The news it out - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will feature every single character that has ever been present in the franchise before. It's an amazing fact, and will no doubt make for an amazing character roster to choose from, but will it end there? Well, if this IMDb listing is anything to go by, perhaps not.
As you can see in the image below - and you can even check here if you don't believe us - the site's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate page lists Daniel Alegria as a voice actor for 'The Chorus Men'. Referred to as The Chorus Kids in western releases, these characters are from the series Rhythm Heaven, often seen contorting their faces into terrifying shapes to sing notes to the beat.
Rumours have circulated around the inclusion of the Chorus Kids, or at least a character or two from the Rhythm Heaven franchise, for quite some time. Months before the release of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, leaks were shared online that hinted at the characters' inclusion, but they never made it to the final roster. Whether these leaks were false, or whether the characters were removed last minute for development reasons is unclear, but perhaps we'll finally get to see them this time around.
Of course, we'll have to wait for any official announcements that the game will indeed feature more characters - never mind The Chorus Kids specifically, who could just as easily be an Assist Trophy - before knowing all of this for certain. The idea of a three-in-one character does present some interesting food for thought, though: would they play like the Ice Climbers but with three people to monitor instead of two? Could the idea of rhythm-based attacks be implemented, with accurate button presses dealing more damage? Who knows...
Would you like to see The Chorus Kids in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Who else would you like to see make the cut, perhaps as DLC? Let us know with a comment or two below.
[source m.imdb.com]
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They’re probably just an Assist Trophy.
Isn't IMDB something people can edit akin to Wikipedia?
Together now: "YAH!"
Assist Trophy.
These things are as easy to edit as wikia/wikipedia pages, don't be so gullible. IIRC the same happened for Shantae and Professor Layton during the Smash 4 DLC hype.
Man, I wish I could believe this. The Chorus Kids are awesome, and they could probably be used in some clever ways in a Smash game.
Lol Jesus. Start sourcing Wikipedia next? At best, assist trophy
I heard about this rumor along with some other characters being playable such as Isabelle from Animal Crossing. Could be an assist trophy but I guess time will tell.
Can't anyone edit IMDB tho?
Taking this a Grain of Salt, until official announcement.
I hope this isn’t true. They don’t deserve to be on the roster.
Voice actors for assist trophies are listed/credited on there too. Which would be much more likely for their inclusion.
There is a voice actpr for Bubsy as well
sigh I clicked and know I shouldn't have...
im believing all the rumours at the moment. Too much ace stuff leaking. Here's to the 22nd July!
That seems a little too obscure to be more than an assist trophy... Though if smaller characters are in the running , The Knight from Hollow Knight would be incredible!
Though the likelihood rings hol...
Never mind
@LegendOfPokemon That was my exact thought.
I would pretty much die for a Rhythm Heaven character, but I wouldn't trust IMDb on this one. Even if we do get a character from the series, I think the Tap Trial girl (often called "Rhythm Girl") would be more iconic, and I could more easily see her preforming all the different things from different mini-games.
Karate Joe is another name that comes up often, but I think he would be a much more pedictable and boring choice. I would still take him over no Rhythm Heaven characters, though.
I’d love to see them be playable, but I doubt it.
@otterskateboard You mean a character from a recent indie game over a memorable character from a Nintendo series that has 4 games so far? Not likely.
Flubadubadubaduba that true?
Seriously though, I hate those guys and their disapproving looks at my ever-so-slightly-out rhythm...
Would be cool but I expect it's either an assist trophy or a background stage element.
A Character that emcompassed all of Rhythm Heaven's iconic minigames would be cool though. Like how Duck Hunt does the other Light Gun games. And that could include the Chorus Kids, but I doubt they're be the main character. Could be wrong though!
Surely an assist trophy
Please, going forward, can we avoid spoilers for any Smash characters in article titles? I know this is only a rumour, furthermore a rumour based on a flimsy source, but I really don't want to know what new characters are coming. I love to scroll this website a couple of times every day, so if you post anything relating to new Smash characters, could you title the articles something more akin to 'new character rumoured for Smash!'
That way, people who aren't so bothered can click to know more while others like me can simply scroll on by. Just that, with so little genuinely new characters making an appearance, it'd be a shame to know them all going in
@LegendOfPokemon Or even just a part of a stage as long as they have any dialogue.
That kind of posting wouldn't really tell us if they'd be a character.
NLife listings imdb; an easily edited page as a source? Things really are heating up.
I heard The Legendary Starfy will be a roster character in Smash Bros as well via Wikipedia. Might want to get that in there to make this site more credible XD.
I want to fight as the GBA Karate Man from Rhythm Tengoku
IMDb had a listing for Ridley in Smash Bros.... for Wii U/3DS. Anyone can edit that site.
No idea who are the chorus kids are. Any relation to nintendo? Anything special about them to make them possibly included in smash?
I seriously do not see the appeal of these guys...why should anyone even be exited to have them as a character.
@Pignot Yes, they are from the Rhythm Heaven games, a series that was created and published by Nintendo (it's actually made by the same studio who made the WarioWare games), and has 4 games in the series to date.
The Chorus Kids are an iconic part of the second game (for the DS), they even appeared on the boxart, and the "main character" of the third game (for the Wii) was also based on them.
I absolutely think the series needs representation (it only had a Smash Run enemy, some trophies including the Chorus Kids themselves, and two songs in Smash for WiiU/3DS), but I'm not so sure they would be the absolute best choice. I would be very happy even with them, though.
Didn’t Sakurai admit that the Chorus kids were considered for Smash for Wii U? There was even a datamine that more or less proved it making this highly probable.
Using IMDB as a source is asinine. Anyone and everyone can edit anything there.
I remember seeing someone,in 2015,excitedly ask Stampede Entertainment,the production company behind the Tremors films, if an profile/article for a Tremors 5,which listed the cast from the first movie like Kevin Bacon plus the cast from the T.V. series and had a release date for December 2015,was real.
They responded with a definitive no.Apparently,some guy thought it would fun for him to post entirely fake entry about sequel to a film series that has been on hiatus for nearly a decade.This caused some of the cast members and officials from Universal to call Stampede on what was going on.It ended when they eventually got the entry taken down after quite a bit of time later.
Imdb is definitely unreliable,probably even more so than Wikipedia.Don't end up this fan who got their hopes up just to have them crushed.
@LegendOfPokemon There were files in Smash Bros for Wii U that suggested a rhythm heaven character being playable. Sakurai has said that he does like the franchise and it is a semi-popular game series so maybe it is a playable character.
I could see them as an assist trophy more so, but they would make for an interesting character if usable. I personally don't want them to be a usable character though lol but that's just me
They always throw in a novelty character from way out of left field. This looks like a plausible way to fill that position.
Why was an entire article dedicated to evidence so flimsy and unsubstantiated?
NintendoLife will publish anything today, so you keep coming back to the front page and catch their Amazon Prime Day affiliate links.
tl;dr - $$$
Meh. Who the heck even are they? After that 'leak' of them in Super Smash Bros 4 turned out to be fake, I just laugh thinking of them actually being taken seriously. Good thing this is not a reliable source and doesn't mean anything.
Chances are there will be very few slots for new characters in SSBU. Sakurai pretty much said it himself. I'd really like to see Sakurai give us some characters that fans actually want, which he has started doing with Ridley.
This would fit in with a certain pseudo (and I mean PSEUDO) credible rumor, but I don’t trust listings from this site.
I think there was good reason that data was found for them in Sm4sh, but they were still dropped and never made it in. On paper it makes sense to give a series like Rhythm Heaven some representation. But in practice, it would probably be pretty difficult to fully flesh out such a fighter. They haven't been shown to do anything but sing, and singing could be an attack, but that alone is not a full moveset, if anything, that just screams Assist Trophy. But even beyond that, if they wanted to be faithful to the character, they'd probably want to make their moves rhythm based which would be a bit tough to push into a game where listening to the audio has never been a necessity (Smash is absolutely a game you can play in silence if you find yourself playing on the go in a crowded room but with no headphones for example). Granted, DK's old final smash was rhythm based, but it was the only thing in all of the games that was, and it was one thing that didn't occur often, and it was simple and easy to memorize. And heck, even that's not even returning now.
Since there's no evidence, proof or confirmation of their inclusion in the game (nor Bubsy who is also listed on IMDb), I have deleted their entries from the IMDb page.
You're welcome, Nintendo Life. Might want to update your article now.
@Harmonie Leak of their existence in Smash 4 isn't fake. Some info for them are there within the game's data, but like Brawl's dropped fighters, they were never fully realized. And considering they didn't get added later via DLC, they likely realized they just wouldn't make good fighters (or, like the Ice Climbers and transforming fighters, their design may have proved to taxing on the 3DS and they had to be omitted).
are you kidding me? This is a joke over Isaac, Rex, or Waluigi
@Mando44646 They're not confirmed in the slightest. Nintendo Life are reporting on the same IMDb page that said Sakurai would be a playable character to counter Bayonetta in the page's trivia. >_>
I am going to save the "which character would I prefer" for a rainy day and judt appreciate the possibility of having a unique trio like them in this game!
Anyone can edit IMDB pages, they're about as reliable as Wikipedia
With how easy to edit IMDB is, that's not a reliable piece of evidence to build a narrative with. Whether it's a good piece of evidence doesn't matter though, because an article that implies a new Smash Bros character leak will get a lot of views and comments regardless of whether the rumor has any merit or evidence - more than a well-written article with good evidence. After all, it got me to click and comment. You win.
@RupeeClock I wondered that too. I remember it credited one of the VAs for DuckTales Remastered 2, even after Capcom said they wouldn't do the sequel.
#SlowNewsDay
I wonder if they'd report if they saw IMDb listed Mike Myers as the voice of Shrek for Smash Ultimate. I'm guessing they would.
What next? Using Wikipedia as a source?
They took it out. I don’t find it there anymore. Either Nintendo took it out so it doesn’t spoil a character surprise or it simply was false so they took it out. Idk but I’m super stoked for smash ultimate I really hope we get more characters announced to make the hype even better!
@unknownssss12 I took it out as it's simply false and there's no evidence suggesting otherwise.
Of all the characters they could add... this has to be near the bottom of the list. No offense to the series, but there are bigger names that have been begging for far longer.
Not that that has ever stopped odd inclusions before. But at least Wii Fit Trainer and Villager actually had tie-ins with major Nintendo releases.
I’d be fine with any Rhythm heaven rep, be it karate joe or chorus kids
All i want is Geno as a playable character that's all.
@Harmonie I hope Geno is one.
Lol, probably just a Assist trophy. But if it will be a proper character, it will be a weird character like Wii fit trainer or Duckhunt duo. I can't imagine a proper move-set, but it sounds bonkers (and amazing if done right). Smash always needs 3 kind of characters: First party characters we want, third party characters we want and 1 or 2 totally weird characters. To spice things up.
This rumor probably stems from the same rumor that said: King, ponytail, archer. Code-names for characters. I think they are just fake, but we'll see.
"IMDb"
Fake news.
Has anyone considered the possibility that this is part of some soundtrack in the game?
I’m down for any representation of Rhythm Heaven!
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