For the main index of characters, see Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Legendary Characters
★★★★ Rarity
- Popularity Power: Whichever characters that fans requested the most tends to be released as 4 star rarity by the developers.
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Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D)
Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Cover: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 (Jim Cheung)
Group(s): Heroes, Team Cap
Yellow: Call the Cavalry
Purple: Best Laid Plans
Blue: Super Secret Tech
- Ink-Suit Actor: Well, the character is a Canon Immigrant to begin with, so of course he looks like Clark Gregg.
America Chavez (Young Avengers)
America Chavez (Young Avengers)
Cover: America #1 (Joe Quinones)
Group(s): Heroes
Red: Punch Everyone (Passive)
Yellow Ticket to the Multiverse (Passive)
Green: Fear Not, Mi Gente! (Passive)
- Ass Kicking Pose: Her main character portrait.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Fear Not, Mi Gente!
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: She's the first playable character in the game whose entire kit is comprised of passive abilities, particularly ones that incentivize stocking up on AP instead of spending it.
Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Cover: Ant-Man #1 (Andy Park, 2015)
Group(s): Heroes, The Avengers, Team Cap
Purple: Pym Particles
Blue: Small Time Crooks
Yellow: Ants! Ants! Ants!
- Impossible Thief: With Small time crooks he will steal defense, attack, and strike tiles from enemies. These bonuses come from questionable sources such as pheromones or a moral raising speech. This man is good at his job.
- Sizeshifter: Both Pym Particles and Small Time Crooks shrink down Scott even though they have different effects. But when either of them are used again, Scott's ability Grow activates and punches the opponent.
- Synchronized Swarming: Scott uses Ants! Ants! Ants! to attack his enemies through multiple Countdown Tiles at the same time.
Black Panther (King of Wakanda)
Black Panther (King of Wakanda)
Cover: Black Panther #7 (Bill Sienkiewicz, 2017)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Yellow: Protector of Wakanda
Blue: Kinetic Shield
Red: By Tooth And Claw
- Marquee Alter Ego: Protector of Wakanda Has him downing his mask to show the face of his MCU portrayer Chadwick Boseman.
Black Widow (Infinity War)
Black Widow (Infinity War)
Cover: Black Widow #7 (Chris Samnee, 2016)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Black: Lights Out
Purple: Defilade \ Enfilade
Yellow: Brush Pass
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's drawn to look like Scarlett Johansson, her MCU portrayer.
Blade (Modern)
Blade (Modern)
Cover: X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Blade #1 (Dave R. Wilkins III, 2010)
Group(s): Heroes, Team Cap
Red: The Hunger / The Bloodlust
Green: Tools of the Trade
Black: Supernatural Sense
- Horror Hunger: The Hunger has him putting up strike tiles if there's too much of those blood-colored Red tiles. And if the team's Red AP is high, he will lunge at an enemy with The Bloodlust.
Captain America (Worthy)
Captain America (Worthy)
Cover: Captain America #15 (Carlos Pacheco, 2012)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., Team Cap
Blue: Heavy Hitter
Red: The Wind Up
Yellow: American Hero
- Dual Wielding: Along with his trademark shield, Cap also has Mjolnir!
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's drawn to resemble his MCU portrayer Chris Evans, specifically in Avengers: Endgame.
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Cover: Captain Marvel #1 (Kris Anka, 2016)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Black: Photonic Barrage
Yellow: Executive Decision
Green: Energy Manipulation
- Energy Absorption: Energy Manipulation makes every match-up in the enemy's strongest color result in a boost of the player's own strongest. If both are the same, the adversary is also blasted by the surplus.
Carnage (Cletus Kasady)
Carnage (Cletus Kasady)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #380 (Mark Bagley, 1963)
Affiliations: Villains
Red: Symbiote Scythes
Black: Alien Instincts (Passive)
Green: Carnage Rules
- Axe-Crazy: Carnage doesn't care if his attacks hurt his allies, so he will just keep causing havoc everywhere with Alien Instincts.
- The Berserker: Carnage causes collateral damage on both sides with his abilities.
- Blood Knight: Emphasis on the "blood" because Carnage craves for murder.
- Sinister Scythe: Symbiote Scythes attacks both enemies and allies (unless the team has high Red AP) at a cheap cost of 7 Red AP.
Cloak and Dagger (Classic)
Cloak and Dagger (Classic)
Cover: Cloak and Dagger #1 (Rick Leonardi, 1983)
Group(s): Heroes, Team Cap
Yellow: Light-Knives / Child of Light
Black: Child of Darkness / The Darkness Hungers
Purple: Pocket Dimension
—-- Adventure Duo: In spite of the different genders, it's not a Battle Couple.
