List of Super Smash Bros. references in other franchises
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As the Super Smash Bros. series is a crossover of numerous existing Nintendo properties, some of the properties represented have since made references to the series in their "native" media. This is a list of all known references to Super Smash Bros. outside of the series itself.
Represented franchises
These are references from franchises directly represented in Smash.
General
- Arguably, any game with support from the Super Smash Bros. line of amiibo references Smash to some degree due to its roster affecting the availability of a character as an amiibo. This is especially true for those with specific functions only available from Smash amiibo. For instance, some amiibo-based Yoshi designs in Yoshi's Woolly World, such as those based on characters like Shulk or Sonic the Hedgehog, are only possible with their Smash amiibo. A full list of games compatible with Smash amiibo can be found here.
Animal Crossing
- In Animal Crossing, some of the codes that the player can give to Tom Nook in exchange for items are altered versions of Nintendo game titles. A few of these codes are based on the title "Super Smash Bros.", such as "MupersmaspbnoS SupersmashbroS" for the Ponderosa Bonsai. A full list of codes can be found here.
- In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the player can win prizes by redeeming fortunes they receive from a fortune cookie. These prizes are items and clothing from other Nintendo games, and if the player wins the Blue Falcon furniture item, the fortune reads "When all else fails, never forget to show them your moves." in reference to Captain Falcon's infamous taunt in the Super Smash Bros. series.
Donkey Kong
- The opening theme to Melee, the Melee arrangement of Rainbow Cruise, and the Melee arrangement of the DK Rap are available tracks in the PAL release of Donkey Konga. The opening theme for Melee also appears in the Japan-only Donkey Konga 3: Tabehōdai! Haru Mogitate 50 Kyoku.
F-Zero
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Captain Falcon performs the Falcon Punch on Black Shadow in F-Zero: GP Legend.
- Captain Falcon used his Smash Bros.-originated Falcon Punch ability in the F-Zero: GP Legend anime, as seen in his final showdown against Black Shadow.
- While not performed in-game, the Falcon Punch was later referenced in a line from the credits music of F-Zero GX.
- Captain Falcon's pose in his artwork for F-Zero GX is similar to his taunt in Melee.
Fire Emblem
- A pack of downloadable missions in Fire Emblem: Awakening is entitled Smash Brethren, and pits Chrom in battles with two of Fire Emblem's three known Smash Bros. representatives at the time, Roy and Ike. The third - Marth - is absent in this pack, although he makes appearances in other downloadable missions, and his character is an important aspect of Awakening's mythos, with many characters referencing the character's backstory and personality and Lucina going under his name to hide her identity.
- The four playable Fire Emblem characters from the base release of SSB4 are available in Fire Emblem Fates as recruitable units by scanning their amiibo. In Fates, there are some references to their Smash appearances, such as Robin's starting weapon being a Thoron tome[1]; while said tome was one of many weapons Robin could equip in Awakening, it is prominently used by him in Smash. The characters' dialogue also reflects their experiences in Smash in the context of fighting opponents from around the world.[2]
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Official artwork of Roy from Fire Emblem: Awakening.
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Official artwork of Ike from Fire Emblem: Awakening.
Official artwork of Marth from Fire Emblem: Awakening.
Kid Icarus
- Pit and Lady Palutena's appearances in Kid Icarus: Uprising are lifted directly from their designs in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Pit's bifurcated bow from Brawl also appears in-game as the Bow-type weapon Palutena's Bow (in fact, all bow-type weapons can be split for melee attacks), and Dark Pit himself is based directly upon Pit's black palette swap from Brawl. In addition, multiple direct references are made to the Super Smash Bros. series in the game - Brawl itself in particular - as the game often breaks the fourth wall.
- In the Japanese version of the game, both Pit and Palutena stop in the middle of the tutorial to start up a copy of Brawl. The Brawl character select menu appears on-screen, with Pit choosing Mario and Palutena choosing Kirby. They decide against the idea before actually starting a match, however, and resume the tutorial.
