FUNNY BRAWLER MOMENTS

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THAT'S MY BUNNY EAR!

Why do I have a feeling that Rayquaza is going to win?

HEY GUYS! LOOK AT MY NEW HAIRCUT! Guys?....

No offense, Cap, but I don't think Zero Suit Samus will fall for that one.

UM... HELP?

I can really use with some help here...

YOU'LL GET NO SYMPHONY FROM ME!

Quit it, Toon Link. He's got no interest for people conducting with a puny sword.

MARIOKART: THE DAMNED BLUE SHELL

The most annoying item of all for all you MarioKart players. The dreaded Blue Shell.

YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT R.O.B. AGAIN, MY FRIEND...

Exploiting ROB's secret weakness... the ON/OFF SWITCH!!! Dun dun dun...

YMCA!

Is there any point commenting on this? YMCA!

THE MINI-FALCON-PUNCH...

Falcon Punch! Mini...

LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE! HEAR ME?

Popo is very protective of Nana.

PARASOL WADDLE DEE JOINS THE BRAWL!

NEWCOMER: Parasol Waddle Dee.

Peach: Give me back my umbrella!

CAPTAIN HALF-PIT!

Cap, you've sprouted wings.

Captain Falcon: I KNOW!

HELP?

No kidding.

IS THERE A FLEA PULLING MY LEG?

Because it certainly feels like it.

Don't worry, I'll be back in a few days for more pictures... and in case if you missed it I posted two posts today, so check out the In Focus one!

IN FOCUS: SAKURAI'S CAT

Okay. Read the title: the subject is right there. Sakurai's Cat. Yes, I know I said that I'm alternating between character and miscellaneous and DaFizzyMan had asked for Fox, but since there hasn't been a post since April 17th or something I'm trying to stick this short one in.

WHAT IS SAKURAI'S CAT?

Please tell me you're kidding. A cat is a cat. It's Masahiro Sakurai's cat, to be precise. To be more precise... okay, I can't be more precise. A cat is a cat. And if you don't know about Masahiro Sakurai's cat, well, I don't blame you because when I first found out I thought it was a joke. So. A cat is a cat, like I've said five billion times already.

WHAT DOES SAKURAI'S CAT HAVE TO DO WITH BRAWL?

Well, first of all, the cat (I don't know his name, so call him Mew for now. Don't ask.) has something to do with Sakurai, so that's sort of Brawl-related. But no, Sakurai's cat actually makes an appearance in Brawl - twice. The first time (Pokemon Stadium 2) is definitely confirmed but the second time (WarioWare) is just a random thing thought up by fans. No, you don't fight as Mew (remember, not the Pokemon, the cat) and all you see is a picture. Lame, right? But don't forget, in Melee, getting a rare Pokemon only gives you a bunch of points.

WHERE IS MEW?

Mew can be found on the Pokemon Stadium 2 and as a stick-figure doodle in WarioWare, but there's been no confirmation. For Pokemon Stadium 2, just wait until the stage comes to the Ice Element, and peek through the windows in the ice house. There's an image below to help you out - but you can see Sakurai's cat in the window.

For WarioWare, in the in-game activity, one is when you have to dodge the rain. There's a little kitty in the rain all alone, and people say that's Sakurai's cat. Don't ask why, because I don't even know what it's doing there. Well, in Melee the goal for the mini-game was to keep the kitty out of the rain, but in Brawl I guess they forgot to take it out or something. This is the less common easter egg known in Brawl.

IS THIS POST A BIT TOO SHORT?

Read the first few lines.

SAKURAI'S CAT (MEW)

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW BRAWL?

How well do YOU know Brawl? Take this super-hard quiz to find out! Okay, not all are super-hard but there WILL be super-hard ones. Good luck! Answers at the bottom and no peeking!

