Travis Touchdown for Smash MEGA THREAD: in this thread I’m gonna be talking about the potential Travis has if he’s a fighter in SSBU, I’m a huge NMH/SUDA51 fan and it sucks seeing people just write him off sometimes saying he’d be another basic “anime swordsmen”

in this this thread I’ll give you a hypothetical/potential moveset, stage potential, music, cameos, and even slight reasons that are decently in Travis’s favor despite being pretty niche.

Hope you give it a read and heck even become a fan of SUDA51’s punk action series!!!

MOVESET:
I won’t deny Travis does indeed use a sword and is in an anime art style (hell fun fact, the artist behind FE Awakening and Fates did the art for NMH-TSA, imo Yūsuke Kozaki is an amazing artist)

however beside just swinging a sword, it could behave like Inkling where you have to keep check of your battery and make sure it doesn’t die mid battle, making you vulnerable

also inb4 “isn’t Travis’s charging animation rather.... suggestive?”
I would’ve agreed with you back then, however in Travis Strikes Again it gives multiple charging animations that are less provocative then this.

plus with Bayonetta she gets way more nude attacking then she does in smash, in short I have no doubt they can capture the spirt or charging a Beam Katana without removing the basic spirit of it.

“What about other stuff?” Well in NMH 2 Travis has a Ecstasy gauge that has the potential to make combos happen easier, and even turn into a tiger, I don’t think a typical fighter can do that.

plus he could use wrestling moves for grabs and even potential attacks, imagine Incin with a sword and telekinesi- oops got ahead of myself :)

Time for the big dog, so many skill chips to choose from for potential special, like the said telekinesis, grappling hook, clones, slow down time, and even lasers!!

Too many to show off.

Travisman could be a potential final smash, but in my opinion it would most likely be either the mech from NMH 2 or the new armor from NMH 3, maybe even do what Shulk and Min Min do and call characters like Bad Man, Shinobu, and even Henry Cooldown to help out!

In short Travis will be an anime swordsman, but not just “Marth 19” he’d be incredibly interesting to play as if he got in Ultimate and much different from the rest of the sword wielding cast Ultimate currently has right now.

STAGE POTENTIAL:

Most people just write it off that the stage is gonna be the No More Heroes motel, and yeah it might be similar to how Persona 5’s big stage was Momentos and FETH was the school (despite both fans agreeing better choice could be made) but I have some ideas.

Idea 1: Damon/Fu’s lair

We barely have info on it as of now but it looks incredibly interesting, play with it being so high up it wouldn’t be a walk off so that’s already top tier in my book!

Idea 2: Santa Destroy

It’d work similar to garreg mach in the sense of a platform taking you to one location after the other, to show off every landmark like the motel, the baseball stadium, and even all 500 gang hideouts in the worst town at California!w

Idea 3:

Personal favorite, ALL OF THEM!!!
aka the DEATH DRIVE

They could use the phantom game console to have you travel not just to NMH landmarks, but also stuff from other SUDA games like KILLER7, KTP trilogy, and even the games in TSA

In short stages would be great, heck worst case now IS the motel, which even then would be a nice change of pass from a typical SSBU stage imo

MUSIC:

OH GOD SO MUCH GOOD MUSIC TO COUNT, so I thought about it....

“Why not a playlist of tons of great tracks!!!”
and here it is!!!!

PUNK NEVER DIES!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0wXCosOA50pEtpTZQvARiLM2IvP0J3N

as for a victory theme, it would most likely be this
Context: when you rank up after an assassin ranking in NMH 1.


or this

Context: this is the song that plays when you kill a boss in NMH 2.

heck the music I added was JUST from NMH series, considering the SUDAverse is now canon and SUDA’s love of indie games I have no doubt they’d pull an SNK and add music from other games BESIDES NMH.

Imagine slicing Mario well Chosen by the Moon (from Killer is Dead) or Hydrogen (from Hotline Miami) plays in the background, that be sick!

Oh how careless of me, I got ahead of myself again, let me talk about.....

CAMEOS:

as I stated before the SUDAverse is canon, Travis meets up with Kamui from the Silver Case, Mondo Zappa from Killer is Dead, and even Dan Smith from Killer7!!

I have no doubt if Travis gets in they’d be not just spirits but also have music from their games added too!

as for games not made by SUDA, he is a huge indie gamer, heck indie games is what sparked him coming back to directing in the first place with TSA so I can easily see SUDA ask Sakurai to add indie tracks and characters, even NMH 3 is gonna have indie games represented.

and finally

POTENTIAL REASONS:

I don’t like fully saying “[Blank] IS IN!!!” but I’d be genuinely shocked if Travis didn’t at the very least get a Mii outfit or spirit event, here is why.

SUDA and Sakurai’s relationship:

Now when a dev says “I want my character in smash” it means nothing, Matt Bozon and Jeff Kaplan saying they want Tracer and Shantae mean nothing, however SUDA unlike them is pretty close pals with Sakurai