<span style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”>(Ugh. Of course SRK would have to do something to both the spoiler function non-compact but instead of that useless black-out stuff </span><b style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”>and</b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2” style=“font-weight: normal;”><span style=“line-height: normal;”> do something to the word limit when “improving” itself. Sigh. I admittedly did get rather…overzealous perhaps when it came to doing mock combat intro, outro and win quote dialogue for this since I apparently got to like 42 pages in Notepad [with double spacing], but whatever. I was going to do a TL;DR version anyway; not that I <i>can </i>be concise.)</span></font><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”>[<b>EDIT: </b>Oh, so the compacted spoilers do still exist. They’re just entirely manual now. Which is how I’d always been doing them. Only now can only take one paragraph or…something. Sigh. Figures.]</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-style: normal;”><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>So, that aside, I’ll just say that for the most part, I’m only going to vote for people that I know can probably can get in outside of allowing myself a long-shot character on both sides; ironically enough, Longshot is neither among them nor in the top 20. Everyone else that I’m voting has a Heroes & Heralds card, since that shows that the companies at least somewhat acknowledge their existence still.</span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”><br></span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>So no voting for people that I already know have been vetoed by the people doing the game for some reason or another, i.e. OG Venom or Gambit. No voting for people I </span><b style=“font-size: 10pt;”>know </b><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>one or both of the parent companies’ hate, even if they have an aforementioned card, i.e. Cyclops (poor, poor Cyclops). No voting for characters who have already caused technical issues for the game, i.e. Doctor Octopus or Silver Surfer. And no voting for characters who would force designs that would just realistically be too much work, i.e. the entire Fantastic Four, a Demitri with a different Midnight Bliss for every character (otherwise, what’s the point?), any “summoner” character (looking at you, </span><i style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Monster Hunter</i><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>), etc.</span><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>(Also I’m not voting for another damn character with a[n auto-tracking] teleport or a sword since we already have too many of those things making this game dumber as it is. Sorry, Nightcrawler. Sorry, Hayato; we already have low-tier character with a sword anyway, right, Arthur?)</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Of course, this means voting against my own interests in some cases, mostly on the Marvel side since, even as long as it’s been since I’ve really bought American (superhero) comics with any regularity, I’d much rather be voting for Nico Minoru, Ultron, Rictor or even Squirrel Girl over freaking Thanos. Accursed <i>Avengers</i> teaser making him a marketing “necessity”. (Also I don’t care or know much about Anti-Venom, but Venom’s fighting-style was “unique” enough that I think it should be replicated.)</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Anyway, I’ve blathered enough already.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>For the sake of making this easier, I’ll have the new “rivals” enumerated as the same number so I don’t make Herr Stiekem accidentally double count when I give a sample of their intro dialogue:</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><b>Marvelous Neophytes:</b></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>1. <b>Monica Rambeau (a.k.a Photon; from <i>Nextwave</i>) - [Alt: Her OG Captain Marvel costume] </b>- Intro: “A Japanese ginger? Shouldn’t you be, you know, bursting into flames just by being near me?” </div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>2. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Carol Danvers (a.k.a. Ms. Marvel or, apparently, the newest Captain Marvel; from <i>Avengers</i> and her self-titled on-going) - [Alt: Rogue] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “Great. Magic. Why did it have to be magic?”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>3. <b>Eddie Brock (a.k.a. Anti-Venom; from <i>Spider-Man</i>) - [Alt: His OG Venom costume] </b>- Intro: “So you’re a robot? Hunh. Still diseased. Let’s fix that.”</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>4. <b>Piotr Rasputin (a.k.a. Colossus; from </b><i><b>X-Men) </b>- </i><b>[Alt: His apparently recent Juggernaut costume] - </b>Intro: “They are making Sentinels that look like children now? How insidious.”