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Infiltrators
Infiltrators trigger Counter-Attack mode if attacking or attacked by a Tactician. Includes heroes known for their stealth and agility.
Characters: A-Bomb, Agent Venom, Ant-Man, Beetle, Black Cat, Black Widow, Elektra, Enchantress, The Falcon, Fandral, Gambit, Invisible Woman, Kitty Pryde, Medusa, Moondragon, Morbius, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Shanna the She-Devil, Satana, Spider-Man, Spiral, Star-Lord, Tigra, Ultimate Spider-Man, Victor Mancha, The Wasp.
A-Bomb
- "Hey, Agent, I hear you're vying for the best sidekick of the year award. You know what? You can have it. You can be the one to follow the Hulk around and keep him from smashing up the city too much, while I get to bask in the limelight. I'm okay with this."
Agent Venom
- "Ready for deployment, Agent. Rest assured, I have full control. I'm not the symbiote. And if you want the symbiote...well, I'd strongly advise you to reconsider. Sir."
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Rip to Shreds bypasses shields and deals extra damage against shielded targets.
- Adaptive Armor: The symbiote is always this only it takes on the appearance of body armor.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Permanent Bond grants a follow-up attack after single-target attacks.
- Ascended Fanboy: He's Spidey's biggest fan, and he became the new Venom to have a chance to walk in the footsteps of his hero.
- Combat Tentacles: He can sprout them for extra arms to shoot guns or while in Venom mode to strike and web his enemies.
- Continuity Nod: Several of his ability names while Under Control allude to his football career - Go Long, Hail Mary, and the "blitz" part of Bullet Blitz.
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Desperation Attack: The lower his health, the more damage Hail Mary does.
- Guns Akimbo
- Healing Factor: His Symbiotic Relationship passive, gradually grants health over combat and has chance to remove debuffs each round.
- Heroic Host
- Hulk Out: When his allies are threatened and symbiote is Out of Control, Venom becomes significantly beefier and way more angry.
- I'm a Humanitarian: If his Eat Your Brains attack is of any example.
- The Leader: One possible upgrade for Flash allows him to buff his allies with tactical Counter-Attack and is called "Squad Leader", reflecting his military background. Surprisingly, he retains this trait even when going Ax-Crazy.
- Legacy Character: He's the fourth Venom; overlapping with Redeeming Replacement, he's the most unambiguously heroic of them all.
- Military Superhero
- Spikes of Heroism
- Splash Damage: Hail Mary applies Burning and Bleeding to other targets.
- Split Personality Take Over: If an ally is hit, he gains a chance to go Out of Control (guaranteed if they're KO'ed) and becomes Classic Venom with a new moveset and class. While in Venom mode, he gains chance to revert back into Flash Thompson after making successful attack, which is guaranteed to happen if the target was put down for good. He also tends to rage and often attacks randomly chosen enemy but the one he's ordered to instead.
- Stance System: An uncontrolled one. He has a chance of going berserk and transforming into his monstrous Venom form.
- Super Hero Packing Heat: While as Flash Thompson, he uses various firearms.
- Superpowered Evil Side
- Super-Soldier
- Weaksauce Weakness: Like in the comics, he's vulnerable to sonic and fire attacks.
Ant-Man
- "Agent, you must know a good thing when you see it. Because...you know...good things come in small packages. Get it? Small packages...Ant-Man!"
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Clothes Make the Superman: His abilities come from a special suit designed by Hank Pym.
- Heel–Face Turn: Lang starts off as a thief who breaks into Hank Pym's laboratory, but ends up donning the Ant-Man suit after Yellowjacket and Whiplash attack Pym.
- Sizeshifter
Beetle
- "What? Never seen an ankle bracelet before? I know. Clashes with the suit doesn't it? Well, if you guys didn't think I would run the first chance I get, we wouldn't have this fashion crisis. So you're going to take it off right? No? Well, it was worth a shot. Can't blame a girl for trying."
Black Cat
- "I'm not much of a joiner, Agent. But I'll do what's needed."
- Action Girl
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: The black cat, complete with "bad luck" associations.
- Cat Girl: Made more obvious in her "Claws" alt, which includes costume cat ears.
- Classy Cat-Burglar: Obviously.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: Especially the "Claws" outfit.
- Spy Catsuit: In both alts, but her "Classic" costume has the stereotypical zipper up the front, pulled down to a daring extent.
- Super-Empowering: Stroke of Luck increases all of her stats for one turn.
- Winds of Destiny, Change!: Can give enemies the Unlucky debuff to make them miss more and dodge less, as well as greatly boost her own stats with Stroke of Luck.
Black Widow
- "Agent. I owe you one. Good to be a part of the team."
- Action Girl
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: She has a subtle spider theme, usually the red "hourglass" on her belt, and a ranged "Widow's Bite" attack which can be devastating.
- Arm Cannon: She has a pair of bracelets that launch her "Widow's Bite" or pinpoint a desired target.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff: She places the "Marked for Revenge" debuff on the latest opponent that attacks her, increasing all damage the target receives by 30%.
- Double Agent: As a nod to the comics. Depending on the class, her Infiltrator Grey Suit allows her to take an extra turn against targeted opponents (as Tacticians would attack Blasters), while Tactician Grey Suit allows her to counterattack and move stealthily (as Infiltrators counter Tacticians).
- Older Than They Look: Her youth is preserved thanks to the Red Room's serum.
- Spy Catsuit: A full-body suit in black or grey is part of all three of her costumes.
- Status-Buff Dispel: Made possible with a Flying Kick to the face. And her EISO has Disadvantage that neutralizes class bonuses.
