Did Versus Series Make Some Marvel Characters Cool For You?

[Radiantsilvergun3]

MvC got me into Striders games >.>

[deadfrog]

No, Sentinel was always my favourite comic book character.

[Yuna]

I was a Cyclops fan before the games came out, but it did turn me on to Captain America and Cable.

[SinJul]

Not really, but I became a big fan of the Mango Sirlin.

[Jimmy_Bones]

I always liked the Marvel chars, even before MVC.

[System_1]

dat mags.

[ElderGOD]

Let’s face it, personal feelings aside some Marvel characters are more popular than others mainly out of costume design or personality (which is why Wolverine is getting his own movie.) When I started to play the VS series all the way back in '95 starting with Marvel Super Heroes the only superheroes that really made me excited as a kid was Spiderman and Wolverine. I used to be a big fan of comics but certain characters just never appealed to me just out of design and representation.

Eventually, through the years I actually started to gain more of an appreciation for the less-than-popular Marvel characters by playing them and seeing the personalities and moves expressed by their sprite counterparts. The main 2 for me were Cyclops and Captain America who I thought were corny and too straight-laced to care about using initially.

Cyke’s move versatility and giant beams in MSHvSF made him seem too cool, along the flashy Roundhouses, Captain America’s evocations, “VICTORY!” winpose “Thumbs Up Soldier!” taunt, as well as the legendary FINAL JUSTICE super an made me go back and actually see what these characters were all about.

By MVC2, characters like Blackheart, Shuma Gorath, and Spiral were less of oddballs who I’d never pick to cool Marvel characters I wanted to research.

So any of you share the same feelings, did Marvel make some characters cooler for you?

Captain America’s BGM + Final Justice + Hyper Combo Finish announcer = win

Having watched X-Men TAS [media=youtube]d-50D_1fVDI (the original good show not the newer versions) and being a SF fan I knew most characters. I also played Megaman games too and watched the Megaman shows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJygsSXcjw&feature=related[/media] and Iron Man back in the day when they were still good . Although MvC1 made me like Captain America and Strider a lot more. It made Captain Commando kinda gay though.

[spudlyff8fan]

Captain America’s always been a badass. But he was amidst all the Rob Liefield garbage, so he seemed way lame at the time.

Cable, though, was made way cooler, being shown as a badass gunslinger, rather than the son of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey who ended up dangerously close to having an incestuous relationship with her semi-son, who traveled through time, empowered Apocalypse, and all that craziness nobody cares about anymore cuz they depowered Cable in Cable and Deadpool #12.

[Hayama_Akito]

Not too related but when i was a kid i hated TMNT so much until the Konami games were released, i got the love for TMNT with the Arcade titles and so on, so i guess this can also happen with MVC and Marvel chars.

[ElderGOD]

Captain America’s always been a badass. But he was amidst all the Rob Liefield garbage, so he seemed way lame at the time.

Cable, though, was made way cooler, being shown as a badass gunslinger, rather than the son of Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey who ended up dangerously close to having an incestuous relationship with her semi-son, who traveled through time, empowered Apocalypse, and all that craziness nobody cares about anymore cuz they depowered Cable in Cable and Deadpool #12.

Cable was always GODLIKE, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about: [media=youtube]jFU5RFxGIgU[/media]

[lolwut]

Not really, but I became a big fan of the Mango Sirlin.

Incredible and I agree.

But on the real seeing some of the marvel characters in a fighting game was great. I.E Dr.doom :wgrin:

[Demon_Dash]

Storm was deffinately more cool for me in MvC2, than she was in the cartoons…

[white_shadow]

Doom was always cool but he became even cooler in MVC2 with his “Array” of attacks and pimp winposes.

[DominoLogic]

yeah storm is a weak bitch in the cartoons, totally not like MvC2.

Magneto has always been cool.

[Wellman]

Nope, no real change but I didn’t really know who Shuma Gorath was until after the Marvel games.

Edit:

Cable was always GODLIKE, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about: [media=youtube]jFU5RFxGIgU[/media]

“I’m still plugged in” and Cable’s laugh are two things make that episode so good and the 90s X-Men cartoon as a whole classic.

[krazykone123]

I was watching X-Men and Spiderman on TV beforehand so yeah…

[4Play]

Cable was always GODLIKE, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about: [media=youtube]jFU5RFxGIgU[/media]

Gambit: “How can you sweat so much and not lose any weight, petit?”

Fucking owned:rofl:

Anyway for me it was Blackheart and Omega Red.

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[N_paul]

Dr Doom became a badass from playing Marvel.

Made me play the strider games

Made me actually like most of the xmen to the point of rewatching the show.

Made me dislike Wolverine even more

And made Magnus the biggest badass ever.

[4Play]

DOOM was always a badass. ALWAYS.

[Syxx573]

I love shuma gorath, i have every comic he’s ever been in like that one… that has shuma… gorath…