When Marvel’s Avengers launches next month on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, the hotly anticipated superhero action game will give players access to a roster of their comic book favourites including Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, and Ms. Marvel.
Although each hero comes with their own unique playstyle, movesets, abilities, costumes, and upgrades, the game’s community are already obsessing over which other Marvel characters will make an appearance. We already know that Hawkeye will be joining the team after the game’s September launch, with Spider-Man being an exclusive PlayStation add-on reportedly coming in March 2021.
With players having gotten their hands on Marvel’s Avengers during the recent beta tests, one Reddit user, u/6plus4equals52, has been meticulously scouring the game’s data files for clues. In their datamining efforts, they may have uncovered an entire roster of future playable Marvel icons.
Followed up by a subsequent post (both of which have now been removed from Reddit), here are the Avengers characters who have been outed so far, including many of the usual suspects:
- Ant Man
- The Wasp
- Vision
- Black Panther
- Doctor Strange
- Falcon
- Mar-Vell
- Mockingbird
- Quake
- Winter Soldier
- Scarlet Witch
- Captain Marvel
- Kate Bishop
- She-Hulk
- War Machine
From what we’ve seen of Marvel’s Avengers ahead of release, some of those heroes seem like much more likely fits than others. Ant Man and his Pym Particle tech have already been introduced into the game’s universe via a video shown at E3 2019. It’s not hard to imagine Wasp tagging along for the ride.
Vision and Scarlet Witch also both seem like natural additions to the roster, hopefully adding more abstract abilities to Marvel’s Avengers which is currently dominated by melee and tech-based heroes, Thor adding some much-needed magic. Speaking of, Doctor Strange also seems like a given as well as Black Panther, Winter Soldier, and Captain Marvel, all of whom have seen a surge in popularity followed their debuts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Our impressions of the beta have been mostly positive. Marvel’s Avengers manages to bring together a diverse array of characters, placing them all in the same open arenas with plenty of shooting and brawling action. Some are still a little confused about the split between solo/co-op content with the loot and upgrade systems also causing some initial headaches. We’ll be able to deliver our final verdict when Marvel’s Avengers assembles on September 4th.
