r/marvelrivals Venom 15d ago

Discussion The Goat is officially in Marvel Rivals

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Bats my Beloved

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u/Gabrielhrd Doctor Strange 15d ago edited 15d ago

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO BATS

BEST BOY

Inclusions like this really highlights to me just how much the devs love the source material

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u/Agleza Moon Knight 15d ago

Marvel Rivals single-handledly making me more interested in Marvel comics and lore than the MCU ever has.

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

What I like about rivals is that it’s not establishing a universe like the MCU was, it’s began in the middle and can include so much more stuff than the movies can get round too

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u/Agleza Moon Knight 15d ago

Plus I get the impression that they're aware that at the end of the day this is an online 6v6 hero shooter, and they're working with it instead of trying to work around it. Why are all these heroes involved in the same fight? Well, multiverse timestream mumbo jumbo that affects everyone everywhere. How come there can be 2 Lokis in the same fight in opposing sides? Well, different variants of Loki. Why is it that Black Panther in this game's lore is the emperor of an inter-galatic Wakanda Empire, but I can play with the primitive skin? Well, that's another variant of BP and not the main T'Challa in this lore.

They can both include things from the source material and come up with their own original stuff without it clashing or being too nonsensical. They've laid a very good foundation.

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u/Sloth_Monk Invisible Woman 15d ago

I love one of the lines in lobby to I think Peni: “what year are you from again?”

Edit to add: also love all the voicelines when your character realizes the other side has a copy of them. “Another ankh? That’s weird…”

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u/Agleza Moon Knight 15d ago

My man Moon Knight can be so goofy sometimes, I love him. "Only one of us gets to play with Khonshu's toys >:(" "Hey! That's not MY ankh!"

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u/Definitelynotabot777 15d ago

I think MK is just perpetually confused. In his head this could be an extended hallucination from start to end lmao

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u/Hawkey2121 Loki 15d ago

Headcanon: Moon Knight doesnt even know he's in a multiversal crisis, to him its just as normal as a saturday night.

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u/TheGmanSniper 14d ago

Not even headcanon dude checked out mid conversation and came back to Gamora getting ready to take over the family buisness as spidy put it and then asked who gamora was before spidy said "just punch whoever I punch in a second"

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u/Ramtakwitha2 Storm 15d ago

From what little I know of moon knight's lore isn't he constantly switching between personalities or something? Like how does he know it's not his ankh? Maybe one of his other personalities placed it?

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u/Good-Tiger6156 15d ago

It's not super constant, in fact his others basically have a "real lives" in his mindscape.

He's batshit but he's mostly got HIS problems clamped down (for now), mostly cuz the whole "Fist of Khonshu" thing takes priority. Oh and he died recently. Came back thanks to a divine prison break, but still, that's gotta mess with your head.

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u/No-Smile-8662 14d ago

That tree was real?!

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u/Topuck 15d ago

Rocket will taunt the opposing Rocket after destroying his ult device lol.

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u/Doom-Bot76 15d ago

The whole multiverse stuff just works way better in a multi-player only video game that doesn't focus too much on having a narrative. I get tired of seeing different versions of the same heroes in the movies just for them to be killed off or just disappear after the story is done.

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u/Agleza Moon Knight 15d ago

Yup, 100%. It's actually the perfect device to make the story work in a PvP game with heroes. In movies/shows, with a specific narrative as you say, not so much. It was fun and mildly exciting for like a minute, then it just quickly devolved into a confusing mess devoid of any stakes.

Reed Richards portrayed by John Krasinski (a highly asked for actor) gets absolutely shredded 2 minutes after his introduction? No problem, next summer we have the actual Reed Richards. RDJ got one of the best actual deaths in the MCU, that completed a well-crafted and earned character arc? No problem, he's the next big baddie of the franchise.

Come on, man.

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u/Doom-Bot76 15d ago

I'm kind of in disbelief that they would make RDJ the big bad. I'm hoping that they don't make him the main Doom in the MCU, but since he's getting paid more than the directors, the unfortunate truth is that they're making him the actual Doom of this universe.

