Uh first of all, there will be one or two more third-party characters. Let me clear that.

And second, YES, Meta Knight's stage is my favorite as well! Also I want DeDeDe.

Megaman and Sonic? I would shit myself if either one of them makes it in. If both do, I'd poop even harder.

Tonight's update is going to be either Megaman or Sonic.

Nnnnope, just 'Special Brawl'
At least they made it more gimmicky and fun to screw with this time around.

Next time...I'll be right next time.

I like how they did special mode this time around. It's a lot more customizable than melee's and it'll probably be a lot more fun too. 

A couple more than beforehand


Also, whether or not other people have picked up on it or not (mostly because it's blatantly obvious), go into your trophy gallery on Melee and take a look through, a lot of them are becoming assist trophies, so I think it'd be a more accurate thing to go off, even though we don't really care about them anyway, but also some of those trophies have become characters (metaknight, pit, wario), and well, I think it could be used to at least attempt to guess a few bosses as well (duuuh gee u so smrt carius).
Personally I want to see King K. Rool as a Boss, as well as King Dedede, they deserve their spot in there somewhere after all.

Okay guys, I know you are sick of the Sonic in Smash debate but I have some newly organized thoughts on the matter.  I'm now 90% sure he is in the game - just look at the FACTS!  These are facts you already know, but presented differently - oooh.

FACT:
Nintendo put up that reader poll in 2006 to find out who fans want in the game.  This demonstrates that Nintendo is open to fan suggestions.

FACT:
The top choice in that reader poll was Sonic.  Nintendo has admitted on various occasions that they are keenly aware that Sonic is at the top of this list.

FACT:
Nintendo has included third party character, Solid Snake, and have stated they are trying to get two or three more third party characters.  Combine this with fact one and two - of course they would go after Sonic, the character that readers submitted when asked for input.

FACT:
Sonic and Mario at the Olympic games.  This announcement sets a precedent that the two companies can share their characters in the same game.

When you look at it this way, it seems like a no-brainer.  The question is no longer why would Sonic be in Brawl, but why wouldn't he?  Sonic's road is wide open.  At this point, I would simply expect him to be in there unless someone came up with a really good reason that he wouldn't be.  And you can speculate some reasons why he wouldn't be, but nothing very strong that would counter these facts.

Duh because he wasn't a trophy in Melee :P


Talking seriously though I agree completely with your closing statement, but the other fact that you forgot to mention that sways me a bit is that:

FACT:
Nintendo has disappointed us in the past, and based on past judgments they are likely to disappoint us again.
They know what we want but they don't give it to us.

FACT: Uhh Sonic has like 2 attacks total dude.

I think Sonic's illustrious history could offer at least four special moves.  Nintendo's been clever about how they make their move sets before, so why would Sonic be any different?  And a lot of the moves characters use are generic, anyway.  When was the last time you saw Captain Falcon use a Falcon Punch outside of Smash Brothers?

Whatever the case, I can only hope that Sonic's a part of the cast.  But, we'd better watch out, because a friend of mine said that if Sonic was a character and Knuckles WASN'T unlockable, he'd personally go break every disk in half.

That's ridiculous, dude. Hardly anyone had any attacks before Smash Bros. They gave Shiek an arsenal, Mario extra moves, Zelda moves, Gannondorf extra moves, and basically made up entire movesets for Fox/Falco/Ice Climbers/Peach etc. I think it'd take them a total of 20 minutes to think up moves for Sonic.

The thing with the other characters though (except Mario but most of his attacks were in other games as well) is that they had a lot of working room because they have never really fought before. Sonic, on the other hand, has basically been using the same 2 moves for his entire career.

What about the Sonic fighting game?  I think it was only released in Japan.  Does anyone know about that or what moves he had in that game?