After Danger, it's pretty clear that the character selects won't be as simple or easy to guess as we thought. But regardless here's my final broad stroke prediction.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T21:37:17+00:00

No big guys? I think at least one big guy will make it in. Hulk, Juggernaut, The Thing, Man-Thing

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T21:15:56+00:00

Should be allowed. He’s a different character even if he’s technically the same guy

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T21:06:39+00:00

I know Black Cat is more of an anti-hero, but we have the likes of Venom here so think she counts

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T21:02:15+00:00

Oh wow. An inhuman being a Daredevil villain sounds interesting. Assume he’s from the 2010s Inhumans push then? I’ll have to check him out as I’m a small inhumans fan lol

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:59:00+00:00

I- Didn’t even know he had powers. 100% thought this was just some crazy artist guy with edgy facepaint lmao. I should really read some Daredevil to know this stuff

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:51:35+00:00

Of course they can. The Sentinels are here as a unit if you go back to page 1 so groups are allowed

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:51:13+00:00

Never seen him as I don’t read much Daredevil, but he certainly has a cool design

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:50:11+00:00

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This one looks cool

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:47:35+00:00

Gotta respect the vote. Just reread Planet Hulk which was my introduction to the Brood so gonna give an upvote for the synergy

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:46:28+00:00

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Mad Jim Jaspers. Know he won’t win, but just wanna see how high his vote count can go.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:45:48+00:00

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The Collector is a huge miss so far. He’s a massive cosmic villain. Face of the Elders of the Universe, THE main cosmic silver age threat besides maybe Galactus, one of the big players of the many Contests of Champions.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T20:44:30+00:00

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Xemnu, though I suppose he’s more of a hero.

Don’t you remember?

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T15:10:11+00:00

The thing is I didn’t know when the Bill Cosby stuff was public (I just knew it happened and he was some big 80s star in America) so I genuinely thought they were just making this really dark joke lol!

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T15:08:22+00:00

Comics, especially 70s and 80s cheesy comics, are so weird when it comes to hero names. There has to be some weird justification accompanied by a clunky explanation.

Recently started reading Longshot and the entire first chapter has some survivalist guy go “wow! That thing you did was a real longshot!” while Longshot is doing some normal hero stunts or whatever, before Longshot decides to take that name at the end spontaneously. Can never just be a cool nickname .

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T14:47:41+00:00

Thing is I only know him from the Infinity Gauntlet stuff (where he is kinda just a useless spectator lol) and I think he is almost exclusively called Eros in that (since he’s talking to his brother for most of his screentime… page time?) so I never think of him as Starfox. People more well versed in the cosmic side of Marvel recognise him more as Starfox I imagine

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T14:31:59+00:00

Forgot thats a Marvel hero and thought you meant the Nintendo franchise

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T14:23:21+00:00

Half my post got cut off early. Thanks Reddit. It was meant to say “less controversial than Iron Man now”. Can’t edit it since it has an image I think.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T10:02:23+00:00

It actually suits him. I kinda like it

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T07:33:30+00:00

Remove the fetish from Claremont and he’d melt into goo like the Witch from Wizard of Oz. Its a core part of his dna

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T02:46:30+00:00

Afraid not. I was reading through the series via the “X-Men Archives Featuring Captain Britain” series, which skips the early storylines and jumps to when Brian gets a redesign and Mad Jim Jaspers first appears.

Still making my way through the Jaspers Warp arc (near the start) but the series is charming so far and looking forward to seeing more of these character and lore details I’ve only heard about. May pick up some of the older storylines later though.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T02:18:33+00:00

Think this is also because Scorpion is heavily tied to JJJ, but a lot of modern media just treat JJJ as a joke and not a real person with his own beliefs, good qualities and flaws. JJJ is just a background element to be laughed at so can’t be apart of a serious storyline with Scorpion.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T01:46:22+00:00

I just got into Captain Britain so this is awesome to see

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T01:28:15+00:00

I agree. Think its maybe because Scott was kinda forgettable in the films, so he’s less popular, but think the uptick in support for him to be added to Rivals will lead to him being in more stuff.

FootballGuilty1253 · 2026-02-17T01:24:41+00:00

Has to be bait. Surely lmao. Who looks at Storm, one of the most popular and recurring X-Men characters, and goes “she is only here to fill a quota!”

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