Marvel Honors the "Women of Marvel" in Video Games

Funny, the more people try to sell these characters to me, the less I care about them. I mean, Black Widow, Mockingbird and Squirrel Girl are at least original concepts, but the others are all derivative of other characters. Black Widow is interesting, but I wouldn't dream picking up any of her current run when she's often listed alongside these jokes.

I feel like the real A-list is Sue, Jean and Storm.

Hopefully LMA will have some good additions. Don't really care about the mobile games.

They could have listed Jean Grey from Marvel VS Capcom 3.

I think it's cute how important you consider yourself to be to Marvel's bottom-line. Newsflash: The comic book industry has had a huge shift in demographic in the last decade.

So yeah, stop caring. They don't care about you either. The Disney/Tumblr crowd are easier to market to than basement-dwelling fanboys, and in the long-run, more profitable.

This is for ongoing content in their videogames. Also, are far as Marvel is concerned, the MVC series doesn't exist. Any videogame made before Disney's acquisition has been discontinued.

I will never understand the fascination people have been having lately with the simple fact that female super heroes exist. We got A-Force, that new dc super girls or whatever show, and now this. Why is the fact that there are women in superhero comics something we're constantly celebrating right now. It's not exactly a recent phenomenom.

Notice there are no mutant females shown. No Storm? That's ridiculous. Marvel sucks...

Here comes the people that complain about Marvel forcing diversity on us, by pandering to other demographics besides white males. When will they stop their progressive agenda?!!

@fartsmcgee: "basement-dwelling fanboy" That's a pretty rich assumption for a person who gets so up in arms about someone not liking the same characters as they do to make, don't you think?

@illmatic4177: *looks through the comment section* I sure as hell don't see any.

i'd blame fox or the fact fox and marvel cant agree on something any online games just halted any kind of production on xmen stuff and the comics lately...

Idk why people judge a deviation marvel makes when it first gets reveled then once it's out its better than they thought, I appreciate that marvel takes risks and doesn't play it safe like most companies do.

Pretty cool art covers, but I don't care about the other stuff.

@soa: Beast was just announced as a playable character in Marvel Heroes last week.

@bl00dwerk: You'll also notice there is no Wasp, Medusa, or Gamora. I'm not quite sure why they chose these specific characters, but there were plenty of other female characters that were left out who weren't mutants.

@child_of_the_past: didn't know that. but, he was also an avenger before everyone decided everybody should be an avenger lol. i was talking about MAA and future fight . i would like to try heroes but apparently i need god's computer to run it :(

@child_of_the_past: The X-Men are way too popular to be left out of everything and that's exactly what Marvel is dong. They're being a bunch of babies over movie rights. Storm or Rogue, at the very least, should be on that image WAY before some of those that are on there. Hell, Rogue's headlining Uncanny Avengers. Why isn't she on there?

Aw, nothing for either of the Avengers Alliance games? :(

How is it FOX's fault? They're just using the rights they paid Marvel for. Just because Marvel is in a good place financially, nowadays, doesn't mean FOX should roll over and give the rights back they paid good money for. Besides, it's the fans who are being made to suffer. Marvel / Disney have become a bunch of childish brats...

@bh6shouldhavehadsilversamurai said:

The real crime is how they literally run after mainstream media these days, when comics used to be ahead of the crowd, but no lets give us the same modern day acceptable stereotypes movies and television have figured out the last years.

Also lets ignore books like Excalibur that was a majorly female team without making a big deal out of it. Thats true diversity. Not these female superheroes, where they seem to try to tell you the important part is "female" and not superhero. I might actually check out A-force with the shift of creative team simply because the writer said its mainly gonna be a story about superheroes saving the world. Which reminds me, why are women not allowed to write mixed superhero teams?

And really Marvel makes a marketing campaign out of adding female characters that should have been in the game already to their games. Yeah, you rock, Marvel!

@soa: I had a pretty standard laptop that could handle it most of the time. The times it didn't, however, made me want to tear my hair out.

@bl00dwerk: I really feel like we need to stop blaming Marvel for what really seems like a Disney/corporate problem. The writers don't seem to have anything against the X-Men. They still have several books and an event coming up. They also seem to have no problem with Deadpool's success. I believe most the issues are coming from Disney who doesn't want one of their sub-companies potentially helping the sales of a competitor. Does I mean there will be less X-Men stuff? Yes. But does it mean they hate the X-Men and wish they would disappear? No. They've had plenty of opportunities to erase he mutants up until now and yet they are still here. That's just my opinion. I'm sure you feel differently. I hope nothing I said seems offensive in any way.

HAHAHA! Women can't be super heroes!

excited for the Future Fight event!

oh... and American Dream costume in MH, damn that will be nice

.....Who the hell is Poundcakes?

@stahlflamme: Women are totally allowed to write moxed superhero team books. One of my favourite writers Gail Simone is currently helming Secret Six at Dc, the superior of the two companies.

