Professional Third Wheel

Welcome back to part 5/12 of our 'Marvel Injustice' roster.

Guidelines:

There are 24 characters in the base game, 12 Heroes and 12 Villains. This doesn't include clone characters.

Cosmic and Multiversal Characters like the Guardians of the Galaxy or Spider-Man 2099 won't be added to keep the game grounded.

Anti-Heroes like Deadpool and Punisher also won't be added.

However, if some characters fit into the previous category, I'll consider them if they're a big enough deal in terms of history and importance to the storyline.

The storyline is based upon Marvel's AXIS Story, so with the exception of two characters everyone will have a hero and villain persona.

With that in mind, here are our 2 new characters:

Reasons:

Iron Man: Ever since Iron Man popped on the scene, he's been a fairly enjoyable character to read/watch. This became extremely apparent in 2008, where his movie boosted his popularity into Marvel's top 6 characters.

Red Skull: Red Skull is here not because of any interesting moveset potential but rather his importance to Marvel's AXIS storyline, which this game is based on.

Alright, now to this week's poll, Spider-Man's rogues gallery could fill up an entire fighting game of interesting movesets. However, when I look at which baddie people want, it usually boils down to 3 characters (Venom, Doc Ock, Green Goblin)

This poll is to let the rest of Spidey's sinister squad join the limelight, I've narrowed it down to 4 A & B tier villains, but if you got an interesting obscure option, we have the other option.

So a few weeks ago I picked up a new board game called marvel crisis protocol.

It’s an object based miniature game where you pick a team of characters with specific abilities that you’d expect from these characters.

So I played with a guy who is has been playing it since the game came out and he was playing cabal with a team of Red Skull, Sabertooth, Crossbones, Bullseye and Baron Zemo.

And my team had Captain America, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Black Widow.

And out of all of the characters on his team the most annoying person to kill was Bullseye, I was trying to take him down with laser beam books, shield throws and vibranium claws. But I ended up taking him down...eventually.

And at the end of the game we both had to characters left:

Me: Spidey and Cap

Him: Zemo and Sabertooth

And I won by one point.

So try it out it’s fun...

During the second episode of Falcon & the Winter Solider, Sam and Bucky argue about Isaiah Bradley, and a cop confronts them and points a gun at Sam. Luckily, his partner stops him because Sam is the Falcon.

During the entire scene I almost fully expected the cop to pull the trigger. The title of the show barely crossed my mind.

However it made me ask my self a question related to another series being made for Disney +...What if?

What if Sam Wilson was killed by a cop?

The idea intrigued me to say the least, especially if it was a story in the comics, where you didn’t have to worry about continuity. Mostly because of the aftermath: Luke Cage finally has an excuse to end racism, the X-Men get behind it because they see that if humanity can stop hating themselves, it might give them a chance for Human-Mutant Co-existence.

Marvel is known for having more relatable stories and if this is done correctly. It might change a lot of things.

Just make sure they don’t ruin it with...iT wAs ReD sKuLl ThE eNtIrE tImE...