History VideoGame / MarvelVsCapcomClashOfTheSuperHeroes

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After the successes of ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', Capcom would bring out '''''Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes''''' in 1998. The game's setting is based on the {{Onslaught}} storyline, with Professor Xavier calling for help from within the Capcom universe.

''[=MvC=]'' was mostly the same as its predecessors, with the addition of an extra Duo Team Attack mode where teammates would join together to beat down their opponent at the same time. Aside from the normal roster, the game also featured several random [[AssistCharacter assist partners]] -- characters from both Marvel and Capcom's stables who could be called on for supporting attacks.

Followed up in 2000 by ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''.

In 2012, the game was re-released for [[PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Network]] and XboxLiveArcade with ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' in ''Marvel vs. Capcom Origins''.

[[AC:Capcom side:]]
* Returning from ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'': [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Ryu]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li and Zangief]].
* Newcomers: VideoGame/MegaMan, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Strider Hiryu]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin Saotome]], and CaptainCommando.
* {{Assist Character}}s: [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Anita]], [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Devilotte]], [[VideoGame/ThreeWonders Lou]], [[VideoGame/LegendaryWings Michelle Heart]], Pure & Fur, Saki, [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Ton Pooh]] and [[VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds Unknown Soldier 1P]].

[[AC:Marvel side:]]
* Returning from ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'': {{Wolverine}}, CaptainAmerica, SpiderMan and TheIncredibleHulk.
* Returning from ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'': ComicBook/{{Gambit}}
* Newcomers: ComicBook/WarMachine and ComicBook/{{Venom}}.
* {{Assist Character}}s: [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Colossus]], ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Iceman, Jubilee, Juggernaut]], {{Magneto}}, TheMightyThor, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Psylocke, Rogue, Sentinel]], {{Storm}}, [[CaptainAmerica U.S. Agent]].
* Final Boss: {{Onslaught}}.
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!!This game shows examples of:
* ABoyAndHisX: Mega Man and Rush.
** [[UpToEleven A Dude And His Xes]]: Strider Hiryu and his gadgets, but specifically his cyborg panther partner.
* AnIcePerson: Iceman drops a few glaciers down the opponent as an Assist Partner.
* AnimeThemeSong: Roll's "Kaze Yo Tsutaete", a poor midi version (in the English version atleast) of the one found in ''[[GoKartingWithBowser Rockman Battle and Chase]]''. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom makes it a fully-fledged, four minute-long theme song.
* AssistCharacter: There are several of these from both Marvel and Capcom libraries called "Assist Partners". In the arcade versions, these are chosen randomly, but you could choose one of these as your second partner in the home versions which didn't allow the 2 on 2 gameplay. Aside from this:
** [[CanineCompanion Rush]] assists Mega Man.
** Ginzu, Babyhead and Mack, the Commando Team, assists CaptainCommando.
** [[HumongousMecha Blodia]] assists [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin]].
** The three Options assists Strider Hiryu.
* AttractMode
* AudibleSharpness: One of the ''many'' reasons VideoGame/{{Strider}} Hiryu became [[EnsembleDarkhorse so popular]]. [[MostWonderfulSound SCHWING!]]
* AutomaticCrossbow: Lou uses one.
* AWinnerIsYou: Winning with {{secret character}}s Gold War Machine, Red Venom, Orange Hulk and Onslaught nets you a flashing screen with the character and text saying "Congratulations! You've defeated the game with a Secret Character!".
* BadassAdorable: Mega Man and Roll.
* BadassNormal: CaptainAmerica and Comicbook/WarMachine in the Marvel side; and Zangief, CaptainCommando, Strider Hiryu and Jin Saotome in the Capcom side. With the exception of Zangief, all of them use {{Powered Armor}}s, {{Humongous Mecha}}s and/or weapons, anyway.
** Counting the Assist Partners, there's U.S. Agent in the Marvel side; and Arthur, Unknown Soldier 1P, Saki Omokane and Devilotte's TerribleTrio in the Capcom side.
* BackgroundBoss: [[spoiler:Onslaught]] in his second form.
* BeatingADeadPlayer: Pressing start after defeating an opponent allows the player to continue attacking, with a bonus if the freeze frame is on a particular animation. The values would range from 1,000 points (for basic attacks) to up to 30,000 (for Jin's auto-immolation taunt).
* {{BFG}}: War Machine's '''PROTON CANNON!''' and [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan's]] '''SOUL ERASER!'''
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Onslaught]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: The FinalBoss has a technique in which he uses one of the playable characters to fight in his place while he goes into the background and slowly recovers health.
** In terms of story, there's Shadow and [[SecretCharacter Shadow Lady]], Charlie and Chun-li respectively controled by M.Bison and turned into killing machines. [[spoiler: Though Shadow seems to break free of it in Chun Li's ending.]]
* BilingualDialogue: With Capcom's characters speaking mostly Japanese and Marvel's speaking English all the time, this is to be expected. Especially when switching between tag partners.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Captain Commando has quotes directed at the player.