- Super Serum: Infused with Russia's answer to Captain America's Super-Soldier Serum.
Elektra
- "Whoever you need killed, I'll do it. Doesn't matter how dangerous it is. Remember, I've died once already. It wasn't that bad."
- Action Girl
- Back from the Dead: And not really sure what to do about that.
- Coup de Grâce: The aptly-named 'Assassinate'.
- Dating Catwoman: Her relationship with Daredevil.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: She confides to the Agent that she hasn't known who she is or what she should be doing since her father died.
- Heel–Face Turn
- Highly-Visible Ninja: She's a beautiful woman wearing bright red and showing a lot of skin. Yet somehow all of her attacks are stealthy.
- McNinja: A Greek ninja.
- Professional Killer
- Sneak Attack: Elektra's Way of the Stick passive ensures that all her attacks are permanently stealthy.
Enchantress
- "The halls of Asgard have felt a bit empty as of late, with Midgard being this season's popular vacation destination. I am looking forward to traveling aboard your little cruise ship and taking in all the sights. I would like to see if it lives up to it's reputation. "
- Arch-Enemy: With Lady sif due to being romantic rivals
- Confusion Fu: Her moves revolve around charming and/or disorienting her enemies into attacking one another.
- Cool Crown: Her green head-piece.
- Hopeless Suitor: Towards Thor seeing how she tried over millennia to win his affection.
- Hot Witch
- Impossibly-Low Neckline
- I Shall Taunt You: During Sif's Heroic Battle, she constantly makes jabs at Sif to throw her off her game. Depending on the player's action, Sif can either ignore Enchantress or become enraged get the Raging Barbarian buff which increases damage at the cost accuracy and taking damage when attacking.
- Really 700 Years Old
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!
- Vain Sorceress
- Villainesses Want Heroes: She constantly attempts to seduce Thor and allure him to her side. She claims this to be the reason why she joins the alliance.
Falcon
- "The brass says you could use a little help, Agent. You take the low road, and I'll take the high road."
- Animal Motif: Falcon, of course.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: His isn't exactly a superbeing per se.
- Assist Character: His Friends In High Places buff grants a chance to summon a random S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (i.e. Constrictor, Black Widow, Hawkeye etc.) when an ally is attacked.
- Badass Normal: He doesn't have any superpowers or super suits like the other avengers, but he still kicks just as much ass as everyone else.
- Clothes Make the Superman: He flies using his EXO-7 Falcon armor.
- Composite Character: He has the appearance of the MCU version, but keeps his comic book counterpart's ability of communicating with birds.
- Flight: Via his mechanical winged harness.
- Guns Akimbo
- Military Super Hero
- Speaks Fluent Animal: He is able to communicate with birds.
- Status Buff: Swoop has the Rising Up passive (giving random buff/s to the party), which is hardly worth a mention until you realize that Falcon can actually power up the party indefinitely as long as he has Combat Reflexes.
- Super Hero Packing Heat
Fandral
- "Tis my honor and my pleasure to fight by thy side, Agent. Though 'twouldst be an even greater pleasure if thou wouldst introduce me to yon emerald-hued maiden."
- Amazon Chaser: unabashedly asks the agent to introduce him to good ol' Jennifer.
- Badass Cape
- Chandelier Swing: His Lv 9 Flynning Circus is mixture of this and Falling Chandelier of Doom. A chandelier drops on the enemies and then Fandral is seen swinging from rope carrying said chandelier.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Evidenced by his recruitment dialogue.
- Cool Sword: Wields a stylized Rapier.
- Fun Personified: He's a swashbuckling super hero god who makes quips in during battle. Why wouldn't he be this?
- Flynning: Pretty damn obvious. So obvious in fact that his Lv 9 move is named Flynning Circus and has a note on it that says "I shall show you the Errol of your ways!".
- Healing Potion: Like Hogun and Volstagg, Fandral has the Elixir of Recovery for his L6 move.
- Royal Rapier: His weapon of choice which makes sense considering he's the swashbuckler of the Warrior Three.
- Set Bonus: chances of activating his Witty Retort passive requires a fellow member of the Warriors Three.
- Shout-Out: Pretty blatant given that his L9 references Errol Flynn TWICE.
- Superhero Gods
- Super-Toughness: Possesses the Asgardian passive which protects him from Radiation, Burning, Chilled, and Poisoned debuffs.
- Swashbuckler
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Like literally every other Asgardian.
- You Fight Like a Cow: as a swashbuckler, he is known for his witty retorts, and reflected in his passive which pre-emptively applies Distracted to an attacking enemy.
Gambit
- "I hope I'm not too late to the party, mon ami. I'm always up for a good fight... Consider me your Ace in the hole."
- Badass Longcoat: But of course.
- Battle Couple: With Rogue during their Heroic Battle when they must fight a group of Prime Sentinels.
- Berserk Button: Rogue gets kidnapped in the boss intro to SpecOps 16.1, and Gambit immediately steps up to go to her rescue."Stand between me an' her, you gonna be talking out the other side of your mouth, sure."
- Charged Attack: Can gain Kinetic Charges through his basic "Bo Roulette" attack or assisting an ally, increasing his accuracy. These stacks can either be used to gain a free attack with "Ace of Spades", or released all at once to greatly increase the damage of "Ragin Cajun".
- Civvie Spandex: A brown trenchcoat over a body-hugging suit.
- Death Dealer
- Flechette Storm: "Royal Flush."
- Funetik Aksent
- Gratuitous French: On ocassion.
- Handsome Lech: Gets the "Flirt" team-up bonus.
