History VideoGame / LegoMarvelSuperHeroes

A spin-off, ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers'', was released on January 26, 2016, while a direct sequel to this game, ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'', was released on November 14, 2017. A port for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch was released on October 5, 2021.

The plot features several Marvel characters, primarily the Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, battling a cabal of supervillains, led by Doctor Doom, as the two sides race across several locations in the Marvel universe, from Manhattan to Asgard to Latveria and even Asteroid M, to acquire the Cosmic Bricks, the scattered pieces of the Silver Surfer’s board. As per [=LEGO=] game tradition, hilarity (and Creator/StanLee cameos) ensues along the way.

''LEGO Marvel Super Heroes'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Creator/TravellersTales and published by Creator/WarnerBrosInteractiveEntertainment in 2013 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/Xbox360, UsefulNotes/WiiU, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Microsoft Windows, and published by Feral Interactive for OS X. The game features gameplay similar to other VideoGame/{{LEGO Adaptation Game}}s, alternating between various action-adventure sequences and puzzle-solving scenarios. The game was released under the title '''''Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril''''' for iOS, Android, UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita handheld systems.

** ComicBook/IronMan, Franchise/SpiderMan, and ComicBook/TheHulk working together in the first level could be seen as one, since the three of them were a rather popular PowerTrio around 2008.

** [[{{Film/Xmen1}} Wolverine says he has visited the Statue of Liberty before.]]

* BadassNormal: The various sidequests for beating up baddies usually have the completely normal {{Quest Giver}}s join you in fighting, and while they can't add to the combined total of baddies beaten by the player, they ''can'' help by keeping the numbers trimmed down and distracted.

* BadassNormal: The various sidequests for beating up baddies usually have the completely normal {{Quest Giver}}s join you in fighting, and while they can't add to the combined total of baddies beaten by the player, they ''can'' help by keeping the numbers trimmed down and distracted, which is more than can be said about the ability (or lack thereof) of secondary playable characters to defeat even {{Mooks}}.

* CuteBruiser: ComicBook/SheHulk is the standard minifigure size, but is capable of feats like smashing walls, ripping doors off, and throwing large objects around that are otherwise restricted to the Big Figs like her cousin and the Thing.

* BadassNormal: The nameless African American police officer NPC who acts as a recurring QuestGiver for beating up and arresting escaped prison convicts is surprisingly a very capable brawler, to the point that it's entirely possible for him to [[ArtificialBrilliance beat up all the baddies and complete his own quests]] without any help from the player, even if his AI-controlled nature means he'll [[ArtificialStupidity occasionally get smashed by unexpected punches]] and need a respawn periodically.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The Super-Skrull has all the powers of the Fantastic Four.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: ComicBook/ThePunisher, understandably, has been softened for a family game, though he keeps his basic attitude intact. His sidequests involve targeting joyriders and wrecking their vehicles.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Future Foundation outfits for the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, comic versions of the characters (such as Thor without a beard), and also features The ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan as an unlockable character. Surprisingly, it uses the same feature as ''LEGO Harry Potter'', in grouping them by outfit rather than as separate characters.

* DarkerAndEdgier: At first glance, the game averts this. It's bright. It's colorful. Cheesy puns are being thrown around left and right. It's almost like reading some of [[Creator/StanLee Stan and Friends']] early work. But there's a very real and present threat to everything everywhere that's also played completely straight. Certain characters (Venom comes to mind) are at least as scary here as in other continuities. And by the time the game is over, Loki almost comes across as an even more unnerving, dangerous sociopath than his [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movie version]].

** One of the "Stan Lee in Peril" missions involves him [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 drinking toxic soda and turning into the Hulk]].
** And in another, he's not able to get into Marvel HQ, complaining [[Film/FantasticFour 'But I'm Stan Lee!']]

** You can just straight up steal someone's car right off the street. And if you're using a hero to do it, they'll basically just smile and let you, since it's obviously for "Superhero business".

** Level 12 has Captain America and the Thing fight [[spoiler:who they think is]] Magneto. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/XMen Alas, it turns out to be Mystique, not Magneto. Magneto is in another place]].]]

** A cutscene involving Doctor Octopus crashing through the offices of the Daily Bugle also has JJ shouting "Parker! [[Memes/CapcomVsWhatever Do your job!]]"

* BattleInTheRain: Wolverine and Hulk face against Abomination and Sabretooth in a boss battle amidst heavy rainfall at the end of "rock Up at the Lock Up".

