Editing Takamaru

Takamaru is the protagonist of the 1986 Famicom game ''{{s|wikipedia|The Mysterious Murasame Castle}}'': he is an apprentice samurai who must protect Edo Japan and four neighboring castle towns from an evil alien menace, residing in the titular Murasame Castle. Armed with only a katana and his wit, he sets off to rescue the people from the extraterrestrial's influence. The game worked similarly to ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' - being based on the same engine - and had several power-ups for Takamaru to use, including sandals that let him walk on water, fireballs, throwing knives, and windmill swords. Takamaru and his game became rather obscure, owing to the lack of an overseas release; prior to the Famicom disc for the game making a cameo in ''Pikmin 2'', Takamaru was effectively unknown in the Western world. The character made his first international appearance in ''[http://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Samurai_Warriors_3 Samurai Warriors 3]'' as a playable character, with an English voice track by {{s|wikipedia|Darrel Guilbeau}} accompanying the appearance. After being featured in his own mini-game in the [[Wii U]] game ''{{s|mariowiki|Nintendo Land}}'', his own game received an international release for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] in the eShop.

Takamaru appears as an [[Assist Trophy]] in ''Super Smash Bros. 4''. When summoned, he moves around swiftly with dashes and jumps, mimicking the animations of his original game with choppy body movements. He attacks either by throwing Windmill Swords that travel in an "X" shape and deal 3% damage to characters on contact, or with a flurry of repeated slashes using his katana, which traps opponents and deals up to 40% damage, with high knockback on the final hit. He can be defeated if he takes enough hits. Takamaru is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, who also voiced [[Chrom]] in the same game's Japanese version. He is one of five characters in ''Smash 4'' that only speak Japanese in every version, with the others being {{SSB4|Marth}}, the [[Prince of Sablé]], {{SSB4|Roy}}, and {{SSB4|Cloud}}.

Takamaru returns as an [[Assist Trophy]], acting like how he did in ''Smash 4''. KOing him now earns a point, and he cannot appear on [[Boxing Ring]], [[Mute City SNES]], and [[Norfair]]. His voice clips from ''Smash 4'' are reused in ''Ultimate'' and he is one of seven characters in the game that only speak Japanese; the others are the [[Prince of Sablé]], {{SSBU|Cloud}}, [[Yuri Kozukata]], [[Akira Yuki]], {{SSBU|Sephiroth}}, and {{SSBU|Kazuya}}.