Forum:What's with all the hate on Dark PIt?

Granted, I had the hate but I let it fly by, and now I like him. Seriously, you should give him some respect instead of bashing him! Marioisawesome118 14:09, 3 April 2015 (EDT)

It's primarily because he is the laziest and least sensible clone ever. Exact same model, textures are the same except palette swapped, has literally only 1 normal and 2 special moves (3 if you count his Final Smash) that differ from his base character. Would have made way more sense as an alternate-name costume in the vein of Alph. That said, if he got actual changes to be different from Pit in a future update (theres no reason that his normal attacks need to have the same stats as Pits being that hes using a different weapon; only utilt, uthrow, and bthrow have reason to be identical. Being that two of the same weapon differ in stats in Uprising, theres also reason for their Guardian Orbitars to differ, and Dark Pit's power of flight being self-powered and infnite gives reason for their up special moves to have differences as well) I wouldn't really be bothered by his inclusion as much. ♡FirstaLasto♥ 15:16, 3 April 2015 (EDT)

As a clone, Dark Pit's a freebie that cost almost nothing in terms of dev time, and is a good candidate for getting turned into more of a semiclone in future games should he remain in the roster. Clones are fine in moderation, and SSB4 has half as many as Melee. I find the complaints pretty weak in substance. Miles (talk) 15:20, 3 April 2015 (EDT)

It get bad when you actually look at character inclusion merit. Dark Pit is a contender for most un-deserving character inclusion in the entire series. While I'd say the award for true most un-deserving would go to Lucina for being the second rep from a one single game that didn't even sell 2 million copies worldwide, and being a clone, and being the 4th rep for a fairly niche series that isn't that well known and has not sold past 10 million units as a whole, and there being a better and more unique clone choice for the original, Marth, known as Roy, Dark Pit is still fairly bad of an inclusion since its the 3rd rep of a niche series that hasn't sold past 5 million units, and is a clone. MarioIsTheBest (talk) 15:42, 3 April 2015 (EDT)

@Miles, but for the most part, Melee's clones are pretty well designed and different enough from the original characters. Smash 4's clones are badly designed and just flat-out lazy. Also, Melee added its clones once development for the game was already nearing a close and the game was pretty polished. But for Smash 4, with the effort they put in to these very half-assed clones, they could have re-added Lucas instead, as Lucas is similar enough to Ness for this to have been reasonable, and not had to charge us extra money for him (or they coulda finished Mewtwo in time), or they could have spent time polishing up other aspects that were clearly unfinished (see Special Mode existing in Smash 3DS, but not being playable). DoctorPain99 17:16, 3 April 2015 (EDT)