r/makeafighter

Well, this was certainly a close one for third place. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man were pretty much locks, but in a very close one, Dig Dug's Taizo Hori made the third spot just ahead of Gilgamesh from Tower of Druaga. My prediction was right on this one, but let's see how well that holds up for this next one. Also I'm wondering how many people in the subreddits I repost this to will ask "Wait, why is Dig Dug allowed!? I thought it was only Pac-Man characters!"

Well, while I wait for that inevitability, let's focus on the next series: Xenoblade (with the new game announced, I can't call it Xenoblade Chronicles). Three games (technically four) in this young series that originally wasn't even supposed to leave Japan until Operation Rainfall happened, and yet it's now become as much of a staple of Nintendo's lineup as things like Fire Emblem and Donkey Kong. Let's see who from this RPG series is really feeling it.

As a reminder, the rules:

1. Only characters that originate from the games of the franchise for the day (in this case, Xenoblade. No, Xenogears and Xenosaga won't be included, those are different series that were made by MonolithSoft), but the characters don't have to have been playable in an official Smash Bros. game
2. No downvoting
3. You can choose either a team of three or an individual character, but only one submission per person on each day. If you wish to change your choice, you can either delete your old post and make a new one or reply to the original comment with your changes you're making.
4. All votes to a team will count as the three characters in that team getting a vote
5. The three characters with the most upvotes will make the team for their franchise

top row: main characters (ish)

second row: main/side characters

third row: villain/enemies

fourth row: donkey kong + birdo

fifth row: mario side franchises (yoshi, warioware, 2 rpgs, kart)

This is the same idea as Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, where it's a fighting game crossover featuring many series from a manga publishing imprint.

But instead of Weekly Shonen Jump or Dengeki Bunko, here we have Square Enix's own Gangan imprint, which houses series such as Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, and more. Also including some series that started as light novels under other companies, but the manga was published by SE and Gangan, so series like Goblin Slayer and Durarara count for this.

And also just like Dengeki Bunko, the publishing company gets 2 guest fighters included in the roster, and I think I chose two that fit the vibe of a fighter without being too obvious, like how DB was.

All in all giving us a total of 36 characters between base and DLC, and assist characters would also be present for this, but I didn't get around to finishing them. Hope you like this, and please let me know what you think. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Thanks for reading.

This has been a long term project of mine that I'm relieved to finally see through - the goal was to represent animation as a medium as best as possible. The characters here are sorted by their animated debut appearance, even if they're using a much later design, and if there's anyone you do not recognize (almost definitely true, since I had to do a ton of research myself to populate this roster) you can reference this handy spreadsheet listing each character's name, debut appearance, debut year, and current rightsholders (to the best of my research capabilities, let me know if you spy anything inaccurate.)

Characters were chosen under the following rules and guidelines:

1. Appearing in an animated work. Animation is a very broad category, including hand-drawn, computer-generated, stop-motion, 2d and 3d, flash and indie, and tons of other niche ways of making fictional characters move around. 1a. For the purposes of this roster, I did not count any video games, despite every video game character being animated in some way I simply felt it would balloon the roster too big to have to consider the full history of gaming as well as the full history of animation. 1b. I also did not count any live or real-time puppetry. Whether or not you can call Kermit the Frog an animated character (outside of animated stuff like Muppet Babies) is a really interesting debate and I think ultimately I think there's very little difference conceptually between operating a puppet in real time and recording it for a film and carefully moving a puppet frame by frame to create the illusion of motion when played back, but for this roster's purposes, I once again felt it appropriate to limit my scope.
2. A given franchise may only receive a maximum of two fighters, to ensure a large variety across different creators, companies, and IP. 2a. Special exceptions were made for just a few broader multiverse-style IPs that have a tremendously large impact in animation, i.e. the Mouse/Duckverse at the core of Disney's brand, the Looney Tunes-iverse, and the Marvel and DC slate of interconnected franchises. Within these, however, an effort was made to adhere to rule 2 within sub-franchises - for example, DuckTales is represented with Scrooge and Magica, X-Men is represented with Storm and Morph, and Teen Titans is represented with Raven and Beast Boy.
3. Selecting IPs and characters within IPs to represent and include came down to a number of factors including: my own personal bias, impact on the animation genre and industry, representation from specific regions, representation of specific animated tropes, workability for a fighting game, unique and interesting animated qualities to showcase (ie Genie has more going on visually than Aladdin, so he gets the nod), the bias of my friends who influenced this roster, general popularity, and being funny.