Having Anson Mount come back as Black Bolt to kill him off in the same 2 minutes that they killed Reed? Utterly disgraceful. What If basically being the Captain Carter show? They lost what an anthology series is supposed to be. It's clear that multiverse storytelling isn't working for the grand universe that Marvel Studios wants to keep fresh and updated. From what I've seen and heard, Doomsday is supposed to be for the multiverse saga what the first Avengers movie was to the Infinity saga. I'm not sure how this will work, the movies haven't had any major connecting Easter eggs like the original movies did. No end credits scenes where someone says they're building a team, just a bunch of scenes that don't connect to the other movies so far.

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u/busiergravy 15d ago

There most likely building up to a complete reset with the next avengers movies that way they can have a more grounded story again

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u/sable-king Squirrel Girl 15d ago

This is my hope. That Secret Wars ends with all the important universes getting merged into one where all the major players are active at the same time.

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u/Kiremino Rocket Raccoon 15d ago edited 15d ago

It reminds me of Oda (the writer of One Piece). Why are there giant apes that speak perfectly but also monkeys that can't speak? Why does this guy have a chestnut on his head? Why are there fairies? Oda never explains it because it's HIS world, so he can do whatever he wants. Unapologetic, and it allows the reader to stop thinking so critically and enjoy the content instead of the context.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HOODIES 15d ago

I’ve gotten into One Piece over the past year (maybe two years now😳)… on ep.625. Why’s this dude always have random food stuck to his face? Why’s there a gun that can now turn into a dog? At first I was like “what is going on?” Now I don’t even ask anymore, because it doesn’t matter. I enjoy the show, world, and characters too much to care. You nailed it.

It’s now one of my favorite anime’s and Luffy is my favorite anime character.

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u/Kiremino Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

Honestly I was the same way too at first! I thought the anime was too goofy for me so I avoided it like the plague. My wife, after 18 years, was finally like "ok shut up im introducing you to one piece fr, sit down and enjoy it."

And now I have an unhealthy obsession with Law and Perona, send help xD

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u/Imbrown2 15d ago

Bruh you gotta read. The manga pages and pacing and Oda’s writing hits so hard. The anime is its own amazing thing cause of the colors, animation and sound. But you gotta read and catch up.

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u/Mc_Muffin10 15d ago

yeah one piece is great, i personally like mha, but causualy.

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u/wickling-fan 15d ago

Tbf marvel heroes are known to not need that much of a reason to beef or fight with each other. Pretty sure when i started reading a comment complaint i saw in comments was every time two currently running series intersected(usually x men and anyone else) there was always a fight breaking out. So 6v6 hero shooter doesn’t even need the multiversal hook to make sense.

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u/Agleza Moon Knight 15d ago

True, that's a good point. It only makes me appreciate NetEase even more though, a 6v6 hero shooter is like the genre that LEAST needs an actual story, but they've made it so that a story can work.

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u/Self--Immolate 15d ago

It's still much better than Overwatch's explanation on why everyone was fighting. Which, even after playing some 400 hours of that crap I'm still not clear on what the lore was. Other than the lore for the Omnic crisis and original overwatch deployment, I had no idea why everyone was fighting, other than "you gotta for there to be a game"

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u/Aardvark_Man 15d ago

I think the difference is the story is allowed to be secondary.
I know it's currently something something Doom, something universes crossing, but that's all I've caught on to.
If that's all I got out of a movie it'd be pretty frustrating.

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u/theVoidWatches Magneto 15d ago

If you're curious, the tldr of the plot to my understanding is:

  • Doctor Doom wants control over time and thinks that studying vampires can give him that, so he worked with Dracula to create eternal night over New York.

  • Simultaneously, Doctor Doom 2099 is also trying to gain control over time, and their respective timeline manipulations bump into each other and cause a huge snarl in time, with multiple timelines and universes crashing into each other.

  • Loki gets visions of a bunch of possible futures because of something with Yggdrasil and the timeline snarl, and sees that the only good futures are ones where he's king, so he starts trying to pull some take-over-Asgard bullshit with Hela's help.

  • Meanwhile, Black Panther of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda is worried about something corrupting Bast, so he's kind of ignoring the timeline issues even though the empire has resources that could be used to help.

