Super Smash Bros. Tourney

Super Smash Bros. Tourney's Box Art

Super Smash Bros. Tourney, often shortened to SSBT, Tourney or Tourney 1, is the fifth game in the Super Smash Bros. series published by Nintendo and the video game adaptation of Tekken: Blood Vengeance. Like the other games in the series, it features a diverse roster of characters from Nintendo and its second parties and many third-party characters to fight in various kinds of matches. However, Tourney is the first Super Smash Bros. game to feature television, movie, comic book, or anime characters, as well as imitation fighters such as Mokujin. Most of the game's music is made up of arranged versions of pieces that originated in previously released video games; though some play exactly as they did in their original games, others are arranged by various video game composers.

Main Theme

Like in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Tourney has its own Main Theme. It has a lot of variations.

The Tourney Begins Lyrics

The lyrics for The Tourney Begins are listed below:

• Land of Hope and Glory,
• Mother of the Free,
• How shall we extol thee,
• Who are born of thee?
• Wider still and wider
• Shall thy bounds be set;
• God, who made thee mighty,
• Make thee mightier yet,
• God, who made thee mighty,
• Make thee mightier yet.
• Land of Hope and Glory,
• Mother of the Free,
• How shall we extol thee,
• Who are born of thee?
• Wider still and wider
• Shall thy bounds be set;
• God, who made thee mighty,
• Make thee mightier yet,
• God, who made thee mighty,
• Make thee mightier yet!

The lyrics listed above are the same for all The Tourney Begins variants found in the game.

Playable Characters

There is a total of 1020 playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Tourney. If any character's name is italicized, then that character is a returning character, an Assist Trophy/Poke Ball character, or a most requested Brawl character. The characters with a bolded name must be unlocked. Below is a table showing the names of the characters' positions confirmed so far:

Mario	Rachel	Fox	Master Chloe (displayed as "M. Chloe")	Snake	Kula	Zelda	Shin	Ganondorf	Evie	Luigi
Donna-Alpha	Kirby	Peg	Donkey Kong (displayed as "DK")	Angel	Samus	Xiaoyu	Falco	Barney D.	Peach	Baby Bop
Heihachi	Jolene	Ares	Darby	Khan	Ganryu	Toadette	Kazuya	Wonder Red	Jack-6	Doomsday
Meebeedeep	Jinpachi	Killer Frost	Rebecca	Batman	Baek	Anna	Mike	Astaroth	Alex	Rufus
Alisa	Etrigan	Optimus Prime	Bane	Colleen	Killer Croc	Cao Cao	Lex Luthor (displayed as "Lex")	Zurg	Nina	Patrick
Dr. Bosconovitch (displayed as "Doctor Bosconovitch")	Lara Croft	Bonkers	Twinkle Toes	Firefly	Darth Vader	Palutena	Darkseid	Krystal	Starman	Celina
Waluigi	Lars	Hamm	Lee	Rex	Muno	BJ	Hannah Montana (displayed as "H. Montana")	Cygnus Hyoga (displayed as "C. Hyoga")	Captain Marvel (displayed as "C. Marvel")	Gnasty Gnorc (displayed as "Gnasty")
Captain John Price (displayed as "John Price")	General Grievous (displayed as "Grievous")	Col. Robert (displayed as "Robert")	Shelby	Cable	Angel Cake	Cyclops	Min	Wolverine	Beth	X-23
Marcus Fenix (displayed as "Marcus")	Wonder Woman	Sgt. Byrd (displayed as "Byrd")	Feng	Leona	Elisabeth	Jin	Jun	Jessie	Angela	Lu Bu
Nefarious Trophy (displayed as "N. Trophy")	Raoh	Bowser Jr.	Plex	P. Jack	Ridley	Hannah	Tigger	Samurai Goroh (displayed as "Goroh")	Magneto	Gabi

