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''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' features twenty-six playable characters; of which 15 are available initially (more than doubling the number of characters in its predecessor). <!--Yes. There are twenty-six playable characters. Sheik separate from Zelda, she is a full character according to the official site http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/0222/character.html. In fact, she is a full character in all games even in Melee and Brawl; despite being a transformation of Zelda in both Melee and Brawl.--> Altogether, 15 characters are [[starter character]]s and 11 are [[unlockable character]]s). There are also twenty-nine playable stages (however, 18 stages are [[starter stage]]s and 11 are [[unlockable stage]]s). It introduced two new single-player modes alongside the {{SSBM|Classic Mode}}; [[Adventure]] (which is an enhanced reissue of [[1P Game]] which didn't return proper in ''Melee'') and [[All Star]]. ''Adventure'' has platforming segments similar to the original's "Race to the Finish" minigame, and ''All-Star'' is a fight against every playable character in the game, allows the player only one life in which damage is accumulated over each battle, and the character is allowed to use only three recovery items which heal all taken damage in between battles. There are also significantly more multiplayer modes and a tournament mode allowing for 64 different competitors whom can all be controlled by a human player, although only up to four players can participate at the same time. Additionally, the game featured alternative battle modes, called "Special Melee," which involve some sort of alteration to the battle (ex: all characters are giant by default, players may only use their jump and standard attack buttons, etc.), along with alternative ways to judge a victory, such as through collecting coins throughout the match.

In place of ''Super Smash Bros.''' character profiles, ''Melee'' introduced trophies (called "figures" in the Japanese version). The two hundred and ninety-three trophies include three different profiles for each playable character, one unlocked in each single-player mode. In addition, unlike its predecessor, ''Melee'' contains profiles for many Nintendo characters who are either non-playable or do not appear in the game, as well as Nintendo items, stages, enemies, and elements.

Although a third ''Super Smash Bros.'' game had been announced long before E3 2006, Nintendo unveiled its first information in the form of a trailer on May 10, 2006, and the game was named ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. The trailer featured [[Solid Snake]], of {{s|wikipedia|Konami}}'s {{uv|Metal Gear}} fame, marking the first time that a third-party character had been introduced as a playable character in a ''Super Smash Bros.'' title. A second third-party character, [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], from Nintendo's former rival {{s|wikipedia|Sega}} was also confirmed as a playable character on October 10, 2007. ''Brawl'' is also the first game in the franchise to support online play via the [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smashbros.com/wii/en_us/gamemode/wi-fi/wi-fi01.html|title=Wi-Fi Play|accessdate=2007-09-18|date=2007-09-18|work=Smash Bros. DOJO!!|publisher=Smashbros.com}}</ref>

[[File:SSBU time battle.jpg|thumb|200px|{{SSBU|Diddy Kong}}, {{SSBU|Mega Man}}, {{SSBU|Toon Link}}, and {{SSBU|Inkling}} playing on Green Greens in ''Ultimate''.]]

During E3 2018, the title for the next game, ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', was announced alongside several details, including its character roster which includes all characters in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, along with Inkling and [[Ridley]] as newcomers, and [[Princess Daisy|Daisy]] as an Echo Fighter of Peach. During the ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' Direct on August 8th, [[Simon Belmont]] and his descendant [[Richter Belmont|Richter]] of ''Castlevania'' fame were both announced as new playable fighters, along with [[Dark Samus]] and [[Chrom]] as Echo Fighters and Donkey Kong's arch-enemy, [[King K. Rool]]. Isabelle from ''Animal Crossing'', who appeared in the previous game as an Assist Trophy, was revealed as a playable fighter at the close of the September 2018 Nintendo Direct, along with a teaser for a brand new entry in the ''Animal Crossing'' series on the Switch in 2019. In the second ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' Direct on November 1st, [[Ken Masters]] and [[Incineroar]] were announced as the final fighters to complete the base roster along with the new [[Spirits (menu)|Spirits]] mode, a new story called [[World of Light]], a [[Piranha Plant]] as a DLC fighter and the [[Fighters Pass]] Vol. 1, which includes five fighters, five stages and extra music tracks as DLC. The first character of this Fighters Pass Vol. 1 was revealed to be [[Joker]], the main protagonist from ''Persona 5'', at {{s|wikipedia|The Game Awards 2018}}.

Piranha Plant was released as the first DLC fighter, free to those who had registered the game on My Nintendo before the end of January 2019. Joker was the first Fighters Pass Vol.1 character to be released in April 2019. Subsequent DLC announcements occurred at E3 2019: the [[Hero]] from ''Dragon Quest'', released late July of 2019, and [[Banjo]] & [[Kazooie]], who were released in September 2019. The same month Banjo & Kazooie were released, [[Terry]] from the ''Fatal Fury'' series was announced as the fourth DLC fighter, and was released in November 2019. That same month, it was announced that more DLC characters would join the roster, but undergoing development. In January 2020, [[Byleth]] from ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' was announced as the fifth and last Fighters Pass Vol. 1 character, and was released later that same month. It was also revealed that another Fighters Pass would be released, under the title of Fighters Pass Vol. 2, and it would contain six characters: [[Min Min]] from ''[[ARMS]]'', who was announced in March 2020, and was fully revealed/released in June 2020, [[Steve]] from ''[[Minecraft]]'', who was announced in October 2020, and four currently unknown characters.