</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>5. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Thanos (of Titan; from various cosmic books) - [Alt: Uh, Jude the Entropic Man?] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “You think yourself worthy of the Infinity Gems? Bah. You aren’t even worthy of Death.”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><b>Captivating NewComers:</b></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>1. <b>Kyosuke Kagami (from the <i>Rival Schools </i>series) - [Alt: His [dead] twin-brother Hyo] </b>- Intro: “You…can transform yourself into light? How is that possible…?!”</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>2. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Princess</b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”> </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Nina of Wyndia (from the <i>Breath of Fire series</i>; intentionally ambiguous, though leans towards <i>BoFIII </i>probably) - [Alt: Her sister, or, perhaps, Tessa/Tabasa from <i>Warzard</i>/<i>Pocket Fighter</i>] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “You can fly without wings <b>or</b> the aid of magick? This land is truly bizarre.”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><b><br></b></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>3. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Sigma (from the <i>Mega Man X</i> series) - [Alt: Dr. Weil from the <i>Mega Man Zero </i>series] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “You remind me of Web Spider, but it seems you’ll be even more fun to corrupt.”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><b><br></b></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>4. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Mega Man (from the Classic <i>Mega Man </i>series) - [Alt: Protoman or Bass or Hub; whomever isn’t represented in his regular colors] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “I’m picking up really weird readings from this robot, Dr. Light. Right. I’ll be careful.”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><b><br></b></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>5. </span></font><b style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>Ruby Heart (from <i>MvC2 </i>and, technically, <i>Darkstalkers</i>) - [Alt: Tessa/Tabasa if Nina’s isn’t; if so then, uh, a French maid? (Back off Master Chibi; she’s mine)] - </b><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Intro: “Tell me! Where are the Infinity Gems?!”</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>(Obviously, Photon & Ruby Heart are the “long-shots.”)</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>I’ll leave the rest of this snore-fest to “marketing” stuff that I would left in spoilers…if spoilers compacted anymore. Sigh. Why must we humans break nice things? Anyway, you can skip this even if your eyes haven’t starting bleeding out already or your attention span hasn’t already waned in this age of highspeed hedonism:</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><b style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Marketing and You (Capcom & Marvel/Disney/Lucasarts):</b></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>1. <b>Monica</b>'s “Marketing”: First and foremost, it would nice to have another non-Asian [or non-White, when you think about how the majority of the world is “Asian”] minority in the game given there’s a grand total of <b><u>one</u></b> in the form of Storm, who is pretty damn light for a “black” person; let’s not get into skin politics please, just stating facts, though even get me started about she keeps getting called “black” in the first place. Not that Monica deserves to get in because she’s “blacker” than Storm or anything, but it would be nice to have a black person from America. Additionally, of the relatively few minorities that can get in, Monica has the best chance outside of Power Man, who acts like a walking stereotype and Uncle Tomfoolery most of the time, and <i>maybe </i>Cloak & Dagger. No way in hell that any of youth aside from X-23, much less the ethnic youth like Nico Minoru or Victor, Son of Ultron, are going to get any damn attention after all with the way they’ve been treated in various books and what not. Similarly, there’s no way you’re going to get an openly sexual minority in the game–not that this should matter anyway since it’s a <i>fighting</i> game–at all, so characters like Hulking, Wiccan, Rictor & Shatterstar are auto-screwed. So, basically, Monica gets in because she can be at once both sensible and hilarious, reminding everyone how she used to lead the Avengers before she kicks their ass. <span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Fighting-wise, she’d probably “borrow” most of Cyclops’s moves, including his almost-never-used running grab, though that would like be have to be charged still since I figured she would a) have a flight mode, b) get a Raikousen move instead of a “Gene Splice” (since that’s essentially what Ryu’s Hadoshoryuken </span><b style=“font-size: 10pt;”>is</b><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>), c) have that both be AIR OK and d) probably the only newcomer besides maybe Nina to have a Level 3 that hit the entire screen.