If Lightning was in it I would buy it.

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I think generic Black Mage, White Mage, Moogle or Catuar have better chances than Lighting.

With the attention Square has been giving XIII as of late, I concur.

Weren't the reasons for Sonic and Snake being in Brawl were because Sega and Hideo Kojima actually asked for the characters to be in the game? I mean, I guess from a popularity standpoint they don't make a whole lot of sense, but collaboration appears to be the key. If Square Enix does do some work on the next Smash Bros. (sound, music, etc.) and have no desire to have any of their characters represented, than I can't really see Final Fantasy appearing in Smash Bros. I would also guess that even if there were Final Fantasy characters, we would simply get older FF characters (see; Black Mage, Red Mage, etc.) instead of modern characters like Lightning or Snow.

Red Mage would be pretty cool, but Square Enix hates red mages.

A White-Black Mage duo using the chibi style they used in the chocobo DS games would be plain awesome to represent Final Fantasy.
Oh oh or a class-changing Chocobo. That. I'd like that.

Or a Mog Knight riding a Chocobo.

yes fun fact here sonic and snake were both asked to be put in melee but Nintendo had been to far in development of it and said they couldn't They then put them in brawl. Also side game kingdom hearts were on Nintendo systems so geno and sora could likely make it. geno also had a cameo in one of the Mario parties. Also when people hacked brawl they found that there were 25 unused songs programmed n the game they were all good tracks to. One of those was beware the forest's mushrooms from super Mario rpg. This means at some point in time square were involved in helping out in brawl. This track suggest that either super Mario rpg would have a stage most likely the forest maze or that geno or mallow would be playable or both. The song was also remastered in the brawl disc but only obtainable by hacking. That said i also wouldn't mind any final fantasy character.

Geno had a credited cameo in Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga not Mario Party.

If I'm not mistaken, Snake was in Brawl because Sakurai's son asked him to put him in there. I could be incorrect though.

Actually, i think Kojima himself asked.

@3Dash: Snake was put in Brawl because Kojima begged Sakurai for him to be in it.
@Morphtroid: Geno made a cameo appearance in Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga because the development team that made it, AlphaDream, has ties to Square-Enix.

If Square Enix is going to contribute, I'm putting my money on Sora. But that's just me.

Ghirahim would be a very cool character.

Maybe Dark Samus.

Thanks for correcting me i knew it was something like that.