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[[Image:Alternate_costume.jpg|250px|thumb|Four of [[Mario]]'s alternate costumes in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.]]

[[File:Peach--article image1.jpg|Four of [[Peach]]'s alternate costumes in ''Brawl''|thumb|250px]]

[[File:SSBUWebsiteMario5.jpg|thumb|250px|{{SSBU|Mario}} wearing his Wedding and Builder alternate costumes in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'']]

In the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series, each character has a set of '''alternate costumes''' (officially known as '''color changes'''<ref>http://www.smashbros.com/wii/en_us/howto/technique/technique08.html</ref>). Alternate costume is sometimes known as '''color''' or '''alternate color'''. In addition to changing the appearance of characters, they distinguish players from other players using the same character. For [[Team Battle]]s in ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' certain costumes also distinguish teams. In ''Super Smash Bros.'' and ''Melee'', most characters have purely color-based alternate costumes, while ''Brawl'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' introduce a number of alternate costumes changing entire outfits and even characters.

In standard free-for-all matches, players can choose their character's costume on the character selection screen. Players cannot pick the same costume if they are using the same character. Every character has at least four costumes to choose from, one being their default costume and the rest being their alternate costumes. In ''Brawl'', [[Random#Random character/stage select|randomly]] chosen characters may also have a random costume.

For [[Team Battle]]s in ''Super Smash Bros.'', ''Melee'', and ''Brawl'', there are three teams: red, green, and blue. As such, each character has red, green, and blue costumes that double as team colors. Some characters' default costumes also represent a team color; for example, [[Mario]]'s default costume is red, so he wears his default costume when fighting on a red team. In the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', some costumes are only usable in Team Battles, such as Samus and Captain Falcon's blue costumes and Mario, Kirby, Donkey Kong, and Captain Falcon's green costumes. As for the character {{SSB|Yoshi}}, he had four colors; green (default), red, light blue, and yellow. Light Blue Yoshi could only be used when Yoshi was on the blue team in team battles. The remaining two colors (Pink Yoshi and Dark Blue Yoshi) were only playable on the [[Yoshi Team]]. In ''Brawl'', [[Wario]] has 12 alternate costumes with six color variations of his ''WarioWare'' costume and his classic overalls. Each variation has red, green, and blue colors usable for Team Battles, making [[Wario]] the only character in ''Brawl'' with two color choices when on a team.

 

If two or or more characters share the same alternate costume in Team Battles or online multiplayer, the second player will have a lighter tint in their appearance. A third player uses a darker tint, and in ''Melee'', a fourth is completely black. Data suggests that a fifth player would be completely gray.

[[Mii Fighter]] colors match their colors chosen in Mii Maker. Players can unlock or download different outfits and headgear to select for their Mii Fighters to wear. Some outfits are only available for certain Mii Fighter types, and some outfits have minor differences depending on the gender of the Mii Fighter. Each Mii Swordfighter and Mii Gunner outfit comes with a differently designed sword or gun, though they all function the same. Identical [[Mii Fighter]]s do not bear any visual differentiation.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4V0PvzY7oI&feature=youtu.be</ref>

The appearance of alternate costumes for the majority are simple change in hue, but some alternate costumes have more pronounced changes, like adding new patterns, textures, pictures, and text, and even the addition of accessories. Many of these types of alternate costumes reference the character's earlier or alternate renderings, such as Mario's "Jumpman" blue, or to other characters, like [[Peach]]'s "Daisy" alternate costume (which she lost in ''Ultimate'' when Daisy became playable as Peach's Echo Fighter), [[Luigi]]'s "Waluigi" alternate costume, Captain Falcon's "Blood Falcon" and "Jody Summer" alternate costumes, [[Fox]]'s "Slippy Toad" alternate costume, Link's "Dark Link" and "Fierce Deity" alternate costumes, [[Lucas]]' "Claus" alternate costume and [[Jigglypuff]] wearing Sleep Kirby's nightcap in ''Brawl'' and ''SSB4''. A small number of costumes reference other costumes within in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' universe, such as ''Melee'' Jigglypuff's blue bow from the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', Pikachu's goggles previously worn by [[Pichu]] in ''Melee'', and R.O.B.'s "[[R.O.B. Launcher]]" green. Some alternate costumes are more drastic changes such as giving the character a new model, voice, sounds, and for some characters, gender. A few characters have alternate costumes that change the entire identity of the character, although gameplay wise they are exactly identical to their base character. [[Ice Climbers]] is a unique case in that their alternate costumes determine whether Popo or Nana is controlled by the player.