1. Which is a newcomer in Brawl?

a) Marth

b) Samus

c) Jigglypuff

d) Meta Knight

2. What are the requirements for the Ancient Minister trophy?

a) Get 100% on the Subspace Emissary

b) Defeat Tabuu

c) Complete all stages on the Subspace Emissary on Extreme

d) Capture all Boss Trophies

e) Find the three hidden characters in the Subspace Emissary

f) Play brawls for over 5 hours

3. What place is Link on the Brawl tier list (although I still don't believe in them)?

a) 6th

b) 11th

c) 16th

d) 20th

e) 27th

f) 33rd

g) 36th

h) Last

4. What is the name of Ness's Down Special?

a) PK Voltage

b) PSI Voltage

c) PSI Magnet

d) PSI Crackle

e) PSI Bomb

f) PSI Power

5. How do you unlock the 75m stage?

a) Have Donkey Kong join your team in the SSE

b) Have Diddy Kong join your team in the SSE

c) Defeat Tabuu with either Donkey Kong or Diddy Kong

d) Brawl as Donkey Kong 10 times

e) Brawl as Diddy Kong 10 times

f) Brawl as Donkey Kong 15 times

g) Brawl as Diddy Kong 15 times

h) Brawl as Donkey Kong 20 times

i) Brawl as Diddy Kong 20 times

6. When you select Ganondorf as your character in a brawl, what does he say into your Wii remote?

a) Oh yeah!

b) I'm out to get you!

c) Roar!

d) Hmph.

e) Hahaha!

f) Watch out!

7. At which stage do you meet Meta Knight?

a) The Castle Ruins

b) The Fortress

c) The Ruined Walls

d) The Battlefield Fortress

e) The Battling Fortress

8. What is the name of Marth's sword?

a) Aether

b) Terror

c) Nightmare

d) Fire Emblem

e) Shadow Dragon

f) Falchion

9. What are the official match-ups for Mr. Game and Watch and Toon Link?

a) MGW has a large advantage

b) MGW has a small advantage

c) MGW and TL are neutral

d) TL has a small advantage

e) TL has a large advantage

10. How many versions of the Brawl Tier List has there been?

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

e) 5

f) 6

g) 7

11. On Pokemon Stadium 2, during the Ice element, in the house if you zoom in a little, you can see something blurry in the window. What is it commonly known as?

a) Sakurai's cat

b) A fishprint

c) a fossil

d) Sakurai's signature

e) Nothing, it's just the snow

12. How many in-game "activities" are there on the WarioWare stage?

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

e) 7

f) 8

g) 9

h) 10

13. Is it possible for Link/Toon Link/Ike to capture someone with Great Aether/ Triforce Slash but then the captured person escapes?

a) Yes, no hacks, positive on working

b) Yes, but it only happens sometimes.

c) Yes, but you need to hack

d) Yes, but there's a glitch

e) No.

14. What is ROB's homestage, assuming you have unlocked all the stages?

a) Delfino Plaza

b) Mushroomy Kingdom

c) Final Destination

d) Battlefield

e) Mario Bros.

f) Random, since he has no games

15. What reward to you get for unlocking 50 hidden music pieces?

a) the Walky sticker

b) the Walky trophy

c) the Mike Kirby trophy

d) the Mike Kirby sticker

e) the Heavy Lobster sticker

16. What trophy do you get for clearing Boss Battles on Normal?

a) Tabuu Wings

b) Dark Cannon

c) Porky statue)

d) Galleom tank form

e) Subspace Bomb

f) Shadow Bugs

g) Nothing, you clear it for fun

17. How many stickers are there on Brawl?

a) 600

b) 623

c) 658

d) 679

e) 700

f) 713

g) 734

h) 786

i) 800

j) 856

k) A lot

18. Which universe are Ness and Lucas from?

a) Mother

b) EarthBound

c) Psychic

d) Porky

e) It doesn't say

19. Which attack does Flamethrower belong to?

a) Mario

b) Luigi

c) Bowser

d) Charizard

e) Fire Flower (item)

f) There's no such thing as a flamethrower.

20. What does the first line of the Brawl main theme translate to? Audi famam illius

a) I've heard stories of that person

b) I've heard tales of that person

c) I've heard legends of that person

d) I've heard stories of that hero

e) I've heard tales of that hero

f) I've heard legends of that hero

21. Which character does not have an Up Special move that leaves them helpless?

a) ROB

b) Diddy Kong

c) Marth

d) Meta Knight

22. What language is the theme song of Brawl in?

a) Greek

b) Latin

c) Russian

d) Japanese

e) Chinese

f) Italian

g) It's made up

ANSWERS

1 - d) Meta Knight. The masked swordsman is finally a newcomer in Brawl - yes, he is! About time he showed up!

