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'''Trophies''' ({{ja|フィギュア|Figyua}}, ''Figure'') are collectible items found in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''.

Trophies represent various characters, items, and other elements from the many games released by [[Nintendo]] (and from some third-party franchises, since ''Brawl''). They range from well-known to obscure, including some that were released in Japan only (or were not released until after the ''Smash Bros.'' game in question). Collecting them is optional, and does not affect the gameplay of the other modes (excluding the [[Birdo]] trophy, which unlocks a multiplayer stage for ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'').

The backstory of the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series from ''Melee'' onwards depicts characters as coming to life from trophies (and in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Smash 64]]'', plush dolls). While an occasional misconception is that the fighters are living figurines in a literal sense, the implications of this concept demonstrate otherwise and have varied as the series has progressed. In ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', the fighters exist as trophies when dormant or dead and transform into living beings to fight against each other. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate|Ultimate]]'', trophies do not exist at all within the game (aside from [[Assist Trophy|Assist Trophies]]) and have been stated to merely exist as the fighters' forms in the "real world", whereas the characters exist as living beings in the "world of imagination" in which the game takes place.

Trophies were not present in the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''. However, two precursors to their debut in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' can be seen in the game.

Trophies made their first appearance in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. There are a total of 290 trophies obtainable through regular play in the [[NTSC]] and [[PAL]] versions, with three additional trophies only accessible with an [[Action Replay]] (see [[Trophy#Changes between versions|below]]).

*By completing Classic Mode, [[Adventure Mode]] or [[All-Star Mode]] with a certain character, players can gain trophies of that character. Each mode yields a unique trophy, resulting in 78 unique trophies for the 26 characters ([[Sheik (SSBM)|Sheik's]] trophies are unlocked at the same time as [[Zelda (SSBM)|Zelda's]]).   

*In the Japanese version, the [[Motion-Sensor Bomb]] was designed after the Proximity Mine from ''Perfect Dark''. However, in the North American and PAL versions, the item's appearance and name were changed to that of a weapon from ''GoldenEye 007'' (also used in the original ''Super Smash Bros.''). Additionally, the mine's trophy lists "TOP SECRET" in the game slot. In spite of the appearance change outside of Japan, however, the PAL version refers to the item as the Proximity Mine.

More 'backstory' is provided to trophies in this game: in [[Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]], the storyline states that fighters who fall in this world in battle are forcibly reverted back to Trophies. These trophies of fallen smashers appear as greyed-out, shiny, full-size statues instead of the smaller trophies or statuettes seen in the Trophy Gallery.

In the Trophy Gallery, trophies can be sorted by series ([[universe]]), or by type, which has the following categories: [[:Category:Fighter Trophies|Fighter]], [[:Category:Fighter Related Trophies|Fighter Related]] (most trophies originating from non-Smash universes), [[:Category:Final Smash Trophies|Final Smash]], [[:Category:Item Trophies|Item]], [[:Category:Assist Trophies|Assist Trophy]], [[:Category:Pokémon Trophies|Poké Ball]], [[:Category:Subspace Emissary Trophies|The Subspace Emissary]], [[:Category:Enemy Trophies|Enemy]] (Subspace Emissary enemies, [[boss]]es, and the [[Fighting Alloy]]s), [[Category:Stage Trophies|Stage]] (stages and [[background character]]s), and [[:Category:Other (type) Trophies|Other]] (trophies from non-fighter universes, such as [[Animal Crossing]], and other trophies).

* [[Subspace Army]] [[boss]] and [[enemy]] trophies, can only be collected through the [[The Subspace Emissary]] by fighting an enemy and throwing a [[trophy stand]] at it when its [[stamina meter|hit points]] are critically low in order to capture it as a trophy.

BrawlTrophy.jpg|In ''Melee'' or ''Brawl'', if one attempts to pause and zoom in on a collectible Trophy in the overworld, the trophy's figure gets replaced by a question mark instead.

While still informing players of the origin and details of trophies, the trophy descriptions in ''Smash 4'' take on a considerably less serious tone than in either ''Melee'' or ''Brawl''; trophies can feature puns, jokes, wordplay, references to popular culture, and descriptions that directly address the player.

===Collecting Trophies===

Trophies do not return in ''Ultimate''. Instead, [[Spirit]]s serve as their successor, whose in-game concept is similar to that of the [[Stickers]] from ''Brawl''. As a result, this makes ''Ultimate'' the first ''Smash Bros.'' game since the original where trophies do not appear. Like stickers, Spirits lack descriptions, with the only information given being what game series the Spirit originated from.  

The entire concept of fighters originating from toys, while still present, is downplayed and nearly absent from the content of the actual game. As seen in multiple character reveal trailers and one of the bad endings to [[Adventure Mode: World of Light]], characters can die normally and no longer turn into trophies when killed as in ''The Subspace Emissary''. Also unlike previous games, characters' {{SSBU|Classic Mode}} endings do not depict either a trophy or a plush doll landing in the real world. In the November 1, 2018 [[Nintendo Direct]], [[Masahiro Sakurai]] re-asserted that the characters exist as toys in the real world, compared to the world of ''Smash Bros.'' which is a "world of imagination" where the fighters exist as living beings. The toy bodies exist as a means for the fighters to return to the real world (as seen in the Classic Mode endings of previous games), while [[Spirits (characters)|Spirits]] are unable to do so because their physical forms have been destroyed.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccgHnBQ0YM] This aspect gets tied into the plot of the game's Adventure mode, where during the Direct it was explicitly stated that [[Galeem]]'s attack was what destroyed the characters' bodies.  

Real-world [[amiibo]] for the game still stand on a [[Trophy Stand]], and in World of Light's second opening cutscene, the imprisoned Mario is also depicted atop a Trophy Stand (the only time one can be seen in-game). This is repeated in {{SSBU|Sora}}'s reveal trailer, where the entire revealed cast is depicted as trophies. However, unlike in the previous games, the characters are not in a unique pose as a trophy and simply stand with their arms to their side. Additionally, when being “revived” the trophy base simply dissolves rather than the entire trophy glowing.

*In hacking ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', it has been discovered that some of the playable characters had different trophies that were meant to be their main trophy earned from beating Classic Mode with that character, but were taken out and replaced with the ones players see in the final version of the game. This could possibly mean that these were planned for the characters' main artwork and CSPs were to be reminiscent, or possibly that alternate trophies were originally going to return in ''Brawl''. A video of the unused trophies can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxV9dx2tW4 here].

*When purchasing a trophy in ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'', it will be marked as a newly collected trophy, regardless of whether or not the player owns it.

*''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' are the only two games in the series to not feature collectable Trophies.

*The integration of [[amiibo]] in ''Smash 4'' and ''Ultimate'' appears to be a defictionalization of the role of trophies in the lore of the ''Smash'' series, particularly the interpretation used by Sakurai in the lead-up to ''Ultimate''; the amiibo are real-life versions of the in-game trophies, and summon a "living" version of the fighter in the imaginary ''Smash Bros.'' world when activated. This "summoning" ability also holds true for [[Marth]], [[Lucina]], [[Ike]] and [[Robin]] in ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem Fates}}'', and the versions of the characters met in-game are explicitly implied to be their ''Smash'' incarnations.