User blog comment:Rocketslime 1 1/New SSB Character Contest - Finals/@comment-4237188-20130810132217/@comment-4237188-20130810204833

Boo! Shadow's winning. C'mon, he's teh least realistic character up there. I don't know how many times I have to say it, SHADOW WON'T BE IN SSB4! Sakurai HIMSELF has said that 3rd party characters are VERY special cases, and (my words not his) they wouldn't waste one of those special cases on a repeat series rep. We've already got Mega Man. We'll likely get Sonic. After that...well that might be it. 2 might be the limit on 3rd party reps. The next most likely would be Rayman I think because of Origins.

SHADOW WILL NEVER BE IN THE GAME!