Have those "fans" ever played a Metal Gear? The whole point of the cardboard box in MGS in the first place was that a plain old cardboard box looked wildly out of place in a game that was mostly metal bases and snow but you could still successfully hide in it. Not to mention the skateboarding and capturing cartoon monkeys with sirens on their heads that were in the games already.
Doom Guy is actually a relatively popular fan request, especially how iconic he is. He actually makes sense, too. But the people who want him aren't screeching to have him in the game.
I don't remember where I heard but during 3DS/Wii U the reason that people who are requesting Goku are serious is because Bandai Namco publishes the Dragon Ball games and Bandai Namco also are helping develop Smash Bros. Similar to how Pac-man is playable ins Smash Bros.
I also remember seeing this during 3DS/Wii U. Some people would say Snake does not belong because he "does not fit" which was always weird to me. All these characters are from different universes with different norms, none of these characters are supposed to fit.
It's a party game that speds turned into one due to sucking at actual fighting games and having an autism fit over fanfiction essentially. Oh, and I just had an idea I came up with for a policy that FGCs can have for when they inevitably run over the clock for their exhibition since they do that all the fucking time: cut the power to that station and force them off if they can't be arsed to finish after a warning period has passed.
I'll admit, these drawings are pretty funny.Also some backstory. Ridley is mocked in Japan because he was overwhelmingly an American favorite, reflective of how the Metroid series isn't particularly favored in Japan, who typically dislikes first person shooters (although the Japanese were receptive of the earlier games which were side scrollers). This is especially true since Prime was produced by an American company (or British, either way it's a Western company). King K Rool and Donkey Kong were also only very popular in America, and the Japanese are especially annoyed since K Rool was produced by Rare, a European company. Because of this, it's a common perception that the filthy Western gaijins are claiming spots on the roster like they were territories in Africa and wasting spots for popular Japanese games that nobody's heard of out of Japan.
This has caused a lot of Japanese players to make "fan art" of Ridley in Captain America costumes in mockery of this.
So is the Japan smash community just vastly superior to the US one? Captain America Ridley is fucking great.
Ah yes K Rool who is
Japan has this weird love-hate relationship with America. On the one hand, you have a very strong nationalistic sentiment that runs through much of their society (especially the older generations) that really longs for the days of Nihon Teitoku and leads them to do silly shit like rewrite WWII to be "The Japanese were minding their own business until the EVIL WESTERNERS FORCED our peace-loving nation into war, which we of course were better at than anyone else due to BLAZING YAMATO SPIRIT until the West COWARDLY bombed us, Japan dindu nuffin, what's a war crime?" and portray their Self-Defense Forces (which are mostly a benefits program for NEETs who want to play with helicopters) as being on par with DEVGRU. But on the other hand, you also get characters that are cartoonishly American who are portrayed as heroic and endearing, like All Might from My Hero Academia (Japan's top hero, who inexplicably dresses in red, white, and blue, frequently shouts various catchphrases in English, and has a variety of "special moves" named after American states).