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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Clayfighter is the name of the collaboration between Nintendo's crossover fighting game and Interplay/Visual Concepts' Clayfighter series. As part of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter Pass Vol. 2, content from Clayfighter would appear in the game in the form of paid downloadable content, including the character Bad Mr. Frosty as an additional playable character, Freezing Fortress as a stage, music from the series, and additional spirits.
The inclusion of Bad Mr. Frosty would be revealed in a surprise "Masahiro Sakurai Presents... ???" presentation on April 3rd, 2020, with the character being set for release later that week on April 5th, 2020, similar to Byelth's reveal for the Fighter's Pass. The announcement was accompanied by an announcement for the previously canceled Clayfighter: Call of Putty on Switch, with two further announcements being that Wario and Waluigi would both appear as Guest Fighters in Call of Putty and that more Clayfighter installments would make their way to the Switch in the near-future, reviving the series properly for the first time since 1998's ClayFighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut.
This page was created by Galaxy-Afro (t∣b∣c) as a conception of a Clayfighter character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, being inspired by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x NieR:Automata and various follow-ups from other users.
Franchise overview[]
ClayFighter is a series of fighting games that debuted on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in November 1993, before being ported to the Sega Genesis in 1994. The game was created as a silly and fun alternative to popular, yet, violent fighting games of the time such as Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. The silly and fun theme was expanded upon by having the characters in a claymation style, giving it its now-iconic name. True to its name, ClayFighter was designed with actual claymation in mind, and each of the 8 original fighters from the first installment was modeled by animation experts, Ken Pontac and David Beilman of Danger Productions. Upon the finalized eight fighters being designed and selected, artists at Danger Productions began to mold the clay figures into various positions, then animated them with stop-motion photography, which was then filmed by an Amiga camera that digitized the models. It was often described by the developers as a long and tedious process, with this part of development taking an entire year. Characters such as Blob required 70 models to be sculpted due to his style of fighting as well as his unusual movements compared to the other fighters.
The design of the game was made primarily to compete with the Mortal Kombat franchise, which at the time had already attracted controversy for its extremely violent gameplay, and used its blood-free gameplay and clay-animated style to market to Parents who opposed the Mortal Kombat series.
A Tournament-Edition of ClayFighter was released in 1994 with various bug fixes, new stages, as well as new difficulty settings, speed options, and versus modes. A sequel to ClayFighter, ClayFighter 2: Judgement Clay, was released in 1995 for the SNES. This was later followed by ClayFighter 63⅓ for the Nintendo 64 in 1997, which notably featured Earthworm Jim from the series of the same name, as a playable fighter. This was followed by ClayFighter 63⅓: Sculptor's Cut in 1998, which is notable for only having 20,000 copies released, making it one of the rarest and most sought-after Nintendo 64 games ever, and was only available as a rental-only game from Blockbuster Video Stores in North America. The series is currently on hiatus, with at least three additional games having been announced, but eventually canceled after little-to-no-news on the status of development.
Challenger Pack[]
As part of the Challenger Pack, the following content is added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
#76: Bad Mr. Frosty[]
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| Universe | ClayFighter |
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| Availability | Downloadable |
| Final Smash | Snowcone Squeeze/Top Hat Smash |
Bad Mr. Frosty is added as a playable character along with a wealth of brand new content for the game. He is labeled fighter #76 and is based on a combination of his SNES and N64 ClayFighter designs. His palette swaps are based on other characters from his home series, and in addition, half of his palettes feature him with top hat and half with his backward baseball cap.
Bad Mr. Frosty is one of two characters to have appeared in every installment of the ClayFighter series, a distinction shared with Blob. According to the ClayFighter series, Bad Mr. Frosty was previously an ordinary snowman when the first Claytereian meteor hit Playland. Losing his mild-mannered persona, only the beauty of winter, a keen sense of winter, and a love for pizza remained. Sometime after the first ClayFighter tournament, Bad Mr. Frosty made his way to the North Pole, where he fought with Santa Clauz, and the result turned Santa into Sumo Santa, leading to a major rivalry between both. After being arrested for assault and breaking and entering, Bad Mr. Frosty participated in the second ClayFighter tournament, where he had a change of heart and became an anti-hero.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Bad Mr. Frosty pulls from an array of attacks from across all of his appearances within the ClayFighter series.
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Stage: Freezing Fortress[]
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| Home Stage | Bad Mr. Frosty |
| Availability | Downloadable |
| Max. Players | 8 |
Bad Mr. Frosty's home stage is his arena from ClayFighter 63 1/3, being Frosty Fortress. The stage is the same design as its appearance in the N64 game, taking place outside of an icy fortress with a drawbridge and a surrounding moat. Much like fellow Fighting Game stages King of Fighters Stadium and Suzaku Castle, the stage has been given several open spots to fit within the traditional Smash gameplay. In addition, both Final Destination and Battlefield versions of the stage exist, taking on more of an icy platform at the bottom surrounded by various Pine Trees covered in snow, as well as the Fortress appearing in the background of both Final Destination and Battlefield rather than below. Occasionally, Sumo Santa will make an appearance on the stage and will engage in fights with the fighters until one of them defeats him. In VS mode, this earns an extra point for the player that ko'd Sumo Santa, similar to Ridley on Pyrosphere in Smash 4.
Spirits[]
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Mii Costumes[]
A total of 5 new Mii costumes were made available, featuring costumes inspired by characters from the Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, and Earthworm Jim franchises.
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Trivia[]
- Notably, all of the characters that appear as Mii Costumes are all from fighting games.
- Earthworm Jim is the exception to this, as he was only a guest in Clayfighter 63 1/3.