Marvel vs. Capcom series

Marvel vs Capcom

Marvel vs. Capcom (マーヴルVSカプコン, Māvuru versus Kapukon^?) is a sub-series of fighting games (inside the VS. Series) created by Capcom in which characters created by Marvel Comics and Capcom's own characters appear together. While it was the first vs. series involving Capcom, the name Marvel exists to distinguish it from Capcom's other vs. series with SNK (Capcom vs. SNK), Tatsunoko Productions (Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes) and Namco's crossover RPG with Capcom (Namco x Capcom).

The Marvel characters depicted in these games were often based on their incarnations in various early 1990s animated series and were often voiced by the same voice actors.

Many of the characters and fighting mechanics used in these games were first developed and refined in two other fighting games Capcom had developed earlier, serving as precursors to the series: X-Men: Children of the Atom, which featured characters strictly from the X-Men universe, and Marvel Super Heroes, which gleaned characters from Marvel's entire roster (X-Men included).

Although the tag-team fighting concept was not new, it was refined with this series (although fans would argue whether this was for better or for worse). New fighting game terminology, such as "Aerial Rave" (the act of performing a combo on an opponent while the opponent remains airborne) and "Variable Combination" (the act of having two or more characters on the same team to perform their hyper combos at the same time) were added to the fighting game vernacular with this series.

Games

• X-Men vs. Street Fighter
• Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
• Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Story

There does not appear to be a concrete story behind each game in the series, although several plot points run across the various games of the series. However, various pairs of characters - typically one Marvel and one Capcom, were often partnered with each other during game play (although later games randomized the partnerships so that it was possible to complete the game facing all-Marvel or all-Capcom teams).

However, several interesting (but noncanonical to both Marvel and Capcom continuities) subplots did emerge throughout the series, some of which contradict the others:

• Psylocke is the one who rescues the amnesiac Cammy, who lost her memory after the battle with Apocalypse in X-Men vs. Street Fighter, from The Hand and its leader, Matsu'o Tsurayaba.
• Zangief and Colossus defend Russia against Omega Red. In one ending, Omega Red apparently kills Ryu, prompting Ken to also seek revenge.
• Wolverine seeks Akuma as he believes Akuma has information about his own past. However, in order to get the information from Akuma, he must win a fight to the death.
• Chun-Li was made an honorary member of the X-Men, despite the lack of mutant powers on her part. Ryu is also offered membership in both the X-Men and Avengers, but turns it down both times, preferring to continue on his own path.
• When Onslaught emerges, Charles Xavier subconsciously calls the Capcom heroes to help stop himself. Jin Saotome is attacked by M. Bison after defeating him and is near death, but the two cyborgs, Shadow Lady (Chun-Li) and Shadow (Charlie), revive him as a being like themselves.
• In the Hulk's ending, Captain America makes the sacrifice. Meanwhile, Zangief battles Jin's Cyberbot, Blodia.
• Magneto and M. Bison team up, intending on betraying each other at a later time. In Magneto's ending, Magneto eventually manages to get the upper hand and kills him. Bison's Shadaloo henchmen (Balrog, Vega, and Sagat) join him afterwards, fearful of Magneto's power. The opposite happens in M. Bison's ending.
• Apocalypse captures Akuma and turns him into Cyber Akuma.
• Charlie is kidnapped by Bison, who uses Shadaloo's technology to transform him to a super-soldier henchman known as Shadow. However, Shadow turns on Bison, who then tries to subject Chun-Li and Jin Saotome to the same fate.
• Akuma is hinted to be the father of Dan. However, this ending, much like Dan himself, is a parody of the Art of Fighting series.
• In Ken's endings, the events of the games never actually happened. In X-Men vs. Street Fighter, he was playing the game itself with his son Mel, while the events of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter appear to be a dream. He wakes up and continues his training with Ryu.

Marvel Characters

This is a list of all the Marvel characters that have appeared in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, most of which have appeared in various Marvel comic books:

Characters from X-Men

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Ultimate)
Apocalypse	Final Boss	Sub-Boss	No	No	No
Beast	Cameo	No	No	No	Support Card
Cable	No	No	No	Yes	Deadpool's downloadable costume
Colossus	No	No	Assist	Yes	Support Card
Cyclops	Yes	Yes	Assist	Yes	Support Card
Daken	No	No	No	No	Cameo
Dazzler	No	No	No	No	Cameo
Deadpool	No	No	No	No	Yes
Gambit	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Iceman	No	No	Assist	Yes	Support Card
Jubilee	No	No	Assist	No	No
Juggernaut	Yes	No	Assist	Yes	Supporrt Card
Magneto	Yes	No	Assist	Yes	Yes
Marrow	No	No	No	Yes	No
(Madrox) Multiple Man	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Mystique	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Nightcrawler	No	No	No	No	Cameo
Omega Red	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Onslaught	No	No	Boss & Secret Character	No	No
Phoenix	Cameo	No	No	No	Yes (Also Dark Phoenix)
Psylocke	No	No	Assist	Yes	No
Professor X	Cameo	No	Cameo	No	Support Card
Rogue	Yes	No	Assist	Yes	Support Card
Sabretooth	Yes	No	No	Yes	Support Card
Scarlet Witch	No	No	No	No	Cameo
Sentinel	No	No	Secret Assist	Yes	Yes
Silver Samurai	No	No	No	Yes	Support Card
Spiral	No	No	No	Yes	Cameo
Storm	Yes	No	Assist	Yes	Yes
Wolverine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (& Bone Claw Wolverine)	Yes
X-23	No	No	No	No	Yes

