User blog comment:Scapemaster97/Returning Veteran Poll 2.0/@comment-25161957-20140809093926

Lucas is a semi-clone (as stated by this wiki.). There are more similarities between Mario/Luigi (only difference are most specials, third hit combo, dash attack, forward aerial, side smash.) and Link/Toon Link. Guess what? They're all in the game.

The similarities between Ness and Lucas is they share the same side smash and their specials are similar (not the same appearence, effect, usage, etc)

The "They're clones so he should be cut" excuse should be considered invalid ever since Lucina got in the game.