- Technicolor Eyes: He has red irises with black sclera.
- Ragin' Cajun: His nickname and even has an ultimate attack named Ragin' Cajun.
- Status-Buff Dispel: Debuffs an entire enemy team with Royal Flush.
- Wild Card: His passive ability is literally named this, and gives him a chance to join a teammate's attack or randomly counterattack an enemy.
Invisible Woman
- "You can count on the Fantastic Four whenever you need to call us in."
- Action Girl
- Barrier Warrior: The master. She can easily stack multiple shields on herself (depending on uniform) and put extras on the rest of her team. She can also use a force barrier as an offensive move to prevent an enemy from attacking.
- Instant Armor: In her Future Foundation suit, Sue and her teammates have a high chance to reactively create a dampening force barrier when attacked, reducing the damage taken from subsequent attacks.
- Lady of War: She is elegant in motion and attacks from range while showing enemies her Badass Back.
- Only Sane Woman: Of the Fantastic Four; Sue is the Straight Man to Reed's overly clinical and science-oriented demeanor, Ben's snarky irreverence and Johnny's hotheaded brashness.
- Mind over Matter: Her force constructs are psionically generated.
- Visible Invisibility: Type 3 for her attacks, and Type 5 when her Invisibility passive activates.
Kitty Pryde
- "If we're going after Magneto, I'm all yours. And if we're not, I'll still pitch in when you need me."
- Action Girl
- Assist Character: Her Shoulder-Sized Dragon Lockheed, who may randomly counterattack foes which attack Kitty or come out at her command. If she's not Phased, then she'll counter all attacks with Lockheed thanks to her EISO.
- Cute Bruiser: She's small and pretty, but she hits hard. Her tanking ability comes courtesy of her Phasing powers.
- Domino Mask: In her Shadowcat costume.
- Intangibility: Her Phased Attack grants her Phased allows her, for two rounds, to avoid all attacks except magic and psychic attacks. The damage of her next attack is increased but phased is removed after attacking and she cannot protect allies while in this state.
- In her Shadowcat costume, she starts the battle Phased.
- McNinja: Her fighting style combines martial arts with her ability to phase through solid surfaces and come up behind an enemy.
- Sneak Attack: She has an attack literally named this. Ironically, it's not actually stealthy, but it does hit very hard.
Medusa
- "For millennia, my people held themselves apart from the concerns of humanity. But this new, darker era requires a firmer hand. The inhumans will stand at your side."
- Action Girl
- Combat Tentacles: Her hair can form into this.
- Happily Married / Ruling Couple: with Black Bolt.
- Prehensile Hair: Her main powers.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She is Queen of the Inhumans.
Moondragon
- "Yes, I'm reading your mind. No, I don't really care how you feel about it. It's better if you just accept it and move on. ...That's a horrible thought, you should be ashamed of yourself."
Morbius
- "With your help, my thirst has been abated, Agent. Please allow me to repay you for your generosity."
- Anti-Hero: All in all, Morbius is a good guy... when he's not hungry.
- Blessed with Suck: He's granted superhuman abilities but at the cost of having an overwhelming blood thirst.
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Dr. Genericius
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: An extreme example.
- Horror Hunger: His main conflict that puts him at odds with many heroes. His Covert Ops is about finding a serum that allows him to control his hunger, with the last part being a simulator fight to test how much they succeeded.
- Horrifying Hero: Definitely invoked with his L2 ability, which places a debuff called "disturbed" on the rest of the party.
- Mind Manipulation
- Our Vampires Are Different: If the term "Living Vampire" is of any indicator.
- Professor Guinea Pig
Nightcrawler
- "It's going to take everything we've got to meet this threat. But as the Germans say: Ende gut, alles gut."
- Amazing Technicolor Population: He has dark blue skin.
- Bilingual Bonus: Occasionally spouts off German phrases as seen in his recruitment dialogue
- Dark Is Not Evil: As in the comics, his demonic appearance masks his good heart.
- Sneak Attack: All his attacks are stealthy.
- Swashbuckler: In his Swashbuckler costume, which gives him a sword and bandanna as well as allows him to apply bleeding in all of his attacks.
- Taking the Bullet: His "Noble Sacrifice" passive allows for Nightcrawler to block single or area attacks at random.
- Teleport Spam: Since his revamp, his teleport attacks have a chance of a follow-up strike to enemies with debuffs.
- Weaponized Teleportation: He uses teleportation abilities offensively to gain the upper hand on foes as well as defensively to avoid attacks.
- Wild Card: The aforementioned "Noble Sacrifice", combined with a chance to avoid attacks through his "Whiff of Brimstone" passive, very much make him one.
Psylocke
- "Don't mind that tingle in the back of your mind, Agent. That's just me watching your back."
- Action Girl
- Animal Motif: Butterflies, which appear on her face when she uses her telepathic powers.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff: Her Telekinetic Katana applies Weak Mind which increases the damage of Psychic attacks by 50%.
- Energy Weapon: Her katana and psychic knives are projections of her mental powers.
- Flaming Sword: The look of her psychic weapons.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: British girl stuck in the body of a Japanese ninja.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: A ninja in skimpy dress, with purple/hot pink color motifs.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Telekinetically charged makes it even better.
- McNinja: She shares the "Shinobi" bonus with martial artists like Daredevil, and she's British.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Aristocratic, purple-haired, telepathic and later telekinetic British mutant who was also part-Otherworld, who served as a model, pilot, X-Man and even one-time bearer of the Captain Britain title. She was then trapped in a Japanese Hand assassin's body later destroyed and reconstructed by her reality-warping brother, lost her memory and sight temporarily, and absorbed the psyche of the woman she swapped bodies with.
