History VideoGame / MarvelContestOfChampions

''Marvel: Contest of Champions '' is a 2014 free-to-play mobile game developed by Kabam for the [=iOS=] and Android platforms set in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The player takes the role of an unseen Summoner for The Collector, who opens the game by abducting {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} for his contest and imprisoning him in a crystal.

* '''ComicBook/{{HumanTorch}}'''
* '''ComicBook/{{InvisibleWoman}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{MisterFantastic}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{RedHulk}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{TheSentry}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{TheThing}}'''
* '''ComicBook/{{TheSentry}}''' (The Void)
* '''ComicBook/{{TheWasp}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Havok}}'''

* '''[[{{ComicBook/X23}} Wolverine]]''' (X-23)

* '''ComicBook/{{DoctorDoom}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{ScarletWitch}}'''
* '''ComicBook/{{TheHood}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Medusa|MarvelComics}}'''
* '''[[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan]]'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Karnak}}'''

* '''[[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Joe Fixit]]'''

* '''[[Characters/VenomMainHosts Agent Venom]]'''

* '''[[Characters/DeadpoolRoguesGallery Hit-Monkey]]'''

* '''[[Characters/NewMutants Warlock]]'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Gambit}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Iceman}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}'''
* '''ComicBook/{{Storm}}'''

* '''[[ComicBook/ContestOfChampions Guillotine]]'''

* '''[[ComicBook/ContestOfChampions The Collector]]'''

* '''[[Film/BlackPanther Killmonger]]'''
* '''ComicBook/{{TheKingpin}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{NickFury}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{SquirrelGirl}}'''

* '''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Nebula]]'''

* '''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Yondu]]''' (Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse)

** The Spaceport stage has moving holographic wanted posters of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket and Groot]]. It also features of an advertisement of The Collector (depicted in SuperDeformed style) hawking items for the game.

** Winter Soldier and Punisher pull out two handguns and a ''bazooka'' for their third special (which [[{{Off Model}} inexplicably changes into a rifle]] when the camera cuts back after showing the shot hitting the opponent, though this was eventually fixed in an update so it's always a rifle).

* MovesetClone: Common among champions of the same class, for instance Winter Soldier and Punisher both have identical movesets and special moves. Both versions of The Vision, Deadpool and Captain America also use the same movesets since the characters are just {{Palette Swap}}s of each other. Eventually averted with Comicbook/IronFist, who at first used a standard Skill attack set but after an update gained unique animations (and [[OffModel lost the gloves]] on his model).

* '''ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}}''' ([[WesternAnimation/XMen 90's]])

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Planning to gun your way through a chapter in the campaign? Hope you've packed enough patience for a ''ton'' of loading screens. For each opponent you face in a chapter, you'll have to go through at least ''three'' loading screens: one to bring up character selection, another for the actual fight, and a third to take you back to the map once you win (and more if the character you picked gets KO'd). Do the math and you'll be looking at having to go through '''over a dozen''' loading screens to finish up the chapter - but unfortunately for those who are aiming for OneHundredPercentCompletion, that's just the beginning - virtually ''every'' chapter has '''''multiple''''' unique routes that have to be cleared to be fully "explored". That means that you'll have to get through '''''[[UpToEleven dozens upon dozens of loading screens]]''''', not to mention two additional loading screens that you must go past to exit and re-enter the chapter map between each unique route cleared, which will be more than enough to rile up anyone who's short on patience.

* '''ComicBook/{{Havoc}}'''

* '''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'''
* '''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk''' ([[Film/ThorRagnarok Ragnarok]])

* '''ComicBook/{{Bishop}}'''

The game also has a comic-tie in titled ''[[ComicBook/ContestOfChampions Marvel: Contest of Champions]]'' set in the mainstream Marvel Universe that expands on several characters introduced in the game, such as Guillotine and White Fox.

In December of 2020, a sequel game, ''Marvel: Realm of Champions'', was released, a 3-VS-3 {{MOBA}}-lite that details the the original Champions’ self-founded civilizations struggling to fill the power vacuum left by [[spoiler:the assassination of Maestro]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Planning to gun your way through a chapter in the campaign? Hope you've packed enough patience for a ''ton'' of loading screens. For each opponent you face in a chapter, you'll have to go through at least ''three'' loading screens: one to bring up character select, another for the actual fight, and a third to take you back to the map once you win (and more if the character you picked gets KO'd). Do the math and you'll be looking at having to go through '''over a dozen''' loading screens to finish up the chapter - but unfortunately for those who are aiming for OneHundredPercentCompletion, that's just the beginning - virtually ''every'' chapter has '''''multiple''''' unique routes that have to be cleared to be fully "explored". That means that you'll have to get through '''''[[UpToEleven dozens upon dozens of loading screens]]''''', not to mention two additional loading screens that you must go past to exit and re-enter the chapter map between each unique route cleared, which will be more than enough to rile up anyone who's short on patience.

* '''ComicBook/{{Medusa}}'''

* '''[[Characters/TheMightyThorAsgardians Heimdall]]'''

* '''ComicBook/{{ElsaBloodstone}}'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}'''
* '''ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}''' ([[WesternAnimation/XMen 90's]])

* '''ComicBook/{{Domino}}'''

* '''[[Characters/XMen60sMembers Havoc]]'''

* '''ComicBook/MisterSinister'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Angela|MarvelComics}}'''

* '''[[ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin Magik]]'''

* '''ComicBook/{{Thor|2014}}''' (ComicBook/{{JaneFoster}})

* '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsKangTheConqueror Kang the Conqueror]]'''

* MovesetClone: Common among champions of the same class, for instance Winter Soldier and Punisher both have identical movesets and special moves. Both versions of The Vision, Deadpool and Captain America also use the same movesets since the characters are just {{Palette Swap}}s of each other. Eventually averted with [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], who at first used a standard Skill attack set but after an update gained unique animations (and [[OffModel lost the gloves]] on his model).