Deeper meaning to Super Smash Bros...

[Chaz From Phantasy Star 2]

Does anyone else think Master Hand is symbolic of the hand of fate? It's like the characters are all fighting against............... their fates.

Think about it. Shortly after SSB, Mario's first RPG was released - Paper Mario. He fought against his fate of being stuck in platformers forever. Marth fought against his fate of being in an unpopular series. Shortly after SSB, Fire Emblem's popularity in the United States soared. Similar conclusions can be drawn for every other character.


Tell me what you think...........

[chicnstu]

Think about it. Shortly after SSB, Mario's first RPG was released - Paper Mario.

Did you ever play Super Mario RPG?

[walrusmonger]

I think the hand is symbolic of the glove'd hand of many cartoon heroes, or video game heroes.

Or maybe they just thought it'd be funny to fight a hand.

And you are most certainly looking too deep into this.

[Chaz From Phantasy Star 2]

Did you ever play Super Mario RPG?

Eh?

5 characters

[chicnstu]

Eh?

5 characters

Yes, "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" for the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System"

Check it out, it's awesome.

EDIT: I'll trade you mine if you want it.

[Apollo]

Watch the beginning of the game, the opening trailer. It shows the characters as tiny action figures. The "Master Hand" is probably the hand of the child playing with them.

[Richter Belmount]

Maybe its about a otaku getting to grabby with his toys , thats what the hand represents.

[Jasoco]

First RPG... you lost me at "Paper Mario".

Mario RPG rocks. Shame you missed out on it.

[kainemaxwell]

First RPG... you lost me at "Paper Mario".

Mario RPG rocks. Shame you missed out on it.

Agreed. It ranks up there with the top SNES rpgs.

[8-bitNesMan]

Round the fall of '01 came de smash bruthas Maylay!

[CreamSoda]

Maybe its about a otaku getting to grabby with his toys , thats what the hand represents.

I think that is close, considering at the opening of the original Smash Brothers, it shows all the characters as toys! Also the scene is in a child's room

[Promophile]

I think that is close, considering at the opening of the original Smash Brothers, it shows all the characters as toys! Also the scene is in a child's room

Yeah I think thats the point. The "story" of the game is that figures of nintendo characters in some guys room come to life and fight. The final boss is the "Master Hand" that brought them to life and made them fight.

[Daltone]

To sort this great mystery out once and for all I went and asked prominent psycologist Dr Sigmund Freud. 'The Frood Dude' , as he has come to be known in recent weeks following a shock appearence at San Dimas High, had this to say:

"Well, we have to notice that it is a hand, not just any hand, but a masculine, controlling, Master hand. This hand controls the phallic little figure people. It wants tactile contact with them. We can presume this is unequivocally linked with the player's desire to masturbate at the sight of various Nintendo mainstays beating each other to death. Humans are polymorphously perverse cretures and can derive pleasure from and number of objects. However, I feel that it goes a little deeper than that.

The unconscious always desires the phallus. Males are afraid of castration - losing their phallus or masculinity to another male. Through the medium of simulated violence they castrate their opponants. The Master Hand is representative of both joy and fear. On one hand it gave life to your childish avatar but on the other there is the fear that it could cause it damage and threatens to 'castrate' the player.

The Master Hand is that of your father and you are once again put into the role of a child. What we see is a visual representation of the Oedipus complex at work! Oh what a wonderfully deep game. What did you say it was called again?"

Mr Freud then ran off to his local Game store, but was sidetracked by a copy of Barbie Horse Adventures.