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Cryptic Smash Quiz - Life before Smash

Can you fill out the whole roster of playable personalities featured in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, based on these cryptic clues that refer to their legacy outside of Smash?
The answers to this quiz rely on knowledge of the characters as they are known outside of Smash. You will be given hints for a random selection of 60 characters, taken from a pool of 112. For the purpose of this quiz, "characters" means:
- Characters from the playable roster, and characters contained in those movesets. So both Olimar and each of his Pikmin appear separately. Characters only in taunts and win animations don't feature, like Morgana or Rex. No characters from assist trophies or other items, stage elements, spirits, etc. No Rayquaza, Samurai Goroh, K.K. Slider, James McCloud, etc.
- Roster characters that are actually the same person are just one character here. So there is Mario, but no Dr. Mario. Sheik is in though, so that's an exception. The 3 Links are all separate people, of course. Roster characters that are singular in game but actually multiple characters in their lore are separate characters here. So Pyra and Mythra are separate, and so are Pokemon Trainer and their 3 pokemon.
- Gender swaps are just one character here. So, only one Byleth.
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Useful when fish guard treasure.
Blue Pikmin
Not to be confused with the guy inside him, the girl made from his body, or the other guy created when he stopped having a body for a brief period.
Sora
Some people make their whole personality about their relationships with other people. Or in this case, other creatures.
Pokemon Trainer
Is it rare that a city official has enough time in their day to go fishing? I don't know many city officials.
Villager
Evolution hides a dark secret. Better stop that secret getting out, before the final boss grows a different set of body parts!
Solo (DQ4 Hero)
Clone of a guy who had to relearn how to catch a plastic butterfly.
Snake
A nerd who has no taste and sucks at socialising.
Shulk
He wouldn't want to fight you if you didn't have a sword, too.
Meta Knight
Just a regular guy with a job that takes him away from his family for long periods.
Captain Olimar
A stinky miser. He might help you out (if you have treasure.)
Wario
Survived the destruction of their clan so they could teach you how to play a useful little tune.
Sheik
This big-mouthed grump forms only the most basic sentences.
Morton
After he dies, his daughter makes it so that he lives.
Chrom
Definitely a ruthless thug, but with a gentleman's respect for a rival.
Wolf O'Donnell
Has an innate advantage against invisible opponents.
Lucario
Kind of a legend. They named the armor after him.
Erdrick (DQ3 Hero)
Titular, but not heroic. Except for that one time with the beds.
Princess Zelda
All the girls waited 1000 years for this guy. Talk about a let down.
Ganondorf
This tomboy might be a good swimmer.
Wendy
YouTube told me this guy actually died when he fell off his horse. I don't know if I buy that though.
Young Link (Hero of Time)
He won't come up to meet you if you stand on his home.
Piranha Plant
Gets slightly taller when angry.
Enderman
Experience gives it cannons.
Squirtle
Can choose to be a traitor to either of their two countries of origin, or both, but you'd rather neither.
Corrin
He could work in the circus with ball-balancing skills like that.
Lemmy
If getting a restraining order was possible in this world, this guy might be less of a threat.
Bowser
Imagine being told that you're welcome to join the ultimate party, but only if you put more clothes on.
Pyra
She hid from the world for fear of what she might do to it. (She's a bad cook.)
Mythra
Insufferably upbeat. Fought nature itself.
Pit
Not a face. Might be super effective against themselves.
Incineroar
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A master of wilderness survival; can make a single piece of corn go a long way.
Popo
Female, or genderless? Personality, or hollow skin? Is this even a character?
Alex
We need a really cool character to compete with Nintendo. Someone as cool as Bill Clinton.
Sonic the Hedgehog
He'd normally rather have some honey and take a nap.
Banjo
His people never got the hero they hoped for. Good thing this kid stepped up.
Toon Link (Hero of Winds)
Tone deaf. Don't steal his cake.
Kirby
I'm still not sure whether this guy made it to the SNES, or if that was meant to be someone else.
Little Mac
Patricidal cherry.
Bayonetta
Can give his grandfather cheese.
Eight (DQ8 Hero)
So humanity has been wiped out, big deal, right? As long as the aquatic inheritors of our planet have a good time.
Inkling
It's a common misunderstanding based on the graphics of the time that you would need to punch him in the back of the head to make him use his ability.
Yoshi
High school life is hard enough without being framed.
Joker
If nobody plays this game with you, you don't get a life-long friend.
Nana
A loyal perfectionist who leads soldiers into battle with the intention of keeping them all alive.
Marth
The famous fifth. But first, from our perspective.
Simon Belmont
Perhaps joining the fight allowed them to experience being hit with something other than a gun.
Duck Hunt Duck
They must have changed class in order to use that down special.
Robin
Went on a journey to learn how to not want to kill people.
Ryu
Rode a bicycle only for a very short time.
Ness
In a race against his brother: first to four pulls.
Lucas
Smarter than his brethren, but still a cocky show-off.
Ludwig
To kill out of revenge is easy. To raise your victim's son as your own is much harder.
Terry Bogard
Can turn himself off.
Mega Man
I paid money to see this thing get turned to stone, and solve mysteries.
Pikachu
Supports victims of loan sharks.
Isabelle
Was quietly studying until dragons made a mess and he had to clean it up.
Roy (Fire Emblem)
13 of 15 and the A of ABC.
Alph
Likes humans so much that she would fight on their behalf.
Palutena
There isn't any getting off of the train he is on.
Cloud Strife
Nobody dyes their eyebrows, right? But I've also never seen any regrowth...
Ken Masters
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