Animation is incredibly broad so I know there's always tons more to include. I'd be interested in hearing what you all want to see, I'd be interested in hearing what characters you all got excited to see on this roster, and I'd love to hear if any of the choices I made in making this roster or roster graphic got a chuckle out of you!

And ding-ding-ding, that's the bell to end Round 21! Sorry, couldn't help but make a boxing reference. Anyway yeah, Mac will be joined by Doc Louis and King Hippo. A little surprised by this, but not all that much. I kinda figured that it would be a four person race with Glass Joe coming in somewhere. Also, before I go any further, I want to give art credit where it's due. In this case, the model of SNES Little Mac comes from JoeAdock over on DeviantArt, and you can find the render of the art here: https://www.deviantart.com/joeadok/art/That-you-Mac-379676096

Now that I've done my due diligence, it's time we move on to Pac-Man. However, since Pac-Man clearly doesn't just represent himself in Smash, I am going to make a judgement call and open up the voting to any-and-all Namco arcade reps...except for Tekken. Tekken gets its own spot later on. Every other Namco Arcade game is fair game. This one should be a fun one to see who gets nominated, let alone who wins this one. Let's see what you guys can do.

As a reminder, the rules:

1. Only characters that originate from the games of the franchise for the day (in this case, Pac-Man and Namco arcade games), but the characters don't have to have been playable in an official Smash Bros. game
2. No downvoting
3. You can choose either a team of three or an individual character, but only one submission per person on each day
4. All votes to a team will count as the three characters in that team getting a vote
5. The three characters with the most upvotes will make the team for their franchise

Somewhat updated it a bit awhile back

Thoughts and who would you main?

Franchises:

Sonic = Mario

Wreck It Ralph = Donkey Kong

Multiverse Tales = Legend of Zelda

Emperor’s New Groove = Metroid

Jurassic Park = Yoshi,

My Singing Monsters = Kirby

Zootopia = StarFox

Marvel = Pokemon

Bayonetta = Earthbound

Conker = F-Zero

Key and Peele = Ice Climber

Power Rangers = Fire Emblem

Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja = Game and Watch

Ben 10 = Kid Icarus

Shrek = Warioware

Mario = Metal Gear

Ninjago = Sonic

Smiling Friends = Pikmin

Halo = R.O.B.

Ichi the Witch = Animal Crossing

Alien = Megaman

Tank Girl = Wii Fit

FLCL = Punch-Out!

Family Guy = Pac-Man

SML = Xenoblade

Banjo-Kazooie = Duck Hunt

Killer Instinct = Street Fighter

Star Wars = Final Fantasy

Dandadan = Bayonetta

Mouse P.I. For Hire = Splatoon

Phineas and Ferb = Castlevania

DC = Persona

Record of Ragnarök = Dragon Quest

Men In Black = Banjo-Kazooie

Skylanders = Fatal Fury

Invincible = Arms

Super Sentai = Minecraft

Darkstalkers = Tekken

SMG4 = Kingdom Hearts

Bonelab = Mii

This took some time to get right, still feel like it get could look even better. Hope yall like it, let me know yr thougts on the roster/design

Okay I decided to make a roster dedicated to some of my favourite women in all of fiction mostly due to some awkward stuff IRL mostly a mental health session where I revealed a few things that made my mom wanna blow a fuse due to what I have been looking at on The Internet and some accusations tossed at me by my own farther a couple weeks back that I am "Disrespectful to women" which is rich cause he's basically a predator as much as he doesn't want to admit it so I made a roster celebrating wine. With a 24 Character Base Roster and Two Seasons of DLC with a Heroes Vs Villians even if at least two of the Villians in DLC would be put on the Heroes side.

Just the Tokon concept of a fighting game built around teams of four applied to One Piece

Who should I include? What is yet to be represented? This is only a first draft, so I’m taking as much criticism as possible. I really want this to feel as “comprehensive” as possible, after all.