Marvel Rivals has finally managed to unveil its final launch characters a few days before its December 6th release date, and has lined up a whole roster of characters that will no doubt continue to expand over time.

Even though the game is something of an “Overwatch clone” from NetEase, it has one of the best aesthetics I’ve ever seen, not only for the hero shooter genre, but also for these Marvel heroes and villains , which is saying something given the fact that how many iterations have we seen of them over the decades?

So here’s the full list of characters, including the late editions:

• Adam Warlock
• Black panther
• Black widow
• Captain America
• Cloak and dagger
• Doctor Strange

• Groot
• Hawkeye
• Hela
• Hulk
• Iron Fist
• Iron Man
• Jeff the Land Shark
• Loki
• Luna Snow

• magic
• Magneto
• mantis
• Moon Knight
• Namor
• Peni Parker
• Psylocke
• Punisher
• Rocket Raccoon
• Scarlet Witch
• Spider-Man
• Squirrel Girl

• Starlord
• Storm
• Thor
• Poison
• Winter Soldier
• wolverine

Later additions included big heroes like Wolverine and smaller ones like Squirrel Girl (voiced, as always, by Milana Vayntrub, who was once supposed to play the character in a live-action). Black Widow, Cloak and Dagger and Iron Fist also made it here at the last minute. A fun new thing is that we learned that Hulk and Wolverine have their “Fastball Special” combo move, where Hulk hurls Wolverine at people, a famous, often very funny comic book move. I expect we’ll see this in Avengers: Secret Wars if everything goes according to plan and Hugh Jackman shows up again.

Now we have six mutants on the roster: Storm, Wolverine, Namor, Psylocke, Magik and Magneto. Obviously we’re missing a lot of big names from this group, Cyclops, Cable, Jean Grey, Iceman, Professor X, Beast, I mean the list is practically endless. On the Avengers side, that’s where we have most of the heavy hitters, including the entire “core six” from the films and later additions like Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch and Spider-Man, so that group is pretty well covered. We also have the villain of the first Avengers film, Loki. No Ultron or Thanos yet. No Kang. But we have Galacta, daughter of Galactus!

The most unique characters on this list are probably Luna Snow, Peni Parker, Squirrel Girl, and Jeff the Land Shark, as they wanted to be more than just the “main” Marvel guys to some extent. I’m also very excited to see how Cloak and Dagger play.

So there are only a few days left until the release on December 6th. I think this is going to be a big thing.

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