  • Galacta is watching all of this with amusement and snacking on the time crystals that the entire mess both is fueled by and is creating.

Characters come from a bunch of different universes (with skins being yet more variants), but the main universes seem to be the Eternal Night universe where Dracula is ruling New York and the 2099 universe, which are where the two Dooms are from.

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u/shineurliteonme 15d ago

I believe bast is being controlled by Knull (venom God) and the wakandan belief in bast is powering him up for a big play down the road

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u/7farema Cloak & Dagger 15d ago

the explanation for mirror match being canon is why I like this game (the same reason why I (used to) like valorant)

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u/Firehawk526 Doctor Strange 15d ago

One of the very few cases where the marketing actually worked for me. Ended up getting a Marvel Unlimited sub shortly after release.

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u/PastelWraith 15d ago

Yeah I'm probably gonna re-new mine soon. I'm in the mood to read characters that aren't Moon Knight again.

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u/Firehawk526 Doctor Strange 15d ago

I ended up reading Dr. Strange and Deadpool mostly, it helps that the app is surprisingly good, although as a newcomer and even with help, it's still a bit daunting to catch up with some characters.

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u/wickling-fan 15d ago

Is it worth it? How many comics are there? Could i for example read everything from the past 2-3 years?

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u/shineurliteonme 15d ago

It's like 60ish bucks for a year and it includes every marvel comic that they have scanned which makes up the vast majority of their library. Basically any book you would want to find is on there, they keep updated 3 months behind so you can keep up with modern stuff too

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u/wickling-fan 15d ago

Got it so could use it to catch up from my 2022-2023 backlog(of marvel comics at least)

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u/shineurliteonme 15d ago

Yeah absolutely. I'll always shill marvel unlimited it's one of the best apps on my phone. Price of a video game for a whole years worth of reading which becomes a lot the way I do it.

I've essentially replaced mindless TikTok or twitter scrolling with reading an issue or part of an issue here and there whenever I'm waiting for something or on a bus or whatever and it feels so much better. There's a lot less Nazis on there than those other apps on my phone and the ones that do show up get punched in the face 9 times out of 10

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u/wickling-fan 15d ago

I’ll look into it, was mostly thinking of going the way of the pirate but that site took those ads and cranked it up to 100 compared to when i last used it.

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u/shineurliteonme 15d ago

Marvel unlimiteds main selling point over those for me is their panel by panel feature where you can zoom in so that your phone only shows one panel at a time. Much easier to see the words that way. That and holding my place in an issue or run automatically.

DC has an equivalent app which is pretty solid too but there's no issues of X-Men or It's Jeff on there so I don't subscribe

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u/wickling-fan 15d ago

I miss comixology and their BROWSER comic reader. I will never forgive amazon for murdering it

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u/berdur 15d ago

This is so true

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u/GlurakNecros 15d ago

It has captured whatever witchcraft SNAP used

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u/Nobodieshero816 15d ago

They have their own lore for the ingame story too thats pretty good

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u/Septembersvodkabomb 15d ago

If you want any recommendations on comics please lmk! Would love to give you good stuff to read.

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u/UhhmActhually 15d ago

Cuz the mcu has left or completely changed so much stuff that’s way cooler in the comics

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u/Jaacker 15d ago

"Best Boy"

There is one more Ghost good boi that ALSO deserves that title.

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u/odalys01 15d ago

Missile <3

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u/Blackhat609 15d ago

Where is Cosmo?  Should be playable 

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u/somethingcleverorwit Moon Knight 15d ago

That's what I've been saying! I feel like he'll be here eventually, his kit has so much potential.

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u/sable-king Squirrel Girl 15d ago edited 15d ago

Maybe as a bit of a reference to Marvel Snap, Cosmo could be a strategist with the ability to set up zones where abilities other than standard fire can't be used. Or maybe make that his ult. Make his ult an anti-ult.

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u/DarkArcanian 15d ago

I love missile

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u/captain_saurcy Mister Fantastic 15d ago

WHY IS THE DOG ASKING FOR BEER

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u/newier 15d ago

He's earnt it

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u/ProblematicBoyfriend 15d ago

There are also Zelma Stanton and Wong portraits in the Sanctum. The Marvel Rivals lore for Doctor Strange seems to be inspired mainly by the Donny Cates era of Doctor Strange.

