User blog comment:Blazekin36/Veteran Characters That Will Not Return/@comment-6604133-20141210052158

I feel like they'll bring back at least one veteran. The most likely, I think, is Wolf. Wolf can still maintain his light semi-clone status. Besides the fact that he was one of my mains and had no reason to be cut anyway, I'd say Fox's alternate colour doesn't matter much. Mario still has an alt. colour of Wario and to a lesser extent, Samus has an alt. colour of Dark Samus. Snake would be my second guess, simply because so many people miss him and I bet Kojima would pay to have Snake return. He may not be very likely though because I doubt they'll want to get the game bumped up to a possible T rating. Lucas is probably the third most likely, again because of fan input alone. He could either return a semi-clone and share Ness's custom moves or just be completely decloned (less likely). Pichu, Roy, and YL are probably gone this game, if not forever. And there's sadly no way Squirtle and Ivysaur will return.