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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]]

In the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series, each character has a different number of '''alternate costumes''' (officially known as '''color changes''') - different appearances for the purpose of distinguishing themselves from other players who are using the same character or for the purpose of distinguishing allies from opponents in [[team battle]]s, or just for the purpose of choosing the player's favorite alternate costume. In the first three games, most characters had pure color-based changes (except for some, namely [[Pikachu]], [[Pichu]], [[Jigglypuff]], [[Wario]], and [[Sonic]]). ''Brawl'' and ''Smash 4'' introduced a number of alternate costumes changing entire outfits (such as the ending outfits from the GBA ''Metroid'' games for [[Zero Suit Samus]], a swimsuit costume for [[Shulk]], [[Little Mac]]'s Wireframe form, and the "classic" as well as the WarioWare outfits for Wario).

==Color change selection==

Players may choose their character's costume on the character selection screen, and, with the exception of [[team battle]]s, two players may not pick the same color if they use the same character. In ''[[Brawl]]'', choosing [[Random#Random character/stage select|Random]] will randomize the character as well as the character's costume. Each character in every Smash game has a default color, and at least three alternate colors, making for a minimum total of four color choices. Three of these four colors are red, green and blue, one of which a character must wear when participating in a team battle, in order to represent the red, green or blue team. Some characters possess a default color that also represents a team color; for example, [[Mario]]'s default color is red, so he wears his default costume when fighting on a red team. In the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', [[Samus]] and [[Captain Falcon]]'s blue costumes and Captain Falcon, Mario, [[Kirby]], and Donkey Kong's green costumes could not be selected during regular matches and were only usable for the purpose of team battles.

The appearance of alternate costumes varies from a simple change in hue (e.g [[Yoshi]], [[Mr. Game & Watch]]) to the incorporation of patterns, pictures and text ([[Snake]], [[Ness]], [[R.O.B]]), to the addition of accessories, sometimes animated, as is the case with Jigglypuff's waving green ribbon in ''[[Melee]]''. Some characters have costumes that are derived from earlier or alternate renderings of themselves, such as Mario's "Jumpman" blue. Some costumes make references to other characters who may or may not appear in Smash games but only appear in other Nintendo games, such as [[Peach]]'s "Daisy" alternate costume. A small number of costumes make references to other costumes from elsewhere in the Smash universe, such as ''Brawl'' Pikachu's blue "Pichu goggles", ''Melee'' Jigglypuff's blue "SSB bow", and R.O.B's "R.O.B Launcher" green. Other costumes appear to be created primarily for the purpose of team battles, such as [[Pichu]]'s red, or else are invented simply for the sake of fun and variety, such as the Ice Climbers' white.

In online Brawls and Team Battles, if two characters shared the same alternate costume, the second player would have a lighter tint in their appearance. A third player uses a darker tint, and in ''Melee'', a fourth is completely black, such as the characters in [[Co-Op Event 7: Battle of the Dark Sides]]. Data suggests that a fifth player would be completely gray, if possible.

''[[Brawl]]'' includes a significantly larger number of alternate costumes than its predecessors, with the average number of color changes per character being roughly 4.7 in the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and ''[[Melee]]'', and 6.0 in ''Brawl''. [[Pikachu]] is the only character to appear in the first three games with only four color options, and is the only character in ''Brawl'' with only four color options. [[Wario]] is special in that the player may choose color variations of either his biker costume from the ''WarioWare'' series, or his classic overalls. Both costumes have six alternate colors, making for a total of twelve choices. Additionally, the red, green and blue variations of both the biker costume and the overalls may be used in team battles, and before the fourth installment, [[Wario]] was the only character with two color choices when on a team.

In ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', each character has at least eight different alternate costumes, giving players the largest range of choices in a ''Smash Bros.'' title. Also, the player can now pick whatever outfit they want for the battle, as team color is indicated by a colored outline around the player. The [[Wii Fit Trainer]], [[Villager]], [[Robin]], and [[Mii Fighter]] characters were given Male and Female variants. [[Little Mac]] possesses eight additional palettes from his wireframe version from the arcade version of ''Punch-Out!!'' and has an alternate costume where he wears his pink hoodie from the training montages in the ''Punch-Out!! series''. [[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]] has an alternate costume based on his swimsuit armor set from ''Xenoblade Chronicles''. [[Olimar]] and [[Bowser Jr.]] have palettes that change the character entirely: four of Olimar's costumes replace him with [[Alph]], while Bowser Jr.'s costumes are the seven [[Koopalings]]. While they have their own unique announcer sounds, crowd chants, and voices, their gameplay is completely identical to their defaults.  

Average number of color choices per character:

Brawl: 6

WiiU/3DS: 8

*Sakurai revealed that certain characters were originally planned as alternate characters, but were later programmed as full characters. This was because he noticed they had different properties from who they were meant to be over, and feared that some fans might be displeased. These noticeable characters are [[Lucina]], [[Dark Pit]] and [[Dr. Mario]].

*[[Little Mac]] is the only character to possess more than eight costumes in ''SSB4''.

*Due to the Mii Fighter's unique costume system, they will never be tinted to tell them apart no matter how similar two Miis look, even if they are the exact same fighter [http://youtu.be/o4V0PvzY7oI].

*[[Bowser Jr.]] is the only character in ''SSB4'' to not change his color in an alternate costume.

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