Super Smash Bros. 4 Character Announcement Parodies

About

Super Smash Bros. Character Announcement Parodies, also known as “Super Smash Bros. Challenger Approaching Parodies”, “Fake Smash Bros. Reveals”, and “(X) Confirmed for Smash Bros.”, is an image macro series featuring various photoshopped images of Super Smash Brothers character introductions, where a character is introduced while referencing a quote and/or action the character says and/or does. It is used in very similar ways to A Challenger Appears and the “Super Smash Bros. Challenger Approaching” screens. However, it is also used as a satirical joke to troll people and/or to inflict humor on other people. It is used to make references to one another as well.

Origin

On June 11, 2013, two trailers for the upcoming game “Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS/Wii U” were revealed during a Nintendo Direct presentation. One trailer was for announcing the game, while the other announced “Villager” from Animal Crossing as a newcomer.^[1] As Villager captures Nintendo mascot Super Mario in his net, the screen then turns orange as the words “Villager Comes to Town!” appear on the screen.

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On June 17, 2013, gaming site Kotaku posted an article regarding the image macro series gaining popularity shortly after the conclusion of E3 2013 where many images of characters “joining” the battle were photoshopped and posted online.^[2]

On April 23rd, 2014, Funnyjunk user “jackpott” posted a photoshopped image of Shrek in front of a green background with the words “Shrek Takes Ogre!” beside it. As of January 2015, the image has gained 67 positive reputation points and 2 favorites.^[3]

On Tumblr^[4][5], there are over 100+ total search results for posts that contain “challenger approaching” and “confirmed for smash bros”. On Twitter, there are more than 2,000+ search results for tweets that contain “confirmed for smash bros” between October 23rd, 2014 and January 12, 2015.^[6]

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