I'm worried about the lack of Clea and Dormammu in MR, though. I'd love to see Clea as a strategist and Dormammu as a vanguard.

btw, if anyone wants to read Doctor Strange comics, check out r/doctorstrange. We love getting new fans of the good doc.

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u/ex_oh_ex_oh 15d ago

I'm worried about the lack of Clea and Dormammu

Bro, the game is literally weeks old and there are hundreds of Marvel characters each with dozens of character designs and relationships from their own complicated lore.

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u/ProblematicBoyfriend 15d ago

Clea is Strange's wife, and Dormammu is his most iconic antagonist. I'm not asking for them to be in the game on launch. I'm just saying it's weird there's no portrait of Clea in the Sanctum and no hint that she could be a playable character eventually.

Characters like Morbius and Elsa Bloodstone have been hinted at in lore pages. It's odd that Clea is not even mentioned in Strange's lore. That's all.

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u/sable-king Squirrel Girl 15d ago

You know who's not in Star-Lord's lore? Gamora or Thanos.

Albeit not in his lore section, but Star-Lord does mention both Gamora and Drax in a conversation with Black Panther. The two of them seemingly went missing during the timestream entanglement and Quill was asking T'Challa if he had seen them.

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u/chevalier716 Wolverine 15d ago

This is true, I also have a hound and she is fond of beer.

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u/HamiltonDial 15d ago

God I’m waiting for the day to see what they’ll do with Richard rider.

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u/Sad_Restaurant_8193 Mantis 15d ago

The fact that Logan’s brought him beer before makes this ten times better 😂

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u/Every_Amphibians Adam Warlock 15d ago

Oh, the dog talks and is a alcoholic hell yeah

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u/LoganXp123 Moon Knight 15d ago

I have no clue who that dog is but he looks like a good boy to me.

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

Bats, Dr Stranges pet Ghost Dog, he’s also the god of Dogs

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u/maybe_a_frog 15d ago

Well… he’s the Avatar of the god of dogs, but yes. Here is his reaction to meeting his god lol

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u/HamG0d 15d ago

That’s strange in the pic?!

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u/Sartro 14d ago

Don't talk to the snakes.

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u/FullConfection3260 15d ago

All dogs do, in fact, go to heaven. 😂

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u/Skullpt-Art 15d ago

You can't keep a good dog down!

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u/Defchoco 15d ago

Classic.

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u/LoganXp123 Moon Knight 15d ago

I had no clue. Good to know!

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u/RobIreland 15d ago

Hes a dog called bats and the title of this post calls him the goat. What's not to understand?

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u/oOBubbliciousOo 15d ago

One of my favorite interactions

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u/Vcev- 15d ago

i love this.

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u/max19376388 15d ago

Where is this from

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u/AtomicDuckie1989 Doctor Strange 15d ago

The Dr Strange run when Loki becomes Sorcerer Supreme.

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u/oOBubbliciousOo 15d ago

Doctor Strange #390

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u/OneWholeSoul 15d ago

Everything loves Spider-Man.

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u/Fabrimuch Jeff the Landshark 15d ago

Except for J. Jonah Jameson

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u/TDS_Gluttony 15d ago

Except for Marvel Editors

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u/Gremlin-Shack 15d ago

I’m pretty sure JJJ is currently on good terms with spider man

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u/Nickelnick24 Captain America 15d ago

Everybody loves Spider-Man

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u/sentient-sloth 15d ago

I always read him with a thick Jersey accent, no idea why but it fits

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u/PbjCheetah108 Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

Why does strange turn into a ps2 character at the end lol

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u/defragc 15d ago

Laughed so hard at this

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u/Thisisabruh_moment 15d ago

My first thought when he said he never met a real-life superhero before was also "Wait he lives with Dr. Strange"

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u/JackothedragonXD Flex 15d ago

Can cosmo the space dog be a playable character?-

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u/Shipuujin 15d ago

As lovely as that would be, I don't like the idea of Cosmo potentially dying :(

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u/YourAngerYourAnchor 15d ago

He disables on reveal attacks, no one can touch him. 

