Mario Party isn't exactly known for its cleanliness either.
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guyAlright 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.
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayI'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
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guyRight, 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
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edited 2nd Mar '15 8:04:25 PM by Keybreak
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayI'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.)
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!edited 2nd Mar '15 8:14:49 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!*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
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!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.

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.
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay