Super Smash Bros. Fans Are Harassing Masahiro Sakurai Over Waluigi Snub

Waluigi would suck anyway. We should have Tails/Rex+Pyra/DK. Jr/Chun Li/Mach Rider/Tifa/Tingle/Skull Kid/Joanna Dark before we even get to Waluigi

Some people are just losers, get over yourselves.
As if hes not under enough stress already.

The whole Smash community is one big joke.

@RadioHedgeFund
As much as I agree with you for Rex, Pyra, Mythra, Tingle and skull kid, The others aren't Nintendo related licences and Waluigi is.

Also they said there wouldn't be many new comers...

And this is why I hate hardcore SSB fans (hardcore, not all the other types) because they think they are the gods that can do and say whatever they want and that only their game matter.

Remember that direct video from earlier this year where EVERY game got a loud boo except smash? I hate those hardcore "fans".

Disgusting. I hope Sakurai does not see all of his fans like this.

Humanity

Has failed

Sakaurai has done an amazing amazing job. Fans have just been crying for Waluigi for 15 years to play as him... so we get daisy.... I love him, but it just feels like another Nintendo moment of not listening to fans and Nintendo has a habit of doing so.

First it was Ridley, now Waluigi, there will always be those who complain and harass because it's not exactly what they want.

To be fair it's rather unfair they get Daisy and Ridley, but not Waluigi?

We can play as all the other Mario Brothers, All 3 Princesses and all of the Bowser family... but not Waluigi?

Fans.
They ask for the world. And if you give them the world they'll ask for the moon.

If I was sakurai I'd change the Waluigi assist trophy to him just just tripping and falling of the stage.

Ahhh Waluigi. Rabbid fanboys' misinterpretation of the word meme.

This kind of stuff almost makes me feel ashamed for my hobby honestly. Games are all about having fun. If Waluigi's exclusion from Smash prevents you from having fun, nothing's stopping you from playing the plethora of other games that have playable Waluigi. Go play THOSE and have FUN. But stop being such a JERK to Sakurai, the guy really doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

@Abes3 and anyone else talking about Daisy getting in over Waluigi: really the only reason Daisy is made playable is because she's almost literally a carbon copy of Peach, thus she really fits as an echo for Peach in Smash. That's pretty much been her role in most games she's appeared in. If it weren't for that, I doubt she would have made it in. And you can't say the same for Waluigi. You could say they could make him an ''echo'' of Captain Falcon or something, but that would not be a very good representation of him. It kinda fit for Ganondorf (though yes he probably should have been treated differently too), but not Waluigi, and I don't think any other fighter would really fit as a moveset base for Waluigi either. So if you think about it, once Waluigi DOES get in, he's likely to have his own moveset when Daisy will still be stuck just being a clone.

Wasn't Waluigi invented solely to be a partner to Wario in sports games?
I guess Wario and Waluigi could work as a counter-team to Mario and Luigi working for someone else (like in Mario Tennis Aces), or as a "player two" in a Wario game, but I'm not sure what makes Waluigi interesting on his own. Aside from memes.

That said if they had an evil princess of their own they would look a lot like the villains from Yatterman as a trio.

Come on. Waluigi is a wannabe of a Mario wannabe, who hangs out with another Mario wannabe, and only shows up in party games. He's not even present in Wario's own damn spin-off universe, Diamond City.

Sure, he's fun and cool, but part of that lies in his elusiveness. This earns him a lot of leeway for outrageous behavior.

Toad, Birdo, and even Petey Pirahna are all more worthy if ever we needed another Mushroom Kingdom rep.

so stupid, dont care about ssb but u got every character ever, the guy looked like he havnt seen his home in months, get over yourself

Just be glad Sakurai managed to restrain himself from adding 15 new Fire Emblem sword fighters nobody cares about.

That guy who harassed Sakurai is straight up butt cheeks. With all playable characters from the series + Ridley is more than enough. I have a gut feeling that there will still be secret characters to unlock. Every Smash game had them. Just like the rest of us, that fan needs to wait like the rest of us. All of you butt hurt fans hold a bottle of Preparation H...the insert one ☝️

If Waluigi was in there along with Daisy and Ridley and all of the returning fighters these same miserable people would then be making a stink about whoever else is missing.

""If you don't put Pauline in there then you clearly don't want my money."

"Y no Tingle?"

"We want Birdo and we want her NOW!"

"Where is my Lakitu you disgrace of a developer"

hardcore SSB fans are a strange bunch. Some of the threads on the SSB Reddit are nuts. It’s a very hostile community.

It's amazing what a thing like anonymity can do to some people.

Once Waluigi’s game steps up, like him appearing alongside Wario in WarioWare and Wario Land Games, then perhaps he’ll finally have his chance with becoming a fighter in future Smash Bros. games. Ultimate simply is not his time to shine just yet. It takes specific games and specific things to happen with them before they can become Smash Bros. Fighters.

Sakurai should never have included Ridley in this game. He’s created a monster. Quite literally as well as metaphorically. The Waluigi backlash will continue until they relent! It’s not necessarily a good thing to relent to your fan base. Like spoilt children, it can ruin their lives ...

Put them on the MTV show, Bully beatdown.
i would gladly put my gloves on to kick their asses.

People need to get a life.

The Smash cycle continues....People wanted Wario and Sonic, then wanted the return of cut characters and Ridley, now it's Waluigi. Some people will never be satisfied.

@ottospooky You are wrong. This has nothing to do with Ridley

Yeah, ask/beg/plead for Waluigi to be included as a proper/main character as much as you want--I'd like him to be in there properly too just for the sake of completion--but don't turn into some stupid internet troll who acts in exactly the way that everyone who believes [male] gamers are a bunch of degenerate, insidious, and potentially dangerous weirdos expects [male] gamers to act.

Are people seriously that butt hurt over a video game?? I wish I had time to stress about what characters I could play as in a game. These people probably live in their moms basement and shower like once a week.

Once Waluigi gets in, people will ask for King K. Rool.

Acting like little brats. Sakuri is a better man than me. Instead of just blocking accounts, I would have replied to each tweet by stating that the assist trophy has now been removed. Then include a link to Aces on the eShop.

Who says he won't be announced? He would have to be a new character, which Daisy isn't.

It’s flat out abuse and it’s unbelievable and depressing

@wasilewski have you read the comments In this thread or on most of the threads here - this place is just as crazy and hostile - people can’t accept others feel differently - most take half a story written or half a headline and run with it without knowing the facts.

I’ve read this story and nothing else about this and all I know is - there is a single tweet where someone uses the most over used word in the English language “inappropriate” and says something is happening - twitter is a horrible place that thrives on abuse and counter abuse (just as bad) if you go on twitter you run those risks - like posting here or on Reddit - plenty of people ready to leap on you.

My only opinion is - Waluigi would be cool and whilst having every old character in it is cool - having a batch of new fighters would be awesome and whilst Ridley is cool some won’t like it.
However adding Waluigi would be we would move to the next cool one that should be in.

You can’t please everyone.

Morale of the story - if you don’t like twitter and hostile comments don’t be on twitter. Same as Facebook and any other media where people can attack and spam you.

People will now spam and attack me with - people shouldn’t have to put up with it people should respect others - just read your own comments back and see if you respect others daily.

Daisy originated in a main Mario game – Super Mario Land on the GB.
Wario originated in Super Mario Land 2.

Waluigi was made by Camelot Software to give Wario a doubles partner in Mario Tennis 64, and he only shows up in Mario Sports games, Mario Kart games, and Mario Party games. His inclusion as an assist trophy - with his tennis racket no less - is wonderful enough as it is.

If we were choosing Camelot Software characters to make fully fledged fighters, Isaac is more deserving, since he represents an entirely separate and beloved IP (Golden Sun), while Waluigi is a side character in IP dominated by characters already playable in Smash.

Also, Rex is totally a Nintendo character. Monolith Soft is 2nd Party, owned by Nintendo. Rex and/or Pyra would be an excellent choice for an echo fighter of Shulk, using the Aegis instead of the Monado.

People need to leave Sakurai alone. He's worked really hard time and time again, and what does he get for it?

If this is indeed true then this perfectly captures just how self-entitled and toxic the Smash community really is.
If you're annoyed about Waluigi's exclusion from Ultimate and want to express it on your own social media page then go right ahead, but for the love of god do NOT go start harassing a man that probably has a lot more things to be worried about than including your favourite meme character into Smash.

@Saego How about not lumping in those of us who are reasonable with those who are jackarses going after Sakurai, yeah?

-and you @Tarolusa , how about not painting the entirety of the community with such a broad brush. Cause believe it or not, the idiots who are harrassing Sakurai aren't representative of the whole of the community.

@Saego I agree. I'm absolutely crazy for Smash, but the fanbase just sickens me. It's definitely the most toxic community I've ever interacted with.

@ImagineerNik He's confirmed to be an assist trophy, which means he won't be playable.

Rather than Luigi, I'd be down for more Xenoblade/2 characters.

The thing is these people wouldn’t say or do anything in the real world (if they left their houses). It’s amazing the level of bravery people develop on the internet.

@MegaVel91 Sorry about that, I should have been more specific that I was addressing the more vocal part of the Smash community rather than the community as a whole. It's just this is not the first time that part of the smash community has pulled a stupid stunt and it certainly won't be the last.

@Snow-Dust They already are!
Also Doomguy or no buy!

@MegaVel91 It is what @Tarolusa said. I feel honestly bad for Sakurai. He can't do anything good with Smash, according to this same group:
"It's not [smash_game_x]2, so it's bad."
"Ridley is not too big for smash, Sakurai, where is he???"
"I want [character_from_book_movies_game_tvshow] in Smash, otherwise I won't buy it."
"Omg, [character] doesn't fit in the roster!! Why did they include him??"
"I want a new [smash_mode]!"
"Please don't include [smash_mode] in this game, waste of efforts."

And yes, I'm over exaggerating. But compared to other communities, Smash is one of the worst. Especially the vocal part.

@ClassSonicSatAm No. There is to 'to be fair' when your sending abusive messages to a human being because you want a character to appear in a game.

There are plenty of ways to be heard, this is not one of them.

Nintendo are now in the situation where they should not put Waluigi in the game becuase it could encourage this behaviour towards their staff in the future.

I'm a bit gutted WaPeach isn't a playable character.

And people wonder why he developed this game in secret...

Waluigi has a weirdly dedicated fanbase for someone who has never had his own game. Seems like a case of a meme come true, where a group ironically obsesses over something for so long they genuinely develop an obsession.

Kind of like how the word "fam" snuck into my vocabulary, because I used it ironically one too many times.

There's still six months until launch. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few more characters still to be revealed. But Waluigi is a bit DULL. I'd love to see a few more weird ones. Detective Pikachu, or perhaps group of Rabbids, or.... maybe even Rayman?

Or no more at all. There are tonnes of cool characters already.

I just wanted Waluigi as a playable character. But 3 Zelda's... yay?

Meanwhile @wasilewski people are loosing their MINDS aren't they lolololol

@WiltonRoots keyboard warriors are the worst

This makes me furious. It's obvious that Sakurai has put an incredible amount of work into this game just to make fans happy. And what does he get, a bunch of angry fan boys who have no idea what the word "appreciation" means. Absolutely deplorable.

In the 18 years Waluigi has existed, I've ONLY ever heard people hate on him. He has never been a beloved character, and now people act like this!? Good grief.

I think not including him is absolutely hilarious.

I am completely ok with the roster, i would like a story mode, but i am not going to harrass the creator. I never realized how toxic the hardcore players could be. Bunch of spoiled punks, be happy we got daisy and ridley! The scope of this game is incredible with the amount of characters, and stages.

I need to say that I still have a character that I want in smash bros but hey It doesnt matter because apparently people want a mario clone more then a character that will have a completely different move set like banjo kazooie someone who existed before waluigi and deserve to be in smash more and why are u panicing sakari said there is still some more characters to come so stop panicongratulations and just pray that the characters that we want in smash will make the final cut and no matter what happens at least waluigi is an assist trophy and banjo kazooie is not so at least u have that much and it's a beta he may be removed as an assist trophy and maybe he won't but whatever happens were all going to a smashing time when this game comes out.

Leave the man alone, there will probably be some dlc characters anyway. Smash Bros. fans are never satisfied, I swear. I wanted Chuck Norris in the game, but I didn't get him. Tough luck for me.

I know a lot of people who wanted him me included but people are turrible.

I wanted Waluigi in the game as much as, if not more than most fans. But this is WAY too far. The man put everything he has into these games and made an ultimate edition from the ground up for us.

Sadly, there are people like this in all hobbies, all genres, all games and all facets of life. And the ability to be anonymous online has just made them more vocal and more unbearable.

