It works a little too perfectly... Think that Nintendo is trying to tell us that every character in smash is actually a Pokemon?

Earthbound includes time travel shenanigans, so actually it just reveals that pokemon is the future (or past) of the earthbound world

And then the Pokemon world becomes a gritty land of violence and corruption, pokemon are extinct and the trainers themselves must fight to the death.

The red clad male is overrepresented