Marvel Rivals’ creative director has just revealed that the game has permission to add new original characters in the roster. This news hasn’t immediately gone down well with the community.
The Marvel Rivals roster is always expanding, as developers continue to incorporate new characters from the franchise’s comics and movies into every season.
While characters added to the game have so far been mostly icons that a lot of players grew up seeing in other media, we’ve also seen the game not shying away from introducing more obscure characters, such as Luna Snow and Jeff the Land Shark.
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As it now turns out, according to an interview with MP1st, NetEase has essentially been given permission to develop “original characters” for the game, so there’s a chance that we’ll be seeing completely new faces joining the roster.
Marvel Rivals could be adding original characters to the roster
netease / marvelPhoenix and Blade are the newest characters added to the game in the current season.
In the interview, MP1st asked Guangguang if NetEase considered adding completely original heroes that may be introduced to the whole Marvel universe later.
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Although the developer did not specify the details further, he did give “yes” as an answer. “We are allowed to introduce original characters in Marvel Rivals,” he claimed.
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Meanwhile, the game director remained tight-lipped when asked about the development as a follow-up to the question, only saying “stay tuned” for now.
While the thought of being able to try out and play new heroes is exciting, many in the community have said they aren’t too keen on the idea of original characters being added.
A lot of the complaints come mainly from them preferring to play someone that they’re already familiar with in the franchise.
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As one user put it in a post on X, “This sucks a lot. I want to play the heroes I grew up with. There are THOUSANDS of them, from A-listers to C-listers. There is no need AT ALL to create new characters when they can just use what we already have.”
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“We have SO many characters that people want added, and now we’re fighting for spots with original characters? Oh no,” said another, while a different user stressed that actual Marvel characters should “take priority.”
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That said, there was also an argument mentioning that introducing these kinds of characters could help fill the gaps in different roles in-game. Either way, we’ll just have to be patient for the time being and wait to see what the devs are cooking.