Your Marvel Rivals Comics questions, answers

The worlds of comics and video games have simultaneously been corrupted since the game’s launch Marvel rivalsthe new team-based hero shooter that combines the history of Marvel comics with the mechanics of the latest hot ticket in the industry. Overwatch: rival But if you already want to jump in and decide on your major, except your Marvel knowledge leans a little more MCU than comics. Competitors leans more closely into its vision of the multiverse, we’re here to help answer some of the biggest questions we’ve had from our non-comic friends this past weekend.

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Who is Galacta?

First created in the short-lived comic series in 2009, Galacta is not a gender spin on Galactus, but rather his daughter. In fact, Galacta was born from a parasite within Galactus’ own Cosmic Force Field. Hiding on Earth as a girl named Galacta, he used his likeness abilities with his father to fight a growing hunger like himself to feed the Cosmic Force within him to protect the world secret from alien threats by consuming hostile biomass rather than connecting the planet itself;

Since then, the character hasn’t really made many appearances, but he’s started to reach more people through his recent in-game appearances Competitorswhere Galacta acts as the game’s commentator and central figure uniting countless heroes as a fighting force, he also recently appeared in another vibrant Marvel game, The Card Game. Marvel Snap:.

It is Marvel rivalsIs the story based on the comics?

There is no direct parallel to any particular comic book storyline and Competitorspremise, but it’s definitely one that will be familiar to readers of both comics and: anyone aware of where the MCU is going to go in the next few years CompetitorsHeroes and villains from across the multiverse have been drawn into a unique futuristic amalgam of realities after Doctor Doom and his former replacement were able to cross paths and inevitably try to eliminate each other, creating an event called the Time Stream Tangle. which both threatened to collapse time itself as well as to create series of invasions where different multiverses have collided, either laying down their fragments (like the living island of Krakoa, later) or completely merging parts of them, like Yggsard, a fusion of the kingdom of Asgard and the world tree Yggdrasil.

You might think back then, in terms of comics Marvel rivals happening like something Secret Warsbattleworld, specifically its variant 2015 comic event under that name, not in 1985. There is a mix of a multi-faceted collapse (which will become a storyline within the MCU) that will culminate in its sequel Avengers duology) and this idea of ​​a merging world, while all these realities are in existential limbo as CompetitorsThe heroes struggle to stop the Dooms, but otherwise it’s an original game setup.

Is Jeff the Shark really from the comics?

Yes, one Competitors“Land Shark” adorable Jeff was the adorable “Land Shark” supporting healer who is just a tiny little shark running around on tiny little legs and smashing entire teams. He’s a newer Marvel character, but he really has roots in the comics. rather than necessarily being created for a complete piece. Competitors. Jeff was featured on the pages of Kelly Thompson and Daniele di Nicuolo West Coast Avengers: series in 2018, after the team dealt with a pack of land sharks created by the Modoc that were attacking Santa Monica. Gwenpool adopted one of the sharks and named him Jeff, and the character’s reaction saw him become a main character throughout the run. : Thompson went on to bring the creature into various other stories where he was “adopted” as such people like Deadpool and Elsa Bloodstone.

Jeff is currently featured in one of Marvel’s most popular digital comics, Infinity. It’s Jeff.From 2021. Written by Thompson and illustrated by Gurihiro (who helped popularize the character even more by including Jeff their convention art), the series follows Jeff’s shenanigans in the Marvel universe.

Why isn’t Iron Fist and Psylocke Danny Rand or Kwanon?

Each character to play Marvel rivals is rooted in the comics in one way or another, but not every hero is perhaps their most famous version. Iron Fist and Psylocke are two of the biggest ones on the list who aren’t their usual alter egos, with Lin Lee and Psy taking up the mantles respectively. : Neither of them Competitors the originals though; they both have history in the comics.

Lin Li as the hero Sword Master was introduced in 2018 as part of an exclusive comic series for the Chinese market. Warriors of the Three Lords— part of a previous collaboration between Marvel and NetEase to bring the publisher’s comics to the region in official translations, before being introduced to Western audiences a year later as a member of the new Agents of Atlas. War of the Kingdoms event Shortly after, Lin got his short life Sword Master series, but gained greater recognition in 2022 when he became the latest heir to the Iron Fist mantle.

