Palette Swap (Super Smash Bros.)

In Super Smash Bros., each character had at least four costumes, one for each of the costume-changing C buttons. Some characters had an extra costume (or two) to accomodate for Team Battles if their four costumes lacked a red, blue, or green variation; these costumes cannot be selected outside of Team Battle since there are only four C buttons.

Captain Falcon

Captain Falcon's palette swaps in SSB

• Purple (default)
• Black: Resembles Captain Falcon in the Japanese commercial for F-Zero X.
• Red: Based on the appearance of his rival, Blood Falcon.
• White: The same colors as Jody Summers's outfit.
• Green*: The same colors as Pico's outfit.
• Blue*: An alternate, brighter version of his standard colors.

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong's palette swaps in SSB

• Brown (default)
• Black
• Red: Possibly based on his sprite in the original Donkey Kong.
• Blue
• Green*: The only Donkey Kong costume to date to change his face colour.

Fox

Fox's palette swaps in SSB

• White (default)
• Red: Fox's Star Fox outfit on the Japanese box art.
• Blue
• Green: similar to his father James McCloud's outfit.

Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff's palette swaps in SSB

• Pink (default)
• Red
• Blue
• Green

Kirby

Kirby's palette swaps in SSB

• Pink (default)
• Yellow: The same as Keeby. It is also similar to his colors scheme when he is Beam Kirby, sans the hat.
• Red: The same as when he is Fire Kirby, sans the hat. Also, this is Kirby's only color change in the original that is not in the multiplayer mode in Kirby 64.
• Blue: The same as when he is Ice Kirby, sans the hat.
• Green:* Homage to the days when Kirby was on the Game Boy screen, which was green.

Link

Link's palette swaps in SSB

• Green (default)
• Red: Based off the Goron Tunic from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
• Blue: Based off the Zora Tunic from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
• Light Purple: Based off the Blue Ring Tunic from the original The Legend of Zelda.

Luigi

Luigi's palette swaps in SSB

• Green (default)
• White: Based off Luigi's appearance in Super Mario Bros.
• Blue
• Red: Luigi's Wrecking Crew costume, in which Luigi wears pink.

Mario

Mario's palette swaps in SSB

• Red (default)
• Yellow: Based on the yellow-and-purple outfit of his rival, Wario.
• Brown: A reference to Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew.
• Blue: A red/blue reversal of his traditional colors. This is seen as a partial reference to Mario's varying appearances in games prior to Nintendo's officially establishment of Mario's outfit of consisting of a red shirt, blue overalls and red hat. In various earlier games, Mario occasionally also appeared with sometimes a blue hat, red shirt with blue overalls or a red hat, blue shirt with red overalls. However, this particular combination of a blue hat, blue shirt, with red overalls was never used in any game.
• Green:* The color inverse of his traditional colors. Contrary to popular belief it is not a reference to Luigi. However, it does coincidentally resemble Luigi's colors from the arcade version of Mario Bros box art.

Ness

Ness's palette swaps in SSB

• Red (default)
• Yellow
• Blue: It is possible his blue costume came from the Devil Machine's eye for the color of Ness's hat.
• Green

Pikachu

Pikachu's palette swaps in SSB

• Yellow (default)
• Red
• Blue
• Green

Samus Aran

Samus's palette swaps in SSB

• Orange (default)
• Pink: Based off the appearance of the Varia Suit when missiles are selected in the original NES Metroid game.
• Black
• Green: Based off the appearance of the Power Suit in Super Metroid, which had a greenish hue.
• Blue*: Based off of the Gravity Suit.

Yoshi

Yoshi's palette swaps in SSB

All of Yoshi's costumes are the different variations of the Yoshi species from the various Yoshi games including:

• Green (default)
• Red
• Light Blue
• Yellow
• Pink**
• Blue**

* Available through Team Battles only.
** Color is exclusive to CPU opponents in Single Player mode.

See Also

• Palette swap (SSBM)
• Palette swap (SSBB)