I love Marvel Vs. Capcom even though I suck ass at the game. Many people love Marvel Vs. Capcom, right? I mean, how can you not? Street Fighter characters, Mega Man, Other cool videogame characters AND Marvel Superheroes and villains? No human can dislike that.
I'm not normally down with this hype-inspiring videogame "Wishlist" stuff, but I'm too excited about the 3rd Marvel vs. Capcom and I love comics and superheroes too much to not do it.
Here are the Marvel characters I want in the game most of all. Really, though, I don't expect most of these characters to make it in the game.
This is, in reality, less of a Wishlist and more of a list of Marvel characters I think are awesome and who would be great in a Marvel Vs. Capcom game. So yes, I am just kinda getting my rocks off here:
Moon Knight
The hero with the most ridiculous name is also perhaps Marvel's most bad ass dude. He's like a mix of Batman, The Punisher, Rorsach and the criminally insane. He's a hallucinating maniac who once bit a man's face off. And he's a superhero.
Iron Fist
Iron Fist would be perfect for a fighting game. He has chi powers that resemble hadoukens even. He has marital arts skills.
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is awesome. He can fly and he can do magic. He would have awesome hyper combos for sure utilizing his magic. A Doctor Strange villain, Shuma Gorath, was in Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. But no Strange. Strange could easily be in the 3rd game.
Carnage
I think Carnage is my favorite villain. A serial killer bonded with an alien symbiote that craves violence? He is a downright psychopath who can turn his arms into axes. Plus, he looks real badass.
Luke Cage
Luke Cage has really gone from being a joke to being a legimiate superhero at Marvel and that's awesome. Cage is superstrong and supertough. And he swears a lot. He's also proven to be a very good leader for The Avengers in Captain America's absence.
Also, Nicholas Cage changed his original last name from "Coppola" to "Cage" because of Luke Cage. No Joke.
Blade
Aren't the Blade movies (well, the first 2) great? Did you know Blade's a Marvel Comics character? Blade has swords and vampire strength. He kicks ass and is apparently in the X-Men now, too.
Beast
I think Beast would play kind of like Blanka (without the electric powers). But, he's a real acrobatic dude. And really smart, too.
Spider-Woman
Her name's "Spider-Woman," but don't let that make you think she's lame. Jessica Drew can shoot energy bolts out of her hands and she can kind of fly. She's also a sort of secret agent with amnesia issues. And she's hot.
Nick Fury
Nick Fury would use a big lazer gun. And look like Samuel L. Jackson. He'd probably play kind of like Cable.
X-23
The girl Wolverine. She has toe claws.
Taskmaster
This dude is crazy. He can copy any body's fighting style. He'd be kind of like a Mojujin character I imagine. I really like Taskmaster's ridiculous skull mask costume.
The Hood
The Hood wears a demon cloak. When he holds his breath, he's invisible. He's a crimeboss. He uses guns.
Multiple Man
Jamie Madrox. If you hit this guy, he splits into two copies of himself. He can make lots of copies, Naruto-like.
Black Panther
Black Panther is a king of a super-advanced African country and also a superhero who wears a Batman-ish costume and has Wolverine-ish claws that vibrate slightly (they're made of "vibranium") and thus can cut through stuff pretty well. He's ninja-y and martial artsy. He uses gadgets. He'd be great in a fighting game.
The Vision
A robot that can alter his density and has super eye-lazers. The Vision is a big deal for Marvel since he's been an Avenger a lot. He was married to Scarlet Witch which may be the only human/android relationship in comics.
Daredevil
Daredevil has martial arts skills and acrobat skills. And weird nunchuck/grappling hook things. He'd be good for a fighting game.
Deathlok
A cyborg from the future (kind of). The Metalocalypse band is named after him.
Mister Negative
A recently-created Spider-Man villain with many strange, unexplained, yet badass (magical?) powers. He looks really cool, too.
The Lizard
I've always liked The Lizard. I like that he wears a lab coat.
Brother Voodoo
The new "Sorceror Supreame" Voodoo has a ghost friend. And magic. He took Dr. Strange's place as the Supreme guy.
Toxin
Where did Toxin go? He's the son of Carnage and Venom. He's a good guy with a symbiote bonded to him. Toxin's pretty cool, but nobody writing Marvel comics is writing about him these days and that's kind of sad, right?
Armor
A Japanese Teenage mutant who can manifest a force field that can kill people. She's an Astonishing X-man.
Chase Stein
Really, any of the Runaways (Hell, put the whole team in) would be great. But, if I had to choose one, it'd be Chase. Chase has no powers, but has gadgets including giant fist things that can shoot fire. And also a dinosaur companion. What a cool dude, right?
The Sentry/The Void
The Sentry is Marvel's Superman kind of. He's essentially got god-like powers, but he's schizophrenic and sometimes becomes a monster "The Void." He'd be a perfect "final boss" for the game.
