Alternate costume (SSB)

In Super Smash Bros., each character had at least four costumes, one for each of the costume-changing C buttons. Some characters had an extra costume (or two) to accomodate for Team Battles if their four costumes lacked a red, blue, or green variation; these costumes cannot be selected outside of Team Battle since there are only four C buttons.

Captain Falcon

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Captain Falcon's palette swaps in SSB

• Purple (default)
• Black: Resembles Captain Falcon in the Japanese commercial for F-Zero X.
• Red: Based on the appearance of his rival, Blood Falcon.
• White: The same colors as Jody Summers's outfit.
• Green*: The same colors as Pico's outfit.
• Blue*: An alternate, brighter version of his standard colors.

Donkey Kong

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Donkey Kong's palette swaps in SSB

• Brown (default)
• Black: Similar to Chunky Kong.
• Red: possibly based on his sprite in the original Donkey Kong.
• Blue
• Green*: The only Donkey Kong costume to date to change his face colour.

Fox

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Fox's palette swaps in SSB

• White (default)
• Red: Fox's Star Fox outfit on the Japanese box art.
• Blue
• Green: similar to his father James McCloud's outfit.

Jigglypuff

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Jigglypuff's palette swaps in SSB

• Pink (default)
• Red
• Blue
• Green

Kirby

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Kirby's palette swaps in SSB

• Pink (default)
• Yellow: The same as Keeby. It is also similar to his colors scheme when he is Beam Kirby, sans the hat.
• Red: The same as when he is Fire Kirby, sans the hat.
• Blue: The same as when he is Ice Kirby, sans the hat.
• Green:* Homage to the days when Kirby was on the Game Boy screen, which was green.

Link

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Link's palette swaps in SSB

• Green (default)
• Red: Based off the Goron Tunic from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
• Blue: Based off the Zora Tunic from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
• Violet: Based off the Blue Ring Tunic from the original The Legend of Zelda.

Luigi

Luigi is the only character that doesn't change its position when changing colors.

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Luigi's palette swaps in SSB

• Green (default)
• White: Based off Luigi's appearance in Super Mario Bros.
• Blue
• Red: Luigi's Wrecking Crew costume, in which Luigi wears pink.

Mario

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Mario's palette swaps in SSB

• Red (default)
• Yellow: Based on the yellow-and-purple outfit of his rival, Wario.
• Brown: A reference to Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew.
• Blue: A red/blue reversal of his traditional colors. This is seen as a partial reference to Mario's varying appearances in games prior to Nintendo's officially establishment of Mario's outfit of consisting of a red shirt, blue overalls and red hat. In various earlier games, Mario occasionally also appeared with sometimes a blue hat, red shirt with blue overalls or a red hat, blue shirt with red overalls. However, this particular combination of a blue hat, blue shirt, with red overalls was never used in any game.
• Green:* The color inverse of his traditional colors. Contrary to popular belief it is not a reference to Luigi. However, it does coincidentally resemble Luigi's colors from the arcade version of Mario Bros box art.

Ness

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Ness's palette swaps in SSB

• Red (default)
• Yellow
• Blue: It is possible his blue costume came from the Devil Machine's eye for the color of Ness's hat.
• Green

Pikachu

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Pikachu's palette swaps in SSB

• Yellow (default)
• Red
• Blue
• Green

Samus Aran

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Samus's palette swaps in SSB

• Orange (default)
• Pink: Based off the appearance of the Varia Suit when missiles are selected in the original NES Metroid game.
  • Used when Samus is on the Red team.
• Black
• Green: Based off the appearance of the Power Suit in Super Metroid, which had a greenish hue.
• Blue*: Based off of the Gravity Suit.

Yoshi

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Yoshi's palette swaps in SSB

All of Yoshi's costumes are the different variations of the Yoshi species from the various Yoshi games including:

• Green (default)
• Red
• Light Blue
• Yellow
• Pink**
• Blue**

* Available through Team Battles only.
** Color is exclusive to CPU opponents in Single Player mode.

See Also

• Palette swap (SSBM)
• Palette swap (SSBB)