Significant Characters MIA from MPQ:

Jellybat

Dormammu & Red Skull top my personal list. What other big bads/goods that are missing, stick out to you?

meadowsweet

1. Absorbing Man
2. Agent Mobius
3. Aloith the Usurper
4. The Ancient One
5. Arnim Zola
6. Avalanche
7. Banshee
8. Baron Zemo
9. Bastion
10. Beyonder
11. Black Tom Cassidy
12. Blackheart
13. Blink
14. Callisto
15. Captain Britain
16. Captain Universe
17. Carrion
18. Cassandra Nova
19. Chameleon
20. The Collector
21. Crossbones
22. Doppelgänger
23. Ego the Living Planet
24. Fin Fang Foom
25. Fitz & Simmons
26. Foggy Nelson
27. Forge
28. Giant-Man
29. Gladiator
30. The Grandmaster
31. Happy Hogan
32. Hercules
33. Hobgoblin
34. Holocaust
35. J. Jonah Jameson
36. Jigsaw
37. Ka-Zar
38. Kahhori
39. Kevin Bacon
40. K.E.V.I.N. (Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus)
41. Korvac
42. Kraglin
43. Leader
44. Lilith
45. Longshot
46. Madame Web
47. Madisynn King
48. The Maker
49. Mandarin
50. Man-Thing
51. Master Mold
52. Miek
53. Morph
54. Nimrod
55. Nuke
56. Proteus
57. Random
58. Red Skull
59. Selene
60. Shadow King
61. Shatterstar
62. Shocker
63. Shuma-Gorath
64. Silver Sable
65. Spiral
66. The Spot
67. Sunspot
68. Super-Adaptoid
69. The Supreme Intelligence
70. Sylvie Laufeydottir
71. Taserface
72. Terrax
73. Titania
74. Tombstone
75. Typhoid Mary
76. Uatu the Watcher
77. U.S.Agent
78. Werewolf by Night
79. Wonder Man
80. Yo-Yo
81. Zeus

fight4thedream

Darkhawk and Enchantress. I would like to also see more Eternals related characters, especially Uranos the Undying and Thena.

DAZ0273

Heroes: Justice, Firestar, Quasar, Stingray, Fabulous Frog Man, Gargoyle, Sasquatch, Guardian, Shaman, Aurora, Box, Daimon Hellstorm, The Squadon Supreme (mostly Hyperion), Power Pack, Franklin Richards, Paladin, Cannonball. Mirage, Karma, Warlock, Sunspot, Magma, Cypher, Killraven, Lillandra, Speedball, Namorita, Night Thrasher, Union Jack, The Shroud, Sif, Balder, The Warriors Three, Firelord, Meggan, Fantomex.

Sort of can be both: Dragon Man, Awesome Andy, The Imperial Guard, Callisto

Villains: Blackout, The Wrecking Crew, Mr. Hyde, Mesmero, Pyro, Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man, Radioactive Man, Boomerang, Speed Demon, Hydro Man (proper version), Beetle, Baron Blood, Baron Von Strucker, Fenris Twins, Malekith, Quasimodo, Mad Thinker, Puppet Master, Wendigo, Tiger Shark, Orka, Attuma, Terrax, Korvac, Steel Serpent, Red Ghost + Super Apes, Spymaster.

Jellybat

Wow! Great lists! Love the Cannonball, Sauron, Blackheart & Fin Fang Foom.

BriMan2222

Kaz-ar and Sabu. Either as one character like cloak and dagger or 3 star sabu and 5 star Ka-Zar

Alfje17

Great Lakes Avengers as one character, '40s Bucky, '80s US Agent, Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly), Fin Fang Foom, Jolt (Helen "Hallie" Takahama), any MC2 character and the obvious baddies (Arnim Zola, Baron Zemo, Red Skrull).

Cataliban

Madelyne Pryor (Goblin Queen)
Blink (Clarice Ferguson)
Molecule Man (Owen Reece)
Firelord (Pyreus Kril)
Mojo
....

