# Super Smash Bros. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 14, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883 "2015-08-14T23:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/1 "2015-08-14T23:38:24Z")
OK, this is a dumb question, but how do you think Super Smash Bros. should be pronounced? Is it Super Smash Brothers, or Super Smash Bros? My kids pronounce one way and I pronounce it the other. I don’t want to influence anyone by saying who pronounces it which way. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/2 "2015-08-14T23:50:21Z")
My 17 year old son says he’s heard it both ways equally and he’s never heard any one correct anyone else or say they’re saying it wrong. He says Super Smash Bros. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/3 "2015-08-15T01:42:16Z")
I say “brothers”, but I’d surely understand someone who said “bros”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/4 "2015-08-15T01:48:46Z")
[![](https://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Super_Mario_Bros/Super_Mario_Bros_cart.jpg) ](https://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Super_Mario_Bros/Super_Mario_Bros_cart.jpg) Brothers. Just like the Mario Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/5 "2015-08-15T03:19:01Z")
After a quick jaunt to Youtube, the intro screen announcer guy of the original N64 game clearly says “brothers”, so I would say that’s the correct way. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/6 "2015-08-15T05:36:44Z")
Brothers. Note that the game title is actually “Super Smash Bros.” not “Super Smash Bros”. [Cite](http://www.smashbros.com/us/) The word is clearly an abbreviation of brothers, not the slang term “bros”. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/7 "2015-08-15T11:35:23Z")
> [@Garula](#): > > After a quick jaunt to Youtube, the intro screen announcer guy of the original N64 game clearly says “brothers”, so I would say that’s the correct way. Well that seems pretty definitive. Here’s the video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIwWCioBpEM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIwWCioBpEM) Go to 1:12. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![FasterThanMeerkats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@FasterThanMeerkats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FasterThanMeerkats)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/8 "2015-08-18T16:21:12Z")
we always said brothers ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-smash-bros/727883/9 "2015-08-18T16:26:00Z")
My son (16) says “Bros” but I figure either way is good 'nuff for me. I’d probably say “Brothers” but I’m all old and non-hip like that.