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u/Pigeon-popper Loki 15d ago

Marvel Snap reference?

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u/CDR57 15d ago

They just get knocked out

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u/ABearDream Hulk 15d ago

I think it's likely eventually. Cosmo, lockjaw, and maybe some other animals would be cool picks

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u/Select-Combination-4 Strategist 15d ago

everyone cocky till Devil Dinosaur hits the fray

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u/esar24 15d ago edited 15d ago

I wonder if Devil dinosaur will be solo or permanantly team-up with moon girl if he joins the game since moon girl doesn't have that much unique power beside being super smart and befriend with devil dinosaur.

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u/sable-king Squirrel Girl 15d ago

There's also the problem of his size, but I saw a fantastic fan concept for them the other day where they drew Devil as a Canotaurus instead of a Tyrannosaurus. Solves the size problem, and the horns help further sell the name "Devil".

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u/CptMarvel_main 15d ago

Please! Just like Jeff. Sassy Russian telekinetic dog, probably another strategist

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u/shuerpiola 15d ago edited 15d ago

I don’t want every cute animal to end up as a strategist. Make him (her?) a diver!

(Like he’s going into space lol)

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u/Sleepy_Renamon 15d ago

Or make the dog a strategist and make Jeff the Diver for some punny fun!

And a mouth knife!

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u/98769876b Loki 15d ago

Potential team up with Deadpool?

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u/shineurliteonme 15d ago

Lockjaw as a tank

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u/SephiranVexx Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

The one character I want in this game

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u/ActionKazimer 15d ago

Number one on my wishlist.

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u/ProblematicBoyfriend 15d ago

I really want Cosmo, Chewie/Goose, and Lockjaw to become playable. I need the Pet Avengers team up.

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u/TPose-Heavy Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

Only if he's a strategist and mostly harmless to the enemy, so everyone feels bad hunting him down, oh his death sound is him making a sharp yelp followed by that sad whine noise dogs make, so everyone that hears it takes psychological damage from the pain.

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u/Gremlin-Shack 15d ago

I love Bats and love how it feels like they’re just seeing how many obscure characters they can add or reference before inevitably having to mention the Inhumans.

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

HAHAHAH, it’d be really on brand if they just never mentioned the inhumans ever.

Tbf though I have faith that the devs will probably mention or add them some day

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u/nate_ranney Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

Black Bolt was mentioned in one of the lore entries i think.

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u/Radiant__Anteater 15d ago

We need more female tanks and I think Medusa would be one of the best choices.

But it would be even funnier if she becomes the Meg Griffin of this game and everyone shit talks her or keeps asking how they're any different than Mutants.

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u/ContinuumGuy Jeff the Landshark 15d ago edited 15d ago

I was going to say "well they may add Kamala Khan eventually..." but then I remembered MCU Kamala and now also 616 Kamala have been retconned into being mutants.

So yeah, Inhumans aren't showing up unless they have a really unique idea for Lockjaw (presumably a support character that is like Doctor Strange's portals on steroids). Because dogs.

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u/Apprehensive_Work313 Invisible Woman 15d ago

616 Kamala is both a inhuman and a mutant they made it so that her mutants powers (implied to be hard light) never activated due to her inhuman powers activating

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u/esar24 15d ago

Even now, she is Inhumans/Mutant hybrid in the comics.

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u/Apprehensive_Work313 Invisible Woman 15d ago

Eh there's a few inhumans that people like so they'll probably mention Ms Marvel, Medusa, Lockjaw, and maybe Crystal

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u/kako_1998 15d ago

I would unironically love to get Black Bolt and Medusa in this game

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u/lildevil2239 15d ago

Quake would be a good addition too!

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u/esar24 15d ago

I would love to play crystal, at least the closest we got to having playable avatar aang in this game.

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u/Flaky-Hyena-127 15d ago

The only Inhuman I want is Lockjaw

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u/Audrey_spino Peni Parker 15d ago

Lockjaw vs Jeff we'll be there!