2 - b) Defeat Tabuu. Getting 100% on SSE gives you no reward apart from your own pride, and neither does completing the Extreme stages. Boss trophies give no reward, either. Finding the three hidden characters can let you play with them and that's the only reward. For the 5 hours of Brawls... there are 30, 50, and 100 hours of Brawls but no 5 hours of Brawls.

3 - g) 36th. Does Link really suck that much? Okay, I'm not exactly a fan of Link but he doesn't suck that much... as the Brawl Tier list says, he ranks 36th out of 37. Sucks for him, huh? Sixth is Marth, with Lucario and Kirby for 11th and 16th, respectively. Fox and Bowser are 20th and 27th while 33rd is Samus and last is Ganondorf. GANON: Heya, Link, gimme the Triforce!

4 - c) PSI Magnet. There's no such thing as PSI Crackle or whatever.

5 - h) Brawl as Donkey Kong 20 times. 75m is a Brawl stage, and it's a rather big stage. A quick way to get it is to jump off the stage or setting opponent's stamina to 1, and repeat 20 times.

6 - a) Oh yeah! Yep, that's what dear old Ganon says. No, not dear old but... agh! Forget it.

7 - d) The Battlefield Fortress. He attacks Marth, thinking that he was a bad guy. They teamed up and blah blah blah.

8 - f) Falchion. Aether is Ike's sword and the rest are just made up randomly.

9 - b) MGW has a small advantage. Yeah, you'd better believe it. G&W has an advantage over a lot of people.

10 - d) 4. There are 4 different tier lists, the most updated one on February 26th of 2010. Kirby got bumped down three spots and Zelda got bumped down 9 to join Link and Ganondorf. Triforce Tier!

11 - a) Sakurai's cat. Yes, it's true. You might need Unrestricted Camera to see it but if you're good you might be able to figure out the print.

12 - g) 9. There's a lot of them. I won't list them now because it'll take up too much space.

13 - a) Yes, no hacks, positive on working. Maybe I stretched this a little. It takes CHANCE AND SKILL to do this. Grab the Ice Climbers and your friend as Ike/Link/Toon Link. Go to any stage and have Ike/Link/Toon Link get the Final Smash. Here is where you need precise timing: Have Ike/Link/TL capture Nana without capturing Popo and they'll start their sequence. Now jump off the stage. Nana will go with you so the Final Smash person will look like they're hitting no one.

14 - e) Mario Bros. True, ROB has no games but he's still got to have a home stage. If you don't have Mario Bros. you will fight ROB in Classic on Delfino Plaza instead but since I stated assuming you have all the stages....

15 - b) The Walky Trophy. Walky gives Kirby the Microphone Ability, AKA Mike Kirby.

16 - f) Shadow Bugs. The other ones are for defeating Boss Battles on Easy, Hard, Very Hard, Intense and for clearing with all characters (any difficulty).

17 - e) 700. There are Link's grandma, Bonkers, Elite Beat Agents... oh, just read my other post.

18 - b) EarthBound. Yes, sometimes the series is called Mother but the official universe Ness and Lucas are from is EarthBound.

19 - d) Charizard. Mario and Luigi are Fireball and Bowser is Flame Breath, I think.

20 - c) I've heard legends of that person. Everything else is close...

21 - a) ROB. When ROB's blasters run out he's not helpless; he can still attack.

22 - b) Latin. 22 is a joke. I don't think anyone will get this wrong.

IN FOCUS: RARE POKEMON

There are 31 different Pokemons in Brawl, as followed:

Bellossom

Bonsly

Celebi

Chikorita

Deoxys

Electrode

Entei

Gardevoir

Goldeen

Groudon

Gulpin

Ho-oh

Jirachi

Kyogre

Latias

Latios

Lugia

Manaphy

Meowth

Metagross

Mew

Moltres

Munchlax

Piplup

Snorlax

Staryu

Suicune

Togepi

Torchic

Weavile

Wobbuffet

28 of them can be spawned in Training Mode. The rest can only be spawn in a Brawl.

Those three are the rare Pokemon. If you get one it comes complete with a congratulations screen! The three rare Pokemon are Mew, Jirachi, and Celebi! I'll start with with Mew.

