imagine Falcon in this game playing a bit like one of the gatchaman characters. No?
If I had to make a list of characters (Marvel side) I thought were almost guaranteed, it would look something like:
Black Panther
Doctor Strange
Daredevil
Dormammu
Hulk
Iron-Fist
Luke Cage
Nova
Rocket Raccoon
She-Hulk
Spider-Man
Thor
And then X-men
Magneto
Storm
Wolverine
X-23
I might have missed one or two, but I can’t see these characters not making it into the game considering how relevant they are. If you also factor in the likely roster size (about 30-40 characters overall) I suspect only about 3-8 toss-ups.
Edit: not counting the 3 revealed characters for this.
From Ryce:
I really wonder who he’s talking about.
Asura? Awesome for sure, not sure about surprising…
Probably someone else. Asura was someone most have speculated to be included in Infinite, so the character wouldn’t be much of a surprise.
Maybe Jedah.
Jedah would be dope. Him and Huitzil are my top picks for the Darkstalkers.
Yeah. Huitzil is pretty cool as well.
I guess I’m just trying to think of Capcom characters with ridiculous animations. Jedah was one of those no one can picture being in a 3D fighter because of his animations. That can be said about a lot of other DS characters, though. We’ll see.

imagine Falcon in this game playing a bit like one of the gatchaman characters. No?
Which one? Ken’s movelist would be the most appropriate as he had the most flight based moves.

UnSaxon51:
Niitsuma put out some tweets about MvC3 character development:
Spoiler
https://twitter.com/Ryota_Niitsuma/status/813259036258799616
https://twitter.com/Ryota_Niitsuma/status/813259879355858944
https://twitter.com/Ryota_Niitsuma/status/813267089112887296
https://twitter.com/Ryota_Niitsuma/status/813268321193717760Rough translations by Fubarduck:
- Nova: Had been strongly pushed by Marvel since Vanilla MVC3. “He’s required for the next version” we were told.
- Ghost Rider: He was indeed popular/well-known. We saw that the “motorcycle issue”, could be compromised by including it in his move set.
- Doctor Strange: Pushed super hard by Marvel. We thought we’d be able to make him unique as a “magic” user - he was really fun to work on.
- Rocket Raccoon:We were actually feeling out Squirrel Girl at the same time, but the Raccoon army beat out the Squirrel army in the office.
- Blade: Too many components that would’ve come from Dante I think…
- Spider-Woman: The flying and electricity would’ve been too similar to Trish…
- Psylocke: Well-known, good design, and having Strider as a rival would’ve been interesting - but the fans’ voices just weren’t loud enough.
- Spiral: From the previous title. Creating a fencer with 6 arms plus magic would’ve been crazy hard - please forgive me!
- Cloak and Dagger: Has a huge aesthetic impact, and if we treated it like a stand from Jojo’s it would definitely be interesting! But in a mirror match w/assists, you’d have absolutely no idea what was happening on the screen. And I mean, double the work, no way!
- Multiple Man: Like I said - workload.
These makes it seem like Nova and Dr Strange are guaranteed to return, with high likelihood for Ghost Rider and Rocket.
The Psylocke comment is legitimately surprising. Assuming there’s no licensing issues I’d say her chances went up a lot.
If Trish is NOT returning, then that means we actually could get Spider-Woman?
Sounds like a soft de-confirm for Blade, Spiral, and Multiple Man, though with the loss of assists maybe C&D still have a shot?By “next version” he’s likely talking about Ultimate, not the new game.
All these tweets have to do with MvC3 and UMvC3. Remember, Niitsuma has nothing to do with MvC:I.
That’s a good point. Just going by the push from Marvel’s side, though, I’d say that Nova and Strange are still pretty much a lock. But all the others could be fair game with a new development team.

