Troubled Production: The original plan for the game was to have a separate team work on The Subspace Emissary.This is also the reason why they're the final unlockable characters in the game outside the SSE. Because of this, they were withheld from being given a real role in the story, as rewriting the plot to account for a character's removal and redoing already-done CGI cutscenes with scrapped characters wasn't practically feasible, so everyone involved in the SSE had to be characters whose spot on the final roster was locked down early in development. Toon Link, Jigglypuff, and Wolf don't show up in the SSE until as bonus characters after beating the game for a similar reason all three were among a designated group of low priority characters planned for inclusion but not seen as essential, and were thus expendable to get scrapped mid-development as needed to satisfy development constraints (while in their case they were fortunate enough to make the roster cut in the end unlike the rest of their peers in the low priority group).With the licensing and finalization of Sonic's spot on the roster coming so late, there was no time to go back and rewrite the SSE's story and redo cutscenes to have him in, which explains his out of nowhere appearance tacked on at the end. The reason Sonic doesn't have much of an actual role and only shows up at the end to fight Tabuu, is because Sonic wasn't added to the roster until over halfway through development.
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Wolf went from Grant Goodeve to Jay Ward, while Leon and Panther, who were both voiced by David Scully, are instead voiced by Jim Walker and Eric Newsome, respectively.
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The Star Wolf also saw their voice actors changed from Assault. However, while Falco and Peppy's Melee voices, Ben Cullum and Chris Seavor again, are replaced, they are not voiced by their Assault actors, Mike Madeoy and Henry Dardenne, respectively, but instead both are voiced by Dex Manley. Accordingly Fox and Slippy's voices change from Steve Malpass and Chris Seavor to Jim Walker and Mike McAuliffe, respectively. The Star Fox crew mostly drew voice actors from Star Fox Assault, while Melee's Corneria secret conversations drew from Star Fox Adventures.Meta Knight retained his Japanese voice actor Atsushi Kisaichi from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, but was dubbed in English by Eric Newsome rather than Eric Stuart (who dubbed him in the show) however, unlike Lucario, Newsome's voice acting was retained in the fourth game while in both cases Newsome also retained his accent that Stuart provided.