A Deep Dive into The Super Smash Bros. Iceberg

i'm sure most of you have heard of super smash brothers it's one of nintendo's most popular franchises despite being such a popular series there are many mysteries and secrets that most smash fans have never heard of if you don't know what an iceberg image is it's an image with facts easter eggs secrets and rumors that get more obscure as you go down the iceberg the smash bros icebreakers that i'm using today was posted on instagram and reddit by the user space pretzel to clarify i did not create this iceberg image i am just making a video talking about it i'll leave a link to the description of the image of the iceberg and space parcel's original reddit post that you can follow along too if you would like this video is inspired by many other iceberg videos on youtube however the lack of smash bros iceberg videos on youtube was very surprising to me so i wanted to fill in the void and create my own for the sake of this video i also wanted to add a few of my own entries to grow the iceberg further one thing i do want to borrow from the mario 64 iceberg from mishkas is the percentage meter depending on how much percent it has it shows how confident i am in my explanation of the entry for example at zero percent i am fully confident with my explanation but at 100 i have almost no idea what i'm talking about and i'm basically guessing at that point i will also link external sources such as the original reddit post and the smash wiki where i got most of my information in the description without said let's begin exploring the super smash brothers iceberg [Music] [Music] luigi downtown in every single smash game luigi's downtown is one of very few that deals damage and it can even spike if you hit the opponent with it while they're off stage brawl tripping in brawl every time you run use forward smash or side b while using the control stick you have a one percent chance of tripping this is a very unpopular mechanic that led to many deaths because of nothing but luck sakurai's twitter sakurai's twitter is the spiritual successor to his pick of the day miever's post back in smash 4. now he mostly posts screenshots from ultimate shorehops a shorehob is a shorter jump that you can do by pressing and releasing the jump button within the character's jump squat frames this is used a lot in competitive play for many reasons but most importantly short hop aerials and short hop positioning are very important if you want to get your position correct while playing in a match homie stock a homie stock is a term used to describe giving up a stop for someone after they accidentally lose their own this is often done in casual matches which is why it has its name of a homie stock smash bros as an esport smash bros has a decently big esports scene though it's not as big as some other esports scenes it definitely has a sizeable community that takes the game very seriously it is however very different from other fighting games not being traditional in any way and being more based on movement and platforming project m project m is a fan made mod for super smash bros brawl that is supposed to emulate the feeling of a sequel to melee it enjoyed a competitive scene at tournaments along with melee and it is by far the biggest smash bros mod ever made and has inspired several mod projects of similar concepts but none have reached the hypes of which pm has reached the grinch leak the grinch leak was a leak for smash ultimate that took place in october of 2018. an anonymous user who claimed to work for a printing company posted photos on snapchat of a completed banner for super smash bros ultimate the caption in french translated to f nintendo this banner included characters that have not yet been revealed such as shadow ken banjo isaac mock rider geno and the chorus kids this leak was called the grinch leak because in the corner of the post was a picture for the upcoming grinch movie despite this being believed by many people it was disproven when the november first smash direct revealed ken in cinema and piranha plan as the final three base characters in the game there are tons more information about this entry so if you are interested you can find more information in the description zelda hitbox this entry is referring to a meme about the interesting properties of zelda's hurt box this meme mostly circulated on twitter more recently rayman hoax back in smash 4 during dlc speculation an artist named artsy omni made a fake video showing rayman on the character's selection screen this leak was disproven when artsy omni himself made a video demonstrating how he created the fake leak dash dancing dash dancing is a technique that allows characters to run back and forth in one spot this is a great movement option in games like melee this allows for ambiguous movement in neutral play greninja taunt deals damage like luigi greninja's downtown does damage if it connects with an opponent however it can't kill like luigi's d-i-n d-i or directional influence is a technique that allows you to survive longer than getting hit by adjusting your launch angle this mechanic has changed from game to game but the basic idea has always been the same since it was introduced in melee nerf greninja the better nerf greninja meme was a meme that started after greninja was nerfed in the 1.04 patch for smash 4. this meme referenced how the community felt that greninja was constantly and unjustly nerfed this meme consisted of any statement and i mean literally any statement followed by the sentence better nerf greninja ice climbers were planned for smash 4. after smash 4 released sakurai stated that he originally intended to put the ice climbers in the game but they were cut because of the 3ds hardware limitations the hyrule jump pyro jump refers to the stage temple from various smash games the large side of the stage left people wondering what characters can make it from the bottom platform back up to