History Trivia / MarvelVSCapcom2

** Catherine Disher as Storm, Psylocke, Spiral and Jill Valentine
** Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Captain America and Iceman

** [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]], Comicbook/DoctorStrange and Comicbook/SilverSurfer were all considered for the game, but were dropped for various reasons. Doctor Strange because it was felt he'd be too similar to Doctor Doom, Silver Surfer because it was hard to adapt his board and high-speed movements to a fighting game, and Mr. Fantastic because capturing his stretchiness with hand-drawn sprites would've been difficult and time-consuming. Doctor Strange himself would eventually join the series in ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', while Mr. Fantastic's stretching abilities were represented through the inclusion of Super-Skrull.
** Other proposed characters were Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} and Comicbook/BlackWidow (rejected due to worries their BadassNormal movesets wouldn't be compelling enough), Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} (rejected due to the perception that his abilities were too limited) and Comicbook/ScarletWitch (rejected due to fears she'd be too overpowered). Both Widow and Hawkeye later made it into future installments of the series.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Infamously so. While the game was acclaimed back in its day and saw releases on the UsefulNotes/{{Dreamcast}}, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, it didn't sell as well as ''Street Fighter II'' or ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' (which came out a year later), especially when the Dreamcast version of the game is widely considered to be the best version of it. The game didn't see a rerelease for years until 2009, where it was remastered and rereleased onto XBLA and PSN...only for it to be delisted only four years later in 2013, along with many other Marvel games thanks to [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney]], who now owned the Marvel brand and its associated properties. Nowadays, the only way to play the game legally is to buy second-hand copies, and it is not uncommon to find said copies going up to triple digits in terms of cost. This all came to a head in 2021, where ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' fans (and the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity at large) began the #[=FreeMVC2=] movement, petitioning Disney and Capcom to rerelease the games onto modern platforms.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The game is long out of print, and the HD releases were delisted in 2013.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: On the Marvel side, the game kind of drips with the late-90s and early-2000s, with its very heavy SpotlightStealingCrossover tendencies involving the X-Men and the very 1990s character designs. It's definitely the only time when Marrow (heavily pushed in that era, a forgotten and oft-mocked afterthought any time thereafter) would have ever been trumpeted as a major fighting game newcomer.

** Amingo was supposedly the main character of his own game which, unfortunately, got canceled. His inclusion in the roster was to hype said game before its release. Capcom has neither confirmed nor denied this, leaving this particular [[UrbanLegendOfZelda rumor]] stuck as speculation.

** [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]], Comicbook/DoctorStrange and Comicbook/SilverSurfer were all considered for the game, but were dropped for various reasons. Doctor Strange because it was felt he'd be too similar to Doctor Doom, Silver Surfer because it was hard to adapt his board and high speed movements to a fighting game, and Mr. Fantastic because capturing his stretchiness with hand-drawn sprites would've been difficult and time consuming.
** Other proposed characters were Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} and Comicbook/BlackWidow (rejected due to worries their BadassNormal movesets wouldn't be compelling enough), Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} (rejected due to the perception that his abilities were too limited) and Comicbook/ScarletWitch (rejected due to fears she'd be too overpowered).

** Catherine Disher as Storm, Psylocke, Spiral and Jill

* CrossReagionalVoiceActing: As with the previous titles in the franchise, the voices are split between Japanese and Canadian voice talent.

** Ruby Heart was a ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' character concept that got rejected. She's also suppose to appear in a Capcom mobile game known as ''Dai Koukai Frontier'' as one of the main characters. However, the game is canceled as of 2020 and is no longer promoted.

** Ruby Heart was a ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' character concept that got rejected.

** The competitive scene uses nicknames for several commonly-used teams. Aside from acronym names (such as MSP for the team of Magneto/Storm/Psylocke) some of them include "Santhrax" (Sentinel/Storm/Captain Commando, named after competitive player Sanford), "{{Scrub}}" (Cable/Sentinel/Captain Commando), "Matrix" (Storm/Sentinel/Cyclops) and "Clockw0rk" (Sentinel/Strider/Doom, after another player of said name).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ruby Heart was a ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' character concept that got rejected.

** They also coined the [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] OCV ('''O'''ne '''C'''haracter '''V'''ictory), which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a CurbstompBattle ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome with only one character]]''. It's even an achievement in the XBLA version to win 50 full battles like this.

* TheCameo: Hayato's win poses have random cameo appearances of fellow ''VideoGame/StarGladiator'' characters Saturn Dyer, Ele and June Lin Milliam.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Jill, Cammy, and all Marvel characters save Silver Samurai are voiced by native English speakers.

* TheCameo: Hayato's win poses have random cameo appearances of fellow StarGladiator characters Saturn Dyer, Ele and June Lin Milliam.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ruby Heart was a VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} character concept that got rejected.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ruby Heart and Amingo were VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} character concepts that got rejected.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Cathal J. Dodd reprises the role of Wolverine from [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} the hit 90's cartoon]].
** Ditto for Catherine Disher, the voice of Jill in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and also a ''X-Men'' cartoon regular (voicing Psylocke and Spiral in the games).
** In fact, a good 85% percent of the [=VA=]s from the cartoon reprised their roles in the games.
** Toshihide Tsuchiya voices Guile by virtue of the ''Alpha'' series.
** Creator/YukoMiyamura voiced Chun-Li, by virtue of the previous games and the ''Alpha'' series.
** TomomichiNishimura voiced both Bison and Akuma.

* Ruby Heart and Amingo were VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} character concepts that got rejected.

** YukoMiyamura voiced Chun-Li, by virtue of the previous games and the ''Alpha'' series.

* Ruby Heart and Amingo were VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} character concepts that got rejected.

* Ruby Heart and Amingo were DarkStalkers character concepts that got rejected.

** Ditto for Catherine Disher, the voice of Jill in ''ResidentEvil'' and also a ''X-Men'' cartoon regular (voicing Psylocke and Spiral in the games).

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: