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Cruel Melee and Cruel Brawl are Multi-Man modes in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, respectively. They challenge the player to defeat as many opponents, with high handicaps and increased aggressiveness, as possible (Fighting Wire Frames in Melee, and Fighting Alloys in Brawl) before falling from the stage or self-destructing, their self. In Cruel Brawl, the Fighting Alloy opponents mimic the characters Mario, Kirby, Zelda, and Captain Falcon, though they cannot make use of the corresponding characters' special attacks, making them slightly easier to knock-out as they have little ability to recover using their own moves. These are unarguably the most challenging of all Multi-Man Melees and Brawls, as the opponents faced are immensely harder than those who appear in the other modes.

The high scores of Cruel Melee and Brawl are recorded by the amount of opponents knocked out.

Rewards

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Defeating five opponents in Cruel Melee will result in unlocking the Mr. Resetti trophy.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

  • Defeating five opponents in Cruel Brawl will result in unlocking a trophy depicting the Red Alloy.
  • Defeating ten opponents in Cruel Brawl will result in unlocking a sticker depicting Liquid Snake.

Trivia

  • The Super Smash Bros. Melee incarnation of this mode is famous for its involvement in the Sonic and Tails Rumor spread by Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. The rumor suggested that after defeating 20 Fighting Wire Frames in a single round would challenge the player to defeat Sonic and Tails of the Sonic series, where victory would result in unlocking the characters. This rumor was proven false both in premise and in practice. Not only would it be highly unlikely that Sega (which, at the time of Melee's release, was not yet a third party company) would sell its characters for use in a Nintendo title, but Cruel Melee strategies proved very quickly that Sonic and Tails did not actually appear after knocking out 20 opponents.
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