</span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>2. <b>Carol</b>'s “Marketing”: Eh, not much to say about Ms. Danvers except that she probably could use the push what with becoming the third [or fourth…or fifth?, hard to keep track] Captain Marvel. Let’s hope she doesn’t die of cancer, especially since Monica, an older Captain Marvel, could give that to her; <span style=“font-size: small;”>Generic Win Quote: “And remember kids: I wasn’t the Captain Marvel that died of cancer; I was the Captain Marvel who could give you cancer.”</span><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”> It doesn’t help that the mantle has…difficulty despite supposedly being one of Marvel’s “flagship” legacies; ironically, the DC Captain Marvel is part of the problem since he’s way more popular. But, anyway, with </span><i style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Earth’s Mightiest Heroes</i><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”> getting screwed over and my finding it likely that Carol will probably show up in </span><i style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Avengers 2 </i><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>in some capacity, I figure that she could use the head-start support. Besides, I miss Rogue’s play-style and current Rogue is apparently </span><b style=“font-size: 10pt;”>way </b><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>different now, even if Carol would likely have a projectile counter (and projectile counter super/hyper) over a kiss drain (since that would be too much work, among other things like not making sense).</span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>3. <b>Eddie’s </b>“Marketing”: Not much to say outside of promoting Venom’s playstyle with the addition of Spider-man’s Web Zip, though that probably shouldn’t be special cancel-able outside of maybe a Level 1 ala Devil Trigger (complete with life regen); Venom Web becomes a Level 3 simply because it would probably screw with the game too much to have it be a Level 1, non-guaranteed cinematic. Outside of that, I suppose they (read: Marvel) could use his appearance to promote his probable, eventual return as Anti-Venom (using the Toxin symbiote) after his ambiguous “demise” if my reading of his latest fate on Wikipedia is any guess. Shrug. Comics are kind of predictable.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>4. <b>Piotr’s </b>“Marketing”: Considering that of the second generation–well, third generation; thanks, stupidity that is <i>Deadly Genesis</i>–X-Men, Colossus is pretty damn popular still, even having to compete with Wolverine and Storm, I figure they’d probably mine that generation over people from the others still save maybe Shadowcat; again, sorry Nightcrawler. Given his sister is back from the dead (because that was so surprising) and he apparently hates her now (wtf?), on top of being possessed by Juggernaut’s power <b>and </b>Phoenix’s power in a short period of time, it seems like they’re planning on “big” things for him. Anyway, Colossus was one of the better characters in <i>MvC2</i>, so if anything, the only real problem is expanding his special move-set to have enough assists since he only has two special moves and a “hit-grab” probably would be a bad assist; they just need to give him one new move though and have the other “made-up”/assist only move <b>not </b>suck as hard as, say, Amaterasu’s Bloom assist does. He only needs two supers/hypers, though, especially since the Marvel side still doesn’t have a Spencer “analog” super-wise and hyper armor is pretty damn devastating even on a character that completely sucks (hey, <i>MvC3</i> Hsien-ko), much less on an actually more than decent one.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>5. <b>Thanos’s </b>“Marketing”: Here solely because Marvel would frankly be stupid not to add him in the next wave of characters as way to marketing for <i>Avengers 2</i>. Like, insanely stupid, unless (or maybe even) if he shows up in the sequel to <i>Thor</i>, especially since a bunch of people still seem to like him.<i> </i>I’d totally be fine with him not getting in since otherwise, I’d be voting for Ultron or Black Bolt if I wanted a cosmic character I actually liked, though it would be nice to have someone around to shut Nova’s smug ass up. Let’s just “hope” that Capcom doesn’t make suck as horribly as his <i>MvC2</i> incarnation did.