Xr0s-up:
Don’t they have their own series coming up too?
Yeah, Cloak and Dagger have their own TV series coming soon.
Most of the others (as far as I’m aware) like Nova, Ghost Rider, Blade, Spider-Woman, Blade, Spiral and Multiple Man either:
- Currently have their own comic book run, or are apart of one (Nova, Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman, Psylocke),
- Not relevant (Blade, Spiral [as far as I know]),
- Or dead (Multiple Man, might change with resurrxion).
Except the Ghost Rider who has a book currently isn’t the one that was in UMVC3.
If Juggernaut comes back, one thing I want him to have is a full-screen command grab as a level 3. Like Abel’s Ultra 2, except slower.
If he grabs you then he’ll roll around the stage on top of you like a giant boulder before leaping into the air and flattening you with his body.

CyberPhoenix0252:
Xr0s-up:
Don’t they have their own series coming up too?
Yeah, Cloak and Dagger have their own TV series coming soon.
Most of the others (as far as I’m aware) like Nova, Ghost Rider, Blade, Spider-Woman, Blade, Spiral and Multiple Man either:
- Currently have their own comic book run, or are apart of one (Nova, Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman, Psylocke),
- Not relevant (Blade, Spiral [as far as I know]),
- Or dead (Multiple Man, might change with resurrxion).
Except the Ghost Rider who has a book currently isn’t the one that was in UMVC3.
Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider was in Robbie Reyes’ first Pre-Secret Wars run, hence the latter part of point 1.
The latest thing we know about the character Ryce talked about is that they’re a villain.
Still have a strong feeling this is a DS character.

VenomMelendez:
CyberPhoenix0252:
Xr0s-up:
Don’t they have their own series coming up too?
Yeah, Cloak and Dagger have their own TV series coming soon.
Most of the others (as far as I’m aware) like Nova, Ghost Rider, Blade, Spider-Woman, Blade, Spiral and Multiple Man either:
- Currently have their own comic book run, or are apart of one (Nova, Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman, Psylocke),
- Not relevant (Blade, Spiral [as far as I know]),
- Or dead (Multiple Man, might change with resurrxion).
Except the Ghost Rider who has a book currently isn’t the one that was in UMVC3.
Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider was in Robbie Reyes’ first Pre-Secret Wars run, hence the latter part of point 1.
As a guest appearance, so that’s still not his wasn’t his book and he wasn’t apart of it.
He also hasn’t shown up in the current one.
Robbie Reyes is the Ghost Rider Marvel is pushing. He’s the one with a book and appearing on TV.

From Ryce:
I just heard about a really surprising (and awesome) addition to the Capcom side. The animators deserve a raise for getting this character into the game.
The roster is going to be so sick, you guys.
I really wonder who he’s talking about.
Either a Darkstalker, a Warzard character, a Power Stone character like Jack or some old Capcom IP characters like Michelle Heart from Legendary Wings.
But is probably a new Darkstalker character since they are the ones that demand the most from the animation department.
A new one so is between Demitri, Bishamon, Victor, Huitzil, Jedah, Q-Bee, Pyron, Talbain, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Raptor and Donovan. Hopefully is my furball who made it.

The latest thing we know about the character Ryce talked about is that they’re a villain.
Still have a strong feeling this is a DS character.
Could be that Capcom reached an agreement with Marvel to allow Demitri to Midnight Bliss their characters.
That would fit and certainly be interesting.
I hope it’s Lord Raptor

If Juggernaut comes back, one thing I want him to have is a full-screen command grab as a level 3. Like Abel’s Ultra 2, except slower.
If he grabs you then he’ll roll around the stage on top of you like a giant boulder before leaping into the air and flattening you with his body.
I don’t think there is enough fanfare for Juggy to get in unless something happened in the comics to made him a big deal again thatI could have easily missed.
If he does get in it’s probably DLC later on.
If Carol is in then I expect She Hulk to return. Best friends, history, everyone knows who she is, big deal in the books, and a favorite daughter of Marvel.

Doctrine_Dark:
From Ryce:
I just heard about a really surprising (and awesome) addition to the Capcom side. The animators deserve a raise for getting this character into the game.
The roster is going to be so sick, you guys.
I really wonder who he’s talking about.
Either a Darkstalker, a Warzard character, a Power Stone character like Jack or some old Capcom IP characters like Michelle Heart from Legendary Wings.
I don’t know which Red Earth character would be difficult to animate, unless we’retalking about the monsters.
Ryce also said it would be a villain.