Kenji Nojima in Star Fox: Assault and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and by Takashi Ohara from Star Fox 64 3D onwards. Falco Lombardi is an ace pilot and one of Fox's friends. Falco wears an orange suit and resembles both raptors and pheasants. He shares his first name, with the genus of falcons and kestrels. Falco is voiced in English by Ben Cullum in Star Fox Adventures and Mike Madeoy in Star Fox: Assault. He is voiced by Hisao Egawa in most Japanese releases of the series and by Kōsuke Takaguchi in Star Fox 64 3D onwards. Falco joins and leaves the Star Fox team throughout the series of games. He is seen as a partner to Fox as they are very close. After Star Fox 64, Falco leaves the team for a time, going solo. His absence from the team is chronicled in the Nintendo manga Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco, which was released on the official Star Fox Adventures Japanese website. He returns at the end of Star Fox Adventures. Falco has also appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a playable character. Slippy Toad is a toad who wears a blue suit. He is a longtime friend of Fox. He serves as the inventor and mechanic of the team. He attended Cornerian Academy, specializing in engineering. Slippy's father Beltino serves as the director of Engineering at Space Dynamics Co. Ltd., and later serves the research director for the Cornerian Defense Forces. Slippy invents and constructs many inventions for the team, including the Blue-Marine, the Landmaster and the Roadmaster. After the Aparoid race is destroyed in Star Fox: Assault, he temporarily withdraws from the Star Fox team. However, when Fox needs backup in Star Fox Command, he comes to his assistance. He is engaged to a frog named Amanda, and in two endings in Star Fox Command they have children together. Slippy Toad tends to fall prey to enemy pilots, and as such calls upon the player for assistance. In both Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Assault, the player needs to save Slippy early on. In the SNES game and Nintendo Power comic, Slippy has a croaking stutter, which was removed in later appearances. Slippy makes a cameo appearance in