--> ''"Thank you for playing this game."''
* BlowYouAway: Storm, as an Assist Partner, can be summoned to throw a cyclone attack.
* CallingYourAttacks: You'd expect this with the FightingGame characters, naturally. But it even extends to the Marvel {{Superhero}}es, among others.
** '''''[[CaptainAmerica FINAL JUSTICE!]]'''''
** '''''[[VideoGame/MegaMan8 TORUNADO HOLDO!]]'''''
** '''''[[IncredibleHulk GAMMA CRUSH!]]'''''
** '''''[[CaptainCommando CAPTAIN]] [[strike:COLLIDER]] CORRIDOR!'''''
** '''''[[Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} WEB SWING!]]'''''
* TheCameo: Many characters from both Marvel and Capcom universes make appearances in the endings and stages.
* CombinationAttack: Double Supers.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Ryu in this game is referred to as "Complete-Change Ryu", since he has the ability to switch from his normal style into Ken's and Akuma's styles as a special ability.
** Zangief also qualifies, since he has the ability to transform into Mecha Zangief during battle, who was technically a separate character in ''Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter''.
* CoolShades: CaptainCommando and the Unknown Soldier.
* {{Cyborg}}: Shadow Lady, which among others can turn her hands into drills and fire off missiles from her back. Shadow too.
* DeathFromAbove: The Hulk [[InASingleBound jumps into space]], and essentially pulls a passing meteor from space to drop it on his opponent.
** Pure & Fur drops a bunch of huge dices into the enemy.
** War Machine's ''War Destroyer'' Hyper sends a shower of missiles down his opponent. ''Smart Bombs'' also do, except in a less powerful way.
* DemotedToExtra: Rogue, Storm, Juggernaut, Magneto, Cyclops, U.S. Agent and Shadow were all demoted from playable characters in previous games to Assist Partners. M. Bison suffered even worse, going from playable to a minor cameo.
** Counting up ''[=XMen:CotA=]'', it also includes Psylocke, Colossus, Iceman and Sentinel.
* DesperationAttack: If Jin Saotome is left as the last man standing on his team, he'll start glowing gold and will gain a strength boost plus Super Armor (needs two hits to enter the stun animation).
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Zangief and Jin Saotome.
** HurricaneKick: Ryu.
* FlashStep: [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Strider Hiryu]] makes use of this in several of his techniques.
** Akuma!Ryu can use Akuma's Ashura Senkuu.
* {{Flight}}: War Machine has an special move that allows him to fly.
* FragileSpeedster: Strider Hiryu is a good example, but then there's [[SecretCharacter Red Venom]], a special version of Venom who moves thrice as fast as ''any'' character in the game, but has almost no defense or health, making him go down with very few hits.
* FreakyFriday: [[SecretCharacter Lilith-Mode Morrigan]]'s ending: [[spoiler:Morrigan and Lilith have switched bodies after a collision, and they decide to try it again to fix it. Just at the last moment, Zangief jumps in believing they were amidst a "head crush training", and crash into Morrigan head-first...in the end, while Morrigan is back to normal, it seems Zangief and Lilith have ''switched bodies'' themselves.]]
* GeniusBruiser: The Hulk, where he's in the guise of the Merged Hulk/Professor persona. (remember, The Green Scar from ''Planet Hulk'' and ''WorldWarHulk'' had yet to be created at the time)
* HenshinHero: CaptainCommando is one according to his intro.
--> ''"Henshin, Commando!"''
* HeroicSacrifice: Captain America in Hulk's ending (itself a ShoutOut to the ending of the Onslaught saga in the comics), Jin in his own. (See "[[spoiler:LateToTheTragedy]]" for another version.)
* HotBlooded: Jin Saotome, '''oh''' so very much.
** Parodied in his taunt - if you keep pressing the attack buttons while he uses it, he literally sets himself on fire.
* HumongousMecha:
** Jin's Blodia, used in some of his attacks.
** Mega Man and Roll both have supers that turn them into this.
** From the Assist Partners, there's Sentinel and Devilotte's Super-8, though most of it is underground/not visible.
* IAmLegion:
--> '''Venom:''' ''"We are Venom!"''
* JapaneseRanguage: Very, ''very'' odd inversion. The announcer reads the first word of the name "Strider Hiryu" right, but when it comes to the second, Japanese word, it incidentally slips into "Hilyu". Of course, this may be the fault of audio quality...
* JokeCharacter: Roll.
* KamehameHadoken: The second part of the trope's name comes from the version of the Shinkuu Hadouken, which is the best known of many, ''many'' instances.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Jin Saotome in one of his [[VictoryPose win poses]].
* KickChick: Chun-Li. Ton Pooh also qualifies.
* LaserBlade[=/=]HotBlade: Strider Hiryu's Cypher.
* LateToTheTragedy: In Shadow Lady's ending, [[spoiler:Bison kills Jin, and then she and Charlie find his body. They came to the conclusion that they only could cybernetize him. Jin gets better.]]
* Leitmotif
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
** Saki Omokane, a character who would've remained in an obscure [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/quiznanairo/quiznanairo.htm Japan-only trivia game]] had it not been for her appearance.
** Most fans had no clue who [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin or Devilotte]] were when they made their debut in this crossover.
** Morrigan for many
* MegaManning: In Mega Man's ending, he gains a super move from Onslaught. And in the ports, ''you can actually unlock a secret version of Mega Man that has this attack.''