They're a lot!

SuperCarrot

He is a classic.

Kross

Longshot
Spiral
Mojo
Longshot
Longshot
Longshot

bigjojo04

There are so many, these are just from the top of my head in no particular order….

Red Skull
Mandarin
Obadiah Stane
Crossbones
Diamondback(Rachel Leighton)
The Trapster
The Wizard
Pip the Troll
Madelyne Prior
Forge
Longshot
Dani Moonstar
Sharon Carter
US Agent
Cannonball
Sunspot
Sabra
Sidewinder
Princess Python
Viper
Cobra
Mr. Hyde
Madame Masque
The Beyonder

I’m sure there are plenty I’m forgetting but those stand out the most for me.

Also throw in…

Captain Britain
Meggan
Rachel Summers
Sasquatch
Guardian
Aurora
Shaman
Snowbird

Just to complete Excalibur and Alpha Flight.

Chrynos1989

Devs be like: Write that down, write that down!

LucasRaven

@meadowsweet said:
1. Absorbing Man
2. Agent Mobius
3. Aloith the Usurper
4. The Ancient One
5. Arnim Zola
6. Avalanche
7. Banshee
8. Baron Zemo
9. Bastion
10. Beyonder
11. Black Tom Cassidy
12. Blackheart
13. Blink
14. Callisto
15. Captain Britain
16. Captain Universe
17. Carrion
18. Cassandra Nova
19. Chameleon
20. The Collector
21. Crossbones
22. Doppelgänger
23. Ego the Living Planet
24. Fin Fang Foom
25. Fitz & Simmons
26. Foggy Nelson
27. Forge
28. Giant-Man
29. Gladiator
30. The Grandmaster
31. Happy Hogan
32. Hercules
33. Hobgoblin
34. Holocaust
35. J. Jonah Jameson
36. Jigsaw
37. Ka-Zar
38. Kahhori
39. Kevin Bacon
40. K.E.V.I.N. (Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus)
41. Korvac
42. Kraglin
43. Leader
44. Lilith
45. Longshot
46. Madame Web
47. Madisynn King
48. The Maker
49. Mandarin
50. Man-Thing
51. Master Mold
52. Miek
53. Morph
54. Nimrod
55. Nuke
56. Proteus
57. Random
58. Red Skull
59. Selene
60. Shadow King
61. Shatterstar
62. Shocker
63. Shuma-Gorath
64. Silver Sable
65. Spiral
66. The Spot
67. Sunspot
68. Super-Adaptoid
69. The Supreme Intelligence
70. Sylvie Laufeydottir
71. Taserface
72. Terrax
73. Titania
74. Tombstone
75. Typhoid Mary
76. Uatu the Watcher
77. U.S.Agent
78. Werewolf by Night
79. Wonder Man
80. Yo-Yo
81. Zeus

I mean ... are all these significant? Why have Shuma-Gorath when we have Gargantos? Is Kevin Bacon significant?

entrailbucket

@LucasRaven said:

@meadowsweet said:
1. Absorbing Man
2. Agent Mobius
3. Aloith the Usurper
4. The Ancient One
5. Arnim Zola
6. Avalanche
7. Banshee
8. Baron Zemo
9. Bastion
10. Beyonder
11. Black Tom Cassidy
12. Blackheart
13. Blink
14. Callisto
15. Captain Britain
16. Captain Universe
17. Carrion
18. Cassandra Nova
19. Chameleon
20. The Collector
21. Crossbones
22. Doppelgänger
23. Ego the Living Planet
24. Fin Fang Foom
25. Fitz & Simmons
26. Foggy Nelson
27. Forge
28. Giant-Man
29. Gladiator
30. The Grandmaster
31. Happy Hogan
32. Hercules
33. Hobgoblin
34. Holocaust
35. J. Jonah Jameson
36. Jigsaw
37. Ka-Zar
38. Kahhori
39. Kevin Bacon
40. K.E.V.I.N. (Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus)
41. Korvac
42. Kraglin
43. Leader
44. Lilith
45. Longshot
46. Madame Web
47. Madisynn King
48. The Maker
49. Mandarin
50. Man-Thing
51. Master Mold
52. Miek
53. Morph
54. Nimrod
55. Nuke
56. Proteus
57. Random
58. Red Skull
59. Selene
60. Shadow King
61. Shatterstar
62. Shocker
63. Shuma-Gorath
64. Silver Sable
65. Spiral
66. The Spot
67. Sunspot
68. Super-Adaptoid
69. The Supreme Intelligence
70. Sylvie Laufeydottir
71. Taserface
72. Terrax
73. Titania
74. Tombstone
75. Typhoid Mary
76. Uatu the Watcher
77. U.S.Agent
78. Werewolf by Night
79. Wonder Man
80. Yo-Yo
81. Zeus

