A character they want to replace will be replaced by the character they want to replace them with.

Don't say something won't happen. That's not something you know.

True,you will never know what this guys are going to do with the game.

I hope that megaman gets no voice. And if he gets the same/similar voice to the one in Crusade,i'm gonna make a cross in his character slot in my television with a black marker

They're making him as NES-like as possible. I doubt he'll be voiced.

Okay well yes the man can do what he feels like with the roster, but assuming he maintains conventions set up by the past three entries, it is very unlikely that an awakening rep will replace ike.

Then who'll replace Ike?

If you think he's going to stay in the game, you're just as delusional as the people who think Roy will return. There's obviously going to be an Awakening character in the game. If they're not going to replace Ike, who is?

It probably will be whomever can fit the slower, more powerful character to contrast Marth (assuming he stays) since thats what Roy and Ike essentially were to Marth.

Doesnt really answer the question, but yeah who else is there?

To be fair, Ike (to my knowledge) was the first Fire Emblem Lord to be modeled in 3D (Excluding Marth and Roy in Melee), so he's a rather pivotal character to the series in that way. On that basis I wouldn't expect him to be replaced.

I don't think that's a good reason for somebody staying at all.

I think that Ganon might actually make a good replacement for Ike. Everyone b**** about him not using a sword and he fits the slow, heavy type. I still don't get why Ike is slow in Brawl when his speed stat is good in the game he's from.

Why are we assuming Ike is getting replaced?

It's possible Fire Emblem will get more representation.

Because he replaced Roy and because there are Fire Emblem characters more popular than Ike.

Also, I doubt Sakurai would want to add more reps for already added series considering how Sakurai has said before that he doesn't want to just add more characters "willy-nilly."

It wouldn't be willy-nilly, as Fire Emblem is popular worldwide now, instead of just having Japan releases.

Being more popular doesn't necessarily mean they get more characters. Pokemon's as popular as ever, yet the game is still probably going to have only four reps for that series.

Cause four's the limit if the other series have anything to say about it. There's only been four Mario characters, not counting the spin offs.

And Pokemon has by far the most overall. It has Pikachu and Jiggly in 64, Pichu and Mewtwo in Melee, and PT and Lucario in Brawl, and that's not even counting the Pokeballs. Representing isn't only in the playable characters.

Four playables per game is the max, regardless of popularity.

In the other games. Prove to me that they won't change that in SSB4.

Oh wait, you can't. You're not working on the game. Shut the f*** up and stop acting like something's set in stone just because it was like that in the other games.

Especially when it's completely wrong, since Mario had five reps in Melee. Whine all you want about Dr. Mario being a clone, he was still counted as a Mario rep.