Franchise: Super Smash Bros.

In 2020, after Nintendo sent a cease & desist to the major Super Smash Bros. tournament The Big House for using emulated Slippi netplay in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants in an official Splatoon 2 tournament collectively changed their tags to include the phrase "#FreeMelee". Shortly after, Nintendo would cancel the tournament, with their statement simply pertaining to "unexpected executional challenges".

In response to this, the Splatoon community hosted their own tournament in tribute to The Big House, titled "The Squid House" - this would end up becoming the biggest Splatoon series tournament to date, attracting 7,000 viewers and raising $28,000 USD, with $3,000 going to charity while the rest went to the participants.

As of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018, only three characters that started out as Assist Trophies became playable in future installments:

•Little Mac, an Assist Trophy in Brawl, then became playable in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U
•Dark Samus, an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U, then became playable in Ultimate
•Isabelle, an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U, then became playable in Ultimate.

Ryu is the first playable character in the Super Smash Bros. series to have two different final smashes.

In each iteration, Fox's voice has been provided by the same voice actor who played him in the most recent Star Fox game.

N64 - Shinobu Satochi - Star Fox 64 (Japanese Voice Actor)
Melee - Steve Malpass - Star Fox Adventures
Brawl - Jim Walker - Star Fox: Assault
Wii U/3DS - Mike West - Star Fox 64 3D
Ultimate - Mike West - Star Fox Zero

Jigglypuff is the only character in the series to be instantly K.Oed when its shield breaks.

Pit's hammer swinging animation is meant to resemble how he moves around and attacks with a hammer in Kid Icarus and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters.

Throughout the series, Kirby can transform into a pink block with eyes from the SNES game, Panel de Pon (Known as Tetris Attack Internationally).

Mentioning Project M, the name of an unofficial modified version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl to reintroduce elements from Super Smash Bros. Melee, by name on any of Nintendo's Miiverse channels will trigger an automatic ban for discussing "criminal activity".

Series creator, Masahiro Sakurai, has stated that each game in the series except the original were developed with the mindset that there were to be no more sequels after them.

Mega Man's alternate color swaps are all taken from possible weapon colors used in previous Mega Man games:
• Red and White - Rush Coil from Mega Man 3
• Green and White - Leaf Shield from Mega Man 2
• Gold and Brown - Metal Blade from Mega Man 2
• Blue and White - Air Shooter from Mega Man 2
• Green and Yellow - Slash Claw from Mega Man 7
• Red and Black - Flame Blast from Mega Man 6
• Yellow and Black - Top Spin from Mega Man 3

Captain Falcon is the only character in the Super Smash Bros. series whose availability status has changed with each sequel, being unlockable in the original Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but available from the start in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

Pichu (in Ultimate), Shulk, Pac-Man, Cloud, Simon, Joker, Kazuya and Sora are the only characters in the entire Smash Bros. series to not have a green palette swap option.

When using Pac-Man's Up taunt, the Namco Roulette taunt, various characters from other Namco games will appear:

• Clovis from Dragon Buster
• Don from Taiko no Tatsujin
• Fighter from Bosconian
• Fighter from Galaga
• Galaxip from Galaxian
• Ghost from Pac-Man
• Gilgamesh from The Tower of Druaga
• King from King & Balloon
• Mappy from Mappy
• My Car from Rally-X
• Paccet from Baraduke
• Pooka from Dig Dug
• Red Baron from Sky Kid
• Secret Fighter from Gaplus
• Solvalou from Xevious
• Topcup from Libble Rabble
• Andor Genesis from Xevious
• Valkyrie from Valkyrie no Densetsu
• Runner from Metro-Cross

One of the longest works of literature in the English language is a Super Smash Bros fan fiction. At 4,047,350 words, it's about 8.5 times the length of the Lord of the Rings books.

Masahiro Sakurai wanted Geno to appear as a playable fighter in both Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and thought the character felt suited for the series since he has a gun for a hand. However, in the end he wasn't included, but instead appearing as a Mii Costume in both the latter game and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Bowser Jr. takes less damage from any attacks that hit his clown car and not his body.

When performing Bayonetta's forward throw Tetsuzanko, she'll occasionally say "Juu'nen Hayain Dayo!" which in English translates to "You're Ten Years Too Early!".

This is a reference to one of the the win quotes of Akira Yuki from the Virtua Fighter series in which the Tetsuzanko is also one of Akira's signature moves. This move was also possible in Bayonetta.

In the November 2014 issue of GameInformer, it was revealed that Masahiro Sakurai takes photos of a pose-able action figure to create the moves for new characters whenever one is being made. The image shown is the action figure poses used to make the Mii Fighters' moveset.

In German versions of the Super Smash Bros. games, Popo had his name changed to "Pepe" because the word "popo" means "butt" in German.

Like the actual Pikmin series, blue Pikmin are the only variety of Olimar's Pikmin that can swim in water. If any other of Olimar's Pikmin go in water, they will die instantly.