Editing Fourside

|subtitle = ''[[EarthBound (game)|EarthBound]]''

|image = {{tabber|title1=Ultimate|content1=[[File:SSBU-Fourside.jpg|300px]]<br>[[File:EarthboundSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]|title2=Melee|content2=[[File:Fourside Melee.png|300px]]<br>[[File:EarthboundSymbol(preBrawl).svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]}}

|caption = Fourside in the ''Smash'' series.

|meleemusic = ''{{MeleeMusic|EarthBound}}''

'''Fourside''' ({{ja|フォーサイド|Fōsaido}}, ''Fourside'') is a stage in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. In ''Melee'', it is an [[unlockable stage]], while in ''Ultimate'', it (along with all other non-DLC stages) appears as a [[starter stage]]. It is one of {{SSBM|Ness}}'s home stages, but {{SSBM|Pichu}} and its teammates are faced here in [[All-Star Mode]].

This stage is based on the city of {{s|wikibound|Fourside}} from ''{{b|EarthBound|game}}'', which is the largest town in {{s|wikibound|Eagleland}} and the fourth town that [[Ness]] visits as the name suggests being preceded by ([[Onett]], {{s|wikibound|Twoson}} and {{s|wikibound|Threed}}) It is visually inspired by {{s|wikipedia|New York City}}, and includes attractions such as a theatre, a dinosaur museum, a café, and an expansive department store.

 

The {{s|wikibound|Monotoli Building}} is one of the tallest buildings in the city, with a private helipad on its roof. It is the workplace of Fourside's mayor, {{s|wikibound|Geldegarde Monotoli}}, who—under the influence of the Mani-Mani Statue—keeps [[Paula]] prisoner. After Paula is freed, he offers to lend his helicopter to Ness and his friends to help them reach their next location; however, [[Porky Minch]] steals the helicopter and flies away. In ''Melee'', the helicopter has a more realistic appearance, while in ''Ultimate'', it closely resembles its appearance in ''EarthBound''. The helicopter will eventually come back to repeat the cycle, unlike ''EarthBound'' where Pokey didn't come back after flying away. In both games, the design of the Monotoli Building is different than how it appeared in ''EarthBound'', though it retains the vertical "MONOTOLI" sign on its front.

 

The UFO's appearance is based on the ones which appear in the opening sequence of ''EarthBound'', which shows a still image depicting three large flying saucers attacking a small town. The sound which signals the UFO's entrance in ''Smash'' originally played during this opening sequence. Large flying saucers make no further appearances in the game; however, [[wikibound:Li'l UFO|smaller UFOs]] appear as enemies in both ''EarthBound Beginnings'' and ''EarthBound''.

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Fourside is often [[Tournament legal (SSBM)|banned]] due to the various ways in which players can camp and stall due to the large size and unusual geometry of the stage. The lack of large, flat platforms also hampers fighting between players, particularly in doubles. In addition, the UFO provides a platform that is too close to the upper [[blast line]], thus potentially causing early vertical KOs. The presence of pits between buildings gives relevant advantages to some characters, such as {{SSBM|Peach}} (who can stall indefinitely by using [[Peach Bomber]] repeatedly against the walls), while greatly crippling characters with primarily horizontal recoveries, such as {{SSBM|Donkey Kong}}, who are even more susceptible than usual to early KOs from [[meteor smash]]es and [[spike]]s. The narrow pits also give an advantage to characters capable of [[Wall jump|wall jumping]] such as {{SSBM|Mario}} and {{SSBM|Captain Falcon}} and makes recovery very difficult for {{SSBM|Ness}} should he fall between them due to the wide angle needed for [[PK Thunder]] to be used correctly, making directional [[air dodging]] his only form of recovering.

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File:PorkyHeliSSBU.png|thumb|The redesigned helicopter in ''Ultimate''.

File:SSBUWebsiteJoker1.jpg|{{SSBU|Joker}} on the stage.

*In ''Melee'', [[AI|computer players]] on Fourside tend to [[air dodge]] to recover instead of using their up special moves, sometimes even self-destructing.

*In ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', on the right building there is a clothesline with an orange Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses hanging on it, which resemble the shirt and sunglasses worn by {{s|wikibound|Everdred}} in ''EarthBound''. On the same building, a small water tower greatly resembles a house from {{s|wikibound|Saturn Valley}}, home of the [[Mr. Saturn]] species.

*Fourside briefly appeared in the E3 2018 Direct, and in the background was a [[:File:Unused Fourside Grand Department Store.jpg|skyscraper with the text "Department" going down its facade]]; in reference to the {{s|wikibound|Grand Department Store}} in ''EarthBound''. In the final release, the skyscraper is still present; however, the text is absent.

*[[Nikki]] cannot be summoned from an [[Assist Trophy]] in this stage, due to the dark background obscuring her drawings. [[Kapp'n]] and [[Rathalos]] can only be summoned on the Battlefield and Omega forms of this stage. Additionally, [[Keldeo]] can only be summoned on the stage's Battlefield and Omega forms.