
The Challenger Approaching! screen which Dark Pit challenges the player in Super Smash Bros. The Challenger Approaching! screen which Falco challenges the player in Super Smash Bros. The Challenger Approaching! screen which Ganondorf challenges the player in Super Smash Bros.

The Challenger Approaching! screen which Jigglypuff challenges the player in Super Smash Bros. The placeholder slots were removed in Brawl, Smash 4, and Ultimate. Instead their portraits simply appeared afterward. The clone characters didn't use placeholders prior to unlocking. In Smash 64, the character select screen displayed placeholders for not yet unlocked characters. Match or mode will allow for another attempt. Match to unlock them after the criteria has been met, playing another Vs. Once the player has met this criteria in-game, a message will display in all cases, the player is given this screen after completely finishing gameplay.Īs with most fighting games, in all five games if the player fails to defeat the character in the Vs. Melee are unlockable.Ī unique criterion must be met in order to unlock a certain character, as outlined below. Ultimate, every newcomer starting from Super Smash Bros. indicating unlockable characters.Īn unlockable character (also referred to as a secret character or hidden character, and in-game as challengers) is one that is not available at the start of the game (unlike a starter character), but instead must be received in-game (unlike downloadable characters) through other means. Character selection screen in Super Smash Bros.
