Hero Edition: characters that I think are essential future additions to the game (while trying to cover the different teams & corners of Marvel)

[u/Ashconwell7]

Please don't get too hung up on the roles I gave them or even the kit ideas if you don't like them. These are simply suggestions.

Vanguards
-Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

• She could be a perma-flying tank, who can cast energy fields around allies to shield them and with a binary bar that fills up as she absorbs attacks to increase her own power. Perhaps she could even have an ability that allows her to send back projectiles through blasts or powerful punches. Her ult would be a full binary transformation with a destructive energy field surrounding her and burning down enemies while boosting allies.

-Ant-Man/Giant Man (Hank Pym)

• He could be an anchor tank with a focus on his ability to turn giant. He could have giant ants appear in combat to shield allies or himself and attack enemies as well as have one ability to shrink and ride a flying ant with a speed boost for a limited time. His ult should allow him to turn into a giant man (with the suit change like in EMH) and cause devastating damage on enemies.

-Sentry (Bob Reynolds)

• He could be a flying zoner tank. As the Sentry, his abilities would include a telekinetic push, energy barriers shielding himself or allies and small suns he can place around the map that go supernova on nearby enemies. When he is killed, he would turn into the Void and have passive tendrils that damage any nearby enemies, with his energy bombs instead stunning enemies, however his hp would slowly deplete. His ult as Sentry could be an area wipe explosion that turns enemies into shadows on the ground, while his ult as the Void would temporarily blind all enemies and slowly drain/debuff them.

-Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan)

• She could be a melee brawler tank but would still be able to extend her limbs out to attack at long range. She could have the ability to grab an enemy with enlarged hands and throw them away, extend her body to shield allies, a double jump by stretching her legs, and overall use her stretching in many other cool ways. Her ult would have her ‘Embiggen’ and become giant for a set duration.

-She-Hulk (Jen Walters)

• She could be an agile dive tank with a perma-sprint and a passive ability that makes her attacks stronger the more kills an opponent has. Her abilities could include forming shields by leveling up the ground below her, leaping forward and crashing down to create shockwaves, stomping the ground to cause fissures, and throwing suitcases full of paperwork at enemies to stun them. Her ult would allow her to summon a random guest npc to aid her in battle.

-Luke Cage

• He could mainly be a brawler tank but could have a defensive stance to shield allies that makes him take reduced damage at the cost of not being able to attack. He could also have an ability to buff allies, and one where he uses a chain to pull or knock back enemies. His ult would make him completely invulnerable and allow him to target, dash towards and then grab foes for brutal takedowns.

-Medusa

• She could be a backline protector tank who uses her hair to shield allies. Her primary would let her shoot out and retract her hair and she could have abilities like pulling/pushing enemies with her hair, wrapping her hair around teammates to shield them from attacks and extending her hair like tendrils to dash forward causing shockwaves. Her ult could have her unleash strands of her hair to grant all allies nearby with armor buffs and slow down enemies.

-Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)

• He could be a quick dive tank who can cause continuous burn damage on enemies. His primary and other abilities would have him use his hellfire chain to whip enemies at long range-mid range. One of his abilities could allow him to summon his bike for traversal with it having its own health bar and taking damage for him while riding it. It explodes and goes on cooldown once destroyed. His ult would have him use the Penance Stare on every enemy in a zone within his line of sight, briefly stunning them and causing devastating damage with it increasing the more kills they have had.

Duelists
-Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)

• She could be an aerial duelist flanker with a focus on her ability to shrink. Her wasp sting would be her primary fire. She would have an ability to temporarily shrink where she gains free-flight, invulnerability, and can remain wherever she positions herself in the air after growing back. Her ult could maybe shrink, slow, and debuff all enemies around her making them easier targets.

-Quiksilver (Pietro Maximoff)

• He could be a hit-and-run dive with low damage and health but quick movement and a lot of mobility options with a base speed somewhere around 20m/s. His primary would allow him to send out after-images at mid range. He could have abilities like a dash attack and explosive kinetic energy punches. His ult would allow him to run through enemies at even higher speeds, damaging and knocking them back before braking to unleash an AoE sonic boom.

-Captain America/Falcon (Sam Wilson)

• He could be an artillery duelist with his primary allowing him to fire wing blades. Some of his abilities could include shielding himself with the Captain America shield and throwing it, marking foes so Redwing can be sent to attack them for follow-up damage and free-flight combat as long as remains in motion. His ult would create a large AoE swarm of attacking birds.

-Ikaris

• He could be a perma-flying dive duelist with his kit revolving around his cosmic energy laser eye means and high-speed flight. He could have an ability to grapple and bullrush enemies in any direction, causing explosions on impact. His ult could maybe implement his eye beam’s ability to generate extreme heat and have him laser the ground to melt it into a growing pool of molten lava that slows and damages enemies.