the top surface super smash flash super smash slash is a fan game made by beckley on gaming the original smash flash is not very polished however super smash flash 2 has seen massive support and work movement it's basically just like smash at this point almost exactly the same but for pc [Music] kodak calls in smash brawl and ultimate using snake's downtown on shadowmoon's island will activate a kodak call where snake will have a conversation with colonel aragon or mei ling about the character he is fighting however if this is done in smash ultimate he can only have codec conversations with characters that appeared in super smash bros brawl palutena's temple conversations similarly to snake kodak calls if pitt uses his downtown palutena's temple he can have conversations with palutena and viridi about his opponent this is limited to the base roster of both smash 4 and ultimate if you try and do this with a dlc character they will have the same conversation except for piranha plant and ultimate egm rumors egm or electronic gaming monthly was well known for spreading false rumors in the early 2000s one famous example is the sonic and tales and melee hoax they claim that beating 20 characters in crew melee would unlock sonic entails star fox conversations when using fox falco or wolf on star fox stages you can use their downtown to have a conversation with the star fox and star wolf team while there are other easter eggs like this such as snake's codex calls or pits palutena's guidance the star fox conversations have been around the longest starting in melee and continuing to appear in ultimate smash dojo updates the smash dojo was a website that launched on may 22nd 2007. this website would give updates for super smash brothers brawl every week leading up to its release this included new information about the game such as new items the story mode and new characters it was here that sonic was announced for super smash brothers brawl this ended up delaying the game by two months after the release of the game the site hasn't had any updates as nintendo moved on to a new website for the smash 4 and ultimate release daisy's third eye in melee the daisy trophy had a strained texturing error by turning the camera to see behind daisy's hair she had a third eye in the back of her head this was removed in the pal and 1.02 versions of super smash brothers melee unused crowd cheers in smash 4. in smash 4 as said before the ice climbers were planned to be put in the game but could not however you through a very specific setup flying as villager against the team of three dr marios on yoshi's island the game would play the cheering sound for nana and popo instead of for villager battle damage while in smash 4 characters like little mac have battle damage that they get after 100 but this mechanic was originally intended to be put in brawl some example of this are meta knight's mask being cut marth's sword ike sword and lucas's stick all being cracked esrb leak the esrb leak was a massive leak that happened during lead up to smash 4. when esrb gives games ratings there is an early copies of the game an anonymous insider would first make a 4chan pose with nothing but text detailing all the newcomers to smash bros later full images of the roster would be leaked leading to massive discussion on whether or not these leaks were real or not as time went on it was discovered that this leak was true like with the grinch link there is tons of information about leak that you can check out in the description lucario replaced mewtwo after mewtwo did not make an appearance in brawl fans speculated that because of similar traits such as their neutral special and popularity that lucario had replaced mewtwo as the popular pokemon representative sakurai's cat in brawl's pokemon stadium 2 the ice transformation has houses in the background by using the camera to peek inside the house there is a picture of a cat which turned out to be a picture of sakurai's cat that he put in the game as an easter egg smash fighters are toys this is a fan theory sparked by the intro smash 64 where master hand takes toys out of a box and snaps his fingers bringing them to life as they fight the idea is that a smash character is just a toy and the fights that are happening are in the imagination of a child wave dashing wave dashing is a movement technique in melee that allows a character to do an actionable slide while on the ground it is done by jumping and then directional air dodging back into the ground this makes the characters slide in the direction that they air dodge in different characters have different iron dodge links depending on their traction value bloody tears leaked leading up to simon belmont's reveal in smash ultimate the smash bros youtube channel made a mistake and accidentally changed the name for galaga's music to bloody tears monster dance both castlevania tracks this confirmed that castlevania content was coming to smash bros before simon and richter were officially announced in the august smash direct playable master hand this is a byproduct of the name entry glitch in super smash with this melee this glitch is performed by setting up port 3 with no character selected you then need to exit the menu while selecting the name entry button at the exact same time if done correctly you should be put at the character selection screen without selecting a character once you enter a stage you'll be controlling master hand only port 3 can control master hand when this glitch is successfully done it concurs because of the id selection for characters picks master hand by default master hand is programmed as a playable character in melee kind of like gigabowser and smash ultimate [Music] playable alucard in ultimate sakurai stated that when choosing a castlevania representative alucard was considered but they decided against putting him in because he didn't have a whiff like the iconic characters of castlevania melee pichu evolved