games themselves and accompanies all appearances of characters and stages that are thematically original to the fighting games themselves.
universe: The 'default' universe, this represents the Smash Bros. However, the minimum requirement for a symbol is to contribute one character or stage to the games. These franchises generally have characters, stages, items, and other properties that all appear in Smash Bros. games classify as major enough that they assign each franchise its own unique 'universe symbol' that appears with characters and stages belonging to that franchise. These are the video game series and franchises that the Super Smash Bros.
community to collectively refer to all the particular characters, stages, items, music, and other properties appearing in the fighting games that are thematically featured in another game franchise. A universe is a term used by the Smash Bros.