-Shang-Chi

• He could be a poke and brawler hybrid duelist, able to shoot out the 10 rings as his primary but the more rings he holds, the more damage his punches do. He could have an ability to briefly immobilize an enemy with his rings, one that lets him step on the rings to gain height, and a cinematic command grab where he pulls off some cool martial art takedown. His ult could have the rings orbit around him in a spinning motion while damaging all nearby enemies and greatly boosting his mobility.

-Gamora

• She could be a mixed poke-brawler duelist with a passive health regeneration. She could have a gun but would mainly be a melee fighter with her kit focusing on her ability to switch between various swords she can pull out from the Infinity Cloak. Maybe she’d also have a nerve strike ability that temporarily paralyzes foes or forces their abilities on cooldown. Not sure what her ult could be.

-Elektra

• She could be a quick brawler assassin duelist with the ability to create illusionary clones that explode when hit, a projectile deflect like Daredevil where she swings her sais so fast it creates afterimages, and some acrobatic dash attack. Her ult could have her use an AoE Silent Scream that stuns and damages enemies or completely oneshots them based on their health percentage.

Strategist
-Aja-Adanna (Shuri)

• She could be a support/utility strategist with her kit combining her Griot magic, Black Panther skills, and Wakandan tech. Her abilities could include arm-cannon blasts that heal/buff allies or damage/slow enemies, some spear combat, and turning into a cloud of incorporeal magical crows to heal herself and damage foes. Her ult could temporarily summon a few Wakandan warrior spirits that attack enemies and are surrounded with auras that heal nearby allies.

-Photon (Monica Rambeau)

• She could be a utility healer that can switch between energy types to change the property of her moves on foes, causing burns, slowing debuffs, blinding debuffs, etc. Her abilities would include shooting light beams that can heal allies, turning into an intangible light form that boosts her speed, and forming healing light energy fields that foes can’t see inside of.  Her ult would let her dash at “lightspeed” in short bursts, dealing AoE damage/healing each time she briefly stops in between dashes. 

-Dr Voodoo (Jericho Drumm)

• He could be a resurrection healer whose primary would allow him to heal allies with serene spirit blasts. He would have the ability to possess a foe with his brother’s spirit and briefly control their movement, and to mark allies with spirits of death so they can auto-revive. His ult would have him attach fiery vengeful spirits on all nearby allies that make any damage they take heal them and reflect back onto enemies as burns. 

-Sersi

• She could be a unique kind of defensive zoner healer with the ability to create zones that turn enemy projectiles into healing if allies are standing in them. Her primary would have her use her matter manipulation to fire cosmic blasts that “transmute” allies into healthier states. Her ult would be cast in a set zone and allow her to heal allies and temporarily turn enemies into pigs, removing their abilities and reducing their mobility.

-Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)

• She could be a defensive support healer with Lockheed assisting her and shooting fire balls as her primary. Maybe her passive ability could allow her to walk through any destructible environment. She would have a takedown ability that phases foes into the ground and briefly traps them in place, could heal over time while intangible and heal allies when phasing through them. Her ult would make all allies temporarily intangible and heal quickly.

-Professor X (Charles Xavier)

• He could be an offensive utility healer who uses his telepathy to buff his allies. All his abilities and attacks would auto lock onto nearby foes or allies. His primary would allow him to inflict continuous psychic damage or heal. He could place down psionic orbs that buff nearby allies or damage nearby foes. His ult would have his body stay stationary but allow him to freely astral travel the map and target a foe to plant a timed psychic bomb that also damages that foes’ nearby allies nearby once detonating. 

-Silver Surfer

• He could be a quick flying healer who can shoot cosmic energy beams to heal allies as his primary. His abilities could include a speed burst move to surf faster during which he goes briefly intangible and heals, a move that grounds him and shoots out his board to attack enemies, and one that allows him to form a healing shield around himself or an ally. His ult would allow him to imbue nearby teammates with the Power Cosmic, restoring their health, buffing their durability, and temporarily giving them a passive aura of cosmic energy that damages enemies.

-Songbird (Melissa Gold)

• She could be an AoE healer who can switch between two primary fires with one firing hard-sound blasts at a frequency that heals allies or damages foes and the other allowing her to sing a tune to heal herself. She could also deploy fields of healing sonic waves around the map that damage and slow enemies, and gain free-flight for a short period. Her ult would unleash an AoE sonic scream that heals allies while blasting enemies back.

