April Fools

April Fool's Day, celebrated on April 1st to pull pranks and jokes, has become a day in the Smash Bros Lawl community dedicated to a variety of joke and surprise movesets. While the concept of pure joke movesets has slowly drifted away, Lawlers have taken the day to provide new fun or unexpected content. Smash Bros Lawl Beatdown has participated in a handfull of April Fool's Day content.
==April Fools 2019==
On April Fool's Day of 2019, The Thwomps and Kiran were both released as double surprise movesets. Both characters were not revealed or teased beforehand, and were a complete surprise. On the day it was uploaded, the video was instead titled "A Completely Normal Video on a Completely Normal Day".
==April Fools 2020==
On April Fool's Day of 2020, Beatdown's joke was a change in thumbnails. While Aureus and [REDACTED] immitated various Lawl thumbnail styles and L-NEO immitated other Smash character speculation videos, Beatdown changed the characters in the moveset thumbnails to their rival, dressed as the original character. Only characters who had rivals revealed swapped palettes (for instance, Markiplier's rival had not been revealed at the time, but Spinel, Dan Backslide's rival, had).
===Thumbnails Changed===
*Strong Bad (and The Cheat ) <==> Homestar
*Mama Umbridge <==> Harry Freakin Potter
*Stephen Quire <==> Psycho Dad
*Watts and Rosalene <==> Viola (With Watts as Ellen/The Cat as Watts)
*Tom <==> Tord
*Matt <==> Gary Oak
*Frisk <==> The Batter
*Dan Backslide <==> Spinel
===Trivia===
*Homestar dressed up as Strong Bad and The Cheat are both references to two Sbemails, halloweener and do over. The Cheat dressed as Homestar also came from do over.
== April Fools 2021 ==
April Fools 2021 was entirely themed after the then upcoming BeatdownBound. Similarly to 2020's jape, every character moveset thumbnail was changed to a different style. Every character had their splash art remade with BeatdownBound's Undertale sprite style. The exception was Frisk's who used art of Frisk from Story of Undertale. DipoTheTem, creator of Lawl [REDACTED], directly called ShadBad a coward for not changing Chara's thumbnail to match Frisk's. Chara's thumbnail was then changed to the Story of Undertale art. Dipo lived to regret that decision.
After the thumbnails, an April Fools video was released detailing the release of BeatdownBound. Frisk was stated to tell the audience the release date for the game, but they were still asleep. After waking up, they turn on the light, and the narrator reminds the player that Frisk is a silent protagonist. Following the joke, actual gameplay footage was shown and it was announced the game was almost done.
==April Fools 2023==
April Fools 2023 saw the release of the Empty Slot 2 voting video. While no April Fools jokes were made, the video was released on this day due to the Lawl community's fondness for April Fools as a holiday. The video also saw the reveal of Psycho Kid as an echo fighter.
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