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The Marvel vs. Capcom series is a series of video games created by Capcom in which characters created by Marvel Comics and Capcom's own characters appear together. The "vs. series" originates from the fact that every game in this series is a fighting game, and although it was the first "vs. series" involving Capcom, the name "Marvel" exists to distinguish it from Capcom's other "vs. series" with SNK (see Capcom vs. SNK).
The Marvel vs. Capcom series is perhaps considered to be the most popular game among American fans of Street Fighter, in part because it allows their comic-book heroes to fight alongside or against their favorite World Warriors.
The Marvel characters depicted in these games were often based on their incarnations in various early 1990s television series (particularly the X-Men animated series), and were often voiced by the same voice actors.
Many of the characters and fighting mechanics used in these games were first developed and refined in two other fighting games Capcom had developed earlier, serving as pre-cursors to the series: X-Men: Children of the Atom, which featured characters strictly from the X-Men universe, and Marvel Super-Heroes, which gleaned characters from Marvel's entire roster (X-Men included).
Although the tag-team fighting concept was not new, it was refined with this series (although fans would argue whether this was for better or for worse). New fighting game terminology, such as "Aerial Rave" (the act of performing a combo on an opponent while the opponent remains airbone) and "Variable Combination" (the act of having two or more characters on the same team to perform their super combos at the same time) were added to the fighting game vernacular with this series.
Although Capcom has stated that the series is finished, with new versions of various Marvel (and Capcom) characters replacing the versions depicted in the games, there are persistent, if unsupported, rumors that the series would continue (fueled by jokes and outright lies from many Capcom of America representatives and PR personel), but future games in the series would involve other game and comic book companies such as DC Comics and SNK ("Marvel vs. DC vs. Capcom vs. SNK").
Games
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
- Marvel vs. Capcom - Clash of Super Heroes
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - New Age of Heroes
Marvel Characters - Apocalypse
- Blackheart
- Voice Actor: Jeimz Woolvet
- Cable
- Captain America
- Voice Actor: Cathal J. Dodd
- Colossus
- Voice Actor: Dan Hennessey
- Cyclops
- Voice Actor: Norman Spencer
- Doctor Doom
- Voice Actor: Lorne Kennedy
- Gambit
- Voice Actor: Tony Daniels
- Hulk
- Voice Actor: Andrew Jackson
- Iceman
- Iron Man
- Voice Actor: Chris Britton
- Juggernaut
- Voice Actor: Rick Bennett
- Magneto
- Voice Actor: Lorne Kennedy
- Marrow
- Omega Red
- Voice Actor: Len Doncheff
- Onslaught
- Voice Actor: Maurice Wint
- Psylocke
- Voice Actor: Catherine Disher
- Rogue
- Sabretooth
- Sentinel
- Shuma-Gorath
- Voice Actor: Franck Perry
- Silver Samurai
- Spider-Man
- Voice Actor: Patrick Chilvers
- Spiral
- Storm
- Voice Actor: Catherine Disher
- Thanos
- Voice Actor: Andrew Jackson
- Venom
- War Machine
- Wolverine
- Voice Actor: Cathal J. Dodd
Capcom Characters This is a list of all the Capcom characters that have appeared in the Marvel Vs. Series, most of which have appeared in other Capcom games:
- Mega Man
- Roll
- Servbot
- Tron Bonne
Characters from Star Gladiator
Characters from Cyberbots
Characters from Strider
Characters from Sonson
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