Then again, he has a horrible line-up for original/exclusive villains, probably the worst of any major superhero, but is it appropriate that we still have none of them?
Here are the major players according to good ol’ wikipedia
A.I.M.
Arnim Zola
Baron Blood
Baron Strucker
Baron Zemo
Batroc the Leaper
Crossbones
Doctor Faustus
Grand Director
Hate-Monger
Hydra
MODOK
Red Skull
Scourge of the Underworld
Serpent Society
Serpent Squad
Sin Viper (Madame Hydra)
(Some of these are affiliations and such, but still, aside from Red Skull, talk about a bunch of irrelevant scrubs)
Lack of VILLAINS period.
. Soooo tired of the heroic overload. It makes no sense to have almost nothing but one type of character. I guess the Devs like/love the idea of the guardsmen killing each other while the prisoners watch.
It is incredible that we still dont have Red Skull in the game, other baddies of that list are not as cool or important (they are too Hydrish all of them), but Red Skull is big and it is still missing!
It would proably be quite cool if they would add Modok and some hydra baddies ala Gorgon and hand ( so one not fieldable baddie and some goons with hydra flavor).
They have so little time to actually release any characters not directly related to a Marvel tie in. Recent character releases:
Peggy Carter (special Marvel games release, each game had unique character)
Moon Knight (recently re-released run in comics)
Kate Bishop (character in the All-New Hawkeye comic)
4, 5, 6 and 7) War Machine, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, Captain America (tie ins with Civil War)
Drax (comic promotion)
So it has been quite a while since there has been even a chance to release something not tie in related. It seems like, excluding Civil War, and OML, they use 5 stars as a chance to release unique characters not tie-in related.
Pretty much. I don’t see Red Skull being in the game outside of a boss fight or an enemy-only like Gorgon, because having an event that forces all the players to play a Nazi is not going to be good PR (though I can’t speak to what the other Marvel games do or don’t let people do).
As near as I can tell Red Skull is only playable in Future Fight. Everywhere* else it seems you can at most punch Red Skull in his red skull (currently anyway). So not completely impossible that he’d be playable here…but considering the outrage over Colossus’ original commie symbol I’m thinking playable Nazi isn’t going to happen.
I reckon they are holding off Red Skull until he returns in another movie in the MCU. It is suggested that the tesseract transported him away to an unknown location.
Eh, there has been many games where Nazis and other “villainous” groups have been playable in-game (WW2 shooters for example), so I don’t think it’s impossible. In any case, there are designs for the Red Skull that are not overtly Nazi that can be used. As long as it is made clear that he is a villain, it really shouldn’t be a problem.
Take the Winter Soldier for example. His design has a Soviet red star on it but I don’t see anyone raising a fuss like they did with Colossus’s hammer and sickle emblem. In either case, the reason that was given for the issue with Colossus was that he is a hero, but yet his emblem was for a regime that many people considered to be villains. If the same emblem had been used for a villain character (such as Omega Red), I doubt people would have much of a problem.
Not that I think it’s a good idea to put either the hammer & sickle or the swastika in the game, even for villains. That’s just asking for trouble.
It seems silly to draw the line at fictional Nazi when the game is littered with murders. Just go the movie the route and replace Nazi with Hydra and call it a day.
They could also re skin thugs and call them Hydra agents. Re name the powers and poof you have new goon villians. The real issue is they would have to write a new PVE story and the new Story does not make money like new characters. We are more likely getting another boss battle with a 5* release then a new PVE story with new goons