References to past media

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl: All playable characters, except Lucario and Toon Link, return from this game. The Final Smash returns as well, but players now have to destroy a golden Smash Ball to activate a Final Smash.
• Tekken series: A majority of the characters make a comeback. Some of them speak English for the first time, and some of them speak English again with their English voice actors reprising their roles from either Tekken: Blood Vengeance or Tekken Tag Tournamen 2.
  • Tekken: Blood Vengeance: Most of the Tekken universe characters' quotes originate from this film. All characters from this film, including Shin Kamiya, make a comeback and are reprised by their respective voice actors in both English and Japanese, except for Mokujin (except the sequel). Various actions from certain characters in this film, mostly from Kyoto Castle, are reused as various victory poses. Alisa Bosconovitch's first name is again pronounced as Alissa, Jin Kazama's first name is again pronounced Gene, and Shin Kamiya's first name is again pronounced Sheen. Both locations where the major fights took place, as well as the principal's office that Ganryu sent Xiaoyu to, return as playable stages.
  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Many characters in this game make a comeback, and some of these characters who only spoke their native language speak English for the first time. Some intro poses, for both Player 1 and Player 2, are reused as character select screen animations.
  • Tekken 6: Tougou, Azazel, and Nancy-MI847J make a comeback.
  • Tekken Revolution: Mokujin, Tetsujin, and Kinjin are hidden Semifinal Stage opponents.
• Soul series: All playable characters from this series have their quotes recycled from this series, and are restricted to these quotes.
  • Soul Calibur: Inferno returns, but now he has a voice.
  • Soul Calibur II: Berserker and Necrid return, but they still lack a dialect as they cannot speak.
  • Soul Calibur III: Abyss, Olcadan, Lynette, and Hualin return, but the latter receives a new English voice actress.
  • Soul Calibur IV: All the newcomers, and all the bonus characters from this game, make a comeback, but Algol now imitates other characters.
  • Soul Calibur V: Almost all of the newcomers make a comeback. Dampierre returns as well.
• Marvel vs. Capcom series: A lot of characters from this series make a comeback.
  • Clash of Super Heroes: Various characters, such as Gambit and Venom, return.
  • New Age of Heroes: Cable is a playable character.
  • Fate of Two Worlds: Every Marvel character but Super-Skrull makes a return. These characters are restricted to quotes from this game.
• Street Fighter series: The rival system originates from this game.
  • Street Fighter: Eagle returns, now fully capable of speaking English.
  • Street Fighter II: The bonus stages, Smash the Car and Break the Barrels, return.
  • Street Fighter II V: Jorei, Zochi, Kokuja, and Donu return.
  • Street Fighter IV: Language swapping from this game makes a comeback. All characters from this series are reprised by their voice actors in this game in both English and Japanese. Some retry poses have been reused as either character select screen animations or victory poses.
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3: Karin and Rainbow Mika return.
• King of Fighters series: A lot of characters from this series sans Heavy D!, Lucky Glauber and Brian Battler return.
• Fatal Fury series: Most of the characters featured here become playable
  • Fatal Fury: King of Fighters: Hwa Jai makes his second full fledged playable appearance. Jeff Bogard becomes playable for the first time.
  • Fatal Fury 2: Axel Hawk returns
  • Fatal Fury 3-Real Bout Fatal Fury: Alfred, Bob and Sokaku return
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves: Kevin Rian returns
• Star Trek series: One of the contributors to the Tourney is the UFP (United Federation of Planets).