I mean ... are all these significant? Why have Shuma-Gorath when we have Gargantos? Is Kevin Bacon significant?

I've said MPQ has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for new characters for years now -- lots of the guys on these kinds of lists are somehow underneath the barrel. You'd need to scrape out the entire barrel then grab a shovel and dig about 5 feet under it to get to them.

meadowsweet

@LucasRaven said:
I mean ... are all these significant? Why have Shuma-Gorath when we have Gargantos? Is Kevin Bacon significant?

This game has several hundred characters. If it continues on indefinitely at the current character release schedule, it will eventually have hundreds more. I'm not sure why you're getting precious or taking offense at my list.

I could ask you: Why have so many lazy five-star / three-star copy-pastes of the same character when we already have one?

Why have so many duplicate versions of the same character when we could be adding new characters and going deeper into the lore? (Black Panther, Black Widow, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Cyclops, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Elektra, Emma Frost, Gamora, Hawkeye, The Hulk, Iron Man, Jubilee, Loki, Magik, Magneto, Miles Morales, Peggy Carter, She-Hulk, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Storm, Thanos, Thor, Venom, Vulture, Wolverine)

Are all of these characters significant?:

• Big Wheel
• Cosmo
• Darkveil
• Dazzler
• Doctor Bong
• Goose
• Headpool
• The Hunter
• The Hydra-Stomper
• Jeffrey
• Luna Snow
• Moonstone
• Reptil
• Spider-Ham
• Throg
• Venomsaurus Rex

Shuma-Gorath is significant to me because they were one of my favorite characters in Marvel vs. Capcom (and they managed to make that relatively short list ahead of many others):

And Kevin Bacon was the subject of an entire 42 minute long Guardians of the Galaxy film!

LucasRaven

The subject was a GOTG Christmas story, not Kevin Bacon. He was a part of it. I mean, really, he is not a significant character missing from the game.

I agree with you that there are a lot of insignificant characters in the game, no doubt. If you ask me about significant characters missing, I cannot think of many more than Dormammu, Red Skull and Galactus.

entrailbucket

@meadowsweet said:

@LucasRaven said:
I mean ... are all these significant? Why have Shuma-Gorath when we have Gargantos? Is Kevin Bacon significant?

This game has several hundred characters. If it continues on indefinitely at the current character release schedule, it will eventually have hundreds more. I'm not sure why you're getting precious or taking offense at my list.

I could ask you: Why have so many lazy five-star / three-star copy-pastes of the same character when we already have one?

Why have so many duplicate versions of the same character when we could be adding new characters and going deeper into the lore? (Black Panther, Black Widow, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Cyclops, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Elektra, Emma Frost, Gamora, Hawkeye, The Hulk, Iron Man, Jubilee, Loki, Magik, Magneto, Miles Morales, Peggy Carter, She-Hulk, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Storm, Thanos, Thor, Venom, Vulture, Wolverine)

Are all of these characters significant?:

• Big Wheel
• Cosmo
• Darkveil
• Dazzler
• Doctor Bong
• Goose
• Headpool
• The Hunter
• The Hydra-Stomper
• Jeffrey
• Luna Snow
• Moonstone
• Reptil
• Spider-Ham
• Throg
• Venomsaurus Rex

Shuma-Gorath is significant to me because they were one of my favorite characters in Marvel vs. Capcom (and they managed to make that relatively short list ahead of many others):

And Kevin Bacon was the subject of an entire 42 minute long Guardians of the Galaxy film!

