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Version 1.0 : https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1904880-super-smash-brothers-ultimate

Version 2.0 : https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1968613-super-smash-brothers-ultimate

Some notes:

- I agree that some of these claims were stuff that people actually said, but not that many people, and you may personally never saw people saying that, but even if you make a filter and remove the things you think should not be here because no one actually said it, it's still a very big list.

- I get that Cloud and Joker had cameos in some games released on Nintendo hardware, but still, the next step is people claiming we can't have a character that never appeared in any game in a Nintendo hardware at all, not even as a cameo.

- The claims that Ridley was too big weren't just something fans made up, they were based on something Sakurai actually said, others claim that people misunderstood Sakurai's words about Ridley, but I'm still adding this example anyway.

- The claims that we were not going to have a character that was already part of another character moveset, and we were not going to have a Microsoft character, were stuff I believed.

- There are people claiming that the rule of "Main character first" was already broken with Pikachu, since he is not the main playable character of Pokémon Red/Blue and also with Chrom because he is officially the main character of Fire Emblem Awakening, not Robin, and Min Min may also count even though Sakurai said that ARMS doesn't really have a main character, but I think it's safe to say Pyra and Mythra broke that rule for good.

- Also, some people may say that this rule wasn't broken because we had Chrom, but Marth came before him, we had Pyra, but Shulk came before her, in my previous versions of this image, I said franchise, but let's wait if people will insist on that detail.

- People only doubted that Simon was going to join before Snake was added, after he came back, people were expecting him.

- I decided to not add examples from Melee and Brawl, since researching posts from the 2000s would be too tiresome.

- The problem with arguments of "This rule was broken already" is that the Smash community often has to learn their lesson twice, there are examples here were people insisted that past examples didn't count and we needed another one, or another more specific one.