Our Marvel hero wishlist.
We are stoked for the release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, and with news from E3 2019 that it will feature new content from X-Men, Marvel Knights (aka street-level heroes), and Fantastic Four, IGN’s resident True Believers Joshua Yehl and Jeremy Azevedo made a list of the Marvel characters we most want to see join the roster.
Before we get to the list, here’s every confirmed playable character, enemy villains and NPC character.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Playable Characters
- Black Panther
- Black Widow
- Captain America
- Captain Marvel
- Crystal
- Daredevil
- Deadpool
- Doctor Strange
- Drax the Destroyer
- Elektra
- Elsa Bloodstone
- Falcon
- Gamora
- Ghost Rider
- Groot and Rocket
- Hawkeye
- Hulk
- Iron Fist
- Iron Man
- Luke Cage
- Magneto
- Miles Morales/Spider-Man
- Ms. Marvel
- Nightcrawler
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Psylocke
- Scarlet Witch
- Spider-Gwen
- Star-Lord
- Storm
- Thor
- Venom
- Wasp
- Wolverine
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Bosses
- Black Dwarf
- Bullseye
- Corvus Glaive
- Doctor Octopus
- Dormammu
- Ebony Maw
- Electro
- Green Goblin
- Hela
- Juggernaut
- Kingpin
- Klaw
- MODOK
- Mysterio
- Mystique
- Nebula
- Proxima Midnight
- Red Skull
- Ronan the Accuser
- Sandman
- Sentinels
- Supergiant
- Surtur
- Thanos
- Ultimo
- Ultron
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 NPC Characters
- Ant-Man
- Beast
- Colossus
- Cyclops
- Jessica Jones
- Lockjaw
- Nick Fury
- Nova Corps
- Professor X
- Valkyrie
- Vision
Now, onto the list!
Namor the Sub Mariner
He’s one of the oldest and most important Marvel characters, with ties to the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans, Black Panther and even the X-Men. I’m certain is has to be because of various rights issues, but you almost never get to play as him in any Marvel games and I’VE HAD IT with his erasure from this version of the Marvel Universe! Namor works great as a hero OR a villain, which would make for a great, nuanced recruitment story quest. -Jeremy
Emma Frost
The White Queen herself, Emma Frost would be a great versatile addition with her psionic abilities letting her perform powerful ranged attacks and her invulnerable diamond form letting her get up close and personal. Not to mention her dry and icy demeanor would have her reading the other heroes to filth. -Joshua
Silver Surfer
Norrin Radd is the best character in the Marvel Universe (Debatable! -Joshua). He’s as smooth and shiny as a lubed up porpoise, and it’d be tight to see him zipping around on his lil surfboard wielding the power cosmic at various anonymous ninjas and street toughs. Silver Surfer was sort of the penultimate unlockable character in the first MUA game, and it’d be great to see him back here for the third installment. -Jeremy
Archangel
Warren Worthington III was just a rich flyboy until Apocalypse transformed him into his Horsemen of Death, and while that sucks for him, being able to control the metal-winged terror that is Archangel would be a gameplay treat. The Uncanny X-Force version of the character could change from Angel to Archangel, and having a character that can change forms to be more defensive and offering heals to a straight up DPS with his ability to use his wings as massive swords and toss razor sharp feathers. -Joshua
Punisher
While Frank Castle isn’t necessarily as powerful as a lot of the other characters on the MUA3 roster, he’s long been a fan-favorite character whose appearance in this game series is long overdue. With a wide assortment guns, explosives, and knives, he’d be a fine addition, not to mention all the grim, darkly humorous lines he’d mutter while mowing down undead ninjas and killer robots. -Joshua
Quicksilver
Quicksilver is already one of the most OP characters in Marvel Future Fight, a game I definitely don’t waste an entire bus ride on every single day. So we know his moveset will likely translate to another isometric brawler. We need at least one speedster in the game, and we sure weren’t going to pick Speedball… Plus he’s the most obvious choice to pair up with Magneto and Scarlet Witch for combined attacks. -Jeremy
Gambit
By and far the most popularly requested X-Men character, Gambit is pure style with his twirling bo staff moves and exploding deck of cards. Marvel already knows everyone wants him on the roster, so just put him on there already! -Joshua
Ka-Zar & Zabu
You may not think you need a bootleg Tarzan with a sabertooth tiger buddy as your playable character, but you’d be wrong. Hailing from the Savage Land, Ka-Zar and Zabu would make a great tag-team duo similar to Rocket and Groot. Imagine Ka-Zar and Zabu swinging on vines, throwing spears, lunging at enemies with tooth and claw, summoning dinosaurs in an ultimate attack! I’m tired of all this outer space crap, Guardians of the Galaxy, Balck Order, Inhumans, etc. Let’s bring it back in the other direction. Let me be a caveman. Give me at least one character that eats with their bare hands and sh*ts outside. -Jeremy
Kitty Pryde & Lockheed
And while we’re coming up with two-in-one characters, why not Kitty Pryde and Lockheed, the latter of which is pretty much just a little Spyro the Dragon chilling on her shoulder. Kitty’s phasing power might seem mostly defensive — and we’d certainly expect the ability to phase through enemy attacks to avoid taking big damage — but it has many offensive capabilities, too. She can phase through robots to disrupt their circuitry, disappear through the floor to reappear behind an enemy for a strike attack, and meld enemies into solid objects for an insta-kill. All the while Lockheed would be used to take out baddies at range with its fiery dragon breath. -Joshua
Howard the Duck
Who needs pants if you’ve got a suit jacket, a wise-cracking sense of humor, and a broken glass bottle shiv? While Deadpool certainly fills the role as the jokester on the roster, we say there’s room for one more! -Joshua
For more on the game, check out our Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 gameplay impressions from trying it out at E3 2019.
Joshua is Senior Features Editor at IGN. If Pokemon, Green Lantern, or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you’ll want to follow him on Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN.