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Cloak engulfs with darkness in The Darkness Hungers and creates black tiles, Dagger shoots Light-Knives and creates Yellow tiles.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Both are controlled at once, in a way. Pocket Dimension changes the character in front, the tiles being created and the third attack.
Cyclops (Classic)
Cyclops (Classic)
Cover: X-Men #1 (Jim Lee, 1991)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Red: Combined Forces
Yellow: Uncanny Strategist
Blue: Called Shot
- Improbable Aiming Skills: With Cyclops using his expert marksmanship, Called Shot targets all red tiles on the board.
- The Strategist: Cyclops utilizes his experience as a leader to synergize his team using Uncanny Strategist.
Dazzler (Uncanny X-Men)
Dazzler (Classic)
Cover: Dazzler #1 (Bob Larkin, 1981)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Black: Survivor
Red: Dance Floor Queen
Green: Sounds of Light and Fury
- Disco Dan: Two of her powers make sure to showcase how she owes her existance to Disco.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her powers seem silly, revolving around sound, lights, and roller blades. And yet they are useful in battle.
- Lethal Joke Character: The players have requested her for years, if only as a joke. What a surprise in that Dazzler was actually a workable fighter!
- Rollerblade Good: Dance Floor Queen has her skates used for a rolling strike.
Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
Cover: Uncanny X-Force #7 (Esad Ribic, 2010)
Affiliations: X-Men, Heroes
Red: Out of Bullets
Black: X-Enforcer (Passive)
Purple: Countdown for What'''
- Confusion Fu: Countdown for What creates countdown tiles that do nothing when they've counted down but do damage when matched, playing on players' instinct to remove enemy countdown tiles.
- Katanas Are Just Better: I mean, come on, it's called Out of Bullets! I don't use an empty gun to slash opponents!
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Hurt my partners, and I become an X-Enforcer to deliver severe damage on you!
Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile)
Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile)
Cover: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #5 (Pia Guerra, 2016)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Green: Prehistoric Bite
Red: Prehistoric Chomp
Purple: Prehistoric Arms
- Lethal Joke Item: Prehistoric Arms is a 3 cost skill that moves random tiles up to the top left of the screen. The important point? It costs 3 AP, allowing several "activate on skill use" skills to be spammed.
Doc Ock (No Way Home)
Doc Ock (No Way Home)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Doc Ock
Affiliations: Villains, Sinister Six
Black: Call to Arms
Blue: A Mind of their Own
Yellow: Unbounded Potential
- Combat Tentacles: Naturally. Although unlike the 5 star version, his tentacle tiles don't cap out at four.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Just like in the movie, it's Alfred Molina's Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2.
Elektra (Unkillable)
Elektra (Unkillable)
Cover: Elektra #2 (Michael Del Mundo, 2014)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Purple: Double-Double Cross
Black: Shadow Step
Red: Ballet of Death
- Dance Battler: Elektra's Ballet Of Death describes her fighting skills as deadly. She creates a red Trap tile that deals damage to the enemy at the beginning of their turn.
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Her Double-Double Cross reflects this trope the best: to summarize how this ability works, Elektra first converts 3 random Purple basic tiles into enemy Strike tiles. If she activates this ability consecutively, she can steal all the enemy Strike tiles and convert it to friendly Strike tiles.
- Trap Master: Interestingly enough, Elektra uses her traps defensively only when she's about to be attacked. Elektra counterattacks any opponent that makes a match with her booby-trapped black tiles using Shadow Step.
Elsa Bloodstone (Monster Hunter)
Elsa Bloodstone (Monster Hunter)
Cover: Monsters Unleashed #2 (R.B. Silva, 2017)
Affiliations: Heroes
Red: Bloodstone Gem
Blue: Ta, Darling
Purple: Tea Break
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Ta, Darling is a shotgun blast that destroys a 3x3 block.
- You Will Not Evade Me: Bloodstone Gem fires a bullet that that will stun Airborne and Invisible enemies, if not hurt them when they're the only opponent left.
Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Cover: Gamora #1 (Marco Checchetto, 2017)
Group(s): Heroes, Guardians of the Galaxy
Red: Deadly Strike
Black: The Deadliest Woman...
Blue: Incapacitate
- Ink-Suit Actor: Unlike the 3* variant, she's definitely meant to resemble Zoe Saldaña.