* CastingGag: Roger Craig Smith reprises his role of Captain America, but also voices Human Torch. Both are played by Creator/ChrisEvans in [[Film/FantasticFour their respective]] [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film franchises]]. Pairing them together with two controllers active gets you the achievement of "Don't I Know You?"

* DistressedDude: The students the X-Mansion are boys and [[DamselInDistress girls]] that, due to fear and being untrained, need help from Jean and Scott to escape to safety.

* EnemyMine: Done in the EvilVersusOblivion style in ''LEGO Marvel'', where the heroes and villains team up to stop ComicBook/{{Galactus}}.

* NeverSayDie: M.O.D.O.K. says that he is "Designed Only for ''Conquest''", rather than "for ''Killing''". (Even though his name is still spelled with a K...)
** Zigzagged; there are one or two other lines that ''do'' say "die" or "kill", and ''Dead''pool is referred to by name.

* PhantomZonePicture: A side mission in involves rescuing Dr Strange from one of these.
* PinataEnemy: The Sentinel minibosses. While they are large, intimidating, and have a powerful laser attack, the laser is fairly easy to avoid and they only need to be hit three times with the right weapons in order to defeat them. After which they vomit up a treasure trove of gold studs.

* PokemonSpeak: Naturally, when you find [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Groot]] all he says is "I am Groot." He even gives you a side quest. In this case "I am Groot" means "Kill 7 moles."
* PopularityPower: Anyone who read the comics knows this is the ''ONLY'' way that [[spoiler:Loki could manipulate Dr. Doom into helping with his plan.]]
* PowerWalk: When everybody heads out to face Galactus.
* ProductPlacement: The game was released roughly a month before the release of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', including characters that promote both that movie and the DVD/Blu-Ray release of ''Iron Man 3''. The game's stinger even throws in a promotion for the following year's ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' movie.
** In addition, some of the taxis and buses in New York have advertisements for LEGO's Master Builder Academy series of sets.

* RegeneratingHealth: Wolverine naturally has this.

* RuleOfFunny: The cutscenes in general.

* SelfDeprecation: A sidequest in involves finding a child who got separated from his mother while looking for carrots (in the hope that they'd give him super-night-vision). His mother remarks that although an obsession with carrots is a bit odd, it's better than being hooked on video games.

* ShapeShifter: Mystique. She poses as Professor X briefly during the story, and as a playable character, she can shapeshift into different things (represented LEGO-wise by her swapping headgear by removing her hairpiece and putting on a hat and the rest of her body morphing into the character):
** In New York, she'll assume the form of a policewoman.
** On the Helicarrier, she'll turn into a male S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent (identical to the actual playable Agent).
** In missions, she'll adapt. i.e., in "Times Square Off", she turns into a New York teen boy. In "The Thrill of the Chess", she turns into a Raft guard to get by security.
* ShownTheirWork: There's just an insane amount of work shown. So much so, in fact, that the few little oddities that do show up (such as Black Widow having the intelligence ability and not Superior Spider-Man, Magneto's powers being ineffective on Thor's hammer, or Cyclops eye blasts being heat beams) really stand out. There are a few mistakes, such as spelling ComicBook/NormanOsborn's name with an "e".

* SteppingStoneSword: Done, improbably, with ''arrows''.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: One of the sidequests in ''Marvel Superheroes'' involves a SHIELD agent who isn't taking a pile of sensitive documents to be shredded and certainly didn't lose the most sensitive one somewhere on the carrier deck.
** Along similar lines, Nick Fury explains giving useless coordinates to Black Widow by saying "someone" spilled shawarma sauce on the computer.

* VerbalTic: Professor X has an X-tremely obvious preference for words beginning with "ex-".

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** In the fourth level, a series of supernatural prisoners escape from The Raft including Rhino, Carnage, Magneto, Leader and Whiplash. All of these are fought and re-captured later in the story - except Carnage, who is never mentioned again and is presumably still at large after the defeat of Doctor Doom. Knowing Carnage, this abounds in FridgeHorror.
** Carnage does appear as an unlockable character, but is otherwise gone for the rest of the game.
* WideOpenSandbox: Manhattan Island.

* YellowPeril: Averted. The only way a non-comic-reader would be able to tell Mandarin is Asian is the name and a barely noticeable accent.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: ComicBook/NormanOsborn. It's heavily implied that Oscorp has been replicating the Venom symbiote and using employees as test subjects.