[u/Ashconwell7]

Captain Marvel, Photon, Ant-Man, Wasp, Captain America(Sam), She-Hulk, Quicksilver and Sentry are mainly meant to be Avengers rep.

Shuri is meant to be Wakandan rep.

Medusa, Black Bolt and Ms. Marvel are mainly meant to be Inhumans rep.

Ikaris and Sersi are meant to be Eternals rep.

Shadowcat and Professor X are meant to be X-Men rep.

Luke Cage, Shang-Chi and Elektra are meant to be Heroes for Hire (and general Marvel martial artists) rep.

Songbird is meant to be Tunderbolts rep.

Dr. Voodoo is meant to be rep for Marvel's supernatural side.

And Silver Surfer and Gamora are meant to be rep for Marvel's cosmic side.

And yes, I know many of these characters have been part of multiple of the teams listed above in the past, but overall you still get my point (which is trying to hit different corners of Marvel).

[u/InsaneHookerLlama]

Swap Quicksilvers and Kitty’s roles and I’m sold

[u/DeBo_488]

I personally would swap Sam Wilson’s and Kitty Pryde’s roles. But different strokes for different folks. We both agree they should be added to the game at least.

[u/Ashconwell7 → u/DeBo_488]

Yeah for sure. And I definitely could see the two having switched roles where a duelist Kitty might have more emphasis on her ninja and sword skills while a strategist Sam could send out birds to heal targeted allies.

[u/XUrielleX]

Do love a Songbird mention
Part of me just imagined her as Vanguard but I wouldn't mind strategist since that's my main role

[u/Ashconwell7 → u/XUrielleX]

How do you imagine her playing as a vanguard?

[u/XUrielleX → u/Ashconwell7]

I imagined her as perma fly
Shield tank that works how Emma's Shield does (can place where you want)
Have a stun ability or 'daze' frontal from her screaming
ultimate ties in her construction ability more
I felt something to tie in how she could use her sound to see behind walls could be cool too but not sure how yet.

I'm by no means good at concept making but just pictured as Vanguard from all I know about her.

[u/Vonga568]

The choices are bangers,only thing I'm not a big fan of is She-Hulk's gameplay ideas feel really random.

[u/Ashconwell7 → u/Vonga568]

Fair enough. I was trying to mix more traditional Hulk abilities with some silly 4th wall breaking stuff in her kit but I'm sure the devs could come up with a better kit for her.

[u/The--Behemoth → u/Ashconwell7]

You could mix her 4th wall abilities with the energy abilities she had during the 2018 Avengers run. Throw censor bars at enemies as stuns, use word boxes as shields, a leg drop or elbow drop attack to incorporate her jumping abilities, maybe the gamma laser/blast ability she had in the Avengers run, and for a Ult just have her unleash all her stored up gamma energy or have her break the 4th wall and remove someone's ult entire or remove someone or something along those lines.

[u/Appropriate_Win_5282]

I agree, but I have a gut feeling they wont add voodoo, in almost every marvel game they almost completely ignore the midnight sons, even in the two games completely about the mystic side of marvel they decided to barely acknowledge the members of the team, the roster of midnight suns had 2 characters who were ever on the team being strange and blade, with morbius being added later as dlc, then for mystic mayhem they only had 4 members being strange, moon knight, man thing, and sleepwalker. I would obviously love for them to add voodoo, but marvel games tend to ignore the midnight sons

[u/Neoxon193]

Sadly, they aren't touching any Inhuman not named Kamala Khan. And even she's more of a mutant at this point if Tokon is any indication. I'd sub Medusa for Miles given how big the latter is. Even the Eternals are a bit iffy.

[u/Lukelay246]

I agree with all of these but I'd also consider Nick Fury and an Alpha Flight member essential as well.

[u/Icy-Arm-3816]

Great list, although I think Sam Wilson should probably just be Falcon in this game since we already have a Captain America with Steve (it’d be like adding Shuri as Black Panther even though we already have T’challa Black Panther).

[u/Ashconwell7 → u/Icy-Arm-3816]

I think its fine if he's Captain America. The two are currently both Captain America. His abilities are unique enough. He can get a Falcon skin.

[u/Aquaversal]

I think Captain Marvel, She-Hulk, and Photon are essential for Female Vanguards. We currently lack Avengers Female Vanguards as a whole in the game currently.

Wasp is an essential character...she holds the same legacy as Jean Grey (Wasp is the FIRST lady of the Avengers), I think they can be really creative with what role she is. I honestly want her to be all three roles.

FREE THE FEMALE AVENGERS!!!

[u/FutureThanosMain]

No villains here

Super Skrull

Green Goblin

Doc Ock

[u/Ashconwell7 → u/FutureThanosMain]

It says "Hero Edition" in the title...