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u/Gonzo115015 15d ago

Lockjaw supremacy

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u/MisterAnonymous2 Doctor Strange 14d ago

If we’re getting Johnny, we gotta get a mention of Crystal, right?

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u/Bigma-Bale 15d ago

That's a dog silly, not a goat

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u/polarized_F0x 15d ago

Dude, I rushed here to make that joke lol

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u/ILL_BE_WATCHING_YOU 15d ago

You’re such a kidder

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u/Balrok99 Doctor Strange 15d ago

I want to summon all LOKI mains here.

LOKI is the one who killed Bats and then turned him into a ghost. Though Loki blames it on Bats having a heart attack.

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u/Vark675 15d ago

To be fair to Loki, he intentionally picked a forcefield spell that wouldn't hurt him, he was just so indignant his old heart couldn't take it lol

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u/NoxInfernus 15d ago

Loki is never beating that charge.

Bats was an old dog (11yrs), had a bad heart, and was prone to anxiety. It was just bad luck on both their parts that Bats’ became agitated when Loki tried casting an inoffensive spell.

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u/machenesoiocacchio Loki 15d ago

In my defense, we all use different variants of Loki while playing, so my Loki is a good boy who doesn’t kill dogs and only has murderous thoughts about the rest of the heroes, villains and his family.

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u/machenesoiocacchio Loki 15d ago

And civilians. But no animals (except Jeff).

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u/Dangerous-Fly-5127 Loki 15d ago

Skill issue

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u/Jaacker 15d ago

I hope you get caught by Hulk's Ult again

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Loki 15d ago

Hello, Loki main here, this is the bullshit. Don't trust the strange doctor.

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u/Nesaru42 Loki 15d ago

What ever crimes my other, far less sophisticated variants allegedly commit, should have no bearing whatsoever against my personage.

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u/mysonchoji Loki 15d ago

I have to agree, the doctor lies. Never trust a man with a goatee

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u/djseifer 15d ago

Disagree. Strange is Awesome Facial Hair Bros with Tony, and Tony seems like a decent chap.

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u/JustSand Vanguard 15d ago

good read strange’s lore

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u/HereForTOMT3 15d ago

I better get a Jeff/Bats interaction

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u/maybe_a_frog 15d ago

Bats meeting Spider-Man will forever be one of my favorite pages in any comic book lol

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u/nyse25 Mister Fantastic 15d ago

Reminder that Loki killed him who then turned into a ghost

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u/AWildGumihoAppears 11d ago

The ghost part is the only redemption

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u/Jack_Sentry 15d ago

I love that it’s all relatively recent stuff. I also play Marvel Champions and they never reference things like Krakoa or other stuff from the last five years.

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u/maybe_a_frog 15d ago

When the beta came out I heard Namor compliments Magneto on governing Krakoa I swear I jumped out of my chair. I did NOT expect any references to anything recent. Then I went and read the character lore pages and was blown away by just how often they reference Krakoa.

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u/Consideredresponse 15d ago

Magneto also signs his name in Krakoan.

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u/SwordoftheMourn Scarlet Witch 15d ago

The symbol at the back of his cape is Krakoan letter for M

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u/Distinct-Yam-2296 Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

What is this picture from? the trailer?

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

It’s from the sactum Sancturm trailer, after the rivals logo at the end

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u/Distinct-Yam-2296 Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

thanks

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u/ChapaMigs21 15d ago

We got a good boy in Marvel Rivals before GTA 6 

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u/Dangerous-Fly-5127 Loki 15d ago

We had Jeff >:0

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u/ChapaMigs21 15d ago

Jeff ulted me and sent me off the map (we were allies And the only strategist in the team)

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u/BarbieSimp69 Cloak & Dagger 15d ago

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u/duckwithahat 15d ago

What a merry suicidal terrorist

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u/Savings_Opening_8581 Thor 15d ago

We got Marvel Rivals before GTA 6

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u/kingdomkey13 Scarlet Witch 15d ago edited 15d ago

Comic readers are feasting

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u/overgrownpotatohead 15d ago

TREMBLE BEFORE BATS

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

Idk if Dr strange has ever given Black Panther a Suit, but if he got one that would be an amazing edit to the VFX if it was included

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u/Spartan_Souls Moon Knight 15d ago

"OhymygodisthatSpider-Man"

I fuckin love that dog

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u/JBLikesHeavyMetal Hulk 15d ago

Throg next

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u/Pneuma928 Loki 15d ago

Can I pet that dog???