Many of the insignificant MPQ characters on your list were forced corporate synergy required by Marvel. A lot of others are just goofy jokes by the devs, or their particular favorite insignificant characters. You might have different insignificant favorites, and that's ok, but when they're scraping the bottom of the barrel already, they're going to pick their favorites first.

The large number of duplicates is because those characters are popular. Like, sorry, but the 18th version of Wolverine or Spider-Man is going to be more popular than the missing members of Alpha Flight, or a minor character from the 90s X-Men show, or...Kevin Bacon?

meadowsweet

@entrailbucket said:
Like, sorry, but the 18th version of Wolverine or Spider-Man is going to be more popular than the missing members of Alpha Flight, or a minor character from the 90s X-Men show, or...Kevin Bacon?

I'm not really sure what you think "popularity" means in this context though - were Polaris, Okoye, Beta Ray Bill, Kitty Pryde, Medusa, Chasm, etc. more "popular" with the general public than Wolverine or Spider-Man when they were added to the game? No, absolutely not.

But are they more "popular" among players choosing characters to chase, recruit, level up, and use during play in the game Marvel Puzzle Quest? Of course! Because their powers are way better than any of the Wolverine or Spider-Man variants and you're going to win more matches, faster, use fewer health packs, and receive better rewards for placing higher in head-to-head competition!

entrailbucket

@meadowsweet said:

@entrailbucket said:
Like, sorry, but the 18th version of Wolverine or Spider-Man is going to be more popular than the missing members of Alpha Flight, or a minor character from the 90s X-Men show, or...Kevin Bacon?

I'm not really sure what you think "popularity" means in this context though - were Polaris, Okoye, Beta Ray Bill, Kitty Pryde, Medusa, Chasm, etc. more "popular" with the general public than Wolverine or Spider-Man when they were added to the game? No, absolutely not.

But are they more "popular" among players choosing characters to chase, recruit, level up, and use during play in the game Marvel Puzzle Quest? Of course! Because their powers are way better than any of the Wolverine or Spider-Man variants and you're going to win more matches, faster, use fewer health packs, and receive better rewards for placing higher in head-to-head competition!

Most MPQ players, and certainly many spenders, are much more casual players than anyone on this forum.

The number of players who understand that Polaris or Okoye are among the best characters in the game is likely so tiny that it's really not worth considering. Many of these folks are also free to play, contributing nothing to keeping the game alive. Further catering to them would be a death sentence.

Would you spend $100 on Shuma Gorath? Or Kevin Bacon? A lot of casual fans of Wolverine or Spider-Man would be happy to shell out for them, even if they aren't as good as Polaris or m'Thor or whoever.

meadowsweet

@entrailbucket said:
Would you spend $100 on Shuma Gorath? Or Kevin Bacon? A lot of casual fans of Wolverine or Spider-Man would be happy to shell out for them, even if they aren't as good as Polaris or m'Thor or whoever.

Do you have any data at all to support your claim that more players spend more money on well-known but bad characters than high-quality but more obscure characters?

So according to you, the two characters that players have spent the most money on must be Captain America & Iron Man, right? But characters like Okoye or Polaris must rank near the very bottom of a list of hundreds of characters, correct? Almost no one has ever spent money on them because they're among the least well-known characters in the entire game?

Scofie

I find it slightly sad that someone goes to the effort of writing out an enormous list of potential characters, only to have a debate about the word "significant".

And would I spend $100 on Kevin Bacon? Of course! That's barely even a nice meal for two with a mediocre bottle of wine...