Wario was strongly considered for Melee's roster, and on a fan questionnaire on Smabura-Ken, Sakurai stated that he would add Wario to Melee if he had more time to add just one more character.
Sonic later became playable in Brawl, and he also became the basis of a famous hoax.
Former head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka, stated in an interview with EDGE magazine that Sonic was strongly considered for Melee, but was not added due to time constraints.
By the time of Kojima's request, however, Melee was too far in development for the developers to feasibly add another character. One of the reasons why Kojima asked Sakurai is because his son wanted to see Snake in Smash.
Reportedly, Hideo Kojima, a close personal friend of Sakurai, asked him if Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid could be considered as a playable character in Melee.
Lucas later became playable in Brawl, but did not replace Ness. When Mother 3 was cancelled for a Nintendo 64 release and instead moved to the Game Boy Advance for development, Ness was kept in Melee.
Lucas, the protagonist of the then-unreleased Mother 3, was initially supposed to appear as a replacement to Ness.
She was ultimately dropped as a candidate as Sakurai felt her series, more than any other in the game, would be wildly unfamiliar to international audiences.
Ayumi Tachibana from Famicom Detective Club was considered as a playable character, as confirmed by Sakurai on a Niconico interview in 2016.
Among the other considered characters included Balloon Fighter, the player character from Urban Champion, Bubbles from Clu Clu Land, and an Excitebike racer.
A number of characters were intended to represent Nintendo's early NES era, a role that was ultimately fulfilled by the Ice Climbers.
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