- Psychic Powers: Uses her powers to create telekinetic katanas, knives and shields.
- Stripperific: Goes into combat in her infamous purple leotard.
Satana
- "You've been so good to me, Agent. I suppose I can stay awhile longer. Just make sure you keep me entertained. I get hungry when I'm bored."
- Assist Character: Satana can summon a Tactician demon; the more debuffed she is, the more powerful the effect becomes.
- Bad Liar: During the Cryptic Quest, when Daimon confronts her about beating information out of every goon who have used magic, we get this gem of response:
- Satana: I er...dear brother, that wasn't me. It was another Satana from an incursion!
Daimon Hellstrom: ...An Incursion. Really.
- Coup de Grâce: 'Soul Kiss' drains an enemy's health, and has the Fatal Blow debuff as well.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Enticing Empowered Iso-8 lets her apply Distracted to enemies.
- For the Evulz: She knows that sucking out men's souls is bad, but nevertheless enjoys it because it gives her great pleasure.
- Glass Cannon: With enough debuffs applied on her, she can dish out plenty of damage, but applying Bane and Sin on herself increases all damage dealt to her.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: For a sexy evil woman, she's surprisingly ineptly adorable, helped along by her Bad Liar tendencies.
- Item Crafting: PVP Season 14 sees Satana asking the Agent's assistance in creating an artifact called the Cryptessence.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Well, she does have 'Satan' in her name.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit is open from neck to navel.
- Power at a Price: Can give her team buffed stats, ironically by applying debuffs on them. She can also apply Bane and Sin on herself to increase the potency of her attacks, while increasing her own fragility at the same time.
- Status-Buff Dispel: She has a chance to randomly inflict Soulfire with her attacks when inflicted with Bane, via her Sinful Thoughts passive.
- Succubi and Incubi: She's a succubus, a particular type of demon blessed with great beauty and magical powers.
- The Tease: She is very suggestive in her dialogues.
- Token Evil Team Mate: She outright says that she can't be trusted and she will betray you when it's convenient for her.
- Unusual Eyebrows: Of the swooped variety.
Shanna the She-Devil
- "A lot of people underestimate the Savage Land, Agent. That's good. Someone needs to keep the dinosaurs fed. But you seem to respect the land. For that, you have my friendship, and my spear."
- Extra Turn: Gets two turns the next round after using Nature's Bounty.
- Stance System: Shanna is granted a different buff depending on which Savage Toxins are used. Because of the rate of cooldown, they can actually stack.
- Vine Swing: Her L9 move Off the Vine.
Spider-Man
- "Hey, I was hoping I wouldn't be the last one asked to dance. Point me at the bad guys and let's go!"
- All Webbed Up: Spidey can web up his targets, which reduces an enemy's attack and defense.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Badass Bookworm
- Boring, but Practical: Maybe he's not as flashy or cool as the other 90 CP heroes, and it's kind of a weak slow starter, but he has the possibility to unlock two epic bosses and a premium mission, and when powered up with enough evasion/strength ISOs can decimate the rival team while countering every attack, and taking extra turns.
- Deadpan Snarker: But of course.
- Fun Personified: Your friendly neighborhood wisecracker.
- Powerup Let Down: prior to being revamped, fans don't think highly of Spidey's L9, especially in comparison to his L6note .
- Spider-Sense
- Taking the Bullet: Has a chance to protect allies from attacks, increasing the power of his next attack.
- Wild Card: The above protect passive activates randomly.
- You Just Had to Say It/Got Volunteered: And it happens twice.Spider-Man: Who gets the next crack at convincing [Anti-Venom]?Maria Hill: Why don't you give it a try, Spider-Man?Spider-Man: I knew I should have kept my mouth shut.
- The second time:
Spider-Man: Maybe we can get Eddie to chase [Hybrid] down and suck out all its powers.Maria Hill: One more reason for you to try to talk some sense into him.Spider-Man: Hoo boy. I get all the fun jobs.
Spiral
- "Shall we dance together on the battlefield, my dear Agent? Don't worry, I'll show you the steps. Just try to keep up."
- Action Girl
- Confusion Fu: As befitting a dancer and a complete troll who uses magic frequently, AI Spiral can be unpredictable. Using either of her levels 1, 2 or 9 attacks would change her level 6 ability, opening up more options for her in battle.
- Cyborg: Due to her cybernetic arm implants.
- Dual Wielding: Not so much Dual Wielding as it is wielding six blades at once. Dual Wielding cubed!
- Dance Battler
- Dark Is Not Evil: Like Satana though, her loyalty is questionable.
- Glass Cannon: Her L2 move, Flashbolt, allows her to deal incredibly high amounts of damage coupled with at least several abilities that allow Spiral to increase the entire team's stats while lowering the opponents at the same time.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Wherever the hell she keeps the 4 other blades she seemingly pulls out of thin air is anybody's guess. At any given time she holds 2 and pulls out another 4 when attacking with her L1 move. With that costume no less, it would have to at least be a Hyperspace Arsenal just to hold all those blades without constricting her movement
- Kame Hame Hadoken: Exhibits the famous release gesture when using Flashbolt and Time Spiral.
- Magic Knight: She uses both magic and swords quite well.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous
- Power Nullifier: Flashbolt applies Depower to an enemy, making them no longer applying status effects for 1 round.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: She was the victim of this, which turned her into a six-armed assassin. Then later she did this to others while she ran the Body Shoppe in the Mojo universe.