* DeathDealer: Gambit and Bullseye.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Professor X and Daredevil, [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse as per usual]].
* DistressedDude: The game has "[[Creator/StanLee Stans]] in Peril". Also, the students in the level in the X-Mansion.

* DoppelgangerAttack: One of Loki's attack animations is to surround the enemy with copies of himself and have them all hit him. He also uses copies of himself to fight you in the storyline.

* EliteMooks: Magneto's Brotherhood Acolytes, which can actually take a hit or two from the player and have ElementalPowers that allow them to attack at a distance. They're still CannonFodder {{Mooks}}, but unlike their fellow mook brethren, they're actually a modest challenge if you don't take them seriously.

* ExaggeratedTrope: Stan Lee's cameos in the Marvel movies are upped to him being the citizen in peril in every stage.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: One of The Lizard's grabs involves picking up an opponent with his tail, and then ''eating them''.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
** When the Green Goblin tricks Spider-Man, Black Widow, and Hawkeye into standing over a trapdoor so he can get the trio to fall through it, Spidey's Spider-Sense oddly never alerts him to the fact that they're being led into a trap.
** Never once does Magneto think to use his magnetic powers on Wolverine's adamantium skeleton during the Raft level, even though Magneto does use his powers to destroy Iron Man's armour effortlessly at a different point.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Done to the characters in-game with Deadpool's finishing attack. He picks up the circle you stand in to interact with something, jams it around the target's waist, and grabs his targeting icon and bashes them over the head! He uses interface symbols as attacks! But, it ''is'' Deadpool.

* GetBackHereBoss: A large number of bosses. Sometimes you don't even end up fighting the one you're chasing.

** Any character with a melee weapon can do this.
** This is required by bigfigs or super-strong characters to break floor-mounted cracked walls.

* GunsAkimbo: Black Widow, Mystique, and Star-Lord.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Mostly averted. When a character isn't using their weapon, it's shrunken down and attached to their sides/back. [[spoiler:But played completely straight with Agent Coulson, whose "Loki Destroyer" gun ''disappears completely'' when he puts it away]].

* HulkSpeak: The Hulk, obviously.
* HurricaneOfPuns: From Sandman in the first stage.

* IFellForHours: ''Leaping off the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier'' hovering over NYC. (Most characters get a parachute.)

* JumpScare: In one room in the Oscorp building, the lights start flickering out, while Venom jumps around the room. And then the close-up happens.

* KnightOfCerebus: Loki evolves into this as the full extent of his plan comes to light. The only real humorous side to him is some childishness with regards to his relationship with Thor. From the same game, Venom may not have a huge role, but when he appears the game gets freaky, and you essentially go from childishly breaking into a lab to a survival horror setting, with the humour level dropping rapidly.

* LargeHam:
** Doctor Doom in the grand Marvel tradition.
** Thor.
--->'''Thor:''' I am ComicBook/{{Thor}}... GOD OF THUNDER... and LIIIGHTNIIING!

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Captain America, who can even use his shield to put out fires and reflect lasers.

* MissionControl: Phil Coulson.

* NinjaProp: Deadpool ([[FourthWallObserver of course]]) uses the interaction circle in his final attack.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/NolanNorth channels Creator/TomKane as Magneto.

* ActorAllusion:
** There's a trophy called "Don't I Know You?" for playing as [[Creator/ChrisEvans Captain America and Human Torch]] in co-op (two controllers active).
** Nick Fury:
*** "[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Commander Fury]] said to [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane get these]] ''[[{{Bowdlerization}} goshdarn]]'' [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane snakes off this]] ''[[GoshDarnItToHeck goshdarn]]'' Helicarrier!"
*** At one point Fury is shown eating a cheeseburger during a meeting with his superiors. No doubt it's a [[Film/PulpFiction tasty Royale with cheese...]]
*** Upon building the DJ table in “House Part Protocol” , Fury also says an altered version of the Ezekiel 25:17 speech from ''Film/PulpFiction''.
--->'''Fury:''' And you will know I am the DJ, when I lay my beats upon you!
* AdaptationalBadass: The Mark 42 Armour from ''Film/IronMan3''. In the movies the Mk 42 was dozens of upgrades after armors that shrugged off tank fire and could give the thunder god Thor a decent fight, yet it malfunctioned a lot and ''constantly'' fell apart. Here, despite being made of Lego, it never falls apart and is a straight upgrade over Tony's older suits with a fully working arsenal. It not only works, but Tony mentions that he even de-magnetized it so it was immune to Magneto's powers.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In most continuities, [[ComicBook/XMen Cyclops]]'s [[EyeBeams Optic Blasts]] are concussive force beams that don't produce heat, but here, they're heat-based lasers that can melt ice and gold objects.
** ComicBook/{{Nova}} is typically a GravityMaster, but here he has [[ShockAndAwe electric powers]].

