Super Smash Bros./Trivia

• Creator Backlash: While Sakurai is indeed proud of the work done on Melee, he regrets gearing it toward dedicated gamers, saying that it caused the accessibility level to go down.
• Development Gag: Brawl Shiek.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The most relevant in competitive play is "shine," the down-special move of Fox and Falco. It's considered the best move in Melee. This term is much more accepted in the community because it implies its usage as an attack, rather than as a reflector (the official name).
  • Randall, the cloud from Melee Yoshi's Story, is considered the god of fate in competitive play. Expect to see a lot of incredible wins and defeats thanks to him.
  • Captain Falcon's KNEE OF JUSTICE!!!
  • Peach's vegetables are known as "turnips" in the competitive community.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Nobuyuki Hiyama, Hikaru Midorikawa, and Jun Fukuyama voice the three main swordsmen (Link, Marth, and Roy, respectively) in Melee.
  • So the three of them have been around giant robots, eh?
    • Especially Hikaru Midorikawa.
  • Pit's Japanese voice is Minami Takayama, AKA Detective Conan.
  • Naturally, David Hayter, Christopher Randolph, Paul Eiding, Rob Paulsen and Kim Mai Guest reprising their Metal Gear Solid roles.
  • Lucas (and Pit in the English version) is voiced by Lani Minella, known as the current Ivy and the former (Pre-Shadow the Hedgehog) Rouge the Bat (the latter role makes it quite amusing considering Sonic's presence). Also Luke in the American dub of Professor Layton.
  • Vegeta voices Captain Falcon. So his Falcon Punch's power level must be OVER 9000 8000!!!
  • The reason why the Ice Climbers are so strong: Popo is really Allen Walker and Nana is really Lucy.
  • And if you at all find the announcer in Brawl's voice familiar, chances are you watched Bill Nye as a kid since that's Pat Cashman, announcer for Bill Nye and the Seattle-only Almost Live.
  • The voice over in the commercial for the original game (linked above) is none other than Mr. Movie Trailer himself, the late great Don LaFontaine.
  • Famously, Sakurai himself voiced King Dedede.
  • Zero Suit Samus is also the second Carmelita Fox, as well as Krystal. She's also famous for being the facial/body model for Alma Wade, Chell, and (the original) Zoey.
  • Meta Knight's Japanese voice actor is the same one as in the anime.
• Marth Debuted in Smash Bros: The Trope Namer. Marth's debut game (technically a remake thereof) did not appear in American and European markets until 2010, almost nine years after his first exposure to Western audiences. Lip's Stick also has yet to be seen in its natural habitat.
• What Could Have Been:
  • 64 was going to be an original fighting game by the name "Dragon King" with generic characters. Sakurai, knowing that fighting games at the time did not sell very well, had the idea of using Nintendo characters. The rest is history.
    • Captain Falcon's moveset originates from this stage of development.
  • Pit was considered for both 64 (replaced by Jigglypuff) and Melee. (replaced by the Ice Climbers)
  • Characters were cut from Brawl's line-up, such as Toon Zelda and Toon Sheik.
  • According to Wikipedia, Snake was requested to be in Melee by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, but the game was already more than halfway finished.
  • There were plans to include real time damage in Brawl as well, with characters looking noticeably damaged if they received too much of a beatdown. Captain Falcon's helmet would become chipped, and Meta Knight's mask would have started to crack.
  • Melee had Ditto as a Poké Ball Pokémon. It would copy the summoner and attack everyone else. It was taken out because it crashed the console.
  • Interestingly enough Final Smashes were supposed to exist as far back as the original N64 game in the series apparently voice clips were recorded for them in the N64 version which were left unused along with left over data in the game of the final smashes which were also left unused, the concept was held off and not revived until Brawl for one reason or another.
• The Wiki Rule: Smashpedia and SmashWiki.