Smash Bros. as an Animated Series

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Smash Bros. as an Animated Series

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Greetings everybody, your fellow weeb OLM here. Today I present to you a concept that everybody at one point wondered, what would the Super Smash Brothers franchise look like as an animated series. I’ll be going over the basics of what a good animated series needs.

- Artstyle

- Characters

- Plot / Story

- Settings

With everything being said, let’s begin!

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The Artstyle

Anime Aesthetic

This questions has a very simple and predictable answer. I would expect a Smash Bros. animated series to approach an anime art style. This was proven effective with the Palutena fighter trailer and the opening cinematic. With a clip of Link and Pit fighting as Palutena comes to Pit’s aid.

What’s this? OLM using gifs?

This is actually the point where people actually started discussing about a potential Smash Bros. anime.

3D CG Renders

This is probably the more unfavorable approach the series could come to, but it could also work very effectively. The Smash series is obviously a 2D fighter with 3D rendered graphics. Although, most cinematic trailers have amazingly animated 3D cinematics. My personal favorite being Bowser Jr’s trailer.

The scene in which Bowser Jr is seen breaking Mario’s sheild is absolutely beautiful. Mario’s sheild itself looks fantastic and even the chips seen coming off of it as Bowser Jr breaks it are truly something to ire.

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Characters

The main characters are pretty obvious. With Nintendo’s main stars being the in the front line of characters. I’ll give a brief list of seven. Because any more would make the main cast to large. But I’ll also be sure to include ing characters. Along with potential antagonists.

Though here are many more ing characters that could be included. Though I just included who would be the most likely. The small cast of main characters will become especially useful once I get into a potential plot for the series.

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Plot and Story

Before getting into any original concepts, let’s take a quick look at Smash’s only real story mode…

The Subspace Emissary.

To quickly sum up Subspace Emissary, the characters in Smash already live in the same world, it is referred to as the World of Trophies. In which when a Smasher is defeated in combat, they turn into a trophy. Though the evil entity known only as Tabuu, who plans to destroy the entire world.

He gains the help of ROB, disguised as the Ancient Minister, and his army of smaller ROBs to create Subspace Bombs which create some sort of black hole in which the area is sucked into the subspace. He is also assisted by Master Hand, who is used as his cover to hide his identity and is even used as a literal puppet. He uses Master Hand to recruit Ganondorf, Bowser, and Wario to help in his conquest by defeating anybody who steps in their way.

That’s the basic premise of Subspace Emissary. You travel across the different locations as different characters, you enter the subspace and defeat Tabuu, yada yada yada. That’s the entire story in a nutshell. Let’s take a look at a potential story I came up with.

Going back to the artstyle, now that I think about it, considering that Subspace Emissary’s cutscenes were all 3D generated this could actually really work out. We can all agree that the cutscenes were a huge part of what made Subspace the best part of Brawl.

Tournament of Smashers

Now let’s look into a potential concept that I came up with.

Somebody else probably came up with this before me but I never had any real interest to look into it more.

A possible story concept that I would like to call “The Tournament of Smashers”. And as you could probably guess, the story revolves around a massive fighting tournament about the characters in Smash. Very original name, I know.

The characters get magically transported from their world into a large room, and are told that in order for them and the fellow people from their world they are to compete in and win the tournament. But the catch is that only the fighters from a single franchise can win and return back home. This of course motivates them even more and then the plot ensues with the like this. It’ll be following the main characters listed above and them trying to win the tournament. along with them working together to uncover how and why they are there to begin with. They will end up discovering something huge and they’ll need the help of everybody in order to get everyone home.

Well that’s the basic premise, but where will the story take place?

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The Setting

The World of Trophies

Now for the plot of Subspace Emissary, the setting should be a given.

The Subspace map of course! The characters will traverse through the world and going to different locations to save the World of Trophies from Tabuu’s regime. And perhaps even fight each other along the way.

The Land of Smash

The setting for the Tournament of Smashers plotline would follow the characters through several of Smash’s stages. Even stages designed to look like fighters’ original worlds. Such as Dreamland or Smashville. Of course Smash original stages like Battlefield and Final Destination will be present as well. Though this will only apply to the actual tournament scenes.

As for non-tournament scenes, the world will look like an RPG type world. Not to make comparisons here, but I guess it would look something like Sword Art Online. With a very medieval look but still uses advanced technology.

I’ve never seen SAO so I don’t know how “bad” and “overrated” it is so please don’t kill me.

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Concluding Statements

So throughout the blog I demonstrated two possible ways Smash could possibly be made into an animated series. Possibly through an anime art style or the already created 3D renders. Along with two stories and settings with the already created Subspace Emissary and my own storyline I titled the uncreative The Tournament of Smashers. Both of them with different settings.

So yeah, that’s pretty much it. Thanks for reading and let’s hope Illumination doesn’t fuck up the Mario movie.