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>6. <b>Kyosuke Kagami’s </b>“Marketing”: Speaking of Capcom making someone suck in the sequel to a cross-over, I was initially going to forego voting for him since they screwed him up so badly in <i>CvS2</i> and I’m slightly more a fan of Yurika or at least giving Akira a chance (since Batsu already had his as well). However, I figure they could redeem themselves and show that they can “fix” Kyosuke, which would be a way of promoting <i>CvS3: The Fate of Two Kagami–</i>the other Kagami being from <i>Last Blade</i>, “obviously”–since people have been clamoring for that alongside new <i>Darkstalkers </i>rather than just having him reappear in <i>CvS3</i>. Additionally, it could promote <i>Rival Schools </i>or at least just give him <i>some</i> measure of closure to the aftermath of <i>Project Justice</i> considering how horribly the story of that screwed him and his brother over, which <i>CvS2</i> didn’t touch at all, which…annoyed me as much as I like that game. I figure, here, he’d be somewhat…pissed (“politely” so, though not as politely as Nina) at Wesker’s antics and, to a lesser extent, at Doom’s and the demonic characters that aren’t Trish, Felicia or Hsien-ko. So, basically adding Kyosuke means getting to add a pseudo-<i>Street Fighter </i>and a pseudo-<i>Resident Evil </i>character while actually giving another franchise a chance as well.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>7. <b>Nina’s</b> “<span style=“font-size: 10pt;”>Marketing”: Someone made a theoretical move-list for Nina well before <i>UMvC3</i> came out that I found rather interesting and that, with the new Heroes & Heralds mode showing that came can indeed take segments of bar rather than all or nothing, is now actually feasible. Essentially a run-away, meter heavy version of Trish with zoning…well, more so, without the ability to rush down. Too bad I can’t find it… Besides that, <i>Breath of Fire </i>hasn’t really gotten any love since <i>BoFIV–</i>I’d say since <i>Dragon Quarter</i>, but I haven’t played that (either) and it seems like most people tend to think that killed the franchise, so… But, yeah, they tend to only get background references at most and basically haven’t gotten to play in any of Capcom’s many crossovers. You know what they say: Always the bridesmaid, never the dragon. Speaking of which, I’d probably be voting for Ryu (or Fou Lu, since we need more villains with actually personality–looks at Nemesis), but there’s the whole name issue and I’m just really, really fucking tired of swords in this game already. So, sorry, Ryu of the Brood. Princess Nina will look for you (and find <i>Street Fighter </i>Ryu instead), but that’s as close as you get this time.</span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”><br></span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><span style=“font-size: 10pt;”><br></span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>8. <b>Sigma’s </b>“Marketing”: Speaking of villains with personality and there being too many swords, I’ll admit that, as much as I like Sigma, this is mostly for Diek Stiekem. Not that I dislike Sigma, quite the contrary; I’d prefer if he brought his scythe though. It’s just that…Sigma is, technically, brainwashed/infected into villainy due to his initial encounter with Zero and Capcom honestly has too many brainwashed villains as it is, especially on the female side, though Sigma <i>was</i> first; it’s why I can’t vote Juri and why it annoys me that people in-game treat Jill like a villain even though she’s so freaking obviously brainwashed. Still, I guess Sigma’s “so far gone” that is no longer really an issue and Diek Stiekem’s initial proposal (which I also cannot find) for him was quite interesting. Besides, if I had to vote for another person from the <i>MMX </i>series then it would definitely be Sigma anyway. Someone needs to shut Zero’s smug, broken-ass up and, much as I like X himself, staying true to the character, X is a <b>pacifist</b>, so being in a fighting game would actually be punishment characterization-wise.</div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;”>9. <b>Mega Man’s </b>“Marketing”: Though X’s much older, kid-lookalike brother, on the other hand, will happily fuck you up, especially if you act like Capcom did, who basically knows how out of touch they were with the <i>Mega Man </i>thing now ultimately given all the <i>Mega Man </i>stuff they’ve been throwing at us. Mega Man is basically guaranteed to get in (alongside Gene, who I am only not voting for because I’ve never played <i>Godhand </i>unfortunately, though it looks hilarious), so technically he doesn’t need my “help” (like Gene probably doesn’t). That said, most of my marketing was just going to be posting a theoretical move-set to shut down arguments that Arthur basically already “fills his spot” and that he’s just going to suck (because he totally has to go off his previous movesets, right Jill?). Those as well as that flimsy-ass excuse we were given before vanilla <i>MvC3</i> came out that they couldn’t do anything “too complex” or whatever when we have Dante “I have 40 moves because of dev. favoritism” Sparda in the same game. Seriously, if I could come up with a reasonable move-set of 15 moves, which as a whole represented every Classic <i>Mega Man</i> game, including <i>Mega Man V</i>, in like…three hours, then Capcom has no excuse. <span style=“font-size: small;”>(Since posting that without [working] compacting spoilers would take up…a lot of space, I’ll just say that it involved using a Dante or Arthur-esque set up of assigning different special move to each button.)