Not every reference in Marvel and Capcom’s legendary fighting games is as timeless as the games themselves.
Give it time, and things will rubber-band back to the iconic way.
Spider-Man will wear a new costume until its time to go back to the original outfit.
Superman will grow a mullet until it runs its course and he gets a haircut.
Anyway, here are some aspects of theMarvel vs. Capcomgames that are stuck in the 90s.
From there, we got Smart/Professor/Merged Hulk.
This remained Hulks main form until David left the book in 1998 due to disagreements with the editorial team.
The following writers went back to the angry Neanderthal take.
Terraxia
As mentioned,Marvel Super Heroeswas a loose adaptation ofInfinity Gauntlet.
That gives us some very specific cameos, like in the background for the Thanos boss fight.
This is enough of a deep cut that shes surprisingly never been brought back in any way.
The Parker Marriage
Ah, this one just stings.
For as long as that lasted.
The Modular Armor wasthe90s Iron Man armor.
It was what he had on the animated series.
But Capcom immortalized it anyway.
His messed up nervous system is talked about in hisMarvel Super Heroesending.
But who was this generic 90s comics blond yelling, Yeah, boss!
with a New Jersey accent?
Birdy was introduced inX-Men#6 during the franchise-defining Jim Lee run.
She died in 1993, three years beforeX-Men vs. Street Fightereven came out.
Then she came back forMarvel vs. Capcom 2four years later!
Birdy remained a forgotten part of X-Men lore until only recently getting resurrected as part of the Krakoa storyline.
Onslaught
The bosses in the early Marvel games usually made plenty of sense.
Throw in Juggernaut, followed by Magneto.
Dr. Doom followed by Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet.
X-Men and Street Fighter?
Go bigger by having a gigantic Apocalypse.
Marvel and Street Fighter?
Turn Akuma into one of Apocalypses Horsemen.
Too bad everything about it was a mess, from the concept stage to the storytelling to theHeroes Rebornfollow-up.
Honestly, the only good things to come out of it wereMarvel vs. Capcomand the creation ofThunderbolts.
They couldnt bring in Punisher or Daredevil or even someone from the Fantastic Four?
At the time, though, it made sense.
Marrow felt likethenew X-Men character of the latter 90s.
One interesting idea they had was to just add Wolverine again.
They simply changed the art of his claw sprits, altering them from straight metal to jagged bone.
There were a handful of differences between his moves and gameplay, but nothing too major.
This was also Capcom catching up with what the comics had done with Wolverine through most of the decade.
There was also stuff about him turning into a noseless savage, but that didnt last.
Eventually, Apocalypse experimented on him and gave him back the adamantium skeleton.
When did this issue come out?
A mere four months beforeMarvel vs. Capcom 2was released in arcades!
Its nothing too major, such as Super-Skrull making aSecret Invasionreference by yelling, HE LOVES YOU!
during a Super or Black Panther and Storm being depicted as being married.
Hell, Deadpool makes aTurn Off the Darkreference to Spider-Man at one point.
Its the sequel where things truly stick out like a sore thumb.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinitecame out in 2017, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was in full effect.
A few years passed and Disney acquired the X-Men and Fantastic Four movie rights.
It still doesnt changeInfinitefrom feeling like a thud.
