User blog comment:SluggishTheMan8/DLC Suggestions/@comment-25324852-20150108233219/@comment-5207274-20150109125827

Yeah, me too. There were absolutely no reasons to remove him and Wolf from the roster. One could say there were clones of Ness and Fox, but that's bullshit. They didn't share any of their animations (which in essence is what constitute a "clone character"), and had unique gameplay.