History VideoGame / MarvelvsCapcom

''Infinite'', however, broke the streak, as Marvel's decision to keep the Marvel characters owned by Fox out of the game means no Wolverine in the game.

The ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' games are a series of [[LicensedGame licensed]] {{Fighting Game}}s made by Creator/{{Capcom}}, using the Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} license. Encapsulating a total of eight games, it is by far the largest VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever series and the longest-running of them all (so much so that beyond ''Marvel Super Heroes'', Capcom themselves refer to the series as "The vs. Series").

* IdiosyncraticComboLevels

* NonDubbedGrunts: In the ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' games, sound clips are often reused from older games.

** [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Dante]]: The demon slayer is clearly his teenaged self from ''[=DMC3=]'', with powers and abilities only from that adventure, but he seems to know Trish and his foe Mundus quite well, characters that only his a-decade-older self should've known.

* AlternateUniverse: Marvel acknowledged the continuity of these crossovers (alongside ''X-Men: Children of the Atom'' and ''Marvel Super Heroes'') enough to assign them to their own official Marvel universe. Originally this reality was labeled "Earth-96169", but this was only found in the [[TheWikiRule Marvel Wiki]] and since no proof of being official was ever provided, the wiki eventually removed and replaced it with an unofficial "Temporary Reality Number" ([=TRN177=]). This was changed, however, when Marvel finally provided the official designation of this universe ([[http://marvel.wikia.com/Earth-30847 Earth-30847]]) in "Spider-Verse #2", alongside [[spoiler:the death of this universe's Spider-Man... Until it was retconned in ''Infinite'']].

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Iceman takes no blocking damage, which means he is an ideal choice to fight the otherwise unstoppable gamebreaker Cable.

** Wolverine is the only character to have appeared in every single game, all the way from ''X-Men: Children of the Atom'' to ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3''. {{Deadpool}} [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in ''3'' upon beating him.\\

Capcom also produced a couple of side-scrolling action games for the SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem around the same time. Namely ''VideoGame/XMenMutantApocalypse'' in 1994 and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesWarOfTheGems'' in 1996. Prior to those games, Capcom released the BeatEmUp ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher|Capcom}}''.

* AlternateUniverse: Marvel acknowledged the continuity of these crossovers (alongside ''X-Men: Children of the Atom'' and ''Marvel Super Heroes'') enough to assign them to their own official Marvel universe. Originally this reality was labeled "Earth-96169", but this was only found in the [[TheWikiRule Marvel Wiki]] and since no proof of being official was ever provided, the wiki eventually removed and replaced it with an unofficial "Temporary Reality Number" ([=TRN177=]). This was changed, however, when Marvel finally provided the official designation of this universe ([[http://marvel.wikia.com/Earth-30847 Earth-30847]]) in "Spider-Verse #2", alongside [[spoiler:the death of this universe's Spider-Man. Ouch. Time will tell how ''Infinite'' handles this]].

---> "You know, if this game was made in 1991[[note]]This was the year when Deadpool was created, and his current persona was established ''way'' later[[/note]], I'd be the one whacking YOU with a health bar."

** You can take this deeper. By ''Ultimate 3'' you've got guys like Frank West, Mike Haggar, Phoenix Wright, or Chris Redfield throwing down with cosmic entities like Dormammu, Shuma Gorath, or ''Galactus'' and, should the player be proficient enough, can solo these supreme entities.

** You can take this deeper. By ''Ultimate 3'' you've got guys like Frank West, Phoenix Wright, or Chris Redfield throwing down with cosmic entities like Dormammu, Shuma Gorath, or ''Galactus'' and, should the player be proficient enough, can solo these supreme entities.

** [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]]: While Creator/{{Capcom}} characters keep their power set mostly reserved from that ''one'' game they appear in, Zero's abilities are all over the place; it is a mix of pretty much ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' to ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'' (i.e. at least one special technique from ''every'' main game he's been playable in).

** ''Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter'' saw all the Street Fighters get new themes. The Marvel cast was split: Spider-Man, Captain America, Shuma-Gorath and Blackheart gained new rearrangements for their ''Marvel Super Heroes'' themes, and similar treatment came for Omega Red, who returned from ''Children of the Atom''. Wolverine, Cyclops and the Hulk obtained new ones instead.

** When character themes returned to ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', the Capcom characters all got remixes of specific themes associated to them from their source games. Marvel veterans got remixes of the theme used in their last playable appearance, while those newcomers received original ones.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Save for ''2'', all games have featured this for every playable character. Out of all of them, Captain America and Spider-Man hold the distinction of having the same theme for every game they have been playable in, as well as Sentinel, Gambit, Blackheart, and Shuma-Gorath.

* AlternateSelf: This happens with ComicBook/NickFury. In ''VideoGame/ThePunisher'', Nick appears based on [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Earth-616]], but his cameo in ''Videogame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' series (in endings of ''Fate of Two Worlds'' and ''Ultimate'') refers to [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Earth-1610]] and [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Earth-199999]].

** [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]]: While {{Capcom}} characters keep their power set mostly reserved from that ''one'' game they appear in, Zero's abilities are all over the place; it is a mix of pretty much ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' to ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'' (i.e. at least one special technique from ''every'' main game he's been playable in).

* AlternateUniverse: Marvel acknowledged the continuity of these crossovers (alongside ''X-Men: Children of the Atom'' and ''Marvel Super Heroes'') enough to assign them to their own official Marvel universe. Originally this reality was labeled "Earth-96169", but this was only found in the [[TheWikiRule Marvel Wiki]] and since no proof of being official was ever provided, the wiki eventually removed and replaced it with an unofficial "Temporary Reality Number" ([=TRN177=]). This was changed, however, when Marvel finally provided the official designation of this universe ([[http://marvel.wikia.com/Earth-30847 Earth-30847]]) in "Spider-Verse #2", alongside [[spoiler:the death of this universe's Spider-Man. Ouch]].

** AlternateSelf: This happens with ComicBook/NickFury. In ''VideoGame/ThePunisher'', Nick appears based on [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Earth-616]], but his cameo in ''Videogame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' series (in endings of ''Fate of Two Worlds'' and ''Ultimate'') refers to [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Earth-1610]] and [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Earth-199999]].

The ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' games are a series of [[LicensedGame licensed]] {{Fighting Game}}s made by Creator/{{Capcom}}, using the [[MarvelComics Marvel]] license. Encapsulating a total of eight games, it is by far the largest VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever series and the longest-running of them all (so much so that beyond ''Marvel Super Heroes'', Capcom themselves refer to the series as "The vs. Series").

* GuestFighter: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]] in ''X-Men: Children of the Atom'' and [[VideoGame/Darkstalkers Anita]] (semi-unofficially) in ''Marvel Super Heroes'', which laid the foundation for the full crossover games that followed.

The ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' games are a series of [[LicensedGame licensed]] {{Fighting Game}}s made by Creator/{{Capcom}}, using the [[MarvelComics Marvel]] license. Encapsulating a total of seven games, it is by far the largest VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever series and the longest-running of them all (so much so that beyond ''Marvel Super Heroes'', Capcom themselves refer to the series as "The vs. Series").

* ''Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite''

%%* ''Marvel vs. Capcom 4''
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