in brawl this is a fan theory that states the pichu from melee wasn't cut but rather evolved into the pikachu from brawl the evidence for this was the blue goggle alternate costume that pikachu borrowed from petru and brawl and the fact that peach's final smash was full tackle this is because pikachu needs to breed in order to learn full tackle and pokemon so this would mean pikachu in brawl would have to have been a pichu at some point to nova tackle doom and malamise in smash ultimate challenger pack five was supposedly leaked when a video showing two me's wearing never-before-seen costumes surface the internet these two costumes were mallow from super mario rpg legend of the seven stars and the caco demon from doom this leak would turn out to be fake it's speculated that this leak was done via the use of mods many monitors are able to confirm that this leak was possible to be made into a mod even before file size limits were broken for smash ultimate in june july 2020 this entry is most likely referring to two nest leaks that appeared in early smash 4. one was of his wii u render and the other was a 3ds photo of him with jigglypuff despite ness and jigglypuff appearing in the game both these images were fakes ken thumbs up this entry refers to a real leak that happened in smash ultimate this has a picture of pokemon trainer pichu ken and pac-man on moray towers ken was performing his thumbs-up taunt in the picture when ken was revealed this leak turned out to be true since then the ken's thumbs-up picture has become a meme of some kind it is used satirically to represent the credibility of a leak this was most infamously used in the doom and mello leaks mentioned earlier pre-release mexican ultimate copies before the release of smash ultimate physical copies of the game were shipped out to mexico residents who lived near areas where early copies are available bought the game and leaked the game for download for switch users who modded their consoles players were able to play the game a week early from release and various clips of gameplay were uploaded online by them because of this switch modders were actually able to start creating mods very early for smash ultimate nintendo soon after took action against mexico preventing future shipments of their products to mexican stores to prevent these events from occurring again tharja trophy tharja is a character from fire emblem awakening a trophy of her was planned to be put in smash 4 as they were able to see her in the leaked esrb footage however when the game released the trophy was nowhere to be seen by looking at the code data miners found that she had no data from a trophy in the final game a possible reason for her removal was that her outfit may have been too suggestive to keep the e10 plus rating that they have so they needed to remove the trophy roy and ryu leaks in smash 4 dana miners found files for roy and ryu at much earlier times in their intended release period this confirmed that they would be playable characters data miners were even able to download the japanese version of the newest update before it even came out and play as rory and reboot before they were officially announced and released this leak would later cause nintendo to use code names for dlc characters smash ultimates files directory in case of a leak some examples of these include pickle for steve edge for sephiroth buddy for banjo and dolly for terry just to name a few in melee hacking the game allows you to use ditto from a pokeball he was intended to transform into your character and help you fight however the pokemon's functions are incomplete and it doesn't work properly the idea was once again greenlit for smash ultimate where the ditto pokemon was finished and functions how it is intended to finish in melee photoshop little mac going back to the esrb leak a common argument for the leak being fake was that the shulk model looked like a quote-unquote photoshop little mac this was because they are both human-like characters after shulk was announced to be in the game this phrase looks like a photoshop little mac has become a meme in the smash community to describe leaks umbreon clock tower tells accurate time in smash 4 and ultimate man at a stage the umbran clock tower has a clock that the two characters fight on as it falls this clock actually displays the game's internal clock in real time this last entry is one of few extra facts i wanted to add that i felt would add to the iceberg and be entertaining to learn about scrap brawl characters during brawl's development there were a number of characters that were considered develop and ultimately removed from the final game never seeing the light of day half of these characters are entirely speculated or confirmed to have once been development some of these characters include dr mario mewtwo roy toon zelda tune sheik which is speculated to be tetra plussel and meinl and dixie kong alternatively sakurai had also considered animal crossings villager nintendog blastoise crystal ridley pacman mies and now infamously geno for one reason or another these characters are not put into actual development bond in smash 64. in a poll sakurai did for the upcoming smash 2 fans would vote for a character that they wanted in smash melee james bond was a highly requested character at the time the entry said something about james bond being in smash 64. however the only example i could find was him in melee so i don't know if this is what the entry is referring to smash 64 final smashes it was once speculated that finals matches were considered for smash 64 during its development time this is confirmed by two things for one sakurai states in a famitsu column that final smashes were worked on in smash 64's development additionally in the minman presentation for smash ultimate sakurai mentioned captain falcon's voice clips have been reused in smash 64 including his final smash 2. tower of smash the tower of smash was part of