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No items, Fox only, Final Destination

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"No items, Fox only, Final Destination" is an Internet meme that pokes fun at competitive players of the Super Smash Bros. series. The origin of the meme is not clear, but its components are: tournaments are known for having items turned off, Fox has been the highest-ranked character on Melee's tier list for several iterations and is by far the most used character in Melee tournaments, and Final Destination is known as the most competitive play-friendly stage in the series (which while not necessarily true in practice, it is still well-known for it). Combined into a phrase, it is quoted by Internet users as a sort of catchphase for competitive play in general, under the implication that competitive play is "less fun" than "regular" or "casual" play.

The phrase is ubiquitous to the point of not being exclusive to the Super Smash Bros. series. Players of other games may use a variation of "no X, Y only, Final Destination" to refer to competitive play of their game, with X often being a feature disabled in tournaments while Y is a character that high-level players tend to succeed with the most (or alternatively, a character that has the physical features of a fox). "Final Destination" is sometimes replaced with a native stage of competitive fairness, but is more often left as-is as the "anchor" of the phrase. Oddly enough, despite the original phrase being Melee-specific, corresponding phrases for other games in the series are effectively unheard of.

The phrase's pervasiveness has arguably been noticed by the developers of the Super Smash Bros. series. In both versions of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. 4, the two online modes playable against non-friends are For Fun and For Glory. For Fun allows any stage except Final Destination and has all items on, while For Glory turns off all items, allows 1v1 fights instead of just free-for-alls, and only allows Final Destination and "Final Destination versions" of stages (i.e. existing stages restructured to have Final Destination's stage design).

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