Sai, meanwhile, was created by writer-artist Peach Momoko for the eponymous series Days of demonsreimagining several Marvel characters through the lens of Japanese folklore.Debuts in 2021. Days of demons It portrays Sai as a wandering psychic ronin who battles various demons on his travels.

Is Luna Snow from the comics?

Like Jeff, Luna is another character that intrigued players, especially since she was one of them the first characters were revealed for Competitors earlier this year. But while he has a comic book history like everyone else, he’s an original video game character… just not for Competitors.

Luna was created by Korean game developer Netmarble in 2018 as an original add-on Marvel Future Fight:— The K-Pop idol mutated after an AIM attack at one of her concerts, where a malfunctioning fusion reactor gave her cryokinetic abilities. Like Lin Lee, Luna made her comic book debut by joining the new Agents of Atlas team in 2019. : Solo after one shot Agents of Atlas In the series, however, Luna had previously mostly remained in cameo roles in other books Competitors put him in the spotlight once again.

Why are all the mutant characters talking about Krakoa?

An aspect CompetitorsThe world-building, and perhaps the advantage of the game being developed while still relevant to the current comics continuity, is that most of its mutant characters all originate from the mutant sovereign state formed on Krakoa, the island of the living CompetitorsHis version of Krakoa was pulled by the Timestream Entanglement, saving his versions of Magneto, Storm, Wolverine, and Magik, as well as the island itself in 2099.

Although Krakoa has been a part of X-Men comics history since the pages Giant Size X-Men: In 1975 No. 1, it became a crucial element 2019 soft reboot From Marvel’s X-Men: get in line X’s house and: Powers of Xby writer Jonathan Hickman. That duology established that by developing a way to harness the abilities of five mutants, Tempus, Proteus, Hope Summers, Elixir, and Egg, as well as Cerebro’s storage memory, Mutantkind was able to essentially revive the vast majority of dead mutants. . Moved to Krakoa on the orders of Charles Xavier and Magneto, working alongside Moira McTaggert (kept secret as a reincarnated mutant), the last experiment of the mutant nation was formed. Alas, nothing good for mutants lasts that long; Krakow as a nation has arrived fiery end 2023 when it was attacked by the murderous organization Orchis, creating a base restarting the last line.

What are you actually driving? Marvel rivals“Maps?

Just like CompetitorsThe list itself, not just the possible characters in the game, have interesting connections to the comics.

The prettiest of the three, but the smallest, continues Yggsgardsees you fighting for a chariot pulled by two giant goats as you struggle to prevent or allow Loki to face the power of the world tree. These are, of course, Toothless and Toothless, the Asgardian goats that Thor rode into battle all along. sectors for the best part of the last 50 years and last appeared in Armenia. Thor: Love and Thunder. On ClintarThe homeworld of the Symbiote, it is the essence of Knull, King in Black and creator of the Symbiote species, first introduced by Donnie Cates and Ryan Stegman in 2018, who were recently teased the post-credits sequence from Cool. The last danceand may eventually come Competitors with wider capabilities.

Finally, in Tokyo 2099players fight for Spider-Zero as he tries to stop Master Waver from maliciously restoring the Web of Life and Fate with energy from entanglement.Spider-Zero was created for the comics in volume three Spider-section In 2019, a spider whose home reality was lost in an invasion, leaving him a wandering multispecies before becoming the final inheritor of the Master Weaver mantle, tasked with protecting the aforementioned Web of Life and Fate.

What is the intergalactic empire of Wakanda from Battle Pass?

Another item from the comics Competitors front and center in its debut season is the intergalactic empire of Wakanda, providing the theme for several skins. CompetitorsFirst Premium Battle Pass Again, this isn’t just an excuse for sci-fi skinheads, it’s inspired by the comics. The concept of Wakanda finding its way to the stars was first created in 2017 before becoming. main element On the run of Ta-Nahesi Coates Black Panther. The intergalactic empire was created in retrospect by a group of Wakandan Alpha Flight scientists sent on a mission by T’Challa to investigate the origin of the Mena Ngai, the meteorite that brought vibranium to earth and began the establishment of Wakanda as a nation.

When their ship was hit by a temporal anomaly that was stuck thousands of years in the past, the scientists used their knowledge to create a new Wakanda Empire that grew, expanding across multiple galaxies to the present day in the grand scheme of things even now, ruled by M’Baku, originally a rebel who took his name, not Earth’s M’Baku as his regent after T. ‘Challa himself returned to Earth.

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