Mew

Mew is, obviously, a Pokemon. He is a rare Pokemon in every Smash Bros. game, and each time its appearance grows rarer. Obviously, Mew can't be spawn in Training Mode, so you can only get him in Brawl.

In Super Smash Bros., Mew had a chance of 1/151 of appearance. In Melee is was 1/251 and in Brawl it was 1/493.

In Super Smash Bros., Mew was a dud, just like Goldeen is in Brawl. Mew just hovers for a second, and flies off. Done. Sometimes you don't even notice him. You are awarded the Mew Catcher, but still... In the game, he had 1/151 of a chance to appear, and that happens to be the number of Pokemon available at the time when the game came out.

In Melee, Mew is another dud. The only difference is that he appears in a bubble. Yet, he can only be seen if you unlock all characters, which is pretty lame if you want to see a Pokemon you can only see with a 1/251 chance of appearance. The Mew Trophy is earned by completing Hard or Very Hard on All-Star, continues allowed. 251 is the number of Pokemon available when Melee came out.

In Brawl, Mew actually does something. He drops CDs. The end. He's the rarest this time, and you also get a notice if it's your first time, like Melee. Obviously, 1/493 chances, with 493 Pokemon at the time Brawl came out. If you have all CDs, Mew drops stickers. He's still inside his stupid bubble. Lol.

Jirachi

Jirachi is obviously another rare Pokemon. Duh. Jirachi is a newcomer in Brawl, with a 1/493 chances of appearance. Jirachi actually does something: dropping stickers. That's it. No attacks. Then again, all rare Pokemon drops something...

Celebi

Celebi is a lot of people's favorite rare Pokemon. Celebi appeared in Melee first.

In SSBM, Celebi only appears once all stages and characters are unlocked, the Sound Test has been unlocked, and all Events are completed. After that, the chance of appearance is STILL 1/251. Lame, right? True, in Event 37 - Legendary Pokemon, Celebi has a double-chance of spawning. But 2/251 isn't really that huge, either. Like Mew, Celebi flies off the screen when spawn without any attacks. You get the Celebi trophy and the Celebi Catcher, though.

In SSBB, Celebi returns (duh, it's the Brawl Page, after all). Celebi appears with a 1/493 chance, like Mew and Jirachi. Anyways, Celebi drops trophies, which saves you the trouble of finding them yourself. He'll spawn multiples of them, so pick them off before they fly off the screen. Don't push them off, either. Be gentle with trophies. Oh, whatever.

There you go. Rare Pokemons of Brawl. I'm letting you guys choose what the next In Focus should be, so if no one pipes up by the end of a week I'm picking something myself. Lol.

IN FOCUS: AURA SPHERE

Yeah, for today's In Focus, we'll be talking about... the Aura Sphere! The Aura Sphere is an attack, and it's Lucario's, the "constantly-made-fun-of-Smasher-because-he-replaced-Mewtwo-and-people-think-he-suck". Brawl In The Family has a theory on why Lucario was in Brawl (Kirby and Mewtwo were waiting in line for Brawl tryouts, Kirby got hungry and ate Mewtwo, and then Lucario came and was like, "hey, an empty seat!") but let's do that sometime else.

So. About the Aura Sphere. It's Lucario's standard B attack and charges up over time. Lucario has three sound effects: one for no-charge sphere, one for a semi-charged sphere, and one for fully charged sphere. Being an Aura Pokemon, of course it's called an Aura Sphere.

What's so interesting about it is that the power grows as Lucario's damage gets larger. Lucario at 0% would deal 13% of damage. If Lucario takes 20% more damage then the Aura Sphere will deal 1 more percent of damage. As its power grows, the sphere also grows in size. The power peaks at 26% damage, when Lucario is at 167%. If Kirby inhales Lucario, he has a fixed rate of around 17% damage. Like most charged B shots, if you tilt the stick in the opposite direction you're facing just before you let go of B, the shot will go in the other direction. Lucario's aura sphere charges rather quickly as well as firing quickly, and due to Lucario's floaty substance it makes it easy to hit airborne targets. The Aura Sphere was not invented in Brawl but in the previous Pokemon games.

SSBB - BE A PEST...

This is how to be a pest whenever you're facing your friend and feels like some revenge... whether your friend had stolen a Maxim Tomato or a Dragoon piece just when you wanted to get it... or they pulled a prank on you in real life like when at school, they disconnected your keyboard and connected it to your neighboring computer, and vice versa... or, you simply feel like pulling a prank. Either way, invite them over and get ready to humiliate them. If they're the touchy type, get an ally and be ready to snap photos or record videos. Get ready for the funniest Brawl Hour of all time!

Never attack. Only dodge. Or shield. And keep running, too. For "maze stages" such as the Temple, keep running like there's no tomorrow. Also, taunt when there's time. Get your friend really frustrated... at first it may not work but after ten minutes of it I guarantee that they'll be steaming.

Just stand there doing nothing. You might not know how this could be funny, but if you're just an easy target there's no sense in brawling. Taunt your friend, too, and if he/she is really frustrated then begin jumping off the stage. That'll be the seasoning to knocking your bud around.

Be really lame and not yourself. Put in some effort, though. If you suck originally - no offense - then you won't have to worry. For stock matches, keep going and if you're about to get KO'd (like 100% sure, e.g. falling down in helpless mode, or being blasted at a high percent) pause RIGHT BEFORE YOU DIE if you have one stock left, and your buddy is winning. Then quit the game. It's really fun. For timed matches or coin matches at your friend's "one-second-until-I-win!" mark pause and quit then. You'll have to be lame because you want your friend to beat you, and then piss them off at the last second. True, they won, but they didn't get a full-out winning screen with them dancing on their hands or something like that.

Pause the game and make lame excuses to do stuff. Go to the bathroom. Check your e-mail. Call another friend. Clean up the couch because it's "dirty". Go outside and get the newspaper that's sitting on your front door (if you have them delivered). Get some stuff to eat. Pretend to have a fight with your sibling you've persuaded to get on your side. All the time, keep your remote with you and have your friend fume for the next half-hour+ while you go around doing the dishes. Extremely funny.

Pause the game at random. Like, just before your friend gets a chance to KO someone, pause, say something lame like, "oops, sorry, I was trying to taunt" or "I wanna snap that photo". When you're finished, sometimes your friend will forget what they were going to do, sometimes lose a beat in their combo, or just get mad at you but gets to do whatever they were going to do anyways.

When your friend pauses the game to go to the bathroom or to get something to eat, and leaves the room but forgets to bring their remote with them, unpause the game and continue. If there's CPU players in it say, "I accidentally sat on the remote and I didn't have time to pause it because *name of CPU player* was trying to beat you up. I was your bodyguard but I think I was hitting you instead of *name of CPU player* instead. Sorry". If it's just you and your buddy, then say, "You paused it? When? Where? Why? What? Who?"

Spam... a lot. Pikachu's B, Kirby's side-B, Fox's B, whatever. Just spam.

Sing a really annoying song while you're at it. "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves... everybody's nerves... everybody's nerves... I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes! Da da da da! *Repeat*" or "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around! 98 bottles of beer on the wall! *Repeat, except the bottles of beer go down. When you're at one bottle, say half a bottle, an eight of a bottle, etc*" or "Meep meep meep meep *repeat 99999999999999 times*".

Say a completely different language while communicating. If you don't know another language, speak Gibberish. Or pretend to not understand what the other person is saying.

Be a pest and stand in front of them, blocking their view of the TV and hopefully their remote sensor.

If you and your buddy play sitting down on the same couch, put your feet up on your friend's legs. If your feet smell... well, that's an added bonus.

While your friend's not watching (gone to the bathroom, etc) switch your remotes. Now you have your friend's, and your friend has yours, but hopefully he/she won't notice. Who stares at those little blue lights on the remote anyways? Now you control the other character, and it truly is Chaos Control!

While in the Subspace Emissary, die on purpose. Like a lot. If you're Player 1, then keep falling down the same hole or insisting on getting a trophy you know you've already got. Or keep on jumping, saying, "how do I get up there?" Or, say, "Hmm... I wonder what's down there" and jump off the stage. Or, say, "Those metallic robot thingys are so cute! I'll make friends with them! Ow! Hey! You hit me!"