Gregory McLeod

Cleod9, whose real name is Gregory McLeod, is the creator of the Super Smash Flash series and the founder and leader of McLeodGaming and its forums.

Early work
During his early college time in 2003, Cleod9 developed a great admiration to Flash animations and eventually learned to make his own Flash movies series like Animus, School, Munchies, and A Super Mario World. After founding his site McLeodGaming, Cleod9 had now a big couple of Flash animations that decided to work in his first big game project, although he made previous games like Pong, The Cell and Adivina La Película. Cleod9 is a big fan of the Super Smash Bros. series so begins to create a fangame based on the last installment of the series in that moment, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and after 4 months of hard work he finished the acclaimed but criticized Super Smash Flash. Viewing the success of Super Smash Flash, Cleod9 decided to make a sequel known as Super Smash Flash 2 which will include new characters, stages, online capability, new game modes and more. Cleod9 is also the administrator of McLeodGaming Forums a place where the SSF2 discusion takes places along woth other topics. Many people wanted to base things in Super Smash Flash 2 on Cleod9 like the storyline. But it didn't exactly happen. Though, it is rumoured that a stage, 'Cleod Stadium' will be featured in the upcoming Super Smash Flash 2.

Future work
Although it hasn't been sure what exactly is to come after SSF2, Cleod9 himself said that McLeodGaming is an official company and therefore, its very likely that games will continue to be produced.

In Super Smash Flash 2
A charater named Cleod9, obvious a reference to the game's creator of the Super Smash Flash series, will be in the sequel to Super Smash Flash 2 as an Assist Trophy. His powers will be similar to Tabuu, giving 1-hit KO's.