Pathetic.

Yeah! That'll show him!

Let bully companies and developers to get what we want...this generation.

I genuinely wanted Waluigi in Smash but oh well. I can’t complain with the current roster.

...I still want Spring Man

That’s pretty messed up, but I’m not surprised to hear about this.

This is what makes me lose faith on Twitter.

Just be glad we're getting a Smash game. That too a huge one. Some people just don't know how to accept what they got, or heck, even how to ask for something.

Every single fighter is in this game and people are still blooming whinging, you can't please some people

Gamers can be dirtbags

The Smash community is having a pretty rough PR week...

Sakurai: "We got 65 (!) characters for Smash"

"Fan": The game is **** because no Waluigi.

I don't see the sense here...

How self entitled do you have to be to the point that 60+ characters (potentially 70+) isn't good enough?

@Nunya Preach! About the only thing it's decent for is near instant news. Past that it's a dumpster fire

I wanted Daisy in Smash.

(ducks to avoid incoming projectiles)

This is why the world is broke. Because people won't stop annoying others. Give it a break. If you want Waluigi so bad, make him yourself.

People are gross

It is sadly how the Internet works.
Anyone could do this kind of stuff and since the internet consists of all kinds of people from around the world, including even the biggest idiots, some users will inevitably do it.

That is why stuff like this happens. It literally can't not happen with so many potential users that could do it.

Bandana Waddle Dee is more deserving of a spot in the roster, and I'm too busy gushing over every veteran fighter returning that I don't really care if BWD makes it in anymore. I still got my fingers crossed for Rayman, though, but I'm not gonna act all butthurt if neither of them make it in.

Would prefer to have Skullkid or Marx from Kirby, but it is how it is.

At this point, I'd keep Waluigi as an assist trophy just to spite the trolls. Sakurai (according to reports) puts his heart, soul, and even physical/mental health on the line to make the Smash Bros. series the best it can be. To be harassed and spammed over this is disrespectful and accomplishes nothing.

I wouldn't mind seeing Waluigi as a playable character, but this is the wrong way to go about it.

@Saego "And yes, I'm over exaggerating. But compared to other communities, Smash is one of the worst." That's a big statement especially in a world where there's more communities that are bigger than Smash. A vocal minority doesn't represents the community as a whole.

Another thing. What makes you or anyone else think these people are from the smash community? For all you know they can be trolls. Trolls looking for attention. Attention. This and many other articles has given them.

@Abes3 Daisy has a huge fanbase herself, and people have demanded she get into Smash just as long as people have wanted Waluigi.

So, blaming her and her fanbase is pointless. Besides. Daisy likely got into the roster for the same reason why Lucina was picked over Chrom in Smash 4. They could simply paste Peach's moveset onto Daisy, tweak it a bit, and boom, you have an echo fighter.

So, I doubt Daisy took away Waluigi's chances to be in the roster anyway. She was an easy to make echo fighter that fills a major request fans have had for years. That's why she made the roster.

With that said, if the Mario series did get a brand new character who is not a clone or echo fighter, I can see two who ruined Waluigi's chance.

-Captain Toad has been pushed in recent years by Nintendo, his game is being ported to the 3DS and Switch, and he has tons of potential for an intresting moveset, something that Sakurai loves in a character. Putting him in would also fulfill fan requests to make the Toad character playable in Smash. Factor in the fact that Toadette can also be added in as well as an alt costume, and he's one of my front runners for being a newcomer.

Paper Mario- While his stock has fallen in recent years due to games with a mixed reception, he has always been a popular pick. He has vast potential for a moveset, represents the RPG branch of the Mario franchise, and would be different enough from Mario to justify his inclusion. Even the argument that adding him would put three versions of Mario in the same game is no longer valid given Smash Ultimate has three versions of Link in the game already.

So, I think Waluigi's chances were taken down by two Mario characters who are more important then he is.

Which is the key problem here, Waluigi is not that important to the overall Mario franchise. If he's going to be a rep for the Spin-off games like Mario Kart and the Mario Sports games, then why should he get in over a Koopa Troopa or Shy Guy who also appear in those kinds of games? Speaking of which, Peach(and Daisy) already have the spin-off games covered in their movesets.

The only thing Waluigi has going for him is a rabid fanbase who appears to be willing to do anything, even crossing lines and hassling Sakurai to get him in.

