User blog comment:AdamGregory03/Top 10 Characters for Smash 5/@comment-27517770-20160811155813

Honestly, Scorpion would actually be pretty high on my list in terms of likeliness. Ed Boon is a big supporter of Nintendo. MK has had a history with Nintendo, and is still extremely popular to this day. Nintendo says that they want to be like the Disney of video games, but Disney is an international company. There are plenty of characters in Smash that were exclusive to Japan, and their inclusion has helped their game series grow in America. So it would make sense to do the same but in reverse. MK is a highly successful American company, and anybody who looks at gaming headlines can tell that it's a huge money maker. Scorpion's play style would fit in Smash perfectly, and his inclusion could help bring MK to Japan. If Nintendo treated itself as a global company, they would realize that MK is an extremely important series in the west. If Sakurai can censor Bayonetta but still make her seem like she hasn't changed, he can certainly make Scorpion work. I'm pretty sure that there aren't any characters from American companies in Smash, so I think it's time to change that.