Opening movie

"Opening" redirects here. For the Melee track, see Music (SSBM).

The opening movie is a movie that is shown after Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, or Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is turned on.

Super Smash Bros.

The opening movie starts with Master Hand in a kid's room picking up toy versions of two random characters in SSB, which he places in a stage made of objects from the room. The puppets come to life and start a fight after Master Hand counts from three to one. Then, some shots of the starter characters appear and they start running. Link appears on a mountain, Pikachu rolls on a Poké Ball while a Pokémon Trainer passes by, a scene of Donkey Kong and Samus fighting appears, four Yoshis appear guarding some Yoshi eggs in a nest, the Great Fox, several Arwings, and Fox controlling the Great Fox are shown. After these shots, the starter characters bump into each other and a short scene of the four unlockable characters is shown. If a secret character is unlocked, they will be fully shown, but if they aren't unlocked, only the shadow of the character appears. Finally, the title screen appears as the announcer gives the game's name.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

The opening movie starts with a trophy of Mario that is thrown in the air by a hand. As soon as the trophy lands, Mario revives from it and faces Link. Pikachu and Kirby also join the battle. Then, a shot of Peach is shown and Mario performs some of his moves. After that, Bowser rises from a fire sea and then Donkey Kong is seen swinging through a jungle and Samus fights Ridley. Some shots of Link are shown with a moving backround with Zelda characters and many different coloured Yoshis pass by. Then, the Ice Climbers climb a ice mountain. Popo slips and almost falls off, but Nana saves him. After that, some gameplay shots are shown. Then, Sheik plays on a harp and Kirby flies around on a Warp Star. When Kirby disappears, an Arwing controlled by Fox and a Wolfen controlled by Wolf O'Donnell are fighting and Ness warps into Onett. Then, all Pokémon in Melee appear and Captain Falcon and Samurai Goroh are bumping into each other with their Blue Falcon and Fire Stingray and Goroh's vehicle explodes. Then, Bowser is hit by lightning and Mario, Peach, and Yoshi are standing next to him. Some shots of Melee characters are shown, the Great Fox, Falcon Flyer, and Samus' Gunship fly by, trophies of four fighters are blasted away by a Bob-omb, and the title screen appears while the announcer gives the game's name.

The music that plays during this opening movie is Opening.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Super Smash Bros. Brawl's intro is rather different from the prior two games. Instead of having an original clip, it instead uses scenes from the Subspace Emissary, along with a few selections of Vs. Mode matches.

The movie starts with a view of all the characters (except for Zero Suit Samus and Sheik) gazing at an "X" in the sky that was formerly the Isle of the Ancients. This also appears as the last scene in the SSE. This is followed by scenes of Mario, Link, Kirby, Pit, Zelda, Peach, Meta Knight, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Fox, and King Dedede. Then, a scene of Sheik in a VS match is shown, followed by Pikachu using its down smash on Bowser, Samus, and Lucas, followed by a VS match shot of Ike and a SSE shot of Zero Suit Samus and her Power Suit. After this comes SSE cutscenes of Wario, Olimar and his Red Pikmin, Yoshi, the Ice Climbers, Ness and Lucas, Pokémon Trainer, Lucas, and Bowser. The next series of clips shows Sonic, Snake, Wario, Lucas, the Ice Climbers, King Dedede, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Peach, Meta Knight in VS matches. This is followed by SSE cutscenes of Mario, Pit, Yoshi, Link, and Kirby, an Arwing flying towards the Halberd, Kirby and Zelda, The Great Maze being assembled, Charizard, Pokémon Trainer, and Lucas, as well as VS clips of Olimar and his Pikmin, Ivysaur attacking Pikachu with Pokémon Trainer in the background, Zero Suit Samus, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Mario picking up a Super Mushroom, Kirby, Fox, and Zelda brawling. The movie continues with SSE shots of Samus and Pikachu, Zelda, Diddy Kong, Ike, Squirtle and Pokémon Trainer, an Arwing flying towards the Halberd, Fox piloting, Kirby and Peach riding on a Warp Star, Bowser and his minions, Mario and Link dodging lasers fired by the Ancient Minister, Pit, Samus and Pikachu, Marth, Ike, and Meta Knight, and shots of the Halberd. The movie ends with the Title screen being shown.

The music that plays during this opening music is the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme.

Super Smash Bros. 4

The 3DS version of Smash 4 does not include an opening movie, but there is one in the Wii U version. It consists of footage from both gameplay, and the various character introduction trailers shown since the game's reveal, barring the one for Duck Hunt.

The music that plays during this opening cinematic is the Battlefield theme with a different intro.

Videos

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Gallery

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  A shot from the opening of Super Smash Bros.

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  A shot from the opening of Super Smash Bros. Melee

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  A shot from the opening of Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Trivia

• There is at least one unlockable character shown in each movie:
  • SSB: The four hidden characters appear as a flash near the end, in shadows if not unlocked.
  • Melee: Young Link and Ganondorf appear in the Ocarina of Time segment, and Jigglypuff and Pichu are in the Pokémon segment, additionally, Mewtwo's Shadow Ball can be seen in the gameplay segment.
  • Brawl: Not counting the lineup at the beginning, the clips shown contain Ness, Marth, Sonic, and Snake.
  • Smash for Wii U: Lucina appears in a clip from her and Robin's trailer.
• A part of the music for the opening movie for Super Smash Bros. is similar to the main theme of Star Fox 64.
• The opening in Brawl does not contain any content that cannot be seen in regular play.
• In the lineup at the beginning of Brawl's opening movie, more characters will appear once they are unlocked.
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is the first game in the series not to have an opening movie.
• In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, there's a 1/10 chance where the opening movie will not play at all, and will bring the player directly to the start screen.
  • This has been changed in the latest patch (v1.0.6) where the movie will always play when the game is turned on.