If anyone wonders what the ”inappropriate” posts were, one of them was apparently a picture of the 9/11 landscape with Sakurai-san’s face plastered over it. [EDIT: Oh, my comment was censored! It originally said "freaking ワンカーズ" after the first sentence. Gee, I wonder who it could be...]

Probably the same idiots who posted hateful/sexist harassing comments about Kelly Marie Tran and Daisy Ridley. Fan culture is the worst. People just can't seem to enjoy the content they're given. If you think you can do a better job, fine do it. But don't be a jerk. You're entitled to an opinion, you're NOT entitled to harass content creators.

When people take a party game too seriously, this is what you get.
As much as I love Metroid I really didn't want Ridley in as a fighter, just seems out of place. But hey you don't see me harrassing the devs. I'll even give him a try and see how he plays(Ridley that is.).

How pathetic can you get? It is a game. Not life or death, get over yourselves and leave the man alone. Or better yet make your own game. Fanatics suck so much.

Also have we really devolved to the point that manners don't matter anymore? Pro Tip don't be a jerk. Life is much better that way.

@Tyranexx If he wanted to spite them taking Waluigi out altogether would work. But Sakurai is a better person than that, unlike the bacteria that are harassing him.

Wow Waluigi, and I thought Luigi had hard luck! I think back on all the flame wars I've read about Waluigi and how he can't be in SSB, how Ridley can and can't be in SSB, and of all things, even I'm surprised he didn't make it into this one. Even Daisy made it as a palette swap

It's not that serious for me to get into a rage about something so minor, but you have it admit, it is surprising that Waluigi stays in the shadows so much and hasn't been playable in SSB. That aside, I hold out hope for a Wario Bros., Super Wario Cousins, etc. game one day with those two, but who am I?

And I thought the Daisy fanclub was full of immature and annoying people.

Remember when old fighting games used to be twin martial artists with different shirts?
Remember when you felt a brawler had a white guy, a white barely dressed girl, and a streetwise black guy and you were like: how inclusive!
Nowadays every brawler/fighter has dozens of characters and people find the time to whine that the lanky mirror universe evil version of the brother of an Italian plumber who regularly saves a kingdom of mushroom people is not included. #waracism
🤗

@RadioHedgeFund Joanna Dark would be awesome! Maybe Pierce Brosnan as 007 as a reskin as well.

@Syndrome That's what the Space Force is for.

This latest iteration of 'meme culture' likes to turn people like Sakurai into abstracted representations of the things they do or create, which makes people forget that even important famous game designers are actually real people. Masahiro Sakurai is 47 years old, he probably doesn't spend a whole lot of his time on the internet on Reddit or "gamer Twitter" or 4chan where these memes originate. While you may think spamming his Twitter with images of Waluigi porn is funny, he almost certainly doesn't. Anyways, tirade over, moral of the story, I don't like memes.

So I'm guessing the harassing fanboy may be the same culprit who made that bomb threat a while ago. Just guessing but hey sometimes it could be spot on.

How about instead of waluigi being in smash as a playable character they actually as Nintendo to put him in his own game. He has only been in party and sports games. That is why his assist trophy fights with a tennis racket.

Jesus Christ people take video game memes too seriously.

@Ryu_Niiyama: Fair enough! Still wish some people didn't feel so entitled.

I don't follow Sakurai's twitter, although I'm guessing it's in Japanese anyway.

Does Sakurai actually run his own twitter or is it a corporate twitter which is basically run by marketing personnel?

It really aggravates me when people do such garbage and selfish things to individuals who devote their entire lives to creating games that are loved the world round. Not just in cases like Smash Bros, although I can relate more to frustrations with people in that community since I myself thoroughly enjoy the game and participate in its competitive aspects.

People like this do not represent the better part of the Smash bros competitive scene (or the casual scene), but their loud actions tend to overshadow external perceptions of the game and its players as a whole. My main frustration here is how poorly people treated Sakurai here, but this is another aspect of a far bigger problem...one that extends far beyond the reach of Smash Bros or even gaming as a whole.

I feel like to some extent the whole fiasco with anger against Bayonetta has also gone way too far. People lack the patience to wait and see what will happen with her once the actual tournaments in Ultimate begin...they're too busy trying to find more gasoline to throw on their torches.