* MegatonPunch: Jin's entire fighting style, especially the Blodia Punch, which is a MegatonPunch by a HumongousMecha.
* MoreDakka: Mega Man's and Roll's Lv1 super has them becoming MazingerZ's expies firing many types of projectiles at will.
** Jin's Blodia Barrage is also this, as Blodia comes in with both chainguns blazing.
* NonFatalExplosions: Upon being summoned, Princess Devilotte will issue his subordinates to attack...but instead, all three just blow up on the spot (the explosion turning into the attack itself).
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Onslaught]].
* PaintItBlack: Shadow and Shadow Lady (roboticized versions of Charlie and Chun-Li). The same happens to [[spoiler:Jin]] in Shadow Lady's ending.
* PaletteSwap: Like the previous game, there are unlockable alternate versions of existing characters, albeit with odd color schemes.
** War Machine counts as a replacement for IronMan, and even has it's own palette swap in the form of Gold-armor War Machine. The gold version cannot be stunned.
** Lilith-mode Morrigan, a.k.a. Morrigan with Lilith's color scheme.
** Shadow Lady, a cyborgized Chun-Li in the vein of Shadow from ''Marvel vs. Street Fighter''.
** U.S. Agent, one of the assist characters. He uses the same sprite as CaptainAmerica.
** Hyper Venom, a secret version of Venom who's constantly in Berserker mode. Also known as Red Venom.
** Orange Hulk, a faster Hulk who uses his old ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' moveset and lacks super armor. Also known as MSH-Performance Hulk.
* PantyShot: Roll gives a ''lot'' of these, so much so that you can, at the peak of her jump in exactly one frame, see all of her panties and part of her midriff underneath her skirt. She also squeals ''ecchi!''[[labelnote:Translation]]Pervert!"[[/labelnote]] if you jump and decide not to cover her skirt with an attack.
* PlayingWithFire: CaptainCommando's Power Glove uses fire and [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] on his attacks. Jin's punches and attacks are all fire-covered, one even setting ''himself'' on fire.
* PoweredArmor: War Machine and CaptainCommando. Then there's [[SecretCharacter Gold War Machine]], a special version of War Machine who moves slowly, barely jumps and CANNOT block BUT his defense is insanely high, he has an infinite hit buffer allowing him to continue moving forward against enemy attacks, and many of his projectile attacks are amped up. An even better bonus is that some Hyper combos like Maximum Spider and Weapon X hit for the FIRST hit and the other player is repelled off the armor. He can still be thrown though. Onslaught has this as well.
* PowerFloats: M.Bison in his cameo appearances and Onslaught.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: The style of attack used by U.S. Agent, Colossus, Sentinel, Psylocke, Rogue and Juggernaut when summoned.
* ShockAndAwe: Captain Commando's power gloves use both electricity and [[PlayingWithFire fire]] as attacks. Assist Partners Saki and Thor shoot out a lightning bolt as well.
* {{Shotoclone}}: Aside from Ryu, Spider-Man, CaptainAmerica and Morrigan qualify for this.
* ShoutOut: Check [[ShoutOut/CapcomVsWhatever the page]].
* SNKBoss: Onslaught.
* {{Stripperific}}: On the ladies' side, Morrigan, [[{{Vaporwear}} who technically doesn't even wear clothes]]. And on the men's side, Hulk, Zangief, and, if one is feeling crazy, Colossus.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: All Marvel characters are voiced by native English speakers.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Due to legal issues, IronMan was unavailable for this game, so War Machine was selected in his stead (for all intents and purposes, he's a PaletteSwap of Iron Man). As a result, his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBd3Y8298rU theme]] in this game is based off of Iron Man's ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHZbfzSII0 theme.]]
* TagTeam
* TerribleTrio: The Devilotte team.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
--> '''''"HYPER COMBO FINISH!"'''''
** Duo Team Attack mode where both characters become controlable simultaneously and have infinite supers temporarily. The bar must be at Level 2 in order to execute this. However, getting one more bar (Level 3) will allow you twice as much time (with varying percentages based on how much of the third bar was filled when you execute the command).
* ThisIsADrill: One of Mega Man's/Roll's specials has Rush becoming a DrillTank controllable by the player. Shadow Lady can turn her hands into drills for certain attacks. Also Jin HK attacks.
* TransformingMecha: Rush Drill and Beat Plane. Both controllable by the player.
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin]]. Many were unaware of his existence prior to that. The same is true for Strider Hiryu and Captain Commando.
* VFormationTeamShot: Captain Commando and his team does this after his Captain Storm super move.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Venom makes plenty use of this in his movelist. Morrigan can change the shape of her batwings into several different forms during battle.
* WingedHumanoid: Michelle Heart.
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* PantyShot: Roll gives a ''lot'' of these, so much so that you can, at the peak of her jump in exactly one frame, see all of her panties and part of her midriff underneath her skirt. She also squeals ''ecchi!''[[labelnote:Translation]]Pervert!"[/labelnote]] if you jump and decide not to cover her skirt with an attack.

