I mean that because he's a clone, he was always on the chopping block to begin with.
... Didn't stop Tink (Since Melee if you count YL), didn't stop Falco (Since Melee), didn't stop Weegee (Since 64, heavily de-cloned in Melee).
By that logic, Tink/YL should have been cut off by now, and Falco should have been cut off by now, and
maybe Luigi.
I thought Marth's game got remade and release in the US?
The first FE game got re-released on the DS
waaaaaay after Melee came out.
Nonetheless, that still lessened his chances especially since appearance in Smash was there just to advertise that game. Lucas didn't get carried over from Brawl, so I don't see where your argument there is. Nintendo may have been planning to bring Mother 3 overseas way back when, there's no way of knowing what they were thinking (also note just how much Mother stuff was in Brawl-stage, boss, tons of music, character, SSE level...
My point is that if Roy's cut was because they didn't want to include a Japanese-exclusive character, then why was Lucas in Brawl at all?
IIRC Brawl's release was after the petitions had been met with silence, and was definitely after Tomato's translation project started.
Maybe it's just the people I talk to, but all my casual friends think Roy is cooler than Marth.
I guess. But that's only cause he was in Smash
The only reason people even know what the hell a Fire Emblem is, is because of Smash.
Also because he was the star of the first game. But nonetheless, what's done is done, Marth is now the face of FE and that ain't changing.
Being the star of FE 1 isn't as illustrious a position as one may think; it sold very poorly and is generally regarded as a bad game.
I still don't get how Marth, even now when we have access to all the games, is
still regarded as the poster-boy, by fans and IntSys, even though he is the blandest lord in the series by far. He may even be the blandest character in general, which is really something when we're in a series that includes Awakening.