We will get him next time, or in a DLC
I don't understand how a human being could do something like that, hoping that it will realise that way, that's non sense
If you want to play with Waluigi now, just play some fan game, there's a ton of them, 2D Smash Bros games or great projects based on Brawl and Project M
If you want a character, you have almost everything now, so get over it

I have a couple of strong Smash Bros. opinions but none of them will ever make me go to the lengths these people are going to.
Since Smash Bros. is this well crafted Frankenstein's Monster of video game franchises,there is probably always going to be this unusual level of expectations and desires and that is fine as long it doesn't cause someone to become malicious towards the very guy who has several times gone out of his way to make the game what it is.

The problem here is that it's a NINTENDO brawl , when others can get in before a nintendo brand character, it just doesn't make sense..

Smash fans are are such spoiled brats. If I were a fighting game creator and I had to deal with the constant whining, complaining, harassment and pestering, I'd never give them another chance to influence the roster ever again.

@Syndrome

And if you give em that they'll still whine.

@Tempestryke Again, please don't lump people like me in with the idiots buggering Sakurai.

@MegaVel91

I won't lump in the decent fans. But you know how all fandoms have a loud and awful minority? And how there are exceptions to every rule? Well the decent people in the Smash fandom are the minority and the toxic toddlers are the loud majority.

@Tempestryke Hardly true. The Smash Community has millions of members. The people harassing Sakurai are the minority. They are loud, but just because are are loud does not a majority make.

@ClassSonicSatAm Dude. No one, no game dev or company, owes you or anybody else content in a game just because you ask for it. It would be nice if we all got what we wanted, but there is absolutely nothing "unfair" about the situation.

And given Sakurai's back-breaking work on the series, you can't be serious saying he isn't working to give fans what they want...

I'd love it if they included Walugi, but made him horrible. That's what these people deserve.

Smash fans are among the hardest to please people on the entire planet. We will have peace in the middle east before we make all Smash fans happy.

People are out of their minds!!!

King K Rule over Walugi any day.

Man.

Get over yourselves, hardcore so-called Smash Bros. "fans". You're not special. Just entitled, brainless beggar twits wanting a dead meme in Smash Bros. You don't run or even own Super Smash Bros., Nintendo and Sakurai do.

I personally see more of a chance for Shantae getting in waaaaay before Waluigi ever will.

I despise the entire so-called "hardcore fans" that act like toddlers because they didn't get what they wanted like a child.

You so-called "hardcore fans" going around throwing "angry messages" and "questionable content"? You're lucky all you're getting is a simple block on Twitter from Masahiro Sakurai. In my opinion, he has all rights to and should use the rights to report you off of Twitter for your childish behaviour.

Grow up and get a sense of reality, learn to be humble and stop acting like toddlers, or face being shunned by the Smash community for this level of toxicity.

@Abes3 except Daisy was wished for as well, in a similar quantity. And the crux is: Neither Daisy (little) nor Waluigi (none) have sufficient main game appearances to build a good moveset on. But Daisy at least fitsvas Peaches Echo-Fighter, so she was easy enough to implement. Waluigi would not work as Warios Echo, he would need his own moveset. And quite frankly, that's too much work for someone, who is basically a joke and troll choice.

I am also a bit dissapointed that Waluigi is just a assist trophy yet again. And I also would have loved Bomberman as a playable character. But its no reason to harrass Sakurai. Keep classy guys!

Okay, I am sad that Waluigi is not playable but this is just wrong.

I hope Sakurai adds Waluigi in a future and make it a terrible character just for fun.

@siavm the reason Waluigi has never had his own game is because he’s a crap character. This is probably why he’s not in smash. Nobody would ever pick him, so why waste time and money.

Great journalism is, as always, backed by a single tweet by some rando on Twitter.

The man hates working on Smash as is. Why do these Waluigi cretins need to make him hate it more? Its not like he needs to be reminded what people want...

That's definitely uncool, but there is a serious call for the character. It was the first thing my wife said after the E3 Direct, "Where's Waluigi?"

Good thing Twitter has a block function. Almost like the man has the tools to ignore his harassers, making the white knighting totally uneeded.