- In the English version, the instruction of tapping the Circle Pad to dash makes Pit remark that the technique feels familiar. Palutena claims the technique is akin to a game called "Super Bash Sisters", before Pit corrects her, explicitly name-dropping the series as seen above.
- When using a Bow-type weapon, a conversation will sometimes start up where Pit mentions using a bow "in the last brawl" and that "it was a smash". Palutena claims she cannot imagine him "in a melee", to which Pit replies that he was not.
Kirby
in Dream Land (left) and Kirby Super Star Ultra (right)
- In Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, when Kirby defeats a boss, he says "hi", using the same voice clip that Super Smash Bros. used one year prior. Kirby first said "hi" as his taunt in Smash Bros..
- In Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, both Master Hand and Crazy Hand make appearances as the bosses of the Candy Constellation area. Inhaling either of them will grant Kirby the Smash copy ability, which is a rough approximation of how he plays in the Super Smash Bros. series by pulling moves from other copy abilities that contributed to his Smash Bros. movesets. This move can also be obtained randomly by swallowing multiple enemies at once. Visually, Kirby is identical to his default non-ability appearance, as it is how he normally appears in Smash Bros.
- The ability returns in the Kirby's Dream Collection anniversary compilation, in two of the game's original challenge stages using the engine from Kirby's Return to Dream Land. These two stages are based entirely around navigation and combat with the ability, which is the only one available. The Super Smash Bros. logo can be seen on the background tiles of the stages.
- Elements of the visual design of the Fountain of Dreams stage in Melee were incorporated into its appearance in Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, and the design was used more fully in Kirby Super Star Ultra and Kirby Fighters Deluxe. The Melee stage's arrangement of the Gourmet Race theme was used in both Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land and Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
Mario
- While arguably not explicitly references, several special moves invented for Melee have gone on to become used in Mario games:
- Before Melee, Yoshi had only been seen turning into an egg against his will or in response to a Super Star or Turbo Tulip. Upon the Egg Roll being introduced, self-egging became a staple ability of all Yoshis, seeing appearances in Mario Power Tennis and Mario Strikers Charged.
- Before Melee, Bowser had never used his shell as a weapon like other Koopas (save for the third-party game Mario's Time Machine). With the introduction of the Whirling Fortress, shell maneuvers are now a common part of Bowser's arsenal, seeing use in Mario Power Tennis, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Bowser's Inside Story.
- In the Spanish translation of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, one of Rawk Hawk's lines telling weaklings to "stick to video-game fighting" has been changed to "stay home playing Super Smash Bros. Melee". [5]
- Two of the Mystery House stages in Super Mario 3D World have the goal of defeating every enemy to advance; their English titles are Mystery House Melee and Mystery House Brawl.
- The Mario Kart 8 DLC pack The Legend of Zelda x Mario Kart 8 contains Mute City, a course based on the F-Zero series. A screen in that course depicts Captain Falcon alongside the quote "Show me your moves!", a line originating from his taunt in the Smash series.
Metal Gear
- In Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, the enhanced GameCube port of Metal Gear Solid, a character and boss in the game, Psycho Mantis, claims to have the ability to read minds. In addition to detecting the player's inputs and forcibly rumbling the player's controller, he will also comment on save data found in the same memory card; Psycho Mantis has unique dialogue if Melee's save data is detected. Notably, this reference was made before Metal Gear was actually represented in Smash Bros., although Snake was considered for Melee.
- The Brawl remix MGS4 ~Theme of Love~ Smash Bros. Brawl Version appears as a track in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots on Snake's in-game iPod, under the title "Love Theme (Action Version)".
Metroid
- In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, bumper stickers can appear on Samus's Gunship depending on save data on the same Wii. If save data from Brawl is present, a sticker of the Super Smash Bros. logo can appear.
