Franchise: Super Smash Bros.

When frequently using Little Mac's taunts, there's a slight chance that Doc Louis can be heard giving some advice. Each taunt has a unique sound clip.

Mario's blue and pink alternate outfit is based on his appearance in the original Mario Bros. arcade game.

One of Princess Zelda's alternate outfits in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is the same as the design used in Super Smash Bros. Melee, based on her appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

There are two victory themes for characters throughout the series that were directly ripped from another game rather than being an original arrangement:

• Sonic's victory theme is actually the "Stage Clear" theme from Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.
• Joker's victory theme is actually the "Victory" theme from Persona 5.

When Mega Man gets KO'd, his KO explosion has blue spheres coming out from where he was KO'd. Mega Man is the only character in the series to have a unique KO explosion, and is a reference to his death animation from the Mega Man series of games.

Charizard's purple alternate color in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is possibly a reference to his shiny sprite in Pokemon Gold and Silver. Including purple skin, a grey-white belly and dull green wings.

Two of Zero Suit Samus' alternate costumes in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are based off of the perfect ending in Metroid: Zero Mission.

In the Mario Kart games, Rosalina is a heavy/large class character. However, in the Super Smash Bros. series she is a light class character. The reason she is a heavy class character in Mario Kart is most likely due to her height.

One of Little Mac's palette swaps in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is based on his appearance in Super Punch-Out!!.

In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kirby's dark blue alternate color with yellow eyes is designed after Meta Knight's appearance without a mask. This is based on Meta Knight's appearance after being defeated in Kirby's Adventure.

Some of Meta Knight's palette swaps in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate resemble other characters from the Kirby series.
• His Pink palette is designed to resemble Kirby.
• His Purple palette resembles Galacta Knight's appearance in Kirby Super Star Ultra's "Meta Knightmare Ultra" mode.
• His Grey palette resembles Dark Meta Knight.

One of Mario's costumes in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the patriotic Mario skin from NES Open Tournament Golf released in 1991.

One of Luigi's alternate costumes is based on his appearance in the Japan-only movie, Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen!.

When Kirby takes Zelda's ability, he wears the headdress Zelda wears as a child in Ocarina of Time, despite the fact Zelda is an adult in the Super Smash Bros. series and the headdress appears nowhere else in the game.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate updates this appearance to use Zelda's hair instead.

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.

In an interview with Miketendo64, Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo stated that if Nintendo ever decided to ask the company to use one of its characters in Super Smash Bros., he would most like to see Adol Christin from the Ys series. His reasoning was that unlike many other characters created by the company, Adol has been the main character of several games and has been around for a long time. He also noted how unlike The Legend of Heroes: Trails series where the protagonist changes every arc (i.e. Van Arkride being the main character of the Calvard arc started in The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak), Adol has had a consistent presence in his series, thus making him more recognizable as a character.

Ganondorf's design in Super Smash Bros. Melee is based on his appearance in the Spaceworld 2000 tech demo which showcased a fight with Link and himself where he wields a large sword. This large sword only ever appeared in that tech demo and in one of his win animations in Melee. This specific sword would not be used in Ganondorf's moveset until the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018, where his design is based on that same Spaceworld 2000 tech demo as well as elements from his appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

In all games in the series since Super Smash Bros. Melee, you can choose which victory animation the winning character can do, though the button combinations differ by the game:

• In Melee, you can change the victory animation by pressing X, Y, or B before the result screen appears.
• In Brawl, holding either X, Y, or B, or Up, Left, or Right on the D-Pad of the GameCube controller will determine the victory animation.
• In the 3DS and Wii U games and Ultimate, holding Up, Left, or Right on the D-Pad will determine the victory animation.

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.