Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC: 8 Rumoured Characters You Need To Know About

8. Hunter - Monster Hunter: World

The prospect of Smash welcoming Capcom's famed RPG series into the fold has been debated with equal parts hope and speculation, a dream thought to be all but confirmed when Nintendo revealed the latter's Ratholos monster as one of several unplayable boss characters for Ultimate's suite of single-player modes.

Disappointingly, the opposite turned out to be true. Not a single Hunter clad in the skin and bone of its latest kill was to be seen on Ultimate's roster, but there's still hope. Besides the obvious supporting evidence - that Monster Hunter content already exists in-game - a recent data mine revealed, among other things, the file names of every existing character and one currently unavailable in-game.

That name is Brave, and just so happens to be the same term used to describe one of Monster Hunter's combat styles, Brave Style. Given that the player character in Capcom's series is always an unnamed protagonist, its use as a name for several different echo fighters based on the series would make sense, but it's not the only character proposed to be filling the slot...