a fake leak on ford jam the leak stated that ridley chorus kids and mewtwo would be playable and a big new mold called the tower of smash where each floor you would choose a door to go through and fight to progress up the tower on floor 9 19 29 etc there would be boss battles with bosses such as dying blade and mecha dragon also a boss rush mode was unlockable unused restaurant stage in melee the unused restaurant stage in melee refers to an unused test stage that can be accessed through hacking the background of the stage appears to be a restaurant with people in it this stage is most likely used to test characters and other parameters during the game's development mushroom kingdom danger warning in the mushroom kingdom stage if you pan the camera to see the side blast zone there are signs that have a red circle and the word danger on them these are beyond the blast zone making them inaccessible subspace emissary speedrunning as an esport despite being an older game people still consistently speedrun the subspace emissary mode of brawl the world record has been lowered to 1 hour and 52 minutes by tech as of the time of this video funky kong assist i don't really know what this entry is referring to by the name it seems to imply that funky kong was intended as an assist trophy in either raw smash 4 or ultimate but i couldn't find any information i did ask the creator of the iceberg about this entry and they said it was an early rumor for smash 4. so we're just gonna have to take his word 3ds demo ui the release of the demos ui showed off a wii u option that began speculation on the functionality between 3ds and wii u versions it is also talking about how generally different the ui was between the demo and the official release the guy in the black van on the stage on it you can see a black van driving by slightly off screen you can find the billboard that reads caution a black van driven by this guy has been spotting racing recklessly through the town be careful with a picture of a man driving the van this is a man from the member of the runaway 5 band from earthbound rainbow cruise village on the stage rainbow cruise there's a hidden village behind the mountains using a camera hack allows the sustie the hidden village that is normally [Applause] [Music] inaccessible two l84me in melee the dk barrel trophy has text written on the bottom of the barrel it reads two l8 for me sounded out as too late for me this is most likely a reference to the difficulty it takes to dodge and escape the barrels unharmed super smash bros universe smash bros universe was a leaked title for the upcoming smash for this game for the wii u this document was disproven in soccer i stated that he was not working on any other game at the time besides kid gross uprising after the game finished development nintendo announced smash bros for the wii u and 3ds deconfirming the smash bros universe name 3ds shadow figures this entry refers to the outline of the characters in the 3ds version they are much more outlined in this title any other making them look like shadow figures top secret the motion sensor bomb item source game in western versions of smash melee is labeled as top secret however in the credits and the japanese version of the game the source is listed as perfect dark the reason for this is most likely for copyright reasons but i'm not 100 sure on that subspace emissary original characters come from a scrapped game the subspace emissary features many original enemies these enemies don't really fit in with the feel of smash bros this left fans to speculate that they were originally intended for a scrap game well there's no evidence for this this is a popular theory pepsi man 64 build the early screenshots from what would become smash 64 feature generic polygon-like characters speculated that these figures are based on the japanese mascot pepsi man smash represents childhood continuing on the toy theory the fights that the characters are meant to represent the imagination of a child and childhood itself playing with toys making up these crazy scenarios roy is a smash original character when roy was added to super smash bros melee his game fire emblem the binding blade had not released yet it was likely that roy was put in melee to promote his game to the west and bring fire emblem over there because of this smash bros melee was the first game roy everett appeared in technically making him a smash original character corin and bileth are similar additions however they were added to smash after their respective games released mizo mizo is an unused enemy in subspace emissary it can be seen in a tube near the end of the story mode you can also collect trophy of the enemy even though it never appeared in the story whatsoever ultimate is a port this was an argument made very often after the original announcement back in march 2018 they had also revealed inklings along with ultimate at the time not fully revealed this point persisted after the grand reveal of the game at e3 2018 when many noticed ultimate ported assets from smash 4. factually this is correct the majority of the ported models have the same uv layout and mostly touched up on different textures along with ultimate's new texture map additions in short many assumed ultimate would be a concept of a smash 4 deluxe of sort due to the reusing assets of the wii u version [Music] dragon king dragon king the fighting game was the original translated name for the super smash brothers 64 beta this was the name given to the game that had the pepsi man like polygonal figures smash bros autism analogy a youtuber named loxton and noggin made a theory that expanded on the childhood theory of smash bros suggesting that it represents the childhood of an autistic child this theory is very long and in depth i could not do it justice here the link in the description will be the video if you really want to check it out smash versus it is commonly believed that the original smash