Announcer

An announcer, also referred as a narrator, is a voice in a video game that plays the role of a referee by signaling events that occur in-game. It is a common element in fighting games such as the ' series, and an announcer is also present in both games of the ' series, in addition to Fraymakers.

In Super Smash Flash
The original Super Smash Flash features Kira Buckland as its announcer, who goes by the alias of Kagome. She announces the names of characters and teams upon being selected on the character selection screen or winning on the results screen. She also announces the names of most game modes when selected, the start and end of a match or game mode, the defeat of a player in stock matches, and the current round in Classic.

Gregory McLeod opted to use a female announcer in order to provide the game an extra twist, as each of the official Super Smash Bros. games use a male announcer. Reasons he specified for using a custom announcer rather than one from the official Super Smash Bros. games include how the audio files would not be consistent with certain content and did not rip very well from these games, and Kira Buckland's voice was also much clearer. The choice of using a female announcer received mixed reactions from many players. Some found her voice unfitting for a fighting game based on a Super Smash Bros. game, comparing it with the official games' announcers. On the other hand, some thought, indeed, a female announcer gave SSF a special feeling not seen in the original Super Smash Bros. games and was comparably unique to the game.

In Super Smash Flash 2
Super Smash Flash 2 features Joshua Tomar as its announcer, who goes by the alias of TomaMoto. Like the announcer in SSF, he announces the names of characters and teams upon being selected on the character selection screen or winning on the results screen, as well as the names most game modes when selected, the start and end of a match or game mode, and the defeat of a player in stock matches. He also announces the countdown at the start of a match and the end of a time match, the start of Sudden Death, and when a point is scored in an Arena match.

The announcer feature was first incorporated in v0.5a of the demo and new voice clips for the announcer are often added when new characters and features are added to the game in subsequent demo versions. His voice clips since v0.5a were re-recorded for v0.8a.

In Fraymakers
Fraymakers will feature three selectable announcers: Kira Buckland (reprising her role in Super Smash Flash), Joshua Tomar (reprising his role in Super Smash Flash 2), and Jacob Alpharad Rabon. Buckland was the first announcer planned for the game from its initial reveal, with Tomar and Rabon being added as part of a Kickstarter stretch goal for $185,000, which was announced on December 7, 2020 and reached the following day.

In the Sound menu, the announcer calls are separated between menu calls and match calls. Menu calls primarily consist of the names of characters, Assists, and stages when selected on their respective selection screens, as well as the name of the game at startup and various menus when entered. Match calls occur during matches and include announcing the start and end of a match, when the game is paused or unpaused, or when certain actions are performed by characters, such as a parry, a spike, or a combo. The announcer does not speak in Training.

Trivia

 * Despite the common tradition that the English announcers' voice actors also voice Master Hand and Crazy Hand in the official Super Smash Bros. games, neither Buckland nor Tomar voice them in their respective Super Smash Flash games. Instead, voice samples from the official installments are reused, with Dean Harrington's voice samples being used for SSF and Xander Mobus' samples for SSF2.
 * Prior to Beta 1.2, Pat Cashman's voice samples were used in SSF2.
 * In Super Smash Flash, aside the announcer work, Buckland also did the voiceover for.