Ghost (Quantum Thief)
Ghost (Quantum Thief)
Cover: Ant-Man and the Wasp (Marvel Studios, 2018)
Affiliations: Villains
Purple: Supply Run
Red: Unphased
Blue: Power Cycle
- Invisibility: Supply Run provides this.
- Intangible Man: Her unstable nature allows for phasing through matter in Unphased.
- Kick Chick: Unphased leads to a powerful kick.
Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
Cover: Ghost Rider #1 (Clayton Crain, 2005)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Green: Burning Rubber
Red: Hellfire
Black: Penance Stare
- Burning Rubber: Ghost Rider screams past the enemy team on his motorcycle, wreathing them in flames and whipping them with his chain.
- Cool Bike: Ghost Rider rides his motorcycle and leaves a fiery trail with Burning Rubber.
- Death Glare: His Penance Stare can literally kill the enemy team if they done enough damage to his team.
- Flaming Skulls: Ghost Rider is made of this trope.
- Hellfire: Ghost Rider unleashes a torrent of flames imbued with the power of the Spirit of Vengeance.
- Playing with Fire: The Spirit of Vengeance burns his foes with Hellfire.
- Signature Move: Ghost Rider's Penance Stare deals up to 200% of the total damage the enemy team inflicted.
Gwenpool (Gwen Poole)
Gwenpool (Gwen Poole)
Cover: The Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 (Gurihiru, 2016)
Affiliations: Heroes
Purple: 'SPLOITS!
Black: Plot Armor
Green: Deus ex Machina (Passive) / Chekhov's Gun
- Meta Guy: Like Deadpool, all her descriptions are told in first person and she shows knowledge of being in a game.
- Ninja Prop: 'SPLOITS! has her entering the game code to change things in her favor.
Howard The Duck (Howard, A Duck)
Howard the Duck (Howard, A Duck)
Cover: Howard The Duck #1 (Joe Quinones, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes
Green: The Quack-Fu One-Two
Blue: Bill of Rights
Purple: Duck, Duck, Loose!
- Lethal Joke Character: Sure, he's just a talking duck with limited cover access. But all his powers are useful, granting stuns, invisibility and damage.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Bill of Rights has Howard complaining until the opponent is stunned, while removing an enemy special tile as well.
The Hulk (The Main Event)
The Hulk (The Main Event)
Cover: The Incredible Hulk #92 (Brandon Peterson, 2006)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers
Green: Grand Entrance
Purple: Gamma Powerbomb
Yellow: The Crowd Goes Wild
—-- Dash Attack: Gamma Powerbomb is a particularly vicious charge that even creates Critical tiles.
The Hulk (Totally Awesome)
The Hulk (Totally Awesome)
Cover: Totally Awesome Hulk #1 (Frank Cho, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Iron Man
Green: Mastermind Excello
Blue: See the Math of It
Black: Hot Dog Stand
- Asian and Nerdy: A Korean-American with an IQ that puts him as one of the top 10 smartest people in the Marvel Universe.
- Badass Bookworm: See the Math of It creates AP by destroying green tiles.
- Genius Bruiser: Mastermind Excello describes Hulk applying his titanic strength in a calculated strike.
Iceman (All-New X-Men)
Iceman (All-New X-Men)
Cover: All-New X-Men #1 (Paolo Rivera, 2013)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Green: Whiteout
Blue: Uncanny Snowman
Purple: Cold as Ice
- Human Snowman: Bobby stuns his foes first as the Uncanny Snowman
- An Ice Person: Iceman unleashes a tempest of ice and snow across the battlefield using Whiteout.
- Kill It with Ice: Bobby's weapon is the ice he creates himself.
- You Must Be Cold: Iceman can freeze the enemy team by draining their red AP with his Cold As Ice ability.
Invisible Woman (Classic)
Invisible Woman (Classic)
Cover: SHIELD #4 (Colleen Doran, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Fantastic Four, Team Cap
Yellow: Grant Invisibility
Blue: Force Bubbles
Green: Force Field Crush
- Barrier Warrior: Invisible Woman can use Force Crush to either create more barriers or destroy them for extra damage. There's a reason why she's ranked Legendary (4 stars) in terms of rarity.
- Invisibility: As her ability Grant Invisibility suggests, Sue can hide herself and her team from enemy match damage.
- No-Sell: She can use Grant Invisibility to whoever is the weakest in her team, thereby making the weakest team invincible against any attacks.
Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
Cover: Marvel's Iron Fist (Jay Anacleto)
Group(s): Heroes, Team Cap
Blue: Chi Focus
Green: Crowd Control
Black: Like Unto Iron
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's drawn to resemble Finn Jones, who portrays him in the MCU Netflix series.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: If only to show his chest dragon tattoo.
Iron Man (Hulkbuster)
Iron Man (Hulkbuster)
Cover: Industrictible Hulk #6 (Dale Keown, Edgar Delgado, Mark Morales, 2013)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Red: Repulsor Punch
Black: Overdrive
Blue: Hulk-Proof
- Cast from Hit Points: Overdrive will give the team red and yellow Strike Tiles at a minor cost of his own HP.
- Megaton Punch: The more red AP you have, the more damage Repulsor Punch delivers.
- Mighty Glacier: The Hulkbuster is powerful in attack strength and HP, but it takes a long time to activate any of his abilities due to the high AP costs.
Jean Grey (All-New X-Men)
Jean Grey (All-New X-Men)
Cover: All-New X-Men #41 (Mahmud Asrar, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Purple: Mind Over Matter
Blue: Psychic Feedback
Green: Full of Surprises
- Mind over Matter: Her purple ability shares the exact same name and has a trope page dedicated to Jean!
- Mind Rape: You'd better think twice about matching 5 tiles or more against Jean Grey, because her passive Psychic Feedback is going to hurt a lot.
- Power Glows: Full Of Surprises has Jean Grey glowing pink all over her body.
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Jean's battle pose has her fingers tenting around her head. It's even more prominent whenever Psychic Feedback is triggered.
- Psychic Powers: She is one of the most powerful telepaths in the world that has the potential to go toe-to-toe with Professor X.
- Telepathy: She combines this with her Telekinesis using her ability Full Of Surprises.
Jubilee (Uncanny X-Men)
Jubilee (Uncanny X-Men)
Cover: X-Men '92 #1 (Variant) (John Tyler Christopher, 2016)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Yellow: Heart of the Team
Purple: Light Show
Green: Roman Candle
- Defiant to the End: Her yellow passive allows her to deal extra damage to enemies if she has less health than they do.
- The Heart: Her passive ability is called Heart of the Team.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her powers may seem silly at first glance, but when fully leveled up, her Light Show ability can deal serious damage to enemies.
- Shout-Out: The name of her versus tournament is "Here to Chew Bubblegum", a reference to the quote, "I am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum", from the movie They Live!.
Karnak (Hawkeye)
Karnak (The Shatterer)
Cover: Karnak #1 (Kim Cheung, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Inhumans
Black: Find the Flaw \ Exploit the Flaw
Red: Shatter
Blue: Probing Strike
- Attack Its Weak Point: His power, which is translated into how his blows destroy tiles, create Criticals, and wreak massive damage.
- Glass Cannon: Exploit the Flaw elevates his match damage by at least 140%. But his HP is not that high, making the Protect tile created by Find the Flaw very necessary.
Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Cover: Hawkeye #14 (David Aja, 2014)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Blue: Ruthless Precision
Black: Looking for Trouble
Purple: Because... Boomerangs
- Cool Shades: Although sometimes she appears without them in the character select screen.
Kingpin (Wilson Fisk)
Kingpin (Wilson Fisk)
Cover: Daredevil #116 (1998, Marko Djurdjevic)
Affiliations: Villains
Black: Wilson's Gambit
Purple: The Fisk Defense
Yellow: Maggia Pawns
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Consistently dressed well with his custom-tailored suit.
- Badass Normal: He has less than 2% of body fat in his gigantic muscular body and organizes the largest crime syndicate in New York City.
- The Don: He commands the Maggia and various criminal organizations under his iron fist.
- Fat Bastard: Subverted that even with his despicable acts as a crime lord, his physique is actually full of muscles.
- Mook Maker: His Maggia Pawns will attack on Fisk's behalf with all the yellow Countdown Tiles around the board.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wilson's Gambit is designed to deal extra damage to the enemy by sacrificing a friendly Countdown Tile.
Luke Cage (Power Man)
Luke Cage (Power Man)
Cover: Power Man and Iron Fist #2 (Sanford Greene, 2016)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Yellow: Hero for Hire
Black: The Defender
Red: Buncha Fiddle-Faddle
- The Power of Friendship: Hero for Hire has extra perks if Iron Fist is in the party.