Trivia

• Unlike Brawl, Tourney allows the player to switch between English, French and Japanese voices for several characters, not just the whole game. For the sequel, players can switch between English, French, Japanese, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and German voices for several characters. The only character that will speak English regardless of the setting is Nancy-MI847J. The only character that will speak Japanese regardless of the setting is Marth (this would be the same with Roy in the sequel).
• The Smash Bros. Tourney is the Super Smash Bros. counterpart to Tekken's King of Iron Fist Tournament. Unlikewise, the Smash Bros. Tourney 2 that is found in the sequel is the Super Smash Bros. counterpart to Fatal Fury's King of Fighters tournaments.
• The game's theme song is also featured in the film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted during the musical score, Fur Power!
• Despite being the fifth game by release date, this game is the second game by timeline. The first game in the timeline was Super Smash Bros. The third game in the timeline was Super Smash Bros. Melee, The fourth game in the timeline was Super Smash Bros. 4. The fifth game in the timeline was the sequel of this game. The latest game in the timeline was Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
  • Because of the timeline, the game takes place before Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, The King of Fighters 2000, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Barney's Great Adventure, and Soul Calibur IV, despite many characters from after those times are in the Super Smash Bros. Tourney series.
• The announcer was originally going to be Jamieson Price, who was previously the announcer of Super Street Fighter IV, but he is going to voice Heihachi, Lu Bu, HR-H, Iron Tager, Chad, Anakaris, and Algol in the final release. Later on, Paul St. Peter, who was previously the announcer of Soul Calibur V, was going to be the announcer, but Ganryu and Plastic Man were confirmed and Paul St. Peter is going to voice them instead. Finally, it was confirmed that Herman Sanchez, the announcer of the Mortal Kombat series, will be the announcer, but in a Pat Cashman style.
• The American cartoon and comic characters were going to speak just English, until it was confirmed they would speak Japanese, making it the first fighting game for Marvel characters to speak Japanese; the same thing goes with DC Universe characters.
• This is the first Smash Bros. game where:
  • Characters with Chinese names are pronounced the correct way, mostly for the Dynasty Warriors universe. Feng Wei's name is pronounced Fung Wei for example (despite being known as Feng ingame, so therefore the announcer pronounces his name as Fung). Xiaoyu's name and Leixia's name are still pronounced the same way as they were in Tekken: Blood Vengeance and Soul Calibur V, respectively.
    • These pronunciations would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Characters with certain names are pronounced differently, mostly for the Tekken universe. Alisa's name is pronounced Alissa for example.
    • These pronunciations would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Players can hear fireworks as a sound effect in the background of the Character Select Screen.
    • This SFX would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Characters have an intro and outro FMV cutscene in the Classic Mode.
    • This feature would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Full voice acting is used, even before matches.
    • This feature would be carried over to the sequel.
  • The rival system is used.
    • This feature would be carried over to the sequel, but instead of occuring at the beginning of the match, it would occur after the final boss is defeated.
  • Characters can have unlockable costumes, dubbed Bonus Costumes. When a Bonus Costume is unlocked, the character who owns the Bonus Costume will have his/her name in red, and when the Bonus Costume is first highlighted, the color of the character's name goes back to purple if the character is already available after creating a new save file or yellow if the character had to be unlocked after creating a new save file.
    • This feature would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Notices no longer appear on a separate screen. Instead, a notice will appear on the lower-right section of the screen with a similar look to the notifications on the Xbox 360 with the Super Smash Bros, series symbol in lieu of the Xbox 360 orb. These notices are called Smash Ball Messages.
    • This concept would be carried over to the sequel.
  • Almost every stage from a past Smash game gets a new song for My Music. Example: Rainbow Cruise from Super Mario can now have Let's Go Lightly from the original Mario Party in addition to the Rainbow Cruise theme from Melee.
• In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the menu jump cuts to the Character Select Screen before you choose your characters. In Super Smash Bros. Tourney, the main menu's background will have a black Crystal Star (similar to the ones from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door) create three holes in the screen, similar to the Showstopper move from the same game. The screen will then flash three times, and then the screen will explode, revealing the Character Select Screen. This will be carried over to the sequel and many other crossover Nintendo fanon projects. The background of the first Super Smash Bros. Tourney game's character select screen resembles the colosseum in Greece.