- In Metroid: Other M, one of Ridley's techniques is to replicate his wall scraping attack from his appearance in The Subspace Emissary.
- The Paralyzer was simply known as a "rather useless emergency pistol" in its debut in Metroid: Zero Mission. However, in Other M, it takes on the "Paralyzer" name from Brawl.
Pikmin
- In The Night Juicer, one of the Pikmin Short Movies, a picture on Captain Olimar's bulletin board depicts his Brawl model standing in front of the Hocotate Ship.
Pokémon
- An event distribution based on the Greninja that appears in Super Smash Bros. 4 was available for Japanese players to download to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire via serial code if they registered both that game and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS with Club Nintendo during the end of 2014 into early 2015. The Greninja knows its four special moves from Smash, Water Shuriken, Shadow Sneak, Hydro Pump, and Substitute; it also has its rarer Hidden Ability, Protean. Its Original Trainer is named スマブラ (Smabura), an abbreviation of Smash Bros.
Star Fox
- In Star Fox Zero, the designs for members of Team Star Fox, including Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi, now include a small green screen over their right eye; this detail originates in Fox and Falco's Brawl and SSB4 designs, rather than previous Star Fox games. Other elements, such as a Reflector-like device on Fox's hip, also appear to be drawn from the Brawl-onward Smash design.
Fox's Star Fox: Command design.
Fox's Super Smash Bros. Brawl design.
Fox's Star Fox Zero design.
StreetPass Mii Plaza
- A Puzzle Swap panel based on "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U" was released in Japan in December 2014, and in Western regions in February 2015. The completed image depicts the starting roster. Viewing it will display character silhouettes of the starter characters moving towards the screen.
The Legend of Zelda
- The Zelda spinoff title Hyrule Warriors contains indirect references to Super Smash Bros. games:
- Princess Zelda's Special Technique when Focus Spirit is active involves using Nayru's Love, Farore's Wind, and Din's Fire in rapid succession. These spells from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were used by Link in their original appearance, with Super Smash Bros. Melee being the first game to give these spells to Zelda.
- One of Sheik's combos involves a spinning kick similar to her down smash in the Smash series, an action never previously seen in the Zelda series itself.
- Ganondorf's Ocarina of Time incarnation appears in a cutscene describing Cia's backstory wielding his sword from the SpaceWorld 2000 GameCube Tech Demo. The only released game in which Ganondorf was shown using this sword in any capacity was Melee, where it appeared in his official artwork, one of his victory poses and his All-Star trophy.
The Wonderful 101
- A minor Wonderful One named Wonder-Dancer has the tagline "SHOW ME YOUR MOVES!", a reference to Captain Falcon's recurring taunt in the Smash series.
Tomodachi
- R.O.B. appears as a treasure in Tomodachi Life; his description mentions his role as "an official Smash brawler".
Other franchises
Games
- Sony's PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is their own counterpart to the Super Smash Bros. series, as it is also a crossover fighting game featuring several of Sony's own franchises as well as third-party characters from Metal Gear, Bandai Namco and Capcom. The game's development team stated that Smash Bros. itself was one of their inspirations and the title is a direct reference to the series' Japanese name, Nintendo All-Star! Great Melee Smash Brothers.
- Another counterpart to the Super Smash Bros. series is Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion, featuring characters from several Cartoon Network shows. Several aspects from the Super Smash Bros. series, including the concept of Final Smashes and Assist Trophies, are featured in the game.
- The sixth annual Scream Fortress Halloween event for Valve Software's Team Fortress 2 introduces a set of bumper car mini-games with damage mechanics that work identically to those in Smash Bros.: players have a damage meter with a percentage that increases when hit and determines how much knockback they receive, with a major objective to knock the opponents out of the arena.
TF2's version of the damage meter, seen on the left - Dead Or Alive: Dimensions, developed by Team Ninja, has a Pyrosphere arena referencing the Ridley fight from Metroid: Other M, also developed by Team Ninja. This includes Ridley scraping fighters along the wall, which was a reference to Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary.