The press seems to love reporting on social media harassment, to the point where I'm starting to be really skeptical. Did they find one post and turn it into a crisis? I remember when Horizon Zero Dawn came out, it was reported that gamers were boycotting the game and spamming the launch trailer with all sorts of abuse because it starred a woman and all gamers are sexist. But I went to the launch trailer, and while there was a ton of trash talk from Xbox fanboys, I couldn't find a single post condemning the game for having a female lead, and I scanned hundreds of posts.

@Rhaoulos Mach Rider actually is, but yes we should probably have some more Nintendo characters in before we start adding more 3rd characters.

I'd much rather have a more unique character like Neku from TWEWY, or Crono, or somehow Sora.

@OctoInk20

Crazy how you can go on a vicious tirade attacking fans of a series over uncited allegations that a separate group of fans haraased someone, while unironically and without a modicum of self-awareness calling them out for 'toxicity '.

@Yasaal We are actually at 68 now (the three echo fighters, which are Lucina, Dark Pit, and Daisy) have their own numbers, so that's why Ridley is number 65. Plus It's a pretty safe bet we'll get some more, 75 sounds more like the final roster size, especially if they throw in like 2-3 more echo fighters. And then there's DLC...

If they get Waluigi, they will whine for Bomberman.
If they get Bomberman, they will whine for Rodin.
The harassment won't stop until every character that only appears from an Assist Trophy, Poke Ball, or part of a Final Smash is playable.
And after that, they will demand Batman and Deadpool -_-.
I hope Sakurai never, ever gives in to these people, if for no other reason, the game would get pushed into mid-2019.

I'm sick of Waluigi.

Wow, I can understand wanting a character in, for me it's Birdo, but to harass Sakurai for it...I wouldn't blame him for never putting Waluigi in.

Playable Waluigi would be interesting, but certainly not a priority for most fans I imagine. If you look at the Smash roster, most characters have their own series in some way, while Waluigi as far as I know has never had his own game. Waluigi was simply created to give Wario a partner in Mario Tennis, nothing more.

@kinoen I love Waluigi as a character, however Birdo should have precedent given he's been around for much much longer. Even if he's a Doki Doki Panic character. The move sets would be interesting.

I swear at this point they'll legitimately beg for Goku.

@abe_hikura Even better, activating the Waluigi assist trophy should make Waluigi attack the player who activated him ;p

For fans who complain, I say Daisy has been around longer and is more relevant than Waluigi. I will say Waluigi > King K Rool, though. On the other hand, it probably wouldn't be too too difficult to make Waluigi an echo character of Wario, but eh Wario is kind of just ok per movesets, so idk. If they introduce Waluigi, they should certainly troll him on his intro video.

@Ernest_The_Crab
Oops, I didn't know that one.

I hope they never put him in the series out of pure spite.

Waluigi sucks hence why he isn't in the game. He deserves the assist trophy treatment.

Dear Waluigi fans... grow up and get over it, seriously.

I wonder how badly he's getting spammed now that it's been revealed that Bomberman is only an Assist Trophy.

So if Waluigi gets in, does that mean Toadette does too (along with Toad as more than a Peach/Daisy counter shield)? She serves the exact same purpose, having been created as a doubles partner for Toad in "Mario Kart: Double Dash!!" while only appearing in Mario sports and party games.

1. Waluigi doesn't have his own game.
2. In all those years since his debut in Mario Tennis 1999 for the N64, he never even appeared next to his brother in a single Wario game, even though there are 2 big series (Wario Land and WarioWare).
3. He's not acknowledged enough and his appeareances only go as far as being a barely-used filler-character in Sports, Party, and Kart games.
4. With a character being extremely generic in all the games he was in, why do people believe he would make a good Smash fighter? If Waluigi had some significance in Nintendo's universe I'd understand, but as of 2018 he doesn't. Maybe he'll get some meaningful exposure for his 20th anniversary next year?

I dont think many people actually did harass sakurai, it was blown out of porportion. It was probably one or two people posting a kind of offensive meme and sakurai blocked them and went on with his life. please dont think the waluigi majority is like this, its only 3 people... like me there are people who like waluigi, its just some people who decide to act like this. Its just that people assume the whole community is like this, its really bugging me https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/8uqmfl/was_sakurai_actually_harrased_over_not_adding/
https://aminoapps.com/c/smash/page/blog/about-the-sakurai-harassment/dqfb_umZ0NNgYGa1KwV4rdBl3nQZp8#comment-21fda648-04cf-4139-98e8-cfc362459202

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