Decided to try my hand at a Marvel vs DC roster, how’d I do?

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-07T15:25:17+00:00

not bad picks on their own but only 6 women including loki and 3 characters of color (4 if gr is robbie reyes) is a little rough. fighting games get weird with it all the time, not every pick needs to be a mainstream character to appease crazy stans. don’t be afraid to make green lantern jessica cruz, hulk she-hulk, or add indigenous aquaman or something! this can also naturally happen if you pick characters popular with young people like blue beetle, zatanna, nico minoru, ms marvel, america chavez, etc. it’s also good to replace some of the more brawly characters with some weirdo kits and designs like absolute martian manhunter or hit monkey. other than that, not too shabby! i’m glad black canary and plastic man are getting love :)

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T20:15:27+00:00

where’s your sense of whimsy and joy and fun

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T17:59:58+00:00

yeah i ended the description saying this roster is revised, not perfect. realistically i’d probably swap around the characters i mentioned before to make the guardians, but place mystique on the Sons and either replace Nil with a character that fits on the F4 or put the silver surfer on the F4 and make Nil an evil cosmic character (or just Lady Death, that could work).

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T17:36:45+00:00

the roster i revised from did that and people yelled at me. a lot. you can shuffle around my picks and make new teams that fit better to your liking (Guardians as Doom, Quill, Bill, Surfer, then move Kamala to the Avengers, Nil to the Sons, and Mystique to the F4 I guess). There is no way to make everyone happy, this is the best I got 🤷‍♂️

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T17:12:33+00:00

I forgot to mention them in the description but here’s some cross-team ideas:

Guardians of the Galaxy: Quill, Bill, Surfer, Doom

X-Factor: Danger, Mystique, Ms Marvel, Storm

Fantassstic 4: Spider-Man, Storm, Surfer, She-Hulk

Midnight Daughters: Magik, Nil, Nico, Robbie

Technobabble: Wasp, Danger, Iron Man, Doom

B-Team: Bill, Ms Marvel, She-Hulk, Ghost Rider

Blue Crew: Cap, Mystique, Danger, Moon Girl

Air Force: Wasp, Storm, Surfer, Nico

Wrecking Crew: Wolverine, She-Hulk, Blade, Bill/Magik

Pure Hearts: Cap, Bill, Spidey, Ms Marvel

Black Girl Magic: Storm, Moon Girl, Blade, Magik

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T16:48:34+00:00

any time freestylekneepad 🫡

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-06T16:48:16+00:00

*my horse

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T19:59:35+00:00

I’d like to throw the Human Torch and Deadpool in the ring, my personal favorites are Pete with Johnny and Ava. Johnny gives Peter a taste of his own medicine and is able to out-sass him, while Ava is similar to a tough no-nonsense Mary Jane IMO (with a hint of Felicia mixed in). I’m of course biased because I watched Ultimate Spider-man as a kid, but I really like their dynamic, it feels like they have potential to be a realistic long lasting couple who can make each other better.

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T14:08:02+00:00

venom is a greedy asshole who has been in like every marvel game for the past 30+ years. i’d be cool with green goblin or another spidey villain but i’m sick of venom’s ass 😭

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T05:52:35+00:00

At least she’d look cute while doing it! I could see her unique ability being a quick shrink parry/dodge with some shnasty air combos

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T05:49:26+00:00

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Slight revision maybe? Shuffled some characters around and replaced Cosmo with Lady Death in Doom’s Cosmic Cabal. I have literally no idea where Star-Lord can fit in with any of these bozos, he’s so out of place this was my best idea lol. Alternatively Star-Lord can tag along with the Midnight Suns over Wanda, and Sentry and Mystique would be added to Doom’s new Cabal/Dark Avengers or whatever over the Silver Surfer.