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Anita]], [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Devilotte]], [[VideoGame/ThreeWonders Lou]], [[VideoGame/LegendaryWings Michelle Heart]], Pure & Fur, [[QuizNanairoDreams Saki]], [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Ton Pooh]] and [[VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds Unknown Soldier 1P]].

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Anita]], [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Devilotte]], [[VideoGame/ThreeWonders Lou]], [[VideoGame/LegendaryWings Michelle Heart]], [[CapcomWorld2 Pure & Fur]], [[QuizNanairoDreams Saki]], [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Ton Pooh]] and [[VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds Unknown Soldier 1P]].

Followed up in 2000 by VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2.

After the successes of ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', Capcom would bring out '''Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes''' in 1998. The game's setting is based on the {{Onslaught}} storyline, with Professor Xavier calling for help from within the Capcom universe.

Followed up in 2000 by '''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'''.

* AWinnerIsYou: Winning with {{Secret Character}}s Gold War Machine, Red Venom, Orange Hulk and Onslaught nets you a flashing screen with the character and text saying "Congratulations! You've defeated the game with a Secret Character!".

* KamehameHadoken: The second part of the trope's name comes from the version of the Shinkuu Hadouken, which is the best known of many, MANY, '''MANY''' instances.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Jin Saotome in one of his {{Victory Pose}}s.

** Shadow Lady, a cyborgized Chun-Li in the vein of Shadow from ''Marvel Vs Street Fighter''.
** U.S. Agent, one of the {{Assist Character}}s. He uses the same sprite as CaptainAmerica.

* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Venom makes plenty use of this trope in his movelist. Morrigan can change the shape of her batwings into several different forms during battle.

* PantyShot: Roll gives a ''lot'' of these, so much so that you can, at the peak of her jump in exactly one frame, see all of her panties and part of her midriff underneath her skirt. She also squeals ''ecchi!'' [[hottip:*:That's Japanese for "pervert!", by the way.]] if you jump and decide not to cover her skirt with an attack.

* RyuAndKen: Subverted in ''[=MvC1=]'', where Ryu can ''transform'' into Ken and Akuma. Played straight with Mega Man and Roll.

* Returning from ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'': [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Gambit]]

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Colossus, Cyclops, Iceman, Jubilee, Juggernaut]], {{Magneto}}, TheMightyThor, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Psylocke, Rogue, Sentinel, Storm]], [[CaptainAmerica U.S. Agent]].

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Ken's ending. He dreamed all of this while taking a break in the middle of his and Ryu's training.]]

* Returning from ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'': [[XMen Gambit]]

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[{{X-Men}} Colossus, Cyclops, Iceman, Jubilee, Juggernaut]], {{Magneto}}, TheMightyThor, [[{{X-Men}} Psylocke, Rogue, Sentinel, Storm]], [[CaptainAmerica U.S. Agent]].

* PantyShot: Roll gives a ''lot'' of these, so much so that you can, at the peak of her jump in exactly one frame, see all of her panties and part of her midriff underneath her skirt. She also squeals ''ecchi!'' [[hottip:*:That's Japanese for "[[WhatTheHellPlayer pervert!]]", by the way.]] if you jump and decide not to cover her skirt with an attack.

* AssistCharacter: There are several of these from both Marvel and Capcom libraries called "Assist Partners". In the arcade versions, these are chosen randomly, but you could choose one of these as your second partner in the home versions which didn't allowed the 2 on 2 gameplay. Aside from this: