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KamikazePotato posted...

This is 90% of the reason. "I want another Donkey Kong character" + "I want another villain in Smash" = K. Rool. People simply did not care about him until he became a character that ticked all the boxes to fill an obligatory Smash quota that fans put on themselves because they were salty Fire Emblem got more characters than their favorite series.

Isaac has been in more recent games than K. Rool has. The fact that you point out people want him to 'return' and then cite other characters as being 'dead and buried' is...not great logic.

The point was that his series wasn't dead and buried, hence he has something to actually return to, unlike Isaac.

And if people didn't like K. Rool, Dixie would've done better than him, or one of the Returns villains for the sake of being more recent and therefore potentially more "possible."

All that you're doing is trying to dismiss the reasons K. Rool became a popular pick. That doesn't make him a meme pick. What makes something a meme pick is if it's a meme to begin with (Waluigi), or maybe if it's something people are holding on to just for the sake of it (Isaac, Geno) as they've been denied over and over again.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't necessarily agree Isaac and Geno are "meme" picks, but they fit it better than K. Rool did, certainly.

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