‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’ is RACIST

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By Matthew Gault
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Nov 5 2018, 4:38pm
Fans of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate noticed something strange in recent tournament footage of Mr. Game and Watch. During certain attacks, the character donned a toothy grin, loincloth, feathered headdress, and torch—invoking a racist Native American stereotype.

The costume change and the character Mr. Game and Watch are a throwback to Nintendo’s pre-NES Game and Watch LCD handheld devices, but the moves are part of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, out on December 7.


Ultimate will include more than 70 different fighters, a “who’s who” of video game history as everyone from Mario to Simon Belmont gears up to enter battle.

In one matchup, Mr. Game and Watch performs a special move that makes him look like a grinning, torch-wielding Indian taking a torch to King Dedede. The move is a reference to an old Game and Watch handheld called Fire Attack from 1982, where players took control of a cowboy with a mallet as he attempted to keep torch-carrying natives from setting fire to his fort. A re-release of Fire Attack as part of Game and Watch Collection 4 on the Gameboy Advanced removed the loincloths and feathers.

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Smash Bros. fans discovered the attack in footage from a promotional tournament involving Japanese elementary school children. Fans in the Smash Bros. community pointed out the depiction on Twitter and pinged Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account.
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/su...-stereotype-regarding-native-americans.78770/

Several threads about the topic are ongoing at Reddit’s /r/smashbros subreddit and a thread on the video game forum Resetera has more than 200 replies.

It’s possible that this is a localization issue. So far, fans have only noticed the change in the Japanese version of the game. Footage of the American version seems to depict Mr. Game and Watch performing a similar move without the offensive regalia.


Nintendo did not immediately respond to request for comment.
 
A Japanese game made for the Japanese market 40 years had an archaic depiction of a non-Japanese people?

Imagine my shock
 
What are the chances the person complaining and claiming to be native is whiter than Prince Charles?
 
Showing a GODDAMN PIRANHA plant as a playable character is a bitch slap to EVERY PERSON who wanted a transgender female Aboriginal person of colour in the game.
 
I'm surprised someone actually gives a shit. In fact, everyone else doesn't care.
 
Splitting the Zelda/Sheik gimmick into separate characters is hurtful to the trans community. Nintendo, Can. You. Please. Not!?
 
It totally is racist, it's not like native americans ever wore feathers or used fire as a weapon, that's just a stereotype and it physically hurts me, ow.
 
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