Star-Lord
- "Hey, Agent. Glad to be back on the ol' mudball. Love what you've done with the place...... except for what whole dubstep thing. Which supervillain thought of that?"
- Badass Normal: Not only he's the only half-human in the Guardians but he's their leader.
- The Casanova: He's included in the Ladies Man team-up bonus.
- Civvie Spandex: His MCU default costume.
- Composite Character: Based primarily on his movie self, but has the element gun used in the comics.
- Cool Helmet
- Counter-Attack: Has a chance attack an enemy who has an opportunist debuff(s). Chance increases if that target attacks one of the guardians if they have their movie costumes. This is in addition to his normal counter-attack against Tacticians (which, in his case, hits all opponents).
- Deadpan Snarker: He can give Tony a run for his money.
- Elemental Powers: His Element Gun can fire a few of the elements including fire, ice blast, rock falls and lightning.
- Guns Akimbo
- Half-Human Hybrid
- Jet Pack: He has thrusters on his boots that allow him to fly.
- More Dakka: Spray and Pray dishes out small damage, but can easily debilitate Blasters and protectors.
- Rocks Fall Everybody Dies: His Element Gun can create cave-ins. True to the trope, it wipes out enemies for good with Fatal Blow (and the name of the ability is actually "Rocks Fall")
- Shout-Out: His rocket boots L6 move is named Quantum Leap.
Tigra
- "Pretty sure I've got at least three or four lives left in me, Agent. I can spare one for a good cause."
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Razor Claws and Frenzy applies Shred to enemy targets who are immune to bleeding. After an attack she also gains Sharpened Claws, allowing her next attack to become a guaranteed critical hit.
- Action Girl
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Orange with blue tiger stripes.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Her Feral Instincts buff allows her to do follow-up attacks to single-target attacks if the target is bleeding.
- Cat Girl: Thanks to her tiger amulet. Her Marvel XP dossier clarifies that she can be a normal human whenever she wishes, but she likes her catlike form.
- Natural Weapon: Most of her attacks involve rending her enemies with her claws.
- Stripperific: Goes into battle in a blue bikini.
Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
- "Hey, does this mean I get a badge? All agents get a badge, right? Aw man! Come On! I should totally get a badge. I guess some things never change."
- Dark Is Not Evil: His suit is black and red but he's pretty much one of the good guys.
- Legacy Character
- Kid Hero: Even younger than Peter Parker.
- Invisibility: He can cloak himself to avoid attacks and then counter those attacks.
- The Paralyzer
- Pint Sized Power House: He's quite tiny and petite but can pack a mean wallop.
- Taking the Bullet: Just like his predecessor, he can protect allies from oncoming attacks.
Victor Mancha
- "I don't know much about you, Agent, but you seem pretty cool. I mean, just look at all the amazing heroes you have at your side. And now you want me to join too? Sign me up!"
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Like his "brother" Vision, he breaks free from Ultron and turns on him.
- Barrier Warrior
- Civvie Spandex
- Early-Bird Cameo: Victor appeared in Spec Ops 25 before being revealed to be the new PVP hero shortly after.
- Flying Firepower
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half human, Half robot.
- The Mole: He and the rest of the Runaways function as this for SHIELD as they explore the criminal underground world while trying to find out the whereabouts of Nick Fury and the Avengers sans Hawkeye.
- Nanomachines: This technology allows him to restore HP and remove one debuff each turn.
- Selective Magnetism: Due to him having Electromagnetokinesis.
- Shock and Awe: His power set.
- Taking the Bullet: His Crackling Shield allows him to protect and counter attacks from enemies that have Static Charge.
- Younger Than They Look: Although he has the appearance of someone in their mid to late teens, he's only a few years old. Even younger than Molly.
The Wasp
- "You may not always see me, but I'll always be there, Agent. Count on it."
- Action Girl
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the wasp, she stings and distracts her foes, and in three of her attacks she becomes tiny and flies with a set of grafted wings.
- Ascended Glitch: for a time, Wasp's attack list was suddenly turned into a vertical display, and fans assume that this is Playdom trying to test a new mechanic. Wasp's attack list display would later be fixed, and the vertical display would then be used for the "Multi-Function" passive present in certain items and heroes, and for certain Stance System-using heroes to change classes faster.
- Counter-Attack: Her Opportunist passive allows her chance to counter any enemy with Opportunity debuffs that attacks Wasp or an ally.
- Fashionista: She's included in the Fashionista Team-up bonus which is a nod to her being a fashion designer in the comics.
- Flying Firepower: She can fly and fire bio-electric energy blasts.
- Giant Fist of Smashing: Her "Fist Bump" attack.
- Sarcastic Devotee: To Hank Pym. She likes to snark about him to their allies, but will defend and boast about him to their opponents.
- Sizeshifter: She prefers to shrink, although she does grows to giant size for her "Fist Bump" ultimate.
- Winged Humanoid: Of the insect-wings variety.
Generalists
Generalists are neither weak nor strong against a specific class and are all-around heroes. They generally involve all five classes in some way, whether it's switching between them, removing them, or having adaptive counters to them.Characters: Angel, Beast, Blue Marvel, Colleen Wing, The Destroyer, Mockingbird, Moon Knight, Punisher, Red She-Hulk, Rogue, Silk, Spider-Man Noir, Taskmaster, White Tiger.
Angel
- "I may not be a true angel, but I can see the good in you, Agent. What wounds we find, we will heal together."