There are currently 82 (if Pokémon Trainer's Pokémon count as three characters, and Mii fighters count at three characters) known playable characters in total. ''Smash 64'' has 12, ''Melee'' has 26 (if Sheik is put separate from Zelda), ''Brawl'' has 39 (if Zero Suit Samus and Sheik are put separate from Samus and Zelda, respectively, and the Pokémon Trainer's Pokémon count as three characters), and ''Smash 4'' has 58 (51 on disc and 7 downloadable), almost five times the amount in ''Smash 64''. ''Ultimate'' uniquely brings back all of the characters from past games, as well as 15 newcomers (with four more confirmed to be revealed in the future). However, without counting [[DLC]], Ultimate has 74 playable characters (counting Pokémon Trainer as one character) and like in Smash 4, Samus, Zero Suit Samus, Zelda, and Sheik are all separate characters (so Samus can no longer transform into Zero Suit Samus; while Zelda can no longer transform into Sheik). Many of the characters are available from the start, but some are unlockable, meaning certain conditions must be met before they can be played as.

|[[Peach]]||align="center"|{{Head|Peach|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||||[[Peach (SSBM)|Starter]]||[[Peach (SSBB)|Starter]]||colspan=2|[[Peach (SSB4)|Starter]]||[[Peach (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Daisy]]||align="center"|{{Head|Daisy|g=SSBU|s=30px}}|||||| ||colspan=2| ||[[Daisy (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Zelda]]||align="center"|{{head|Zelda|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||||[[Zelda (SSBM)|Starter]]||[[Zelda (SSBB)|Starter]]||colspan=2|[[Zelda (SSB4)|Starter]]||[[Zelda (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Samus]]||align="center"|{{Head|Samus|g=SSBU|s=30px}}

|[[Fox]]||align="center"|{{Head|Fox|g=SSBU|s=30px}}

|[[Falco]]||align="center"|{{Head|Falco|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||||[[Falco (SSBM)|Unlockable]]||[[Falco (SSBB)|Unlockable]]||colspan=2|[[Falco (SSB4)|Unlockable]]||[[Falco (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Wolf]]||align="center"|{{Head|Wolf|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||||||[[Wolf (SSBB)|Unlockable]] ||colspan=2| ||[[Wolf (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Olimar]]||align="center"|{{head|Olimar|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||{{uv|Pikmin}}||{{symbol|Pikmin}}||||||[[Olimar (SSBB)|Starter]]||colspan=2|[[Olimar (SSB4)|Starter]]||[[Olimar (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Snake]]||align="center"|{{Head|Snake|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||{{uv|Metal Gear}}||{{symbol|MetalGear}}||||||[[Snake (SSBB)|Unlockable]] ||colspan=2| ||[[Snake (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Sonic]]||align="center"|{{Head|Sonic|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||{{uv|Sonic the Hedgehog}}||{{symbol|Sonic}}||||||[[Sonic (SSBB)|Unlockable]]||colspan=2|[[Sonic (SSB4)|Starter]]||[[Sonic (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Ken]]||align="center"|{{head|Ken|g=SSBU|s=30px}}|||||| ||colspan=2| ||[[Ken (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Cloud]]||align="center"|{{head|Cloud|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||{{uv|Final Fantasy}}||{{symbol|FinalFantasy}}||||||||colspan=2|[[Cloud (SSB4)|Downloadable]]||[[Cloud (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Simon]]||align="center"|{{head|Simon|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||rowspan=2|{{uv|Castlevania}}||rowspan=2|{{symbol|Castlevania}}|||||| ||colspan=2| ||[[Simon (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Richter]]||align="center"|{{head|Richter|g=SSBU|s=30px}}|||||| ||colspan=2| ||[[Richter (SSBU)|Unlockable]]

|[[Terry]]||align="center"|{{head|Terry|g=SSBU|s=30px}}||{{uv|Fatal Fury}}||{{symbol|fatalfury}}||||||||colspan=2| ||[[Terry (SSBU)|Downloadable]]

''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' adds new bosses that show up at the end of {{SSBU|Classic Mode}} and in the [[World of Light]] mode, such as [[Marx]], [[Rathalos]], and [[Ganon]]. There are also several returning bosses, including [[Master Hand]], [[Crazy Hand]], [[Galleom]] and [[Giga Bowser]].  

Finally, there are the two main antagonists of '''[[World of Light]]''', [[Galeem]] and [[Dharkon]].  

====Fighting Generic Teams====

{{main|Fighting Polygon Team|Fighting Wire Frames|Fighting Alloy Team}}

'''Fighting Polygons''' (or "the Fighting Polygon Team") are metallic-looking purple clones of playable characters made completely out of crude polygons in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. 64]]''. The next to last level in the game contains 30 of these clones of existing ''Smash 64'' characters. They use near-perfect models as their character-counterparts with minute changes to their anatomy, and with a purple texture. In ''Smash Bros. Melee'', the Fighting Polygons are replaced by the '''Fighting Wire Frames'''. Unlike the original game, there are only two types of Fighting Wire Frames (Male and Female) as opposed to a Polygon corresponding to each individual character base. The only distinct characteristics Fighting Wire Frames have is that there is a Heart inside their chest and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' symbol where their face should be. Both the male and female Fighting Wire Frames possess these. Male and Female Wire Frames have the frame and gait of Captain Falcon and Zelda, respectively. Both models lack special moves. In ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', the '''Fighting Alloy Team''' supersedes both other teams and come in four colors, shapes, and sizes. In ''Smash Bros 4'' however, they were replaced by [[Mii Fighter (SSB4)|''Fighting Mii Teams'']]. They wear a black shirt that has the letter M, instead of a crudely made model of another character. There are [[Mii Brawler|three]] [[Mii Swordfighter|different]] [[Mii Gunner|types]] of Fighting Mii Team members.

[[File:Sandbag Spirit.png|thumb|200px|Sandbag]]