Medusa (Inhuman Queen)
Medusa (Inhuman Queen)
Cover: Uncanny Inhumans #6 (Bill Sienkiewicz, 2015)
Group(s): Heroes, Inhumans
Yellow: The Resolute Queen
Red: Entanglement
Purple: Hair Meddle
- Prehensile Hair: Two of her powers revolve around using her enormous hair: Hair Meddle swaps tiles around and steals whatever special tiles were caught, and Entanglement creates a countdown that strikes every round (and if destroyed, generates Attack tiles).
Melinda May (Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D)
Melinda May (Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Cover: S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014) #1 (Julian Totino Tedesco)
Group(s): Heroes, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Red: Sure Shot
Blue: Calculated Strike
Yellow: S.H.I.E.L.D. Training
- Action Girl: Using her fighting skills in Calculated Strike and her shooting ones in Sure Shot.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Well, the character is a Canon Immigrant to begin with, so of course she looks like Ming-Na Wen.
- Team Mom: S.H.I.E.L.D. Training has her reducing damage to comrades as well taking enemy AP in case they're struck.
Miles Morales (Spider-Man)
Miles Morales (Spider-Man)
Cover: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 (Sara Pichelli, 2011)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Purple: Hide & Seek / Surprise!
Yellow: Power & Responsibility
Red: Venom Blast
- Canon Immigrant: Miles was transplanted from the Ultimate universe to the mainstream Marvel Universe.
- Invisibility: Hide & Seek allows him to vanish, allowing for the very damaging Surprise! attack.
- Legacy Character: Miles took over as the Ultimate Spiderman when Peter Parker from the Ultimate Universe died.
- Signature Move: If there's one thing Miles Morales have that Peter Parker doesn't, it's Venom Blast.
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Miles decided to do the right thing with Power & Responsibility.
Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse)
Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse)
Cover: Mockingbird #8 (Joelle Jones, 2016)
Group(s): Heroes
Red: Bombshell
Yellow: Opportunist
Purple: Secret Mission
- Fun T-Shirt: In the character select screen, she might appear in the "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda" shirt from her cover.
Mordo (Master of the Mystic Arts)
Mordo (Master of the Mystic Arts)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Mordo (Reiko Murakami)
Group(s): Villains
Black: Staff of the Living Tribunal
Blue: Vaulting Boots of Valtorr
Purple: Power with Purpose
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's drawn to resemble Chiwetel Ejiofor, his MCU portrayer.
Mr. Fantastic (Classic)
Mr. Fantastic (Classic)
Cover: Fantastic Four #643 (Chris Samnee, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Fantastic Four
Blue: Flexibility
Yellow: Master of the Fantastic
Black: Imaginaut
- Four Is Death: Master of the Fantastic allows for a gratuitous use of a random power after matching four enemy special tiles.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Reed's Imaginaut emerges from his lab with a Fantastic device that defies imagination.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Master of the Fantastic is designed to heal Reed and his teammate if the enemy ever makes a match with friendly special tiles.
- Rubber Man: Flexibility at max level can create 2 Protect tiles with 207 strength and stun the enemy for 3 turns.
- Team Dad: Mr. Fantastic is designed to give all Fantastic Four members bonus AP and damage (Human Torch, Invisible Woman, The Thing, and even Bag-Man).
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #618 (Marcus Martin, 2010)
Group(s): Heroes
Purple: From Thin Air
Blue: For My Next Trick
Yellow: The Pledge
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's drawn to look like Jake Gyllenhaal, his portrayer in the MCU.
- Never Trust a Trailer: In a case of Demiurge being struck by this, the description and group take only what is said in the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. The movie itself shows that to be a ruse, and that Mysterio is a villain like in the comics.
- Smoke Out: From Thin Air has him vanishing (literally, he turns invisible) as smoke emerges.
Nebula (Infinity War)
Nebula (Infinity War)
Cover: The Infinity Gauntlet #6 (Ron Lim, 1991)
Groups: Heroes
Blue: Warped Enhancements
Green: Galactic Rage
Red: Grim Efficiency
- Dash Attack: Galactic Rage is her jumping at the enemy.
Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Cover: Runaways #10 (Jo Chen, 2005)
Group(s): Heroes
Blue: When Blood Is Shed\Freeze!
Yellow: Try Not to Die\Heal!
Purple: Mystical Affinity\Trifecta!
- Blood Magic: Once Nico is injured, When Blood Is Shed kicks in and summons The Staff of One, also changing her powers.
- Heal Thyself: As made clear by Heal!.
- Lady of Black Magic: Subverted. She's still an Elegant Gothic Lolita, but in the game her powers are that of a White Magician Girl, protecting and stunning.