</span></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>10. <b>Ruby Heart’s </b>“Marketing”: To be upfront, Ruby Heart was my “main” when I still played <i>MvC2</i> and she’s a pretty damn good character move-set-wise, though her supers outside of QCF+PP were seriously lacking but those are easily patched up like a couple of her specials. So that is a major factor. However, when combined with my lament that Capcom has way too many brainwashed female “villains”, I figured they could try fixing that with Ruby Heart since she’s basically a blank slate characterization-wise outside of the high probability that she’s at least somewhat French (given her move-set names). So, while she needn’t be a complete monster to “compensate”, she should easily be a more amoral person, sort of like a pirate version of Tessa, only less mischief and curiosity and more business and profit. Now if only Capcom could somehow get the idea in its head that just because she’s a woman and not “nice” or “good”, she automatically must be some type of slut, the I’d faith in that being able to work/be pitched. (See: Morrigan, Juri, Poison, etc.) My sample dialogue to Morrigan–Win Quote (vs. Morrigan): “Don’t worry. You’ll enjoy your stay on my ship quite well. After all, I know how much whips and chains excite you.”–aside, it would just be nice to have a woman be authoritative in a Capcom game without them then immediately coming on to you or being dressed in some type of leather bodice that surely must chafe.</span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-weight: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Sorry, Diek Stiekem. You know what happened when I posted in the last Character Poll. Thanks for doing this again.</span></font></div>
R.Mika and Rogue could make a nice '90s flashback duo.
Marvel:<div><br></div><div>- Rogue</div><div>- Black Widow</div><div>- Venom</div><div>- Green Goblin</div><div>- Ice Man</div><div><br></div><div>Capcom:</div><div><br></div><div>- Roll (Classic Megaman/ TvC)</div><div>- Sakura (Street Fighter)</div><div>- Ryu (Breath of Fire III)</div><div>- Rei (Breath of Fire III)</div><div>- Kyosuke (Rival Schools)</div>
Marvel:<br>-Punisher skin for Chris<div>-Black Panther</div><div>-Thanos </div><div>-Magik</div><div>-Gambit</div><div><br></div><div>Capcom:<br>-Bishamon (Darkstalkers franchise)</div><div>-Lord Raptor <span style=“font-family: ‘lucida grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;”> </span><span style=“font-family: ‘lucida grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;”>(Darkstalkers franchise)</span></div><div>- Ibuki (street fighter)<br>-Oda Nobunaga (sengoku basara)</div><div>-Bertha (Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon city)</div>
OMG last day guys! Get hype!<div><br></div><div>(Calling it now: THANOS REIGNS!)</div>
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Marvel:<br>
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Venom - Eddie Brock<br>
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Carnage<br>
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Psylocke<br>
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Morph<br>
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Nightcrawler<br>
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Lilith - Darkstalkers<br>
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Ibuki<br>
<br>Oro<br>
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Ken Masters<br>
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Jedah Dohma<br>
Voting ends here!
<font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2” style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Once again, Thanks to every one for voting!</span></font><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br><div>I will be forwarding the resuts to Niitsuma, Capcom, etc.</div></div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”>Retweet away!</div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>https://twitter.com/DiekStiekem/status/307600914959695875</span></font><br></div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”>Further discussions can be done here:</div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>UMvC 2013 Character Poll results discussion style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div>