Venom: Which Venom do we pick? Classic Eddie Brock Venom hasn't been Venom in like ten years, but is now Anti-Venom...Would the fans accept Anti-Venom instead? Or do we pick Mac Gargan, who's better known as the Scorpion but was in the suit for the last ten years...until Flash Thompson who's been a Black Ops style Venom for all of two issues so far. Do we have enough to get a moveset out of this without contradicting future storylines? Will there be an outcry for a more classic Venom instead if we go with him or is it a good move to push the new character more? What about Carnage instead?
The correct answer is that Anti-Venom would be fine, as long as he had a classic Venom outfit. No one would care. Carnage would piss of comic fans.
Gambit: More low-key X-Men than he was in the 90's. Currently has some sort of alternate Death persona going on, do we add it for the character or ignore it? Do we want this game to be oversaturated with X-Men again or give his slot to some unrepresented Marvel universe corner like a cosmic hero such as Nova?
I don't think obscurity in comics can be responded to by offering a character obscure in the mainstream. People know Gambit, they like Gambit. I hate Gambit, but I'm not people.
Psylocke: Has gotten a bit more spotlight recently, but doesn't have any TK Powers anymore in-universe (I think) and is now more of a mind-reading ninja. Will old fans be pissed if we completly alter her moveset? Another X-Men taking up a slot in the roster.
Psylocke is only wanted for the MvC2 assist, and it would not be nearly as good in this game. Yes, there are Psylocke fans, but they are few.
Cable: Did fans love him for his character or because he had an easily spammable and arguably overpowered hyper?
Most competitive players don't even want Cable back. He wouldn't be anything special now anyway, since a large portion of the cast has hypers with near instant startup for punishing assists already, and chained AHVBs would undoubtedly be removed. Much like Psylocke, no one would be truly happy if he returned.
their current relevance or popularity in the comic book universe is generally irrelevant to the average MVC/fighting game fan. They want Cable in so we can have HYPE AHVBx5 again and Psylocke for her god tier assist. .
So yeah Marvel is going to have a problem with these characters. But these characters will sell the DLCs.
That's the problem - they WONT sell the DLC. Magneto, Storm and Sentinel made all the old school players hyped, but most of them only use one of those three now, if any. DLC characters will be even worse off, because videos will show they aren't the gimmick characters they were in MvC2.
Then there are characters with real fanbases from MvC2 that bring something new to the table, like Strider. Personally, I'd love Blackheart, but I know he's not popular enough to come back, even though he adds a completely unique fighting style to the game.
No matter who Capcom brings as DLC next, people will rage, because it won't be the character they wanted. Maybe this is part of the reason a Super version is better.
I want to know why Marvel didnt let Capcom use any of the FF4? Im pretty sure I read in the first interview that came out after this game was announced that Marvel said no to any of the FF4.
They had Human Torch finished, 100% playable, and then they had to take him out. Niitsuma claimed it was for RAM reasons, but comic readers know what the real reason is by now. Skrull was supposedly suggested as a replacement, since Capcom didn't want to just throw his animations away.