Game cast- No new character suggestions

[Sol]

koopaul, let me remind you that it really isn't your project per se. Now I'm not saying Ton is a god, because he apparently isn't, but he at least has a fairly good understanding of what he envisions this project to be, and I'm fairly sure he knows what works and what not. Also, as far as it stands now, Ton still has a supervising, perhaps even a directing role here, so as it now stands, even though we all have a lot of say in this project, the ultimate call is his. If he says no to something, you better come up with a damn good reason why you are right, and in my honest opinion, DLC is not a damn reason why we should boot Roy or any other character you want to boot.

And I'm goddamn pretty well sure everybody except you wants the Masked Man.

Actually, he isn't the only one, I don't really want him in the roster either. Him being a character is a little contradictory on Ton's part, as he said:

I'd rather put in someone we recognize than Japan does.

And yet Masked Man is from a Japan-only game, and doesn't even appear until the end of the fifth chapter of said game.

I've never played Mother 3, but I know the general story, and (SPOILERS) the events of the game are orchestrated by Porky, including the Masked Man's creation and his actions, which I think makes him as much the chief villain of that game as Masked Man, even if it's an unseen role. I'm not saying Masked Man isn't an important character in Mother 3, nor am I saying that he wouldn't work as a character, but there are more notable Nintendo characters that could be in the roster in his place. People want to take out other characters for this same reason.

Using Ray as an example:

Games in the Mother series: 3. International releases? 1.
Games in the Custom Robo series: 5. International releases? 2.

Is an NPC character from a Japan only game more important than the poster character of a series with two internationally available games? The number of just the Custom Robo games available in America is only one less than the entire Mother series.