Awesome!

YES OMG! One of my mains is back!!
Cannot wait to play as Ike this summer!

Wow... No twitter message or anything? I think the suddenly manlier-than-Snake Ike just dropped the mic...

Anyone else still hoping for Chrom or Lucina? I would rather have Lucina then Chrom.

Also guys if Mewtwo does return and he receives an english voice. Which one would you rather have; The male voice from the original Mewtwo or the female voice from the new Mewtwo?

guys no amount of photoshop will trick me ike is deconfirmed it is because of how smash games work they always bring in the newest lord and take out the previous one

They could always make Chrom or Lucina an Alt.

Didn't we already go over this just a few days ago?

Oh my god Ike looks FANTASTIC

I was a little worried about him personally, but I'm so glad he's back. Time to go tell all the dumb s*** who said "Ike's definitely not returning!!! M-muh patterns!!" to eat s***

Honestly, I'm surprised we got a reveal. With the big chunk in April and the (presumably) big chunk at E3, I wasn't expecting anyone in between.

Still, though. He looks so goddamn good. Can't wait to play as that f***.

Holy crap Ike's back! Hype level has increased, dramatically!

Yeah, that would destroy the uniqueness of both characters. Chrom and Ike are entirely different.

My thought pattern on Ike's return for his reveal was that if Lucario was in Brawl to promote his games and Ike was as well, Lucario and Ike had a strong chance of returning together because even as promo characters they brought new things to Smash that apparently the team doesn't want to omit this time around. Turns out I was on to something, but now considering other veterans...

Was Lucas Promo for Mother 3 though? It might not matter as much because he's like the last main protagonist from his series (and the only distringuishable one from the other two, Ninten might as well be a Ness color or alt), but that alone doesn't shoe him in. And Ness hasn't been revealed yet, so there's also a chance that neither of them will be revealed until launch.
_{I guess only time will tell. Or a legit leak.}

So, talking the rest of the Brawl veterans. The rest of the space animals are a mystery right now, Jigglypuff, Game and Watch and ROB haven't been mentioned, and Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Snake are practically deconfirmed, right?

But Roy was in Melee for promotion purposes though...

There is no reason at all to believe this, although his odds aren't looking great

AWWWWW YEA two. Of Mains are in all we need is falcon and I'm set

Marth mascot of the serie
Roy added to promote FE6
Eliwood could be Roy's alt
Hector As much as I'd like, I don't think he will since Lyn is an AT
Lyn An AT
Ephraim & Eirika both main characters of FE8
Sigurd This is how I can see it happening: Ephraim and Sigurd could Alt each other if one gets added
Ike added to promote FE9-10 (returned)
Chrom Added because of FE11
Lucina could be an alt for Chrom
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That makes:
Marth
Roy - Eliwood
Chrom - Lucina
Ephraim - Sigurd (Sigurd - Ephraim)
Ike
5 characters added 3 alt. Could work, no? Or we can remove my love for Ephraim and make it 4 characters

OMG we already talked about adding other characters as alt for other characters.