* AffablyEvil: The Sentinels. While you're fighting them they'll politely ask you if you're a mutant, because if you are they'd very much like to destroy you.
* AllYourPowersCombined:
** Stan Lee has the abilities of several different Marvel characters. Not ''all'', exactly, but quite a few.
** The Super-Skrull has all the powers of the Fantastic Four.

* AnimateInanimateObject: The Art/StatueOfLiberty blinks, and head bangs during one of the race missions. When flying past the Statue on Liberty Island in free roam, she'll look at the character and wink before returning to her original position. And she's a playable character.

* AsHimself: Stan Lee.
-->'''Stan Lee''': "[[FourthWallObserver I'm all over this game]]! When do I stop being a cameo and start being a star?"

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Sentinels, the Destroyer, and Galactus. And [[spoiler:a Magneto-controlled Statue Of Liberty]]. All of them are also unlockable as normal-sized player characters, opening the possibility of having tiny and giant versions of the character fighting each other.
* BadBoss: Green Goblin's implied to be one. What, you think those scientists ''volunteered'' to have symbiotes bonded to them?

* BattleInTheRain: Wolverine and Hulk get one against Abomination in episode 4.
* BigEater: ComicBook/{{Galactus}} counts, right? Especially since this version literally seems to munch planets, with an "om nom" sound and everything.

* BottomlessMagazines: Every gun in the game.

* ButtMonkey:
** Creator/StanLee is the recurring victim in the "[[DistressedDude In Peril]]" mechanic.
** Deadpool's cameos in the main levels tend towards this - for instance, Green Goblin destroys an elevator while he's standing in it.
** Spider-Man seems to ''think'' he's this.

* CaptainOblivious:
** As Magneto and company make their escape from the X-Mansion, they dash by Beast, who's carrying a hefty stack of papers in the opposite direction.
--->'''Beast:''' No running in the hallway, please.
** Not to mention everyone's total cluelessness regarding Oscorp.

* CatchphraseInterruptus: This happening to the Thing is a RunningGag.

* CreatorCameo:
** The obligatory Creator/StanLee appearance, making him a playable character as well as having the player rescue him multiple times.
** There's also a bonus level where [[Franchise/SpiderMan the Vulture]] and ComicBook/HowardTheDuck attack the Marvel offices, featuring other Marvel staff.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: You just lose LEGO studs.
** Not in the portable version. There you get LEVEL FAILED, the first time that happens in the VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame franchise.

* TheCameo:
** Space shots feature Ego the Living Planet.
** Deadpool cameos briefly in almost every story mission.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in [[Creator/StanLee Stan Lee's]] case. Not only does he show up in pretty much every single area, he's [[spoiler:a playable character]].
** Several non-playable (at least, at that point) X-Men show up in the X-Mansion level. Most obviously Gambit and Colossus, but also Emma Frost, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance of Archangel.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: Special powers such as magic and telekinesis glow purple when they're used. Some bricks are purple to begin with, meaning those powers are required to manipulate them.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Actually one of the goals in the games is to get every character. Deadpool lampshades it in the Blob sidequest.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: The rosters contain LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so this trope is inevitable. Some characters did eventually get toys, though it is usually sometime after the game, sometimes with major differences; for example, Groot is depicted as a Big Fig and the Sentinel as a minifigure, even as a giant, but the toys proper are conventionally built figures.

** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130710174037/lego/images/b/be/Lego_marvel_cover.jpg The cover]] resembles the iconic cover of the first issue of ''ComicBook/SecretWars''. The Vita port of the game gives a trophy referencing this; "Not So Secret Wars".

** Trying to web-sling aboard the Helicarrier will result in the character falling on his face, since there’s nothing higher up to attach the web to.

** Dig up one of the minikits in "Times Square Off" and you'll find HERBIE, who states he's "been cooped up in there since 1978", the year of the [=DePatie=]-Freling ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1978 Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon wherein he replaced Human Torch (due to someone else having the rights to him at the time).

** Dig up one of the minikits in "Times Square Off" and you'll find HERBIE, who states he's "been cooped up in there since 1978", the year of the [=DePatie=]-Freling ''[[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon wherein he replaced Human Torch (due to not having the rights to him at the time).