* [[Pikachu]], [[Jigglypuff]] and [[Pichu]] all wear colored hats and accessories instead of significantly changing color, although some of the former two's costumes still resemble their Shiny forms.

** Pikachu ''(Ultimate)'': Pikachu has two female alternate costumes, indicated by its heart-shaped tail. One is a standard female Pikachu wearing {{iw|bulbapedia|Selene|game}}'s [[bulbapedia:Fashion item|Casual Cap]] from [[bulbapedia:Pokémon Sun and Moon|''Pokémon Sun'' and ''Moon'']]; the other is a [[bulbapedia:Cosplay Pikachu|Cosplay Pikachu]] wearing the Pikachu Libre costume which debuted in [[bulbapedia:Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire|''Pokémon Omega Ruby'' and ''Alpha Sapphire'']].

** Pichu ''(Ultimate)'': One of of Pichu's costumes is the {{s|bulbapedia|spiky-eared Pichu}} from [[bulbapedia:Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver|''Pokémon HeartGold'' and ''SoulSilver'']].

* [[Sonic]]: All of his costumes have different modeled cuffs.

* [[Pac-Man]]: Five of his costumes have the Wing Shoes power-up from ''Pac-Land''. Six of them add a colored armband.

* [[Bowser Jr.]]: All seven of his alternate costumes are the seven [[Koopalings]], all who ride mass-produced Junior Clown Cars. They have their own unique [[announcer]] calls, crowd chants, voices, and, in ''Ultimate'', use their wands in place of Bowser Jr.'s hammer.

* [[Olimar]] ''(SSB4, Ultimate)'': Four of his alternate costumes replace Olimar with [[Alph]]. Alph has his own unique [[announcer]] call and crowd chants.

* [[Wii Fit Trainer]], [[Robin]], [[Corrin]] ''(SSB4, Ultimate)'', [[Pokémon Trainer]] ''(Ultimate)'': These characters have male and female variants as alternate costumes, which also results in new voice lines and different announcer calls in certain languages. The Pokémon Trainer's female variant doesn't affect the actual Pokémon, however. Additionally, both genders have four different color costumes each.

* [[Villager]], [[Inkling]]: These characters have male and female variants, as well as additional changes between outfits, like hair and clothes. Villager's outfits are retextures of either a shirt or a dress, while Inkling has entirely different outfits for all variants. It should be noted that Inkling has different voice clips between the two genders, while Villager remains muted.

* [[Wario]]: Wario has alternate costumes that use his classic overalls. His was the first instance of a major alternate costume change and the only one of such in ''Brawl''. Both his biker and classic outfits had six different colors each in ''Brawl'', while both ''SSB4'' and ''Ultimate'' reduced the number of colors each to just four.

* [[Little Mac]]: Little Mac has alternate costumes that use his wireframe model which was used in the original arcade ''Punch-Out!''. He also has an alternate costume that uses his pink sweatsuit, as well as another alternate costume with wireframe Mac wearing a green sweatsuit. In ''Smash 4'', Little Mac had 8 costumes for both regular and wireframe versions, giving him the most alternate costumes ever among all characters with a total of 16. However, ''Ultimate'' removed half of his costumes, including all but two of his "wireframe" costumes, leaving him with just 8.

* [[Zero Suit Samus]] ''(SSB4, Ultimate)'': Zero Suit Samus has two alternate costumes based on the crop top and shorts worn in the endings of ''Metroid: Zero Mission'' and ''Metroid Fusion''.

* [[Shulk]]: Shulk has an alternate costume based on his swimsuit armor set from ''Xenoblade Chronicles''.

* [[Cloud]]: Cloud has four alternate costumes based on his appearance in ''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children'', with him wielding the Fusion Swords instead of the Buster Sword; two of these cover his Geostigma-infected left arm with a sleeve, and the other two reveal his left arm sans sleeve with Aerith Gainsborough's ribbon wrapped around it.

* [[Bayonetta]]: Bayonetta has four costumes based on her appearance in ''Bayonetta 2'', where she wields Love is Blue, and another four based on her appearance in the original ''Bayonetta'', where she wields Scarborough Fair. The sounds their guns make are different, as they are in the ''Bayonetta'' series.

* [[Mario]] ''(Ultimate)'': Mario has a costume where he's wearing his wedding tuxedo from ''Super Mario Odyssey'' and another which uses his builder outfit from ''Super Mario Maker''. They appear to have replaced his Wario- and Fire- based costumes in the previous game.

* [[Link]] ''(Ultimate)'': Link has alternate costumes where he wears the Tunic of the Wild from ''Breath of the Wild'', which closely resembles his classic design. Additionally, both his Champion's Tunic and Tunic of the Wild have four colors each.

* [[Meta Knight]] ''(Ultimate)'': Meta Knight's Galacta Knight-inspired costume slightly alters his model, removing the vertical ridge on his mask to accommodate for textural differences that better resemble his inspiration. <!--The Dark Meta Knight alt is the exact same model; the Galacta Knight alt is very slightly different.-->

* [[Ike]] ''(Ultimate)'': Ike uses his ''Path of Radiance'' appearance by default, and his ''Radiant Dawn'' appearance as alternate costumes. His voice has a slightly lower pitch in his ''Radiant Dawn'' costume. Both of his designs have four colors each.

* [[Ridley]]: Ridley has two alternate costumes that use his [[Meta Ridley]] form.

* [[Isabelle]]: Half of Isabelle's costumes use her long-sleeved Winter outfit.

* [[Piranha Plant]]: Piranha Plant has alternate costumes where it is in a Warp Pipe, whereas its default costume is in a flower pot.

* [[Joker]]: Joker has two alternate costumes based on his Shujin Academy school uniform. He removes his glasses as opposed to his mask when summoning Arsene.

* [[Hero]]: There are four versions of the Hero, each with two color schemes, representing four different protagonists from different ''Dragon Quest'' games. The default is from ''XI'' and the others are from ''III'', ''IV'', and ''VIII''.

* [[Peach]] ''(Melee)'': Unlike in ''Brawl'' and ''SSB4'', where her Daisy costume is simply a recolor of Peach with Daisy's colors (such as having long hair and gloves, while Daisy's hair and gloves are shorter), Peach's Daisy costume in ''Melee'' is an exact recreation of Daisy's design at the time, aside from the bangs.

* Mii Fighters: Unlike all the other characters, the Mii Fighters have customizable designs comprising of unique headgear and outfits allowing the player to customize their designs, instead of simply just recoloring their clothing.

*While visually most alternate costumes are simply different textures on the same model, mechanically they are all independent models, even if identical. [[File replacement]]s can exploit this quirk to replace alternate costumes with unique models.

*The average number of alternate costumes per character is roughly 5 in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and ''[[Melee]]'', 6 in ''Brawl'' (with the exception of Wario, who has 12), and 8 per character in ''SSB4'' and ''Ultimate'' (with the exception of Little Mac in ''4'', who has 16).

**''Ultimate'' is the first game where all characters, not counting the Mii Fighters, have the same number of alternate costumes each, with them all simply having just 8.

*In ''Ultimate'', the game loads default costume character portraits on the [[character selection screen]] first, and then loads alternate costume portraits in character order. This can result in characters' alternate costume portraits not being displayed for several seconds, as the game is still loading them.

