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The Marvel wildcard results were really close, and it could have gone any number of ways. But first, here are the poll results!
-Oddball (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-Megadoomer (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-1SecondNinja (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-Infinity Sorcerer (Cyclops)
-Darkonedagger (Nightwing and Cyclops)
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The votes were spread out pretty evenly this time:
-The Maker: 1
-Iceman: 2
-Ant-Man: 2
-Howard the Duck: 3
-Gwenpool: 5
-Hit-Monkey: 6
-Moon Knight: 7
-The Punisher: 8
-Hawkeye: 9
-Namor: 11
-The Wasp: 12
By a single point, our final character for the base game will be the Wasp! Congrats, Jondolio !
The timing worked out pretty well, seeing as the character's 60th anniversary is happening soon.
Job 115: nominate premiere costumes for Thor, Green Lantern, the Joker, and/or Magneto!
People seemed pretty eager to post premiere costume ideas for Thor, at least, so I figure we can jump into the next batch. (it's worth noting that you don't have to nominate costumes for all of them - some characters might not fit the concept) As usual, each character can have a maximum of two costumes.
Job 116: nominate a DC stage
Now that we've wrapped up the roster, I figure we can finish off the stages! Any DC location (aside from the ones that are in the game, obviously) is eligible.
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Discussion: roster thoughts
Here's our final roster for the base game! (we'll be doing DLC later - I just don't want to jump into it right away)
What do you think? Were there any additions that surprised you? Any seemingly obvious picks that we missed out on? (with only 26 characters per side, it was tough to fit everyone in) Any characters that you weren't familiar with beforehand?
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I'm glad to see Wasp making it into the line-up (she's felt really underrated in recent years, since she didn't get the sort of focus that Iron Man, Thor, or the Hulk did despite also being a founding Avenger due to her and Hank being left out of the MCU Avengers), so her inclusion was a pleasant surprise. I was surprised to see Raven doing so well in the Teen Titans round, even getting more votes than Nightwing. (I figured that we'd get Nightwing and Cyborg from that round, considering that Nightwing's the leader and the original Robin while Cyborg's got a high profile thanks to the Justice League movie)
I think my favourite additions were Starro and the Thing - the Thing's easily my favourite member of the Fantastic Four, and Starro was an unorthodox choice who still made sense due to his role as the villain of the first Justice League comic.
One character who I was surprised to see not making it in was Black Adam. I can see why - he has the exact same powers as Shazam, so with spots being so limited, he might not have been seen as a priority, like Supergirl - but I figured he'd do better than he did. (both the magic rounds and the wildcard rounds were pretty one-sided in favour of Doctor Fate and Cyborg, respectively, when I figured it would be a close call between those characters and Black Adam)
I'm glad we did the DC magic round, because it turned out that I wasn't familiar with most of the characters who were nominated.
On the Marvel side, part of me wishes that we got more X-Men or more of their villains, though I suppose that can be saved for DLC. I wish I had found an opportunity to nominate Mystique, in particular, though someone like Apocalypse would make for a neat playable character. (plus, there's members of the X-Men themselves - Magik, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Psylocke, Cable...)
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Some interesting statistics (well, I found them interesting):
- The Flash's premiere costumes will be Reverse Flash and Wally West!
- Captain America's premiere costumes will be Captain Carter and USAgent!
- Aquaman's premiere costume will be Ocean Master!
- The Hulk's premiere costumes will be Red Hulk and the Abomination!
- By default, Zatanna's arcade mode rival will be the Scarlet Witch!
Who should Ms. Marvel's rival be? | StrawPoll
What is your opinion? Vote now: Blue Beetle, Plastic Man
strawpoll.com
-Oddball (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-Megadoomer (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-1SecondNinja (Nightwing and Cyclops)
-Infinity Sorcerer (Cyclops)
-Darkonedagger (Nightwing and Cyclops)
Which Nightwing costumes should we use? | StrawPoll
What is your opinion? Vote now: Oddball's, Megadoomer's, 1SecondNinja's, Darkonedagger's
strawpoll.com
Which Cyclops costumes should we use? | StrawPoll
What is your opinion? Vote now: Oddball's, Megadoomer's, 1SecondNinja's, Infinity Sorcerer's, Darkonedagger's
strawpoll.com
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The votes were spread out pretty evenly this time:
-The Maker: 1
-Iceman: 2
-Ant-Man: 2
-Howard the Duck: 3
-Gwenpool: 5
-Hit-Monkey: 6
-Moon Knight: 7
-The Punisher: 8
-Hawkeye: 9
-Namor: 11
-The Wasp: 12
By a single point, our final character for the base game will be the Wasp! Congrats, Jondolio !
The timing worked out pretty well, seeing as the character's 60th anniversary is happening soon.