- Demoted to Extra: Angel still stands out as the one PVP hero to get the least exposure on in the storyline of the game (either in SpecOps or in normal missions); his only time in the limelight is as a Guest-Star Party Member vs. Blizzard in Chapter 4. Most other PVP heroes before (Deadpool in particular) and after him have larger roles in comparison. Again, this harkens back to the controversial conclusion to PVP season 9 (Angel's season).
- Auto-Revive: The Benediction buff granted by Angel's 'Impositio Manus' move allows an otherwise knocked-out ally to be restored to 25% health instead.
- Subverted with his X-Force Archangel alts, with the replacement 'Death' attack dealing Fatal Blow and Famine causing the Despair debuff that prevents healing and resurrection effects.
- Chest Insignia: In his default costume, a halo.
- Combat Medic: His entire skillset is focused on boosting his team with buffs, giving them extra turns, or restoring health and stamina. The offensive power is mediocre at best, yet he can neutralize an attacker's class advantages.
- Completely subverted with his X-Force Archangel alts, which is all about preventing buffs and revival.
- Our Angels Are Different: Warren is not exactly an angel per se (and the metallic wings don't help), but he's descended from the angelic Nephilim race, which explains his healing powers.
- Power Nullifier: His Essence Reading passive gives him the chance to preemptively place the Generalized debuff on attackers, removing class advantages.
- The Nanoplague debuff inflicted by his Archangel alt's 'Pestilence' attack blocks all buffs.
- Stationary Wings: Averted. His wings flap back and forth constantly, even in his 'idle' animation.
- Super-Empowering: All of his moves give himself and/or other allies random buffs.
- Theme Naming: His skillset as X-Force Archangel are named after the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, wherein Archangel had been a former Horseman of Death.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Notorious for having flight as his only power in the original team until various revamps on his new mutant powers i.e. "healing blood", which reflects his moves in-game as the "team cleric". Which may also be somewhat ironic seeing as Warren at the beginning of his career, would have been most likely to complain about his "Heart" status.
- Winged Humanoid: The classic example in the Marvel Universe.
Beast
- "But just disease to luxury succeeds, and ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. - Alexander Pope. The luxury of Isotope-8 has its drawbacks, Agent. Let us work together to overcome them."
- As the Good Book Says...: As Pestilence, he quotes passages in the bible relating to the horsemen and the apocalypse.
- Awesome by Analysis: Grants an "Epiphany" buff to his team via the "Bleak House" passive when enemies attack, causing a guaranteed crit for their next attack.
- Badass Bookworm: Kind of an odd example. He has his normal bulky beast build...yet all of his moves are named after books, and many of them involve reading from books or making speeches and soliloquies.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: during SpecOp 16, courtesy of Apocalypse.
- Cat Folk: Resembles the "Cat Beast" of 616 continuity.
- Charged Attack: His "Catch-22" passive grants him stacks of the "Call of the Wild" buff, increasing his attack damage as long as he does not directly use an offensive move.
- Counter-Attack: The key to using Beast, as he is a passive rather than active attacker, is to build up his damage through the passive described above and allow him to counterattack opponents through either "War and Peace" or "The Grapes of Wrath".
- Foil: Pestilence is designed to shut down Combat Medics like Rescue and Angel who rely on stacking buffs, shields, and debuff removals.
- Gas Mask Mooks: As Pestilence.
- Genius Bruiser: Furry, big, super-strong, agile and Nobel-level intelligent.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Wonder Man. They even have a special teamup bonus, 'Rad Bromance'.
- Natural Weapon: He doesn't need any weapon to fight, just the claws on his hands and feet.
- Plague Master: As Pestilence his actions and abilities are focused spreading certain debuffs among teams and disabling any effect remove. His Faustian Bargain passive allows all allies with certain debuffs (i.e. Weakened, Dizzy, Exposed, Poison etc.) to infect enemies by applying those debuffs via attack. His Paradise Lost passive suppresses most effect prevent or removes debuffs from both allies and enemies.
- He can also apply Iso-8 Contagian: 3 debuff to all enemies via Masque of the Red Death. The carrier of said debuff can pass it onto other target(s) via attack until the countdown ends. Afterwards it morphs into an outbreak causing quite several debilitating debuffs.
- Power Nullifier: The "Generalised" debuff blocks all class advantages. In his Pestilence costume, he can also apply Nanoplague debuff via his Heart of Darkness attack blocking all beneficial buffs.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: In his Pestilence costume.
- The Social Darwinist: He becomes this after being transformed into Pestilence. He makes claims that evolution marches on and the old must be destroyed.
- Super-Empowering: His "The Sun Also Rises" move gives himself and other allies random buffs along the ability to counter-attack the next attack.
- Walking Wasteland: Wolverine has spotted Beast/Pestilence...which Captain Britain notes is not actually a difficult task since civilians in the immediate area are suddenly stricken with various plagues. On the Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration, it's a bit of the Conspicuous type.
Blue Marvel
- "Agent, I am here to let you know that I will do whatever is right, wherever and whenever it needs to be done. I do not care for what anyone may think. Not anymore."
- Badass Bookworm: One of the few heroes who can share the Smartest Man in the Room passive, and a tenured professor.
- Combo Platter Powers: Aside from controlling antimatter particles, he can fly, is virtually invulnerable, ages slowly, and can survive in the vacuum of space.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Forced to step down from being a hero due to the racial tension of the 1950s and 60s.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: As his profile seems to indicate, he wants to return to a normal life but is constantly drawn back into conflict.
Colleen Wing
- "Hi there, Agent. Misty said you needed some extra help out there? How do I know you? Well, news kind of spreads fast in the super hero community, and I'm a total gossip magnet. Don't worry, they mostly say nice things about you... mostly."