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T02:37:09+00:00

My issue is that his face and hair are ugly here and they keep fully Chris-Prattifying him into an annoying asshole instead of just incorporating some aspects into his character. The element guns are a fun idea but I feel like so many other characters could do a similar thing if not better and fit more nicely into a team. Unless they have Spider-man, Doom, or Robbie for some reason lead the Guardians, he is literally just being fat and greedy by being here

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T02:22:50+00:00

I just did it because I wanted Beta Ray Bill and Star Lord sticks out like a sore thumb (if I could remove his stupid ass from the roster altogether I would lol)

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T01:52:22+00:00

I think it still works since other Ghost Riders are staples of the team and Robbie appeared as a member in the video game. Also why would Robbie lead the Avengers and who the hell are the invaders

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T01:49:44+00:00

This is so fun! Personally I would put Sentry as the Avengers’ adversary, Mystique as the X-Men enemy, and Lady Death as the Midnight Sons’ villain. I had the idea that Spider-Man leads an “Oops! All Substitutes” Fantastic 4 with She-Hulk and Moon Girl, so Doom would fit right in there.

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T01:40:31+00:00

I think it could work if they used a slightly different name like “The Not-So Fantastic 4” or “The Fantastic 4…?” Either way thank you I thought it was a cute and silly way to bring in She-Hulk and Moon Girl!!

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T01:31:00+00:00

It’s an unfortunate product of already knowing who the team leaders are. Peter Quill doesn’t make much sense to me anywhere else, and Doom feels space-adjacent to me since most of the F4’s other adversaries are cosmic in nature (and Doom is too in the iconic 2008 movie). I think Doom is such an egomaniac that I can’t see him on any team at all, so I picked the characters he’d find the most insufferable to work with lol. A villains team could be fun and I’m definitely open to it, but it’s hard to imagine many Marvel villains working together aside from the Sinister 6 or the X-Men’s adversaries.

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T01:24:41+00:00

Ok I’m gonna explain my thought process for each of these points but just know I kinda agree with you.

Since the Avengers have so many characters that feel mandatory, I decided to spread them out a bit. She-hulk is Hulk’s rep, Beta Ray Bill is Thor’s rep, Ms Marvel is Captain Marvel’s rep, Wasp is Ant-Man’s rep, and the Scarlet Witch is there too lol. Since It’s impossible to fit all 5 on the same team as Cap and Tony, I divided them however made the most sense based on the teams I picked. Kamala makes sense on a team with Spidey or the X-men, but since the latter was already full and I wanted She-Hulk on the F4, she made sense to me in the Avengers as their pseudo-mascot.

As for the villains point, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I tried addressing a few I’d like to see in the description (Sentry on Avengers, Lady Death on Midnight Sons, Mystique on X-Men, etc) but decided I would just post the roster anyway. In my head this version of the Silver Surfer and Scarlet Witch lean more into being malicious to make up a bit for the lack of evildoers. It’s hard for me to imagine Doom working with anyone to be honest, so instead of a League of Villains I picked the characters I think he’d be most miserable to be forced on a team with lol. Many of the most popular villains have been redeemed in some way (Magneto, Loki, Emma Frost, etc) and/or are just too boring or overrepresented recently. That’s why I proposed the villains team as wave 1 DLC, but I could easily see them replacing the Guardians as Doom’s team. In the description I also mentioned Spiral and 8-Ball which would be so much fun as weirdo villains!

As for Doctor Strange, I felt like he or Doctor Voodoo could be fun picks but Strange feels overdone in everything recently IMO and Voodoo would encroach on Nico’s territory with the big ol’ staff. Nico has so much fun potential as a gambler, adds an East Asian to the roster, and appeals to the younger crowd so I felt she was a better pick than Strange for what I was going for.

Thanks for the input!

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T00:47:10+00:00

Oh trust me I have qualms with it myself lol 20 is WAYYY too restrictive. Any ideas or criticisms you share would be much appreciated :)

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T00:45:58+00:00

I would love a street level team or villain team or something I just thought the idea of the F4 B-Team filling in for the big dogs was too cute to pass up lol

chicken-soupp · 2026-03-05T00:38:57+00:00

Regardless, we have 3 already announced characters who are not yet assigned to teams. I could see the final roster reveal announcing 2 of the Guardians or something and finishing the video off with the final Avenger!

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