Template talk:SSBU

Determine which characters count as bosses in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
There's been some issues going on with trying to classify which characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate count as bosses and which ones don't. Well, there's a lot of disagreement going on for the past...year or so, so this proposal must will hopefully set the record straight. Here are the points I've made regarding this topic on other user's talk pages:
 * 1) Giga Bowser, Galleom, Dharkon, Galeem, Marx, Dracula, Master Hand, Crazy Hand, Rathalos and Ganon (all of which appear in both Classic Mode and World of Light) have health bars at the top of the screen, which aren't the same as damage percentages or the Stamina mode health bars.
 * 2) These bosses don't have the announcer say "Ready? Go!" at the start of the battle. The announcer only starts the battle during regular Smash battles in other occurrences throughout the game.
 * 3) The "so-called" bosses at the end of Classic Mode (those being a Giant Donkey Kong, a Giant Palutena and a Metal Mario, to name a few) have none of these things. These battles play literally just like any other Smash battle in the game. Not only that, most of them just use a permanent Super Mushroom or Metal Box, just like other opponents found in other character's Classic Modes (like Kirby fighting a Giant Yoshi and a Giant Wario or the Dragon Quest Hero fighting a Giant Charizard after defeating Robin for his final round) and others are literally just some playable characters back-to-back (like with the final round for both Hero and Mega Man).
 * 4) Not to mention, those "so-called" bosses aren't treated differently by the game at all. They are treated the same as a regular playable character before the battle begins. For example, in Kirby's Classic Mode, he has to fight a Giant Yoshi in Round 2 and a Giant Wario in Round 4. Before the battles, there's nothing that indicates the opponents are going to be giant-sized until after it starts. Same with the "so-called" bosses (although in Bowser's case, the Metal-Boxed Mario spawns after the regular Mario is defeated).
 * 5) The actual bosses in Classic Mode, depending on which character is selected, are not always fought for the final round. Some characters fight the boss before the final round (Mega Man, Bowser and the Hero come to mind); the actual final round for some characters is against a regular character or two regular characters, one after another (Bowser, Mega Man, Jigglypuff and Bayonetta come to mind in this specific instance).

Doc von Schmeltwick and Alex95 provided some of their own reasonings about why this isn't the case, but both of them are flawed. Doc's reasoning is that "they're bosses." No, they're not. If the game does not treat them as such and treats them like a playable character in a Mega or Metal Smash in Custom Smash or heck, even an ordinary Smash battle, then they don't count as bosses under any circumstance. If every giant or metal rival in Classic Mode was classified as a boss just because some user said so, then every single one fought in that mode would be on the template when in actuality, the bosses with health bars at the top of the screen should be the only ones on there in the first place.

Secondly, Alex95's reasoning is that the definition of a "boss in video games" is someone that stands in your way of a goal. But the thing is...literally every fighter in Smash Bros. could fit under that definition, Giant or Metal or not. Sure, they may have several different roles, but the permanent Giant or Metal opponents at the end of some Classic Mode routes are not bosses. Heck, on the splash screen before these battles, the game calls them the "Final Round," not the "Final Boss." For good reason, because not everyone fights a boss during the final round. That definition is also flawed in regards to other games in general, as enemies also serve the same purpose to standing in your way to a goal.

Who knows what these users here think after reading all of these points, so I'm letting you vote between three different options:

1) Remove the Giant or Metal variations of playable characters or just playable characters from the Bosses section of the template.

Conditions:
 * The Giant or Metal playable characters and regular-old-playable characters with no changes whatsoever from the template will be removed.
 * The bosses present in that section are ones who appear in both World of Light and Classic Mode (and Galeem and Dharkon).

2) Add a new section in the template to categorize the Giant or Metal fighters and regular playable characters under a new header (something I came up of during the initial talk-page arguments).

Conditions:
 * A new section in the template will be added, which contains the Giant or Metal playable characters and others.
 * The bosses from both World of Light and Classic Mode (and Galeem and Dharkon) will be in the same section as previously if this option passes.
 * New section name suggestions can go in the comments.

3) Do absolutely nothing.

Conditions:
 * The dreaded selection and should not be chosen under any circumstances.
 * Those who select it will get vaporized by Galeem be counterpointed and persuaded in the comments below.

So, what do you think? Should the Giant and Metal playable characters fought at the end of someone's Classic Mode in a regular Smash battle count as bosses or not? Personally, I think not.

Proposer: Deadline: September 21, 2019, 23:59 GMT

Remove the Giant or Metal variations of playable characters and just playable characters from the Bosses section of the template

 * 1) My primary choice. Per all the points I've made up above. Kinda interesting how each proposal I've done so far has multiple choices, but that's not important right now.
 * 2) Per proposal.

Add a new section in the template and categorize these fighters under a new header relating to Classic Mode

 * 1) My secondary choice. Per the points I've made up above.

Do absolutely nothing

 * 1) I cannot hammer this home enough. Bosses is bosses. They don't need every possible attribute to be a boss, just the most important one, ie being an especially-strong opponent fought near some sort of climax. Following your logic, Jigglypuff has no bosses (which isn't true). "World of Light" has no bearing on the Classic Mode.
 * 2) - You twisted some of my words. While I did say "a "boss", in its simplest definition, is someone that stands in your way of a goal", which can mean literally any enemy ever, I clarified that it was supposed to mean "someone who stands directly at or before the goal and tries to keep you from obtaining it." You even responded to this clarification, yet didn't add it to this. Anyway, I brought up my points here, here, and here and am holding to them.

Comments
@Doc von Schmeltwick: In this example, Jigglypuff has "no" bosses (which is true). The actual bosses in World of Light also appear in Classic Mode, not counting Galeem and Dharkon. In which case, why would ordinary playable characters with permanent Giant or Metal status be boss material if you can literally achieve that same ffect in Custom Smash? @Alex95: In that case, an ordinary playable character or a playable character with status buffs normally found in Custom Smash does not count as a boss, even if they're the last obstacle before winning the Classic Mode in this case. – Owencrazyboy9 (talk) 16:38, September 7, 2019 (EDT)
 * The World of Light has no bearing on Classic Mode. Saying that Jigglypuff has "no" bosses is straight-up lying (which is reprehensible). It's an absurdly blatant call-back to a SSB boss. And it has an even more boss-like role here. Issa boss, no ifs, ands, or buts. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 16:45, September 7, 2019 (EDT)