bros was developed for this nest rather than the n64 however this is just a rumor with not much information backing up the claims sakurai is master hand another continuation of the smash bros childhood theory the theory goes that the child in the theory is actually sakurai himself bringing his childhood to life with toys full games in masterpiece mode this entry is most likely referring to the fact that the masterpieces in smash bros brawl and wii u use full roms but are restricted with the time limit the subspace emissary is world conquest the subspace emissary's world conquest is a fan fiction written by aura chandler chris the story is loosely based off of the events of the subspace emissary and at one point held the world record for the longest piece of human literature ever written although it doesn't hold that title anymore intentionally leaked content it's theorized that some of the leaks that turned out to be true were made up by nintendo themselves to hype up releases even though there is no evidence to back this up it is a common conspiracy theory the real reason piranha plan was added piranha plant is one of the most random inclusions in smash history this leaves many people wondering why he was put in the first place there is no clear answer but this is a thought many people have sakurai is a boob guy in 2008 sakurai did a 100 question q a with fans question 62 asked sakurai what quote unquote he liked he responded with i guess the chest crazy hand is the original master hand i honestly have no idea what this entry is referring to my only guess is that it's the left hand and the child theory but that doesn't work with the idea of it being the original master hand i did reach out to the creator of the iceberg and he told me that this was a theory he heard some time around but we also just have to take his word for it fighter ballot was rigged it's very likely that the fire ballot was nothing but a publicity stunt used to select characters for the next smash game smash ultimate while there isn't much to back this up it's commonly agreed that something was a little off about the ballot post-apocalyptic mushroom kingdom the style of the mushrooming kingdom stage in smash bros brawl has led fans to make theories of a post-apocalyptic mushroom kingdom while this is most likely a stylistic choice it's still an interesting idea nintendo stole the idea of smash bros from sony the comment under the reddit post claims that there are deck documents showing that sony originally had the idea for smash and it was stolen by nintendo however as stated they have since been redacted and there's no way to confirm this statement however with nintendo's previous actions this could be possible time to die supposedly something that went unused in smash 64. i was unable to find any information on it but it's likely that there is content in smash 64 we don't know of pre and 64 smash build do not research this entry refers to the build before the polygonal figure build that we are able to see just like the mario 64 pre-n64 build it is recommended that you do not research this because it can cause massive pain and suffering smash 64 broken bones this entry refers to a rumor that some copies of smash 64 were different from others more violent showing damaged characters getting more and more crippled sustaining injuries over time similar to brawl's unused damage changes fighter mechanic smash was made to promote fire emblem fire emblem characters are connected to almost every single game in the series even marth was considered for smash 64. with a sheer amount of them in the newer titles it makes you wonder is this the only purpose for the game to promote fire emblem maybe the only reason they exist is to do this sakurai died during melee's development melee's development time of 13 months was extremely brutal for those who worked on the game sakurai had made it clear how awful of a time in his life it was it's theorized that because of the rush to get out the game sakurai died during the production of melee and was replaced to cover up the damage they had done to those who worked on the game smash bros is a real fighting game though a large majority of people in the fighting game community do not consider smash to be a real fighting game it is still considered one by the mainstream smash is simply just the first of its kind a platform fighter which is simply a subgenre of fighting games like 3d fighters or anime fighters it is often argued to this day but ultimately smash is considered a fighting game even by its developers dark luigi this anomaly of a youtube channel has existed since february 23 2018. this is a byproduct of an algorithm that consists of specifically 31 second long videos with randomized titles random clip from smash content specifically mixed with eerie noises and random lines from the fan fiction the subspace emissaries world conquest [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for many these videos are extremely creepy and the existence of dark luigi and the intentions of the critter is a complete mystery they continue to upload content to this day in half hour intervals there is no single player in ultimate almost every single mode that you play is against another player sure they may be cpus but are they the enhanced cpus and ultimate have extremely advanced ai that feels eerily human-like it's almost impossible to play this game alone you will never be alone there truly is no single player mode okay so obviously some of those last entries were just posts but i want to thank you all for watching i put a lot of time into this video way more than i have for any other video i've ever made i would really appreciate it if you liked the video and subscribed i promise that i'll actually start making content instead of just like making random uploads but yeah thank you so much for watching and i'll see you guys later [Music]

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