You know, I counted 71 charcters with the second pic. If that many comes forth for one game, I'm gonna faint!
:
To me, Kirby is still the best of them all. More charcters means more powers to use against you.
However, if any of these come true, I see quite a number of backups to pick when I play against people who have the rule of "No two players can have the same charcter" floating around.
(Mega Man, X, Sonic, Dixie, Krystal... the list goes on.
)