Crowd

The crowd (), referred to as Publicity in the of Super Smash Bros. Melee, is a group of unseen people that can be heard during matches in all games of the series.
==Causes of cheering==
The crowd can occasionally be heard cheering by shouting the name of a character that is used by a human player. The cause of cheering, however, is not entirely known; common trends include having high damage, the start of the match after the announcer gives the "GO!" signal, and doing something significant, such as KOing multiple opponents at once, or falling behind considerably during the course of a match. Every character has a unique cheer chant in each of the Smash Bros. games.
In addition to chants, the crowd can also vocalize during the match to a variety of events. In the original game, if a player can just make it back to the stage after being knocked far away from the stage, the crowd will cheer for the player. The crowd also cheers if absorbs a projectile with PSI Magnet, as well as if a character hits multiple characters or lands a powerful hit. Since Melee, the crowd will gasp if the player gets close to the ledge after getting knocked off and cheer loudly if the player hits multiple opponents with a powerful attack. In addition, in Melee, the crowd cheers the player if they complete the Target Test, an Event Match or the . However, they will groan should the player fail at any of these games. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. 4, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the crowd will also gasp whenever a Smash Ball or Legendary Pokémon appears (only in Brawl), with the exception of Latias and Latios. In SSB4, the crowd will groan if a player finishes with no points in the Home-Run Contest or Target Blast. In Melee and Brawl, the crowd will be silent during Sudden Death.
Despite their presence, the crowd has no effect on gameplay outside of the Bonus mode of Melee: if the player earns the "Crowd Favorite" bonus from getting the crowd to cheer for them or the "Master of Suspense" bonus from causing the crowd to gasp at least three times in one minute, they will earn 2500 points from each.
Of further note, the crowd seems to "disappear" after a certain point is reached in some of the singleplayer modes. In Melee, the crowd disappears starting at and at Stage 12: Final Destination in the Adventure Mode. In Brawl, the crowd disappears during the fight against , and is only heard when certain stages are cleared in the Subspace Emissary. In SSB4, the crowd disappears during the fight against and, if applicable, and Master Core.
==Behind the scenes==
Save for Melee, none of the Super Smash Bros. games credit anyone with performing any of the crowd cheers.
The Japanese cheers in the first Super Smash Bros. were done by HAL Laboratory staff. Hirokazu Ando recalled that he called the game's programmers into HAL's meeting room and recorded them cheering, while Masahiro Sakurai was next to him and led the group. Ando also noted that recording multiple people cheering at once instead of just taking one person's cheer and duplicating it made the cheers more believable. Yoshiki Suzuki recalled the cheer sessions taking place in the morning, and Koichi Watanabe recalled thinking the in-house recordings would be replaced with ones from voice actors or a group of kids.Hobonichi interview section: "「バグの少ない作り方ってできるんですか？」"
The cheers in Super Smash Bros. Melee were recorded by Nintendo of America staff (for fighters in international versions as well as Mario, Donkey Kong, Ness, Luigi, and Young Link in all versions) and HAL staff (for most fighters in the Japanese version, also done in their meeting room). Melees developers originally planned to use NOA's cheers in the Japanese version, but decided to do their own after finding NOA's to be too low-energy.Nintendo Dream (January 2002 issue): "HAL Laboratory/Masahiro Sakurai Interview" () (page 85) NOA employees Bill Trinen, Tim O'Leary, and Nate Bihldorff are the only people credited for providing crowd cheer voices in all of Melee.
Starting with Brawl, crowd cheers are performed in each language the announcer is also voiced in, and are appropriately localized using the names of the characters in each language. Certain cheers might also use entire phrases or language-specific puns and cultural references.
==Crowd cheers==
==Trivia==
*In Melee, the crowd will always gasp if performs an air dodge at the peak of her jump.
==References==
==See also==
*Announcer
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