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The only character with any melanin seems to be Super Mario (get it? because he's Italian? eh, probably not even from Southern Italy).

Having watched the recent Pokemon Presents, it seems that the next Smash Bros. game is just going to be white, white, and more white. But more than that, does Nintendo have any major BIPOC representation aside from Ganondorf? That chap seems to be the only Black and/or Arab guy around. And he's the villain so that's going to irk even more people.

Idk. Quite a pity that at best you're getting Asian representation, not that that isn't important or anything. Only the Pokemon games have any sort-of BIPOC representation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ibis is a very rare female Indian-coded character!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh my~

...I don't know what that is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty fun flight game for N64

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, to be fair, I have heard of it, and I can guess that it's a "flight sim" of some sort.

Just never seen footage of it, not that I know of.

But yeah, I hear that it's pretty popular or was back in the day; still sticks in the imagination.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

In SSBU, Inkling and Villager have non-white alt costumes. And I think those are options in their original games as well.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses has Dedue and Claude, who look to have a little melanin.

You mentioned the Gerudo, but yeah I think that's probably it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

According to a discourse my friends and I had, in SSBU you have Falco, Villager, Inkling, Mewtwo, Ganondorf, Steve, Banjo, Dark Samus, Meta Knight, Duck Hunt, Mr Game&Watch, and Wolf as POC

With Lucario and Inceneroar being Latino

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doc louis, Mr Sandman (Wii) the gerudo, sevwral charCterd in fire emblem, Claude and Fogado come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Claude's a good example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are we going to get the white anime character debate about video games too? thonk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are anime characters white, or are we projecting that unto them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Im pretty sure "most" characters in anime are supposed to be Japanese unless we are talking about the trope of the blonde exchange student. Its just that western audiences see them as white. A ton of Anime play in Japan and ofc the characters depicted in those shows are supposed to be japanese. This is not to say Anime cant feature wh*te people there are more then enough shows that feature people of other nationalities just that the classic Anime playing at a japanese highschool is...yes meant to depict japanese highschoolers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Why whould anyone think they are white lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, and we should!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Any the anime like IPs have black characters (e.g Fire Emblem, Xenoblade Chronicles) some part of the main cast.

Any one that includes a character created self insert will likely have PoC options now (e.g Pokemon, Splatoon, Animal Crossing)

Mainstay series may occasionally have PoC races or rando NPCs (e.g Mario has black people in New Donk City)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X~~

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She would be great, but then you finish the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm bad at finishing games. What happens?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do have a spoiler tags? Well, I unfortunately can not be bothered to get them, but let's try this: Xenoblade X spoilers below!:

Donooot look below line duude if you are worriying about them spoileerz1! Elma is actually a blue skinned alien. Donooot look above line duude if you are worriying about them spoileerz1!

Xenoblade X spoilers above!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yikes. Thanks for that Monolith Soft.

And yeah there are spoiler tags, formatting is the following minus quotes:

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spoiler tag

spoiler text

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