- Support Party Member: Her powers aren't offensive - at most, she stuns and removes enemy tiles with Freeze! - but certainly improve the party by both generating or strengthening special tiles, along with removing enemy countdowns and stunnings.
- Semantic Superpower: Given the Staff of One only accepts the same command once, every time one of her powers is reused it's another word (i.e Freeze!->Halt! \ Heal! -> First Aid! \ Trifecta! -> Hat Trick!). Including Gratuitous Foreign Language (Kaifuku! Curar! Curatio!)
Nick Fury (Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Nick Fury (Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Cover: Marvel NOW! Point One #1 (Adi Granov, 2012)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Yellow: Avengers Assemble!
Blue: Demolition
Purple: Escape Plan
- Avengers Assemble: Said word for word on his yellow ability, as Fury can summon Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and The Incredible Hulk.
- Badass Normal: Despite being surrounded by superpowered beings, Fury doesn't let his human limits hinder his prowess.
- Bald of Authority: He's the head director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and is really good at what he does as a leader.
- Eye Patch Of Power: Nick Fury is badass enough to qualify as Legendary rarity.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Of course he looks like Samuel L. Jackson!
- Just as Planned: Escape Plan helps the team steal the enemy's strongest AP plus creating a Strike Tile.
- Trap Master: Demolition will boobytrap blue tiles, and whoever makes the match will damage the enemy team (although a friendly match will be significantly lower damage)
Nova (Sam Alexander)
Nova (Sam Alexander)
Cover: Nova #1 (Ed McGuinness, 2013)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Red: Takeoff
Yellow: Nova Blast
Black: Danger Zone
- Flying Brick: Nova can fly, fire energy blasts, and does whatever a Nova centurion can do.
- Red Baron: AKA The Human Rocket.
Peggy Carter (Captain America)
Peggy Carter (Captain America)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Peggy Carter (Amanda Clarke, 2016)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Red: Ultimate Soldier
Yellow: Legendary Presence (Passive)
Blue: Do As Peggy Says
- Action Girl: She's pretty much the female version of Captain America.
- Canon Foreigner: This version of Peggy was created specifically for the game, and isn't based on any other interpretation of the character. (though it was then brought to the comics, and the MCU)
- The Dreaded: Peggy's yellow passive Legendary Presence is how she intimidates her enemies so much that it costs them 4 extra AP to fire their abilities.
- Elseworld: This Peggy comes from a reality where Steve Rogers was assassinated before he could be given the super-serum, leading Peggy to became her world's Super Soldier.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She looks like the cinematic Peggy, Hayley Atwell.
- Megaton Punch: Ultimate Soldier is simply Peggy delivering one massive punch.
Polaris (Lorna Dane)
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Cover: All-New X-Factor #18 (Jared K. Fletcher and Kris Anka, 2005)
Affiliations: Heroes, Mutants, X-Men
Blue: Iron Proeficiency
Purple: Electromagnetic Resonance
Green: Particle Accelerator
- Magnetism Manipulation: All her abilities revolve around the magnetism-related powers inherited from Magneto.
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Cover: Astonishing X-Men #10 (John Cassaday, 2004)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Blue: Master Plan
Purple: Blind Spot
Yellow: Psychic Convergence
- Handicapped Badass: Professor X may be in a wheelchair, but he's the one who founded the X-Men and lead with great mental capacity.
- Mind Rape: If you match 5 or more tiles, Master Plan will activate and significantly damage the enemy target along with generating the team's strongest AP.
- No-Sell: Professor X can use his ability Blind Spot to create an Invisibility tile that renders him invincible against enemy attacks.
- Psychic Powers: Psychic Convergence grants the team one Protect Tile whenever an ally uses an ability.
- Telepathy: Professor X takes advantage of this power to hide from enemy sight using Blind Spot.
The Punisher (MAX)
The Punisher (MAX)
Cover: The Punisher #1 (Tim Bradstreet, 2004)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Black: Punish / Army of One
Green: Merciless Charge
Blue: Weapons Expertise
- The Berserker: Merciless Charge deals damage, but also stuns the other members . But then this enables Punish to become Army of One...
- One-Man Army: Invoked by when the allies are defeated or stunned, enabling him to use the more damaging attack Army of One.
Quake (Daisy Johnson)
Quake (Daisy Johnson)
Cover: Secret Warriors #22 (Jim Cheung, 2010)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Iron Man
Green: Earthquake
Yellow: Coordinated Tactics
Blue: Resonance Frequency
- Dishing Out Dirt: Her Earthquake deals damage and shuffles the game board.
Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross)
Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross)
Cover: Hulk #1 (Ed McGuinness, 2008)
Affiliations: Villains, Team Iron Man
Red: Seeing Red
Green: Hammer & Anvil
Purple: Gamma Siphon
- Burning with Anger: His Seeing Red passive destroys tiles on board if the opponent deals enough damage towards him.
- In-Series Nickname: Ross was nicknamed 'Thunderbolt' by his troops because he 'struck like a thunderbolt' against their enemies.
- Mana Burn: Hammer & Anvil damages the enemy drains enemy's green AP if Red Hulk has 18 or more green AP.
- Mana Drain: Red Hulk drains the enemy's green AP using Gamma Siphon.
Sam Wilson (Captain America)
Sam Wilson (Captain America)
Cover: All-New Captain America #1 (Stuart Immonen, 2014)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Yellow: Wings of Liberty
Blue: Aerial Avenger
Red: Dive-bomb
- Captain Ethnic: This version of Captain America is African-American.
- Legacy Character: Sam Wilson takes up the mantle of Captain America after Steve Rogers retired.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Wings of Liberty creates shield tiles in all of the yellow tiles available on the board.
- Mighty Glacier: His entire moveset is centered friendly defense tiles. Wings of Liberty spams the playing field with defense tiles and Dive Bomb gets a power boost from the number of defense tiles on his team.
- Primary-Color Champion: He inherited the same color abilities as Steve Rogers.
Sandman (Flint Marko
Sandman (Flint Marko)
Cover: The Amazing Spider-Man #615 (Joe Quinones, 1963)
Group(s): Villians, Sinister Six
Green: Sand Blast
Purple: Shifting Sands
Yellow: Sand Smash
—-- Dishing Out Dirt: All his powers revolve around how his body became sand, and he can also manipulate sandy masses.
Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy)
Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy)
Cover: Spider-Gwen #1 (Robbi Rodriguez, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Team Cap
Purple: Teenage Kicks
Red: Cherry Bomb
Yellow: Kick Out the Jams
- All Drummers Are Animals: Kick Out the Jams shows off Gwen's drumming skills.
- Canon Foreigner: Earth-65's Gwen Stacy isn't a permanent resident of the main Marvel Universe; she just visits, from time to time.
- The Medic: The passive of Kick Out the Jams heals her teammates with matched web tiles.
- Megaton Punch: Cherry Bomb is a smack to the face, with great damage.
Spider-Man (Infinity War)
SpiderMan (Infinity War)
Cover: Civil War #3 (Michael Turner variant, 2006)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Blue: Quick Reflexes
Green: Thwip, Thwip, Pow!
Red: Proportional Punch
- Marquee Alter Ego: While in battle he's always masked, the character selection screen shows Tom Holland's face.
Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw)
Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw)
Cover: Legendary Star-Lord #10 (Sana Takeda, 2015)
Affiliations: Heroes, Guardians of The Galaxy, Team Cap
Purple: Sleight of Hand
Yellow: Everyone With Me
Red: Oldest Trick in the Book
- Bait-and-Switch: Star-Lord pulls a switcheroo with his Sleight Of Hand replacing a non-countdown tile with his own countdown tile dealing damage later.
- Guile Hero: Peter Quill's abilities reflect on his pragmatic wits and fighting style.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Peter Quill reduces the friendly Red, Blue, Green, Purple, and Yellow ability costs by 2 AP using Everybody With Me.
- Look Behind You: Oldest Trick In The Book describes Star-Lord shouting if that was Beta Ray Bill / Moon-Boy / D-Man / Alpha Flight / The Pet Avengers before throwing a sucker punch at his target.
- Pragmatic Hero: Two out of the three abilities Star-Lord has are designed to reflect his saboteur style.
Talos (Skrull Warlord)
Talos (Skrull Warlord)
Cover: Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel (2019) (Marvel Studios, 2019)
Affiliations: Villains
Purple: Access Granted
Blue: Stunning Blow
Black: A Skill Unmatched
- Marquee Alter Ego: Access Granted shows his human disguise, which like in the movie is just Ben Mendelsohn without the green make-up.
- Never Trust a Trailer: In a case of Demiurge working with just promotional material, Talos is a straight-up villain, when a twist in Captain Marvel is that the Skrulls are actually victims of persecution, with Cap even switching sides to help them.
