User blog comment:Radical M/New Nintendo Console/@comment-1636990-20110607194501/@comment-1956487-20110608012619

The feminist in me has always been bummed by the lack of female characters in the Super Smash Bros. game... there were only 3 in Brawl, unless you count alternate forms (Zero Suit Samus + Sheik) and Jigglypuff... but I almost never think of the Pokemon as having genders. Like Sprink, I'd like Krystal to be in the next one, and some other females who I think would be interesting are Dixie Kong, Birdo (technically female...?), maybe Lip or Paula, and Ashley from the Wario Games. I also think they should add a female Pokemon Trainer you can pick instead of the male one. Also, I imagine Lucario will get replaced by Zoroark. They seem to like to change whichever Pokemon fills that role with each game.