User blog comment:TheFoolisherFoolishFool/What happened to Lucas?/@comment-25161957-20140928050045

Also, bringing one character representing a franchise to two is a big thing. It's pretty big I mean, Captain Falcon has been alone this whole time and the only other character representing Metroid other than Samus is... Samus in a zero suit. So then Sakurai evidently tried to give Earthbound more representation in Brawl and then when SSB4 came out, he just couldn't care less.