Editing Ancient Minister

| image        = [[File:SSBU spirit Ancient Minister.png|200px]]

| caption      = [[File:SubspaceSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]

Official render of the Ancient Minister.

| universe    = {{uv|Super Smash Bros.}}

| firstgame    = ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' (2008)

| gender      = Male

| homeworld    = [[World of Trophies]]

| creator      =

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The '''Ancient Minister''' ({{ja|エインシャント卿|Einshanto Kyō}}, ''Ancient Minister'') is the titular central antagonist for the majority of [[Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary]]. He appears to be the field leader of the [[Subspace Army]] and controls the [[R.O.B. Squad]] and their deployments of [[Subspace Bomb]]s. Initially appearing to be the titular central antagonist of the story, it later transpires that the Ancient Minister is actually a tragic character, due to him being forced to bring areas of the [[World of Trophies]] into [[Subspace]] under the orders of [[Tabuu]].

Tabuu used technology from the [[Isle of the Ancients]] to build [[Subspace Bombs]] and the [[Subspace Gunship]] and began production of the Subspace Bombs on the Isle of the Ancients and the Subspace Gunship. Each Subspace Bomb required two R.O.B. units to be sacrificed for unknown reasons. These units and a number of military specialized units became the R.O.B. Squad. A number of Subspace Bombs and sacrificial R.O.B units were deployed into the world, while the [[Subspace Bomb Factory]] was formed on the Isle of the Ancients and protected by most of the R.O.B Squad.

Every location absorbed into Subspace causes a number of new [[character]]s to join a party that fights against the Subspace Army. Eventually, the party enters a large room in the {{B|Subspace Bomb Factory|Part II}} with a number of R.O.B. units and Subspace Bombs inside, as well as the Ancient Minister. {{SSBB|Ganondorf}} appears via hologram and orders the R.O.B. units to detonate all of the Subspace Bombs at once. The Ancient Minister physically moves his minions away from the Bombs and orders them not to detonate them. Ganondorf then reaches for a remote and hits a button on it, causing all of the R.O.B units' eyes to glow red and their motion to become more mechanical. The R.O.B. units, now unresponsive to the Ancient Minister's commands, continue to follow Ganondorf's orders for detonation. The Ancient Minister continues to physically remove the units from the bombs, which leads Ganondorf to order them to attack. The R.O.B. units light the Ancient Minister on fire using lasers and the Ancient Minister destroys the robes that he was wearing, putting out the flames and revealing himself as {{SSBB|R.O.B.}} to the party of heroes. He joins the party, who all collectively attempt to remove the R.O.B. units from the Subspace Bombs to no success. Ganondorf orders the Subspace Army to attack the party, which evacuates. The party escapes using [[Captain Falcon]]'s [[Falcon Flyer]], fighting [[Meta Ridley]] in the process.

The Isle of the Ancients is engulfed by the bombs and enters Subspace. The Subspace Gunship exits out of it and begins attacking the party, who use various aerial vehicles to fight back and enter Subspace. The Master Robot confronts and is trophified by Tabuu along with the rest of the party, who are all restored by the likes of {{SSBB|King Dedede}}, {{SSBB|Ness}}, {{SSBB|Luigi}} and Kirby. The Master Robot is a playable character for the Great Maze and the final fight with Tabuu, though he is referred to as R.O.B.

===Post-Subspace Emissary===

The Master Robot is seen with the thirty-four other playable characters, who stand in front of a cliffside and stare at a luminous cross in the sky, which was once the Isle of the Ancients. Due to so many bombs being detonated on it at once, the Isle of the Ancients could not escape Subspace and is thus gone for good.

The rest of the R.O.B. units were either on the Isle of the Ancients when it was destroyed, destroyed when the Subspace Bombs were deployed, or destroyed by the heroes when they attacked the Isle (it appears as if only the Master Robot is capable of trophification instead of death), meaning that he is the last R.O.B. remaining.

The Ancient Minister trophy is obtained as a reward for completing the "Clear The [[Subspace Emissary]]" [[Challenges]].

|desc=The commander of the Subspace Army who uses Subspace Bombs to tear up [[World of Trophies|this world]]. He was once the lord of this world, living on the floating Island of the Ancients with many robots--but the robots were taken hostage on Tabuu's orders. Now that their home's a bomb factory, the robots carry out their functions while enduring deep sadness caused by the loss of their colleagues.

|gamelist={{Trophy games|console1=Wii|game1=Super Smash Bros. Brawl}}

The Ancient Minister appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' as an Ace-class [[primary spirit]].

In [[Adventure Mode: World of Light]], the Ancient Minister is presumably one of the countless spirits captured by [[Galeem]] during his takeover of the universe. After Galeem's defeat, [[Dharkon]] takes control of Galeem's spirits, including the Ancient Minister. The Ancient Minister's spirit is located in the [[Mysterious Dimension]] in [[The Dark Realm]]. Prior to his battle, the player is quizzed on which spirit was the mastermind behind the Subspace Army.

The Ancient Minister uses a [[Giant]] {{SSBU|R.O.B.}} puppet fighter and is fought on the [[Halberd]] stage. He is fought along an army of R.O.B.s representing the R.O.B. Squad, and each of the fighters start off with a [[Bomber]], referencing the Subspace Bombs the R.O.B. Squad detonates in the Subspace Emissary. During the battle, the screen will occasionally flip, referencing how the Subspace Bombs the R.O.B. Squad detonated sucks everything inside its blast radius.

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==Names in other languages==

|en=Ancient Minister

|de=Uralter Minister

|nl=Ancient Minister

==Trivia==

*The Ancient Minister appears as a selectable picture in [[Wi-Fi]] mode for the player's logo.

*The Ancient Minister is referenced in {{forwiiu}}{{'}}s and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''{{'}}s [[Boxing Ring]], where R.O.B.'s English [[Boxing Ring#Character titles|alias]] (only the [[NTSC|American]] version in ''for Wii U''{{'}}s case) is "The Last of His Kind".

 

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