be one of the more sensible things that they could try, and they've certainly cloned worse things - like Metroids).

Upon reflection, in general, it doesn't seem like Nintendo has ever been too concerned with consistency with scale or even shape across their games. Remember when Hyrule was just a mirror of the state of Washington? Or where on Death Mountain one could find Spectacle Rock? So, in short, they could make Ridley the size of Kirby for giggles (Kirby-in-Smash, since Kirby is another in the same boat as Olimar if we go by original size scale) and it wouldn't matter to me. All that would matter is that he has his own playstyle.

Though if they did make Ridley larger than anyone else, he better be damn good at zoning. Being too large of a target would be a huge liability, if you pardon the pun.

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#25622: Oct 9th 2013 at 9:47:17 AM

They should make Ridley playable, and have him look like this.

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#25623: Oct 9th 2013 at 9:52:24 AM

I'd like for Ridley to be the largest character, yeah. I'd give him moderately good speed, too, to help counteract his size, though he'd be fairly light compared to Bowser or Ganondorf.

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doctrainAUM White Hindu from New Jersey Since: Aug, 2010
White Hindu
#25624: Oct 9th 2013 at 10:01:01 AM

Remember when Hyrule was just a mirror of the state of Washington?

No. Please explain, since I couldn't find anything on it. Doesn't sound like something a Japanese company would do. New York or California, certainly, but Washington would be odd.

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#25625: Oct 9th 2013 at 12:00:09 PM

For reference: the state of Washington and Zelda 1 Hyrule.

Assuming you meant it's actually mirrored, not just copied, I can see two lakes that look the same, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca is in roughly the same place as the Zora river, but that's it.


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