• Starter characters have their names shown in purple. If a character hasn't yet been unlocked, their panel will show a question mark in their character panel, and the caption below the question mark will say "Locked" in yellow. Unlocking a playable character will show its name in glowing rainbow colors, and then it will be shown in yellow.
• Super Smash Bros. Tourney and the original Super Smash Bros. have four similarities, all of which would be carried over to the sequel:
  • Both games have different main menu and character select screen music.
  • Both games have a character viewer.
  • Both games include character animations on the Character Select Screen.
  • Both games are rated E for Everyone instead of T for Teen.
• On the Super Smash Bros. Tourney Character Select Screen, characters will perform a Soul Calibur II/Soul Calibur III/Soul Calibur IV-styled animation after they are selected. Until they are selected, the characters will be doing an idle pose. The idle poses work exactly how they did in Soul Calibur IV, in which the highlighted character's name shows up, then the idle pose of the character that corresponds to that name.
  • Some characters reuse their Character Select animation from Soul Calibur II, Soul Calibur III, and/or Soul Calibur IV, either with some minor changes or totally unchanged. An example is Heihachi Mishima.
  • A majority of characters use a completely different animation, while still being styled like Soul Calibur II/Soul Calibur III/Soul Calibur IV's Character Select animations. An example is Feng Wei.
  • Four of the game's characters have special sound effects during their Soul Calibur II/Soul Calibur III/Soul Calibur IV-styled Character Select animations. An example is Sgt. James Byrd.
  • A minority of characters borrow a Character Select animation from another Soul Calibur II/Soul Calibur III/Soul Calibur IV character. An example is Toola.
• The game's theme song, which is called The Tourney Begins, is based on the British patriotic song, Land of Hope and Glory. There are also many different variants of The Tourney Begins, usually from the Last Night at the Prom events held by the BBC.
• Since players can connect up to two Wii U GamePads to one console, as well as the game being compatible with the Wii U Pro Controller and every peripheral that was compatible with Super Smash Bros. Brawl (including the GameCube Controller if the players had), Super Smash Bros. Tourney can be played with up to six players.
• Lip movements for the Smash Bros. Tourney participants, as seen on the Results Screen, the Character Select Screen, and various Classic Mode Intro/Outro FMVs, but not actual gameplay, were previously seen in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Veteran Characters and those requested) and Tekken: Blood Vengeance (Newcomers).
  • For many newcomers, especially from the Tekken universe, all anime universes, all American cartoon universes, and all preschool television universes, the characters would sync to the Japanese track of the quotes. For some newcomers, especially the Soul Calibur universe, the characters would sync to the track of the quotes that is selected, so therefore if a player made Cassandra speak English, she would be syncing to the English version of her quotes, and she would be syncing to the Japanese version of her quotes if she is made to speak Japanese, etc.
    • For example, when Loonette says "Our day has come FULL circle!" on the character select screen, she would be syncing to "Watashitachi no tsuitachi wa!", which is the Japanese version of that same quote.
  • Non-human newcomers, such as Kuma, would move their mouths in a similar manner to the Muppets in various Muppet media of the Japanese version of their respective quotes.
• Lucario and Toon Link are the only two characters from Brawl to not return in Tourney. They have been replaced with Melee's Mewtwo and Young Link, respectively. They will return in the sequel.
• Super Smash Bros. Tourney is the first game in the series to include intro and outro movies for each character in the Classic Mode. This concept would be carried over to the sequel.
• Since there are characters from shows for preschool children, such as Super Why! and Barney & Friends, the rating was changed to E for Everyone so that people of all ages would be able to play the game, despite there are some violent shows featured in the game, such as Mission: Impossible and Star Wars.
• FMV footage is provided by Digital Frontier while manga-style scenes were done by Hirohiko Araki, the writer of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • For the FMV footage from the Barney & Friends universe, Barney Home Video assists Digital Frontier.
• The only Assist Trophies from past games that return as Assist Trophies in Super Smash Bros. Tourney and the sequel are the Devil from Devil World, Mr. Resetti from Animal Crossing, Dark Samus, Andross, and Mother Brain. Every other Assist Trophy found in a previous Smash game would either be cut completely from the Tourney series (an example is the Nintendog), made playable in both Tourney series games (an example is Waluigi from Super Mario), or made playable in the second Tourney series game (an example is Ashley from WarioWare).
  • The reason for the removal of the Nintendog is because many players disliked the fact that the Nintendog, regardless of its breed, blocks almost all of the screen. The reason for the removal of the other Assist Trophies from the past games is unknown.
• The crowd cheers from all past Smash games appear yet again in Super Smash Bros. Tourney. Even the sequel has these cheers.
• Despite being a kids game, the Tourney series is the first Smash Bros. game to allow girls to be made nude.