WOW this is VERY disappointing. There are absolutely NO X-Women mentioned at all.......No Storm No Rogue No Jean Grey No Kitty Pryde No Emma Frost No Psylocke No Jubaliee (forgot how to spell her name) No Dazzler No Mystique No Monet No Sue Storm No Polaris No X-23 No Magik.......WHAT THE HECK!!!. *sigh*

I guess Marvel is MAKING us Like Captain Marvel and She-Hulk and Kamala Khan Spider-Gwen and Black Widow.

@child_of_the_past: Gamora is already in most recent Marvel games and Wasp is in Future Fight and Avenger Academy and I think she's being added to Marvel Heroes sometime soon

@stormphoenix: X-23 was mentioned and has been added to Contest of Champions, and most of the vharacters you mentioned are already feqtured in 1 or more of the games that fall under thos initiative @child_of_the_past: Gamora is already in most recent Marvel games and Wasp is in Future Fight and Avenger Academy and I think she's being added to Marvel Heroes sometime soon

Where are the black women like Storm or Misty Knight? Where are the Asian women like Psylocke or Karma? Where are the Native American women like Moonstar or Echo? For being diverse I only see Miss Marvel being advertised.

Of course not. I'm not the sensitive type, anyhow... :)

So Marvel Future Fight is only adding 1 female character for international women's month? Wth? They add 3 characters a month minimum and February they added 3 females (if you count Carnage). Talk about an epic failure. Plus Proxima Midnight, a powerful but lame 'henchmen'.

Where are the characters people have been demanding on their forum for months? Spider-Woman, Red She-Hulk, The Enchantress, Rescue, Valkyrie, Medusa, Crystal, Power Princess, Titania, Echo, Naja, Madame Hydra, Morgan Le Fay, Madame Mask, Moonstone, Hela, Blurr, Hellcat, Spider-Girl, White Tiger, Kate Bishop, Miss America, Spectrum, Misty Knight, Mantis, Quasar, Moondragon, or Iso?

What's the point of Proxima Midnight without the rest of the Black Order or Thanos? She's not gonna have many teamup options without them.

I like the Marvels Heroes game mostly because they don't just focus on the movie stuff. I like the game play too, but don't care for the story at all. They have a ton of playable female characters in that game tough and might I had a handful of mutant women. Out of the ones pictured though, I only like She-Hulk.

I only play Marvel Future Fight, but I'm sorta excited for Proxima though. Thanos, Nova and Moon Knight better get added too.

Also, this is kind of disappointing. We've had female superheroes for a very long time, and the fact that they're making a big deal of this in recent times JUST to satisfy the Tumblr/feminist crowd that don't usually even read comics is ridiculous, but whatever.

Chill. Go and drink some ale or something. I gave my opinion, but it's exactly that, an opinion. I don't consider myself infallible. I'm aware they're trying to appeal more to younger audiences, and to girls, but that doesn't bar the rest of us from having opinions.

I should've said 'the more people try to sell these characters' and left out the 'to me'. If it gave the impression that I needed a sarcastic 'newsflash' to see my senses, that was unintentional.

@bl00dwerk: @sprior93: @cobsohn: @ecstaticgrace: Found this and thought of you guys.

@child_of_the_past: Of course the mutants are shoved in the back.

@sprior93: How are they shoved to the back lol? They're on the same plane as Gamora, Jane, Kamala, Scarlet Witch, and Sue.

Wish Marvel would make any kind of non mobile game in the future.

@child_of_the_past said:

@bl00dwerk: @sprior93: @cobsohn: @ecstaticgrace: Found this and thought of you guys.

That's more like it. Represented well, too (5 OF THEM!)! I know Jean (the REAL one) is dead, but Storm should be on just about anything with Marvel's ladies on it. I'm not pretending the X-Men are Marvel's #1 priority, or anything, but they don't have to try to make people forget about them just because of the movie rights. I've been hoping things are starting to get better between Marvel and FOX, since FOX actually has two tv shows coming in the near future, but who knows? That image is farily new, maybe the most recent one, which is good. Regardless of who has the rights to what it would be nice if the two could get along well-enough that the fans don't have to suffer...

I don't agree with that. I think the placement is pretty good. They're actually on the image, and represented just as well as the MCU property characters, so I'm happy! :)

Haters, first read the comics you talk shit about and then remove your stupid posts when you realize just hoe awesome the above mentioned characters are in their own comics.

Yeah, it is kinda funny how Marvel's acting like they JUST NOW started having female heroes...

@bl00dwerk: DC has been acting the same way despite having some of the the best comics starring females for years. Just Birds of Prey alone is better than every female title released since the New 52.

No more mutants?

@sprior93 said:

It makes me so sad. Instead of Storm or Rogue we get Squirrel Girl and Spider-Gwen. Why is that a thing? Spider-Gwen. Why? Go ahead and push your other newish Spider-gal, Silk. Give us Daughters of the the Dragon and Heroes for Hire, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing.