User blog comment:Plasmaster/Everyone. Nintendo Just Announced Smash 5./@comment-24843283-20180316213303/@comment-6684591-20180317012207

I'm not wishing for her to be cut, I just think it'll happen. She was almost cut in Brawl. The Original 12, as much as I like the concept, isn't something that Sakurai has confirmed to be a process of his; to the game devs of Smash, the Original 12 as a concept of characters that are guaranteed to be in each game, it isn't real. It's something Smash fans have created to grow comfortable with the idea that 12 beloved characters to the community won't be removed from the series.