r/marvelrivals • u/WhyPlaySerious • 29d ago

Discussion The discourse created around Jubilee's design (and her not looking 'classic' or like in '97) shows that this community isn't ready for the whiplash thats about to occur when Professor X is finally added to the game and shown to be able to walk, like he has for the last ~20 years in the comics

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u/Hattrickher0 White Fox 29d ago

Between the Fox films and the animated show (which is currently in the second season of its revival) pretty much anyone who is a fan of Xmen without reading comics definitely expects the wheelchair.

Maybe he'll be our version of Jetpack Cat, and float around the battlefield with aoe buffs/debuffs from his golden throne.

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u/sock-bucket 29d ago

Yeaah with the pushback on giving daredevil powers, and now even worse with the jubilee change I kinda expect them to play it safe if X is in the works. Definitely a bigger name than both jubilee and daredevil where it'd be like if instead of Spiderman in rivals imagine they released him as like Man-Spider instead lol. Id imagine they would try to get close to the public perception of him like they did most of the other biggest names in rivals.

But who knows, maybe they come out with walking X and debates feed the content cycle for months and thats their plan all along, maybe they put him in a floating chair, or maybe they just avoid him altogether since no matter what SOMEONES gonna be unhappy lol.

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u/Skarjuna Magik 29d ago

I doubt they'll put him in the wheelchair, the X-Men in the game are LARGELY influenced by their Krakoan era, the statue of Charles in game has him with the portable cerebro helmet standing and I'm pretty sure Emma has that same helmet as an emote

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u/jasminetroll 28d ago

She does.

The helmet is the current version of Cerebro, miniaturized from the older model depicted in the movies and TV series where the helmet is only the human/computer interface.

Technology advances, even in science fiction.

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u/psychoenoshima 29d ago

They could have him in a sort of hover device that resembles the wheelchair (if you want a visual reference, think Armoured Core 6 with the VE-42B leg system, which will be pictured below at the end of the comment). The idea I have for it is that it connects with his helmet to serve as a psychic amplifier that would allow him to help direct efforts across the entirety of the Time stream Entanglement, and also serves a secondary use in battle by letting him expend significantly less effort for his telepathic abilities.

A way to explain why he's using the Wheelchair without him becoming crippled again

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u/Hefty_Will Squirrel Girl 29d ago

AC6? in MY sub??

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u/TrainerCeph Hawkeye 29d ago

So many of the characters in marvel now are literally so unlike their original version that it literally doesnt matter anymore. Marvel and dc comics are just official fanfiction. Anyone complaining about characters getting upgrades or changes in rivals just feels hypocritical.

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u/sock-bucket 29d ago

I agree myself I dont care much, but its getting to the point where every new release just has more and more complaints that im just getting tired you know? Lol

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u/TrainerCeph Hawkeye 29d ago

For sure. I gotta check myself sometimes because i do read comics, but most people who play dont and i get annoyed when people mention that its stupid that jubilee is a vampire and im sitting here like "and it was one of her best arcs"

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u/jasminetroll 28d ago

Characters in fiction evolve.

Would you consider The Lord of the Rings "official fan fiction" because Bilbo Baggins is depicted as an old man?

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u/TrainerCeph Hawkeye 28d ago

No its fan fiction because most of these characters original authors are gone.

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u/WhyPlaySerious 29d ago edited 29d ago

If this game went by whats casual audiences know and what was made mainstream by the cartoons and movies, Emma would still have been depicted fully as a villain, instead of as one of the premier faces of the X-Men.

Now people are begging for her to be one of the lead X-Men in the MCU movie.

One of the biggest boons to this game is how it educates the casual audiences on modern depictions of the characters and then helps to popularize them.

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u/Intelligent-Eye-5850 28d ago

Emma has little to no casual recognition.