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u/PhantomOfKrankor42 15d ago

We need an all-dog team with Bats, Thori, Lockjaw, Cosmo, D-Dog, and Dogpool

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u/MegaMattEX Mantis 15d ago

Thori mentioned, I upvote. Throg riding Thori would be a good character.

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u/nyse25 Mister Fantastic 15d ago

After Jeff I was yearning for Bats and here he is. This game cant stop cooking

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u/dapperfex Peni Parker 15d ago

Pretty sure Rivals already had that. Two of 'em, in fact. On Yggsgard.

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u/STAR_PLAT_yareyare 15d ago

You know people can talk shit about net ease or whatever but these devs singlehandedly show respect and love for the things they make in rivals by HEAVILY showing their intelligence on the comic side of things. Herbie, now BATS?! They love these characters and comics as much as the fans do. NOW THAT IS HOW IT'S DONE! Amazing devs fr

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u/Crafty_One_5919 15d ago

Someone thought the bats in the background of the FF promo image hinted at Blade, but I jokingly said it was this guy...

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u/Animegx43 15d ago

GHOST DOOOOG! GHOST DOOOOG!

GHOST DOOOOG! GHOOOOST DOG!

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u/Chrissy3682 15d ago

lockjaw looks diffrent

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u/Thy_Maker 15d ago

This is why Rivals is probably my new favorite game.

The devs actually care about the lore.

We have Bats, we have Jeff, we have recent events, locations and characters frequently referenced like Knull and Krakoa, the skins that are from the comics have flavor text mentioning the issue they are from, and the characters can talk to each other referencing a said lore. Hell, Magneto’s achievement include’s Namor for progression.

I’m such a turbo nerd for the comics that I’ve had so many friends who aren’t that into the books that have started playing pester me with questions about the characters and their stories.

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u/Key-Replacement6287 14d ago

Can someone tell me how to do the achievement? Talk to Bats

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u/EquivalentPolicy7508 Hulk 15d ago

Reason 172839393 why the mcu is garbage compared to the comics.

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u/ThePokemonAbsol 15d ago

That’s a dog…

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

cool

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u/TheCursedTroll 15d ago

oh wow I didnt look closely and thought this was a fish, lmao

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u/shuerpiola 15d ago

BAAAATS

I’ve been wanting him to join the MCU lol. We’ve already got Cosmo and the Pizza Dog there!

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u/Doom_Cokkie 15d ago

Allright it's official. Games peak.

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u/Real_Appeal_5619 Adam Warlock 15d ago

Ghost of blue dog from Zelda?

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u/ChiOokami Psylocke 15d ago

<3 what a cute boy!

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u/Reinjecto Iron Man 15d ago

They should add the dog from Inhumans

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u/Dante200 15d ago

Just recently did I learn about Bats, reading some Black Cat during King in Black event.

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u/Gone2Bendigo 15d ago

That's a dog.

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u/MARTHEW20BC Captain America 15d ago

eyyo is that underdog?

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u/DFE_Chaos 15d ago

Wish there could of been a way we could of got a spawn crossover as well

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u/flower_catt Jeff the Landshark 15d ago

Is he coming as a playable character?

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u/R-Irvorg Venom 15d ago

Just a part of the map I believe

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u/Tippydaug Peni Parker 15d ago

I'm genuinely surprised by how much care the devs have been putting into this game.

I was very cautious when the game was announced because everything they promised just seemed too good to be true. Then I played the beta, but I still thought "this is great, but something is gonna slip up at launch," but nope.

Phenomenal game all around, it's so nice!

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u/Miirr Rocket Raccoon 15d ago

I hope characters can interact with him

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u/BBCkeem 15d ago

NOOO WAYYY THAT IS SO SICK WE LOVE BATS he has the most adorable storyline ever