Trivia / Marvel Heroes

• Ascended Meme: Marvel Heroes player Punchclops set out to build Cyclops's skillset without his trademark optic blast moves, using the "Trained Punch" move as his only damage power. The history of Punchclops was so popular in the Marvel Heroes community, its creator made a web comic called "The Adventures of Punchclops." The dev team ended up creating a completely new gear called "Legacy of Punchclops," with its main buff being the ability to add +12 to the current rank of "Trained Punch." The item's tooltip features a reference to one of The Adventures of Punchclops' running jokes: "Coming Soon: Punchclops vs. Wolverine!" One of the game's achievements, aptly called "Punchclops," involves defeating 500 enemies with "Trained Punch."
• Creator Cameo:
  • In terms of the overall Marvel Universe, Stan Lee is the voice of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Lee.
  • David Brevik, who created this game, appears as the final boss Cow King Brevik in the Classified Bovine Sector.
  • Many Gazillion employees are name-checked as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in game. Ryolnir is an elite Purifier enemy.
• Creator Killer: Following the announcement of the shutdown, Gazillion Games itself shut down, with all employees being fired without pay.
• Full Circle Portraying: Tara Strong and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn have voiced both Jessica Jones and the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman. McGlynn voices Drew in the PS2 and PSP version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Strong in Marvel Heroes. Marvel Heroes also saw Jones's default form, based on the original comics, voiced by McGlynn, whereas Jones as "Jewel" was voiced by Strong in LEGO Marvel's Avengers, who then replaced McGlynn for the Jessica Jones (2015)-based skin in Heroes and voiced her in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
• Dueling Games: With Diablo III.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Steve Blum voiced Rocket Raccoon in his comic costume, whereas Nolan North voiced Rocket in his movie costume.
  • A majority of Spider-Man's newer costumes replace Drake Bell with Christopher Daniel Barnes as his voice actor.
  • When the character was an boss, Black Cat was reprised by Ali Hillis, who voiced the character in the tie-in games to The Amazing Spider-Man Series. As a playable character, she's reprised by her Spider-Man: The Animated Series voice actress, Jennifer Hale.
  • Comic!Jessica Jones was voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. TV!Jessica Jones (2015) is voiced by Tara Strong.
  • JP Karliak voiced Iron Fist as an NPC. As a playable character, he's voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Ben Diskin as Rhino.
  • Travis Willingham as Green Goblin.
  • Chris Cox as Colossus.
• Role Reprise:
  • From Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man (in the black suit, the Superior Spider Man suit, and the Amazing Spider-Man suit) and Jennifer Hale as Black Cat (as a playable character).
  • From X2: Wolverine's Revenge: Fred Tatasciore as the Juggernaut.
  • From the X-Men Legends series: Steve Blum as Wolverine, Catherine Taber as Rogue, and James Arnold Taylor as Iceman.
  • From The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction: Fred Tatasciore as The Incredible Hulk.
  • From Ultimate Avengers in addition to the Hulk: Marc Worden as Iron Man.
  • From the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series in addition to Wolverine, the Hulk, and Iceman: Brian Bloom as Daredevil and Emerson Brooks as Bishop.
  • From Spider-Man: Web of Shadows in addition to Wolverine: Liam O'Brien as Electro and Robin Atkin Downes as Moon Knight and Khonshu.
  • From the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson.
  • From Hulk Vs. in addition to the Hulk and Wolverine: Nolan North as Deadpool.
  • From Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) in addition to Wolverine himself, Juggernaut, and the Hulk: Jim Ward as Professor Xavier, Liam O'Brien as Angel and Nightcrawler, Kate Higgins as the Scarlet Witch, Fred Tatasciore as the Beast, Kari Wahlgren as Emma Frost, Tara Strong as X-23, Danielle Judovits as Shadowcat.
  • FromThe Super Hero Squad Show in addition to Wolverine: Dave Boat as the Thing, Charlie Adler as Super-Skrull (albeit it's more in-line with his Marvel vs. Capcom 3 performance).
    • From Super Hero Squad Online in addition to Wolverine and the Thing: Tara Strong as Squirrel Girl.
  • From Marvel Anime: X-Men in addition to Wolverine and Beast: Scott Porter as Cyclops and Danielle Nicolet as Storm.
  • From The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes in addition to the Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man^note Infamously, Bell redubbed Josh Keaton as Spidey, who originally reprised his role from The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Ultron: Brian Bloom as Captain America, Rick D. Wasserman as Thor, James C. Mathis III as Black Panther, Wally Wingert as the Hank Pym Ant-Man, Colleen O'Shaughnessey as the Wasp, Lex Lang as Doctor Doom, Chris Cox as Hawkeye, Steve Blum as Beta Ray Bill, Kari Wührer as Maria Hill, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Abigail Brand, Erin Torpey as the Invisible Woman.
  • From the Marvel Universe shows (Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Avengers Assemble, and Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)) in addition to Agent Coulson, Wolverine, the Hulk, Black Panther, and the Thing: Drake Bell as Spider-Man, Bumper Robinson as Sam Wilson (albeit as Captain America), Grant George as the Scott Lang Ant-Man, Tom Kenny as Doctor Octopus, Logan Miller as the Sam Alexander Nova, Chris Cox as Star-Lord, Nika Futterman as Gamora, David Sobolov as Drax the Destroyer, Ogie Banks as Miles Morales, Steve Blum as Sauron, and Liam O'Brien as the Red Skull.
  • From Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in addition to Wolverine, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Deadpool, the Hulk, X-23, and Super-Skrull: Steve Blum as Taskmaster and Troy Baker as the Richard Rider Nova.
  • From Iron Man: Rise of Technovore: James C. Mathis III as War Machine.
  • From The Avengers Battle For Earth in addition to Wolverine and Hulk: James Arnold Taylor as Magneto.
  • From The Invincible Iron Man, in addition to Iron Man himself: Fred Tatasciore as the Mandarin.
  • From Next Avengers in addition to the Hulk: Tom Kane as Ultron.
  • From LEGO Marvel Super Heroes in addition to Hulk, Wolverine, Deadpool, and Couslon: James Arnold Taylor as Silver Surfer.
  • From the 1990s X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon: Tara Strong as Magik.
  • From the 2000 Spider-Man video game: Dee Bradley Baker as Carnage.
  • From the The Amazing Spider-Man tie-in games: Ali Hillis as Black Cat (as a boss).
  • From LEGO Marvel's Avengers: Tara Strong as TV!Jessica Jones.
• Screwed by the Network: Nova was originally supposed to be one of the first heroes added after launch. Delays arose when Gazillion tried to convince Marvel to allow them to release both the original Nova and the new, current one. Though Marvel finally gave them the okay, they forced the company to delay his release.
  • In 2017, while renegotiating the license with Marvel to keep the license up-to-date, one of the concessions Gazillion had to make was to no longer offer the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer heroes or their costumes. However, Gazillion was allowed to grandfather in accounts that had previously acquired any of those heroes and any costumes previously-obtained, turning even the oft-maligned Mr. Fantastic into a collector's item.

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