User blog comment:Samuelnoah/Ness? or even Lucas?/@comment-25051557-20140123203326/@comment-1859281-20140124024219

Lucas was timid in his own game. It added dramatic value to Mother 3 and made it one of the saddest games I know. Maybe you should play it sometime instead of bashing a character you don't know the origins of.

Just because Lucas was bad in Brawl gives no reason to cut him. Bowser was at the rock-bottom of the tier list in Melee, should he be cut? No, and he wasn't. He's still crap in Brawl, too.

Being 'too close' to Ness is an exaggeration. Lucas had a debt to pay, Ness saved him from being captured by Wario in the Subspace Emissary. If you were being chased by a giant statue in an abandoned zoo, all alone, would you run?

Yes, Lucas is a clone. He probably won't get in the next game. But all of your other opinions have little to no validity behind them.