Characters from The Avengers

Character	Appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Ultimate)
Black Widow	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Captain America	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hawkeye	No	No	No	No	Yes
Hulk	Mentioned	Yes	Yes (& secret Orange Hulk)	Yes	Yes
Iron Fist	No	No	No	No	Yes
Iron Man	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Ms. Marvel	No	No	No	No	Support Card
She-Hulk	No	No	No	No	Yes
Taskmaster	No	No	No	No	Yes
Thanos	No	No	No	Yes	Support Card
Thor	No	No	Assist	No	Yes
U.S. Agent	No	Secret Character	Assist	No	No
War Machine	No	No	Yes (& secret Mega War Machine)	Yes	No

Characters from Spider-Man

Character	Appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Spider-Man (Voice Actor: Patrick Chilvers)	No	Yes (& secret Armored Spider-Man)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Venom	No	No	Yes (& secret Hyper Venom)	Yes	Spider-Man's alternative color and Support Card as Anti-Venom

Doctor Strange/Ghost Rider characters

Character	Appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Blackheart	No	Yes	No	Yes	Cameo
Doctor Strange	No	No	No	No	Yes
Dormammu	No	No	No	No	Yes
Ghost Rider	No	No	No	No	Yes
Mephisto	No	Secret character	No	No	Support Card
Shuma-Gorath	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes (DLC only)

Fantastic Four characters

Character	Appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Black Panther	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Doctor Doom	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Fantastic Four	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Silver Surfer	No	No	No	No	Support Card
Super Skrull	No	No	No	No	Yes	Uatu The Watcher	No	No	No	No	Support Card

Guardians of Galaxy characters

Character	Appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Nova	No	No	No	No	Yes
Rocket Raccoon	No	No	No	No	Yes

Capcom Characters

This is a list of all the Capcom characters that have appeared in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, most of which have appeared in other Capcom games:

Characters from Street Fighter

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Akuma (Gouki)	Yes (semi-secret character)	Yes (also as Cyber Akuma)	As a moveset for Ryu	Yes	Yes
Cammy	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Charlie	Yes	Yes as Shadow secret character	Secret Assist, as Shadow	Yes	No
Chun-Li	Yes	Yes	Yes and as Shadow Lady secret character	Yes	Yes
C. Viper	No	No	No	No	Yes
Dan	No	Yes	No	Yes	Cameo
DhalsimVoice Actor: Yoshiharu Yamada	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
GuileVoice Actor: Tesshō Genda	No	No	No	Yes	No
KenVoice Actor: Tetsuya Iwanaga	Yes	Yes	As a moveset for Ryu	Yes	No
M. Bison (Vega) Voice Actor: Tomomichi Nishimura	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Cameo
RyuVoice Actor: Toshiyuki Morikawa, Katashi Ishizuka	Yes	Yes	Yes (as Complete Change version)	Yes	Yes
SakuraVoice Actor: Yuko Sasamoto	No	Yes and as Dark Sakura secret character	No	Yes	No
ZangiefVoice Actor: Wataru Takagi	Yes	Yes and as Mech-Zangief secret character	Yes	Yes	No

Characters from Darkstalkers

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Anakaris Voice Actor: Kan Tokumaru	No	No	No	Yes
Anita	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Baby Bonnie Hood (Bulleta) Voice Actor: Miyuki Matsushita	No	No	No	Yes
Felicia Voice Actor: Kae Araki	No	No	No	Yes
Morrigan Aensland Voice Actor: Yayoi Jinguji	No	No	Yes (and as Lilith-Mode Morrigan secret character)	Yes

Characters from Mega Man (Rockman)

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Mega Man (Rockman) Voice Actor: Kaoru Fujino	No	No	Yes	Yes
Roll Voice Actor: Kaoru Fujino	No	No	Yes	Yes
Servbot (Kobun) Voice Actor: Chisa Yokoyama	No	No	No	Yes
Tron Bonne Voice Actor: Mayumi Iizuka	No	No	No	Yes

Other Capcom characters

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Arthur	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Captain Commando Voice Actor: Takashi Nagasako	No	No	Yes	Yes
Devilotte	No	No	Partial (assist only)	No
Hayato Kanzaki	No	No	No	Yes
Jill Valentine Voice Actor: Catherine Disher	No	No	No	Yes
Jin Saotome Voice Actor: Yuji Ueda	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lou	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Michelle Heart	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Pure & Fur	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Saki	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Sonson	No	No	No	Yes
Strider Hiryu Voice Actor: Yuji Ueda	No	No	Yes	Yes
Ton Pooh	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No
Unknown Soldier 1P	No	No	Partial (Assist only)	No

Original Characters

Character	appears in
	X-Men vs. Street Fighter	Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter	Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes	Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Abyss	No	No	No	Yes
Amingo	No	No	No	Yes
Norimaro	No	Yes	No	No
Ruby Heart	No	No	No	Yes