A starter character is a character who is already available for play immediately after turning the game on for the first time; the player does not have to unlock, challenge or download that character in order for him or her to be selectable (as one must do to select unlockable characters and downloadable characters).
List of starter characters
The following characters appear as starter characters:
Super Smash Bros.
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Super Smash Bros. starters.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Bowser
- Captain Falcon
- Donkey Kong
- Fox
- Ice Climbers
- Kirby
- Link
- Mario
- Ness
- Peach
- Pikachu
- Samus
- Yoshi
- Zelda/Sheik
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Bowser
- Diddy Kong
- Donkey Kong
- Fox
- Ice Climbers
- Ike
- King Dedede
- Kirby
- Link
- Lucas
- Mario
- Meta Knight
- Olimar
- Peach
- Pikachu
- Pit
- Pokémon Trainer
- Samus/Zero Suit Samus
- Wario
- Yoshi
- Zelda/Sheik
Super Smash Bros. 4
- Bowser
- Bowser Jr. *
- Captain Falcon
- Charizard
- Diddy Kong
- Donkey Kong
- Fox
- Ganondorf *
- Greninja
- Ike
- Jigglypuff *
- King Dedede
- Kirby
- Link
- Little Mac
- Lucario
- Luigi
- Mario
- Marth
- Mega Man
- Meta Knight
- Mii Fighter
- Ness *
- Olimar
- Pac-Man
- Palutena
- Peach
- Pikachu
- Pit
- Robin
- Rosalina
- Samus
- Sheik
- Shulk
- Sonic
- Toon Link
- Villager
- Wii Fit Trainer
- Yoshi
- Zelda
- Zero Suit Samus
* Represents characters that are only starter characters in the WiiU Version
Trivia
- Wario is the only character to have debuted as a starter to have been made unlockable in another.
- Prior to SSB4, there were no unlockable females.
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the first game where all of the original 12 characters appear as starters.
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is also the most starter characters with the total of 40.
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has the same number of starter characters as the number of total characters in Brawl.