It remains to be seen if Disney finally approved Sora’s addition to the brawler series, if it will be Master Chief who will make the jump into the franchise, or if Nintendo is planning something unexpected. He is the fourth fighter to represent Square. His inclusion was revealed on October 5th, 2021 during his own ' Mr. Ultimate and is the sixth character in Fighters Pass Volume 2 and the twelfth downloadable character overall, as well as the game's final newcomer. Ultimate will add six more fighters to the roster, but Nintendo has not yet confirmed who they will be. Sora is a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Fighters Pass added Joker from Atlus’ Persona 5, Terry Bogard from SNK’s Fatal Fury franchise, and Banjo and Kazooie from Microsoft’s Banjo-Kazooie series. In the latest Masahiro Sakurai Famitsu column, translated by PushDustIn and KodyNOKOLO on Twitter, the Smash director pulled back the curtain on Soras inclusion. game, with the possibility remaining open as Nintendo has not been shy in adding characters from outside its properties to the series. A chance meeting is part of the reason Sora from Kingdom Hearts joined Super Smash Bros.
Sora and Master Chief would likely prove to be popular fighters in a Super Smash Bros. However, he noted that instead of Sora, a more popular addition to the fighting game may be Halo‘s Master Chief. Ultimate, which was released in 2018 for the Nintendo Switch, so the timeline of Nintendo’s request and Disney’s disapproval is unclear. Khan did not specifically mention Super Smash Bros. “They absolutely approached Disney about once,” said Khan, who also confirmed that it was Disney that was blocking the Kingdom Hearts protagonist’s arrival to the brawler series.