Destroyer
- Destroyer:...Loki:Do not worry, Agent. The essence I have collected to power the Destroyer will prevent it from disobeying your orders. It's perfectly safe. Trust me.Destroyer:...
- Adaptive Ability: Every time it fights someone, it learns from them and becomes more dangerous.
- Animated Armor
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Crush has the Shield Breaker effect.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast
- Visible Silence
- The Voiceless: It's not exactly alive. It's more of a weapon than an actual character.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Fired from its face.
Mockingbird
- " I was once an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., just like you. It feels good to be back."
- Action Girl
- Adaptive Ability: If Mockingbird is struck by a non-Generalist enemy, her class type shifts to her attacker's counter-class, which is also one of the best ways to take her down if you plan accordingly.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: She has a real mockingbird's ability to mimic; adopting the fighting stance to counter any class.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: She can identify her opponents' Weak Point and thus do a lot of damage when she hits, even without superpowers.
- Badass in Distress: The plot of her Spec Ops involved having to rescue her.
- Badass Normal: She has no superpowers or special tech, just fighting skill and a pair of battle staves.
- Badass Bookworm: Along with being a kick-ass secret agent, she is also a Biochemist.
- Beat the Curse Out of Her: Is on the receiving end of this treatment, after she attacks Hawkeye while brainwashed in Spec Ops 1. It works.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In Spec Ops 1, she was abducted by the Hellfire Club and sent against the Avengers.
- And then, in 2.9, she had to go and pick up a hammer.
- Goggles Do Something Unusual
- It's Personal: While Hawkeye volunteers to avenge her against the Wrecker in Spec Ops 1, she tells him that this is her score to settle.
- Making a Spectacle of Yourself: While Mockingbird already had crazy goggles as part of her design, the game lovingly takes them even farther. Her sprite and dialogue picture has them cover half her face and puts strong emphasis on them, and her "Critical Intel" move uses a closeup on one of the lenses as its icon.
- Stance System: Can change her class when attacked by an enemy with a class, as well as when attacking after using "Critical Intel".
- Star-Crossed Lovers: According to Maria Hill in Mockingbird's XP Dossier, her and 'fellow agent Clint Barton's relationship' breaks several fraternization clauses in their work contracts. In other words, they could be fired for their relationship. Downplayed, however, in that Maria Hill and Nick Fury apparently don't really care, so long as it doesn't interfere, in fact they're supposedly looking for a way to exploit this relationship.
- You Just Had to Say It: This happens during Heroic battle after she takes out Baron Zemo's first mook:
- Mockingbird: Come on, Zemo. Only one goon for me to take out? You must be getting low on the Hydra totem pole.Baron Zemo: You forget, my dear. Cut off one heard...Mockingbird: Me and my big mouth.
Moon Knight
- "People ask me how I can live like this. The risks, the madness, the constant fighting. I think we understand each other, Agent. There is no other way to live."
- Blood Knight
- Confusion Fu: unlike other heroes who use a Stance System, Moon Knight class changes automatically during each turn. There is no specific order for his class change like the Punisher or Omega Sentinel either.
- The Cowl
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Double Consciousness: As Marc Spector and as all of his other personas. This gives him a "Crowded" team-up bonus with heroes like Phoenix, Psylocke, and Fantomex.
- The Faceless
- In the Hood
- Magikarp Power: While his first three attacks rely on the Retribution buff to one degree or another, he has no direct way to build Retribution (except by sitting around and waiting to get attacked) until he gets his fourth and final attack, which makes him a lot easier to manage.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Moon Knight's Fist of Khonshu attack can become this depending on the number of stacks his Retribution buff currently has.
- Secret-Identity Identity: The life he's leading is hard on his sanity, to say the least.
- Split Personality: He has at least four alternate personas — Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Khonshu himself — each with its own class and passives. The player cannot control which persona is on top at any particular moment.
- Wild Card: As mentioned, the player has no control over Moon Knight's shifting personas, and it could be to the (dis)advantage of both the player and his opponent.
Punisher
- "You keep S.H.I.E.L.D. out of my way, Agent, and I'll keep putting bullets in every scumbag that thinks Iso-8 is their newest toy. Everybody wins."
- Assist Character: Punisher's companion Microchip drives the famous Battle Van at Frank's foes.
- Badass Normal: He fights with impressive determination and a huge pile of weapons.
- Blood Knight: He's in the Alliance to shoot whoever needs shooting.
- Car Fu: The Battle Van, which also happens to be his ultimate attack.
- Crazy-Prepared: His "Always Prepared" passive, which gives him a random buff at the start of each round. Not to mention his ability to switch out to any class he chooses during any turn.
- Crusading Widower: The driving force for Frank's Roaring Rampage of Revenge is the murder of his entire family.
- Guns Akimbo: In certain stances.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: 1 man, 12 different weapons...
- Magikarp Power: Hilariously, he fits the criteria with having multiple forms of offense while lacking in damage. When his e-iso and a-iso are earned, with his e-iso granting him class changes in the vein of Mockingbird and an extra turn when at 30% health or lower and his a-iso making his class change move grant him it's class benefit and improving his Battle Van to prevent reviving from its damage as well as exploiting Damage Over Time effects and even Punisher's own debuffs. TookALevelInBadass is an understatement.
- More Dakka: As a "walking armory," he has lots of guns. Most of them fire lots of times.
- Multi-Ranged Master: Wields 5 different guns and can throw 6 different types of grenades.
- Splash Damage: His Generalist L6, "Frag Grenade", causes Bleeding on the main target's teammates.
- Stance System: Can switch between the six classes and his weapons alongside them, gaining new abilities and a class-specific buff with each change.