Taskmaster (Tony Masters)
Taskmaster (Tony Masters)
Cover: Avengers #196 (George Perez, 1980)
Affiliations: Villains
Red: Photographic Reflexes
Blue: Photographic Reflexes
Black: Photographic Reflexes
- Power Copying: Every one of his powers is an imitation of another character's ability, with 6 possibilities for each color.
- Temporary Online Content: Until the Black Widow (2021)-inspired event "Spider Silk" gave a Taskmaster cover in its very last node, the character could only be improved during the game's anniversary in October.
Thanos (Endgame)
Thanos (Endgame)
Cover: Avengers Assemble #7 (Mark Bagley, 2012)
Affiliations: Villains
Black: Vicious Determination
Purple: Inescapable Destiny
Green: Mad Titan's Mercy
- Dash Attack: Vicious Determination has him charging with his doubled-edged sword.
The Thing (Classic)
The Thing (Classic)
Cover: The Thing #1 (Andrea Di Vito, 2005)
Affiliations: Heroes, Fantastic Four, Team Cap
Red: It's Clobberin' Time!
Yellow: Rock Solid (Passive)
Green: Yancy Street Special
- Catchphrase: It's Clobberin' Time is so iconic that it will stuns the palooka right in the kisser!
- Gentle Giant: Ben is described as the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing. But if you mess with his family, you'll regret upsetting him.
- Made of Iron: Rock Solid helps his entire team to reduce the amount of damage by tanking the huge damage and creating protect tiles.
Thor (Goddess of Thunder)
Thor (Goddess of Thunder)
Cover: Thor #1 (Esad Ribic, 2014)
Affiliations: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Red: Smite
Yellow: Striking Distance
Blue: Power Surge
- Action Girl: This time, a woman is worthy to hold the power of Thor.
- Shock and Awe: Thor raises Mjolnir to the sky, summoning a lightning storm to shock and stagger her foes with Power Surge.
Throg (Puddlegulp)
Throg (Puddlegulp)
Cover: Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers Unleashed #2 (Ig Guara, 2010)
Affiliations: Heroes
Yellow: Pet Avengers Assemble!
Green: Zip, Zap, Zop
Blue: A Skip and a Jump
- Bewitched Amphibians: A man turned into a frog.
- Lethal Joke Character: A frog dressed as Thor is an instantly funny sight. And yet he has quite the powerful attacks.
- Shock and Awe: Throg uses Mjolnir to summon lightning with Zip, Zap, Zop, which along with dealing damage also charges tiles.
Venom (Eddie Brock)
Venom (Eddie Brock)
Cover: Venom: Lethal Protector #1 (Mark Bagley, 1993)
Affiliations: Villains
Green: Symbiotic Fury
Black: Give and Take (Passive)
Yellow: Lethal Protector
- The Power of Hate: Symbiotic Fury is fueled by the combined hatred of Eddie Brock and the Symbiote towards Spider-Man.
- The Symbiote: Eddie Brock bonded with the alien symbiote to become Venom.
War Machine (James Rhodes)
War Machine (James Rhodes)
Cover: War Machine #1 (Leonardo Manco, 2008)
Affiliations: Heroes, The Avengers, Team Iron Man
Red: Aerial Assault
Blue: Heat Signature Detection
Green: Gattling Gun
- More Dakka: War Machine's Gattling Gun shoots bullets with Countdown Tiles that destroy tiles around them.
Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes)
Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes)
Cover: Captain America #11 (Steve Epting, 2005)
Affiliations: Heroes, The Avengers, Team Cap
Purple: Precision Shot
Blue: Detonator
Red: Moving Target
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's drawn to resemble his MCU portrayer Sebastian Stan.
Wolverine (X-Force)
Wolverine (X-Force)
Cover: X-Force: Sex & Violence #2 (Gabriele Dell'Otto, 2010)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Green: X-Force
Black: Surgical Strike
Yellow: Recovery
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Surgical Strike will destroy the enemy's strongest colored tile all over the board. X-Force also destroys tiles on the board, but in an "X" formation.
- Healing Factor: Recovery will heal Wolverine, but if anybody interrupts his Countdown Tile, they will take damage.
X-23 (All-New Wolverine)
X-23 (All-New Wolverine)
Cover: All-New Wolverine #6 (Vanessa Del Rey, 2016)
Affiliations: Heroes, X-Men
Green: Holding Back/ Berserker Fury
Red: Savage Healing (Passive)
Purple: Tracking Prey
- Legacy Character: Not only does she inherit Wolverine's DNA, she dons her progenitor's outfit as well.
- Healing Factor: Savage Healing recovers her health just like Wolverine and Daken.
