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:''This article is about the Minecraft characters Steve and Alex. For Smashers who have used versions of these names, see [[Smasher:Steve]], [[Smasher:Alex]], [[Smasher:Alex (Japan)]], [[Smasher:AleX]], [[Smasher:ALX]], [[Smasher:Alexzzz]], [[Smasher:Alex19]] and [[Smasher:Taoudi]].''

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|lastappearance= ''{{s|wikipedia|Minecraft Dungeons}}'' (2020)  

Steve is the default skin of the Player in {{uv|Minecraft}}. The name Steve was invented by developer Markus "Notch" Persson as a joke and was often formatted as "Steve?" prior to being formally adopted as the default name of the avatar.<ref>{{cite web|title= "I honestly have no idea. And I tend to always put a question mark after his name (Steve?), you know. :D"|url= https://twitter.com/notch/status/6825860292157440|author= Notch|date= November 22, 2010|accessdate=October 1, 2020}}</ref> Before this, the name "Mr. Minecraft" was used for a guest role in ''Super Meat Boy.'' The character of Steve, along with the rest of the ''Minecraft'' world, is intended to be gender-neutral so as to avoid forcing the player to make decisions about gender.<ref name="gender"/> Despite this, as Steve has a traditionally "masculine" appearance and name, a feminine alternative named Alex was introduced in 2014; choosing Alex adjusts the model's arm proportions to be thinner, which is officially referred to as a "slim" model.  

In Java Edition, it is possible to customize the avatar's appearance with a template (allowing for entirely player-made appearances), while other versions of the game offer skin packs and mash-up packs (mostly based on public domain characters, other gaming properties such as {{uvm3|Fallout}}, {{uv|Banjo-Kazooie}}, and {{uv|Mario}}, and non-gaming media such as ''The Simpsons'', ''Adventure Time'', and ''Stranger Things''). Within the limited lore of the game, Steve and Alex are indicated to simply be vessels of the actual player's manifestation in the ''Minecraft'' world, having no other discernable personality or role. Most of Steve and Alex's abilities come from tools. Unarmed, they are capable of walking, running, jumping, crawling, punching, and crafting small items (on a two-by-two grid). These abilities are augmented by the tools they create (usually on a Crafting Table, which utilizes a three-by-three grid). As a sandbox game, ''Minecraft'' has a variety of options available to the player depending on their playstyle: mining, building, farming, hunting, and adventuring are only a few.

On October 1st, 2020, Steve was revealed to be the fighter included in [[Downloadable content (SSBU)|Challenger Pack 7]], with more information revealed two days later, prior to Minecraft Live 2020; he is the fifth third-party DLC fighter in the game. His appearance and animation are nearly indiscernible from his iteration in ''Minecraft'', with the ability to place blocks, mine for materials, and use items from within the game. In his [[Final Smash]], [[House of Boom]], Steve uses a giant piston which smashes players into a stronghold filled with TNT, with Creepers detonating the explosives. Alex, a [[Zombie]], and an [[Enderman]] also each appear as {{SSBU|alternate costume}}s of Steve.

[[File:Steve.png|thumb|Steve's beardless design.]]

**Steve is also one of few playable characters to belong to a non-Japanese company, [[Microsoft]], with the others being Banjo, Kazooie (both also from Microsoft).

*Steve's default design in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is almost entirely taken from a long-outdated texture of the character only featured in very early versions of ''Minecraft'', with his beard (often confused for a smile) being removed in September 2009 only four months into development. Despite this, this design continued to appear in merchandise and promotional material (including ''Ultimate'') in the following years, and a redesign of Steve's in-game texture in August 2022 saw the beard's official re-addition, nearly 13 years later.

**''Minecraft'' creator Markus Perssons originally designed the "Steve" texture for an abandoned game project, known only as "Zombie Town", developed for the 2009 {{s|wikipedia|Java 4K Game Programming Contest}}<ref>[https://archive.org/details/ZombieTown_Video], The only known footage of the abandoned "Zombie Town" game.</ref>.

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*Article on the [https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Player Minecraft Wiki].