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I'll respond in depth later, I very much disagree with a lot of what you said, but I must correct you on this right now: Micaiah and Ike are, indeed, the two main characters of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. She's not a secondary character, she is a main character. The game is an ensemble game really, and you play with a variety of people as the "main character" over the course of the game (in addition to Ike and Micaiah you also play as Elincia, Sanaki, and maybe others as the lead), but the two of them are the primary leads through most of the game (the other parts are smaller pieces). Ike is not the sole lead of the game, she is too. Yes, Ike was better known because he also was the main character of Path of Radiance on the Gamecube while she was a new character, but still, she is a main character, and is the first Fire Emblem main character to be a mage, which was great to see because the fact that FE main characters were always sword wielders (unless you count Hector from FE7 as one, in which case you can add the axe) was getting a bit old... it was great to see them mix things up a bit. And then Ike becomes a playable character in the next SSB game, Lyn from FE7 an assist (again, as I said, yes, from an older FE game, but one of the most popular female FE characters, which is why she's in as an assist at all and why some people thought she might be a playable character), and Micaiah just a sticker. :(

Yeah that's a legitimate point, in the same way some wondered why Terra got the hero role in Dissidia instead of, say Celes. I haven't beaten the Wii game yet though, so I'm just going from the first few chapters where it seems like Ike's the star again. Yeah I admit I'd rather have a unique character instead of a Marth clone too. It's clear that Lyn IS the main character of her game though, but again I'd say that it's more a case of bad timing. Roy's game had just come out so he got stuck in Melee along with Marth, and Ike's second game came along, so he got the spot here. You could make a good argument for Mec, but there's a part of laziness there. It was easier to make a clone.

As much as I'd like to see more variety with the Mother/Earthbound series, such as Paula, it suffers from the same thing. Lucas was the main character of his own game, so he got priority, and again it was easier to make a clone of Ness. Sadly, if they went with Mother 1/Earthbound Zero, they'd probably stick Ninten in there as yet another Ness clone, only this time (from the art I've seen) I bet you couldn't even tell the difference.

I think when it comes to clones, about the only one I'd care to see is Luigi. He deserves to be in there. Also, I'd love to see Ganondorf as something other than a Falcon clone. Again, stick in that black devil looking guy from F-Zero as the "slow but powerful" Falcon clone if you've gotta have that in there. I know Edenmaster loves that.