- One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X, developed by Bandai Namco, will include amiibo support to unlock costumes based on Nintendo characters. As the amiibo involved in unlocking such costumes are those of Super Smash Bros. 4 playable characters, there is official artwork of One Piece characters in matching poses in the appropriate costumes. This includes Luffy as Mario and Luigi, Zoro as Link, Sanji as Fox, Nami as Wii Fit Trainer, Franky as Donkey Kong, Brook as Marth, Chopper as Kirby, Usopp as Yoshi, and Nico Robin as Samus.[3][4]
- The game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is a four-player 2.5D fighting game, similar to the Super Smash Bros. series, features many customizable options for battles, also features life restauring and special abilities items and was developed by a Japanese game developer Game Arts, who had previously worked on Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and by several former members of Team Ninja.
- The indie game Brawlhalla, developed by Blue Mammoth Games and published by Xaviant Games, is a arena brawl game on PC that have an influence from the Super Smash Bros. series: the characters need to blast the opponents off the stage (which the characters will KO Explode), the use of items, etc.
Other Media
- As a promotion for Super Smash Bros. 4, American comic book company Archie Comics announced that variant covers for Issue 69 of Sonic Universe, Issue 42 of Mega Man, and Issue 266 of Sonic the Hedgehog would feature a triptych based on Smash 4. The three covers respectively feature Shadow the Hedgehog, Mega Man using his down smash and Sonic the Hedgehog on a variant of the Boxing Ring stage, with the Mega Man cover also featuring a lenticular cover as to allow it to appear 3D.
- Super Smash Bros. is referenced in a sketch in the 11th episode of Season 3 of MAD called "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus". Acting as a crossover between Super Smash Bros. and the children's book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, it featured several characters that from the Super Smash Bros. series, including Mega Man, and starred Pit and Kirby as unpopular high school students. At the end of the sketch, Pit and Kirby are challenged by Mega Man and his gang (comprised of Sonic, Pikachu, and Donkey Kong) to a battle. The basketball court that they initially appeared on is then uprooted and flies high in the air, resembling Brawl's Battlefield without the platforms. As with a regular Super Smash Bros. match, a narrator counts down from "3" and the fight ensues. Pit wins the fight by firing a single arrow and earns his desired popularity.
- In the Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa crossover episode "Say Uncle", Steven and Uncle Grandpa are seen playing an in-universe variation of Super Smash Bros. on Steven's Nintendo GameCube.
- The match itself is a crossover between Hopper and Tiny Miracle, two minor characters from Steven Universe and Uncle Grandpa respectively. It also uses several specific Super Smash Bros. elements such as perfect shielding, rolling and the behavior of the camera.
- The two continuities of the Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions franchise each have a different verbal mention of Super Smash Bros.:
- On pages 68-69 of the first volume of the light novel series, Yuuta and Rikka debate over the name of an otherwise unnamed video game, with Yuuta insisting that the game is called "Sumabura", a Japanese abbreviation of Smash Bros.
- In the original Japanese version of the fifth episode of the first season of the anime, at the 7:40 time stamp, Yuuta compares Rikka's embarassment at having inferior math skills to her "servant" Dekomori to being up at 300% damage in Smash Bros. The words "Smash Bros." are partially bleeped out from the dialog for copyright reasons. The English dub changes the Smash Bros. analogy to a generic analogy of a player losing all their lives in an arcade game at once.
- In chapter 114 of the manga Nisekoi, Ruri Miyamoto and her grandfather are seen playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl on a Wii with a GameCube controller look-alike; the match shown on the screen depicts a Meta Knight look-alike fighting Ganondorf on Final Destination.
- The season four finale of Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics, "Friendship Anniversary", sees the main trio of Adam, Blake, and Ders have their house infested by rats--whom they proceed to massacre. Blake sneaks up on one rat, screams "FALCON PUNCH!" and then punches it to death.
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