Dog Brother #1
Any of the Immortal Weapons from Iron Fist would be awesome. But, I think I like Dog Brother #1 the best. His name is the best anyway. He's a martial artist with wolf friends. Bride Of Nine Spiders is also cool because she can generate spiders from her body. And the Prince Of Orphans, too.
The Gorgon
The Gorgon's a super mutant who will kill you if you look him in the eyes. He's also got many other powers, too. Maybe he's too powerful for this game actually? But he's pretty badass. He's been a part of the supervillain teams HYDRA and The Hand.
Rocket Raccoon
A space Raccoon. A Guardian Of The Galaxy. An awesome dude. An anthropomorphic Raccoon with a a lazer gun? What's not to like?
Omega Sentinel
Karima Shapandar is a cyborg sentinel who's a good guy mostly. She's been an X-man. She can turn parts of her body into guns and missile launchers and stuff. Awesome.
Crimson Dynamo
Basically Russia's Iron Man. He's sort of what Omega Red is to Wolverine.
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler's teleporting would make him cool in a fighting game. I'm actually surprised he wasn't in the previous Marvel Vs. Capcoms.
Morbius
The Living Vampire! A Spider-man villain who got his powers like Spider-man kinda. Except from a radioactive bat rather than a spider.
Morlun
Another Spider-man villain with an "M" name. Molurn eats super people. He can suck the life out of you. He's wicked strong and tough. Some sort of ancient being.
Fantomex
An X-men character. One of the many "Weapon X" creations (Wolverine being the best known). Fantomex has more than one brain! And, he shoots people up with guns.Mister Sinister
Sinister should've been in a Marvel Vs. Capcom earlier. He's awesome and has many powers. I mean, he's just such a badass villain. I imagine he'd play kind of like Doctor Doom since he can levitate and shoot energy blasts.
Lady Bullseye
Bullseye, is cool and all, but Lady Bullseye is cooler. Man Bullseye saved her inadvertandly when she was little. And, when she grew up, she joined The Hand and became a villain "Lady Bullseye" as an homage to him. She is more "ninja-like" than man Bullseye and I think a cooler character. Her fashion sense and her "look" would lend itself well to a Marvel Vs. Capcom's art style.
Moonstone
Moonstone has a variety of powers. She can fly, shoot energy and turn intangile mostly. She's like Ms. Marvel, except a villain and a more interesting character. I really dislike Ms. Marvel. Moonstone she posed as "Ms. Marvel" in Norman Osbourne's Dark Avengers. I think Moonstone should be the faux "Ms. Marvel" (pictured above) for the game because that's her best look.
Songbird
Once Songbird and Moonstone were in the Thunderbolts together. Songbird can fly with weird mechanical wings. And she can supersing and make constructs out of sound. The sound-construct powers would be really interesting in a fighting game I think.
Radioactive Man
While I'm going down the line of Thunderbolts, Radioactive man would be cool. He can, well, shoot radiation at people. He wears a biohazzard suit. He's usually polite to people even though he's a recovering villain.
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker's crazy. He can alter reality with eyebeams. He's connected to some kind of dream dimension called "Mindscape". According to Wikipedia he's Marvel's attempt at a rip off of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman". He looks much more badass than Sandman, though? Am I right? I doubt he's ever been written as well as Sandman though...
Man-Thing
Speaking of Marvel's "rip offs" of Vertigo (and speaking of Thunderbolts, too. Since Man-Thing will be on the new Thunderbolts team) The Man-Thing is quite obviously a rip off of swamp thing. But, he'd be cool to have in a fighting game.
The Thing
Seriously, where was the Fantastic Four in the first 2 Marvel Vs. Capcom's? The Thing is pretty cool. So is Human Torch. One of them should really be in the next game. Maybe all of the Four, actually. They're a pretty big deal for Marvel, yet the previous games really ignored them. Why that is I do not know.
Actually, ignoring putting The Fantastic Four in the first two games is like ignoring Thor. Thor is not one of my favorite Marvel characters, but he's a founding Avenger (speaking of Avengers, The Thing will be in the Avengers comics soon as a member of that team) and he's a big Marvel character. I imagine Thor will have to be in the Marvel Vs. Capcom since there's a Thor movie on the way...
Phew. That was a workout posting all that. But fun. Nerdy and fun.
I doubt many of these characters will get into the game. But, that's ok. I still love them all. And a boy can dream, can't he?
My friend Morgan has hopes for what Capcom characters he wants, and maybe I'll post those up?
For Capcom, I'd like Frank West of Dead Rising and also Dante from Devil May Cry. And Viewtiful Joe...Okay, that's a list for another time. Maybe for another blogger, too. Maybe I'll get Morgan Kent up on Awesome Town to give y'all that Wishlist since he seems like he has a good Wishlist going for the Capcom side of things.
Later,
-Nick