Job 115: nominate premiere costumes for Thor, Green Lantern, the Joker, and/or Magneto!
People seemed pretty eager to post premiere costume ideas for Thor, at least, so I figure we can jump into the next batch. (it's worth noting that you don't have to nominate costumes for all of them - some characters might not fit the concept) As usual, each character can have a maximum of two costumes.
Job 116: nominate a DC stage
Now that we've wrapped up the roster, I figure we can finish off the stages! Any DC location (aside from the ones that are in the game, obviously) is eligible.
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Discussion: roster thoughts
Here's our final roster for the base game! (we'll be doing DLC later - I just don't want to jump into it right away)
Superman | Spider-Man |
Batman | Ultimate Spider-Man |
Wonder Woman | Cyclops |
The Flash | Storm |
Aquaman | Wolverine |
Green Lantern | Iron Man |
Martian Manhunter | Captain America |
Cyborg | Thor |
Green Arrow | The Hulk |
Black Canary | The Wasp |
Zatanna | Scarlet Witch |
Plastic Man | Black Panther |
Shazam | Captain Marvel |
John Constantine | Ms. Marvel |
Nightwing | The Thing |
Raven | Doctor Strange |
Blue Beetle | Ghost Rider |
Doctor Fate | Daredevil |
Catwoman | Magneto |
Harley Quinn | Deadpool |
Lex Luthor | Venom |
The Joker | Rocket Raccoon and Groot |
Deathstroke | Doctor Doom |
Starro the Conqueror | Doctor Octopus |
Ra's al Ghul | Loki |
Darkseid | Thanos |
What do you think? Were there any additions that surprised you? Any seemingly obvious picks that we missed out on? (with only 26 characters per side, it was tough to fit everyone in) Any characters that you weren't familiar with beforehand?
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I'm glad to see Wasp making it into the line-up (she's felt really underrated in recent years, since she didn't get the sort of focus that Iron Man, Thor, or the Hulk did despite also being a founding Avenger due to her and Hank being left out of the MCU Avengers), so her inclusion was a pleasant surprise. I was surprised to see Raven doing so well in the Teen Titans round, even getting more votes than Nightwing. (I figured that we'd get Nightwing and Cyborg from that round, considering that Nightwing's the leader and the original Robin while Cyborg's got a high profile thanks to the Justice League movie)
I think my favourite additions were Starro and the Thing - the Thing's easily my favourite member of the Fantastic Four, and Starro was an unorthodox choice who still made sense due to his role as the villain of the first Justice League comic.
One character who I was surprised to see not making it in was Black Adam. I can see why - he has the exact same powers as Shazam, so with spots being so limited, he might not have been seen as a priority, like Supergirl - but I figured he'd do better than he did. (both the magic rounds and the wildcard rounds were pretty one-sided in favour of Doctor Fate and Cyborg, respectively, when I figured it would be a close call between those characters and Black Adam)
I'm glad we did the DC magic round, because it turned out that I wasn't familiar with most of the characters who were nominated.
On the Marvel side, part of me wishes that we got more X-Men or more of their villains, though I suppose that can be saved for DLC. I wish I had found an opportunity to nominate Mystique, in particular, though someone like Apocalypse would make for a neat playable character. (plus, there's members of the X-Men themselves - Magik, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Psylocke, Cable...)
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Some interesting statistics (well, I found them interesting):
- roughly 37% of the roster first appeared in the 1960's, while roughly 21% of it first appeared in the 1940's.
- out of the roster, 40 of the characters were men, while 11 were women, and 1 (Starro) was an undetermined gender. It's definitely an improvement over the halfway point, where there were only three women, and none of them were Marvel characters
- a quarter of the roster was created by Jack Kirby (13 characters - Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Thor, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Black Panther, Cyclops, the Thing, Loki, Scarlet Witch, the Wasp, and Darkseid)
- Stan Lee created a little over a quarter of the roster (15 characters - there's a lot of overlap with Jack Kirby's list, since it's that minus Darkseid and Captain America but plus Spider-Man, Doc Ock, Daredevil, and Doctor Strange), which means that he was partially responsible for more than half of the Marvel side
- roughly 77%, or a little over three quarters of the roster, was already in the Injustice or Marvel vs. Capcom games. For a while, it was looking like 100% of the roster would fall into that category, so I'm glad to see that we branched out! (in case anyone's curious, the ones who weren't in those games were Plastic Man, Constantine, Ra's al Ghul, Starro, the Thing, Daredevil, Ms. Marvel, Doctor Octopus, Loki, Scarlet Witch, Ultimate Spider-Man, and the Wasp - hopefully, if we get a Marvel vs. Capcom 4, Injustice 3, or an official Marvel vs. DC fighting game in the near future, some of those are included)
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