How (Almost) Every Series in Smash is Connected

While crossover games like smash are almost never canonical to the series represented in them, many games feature cameos from various other games. And while crossover games are non-canonical, these guest appearances are a lot more up in the air.

Which got me thinking, by using this method of connecting series together, would it be possible to connect all of the series represented in smash together? In this video, I answer that very specific question.

Music in this video:
Menu Theme - Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Remix by bran)
Steam Gardens - Super Mario Odyssey (Remix by bran)
Moonsiders 1st - Tekken 7 (Remix by bran)
Boss Battle - Miitopia (Remix by bran)
Heat Haze Shadow 2 - Tekken 7
Raceway - Mario Kart 64 (Remix by bran)
Life Will Change - Persona 5 (Remix by bran)
ARMS Grand Prix - ARMS (Remix by bran)

With the exception of Heat Haze Shadow, all the songs used in this video are original 8-bit remixes made by bran.

[TommoROM]

Holy shit, this blew up!
I honestly wasn’t expecting this video to do as well as it has, and in just a day no less.

I want to say thank you to everyone for being so nice in the comments. I was trying to read all of them, but there’s so many now that I may have to give up eventually. But again, thank you.

I have another video like this one planned, the script has been written for a while now, I just need to record and edit it. As for what it’s about, I’ve left a few hints towards the topic in question in this video.

Also on another note, I’ve seen a lot of comments asking why I didn’t use games like Mario and sonic and the Olympics, project x zone, marvel vs capcom etc. I probably should have explained it better in the video, but for this, I wanted to avoid using crossover games and stick to just cameo appearances. If I had used those games, then this would have been way easier.

[fernando]

That Ape Escape cutscene with Snake was the greatest thing I have ever seen

[hyperdense]

I remember trying to do this exact thing, but ended up with significantly less connections than yours. Great video, and it really is only ARMS, huh

[BIastProcX]

Here's a few series that have directly crossed with Smash Bros in the series in some way:

Kirby has Master hand and Crazy hand as bosses in The Amazing Mirror

A Fire Emblem Emblem Awakening DLC map has a Smash map where the characters were talking about being transported from a fight full of cheers and appluads. Which is how Smash victories are done

[sonicjhiq]

To be honest Arms is still a really new franchise, I believe it's the youngest in smash, so it makes a lot of sense it's had no cameos in other games

[dysr]

The Metal Gear series actually has two much simpler links. Otacon has figures of Mario and Yoshi on his desk in Twin Snakes that could be shot for health. Several Yoshi appear throughout Snake Eater 3D that all need to be shot for a special camouflage pattern, replacing the Kerotans in previous versions of the game.

[kaplooeygames]

It's okay, you can just say you wanted to show us that cutscene with Snake and the Ape



jokes aside, having the Tekken music cut in at the Kazuya reveal was an excellent choice

[nintendostarxtar]

If you want another crossover option for Fire Emblem, Mega Man, and Persona 5, Marth, Chrom, Mega Man, and Joker (among several other characters from those 3 franchises) were all featured in the Nintendo mobile game, Dragalia Lost as playable characters. you can also get Falchion and Joker's dagger as weapon skins also Dr Wily was a boss fight.
(they also had a monster hunter event so if you ever wanted to do a continuation with assist trophies that works too)

also the crossover events were actually cannon to Drgalia's story (we know this cause some of the events actually introduced new characters like Saboa, and plot lines that carried over to the main story like Chrom's warning of the future in the 2nd fire emblem event, and Emile's redemption arc starting up in the p5 event)

[legoboy]

Wow, I was not expecting Runner3 or the Bit.Trip series in general to get brought up at all, certainly not as the primary way to connect freaking Minecraft to everything given how much more massive Minecraft is, but as a fan of the series it's a pleasant surprise. Nice to see Runner3 get any recognition at all given how that's a game no one seems to even know about besides me lol.

[mohamedyouseftaher]

This is really underrated












Poor arms can't catch a rest

[kirbykirisame]

Given you mentioned Samus appears in Kirby’s Dream Land 3, I’m surprised you didn’t mention that R.O.B. and Professor Hector appear in it as well.

[matthewvandyk]

It's always been in my head cannon that Spiral Mountain was connected to the DK islands.

[gringusgaming]

This reminds me of a really old Game Theory video back when matpat wasn't sorta seen as a joke by everyone, nice

[theperians]

Btw idk if you know this, but Minecraft has officially crossover with Nintendo by adding an Official Mario Pack. And Sonic, Megaman X, Pac-Man, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy XV, and other mass media has also OFFICIALLY appeared in Minecraft

[Tyranitar.]

I absolutely love the line that is “You get an email from FUCKING KAZUYA MISHIMA FROM TEKKEN”

[erickmaverick]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Project X Zone, preferably PXZ 2. It had KOS-MOS from Xenosaga (and Xenoblade 2 to an extent) paired with Fiora from Xenoblade chronicles, while T-elos served as a rival unit. Ryu and Ken were playabe, and it introduced Kazuya who was paired up with Jin, and Chrom and Lucina in the second game.

[MarshedWS]

And for the while building up to Persona, I thought he was gonna go through the Fire Emblem route via Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Not an obscure out of left field passageway that ends up at Mario Kart DS with R.O.B

[darkshadow]

I can't believe you forgot to mention the Mario and Sonic games, even Sonic and Mega-Man have 2 crossovers in the comics and the last crossover featured franchises from SEGA and Capcom. Also Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Angry Birds were in Sonic Dash! Dante was in that Street Fighter Mobile App Game

[Drake_Waffle]

You actually might be able to link ARMS kinda as in a Splatoon 2 one of the songs by a band called Sashamori (at least I think its called that been years since I checked) might have uses vocals straight from ARMS, and the way this is makes it canon is that the Octoling in the band samples ancient human recording for the lyrics (which is why the music sounds less watery then the rest of the Splatoon vocals) so its been speculated they used samples from ARMS in their second song, although if this makes it linkable is a 🤷‍♂️ for me (and all humans would be dead by that point)

[magmarxiogaming]

what i think is most funny about this is the fact that a majority of these connections could just be simplified because things from their series are in fortnite, take for example soul caliber having darth vader and in turn also having link thus linking all the way to the legend of zelda, or the fact that Ryu is just straight up in fortnite, (also samus was planned for fortnite until nintendo got cold feet and backed out)