- Walking Armory: His sprite is bristling with guns, and he can pull more from...somewhere. His Level 2 ability is even called this for added effect.
Red She-Hulk
- "Let's get this straight, Agent. I don't need to be watched, not by you, not by S.H.I.E.L.D., and definitely not by Bruce or my father. I'm not a damsel that needs saving. I'm here because I want to be there fighting with the rest of you. We clear? Good. Let's kick some butt!"
Rogue
- "Power you can't control ain't real power, it's a curse. You can't control this Iso stuff, Sugah. I'll help, but don't expect me to hold yer hand."
- Action Girl
- The Atoner
- Battle Couple: With Gambit during their Heroic Battle where they must fight a group of Prime Sentinels.
- Blessed with Suck
- Brainwashed and Crazy: during SpecOp 16, courtesy of Apocalypse.
- Civvie Spandex: Her Uncanny costume.
- Counter-Attack: Her new passive Southern Hospitality functions as this. When an ally is attacked, there is chance for her to respond by using Absorb Power on the attacker gaining their class' advantage.
- Cursed with Awesome: Her abilities allow her to take on multiple powers at any given time at the cost of dealing potentially life-threatening injuries whomever she stole the powers from.
- Ditto Fighter: By using her Absorb Power attack, she can gain the class advantages of her target for a few rounds.
- Evil Costume Switch: As Famine.
- Flying Brick: After she permanently absorbed Ms. Marvel's powers.
- Hour of Power: Stolen class abilities only last for a few turns, but they can stack.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Her personality is more of "fight first, reason later" especially in Season 2 Chapter 3.
- Life Drain/Mana Drain: The effects of her Drain Essence ability.
- Monochromatic Eyes: As Famine.
- Power Copying: While she can't copy her target's moves per se, Rogue can copy her target's class advantages as well as steal health and stamina.
- Shoryuken: Southern Comfort.
- Status-Buff Dispel: as Famine, her Scarcity passive applies Shortfall to the enemy team, removing a buff per turn.
Silk
- "Oh, uh, hey, listen. I haven't really been at this that long, but... I'm here to help. You helped rescue me from that Goblin guy, and this isn't over by a longshot. Just let me know what I can do to help. "
- Action Girl
- All Webbed Up
- Damsel in Distress: Spec Ops 29 is about rescuing her from the Green Goblin and the Inheritors.
Spider-Man Noir
- "Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, they turn corrupt. Alright, Agent. I'm going to trust you, but don't go proving me right."
- All Webbed Up
- Anti-Hero
- Badass Longcoat: A very nice one.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Well, sure, he's incredibly violent, but he's from a Gangsterland Vice City where the police are willing to let him help them clean up a poverty-stricken, gangster-run New York.
- Hell-Bent for Leather
- Revolvers Are Just Better: One of his attacks.
- Super Hero Packing Heat
- Vigilante Man
Taskmaster
- "Feels weird to be making an honest living. At least, as honest as it ever gets, eh Agent? ...oh yeah, and sorry about that shield in the face last time. No hard feelings, right?"
- Academy of Evil: He once ran a HYDRA training academy...until S.H.I.E.L.D. shut it down. He's obviously not pleased by this.
- All Your Powers Combined
- Awesomeness by Analysis
- Badass Normal
- Badass Teacher: Well he did have his own academy. Also his L9 move in his class stances except his default Generalist mode gives all allies training to get that class specific bonus i.e. Scrapper training gives all allies a follow-up attack after a single-target attack.
- Blessed with Suck: His Photographic Memory is only possible at the cost of losing his "mundane" memories.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": His lockbox, as well as his shield, bears the letter T.
- Charles Atlas Superpower
- The Faceless
- I Know Mortal Kombat
- In the Hood
- Heel–Face Turn
- Multi-Melee Master
- Nothing Personal: recruitment dialogue has him hoping that there's no hard feelings between him and the Agent.
- Photographic Memory: And "photographic reflexes".
- Power Copying: Physical abilities, not superpowers.
- Professional Killer
- Punch-Clock Villain: He's pretty much in it for the money. So much that he rejoins S.H.I.E.L.D. because there is no other better option.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Likes the Spice Girls.
- Stance System: Like Mockingbird, Taskmaster would change his class depending on the class of the enemy that attacks him, and like Punisher, a new class means a different set of abilities at his disposal.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He has several moves that consist of throwing his shield and sword like a boomerang, like Cap and Sif.
White Tiger
- "My brother gave his life building a legacy as the White Tiger, and my family was murdered in cold blood.I have seen the worst of humanity, Agent, and I have become the monster that even the monsters fear. Don't worry, I'm not hunting you."
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Like Tigra, she applied Shred to enemy targets who were immune to bleeding.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Obviously, a white tiger. She not only uses her own claws to attack, but her most powerful attack summons the spirit of a white tiger to maul a chosen enemy.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: She caused bleeding, and then got follow-up attacks on bleeding enemies, allowing her to attack several times in a row.
- Super Power Lottery: She was released right before the game closed, and so didn't seem to receive a balance pass. She could halve enemies stats, restored health each turn, got stronger whenever she was attacked, had a high chance of pre-countering attacks directed at her, and was immune to damage-over-time and fear effects and highly resistant to stun, and those were just her passives. Her actual attacks allowed her to literally double her own stats, make every attack of hers cause Bleed and Hemorrhage, and automatic follow-up attacks against bleeding opponents. The only enemies she didn't reduce to uselessness were robots (who were immune to her stat-decreasing debuff and her bleeds), but even those she could still brute force her way through.