I know it's kind of weird to bring this up now, but at the time I thought it would be explained and by the time I stopped paying attention it hadn't been, but why is Ryu in Smash?
I know at the time they talked about SFII becing iconic and being on the SNES, but he has his donkey kick and a parry effect, on top of FA, IV was on the 3DS, yeah, but they talked about SFII specifically in the press I saw.
This isn't complaining in the slightest, I think it's cool, it's just weird to me they pulled Ryu out of nowhere and didn't say much about it, as far as I can find, I guess you could consider it SFV promotion but that's still bizarre since it's on a completely different system to say the least.
It reminds me of Dante showing up in Nocturne but the trade there was completely explained.