Nintendo Cease & Desist Letter Is Now A Playable Character In Smash Bros. Mod

Nintendo once shut down a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament with a cease and desist order. Now, a Super Smash Bros. Melee modder is turning the tables on Nintendo by turning its cease & desist letter into a playable character.

Cease & Desist was created by a modder who goes by Mooshies, and the skin replaces Kirby’s usual appearance. Mooshies apparently has a very fun sense of humor, because a closer look at Cease & Desist reveals lines that would never appear in an actual legal document from Nintendo: “Low key that mod do be sick though,” and “Your mod too tough. Your Game & Watch too different.”

Mooshies was also behind the recent Jimbo the clown from Balatro mod, which put that character’s skin over Mr. Game & Watch. That mod was initially paywalled behind Mooshies’ Patreon account, before it was subsequently released for free. It’s unclear if Mooshies actually received any legal notification from Nintendo before releasing the new Cease & Desist mod. Mooshies jokes that the Cease & Desist skin is available for “10 morbillion dollars”–a direct yet humorous retaliation to the backlash the modder faced for locking the Jimbo the Clown from Balatro skin behind a paywall. He has since clarified that “all mods will be free” but Patreon backers will receive early access to them.

Earlier this year, former Nintendo employees Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis suggested that the publisher will never make Super Smash Bros. Melee HD in part because of the game’s history of piracy and mods. They also argued that it would be extremely difficult to please fans of the original title.

Fans recently predicted that the original Super Smash Bros. and four other Nintendo 64 titles may soon be coming to Switch Online. As for Super Smash Bros. Melee, it isn’t currently among the handful of GameCube titles that available to players through Switch Online.