Franchise: Super Smash Bros.

Pikachu is the only character in the entire Super Smash Bros series to only have four costume color options in the first three games.

The following fighters are the only characters in the Smash series to appear in another fighting game:

•Snake appeared in Dream-Mix TV World Fighters as a playable character.
•Mega Man has appeared in the Mega Man Power Battle series, a few Capcom VS games (mainly the Marvel vs. Capcom series) and Street Fighter X Tekken (in his "Bad Box Art" form).
•Donkey Kong also appeared in Punch-Out!! for Wii as a boss.
•Sonic appeared as a playable character in Sonic the Fighters and Sonic Battle.
•Link appeared in the GameCube version of SoulCalibur II.
•Little Mac appears in Punch-Out!!.
•Ryu and Ken are main characters from the Street Fighter series.
•Cloud appears as a playable character in the Dissidia Final Fantasy series.
•Terry is a main character from The King of Fighters series.
•Kazuya is one of the characters in the Tekken series.
•The Kirby series has its own set of spin-off fighting games called Kirby Fighters.
•Charizard, Lucario, Mewtwo and Pikachu appear in the fighting game Pokken Tournament.
•Min Min is one of the characters in ARMS.

In SSB and Melee the first syllable of "Samus" is pronounced /sɑ/ ("saw"). However, in Brawl, it's pronounced /sæ/ ("sah"). This change in pronunciation is consistent with the way Samus is pronounced in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

Jigglypuff's eyes are blue in the Pokemon series, but green in the first three games of the Super Smash Bros. series, the same color as a shiny Jigglypuff.

In all of her Smash Bros. appearances, Peach is depicted with a ring on her middle finger, which is absent in other games.

Snake's alternate palette swaps in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are based on wearable camouflage outfits in Metal Gear Solid 3, such as the Fire camo and Spirit camo.

All lines spoken by Marth in Melee/Brawl/Wii U and 3DS are in Japanese. These are what they all are translated:

Marth's taunt - "Everyone, please watch me!" ("みんな、見ていてくれ！")
Marth's counter - "There!" ("そこだ！"), "I won't let you!" ("させるものか！")
Marth's victory poses - "This time, victory is mine, right?" ("今回は僕の勝ちだね。"), "Today, too, I managed to survive." ("今日も生き延びることが出来た。"), "There's no way I can lose!" ("僕は負ける訳には行かないんだ。")

He also has an unused sound file in the Debug Menu of the game which is "Let's Dance!" ("レッツダンス！")

Mario's Cape attack can be used on a taunting character to make them face the other way in ways that are otherwise impossible, like making Wario face the screen while doing his side taunt.

Peach's Final Smash since Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a piece of music from Super Mario Bros 3 that has been sped up. The music is from World 5: The Sky, Coin Heaven bonus levels and in the Warp Zone.

Though Donkey Kong's neutral special Giant Punch has no specific origin, Donkey Kong performs a similar wind-up punch in "Bad Hair Day", the first episode of the 1997 animated series "Donkey Kong Country", which first aired 17 months prior to the Japanese release of Super Smash Bros.

There are 17 stages in the Super Smash Bros. series that (intentionally) contain the full title of a video game in their English name: Balloon Fight, Duck Hunt, Find Mii, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Bros., Minecraft World, Pac-Land, Paper Mario, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Stadium 2, Super Mario Maker, Tomodachi Life, Wii Fit Studio, Wrecking Crew, both stages titled Yoshi's Island, and Yoshi's Story.

Additionally there are Miiverse and the Pictochat stages but their source material’s status as "video games" are debatable.

Although he appears to be a flat sprite, Mr. Game & Watch is actually a 3D model designed to look 2D from the perspective of the camera.

When asked if they would approve of Cooking Companions content appearing in the Super Smash Bros. series, Deer Dream Studio said no, claiming "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Smash."

The trophy representing Meowth in Super Smash Bros. Melee is a reference to his appearance in a tech demo shown off at Spaceworld 2000 called "Meowth's Party", which itself was based on a recurring ending musical number from the Pokémon anime. In his trophy he is holding the same red guitar that he performs with in the tech demo. The flavor text for his trophy even directly mentions this tech demo:


A version of Meowth's Party eventually made its way into the GameCube release of Pokémon Channel.