For the sake of --Okay goddammit can we stop judging size as a factor in their appearance in a game? It. Can. Be. Modified. Whether they're bigger than the screen you see them on or 2 to 3 times as tall as the person they fight. Or they're the size of a GAMECUBE DISC IN THEIR ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION.

Whew. There we go.

Now, with that said... I agree with Tid. Palutena's absence from Pit's FS means something. And maybe that trophy tease thing in the Direct. I dunno what her moveset would be, but I'm eager to see what they could cook up.

Ans speaking of Trophy, Magnus could make a deadly AT. Like, Lyn deadly.

I remember someone talking about scale, but yes, they can be resized. For example; Wario's model is shorter than Mario, for some odd reason.

Also, would the absence of Waddle Dee from Dedede's moveset also apply to Bandana Waddle Dee? If so, then he's lasted longer than Ridley and Waluigi.

resizing stuff so that it works is fine MOST of the time. olimar it's fine because in pikmin olimar is normal size relative to the gameplay, and his surroundings are huge to let us know that we're just seeing the whole world on a different scale. by upscaling olimar in smashbros to be only a little shorter than everyone else in the game it's keeping it consistent with the olimar we know and have played as in his games. hades is this gigantic elaborately designed deity that we fly all around as we fight, and even fight inside of for one level in kid icarus uprising. he's this big colossal presence and he'd look completely stupid if he was shrunk down to be a reasonable smashbros character height. it's exactly the same as ridley. i know full well 'it can be modified' and so does everyone else here, but that doesn't mean it should be.

that's like saying kraid would look fine as a playable character if you just made him smaller. and if anyone posts a picture of minikraid i swear to god

and if you're going to post NES Ridley know that a) Zero Mission is canon, not Metroid and b) you're very desperate

and also for the record i would LOVE for hades to be some kind of over the top assist trophy or a background character in a stage because i really f*** love hades, he was easily one of my favourite characters in the game.

same goes for kraid who is an unsung hero

Kraid was already in Brinstar Depths though

you can never have an over-representation of kraid

I do agree that if he isn't a character I am 200000% all for a Hades stage where he taunts the players

But I'd much rather he taunt the players while he kicks the s*** out of them

tell that to retro ;_;

We've been over the Ridley argument over and over again, but can no one really see Ridley as playable as he appeared in the Melee opening? What was weird about that, besides his downsizing? He looked great.

A Hades stage would be great, but I feel it'd be underwhelming if there were no extremely dangerous hazards on it. Which would probably keep it from being a commonly picked stage, like Brinstar Depths' fate.

Just use Mini-Kraid.

Ridley has been deconfirmed, so it doesn't matter, although
I've seen way too many people who keep saying 'until I get confirmation he's still plausible'

He didn't have a tail.

it's called perspective, he looked fine there but at that size he would've looked silly standing next to samus on final destination