*In ''Melee'', each of Captain Falcon's costumes slightly change his character model's width, minutely affecting when he collides with stage elements and gameplay.<ref>http://smashboards.com/threads/difference-in-colors.223965/page-2#post-7249732</ref>

*In ''SSB4'', [[Dr. Mario]], [[Dark Pit]], and Lucina were originally intended to be alternate costumes for Mario, [[Pit]], and [[Marth]], respectively. However, they were separated into different characters once they were given differentiating gameplay characteristics.<ref>http://www.sourcegaming.info/2015/07/09/i-answer-some-questions-sakurai-famitsu-column-vol-461-464/</ref>

*In ''Brawl'', there is a [[glitch]] that allows the player to use the same costumes as each other offline.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcGjKI1ElU/</ref>

*Zelda is the only playable character in ''Smash'' to sport an alternate costume that would inspire her default design in a subsequent game. In this case, in ''SSB4'', her ''Twilight Princess'' incarnation from ''Brawl'' returns, but now has an [[Alternate costume (SSB4)#Zelda|alternate costume]] based on her incarnations in ''A Link to the Past'' and ''A Link Between Worlds'', which eventually became her current design in ''Ultimate''. Consequently, her ''Twilight Princess'' incarnation is relegated to simply a basis for an [[Alternate costume (SSBU)#Zelda|alternate costume]] in ''Ultimate''.

*Yoshi is the only playable character in ''Smash'' to sport an alternate costume that is based on an upcoming game. In this case, in ''Ultimate'', one of his costumes is based on the then-upcoming game ''Yoshi's Crafted World'', replacing his black costume from the previous game.

*''SSB4'' is the only game where the entire playable cast from ''Super Mario 3D World'' (excluding Toad, who acts as merely one of Peach's moves) has alternate costumes based on the Fire forms from that game.  

**Luigi, on the other hand, is the only one of those four characters to have his Fire form appear in all of the ''Smash'' games, as Mario never had a Fire-based costume prior to ''Brawl'', only to have that costume along with his Wario-based costume removed in ''Ultimate'' to make room for newer, more unique costumes based on ''Super Mario Maker'' and ''Super Mario Odyssey'', respectively, and Peach never had a Fire-based costume until ''SSB4''; Rosalina, who made her ''Smash'' debut in ''SSB4'', is also given a costume based on her Fire form from this game.

*Ike and Bayonetta are the only characters whose sound effects and voice clips (specifically in the Japanese version for Bayonetta) change depending on the costume, but do not change into separate individuals.

**In addition, Wario in ''Brawl'', and Cloud, Bayonetta, and Joker in all of their appearances are the only characters who have different artwork for their alternate costumes, but do not change them into a separate individual.

*Ike and [[R.O.B.]] are the only characters whose default costume became an alternate costume in a later installment.

**This is not counting characters such as Wolf and Zelda, whose default colors are now alternate colors rather than costumes. Additionally, R.O.B.’s default costume remains unchanged in Japanese versions of ''SSB4'' and ''Ultimate''.

*Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo (only in ''Melee''), Pokémon Trainer (except for Charizard), and Incineroar are the only Pokémon whose alternate costumes include one color based on its Shiny form. The other playable Pokémon, Pichu, Charizard, Lucario, and Greninja, do not have a shiny-based alternate costume.

*Jigglypuff, Sonic, and Incineroar are the only playable characters in ''Smash'' to sport an alternate costume referencing a different universe from their home universes. Jigglypuff’s green costume is based on the appearance of Kirby with the Sleep ability from the ''Kirby'' series, Sonic’s purple costume references Nights from ''Nights into Dreams'', and Incineroar’s purple costume resembles the character Big the Cat from the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' universe.

*Link is the only playable character in ''Smash'' to sport an alternate costume that inspires a [[Copy Ability|Kirby hat]]: in ''Ultimate'', Link's Hero of the Wild costume is used for Kirby's Link hat rather than the Champion's Tunic.

*Ganondorf is the only playable character in ''Smash'' to first have his initial design in his debut appearance relegated to being the basis for an alternate costume in the next game, only to eventually have his prior design reverted back to being the default in yet a later game.

*[[Mii Costume|Mii costume]]