I meant the comics, which have since adopted costumes that are more similar to their movie counterparts. Captain America, Hawkeye, Star-Lord, & Rocket Raccoon are prime examples of these changes.Like their redesigns in recent movies? I'm not really up to speed with how the characters look in their comics so I'm not sure if their comic versions had redesigns.
Personally I wouldn't want their cinema versions to represent them if MvC4 comes out. All the Marvel heroes have already established designs that are full of color and match the Capcom environment really well. Off the top of my head, Hawkeye from the Avengers movie is one of the most boring ones I've seen, same with Captain America.
Richard Rider will probably be Nova again by the time MvC4 rolls around. Also, Hulk hasn't used the armor that much outside Indestructible Hulk & Infinity. Likewise, Iron Man will probably revert to red armor.Most don't seem to have changed dramatically, but:
Iron Man - He has nice suits from time to time. I like his Marvel NOW outfit. It's kind of weird, he's my favourite superhero but I don't really have a strong affinity for any of his armor colour schemes. Don't even really care for the Red/Gold even though it's iconic. I think the inverse scheme for Avengers 2/IM3 should never be used as a standard, though.
Hawkeye - I don't really mind Hawkeye with the Chevron on his chest, though people seem to hate it. It's a cool modernization. I would be down for Hawkguy alt too. His Avengers 2 costume is horrible.
Hulk - I kind of dislike Hulk when he has armor on him. It's kind of antithetic to his powers to me, and just makes it weirder to imagine him smashing people with anything but his bare fists. Classic design I can't imagine changing.
Magneto - I haven't fully kept up with the new series, but I don't think there is anything crazy new in there? Marvel NOW Magneto is already sort of done with one of his alts.
Spider-man - Didn't change dramatically I think? They have so many alts to choose from, it's ridiculous.
Ghost Rider - ugh
Nova - The only Nova is Richard Rider.
Rocket Raccoon - I think the Guardians in general haven't faired well being redesigned for the recent series. I don't think I like anything about the recent series. I don't really like film Drax either.
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That said, now that the MCU ball is rolling, I guess it may be good to speculate who may be a newcomer in the next iteration? I mean, MvC3 is already pretty prophetic in terms of showing us what properties will be pushed in the future, but I still think it's a bit hard to call. My guesses:
- Maybe one more Guardian, depending on how good GotG does. I don't see them going beyond that.
- Black Panther: He's a shoe-in, I feel. Marvel is waiting for the right moment to let this go and it's very likely we could see it announced at this year's comic-con.
- Ms. Marvel: Just an all around great character to include. Highly versatile power-set means a lot of gameplay potential. She's always involved somewhere, and is likely to pop up in the MCU as well.
- I think any more characters are hard to predict. We're sort of at the limit of what Marvel is trying to push, and I don't expect stuff like Runaways or some of the TV characters (even Daredevil) to have a greater pull in the video game space.
As for the Guardians, Marvel is pushing hard for them to be the next big thing, so I can easily see 2 new reps from that team. As for the redesigns, Star-Lord specifically was redesigned from that god-awful Bendis costume to look more like his movie counterpart (the same was done for Rocket in his new solo comic).